The Ordway new era., 1907-04-12

n. MCCORMICK. general superintendent,
and A. II. Smith. a vice president.
have been indicted for manslaughter
in connection with a recent wreck on
the road.
The airship brought to this country
by Santos Dumont for exhibition at
the st. Louis exposition. was sold re-
Gently by the New York customs Of
flcials for non payment OF duty. 1t
brought $50.
Commandcr.in.chl Robert B.
Brown. OF the Grand Army OF the Re
public, has issued the usual Memorial
day proclamation, calling on the mem
hers to observe Thursday. May 80.
by decorating the graves OF the dead
| soldiers.
Harry X. Thaw has been declared
| sane by the commission in lunncy ap-
pointed by Justice Fitzgerald. The
verdict OF the commission was unani.
| nous.
A passenger train on the VI. X. G
| T. railroad ran into an open switch
ut Bartlesyille. |. T.. injurinG several
| passengers. An investigation showed
| that the switch had been tampcred
with.
1t is authoritatively declared at the
White house that the Hartman
Hearst. Rockefeller combine have
raised n fund of s5,0OO,0OO to defeat
the policies of President Roosevelt.
II is stated there 1t no lack OF evi-
dence to prove the plot.
Frank w. Hill, a stcnographcr, who
IL alleged to have stolen and sold the
Hartman letter which caused the re-
cent sensation throughout the country
has been arrested in New York.
The threatened strike OF railroad
trainmen and conductors has been
amicabiy adjusted through the media
| ton of Commissioners Knapp and
Neill. Mutual concessions were made
by both sides.
The Farmers Cooperative Ship
ping association. with exchanges in
| Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska has
decided to wind up its affairs at once.
| deficit of $4,000 in last years busl-
| ness is given as the cause.
Violent earthquake shocks prevailed
| recently in the Azore island OF St
Michaels. ....
Russia has issued an official note 10
the powers regarding the Hague con-
| ference in which notice Is given that
Russia. Germany and Austria reserve
the right to abstain from discussion
OF armament limitation.
San Francisco was recently plunged
into darkness by the partial distruc-
ton of the power plant of the Gas &
Electric company. The loss is esti-
mated at s2,500.0OO.
Gov. Folk has commuted the SEN
tences of Emil Hartman and julius
Lehman. convicted of boodling in
st. Louis, to expire on June 10. They
| were sentenced in 1904 to six and
seven years respectively.
After consulting the law and au-
thorities. District Attorney Jerome
decided not to apply to the appellate
court for a writ of prohibition to pre-
vent Justice Fitzgerald continuing
the Thaw trial.
The executive council Of the Nation
al Civic Federation has decided upon
Chicago as the place and May 2S. %,
80 and 81 as the dates for holding
n national conference on combinations
and trusts.
Secretary Taft has issued an order
that the authority Of governor OF the
canal zone be vested in Lieut.. Col.
Goethals chairman of the commission.
The largest gas pumping station in
the world Is to be erected south OF In
dependence, Kan. at the intersection
of the Kansas City and Joblin pipe
lines.
The Minneapolis carpenters union
has voted to strike to enforce demands
for an increase in wages. Seventeen
hundred men are involved and $SOO,OOo
worth of building is tied up.
vandals entered the Carnagie libra
ry at Waterloo, Ia, and damaged the
books and furnishings to the extent
of thousands of dollars.
Nearly every vessel that has arrived
from Southern ports recently has
brought some STORY Of a marine dis
aster wrought by the tornado off Hat
teras the last days Of March.
A tornado recently swept across
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, causing the death OF 10 per-
sons. and the partial destruction OF
four towns. The damage to property
Is estimated at 100000.
Miss Yea Carnes. prominent
church worker Of Neosho, Mo-, was
shot as she was leaving the church
door recently and badly wounded by