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NobraHka, Now Jorsoy and Oregon
now havo laws providing for an ox
prcHsion of prosidontiul preference
in primary elections.
At Shanghai, China, Reno Vallon,
tho French aviator, foil from a great
holght and was instantly killed.
Vallon had been giving exhibitions
in this country for six weeks in the
liopo of interestng tho Chinese
government in military aviation. He
mado tho first extended flight by an
aviator in China, using a Sommer
biplane.
Lord Lansdowno, leader of the
opposition in tho houso of lords, in
troduced his bill for tho reform of
tho uppor chamber. Ho proposes
that no poor should hold his seat for
moro than twelve years, but he
should bo eligiblo for re-election.
Tho power of tho crown to appoint
hereditary peers is limited to five
each year.
At Macon, Ga., tho fedoral grand
jury roturned indictments against
Sheriff J. B. Rogers, Deputy Sheriff
Job Home and two other persons on
tho charge of peonage and conspiracy.
Ranson H. Thomas was re-olected
prcsldont of tho Now York stock
exchange and Robert M. Jaryis was
choson head of tho Consolidated
stock exchange.
Julius W. Hopkins, paying toller
of tho 'First National bank, Cleve
land, O'., was arrested and confessed
to embezzlement of $114,850 from
that institution during tho past eight
'yeats.
Christian scientists in
havo planned to erect one
most beautiful monumonts
world over tho grave of Mrs. Mary
uaKer Jr. .Eddy.'
Boston
of the
in the
who know Quantroll in Kansas before
tho civil war, says tho guerrilla will
moot with his comrades at their an
nual reunion in Independence, Mo.,
next August if ho lives.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hig
ginson, historian and author, died at
his home in Cambridge, Mass., aged
eighty-seven.
The new Nicaraguan assembly has
authorized President Estrada to con
tract an American loan. It is said
tho loan will amount to between
$12,000,000 and $20,000,000.
With tho adjournment of the Ca
nadian parliament will begin an edu
cational campaign for reciprocity
throughout Canada, under tho direc
tion of tho liberal leaders of tho
house.
Oklahoma City has been selected
as the meeting place of tho general
conferenco of the Methodist Episcp
pal church, south, in 1914.
Owensboro has been selected as the
meeting place of the Kentucky Chris
tian Endeavor union for 1912.
China issued an imperial edict
authorizing the conclusion of a loan
of $30,000,000 for railroad construc
tion in Central China.
James J. Slade, of Columbus, Ga.,
of the Georgia legislature, will In
troduce a bill to concentrate all the
negroes of the south into one section.
in an impassioned speech in the pen
ate, urged intervention fn Mexico and
declared that Americans were being
"murdered." Representative Sulzer,
of New York, chairman of tho house
committee on foreign affairs, gave
out an interview reiterating his con
viction that tho United States must
not intervene.
Senators Bacon, of Georgia;
Works, of California, and other
senators, replied, commending the
attitude of the president and advocat
ing a' conservative course. Mr. Bacon
contended for the right of the Mexi
can combatants to pursue their war,
even though American lives should
bo incidentally endangered.
In the battle of Juarez fifteen
revolutionists were killed, 15 Mexi
can soldiers were killed, 250 on both
sides were wounded, and five Ameri
cans were killed. Following is an
Associated Press dispatch:
"Juarez, May 11. After a long
conferenco this afternoon of rebel
chiefs, the appointment of the 'fol
lowing members of the provisional
cabinet was announced:
"Minister of foreign relations
Dr. Vasquez Gomez.
"Minister of finance Gustavo A.
Madero.
"Minister of war Venustiano
Carranza.
"Minister of interior F. .Gonzales
Garaza.
"Minister of justice Jose M. Pino
SuaTez.
"Private secretary to President
Madero Juan Sanchez Azoona."
President Diaz has Issued another
statement saying that his promise to
resign when the thought peace was
established was made in good faith
but that he will resign in his own
good time.
A Washington dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press savs: "Senator
Stone (Missouri) who on Tuesday of
last week declared the United States
should intervene in Mexico, said at
the white house that the victory of
the Insurxectoj3 at. Juarez and the
movement of the" federal troops to
ward the Interior has relieved tho
embarrassment and removed imme
diate necessity , for Intervention.
Stone said that so long as the fac
tions kept away from the border they
should be allowed. to fight the war
out. If the scene of action shifts
north again to the boundary line, the
senator said, his position would be
just what it was when he declared .
for intervention dn the floor 'of tho
senate."
A TRIBUTE
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An edict was issued at Peldn
abolishing tho grand council and
substituting a constitutional cabinet.
W. H. Thompson, former Gover
nor Shallenberger and Willis E. Reed
have all announced their candidacy
for tho democratic nomination for
senator from Nebraska in 1912.
Tho Washington correspondent for
tho Chicago Record-Herald says that
the enemies of President Taft are
bringing forward Justice Hughes of
tho United States supreme court as
republican nominee for president.
Illinois democrats will' give a1 din
ner Juno 10th on which occasion
they will present Judge Edward F.
Dunne as the democratic nominee for
governor of Illinois.
General Thomas L. James, presi
dent of the Lincoln National bank
and formerly postmaster general in
the cabinet of President Garfield, was
married at Tenafly, N. J., to Mrs.
Augustus Gaffney, of Rochester. The
general is eighty years old, and has
been married twice before.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Warrensburg, Mo., said: Accord
ing to a letter received here by B. F.
Ross, from W. O. Coleman, of San
Benito, Tex., William C. Quantrell,
tho noted guerrilla, is alive in Mexico.
Ho was supposed to have been killed
in a battle at Taylorsville, Ky
August 10, 1865, and what is pur
ported to be his skull is now on exhi
bition at Topeka, Kan. Coleman,
The Kansas state board of rail
road commissioners refused to per
mit the M., K. & T. Railroad com
pany to issue $102,000,000 in bonds.
THE MEXICAN SITUATION
Tho Mexican revolutionists have
been winning a series of victories.
They captured the town of Juarez
and the revolutionist leader, Madero,
paroled the Mexican General Navarro
and twenty-seven officers.
General Madero then issued the
following statement:
"The taking of Juarez is of very
great military and political impor
tance to me revolutionists and it
assures us of a1 complete triumph
In a very short time.
"The forces which defended the
town fought valiantly. They owe
their defeat to the fact that our
forces were inspired in this fight
by the spirit to win political liberty,
wnue tne reaerais were only held in
their ranks by the yoke of discipline.
The majority are in the army against
their will. For this reason, I wish
to announce to all soldiers thn.t. t win
sot them free aB soon as I find a way
to Insure some means of support for
those who do not wish to incorporate
themselves in my forces.
"At present I cannot set them free
as they have no means of subsistence
which would be dangerous. As far
as I can now observe the majority of
tho prisoners will swell my forces
auuiQ oi tne omcers, I am sure, will
enter my army, and those who re
main true to the government of
Porfirio Diaz will be exchanged for
iMibuuers oi war or political prison-
When I was sick the other night,
and had the earache like the
dickens,
Pa was so kind that I forgot to think
about his awful lickin's;
He took me in the rockin' chair and
kind of looked down at mo
sadly, ...
And said if ho could have' the pain,
instead of me, " he'd take it
gladly.
He told me stories while he rocked
and gave me a new half dollar,
And never scolded me at all because
sometimes I had to lioller;
Once when he went out in the dark
to get a drink for me, he
stumbled
And skinned his nose and nearly
broke his collar bone, hut never
grumbled. -
He stayed up all night long with mo,
and tried his best to stop' the
achin';
I've often thought my pa was cross
and cruel, but I was mistaken;
He rocked me in the rockln,' .chair,
and told me of the joy I
brought him,
And called me brave and stroked my
hair, and I am .awful-glad I've
got him. . . ',. T ';.; ; .
S. E. KIser in the Chicago Record
Herald. .' "
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