The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-17

Champ Clark of Missouri declares
it is time a southerner was seated IN
the White House and says if no one
else will run he will undertake the
task himself.
Law to protect Niagara Falls prob
ably will be passed by congress, VIII
es William E. Curtis, and an agree
ment made with Canada to limit the
amount of water which may be USED
for the development of power, al
thougha strong fight against the meas
ure is made by companies formed to
utilize the falls for water power.
Germ which causes rheumatism IS
discovered by a New York physician
after many years Of unavaillng search
by scientists all over the world
Maharajah Gaikwar of India arrives
lin New York and will tour America,
after visiting the leading colleges.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is reported to
have made a wonderful rally and to
have passed the crisis of her illness.
One constable puts stop to all
gainful business on Sunday in koko-
mo. Ind, barber shops are raided in
| Pittsburg and even Kentucky saloons
are shut.
City of Gary, Ind, which is being
built on the lake front near Chicago,
and is to be the home of the largest
steel plant in the world, will be a
town of unusual beauty and will have
at least 100000 inhabitants.
With his anarchistic theories COM
pletely changed, Alexander Berkman,
who attempted to kill H. c. Prick dur
ing the Homestead strike, will be re-
/ leased from prison in Pittsburg next
| Friday
] Symptoms of an active movement
/ to overthrow Senator Elkins and re-
tire him to private life appears in
West Virginia A republican mass
meeting in one of his strongholds
leads in the revolt
Kansas republicans claim that W.
| A Harris, democratic nominee for
governor, is not legal resident OF
the state and has no right to hold
office.
President Roosevelt issues state
4 ment denying that he committed him.
self in any way in his rate bill nego-
i tiations with the democratic leaders
of the senate. Tillman is preparing
review of the executives past dis
putes, involving the issue OF veraclty.
The senate kills more amendments
and continues the hazing of La Fol-
lette.
| Richard F. Greener, former COM
mercial agent at Vladivostok, follows
ex-consul at Shanghai in demanding
hearing to refute reflections in AS
sistant Secretary Pierce's famous
confidential report"
Defense of the senate is made by
D. M. Parry, president OF the Ma
: tional Association of Manufacturers,
/ who SAYS in his address before the
convention of the association in New
, York that the members of the upper
, branch of congress are honest and
patriotic.
: James McKeen. associate of Chas.
4 e. Hughes in the recent investigator,
is made solicitor general in the Mu-
= tual Life Insurance company. Brit
S ish policy holders flock to an English
t concern to transfer their insurance.
l. Former Police Commissioner Nc
Adoo of New York, in his book,
Z "Guarding a Great City, strikes back
t at the press, which attacked him bit
l. erly during his term of office, and
n says it must reform before the police
e can be made perfect.
Establishment of great central
e park urged by Charles A. Wright as
l. a cure for the fluctuations in the mar
l. ket
n Members of the conference COM
Y mittee having charge of the primary