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. The Commoner, 12 Vol a, N. 3. T h--. jg&itffc. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. It Is roportod that President Roose velt's recent declaration of the Monroe doctrlno 1b boing rocolved In Germany with considerable surprise. Somo suspicious critics suggest that some thing must bo going on behind tho diplomatic screen to occasion this fresh enunciation of tho famous doc trine. It is assorted in government circles there that Germany gave hor assent to tho doctrine soon after Pres ident Roosevelt's assumption of tho presidency, and thoro Is nothing con templated that would be contrary to Its principles, On August 30 It was roported from Dos Moines, la., that at a meeting of the board of trustees of tho Iowa state agricultural college, last Thursday, tho subject of a succossor to the lata W. M. Beardshcar was discussed only in an informal manner. It was agreed that no selection should be made un til 1903. There Is no doubt that, if Secretary Wilson should resign, ho could have tho position. A Now York dispatch, under date of August 30, says: In view of the increase of Catholics in the United States, tho pope has decided, accord ing to a dispatch from Rome, to create another American cardinal In order to re-establish the equilibrium in the sacred college. It has been pointed out to him that whereas Great Britain and Ireland, with 6,000,000 Catholics, have two representatives and even Australia, with hardly 1,000,000 has a cardinal, (Moras), 13,000,000 of Ameri can Catholics have only one cardinal, Gibbons. It is certain that Archbishop Ireland will get the red hat. Three persons were killed, four fa tally injured and many moro hurt in at violent windstorm in Minnesota on August 30, which blew a passenger . train from tho track near .Merlden, Minn. The engine escaped the fury of tho storm, but the six coaches were picked up., and rolled over and over down the steep embankment, with tho result mentioned. p.r company of Pennsylvania was the purchaser. It is roported from Chicago that tho proposed beef combine or merger of the principal packing houses of the country has been postponed until Sep tember 16, as tho packers are waiting to see if Attorney General Knox will bo appointed to sudceed Justice Shiras in tho supremo court, In which case their action may depend upon tho at titude of tho new attorney general. Labor Day, Soptembor 1, was gener ally observed throughout the country, and from reports received the day was tho most notable of Its kind for many years, owing to tho disturbed condi tion of labor and tho many strikes now in progress. An excursion train near Berry, Ala., September 1, left tho track and. rolled over an embankment. The accident resulted in the death of 21 persons, the injury of 81 others, many of whom were fatally injured. Nearly all the dead and injured were negroes who had taken advantage of excursion rates in Mississippi to Birmingham, Ala. Brotherhood of Christian Unity, died at Orange, N. J., on September 1. Ho was 67 years of ago. A dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn., dated September 1, says: General Ell Torrance, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has Is sued an appeal addressed to tho Grand Army veterans asking that they con tribute funds to aid tho erection of a homo for ex-confedorato veterans now being built at Mission Creek, Ala. Tho appeal Is a lengthy one and in it the chief pays a high tribute to the brav ery of tho men who wore the grey. A report of September 1 from the West Indies says that Mont Pelee has been in constant eruption since Aug ust 15. The governor of Martinique has ordered the removal of tho people of the coast villages to Fort de France. Tho towns of Lo Carbet and Morne Rouge are reported destroyed, and over 200 persons in those towns lost their lives, and a later report says that other towns were destroyed and over 1,000 persons were killed. A cablegram from London, under date of August 31, says: Lord Mil ner, lord high commissioner in South Africa, has just issued at Pretoria a new ordinance in regard to tho capi tation taxation of natives, under which every male adult and every married native woman must pay, after Septem ber 1, an. annual capitation tax of $10. This Is, roughly speaking, double the amount of the capitation tax collected Under the Boor regime, and it will doubtless lead to much murmuring. A cablegram from Pekin, dated Sep tember 1, says: The edict abolishing the llkln stations throughout the Chi nese empire, which was published In the Gazette, August 22, has been prac tically rescinded. A correction of this edict to appear in the Gazette tomor row will say: "The flrst edict was mistranslated, it should read: 'The llkin will be abolished when all the foreign governments have agreed to the increase of customs duties.' " The thirty-fifth trades union con gress commenced a week's session in London on September 1. Upward of 500 delegates, representing 1,250,000 workers, were present The United States was represented by Harry Black mor and Patrick Dolan. One of the principal resolutions which will be submitted demands legislation creat ing a supreme court of arbitration, with compulsory power to settle dis putes between employers and em ployes. On September 1 it was reported from Capetown, South Africa, that eighteen vessels, mostly sailing craft, have been driven ashore in a gale at Port Eliza beth. Five of them were dashed to pieces and all the members of their crews were lost. Two tugs are also reported to have foundered and a score of lighters are ashore. It is feared that there has been great loss of life. brought to the attention of congress at tho next session. It Is reported from Constantinople under date of September 1, that tho Turkish government is inclined to ac cept the United States view in regard to the responsibility for the capture of Miss Ellen M. Stdno, the American missionary, and companion in Septem ber, 1901, by brigands. As a matter of fact, tho question of the porte's responsible is indisputable, since tho capture, payment of the ransom and liberation of the captives all occurred in Turkish territory. Tho correspon dence on the subject of the measures taken for the discovery and arrest of the brigands continues and the insuf ficiency of the efforts displayed by the TurkRh authorities has been tho sub ject of complaint by tho United States legation. An Odessa, Russia, cablegram, dated August 31, says: A committee of the Russian volunteer fleet has arranged a new steamship service between Black sea ports and North America via Italy with an Italian company, Tho idea of this service is to tap tha heavy emigrant traffic between Na ples ana? Now York. Tho volunteer fleet will receive $40 for each emi grant from Naples. A Yokohama cablegram, under date of September 1, saysf The Japanese cruiser Takachlo has returned from her Inspection of tho Island of Tor lshima, which was destroyed by a vol canic eruption between August 13 and 15. The captain of the warship re port that the eruption utterly devas tated the island and that nobody on it was left alive. Over 150 persons were killed. Torishima lies between the Bonln islands and the main isl and of Japan. . It Is reported from Florence, Italy, that tho employes of forty different callings have joined the strikers and the city Is now virtually under mar tial law. It is estimated that 40,000 men are now Idle In that city, and It is feared thaUthe striko contagion may spread to Milan, Genoa and other in dustrial centers. One of the biggest mining deals ever consummated in the history of Wyom ing was closed by tho ealo of tho Al bany group of copper mines in the Douglas creek district for a considera tion of $105,000. Tho American Cop- There is no disposition on the part of prominent Hebrews of New York to let drop the matter of the recent dis graceful riot scenes which marked the funeral of the late Rabbb Joseph, and shocked the whole countrv. Rpmuiro of his alleged brutality and antl- kn.uunu j.ioyta.j uii mui UUUUH1UU IUO Hebrews are determined to secure the removal of Police Inspector Cross. Cross Is alleged to have jumped into the crowd shouting to his men, "Kill them; club tho life out of them." The largest single order for loco motives over iven was recently is sued by the Rock Island road. It was for 225 engines, of which 125 will be of tho consolidated class, 65 of the medium Pacific class, and 35 of tho largest Paclflo class. This is the sec ond -order of tho year, 200 having previously been ordered. Rt. Rev. J. M. Farley, auxiliary bishop of New York, has been ap pointed as archbishop to succeed the late Archbishop Corrigan. Rt. Rov. George Montgomery, bishop at Los Angeles, Cal., has- also been chosen as coadjutor to the archbishop of San Francisco, Cal. A Washington dispatch of Septem ber 1 says: It is the opinion of tho war department that Governor Taft'-s remarks at the board of trade banquet in Manila yesterday respecting the em ployment of labor on plantations will form the basis of a suggestion to con gress at the next session, that the act extending the Chinese exclusion laws to the Philippines be amended. It is contemplated to remove the ironclad restriction which now exists and clothe the commission with power to regulate the entrance of Chinese labor. iThe commission itself has already given some attention to this subject and it is believed that Professor Jenks' investigations into the labor problem in the straights settlements and elsewhere in the orient meet with its approval. The proposed regula tions, it is said, will look to a wisely regulated system of admissions of Chinese as plantation laborers under sufficient bonds in each case, under proper systems of identifications and a condition that they shall leave the Philippines after a certain specified period of time. Such regulations as exist in Hawaii for the proper care of the coolies would be Incorporated. Governor Taft's representations on this subject yesterday were in an swer to pressing demands from the American chamber of commerce and employers of laborers in the Philip pines for relief from present condi tions, which, it is thought, prevent the development of the country. A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo.. under date of September 1, says: Chief Hydrographer Newell, in charge of the building of government Teservolrs un der the irrigation act, announced to day that the reclamation service organ ized under tho geological survey is now working as follows: In Arizona on the Gila river and tributaries; in California, on tho Colorado river, and in San Joaquin valley; in Colorado, near Sterling on tho South Platte, and near Montrose on the Gunnison river; in Idaho, on the headwaters of tho Snake and Boise rivers; in Montana, on Yellowstone and Milk rivers; in Nevada on Carson and Truckee rivers; in Utah, on Bear river, and in Wyom ing on the Big-Horn and North Platto rivers. The situation in the West Virginia coal fields continues 'to grow critical. On September 2 the miners and tho troops that are on guard at the mines had a skirmish, and a number of the miners were severely injured. It is reported from Belfast that Sir Thomas Lipton will immediately issue a challenge for the America's cup, tho challenge to be made through the Royal Ulster Yacht club. Theo. Frelinghuysen Seward, musi cal composer and president of the It is reported that the Philippine im ports are not paying the cost of col lection. Under the Philippine act ap proved March 8 last, 75 per cent of the DIngley rates were to be collected on Philippine imports into tho United States, and it was estimated that thi3 would bring in about $500,000 per an num. Instead of this, it Is discovered that only $11,194 -has come In for the five months of March,- April, May, June and July, and these facts will be A cablegram from Vienna, dated September 2, reports severe rioting at the city of Agram wherein over a hundred persons were killed, and houses and shops were plundered. The boycotting" of Servian merchants con tinues, and Servian employes are be ing dismissed from Crotian business houses. - ' While driving from Plttsfleld, Mass., to Lenox, the carriage of President Roosevelt and party collided with an electric street car on September 3. The president escaped with slight bruises, Secret Service Agent William Craig was instantly killed, the driver of "the carriage was seriously injured, T oretary Cortelyou sustained some bruises, and Goyernor Crane, the other member of the party, escaped without any injury. The motorman and con ductor of the car have been put under arrest. A dispatch from' Cape Haytien, Hay tl, dated September 3, says: The Ger man steamer, Marwomania, having on board arms and ammunition sent by the provisional government to Cape Haytien, was stopped yesterday by the Firmlnlst gunboat, Crete-a-Pierrot, at tho entrance to this harbor and an - -- - r- - - 11 1--" HEADACHE At aM deum -i 25 BmM 25- yi W" uh,iAa rL4r"AjA2tSl&,