iiys"7''"MP1Wi!fgP - -T S ft.ta. n i JULY 15, 1910 The Commoner. 11 h, MrlT IShfr fill A WDfllf ?&15rt A tablet to the memory of Benja min Franklin was unveiled at Ecton, England, the ancestral homo of the Franklin family. The Louisiana legislature elected Governor Jared Young Sanders to the United States senate to succeed the late Senator McEnery. Joseph W. Folk, visiting in Den ver, was given a dinner by democrats of that city. The Boston Daily Herald is in the hands of a receiver. The indebted ness is $2,200,000. , The Western Union Telegraph company has discontinued its service to a number of stock brokers in Pittsburg and Johnstown, Pa., Syra cuse, Ithaca, Rome, Utica, Glovers ville, Auburn, Watertown and Cort land, New York. This action was Caused by the recent raids made on bucketshops. Later the-1 service was restored. Casper Koehler, president of the Columbia Brewing company, St. Louis, died at Berlin, Germany, aged 72. Va.; Charles S. Fobs, Reading, Pa.; Homer F. Sweerley, Cedar Falls, la.; F. O. Hayes, Alva, Okla.; E. T. Fair field, Topeka, Kan.; Samuel Avery, Lincoln, Neb.; C. A. Dunmay, Bozo man, Mont." The government crop report shows that the wheat yield, in the north western states will bo short. A Salt Lake City dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "Pub lication by the Herald-Republican of the confession of Harry Thorne, when the latter was about to be tried for the murder of George W. Fassell, and the reprinting of the confession while talesmen were being examined, was contempt of court, according to District Judge T. D. Lewis, who Im posed fines on the newspaper, its general manager, two editors and a reporter. George T. Halo, general manager of the Herald-Republican Publishing company, was fined $200 on each count. The managing editor, city editor and court reporter were each fined $10." Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superin tendent of schools in Chicago, was elected president of the National Ed ucational Association in session at Boston. An Associated Press dis patch says: "Her opponent, Zacha ri'ah Xenephon Snyder, president of the state normal school of Colorado, who was the selection of the nomin ating committee representing all the states, was defeated by a vote of 617 to 376 in the general convention. It took a clear parliamentary head to cut the knot which the nominating committee had tied about Mr. Sny der, but the women were equal to the task and, as Mrs. Young had re signed as a candidate for second vice president on the ticket presented to the general convention, her friends put her up as a direct candidate against Mr. Snyder. "When Mrs. Young was declared the winner, the convention immediately accepted the other names presented by the com mittee as follows: Treasurer, P. W. Springer, Michigan; vice presidents, James Y. Joyner, Raleigh, N. C; Miss Julia Richman, New York; G. L. Cook, Spearfish, S. D.; George A. McFarland, Valley City, N. D.; Thomas C. Miller, Shepardstown, W. New xYork dispatches say that Porter Charlton may be given his lib erty. His case in Jersey City was continued to August 11, and it is thought that the Jersey City court may discharge him. If Italy then demands his extradition the state department will refuse it unless the Italian government agrees to turn over to the United States in the fu ture all Italians who commit crimes in this country and flee to Italy. It is understood that Italy will not agree to this and Charlton, who killed his wife may' go without punishment. Congressman Walter P. Brownlow died at his home in Johnson City, Tenn. Baroness de la Roche, a woman aviator, lost control of her machine at Betheny Plains, Rheims, and fell to the ground, breaking her legs and arms and suffering other injuries. A Newark, O., dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "Carl Etherton, 22 years old, employed Thursday night by the state anti saloon league as a blind tiger raider, was lynched here at 10:35 tonight, following a day of almost continu ous rioting. The heavy doors of the Licking county jail were battered (ct) Each of the chief or gans of the body is a link in the Chain of 'Life. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, the body no stronger than its weakest organ, If there is weakness of stomach, liver or lungs, there is a -weak link in the chain of life which may snap at any time. Often this so-colled ' weakness" is caused by lack of nutrition, the result of weakness or disease of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. Diseases and " weaknesses of the stomach and its allied organs are cured by the use of Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. When the weak or diseased stomach ia cured, diseases of other organs which seem remote from the stomach but which. uave their origin in a diseased condition of the stomach and Other organs of digestion and nutrition, are cured also. The strong man has a strong stomach. Take the above recommended "Discov ery" and yon may have a strong stom ach and a strong body. Given Away. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, new revised Edition, is sent free on receipt -of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the cloth-bound vol- Address Dr. R. V. Pieroe, Buffalo, IS. X. m down and Etherton was dragged from his cell. Ho was shot, kicked and bruised beforo the street was reached and tho finish followed quickly. Etherton, early in tho ovon ing, confessed ho killed William Howard, proprietor of the 'Last Chance,' restaurant and former chief of police in a raid of alleged 'speak oasies' this afternoon and narrowly escaped lynching at that time. When news from tho hospital that Howard had died passed over tho city at 9 o'clock tonight, tho fury of the mob took definite form. Largo batter ing rams were directed upon the doors of tho Licking county jail, and tho deputlos woro powerless; Tho doors fell after nearly an hour's at tack. Crying piteously, Etherton, a curly-headed Kentuckian, who had been serving as a strike-breaker sinco ho was released from marine service threo months ago. was dragged forth. 'I didn't mean to do it,' he wailed. His cries fell upon deaf ears. Fear ing that the mob spirit would not bo satisfied by ono victim, Sheriff Linke immediately asked Adjutant General Weybrecht for troops to pro tect six other 'dry' raiders held at the city prison in another section of the town. A hurried guard was thrown out in their defense. Tho mob, after the first taste of blood, seemed to be quiet, but it was feared that they might storm the city prison before the night was finished. Eth erton's last moments, while ho heard the mob battering down the doors, were spent in praying and writing a note to his parents, farmers resid ing near Willisburg, Ky. 'What will mother say when she hears of this?' he kept moaning to the jailer." A call for a democratic conference to be held at Lincoln, 111., July 20, has been issued. Two hundred Illi nois democrats have signed this call and the purpose is to repudiate tho action of the democrats who helped to elect William Lorimer to the United States senate. Nineteen persons were killed and a number of others seriously injured in a head-on collision between a freight and a passenger train on tho Big Four near Middletown, Ohio. Iowa socialists have chosen John M. Work of Des Moines as their can didate for governor. William Beckert, former chancel lor of the German legation, was ex ecuted by shooting at Santiago, Chile, for the murder of a Chilean messenger in 1909. The steamer Grand Republic caught fire while passing through the Narrows on her way to New York. Her forty-five passengers were all landed safely and the fire was extin guished with about $125 damages. Twenty-five thousand engineers employed on forty-nine railroad sys tems west of Chicago are formulat ing demands for increased wages. These demands will be presented be fore August 1. A committee with Andrew Car negie as chairman will arrange for a world-wide celebration in 1914 of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English speaking people. In the government suit before the federal court at Kansas City on bleached flour the jury found that the flour was adulterated and mis branded. An Associated Press dis patch from Kansas City says: "Mil lers say that the bleached flour de cisions will handicap the farmers of the southwest to the extent of from fifteen to eighteen million dollars a year. They say the old differential of 5 cents a bushel, in vogue in Chi cago and St. Louis markets five years ago beforo bloached flour camo in, will soon appear again. Thoy furth er say that farmers of Missouri, Kan sas, Oklahoma and Nebraska will loso five cents a bushel on their present crop and that hard winter wheat soon will be selling at 25 cents a bushel less than at present. Already millers are considering tho establish ment of bleaching stations In states where the uso of bleached flour is not prohibited. Thus they say thoy may avoid tho interstate commorco law. Big mills whoso product is turned out in states whero bleached flour is illegal may ship their un bleached into the states whore tho sale of it is permitted, unload it at theso bleaching stations, bleach it and distribute it In tho stnto." Dr. B. Clark Hyde, convicted of tho murder of Thomas H. Swopo.ot Kansas City, has been sentenced to Btato prison for life. Two negroes who killed a whito planter were taken from tho jail at Charleston, Mo., and lynched. John A. Malloy, a Chicago grocer, has been indicted for an nllegcd at tempt to corrupt Oscar T. Morford, a juror In tho recent trial of Leo O'Nell Browne. A Raleigh, N, C dispatch carried by tho Associated Press says: "Tho democratic county convention of Bertie county, North Carolina, in dorsed Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for tho democratic nomination for president. His father, Henry B. Folk of Tennessee, was a native of Bertie county, leaving there when ho was 21 years old." Now cornea a Colorado man and claims that after all Dr. Cook was not a faker, A Colorado Springs dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "P. J. Carrigan, an able seaman and placer miner, who arrived in Colorado Springs a few days ago, said today that ho himself had climbed Mt. McKinley and found there tho copper tube and records left there by Dr. Cook to establish tho latter's claim of having first as cended the mountain. Carrigan's story is regarded by John R. Bradley, Dr. Cook's backer, as sufficiently plausible to warrant careful investigation." The dead and injured record. of the Fourth of July, 1910, is: Dead, 39; injured, 1,840. The 1909 rec ord was: Dead, 215; injured, 5,093. THE LORD OF LITTLE CHILDREN The Lord of Little Children to tho sleeping mothers spake: "Lo, the dreaming time is over, yo the hand of Life must take;" And the dawn was in our faces as we staTtled up awake, On Liberty's great day. We have heard the babes that called us from the whirr of wheel and loom, In a world of sun and meadows cry ing for a little room, Ere their blood ran to the coffers, ere their labor made their tomb; And we arise and go. We have heard our sister weeping for tho child that must not live, For the hands that may not tend it, for the milk she may not give; We have seen her kneel in anguish and the bitter blow receive, And we arise and go. Over law unblessed, unsanctioned by a mother's holy name, Law that gives the child to bondage and the woman unto shame, See the star of justice rising with a dread, consuming flame! 'Tis bringing in His day, Oliver Tllford Dargan. r f A ' ii ! U ..m ii- i t 1 " way, ummJL. w -- --