Putnam patriot., 1911-06-09
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 During the trial of five Of the princi. pal officials of the United Wireless Tel egraph company last Monday, after the jury had found them guilty of fraudulent practices, the United states prosecuting attorney declared that an attempt had been made by the cul- prits to bribe him and one of the ju TOTS The culprts were sentenced 10 imprisonment for a term of years, three two, and one.
 Fifty years ago last Wednesday, May 24th, 1861, Colonel Elmer F.. Ellsworth Of the New York Fire Ioua1es Regi- ment was shot down on the stairway of an Alexandria hotel as he was de seending from the roof with q Confed- crate flag which he had just hauled down. As young man whose perso- nality and career had attracted wide attention, as well as in his role of one of the earliest martyrs of the war, Els wofthis death shocked the whole coun try. Although born in Michigan he was of Connecticut stock. His grand father was John Ellsworth, for a quar- ter of a century, sexton Of the Center Church, Hartford, and his father, Will liam, emigrated from that city to Michigan shortly alter his marriage and not long before the birth of his son, Elmer.
 The irst announcement of the plan and scope of the Carnegie endowment for international peace, with theiap- pointments of directors of two Of the divisions, was made at .Mohonk Lake, N. '. by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in his address as presiding officer of the Lake Mohonk conference on interna- tional arbitration. Dr. Butler also pre- dicted, "with authority,e the estab- lshment of the international court of arbitral justice before the time of the third Hague peace conference
 Uncle Sam has taken stock of what has been accomplished at Panama, af- ter seven years of work. May ended the seventh year of canal construction by Americans. Only one-fourth of the great task of excavation remains to be done, for the "groundhogsn have re- moved l3S, ,000,000 cubic yards from the lineiof the canal That leaves only i4,000, GOO cubic var ds to he eut away.
 In his farewell address Go bis coun. trymen, General Diaz delivered q warning. Speaking to the little group of soldiers, who 'd ed as 4 guard on his trip from the capital to the port, the old man, who has governed MeXi- co for more than thirty years by mill. tary strength, said that the present gov, rnment must yet resort to his methods, if peace is to be re-establish ed
 A celebration of exceptional interest 10 Friends will be the observance of the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the New Ennland yearly meeting 10 be held June .i at the Moses Brown school in Providence. The early histo- " of the Quakers in New England will be the subject of an interesting program.
 That the United States battleship Maine now being uncovered atHaVana harbor was not blown up by spanish emissaries, but was destroyed by an internal explosion which caused the accident, Is the belief of Rear Admiral George w. Melville, retired, who at the time of the disaster was engineer in-chief of the American navy. This startling statement was made in let. ter written by Melville in 1902, but for some reason the letter was suppressed at the time. It now appears in the North American Review.
 The proposed democratic revision of the wool taritt-the Underwood bill was unanimously approved by full democratic caucus twelve hours after it had been made public by the ways and means committee. The bill as presented to the caucus makes reduc- tions of from one-half 10 two-thirds in all wool duties, Raw wool itself, which was free in previous democratic tariff bills, Is given a duty Of a0 per cent ad valorem, equivalent 10 from 8 to 5 cents pound. The reduction makes decrease in the revenues of the government estimated at Sl ,350, ,o00.
 In all the states and territories of Mexico electors will be chosen October I, and these will select the successor to DiaE on Sunday, October 18th.
 Stock of the American tobacco com pany has fallen over sloo a share since the supreme court decision rgsinst 1t; yet Mir. Bryan refers to the decision as an effort on the part Of Chief Justice White to "throw his protecting arms around the trusts and tell them how to escape"
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