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


the arrest and conviction of each
guilty person and detailing an as
sistant attorney general to aid in the
prosecution.
President Roosevelt's plan to put a
curb on wealth by imposing heavy
taxes on income and inheritances
causes a stir in congress and is
thought likely to become an active
issue.
President Roosevelt, seeming defeat
or a change in public opinion, drops
his club and changes front completely,
says Perry Belmont, in a letter, and,
after citing the presidents course in
reference to important bills as exam
pies, he says that the talk of the
man with the muck rake" reminds
him of Mr.. Facing-Both Ways
South Chicago and Ironwood work
men crowd into lodgings that reek
with filth and are menace to the
public health.
Man with his head nearly severed
by negro in a fight runs nearly a
block before he falls dead.
Bernhardts dogs are snubbed at the
Annex, and she seeks quarters at an
other hotel, where pets are not black
listed.
William E. Curtis writes of the trip
over snow and ice up to the crater
OF the volcano Orizaba in Mexico.
Plans to control the senate through
the state Legislatures as well as the
house by participation in the elections
are made by the political action com
mlttee of the American Federation
of Labor
Cause of the explosion o nthe battle
ship Kearsarge probably will not be
known until an investigation is made
by Rear Admiral Evans.
Eleven thousand eight hundred and
thlrtynine strong, the vanguard of an
alien army which, before the end of
the week will number $4,000. lands
in New York, overtaxing the facili-
ties of Ellis Island.
Senator Tillman gets out his pitch
fork after the national banks. which
made donations to party campaign
funds, and aside from demanding
rigid inquiry into gifts made in the
past, will ask stringent legislation for
the future.
Charges that votes of absent mem
bers OF the house were recorded in
favor of the recent appropriation of
nearly 100000 as mail subsidies for
railroads, are to be investigated.
Government crop report of last
week develops the more healthy SEN
timent prevailing in the wheat trade.
Lake navigation now is open and
grain movement is free toward the
east, but farm deliveries are small.
Wall street, taken aback by the re-
cent developments in the money mar
ket and the supplying of funds from
the United States treasury, is in
clined to blame the banking system
rather than manipulation for the
stringency.
Divorce degrees granted in one state
do not bind the defendant if he or she
resides in another, according to de-
cision Of the United States, supreme
court, and as a result thousands of
men and women who, after separation
in states where laws are lax have mar
ried again, face the possibility of hav-
ing themselves declared bigamists and
their children illegitimate.
Miscreants seek to blow up the
gambling casino at French Lick
Springs, Ind. exploding a charge of
dynamite on the roof of the veranda
and badly damaging the building.
Big steel freighters Saxona and En-
gene Zimmerman are sunk in col
lision in the 500 passage.
Mexico is led from a state of chaos
to prosperity by President Diaz, who,
during his administration of quarter
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