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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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