FEBRUAKY U9. 1004.
The Commoner.
Condensed News of the Week
Senator M. A. Hannn dind n r-jo vii-
Monday evening, February 15, at the family
apartments in the Arlington hotel, Washington.
Senator Hanna had been ill for two months, filled
with apparent recoveries followed by relapses.
Typhoid fever finally set in, and his enfeebled
constitution ould not resist it. His family was
gathered about the bedside during his illness. The
only public office ever held by Mr. Hanna was
that of United States senator. Ho was elected to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
Sherman, and afterwards twice re-elected. Ho
was re-elected on January 11, 1904.
At 11 o'clock Sunday morning, February 7,
fire broke out in the wholesale dry goods store of
John T. Hurst & Co., Baltimore, in the heurt of
the business district. Within half an hour a dozen
largo warehouses in the wholesale dry goods dis
trict were on fire. Block after block of business
houses were destroyed, and the flames raged for
nearly 40 hours, involving a loss estimated at
$150,000,000.
February 7 Thomas Searcy died, aged 80 years,
at Springfield, 111. He was a veteran of the Mex
ican war, and fought under Jefferson Davis, then
a colonel.
As a result of the war in the east the prices
of provisions generally have taken an upward
jump.
In a conflict between the guards and laboring
men at Coal Creek, Tenn., on February 7, four
men were killed and three others wounded. One
LJ of the men killed was a deputy sheriff, the other
three were laboring men.
General Heyes, the newly elected prooideut of
Colombia, has sailed for Paris. Before sailing
and speaking to a newspaper correspondent, Gen
eral Reyes said: "I feel it my duty to be in Paris
when the question of the sale rights of the Fa
nama Canal company to the United States comes
before the proper French tribunal. To me the
matter is very clear. The Panama Canal com
pany cannot transfer its rights lo the United
, States without the consent of Colombia, because
rits contract entered with Colombia cannot trans
fer itself to the Panama province. That province
cannot substitute itself for Colombia."
February 8 a tornado struck the ' town of
Union, Ark. Three persons were killed, while a
number of dwelling houses and other buildings
were blown down.
An Associated press dispatch under date of
Oklahoma City says: Andrew Burns and George
Bunker, members of the city council, were ar-
rested today on indictments returned by the
ll grand jury. Burns is accused of embezzlement and
Bunker is charged with having solicited a bribe
in the passage of an electric light franchise. The
grand jury has been dischaiged after returning
I eleven indictments, some of which have not been
'i made public.
The fight is on among Nebraska republicans
"with respect to the gubernatorial nomination. Ac-
K, cording to custom Governor Mickey is entitled to
t renomination, but already a number of promi
nent republicans have announced their candidacy,
and it is said that an organized fight will be
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An Associated press dispatch under date of
Peoria, 111., February 9, says: In the United
States court here Judge Humphrey has handed
down a decision holding the Peoria das and
Electric company an illegal combination in viola
tion of the anti-trust laws of the state of Illinois,
with no standing in a court of equity, and has
dismissed its suit to restrain the city from en
forcing an ordinance fixing the maximum amount
to be charged for gas at 75 cents per 1,000 feet.
.The suit was started in September, 1900.
A dispatch to the Omaha World-Herald, under
.'dato of Des Moines, la., February 10, says: Rep
resentative L. L. Delano, democrat, of Cass coun
ty, whose first bill, introduced at the behest of
live stock shippers, caused a flurry among rail
road lobbyists and brought a carload of high offi
cials from Chicago, today introduced a measure
that railroads be compelled to carry persons over
I twelve years of age at 2 cents, and those under
l-taat age .at 1 .cent per mile. He also tacked to
his measuro a provision preventing the issuanco
of passes to state officials, legislators and dele
gates. This bill was simultaneous introduced
in the senate by Senator Robert C. dtirton, demo
crat, of Cedar county. Representative Dorran of
Boone at tho same time introduced in the house
a bill that would compel all railroads to employ
none but adults as operators where their duties
include receiving and delivering messages relat
ing to the movement of trains. Tho employment
of minors as signal men :s also prohibited. Tho
measure is the result of a recent head-end colli
sion at Slater, which was alleged to be due to an
error by an oighteen-year-old agent.
A dispatch under date of Havana, February 10,
says: The Associated press is informed by a per
son of undoubted authority that tho $35,000,000
Cuban loan will not bo floated until the monetary
conditions are more favorable than at the present
moment. President Palma and the secretary of
the treasury were practically so informed at a
conference held this evening, at which there were
present representatives of die National City bank
of New York, tho Kuhn Loeb & Co. syndicate,
Speyer Brothers and other banking institutions
interested in the matter. The fact that the loan
is not to be floated at this time is not intended
as a reflection on Cuba's credit, but-Is due to tho
war situation in the far east, tho result in Wall
street growing out of the Baltimore flre, and other
current causes. When tho situation becomes nor
mal it is expected the Cuban bonds will bo sold
without difficulty.
An Associated press dispatch under date of
Boston, February 10, says: Dr. Samuel Abbott
of tho state board of health announced today
that by manufacturing its own anti-toxin- the
commonwealth has saved tho people $405,000 in
four years. The actual expense during that time,
when 159,000 bottles of anti-toxin were distri
buted free, was ?31,500. These statistics have been
forwarded to Chicago, where it is proposed to
adopt the Massachusetts idea instead of purchas
ing, supplies.
An interesting proceeding has been commenced
before the stato courts at Hot Springs, S. D.
Col. Thomas M. Goddard, the commandant of the
soldiers' home, denied readmlsslon to Alexander
C. Denning, who was discharged from the institu
tion on the charge of drunkenness. Denning was
discharged from the home in December. He was
then given an honorable discharge, but his appli
cation to be readmitted was denied. Denning
has been a member of tho home for several years,
and, being in destitute circumstances, with no
near relatives to give him help, the general opin
ion is that he sliould be admitted again. He has
brought mandamus proceedings against Colonel
Goddard to compel the commandant to reaamit
him and has obtained an alternative writ return
able before Judge Levi Mc&ee at Hot Springs, xe
quiring Goddard to admit him or to show cause
for not doing so. It seems that Colonel Goddard
has often resorted to expulsion as a measure of
discipline, and that there are several other cases
waiting the result of this rne. Judge McGee has
the case under advisement now.
A dispatch to tho Chicago Record-Herald, under
date of Toronto, Ont., February 8, says: With
smoke pouring into every rcom from the reg
isters and with the thermometer 10 below zero
eight hundred scholars marched in soldierly array
out of the burning Jesse Ketchum school at noon
today. Most of them were girls from 8 to 14
years old. Obedient to the sound "of the flre
gong they walked quietly to the cloak-room, put
on their wraps and out of eighteen classes all
marched out well wrapped up, except tho class of
Miss Brown, who did not have time to save their
clothes. Principal W. J. Hendrick, who was tho
last to leave the building, threw some of tho
clothes out of tho window and had a narrow es
cape in "getting out through the smoke. The fire
men were unable to properly fight the flames, as
everything was frozen. The school had a chil
dren's bank, but the money was saved.
The people of Milwaukee have organised a
Voters' league. The purpose being to push the
anti-graft crusade.
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, under date
of St. Paul, Minn., February 8, says: Several
members of tho Hamline university girls basket
ball team interrupted a street fight hero, yester
day. The girls had been attending church in
Minneapolis, and as they got on! their car they
saw four men in a fight. Throe of the girls ran
to tho nsslstanco of a one-armed man, who wan
being beaten. Another ran to tho telophone and
allied tho police, whllo another hurried for the
policeman on tho beat. When the patrol wagon
arrived with four officers the girls pointed out
tho fighters. Two of them pleaded not guilty of
misconduct In the pollco court today and secured
continuances to Thursday.
Tho S'econd Presbyterian church of Chicago has
issued a call to Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, a Lou
don preacher. Dr. Morgan is just now visiting in
this country, and ho has tho Chicago call under
consideration.
Joseph Kiploy, for many years chief of pollco
In Chicago, died Fobruary G.
An Associated press cablegram, under date of
Vienna, February 11, says: The Politlsche Kor
respondenz, a semi-official nowspaper, toda pub
lishes a communication from Constantinople, say
ing that in Turkish governmental circles the con
viction obtains that the present situation In ftjo
far east renders war in Bulgaria inevitable. In
view of this condition of affairs it is considered
unnecessary that tho porto shbuld burden itself
with tho serious obligation involved in currying
out tho principal measures of tho reform plans
for Macedonia. Commenting upon this statement
tho Politlsche Korrespondenz says tho fact that
such an opinion prevails merits tho most earnest
attention of tho. interested powers.
News from Capo Town, Capo Colony, says that
Sir John Gordon Sprigg, tho premier, has been
defeated in tho parliamentary election held at
East London, which ho had represented for nearly
thirty years. m
Five thousand laborers and coal miners have
gone on a strike at Valparaiso, Chili.
A revolution is Imminent In Honduras. Tho
United States navy department has dispatched a
warship to the scene. .
Apostle Woodruff, representing a syndicate of
Mormons, has purchased 16,000 acres of land in
the Big Horn country, Wyoming. It is intended
to open up irrigation projects and settle the land
with 20,000 Mormons.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of St.
Louis, February 11, says: United States Senator
J. R. Burton, through his r.ttorney, Judge Krum,
filed a demurrer in the United States district
court this afternoon, setting forth that the indict
ment charging him with the unlawful acceptance
of fees from the Rialto Grain and Securities com
pany for the purpose of influencing the postal
authorities, did not set forth facts sufficient to
hold him for trial. The demurrer contained the
further contention that neither the postmaster
general nor the postoffice department had juris
diction to issue a fraud order against the Rialto
Grain and Securities company on the facts as
they appeared. Judge Adams will hear arguments
on "the demurrers Saturday. Senator Burton's
case was set for trial March 21. He was in
dicted about three weeks ago.
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