The Colorado statesman., 1907-08-10
Miscellaneous.

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The grand jury at Jefferson City,
Mo-, has returned seven indictments
against the Missouri Pacific railroad
for failing to comply with the new
state law compelling railroads to run
Sunday trains on branch roads.
Private Quand of the engineers,
was killed by lightning while on the
range at Fort Leavenworth recently.
A "beach wagon" driver stabbed
and killed two members of the crew
of the battleship Maine at Phoebus,
Va, recently.
Fred Magill and his wife. charged
with the murder of Magill's first wife
at Clinton, ILL.,, have been released on
bonds of $4,000 each.
Great Britains home fleet, consist
before the king and queen at Ports
mouth.
The new direct cable from New
York to Colon, Panama, has been
opened for business.
The American Philatelic association
has selected Columbus, Ohio. as the
meeting place for the next annual
convention.
The Texas railroad commission has
issued an order directing that the an
ti-free pass act be rigidly enforced.
Colorado recently celebrated the
31st anniversary of her admission to
the Union.
A law passed by the Spanish Cortes
makes provisions for the payment of
claim due the United States since
1884.
The fiftieth ami; ersary of the foun-
dation of the Leavenworth, Kan,
Turnverein was celebrated IN Turner
hall in that city recently.
Rota, the fighting leader of the
Pulajanes in the island of Leyte, has
been sentenced to death.
TIE Union Pacific Railway company
has ordered the immediate construc-
zion of 100 gasoline motor cars for use
on branch lines.
The Oklahoma republican conven-
tion nominated Gov. Frantz by unan-
imous vote at Tulsa, |. T.
In statement to an English news
paper Raisuli the Moroccan bandit
blames the treachery of the sultans
government for his capture of Sir
Harry MacLean.
1t is officially announced that GER
tain provinces of Russia are threat
e:.ed with an outbreak of cholera.
In a fight between strikers and
troops at LODI. Russian Poland. 80
men were killed or wounded. Busi-
ness in the city was entirely sus-
pended.
Commissioner of Corporations
Smith has made report to President
Roosevelt on the methods of the
Standard Oil company in which the
claim of the concern that it has been
a benelt to consumers is dispn,,ed.
The third congress of the Esperan-
lists will assemble at Cambridge, Eng
land, for a ten days session. Dele
gates from all over the world will at
tend.
The body of Miss Laura Matthews,
whose mysterious death at Colorado
Springs caused sensation was
buried at Kansas City.
The coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during July ag-
gregated $7,457,00
A monument in Memory of the vic
tory of Commodore Perry on Lake
Erie has been unveiled at Putin Bay,
Ohio.
Judge Lands of Chicago has or
dered the dissolution of the Church
and School Furniture trust which was
recently fined $4,000.
Judge Vandeventer of the United
States circuit court has issued a re-
straining order prohibiting the secre-
tary OF state Of Arkansas from revok-
Ing the charter of the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific railroad in that
state.
Fifteen Chinese slave girls were
recently captured in raid by govern
ment officials at San Francisco. They
will be deported.
An attempt was made recently to
wreck the New York-Chicago limited
express on the Pennsylvania railroad
just outside Of Allegheny.