Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-01-14

Suit for breach Of promise Of mar
riage. With damages for his wounded
feelings fixed at $4,000. has been be-
gun In the superior court OF Cook
county by DR.. Kirke Stanley Of New
York against Mrs. Jeanette Deere
Chapman Of Moline. Ill.,. and Pasadena.
Cal. Mrs. Chapman, who is 20 years
old. is said to be worth 100000 In
her own right.
II was asserted 10 Omaha that E.
II. Hartman had gNined control Of
the New York Central.
The Kansas supreme court afiirmed
the verdict and fine of the district
court for Shawnee county against the
International Harvester Company The
company must pay q fine Of 81. 800 on
" counts. each count charging vio-
lation of the Kansas antitrust laws.
Six Of the Tennessee night riders
were sentenced to be hanged Friday.
February 10.
Justice Tompkins decided that Harry
X. Thaw was entitled to trial rs to
his sanity.
The Kansas prison board ordered
all Oklahoma convicts removed from
the Kansas penitentiary by Janu-
ary 81.
The entire western coast Of Mexico
was shaken by an earthquake.
The committee investigating tho
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
was shown just how the old prison
punishment called the "Alakaxan de-
gree" was inflicted. The committee
laughed and was rebuked for ito
levity by Miss Kate Barnard Of Okla
homa.
BY means of two false teeth 1t was
definately established that Gideon
Browning Of Adair. Mich, was the
man who was butchsred in the little
Rattle Run" Methodist church. The
supervisors Of St. Clair county imme-
diately offered a reward of $500 for
the arrest Of Rev. John H. Carmichael
OF Adair. pastor Of the church, who
was at first supposed to have been
killed. dismembered and then burned
In the stove.
Five lads In st. Louis were arrested
for stoning peddler to death.
Kang Yu Wei. the well.known Chi.
nese reformer. who was expelled from
Pekin after the coup d'etat of 1898.
declared that Yuan Shi Kai had
been dismissed from his high position
as member Of the grand council Of the
Chinese empire because he was in.
strumental in the death Of the late
emperor.
The body Of Lieut.. roertsch, the
German aeronaut who lost his life at
sea last October, was picked up In
the North SEQ BY the fishing steamer
Orion.
The distress In Anatolia because Of
the failure Of the crops has reached
an acute phase In the districts OF Ere.
eroum. Yozgad. Kaisarieh and Mardin.
and hundreds Of persons are actually
starving.
A $l5.0O0.000 merger of moving pic.
ture interests was announced In New
York.
Fire In Springfield. Mo-, destroyed
the Baldwin theater and threatened
the business section Of the city.
The Russian steamer Sviatoslay
was sunk in collision and "a men
were drowned.
Paul c. Finn Of New York. . com.
positor. murdered his mother and
gave himself up to the police.
A mail sack containing bonds. eto
worth 100000. was stolen from . de
livery wagon in the Chaussee d.Antin
Paris. In broad daylight.
F. b. Signor Of Oakland. Cal. "a,
arrested on complaint OF James H
Murray. multi-millionaire banker. OF
charges of committing forgeries AZ
gregating about el.0O0.000 He con
fessed.
Count" Louis Hamon, former,,
known In America and Europe q,
"Cheiro. the Palmist." and before tina
rs plain John Warner. IL fuettiv,
from France. being charged with en-
bezxlement.
Melvin w. Sheppard. Fred Bellare,
George v. Bonhag. Charles j. Bacon
Harry Porter and John Lee. the am,
teur athletes who recently were gu,
pended by the registration committe
Of the A. A. U. for alleged profession
alism, were reinstated.
A party Of Dominion government
surveyors. who arrived at Winnipe
from Fort Churchill, Hudson ba,
brought with them q report Of the di
appearance Of party which was ser
out by Mai. Moody Of the mounte
police in search Of Inspector Petite
and his party Of Eskimos, who ali
| have oppo.ont1,, h<,ou en.H