The Ordway new era., 1907-10-25

= Hartman voting stock controlled py
him in the Illinois Central Railroad
company on the ground that state laws
prevent one railroad company ownins
stock In another.
HAMPTON G. Westcom testified al
the hearing OF the federal suit against
the Standard Oil company that the
! company found 1t "expedient" to sell
much of their product through socalied
independent companies that were real
ly owned and operated by the Standard
The Commercial lelesraphers BY
referendum vote have declared their
intention to continue the strike.
; A difference OF opinion has arisen
in Porto Rico between the insular au.
, thorities and officers of the United
States courts over the payment OF the
expenses of the latter,
The Wall street stock market was
recently thrown into turmoil by the
collapse OF prices OF United copper
company stock The stock dropped
from $50 to $40 in one day. Two large
brokerage firms suspended and F A
Heinze was compelled to resign from
the presidency OF the Mercantile bank
| OF Ne" lOTh
A meeting between King Edward OF
/ England and the cza- OF Russia IS
/ to take place at Copenhagen
The passing OF sentence on the
/ Santa Fe railroad convicted OF rebat-
ing at Los Angeles. Cal, has been
postponed until November T.
The executive committee OF the Ma
tional Telegraphers' union has sus'
pended S j. Small as president OF the
organization.
The stock market of Montreal. Can.
ada, was recently thrown into a panic
by the passing OF the quarterly diyl-
dend OF the Detroit United Street Rail
way company. most OF the stock OF
which is held in that city.
The Nebraska railway commission
has issued an order limiting the
speed OF trains on the Missouri Pacific
In that state to 2J miles an hour until
the roadbed has been repaired.
Five persons. two men and three
women, have been arrested In Joplin,
Mo. suspected OF blowing up the
News-Herald printing plant with dy.
namite.
Gently held in Collinsville. |. T. Ge- .
ronimo. the old Apache chief. was the
principal figure.
J. y. Sapp has employed counsel to
aid In the prosecution OF S. F. Whit .
low. charged with the murder OF May .
Sapp at Moran. Kan.
A dollar n bushel was recently OF. I
fered for wheat at arkansas City, Kan. |
By a cave.in in the ballast quarries .
OF the Mexican Central railroad at .
Victoria 16 laborers were killed and .
II others fatally injured.
The trial of George A. PettibOne.
charged with completely in the assas-
OF cx-Gov. Steunenberg OF
Idaho. Is set for October rs at IioIse.
The failure OF Haller, Sochle & Co. I
an old banking house of Hamburg, /
Germany. has been announced. The /
liabilities are estimated at $1,000. 900. |
Commercial business between Glace
bay. y. s.. and Clifden. Ireland is now
being accepted BY the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company.
The first carload OF buffalo from the
New York gardens have been turned
loose in the government reserve in the
Indian territory.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane is authority for the statement
that the Southern Pacific railroad has
continued to give rebates to shippers
in defiance of the Hepburn law. The
facts will be laid before the depart.
ment Of justice.
Attorney General Hadley OF Nilsson.
ri has given an opinion in which he
holds that the state railroad commits
sioners have the power to reduce the
rates charged by express companies
in that state.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
announced a voluntary raise In salary
to all telegraph operators in the EN-.
ploy of the company.
Fifty persons were killed and 600
injured and every building In the town
of Fontinet, Ind. was wrecked recent.
ly by the explosion of the Dupont Pow.
der company's works there. The shock
of the explosion was felt 200 miles
away and buildings two miles distant
were destroyed AMI the occupants in.
jured.
Judgment has been entered in the St
Louis courts against John Morton. n
Joplin, Mo-. mining promoter, for
$537 ,030.22. He was charged with
selling paper" mine in the zinc dis.
trict.
The State Savings bank of Butte.
Mont. in which F. Augustus Heinze is
the principa! stockholder. closed It's
doors on account of n run caused by
the failure Of Heinze brokerage firms
in New York