NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering TECHNICAL barriers and a desperate lobby have not stopped the inquiry into the election of William Lorimer as United States Senator from Illinois. Following the passage of a...
...TO AID UNEMPLOYED IN MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, an organized effort is being male to solve the problem of unemployment...
...The Illinois legislature will meet again next week to receive messages or vetoes from the governor and will adjourn sine die...
...Richard Mathias, member of the English Parliament from Cheltenham, was ousted from his seat recently by the courts upon a petition alleging illegal practices by his campaign manager...
...The Democrats, too, are of a frame of mind that will favor a more thorough inquiry into Lorimer's election...
...Now, sar, Mr...
...The packers last week went into the Federal Court and presented their petition for a rehearing of arguments on a demurrer to the indictments against them, setting forth that the rulings in the Standard Oil case had brought about a change in their position...
...War in Mexico Ended News that the war in Mexico had come to a close was sent out from Juarez on the 21st...
...The bulletin asserts that the stories recently sent out by the Russian government and published in American newspapers respecting the alleged murder of a boy are precisely similar to the unfounded tales circulated previous to the Kishineff, Odessa, and Bialystok pogroms and are founded upon baseless calumnies, originated by Prince Mentchikow, formerly a Liberal and follower of Tolstoi, but now an editor of the Novoe Vremya...
...His View of It Paintings were not her specialty, but as she gazed at a beautiful copy of Millet's "Gleaners" her admiration of the work called forth enthusiastic comment...
...she inquired, as she bent nearer to read the title...
...Statue of Victoria Unveiled King George of Great Britain on the 16th unveiled the great marble memorial to Queen Victoria before Buckingham palace...
...The knowledge and study which have gone into the exhibit, and the study which grows out of it, must advance that era...
...Madero signed the agreement after several days of indecision and parleying...
...Celebrated Frenchman Killed Henri Maurice Berteaux, minister of war of France, was killed, and Henri Deutsch de la Mourthe, aged patron of aeronautics, was seriously injured on the 21st when a monoplane driven by M. Train capsized in the air and swooped down on a group of cabinet ministers assembled to watch the start of the Paris-Madrid race...
...According to statements made by government officials, the lumber suit is the signal for a general onslaught on the big trusts that was promised in case the Sherman law was upheld by the Supreme court in the Standard Oil case...
...It is understood that the service will be extended rapidly from now on...
...Robert Bacon, present ambassador is France and assistant secretary of state in the Roosevelt administration, is said to be slated for transfer to Berlin to succeed David Jayne Hill...
...How perfectly fascinating...
...The Chicago health department it considering seriously a plan to rid the city of cats...
...These two men, more than any others, have been responsible for the supremacy of France in air navigation by heavier-than-air craft...
...The government alleges that private persons and corporations have been kept from having direct relations with the wholesalers through a system of blacklisting...
...but the United States Senate committee, it is believed, will be able, through its increased power, to go to the bottom...
...The Democrats, while favoring the investigation, desire to have the investigation made by a sub-committee of the committee on privileges and elections...
...The unveiling was the first of the great ceremonies leading up to the coronation of King George...
...The government complaint sets forth that "the defendants for some time have been and now are engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce among and between the several states and territories of the United States in lumber and lumber products...
...Lawlessness in the South That lawlessness is not yet a thing of the past in the South was demonstrated on the 21st when a mob at Lake City, Florida, managed through strategy to get six negroes out of jail and then proceeded to lynch them one by one...
...In Wisconsin there has been a brief delay in final passage of the bill but it was sent to the senate last week and the coming week will see it in the governor's hands...
...Illinois Legislature Closes The Illinois legislative session came to an end on the 19th and students immediately began striking a balance on the work accomplished and the things left undone...
...was the question asked an old darkey a few days ago...
...The Wisconsin bill prsvides for a referendum which will be held a year from next November...
...The Lorimer question, of course, has taken on a new phase since the investigation pursued by the Helm committee of the Illinois legislature which was followed by the resolution holding that Lo-rimer's seat has been bought...
...he is said to have told Lorimer's friends in Washington that he will urge a deep inquiry into the charges...
...Last year there were forty-five...
...Fred D. Grant, son of Gen...
...Even Senator Bailey of Texas, who voted in Lorimer's favor in February, now urges the investigation under certain conditions...
...Charlie, I does not want ter make yer mad, but de Publicins ara right, sho' am right...
...Madero is expected to be in Mexico City directly after the resignation of President Diaz...
...Jewish Massacres Feared Following disturbances in Kieff, Russia, which have been so serious as to cause police intervention, the American Jewish committee at Washington, D. C, has issued a bulletin expressing the belief that only wide publicity and protest can avert a recurrence of the massacres six years ago in Kishineff, Odessa and other Russian cities...
...The Chino-British ophim agreement signed at Pekin last week contains a provision that the opium traffic must cease entirely in the year 1917...
...The National Monthly...
...The Illinois senate saw fit to approve the bill but the lower house refused to concur and the women of Illinois must await another oppsrtunity...
...Official representatives of the Mexican government and of the revolutionary forces under Gen...
...They were ordered to file their briefs...
...This measure, like the Wisconsin law, abrogates the commen law defenses of assumption of risk and fellow servant's negligence and then furnishes a means by which employers may pay a scheduled rate of compensation in cases of injury or death of employees...
...Conditions are different now from the conditions that brought about the "vindication" of the Illinois member earlier in the year...
...Suffrage Loses and Wins While the lower house of the Wisconsin legislature was sending the woman's suffrage measure on to final passage, the Illinois legislators killed a similar measure...
...These six lynchings bring the total for 1911 up to seventeen...
...The year 1901 saw 135 southern lynchings...
...Following the passage of a resolution by an overwhelming majority in the Illinois Senate to the effect that Lorimer's election was brought about by bribery, efforts were renewed this week in the United States Senate to initiate a new inquiry...
...And how natural it looks...
...U. S. Grant, who led the Union army before Vicksburg, and a great crowd of Union and Confederate veterans...
...A few weeks will see the result of the suits...
...A committee on unemployment has been formed jointly by the Merchant's and Manufacturers' Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the Common Council, the Federated Trades Cauncil, the County Roard, and the Milwaukee Press Club...
...she exclaimed...
...There are more Progressive Republicans on hand to assist in clearing up the matter...
...The workmen's compensation bill, while promised in the Republican and Democratic platforms, might have been defeated but for the constant attention of the labor leaders, who forced their representatives to keep their promises...
...Meat Packers Renew Fight While the meat packing defendants in Chicago claim that the Standard Oil decision of the United States Supreme court has given them a new lease on life, the government attorneys in these important cases take the opposite stand...
...0 yes, I see—gleaning millet...
...To that end a free employment bureau has been spened at 225 West Water Street...
...It has accepted the theory that these pets are carriers of disease and is seeking to educate the people to a point where the parlor, back-yard and alley cats will be spared...
...What a wonderful gieture...
...At the conclusion of the ceremony, which was witnessed by Kaiser Wilhelm, the King knighted Thomas Brock, who made the statue...
...Francisco Leon de Barra, present minister of foreign relations, is to assume the presidency and continue in office during the interim before a popular election for president...
...Well, sah," said Uncle Bill, "I is a old darkey, I is, and I's hed a heap of 'sperience...
...caze de Bible speaks of Publicins, but frum lid to lid dare is no Demycrat in it...
...The purpose of the committee is to find employment wherever possible for the deserving...
...The peace agreement provides absolutely for the resignation of President Diaz and Vice-President Ramon Corral...
...The battlefield monument was dedicated on the 22nd in the presence of the governors of Mississippi and Wisconsin, Gen...
...It is averred that in addition to the civil suit against the lumber combine, there will be criminal prosecutions of the lumber magnates...
...I takes de Bible fur ebery-thing...
...Vicksburg Monument Dedicated Veterans of the Civil War have revived old memories and the younger generation has had its patriotism stirred by the dedication at Vicksburg of the monument erected to the memory of Wisconsin soldiers who lost their lives in the historic siege of the southern city...
...On that day the federal government announced its determination to make an attack on ten organizations and 150 individuals on the ground that they were restraining interstate commerce unreasonably and also checking healthy competition...
...Anita McCormick Blaine, who has shared honors with Jane Addams and others in bringing the welfare of children into the public attention, has this to say of the exhibit: "The Child Welfare exhibit is a mighty stream, gaining in force and re-sistlessness as it goes, bearing on its waters many craft, all laden with the future issues of Ohicago's children, and, indeed, of the children of the world...
...Royalty was present at the ceremony and representatives of all the great nations watched the unveiling...
...Congressman Sulzer of New York has introduced a resolution looking to a convention between The United States and Canada with the purpose of putting an end to the pollution of the waters of the Great Lakes by sewage...
...Tit-Bits...
...It is held by Progressive leaders in Illinois to be the naost perfect state commission bill ever enacted...
...But what are those people doing...
...Child's Welfare Furthered The welfare of children has been an important theme in Chicago during the last two weeks...
...The Child Welfare Exhibit in the Coliseum has attracted commendation in all parts of the country and at the beginning of this week it was announced that important portions of the exhibit—the first of its kind in America—would be taken to other large cities...
...On the 22nd Senator La Follette delivered the first part of his speech on his resolution naming a committee to make a thorough probe into the Lorimer charges...
...Recognition is thus given to the fact that there is a problem of unemployment...
...The minister of war was terribly mangled by the swiftly revolving propellor of the flying machine while M. Deutsch was so seriously hurt that he may not survive...
...Mathias is one of the richest shipowners in England...
...The peace agreement also contains clauses looking to the immediate withdrawal of the revolutionary troops and pledges the government to make inquiries as to public opinion with a view to bringing about the reforms asked by the insurrectos...
...The Publicans "Uncle Bill, why are you a Republican...
...The popularity of the postal savings banks has been so encouraging to the department at Washington that forty-five new banks were established recently...
...For if Chicago can place the welfare of its children high above doubt, high in efficiency, high in insight, where is the child in the world who will not feel the result in his life...
...The refusal of Tilden and others to produce their records and bank books stopped the Illinois inquiry...
...The memorial is fronted by a statue of the late queen and is surmounted by a gilded winged Victory...
...NEWS NOTES — The fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of Cardinal Gibbons was celebrated in New York on the 10th, the cardinal being presented with a coat of arms in basswood set in a gold frame...
...Interest in the beef cases gave way slightly on the 19th to the government action against the lumber combine...
...The most progressive measures put through at the session just clesed were the railroad commission bill and the workmen's compensation measure The railroad bill was an administration measure and was the subject of one of the notable fights of the session...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 21
