The Commoner.
(IUNH it, iWii
fi
Condensed News of the Week
The labor unions of Illinois and Kansas have
adopted resolutions condemning the course of
Governor Peabody and appealing to President
Roosevelt to restore order in Colorado.
Senator Cockreli of Missouri was very pain
fully although not seriously injured by being run
into by a cyclist a few days ago.
The steamer "Canada" collided with a collier
six miles below Sorel Off the Canadian coast and
five persons are reported to have been drowned,
the Canada having sunk in 20 minutes.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Washington, June 14, says: It is icarned from a
high source that Attorney General Knox will re
sign from the cabinet in a few days and will be
succeeded by Mr." Moody,- the present Secretary of
the navy.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
West Point, N. Y.,.June 13, says: Lieutenant
Colonel fright P. Edgertpn, professor of mathe
matics in the military academy, is at the point of
death with an affection of the heart. As a result
all social functions in connection with the grad
uation exercises will be canceled. Colonel Edger
ton has been stationed here for twenty years.
He was appointed a cadet from Akron, O., and
graduated in 1874.
An Associated press dispatch says: George
Wagner, a wealthy German resident of Bridge
port, Conn., committed suicide by shooting him
self with a. revolver at the, Morton, house, New
York, Sunday night. Mr. Wagner was the moving
spirit of a club of well known German residents,
first organized as a "thirteen club.'' Later one,
after another of the congenial spirits began to die
by suicide. It is noteworthy that practically all
of the men, formerly identified with that organi
zation, have died by their own hand. There is
said to be one member" left, who is a jeweler at
Bridgeport. ' "' i '
Locked in eachfiothers embrace, the dead bo
dies Of tfifee young men4 were" taken from the dam
at Mutual No. 4 plant" of the H. C. Prick Cpke'
company, Mount Pleasant township, near Greens
burg, Pa. Two went in bathing, got beyond their
depth, not being able to swim. Ihe third went
to the rescue and all were drowned.
Dr. Eugenia Metzer of Kansas City, Mo., has
received an appointment to the woman's table
for research work at the zoological station at Na
ples and will sail from New York city the last of
this month. Only one American woman at' a time
is given this appointment. .
Mrs. Antone Shoen was burned to death at her
home in Kansas City, Mb., a few days ago, on. ac
count of a mistake made by a grocer. When Mrs.
Schoen attempted to turn part of the contents of
a jug which she supposed contained vinegar into
a hot skillet, she was immediately enveloped In
flames and was so terribly 'burned that she lived
but a short time. She had, ordered vinegar at .the
store, but the grocer filled the jug with gasoline
by mistake.
The secretary of the Interior has withdrawn
115,000 acres of land from settlement in the Buf
falo and Lander districts in Wyoming on account
of the Shoshone irrigation project.
John L. McAtee, associate justice of Oklahoma,
from 1894 to 1902, died in Chicago yesterday. At
the time of his death he was engaged, in work
for the republican national committee.
After a journey of 37,000 miles on a bicycle,
through foreign lands, Rev. Henry Spickler, grad
uate of the Chicago University, ol Divinity, re
turned to this country on the transport Logan
from Manila after a three-year, absence. Mr.'
Splckler started three years ago from his native
town in Upper Alton, UK, and since that time he
has visited nearly every country on the globe.
This week the confederate soldiers of the civil
war held a reunion at Nashville, Tenn. It is esti
mated that nearly 65,000 people were in attend-
Abner McKinley, .brother gt the late Presi
dent McKinley, died at his home on June 11.
Funeral services were -held from the home of
Mrs. Ida McKinley. widow of the, late President
McKinley, at Canton, O. Mr. McKinley was bur
ied in the family plat at Westlawn cemetery.
The first of more than forty suits brought by
tho Louisiana Purchase Exposition company
against delinquent subscribers to the World's fair
stock was decided yesterday in tho St. Louis clr
suit court in favor of tho exposition company.
A riot broke out at tho plant of. tho Continen
tal Tobacco company at Louisville, Ky., when 200
striking negro men attempted to prevent COO ne
gro women employed at the plant from going to
work. The police quolled the mob, but wore com
pelled to resort t6 tho uso of clubs and revolvers.
General James M. Tynor, former attornoy
general, has demanded of President Roosevelt a
retraction of his statements in regard to tho guilt
of General Tyner in connection with the recent
postoffico frauds. The president is considering tho
letter and has conferred with Attorney Gen
eral Knox as to what course to pursue.
A most appalling disaster took place on tho
East river at the entrance to Long Island Sound,
New York. About 2,000 persons, members of St.
Mark's German Lutheran church, were on an ex
cursion steamer when it took fire and men, womon
and children, to tho number of neaily 1,200, were
either drowned or burned to death. Tho steamer
sank in two hours.
It is said that the release of the American,
Pordicaris, who is in custody of Moorish bandits,
is more uncertain than ever. Ralsuli, tho chief of
the bandits, has made demands with which tho
sultan positively refuses to comply.
The state charter board of Kansas refused to
grant a license to do business In Kansas to tho
Kansas Natural Gas company, a corporation or
ganized under the laws of Delaware.. ,
A contract was let at St. Paul, Minn.,' to a1
Tacoma, Wash, firm for the erection at Tacoma1 of
a "$75,000 hospital building for the Northern, Pa
cific railroad employes' benefidlal association.
Tour hundred more men wera suspended by
the Pennsylvania railroad from their shops at
Altoona, Pa. This brings the total laid off in
tho past month to 2,700. The shops were ordered
to work but four days a week and eight hours
a day.
" T.hat it is possible to lose $5,000 in ten min
utes by playing "English faro," in New York,' that
the police do not know where the game was
played) and that the victim may have no legal
remedy, were facto brought out in a case heard
before a magistrate. ,
William B. McKinley of Champagne, I1L, was
nominated for congress by the republican conven
tion of the Nineteenth Illinois district.
President Roosevelt had a conference with
District Attorney Morgan H. Beach, who prose
cuted the Tyner case, and Charles H. Robb, who
was assistant attornoy general for tho postofilco
department in succession to Mr. Tyner. The con
ference related to the Tyner letter.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Washington, Juno 13, says: Secretary Taft today
decided that army officers serving on tho isthmus
of Panama in the construction work of the canal
shall receive 50 per cent additional from the canal
commission over the, pay they are entitled to un
der the law. In many cases this is not satis
factory to the officers, and it has been suggested
that men serving In independent position should
receive such condensation as would be paid civil
ians doing the same character of work. The mat
ter is not entirely settled and may again be considered.
Ah Associated press dispatch, under date of
Kansas City, Mo., June 13, says: An ordinance
repealing the law requiring the union label on all
city printing was passed by the upper house of
the council tonight. Tho ordinance was referred
in the lower house.
The employes of the factory of KotbschHd,&
Co. of Rochester, N. Y., have been given the alter
native of leaving their positions or being, ejected
from the union known as the United Garment
Workers of America. The trouble 5ame about on
account of the refusal of the Rothaehild employes
to opposo tho wishes of their omployors who ar
advocates of tho nlno-hour working day system.
Mrs. Martha M. Gray of Marshall, Okla., has
returned to the government $1,21 which she il
legally draw as a widow's pcaslon.
Tho Island of Cubn was visited by a terrible'
storm on Juno 15, during which fourteen Inches
of rain fell. Several porsons 10at their lives and
tho loss to property In tho city of Santiago do
Cuba Is enormous.
The democratic stato convention for Illinois
met at Springfield, Juno 14. John P. Hopkins, A.
M. Lawrence, Ben T. Cable and Samuel Altschuler
were chosen as delegates at largo. The Illinois
delegation was Instructed to vote for Wllllnm It.
Hearst "as, long as his name Is ueforo tho na
tional convention." Tho Carter H. Harlson dele
gation from Cook county was unseated by tha
credentials committee which was under the con
trol of Hopkins. It was freely charged that tho
Hopkins chairman ruled the convention with arbi
trary authority and refused to bo gOYcrnea by tho .
majority. A stato ticket was nominated as'foj
, lows: Governor, Lawrence B. Stringer, Lincoln;
lieutenant governor, Thomas J. Ferns, 'Jersey vllle;
secretary of stato, Prank E. Doollng, Sangamon
county; stato treasurer, Chas. B. Thomas, Mc
Leansboro; attornoy general, Albort Watson, Jef
ferson county; state auditor, U. E. Spanglor, Chi-'
cago; university trustees, Mrs. Anna G. Solomon,
Chicago; Theodoro C. Lehr. Carllnvllle; F. it,
Morrill, St Clair county.
'The democrats of Arkansas met In stato con
vention at Hot Springs Juno 15 and by a vote of
258 to 182 instructed tho Arkansas delegation to
votir'for Judqc I'uviver. Senators Berry' and Clark,.
Goyenior Davis and sfeiary of Stato J. W,
Crockett were chosen as delegates at large.
:"Thd iem'rcraUe ate convention for Missis
sippi rnet' at Jackson, Juno 15. Delegates at largo
were' electa 1 as rollows: John Sharpt Williams,;,
SdA'ators. Money and McLatfrin, Governor Varda
mann .and former Congressmen Catclilns andf
Hooker were chosen dologates at largo. Tho dele
gation was luatruotA'! to vote for Judge ParJccras
long as, thar is any chance ioi his nomination.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Durango, Colo.) Juno 15, says: Editor David P..
Day of the Durango Democrat has gone to jail
rather than pay a lino of ,$300 Imposed upon him
by Judge Russell of the district court for having
criticised in his newspaper a decision of tho court.
In a 'card to tho public the editor says: "Tho
court fined me $300. I will not pay thirty cents."
Application will probably bo made to the supremo
court by Day's atlorridys for a writ of supersedeas.
. Democrats of Indian territory met at Durante
Juno Ifi. Delegates to tho national convention
were chosen as follows: W. G. Kodgers, T. L,
Vado, C. A. Skeen, and Robert Reed.
.
On June 10, William Cowherd was renominated
for congress by the democratic convention of the
Fifth Missouri district
James F. Burns, proprietor of the Portland
mine in Colorado, will bring suit against James
H. Peabody, the governor of that state, for $100,
000 for the closing of that mine by the militia.
A suit for $50,000 13 to be Instituted against
Governor Peabody by Charles H. Moyer, president
of tho Western Federation of Miners, for illegal
Imprisonment by tho military authorities.
Attorney General Knox has been informed
tho western district of Pennsylvania that has
by United States District Attornoy Young for
the western district of Pennsylvania that ho is
unable to acept his appointment as special assist
ant attorney general to investigate the alleged
scandals In the judiciary of Alasks, and Assistant
"Attorey General William A. Day has been desig
nated instead.
;The 129 anniversary of the battle or Bunker
Hill was celebrated in Boston, in Lynn and. in
many New England" cities. Business was sus
pended in Boston.
Rear Admiral Greer, 72 years o age, retired,
U. S. Ni, died at' Washington. '