Show 01 8 40 PEOPLE AND EVENTS BRING SUIT AGAINST ROAD stockholders quarrel likely to be aired in the courts A petition for the polut ment ot of a receiver for certain stock of the chi cago rock island and pacific rail way company and tor for an injunction enjoining the controlling interests ot of the company from carrying out a trust agreement entered into by the major ity stockholders with the central brust company of new york was filed last week in the circuit court at chi cago the bill was filed by J ton lewis representing clarence 11 venner of boston who asserts he represents of dissenting stock the bill recites a history of the various times the stock was trans berred and relates a scheme of lecog by which it is alleged the pro loters without adding a dollar to the value of the property of the company represented by its authorized capital stock of 75 caused to be X issued and floated on the market securities aggregating over the defendants in the suit sult are the chicago rock island and pacific rail way company of which W B leeds Is president chicago rock island and pacific railroad company rock island company of new jersey cen aral trust company of new york wll liam T rankin F P olcott R R cable william 11 II moore james 11 II moore william D leeds daniel G reid henry C frick marshall field F D hine george 0 anson R flower george S brewster ogden mills george T boggs ARE PROUD OF MRS MITCHELL wife of the mineworkers MIne workers president reared among miners of danville there are over 3 coal miners in the danville III coal field and every one of them Is proud of the ability displayed by their national president john mitchell in the recent strike and before the strike commission dan VS ville miners are still more proud of 0 the fact that mrs mitchell wag was born and tor for many years lived among them mrs mitchell was born in catlin a small mining town live miles west on the wabash railroad and grew to young in that village she was wal the daughter of james 0 rourke coal miner who was em aloyed in the old ohio shaft located just west of the village catherine 0 rourke attended the public school of catlin when about eighteen years of age she removed with her family to beardstown Beards town where she met and married john mitchell then a common coal miner old man 0 rourke was a member of the holy rollers as the miners employed at I 1 JOHN t a the ohio shaft were called and Is remembered by all of the old time min ers ors of this section lb to mrs mitchell s devotion and en coura gement the president of tho the mine workers union admits he owea owes much of bis his success tells joke in supreme court senator hoar roar has upset precedent by telling a funny story to the united states supreme court the senator was arguing a point which he said reminded him of the man who was arrested tor for stealing forty cowbells the man said he didn dian t steal the cow bells that they were in the barn and somehow the cows got them on their necks that might do for one cow cell nell said the judge but no forty cows in creation acquire a taste for music at the same time the su sit preme court smiled grimly senator hoar chuckled audibly k |