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Show 1 BRIEF NEWS ITEMS Cfcorpo Ben Ion, 1!' years of ap who la.st week at tempted to rob the People's Peo-ple's b.'ink of Masomnnle. a f.-nv miles from Madison. Wis., was sentenced to fourteen years In the state reformatory. A fireman was killed and several passengers pas-sengers were Injured In a collision at Olive, fur Parsons. Ivan., today between a northbound Missouri. Knnsas & Texas passenger train and an engine sent out to ilap the passenger. Tom flallagher. IS years old. captured after the police had surrounded' the Lafayette bank, In St. Louis, early today, confessed that he, with another boy, had planned to rob Ihc bank. The other boy, who was acting as a look-out, fled. The honorary Japanese commercial commissioners com-missioners now visiting San Francisco wore entertained today by trips to various vari-ous commercial and manufacturing linns. In the afternoon they wen; guests at a reception on the floor of the Merchants' exchange. The annual meeting of the national executive committee of the council of Jewish women opened in Pittsburg today. to-day. Religion, immigration and phllan-throphy phllan-throphy are among the Important subjects sub-jects to be considered. Adjournment will bo on December 2. Major-General Thomas IT. Barry, who has been on special duty in Washington since ho relinquished command of the army of Cuban pacification last spring, was today ordered to proceed to San Francisco and assume command of the department o California. , Tho. supreme court of ljie UnltejL Slates todo'v afflrmc'l the decision of the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota, restraining the enforcement of the order of the Interstate commerce commission com-mission reducing from ?2.00 lo 1.00 per car terminal charges on livestock on the railroads entering Chicago. That the government of the United Stales through criminal proceedings should punish persons who conspire to aid alien contract laborers lo come Into the United States, contrary to the Immigration Im-migration law, was hold by the supreme court of the United States today In the prosecution of Tlldcn B. Stevenson and Amcde Bellalrc. The battleship Rhode Island, which has been In tho Brooklyn navy-yard since the close of the Hudson-Fulton celebration celebra-tion last month, sailed today to join the battleship fleet at Hampton Roads. The. other battleships detailed for service with the licet are all expected to leave tho yard here for tho southern rendcz.vous before tomorrow night. In an opinion by Justice Day, the. supreme su-preme court of the United States today affirmed the decision of the United States circuit court of appeals for the seventh circuit In the case of Isaac II. Caliga vs. The Chicago Inter-Ocean. In which Caliga brought suit to recover damages because of the paper's alleged violation nf the copyright of a painting by Caliga, known as the "Guardian Angel." Albert T- Patrick, whose sentence of death for the murder of William Marsh Rice was commuted to life imprisonment at Sing Sing, appeared today before the appellate division of the supreme, court In Brooklvn to argue that within the law. he hnd already suffered death and thus had paid his debt to the state In full and should be set free. Patrick was not ready to proceed with his argument argu-ment today and at his request the matter was adjourned to Thursday of this week. Rain today adds to tha misery of the 300 persons 'evicted Saturday from lonc-ments lonc-ments owned by the. Ludlow, Mass., Manufacturing Man-ufacturing association, because- of a strike In tho mills. The household effects of !the evlotod persons were piled In a. heap In tho street. The work of eviction was suspended today, but it was announced that on Wednesday the occupants of the other houses owned by the company would he ordered to leave. |