The Ordway new era., 1907-12-06

''''Suiy OI the birth
OF John Harvard, founder OF Harvard
university, vas recently celebrated
In Toxic. Japan.
II. Meade Shumway. convicted of
numbering his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Mar.
tin, near Adams. Neb., has been sen.
fenced to hang March 10.
A marble fountain, the Gift os phi,o
s. Bennett to Haven. Conn, was dedI.
Gated recently by William J. BRYAN
executor of the estate.
Kansas Is to have an Alfalfa Day"
on December IA. At $50 farmers in.
stitutes held on that day alfalfa will
be the sole topic discussed.
Attorney General Jackson has filed
In the Kansas supreme court formal
accusations against % city officials
and employees of PIttsburg for re.
ceiving money from joints in viola.
tion OF the courts order.
Seven business blocks In Cody.
Wyo., were recently DESTROYED by n
hre presumably OF incendlary origin.
AT Waterbury. Conn. five factory
employees were killed and six others
seriously Injured by the collision of
Il trolley car and freight train on a
grade crossing.
The municipal debt of Boston is
$111 .S4S.735. or $50 per capita, an in
crease in the past II years Of Ill per
cent.
Germany is upon the verge OF an
industrial crisis. There are said to
be 10000 unemployed in Berlin alone.
Senator Long has sent letters to
Kansas bankers and business men
asking for expressions as to needed
Legislation touching upon the finan-
cial situation.
Two men charged with the recent
ho!d-up of the bank at Clinton, H.,
pleaded guilty and were given indie
terminate sentences In the peniten.
tiary.
The work of securing jury for the
trial of George A. Pettibone, for com,
plicity in the murder OF former Gov.
Steunenberg. has begun at Boise.
Idaho.
A copper plate engraving made by
Paul Revere was recently sold to
Harvard university for s725.
The premium on currency in New
York has almost disappeared.
Ollie Reed. prominent insurance
agent. fell dead while attending n
Thanksgiving dance at Wheeling, w.
Va.
In an attempted holdup OF Greek Ia
borers at Kansas City one of the for
eigners was killed and the leader OF
the robbers was fatally wounded.
The United States Fidelity and
Guarantee company. of Baltimore has
withdrawn from business in Okla
homa.
The banks OF Ardmore, Ok. have
begun the use OF cashiers checks.
A fury to try Caleb Powers for the
murder of Gov. Goebcl. OF Ken.
lucky. has been secured. 1t is COM
posed of eight democrats and four re-
publicans.
The Kansas university football
team defeated the Missouri university
team at St Joseph in the annual
Thanksgiving day game by score OF
4 to 0.
Owing to the large amount OF APP
plications received Secretary Cortel'
YOU has closed the subscription for
per cent certificates of indebted
ness.
Seven persons were burned to
death in cheap lodging house near
the Union depot at Kansas City re-
Gently. The origin of the fire Is uh-
known.
The Sacramento Bar association
has passed n resolution declaring
that the laws passed by the recent
special session of the legislature are
vicious. dangerous and unconstitu'
tional.
Gen. Davis. judge advocate gem
eral Of the army, has decided that the
use of United States soldiers at the
recent balloon contest at st. LOUIS
was not warranted by law.
An interesting fact brought out IN
the hearing of the governments su't
against the tobacco trust was that the
consumption Of tobacco in the united
states was not keeping pace with the
increase in the population.
Eleanor and Leroy Chestnut. OF
Mexico. Mo-, have received slo'ooo
from the Chinese government as daih'
ages for the death Of their aunt MISS
Eleanor Chestnut. who was killed IN
the Boxer uprising at Lien Chow IN
1905. ,o,
The national convention of the peo-
,,,a. ma rtv has been called to meet In