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VOLUME XVIII
DAKOTA CITY NEB., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1901).
NUMBER 16
DAKOT
CURRENT HAPPENINGS
FAITHFUL CHRONICLE OF
ALL IMPORTANT ITEMS.
BELAYA'S RULE ENDS
SF-NDS HICSIUXATION TO XICAItA.
ITAI CONOIUOSS.
IriTrn to Ray by Nation's Spirit of Re-
volt Rig Crowds Sliont Approval
Has Ruled with an Iron Hand for
the Pant SUU-cn Yearn.
Jose Santos Zelaya has resigned
from the presidency of Nicaragua. He
placed his resignation in the hands of
congress Thursday. Apparently thero
was no other courso for him to take.
The people were at last aroused. The
guns of the revolutionists threatened.
Tho warships of the United States lay
in Nicaraguan ports.
Managua has been seething .'or days.
The spirit of revolt haa spread oven to
the gates of the palace. Zelaya sur
rounded himself with an armed guard.
Unchecked the populace have marched
through the streets crying for tho
end of the old and proclaiming the
new regime. Who will take up the
reins none knows nor cares. It is suf
ficient that Zelaya, as dictator, will be
known no more. There is no doubt
that congress will act quickly on his
resignation, for the people have de
manded it.
Dr. Joso Madrla, judge of the Cen-
tral American court of justice at Car-
tago, may be the next president. Mad
rla has his following, strong and Influ
ential even among the revolutionists,
but Gen. Kstrada, under whoso com
mand the great body of lighting in
surgents now face Vasquez's troops at
Rama, will have none of him. IStra-
da's word will bear weight in the
choice of a president.
Zelaya has known, too, that Madrhs
Is not acceptable to the United Statss,
and he has sought to learn who would
be looked upon with favor by that
government as his successor, lmt the
American government, so far ns can
be learned, has named no man, Und the
choice probably will lie with those
,who have gained this upper hand.
CHINESE SMUGGLER LEAOirE.
Letter Found May IjCuiI to Ilrraklngr
Up of Gang.
Letters written in Chinese which
Immigration Inspector Itenham found
in the blouse of Laong Chee nt As
toria, Ore., may bring about the break
ing up of an organized league engaged
In smuggling Chinese into this coun
try. The letters reveal the inner work
ings of this band in such a minute
way that it is believed conviction of
its members will be easy.
Almost every large city in the Unit
ed States, according to Benham, has
representatives of this band. The let
ters show the existence of a well or
ganized "underground railwoy" lead
ing from ports of entry to all largo
cities where Chinese are established.
TORN TO PIECES.
Unidentified Men Relieved to Re Ar.
Kansas Rank Robbers.
Torn to shreds by some high explo
sive, probably dynamite, the bodies of
of two unidentified men were found on
the bank of the Arkansas river near
Tulsa, Okla., Wednesday night
The appearance of the men's cloth
ing, together with the fact that the
Tulsa banks have a large supply of
money on hand, led the authorities to
believe that tho men were bank rob
bers. It Is thought that the men may
have been killed by the accidental ex
plosion of dynamite they carried with
them to blow bank safes. The men
may have been members of the gang
that robbed the Paoll State bank Tues
day, the officers believe.
Franchise Right llcnteii.
The proposition to extend the fran
chise of the Metropolitan Street Car
company which now holds the trac
tion rlKhta of Kansas City, Mo., up to
1925 for a period of twenty-six years,
or torty-two years from the present.
was defeated at a special election
Thursday by a majority of 7,09!.
Placed Under Arrest.
On complaint of Attorney Jackson
all the fruit, produce and commission
men of Topeka. Kan., were arrested
Thursday, charged with being mem
bers of the Topeka Produce anil Fruit
exchange and violating the anti-trust
laws of the state.
Jury Falls to Agree. t
The Jury in the case of Fred War
ner, charged with ucceptlng a bribe
while a member of tho St. Louis, Mo.
house of delegates, was discharged
Thursday, as it could not agree on
verdict.
Klou City live Stock Market.
Thursdays quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow: Top
beeves, $4.50. Top hoys, $8.25.
American Arrested I" Paris.
The police of Paris, France, Thurs
day arrested an American postal em
ploye named Cohen, who is accused
of having stolen registered letters
from the San Francisco postoffice.
Auto Accident Fatal.
. The.Hon. Archibald Jordan, son of
the earl of Aberdeen, died Friday from
injuries received In an automobile ac
cident. He was born In 1KM
BUT t'l l'HONli LINKS.
Morgan & Co. INirchasc IropcrtIea tn
Ohio.
Announcement was made !n Tole
do, O., Wednesday that J. P. Morgan
& Co. are tho purchasers of two of the
Independent telephone properties In
wh,ch Jam.e" nrllcy Jr ; ! :To,.r
uo recently securca control. ieinus
of the deal and future operations are
not made known officially.
On authority from Morgnn & Co.
the following statement was Issued by
Clarence llrown, general counsel for
tho United States (long distance) Tel
ephone company and the Cuyahoga
Telephone company, of Cleveland:
"I am authorized by James S. Rral-
ley, Jr., to announce that J. P. Mor
gan & Co., have purchased for their
own account a majority of the stock
of tho United States Long Distance
and Cuyahoga Telephone companies.
Further than this no statement can
be made at present."
Mr. Brailey admitted that he has
perfected a deal for the independent
plants of Columbus and Dayton, O.
Control of the seven companies is
said to represent a cash outlay of $8,
000,000. Kxeept for the statement that these
properties will He continued as sepa
rate plants in competition with the
I3el, but upon conservative lines,
without disastrous price cutting, their
future operation with relation to the
Hell companies is somewhat open, so
far as official Information goes. It
seems, however, that the fight on the
part of the parlnclpal independents In
the middle west has been shifted to
the Continental Telephone find Tele
graph company.
TKN KILLED; MANY HURT.
IXsHNtrous Wreck Oi-curs on Southern
Hallway.
The four reur cars of train No. 11,
of the Southern railway, were dashed
down a 50-foot embankment from the
Reedy creek trestle, ten miles from
Reidsville, N. C, Wednesday, and ten
persons were killed and thirty-five in-
iured.
George Gould, the New York mill
ionaire, and his son were passengers
In one of the sleeping curs bound from
.YorfoIJi to Thomasville. N. C.
A report from Reidsville nys that
.Ixteen people had been killed in- the
wreck on the Southern railroad near
there. Ten bodies hid been removed
fiom the wreck at noon.
George Gould and his son, Jay
.ould reached Greensboro, N.
C, 6n the train bearing the wounded.
J. n. Russell, of New York, a promi
nent journalist, and companion of Mr,
Gould, was badly Injured In the back
and shoulders and 1 now In the hos
pital.
SHORTAGE OVKR HALF MILLION.
Another Sensation in tho Sugar Fraud
Inquiry.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Stlmson announced in New York Wed
nesday that as a result of a federal In
vestigation as to weights on sugar
landed by Arbucklo Bros., sugar re
finers, it was ascertained there had
been a shortage in duty payments by
that firm amounting to $695,573. Mr.
Stimson stated this sum had been re
paid In cash to the United States
treasury by Arbucklo Bros.
Mr. Stlmson said the shortage in the
puyment of duties covered a period
between 185)8, when the Ariiuckles re
finery commenced operations, and No
vember, 1907. The shortage was re
ported to the Arbuckle firm, said Mr.
Stimson, and they voluntarily offered
to pay the shortage to the government
without suit.
Two Girls Missing.
Two girls are missing and fourteen
others narrowly escaped death Thurs
day in a fire which destroyed tho six
story factory building of Schrack &
Sherwood, manufacturers of coffins
and undertakers' supplies in Philadel
phia, Pa. The monetary loss Is esti
mated at $250,000.
Bomb Thrown at Bishop.
At Lisbon Wednesday the anniver
sary of the revolt of the Seminarists,
was marked by the throwing of a
bomb at the bishop of Braganza. The
bishop was not injured. No particu
lar political significance is attached to
the act.
King Leopold Dead.
King Leopold, of Belgium, died at
2:37 o'clock Friday morning, his aged
and wasted body being unable to stand
the strain put upon it. The collapse
occurred suddenly and nt a moment
when the doctors seemingly had the
greatest hopes for his recovery.
Turned Down by China.
The Chinese government has re-
'used finally Portugal's proposals for
he arbitration of the Maceo boundary
lispute concerning which the two gov
rnments have been negotiating since
ant I'arch.
Kansas PostofOVe RoIiIhhI.
Bobbers 1 early Thursduy blew the
afe of the pnstofflce at Tescott, Kan.,
ceuring $800 worth of stamps and
vcral hundred dollars in money. The
en f-Bcapvd on a handcar.
Victim of Rubbers Dies.
John H. Hartman, the wealthy liv
ryman who was struck down by un
nown robbers In his stable In Harris
jrg, Pa., on December 4, died Thurs
ay. Ceil. Dudley Expires.
Gen. W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, for
. rly commissioner of pensions, died
Washington Wednesday.- He had
n ill several weeks with Bright's
usu.
WA1? ON K'll-.KL TRUST.
Ijbor Icadcrs Begin Fight on tho
"Open Shop."
War was formally declared upon the'
United States Steel corporation by the
leaders of organized labor throughout
the United States and Canada at tha
close of a two days' conference Tues
day in Pittsburg, Pa. Tho decision to
battle against the stand taken by the
steel corporation tn Its policy of "open
shop" was reached by the labor con
ferees after hours of debate.
At the conference Samuel Compers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, presided, and through him
the measure was put upon the record
books of the executive council of the
federation.
The grievances of organized labor
against the steel corporation, as set
forth in the resolution, have been for
warded to President Taft and the Unit
ed States senate and the house of rep
resentatives. The governors of the
states in which the United States Steel
coroporatlon owns plants or has inter
ests will also receive a copy of the res
olution. At the conclusion -of the conference
the men said they had "said all there
was to be said" when they had adopted
the measure.
The conference which called those
labor leaders to Pittsburg was made
possible through a resolution adopted
at Toronto, In tho labor conference
held during November, when the con
vention decided by resolution to meet
in Pittsburg and reach a stand.
FIGHT COSTS SEYEN LIVES,
I -amp is Upset and Tenement Set on
Fire.
Seven persons lost their lives, seven
were injured, two probably fatally,
and about fifty others had narrow es
capes from death In a fire which de
stroyed a four-story tenement and
lodging house at Third and Sycamore
streets in Clncinantl, O., Tuesday.
The fire started on the second floor
and waa due to the upsetting of a ker
osene lamp during a quarrel between
tenants.
The building was an old wooden
affair and the flames spread rapidly
to the stalrwas and halls, cutting off
the escape of many. Some rushed to
the windows and others to the roof.
The firemen and policemen rescued
many of them, but others were too
frightened to heed the cries of the
rescuers and threw themselves from
the windows.
HAD JKWELS WORTH 12,00.
Woman Found HI In the Street In the
City of Monterey, Cal.
Holding fast to a handbag In which
were $12,000 worth of diamonds and
other jewelry, $20,000 In railroad and
Industrial bonds, and Insurance poli
cies for $30,000 on property in Oak
land, a well dressed woman, believed
to be Mrs. Ina I,. Cummlngs, of St.
Louis, was found Monday night lying
111 in the street at Monterey, Cal.
The woman could give little account
of herself. Sine said that she had n
daughter named Mrs. Daniels at
Carel-by-the-Sca.
Automobile Accident.
Miss Agnes Claypool, 18 years old,,
the daughter of a wealthy resident of
Pasadena, Qui., was instantly killed,
and Harvey Blssell, 24 years old, son
of a Grand Rapids, Mich., nYitllonnire
manufacturer, was perhaps fatally In
jured Tuesday evening In an automo
bile accident.
Cigar Causes Fxplosinn.
Six men were seriously injured in
an explosion of natural gas In a Are
cistern at Topeka, Kan., Tuesday.
Frank Snyder, street commissioner. Is
probably fatally burned. The men,
who are members of the street force,
were cleaning out the cistern. One
struck a match to light a cigar and
the explosion followed.
Defaulter to Prison.
Grayson S. Osborne, defaulting tell
er of the Huntington National bank,
appeared In the United States circuit
court at Columbus, O., Tuesday and
entered a plea of guilty of embezzling
$28,000 from the bank's funds. He
was sentenced to six and one-half
years In the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
Signs a Confession.
George Beberle, 29 years old, signed
a written confession which Is held by
Fire Chief C. M. Burke, that he kin
dled the flam-js which Monday de
stroyed the warehouse of tho Corno
Mills compa'fiy at East St. Louis, III.,
und caused a loss of $125,000.
Nebraska Tax Law Valid.
The supreme court of Nebraska
Tuesday filed an opinion declaring
valid the state occupation tax law
pussed by the legislature. It will af
ford revenue to the state this year to
the amount of $60,000.
Rev. I. C. Hughes Dead.
The Rev. David C. Hughes, father of
Gov. Hughes, died ut the executive
mansion in Albany, N. Y., at 11
o'clock Wednesday night following a
recent stroke of apoplexy.
Warrant for Sheldon.
A warrant for the arrest of George
Sheldon, the deposed president of the
Phoenix Insurance company, of
Brooklyn. N. Y., was put into the
hands of the Greenwich, Conn., po
lice Tuesday.
Bishop of Fargo, N. I).
The pope Tuesday appointed Rev.
Jamea O'Reilley, now rector of St. An
thony of Padua, Minneapolis, Minn.,
to the bishopric of Fargo, N. D.
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STOUT GF.TS NIXK YEARS.
Judge Sentences Man to Serve One
Year l ess Than Maximum.
That he was sorry tor what had
happened, sorry for his wife and child,
sorry for the Richeson family and that
the blow Richeson struck him was a
surprise, that he bad borne a good
reputation, had never betrayed a man
and never would, and that he threw
himself .upon the clemency of tho
court, was the statement Ernest H.
Stout made, to Judge Paul at Grand
Island when nsked why ho should not
be sentenced for the crime to which he
had pleaded guilty manslaughter.
Judge J. N. Paul commented upon tho
duties of the court In the matter. The
plea of self defense could not be made
as the witness had himself, the testi
mony showed, admitted that he could
have overpowered the? old man. In
stead ho had brutally mauled and
4eaten him to death. The court al
ways was pained to separate man from
wife and parent from child, but there
were other things that needs must bo
taken Into consideration. The poor
orphaned children of Richeson,' un
represented at this hour, had as much
right to be considered, and the de
fendant should have considered them,
along with his own wife and child, In
stead of permitting his passion to con
quer him. The court thereupon sen
tenced the defendant to one year less
than the maximum, nine years.
ILVS WOMAN ARRF.STF.R.
Scott's Rluff Ranchman Charges Wife
with Wedding Again.
County Attorney W. C. Ramsey, of
Plattsmouth. on the complaint of
Charles R. Meyer," hus filed In County
Judge Reason's court a complaint
charging Florence I. Meyer, alius Flor
ence I. Smith, alias Florence I. lien
drlx, alias Florence 1. Wayes. with
having committed the crime of biga
my. Ho also filed a complaint againBt
Fred C. Hall charging him with a stat
utory offense. The complaint Beta forth
that Meyer and tho woman were mar
ried In Scott's Bluff county, in this
state, AprHAS, 1 ft 0 tS'. ami that fhe nnd
Fred C. Hall were married in this
county on October 30, 1909, and that
both men are living and that Florence
has not received a divorce from Meyer.
The complaint against Hall charges
him with living with the woman from
October 30, 1909, to December 11,
1909. At the preliminary hearing each
defendant waived examination and
were bound over to the district court.
The bond of Meyer was fixed at $300,
while that of Mrs.' Meyer was $200.
Meyer and his wife formerly resided
on a ranch in Wyoming nnd tho hus
band said if she would return home
with him all would be forgiven, but
the woman much prefers to remain
with Hall.
GAINS HIS I.IBFRTY.
.Vebraskun Charged with March
of
a Shelloii Man.
Andrew M. Treat, charged with the
murder of Thos. Graftns at Shelton.
has been accorded his freedom by a
Jury In the county court at Kearney
and ns long ns he lives within the
bounds of tho law he can run at large.
The case grew out of a divorce, a
marriage and a feud. Treat and his
wife were separnted' last spring and
she married Thomas Grnftus. Trent
brought suit nnd secured judgment
against Graftus. The feeling between
the two men grew more acute and at
last terminated in the shooting or
Gratus on July 5. Later he di.iel. Thvi
coroner's Jury pronounced his death
due to liver trouble nnd not to the gun
wound. '
Prisoner Becomes Insane.
Mrs. Jennie Gelger, serving a 39
?ear term in the state penitentiary for
murder, has been ordered transferred
to tho insane asylum. Mrs. Gelger was
sent from Keith county. With a trav
eling companion she had picked up
they planned to murder a man -who
had Joined them on n long trump with
his team. Since being placed In prison
the woman has displayed unmistak
able signs of a broken clown mental
ity. Lynns Hay Promoted.
A well earned promotion has came
tn a former Lyons boy, now of Des
Moines, la. I larry '1 iurrle, who h'is
been working for the last three years
with the Bankers' Accident Insurance
company, has been placed ut the head
of a branch department that will bo
opened up soon In the Brandeta build
ing at Omaha.
The supreme court has tiled an opin
ion declaring valid the state occupation
tax law passed by the legislature. It
will afford revenue to the state this
year to the amount of $00,000.
Mother und Baby Burned.
Mrs. Jennie Matilda Buic k, of Oma
ha, and her 1-year-old baby were fa
tally burned following the explosion of
a gasoline stove. Mrs. A. E. Coryell,
a neighbor, waa seriously burned In
rescuing the woman and child from
the flames.
Farmer Drops Dead.
Joseph Sampson, a wealthy land
owner living near Seward, dropped
dad from heart failure Thursday,
STATE NEWS
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TWO MEN HRT.
Burlington 1 jistbuund Fx press Jumps
the Track nt Exeter.
The Denver-Chicago eastbound ex
press on the Chle ngo, Burlington and
(Julney road was derailed at ExetorJ
fifty miles west of Lincoln, Saturday
evening. Two passenger cars, tho en
gine, burgage nnd mull cars left the
track and toppled on their sides. Fight
passengers were injured, only one se
verely, A. K. Oilman, n traveling en
gineer, hnd his he ad badly cut nnd was
bruised about the body. He was
brought to Lincoln and placed In a
hn;iit:il. C. S. Hoover, a traveling
man of Sumluskv. (.. received cuts
bruises, 'flie injuries of the others!10
were so slluht tivit they were able to
proceed on their way.
The wreck occurred at a point
where the Biirlini-.toti tracks cross
theno of the Northwestern road.
A DISt.VSTIXG CASK.
Kearney Man GUen Fifteen Years lot
Incet-t.
A most pitiful criminal case was dis
posed of In district court Saturday
morning at Kearney when Judge
Prune O. Hosteller sentenced John C.
P.itton to fifteen years In tho peniten
tiary on a charge of Incest filed by
the man's wife of incest with his 13-year-old
daughter. Patton, an Igno
rant and hard working man, confess
ed and asked the Judge to" make the
sentence light, owing to the fact that
he had a wife nnd family of. six to sup
port. Mrs. Patton, who had filed the
complaint against her husband, also
begged l'r mercy and told how hon
est, Industrious and faithful he has
been. The extreme penalty was elgh.
teen years for sue h an offense.
PRF.SF.NT I'AHK TOt) HIGH.
Ten-Cent Rule Ordered" Retwcen Oma
r hn und the RIiiITn.
In derision rendered Monday the
Interstate commerce commission held
that the Omaha, ind Council Bluffs
railway and Bridge company was an
Interstate -corporation, subject to the
net regulating commerce, and that its
fare of 15 cents from Council Bluffs,
la., to Omaha, Nob., was unreasonable.
It was ordered that the fare for two
years beginning February, 1910, should
not be m,nre than 10 cents from any
point In one city to any point in tho
other.
New Methodist Church.
What Cnlversity Place Methodlstt
believe is the finest church in the
Etnte w:s dedicated Sunday by the
Methodist people of that place. Un
til then the people liavo never had a
real home, their services being held
either In the Nebraska Wealeyan uni
versity auditorium or in the old
church basement.
Women Kngugo In Contest.
I'nder the direc tion of the Women'
Clirlbtl.in Temperance Union there
was held at Harvard a Silver Gray
contest, consisting of recitations by
six women, none being eligible to en
ter under 10 years of nge. One wom
an. In her 80th year, gave an Interest
ing paper, which she read without
glasses.
Slav Fiddler Gets K FIhIi.
Joseph Dukes, who was one of tin
prize wlnneis nt the fiddlecs' carnival
in Nebraska City recently, captured
a 6:l-pound catfish from tho Missouri
river near his home nt Mlnersvllle,
and bronchi tho captive to Nebraska
City alive and put him on exhibition.
Robinson Pleads Not Guilty.
Fred T. Kohlminu, of Lincoln, wat
arraigned in Beatrice in county court
on the c harce of murdering his wife,
Mrs. Kllen Robinson, who was shot
November 18, dying a few days later.
Robinson pleaded not guilty and the
date of lii preliminary hearing was
set for I )c c ember 28.
Attacked by a Dog.
Gnzella Xuss, of Sutton, while or,
tho way to church Sunday evening,
was iitl.'cl.cd by a bulldog which bit
her in the back. The wound Is a
birge and prlnful one, but as she had
medical treatment Immediately it is
hoped it will not prove serious.
fli shier Km llcr Is Sold.
A den! has been closed at Deshlei
whereby F. V. Lowe, formerly connect
ed with an cumih.i paper, became
owner of tho Rustler, office and build
ing. J:inics Pontine, former editor, has
not decided what he will do.
New Sjtcin of I'lre 1:hciihh.
The board of education has furnish
ed the new high school building ut Te-
kamah with fire escapes from each of
the upper rooms.
Missouri River Closed.
Tho river is frozen over nt Nebraska
t ity and the ice men are getting ready
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.. .uov o. , m i, lc mm year inui ine
Missouri river has blocked on De.
cember 8, since 1804, at that point.
One Year for Robert Radcllff,
Robert Radcllff was given one year
In the penitentiary for forging a check
on the Union Pacific hotel of Kearney
lt Apr"-
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LINCOLN
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Before many weeks Lincoln wll'
know whether Mayor Don L. Ixve is t.
"usurper." The supreme court hoi
overruled a motion for a rehearing it
a case In which It held that Countj
Judge Cowgrove hod the authority tc
hear the election contest brought bj
Robert Malone, Mr. Love's opponent
In tho recent election. When Mtilnnt
brought his contest the attorneys Toi
Love attac ked tho right of tho count
court to hear the case. The dlstric
court held with tho county court anc
tho case was appealed to 4hn suprerm
court, where again Love lost out. No
for a second time he has lost. In the
meantime Mayor Love has servee1
some eight months and for that hhiki
length of time Robert Malone has not
been aide to bid on city work for fom
he is the mayor of the city. According
the co,,nt which seated Mr. Ixve
he defeated Malone by 48 votes. Ma
lone alleges that on a recount ho will
be declared elected, as several errors
for a recount, yet his lawyers hnv
staved off action for several months
It is expected the recount will begin
vithln the next ten days.
Since the state railway commission
ass gone after the Lincoln Traction
company to see why it does not fuv
nish the people of Lincoln adequate
street cur service, the company hai
appealed to the Lincoln Gas company
to help it out by furnishing power to
run tho Citizens' street railway, which
It recently took over. As the gas com
pany Is engaged In lighting only It
agreed to take care of the lighting of
the traction company, but It does not
seem to care about placing the trac
tion company In position to cut In on
Its own business. When tho traction
company absorbed tho Citizens' line'1
tho gas company had the contract to
furnish power for tho latter company,
t no traction company nt oneo can
celled that contract und when tho first
snow came the company had more
juslness than it could handle.
The supreme court directed man
damus to Issue to compel the board of
regents of the university to locate and
maintain two experimental stations In
the sand hills,' according to the provi
sions of an act of tho late legislature.
The law provided that the money
should be paid out of the university
temporary fund, and tho regents al
leged this money could not ho spent
for that purpose. The court holds that
It" Is the duty of the board or regent
to obey the will of the legislature us
expressed In these acts nnd that ex
perimental stations may be lawfully
maintained In connection with th
college of agriculture In the university.
Judge Root wrote tho opinion.
Ex-Senator Bressler, representing
he trustees of Wayne normal school,
and the attorney general have pre
pared the contract by which the state
takes over Wayne normal school for
$70,000. The trustees of the school
agree to transfer tho insurance now
on the property to the state, tho state
to pay the unearned premium. Thi
warrant for tho school will be deliver
ed to tho trustees after the norma'
board holds -Its meeting at Alliance
January 3. The school will be man
aged as now until the close of the bi
ennlum, by which thime the legisla
ture will have met and appropriated
money for Its maintenance.
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The resignation of Second Lieuten
ant Andrew Holt, of Company G. First
regiment, Nebraska National Guard
which was nsked for by Adjt. Gen
llartlgan, hus been received and ac
cepted. Lieut. Holt failed to be present
at the company Inspection recent!)
and therefore his resignation wus de
manded. Mr. Holt gave as a reasor
for hla absence that he hud compan)
as his home that night nnd did not
tnro to leave. The business commit
tee of the company at Geneva hoi
asked the adjutant genera! to resettle
his order, but Gen. Martlgan lnsistt
that it will stand.
The first prosecution under the ful
tarln crew law will bn started shortl:
against the Rock Island railroad. Th.
state railway cnminifsinn has certified
to the attorney general that this road
on trains 7 and 8, has used the port"
us a flagman, and also caused th'
brakeman to act us flagman. Th.
penalty for a violation of this law is r
fine of fros $100 to $1,000. nnd I
ruii3 not only ugainnt the company
but ngalnst the officials who are re
sponsible. Judge Cornish has modified his In
junction against Lincoln officer!
searching rooms of the various soeia
clubs In quest of liquor so they ma:
go If equipped with a warrant anc
after putting up a $100 bond. The re
quest probably means local war or
dispensing refreshments by thli
means.
Mrs. Jennie Gelger, a prisoner In thf
penitentiary, who attempted to assault
Mrs. Smith, wife of the warden, with e
Piece of board, has been transferred i
the asylum.
Tho Insanity board re
ported to the governor that the wom
an was Insane.
Mayor Ixve plans to organize t
state leacun nf miiniin.ini. .
planning to Issue a call to the mayor
of the several cities of the state t.
1 meet and rnn...
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SAVANNAH IN A FRENZY.
Enraged Vittzen Aid Tollc in Hunt
for Murderous Negro.
Savannah waa swept by a dragnet
of police officers and enraged citizens
th other night who were seeking a
negro, charged with attack on on
woman and the murder of hla victim
and two women companions In a home
In the very heart of the city.
Sprawled hideously about the hall
and rooms of their home, Mrs. Eliza
Grlbble, aged 70 years, and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, were found
dead rally in the afternoon by a pa
trolman, who was attracted by the
moans of a third woman, Mrs. Maggie
Hunter, aged 32. who died later, with
her Kkull beaten In, at the Savannah
Hospital.
An as was used, and physicians say
Mrs. Ohlander was attacked. A ne
gro woman who, it Is said, lived for
two days in an outhouse In the rear
of the Grlbble home. Is missing. The
murders were moat brutal. Mrs. Grlb
ble was killed ns she sat In her easy
chair reading. Her gray hair Is
blood-clotted where the ax crushed her
skull. Beside her body on tho floor
were her newspaper and her spec
tacles. One blow, or two at the most
I imfflnArl tn an A Tiaf ltfa Mm TTnntpr
) was found by a patrolman as he step-
ped Inside the front door. She waa
probably struck, down as she attempt
ed to escnpe from the house.
In the hope of securing the murder
er of the three women the police drag
net In Yaniacrow, a negro district.
aught 1j0 negroes. This Is only a
start, a the police are determined on
the aiest of every negro In any way
resembling the description given of
the murderer.
DIE IN TENEMENT FIRE.
Sleeping Families Trapped in Burn
ing Building in Cincinnati.
At least seven lives were lost and
neon more Injured In a tenement
house lire af .127 and 329 East Third
street, Cincinnati. The building ia a
four-story structure with tenements
on every floor except the first. The
hallways are lighted by kerosene
tamps, und in some way the lamp on
the second floor was upset and In a
very few minutes the dry wood work
In the hall was aflame. The blaze
hliot upward, making it Impossible
for, the tenauts to get out by way of
the stalN. Some'of them jumped out
of the windows and were badly hurt.
There were Iirty people in the house
at the tinitx . .
The first fireman to reach the scene
Raved several persons from the rear
of the burning building." One captain
carried down two dead bodies on the
ladder and severnl others were found
huddled together on the fourth floor.
While the Are waa still burning it
was estlmuted that fully half of the
fifty occupants of tho tenements were
either tleud or badly injured. . The
bodies taken to the morgue were so
badly burned that Identification was
'mpost-ible.
LOST IN LAKE SHIP TITLE.
Clarion of Anchor Line Is Swept by
Flames.
Two men lost their lives and thir
teen others are believed to be Dear
death us a result of the destruction of
the steamer Clarion by fire near Point
Peelee, in Lake Krie. The cause of
the fire is not known. The first mate
and one of tho crew perished. The
captain and twelve members of the.
crew nre adrift In n steel lifeboat.
They have not been heard from since
leaving the ship. One of the victims
was frozen to death and another was
drowned. Six men were taken off th
burning boat by the steamer L. C.
Hanna, bound for Buffalo.'. It is feared
that the thirteen adrift in the lifeboat
will succumb to the cold.
EDITORS TARGETS FOB BOMBS
I'nu KxploaJoua lu St. Louis A
Almrd at I.I vea of Writer.
Dynamite bombs have been the
weapons used agulnst two newspaper
men in St. Louis. The residence' of
Harry 11. Wandell, city editor of the
St. Louis Star, wus dynr.mlted at an
early hour the other morning. The
front door and wlndowa of the Wan
Jell house were blown out A man
was seen running away. No one was
Injured. Wandell refused to discuss
the cause of the explosion. Recently
he was slugged as he was entering the
Star building. Explosion of a bomb
In Che desk of Georgo C. Dyer, pub
lisher of the Censor, a weekly publi
cation devoted to scandals, completely
wrecked his oRiccs.
FIVE DEOWN SLEDDING.
I 'Hi her nuil I 'cnir ( htldren Dreak
'I lirimuh lee lu Hlver.
A hole in live Ice and a sled float
ing In the blac k waters bore mute ev
idence of u drowning accident on the
Cuyahoga riser at Kent, O., in which
!lve persons went to death unseen.
Jf a family of seven, ilia mother and
lier young baby only survive. The
Jead ure: Frank Cur man ie, aged 33
years, and his children, Florence, aged
J; Helen, 7; Mubel, 4, and Russell, 2.
Shortly after noon the other day
Frank Cormanlo took his three daugh
ters end little son to the river for a
.led ride on the lie. A neighbor who
visited the Cornianie home In the
evening ami found the mother dis
tracted went to the river and discov
ered a hole in the ice and the sled
floating In the water. Further sarcb
riinlte.l In finding the bodies. '