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aT V"'M. r fi "- K The Commoner. VOLUME 7, NUMBER IT ,'J c il ill I I I I I I" I I II II I More than one hundred people were caught In n burning building tit 255 Wabash. avenue, Chicago, and narrow ly escaped with their lives. Many of them wore Injured, .but nono fatally. George B. Scrugham, manager of tho International policyholders com mittee, New York, was arrested on conspiracy charges. The arrest was Instigated by tlio old line managements and it Is charged that Scrugham and others conspired for the purpose of de feating an honest election in the con test for control of the New York Life company. It Is claimed by Scrugham and others that this is an effort on the part of the old management to cover Us own Iniquities. Forty-one coal minora were en tombed in the Whipple mine at Scar boro, W. Va. It was the result of in explosion. The United States circuit court fpr tho western district of Michigan has denied tho application for an injunc tion brought by the Victor Talking Machine company against tho Duplex Phonograph company. The Victor company claimed that the Duplex Pho nograph company was Infringing on tho rights of tho Victor patents. The court's decision is a great victory for the Duplex company. - , K . Seven men were imprisoned In a' coal, mine at Johnstown,, Pntfor mora than one hundred hours. When thoy were taken out they wore all in a ser ious condition, and were removed to a hospital. It is believed that thoy will recover. way and terminals which tend to en large greatly their physical valuations or valuations from the standpoint of reproduction. They are more willing to have physical valuation of tho roads made than arc roads having less val uable real estate holdings." Bingor Hermann, former commis sioner of tho general land ofllec, was acquitted by a jury In Washington, D. 0., on the charge of destroying rec ords of tho land ollice. Secretary Taft was entertained by his Yale college friends at lunch at Cincinnati, Ohio, and there his boom, was launched. A dispatch from Washington says: "Tho supreme court today decided Jn effect that the railroad commission of North Carolina can compel a company operating in that state to adjust Its schedule so as to accommodate passen gers ort other lines from any particular part of tho state. The commission or dered tho Atlantic Coast Lino to make connection at Selma at 2:25 p. m. -with a train on another line running from the eastern part of the state. The compnny resisted on the ground that It would Involve extra expense which, it contended, amounted to taking prop erty without due process of law." Charles S. Mellen, president of the Now York. New Haven and nartford railroad, recently visited the White House. A Washington correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald says: "President Mellen urged President Roosevelt to Vecommend that congress nuike a "physical valuation of the rail road properties, He told tho president that John F. Stevens, until recently chief engineer of tho Panama canal, was now engaged in making a physi cal valuation of the Now York, New Haven and Hartford. Mr. Mellen on leaving tho White House refused to discuss the subject, ns did also Mr. Byrnes. It Is learned, howover, that ho was pronouncedly for a physical valuation of the railroads of the Uni ted States. Somo timo ago Mr. Mellen wrote tho president that ho favored a physical valuation of the railroads and that it was a physical valuation Mr. Stevens was making for the New York, New Haven and Hartford. It is said furthermore on reliable authority that W. 0. Brown, of the New York Central, In a recent conference with tho president urged a physical valua tion as necessary. The president has decided to discuss tho railroad ques tion In his Indianapolis speech. This was mado known definitely today, ft is not known whether he will advocate n physical valuation, but It Is certain that if. he follows tho path mapped out by the railroad men who have been conferring with him lately he will do so. The position of Mr. Mellen of the Now York. New Haven and Hartford Is that ii physical valuation of its prop erty will show that it Is not only not over-capitalized, but that It is greatly under-capitalized. The Now York, Central otllcials are understood to hold the same opinion as to -their property and to fool that a physical valuation would tend to give investors conn clonco. These roads have enoVmouslv valuable real estate in the riMits-of- The Pacific Outlook, published at Los Angeles, says: "At a political meeting held In San Bernardino by the supporters of J. J. Hanford, success ful candidate for tho office of mayor In the recent contest, It was decided by a vote of GS to 2 to start the re call fight without delay. In the elec tion only one Hanford councilman ob tained an office, and as there are three hold-over councilmen it has been f i greed to seek control of affairs as soon as possible." A Constantinople telegram via As sociated Press says: "Seventy-five thousand dollars was tho ransom paid for the release of Robert Abbott, the son of a prominent British subject re siding at Salonlkl, who was kidnaped from his father's garden March 24 and eventually liberated when the demands of his abductors had been conceded. Tho brigands originally demanded .$100,000. The BrltiBh government will Insist that the ransom be repaid by the Turkish government." submit to wrong in return. Seek tho peace that comes to us as the peace of righteousness, the peace of justice. Ask peace because your deeds and your powers warrant you in asking, and do not put yourself in the position to crave it as something to be granted or withheld at the whim of another. If there Is one thing which we should wish as a nation to avoid it is the teaching of those who would reinforce the lower promptings of our hearts and so teach us to seek only a life of effortless ease, or mere material coin5 iort. The material development of this country, of which we have a right to be proud provided we keep our pride rational and within measure, -brings with it certain great dangers; and one of those dangers Is the confounding of means and ends. Material develop ment means nothing to a nation as. an end in itself. If America is to stand simply for the accumulation of what tells for comfort and purity, then it will stand for little, indeed, when looked at through the vistas of the ages. America will stand for much provided only that it treats material comfort, material luxury and the means for.acquiring such as the found ation on which to build the. Teal life, the life of spiritual and moral effort and achievement" William A. Brewer, jr., former pres ident of the Washington Life Insur ance company, was sentenced in New York to pay a fine of $500 for making a false and fraudulent report to. the state superintendent of insurance in regard to the financial condition of that company. He paid the fine. A New York dispatch of May 3 says: "All records for the number of emi grants arrivinc at the nort of New York in a single day has been broken- o?eloclc tonight. By that hour fourteen steamship will have brought into the harbor since 3 o'clock last night 20,729 omigrarits from nearly erery section of the civilized world. This exceeds by fully 5000 the largest number ever landed here in a single day. From Naples five steamships brought 8,287 steerage passengers. The steamer Bul garia alone had 2,734 passengers in the steerage." Arthur McEwen, chief editorial writer of the New York American, died of heart failure in Burmuda. rm he Harrisburg correspondent for the Philadelphia North American says: "With only gang representatives from Philadelphia against it, the North bill giving the voters at large the power to nominate United States senators passed the house finally tonight by a vote of 129 yeas to 16 nays. The sen ate, which killed the McCord bill, must face the issue once' more." A dispatch from Puerto Cortez says that the chief of police and several Nicaraguan officers were arrested and placed aboard the American giin boat Pnducah. These officers were "arrest ed for making a murderous, assault up on a Louisiana negro, named General Davis. An Associated Press dispatch says: "Commander Fullam says If Davis dies the perpetrators will be tried for murder, presumably by court martial and the guilty ones hung at the yard arm In front of the port. The Paducah was ready 'to sail forCeiba and Truxilla, but will remain here for the present. Captain Fullam has placed Captain Winterhalter in com mand of the land forces and he is con ducting a vigorous investigation of. all the details of the Davis affafr." General Joseph K. Hudson, fori years editor of the Topeka,Kati., Herald, uieu at nis Topeka nome. -i ".. i'.M Vn ,,, ,,' A London cablegram to the New York World says: "Tho Standard tills morning says that among the aspira tions in the will of Cecil Rhodes, to which Earl Grey, governor general kof Canada, referred in his speech at the national arbitration and peace con gress banquet, in New York, April 17, were the ultimate recovery of the United States by Great Britain, Brits ish occupation of the whole of Africa and South America, and of the sea board of China and JJapan." President Roosevelt delivered an afl dess at tho unveiling of tho General, George B. McOlellen statue at Wash ington. He said that he would have none of the so-called peace if it were merely "another name for self Indulgoneo, for sloth, for timidity, for tho avoidance of duty," The man who would do the best for the country In peace, the president declared, Is the man who at need will do hi war. 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