The Taney County republican., 1908-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts Of the World Condensed
into Small Space for the Ben
eiit Of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.

wagon while on its way TO the depot
at Springfield, Mo. The driver was
severely injured but the ~ bcrs failed
TO get any Of the mail.
The editorial and composing rooms
of the New York American wcra re-
Gently damaged by fire and water.
The "Pennsular' plant Of the Amer
lean Car and Foundry company at De-
troit,. Mich, Is TO resume, giving en-.
plOyment TO 4,OOO men.
The government has paid to the
state of Kansas this year for the sup.
port of the national guard, $6i,l7i.ii.
The dcpositors Of the closed Citl-
zens' and Farmers State bank of Ar
kansas City, Kan, have been paid a
dividend Of % per cent,
Francis J. Heney, assistant district
attorney of San Francisco, who has
had charge of the bribery graft cases,
was shot and seriously wounded In
the court room during the third tria
OF Abraham Ruef by n saloonkccper
The wouldbc assassin was disarmed
and locked up Mr.. Hency was shot
through the head but the bullet dill
not penetrate the brain cavity.
a cablcgram from Pekin says the
Chinese emperor is dead and that the
dowager empress is dying,
In class fight at Washburn col.
iegc, Topeka, Frank I.ydig Of Obcrlin.
Kan, had both bones Of his leg
broken.
Col. Duncan b. Cooper, his son,
Robin, aud cX-Sherlf Sharp have been
indicted at Nashville, Tenn. for the
murder OF ex-senator Carmack.
The total assessed valuation of tax
able property in the state of Illinois
is placed this year at $l,2G2,5lj,lj6.
AZ the result of a collision between
two freight trains near Borie, WyO.,
nine persons were killed and four Sc.
vcrcly injured,
Lloyd Cannon, negro, pleaded
guilty to attacking q white girl at Sc
dalia, Mo, and was sentenced to 1G
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
Fire recently partly destroyed the
NJ. \. Kelly broom factory at Lcaycn-
worth, Kan, cntailing Il loss Of $4,000.
The postal dalcit for the fiscal year
ended June 20, 1909, amounted to SIG.
910,210, the largest IN the history Of
the department.
More than 100 passengers were
moro or less seriously injured by the
wrecRing of train on the Bcsscmer q
Lake Erie railroad near Butler, Ia.
AS the result of an explosion in the
glaze mill Of the Excelsior Powder
compGny's plant near Kansas City,
one man was killed, II others injured
and three buildings were wrecked. All
the injured were on Kansas City
Southern passenger train which was
passing at the time.
In the fiscal year ended June so
last there were 3,7C4 persons killed
and GS,9S9 injured In railroad cas-.
ualties in the United States.
Following an extended conference OF
government attorneys at Washington
it was decided to apply to the United
States supreme court for a writ of
certiorari in the Standard Oil case
which was recently decided adversely
to the government by the federal
court of appeals at Chicago.
A farmer near Webster City, Ia,
raised 2,4O0 bushels of corn in field
of 20 acres, an average of 120 bushels
TO the acre
Five children We're burned to death
near Beverly, w. Va. as the result of
q gas explosion which destroyed their
home.
Ex-senator H. w. Carmack of Ten
nessee was shot and instantly killed
on street in Nashville by Robin
Cooper, son of Col. Duncan Cooper,
whom Carmack had been attacking in
the columns of the Tennesseean OF
which he was editor.
Two slight shocks of earthquake oc.
CURED at Sedalla and in that vicinity
the other day.
The governments petition for a re.
hearing of the case in which the
United States circuit court of appeals
reversed Judge Lands in fining the
Standard Oil company of Indiana S29..
10000 for alleged rebating, was de.
MED in the federal court Of appeals at
Chicago
In an encounter between two war.
ring factions OF students attending the
University of Vienna, 100 students
were injured by the fall of balcony
On which they were fighting.
The battleship North Dakota the
first American war vessel of the
Dreadnaught class, has been launched
at the yards of the Fore River Ship
building company at Quincy. Mass.
Forest fires are devastating large
tracts of timber land In the immedi-
ate vicinity Of Charleston. w. Va.
The old fight between the American
Sugar Refining company and Arbuckle
Brothers has been renewed and the
price Of sugar is expected to come
down.
While in Jail at BartlesvilIe. Ok,