The Red Cloud chief., 1909-09-23
SUMMARY
OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
Latest News of Interest
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Busy Man.
Domestic.

Domestic.
The following officers OF the ma.
tional association of stationary engi-
neers were elected: President, w. \.
Reynolds. Iloboken. y. Y; viCe.prosi.
dent e. S. Pearse, Denver. Colo; sec.
rotary. +. H. Raven. Chicago; treas.
nrer, Samuel Il. Forse, Pittsburg Pa.
was elected chairman of the executive
committee OF the American Pomologi.
cal society.
The First National bank of Burn.
side, Ky. closed its doors Friday. The
bank has $4,000 capital stock. over
loans and some unfortunate business
deals are given as the cause of failure.
District Judge Loyal Il. Knappen.
presiding in the branch of the fed.
eral court at Marquette, Mich, has
entered a decree i'm favor of the com.
plant in the case of Arctic Iron com.
pany VS.. the Cleveland Clif Iron com.
pany and William Mather, its prcsi.
dent. More than one million dollars
is involved in the decision.
A campaign for constitutional
amendment for prohibition in Ala
bama was launched at Birmingham at
conference which was participated
in by several hundred prohibitionists,
anti-saloon league members and par.
tisans from all over the state. An
official statement was made prior to
the beginning of the meeting that the
conference represented no political
faction or set of politicians
Right Rev. William George McClos.
Ky, bishop Of Louisville and the oldest
living Catholic prelate in the United
States, is seriously i'll at Louisville
ky. He is eighty.siX years old
Mrs. +. II. Hartman mas been made
the sole beneficiary and administrator
Of her husbands vast estate, which is
estimated 10 lie valued at from $50.
oo0,000 10 S2OOOO0,OOO
Four cadets at the ANNAPOLIS naval
academy have been dropped from the
rolls at the direction of President Taft
because of inaptitudc. which was said
10 have been demonstrated on the
practice cruise of the corps this sum
mCr.
Judge Corey of the probate court.
made an order distributing to Mrs.
Anna Spreckels. widow of the late
SPEECHES, her share of the sugar
kings estate. which is estimated to be
'lialey's' comet has been located by
Herbert ID. Curtis and photographed
with the aid of rejecting telescope at
Lick observatory. IA will grow rapidly
brighter, according to a statement
made by ID. w. W. Campbell of Lick
observatory
In order to insure the Hudson Full
ton celebration stamp being on salt at
all post Offices desiring 1t on Scptem-
Der %. the date of the opening of the
celebration of the centennial in New
YORK, the post office department has
decided to begin the shipment to the
various offices on September 20. The
edition is limited to 10000, 900, and.
therefore, may be in great demand by
stamp collectors. 1t is said to be one
OF the most beautiful stamps ever is.
sued by the department
The strike of the natteners and cut.
tiers OF the American window glass
works at jeanette, Pa. and Mononga.
hela, Pa, is taking on serious aspect
Attempts 10 import workmen have
met with resistance. and clashes have
occurred.
william Davis, a farmer of Benton,
Kan, was robbed of $4,000 at the Mis-.
souri, Pacific depot at Wichita by two
men who jostled him in "A crowd He
carried the money in large pocket.
BOOK in his inside coat pocket.
William Cramps Sons & Co.. formal.
~ awarded the contracts for construct.
ing one each Of the new American
Dreadnoughts of $4,000 tons to be of.
hcially known as the Wyoming and
the Arkansas.
v. L. Won Erlit, a business man OF
Seattle, Wash, shot and seriously
wounded himself in his room at a
Kansas City hotel. After the shoot
ing Won Erlit answered a long distance
telephone call. lie talked business for
several minutes. hut becoming weak
from the loss of blood pleaded for Il
physician. He viii recover.
Assistant United States District At.
torney Crum said that the trial of the
officers and directors of the American
Sugar Refining company who were in.
dicted by the federal grand jury tor
violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law, probably would not come up I'm.
Ill the middle Of October.
&c. b, Rogers, vice.presidont and
general manager Of the Gulf Coast
line, has beel elected president and
general manager, with Office at Kings.
Vile, Tex" The above paragraph
from the Railroad Age Gazette tells
how a Nebraska railroad man has
made good in the south. Mr.. Rogers