The Ordway new era., 1907-12-27

ally notified that the battleshlp fleet
assembled In Hampton Roads Is ready
to proceed ON Its long cruise to the
Pacific.
The coroncrs jury has returned a
verdict that the recent mine disaster
at Fayette City. Pa. in which 3S men
lost their lives was caused by insult.
cient ventilation.
Gen. Funston has reported to Wash.
ington that the conditions at Gold.
field. New. were worse than he cx.
pected, but martial law will not be de,
clared until an outbreak occurs.
The Nebraska university won the
anual oratorical contest with the
coin.
A small china teapot that once be.
longcd to Edmund Burke was re.
Gently sold in London for s2.1OO
The republican state central com.
mittee OF Kansas will meet in Topeka
December 2S to fix date and place OF
meeting OF the state convention.
At Allentown. Pa. the cries OF an
infant saved the lives of eight per.
er and brother had been asphyxiuted
by coal gas.
In an affidavit filed at Chicago,
Stuyvesant Fish declared that II he
could get majority of proxies in the
Illinois Central Railroad company. he
would depose Il. II. Hartman from
the directorate of the company.
Alfred II. Smith. vice-presidcnt and
general manager OF the New York
Central railroad. has been placed on
trial on a charge of manslaughter
growing out OF n wreck on that road
John G.. jenkins. formerly president
OF the First National bank Of Brook,
lyn. and his three sons have been in.
dicted by the Kings county grand jury
for conspiracy and forgery.
For the third time the Missouri su
preme court has reversed and re
manded the case of John NJ Spcyrr
who killed his little boy at Kansas
City several years ago. 4 fourth
trial will be given him in January. Y
The supreme court has advanced
the hearing of the cases against the
Armour. Swift and other packing com.
plnltS uCCuS'u Ol .itttpllhS s'biN'St
to January 20.
The supreme court of Missouri has
reversed and rcmanded the case Of
Cashier Mispagel of st. Louis. Mo-
who was convicted OF embezZlcment
and sentenced to two years In the
penitentiary.
In the recent municipal election In
Boston the republican ticket wa7
elected by n plurality OF 1000 votes
The Texas court of appeals has
affirmed the decision of the trial court
in the states custer suit against TIC
Waters.Piercc on company E.rry
contention of the state is upheld
The city civil service commission
OF Chicago recently discovered that
! 100 laborers hired to remove snow
after the great storm two years ago,
were still on the city's payroll. They
were dropped.
A federal grand jury to investigate
the murder of joseph A. Walker. y
government secret service agent. near
Durango. Col. has been impanellcd at
Denver
The secretary OF War has decided
that the provisions of the eighthouT
law do not apply to the employees oi
the military prison at Fort LcaHon'
worth.
Assistant Secretary Murray OF the
department of commerce and labor,
Charles p. Neill. commissioner Of In.
Dor, and Herbert Knox Smith. com
missioner of corporations, have gone
to Goldfield. New. to investigate the
mining troubles.
In the Pettibone trial at Boise. Ida
no. Harry Orchard was the first wit
ness on the stand for the prosecution
He repeated the essential part of his
story told in the Haywood trial some
months ago.
F. Ottway Saldier. manager OF
branch of the failed California Safe
Deposit and Trust company. killed
himself in his Office at San Fran
cisco recently.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has ordered the Santa Fe and 9th
er carriers to reduce rates on coal ship
ments from Colorado to points IN
Kansas.
Congressional.
A bill designed to restrain federal
Judges from issuing temporary in
functions against the operation ol
state laws has been introduced In the
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