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The Nebraska Independent
Ltf 19, 1!06
FOREIGN NEWS
ic i.esieced by personal
I urejius MonHs and mes-
son of the late mln-
I ' . in inonHrtnori an
fctpr of thai nairn-,
b,er . '.u. uimtors n the army
ffho were
f AE'ion of Alfred Dreyfus
.. . sismificance to France,
Lulu that justice again is esub-
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lishedand tnai ice mm
from a pono. . - ht .
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food investigators asf ""5 i"
I ditio'ns which prevail in many estab
i.kn.onto there are disgusting.
Pin nf the British government to
reduce the size of the army and navy
arouses a great siorm 01 Viu.
wiiiiam Waldorf Astor is honored
w Kinz Edward's sister, the Duchess
of Argyll, who assists Mr. Astor, who
Is nor host, at a concen, uy raau6
for him when he is ill.
Hen and women high in English so-
it dressed as performers, give en
tertainments at a country fair held
tn raise money for charity.
Canadian physicians plan to submit
Dr Georce A. Brown's iodine cure for
consumption to the consideration of
tho Rrltish medical congress, wnicn
meets In Toronto in August.
William E. Curtis, writing to the
Chicago Record-Herald from London
jays that the English birth rate has
been cut by the modern tendency to
ward flat and hotel life, and that the
large families which once filled the
peat houses are growing rare.
Annual report of the inspector of
factories and workshops in Great
Britain shows that the conditions sur
rounding the preparations, of food are
quite as revolting as anything alleged
of American packing houses.
Admiral Rojestvensky is acquitted
of blame in the surrender of the Rus
sian fleet to the Japanese. Four other
officers are sentenced to death, but
a plea for mercy is made to the czar.
Constitutional democrats in the Rus
sian douma center on Professor Milu-
koff to head the cabinet which is ex
pected to be formed soon.
Captain Alfred Dryfus wins com
pete vindication through the decision
of the supreme court of France, which
lolds that the charges against him
were unfounded and unjustified.
William E. Curtis, writing from Lon
don to the Chicago Record-Herald,
says that Americans are rapidly ac
quiring Europe's treasurers In the way
of rare books, Englishmen being un
willing to pay the price.
Thousands of Jews flee from Rus
sian cities in fear of their lives, be
lieving a massacre is planned.
Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated in the
French army and promoted in rank
h' the chamber of deputies, after a
riotous session which leads to a duel
in which an official is wounded ser
iously. Gautemalan government considers
invasion of that country by Salvado
rean troops to be a declaration of war,
and a general call to arms is Issued.
Fresh hostilities take place.
Vice Admiral Chouknin, commander
M the Black Sea fleet and one of the
t nated Russian officials is shot
by an
assassin and wounded sos er-
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Summary of News
Congressman Loflmer's hurried trip
to Chicago and auto dash to the sum
mer home of P. A. Valentine at Ocon
omowoc just before coming out in
determined opposition to the Bever
Idge meat inspection bill raises the
question of whether he got his orders
from the packers.
Big airship "Eagle" circles over the
downtown district in Chicago while
tens of thousands look on and ap
plaud.
L. A. Gourdain says he will seek
to force the United States supreme
court to send him back to prison, and
that, failing in this, he will build him
self a jail at Joliet, 111., and serve his
time.
Inquiry at Portsmouth, N. H.. shows
that the marriage of Mrs. Leslie Car
ter and William L. Payne was delayed
for two days by a quarrel after the
marriage license had been taken out.
Workman in a plaster factory at
New West Brighton, N. Y., is fed into
a stone crusher as the result of a joke
by companions.
Bloodhounds are on the trail of per
sons who slew a merchant, his wife
and three children in their . beds at
Winston-Salem, N. C, and two ne
groes are arrested.
Committee headed by Mayor Fitz
gerald of Boston issues invitation to
business interests opposed to trusts
and monopolies to participate in New
York reception to Bryan.
Leaders in Iowa politics predict
that the state republican convention
will pass o quietly. Fear of disaster
following a party split induces har
mony. " .
Vice President Fairbanks begins his
campaign to secure the republican
nomination for the presidency.
Women of Bloomington, 111., will
act as conductors on the trolley cars
there for one day for charity. .
Sarah Bernhardt, the great French
actress, Is claimed as a daughter of
Iowa by genealogists.
Iowan who wants bachelors to rule
the land calls a political convention
to unmarried men and spinsters to
nominate a state ticket on the strange
issue of single blessedness.
Candidacy of John A. Ay I ward for
the democratic nomination for gover
nor of Wisconsin is suspected to be
a plot of the leaders to arouse inter
est of the party through a contest.
Mrs. Joseph Timmes declares that
an apparent July 4 accident, in which
Luke Terlis slightly wounded himself
and almost killed her husband, was a
plot to murder the latter because she
had refused Terlis advances.
' Armor plate combine scores a par
tial victory, the contracts for the!
work on the two new battle ships be
ing divided. The Midvale company
gets one-half and the Carnegie and
Bethlehem plants each one-quarter of
the work.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, the New York
millionaire socialist, says he will not
divide up his fortune and will retain
his membership in various corpora
tions. Robert McCurdy criticises the new
Municipal Court in a speech before
the Illinois state bar association.
Declaring that his head, in brass, is
in, bad company in the midst of a
group of paliticians adorning the state
capitol, William A. Stone of Pittsburg,
former governor, says the Image must
come down.
Handwriting experts take up the
court's time In the Hartje divorce suit
at Pittsburg, and a vender of the mis
sives is held for trial.
Deputy Sheriff Ham-mil of Pierce
County," Wis., is beaten to death by
Italian laborers on whom he serves
warrants, and Marshal Isaacs of Pres
cott is seriously injured.
Wisconsin bankers break up the in
surance combine in the state by
abandoning companies which increased
the rates for burglary protection.
Armor plate combine, underbid by,
the Midvale company on the work for
the battle ships South Carolina and
Michigan, begs Secretary Bonaparte
to divide the contract, declaring that
unless this is done the Carnegie and
Bethlehem plants must be shut up.
Seven girls, ranging in ages from 7
years to 16 years, are drowned in the
river near Oedar Rapids, la., six per
ishing in an effort to rescue the
youngest, who gets in beyond her
depth.
Colorado supreme court again blocks
the investigation of the alleged frauds
in the Denver election of last May,
when valuable public utility fran
chises were granted by narrow mar
gins. Leader of independent oil men de
clares that the rate law and the en
forcement of anti-trust laws are de
stroying the monopoly of the Standard
Oil company and giving the independ
ents an equal chance in competition.
Supreme court at New York, in suit
of excluded critic, holds that theaters
are private places and that proprietors
have the right to say who shall be
admitted.
Harvey L. Schaffer, a former part
ner of Andrew Carnegie, is killed on
Long Island, his automobile being run
down by an express train.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, young New
York millionaire, in letter formally
joining the socialist party, declares
that capitalist system is indefensible
and disastrous through leading to wage
slavery.
Two ice companies and four indi
viduals, officers of the companies, are
indicted by a grand jury at Washing
ton, charged with having conspired to
increase the prices of ice.
William Jennings Bryan will arrive
in Chicago early in September to con
fer with democratic leaders and be
the guest at a luncheon of the Iro
quois club.
Credit for the defeat of Congress
man Blackburn of. North Carolina at
the primaries is claimed by organized
labor, and it is Btated that this is
first blood in the national war on
labor's foes.
Alton B. Parker issues a statement
in New York, saying that Secretary
Taft, in his Greensboro speech, tried
to mislead the public into believing
that recent convictions of corporations
were made under new laws, while
as a matter of fact they were under
old laws which hitherto have not been
enforced.
W. F. Lyons, the largest ice dealer
in Kansas City, tells how he made
$45,000 the first year in the business
on an investment of $600, and regrets
that prices are not higher now.
Union workers attack three police
men on top of eight-story framework
of new building at New York, killing
one and seriously injuring the others.
Harry Thaw makes a quick change
In his attitude toward reporters, in
viting them to visit him in the morn
ing and denying himself to them at
night.
Union labor by its apprentice sys
tem and the employer by his greed
are causing a deterioration in the
standard of labor. The trade school
is the remedy, says F. S. Luther, pres
ident of Trinity College, in an ad
dress before the American Institute
of Instruction at New Haven, Conn.
Canned meats, from Chicago pack
ing houses for the most part are adul
terated and treated with preservatives
Massachusetts board of health reports.
Independent oil men at Cleveland
angered by the statement that no in
dictments are to be found against
Standard Oil officials, cast doubts on
the sincerity of the inquiry and hint
that some members of the grand Jury
might be prejudiced.
Wisconsin railroads lace suits to
recover taxes on money held back
and alleged to have been paid in re-
Curtis Jelt admits on the stand in
the Hargis-Callnhan trial at Beatty
villo, Ky., that he killed Lawyer Mar
cum because tho latter was his
enemy.
Fines aggregating $60,000 are as
sessed against the Alton railroad and
two of its former officials for the
payment of rebates to a shipper.
American farmers will harvest (ho
largest grain crops this year on rec
ord, according to tho estimate of con
dition as of July I issued In Wash
ington. Harry Thnw gives out a statement
in the Tombs prison, New York, de
nying the reports that he is Insane,
and that a commission la to bo ap
pointed to inquire into his mental
condition.
Martin Tlghe, wife slayer In New
York, after shamming insanity and
deceiving' experts for five years, is
found sane and sentenced to prison
for his crime.
Total of 1.062,054 Immigrants ar
rived in the United States In the year
ending July 30, according to the offi
cial figures compiled In New York
City.
Railroad and warehouse commis
sion, after a hearing, denounces as
false the charges that the Louisville
and Nashville railroad had been im
properly classified because of Gov
ernor Deneen's friendship with ' the
companj'.'s attorney.
Chicago is likely to be the scene
of the government fight on the Stand
ard Oil company, evidence taken In
Cleveland showing that alleged tech
nical violations of the law against re
bating were committed in this dis
trict. Thomas Taggart draws first blood In
the Indiana gaming war by getting a
decree ousting the gamblers from the
casinos, which he will use as evidence
to show that hft really did not want
games of chance at French Lick and
West Baden.
President Peabody of the Mutual Life
Insurance company issues a letter to
policyholders praising the present
management and at once is attacked
by Samuel Untermyer for using the
funds of the company in an effort to
continue his tenure of office.
Chicago board of underwriters votes
to continue the fire insurance patrol
for another year and increases the
wages of, the men in the service 10
per cent.
Efforts are being made to have Sid
ney F. Andrews of the Illinois Central
legal staff appointed to the new inter
state commerce commission.
Additional figures on the San Fran
cisco conflagration show heavier los
ses than the insurance companies
heretofore have been willing to ad
mit. Standard Oil or some other power
ful influence for the second time de
feats the pro-rating arrangements
which the independent oil dealers
thought they had secured from the
railroads.
All Looked Alike to Him
A certain learned professor In New
York has a wife and family, but pro
fessorlike, his thoughts are always
with his books.
One evening his wife, who had been
out for some hours, returned to find
the house remarkably quiet. She bad
left the children playing about, but ,
now they were nowhere to be seen.
She demanded to be told what had
become of them, . and the professor
explained that, as they, had made a
good deal of noise, he had put them
to bed without waiting for her, or
calling a maid.
"I hope they gave you no trouble.
she said.
"No," replied the professor, "with
the exception of the one in the cot
here. He objected a good deal to my
undressing him and putting him to
bed."
The wife went to Inspect the cot.
"Why!" she exclaimed, "that's little
Johnny Green, from next door!" Hu
man Life."
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