The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
A Weekly Resume OF Really Editor
NEWS OF THE WEEK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NEWS OF THE WEEK 80. -
Banks seem to be breaking pretty
fast for IAN era of unprecedented
prosperity" Four of them went up
the fiume' within four days in Min
Iesota last week.
There are fifteen parties in the Ger
man reichstag, and about as many in
the French chamber of deputies. They
manage somehow to do business. In
the reichstag recently elected the
three leading parties are the clericles,
1O2; social democrats, 81; conserva-
tives, So.
Roosevelt and Root say that Miles
was "insubordinate." Roosevelt was
more insubordinate than ever Miles
vas when he signed that "round
robin demand to be brought home
from Cuba Immediately. On the score
OF INSTRUMENTATION, Roosevelt could
double discount Miles.
The battleship Massachusetts was
badly damaged by being run on the
rocks at the close of the mimic war
Of the coast of the New England
states. 1t will cost several hundred
thousand dollars, SO the papers say,
tc repair the damages. The navigat-
fng officers of the navy seem to be a
sorry lot.
The British vice consul at Odessa,
Mr.. V. BOsanquet, who was sent by
the British government to investigate
the massacre of the Jews at Kishineff,
reports that there were forty-one Jews
killed and 303 wounded, while among
the Christians there was one killed, a
boy bayoneted by the soldiers when
they were called out, and 68 wounded.
He says: "Mutilation and deliberate
torture of the victims does not seem
to have been practiced." He winds
UP his report with these words:
about $50 rioters were arrested, and
sos were punished on minor charges,
while ZIG were acquitted Three hun
dred and sixty rioters will be tried at
Tiraspol in October, of which number
100 are charged with murder il addi-
ton to other crimes. If they are
found guilty they will be sentenced to
penal servitude on the island of SAX
hahn" When this government can
show record like that in prosecuting
lynchers, We may begin criticising
Russia.
Last year the steel trust in order to
brace up prices induced lot of their
nj ~ l,lx I'D, T. So
That stock has now gone down to SO
low point that these workingmen
ere making a mighty howl. The steel
trust tells them that now is the very
time to buy more stock, but the work.
ingmen can't see it that way and
howl on.
The milk inspectors in Chicago have
been finding that As per cent of the
milk handled by the retail dealers was
below the legal standard and that
nuch of it had been adulterated with
furmalin. The dealers claimed that
1t was the farmers who put water and
fo-malin in the milk. The country
milk inspectors then came to the front
end declared that of the hundreds of
SAihPASo I0hCl OF lHC olIppiuS pOlHIS
In the country that 95 per cent was up
70 or above the standard and that the
8 per cent that was below, had no
chemicals in it. That knocks out the
comic artists who are always pic
turing the farmer milking the pump. |
Four busted" hanks were reported |
last Friday. the Nayersink National
ar Red Bank, N. j.; the Merchants at |
Duluth, Mimi; the Farmers and |
Merchants at Montgomery, Mimi. and
the City Trust and Banking company
at Baltimore, Md. They told us that
the slump in stocks was only Wall
street affair and no one else was in
terested. The dailies tell us a good |
many things hard to believe. The
fall in stocks was the cause of failure
CT all four of these banks.
The National Building Trades cour-
ell at Denver, after spirited debate,
irdorsed w. r. Hearst for president.
Some of the labor papers have recent
" been devoting whole pages to
booming Hearst for president.
The national conventions of the In