Flashes From the Wires.
Flashes From the Wires.

FLASHES FROM THE WIRES.

    Counsel for Thomas Barker, who was sentenced to five years in the State Prison at Trenton, N. J., for assaulting Rev. Dr. Keller at Arlington, yesterday took out a writ of error which will be carried to the Court of Errors and Appeals. Meantime Barker will be at liberty.
    Rear-Admiral Bradford, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, will point out in his annual report, says a New York Herald special from Washington the necessity of equipping American men-of-war with a system of wireless telegraphy. As soon as the application is received, he will recommend the system to be adopted for the naval service.
    A fire which for an hour threatened to do great damage, broke out on Pier 5 of the Hoosac Tunnel docks, in Charlestown yesterday. The pier, which is the Boston terminus of the Warren Line Steamship Company, was destroyed, with a large quantity of merchandise. Six freight cars on the dock were consumed. The loss is placed at $200,000.
    Judge Palmer of the Denver District Court yesterday severely reprimanded Rev. M. A. Rader and Rev W. H. Talmage, who were accused of contempt of court, and discharged them. The case against Walter D. Winkoop, secretary of the Christian Endeavor Society, was dismissed without a word.
    Atty.-Gen. E. R. Hicks yesterday rendered an opinion at Madison, Wis., holding that the act passed by the last Legislature authorizing the expenditure of $20,000 of State money for the extension and improvement of the Wisconsin River levee at Portage, is unconstitutional and void.
    At the National Social and Political Conference yesterday at Detroit, ex-Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio was the first speaker, discussing "Should Political Reforms Precede Social and Economic Reform?" Lentz contended for the government ownership of the telegraph and telephone lines and municipal ownership of all public utilities.
    The Brewers' Exchange of Cincinnati, which includes the brewers of Covington and Newport, Ky., and other surrounding towns, was sued yesterday for damages on a test case brought by the Saloon-keepers' Association to dissolve the exchange as in violation of the Ohio anti-trust law.


Source:

Unknown, "Flashes From the Wires," The New York Times, New York, Tuesday, 2 July 1901, p. 3.

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