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DECEMBER: 10, 1909
American Sugar Refining company.
Parr rehearsed once more his story
of how hq caught Kehoe, a tally
clerk, manipulating the crooked
scales; how Oliver Spitzer one of six
company employes now charged with
conspiracy, offered to let him name
his own price forliushing the thing
up, and how Brezezinski, Spitzer's
partner, hooked him by the elbow
and asked anxiously: 'Dick, this
fellow says you're all right. Does
that go?' 'NotlUng goes with me,'
Parr testified ho said. Told with
heat and great circumstance, the
narrative mado a" visible effect, and
counsel for the defense was quick
to retort with an attack on Parr's
credibility. 'You started to investi
gate without orders from any su
perior officers,' he was asked. 'If
you call President Roosevelt and his
secretary (now Collector Loeb) su
perior officers, I was working under
orders,' replied Parr, 'but if you
mean the secretary of the treasury,
then I was working without orders.'
Further inquiry along this line was
dropped."
The British parliament prorogued
and new elections will take place
beginning January 13 and conclud
ing January 24. The campaign will
be one of the most bitter ones in
English history.
The Commoner.
charged with complicity in embezzle-
.Cit., wcio urraignea. Fivo entered
pleas of guilty.
The federal court or appeals com
posed of Judges Grossdup, Seaman
and Baker, have denied John R.
Walsh a re-hearing and the former
banker and owner of the Chicago
Chronicle was taken; into custody by
the United "States, marshal.
Washington dispatches say that
President Taft has decided in favor
of both Secretary Ballinger and
Chief Forestor Pinchot. In a dis
patch to the Chicago Record-Herald'
Walter Wellmau tfvays: "Attorney
General Wickershani's report was
emphatically in Judge Ballinger's
favor. Nothing whatever was found
against him. And the report com
mands the more respect in Washing
ton because it is gradually becoming
known here that the attorney gen
eral is perhaps the ablest man in
the president's cabinet that is,
ablest as an analyst and adviser. He
has turned out a distinct 'find' for
President Taft, just as another rela
tively unknown New York lawyer
turned out the greatest discovery
made by that excellent judge of men,
William McKinJey. I mean, of
course, Elihu Root, who is still re
garded by many good judges as the
most powerful intellectual force con
nected with the government at this
time."
John Harvard, a negro preacher,
who shot and fatally wounded Will
D.. Booth, a well known Georgie
business man, was burned at the
stake five miles from Cochran, Ga.
The value of the estate of the
late Edward H. Harriman has, been
formally fixed by court appraisers as
$149,000,000.
Henry U. Mudge has been chosen
president of the Rock Island rail
way system. At the ago of sixteen
he began carrying water to section
hands on the Santa Fe.
Emperor William opened the
reichstag by personally reading the
speech from the throne. The speech
dealt largely with domestic legisla
tion and contained the important an
nouncement that the government had
prepared a measure extending the
sick benefit insurance.
The court of appeals of the Dis
trict of Columbia granted the peti
H?i ? Snmuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison in the
contempt case against them for a
stay of execution of the mandate of
the court sending them to jail.
Shortages from wine casks and
other packages have been discovered
at the Baltimore customs house and
an investigation is on at that point.
The military court of inquiry has
completed its investigation of the
"shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas,
by negro soldiers, and has adjourned
to Washington where the testimony
will be considered.
In the sugar fraud hearings at
New York, Andrew J. Mallen, a
clerk, testified that James F. Bendor
nagel, former cashier for the sugar
company, had often paid cash at his
office to customs employes in uni
form. Ten assistant weighers were
dismissed from the custom sorvico at
New York.
. , Former United States Senator
Deitrich of Hastings, Nob., is ill at
an Omaha' hospital.
Harold S. Smith of Minerva, Ohio,
tdld the Cleveland police that ho had
overheard two men discussing a plot
to kidnap John.D. Rockefeller. Ex
tra guards were thrown around
Rockefeller, although the story is
not taken seriously. ,
JDurlng a little more .than one
month more than ten inches of rain
fell in Nebraska', according to the
United States observatory at Lincoln.
Walter Wellman has Issued a
statement in which he declares that
Dr. Cook's story is more than sus
picious. Wellman says that Cook did
not reach the pole.
Dr. Cook, the arctic explorer, has
retired for a rest. It is said that the
attacks upon him have brought on
serious illness.
Former Governor R. B. Glenn of
North Carolina, in an interview at
Richmond, Va., is quoted as. saying:
"Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio,
will be the next presidential nominee
of the democratic party, in my judg
ment. Everywhere I have been I
have found Harmon was the leading
candidate in public and party
opinion."
Charles L. Warriner, former local
treasurer of the Big Four railroad,
admits to have stolen $643,000 but
his statement accounts for $381,000.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota spoke
at Milwaukee in favor of Senator
LaFollette's re-election. He de
clared that when congress framed
the latest tariff bill it did not re
gard the right of the consumer.
A big strike is on among the em
ployes of the" Northern Pacific Rail
way company.
Before Judge Anderson in the
United States court at Indianapolis
eight former employes of banks, un
der indictment on-the charge of em
bezzlement, and two other men,
J. Pierpont Morgan has secured
control of the Equitable Life Assur
ance Society. The company has
$472,000,000 . of assets. Morgan
purchased the interest of Thomas F.
Ryan.
The cabinet of Premier Giolitte of
Italy resigned.
Governor Haskell pardoned fifty
two short-term prisoners.
Henry Clay Pierce, of the oil trust
on trial at Austin, Texas, for per-
imV .i :,p ns a "cfcnso that the
affidavit of which complaint Ik mrnlo
was taken before a woman acting as
notary public and that under Texas
law she was ineligible for the office
she hold.
Tho Wisconsin primary election
law was uphold.
Judge CabanlBs ordered tho re
lease from custody of Abraham Rucf
on $300,000 bail.
N. S. Moldrum was elected presi
dent of the Seaboard Air Line.
Residents of tho District of Co
lumbia are planning to recover tho
territory that was once part of the
federal capital, but Is now in
Virginia.
The protocol with tho United
States 'for tho reference of tho Alsop
claim to King Edward for mediation
was signed by tho government of
Chile.
Tho French battleship Iona, on
which an explosion occurred in 1907
killing eighty and injuring hundreds
of others, sank whilo being towed in
to port.
A cablegram from Lapac, Bolivia,
says: "Senator Fernandez Molina
was shot dead in a duel with Senator
Adalfo TriCQ Acini'. Thn mnn mint..
relied during a discussion in tho sen
ate over the promotion of tho ox
president of Bolivia, Colonel Tsmael
ivioniez, co general. They fought and
a bullet from Senator Acha struck
his adversary in the head. Ho died
instantly."
Representative Fowler of Now Jer
sey gave from Washington City a
statement in which ho commented on
tho tariff commission bill which ho
has Introduced in tho. house of ron-
resentatives. Tho bill, as described
by Mr. Fowler, provides that con
gress shall fix the maximum and min
imum tariff schedules or rates, and
that the commission, consisting of
fifteen members, shall, with the ap
proval of tho president, fix tho actual
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