The Commoner
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on a tolopliono call to Loriraor at
Sprlngflold on May 25.
Ho also produced typowritton
copies of confirmatory telegrams ho
Bont to Mr. Lorlmor the next day.
Mr. Illnos said ho loft Washing
ton May 25 to carry the word of the
administration to Springfield. Ho
said ho was stopped by a business
associate at Chicago to answer a tolo
pliono call from Mr. Lorlmor, then
at Springfield. TIo explained that
Lorlmor wanted him to toll Governor
Doncon over the tolopliono about the
administration's attitude Ho said ho
callod up Governor Doneen from the
Continental National bank, and after
leaving another call for Lorimer has
tened over to tho Grand Pacific hotel
to moot W. II. Cook.
Clarence S. Funk, star witness in
tho present Lorlmor investigation,
testified before tho United Statos
senate committee that he had not
only been threatened, but that ho had
boon followed by detectives ever since
ho testified In Springfield, 111., beforo
tho Holm committee He said four
dotoctives are following him in
Washington, and that two trailod him
to tho senate building aftor luncheon.
John ID. Sprecklos, tho California'
"sugar king," in testifying before
tho house sugar trust Investigating
committee, told tho story of tho great
sugar war with H. 0. Havemeyor,
which brought about the formation
of tho Amorlcan Sugar Refining Co.
THE SINGING PILGRIM
"Tho Twonty-third Psalm Is the
nightingale of all tho Psalms. It
is small, of a homely feather, sing
ing shyly out of obscurity; but, oh,
it has filled tho air of tho whole
world with melodious joy, greater
than tho heart can conceive!' Blessed
bo tho day on which that psalm was
born! What would you say of apilgrlm
commissioned of God to travel up
and down tho earth singing a strango
melody, which, when onco heard,
caused him to forgot whatevor sor
row ho had? And so tho singing
angel goos on his way through all
tho lands, singing in tho language of
ovory nation, driving away troublo
by tho pulses of tho air which his
tongue moves with divine power. Be
hold just such an ono? This pilgrim
God has sent to speak in every lan
guago on tho globe. It has charmed
inoro griefs to rest than all tho
philosophy of the world. It has re
manded to their dungeon more felon
thoughts, more black doubts, moro
thieving sorrows, than thero aro
sands on tho seashore. It has com
forted the noblo host of tho poor.
It has sung courage to tho army of
tho disappointed. It has poured
balm and consolation into tho heart
of tho sick, of captives in dungeons,
of widows in thoir pinching griefs,
of orphans In their loneliness. Dy
ing soldiers have died easier as It
was read to them; ghastly hospitals
have been illuminated; it has visited
tho prisoner and broken his chains,
and like Peter's angel, led him forth
in Imagination, and sung him back
to his homo again. It haB made the
dying Christian slave freerer than
his master, and consoled those whom,
dying, ho loft behind, mourning not
so much that he was gone as be
cause they were left behind and
could not go too.
"Nor is its work done. It will go
on Binging to your children and my
children, and to their children,
through all the generations of time;
nor will it fold its wings till the last
pilgrim is safe, and time ended; and
then it shall fly back to the bosom of
God, whence it issued, and sound on,
mingled with all those sounds of
celestial joy which make heaven
musical forever." Henry Ward
Beecher.
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No indictments were returned by
a federal grand jury in New York
City on account of the operations of
the wire trust. Among the defen
dants are Herbert L. Satterlee, a son-in-law
of J. Pierpont Morgan, and
William Palmer, president of the
American Steel and Wire company,
a subsidiary of the United States
steel corporation, and Frank J. Gould
of New York, president of the Old
Dominion Iron and Nail Works company.
An Elebanon, O., dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press, says: Un
conscious and almost suffocated, Carl
Wieffel, aged four, son of James
Wieffel, was found bound in a sheaf
of wheat in his father's harvest field
by men working behind the binder.
Young Wieffel had been caught in
the machine and bound with binder
twine with the wheat. He was so
severely cut and bruised that physi
cians are doubtful as to his recovery.
The sheaf had been idle for almost
half a day and the youth's presence
in the grain was only discovered by
the extraordinary weight his body
had added to the sheaf when it was
picked up by George Sparks, a har
vest hand.
David Campbell, chief of the fire
department at Portland, Ore., lost
his life while fighting fire in the
Union Oil company plant.
the stability of the Pittsburg mil
lionaire's industrial bairn.
" 'These, we may reasonably sup
pose, would scarcely look impartially
on inquiries or enactments that
would imperil the value of their se
curities. The result of investing the
United States Steel corporation bonds
in the foundation could scarcely have
escaped the acumen of so astute a
business man.
"The Carnegie foundation affords a
motive to university and college
presidents for discharging profes
sors when they have reached the
dead line. Personal or financial
reasons may make the professors' re
tirement desirable to the university
president and a way for promotion
to some younger man."
The Tennessee legislature
a measure giving one-third
state revenue to the cause of
tion. A bill was also passed
for. an investigation of the
bribery charges.
passed
of tho
senate
Lieut, de Malherbe, a French mili
tary aviator, flew from Paris to Se
dan, 177.6 miles, in one hour, forty
five minutes and thirty-five seconds.
A Kiel, Germany, dispatch, car
ried by the United Press says: J. P.
Morgan has been decorated by the
kaiser with the cross of the Order of
Red Eagle.
Morgan had presented to Emperor
William the autograph letter written
by Martin Luther to Emperor Charles
V. and the latter's reply. The letters
recently cost Morgan $25,500.
Baron von Bienerth has resigned
the premiership of Austria. Baron
Gautch von Frankenthurn was named
in his stead.
A United Press dispatch from
Madison, Wis., says: "The Wiscon
sin legislature stands committed to
the income tax as a part of the state
law, as a result of the state senate
concurring with the assembly in the
income tax bill. The bill provides an
exemption of $800 for unmarried and
$1,200 for married persons."
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The democratic state convention
for Nebraska has been called for Fre
mont, July 25th.
A fast mail and passenger train on
the Philadelphia and Brie railroad
was held up by twelve masked men
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A Chicago dispatch, carried by the
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ing attack on the aims and alleged
tendencies of the Carnegie founda
tion was the feature of the opening
session of the convention of the Na
tional Catholic Educational associa
tion here.
"In an exhaustive address the Rev.
Timothy Bresnahan, S. J., president
of Loyola university, Baltimore, Md.,
arraigned the foundation, and his
views were supplemented by a
general- discussion, led by the Rev.
Matthew Schumacher, C. S., of Notre
Dame, Ind.
"In the course of his address
Father Bresnahan said:
" 'A fund of $15,000,000 in bonds
of the United States Steel corpora
tion providing allowances for certain
J accepted institutions will enlist the
interest of influential personages in
A Paris cablegram, carried by che
Associated Press says: "The sensa
tion caused by Germany's action in
sending a warship to Agadir shows
no signs of abating, and diplomatic
circles are said to be in a ferment.
At the president's garden party the
Moroccan situation was the sole topic
of conversation. Premier Callaux
conversed with most of the diplomats
present, particularly Baron von
Schoen the German ambassador, on
w UUUJUwb
San Francisco felt two distinct
earthquake shocks on the morning of
July 1. One man was frightened to
death, but no property damage was
done.
The democratic primaries held In
Kentucky July 1 elected Ollie James
for United States senator and former
Senator J. B. McCreary for governor.
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