SCORES THE coiiara
rilKNCH UAWVICK SfiVKUK IN AT
TACK ON COSTIH.LANK
tipent Million of Her Money nnil No4
Jlctfslnc Her to Keturn Somo
of His Letters Mntfo
l'ubllo
' PARIS. Tho court room In tht
palaco of justico occupied by tho
tribunal of Hrst instance of the Scinc,i
Judge Ditto presiding, wub again'
crowded when the hearing of tho j
divorce suit brought by tho Oountcss
do Gastollane, formerly Anna Gould,
against her husband. Count J3oni de
Cnstcllano, was resumed.
Maitro Oruppi, of counsel for the
countess, reviewed tho points ho had
covered already, reforring to tho.
reckless fashion in which the count
had spent millions of tho countess'
money while allowing her only a
niggarly fow hundred francs monthly
for pin money, on ono occasion
brutally refusing to increase hoi
allowance to $200 a month. Counsel
declared that tho proofs of tho
count's infidelity and cruelty con
tained in tho thirteen allegation!
made were sufficient to justify a di
vorce without summoning witnesses
As evidence of tho countesB' gene
rosity, counsel cited tho agreement
of 1M)8 by which tho count's fathe)
and mother were guaranteed a lift
income of $ij,000 and $1,000, reEpec
tively, and again laid apodal stresi
on the countess' intention not te
abandon tho country of her adoption
but to rear her boys as Frenchmen.
Mornlnc I'lro at CIiIi'iiro
Clir.CAGO.--A lire which started
early in the day in the moulding
plant of Angus and Mackey 7f)4 West
Madison street, spread to several ad
joining buildings beforo it was gotten
under control and caused a loss of
$200,000. Among the buildings de-1
stroyed worn tho Robey hotel, tho
structure occupied by the Leida
Printing company, and tho dry goods
store of II. J. Home & Cu. All the
guests of the hotel escaped.
The Lewis institute, wliioh is
located across the street from the
buildings burned, was threatened
tor a time, but was only "lightly
damaged.
Kill u l.lfelnnc Friend
BATON ROUGE, La. Democratic
Congressman-Elect Judge George K.
Kavrot shot and killed his life-long
associate and former schoolmate, Dr.
JI. 11. Aldrich, one of tho best known
citizens of Baton Rouge, while hun
dreds of pcr.ons were near tiie scene
of the shooting, but none knew what
happened between tho two men.
Judge Kavrot refused to talk beyond
letting it bo known that tho matter1
was a private quarrel.
Tho shot whs tired opposite tho
Istrouma hotel, out of which a crowd
of Hoeiety women were pouring, hav
ing just left a reception. Among'
these women wore (he mother and
sister of Judge Kavrot. Judge Kavro
was arrested and placed In jail.
Tnko Revenge oil u Woman
PKLHAM, Ga. -Tho wife of
Hicks, the negro wtio killed John A
Abridge, was found dead in her homl
having been killed by unknown
parties.
Some time during tho night she
was shot with over twenty bullets.
On the same farm and not far away
a nergo who it is claimed helped
Hicks to escape was found dead, lie
aleo had been shot several timeK.
The coroner was notified. Hicks has
not been captured.
Arreted tin a Murderer
LONDON. Karl Stau, alias Hau,
described as a lawyer of Washington,
was arragned at tho Bow street
nolieo court for extradition to Ger
many on the charge of murdering
his mother-in-law at Baden-Baden.
The prisoner declared that the charge
was due to a misunderstanding and
asked tho magistrate to eond him to
Germany immediately for trial. He
was remanded pending the arrival of
evidence.
.Stan's wife and child were with"
him at tho Hotel Cecil hero when he
was arrested. The police found a
loaded revolver and $1,400 on the
person of the prisoner.
Stan registered at the hotel under
the mime or llau. His wifo refuser
to see anyono and apparently they
have no friends in London.
Flit ul Oyniunlte Kiploslon
PITTS BURG, Pa. Ono man was
killed, two fatally injured and six
teen others seriously hurt in a dyna
mito explosion on Woodlawn avonue,
Carrick borough where a sower W
being constructed. The men wore
all foreigners. They wero seated
about n lire eating their lunch when
a dozen sticks of dynamite placed
nenr the flro UHJftawjexploded. '
NEBRASKA NOTES
Tho 'Kllpatriok hoso company c7T
Beatrice has raised $,"0 for the mon
umcnt fund.
O. W. Brandt, chief dispatcher for
the Union Pacilic at Cheyenne, ha
been transferred to North Platto.
A large force of men havo almost
completed tho large water tank for
tho Chicago & Northwestern railroad
at. Arlington.
Berlrand has just voted $12,000
bonds for a water works systom, the
voto Btanding 125 for tho proposition
to 0 against It.
Tho Burlington depot to be erected
at Nebraska City by tho Burlington
will cost $10,000 and will bo of
pressed brick.
The Presbyterian church of Colum
bus ia building a line parsonage. It
is two stories ana attic and covers
a big lot ol ground.
Mr. Taylor Meadows of Kennard,
sold his barber shop to Mr. Gus
Young of Benson. Mr. Young will
tako possession soon.
The 9-year-old daughter of Robert
Larlmore, whilo walking on tho
Rock Island Stock yards fence, fell
and broke botn arms at the wrist.
P. II. Windt, of Council Bluffs has
been awarded tho contract for tho
building of tho Masonic temple at
North Platto. Mr. Dussel! of Colum
bus got the contract for tho heating
plant.
Chancellor 15. Benjamin Andrews
of Lincoln will be the Nebraska
representative to tho Social Educa
tion congress in Boston on Nov. 29.
Ho will deliver an address on "In
dustrial Education in a Prairie
state."
The Rising City Independent suys
'Many thousands of bushels of corn
have been cribbed in Nebraska this
week. In order to gather Nebraska's
,big corn crop tho weather clerk
should bo on his good behavior for a
month or six weeks at least.
Francis Ayer, of Geneva, died re
cently at his home in Geneva of'
typhoid. His wife had just returned
from Lincoln, where she was in a
hospital for an operation.
The Woman's club of Holdrege.i
thought tho high school of that city!
needed a manual training equipment,
and instead of waiting for the board
of education to supply it raised the
money and did it themselves. Good
girls !
The 2-yoar-old sou of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Goodnight, of Beatrice, came
very near boing drowned recently
by falling into a tub of water, while
playing about tho yard. Ho was
siwed by Myrtle Williams, tho house
maid, who heard the. little fellow
when he fell.
Considerable excitement prevailed
at the Blakely school 'ioubp, west of
Beatrice when a man entered tho
school and seized littlo May Richard
son, and took her away with him in
a buggy. Tho girl had been living
with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vander
grift, who are employed at the Kirk
patrick ranch. When tho mother
died, several months ago, she was
given into their custody, and she has
been living with them over since.
A few more lots along the line of
the Burlington & Missouri survey in
the south part of North Platto sold
under contract. These Bales have now
been so many as to almost preclude'
any doubt as to the intention of tho
Burlington fc Missouri building into
North Platte.
August liaase, well known in tho
vicinity of Norfolk and who resided
a mile north of Norfolk, near tho
sugar factory,' was killed recently by
tho Northwestern train which had
just left Norfolk for Bonesteel. Mr.
Haaae had boon working in the Held
with a couple of men who were husk
ing corn. lie dotailed a corner of
Clio Hold where they wero to work
and left tho place. A few momenta
later tho mon saw tho train como
along. It stopped at the crossing,
which was out of tho ordinary, and
attracted tho attention of tho men in
tho Held. Investigation showed that
Mr. llaaso had been killed in front
of tho engine. His neck was broken
and head crushed. The engineer had
not seon Mr. Haase on tho track in
time to stop.
The ft. E. Roberts grain company
bought up during tho past month at
Konnard about 40,000 bushels of oats.
Mrs. H, A. Lawrence, of Elk
Creek, has received a letter form her
son, Lester, who has been In tho
Philippines for two years. He hai
just returned to the states and write
that through Homo oversight the soL
dier boys wero brought into tho snovi
storm in tho west with thoir lighl
island clothes on and suffered so.
rerely.
GUMS ARE LACKING!
COAST KOUTiriOATlONS 1'AUliTY
SAYS 0KOZ1UU
What a Battle Would Mean
CUN8 WOULD WKAK Ol)T( VEltV
KA 111)1. V
Twelve-Inch Piece Conld Not 1,uit Two
Ilonm Through mi Knaaueiuent
New Method Necc-
WASHINGTON. That the 12-iuoli
gun now in use at most of tho coast
fortifications or tho United States
would not last through an engage
ment of two hours, the period that
would elapse from the time the lead
ing vessel of a licet would come
witnin the range, until the last
vessel would pass beyond the range
of . tins, is the statement made by
Brigadier General Williams Croizer,
chief of ordinance, whose annual re
port was made public at tho war de
partment. General Crozicr thinks that it is
of the utmost importance that some
method bo devised whereby the
necessary gun powder can be secured
with less expense than that involved
in using the very high velocitlos of
projeetiles now employed, with the
accompanying rapid liring weiring
away of the rilling in such u manner
as to destroy the accuracy of the gun
after a few rounds. The 12-iuch gun
will last, for about sixty rounds, and
as the gun is capablo of liring for a
considerable interval at the rate
of forty-live rounds per hour, it. can
be seen that the limit of the life of
this gun coulu bo reached in less
than an hour and a half.
Sumc ICule Willi Kiimller (imm
Similar statements can be mado
with regard to guns of smaller cali
bers, says the report, although as tho
caliber diminishes the admissable
velocity increases. By lowering the
velocity of tho 12-ineh projectile
from 2,000 feet per second, in 2, 260
feet per second the life of the gun is
increased to 200 roundH. The pene
tration of armor is reduced by the
process, that of the 12-inch gun at
10.00(1 jards coming down from about
U)Uj is.chos to aoour. 9 inches and tho
range at which its projectile would
penetrate 12 inches of armor plate-
being redueed from about 8,000 yards,
to about (J.(XX) yards.
The chief of ordinance stales that
it appears that by using in the siuiu
tions requiring the greatest power a
14-inch gun with 2,150 feet per
second velocity of projectile instead
of the 12-inch gun with 2,."KX. feet
per second initial velocity, the army
would secure a better gun and a gun
which would last four times as long.
General Crozicr states that the fact
that the Taft board for tin revision
of the report of the Kndioott board
on coast defenses recommended this
gun, and that the department has
decided to use it in place of the
12-inch gun in situations whore the
highest power is required and tho
12-inch gun as a maximum calmer
has been abandoned
General Crozicr says that plans
and specifications are in preparation
for tho army smokeless powder
factory, for which congress at its last
session appropriated $105,000, and
that upon the selection of tho sitor
the work of erection will be pushed
vigorously to completion, but the
site has not been (-elected.
Oiirnnd Will Soon itcllro
LONDON. The retirement of Sir
Mortimer Durand, the rlritish am
bassador to the United Stales, will
take place at the end of this year.
He has been permitted to resign at
his own urgent request, and intends
to permanently leave the diplomatic
service for private life. Tho for
eign oflleo has not yot considered
the question of Sir Mortimer's suc
cessor, and it is expected that there
will be an interim, during which a
new councilor of the embassy, whose
namo will be announced shortly,
probably will bo appointed acting
ambassador.
WASHINGTON. - Lord Curzon,
former viceroy of India, is mentioned
in diplomatic circles as a possiblo
successor to Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand. Tho fact that Lord Curzon
is now on tho sea botween Great
Britain and this country and has
announced that he will visit in this
country for some time lends color to
the rumor of his appointment to the
Wash i nut on trnst.
oatohtbythe debris
WAI.Ij or IIOTKI, 1U7IM)IN(J U1VH
WAY AT r.ONU 1IKACII
Cruihett Itenciith Ton of Mnrlor find
Irrn Whole I m men Mi Struct urn
Cnvei In Without
Wurnlnc
LONG BEACH, Cal.-Tho bugo
Bijtby hotel in courso of congtoruo
tion on tho beach here, collapsed
without warning, supposedly as the
result of faulty construct ion. Be
tween twelvo and Hftcon workmen
wero killed and moro than a scoro of
others were seriously injured, sovornl
of them probably fatally.
Tho building was of reinforced con
crete, and tho men wore crushed to
death beneath tons of mortar and
iron. Only two of the dead had
been taken out an hour after tho ac
cident. Upwards of twenty injured
had been removed to the Long I'oaoh
hospital which soon was III led to
overflowing Upwards of llfteon work
men arc believed to be. still buried
in tho debris.
Tho whole structure caved in with
out warning from the basement to
tho fourth Hour, leaving but, one
wing standing. Great confusion
reigned and it was impossible to
obtain an accurate report of tho
number of workmen buried In tho
debris. Estimates of tho number of
dear range from ten to twenty-live.
Tithen Prom the ItiltiiH
Tho injured were taken from the
ruins as fast as they could be extri
cated. Hundreds of persons Hocked
to tho scene, and dozens were pressed
into service to aid ir. the work of
rescue. Nearly a dozen injured,
many of them believed to be fatally
hurt, were removed from tho wreck
age. Others imprisoned beneath tho
concrete and steel girders wore heard
crying for help. Tho number of
rasualitics is estimated now at
twenty-live. Relatives and friends
of woikmen employed on the
structure quickly Hocked to the scene
rind rushed frantically over the ruins
in search of their loved ones, adding
to the confusion.
Wives wept hysterically when they
were unable to find any trace o
their husbands. Others fell faint as
they saw men dragged out from
under the debris.
(ilrl Turned on the Our
CHICAGO. A quarrel botween
lovors, according to the police was
responsible for the death of Annie
Hirbar and Rosa Stupka, domestics
employed in the German hospital,
who were found dead in their room
from the effects or escaping ims.
Tho two dead girls, together with
Aloisa Moyci and another girl em
ployed in the hospital occupied tho
same sleeping apartments.
When the attendants went to the
apartments of the four girls in the
morning they found two of them
dead and the other two utn'onsoioUH
and in a serious condition. From a
letter found among the e fleets of the
.Moyci girl, tho police have como to
the conclusion that while she was
brooding over a disappointment in a
love affair she rose during the night
and turned on tho gas in an elfort
to take her own life but was unsuc
cessful. In a letter which was written to
John Ohamozoo the .Moyci girl said
that she was unable to stand tho
separation from him and that she
intended to take her life. Chamozoo
has been arrested and will bo held
as a witness for the inquest. The
Moyci girl although still unconscious
will recovor.
Trairtxly hi I.lni'oln Turk
CHICAGO. Jealousy or tho re
jections of his attentions is believed
by the police to have been the cause
of a murder and suicide In Lincoln
park. Hearing two shots policemen
made a search in tho southern part
of the park and discovered the body
of a young man and nearby thoy
found a woman unconscious and
dying. She lived half an hour after
being taken to a hospital. Tho
woman is believed to have boon Mary
Olson, and the name ot the man is
believed to be K. C. Gray, but their
identity has not been delinitely
determined.
Tho police declare that the woman
mado a desporato struggle for her
life. When found hor waist was
torn almost off. Her hat was found
some distance away and her hair wan
disordered. Tho woman was shot In
the right temple. Tho man has a
bullet hole in his temple and still
graspod a revolver in his hand.
Olve IUc Order Tor Cum
CHICAGO. Prompted by tho con
geation of tralliu and tho car shortago
for this year, the llarriman lines aro
making purohastB of freight equip
ment for 1007 on a grand ecale.
MtlST QmT ARMr
NEOito 'moors dismissed jn nis-
OUACK
Action Taken by President
AN KNTIItK BATTALION fill 11,1 KCTT TS
XllKOUOKIl.
InnoCMit Will Suffer Until Thor Wrl
Identity of The Who Hhik
CltlreniiHt UrannirlUe
Ter an
WASH I N ( JTON . U n precod o nfcnl I
the history of the army of the Unihsk
States Is tho notion of tho Unite
fcUates Is tho action of the pretu'dcuf.
just announced in difmlsaing in dif.
graoo from tho army an entire InUat
lion of negro troops because of Clh'.fr
failure to dlsalose tho identity of
omo of their number who had btvjv
guilty oT violence and murder.
As an evidence, however, of bin
Intention to be fair to the oolorvd.
troops I he president has oceoinpauiol
thifl action by an order which inf
imount to tho court-martial of a.
white army ollleor of high grade wlw
,van charged with having cast fllutx
.ipon tht1 colored troops.
The dtory of both aetlonfl is told fw
. Ill ii I correspondence made publiobr
'he military secretary.
Tho onrroBpondonco follows:
"The report of an Invcatigivtiotr
made by Brigadier General E. A.
.'arlington, inspector general of !.
irmy, relative of tho riotous disturb
ance that occurred at BrownsvilK.
IV x , on the night of August lflW,
4iul that resulted in the death of etui:
md tho wounding of another oltueir
A that city has been considered atvi
lotcd upon by the president.
I(
Muy Ulo of Ilreuthlntr (In
OMAHA, Nob.-JamcB P. Whim
1723 South Twenty-ninth street, apitit
for the Pacilic Express company and
John Schmittof Winona, Mlna.., wcr
overcome by gas and tho latter may
:Iie, while Whlto's recore-ry Is r
carded ns reasonably certain. Both
Climes . re believed to have iyr.au .tri
dental. Mr. White was found In a senu
joiibcIouh condition about 10:15 hu
the morning in a room in the Murmj?
hotel with ono of tho gas Jets luruf
fully on. The room was tilled witth
gas as the windows wero tiglitljj
aloFed and tho transom was only ojmn
about ono inch. It is believed (hit;
Mr. White inadvertently turned im
the gas upon retiring.
Within an hour after Mr. Whit,
was found unconscious In a roour:
II lied with gas a second message rae
received at tho police station tlia&x.
man had been found in a room ac
1120 Kornam street with tho gas iit.
turned on. Police Surgeon Harrir.
was again pressed into sorvice unit
found John Schmitt of Winona,,
Minn., lying unconscious in the rear
room on tho second Hoor of ilia
premises on Karnnm street.
Schmitt came to Omaha from 'Mit
ford where ho had buer wm'ki indoor,
the Union Pacific cut-off as a laborer,,
and obtained a room Trom urn
proprietor, W. S. Ilarrie. 'He retired'
about 11 p. m , and ibis disappear
ance was not noted until aboirt iO.-;Sif'
the next morning when the colored!
porter smelled gus issuing from tfiH'
room and entered itlfrom ono adjain-.
ing.
Dr. Harris workod over SolnniU-for
some time using artificial rcspr&Unni
and administering hypodermic in
jections of strychnine, which seennfiC
to relieve Schmitt considerably, ftuft
his ultimate recovery is exceeding?
doubtful. He was removed to
Joseph's hospital for further treat
ment, where he now lies in a pen
carious coud ition.
Among Schmitt's effects mora:
found letter from Mies Mary Kcm&
of 104 West Broadway, Winona, Mian-
.Seitrch for the Kohher
PKORIA, III. Advices from Sfmi
idan, 111., indicate that the two tittut
who held up Assistant Cashier I. J"..
Hurley of tho bank at Ladd, taiiajf
$1,700, wore in that town reccnttl'r
An abandoned farnior' bujwy;,
which had been used by them in
going and coming from iPorU k:ik,.
found, and it is now believed ffniC.
they left on a 10 o'olouk p. ui.
freight train for Aurora. Toe rub
bers aro believed to bo prdfessloaxlir
from Chicago. Police authorities1
along tho route have boon dtzc ta
keep a look out by tho La Sallo tur
Mendota polico who puruol tiut
rob hers to Sheridan