The independent., 1903-06-04
At THE BREAKFAST TABLE
what The Dyspeptie Saw in His Morning
Paper ~ Hs GrumbIed Over His
Health Food

Friday Morning, May 29.-Joe
Chamberlain asks for a mandate to
tax food and power to engage in
tariff war with Germany on Canadas
account and to fight the American
trusts. 1t looks as though England
might reach the protective tarln
stage about the time America gets
free trade.
Melazgherd, i'm the valley OF Err
e-oum, on the Euphrates, Asiatlc
+ I III Key, totally destroyed April ~ py
an earthquake and about two thou
sand people killed.
The Presbyterians at Los Angeles
finally cut infant damnation out OIL
their creed.
United Presbyterian general assem-
bly, met at Tarkio, Mo.
Former Governor Savage calls on
Governor Mickey of Nebraska and the
twain engage in red-hot discussion
over some of Mickeys gossip about
bribery which occurred in preceding
administration.
PostofIice department busy probing
into scandals, but no further arrests
made.
Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief OF the
Philippine constabulary, has a plan
to increase his force and thus give
additional jobs for impecunious sons
of their fathers"
Minister Leishman at Constantine
' ple reports that the Turkish anthorl-
ties acted admirably in the recent
clash at Salonica.
United States coast line is divided
into thirteen naval defense districts,
under recommendation OF Admiral
Dewey.
War department. has purchased If
ty 3-inch field guns from Dusseldorf,
Germany.
The Wisconsin Central railroad has
raised it's trainmen's wages IL to ID
per cent.
President Roosevelt visits Boise and
Pocateilo, Idaho; and goes on to Salt
Lake City.
Secretary Root has whitewashed
Majors Hunter and Howe for cruel
ties practiced in the Philippines.
Iowa prohibitionists nominated the
following ticket at MarshalltoWn
Governor, j. P. Hanson OF Mahaska
county; lieutenant governor, j. IL
Scull, Henry county; superintendent
public instruction, J. A. Ward, PoEi
county; r. r. commissioner, e. Dew
ey, Woodbury. county; attorney gen.
eral, VIM. Orr, Page county.
Floods in Des Moines, Ia, Salina
Topeka and Abilene, Kas., La Crosse
Wis Several people KILLED in Ind
lana storm; Alexandria, Walton
Hammond, Greensburg, Frankfort
Thornton, Decatur, Windfall, Cam
dom, Geneva and indianapolis, among
the cities suffering loss.
Government scandals at Victoria
B. c.. result in resignation OF sew
eral officials.
President Charles Meyer reportlnt
to western federation Of miners Ii
session at Denver finds fault with JOIN
Mitchell and recommends a reneWa
of the declaration in favor OF social
ism.
The st. Louis teamsters are out o,
strike.
Two hundred thousand textile oper
atives in Philadelphia threaten Il
strike, asking 55 hour week instea
of the present one of 60.
Saturday Morning, May 39.--Wers
flood ever experienced at Beatrice
Neb.; Blne river rising rapidly. To
peka flooded and 5000 people of M
Topeka homeless. 100000 damage a
Madison, Neb. Kansas City, Mo.
Guthrie, Okla; Winona, Mimi; an
Council Grove, Kas., also report fiae
damage.
Postmaster General Payne make
public the reply of Postmaster Merri'
of Washington, ID. c., to the Tulloc
charges, and tries to catch Tulloch
his own trap.
The Presbyterian assembly at Lt
Angeles adopted caustic resolutio
attacking the Mormon church an
asking the senate to expel Senate
Reed Smoot- in yiolatio
of the agreement made between tt
Mormon church and the republica
machine.
London is ali stirred up over Joe
Chamberlain's protectionist propagal
da. A general election seems pro