The Globe-republican., 1908-12-31


lars and a large number Of gold and
silver wreaths, urns and shields
carried away.
The seven councilmen and two
bankers Of Pittsburg, Pa, charged
with municipal grating have been
held to the grand Jury. Evidence
brought out at the hearing shows
a gigantic system Of graft In city
affairs.
Because the railroads refused to
make rate OF a cent mile the
national G. A. r. encam0ment may
not be held in Salt Lake City next
August.
A meeting Of the creditors of the
First National bank Of Fort Scott,
Kan, was held recently at Kansas
City with the object or reaching some
settlement whereby the bank could
reopen.
After ten years In the state peni-
Tertiary at Lansing, Kan, for the MUIR
der Of his father, John Collins has at
last been pardoned by Gov. Hoch. The
governor gave as his only reason that
he was firmly convinced Of the young
mans innocence. Collins showed no
emotion when told Of his good fortune.
The increase in the alien population
of the United States during the year
ended September 80 last, was only
6,29S.
A carload Of Christmas mail was
burned in a wreck on the Chicago &
Alton railroad at Chicago.
The seventeenth national irrigation
congress will meet In Spokane, Wash,
August to IA.
Gov. Hoch has appointed commit
tee to investigate conditions at the
the Kansas penitentiary. Gov Has
kell of Oklahoma has been asked to
name like committee.
The Chicago & Milwaukee electric
railway will hereafter refuse to haul
intoxicated persons on its cars.
William M. WINS, chairman Of the
New York charter commission, de-
clares the city is practically bank
| rupt.
Secretary Root has signed an arbi
tration treaty with Salvador.
The safe of the State bank at Halls
Summit, Coffey county, Kan, was
blown open and badly wrecked by dy
namiters who took about $4,000.
| Vice President Gomez of Venezuela
has established new government
since the departure of President Cas-
tro and has replaced the old ministry
with a new body.
The battleship Maine and The
cruiser North Carolina have left Nor
folk. Va, under sealed orders. 1t l!
believed they are to visit Venezuelan
waters.
The international Smelling com
pany, with capital of $5O,OOO,OOO
has been incorporated in New Jersey
The newly elected municipal cour
of Lisbon, Portugal, has discovered
that the city was robbed of $7,OOO,Ov
by the former officials.
At Lamar, Mo-, five buildings OF
the north side of the square were de
stroyed by fire causing loss est
mated at $4,000.
Samuel Gompers, president of tn
American Federation of Labor, Johl
Mitchell, vice president, and Fran
+ Morrison, secretary, have been sen
, fenced to serve IL months, min
months and six months, respectively
in Jail for contempt by the suprem
court of the District of Columbia
Pending an appeal all three men wer
admitted to bail. The defendants wer
convicted of violating the courts OF
der regarding the boycott of the Buck
: Stove company of st. Louis.
: The supreme court of Missouri ha
handed down its decision in the ouste
case against the Standard, Water:
, Pierce and Republic Oil companies
! unfolding the contentious of Attorne
General Hadley in every particular
Custer from the state and fines c
: $4,000 each are the penalties inflicte
+. upon each of the three companies. Tn
opinion of the court was unanimous.
/. Arrangements are nearly complet
a for a non-partisan conference on tn
n tariff at Indianapolis on February
10 and II.
0 Francois Auguste Geraert, the note
: musician and composer and director
the conservatory at Brussels, is dea'
v Personal.
@ 1t developed that Judge Ballinger
n Seattle, Wash, who is PROMINENT
mentioned in connection with the Ia
{ cabinet, is a former Kansan.
t Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginsol
the well known author, celebrated HI
: eighty-fifth birthday recently at hi
t home in Cambridge, Mass.
A. B. Stickney, president and on
i of the receivers Of the Chicago, Gres
e Western railway, has resigned his r
t. ownership.
l. E. e. Rittenhouse, insurance con
n missioner of Colorado, has been cleo
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