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The Commoner.
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Coade n s ed News of theWeek
The third installment of the debt of $4,600,000
loaned by the government to tho St. Loulrf fair
association has been paid, a check being sent to
the secretary Pf the treasury for $500,000. Tho
total amount refunded to date is $1,908,148.19.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts is reported to
be dying at his home in Worcester. The scnalor
lias been ill for several weeks and a few days ago
the illneSS became dangerous.
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
Paris, Aug. 15, says: "Serious fires have broken
out in the ancient forest of Fontainebleau and tho
garrisons at Fontainebleau and Melun have been
mobilized to assist tho firemen In fighting the
flames. The line of tho fire extends a distance
of more than six miles.'
For the third time this year the Standard
Oil company has declared a dividend. This time
it is $5 a share. The three dividends this year
aggregate 20 per cent whereas last year they
aggregated 32 per cent
The democratic state convention for the slate
of Idaho met at Lewiston, August 16. The Asso
ciated press report says: "The Dubois-He'ltfeld
forces gained control of the Idaho-democratic con
vention today, routing the Mormon forces after
a fierce fight. Last night the anti-Dubols forces
succeeded in striking the anti-Mormon plank out
of the platform by a vote of 153 to 131. Adjourn
ment was then taken. During the recess the Idaho
county delegation was rounded up and swung into
line for Dubois. When the convention assembled
today the resolution was presented and carried
through by the Dubois forces, led by the senator
himself. 'We demand the extermination of polyg
amy and unlawful cohabitation within the borddrs
of Idaho and the complete separation of church
and state in political affairs. We pledge the
democratic party to enact such legislation as will
eventually suppress thi3 evil.' The adoption oi this
resolution' insures the nomination of ex-Senator
Henry ;He)tfel(L,fpi; governor. J. D.'McDufty 6f
Lenjthi'cdunty appears to lead for congress, al
though Harry Day 1$ being discussed. Thev ticket
as completed follows: Presidential electors, A. G.
Parker, W. W. Wood and John W. Brown; for
congress, F. H. Holtzhelmer; supreme judgo, N.
H. Clarke; lieutenant governor, Frank F." Harris;
secretary of state, J. P. Walling; attorney general,
Carl Paine; state treasurer, Timothy Regan; su
perintendent of schools, Miss Perineal French;
state auditor, W. H. Stufflebeam; state mining in
spector, Captain M. J. Llnke."
For the fifth time, an expedition in search of
the "Kruger millions," has met disaster. This
time the coasting steamer Penguin with hor .en
tire crew excepting the boatswain went down off
the coast of South Africa.
turbances there and to suppress tho bands of rov
ing natives and instructing tho authorities to pro
vide shelter and food for tho reconcentradoes and
to punish all engaged in tho disturbances.'
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
Washington, D. C, Aug. 15, says: "Consul Kuflln
cables the state department from Ascuncion that
martial law has been declared in Paraguay. Tho
forces of the revolutionists and tho government
have had a fight and considerable disorder prevails.
American silver plate manufacturers have
heretofore sent their wares to England for tho
purpose of placing tho "Hall Mark of England"
upon them in order to decoive American pur
chasers into believing tho goods were manufac
tured in England. The goods have thus been al
lowed to come back duty free as thi3 marking
was not considered as an improvement. TkeEng
lish parliament, however, has now passed an act
which prohibits the use of the English "Hall
Mark" on American silverware.
Miss Mary Treadway of Dubuque, Iowa, chris
tended the United . States gunboat, Dubuque, at
Norris Heights, N. Y., August 13.
An Associated Press report under date " of
Macbn, Mo., August 16, says: "A singularly-fatal
epidemic has broken out in the German settlement
of Wien, a few miles south of New Cambria.
Within the month there have been thirteen deaths,
which is 25 per cent of the cases. Fhysiclaus call
it a tropical malady, a rare disease in this lo
cality. Death occurs within four of five days after
the patient is attacked. In the collapse following
the induction the disease resembles strikingly
Asiatic cholera. The majority of the cases are
of children, although several adults have died.
One of the physicians in attendance contracted
the disease. Its origin is not yet definitely de
termined." The British government has emphasized its
demand made to tho sultan of Morocco for the
liberation of Haimen Jaiya by sending the cruiser
Minerva to the coast of Morocco. Jaiya was ar
rested by order of the sultan and his goods con
fiscated, and, despite the protests of the Bntish
legation, he has been kept prisoner.
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
Manila, P. I., Aug. 15, says: "Governor Wright
has issued an executive order directing the con
centration of the inhabitants of Banos, Calhalogan
and Ganda," river districts of the island of Samar,
ordering tho Island authorities "to quell the dls-
In an elevator accident In a ten-story building
in New York city a few days ago, one man was
killed, another fatally injured and sixteen others
badly hurt. The owner of the building and the
conductor of the elovator were placed under ar
rest. Tho American fleet, composed of three ships,
which has been in Turkish waters during tho re
cent trouble with that country has taken its de
parture, its presence being no longer necessary.
August 16, the town of Statesboro, Georgia,
was the scene of two of the most cruel lynchlngs
in the history of the country. Two negroes who
had been tried, condemned and sentenced to bo
hanged on September 9, for the killing of an en
tire family, were forcefully taken from the author
ities and burned at the stake.
An Associated Press dispatch unddr date of
La Libertad, Salvador, Aug. 17, says: "President
Escalon of Salvador will sail tomorrow lor Am
apala, in the gulf of Fonseca, where he will be met
by President Bonilia of Honduras. The two presi
dents will then proceed to Corinto, Nicaragua,
where they will meet President Zelaya and a con
ference will be held having for its object the tak
ing of measures to maintain peace in the Central
American republics."
Colonel Prentiss Ingrahara, author of "Land
of Legendary Lore," is dead at Beauvoir, Miss., at
the age of 60 years. Mr. Ingraham, whose father
was also an author, has written over 1,000 novels.
It is said that at one time Colonel Ingraham
turned out a new novel every few weeks.
President Roosevelt has left for Oyster Bay
where he will complete his letterof acceptance, a
draft of which has already been prepared. He
expects to remain about a month.
Three children of Charles Hauser of Chicago
have disappeared and it is feared that they have
been kidnaped. Neighbors tell strange stories of
a gypsy woman peering in at the windows of the
Hauser house and others, report that the children
were followed from school by a roughly dressed
man. The parents are distracted.
Miss Belle James of Slgourney, Iowa, is dead
as the result of typhoid fever contracted at Pierre,
South Dakota. The young woman made a trip to
Pierre last spring to take up a government claim
and became ill from drinking the water which is
furnished by lagoons.
- The Grand Army of the Republic, which, has
been in convention for the past week at Boston,
"Mass., has elected General Wilmpn Blackmar of
Massachusetts as its commander-in-chief and John
R. King of Washington, D. C, as ite senior vice
commander. It is estimated that 175,000 people
took part in the celebration during the week.
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Cripple Creek, Colo., Aug. 18, sap: "Charles Gc,
Kcnnison, president of the Cripple Creek miners
union charged with inciting the Victor riot of
June 6 was released from jail today pn a $2,500
bond. George G. Skelton, better known as Pearl
Skelton. a member of the Altman miners' union,
charged with complicity in the Independence depot
explosion, was released on a 11,500 bond. Twcn-ty-thrco
unionists held on criminal charges still
remain in the county Jail."
Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, wife of Chief Justice Fuller
of the United States supremo court, Ms dead at
their summer cottage "Malneatay," at Sorrento,
Maine. Mrs. Fuller wns sitting on tho piazza whea
sho was stricken with heart disease.
On August 18, at Cooper Union, In New York
city, Thomas E. Watson, candldato for president,
and Thomas H. Tibbies, candldato for vlco presi
dent of tho populist party wcro formally notified
of their nomination. Georgo Samuel Williams of
Indiana made the notification address to tho pres
idential candldnte, to which Mr. WatBon responded
with a very eloquent speech, accepting tho nomi
nation. In tho course of his speech Mr. Watson
said: "I do not believe that 6,500,000 men who
followed Bryau with cheers on their lips and warm
convictions in their hearts can now bo delivered
like cattlo to tho Clovedandltes who knifed tho
ticket or bolted in 1896. I bollevo that tho great
majority of tho men who voted for Bryan nro mon
of conviction. I can not but hopo they will reallzo
that I am fighting their battle now." After Mr.
Watson had concluded his speech Mr. Jay W. For
rest of Albany, N. Y., dollvorcd tho notification
address to Mr. Tibbies to which the latter re
sponded with a short speech accepting the nomination.
Terrified by the lynching of two of their raco
and fearing that similar treatment would bo ac
corded them, larga numbers of negroes havo left
Statesbpro, Ga., and it is feared that thcro will be
a great shortage of labor when the cotton picking
begins. Several negroes have boon whipped se
verely and an aged negro named Roberts and hla
son were shot.
An Associated Press dispatch undor dat of
Chicago, Aug. 13, says: "Thomas Taylor, a guard
on the Sputh Side Elevated railway, lias received
a reward of $100 from tho Woodlawn bank for .tho
recovery of a satchel containing nearly $14,000,
lost on a car by a messonger."
It Is reported from Lynchburg, Va., that at
Pleasant View, Amherst county, twonty-flvo per
sons attending the meeting of the Fiedmont Bap
tist association were poisonedseveral' fatally
by eating ice cream.
An Associated Press dispatch under date of
Madlsonvllle, Ky., Aug. 15, says: "Miss Clara
Bourtand, the 16-ycar-old daughter of Hon. W. E.
Bourtand of Dixon, has been lclllcd by lightning
while talking over a telephone in a heavy thunderstorm."
Jacob Hussman, an aeronaut, was drowned In
Lake Alice at Fergus Falls, Minn. Ho had made
a balloon ascension and on coming down In- a
parachute, fell Into the middle of the lake. He
became entangled in the weeds and drowned be
fore assistance could reach him. '
The strike situation remains unchanged. Tho
packers are operating their plants with more or
less success and tho strikers remain firm in tho
hope that a settlement will be made. Mayor Har
rison of Chicago has attempted to settle the afTair
but without success. On the whole, pretty 'good
order Is being maintained but occasional riots
and fights occur.
Mrs. Ingersoil, widow of tho late Robert O.
Ingersoll of New York, has. been given a favorable
decision in a suit to recover a large. amount of
money for services given by her husband as attor
ney in the settlement of the estate of Andrew J.
Davis, a wealthy copper mine owner of Montana.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has an
.n'ounced that as a result of his recent trip west,
plans are In progress looking to the establishment
of a wireless telegraph system of fire alarms in
the various forest reserves under tho control of
the government.
Corporation Counsel Tolman of Chicago has
declared that the packers at the stockyards havo
.no- legal right to lodge or house men In their
packing plants. He further says that the packers
must be compelled to erect fire escapes. The order
has been sent to the chief of police who sanctions
it.
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