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llfrijHwwwiffl'igiw'ji wj1 m'' 'rw-unitii"wli"ftWf ,T , , "v. . The Commoner. 14 Vol. 2, No. 41. A ? - ' k & MYWiNWWWyWW Oe lews of $e Ceefc wmmmwmimmnmmMimmmMtttmmmmmmmmmim? It was recently reported that Attor ney Goneral E. R. Hicks had rondorod an opinion that women in Wisconsin are eligible to voto on the constitu tional amendmont relating to the 'term of the state superintendent of- schools. On October 18 it was roporled from Voriezuola' that aftor seven days of terrible fighting tho revolutionary troops had abandoned the field. Tho numbor of hilled and wounded is esti mated at 3,000. In conclusion the re port says: The victory of tho govern ment troops, which is said to bo duo to the personal courage of President Castro, who twice, with a Mauser rifle in his hand, charged at tho head of his soldiers, is considered a serious set back to the causo of tho revolutionists. As regards the Insurrection in Hayti a dispatch from Kingston under date of October 18 says: Word has been received here confirming previous re ports that tho provisional government of Hayti has crushed tho Firmist revo lution and adding that the election of Senoque -.erre to the presidency is assured. Hundreds of refugees are ex pected here during tho course of the coming weolc Kentucky against several railroads of that portion of tho country alleging un lawful combination. Tho charge is made that this combination was ef fected for tho purpose of benefiting a few men as against the general public. Tho object," the complaint contin ues, "is to placo all tho railways un der the control of a single firm or of a few individuals; to control and manip ulate railroad traffic and practically pool all tho business of all the rail roads in all this territory, to .produce enormous profits, etc., and to place all tno business and products of over 16, 000,000 people in 422,000 square miles of territory under tho control and domination 'of a single individual." Tho combination, the commission charges, Is in violation of both tho let ter and spirit of the laws of the Unit ed States and of the several states in volved. Tho interstate commerce com mission will immediately notify all concerned of tho complaint and prob ably will arrange for a hearing not earlier than December. The tenth annual congress of the Free Labor association opened in Leeds, England, on October 20. The delegates present represented 400,000 workmen. In tho course of his address President John Chandler attacked trades unionism, declaring that such organizations were a disgrace to tho country, and denouncing tho offer of aid which was recently voted in Eng land for tho benefit of the striking miners in America. On October 18 delegates were dected by tho miners to attend tho confer- once on October 20 in regard to ter minating tho coal strike. It was gen erally conceded that the offer of arbi tration will be accepted. It is also given out that the soldiers in tho field will be recalled and this action will prove of benefit to the state as it costs about $30,000 a day to keep tho national guard in the coal fields. On October 20 a nationalist leader Introduced a hill in tho chamber of deputies in Paris providing for the .separation of church and state, tho abolition of the budget of public wor ship and the suppression of the French embassy at the Vatican. It is said that this bill was presented as a challenge to tho government to carry out its radical program and although tho chamber rejected this bill it has re- ferrcd all such bills to a special com ' mission. A serious acclclent was narrowly averted on October 19 at Omaha, Neb., only by the coolness of Rev. Harry" G. Hill of tho First Christian church. As already mentioned tho Christian church convention was in session and a meeting was in progress at tho church with an audience of 800 peo ple. Tho church edifice is old and proved to be unequal to the strain and it was soon seen that the floor was about to give way. Rev. Hill came to tho front and by his presence of mind succeeded in averting a panic and led the people out of tho church in safety. count of tho Marsh family's doings for several weeks, thus showing perfect espionage. The family is keeping in doors after nightfall and the house is guarded by police Thero are thirty other American board missionaries in tho Bulgarian field. Tho Marshes havo been engaged in mission work thero for thirty years. - which ho was plainly making to reacli the Country club before the carriage, met with the 'approval of 'passengers. including a prominent director of the company. As a result of tho miners' conven tion held at WilKesbarre, Pat, on 'Oc tober 21 the strike has been declared off and this action was taken by a unanimous vote. It is said that work in tho mines will be resumed October 23, but that the men needed to re pair tho mines will begin work imme diately. President Mitchell will rep resent the miners before the arbitra tion board. The strike in France Is still under way. It was reported on October 18 that the general confederation of la bor was considering the question of a strike of all the trades unions in favor of eight hours work per day and old ago pensions, etc. Tho leaders of thd miners' strike declare that 160,000 men are out Recent reports from Constantinople confirm the rumors of trouble with the Bulgarian troops in tho Kresna valloy. A battle occurred along the Kara Sur river and it is said that several hun dred men have been killed or wounded. A Topeka, Kas., dispatch of October 22 says: J. B. Billard, a wealthy mil ler of this city, has brought suit against the board of education to com pel the removal of tho Biblo reading from tho public schools. Billard's son was expelled from school because he refused to give propor attention dur ing tho opening exercises when tho Bible was being read. Leading attor neys are, on -both sides of the case, anU it is causing much interest in legal circles. Charles S. Lobinger of Omaha has been appointed commissioner of tho Nebraska supremo court to fill a, va cancy caused by the resignation of former Commissioner George A. Day of Omaha, who resigned in Order to ac cept an appointment as judge of tho district court A London report of October 2b says: Negotiations looking to the combina tion of British, German and American . companies owning linotype patents are afoot, but havo not been completed. The opening of tho first convention of tho United Irish league in Boston, Mass., on October 20, was mado me morable by the presence of such noted Irish leaders as John E. Redmond, M. P., Michael Davitt and John Dil lon, M. P., envoys from Ireland, Hon. Edward Blake, 'Irish M. P., United States Senator Smith of Now Jersey, ' Patrick Egan, former United States minister to Chili, and Patrick Ford of tho Irish World. Somo interesting statistics as to Ireland were contained In President John Flnerty'a speoch. Ho declared: "English rulo stands self-condemned by tho official repre sentatives of its own servants, which show that Ireland has today a smaller population than she had in 1801, and that within the last sixty years 1,250, 000 of her people starved to death; rnqre than 2,000,000 were evicted from their holdings and 4,000,000 at least sought refuge from. British tyranny in this and other free countries." It was reported from London on Oc tober 19 that the foreign office had re ceived a dispatch from Colonel Cobb who is in command of a British force operating against tho Mad Mullah in Somaliland. A battle had been fought in which tho English lost 60 men killed and 100 were wounded. The na tives were beaten off, but tho situa tion is perilous to the British troops and reinforcements have beon asked for. On October 21 it was reported from Manila by the Associated press that tho United States Philippine commis sion has decided to enact a land reg istry bill, drafted by Commissioner Ide. The bill adapts the Torrens reg istry system with modifications to fit; the local conditions, and creates a land titles court Land titles throughout the islands are at present clouded to sucn an extent tnat sales 01 lanu ana its improvement are retarded. An enormous task is involved in the la bor of clearing titles. Government lands, which were sold under authori ties of tho Philippine act after that act passed the American congress, will bo recorded under theTorrens system. The commission has passed a bill defin ing the terms under which tho Manila street railway franchise is to bo granted. This bill provides for tho award of the franohise by competition. Bids will bo opened next March, after advertisement here and in the United States. On October 22 it was foported from Shenandoah, Pa., that when the min ers "camo to-the mines that morning to go to work they were told to report at the company's store and sign a con tract before being reinstated. This contract was to tho effect that they should not in any way interfere with non-union men or with the men al ready at work. Many of the miners re fused to sign this contract and re turned home. On October 21 it was reported that tue second Bombay grenadiers sta tioned at Mhow (Central India) have been ordered to Somaliland and that other troops will probably follow. The interstate commerce commission on October 20 made public tho com plaint of tho railroad commission of XA cablegram from London, dated Oc tober 21, says: Trafalgar Day (or the anniversary of the battle Tra falgar fought October 21, 1805), was colebrated today in the customary manner. Tho Nelson Column of Tra falgar Square was decked with wreaths sent from various parts of tho world. A cablegram from Colon, Colombia, under date of October 21, says.: It is believed in certain quarters of the isthmus that the Colombian govern ment is negotiating for the purchase of the Chilean cruiser, Presidento Pin to, which reached Panama October 17, from Chili. If this vessel is bought by Colombia, it is thought she will put an end to the operations of tho revolutionary fleet under Goneral Her rera, as she is considered capable of sweeping it from the seas. It was announced from Copenhagen on October 22 that tho landsthing had rejected the second reading of the bill providing fpr" the ratification of tho treaty ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States. Tho vote was taken without any debate and the re sult was unexpected. The dispatch says, however, that the public senti ment in Denmark is undoubtedly against the proposed sale and it is also reported that tho home government will take steps to help the people of tho islands to a better economic condition. An Associated press dispatch from New York under date of. October 22 says: Advices received from Dr. George D. Marsh, an American board missionary at PhilipopoHs, Bulgaria, says that he and his wife havo been threatened with death by dynamite un less the sum of $2,400 each is paid at an early date. The threat was made in a letter dated September 16. Tho threatening letter gavo a detailed ac- On October 21 it was reported from Chicago, 111., that Northwestern uni versity installed Edmund Janes James as president of that institution, the ceremonies being witnessed by a large number of the most prominent educa tors of the United States, while many delegates were present from leading institutions of learning of foreign lands. A rumor was in circulation recently to the effect that the international as sociationi of stationary engineers and firemen would be ordered to refuse to handle any anthracite coal until ev ery member affected by tho anthracite strike be reinstated on the basis on which tho miners returned to work. As this brotherhood has a membership of 14,000 and has local unions in all prom inent cities of the United States a strike on their part might be a serious affair. An important bit of railroad news was contained in the announcement that Edward Dickinson, the general manager of the Union Pacific railroad at Omaha, Neb., will shortly leave that placo and take a position as general manager of tho Orient line with headV quarters at Kansas City. Tho result of the investigation as to the accident in which President Roose velt and Secretary Cortelyou were In jured and tho president's bodyguard, William Craig, was killed at Pittsfleld, Mass., last month was given out on Oc tober 22" and the blame is placed on the motorman of the electric, car- which ran into tho president's carriage. The report also says: "The motorman had good reason to believe that the effort A Republican Scarecrow. In an interview printed in tho Chi cago Record-Herald Governor Cum mins, republican of Iowa, referring to tho prediction that terrible results would como from tariff agitation, said: "That is a scare-crow set up in tho corn fields. It is device always re sorted to by those who want the tariff treated as a sacred fetich. Tho men ace to this country today is not tariff change, but the temptations to reckless stock watering, which avaricious men find in their ability to create monop olies in production, We cannot avert disaster by falling on our knees and worshiping a tariff schedule. The truth is that men who are enjoying the fruits of monopoly aro daily laughing in their sleeves at the fatu ity with which the people permit them to plunder under the form of law." . f - .r.'to.fc. fftlTitfliifcil ni .lnUfclltW Ti !HkL, li'fiyatoiwaAiiJliiiiii'iiii.Tiiii-iirii in" hi-"--. .c,.jJittuJ .r!it'.: 11, Hj ..i. IMHl-TO kjLt fAjvii fafrJd&A.,: