AMERICAN POLITICS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS.

HASKELL-v. HEARST

BIG LIBEL ACTION

Press Assn — -By .telegraph — Copyright " (Received this day, 8.23 a:m.)\

in EW YORK, yesterday. The Nebraska sheriff, being refused admission, broke into Mr Hearst's railway saloon- at Omaha, while Hearst and his wife were retiring for the night, and served Governor Haskell's writ, suing for £1,200,000 sterling damages, for an alleged libel contained in his speech made at Memphis, describing Haskell as the tool of the Standard Oil' Trust.