MUST SUPERVISE RAILWAYS President’s Views on Question of Government Control. INVESTORS WILL BE PROTECTED Government Has No Desire to Im- pede Progress of Those Who Do Business in Proper Ways. President Roagevelt, at Indianapo- lis, Ind, delive®™d the -principal ad- dress at the unveiling of a monu- ment o Gen. Henry W. Lawton. He discussed railway problems, reiterat- ed all he has said on. the question of government control, and urging the passage of additional of protection by Congress. Among the salient points speech were the following: The mew policy is in punitive or vindictive. We : the first to protest ag 3 of confiscation and tt! Court can be trusted to nothing done to destroy without due process of law. The rights of innocent inv ITS should mot be jeopardized by logis lation or executive action. There must be no such rigid law as will prevent the. development of the country. We would be the to oppose any unreasonable tion upon the issuance of stocks bonds. hut there must. be lodged the government power to exercise jealous care against the inflation securities. We favor full and the men who build * vest-in them; but we policy of exploiting benefit of the few. only the man who the property after deal in its securities closed. : There has been much wild talk about over-capitalization. In. ‘the consensus of opinion of investors the total value of stock and bonds greater than their total ace notwithstanding the water -particular places. The great m: our railroad securities rest upon and solid foundations. Ample provision should be made bx Congress to ‘enable the Int tate Commerce Commission to underta the physical valuation of each and every railroad. There are scme where it would be an advantage to have such a valuation soon as possible. en Physical valuation “is no pana cea, but it will be of use in determining ‘the reasonableness of future capital ization and as a factor in fixing rates . * The effect of such valuation and pervision cannot be retroactive. isting securities should be tested by the laws in existence at the time of their issue. “There need be no fear by investors that this move will be for their detri- ment. measures no sense would be any forsd see th eons and in a of ample return railroads } do not favor a the many for the We are against cares nothing speculative has for his heen injec SS Of safe 0 as su- STANDARD OUSTED FROM TEXAS Waters-Pierce Oil Company Must, in Addition, Pay Fines of Over $1,500,000. In the ouster suit of the Texa& against the \Waters-Pierce Company, a jury rendered a verdict for the state of $1,623,900 penalties and granted the prayer of the state that the company’s permit to do busi- ness in Texas be cancelled. An ap- peal will be asked for at once by the defense. The decision of a the Waters-Pierce Oil Company $1,500,000 for its violations of the anti-trust law and cancelling its per- mit to do business in the state, is considered to be such a severe blow to the Standard Oil Company that it may force the corporation to dissolve before the federal government's case against it can be heard PUBLIC SCHOOL NURSES Boston Officials Will Safeguard Health of Punils. Considering the health of the pu- pils of the public schools to be of as great importance as the training, the Boston School Commniit- tee has decided to appoint a corps of trained nurses, whose duty to safeguard the children. The plan provides for ment of 21 women nurses who, under a supervisor, will be placed in charge of all the pupils. Texas jfiry, fining Four Burned to Death. The two daughters of Walter A. Schifier, secretary of the United Cigar Manufacturers Company of New York city, Marion, 10 years old, Ruth, 14 years old, and two servants, Mary Dilter and Tilly Monthon, were burn- ed to death in a fire which destroyed the handsome residence of Jacob Rothschild, which Mr. Schiffer had rented at Long Branch, N. J. In at- tempting to rescue her children Mrs. Schiffer was so severely burned as to be in a critical condition, and Mr. Schiffer suffered severe burns in fight- ing the fire. 5 Chinese Rebels Defeated. A severe engagement has taken place between Chinese provincial troops and a body of rebels, result- ing in a victory for the former. The rebels lost more than 100 killed, the government forces capturing the rebel leader, together with a number of flags and a considerable quantity of ammunition. Wilbar Glenn Voliva, general over- seer of the Christian Catholic Apos- tolic Church, has been deposed as temporary head of Zion City | theusa nds of persons who wished to ;attend. Supreme { i thie remembrances; first i restrie- {70240 late I “¥ieautiful f Dr: Dr Ex- | Lord Rothschild Takes Gloomy View State of | Oil | over |} | sulted intellectual | { journey. it shall be | { decided what to do with it. the appoint- | tery, FUNERAL OF MRS. McKINLEY President and Many Distinguished Men Attend the Services at Canton. The body of Mrs. Ida Saxton Me- Kinley now rests hy the side of the late President McKinley, in the re- ceiving vault at West Lawn ceme- Canton, O. The simple funeral services held at the McKinley residence in Market stroot, Canton, were witnessed by a distinguished company, including President Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks, Gov. Harris, . and many high officials both of the nation and state. During the funeral and the pro- gress of the cortege to the cemetery not only all business in Canton not absoiutely necessary, but all amuse- ments ceased. 3anks, stores, factor- ies, amusement houses and parks, all closed in honor of the distinguished ges 4, and school children were dis- I ad from the day's task. old-fashioned McKinley roomy though it is, was enough to accommodate resi- not the T The dence, arge Vhen seats had been found for the as rnished guests and for ‘Reading, Seaboard intimate friends and relatives there was little space left. “Flowers, with roses which Mrs. McKinley loved predominating, filled the house, and their fragrance spread out of doors’| among the thousands-who lined the walks. So numerous were. the floral | not only from Ohio, from all over the nation, that the | ater. part of them had to be sent the cemetery ahead of the funeral ession. ™ Fi funeral service was brief and was confined to the Methodist Epis- | copal ritual and four songs identical with those. sung at the funeral of the | president. The songs Isle of Somewhere, Kindly Light”. “Nearer,” My tc Thee,” and the “Angel” The were conducted by the Rev Ih 1xton pasty ot the First Meth- | and the Rev. | ee of the | but 15 were’ sy | “Y.ead, God, services {0 Nees tors ner church. After the reading of the burial ser- vice © at the cemetery, President Ronsevelt returned to his private car | in about hour continued his journey to Indianapolis. 2 JUGGLED BANK ACCOUNTS State Deposits Used to Cover Shortages in Enterprise Bank. Details of the method by which 2445,000 of the deposits of the Com- mon-wealth of Pennsylvania were jug- eled by 1. Lee Clark and others con- | nected with the Enterprise Natior t Bank of Allegheny were reveale “For the first time by National Bank Exam- iner E. C. Moxey. who was placed on the witness stand in the trial of Geo. 1.. Ralston, employed as individnal bookkeeper in. the institution, and told facts. Mr. Moxey. declared under oats that 445,000 of state money was convert- ed to other accounts or used to con- ceal a portion of a previous shortage in the benk, represented by money that had been paid. He told in detail of the methods employed to so manip- nlate state deposits that they could be used in covering up deficits which would have resulted in the closing of the institution had they been discov- ered. and an Up BELAMED ON SOCIALISM of Affairs. 28. Consols tot price in 60 years. in an interview pessiniistic view On May the lowest Rothschild, distinctly outlook. *1f vou kill golden vou expect? being world. “Here at home the Socialist move- ment has been brought to the front; in the United States you have Presi- dent Roosevelt attacking the railroad interests: in TIrance also there are Socialistic tendencies and proposals for an income: tax. The natural re- cult is to depress markets and while this "policy continues to dominate the | wehed 8415, Lord took a of the the goose that lays the he said, “what else can This foolish policy is adopted in many parts of the opt? exe, situation IT eannot regard the outlook |° with a reassuring feeling. Secretary Root Returns $1,200 Check. | Secretary of State Elihu Root re- | turned a check for $1,200 sent him ior delvering the Dodge lectures, with al letter siating that his Yale trip re- | in so much fun that he would | fool guilty in accepting money for the The check sent him was the from the Dodge lecture fonn- | The Yale officials have not | income dation. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The work of securing Haywood case at Boise, going on. Five persons were killed and 11 injured, four probably fatally, in a wreck on the Cuban Eastern Railroad near Guantanamo. One car loaded with workmen rclled down steep embankment. Nicaragua and Salvador have pleted an agreement whereby all future controversies between them must be submitted to impartial arbi- tration. They have also called a con- gress of all the Central American states for the purpose of endeavoring | to foster peace and ater commer- | cial relations between them. { in the is still a jury Idaho, a com- 1 grea Monument to Gen. Gordon. With elaborate military display and appropriate exercises, the hand- some equestrian statue of Gen. John B. Gordon, a tribute to his memory the state of Georgia, was un- | in Capitol park, Atlanta, Ga. | persons of prominence, includ- of who served | attended the tion. from veiled Many ing scores under Gen. Gout ceremonies of do veterans is to The reecnt cold wave said have come across from Siberia. % lin gathering facts toTortis : | oO | the agreement.” { fect of | to consumers and prevented independ- | business. | ers belonging to the French naval re- | serve {alert v | od WILL PROSECUTE RAILOATS Pennsylvania, B. & O. and Other Lines Must Answer. INDEPENDENTS FROZEN OUT Can Be Filed in Any State Which the Companies Operate. Bill in Prosecutions for violating the Sher- man anti-trust law: in entering. into a conspiracy in restraint of trade by monopolizing the bituminous coal sup- ply will be started immediately by the Department of Justice against the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Philadelphia & Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk & Western and the Beech Creek Railway, leased by the New York Central & Hudson Riv- er Railroad. : This" prosecution grows out of the investigation made by the Interstate Commerce Commission by direction of Congress of the charge that these roads had entered into an agreement to divide proportionately the ship- ments of coal over their lines; that | the roads owned the mines, and they had agrepd to maintain freight rates on coal. ; After an exhaustive iveatimation the Interstate Commerce Commission submitted to the Department of Jus- ticve all the evidence it procured; and | for several months special attorne for the departmént he ave made out by the commission. The Pepartment -of Justice ‘has completed its case and ‘itis ready to into the United States Circuit Court and ask for an order dissolving No.deeision has been as to where the action will but the bill can be file reached be brought, ate. This is one of the most important cases considered: by the Department | of Justice,~and-fines aggregating more | than a million dollars | if the government i will be imposed ucessful in its prosecution, as ‘the ‘agreement be- tween the lines las been in effect ten vears, and each’ violation- of the law constitutes a separate -offense. This combination has had increasing the -price the ef- of coal ent coal companies” from ‘engaging in | Only the mines in which various lines owned | shipment the officers of the stock could secure cars for of coal. GREAT STRIKE IN FRANCE Entire Seacoast Affected by Sailors Quitting Work. A general strike of sailors and oth- which began in Almost all the ports of France May 31, threatens to complete paralysis of French com- merce. The naval reserve comprises nearly the entire marine population engaged in seafaring life. It numbers about 117,000 men, of whom 25,000 are serving in the navy. On addition to practically all the sailors of the mercantile marine, most of the long- shoremen belong. The strike was declared by the executive committee of the National Seamen's Union because the govern- ment’s new bill increasing pensions from $40.80 tO $7250. in the case of seamen and from $156 to $200 in case of captains is anal as inadequate. The {tie-up i§ almost: complete ‘in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and chan- nel por The crews generally left their ships. LEAVES $150,000 TO NURSE he cased d | | in any State in which the roads oper- NATURALIST RETALIATES Long Demands That President Give Him a Square Deal. Wm. J. Long of -: Stamford, Conn., made public an open letter he has. written President Roosevelt, which adds an interesting chapter to their “nature fakir” controversy. In part, it is as follows: “Dear Sir: The issue between you and me is no longer one of animals, but of men; it is not chiefly a matter of matural history, but of truth and personal honor. ‘As President of the United States, you have gone out of your way publicly to injure a private citizen, who was attending strictly to his own business. As a man, you have accused of falsehood another man, whose ideas of truth and honor are quite as high as your own. : “If 1. have spoken falsely,” if in any book, or word of mine, I have in- tentionally deceived any child ‘or man regarding animal life, publicly to retract every. word, never to write another animal book. On the other hand, if IT show to disinterested person that you have ac- cused me falsely, withdraw-. your accusation and apolc- gize. AS a man, and as President, no other honorable course is open to YOu. ; “Dr. Long submits: an- affidavit sustain the truth of the story dent Roosevelt calls a” img ossibilityse afd , then. tinties: , “You: cannot. . this stzge, Reosevalt Toe Ltn ro” behind dential Tice and, be silent Torito: ; right to: by brea] “by coming ont to a private citi- Dr. Dr. he Mr. “You atlack “Tf your talk of a ‘square deal’ not all a’ sham, preaching is not all hypocrisy, T call upon you as President and as a man to come out and admit the error and injustice of your charge in the open. and public way in which made it.” sane you BABES FE D TO SNAKE | Priest Covplalns to Federal Attorney | 1 Against Indians. Ancther complaint has been with United States Distriet: Llewellyn of New Mexico that a tribe of Indians are given to the worship | { of an enormous serpent, to which is fed the new-born babes of a in which it is carefully tended. The complaint was filed by a Catholic priest, who alleges a dozen families two years ago and formed into pueblo by themselves. Although is known many children have born in these families, not a child to be found in the pueblo. Mr. of the priest and other eviden the Territorial anthoriiies. a it is PUMPED CARGO INTO SEA Crew Throws off 54.000 Barrels of | Oil in Mistake for Water. The tank steamer the’ Union Oil Company arrived Seattle, Wash., minus a cargo. had been emptied at sea, not to calm the troubled waters, but because some one blundered. It was due to an attempt to pump out bilge water, but instead of relieving her bilge, chantable oil were pumped into the sea. When the vessel reached port, no one could explain the occurrence and the local manager of the com- pany discharged the whole ship's crew from the captain to cabin boy. | She is still in porh, waiting to ship a new crew. at 18 MONTHS’ CHASE ENDS Widow Well to Aged Patient. Mrs. Delia Gillis of Bucyrus, O., fallen heir to $150,000 through kind- ness to a sick man. After the death of her husband. Prof. Chas. Gillis, Sine at Ann Arbor, she took up warsing, and among other patients at- Ne ded Chas. W. Moore, a wealthy lumberman of Michigan, who died of cancer. In his S690,000 nong that his divided Gil- will he directed estate be equally three relatives and Mrs. ANARCHIST SCARE AT CANTON Suspects Clos Kinley’s Funeral. There was an anarchist scare President Roosevelt to attend the funeral of Mrs. McKinley. It was rumored that Michael Czologsz, bro- ther of the assassin of President Me- Kinley, in Cleveland, and as the came generally known good deal of excitement among the townspeople. "The _ secret men made an investigation and found that Czolgosz is in New Castle, Pa., where he goes every Memorial day to place flowers on the grave of his wife. Taking precaution against the one chance in a thousand that the rumor of Czologsz’'s presence here story be- was true, the local police, assisted by | Washington | most | secret service men from and Cleveland, exercised igilance during the stay in the city. Three strangers to the city the President's There however, nothing against they were was and stay. them, leased. Worth Millions; Dies in Hut. Miss Achla Clark, a native of Bal- | timore, reputed to be worth several | million { Wash. dollars, aged 90 alone for years shack in North owned property oast cities. died at Bellingham, years. She lived in a tumble-down Bellingham , but in many Pacific A railway train, while being switch- at Corunna, Spain, ran into and overturned a vehicle in women were riding at a level cross- ing. All were crushed to death. Rewarded for Kindness | has | an | ely Watched at Mrs. Mc- | in | Canton shortly before the arrival of | had come over from his home | there was a | service | were | | held in the jail during the President’s Ye- i which nine | Couple Accused of Murder in Ger- many Caught in Cleveland. A search for an alleged murderer land accomplice lasting 18 months end- ed at Cleveland in the arrest of Franz Just and a woman, giving the nam? of Mary Just, who were taken from a house on Clark avenue hy local de- tectives. Chief of Police Kohler | says the authorities at Duisduig, Ger- | many, have ordered him to hold the man for the murder of his wife and the woman as an accomplice. Both man and woman, now | deny the charge. in jail, SNAKE HOLDS uP MAIL Carrier Has Queer With a Six-Footer. Thos. Dagg, a rural mail carrier in Washington county, Pa., had an excit- ing encounter with a big blacksnake. Dagg’s. two-wheeled cart ran over the I'snake’s tail. and. . becoming tangled in the wheel, the snake ed in the bottom of the cart. Dagg released his hold on the and fell to the road. The horse be- came frightened and ran away, spill- ing two mail sacks. When the horse was caught the blacksnake was found curled up on,a mail sack in the cart and looped several times through the lines. It was | to measure over s Rural en- land- ix foet. iron Milis Under Hammer. was sold at receiver's sale at Columbia, Pa.. to Michael Blake of New York. The price was $410,000 subject to a mortgage of $300,000. He also bought the personal property for 3150,000. The company was capital | ized at $1,500,000. pany Ohio Postmasters Appointed. The President appointed the fol- lowing Ohio postmasters: George H. Bluffton: David C. Mahon, Wm. i£. Halley, Greenville; White, Millersburg: Frank Wetherill, Spencerville; George White, Uhlrichsville, and Charles Thompson, Georgetown. Lewis, Dennison; Chas. “R. L. Buzzards hovering swamp led to discovery of the body {of a wealthy planter who had been | murdered by ‘whitecaps. over the. I promise | and | you must publiely- That | Chas. filed | Attorney | {| imprisoned, were segregated from several pueblos | been ! priest, Llewellyn has filed the aflidavit | ce with | | cial loss incident She | the vessel of | 54,000 barrels of good mer- | |-and fine | mestic Encounter lines | finally killed and was found | The Susquehanna Iron & Steel Com- | w. | any | injured subsequently i the | crockery { Elyria, a Grand Army veteran; to | Dresi- I resi. Lake mathematical | con- | { Elyria, | bath sob MY. 184 Miss Su oe Miss Suppe if ‘your frequent moral | Phe | Dahn, | wreck, pueblo | shev | man, { School of Applied Science | started | stock of which is $500,000,000, | filed at Phoenix, | $7,0 FATAL TROLLEY COLLISION Four Killed Outright and Several Sericusly Injured. MOTORMAN WAS ARRESTED | Empty Car Dashed Suddenly Out. of Car Barn Into Coach Crowd- ed With ‘Passengers. Four persons were killed and 13 injured in a rear-end collision on the Cleveland & Southwestern road at Elyria. The front car filled with holiday nearly all of whom received more or less serious injuries. Within a minutes ambulances and doctors was were summoned and the wounded taken to | ° | killed the Elyria hospital, where two of the died. Eight of remaining 13 had both” légs cut off, one lost one leg and still another had both legs broken. The dead; © 0. O'Dornetl, Elyria, merchant; H. M:. Billings, Allen, the Saln, Elyria, claim agent for Shore railway; William son. .of. Rev. J.P. Sala. The injured: Miss daughter of ‘cut.’ off; Wurst, yurst, Dean, E Emma Samuel Miss Mabel - Elyria, both Tezs“cut off; Mrs. TL. ala, wife of Rev. 1.” P. Sam Elyria, arm broken and gashed in hi Leslie Porter, Cotteésbrooix both 1 on cut off: Miss Fuiton, Elyria, both legs cit off; Leslie, Elyria, one foot ca: 3, “both legs.cut off; interfiial” ries, internal injuries: Parry, O.. badly hurt; Porter, Elyria, both feet off. Motorman Fraundu, who was ‘in charge of the car which caused the was arresie:dl on a warrant sworn out by Presecutor charging him with manslaughter. TRIED TO KILL BISHOP Russian Catholic Prelate’s Life Saved by Courageous Priest. An attempt was made at Lublin, Russia, to assassinate Bishop Yat- sky of the Catholic Church. subsequently identified as a So- cialist agitator, who had been twice fired shots from a re- volver at the Bishop in a street, and then attacked him with a dagger, slichly wounding him. The Bishop's life was saved who sprang between him the would-be assassin, who tured by the police. legs off; Con- Miss Geo. ductor Avery, Elyria; Chamberlain, Is by a and TRAIN SERVICE B. & O. Takes Off Four Because of Loss from Two-Cent Fare. IS CUT ill abandon four account of finan- to the new two-cent fare: law in Ohio. . Trains and 10, between Lorain and Akron, and Nos. 7 and 8; Akron and Youngstown, will be taken off June 1. Boston Wool The wool it ow on that passenger trains railway Nos. 59 Market. market continues and what few sales are made usally confined to small lots. tralian still continues in good © mand and several good sales been made. The demand in domestic ceems confined to medinm unwashed scoured wools. Leading do- quotations are: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and above, 335 to S4e: XX. 31 to 32¢; No.1, 38 to 39%¢c; No. 2 37 to 38c; fine unwashed. 25 to 26c: unmerchantable, 27 to 2 half blood. washed, 32 to 33c; three- eighths blood, unwashed; 32 to 32¢; auarter blood, unwashed, 30 to dlc: delaine washed, to. :3ic; unwashed, 28 to 29ec. Lumbermen engaged in blasting a channel in the ice of Fall Lake, Minn, have encountered 17 inches of solid jce and are making slow progress. It is said that it will be about June 1 before the tugs can get throwgh Fall and Basswood Lakes. DISGRACE TO DIE UNDER 100 Chief Chemist Wiley Says Present Generation Should be Long- ; Lived One. Chief Chemist Wiley States Department of Agriculture, in the course of an address delivered be- fore the graduating class of Case at are Aus- de- on ob land, O., said: “I belong to a hundred year club any member of which who shall die before be immediately The present generation live much longer than the one: came before it, because it more about the laws of diet, and surgery. It's a rank disgrace for any man to die except from old expelled in disgrace. going to which knows is’ | age.” A Belated Inquiry. After waiting for years for a note of thanks from the city of Chi- cago for $50,000 which the artists of Paris sent to their impoverished brethren in fire-swept Chicago in 1871. the French government has an international inquiry discover where the money went. a6 Half Billion Capital. Articles of incorporation United States Syndicate, the of the were May 28. company Ariz. purpose of the new is to build a railroad to connect North and | | state seeks to compel the former to South America. At Lovingston. Va., Judge W. G. | Loving was indicted for the alleged a Georgia | of Theodore I. Estes. He and was bailed in venue was re- murder pleaded not guilty 00. Change of fused. "are left with their parents excursionists, | few | | Tex | er, | door. -W. C. | responsible condition of mind. Stevens, ! | ped and I Guatemalan strategic ! troons Aj i leg { miles was cap- | troops to deal with the rising. . : airs re | Honey The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. | | announced Santa Maria of | | Texas {of between { Jane | stone Dowie, quiet | the property have | delaine | | southern | disturbances : | inces of the United | Cleve- | > Hin { of { he'c Iron ranre 3 | he's a hundred years old will !tollane against | court | ed. hysiens ! til December. y ne | | ple | question of divorce. 1 | recently tag the Standard Oil Company had asked capital | overruled the The | CHINESE FAMINE BROKEN New Crops Coming and American Re- lief Is Doing Wonders. The famine in China has been brok- en. The crops are still thin, but the hot. weather of the past month has been favorable to a good field. American gifts have supplied milk regularly to 1,000 babies at Hau-Chou- { Fu Temple, while 200 more have been The children or rela- tions, as the Chinese dread foreign orphanages. What is left of the gifts will Le turned over to the Red Cross Society to relieve individual cases of need and to grapple with the next nourished occasionally. | crisis. traction | BURNS HERSELF ALIVE Woman Demented Through an Affair of the Heart. Miss Plinaer Swinnen, 30 years believed to be demented, shot her mother, attempted to kill her father anm then set fire to her garments and was burned to death at Chieago The woman was released irom the Dunning asylum a-year ago: father: Joseph Swinnen, a labor- escaped by running out of the old, and have been young woman's said to the is A love affair for One Hundred Chinese Drown. News was brought by the steamer Empress of India from. Shanghai of’ the downing of more than: 100 Chin- ese. During=he: Ta = Wang Niamo festival an immense crowd of spec- tators was on the bridge over the Soo Chow creek. The police reing back crowd for the proces eauscd ‘the mass to press aga flimsy. rail. breaking it. and throwi the pecple into the water. the inst ing TROCPS READY FoR WAR Mexico Has 16,000 Men in Position to Invade Guatemala. Mexico men fully equip- footing now on the Distributed at are 8,000 additional be transported to border on 24 hours’ notice. admitted on all - sides should. President Cabrera carry 1is intention of executing the 19 accused of complicity in the al- attempt to assassinate Cabrera will be forced to intervene. Under Arms. broken out 40 China. “Thirty under arms and led. The revolt near Amoy. The nding 8,000 War- has 8.600 on a war frontier. peints which can the It that out is men ed Mexico 39,000 insurrection south thousand rebels are are stated to be well is spreading to towns viceroy of Fu-Chow has Amoy, A An nf MH is s¢ ships are expected. Six Nesgross Drowned. negroes Grove, 'I'exas,: as the sudden rise cf a creek. wore members of a family name phens and included the parents and children. Railroad schedules in north are badly crippled as a result recent storms: Zion City to Be Sold. Over the objections made by Mrs. Dowie and her son, A. J. Glad- Judze lL.andis entered an order granting authority to John C. Hately, receiver of Zion City, to sell immediately. Six were drowned near CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. I 11 Light snow fell in several parts of country June 2nd. 2 of the continued decrease Government printing has dropped in the bind- the pecause work in the the public printer and 128 women of office, 76 men ery. twn-cent passenger fare bill approved by Governd v Deneen This bill makes a straight mile limit on all railroads The was of Illinois. two-cent a in 1llinois. The United States Supre sustained the right of the Commerce Commission to the freight yn lumber railroads. Daily Says me Court Interstate cut down rates ( fixed by Mail correspond- the American been ordered to of the possible southern prov- London Shanghai squadron has in view in the of China The ent at Pacific concentrate According to figures based on an investization conducted by Harbor Commissioner W. V. Stafford, “there are approximately 40,000 povions idle San Francisco as the direct result the existing labor troubles. The appeal of Count Boni de Cas- the decision of the 14 last granting a di- was again postpon- be heard un- on Nov. vorce to his wife, It probably will not Under its referendum law, the peo- of South Dakota will have an opportunity to vote next year on the The Legislature placed some restrictions unon the granting of divorces in that state. Officials of the Burlington railroad system and the Chicago & ~North- western railroad denied before the In- terstate Commerce Commission that them for favoritism in freight rates. Decides Against West Virginia. The United States Supreme Court demurrer of the state of West Virginia in the original pro- ceedings against that state by the state of Virginia, in which the latter assume a portion of the indebtedness contracted by Virginia before the creation of West Virginia. The order was announced by Chief Jus- {ice Fuller, who said there could be no doubt of the jurisdiction of the su- preme court in the case. i L
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