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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1901)
, nr-m iv ipve i Pi"l JJV j1 m?vTfF ' 15 "ST-; "" f S"1" T 9 - Items of Interest. 1 A New York woman left $10,000 to provide .for her pet dog. General Alexander C. McOlurg of Chicago died in Florida on April 16. General Gomez, the great Cuban leader, will visit the United States. Dr. C. K; D. Tanner, the famous Irish nation alist, died April 21 of consumption. During the past three months 945 people in the City of Mexico have died of typhus fever. The Indianapolis Single Tax club has launched a presidential boom for Tom L. Johnson. May H. Stimpson of Biddford, Mo., who is only 13 years of age, is an expert telegrapher. A syndicate headed by J. Pierpont Morgan has subscribed for $50,000,000 of Great Britain's now war loan. - . Major Joseph S.' Brico, said to bo tho oldest graduate of West Point, died in New York on April 16. It is announced that General Corbin will repre sent this government at the coronation of King Edward. lae palace of the Empress at Pelcin has been destroyed by Are. It was occupied by Count Von "Waldersee. It is proposed to organize a trust for the pur pose of controlling the entire cotton industry of the country. George Q. Cannon, the apostle-of the Mormon church who died in California, was buried at Salt Lake City, April 17. Residents of Porto Rico have entered a formal protest against Governor Allen's claim that the isl and is in. a prosperous .condition. ' . ' WIlliam'Edward Coffin of New York has filed &' "petition iritfarikruptcy in which he places' his liabilities at $4,000,000 and his assets at $25 cash. Henry Walters of Baltimore has offered to give $100,000,000 to' Johns Hopkins university, provided the trustees will raise an additional $100,000,000. English stockholders in tho Manila railroad have asked the United States to-pay $2,300,000 for damages done their property during the Philippine war. " Walter Wellman, the fame- explorer and newspaper man, is making arrangements for an expedition in the hope of discovering the north pole. It is reported that Mr. McKinley will restore Russel B. Harrison to the army as a sort of tri bute to the memory of Mr. Harrison's distin guished father. Li Hung Chang, the wily old diplomat of the Chinese empire, is charged with carrying water on both shoulders in the contentions between China and the powers. The physician who attended the late C. L. Mc Gee of Pittsburg, has presented a bill- in the sum of $190,000 for' professional services during a per iod of 21 months,. Dr. Buckley, the distinguished editor of the (Christian Advocate, is authority for the statement that Jamaica ginger is' an intoxicant whose only rjval is applejack. The Cuban constitutional convention has ap pointed a commission of five to confer with Presi dent McKinley concerning the relations between Cuba and the United States. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinene minister to this country, has completed a plan of political reforms which he proposes to submit to the Chinese gov ernment. He takes Japan largely as his model. John A. Kasson, who was some time ago ap pointed special reciprocity commissioner at a sal ary of $10,000 per year, has declined to accept his The Commoner. ealary because tho senate has failed to approve tho treaties proposed by him. He tendered his resignation to tho president who declined to ac cept tho same. Mr. Kasson withdrew tho resigna tion with tho understanding that ho would accept no ray for his work. The government commission appointed to make an investigation of the bubonic plague In San Francisco has reported that the plague has secured a foothold among the Chinese in that city. Statistics have been collected by a French writer to show that of every 100,000 men of the army or naval profession 199 become hopeless lun atics. Among mechanics the- number is only 66 per 100,000. In 1900 England spent over $20 a head for drink; Scotland, $16.50; Ireland, not quite $15. Tho total drink bill of tho kingdom was over $800,000, 000 and showed a decreaso of more than $5,000, 000 over 1899. Potter Palmer of Chicago has filed with tho board of assessors his property list showing that his personal estate amounts to $435,940. This is said to be the most accurate assessment list ever filed in the city of Chicago. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pritchard'of Chicago, on April 16, celebrated their 67th wedding anniver sary. They have 4 children, 18 grand-children and 24 great grand-children. This .z one of the many instances in which marriage is not a failure. The New York legislature h..3 . assed a bill providing that a woman who own and pays taxes upon property in any town or village of the state shall have tho right to vote upon any proposition involving the raising of money by tuj. or assess ment. The state senate of Arkansas, by. a voto"of 12 to 7, passed a bill making it unlawful for any per son to drink any intoxicating liquors as a bever age ui'less he shall have first obtained a license as a dram drinker. The license is fixed at $5 per annum. King Oscar of Norway and Sweden has accepted tho post of arbitrator on the Samoan claims of tho United States, Great Britain and Germany, al though it has been made known ihat his illness thus far has prevented -his giving active considera tion to the subject. Charles Morgan, the gunner who won 'fame be cause of the protest of Admiral Sampson against promotion of men of Morgan's class, has brought suit for divorce. The couple have been married for 12 years, and the ground on which the divorce is asked is desertion. Captain Joshua Janes is the commander of the government life saving crew at Stony Beach, Hull, Massachusetts. He is 72 years of age and has re cently passed successfully a physical examination before a government board of physicians with a higher marking than any in his command. The Mexican government has granted a con cession to Captain Charles Shillaber of Chicago, an engineer and capitalist, to open a waterway be tween the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan, on tho gulf coast, a distance of 125 miles, and establish a line of fast, modern steamboats between these cities. The postofflco department estimates that through abuse of- the privileges of second-class matter the government loses between $15,000,000 and $25,000,000 a year. Congress has failed to en act legislation to prevent this abuse, and Post master General Smith is thinking ot issuing a rule to cover the case. A St. Louis dispatch says: Notice of contest was served today on Mayor Rolla Wells by Lee Meriwether; ther municipal ownership party's can didate for that office. In the notice of contest, Mr. Meriwether asserts that he received a majority oL the votes cast for mayor on April 2, and from twenty-five to 150 ballots cast for him in each pre cinct were counted for Wells. He further charges that there was no legal election, that 15,000 names were fraudulently placed upon the registration books and voted by tho Judges and clerks and hired ropcaters, and that a conspiracy to steal tho election existed among tho democratic managers, tho police and the Jefforson club. Tho government of Corca, according to a dis patch to tho London Mall from St. Petersburg, ha 1 decided to build thirty-two coast fortresses to re sist a posslblo Japanese invasion. According to the same correspondent, the Corean .government has promulgated a law enforcing the penalty of -death for opium smoking. Tho shortest will on record was recently filed in Chicago. F. E. Rlgby died leaving $105,000. Ho disposed of it In a will comprising 27 words as fol lows: April 11, 1901. One half of my fortune to Ann Rigby Fowler, of Leeds, Yorkshire. One hnlf to my wife. Signed, F. E. Rlgby. Witnesses, C. P. Stringfleld, E. A. Whipple, W. H. G. Wilson. Tho New York legislature has passed and tho governor has signed a bill providing that; after January 1, 1902, no marriage by mere agreement shall be recognized in that state unless the .parties thereto have signed a contract in the presence ot witnesses and filed the same with the clerk of tho town, village or city In which tho contract is made. As an offset to the movement which has been agitated in Alabama for several years providing for the annexation of Florida, Representative Ja coby introduced in the Florida legislature a bill providing for annexation of the state of Alabama to tho state of Florida. Tho consent of the Ala bama voters and of congress must first be ob tained. At Sofia, Bulgaria, a mass meeting compris ing 10,000 persons was held and resolutions were passed protesting against tho arrest of the mem bers of the Macedonian committee and condemn ing the attitude of Russia on the Macedonian ques tion. The meeting expressed itself as in favor of asking for European intervention against the per secution of Bulgarians in Turkey. F. J. Parke, United States special agent at Wausau, Wis., has been ordered to im$q an in vestigation of the islands in tho Wiscojsin river near Portage, to. ascertain whether they are the property of Wisconsin or the United States. Tho islands have been a subject of correspondence be tween parties living in the neighborhood of Port ago and the Washington authorities for fifty years. The remains of Abraham Lincoln, which have been resting in a temporary vault during the re construction of the Lincoln monument, will be re moved to the new monument within a few days. Thj removal will be private, omy the trustees cf the monument, state officers, and representatives of the press being present. The exact day fixed for the transfer of the remains will not be made public. Dr. Oscar Chrisraan, the founder of the science of child study, who a year ago created a sensa tion before the mothers' congress, which met at Des Moines, la., by the assertion in a lecture that women alone were capable of love and men were incapable, has lost his chair i. the'Kansas Stato Normal school.. His relations with the president and faculty have been strained ever since his nota ble lecture, and it is thought influences were brought to bear on the regents against h'im. A census of the population of the Samoan group, has been taken. The number of Samoans In Upolu and other islands under the German gov ernment is 32,000, while the population of the six islands under the United States government is re turned at 5,800. The slight increase during the last thirty years is about the same In proportion all round. The infant mortality Is greatest, and this is due in a large measure to the ignorance and carelessness in dieting the young. -11 4H M tsf jaj& . - . 1' , 4 .j Z:
