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VOLUME 12, NUMBER q
An AflHociatcd Proas dispatch from
Now York, dated February 8, aays:
Charles W. Morse, bank wrecker
caino back tonight to the scene
of Ills former triumphs and his
conviction, crumpled up in a wheel
chair, silent and Impassive as a lay
figure With a white-faced wife at
his side, ho was pushed through tho
curiotiB throngs at tho Pennsylvania
station, lifted quickly into a taxicab
and whisked away to his homo at 127
Fiftieth street, to remain for a week
or ton days beforo starling for Bad
Nauheim, Germany, where ho ox-
expects to regain his health, whici
physicians say prison life has suat
tered.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Indianapolis, dated February 6, saytj:
Union labor oflicials and agents, said
to number between thirty and forty,
whom tho government holds crimi
nally responsible with the McNa
maras and Ortio B McManigal for
perpetrating more than one hundred
explosions in cities from Massachu
setts to California in tho last six
years, including tho wreckage of the
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Los Angeles Times building, were
indicted today Thirty-two indict
ments were returned. Capiases for
arrests have been issued and all the
men indicted are to be taken in cus
tody on a day secretly fixed by the
government, known to be within a
week. March 12 has been set for
tho arraignment before Federal
Judge A. B. Anderson in Indian
apolis. The papers for tho arrests
designate the amount of bond which
the defendants may give in the
federal districts in which they reside
for their appearance here. The
amounts of the bonds in the in
dividual cases were not made known,
but it was said in the aggregate they
would total $300,000.
debts, were arraigned by David Stan
Jordan, president of Stanford uni
versity, in an address to tho student
body. President Jordan declared
that a European war is not now im
minent. ' He said that since the battle
of Waterloo the Rothschilds have
been the actual rulers of Europe and
that it would be impossible ever to
pay them off.
Governor Aldrich of Nebraska has
issued a statement favoring Theodore
Roosevelt for tho republican nomination.
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nonornl .Tnmos R. Weaver diod at
the home of relatives in Des Moines,
la., February 6. He was eighty years
old. He had been ill only a few
days. General Weaver died at the
home of his son. When the civil war
began he enlisted in tho Second Iowa
infantry and was rapidly promoted,
through the battles of Fort Donalson,
Shiloh and Cornith, in which he par
ticipated, until he reached the post
of colonel. Ho was breveted briga
dier general in March, 18G4. Al
though General Weaver held federal
positions, he did not come into na
tional prominence until after his"
defeat as a republican candidate for
governor of Iowa in 1875. his suc
cessful opponent being Governor
Samuel Kirkwood. Soon after he
left the councils of the republican
party and became ono of the leaders
of the national party, better known
as the "greenback" party, which in
1880 nominated him for president.
In 1878, 1884 and 1886 he was in
congress. Tn 1892 General Weaver
was again nominated for president,
tnis time by the people's party.
Samuel Gomners. nresidmit-. nf fhA
American federation of labor, made
an unequivocal denial of any intent
to disobey the injunction of the su
preme court of the District of Colum
bia when he took the stand in his
own defense against the charge of
contempt in connection with tho
Bucks Stove and Range company
boycott case.
A press dispatch from Des Moines,
la., says that indications that a vig
orous contest for the Iowa delegation
to tho national democratic conven
tion at Baltimore will be waged be
came certain when friends of Wood
row Wilson opened his headquarters
here. Adherents of Champ Clark al
ready have opened headquarters.
Earl Bronson of Spencer is in charge
of the Wilson campaign.
The total number of convicts in
the Missouri penitentiary is. 2,378,
an increase of fifteen over last week
when the record was" broken. Four
teen of the inmates are white women
and sixteen negresses.
Florida will send a full delegation
to the Chicago convention instructed'
for President Taft.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago says: Eight governors ami
delegates from twenty-eight states
met here Feb. 10 and in an informal
conference organized a permanent
committee to push tho candidacy of
Theodore Roosevelt for the republi
can nomination for president. The
governors, in an executive con
ference by themselves, addressed a
letter to Colonel Roosevelt, in which
they eplained the purpose of the
?ee1ti?xslianTd expressed a desire that
he left it become known that a de
mand from the people that he accept
the nomination would not be un
heeded by him.
The permanent organization of the
committee which will carry the
Roosevelt fight to the convention is
Chairman Alaronio tt t n
Vice chairman Edward 'jr. Brund
age. 1UUU
Secretary Edwin W. Sims.
Treasurer Dwight Lawrence.
An execujivp committee of seven
members w,lll bo appointed later
On roll call tho delegates from' tho
different states told of work Xad?
done toward promoting the former
president's candidacy. Several ro
ported complete organizations. Gov-
.u, aumey or Missouri, Governor
Osborne of Michigan and Former
Governor Fort of New Jersey X
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Tho following is an Associated
Press dispatch: Columbus, O., Feb.
8. After hearing an address at noon
today by Governor Harmon, in which
he took a strong position against in
corporating a clause providing for
statewide initiative and referendum
in the new constitution, supporters
of the proposed initiative and refer
endum plank won a decisive victory
in the constitutional convention a
few hours later. The governor, in
WftK'P'iOfS p !nnn or W0In,ln to nct iXS onr ,n"
Wr"U formation reporter. All or spare
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of Commoner subscribers, and a,, special
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tho lowest rate has been made for
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Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska.
pIip-ICE FARMS; must sell; write for
list. T. A. Baggctt, Guthrie, Okla.
QARAH E. DAVIDSON, Columbus,
Chornlcnn Cn T.'nncno
switches, women's hair.'
I make hair
"The unseen empire of Qnanco" in
and0th n ?,VOr e affairs ofturoi?
and the policy of rulers in continu-
ing the practice of contracting war
F Q SALE Fine farm, one mile from
1 Watson, Ark; 160, 100 cultivated;
25 per acre. For further information
write J. S. Ross, Arkansas City. Ark.
HO YOU want tho finest stock ranch
in the state of Missouri? Tho best
bargain In tho state for tho price
Price means quick sale and first money
eight thousand acres in ono solid
body, nye miles long and two and one
nalt miles wldo, all undor fence; about
8ix thousand acres can bo cultivated,
remainder will make good pasture
land: eltrhf. or nlnn linn.lU.rrd ntnnlC
scales, three hundred acres of bottom
land of which ono hundred fifty acres
in clJltlvation--alfalta, corn, timothy
and clover; 25 springs stream of
water runs through ono ranch for ono
ana ono half miles. This ranch is
located in Christian county, Missouri,
;.,?il?"f2-urJthB of a mV frora a Ba
J0ft town and thirty-four milea
5m, flno cJ,ty of Springfield a city of
wy"5V0 thousand people. Load haa
n?lJouna on tnls ranch and it Is
Sftna s"0unod by load and Jacl
mines Thoro is also forty abros of
nnn$ay tnQ ranc" and almost
nnv ?LC0rd oo0 and miningprops to
Piayrf Jm lt at, fyp JrIco. Was over
5SSty whoJ?Bftna donors worth Of stocK
I?!.o,.?k of t,"0 ranch ranQh last year.
fsnT'1 AnA"? this ranch
wh1Lwny Buirvrey from tho big dam on
ot?J tiffirop ru,nB trough this ranch. I
"M" ?toeJc ranch and oqnsidcr It
? t5tilrty .-5V0 dors nor acre but I
an2 ?lnff U for $15 par acro-good
ft wn i fnr Biin whch I can explain,
it win take quick work at the prlcft.
tjnt0 crwlro mo fr further inrorma-
ddrOBB tho owner, A. J. Johni
&!$?&$ SaVonal Bank Bnna"
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