OF
A GENERAL RESUME OF THC
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK.
OISCUSS PRIMARY LAW CHANGE
Propositions Are Being Advanced for
the Betterment of the System
Platform Building to
be Considered.
rollllclatiK are discussing dedlrod
changes In tho primary law with
Hindi Interest thoso days. No ono
doubts that changes will bo mn do
when I ho legislature moots, and on a
fiw iiropoHltlons thoro Is much unan
imity on what thoso ohatigos tihould
ho. Somo of Vila ohjcctlona to tho
present law and suggestions concern
lag amendments moHt frequently
heard aro:
Tho primary data Is loo near oloc
Hon. Tho Interim between primary and
platrorm convention could be reduced
to two weeks without lnconvonlonco.
ho method of adopting pnrty pint
Tonus Is crude and doos not glvo the
desired chance for delegates to fight
for what thoy want.
Homo hold that the platform con
voallon nhould ho hold boforo tho
primary that candidates running for
olllco may know for what Issues they
must stand beforo they maka tho
nice.
' More time should bo given for tho
R'loctlon of committeemen than the
law at present permits.
Some favor selecting committeemen
by voto or tho pnople, but many cam
paign workers enter objection to this,
holding that wore conimltleomen se
lected in this way half tho men who
servo would nover ,lo a thing townrd
helping along tho campaign work.
One schema for platform building
I hat would glvo dolcgatey a chance
to light In convention for what they
want, has boon discussed in political
circles. This Is to have tho stato
committee named by tho convention
the year before, draft and malco pub
lic a proposed platform, thirty or
forty days boforo tho convention
nicety. Then mako It n6cosrary to
consider that platform when tho con
vention meets plunk by plank and
decide each plank by roll call voto.
It would bo possible as each plank
is brought up to amend or substitute
tho draft offered, as tho convention
might vote. Planks not touched on
by this platrorm could be added by
tho convention, or reference made to
it-sues not desired could bo entirely
eliminated.
It Is uregd in support of this plan
that fwhlle there might be noma
rather Interesting division or oplnioa
on the issues that the platform
adopted finally would rellort tho do
aires or a majority or the delegate.
Somo would amend the plan so that
Important issues might bo decided by
tho pnrty at tho primaries by ballot.
It is held Hint wero such a schomo
made into law it would at least per
mit slate conventions to got down
to business when thoy convene, and
that thero would bo no long waits
on resolutions committees to ropori,
during which many delegates leave.
POINT IN TELEPHONE LAW.
Subscriber Has No Right to Connect
Up .Two Separate Lines.
In a case rrom Nuckolls county, tho
court finds that Henry L. Pharrls, a
farmer living near Superior, was not
entitled to havo two telephone linos
in his home, connected with a switi-h
enabling him to use ono or tho other
at his convenience, while paying the
Bame rato as other patrons who ha.V
only ono line. The plaintiff In this
suit was the Rod Line Telophono Com
pany of Burr Oak, Kas., which asko 1
an injunction to restrain Pharrls
from connecting up ono of tho linos
after it had boon disconnected. It
is hold by tho sitprontu court, in at
firming a writ of injunction Issuad
from tho district court, that Pliarri;
had no reason to claim a apodal prlv
llego over other subscribers.
Social for Old People.
mi... - I nr. i
in.- iiHiiiuw muisoi. aoctat was
hold In the Methodist church at York
inurs.iay afternoon. This socinl Is
Klvon to all peoplo who aro ovor 70
years old, and 100 were In attend
ance. Tills was tho eighth evont and
It was greatly onjoyed by tho "aunsot"
folks. An entertaining program was
Blvon and substantial supper sorvod.
Tho ciiurch was nlcoly decorated with
motives of wheat and autumn leavos.
Tho tables wero decorated with rosu.
foliage plants, nutunm leavos and
(luworu.
NEWS
NEBRASKA
HIT8 THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Government Pays Only Men of Six
Months' 8ervlce.
No longor will tho Nebraska Na
tional guard bo allowed to draw
money from tho government for tho
support of raw recruits taken to the,
stato camp or to tho regular army
maneuvers. The war department has
Issued an order that no monoy will
bo pnld to guardsmen who havo not
been enlisted for six months. Tho
government pays tho stato troops in
vited to participate in maneuvers an.l
it pays a portion of the per dlom of
nil enlisted men taking part In stato
encampments and pays all tho salary
of officers of tho guards during their
attendance in Htato camps.
Tho new order of tho govorninont
will cause considerable hustling
nmong tho different companies In the
Nebraska National guard. The com
pany ofllcors who desire full com
panies at tho next Htato encampment
must begin to recruit in January mid
then must try to hold the men on
tho rolls for six months.
Formerly many rocrultH were ac
cepted just prior to the annual camp.
.Men wore not hard to find for the
annual camp was considered n sort
of holiday week. The men late?
might drop out almost at will and
there would bo a new set in the suc
ceeding camp. The adjutant general's
department during the past summer
asked compnny commanders to bring
to the utato rillo camp only those
of their mon who had been faithful
In attending drill. This shut out
tunny "dead" ones from tho camp.
President Benjamin Ido Wheeler, of
tho University of California will at
tend tho forty-third annual session of
tho stato teachers' association to be
hold at Lincoln, November 4, fi and
0. He will give tho principal address
of tho occasion at St. Paul's church
at tho last general session.
President Wheeler was graduated
from Brown in 1875, taking his doc
tor's degree at Heidelberg in 1885. He
has been an instructor tit Brown and
at. Harvard, professor of comparative
philology at Cornell, professor of
Crook at Cornell and at tho Ameri
can school of classical studies, Athens,
Croece, and has served in his present
position since IS!)!). He Is an author
of t ho highest, authority, and is an elo
quent spoaker, always giving to his
audlenco Invaluable thought.
That ho will havo a fitting audience
is assured, as a large number of
schools havo already decided to closo
to pormlt. tho teachers to attend. Fri
day's program will contain features of
special Interest, to rural teachers.
BIG FUND FOR UNIVERSITY.
Corporation Will Aok Half Million for
Presbyterian School.
A long step toward the realization
of plans for tho University or Omaha,
Including Bellovue collogo, was taken
Friday whon tho university corpora
tion wis organized and incorporated
and announcement was mado th'j
university hoped to rnlso $500,000 to
start it off. With a Blto practically
located in North Omaha tho movo
toward the raising of this fund was
given nn Impotus. Tho citizens of
Omaha will bo asked to donate $200,
000 of tho half million by popular
subscription, tho other $300,000 to bo
raised by tho corporation. Tho Pres
byterian stato synod which was In
session at Wayno gavo Its ondorso
mont to tho project and commended
the formation of a big Presbyterian
university in Omaha.
Tho recent disastrous storms hnvo
emphasized tho necessity of protection
against fire, lightning and tornado.
A good company for farmers to insure
lt Is the Farmers & Merchants of Lin
coin. Their policies uro ony to un
derstand and prompt settlements aro
mado artor adjustment of claims.
Thousands of annulled customers
havo received beuolltB.
Farmers BhouU all havo tolophottes.
Wrlto to. us and learn how to got thr.
best service for tho least monoy. Ne
braska Telophono Company, 18th and
Pouring stroots, Omaha. "Uso tUa
Hell."
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Item6 Gathered From
Parts of the World Condensed
nte Small Space for the Ben
efit of Our Readers.
all
Miscellaneous,
The Democratic national committee
announces that their campaign rund
so far amounts to $222,000. There
aro M contributors of $1,000 and 18 of
$5,000, a list of whose names Is pub
lished. After passing resolutions In favor of
deep water from Chicago to New Or
lenns, tho Deep Waterway convention
adjourned Its Chicago meeting. Next
year's convention will be held in New
Orleans.
The Trans-MlsslsslppI Commercial
congress, In session at San Francisco,
has chosen Denver as lite 190!) meet
lug place.
Mrs. Myrtle Maker, who was con
nected at Carthage, Mo., of attempt
ing to kill her husband, was sentenced
to six years in the penitentiary.
Three track repairers were killed
and another fatallj Injured in an ac
cident at the Lake Short switching
yards In South Chicago.
State Chairman Timothy L. Wood
ruff of Now York litis announced that
Andrew Carnegie had contributed $20,
000 to tho Republican national cam
paign fund. Mrs. llussoll Sage con
tributed $1,000.
Treasurer Sheldon of the Republi
can national committee lias issued an
appeal for contributions of $50 each
front 10,000 business men throughout
the country.
The Atlantic battleship fleet has
'eft Manila en route to Japan.
The National Congress of Mothers
will convene in New Orleans in Feb
ruary next.
A case of cholera was discovered in
tho Souverln theater tit St. Petersburg
during a performance. A panic re
sulted, but. no one was hurt.
The suit of the government against
the Ute Coal & Coke company of Du
mngo, Col., to recover $(;:!0,000, has
been compromised for $10,000.
Tho National Rural Loiter Carriers'
association which has been in session
at Omaha, Neb., has adjourned. Paul
L. Lindsay of Tucker, Ga., was elect
ed president.
At a special meeting of the board or
directors of the M., K. &. T. Hallway
company at Parsons, Kan., the regu
lar semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent
on the preferred stock was declared.
Orsey Peters, 21 years old, while
working In a saw mill near Sedalla,
Mo., fell upon the saw and his body
was cut in two lengthwise.
The board of managers of Kansas
Soldiers' home tit Dodgo City have Is
sued an order that hereafter no por
tion of veteran's pension money shall
be taken to help support the home.
Patrick Clancy, an ox-member of tho
St. Louis police force and at present
a city employe, has been sentenced to
live years in the penitentiary for false
registration.
According to the Kansas attorney
general the nominations of the Inde
pendence party were made too late to
get on the olllcial ballot In that state.
Twenty-live members of the Salva
tion army were arrested at Los
Angeles, Cal., for violating tho city
ordinances regarding parading and
speaking on the public streets.
Abe Snyder, an Owosso, Ok., farm
er, Is dead from hydrophobia, tho re
sult of being bitten by a cow afflicted
with the rabies.
Because of the Importance of tho
two-cent faro cases ponding in the
federal court at KansuB City, tho In
terstate Commerce commission has as
signed an expert In froight and pas
senger rates from that body to assist
Attorney General Hadloy. The cases
are set for hearing November t.
The Chicago &. Alton Railroad com
pany has placed a second order at
Pittsburg, Pa., for 1.000 steel cars.
The boiler house or tho Holdon, Mo.,
electric light plant has been destroyed
by fire.
Attorney General Bonaparte has
asked that the Injunction suit filed
by 55 western and south western rail
roads against tho commerce commis
sion regarding live stock rates be ad
vanced over all other litigation at St.
Louis.
To prevent his wife and eight chil
dren rrom becoming Impoverished by
his Illness, August Figl committed sui
cide in an East St. Louis hospital.
The stables on the country place of
Richard Harding Davis, the author
playwright, were broken Into and
robbed of throe valuable horses. Mr.
Davis was recently appointed a deputy
sherltr of Westchester county, N. Y.
The trial of the 18 cases brought to
test by the Missouri two-cent rare law
wero postponed in the federal court at
Kansas city until November !).
Tho trans-Mississippi Commercial
congress was opened In San Fran
cisco with an address by President J,
B. Case of Abilene, Kan.
The Burlington Railroad company
has restored the ten-hour day in tho'
shops at. Havolock, Neb. The order
affects 700 men.
A Civil war veternn who has drawn
for years. a pension to which ho was
not entitled, has turned Into the na
tional conscience fund the sum of
$1,172.
Kansas City's new munlclpnl hos
pital, one of tho most complete and
modern In tho country, and which cost
$500,000, lias been opened for the re
ception of patients.
The Frisco railroad pleaded guilty
in the rederal .'ottrt at Sprlnglleld,
Mo., to seven chnrgos of violating tho
28-hour stock law and was fined a total
of $1)00.
The situation in eastern Europe hat
been furl her complicated by tho peo
pie of tho tehind of Crete who have
arisen and proclaimed their union
with Greece.
The governing committee of the
Aero club of Franco has awarded lit
gold medal for 1008 to Wilbur Wright
the American neroplanist.
Thirteen persons lost their lives
when a largo grain elevator at Rich
ford, VL, exploded and was destroyed
by the tire which followed.
Tho attorney general of Kansas hut
filed two ouster suits in the supreme
court against Hutchinson and its
mayor, John P. Marsha, for violations
of the prohibitory law.
A quarter of a block of residences,
stores and a livery stable were de
stroyed by fire at Topoka. On account
of a bursting water main tho firemen
were helpless In fighting tho fire.
Nino persons lost th'olr lives In a
tenement (Ire in lower Mulberry street,
New York. Eight Italian families oc
cupied the building and 50 persons
wero asleep when tho fire wns dis
covered. The Balkan crisis lias reached an
acute phase and the whole of Europe
Is stirred by the formal proclamation
of tho independence of Bulgaria. The
treaty of Berlin lias been abrogated
and it will bo necessary to hold an
other congress or the European sign-,
era or that document.
A French submarine boat mado a
run of 81 hours covering a distance
of (!)' miles under water.
The attorney general of Kansas has
ruled that voters In the stale who
railed to vote at the primary election
In August, but wero legally entitled to
do so, need not register for tho gen
eral election hi November.
Tho wives of American naval of
ficers now tit Tokyo awaiting tho bat
tleship fleet wero recently entertained
at. dinner by Admiral Togo.
Personal.
Congressman W. A. Reeder of Kan
sas has been added to tho board of
control of the National Irrigation con
gross for the ensuing year.
William Lyon McKonzie, a Civil war
veteran who saw exciting service as a
Union scout, la the border days in
southern Kansas, is dead on his farm
in Wyandotte county, that stato, whero
he has lived for 42 years.
Elbrldgo Henry Goss, author ami
banker, Is dead at his homo In Mel
rose, Mass. His best known work Is
a life of Paul Revere.
Dr. J. P. Stewart of Clay Center,
Kan., died on a Rock Island train be
tween Topoka and Lawrence while on
route to Kansas City.
Senator La Follotto Is to start a
weekly paper in Mudlson, Wis.
President. Castro of Venezuela is
reported seriously ill again.
Stephen A. Douglas, son and name
sake of Lincoln's rival In debate, died
suddenly at his homo in Chicago. Ho
delivered an address with Mr. Taft at
Galesburg, 111., on the day beforo his
(lentil.
Capt. Allen Fisher, an attorney of
Chadron, Neb., has been disbarred for
a period of one year by tho supromo
court of tho state.
Norman E. Mack, chairman of tho
Democratic national committee, col
lapsed as a result, of fatigue and a so
' vote cold at Chicago and Is under the
care or a physician and a trained
nurse.
Harry A. Garfield, of tho class of
'85, sou of the late President Garllold,
has been Inducted into tho office of
president of Williams college at Wil
llnmstown, Mass.
William J. Bryan Is to make a tour
of New York stato during tho last
week of October.
Fay Hempstead of Arkansas was re
cently crowned poet laureato of tho
Masons at Chicago with much cere
mony. He Is the third pnot to bo thus
honored, The others wore Robert
Burns and the late Hubert Morris of
New York.
Augustus D. Lynch, formerly or In
dianapolis, and for tit! years connected
with the olllco of tho comptroller of
the United Slates treasury, Is dead in
Washington.
William 11. Taft and William J.
Bryan, the rival candidates for tho
presidency, wore guests of honor at
the annual banquet of thu Chicago
Association of Cotumorce. When tho
two men met and shook hands the
spectators and guests broke out Into
a tumult of applause which lasted for
15 minutes. Hot li candidates made
nonpartisan speeches to tho assembled
miosis
P
TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE OFTWO
AMERICAN AERONAUTS.
BALLOON BAG BURSTS IN AIR
Bag Finally Forms Itself Into a Para
chute When Half Way to Earth
Flights Begin at Ber
lin Suburb.
The international balloon race,
which started Sunday from tho sub
urb of Schmnrgendorf, Germany, was
the occasion of n thrilling accident,
two Apierlcan aeronauts having a
miraculous escape from death. The
American balloon Conquoror, the only
American-built craft In the contest,
having on board A. Holland Forbes
and Augustus Post, less thnn two
minutes after the start, burst nt an
altitude of 1,000 foot. For 2,000 feet
It shot down like a bullet, and then
the torn silk bag assumed tho shape
of a parachute, -thus checking the ra
pidity of the descent. Coming close
to tlje earth, however, tho basket
smashed Into the roof of a house, but
the two men escaped with but slight
Injuries.
Thousands who had gathered there
stood for a moment petrified. Some
turned away, fainting as thoy saw the
balloon falling with lightning-like
rapidity. At. the same time slipwers
of sand and appurtenances of the bal
loon shot downward with equal rapid
lity, and then daylight was seen
through the envelope, great ragged
edges of the silk showing on either
side. Shortly the remainder of the
envelope appeared to take, first a
triangular shape and then was trans
formed Into a sort of a parachute at
the top of the net. and the progress
or the wrecked balloon was consider
ably arrested.
It came down slower and slower,
meanwhile being swept by the wind
far to the southeast and finally disap
peared from view behind a block of
houses. Tho suspense among the
crowd was terrible. But a few min
utes later a telephone message was
lecetved which announced that the
men had landed and had not been
seriously Injured. A sigh of relief
went up from the peoplo, who threw
their hats In the air for joy.
NEW POSTAGE STAMP ISSUE.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Completes Designs.
The bureau of engraving and print
ing has completed designs suggested
by Postmaster General Meyer for a
new issue of United States postage
stamps. Tho now stamps will be of
the following denominations. One
cent, 2 cents, 1) cents, 4 cents, 5 cents,
0 cents, 8 cents, .10 cents, 15 cents,
50 cents and 1. The two-dollar and
five-dollar denominations now in use
will not be reprinted. Tho two-cent
stamp will bo tho first distributed, and
it is expected that shipments to post
masters will commence sometime in
November. The new issue has been
deslgnod with the object of obtain
ing the greatest simplicity commen
surate with artistic skill. The profile
has been taken In each Instance in
stend of a full view, giving a base
telief effect. All tho stamps are of
a similar design, containing a head
in an eclipse, tho only decoration be
ing laurel leaves on either side of
tho eclipse. The lettering Is In
strnlght lines, at tho top being "U.
S. Postogo," at tho bottom the words
"two cents."
TWO DIE TOGETHER.
Man and Woman Meet Death From
Gas Fumes.
B. L. Shoppard, a traveling sales
man, and Mrs. Leona Brunei, or Mrs.
Sheppurd, a waitress, was found dead
in tho apartments which thoy had
boon using Tor somo months in the
rooming house or Mrs. V. Hoag, at
140 North Eleventh street, Lincoln.
Tho room in which thoy wero was
tilled with fumes of a peculiar nature,
and tho gas heator In the bath room
was said to bo turned on and not
lighted. It. was the smoke in tho room
which wns responsible for tho fire
department being called, and the
bodies of the dead persons being dis
covered. Whether a doublo suicide
or a case or accidental asphyxiation
is not known.
Fire in White House Stables.
Fire of unknown o'i,;lu vis dis
covered In the loft of the White house
stables, Washington, Sunday morning,
causing $15 damage. But for the
prompt work of tho stahle-keopor and
his assistant, tho building, In whlcli,
am housed several or tho president's
thoroughbreds, would havo been destroyed.
DRO
FROM
CLOUDS