Thm Commoner
MARCH 11, 1901
Condensed News of
The decision of The Hague tribunal, favorable
to the blockading powers in the Venezuelan case
when received at Caracas, led to the expression
that "the value of future decisions handed down
3by the arbitration tribunal is destroyed; becau&b,
In this finding the tribunal has consecrated the
triumph of might over right."
At the congressional elections in Cuba the
liberal nationalists elected fifteen congressmen,
conservative republicans eleven and the moder
ate nationalists five. Half of the so-called lib
erals are opposed to the nationalist principles,
therefore the result is generally regarded as a
.victory for the moderate element in politics. '
Lord Milner, in an address at Johannesburg,
revealed the grave financial condition of the col
ony. He said, a deficit amounting to $5,000,000
was due to the shrinkage of railroad receipts and
the general paralysis of Industry, while most of
the $150,000,000 loan had already been expended
on railroads, the repatriation of the Boers and
the development of the cpuntry.
M. Combes, the French premier, ridicules the
idea of any split in the present majority until the
program of anti-clerical legislation has been car
ried out thoroughly.
Congressman Lucius M. Littauer was renom
inated for congress by the republicans at Sara
toga, February 29, 1904.
President Harper of the University of Chicago
was recently operated on for appendicitis.
Father Anton Joseph Legrand, once Episcopal
bishop of Rome, died at Wichita, Kas., aged 77
years.
Advices from the Kanawha, W. Va.; coal fields
indicate that there will be a general strike -of
miners April 5.
Fifteen hundred locked out carriage and
wagon workers of Chicago accepted a 4 per cent
increase in wages and agreed to the open shop.
The three collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal
company Iq the Shamoken, Pa., region, which had
been idle since October, have resumed woik.
The state supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided that a purchaser of stock on margin, who
gave a due bill to cover tbo margin, but who af
terward repudiated the transaction on the ground
that it was a '.'bucket shop'or gambling transac
tion, must pay jfte. stockbroker "the amount of
the due "bill. ' '
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James Cologate, laborer and millionaire of
Hurley, Mich., has been taken to the insane asy
lum at Newberry. Until recently Cologate who is
20 years old, was a mine teamster. Then his
grandfather, James Colegate, sr., died in New
Haven, Conn., and left him $1,000,000. Sudden
riches turned the boy's brain and he may never
recover sumcienuy to enjoy Ms good fortune.
Twelve lives were lost in a fire which de
stroyed the home of Thomas Guay, near Roberval,
Quebec, February 29. Mr. Guay's eight children
and Mrs. Gannon and her three small children
were all burned to death.
The strike of the boilermakers on the South
ern Pacific lines was ended February 2d.'
An Associated press dispatch, dated Ft Leav
enworth, Kas., February 99, says: "To prevent
his release on a technicality the war department
today instructed that Paul M. MacLane, an ex
lieutenant in the regular army, be transfened
from the United States "penitentiary here to the
post guard house. It is stated that MacLane's
friends were preparing to secure his release on a
writ of habeas corpus on a technicality, and the
war department officials deemed it better to let
the ex-lieutenant serve his imprisonment in the
guard house, a, purely military institution, rather
than meet a trial in the United States court. The
act of congress turning the military prison into a
civil penitentiary specified that any prisoner un
der sentence of more than one year was to be
confined there. MacLane, who was tried by court
martial in the Philippines and convicted of fraud
and embezzlement, was sentenced to just one year.
An Associated .press dispatch, under date of
Mt. Sterling, Ky., February 29, says: While A.
C. Marklein and a man named McCarthy, Now
. York oil men, were riding along Bushy Cano creek
they wore attacked by a huge mountain lion and
a battle resulted. The beast sprang on the horse
ridden by Marklein and bore him to the ground.
Marldein's leg was caught under tho horse. Mc
Carthy drew his revolver and fired, tho bullet
striking the lion and only stunning him. Tho
Hon fell from the horse onto Markloin's body and
buried its teeth in his breast and shoulders, tear
ing the flesh. McCarthy continued to shoot at
the animal and after emptying his gun secured a
club and began to boat tho brute, which was weak
ening from loss of blood. Marklein Is fatally
injured, 'while McCarthy's clothing was torn to
shreds and his body horribly scratched.
J. A. T. Hull, present congressman from tho
Des Moines, la., district, was renominated by the
republicans, February 29. Ho was opposed by
Judge Prouty, who made a vigorous fight against
the present member.
February 29, the Burlington railroad made a
big cut in its force of workmen at the Platts
mouth shops. One hundred and two men were
laid off.
Robbers, In an endeavor to cover tho attempted
looting of the Camden, Md., bank, a branch of tho
Baltimore Trust company, started a flro which
destroyed the building and several adjoining
structures, causing a loss' of $20,000.
Mrs. Horace G. Allis, whose husband served
a term in prison for wrecking the National bank
of which he was president, committed suicide at
Little Rock, Ark., by hanging herself with strips
of bedclothing.
Mrs. Mary McAdams, the oldest resident of
Montgomery county, Illinois, is dead at tho ago
of 94 years. She leaves seven children, 29 grand
children, 52 great grand-children and one great
great grand-child.
, The National Farmors Co-operative Ex
change was organized March 2 at Omaha.
Penniless and almost destitute of clothes ,plx
members of the crew of the wrecked schooner
David P. Davis of Bath, Me., who were" picked
up off Hatteras during a golo by Diamond shoals
lightship No. 72, have arrived at Norfolk, Va.
The Davis was run down and dismasted off Hat
teras last Friday night by an unknown schooner.
i An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Lima,0., March 1, says: The price of crude oil
was cut 3 cents per barrel on the high grade
product and 5 cents on the heavy grades in Ken
tucky and Kansas today. No cause for the re
duction i3 apparent, except that drilling will be
more active in the spring and production is ex
pected to increase.
After long and tedious negotiations the Ger
man steel syndicate has been finally organized.
Commander William E. Sewoll, U. S. N., gov
ernor of Guam, has reached San Francisco and is
said to be dying.
The St. Louis circuit court of appeals handed
down a decision to the effect that a person who
loses money in a bucket shop transaction on mar
gins cannot recover.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Cleveland, O., March 1, says: The Marcus A.
Hanna Memorial association was incorporated to
day at Columbus by several prominent citizens of
Cleveland. The purpose of the association is to
establish a chair of political science at Western
Reserve university in memory of the late Senator
Hanna. The incorporators will meet in a few
days and choose a board of trustees, open an
office in Cleveland and begin active work for tho
collection of sufficient funds to endow the pro
posed chair. The movement was Instigated by
Rev. J. S. Rutledge and found immediate favor.
The present movement is not intended to super
sede any other memorial in stone or bronze that
may later be erected to Senator Hanna's memory.
No statement probably will be made as to the
amount of money necessary for the proposed
chair. ,
A special dispatch to the Denver Ifews, un
der date of Las Vegas, N. M., March l,.says: A
telegram from Delegate Rodey givmg;the infor-
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mation that the president had just declared to
him that ho was in favor of joint statehood for
New Moxico and Arizona and would use his influ
ence to secure the passage of a joint bill In the
present congress has just been received in the
city. Governor Otero, Territorial Socrotary Rey
nolds and Chief Justlco Mills happened to bo
hero when tho telegram was recoived. All have
boon opponents of tho joint statohood bill. On
seeing tho message they abandoned tho light for
soparato statehood and aro willing to accept a lib
eral measuro admitting New Moxico and Arizona
jointly.
Charters of 1,000 corporations doing business
in Illinois have been cancelled by tho secretary
of state for failuro to comply with tho law which
requires annual statements.
On March 3 Toledo, 0., was bottled up be
tween two groat I"co gorges. The water in tho
Maumeo rivor in tho heart of tho city was seven
feet abovo mean level and was stationary. At
the mouth of tho river there was an ico gorgo
which extended for several miles.
At Tolluri&o, Colo., Henry Make, a striking
union miner, was chained to a telegraph pole for
an hour and a half because ho refused to work in
tho chain gang after having been convicted of
vagrancy. Governor Peabody says that although
Tellurldo is still under martial law tho military
authorities wero not responsible for tho pillor
ing of Make. It Is claimed that Willard Runnels,
a deputy sheriff, chained Make to tho pole. '
James E. Watson, republican, was nominated
for congress In the Sixth district, at Shelbyvlllo.
Ind., March 3.
The republican congressional convention for
tho Ninth Missouri district, In session at St
Charles, March 3, proposed Charles Wallbridgo
of St. Louis for vice presidont
The republican congressional convention for
tho Second Kansas district met at Garnott March
3 and broko up in a row. One faction renomi
nated Congressman Bowersack and the other
nominated Henry J. Allen of Ottawa.
The republicans of the Third Kansas district
In convention at Coffeevillo, Kas., March 3, re
nominated Congressman Campbell.
With the exception of minor strategic moves
on both sides, nothing has transpired during tho
past week in tho Russo-Japanese war. Russia
announces that she is upon the ovo of important
movements and 17,000 Korean troops have been
tendered to the Japanese. Desultory firing is
continued at and near Port Arthur, but no ad
vantages accrue to either party.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Chicago, March 3, says: After paying Major Wil
liam Bell more than $32,000 as interest on a loan
of $4,000, for four years, Charles E, Rand, a real
estate dealer, wanted to "coll the deal off." To
his surprise ho found that Major Boll still held
his checks for $7,950, none of which have been
presented to the bank. Judge Kavanagh has or
dered that a decreo be entered, compelling the
return of the security and checks, but has denied
tho petition for the return of excess interest.
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