The copper era., 1910-05-13
News of the World Condensed.

The Chicago Wonau's Trade Union League held its sixth annual ball in Illinois hall on the evening of the 30th.
 The controversy between the union miners and the operators of the Pitts burg soft coal district which resulted in a months suspension of work, was settled on the 18th.
 Tom L. Johnson sailed for home on board the Mauretania on the 3Oth. He is reported as having gained In health daily while abroad
 Dr. Thomas O'Hagau of Ottawa, Canada, has been appointed editor of the New World, the Roman Catholic organ of Chicago, by Archbishop Quigley.
 King Edward VII of England died on Friday last after short illness of pneumonia.
 The Democratic convention of In diana on the 18th nominated John w. Kern, the Vice Presidential candidate of 1908 for United States Senator.
 The proposed amendment of the Constitution specifically allowing a Federal income tax was defeated in both houses of the Rhode Island leg islature on the 29th.
 A resolution favoring the election of United States Seniors by popular vote was adopted by the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature on the 26th, by vote of 109 to 90.
 At the Democratic primaries in Alabama on the 2d the local option candidate for governor, Emmett A. O'Neal. defeated the Statewide pro- hibition candidate, H. s. D. Mallory, by about 10000.
 A decision of the Supreme Court ot Tennessee busting the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky from doing business in Tennessee was affirmed on the 2d by the Supreme Court of the United States.
 President Taft has been making another speaking tour, his first point being at Buffalo on the 30th On the 2d he spoke at Pittsburg, on the Sd at Cincinnati, and on the 4th at St. Louis.
 A. brutal expulsion of 2,50O Jewish families from Kiev, Russia, beginning on the 27th, was re eported from Russia to the Jewish Daily News of York. The news was denied from Kiev and St. Petersburg.
 John Quincy Adams Ward; the maker of the Henry Ward Beecher statue in Brooklyn and of the victory group which crowns the Dewey arch in New York, died at his home in New York on the 1st MT. Ward was born at Urbana, Ohio, nearly so years ago
 An injunction forbidding the City of Milwaukee to establish municipal lighting plant was sustained on the 26th by the Supreme Court of Wis cousiu on technical grounds. Tc obviate these technicalities the move ment must begin over again.
 The first mems Missionary Con gress, with representatives from al the Protestant churches of the United States, opened at the Auditorium il Chicago on the 3rd. The congress i development of the Laymen's Mis sionary movement "to evangelize th' !, world
 By payment of Sl,620 and costs settlements have been made by tn
 St. Paul Coal Company of Cherry, Ill.
 in forty-one of the suits brought b
 widows and parents against the con
 pauy for the deaths of miners in th
 terrible disaster of last November.
 An overAowing memorial meetin! 3 for the late Hiram w. Thomas wa = held at the Garrick Theater, Chicago r on the 1st, at which Jenkin Lloy f Jones presided. The other speaker e were Bishop Fallows, Rabbi IIirsct .- Frank w. Gunsaulus, George 1 d Foster, Jane Addams and R. 4 i White.
 The National Farmers COnventio
 assembled at St. Louis on the 2d. was addressed by c s. Barrett, pres dent of the Farmers Union, c. ( Dayton, president of the America u Society of Equity, Don Farnswortl
 O, F. Dornblasser, w. H. Wright, 1 'S D. Bowen and Samuel Gompers, pres ,, dent of the American Federation
 Labor.
 e Edward Payson Weston, the famol ?. long distance pedestrian, now n years old reached New York City d the 2nd, at the close of a transcontl " ental journey of 3, ,483 miles from L. 1 Angeles, made in 77 walking days ,e pronounced an unparalleled tea S. MT. Weston left Los Angeles on tt " Ist of February The Sundays wel
 counted out as rest days. He was
 companied through New York
 great crowds, and at the city hall VI rs welcomed by Mayor Gaynor. Id "How do you like my biscuit
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