The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-23

The Alabama law against playing
baseball and other games on Sunda,
has been declared unconstitutional.
The business portion of Schafer
county seat of Mckenzie county, North
Dakota, has been destroyed by fire and
the court house is among the burned
buildings.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has decided that it has no au
thority to require railroads to estab
lish special favors for particular 90
casions by the issue of party rate
tickets for theatrical companies.
The attorney general has refused to
comply with Speaker Cannon's house
resolution asking for facts secured in
trust because the inquiry is not fin
ished and to disclose the evidence Sc
cured at this time might affect the in.
terests of Justice.
The Missouri Pacific railroad attor'
neys have filed in the federal court
at Topeka a motion attacking the con-
stitutionality of the law creating the
ers.
The Michigan coal miners and oper-
ators have agreed on scale for the
ensuing year. Wages are unchanged
from last year
The new Birmingham. Ala. division
just opened completes the last link in
the great Hartman trans-continental
route from ocean to ocean consisting
of the Union Pacific, Illinois Central
and the Central of Georgia.
The legality of the Rosedale, Kan,
bond election is questioned because
the women were allowed to vote
on the proposition and the attorney
general is to be asked to give an
opinion on the subject.
The supreme court of Tennessee has
made an order ousting the Standard
Oil company from doing business in
that state.
A great fire at Chelsea, a suburb of
Boston, burned over one mile square
of territory, caused 1900 families to
become homeless and destroyed prop
erty to the value of nearly $10,000,000.
The taking of evidence in the anti
trust suit by the state of Kansas
against the two live stock exchanges
at Kansas City has begun.
Industrial, sociological and political
problems of the time were discussed
at the annual session of the Ameri-
can Academy of Political and Social
Science. recently held at Philadelphia,
by prominent men in various walks of
life.
The police of Paris have captured
three widely known anarchists togeth-
er with a cart loaded with dynamite,
which the prisoners had in their pos
session A plot has been discovered
whereby a series of bomb outrages
had been planned for May 1 with the
object of creating reign of terror
in Paris.
Ten men lost their lives in a col
liery at Somersetshire, England, re-
Gently as the result OF an explosion
of coal gas.
Before the California railroad COM
mission an official of the Santa Fe
Railroad company has admitted that
his road paid rebates on oil shipments
as late as 1907.
While playing "Wild West at Sa-
ranac. Mich, Lloyd Fuller, IL years
old, was accidentally shot and killed
by playmate.
Two hundred members Of the Illi
nois Manufacturers association are to
visit Japan, China and other eastern
countries in the near future. to work
for the extension of American trade.
The directors in the NJ. X. & 7. Rail
road company at their annual meeting
at Parsons, Kan, declared the regular
semi-innual dividend OF two per cent
on the preferred capital stock.
The vote on the anti-race track
gambling bills resulted in tie in the
New York senate thus defeating the
measure for the present at least.
Gov. Hoch has issued a call for a
conference of all the officials of state
educational institutions at Topeka on
April %. An attempt will be made to
settle the differences in the faculties
of the various institutions.
The suit brought by the Pennsylva-
MIA Sugar Refining company to re-
cover s30,000,O00 from the sugar trust
has been dismissed in the federal
court in New York.
Personal.
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