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The Commoner.
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Vol. a, No. 33.
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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch, dated
August 23, says: It lias boon agreed
botwcon the offlco of tho United States
attornoy gonoral and tho counsel for
the Northern Securities companies that
the taking of tostlraony in the suit
against tho merger shall bo begun at
Iho offices of tho district attornoy in
Now York city, Soptembor 15. Itls
said that Solicitor General Richards
will conduct tho caso for tho govern
ment and C. W. Bunn$ M. D. Grovor
and Goorgo B. Young of St. Paul will
bo associated with tho Now York coun
sel for tho securities company.
Foroign monarchs and rulers who
havo beon prosont at King Edward's
coronation departod from London re
contly. Somo of tho noted visitors
woro King Lowanlka of Barotzoland In
South Africa, Ras Makonuen, tho
Abyssinian general, tho shah of Per
sia, and tho maharajah of Jaipur, an
Indian official.
' It is reported from London that tho
year's recruiting returns show tho
groatest decline of any year in tho
past five, and it seems almost certain
that conscription may bo enforced.
Notices of expulsion which had beon
served by tho polico upon twenty-five
Mormon missionaries in Germany havo
beon1 hold up through the representa
tions of tho United States embassy,
and it is thought that this action will
cause tho cessation of all interfer
ence with Mormon activity in Germany.
relations betwoon tho porto and tho
United States legation hero have as
sumed their normal condition. Tho
non-oxecution of tho Turkish govern
ment of agreements reached long ago
on several questions affecting Ameri
can citizons led to somewhat strained
rotations between tho United States
legation and tho porte. Last week Mr.
Loischman informed the porto that ho
would not discuss other matters until
the torms of other matters already de
cided were carried out. Tho demands
made by tho United States demanded
tho rebuilding of the United States
mission house at Kharput, destroyed
at the time of the Armenian massacre
there, and granting permission to Ar
menian women and children to join
their husbands and fathers who aro
naturalized Americans. Mr. Loisch
man also had difficulty in negotiating
with a responsible Turkish authority.
His intercourse has been with the min
ister of foreign affairs, whose agree
ments havo beon annuled by the grand
vizier. '
An official report of the trial trip of
tho first class battleship Maine was
received at the navy department on
August 23, and announces that the trial
was successful, a mean speed of 17.96
knots being attained.
A Washington dispatch of August 23
says: In pursuance of tho navy de
partment's orders of yesterday, two
of the American war vessels in Vene
zuela waters started north today. Tho
cruiser Topeka left Puerto Cabello for
Hampton Roads, and the Cincinnati
from La Guaira for Capo Huytlen. In
view of the generally disturbed con
dition of affairs in Central and South
America, the Cincinnati will remain
for some days at Cape Haytien to be
ready for possible demands for her im
mediate presence. The return of the
Cincinnati and the Topeka leaves only
the Marietta to keep watch on affairs
in Venezuela and the isthmus.
A London cablegram dated August
24 says: "Violent earthquakes were
felt last Friday," cables the St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily MaK,
at Andfshan and Paviovsk, near St.
Petersburg.
Two bad wrecks are reported under
date of August 24. The one occurred
at Norfolk, Va., where two motor cars
collided, causing the death of three
persons and the injury 'of many pas
Ejngers. Tho other was at New Al
bany, Ind., where two freight trains
collided and three men were instantly
killed. '
The mimic naval search battle on
the New England coast was termi
nated on August 24 by the surrender ot
Commander Pillsbury's ships which
took the part of an attacking squad
Ton to Admiral Hlgglnson's vessels
who took the part of the defending
squadron.
A cablegram from Berlin, dated
August 24, says: Archduchess Mar
garet Sophie of Austria, wife of Al
bert, dUke of Wurtemburg, died today
at Gunden, Austria, as tho result of an
operation for appendicitis. She was
born in 1870.
Dr. W. B. Phillips, director of the
Texas geological survey, has discov
ered "a number of veins of ouicksil-
ver in the mountains of Brewster coun
ty, Tex., of great richness. These new
veins are situated about 100 miles east
of the existing quicksilver field in
Brewster county.
The 600 employes of the Ashlfmcl
sheet mill at Huntington, W. Va who
have beon on strike for seven months,
resumed work on August 24. Conces
sions have been made by both sides.
At a meeting of the Central f Pror
ation union representing 250,000 work
ingmen, and hold at New York city on
August 24, it was decided to ask Pres
ident Roosevelt to call a special ses
sion of congress to end the coal strike.
News comes that the Colombian miri-
boat Boyaca has beon captured by the
insurgents. She had on board nearly
3,000 soldiers who were to reinforce
Gonoral Borti at Agua Dulce, also a
supply, of ammunition and a consider
able sum of monoy. The Eoynca is
-now guarding tho entranco to the Pa
nama harbor, presumably with the in
dention of preventing steamers or oth
er vessels from bringing government
reinforcements to Panama.
A Constantinople cablegram, dated
August 24, says that an imperial order
lias been issued commanding that all
the demands made by tho United
States on Turkey bo conceded, and the
A Manila cablegram reports the ar
rival of Goyernor Taft and that ho has
again assumed the governorship of
me arcnipeiago. lie lias also been
called as a witness in the Freedom se
dition case, and this case has now,
according to another cablegram, dated
August 25, been decided and Frederick
Dorr, proprietor, and Edward O'Brien,
editor of Freedom, have each been
sentenced to six months in Bilibid pri
son and fined $1,000 each for libeling
Benito Legara, a native member of the
civu commission, by publishing a cer
tain article in Freedom. Both Dorr
and O'Brien have also been convicted
of sedition, but have not yet been sen
tenced on this count. The cases have
been appealed to tho supremo courts
of tho island. v
with them to Inaccessible place In
tho mountains, ..where they aro re
ported to lie engaged in dally prepar
ation for war. Unless the English au
thorities display the greatest energy
the Kaffirs are likely to cause great
trouble."
Tho secretary of agriculture for the
Cuban republic, Emilio Terry, has pr-
nnntnd hin rp.siirnn.tlon to the EOVern-
ment. His successor has not yet been I
appointed.
A London cablegram of August 26
says that the board of trade has sent
the chieMnspector to tho United States
to prepare a report on the workings
of American railways, with the view of
adopting American railway methods
in Great Britain.
A report from Brussels, Belgium,
says that as a result of the conferences
between Former President Kruger and
the Boer generals, Do Wet, Botha, and
Delarey, Mr. Kruger is to resign tho
leadership of the Boer people, and Gen
Oral Botha has been unanimously
designated . the future leader of the
Boers.
A London report says: The Chinese
government, cables the Shanghai cor
respondent of the Times, has sanc
tioned the signature of the new com
mercial tariff, but proposes to delay
the date of its coming into force until
the Chinese new year. The foreign
tariff commissioners are protesting at
this delay.
The British transport Staffordshire,
sailed for Capetown on August 25 with
1,060 Boers who have been prisoners
in the detention camps at Bermuda.
The insular division of. the war de
partment, has just published its last'
summary of the commerce of the isl
and of Cuba. This report shows that
the total value of imports into Cuba
during the military occupation was
$225,437,135 and the exports were $45,
000,000 less than this sum. The United
States furnished 43 per cent of the im
ports and took 75 per cent of the ex
ports. Practically all the sugar came
to tho United States. The balance of
trade was decidedly in favor of Cu
ba, though not so great as in former
years, and it is remarked that the
trade of the United States has not
kept pace in any of the Latin-American
countries with its wonderful
strides In other parts of the world.
John C. Bullitt, for many" years a
prominent lawyer, and the framer of
the present Philadelphia city charter,
died in that city on August 25. He
was 78 years old.
It is reported that a fierce battle has
been fought at Limbe, a village eighty
two miles north of Port au Prince In
Hayti. The village was attacked and
recaptured by the provisional govern
ment troops. Many men on both sides
were killed and the town was de
stroyed by fire.
The beef trust inquiry against the
St. Joseph packers began on August
26, being conducted by State Attorney
General Crow.
General Botha is reported by a Vien
na paper as saying: "It is probable
that England has no need to fear fur
ther trouble from the Boers, but the
civilization of South Africa is threat
ened by the Kaffirs. England armed
these savage, brave, but untrustworthy
tribes to fight for her. Now that the
war is ended the Kaffirs have not re
turned their arms, but have -retreated
The.fiftleth annual convention of the
National Association of Postmasters
met at Milwaukee on August 26, and
the feature of the first session was the
annual address of President F B
Dickerson of Detroit, Mich.
A cablegram from Honolulu, under
date of August 19, and via San Fran
cisco, says: Owing to tho insufficiency
of the appropriation for current ex
penses the first circuit court todav
ceased jury trials and Judge Gear dis
charged the jury leaving tho territory
with the prospect of six months with
out a court in session with a jury
There are over a hundred prisoners fri
jail awaiting trial, and judg
heretofore refused to hold prison
indefinitely in jail to await trial.
An Associated press cablegram from
St. Petersburg, dated August 12, savaT
The official report of Russia's foreten'
trade for the first four months of 1902
shows the American importations to
be virtually the same as in 1900, an,
parontly indicating that Russian buy
ers havo become fully convinced It la
better to buy American machinery m
spite of the discriminating dutv
against it. ' l7'
It Is reported from Washington that
tho state department has been noti
fied that Senor Guarnaschelli, who
was originally named by the Italian
government at the request of tho
United States to serve as one of tho
arbitrators in the approaching arbitra
tion of the Pious fund caso at Tho
Hague, has declined the post. Dr.
Asser, a distinguished Dutch publicist
has Been selected to fill the vacancy.
Tho National Fraternal congress, the
central organization of the fraternal
insurance orders of this country and
Canada, met in annual convention at
Denver, Colo., with over 300 accredited
delegates in attendance.
General Miles has been ordered to
proceed to the Philippines to inspect
tho army there with reference to in
struction, discipline and supplies, and
it is reported that he will sail about
September 15.
The war department .at Washington
has received a cablegram from General
Chaffee at Manila reporting the oc
currence of a serious earthquake on
the island of Mindanao. Twenty per
sons were killed by falling walls, the
victims all being Moros- General Chaf
fee's cablegram says that the moun
tains and rivers and other streams
were considerably disturbed and much .
damage was done.
Another Manila report, dated' Aug
ust 27, relates that"- Frederick Dorr,
proprietor, and Edward O'Brien, edi
tor of Freedom, recently convicted of
sedition, have been fined $LJ00 without
imprisonment. A. R. Dorr, manager
of the paper, was fined $25. This is
thought to mark the end of this famous
case in Manila.
A Washington report says that tho
Colombian government has purchased
a new war vessel at Seattle, Wash.,
through the Colombian minister, Senor
Concha. Captain Marmaduke, who
served during the civil war on the
confederate Merrimac and the Ala
bama, will command the new vessel,
and will sail for Colombia with her
Immediately.
A Washington dispatch, dated Aug
ust 27, says: The state department
recently received a communication
from the Chinese government, stating
in effect that it is proposed to start
up tho government coinage mint at
Tien Tsin, and asking that an assayer
of the United States be recommended
for employment therein. The matter
was referred to Mr. Roberts, the di
rector of tho mint, with the result that
Leonard McGrunder, assistant assayer
and L. G. Emory, superintendent of
machinery, both. from the New Orleans
mint, have been engaged for this ser
vice and are expected to sail for China
within a short time.
Sheriff Christensen of San Juan
county, Utah, on August -27,' made a
formal appeal to UnitedStates Sena
tor Rawlins for tho relief of the Na
vajo Indians of Southern Utah, and
the details o the situation have been
sent to the Indian commissioner at
Washington. The Navajos are in des
titute circumstances, and serious re
sults are predicted unless speedy re
lief is obtained.
Rev. Dr. Thomas Gallaudet, Pro-
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