The Springfield herald., 1908-03-13

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lation will be open to the public.
| BY decision rendered in the United
States court at Reno, New, the blanket
injunction against the Miners union
at Goldiield is enforced covering prac-
tically all the grounds OF relief asked
by the mine owners.
The chairman of the Georgia rail-
road commission is authority for the
statement that f. II. Hartman has
purchased the stock of the Central of
Georgia railroad and proposes to trans
fer 1t to the Illinois Central and COM
.bine the two systems.
The Boston & Maine railroad sys-
TEN officials have asked their EN-
ployes to accept per cent reduction
in wages unit. July /.
Warden Frank Conley of Montana
penitentiary was dangerously cut and
his assistant killed by two convicts
| who attacked them In the warden's
office. Both OF the convicts were shot
| by the warden.
The presidential boom OF Gov. John.
son, of Minnesota, was formally
launched at St. Paul when the Demo-
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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. X. Day, chancellor of the Syra-
cuse university. DIR. 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 40 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 em-
ployed are among the dead.
state convention at Omaha recently
and named 16 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
Tatsu 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 $11.436.416.
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 McGonigle
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 eff
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-
land, Ohio. OF these only liz have
been identified.
Honolulu is preparing to entertain
the battleship fleet when 1t arrives
there.
Up to March 1. 2S,414,934 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 24.150-
ton Holland-American liner has been
safely launched at Belfast, Ireland.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Bankers association has been called
| for May Is and IA at Kansas City.