The Globe-republican., 1908-12-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Host Important Happenings OF the
Past Seven Days.
interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts Of tho World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.

a uhyS.
There were 81 new cases and IL
deaths from cholera In st. Petersburg,
Russia the other day. There are 225
cases now in the hospital.
The police and press OF Louisville
are engaged in a campaign against
loan sharks.
In Philadelphia while Its parents
we're fighting ten-weeks-old BABY
was dropped on the floor and killed.
Because he had no money to buy
Christmas presents for his children,
&c. H. casters, farmer near Quitman,
Pa, committed Suicide.
A Coalgate, Ok, character named
Bunch was shot and killed by the city
marshal while resisting arrest.
Practically the entire business Sec
tion Of Ravia, Ok, town OF l,2oO In
habitans, has been wiped out by nre'
the loss aggregating $4,000.
AS result of wild automobile
race in Oakland, CAL, one man was
killed and another man and two young
women were seriously injured.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to wreck a Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train at Wichita by placing ties
on the track and throwing switch in
the yards Both were discovered in
time to prevent damage.
The first session of the Pan Ameri-
can congress was opened in Santiago
Chile, in the presence of President
Montt, his cabinet, members OF the
diplomatic corps and delegates from
all the American republics.
Tommy Burns was defeated for the
heavyweight championship of the
world by Jack Johnson, the negro
pugilist of Galveston, Texas, at sgd
ney Australia The police stopped the
fight in the fourteenth round and the
decision was given to Johnson on
points.
The federal government Is to take
a hand in the Pittsburg municipal
scandal The department of justice
has taken steps to investigate al
national banks there serving as city
repositories to find If any money has
been used for corrupt purposes.
More than 1000 poor children were
given presents at the Mayors Christ
mas tree In Convention hall at Kan
sas City. In addition to this the Sal
walton Army and Volunteers of Ameri
ca gave away hundreds Of baskets con
tanning enough for dinner for fam
lily.
The man who shot and killed Depu
ty Marshal Magruder at Higbee, Mo
the other day has been arrested il
Mexico, Mo. He has confessed.
Frederick A. Burnham, expression
of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance.
company, was found dead in bed a
his home in New York of gas poison
! ing. Mr.. Burnham was under indict
ment on charges of larceny and fol
gerry in connection with the company
The Crane company, elevator manu-
facturers of Chicago, will distribu
S35O,OCO among their workmen thi
year. Each employe gets 10 per cen
of his yearly wages.
The house ways and means CON
mittee has completed its hearings o.
the proposed revision Of the tariff an
the work Of drafting bill has begun
Harvey Hazel, 17.year-old Toledo
o., boy has been convicted OF kuhn
his mother, after trial lasting se'
eral weeks.
The first furnace in the partly con
pleted SIS, 100000 plant Of the Indian
Steel company at Gary, Ind, has bee
started.
The Chicago postof1ce handled %
tons of Christmas mail in one day II
Gently.
The United States court of appeal
at Philadelphia decided that l1arr
X. Thaw cannot be taken from tn
Matteawan asylum in New York
Pittsburg, Pa.
Charles A. Sherman, a prominer
Iowa capitalist, dropped dead of heal
disease at Boone the other day.
New York is to have an ice Ska
ing rink OH the roof of SOO-foc
sky scraper
Fred S. Jackson, attorney genera
has filed in the Kansas suprem
court an custer suit against the S
Louis & San Francisco Railroad con
pany because it had not taken out
Kansas charter.
While playing Santa Claus in
country school near Jefferson Cit,
Mo. Martha Colditz, 16 years old, wa
dangerously burned.
Two men believed to be members
the gang which attempted to rob tn
State bank at Milan, Kan, have bee
captured at Clearwater They are b
Iieved to be members Of a well o
ganized band with headquarters
Wichita.
In an interview regarding the Con
pers contempt decision Judge Alto
B. Parker expresses the belief that til
ruling of the court will not stand.
II Is alleged that $4,000 was pal
Pittsburg, Pa, councilmen for tt
selection of certain bank depositorit
for the City's funds.
Fred McCullom was killed by h
brother Harry in pistol duel in the
fathar,s drug store at Dexter. NJ