Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-27
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

II is estimated 100000 people in
the United States will cease eating
meat by Feb. /.
The New York Central announces
that ii is compelled TO refuse increased
pay for its men. and invites a general
conference of those Interested
James j. fIill, the railway magnate.
SCOTS at the meat boycott He sayn
lhe American people like high livinG
too VOL 10 deny themselves anything
For ten years a young woman tour
ed the globe as Lord Grey" to run shy
OF funds and be arrested in New YORK
last Friday. She was afterwards dis
charged
The Oklahoma legislature IN special
session will pass law prohibiting n
surance companies being formed ard
operated unless the capital stock Is
fully paid up. Proper cape
Walter Wellman says Pres dent Taft
is showing unusual energy IN dealing
with the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga-
ton. and that It is generally recog-
nized that he has much at ntake.
Stockmen around Sheri6an, Wye,
are still alarmed over the shortae. of
feed, due to the prolonged mfav0ra.
BILE weather. Heavy losses are reIort
ed in some districts, many iheep hay
ing died because the owners could not
get feed to them, eight firms reporting
losses aggregating 10000 head.
An egg laid by the $4,000 prize
Orpingion hen, Lady Washington, was
stolen at The Scranton poultry show
one day last week and caused conster.
nation among the attendants. f. o.
Megargee, the owner of the hen, has
offered reward of $25 for the return
of the egg, but has little hope Of ever
seeing it again.
Throughout Richmond and Norfolk
a supposedly authentic rumor has it
that John d. Rockefeller has given
$5,OOO,0OO for the purpose of establish
ing newspapers in Virginia and Flor.
ida with the avowed object of driving
saloons out of the states. report
from New York adds that John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., would neither deny
nor affirm the rumor
Experiments in search OF the mys-
teries of sleep, made at the University
of Michigan upon patients with ire
pinned skulls. have completely over
turned the accepted theory OF the
cause of sleep. Instead of sleep be-
ing due to lessening of blood pres
sure in the brain. directly the opposite
was demonstrated.
William J. C'Flngy') Conners. chair.
man of the state Democratic commit.
tee, Will have 10 tell just how and why
he got possession OF $1,000, 900 worth
of the stock Of the United States In.
dependent Telephone company as
gift, If the committee can make him
He will tell It to the legislative com.
mittee that is taking testimony in New
York city to ascertain whether tele.
phone and telegraph companies ought
not to be brought under the control of
the public service commission.
Three people were killed and three
badly injured IN IN au.omobns acct
dent at Kansas City yesterday after.
noon. The machine plunged over
forty-foot embankment
The United States Steel corpora.
tion has authorized tie expenditure of
$2,450,000 by one of its subsidiaries.
the Universal Portland Cement com.
pany, in the construction OF cement
plant No. 8 at Burlington. Ind, to have
a capacity of 1000, 900 barrels of ce.
ment per annum
Deposits Of s2,3GS.799 were tied up
Friday when the Southbrldge, Mass,
Savings bank wa1 closed by order of
Judge Loring OF the state supreme
court. following the discovery by bank
examiners of an apparent discrepancy
between the deposit ledger and state.
nent of deposits as submitted by John
A. Hall. treasurer of the bank.
Senator Carter. after conference
with several western governors who
were in Washington last week attend
ing the governors conference. has pre-
pared bill authorizing the issuance
OF patents to states for public lands