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The Commoner.
.VOLUME G, NUMBER 23
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Under date of South Omaha, Nob.,
the Associated Press carried the fol
lowing dispatch: "The column is
broken. The brightest jewel in the
arch is gono. May is dead.' Thus did
Dr. W. J. McCrann of South Omaha,
announce the first doath in his 'step
ladder family.' May C. McCrann, old
est of fourteen children, who have
raado their parents famous as leading
exomplars of the Roosevelt anti-race
suicide maxims, succumbed yesterday
to a long illness from typhoid fever,
complicated by pneumonia. She was
born in Kentucky in 1886. The doc
tor was proud of his robust and happy
family. On tho letterheads he uses
ho had a cut showing the children
grouped in tho order nf fiiAit oiA
Under the picture of the doctor is the
motto, 'The party I am working for.' "
William H. JBusbey, former manag
ing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
is -dead. '
John L. Aylward has announced his
candidacy for the democratic nomina
tion for governor of Wisconsin.
William B. Curtis of the Chicago
Record-Herald says that excluding
private and church charities, England
n"PP?rMS 782,422 paupers out of a total
population of 34,152,927, at an annua
cost of $70,081,345. ""uui
a good deal of disturbance in the body
politic the past year, and it is likely
to continue. The nation is engaged
in the business of cleaning house. We
have been a long time fixing up our
irout yaras. we have forgotten that
every house has a back yard, and have
not been as particular about it. We
are going to clean the back yards.'
These were the words of Justice David
J. Brewer of the Ur'-ed States su
preme court in an ml 'ss tonight
before a convention of VU insurance
agents. 'As a result of t work now
going on,' continued Justice Brewer,
'there will be truth and honesty in
every industry. In the shaking up a
great many men will be unjustly con
demned. Do not condemn a man until
ne is round guilty, but when ho is
found guilty, whoever he may be, let
him take his punishment. Some think
we are going to have trouble 'every
time mere is an expose. It is not
true. The great American people is
not unsound.'"
dote Tnid ress disPtch under
-TornAt ,U?a-' JUJy 16 follows:
nresidenHdtrlk f?r the Xerotic
presidential team iu 1908 was the
fi?8ta?iCe ?f a resltion adopted by
the enthusiastic members of the low
tordavranfoI.oithe G0ria teBMatSS
m2?V 0"owIn an address by the
New York district attorney. Mr Je
rome spent only a few minutes with
talked tQ7fT.16
nort? ana "the toST SggesUngthat
7flT ml3lmderstanding1 , had ex
isted during recent years wer'e lar
due to sensational writing S y
Wrk in too OranS Th"?as B- Ba
Jn quo warmnto of the Sf1
temporary rpnnin".. l0, state for a
Junction against gamblinrr? In'
sorts. Attorney General Sriii"19 ,re
mediately servA,i VwSi Miller im-
tUo .tatf.S.01 to
Barllett. StaSto A.
ryIepnrtmontLhOorrty,3,,e00t5ea3-
Cam?C w?r? aXM"t ?
Vile. Ky., on the otarra- jK?fMy
an to uu J. ft MtaSSa." hWns a
in London She wa, .y at,1ier home
former vicerlyof Ind8 W'te E tho
driven to desnatr L f Des Uo,a,
.mitted snicido y lnsomiia, coin!
An A ,, T '
vSKigtf s
President Roosevelt has issued or
ders that the eight hour day shall be
observed on government work.
A dispatch under date of Warm
Springs, Ga,, July 19, follows: "Dis
trict Attorney Jerome delivered an ad
dress on 'Public opinion; its power,
some of Its evils and injustices, and
our duty as lawyers to it,' before the
Georgia Bar association tonight. In
the COUrae Of Tlln nrMrnao TVIV T..w.
referred to President Roosevelt's crit
icism oi a united states court judge,
saying: 'There is one injustice which
public opinion not infrequently does,
It is one which lawyers can do much
to correct, and that is the criticism
of judges for decisions which they
could not avoid making if they obey
tho law. The Tenant nnAotnMo
nation's chief executive, himself a
iu.vv.yei, criticising m a public docu
ment a federal liificro fm. mq itct
on a point of law, has not, I believe',
wumiouueu ilhou to our profession.
The laws are our laws. Public opin-
l ?them, and can chanSe them.
Every citizen has a right to criticise
them and seek their amendment or
repeal; but while they are our laws
we want our judges to obey and not
substitute for them something they
deem in accord with a thing so muta
ble and difficult to ascertain as public
An Associated Press dispatch from
Milwaukee, Wis., says: "J. g. Al
brlerht. frAnomi oo-on- tttj ..' ,.
"---' x . "u i" Wisconsin ior
the Union Central Ute Insurance com-
Pian0f 0h.Io wh0 aPPeared before
the Wisconsin legislative Insurance in
vestigating committee today, produced
correspondence of a sensational char
acter between his company and a Wis-
JhfinH?1 pmAcourt judSe m which
the latter tried to obtain a rebate and
offered the company a plan for a sub
terfucre nnrtor wTiIm m. j...,. .
lieved the rebate could be given and
still come within the pale of the law
Mr Albright said if supreme court
judges were willing to offer subter
fuge plans by which they could ob
tain rebates, he thought there was lit
tle wonder the rank and file of the
public were looking for rebates If they
?uld ob.tain iem." The name of the
judge with whom the correspondence
msa october' i92'
burg Boldiers went on a strike because
ut o monuucoiv UJ. IUU UUIC1UIO. Jtt.
MU.1AO uuuicgi-aiu uuuiurua uiai uer
many and Austria, fearing a revolt in
their Polish provinces, -were prepared
to Invade the czar's Polish possessions
and put down the uprising, in. case the
revolution in Russian Poland is suc
cessful. Dispatches from tho interior
tell of burning of the manor houses,
the murder of .landed proprietors and
collision between the peasants and
the soldiers. One government bank
was robbed of $120,000. Grave fear
is entertained that there will be civil
war in Russia, St. Petersburg dis
patches say that there is no possible
hope of reconciliation.
The democratic state convention for
Ohio has been called for Columbus,
July 21 and 22. Judge McCann will
be temporary chairman.
The Elks, in session at Denver,
Colo., selected Philadelphia as the
next place of meeting.
r
An earthauake oecurrpri f Rnrnrm
N. M., Jul 18.
An Associated Press cablegram un
der date of St. Petersburg, July 19,
follows: "The commission appointed
to investigate the surrender of Port
Arthur has finished its labors and
recommends that Lieutenant General
Stoessel, the former commander of the
Russian forces at Port Arthur, be dis
missed from the army and shot; that
Lieutenant General Fock, who com
manded the Fourth East Siberian di
vision at Port Arthur, be dismissed
from the armr and undergo a year's
hard labor; that General Reiss, chief
of staff of General Stoessel, be dis
missed and banished, and that Ad
miral Alexieff, former viceroy in the
far Bast, Lieutenant General Smirnoff,
commander of the Port Arthur fort
ress, and General Vernander be repri
manded. The formal trial of these
officers will take place shortly."
our own' people a chance.' The Movt
can government does not fear Lv Lr
date11 ootoM Vr?f
lows: Winston CttSShn? novel
formally opened his SSgn ?07 tto
republican nomination fof governor It
New Hampshire at a rally fn tWs cif v
tonight. Mr. Churchill & running'1
a platform, the principal plank of
which is non-interference of rooi
tiona in afnfo niiu..., UL corPOra-
traaJy ?f Peace, between Glial
stene'd Mf aUd. Hnduras
signed Juljr 20, on board the United
States cruiser Marblehead on the hteh
seas off the Guatemalan coast
Governor Folk of Missouri is en
gaged in a vigorous effort to enforce
the Sunday dosing law at St. Joe vt
John A PMth,er Citie3' Judge
John A. Rich has rendered a doci.
sion upholding the Sunday law
t $ p:riB cablegram announces that
n v' 00zet?ll?r has sailed or
New York. A Findlay, Ohio, dispatch
says that Sheriff Groves his a wa
rant for Rockefeller's arrest The
SSSmSS? bas?d information
med in the probate court at Findlav
ttf SSf?8"6' wIth vIolS
the anti-trust laws of the state. It
iSrSS d'i nowever tht as the in.
Sf only charges a misdemeanor
Rockefeller can not be taken to Ohio
without his consent.
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Russell Sage, the flnancL, died Sl
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The czar has issued an order dis
solving the Russian parliament. This
Is generally regarded as a great mis
take. The czar's rule is now serious
ly threatened.
Cablegrams from Russia show a
tffn fhiier,,ind. VlerQ is uncertain.
IV h "atods of thoughtful observ
ers as to the outcome. The St. Peters-
An Associated Press dispatch under
date of Laredo, Tex., July 20, says:
For some time past rumors have
been rife in almost all the large cities
of Mexico which may portend any
thing from a great strike of the labor
ing class to a revolution against the
administration of President Diaz
Opinion is divided as to what the re
sult will be but enough confidence
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uneasiness, and steps will be taken to
meet any contingency which may
arise. Circulars have been posted in
?te?u7'' ,SaltII1' San LuJs Potosi
and other large cities throughout the
republic warning all foreigners to
leave the country before the 16th of
September, the independence day of
the republic. The circulars are in
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the Mexicans and warn all foreigners
t f 1y d0 not leav0 the country
by the 16th of September they will be
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cipally Americans. The railroads, al
though they apparently belong to the
nation, are the exclusive property of
Americans; the Americans direct
them The mining industry fa
largely controlled by the foreign ele
ment, and our nation, heretofore in
dependent, is being made the servant
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