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The Commoner.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 28
Tho St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad was placed in tho hands of
rocoivors in tho federal district court
at St. Louis.
A grasshopper invasion of large
proportions is reported from New
Mexico. It Is not, however, causing
alarm among oillcials of tho United
States department of agriculture at
Washington. From a report re
ceived from one of its agents it is
not likely to spread ovor a large ter
ritory. Tho report also shows it is
tho "differential grasshopper," not
tho fast moving variety that spread
over nearly tho entire country in the
early eighties.
Govornor McGovern of Wisconsin
vetoed the bill ordering a referen
dum in 1914 on tho question of ox
tending the ballot to women of that
state. Tho govornor objected to tho
bill on tho ground that suffrage had
beon defeated by a majority of 92,
000 in Wisconsin last fall.
Judge Caldwell, of tho common
pleas court, Columbus, Ohio, over
ruled motions of tho defendants to
quash both of tho indictments re
turned by tho grand jury charging
both George B. Cox, former presi
dent and other officers and directors
of the Cincinnati Trust company
with misuse of tho bank's funds, and
fixed date of trial on the first indict
ment charging tho destruction of
notes for $302,000 payable to tho
bank. -
Italians. The embassy, la Its com
munication, states that the rdver
tisement had given rise to excite
ment among tha Italians and is ap
prehensive lest tho feeling of resent
ment may lead to disorder. The gov
ernment has been informed that the
sale was being held in Newark county
and not in Newark. Governor
Fielder will communicate with coun
ty officials.
"Nat" Herreshoff, designer of
many successful defenders for the
American cup, probably will build a
candidate for tho defense of the cup
in next year's race against Sir
Thomas Lipton.
It Is announced that the emperor
of Japan has recovered from his re
cent severe illness.
Timely appeals by wireless enabled
rescue tugs to take off 984 passen
gers from the steamer Haverford, an
American line steamer sailing from
Liverpool for Philadelphia. Tho
steamer went on the rocks westward
of Cork's head, near Queenstown,
Ireland.
Governor Fielder of New Jersey
received through the state depart
ment at Washington a protest from
tho Italian embassy regarding an ad
vertisement announcing a sale of
building lots iu Newark, N. J., in
which it was stated that no sale
would be made to colored people or
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The famous old Astor house in
New York city, fronting Broadway
for a block opposite the general post
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New York citizens. The
city recently purchased an easement
on one-half of the site for subway
construction, and tho building will
be razed.
dant had uttered a retraction, th
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o'clock this evening, less than two
hours after the concluusion of tho
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The war between the Balkan
states and Turkey is at an end. A
London cablegram, dated May 30,
gives this story of the signing of
peace pact: Tho eight months war
between Turkey and tho allied Bal
kan states Is ended. The "peace of
London" was signed today in the
picture gallery of St. James palace.
Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign
secretary, presided ovor the "formali
ties. The following peace delegates
signed the preliminary treaty:
Osman Nizami Pasha for Turkey.
Dr. Daneff for Bulgaria.
Stejan Navokovitch for Servia.
Stephanos Skoloudis for Greece.
M. Popovitch for Montenegro.
The only dramatic feature of the
historic occasion was M. Popovitch's
expression of keen disappointment
that Montenegro had been ""des
poiled of her just share of the spoils
of a triumphant war" and of the
hope that England, which took the
lead in the spoliation would take
every step to compensate Montene
gro for her sacrifice.
The actual ceremony was very
brief. The delegates signed the
treaty without reading, evidently In
full confidence that all the seven ar
ticles were in such wording as the
powers chose to have them.
The Bulgarian delegate proposed
that peace become immediately effec
tive, without ratification of the
treaty. This proposal was rejected,
and the delegates then left' after hav
ing agreed to meet June 2 to con
sider the advisability of an eventual
annexed protocol.
After informing tho ambassa
dorial conference of the signing of
the peace draft, Sir Edward Grey
suggested that the conference limit
its discussion to three questions
a constitution for Albania, the de
llmination of the southern frontier
of Albania and the status of the
Aegean islands.
The ambassadors now aTe await
ing further instructions from their
governments regarding a constitu
tion for Albania, but the conference
Is working In greater harmony and
expects to conclude its labors by the
end of June.
A London cablegram, dated May
31, says: Walter Hines Page, the
newly-appointed United States am
bassador to the court of St. James,
was received today hy King George!
to whom he presented his letters of
credentials.
Sir Edward Grey, the British for
eign secretary, presented the new
ambassador. Then Mr. Page went
through the formality of presenting
to the king and queen, the members
of the embassy staff, most of whom
had attended many courts and levees
in company with the late Whitelaw
Reid.
Ambassador Page and his secre
tary wore ordinary evening dress,
which American diplomats always as
sume. The naval and military at
taches were in uniform. They drove
from the hotel where the ambassador
is staying to Buuckingham palace in
royal carriages, with the coachmen
and footmen in the scarlet livery of
the British court.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
The Chicago federation of labor at its
reguluar meeting June 1, readopted
its resolution of May 18 in which it
was declared that collusion between
members of the legislature and Wil
liam Lorimer defeated the initiative
and referendum bill. The members
of the federation in readopting the
resolution declared that they were
"willing to go to jail, if necessary."
Preliminary returns indicate that
the steel companies established a new
record in pig iron output in May,
close to 63,000 tons per day. The
operations of merchant furnaces are
not so readily gauged, but such pro
duction averaged about 28,000 tons
per day. This indicates that the
country as a whole is producing pie
metal at the rate of 34,000,000 tons
per year. The steel ingot output
next to the October, 1912, produc
tion was the highest in history. The
steel corporation produced approxi
mately 100,000 tons.
The New York city board of health
has adopted a resolution forbidding
the uso of living bacterial organisms
in the inoculation of human beings
for treatment of disease unless per
mission is first obtained from the
board. Although the name of Frled
mann was not mentioned in the reso
lution it is announced that the effect
ui mo measure win De to prevent any
further demonstration of his treat
ment except under special permit of
the board.
A London cablegram, dated May
30, says: Now that Ireland is in a
fair way to receivo self-government
the unofficial Scotch liberal members
have taken up seriously the question
of seeing home rule for their coun
try. A committee of these members
of the house of commons drafted the
bill which was read a second timo
today.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Marquette, Mich., dated May 31
says: Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
today won his libel .suit against
George A Newett, who charged the
S?li0li drunken and hav
ing waived damages, after the defon-
In memory of the 267 officers and
men who were lost with tho battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor fifteen
years ago, the national Maine monu
ment was dedicated at New YorK
city, May 30. A. salute of 252 guns
from a dozen American warships
preceded the unveiling of tho na
tion's tribute a pylon forty feet
high that stands in Central parK
overlooking Columbus circle, for
mer President Taft, Secretary of tue
Navy Daniels, the governors oi
Maine and New York, representa
tives of tho Cuban republic ana
others took part In the exercises.
General James Grant Wilson, wno
presided at tho dedication, read a
letter from President Wilson, as
follows: "My thoughts will bo very
much with, you, as will, I am sure,
the thoughts of the whole country.
Americans must look back to too
tragedy of the Maine with the pro-
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