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following officers were elected: Presi
dent, B. P. McPherson of Indianapo
lis; vico president, George S. Dana of
Utica; secretary-treasurer, A. L.
Sheotz of Omaha. The new execu
tive committee include Louis Le
Boaume of St. Louis and F. E. Haley
of Des Moines."
Forty-five deaths from yellow fever
have occurred at New Orleans.
Leo Sung, a Chinaman, after having
lived ten years in Omaha, has heen
ordered deported by Federal Judge
Munger. It was held that Sung was
not a student under tho meaning of
the law but that being a restaurant
Keeper ho must bo classified as a
laborer.
Washington dispatches say that the
administration is seriously considering
the, proposition that the government
abandon the effort to construct the
Panama canal directly through its
own agencies, and that the whole or
.greater part of the enterprise be let
6ut to contractors.
A dispatch to the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, under dato of Newport,
Vt., July 24, follows: "The surveyors
representing the United States and
Canada have finished the inspec
tion of the boundary line be
tween the dominion and the Uni
ted States at Richford and North
Troy. It is said that they have made
the discovery that Richford, East
Klchford and Stevens Mills, which
are a short distance within what has
been considered the Vermont side of
the. border, rightfully belong to Can
ada, and steps will probably be taken
to fix the boundaries so as to give
Canada either a recompense or the
territory stated. The strip of land is
several miles in length and from one
half to a mile in width, and has a
population of about 4,500. Richford
'has been one of the important out
posts of the United States along the
border. The Chinese detention sta
tion Is there."
"If he dies unmarried a second tLne,
without children, the one-half, "or all
his share, is to be equally divided
between the children of Wesley Breer.
"In no case is the present wife of
Carl F. Miller to benefit in anything
I leave him, either in personal prop
erty or real estate. Should anyone
contest this will, it Is my earnest de
sire that they shall forfeit their
share."
Further on in the will Miss Gunning
disposed of her household effects. Af
ter distributing a few favorite pic
tures and some of her china to women
friends, she again refers to Miller,
stating that he is to have everything
that Is left of the household effects,
as well as all of her other personal
property, the strict condition attach
ing, however, that he is not to have
them unless divorced or until after
the death of Mrs. Miller. She also
makes it clear that Mrs. Miller is to
have nothing, nor is she to be bene
fited in any way by the will.
Mr. Miller courted Miss Gunning
many years ago. They became es
tranged and Miller married Miss Wil
son. Miss Gunning is said to have
been broken hearted over the loss of
her sweetheart.
Mr. Miller says ho will not take
advantage of the gift.
Mayor Dunne of Chicago has ap
pointed Captain John M. Collins to. be
chief of police of that city.
The treasury department reports
that the United States spent $554,740
at the St. Louis fair, exclusive of the
loans.
The newspaper and job printing
.plant of the Arkansas Democrat at
Little Rock -was destroyed by fire
July 24.
Andrew Carnegie has written a let
ter to the Nobel prize committee of
the Norwegian parliament asking that
Congressman Richard Bartholdt of St.
Louis be considered when the next
award of tne Nobel prizes for work
In behalf of. international peace are
awarded. The prize suggested for
,Mr. Bartholdt is forty thousand dol
lars in cash.
In a newspaper interview Cardinal
Gibbons said:
"Corporation corruption is a fixed
evil that we must reckon with. Large
collections of money or association of
large numbers' of men with money
are sure to breed, corruption. The
public exposures of public men are
public benefactions. Wrongdoing or
crime is sure to get itself found out,
and publicity is the great punishment
that stares it in the face. Tjie great
trouble maker to this country is
money. The great offset to that evil
is the American inclination to spend
it rapidly. Americans are nor. minora
thank God. There is no dnnM what
ever that there are large accumula
tions of money in this country that
are very much tainted. The posses
sion of wealth is an isolation. I can
think of nothing more lonesome than
a man with an immense fortune.
With, the increase of a rich man's
fortune 'comes the increase of false
friendships and the leechlike attnnh-
ment of sycophants and human blood
sucKers."
Mrs. Almlra Kramer who at the
age of eighty-nine died recently at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, left a will in
which she appropriated $10,000 to be
used in providing food and baths for
tramps who visit Kalamazoo. United
States Senator Burrows is named as
trustee.
Miss Anna M. Gunning who died re
cently in Pittsburg left a remarkable
will. Years ago she was the swqet-
neart or uan Miller a prominent Pitts
burg merchant. She loft a half mil
lion dollars to Mr. Miller on condi
tions which she described in the fol
lowing clauses in the will:
"The income of the balance is to
be given to Carl F. Miller, provided
Iiq is not living with the woman he
married in 1899, one , Jane Wilson.
Should. she die or he be divorced from
her that is, finally divorced -he is
to be given absolutely one-half of the
principal and the interest on the other
half as long as he lives. If he mar
ries again he can, by will, leave
all to his second wife and children.
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a sprain, a stomach ache, neuralgia, rheu
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Jigo benefits, or money back.
In the trial of Congressman Wil
liamson, charged with land frauds in
Oregon, the jury failed to agree arid
another trial was ordered.
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Governor Carter of Hawaii has been
persuaded to withdraw his resigna
tion. He paid a visit to Mr. Roose
velt and says that he yielded to the
president's request.
Daniel S. Lamont, at one time prl
ate secretary to President Cleveland
later secretary of war, is dead. '
Joseph H.'Eaklns, well known as a
Kentucky newspaper man, and in re
cents years connected with theNew
xwijv vyuuub auut, aiea at Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
Governor William L. Douglas, of
Massachusetts has formally and final
ly declared that he will not bo a can
didate for re-election this year.
Influential business men in Chicago
Cincinnati and St. Louis have joined
hands for the purpose of making a
campaign against eastern and south
ern railroads that discriminate
through freight rate adjustments in
favor of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Baltimore.
United States Senator John H.
Mitchell of Oregon was sentenced to
six months imprisonment and to pay
a fine of a thousand dollars. He took
an appeal and was released on bond.
The question of the recognition of
Norway as an independent state Is
now before President Roosevelt.
A New Orleans dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Rerald says:
Colonel James R. Randall, former
ly of Baltimore, author of the famous
war song, "Maryland, My Maryland,"
has accepted the editorship of the
Morning Star, a Roman Catholic pa
per published here. For forty years
Colonel Randall has been a resident
of Atlanta, Ga., md thirty years of
that time he has been Identified with
journalism. He was for a long time
private secretary to Congressman W.
H. Fleming.
Samuel Harper, father of President
W. R. Harper of the University of
Chicago, is dead.
A news dispatch under date of Lit
tle Rock, Arkansas, July 25, follows:
The International Harvester com
pany is the first corporation outside
of the insurance companies to be pro
ceeded against under the antl-tru3t
law, now declared constitutional. At
torney General Robert L. Rogers to
day brought suit in the Pulaski cir
cuit court against this company for
penalties aggregating $400,000 for the
infringement of the law. This is but
the forerunner of other suits, many
of which will be as large. It is charged
that the company is a monopoly
within the meaninc and intent, nf tho
anti-trust law.
MODERN BUSINfXS EVILS
In ItS ISSUe Of Julv 24 t.hfi St T.nnla
Republic says:
tferore a large congregation at St.
Francis Xavier's church yesterday
Father Conway preached a thrilling
sermon in which, he spoke strongly
against modern "systems" in business
and politics and told of the need of
religion to eradicate many of the evils
which now prevail in both.
Drawing comparisons between the
state whjch now exists in American
business and the greed of the old
kings and princes, he asked whether
or not this country . was In danger
when theft was so prevalent in every
line of commercial life.
Taking for his text the' words "I
nave compassion on the multitude,"
from the eighth chapter of St. Mark
and the second verse, he said:
Christ has a care and a special
solicitude over the Christian state, for
he is its author, he is the lawgiver.
As he founded the church for the
supernatural and eternal welfare of
man; so, too, he built up the Christian
state for the temporal well-being of
Its citizens. His providence over the
one is like his solicitude over the oth
er. It is in the Interest of his people
and for the blessing and happiness it
brings to the citizens.
These blessings and this happiness
are everywhere dependent, not only
for their perfection, but ' for their
very existence, on the integrity of
the state's institutions and upon the
unimpeachable administration of its
trusts, its laws and public functions.
Let the rot of an ever-prevailing dis
honesty eat away the foundation of
this integrity, and the prostitution of
justice and public function become a
habit .of the public life of the state
and welfare, honor and happiness of
the citizen are at an end,, and are
Placed at the mercy of private or cor-
porate interests. The iiuiivi.. , .
reduced to nothing. The s1 J3
comes supreme. WtSL1
content, miserv. Hnf "' ",u
bmmd to be the inheritance g
Now, I am not concerned with
other peoples and with the condiE
of other states. Nor do I mS
parisons. I appeal to facts and ?
the light of these facts and of rece t
revelations, I desire to say that there
exists a broadcast, deep-rooted con.
spiracy against the welfare of thn
people and of our best institutions.
It looks as if our institutions, our polifj
leal and commercial life were in the
very balance, so persistent, so univer
sal, and so gigantic is the criminal ac
tivity that is undermining both the
one and the other.
From end to end, actually, of thia
broad and active commonwealth the
record of this crime is the one long
and complicated tale of fraud, decep
tion and monstrous theft. And this
is not the work of moral suspects
and nobodies, but it is the plan and
well-laid scheme and thought-out sys
tem of men in the public eye for
years, of men who had the trust and
confidence' of the people, of men
who hitherto have posed before us as
shlnlnjg lights and the boasted pro
ducts of our institutions and our
life.
It is frightful to contemplate the
magnitude, the boldness, the infamy
of their transactions and the extent
to which they have Let at naught
honesty, law and common decency.
Here it is a bank that has been looted;
there it is community whoso hard
earned savings have been squandered;
here it is a big insurance concern;
there it is one of the offices of state
that has suffered at the hands of
these incomparable rascals. Now it
is cotton, now it Is steel; again it is
oil, grain, land, copper, iron, which
has been exploited in the interest of
some gigantic fraud.
In one place it is a ba-".: president
who has done the mischief; in another
a brace of insurance officers, or it is
a coal baron or an oil magnate that
has come to disgrace and disclosure.
At one time it is a judge, a mayor of
a big city, state and municipal oft
cer, a big politician, a senator, a fed
eral commissioner, a cabinet officer
who suffers exposure, until the whole
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points along tho Minnesota and International iwu
wny. A qnlot roatfnl tlmo for tho man from tne
city. EiBhlng, coatlnp, and batlilnp. Wrlio for
booklet II to M. W. Downlot Auditor, Uralnord,
Minn.
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