The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-05

passenger train plunglng into the Mis-.
souri, river thirty miles east OF Kansas
City.
The strike at the Standard Steel Car
company's plant at Butler, Pa. has
ended and 1000 men have returned
to work.
The Glidden automobile tour ended
at Kansas City Friday.
An examination OF the affairs OF the
First National bank of Upton, Ind,
was begun by Miller Weir, examiner.
at-large for the treasury department
to determine the exact amount OF tie
losses Incurred in the institution OF
which Noah X. Marker was the assis.
tant cashier. Marker disappeared last
Saturday. Sixty thousand dollars in
cash was missing after Markers de-
parture.
An appeal to the United States su.
preme court from the decision OF Judge
smith Mcpherson In the Missouri rail-
road rate cases was filed by Sanford p.
Ladd. representing the state In the
United States district court In his
decision Judge Mcpherson declared
that the Missouri railroad passenger
and freight rate law was confiscatcry
and unconstitutional.
The cotton report made on the COZ
dition up to July % by the na,ioas
ginners' association gives the genera,
average as III.
Colorado Springs passed from AZ
elective city government under stat,
law to one under charter rule.
The western federation OF miners
ny large vote decided not to take 81
out OF each initiation fee for the Min.
ers' Magazine, but they did instruct
the executive board to print socialist
literature In number OF languages
for distribution purposes.
While rounding a curve near Glen
wood, Ala, Central of Georgia
passenger train was wrecked, twenty
four persons being injured, six very
seriously.
Five thousand persons witnessed
the hanging of William Mack, a negro
at Brandon, Miss.
n. Y. Ellis shot and killed n. p
Willis in the court room at Little
Rock. Ark
Rev. William Huntington, rector of
Grace Episcopal church, New York,
died Monday.
George Allen Beatty, the confessed
bank robber, who looted the First Ma.
tional bank at Monrovia, California. OF
$29,7OO last December, and was can.
tured In Dayton, o., was sentenced to
serve eight years in Folsom peniten.
tiary.
At Chicago the jury cleared Ella
Gingles from the charge of stealing
lace, but the story she told on the
witness stand of being white slays"
victim was denounced as untrue.
A gale at Galveston, Tex, does cor |
siderable damage to shipping and the
city and ten persons lose their lives.
A Michigan court has permanently
enjoined the city of Kalamazoo, Mich,
from enforcing the ordinance which
requires the union label on all city
printing.
A grand jury has been called to in |
vestigate the murder Of ]. B. Sayler,
at Crescent City, Illinois.
On Salem. Mass. common the
ANCIENT municipality presented to the
scout cruiser Salem a beautiful silver
service. bronze replica Of the seal OF
the city. to be mounted on some part |
or the big ship and big phonograph.
A cloudburst In northern Wisconsin
damages property to the extent OF |
over half million dollars. No loss OF
life Is reported.
General Carlos Garcia Velez, Cuban
minister to the United States. received
a cablegram from President Gomez OF
cuba authorizing him to say that there
was no truth In the rumors of a dis.
ruption OF the Cuban cabinet and that
he and his brother, Justo Carlos Velez,
who is Cuban secretary Of state. would
he retained at their present posts.
One thousand men are idle as the
result OF a strike OF puddlers at the
Montour rolling mill department of
the Reading Iron company, the pud.
dlers alleging that one of their mum.
Der had been discharged because he
had been overcome by the heat
James G. Purvls, the non.union
marine engineer who killed two
strikers, injured one other and was
menaced by strike sympathizers last
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both the police and county coroner.
Cornelius p. Shea. the former Chi
cago labor leader, was sentenced to
not less than five, nor more than
twenty-five years in prison for the
attempted murder of Alice Walsh,
With whom he had been living.
Washington.
Commissioner of Indian ANairs Vol