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, t-CT"1 The Commoner, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 11 ML1" 12 . t ,i i V l.v f i$-- ? i "TTf, tlUn WPP n 4 JamoH Shumakor, who wuh miper .intondont of public buildings nt Harrison rg, Pn., during tho con otructlon of tho Htato Iioubo In which work (ho pcoplo of Pcnnaylvanin woro defniudod out of six million dollnra, liaB connncncod to servo a oontonco of two years In prison. Ho was convicted of conspiracy to defraud. W. II. IT. Miller, who was attor noy gonoral In Benjamin Harrison's cablnot, has glvon to tho newspapers a letter written by General Harrison August 22, 1900, In which tho gen oral explicitly denied tho charge that ho had ever promised to make Thomas C. Piatt a member of his cabinet. An Associated Press dispatch from St. Louis says: "Alon.o F. Shrlnor, former acting cashier of customs In tho ofllco of tho surveyor of customs hero today filed suit for $100,000 damages against Postmaster ThomaB J. Atkins, and tho surveyor of tho port, Charles F. Gallonkamp, alleg ing that they, by a conspiracy, led him to pay about $20,000 to tho gov ernment and servo ono year in pris- Beautify Your Complexion Drivo Away Liver Spots, Blotches, Pimples and Make Your Skin Clear and Whito on. Shriner declared that Atkins and Gallonkamp, by misrepresentations, induced him to plead guilty to cer tain discrepancies, In order that tho Atkins relief bill, by which it was hoped to relieve Atkins of $61,500 shortage in the St. Louis sub-treasury might bo passed in congress. Shriner says ho was promised immu nity, but that tho cietenuants al lowed him to go to prison." Two paymasters of Pittsburg coal companies wero held up in differ ent sections of eastern Ohio and robbed of sums aggregating $5,600. Georgo Evans, aged sixty, paymaster of ono coal company, was shot from an ambush and robbed of $1,600. Theodore Roosevelt greeted Mrs. Roosevelt and his daughter Miss Ethel at Khartum. To newspaper correspondents ho said ho could not return by way of San Francisco owing to tho wedding of his son, which will take place in Juno, but a littlo later, probably early in Aug ust ho will visit a number of west ern cities. Cable advices state that an army of invasion in tho shape of German commercial travelers is preparing to descend upon Canada, and already the country is being flooded with catalogues from German manufac turers. English houses are also showing greater activity. Canada is meeting with success, it is claimed, in finding markets for commodities which will be shut out of the United States by a tariff war." and sacrifice individual opinion in order that administration measurea might be passed. Four men were arrested In New York accused of having defrauded the government out of approximate by $500 daily in the violation of the oleomargarine law. James J. Hill, tho railroad mag nate, addressing the Minnesota con servation convention said that the American people were going too fast and ought to slow down a bit in their expenditures. John R. Walsh, former Chicago banker, is seriously ill in the Leaven worth, Kan., federal prison. An Associated Press dispatch from Guthrie, Okla., says: "Governor C. N. Haskell was exonerated of the charge of misappropriation and mis management of state funds, in a re port filed in the legislature here by the house committee composed of five democrats and two republicans." Daniel Noyes, for eighteen years judge of tho Thirty-second Indiana circuit, died at LaPorte, Ind. Tho Kentucky legislature has adjourned. ( Bon Hanford, a well known so cialist organizer, died in New York. A non-partisan county option con vention, composed of delegcites from all sections of the state, was held in Lincoln, Neb., March 14 and 15. Resolutions were adopted advocating an organized and determined fight in behalf of the county option proposition. Former Vice President Fairbanks was accorded an enthusiastic recep tion by Indianans in New York City on the occasion of Mr. Fairbanks' re turn from abroad. Personal friends and political ad mirers of the late Grover Cleveland gave a dinner in his memory in New York City. David R. Francis of Missouri was the chief speaker. Nebraska will hold its first con servation and state development con gress at Lincoln, March zy ana du. On April 5 Chicago will vote on the question "Shall the sale of liquor in Chicago be abolished?" A London cablegram says that Archdeacon William Sinclair of Lon don is charged with being financially interested in a big English brewery. This disclosure created a great sen sation and a church inquiry is proposed. At Rochester, N. 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Address F. A. Stuart Co., 175 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, Mich. A Philadelphia North American cablegram from Berlin follows: "A wireless pocket telegraph apparatus was exhibited last night by the in ventor, Prof. Cerebotani, the priest In charge of the Munich parish, dur ing a scientific lecture before per sons engaged in tho various branches of scientific investigation. The in strument consists of a wooden base, with tho letters of the alphabet thereon, arranged in a circle. A small metal indicator swings on a pivot in the center, so adjusted as to responu to the wireless dot and dash currents and spell out the mes sage. Tho apparatus is very simple. It is somewhat larger than the ordi nary cardcase. Professor Cerebo tani, who is noted as an amateur scientist, said that a French journal ist had recently attributed to hi'm, erroneously, the invention of a wire less pockot telegraph Instrument. Ho wroto to tne journal denying the in vention. However, his letter was not published, and accordingly nothing remained for him in the way of vin dication except to invent the appar atus doscribed, which he proceeded to do." The Sublime Oberammergau p sion Play An Ottawa, Ontario, dispatch car ried by tho Associated Press fol lows: "Canada has read between tho lines of Washington dispatches that a tariff war with the United States is inevitable and has accept ed the situation. The expectation is that on April 1, Canadian goods will bo assessed a 25 per cent surtax, and that soon afterwards Canada will levy a 33 1-3 per cent tax on American goods coming into Can ada. Tho administration is finding comfort in tho crisis from tho atti tude of its political opponents. The conservative press, which usually misses no chance tc attack tho gov ernment, has -expressed approval of tho course which Finance Minister Fielding has followed in the nego- bii.iuuD. uui-muuy is preparing to take advantago of tho situation.' 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