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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1909)
M(V,FrHIfyff ,j, f NOVEMBER, 1909 ness. Ope of theso was a man named Blum, a Cincinnati merchant, who put in $27,000. "Others invested smaller sums. The business proceed ed satisfactorily for" six months, until Blum asked a customer to settle ah outstanding account, which the cus tomer declared was not due. An in vestigation of the company ac counts followed, and resulted in the discovery of a number of falsified entries, amounting to $107,000. The Commoner. IF YOU HAVE CATARRH Let Me Send You a Treat ment of My Catarrh Cure. IT'S FREE. Kaufman, in "the meantime, had disappeared." rfrLn?,1 wlV !avo-another "hun dred million dollar bank" to be known as the Mechanics and Metals National Gates W. McGarrah will bo president. ( afTih,tr,ll! of Mmo- Marguerite Stellheil, charged with tho murder of her huBband and her stepmother at Paris, was Interrupted by a man who said bis name was Jean Le Fdvre. This man said that ho had committed tho murders and that tho woman was innocent. Ho was or- uereu into custody and his confes sion will bo investigated. President Taft says ho will take time in filling the United States su premo court vacancy. General John L. Copplnger died at his home in WnRhlnsrtnn nwv tt was the son-in-law of the late James G. Blaine., John'M. Smyth, pioneer merchant of Chicago, is dead. warn m t T y-i TTCici " ' I fi t v l-11 WVMPD I am Willing"'tr Take Any Case of Catnrrh, No Matter How Chronic, or What Stage It is in, and Prove, ENTIRELY AT ".MX OWN EXPENSE, That It ! Can Bo Cured Curing catarrh has been my busi ness for years and during thiB time over one millibn people from all over the land have come to me for treat ment and advice. My method ' is original. The' ' treatment is both local and constitutional, effecting a cure by first curing the cause. Thus my combined treatment cures where all else fails. I 'can demonstrate to you in just a few days time that my method is quick, sure and complete because it rids tho system of the poisonous germs that cause catarrh. Send your1 'name and address at once to C. E.'Gauss, 6752 Main St., Marshall, Mich., and he will send you the treatment referred to. Simply fill in, name on dotted lines below. ..,.-... .... ,. . . J-'--" -I In..- C. B. Murdock, editor of the El dorado (Kan.) Republican, died at Kansas City, Mo. Ho was an uncle of Representative Murdock of Kansas. Both sides are claiming victory In the Nicaraguan rebellion. Tho national farmers' congress is in session at Raleigh, N. C. Buffalo, N. Y., voted for tho com mission form of government. The Norwegian ' steamer Avalon Went ashdre on the north coast of Jamaica. s ,1T Mr i "Allen's Political E Bays." Paper, otae'tiol Inr. Loml agents valifrd. John B. Alien, Walla Walla, Washington. . -i Miiiii). ii . i . ' , Fairy or Lucky Stones Most unlquo crysthUto tlons Just aa thoy como out of tlio carth-bearlng legouds conthrles 610.' Ilistory freo. Price 23 fcquji up. Lucky Stouo Co., Dcpt. 48, Roanoko. Va. Louis Kick, clerk of the United States district and circuit courts, died at Cheyenne. Tho United States Rubber com pany's boot mill was closed down at Millville, Mass. The national association for tho study and prevention of pellagra was formally organized at Columbia, S. C. Directors of the American Cotton Oil company declared an annual divl dent of 5 per cent on tho common stock. Hundreds of Washington women attended a reception given to Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette. Jean Paul Laurens, the French artist, has finished his painting for the court house at Baltimore, por traying the surrender of Yorktown. Fire destroyed the plant and build ing of the Breece Manufacturing com pany's rim and spoke works, Ports mouth, O. The loss, $100,000, is covered by insurance. The fortieth annual convention of the general executive committee of the women's foreign missionary so ciety of the Methodist Episcopal church closed at Pittsburg. A1X,1VAV HIAIJj CJJEJIIIS YVAJVTJSl meut to $1200 or $1400. Short hours. Steady work. Annual vacaUun, yth full salnry. Examination!) overywhorofcoon. Common education sufllclent. Preparation free, Wrjto immediately for Schqd Ulo. FRANKLIN 1.N3TITUTK, Wept. M. 04, lloelieitertf. Y. ii n.ilii i in .in. i 'i t' vn Wfishhtoii Viewq , 12 beautiful colore ,pasti cards of tlxo Capital City Tin lvn nlll'li fnr.nnicllvnil Ail1 tilctnrli. WTueli. lnfiton to your collchtipn.. .Not trash: but hlKhclhss cards. JAMKH JUVTSPliNOlS, 'S'Z North Cu- puoi at., Washington, l). u. Piirsuant to a plan to station fifty thousand well drilled soldiers be tween tlie great lakes and the Rocky mountains, the Canadian government has ordered another squadron of reg ulars to locate at Winnipeg. John Stewart Kennedy, the New York millionaire who died recently of whooping cough, left bequests of more than twenty-five million dollars to religious and educational institu tions. Nearly half of the twenty five million dollars goes to institu tions connected with the Presbyte- 15 rian church. Tho United Charltlos of Now York City gots $1,500,000. Ho loft his wife $12,000,000. Augustus VanWyck, former su premo court justice in New York will probably bo tho successor of tho late Patrick H. McCarrcn as loader of tho Brooklyn democracy. VanWyck was defeated by Roosevelt for governor of New York. It is charged and generally be lieved that tho man who confessed that ho had been guilty of tho mur ders charged against Mmo. Steinhell was simply a cracked brained youth, having no connection whatever with tho murders. A Cincinnati, O., cablegram car ried by tho Associated Press says: Prof. E. I. Yowoll reported today that Halloy's comet was observed from Mt. Lookout observatory last night. The comot came into view about 10:30 n. m.. nm nnnnvni nu a small speck of light pushing to wards tho sun at tho rate of a mil lion miles an hour. According to Professor Yowell, tho comet will be brightest May 18, but will bo ob servable to tho naked oyo long be fore that." Tho Chicago Federation of Labor is investigating the chargo that tho sum of $10,000 was spent among the delegates to the rernnr. atnin pre vention of the Illinois Federation of Labor at Belleville for tho purpose of adopting a resolution condemning local option on tho liquor question. Tins resolution was passed by a nar row margin and charges that local option movements aro Inimical to or ganized labor. W. Cameron Forbes, now vico gov ernor of tho Philippines, has boon named by President Taft as govo ornor general to succeed James Smith, the present day occupant of that office, On November G it was rumored that Theodore Roosovolt had boon killed In Africa and this report was tolegraphed. over tho country, it was, of course, promptly denounced. Senator Aldrich of Rhodo Island Ih new on his western trip. Ho says ho wants to learn as well as Impart information. Tho Hawaiian legislature has adop ted resolutions objecting to prohibi tion on tho liquor question in that territory. An Associated PrcsB cablegram Harrlsburg, Pa., says: "In an offi cial statement Issued from tho execu tive department Attornoy Gonoral Todds makes these allotments of tho reward of $15,000 offered by tho stato for the apprehension and con viction of the party or parties who abducted Willie Whltla: Patrick O'Reilly, Cleveland, $5,000; William H. Hunloy, Cleveland, $2,000; T. 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