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compelled tho country to await your
tariff board's report boforo per
mitting a revision of tho much de
bated, well studied, well understood
and discredited wool schedules?
"2. Aro you, Mr. President, in
'favor of tho Aldrich central bank
plan, which threatens moro seriously
to locate control of tho national
finances in Wall street?
4,3. Aro you still a conservation
ist of tho school of Richard A. Bal
llnger, or aro you a convert to tho
school of Gifford Plnchot whom you
dismissed from tho forest service at
Ballinger's behest? And are you in
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California will vote on the ques
tion of woman suffrage at a special
election to be held October 10.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago says: The total operating
income of the Illinois Central rail
road for the year ending June 30,
1911, was $60,907,031.49, the lar
gest in the history of tho road, ac
cording to the annual report made
recently. The revenue for 1910 was
$57,884,721.09. Tho operating ex
penses for 1911 were $43,856,228.13,
an increase of $535,497.74 over
those of 1910. The expense of main
tenance of equipment showed a de
crease of $1,184,885.39 over 1910.
Much of this saving was credited to
changes following the indictment of
Illinois Central officials for alleged
dishonesty in the car repair department.
Taft to assist them out of thoir
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Speaking at Hutchinson, Kan.,
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the Associated Press, said: Forced
into the air by the jeers of thousands
who called him a coward, Frank H.
Miller, twenty-three years old, a
Toledo aviator, shot into the sky at
twilight the other evening and when
200 feet up was burned to death be
fore the eyes of the spectators, on
tne Miami county fair grounds at
Troy, north of here. Miller had
circled the race track and was just
starting into a spiral glide into a
neighboring corn field when some
thing went wrong. He could be seen
making a frantic attempt to get his
machine under control, when sud
denly the whirring of the propellers
ceased. The craft then dropped like
a shot for fifty feet, a tiny blue flame
was emitted from the engine, and in
an Instant the gasoline tank ex
ploded. The machine was wrecked,
debris was hurled hundreds of feet
in all directions. What remained of
the aeroplane and its driver were
burned almost to a crisp as they
dropped rapidly to earth. It was
Miller's second flight of the day and
the fifth and last of tho week. In
a short flight shortly after noon his
machine acted unsteady and -he did
not care to go up.
An Associated Press dispatch from
New York, September 27, says: Ono
of the most exciting episodes in the
history of Wall street In recent years
was today's session of the stock ex
change. Aside from times of panic
it is doubtful whether the Quotations
of stocks ever were more evident.
The market was in confusion
throughout the day. The range of
prices in some cases exceeded six
points. A peculiar feature was that
trading resulted in the utter Tout
of both the bull and beaT factions.
At the opening there was a stam
pede of bears to cover their con
tracts, which they were compelled to
do at heavy losses. In the after
noon the bears obtained control of
the market and prices melted away.
At the close the bears retired vic
torious. The United States Steel
corporation's statement last night
that dissolution or disintegration
were not contemplated by the cor
poration, was the pivot around which
th'e market moved. To some extent
it relieved Wall street's fears. It
did not answer the question, whether
the government was. contemplating a
suit for dissolution, however, so that
the situation was unchanged in one
of its perplexing aspects.
Former Governor Fletcher D.
Proctor of Vermont died at his homo
after a protracted illness.
William C. Gladstone, a grand
son of William B. Gladstone, was
elected to the house of commons.
Plans were made at the reunion
of the veterans of the union and
confederate armies held at Memphis,
for a peace jubilee and general re
union of the blue and gray to take
place at Washington in 1913.
Address all Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebr
Private Frank Bloom, of the Third
field artillery, the young Jewish sol
dier who failed in his first efforts to
secure a commission in the army,
and to whom President Taft allowed
a second examination, was ordered
promoted to be second lieutenant.
At a meeting of the Farmers'
union and bankers of Sumter, S. C.,
the financiers offered to lend $500,
000 on cotton in warehouses in line
with the Montgomery resolutions.
of
at
Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin
PrBTtilpr Sfnlvnln. was hanged
Kiev. He refused the consolation
of a rabbi when told the interview
must be public. .
A Chicago dispatch, carried by the
Associated Press, says: Members
of tho Chicago vice commission, pre
sented with a possibility of nrnRfimi-
tlon for technical violation of federal the second time, and Lieutenant-Gov-statutes
will appeal to President ' ernor Lewis A. Frothingham will bo
A Boston dispatch says: As an
outcome of the first statewide pri
maries in Massachusetts, hold re
cently, Governor Eugene N. Foss win
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