The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-04-11
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

The agreement between 81 rail-
| roads west of Chicago and the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen ana
Enginemen was signed yesterday.
A passenger train on the Southern
Pacific was wrecked in Nevada, the
engineer was killed and q number
OF passengers were hurt.
Roscoe G. Brown, a Boston law
student, was arrested, charged with
forging checks to the extent of sever
al thousand dollars.
Emil Hoover, son of Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, has secretly visited her
six times in the penitentiary, con-
trary to regulations.
DR.. Samuel s. Guy, for four years
coroner of Queensborough. shot and
killed his wife In. his home.
Fire that broke out in a second
hand furniture store caused a loss
of $175,000 in Galveston, Tex.
Thomas II. Clay, a grandson of
Henry Clay, died at his home. in
Lexington, KY.
Former Mayor Weir, of Lincoln,
Neb., died of heart failure in an au-
tomobile
Another attempt was made to
wreck train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
The tuberculosis sanitarium found
ed at San Juan, Porto Rico, by the
Antituberculosis League OF Porto
Rico was dedicated by Governor
Winthrop.
The Chicago Terminal Railway
Company has filed a plea in court
opposing the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroads proposition to assume the
bonded Indebtedness and control OF
the terminal company.
Abraham Ruef. on trial in San
Francisco, charged with extortion,
had a contract to receive $1,000
from the French restaurants.
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania,
has signed the two-cent mileage law,
which will go into effect September
80.
A federal grand jury at Cheyenne.
Wyo., returned indictments aginst E.
M. Holbrook, president of the Wy
oming Coal Mining Company; E. T.
Mccarthy. E. f. Lonabaugh and
Robert McPhipamey, charging con-
spiracy with intent to defraud the
government.
Frank w. Hill, a stenographer,
was arrested in New York, charged
with having sold to a newspaper the
letter of T.. II. Hartman to Sidney
Webster, which raised a rumpus.
The Western railroads centering in
Chicago have granted an increase of
/ 10 per cent, but refuse the nine
hour day TO the men. Both sides
have accepted the compromise.
The scenic commission to consider
the restoration of the American bank
of Niagara gorge to a state of pri-
meval beauty began it's work at Nj
agara Falls, n. Y.
News of the death in Hongkong of
Bishop James n. Fitz Gerald, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was re-
ceived by the Methodist Book Con-
Germ.
Foike Engel Brandt was sentenced
to 80 years in prison for robbery at
the home of his former employer,
Mortimer L. Schiff, the banker.
The accounts of Ferdinand II.
/ Dudenhefer, state tax collector of
Louisiana, were found to be $40, 1000
short
Statistics compiled by the Penn
sylvania Railroad shows that the sys-
tenn now comprises 23,109 miles of
track.
Charles Calkins shot and killed
himself in font of his sweetheart's
home in Elkhart, Ind.
Emile Grigsby, the ward of
Charles T. Yerkes, the traction mill
lionaire, has settled the suit against
the Yerkes estate out of court, the
young woman getting over two mill
lions.
Mrs. Ellen Berry Ryder. wife of
wealthy New Yorker. and member
of an old Dutch family. ended her
life by hanging herself.
A woman, eXpensively gowned and
wearing jewels, was captured by the
police IN a raid on a New York
opium den.
Six hundred tunnel workers in
New York had narrow escapes from
being trapped underground by fire.
Ambassador Charlemangne Tower
declares the Germans have confidence
/ in the American square deal"
The destruction of San FranciscO's
electric light plant by fire put out
all the lights in the city.
Governor Hughes issued a war
rant for the surrender to Chicago
officers of Hattie Kelly, alias Hattie
Nolan, Who was arrested in Albany
on the charge of stealing $1,700
and jewelry last month from Joseph
Nolan in Chicago.
The will of the late William II.
Proctor, the soap manufacturer, di
rects that theh property. amounting
to 100000 be divided equally
among his five children.
]. j. Hill resigned as president Of
the Great Northern Railroad and was
made chairman of the board of di-
rectors, and his son, l.. w. Hill, was
elected president.
foreign.
Negotiations are understood to be
proceeding between the British COM
panies concerned in the Argentine
meat trade with the view to effect
ing an agreement to restrict supplies
and keep up prices.
According to an English health Of
fcer, 70 per cent. of the canned
goods imported into England from
the United States are not labeled
and English firms put on their own
labels