The midland journal., 1907-06-28
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic

sons suffering from tuberculosis in
an advanced stage will be issued by
State Health Ohicer BrumtW, of Aus
tin, Tex. He places tuberculosis in
the same category with yellow fever
and smallpox and will take steps to
bar all such health-seekers from
Texas.
United States Senator Philander G.
Knox, in addressing the law school
at Yale, declared that the federal
power can regulate but not prohibit
commerce between the states except
to maintain equality and safety In
transportation.
Thomas L. Harper, prominent
politicians, was arrested for attempt
ing to shoot Levi DeWolff, a WELL
known broker, of Pittsburg, Pa.
A strike of team drivers threw 400
men out of work in the Dodson COM
pany colliery, at Hazleton, Pa.
The state rested it's case in the
prosecution of William D. Haywood
for the murder of Ex-Governor Steun-
enberg. Judge Wood overruled the
motion of the defense that the jury
be advised by the court to return
verdict of acQuittal before hearing
any evidence from the defense.
Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud Hanna
was granted a divorce from Dan X.
Hanna, son of the late Senator M. A.
Hanna, in a Cleveland court on her
charge of cruelty and neglect to duty.
Mrs. Hanna was given the custody
of her child and the alimony was
settled out of court.
Mrs. Emma Kaufman, of Sioux
Falls, is at liberty under bond OF
$25, 200 pending argument on a mo-
tion for a new trial. She was con-
victed of first degree manslaughter
for causing the death of Agnes POI
ries, 16-year-old servant in the
Kaufman home.
The prosecution in the Haywood
trial succeeded in again showing
direct connection between the store
of George Pettibone, in Denver, and
Harry Orchard at work on the Brad
ley crime in San Francisco, and that
Haywood had declared that Steunen-
berg was a tyrant and a monster
who should be exterminated.
Evidence was taken before a spec
ial examiner of the Interstate Com
merce Commission In New York on
the charge that railroads are charg-
ing as much for immigrants as for
first-class passengers.
A lunacy commission was. appoint
ed to inquire into the mental condf-
tion of Policeman Hess, of New YORK,
who carried Elizabeth Brady to Bal
timore.
Leave to enter motion for a re-
hearing was granted to Greene ana
Gaynor in the United States Court
of Appeals in Huntsville. Ala.
Robert F. Straine, of Boston, was
arrested in Dedham, Mass, for try
ing to forcibly take his daughter from
her boarding house.
President Remsen, of Johns Hop
kins University, delivered the COM
mencement oration at the University
of Michigan.
The Neptune Line steamer Rhode
Island ran into coal barge on Rose
Island and the passengers were
frightened.
Former President Grover Cleve-
land, who has been i'll with acute in
digestion, is reported out of danger.
Ambassador Bryce delivered the
address at the Washington Universi-
ty commencement in st. Louis.
A call has been issued for a ma
tional Industrial congress In san
Francisco.
Testimony that the State of Penn
sylvania paid $566,000 for $26,0oo
worth of bronze in the State Capitol
at Harrisburg was given before the
Capitol Investigation Commission.
DR.. Paul r. Heyl, of Philadelphia,
has won a prize of $1,000, which
has been offered for 48 years to- the
person who should determine the
relative speed of rays of light.
Edward Hotchkiss successfully de-
fed the health authorities of the port
of New York by refusing to leave the
ship Havana and place himself In
quarantine.
The police of Bridgeport, N. j.,
are investigating the drowning or,
Miss Mary Vennell, who was out row.
ing on lake with George Evans.
The suspension of the firm of F.
w. Duryea & Co. was announced on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Federal Judge Smith Mcpherson,
sitting in Kansas City, in deciding
the conflict between the national and
state laws over two-cent mileage,
ruled that the federal authority had
jurisdiction and enjoined the state
authorities from imposing penalties.
koreiRn.
Premier Campbell-Bannerman in
troduced in the House of Commons
the resolution favoring a curtailment
Of the authority sof the House OF