The independent., 1903-05-28

welt.
The president visited Puget Sound
cities-Seattle, Tacoma and Bremen
ton.
The storm period continues. Car
men, Okla, wiped off the map. Great
damage in Kansas, Minnesota and
Iowa.
Nearly 500 cripples congregated a.
Dallas, Tex, to meet Doctor LorenZ
upon his arrival from Mexico.
DR.. Koerber, Austrian premier, re-
fuses to ask the emperor to grant
Dalmatian deputies an audience over
Crotian troubles.
Seventy insurgents" have appeared
In the Bataan district, P. l., and the
governor of Mis- mis- has requested 100
additional troops.
Famine in Kwang ST, China. Par
ents selling their children at ~ to $5
each; 200 perished of starvation.
The Western Union proposes to test
a higher court in it's trouble with the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Gold shipments for Monday, 81
250,000.
Dispatch from New York says U.
p. strike is settled. Omaha machin-
lists deny it.
Auditor Castle of postoffice depart
ment enters into controversy with Mr..
Tullo-. over charges made.
State Treasurer Mortensen has re-
fused to pay warrants against perma
rent school fund drawn by Auditor
Weston in conformity to appropr1a-
tion made by Nebraska legislature.
Monday Morning, May 25.-Cloud-
burst at Enid, Okla, destroys $30O,Oeo
worth of property.
Clarence s. Darrow addressed the
Henry George association of Chicago
Sunday on the "Perils of Trades I'm
ionism," He compares trades unions
with trusts.
The president started east Sunday
Former Congressman John S. Rob-
inson is critically i'll with peritonitis
at his home in Madison. Neb.
"Bessaraytz," an anti-semetic paper
Of Kischineff, warns the Jews to be-
come Christians or leave the country
within one year; after that, 1t says,
"there must not remain single Jew
in Russia -. and thereafter entrance
to Russia will be forbidden to Jews
forever" This is regarded as semi
official.
Jonathan Hutchinson, prominent
British surgeon, recently returned
from India, says fsh-eating causes
leprosy, and that wherever Catholic
missions are successful, leprosy in
creases." He regards the risk to d
Catholic twenty-fold greater than to
Hindu.
Rockefeller continues his debase-
ment of colleges. He will give the
University of Indiana $4,000 if like
amount is raised otherwise. And to
the Washington Y. M. c. A. $4,000
when that body raises 100000 outside.
Premier Combe has forbidden the
finish of the race between French
"devil-wagons" ON French territory.
so many fatalities having occurred in
the first stage. -
Paul Blouet Max O'RelD ths
French author, died Sunday in Paris.
1t is reported that the ROckefellerS
eill effect union between the c.,
Nj. &c st. P. and the M. K. & T. rail-
roads-the newest term for merger
Tuesday Morning, May 26.-Post-
master General Payne has summarily
dismissed Daniel Y Miller, an assist
ant attorney in the office of assistant
attorney general for the p. O. d., for
accepting bribe in the case of John
L. Ryan & Co., charged with fraud
ulent use of the mails.
About $50 Macedonians insurgents
were killed at the village of Smerdesh
May Il in an encounter with the
Turks
Nebraska comes in for her quota of
tornadoes. A baby one at Lincoln
Monday night doing slight damage. A
series of them in central Nebraska
killing Is persons, injuring some 20
others, and destroying property to the
amount Of 100000. The principal
damage was near Norman, Kearney
county; near Upland, Kearney county
and near Pauline, Adams county. The
towns escaped, but the farming dis
trict5 suffered.
The Haytien cabinet has resigned