The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-11-08

grand JURY. Councilman George Z.
Ijnde, of st. Louis. made a confession
duplicating several other members OF
the council
The Commercial State bank OF
Grand Island. Neb.. has closed Its
doors. Fifty thousand dollars OF the
banks funds were in the First National
bank at Charlton. Iowa. which recent
ly failed. -
A toy balloon released ia Paris has
been found in Finland.
The Modern WoodEen Of America
have $350,0OO tied up in the failure Of
the First National bank at Charlton,
| Iowa. The order is fully protected by
bonds several times in excess Of the
sum on deposit.
A verdict for $3.50 900 against Joseph
Ramsey. jr., former president Of the
Wabash railway, in suit brought In
New York by John S. Jones, finan-
cier, was recently rendered by jury.
Six indictments have been returned
by the New York grand jury against
Raymond Hitchcock, an actor,
charging attacks on you-s girls. The
accused man has disappeared.
After blowing out the front Of the
building occupio by the bank at Paw
nee Rock, Kansas, the robbers were
scared away without securing any
money.
On orders from President Roosevelt
Secretary Taft cut his visit to the
chn h1, in
to reach Berlin at the earliest possi-
| BILE moment. The cause of the haste
was not explained.
The American sailin.; vessel Arthur
Sewall. which left Philadelphia April
last with coal for the Philippines,
was, wrecked off the coast of Terra
Del Fuego, and all signs point to the
crew of 40 men having been captured
and eaten by cannibals that infest
that vicinity.
! At meeting in Chicago of repre-
sentatives of the larger railway sys-
tens, 1t was agreed to continue the
| homeseekers' excursions to the west
After January l the rates will be ad
vanced about s..
The eastern railroads are refusing
shipments of grain for export.
The entire tobacco crop Of 1907
| pledged to the American Society of
| Equity in Kentucky, aggregating 49,
| 100000 pounds. has been sold to an
| English company for s1.600.000, the
highest price paid since the civil war.
The lola Portland Cement company
is incorporated in West Virginia with
| capital stock of s4,500O00 and it
cost $2.327.50 to secure a license to
| do business in Kansas.
The government has coin in San
! coo. OF this sum $303.00O,0OO is is
stored in the mint and s4O,OOO,OO0 in
| the sub-treasury.
| The president has appointed Ross
well P. Bishop. a former representa-
| tive from Michigan to membership on
the Spanish treaty claims commits
sion.
| Gov Hoch of Kansas has granted a
| pardon to Emmett Dalton. the Coffey
| Vile. Kan. bank robber who has
| served Is years of life sentence in
| the penitentiary.
J. l. Sheppard. secretary of the
| Trackmen's union. has filed petition
with Gov Hoch of Kansas asking that
| steps be taken to secue the proper
repair of the Missouri Pacific railroad
tracks in the state.
/ The beer tax collected in Missouri
| during the month of October amounted
to 3S.4OO.7O.
The emperor of Japan has cele.
brated his fifty-hfth birthday.
A violent earthquake at Samara
cand. Asiatic Russia, did comparative
| ly little damage. but the inhabitants
became panic stricken.
The railroad men Of Great Britain
have voted 7G.925 for and s,773 against
calling a strike.
The enlisted men of the North At
lantic fleet are to present handsome
loving cup valued at $4,000 to Helen
NJ Gould in the near future.
Nearly the entire town of Karatagh,
~'Issian Turkestan. has been destroy
ed by a landslide. 1t is estimated
| that 1900 persons lost their lives
| Members of the Southwestern Traf
| fic Association of Railroads will hold
their 37th anniversary on board a
steamship in the Gulf of Mexico
The German emperor and empress.
and it is said. the imperial chancellor.
Prince Won Buelow. will pay a visit
of state to England during November
A fast passenger train going 70
miles an hour collided head-on with a
freight train near Morganville. Ga.
two men being killed and &c injured
The new Cunard liner. the Maure.
tania. is slightly larger than the rec
ord-breaking Lusitania and the build
ers expect her to break all records
Of transatlantic voyages.
Mr.. Bell, member of the British
| parliament, has made the statement
| that there are 100000 men employed
on the railroads of the United King
dam who receive less than S. a week.