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" The Commoner. pCTOBBR 14, 1910 11 -.v r V Vj ir V 1 &; - Wf.- 'V K I v .IS jyu ' && At Kansas City, Mo., judgment was entered by Judge E. B. Porter field in the circuit court against the Kansas City Fruit and Produce Ex change for combining to fix prices on produce. The Armour Packing company was fined $7,500. Tho Grush Commission company and tho Hurst Commission company were fined $600 each. The remaining eighteen of the defendants in tho suit could not bo fined because they are not incorporated. Judge Porter field issued a permanent injunction against tho Kansas City Fruit and Produce Exchange to keep it from operating in Kansas City to fix prices on butter, eggs and other produce. Thirty-nine foreign countries were represented at tho international prison congress held in Washington City. "Black Hands" killed nine-year-old Caroline Bicanio and fatally wounded her father at Dallas, Texas. Six of the sailors reported to have been drowned from the battleship New Hampshire were rescued, thus reducing the number of dead to twenty-eight. Dr. Frederick A. Cook has been discovered in London by a repre sentative of the New York. World. He says he will return to America and will establish his claim. r(. Former Congressman Thomas TJp degraff died at McGregor, Iowa. He served 4n congress as. a republican from 1879 to 1883. -Twenty-seven persons lost their lives as the result of a traction car wreck at Carlonville, Illinois. Dr. Harry Thurston Peck has been dismissed from the faculty of Columbia University because of a young woman's breach of promise suit against him. Railroads in Arkansas insist upon ignoring the two-cent fare law and have fixed the fare at three cents. An automobile trust has been or ganized with a capital of fifteen mil lion dollars. - William MacAbee said to be the oldest veteran of the civil war died at Philadelphia. He was 107 years old September 22. A negro was burned at the stake in Alabama. The president withdrew 4,100 acres of land from tho public do main in Montana. .Rev. Dr. Marion Le Roy Burton of Brooklyn, N. Y became the president of Smith College. A cablegram to the Chicago Tribune from Augsburg, Bavaria says: "The national temperance convention, in session Tiere, gave ono day to honoring Judge William Jef ferson Pollard of St. Louis, whose system of reforming Inebriates will be introduced into Germany. LaBt year the international anti-alcoholic SEND 4 CENTS FOR (0 POSTCARDS In beautiful colors and designs, all new and embos sed, and I will tell you about niy blffsnrprUo offer which will surely Interest you- Get the cards any way.Thoy'ro yours. Address Jf M, JPrri, Com moner Sldi.'., Lincoln, Neb. congress adopted a declaration in favor of tho enforcement of tho Pol lard system, which places drunk ards on probation on their taking tho pledge. Reports submitted indicate a considerable growth in tomper ance. Tho excise receipts, it is esti mated, have fallen off 20 per cent in two years." Captain Macievich, tho Russian aviator, was killed by a fall from a biplane whilo at a height of 3,930 feet. Firo totally destroyed tho Adeline Sugar company's plant at Franklin, Pa. Loss $300,000. Eighteen persons wero Injured, one seriously, when a Kansas City street car jumped the track and crashed into a building. Tho grand jury at LouIbvIHo re turned thirteen indictments against August Ropke, former bookkeeper for tho Fidelity Trust company, who Is accused of embezzling $1,140,000. By an order issued by tho post office department land grant rail roads hereafter will receive only $15.39 for each 2,000 pounds of mail carried in excess of 48,000 pounds. The old rate was $17.10. Lee O'Noil Browne testified bo fore the senate committee of' Chi cago that he had never given out any bribes. A statue of General Peter Muhlen berg, colonial preacher and revolu tionary figure, was unveiled at Philadelphia. A New "York dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "H. R Zimmerlen, legislative agent of the Lyons Sugar Refining company, testified before tho legislative graft committee today that he had made a hand-to-hand gift of $6,000 to former Senator John Raines and former Assemblyman Jean J. Bur nett, both now dead. Ho testified that the gift was 'in recognition of good work in securing tho passage of legislation beneficial to the Lyons Sugar Refining company.' Zimmerlen said he had also passed $300 to Charles H. Betts, then chief clerk of the revision department of the assembly, for his 'good work.' Half of the money handed to Bur nett, the witness said, was to bo used as the latter 'saw fit' in re compensing other persons. In 1905, the witness said, Mr. Raines had suggested drawing up a beet sugaT bounty act to take the place of the act of 1897, which had lapsed. The now act made the bounty payable to the farmer, 'or his assigns,' instead of to the manufacturer. Mr. Zim merlen added that he had told Sen ator Raines and Assemblyman Bur nett that if the bill passed the com pany 'ought to show its apprecia tion.' Both had promised to do all in their power to further the pas sage of tho bill. When tho bill had become a law, the witness said, he gave $3,000 in currency to Senator Raines and a few days later gave Assemblyman Burnett $3,000 in two packages, telling him $1,500 was for his own use and $1,500 for distri bution 'as he saw fit.' He would not say to whom tho Lyons com pany, from which ho declared he had secured the money, wished the latter to go. In describing the ben efits of tho legislation for which th,o gifts had been inado, Zimmerleu said that his company had ovorcomo most of tho clause in tho now act making tho new sugar bounty payable to tho farmer 'or his assigns' by persuading tho farmers to assign their bounties to tho company." Jail BcntenccB aro to be Imnoaod hereafter on travolers who seek to evado Uncle Sam's customs laws. Tho Guarantee Bank and Trust company, a local iuBtutlon with $100,000 capital was closed at Bir mingham, Ala. During tho Rusajan maneuvers a cylinder on tho battleship Trisvlati telia exploded. Two machinists wero injured. Tho trouble between tho federa tion of master cotton splnnors, which caused tho lockout of 130,000 oper atives at Manchester, England, was settled. Quarantine officials at Now York havo been instructed to impose a five day inspection upon all ships from cholera-strlckon districts of Europe, upon which any suspicious infection Is discovered. Tho steam ah in San Anna was de tained at Now York Quarantine be cause it had a caso of cholera on board. A Milwaukee dispatch says: "Mrs. D. W. Blanchard, a resident' of Mil waukee for fifty years, celebrated .her 100th birthday by attending dl- vlno services at tho Grand Avenue Congregational church, remaining through tho celebration of holy com munion." v Captain Thomas B. Brlggs, U. S. A';, retired, Veteran ' of tho 'Mexican and civil wars, died at Delavan, 111. Adolph Rothbarth, tho hop mer chant, who pleaded guilty to having defrauded various banks in New York out of $300,000, was sen tenced to servo not less than three and not moro than seven years In Sing Sing prison. On October 8 Arch Hoxey, In a Wright biplane, flew from Spring field, 111., to tho Country club grounds at Clayton, St. Louis coun ty, and established an American sus tained flight record in an aeroplane by covering 104 miles, tho distance as estimated by Hoxey, Forest fires havo swept Minaba county, Minnesota, destroying four towns. An Associated Press dis patch from Warroad, Minnesota, says: "The numuer of deaths is es timated at from 100 to 200, almost entirely among settlers in tho woods around the towns of Beaudette, Pitt, Roosevelt, and Graceton, very few of the settlers aro known to Jiave es caped and this estimate may fall considerably short of tho actual num ber. Scenes of horror aro reported from every point. People lost their head completely and ran aimlessly about bewailing their loss. Streets of towns wero strewn with personal belongings which are thrown away in their flight." John Deitz, known as "tho defend er of Cameron dam," at Winter, Wis., surrendered to the sheriff after he was wounded in the arm and his daughter shot through tho back. One deputy sheriff was killed and it has been a six year fight to dislodge him. The United Press correspon dent tells of the origin of the feud in this way: "The fight of John Deitz for his home dates back over six years. In 1904 Deitz put in a claim against the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom company for mon ey ho alleged waH duo him for h use of his laud, on which tho now famous Cameron dam stands. Doitx has tiovor asserted a claim oh tho dam but, ns it was built on his prop erty without legal right, ho domand cd damages In tho form of payment on a percentage hauls for tho logs handled through tho dam. Dolt offered to sottlo with tho company for $10,000, but they refused." Tho manufacture, importation or nalo of abslntho In Switzerland is ab solutely prohibited by a law recontly passed by tho federal parllarnont. WIRELESS AND MORSE AT MY IHAtTHAl SCHOOL. The demand tor telegraph ijpr" r Ur rtrtrtU the upptjr. Our chol l rcoiM!cl ty Kailwar, tt em Union and Wtels Telegraph OflirUW at Mnif ine foirmott teletrraph idool n Amcika. Our ami at enrollment l urge than any tout o tier ti ooH combined. Our inttructv' are (it ikl nrwator with year ol eapeilentawir method Ok fowcli. We own ami euluiWcly oteiipy large modern ImlMlnr llh let equipment. H. H. train Ire iiDt omplete lrelet nation In nthoul. Mradrat JmMx I l'p11kt, I.uinir expente low ami mart earned while learning. 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