The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-29

William J. Bryan visited Salem, Illi-
nois, his birth place, August 26th, and
was greeted by the largest crowd ever
assembled in the town, to whom he
made political speech.
Employers of negro labor in Spring
field, ILL.,. are being threatened by
ANONYMOUS letter writers, who seem
to represent some kind of an organ
ization in sympathy with the recent
riot.
David E. Thompson, American am
bassodar to Mexico, was run down by
a bicyclist in tire center of the City of
Mexico Tuesday and suffered frac-
ture OF one arm and contusions of the
face.
Preparations for the celebration of
Count Tolstoy's eightieth birthday
on September 9th, are strongly disap-
proved by the Russian government,
and some authorities are bringing
pressure to bear to check the plans
Tor the celebration.
The forces of Abd-El-Aziz, Sultan of
Morocco, have been defeated in the
field by the adherents of his brother,
Mulai Hafid, who has been proclaimed
sultan at Tangier, and is said to now
be In supreme control in all the large
cities of Morocco
After stormy closing session of the
National Fraternal congress at Put In
Bay, Ohio. the uniform bill, which is
modelled after the fraternal insurance
law OF Ohio was finally passed and
VIII be recommended to the state leg
islatures this fall.
The fastest time from Cherbourg to
New York over the course of 3.069
miles was made by the steamer Kron
P1inzessin Cecilie, which arrived in
New York Tuesday. The time of the
passage was five days, eleven hours,
nine minutes, with an average speed of
25.25 knots an hour.
AS manner of showing their appre-
citation of the support which they re
ceived from other labor unions during
their strike for an eight-hour day the
International Typographical Union at
Boston recently voted to spend $1,000
in entertainment of the delegates to
the convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON in Denver this fall. Part of the
money will be used in trips around the
state.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm III. has established
age speed for any vessel over the long
course, 1850 miles, from Sandy Hook
to Plymouth. She made the distance
in five days, nine hours and fifty-seven
minutes. and averaged for the dis
tance 231 miles an hour. The best
days run was $50 knots, which was
accomplished two days in succession.
The appeal in the Milwaukee-Colo-
rado land fraud cases will not be ar
| gued before the United States Court
of Appeals at Chicago next November
as was intended The government of
| ficials have determined to await the
decision of the Supreme Court rela-
tive TO the recent decision of Judge
| Lewis, of Denver, holding that Grim
inal prosecutions cannot be instituted
by. the government under the coal land
act.
Richard Croker of New York has
been made an honorary burgess of
Dublin. The roll is limited to dis
! tinguished persons who have rendered
service to Ireland, or to the cause of
| liberty at home and abroad, and the
names of three Americans precede
that of Croker, General Grant, Edward
Potter, captain of the ship Constitu-
ton, which brought relief to Ireland
in 1880, and the late Patrick A. Col
Inns, who was at one time mayor OF
Boston.
According to advices received by
the Y. M. C. A. at New York American
sailors of Admiral Sperry's round-the-
world fleet will not be permitted to
break the hearts of the Japanese gel
sha girls if the Y. M. C. A. of Japan,
the native Christian churches and the
missionaries are able to prevent it. Re
| ligious organizations in Japan are
protesting against the old style of
Japanese hospitality, which is ex
pected to include introduction to the
geisha girls.