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VOLUME li, NUMBER 94
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Roports from Canada show that
Laurier is conducting a lively cam
paign in behalf- of reciprocity.
In a panic in a moving picture
show at CanonBburg, Pa., 20 persons
lost thoir lives by being trampled to
death.
CongroBsman Latta of Nebraska
submitted to an operation at
Rochester, Minn. He is now well
on the road to recovery.
Francisco I. Madero has been
formally nominated for the presi
dency of Mexico.
of Chicago, has announced his can
didacy for the democratic nomination
for governor of Illinois.
Theodore Roosevelt has written
an admirer that an effort to nomi
nate him for another term as presU
dent would be "a genuine calamity."
An Associated Press dispatch from
Hamilton, Mass., says President
Taft began the presidential campaign
of 1912, his friends believe, in a
spcoch that brought defiance and
condemned the "insurgent" republi
cans and the democrats who com
bined to revise several schedules of
the present tariff at the special ses
sion of congress, just closed.
The president singled out Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin, Speaker
Champ Clark and Chairman Under
wood of the house ways and means
committee as leaders of the at
tempted revision; and charged them
with "playing politics."
Several times he referred by name
to Mr. LaFollette, but mentioned
the other insurgent senators merely
as La Follette's "associates."
Mr, Taft indicated that he re
garded the proposed revision as in
jurious and dangerous to business,
'J but made it plain that if the tariff
board in December reported that
downward revision of the cotton and
wool schedules should be made he
would recommend a reduction.
Standing on the broad terrace of
Congressman A. P. Gardner's farm,
with Senator Lodge and other Massa
chusetts republican leaders, the
president seemed to scent the smoke
of the coming battle. Many of the
Jive hundred members of the Essex
county republican club gathered to
listen, thought they heard the "key
note" speech of the coming campaign
and their cheers were loud and long.
Senator Lodge supplemented the
president's remarks by a', few words,
while two of the three candidates for
the republican nomination for gover
nor in Massachusetts, Lieutentant
Governor Frothingham and Speaker
Walk also spoke briefly.
A Paris cablegram to the Denver
News says: La Joconde, the price
less masterpiece of Leconardo Da
Vinci, has vanished from its place of
honor on the walls of the Louvre.
And with its disappearance, offi
cials of the museum are employing
a French form of the "third degree"
to every employe of the Louvre while
the police are frying to unravel the
mystery by establishing a connection
with the rumored theft of the paint
ing a year ago.
"WaB Mona Lisa, for which Eng
land is said to have offered $5,000,
000, stolen, or has it merely been
removed to prevent detection of the
substitute which was supposed to
have been inserted in the frame of
the original some time in June,
1910."
An Eddyville, Ky., dispatch, car
ried by the Associated Press, says:
When Oliver Locke, a negro wife
murderer, was paying the penalty for
his crime at the penitentiary here,
the condemned man, through whose
body 2,000 vplts of electricity was
coursing, struggled for twenty-eight
minutes with superhuman strength
and finally broke the straps that
bound his arms and legs to the death
chair. After breaking the straps the
negro toppled to the floor and ap
parently succumbed, but an examina
tion by the prison physician revealed
the fact that he was slowly reviving.
His body was again strapped to the
chair and 2,500 volts of electricity
turned on. Several minutes elapsed
before life was extinct.
changed hi occupation; that the
policy fee be abolished; that all in
dustrial agents and collector be
licensed by the state; that frequent
examinations covering not only finan
cial conditions but also treatment of
policyholders be conducted either by
the individual states or by the com
mittee of the convention and that
publicity be given to the results of
all such examinations
Joseph E. Davies, of Madison, has
been chosen as the Wisconsin mem
ber of the democratic national com
mittee succeeding the late Timothy
E. Ryan.
Edward F. Dunne, former mayor
The insurance commissioners for
the various states met at Milwaukee
and called upon the insurance com
panies to change their methods. A
committee reported that out of the
entire list only two or three com
panies were found undeserving of
criticism. The committee made
twenty-four recommendations among
which were the following: That a
standard industrial, health and acci
dent policy provision law be enacted;
that prorating for changes of occu
pation should be permitted only
when the insured has actually
The annual conference of the
governors of the states will be held
at Springllck, N. J., from September
12 to 16. The Associated Press
gives the program as follows:
On the opening day Governor
Woodrow Wilson will make an ad
dress of welcome, to which Governor
Joseph M. Carey, of Wyoming, will
respond. Governor Augustus E. Wil
son of Kentucky will make the open
ing address on possibilities of the
governors' conference.
Governor Edwin L. Norris, of
Montana and Governor Emmett
O'Neal of Alabama will discuss
"Strengthening the Power of Execu
tives." On Wednesday the subject . of
"Employers' Liability and Working
men's Compensation," will be dis
cussed by Governor Charles S. De
neen of Illinois and Eugene Foss of
Massachusetts.
On Thursday Governor John A.
Dix of New York and Edmund W.
Noel, of Mississippi, will discuss the
"Inheritance Statistics and 'State
Comity."
"The Right of the States to Fix
Intrastate Traffic Rates," will be the
subject for Governor Herbert S.
Hadley of Missouri and Chester H.
Aldrich of Nebraska.
"State Control of Public Utilities"
will be the subject of addresses on
Friday by Governor Francis F. Mc
Govern of Wisconsin and Governor
Osborne of Michigan will talk of
"Problems of Prison Labor."
The conference will adjourn at
noon on Saturday.
There is a-possibility that the sub
ject of uniform divorce laws may be
brought up during the conference.
A New York dispatch says: Despite
the efforts of Formp.r "ninfHni-,. a ,.
ney Jerome, thirteen members of the
live poultry trust are in t;he peni
tentiary serving three months' sen
tences, the first prisoners ever com-?
mitted in New York state for con
spiracy to restrict trade and commerce.
$3,000,000 for his three children the
"tork" paid repeated visits until the
family Increased to six children. Now
that Mr. Jackson has amassed a for
tune of more than $6,000,000, ho
determined to retire, and sold his
interest in the El Paso National bank.
Mr. Jackson's first wife was Helen
Hunt, author of "Ramona" and other
novels.
An Assocaited Press dispatch from
St. Paul, Minn., says: Mrs. Rus
sell Sage will be requested by Attor
ney General Simpson and Assistant
Attorney General Weeks to pay an
inheritance tax on all her Minnesota
lands held under contracts of sale.
It is believed the tax will amount to
nearly $600,000. Mr. Simpson and
Mr. Weeks will leave to confer with
Mrs. Sage and her business represen
tatives on the matter.
An Associated Press dispatch,
under date of August 24, said: A
long conference between Vice Presi
dent Julius Kruttschnitt of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railroads and J. W. Kline, interna
tional president of the blacksmith's
union-, was held here today without
any steps being- taken toward a
settlement of differences involving
25,000 shopmen employed by the
Harriman lines. "Both. Vice Presi
dent Kruttschnitt arid President
Kline declined ,tQ discus what was
done at the conference, but it is said
that the subject ,of the railroad's
refusal to recognize the federated
labor organizations Instead of in-,
dividual unions was considered at
length. It is said that Vice Presi
dent Kruttschnitt followed instruc
tions of the directors of the .lines
in refusing to yield tothe demands
of the shopmen for recognition of the
federated organization. Mr, Krutts
chnitt -said! "I met Mr. Kline today
and wa had a- pleasant .talk.- I am
always glad to' meet representatives
of our workmen but I must" decline
to talk about what was done at the
conference. Shortly after the meet
ing Mr. Kruttschnitt left for the west
where he will investigate the labor
situation. He will visit Omaha, Og
den, San Francisco and other cities,
and may confer with labor represen
tatives at San Francisco next
Wednesday.
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Address Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebr
In the Nebraska primary the fol
lowing named were nominated, on
the democratic ticket. For judges
of the supreme court, William L.
Stark, James R. Dean and W. Df
Oldham; for regents state univer
sity, J. 3D. Miller and Charles P.
Knapp; for railroad commissioner!
Clarence B. Harman. The republi
can ticket was aa fnllnwa Tnjn
of supreme court, Charles B. Let
ton, W. B. Rose, F. H. Hamer; re
gents state university, Frank L. Hal
ler, Victor G. Lyford; railway com-
niiBBioner, xnomas ju. Hall.
Judge J. E. Cobbey, compiler of
Cobbey's statutes of Nebraska, died
at Beatrice.
A Colorado Springs dispatch, car
ried by the Associated Press says
Retirement from business delayed
!. r-r, .4r " rePeated visits
of the "stork' jto his home, has come
t0i Ai; .. Jac-H5' .P'oneer financier
of this city, fifteen years ago far.
Jackson declared he would not re
tiro until he had $1,000,000 for oacn
of his children. Before he secured
A Columbus, 0., dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press, Isays: After
pledging his support in a campaign
for the upbuilding of. the Roman
Catholic press, which will eventually
mean the creation of the Catholic
press association, the Right. Rev
erened James J. Hartley, biBhop of
the diocese of Columbus,- was made
first honorary president of the or
ganization of editors and managers
of Catholic publications of the United
States at a meeting here. More than
seventy editors of Roman Catholic
papers representing every state in
the union were present. Edwin J.
Cooney of Providence, R. L, pre
sided as temporary chairman of the
convention and Joseph Newman of
Denver was named secretary. The
constitution committee which drew
up by-laws that will be considered
soon is composed of Nicholas Connor,
Dubuque, la.; Rev. Peter B. Bless
ing, Providence, R. I.; Dr. .Amos
Hart, Cincinnati, Charles A. Jaegle,
Pittsburg, and Miss Alice Stevens of
Los Angeles. This committee will
start the organization of a news ser
vice. There are 30 Roman Catholic
weeklies in the United States and it
was stated that the first Roman
Catholic daily might be published in
Buffalo.
The new comet . recently dis
covered by Dr. W. F. Brooks, direc
tor of the observatory of Indiana and
professor of astronomy and named
by him the Brooks comet, has be
come so bright as to be seen with
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