The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
RACES FOR THE TENANTS.
National League
AmerIcan Leaaue.

Sunday Wnlle Ou HIS way uOhiC run the ball game at St. Paul, Minn. The machine was driven by Miss Theodore Stuart of Minneapolis, who was ac- companied by her mother and sister and two men relatives.
 The senate passed the naval appro- priations bill. Senator Burton's amend ment providing for only one fNttleship in the naval bill was defeated, 26 to 39. i.
 Clifford Pinchot, the former chief forester of the United States, was passenger on the steamer Arabic, which sailed from Liverpool for New York
 Herr Frey, a German aviator, made a splendid flight in Farman biplane over Berlin from Johannisthal. He covered 26 miles and returned to his starting point without an accident. The pant of the c. G. Conn com pany at Elkhart, Ind, said to have been the largest manufactory of brass band instruments in the world, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $500, 900. An employe was burned to death.
 Five thousand persons saw Oscar Leroy of Percy, Ok, circus aeronaut, fall 2,O00 feet through the air at FL wood, Pa, and escape with his life, his only injury being a broken leg. An hour later, while the performance was in progress, the grandstand sec tion of seats collapsed, carrying down women and children. None was seri- ously injured.
 Shippers from middle western cities will be represented in Omaha May "A to consider the proposed increases an nounced by members of the western trunk line committee, effective June l..
 George w Coleman, the $1z-a-week. clerk of the National City Bank of Cambridge, Mass, pleaded guilty to footing that institution of $309, 9,000 and was sentenced by Judge Hale to 1ai years i'll the federal prison at Allan | ta.
 Forty-seven workmen were drowned by the upsetting of boat in which a party of 94 was being carried across the River Dnieper near Alexandrov- sky, Russia.
 Mrs. Wesley Wright and Mrs. Gena Heath and six children were drowned in the Gossatat river near Gilman, Ark. They were trying to cross the river in a wagon and in the darkness did not observe that the river was out of it's banks.
 
 What is said to be the largest sugar cargo ever carried by any vessel, and which is the record cargo from Porto Rico is being shipped to San Juan for the United States on the five-masted Fuller Palmer. She is taking on 50,000 | bags of sugar, valued at $500,O0O. l John Dobinski, a young coal miner from Divernon, H., who went to Chi cago to be married, was mistaken Tor hold-up man and shot dead by four | policemen.
 The Standard Oil Company has in creased the wages of it's workmen from to 10 per cent The order IS retroactive and became effective May | 1. I. is estimated that the company will add from s6,000,000 to $10,OO0,OO0 to it's annual pay roli expense. The new scale affects employees engaged in the company's works and factories, but the office men will not be bene- fited by this increase Most of the employees who will get the increase are laborers, and the advance applies l to all the. subsidiary companies in the United States. The company has ap- 1 proximately 10000 employees. The Standard is one of the very few big concerns of this country which has never had strike among its em- | ployes.
 Fearing he would be discharged, Joe Le Blanc, laborer employed by the l Chicago board of education, shot his l foreman, John Roach, and then com l mitted suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Roach was seri ously wounded.
 l Commander R. E. Peary's lecture in Vienna was attended by the cabinet ministers and many persons promi nent in Austrian life. At the close oi the lecture the gold medal of the I'm perial Geographical society was pre- scented to Commander Peary and 2 banquet was given in his honor. l At Kansas City the Uncle Sam, 2 pleasure steamer, heavily loaded Wltf passengers, turned over at the foot sol Grand avenue in the Missouri river The Uncle Sam had just started on al afternoon trip with 150 passengers All were rescued,
 Senator William c, LOrimer ID thS busiest man in Washington. He has returned there for the purpose of de
 manding senate investigation of ths charges he was elected to his seal from Illinois by means of votes tha
 were bought, and senatorial develop ments are predicted
 Train No. on the Salt Lake route
 due in Salt Lake City January 2. af
 rived Tuesday, four months late. Th'
 train was marooned January nea' Caliente, New. by washout. Througl
 traffic on the line will be resumed
 June 15.