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Show I Condensed Telegrams No action was taken by the supremo court of the United States yesterday on the petition of John R. Walsh for a writ of certiorari. Sta.te. Treasurer-elect J. A. Stober of Pennsylvania was found dead In bed yesterday from heart disease, at his homo at Schocnek. He was to have taken ofllco In May. William L. Borgor. proprietor of a Cincinnati Cin-cinnati restaurant, was burned to death and a. pcorc of other tenants had narrow nar-row escapes from a lire in a threo-story building Monday, John R. "Early, upon whose case medical medi-cal men have been divided, Is In reality a leper, according to a decision rendored In New York, Monday, by a special committee com-mittee of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. Juris-prudence. James If. Ferris, chairman of the national na-tional committee of the People's party, and editor of the .Toilet (111.) Dally News, was arrested yesterday on the charge of criminal libel. The warrant was sworn out by Mayor John Cronln and Police Chief William C. McMaslers, who accuse tho editor of publishing statements reflecting re-flecting on tho city administration. Bankfull of grinding ice. the Allegheny Alle-gheny river at Pittsburg presents u. mcn-uco mcn-uco to shipping should the present cold snap terminate suddenly, as Is anticipated antici-pated by the official weather forecasts. The Ohio river at this point Is Ice gorged, the. floes extending as far back up tho Allegheny river as Krecport. River Riv-er navigation has again been abandoned. News received in Mobile, Ala., Monday, from Gulfport, Miss., slates that State Revenue Agent Wirt Adams has filed suit against the Dunbari Lopez & Duka,te company, said to control all the oyster packing factories- in Mississippi, claiming claim-ing they owe the state penalties to the amount of J2.225.000 for forming an Illegal Il-legal combination) The combination Is said to have been formed in .September, 100S. The first official act of the new district dis-trict attprncy of San Francisco, Charles M. Flckert. was to make a motion yesterday yes-terday beforo Judge Lawlor that tho trial of Patrick Calhoun, charged with bribery, go over until January 31. Tho motion was granted. Tho trial of the other officials of-ficials of the United Railroads, under Indictment In-dictment for bribery, went over juntlh tho same date. Other graft cases on the calendar were set for February 14. The case against fourteen Sicilians, members of the Society of the Banana, alleged Blnck Hand band of Ohio, was called for trial before Judge R. W. Taylor Tay-lor In the Toledo, O.. federal court yesterday. yes-terday. With a small army of witnesses, menacing letters and a mass of documentary docu-mentary evidence, secured In the homes of the defendants raided last June by postal Inspectors, the government expects to provo that tho alleged headquarters of the band In Marlon. O., was-tho center cen-ter of widespread Black Hnnd operations. |