The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-01-21

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Arbitration of the wage dispute De-
tween the Illinois Central railroad n
Its ~telegraphers was taken up in Chi
ago by l. G.. Rawn, president of the
Monon;; J.. A. Newman, vice-president
of the Order of Railway Telegraphers
and Prof. B. H.. Meyer Of the Univer-
sity OF Wisconsin.
A great conference on uniform lesfs-
lation by the states, called by the Ma
tional Civic Federation, opened in
Washington, President Taft making
the first address.
A conference on the subject of
measures to eradicate the hookworm
was held in Atlanta, Ca, many south
ern physicians and health officers and
a number of prominent insurance men
taking part.
Charles r. Helke, secretary and
treasurer of the American Sugar Re-
filming Company, was indicted by the
federal grand jury at New York on
charges of conspiracy to defraud and
of making false entries. Harry w.
Walker, assistant superintendent of
the Williamsburg docks of the Amer
al company, was also indicted.
John R. Walsh, former banker of
Chicago, signed the papers turning
over to the Chicago banks, which took
charge of the affairs of his banks at
the time of their financial difficulties,
more than $4,000, 900 of securities.
This about closes his financial
troubles.
President E. H. Jennings and Vice
| Dcoci1ont U A Cr;fE, ,f %Io Co1,r, bio
National bank, County Delinquent Tax
Collector and former Republican City
Chairman Max G.. Leslie, former Coun-
Gilman Charles Stewart and F. F. Nico-
la, a capitalist and real estate opera
tor, were arrested at Pittsburg, Pa, on
warrants issued by District Attorney
w. A. Blakeley, charging them with
conspiring to cause the selection OF
the Columbia National bank as a city
depository.
Representative Mondell of Wyoming,
chairman of the house committee on
public lands, has declined to stand
sponsor for President Taft's bills de-
signed to carry out his program for
conservation of natural He
offered to introduce the measure "by
request" but the proffer was de-
clined.
Dispatches from Madrid indicate
that the government thwarted a mill.
tary conspiracy, fomented by the
friends of Juan de Lacierva y Penafiel.
former minister of the interior, against
the Liberal cabinet. The building oc.
cupied by the military club was sur
rounded by the police and so armed
officers in the building were arrested.
Paul Redieske, deputy commissioner
of public works at Chicago, whose
name has been mentioned in connec-
ton with alleged graft unearthed by
the Merriam commission investigation,
has resigned.
The assertion is made that both
Thomas Swope, the multi-millionaire.
and his nephew of Kansas City, Mo-,
were poisoned and that the author OF
the crime also inoculated the entire
Swope family, consisting of eight PEG,
pie with typhoid germs in an effort to
exterminate them. The bodies of the
two dead Swope's have been exhumed
and their stomachs are undergoing
analysis.
Many senators and representatives
declare that the administrations fed
eral incorporation bill, if passed as
now tentatively drawn, will afford a
shelter for every criminal combina'
ton in the United States. They as
sert that unless amended so that char
tiers may be forfeited when the hold
ers engage in monopolistic enterprises
perpetual right will be given for re
straint of interstate commerce.
Many theatrical people, most of
them scantily clad, were driven into
the snowy streets by a fire in the Rich
rescued by the firemen. The majority
OF those driven out were chorus girls,
Petitions to President Taft, asking
for the release of Charles w. Morse
the banker, from the penitentiary
have been placed in hotel Hobbies and
other public places in Gotham.
Simon B. Chaplin, head of the stool
brokerage firm of S. B. Chaplin & Co.
New York city, was suspended from
the privileges of the stock exchange
by the governing committee for {
period of 60 days, n his partner, F
d. Countiss, vas suspended for 81
days, as a result of the action of thu
firm on December 81 last in executing
orders during the sensational furr!
in Rock Island common stock, which
eliminated on that day in a semi
panic.
AS a contribution to the American
Bible society's $500, 900 endowment
fund, a box containing several hun
dred rare coins, many of them more
than 500 years old, has been received
from a farmer in Carroll county, Hi
| nois.
5 More than 81, 900, 900 is the esti
mated loss to dat. in wages and prof
it's of employers as the result of ths
girl shirtwaist makers strike in the
east.
Overproduction of gold rather thai
trusts or the tariff is blamed for high
err food prices by Prof. E. r. A. Selig
man. the economist of Columbia uni
versity.
: Thomas W. Lawson has offered q
: cents a pound for the entire pooled
! crop of the Burley Tobacco society
: according to an announcement of the
broker, made in Cincinnati.
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