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EUCHJST 5. 1901
The Commoner.
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Condensed News of the Week
Captain Sewell, in charge of the construction
work at the Washington, D. C., barracks, has had
considerable trouble lately, owing to the fact that
a non-union bricklayer named Taylor was at
work on the place. F. S. Key Smith, attorney
for the striking bricklayers said that Taylor was
employed In violation of civil service rules and
if he is not discharged Mr. Smith will protest to
President Roosevelt. Mr. Smith has received a
letter from Captain Sewell- in which he says:
"The question of union or non-union labor on
government work has got to bo settled without
any evasion of the issue some aay. If the unions
are able to establish their position that a non
union man can not work with them, on govern
ment work, then day labor work on the part of
the United States is forever at an end."
The grocery store of Poggrorlalo Cero, on
Elizabeth street, New York city, was wrecked by
a bomb and the owner and his wife almost killed.
Cero has been the recipient of a number of
letters recently, each marked with a skull and
crossbones and demanding that he meet the writ
er and bring 2,000 with him when he did so.
Cero became frightened and a few days ago gave
the letters to the police who have been at work
on them since.
An Associated Press report from Washing
ton, D. C, states that Admiral Dewey and his
men who fought the battle of Manila are to re
ceive their prize money on account of the Don
2Tuan do Austria and other Spanish property.
The amount of property captured Is estimated at
$1,657,344, one-half of which, according to law
will go to the credit of the navy pension fund
and the other half to be paid to the captors.
Temporary Chairman John Sharp Williams
of the democratic convention at St. Louis, has
received. word from Senator Davis that the formal
notification of his nomination as vice-president
would take place at White Sulpnur springs, W.
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An Associated Press dispatch under date 'of
Fort Scott, Kan., July 26, says: "A movement
to organize a ?100,000 packing plant here was
undertaken today by several men interested in
the meat business. The plan Is to Interest the
wealthy stock feeders In this and adjoining coun
ties and to make them stockholders in the pack
ing house. This is to make them independent of
the commission men and stock yards companies,
as well as the packers ,in the .larger cities. fe The
proposed company is to be organized along the
lines suggested recently by the national conven
tion of 'Stockmen."
An Indian prisoner who was charged, with
having abandoned his two children, a boy, aged
4 .years, and a girl, aged 20 years, at Fond du
Lac on Lake Athabasca, and who were later
found to have been devoured by wolves, only
their clothing, bloody and torn, remaining, was
severely reprimanded by the court at Edmonton,
N. W. T., who sentenced him to two years' Imprisonment.
The state department has received a mes
sage from the American consul at Zanzibar, re
porting the killing by Nandi natives, in the prov
ince of Urganda, British East Africa, on April 28
last, of one Mr. Wendte, supposed to have been an
'American citizen.
Charles Turee, 9 years old, who says that he
was kidnaped from his home, 8 Mulberry street,
Memphis, Tenn., a few days ago, and taken to St.
Louis, where he was beaten because he would not
steal and, beg, is now in the care or the police
matron there, having been found wandering the
ptreets.
After indicting twenty-four bookmakers the
grand jury at Chicago ordered Sheriff Barrett to
take immediate steps to stop all gambling at the
race tracks In Gook county. Before leaving the
3ury room Sheriff Barrett promised the jurors that
fce would comply with their request in every detail.
Thomas W. Trlchenal, alias O. S. Gundale,
postmaster at Pleasant Hill, Preston county, W.
iV., was lodged In jail by a.postonjce Inspector,
charged with spading circular letters through the
mails claiming that he had been an engraver and
proposing to sell bank notes at $1 for $10 dollars
worth of the spurious monoy. His correspondence
shows names of people In all parts of the country.
Judge McKoon, the aged New York lawyor
who disappeared so mysteriously some woeks, ago,
is still missing and his frienas are greatly
alarmed.
Rear Admiral H. G. Taylor of the United
States navy, who commanded the Indiana at the
battle of Santiago, died at Copporcllff, Ont., gen
eral hospital of peritonitis.
An increase of the arid land reclamation
fund held by the treasury to approximately ?25,
000,000 Is announced in the report of the auditor
of the interior department for the fiscal year
ended on June 30. The fund accumulated and set
apart for the three fiscal years ended on Juno
30, 1903, aggregated $16,444,339.
The death of John Rogers, sculptor and de
signer of the '-Rogers Groups" of statuary, is
announced, it having come after a long Illness
from creeping paralysis, while Mr. Rogers was at
his summer homo In New Canaan, Conn.
A strike of all the paper matters In the coun
try is threatened, unless the necessary concessions
are made by the employers in the 'ox river val
ley near Appleton, Wis.
Reports from Berlin state that Germany Is
suffering a severe drouth and that the crops
are suffering severely. An Associated Press dis
patch says that the German newspapers are print
ing pictures of crowds of people exploring the ex
posed river bed at Dresden, where the stream
can be Crossed on foot. Eight hundred canal
boats lie stranded in the upper Oder above Bres
lau and thirty-eight British colliers 'are lying at
Swincmuride, unable to discharge n their cargoes
because the river boats can not operate.
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The republican state convention for Missouri
has nominated Cyrus P. Walbridge for governor.
The democratic state convention Tor Nojrth
Dakota met on July 27 at Grand Forks and plaoed
in nomination the following ticket: Governor, M.
F. Hegge, Traill county; congressmen, A. G.
Burr of Bottineau and N. P. Rasmussen of Barnes;
lieutenant governor, G. S. Cyrne, Stark; secre
tary of state, H. O'Keefe, Walsh; auditor, Charles
Bade, Dickey; treasurer, R. B. Ross, Ward; at
torney general, S. Schrumgrad, Ramsey; commis
sioner of insurance, D. M. Holmes, Grand Forks;
superintendent of public Instruction, C. C.
Schmidt, Stutsman; commissioner or agriculture,
R. Schultz, Wells; railroad commissioners, F.
Martlneau of Rollette, Joseph Bravin of Sargent,
Axel Johnson of Eddy, Tho resolutions indorse
the St. Louis platform; declare for the initiative
and referendum; favor a direct primary law and
national grain inspection, and the development of
irrigation. "
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
St. Joseph, Mo., July 27, says: "Arter taking
450 ballots, the Fourth Missouri district demo
cratic congressional convention tonight adjourned
without making a nomination. Congressman C.
F. Cochran of St. Joseph has 40 votes; Francis
Wilson of Platte county, 35, and C. F. Booher of
Andrew county, 31. The convention has been in
a deadlock ever since the first ballot, no change
having occurred in the figures.'"
Western headquarters of the republican na
tional committee was opened in the Auditorium
hotel, Chicago, by Secretary Elmer zjover.
An ingenious method employed in the Phil
ippines to secure an adequate gas supply is to
slowly feed cocoanut oil, a native product, into
strong cast iron retorts, after the latter are
brought to a red heat in furnaces. This produces
a very high quality of illuminating gas, free from
smoke and tar.
. An Associated Press dispatch under date -off
New York, July 27, says: Chairman Taggart is
discussing the advisability of establishing western
democratic quarters at. Indianapolis instead of
Chicago, on the ground that Indiana Is a .very
important stale. Ho will defer to the Judgment of
the executive committee, however.
In tuts United States circuit court at Hart
ford, Conn., Judge Piatt signed tho decroo of fore
closure and Bale in the case of tho Morcantilo
Trust company as trusteo and tho Now York Se
curity and Trust company as compnunanc against
tho Union States Ship Building company.
Acting Postmaster General Wynno has signed
an order, effective August 1, wherein tho postal
administration of Horig Kong haa concurred, lim
iting the valuo of parcels post packages ex
changed between tho United States and Horig
Kong to $50 each.
Until tlid advent of tho Americans no rtyti
tematlc efforts ever had been made to vaccinate
Filipinos.! Tho islands now arc declared to be
practically, free from plague as a result.
Theodore Roosevelt has formally opened tho
political, campaign of. 1904 at his country homo,
Sagamore Hill.
Tho first annual reunion of tho United Span
ish war veterans will bo held at St. Louis In
stead of Indianapolis on account of the falluro
to get stopover privileges from tho railroads.
Tho question ofa reduction to 25 cents for
night admission that lias been agitated since tho
opening of tho St. Louis exposition, has been
finally disposed of by the board of directors vot
ing almost unanimously against the proposition.
Eight large sticks of dynamite and two dozen
percussion caps wer6 found under tho Santa Fe
station at El Paso, Tox. The explosives were 80
arranged that it Is thought any heavy Jar would
have set them off.
" .Rear Admiral Plilllp H. Cooper, commandcr-in-chlcf',ofv
tho Asiatic station, will bo retired
August i'.
An Associated Press dispatch from Beaver,
Pa., says that forty persons who wore attending a
family reunion were poisoned by eating ice cream
which contained ptomaine poison.
Robert E. Pattlson, former governor or Penn
sylvania, died of pneumonia August 1, at his
country homo near Philadelphia.
An Asssoclated Press dispatch under date of
Cripple Creek, Colo., July 29, says: "Patrick Mc
Carvel, one of those who was deported over the
Kansas lino by the military early in June, re
turned to Victor, whero ho owns property, in
cluding a large hall and business block valued at
$25,000. When McCarvel stepped from tho train
he was taken in charge by Major II. A. Taylor, act
ing city marshal. McCarvel was allowed to attend
to some business affairs and then placed on tho
first outgoing train and warned that in the future
police protection would not be afforded him should
ho again return. McCarvel originally was de
ported for openly expressing sympathy with tho
miners' union and denouncing acts of Governor.
Peabody and his military subordinates."
The czar of Russia has telegraphed M. Witte,
the president of tho Russian council of ministers,
offering him tho position of minister of the in
terior, which office is now vacant, owing to the
assassination of Minister von Plehvc.
Former Senator George G. Vest of Missouri
is reported to be dying at Sweet Springs, Mo.,
where h'e went in the hope of regaining his health.
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
New York, July 29, says: "Captain Van Schajck
and Federal Steamboat Inspector Fleming and
Former Inspector Lundberg were Indicted today
by the federal court grand jury In connection with
the disaster to the General Slocum on June 15
last, when nearly 1,000 lives were lost. Van
Schaick was the commander of the Slocum."
D. R. Anthony, the well known newspaper
editor, and brother of Susan fcr. Anthony, who
has been so seriously ill in his Leavenworth, Kan.,
home that his life was- despaired of, Is Improving
rapidly and his physicians say it is only a question
of time when he will be well.
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