The Globe-republican., 1908-12-24
Miscellaneous.


county Judge Thurmond has decided
that there is no law In Missouri which
prohibits the practice of healing by
Christian Scientists. y
In moving the National City bank
of New York from Its old to Its new
quarters, $57O,OOOOOO was paraded
across Wall street while platoon OF
police held a curious crowd at bay. ,
The first Sunday afternoon issue OF
the Baltimore News was a success,
according to the business manager.
Because of low water In the Missis.
sippi river the packet line between
Memphis and st. Louis has been dis
continued.
Figures gathered by the bureau Of
statistics at Washington show that
the average American citizen con
sumes 82.6 pounds Of sugar every year
and that Uncle Sans sugar bill
amounts to s1.0O0,0O0 day.
The Atlantic battleship feet has left
Colombo, Ceylon, for Suez. -
William R. Kelley, cashier Of the
Union Pacific railroad at South Oma
ha, is dead by his own hand In that
city. Overwork is given as the cause
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has decided that allowances fol
the transfer Of sugar from the re
fineries to the trains are essentially
rebates and In violation of the law.
Fires OF incendiary origin damaged
Methodist and Presbyterian
church in Chicago. Whether the fires
were started by robbers or by some re-
ligjous fanatic is not known.
Fire has destroyed the center o.
Rostoy-on-the-Don Russia. Severa
lives were lost. tsl-f-.,-s.s....t
The supreme court of Nebraska has
declared unconstitutional the law max
ing extortion crime in that state.
More than $5,OOO,00O in money or
ders was sent to foreign countries
through New York the first two
weeks In December.
The night operator at the Wabash
station in Salisbury, Mo-, was held u
and forced to open the cash drawer
$5O.49.
A committee has been formed tt
have charge of the erection in Paris
OF a monument to Horace Wells, the
American discoverer of laughing gas
At the twenty-fifth annual meeting
of the Missouri board of agriculture a
Columbia, H. J. Waters was elected
president and George B. Ellis secretary
The body of Chief Biggy of the Sar
Francisco police department. has beer
recovered In the bay there. He was
drowned from police launch on the
night of November 30.
The corn crop of Illinois this veal
aggregated 21S,366,624 bushels.
The West Roxbury branch of the
Boston public library was burned re
Gently. and many valuable volumes
were destroyed.
A dispatch from Hugo, Ok. says
that the most disastrous forest fire II
the history Of that section was rag
ing In McCurtain county.
The total popular vote of all ths
candidates for president in the las
election was as follows: Taft, 1887,
e76; Bryan, 6,SSS.1S2; Debs, 44S,543
Chain, 241,252; Hisgen, SS,1S6; Wat
son, 1881; Gilhaus. 15,421, Total
14,S52,239. Mr.. Taft's plurality wa'
l,244,494. te
Miss Mary E. Robbins, an instruc
tor in the Simmons college at Boston
has accepted baby left her by thu
will OF a young married pair, both o
whom died.
Three new state banks were char
tered in one day recently by the Kan
| sas charter board.
A defalcation Of $4,000 by Its cash
| Ter has caused the suspension Of th'
First National bank at Somcrsworth
| NJ H. "a ,s
Because of Ill health Stephen Cole
an Inspector In q shoe factory at th'
| Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson
! city. ended his life by shooting,