UVMiftiuntowaMrrro w(Wiiwiirt5SS353E3 J"i,a"''wi' Kit I i -w ? V&.K ' rv itSLv'it 1 4S". 8t jVr .'CVf Kffiy-.u t Siw' ,r KW. rsriXt The Chief C D. HALS, Publisher RED CLOUD NEBRASKA FORMER NEIRA8KA SENATOR EX. PIRES ON SHIPBOARD. IN EUROPE ON HEALTH TRIP Declining for Two Years anel Feeble When Visited by Nebraska Friends Died ae Home i Journey Commenced. New York. News has been received at the offlcca of the White Star lino oil tho death of former United States Cenator Charles Frederick Mnndcrson of Omaha, Neb., on board tho steamer Cedric, which Bailed from Liverpool Thursday. General Mnndcrson has been In UL health for two years. Hla trip abroad! "was made with a view to hlsrecuperaj tlon. He was a passenger on tho steamer Olympic, which was rammed by an English warship just after salli ing from Liverpool and the shock Is' belloved to have hastened death. Delay in securing passage on an other vessel had a depressing effect on tho general's nervous system and private telegrams received here stato that his condition was sorloua when the Cedric sailed. Senator Mnndcrson was president pro tempore of the senate during part of his scrvlco In the upper houso o' congress. Death of Dr. J. T. Hay. Lincoln, Neb. Dr. John Titus Hay, superintendent of tho asylum. for tho. Insane, died Thursday morning after, an Illness which became grave only1 threo days ago. Death was due to) heart disease Dr. Hay had been suf-; ferlng from tho disease for several, years, but was able to perform hla, duties. It was not until last Monday thnt ho felt so poorly that he took to, bis Bed. Wednesday his condition be- came worse and the physicians became alarmed. At that time he had a sink ing i.rell. Ho passed away at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. I Auto-Bus Ooes Into the River. Paris. An auto-omnibus, occupied by about twenty persons, was crossing the Bridge Archeveche over the Seine near tho Cathedral of Notre Damej (when suddenly It left the roadway andj crashed through tho parapet, falling' Into tho water. The auto-omnibus was a closed vehicle with the passengers inside. The bodies of five persons who bad been drowned were recovered ana, twelvo persons alive but unconscious were taken from tho water. j Court Will Establish Identity. 6t Louis. Whether tho man of mys tery now In Nlles, Mich., claiming to bo Georgo A. Klmmel, missing bank cashlor, Is the real Klmmel or an Im postor, may bo legally decided In St. Louis within tho next few months. Tho testimony will bo mado In tho trial of the suit of Georgo C. Hankln, rccolvcr ot tho First National bank of NTlss, against the New York Llto Insurance company to compel It to pay a $5,000 policy on Klmmcla' life. Yeggmen at Wabash, Neb. waoasn, Neb. lllRhwavmen mado three attempts to enter tho vault In tho Farmers' Stato bank here. Officials of tho bank are unablo to tell whether or not the yeggmen succeeded In ob taining any loot from tho safe until an oxpert arrives and opens the door of tho vault, the combination lock of .lsjch was blown off by tho robbers. Ablkno, Texas. Tho second annual meeting of the central west Texas dry farming congress opened hero Wednes day with' sovernl hundred men Inter ested In raising grain and vegetables with llttlo rainfall present, Tho ses sion will last two days, during which timo a number of agricultural expeita and practical farmers will explain to tho convention that dry farming. methods can accomplish under seem ingly adverse conditions. Filing Rights for Land Opening. Dallas,, S. D. Announcement has Just been mado by Judge James A. Wltten that there will be 8,000 names drawn In tho process of establishing filing rights for tho Rosebud nnd Pine Ridge land opening, for which regis. ratlon will commence on October 2. Five Victims of Kerosene Can. Mitchell, Iowa. Mrs. Virgil Vando Tor and four of her children were irarned to death when a can of kero sene used, to start a fire In tho kitchen etove exploded. '-Ouallflee as Aerial Mall Carrier. , New, Tork. Frank H. Hitchcock postmaster general ot the United States, kas auallfied as an aerial mall 'urlr. H took a. Mat beside Can- HUKDERSON IS DEAD 9ilri1'4Z. .. .7 -"" - IZ .... .. .- .:...' 'mj&r SL Ularatu sector tne uniiea states S.WVW" h , :Lnar ia e,,iatterataeropiane at wo .& i ' . . - .. . .". ii. .. ?V. ' 'Nassau Boulevard aerodrome, carrying $?-!Fy?-'JnF PPon'signsi tne posimMieBji or Hitchcock . i ftr-." a JX.Z, r. arms ' mm w n itibbi savrsu" t xmm uu i . a sjtjvttj ( EVENTS OF THE OH SOME Paragraphs of timely interest. ARE BRIEF BUT TO THE POINT Items of Evente That Are -Transpiring . In Our Own as Well ae In Foreign Lands Washing ton Political Newe. v Washington, Border patrol at Columbus, N. M., by United States cavalry Is to bo re sumed at once. Former Governor Fletcher D. Proc tor of Vermont, died at bis homo after s protracted Illness. . The appointment ot V. N. Kokovsoft as Russian premier has been gazetted. He retains tho ministry of finance. Former U. S Senator Thomas II Carter of Montana, died Sunday of lunga trouble. Jle was 57 years old. Dispatches from Home Indicate that Italy Is trying to put Turkey on tho aggresslvo in an endeavor to provoke an Incident which would constitute a causus belli. Tho first army aeroplano bought from tho Wright brothors In 1909, at a cost of $30,000, has arrived In Wash ington to bo placed In tho national museum as an exhibit. Dan Y. 'Stephens, four times cam paign manager for other democratic congressional candidates In tho Third Nebraska district, has been nomi nated to succeed tho late James P. Lotto. Tho Chincso government has re fused tho terras of a salary of $50,000 and a single yenr contract mado by tho Dutch banker Visscring, who was proposed for tho post of financial ad viser to China, and has tiBked tho United States to select another finan cial ndvlscr. Naval officers who have contended that the battleship Malno was destroy ed by an Internal explosion and that there was no external cause for tho ac cident claim that there was over whelming proof of tho soundness ot their theory In the terrible disaster In Toulon harbor. General News. Clgarmakcrs at Tampa, Fla., to the number of 700 are on strike. The London, England, Bank of Egypt haa suspended payment. James J. Hill has given $20,000 to Zlon Methodist church at Winnipeg. .Honolulu will equip its fire depart ment with motor driven apparatus. The first olectlon of state officers In Arizona will be held December 12. Joseph Taggart of Kansas City, Kas., was nominated for congress by Second Kansas district democrats. Peter Maygard, a balloonist, fell 650 feet at Webster, la., and escaped with out a broken bono and but few bruises. Dr. D. J. Crumblne, secretary of the Kansas state board of health, haa dis covered two cases of leprosy at Hays, Kas. Four more unidentified bodies have 'been recovered from the ofllcers'jroom of the Maine. Tho twentieth biennial Besslon of ,tho supremo chapter ot the P. E. O. began at St Louis Tuesday. Asbestos in paying quantities has been discovered In the Big Horn mountains near Buffalo, Wyo. r Cigarette-making students of tho Indiana university ot Notro Dame have como under tlt9 official ban of tho facultv. A comet has been discovered by Professor Qulnlsset of Juvlcly. accord- jlng to a-cablegram received from Kiel observatory. The strlko of tho clorks ot tho Illi nois Central which began a week ngo, was sctlcd by tho company taking back all clerks. Five are dead as a result ot a pitched battlo between officers and several negroes near Dumas, Ark., Tuesday afternoon. Mayor J. II. Graham and Commis sioner E. M. Ieach were recalled by 'the voters of Wichita, Kas., at a spe cial recall election. Two wcro wounded fatally and tif teen Injured In riots at tho City ot LMexlco following tho return of Fran cisco I. Madero from his speaking trip in tho south. Jarcd Hamm, a retired business man ot Iowa City, la., has disappeared. As he bad nearly $6,000 on his person, foul play Is suspected. Since the announcement of tho with drawal of Bernardo Reyes from the Mexican presidential contest, Interest now confers In the election ot tho vice-president. That the conservative movement Is making rapid progress In this country was mado apparent when representa tives of a dozen states mado brief von bal reports at the opening session of tho third national conservation con gress Monday at Kansas City. Mary McCarthy, believed to hare been the oldest person In Massachu setts, dlod at Stookbrldge Saturday, aged 112. with a vlow to preparing for a world-wido strike for an eight-hour day, tho International Union ot Ma chlnlsts have voted to Increaso tho per capita tax ot tho organization from 45 cents to 76 cents per month. Thousands of visitors are at Mitch ell, S. D., for the opening of the thin teenth annual corn belt exposition, The corn palace which is the promi nent feature of the exposition, is the 'rone ot us kibq in tae worm- !7Ttl IBBIl Heavy frosts In tho Saskatchewan country have ruined the grain and growors in tho newly settled districts will suffer a total loss. Thrco firemen were killed and sev eral other persons were Injured when a six-story building collapsed during a Are at Louis vlllo, Ky. A passenger train crashing Into a party or young folks riding on a hay rack at Neenab, Wis., caused the death of sixteen of them. Twenty-six persons were Injured, four probably fatally, when a street car crowded with churchgoers, over ran a switch at ''Atlanta and turned over. Many eminent clergy and laymen ot tho Roman Catholic church are In Cincinnati to take part In the na tional Eucharlstlc congress In session there. " The doors of the Night and Day bank at Llttlo Rock, Ark., have been closed, following tho appointment of a receiver of the Night and Day bank of Memphis. That a registered package contain ing a bank shipment of between $25, 000 and $30,000. In currency was stolen from the postoffice at St. Louts a year ago, has Just become public. , Four earthquakes Sunday did seri ous damage at Rionmba, the capital of Chlmborazo province, Equador. The shocks continued throughout the day, but with diminishing Intensity. Upton Sinclair, tho novelist, was In an automobile which ran down and probobly fatally Injured an unidenti fied peddler while the author "was on his way to his home In Edgemore, Del. J. J. McXamara was re-elected by acclamation secretary of tho Interna tional Association of Structural Brldgo and Iron Workers, In convention at Milwaukee. ,,, The first Italian squadron, command ed by Rear Admiral Aubrey, composed of four 'dreadnoughts, three cruisers and several torpedo boats, Is anchored In lino oft Tripoli. James Rolph, jr., was elected mayor ot San Francisco Mondayat the first direct primary election to dctermmo the personnel of municipal officers of tho city and county. Ono fireman dead, five persons bur led under a fallen wall and financial loss of half, a million dollars was the toll of a fire that broke out early Wed nesdaymornlng at Wichita, Kas. Tho Iowa state board ot control has purchased 3,000 pounds ot candy from a Chicago wholesale house. The candy will bo distributed to the boys and girls in state institutions at Christmas time. Fifteen Magonistas were killed and four were captured in a battle with a Maderlsta force which began Saturday at tho Santa Rlia ranch, near Colom brcs, Max., and contlnuod through un til Monday. Plans weVo made at the reunion of the veterans ot tho union and confed erate armies held at Memphis, for a peace Jubilee and general reunion ot the blue and gray to tako place at Washington In 1913. As tho result of the Massachusetts primaries, Governor Eugeno N. Fobs will head tho ticket for the democrats,! for tho second time and Lieutenant Governor Lewis A. Frothingham will bo his republican opponent In the No vember elections. George Walker, a South Dakota farmer, has completed cutting his sec ond crop of oats for this, season. The first crop was cut and stacked early In tho season and the second crop camo on after the rains commenced In July. Both crops are good. John R. Walsh, the former Chicago, banker, who Is seeking a parole from tho tedoral prison at Leavenworth, will not know his fate for Boveral days Applications for parolo aro taken up In their regular order and Walsh's Is fiftieth on tho list Bound together with straps about their wrists, tho bodies of Mrs. Mary Lacey and her son, J. G. Lacey ot Fltcltburg, wero found In Lako Lash way, near Brookfleld, Mass. Grief over a chargo on which her son had been arrested Is supposed to have led them to commit suicide. Tho latest official estimate, from Toulon places the number ot victims of tho Llberte disaster as 230 dead and 1G0 wounded dangerously. It Is be lieved this eBtlmato Is nearly correct, nnd It Is tho result ot an exhaustive examination of tho muster rolls and n roll call ot thoso who survived the explosion. An appalling naval dlster attended with enormous loss of life occurred at daylight Monday when tho French bat tleship Llberte blew up in the Tou lon harbor. The death loss is various ly estimated from 200 up to 350 or more. It subsequent Information bears out the first advices as to tho extent of tho loss of lifo on tho Llberte, the disaster will go down In history as ono ot the greatest In naval annals, the Iosb of more than 250 lives on the American battleship Malno, February 15, 1897, standing second In the mor tality list. Tho Gilchrist Elevator company at McGregor, la., paid a price of $C39.86 for a wagon load of timothy hauled in by Fritz Mlolke, a farmer living near, Watson. This Is said to bo the record price In eastern Iowa for a single wagon load of grain or seed. Cool weather, which began Thurs day, grow more intense Vrlday, and Saturday snow was reported from Beveral Manitoba towns. A quantity of war material and pro visions being convoyed by a detach ment of Spanish troops, was captured near Melllla, Moreeco, by Riff tribes YORK SUHSETSOGIAL QUESTS WERE SEVENTY OR MORE YEARS OLD. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska , and Vicinity. York. Tho eleventh annual sunset social for all persons over the age of seventy years, was held In the Metho dist church, at which there were one hundred and forty-six present Last year there were one hundred and ono present. These numbers do not con stitute a regular enrollment of those over seventy years, but just those who are able to attend the annual meet ings. During the paBt year five have died, two men and threo women. Of those present this year one waB ninety-four and four wero ninety years of ago. Sister Just Hears of Crime. Tecumseh. It is now six years slnco tho bodies of Mrs. E. E. Hesso and her daughter, Miss Wauncta McMas ter, were found at the bottom of an old well in this city. Though all this time has elapsed and the story has been printed all over the country, a sister of Mrs. Hesse, Mrs. Flora L. Curtis, of Vale, Butte county, S. D., has just learned ot the terrible affair. Sho has written Sheriff E. L. Roberts ot this county for particulars. Flights of Ships snd Oratory. Superior. The committee on ar r.uigoments for Sjperlor's fall festlvar nnd aviation moet, October 9 to 14, Is meeting with great success. A con tract has been made with the Curtiss company for flights on threo days. W. J. Bryan will speak October 11, and It Is expected Speaker Champ Clark and Senator La Follette will be en gaged. Dog Overturns Auto. Wahoo. An auto driven by Jeromo Barnell was overturned by running over a dog. One of the occupants, Miss Frances McDonald, a school teacher, received a broken arm, and Mr. Barnell and wife received painful bruises. SteHa,--The oil and gas company organized to prospect on the farm of A. B. Davison north ot Stella, are hauling lumber to erect-the derrick. The machinery has arrived and is be ing hauled out to the farm. The gas can be hoard roaring a half mile from the plaoa. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE The 1911 stallion registration law requires all males, pure bred, cross bred, grade or Jack to be examined by a state inspector. i George W. Kline, secretary of the university alumni association, has opened an office In Lincoln and will start a search for 1,200 alumni ot which the university now has no trace. The forthcoming encampment ot the Nebraska national guard to be held near Bellevue will cost from $25,000 to $27,000. Fourteen hundred officers end men are expected to be in camp for ten days. Tho funds in the state treasury now aggregate $488,000, much less than the usual amount kept on hand. Tho de pletion is directly traceable to the ful fillment ot enactments passed at the last session of the state legislature and to the fact that receipts have been very light. It appears that it would require onlj a HtUo more shitting of political ques tions to endow the republicans with another candidate for United States senator in the person ot Governor Al drlch. There are numerous reasons for believing that the governor haa some such ambition up his sleeve. In response to a criticism for not allowing Lincoln and Hastings na tional guard companies to return to their home stations from the state en campment to" aid in Taf t receptions, Adjutant General Phelps has produced an ordor for the war department de nying leavo of absence to companies when in camp. Thestate normal school at Wayne opened Monday, with, an enrollment 100 per cent greater than that of a year ago. The senior class numbers sixteen and the Junior class about thirty. Tho maturity of the student oouy is nouceauic. The adjutant general's office has ap proved tho election in Company E, Second Teglment, of J. L. White, G. B. Gallowey and W. F. Rugg as captain, first lieutenant and second lieutenant respectively. The election followed the expiration ot the commission ot -Captain F. A. Anderson. The com pany Is at Holdrege. Unless collections for the state treasury come la more rapidly the state treasurer will be obliged to stop buying municipal bonds and save the funds to take ' care of warrants pre sented on tbo general fund. J. JT McCarthy of Ponca, chairman ef the Nebraska La Follette league, may run for cougrcs in the Third dis trict as a progressive republican it the progressives believe his candidacy wjll help their fight against reaction. Chris Gruenther has beeaasked to be a candidate for the democratic nom ination for congress, in the Third dls- trlst, but oai aot yet glvea a reply. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Tho beet harvest In western Nobras ka Isln full blast Ice famines are reported from sev eral Nebraska towns. Shubert will have a high class lco ture course this year. The fall festival at Beatrice will W held the first week in October. The strike at tho .Missouri Pacific shops In Falls City has been settled. Pelaut, a small town near Ponca, li making plans to have a big corn show, The dry weather of the last, few weeks has been very honeflclal to thi corn crop over the state. A son ot Hiram Aden, near Auburn, was found dead on Monday night in a ravine on his father's farm. The new Catholic church at Crab Orchard will be dedicated by Bishop Tlhen of Lincoln October 17. Vandals did considerable' damage to the York flour mill by destroying a number of windows and casings. On account of the scarcity of hay, several Stromsburg 'farmers have built silos and ore filling them with green corn. The village board of Hickman has advertised for bids for the construc tion ot an air pressure water sys tem. Fire Warden Randall will invest! geta a fire hat occurred In Hebron, destroying a stock ot second-hand goodB. Grain men are of the opinion thnt tho acreage of fall wheat sown this fall will show an increase over last year. Nebraska bankers are awaiting thi decision of President Tnft concerning tho interpretation of the national banking act. The Sheridan . county fnlr closed a most successful four days' exhibit Sat urday. The 1911 fair was a record breaker in every respect. Tho golden wecfdlng of Mr. and Mrs Isaac Reynolds was celebrated Sundaj with a surprise party at their homi six miles east of Table Rock. As a result of a wrestling bout be tween Harold Mlltenberger nnd Stan ley Parish at Cortland, the latter it laid up for repairs with "a badly broken ankle. J. A. Harris, residing at Steele City, committed smlclde by drowning him self In the Little Blue river. Mr. Har rts had been In poor health for th past two years. An old map of Nebraska issued bj the state board of transportation thai drew salaries in the early 90'b, hat been sent to the interstate commorcs commission to complete Its files. Thomas Simpson, a Nemaha county farmer, was badly injured when a mue kicked at him, striking a pitch fork, the tines of which hit him in the face, narrowly missing an eye. Another grade Is to be added to th already excellent courso given at Shu bert by the local schools. The stead) growth ot Shubert and the increase in the tuition pupils makes this almost a necessity. The educational council of the cen tral union and northern conference oi the Adventlst church will be held at College Vfew beginning October 13. The council will he in session foi threo days. While working in the ditch for the new waterworks system at Beatrice Friday, Lee O'Connor of Lincoln and nooerc waters or Beatrice wece caught In a cave-in of sand and barely escaped with tholr lives. The committee In charge of the ar rangeraents for the German' day cele bration to be held in Lincoln October 18 and 19 is now busy, and quite a number of towns in the state have been visited and promise of support given. The large barn of J. B. Seybold, near Murray, together with ten head of horses, Implements, buggies, wag ons, a Mason automobile, and a large granary filled with wheat and oats, wero destroyed by , flro of unknown origin 'Thursday. Instruction has been received at Lincoln navy recruiting station to en list all the men possible without low ering the standard of enlistment. Tho Increase is asked in order to have a full complement of men for the fleet's cruise to China January 10. Thomas Hanson had bis left hand taken off In an ensilage cutter at Lyons. Hq had been filling the silo and had completed the job all but cleaning up Bomo of the litter. His hand became caught in the machinery and severed all tho fingers of the left hand. J. S. Lamb, an old citizen ot Grand Island, was horribly mangled when a switch engine ran over him as be was passing through a lumber yard. Some Johnson county farmers will cut a very good crop from their fourth stand of alfalfa this year, This has been a good year for hay but it is scarce and expensive, nevertheless. Traced to the home of his- sweet heart in another state, R. E. Griffith, formerly station agent at Verdon and who only a short time ago left that place with more than $400 belonging to the railroad amhexpress companies, was arrested at Clarion. la., Monday. If petitions In circulation are suc cessful, the reward for the capture of the murderer, of the Hesse family at Tecumseh will amount to $8,000. A physician had a hard time Induc ing the 14 months old child of R. B. Klmback of Beatrice, to disgorge a screw it had swallowed, but he finally succeeded and thereby saved its life. J. P. Pohlman. who was found badly Injured and unconscious on the bridge at the foot of Cemetery hill Saturday evening, died at the Auburn hospital without having regained conscious ness long enough to tell how ibt accl- Ideat asppeaed. SHE GOT WAT SHE WANTED This Woman Had to Insist Strongly, but It Paid Chicago. 111 "I suffered from a fa. ae weaKness ana swrnacu irouuiq. ana x went .to ws store to got a bottle, of Lydla E. PinfcJ ham's Vegetable. Compound, bat the) clerk did sot want to let tne have It he said it was no, food and wanted ma o try something! else, but knowing! aUabout it I Ip-! -slsted and finally, arnf. 4f anil T am an glad I did, for it has cured me. J "I know of so many cases where wow men have been cured by Lydla E-PinkV ham's Vegetable Compound that I can say to every suffering woman if thai medicine docs not help her. there is nothing that will." Mrs. Jaxstzxx, 2963 Arch St, Chicago, 111. This Is the age of substitution, and women who want a cure should Insist upon Lydla 23. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound just as this woman old, and not accept something else on which the druggist can make a little more profit. Women who are passing through this critical period or who are suffering from any of those distressing ills pe culiar to their sex should not lose sight of the fact that for thirty years Lyala E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound, which Is made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for fe male ills. In almost every community you will find women who have been restored to health by Lydla E. Fink ham's Vegetable Compound i?.1?; TntmpsfiftEYtWatti THE DECEIVER. Sergeant 'Alt! Take Murphy's name for talkin' In the ranks. ' Corporal W'y, sergeant, 'e weren't . talkin. Sergeant Wasn't 'e? Well, crosa it hout and put 'lm in the guard room. for decelvln me. The Tattler. Unfortunate Man. 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