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The Commoner,
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 37
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Tho consorvntion convontlon met
at St. Paul with both sides well rop
rospntcd. Senator Boveridgo of In
diana spoke for national control, J.
J. Hill, railroad magnate, opposed
it. Gifford Pinchot was one of tho
speakora and received a great ova
tion. Mr. Roosevelt also spoke, ad
vocating national control.
Rev. Edward Payson Hammond
known as "the children's evangelist,"
diod at his homo in Hartford, Conn.
A Now York dispatch carried by
-the Associated Press says: "Ernest
W. Gorbracht, former superinten
dent of tho Williamsburg refinery of
tho American Rollning company, who
with Charles R. Heiko, formor sec
rotary and treasurer of tho company,
was convlctod of frauds against tho
company by undorwolghing imports
of sugar, was sentenced to two years
in the ponitentiary Lt Atlanta and
lined $5,000 by Judge-Martin of tho
United States court."
together with tho first complete book
of tho old, the psalms of David, is
now issuing from tho press iti Chi
nese, and Btacks of tho volume aro
being shippod to the remotest parts
of China. The special committee of
translators are now gathered togeth
er at Chefu at their annual con
foronce on tho work, which they
hope will bo to China what the au
thorized version of the Bible is to
tho English-speaking world. The
project was inaugurated in 1890 at
a conference of all the missionary
bodies at work in China and is bo
ing consummated at the expense of
tho Bible societies of tho world. Sev
eral books aro added each year and
it is estimated that the whole vol
ume will bo completed about the
year 1915."
Tho Tran3-Mississippi commercial
congress will meet at San Antonio,
Texas, November 22-25. G. W.
Fleming, Kansas City, Mo., chairman
of tho executive committee, writes:
"Every state west of the Mississippi
river is vitally concerned, in the suc
cess of tho work of tho Trans-Mississippi
congress. Tho fact that tho or
ganization has steadily increased in
strongth and influence in forwarding
ovory nrolect of western develop
ment, either along commercial or In
dustrial lines, constitutes in Itself,,
the best evidence of its great useful
ness to the entire western country.
Tho subjects for consideration at the
twenty-first congress aro of timely
Interest and tho meeting this year
will bo ono of the most largoly
attended in its history. Every
Important commercial community
In tho Trans-Mississippi region
will be represented, both by appoint
ments of commercial, organizations
and by governors of states."
Blackhandors exploded a bomb in
front of an Italian store in Now York
City. Part of the building was de
molished in the explosion. They had
demanded ?5,000 and It had been
refused.
R. O. Marsh, secretary in the
American legation at Panama, has
been recalled on the alleged ground
that he gave interviews, declaring
the purpose of tho United States gov
ernment to intervene in tho ap
proaching Panama elections for act
ing president.
Tho will of the late Professor
Goldwin Smith, of Canada, gives
$089,000 to Cornell University.
The Lincoln (Neb.) Daily Star has
been sold to Herbert E. Goo'ch, who
will make it an independent newspaper.
forded an opportunity, of which sev
eral Egyptians availed themselves, to
attack formor President Roosevelt
because of his speeches at Khartoum
and London. Among the epithets
applied to the colonel were 'vulgar
blusterer and 'self advertiser.' Tho
committee sent a telegram to Lon
don demanding the Immediate evac
uation of Egypt by the English gov
ernment. A message also was sent
to the Khedive of Egypt asking for
the re-establishment of the Egyptian
constitution."
The Chicago packers, indicted re
cently by the federal grand jury,
have given bond for their appearance
in court.
James P. Hyland, formerly an as
sistant weigher in the Now York
customs house, testified that he had
never known any importer who
would n6t pay readily for defraud
ing the government through under
A "Wichita, Kan., dispatch- carried
by the Associated Press says: "L.
S. Naftzger, ex-president of the
Fourth National bank of this city;
Frank S. Burt, exchief of pollco of
Wichita, and John Callahan, alleged
loader of a gang of bank and post
ofllco robbers, were indicted by a
federal grand jury here on charges
of conspiring against the govern
ment and receiving and disposing of
stampB, which it is charged they
knew were stolen from the govern
ment. The value of the stamps men
tioned In the indictments is $1,500.
Callahan is an ex-convict."
An Associated Press dispatch
from. Chicago saysi "George W.
Fitzgerald, a former assorting teller
in tho Chicago federal sub-treasury,
was arrested by Deputy United States
marshals. Ho is charged with the
mysterious theft of $173,000 from
tho sub-treasury on February 19,
1907. Fitzgerald was arrested on
a bench warrant based on an indict
ment returned secretly by a federal
grand jury February 17, 1910. Three
days after the indictment was secret
ly returned and suppressed 'on Feb
ruary 20, it was announced that tho
statute of limitations had operated
to stop possible criminal action in
the peculiar case. Co-incident with
this ruse by the authorities, secret
service men were detailed to watch
Fitzgerald constantly and make a
rigid investigation of the former tel
ler's financial interests-1' and affairs.
Discoveries maide bv theso' neerfefc Rr-
vice operatives resulted in the order
tor Fitzgerald's arrest. Marshal
Eberstein, chief of special agents of
tne department of justice, and Dep
uty United States Marshal Walter
Wainwright and J. T. Baker arrest
ed him at his insurance brokerage
offices on LaSallo street just as the
former sub-treasury teller was leav
ing for his home."
TROLLEY CABS FOR CONSTANT!.
NOPLE
Now that tho sultan, who always
persisted In confusing tho word
"dynamo" with "dynamite," no long
er stands in tho way, Constantinople
is to be provided with an extensive
trolley system. Bids for the con
struction of this system have been
Jnvited by Consul General Reouf Bey.
Scientific American.
A WISE BULLET
Cooper drew his revolver and fired
two shots. One of the gullets took
effect in the forehead of the assailant
and ho dropped to tho coment walk.
The other fled. News item in tho
Chicago Daily Journal.
FORTUNATE
"Did Tom have anyvluck hunting
tigers in India?"
"Yes; great luck."
"How?" '
"Ho didn't meet any tigers."
Tit-Bits.
A MORAL COMPLAINT
"Your husband will soon be con
valescent." V Convalescent! O, doctor, can't
you give him some medicine to euro
that?" Fliogende Blaetter.
A Poktn cablegram carried by tho
Associated Press says: "Tho final
revised edition of tho New Tostanient
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THE OLI1MAX
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