The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-09-07

dent and Secretaries ait, Root ana
Meyer was recently held at Saga
more Hill. The topic under discus
sion was not disclosed OF when the
conference ended.
Two women and two little girls
rre drowned recently willie trying
ley Kan
Since June IS nine cases OF bu-
boni. plague have been discovered in
San Francisco and seven deaths have
resulted from the disease.
The American Association OF Mu-
tual Insurance companies, in session
at Denver. elected L. r. Dauiortn, Of
oston. president, and W b. Gasche,
Of Topeka, vice president The next
meeting will be held in Dss Moines,
Iowa.
In the United States circuit court at
Chicago Judge kohlsaat has issued
temporary injunction against four
teen railroads and five express com
panies. restraining them from estab-
fishing new rate on shipments OF
mill cream and butter
Fifteen persons were killed and 80
others injured in a head on collision
between interurban trolley cars on
the Mattoon a. Charlestown electric
line near Charlestown. III, recently.
confusion OF orders by telephone
was the cause.
A commission OF three persons
headed by W. J. Reynolds assistant
secretary of the treasury will go
abroad soon to study the tariff sys-
tens of foreign countries.
Gov Conner. OF Alabama. has given
the railroads of the state until Octo-
Der l to comply with the new rate
law. After that date he will call the
legislature and urge the enactment OF
more draatic laws.
The final report OF the invesuga-
ting committee regarding the frauds
In connection with Pennsylvania
new capitol building has been sub
mitted to Gov Stuart with a recon-
mendation that the attorney general
b instructed to begin proceedings
agairst the guilty parties at once
President James of the University
Of Illinois has announced the appoint
ment OF f. X. Dewsnup as professor
OF railroad administration and man
agement at that institution.
For the second time in two years
Emperor Nicholas appeared in public
in ST. Petersburg to attend church
dedication. Elaborate precautions
We're taken to insure his safety
1t has been authoritatively stated
that President Roosevelt will not take
any action looking to settlement OF
the telegraphers' strike.
One young man and two young
women were drowned by the capsiz
ing of boat at McAlester, l. T.
A clash between the marching un-
ion labor men and strike breaking
street car employees resulted in the
shooting of two men at San Francis
CO.
The breaking of a cable in the
zinc mine near Springfield, Mo, let
two miners fall 200 feet to their death
Complaint has been made to the
railroad commissioners that the cars
can not be secured to handle the
large broom corn crop of Kansas.
A Chicago man, Henry Graves. has
provided in his will that s50,000 be
expended on a monument to a horse
he owned 30 years ago.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
f. +. Clark has agreed to act as trbi-
traitor between the western railroad
managers and the brotherhood OF
Trainmen.
The American Agriculturist esti.
mates that while the products OF
American farms this year are ten per
cent less than last, they are greater
in value to the extent of 81 600. 0O0.-
GOO.
A distant earthquake shock of
severe nature. lasting an hour and a
half was recorded at Washington
on the weather bureau instruments.
The Fifteenth National Irrigation
congress has opened at Sacramento,
Calf
At banquet at Portsmouth. y. H,
George +. Foss. chairman of the na-
val committee spoke of The Hague
conference as devoid of practical re-
suits and urged further upbuilding of
the navy.
A burglar was shot to death in a
New York flat after he had attempted
to murder a family Of four persons by
smothering them with Illuminating
gas.
Edwin Gould is authority for the
statement that Helen Gould will not
interfere in the telegraphers' strike.
A good flow of oil has been struck
three miles southwest of Topeka,
Kan. at a depth of 517 feet.
The man arrested at Osceola. Neb.
supposed to have been Ben Cravens
the notorious escaped Kansas con
vict when taken to the penitentiary
at Lansing proved not to be the man