The state herald., 1909-01-01

The anthracite peace board report
shows $50 disputes settled In three
years without strike.
Secretary Garfield has denied the re-
port that he will be run as dark
horse in the Ohio senatorial contest
Sarah Bernhard. who is playing at
st. Petersburg, was given an audience
by Emperor Nicholas at Tsarsko.Selo
Christmas Day, and was presented
with u portrait of the Empress.
Harvey Hazel, the seventeen.year-
old boy, who murdered his mother with
a hammer at Toledo Ohio, was found
guilty of murder In the first degree,
verdict that calls for life imprison-
ment.
In bis statement to the Russian
Duma. Foreign Minister Iswolsky ex.
press I'd his approval Of the Japanese
American agreement. which he said
was communicated to Russia before 1t
was signed.
Thomas F. Ryan announced Wednes-
day that, on advice of his physicians.
he had resigned lately from the direc-
torates of thirty-four railroad and In
dustrial corporations, following the
resolution he had adopted nearly two
years ago.
The best man In the world from the
pugilist's standpoint is now Jack
johnson, the giant negro who defeated
Tommy Burns at Sydney. New South
Wales, in fourteen rounds on Christ.
mas Day, winning the heavyweight
championship of the world.
]. Cal Ewing was reelected presi.
dent of the Pacific Baseball leage at
the annual meeting of the league In
San Francisco. Thirty-one consecu
tive weeks of baseball will constitute
the season for 1909. which will open
on March list and close October 3lst
Vice President ]. vincente Gomez
to whom Gen. Cipriano Castro handed
over the presidency on his departure
for Europe. has established a new gov.
ernment in Venezuela, making an en-
tire change of ministry. He first Sc
cured control of the army.
More than a thousand persons were
made homeless and $l,000.000 worth
of property was destroyed In a fire
that burned out an entire block oi
apartment houses between Second and
Third avenues and Forty.fourth and
Forty-fifth streets, Brooklyn, Decem
ber 23d.
In speaking at Boston of the sen
fencing of labor officials In Washing
ton. First Vice President James Dun
can OF the American Federation Of La
Dor. said: II believe the pardoninl
power of the President could be uset
right away in causing the release o.
President Gompers.'
The Steel corporation has issued ;
Christmas bonus to all employees hold
mated that sixty.five per cent in nun
Der OF the holdings are in the handi
of the workmen. The net earnings ar,
expected to run between $25,000, 90,
and $2G.o0o.O00 for the quarter.
An Equal Franchise society has beef
organized in New York with Mrs. Clar
ence II. Mackay as president. The oh
ject of the organization is to secur,
the national. state and local electora
franchise for women and for this pur
pose to maintain In the city of New
York and elsewhere adequate head
quarters and maintain bureau of pub
licity and propaganda.
George T. Oliver of Pittsburg. owne
OF the Gazette. Times and Chronicle
Telegraph. has been unanimously In
dorsed by the Allegheny county mem
bers OF the Pennsylvania Legislature
for United States senator 20 succeed
Senator p. c. Knox. who Is TO be sec
retary of state In the Taft cabinet
Congressman James Francis Burk'
and John Dalzell had previously an
nounced their candidacy for the place
Charges involving Methodist bishop
are incorporated In suits filed at War
saw. Indiana, TO Get aside the title o
valuable lands and other propert!
decided by the late Elijah Hays o
Warsaw to the Missionary board OF tn,
Methodist Episcopal church. 1t Is al
legged that the late Bishop McCab'
and others. knowing the weakene,
mental condition OF Hays. persuaded
him to deed 10 the Methodist Mission
AIRY board property valued at sl27. 900
The suit is brought by distant rela
tives OF Hays.