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Show - ii ordered to the scene of what was almost a riot. ' , - , - 'I, .' During a free-for-all flg-ht at a railroad camp near Gurley, Ark., which lasted for some hours last night, following an Easter Eas-ter frolic, 1 between Greeks, Slave and Italian laborers, two of the Greeks were killed. . - : Chief Justice; Fuller . announced In the Supreme court of the United States that the court would adjourn for the ierm on May 28. "In the meantime the call of the docket will be suspended for the term on the 27th Inst., and a recess of two weeks will, be taken on the 30th Inst.. f Yesterday was "suspension day" In the House and a number of Important measures were ' passed, notable among; them being the bill permitting the withdrawal with-drawal from bond, tax free, of domestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with . ; '! suitable denaturing materials: the bllt amending the national trademark law. and the bill 'forbidding the importation' and carriage in Interstate commerce oC ' 1 falsely stamped articles of gold, etc . ; James Gratton, a - pioneer ' settler in Carver county, Minn., and for fourteen r years a member of the Minneapolis police force,' shot himself through the head with his old police pistol In -the shrubbery or i the .University., of Washington. T". ' At Oreana last night Tom Iain was shot by a stranger called "Red." It appears ', the latter had been drinking, and was V shooting up the town. - . . ' President Roosevelt has decided to ap-.-"S point Charles B. Aycock. former Governor J of North Carolina, and- Van Leer Polk, . of Tennessee, members of the delegation from the United States' to the Pan-Ameri- ' can conference, which Is to meet in July at Rio Janeiro. creehaa been issued dismissing Hu Ting Kao.. Governor of Klangsl, for his connection con-nection with the recent murder of French missionaries. ... ; " ' , , The .suspension of the Merchants' and Farmers' bank of Shreveport, . La., for liquidation, was announced by. its presi-JJjVrtA presi-JJjVrtA H- Leonard. Assets amount to b87 126, and liabilities $518,126. Depositors ' will be paid in full. , i. . ' ' ' " ' ' , .,; , 'V A convention of the Commercial clubs and newspaper editors of the Southwest, held under the auspices of the Business Men s league of St. Louis, is meeting in St. Lou la. .(.. .- ... . "For the second time in four months the Giroux Consolidated Mining company, witn headquarters in -Los -Angeles, Cat, has suffered the loss of five of its employees em-ployees through a Yaqui Indian ambush near ; the corporation's mine in Sonora. Mex." - ; , . .v . , A petition In voluntary bankruptcy was filed In; the United States court in New York City by Julius and Rudolph Bohm, life Insurance agents with offices at 13 Park Row, who place their liabilities at $387,138, - with . the Equitable Life Assurance Assur-ance society as- principal creditor in the amount, of ,$352,570. . ... The President "today signed "the; bill passed by. Congress, authorizing town sites' in reclamation lands and giving the -use .of. water - and - power for - municipal purposes on payment of proper compensation. compen-sation. . . ...... . ..... ' ! - , ' ' As a result of Walter Penn, a negro, of Mount Alrte, N. C. resisting arrest and other negroes overpowering- and- disarming disarm-ing - Deputy Sheriff Bel ton -and Officer John Samuels, George Long., a negro, is dead wnd the ocnl militia witinanv wns clzaii c? ti:z keus.: Senator1 Heyburn of Idaho spoke on the railroad rate bill. In the Senate yesterday, supporting his court review amendment. ' - ' ... - A committee of union mfn is being organized or-ganized under the leadership of Dr. Her : mon ; F. Titus', a . Socialist orator and writer at Seattle, Wash., -to, attend the Moyer-Haywood trial in Idaho and to re-mlaers1' re-mlaers1' tetlmony, given against the . -w.- A reduction of the working hours of 400 rurna.ee. men In the- Tacoma, Wash..' smelter from twelve to eight hours a day has , been announced. .. . Charles Cannefax and One'y Calfry have SeeJ? rr8ted connection with . the Bpiingfleld mob. Both are well-known men. This makes four under arrest. o. Klng Edward and Queen Alexandra rof England arrived today' In Athens for a visit. . , , , -V ": " ; General Overseer Ollva, of Zion City, PI0?08 to Alexander Dowie that their fight over leadership be submitted to a board of arbitration.. Should-Dowie refuse this all negotiations are considered at an end, by Ollva s faction. . ' President Mitchell and Secretary-Teasuer. Secretary-Teasuer. W- B- Wilson of the United Mine-Workers were .at the miners', headquarters head-quarters In Indianapolis yesterday and expressed themselves as pleased with the outlook. None of the miners, according to the treasurer, have drawn on the national fund for support, but are maintaining themselves on their own reserve. ". Judge Humphrey in the United States Circuit court of Illinois, declared Col. James Lefts, Corporation Counsel of Chicago, In contempt of court in the Alton water works case, ' and sentenced him to sixty days' Imprisonment In the Sagamon Jail. - - . . . Henry N. Couden. son of the Rev. Henry Hen-ry N. Couden. chaplain of the House of. Representatives at Washington, . was stricken with heart disease while on his way from Seattle to Fort Lawson. Wash., on horseback. He fell from his horse and fractured his spinal column. .Death resulted several hours afterward. .- AH of the miners of the Hocking Valley Val-ley Ohio mines - of Pennsylvania have signed the wage scale and resumed work except those of the Sunday Creek Coal company. , . - - For the first time In twenty-nine years the Supreme court-called its docket of original cases with the view of elimination elimina-tion of some of them If possible, at Washington Wash-ington yesterday. i The total number of Immigrants arriving arriv-ing in the United States In March. 1906, was 133,245, an Increase of 70 per cent over March. 1904. The number arriving in March, 1906, was 126.932. v - Mrs. Olive Logan, aged 67, one known to two continents as an actress, authoress author-ess and lecturer, appeared In the office of a probation officer In the Harlem police po-lice court In New York yesterday, in dire-distress dire-distress and poverty to plead with her husband, twenty-two years her--Junior, who was arrested for non-support and intoxication, to pay off the rent due on their little home and to provide - her ' with food. . . The Morning Post's correspondent at Shanghai telegraphs that an imperial de- |