Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-01-28
WORLD NEWS CE
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOMESTIC.

lies.
The forces of the government gath
cred at Chicago preparatory to begin
ming the investigation into the h'gh
price Of meat.
Floods in the Susequehanna River
caused heavy damage near Havre de
Grace, Md.
BY decision rendered In the fed
eral court at Kansas City the MIS-
souri,. Kansas & Texas Railroad was
enjoined from refusing shipments OF
LIQUOR into the dry states OF Kansas
and Oklahoma.
Inquiry is made into an alleged gift
of $4,000 900 worth of United STAGES
Independent Telephone stock to w. j.
Conners. chairman of the New Io.k
State Democratic Committee.
"Al" Kaufman, of San Francisco,
defeated Jack" O'Brien, of Philadel-
phia, in six round bout before the
National Athletic Club, Philadelp~ia.
Columbia University plans to b''-id
| a $3,000,000 medical school.
Justice w. S. Andrews, of the SUI
| preme Court, at Syracuse, granted the
| application of the State Insurance De
partment to have the Peoples Mutual
Life Association and League turned
| over to the department for liqunauon.
| Louis Paulhan, the French aviator,
made AZ 1-2-mile cross-country Il gAt
in a little less than siXty-three I'm
utes, at Los Angeles, Cal.
Six indictments against men ac-
cused of being "white slave dealers
are presented to Judge O'Sullvan by
the Grand Jury in New York, of which
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller, Jr., Is tore
| man.
The purchase outright or control Of
the Western Maryland Railroad by
the New York Central lines, with
new branch of the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie into West Virginia, was rumorcd
in Baltimore.
WASHINGTON.
Senators Nelson, Flint and Smoot
are leaders of a revolt against Iresl-
dent Tafts policies in the Senate
} 1t was said at Washington that
friends of Speaker Cannon were IN
"a. :, cf his retirement as SneaLGf
for the good of the party, as well as
of new House leader in place OF
: Representative Payne.
. Senator Penrose demands such
classification of magazines and perioh
icals as will end the government loss
of $50 900 900 annually
) Addressing the Association OF Life
3 Insurance Presidents in Washington,
! Gov. Hughes warned them against any
t attempt by bribery to thwart leglsla-
Y tive attacks upon the interests OF pol
3 icy-holders.
4 President Taft proclaimed that min
: imum tariff rates are granted the
t United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, swift
4 erland. Russia and Turkey, effective
d March 81, 1910.
The Presidents conservative Dlll5
l. and measure providing govern
d ment for Alaska were introduced IN
: the Senate.
n Captain Seth Bullock, United States
a Marshal in South Dakota, on VISIT 10
6 WASHINGTON, says Iowa, Wisconsin and
o neighboring States will support Presi-
n deat Taft when his strength is tested
at the polls.
The United States Supreme Coult
refused writ of certiorarl to JoAn ~
Walsh but his counsel will starr 4
new fight to keep him out OF jail oY
n attacking the jury that convicted
him.
The Smithsonian Institution st
II Washington received report tro:n -
's President Roosevelt, dated at Na!rooi
H. Africa, to the effect that the eXnetf
y ton under his command had collected
10 8,S46 kinds of vetebrates, bes.ue-
g. many other specimens.
ut FOREIGN.
re Floods did great damage in Pari.
d. and rendered hundreds homeless.
lie A special dispatch from IondoI
saws the incoming Liberal govern
ment in England will depend for eE
istence on the Irish vote.
Rivers in the East of France have
IS overfowed their banks, following
violent storm of forty-eight hours du
te ration.
en- Fire destroyed the Palace of Chara
tie gan. one of the finest on the Bosphc
Ill rus, where the Turkish Chamber o
re Deputies held its sessions.
The Argentine Naval Commissiol
Is, authorized the construction of tW
nd 2S ,000-ton Dreadnoughts; they WI
OF probably be constructed by the For
Id River Shipbuilding Company
BIZ John Burns is elected in one OF IN
most exciting contests in London an
Dy the unonists make a net gain OF tWef
IN ty-nine seats in the British gene
elections.
In the British elections thus far tn
Liberals have secured II seats, u
sh. Laboritcs IS, the Unionists 92 and n
n, Irish party 49, The Unionists did nc
'as make as MANY gains as they expected
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ice immense Rosebush.