The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-06-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

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, not on the program is, that of tn
Irish Members of Parliament ant
their wives. who were specially in
vited, not one will attend.
The contrary reports that tn
press has been printing abou
Commander Templin Potts ant
Kaiser Wilhelm remind us that i
is still possible to raise tempest
in L. Potts"
The question fer the the cFv55liccaaaa can;
to answer is whether the accuse
tons against Smith and Others
like him are true or not; and moi
whether lynching is more or 6
less brutal crime.
High speed in electric traction
has come to be q matter OF rails
and roadbed and the attainment OF
more than 100 miles an hour has
been proved impossible unless the
whole railroad system is rebuilt.
1t is asserted that there are less
than 100 persons in Germany now
who cannot read and write, among
them being the reigning prince of
Reuss, who, though mentally un-
sound, recent y assumed the crown,
Buildings and statuary in Lon
don have been cleaned in the fur
bisning up for the coronation and
there have been many protests
from artists and others who hold
that the stains of time are aesthet-
icaIly more pleasing than the rem
ovated objects,
Bullet proof clothing, so gener
ally exploited several years ago,
was generally found to be worth
less, but Chicago man, after
years of experiment, has put on
the market a bullet proof vest
warranted to stop revolver bull
let. 1t sells for $50.
The Boer war has been conclud-
ed, and the concessions that the
British have made to the Beers
form a tribute to the bravery and
persistence of the latter. London
has gone wild, not so much over
the celebration of victory as at the
contamination of peace.
President Roosevelt in referring
to lynching in the United States,
in connection with cruelties in the
Philippines, resurrects the parable
of the mote and the beam and
seems to lose sight of the equally
old and true adage that 1.-TWO
wrongs do not make right"
President Roosevelt's recent
speeches may be epitomized thus:
To the Presbyterians; "Be good to
your church and support it and
the Administrations Philippine
policy" At Arlington; "Remem-
Der the illustrious dead and favor
the Republican regime in the Phil
ippines."
The country was shocked some
years ago at the record of "bil-
lion dollar Congress-" The pres
ent Congress will discount that re-
cord by apHropriating nearly that
during a single session.
Still no one may say that the high
est point of Republican eXtrava-
gance has been reached.
Ex-President Cleveland has ac-
copied an invitation to address the
Tilden Club of New York, June
10. This will be his first political
speech since he left the White
House. Most of the prominent
Democrats of the country will be
present and the meeting points to
the greatest harmony in the party.
Secretary Root forwards to Con
gress a statement of the receipts
and expenditures of the civil gov
in the Philippines show
ing an excess of receipts of which
nearly 100000 is loot. The Sen
ate wants to know what the war is
costing rather than a financial bal
ance of the public civil revenues,
Count Won Zeppelin, whose bal
loon experiments brought him
reputation, is now, at
81, penniless because of the great |
expense of his undertakings in
aerial navigation. Aernautics are
and the balloon IN
which one Frenchman claims he
can cross the desert of Sahara will
cost $3.50, 1000.
The Countess of Buena Vista
has sued General Brooke for $3.50
900 damages for taking away from
her the slaughter house privileges
for Havana, granted to her family
by the King of Spain in 1904.
Her monopoly formed beef
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