The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-04-19

Roosevelt as unWlSe ana valnSlorlOuS
in speech to Missouri democrats at
Kansas City.
Overseer Voliva and the new Zion
City administration are ready to turn
over to Dowie per cent of the prop
erty, after all Of lions debts have
been paid.
| President Roosevelt's repeated de-
| claration that he will not run for the
presidency again have little effect on
those who insist that he must be a
candidate in 1908, and the many as
pirants are puzzled over the situa-
| ton.
Members of the house indulge in a
bitter debate, which lasts three hours,
and Speaker Cannon restores peace
only after the lie Is passed.
/ Members of the d. A. r. gather in
Washington for their annual congress
and great interest is displayed in the
campaign for the Offices to be filed
William E. Curtis writes of the ex-
tensive harbor and docks being con-
structed at the mouth of the Coat
zacoalcos river as part of the plan OF
/
to capture Pacific trade.
Legislative investigators at Malwau-
kee learn that the wife of the presi-
dent of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company loans money on
the company's policies.
Judge Speer, in sentencing Greene
and Gaynor to four years in prison
and a fine of $575,749 each, scores
plumber of the public through graft
and points the need of remedying de-
fects in the laws by which rich criml-
nails obstruct justice.
| Coincident with the expected arri-
val of Mrs. Depew in New York from
Europe, rumUrs are revived that she
is about to begin suit for separation
Requests by heads of New York
, City departments for automobiles, Il
granted, will make the city owner OF
, forty machines, representing $125,OOO
Four men hold the stage in the legis
lative comedy at Springfield when the
lower house meets" APPOINT an as
sistant doOrkeeper and adjourn In
lightweight seconds. The scene
shifts to the senate today, and one
member only will protect the rec
ords' by holding session all by him
) self.
Gordon Bigelow, testifying in the
Coll case at Milwaukee, says he is
| unable to tell what has become OF the
checks alleged to have been "juggled.
Change in the United States man
;, ayers of the the General Accident In
surance company arouses much inter
Y est among Chicago underwriters.
; Issue of $27,7OO,O0O additional com
! mon stock of the Baltimore & Ohit
railroad is to be offered at par -tt
f provide funds for double tracking.
Plans are initiated by DR.. ]. T. Blink
> ley, Salvatore Merando and julius V
! Piazza for a great benefit entertain
ment the last week in April for the
Italian sufferers from the eruptions O
Mount Vesuvius.
William E. Curtis describes the
primitive lives of the poems of south
ern Mexico where conditions resem
BILE those in Egypt and the South Sea
, islands
American consuls send statistics or
Germany's consumption of liquor, the
figures showing that each inhabitan
consumes yearly six and a half quarts
of wine, 1891 quarts of beer and nine
quarts of brandy. Consul Viewer
makes comment
Mrs. Julian p Thomas of New York
the first woman aeronaut of the coun
try, with her husband makes a sue
cessful trip in large balloon.
Connecticut man, after suffering fol
years and trying different Treatments
i ~ ha1 cyf0 ~