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Justico Goff of New York, sen
tenced Chas. H. Hyde, former city
chamberlain, to two years in the
state's prison. He was convicted of
extorting a bribe.
Edward Delohanty, a negro hanged
for murder at Sacramento, Cal.,
called, just before his execution, for
the prison phonograph and had the
record containing Mr. Bryan's speech
on "Immortality" played for him.
The progressive party held a re
union at Chicago. The meeting was
largely attended and Theodore
Roosevelt was given an ovation. He
said that both the old parties were
bad and that an entire re-alignment
of political parties was necessary.
The Roosevelt party will open per
manent headquarters in Now York
City.
A Boise, Idaho, dispatch, carried
by the United Press, says: Because
it published Colonel Roosevelt's Chi
cago speech attacking the Idaho su
preme court, the Idaho Daily States
man, a local newspaper, faces the
possibility of being haled before that
court for contempt. Editor Sheridan
of the Capital News, who is already
under a charge of contempt, did not
publish the address. He issued a
statement explaining he suppressed
it on advice of counsel that its publi
cation would be further contempt.
Three men at Newark, N. J.,
WaTren Dunn, Jacob Dunn, and
Saley Davenport, were arrested on
the charge of having written a letter
to President-elect Wilson, demanding
$5,000 under threat of death.
Herman Steinberg, a' seventeen-yeor-old
boy was arrested at New
York because he said he was going
to kill Governor Wilson. All four of
these men are held by the federal
authorities.
ments for a "victory" reception and
breakfast which will be tendered by
the woman's democratic club to Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson and the Misses
Wilson, Saturday, December 21, at
the Waldorf-Astoria, was announced.
Among the women of prominence
who already have accepted invita
tions to be guests of honor are: Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Adlai E.
Stevenson, Mrs. John A. Dix, Mrs.
William Sulzer, Mrs. Judson Harmon
of Ohio, Mrs. Eugene A. Foss of
Massachusetts, Mrs. William J.
Bryan, Mrs. Champ Clark, Mrs.
Oscar Underwood, Mrs. William J.
Gaynor and Mrs. Thomas Fortune
Ryan.
Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria,
died at Munich, aged ninety-one
years.
Why Bulgarians Whip Turks
Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to
Great Britain since 1905, died at his
residence at London. Ho had been
sick for several weeks. The body
will be returned to New York for
burial. He was the republican
nominee for vice president in 1892.
He became editor of the New York
Tribune after Horace Greeley's
death and later became owner of
that paper.
The total vote cast in Oklahoma
was 253,700. The Perry, Okla.,
Sentinel says: United States Sena
tor Robert L. Owen was the favorite
candidate. He received 126,418
.votes, 5,216 more than oCngressman
elect William H. Murray, next
highest winner; 7,461 more than the
democratic presidential electors;
35,632 more than the republican
presidential electors'; and 42,989
more than Judge J. T. Dickerson, his
republican opponent.
A New York dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press says: Comple
tion of the preliminary arrange-
THB COAL CASE DECISION
A United Press dispatch, under
date of Washington, December 16,
says: Uncle Sam lost and won his
case against the "anthracite coal
trust" by a decision of the supreme
court today. The goverment lost the
better part of its cases against the
combine, winning out only in one
particular, but this one count sus
tained by the court was said to fore
cast a revolutionary change in
anthracite handling.
The court refused to disturb an
alleged combination of six great an
thracite coal-carrying railroads in
the Keystone state, forty-three big
operators, and a number of subsi
diary coal companies, which the gov
ernment charged was in control of
90 per cent of all anthracite deposits
in the state and dominated three-
fourths of the annual production.
The court hinted, however, that sepa
rate dissolution suits against the
alleged railroad mergers might be
brought.
The partial victory scored by the
government was in the court declar
ing illegal the so-called "65 per cent
contract system" a plan by which
the operators were paid 65 per cent
of the tidewater price for coal by the
railroads and agreed to turn over the
entire output.
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"The Story of the Balkans," is the
title of an article written by Theo
dore Roosevelt and printed in the
Outlook. Mr. Roosevelt explains
why the Bulgarians proved them
selves masters of the Turks in war.
He tells how Turkey invaded Europe
and conquered various peoples and
how these people achieved indepen
dence years later. The Bulgarians
once were serfs, mere slaves, and
when made free by Russian soldiers
were not regarded as capable of car
ing for themselves. Long years of
Turkish oppression and massacres,
however, made every man of them
a soldier and patriotic citizen of a
nation that has vied with Japan in
progress.
"No one can understand what is
happening in the Balkan peninsula
today without a little knowledge of
what has happened there during the
last fifteen hundred years," writes
Mr. Roosevelt.
"At the beginning of the fifth cen
tury the great Roman empire tot
tered on the brink of its fall. It had
become Christian, but Christianity
had not been able to stop the corrup
tion that was eating into it. The em
perors had long abandoned old Rome
the Rome on the Tiber and had
made their capital at the new Rome
on the Bosporus, the city founded
by Constantine, where the old Greek
city of Byzantium already stood..
"Soon after the opening of the
fifth century the barbarians swarmed
across the border, and in the west
of the Roman empire speedily came
to an end until revived in wholly
different form by Charlemagne. But
in the east it persisted for a thous
and years longer, gradually becom
ing a Greek, rather than a Roman
empire, and often taking the name
of Byzantine, from the Greek town
which Constantine changed into the
Rome on the Bosporus.
"This new Rome became for many
centuries the most wonderful city in
the world. It has generally been
called, after its founder, Constanti
nople. But the name of Rome still
haunts these eastern European re
gions where the Romans once hold
sway.
"To this day the Moslems of Asia
speak of the Turkish sultan as the
Lord of Roum, and his European pos
sessions are often called Roumelia,
while one of the nations which has
emerged from beneath the retiring
Turkish sea is called Roumania.
"When, fifteen hundred years ago,
the barbarians crossed the imperial
frontier, there were three peoples
dwelling in the Balkan peninsula.
These were the Greeks, who spoke
the Greek tongue; the old Illyrians,
whom we now call Albanians, along
the Adraitic, north of Gretece; and
the Romanized colonists and natives,
including the Roman settlers whom
Trajan had established across the
Danube in Dacia after its conquest.
The barbarians who pressed into the
eastern Roman empire and the Bal
kan peninsula were not Teutons, like
those who overran Britain, Gaul,
Spain and Italy, but Slavs. Both the
Slavs and the Teutons were Aryan
speaking peoples of the European
typo.
"Thore also appeared in the Bal
kan peninsula wilder peoples, horse
nomads from ABia and from the
steppes through which the Volga
runs. These, people were closely kin
to the Magyars and Finns, and more
remotely to the Turks and Tartars.
There wore several different tribes
among them, but the most important
were the Bulgarians.
"These invaders overran the entire
Balkan peninsula, but were n,ever
able to take Constantinople itself.
The Slavs, under the name of the
Serbs or Servians, founded a great
empire, and so, at one time, did the
Bulgarians. The emperors of Con
stantinople waged constant war with
both nations; one of their number
was called the 'Bulgarian Killer' be
cause of what he did.
"The Serbs became Christians, but
kept their native Slavonic language,
and, until the advent of the Turks,'
their empire as well.
"The Bulgarians became Chris
tians, too, but they disappeared as a
separate empire; and, moreover,
they became fused with the mass of
the Slavs they had conquered, and
the resulting mixed race, though
Bulgarian by name, was much more
Slavonic than Bulgarian by blood,
and grew to speak a Slavonic lau
guage. "Then, in the fourteenth and fif
teenth centuries, the Turkish hordes
entered Europe and finally con
quered the entire Balkan peninsula.
All the separate subject peoples were
merged in the common lot of slavery,
save that some' of the Slavs, notably
Bosnia and Herzegovina, became Mo
hammedans and identified them
selves with their conquerors, and
most of the Albanians followed the
same course. There was always
more, or less national feeling felt
among the Servians and Roumanians,
though the representatives and
heroes of this national feeling were
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