The state herald., 1907-07-05
At a Joint meeting Of the Musko

| adopted favoring Kansas City as the
place for the next republican nation
| al convention.
A temporary restraining order mas
| been granted in St Louis prohibiting
the state board of railroad and ware
house commissioners from enforcing
the law regarding the inspection and
weighing Of grain outside of public
elevators.
| While on the way to attend tho
commencement exercises at Yale an
automobile containing four passengers
plunged off bridge. d. l.. oliver,
student, was killed and the other oc'
cupants seriously injured.
For the eighth time the Cornell
crew succeeded in winning the eight
cared race at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
Columbia was second and the United
States Naval academy third.
The premature explosion of box
of dynamite near Tola, Charlotte
county, Va. killed eight persons ana
injured six Others,
At New London, Conn. Harvard
won the eight-oared freshman race by
close margin. while Yale won the
varsity four cared race by ten
lengths.
Al Findlay. Ohio. the jury in the
| trial of the Standard Oil company on
a charge of violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and were dis
charged.
The pension department will urge
congress at its next session 10 equal
ize the pensions of soldiers. widows
on basis of sl2.
The beard of police commissioners
of San Francisco has denied pcrmis'
sion to japanese 10 keep intelligence
offices In that city.
Judge Lands. In the federal court
at Chicago. has refused the request
of the attorneys for John ID. Rocke'
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client.
Russo-ltalian commercial treaty
has been signed at St Petersburg.
Judge Chytraus, of Chicago, has de
clarcd the law passed by the last
legislature prohibiting the sale oi
cigarettes in Illinois invaled.
According to the verdict of a Jury
in the federal court at Fort Dodge,
Iowa. grain transactions on boards OF
trade are gambling and debts thus
contracted can not be collected.
Mrs. Russell Sage has sent TO the
Lincoln Farm Association contribu'
ton of $4,000 TO the fund for the
preservation of the Abraham Lincoln
farm and log cabin.
Yale defeated Harvard In the an.
nual varsity eiRht.oared race at New
London. Conn. by scant boats
boats length before the largest crowd
that ever witnessed a race on the
Thames river. The time was 81 10.
Il. II. Hartman. the railroad mag
nate. was arrested DUNG the Yale
Harvard boat race at New London.
Conn, and confined on revenue cut
ter for violating the rules OF the
course.
All OF the mail carriers OF Butte,
Mont. have gone un strike, declaring
that they could not live on the salaries
paid at present by the government.
on the Kickapoo Indian reservation
near Horton. Kan, Jack Masquat and
his wife were struck by lightning and
killed
A destructive flood is reported In
the saltwater Valley. Montana. Five
Of the seven bridges over the sun
water river were carried out.
In the United States district court
at Chicago Judge Lands overruled
the motion of the Standard oil com.
pany for new trial Of the case in
which they were recently convicted
OF rebatlng.
The sentencing Of Mayor Schmitz
OF San Francisco, convicted Of eNior'
Ion, has been postponed by Judge
Dunno. until July S, schmlu must
remain In Jail
Harry Vaughan. Edward Raymond
and George Ryan, the three cbnvicts
In the Missouri penltantiary who
killed their guards In a desperate at'
tempt to escape. were hanged In the
county Jail at jefferson City.
After hearing the message from
Premier Clemencean the French wine
growers have voted unanimously io
continue the agitation In the south
of France for laws against win. adul'
terntion.
Tho navy department has sent the
new cruiser Milwaukee to Central
American ports In anticipation II
trouble between Salvador and Nicnr'
nngun.
a subcommittee appointed by III.
president TO consider departmental
reforms has diRappfoyed the service
pension plans for governmental cm'
ploy.a,
Plans are being made by the Kansas
board OF railroad commissioners 10
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