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That the ravages of spinal meninSi
IL in Texas have been checked is the
statement of the State Board OF
Health
Three acres of buildings comprising
the plant of the Commercial Acid
Company, near East st. Louis. burned
The loss Nwas 100000.
Mrs. Rachael Sparln, seventy-six
and blind, of Baxter, Kan, burned to
death in her cottage when coal fell
rom her clay pipe and set her dress
ifire.
George A. Neely, Democrat, OF
Hutchinson, was elected to the United
States Congress from the Seventh
Kansas district, to succeed the late
L. ii. Madison, Republican.
Women of Greeley, Colo, who are
members of the Graphic Club, at a
meeting of the organization recently
laid plans for women's club rooms, a
Y. w. C. A., more lights and a new
water system.
State Health Officer Steiner at Aus
tin, Texas, announces that the COM
monwealth board of health would meet
| in Dallas 10 consider the spread of
| spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas
has had about 140 cases and Waco
eighty-four cases since Oct. 1.
Forty persons at Max Bass. N. D..
are suffering from ptomaine poisoning
from eating pie at a chicken supper
given by a church there. The pie was
left in a tin pan for an entire day be-
fore being warmed to be served. All
of the sick persons will recover.
Charges of misappropriation OF
funds of the old Southern Colorado
Light and Power Company against
Receiver Frank p. Read of Denver
are contained in a bill of exceptions
filed in Trinidad in the District Court
by the St Louis Union Trust Com
pany.
Twenty-seven carloads of American
farm machinery are being loaded on
steamships at Seattle for shipment to
Siberia. Shipping men scoff at the
rumor that Russia contemplates ex-
clusion of American farm machinery
in retaliation for the abrogation OF
the treaty between the two countries.
Most short railroad lines in the
Black Hills of South Dakota are
blocked with snow and the cold. and
the Burlington & Northwestern, while
they keep trains moving. are expert
encing much difficulty and all the
traffic is considerably behind schedule
The temperature is SO degrees below.
Hope for the lives of thousands of
starving cattle en- the Texas ranges
was held out by a sudden rise in tenn
perature to 40 degrees above zero.
This is the first thaw in the Texas
Panhandle for three weeks. 1t was
feared that stockmen would lose
heavily.
George Rives of Goldfield, New, was
sentenced to seven years in Leaven-
worth prison at Sale Lake, on the
charge of taking young girl from
Salt Lake to Goldfield for immoral
purposes. Jessie Gray. alias Jessie
Rives. was sentenced to six years in
the Lansing. Mich. state prison on a
similar charge. They were arrested
at Carson, New.
The honor plan for working state
convicts is to be inaugurated in Tex
as, is an idea of Governor Colquitt,
who was delighted to find many vet
eran students of criminology agreeing
with him that it will prove success.
The plan of hiring out 1000 conv.cts
to build roads and construct bridges
and engage in other public work to be
paid for by the counties is not origi-
nal, but to divest these convicts OF
their prison garb and permit them to
work like free laborers at the rate OF
50 cents per day for their hire, met
with some opposition. 1t is proposed
that one-half of the wages be paid to
the family of the convict and the 9TH
er half to the state penitentiary fund.
BY order of the secretary of the
treasury, Chief Harry NJ. Moffatt of
the United States Secret Service Of
flee, has seized at the First National
bank of Oakland. Cal, a valuable
painting entitled Barrels of Money"
The seizure was made for the reason
chat the painting represented $4,000
900 in United States currency, piled
up in barrels. 1t is against the fed
eral regulations to paint, photograph,
or make or exhibit any representa-
tion of the currency or coins of the
United States. The painting is from
the brush of Y. Dubreuil, a noted
French artist.