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The Nebraska Independent
SEPTEMBER 20, 1906
Summary of Mews
Fifty passengers are rescued fromjmerce hearing in Washington by as
the wreck of the steamship Oregon,
which goes ashore in a dangerous
spot on a voyage from Seattle to
Alaska.
President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western writes to the interstate ;
commerce commission of the need of
strict enforcement of the Hepburn
law and declares schedules which all
can understand are possible, despite
statements by railway traffic officials.
Two women and a man are drowned
when boat containing a party of eight
is capsized in New York harbor, but
the names of the victims are kept
secret.
Meeting of Wisconsin republican
candidates at Madison September 25
to frame party platform is expected
to bury planks insisted on by La
Follette. .
Iowa republicans are awaiting with
great interest the opening speech of
the campaign, to be delivered by Cum
mins. The drinking of a quart of rye whis
ky In three hours is charged to Mrs.
Florence V. Huntington, missionary
worker, at the hearing of her criminal
libel suit against Rev. Dowell Phil
lips, former East Chicago Episcopal
rector.
Mrs. John Polgar of East Chicago
is burned to a crisp by an explosion
of gasoline sold at a grocery by mis
take for kerosene.
. A rush to see Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth caused a panic in the crowd as
sembled for the dedication of the Me
Kinley memorial,. In Columbus, Ohio,
and in the crush two women were
badly injured. Mrs. Longworth es
capes from the curiosity seekers with
great difficulty.
George P. Lord, the foremost citi
zen of Elgin, 111., who gave freely
to the city and to public institutions,
is dead.
Miss Jessie Quinby, formerly a lead
er Jti St. Louis society, who was ar
rested at the instance of T. K. Neid
ringhaus, is freed by the police judge,
who declares there was no reason for
the indignities heaped upon her.
Colorado republican convention at
Denver nominated Philip B, Stewart
for governor and Alfred, E. Bent for
state treasurer.
Oil and gas are struck in digging a
well under the Rockefeller office build
ing in Cleveland and it is possible
the flow may be sufficient to light
and heat the skyscraper.
Girl pickets of the waitresses' union
besiege George Knabe's restaurant in
Chicago, refuse to obey police orders
to scatter, appeal to teamsters' union
and win.
A comparison of school census fig
ures show 140,072 fewer minors in
Chicago now than In 1898.
Captain George J. Grammer, vice
president of the New York Central
lines, combats the doubts of railway
counsel as to the legality of freight
and passenger associations under the
Hepburn law.
A Baltimore prisoner forges a let
ter of confession as . a trick to get
a pardon, but exposure defeats his
plan.
E. H. Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation astonishes a customs
inspector in New York by declaring
two valuable pearls for duty at the
price paid for them in Paris
' The three cornered controversy over
the affairs of the Mutual Life Insur
ance company is enlivened by caus
tic statements issued by President
Peabody and George R. Scrugham
Joseph Medill Patterson in an in
terview, declares that a socialist in
a capitalistic community is placed in
such a position by his environment
that he must recant his creed or with
draw,
A letter from a railway president,
believed to be A. B. Stickney, created
a sensation at the interstate com'
serting that certain railroads seek a
loophole in the new rate law by which
they may resort to illegal practices.
Wisconsin may have two republican
platforms as a result of the failure
of the new primary law to make provi
sion for congressional candidates.
William J. Bryan declines to reply
in kind- to the screed of Roger Sulli
van, declaring the case involves more
than a personal dispute, and that the
Illinois democrats must decide on the
fitness of a favor-seeking franchise
holding leader.
Cyrlis W. Davis, democratic candi
date for governor in Maine, says the
election will be thoroughly investi
gated and claim Is made that it will
give the democrats control of the
legislature.
Speaker Cannon says he is not wor
ried over the fight the union labor
leaders are going to make dgainst him
and that he will trust his candidacy
for re-election to his friends in the
Danville district. -
Biennial school census shows that
Chicago has 706,550 minors, an in
crease of 25,958 in two years.
William J. Bryan, speaking at Louis
ville, says he favors public ownership
of railroads only when, as he believes
will be the case, regulation by. law
shall have failed. He denies he is
seeking to force his ideas on the sub
ject upon his party.
The New York Independence League
nominated a full state ticket headed
by W. R. Hearst. In his speech Mr.
Hearst declared his program does not
contemplate socialism, radicalism or
extreme of any kind.
Senator Dick routs his opponents
in the Ohio republican convention in
a stormy session, is re-elected state
leader and wins an endorsement for
himself and Foraker. The platform
praises the Roosevelt administration
and stands pat.
Gompers charges that the use of
money and whisky in the Maine elec
tion saved Congressman Littlefield.
Locomotive engineer who is warned
by presentiment of an approaching ca
lamity stays at his post in a wreck
at Washington and saves the lives of
the passengers at the cost of his own
life.
The north tube of the Pennsylvania
railroad tunnel under the Hudson
river at New York, one of the most
remarkable engineering feats of the
age, is open.
Insurance Commissioner Host of
Wisconsin refuses to support Boden
for district attorney and urges Mc-
Govern to run as an independent.
The Erie railroad gives formal no
tice that beginning November 1 it
will make maximum one-way local
fares two and a half cents a mile and
will Issue an unrestricted book.
President Paul O. Stensland and
Cashier Henry W Hering of the failed
Milwaukee Avenue State bank, of Chi
cago, five directors of the institution,
former Cashier Walter Frantzen and
Ole Stensland are the subjects of
wholesale indictments voted bv the
grand jury. Theodore Stensland is
given an "immunity bath."
Receiver Hately finds Zion City's as
sets amount to $2,528,481 instead of
$20,000,000, as claimed by Dowie, and
discovers liabilities amounting to $6,-
125.018.
The Maine election result is believed
to forecast the resubmission of the
prohibition policy to a vote of the
people.
Labor leaders are planning a hard
fight against the re-election of Speaker
Cannon to congress
A New York youth, offered $25,000
by a broker to desert his betrothed
a stenographer, declines
Ernest . Bradford Smith of Madison
Wis., has his named changed to Ernest
Smith Bradford, because he says the
Smith family is too numerous and con
fusion of names results.
The Erie and Lackawanna railroads
will follow the Pennsylvania and re
duce passenger fares to a basis of
two and a half cents, with more lib
eral terms for mileage books.
James B. Reynolds, who investigat
ed the Chicago packing houses, is mak
ing an inquiry into conditions at Ellis
Island, N. Y., under the president's in
structions. China has a simplified spelling cru
sade, the spread of the telegraph and
the post, necessitating a uniform sys
tem for the names of cities.
Dave Hennen Morris, member of
an old New York family and wealthy,
goes into the chicken raising business.
Charges of ross brutality toward
men and women held in practical sla
very are made in the Missouri peon
age trial, in which the Smith brothers,
owners of a big plantation, are de
fendants. San Francisco chamber of . com
merce, which is preparing a report
showing how the insurance companies
have treated the loss claimants in the
conflagration, expects to have it ready
soon.
Passengers on an Italian liner, kneel
ing in prayer on the deck during a ter
rific storm, are charged and trampled
by mad bulls, and many are injured.
New Astor theatre in New York is
closed on its opening night, after a
big crowd assembles, but before the
play starts, because a rule of the fire
department had been violated.
Governmental hearing to determine
the best methods of enforcing the new
pure food law, which is attended by
representatives of 100 firms, is opened
in ' New York City.
According to Major Harris, member
of the board of managers of the na
tional soldiers' homes, another decade
will see an end to the institutions be
cause of the thinning of the ranks of
the veterans.
W. J. Bryan, in a speech at Ral
eigh, N. C, declareiS that the repub
lican party makes anarchists by dis
criminating in the punishment of the
rich and the poor.
Phillip B. Stewart, republican nomi
nee for governor of Colorado, refuses
to run on the same ticket with Chief
Justice Gabbert.
Machinists, blacksirJths and boiler-
makers on all divisions of the Wabash
railroad strike for a wage increase.
Hearing of the Peavey elevator case
before the Interstate commerce com
mission develops into an inquiry as
to whether or not the grain buyers of
the country are in a conspiracy to reg
ulate the price of cereals. ,
High Russian official declares the
death of General Trepoff was due to
heart disease, brought on by agitation
at the imposition of a death sentence
by the terrorists, and that the last
days of the general were passed in
grief, he having been rebuked by those
he had served all his life.
FOREIGN NEWS
Premier Stolypin attempts to crush
the great constitutional democratic
party, which, he says, is a menace on
account of its "respectable" methods
of propagating sedition. .
President Roosevelt ordered the
cruiser Bes Moines to Havana. This
move and the spread of the revolution
in the island started talk in Washing
ton of the possibility of intervention.
Massacre of Jews at Siedlce, Po
land, ceases, but suffering there is
great. Fights, mutinies and terror
ists' plots make conditions through
out Russia grave.
Cuba welcomes the action of Presi
dent Roosevelt to put an end to the
revolution, and much talk of a pro
tectorate is heard, many leaders be
lieving that this partial intervention
puts an end to the "republic's dream
of independence.
General Trepoff, commandant of the
imperial palace in Russia, is dead, the
announcement giving no details. He
had been ill some time, and there were
rumors that he had been poisoned.
The arrest of a court lackey at
Peterhoff, together with several rev-
CHAS.L SAUER, GRAND SCRIBE
X5 0' - S'Sr M.
PE-fl U-N A STRENGTHENS
THE ENTIRE SYSTEM
Mr. Chas. L Saner, Grand Scribe,
Grand Encampment I. O. O. T. of
Texas, and Assistant City Auditor,
writes from the City Hall, San Antonio, ,
Tex.: - '
"Nearly two years ago I accepted
position as secretary and treasurer with
one of the leading dry goods establish
ments of Galveston, Tex.
"The sudden change fr6m a high and
dry altitude to sea level proved too .
much for me and I became afflicted
with. catarrh and cold in the head, and .
general debility to such an extent as to
almost, incapacitate me for attending
to my duties.
-7 was induced to try Portias, sad
after taking several bottles in smaii
doses lam pleased to say that I was
entirely restored to my normal condi
tion and have ever since recommended
the use of Peruna to my friends. "
olutionists, gives rise to report of a
fresh plot against the life of the
czar.
Race suicide, auto speeding and con
ceit are doing dire things to England,
and the temperament of the times' is
bilious, giving warning of national de
cay, says Sir James Crichton Brown.
Old manuscript telling the roman
tic story of Count de Catri, the French
loyalist, during La Vendee war, and
later when he fled to England and
worked as a gardener in Southampton.
has been discovered by John Lane.
The report that Bertha Krupp spent
only $250 for her trousseau is denied
in Berlin, the list of her gowns show
ing she expended several thousand
dollars.
Operation of marriage brokers who
arrange matches between titled Eng
lishmen and rich American women
are exposed by Henry Labourchere.
Many American automobilists are
mulcted by the police while traveling
in Germany. A. J. Drexel is struck
in the eye with a stone while riding
in his machine near Berlin.
A truce of three days is ordered by
the Cuban government and the rev
olutionists pending negotiations start
ed by the leaders of the insurrection
for their surrender to Commander
Col well. r
A mysterious curse which is be
lieved to hang over the Wittlebach
dynasty, because so many kings of