The American Methodist (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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I( o it c r s v i I 1 c , 'I i nn., A boil- !
or in a raw mill al Kyles Ford, 15 !
inUos from Rogersville, exploded |
Widuo"day, ki 11in~ lliroe men and in-
juring five
l.ol»>is|N >! ns| It <‘u
A11>:»ny, N. V. The stale assem-j
lily on Wednesday passed a bill re-
quiring all legislative agents employed
to inlbienee legislation to register and i
to report the fees they receive. The!
bill prohibits the employment of legis- I
lniiv agents on contingent fees.
(•1*11. Ill-1 I llOCN to WllMllillfttOII.
Fort Ii<Mvenworth, Kan. - General i
.1. KranI i i a Bell left Wednesday
night for Washington to assume die
duties of chief of staff of the army
He will visit Gen. Carter in St. Louis |
and stop at. his old home in Kentucky ]
ronto
lllirfoii lirnrinu
Washington, I). C. The hearing)
in the case of United States Senator
Burton, of Kansas, was completed in
the supreme court of the United States
Wednesday.
I* i*«*n i«! «* ii t Will S|K*iiU ill Norfolk.
Ws. hiugton, D. C. — President
Koosove t will deliver his Decoration
day address this year before the Ar-
my and Navy union at Norfolk, Va
The o'Mvmonies there willbe lieid at
die navy yard and sailors' cemetery.
\Y i 11 \linmloii Mikhnliii.
St. Petersburg, Itussia. 'the Rus-
sian "overament has decided to stop
t he i.eport at ion of convicts to the
i. aim of Sakhalin. The penal colo-
nies i.e e will be disbanded and piis-
o’,.. cmmi.i: lied on the mainland
< linril> O III c* t* r \nnii ii 11 <‘«l.
Saint Joseph. Mo. Mr. Simon
Stern, charity superintendent, was as-
saulted by a man to whom he had re-
fused -■ i a nee Friday, and will Hie
of hi- injuries. Stern's assailant is
supi” od to ho insane.
(*«kr iiiii ii > s Itnitroml I'Iiiiin.
Her.in. .cnuany. The Prussian gov-
ernment published a liill Thursday
nigh! i >r the const ruction of 2! se-
cond:11 v railways and double tracking
27 c\i ting mails and lor other railway
pm a es al a cost of $5-1.2011,000.
1 '1‘i‘in'ti ( out SlriUi* I it I ’o n t i ii lie.
Lens. France. The mass meet-
in a el mime - held Friday declared
their approval of ilia continuation of
tli*' Hike. There will lie another
meeting oi the miners’ congress ou
'i uesw. g, April ii.
Says Wants I'h *! I |ifii ih'm.
Moscow, Hu: in.— General von Mack
tile It;:, ian repre--entalive m the Bed
Cross inis .just returned here from
Japan . He declares that tlie .lapanose
are actively engaged in war prepara-
tions and lie adds that it is evident
that the enemy in view is America
and that operations are being planned
against the Philippine islands
• ilj Sues tn lli'i'ovcr .f.V.000.0(10.
P it i 1 a (1 e 1 p h i a, 1’a.—Civil pro-
ceedings were instituted Friday by the
city against the contractors and for-
mer city officials interested in the con-
struction of the municipal filtration
plant to recover $5,000,000 which sura
is alleged to have been wrongfully
refined by the defendants.
of (1 oi’Ciiri ii’int
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Mcoiioiny \l)'<»ctM I * r i n I «* rs.
Washington, I). C. One hundred
printers were discharged Friday by
Public Phinter Stillings, the reason
assigned being lack of work. It is ex
peeled that the result of the present
agitation for a reduction in the
amount of government printing a
aiimbt r of other: shortly vviil lie droo-
ped.
ik'Ih Ii. ItnliliiiiN llmi !«s Down.
Pit t s Ii ii. r g, Pa. — Francis L.
Robbins, chairman of the board of
directors of the Pittsburg Coal com-
pany is confined to his home in this
city as a result of the mental and
physical strain he has undergone in
the labor controversy with the min-
ers during the past three weeks.
ItiisNin IIiin \ri'ti iiuimI ii IjOIUI.
St. Petersburg, Russia. It was pos-
itively stated Sunday that a loan bad
hewn arranged in princij !e to t • •
: mount of $200,0(111,000 and $250,000,
a mi. Finance .Minister Kokov.:soff
has gone to Paris to conclude final
negotiations. Details of tlie loan arc
not available. It is variously report-
ed that the loan will bear 4'g and 5
per ei'iit interest, the emission price
being 90 or 92, with 1 f per cent
commission.
Millers Itrt (i rn i iik :i J I'ittsImi'K.
Pittsburg, Pa. — There were uo
developments that disturbed the
peace ot the bituminous coal fieals
reported here Sunday and while in
the Pittsburg district it is expected
that 90 per cent of the miners who
have not been working will return
Monday, the storm centers which have
been in other districts are growing
more settled and there is every evi-
dence that the men at these points
will return to work before nianv diva
StaiiMhiril Flit*.* T»« \ Iti'iiort.
T i 'ha. Kan. The annual report
of the Prairie Oil and Ga ■ my.
which is the Kansas name for (lie
Sf Heard Oil company, inis been filed
in the office of the auditor of state for
tlie benefit of the state board ot rail-
road and pipe line assessors, which
i 1 meet no t Wednesday. The re-
port vva fi od by Theodore M. Towl
the tax a rent for the company, and.
like a great many other tilings that
have been heard of recently, comes
from 2f Broadway. New Ym-i-
On ill 111 i ii i; Stops lit lint S|iriiiRs.
Hot S p r i n g s, A r k. —For the
first, time in thirty years ; am. ling
has ree.-'vd in Hot Springs. All the
elaborate i araphernalia o: the .gam-
bling dons which have been operated
summer and winter, week day and
Sunday, wiili doors wide open, are
idle.
|C II114- I'll 1 of 1'). I'. Swift.
lteverly, Mass. The funer-
al of Fdwin C. Swift, of the firm of
Swift, v Go., tlic Chicago meat pack
ers, who died Thursday at the Quincy
hoe e in Boston from pneumonia, was
held at Beverly farms Sunday.
Mmi'nIi I O.vmun to lt«*tirt*.
Tokio, Japan. — Field Marshal
Oyatna, chief of the general staff, is
retiring at his own request, and Gen-
eral Baron Kodania, governor general
of the Island of Formosa, vviil bo ap-
pointed to succeed him.
It\ iTir /ion t’ify.
Chicago, 111. it was decided
We Inesilay by Overseer Voliva, of |
Zion City, that in view of the an-
nounced return of John Alexander
Dowie from Mexico and his declared
intention of making a fight against
the action suspending him from office, j
that t lie present overseer shall be
appointed receiver of the Church of
Zion, and of all the public properties
standing in the name of the church
The courts will probably lie asked
to name Voliva as receiver within the
next few days.
1-:. Swift, of CliicBUo. I)«*$nl.
Boston, Mass. — E. C. Swift of Chi-
cago. :i member of the packing; firm
of Svvilt Ar Co., died early Thursday
at tlic Quincy house, where lie engaged
rooms about two weeks ago. Pneumo-
nia was the cause of death. Mr. Swift
i*is taken ill with pneumonia on
March 27. lie grew rapidly worse and
hi •• daughter, Mrs. Clarence Moore of
Chicago, was summoned. His physi-
cian, also was called from Chicago and
watched by the sick man’s bedside un-
til he died shortly after midnight.
Witn lluric'tl I)ii vs.
Lens, France, — One mire liv-
ing survivor of tli ■ mine disaster
at Oourrieres March 10 was discov-
ert' 1 Wednesday morning and brought
out of the pit. The finding of an j
other miner alive alter 25 days en-!
tonibment •mixed intense excitement
The man was found in pit four of the
Sal !n limine-; vein. He was in good
condition. According to his first
statements this man, Augus'o Berton
suffered le.-s than , the preceding res-
cued men
IHi-il i>!‘ Diacnsc I!t* St'iitii-il.
St. Louis. Mo. —• Dr. C. A. Snod-
gras, health commissioner of Si
Louis, died from pneumonia Fridiv
A week ago Thursday he completed a
paper on the causes and treatment ot
pneumonia which he w is to read be-
fore a society of physician-;, and half
tin hour 1 iter pneum mia leva ed
lie died in the city i. 1. wh ■;
he was taken at his own i que t soon
alter he recognized pneumonia symp-
toms.
S<*nnlnr A lj;pr to
D e t r o i t, Mich. — Announcement
was made late Friday afternoon from
Senator R. A. Alger's office in this
city that lie will not lie a can lulate to
succeed himself in the senate when
i e ,i:Mature meets on .1 • nuory 1
next. 5 he annouti ement took the
form of a letter which it vv s state I
was iv’eiverl Friday from the senator.
It says: “Owing to the condition of
my health I am compelled to withdraw
my •. lididacy to succeed myself in the
t nited States senate. While it is a
-. re.it sacrifice to sev er a connection
of m ny years standing with the pub-
lic affairs of iny state, that sacrifice
has become necessarv.
\\ here \ i<*<lriiiK liittiM DniMM Liiu*.
St. Louis, Mo. Thomas K Nie-
! dringhaus, chairman of the st ite re-
publican committee of Mis; ouri, Thurs-
day sent the following letter declining
an invitation to attend the banquet of
the Missouri State League of republi-
can clubs to be given April 2d in honor
of Secretary of the Treasury Sliavv: I
regret that it has been mc.de impos-
j sible for me to be present at the lea-
gue dinner to be given on the c eiling
of April 2ti. 1 do not feel that 1 can
with justice to myself accept an invi-
tation to any affair, political, to which
It. C. Kerens and Ed Butler are in-
vited and expected to be nreeent ”
MINOR NEWS ITEMS,
The city of Moscow has returned ICO
electors, all constitutional democrats.
Chief Bambaata has escaped into
Zululand with a body guard of 70
warriors.
A woman 80 years old has been ar-
rested at Kansas City charged with
vagrancy.
At Cape* Girardeau, Mo., Sunday,
John Gasehe blew his wife’s head off
with a shot gun.
The Japanese armored crusier
Ikoma. of If!,750 tons, was successful-
ly launched at Kure Monday.
Field Marshall Oyatna, of Japan,
is retiring at his own request. He will
be succeeded by Baron Kodama.
Robert G. Proctor, private secretary
oi Senator Lodge, lias been arrested
at Boston charged with embezzlement.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her three child-
ren have returned to Washington
from a cruise to Cuba on the .May-
flower.
William Buechle, one of the be t
known pioneers of Northern Missouri,
died at St. Joseph Sunday aftei an
illness of a few weeks.
Tlie comptroller of the currency
Monday issued a call for the condition
of the National Banks at the close
of business Friday April ti. l'."i;i.
William L. Norman, a politician
and business man well known in (>!•.-
lahorna and Indian territory, com-
mitted suicide at Tulsa 1. T., Monday.
Gen. Adim R. Chaffee lias been ten
dereil tlie pre idency of the New York
society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals at a salary of $ii,()(|il a
year.
Jefferson Gardner, ex-governor of
Indian territory and highly respected
member of the Choctaw tribe of In-
dians, died Saturday of pneumonia
at Idabel.
Chas. W. Johnson, chief operator if
the Associated press, at Detroit, Mich,
died Monday of heart failure at Clin-
ton, Mich., where he was visiting his
mother.
While on the way up tin Ohio iT or
from Cincinnati to Pittsburg with !2
empty barges (lie boilei ot the tow
boat H. M. Hoxie of Pittsburg blew
up Sunday. Two firemen were killed.
Mayor ot Ivuiimiim City, Kim.. Oiin1«-«C
T o p <* k a, Kansas. When the
ouster suit of the state m ainsi May.
W W Rose, of Kansas (’it Km.
was called iu the .supreme < > rt Fri
day afternoon, the attorneys for
Mayor Rose i-unti'-ssoiI judgment, al-
lowing a writ, ot ouster to be entered
against their client. The uittorneys
say that it must be determined by the
courts whether or not this bars Mayo'
Rose from again holding the office oi
mayor. The suit directed against flic
city of Kansas City, Kan., was sub-
mitted on briefs.
Mayor It «in4* (Ini of
Topeka, Kansas. — William W.
Rose, ex-mayor of Kansas City, Kail,
was Saturday debarred bv the Kan-
sas supreme court flora again hold-
ing or having anything to do with the
the office of mayor of that city, until
the expiration of his present term o,
office, which will occur in April, 1907
This puts dr. Rose out of the race
for re-election at the special election
to be called in a few days. The r *
son that the limit is fixed at the
end ol Iiis present term, is becaus
the ouster suit was brought to “hum
him from his term of office" as mavor
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Hubbard, J. H. The American Methodist (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1906, newspaper, April 11, 1906; Stroud, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc925137/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.