OCTOBER 14, 1901 ,
The Commoner.
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C o t d e r s e d N e w. s of the Week
Postmaster General Payne died at the Arling
ton hotel in Washington on October 4, of heart
trouble.
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Berlin, Oct. 3, Says: "Empoi or William, in fixing
the course of study for Princes August William,
Oscar and Joachiin, has prescribed a course of
lectures on commercial subjects and industrial
problems, and technical questions In the railway
business,' embracing railway problems and progress
in the United States. Further lectures will bo
given to elucidate the relatione of great interna
tional, financial and commercial houses."
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Washington, Oct.. 7, says: '"J. he monthly report
of the chief of the bureau of statistics of tho de
partment of agriculture will show the average con
dition of cotton on September 24 to have been
75.8, as 'compared with 84.1 last month, 65.1 on
September 26, 1903, 58.3 on September 2o, 1902, and
a ten year average of 56.8."
An Associated. Press dispatch, under date of
Keene, N. H., Oct. 3, says: "Mrs. Denman Thomp
son, wife of tho actor and author of the Old
Homestead, died at lier home in West Swansey
today."
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
St. Petersburg, Oct. 3, says; "Ambassador McCor
mick has been granted leaye of absence to go to
the United States on urgent private business. Ho
leaves here Thursday arid will stop in Berlin to
consult the Japanese minister there regarding the
repatriation of tho Japanese refugees. Mr. Mc
Cormick will sail from Cherbourg on tho Hamburg-American
line steamer Deutschland October
14 and .probably will be away from his post for
six weeks."
.An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Peoria, 111., Oct. 3, says: "It has been discovered
that Bartpnyllle, where the asylum for incurably
insane.' is 'located, is the only incorporated town,
in tfco. United States that does not haye to levy
municipal : tax! The .population of tho town is
300 and it collects $4,000 annually in saloon .licenses."
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
St. Petersburg, Oct. 3, says: "Lieutenant General
Kleighs, governor general of Kieff, has been
granted leave of absence and there is strong
reasons to believe that this is preliminary to his
supercession, as he belongs distinctly 'To the von
Plehve regime. He formerly was perfect of police
of St. Petersburg."
An Associated Press -dispatch, under date of
Mexica City, Oct. 4, says: "Popocatapetl,. the
volcano' with immense sulphur deposits, was
transferred' . to New York parties today. An
American company with a capita of $5,000,000
will operate tho deposit. The company will con
struct a cog railway from ihe village of Amca
Meca at -the base of tho mountain to tho summit.
The final session of the executive council
of the American federation of labor was held at
Washington and the council adjourned to meet
on the train which will carry them to the general
convention at Sah Francisco about November 1,
The meteorological board of the weather bu
reau of the United States is in session at Chicago.
The main object is to plan a revision of the
meteorological charts, forms and records to be used
by all weather stations throughout the United
States.
Mormon church at tbo conference of tho St Goorgo
stake of tho church, In which ho counsolcd tho
pooplo of the church against selling lands to
Gentiles or aiding them in any way.
An Associated Press dispatch, under dato of
Worcester, Mass., Oct. 5, says. "The will of tho
late Senator George F. Hoar was tiled today. It
makes no public bequests, dividing his proporty
between his son and daughter, Kockwood Hoar
and Miss Mary Hoar, and giving his Asnobumskic
estate in Paxon to his gtaudaaughtor. Tho will Is
dated January 8, 1904.
Reports from Washington say that the United
States now has twenty-six wireless telegraph
stations along Its coast line, Including tho Isth
mus of Panama. Preparations for tho equip
ment of these stations are now being made by
Admiral Manney, chief of the bureau of equip
ment of the naval department
Miss Helen Miller Gould, who Is interested in
the Young Men's Christian association work nlong
tho Gould lines in the southwest, accompanied
by international" secretaries, J. J. Hicks and W.
E. Lougeo, and their wives, has started on a tour
of inspection in the west and southwest. They
will travel In her private car and visit as many
towns as possible.
President Roosevelt has formally designated
First Assistant Postmaster General Robert J.
Wynee as acting postmaster general. It is un
derstood, however, that George B. Cortoiyou, now
chairman of tho republican national committco
will bo appointed postmaster general.
The name of William H. Moody has been
prominently mentioned as the successor of the
late Senator Hoar. While Governor Bates says
that he has not made up his mind in the matter,
It is generally believed that Mr. MoOdy will bo
his choice.
Lightning struck tho 30,000-barrel tank ot
the National Refining company at Finlay, Ohio,
causing' a loss of about $200,000. When thbtank
exploded thousands of barrels of tho OH spread
over the surrounding territory, and for a whilo
It looked as If the whole city was doomed.
Frederick Bartholdl, tho French sculptor who
designed the statue of Liberty, which was pre
sented to the United States by tho French govern
ment, and which stands at the entrance to Now
York harbor, is dead at Paris. Tho government
has ordered that the flags on the statue of Lib
erty and the buildings on Bedloe's islands be half
masted out of respect for him.
An Associated Press- dispatch, under dato of
Vienna, Oct. 5, says: "A dispatch from Fleume
reports a great increase in the number of emi
grants going to America by the Cunard line.
There are now 3.000 awaiting passage. Tho au
thorities aTe unable to find accommodations for
them and the minister of the interior has been
requested to allow them to sleep in empty railway
cars.7'
It Is said that forty or fifty thousand cotton
workers In tho kingdom of Great Britain are 'on
the verge of starvation. This condition of affairs
is due to the depression In the cotton industries.
Reports from CheFoo say that meat, there"
has reached, tho prlco of $1.20 per pound, whilo
eggs aro sold for 20 cents each.
An Associated Press dispatch, under date- of
Hanover, Pa., Oct. 4, says: "Mrs. Annie Hall
Grenewald," tho only woman' forecaster employed
by the United States government, is dad at her
home near here, aged 57 years. She was regarded
by the farmers of York county as ar. authority.
Mrs. Grenewald was president of the National
Science club of Washington and editor of a science
journal.
' An, Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Salt' Lke City, Oct 3, saysif "The St. George
(Utah)" -Advocate, a church' paper, prints a sermon
delivered by President ' Joseph F. Smith of the
An Associated Press dispatch, under dato of
Washinttfon, Oct. 5, says: "United States Trea
surer Roberts has received advices of tho prob
able arrival at San Francisco within the next few
of $2,500,000 in Australian gold sovereigns and
$858,00 In Japanese yen from Yokohama and has
granted authority for the depjsit of this foreign
goia- In San Francisco for telegraphic currency
credit in New York. There is nothing unusual
in5 tho deposit of foroitoi gold at &fon Francisco,
but tit this season of the year the large share of
the imports have usually come from the European
money centers direct to New York. '
An Associated Press dispatch, Under date or
Peoria, III.. Oct. 5, says: "The trial of the suit
to-break tho will of the late Washington Corrlng
ton, Who left his entire estate as a trust fund to
found a university in this city when it should
have reached a million dollars has commenced
in- the circuit court. The heirs -were cut off with
out a dollar. Among the witnesses called to
tsify as to Corrlneton's condition of mind wa
Prof. Albion W. Small of the university of Chi
cago. The estate consists chiefly of lands in th
vicinity of Peoria, Dr. Harper of tho university
of Chicago testified that he thought Corringtoa
sane."
An Associated Press dispatch dated London,
Oct 5, says: "Tho Grcok steamer Kelmontlnk,
bound from tho Black sea. for Antworp,
foundered rocently twenty-three miles northwest
of Ushant Sovonteon momboni of tho crew, In
cluding the captain and other officers, wore
, drowned. Eight survivors landed at Lcixoes, Portugal."
Carrie Nation was sontenced to nix inonthsln
Jail at Wichita, Kan., for destroying property
whilo raiding a saloon. Two womon who were
with her wero also arrested and fined. They will
appeal.
An Associated Press dispatch, under dato or
Boston, Mass,' Oct. 7, says: "In a brief aftcr-dlnuer
speech delivored before tho International peace
congress tonight Bookor T. Washington arraigned
tho Bolgian government for the alleged outrages
in tho Congo Freo Stato, declared that ho had.ow
donco of abuso and cruolty and said that a stale
of affairs existed that was a blot on modorn civ
lllzatlon."
Mount Polee, tho volcano on tho island of Mar
tinique which caused tho death of 10,000 people
two years ago, is again in oruption. Dense clouds
of black smoke and stones aro emitted from the
mountain.
An Associated Press dispatch, under dato of
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 7, says: "Tho annual re
port of tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway
shows a surplus of $3,299,919 for tho fiscal y'eat
ending Juno 30, 1904, an Increase over the preced
ing year of $432,336. Tho gross earnings amounted
to $48,330,334, and tho operating expenses $30,27,
857, making tho incorao from operations $18,054,
377, addod to which is tho income from other
sources $316,431, making the total income of $18,-370,908."
An Associated Press dispatch, under date of
Rome, Oct. 7, says: "Tho war office has recalled
under arms tho reserves of 1903, except tho cav
alry and artillery. This action places about 50,000
moro troops at tho disposal of the governor."
Three persons lost thoir lives In an automobile
accident in New York on October 7. Ibe auto
mobile went at full speed ovor an embankment,
landing on a railway track twenty-five feet bolow.
Just as the auto struck the track a train ap
proached, smashed it to pieces and, besides killing
three of the occupants, soverely Injured six others.
An Associated Press dlspitch, under dato of
Paris, Oct G, says: "Acting on instructions from
Washington Ambassador Porter today sent Mad
ame Bartholdl a letter expressing tho sympathy
of tho American people with her in the loss of her
husband and appreciation of Bartholdi's sentiments
toward tho United States."
During a heavy fog Wednesday night the
steamer Roscowiz struck a reef on Harblo Down
island, near Vancouver. Four paseengers were
drowned. The crew and 185 passengers were saved.
An Associated Press dispatch, under dato of
Now Haven, Conn., Oct. 7, says: "In commenting
on the decrease In tho number of freshmen this
year, the Yalo News today says tho rigldness In
the examinations in ancient and modern lan
guages and bad business conditions in the west,
were two potent causes. The net decrease in en
trances is thirty-nine in the university."
Tho conference arranged by local business
men, between the secretaries of five labor unions,
representing the 26,000 striking textile workera,
at Fall River, Mass., and a committee from the cot
ton mills manufacturers, who signed the wage fe
duction, was held and came to naught Neither
party would concede a single point
Nothing of consequence has happened during
the past week In the far east The Japanese are
pressing the -Koreans into service by force and it
Is said that the Korean people are now favorable
to the Russians. The British steamer Sfsaam has
been seized by the Japanese. The steamer car
ried cargo of., flour and cattle intended for Port
Arthur. Tho Ruslans aro preparing to send the
Baltic fleet to the scene of battle in a few days.
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