The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-06
Summary of News


In heavy wind and sea the crowd
ed passenger steamer City of Mack
mac is laid alongside the burning
freighter Charles A. Eddy in Lake
Huron and twenty-one persons were
rescued
William r. Hearst, in an interview
in New York on the governorship
declares he will not be candidate
on the democratic ticket. He de-
nounces Jerome, says he does not
want Murphys aid and claims friend
ship for Bryan.
Two serious charges of discrimina-
ton and unjust rates are filed before
the interstate commerce commission
in Washington, involving many of the
principal railroads of the country.
Huge naval feet which is to take
part in the review by President ROose-
yelt assembled in Long Island Sound
near Oyster Bay
Members of the international policy
holders committee telegraph to Bish-
op McCabe asking if the letter given
out in New York is genuine.
Visit of prominent men to the Iowa
State fair draws attention to it's high
standing as a live stock exposition,
and the management will appeal to
the legislature for substantial appro-
priations.
Directors of the Winona Interurban
Railroad company, who are leaders in
the Indiana Presbyterian resort, de-
eide to stop all trains on Sunday.
Entertainments to cure the insane
are held in the Iowa hospital at Mt.
Pleasant.
Charles A. Walsh, democratic ma
tiOnal committeeman of Iowa, resigns
in letter bitterly scoring the sys-
tenn of party politics, which he says
perpetuates corrupt, corporation and
boss control of government and urging
independent action on the part of the
voters.
James Gibbons, wealthy farmer
living near Bloomington, ILL.,, was shot
to death in his bed.
Woman suffrage as a cure of the
ills of the body polite is advocated by
Lewis Emery, Jr., nominee for gov
ernOr of Pennsylvania, in a speech
opening the state campaign at Car
Isle.
New York supreme court holds that
the Equitable Life Assurance society
must defend suit brought by the state
attorney general for an accounting of
the management of the funds.
August grand jury is discharged in
New York without having voted in
dictments against ice officials.
Vice President Fairbanks delivers
stirring address at the celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the bat
tie of Osawatomie.
Thomas j. Herman of Baton Rouge.
La, in an address before the American
Bar Association, at st. Paul defines
the code of lawlessness as law defiance
that he says is made a common rule.
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker at Alex
andria, Mimi, says Charles A. Walsh's
| retirement from the democratic ma
tional committee is due to the fact
| that Mr.. Walsh is a convert to the
Hearst movement.
Two soldiers are killed and others
are wounded in a battle with members
of the Black Hand society at PUNK
sutawney, Pa. Siege is kept up all
night and fighting is to be renewed.
Loss of more lives is probable.
John D. Rockefeller in his church
at Cleveland hears the pastor assert
| that the highest men are the poorest
and that in pursuit of gold the heart
is closed and the soul impoverished.
! President Roosevelt will review the
greatest war fleet ever gathered in
the western hemisphere at Oyster
/ Bay Great crowds and hundreds of