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Mrs. J. A. Wayland was killed and
her husband seriously Injured in an
automobile accident near Girard,
Kan. Mr. Wayland is editor of the
socialist paper, "Appeal to Reason."
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas
temperance worker, died at her home
near Leavenworth. She has been
sick for several months.
The famous old Kalt house at
Louisville, Ky., which cost originally
$1,000,000 and was one of tho fa
mous hotels in history, sold recently
for $81,000.
Dr. William M. Davidson, superin
tendent of schools in Omaha, has
been made superintendent of schools
for the District of Columbia.
Sixty-three' persons were killed and
seventy-flve wounded as the result of
an earthquake in the City of Mexico.
avoiding services of subpoenas and
by apparent efforts to suppress evi
dence all of which will be properly
dealt with at the earliest possible
moment.' "
Maurice Rouvier twice premier of
France, is dead.
An Associated Press dispatch de
clared that Roosevelt had told Presi
dent Taft that he favored Mr. Taft'a
renomination. Mr. Roosevelt denies
that he made the statement, but does
not otherwise commit himself.
Representative Owen J. Evans, of
Canton, O., a member of the legisla
ture, appeared before Judge Kinkead
of the criminal court and pleaded
guilty to tho charge of soliciting a
bribe of $100. This will be made tho
basis of an extensive inquiry into
boodling in the Ohio legislature.
(Thin Coupon Rood for 20 dnyn only)
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POSSIBILITIES FOR 1012, NOW RUNNING IN
fSla-tional Monthly
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A Columbus, O., dispatch says:
"Three members of the general as
sembly and an attache were indicted
on bribery charges by the grand jury
which adjourned for an indefinite
period, subject to call. Its investi
gation of legislative bribery is not
complete, but it will not be resumed
for the present.
"Those indicted include:
"Senator Thomas A. Dean, demo
crat, Sandusky county, whose name
nas oeen attached to practically all
the liquor Dills in the last three ses
sions of the assembly.
"Representative Frank M. Calvey,
republican, Cuyahoga county, mem
ber of the house first calendaT com
mittee. "Representative George B. Nye,
democrat, Pike county, also a mem
ber of the calendar committee and
already under three indictments for
bribe solicitation.
"Stanley F. Harrison, Cuyahoga
county, assistant sergeant-at-arms of
the senate.
"All were indicted twice and fur
nished $5,000 bond in each case.
"Though the confession of Repre
sentative Owen J. Evans of Stark
county, this week, was expected to re
sult in many indictments there are
only two of the bills traceable to the
confession, those against Represen
tative Calvey, his colleague on the
calendar committee.
"New indictments were returned
against Dr. Nye charging him with
solicitation of $700 and 'certain mon
ies from Albert Corrodi, a real estate
agent; J. H. Bradford and J. H.
Smith, local merchants.to prevent the
passage of a bill to protect game
birds. Harrison was indicted for act
ing as intermediary.
"Calvey was indicted for soliciting
$200 from Mortimer H. Lowdend of
Cleveland and an unknown amount
from W. R. Hopkins of Cleveland in
connection with the Edwards under
ground railway bill. The Dean in
dictments go back three years to a
time when the senator was not In the
assembly. In January, 1908, ie is
alleged to have offered bribes to two
of the then members of the senate.
John A. Drake of Erie county and
W, L. Atwell of DIcking county to
have them, as members of the senate
temperance committee, vote adverse
ly on the Rose county option bill.
"In its report the grand jury said
in part:
" 'Your investigation has been
hampered by the reluctance of im
portant witnesses to testify; by per
jury of witnesses called, by witnesses
In his charge to tho grand jury at
Greensboro, N. C, District Judge
James Boyd declared that agencies of
combinations are a; part and parcel
of the combination and are equally
guilty of the violation of the crimi
nal law.
General Madero was given a great
reception when he reached the Mexi
can capital. Among those who paid
him tribute were many of his old
enemies.
MaTquis Emillio de Ojeda, former
Spanish ambassador at the Vatican
and minister at Washington for four
years, died in Biarritz, France.
John Dillon, a nationalist member
of parliament for East Mayo, was
seriously injured in an automobile
accident near Dundalk.
The campaign against state-wido
prohibition in Texas was opened with
a rally at Forth Forth. The elec
tion will be held July 22.
The United States investigation of
the so-called "lumber trust" was be
gun in Chicago before a special grand
jury.
Tho Christian Science mother
church of Boston, elected Judge
Clifford P. Smith of that city, president.
At a meeting of the Interstate
board of the different state Perry's
victory centennial .commissions in
Cleveland, arrangements for the erec
tion of the memorial and other build
ings for the celebration to bo held at
Put-in-Bay were placed in the hands
of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Henry Wat
terson and George H. Worthington.
The celebration of Cardinal Gib
bons' twenty-fifth anniversary to tho
cardinalate and the fiftieth anniver
sary of his entering the priesthood of
the Catholic church took place in
Baltimore. Many notables, among
them President Taft and Theodore
Roosevelt attended.
John Bigelow, a noted democrat
and author, is seriously ill at his
homo in Highland Falls, N. Y. '
QUICKLY PROVED , ;
"Theorists are fools." . '
"Is that your theory?"
"Yes."
"Then we will let it go at that."r-H
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