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The Commoner,
April 18, 190a
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Weekly News Summary
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ICIng Christian, of Denmark cele
brated his 81st birthday on April 8.
On April 8 president Roosevelt and
party visited the exposition at Charles
ton, S. C.
Eugene F. Ware of Kansas has been
selected by the president to succeed
H. Clay "Evans as commissioner of
pensions.
Hon. Erastus Snow of Newton, Iowa,
one of the pioneers in reform and cooperative-
enterprises,, died at his
home recently.
On April 6 during tho International
football match between England and
Scotland, a spectator's stand collapsed,
killing 21' persons and injuring 250.
It is rumored that if suitable ar
rangements can.be secured, a colony
of several thousand Boer refugees will
go to Colorado and settle on farms.
General Hampton, the great Confed
erate soldier and one of the best known
men of the south, died at Columbia,
S. C, April 11, at the age of 84 years.
Colonel E. H. Crowder, judge-advocate
of the army, has been detailed
to investigate the British camp lo
cated at Chalmette, near New Orleans.
A recent dispatch from Pretoria is
to the effect that Mr. Steyn, the former
president of the Free State, is suffer
ing from opthalmia, and is threat
ened with total blindness.
A great hardware trust, capitalized
at $120,000,000 and embracing jobbing
Interests in all sections of the country,
has been incorporated under the laws
of New Jersey.
Robert J. Wynne, the Washington
correspondent of the New York' Press,
has accepted the office of first assis
tant postmaster general, and will take
charge about May 1.
In view of the recent controversy
betwen Mr. Balfour, the government
leader of England, and General Buller,
all the papers relating to the battte
of Spion Kop will be published.
A recent dispatch from Laredo,
Texas, is to the effect that because of
the drouth there, 1,200 people in that
sectiqn are in great destitution and
relief is asked for immediately.
Serious socialist riots are reported
to have taken place at Brussels, Bel
gium. Several conflicts between them
and the police of the city have resulted
and many on both sides have been in
jured. Diplomatic relations between Switz
erland and Italy have been broken off
on account of the former's refusal to
give satisfaction regarding an article
published in Geneva, insulting the
memory of the late King Hubert. .
According to the Daily News of
Chicago, tho government of Germany
has recently purchased an automatic
switch board which will replace a
telephone system of 40,000 instru
ments. The purchase was made in
Chicago.
William H. Redmond, member of
parliament, and Colonel John Finerty
of Chicago, on the night of April 9
addressed a monster mass meeting in
the city of Omaha, assembled for the
purpose of showing Interest in tho
cause of Ireland.
It is rumored that the Gould and
Clark interests will unite in securing
railroad facilities from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, the Gould faction com
pleting the line from Pittsburg east
ward, and the Clark party from Salt
Lake City westward.
William Thomas, Jr., United States
minister at Stockholm, Sweden, has
sent $500 to this country as a contri
bution of parties in Sweden and Nor
way toward tho erection at Canton,
Ohio, of a suitable monument to the
late President McKinley.
On April 7 twelve envoys from the
British army in India arrived at Phil
adelphia on their way to Kansas City,
where they will bo superintend the
shipment of 700 mules for tho British
army in India. The mules are to bo
sent to Calcutta and Bombay via
Philadelphia.
A recent report from Panama an
nounces the failure of the insurgents
to suceed In their attempt to bombard
the town, owing to the attitude of a
French cruiser. The Insurgent
steamer Padilla and two .small con
sorts were preparing to attack tho
city, but were prevented by the French
ship.
A cablegram from Pekin under date
of April 8, says that the Manchurian
convention was signed that day and
the ratification is to take place three
months from date. This agreement
between Russia and England where
by both make certain concessions in
their control of the railways of the.
province.
Hartford, Conn., following tho ex
ample of Bridgeport, elected to the
office of mayor a representative of or
ganized labor. The new mayor of
Hartford is I. A. Sullivan, by trade
a paper maker. Mr. Sullivan defeated
the republican candidate who was a
wholesale merchant. Laboring men
are very happy over the victory.
The Boer relief fund committee ap
pointed by Governor Yates has issued
an appeal to the people to contribute
$500,000 tor the benefit of women and
children in the Boer reconcentration
camps. Every one that can do so is
asked to send a postofflce order for
the sum of $1 to Peter Van Vlisslngen,
172 E. Washington street, Chicago
Illinois.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Manila under date of April 11, relat
ing to the arrest of certain editors
at Manila on the charge of sedition,
says: "The press committee has had
an interview with Acting Governor
Wright with reference to the sedition
law. Mr. Wright replied that the ed
itor of Freedom, a local publication,
who was recently arrested on the
charge of sedition, had in the columns
of that paper made persistent attacks
on the United States commission, and
said that he would have to prove his
assertions. The editor of Freedom, It
was announced in a dispatch from Ma
nilla to the Associated Press yester
day, was charged with sedition, in pub
lishing a short time ago an article
from an American periodical, to which
lie agreed, and added remarks of his
own, censuring the United States com
mission's rule, and saying when it
started in July last, every paper in
Manila upheld it, since which timo
they had all dropped by the wayside,
as they would not support arbitrary
government, "especially when evidence
of carpetbagglng and rumors of 'graft'
were too thick to be pleasant."
THE WEEK AT WASHINGTON.
The conference report on the War
Revenue Repeal bill was adopted and
the bill sent to the White House.
Secretary Root has ordered that all
export duty on Philippine goods in
tended for tho United States Is to be
removed.
Reports received at Washington do
not appear to justify the optimistic ac
counts relative to peace negotiations
in the South African war - sent out
from London.
The United States government has
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TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Hon. Levi P. Morton, Ex-Vico President of the United States.
J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq., tho great banker and financier.
Jas. J. Hill, Esq., tho great railroad magnate.
John D. Rockefeller, Esq., President Standard Oil Co.
Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Eeq., Now York City.
Richard Watson Gilder, Esq., Editor of tho Century Magazine.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, New York City.
H. B. Gurler, Esq., tho leading American dairyman.
Dr. W. Seward Webb, President Wagner Sleeping Car Co.
Fred'k G. Bourne, Esq., President Singer Sowing Machine Co.
August Belmont, Esq., tho Now York banker.
J. B. Duke, Esq., President American Tobacco Co.
Nathan Straus, Esq., of R. H. Macy & Co., New York City.
Geo. Burnham, Esq., President Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Dr.Chas. MoBurney, the groat surgeon.
Hon. Wayne MaoVeagh, Ex-TJ. S. Attorney General. )
Geo. W. Vanderbilt, Esq., of Biltmore, N. O.
James Stillman, Esq., Pres't National City Bank, New York City.
Ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard, Proprietor of "Hoard's Dairyman."
W. L. Elkins, Esq., tho Philadelphia street railway magnate.
Ex-U S. Senator Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N. Y.
John H. Starin, Esq., of steamship fame.
H. MoK. Twombly, Esq., owner of tho finest dairy in the world.
J. C. Hoagland, Esq., President Royal Baking Powder Co.
W. R. Grace, Esq., of W. R. Grace & Co., Now York.
John Huyer, Esq., tho great New York candy maker,
Judge Warren B. Hooker, of Frodonia, N. Y.
W. W. Law, Esq., Ex-President American Jersey Cattle Club.
C. I. Hood, Esq., of sarsaparilla and fancy cattle fame.
Mrs. E. M. Jones, of Canada most famous of dairy women.
Geo? H. Ellis, Esq., Proprietor of " Christian Register," Boston.
Henry C Tinker, Esq., Pres't Liberty National Bank, Now York.
Edw. R. Strawbridoe, Esq., of Strawbridge & Clothier, Phila.
J. A. Whipple, Esq., Prop'rTouraino and Young's hotels, Boston,
Hon. F. E. Dawley, State Director of Farm Institutes, New York.
F. L. Houghton, Esq., Soc'y"Holstein-Friesian" Breeders' Ass'n.
Chester W. ChApin, Esq., of Now York City.
Pennock E. Sharpless, Esq., of "Sharpless" butter fame.
Prop. W. H. Caldwell, Secretary American Jersey Cattle Club.
J. C. Leslie, Esq., Sup't St. Albans Foundry Co.
Jas. A. Rumrill, Esq., Ex-President Boston & Albany Railroad,
Sam'l Haugdahl, Esq., Grand Prize butter winner, Paris Exp'n,
W. A. Shaw, Esq., Proprietor of "Texas Farmer."
Hon. Edward Burnett, of "Deerfoot Farm" fame.
H. D. Loughlin, Esq., President American Breakbeam Co.
Gottfried Kreuger, Esq., tho great brewer.
Geo. H. Southard, Esq., President Franklin Trust Co., Brooklyn.
J. MoLain Smith, Esq., Editor of " Farmer's Home," Dayton, O.
B. P. Norton, Esq., State Dairy Commissioner, Iowa.
Geo. E. Haskell, Esq. , Pres't Nat'l Creamery Buttermakers'Ass'n.
Isaac Ross, Esq., Pres't Alabama State Dairymen's Association.
Joseph Newman, Esq., Pres't Blinois State Dairymen's Ass'n.
Chas. M. Bull, Esq., Pres't Massachusetts Creamery Association.
J. H. Rushton, Esq., Pres't Nebraska State Dairymen's Ass'n.
G. F. Weston, Esq., Pres't North Carolina State Dairymen's Ass'n.
M. A. Adams, Esq., Pres't Vermont State Dairymen's Association.
Edw. Van Alstyne, Esq., Sup't Model Dairy, Buffalo Exp'n.
W. H. Gilbert, Esq., Sup't Chicago World's Fair Dairy.
Wm. A. Wright, Esq., President New York Milk Exchange,
and thousands of others almost as well known.
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