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MAT 15, 1905
The Commoner.
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Governor Mickey of Nebraska has
announced that suit will be instituted
to test the constitutionality of Ne
braska's bienniel election law1. A cer
tificate of nomination will be offered to
the secretary of state, who will refuse
to file it. The supreme court will then
be asked to issue mandamus.
Fifteen men were entombed in the
Missouri-Kansas -& Texas coal mine
near Wilburton, Okla. Cause, explosion.
Harry Dykes, a Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul engineer, was killed in a
wreck near Ottumwa, Iowa.
United States supreme court denies
John A. Benson's moTion for rehearing
or order directing his removal from
New York to District of Columbia for,
trial on charge of defrauding the gov
ernment in the misappropriation of
timber on public lands.
Charges and counter-charges con
tinue in the Equitable Insurance so
ciety's affairs, H. H. Knowles, former
superintendent of agencies, charges
that Vice President Tarbell in four
cases granted rebates of 95 per cent
on four $100,000 policies, besides other
rebates on big policies, ranging from
50 per cent to 83 per cent.
Mae Wood, a woman lawyer, has
brought suit in the Nebraska courts,
asking $35,000 damages from Win,
Loeb, the president's secretary, form
er Postmaster General Wynne and J.
Martin Miller, a New Jersey newpaper
man who was recently appointed to a
position in the consular service. Miss
Wood claims that the defendants se
cured from her. valuable papers in
which Senator Piatt of New York was
deeply interested. Mr. Loeb says that
he never met the woman.
ments from this country would bo at
Colon. This order, it is said, will
open the door to western and southern
manufacturers, enabling them to en
ter into competition for the supplies
needed in tho canal zone. This order
regarding delivery will make New Or
leans a shipping point, and freight and
passenger rates to tho isthmus via
New Orleans will be on a parity with
those from New York."
Mrs. Nettie R. Craven, who attracted
great attention several years ago in
her suit to establish her claim as the
common law wife" of Se'nator Fair,
died at the Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, hospi
tal for the insane.
Miss Ella J. McKee, daughter of
the late Wm. McKee, founder of the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, died at
Asheville, N. C. Miss McKee owned a
controlling interest in tho Globe-Democrat.
Henry W. Miller, indicted by the
federal grand jury at Portland, Ore.,
for conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of public lands, pleaded
guilty.
Edward J. Smith, San Francisco's
tax collector, was arrested at St. Louis
charged with embezzling $62,000 of
public funds.
Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general
for Missouri, has filed suit in the su
preme court to annul in Missouri, the
charters of the Standard Oil Co. and
the Republic Oil Co. Mr. Hadley says
that as the result of investigations
now under way, he will probably file
suits to annul the charters of half-a-dozen
other trusts doing business in
Missouri.
New York dispatches say that the
Frick investigating committee has
asked President Alexander and Vice
President Tarbell of the Equitable Life
Assurance society to resign.
Mrs. Mary E. Marcey, former stenog
rapher in the packing houses at Kan
sas City, appeared before the federal
grand jury at Chicago. To newspaper
reporters, Mrs. Marcey said she could
not tell what her testimony was, but
she added: "I got hold of two things
which will make the packers jump
when they find out that the grand
jury has them."
Mr. Bryan dolivered tho addrosa on
Grant Day, April 27, at Galena, 111., a
largo crowd being present from tho
surrounding territory. Tho people of
Galena celebrato this day every year,
and a number of speakers of national
reputation havo been guests on those
occasions. Senator Chauncoy Dopow
was orator of the day in 1891 when tho
Grant monument given by II. H. Kohl
saat was unveiled. Mr. McKlnley was
tho orator in 1893, and Theodore
Roosevelt in 1900. Among tho other
speakers on these occasions may bo
mentioned Luther Laughlin Mills of
Chicago, Henry D. Estabrook, then of
Omaha, General Black of Chicago,
Robert Mclntiro of Chicago, Judge
JSmery Spear of Macon, Ga., Charles
Emory Smith of Philadelphia, Rev.
Frank W. Gunsaulus of Chicago, V.
J. Calhoun of Chicago, W. F. Gurlsy of
Omaha, and Bishop Fallows of Chicago.
Secretary John Davis of the Ne
braska state board of charities and
Chaplain Johnson of the Penitentiary
have established a prison school for
the education of illiterate convicts.
Mr. Davis says that a large percen
tage of the convicts are illiterate.
The committee of the social demo
cratic party of Poland and Lithuania
has issued a manifesto proclaiming a
general strike, and calling out all the
workmen. This manifesto 'was the re
sult of an attack made by the Cossacks
upon the working men in Warsaw May
2. Many women and children were
seriously injured and it is said that
sixty-two persons were killed.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago says: "John F. Wallace, chief
engineer of the Panama canal, said to
officials of the Illinois Central railroad
that an order would be issued stating
that hereafter all deliveries of ship-
BACKACHE
Backache Is a very common affliction, and Is
caused by the nerves of the spinal column being
affected. Dr. Miles' Nervine will relieve the
pain by soothing, strengthening and curing the
nerves and equalizing-the nerve Jorce. , It first
bottle does not benefit,- get -your 'money tmck
from your druggist.
A heavy storm occurred in Omaha
May 3. A four story brick building,
occupied by the Omaha Casket com
pany, was blown down. Three men
were killed and six were injured.
At Lodz, Russian Poland, May 4, a
number of Roman Catholics assem
bled at the Church of the Holy Cross
and began singing revolutionary songs.
A Cossack patrol galloped up and be
gan firing into the crowd of people
huddled on the church steps. Several
persons were killed. Some of the bul
lets entered the edifice and struck the
altar.
Three people were burned to death
in the fire which destroyed the Fifth
Avenue hotel at Duluth, Minn.
Paul Charlton, an Omaha lawyer,
has been appointed law officer for the
bureau of insular affairs to succeed
Charles E. Magoon.
The second trial of Nan Patterson,
charged with the murder of Frank T.
Young, resulted in a hung jury. The
jury is said to have stood 7 to 5 for
acquittal. Miss Patterson will be re
leased on bail and it is believed the
complaint will be dismissed and she
will not be required to undergo an
other trial."
The attorneys of Caleb Powers,
charged with participation in the Go
hoi murder, .have asked that his case
be transferred from the state to -the
federal court.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN BAIRD
When tho venerable John Balrd
breathed his last peacefully and re
signedly at the home of W. J. Bryan
at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning, May
3, death put its final seal upon one
of the most admirable characters with
in the knowledge of his acquaintances
and relatfves. Tho .sorrow that rests
within tho Fairviow home today im
posed no rude shock in its coming for
its cause had been anticipated for
some time past and for days had been
So peacefully ana so gradually did
death creep upon this good old man
that its approach could almost be
measured from day to day for a long
time past and when the flesh released
its tenant forever the dissolution was
so calm as to bo almost imperceptible.
His death was in keeping with his
whole gentle career of kindliness and
patient resignation to one of life's
most distressing afflictions.
Mr. Baird was Mrs. W. J. Bryan's
father, and she had been his constant
and unwearying companion through
out her life. Bv Homethlnc Hi n
I month he had passed the age of eighty
two years, and his demise Is attribut
able solely to the decline of the flesh
with the Catherine vears. H wan n
native of Pennsylvania, but while still
a boy moved with his parents to Pike
county, Illinois. There his father and
mother soon afterwards died and he
was left to make his own way In the
world. During his youth he became a
clerk in a store at Perry, Illinois, and
later was enabled to go into business
for himself. For many years ho con
ducted a general store at that place
and became one of the leading mer
chants of that city. He continued in
business until 1884, when, upon the
marriage of his only child, ho went
with his wife to live with her and her
husband. Since that time the Bryan
home has been the home of Mr. Baird,
and until her death in the spring of
1896 it was also that of Mrs. Baird.
Few parents have been so fortunate
in their inheritance of filial love, kind
ness and solicitude. Nearly or quite
twenty-five years ago Mr. Baird's eye
sight began to fail him. since which
time ho has been compelled to see al
most exclusively through the eyes of
his daughter. For many years he has
been totally blind. The late Mrs. Baird
was for many years an invalid, so
that the care of both devolved upon
Mrs. Bryan as a filial duty. No duty
of that character was ever more faith
fully nor more unostentatiously dis
charged or with more tender love and
sympathy. It is a matter of common
knowledge among acquaintances of the
Bryan family that this tenderness and
sympathy of the daughter, admirable
as it was known to be in its intensity
of devotion, hardly exceeded that of
her husband toward Mr. and Mrs.
Baird.
Tho late Mrs. Baird was in youth
Miss Lovina Dexter, and at the time
of her death the fiftieth anniversary of
her wedding was not far distant. They
wero a dovotcd couplo and their Hfo
together, npart from thoir mutual af
fllctlons, was a model of soronlty and
contontod love, patienco and kindli
ness. As an Instanco of their devotion
to each othor, it is related that when
she died in 1890 her beroavod holp
mato stopped his watch at tho hour
of her death and novor afterwards
permitted It to bo disturbed.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Loavitt returned
homo from New Orleans Saturday, ac
companied by her baby daughter, and
a few hours prior to tho death of Mr.
Baird, whllo ho was still conscious'
four generations wero assembled in
that chamber of impending sorrow.
Mr. Baird was made conscious of tho
presonco of his croat cninniiniitrlitnt.
and felt its tiny fingers upon his check
as It was hold forward for hirn to
fondle. Ho was ablo to manifest his
pleasure over tho incident exemplify,
ing the endless chain of life, wherein
ono now link is added to tho strand
just as another is dissolving.
The beauty and serenity of this fine
old gentleman's life and character had
so Impressed itself upon the conscious
ness of all who havo been permitted to
meet him that ho has many moiir;icrH
outside of tho Bryan family circle. Ho
was a man of superior Intelligence and
always took a keen Intorest In current
events, so that ono of tho duties of
his daughter was tho reading of the
papers to him. This she did regularly
through all tho years of physical dark
ness that wero his lot, and many so
cial duties and obligations gave way
without consideration to his gratifies
tlon in that direction.
Tho funeral of Mr. Balrd was hold
at tho residence of Mr. Bryan at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon, May 5. Tho
services wero conducted by Chancellor
Huntington of Wesloyan university,
who was formerly the pastor of Trin
ity M. E. church of which Mr. Baird
was a member. Rev. Mr. Stevenson,
tho pastor of tho now Westminster
church in South Lincoln, sane a num
ber of selections during the services.
Rev. Mr. Stevenson's father was a
minister in Mr. Baird's former homo
and was well known to tho family.
Rev. H. C. Swearingcn and Rov. Mr.
Martin assisted in the services. Lin
coln Evening News.
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