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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10, 'NUMBER 41
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Tho meat packers, in session at
Chicago, resolved that the cost of liv
ing has been reduced.
It fs announced that Governor
Carroll of Iowa will wait for the
legislature to choose tho successor
of Senator Dolliver.
David Rankin, known as Missouri's
farming king and the owner of
23,000 acres of farm land, died at
his home in Tarkio, Mo.
W. H. Cowgill, a member of the
Nebraska state board of railway
commissioners, died of paralysis at
Lincoln.
Stanley Ketchel, tho prize fighter,
was shot to death at a farm near
Springfield, Mo.
A West Indian hurricane wrought
great" damage along the American
coast.
Woodrow Wilson, who waB nom
inated by the democrats for governor
of New Jersey, has resigned the
presidency of Princeton University,
and his place will temporarily 'be
filled by John A. Stewart of New
York, the senior trustee of the insti
tution. Dr. Wilson has been con
nected with Princeton University for
twenty years, and was made presi
dent of this institution in 1902.
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ative to the proposal of Great Brit
ain that all the powers recognize the
new republic of Portugal simultane
ously. It is not thought any of the
powers will oppose the suggestion.
took place at Montour Falls, Schuy
ler county, where the deceased
statesman was born August 20, 1843
In 1892 Mr. Hill was the candidate
of the New York -democrats for tho
nomination for president, but Grover
Cleveland was re-nominated for that
office.
The body of Senator Jonathan P.
Dolliver was laid to rest in Oakdalo
cemetery, on a hillside overlooking
the city of Fort Dodge, Iowa, on the
afternoon of October 20. Tho driz
zling rain, driven by a cold, raw
wind, compelled the family to aban
don the original plan of holding tho'
services on the lawn of the Dolliver
home. The funeral, therefore, was
held in the Fifty-sixth regiment
armory, which accommodated 6,000.
Devoted friends of the late senator
crowded every available space in tho
building. Standing outside were al
most 3,000 people straining to catch
a word of the eulogies being pro
nounced on the dead statesman by
his associates in civil and political
life.
A dispatch from Washington says
the warning to civil service em
ployes of the government against
activity in politics, recently Issued
by various departments, was not in
tended, to Interfere with the rights
of any employe to vote as he pleases
at the "coming election.
A St. Louis dispatch under date of
October 21 says that 2,500 union
employes in twenty-one shops of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
railroad systems (Gould lines) laid
aside their tools and struck in accordance-
with President O'Connell's
strike order. They are prepared to
remain out indefinitely.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Ithaca, N. Y dated October 20 says:
"Twice in his speech tonight Prof.
E. H. Woodruff of Cornell Univer
sity called Theodore Roosevelt a
liar, once an 'unmitigated liar. His
attack, which was made at a politi
cal rally at which he presided,
threw the house Into an uproar.
There were catcalls and hisses and
cheers and clapping, with a steady
shout behind them all of 'Parker,
Parker.' Judge Alton B. Parker
then begged tho audience to nlinw
Professor Woodruff to bo heard. The
noisier part of the house complied
and the evening was spent more
quietly."
General Thomas T. Eckert, former
ly president of the Western- Union
Telegraph company, is dead"fV Mr.
Eckert was born in "Ohio, April 23,
1825.
According to the figures made pub
lic by the forest service, seventy
seven men heroically gave their
lives In their efforts to subdue the
disastrous forest fires which raged
in the west during the latter part
of August.
Contributions of one million dol
lars for a world-wide expansion of
the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, $450,000 of which was given
by John D. Rockefeller, were an
nounced at a conference of Y. LI. O.
A. workers in the eaBt room of the
White House. President Taft ad
dressed the delegates and heartily
endorsed tho organization.
President Mellen declared in a re
cent speech that the Boston and
Maine railroad will hereafter keep
out of politics.
Address all Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
David Bennett Hill, former gov
ernor and senator from New York
and for years a leading figure in the
councils of tho democratic party,
died on the morning of October
20 at Wolfert's Roost, his county
home near Albany. Senator Hill had
been 111 nearly three weeks with a
cold and bilious attack, but his con
dition had not been considered ser
ious. He vras sitting up in bed to
uiiu n mum or water wnen ne was
seized by an acute dilation of the
heart. Death followed quickly, with
no one but a nurse at his side. Mr.
Hill had long been a sufferer from
Brlght's disease, which primarily
brought upon him the condition
which caused his death. Interment
Edgar Allen Poe has been de
clared entitled to a place in the hall
of fame.
Chairman Nicholas Reed, of tho
Towa democratic state central com
mittee, has addressed an open letter
to Chairman Carl Funke of the re
publican committee asking that both
parties agree to determine who shall
be the next United States senator to
succeed Senator Dolliver at an in
formal primary held In connection
with the coming November election.
An Associated Press dispatch
from St. Louis sayst "Heading
straight for Ontario, across tho great
lakes along the best balloon route
In America, Captain von Abercron,
tho famous German pilot, with his
balloon Germanla, Is believed to bo
leading in the international race for
tho James Gordon Bennett cup,
Which started from this city I&t