The Globe-republican., 1909-08-26

! In the last few weeks there has dis
| appeared from Williamsburg, Kan, five
persons. Three men and two young
| girls. The first to go was a preacher
and the others disappeared at inter
walls of about one week.
In less than two years Standard Oil
stock has advanced 1922 points. This
represents gain on the $25, ,000
held by John D. Rockefeller Of 49,,
756,824.
The Missouri state board of equali.
zation has increased the assessment
of the railroads in the state $685..
1887 over the assessment of the year
before. The total for this year being
$122,0l4.19715.
A westbound Missouri Pacific pas.
senger train collided with an engine in
the railroad yards at Wichita. Kan,
damaging both engines, wrecking a
baggage car and injuring three train.
men and 20 passengers.
Eta Bullock aged'19 years and two
small children were consumed in a
farm house near La Crosse, Kan,
which burned as the result OF the older
girls attempt to fill gasoline stove.
| The parents were away.
Repeated cloudbursts in the region
of the Royal Gorge near CanonACity,
Col, have caused great damage to rail-
road property and have delayed a
large number OF eastern tourists.
Two lives were lost In the opening
Of the new motor speedway at In
dianapolis, while contesting In 250
mile race car swerved into the fence
killing both occupants.
Twenty casks and nine cases con-
tanning specimens, trophies of the hunt
collected by the Roosevelt expedition
have arrived for the Smithsonian in
stitution.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the head-on collision at Hustled,
Col, when ten people were killed and
40 injured finds that the wreck was
due to criminal negligence on the part
Of the train crew.
According to story told by pros
pector at Kennett, Cal, enough pitch
blend has been found on the McCloud
river north Of there to supply the
world with radium for all time.
The extreme heat Of the last few
days which has in several places
reached higher than any previous rec
ord has seriously affected the corn
crop in practically the whole country
from Central Nebraska south to Gen.
trail Texas and from the west line of
Missouri to the mountains including
Arkansas.
Direct information has been filed at
Colorado Springs charging the train
crew of the Rio Grande express
wrecked at Hustled, COL, with man
slaughter.
The total number Of idle men be-
cause of labor troubles in 1908 in the
bituminous coal regions was 145,145
and the average time lost by each was
3S days
A Buick car driven by Strang won
the 100-mile race at Indianapolis In
1:32:4S $40. The car never stopped
once during the 1OO-mile run and came
in ten miles amead of the nearest
rival.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has been granted decision
which provides that the Bell Tele-
phone company shall pay the Western
Union $2,579,9l4.64 and 2O,OS7 shares
of stock. The suit grew out of con-
tract made in 1879. Whereby the
Western Union gave up its telephone
business and turned 1t over to the Bell
company.
In an address before the Farmers
Union of Shawnee, Ok, B. F. Yoakum
Of the Rock Island Railroad told his
auditors that the grain and cotton
fields Of the Mississippi valley and
the west are stronger military defenses
than battleships.
Personal.