The independent., 1903-05-28
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
What the Dyspeptic Saw in His Morning
Paper a. He Grumblsd Over His
Health Food

dals. Payne astonished at Machen's
deficit.
Secretary Hitchcock returned to
Washington after junket in Okla
homa and Indian territories, delighted
with what he saw.
Hilmi Pasha proposes wholesale de-
portation of Bulgarians from Mace
will doubtless veto the plan.
Reported that General Estrada, lead
er of forces of President Zelaya in
Nicaragua, was killed in battle with
the insurgents near Rives on April 27.
Snow has been falling nearly week
in vicinity of Granger, Wyo. Loss of
sheep will be heavy.
Revolt in Crotia, growing out of
long standing hatred between Slavs
and Magyars, intensified by extreme
poverty prevailing and threatened
famine.
Kischineff massacres of Jews done
nder religious insanity. Believed that
similar outrages will be repeated in
other Russian towns unless the cZar
adopts more energetic policy.
Chicago Jaws have arranged for g.
600 tickets to bring Kischineff Jews
to America.
Approaching bi-centennial at st.
Petersburg causes apprehension III
Russian administrative circles. Seri-
GUS outbreaks are feared. Revolution
list emissaries flooding workshops
with "seditious' literature.
Lord Roseberry, in speech at Burn.
ley, May 10, said that liberal party
is indissolubly bound to free trade,
denying that he supports Chamber
lain's proposal to establish reciprocity
between Great Britain and her col
onies.
Grover Cleveland finished a week S
good fishing at Middle Bass, O.,
Wednesday.
President Roosevelt visited Portland
and Salem, Ore, Thursday, May I'll.
The Pennsylvania railroad is chop
ping down hundreds of miles of West
ern Union Telegraph poles.
Again Secretary Hitchcock says the
fences on Nebraska public lands mus
come down.
The Abraham Lincoln elm tree at
Springfield, ILL.,, was blown down by ..
heavy wind storm Thursday.
Thursday was a record-breaker for
tornadoes and severe wind storms.
York, Neb.; Sumter, Neb.; Lone Wolf
|. T.; Hereford, Tex; Assaria, Kas ;
near Kinsley, Kas; Lebanon, Ind, and
Elwood, Ind, were places visited by
storms.
Confederate reunion adjourned at
New Orleans.
]. Pierpont Morgan will bring in
$2,00O,000 of paintings and curios from
his Park Lane house as household eff
fects,' and thus escape 100000 tariff
duties, which poor people can make
up by tariff on sugar, etc.
Presbyterian 115th general assembly
met at Los Angeles; triennial general
council of Reformed Episcopal church
of America, at Chicago; 73rd session
general assembly Cumberland Presby-
lCl idu CuulCll, at ANdoAflllC, uAu 5Cn-
eral synod Of Reformed Presbyterians,
at South Ryegate, vt.
Growing out of w. r. Hearst's az
! ton against the coal trust, the inter-
state commerce commission has sue
ceeded in getting Knox to go into U,
s. circuit court for an order compell-
| ing Baer to produce contract between
coal roads and mines as to limitation
of output
President Power Of the Montana
state board of sheep commissioners es-
| Inmates that 100000 sheep were lost
| in recent blizzard making a grand
total of 100000 during the winter,
valued at s3,750,OO0.
The Eastern-Tube Co., GAINESVILLE,
O., has gone into receivership; liabili-
ties 100000; assets, about 100000.
The North American Fisheries cor.
poration has been forced into a re.
ceivership because of the Porter Bros
big failure.
Bishop Henry G. Potter, speaking Oh
labor unions at the civic dinner, Or
ange, N. j., says the labor organiza-
tions are losing sympathy. Perhaps
they never had his.
| Freight handlers at ST. Louis and
| NJ