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" t ri -nrirTroMMwn wiMTniTMnTTTmmiii . i wwfTMHPHHHHHHHHHHHB TlttMnllB01MllMMMfflOBMSM 1.111 irg. ,li-,u jj-L-. yfjKj'l''''''y''' "''? "y-"WHrflHW"W1"'' "'"- '" ..--vir-. ... ,,K "iT-WBBIM n a i t t. ; i i i i ' u ! V SI 1 4 J Yh KJ i t- w 10 ' ' '! H ft iu 't if r JMTJ i 1 12 The Commoner "VOLUME 6, NUMBER S7 vter$sLJZ "til i SWl Wilbur Glen Voliva has been elect ed ruler of Zlon City in the place of John Alexander Dowie. . Former Governor Aaron Thomas Bliss of Michigan died of appplexy at Milwaukee. John J. Pershing, son-in-law of Sen ator Warren of Wyoming, has been appointed brigadier general. Persh ing was promoted over the heads of eight hundred other officers who ranked him as captain. Captain Henry Bundy, famous as the "Evangelist of the lakes" died at Chicago, aged eighty years. A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald from Elkhart, Ind., says: "Mrs. Mary Pease caused the arrest today on a charge of disorderly con duct -of Henry Cummins, her" son-in-law, after a discussion of President Roosevelt's spelling reform idea. Cum mins disapproved of it, and Mrs. Pease approved of it. Cummins' wife took sides with her mother. In court Cummins was acquitted after it was shown that he had stood up manfully for the spelling of his ancestors, but was beaten in the argument hy the tongues of his wife and mother-in-law." livelier han the old time flea. One dispatch says that these are "Russian fleas," and that they are especially gifted with the power to annoy human beings. General James B. Weaver of Colfax, Iowa, has been nominated for congress against Representative Lacey in the Sixth Iowa district. Governor Magoon has left his post at Panama, and will sometime later become vice-governor general of the Philippines. The American Magazine has ap peared under the management of John S. Phillips, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Stef fens, and other writers. ' ;l An Associated, Press dispatch from Greensboro, S. C, September 17, fol- iuwet. auq coming oe William J. Bryan to Greensboro this evening was foreshadowed in gloom. On the same train was the body of Dr. Charles Dun can Mclver, president of the state normal and industrial school here, who died of apoplexy on the train. He was a member of the reception commit tee for Guilford nniiTitv if 9 i-i the- city hall was crowded to its ca pacity to hear the speaking. Mr. - Bryan was introduced by ex-Lieutenant Governor Charles M. Steadman, a personal friend of Mr. Bryan's. Mr. Bryan s speech was a eulogy of 'Dr. Mclver, at whose invitation the Ne braskan came here twelve years ago on his first visit- n sru nnn He pointed out that Dr. Mclver's life was an ideal one, and said he would rather die with his record than the name and fame of John D. Rockefel ler. Governor R.- B. Glenn followed Mr. Bryan and also paid a tribute to Dr. Mclver." A Denver dispatch to the' Chicago Record-Herald follows: "So that -he could listen in his old age to the sweet songs of the birds which lulled him to rest when he was a boy, Dr. Charles McCutcheon, a prominent physician of Tacoma, went all the way to Ireland to get the native warblers and Is tak ing 200 of them back to his home. Dr. McCutcheon, who is superintendent of the Paddock Memorial hospital in Ta coma, is visiting a relative in this city on his way west The climate in Ta coma, lie says, is similar to that in his old home in Ireland. Dr. Mc Cutcheon was born in the onnntv nf Wexford, and his boyish hobby was birds. Now that he is wealthy he re turns to the old love." A Rock Island passenger train was wrecked near Dover, Okla. Eight per sons were killed, and a number of others were seriously Injured. mmuS 0f Hves wore lost alld a million dollars worth of damage done nlT: accordins to Hons M,?dSar? i X a,lly' superintendent of the Postal Telegraph company, in Chicago is dead. ' Secretaries Taft and Bacon arrived at Havana September 19, and confer ences were at once entered into, look- Sm iMara an adJustment of Cuban difficulties. Nearly 3,500 physicians of New York state, representing 551 cities and towns and including some of the best known members of the profession, signed a petition to Governor Higgins in behalf of Albert T. Patrick, sen tenced to be electrocuted. The corner stone of the monument to Verdi, to be erected in New York City, was laid in the presence of 10,000 spectators. . President Roosevelt has issued an order extending the eight hour law to apply to all public work. Milwaukee dispatches say that the city has been infested by millions of fleas, and "not a remedy In sight." Other towns report visitations, and the pest seems to-be .larger and Robert R. Hitt, the veteran Illinois congressman, died at his summer home in Narragansett Pier, R. I. A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald under date of Fond Du Lac, Wis., follows: "Habitual drunkards in Fond du Lac are hereafter to be photographed, and their photographs will be posted in every saloon in the city. A resolution to this effect has just been passed by the common coun cil. The resolution was introduced by one of the saloon members of the council. The reason for the action, he says, Is that a man whom the coun cil might declare a habitual drunkard might be known to only two or three saloon-keepers, and after being "post ed" might go to any saloon where he was not known. and nhfnin rir.tim The police would then arrest the in nocent saloon keeper. If every notice to saloon keepers, forbidding them to sell liquor to a certain person, con tained a picture of that person, the dealer could post it in a conspicuous place and he would then know instant ly if that man applied for a drink. The task of securing pictures of drunkards and sending the notices to the saloons Is placed upon the police. No photo graphs have yet been taken under the new act." At the annual meeting of the mem bers of the Associated Press the re tiring members of the board of direc tors were re-elected, with the excep tion of A. P. Langtry of the Spring field Union, who announced that he could not stand for re-election because of new private interests which he was to undertake. The vacancy was filled by the election of General Charles IC Taylor of the Boston Globe. The di rectors who were elected for a term of three, years are: Victor F. Lawson, Chicago Dally News; Herman Ridder, New York Staats-Zeitirng; Thomas G. Rapier, New Orleans Picayune; Har vey Wft Scott, Portland Oregonian,'and General Charles K. Taylor, Boston Globe. The new board of directors or ganized by electing the following offi cers: President, Frank B. Noyes, Chi cago Record-Herald; vice president Charles Hopkins Clark, Hartford Cou rant; second vice president, Rufus N. Rhodes, Birmingham News; secretary, Melville E. Stone; assistant secretary, Charles S. Diehl. , Assessment of inheritance tax on ante-mortem gifts 'is the main point in the Pabst estate case being argued before the probate court at Milwaukee. The jury in the Smith peonage case at Cape Girardeau, Mo., returned a verdict of guilty against the two Smiths and the five tenants on their farm. The defendants were sentenced to the penitentiary for various terms. " ! A Jellico, Tenn., Associated Press dispatch under date of September 21, follows: "Twelve deaths, the injur ing of scores of other persons and $500,000 damage to property were caused here today when a carload of dynamite standing on a track near the Southern railway depot exploded with a report that was heard for twenty miles. Buildings were shat tered in the business section of the town and nearly every niecfi of clns within a radius of one mile of the scene was broken." shown that because of this expend! ture the rates on commodities had been kept higher. With a free hand then, Mr. Mauahan questioned General Manager A. W. Trenholm regarding the allowing of employes of the road to leave their duties to enter the po litical campaign and the payment of their expenses from the earnings of the road. Mr. Trenholm admitted that ho had allowed leaves of absence to ten or fifteen men to do political work in Wisconsin during the last cam paign of LaFollette for the governor ship. He admitted that the road had paid $300 for expenses incurred, be sides allowing the salaries of the men. He said that personally he had only honored vouchers for the sum stated, but admitted that other sums might have been paid without his knowledge." A race war broke out at Atlanta, Ga., September 23, growing out of a number of depredations committed by negroes. A number of people were killed, the number being estimated va riously from ten to twenty-five. The town was placed under martial law. The saloons were closed and there is an exodus of negroes. Secretary Taft and Assistant Secre tary Bacon are still in Cuba in the effort to bring about a peaceful set tlement of the difficulties between the government and the insurgents. Ameri can troops are being kept in readiness and should they go to the island they will be under the command of Gen eral Funston. The insurgents insist that Palma should -resign the presi dency in order that one more in sym pathy with the Cuban people may take his place. Under date of St. Paul, Minn., Sep tember 21, the Associated Press car ries the following: "Late this even ing the state railway and warehouse commission, which is conducting a hearing regarding the reasonableness of commodity rates, decided to "take the lid off" with reforence to testi mony which Attorney James Manahan of the receivers and shippers' asso ciation has been endeavoring to get into the record for the past two days, concerning money alleged to have been spent by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad in an attempt to defeat Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin in his last gubernatorial campaign. The commissioners yester day decided that this testimony was not germane to the hearing. Today,' however, Commissioner Stahl ex pressed the opinion that such testi mony was material. He stated that by showing how much money the road had spent in politics, and had taken from its gross earnings, it might be The republican state committee for Colorado has nominated Henry A. Buchtel, D. D., chancellor vof the uni versity of Denver, for governor on the republican ticket, in place of Philip B. Stewart who declined the nomination. ' POLITICAL CONVENTIONS The New Hampshire republican convention nominated for governor, Charles M. Floyd. An extract from the Associated Press report follows: "Nine ballots were necessary before .the choice was made and three of these ballots were made void by more votes being cast than there were dele gates entitled to seats. Winston Churchill, of Cornish, the novelist, and leader of the recently organized Lin coln Republican club, of New Hamp shire, was Floyd's closest competitor in the final vote. The result of the ninth and final ballot was: Charles M. Floyd, of Manchester, 408; Winston Churchill, of Cornish, 335; Charles H. Greenleaf, of Franconia, 55; Stephen H. Gale, of Exeter, 12. Total vote, 779. THE PRIMARY PLEDGE I promise to attend all the primaries of my party to be held between now and the. next Democratic National Convention, nnlessx unavoidably prevented, and to use my influence to secure a clear, honest and straightforward- declaration of the party's position on.. every question upon which the voters of. the party desire tc speak. Signed. n Street .......... Postofflce ..- County State Voting precinct or ward... .'..., Fill out Blank and mall to Commoner Office, Lincoln, Nebraska.. Ity f- 'if- . I