The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRYAN Wiling to Run Again, He Says.
Island Revolts from France --
John D. Rockefeller on the Witness
Stand, Tolls Nothing.


pected has happorcd and William ).
Bryan has announced that he viii be
willing TO run again next time.
ISLAND REVoLTs:-The PEOPLE OF
Pierre Mlaaelon. small island near
Newfoundland. and belonging TO
France have become very much dis
satisfied and attacked tho govern
ment officials. who are coopod up In
some CT the government buildings.
There IS a good deal Of rioGting going
on. aud tho people arc planning To
ask TO DO annexed 10 the u. S. The
French authorities have asked for
warships for protection.
RoCKEFELLER TALKlNG:-The
snie OF the Government against the
Standard OIL Co. in New York has
reached what may be the NEST inter-
esting stage. as john ID. Rockefeller
Is ON the stand to tell about the for
nation OF the company. He has talk
cd for several days. but so far has
failed 10 tell anything. He Is also
printing In a magazine a story OF his
life, but he does not give away any
information there, either.
SAN FRANCISCO sTIRRED:-The
ottempt by an assassin 20 XIII Francis
]. Heney, VINO was prosecuting the
San Francisco boodlors. has stirred the
whole city, and the prosecution OF
Abe Reuf, the chief criminal, has re-
opened with great vigor Everybody
now expects his conviction, tho no cn'
ala before. Iass. tho assassin, has
killed himself. AID Hency 10 rapidly
getting better. The whole city is ex-
pecting a cleanup Of the corrupt ele-
mcnts.
PLOT AGAINST KAIsER;-An at
tempt was mado last week 10 blow
up with dynamite a railroad train on
which the German Kaiser was travel
ling. This Is considered a direct re-
sui OF the recent agitation against
him. HIS fight with the Reiohsiag
or congress has been settled With
out pleasing anybody. lie has simply
promised not to say dangerous things
next time without thinking thom over
carefully.
CONyICTs KIILED:-An attempt
by fifty convlot3 IN the Alabama
penltentiary TO break jail by etnrtng a
fire. resulted IN tho burning 70 death
OF eight OF the men one man seems
to have escaped. The rest were
caught.
COMPERs RE-ELECTED:-The
American Federation OF labor has re-
elected Samuel Gompors president
with only on dissenting vote. Keefe'
the official. who opposed taking the
Federation into politics, has with
drawn. And yet this same body Of
laborers did not support Gompers al
the polls. II Is hard to tell what labor
will do next
CHINESE TROOPS REBEL:-The
first gun Of the feared rebellion In
China came with the revolt OF a large
body OF troops at Anking. The mutiny
was finally suppressed after severe
fighting. The rumors that both the
Emperor and Empress were murder
cd have not stopped.
GERMANY JEALoUs:-There is a
good deal OF evidence nowadays that
Germany Is jealous OF the United
States and afraid Of her as a rival
American manufacturers have always
been cordial to visiting Germans and
show them thru the factories and ex-
planned machinery to them. Germany
now Is refusing to let Americans see
any OF their machines. however, and
Is taking great pains to keep us from
finding out especially the new feat
ures OF her warships.
FOOTBALL DEATHS: have,
up TO last Saturday night been thir-
teen deaths from football this year,
and nearly three hundred people hurt
Most of these deaths are among high
school boys.
BOILER EXPLoDES:-Ten people
were killed at New Orleans and about
fourteen are missing after an explos-
ion of the boiler on a small river
steamboat near New Orleans.
KILLED BY CAVE-IN:-Fifteen
men were killed in Brooklyn, N. Y.
last Friday by the cavlng in Of a side
walk Workmen were digging under
tho walk TO lay big gas pipes. The
cave in broke the pipes and all in the
hole we're suffocated.
PAPER GETTING COSTLY:-There
is danger OF there not being enough
paper TO print the newspapers on. The
drouth has dried up all the streams
In the spruce forests in the north
where the paper is made. and the
mills are likely to have to shut down
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