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1 M The Commoner. 12 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 23. L SriJ W ,f, SS4t .rr i L- . I a lllflflllh riuitf1 .v.vru P" ' vis It was announced from Pittsburg, Pa., on June 13 that plans have been perfected for the formation in that city of one of the greatest combina tions of banking interests ever under taken. Eight institutions are to be merged into one with a capital of $7, OQOtOO, and the resources of the new ronrcrn are said to bo $78,000,000. T. Hart Given, president of one of the lee ding banks of Pittsburg,, is to be the head of the new Institution. According to a New York report of Juno 13 the Northorn Securities com pany will bo "voluntarily" dissolved and the stocks oC the Northern Pacific and Great Northorn Railroad compa nies will bo distributed among the stockholders. It is said, however, that tho appeal now pending in the Unite:! States supreme court will bo carried to its conclusion. This great company was incorporated in 1901 with a cap ital of $400,000,000. General Matos, leader of the revolu tionists in Venezuela, on June 12 pub lished in Curacoa a manifesto ad dressed to tho Venezuelan people, con fessing that the revolution is crushed and terminated, and saying he will ask President Castro to guarantee the safety of himself and all his followers so that they may bo able to return to their homes and work for the con summation of peace and the pros perity of Vonozuela. June 14 a three-story building used as a hotel and owned by Captain B. J. Ewon, the principal witness against tho accused men, was burned to tho ground. It is believed that tho fire was of Incendiary origin and was in tended to serve as a warning to tho jurors sitting in the case. Tho terrible tragedy In Servia whereby the king and queen together with several attendants were mur dered by a military revolution, seems to have affected the Servian people very little. On June 15 it was an nounced from Belgrade that the sen ate and skuptschtina had legally and with duo formality elected Prinoe Peter Karageorgeovitch king of Ser via and this election was greeted with the almost universal acclamation of the people. It is said that the form of government will not be changed. in China or Manchuria, except the duties collected by the native custom houses at the treaty ports under for eign customs management and allown surtaxes of 11-z per cent In Import and one-half per cent in export duty. j.tev. John Chidwick, chaplain In the United States navy, has tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt. Father Chidwick was one of tho flrut priests to be appointed in the navy and was chaplain of the ill-fated Maino at the time of the explosion in Ha vana harbor. rary exercises and speech making at Bunker Hill monument. The formal opening of the twentieth trionnial saengerfest of the North eastern Saengerbund of America, took place at Baltimore, Md., on June 14. The attendance was very large, about M00 -singers being present. After a rough passage of sixteen days and 22 hours from Gourock, Scotland, tho latest challenger for the America's cup, Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, Shamrock In., arrived safe in New York on Juno 14. On June 14 the relief committee of Kansas City, Kas., issued an appeal for aid in the interest of the people of that flood-devastated city. About 23,000 people in that city alone are in need of tho .necessaries of life, ev erything they possessed being swept rway by tho floods. An awful disaster occurred to the town of Heppner, Ore., on June 15 when the town was almost entirely destroyed by a 'cloudburst and prob ably 500 people drowned. The town had a population of about 1,250 in habitants and was the center of i large farming and stock growing country. It was situated on the banks of Wlilow creek, in the neighborhood of the converging point of four other mountain streams that drained a larg9 area of country and on account of be ing shut in by mountain ranges about the people had little chance of escape in that direction. It was reported that the town was swept by a wall of water twenty feet high and the people were caught in their houses with no chance of escape. The united mine workers' conven tion called for the purpose of taking action on the refusal of the' operators to recognize several district presi dents as the miners' representatives on the conciliation board, was called to order at Scranton, Pa., on June 15. President John Mitchell was chosen chairman and in his address expressed umu.iJiJomi.ment Because the mine op erators do not live up to the award of the anthracite coal strike commission and its terms. At Scranton, Pa., on June 16 the res olution indorsing District Presidents Nicholls, Fahey and Dettry as the miners' representatives on the boar 3 of conciliation, was adopted separate ly by the three districts. Another res olution was adopted, providing that all grievances, instead of being threshed out in debate, should bo giv en to the conciliation board for consideration. An amicable adjustment of the ho tel and restaurant strike was reached in Chicago on June 17 after two weeks of idleness on tho part of these em ployes. All differences are to be set tled by arbitration. The leading feature in tho reichstag election held on June 1G in Germany was in the success of the social demo crats in increasing their representa tion in the reichstag by fifteen seats and their total vote to upwards of 2, 500,000, or 400,000 more than in 1898. Tho socialist gain in Sanoy was espe cially marked. On June 16 President Roosevelt was the guest of. the University of Vir ginia, where he delivered an address. The president afterwards visited Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. The flood situation at St. Louis, Mo., and East St Louis, 111., is slowly im p5ving: althouSh great destitution still exists among the flood victims. It is reported that twonty-seven peo ple are still missing from sections visited by the floods, and the list of dead may be increased. A memorial monument to negro slaves and thoir descendants, in rec ognition of valuable domestic and pa rotic services before and during the revolutionary war, was dedicated at Barrlngton, R. I., on June 14. This is the first monument of its kind to bo erected in tho United States. The memorial is a large granite boulder buttressed at tho corner with large black stones, emblematic of tho inter-dependent relation; nf h wu t- mid black races, and bears a tablet inscribed: "in memory of negro ? ,e? ,,and their descendants, who faithfully served Barrington families." Tho recent sensational trial of Messrs. Jett and Whit eon trial for the assassination of Lawyer J. B ?5H?um Ja(son Ky.. attracted at tention throughout the country. On On June 15 through their represen tative association, B'Nai Brith, the Jews of America laid their case before President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay concerning the treatment of Jews in Russia and more particularly the icuuul xviauiutju massacre. Tne dele gation asked that tho president uso his good offices to secure the atten tion of the ranr to tTinao mitfon-sm ,i daring that he is being kept Ignorant c? the torriblo treatment accorded to the Jews of his domain. Neither President Roosevelt nor Secretary Hay would make any definite prom ises, but agreed to do all that the principles of international comity would allow to be done in the case. The strike among the brick workers and hod carriers of Omaha, Nob., which has . been in onorntinn oi March 16 of this year was practically settled on June 15 and building opera tions in tho city began anew. It was announced from Shanghai China, on Juno 15 that the terms of the American commercial treaty have been settled, except tho clause provid ing for the opening of two Manchur fan ports. The treaty abolishes all in terior trade barriers in tho shape of internal taxation of goods in transit The investigation into the affairs of the postofllce department in Washing ton goes on and on. June 17 Jas. T. Metcalf, for many years superinten dent of the money order system of the department, was removed from office by tho postmaster general. Mr. Met calf is accused of indiscretions in tho awarding of contracts for printing the money order formS'of the government A dispatch from Boston dated June 17 to the Associated press says: With Philadelphia's famous relic, ther Lib erty bell, and the memento of the civil war, John Brown's bell from Barl boro, as features, the annual celebra tion of the annlversarv of tho hnffi.i of Bunker Hill assumed unusual in terest today. Following the carnival and military parades there were lite- Tho lockout in the building trades in New York city was made complete on June 17 by 10,000 employes of the George A. Fuller Construction com pany being thrown out of work. It is estimated that this makes a total of luO.OOO men in the city who are idle on account of differences between their organization and that of tho employers. On June 17 Henry F. Greene of Di luth was appointed as civil service commissioner to succeed Mr. Garfield. .Governor Bailey of. Kansas on Juno 17 issued a proclamation calling to gether the legislature in special ses sion on June 24. The preamble of tho proclamation is: "Whereas, The re cent floods have, in addition to tho destruction of vast amounts of prop erty, swept away numerous bridge?, the immediate rebuilding of which is imperative, but for which no adequate law exists, thereby bringing about an extraordinary occasion within the meaning of the constitution authoriz ing a special session of the legislature." The work of restoring order out of the chaos occasfoned in the town of Heppner, Ore., by its recent devasta tion by a cloudburst is progressing slowly. Up to June 18 the number of dead recovered from the flood ruins totalled 153 bodies and about sixty .more people are missing. About $15, 000. has already been contributed for the work of relief. Judge Grlnnan of the Richmond, Va., chancery court on June 18 grant ed an injunction restraining Lieuten ants Theiss and Grossdeck, United States navy, from proceeding further toward the launching of the cruiser Galveston, under construction in the Trigg ship yards at Richmond. This action was based on the attempt of the creditors of the insolvent Trigg Shipbuilding company to secure their money, but it is said that the govern ment while -not desiring to interfere with the rights of state courts, is de- Subscribers' Advertising Department Does advertising pay?" is a ques tion often asked. The answer is found in the great fortunes built up by men who had something to sell and knew how to make the fact known. If you have an article the people need or want, you have but to make the fact known to them. The fact that you have it is not enough. 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