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The Commoner,
VOLUME ii, NUMBER 50
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Tho Playwright "Ah! The audl
once is calling for tho author."
Tho House Manager "I hear 'em;
hut you can get out through the
alley and I'll hold 'em back while
-you boat it." Philadelphia Even
.ing Bulletin.
EFFECTIVE
Police Commissioner If you were
ordered to disperse a mob, what
would you do?"
Applicant "Pass around the hat,
air!"
Police Commissioner "That'll do.
You're engaged." Satire.
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John T. Wood, the socialist mayor
of Coeur D'Alene, proposes a muni
cipal saloon. A dispatch to the New
York World says: Mayor Wood
plans to lease a building at $500 a
month, hire a manager at $2,000
a year, two cashiers at $85 a month
each, as many bartenders as neces
sary at $1Q0 a month each, a house
policeman at $85 a month and two
janitors at $75. If the plans of the
mayor and councilmen are carried
out the attaches will be placed under
bonds and the place run in strict
adherence to the city ordinances.
The saloon will be required to pay
the state and federal license fee of
$775 a year. The county recently
voted "w.et," and men who had ar
ranged to open saloons oppose the
mayor's plan.
A Milwaukee dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: Contracts
held by actors for work on Sunday
are not legal, according to a decision
of Judge Halsey in the suit of Robert
Warwick, an actor, aga.inst Sherman
Brown, manager of the Davidson
theater. Warwick alleges that in
December, 1908, he contracted with
Brown for ten performances for ten
weeks at a salary of $250 a week,
but that after- seven weeks he was
discharged. He asked $750 for the
remaining three weeks. Brown con
tended that as Warwiok's contract
provided for Sunday work that the
instrument was not valid.
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Independent steel manufacturers
aired before the house "steel trust"
investigating committee complaints
that freight rates charged by roads
owned by the United States Steel cor
poration discriminated against them.
'Burt H. Franklin, an investigator
employed .by the defense in the Mc
Namara trial, was held to the su
perior court at Los Angeles to
answer to charges of bribing a juror.
The total production of cotton in
the United States for the season of
1911-12 will amount to 14,885,000
bales of 500 pounds, gross weight.
This exceeds the record crop of 1904
by 1,447,000 bales.
a former soldier has, written to tho
officers that he can supply Bome sen
sational facts showing a great conspiracy.
James B. McCreary was inaugu
rated governor of Kentucky.
Theodore Roosevelt visited Boston
and was greeted by a crowd of 6,000
people.
The Nobel peace prize has been
awarded jointly to Prof. T. M. Asser,
of the Netherlands, and Alfred Fried,
of Vienna.
A petition Is being circulated in
Charleston requesting the. legislature
to pass a law prohibiting racetrack
betting in South Carolina.
John J. and James B. McNamara
have been taken to the California
prison, the one to serve for life and
the other to serve f.or.15 years.
Albinua Nance, former governor
of Nebraska, died at his home' in
Chicago.
For several months the army caihp
at Fort Riley has been greatly dis
turbed by a series of incendiary fires
and explosions. It is estimated that
tho government has sustained a loss
of $1,000,000 through these affairs.
Several arrests have been made and
A remarkable situation In Judge
Withrow's court attracted the atten
tion of lawyers everywhere. The
court had instructed the jury to
bring in a verdict for the defendant
in the McDermott will case. The
jury refused, saying it preferred to
return a verdict for the plaintiff.
The judge sent the jury back to its
room with new instructions to re
turn a verdict for the defendant.
After being locked up for, several
hours the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff, still persisting in violat
ing the instructions of the court. The
Associated Press report of the pro
ceedings says: "Judge Wi throw
finally accepted the verdict. He an
nounced however, that on the mo
tion of either side the verdict should
be set aside.
"A slight change in the judge's
language in sending the jury back
to deliberate opened th way for a
verdict
" 'The judge had kept asking us
if we had signed a verdict said
Foreman H. 0. Hartman after the
jury was discharged.
" 'He told us to go back and de
liberate until we reached a verdict.
We did.'
"Mrs. Mary Farrington had sued
the Rev. Father John White, execu
tor of the eslaleor her mother,
Bridget McDermott, charging that
he had exercised undue "nfluence
over Mrs. McDermott. The court
held that insufficient evidence had
been introduced by the plaintiff, "and
directed the jury to return a verdict
for the defendant. This the 'twelve
men refused to do, saying that they
'would stand on their rights as
American citizens.'
"The jury at 2:20'p. m., today
came into court, and tlie following
finding was handed1 to Judge With
row: " 'We, the jury; flnd In favor of
tne plaintiff for the reason that,
from the circumstantial evidence of
witnesses, we believe there was un
due influence exerted over Bridget
McDermott prior to and at the time
she executed the testament in ques
tion when it was not her last will
and testament.
"The judge sent for law. books
and, with the foreman of the "jury,
lopked at them and said:
" 'Gentlemen of the jury, although
your verdict is In violation of the
orders of this court, under the rul
ings of the supreme court It becomes
my duty to accept it. Upon motion
of either party the laintlff or tho
defendant the verdict -will be set
aside and a new trial ordered. The
jury Is discharged.'
"The jurors went to the county
clerk's office, where each man re
ceived a warrant for $7,50 as his
pay. They didn't know where to
cash the warrants, and when a
deputy told them they might take the
warrants either to n. hank nv to a.
saloon across the street, Juror "Rey
nolds, tne soloist or the party, said:
" 'We'll go to the saloon, and we'll
all go together. Remember, we all
stick together, boys.' .
"When the jury reported later
Judge Withrow's' court room was
packed and the corridors, of th
dingy old court house held a throng
awaiting 'news from" th jury In
the same court tiousa th celebrated
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