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C o nd e rise d News of the Week
President Roosevelt haa invited Paul Morton
to accept the position of secretary of the navy.
President Roosevelt has contributed $1,000 to
the relief fund for the survivors of the Sldcum
disaster. ', .
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Frankfort, Ky., June 20, sayjs: "The court of ap
peals today overruled the petition for rehearing
in the case of James B. Howard against the com
monwealth, who wasjiven a life sentence on the
charge of murdering William Goobel."
At Buffalo, N. Y., the Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers' international Alliance elected the
following officers: President, Richard Pattison
of New York; second vice president, John Ken
nedy of Toronto, Ont.; third vice president, John
McTigue of Nashville, Tenn.; secretary-treasurer,
John T. Bray of Kansas City. The next conven
tion will be held in Washington in June, 1906.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Annapolis, N. S., June 22, says: "In the presence
of thousands of spectators the cornerstone of a
monument to be erected by the government of
Canada, to the memory of Sieur de Monts, the
French explorer, was laid at the old fort, Annap
olis Royal, today."
Secretary Taft and the commissioners for Pa
nama concluded arrangements for a currency sys
tem for Panama, which is to bo submitted to the
Panama legislature for ratification. The plan al
ready has been outlined in these dispatches gen
erally for a sufficiently reserved bimetallic system."
According to the Novoc Vremya, the Russian
oil combinations have capitulated to the Stand
ard Oil company, and even the Rothschilds and
Nobel interests have come to terms. The whole
output: is at present in American hands, the rivals ,
having become friends.
Telegraphic advices received at Mexico City
show that there is danger of war between the re
publics of Salvador and Guatemala, and that the
troops of the two countries are marching to ,the
border region. There are also reports of a com
ing revolution in Honduras.
Party feeling js running high in, Paris over
the investigation, into 'alleged attempts to corrupt
members of the government in connection with
the question of the expulsion of the monks of the
Carthusian order, yesterday afternoon's sitting
of the parliamentary committee of inqury being
attended by violent scenes.
The state board of taxation of New Jersey
yesterday sustained the assessment of the Jersey
City assessors in the appeal of the Standard Oil
company against an assessment of $800,000 on its
property at Communipaw, an increase of $493,000
over the previous year.
. The democratic congressional convention of
the Tenth North Carolina district last week
nominated Representative Gudger for con
gress by acclamation, and C. R. Thomas was
unanimously nominated in the Third congressional
district.
During a game of baseball at Indiana Pa.,
George Thomas, a catcher, was almost instantly
killed by being hit over the heart by a foul tip. -
The supreme court decided that the law re
ducing the salaries of coal oil Inspectors of St.
Louis to $7,000 per year is constitutional, and
renders judgment against R. B. Speed and W. J.
Flynn for excess fees 'to be paid into the treas
ury. Tho suit was brought hy Attorney General
Crow to recover excess fees collected by these in
spectors. Their defense was that the law was
unconstitutional.
zens of this town for damages, aggregating $40,
000. Tho men sued aro alleged to have been inoin
bers of tho posse.
Up to the present, time 845 bodies have been
recovered from tho wreck of tho "General Slocum."
There aro about 300 still missing.
At a meeting attended by 10,000 persons on
June 19, the Butto Miners' association arraigned
' Governor Peabody in tho most bitter terms and
made an appeal to President Roosevelt to make a
full, complete and impartial investigation of tho
situation in Colorado.
A strike of 50,000 persons has been called, to
take effect at once in Now York city. The per
sons involved aro tailors and garment workers,
who are opposed to tho "open shop" declaration
of the Manufacturers' National association.
The Portland mine has resumed work with
a small force of non-union men. The military
commission which decides who may live and work
in the district met at tho Portland to pass upon
applications for employment. -
John D. Rockefeller has signified his inten
tion to make good any deficiency in the Slocum
relief fund after tho voluntary contributions arc
all in.
Two persons were killed and several others
injured in Kansas City, Mo., by tho collapsing of
a four-story brick building. Tho col Lapse was
caused by overloading. Tho building was damaged
by a tornado in, 1886 and has never been properly
repaired.
An Associated pre'ss dispatch, under date of
Washington, Juno 20, says: "it can be stated
with definitoness that Representative Victor H.
Metcalf of the Third California district will suc
ceed Secretary Co'rtelyou as tlio head of the de
partment of cominerce arid, labor."
While driving past ' the palace at Port Au
Prince, Hayti, on June 22, tho French and Gorman
ministers and their wives were stoned by the
palace guard. It is expected that both France and
Germany will demand redress for this insult. The
trouble is said to be the outgrowth of tho Haytion
bank trouble, which involved the incarceration by
the Haytien government of certain foreign offi
cers of the bank on a charge of misapplication of
funds and subsequent intervention by the French
and German governments in behalf of their citizens.
Mrsk S. M. Shipman, whose -husband was killed,
by a sheriff's- posse at Jefferson, la., two years ago,
has filed suits against twenty-four prominent citl-
Mr. Seth Ellis of Waynesville, O., fell from a
cherry tree on his farm at that place and was in
jured so badly that he died shortly after. Mr.
Ellis was at one time tho union reform candidate
for president and master of the National and Ohio
ranges.
An' Associated press 'dispatch, under date of
Washington, D. C, June 23, says: "Semi-official
advices received at the state department give in
detail the negotiations by which peace was ac
complished in San Domingo. Much credit is given
Captain Dillingham of the Detroit for the ser
vices he rendered while there. The agreement
entered into with the revolutionists provides:
First, the authority of the government will be
recognized and the revolutionists will submit to
its orders. Second, thoy will deliver up all their
arms, remaining with only 150 rifles for the polic
ing. ' Third, the government guarantees them
their lives and property and will' not persecute,
them for the part they have taken in the revolu
tion. Fourth, the government will pay the debts
and expenses made by the revolution, after ex
amining and finding the accounts are correct.
Fifth the government agrees that the military
authorities of each district shall be of their own
district Sixth, the government gives them money
to pay off their troops."
An examination of the assets of the former
cotton king, Daniel J. Sully, disclosed the fact
that most of his property is owned by his wife and
daughters. He refused to turn over his house
to the receivers on the ground that It does-not
belong to him, but to his wife. It was learned
that he gave a mortgage of $82,000 on this house
and that ho kept up tho Insurance premiums, but
Mrs. Sully controlled tho housohold expenses.
Other things, including a $5,500 automobile, l
said to bo tho property of his daughters. Tho
hearing was adjourned until July 1.
' Affbr being imprlsonod for twonty years for
a murder ho did not commit, William Walton has
boon pardoned by tho govornor of Montana. Tho
man who did commit tho crlmo admitted his
guilt a week or two ago. Walton is supposed to
have been insano when ho confessed that he did
the deed, and ho is still montally irresponsible.
His case is particularly sad as after twenty years
of incarceration his pardon means only removal
to an insano asylum. -
Something of a novelty in tho way of display
ing sentiment has mado its appcaranco in Cilpplo
Creek, Colo. All the inhabitants of tho district
who are opposed to tho return of tho deported
minors will . bo provided with buttons Tor coat
lapels, bearing this inscription: "They Can't
Come Back." The citizens' alliance furnished theso
buttons.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Washington, D. C, June 23, says: "Vice Consul
John Tyler at Teheran has notified tho stalo de
partment that at the end of May thoro woro 250
cases of cholera at Sultanabad, which is tho prin
cipal' center of tho Persian carpet trado with
America. The consul has warned agents not to
make shipments for tho present."
Paul Morton, tho Nebraska man who has boon
offered the secretaryship of the navy, has accepted
tho offer. Victor H. Metcalf of California haa
been appointed secretary of commerce and labor,
and William II. Moody, tho present secretary of
the navy, has been appointed attorney general.
Attorney General Knox and Secretary Cortelyou
have resigned their offices.
, An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Berlin, Germany, June 24, says:, "Persona closo
to tho foreign office have received no intimation
as to what stops Germany proposes to take re
garding the attack on the Gorman minister, who,
with tho French minister, was stoned by tho pal
ace guards while passing tho palaco at Port au
Prince, Hayti, Wednesday last. Dispatches con
cerning tho affair reached tho morning papers too
late for comment."
Secretary Taft Issued an order making tho
terms of the Dingley act as to tariff rates, applic
able to the canal strip on the Isthmus of Panama.
He also Issued an order providing for tho estab
lishment of postofilces on the canal strip.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Linton, Ind., June 24, says: "Andrew Humphreys,
83 years of ago, died at his home today. Mr.
Humphreys served for many years in the Indiana
legislature and had voted for every democratic
presidential candidate since and including 1844.
Ho served in tho forty-fourth congress. He was
appointed Indian ngent for tho department of
Utah by President Buchanan in 1858 and served
until 1871."
The Salvation Army congress now in session
at London, England, oponed with 5,000 delegates
present, representing forty-nine countries on all
parts of the globe.
The miners of Butte, Mont., have put up $25,
000 to be used in the legal fight between tho mino
workers and the mfne owners in Colorado.
The federal grand jury will meet at New York
on next Thursday to investigate the disaster
'which befell the steamer General Slocum. More
than $100,000 has been subscribed for the relief
fund.
The Chicago Evening Post, commenting on
the republican platform, says: "There is no anti
trust or anti-corporation plank in the platform
an omission upon which the whole business com
munity will congratulate itself." The Post then
says "Instead" and quotes the plank promising
punishment to both trust and labor organizations
when, they violate the law. It is apparent that the
Post regards that plank as aimed especially at
labor organizations.
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