The Monmouth inquirer., 1907-02-28
News of
A Week
photographic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

view In Columbus, O., attacked John
y oekefelIer's recent gift of $32,OOO.-
Gt9 % the general educational board.
MI Bryan said the oil king should
have given the money back to the peo-
pie from whom it had been wrested by
Illegal methods. In a magazine article
Colonel Bryan planted himself square
ly against President Roosevelt on the
San Francisco school question and on
the proposition for general federal con-
troll of all corporations. On proof that
any corporation or corporations had
become a monopoly Colonel Bryan
would withdraw from the offending
class the right to ship goods on inter
state roads, use the telegraph lines or
the United States mails
Frederick r. Gates, business repre-
sentative of John d. Rockefeller, said:
There have been a great many anus
ing Measurements on the subject of
Mr.. Rockefeller's wealth. Mr. Rookie
Teller has at various times authorized
a statement that his fortune cannot ex-
coed 25O,OO00O0 to $300,0O0,000. Fur
thermore, his income, instead of being
$10O,OO0,O00 or anything like it, cannot
in his most prosperous year have ex-
ceeded $15,O00.O0O to $20,000,000. Mr..
Rockefeller's holdings of Standard Oil
stock are about 20 per cent"
Governor Hughes sent to the New
York senate a special message recon-
mending the removal from office of
Superintendent of Insurance Otto Kei-
sey. Governor Hughes based his recs
ommendation on what he calls Kel-
sey's conspicuous failure to perform
obvious duties of the first Importance
and his unfitness for the trust confided
in him There is no satisfactory evil
dence," says the governor, that Mr.
Kelsey endeavored to master the situa-
ton and to put the department upon a
proper basis"
In an address on the duties of coli
lege graduates before the Harvard I'M
ion at Cambridge, Mass, President
Roosevelt took issue with President
Eliot of Harvard, who favors the abo-
lition of football and other rough
athletic sports. The president declared
that 1.-THE states have shown that they
have not the ability to curb the power
of syndicated wealth and therefore, in
the interest of the people, it must be
done by national action. Our present
warfare is against special privilege"
Major General Frederick Dent Grant,
son of President Grant, was quoted as
telling the Philadelphia G. A. r. that
he was sorry the time had come when
the president of the United States had
to talk with the indicted mayor of a
city about the provisions of treaty
with another country. He is to explain
to the war department. If guilty of
making the remarks he is subject to
court martial.
In a Washington's birthday address
in Chicago former President Cleveland
said: s'The self examination invited by
this days commemoration will be in
complete and superficial If we are not
thereby forced to the confession that
there are signs of the times which indi-
cate a weakness and relaxation of our
hold upon the saving virtues of har-
mony, honesty, industry and frugality.''
State Tax Commissioner Healy OF
Connecticut was removed from office
by Governor Woodruff. He was charg
ed with offering to secure commits
sionership for Howard M. Steele of
New Britain upon payment of $1,000
William III. Corbin of Hartford, Conn.
the we'll known Yale football expert
was appointed state tax commissioner
by Governor Woodruff.
In Austin, Tex, United States Sena
tor Bailey took the stand in the legis
Iative investigation of his alleged con
nection with the Standard Oil company
and denied in detail all the charges
He said the charges were instigatec
by William r. Hearst. The Texas
senate has dismissed the charges
against Senator Bailey, thus closing
the investigation.
Herbert Elkins, clerk in the LeahJ
hotel at Brownsville Tex, testified il
the Penrose court martial that he heart
a negro say that night, ''I'll come bacl
and finish the whites He tolC
how. from his room in the rear of thu
Leahy hotel on the second floor, he saw
negro SOiQlcIS COihC uP t1C INV ttAAe
fire into the Cowen house.
The Beveridge amendment to the ag
ricuItural bill, requiring the packers t
nav the cost of administering the mea
inspection law, was defeated in tn
senate. Mr.. Beveridge secured the ad
dition of an amendment which require
the date of canning and inspection t
appear on the label of the can contain
ing meat products.
Justice Kelley in the supreme cour
in Brooklyn handed down a decision
making permanent his injunction re
straining the Democratic state com
mittee from ousting State Senator Pat
rick II. McCarren, the Kings count
leader. Senator McCarren is accuses
of knitting William R. Hearst last fall.
j. G. Schmidlapp, multimillionairt
banker and distiller of Cincinnati, an
nounced the establishment of a trus
fund of s250.00O, the interest of whic
is to be devoted to the benefit Of youn
women. 1t is said that he was actI
ated in the matter by the testimony i
the Thaw case.
Philip and James Str0ther, brothers