The National tribune., 1906-11-08

al NOvEMDEn ., 1SU0.
Currency have this matter in charge
and are making most painstaking in
vestigations as to the merit of this
proposition"
This item stands for this issue only.
Next week We may be called upon to
state reign of riot and anarchy down
there. but for the present week you
can accept tile statement as correct TO
the time of setting up the type.
Mr.. Thomas C. Dawson. United States
Minister to Santo Domingo. called at
the State Department last week and
had a long conference with Assistant
Secretary Bacon on Dominican affairs
| Mr.. Dawson says internal affairs in
Santo Domingo are now quite peaceful.
In fact, he says that all of the recent
troubles have been insignificant. only
one fight worthy of the name having
taken place in all the strife which CEN
tered about Monte Cristi, on the north
shore of the Island. Mr.. Dawson is in
turn to Santo Domingo until Novem-
| Der.
Gov. Magoon has appointed Justo
Garcia, formerly Cuban Consul at Ham
| burg. Chief of the Department of State
VI 1uUd, III place VI oeHOE l1eNld, WIZ
resigned a month ago. Gen. Carlos Car
ella. one of the prime movers in the
insurrection, who was formerly Minis
ter to Mexico. has been appointed In
spector of Prisons and Charities at a
salary of $1,000 yearly. The appointees
are brothers.
The railway postal clerks of the
country are demanding a square deal"
They propose to ask Congress this Win
ter to allow them a per diem for ex-
penseS incurred while away from their
homes in the discharge of their duties.
They declare that they are the only
class of Government employees who have
to pay their own expenses. 1t is esti-
mated that the annual expense will ;lv-
erage $165 for each clerk.
The White House looked like a clois-
tered monastery the other day when
the President had for his guests for a
brief space an interesting delegation of
Catholic missionaries who called to pay
their respects to the President. They
were introduced by Rev. Father VIII
liam II. Ketcham, Director of the Blu
reau of Catholic Indian Missions in
Washington.
The delegation included Father Alber
Negahauquet. full-blooded PottawatO-
mie Indian from Oklahoma, a stud ent
at the Apostolic Mission House, near
the Catholic University; Domingo Dikit.
Filipino from Pililla, Luzon, who is
about to return to the Philippines after
having completed a course of four
years study in Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania; Rev. j. O'Horo, of Parker, S. D.;
Rev. Wander Aa, of Kingfisher, Okla,
and Rev. Father Vicent. a Benedictine
monk from Sacred Heart Abbey. Okla
homa. Fathers O'Horo, Wander Aa and
Vicant 11sn CT, ntS nf ha
tolic Mission House, which trains mis-
sionaries for the conversion of nom
Catholics to Roman Catholicism.
Other interesting members of the
delegation were three young Belgian
brothers, who have become Catholic
priests. They are Rev. Joseph Van
Hulse, of Muskogee; Rev. Charles Van
Hulse. of Vinita, and Rev. Theopoile
Van Hulse, of Tulsa. I. T. They belong
to family of eight brothers, four of
whom entered the priesthood and are
on their way from a visit in Belgium
to their posts as missionaries among
the Cherokee and Creek tribes of In
dian Territory.
And now Senator Clark, of Montana,
says that he may reconsider and run
again for the United States Senate in
stead of retiring, as he has been prom.
Using to do.
John Sharp Williams calls Secretary
Shaw the shrewdest and Secretary Taft
the wisest of the Republicans of the
present generation.
"To the courageous and brave Presi-
dent Roosevelt are the glowing words
of compliment written by President
Jose Patile Y OrdoneZ on his own pho
tOgraph. which was presented to the
President last week by Senior Don Pc
dro Requena Bermudez. Charge daft
faires of the Uruguayan Legation.
SenOr BermudeZ called at the White
House formally, in order to acknowi
edge the visit paid by Secretary Root
to the Republic of Uruguay during the
Summer The presentation of the hand
likeness of himself recently sent by
President Roosevelt to President Or
donez.
Representative lockwood Hoar Of
Massachusetts, died last week of tumor
of the BRAIN after an illness of five
weeks. The illness which caused Mr..
HOar's death developed on Sept. %,
after he had attended a political meet
ing. Since that time he gradually de-
clined. the desperate character of his
Illness having been known for two
weeks. An operation failed to relieve
the patients condition. Mr.. Hoar was
a son of the late Senator George Frisbie
in the present Congress as the Repre-
sentative of the Third District. having
received the nomination the day of his
fathers burial. Mr.. Hoar was in his
SID year, having been born in Worces-
ter, Mass, in 1855.