NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...The Republican convention, which met at Lincoln on July 26, adopted a platform, which on matters of national import can be called neither progressive nor "regular...

...Harding is a "standpatter...

...Cotton Mills Consolidate On July 28, New England, New York and Baltimore mill owners and capitalists incorporated a company having a capital stock of $20,000,000, which will control twenty-two mills, many thousand acres of land under cotton cultivation, and the distributing and sales agencies of the consolidated firms...

...The government on July 29, recalled its ambassador to the Vatican and negotiations, at the time this is written, are at a standstill...

...The cones are said to be made of poisonous products...

...In Chicago many children have been lead poisoned as the result of drinking the cheap pop that is offered for sale...

...The Prtmier, an anti-clerical, is acting with firmness and seems to have the support of King Alfom-o...

...Legislation is favored to provide good roads, to compensate work-ingmen for injuries received as a result of their occupation, and to ratify the income tax amendment to the federal constitution...

...The platform, as it relates to state issues, is progressive in tone, and is satisfactory to both factions of the party...

...The platform adopted favors the short ballot, advocates local self-government in the matter of liquor traffic, the election of U. S. Senators by popular vote, and the establishment of a public service commission similar to that of New York...

...Plans were made to secure better roads through individual state legislative action...

...The old oath, which is now replaced by a ?impie declaration that the monarch is "a faithful Protestant," was a cause of si life because of its condemnation of the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, no member of which may ast-enc...

...Railroads to Get Hearing It is expected that on the 15th of August members of the Interstate Commerce Commission will begin to receive testimony from railroad officials justifying the proposed higher freight rates...

...Since the act was passed until the present associations were formed, only one group of banks had organized under the provisions of the law...

...For many months, William J. Bryan has been attempting to secure the embodiment of a county option plank in the state platform of the Democratic party...

...The holdings of the syndicate have been taken over by the Kuhn-Loeb banking firm...

...Administration to Study Alaska Attorney General Wickersham, and Secretary Nagel of the Department of Labor, are soon to visit Alaska to investigate the charges made that the vast resources of this territory are in danger of exploitation by great financial interests, and that there is a corrupt alliance between the business interests and the public officials of the territory...

...Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio, editor and former lieutenant governor was named as the candidate of the party for the governorship, to oppose Governor Harmon...

...County option legislation and an amendment to the state constitution providing for direct legislation, are pledged...

...It is not known on what grounds the railroads will base their plea for permission to raise tariffs...

...of the leaders of the pool which cornered cotton a number of months a^o, are under indictment on the charge of violating the anti-trust law, and if they are convicted, the way will be open to further prosecutions without the need of passage by Congress of a special law governing "dealing in futures...

...A resolution offered by Congressman Norris, and adopted by the convention, condemns "Cannonism," approves of the insurgent movement, and urges state representatives to use "their votes and influence along progressive lines in the future...

...It favors the supervision and regulation of all public utilities by a commission, the granting to municipalities of the right of home rule, and to the people of the right to vote directly on the granting of public franchises...

...Bryan Rebuffed by Party The Democrats of the state met at Grand Island, Nebraska, on the same day...

...President Taft's administration and the Aldrich tariff law were heartily endorsed...

...The roadmak-ing activities and methods of maintenance of foreign countries were discussed...

...In England, i.n the 20th, the bill modifying the king's c:ith of accession was passed by the House of Commons...

...A transcontinental railroad, under one management, was E. H. Harriman's goal, but as yet no one has succeeded in an attempt to form and control such a transportation line...

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...The railroad and the strikers are confident of victory.—The miners of Illinois have again refused to accept a compromise agreement, which, it is claimed, ga-\e them no more than the terms rejected before the strike was declared...

...New Bribery Scandal On July 28, the Chicago Tribune published a story of an attempt to buy the votes of seventeen Democratic members of the legislature for ex-Senator Albert Hopkins, during the legislative deadlock of last winter over the election of a United States Senator...

...The convention declared in its platform only for the enforcement of the present liquor laws and the submission directly to the people of new laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic...

...W. H. Berry, the candidate for governor of the new party, was formerly state treasurer, and exposed the state capitol frauds...

...Tariff Endorsed—Insurgents Commended The Republican and the Democratic conventions held in Nebraska last week were of national interest...

...Ice cream, also, is said to be very generally cclored and "flavored" with aniline dyes, and made under most insanitary conditions...

...The step taken by the Spanish Premier several months ago, to permit greater freedom of worship and religion and eventually to separate church and state, has led to a critical situation in the deeadant monarchy of Spain...

...The Vatican declared that negotiations looking to a revision of the understanding between the monarchy and the Church could not proceed until the Imperial decree permitting non-Catholic societies to display the insignia of public worship had bee» withdrawn...

...A number of weeks ago, the jury in the first trial disagreed after establishing a new record for length of deliberation...

...News Notes The third annual convention of the national good roads congress was opened in Niagara Falls, N. Y., on July 28...

...It is also announced that in November the President will make a three weeks' trip to the Isthmus of Panama in order to observe the progress of the canal work.—Justice Moody of the Supreme Court has notified the President that he will retire from the bench in the fall, throwing upon Mr...

...Bryan in a plea before the convention for the adoption of the county option provision said that the brewers of the state had used money and influence to prevent regulation and were seeking to control legislation through corruption...

...The miners of Iowa have given the Illinois men $100,000 with which to continue the fight...

...The other candidates are well known in reform politics-President to Visit Panama Senator Crane of Massachusetts has been asked by President Taft to make a trip through the west, going as far as Seattle, Washington, in order to secure for the chief executive information as to the political condition of the states visited...

...The platform, which had been submitted to President Taft for approval and suggestion, is intended as a model for other state conventions to adopt...

...Because of the charges brought against Secretary Ballinger in connection with the Cunningham coal claims, he is estopped from undertaking the trip, which is made for the purpose of laying before the President reliable and accurate information to govern him in recommendations: for conservation laws and a new form of government for the "treasure house of the north...

...Currency Associations Formed Through the efforts of Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, currency associations have been formed in New York City and Philadelphia, under the provisions of the Aldrich-Vreeland emergency currency act...

...The Progressive plank demanding legislation to safeguard nationally owned natural resources, was adopted...

...A revolution to overthrow the thione is feared...

...Strike Causes Trouble A street car strike which began in Columbus, Ohio, two weeks ago, was productive ©f so much rioting and disorder, that Governor Harmon was appealed to for militia with which to maintain order...

...T. H. Waterman of Albany, N. Y., and several associates of the Chicago Board of Trade have succeeded in cornering July wheat and have made a profit of many millions thereby...

...There has been practically no violence since the outbreak at Scuth Pend, Indiana, last week...

...A race war in which 25 white men and negroes were killed occurred near Palestine, Texas, on July 30...

...Action by the Department of Justice is threatened, if it is found that the speculation has affected the price of the commodity to the consumer...

...The state Republican convention which met at Columbus, Ohio, on July 26, for the purpose of adopting a platform and nominating candidates for state offices, was dominated by the "regulars...

...Taft the responsibility of making two appointments to the highest court...

...the British throne...

...The progressive Republicans of the state, seem to have gained the victory on only one issue, that of conservation...

...After the close of the convention he expressed determination to continue the fight...

...It is declared that $35,000 was raised to purchase the votes of the seventeen Democrats for Hopkins, but that threats of the Speaker of the Illinois House and of the Democratic state boss to expose those who had made the bargain caused it to fall through...

...Government pure food inspectors throughout the country have confiscated many thousand ice-cream cones within the last few weeks...

...The Commission, it is said, has received letters from a number of railroad supply houses, stating that supplies, which the railroads claim are higher in price now than ever before and which, they say, have caused an increase of operating expenses, have, on the contrary, decreased in cost within the last ten years.—Last week an English group of capitalists was forced to abandon a plan to secure control of certain connecting railroads that under one management would form a line from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast...

...It strongly endorses and vigorously defends the Payne tarii't law, and commends the administration for the legislation passed by the last session of Congress...

...Reform in Pennsylvania Republicans and Democrats of Pennsylvania disgusted with the political corruption and the control of public offices and officers by the two party machines in collusion, met in Philadelphia on the 28th to form a new party, "The Keystone...

...Demonstrations of Catholics and of anti-clericals have been held all over the country and the situation is most tense not only between the Church and the State but within the state itself...

...He has been the leader of the Democrats of the state for many years and his failure to secure the inclusion of the desired amendment is regarded by many as a throwing off of his leadership by the party...

...Another Wheat Corner—Prosecution...

...Before nominations were made for the office of governor, James R- Garfield announced that he would not be a candidate for the office...

...The Secretary and the financial interests of the country state that there is no financial stringency in sight, but that the associations are formed as a wise, precautionary step...

...Church and State to Separate...

...Subsequently William Lorimer was elected through Democratic votes...

...Addresses were made showing the financial benefit to be derived from the improvement of rural highways...

...Since the troops ar-lived in Columbus, the city has been comparatively quiet.—The strike on the Grand Trunk railroad continues at the time this is written...

...Hopkins is said to have been unaware of the efforts made to secure his election with the aid of the Democrats...

...The Democratic minority leader of the last Illinois assembly, Lee O'Neille Browne, on August 1 was brought to trial for a second time on the charge of bribery of a fellow member of the legislature to vote for William Lorimer for U. S. Senator...