The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-06
The Michigan senate has passed

ton of President Roosevelt 10 a sec
vnd elective term.
Six millionaires and Mayor Schn1itz
gave bail in the sum of 100000 in
Judge Dunn's court in San Francis
co in one day.
The supreme court of the United
States has sustained the Interstate
Commerce Commission in an order
that tho railroads shall not increase
the freight rates on southern lumber
two cents per hundred.
Several pieces of fine marble which
We're to be used in the Mckinley
mausoleum at Canton, Ohio, were
recently destroyed by fire in Buffalo.
N. Y.
One man was killed and % persons
injured in a wreck on the Southern
Pacific railroad near Los Angeles,
Cal. the wreck was caused by I'M
known parties loosening the rails on
a trestle, which spread under the
weight of the engine precipitatng the
cars into ravine.
A rebellion has broken out and all
the civil and military officers assas-
sinated at Wongkong, China.
There has been filed in the United
States supreme court on behalf OF
Kansas, motion for a rehearing of
the Kansas Colorado suit over the
use of the water from the Arkansas
riber.
A copppr bronze equestrian statute
of Gen. John B. Gordon was recently
unveiled at Atlanta. Ca.
The San Francisco grand jury re-
turned indictment against six mil
lionaires in one day on charges of
bribery as well as bringing addition
indictments against Abraham Ruef
and Mayor Schmitz.
Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, in his Mem
orial day proclamation, calls atten-
ton to the law passed by the last
session of the legislature which makes
it misdemeanor to carry on any
ball game, horse race or other sport
ing event on that day.
Eight or ten persons persisted in
a fire that consumed a lodging house
at San Jose Cal.
Reports from Toxic state that the
japanese are again excited over al
legged attacks made upon japanese
restaurants in San Francisco.
The French Minister, at Tangier,
reports that the Sultan's representa-
tive has promised to accede to all the
French demands.
A police census just completed gives
the population of the District of Col
umbia as 329,591, of whom 9G,1SS are
negroes.
There Is serious lack of farm
hands in the Northwest. according to
reports received by the Great North
ern railroad. Farmers are offering
s35 and $40 month for help.
Six men alleged to be the leaders
OF the mob that lynched negro at
Sterrett. l. T., March 81 have been ar
rested by United States marshals and
held on a charge of murder.
At Claxton, Ga, two negroes we're
lynched, one white man and two ne
groes were killed and seven other per-
sons were injured as the result of an
attempt to capture negro who had
criminally assaulted a white woman.
Five white men We're killed and
four fatally injured in an explosion OF
molten metal in blast furnace at
Pittsburg. Pa.
Ten indictments have been re-
turned against President Hegseman.
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company by the New York grand
jury on charge of forgery and per-
jury.
Parties presumed to be strikers
short circuted the trolley wire on
some of the San Francisco car lines
and caused an explosion in the power
house which burned out the switch
board putting out of commission all
lines north of Market street.
a. T. Pigg, charged with bribing
juror in Topeka, was recently re-
turned from California to stand trial.
has handed down decision declaring
the last city election in Louisville
void and ordering new election in
November next. The governor is
given power to fill the vacant offices.
The live stock commission men at
the various packing centers are re-
senting a recent order of the pack
ers regarding inspection of cows and
heifers. Resolutions have been
adopted to refuse to sell under the
proposed rule; and shippers were
notified to hold cows and heifers on
the farm for the present.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau places the consumption of
wood pulp in the United States in
1906 at 3.646,693 cords as compared
with 3.l93,123 cords in 1905.
Commissioner r. A. Anthony, who