NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PREDICTIONS b y Progressive Senators, newspapers and citizens generally, at the time of this writing, are to the effect that the days of Senator William Lorimer in the United...
...Then all was still again.—Chicago Tribune...
...Paul, Archbishop Glen-non preaching the funeral sermon to a congregation that included the prominent figures in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church in America...
...China Forced to Give in Word comes from Pekin that China will have to give in to the demands of Russia regarding the Ili province in Chinese Turkestan...
...ON THE LEVEL "Do you assimilate your food, aunty...
...2. No company of any other state shall be required to pay as such license fee an amount greater than that exacted from Wisconsin companies by the laws of that other state...
...It is believed that the treaty with Russia may be renounced because of the trouble over boundaries, the original document giving the right of abrogation at the end of any decade...
...Certain press bureaus took up his obvious joke and transmitted it to England without the embellishments that make a joke apparent to the Britons...
...Iowa Takes Precaution With its lesson before it in the shape of an almost hopeless deadlock over the United States senatorship, the Iowa legislature on the 14th passed a bill for the Oregon system of electing senators...
...President Taft urges immediate passage of the agreement and the newspapers promise that the nation's chief executive will call a special session in case the Senate refuses to abide by the agreement...
...Baltimore American...
...The will of Baron Albert Rothschild filed in Vienna, bequeaths $10,000,000 to charities...
...Archbishop Ryan Buried Archbishop Patrick John Ryan, who died on the 12th in Philadelphia, was buried on the 16th, a hundred thousand persons paying their respects to the prelate...
...No, I doesn't, sah...
...Mineral lands near Reno which are said to be worth $50,000,000 are the subject of negotiations now and it is expected that they will be returned to the government...
...National spirit in China is against the surrender to Russia but diplomatic relations are such under the 1881 treaty that the emperor's ministers will have their demands granted...
...Friends of the measure believe it can be passed over a veto...
...Harriman Lands Restored Two thousand acres of valuable lands in Nevada have been restored to the United States government through the efforts of the widow of E. H. Harriman...
...The proposed system contains the following features: 1. "As an annual license fee" for transacting business in the state, a sum equal to 5 per cent, of such proportionate part of the gross income of the company as the amount of outstanding insurance of the company on the lives of residents of the state bears to the total amount of all outstanding insurance...
...NEWS NOTES — A special commission of the Reichstag has recommended a plan for the government of Alsace-Lorraine which takes that province from under the domination of the Kaiser and gives the rule to a regent who shall hold office for life...
...The church controls parochial schools with an attendance of 1,-270,131...
...Navarro has placed Jaurez under complete martial law, closing every business house...
...Mail Clerks Gain Point Complaints by railway mail clerks that the Hitchcock "economy" campaign had resulted in unreasonably long periods of duty, have brought about a new order from Washington more in the line of justice...
...The jury recently ordered the printing of a thousand forms of indictment to be filled in with the names of those who are to be placed on trial for vote-selling or vote-buying...
...News Worth Remembering PREDICTIONS b y Progressive Senators, newspapers and citizens generally, at the time of this writing, are to the effect that the days of Senator William Lorimer in the United States Senate are numbered...
...Peter and St...
...New Insurance Tax Proposed The Wisconsin tax commission on the 10th submitted a bill and a report to the legislature embodying a new system for the taxation of insurance companies...
...EVEN IN HER SLEEP The little alarm clock on the bureau had been set for too early an hour, and when it went off it failed to awaken the telephone girl...
...The body was entombed in the crypt under the high altar of the Cathedral of St...
...The advantage gained by the companies is believed to be short-lived, however, because the legislature is expected to confer additional authority upon the Commission...
...The case went to the federal court upon the motion of the express companies to be granted an injunction against interference...
...This standard will be put into effect at once and in cases where it is necessary for clerks to work overtime at either end of their runs, they are to be given extra pay...
...The bill went through both houses by a vote of two to one and it is expected to be signed by the governor although reactionaries are urging him to veto it...
...The bill as passed requires legislative candidates either to pledge themselves to vote for the senatorial candidate named by the people in their primary or to announce that they will not be bound by the voice of the people...
...I'm sorry I rang your bell by mistake," she murmured...
...In order to stamp out the little revolution in North Mexico, Gen...
...The German Kaiser has resumed his accustomed activities after an illness...
...Hesitate on Reciprocity Canadian reciprocity as outlined in the report of an agreement between two commissions of this nation and the neighbor to the north, has passed the house and now remains to be approved by the Senate...
...According to the Catholic directory there are 17,084 Catholic priests in 13,461 churches...
...President Taft has under consideration a request by influential citizens that all treaties between the United States and Russia be abrogated unless the Czar's officials consent to recognize passports in the hands "of American Jews in Russia...
...The vote upon the question of declaring his seat vacant, therefore, is the only proof of the outcome of the controversy that began with confessions of Illinois legislators that they received bundles of bills to hasten his election...
...President Taft hastened to send a letter to Representative McCall deprecating the alleged "joke," and the incident was closed...
...Pope Pius X, who has been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, is said to be recovering...
...The action of Mrs...
...Catholics Number 23,000,000 According to the Catholic census just published, there are 23,000,000 Roman Catholics under the United States flag...
...So far as the Senate is concerned, the question of Canadian reciprocity remains in abeyance and it is doubtful if any final action will be taken until just before adjournment...
...Widespread desire for several constitutional amendments has caused a majority of the Illinois senate to favor a constitutional convention and last week it was reported from the capital that such a convention was being considered seriously...
...I buys it open an' honest, sah...
...Harriman puts an end to the suits...
...Express Companies Win Efforts of Illinois shippers to get relief from the high rates of the express companies have been nulled for the present by United States Circuit Judge Kohl-saat's decision that the Illinois Railroad Commission has no authority over the express companies...
...Most of these office-holders are appointees of Speaker Cannon, who hails from the district...
...The plague, combined with the famine, will end thousands of more lives before the advent of warm weather, say residents of the afflicted districts...
...The lands are said to have been gained illegally by the old Central Pacific railroad and at the time of the railroad magnate's death several suits were pending to take the property from the private owners...
...Two questions of greater import—direct elections and the Lorimer matter—stare the members in the face for immediate action...
...The grand jury is credited with having gained admissions from powerful political leaders and the populace now awaits the announcement of indictments...
...United States soldiers captured a large supply of arms about to be shipped across the border to the revolutionists...
...The New York legislature is about to pass a bill placing restrictions on the cold storage business...
...Testimony in the suits is said to have disclosed that the old railroad was granted alternate sections of land and that it took the more valuable mining sections, entering them as agricultural lands...
...In the few days that intervened between the announcement of his speech, and the actual day set for the speech, however, several senators who have been importuned by the Lorimerites are said to have joined his fold...
...In the meantime, reputable newspapers throughout the country are urging that immediate action be taken in the Lorimer matter and that the senate, without quibbling further on the technicalities relating to the exact number of persons bribed, take a vote on the question of declaring his seat vacant...
...With the skill that always has marked the moves of Lorimer and the clever men that have been his chief advocates in the struggle for membership in the Senate, the announcement was made at the end of last week that Lorimer would make a speech in his own defense on Wednesday, February 22...
...The Des Moines health authorities on the 15th ordered an investigation of all stocks of cold storage eggs and stopped their sale until the inquiry...
...In the United States there are 14,618,761, including children who are communicants...
...The regent is to be nominated by the emperor upon the proposal of the Bun-desrath...
...The situation appears to be complicated, however, and for that very reason many members of the Senate maintain that they intend to make a thorough study of the schedules involved before they will commit the country to the agreement...
...a. d., O'Neill, Neb...
...Thirty-five senators favor revision rather than to submit to the people, all the proposed amendments now before the legislature...
...Objections from many parts of this country and from Canada appear to have made the upper house pause before taking final action...
...And it affords me pleasure to say that the magazine has produced at least ten good insurgents in this community.—d...
...The third decade of the treaty will come to an end this month...
...As stated by the commission the tax is in the nature of an income tax, with the added provision designed to eliminate the retaliatory tax imposed by other states on Wisconsin companies...
...One of the amusing incidents of the debates in the House apropos of Canadian reciprocity grew out of the expression by Champ Clark, speaker-elect of the lower body, that he looked forward to the annexation of Canada...
...As a result the London newspapers, ignoring the importance of the original question, fell upon the Canadian annexation ruse as the chief proposition and alarmed the King's people with a "complete exposition" of the American plot...
...Official estimates place the number of deaths from the plague in Manchuria at sixty-five thousand...
...PRODUCING INSURGENTS This makes the tenth reader, I think, I have procured for La Follette's within the last year...
...Officeholders Busy at Danville Recent developments in the Vermilion county (Illinois) grand jury investigation into wholesale vote-buying in the last few years include an exposure of activity of federal office holders in the district to check the probe...
...The order sets a standard of six hours a day for six days a week on railroad lines where the work is heavy and continuous...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 8
