APRIL 22; iS6i
The Commoner.
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Condensed News of the Week
Tsahella. the grandmother of Kincr Alfonn rinna nnf lnn.. , ., . . ..
of Sialn, isdoaa at PariB, I-ranca. '. pe7son wheu m'olteSS.ffSSSSt S
State Railroad Commissioner John W. Thomas
has reported to the governor that hia investiga
tion of the books and records of the railway com
panies operating in' Wisconsin shows that they
owe the state1 ?G7',923.07 in back taxes, due to their
failure to report' their entire gross earnings, upon
which their taxes are computed.
An Associated press dispatch under date of
Asbury Park, N. J. April 9, saysr Robert Grif
fin Morris died at his hpme in Ocean Grove c
acute matritis. There Were few better known
newspaper writers in the country than Mr. Mor
ris, and he achieved fame and fortune as a ver
satile and prolific writer of plays. He has to his
credit 187 one-act sketches and thirty-nine plays
E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, and
John P. Rossa, jr., were elected as delegates to
the republican national convention by the 2Clh
congressional district of New York. They were
instructed for Roosevelt.
The executive - council of the- National Lin-coln-McKinley
Association of Veteran Voters met
at St. Louis and perfected part of the arrange
ments for the annual pilgrimages to- the tombs,
of Presidents Lincoln at Springfield, 111, and ivlc
Kinley at Canton,. 0. The ceremonies at the
tombs of the two martyrdd presidents will, be' held
simultaneously June. 4.
S'amuel Hoar,, a prominent lawyer of Concord1,.
Mass., and ne'phew of Senator Hoar, is dead at his
home in that cityr aged 59 years.
General Botha has ' been requested by the
Transvaal Farmers' association to cable the di
rectors of the St. Louis exposition asking' them to
prohibit the proposed Boer war "buffoonery" dur
ing the exposition because it will be- "an out
rage upon every true patriotic instinct,"
An Associated press dispatch, under date- of
Mexico City, April ,10, says: The national liberty
party, which is favorable to the administration of
President Diaz, has .issued a call for a national
convention to be held in thia city May 20 to select
a candidate for vice president, to. be voted for m
the June election.
Six factories representing a capital of $15,
000,000 have formed a paper trust in Mexico, with
Thomas Brannon at the head of the combine.
The war ministry has granted' the petition of.
Mme. Pousch, daughter of Colonel Maxiowcon
durow,. who desired to be enrolled in a. Cossack
regiment. The ministry has ordered her enroll
ment in the First regiment of riflemen.
J. J. Hill, the railroad magnate, Is very solic
itous for the welfare of the people of the north
west. Convincing proof of this fact was given in
a statement made by him in regard to the Harri-man-Hill.
legal entanglement. When asked what
the policy of the Great Northern would be In case
Harriman is successful in his effort to get con
trol of the Northern Pacific, he replied: "IfyHar
riman wins and also gets control of the Burling
ton, there' will be, nothing left for us to do but
to sell out and retire and leave the people of the
northwest to flght out their own battles."
The 11th congressional district of- Indiana se
lected delegates to the national convention and
instructed them for Roosevelt.
Ivon D. Heath, who gained some notoriety
years ago through his explorations of South and
Central America-,, died, at hisvhome at Kansas1 City,
Kas., aged 67 years. He was a brother of Dr.
Edwin R. Heath, also a well known traveler and
explorer.
The republican state convention of Montana
elected Its delegates to' the national '.convention
and instructed them for Roosevelt.
The St. Louis- Transit company has filed an
application in the, United States district court for
an injunction to restrain the city from collecting a
proposed tax of 1 mill for each passenger carried
over the lino of the company. It is declared that
the tax would amount to $150,000 annually.
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The St. Louis courtofappeals rendered a, de
cision that? the wrongv spelling ofa persons nama.
- Cardinal Satolli, with the permission of the
pope, is coming to the United States privately and
without a mission, arriving probably in June: As
prefect of the congregation of the studies the car
dinal will visit the Catholic university at Wash
ington, and he will make a trip to the St. Louis
exposition.
A serious accident occurred in the lSclklrlts
near Glacier, Manitoba, as a result of a snow and
rock slide. A work train on the Canadian Pa
cific railway, while engaged in clearing the tracks,
was sjxuck by a tremendous avalanche of srtow
and rocks and several cars were overturned.
Trainmaster Downe and several workmen are re
ported to have been killed.
Daniel Keegan, the confederate who blew the
last bugle call at the battle of Appomattox, ,and
who in later years sounded taps .over the graves
of many of his comrades, was found dead In his
room at New Orleans.
Seven hundred white pupils of the Kansas
City high school refused to- allow the 80 colored
pupils of the same school to enter the building on
last Thursday. One of the white pupils named
Roy Martin had been killed, by a negro. When
the colored" pupils approached the door they were
told no negro- could enter the school until the
young man. had been buried.
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The attorneys for the. firm- of D. J. Sully &
Co. have entered a demurrer in the bankruptcy"
case, in- which it is stated that the petitions of
the creditors did' not state that the firm has com
mitted an act of bankruptcy. They further say
that the petitioners were ndt just and lawful cred
itors;. ' It is said that if the action is sustained,
the firm' will be freed from bankruptcy.
A cat whose owner resides in Salt Lake City
was shipped away three weeks ago because it was
feared she would destroy some young chickens.
The owner put the cat aboard- the train in a sack
and she rode 337 miles before the trainmen dis
covered her and put her out. A few. days ago the
cat arrived home, very weak and' emaciated, hav
ing walked the entire distance back. Her owner
will keep- her nowi
The-Baltimore Equitable Life Insurance com
pany went into the hands of a receiver upon Lne
application of State Insurance Commissioner
Wilkinson and upon an' answer filed, bythe com
pany, in which the appointment of receivers was
consented to.
R. M. Snyder, a capitalist, has formed a cor
poration to pipe natural gas from Independence,
Kas., to Kansas City, furnishing the towns alone
the route, a distance of 160 miles.
- The Oregon state republican convention Se
lected four delegates to the national convention
and instructed for Theodore Roosevelt for nomi
nation for president. Resolutions were passed in
dorsing the present administration.
Rev. Samuel A. Taggart, for many years state
secretary of the Young Men's Christian association
of Pennsylvania, and widely known throughout
the country, is dead.
Albert A. Ames, former mayor of Minneap
olis', was arrested Thursday on an! indictment)
charging him with accepting a bribe December 15,
1901, from Bessie Lee.
A dispatch to the London Times from Gianlfce,
Thibet indicates that the local ofllcerst.are suing
with the British mission under Colonel. Young
husband for- peace.
Dr D K Pearson of Chicago- will endow a
college at Yankton, S. D., one in Oklahoma and
one at Winter Park, Fla. ;
Representative Robert Miers was renominated
for the fifth time by the democrats of the Sec
ond. Indiana- district.
A settlement has been reached in the-sheet
nn(1 Tin nlate wage dispute between the; manufae.
furers and The Amalgamated Association- of Iron,
Steel? and Tin Workers and a- strike averted'.
Articles of incorporation have been- filedtwith
the secretary of state for South Dakota for tlid
National Farmers' Exchange with headquarters
at Pierre and Chicago. The capital stock Is said
to, bo $50,000,000.
The Federal bank, a state institution In Now
York, was closed April 14, and ofllcials of the state
banking board aro In charge of its affairs. David
Rothschild was president of the bank.
The Amalgamated Copper company has taken
an appeal to tho Montana supremo court from
Judge Clancy's order for a now trial in tho famouB
Minnie Hcaly mine case. Before Judgo Clancy
tho property was adjudged to be owned by F A
Hoinze. In connection with this appeal, 'the'
Amalgamated Copper company asks that the Min
nie Healy mine be closod down pending final decision.
Tho Cotton crop report for British India for'
1903 and 1904 shows that the area under cot'ton,'
of 17,670i599 acres, is over 1,000,000 acres laigcr
than tho corrected area of last year, which was
then the highest returned. The official figures of
the estimated yield is 2,874,893 bales. Tho esti
mate total yield for this yeason (excluding the
returns from Assam and Mysore, which did not re-
port last year) is approximately the same as for
the last soason.
Tho republican stato convention for Maine, '
Ucld April 14, elected delegates to the national con '
vontion and instructed them for Roosevelt.
On April 13 a turret gun exploded on the now
battleship Missouri, stationed near Ponsacoli;u
Flai Thirty-two men were killed, while two oth
ers will probably die. The battleship was en
gaged in target practice at the time of the explosion.
The democratic convention for New Mexico
met April 14 and elected delegates to- the na
tional, convention and Instructed them to voto for
Hearst.
The democratic state convention for New
Jersey met at Trenton, April' 14. The supporters
of William R. Hearst bolted (ho convention,
James Smith, jr., Robert Davis, Johnson Cornish:
and Howard Carrow were elected delegates at
largo by the Smith convention, while tho Hearst
convention choose Joseph Nowrey, J. R. Buch
anan, E. L. Price and J. Clarke as delegates ot
large.
Tho miltary authorities at Telluride, Colo.,
continue to' rofuse to surrender President Moyer
of the Western Federation of Miners to the civil
authorities. An Associated press dispatch under
date of April 14 says: "Adjutant General Bell,
who is enforcing martial law in San Miguel coun
ty, expressed tho opinion today that tho conven
tion of the Western Federation of Miners, which
isrto bo held at Butte, Mont, next month, will
call off the strike here or give the minors author
ity to do so. 'I am reliably informed,' said the
general,' that at the next convention tho power
vested in the executive board by the last conven
tion to call strikes will bo annulled and that in
the future no strikes can be ordered except by
referendum vote of tho members.' The belief Is
quite general here that the military officers pro
pose to hold President Moyer here until after the
Butte meeting in order to reduce his chances of
re-election to the minimum."
A banquet was given by tho Iroquois club' at
Chicago on tho evening of April IS, General Nel
son A. Miles being the guest of honor. Governor
Garvin of Rhode Island, Adlai E. Stevenson, and
others addressed the gathering.
The original document of tho indictment- of
Aaron Burr for treason-was found in the archives
of the federal courts of Richmond, Va., a few
days ago. ft was long supposed to have been, lost.-
The Instrument is signed by John Randolph-"of
Roanoke, chairman of the jury.
Tho- democrats of the 7th Ohio district have
elected delegates to the national convention' and
instructed them for Parker.
As a result of tile bitter feeling among thV
white and the. colored pupilV of the Kansas City
high school, it is- thought probable that that' in
stltution will1 have tir be closed for the remainder
of the term- at least.
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