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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7, NUMBERS
12
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Tho ropuliIlfMiiiH of Chicago have
iiomlnntcil for mayor I-'rod A. Busso,
now postmaster.
Trunk J. Iloarne, president Colorado
Fuel mid Iron company, died at Denver.
The Kiini of 200,000 lias disappeared
from the United Slates subtroasury at
Chicago. Secret service olllCers are at
work upon I he case.
Paul Morion has been re-elected
president of the Equitable Insurance
company.
Honduras places blame on Nicara
gua for the Central America 1 rouble.
The first case tried under the antt
buckel shop law at Atlanta, Cla., re
sulted In conviction.
Sixteen children and their teacher
perished In a tire near Montreal.
President Eliot of Harvard an
nounces that football will be played at
that Institution this year-but that: the
game will be somewhat reformed.
favor of George W. Perkins, a vice
president of the New York Life Insur
ance company and a member of the
firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., In the mat
ter of the charge of grand larceny
made against him in connection with
the payment of funds of the New York
Life to the republican national cam
paign in 1001. The decision is by a
divided court, voting 4 to 3. The pre
vailing opinion holds Unit there was
not larceny owing to the absence of
criminal intent. The dissenting opin
ion holds (hat larceny consists in tak
ing properly belonging to some one
else."
fieorge Sheets, chief of the Salt
Lake police, and CJeorge Raleigh, chief
of detectives, were arrested charged
with complicity In a conspiracy to
fleece tourists passing through Salt
Lake City.
The legislature of Iowa has passed
and the governor has signed the two
cent railroad fare bill.
bill to become a law without bis sig
nature. ITo says he does this because
he told the people during the cam
paign that ho was opposed to this
method of reducing the fare and pre
ferred to have the result accomplished
through nn order by the railroad com
mission, lie says, however, he will
exert his authority to have the law
enforced.
The Tennessee state supreme court
sustained the anti-trust law of that
state and afllrmed a line of $ 3,000
against the Standard Oil trust.
force? However, you may hand tho
prayers to the Recording Angel and
have them entered on the books as a
matter of form." Life.
TOO LAVISH
"I notice in your alleged verse," re
marked the old humorist, "that' you
rhyme every other line."
,4Yes," admitted the young humor
ist. "That won't get you nuthin'. Cut it"
out. Two rhymes to a stanza is u
plenty." Washington Herald.
The legislature of Nebraska has
passed the two-cent railroad fare bill.
An Associated Press dispatch from
St. Petersburg follows: "A copy of
file secret report on the defense of
Port Arthur, which Is the basis of the
indictment on which Lieutenant Gen
eral Stoessel, Lieutenant General Fock,
who commanded the Fourth East Si
berian division al Port Arthur, and
Mil lor General UpImm. elilef nf hIiiFC of
General Stoessel, are standing trial for
their lives before the supreme court
martial, has been obtained by the As
sociated Press. It is of the greatest
Interest as explaining the decision to
try these three ofllcers and nolle pro
sequi tho other defenders of Port Ar
"thur. Tho report, which was written
by Lieutenant General Smirnoff, the
otliclal commandant of the fortress, Is
sensational In the extreme and cate
gorically accuses Stoessel of coward
Ice and Incapacity and finally of the
deliberate, treasonable hastening of
the surrender to save his own life and
in defiance of the decisions of two suc
cessive counsels of war. The report is
biased in the extreme, breathes the
most bitter personal enmity and shows
that the high ofllcers of the Port Ar
thur garrison in the darkest days of
tho siege were almost al ench other's
throats. The Indictment is summed up
in conclusion by General Smirnoff as
follows: 'A series of unpardonable
blunders outside the fortress-duo to
the ignorance and lack of military ca
pacity and martial prowess of Gen
erals Stoessel and Fock bruoght about
the investment of the fortress several
months earlier than necessary and af
ter the Investment a desire for unde
served glory moved Stoessel to inter
fere in the defense with unfortunate
results. Finally, at the last period
of the siege Stoessel usurped my au
thority with tho assistance of Gener
als Fock and Uelss and committed
treason in surrendering suddenly and
prematurely. T regard our defeat r.t
Mukden as a direct result of this trea
son.' "
The Missouri legislature has passed
a bill providing for an eight-hour day
for Telegraph operators who handle
train orders. Where one train dis
patcher is employed In the day time
only twelve hours is the maximum.
A Jefferson City, Mo., dispatch fol
lows: "After amending tho two-cent
per mile passenger railroad rate bill
today making the penalty for violation
a fine of $100 to $500, the house of the
Missouri legislature passed the bill.
The senate promptly concurred in the
amendment and the measure was sent
to the governor. The bill affects all
railroads in the state except independ
ent lines of less than forty-five miles,
which may charge ! cents per mile."
. George von L. Meyer, former Ameri
can ambassador to Russia, has re
turned to this country. Ho will be
come postmaster general.
James J. mil Is talking calamity.
He intimates that squally times are
ahead. President Enrllng of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad
talks In the same vein and says his
company has abandoned Imnrovomonts
for which he expected to spend at
least $0,000,000.
COST OF CRIME IN NBW YORK
At the present moment nearly 25 per
cent of the $1:50,000,000 and more
raised by taxation for the running ex
penses of the city of Greater New
York In the present year Is to be spent
In fhn renrewslnn mid correction Of
crime, as the figures will show.
In the following tabulated statement
it will be seen that all the moneys ap
propriated for tho various depart
ments and Institutions arc spent on
the repression of crime alone.
Tho following departments devote
their entire appropriations to the cor
rection and repression of crime for the
year. The figures given below are
what each department has asked for
in the budget:
Department of Police $15,G97,GS1,09
ueparimeni ot uorrec-
District Attorney of New
York
District Attorney of
District Attorney of
Queens
District Attorney of
Richmond
City Magistrates, Man
hattan and the Bronx. .
City Magistrates, Brook
lyn, Queens and Rich
mond Special Sessions, New
York and Brooklyn
General Sessions, New
York
The Juvenile Asylum...
Roman Catholic Protect
ory Society for the Protection
of Children
Grand Jury stenographer,
Kings county
One Judge for Kings,
Queens and Richmond.
Oflico expenses connected
therewith 8,000.00
Court rents In Brooklyn, 3S.840.00
Parole Board 2,800.00
WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO
"Now, Mr. Jinks, would you recog
nize tho existence of a higher, or uii
writton law?"
"No, sir. I'd try a millionaire just
tho same as 1 would a common la
borer." "Talesman excused!" Washington
Herald.
FULL MEASURE FOR HIM
"That huckster who used to cheat
us so has been arrested," said Mrs.
Byers.
"Yes," replied Mrs. Naybor, "I hear
lie's in a peck of trouble uow."
"Well, I do hope that peck isn't
short measure, at any rate." Phila
delphia Press.
The Indiana legislature has" passed
and the governor has signed a two
cent railroad faro bill.
The Oklahoma constitutional conven
tion has defeated the "Jim Crow"
clause.
1,050,0G1.50
237,G40.00
8G,200.00
25,800.00
9,000.00
213,800.00
199,800.00
195,800.00
310,300.00
44,000.00
328,500.00
50,000.00
4,000.00
17,500.00
ENOUGH SAID
Total $18,519,722.50
Rev. John J. Monroe in Harper's
Weekly.
"An Associated Press dispatch from
Albany, New York, follows: "The
court of appeals today decided in
A most wonderfal remedy
for bronchial affections.
Free from opiates, in Loxos only.
The Texas legislature has exoner
ated Senator Bailey. In the senate
the vote stood 15 to 11; in the house
tho vote stood 70 to 40.
Judge John W. Wofford, judge of
the criminal court at Kansas City, is
dead.
The Minnesota Editorial Association
in session at St. Tnul adopted a reso
lution calling for the "disbar
ment" of Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden and asking for his
'removal. The association ordered that
all evidence against Madden bo col
lected and submitted to President
Roosevelt. The resolutions declare
the association will do evervthing in
Its power to fight tho second class pos
tage bill, now pending In congress.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska has
permitted tho two-cent railroad faro
THE DEEPEST GOLD MINE
Australia now possesses the deepest
gold mine in the world. Tho shafts
at the New Chum railway at Bendigo.
Victoria, have been sunk to a depth
of over 4,300 feet, and the quartz
there tapped has been sampled and
crushed, with tho result that a yield
of gold equal to an ounce per ton has
been obtained. The operations in the
mine have been tested by government
ofiicials in view of the fact that never
before in tho world's history has gold
been obtained from so low a depth as
three-quarters of a mile. Chicago
Journal.
Speaker Cannon was in a facetious
mood when ho arrived at the capital
yesterday. The keen wintry air Unit
prevailed outside seemed to invigo
rate him.
Meeting a prominent democratic""
member from the sunny south in the
marble room, "Uncle .Too" slapped .
him on the back and said: "I say, old
man, are you not ashamed to be a
democrat?"
"Well, no, Mr. Speaker," replied the
representative from the southland,
straightening himself up, "I cannot say
that I am. But," he added, after a
slight pause, "when I consider the ten
dency of tho times I often think that
I am a fool not to join your party.
However, I reckon I prefer to remain
poor and honest, rather than become
rich and a republican."
"The gentleman's time has expired,"
said "Uncle .Too," as he made his way
to the speaker's room.- Washington
Post.
COFFEE THRESHED HER
15 Long Years.
TITE UNPREVENTABLE
They wore going over tho morning's
mail.
"Here," said tho confidential secre
tary, "are one million five hundred
thousand additional prayers from
Americans asking that no more pros
perity be sent them; they've got all
they can stand."
St. Peter looked worried.
"Those Americans," ho exclaimed,
are an unreasonable lot! How can
we do anything in tho matter as long
as they keep tho Dingley tariff in
"For over fifteen years," writes a
patient, hopeful little Illinois woman,
"while a coffee drinker, I suffered from
Spinal Irritation and Nervous trouble.
I was treated by good physicians, but
did not get much relief.
"I never suspected that coffee might
be aggravating my condition. I was
down-hearted and discouraged, but
prayed daily that I might find some
thing to help me.
"Several years ago, while at a
friend's house, I drank a cup of Pos
tum and thought I had never tasted
anything more delicious.
"From that time on I used Postuin
instead of Coffee and soon began to
improve in health, so that now I can
walk half a dozen blocks or more with
ease, and do many other things that
I never thought I would be able to do
again in this world.
"My appetite is good, I sleep well
and find life is worth living, indeed A
lady of my acquaintance said she did
not like Postuin, it was so weak and
tasteless.
"I explained to her the difference
when it Is madj right -boiled accord
ing' to directions. She was glad to
know this because coffee did not agree
with her. Now her folks say they ex
pect to use Postuin tho rest of their
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