The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-03-14

connection with submarine boat Iegis.
lation Will be open 10 the public.
BY a decision rendered in the United
| States court at Reno. New, the blanket
!njunct on against the Miners union
at Goldheld Is enforced covering prac-
tically all the grounds OF reIie. asked
by the mine owners.
The chairman Of the Georgia rail-
road commission is authority for ths
statement that E. II. Hartman has
purchased the stock Of the Central OF
Georgia railroad and proposes to trans
fer it to the Illinois Central and COM
bine the two systems.
The Boston a. Maine railroad sys-
TEN officials have asked their EN-
ployes to accept > per cent reduction
in wages until July /.
Warden Frank Conley o, Montana
penitentiary was dangerously cut and
his assistant killed by two convicts
who attacked them in the wanden's $
Office. Both of the conyicts were sho,
by the warden.
The presidential boom OF Gov. John.
son. OF Minnesota, was formally
launched at st. Paul when the Demo
cratic state committee indorsed him.
The Bryan men declare they will or
ganize in every county and fight for
the delegates.
Charges of defaming President
Roosevelt have been filed with the
Methodist church authorities against
Rev. j. II. Day. chancellor of the Syra-
cuse university. DR.. Day is a member
Of the New York Conference.
The final death list OF the Cleveland
public school horror Is placed at 167
All but % OF the bodies were identi
fed
One OF the most frightful disasters
in the history of the country occurred
when 10 children lost their lives by
the burning of the public school build
ing at North Collinwood, a suburb OF
Cleveland, Ohio. Less than half OF the
pupils in the building when the fire
started succeeded in making their es-
cape. Two of the nine teachers en-
ployed are among the dead
state convention at Omaha recently
and named l6 delegates to the Denver
convention. The delegation was or
dered to vote as a unit for William
Jennings Bryan for president.
Japan is threatening to use force
against China to recover the steamer
Tatsn Maru. which was recently cap
tured with a load OF arms destined for
Chinese revolutionists
The Nebraska railway commission
has ordered the Union Pacific to re-
store the trains recently annulled on
the branch lines in the state.
The agricultural bill as agreed upon
by the house committee carries appro-
priations amounting to $ll .436,4t6.
The first section of the electric
street car service in Shanghai, China,
has been successfully inaugurated.
The Ohio Republican convention re-
Gently held in Columbus was unani-
nous for Secretary Taft for president.
The resolutions contain instructions
to the delegates to vote for Mr.. Taft
at all times.
The Kansas Republicans in state
convention at Topeka named Senators
Long and Curtis and Robert McGonigie
and Grant Hornaday for delegates at
large to Chicago, The delegates were
given ironclad instructions for Secre-
tary Taft for president.
Secretary Straus has issued an or.
der to all immigration officials to con.
fer with local police with view to
securing their cooperation in an ef
fort to rid the country OF alien an
archists and criminals falling within
the law relating to deportation.
One hundred and sixt--eight bodies
have been recovered from the ruins OF
the public school building at Cleve
been identified.
Honolulu is preparing to entertain
the battleship fleet when it arrives
there
Up to March /. 2S.4l4,934 cubic
yards of excavation had been taken
from the Panama canal route. This Is
one-tifth OF the entire amount to be
eXcavated.
The steamer Rotterdam. the 24l5O
ton Holland American liner has been
safely launched at Belfast, Ireland
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Bankers association has been called
for May IL and IA at Kansas City.
Personal.
Thomas J. Callan the messenger Of
Gen. Custer who brought reinforce
ments, but too late to save the com.
mand from the Indians at Little Big
Horn. Montana. is dead in Yonkers
y. Y.
Ellwood T. Hance. first vice presi-
dent of the I-ninn Trnsf cnmnany c,f