Fair play., 1911-06-24
rhe plant Of the Albany Chemlcal

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postponed the date for the first hear
ings from next Monday to Thursday,
June %.
Talk of a compromise on the water
way bill vanished as the different
members poured into the capital for
the special session of the forty.sev-
enth general assembly, which was
called by Gov. Deneen.
The steamer John Lowry, with so
excursionists on board, burned to the
waters edge at Hamletsburg, Ill, op-
posite Smithland, Ky. Loss OF life
not definitely known,
C. S. eKith, president of the Gen
eral Coal and Coke company Kansas
City, in the state lumber trust inquiry,
testified that the cost of yellow pine
production since 1897 had Increased
8S per cent, while the selling price had
Increased only IS per cent.
The important development in the
general shipping strike was the con
cession OF an advance of $3.50
month in wages to employees of the
White Star company and the Cana
dian Pacific railway This example
was followed later by the Holt and
another line in Liverpool.
The house committee investigating
the sugar trust turned down a re
quest transmitted by Senator Smoot
that Joseph z. Smith, head of the
Mormon church, be excused from tes-
tifying before the committee.
The Kansas supreme court, at To
peka. handed down a decision in the
states suit against three subsidiary
companies OF the Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey, prohibiting them
from combining to stife competition.
George w. Chapman, young
man, went TO The Denio ranch, near
Big Horn, ten miles south of Sheri.
dan, Wyo., shot his sweetheart, Miss
Amelia NJ. Haier, whose uncle is
manager of the ranch. He then went
to the home of C. c. Vorce, his rival
in the girls objections, and shot him
through the stomach.
Former Governor Richard Yates of
Illinois received a telegram from the
United States senate committee in
vestigating the bribery charges con
nected with the election of United
States Senator William Lorimer OF
Illinois, asking him to hold himself
in readiness to testify before the
committee.
Three thousand two hundred and
| nineteen bodies of federal soldiers,
buried in cemeteries in different parts
of Texas, are to be moved to Pine
Vile, La, for reburial in the national
cemetery at that place.
| Fire supposed to have originated
from the spark of locomotive in the
rear of the Huttig Sash and Door
company's plant completely wiped out
eight acres of lumber, warehouses and
factory property, in st. Louis, involy.
| ing a loss of S1,000.000.
The international conference on
! Alaska seals, which has been in prog
ress at the state department for the
last ten days, is deadlocked and can
not agree on a settlement of the ques-
tions at issue.
Forty-three business houses and 27
residences were destroyed and numer-
Gus other buildings were damaged by
a fire which originated with the burn
ing of a qauntity of trash in the rear
Of a store at Whitewright. Texas.
1t was announced in Washington
that Edward Il. Clark of Iowa, mem
Der of the interstate commerce COM
mission, VIII be married June % to
! Miss Agnes Barns of Selma, Ala, q
clerk in the census office.
John II. Marble. special counsel of
| the interstate commerce commission,
has been retained as the attorney of
! the senate committee TO investigate
| the Lorimer bribery charges. The Sc
lection is satisfactory to both sides.
| Gov Abram Gonzales of Chihuahua,
| Mex, released the American prison
ers captured in the insurrecto army at
| the battle of Casas Grandes in Febru-
airy and held by federals at Chihuahua.
A. w. Unfug, chief clerk to Secfe-
/ tary of State James b. Pearce of Col
GRADE, was arrested, charged with
| failing to file incorporation and other
papers and Withholding fees.
A storm of cyclonic force left a
! trail of death and ruin on the lower
| Virginia peninsula. Conservative es-
| Inmates place the dead at 10 and the
property damage at about 100000.
! Former President of Venezuela, Cas-.
tro, who has not been in public view
| FOR several months, is reported as be-
| ing on his way back to his native land.
Concurrent reports also mention the
prospect of political turbulence in that
country.
Many of the capital city's prettiest
women met the Missouri Press asso-
cations special when it arrived at
Jefferson City and decorated the edi-
tors with flowers, A number OF pub
fishers Joined the party at that place,
The seamen's strike was formally
declared at London, Glasgow, Liver
pool. Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton and
other British ports. The chances Of
any great international strike being
| declared seem remote.
| Removal OF two floor boards In the
garage at the house OF Mrs. Anna Mer-
rill Of Parsons. w, Va, led to the dis
covery OF a crime which has stirred
the social set and promises sensa-
iional developments. Beneath the
noor was found the body of an in