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WT !$m IMiHiMBibijLttMJMKffTjMMK TyiwcM. b.HHUktMl iwMfVn;wWM''ft'T JC-X'AaW44J- --v-; The Commoner VOLUME 6, NUMBER 31 1"T fc - .-: i , Ml :'' 1 .'LI W':!ill! l.ibi' I .ii w .it 'ju '4 m SiR'f ::! l J i.. nwrsh, wnr t i i Mm mm WAV i ti. ' ,u L. il '1 k wi fi y i If. f iiiV.r . ."' i 't r J.'i! 5, ' i. ', . 1 "1 . ,f tli; A i i t J' ,1 J. ' W r 1 V h if' imz' f M .l ' i i t v 4 M ' KJffgrc f fffMn TBI '&' mmvk flfifl ' .jjj 'fl i$ ' 'k) Ki in S'WJ ... A : " I HI I it: jH I y - .L u refl'JuECJ " ' " ' '"I'l rf'" '?2 . r 7fka i a MUM T lout llf 111 11 W 1 " t ' V -,, j iV ' v - " ' ifimtrrAV Cl MtiEfc W. A. Miller, assistant foreman of tho government printing office, who was oustod threo years ago In the labor union fight, and later re-instated, has- been removed from office on tho charge of Insubordination. Judge Staaltey of Philadelphia has delivered an opinion sustaining an in dictment charging a woman with crim Inol libel because she sent a comic Valentino to one of her neighbors. A St. Louis dispatch to the Chicago Itecord-Herald follows: "Retribution just overtook Henry Weraclc, a bag gage smasher, today when he handled a locked suit case so roughly that a rovolver contained therein was dis charged, the bullet passing through his Ice, cutting an artery. Before medical attendance could be secured Werack nearly bled to death." Shelby M. Cullom won in the Cook county, 111., primaries by a plurality of more than 17,000, thus insuring his renomination for United States sen ator. - Representatives Lorimer and Mann against whom hard fights wore made, wore 'renominated .for the lower house oXcohgress in the republican primar- JMes of Cook county, Illinois. corporations have made all manner of efforts to prevent the investigation. Dr. Nicholas Senn, returning from a visit to Africa, says that he is con vinced that cancer is purely a disease of civilization. A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald under date of Cedar Falls, la., follows: "Frank Stewart of this city was this evening made a Knight of Pythias under remarkaolo circum stances. The three ranks were con ferred upon him by a team composed of his oleven sons, the event taking place at the castle hall of Red Cedar lodge No. 83. Some of the grand lodge officers of the state attended and a number of Knights of Pythias from outsido -lodges were present. Among the sons of Mr. Stewart who took part in the conferring of the degrees were W. B. Stewart and A. R. Stewart of Spartacus lodge, Chicago. The work was the termination of a family re union that has lasted for a week, and the boys took this occasion of making their father a member of the organization." A Springfield dispatch, referring to Mr. "Wesson's death, says: "While advanced ago would be a natural ex planation, It was known that the ex citement which resulted from the re ceipt of a 'black-hand' letter last fall, in which the writer declared that the Wesson mansion at Maple street was to be blown up with dynamite, affect ,ed his heart and practically frightened him to death. He had been command ed to deliver a large sum of money in person at a lonely spot on the out skirts of the city. His house was carefully guarded that night, and at the appointed hour Patrolman Simon J. Connery, disguised in a flowing beard to impersonate Mr. "Wesson, was driven In Mr. Wesson's barouche to the meeting place appointed by the 'black-hand' agents. Lying in wait in the underbrush was a squad of po lice with drawn revolvers, but the agents of the conspirators did not ap pear. 'I will never pay one cent to extortionists of any stripe,' he said to a correspondent. 'I would not be a good citizen if I di,d; there is more at issue than my own personal safety he added" emphatically." State Senator Carl Mueller, who" was a candidate for renomination on the republican senatorial ticket, was de feated for renomination in the Cook county, Illinois, republican primaries. Franp P. Schmidt was his successful opponent.' - Attorney- General Moody has ad dressed an opinion to the secretary of tne navy, holding that the .eight hour 5aw does not ,apply to laborers en gaged in working upon vessels in. con Five Japanese were shot to death by United States guards, and twelve Japanese seriously wounded and tak en prisoners as a result of a raid made by Japanese schooners on the Alaska seal rookeries. James P. Whedon, manager of the Slayton Lyceum Bureau is dead. He was sixty-five years of age. An Associated Press dispatch under date of Washington, August 6, .fol lows: "Representative Griggs, chair man of tho democratic congressional struction for the navy by contract with committee, has received the first and builders at private establishments. only one dollar contribution sent, to his committee. It came from Judge J. H. Neville of Mississippi. Repre sentative Griggs "was so happy at the sight of the cash that he pasted the bill on a sheet of paper, on which was written an inscription, and post- tencod to fifteen years at hard labor In the penitentiary, the maximum sen tence provided by law. Hall's trial ended this evening at 7 o'clock. The jury was out but thirty-five minutes Hall's counsel has appealed on the ground that Governor Glenn was in Atlantic City when the special term at which Hall was tried was ordered, and that being out of the state's bounds he had no jurisdiction." -! mm ,. ni !. ONE OF WHISTLER'S MOODS A new story of Whistler is recorded. The artist and a friend went for a walk along the Thames embankment one wonderfully starry night. Whist ler had been in a very discontented mood all day and inclined to find fault with everything. Nothing pleased him; the houses were ugly, tho river not what it might have been, the lights hard and glaring. His friend pointed out several things that ap pealed to him as beautiful, but the master would not give in. "No," he said, "nature is only some times beautiful, only sometimes, very, very seldom, indeed, and tonight she is, as so often, positively ugly!" "But the stars! Surely they are fine tonight?" Urged the other. Whistler looked up at the sky. "Yes," he drawled, "they're not bad, perhaps, but, my dear fellow, there's too many of them." Kansas City Journal. You Can Easily Operate This Typewriter Owing to the negligence of the Ne braska republican secretary of state, the proposed railroad commission amendment to the state constitution Is endangered. The secretarv neglect ed to make tho publication within tho ed the paper on the wall of the com time which, according to some autho- mittee neadquarters. - The Milwaukee Avenue State bank atChl'cagbj custodian of savings of 22,000 persons, and having doposlts of more than $4,000,000,. was closed and the president, Paul O, Stensland, is a fugitive. His son turned over prop erty valued at $600,000 and it is hoped that the. depositors' money may be k saved. One depositor dropped dead on hearing of the failure and another depositors as well as the paying teller committed suicide. rltles, is required by the law. William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record-Herald says that Russian peas ants have destroyed $50,000,000 worth of property during the recent agitation. Henry W. Hering, cashier of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank at Chi cago, has been arrested. He says that president, Stensland, is alone Representative B. M. Pollard was renominated as member from tho First Nebraska district by the republican convention in session at Auburn. Mfc Seym0ur Parlc near Omaha, Neb., the homo of Thomas O'Dan lote was destroyed by fire and Mrs. p'Daniels and five children were 2 t0 deatlu The ther laa oil daughter were saved. Judge Bon B. Liriasey of the raimb court of Denver ha commenceTat investigation of thAliogS electiSS $25,000,000 were recentlyXgranted the street railway and tho gas tnd elect" c companies. RenresenfnHvnV S ! --.WW, JL WJtJ Clinton B. Wray, former teller of a Pittsburg bank, charged with stealing $125,000, was captured in Colorado. A New York dispatch says: "Hart man Wenzel, G5 years old, overcome by heat and excitement, fell fainting from a stoop last night and was killed. Wenzel, who is a retired cabinetmak er, had just succeeded in obtaining a stay of execution for his only son, condemned for murder, and had hur ried with this news to the house of his pastor, Rev. Herman A. Schnatz. As ho stood at the clergyman's door, waiting to be admitted, he fainted and fell backward down the steps. The son whom he had been trying to save Is John Wenzel, 25 years old. After serving a sentence in the penitentiary for burglary he killed George Spatz, a hotelkeeper, in revenge for having mm arrestea. Tne murder was com mitted on May 6, and but for his fath er's efforts Wenzel would have been executed during the present week." Cincinnati dispatches say that rep resentatives of labor unions will fight Nicholas Longworth, Mr. Roosevelt's son-in-law, who seeks renomination to the lower house of congress. The biggest doctor bill of the season was presented by Dr. C. C. Hendrix against Mrs. Laura Biggar Bennett, widow of Henry M. Bennett of Pitts burg. The bill amounts to $299,980. Daniel Baird Wesson, famous as a member of the firm of Smith & Wes son, aieu at ins home in Springfield, Mass., at the age of eighty-one years. The inscription is as follows: 'Judge J. H. Neville of Mississippi contributed the first dol lar to the democratic congressional committee campaign fund. He has proved himself a good and loyal dem ocrat.' Chairman Griggs expressed the hope that many other democrats will follow the good example set by Judge Neville, and he declares that he will give every contributor a clean bill of health certifying that he is a simon-pure democrat. Cash is very scarce with the democrats this year, but by such contributions as that of Judge Neville they hope to get enough money to pay their bills." An Associated Press -dispatch under date of Jamestown. N. Y.. August 10. follows: "The federal grand jury for the western district of New York to day returned Indictnients against the Standard Oil company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad company, and the Vacuum Oil company of Roch ester, for violations of the interstate commerce law. 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