JUNE 3, "1910
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Omaha Democrat, vice president; C.
Cr Johns of Grand Island, secretaTy
treasurer; A. Viola Gates, corre
sponding secretary. The association
frill meet next year in Omaha.
A homb" exploded at Madrid, Spain,
was, it is- said by the authorities, in
tended for King Alfonso. .Several ar
rests have been made and among the
prisoners is an editor.
season.
. Representative -Boutell delivered a
speech at Detroit, Mich., in which he
urged that the tariff question be tak
en from politics. He did not fail,
however to praise the Payne tariff
law.
James M. Lynch was re-elected
president of the International Typo
graphical Union.
E. C. Benedict, the Greenwich,
Conn., banker, famous for his inti
mate friendship with President Cleve
land, is seriously ill in his Connecti
cut home.
known throughout the country as
'Golden Rule' chief and lauded by
President Roosevelt as the best cop
in the country, was suspended today
by Mayor Baehr, on charges of gross
immorality, habitual drunkenness
and disobedience cf orders. The
tentative date of Tuesday has been
set for Chief 'Kohler's trial by the
civil service commission and state
ments by Kohler and his accusers
today point to the development of
sensational testimony which may in-
Reports from various sections of volve many of the city's prominentl
the west show that many apple, cher- men. Mr. ivonier nas intimated mat
ry, plum trees and grape vines are he Intends to fight the charges
again putting forth blossoms, bloom- against him to a finish and that if
ing for the second time in one he is disgraced he will not be tho
UlUy OHO W XU.ll. JtlLUUUg U1U UUIUKUH
brought against Kohler is one that
during the seven years he has been
at the head of tho police department
he has utilized the detective force for
the collection of facts concerning
prominent officials and others to be
used in the event that he was at
tacked. The present charges are the
culmination of a long series of at
tacks against the police chief. After
he had been informed of his suspen
sion today Mr. Kohler exclaimed:
'These . charges are the work of the
character snatchers, grave robbers
and blackmailers who have been after
me for years.' Chief Kohler joined
the police force as a patrolman four
teen years ago. Under Mayor Tom
Johnson his rise was rapid. He was
appointed chief in 1903 and since
then has attracted national attention
by his policy of the 'golden rule.'
Briefly this policy was that in the
case of minor offenses, such as intoxi
cation or disorderly conduct it ivas
better to admonish the offender and
persuade him to go home than to ar
rest him. His- opponents have ac
cused him of having increased crim
inality by this policy."
was. sinking, in the "effort to save his
own life. Connolly denies tliat there
is any foundation to tho charge and
brought suit against Lawlcr for
$20,000 damages.
A republican "political movement"
headed by B. L. Phillip has issued a
call for a republican convention to
be held in Milwaukee June 8 for tho
purpose of bolstering . up the Taft
administration.
Jesse Overstrcet, who represented
the Seventh Indiana district in con
gress from 1896 to 1908, died at his
home in Indianapolis. Ho was the
author of the so-called gold standard
law passed in 1900.
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- A dispatch from Kearney, Neb.,
.prined in " the Lincoln Journal fol
lows: "A meeting of a number of
citizens was called Monday evening
-for the purpose of organizing a coun
ty option league. The plan of the
members is to circulate a pledge and
liave each signer agrje to vote for
no candidate who is not favorable to
county option. Wide and extensive
campaign work . is planned by the
members. The officers elected at the
meeting were: W. L. Hand, presi
dent; W. B.. Brookings, vice presi
'Jentl A.Salren-seprgtary, and
John N.- Dryden, treasurer The
meeting was the culmination of a ser
ies of calls issued by advocates of
county option,"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, author of
the "Battle Hymn of tho Republic,"
celebrated her ninety-first birthday at
her home in Boston.
An Associated Press dispatch from
New York reporting the sugar trial,
says: "Charles R. Hoike, in the
United States circuit court this after
noon, heard Henry L. Stimson, for
the government, slowly read letters
In which Helko spoke of tho 'lib
oral weights we receive from the
custom house.' As secretary-treasurer
of the American Refining com
pany, the so-called sugar trust,
Heike is cnargea witn conspiracy w
defraud the government of customs
dues on imports on raw sugar. Five
subordinates are being tried with
him, and the prosecution has been
endeavoring to prove that he, al
though an executive, was cognizant
of and instrumental in cheating at
the trick scales. Counsel for Heike
fought bitterly to bar the letters, but
Judge Hartln overruled the objec
tion and they became part of the
mC i. t. i i record. The first was dated Decem-
The democratic territorial conven- r X, and addressed to
Frank G. Turner, superintendent of
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tion -at Juneau, Alaska, held a two
days' session and adjourned without
nominating a candidate for terri
torial delegate to congress.
.. The National Liquor Dealers Asso
ciation in session at Cincinnati adopt
ed resolutions endorsing drastic laws,
for the regulation of the traffic. The
Associated Press report says: "The
Resolutions urge that the character of
the person making the application for
license be made the 'paramount is
sue' and in the adoption of the
'model license' which was the slogan
of the day's meeting, the resolutions
declare, the saloon would thus be
eliminated from politics and would
lessen the number of saloons to the
point of public necessities while at
" the same time defeating the ends of
those favoring an unlicensed and .tin
regulated traffic."
An Associated Press report from
Pasadena', Cal., says: "Captain John
Pembrooke Jones, the oldest gradu
ate of the United States naval acad
emy at Annapolis and a veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, died at
his home here, aged 85. He was
born in Virginia in 1825 and was
,. appointed to Annapolis in 1843, be
ing graduated in 1847. At the out-
- break of the civil war he accepted
service with the confederacy. At the
battle between the Monitor and the
Merrimac, Jones served as executive
"officer of the Merrimac Captain
Jones was married three times."
In a wheat "squeeze" James A.
Patten, the famous speculator, sus
tained losses said to amount in the
neighborhood of one million dollars.
He says he will take a rest from the
market for a little while.
The New York legislature ad
journed without . enacting the pri
mary law urged by Governor Hughes
and' there is now talk of the governor
summoning me legislature to extra
session.
Fire at Aomori, North Japan, de
stroyed property worth $2,000,000.
One hundred persons lost their lives.
Iri""an effort to prevent the inter
state commerce commission from .re
ducing sleeping car rates the Pull
,.man company has filed briefs In court
contending that It Is not a common
carrier.
William C. Blair .of Mt. Vernon,
111., was offeredT$2;000 -as a member
of the legislature to vote for the
anti-local option bjll,. according to
the testimony of E. A. Scrogin, as
sistant superintendent of the anti
saloon league.
Jeff Matson, who .murdered a dep
uty sheriff at a coal mine was taken
from jail at . Acton, Ala., and
lynched. - -
A French submarine boat was
rammed and sunk, in the English
channel, and the crew of twenty
three men were drowned
Governor Hughes has called the
New York legislature In special ses
A dispatch that nas attracted
.world-wide,. attention was carried by
'the Associated Press under date of
Cleveland, Ohio", May 25, as follows:
-JOhief-of Police Frederick Kohler,
Before the Ballingef5 committee
Oscar Lawler, assistant attorney gen
eral for the Interior department,
testified that Christopher R. Con
nolly, a writer for Collier's Weekly,
had trampled over women and chil
dren on an excursion steamer that
rtiA Smith Boston refinery. In it
the writer spdaks of differences in
statements relating to sugar cargoes
and adds: 'These differences are
due .to two causes. First, the de
sireof the superintendents to make
as good a showing of their "workings
as possible; second, by the liberal
weights and tares which we receive
from tho customs house and which,
of course we do not undertake to cor
rect. These customs house weights
are generally taken as basis for the
mellings. To charge the melling on
the proper basis we have adopted a
system.' The letter was Introduced
unexpectedly by the government and
was read from Heike's private letter
book, which was identified In court
by William Foster, auditor in the
company's Wall Street office. This
was followed by another letter writ
ten by Heike in 1897 to Ernest w.
Grebacht, former superintendent of
the Williamsburg (Brooklyn) refin
ery. Gerbacht Is one of tho defen
dants. The communication was mild
ly chiding in tone, upbraiding Ger
bracht for not having shown certain
weight books that contained little
information, as required by a clerk
of the insurance Inspectors. During
the afternoon session William A.
Bryan, a clerk in Heike's office testi
fied that in March, 1909, he de
stroyed a package marked 'technical
statements 1906' at Heike'j3 direc
tion, This was four days after the
termination of the government suit
for the recovery of the sum of some
$2,000,000 in duties from the company."
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