The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-09-04

among their employees. BY paying
' per cent OF their wages the employe
Will be insured against sickness, acci
dent, death or old age.
| Farmers about Rushville. Mo-, re
! Gently came to the rescue of the banl
there, when the officials were unable {,
get at the cash In their vaults becaus,
| burglars had damaged the doors Tn,
farmers supplied the bank will
enough ready cash to carry on bust
ness for one entire day.
There was light fall OF snow In
portions Of Maryland the other day.
| The total value of all personal prop
! erty In Kansas is placed at S621, 800,
| 643 by the state tax commission
Three persons were killed and ter
injured in a head.on collision on tn,
Frisco railroad at Hugo. Ok.
The Japanese Worlds fair has beer
postponed from 1912 to 1917.
Four officers of the Owensboro. Ky.
Savings bank, which failed recently
have been indicted on charges Of per
jury and embezzlement
In the federal court at Kansas City
Judge Mcpherson rejected the bids o'
the Kansas City Life and the Philadel
phia Life Insurance companies for the
| assets Of the Great Western Life In
Surance company and accepted an Of
fer OF the reorganization committee OF
the Great western to raise sufficient
funds to float the company again.
A French soldier was recently con.
victed by court martial for attempt.
ing TO blackmail President Roosevelt
by writing letters. demanding money
and threatening to scandalize the pres.
ident's family.
England's new patent act which
gives the government power to revoke
foreign patents unless the articles are
manufactured In that country has gone
into effect. Foreign countries are
talking of retaliation.
The floods IL the south culmina ted
in the breaking of a big dam near
Augusta which let loose a great flood
upon the city. The big bridge across
the Savannah river was washed away
and another dam collapsed, flooding
the streets of the city to a depth Of 6
to II feet. Three deaths by drowning
were reported
BY the explosion of a barrel of oil
which started fire in a coal mine at
Haileyville. Ok. more than 30 miners
lost their lives. Twenty.six dead
bodies were recovered and il was
thought possible that six to ten others
might still be In the burning mine.
All hope of finding any of the miners
alive has been abandoned.
The Southeastern Limited train on
the Frisco railroad was ditched near
Brandsville. Mo, killing the fireman
and fatally injuring the engineer and
mail clerk.
Massachusetts has appropriated
100000 to cxterminatc the flies in the
state.
Ihe Conservation League of Ameri.
ca has been formed under the au.
spices of the Rivers and Harbors con.
gress. with President Roosevelt, viii.
liam II. Taft and William ]. Bryan as
honorary of1cers.
The body Of Jack Pyle. a recluse
VINO lived on farm near Craig. Mo-,
and was believed TO have a hoard of
hicden gold, was found in his cabin
by neighbors with bullet hole in his
head. Robbery was evidently the mo-
tive for the crime.
The presidential election in Cuba
has been set for November II next,
and the inauguration of the newly.
elected executive for January %. 1909.
The Prohibition national committee
has decided to make photographic rec.
ords OF the speeches OF their candi-
dates for use in the campaign.