The Nebraska Independent
SEPTEMBER 6, 1906
Summary of News
William E. Curtis writes of the as
sassination of Professor Hertenstein
by reactionaries and says Black
Hand's threat of a life for a life
spreads terror.
Premier Stolypin seeks appointment
as dictator of Russia, but declares
t himself as opposed to. reaction.
Tangle in the affairs of the Real
Estate Trust company of Philadelphia
grows and efforts to obtain aid for
the institution fail. The receiver,
however, thinks business will be re
sumed and that all trust funds are
intact. .
Dangers to the rights of the individ
ual in the increasing complexity of
social machinery are pointed out to
the American Bar association conven
tion in St. Paul by President George
R. Peck.
; Draft of a proposed uniform divorce
law is being revised by a subcommit
tee in session in St. Paul for sub
mission to the divorce congress which
will meet in Philadelphia in Novem
ber. f
While his wife and his daughter,
whose death resulted from her un
ceasing care in watching over her sick
mother, are being buried, the husband
and father, overcome by grief, falls
from the window of a house in New
York and is injured fatally.
Young girl, who came to this coun
try a few years ago, as a penniless
emigrant from Norway, and served
as a housemaid, wins success on the
stage through her beauty and her en
gagement to the son of an English
lord is rumored.
Representatives of the express c6m
panies plead with the interstate com
merce commission in Washington for
delay in the application of the rate
law, but are given little encourage
ment. Milwaukee candidate for office be
comes a court ward and must conduct
his contest through a receiver.
West Shore and New York Central
railroads force a party of Missourians
on their way to the Bryan demonstra
tion to remove the banners from the
sides of their special cars, holding
the party in Buffalo for four hours.
Real Estate Trust company of Phil
adelphia fails for $7,000,000 following
the mysterious death of its president,
Frank K. Hippie, which is disclosed
as a suicide. Large loans on insuffi
cient security cause the crash, which
ties up large sums of money of the
Presbyterian church, the city and the
Btate.
James F. Sloane, pioneer merchant
of Spokane, is murdered by his young
son, who confesses that his only mo
tive was robbery, a request for mon
ey having been refused.
Bloody imprint of the hand of the
murderer of a New York woman.
which is, found on a pillow, may lead
to the capture of the slayer.
Grover Cleveland, as insurance ref
eree, rules that the three great life
insurance companies must cease re
funding to British policyholders the
income taxes which they pay upon
money devoted to the payment of
premiums.
Representatives of railroads and
shippers meet with the interstate
commerce commission in Washington
to discuss the new rate law, and,
while the railway officials say they
are ready to accept the measure, they
ask rulings on points to which they
object.
Rumors that Mrs. Jacob Heyl, the
Schandein heiress, who has just ar
" rived in Milwaukee from Germany, is
4 preparing to seek a divorce because
of revelations in the recent will case,
are met with evasion by her attor
ney. . City ownership question in regard
to building a lighting plant is puz
zling St. Louis officials. Projects are
up for. extending the present contract
- system at lower rates, and for erect
ing a plant to cost $1,500,000. Finan
cial condition of the city is against
ownership.
In a heavy wind and sea the crowd
ed passenger steamer City of Mack
inac is laid alongside the burning
freighter Charles A. Eddy in Lake
Huron and twenty-one persons were
rescued.
William R. Hearst, in an interview
in New York on the governorship,
declares he will not be a candidate
on the democratic ticket. He de
nounces Jerome, says he does not
want Murphys aid and claims friend
ship for Bryan.
Two serious charges of discrimina
tion and unjust rates are filed before
the Interstate commerce commission
in Washington, involving many of the
principal railroads of the country.
Huge naval fleet which is to take
part in the review by President Roose
velt assembled in Long Island Sound
near Oyster Bay.
Members of the international policy
holders' committee telegraph to Bish
op McCabe asking if the letter given
out in New York is genuine.
Visit of prominent men to the Iowa
State fair draws attention to its high
standing as a live stock exposition,
and the management will appeal to
the legislature for substantial appro
priations. Directors of the Winona Interurban
Railroad company, who are leaders in
the Indiana Presbyterian resort, de
cide to stop all trains on Sunday.
Entertainments to cure the insane
are held in the Iowa hospital at Mt.
Pleasant.
Charles A. Walsh, democratic na
tional committeeman of Iowa, resigns
in a letter bitterly scoring the sys
tem of party politics, which he says
perpetuates corrupt, corporation and
boss control of government and urging
independent action on the part of the
voters. '
James Gibbons, a wealthy farmer
living near Bloomington, 111., was shot
to death in his bed.
Woman suffrage as a cure of the
ills of the body politic is advocated by
Lewis Emery, Jr., nominee for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, in a speech
opening the state campaign at Car
lisle. New York supreme court holds that
the Equitable Life Assurance society
must defend suit brought by the state
attorney general for an accounting of
the management of the funds.
August grand jury is discharged in
New York without having voted in
dictments against ice officials.
Vice President Fairbanks delivers
a stirring address at the celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the bat
tle of Osawatomie.
Thomas J. Kernan of Barren T?
La., in an address before the American
Bar Association, at St. Paul defines
the code of lawlessness as law defiance
that he says is made a common rule.
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker at Alex
andria, Minn., says Charles A. Walsh's
retirement from the democratic na
tional committee is due to the fact
that Mr. Walsh is a convert to the
Hearst movement.
Two soldiers are killed and others
are wounded in a battle with members
of the Black Hand society at Punx
sutawney, Pa. Siege is kept up all
night and fighting is to be renewed.
Loss of more lives is probable.
John D. Rockefeller in his church
at Cleveland hears the pastor assert
that the righest men are the poorest
and that in pursuit of gold the heart
is closed and the soul impoverished.
President Rocsevelt will review the
greatest war fleet ever gathered in
the western hemisphere at Ovster
Bay. Great crowds and hundreds of
yachts and excursion vessels eather
President Roosevelt in a, letter to
the public printer says if the reform
spelling advocated by him does not
meet with popular annroval it will be
dropped. He denies any intention to
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do anything far reaching or sudden.
Bryan's advocacy of public owner
ship of railroads is not approved by
the staid leaders of the old "sane and
conservative" wing of the democratic
party in New , York, who are said to
be casting about for a candidate more
to their liking.
Additional securities to the amount
of $1,000,000 given upon the enter
prises of Adolf Segal, the Philadelphia
promoter, are found in the vaults of
the wrecked Real Estate Trust com
pany. Directors are blamed for gross
neglect.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee reached
New York in his automobile and was
invited to visit President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay.
Bishop Charles C. McCabe of the
Methodist church in a letter to Alton
B. Parker comes out in favor of the
administration tickets of the New
York Life and Mutual Life insurance
companies.
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Dennis, who lost
$100,000 in Wall street speculation,
has been sent to the Tombs for de
frauding a New York hotel out of
$7.33.
Complaint is made by the interna
tional policyholders' committee to the
New York insurance superintendent
that the New York Life is violating
a new law in the collection of proxies.
United States army transport Sher
idan is wrecked near Honolulu and
may become a total loss. The pas
sengers and crew are unable to reach
the shore because of the heavy surf.
Edward Rosewater, publisher of the
Omaha Bee, and a leader in Nebraska
politics and business, was found dead
in an office of his newspaper building.
Illinois Equal Suffrage association
officials in Chicago secure expressions
of opinion from mayors and other
prominent men in states where women
now vote, and all give evidence of
satisfactory results and improved con
ditions as a result of giving the ballot
to women.
FOREIGN NEWS
Cuban insurgents invade Havana
province and the members of the na
tional assembly in the capital are to
meet to consider plans of coping with
uprisings.
Pope's attitude toward the French
law for the separation of church and
state causes confusion among the
clergy, making their task difficult, and
Pius will be in a predicament as the
result of his action, says J. Cornely.
Revolution in Cuba exposes a reign
of graft, high officials growing rich
through frauds in the purchase of
stores and from commisions on wages.
French law for the six-day working
week meets great opposition from
both employers and employes, who see
ruinous effects to business from the
enforcement of the measure.
General and Mrs. Milo Spitzer of
Toledo, while motoring in Germany,
are held up by the police and made to
pay a fine, which they declare was un
merited, at the point of a revolver.
British oarsmen are impressed by
the showing made by the Harvard
crew which is to meet the Cambridge
eight Saturday, and fear follows con
fidence. Aged Londoner creates excitement
by guessing almost the correct weight
and size of the cheese which figures
in a daily contest at an ancient hos
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