The Taney County republican., 1907-04-18
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Final motions to Quash the indict-
ment against the Standard Oil COM
pany have been overruled by Judge
lands in the federal court of Chi
cago.
Appropriations of the recent
Nebraska legislature aggreGanng
s25O,O00 have been vetoed by Gov,
Sheldon. The loss falls heavily on
state educational institutions.
Butcher workmen in the various
packing plants throughout the West
are preparing to demand an increase
| in wages.
A negro killing and burglary have
so aroused tire citizens Of Altus, OK,
that they have driven all the negroes
from the city.
The forestry bureau of the govern
ment has ordered 10000 trees planted
in the Garden City, Kan, reserve this
spring.
Word comes from Shanghai that
conditions in the Chinese famine dis
trict are growing worse. Five thous'
and persons are daily dying of starva'
ton. The relief committee appeals
TO America for 100000 in the next
three weeks TO aid the sufferers.
After deliberating 47 hours and
eight minutes, the jury which has
been trying Harry K. Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White in New
York, reported to the court its inabil'
itv to agree on verdict and were dis
charged. Seven Of the 12 men favored
murder in the first degree and five
favored acquittal. The prisoner was
remanded to Jail without bail.
President Bonilla. of Honduras has
surrendered to the Nicaraguan forces
9t Amapalpa, thus ending the war
between the two Central American
republics.
In preparation for the nine hour
law, the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road is closing scores of its smaller
offices throughout Iowa.
Acting Gov. Moore has signed the
bill prohibiting trading in futures in
Arkansas.
Gov. Hoch has granted condi.
tional pardon to Willie Sell, who has
been serving a life sentence in the
Kansas penitentiary since 1888 for
the murder of his father, mother,
brother and sister The principal
condition Is that he must not exhibit
himself for the purpose OF making
money.
II. II. Tucker, Jr., secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company, with head
quarters in Kansas City, Kan, has
been indicted by the federal grand
jury at Topeka on a charge OF using
the mails to defraud. Tucker claims
he Is being prosecuted by the Stand
ard Oil company. .l,.
ID. C. Willoughby who recently
sailed from New York for Europe, Is
wanted in Des Moines. Omaha and
Denver for issuing fraudulent deeds
to farm land in the west.
A passenger train on the st. Johns
bury and Lake Champlain railroad
plunged down a 40 foot embankment
killing one person and injuring about
is others.
None of the express companies
doing business In Nebraska have
lowered their rates in compliance
with the new state law which re-
duces charges 25 per cent.
The New York Herald Publishing
company has been sentenced to pay
fines aggregating s31 900 on pleas
of guilty to using the United States
mails for improper purposes.
The policies of President Roosevelt
were recently indorsed by the Con
necticut Legislature by rising vote
At a banquet in New York Senator
| Spooner, Of Wisconsin, warmly de
Tended the United States senate, say
ing there was not In the world a
legislative body more loyal to public
interests.
Moore's Opera House at Nevada
Mo. was recently destroyed by fire
The news that Gen. Lee Christmas
Of Memphis. Tenn, had been killed
in Honduras by Nicaraguan soldiers
has been confirmed.
In the federal court at Chicago
Judge Landis decided that the STAND
ard Oil company may produce evi
dence showing that 1t did not intend
to violate the law in the acceptance
of unlawful rates.
DR.. Kinnard, commissioner OF the
Society of Friends, who was sent to
Russia to investigate famine condl
tions, says there are 2O,O00,O00 people
in dangc; of starvation in the south.
eastern provinces. he appeals to the
Anglo-Saxons for s2,50O,ODO to aid
them.
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin
in recent interview declared in
favor of the denomination of Pres!.
dent Roosevelt.
Gov Campbell, Of Texas, has vetoe
on constitutional grounds the Santa
Fe railroad consolidation bill recently
passed by the legislature.
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