Fair play., 1908-01-04

| SI,0O0,00O He was a brother OF Ed
mund C. Steadman, poetbanker.
DR.. Joseph Peasden, a scientist, oc
cupying one of the foremost positions
with Nelson Morris & Co., Chicago
indicated by signs to Drs. j. b.
Murphy. Frank Weiiand and other
physicians at his side in the Chicago
Baptist hospital that he realized the
attack of lockjaw from which he Is
suffering would prove fatal, and
begged them to end his life with n
drug
Thomas Somme's of San Jose, Cal.
! shot and kllled MS 5-year-old boy.
having mistaken him for a burglar.
The child was walking in his sleep.
The parents were awakened by a
noise in the room and seeing the out
! line of a figure near the window,
they concluded it was that of a bur
glar.
Unofficial returns of the vote in
majority of the districts of the United
Mine Workers Of America on a success
sOr to John Mitchell as president show
the election of T. l.. Lewis of Bridge
port, Ohio, by many thousands. Off
cial results will not be announced till
! the convention meets at Indianapolis,
January 21
a murder, combining the elements
Of mystery and deliberate cruelty that
make it out Of the ordinary, was com
mitted on the Hackonsack Meadows
| in the town of Harrison, n. j., Thurs
| day. and the nude body of the victim,
a comely woman Of perhaps 80 years.
nearly submerged in the icy waters of
little pond. Only the feet projected
when chance passersby broke the ice
IL which the exposed portions were
incrusted and dragged the body
ashore.
1t was announced that the st. Jo-
seph Lead Co. and the Doe Run lead
Co. at Bonne Terre, Mo-, which have
been working on half time during the
past thirty days, will resume work at
| full time Jan. l.
Telegraphers are said to be secret
ly reorganizing with view to calling
another strike in June
Papers have been drawn up by
Ward, Mellen & Woodbridge, attor-
neys, 'at the instance of certain gen
tlemen in New England" in a suit to
question the legality of President
Roosevelt's summary dismissal of the
negro regiments after the Brownsville
affray of August IS, 1906 They have
selected the case of Oscar w. Reid,
private in Company C, Twenty-ffth
infantry, and purpose to bring action
in the United States district court of
the Southern district of New York
Ominous threats are heard on all
sides and the whites are arming them
selves in fear of race riots as result
of the lynching Of the negro James
Garden, who killed Albert Bates, the
livery man, at Henryetta, Okla.
Milton b. Owen, 10 years old, at
tempted to murder the entire family
of his employer, Richard Owen, of
Algoma, Wis, by pouring poison in
the teapot. When arrested he con
fessed and said he thought it would
be fun to kill the whole family. He
has been adjudged insane and sent to
tue ANOIluSTU uOSplldl.
Sister Theresa, a nurse at st.
Marys hospital in Milwaukee. was
shot and killed by Custave Wirth,
aged 80, who is supposed to be in
sane. He was captured after being
chased several blocks. Wirth was
operated upon at the hospital about a
year ago. and, it is said, showed signs
OF insanity az that time.
Announcement was made that the
salaries of the clerical employees of
the Erie railroad who receive more
than $50 month would be cut from
2 to 10 per cent Jan /. Eighteen
hundred men are affected.
Rapid progress is being made in the
removal of bodies from the Darr mine
in Pennsylvania. All of the entries
except No. 27 have been cleared, and
total of 124 bodies have been
brought from the mine A number of
other bodies have been located and it
is expected that they will be brought
10 the surface soon.
1t is announced at the Pere Mar
duette railroad offices that headquar-
ters of the road will be moved at
once from Cincinnati to Detroit.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, spent Christmas
propped up in bed in an indianapolis
hospital, reading epistles of good will
from members of his organization. His
desire to spend Christmas at home
met with disappointment, for he is un.
able TO sit up, much less travel to
Spring Valley, Ill.
The supreme court of Massachusetts
will have to decide whether Taunton,
in that state, is to be wet or dry, as
the vote at the last election was a
tie with one vote turned down as de-
fective, the mark on 1t being a circle
instead of cross though the voter
marked opposite the no.
Despondent because of loneliness
which brought her no Merry Christ,
mas, Anna Hack, q, committed sui
eide by taking carbolic acid in Sagl-
nav, Mich.
Judge Wood denied the motion filed
by the defense in the Pettibone trial
that verdict of acQuittal be advised
by the court.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has so far
recovered from the effects of the op-.