The Nebraska Independent
OCTOBER 4, 190w
Summary of Sews
War of the Times book club on
British publishers and booksellers,
started by price cutting, upsets trade.
John Burns, the labor member of
the British cabinet who has been
given a million dollars by the gov
ernment with which to solve the prob
lem of the unemployed, tells how he
will help the vast idle army.
American armored cruiser squadron
is entertained on an elaborate scale
by British tars at Gibraltar.
England suffers severely from
drought, crops having been ruined and
many lives lost by typhoid fever.
John It. Bradley, the first American
to hunt in the Mongolian mountains,
returns to London after having bagged
several rare sheep.
King Oscar of Sweden, in spite of
his 78 years, enjoys his annual hunt
on the royal preserves.
Canada plans to radically restrict
immigration from continental Europe
and encourage that from England and
the United States.
Violent earthquake shocks are felt
in Porto Rico, and though there is
no loss of life and the damage is
small the people are thrown into a
wild panic
Wing Ah Fong, the Chinese capital
ist of Honolulu, father of thirteen
beauties, who have been married to
men of prominence, is dead.
Massacre of peaceful Russians is
countenanced openly by the governor
general of Odessa as a means of
checking the revolution.
Cuban government surrenders to the
demands of Secretary Taft and the
moderates agree to name a commit
tee to meet with a committee of rebels
to discuss peace terms. The American
mediators are to act as final arbitra
tors and the insurgents will retain
their arms. ,
Charles E. Hughes is nominated for
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governor of New York by the republi
can convention at Saratoga, the Hig
gins machine being defeated by the
indirect influence of President Roose
velt. Washington officials order 1,500 ma
rines and 2,000 sailors dispatched to
Cuba, which will make a total force
available of 7,700 men to occupy the
island. ' Three more battle ships sail
at once and retired naval craft are
fitted out as transports.
Secretary Taft gives up hope of re
storing peace to Cuba by a compro
mise and says that the use of force
seems to be the only way to end the
civil war. Anarchy is threatened in
the interior.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, says
that he and John Mitchell may take
the stump against Speaker Cannon in
the Eighteenth Congressional district.
Senator Bailey says recent attacks
on him are inspired by the spite of
"dissatisfied politicians," and declares
his employment as railroad and oil
counsel involved no wrongdoing.
Police call all the poolrooms and
gambling houses in the New York
financial district, but not the bucket
shops.
Mutual Life Insurance company for
mally announces in New York the dis
missal of two of its managers, one
F. O. Paige of Detroit. One had re
fused to pledge fealty to the adminis
tration slate.
Three more negroes are killed in
Atlanta as a result of the race riots.
More troops are sent into the city and
hope of peace grows.
Governor Deneen, in an address to
the Illinois bankers in convention at
Springfield, urges them to take the
lead in corporation regulation as a
check on the rise of radicalism.
Vice President Fairbanks, in speak
ing at the Pike's Peak celebration at
Colorado Springs, makes plea for ar
bitration is settling disputes between
nations.
Secretary Taft issues his proclama
tion of intervention in Cuba and takes
hold of the government as provisional
military governor. The change is
hailed with satisfaction in Havana.
Leaders of the insurgents agree that
their forces shall lay down their arms
and disperse peacefully and a commis
sion of Americans and Cubans is ap
pointed to arrange for the surrender.
American troops are ordered to pre
pare to sail for Cuba at once when in
structions are received in Washington
from Secretary Taft The first ex
pedition will consist of 5,500 men.
Senator Beveridge in speaking at
Minneapolis says Cuba is not capable
of self govenment, and this time Amer
ican occupation will be permanent
, Advices from the gulf coast storm
region bear out the estimates of the
loss of 200 lives and the destruction
of property worth upward of ten mil
lion dollars.
Highballs to the extent of forty-five
gallons are found to have been drunk
by nurses and others in gay celebra
tions at the Metropolitan Hospital
New York, as a result of an investi
gation as to a large discrepancy in
the whisky account.
Two women are killed, five persons
are injured in a rear-end collision of
two express trains in Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Langtry reaches New York to
begin an engagement in vaudeville
and declares It is "tabloid tragedy" not
a "sketch" she is to give.
At the annual meeting of the St
Paul road in Milwaukee no change
Is made in the directorate or manage
ment. Full reports of progress on
the Pacific coast extension and other
improvements on the system are
made.
Iowa democrats are engaged in a
controversy over the selection of a
successor to Charles A. Walsh as na
tional committeeman.
New peace community is being
founded by the Apostolic Christian
church, which is buying up Indiana
farms.
W. D. Connor is successor to Sen
ator LaFollette as leader of the re
publican party in Wisconsin.
Michigan contest for the senate is
open. McMillan loses a point in the
primaries and Townsend gains.
Zion City torn by factions and
strange religious cults, seems to be
on the verge of a new upheaval, to be
precipitated by Voliva, who, disgusted
is said to be on the point of abandon
ing his efforts to save the commu
nity. Earnings of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad in the fiscal
year ending June 30 increased $9,668,
000 for the gross and $6,688,000 for
the net
Many insurance companies are pre
paring to quit Mississippi as a result
of that state's drastic anti-compact
law, which goes into effect
End comes to the Cuban republic
through the refusal of President Pal
ma to withdraw his resignation and
the action of the moderates in de
clining to attend the session of con
gress, leaving the island without a
government
Hurricane and flood from the gulf
devastate Mobile and Pensacola, caus
ing a loss of life estimated at fifty in
each place. Disasters elsewhere along
the coast are expected to bring the
total of fatalities to 200 and the prop
erty loss to $10,000,000.
Mayor McClellan and other New
York democratic leaders, with several
democratic papers, announce that they
will bolt the nomination of Hearst
for governor of the state.
E. H. Gary and J. J. Hill sign con
tracts leasing the Hill ore lands to the
United States steel corporation.
Bishop Potter of New York says the
church has civic duties, and that
never before was the demand so in
sistent for religious bodies to interest
themselves in public questions as now.
Middleport bank, a private institu
tion at Middleport, Ohio, is closed, and
it is believed nearly all the $115,000
of deposits is lost. ' Aged depositor
makes an attempt to kill the vice pres
ident of the bank.
Russian peasants near Kischineff
seize the property of landlords who
refuse to grant leases, burn the grain
and whip and expel the authorities.
Army heads in Washington are con
stantly on duty awaiting orders from
the president to send troops to Cuba.
All preparations for the advance of
40,000 men to the island are completed
on instructions from Oyster Bay.
Paul O. Stensland, president of the
wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank, is a prisoner In the state pen
itentiary at Joliet, 111., having been
started on his way there four hours
after his arrival in Chicago and after
making a confession that involves
many other men in the bank crash.
Chief Food Inspector Murray con
demns 180 tons of ham and bacon
as they lay in the pickling vats of
the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger com
pany. Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley of New York
declares at the Rock River Methodist
conference that President Roosevelt's
phonetic spelling would Impose seri
ous additional burdens on ministers.
Nephew of Russell Sage, an inmate
of the Milwaukee soldiers' home, dies
before he receives $50,000 legacy.
The body of a young woman is
found in a Minneapolis hotel with a
bullet in her head. A man whom she
accompanied to the hotel is missing.
Blind customer is attacked by in
furiated barber at New York and "is
throat cut with a razor.
New York woman Identifies dismem
bered body as that of her husband,
who deserted her four weeks ago.
Illinois bankers, in convention at
Springfield, listen to a plea for more
stringent laws by Attorney General
Stead.
Several persons are fined in Mil-
OF VITAL INTEREST
TO EVERY CITIZEN.
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MR. HERMAN ROESC
A Man of Prominence in School Circlet
and Overseer of the Poor Says
Pe-ru-na Has Proven a Most
Efficacious Remedy.
Herman Roese, 18 New Butternut St.,
Syracuse, N. Y.f is President of the
Board of Trustees of Webster graded
schools, Dist. 8, in the town of Salins.
He is also Overseer of the Poor,
Which position has afforded him ample
opportunity for noting the causes of
disease, as well as the best means of
preventing and curing the same.
He expresses his approval of the use
of Perunaas a very effective means of
solving a problem of such vital interest
to the community, as follows :
"Exposure seems to affect the lungs
sad kidneys of the poor and I have
seen hundreds of these who were
brokendown in health from this cause.
am pleased to tell you that
Peruna has proven a most efficacious
remedy in a number of cases where
no other medicine was used.
"I consider It a specific for any dis
orders ot the respiratory organs. ' '
waukee for violating the automobile
laws.
Four persons are killed, one is mis
sing and thirty-seven are injured in
a wreck on the Wabash railroad at
Catlin, 111.
Discovery is made at Milwaukee
that former Supervisor August Pells
is not an American citizen and that
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OFFICERS
John B. Wright President
J. H. Westcott 1st Vice Pres.j
Joe. Samuels 2d Vice Pres.j
P. L. Hall, Cashier1!
W. B. Ryons, Asst CashierS
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