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T' ' WIBWB J ""H Iff! W , 1WH'V ' v " The Commoner. 14 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 23 I; U Is- S oC tho world was said today to bo part of tho plan of Thomas F: Ryan in negotiating tho purchase of tho stock of tho Bqultablo Life Assurance society held by James II. Hydo. Mr. Ryan's plan was reported today to bo to consolidate tho Equitable Trust company, tho Mercantile Trust com pany and tho Morton trust company, all of ths, qity with th,q last named in control. , It. 4s expected that this would result, in creating a financial in stitution with deposits second only to thoso. of. the National City .bank of this city which . has, deposits . Qf $185,000, 000. Tho deposits of the proposed consolidated trust company would amount to $109,000,000 ; 'the capital stock to $7,000,000, and) the' surplus, to $22,000,000. Mr. Ryan's1 plan 'was roported to contemplate also the elim ination, of; the '.control ;o l Subsidiary concerns oy tne' liiquitauie' JDiie Assur anco society. Theodoro P. Dolyannls,' premier of, Greece, was stabbed f auct mortally wounded by a professional gambler namod Gherakarls. ; Tq -' premier died within three hours. Tbo assas sin was arrested and said hoiactddfin revengo for the prosecution by Pre mier Delyannls of tho ' gambling ele ment. v , Archduke Joseph of Austria, died at Vienna, June 13. Pie was greatly loved by the Hungarian people. Colonel William Colville, of Red Wing, of Minn., who lead the charge of the First Minnesota regiment at Gettysburg, died at the soldiers' home In Minneapolis June 13. He was 75 years old. A Minneapolis dispatch says that at Gettysburg Colonel Col ville was wounded seven times. $1,000 bail for his appearance before tho United States supreme court, which will be asked to pass upon tho point at issue. United States District Attorney Henry Taft, who is conduct ing tho investigation, informed Mr. McAllister that the American Tobacco company was charged with having conspired with the Imperial Tobacco company of Great .Britain to monopo lize and restrain trade in tobacco. Now York is greatly stirred by re cent; , mortuary statistics. It is said 14;att between 18G8 imd 1904 the death 'rate from heart disease and Bright's disease increased from 13.05 to 29.62 Ier ten-thousand population. In 1904 deaths frojn these fliseasds increased 2M2 in-each ten-'thousand. During the week ending June 10, one hundred tuid ttoenty-five persons died from h'eart disease. ' The Chicago Record-Herald says: .'Masses said for the repose of a soul have established the right of Mrs. Nellie Maroney to $2,333 insurance on ,tho life of her late husband, Thomas Maroney, and a verdict for that amount was rendered yesterday in Judge Gary's court. Maroney had a policy for $2,000 in the Catholic Knights and Ladles of America, but "after his death payment was withheld pYi the declaration that the insured was not in good standing. The widow sued and showed that masses had been at the request of the fraternity. She was awarded the full policy, with interest." The Confederate: Veterans met at Louisville, Ky., June 13. A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald, under date of Muscatine, la., June 14, says: "Fay Fowler, 11 years old, was drowned today while attend ing to save his brother Everotto, who had fallen into a deep hole in the email stream In which they, with oth er boys, were swimming, and who was calling for help. Everette was saved by other lads, but Fay, who. had gone beyond his depth, sank almost in stantly. He was a bright lad, the son or Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Fowler, promi nent residents of this place." A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald, under date of Denver, June 14, says: "President Roosevelt has protested against a photograph in which, beside the picture of himself, is that of a young woman wearing a skirt which lacked many inches of touching the ground. The nhotoeranh is one of the presidential huntinc party, taken when It was returning fiom the mountains of Colorado. The young woman is the Glenwood Springs correspondent of a Denver newspa per. On account of tho president's objections several hundred copies of the picture which had been printed, have been destroyed." The Norwegians in Chicago have adopted resolutions offering material and moral support to the people of their native land. Many Norwegians throughout the United States have ap pealed to President Roosevelt asking him to formally recognize Norway's new government. Thomas P. Wickes, former assistant corporation counsel, a man standing high among New York clubs and somewhat famous among New York lawyers, has been arrested on the charge of blackmail. For sometime ur. luuwaru weston nas. received a number of letters signed "Lewis Da vis," in which lettrs Dr. Weston was ordered to settle a suit that was then pending against him. It is charged that Mr. Wickes was the author of these letters. Wickes friends claim that his mind is affected. The Sherman anti-trust law is to be tested by tho tobacco trust. A dis patch to the Chicago Record-Herald, under date of New Yprk, Juno 14, says: "hTo right of a federal grand jury to conduct investigations under the Sherman anti-trust law will be tested in the United States supreme court oy uie American Tobacco com pany. William H. McAllister, secre tary of tho company, who refused to answer questions or produce books and papers covering the export trade of- the trust when served with sub poenas in connection with tho investi gation of the company, was taken hP. fore Judge Lacombe in the United States circuit court today and fined $5 Judge Lacombe also ordered that McOllistor be taken in custody by a United States marshal until he purges himself of contempt. He mien was taKon Deroro United States Commis At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the United States Bankers' Corporation, held at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Former Secretary of the Treasury John G." Carlisle, who has been president of the organization, was removed from his position on the ground that he had received stock and money for serv)"- from a com pany that has never done a dollar's worth of business during its three years of existence. Two directors, Brackett and Badger, were also re moved for a similar reason. closed find list of thirty-three names to the primary pledge. John Lang, Rock Creek, Ore. I en dorse your primary pledL3 plan be cause I am an Abe Lincoln democrat. Lincoln said a tariff for revenue was enough protection for any industry in the United States. He coined sil ver dollars at the ratio of 16 to 1 of gold, free and unlimited, through his eiitire administration. He was the great. ' emancipator, ' and' everybody knows there are more slaves under the jurisdiction of the United' States today than there were' wheri Lincoln was fighting for. liberty. Your pri mary pledge plan is a declaration of Independence. .. V ;' A. F. Shrout, George "W. Slirout, O. P. Shrout, John Oakley, Owsville, Ky. Please to find enclosed: primary pledges signed by good Bath? County democrats. We want you tof'keOp on in your warfare against the trusts and plutocracy and may be some time the people will wake up to the facts of their roguery. We can't be too watch ful of our interests and we think that all good democrats should go; to pri maries and put the best men up for candidates. "' L. C. McCrary, Summers, ' Ala. You will find enclosed my primary pledge. I expect to live up tq it as nearly as possible. W. F. Sapp, chairman democratic committee, Topeka, Kans. 1 send you eleven primary pledges. H. I. Dunlap, CorticeUi, Mo'. Please find twenty names signed to primary pledge. I am an old man 71. years old. I voted the democratic ticket for fifty years, and never voted for but one republican Grover Cleve land. Orin Fleming, New Sharon, Jowa. I fully endorse the plan. We must organize or perish. Truth is right and will eventually prevail. Te-scribe got into an argument with a banker of New Sharon. He had received six hundred silver dollars from the na tional treasury. He said the govern ment was trying to get as much sil ver in circulation as possible, .that it paid all charges of transportation to do so, and he said that silver was a legal tender in payment -of all debts public and private without limitation, that we could pay any debt in silver dollars. I have gotten rusty on the financial question. Please let me, as well as others, know what is legal tender money. If I understand it, five dollars is a legal tender of change, and no farther. (The silver dollar is legal tender for all debts public and private except where oth erwise expressly stipulated in the con tract. A creditor can require pay ment in gold if he has required the debtor to agree to pay in gold in the contract showing the indebtedness. Otherwise the creditor could be re quired to accept silver dollars in un limited .quantity.) said and, several other expenses" Hamlin. ' The Englishman looked at tho dol lar, and then at Hamlin. "What's tha matter with this," he said, "is it bad'" Bangor Times. EYES BLINDED BY FAVORS The Rev. Dr. McArthurs defenso of Mr. Rockefeller's business methods is an illuminating document. Doubt less the Baptist clergyman is fully convinced that the policies pursued by the Standard Oil company havo been legitimate and beneficial. Very likely he lwgards its head as one ol the greatest philanthropists of the age. He is apparently sincere in be lieving that the public has been mis- led and that Mr. Rockefeller has been grossly maligned, Granting all that, could a better proof be f c nul of tho assertion by the protestors against tho recent gift to the board of foreign missions that the acceptance of such favors would be likely to blind men's eyes to the obliquity of the methods by which tha money was accumulated. Kansas City Star. CALIFORNIA YoU will get, direct from each of 95 Pacific Coast Chambers of Commerce and absolutely FREE, 'descriptive BOOK LETS, beautiful SOUVENIRS and mag nificent VIEWS, if you send mo $1.00 for service of placing your name and ad dress on mailing lists of those organiza tions. A. G. Grant, Fortuna, Cal. Ref erence: Bank; of Fortuna. Month and Expenses; no experience needed; position permanent: self-seller Peask Mfo. Co., Sta. 59. Cincinnati. 0. CASn $75 Mintf tirwfc-hvTVolflnVPAnS. Wo tfMftttK Want more salksmbn rn iwkk VTlKLLO Stark Nursery. Louisiana, Mo.; Dansville.N. Y. Subscribers' Advertising Department LIFE AND SPEECHES OF W. J. Bryan. Illustrated, octavo, 4G5 pages. Published in 1900, nothing later in print. A few copies, last of publishers' stock, at greatly reduced prices, beautiful clotli binding, $1.00; half morocco, $1.25; post age prepaid. G. II. Walters, 2ii4D Vino St., Lincoln Nebraska. T?OR SALE 6S0 ACRES; BEST LIVE x stock farm in llvest county; abun dant spring water. Finest location dairy and fruits. Good grain and grass land, underlaid with good coal. Will di vide. Come! Seel Veritable bargain near city of 8,000. Address, James M. Washburn, Marlon, 111. OHIO IMPROVED CHESTERS-1 IE w hog of the present and the future. Some choice spring and fall pigs of t 0 "Clove," "Curly Boy" and other famous Strains at reasonable prices. Spring pis $12 to $15; pairs not akin $22: trios 530, bred .gilts $20 to $25. This notlco wi H not appear again. Address, A. M. rosin, Box 608, Rushvillo, 111. PRIMARY PLEDGES (Continued from Page 9) permit a few would-be democrats to dictate what is best to do and to say who Is the best man for president, as they did in 1904. For my part I shall never be satisfied until we elect a president who will stand for all the people all the time. A. V. Howard, Libby, Mont.- Find enclosed list of 46 names attached to primary pledge. You can place those in your list. I wish Tho Commoner success in the work it is doing to or ganize the democratic party. All who signed me enclosed pledge heartily nrwlnrno tbft m mmm f -sionor Shields, where he furnished1 B. S. Raysell, Mt. Gilead, O. En- Questioned the Coin Hannibal Hamlin, for many years a United States senator from Maine, and vice president during the Civil war, was wont to tell the following story on himself. An Englishman by the name of Pearson whilo passing along the main street in Bangor stepped in a hole in the sidewalk, and falling broke his leg. Ho brought uit against tho city for $1,000, and engaged Ham lin for counsel. Hamlin won the case, but the o.n.v appealed to the supreme court. Here, also, the decision was for Hamlin's client. After settling up the claim, Hamlin sent for his client and lauded him $1. "What's "this?" asked the English man. "That's your damages, after tak ing out my fee, the cost of appeal, WANTED-BY A -JEFFERSONIAN DtMO; crat, with three years actual expe rience in writing for the press, a position as associate,' or department editor, on weekly, democratic newspaper, or wm -write feature articles, at space rates. Address E. C. P., care of Box No. 1 Earl, Arkansas. T? OR SALE OR TRADE CHEAP: ONE 11 of tho best paying democratic weeK lies in northeastern Nebraska. uniy democratic paper in county of t ?)' thohsand. Good town. Will trade for unincumbered land or cash. W'JVda pose of plant by July 1st. Terms xnaae easy if desired. Address H. ca'g Commoner. . WANT A DEMOCRATIC PAPJ3R. $ democratic editor and printer " twenty years' experience, owning a 'r g equipped newspaper and Job ?"? plant, wants a location for the osUWiJJ ment of a live democratic weekly or da Address, with particulars, Tho Thurnuu Mirror, Thurman, Iowa. CJLIMATE. HEALTH. LAND WITH WATER 0 right, Biff crops. Do you want a farm Address, 3. P. Bgenfritz. Ordway, Colo. m T?OR SALE-ONE HEREFORD BULb calf; one short-horn hull can. Bhort-horn heifer calf; all subject to r istry, and ono poll Jersey bul l cau. Ad. blood, but not eligible to reglstrJ. dress W. J. Bryan, Fairview btocic n Lincoln, Nobr. - XT ARMLESS PRESERVATIVE F a O- Butter, Eggs, Meat. ,. Rocipu cents, Box 145, Richland, Mo, SJuP1.V-ti