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JANUARY 20, 1905
The Commoner.
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Condensed News of the Week
The customs department has located more than
$50,000 worth of diamonds and jewels owned by
Mrs. Chadwick, upon which no duty was paid
when they were brought to this country from Eu
rope. Most of the jewels are being held by resi
dents of Cleveland, Ohio, as security for loans
made to Mrs. Chadwick.
Alva Adams was inaugurated governor of
Colorado January 10, at noon. Governor Adams
walked arm in arm with Governor Peabody into
the house of representatives where the inaugura
tion took place. Governor Peabody will contest
the right of Mr. Adam3 to the governor's seat.
His notice of contest was filed Jan. 13.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Manila,
Jan. 10, says: "In an engagement, which took
place on January 8, with refractory Moros on the
island of Jolo, Lieutenant James J. Jewell and
one private of the Fourteenth United States cavalry
were killed and Second Lieutenant Roy W. Ash
brook of the Seventeenth United States infantry,
Captain Halstead Dorey of the Fourth United
States infantry, Second Lieutenant R. C. Richard
son of the Fourteenth United States cavalry and
three -privates were wounded."
A distressing accident occurred Christmas day
out on the sea. .The Marpesia, a Norweigan ship,
carrying a cargo of naphtha, was destroyed and
only seven of her crew were saved. These men
had to jump when the explosion occurred and were
rescued by the Danish steamer Gallia, which hap
penned to be passing near by. The Associated Press
describing the accident, says: "Gas from the fluid
accumulated steadily and 'by Christmas the Mar
pesia was a loaded bomb, needing only the slightest
spark to blow the whole structure to atoms. How
the spark reached the highly charged hold never
will be known, but suddenly there came a terrific
report, the forward deck shot up into the air with
a crash and a roar, and in a moment the entire
ship was wrapped in flames."
On account of stories that have been circulated
about illness and death, due to "snakes in cab
bage,' the Illinois board of health has issued a
statement, in which it says: "The state board of
health has rigidly investigated, through its inspec
tors, every report of sickness or death attributed
to eating cabbage, and in each case failed to find
the slightest ground for the alarming stories circu
lated over the country."
The Arkansas senate has adopted a concur
rent resolution extending to the ' people of the
Cherokee and Choctaw nations in Indian Terri
tory an invitation to take such action as shall en
able that portion of In.dian Territory which they
occupy to become part of the state of Arkansas.
Following the recent letter of President Roose
velt, urging strict enforcement of the law against
the emitting of dense smoke from chimneys in the
"District of Columbia, the police court in Wash
ington imposed fines aggregating $480 in nineteen
cases against Lidley S. Sinclair, general superin
tendent of the Potomac Electric Power company.
Fines were also imposed in several other cases.
An official report says that altogether twenty
persons wqro killed during the labor disturbances
in the oil roglons in Russia, and that forty-four oil
towors woro burned.
The otato department at Washington has in
formed the Chinese government through Minister
Chong Liang Chong that it regards the Hankow
Canton railway as an American corporation, pure
jand simpb, and as such, ontltled to the protection
of tho govornmont; also that it would not look with
favor upon tho proposed cancellation of the rail
road's franchise by tho Chinese government.
M. Paul Doumor, former governor general of
French Indo-Ohlna, was elected president of tho
chamber of deputies of Franco by 2G5 votes,
against 240 votes cast for M. Honry Brlsson, for
mer president of tho clmmbor. M. Doumor is an
opponent of Promior Combes.
A meeting to indorse and further tho move
ment for general arbitration trcatiea was held at
the Chamber of Commerce in Boston, under tho
auspices of a committee on international arbitra
tion, appointed at a mass meeting of citizens hold
there about a year ago.
Finance Minister van Rholnbaden, in Intro
ducing the budget in tho Prussian diet, referred
to German-American trade relations. Ho said
it was wholly erroneous that Gormany could gain
anything through a decline in tho economic pros
perity of tho United States.
An agreement to burn their sharo of surplus
cotton was reached at a mass meeting of tho farm
ers at Brazos, Tex.,
Dorothy Deneon, tho 10-ycar-old daughter o
Governor Deneen of Illinois, .was successfully op
crated upon for appendicitis at Chicago.
A government Inquiry may be the result of
the amazing state of affairs existing in connection
with the "Standard Oil Bank," otherwise tho Na
tional City bank of New York, and tho "wash
sale's" made by Munroe & Munroe of Montreal, of
Boston copper stock. It is said that these "wash
sales" confirm the charges of Thomas W. Lawson
in his "Frenzied Finance" articles.
In a rear end colli3on near Riverside Junc
tion, N. Y., four persons were injured. By a mirac
ulous accident the passenger locomotivo was de
railed and overturned. This diverted tho course
of tho onrushing coaches and averted great loss
of life, as the trains were under full headway.
The condition of Bishop Spalding, who was
stricken with paralysis January, is said to bo en
couraging. Ho has regained partial use of his left
arm and can speak more freely. His brother, Dr.
Spalding, is attending the bishop, and is assisted
by another physician.
While fighting fire in a barn at Ashland, Wis.,
four firemen were badly injured by tho explosion
or dynamite which had been stored there. The
barn was blown to fragments and nearly every
window In the vicinity was broken.
While playing in the first act of "Carmen,"
fifteen members of the chorus of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera company of New York, were injured
by the collapse of a bridge used as a part of tho
scenery on the stage.
Ex-Governor Lowndes of Maryland, died sud
denly at nls home in Cumberland, Md., Jan. 8, of
heart failure. Mr. Lowndes was preparing for
church and seemed in tho very best of health
when hersuddenly fell unconscious to the floor,
dying in a short time. President Roosevelt was
among the number who sent telegrams of condo
lence to the family.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Ottawa,
Ontario, Jan. 8, says: "An attempt is about to bo
made to drive all United States currency out of
Canada. To attain this end It Is proposed to in
troduce legislation at the coming session of the
dominion parliament, either as a government mea
sure or a private bill. Mr. Robert Bickerdlke,
member of parliament, of Montreal, as a prominent
representative of the business and banking Inter
ests in parliament, proposes to make the circula
tion of American silver money in Canada a crim
inal offense. He will Introduce a tentative meas
ure in the form of an amendment to the Canadian
criminal code providing that any one uttering or
offering in payment any copper or silver in
other than Canadian shall become liable to the
penalty of double the nominal value thereof.
Nine Italians, believed to be the leaders of the
Mafia, or "Black Hand" society, were captured by
tho Jersey City police officera Jan. 8. These men
were captured upon Information given to the po
lice by a man whom they had invited to become
a member of the society.
J. W. Lleb, Jr., president of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers, has been honored
by King Victor Emmanuel with the decoration of
knight commander of the crown of Italy.
. Nearly 2,000 persons attended the memorial
exercises in honor of the late Samuel M. Jones,
known as "Golden Rule" Jones, given at Cooper
Union, New York.
R. B. Vinson wa3 dragged to death by his
team at Rapid City, South Dakota. He is supposed
to be the son of a wealthy Baltimore man.
It has been reported that Svlatopolk-Mirskey,
successor of Minister of thd Interior Von -Plehve
of Russia, Is about to resign. The reason given
la that the minister was greatly disappointed at
tho f'llluro to bring about certain reforms which ho
had oarnostly worked for. The man who will
tako his placo, should fc resign, Is M. Wltto, who
is said to bo tho Bismarck of Russia, although ho
is hated and feared at court. Even tho car scorns
to shrink from tho Influence of this man and has
been roluctant to accopt tho resignation of
Sviatopolk-Mlrskoy.
An Associated Press dispatch dated London,
Jan. 11, says: "Tho Morning Leador's Copenhagen
correspondent reports the discovery at Lund,
Sweden, of a book containing tho toxt of Shalccs
pearo's Titus Andrlonlus,' printed In London 111
1594. Tho oldest edition hitherto known is tho
1G00 quarto."
Tho St. Louis Plato Glass company's plant
was destroyed by fire Jan. 11, causing a loss of a
quartor of a million dollars. About 500 employes
will bo out of employment until tho plant Is rebuilt
Tho board of directors of tho St. Louis Exposi
tion hold their monthly meeting Jan. 10. A roport
was road showing that the company now has a sur
plus of $998,000 and that $350,000 Is duo W"?
wrecking companies for fair buildings. Post ex
position oxpenses will bo paid from tho aggregate
of this amount, leaving a small surplus which will
bo divided among tho stockholders.
One of tho largest buildings of tho Farr and
Hailoy oil cloth company of Camden, N. J., was
destroyed by fire Jan. 11. Loss $175,000.00.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Chicago,
Jan. 11, Bays: "Presldont E. P. Riploy of tho
Santa Fo Railway company, has withdrawn his
request for a rehearing before the Interstate com
merce commission in tho Colorado Fuel and Iron
company rebate case. His reasons for this nctlon
aro given by him in the following telegram sent
to tho chairman of tho commission: 'Since re
questing a rehearing in tho matter of tho investi
gation of New Mexico coal rates, I have been fur
nished with notes of evidence already taken and
find that there Is no testimony to support the criti
cism of tho press that have concerned me person
ally the most, and that while there may have
been technical violations of the law, yofc Inasmuch
as I know them to have been unintentional and
that they resulted in injury to no shipper and in
view of the fact that the entire matter is the sub
ject of a pending civil action which will bo heard
before a federal court, I beg to withdraw such request."
While talking over a tciopnonc George Beta
waa instantly killed and two other men were
burned and shocked seriously at St. Louis, by tho
crossing of an electric light and a telephone wire.
Having been frightened by an unusually long
line of depositors who were anxious to deposit
their money in the State Bank at New York, sev
eral hundred ignorant Hebrews of the east side of
the city made a rush upon that Institution Jan.
11, to withdraw their savings. Scores of police
men were on duty to prevent panic. Truckload
after truckload of silver and gold was dravn to
the bank to meet their demands.
In a: unusually heavy fog near Raton, New
Mexico, two trains came together with a crash
and several passengers are believed to have been
killed.
K. H. Sarasohn. the founder of the first Jew
ish, newspaper in the United States died at his
home In New York, Jan. 12, aged 70 years.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated St Louis,
Mo., Jan. 11, says: "Judge Ryan, in the St Louis
circuit court today, ordered that the $60,000 fund
alleged to have been used in connection with tho
suburban railroad boodle deal, and now in a safe
deposit box. be used in payment of a note on
which it was borrowed by a former president of
the railroad company. The money is held under
an Impounding order Issued by the criminal di
vision of the circuit court, it having been used
as evidence in trials of members of the municipal
assembly."
The heart of the city of Chelsea, Mass., was
destroyed by fire Jan. 12. The Academy of Music
and the Ho?l Savoy were burned dovm, and one
fireman was probably fatally Injured. Loss $200,-000.
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