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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Missouri Can't Shut Him Out of a
Case in Which Railways
Are involved.
so HOLDS JUDGE MCPHERSON
He Takes Jurisdiction of the 2-Cert
Law Litigation.
Act Is To Be Enforced for Tires
Months to Test Its Financial
Effect on the Rail-
roads.

Kansas City, June 49, = The Mis-
souri, 2-cent passenger fare act will 20
into effect at a. m tomorrow, ana
be given a three months trial. If at
the end Of that time it is found to be
unremunerative its enforcement can
then be fought in the courts by the
railroads. The state officials are tenn
porarily enjoined from enforcing the
maximum freight rate law, and this
case will be argued later in the fed,
eral court Judge Smith Mcpherson
An the United States district court here.
after handing down an opinion main
taining the courts jurisdiction in the,
premises. ordered the PRONUNCIATION OF
the foregoing statement, which had
been agreed to by the attorneys for
the state and the eighteen Missouri
railroads involved.
Uncle Sans Jurisdiction Sustained.
The court in it's decision had suc
gested that the 2-cent fare should be
first given a practical trial before in.
junction proceedings preventing its en-.
forcement be considered The iurlsdic-
ton in the case of a United States
court was sustained. Herbert S. Had
ley, attorney general, said regarding
the 2-cent bill: IF at the end of
three months the railroads want to
htigate the reasonableness Of these
rates the question of the jurisdiction
of the state and federal courts to de-
termine thequestion will be fought ont
and the state has lost none of its
rights and advantages. The injunction
suits that | have brought against the
railroad companies on the passenger
Yates in the state courts will stand.
HadIey Claims the Victory.
AS the reasonableness of the freight
rate law can be more speedily heard
and determined by the federal court,
on account of the fact that practically
all the testimony necessary to the de,
termination has been already taken
there. 1t will be heard and decided in
that court. The state is in the better
position to win the case under the act
of 1907 than it was under the law OF
1908. I feel that the order made Il
both a moral and a substantial victory
Tor the state"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
LEAK IN TEE CROP REPORT
witness Who Paid the Man Who
Leaked" Tells How Well the
Scheme Worked

Washington, June 1S. - In Louis
Il. Van Ripper, a New York broker.
the government introduced the first
witness in the trial of Edwin H.
homes, Jr, who has directly connec-
tea Holmes with the premature d.
vuigence of the information on which
the cotton crops Of the agricultural de-
partment are based. Van Ripper was
on the stand all day, and the direct
examination had not been concluded
When the court adjourned. He said
mat he had met Holmes in 1904
through +. A. Peckman. and that he
had agreed to give them two thirds
OF any profits that might be derived
through cotton deals made on points
supplied by Holmes.
He then told how Holmes had kent
MS part of the agreement by giving
out information a day in advance OF
the appearance Of the official report.
quoted figures TO show the degree OF
accuracy of the information supplied
and related instances in which Holmes
mad been paid money through Moses
Haas. He said that S167. COO had been
cleared on the information secured in
advance Of the report for November.
1904.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

The subject Of limitation of arma-
ments has a poor chance to be dis
cusSed by The Hague peace confer
ence.
A public lands convention to dis
cuss the presidents public land policy
is in session at Denver
All is quiet in Russia, except at
Black sea points, where a big naval
mutiny has been discovered and an
attempt made to kill Admiral Wren.
The prohibition against the presenta-
ton of THE N1ikado" in England has
been entirely withdrawn.
Darwin P. Kinsley, first vice presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
company, has been elected president OF
the company TO succeed Alexander z.
Orr.
More than 200 striking italian track
men on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad in and about New
Haven, returned to work at the old
wages.
The American Institute Of Homeo-
pathy has opened its sixty-eight an
nual session at the Jamestown expo
sition with 500 delegates in attend
ance.
King Frederick and Queen Louise
OF Denmark have left Paris for home.
The Travellers Protective Associa
ton of America is in annual session
at the jamestown exposition with mn
wards Of 1900 delegates in attend
ance.
Governor Conner. Of Alabama. has
appointed ex-representative John Fl
Bankhead senator in place OF the lare
John Il. Morgan
Herbert G. Laing, a prominent at-
torney of Colorado Springs. Colo. wan
drowned at Venice, Cal. while btahinc
in the surf.
Commissioner Nell, IT is understood
will, at the presidents suggestion
GO to New York TO begin an investi-
CATION Of the threatened strike Of the
telegraphers.
The dowager duchess of Roxburgbe
had jewel case containing gems
valued at many thousands of dollars
stolen from her during a railway
journey from London to Doncaster.
A magnificent silver service. the
gift of the state OF Kansas was pre-
scented to the battleship Kansas at the
Les ca" Island navy yard
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
LUXURIOUS QUARTERS
Custom House at New York Is Going
To Be Palace When
Completed.

New York. June 1S.-Rapid progress
IS being made toward the completion
Of the custom house in Bowling Green.
Although the contractory predict that
the building will be ready for occu-
pancy July l, treasury officials believe
1t will be September before it is NOV
ing day from the present Wall street
building. The building has been under
construction for eight years, and, in
Guiding the land, has cost approx
mately 100000.
1t is estimated that the new custom
house will have floor space of 100000
square feet. The suite of offices to be
occupied by Collector Stranahan is off
the first corridor Of the main floor A
hand-carved screen OF massive oak d.
vides the main apartment into ante
chambers and reception rooms. The re-
ceptiOn room contains a great open
fireplace Of carved stone.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
WOULD HAVE BEEN AWFUL
dynamite Bomb Found in a Load of
Coal Delivered TO a Mill EN-
ploying 500 Girls.

Cleveland. o.. June 1S-A dynamite
bomb big enough to wreck building.
was found in a load of coal being de.
ivered to an east end knitting mill
The police are investigating whether
an attempt was made to blow up tie
mill or whether effort had been made
TO wreck a mine from which the coal
came.
There are three hundred girls EN-.
p1oyed at the knitting plant. Police
were rushed to the scene and there
was so much excitement that work
was suspended for the afternoon.
There has been no labor trouble at the
factory and the police believe that the
bomb came from the mine and that
no attempt was made to wreck the
factory building.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
THEY DON'T KNOW MNULTY
Man Who Gave Himself Up at Los An
geIes Seems To Be Something
of Faker

Wilkesbarre. Pa. June 1S.-J. Me-
Nulry who gave himself up to the Los
Angeles police and confessed to three
murders at Yatesville. Pa, is not
known there. Kate McDermott. Of
Yatesville, was not killed as McNulty
alleges, but John Sarrain, her sweet
heart, while talking to her one night
about ten years ago, was killed.
John and Michael Mulherrin. OF
Pittston. who AIcNulty alleges he
murdered, were both found cut to
pieces on the Delaware and Hudson
railway tracks several years ago. and
it was thought they were killed by a
train. George Martin, formerly of
Yatesville, who is now in Los Angeles
and who the despatch alleges identi-
fed McNuty, disappeared from home
five years ago
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
IT TAKES BIG FIGURES
When 1t Comes to Telling How Much
Business Was Done at New
York in 1906

New York, June 1S.-The annual re-
port Of the Chamber of Commerce of
the state Of New York shows that the
last calendar year was most prosper
Gus. The total value Of the foreign
commerce of the metropolis for the
calendar year ended Dee. 81 last was
1857. 72A. $50, as compared with ST.
3I4, All, 122 for the preceding year. It
shows that the balance OF trade in ia
vor Of the United States fOr-the ifs
cal year was $51z .302. O54, an increase
Of SIP, 253, 459over the preceding year.
The enormous business activity dur
ing last year is shown by the total
clearings reported by the clearing
house, which amounted to S1O4,675,-
100000, as compared with 500. SO. co.,
900 In the year preceding The total
foreign commerce of the United
States, according to the report, in 1905
was valued at 50. 426.33O. 1858, as COM
pared with $2,996, $50, 1852 in the year
preceding.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
DECLARES THIS IS A NATION
States Will Not BE Permitted to Die.
tate to the Government.

tate 10 tue government.
In the course of his opinion Judge
Mcpherson said: THAT the states
have the right to manage their own
local affairs will ever be maintained.
But it is too late to talk about states
debating to the government, or to
riding down its courts. This is a
nation. It's commerce will not be in
rerfered with by any state, because.
for that almost alone, we adopted our
constitution. The commerce clause
will always be upheld and the citizens,
including corporations, will ever be
protected in their rights under the
fourteenth amendment.
These are national questions, AMI
the supreme court will hold the scales
of justice with the evidence before
them l do not know. and of course
do not state, that the state legislature
has wronged these railways. That ID
the case on its merits. But the rail
ways say they are being wronged. and
they must have a hearing and a hear
ing on the evidence, and that evidence
carried with the record to the supreme
court. And IT, upon the evidence. they
are being compelled to transact bust
ness at a loss. no one need doubt that
the supreme court Will nullify the
statute
If the rates fixed are renumerative.
the statutes will be upheld. 1t is too
late to talk about the alleged wrongs
of the supreme court declaring statutes
void That was fought ont one
hundred years ago. Down to 1883.
the period covering the first one hun
dred years Of the United States SUI
preme court that court held twenty
United States statutes void. During
the same period that court declared as
void 1S1 state statutes. of which four
teen We're Missouri statutes.
How many have since been de lraed
void l have not taken the time TO
ascertain. And some of the statutes
thus declared void were railway rate
statutes, enacted by the states. 1t
must be remembered that in passenger
and freight carrying there is much to
be considered besides rates or fares.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
GERMANS ARE PEssIMIsTIC
They See All Sorts of Trouble to
Grow Out of the Recent Coup
of the Gar

Berlin, June 49, = The semi-official
view Of the Russian situation is of the
most pessimistfc nature, according to
an official, who said: THE events in
Russia doubtless will create unrest in
Poland and the Caucasus; increase
the discretionary feeling aud swell
the numbers of the terrorists who will
not shrink from the worst deeds in
order to ayenge their alleged wrongs.
THE government, judging from the
military preparations and the gagging
Of the press, evidently expects risings.
which it intends to suppress with de-
termination. Meanwhile Russia Ia
under an autocratic government with
unlimited powers until the meeting of
the new duma."
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Dea,n in the Devil Wagon.

Sanbornyile, \. H. June 1S.-In an
automobile accident three persons
were probably fatally injured. They
are: DR.. Ben Hicks Metcalfe, head
Of Metcalfe's Hospital, Winthrop,
Mass; Mrs. Metcalfe, and Miss
Churchill, matron Of the Metcalfe hos
pital. The automobile plunged over
high embankment, burying its occu-
pants underneath.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
VIII Have to Get Along on 500, 900.

st. Louis, June IS. = The efforts
made by relatives of Mrs. Thomas
Conner, widow of a Joplin, Mo,
millionaire, to secure for her a chfld's
portion of the estate were defeated by
a ruling Of the probate court denying
the motion of her nephew to set aside
the will. Mrs. Connor will there
fore receive but 100000.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Three More Bodies Recovered

Newport News. Va, June 1S.-Clad
in full naval uniforms, and with face
and hands fearfully mutilated. the
bodies of Midshipmen p H. Field, OF
Wisconsin; w. H. Stevenson, North
Carolina. and f. 2. Holcomb, of Della
ware, were found in Chesapeake bay.
The bodies. after being examined and
identified. were taken by the naval tug
Potomac to the naval hospitalat Ports
mouth
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Let His wife Kin Herself.

New York, June IS. = Laura, the
19-year-old wife of James WoardeI,
was shot through the head and killed
at their home in West Twenty-fifth
street. The husband, who is six years
the senior of his wife, notified the
police, explaining that his wife had
taken her life in accordance with
suicide pact into which the two had
entered. He was arrested.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Three Fatally Injured.

Trinidad Colo, June 1S.-Eighteen
passengers were injured, three fatally,
in a wreck of an eastbound passenger
train on the Santa Fe near EalI.
twenty miles east of here The fatal
ly injured are Mrs. w. w. Nichols.
Fort Smith, Ark; F. Royva, Trinidad,
and +. NJ. Jones, Pueblo. Colo. FIT
teen others We're more or less cut and
bruised, but not seriously.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Another Victim of the Auto.

Milwaukee. June IS. = Burr K.
Chandler aged 81 years, prominent
clubman Of this city, is dead from in
juries received in an automobile acct
dent last week, when he suffered
fractured arm and injury Of the spine.
The accident was caused by the break
ing of the steering gear of his auto
mobile, the pnaniainA topping over on
top of him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Collapse of a Country House.

Rome, June 1S-The country house
Of Marquis Cappelli, at Chiarino, col
lapsed. Twenty-Five soldiers who
happened to be taking shelter in the
house during rain storm were buried
in the wreckage. A captain was
fatally injured and a lieutenant and
twenty men were seriously injured.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Secretary TAFT in the BLACK Hills.

Hot Springs, S. D., June IS. = Sec
rotary of War Taft and party made
the first stop in the Black Hills here
at Hot Springs, staying an hour. The
time was spent inspecting the National
SanatoriUm and in making a fifteen
minute address. The secretary had full
~ recovered in health, excepting for
cold
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Thives Travel in a Fast Auto.

New York, June 1S.-The automobile
thieves who have made numerous
raids among the residents of suburban
Long Island, were abroad again Sun
day. They looted the home of Charles
Oswald, a wealthy farmer near Mine
Ola, securing $1,000 in cash and jewels
worth $500. Oswald and his family
were at church when the robbery oc-
CURED.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Carry Offerings to Infant.

A singular custom prevails in York
shire, England. In parts of the West
Riding it is quite common for visitors
to a house in which new baby has
appeared to carry with them as an
offering to the infant new laid egg,
some salt, piece of bread and in
some cases a penny.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Killed by an EARTHQUAKE.

Valparaiso, Chile. June 1S.-Late re-
ports from Valdiyia state that thirty
four persons were killed or injured by
the recent earthquake. The region af-
fected by the shock extends from Val
paraiso to Magellan straits and from
the Pacific coast to Neuquin, Argen-
tina
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Father OF the Curfew. law Dead

Omaha, Neb., June IS = Colonel
Alexander Hogeland. of louisville,
the newsboys' friend and the father
of the curfew law. was found dead in
bed in his room at the Murray hotel,
with the gas turned on and the win
dows and the transom closed. His
death, however. is believed TO have
been accidental.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Nus. Resant Is World Pres;da,,

kansas City. June 1S-Mrs. Annie
Besant, Of Adyar. India, the noted
writer and lecturer on matters occult,
has been elected world president OF
the Theosophical society. TO succeed
the late Colonel Henry Steele Olcott,
formerly of New York. according TO a
private cablegram received IN this city
from London,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Duke Gets His Decree.

Trenton, n. J., June Is. = The court
Of errors and appeals has affirmed the
decree of the court of chancery grant
ing divorce to James B. Duke. the
wealthy tobacco man, FROM his wife
Lillian Duke.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
New Use for Automobile.

II like the automobile for style, !"
said the old Georgia farmer, but for
safety an solid comfort give me the
slow. old-fashioned OK cart; but I'd
like to collar one O. them automobiles
an hitch about four plows behind it
in a 20-acre field, then turn on steam
an let it give the old mule team les
sons in gittin' over ground"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Broke His Neck In a scuffe.

Junction City, Kan, June 1s.-In
scuffle between Privates James Force
and Blayney Devine, both Of Battery
u, Sixth field artillery, and both gar
rison prisoners at Fort Riley, Private
Devine's neck was broken and he died
instantly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Planters Hotel in New Control.

st. Louis, June IS. = Negotiations
have been completed whereby the CON
troll of the interest in the Planters
hotel passed from the possession OF
Colonel Thomas Landrum, president Of
the company, to Captain James L.
Lawlor, of Houston, Texas. The deal
includes q two-Year lease on the hotel
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Civilization in South Carolina.

Augusta, Ga, June IS. = In the re-
newal of an old quarrel after church
services at Ashley Station, S. c., ]. B.
Ross. chief of police of Barnwell, S.
c., shot and killed Johnson Fender, a
farmer. A coroner's jury exonorated
Ross
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Well-Watered Canada.

Lake Ontario is as large as Wales,
Lake Superior exceeds Scotland in
size, Lake Huron equals the aea of
Holland and Belgium combined. No
other country can match Canada for
lakes and rivers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Ffrst of the Kind in Austria.

Vienna, June 1S.-The first Austrian
parliament elected on the basis of
equal suffrage has been opened. Thou
sands of people gathered abouJ me par
lament building to watch the arrival
OF the deputies. who wore flowers
designating their party and national
ifr
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Another Quits the Panama Job.

Washington, June IS. - Joseph
Ripley has resigned his position as one
of the consulting engineers on the
Panama canal commission, to accept
9 more lucrative position in this coun-
try.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
A pvsnhaaltic incubus.

The hot cross bun is a dysphagitic
incubus. morsel of inadaptable an
tiauity, a pious fraud.-Pall Mall Ga.
zette.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Another Competitor of the standard 2

Dover, Del. June IS. A charter
has been issued to the Barnsden Oil
company. Of Pittsburg. The company
has an authorized capital CT $4,000
600 and is empowered to acquire OIL
and gas lands
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Rrvce Caus on Geronimo.

I.awton, o. T., June 1S-James
Bryce. the British ambassador, went
to Fort Sill, near here an visited Ger
Onimo. the famous Apache warrior.
and Quanah Parker, chief of the Conn
anchea
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Best Remedy for Cold.

AS rule the simplest remedies for
a cold are the surest. There is moth
ing for carrying off the congestion like
a hot bath, hot drink and a good
sweat Do this at night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18

An advertisement In THE LAKE
COUNTY TINES pays for itself before
the issue that contains it reaches one
third of the readers
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
Mayor of San Francisco Is No
Longer Mayor, Being Con.
fined in Jail.
SUPERVISOR IS IN HIS PLACE
Scheme of the Reformers Is to Make
Clean Sweep.
Will Likely Be Hot Fight in the
Courts-Hint of Trouble Over
the Man to Pick in Place
of SchmitZ.

San Francisco, June 10. = Under
orders of William H. Langdon, the
board of supervisors adopted a resolu-
ton declaring Mayor Eugene Schmitz
temporarily unable to perform his of
fetal duties and appointing Supervisor
James L. Gallagher acting mayor. The
latter says he will assume the mayor
atty at once, and he denies that he has
made arrangements with the district
attorney or any one to resign at de-
mand in order to make way for a re-
form mayor whose name is yet to be
announced. District Attorney Heney.
Rudolph Spreckels and Langdon and
their immediate associates in the brib-
cry graft prosecution are by this move
placed in actual control of the munich
pal situation.
Legal Contest Is Expected.
That they will be allowed to SO re-
main without legal contest by the con-
victed mayors attorneys is not expect
ed. 1t is the plan of the prosecution
to call for the resignation in a few
days of some one of the eighteen SUI
pervisors. This forthcoming, Acting
Mayor Gallagher will appoint to the
vacancy man named by the district
attorney. SO soon as he takes office
Gallagher will resign from the mayors
chair and his resignation will he ac-
cepted. The board. acting under or
ders from the prosecution, will select
the new member as president pro tenn
pore and by virtue of the office he viii
at once become acting mayor
Spreckels Opposes This Man.
The man most persistently men.
toned for this place is Attorney To-
seph Dwyer, president Of the indie
pendence League, but that political
connection Is said to render him unac-
ceptable to Spreckels, the financial
suarantor of the whole bribery graft
investigation. The first act of the re-
form mayor, if the prosecutions pro-
Sramme Is carried out, will be to de-
mand the resignation Of practically the
entire Schmitz administration. whose
places will be filed with reform agents
as fast as vacancies are created. Tn
less disturbed by the courts the new
regime will endure until next January.
Mayor Schmitz in the County Jail.
Mayor Schmitz, convicted last week
of the crime of extortion, remains q
prisoner in the city and county jail.
The resolution declaring the mayors
char vacant and appointing Supervis-
or Gallagher to fill it was adopted art
er fight on the floor. 1t was opposed
by Supervisors Tveilmoe and O'Neil.
1t was voted for by twelve supervls-
ors. each of whose confessions to blibe-
taking is Transcribed in grand jury
records. AS none of these has been
indicted for bribe-taking the general
opinion is that they are to escape pun
ishment If they continue to do the bid
ding Of the district attorney and his
prosecuting associates.