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News of the Week
Jamos Patten, tho cotton and
grain speculator, ploadod guilty In
tho fodoral court at Now York, to tho
churgo of operating In a restraint of
trade. Ho ploadod guilty to the sixth
count In tho indictment against him.
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An Associated Press dispatch says:
Judgo Major fined Mr. Patton $4,
000, which was paid Immediately.
Tho sixth count charged that Patton
and his associates, Col. Robert M.
Thompson, William P. Brown, P.
B. Ilaynes and Bugono Scales, wero
under a contract to buy practically
tho entlro raw cotton crop of 1909
In order to hold It out of tho market
until November 1, 1910. To tho
other four counts Patton pleaded not
guilty. Patten, Eugene Scales of
Texas and others wero indicted by a
federal grand jury hero more than a
year ago for manipulation of tho cot
ton market. The government charges
that their acts constituted restraint
of trade. Tho defendants demurred
and carried their case to tho supreme
court, which recently ruled against
them.
The Missouri state senate defeated
a bill allowing women to servo on
local school boards.
The lower house of the Washing
ton legislature passed a bill to pen
sion mothers not supported by husbands.
Tho lower house of the Minnesota
legislature adopted a suffrago meas
ure which gives to t lie male voters of
the state tho right to, determine
whether women shall have the right
of ballot.
Mrs. Gvover Cleveland and Prof.
Thomas J. Preston, jr., of Princeton,
N. J., were married at Princeton, N.
J. Only relatives wero present.
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A Springfield, Til., dispatch, under
(Into of February 11th, follows: The
state senate today failed to concur in
a joint resolution that both the
United States senatorships from Illi
nois be voted on torrother. The
nn-moa of Lawrence Y. Sherman, re
publican primary nominee; James
Hamilton Lewis, democratic primary
nominee; Frank H. Funk, progres
sive caucus nominee, and Seymour
St. Edman, socialist nominee, were
proposed beforo tho legislators in
formal nominating speeches. The
first ballot in the senate resulted in
no choice. Tho vote was: Sherman
(rep.) 24: Lewis (dom.), 24; Funk
(prog.), 24. The short term ballot
in tho senate resultod: Hopkins 11,
Sherman 11, Boeschenstein 12, Funk
2, scattored 12. The ballot in the
lower house for United States sena
tor for the long term resulted as
follows: Sherman 50. Lewis 70.
Funk 27, Barney, socialist, 4; absent
2. present and not voting 1. No can
didate having received a majority
of tho vote in each house tho sena
torial balloting will be resumed in
tbe joint assembly at noon tomorrow.
TEXAS LAND
POll SALE 30 acros of the most desirable and best located land In tho
rich farming tract near Houston, Texas, known as Alllson-Richoy Subur
ban Gardens. This land is within a Cow blocks of tho railway station
Almeda a suburb of Houston and will ho sold nt n rnn0nnni,i ..t '
will trade for good Nobraska farm land or city property. Write at once for
further particulars to
Department B9 Commoner Office, Lincoln, Nebraska
The ballot in the house for the short
term senator resulted as follows:
Sherman 43, Boeschenstein 52, Funk
25, Lorimer 3, Hopkins 2, scattering
12, present and not voting 12, absent
2. Those voting for Lorimer were
Curran, McNicholas and McLaughlin.
A Louisville Courier-Journal dis
patch says: . Contempt proceedings
wero started in the federal court at
Birmingham, Ala., against the South
ern Wholesale Grocers' association
and flfty-nino individuals, charging
them with disobeying tho .court order
dissolving tho association as a trust.
Dispatches to the Louisville
Courier-Journal follow: Six persons
wero killed and sixty-five injured in
political riots at Toklo, Japan. The
mob attacked and wrecked news
paper offices and police stations,
stoned Premier Katsura and the po
lice guarding the Diet. Troops pa
trol tho streets.
Authorities and miners fought a
bloody battle In the mountains of
West Virginia near Mucklow. Twelve
strikers and four possemen were
killed and forty wounded. A heavy
force of militia is being rushed to the
coal fields.
President-elect Wilson said he
would make no announcement of in
tended diplomatic appointments until
after he takes office. He also de
clined to receive former President
Castro, of Venezuela.
The National Canners' association,
at its opening, adopted resolutions
urging that sanitary regulations for
all canneries be drawn up and sub
scribed to by all the members of the
association.
The lower house of the Iowa legis
lature passed tho Oregon plan bill
for the election of United States
senators.
An Havana, Cuba, dispatch, car
ried by the Associated Press, says:
William Jennings Bryan lectured at
the University of Havana. He
lunched with Col. Frestos Ferrara,
speaker of the house of representa
tives. After luncheon Mr. Bryan, In
response to an address of welcome,
said smilingly that had the republi
can party bestowed the same care on
its home . representatives as on its
foreign representatives it would
probably still be dominant. Mr
Bryan left for the Isle of Pines. He
strongly deprecated the suggestion
that his trip had any political, significance.
VOLUME 13 i NUMBER 7
Governor Bleaso of South Carolina
has declined to permit the South
Carolina state militia to take part in
the inauguration of President Wil
son for the reason that the naval
troops are to be placed in line ahead
of the South Carolina soldiers. Both
houses of the legislature urged the
governor to rescind his order but
he adhered to it.
A il11 Rock' Ark- dispatch to
the Chicago Record-Herald, says
Final action was taken by the legis
lature on a bill that practically pro
hibits the sale of liquor in Arkansas
It provides that persons wishing to
open a saloon must obtain signatures
of a majority of white adults in tho
city or town in which they hope to
do business. The measure is looked
upon as practically a statewide pro
hibition act because names of wtiito
women as well as men must be ob
tained and the negro population is
not taken into consideration.
Charles Major, author of "When
Knighthood was in Flower," died at
his home in Shelbyville, Ind.
The Illinois stato senate ratified
the election of senators amendment.
President-elect Wilson expressed
the hope that William F. McCombs
will retain the chairmanship of the
democratic national committee.
Tho jury in the federal court at
Cincinnati returned a verdict of
guilty against 29 officials and former
officials of the National Cash Regis
ter company. They were charged
with violating the criminal section of
the Sherman anti-trust law.
Tho Wisconsin state senate adopted
a resolution favoring popular elec
tion of United States senators.
A bill providing for a minimum
wage for women was passed by tho
Kansas house of representatives. It
fixes six dollars a week for a' nine
hour day as tho minimum.
The New Jersey house passed the
joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the federal constitution for
direct election of United States sena
tors. The resolution now goes to
the senate.
Governor Sulzer, of New York,
says that he Is opposed to capital
punishment, although while he is
governor he -will execute the law as
it is, and not as he would like to
have it.
A Pierre, S. D., dispatch, says:
Direct election of saloonkeepers by
popular vote is proposed in an
amendment to a bill for regulation
of the issuance of liquor licenses
offered by State Senator Brown of
Tripp county in the legislature to re
lieve city officials of obligations to
decide moral fitness of applicants
for license.
The bath tub trust was found
guilty of conspiracy against the anti
trust law in the federal court at
Detroit.
All of the parochial schools" at
Evansvllle, Ind., were forcibly closed
by the city board of health because
the management of the schools re
fused to bar children who were not
vaccinated.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, second
daughter of the exrpres'ident, is soon
to be married to Dr. Richard Derby
of New York.
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was United States minister to Spain
at the outbreak of the Spanish
American war, died in New York .
City, aged seventy-eight. '
fhJc2?1ii11 Miller' the poet' died in
the Piedmont Hills of California.
The federal court of New York
overruled the Immigration officials'
and held that Castro, former presi
dent of Venezuela, had the right to
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