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FEBRUARY 2, 1912
The Commoner.
pressed the opinion that they should
be officially investigated.
Postmaster General Hitchcock
authorized the preparation of de
signs and plates for suitable com
memorative postage stamps for the
Panama-Pacific international expo
sition in 1915.
President Taft accepted the invi
tation of the Ohio constitutional con
vention to speak before it. Gover
nor Harmon postponed his address
before the congress until February 8.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
and Postmaster General Hitchcock,
the only two members of President
Taft's cabinet who have not visited
the Panama canal, have been ordered
by the president to make a tour of
inspection.
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A Minneapolis dispatch follows:
W. A. Lochren, for many years judge
of the United States district court,
is dead at his home here. Mr. Loch
ren, who was eighty years old, was
a native of Ireland, coming to the
United States in 1834. He was ap
pointed commissioner of pensions in
1893 by President Cleveland, who
also nominated him to the United
States district bench in 1896, from
which position he retired in 1908.
by William J. Bryan, according to
advicos received here by officers of
tho association. Mr. Bryan will bo
elected formally at tho next meeting
of the directors. Mr. Bryan and
Rev. Sol. S. Dickey are attempting
to raise $1,000,000 for tho institution.
University club. Androw Carnegie
was an interested listener as tho,
state executive declared that the an
nihilation of theso interests is im
possible. "And If it wore possible,"
he continued, "It would force a back
ward stop into tho dark days of de
moralized conditions, with low wages
and uncertain employment for labor
and destructive losses for employers
and investors. Amorica needs '
economic peace. Wo need a cessa
tion of demagogic attacks and ap
peals to class projudlco."
Judge Julian A. Mack, junior
member of the court of commerce,
has been designated by the chief jus
tice of the supreme court to serve
for five years more on the commerce
bench. The commerce court judges
rank officially as circuit judges.
The house committee on rules
closed its hearings on the money
trust resolution and will soon decide
whether to recommend an investi
gation into the biggest trust of them
all.
Hundreds of men are rushing into
the new gold fields at Minitonas,
Manitoba, 250 miles northwest of
Winnipeg.
James Whitcomb Riloy was
awarded the gold medal for distinc
tion in poetry at the annual meeting
of the American academy of arts and
letters.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Nashville, Tenn., says: The first
entry into the democratic guberna
torial lists in Tennessee since the
recent harmony pact is Thomas B.
Lytle, of Murfreesboro. Previously
an independent, he joined in the
effort to harmonize the party in
October, 1910. In his platform,
given out last niglit, he says that
while in favor of temperance and
temperance laws, he is convinced of
the utter failure of the present pro
hibition laws and favors its prompt
repeal, and in its stead advocates
high license, segregation and rigid
enforcement.
The Washington correspondent to
the Louisville Courier-Journal, says:
Liquor interests won a far-reaching
victory in the United States supreme
court by a decision that railroads
must carry beer, when offered for
transportation into "drycounties" of
another state. The decision affected
particularly shipments from Indiana
into Kentucky. The court held that
beer and intoxicating liquors were
legitimate commodities of commerce
under the interstate law.
Colonel Charles Norton, member
of tho staff of General Sherman
throughout the civil war, a former
member of the Minnesota state
senate and a pioneer of North Da
kota, died at Fargo.
Zapatistas raided Chamalpa, Mexi
co, a small town eight miles from
Cuernavaca.
Eugene Schmidt, former mayor of
San Francisco, was placed on trial
on the charge of bribery.
S. S. Semmes, eldest son of the
late Admiral Raphael Semmes, of the
confederate navy, died at Osceola,
Ark.
An unconfirmed report has it that
the Rev. John P. Chadwick, who was
chaplain of tho battleship Maine
when it was destroyed in Havana
harbor, is to be made bishop of San
Francisco.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Frankfort, Ky., says: The county
unit bill, regarded as the most dras
tic anti-liquor legislation ever on
acted in Kentucky, passed the state
senate by a vote of 24 to 14. The
measure, approved by the lower
house, now goes to Governor Mc
Creary, who is expected to sign it.
Both democrats and republicans in
their platforms last fall declared for
such a law.
Senator Norris Brown of Ne
braska, delivered a speech at Indian
apolis in which he paid a tribute to
the Taft administration. Alton B.
Parker delivered a speech at Colum
bia, S. C, in which ho opposed tho
recall of the judiciary.
Tho Kentucky house of represen
tatives has passed a resolution boom
ing Henry Watterson for tho demo
cratic nominee for vice president.
Evidence was introduced In tho
packers' trial to show that tho Na
tional Packing company was used as
a club to destroy competition.
Governor Hadloy of Missouri and
Governor Stubbs of Kansas have de
clared in favor of Roosevelt as tho
republican candidate.
The democratic steel and iron bill
making reductions averaging 35 per
cent from existing steel and iron
duty passed the house of representa
tives by a vote of 210 to 109. Twen
ty insurgent republicans voted for
the bill while three democrats from
Colorado, dissatisfied with the re
duction in the lead tariff, voted
against the bill. Fourteen insurgent
republicans also voted against the
bill.
A New Orleans dispatch says:
Murphy J. Foster, for eleven years
United States senator from Louisi
ana, was defeated in tho recent pri
mary by Congressman J. E. Ransdell.
John T. Michel and Judge Luther E.
Hall will bo in a second primary for
governor. Governor J. Y. Sanders
and Congressman Robert Broussard
will be in a second primary for the
United States senate.
It is said that Carter Harrison of
Chicago will be a candidate for the
democratic nomination for president.
The democratic state committee
for Iowa decided to have no presi
dential primaries. They called a
state convention for Burlington, May
9th. M. F. Healy of Fort Dodge, will
be temporary chairman.
Clarence S. Darrow, the noted
. attorney for the McNamara -brothers
was indicted by a Los Angeles jury
on the charge of attempting to bribe
two jurors in the McNamara cases.
Darrow says he was expecting the in
dictment and that he has no fear of
the result.
DEEP THOUGHT HERE
If a man were as cheap as almost
any woman can make him feel, no
woman could resist him merely as a
bargain. Puck.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned
owing to difficulties with the king.
Governor Wilson of New Jersey
has urged the legislature of that
state to ratify the income tax amend
ment. Last year he sent two special
messages to the legislature and the
amendment was ratified in the house
but was defeated in the senate.
The chairman of the republican
state committee for Maryland and
other politicians of that state have
promised President Taft that he will
have Maryland's vote in the republi
can national convention.
Another republic is rising and tho
story is told by a London cablegram,
carried by the Associated Press, in
this way: A dispatch from Cottinje,
Montenegro, reports that the police
there have discovered a wide-spread
movement to overthrow the Monte
negrin dynasty and establish a re
public. It is alleged that tho move
ment Is being engineered chiefly by
Montenegrins in the United States,
who have sent $200,000 to tho
revolutionary committee, whose
headquarters are in Belgrade.
General Bernardo Reyes will not
be shot for inciting a rebellion.
William R. Hearst has accepted an
invitation to address the general
assembly of Kentucky on Febru
ary 14.
A resolution protesting against
tho British government acquiescing
In the Russian action In Persia was
adopted by acclamation at a largo
mass meeting held in London. Tho
chief speaker declared Morgan
Sinister stood between Persia and
dissolution.
After threatening the remaining
Americana in tho treasury depart
ment with punishment tho Persian
cabinet has changed its tone and
has politely requested F. E. Cairns
and his associates to assist M. Mor
nard, who has taken charge.
A cablegram, carried by tho As
sociated Press says: Premier Yuan
Shi Kai is reported as agreeing with
tho empress dowager that tho situa
tion demands a resumption of hos
tilities. He is quoted as saying he
is willing to surrender the control of
tho government into tho hands of
any capable man.
A cablegram from PariB says that
Italy will agree to give up the
Turks surrendered by the captain
of the French steamship Manouba.
Had this step not been taken France
was prepared to recall her ambassa
dor to Rome.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
held that only a fireman who has
been disabled on duty or the family
of a fireman killed in the line of
duty is eligible to a pension in
Louisville.
The 200th anniversary of Fred
erick the Great was celebrated at
Berlin.
A South Bend, Ind., dispatch, car
ried by the Associated Press, says:
The presidency of the board of direc
tors of the Winona assembly and
Bible conference has been accepted
Regiments of cavalry and infantry
have been ordered in readiness to go
to Belfast, owing to the threatening
conditions between nationalists and
unionists over home rule.
The Fourth Oklahoma congres
sional district republican convention
indorsed Taft for renomination after
the Roosevelt supporters tried to
stampede the convention.
AN UNTIMELY TEMPTATION
A well known Scottish architect
was traveling in Palestlno recently,
when news reached him of an addi
tion to his family circle. The happy
father Immediately provided himself
with some water from the Jordan to
carry homo for tho christening of
tho infant, and returned to Scotland.
On tho Sunday appointed for the
ceremony he duly presented himself
fit t.lm church and sought out the
beadle In order to hand over tho
precious water to his care. He
pulled the flask from his pocket, but
the beadle held up a warning hand,
and came nearer to whisper:
"No tho noo, sir; no the noo!.
Maybe after tho kirk's oot!" St.
Paul Dispatch.
THE LIMIT
Jack Bradley, an Atchison travel
ing man, is a clever ventriloquist.
The other day at Denton, Bradley
had Forrest Warren, an Atchison
Globe representative, chasing up and
down the street and through alleys
looking for. a supposed farmer who
kept up continual calls for the Globe
man. When the "farmer" said "I
want to pay him five years' subscrip
tion," Warren broke down the door
in William Gillan's store in his
searcli for the mythical voice.r
Kansas City Journal.
GOING UP
It was a dark morning, and Mi
Dorkins was groping around in the
basement, when somebody suddenly
flashed a dark lantern on him.
Mechanically he threw up his
hands.
"I'm the gas-meter inspector, ex
plained the intruder.
Whereupon Mr. Dorkins held his
hands up still higher. Chicago
Tribune.
An Albany, N. Y., dispatch, car
ried by the Associated Press says:
Governor John A. Dix took up the
cudgels in behalf of the "big busi
ness" interests of the country at the
BY THE WAY
"What broke up the Suffragist
parade?"
"A shopkeeper hung out a sign
announcing 5s. silks at Is. 11 d."
Christian Intelligencer.
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