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r --y-w The Commoner. OCTOBER 13, 1305 13 Pr -OU"" 'fcVvt .kJJK tftfll J soutt. fv ftnuKA I II 1 I I I A She, til 0J .-. - rfJMWa ( &r 111 " - i ( Congressman John M, Williamson, of Oregon, has been convicted on the third trial of the land fraud charges brought against him. In two previous trials the jury disagreed. The record of the yellow fever at New Orleans up to September 30, showed total cases, 5,000; deaths, 388; recovered, 2,372; still under treatment, 240. In the New York Insurance, inquiry, Alfred W. Maine, one of the auditors of the Equitable Life Assurance so ciety, testified concerning a pool or ganized by the insurance companies for the purpose of looking after the various state legislatures and provid ing funds for the insurance lobby. Washington dispatches say that President Roosevelt may name Grover Cleveland as a. member or the second peace conference to be held at The Hague. The United States marshal at Wil mington, Del., on OctoDer 11, held a sale of the personal property of J. Edward Addicks, who became famous in Delaware's politics as a candidate for United States senator and is known to the public as "Gas Ad dicks." Washington dispatches say that Robert Bacon, recently appointed as 'first assistant secretary of state and who, it will be remembered, was a partner of J. Pierpont Morgan,- may he appointed secretary of tlie treas ury to succeed Mr. Shaw "when he re tires in February. termlned to push his railroad legisla tion plan." Washington dispatches announce that President Roosevelt will leave Washington October 18 for n frin through the south. It is said that the president is not at all alarmed at the warnings given in regard to yel low fever and that he will govern his itinerary accordingly. Clarence H. Venner of New York who holds a $50,000 policy in the New York Life Insurance company, has sent to various state insurance com missioners, demanding that the New York Life be barred from doing busi ness in the states until President Mc Call and Vice President Perkins have resigned or been removed. Richard P. Clarkson, for a third of a century one of Iowa's best known citizens and- for many years editor of the Des Moines Register, died at his home in Des Moines OctoDer 3. Mr. Clarkson retired from the news paper work three years ago, at which time he was appointed to the pension office of the Iowa-Nebraska district. Hearst at the closo of a vigorous speech. Mr. Hearst insisted that ho would not accept the nomination. Testifying before the Now York In surance committee, Richard A. Mc Curdy, president of the Now York Mutual Life Insurance company, ad mitted that $2,600,000 has been paid as commission by hia company to two members of the McCurdy family. This is but a sample of the exposes that are being daily made before the in surance committee. S bcitbyTel-0 YEARS. Wc pA V CASH Want MORE Sambimkn r7I Wktr SUxk Nursery, LmIsUm. Mq.1 Daaivllle. R. V. GINSENG r'W lUniaUorrmnhft facrc. . . . .hB'n' crnwn ,n Krmlcn nr farm. Ilootn and sends for sale. Hcntl to tor po lave and got booklet h tall wc all about It, McDowolt Ulntong tiurdon, Joplln, Ato. Mrg. H. M. Bushnell of Lincoln, Neb., was unanimously re-electol president of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. Joseph Ramsey, Jr., was, on Octo ber 5, removed from the presidency of the Wabash 'railroad company. This is a result of the fight between the Ramsey and Gould interests. Ramsey says the removal Is illegal and he will fight it. PATENT SECURED! Ouj'KKKKTUKM- KU. KiiKMnpivniM tltf ff Ikllfn.nl.l1lta Henri for cJuldo lfc,ok and Wnat to nmil. KlnSt Publication limited for fc'llKK I atrlbutlou. TaUmU Bgt-iirod br u AtlYnrtisod at our Kxponno. Kvnns, Wllkim A Co.. C1& V .su. Wablmiton. I). C. SQ a Day Sure SSIESS IH arnoluUly (ill. w aTa"' fnmlih tbs work and Wen you free, jo'i wvrk In the locality where you Ht. Pnd ni you- adilrtM and will explain thafitulnoM fully, renianibsrw cuarsatee aeWarpruGt f Mforrvervriaywofk,aliolullyeire. Write atone. KUIaL JUMUm-TUKlNU CO, Ilex l330UtUoll, MUtu President Roosevelt returning from O.vster Bay to Washington, was given a cordial reception by the people at the national capital. The czar of Russia has made M. "Witte a count in recognition of his services in the peace conference. Newspaper dispatches recently re ported that Alexander Dowie had been stricken with paralysis. This report is denied by Dowie's friends, but it is not denied that he has been a very sick man. Dr. D. K, Pearsons of Chicago, who has made many liberal contributions to small colleges, has written John D. Rockefeller a letter assuring Mr. Rockefeller that he sympathizes with him in the attacks now being made upon him. Mr. Rocrcefeller has re plied thanking Dr. Tearson3 for his kindness. William Hepburn Russell, acting as attorney for several policyholders, has asked for authority to begin suit against officers of the New York Life Insurance Co. for the restitution A $148,000 contributed by the officers of that company to the republican cam paign fund. Secretary of Treasury Shaw is mak ing - tour of the country delivering speeches in behalf of the protective turi ' system and also in favor of what he calls "an elastic currency." The man who defrauded the Na tional City bank of New, York out of $359,000 in securities, has been iden tified as Henry O. Leonard, who is employed by a New York firm of bro kers as a clerk. It is said that Leon ard returned a large part of the money obtained and explained that he engaged in the scheme simply to show how easy it was to "beat a set of financiers." Pat Crowe, who became famous by kidnapping the fifteen year old son of Edward A. Cudahy of Omaha, was arrested October 2 at Butte, Mont. Crowe admits his guilt with respect to the Cudahy kidnapping and also that he fired the shot which wounded Police Offiqer Jackson who recently attempted to arrest him. J. J. IZ1, president of the Great Northern t railroad, in a speech deliv ered re jlly at Portland, Ore., de clared tlia,: federal regulation of rail road rate;J would bankrupt the railroads. W. B. Vandiver, Missouri's state superintendent of insurance, says that he will move for the revocation of the license granted to the New York Life Insurance company to do business in that state. The action will be based upon the discoveries recontly made before New York's in surance committee. Willard Teller, for many years a distinguished attorney of Denver, and brother of United States Senator Tel ler, died at his Denver home on Octo ber 4. Prof. Newson C. Dougherty for more than twenty years superintend ent of the city schools of Peoria, 111., and president of the Peoria National bank, has been arrested on the charge of forgery and embezzlement. He is accused of misappropriating school funds. Brooks' Sure Cure Breoka' Appliance. New FOR uiicovcry, wonderful. No obnoxious spring or pad. Automatic Air Cushions. ulndtanddrawtthobrokon parts together as you would a broken limb. No salve. Nolrmnhnl No lion. Dur- ablo.choap. Pat. Bent. 10. '0L SENT ON TRIAL. CATALOGUE FREE. I BROOKS APPLIANCE CO,, Boi tfG MAJ18IIAU., MICH. RUPTUDEI wMlWr w if fell Congressman Dalzell of Pennsyl vania in a newspaper interview, de clares that there is no necessity for tariff revision and that none will be had. New York dispatches say that Dis trict Attorney Jerome, will ask the grand jury to investigate Insurance affairs. Untted States Senator John BQ Mitchell of Oregon fa in a Portland; nospltal suffering from a broken rib: wis condition la not regarded as seT nous. : United States Senator Burkett, after a can upon the president, said "Mr; oosevelt was more than ever de- Property worth more than one mil lion dollars was destroyed and five hundred persons were made homeless by the fire that swept over a large portion of Rhinelander, Wis. Testifying before the New York insurance committee, President Mc Call of the New York Life Insurance company admitted that he obtained a personal loan of $75,000 at 1 per cent from the Metropolitan Life In surance company, although he was a director of the latter company. The Municipal Ownership League of New York, In session October 4, unanimously nominated William K. TTpjirnr to be mayor of that city. JThe, nomination was made for Mr. Mayor George B. McClellan was, on October 5, renominated to be may or of New York by the democratic city convention. Mr. McClellan is now Completing his first term of two years and has been nominated for a term of four years, the state legisla ture having recently amended tne city charter so as to provide for a four years tenure of ofllce for the officials of greater New York. Her man A. Metz of Brooklyn was nomi nated for comptroller, while Patrick F. McGowan of Manhattan was nom inated for president of the board of aldermen. The platform adopted by the convention which nominated Mr. McClellan touches upon municipal ownership and declares that it has long been accepted as democratic, saying: "Public ownership Is no longer a catchword, but a principle applied and in operation in this the greatest of American cities. An in telligent democratic administration may be entrusted with the continued application and the ultimate triumph on safe lines on the principle of mu nicipal control of municipalities." ii General Jose Miguel Gomez, can didate of the liberal party for the presidency of Cuba Is in the United States, and declares that it is the duty of this country to interfere in Cuba under the Piatt amendment. He says that the Palma administration is despotism. The Massachusetts republican con vention met October 6. Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston was named for gover nor. The platform endorsed the Boosevelt administration "and de clared in a mild way for some sort of reciprocity. The will of the late Mrs. B. D. Band, mother-in-law of Professor George D. Herron bequeaths $200,000 to found a school for socialism. Steel Roofing, $1.50 Per 100 Sq. Ft. Mew, painted both ildea, moit durable and teoti.imlca! root covering for lloutea. 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