The Springfield herald., 1908-01-24
Miscellaneous.

Judge Dana in the Shawnee county
district court assessed fine OF '$12 900
against the International Harvester
company which the court found guilty
on 43 counts of violating the Kansas
antitrust law.
After a trial lasting nine weeks,
John r. Walsh has been found guilty
on "a counts of misappropriating funds
of the Chicago National bank which
closed In 1906
A Gillian cruiser has gone to meet
the American fleet at Punta Arenas
and escort it up the west coast.
President Roosevelt has presented
King Victor Emmanuel OF Italy with
several samples of the new $40 and
$40 American gold coins. The king
has one of the finest collections of
coins in the world.
Sixty-seven of the ia counties of
Missouri have voted to exclude sa-
looms
In the United States circuit court at
New York Judge Hough has directed
E. II. Hartman and Otto Kahn to an
swer the questions propounded to
them by the interstate commerce COM
mission.
The resolutions committee of the
currency commission of the American
Bankers association has issued a re-
port opposing the Aldrich bill in
the senate and the Fowler bill in the
house and presents IA currency bill of
its own which the association will ask
congress to pass.
Further reports from the Boyer
town theater disaster place the death
list at 40. The bodies of 167 victims
were recovered, mostly women and
girls. Nearly every house in the town
of $500 inhabitants. had crepe on the
door
Carl NJ. Clements, chairman of the
democratic state central committee of
the state of Washington, has been ar
rested at Des Moines, Iowa, on a
charge of assault with intent to kill.
On the first ballot for United States
senator in the Kentucky legislature,
ex-Gov. Beckham lacked three votes
of having enough to elect. The vote
was Beckham &C, Bradley CA, scatter
ing 6.
H. H. Tucker, Jr., secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company, has again
been indicted by the federal grand
jury at Kansas City for misuse of the
walls.
President Roosevelt has officially
stated that the Cuban government will
be turned over to the newly elected
officials not later than February /,
1909.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature has passed dispensary
law.
The unemployed men of st. Louis.
to the number of 500, marched through
the streets to the city hall recently
and asked the assistance of Mayor
Wells in securing work.
Work on the federal buildings at
Pittsburg and lola, Kan, is to be start
ed on May l.
Farmers about Petersburg, Ind, are
hunting large Bengal tiger which has
been roaming in that vicinity and
killing live stock.
The trial of Samuel Whitlow,
charged with the murder of May Sapp
at Moran. Kan. has been postponed to
the May term of court.
The injunction against the grocers'
combine of Colorado has been made
permanent by Judge Allen. The case
will be appealed.
A tariff agreement has been reached
between the United States and France
which prevents the possibility of tariff
reprisals by the two countries.
The state democratic convention of
Kansas will meet at Hutchinson on
February 81 to elect delegates to the
national convention.
Eight switchmen have been arrested
at Peoria, Ill, charged with robbing
freight cars of the Peoria & Pekin
railroad.