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-wrf irimmjr'Tiryr-) -.. r .' m f it v 12 riwr Trnrnr F&F J r t V - .r-f -- J1 7 - - r -"" """ The Commoner .VOLUME 9, NUMBER 23 Stokes, 'Is a prominent Chicago sporting man.' 'Why said Vander bilt, 'ho looks more like a handsome parson.' A score of persons heard the remark, and the name stuck to Davies." w tmustu The authorities have arrested half a dozen porsons in connection with tho Union Pacific train robbery near Omaha. It is-believed that tho men in custody are among tho most no torious criminals. A movement is on foot to erect a monument at Lincoln, Nob., to tho momory of General Victor Vifquain. Democrats of Kearney, Neb., are preparing for a' dollur dinner to be givon in that city on tho evening of Juno 19. John Maxoy. a negro, who shot B. C. Bowors, a circus man, at Frank fort, Kentucky, was taken from jail and hanged from the St. Clare street bridge Dr. Theodore Barth, leader of one of tho radical parties in the German reischstag, died at Baden Badon, tornoy Atwell of Texas. Charges had been preferred against them but tho attorney general decided that thoy are "absolutely above reproach." The monthly statement of the treasury shows that tho govern ment's May deficit was but a little over $5,400,000. President Taft has approved order made by Secretary or me Naw Meyer prohibiting midshipmen from marrying until the completion of the prescribed six years course of training. King Alfonso of Spain fell from a horse and broke his ankle. Former Sheriff Shipp and tho five other Tonnesseeans who wore de clared guilty by the United States supreme court of contempt filed peti tions for re-hearing and were re leased on bond until the next term of court. Justice John M.1 Harlan of the United States supremo court cele brated his 76th birthday. Attorney General Wickeraham has fully exonerated Foderal Judge Ed ward R. Meek and United States At- A Chicago dispatch to the Sioux E. Davies. whose sobriquet of 'Par son' Davies was conferred upon him son" Davies was conferred upon him by tho late William H. Vanderbilt, and by which he is known through out the sporting world, is critically ill at his sister's home in Chicago. Owing to his age, 60 years, the physicians hold out no hope for his recovery. 'Parson' Davies is one of the best known sporting men in the world. Many years ago he was man aging Dan O'Leary when O'Leary was oncaerinir in walking contests at Madison Square garden. On one oc casion William H. Vanderbilt saw him In tlie arena, and, struck by his appearance, turned to Ed Stokes and asked: 'Who is the clean cut, well dressed gentleman?' 'He,' replied The New -York World says: "Su preme Court Justice William J. Gay nor, of Brooklyn, has written a let ter to Mayor McClellan urging him to remove from office Police Com missioner Theodore A. Bingham. The justice bases his request upon tho ground that the police, commissioner has been guilty of oppression and violation of the law in subjecting in nocent citizens to the process of 'mugging' before they have been tried and convicted. He declares an that the commissioner is possessed of the most dangerous and destructive delusion that officials can entertain in a free government, namely, that he Is under no legal restraint what ever, but may do as he wills, instead of only what the law permits, and that only in the manner it prescribes. Justice Gaynor also expresses the wish that he had the power to put a stop to the practices he complains of even for a month or two. 'In that time,' he says, 'official lawlessness could be stopped and Anglo-Saxon government restored to the city.' " figures Then it was moved to tho Smithsonian Institution and at a cost of $10,000 restored. It was thought that its troubles had ended, but today passers-by discovered that Eliot Woods, superintendent of the capitol building, is using the ten-ton pedestal as tho corner stono for tho new senate office building power plant. Vigorous protest Is being made, and the old block of marble, embellished with the legend 'First in War,' may yet be saved from such an inglorious fate." The National Monthly Edited and Published by Norman E. Mack A monthly periodical of high-grade character, li mechanical appear ance and subject matter. Forcible editorials and interesting articles from prominent democrats. Short stories and matter to interest every member of the family. SPEOIAL COMBINATION OFFER The National Monthly, regular price $1.00 per year; The Commoner, regular price $1.00 per year Both One Year lor $1.50 If already a subscriber to Tho Commoner your date of expiration will bo advanced one year. A New York dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "George Baglin, vice president of the Union Copper company, was taken to the Tombs prison today and must remain there under an order of Justice La combe of the United States district court until missing books of the company, the evidence upon which the federal district attorney seeks to convict F. August Heinze, are pro duced. A similar- punishment also hangs over Sanford Robinson, a prominent director of the company, whose case will be further considered by Judge Lacombe. Both men are alleged to have permitted the spirit ing away of the books that were under subpoena. Baglin testified before the grand jury that ho had overheard Robinson and one of the Heinze brothers conspiring to re move the books and had interposed an objection." Address THE COMMONER Lincoln, Nebraska Commoner Condensed Volume VII Former Governor Thomas T. Crit tenden died .at his homo in Kansas City. The United States Brewers Asso ciation met at Atlantic City, New Jersey. They decided that the pro hibition wave Is on the decline. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi tion at Seattle, Wash., was formally opened. Aa Its title Indicates, this book Is a condensed copy of Tho Commoner for one year. It Is published annually and tho different Issues aro desig nated as Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII, corresponding? to tho vol ume numbers of The Commoner. Tho last Issue is Volumo VII, and con tains editorials which discuss questions of a permanent nature. Every important subject in tho world's politics is discussed in The Commoner at the time that subject is attracting general attention. Be cause of this The Commoner Condensed Is valuable as a reference book and should occupy a placo on tho desk of every lawyer, editor, business man and other student of affairs. " The Nebraska state board of equalization under the lead of Gov ernor Shallenberger increased rail road valuation $5,000,000. A Washington City dispatch car ried by the Associated Press says: "In the cases of former Sheriff Shipp and five others, charged with con tempt of the supremo court of the United States, the court postponed the passing of sentence to permit tho prisoners to file petitions for a re hearing. The cases therefore go over until the next term, the pris oners remaining out on bond. The arraignment of the six men was an unprecedented spectacle in this, the highest tribunal in the nation. Tho prisoners consist of former Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp of Hamilton county, Tenn., and his jailer deputy, Jere miah Gibson, and Luther Williams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett and Wil liam Mayse, all of Chattanooga. They are . the men who a week ago were found guilty by the court on the charge of contempt in permitting and participating in the lynching in 1905 of a negro named Ed Johnson after the supreme court had granted permission to him to bring his case to the supreme court on appeal. He had been found guilty of the crime of rape and was under sentence to be hanged. The granting of the ap peal acted as a writ of supersedeas; when the fact of this action became known in Chattanooga, where John son' was in' jail; and when the further fact that it would cause a postpone ment of the execution, if not entirely prevent it, dawned upon the people of that city there was considerable excitement, which culminated during the night following in a mob taking Johnson from the jail and hanging him. The act was resented by the court as one of flagrant contempt and immediately complaint was made to President Roosevelt, with the result that he placed the matter in the hands of the department of justice, which immediately took steps to as certain the names of the participants in- the lynching. Proceedings were then instituted against the sheriff and a number of his deputies, as well as against about twenty citizens of Chattanooga. The inquiry which subsequently was made on behalf of the court reduced this number to nine and the court's own investiga tion eliminated three others, leaving six to be brought before the tribunal. The offenders came into court in a body. They were accompanied by officers of the law and by their attorneys. TO NEW OR RENEWING SUBSCRIBERS Ono Year's Subscription to Tho Commoner. . . -, ' both $1.50 And any one Volume The Commoner Condensed, Cloth Bound W tfbor? y JaV0 nlrcady Pal the current year's subscrip tion Cloth Bound, 7nc by mall, poHtHge paid. These prices aro for eithor volume. If more than one volume Is wanted, add to above prices 75 cents for each additional ono in cloth binding. Volumo I is out nf print; Volumes II. Ill, IV, V. VI and VII are ready fo? prompt do?l very! REMITTANCES MUST QD SUNT WITII ORDERS. Address, THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska. Referring to Mr. Taft's speech at Gettysburg, the New York" World Bays: "Mr. Taft's speech at Gettys burg might have been happier and it might have been pitched in a high er key. Reducing the address to ita .simplest terms, about all the presl- uent naa to say was that the regu lar army had rendered great service to the nation; that the army was larger than it had ever been before, but that it was not too large and should not bo reduced. Surely Gettysburg might have inspired a lortier message than this." A Washington dispatch to the New York World says: "The Green ough statue of George Washington, set up in 1842, represented the Father of his Country sitting In a bathrobe on a big block of stone. For more than fifty years it stood on Ithe capital plaza, an incongruous James J. Hill, the railroad mag nate, says that the present day high prices are a part of the natural process. The silver service, bearing the por trait of Jefferson Davis, was present ed by the governor of Mississippi to the battleship Mississippi. An Asso ciated Press dispatch says: "Lieuten ant Commander McCormick, who ac cepted the silver service in the name of Captain Fremont and officers and men of the battleship, commented up on the fact that the name of Jeffer son Davis as secretary of war, which had been chisseled from Cabin John Bridge in the strife between the states, recently had been restored by order of the president. The national government had recognized the pro priety of its being there, and in the same way officers of the battleship Hi5AJ H J -... fVYvav iF-'BI'l - - A Ml Hljlil it BMhlllW 1 .1 1 WSS' ' "' rr-