The Commoner.
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Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
died at Jackson, Miss. For twenty
years he has ranked among the great
pulpit orators of the country.
Twenty men were killed by a pre
mature explosion of dynamite in a
stone quarry near South Bethlehem,
New York.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was
u military aide with the rank of
major on the staff of the late Gov
ernor Lilley of Connecticut, has de
clined re-appointment on the staff
of Governor Weeks.
Lorenzo Crounse, former governor
of Nebraska, and assistant secretary
of the treasury Under the Harrison
administration, died at his home in
Omaha.
Slawson Thompson, editor of the
. Bureau of Railway News and Sta
tistics, lias made a report in which
he says: "There were 1,932 fewer
fatalities to passengers and employes
by railway accidents during the cal
endar year 1908 than in 1907. Com
paring the returns of 1908 with those
of the fiscal year 1906-07, the de
crease in fatalities was even more
gratifying, being 2,173 or 43.4 per
cent. Of these the decrease in pas
sengers killed was from 670 to
292, or nearly 48.8 per cent,
and in employes from 4,430 to
2,536 or 43 per cent. Fatalities to
passengers in train accidents de
creased 70 per cent in the calendar
year 19.08, as compared with the fis
cal year 1906-07, and 51 per cent
among employes hurt in the same
class of accidents. This decrease is
qualified by the fact that during the
panic their ranks were reduced by
157 per cent 'laying off.' All things
rnYiHiflfirp.fi the conclusion is unavoid
able that the marked diminution in
fatalities in 1908 was due almost en
tirely to the recession in freight
, traffic, which took the strain off
every department of service and sub
stituted orderly observance of rules
by passengers and employes for their
violation in the feverish rush of pros
perity that culminated in October,
1907. Like conditions produced like
results before end after the panic of
1893." Mr. Thompson notes that
the railroads of Great Britain went
through the year 1908 without kill
ing a single passenger in a train accident.
today that would not be a Rockefel
ler if he could? Rockefeller's out
look is that of a benevolent trust.
He doesn't imagine that he lives in
a democracy, but in modern feudal
ism, and he is a feudal lord. The
socialist point of view is that society
itself must evolve and work out
progress like Rockefeller's, and out
of the heart of democracy will come
a better plan. The American peoplo
everywhere will form their own be
nevolent trust."
General Stewart Woodford, former
minister to Spain, picks Theodore
Roosevelt as the republican nominee
for mayor of New York.
L. D. Richards of Fremont was
elected department commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Nebraska.
President Taft has written a let
ter endorsing the play grounds
movement.
An Associated Presj cablegram un
der date of London, May 14, follows:
"A comprehensive bill for the re
moval of Roman Catholic disabilities
and providing for an alteration In
the accession oath taken by the Brit
ish sovereign was introduced by Wil
liam Redmond in the house of com
mons today, and gave variety to the
customary dullness of the Friday de
bate. The Roman Catholics never
ceased to inveigh against the 'insult
ing references' to certain Catholic
beliefs in the monarches accession
declaration as 'superstitious- and
idolatrous.' The same opposition that
has defeated any effort to niter the
oath again showed up today with a
petition signed by 400,000 persons
against the removal of Roman Catho
lic disabilities. Mr. Redmond's bill
not only removes what Is regarded as
the objectionable portion of the oath
of accessipn, but it repeals the acts
prohibiting residence and the acqui
sition of property by the Jesuits and
monastic orders, and abolishes the
disqualification which prevents Cath
olics from filling the offices of lord
chancellor of Great Britain and lord
lieutenants of Ireland. Premier As
quith gave his cordial support to the
objects of the bill. He declared that,
the exclusion of Roman Catholics
from the lord chancellorship and the
lord lieutenancy was quite unjustifiable."
ity developed through tho failuro
of the executivo assembly of Porto
Rico to pass tho usual appropriation
bills, leaving the island without sup
port after Juno 30 next.
Broughton Brandenburg the mag
azino writer who palmed off the
bogus Grover C'oveland letter on re
publican papers during the last cam
paign has been returned to New York
for trial.
John R. Walsh, tho Chicago bank
er, has appealed his case to tho
United States court of appeals. He
has retained David S. Rose, mayor
of Milwaukee, and John S. Miller,
tho Standard Oil lawyer, as his attorneys.
Mrs. Mary L. Dalzell, wife of Rep
resentative Dalzell of Pennsylvania,
died at the national capital.
A balloon manned by two army
officers and sent from tho govern
ment post at Omaha, burst at Jack
son, Nob. Neither of tho officers
were seriously Injured.
President Taft has appointod
Henry Groves Connor, democrat, to
bo United States judge for the east
ern district of North Carolina. Ho
succeeds tho late Thomas R. Purnell.
An Associated dispatch says: "Judge
Connor is described as being a man
of liberal views politically, and is so
regarded at the White House."
Attorney General Wickersham has
given an opinion to the effect that
banks may insure their deposits
through insurance companies.
Captain Peter C. Halns was found
guilty of manslaughter in tho first
degree. Ho was tried for tho killing
of William B. Annis at tho Bay Side
Yacht club last August.
Fourteen Tennessee night riders
at Waverly, Tonn., woro fined $100
and sentenced to ten days in jail.
A gasoline launch sank In tho mid
dle of the Ohio river near Schoon
villo, Penn. Twenty of tho thirty
persons on board were drowned.
Major Albert B. H. Johnson, a pat
ent attorney, died at Washington, D.
C. He was., during the civil war,
private secretary to Edwin M. Stan
ton, secretary of war.
The senate committee on finance
has decided to place a duty of $5 per
ton on printing paper and $1.30 per
ton on wood pulp. This is a slight
reduction in both cases from the
Dlngley law.
Rev. Alexander Irvine, a New York
socialist, delivered a sermon recent
ly in which he declared that John
D. Rockefeller Is "the greatest busi
ness man the world has ever known
or probably ever will know." "A
great deal of the criticism hurled at
Mr. Rockefeller is unwise," Mr. Ir
vine continued. "He has played the
game of business under our system
and he has played it as squarely as
most of the men who play. I will
not be a party to holding up the
winner and crucifying him. We made
the rules of the game. Who Is there
The high lead tariff proposed by
Senator Aldrich was adopted by a
vote of 44 to 35. Eleven republi
cans voted no with the democrats,
and two democrats, Hughes of Col
orado and McBnery of Louisiana,
voted with the republicans. By this
vote the house rate of 1 was raised
to 2 cents a pound on pig lead.
Thomas Hinterland, a clerk em
ployed at the White House, commit
ted suicide. His act is attributed to
a break down due to overwork.
Orrin T. Welch, well known In
insurance circles and three times
mayor of Topeka, Kan., died at his
home in Brooklyn.
President Taft sent to congress a
special message recommending legis
lation at the present extra session,
amending the Foraker act under
which Porto Rico is governed. The
president directs the attention of
congress to affairs on the island, lay
ing particular stress on what he
terms 'a situation of unusual grav-
In a riot at Colon, Panama, two
Americans were killed by police
officers.
Former President Charles W. Eliot
of Harvard university was invested
with the insignia of the Order of the
Rising Sun. This was bestowed by
the emperor of Japan.
HOW JUDGES ARE MADE
Justice David Brewer of tho
United States supreme court, during
a recent address before the students
of law at the university of Pennsyl
vania, told them of one of tho ex
periences of his judicial career at
his own expense.
"It happened while I was sitting
at one time on a number of cases
in which a good friend of mine was
interested as counsel, and it also
happened that in many of them my
my decisions vere rendered against
my friend's client. One day after
the completion of such a case we sat
together talking, when a very bash
ful young man from tho rural dis
tricts came in to see me, bearing a
card of introduction, to obtain my
advice upon the choice of a profes
sion. 'What do you think you want
to do?' I asked him. 'I kind of
thought I'd better study law he
replied, 'not that I want to very
much, but because I guess I'd like
to bo a judge. They make judges
out of lawyers, don't they?' ho asked
somewhat hesitatingly. 'Once in a
while my legal friend replied be
fore I could answer. 'Once in a
while they do, but not often "
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92 East 4th Street, St. Paul.
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wtn than any man Urine. I havo the lariat and fin
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