The Globe-republican., 1910-01-27
Domestic Items.

Tie production of gold in 1909 was
$5O0,000,000 which was equal to the
total amount that mankind had ac-
cumulated from tie dawn of history
to the time when Nepoleon ascended
the throne of France
During the past eight years $4,000
acres of coal land worth $10,00O,OOO
have been secured Dy fraud according
to reports from government agents
who have made Investigations.
Scientists are of the opinion that the
comet now visable is a new one.
Rewards aggregating $1,000 are of
fered for the arrest and conviction of
the four men who robbed the Missouri
Pacific train near Eureka, Mo.
Attorney General Major OF Missouri
has filed a petition in the supreme
court Of Missouri asking the appoint
ment of an examiner to take testimony
to determine whether or not the pack
ing companies doing business in the
state have violated the antitrust laws
by entering into a combination to con-
troll the sale OF meats and other food
products.
Two miners were killed and 25
others endangered by an explosion in
the mine of the Pence & Calmen com
pany at Richmond, Mo. The % en-
tombed men were rescued by way of
an escape shaft.
Henry Mead, baker, dropped dead
at Freeport, l.. l., after eating a piece
of his own pie for breakfast. The
doctor lascribed death to heart failure
superinduced by acute Indigestion
Mead was II years old.
Eight more fashionable dress max
ers OF New York have entered pleas
OF guilty to a charge of smuggling.
The Omaha packers are quoted as
saying that il the meat boycott
spreads the price of meat will decline
but the packers will not suffer as they
will reduce the prices paid for live
stock thus throwing the loss upon the
farmer.
The public prosecutor at Kansas
City announces that action will at
once be commenced against the Pro
duce exchange, the Consolidated
Bread company, the laundry trust and
the meat trust as a contributor to the
movement against high prices.
An attempt was made to blow up
the Brown block in Coffeyville, Kan.
by cutting the gas pipes to allow the
gas TO escape and stopping up the
ventilators then setting the building
on fire. The fire was discovered be.
fore the gas ignited and the building
saved
The aviation meet at Los Angeles
Cal, has closed All worlds aviation
records were broken with the excep
ton OF distance and duration.
The Oklahoma legislature has beer
called In special session by Gov. Has
kell who asks appropriations aggre
eating 81 100000 for state institution!
and departments.
A charter has been issued for al
all night and day bank at Kansas
City. The bank will open immediate
iy.
The Cole County Democrat and thu
Jefferson City Tribune at Jefferson
City, Mo-, have been consolidated
The name will be the Democrat
Tribune.
Thomas A.. Edison has equipped {
New York car with one OF his nev
storage batteries by which he claim
the car can be operated at cost o
one cent per mile.
Fred s. Jackson attorney genera
of Kansas has started a suit agains
fhe swift and Armour Packing CON
panies under the antitrust laws 0
Kansas sse
The first Minnesota conseryatio
ana agricultural congress Is called t
meet at St. Paul March i6. II, 1S an
10.
dozen persons mostly youn
Women are believed 10 nave lost incl
lives In a fire that destroyed si'
story factory building In Philadelphia
The roof OF public school buildin
collapsed al Coffeyville. Kan, KILN
one person and iniiring two others.