The Globe-republican., 1910-05-26
Domestic Items.

Domestic Items.
The Standard Oil company has in
creased the wages Of its workmen
from to 10 per cent The order is
retroactive and became effective May
/. 1t is estimated that the company
will add from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000
to its annual pay roll expense, The
new scale affects employees engaged
in the company's works and factories,
but the office men will not be bene-
fitted by this increase. Most of the
employees who will get the increase
are laborers, and the advance applies
to all the subsidiary companies in the
United States. The company has ap-
proximately 10000 employees. The
Standard is one of the very few big
concerns of this country which has
never had strike among its employees.
The Nebraska Press association held
its thirty-eighth annual meeting at
Lincoln.
The Wisconsin monument in the
National park at Vicksburg has been
dedicated. Gov Davidson and large
party of Wisconsin citizens were pres
ent.
Two Missouri, Kansas & Texas
freight trains collided head on near
Bonneville, Mo- Both engines and 12
cars were demolished, fireman killed
and brakeman injured.
The supreme court has upheld the
usury law of Oklahoma which requires
q usurer to pay back double the
amount charged at usurious rate.
One theory advanced by scientists
to account for the strange actions of
the comet is that the tail has become
detached and is still in the east.
The Albany Office of Durant G e.
more, grain dealers, is said to be short
S350,OO0.
Northwestern New Mexico has been
visited by heavy snow
Lightning struck an oil tank con-
tanning 10000 barrels of oil at Sour
Lake, Tex, setting it on fire and de.
stroying the oil.
The seismograph at Kansas univers.
fty recorded an earthquake of 45 min
utes duration.
The jury returned verdict of mur-
der in the second degree against
Charles Nordmark charged with the
murder of Alex Lindahl and two
children at Belleyille, Kas.
George Eboling, who confessed to
have, with William Lowe, robbed
Missouri Pacific mail train at Glencoe,
Mo-, has been sentenced to 18 years
In the penitentiary. Lowe got a sen.
tence of AZ years.
The coroner's jury which began last
November an investigation of the Cher
ry mine disaster, in which 256 miners
lost their lives, has maze a report in
which II is found that the mining laws
were broken with the knowledge and
consent of the mine inspectors.
Three packages of money aggregat-
Ing $4,000 were taken from the depo.
at Oil City, Pa, while the station agent
was loading baggage.
The wreck of the steamboat City OF
6altillo at Glen Park, Mo, caught fire
following the dynamiting of the upper
decks in the salvage work, and within
two hours everything above water that
would burn had disappeared.
All but one company Of the Mis-.
souri, troops that have been on duty
at Ilaseo have been recalled
One hundred and ten members of
the Louisiana legislature and many OF
the state officers are going to Wash
ington to try to get the Panama expo.
gition for New Orleans.
The great parade planned as a part
Of the welcome to Col. Roosevelt on
his return to New York has been aban-
doned Applications for places in the
line became SO great that the plan had
to be given up.
Col Mcdonald commanding state
troops at Ilasco, Mo-, has asked for
four more companies to protect the
cement plant there.
The board Of education at Tulsa, Ok,
mas inaugnrated the policy Of employ
ing no more married women as teach
ers.
The sixteenth annual meeting Of the
Lake Mohonk peace conference Is in
session.
Fire destroyed the Hotel Adams at
Phoenix, Ariz., and damaged number
of other buildings For a time the en-
fire city was threatened. The loss ii
estimated II 100000.