Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-30

ton. Mr. Steffansson was formerl.
an instructor at Harvard university
and the coming expedition is under tn,
auspices OF the American Museum o
Natural History. The expense OF get
ting TO the Mackenzie river, where h,
expects to find a rowboat, advanced b,
the institution.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. March 26.-Tht
Union Pacific today reduced the work
ing time OF Cheyenne shops to foul
days week, eight hours day. This
order Will work a hardship on EN-
ployes OF the company In the local
shops, as the men with families can
not live on the income from forty
/ eight hours work a week.
NEW YORK. Mach 26.---Judge Con.
Ion OF the city court has under con.
| sideration a motion in the suit of Jas.
| Cavanaugh, tailor of London and
| Paris against the Duke de Chaulnes,
who recently married Miss Theodora
Shont, daughter of Theodore P.
| Shonts. The suit is to recover Sl,345
| due for clothes furnished by the tailor
| to the duke in 1901. The motion is
to set aside the alleged service of
summons in the case.
CHICAGO. March 26.-An amazing
system of robbery and graft involving
city employees and big business firms
and extending back several years, was
| uncovered yesterday in the war de
partment. AS result OF the revela-
tions two city employees, including a
division head, have been removed and
thrty-eight subordinate employees are
slated for dismissal today. Some of
them will be Indicted for completely
in the thefts. Through the use of tam
pered meters and the con1ivance OF
city employees several large corpora
tions have defrauded the city of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in water
taxes. At the same time employs of
the meter division, to which the scan
dal is confined, have plundered a
stock of supplies, selling meters to
junk dealers and bartering materials
for drinks in saloons.
PEORIA. H.. March 26-Frank
Foerer president Of the Illinois bank
and owner OF the Lincoln MING Co,
was held up by three hishwaymea
yesterday and robbed of $1,000, the
monthly payroll OF the camp. Two OF
the robbers were caught, but the third
escaped with the money. The rob-
berry occurred within two blocks of
the public sequare of Lincoln.
NEW YORK. March EFF the
churches would wake up from their
lethargy and convert just little of
their hymn singing and their spirit
ual felicity into direct efforts for gen
eral righteousness and decency," says
Dr. Parkhurst, pastor of the Madison
square Presbyterian church, " doz-
en- horse jockey Democrats and the
lic8as would not be able to nullify the
constitution OF the Empire state and
TO drag it in disgrace before the eyes
of the Lord and the general public
Does it not impress you as deplor
able?'' he says, that one layman, the
chiyalrous governor OF this state, is
doing more to stir up public con
science and to stimulate moral respon-
sibilities than all of the pulpits of the
commonwealth? And that the politi-
clans are hostile to him and openly or
coyertly antagoaizing him because he
is a clean man, prophet OF righteous
ness and that with a prophet leader
to champion us, the aggressive oper-
alton of the churches is all that is
needful in order to the casting out at
Albany of demon OF graft and of
coarse groveling ambition?
"lt is the press far more than the
churches that stimulate thought along
lines oil the moral amelioration of civ
ic life. do not mean that even the
press is a perennial spring of ethical
ebullition,, but it does far more than
the church does"
CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 26.-1ne resi-.
dence OF Johu koppleman at Lake
station, Ind, was wrecked by dya-
amite bomb Tuesday night. presum-
bly by persons whose enmity he In
Cured by Kidding that section OF the
country of slot machines. koppleman
and his aged mother, Mrs Emma kop
1leman we're the sole occupants OF the
Iouse She WAS slightly injured by
lying splnters and breaking glass
out the son escaped unhurt. The lat
rer expressed the opinion that the
gambling interests OF Gary were re-
sponsible for the deed. Koppleman
said be would dispose of his grain
arm and stock at public sale next
ie -nd tuhe up his residene,
elsewhere.
Gentry, Ark, March 27.-ln futile
attempt to- blow open the safe of the
Farmers Bank at Springtown, near
here early today, the head of one OF
the robbers was blown from his shout
ders by 4 premature explosion ol