6 The Commoner.
Condensed Ne w s o f
-VOLfcMi "4, NUMBER 47
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Edward Martin Conley, the American vico con
sul at the city of Mexico, has resigned.
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President Roosevelt and his party spent a
itronuous day at the World's fair, November 2G.
An elaborate program had boon arranged and im
mense crowds attended.
The Russian government has a scheme under
way to open free lands in Siberia for settlement.
The plan is very much like the American home
stead system.
An Associated Press dispatch dated Berlin,
Nov. 27, says: "The grand total of the imperial
budget Which will bo submitted to the reichstag
next week shows estimated .expenditures of $560,
390,225 and estimated receipts of ?487,2G4,78iJ. The
prospective deficit is $73,264,443, which exceeds that
of-1904 by $34,498,138. Of this increase $12,185,777
Is attributed to the extraordinary expenses of the
Southwest Africa war. The army and navy and
posts, telegraphs and railroads show decided in
creases." .
' Colonel R. Francisco Chaves, one of the best
known l republican politicians in New Mexico, was
assassinated while dining at the home of a friend.
Tho assassfn, presumably some political enemy of
Colonel Chaves, shot at him through the window,
and the colonel fell dead. Colonel Chaves was a
soldier up '.er the famous Kit Carson in the In
dian wars of 1861. He held three Important posi
tions at the time of his death.
A whiskey still, of which the internal revenue
officials had no knowledge, blew up in a tenement
house in New York. The explosion frightened tho
tenants and wrecked the building, but so far as
reported no lives were lost.
While sojourning m Colorado, three young
people of Chicago got lost on Pike's peak and were
nearly frozen to death. One of the young ladies
was badly burned by the explosion of a celluloid
comb which had become heated near a campfire.
Her hair and clothing took lire and she suffered
terribly.
The attendance at the World's fair from open
ing day to November 26 was 18,317,457. "
Calvin Farmer, a Sac City, Iowa, hoy, is dead
as the result of being badly injured in a football
game in which he played on Thanksgiving day.
In a battle between Italians and Slavs at Trini
dad, Colo.,. Nov. 28, John Rembish was killed and
robbed of $920. Tho trouble is said to have arisen
on account of tho strike of the coal miners.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated S'andusky
0., Nov. 28, says: "The strike of the 800 or more
employes of the Kelly Island Lime and Transpor
tation company at Marblehead and Kelly Island
begun last Tuesday, wa settled .through the medi
ation of Bishop Horstmann of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Cleveland. Tho terms of settlement are
satisfactory to both sides, and the men will resume
Work at once." .
Reports from Berlin Indicate that a plan 1b
under way to increase the German army by 10,000.
The monetary reform bill which was submitted
by President Diaz of Mexico has been passed by the
chamber of deputies and it will be approved in the
senate in a few days, after which it will become a
.law of tho republic of Mexico. '
During the performance at "Paris," on the pike
at the World's fair, St. Louis, one of the ropes
broke during a trapeze exhibition and A. Dibson
-the performer, was thrown to the stage and in
stantly killed.
The famous Fayerweather case, brought by
the Fayerweather J.eirs to recover $2,500,000 whicn
was bequeathed to different colleges, was decided
by the supremo court of tho United States in favor
of. the colleges. The widow of Mr. Fayerweather
and his two nieces were the interested heirs.
xr vAnvAss0ncolate(1 Prs dispatch, dated Albany,
N Y., Nov. 28, says: "The unprecedented spectacle
of a former cnief judge of the court of apnea s
arguing a case before the -ourt from which he re
signed to become a candidate for the presidency
of the United States will be presented here on
Tuesday next - week, December 6, when .former
Judge Alton B. Parker win appear to argue tho
first case in which he has made public appearance
as counsel In many years."
Ten -merican fishing vessels have been :ap
tured by the Canadian protective cruiser Curlew
and fined for illegal fishing in Canadian waters.
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A score of boys and young men were hurt by
the giving way of a gallery railing in the State
Fensibles' armory at Philadelphia uring the prog
ress of a basket ball game. None of the injurod,
who were removed to a hospital near by, is fatally
hurt.
Joseph Cannon, speaker of the house -of repre
sentative, has been decorated by France with the
Legion oi Honor, but it is understood that his of
fice will prevent his accepting the title. m
News has reached -Washington that a calcula
tion made on the basis of the customs receipts
for the ports of Puerto Cabella and La Guayra
during the past year indicates that the American
claimants will not receive their award from the
Venezuelan government for ten cr eleven years, ac
cording to the present methods of payment.
Madame Janauschek, the famous Bohemian ac
tress is dead at the Brunswick homo at Amity
ville, L. I., where she has been cared for by actori
for the :past four months. She was 74 years old.
Herr Johann Most, the New York anarchist,
was evicted from St. Louis November 29. He was
to have spoken at two meetings of anarchists; but
the police broke up tho meetings and arrested
him. . ' '
Reports from Mexico say that the most fearful
conditions exist hei;e. . Deaths to the number of
twenty to forty occur every day from starvation
and malaria.
iTh! ?rder of the UnIted states government
lifting duty charges from all imports for the Lewis
and Clarke exposition has gone into effect. All
exhibitors from fhrfitnrn pnimMm .. -.
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their wares to Portland without paying customs
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duties.
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An Associated Press dispatch, dated Berlin,
Nov. 30, says: "In accordance with ancient feudal
usage requiring vassals to raise a dowry on the
occasion of marriages in the families cf their rul
ers, the diet of Mecklenberg Schwerin was voted to
impose a tax of $17,500 for the marriage portion of
the Duchess. Cecelio, who is betrothed to the crown
prince, Frederick William."
A meeting was field in Chicago Nov. 30 for
the purpose of organizing a "White Cross Aid so
ciety, whose object win be the same as-that of
nfef?nlLC,r0SS S0Clet,y' "t0 furnsh organized,bodies
of trained persons for relief work in case of na
tional, municipal or private disaster." The White
Cross Aid society will be purely a national organl-
One man was killed and several were injured
by an iron beam which fell from the room of the
frf ?Ui!?lng int0 a t?lronS of people passing
through Nassau street, New York. The beam
whfn W Pr?dS' T3 be,n hoist into SS
the crowd m tS fastenInes ad fll into
Creditors of D. J. Sully & Co.,' as well as th
bankrupts have withdrawn all objection to the
claims filed against the company and 'the creditors
have agre -1 to accept a. 25 per cent Xidend on
cefve?' '00 aB8et8 nW In the 5 the re
u utf S'QCrQtary Oliver directed the dischanra
'without honor," of Private John T. Smith of Jhe
?2 w TPS' 8tatIoned at Fort Mott, N j. Who
is said to have married vnegress, and whose dis- '
charge was recommended by General Gmnt nnJn
manding the department of the S '
20 onTn estlated total attendance of nearly
20,000,000, the great St. Lcuis fair closed November
30. The last day was named in honor of PrlsSent
Francis and with the words "t?i u
well to ,all pf
touched a small lever and instanfiv h nt,,,FrancIa
t on throughout tho ground e. Mumta
tlon was .at an end. ceasea. Tho exposi,
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general superintendent 'of the XT1 ot 'h
for the fiscal year ending June 30 ,.n7In,g sorviM
during the year assistan e S ,4 'SercdTv?'
We saving crews to 1,061 vessels nf ?i i ? tae
volving 3 uTea of more ttan 3?Sn iklDlls' ln
property to the value Tt noariy 'oS 2M 2
crews also rescued 103 nersonnrnt 'i ' ,- Tho
from various perilous SStotaS'lE &
nal warnings of the beach patrols S,
possible disaster 161 vesselsNCgerllS
TTnifT?c,mf0nthly statement of the mints of tho
United States show the total coina-G fiiiHmr v
vember to have been $1,604,811, a Xlm Pnn
l il'?;i Thia ls exclusive of 690,000 pieces in
o rf Jent Roosevelt indicated his intention to
appoint Stonewall Jackson Christian, a grandson of
General Stonewall Jackson, tho confederate chief
tain, as a cadet to the West Point military acad
emy. The young man is a student at tho Georgia
Military academy. -
The 'secretary" of the interior has ordered tho
withdrawal of 68.000 acres of land in the Minor,
S. D., land district on account of the Buford-Tren-ton
reclamation project.
The appellate division of the supreme court,
sitting in Brooklyn, N. Y., decided that the "closed
shop is illegal. A contract, entered into between
the firm of Morris Cohen & Sons and Protective
Coat' Tailors and Pressers local No, 55 of tho
United Garment Workers of America, whereby, tha
firm was prohibited from employing labor not be
longing to the local, and also from employing even
a member of the union unless such a member held
a card signed by the business agent of the local,
was declared by the court to be contrary to public
policy.
The treasury statement for the month of No
vember shows "that the total receipts for the month
of November, 1904, were $45,676,877, and the ex
penditures $49,697,547, leaving a deficit of $4,120,
670 for the month.
Four trainmen were instantly killed and an
other fatally injured in a wreck caused by a pas
senger train crashing into a construction train
near Coiumbus4 Ind.
Plans are being considered for a novelty in
the banking world in the way of a "night and day
bank." This institution will .be conducted by sev
eral New York financiers who realize that mud
valuable "business can he transacted by travelers
and others who wisli to draw cash in cases of
emergency. Oakleigh Thorne, of tho North Ameri
can has been prominently mentioned as president
of the new institution.
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