NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering JOHN J. McNAMARA, secretary of the International Bridge and Structural Ironworkers' association; his brother, James W. Mc-Namara, and Ortie E. McManigal, charged with...
...A feature of the case last week was the arrest of Detective Burns and his assistants on charges of having kidnapped McManigal and the McNamaras and forcing them to go to Los Angeles, where warrants could be enforced without the formality of extradition proceedings...
...It is significant that the Geran bill passed both houses of the Legislature without a dissenting vote...
...Wiley's expose, the United States officials began an aggressive campaign against concerns in Chicago which are selling milk that is not up to legal standards...
...The promise also is made that there will be a thorough probing of his election, which was brought about only through the sudden departure from the joint convention of three Democrats...
...Check New Jersey Corruption New Jersey took a notable step on the 19th when Gov...
...It will be 750 feet high and will contain fifty-five stories, including the stories in the tower...
...The indictments charge rebating and two of the roads are charged with conspiring to violate the Elkins law...
...The Department's ruling is based on the report of the Remsen board, of which Dr...
...The Mormons now have eighty-two churches in England...
...Last week the three detectives were arrested on warrants sworn out by a legislator...
...There is every appearance now that Tilden's attorneys will make heroic efforts to prevent his further appearance before the committee or to delay his appearance so long that efforts to expose the truth will prove futile...
...The baron has been in this country for several weeks and in that time he has appeared before the legislatures of several states...
...Every year for sixteen years the company paid 8 per cent...
...dividends and in 1908, when there was an enormous surplus in the treasury, the company paid a dividend of 310 per cent...
...The Department has prohibited its use after July 1st...
...The Portland court upheld every contention of the government in its answer to the demurrer of the Southern Pacific regarding the famous "O & C" land grant cases...
...May Recover Oregon Lands Oregon lands worth about $60,000,000 will revert to the government if the decision of Judge Wolverton at Portland on the 24th is upheld by the Supreme court of the United States...
...The dictaphone consists of a number of sensitive disks so constructed that the sounds spoken in a room can be carried forty or fifty feet by means of wires connected with an electric battery...
...Most of the strikes as usual, are the result of demands for shorter hours, recognition of unions, and advanced wages...
...This is the same board that announced some time ago that benzoate of soda was not harmful...
...Press stories make the statement that the defendants will seek to prove that the Times building was blown up by a gas explosion and that they had nothing to do with the disaster which ended twenty-two lives...
...McManigal, upon whose information Detective William J. Burns brought about the arrest of the McNamara brothers, is said to have made a complete confession of his own and the brothers' part in the Times conspiracy...
...It also held that its use as a substitute for cane sugar reduced the food value of a product and thus lowered its quality...
...Simultaneously with Dr...
...The advances were arrived at amicably...
...McManigal's confession bearing on the Los Angeles explosion is said to have included the details of a plot against the newspaper...
...Members of the Order of Railway Telegraphers have just been the recipients of an addition to their pay checks...
...Three individuals, among them Dan R. Hanna, were indicted on conspiracy charges...
...While the McNamara brothers are awaiting trial in California, the police are striving to bring about the arrest of others implicated by the McManigal confession...
...Tilden protests his innocence of any wrong-doing in the alleged gathering of a $100,000 fund to elect Lorimer but at the same time he refuses to reveal his records...
...The benzoate of soda decision was a boon to manufacturers of canned goods...
...One of the persons named by McManigal is said to be in Europe...
...A company in New York City proposes to erect the tallest building in the world...
...Wi-leys experiments, said that the continued use of saccharin impaired digestion...
...Three governments, Spain, the United States and Great Britain, now are vitally interested in the Mexican situation...
...His list, published in many newspapers of the country, contains the names of twenty-four medicines, the manufacturers of which have been fined for violation of the food and drugs act...
...It developed later, however, that Tilden's lawyers had secured the writ before his arrest and that every effort had been made to spare him any trouble or embarrassment...
...Speeches by Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, member of The Hague Peace Conference and for many years a member of the French Senate, have had a powerful influence throughout America in forming convictions against war...
...Cook included the information that Edward Hines had told him that he (Hines) elected Isaac Stephenson to the United States Senate from Wisconsin and that after Stephenson went to Washington he broke faith with Hines by voting for free lumber...
...This brought out the detectives' story, their proof of innocence being shown in the form of stenographic notes of conversations held in a private room...
...Under the operation of this new law, which was a seeming impossibility a few months ago, the old political bosses of New Jersey are shorn of power...
...A feature of the testimony heard by the committee was the statement by W. H. Cook, a Duluth lumberman, that shortly after the White confession last May, Hines, acting through his brother-in-law, C. F. Wiehe, had made desperate efforts to make him leave the city...
...An early decision regarding the Cunningham land claims in Alaska is expected from secretary of the Int or Fisher within a short time...
...There is much interest in the national capitol over the imminent ousting from the Interior Department of all the men who gave active aid to Ballinger in the latter's long fight against Gifford Pin-chot and former Secretary Garfield...
...Constantin Fahlen-berg, is 300 times as sweet as sugar and ever since its discovery it has been used as a sweetening substance in a great variety of prepared foods...
...A referendum in Australia on the 26th resulted in the defeat of the constitutional questions which sought to bar the American meat trust and to give Parliament enlarged powers over trade, commerce and industry...
...Wiley's announcement includes the statement that hardly a day passes when deaths from these nostrums are not recorded in some part of the country...
...Edward Tilden, head of the beef trust, was served with a warrant on the 29th at the instance of the investigating committee, which desires him to take his bank books and other records before it...
...Close in on Lorimer The Helm investigation of the election of Lorimer to the United States Senate has taken on a new face in efforts of the Illinois legislators to force important witnesses to appear...
...At that time it issued $3,-000,000 in stock as a bonus to the Southern Pacific for consenting to the contract to haul express parcels...
...Wage advances on the Illinois Central amounts to $82,000 per year, while the raise on the St...
...The cases arise out of grants made to railways nearly fifty years ago and their alleged failure to carry out the conditions under which the grants were made...
...Shop men employed by the Pennsylvania railroad left their places and it is estimated that ten thousand workers in various trades went out in Chicago...
...Finds Saccharin Harmful Saccharin, the discovery of which was hailed by manufacturers as an economical substitute for cane sugar, has been declared deleterious to health by the Rem-sen beard of the Department of Agriculture...
...Ira Remsen and Dr...
...Large meetings in western cities have heard his address in behalf of the international peace movement...
...The killing of six subjects of Spain by rebels has inspired a note from the Spanish government...
...Hines, he said, made every effort possible to the jurisdiction of the grand jury at get all the available witnesses out of that time...
...Peace Treaty Applauded Renewed interest in the proposed arbitration treaty between England and the United States has come about through the recent receipt by the English foreign office of a copy of the document as drawn up in Washington, D. C., under the direction of President Taft, Ambassador Bryce and Secretary of State Knox...
...Its cheapness recommended it especially to manufacturers...
...Great progress has been made by the bureau in determining the exact cause of disasters in mines...
...Ohio Legislators Trapped After a month of work by detectives employed by Ohio business men, several members of the Ohio legislature are facing bribery charges...
...Wilson signed the Geran corrupt practices act...
...While there has been a cessation of fighting, President Diaz has started new discussions by calling Gen...
...Their absence pulled the total attendance down to a point where Stephenson's votes constituted a majority...
...If the high court upholds the Portland decision all the lands will be opened to bona fide settlers...
...It is reported that he gave the district attorney a complete account of the plans to blow up the building and that he told of the breaking of a gas pipe in order to allay suspicion of dynamite...
...The new law is believed to be an absolute safeguard in the elec-fon of United States senators after the wish of the voters has been expressed at a primary...
...Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, who defended the heads of the Western Federation of Miners in their fight against conviction several years ago, may defend the McNamara brothers if it is found necessary to secure his services...
...merly Minister of War, back to Mexico City...
...In the recent saccharin decision the board, which has passed on so many of Dr...
...Samuel Adams, a Chicago attorney, already has been appointed assistant secretary to succeed Frank Pierce...
...Remsen is chairman...
...Both chemicals are made from coal tar, the black, evil-smelling byproduct of common illuminating gas...
...May Day Brings Strikes The usual labor disturbances were in evidence in many cities on May 1st, Chicago, New York and Phialdelphia being among the cities most seriously affected...
...his brother, James W. Mc-Namara, and Ortie E. McManigal, charged with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building last October, are in jail at Los Angeles awaiting trial...
...The stenographer was enabled to take notes on the conversations by means of the dictaphone under a couch, the transmission wires extending into an adjoining room to a telephone receiver...
...The testimony of Mr...
...Their fight before the court promises to be the most spectacular criminal trial in the history of the west, not even excepting the Moyer-Haywood trial in Idaho...
...The uprising near Fez has endangered the lives and property of foreigners...
...The federal district attorney announced his determination to press the suits to an early result...
...Those arrested on kidnapping charges are out on bail...
...It also makes possible the operation of the initiative, referendum and recall in cities...
...Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, has issued a black-list...
...This testimony regarding Senator Stephenson was followed the next day by the adoption in the Wisconsin Senate judiciary committee of resolutions demanding a further investigation of Stephenson's election and asking the United States Senate to conduct this inquiry...
...Meetings in London have given new expression of approval...
...Uncle Sam Operates Mine A government-operated mine to be run to obtain scientific data, will begin operation about May 1, at Bruceton, near Pittsburg...
...Big Ore Carriers Indicted Several big ore carrying railroads were indicted on the 26th by the federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland...
...Reyes was forced to leave Mexico more than a year ago because of his popularity and the fear of the Diaz administration that he might succeed to the presidency...
...The Tribune says that he took out his second papers in 1870 after serving twice as an assemblyman...
...At a London massmeeting, resolutions were adopted calling upon the government to stop the increasing activity of Mormon missionaries...
...Bernardo Reyes, for...
...Spain Takes a Hand Spain, through its diplomatic representative, has taken a hand in the Mexican trouble...
...In accordance with the 1906 agreement between European powers, France has given notification of its intention to intervene in Morrocco...
...This chemical, which was extracted from coal-tar, the by-product of gas manufacturing, by Dr...
...Scientific men and mining experts will experiment under actual mining conditions to obtain for the United States Bureau of Mines information which they hope will be useful in the prevention of loss of life...
...Since rescue cars were put in operation, it has been possible to educate 6,000 miners every year on preventive measures...
...The saccharin decision will not please them...
...During the hearing before the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission on the 28th it was admitted that the Wells-Fargo Express company started business with an original capitalization of $5,000,000...
...Headache "Cures" Attacked Following an exhaustive analysis of 365 so-called "headache cures," Dr...
...Paul totals $100,000...
...It is conceded generally in Washington that the decision will declare the claims fraudulent in accordance with the testimony brought out during the term of R. A. Ballinger...
...Three detectives from the Burns agency have been on the ground continually and their carefully laid plans to catch the purchaseable members of the assembly and senate are said to have met success...
...The Chicago Tribune, in an article on Stephenson's election, charges that the millionaire lumberman served two terms in the Legislature in the 60's before becoming a full citizen of the United States...
...The resolutions will be placed before both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature...
...The serving of the warrant upon Tilden was followed closely, according to appearances, by the securing of a habeas corpus writ to free him from the law's clutches...
...NEWS NOTES Chicago is to be the center of a national campaign of education which, it is hoped, will bring about the adoption of the new currency plan advocated by former Senator Aldrich as chairman of the monetary commission...
...Bankers last week announced that preparations were being made and that soon the press of the country would be supplied with articles bearing on the Aldrich plan...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 18
