The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from AL
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Bcnent of Our Readers.
Personal.

The newly born heir to the throne
Christine Eduardo.
Mrs. Houser wife of Daniel Houser
president of the Globe Printing COM
pany publishing the Globe-Democrat
died in st. Louis from the effects of
self-inflicted gun shot wound.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaivitch
of Russia has married Princess Anas-
tasia of Montenegro.
Frank H. Butler, who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover, Del, has been released from
custody, for want of sufficient evil
dence against him.
A. E. Stilwell and a party of 80
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
DR.. M. P. Creel, of Centerville, Kan,
has been elected one of the vice pres
idents of the National Association of
Pension Examining Surgeons.
Francis M. Brown, democrat, was
recently elected mayor of Lincoln,
Neb., by a majority of 81 votes.
Ex-United States Senator Edmund
G. Ross, of Kansas, whose vote saved
President Andrew Johnson from i'm
parchment, is dead at Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
DR.. Frank Billings, of Chicago, has
been elected president of the Nation
al tuberculosis association.
Mrs. Eustace Brown, of Olathe has
been chosen president of the Kan
sas Federation of Women's clubs.
Gen. Kuroki and suite were the
guests of Secretary Taft at dinner
in Washington recently.
Senator Thomas c. Plat, of New
York, announces that he will retire
from public life at the end of his
present term.
Miscellaneous.
The motion for bill of particulars
filed by w. d. Haywood, on trial at
Boise, Idaho, for completely in the
murder of former Gov Stuenenberg,
was denied by Judge Fremont Wood.
The Wyoming Woolgrowers' asso-
citation accuse the eastern buyers with
conspiracy to force down the price of
wood regardless of the demand of the
manufacturers.
The Susan B. Anthony memorial
fund of $4,000 to promote the cause
of equal suffrage has been completed.
The trial of w. D. Haywood, sec
rotary of the Western Federation of
Miners, for completely in the murder
of former Gov. Steunenberg, of idaho,
has begun at Boise. The trial pro-
misses to last for several weeks.
w. O. Douglas, the former loan
clerk of the Trust Company of Amer
lea, has pleaded guilty of the larceny
of $4,000 worth of railroad stock.
On account of the longshorenen's
strike at New York, several Atlantic
liners have been compelled to sail with
only partial cargoes of freight.
There is serious lack of farm
hands in the Northwest, according to
reports received by the Great North
ern railroad. Farmers are offering
$35 and $40 month for help.
Portions of Siberia recently exper-
fenced a severe earthquake shock.
A six-story building in Omaha occu-
pied by the Parlin, Orendorff & Co.,
recently. No one was killed.
The Shriners in session at Los An
geles, Cal, have chosen ST. Paul as
the meeting place of the 1908 con-
clave.
The president has approved the
recommendation of Attorney General
Bonaparte that William January, alias
Charles w. Anderson, who was re-
Gently arrested at Kansas City, on a
charge of being an escaped convict,
be given full pardon on July 49,.
The st. Paul Episcopal church in
Kansas City, Kan, has celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary Of it's organi-
cation.
Six men alleged to be the leaders
of the mob that lynched negro at
Sterrett, I. T., March 81, have been ar
rested by United States marshals and
held on charge of murder.
| The Union Pacific railroad earned
| during the year ending June 80, 1907,
$32, 100000 over operating expenses.
The Union Pacific railroad has de-
clared a quarterly dividend of 81 per
cent
Northwest Texas was visited by a
storm of wind and rain which assumed
| the proportions of tornado in places
doing damage to buildings and crops.
The strike which has prevailed IN
| the Texas Oil fields has been declared
off and the men have returned to
work.
The Val Blatz Brewing Company
has commenced suit in the Kansas
supreme court to regain possession
| of its property now in the possession
| of the receivers, alleging that papers
were not served on any authorized
agent of the company.
The Booth anniversary of the land
| ing of the first permanent English set