Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-02-04
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOM ESTIC.

lawyer, and escaped.
Joseph f. Shipp, ex-Sheriff of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, who has just been re-
leased from the federal Jail in Wash
| ington for contempt of the United
States Supreme Court, was enthus' as
| tically received on his return to his
home town.
The federal inquiry into the meat
packing industry was formally begun
in Chicago; it was apparent that it
would be national in scope.
Thomas NJ. Osborne, of Buffalo, N.
Y, resigned his $4,000 position on
the upstate Public Service Colmis-
sion to devote all his time to organ
izing the Democratic League and
strengthening the party in the State.
Ten of the largest milk retailing
companies announced that eight cents
a bottle would be their price for milk
in future.
Innocent investors who lost heavily
by the collapse in Hooking Coal and
Iron are planning to sue the members
Of the pool, who they claim are re-
sponsible for their losses.
declared quarterly dividend of l per
cent. on the common stock with an ex-
ira dividend OF 34 of l per cent.
Warner NJ. Van Norden, President
of the Van Norden Trust Company, ac-
cused two women of the theft of $751;
600 from his pocket.
Herbert J. Dennison, a magician
wLo has been in insane asylums, was
arrested in the belief he was the mur-
derer of little Robert Lomas and Ar
thur Shibley.
President Cortelyou of the ConSoli-
dated Gas Company, of New York, in
mis- annual report said the earnings
We're 3.73 per cent; that the expect
ed increase In gas consumption from
the S0-cent law has not taken place.
The company may again appeal to the
courts.
The Alexander Campbell Milk Com
pany. of Brooklyn. reduced the price
of milk to eight cents.
WASHINGTON.
The House Committee ON Post OF.
ice aud Post Roads seeks February
hearing
Many of the ablest lawyers in the
country take a hand in the test of the
corporation tax law before the Fed
eral Supreme Court.
Free imports under the Payne law
have reached $700,000,000, or more
than half of all the imports.
a
Ellis, assistant to the AttOrney-Gen-
eral, to Chicago to push the Beef
Trust inquiry.
President Taft is working to place
prosperity on a sound basis, adyocat-
ing national incorporation as refuge
for harassed trusts.
The Notifications appropriation bill
was passed by the Senate and meas
ure creating a new national forest in
Montana was considered.
President Taft issues a statement
denying sensational stories Of an inn
pending indiscriminate prosecution of
important industries.
1t was announced that President
Taft is preparing a special message on
the high cost Of living.
Robert L. O'Brien, editor of the
Boston Transcript, says it is plain the
governments postal loss comes from
magazine transmission and urges a
complete departmental overhauli ;.
Washington reports growing iear
of the attitude of MIR. Taft and .-ttor-
ney General Wickersham by the
trusts.
FOREIGN.
Britons seem to be agreed that the
elections settled two things that the
budget must pass and that the power
of the peers must be limited.
The Seine continues to fall slowly,
but conditions in Paris and the
towns on the river below the capital
have not improved. thousands OF DCr-