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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1909)
? :-- KfViiJw ,$ 4 OCTOBER 2$, 1909 it The Commoner. effect that Eugene N. Foss (former republican congressman) candidate for lieutenant governor on the demo cratic ticket, had written him a let ter asking him to veto the eight hour bill. In reply Mr, Foss challenged Governor Draper to produce any such letter, saying that he had never written any such, a communication. Judge William Lindsay, former United States senator, died at his home in Frankfort, Ky. of tho ordinanco of secession and was 84 years of ago. Chicago'is to have a $25,000,000 union depot' Which will he built by the two , Pennsylvania companies the Panhandle and the Fort Wayne tho Burlington, the 'Alton and Milwaukee. General Elwell S. Otis, retired, died at his home near Rochester, N. Y. He played an important part in the war in the Philippines. King Alfonso has been stirred by the news of the tempest Ferrer's dqath has oreated. Madrid dispatches say that the king quarreled with Premier Maura because Maura failed to give tho king an opportunity to pardon Ferrer. President .Taft on his tour met President Diaz of Mexico and later made an ' extended tout ' through Texas. The American Federation of Labor adopted' resolutions asking that a bill be introduced, in .congress providing for a labor, membeiv in,' the president's .cabinet; :-. , ' Mrs. Julia Reed, recently, removed at postmistress at Biltmore, N. C, 'charges that Congressman John Grant republican,' toll her that she .would, have' to "c'om'e across 'for the 'Tdpblipah (canifpatgu tund as 411 the! other officeholders had done." Mi Grant denies the chaVgfe. '. United 'St'dtes Senator Martin N. Johnson. of forth Dakota died at a hotel in 'Fargo. Hi's complaint .was Bjight'sd'isease "' '., "Rome cablegrams say that the throne of Greece will not, as report ed, bo offered to tho Duke of Abruzzi. . , , Dr. James H. Carlisle, . president emeritus of Wooford College,. Spar tanburg, S. C, died at his home. He was one of. the two surviving signers Stomach Troubles Vanish Like Magic mmmmmmtammmmammmmmmm FREE to Every Man or Woman fj4 A man known as Charles McLaln died at a hotel in Hastings, Neb., re cently. It is claimed that ho was in reality Schlatter, tho man who sev eral years ago attracted attention at Denver by his works of healing through tho laying on of hands. London cablegrams say that Cap tain Lindsay of the British steamer, Ketch Rabanl, and ten of his crew were murdered off the east coast of New Britain, Tho murder was com mitted by tho black natives. ml 4 , , . .. Des Moines dispatches say -that Senator Cummins will reply to Speaker Cannon's Elgin speech on November G before the Marquette, club at Chicago. '' Tho New York Tribune, founded in 1841 by Horace Greelov. an nounces that hereafter it will bo a seven column paper and will bo sold for one penny. The New York Herald is now the only three cent morning paper in New York City. Benjamin F. Barries, postmaster at Washington, D. C, died' of heart failure. He was executive clerk at the White House under President McKinley and later assistant secre tary to President Roosevelt. Ho played a' prominent part in ejecting Mrs. Minor Morris, a sister of Rep resentative Hull of Iowa from the Whi'to House. " Chief Englrie'er Goethals promises that the Panama canal'-will be ready for use January 1, 1915. ' During last' year 48,812 name's, were dropped M'rbm tho United States pension roll. 'Of this number 32,821 Were survivors Qf tho civil war. All, iuuso iUB&uB weru cuusuu uy uuatu. i The town of Golanda of Bengal was destroyed hy' a cyclone. Many lives were lost. ' A'n Elkins, W. Va dispatch car ried by the, Associated Presg says: "At the afternoon session of the West Virginia synod of the Presby terian churoh today a resolution was adopted protesting against tho invi tation extended' to -President Taft to address "the laymen's missionary convention on foreign missions at Washington, November 11. This ac tion waB taken .after a lengthy dis cussion, arguments in favor of the resolution being based uprn tho pres ident's affiliation with the Unitarian church. The vote on the adoption of the resolution was unanimous." Would you like to eat all you -want to. anfl "whaft you want to, when you want to, without a ohanca (or troublo In your stomach? Would you like to say fafewel! for the rest of Jour life to Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Mstress after eating, Nervousness, Catarrh of the Steraach, Heart Fluttering, Sick Headache and Constipation? 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Huntington Wilson, first assistant secretary df state, following the ex ample of President Taft and other republican leaders, mado a speech In favor of tho ship subsidy before the Chicago association of commerce. Six persons were killed in a wreck on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Col linsville, Ohio. An Associated Press dispatch from Springfield''lll;, says: "General Al fred Orendorjf, president of the State Historical Society, and of tho Sprlng- fiold election commission, dlod at his homo hero today, aged 03 years. Gonoral Orondorff served as a cap tain in tho Ono Hundred and Thirty third Infantry during tho civil war. was a morabor of the lower house of tho egia aturo, and adjutant general of Illinois from 1SD3 to 1897. Ho was chairman of sovcral democratic national conventions." Madrid cablegrams say that thoro V,0,011"? of relief in Spain over tho fall of the old ministry and there is sonio hope for improved conditions, Senator LaFolletto, in nn cditorlnl printed in his magazine, calls for more information concerning tho dis missal of Mr. Crano as minister to ?i?aHir tM LaK,oUotto intimates that Wall Street influences were be hind tho demands for Crane's retirement. Sir John Fisher, famous as an ad miral in. command of tho Britiuh uavy, has been retired from actives service on account of ngo. A London cablegram carried by the Unitod Press makes this contri bution to north pblo literature: "That Frederick A. Cook reached the north pole more than a year before Commander Peary, Is tho positfvd declaration of Knud Rasmusserl, tho eminent Danish explorer, who is now in Greenland. Rasmusseh was' sent north by tho Danish authorities fol- - - it lowing tho arrival of Cook at Copcrl- 'linrnn nn.i , .-. i '. . .t ,,-, .. .,u nun instructed to 1?.. ft B)ccIul canvass of all thjj Eskimos and ascertain nil that tliey know of Cook's exploit. A cable mcssngo received hero this nftfiriibbh rrdin Copenhagen declares that Rttrt- lUUSSOn has Communlrnfml tWo .. yations to tho University of Copnn- luibuu "uuioriucs nna that It it be cause of that fact that they dccllnb'd to permit Cook to withdraw hip o'lt'dr to lot tho Danes first pass upon his pr,V, ., K8mu86en has conversed With all tho Capo York Eskimos arid In OVCry particular Itmv t,n. Cook's story. They also, explain Unit uioy uiu not ton I'eary that Cook had preceded him to thn rtni iwv cause they feared tho temper of the American naval office Rasmusscn will romaln in Greenland until h can got tho two companions who nc- companiou uook in tho dash to tho polo. They wore on a hunting ex pedition when RnsmusHon reached tho vlllago and ho waited for thorn and will bring thorn back with him when ho returns to Donmnrk. Bc causo ho was detalnod In Greenland, Rasmuuscn sent all tho. Information that ho could gather to Copenhagen by Captain Oodthnab and promised; to follow himself r soon as he has talked with Cook's two .Eskimos. According to tho dispatch received bore, RasmusBcn's statement arc fully as posltivo as wore those at Cook and ho insists that Denmark's confidence in the American exploror was not misplaced." HI . , . JHI I s vs'1 i; iHi Kx, bo da Cracker Logfie 9 I ( Any baker can make an ordi- I III nary soda cracker but to pro- W W duce Uneeda Biscuit requires the Mi specially fitted bakeries of the ' II 1 .,'. NATIONAL m m 5- biscuit & .fj I '' COMPANY ? ij 5K All soda crackers are food. But jM m there is only one soda cracker I m kighest in food value as well as III ffl best in freshness. 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