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Flvo officials of the Carriage and
Wagon Workers' Union of Chicago,
and two men whom they woro charged
with hiring as sluggers, were convicted
December 29, on the charge of con
spiracy, nnd sentenced to terms in
the penitentiary.
Judge Webb at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
lias decided that the Wisconsin anti
pass law is constitutional.
Charles T. Yer'kesj the railway
financier of Chicago and London; died
in New York, December 29. He had
been ill for ten days.
The Now York insurance commit
tee concluded Its labors Saturday, De
c6mber 30.
fa sensation. Menz is not a believer
of the Deity, and wrought the statue
to symbolize his feeling as to the
future. Today a constable with a writ
of replevin called at the home of the
old German stonecutter and levied on
the idol. The owner resisted the de
mand ofthe officer, and he and his
family tried to save the statue from
capture, even going so far as to bring
a sledgehammer to smash it to bits.
The constable and his assistants were
successful in removing the statue, and
thus made return on the writ that
was sworn out by Warren We3t of
Ypsilanti on a claim of $51.40 for labor,
part qf which was performed on
'Beelzebub.' "
George B. McClellan has received
a certificate of election as mayor of
New York.
Raymond Prefontaine, the Canadian
minister- of marines and fisheries, died
at Paris December 25. He was at
one time mayor of Montreal.
Thesltuation in Santo Domingo is
becoming serious, and it is believed in
Washington,, that the United States
government i will soon have its hands
full in: that country. The president of J
Santos Domingo, Morales, has disap
peared and is pursued by troops.
The Inter-Borough and Metropolitan
traction Interests of New York are to
be merged in a holding company, with
a capital stock of $150,000,000 and a
bond issue of $70,000,000.
E. E. Snyder, the Olin, Iowa, bank
er who failed one year ago with: lia
bilities of $100,0000 in excesslof his
.assets,- pleaded guilty of receiving
money after he knew the bank was
insolvent. Ho was fined $100 and
costs.
ing in New York, where sixty-eight
institutions of learning were represented.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
December 29, returned an indictment
against the Chicago, Burlington &
Qulncy railroad, Darius Miller, first
vice president, and C. G. Burnha'm,
foreign freight agent, on the charge
of granting railroad rebates. The in
dictment charges that these rebates
vere granted to the United States
Steel Product company, of New York,
at branch of the steel trust. It Is
sald that the regular rates wore paid,
lut that afterwards a rebate of 30
per cent was allowed.
A horizontal reduction of 20 per
cent in freight rates within th.e state
of Illinois as ordered by" the "state
railroad commission has been .modified
so as to apply only to classes !0ne to
five, pending another investigation.
Justice Leventritt, at New 'York,
has ruled that a purchaser of a rail
road ticket has the right .to sign on
the ticket the namo of the person
from whom he purchased it. '
Thursday, December 28, call money
in New York went to. 125 per cent,
the highest since 1899. .Secretary of
tho Treasury Shaw says that legiti
mate business and not speculation has
caused the situation. He says that
the money isn)t now demanded on
account of manipulations in stock, but
is "the natural result of conditions
that prevailed last summer and of mis
takes made then from lack of fore
sight."
A special grand jury will be called
in New York with the purpose" of
probing insurance scandals.
An Associated Press dispatch under
date of St. Louis, December 29, fol
lows: "After a division of almost
one hundred years stops were consum
mated today in the joint session 'of
general committees which, when for
mally ratified, will unite the northern
Presbyterian church, U. S. A., and tho
Cumberland Presbyterian church. Al
most two days have been consumed
by sub-committees in arranging de
tails for the union. Their reports
were submitted to, the general com
mittees renresentlnc each church this
afternoon.. Within two hours the two'
general committees had met in joint
session and agreed upon a basis for
the union of the two denominational
bodies. This agreement will be re
ported to the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church meeting at Des
Moines, la., on May 17, 1906,' and of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
meeting in Decatui, Ill7 on the same
date for iormal ratification by these
two executive assemblies, which will
be followed Jby the official announce
ment that "the union of the two
churches has finally been consummated.
'KFRUITEOmr
shows in NATURAT. rm n
accurately describes 218 varlXLTf
' ixim. oenu ior our terms of dlslributfnn
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Seeds, Plants, Roses,
Bulbs.Vines. Shrubs, Fruit and OrnamonhiTr
auu uuat oy ira roars tant lftn
setter Browii, 41 Kroonhouaei
Of lHlnii, Fern. I'Iciia, tier.
and othpc thinus too numurons
Boscii, Etc., by mall nontpnld
aro arrival and BntWncilon
Btinrnntccd, laror by oiprcHH
or freight. You will bo intur.
O8tod In our oxtrnortl nury
ononp offers of ovor lmlf a
hundred , choico collodions in
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BOX 217, PAINESVILLE, OHIO.
New3 dispatches say that Russell
Sage was on hand December 28 wheiv
call money in New York went to 125
per cent and that he had the money
and as a result got rid of about $30,
000.000. Tr 1r PsHmntofl thnf n n ro
!a disnatch to the Chicago Record- sult f , thjs transaction Mr. Sage will
TWlcl under datfi of Detroit. Decern- out l0 ine extent ?7o,UUU a day
iao. or fniimuo t .nfrtrori nwnv in nn lor some time to come.
old cart today, Herman Menz's statue
of the devil now Is being guarded by
a constable. The Image was set up
two months ago by Menz and created
Grip Psadns
It -would bo utterly impossible to Imagine any
thing more distressing than La Grippe pains.
They aro simply indescribable, and seem to be
composed of all the misery sensations known.
Yet thoy can be relieved, and in a very short
time, by taking
Dr. Miles1
Anti-Pain Pills
the greatest remedy on earth for pains of any
ldnd. Their sootblngjnfluenoo upon the nerves
is felt throughout tho entire system,
"I had La Grippe pains all over me, and I was
in suoh distress I thought I could not endure it,
I thought of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, nndnf ter
taking three doses the pain disappeared, and I
slept peacefully. My brother has a swelling on
his neck, and uses them, as they ease tho pain,
and leave no bad effects like quieting powders."-ADELIA
LANE, Portage, Mich.
If they fall to help, your druggist
The accounts "of the" postmaster of
Peoria, Illf,-are being investigated.
Governor Hanley of Indiana has de:
manded the resignation of Daniel B'.
Storms, secretary of state.
An Associated Press dispatch under
date of Columbus, O., January 3, fol
lows: "The seventyrseventh general
assembly of Ohio, convened today, the
house being organized by the repub
licans, who have sixty-two votes
against fifty-nine for the democrats,
and the senate being organized by the
democrats, who have nineteen votes,
counting one independent, Senator
Lamb of Lucas county, who voted with
tVom nfrnlnaf nlrrloon frtr tVio variiV.
llcans. Lieutenant Governor Harding
presided in the senate. He will be
succeeded on January 8 as president
of the senate by Andrew L. Harris,
the republican lieutenant governor
elect. All'the democratic caucus nom
inations in the senate and all the re
publican nominations in the house
were ratified without opposition. Sev
eral attempts were made to organize
bolts, but all failed."
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Ex-Governor Franlc Steuenberg of
Idaho was assassinated on December
30 by the explosion of a dynamite
bomb. It is believed that the assas
sination is due to the feud engendered
by the strike of miners at Cour D'
Alene several years ago, although no
trace of the assassin has been found.
The bomb was exploded at the ex
governor's gate.
Joy Morton, son of the late J. Ster
ling Morton, and head of the 'salt
trust, was thrown from a horse at
Nebraska City and seriously injured.
Latest reports say that Mr. Morton
will recover.
J. R. Cady, at one time attorney for
Louis F. Payne, while that person was
superintendent of insurance for New
York, testified before the insurance
committee that Richard A. McCurdy,
then president of the Mutual Life In
surance company, offered Cady a re
tainer to use his influence with Mr.
Payne in insurance matters. .
To Growcra of our Wondorful Now Corn
NICHOLS'.GOLDEN CHIEF
Record, 372 bai. per acre; alio $100 for
tho largo'it yield of our new WHITE
COMET OATS. Record, 183 bus per
nern. Our IUtr 1000 Garden Guide de
scribes and illustrates the above, alio
world's Largest Tomato weight, Gibs.
nl 9nr. ftnnil voiir name and addrcll
today for a Freo PM. of the Seed. Wo
.soil " Pure and Sum" SeedB.at whole
sale prices direct to tho consumer, uur
Catalog and the Tomato Seed la FREE
ST. tOUIS SEED CO.
G00-602 N. dth St, ST, LOUIS, MO.
At a meeting of city superintendents
and principals in connection with the
lowa state Teachers' association, held
will refund your money on first, at Des Moines, a resolution was adopt-Paclcage.-
od declaring in favor of-abolishing the
25doses.25o. NociK..iAsanie of football in Iowa. Similar
, .-. wv,iU ..t mwv resolutions were. adopted at a eathor-
An Associated Press dispatch un
der date of Washington, December
20, says: "Final returns to tho bu
reau of statistics of the department
of agriculture, according to a bulletin
issued at" 4 o'clock today, show the
acreage and production of the prin
cipal farm crops in 1905 to have been
as follows:
Production
Crop Acreage. Bushels.
Corn 94,011,369 2,707,993,540
Winter wheat. 29,864,018 428,462,834
Spring wheat. 17,990,061 264,516,655
Oats 28,046,746' 953,216,177
Barley 5,095,528 136,651,020
Ryo 1,662,508 27,616,045
Buckwheat ... 760,118 14,585,082
Flaxseed ..,.;-2,534,836 28,470,753
Rice 460,198- 12,933,436
Potatoes 2,996,757 260,741,294
Hay ; 39,361,960 60,531,611
Tobacco 776,112 633,033,719
Tons.
Pound.
"The average weight per bushel is
shown by reports received by the bu
reau to be 56.3 pounds for spring
wheat, 58.3 pounds for winter wheat
and 32.7 pounds for oats."
This department is for the exclu
sive use of Commoner subscribers,
and a special rate of six cents a
word per insertionthe lowest rate
has been made for them. Address.
all communications to The Com
moaer, Lincoln, Nebraska.
IF YOU WANT INFORMATION AUOUT
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wood. Henry Co.. Va. .
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