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The scandar involving an Eligibili and an Anglo-American milsaid to have been use of money. by lionaire countess the is The earl hushed and well supplied no left his wife, London together, the and with husband. funds, legal steps will be taken by and he make Commander said may Peary reached another Sydney polar ship trip, for which he has designed a in the style of a monitor. Resolutions offered by W. J. Bryan declaring against private monopolies and favoring arbitrataion between nations of international disputes were adopted by the Transmississippi congress after the committee on resolutions failed to report them out. Wages of 60,000 employes of the United States Steel corporation, Fall New York were River other companies mills, advanced Central from and five to ten per cent. Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, arrived in New York from Europe and denied all charges against him, declaring that they were the work of political enemies. the was in New Enrico found Caruso, guilty Italian York singer, of insulting women and sentenced to pay a fine of $10. Gov.-elect Hughes in an address at in a served on the Republican notice meeting party New machine York that his administration is to be independent and have for its aim only the public good. Mrs. James H. Delaney, of Chicago, killed her husband, president of the American Shipping company, and then committed suicide. Street car strikers at Hamilton, Ont., became violent and troops were summoney from Toronto to restore order. Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful cohabitation and was fined $300. Premier Laurier announced in the house at Ottawa, Ont., that Charles Hyman had announced his resignation as a commissioner of public work on account of poor health. Ouster suits were brought in the Kansas supreme court against the mayors of Wichita and Leavenworth, because of the non-enforcement of the prohibition law. Thomas Forsyth Hunt, professor of astronomy at Cornell, has accepted the of dean of of a of the college position graduate agriculture. University the Prof. Pennsylvania of Hunt Illinois. is As the result of friction over publishers' privileges in the United States and Canada, the dominion has notified the Washington government that the postal agreement between the two countries will be abrogated May 7, next. Edward L. Cronkrite, former mayor of Freeport, Ill., and for six terms a member of the Illinois leglislature, being Democratic caucus nominee for speaker at the time of the historic fight between Logan and Morrison for the United States senatorship, died suddenly. A new counterfeit five-dollar silver certificate announced from Washing ton, D. C., as circulating in Chicago was discovered by a clerk in the subtreasury. Ernest D. Keeler, of New York, demconstrator and professional driver of racing automobiles, was killed and Henry Lutton, of Colwyn. Pa., was dangerously hurt in a collision while trying out racing cars. Prairie fires in western Texas and eastern New Mexico have swept over a million acres of grazing and homestead land. Alarming earthquake shocks in German New Guinea, the Bismarck archipelago, followed by tidal waves, causing much loss of life among the natives, are reported by the steamer Miowera from the South Sea. Capt. Andrew Crockett, of the Chesapeake Bay oyster schooner dredge James A. Whiting, indicted under the new federal "shanghaiing" law, was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 by December 1 or serve six months in jail. In a fight over a pool game James McLean, a Cincinnati contractor, was shot and instantly killed by George Scherd. Secretary Taft ordered that discharges of colored troops be suspended pending further advices from President Roosevelt. The anarchist, Saverio Lagana, who stabbed and killed Prof. Giovanni Rossi, of the University of Naples, was arrested. Careless remarks of a citizen caused a foolish run on the savings bank of Chillicothe, O. The German Insurance company, which reinsured in the Royal of Liverpool, was placed in the hards of a receiver, the Chicago Trust is Title company being named.
