NOVEMBER 251904
The Commoner
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Condensed News of the Week
News has been received at Constantinople of
the probable assassination of Vicar Catholicus
Athemar, together with his secretary, near Van.
Prince Fushlml, member of the Japanese royal
household, who has come to pay a visit to the
United States, called upon President Roosevelt.
He will return home December 28.
The residence of Mayor Fay of Minnapolis was
dynamited and blown to pieces November 18.
It Is supposed that the adt was done by some one
who objects to his war on the saloon law. For
tunately, none of the members of his family
were injured.
An Associated Press dispatch dated-Vienna,
Nov. 14, says: Bellamy Storcr, the American am
bassador, visited tho foreign olllce today and in
terviewed Count Qoluchowskl on an arbitration
treaty with the United States. Tho count replied
that his government would gladly discuss a propo
sition of that nature and said that Austria-Huu-gary
was now negotiating similar treaties with
other powers."
tlon of tho Wesor from Hnmlen downward, pro
vided Brcmon will bear part of tho expense. Tho
total length, cxcluslvo of tho Wcscr will bo 1C5
miles. Tho cost will bo about $1GO,000,000. Tho
voto on tho S'toltln canal and other eastern proj
ects was postponed."
Miss Anna Buddlck of Stockton, Cal., lost her
life In an automobile accident November 13. The
young lady's dress caughf in tho chain of the
auto and she was thrown off and dragged a con
siderable distance along the pavement.
' Sovon case's of smallpox wcro discovered
among the students of tho University of Michi
gan, November 14. One of tho patients Is said
to bo dangerously ill. All the students are being
vaccinated and examined for symptoms of tho
disease.
Hugh Smith Thompson, fdrraor governor of
South Carolina and assistant secretary of tho
treasury in President Cleveland's first administra
tion, is seriously 111 at his homo In New York
city, and lato last night It was said ho was not
expected to live. Mr.. Thompson Is suffering from
asthma.
Major Leonard Hay, brother of Secretary or
State Hay. died at the old Hay homestead in War
saw, 111.. November"12. Major Hay was a retired
United .States army officer and was in the 70th
year of his age.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Washing-
ton, D. C, Nov. 12, says: "In view of the pub
lished "statement that Secretary Shaw would make
a call on government depositories for a loan of
$20,000,000, it can bo positively stated tonight that
no such call in the immediate future is contem
plated. There Is at the present time, it was said,
no pressing need for such a call. Should it bo
made at all the probabilities are that it will be
some time during tbe month of January."
Miss Isidoro Rush, the actress, died while bath
ing In the surfnear San Diego, C. ., Nov. 14. Miss
Rush was caught by a hugo wave and carried into
deep water which shocked her so greatly that she
died shortly afterward.
Charles W. Fairbanks, the vice president
elect, left November 14, for the St. Louis fair, to
bo the guest of President Francis of the exposition.
The comptroller of tho currency of tho United
States has issued a call asking for tho condition
of national banks at tho close of business, Thura
dny, Nov. 10. ,
Four and one-half million dollars In gold havo
been engaged by tho National Bank of Commerce
and tho National City bank of New York for ship
ment to Cuba.
An Associated Press dispatch dated South
Bend, Ind., November 14. says: "Three Chinese,
after being tracked from S'an Francisco to South
Bend by government secret service men, havo
been arrested and taken to Chicago. The Chinese,
it is claimed, were recently smuggled into the
United States and when the chase beearao hot they
were shipped into South Bend In trunks, hoping
to throw tho detectives off the trail."
The American Federation of Labor began its
annual session in the city of San Francisco, Nov-,
ember 14. The convention will remain in Besslon
for two weeks arid the meetings will be open to
tno publfc except .6n the last two days, when of
ficers will be elected.
An order is being prepared by the civil service
and Isthmian canal commission, extending the
civil service regulations over the employes of the
canal commission. The order embraces all em
ployes except those appointed by the president and -laborers.
Governor W. L. Douglas of Massachusetts has
Hied with the-secretary" of state a statement cer
tifying that on September 23 last ho gave to the
democratic state central committee $34,300 for
the purpose of conducting his campaign, further
stating that he had no other expenses.
Following the fierce attack upon the adminis
tration of the French war office, and the personal
assault upon himself, General Andre, minister of
war of France, has resigned his portfolio. In his
letter of explanation to Premier Combes, General
Andre days that tho attacks against the war of
fice are merely a device of enemies of the gov
ernment to overthrow tho republic. Henry Bor
teaux a member of the chamber of deputies and a
broker was nominated as General Andre's succes
sor thus breaking tho tradition relating to the
clio'lce of a military man to head the war admin
istration. At a dinner in Havana, Cuba, of American and .
English business men hearty indorsement was
riven the project for the establishment of a. branch
of the Young Men's Christian association in Ha-
- - ," vana. .
In a fire which destroyed the jail at Tiptonvllle, ,
Tenn., eight convicts made their escape. It Is The lady managers of the Louisiana Purchase
alleged that i e Are was started by friends of the exposition have returned to Secretary of the Treas
prisonera for tt& purpose of enabling the inmates . ury Shaw $50,000 of the $100,000 appropriated for
to escape'. ' the board's use.
The total attendance ' since the opening day at
the "World's fair, up to November 12, was 17,065,886.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Rio t-e
Janeiro, November 13, says: "The opposition to
tho, compulsory vaccination law led to furious
rioting today. Troops repeatedly charged the mob,
barricades were erected, water and gas mains were
cut, plunging the ..city Into darkness, and street
cars were burned. The demonstration had every
characteristic of; revou'tlon." The . president's, pal
ace was strongly guarded until midnight. It is
reported that a. dozen people were killed and sixty
injured, An intermittent fusillade continues,"
Owing to tne misreading of orders by the crew
of a freight train a biead-end collision occurred
at Azusa, near Granger, Wyor, November 12. The
train with which the train collided was a fast
mail and in the crash that followed fourteen people
are known to haye lost their lives and .it is'
thought that there, .are, still some bodies under the
.wreckage.
Owing to a strike of the clerks in the retail
stores ac Buenos Ayres business was almost at a
standstill November 14. The striice is said to be
extending to other laborers and (clerks and -it is
hoped that some, settlement will be made with
the emplayers shortly.
Cardinel Mocenni, minister of the palaceunder
Pppe.Leo 2L.II, died of heart, failure at the Vatican
November 14.
Commissioner Ware of the pension depart
ment at Washington, resigned his position and his
resignation will take effect January 1. No reason
has been assigned for Mr, Ware's action, but. it is
hinted that the work has been distasteful, to him
ever since his appointment, .and that. ho wishes
to resume the. practice Qflaw at his home in
John B. Brownlow of Tennessee, a clerk in tho
r-ostofflce department, who acted as disbursing of
ficer of the department at the St. Louis exposi
tion was dismissed from tho service yesterday by
order of the president. Brownlow was charged
with impertinence and insubordination 'and, as he
declined to withdraw his offensive language, his
dismissal followed. Merrit O. Chance, chief clerk
of! the" department, was appointed to fill the va
cancy. An Associated Press- dispatch, dated Berlin,
Nov 15 says: "Emperor William's extensive
canal projects rejected, by the Prussian diet in 1899
and 1901 are to bo realized in part at least The
canal committee of the diet, composed of tho
leader of the parties controlling tho diet has de
cided to support flier, measures for canals con
necting Hanover with, the Rhine and the canaliza-
Tho hulk of tho illfated oxcurslon steamer
General Slocum, which was burned In East river
early last summer, with tho loss of inoro than
1,000 lives, was sold at auction yesterday for $1,800.
A meeting of the steel billot pool was held In
Jersey City. It Is understood that an advance of
$1.50 a ton in billets had been agreed to, making
tho price $21 per ton.
Orders havo boon Issued at tho navy depart
ment detaching Rear Admiral Jewell from com
mand of tho European station Novembor 19, ho
having applied for retirement after forty years of
service, which request Is to be granted.
Threo Michigan lumbermen nave purchased
600,000,000 feet of standing timber In.Toba Inlot,
B. C. Tho purchasers havo a contract in connec
tion with tho Panama canal and will export the
lumber directly to tho Isthmus.
Secretary of tho Navy Paul Morton was taken
ill at tho banquot of tho society of naval archi
tects and engineers at Dclmonlco's, Now York.
He Is not dangerously sick.
Fourteen miners in the Carbonad mines near
Morrisy, B. C, were killed by an explosion of gas.
Negotiations on the subject of the English-Russian
convention are very nearly perfect. But ono
small point remains to be settled and It is of such
slight moment that tho signatures will bo ex
changed very shortly.
The city of Atlanta, Ga has been offered
$10 000 by Andrew Carnegie for a separate library
for' negroes. There Is a strong probability that
the offer will be accepted.
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The Loretta academy building at Cairo, III.,
was destroyed by fire November 18. Loss $20,000.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Rome,
Nov 18, says:' "The municipality of Ascoli has
by acclamation conferred honorary citizenship
upon J. Pierpont Morgan in recognition of his ac
tion in restoring to tho city the famous Ascoli
cope.
Several thousand miners are now on strike- in
the Kanawha coal fields in West Virginia and
about seventy-five mines are tied up. Tho miners
will hold a meeting at Charleston today to decide
how they shall meet the situation. The operators
are employing non-union men to fill the places of
striking miners.
A fund of $600,000 has been raised for the erec
tion of the national monument to the late Presi
dent McKinley. Plans are now being considered
for the design of tho monument.
Colonel W. C. P. Brecfcenrldge, the noted Ken
tucky lawyer and congressman, has been stricken
with paralysis at his home. He Is In a very dan
gerous condition and his entire family has beenN
summoned. -. .
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