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The Commoner.
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 51
Governor Donaghey of Arkansas, didate for re-election he was op-
issued a blanket pardon to three posed by his Drotner, uie viscount
hundred and sixteen prisoners in the de Irueste, who represented the con
state penitentiary on the ground servative party. The struggle was
that "under the lease system, as a one of the most sensational in the
burning, seething hell, consuming later history of Spanish politics,
human beings, who are being fed The young count was the victor and
into it In a manner which results a few years later took another step
in nothing but making fortunes for ; up the political ladder, when he was
nnntrnc.tnra'' elected mayor of the city of Madrid.
Then he went into tne caoinei as
minister of nubile instruction. Ser
vice in various ministerial posts was
followed by election as president of
the chamber.
The quick rise of Romanones is
attributed to his conspicuous ability
and his sterling character. He in
tends to continue the liberal and
progressive policies of Canalejas,
the murdered prime minister.
According to a newspaper compila
tion, based on the state records,
forty-three of those pardoned by
Governor Donaghey were convicted
of murder or manslaughter, 111 to
grand larceny, four assault, five rob
bery, 19 forgery, thirty-two burg
lary, twenty-six assault to kill and
seventy-six other crimes ranging
from hog stealing to bigamy.
A Madrid, Spain, cablegram, car
ried by the Associated Press, says:
Count Romanones, the new prime
minister, has attained great political
nromlnence desnite a physical In
firmity which has sapped his
strength practically throughout his
career. When a boy he experienced
a terrible fall from a window which
maimed him for life.
His father made a; fortune as a
merchant in southern Franco. The
son inherited his father's great busi
ness capacity and despite his devo
tion to politics found time to swell
the wealth which was left him.
The young man was educated to
bo a lawyer. At the age of twenty
five years he was elected to the
chamber of deputies from the dis
trict of Guadalajara. When a can-
feet high near San Migel, San Louia
Obispo county, Fred J. Horswill, an
Oakland mining engineer, was fatal
ly injured, but hla three-year-old
daughter, whom he was holding in
his arms, received only a few
scratches.
Horswill was thrown against a
rock and rendered unconscious. Both
his arms and one leg were broken.
His first question upon recovering
consciousness was "Is my little Mary
all right?"
Not until assured she was would
he consider his own condition. He
died on a special train that was rush
ing him to Oakland.
niece of Mrs. Jackson, and Lucien B.
Polk, and Emily Martin, a relative
of the president, and Lewis Ran
dolph The first White House wedding
was In 1811, when Mrs. Madison's
younger sister, Lucy Payne Wash
ington, widow of a nephew of George
Washington, "was the bride.
The question asked now is
whether one of the Wilson girls will
flout superstition and become the
thirteenth White House bride.
A Globe, Ariz., dispatch says:
Posses composed of "honor system"
convicts are scouring the hills and
valleys of Gila, Graham and Pinal
counties in search of two other con
victs who broke their pledge and fled
from the road camp in the Pinal
mountains.
The men who escaped were
Manuel Gutierrez, a life term con
vict, and a Papago Indian who was
serving a term for horse stealing.
Several of the convicts were in Globe
searching for the fugitives.
A dispatch to the Louisville Cour
rier Journal says: George W. Per
kins was the leading factor in the
purchase of the Milwaukee Harves
ter company by the International,
according to the testimony of H. L.
Daniels at the hearing of the gov
ernment's ouster suit.
John T. Butler, of Buffalo, vice
president of the Ironworkers' Inter
national union, was taken to jail
after the court accused him of com
mitting perjury at the "dynamite
conspiracy" trial.
A pretty story of a father's devo
tion is told in a dispatch carried by
the Associated Press:
automobile skidded on
road and slid over a precipice 126
State Senators Isaac E. Huffman
and L. R. Andrews, of Ohio, were
denied rehearings of the cases under
which they were sentenced to prison
for accepting bribes.
A St. Louis dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press, says: Twenty-i
five thousand employes of the 'Frisco
railway system are granted old age
and disability pensions as a Christ
mas gift, according to a brief an
nouncement made recently from the
headquarters of the system here.
The plan for granting pensions will
A SOUTHERN ROMANCE
Rufe was telling Zeke about a ter
rible escapade he had had the night
before after he had crossed the dam
at the river and was making for his
cabin about a half mile through the
dark woods.
"And jest as I stepped inter de
brush-1 hears a funny noise like a
shoat snortin. I looks up an a blue
light jumps out er de groun' and
shapes itself into a ghost about six
foot tall. Red fire was a-flickerin'
out er Its nose. It stood still kinder,
then lifted a long bony finger an'
says: 'I want you, Rufe Jackson.'
"I walks up to it and shakes my
own finger right in its face. You
mind yore business and I'll mind
mine,' I says, nd turns on my heel
and goes right on.
"Now, what'd you er done, Zeke,
in a case like dat?"
"I'd er done jest what you done,
you durned lying nigger." St. Louis
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white house weddings
Washington correspondence to the
Chicago Record-Herald: The advent
of a presidential household ' with
three marriageable daughters form
ing a part of It something unpre
cedented arouses Washington so
ciety to speculation as to the pos
sibility of one or more White House
weddings during the Wilson admin
istration. Although the Wilson sisters are
known as "bachelor maids," there
is ever a tendency toward romance
in the lives of the younger occupants
of the historic mansion, and there
fore the possibility that one or more
of the Wilson girls will bring about
a change of title.
A delver into the romances of the
mansion has called attention to the
old thirteen superstitltion by dis
covering that the next White House
bride will bo the thirteenth. Alice
Roosevelt, the last White House
bride, was the twelfth. The one be
fore that was Frances Folsom, who
became Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Emily Pratt, a niece of President
Hayes, was married in the White
House during her uncIe'B adminis
tration to General Russel Hasting.
The wedding of Nellie Grant to
Algernon Sartoris was one of the
most famous of White House wed
dings. Still going backward there
was the marriage of Elizabeth Tyler,
daughter of President Tyler, to Wil
liam Waller of Virginia, in 1842.
During President Jackson's ad
ministration three weddings took
place in the White House, those of
Delia Lewis of Nashville and lAl
phonse Pageot, a member of the
French legation; Mary Easton,, a
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