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The Commoner
"VOLUME 6, NUMBER S7
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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.
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