Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-01-19

Both houses OF congress adjourned
as marx OF respect for Senator III
ms
4 The house voted to abolish the OF
ice OF second deputy commissioner
II pensions
President Taft gave approval te
The report of the board Of engineers
j on reclamation projects
t The supreme court finds it difficult
i 10 draw the Ane between legal ana
ills gal restrain, Of trade
The plan OF refundng the hohdaf'
an debt is regarded as amounting 70
United States protcctorate.
Members Of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
of eliminating thank sgiying day loot
ball
Supreme court OF Nebraska holds
that the sale OF beer in bottles IN
cases Is a sale at retail and not whole
sale
Assets Of the Washington Alaska
bank. now in the hands OF receiver,
are slioeo0o and its Liabilities are
,9oouop
a reduction in the freight rate on
cottonseed from points in Missouri.
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
Tenn, is made
A strong movement, supported by
the bishop of Liverpool and leading
churchmen. has been started against
Mormon activity there
The grand jury in the Los Angeles
Times explosion case returned %
indictments All of the indictments
charge murder In connection with
that crime
The 100000 appropriation made by
congress at the las. session for re-
moving the wreck OF the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor will be in
sufficient
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce
commission To assume jurisdiction OF
the railways of Alaska was sustained
by the supreme court of the District
of Columbia
One fatality out of 3o.5ooo0o pas
sonsers carried BY steam vessels OF
all classes plying TO and from Phila-
delpha Was the remarkable record
made in 1910
in fit of rage because she had
gone TO live with her mother, Walter
Oseood, of Omaha, shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded man
who came to her assistance
Declaring the merit system recent
ly inaugurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave injustice
on the part of officials. deputation
of clerks left for Washington to enter
a protest.
How to meet the inroads OF west
ern apples in markets until now held
by eastern orchardists is the main
concern of the New York State Fruit
Growers association. which is hold
ing its tenth annual meeting
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby Sc
yerely criticised the Illinois senate
when he found that not enough SEN
ators to make quorum had re-
manned in Springfield, and that. as a
result. no action was possible on the
election canvass.
Bills to put most OF the necessities
of life on the free list We're offered
in the house by Representative Mann
OF Illinois. There We're - of these
measures. covering leather, cotton
goods lumber. cereals, vegetables,
meat products and the like
The Aetna Indemnity OF Hartford
Conn. and the Farmers and Mercan-
tile Insurance company of Lincoln
Neb., have been barred from writing
new business in Ohio on orders from
Superintendent c. c Lamert, of the
insurance department under penalty
of revocation of their license.
The question as to how the United
states shall he re-apportioned into
congressional districts in accordance
with the 1910 census was discussed
with the president by Representative
Crumpacker OF Indiana. chairman OF
the house committee on census. Mr..
crnmpackef thinks the membership
of the house should be increased.
Mrs. Lydia A. Gear who came to
Chicago seventy-eight years ago,
"hen NhleasO consisted OF Fort Dear
born and fourteen log cabins. and
whose marriage was a society event
OF the fort is dead
Senator Burrows refused to desig.
nate day for Vote on the question
of unseating Lorimer
.Jere f Lllis. whom John p Cud.
ahy cut with knife March 5. last.
retired as president of the Western
Exchange bank at Kansas City.
w r. Hearst must either pay dam.
ages or prove to a court of law that
he cannot be held responsible for the
fire works explosion oil election night.
1872, in which several We're killed or
wounded
a stamp tax on sale for future de.
LIVERY of stocks, grain. provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by state without violating the fed
eral constitution. according to a de.
cision OF the supreme court of the
United States.