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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1909)
!faP1 e 8HPTBMBBR 34, If Of The Commoner. n " i l sL-r J v. ( y ' Mr. Angeline Newman, widow of the late Bishop John P. Newman, who was famous as "Grant's pastor," died at Jerusalem where she was engaged, at the ago of eighty years, In missionary work. At the session of the American Bankers Association held in Chicago bank guarantee and postal savings were both bitterly denounced. In a newspaper interview Secretary f Agriculture Wilson, says that the cost of living will not decrease, but will rather go upward. T. H. Glavls, chief of the field di vision of the general land office with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., has been dismissed by telegraphic orders from Secretary Ballinger. Edward H. Harriman's will com prised one hundred words and left all .of his vast fortune to his wife, Mary W. Harriman. Mrs. Nelson Morris, widow of a Chicago packer, died in a small town near Paris as a result of injuries re ceived in an automobile accident. The Chicago Record-Herald says: "Colonel William R. Morrison of Waterloo, 111., who celebrated his elgjity-flfth birthday September 14, is well known as a former demo cratic leader. 'HorIz6ntal Bill' Mor rison as he is known, served In con grejs during the civil, war and in 18 3 'was returned to the house, serv ing fourteen years. He was the au thor of the tariff measure known as the horizontal or Morrison bill. In 1896 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for the nomination for the presidency. Colonel Morrison fought In the Mexican war under Zachary Tay.lor and In 1849 joined the rush to the California gold fields. Re turning to Illinois, he took the stump for Douglas In the Kansas-Nebraska squatter sovereignty fight. In 1854 he was elected to the state legisla ture. He served in the civil war far a time as colonel of the Forty-ninth Illinois infantry. As a member of the-electoral commission in 1876 he voted for Tilden. In 1887, after his retirement from congress, he was ap pointed by President Cleveland as a member of the interstate commerce commission and served ten years. He was defeated for the senate in 1885 by one 'vote, and has often been mentioned f . toga honors." The Rt. Rev. William George Mc Closkey, Catholic bishop of Louis ville, and the oldest Catholic prelate in the United States both In years and in service, died at Louisville, Ky. A United Press dispatch, referring to Bishop McClosky, says: "The dead prelate had been bishop of Louisville since 1868 and priest sinco 1852. He was born in Brook lyn, November 10, 1823, and re ceived his education at St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md. After his ordination he spent a year in mission work in New York and was then ap pointed to a chair in St. Mary's. He was a professor of moral theology and sacred scripture there for. a time, and in 1869 he became the first; pres ident of the. American college in Rome. Jle - continued in that . past until he was made bishop of Louis ville in 1868. -BishQp McCloskey passed away as peacefully as though he were falling-asleep.:' Death vjas, duo to a gradual weakening of the vital forces. For sovoral weeks he had been growing weaker, but ho was conscious and as alert mentally as ever. Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning ho died." The American Banker1 Associa tion In session at Chicago decided to ,hold noxt year's meeting in Log Angeies. Tno association adopted resolutions opposing the postal sav ings bank and guarantee of bank de posits. These resolutions were adopted by an overwhelming vote. At the same time the association re fused to adopt a resolution urging the enactment of laws permitting na tional banks to enlarge their char ters so as to accept savings deposits. The T. H. Bunch Company, Little Rock, Ark., one of the largest grain concerns In the country, filed a peti tion in bankruptcy. bo dreaded than our own northern states and upper Europe. Each year opens to tho farmor larger flolds of grain, and tho exhibit of agricultural products shown at tho exposition tells tho story of wonderful pobhI Dlllties in tho land bearing (he first uarao in mo title of tho Seattle show. If for nothing else, tho oponing of the eyes of tho world to tho limitless ompiro of Alaska, will mako tho Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc exposition re membered long after tho history of the fair itself is placed on tho shelves with tho records of its predecessors." United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat has resigned and his resigna tion will take effect In October. He will take up his prlvato business affairs. The New York World has made an expose showing that various steamships and railroad comnanloa have been guilty of rebating on largo scales. The World says that theso rebate givers, if convicted, could bo fined forty-Bix million dollars. 3. Pierpont Morgan. Jr.. ha been elected to tho late E. H. Harriman's place as director of the National City bank. This indicates to Wall Street that the Morgan and Standard Oil interests are getting together. John W. Castles, president of the Union Trust company of New York, and director of many other corpora tions, committed suicide, Cause, general nervous breakdown. President Taft has pardoned L. A. Potter of Salem, 111., who was serv ing a life sentence at the Leaven worth prison for holding up a stage coach in Texas in 1885. tJ An Omaha dispatch to tho Sioux City, Iowa, Journal says: "For hav ing sot tho date of tho oxecution of John Masourkides, tho Greek mur derer, on Monday instead of Friday Judge Sutton has rccoivod tho com mendation of tho Omaha Ministerial union. Speaking of tho matter Judco Sutton said: 'Execution of t.,. ers on Friday Is abhorent to mo. It seems notning less than a mockery of tho crucifixion of Christ. Al though this may bo sentiment, it sooms to mo that with five othor days In tho week with which to vin dicate the law and justico there is no necessity of confining 'executions to Friday, tho day upon which tho oavior oirorea up His life.' " Isaac Brand died, at his homo in Des Moines. la., aced 82. Ho wn n one time postmaster at Des Moines. The town of LaPaz, Lower Cali fornia, was destroyed by a Btorin. i It is announced thnf ti0,i Taft will appoint Georgq R. Colton, luimeny or wenraska, to be gover nor of Porto Rico. Secretary of State Knox has ap pointed Thomas C. Dawson .of Iowa, now United States minister to Chile, as chief of the new division to be known as the division of Latin American affairs. A Seattle dispatch says: "For one thing in particular will the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition be long remembered in exposition his tory; its beauties of architectural design, its magnificent floral and ex hibit features and its hundreds of attractions may be of but passing importance, but in the introduction of the territory of Alaska, shorn of her robes of perpetual snow and glazieral ice, the Seattle fair has presented a new empire to the com mercial world, and one whose strength, and richness Is already be ing felt. In the development of Alaska, the northwest and the city of Seattle have been the leading force; from polar ice and barren plain they have shoveled the snow of early geography, and are now planting .the valleys, that were but affew years ago deemed impossible of. habitation or production. A cli mate supposed to bo so rigid that life was -popsible, tox-nono but the Eskimo vand hardy ,north . Indian, is shown to have terrors no more to' - Glenn H. Curtlss', ' the American. aviator, nas returned to America with $15,000 in prize money won at the Rhelms and Brescia meetings. A Chicago dispatch to tho Lincoln (Neb.) Evening News says: "Tho last requirements put upon tho stato banks of Kansas by tho deposit guaranteo law have been met by pro visions mado by the banks for guar anteo bonds to cover tho deposits of stato funds in moro than 400 insti tutions. This announcement was mado here by W. E. Wilson, secre tary of the Kansas Stato Bankers' Association. Ho declared arrange ments had been concluded for bonds for tho Chicago Consolidated Cas ualty company, a fidelity bonding concern, of which Robert B. Arm strong, former assistant secretary of the treasury, Is president. Wilson declared that with this last step tak en, tho Kansas bank guaranteo law promises to become a shining ex ample to banking interests which aTe fighting tho deposit guaranteo proposition." WHEN CANNON WAS TKMPTISD From Unclo Joo'o Apologia: JJAn othor publisher, childlike In his frankness, comes direct to tho spcak ors room In person with a proposi tion to throw tho wholo newspaper press of tho country over to support any ambition tho speaker may hfivo if ho will necuro just one desired plcco of legislation, and the threat that ho will turn this tcrrlblo en gine of publicity against tho speaker if ho roftiscs." This statement lnvnlv twn -- osltions: vnr Tho first (stated in so many words) that somo man mado thin offer. Tho second (by necessary infer ence) that tho man was sano, and that ho was In a position to bring tho whole nowspapor press" of tho United States to the support of Uncle Joo's campaign for tho presi dency. Will Undo Joo now namo for us tho man who cau deliver "tho whole newspaper press" of tho whole states? A great many people will ho keen to know tho answer. Tho general public has tho fooling that it Is entitled to know who aro the men and what tho interests that-con- ui, in jiiuiviuuai casus, the nows Inanors which hnv -nn,i t n Is any one man able to dollvor thorn all, that will ho a rovolation, Indood. Colonel Watterson will undoubtedly want to know whn it ii n.n SWing tho Cotirlor-.Tniirnnl W !,- o will second our effort to persuade uuuiu joc 10 ton. Mr. Nelson will he glad to lnnrn whn u i m. deliver tho KanmiH CMv m- t everybody join hands to find out who wu opoaicor cannon'j remarkable vi8ltor.-rCollior'B Weekly. -.v. . n ?' si Why A Maryland newspaper wrote to President Taft asking his oninion concerning tho franchise amendment to tno Maryland constitution which is now being proposed. In reply Mr. Taft said: "It is deliberately drawn to Impose educational and other qualifications for the suffrage upon negroes and to exempt everybody elso from such qualifications. This is gross injustice and I say violation of the spirit of tho fifteenth amend ment. It oucht to bo voted down bv everyone, whether democrat or re- puDiican, wno is in favor of a sauare deal." Spencer F. Eddy of Chicago has resigned as United States minister to Roumanla and Servia. " .f Don't you ivo your heart tho aame clianco you do tho othor orans7 why 7 Becauso when any othor OrtrrLtl Ifl It! trnilllln U rnftmnu tn ,, and you hasten to repair It. ' mo ncari, mo ever raithfui servant, never refuses as low? an It has power to move, but continues to do tho best It can. getting weaker and weaker, un til it Is past repair, and then stops. It Is Just as sick as tho other organs, but becauso It will work you let It. However, It's not too lato for a "chango of heart" mo remember Dr. Miles' Heart Cure will glvo your heart strength and vl. tallty to -overcomo Dizziness, Palpita tion, Short Breath, Faint Spells, Pains in Heart and Side, and all other Heart aches nnd rilfllnnlr Iom "My heart would acho and palpitate terribly, and at times I could hardly breath. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure has re stored mo to perfect health, and I am very grateful." -MISS EMMA J. BAR TON, No. l, Sill St., Watertown, N. Y. Tho first bottlo will benefit, if not, tho druggist will return your monoy. $-. F J tf DAILY hu btn mv1tMnt tht H SJAi V M Mtfal tftoSU Cviut. Kn. t. -fctrf x - ,4 ta nil Uw CUtni mja. PuriU. Budttrf, litUitlaf Hlut. tyttUl Unu. Wrlu tu. K.T0ABFO.CQ., W78t.,B7Ua,M TOBACCO FACTORY WANTS SALESMEN CJood ray. itrady work and promotion. ExrrJne unnewaryw tilll tlva cmtiiJJrta instruction. Danville Tebacce Co.. Bex S S6. Danville. Va. M Colored U. S. Vfew Post Cards Mr All dliTMi-mit. Nninmh. 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