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The Commoner.
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 25.
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On Juno 27 tho state department at
Washington rocelved from Minister
Beaupro at Bogata, Colombia, infor
mation that tho extra session of con
gress convened for tho consideration
of tho canal treaty on June 20. Ac
cording to this report tho point in
controversy that is delaying the rati
fication of the treaty is the question of
tho surrender of its sovereignty by tho
Colombian government.
Much comment has been caused by
tho decision of tho president to send
to the Russian government tho peti
tion of the Jews in this country in re
gard to tho treatment of those un
fortunate people in Russia. It is an
nounced that tho president has made
a closo examination of tho precedent
in such cases and thinks that no gov
ernment has a right to resont the pre
sentation of such a petition nor has
a government any right to object if
such a petition Is declined.
The disturbances in Somaliland,
Africa, led by the Mad Mullah against
tho British forces there continue, it
being reported recently that five Brit
ish posts had been destroyed, thirty
nine British officers were killed and
many soldiers made prisoners. It is
s&id that operations against the Mul
lah already have cost the British
government more than $2,000,000 and
considerable loss of life.
It was recently announced that the
PoBtal Telegraph company is to be
gin tho construction of a telegraph
lino between Omaha, Neb., and San
Francisco via the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads. This pro
ject is regarded as one of the most
important dealS since the Pacific tele
graph lines were first built.
Twenty-four miners were killed and
about fifty others seriously wounded
in an explosion of gas on June 25 in
a coal mine at Coahulla, Mex. The
disaster was caused by tho ignition of
gas by tho fiamo from a defective
lamp.
Germany, took part in several races
arranged by Prince Henry of the
German ileet and captured the sailing
honors. In the contest of warship
launches the cruiser San Francisco
took first place.
It was announced from Washington
on June 29 that the president had is
sued the first of a series of proclama
tions under the Porto Rican land act,
reserving for tho use of the United
States government such of the pub
lic lands of 'Porto Rico as are needed
for naval purposes. Tho lands re
ferred to in today's proclamation are
eighty acres on both sides of the Ca
guas road between the harbor and
tho railroad station; the Isla Grande;
all public lands and structures on
Puntella Point; the park and the pre
sidio, and the islands of Culcbra and
adjacent quays. '
An Atchison, Kas., dispatch of June
29 says: The grave of the late John
J Ingalls will be marked with a gla
cial boulder of granite five and one
half by four and one-half by two and
one-half feet in dimensions. It was
Ingalls' wish that a Kansas field stone
should cover him, and a red rock,
found near Atchison, was chosen. On
the stone will bo carved a medallion
and a quotation from Ingalls' famous
essay on "Blue Grass."
formal transfer of the southern
branches of tho Oregon Short Lino
railroad to the San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake railroad, which, was
scheduled to take place at midnight,
has been postponed indefinitely. Word
to this effect was received by the
Short Line officials today and they
were advised to take no action in the
matter until further instructions.
Representatives of both roads are in
New York arranging the details for
the transfer and it is not believed that
any special significance attaches to
the delay.
An explosion of fire damp in mine
No. 1 of tho Union Pacific Coal com
pany at Hanna, Wyo., on June 30
caused the death of 234 men and the
injury of a score of others, besides
tho destruction of a vast amount of
property. The work of relief was or
ganized at once, but great difficulty
was experienced as the miners were
imprisoned as in a trap.
It was announced from Oyster Bay,
L. I., on June 30 that President Roose
velt has expressed his intention to
witness tho international races be
tween the Reliance and Shamrock III.
to be sailed on August 20.
trict of Nebraska, including tho coun
ties of Douglas, Burt, Sarpy, and
Washington, met on Juno 26 at Oma
ha, Neb., and by a practically unani
mous vote selected the following tick
et to be recommended to tho political
conventions of the various parties to
be nominated for the district bench:
For judges of the district court:
George A. Day, republican; Charles
T. Dickinson, republican; Ernest C
Fsge, democrat; Herman Aye, repub
lican; Lee S. Estello, republican; Guy;
R, C. Read, republican; Irving F.
Baxter, republican.
Comptroller R. M. Love of the stato
of Texas was assassinated on June 30
while sitting in his office at tho stato
house. W. G. Hill, an ex-employe of!
tho comptroller's office,' did theT dee3
and in the excitement which followed
the assassin was also shot fatally.
The United States Ship Building
company incorporated under the law3
of the state of New Jersey, was de
clared insolvent by Judge Kirkpatrick
on June 30 and a receiver for the com
pany is to be appointed by the court
The forty-second annual convention
of the National Educational associa
tion 'which opens its session July 16 at
Boston, Mass., is attracting great
numbers of teachers to that city.. It is
estimated that about 25,000 will be n
attendance from all over the country.
A dispatch from Washington dated
Juno 29 indicates that the Manchur
ian question will be permitted to rest
temporarily so far as action at this
end of the line is concerned. It Is
said that Russia has found it possible
to shape her policy respecting Man
churia so as to be more acceptable to
tho United States as In the negotia
tions with China for a commercial
treaty this government has been in
sistent on the opening of certain ports
in Manchuria and the now turn ap
pears to have given a more hopeful
feeling In that direction.
It was reported from Wilkesbarre,
Pa., on June 28 that the miners,
through their superintendents and
foremen throughout tho Wyoming
coal fields, will make an effort to
clean up the potty disputes and griev
ances which exist, so as to not burden
the conciliation board with such mat
ters. The award of tho coal strike
commission says that the miners and
superintendents should make an at
tempt to end disputes among them
selves, by conferences, and this will
now bo done. Only grievances which
cannot be settled in this way will be
brought to the attention of the con
ciliation board.
S. B. Rathbono of Indianapolis was
recently appointed superintendent of
the western division of the rural de
livery mail department with headquar
ters at Omaha, Neb., and assumed his
r.ew charge on July 1.
At a meeting of the skupschtina at
Belgrade on June 30 Premier Avaku
movics read a ukase closing the ses
sion specially summoned by the pro
visional government June 11. It was
also announced that all legislation
would be postponed until the new
skupschtina was elected, the elections
to take place about the middle of Sep
tember. The new king has promised
that tho new cabinet will be com
posed in accordance with the results
of these elections.
A New York dispatch dated Juno
30 says: Tho Bhip Young America,
which is being built in a Perth Am
boy ship yard for a nautical prepara
tory school .of Rhode Island, has been
seized by tho sheriff of Middlesex
county, New Jersey, on an attachment
foV $4,800, procured by the designer of
the vessel. The right of the sheriff
to attach the boat was disputed at the
skip yards, the officers claiming, no
payments had been made.
Tho town of Jackson, Breathitt
county, Ky., has. been placed under
military rule and the governor of tho
state recently issued orders making
-absolute tho powers of the militia in
that city. A gun has been placed in
tho court house square and instruc
tions were- given that if necessary any
house from which a shot should b3
firod at any one should be fired into.
Tho 200th anniversary of the birth
of John Wesley was quite generally
observed by the Methodists of the
country on June 29. In Boston, Mass.,
a two days' celebration of tho anni
versary was begun on that day.
The American warships at Kiel,
Following the news of the attack
made upon the British forces by the
Wad Mullah in Somaliland resulting
in the destruction of several British
posts, a dispatch to the British war
office in London from Colonel Roch
fcrt, one of the British officers serv
ing with the Abjssinians in Somali
land, says that after a series of forced
marches on May 31 the Mad Mullah's
forces were attacked and 10,000 spear
men were killed and almost all the
cattle and sheep together with 1,000
camels were captured. This dispatch
was dated June 14 and at that time
tho Abyssinlans had effectually closed
to the Mullah all the wateHne- ninooa
-south of the Gerlogubi-Galadi line.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Keep on June 30 issued a summarized
statement of the principal financial
operations of the government for the
fiscal year closed on that day. The
revenues of the government from all
sources for tho year ending June 30,
1903, are shown to have been $558,
887,526. The expenditures for the
same period were $506,176,590, leaving
a surplus of $52,710,936.
A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah
under date of Juno 30, says: Tho
On June 30 the 'New York World
reported a special interview with the
Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle of the
czar of Russia, in which the grand
duke Is quoted as laying the blame
for the recent cruelties practiced upon
the Jews of his country and the subse
quent agitation upon tho Jews of the
United States. He also declared that
America will not be permitted to in
terfere with Russia's Internal affairs,
and this statement is taken as signif
icant In view of the recent decision
to present a petition of remonstrance
to the Russian government.
The bar of, the Fourth judicial dis-
The joint committee representing
the Congregational, Methodist Episco
pal, and United Brethren churches, re
cently met at Pittsburg and came to an
agreement on the platform for the
union of the three denominations. The
plan agreed upon is now to he referred
to the constituent bodies for their ap
proval. The republican state convention of
the state of Iowa met at Des Moines
on July 1 and nominated tho following
ticket:" Governor, A. B. Cummins of
Folk; lieutenant governor, John Her
riott of Adair; railroad commissioner.
D J. Palmer of. Washington; judge of
supreme court, Charles A. Bishop of
Polk; superintendent of public in
struction, J. E. Riggs of Sigourney.
The most interesting incident of the
convention was the discussion ov3r
the tariff plank and the one adopted
was prepared by Senator Allison after
conferences with republican leaders of
the state. In it the "Iowa idea" is
practically abandoned.
An interesting .question is being dis-
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