The Lamar register., 1907-05-08

The United States court of appeals
has affirmed the decision of the lower
federal court finding Armour Pack
/ ing company, Swift & Co., Morris q
Co, and the Cudahy Packing company
guilty of accepting rebates.
James Bryce, British ambassador.
| will deliver an address at jamestown,
May 10, concentrating the first per-
manent settlement of English speak
ing people on the American con-
tinent.
| The first international boat race
between the crews of. the warships
gathered off jamestown exposition
grounds resulted in victory for the
crew of the American battleship
Virginia.
A special jury has been called at
Joplin, Mo-, to investigate the charges
of police graft.
A servere wind and electrical storm
did considerable damage al Spring
field, Mo-, and vicinity recently.
In the federal court at Guthrie, Ok,
the demurrers of the lumbermen to the
indictments against them were over
ruled. The cases will be called for trial
at the next term of court.
Owing to contrary winds the at
tempt of Capt Chandler and J. c. Nc
Coy to reach Washington, d. c., from
St Louis failed. After being in the air
| 10 hours the balloon landed at Col
conda, Ill, 100 miles from the starting
point.
Abraham Ruef recently moved for
/ a change of venue of his case from
San Francisco alleging that for veri-
GUS reasons he could not get II fair
trial in that county.
| A company has been organized TO
build 100000 cement plant AT
Tulsa, |. T.
| The Web Pressman's union of st.
Louis has ordered strike in all the
English newspapers of the city ex-
cept one. The pressmen and helpern
demand an increase of from 30 to 100
per cent in wages.
In a speech at Worcester, Mass,
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury declared war for the con
troll of the Pacific ocean was newt
able.
| Count Otto Won Waldstein. an Aus
|
California by sheriff's posse who
mistook him for a desperate for
whom they were searching
The wages of the entire working
force in the packing houses at Omaha
have been voluntarily increased from
/ five to Is per cent.
disastrous gunpowder explosion
recently occurred in Canton. China.
More than loo buildings were wrecked
and hundreds of the natives were
either killed or injured The foreign
settlement escaped injury.
Charles J. Steedman. of New York
and Philadelphia. son of the late Rear
Admiral Steedman recently commit
ted suicide in a Paris hotel.
| Three men were killed and six in
jured in an accident in an ore mine
at Riddlesburg, Pa, recently.
The new treaty between the United
| States and Santo Domingo intended to
replace the one which has been pend
ing in the senate for the last two
years, has been ratified by the Do
minican congress.
| Former State Senator Franklin p.
Mays has been fined in the federal
court at Portland. Ore. the sum of s10,-
900 for completely in the land frauds
| in that state
The Inland Waterways commission,
at its final meeting in Washington.
decided to proceed to Kansas City and
make thorough inspection trip down
the Missouri river to ST. Louis.
| 10 70 vi IN
Elk county, Kan, of Texas fever.
| About 90 Chicago women were in
jured in panic caused by fire in
the building occupied by the Lotus
Lunch club Most of the injured suf-
fered broken bones by jumping from
windows.
An association has been chartered
at st. Louis whose object is the
preservation Of the log cabin built by
Gen. Grant in that vicinity. An en-
dowment fund of $4,000 is to be
created.
The weather bureau in Washington,
declared the past month the coolest
April in 26 years.
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, rector of
st. George Episcopal church at Hemp
stead, l.. I. fled recently with his
ward. an orphan girl named Whaley,
who is only II years OF age. The
whereabouts of the couple is unknown.
A statue of Gen. George b. Mcclellan
was unveiled recently at Washington
with appropriate ceremonies. Presi-
dent Roosevelt was the principal
speaker of the day. The statue was
erected by the Society of the ..rmy OF
the Potomac. ....- .-.
BY an explosion in a West Virginia
coal mine / miners were killed and
five others badly injured.
Oxford university has conferred the
degree of doctor of science upon
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone and regent of the Smith
sonian institution at Washington.
The Saith annual meeting of the
State Association of Congregational
churches'of Missouri was recently held
at Joplin.
While irving tn hang an effipy on a