Lower coast gazette., 1910-04-30
NATIONAL NEWS.

MA lOlNhE- INA ,
William Jennings Bryan on his re-
from his South American tour WIS., {
ted Washington, D. {. While there {
he urged that congress should appro-
rate money for Porto Rico to hight
the hookworm there and to establish d
Pan-AmeriCan school.
Another straw showing which way
the political wind is blowing was the
election that occurred last week IN the
Thirtv-Second New York District III
Monroe county, where James >. ha-
vens. a Democrat, Vas elected TO con-
press although tie district normally
goes Republican by a majority OF over
six thousand. .
The National Rivers and Harbors bill
was passed by the U. S. Senate, carry
ing an appropriation Of s22,5 oo'oco'
Six inches of. snow fell in a storm IN
in Ohio last week and snow was re-
norted from Virginia, Pennsylvania and
other states.
The report is current that Senator
| Danew of New York will not be a can
d;date for reelection. Quite an cpl
demic of "cold feet seems to be prev
alent among the ''old guard OF the
senate.
w. 2. Hearst, the somewhat erratic
aspirant for the presidential hohors iasV
election, has just come out IN a state
ment endorsing all of Taft's policies
and incidentally condemning Roosevelt
Hearst is supposed to be counting the
Democratic nom!at;on for presidency.
Samuel L. Clemens, known all over
tie world as MARX Twain. died at
his home in Redding, Conn, on Apr!
., Of angina pectoris. his fame as a
humorist and author was woriu"lde aio
his death will leave a vacancy N Amer
;c., literature hard to fill. He woulc
have been seventy five years OF age
next November. His books are sale
: to have reached a sale OF more than nv
hundred thousand copies and to have
I been translated into six different Ian
guages.
Every mar caught in the Mulga mln'
disaster in Alabama persisted. The mum
> Der of dead being estimated at iortJ
three.
> Apparently awakening to the strengt
Of the 'insurgent" Republican faction
the Republican Congressional Comml
tee has experienced a change OF near
l. and is now reported as being dispose
to coax the insurgents back into tn
]. path of regular republicanlsm agar
l. rather than read them out OF the par'
IS as was so summarily proposed at hrs
Knight, Yancey & Co., cotton deale'
of Decatur, Alabama, failed Tor h'
. millions, with assets Of half a mlll'o
IN Gov. Noel of Mississippi is quoted
disappearing of the proposed pfima
en- between Senator Percy and Ex-uo
Is ernor Vardaman. saying that it is CO
to trary to legislative provisions.
Gov. Hughes of New York is bel
considered by Presidet Taft as a pos
bile successor to the late Justice Brew
on the U. S. Supreme Bench.
ms Another frightful mine disaster is
A. ported this past week, this one bel
from Amsterdam, Ohio, where an {
nlosion occurred IN the mine OF
: Y~ouphiogheny & Ohio Steel Co.
in Freezes and billiards were repor
ana last Sunday from the North and We
ef' The United Confederate Veter
met in annual reunion in Mobile, 4
I'M bama, last week. Miss Lucy WI
ars HAYES of Colorado Springs, Col'ra
nth granddaughter OF Jefferson DAVIS
on the Chief Sponsor.
the The u. S. Government siezed A.
the bales of cotton at Mobile, Ala,
ior signed to Havre, France, under Dill
lading issued by the defunct frm
lee Knight, Yancey & Co. OF Decatur,
ing The seizure was made on appllcatio
ton the receivers of the firm.
Thomas Taggart, at n time Ct
man of the National Democratic .
alter mittee, has announced himself as
ten didate for the U. s. Senate from
and ana.
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