The Springfield herald., 1908-02-14
In the Pennsylvania capitol graft

In the Pennsylvania capitol graft
trials the names of ex-Gov. Penny
packer and former Attorney General
Carson were brought into the case
in some sensational testimony given
by Stanford b. Lewis, assistant to
Architect Huston.
A young man who formerly worked
in the Kansas City street department
and in other occupations throughout
the west has fallen heir to an English
title and valuable estates by the
death of his father, Sir Gentle Cave
Browne-Cave.
Warrensburg, Mo-, voted dry" re-
Gently by a majority of 1i3 votes.
Ten men are dead as the result OF
an explosion in coal mine at Port
Hood Nova Scotia.
Charles w. Morse. the multi-mil-
lionaire who disappeared from New
York recently, has arrived at Liver
pool on the liner Campania.
Gov. Hoch has refused to accept the
bond of State Dairy Commissioner
Wilson, given by the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty company,
which is fighting a suit by the state
relating to the First National bank
bond of s250000.
The act of congress OF June 1. 1898.
prohibiting railroad companies from
discriminating against members of
labor organizations in the matter of
employment has been declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States su-
preme court.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has been fined Sl00 at Helena.
Mont, for violating the 1G-hour law
by compelling a crew to work 90 con-
secutive hours. The case will be ap-
pealed to test the law.
The Santa Fe has annulled ten of
Kansas. Decrease in the roads earn
ings is given as the cause.
John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Works, declares there is
little possibility of labor organizations
entering the political field in the com
ing campaign.
The British foreign Office officially
denies that squadron of war vessels
is to be sent to the Pacific.
A receiver has been asked for the
National Hollow Brake Beam COM
pany of Chicago.
The president has nominated
George L. Grigsby to be United States
attorney for the district of Alaska.
The Hobo" congress at st. Louis
has adopted resolutions demanding
that the government provide national
insurance for citizens against enforced
idleness or involuntary unemploy-
ment."
Kansas prison twine will be sold this
year for III cents pound in orders
for 5000 pounds or over.
Opposition has developed in Penn
sylvania to placing statue of the late
Senator NJ. S. Quay In the rotunda of
the new state capitol at Harrisburg.
The coolest weather in five years
was recently experienced in eastern
Pennsylvania and New York.
The national convention of the So
cialist party will be held in Chicago
on May 10.
A dispatch from the Spanish from
tier says that a Portuguese republic
has been proclaimed at Oporto and
that provisional government has
| been established in that city.
The Indiana republicans have Sc
lected their district delegates to the
national convention. The delegation
will be a unit for Vice President Fair
banks.
The First National bank of Brook
lyn, which suspended several months
ago. has resumed business.
Tulsa, Ok, has adopted the COM
mission form of municipal govern
ment.
The cruiser South Dakota built at
the Union Iron works in California has
been placed in commission.
Coal operators in the Oklahoma field
have so far refused to grant an in
crease in wages to miners and unless
such action is taken before April l a
strike of 10000 will result.
Harry X. Thaw has instructed his
counsel that they must take some ac-
ton at once looking to his release
from Matteawan asylum.