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The Commoner.,
'AUGUST 14, 1903.
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'f-rrre vfrmwmmgJt tMBW "'n "
sentativo citizens of his native town,
Dumferline, Scotland, a trust deed
transferring ti them $2,500,000 in 5
per cent bonds of the United States
Hteel corporation, also Pittencrlell
park, all to be used for the benefit of
the working classes of the town.
The labor disturbances in the south
of Russia still continue, one correspon
dent asserting that no less than 250,
000 men are affected and that the
strikes continue to gain in force. At
tacks upon the strikers have been
made under the direction of the gov
ernor of Odessa, in one attack over 400
strikers were wounded by the as
saults of the soldiers.
It was reported from Salonica on
August 6 that the Bulgarian insur
gents had dynamited the governor's
palace in the town of Krushovo, kill
ing fifty Turks. Six of the sultan'n
battalions were immediately dis
patched to the front. It is rumored
that August 31 has been fixed for a
general uprising among the Bulgarians.
A suit has been instituted at Colum
bus, O., against the so-called "glass
trust," which embraces eighteen com
panies of the twenty manufacturing
concerns making glassware. In this
.suit it is averred that the trust was
formed to limit production, manip
ulate prices and stifle competition.
The conciliation board appointed to
adjust the differences between the
anthracite miners and the operators
have failed to agrc j and have made an
appeal, according to a dispatch from
Pottsville, Pa., to the judges of the
Third district of the United States
court to appoint a seventh man for
umpire.
A collision atDurand, Mich., on Aug
ust 7 between two sections of a cir
cus train resulted in the death of 23
persons and the injury of 30 others.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles,
commanding the United States army,
retired, from active service at noon
on August 8, having reached the age
limit of 64 years. In an address is
sued by General Miles he expresses
his appreciation of the fidelity and de
votion shown by the soldiers of his
command, and also comments upon
several features of the army regulations.
It was recently reported from Ma
nila that the efforts of the United
States government to introduce its
new currency into the Philippine isl
ands has not met with the success
that was anticipated. The bankers of
Manila have agreed to do all in their
power to aid the . government to se
cure the acceptance of the new coins
among the natives.
Angeles, a distance of 2,256 miles, was
made in fifty-two hours and fifty-one
minutes, an average speed of forty-two
and seven-tenths miles an hour, in
cluding all stops.
The insurrection in Macedonia has
become a serious affair. On August 7
it was reported that four battalions of
Turkish troops, supported by artillery,
had met and routed a body of 1,700
Bulgarians near Sorovitch. It seems
that Turkey is well prepared for an
outbreak as she lias about 80,000
troops In the provinces in addition to
large reserves. Boris Sarafoff has
been made leader of the Macedonian
troops and it is said that his aim is to
organize a vast rebellion with the ob
ject of seizing Constantinople and ov
erthrowing the dynasty and Turkish
rule.
The state convention of the Church
of Christ held their annual meeting
at Bethany Park, near Lincoln, Neb.,
beginning August 7, and continuing
over the Sabbath. The meeting was
one of the greatest in the history of
the Nebraska organization.
Henry P. Lowe, chief engineer of the
United States steel corporation, made
a record-breaking trip across the con
tinent recently, covering the distance
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, more
than 3,200 miles, in seventy-three
hours and twenty-one minutes, or an
hour and twenty-one minutes more
than three days. The occasion of this
fast run was the effort of Mr. Lowe
to reach the bedside of his dying
daughter at Los Angeles, Cal., but he
was unsuccessful in this attempt, the
daughter dyins before he reached that
city. The run from Chicago to Los
Can't Sleep?
Its' your nerves. Dr. Miles' Nervine
will strengthen them and bring sweet
sleep and health. Delay is dangerous,
AUdraggtata Ball td guarantee. SendpcwU
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Baron Speck von Sternburg, who has
been minister plenipotentiary of Ger
many to the United States since Am
bassador Holleben returned to Eu
rope, and who has since been elevated
to the rank of ambassador to succeed
Mr. Von Holleben, presented his cre
dentials to President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay, N. Y., on August 7 and
was formally received in his new di
plomatic rank.
Waste Basket Examiners '
"Official examiner of the Waste
Basket" such is the title conferred on
two women at the treasury. Nor is
the title a vain one. The women are
classed as "experts" and their duties
are reckoned important
From 9 to 4 o'clock each day, ex
cept Sunday, they may be found in
the basement of tne big and dirty gray
brown building wherein Uncle Sam's
sinews of commerce and war, peace
and prosperity, are kept Hour by
hour they carefully go through the big
piles of waste paper dumped out for
their critical inspection from the ca
pacious maws of the hundreds of bask
ets, which are supposed to catch the
litter of officials ana clerks, from Sec
retary Shaw down.
It is the word "supposed" that gives
these experts employment. Too often
a document or paper of value slips
inadvertently into the baskets, and
were it not for the watchful eyes of
these women would find its way into
the fiery furnace of destruction.
People have been wont to joke
about the ridiculous titles that certain
government employes bear, and in a
popular farce of a few years ago there
was a character who styled himself
the official cleaner of government cus
pidors. But there are, in fact, two
official examiners of waste baskets in
the treasury department.
The necessity of employes of this
kind will be realized at once when
it is known that drafts, vouchers and
bonds worth anywhere from ?1 up to
$10,000, and even more, are handed
about and sent from one room to an
other as though they were of no more
value than so much cambric. Fre
quently the carelessness of a messen
ger permits one of these slips of pa
per, representing many hundreds, and
even thousands cl dollars, to fall into
a waste basket A sudden gust of
wind may carry a bond from a chiefs
desk and toss it into the same recep
tacle, while a hurried official may tear
in half a draft for a large sum of
money and throw the pieces into the
basketIndianapolis News.
The Longest Aqueduct.
New York has gone up the Hudson
fifty mnes or muic wi t-.. -
I pool has gone nearly seventy miles
into the Welsh mountains. A few
years hence some of the water supply
of Paris will bo drawn from sources
more than 100 miles away. London
has thought of building an aqueduct
to Wales. But the government of
West Australia has lately put into op
eration the longest aqueduct in the
world. The gold-mining towns jf
Kalgoorlio, Boulder, and Southern
Cross are now receiving water from
the Helena river, no less than 328
miles away.
Situated in one of the richest gold
fields in the world, these towns have
always lacked enough freah wator for
tneir neeus. salt wator was plenty
enough, but their poople, now num
bering ou.uuu, nave always been on
short rations of potable water To
meet this difficulty and to promoto in
dustrial development, the West Aus
tralian government has undertaken
works of unparalleled magnitude, in
view of the fact that the population of
the whole state Is less than 2u0,000
and Its total wealth only about $215,
000,000. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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