The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-06-27
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic


for the murder of Ex-Governor Steun-
enberg. Judge Wood overruled the
motion of the defense that the jury
be advised by the court to return a
verdict of acQuittal before hearing
any evidence from the defense.
Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud Hanna
was grented divorce from Dan II.
Hanna, son of the late Senator nj. A.
Hanna, in a Cleveland court on her
charge of cruelty and neglect to duty.
Mrs. Hanna was given the custody
OF her child and the alimony was
settled out of court.
Mrs. Emma Kaufman, of Sioux
Falls, is at liberty under a bond of
S25 900 pending argument on a mo-
ton for a new trial. She was con-
victed Of first degree manslaughter
for causing the death of Agnes Pol
ries, a 16-Year-old servant in the
Kaufman home.
The prosecution in the Haywood
trial succeeded in again showing a
direct connection between the store
OF George Pettibone, in Denver, and
Harry Orchard at work on the Brad
ley crime In San Francisco, and that
Haywood had declared that Steunen-
who should be exterminated.
Evidence was taken before a spec
ial examiner of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in New York on
the charge that railroads are charg-
ing as much for immigrants as for
first-class passengers.
A lunacy commission was appoint
ed to inquire into the mental condi-
fnr, Of l~1s
who carried Elizabeth Brady to Bal
timore.
Leave to enter a motion for a re-
hearing was granted to Greene and
Gaynor in the United States Court
of Appeals in Huntsville, Ala.
Robert f. Straine, of Boston, was
arrested in Dedham, Mass. for try
ing to forcibly take his daughter from
her boarding house.
President Remsen, of Johns Hop
kins University. delivered the COM
mencement Grafton at the University
Of Michigan.
The Neptune Line steamer Rhode
Island ran into coal barge off Rose
Island and the passengers were
frightened.
Former President Grover Cleve-
land, who has been ill with acute in
digestion, is reported out of danger.
Ambassador Bryce delivered the
address at the Washington Universe
ty commencement In st. Louis.
A call has been issued for a ma
tional industrial congress in San
Francisco.
Testimony that the State of Penn
sylvania paid $566,0O0 for $4,000
worth of bronze in the State Capitol
at 'Harrisbbrg was given before the
Capitol Investigation Commission.
DR.. Paul r.. Heyl, of Philadelphia,
has won prize of $1,000, which
has been offered for As years to the
person who should determine the
relative speed of rays Of light.
Edward HotchBiss successfully de-
fled the health authorities of the port
of New York by refusing to leave the
ship Havana and place himself in
quarantine.
The police of Bridgeport, n. j.,
are investigating the drowning of
Miss Mary Vennell, who was out row.
ing on a lake with George Evans.
The suspension of the firm of f.
w. Duryea & Co. was announced on
the New York Stock Exchange.
President Hadley, of Yale. an
nounced that the Woolsey and Hurl-
but scholarships would be awarded
by lot between Robert Alfonso Taft,
of Washington, ID. c., and Samuel
Michael Cohen, of Hartford, CT. This
is the first time in 81 years that the
Woolsey scholarship has been di-
vided.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, chairman of the subcommit-
tee of the congressional commission
to investigate conditions at immi-
grafton stations, declares one physi-
clan is not sufficient to examine 900
persons arriving in Baltimore in a
single day.
Federal Judge Smith Mcpherson,
sitting In Kansas City, In deciding
the conflict between the national and
state laws over two-cent mileage,
ruled that the federal authority had
Jurisdiction and enjoined the state
from imposing penalties.
Herman S. Leroy, attorney for
the late James Henry Smith, denies
that Mrs. Simon Dufreche, of New
Orleans, is Smiths daughter, as she
has claimed