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pECEMBER 2, 1901
The Commoner.
7
Condensed News of the Week
The American-German treaty of arbitration
was signed Novembor 22, at the state department
In Washington by Secretary Hay and Baron Stern
hurr, the German ambassador. It is exactly like
the American Ii ench treaty.
Carl Buenz, the German consul general Is se
riously ill. He is suffering from pneumonia, which
set in after ho was ciaated on for appendicitis.
The Misouri bulldine at the St. Louis fair was
destroyed by lire November 19. Most of the fur
niture and valuable psiutings were saved.
The business di&trict of Cincinnati Ohio, suf
fered a loss of 5700,000 by fire November 20.
Albert K. Troy, a well-known newspaper man
and lornier i;aLaging editor of the Munsey publi
cations in New Yoik. died at Denver, dole, No
vember 20.
Members of the ciew of the French steamship
Trovincia which aiTived at Norfolk, Va., November
20, were lacerated in a terrible manner by a swarm
of mosquitoes which settled upon the Provincial
deck Mhilo the ship was en route here. The crew
had to light the insects for hours with smoke and
improvised fans.
All the members of two families .occupying a
tenement house in Brooklyn, N. Y., were burned to
death November 20.
Hugh S. Thompson, ex-governor of South Caro
lina, died at his residence in New York November
20.
The president has offered the Isthmian canal
jcommisisonership to Senator Cockrell of Missouri.
A ticket wagon of the Forepatigh & Sella
Brothers' circus was rbbbed near Tarboro, N. C,
and $30,000 taken from It.
Italian Minister Tittoni has informed Ambas
sador" Meyer that lie has given instructions for the
signing of the treaty of arbitration with Italy.
The Grand Order of Military Merit, a decora
tion for military merit, has Tjeen conferred upon
President Diaz of Mexico.
The Chicago Subway company, having a cap
ital of $50,0u0,000, was incorporated in Trenton, N.
J., November 21. The company is given power to
build and operate railroads and it is believed that
the company will build a subway in Chicago. The
officers are clerks in the corporation trust com
pany of Jersey City.
Mrs. Julia Kounski, the oldest white person on
tho Pacific coast, is dead at her home in Tacoma,
(Wash. She was 107 years old.
Queen Liliuokalani and her party arrived at
San Francisco, November 21. The former queen
hopes to secure an appropriation from congress to
reimburse her for the loss of the crown lands.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Washing
ton, D. C, Nov 21, says: "Complying with the de
mand of President Gompers of thq American Fed
eration of Labor the Central Labor unlcn of Wash
ington tonight expelled the steamfltters' union
which had defied the federation la failing to con
solidate viih the plumbers' union. As a result of
this action, it is said that eighteen of the largest
and strongest unions in the city, comprising the
allied council of building trades, will withdraw
from the central body r d form a separate organization."
J. Pierpont Morgan has been elected president
of the New York Metropolitan Muqeum of Art, to
succeed the late Frederick Rinelander.
Mr. Probst, the Swiss charge d'affaires, and
Mr, Hay, have signed an arbitration treaty on be
half of the United States and Switzerland. The
treaty is similar to that of the American and
French arbitratica.
Ah Associated Press dispatch, dated Washing
ton, D. C, Nov. 21, aays: "The monthly compara
tive statement of the.j&Uectlpns ofjinterflaVjevenue-;'
shows that the total receipts for October, 1904,
were $20,8GG,569, a decrease as compared with
October, 1903, of $155,105. For tho four months of
tho present fiscal year tho total receipts aro shown
to have been $80,411,355, a decrease of $1,211,307."
Papers aro being prepared for an application
to tho supremo court of tho United States to review
tho action of tho supremo court of Colorado which
sent three democratic election offlcials to Jail
charged with contempt of court. It will bo con
tended that tho men were jailed without a trial.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated Tho
Haguo, Nov. 21, Bays: "Tho government has noti
fied tho American chnrgo d'affaires hero that Queen
Wilhelmina will bo glad to see tho second peace
conference" meet at The Haguo and that the United
States may count on tho co-opeiation of the Neth
erlands, as soon as Emperor Nicholas, tho origina
tor of tlu work begun in 1899, and other powers,
have given vtheir adhesion to the proposal."
November 26 was "President's Day" at the St.
Louis fair. On that day Mr. Roosevelt was tho
guest of .jo exposition.
President Roosevelt has appointed Francis E.
Leupp of Washington to be Indian commissioner.
Mr. Leuppls the Washington correspondent for the
New York Evening Post.
It has been announced that President Roose
velt will be asked to arbitrate the difference be
tween Panama and tho corporation of forelgu
bondholders in regard to tho Colombian debt.
The Southern Pacific railroad gives the follow
ing statement for the fiscal year ending June 30:
"Gross earnings were $92,933,231, an increaso of
$1,612,896, and that operating expenses wore $03,
179,594. After payment of charges there remained
a balance of $8,874,483, which was applied toward
tho payment of expenditures for reconstruction,
betterments and additional equipment."
A list of 165 persons will receive medals from
the United States Volunteer Life Saving associa
tion, for bravery and heroic work during (he Slo
cum disaster. A copy of the list vas sent to tho
emperor of Germany at his request. Near tho head
of the list stands the name of Mary A. McCann, an
Irish girl, who, while a convalescent at Riversido
hospital on North Brother island, crawled into the
water and saved five young children and girls.
-Secretary Taft sailed for Panama November
22, to make a tour of inspection.
Owing to the density of smoke from a forest
fire, which made it impossibe to see twenty feet
ahead, a passenger train and an extra freight train
collided near Swifton, Ark. One person was killed
and nineteen others very badly injured.
Delegate Syveton, who assaulted General An
dre, during the discussion in the French chamber
of deputies will be' committed on the charge of pre
meditated assault upon a minister during the exer
cise of his function. This entails trial by jury in
the assizes, and it said that this is what Syveton's
friends have been anxious to obtain.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated Washing
ton, D. C, November 22, says: "The acting secre
tary of war has named March "1, 1905, as the date
of the commencement of the examination of candi
dates from civil life already designated for ap
pointment as second lieutenants in the army. There
are at present eighteen vacancies, nine in the ar
tillery and nine in tho infantry."
The Nicaraguan and Costa Rican governments
have decided to submit their boundary dispute to
the king of Spain for f-rbltration.
A treaty of arbitration between the United
States and Portugal was. signed November 23.
The German government has sent a cordial
note to Secretary Hay accepting in principle Pres
ident Roosevelt's suggestion for another conference
at The Hague.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated Ottawa,
OnUNov 23, says: "The Indian population of
Caada,;jYfl8f thenar ending June -30 last is
placed at 108,232, or 255 less than for the previous
year 1903, which, however, showed an increase
over 1902. In 1903 tho Indlnn population was a llt
tlo ovor 99,000, whloh shows that, on the whole, aa
wards of tho country, they havo been carofully
looked after."
itnn VtSi(ir Nat,onnI bQl. ono of the oldest
nK?J? W.nt ,nt0 voItary liquidation by
order of tho directors Novombcr 23. Tho Boptcm-
bnriW nS811!1 r ",0 bfn,C BhWCd UiJ ICWBlUl tO
hand n Afti00".8 Umi dtac0l,nt. I3M.O0O; cash on
sin nnn ?: duS ,from bftn,(H' C0'; bonds,
$114,000. The capital stock was $100,000.
(lin S? 10 Pf Elinor B. Thomas, attorney for
tho Omaha Civic Federation, was wrecked by dy
nnm to on tho night of November 21. Mr. Thomas
has been waging a very effective war against h!'
nZT nfctratlon In municipal affairs at
Omaha and t is believed that some one associated
with these elements did tho work. The police have
had no success in tracing tho llcnd.
Miss Nellie Stover, a St. Paul. Minn elrl
unshed so heartily at a Joke told by som "ono at
her home, that sho dislocated her Jaw. While tho
laughter, was at Its height Miss Stover suddenly
ceased laughing with her mouth wide open and J -IthLnCdnnMI;Le8a,0llH
hcr faco' S" balnea In
the Jaw a 8UrL,COa arrIvcci and rCHet
Two mon lost their lives in tho explosion of a
cotton gin at Walters, Mass. Several other Jconlo
were .badly Injured by Hying debris. P
Thirteen boys lost their lives and 29G wore in
jured in playing football during tho season which
closed Thanksgiving day. ,
President Roosevelt has completed his message.''
to congress and it is now in the hands oftho-printers.
The Greek steamer SJlpls, long overdue, is now
regarded as lost. It is Lolieved she sunk in a re
cent gale in the Black sea and that her entire crow
and a number of passengers were lost, a total of
seventy-seven persons.
Edward McCauley, chief clerk of the census
bureau, has resigned and will be succecdod by Wil
liam B. Rossitter, now chief of the division of publication.
GIrard do Raillc, minister of France to the re
public of Chile, died at Santiago.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated Butte,
Mont., Nov. 25, says: "Judge William Clancy this
aftornoon signed an order revoking his restraining
order issued a week ago enjoining F. Augustus
Heinzo from working the $10,000,000 Minnie Ileal v
copper mine, as tho result of tho suit brought by
tho Amalgamated Copper company to recover $5,
000,000 for ore alleged to havo been stolen. Judge
Clancy states that he was not possessed of all tho
facts when he Issued the restraining order."
An unconfirmed report says that the Union
Pacific has purchased the Great Western railroad.
The rush of Immigrants has been so great that
the Immigration station at Ellis island was crowd
ed to overflowing November 24, and officers of in
coming ships, one of which had 1,700 Immigrants in
the steerage list, were told that tho passenger
could not land as thero was no room for them.
A fine act of courage and bravery on the part
of Superintendent E. A. Pike of the Illinois mine
near North Freedom, Wis., saved tho lives of fifty
men. Mr. Pike leaped into a burning room at the
bottom of the mine and extinguished tho flames
which were enveloping 1,000 pounds of dynamite.
Reports from the seat of war in the far east
say that the Japanese are concentrating their
forces for a desperate attack upon Port Arthur.
The Pacific squadron Is said to be approaching and
a terrible battle is feared. It has twice been re
ported that General Kuroki, the great Japanese
commander, has been killed and despite the denial ,
oi these reports, a German papers prints tho fol
lowing telegram which it says has been received
from Its correspondent at Mukden: "According to
a report brought by Chinese to Russian headquar-'.
tors the corpse of General Kuroki has arrived at
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