The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04

church, which is buying up Indiana
farms.
w. D. Conner is successor to Sen
ator LaFollette as leader of the re-
publican party in Wisconsin.
Michigan contest for the senate is
open. Mcmillan loses a point in the
primaries and Townsend gains.
Zion City torn by factions and
strange religious cults, seems to be
on the verge of new upheaval, to be
precipitated by Voliva, who, disguised
is said to be on the point of abandon
ing his efforts to save the commu-
nifty.
Earnings of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad in the fiscal
year ending June 80 increased $685.
600 for the gross and $6,688,000 for
the net.
Many insurance companies are pre-
pairing to quit Mississippi as a result
of that states drastic anti-cpmpact
law, which goes into effect
End comes to the Cuban republic
through the refusal of President Pal
ma to withdraw his resignation and
the action of the moderates in de-
clining to attend the session of con-
gress, leaving the island without
government.
Hurricane and flood from the gulf
devastate Mobile and Pensacola, caus-
ing loss Of life estimated at fifty in
each place. Disasters elsewhere along
the coast are expected to bring the
total of fatalities to 200 and the prop
erty loss to $10,000,0OO.
Mayor Mcclellan and other New
York democratic leaders, with several
democratic papers, announce that they
will bolt the nomination of Hearst
for governor of the state.
q. H. Gary and j. J. Hill sign con-
tracts leasing the Hill ore lands to the
United States steel corporation.
Bishop Potter of New York says the
church has civic duties, and that
never before was the demand SO in
sistent for religious bodies to interest
themselves in public questions as now.
Middleport bank, a private institu-
ton at Middleport, Ohio, is closed, and
it is believed nearly all the $115,OOO
of deposits is lost. Aged depositor
makes an attempt to kill the vice pres
ident of the bank
Russian peasants near Kischineff
seize the property of landlords who
refuse to grant leases, burn the grain
and whip and expel the authorities.
Army heads in Washington are con-
stantly on duty awaiting orders from
the president to send troops to Cuba
All preparations for the advance of
10000 men to the island are completed
on instructions from Oyster Bay.
Paul O. Stensland, president of the
wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank, is prisoner in the state pen
itentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, having been
started on his way there four hours
after his arrival in Chicago and after
making a confession that involves
many other men in the bank crash
Chief Food Inspector Murray con-
dennis $50 tons of ham and bacon
as they lay in the picking watts of
the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger com
pany.
Rev. DR.. ]. M. Buckley of New York
declares at the Rock River Methodist
conference that President Roosevelt's
phonetic spelling would impose seri-
Gus additional burdens on ministers.
Nephew of Russell Sage, an inmate
of the Milwaukee soldiers home, dies
before he receives $4,000 legacy.
The body Of a young woman is
found in a Minneapolis hotel with
bullet in her head. A man whom she
accompanied to the hotel is missing.
Blind customer is attacked by in
furiated barber at New York and ,is