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r wm w- '."v V RV 'V j VK t K: 12 The Commoner. VOMJMB 0, NUMBER gffst TZH 7TTU TZS7n ju- -nj tr w- tf I llfvl' ttAsu , " ' s vf,.-r-. V. Secretary of State Root, speaking before the Trans-Mississippi Commer cial Congress at Kansas City, empha sized the importance of increasing our commerce with the South Ameri can republics. He said that the means of communication must be advanced and that he favored the ship subsidy, as the method to bring about the de sired result. V. Thomas F. Ryan, whot controls, a majority of the Equitable "Life Assur ance society, has made a public state ment announcing that he has severed official connections with big railroad and industrial corporations. He does not, however, specify the corporations affected by his decision. M. J. Vilas "and J. M. Robinson, treasurer and secretary of the Stand ard Oil Co., of Ohio, who were indict ed with John D. Rockefeller and H. P. Mcintosh appeared in court 'at Findlay, Ohio. Bach gave a bond for .$1,000. John D. Rockefeller, ws per mitted to enter a plea and give-bond through Ills attorney. They ' are all to appear December 6. Washington dispatches say that Frederick I. Allen, commissioner off patents, will soon resign. Patent at torneys have reneatediv comolained- that the work at the patent6ffl"cewwaaJ oeing neglected. ... "William B.:Borah otBoi8e? wilHlbe' elected to the United STates senate to succeed Senator Dubois of Idaho. Amovementis on foot to secure a permanent m&morial to the late Carl Schurz. " ' , l? .'' ., K shipping its produce that it does not employ children under 14 years of age, that form of the affidavit to be pre scribed by the department of coir merce and labor or the interstate com merce commission with, heavy . penal ties, both civil and criminal, for vio lation of the law." An Associated Press cablegram from Cherbourg, France, says: "Two big liners, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Orinoco, collided in the Bhg, Hsh channel November 22 at 9 o'clock P. m. As a result thirteen steerage passengers and sailors were killed, each vessel was seriously damaged and the two steamers have returned to port for repairs. The, Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse belongs to the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. She carried 258 first class passengers, 389 In the Second nnhfw nrfi nan i 4.1. ,. 7 " "" ." Steerage. She left Southampton and v 1 ?. A,,wvt:";ur zij tor New York. The Orinoco, which belongs to the British Royal Mail Steamship company, had cleared from Southamp ton, for West Indian ports and New York. The passengers of the German Vessel were trans-shipped and left France November 24. The Orinoco's passengers were' sent forward frohi wvumauiiiiuu xNuvemuer SO. . ' -"." r . f'w., I i r.wo. nersonswero. THiiori-fo u eriteen injured In a wreck -on rthe .Great Northern; v ; ' - . . i ., Paris cablegrams say that Madam Emma Calve, the prima donna, is en gaged to a blind American millibnaire District Attorney Jerome of . New York has reported to ' the governor that, while he finds indications of insurance frauds, he can not discover """ wuimuiea tnem.. He says that the responsibility in matters pertain ing to insurance rests upon the in surance department. Mrs. Harriett L. Bailey,', mother of Senator Bnlley of Texas, died at her home at Crystal Springs, Miss. She was sixty-six years of age. At the annual meeting of the Ne braska BankcV associations held in Omaha Dr. P. u Hall, cashier of the Columbia National bank of Lincoln, was elected president. ' A UlnVimrmrt T,i .11 . . . 3V the A t. card i h " :r" A1CBa ows: -At rounrMenT" ? 5SS1 J?" 2? BS1SS -. T.iUBU maiwu mac upon the spening day of the coming session of jyressho intended to introduce a ,Cmi 1 "B uie employment of -hlldren throughout the country and ,:: y- """ "" "siq tne present leat insnentinn inw tr V, :., Child labor wTl m' . "" . " a . Cn0 railroad, steamship StaKS. o other carrier of interstate commence shaH that emnlov nhn ,"""", "r. .iaciory of n r" ""uur a years ride tw ' " - .!a. w ?r? commerce Ri , ' "V"1!.0 from every factory or -mine 'owner An order dismissing from service the negro regiment that was implicat ed in the Brownville, Texas, riot was held Un temnnrnrllv Vv Qor.Af m.ni. Nenro citizens all over the country Drotested nninaf- fVi At 1 i . iv' troops, but President Roosevelt re fused to yield to the appeals and .de creed that the dismissal order be car--ried into effect. AJ Associated Press dispatch from gt Late city," follows: "Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, this afternoon apnered in the district court before Judge Ritchie nd pleaded guilty to -a charge of un lawful cohabitation and a fine of- $300 SI? J?!?08??' The charge under which the. Mormon prophet was ar rested and fined was based on the re- cent nirf.h rf Praunn' i.. - . ki.ji.iij V UC1U omnns lorty- third child, born to his fifth wife. "ai'Jcl " -ue aay counsel for Presi dent Smith secured a transfer of the case from the criminal division of the court, where Judge Armstrong pre sided, to Judge Ritchie's division. After the noon Tecess, when the court room was practically deserted. Presi dent Smith went before Judge Ritchie, entered his plea and the fine was im posed. President 3ihith addressed the court, ire stated that his last mar-4 b was in las, ah ins marriages, he said, were entered' into with the sanction of his church and, as they TeliSveai Wlth th0 aPPoval of the Lord. According to his fnith and the aw of the church they were eternal in duration. , Ho continued: 'In the tacit genera! understanding that was naa in 1890 and the years subsequent thereto regarding what were classed as the old cases of cohabitation I have appreciated the magnamity of the American people in hot enforcing a policy that in their minds was un necessarily harsh, but which assigned the settlement, nf thia ,itmn,.u . lem to the onward progress of time! uu "" yeur ioau a very large per centage of the polygamous families have ceased to exiBt, until now the number within the jurisdiction of this court is very small, and marriages in violation of the law have been and now are prohibited. In. view of this situation, which has fiSeYt with cer tainty a result that can ,be easily measured up, the family relations in tne old cases of Hint 1 v.o i generally left undisturbed, So far as my own case is. concerned, I, like others who had entered into solemn religious obligations, sought to the the rLuZ abI1lty t0 domP)y !th al trvinnH611 ertaIninS to the trying position In which we were Placed. I have felt secure in the pro n at magnanimbus senU- tn Tma iJi uuat;quent years to those old cases of plural familv re lationships which, came wtthin Its purview as did mine. When? ac Sw?,? TttQBt tovSrSy Pres ident Wilford Woodruff I did not un derstand that I would be expected SJS rQ, sacred Ceants and. ob- son TtZh J asaumed hy- lZrSLe.rr1. I have con- spon being offensive to anyone. I have sniHt nf ilPUbliC' nor have J tM a Z L de.flance against the law, but on the contrary, I have always Vsired to be a, law-abiding citizen, m con- ? ?,enrInthe trylng Psition n which L bn?n placed' I tr"St that your honor will exercise such leniency in your sentence a law and justice will penn& ,, Judge Ritchie, imposed the maximum fine, but omftted the jail sentence of from r. ;:! Sffi'ifip110 haye imposed under the TJtah atatntP ' , . . ,. .... -- --, .j. , -Hadn't Decided Definitely here?'r"eAre yU a visMfr down tivlslet0h' n' Im ne 0f the na' Jack Indeetl. thon t 1,1- n.. town council ought to put you down on the list" of, the attractions of the place, with your photograph, don't you knowf-Ex. Piano I II inDI You cannot buy a piano equal to this one, for less than foen in ntx. 1 ! store. It 13 superb in aeffon, tone an finish. 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