The log cabin Democrat., 1907-09-05
THE NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Dieested and Con densed Compilation of Cur rent News, Domestic
 and Foreign.

seSSment increase at S4.I per cent.
 War on the high school fraterni- ties in Chicago will be renewed by Supt. Cooley at the opening of the new session.
 Gypsy band is driven by Texans across border into Mexico, after men are horsewhipped.
 High officials of Standard Oil may not be required to testify in St. Louis hearing to be held in New York.
 Speaker Cannon at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., says he has no preslden- tial bee, but would not decline the nomination if it were offered to him. He asserts his first ambition Is to help assure republican success through the work of congress.
 John D. Rockefeller witness and mileage fees in United States dis trict court in Chicago are held up.
 Congressman Bartholdt is much pleased with peace conference. Says that in future tribunals will settle national difficulties.
 Federal Judge Pritchard at Ashe- vile, N. C., rules that the state law barring railroad litigants from the United States courts is in violation of the constitution.
 American bar association conven- tion at Portland, Me-, is stirred by the report of the insurance commit tee and votes down some radical re- forms.
 Broker operators may be called out. Fund of $2,0O0,OO0 being raised by strikers.
 Story of the Fish-Harahan fight at the Illinois Central directors meeting in New York is related by a director, who says that, while no blows were struck, MT. Fish, being called a "d-d liar," choked MT. Harahan until the latter's face was purple, but could not force him to retract.
 Clerk in a New York brokerage house goes on a vacation and his sub stitute at once finds dedication.
 Prince Wilhelm of Sweden has a strenuous time in New York, visit ing Coney Island, calling on sick sailor, climbing a skyscraper and at tending a banquet.
 Members of the bar from all over the world open at Portland, Me-, the twenty-fourth annual conference of the International Law Association.
 Archbishop Messmer of Milwau- kee believes the sensational marriage ruling purporting to have come from Rome is simply fabrication.
 Scores of workmen drown in the St. Lawrence river near Quebec when huge steel bridge collapses.
 Three Russians are condemned to death for plotting against the life of the czar, nine others are sentenced to imprisonment or banishment and six acquitted.
 Industrial Traffic League seeks an amendment to the Sherman anti trust law, so as to legalize railroad rate pooling under certain restric- tiOns.
 Chicago banks reach a point where they do not care to make time loans; small demand for bonds.
 Saratoga meeting comes to close, the directors admitting that the com petition at Empire City affected their profits.
 Count Witte, once the most pow erful man in Russia next to the em- peror, has retired from official life.
 In obedience to the order to join the butchers teamsters' strike, team sters of the livestock wagons for the big packers quit work at New York.
 Leaving behind him three dead officers, whom he shot to escape be- ing captured, Charles Williams, a Georgia negro, is fleeing toward Florida with a posse in pursuit.
 Grant farm near St. Louis sold under the hammer. Was once held for loan made to famous general by Vanderbilt family.
 Frisco stockholders at a special meeting called in St. Louis approve issue of new bonds for $115, 5,00O,00O and increase of capital stock from $100,0O0.0OO to $200,000, ,000.
 Corporation commissioner finds lumber business controlled by sev- eraf large interests. lnqaiFy fails to show trust. Will issue report.
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