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The Commoner.
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cablegram says: "The decree recites
that after King Carlos and Crown
Prince Luiz had been shot dead, the
queen, with noble courage and ma
ternal Instinct, flung herself in front
of her son, and endeavored to thrust
aside the weapon of Costa, leveled at
him. Her escape was remarkable.
The bullet struck her corsage, was
deflected -and grazed the forearm of
the prince. The cabinet lias given
its unanimous approval to these deco
rations, neven before conferred upon
a woman. His majesty has decorat
ed also the policeman who shot
Buissa, the man who killed the king,
with the order of the tower and the
sword. This decoration gives the re
cipient the rank of an officer and en
titles him to a royal pension."
The Cuban congress has passed a
bill providing for a national lottory.
It is estimated that this will bring
to the government a revenue amount
ing to more than two million dollars
a year.
A St. Petersburg cablegram says:
"Lieutenant General Anatole M.
Stoessel and Rear Admiral Neboga
toff have been released from confine
ment in the fortress of St. Peter and
St. Paul by order of Emperor Nicho
las. The healti of both men has
been gravely affected by their con
finement. General Stoessel was found
guilty by court-martial of surrender
ing the fortress of Port Arthur to the
Japanese and was serving a sentence
of ten years' imprisonment. Admiral
Nebogatoff was sentenced to be in
terned in a fortress for the same
length of time for surrendering to
the enemy at the battle of the Sea
of Japan. Stoessel began his sen
tence March 20, 1908, while Nebo
gatoff took up his quarters in the
fortress April 15, 1907. Rear Ad
miral Gregoriefl! and Lieutenant
Smrnoff, subordinate officers under
Nebogatoff 4n the Russo-Japanese
war, were pardoned and released
from the fortress of St. Peter and
St. Paul a month ago. These offi
cers had been sentenced to death for
having surrendered their commands,
but in view of extenuating circum
stances their sentences were commuted."
In a speech delivered in the senate,
Senator Beveridge of Indiana' charged
the American Tobacco company with
selling short weight packages. He
declared in eight years this trust had
robbed the consumers of $184,-000,000.
These were some of the characteriza
tions of Mr. HoHingsworth of Ohio,
in editorials, which he had read in
the house today affecting his reso
lution recently offered protesting
against the portrait of Jefferson
Davis on the silver service to bo
presented to the battleship Missis
sippi. These editorials accused him
of 'waving the bloody shirt,' and ap
peared in the Daily Clarion-Ledger of
Jackson, Miss., April 30; the South
ern Sentinel, Ripley, Miss., May 6;
the Shreveport Caucasian, Shrove
port, La., May 4, and one other paper,
name not given. The reading of the
editorials caused a great commotion
and at times moved the members to
great laughter. Finally Messrs. Bart
lett of Georgia,,, and Fitzgerald of
New York, objected to further 'lum
bering up the records and demand
ed that the speaker rule on the ques
tion of privilege. In an elaborate
opinion Speaker Cannon held that
Mr. Hollingsworth had not been at
tacked in his representative capacity
and ho was not permitted to proceed
further. Later Mr. Hollingsworth
sought unanimous consent, first to
print a speech on the subject, or else
to address the house for thirty min
utes. Mr. Harrison of New York, ob
jected, whereupon Mr. Hollingsworth
wanted the speaker to tell him why
the objection was made. 'The chair
can not tell,' said the speaker suave
ly, 'what moved the gentleman to
object, because he is not a mind
reader.' This sally convulsed the
house with laughter."
President Taft is to open the
Yukon-Alaska exposition at Seattle
June 1 with the splendid gold tele
graphic key presented to him today
by Secretary Ballinger and the con
gressional delegation from Washing
ton. The key is mounted on Alaska
marble and is ornamented with
twenty-two handsome gold nuggets
from Alaska. The key will be con
nected with the White house tale
graph' wires and the president will
touch It on the day of the opening,
thereby setting in motion the ma
chinery of the exposition.
The Missouri supreme court has
rendered a decision showing the im
portance of one word. A special to
the Post-Dispatch from Jefferson
City, Mo., says: "The two-year pen
itentiary sentence of Ferd Warner, a
former member of the St. Louis
house of delegates, fixed by the jury
which convicted him of bribery, was
reversed and remanded by the Mis
souri supreme court today. Warner
and Fred Priesmeyer, also a mem
ber of the city council, were arrest
ed, in the house of delegates chamber
October 18, 1907, after a transaction
with marked bills furnished by
Henry ABcher, who was seeking the
nassage-of,a parage T.egulating bill.''
The dispatch adds that Justice Gantt,
who wrote the decision, -declared the.
indictment defective because it al
leged that Warner's offense was
"against the dignity .of state." The
phrase,, the court, holds, should have
been "the dignity of the state."
Here 1s an 'interesting report of
one day's proceedings in the house:
"Washington, D. C. 'An ass of the
first magnitude.' 'Perhaps one of
'Sherman's ;bums who-robbed -defense-
essmen -xmdvwomen.-'. .'.Contemptible
little help;' 'A apolitical nonenity
from Ohio.' ' 'Aumje-faced luminary.'
'A pusillanimous pigmy trom Ohio.'
Captain Peter C. Halns, Jr., who
was convicted for the killing of Wil
liam E. Annis, was sentenced to the
New York state prison for an inde
terminate sentence of not less than
eight yeaTs nor more than sixteen
years.
Broughton Brandenburg, the mag
azine writer, who gave to the New
York Times the bogus Cleveland let
ter which the republican national
committee used to good effect In the
1908 campaign, is now a prisoner in
New York.
Five men were hanged at Con
stantinople under orders from the
new sultan. A cablegram from Con
stantinople says: "They had been
found guilty by court martial of com
plicity in the murder of their officers
in the revolutionary outbreak of
April 13. Among them was one non
commissioned officer the others
were junior officers. The men sang
hymns while they were being con
veyed from -the war office, where they
iiad been confined, to the place of.'
execution. They continued their
songs while the final preparations for
the hanging were being completed
and up to the very moment that the
stools on which they were standing
With the ropes around their necks
-were knocked out from under their
feet. All through the condemned
;men -were as calm as if saying their
prayers in a mosque."
An Associated Press cablegram,
from; Zacatecas.Mexico, says: "Ren-
dereu insane 'uy-'uicuiJiJisiMttuuc yj.
the twin-brother of his'victlm, whom
he believed -was the ghost of the
man lie had murdered, Antonio
Aguillan fell to his knees pleading
for mercy and babbled the story of
his crime. Until Uiat moment tho
murder of Eustacia Aguillan had
been veiled in mystery. Eustacia's
twin brother. Juan, who had boon nh-
sont from home for years, returned
to the city yesterday, and acciden
tally met his uncle, Antonio. Tho
latter did not know of tho return of
Juan and when ho saw him on tho
street his resemblance to tho mur
dered brother was so striking that
ho thought tho spirit of tho nephew
ho had killed had returned to haunt
him. Prostrating himself, ho begged
to bo killed. Ho was taken Into
custody and is believed to bo hope
lessly insane."
Republican politicians of Kansas
continue to make generous contribu
tions to tho gaiety of tho nation. A
Topeka dispatch to tho New York
World says: "President Taft has
announced in heated terms to Gov
ernor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas, that
the White Houso, so long as ho oc
cupies it, is not to bo used to pro
mote factional strife In any state of
the union. In tho samo mail At
torney General Wickersham received
Instructions to fire Robert Stone, who
had been appointed a few days be
fore an assistant in the department
of justice. Governor Stubbs Is a pro
duct of the recent upheaval that put
Chester I. Long out of the senate
and Joseph L. Brlstow in. Governor
Stubbs has red hair and a disposition
to match, with energy to carry tho
combination. When Mr. Taft was on
his campaign tour Mr. Stubbs board
ed the special train at the frontier of
his state and made speeches from the
rear platform until tho state capital
was reached. Mr. Taft stood for one
of the speeches and then retired to
his stateroom. When other towns
were reached and tho insistent call
for the presidential candidate would
not be denied, tho train crew and
other Taft friends aboard elbowed
Mr. Stubbs (who was then only run
ning for governor) into a corner
while the presidential candidate
showed himself. Governor Stubbs
is an avowed candidate for the
seat in the senate occupied by
Mr. Curtis and is especially attacking
Representative Anthony of Topeka,
who is a friend of Senator Curtis.
Recently the governor was in Wash
ington and asked the appointment of
a friend to a place in the department
of justice. Mr. Taft consented, ex
pecting to talk to tho Kansas dele
gation in congress about it. The gov
ernor, however, rushed home and
caused to bo printed in newspapers
favoring him largo gloats over the
fact that Mr. Stubbs had pulled off
an appointment in Washington with
out the knowledge or consent of the
Kansas senators or representatives.
When- these articles were shown to
Mr. Taft he revoked the appointment
of tho young man from Topeka and
told Governor Stubbs what he
thought about his tactics."
George Meredith, the English nov
elist, died at London aged 81 years.
A cablegram to the Denver News
says: "The immediate cause of
death was heart tUsease, following
igrave symptoms that developed early
1n the -evening. Meredith's Illness
began on May 14, and he had stead
ily declined since that time. . So
serious was-his condition last night
that the attending physician re
mained constantly at his bedside.
Georgo Meredith was born in Hamp
shire, February 12, 1828. On tho
occasion of. his 80th .birthday -he waa
showered -with congratulations -from
all parts of the world, and was visit
ed by a deputation headed by An
tony Hope, .and presented with an,
address signed .by Algenon Charles
Swinburne, ,Thomas Hardy, John
Morley' and more than a hundred
leaders in art, letters -and -scholar
ship. Meredith's first poems ap
peared in 1851, and were followed
In rapid succession by various novels
and additional poems and ballads.
(Continued on Pago 14).
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