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The Sugar Frauds are commanding
much public attention. A man by the name
of Corsa reports that as early as 1902, he
icpuneu 10 me neaa 01 me uivn service
and to the Secretary of the Treasurer the
fact that immense frauds were being
practiced in favor of the Sugar Trust at
the port of New York. In the sampling
deparcment, there was fraud in taking
samples from the bottom of the sacks or
hogsheads where the inferior sugar
would gather. And false scales made
false weights. The frauds amounted to
12,000 on a cargo of sugar. In order to
cpver up the frauds the Government
agents were systematically bribed.
The Mine Explosion at Cherry, 111., has
proven very serious. Qver three hundred
miners have perished. In order to
extinguish the fire in the mine, the air
drafts were sealed to exclude air. This
exunguisnea tne last hope of life for any
one in the mine. Of the bodies which
have since been brought to the surface
many are so burned that they can not
possibly be identified.
At Americus, Ga., a fifty thousand dollar
fire was precipitated by an attack
upon the night watchman at a lumber
yard. In the struggle his lantern was
flung upon a pile of shavings and broken,
and the adjacent property was burned.
The Chattanooga Jailers, Messrs. Shipp,
Nolan and Williams, who suffered a mob
to lynch a prisoner whose case was pending
before a United States court, have
been sentenced to sixty or ninety days'
imprisonment. They appealed to the Supreme
Court of the United States, but
found no relief.
Mrs. Augusta Stetson, First Reader of
the Christian Science organization in
New York City, 'has been deposed from
office and excluded from the order for insubordination
by the friends of Mrs. Eddy.
New United States Law concerning the
shipment of intoxicants into "dry" territory
will become effective January 1.
These laws provide that packages of liquor
may not be delivered by ap express
company to any person other than the addressed,
and that under no circumstances
may the railroad or express company deliver
C. O. D., or collect pay for the liquor.
A New Railway Safety Appliance has
been patented by Mr. J. T. Andrew, of
Montgomery, Ala. We have seen no deI
scription of it, but the inventor claims
that by it the terrible consequences of derailments
can be absolutely prevented,
and that in a hundred trials it has not
failed to prevent injuries.
Col. John Jacob Astor and his son, Vincent,
were on a yacht near Jamaica at
the time of the recent storm in that vicinity.
It is now two weeks since the last
tidings from the yacht, and grave fears
are entertained for their safety.
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story that comes from Clinton, near Terre
Haute, Jnd. It is a Roman Catholic
UTH. November 24, 1909.
church, which cost 150,000. Part of the
members are Bohemian and part are Hungarians.
There was strife among them
over the control of the church. Three
hundred sticks of dynamite were found
under and around the church, but only a
few of them exploded. The front of the
church was wrecked.
Tne supreme Court of Iowa has decided
that the proprietor of a lunch room may
lawfully refuse to wait on a negro who
calls for food! And this, away ,up in
Iowa!!
The Most Serious of All Trusts is now
under process of arrangement. The Postal
Telegraph company is reported as
owning a controlling interest in the American
Telephone company. And the American
Telephone company is said to have
secured controlling interest in the Western
Union Telegraph company. This
would put the whole telegraph and telephone
service of the country under one
control, which would give to it a tremenduous
political influence at any season of
a national election. It is intolerable.
i ne second Trial or those indicted fo*
the Reelfoot Lake outrage and the murder
of Capt. Quentin Rankin (in October,
1908) has begun.
At Cherry, Illinois, out of the three
hundred miners who were believed to be
all dead forty have been found alive.
They walled the space around them to
keep out the smoke and lived six days
without food or water.
The Standard Oil Company has been
dissolved by the United States Circuit
Court at St. Paul, Minn. It is forbidden to
engage in interstate business, until it
shall have dissolved all connections between
the fifty subsidiary corporations
that are connected with it.
ABROAD.
In France the trial of Madame Steinhell
for the murder of her husband is reported
to have led to a change in the conducting
of trials there. Hitherto the trial
judge has done a large part of the questioning
of the accused and of the witnesses.
Hereafter the American plan is
to be followed, in which the questioning is
to be done by the attorneys, rather than
by the judge. Madame Steinhell was acquitted
of the charge of murder.
In England the Suffragettes who have
been imprisoned for violence in their demands
for a vote, are refusing to wear the
prison uniform, suffering from want of
clothing rather than don the uniform.
In Portugal an immense tidal wave said
to be a hundred feet high has overwhelmed
the city of Lisbon. It was followed
by a hurricane of great violence. The
belief is that the tidal wave and the
hurricane were due to an earthquake at
the Canary Islands.
In Nicaragua President Zelaya has
greatly injured bis own cause. Incensed
at the progress of the revolution, he has
been arresting large numbers of men and
women who are suspected of sympathy
with the insurgents. It is reported that
about 1,60U have been put into dungeons,
and that many have been shot or will be.
Two United States war vessels have been
ordered post baste to Nicaragua.