The Ordway new era., 1907-08-23

sippi valley states met In st. Louis
TO formulate plans for national con.
ference of attorneys general.
New York detectives have arrested
the ringleaders OF the Armenian
Hunchakist secret society and oh.
tained confession from them regard.
Ing the murder OF n priest and n
wealthy rug merchant. II liz believed
the murdcrous organization has
been broken up.
While playing hide-and.seek with
her father. the three-year.old daugh.
ter OF G. A. Rock, residing near Cuba,
Ill. lost both her feet by coming into
contact with the sickle blades of n
mower.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Hudson.
an aged couple living near Mobiles.
vile. Ind, were recently murdered
and robbed OF $4,000. the price of n
farm which they had Just sold.
The Federated Trades Council OF
Milwaukee. Wis. has passed a resolu.
ton opposing the fine imposed re-
Gently on the Standard OIL company
by Judge Lands. They declare gov.
ernment ownership the only remedy.
a convcGtion OF the attorney gen.
erals of all the states In the United
States has been called to meet in st.
Louis September 30 and October !,
to provide for concerted action In
prosecutions against corporations for
violation of state laws.
President Small OF the Commercial
Fol -, nIn
general strike OF all members of the
organizauon
During n heavy storm at st Joseph,
Mo. many business houses We're flood.
ed and tho Moran packing plant,
which was struck by lightning, was
entirely destroyed
a negro burglar recently shot AM
severely wounded Stella Austin and
c c Hoyt. OF Wichita. Kan. After
riiling the houses the burglar es
capped.
Large operators in the Joplin lead
and zinc district are preparing to in
stall steam shovels in their mines. II
the plan proves successful. some 5000
laborcrs who have been earning from
out of employment.
Secret service agent of the govern
ment are said to be on the payrolls
OF all the big railroad corporations
and trust companies in the country
watching for infractions of the anti.
trust law.
The Kansas charter board has
81, 10 wAgt
ern Rubber -ompany OF Olathe. The
capital stock OF the company is $780,.
600.
The Farmers State bank of New
Folden, Mimi. was recently entered
by burglars and robbed OF $4,000.
Members OF the Chicago Press
club made an emphatic protest when
William d. Haywood. secretary-treas
urer of the Western Federation OF
Miners. who was recently acquitted
OF n charge of murder. paid n visit
to tho club rooms.
The Kansas board of railroad com
missioners has issued an order that
arrival and departure of all trains
must be bulletined at each station.
The internal revenue receipts for
the fiscal -ear ended June 80 were
s269. .G64 .022. an increase of s2o.561.
2S:.
Gov. Folk has committed to life i'm
prisonment the sentence OF Lord
Harrington, convicted of the murder
of James McCann at st. Louis.
Heavy loss of life is reported from
a.-,r,i I,pap hacnusa nf floods
According to the figures of the
county assessors, Kansas has gained
$4,000 in population during the past
year.
Five persons were killed and II
others injured by the collapse In Chi
cago of n twostory frome house occu'
pied as boarding house.
Papers in n proposed suit to dis
solve the harvester trust are being
prepared in the department Of jus
tice at Washington. The suit will
probably be filed IN Chicago.
A 36-inch water main burst In a
Chicago street recently throwing a.
column of water GO feet high. The
Easements for several blocks were
flooded and much damage to property
resulted.
One man was killed and several In.
jured by the derailment OF the Bur
lington Kansas City-St. Joseph train
near Weston, Mo-, recently.
Seventeen summer hotels, 60 cot
tages and a score of buildings occu'
pied rs stores were destroyed by fire
recently at Old Orchard. Me. Two
lives were lost and five persons were
injured.
]. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a
trnsted official of the United States