, 1907-09-26

production of wheat as compared with
last year.
A general railroad strike is threat
ened in England as the result Of the
demand of the Railway Mems union
for the recognition of their organi-
cation.
The international Association of
Machinists, in session at st. Louis,
have adjourned. The next convention
will be held in Denver in 1909.
The St. Louis shoe workers in II
plants, to the number of 1900 have
struck for shorter hours and more pay.
In the New York Oil trust hearing
evidence was brought out to show that
John d. Rockefeller owns more than
one-fourth of the stock of the Standard
Oil company. His income for the past
eight years has been $125, GOO, 000.
Definite arrangements have been
made for President Roosevelt to camp
out for II days in the canebrakes of
Louisiana, from October 5 to October
81.
In a premature explosion of a shell
on board the Japanese battleship kas-
hima, seven officers and 81 men were
killed, and eight others wounded.
The federal grand jury at Bartles-
vile. l. T, is investigating alleged
frauds committed during the recent
election.
A school for the instruction of con-
suls has been established at the state
department in Washington. Each new
ly appointed consul is required to at
tend for 80 days before leaving for his
post of duty.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, in session at st. Paul, has
chosen Denver, Col, as the next meet
ing place.
The strike of the cutters in the shoe
factories of St. Louis has extended to
all the workers and IS plants employ
ing 10000 persons are idle.
A cage containing IS men plunged
down $50 feet in a mine shaft at
Negaunee, Mich. Eleven men were
killed outright and seven fatally in
jured.
Judge LocEren, in the federal court
at St. Paul, has issued an order re-
straining the state of Minnesota from
enforcing the rate laws passed by the
last legislature. In his opinion the
judge savagely attacked the states
law making body.
Five members of the sect known
as the Parhamites have been arrested
at Zion City, ILL.,, charged with tortur-
ing to death an aged woman for 20
years a cripple from rheumatism. The
accused, among whom are the son
and daughter of the victim, claim they
We're trying to cast out n devil.
In a wreck on the Mexican Central
railroad recently 40 passengers were
killed and "a injured.
Based on the present market value
of Standard Oil shares. the holdings
of John d. Rockefeller in the company
amount to s109, OOO, 600.
l. Federal officials recently raided the
liquor joints about Tulsa, l.. T., and
confiscated $500 barrels of substitutes
for beer, which was dumped into the
l Arkansas river.
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
dided that a person cannot devise an
interest y a timber claim unless a
, patent has been issued
The Missouri law fixing eight hours
as the work day for railroad tele-
graphers has been declared unconsti-
tutional by circuit Judge Bradley of
Higginsville.
From later reports Il appears that
the 1emprratS have nnaba ola,-
sweep in Oklahoma, the only excep-
ton being in the First congressional
district where Bird S. Mcclure, re-
publican was elected by a good ma
jority.
The profits of the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana for 1906 were more
than $4,000, 900 on a capital stock of
$1,oOO,0o or over 900 per cent a
year. These figures We're brought out
in the evidence at the New York hear.
ing of the suit of the government to
dissolve the trust.
The diplomatic representatives of
the five Central American republics
have signed a protocol accepting the
invitation of the United States and
Mexico for a meeting at Washington
at an early date.
The United States navy department
has contracted with Welsh firms for
100000 tons of the best steam coal.
The long distance balloon race from
Brussels was won by the German bal.
loon Pommern which came down at
Bayonne, France, a distance OF 62l
miles from Brussels.
-Four Men were killed and four 9th.
ers seriously injured in the wreck of
an automobile on one of the streets
of Colorado Springs recently. They
were driving the machine down grade
at 60 miles an hour when the accident