The Semi-weekly leader., 1909-10-09

strike at the American Sheet and Tin
| plate works in Eawood. Ind, occurred
when two foreign strikebreakers who
were leaving the mills at the midnight
shift, opened fire on number Of strfk-
ers' pickets and policemen interfered.
firing at the Officers. All the bullets
went wild.
Fire wiped out lhe lumber yard Of
Manley Chew, at Dollartown, Ont,
sweeping an area Of thirteen acres
bare. This is the second fire in two
weeks. The loss will reach nearly a
million dollars The total quantity Of
lumber was 75.0O0,O0O feet.
The supreme court Of Georgia re.
fused new trial to Clifford M. Orr,
former cashier and director of the Ex-
change bank, of Macon, who was con-
victed in March, 1908, of embezlement
and sentenced to serve seven years in
the penitentiary.
The aeroplane and balloon carnival
scheduled in the Fort indianapolis
speedway on October IA, Is and 16,
has been called off, according to an an
nouncement Friday by Director E. A.
Moross. Failure of the speedway
management to reach suitable terms
with the aviators, particularly Glenn
H, Curtiss, is given as the principal
reason for the action.
With view to carrying out Post
master General Hitchcocks policy of
retrenchment and economy in the
postoffice department, Alexander
Grant, superintendent of the railway
mail service, directed the division su-
perintendents of the mail service to
meet him in Washington on October
IL for conference.
John H. Morrow, a veteran Southern
Pacific engineer, forced his way into
his wifes home at Oakland, CAL, and
killed her. He shot at his sister-in-
laws baby, which his wife had been
holding, and then inflicted probably a
fatal wound upon himself. Mr.. Nor
row had been estranged from his wife.
The American Red Cross society,
through the state department, sent an
additional $4,000 to the flood sufferers
in the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico,
making a total contributed to date of
$1,000, and one thousand blankets.
Fishing schooner Caldwell H. Colt,
of Pensacola, Fla, has been seized by
Mexican gunboat off Progreso and
her crew of eight men thrown into
prison.
On the steps to the Hall Of Fame at
New York university an unknown man
shot himself in the head. The body
was removed to the morgue
DR.. Frederick A. Cooks claim to be
the discoverer of the north pole was
indorsed by the American Association
of Critical Surgeons in convention in
Chicago.
Unprecedented cold weather in the
valley in the vicinity of Mexico City
has destroyed the corn crops. It is
| estimated that the loss will reach
| $20,000,000 The thermometer We'd
nesday morning registered degrees
below the freiezing point
A government balloon sent up by
the weather bureau from Bluemont
l
vice for recording the temperature
and the height attained was in the
basket of the balloon. 1t was sent
back to Bluemont.
BY mutual agreement between coun-
sci for defense and prosecution, the
preliminary hearing of Rev. Wallace
M. Stuckey, of williamsburg, Kas.,
who was taken to Ottawa from Wau-
kegan, ILL.,, charged with the abduc-
tion of Lorena Sutherland, 16 years
old, was continued until October 9.
While near the finish in the 600-yard
race, at an athletic meet in Brooklyn,
Michael McCaffrey broke his right leg
just above the knee. 1t is believed
that Mccartney, who was in third po-
sition at the time, crossed his legs
while turning into the stretch and
thus cracked the bone.
By decision handed down in the
district court, Sweetwater, Tex, will
retain the permanent headquarters
and shops of the Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient railroad, in Texas. Sweet
water obtained temporary Injunction
restraining the removal of the offices
to San Antonio.
The Rev. Henry F. Xavier. known
in Yonkers, N. Y, as the strenuous
clergyman" expressed from the pulpit
in st. Joseph's Roman Catholic church
his intention to publicly chastise ev-
cry couple in his parish whom he finds
spooning in secluded streets.
G. w. Bruce, superintendent of The
state school for the blind, at Fort Glib
son, Okla, has requested Governor
Haskell to have the census enumera-
tors make separate list of the blind
children of the state, that they may
be induced to attend school. Bruce
believes there are 300 blind children
in the state, and of that number only
fifty-seven have been enrolled in the
school.
Judge A. H. Huston, of the Logan
county district court, declined 10 ac-
cept the appointment to be United
States district attorney of the West
ern district Of Oklahoma to succeed
John Embrie, resigned.
/ ne report is puDllSned IN Honolulu
that President Taft may visit the
Hawaiian Islands and that he will go
there on the cruiser st. Louis. 1t
does not appear that there is any
foundation for the report.
The famous organization of politi-
clans which was brought together in
Cincinnati soon after Theodore Roose-
welt became president and which has
been known as the Roosevelt Repub-
lican club has been practically dis
banded.
The revolution in Paraguay is in
full swing. The government ship Ia
pif, with thirty men and thirty mau-
sers mutinied and joined the rebels
1t is asserted that Mayor Gonzales has