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.The Commoner.
FEBRUARY 12, 1904.
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News of the Week
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune under dale
of Annapolis, Md., February 3, said Isldor Ray
ner will succeed Louis B. McComas in the United
States "senate. He was nominated tonight by the
democratic caucus on the first ballot. His selec
tion is regarded here as a setback for Senator
Gorman, who favored Governor Sm.th. Eighty
nine of the ninety democratic members of the
general assembly cast their votes for Mr. Rayner,
who is a Baltimore lawyer and was the leading
counsel for Admiral Schley during the naval court
inquiry. He will be elected by the members of
the general assembly in joint session tomorrow
at noon. Isidor Rayner was born in Baltimore in
1850 of a famous Maryland family. He was edu
cated at the University of Virginia, and in his
college days attained high rank as an orator.
t He adopted the law as a profession and won his
way to prominence. For years he bas had a
large practice in the United States supreme coujt.
The London and New York Pilgrim societies
banquets were held simultaneously January 29,
and were connected by cable, messages being ox-,
changed by guests on each side of the Atlantic.
It is reported that the Japanese emperor and
empress are encouraging the writing of poetry by
their people. An imperial bureau is maintained
and this bureau announces the themes for verse.
Reports from Colombia say that General
Reyes has assured his people that the United
States will resist landing only in canal zones and
that on the basis of this assurance, Colombia is
planning an expedition against Panama.
London newspapers say that there is great
popular indignation against what is called the
persecution of the late Whittaker Wright. It is
alleged that Wright was made the scapegoat for
others.
The British parliament opened February 2.
Austin Chamberlain acted as leader and defended
the policy of his father, Joseph Chamberlain. In
the debate young Chamberlain referred to his
father as "My Right Honorable friend, the mem
ber from West Birmingham.' Joseph Chamber
Iain occupied the seat as "private member" of the
house of commons and a London cablegram to tbo
Chicago Tribune says: "From this seat he saw
his sou act as leader of the house of' commons, a
position to which Joseph Chamberlain, with all
bis years of parliamentary experience, never at
tained." There seems to be general opinion that
young Chamberlain's defense of his father's pol
icy was decidedly weak. 6
On February 3 it was reported that the Co
lombians had attacked an Indian village on San
Bias coast and that the United States ship Ban
croft had been sent to investigate.
William C. Whitney, capitalist and secre
tary of the navy under President Cleveland, died
at New York February 2 while being prepared
for a second operation for appendicitis.
In one convention Congressman, Curtis was re
nominated, while the other convention nominated
for congress D. R. Anthony, jr., of Leavenworth.
The state olection board will determine which of
the twjo conventions is regular.
Mrs. John Fleming of Chicago asked for novel
proceedings before Justice Bradwell, February 2.
MrB. Fleming requested the justice to Issue a
writ of replevin for her baby The child is three
months old and Mrs. Fleming's landlord had held
it for $5 rent money. The juhtice could not Issue
the replevin writ, but he issued a warrant for
the arrest of the landlord on the charge of kid
napping. The child was restored to Its mother.
The Presbytery of New Castle, Del,, on Feb
ruary 2 declared that Rev. Robert A. El wood was
guilty of inciting, by hi" remarks in a serincn,
the lynching of the assailant of Helen Bishop.
On February 2, at Chicago, a switch engine
on the Chicago Terminal Transter company's
track broke away from control and collided with
the locomotive of a crowded suburban train at
Fifteenth and Ashland avenues. Two men were
killed and a number were injured and both en
gines were wrecked.
Walter W. Woolnough died February 2 at
Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. Woolnough was a per
sonal -friend of Horace Greeley and it is said he
suggested to Mr. Greeley the name "republican"
' for the present republican party. The Chicago
Tribune says: "Woolnoiigh was secretary at a
meeting in 1854 which chose the name reuubheau
for the. party formed a few months later at Jack
son. Aside from his claim of being the oldest
living republican, he was the oldest newspaper
compositor in the United States. Ho wrote edi
torials for the Daily Moon until his death, al
ways setting the typo for this column until a few
weeks ago. Woolnough was an ex-representatlve
of Michigan."
The republicans of the FJrst Kansas congress
Blonal district held two conventions February '2.
In the Iowa legislature, Senator Ilayward in
troduced a bill which was intended to discourage
marriage on the part of a man who wants a wlfo
to support him. It makes it a misdemeanor for
an able-bodied man having a wife or family to
refuse to work, if ho can obtain wcrk, and pro
vides ho may be'sent to jail for such neglect or
refusal. The bill is copied after the New Jersey
statute with changes to cure supposed defects lu
the New Jersey law.
A London" cablegram to the 'Chicago Tribune
says: "Ernest W. Birch, governor of British
North Borneo, who has just arrived here, says
General Leonard Wood, while recently at San
dakan, capital ot North Borneo, informed him
that the question of the ownership of the islands
off the coast of Borneo, over which a United States
war vessel had hoisted the American flag, should
be amicably settled, as there was no strong de
sire on the part of the Americans to keep them.
The governor added that the Europeans there
wore so friendly to the Americans that they have
no doubt the United States government will re
linquish its claims." The Washington dispatches
say that General Wood was authorized to malco
the statement attributed to him.
The Kirby Lumber company and tho Houston
Oil company, the largest two concerns in Texas,
have been placed temporarily in charge of re
ceivers because of the alleged default in pay
ment of $700,000 interest to the Maryland Trust
company. A run on a savings bank followed the
announcement of tho embarrassment of these two
companies, but serious trouble on tho bank's
part was promptly avoided.
It is charged that chattel money lendera in
New York whose business has been seriously in
terfered with by the district attorney, offered a
bribe to that official of ?25,000 and that the arrest
and prosecution of many of these money lenders
will follow.
Martial law at Cripple Creek, Colo., has been
declared at an end by Governor Peabody. The
military prisoners have been delivered to the civil
authorities.
A dispatch to the Chicago Chronicle, under
date of February 1, says: John D. Rockefeller
will cease to bo a director of the United States
Steel corporation at tomorrow's meeting of the
board. He tendered his resignation January 11,
but the news was kept secret until today the day
before the directors will be called upon to act
upon it. The resignation of Mr. RocKefellcr means
nothing more than his adherence to a long-settled
policy not to figure personally In the manage
ment of any of his corporations except the Stand
ard Oil company, of which he is president.
Though holding extensive interests in more than
150 corporations, he is a director In only four,
counting the Standard Oil and the steel corpora
tion. He has never attended any directors' meet
ings except that of the Standard Oil company.
Different men in the Standard Oil group repre
sent him in tho different corporlUons James
Stillman, president of the National City bank, Ib
a director in fifty-four of the Rockefel er com
panies. John D. Rockefeller, jr., will represent
his father's Interests in the steel corporation.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Johnstown, Pa., February 1, says: Employes of
the Cambria Steel works today received notice of
a readjustment of wages, to go into effect Feb
ruary 15. The basis of each man's pay is estab
lished by an agreement between himself and the
head of the department in which h is employed.
Tho readjustment affects every class of employes
and the general basis will be that prevailing be
fore the last readjustment, July 1, 1902.
than 10,000 men are affected.
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Remarkably high winds were features in vari
ous sections of tho country February 1. At
Georgetown, Colo., a railroad train was blown off
the track and several persons were Injured. Con
siderable damage to property was done in Den
vor, two men losing their lives in tho gale. At
Cheyenne the wind reached the rate of 05 mites
and great damage was done.
It Is reported from Now York that the dress
makers of Paris, London and various American
cities will organize a trust.
Forty persons were killed February 1 in an
explosion of ten tons of gun powder at Fort
Bhatinda, in Punjab.
Under date of Philadelphia, Pa., February 1,
the Associated press Bays A general reduction
of wages went into effect today at tho Midvalo
Steel works, affecting 3,500 . employes. The de
crease is graded according to the wages received
from 5 to 35 cents a day. Tho congested labor
market and overproduction aro said to navo
caused tho reduction.
Tho Sharon, Pa., correspondent of the Asso
ciated press, under date of February 1, says: Tho
National Malleable Steel Castings company mado
a reduction in wages today, affecting all employes
except tho laborers. Tho cut ranges from 5 to
33 per cent. The reduction was accepter by tho
men. Three of tho furnaces of the open hearth
department of tho Carnegie Steel company wero
started today and three others will icsume within
a few days.
A wreck of the Colorado flyer of tho Missouri
Pacific railway occurred near Miller, Kas.. Feb
ruary 1. One person, W. L. Brown of Des Moines,
la., was killed while thirteen were Injured.
An explosion of natural gas in the cellar of
the home of Henry Magol, near Pittsburg, Pa.,
January 31, resulted in the death of two persons
and the injury of several others.
A passenger train on the Southern railroad
was derailed near Princeton, Ind., on January 31.
Seventy-five passengers were on tho train, but all
escaped with slight injuries. The spikes and
bolts had been removed from tho rails and tho
wreck Is believed to have been tho work of
would-be train robbers.
Governor W. J. Bailey of TopeKa, Kas., has
withdrawn from tho contest for renomination.
The factional troubles in the republican party
prompted the governor's withdrawal.
Senator Young of Calhoun county has Intro
duced In the Iowa legislature a bill making it
unlawful for two or more persons to conspire
to drive away trade from any place of business.
This bill prohibits picketing or "boycotting or the
distribution of cards or requesting tho with
drawal of patronage and is aimed at tho union
labor boycott. In the same bill employes aro
prohibited from black-listing emploes and seek
ing to prevent the re-employment of discharged
employes by other firms.
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