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Mwiimpn,iiinimiin The Coffimomef; 12 VOLUME 8; NUMBER 45 Outlook. His concern is with the general policy of the paper, which is and has been consistently admirable in every respect. The president will be responsible only for what he him self writes, and his probable future attitude must be judged by his ac tion in the past.'.' ' .Don't 1-jF - iwnr imvr tr " ,rrT---? - '. 7 i i ii. , mt. i .in. in. i-i .. - V. .T.1.H-- .rt. ... taXJ Emporor William was bitterly at tacked In the German relchstag No vember 10 during the debate con cerning an article printed in the Lon don Daily Telegraph of November 8. Mr: Roosevelt will 'not, it is said,, bo a candidate for senator' to suc ceed Piatt of New York. It is be lieved Blihu Root will be a candi date and that Mr. Roosevelt' will seek to succeed Depew in 1911. The entire state of Tennessee is agitated" because of the killing of former Senator Carmack. Repre sentatives of the temperance forces will insist upon a strong prosecution of Robin Cooper who killed Mr. Oar mack and also of Colonel Cooper, the father, who was present. Rev. David D. Thompson, editor of the Northwestern Christian Ad vocate, St. Louis', was killed in an automobile accident. fmahyadrid means committee of the house of representatives Is en Jftged 'lh "tariff- liearinga'iMtf- the city of New York. ' " Eleven persons were Icttled rtnd twenty"persons injured In a railrdrtcl collision near New Orleans. ' V'On Tuesday,' November 10, at Clii &go Judges G'rosscu'p, Baker and Seaman in tlievUnItea States circuit tfotirt of appeals overruled the peti tion of the government for a rehear ing before that body (Jf the appeal 5 thd Standard Oil company of In d)ona fivom the $29,240,000 fine of Judgo Landis. v York in successidn of Hamilton Pish. Mr. Terry served as assistant treas urer of the republican national com mittee under Treasurer George E. Sheldon. At Alliance, Ohio, -the country home of John Wampfler, a milk deal er, was destroyed , Ify fire. Four children, Lucille, aged' nine; LeRoy seven; Katherine, five, and Charles, three, perished in tho flames. The parents and three children escaped. The father was badly burned but will recover. It is unofficially reported that the emperor of China is dead. Tile twenty-eighth annual' conven tion 6t the American Federation of lLabor is in session at Denver. The much talked of inventory of the nation's resources is now practi cally completed. To consider the material it has brought together the national conservation commission has. just announced its first full meet ing for Tuesday, December 1, in Washington. At that meeting the first steps will be taken toward put ting into tangible shape the results of the six months' hard work on, tak ing stock for the country's waters, forests, lands'and minerals. One week later, after the commission has gone over the inventory, it will hold a joint meeting in Washington with the governors of the states and ter ritories, or their representatives. At this meeting the inventory will be further discussed and the report which the president had requested the commission to make to him by Jauuaiy 1, will be formulated. An Associated Press dispatch, un der date of New York, November 13, says: "Much interest was- occa sioned here today by the publication of a report that James Stillman, president of the National City bank, jidMmintiv i,oo Wo ma Aif-. popularly known as the 'Standard Oil MV3i. v J VvciYilr ' 4o nnvifTt11tiv ..,. -fl i-1 - tarnoy GeneraT W. IB, MJlcso of - - r 7- ttoioraao cnarging Marie ij.-, wugu Tutf, former register of tlie state l'a'nd' officio, with, defrauding the slate aiid) embezzling. 4& - A -.In an explosion at the Radbed mine- at Hamm, Westphalia-; many, 339 men were killed.. - Ger- Henry, W. Watterson, Jr.,. -youngest s,6n of Henry Watterson, fell from a window in tho nineteenth Bjtory of tho Trust Company of America'- building, Nos. 37-43 Wall Street, ivNew York, to the roof of the United a Stages Thrust company's building, ad pifii'ng, 110 feet below, and was lulled instantly. Mr. Watterspn w,s 'member of tho law firm of Wlnl, Russell & Watterson. The bpdy vjas' t'a'kbnf ;t6 Louisville, Ky for inter tnfent! , -5 fA Eleven people were killed ''and a UtOttp or rriore wounded in a colli asfotf on the Great Northern railroad n'eaY'NW Orleans, Victor H. Motcalf, secretary of the navy, has tendered his resignation to' takeoff ect December 1. He will be fsrfctseGded by Trumari Newberry, 'present assistant secretary. Colonel George H. Torney has tieen annotated surceon ceneral of Gxq United States army to succeed! 'jpresQi uonerni a. m. uKQiney. 4i,frfio.'i. nredlflont "has finnnlnfort --- -- "cr - j- x' v 4 1 JeorgS' S; Torry to be assistant treas urer of tho United States at New Outlook of which President Roose velt Is to become a 'contributing edi tor' when he retires from office. Offi cers of the Outlook company refuse to make public the name of any of the owners of Its $150,000 capital stock. The published report credit ed Mr. Stillman With owning 1,000 of the total issue of 1,500 shares. 'The company is not a public service corporation,' was the reply of 'Wil liam B. Howlaud, treasurer and one of the directors of tho Outlook com pany, wnen ne was questioned re garding the authenticity. 'It is un der no obligations to give the names Of its stockholders or other paTticu-i lars regarding its affairs. It is a pri vate business, but the names' of its directors may be found In the man- uals and ;the name of Mr. Stillman Is not one of them. We can give no information regarding the Iden tity or holdings of a single stock holder.' Mr. Howland said there had been no recent change in the control pf the Outlook company. Mr. stuiman is at present in Paris. Later, however, Mr. Howland Issued a' for mal statement in which he declared that Mr. Stillman has owned less than 10 per cent of the stock of the Outlook company for nearly thirty years. The remainder of the stock of-the company, he said, is owned by those engaged In the active manage ment of the company." When this was brought to the notice of Prpsi. den i. Roosevelt he issued the follow ing , statement from the White House: "The president has not the slightest concern with the question as to who are tho stockholder of ttu A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch car ried -by the Associated Press follows: "Former Senator Edward Ward Car mack, editor of the Tennesseean, was shot and killed this afternoon about 4 o'clock on Seventh avenue north, in front of the Polk flats, by Robin Cooper, a son of Colonel Dun can B. Cooper. Mr. Carmack was going north on Seventh avenue in front of the flats and Colonel Cooper and his son, Robin, were approach ing Seventh avenue on Union street. Soon after they came in sight of one another and the shooting began, Robin Cooper, it is said, firing two shots and Senator Carmack one. Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, it is said, dr'w his pistol, but did fire. Sen ator Carmack fell to the ground near ly Instantly. Robin Cooper was shot in the right shoulder, but was not badly hurt. It is understood that the trouble Is one of the results of the democratic gubernatorial primary In which Cannock was defeated. Carmack had, since he became editor of the Tennesseean, been quite caus tic in criticising what he called the democratic machine, and had print ed several editorials about Colonel Cooper. Within the past few days, it is asserted, Colonel Cooper notified Carmack that these editorial criti cisms must cease. This morning an other editorial in reference to the colonel appeared in tho paper and this is supposed to have been the im mediate cause of the- tragedy. As Senator Carmack fell at the edge of tho street, Colonel Duncan Cooper put his arm around Robin Cooper and both walked a few feet down Seventeenth' avenue to Dr. R. G-. Fort's office, where the slight wound in Robin's shoulder was examined and treated. An ambulance carried the body of Mr. Carmack to an un dertaking establishment. The pistol of Carmack, a 32-caIlber, was lying at his side, with' two of the chambers empty when the body was picked up and was turned- over to an officer. The stump of a cigar Mr. Carmack had been smoking was also on the street beside him. Young Cooper was carried to a hospital and Colonel Cooper was held at police headquar ters. He has made ,no statement. Robin Cooper is a practicing attor ney at law, 27 years old, and single." Edward M. Morgan, postmaster of New York, was shot by an insane man but not seriously wounded.. His assailant committed suicide. November 22 Is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Annapo lis, the capital of Maryland. The day preceding will be observed by a cele bration by the people of the town. SILVER DOLLAR DOOMED Treasury officials note that silver dollars are gradually going out of use in the west and south, and that their place is being taken by dollaT bills. A few years ago it was a rare thing to see a dollar bill west of the Mississippi river, while In the south silver dollars were far more plentiful than the soft money. It seems that tho doom of the silver dollar was 3ounded -when the government de cided that it would no longer pay the freight between subtreasuries and banks on the coins. Savannah (Ga ) News. NOT SO SHARP "That is a sharp young man your uaugncer is going with these days." Be Like t The Sailor who clung to the anchor as he threw it overboard, and of course went to the bottom the result, a dead oc;. You may have done practi cally the same thing, as far a3 dairy profits are concerned; if you have thrown over pan setting methods to buy a so-called cheap (?) separator. If you haven't bought as yet don't until you thoroughly inves-tigate-the Tubular Separator because it gets all the cream and a richer grade; furthermore it is a stranger t o repairs, because i t stands wear and tear. 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