The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-09-06
News of
A Week
Paragraphic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

Bishop Charles c. McCabe, one of
the most prominent leaders of the
Methodist church in the United States
and member of the International
Policy Holders committee, sent a let
ter to Alton r. Parker ~of the policy
holders committee urging the policy
holders to vote for the reelection of
the present arrangements of the Mu-
tual and New York Life companies.
The appellate division of the supreme
court affirmed the judgment of the
lower courts in the Mutual Life cases.
This means that the names of the four ,
policy holders committeeman must re-
main on the Mutual's ticket unless the
court of appeals reverses the decision.
The directors of the Equitable Life ac-
cepted the designations of George j.
Gould and Judge d. Cady Herrick
There is now no man identified with
Wall street on the Equitable board.
Union labor was dealt a blow by Cir
cult Court Judge Chester A. Fowler of
Fond du Lac, Wis, in the boycott suit
for $4,000 damages brought by Otto
B. Schultz, a Racine baker. against the
trades labor council. The decision
holds illegal the contract exacted from
the boss bakers in an effort to enforce
the closed shop. The boycott Is called
an actionable conspiracy. Schultz is
allowed damages of $500. The rights
of labor unions and their sympathizers
to call ON their friends to withhold
patronage from a nonunion tradesman
was recognized as not being Illegal by
Justice Stafford in the District of Co
lumbia supreme court
At Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt
reviewed the greatest feet of war YES
sells ever gathered in American waters.
Forty-fve ships, from battleships to
submarine torpedo boats, made the
spectacle one long TO be remembered
by the thousands of spectators from
New York city and elsewhere. At
night the ships We're brilliantly illU-
minated. Rear Admiral e'Fighting
Bob'') Evans, ON board the Maine,
commanded the feet.
The first suits for damages for al
legged discrimination and giving OF re-
bates to favored coal corporations by
railroad companies following the re-
cent investigation by the interstate
commerce commission were filed in
Philadelphia by nine retail coal deal
ers. The damages asked aggregate
more than $50O,0O0, and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company is the sole de-
PENDANT ia the concerted legal actions.
The open shop idea will govern in the
postal service, according to high post
Office officials. However, so long as
the postal clerks or other pcst0ffice en-
ployees conform to the rules and regu-
lations OF the office and do not at
tempt 10 modest those who do not en-
ter the union there will be no objection
to the employees affiliating with labor
organizations.
At Ellenville. n Y, Miss Roper of
Brooklyn, summer VISITOR, was
caught by the guide rope of balloon
and carried 500 feet into the air before
the attention of the aeronaut, Maggie
Daileg, was attracted to her. When
the balloon was lowered Miss Roper
struck against a fence and received
severe injuries.
Cotton is king in the export record
of the United States" says a state
ment issued by the department of COM
merce and labor. The total value of
the raw cotton exported in the fiscal
year recently ended exceeded $780,
coo 600, more than double the value of
breadstuffs sent abroad.
Mrs. Mary A. Dixon, who recently
sued Senator Patrick Henry McCarren
the Brooklyn politician. for 100000
has withdrawn her suit and has takeE
back everything she said against Nc
Carren. including the charge that he
is the father of her ene-year-old child,
2. H. McCarren, Jr.
In letter to Charles A. Stillings, the
public printer, President Roosevelt
wrote that If the changes in spelling
advocated by the simplified spelling
board and put into use in Official doc
uments meet popular approval they
will be made permanent. II not they
will be dropped.
In a speech before the American Bar
association in ST. Paul Mill, torheI
Judge Alton 3. Parker of New York
denounced the usurpation of the legis-
lative power by exeeutives-city. state
or national. He was elected president
of the association.
News dispatche sent out from Scot
land. where Mr.. and Mrs. Carnegie
and their young daughter Margaret are
staying. deny the rumor that the child
is suffering from hip disease. She has
only slightly sprained ankle
An investigation of the International
Harvester company has been instituted
by C. G.. Coleman. attorney general of
Kansas. to determine whether the con-
Germ is operating in violation OF the
state antitrust laws.
Emerson McMfllin. the New York
banker, has resigned from the Civic
federation. Mr.. McMilliD intimated
that his action was due to differences
with Ralph M Easiey, the secretary
of the federation.
President Roosevelt will leave Oyster
Bay for Washington on Oct. /, it is an
nounced Three days later he viii