NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE MORGAN-GUGGENHEIM syndicate received its expected blow on the 27th when Fred Dennett, United States Land Commissioner, announced his decision holding the Cunningham coal...
...Women March in London One of the opening features of the coronation festivities in London was a parade on the 17th of 50,000 woman suffragists from all parts of England...
...It is the intention of the department to proceed at once to a final determination of all the remaining Alaska coal claims so far as this can properly be done...
...The naval review was the last great spectacle of a week of great displays...
...The employers are now pursuing the usual tactics allowing themselves to be fined and then appealing the case to a higher court with the object of getting a decision from the Supreme Court...
...Whether this was from a sympathetic explosion caused by a torpedo from the outside may forever remain a mystery...
...J. P. Morgan Decorated Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has decorated J. Pierpont Morgan with the grand cross of the Order of the Red Eagle in recognition of the millionaire American's gift to the Emperor of the autograph letter written by Martin Luther to Emperor Charles V. Mr...
...On July 1 it will be possible for depositors to convert their savings accounts into United States bonds, bearing 2 1/2 per cent...
...There were 2,119 separate deposits, averaging $33.-39...
...This victory assures the cancellation of multitudes of other fraudulent claims in Alaska...
...A Florence dealer, representing Mr...
...Morgan recently bought the famous letter for $25,500...
...New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver and practically every other big city will celebrate the nation's birthday in a fitting manner...
...Maine Mystery Unsolved General W. H. Bixby, chief of engineers in charge of the work of raising the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, is authority for the statement that the mystery of the explosion in 1898 never will be known...
...Sane Fourth is Assured The earnestness with which many large cities have taken up the urgent demands for a sane Fourth of July indicates that the casualties this year will be reduced to a minimum...
...Union men were also elected to the council...
...interest...
...Newspaper reports are to the effect that business men in all the cities have been most generous in making contributions for a sane Fourth celebration...
...The lower court's decision was based on the view that the law represented class legislation and that it was antagonistic to the fundamental law of the land...
...As substitutes for these death dealing agencies, the committees in many cities will provide music and illuminations for the youngsters and their parents...
...The exchange of courtesies between the German ruler and the American money king took place during the festivities at Kiel in connection with the visit there of the American squadron...
...Two days before the election, when the assembly held its opening session, it was notified that the United States had officially recognized the government of the new republic...
...The second group of forty-five depositories, which opened May 1, received in the first month $70,749 in deposits—14.47 per cent more than was taken in at the initial offices during the first month's operation...
...From the lesser vantage points the procession was watched by the poor of London, their ragged attire and apparent misery forming: a woeful contrast to the rich robes of those who figured in the pageant...
...Trade Union Benefits The labor department of the board of trade of Great Britain has just issued a statistical report on the activities of the trade unions...
...The defeated mayoralty candidate, it is alleged, was favorable to any plan making for the extermination of the unions, and organized labor showed its displeasure...
...The parade was seven miles long, the women marching five abreast between great crowds that lined the streets...
...The grand total of membership entitled to benefits was 2,358,040...
...The total cost of the ships in line has been estimated at half a billion dollars...
...first, because they are the law, and, second, because they afford the only protection to the public welfare against the abuses of monopoly and unrestricted private exploitation...
...Another important witness was George W. Hin-man, publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean, the only daily paper in Chicago that has "stood by" Lorimer through all his trouble...
...Portugal Elects President On the 21st Portugal elected its president by vote of the constituent assembly, Anselmo Braamcamp being elevated to the office...
...As soon as it became known that the historic document was to go to America the annoyance of the German public was expressed in many newspaper editorials...
...Nevertheless, their provisions must be enforced...
...Gifford Pinchot, when informed of the decision, said: "The cancellation of the claims is proof, given by the administration itself, that the fight made against it to prevent coal monopoly in Alaska was not only successful but necessary and right...
...There will be an absence of dangerous fireworks and toy pistols...
...The destruction to the vessel was such" said Gen...
...Morgan, obtained the epistle at an autograph sale at Leipsic, Saxony, on May 3 last...
...The prediction is made that by July 1 deposits will have reached $1,000,000...
...Attendance is suggested until the age of 18 has been reached...
...Former Senator Hopkins, who was defeated by Lorimer for reelection, told about the peculiar changes in votes of members who had supported him until Lorimer's friends began their aggressive campaigning...
...The case will be carried to the higher court of California where, if precedents in Illinois and Oregon are followed, the new law will be declared valid...
...I do not believe the present laws applicable to coal lands in Alaska are wise or practicable...
...It did, however, result in getting into the official record the testimony regarding the $100,000 "slush fund" which first was brought to light when Cyrus Mc-Cormick of Chicago told his story before the Helm committee in Springfield...
...This practically disposes of the controversy which was at the bottom of the Ballinger-Pinchot dispute and the final resignation under fire of Ballin-ger as chief of the Interior Department...
...Any further proceedings will be merely formal, for the purpose of perfecting the record in case the claimants think there are questions of law which they desire to present to the courts...
...The testimony of Yates, Hinman and Hopkins all pointed to the sordid rottenness of politics in Illinois...
...Lorimer Again Investigated The first week's work of the senate committee delegated to investigate the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois did not reveal any particularly new features of the Illinois scandal...
...Should these book concerns in Ohio refuse to accept the Commission's award, it is rumored that the state may go into the publication of books on its own account...
...In announcing the decision, Secretary Fisher made this statement: "This is a final decision of the Cunningham claims, so far as the Department of the Interior is concerned...
...The heavy fighting craft were spread over a six-mile stretch of open sea, their gay decorations presenting a rare tribute to Great Britain's "sailor king...
...On succeeding days the committee had before it former Governor Yates and former Senator Hopkins of Illinois...
...Of the ships in line, 167 were from the British navy while seventeen others represented as many nations...
...Traveling benefits amounted to $31,000, while emigration, fares and removals reached $13,000...
...The largest ship in the review was the United States battleship Delaware, the biggest warship afloat...
...McCormick repeated his testimony to the committee on the 20th...
...It has been shown that book companies were selling books made in Ohio at a lower price in other states than they were at home...
...Bixby, "and the deterioration has been so great that it will be impossible to tell whether the ship was blown up from a force within or without...
...Compulsory School Attendance In a preliminary statement issued by the United Textile Factory Worker's Association, Great Britain, containing the subjects to be discussed at the coming convention, is the following: "To consider the compulsory attendance at evening continuation schools of boys and girls over fourteen years of age, the time of school attendance to be from October to March in each year, schools to be open three nights a week, and the cost to be born by the state...
...England's peers and representatives of monarchies, republics, kingdoms and empires participated in a series of ceremonies extending through the week...
...News Worth Remembering THE MORGAN-GUGGENHEIM syndicate received its expected blow on the 27th when Fred Dennett, United States Land Commissioner, announced his decision holding the Cunningham coal land claims to be illegal...
...It did not reach the emperor, as its contents were such that no one dared deliver it...
...The greatest force, however, was from the inside, indicating that the forward magazine had exploded...
...According to the law, the School Book Commission has a right to demand a certain stipulated price for books used in Ohio, based upon the selling price in other states by Ohio concerns...
...There are deposits of $390,666 in the forty-five banks first opened five months ago...
...Seven hundred of the women, who had served prison sentences in furthering their cause, appeared in prison garb and were lustily cheered by the multitudes...
...Many of the leading exponents of votes for women appeared in picturesque costumes of great women in history...
...The committee, by pressing question after question, brought out the maze of political quarrels of the last few years and learned much of the inner history of the bi-partisan ring and its practices...
...This is the law passed by the last legislature of that state...
...I sincerely trust that these laws will be modified at the next session of congress so as to permit the development of the Alaskan coal fields under provisions that will protect and promote the public interest...
...The greatest spectacle, of course, was the procession from the palace to Westminster Abbey...
...Postal Banks Popular Statistics compiled in the postmaster general's department prove the popularity of the postal savings bank system...
...Enemy of Labor Defeated The men of labor of Portland, Oregon, have just achieved a victory in defeating a conspicuous enemy of organized labor for mayor, and electing a friend...
...Eighteen nations were represented in the naval parade off Spithead by 185 ships of war...
...Women's Law at Issue The Superior court at Riverside, California, has declared the woman's eight-hour law unconstitutional...
...Law for Women Tested The Legislature of Nebraska passed a law forbidding the employment of women between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. This law affects chiefly girls between the ages of 16 and 25, as women at these ages constitute the great majority of female employes...
...Winding its way through the crowded streets of the metropolis, the parade of wealth and world-power was cheered and applauded by thousands on the temporary stands that lined the thoroughfares...
...The amount of ordinary unemployed benefits paid in 1908 by 1,059 unions was over $6,000,000...
...The Luther letter, which now remains in Germany, was written in 1521 during the reformer's return journey from the diet at Worms and described the proceedings and defended his attitude...
...Reduce Book Prices During the last session of the Ohio State Legislature, a bill designated as "uniform text book bill" failed of passage, but it is understood that the people, through the School Book Commission, will be enabled to reduce the present price 16 1/2 per cent...
...Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher immediately approved the findings...
...Homage from Eighteen Nations Coronation week in England ended on the 25th with what has been pronounced the greatest naval review in history...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 26
