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Show V FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Indictment in Panama Case Quashed by Court. New York. The indictment against the Press Publishing company, pub-Ushers pub-Ushers of the New York World, charging charg-ing Joseph Pulitzer and others with criminal libel against Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, President Taft and others, was quashed on Wednesday in the United States district court. Judge Hough ruled tnat the statute upon which the indictment rested was not sufficient in authority, or, in other words, that the court had no jurisdiction. |