The log cabin Democrat., 1907-08-08

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 Two more attacks on women add ed to long list of crimes during last two weeks in New York. August promises to be stormy month all through, says Rev. lrl A. Hicks, with hurricanes at close.
 Engagement of Lieut.. U. $. Grant III. and Miss Edith Root is declared in Washington to have been the cul- imitation of romantic contest be- tween young Grant and Lieut.. Philip H. Sheridan, with Lieut.. Fltzhugh Lee interested friend of all.
 An injunction preventing elevator men from withdrawing their ware houses from the public's use is up- held by Judge Carter of the illinois supreme court.
 Chicago policemen uphold the rec ord of force for bravery by staying two desperate criminals.
 Tug Chicago causes intense ex- citement by turning turtle at the Rush street bridge, with the night excursion boats near.
 New York stockholder in the Chi cago City Railway company, attacks the traction settlement ordinance ln proceeding in mandamus.
 True bills are voted by the grand jury at Clinton, H., against Fred H. Magill and Fay Graham for the murder of the first wife of the for mer.
 War department st work on the problem of filling the depleted ranks of the army, getting information ready for action by congress.
 Charged with having gone through mock marriage with woman who lived with him for four years, until she discovered she had been duped, New York policeman is tried and his dismissal from the force is rec commended.
 Iroquois fire damage suits against Klaw & Erlanger, theatrical mana gers. are ended finally, a federal court in New York refusing to re- open the cases.
 Congressman Jenkins, chairman of the house judiciary committee, deplores the action of compromise in the North Carolina rate case, and fears another civil war as result of agitation.
 Stuyvesant Fish says that he will attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Illinois Central, vote his stock and that of those whose proxies he may hold, in the interest of the "whole capital stock" and that he will make statement to the shareholders.
 Fight over Milwsukee's municipal lighting plant is headed toward court, as city comptroller refuses to sign bills for payment of work on project.
 Jimy Britt will probably get the next fight with Joe Cans as the re- suit of the formers victory. Chairman Jones of the national prohibition committee, enthusiastic over Georgia's banishment of liquor, says temperance should rule throughout the country.
 Court refuses to act to prevent John Armstrong Chanler's being taken back to an insane asylum, and he stands in that danger if he goes to New York to prosecute suit now pending there.
 New York public service commits sion orders an investigation of the rights of New York tunnel company under franchise.
 Analysis having failed to find evil dence that Mrs. Pet MagiIl died from poison, the states attorney at Clinton hopes to show that she was smothered with a quilt or pillow.
 More than $1 ,500,000 of the $2,- OOO,OO0 paid by the state of Penn sylvania for metal furnishings in the state capital was graft, report to the investigating committee shows.
 Shippers meet in Chicago to plan for permanent representation before 1 the commerce commission. J. P. Morgan & Co. buy $15,00O,- 900 of Atchison convertible bonds.
 July fire insurance losses in the west reach about the normal ratio, the years record still being unsatis- factory.
 Edward Robeson Taylor, the new mayor of San Francisco, has taken the oath of office, and the graft prosecutors, represented by Spreck- | Io1, I