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Commandant totter to Die
MIDDLEBURG Cape Colony Oct
12 Sentence of death has been pass
ed on Commandant Lotter the Cape
rebel whose command composed al
most wholly of rebels was captured
by Major Scobel south of Petersburg
early last month Lord Kitchener has
confirmed the sentence
Five of Lotters comrades have been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
one a youth has been sentenced to
twenty strokes with the rod follow
ed by imprisonment until the close
of the war
Mason Agreeable on Canal
WASHINGTON Oct 12 Senator
Mason of Illinois who reeurns to his
home today called to assure Presi
dent Roosevelt that the report that
he intended
treaty was
to fight the new canal
entirely erroneous
Rates for Snoivs Funeral
SALT LAKE CITY Oct 12 Ar
rangements for the funeral of Lo
renzo Snow of the Mormon church
who died in this city were perfected
at a meeting of the church authori
ties today The funeral will take
place Sunday Special rates on all
roads will be made and many thou
sands of visitors are expected from
points in Utah and surrounding
states The body will lie in state at
the Bee Hive house Sunday
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Constantinople Eeports that Washington
Asks Turks to Desist
fEARS TOR LIFE Of MISS STONE
Seen Moro Danger In Cloio iarsult Than
In Waiting Qulotiy Tho Ransom to
Bit Paid Over at Onco Arrangements
lor tho Transfer
CONSTANTINOPLE Oct 12 In
compliance with a request from Wash
igton the search by Ottoman troops
for the abductors of Miss Stone the
American missionary has been aban
doned it being feared that the brig
ands would kill her should they be
closely pursued Arrangements are
now being made to pay the ransom
demanded
BOSTON Oct 12 The misunder
standing existing in various parts of
tho country indicated especially in
private advices received here as to
the progress of the fund to ransome
Miss Stone the missionary is con
sidered to be sufficient reason for the
issuance of another appeal for funds
by the clergymen who signed the
first one Tho idea is to impress
upon the people of America the dan
ger which still threatens Miss Stone
The second appeal follows
BOSTON Oct 11 To the People
of America The promptings of our
hearts compel us to issue a second ur
gent appeal to the -people of America
to come to the rescue of Miss Ellen
M Stone the American missionary
now held captive by brigands in the
Balkan mountains for a ransom of
110000 Nearly one half that sum is
yet to bo raised Private advices were
yesterday to the effect that it was
absolutely necessary to raise tne full
amount at once The story of a thirty
days respite is absolutely discredited
in the best informed localities
The public should not be deceived
by the idea that the American board
as such will pay any of the ransom
It has officially declared that it could
not although its members have unan
imously expresssed sympathy with the
movement Will not pastors tender
hearted women patriotic men and
representatives of commercial and fi
nancial activity everywhere will not
every one aid by giving and soliciting
until the entire fund is in hand A
life is at stake the life of a Chris
tian a missionary a patriot and a no
ble American
All contributions should be sent di
rect to Kidder Peabody Co 115
Devonshire street Boston or Baring
Magoun Co 15 Wall street New
York All money contributed will be
returned to the donors in case its use
is not necesssary or in the event of
its being hereafter returned by or
through the United States govern
ment
JOHN L WITHROW
Park Street Congregational Church
GEORGE C LORIMER
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
JOHN GALBRAITH
Bromfield Street Methodist Church
LONDON Oct 12 After detailing
the history of the abduction of Miss
Stone the Spectator remarks
President Roosevelt and the Wash
ington cabinet maintain justly that
the sultan is responsible as it is his
misgovernment which provokes and
protects brigandage and they intend
to demand reparation from the porte
It will not be limited we imagine to
25p00 The porte will be required
to punish the authors of the outrage
and as Turkey is sure to shuffle and
America is tired of being played with
a naval demonstration is quite on the
cards The sultan will of course yield
to the first snow of force
HEALTH OP SOLDIERS IS GOOD
General Wood Makes Favorable Report
of Conditions In Cuba
WASHINGTON Oct 11 The de
partment has made public the anual
report of Major General Leonard
Wood says the general conduct of the
American troops in Cuba continues to
be excellent and as heretofore com
plaints against them from civil au
thorities and individuals are extreme
ly rare The total number of deaths
of officers and enlisted men during the
year was 67 a percentage of less than
120 Yellow fever has now been al
most driven from the Island owing to
the energetic war on the mosquitoes
and the sanitary precautions adopted
However during last summer five offi
cers of General Woods staff were
taken ill with yellow fever and three
of them died Among the headquar
ters employes there were forty eight
victims of yellow fever with eleven
deaths
General Wood devotes a good part
of his report to a stateemnt of the
results of the tests of the artillery in
fortifications left by the Spanish and
summarizing these he says The be
havior of the guns and carriages was
rather better than was expected by
the artillery officers
NATIONAL PURITY CONGRESS
Social Reformers Discuss Evils
Methods of Eradicating Them
CHICAGO Oct 11 Methods
abating social evils and placing
BOTHA SLIPS THROUGH NET
and
for
the
human race on a higher level of purity
were discussed in hopeful tones by
speakers at the session of the National
Purity convention
Charles L Plymate of Crawfords
ville Ind spoke of Neglected Fac
tors in the Problem of Life Rev
Jesse Jones of Halifax Mass read a
paper pointing out cures for the social
evils Mrs Minetta Tinny of Kirwin
Kan discussed The Purity Problem
and Hatty A Schwendener M D of
St Joseph Mich laid great stress on
An Ounce of Prevention in rearing
a nearly pure race Mme E Eckler
read an interesting paper under the
caption Abolitionist and Rescue
Work in Holland and Java with both
of which problems she is familiar
Charles A Mitchell of Marionville
Mo urged earnestly for parental
watchfulness over boys in the periods
when their characters are forming
Boer General Evades tho Cordon Cross
ing Pivaau River
LONDON Oct 11 The wholly unr
satisfactory situation in South Africa
continues to call out the most severe
criticism Lord Kitchener Avires that
General Botha has crossed the Pivaau
river twenty miles north of Vryheid
which means that he has again es
caped the British cordon
General Buller in a speech this
afternoon complained of the general
criticism especially in the newspapers
of himself He admitted he had ad
vised General Sir George White that
it would possibly be necessary to sur
render Ladysmith but bearing in
mind all the circumstances of the case
he was quite prepared to let the pub
lic judge of the justifiability of the
newspaper attack
Delegates to Prison Reform
LINCOLN Oct 11 Governor Sav
age has appointed the following dele
gates to the annual congress of the
National Prison Reform association
to bo held in Kansas City November
9 to 13 E D Davis G W Martin
John Davis Henry V Hoagland Prof
C E Prevey Z S Branson Lincoln
John T Mallalieu Kearney Horace
M Clark Geneva Rev Joseph Rues
sing West Point John J Donahue
John Power Omaha W Waddington
Beatrice J M Kreader Fremont S
N Taylor Grand Island William
Brower Nebraska City Clause
Mencke Blair Miles Mitchell South
Omaha
Veterans Tfame a Kansas Man
GETTYSBURG Pa Oct 11 Tho
business session of the Union Veteran
Legion was held yesterday Among
the prominent speakers at the meet
ing were General W W Dudley for
mer commissioner of pensions and
Corporal Tanner Chicago was chosen
as the next place of meeting and the
following officers were elected Na
tional commander J Edwin Brown
Washington surgeon general C W
Stowe of Saline Kan
Dies at A o of Ninety One
GENEVA Neb Oct 11 John Mc
Clung died at his home in this city at
the age of nearly ninety one years He
came to this county about twenty two
years ago
Most Calls It an Accident
NEW YORK Oct 11 Johann Most
was tried in the coufrt of special ses
sions on a charge of violation of the
penal code in publishing on Septem
ber 12 an article in his paper entitled
Murder against Murder Most testi
fied that the article had been publish
ed years ago and that he had copied
it in his paper March 14 1885 The
use of it just at the time of the mur
der of McKinley he said was an un
fortunate coincidence
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BOYD COMES 1 LATE
Hawkes Now Says Judge Eeceived Stock
for TTse of Hame
HEARING LAST UNTIL NOVEMBER 21
Adjournment Taken In Helstand Inves
tigation to Await Jackson and Harri
son Major Questions Truth of Tcatl
xnomy Dissected During the Day
WASHINGTON Oct 10 When the
senate committee here resumed its
hearing of the charges against Lieut
Helstand Major Hawkes the prosecut
ing witness- was called to submit some
evidence in rebuttal which he desired
to present Mr Hawkes said that
upon his return from the Philippines
he called upon the secretary of war
and demanded to know the cause of
his removal
Judge Mackay Hawkes attorney en
tered on a line of questioning intend
ed to draw the secretary of war into
the controversy when stopped by
Senator Cockrell who announced that
no such questions would be permitted
as the secretary was not under investi
gation
W S Coursey who was formerly
secretary to General Corbin testified
that when the reply to Colonel
tands dispatch to General Otis was
received he could not connect it with
any message that had been sent
Finally he went to the miscellaneous
division which was in charge of Col
onel Heistand and the latter informed
him it was the reply to a private
message he had sent
Major Hawkes in correcting his
testimony had added a statement that
Judge Boyd was not to subscribe for
hemp stock but was to receive it for
the use of his name This called out
several questions as to the division
of stock and Hawkes said it was un
derstood that the names of the other
parties were not to appear on the stock
books To avord this it was agreed
between himself and Heistand that
159000 of stock was to be carried in
Hawkes name
Senator Cockrell asked why he had
not testified to this before as it was
a very important matter Mr Hawkes
said he had never said anything to
any of the parties about the matter
Under close questioning Maj Hawkes
admitted he had said to Judge Boyd
that he was not to pay for the stock
or words to that effect He was
asked what reply Judge Boyd made
and said he answered that it was all
right or words to that effect
Replying to questions by Senator
Cockrell Hawkes said he had been on
very friendly terms with Judge Boyd
and would have spared him if possible
He ndded that he was much disap
pointed in the evidence given by the
several witnesses before the commit
tee Senator Cockrell asked him how
he could be disappointed when he was
informed by all of them that they had
no connection with the hemp company
Hawkes replied that he expected they
would testify differently
Dont you think they have sworn
to the truth inquired Senator Cock
rell
I do not retorted Hawkes hotly
MKINLEY ON POSTAL CARDS
His Likeness and Xamo Will Bo Used
in
Designing the New Issue
WASHINGTON Oct 10 The post
master general has decided to place
President McKinleys head on the new
issue of postal cards which will ap
pear soon after December 1 The de
sign as exhibited by Acting Postmas
ter Madden includes the year of birth
and year of death immediately at the
left and right respectively of the
name McKinley which will be di
rectly under the head Above the head
will be the words Series of 1901 and
above that One Cent The inscrip
tion United States of America now
appearing on the postal cards will be
abandoned and replaced at a point
lower down so as to leave the space
at the upper part of the card about
one third of the width of the card
clear for postmarks
Reinforcements for Samar
MANILA Oct 10 General Smith
sailed from here for the relief of the
Island of Samar He will take com
mand of Samar and Leyte so as to
enable General Hughes to devote him
self to the Island of Cebu where
trouble is possible unless strong meas
ures are adopted General Smith will
be accompanied by a battalion of the
Seventh infantry who are anxious to
avenge the disaster of Company C of
the Ninth infantry
took Over Mission Field
HARTFORD Conn Oct 10 Rev
Lyman Abbott D D of New iork
conducted the devotional exercises
which preceded yesterday mornings
meeting of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The time was given up to addreses by
officers of the board and missionaires
the speech of the missionary and the
sermon by Henry Hopkins D D of
Kansas City being the most notable
features o the session
SUGAR TRUST MOVES AGAIN
VaU Price of the Granulated Product is
the Far Western Territory
SAN FRANCISCO Oct 9 Another
aggressive move ha3 been made by the
American Sugar Refining company in
the campaign which it has begun
against the beet sugar industry The
cut in the price of granulated sugar
to all Missouri river points which
was announced last week has been
followed by a reduction in the price of
beet and cane sugar in all states from
Colorado to California The reduc
tion was announced by the Western
Sugar Refining company and amounts
to 30 cents a hundred on beet sugar
and 12 cents a hundred on cane sugar
Robert Oxnard vice president of
the American Beet Sugar association
which Is opposing the trust said
It is a fact that the Western Sugar
Refining company has made a decline
of 20 cents per hundred on their cane
sugars and 30 cents per hundred on
their beet sugars This makes the
difference In their price between cane
granulated and beet granulated 20
points instead of 10 points as hereto
fore The cut affects all markets
from California to Colorado inclusive
I know of no change in the general
sugar situation on account of it Fur
ther than this I do not care to discuss
the matter at present
In order to discriminate further
against beet sugar the Western Sugar
Refining company which is allied with
the sugar trust has announced that
it will entertain no orders for
ulated sugar which call for over 50
per cent of beet sugar of which there
is a small supply in this market
CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON
Former Governor of Johannesburg Ar
raigned in Bow Street Court
LONDON Oct 9 Dr Krause the
former governor of Johannesburg
who was arrested September 2 on the
charge of high treason was arraigned
in the extradition court at Bow street
and charged with high treason and
incitement to murder The former
charge is connected with the surren
der of Johannesburg when according
to tho public prosecutor Dr Krause
obtained from Lord Roberts twenty-
four hours armistice on the plea that
street fighting would thereby be obvi
ated and utilized the period in get
ting all the Boer fighers out of town
and in sending 180000 to Pretoria
After Dr Krause had been paroled he
went to Europe and applied to Dr
Leyds the agent of the Transvaal for
money on account of these services
Marketing Sugar Beets
TECUMSEH Neb Oct 9 The
farmers of this vicinity who have
grown sugar beets this season
mostly for experimental purposes
are now harvesting their crops A
number of carloads have been shipped
to the Ames factory in the past few
days and more are to follow Herschel
Heilig is harvesting nineteen acres
L P Ide six acres A B Austin three
acres and other small fields The av
erage yield is about ten tons to the
acre and the value 4 per ton In
spite of the hot dry weather the vege
tables did very well this season and
the outlook is that the acreage will
be considerably enlarged in Johnson
county anoiner season r
Wanted for Statutory Assanlt
LINCOLN Oct 9 After a hearing
before the governor a requisition was
issued for the return of Thomas Ar
rowsmith who is wanted for statu
tory assault said to have been com
mitted in Nuckolls county The in
jured party is one Miss Wells and ac
cording to statements made the of
fense was committed in April 190
It was not reported until late the fol
lowing fall and prior to that time Ar
rowsmith had left for other parts He
has lately been taken in custody in
Colorado and will be brought back to
answer
Woman Slays Orchestra Header
SAVANNAH Ga Oct 9 Frank L
Hemingway a musician employed in a
theater orchestra was shot and killed
today by a woman known as Clara
Stuart The woman then sent a bul
let through her own brain Death was
instantaneous in both cases Jealousy
is believed to be the of the trag
edy Hemingway was from South
Framington Mass
The womans name was Nanon Go
zier and she was from Oswego N Y
Argentine Minister Received
WASHINGTON Oct 9 Before tho
cabinet assembled today the new Ar
gentine minister Senor Don Martin
Garcian Merou presented his creden
tials to the president
Russia Demands Stiff Price
LONDON Oct 9 The Brussels cor
respondent of the Times quotes a dis
patch sent by the Constantinople rep
resentative of the Independence Beige
which repeats the rumor that Rus
sia will intervene in the dispute be
tween Turkey and France The porte
la said to be willing in exchange for
Russias assistance in obtaining a
friendly settlement to cede to Russia
the port of Bughas seventy six miles
northeast of Adrianople I
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Btato Superintendent Ecoi703 Lotter
From Minneapolis Mac
HE ALLEGES A RASCALLY SCHEME
Gives Details of What lie Asserts Is a
Game Worked Upon Confiding Interior
Districts Fortune for a Nebraska Alan
Miscellaneous State News
LINCOLN Oct 9 State Superin
tendent W K Fowler 13 in receipt of
a letter from Minneapolfs warning
him that agents are at work in Ne
braska selling charts to rural districts
for ten times their real value The
letter is upon blank paper without a
letter head and Superintendent Fow
ler does not know the author but he
is willing to give the letter to tho pub
lic for whai it is worth It is as fol
lows
MINNEAPOLIS Minn Oct 4
1901 State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Lincoln Neb Dear Sir
In your state today there is a clevei
scheme being worked by experts in
selling charts to rura districts The
chart costs less than 3 to manufac
ture including stand Notwithstand
ing they are highly polished and con
tain much color they are not worth
10 to any school
The plan is to visit rural districts
only and sell for 30 to 50 The sell
ing price depends on the cost of brib
ing the majority of the board The
agents have to qualify before they
operate and they are past masters in
finding out susceptible members of the
board The bribe is anywhere from 5
to 10 per member As soon as the
county is worked all time paper i3
sold to local banks at 10 to 25 per cent
iiscoupt An expert agent is worth to
bis firm 5000 a year In some cases
county superintendents recommend
the price but if they condemn the
thinsj the agents ostensibly leave the
county then their leader calls his
men from other parts of the state and
they rush the county to a finish oft
entimes before the superintendent Is
aware of it
The agents do not call themselves
chart agents but mask as general
school supply men The only thing
they dread is notice in local papers
such as the country people read keep
ing it before the public now and then
Yours truly
M F BURDETTE
As long ago as last April Superin
tendent Fowler published the follow
ing in the Nebraska Teacher
A chart agent has been roaming
the counties west of Lincoln during
the past month not only seeking
whom he might devour but devouring
all or nearly all of those he saw The
gentleman claims to have a recom
mendation from the state superintend
ent but the records and letter copy
books of this office show nothing of
the sort We think he is mistaken
and his conduct impels us to the fol
lowing decision for self protection
Henceforth we will refuse to write
dictate grant or sign any testimonial
or recommendation whatsoever of any
school charts without regard to their
merit color or prospect of servitude
that is usefulness
Plan to Retain Moisture
OMAHA Oct 0 H W Campbell
of Holdrege an expert in the treat
ment of soil for the storage of mois
ture has been here consulting with
Senator Millard The railways of Ne
braska are interested in Mr Camp
bells investigations and are assisting
him in his efforts to have the govern
ment establish a station in Nebraska
uhere his plan for retaining moisture
can be thoroughly tested
Sheridan Fair Slakes Money
GORDON Neb Oct 9 The six
teenth annual fair of Sheridan county
closed with the best attendance finest
exhibits and largest gate receipts for
years The society will pay all ex
penses and have n surplus for im
provements
Charged With Poisoning
HEBRON Neb Oct 9 Thursday
night Sheriff A T Snyder returned
nome from Salina Kan with G N
Thompson who is charged with poi
soning W W Flowers of Alexandria
He was lately in the junk business in
and around Fairbury
Chautauqua at Tecnmseh
iasm is being stirred up among the
Tecumseh business men to hold a
Chautaqua assembly next summer
Hon John Dundas editor of the Au
burn Granger is behind the move
ment
Dropped to His Death
HILDRETH Neb Oct 9 Fred
Carter employed in putting up a
windmill dropped from the top of the
tower to the ground here He died
within a few minutes after the fall
Carter was at work on the farm of
George Wilmot He was on the top
of a forty foot tower when he lost his
footing and dropped The fall result
ed in bad fractures to hi3 collar bone
ribs a severe injury to his breast and
the dislocation of his back
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
Latest Quotations From Soatk Omaha
and Kansas City
SOUTH OMAHA
Cattl Thoro was not a very heavy run
tho demand was fair y
of cattle and as
good tho market was active and luuy
steady on moat lines of desirable cattle
Receipts Included about twenty live cars
of corn fed steers and wnuo mo v
be called brisk a till
was not what would
not far from steady prices were paw
Owing to tho fact that thero were quite a
few offered buyers took their time and
In somo Instances sellers thought they
had to take a little loss than tho same
klndhavo been selling for of late Thero
wereonly about thirty cars of cows and
holferson salo and packers took hold and
bought up tho desirable kinds at strong
prices Sales were made that looked fully
a dime higher There was a fair trade in
stockers and feeders and thero was not
much chanpe noticeable in tho prices paid
Anything at all desirable was picked up
In good season and oven tho common
kinds sold without much difficulty for as
much as the same kind sold for yester
day Thero were not very many western
range steers in the yards today good
enough for killers and those that wero
offered sold at steady prices Cows sold
strong where the quality was good
Hogs There was not an excessive sup
ply of hogs in sight and as tho demand
was fairly liberal the downward course In
tho price of hogs wa3 checked Packers
at this point started out and tried to buy
their hogs steady with yesterday but sell
ers were holding for better prices so it
was a little late before tho market open
ed When trading did finally begin it was
generally at an advance of nearly 2c
The bulk of the hogs sold at 612 and
G15 and as high as 620 was paid
Sheep There wero only a few cars of
Teeders in the yards and practlcallynoth
Ing was offered to make a test of the
market for mutton grades As was noted
yesterday however fat sheep and lambs
are Just about 20c higher than they were
at tho close of last week feeder buyers
took hold in good shape today and bought
up whtvt was offered at fully steady
prices Everything was disposed of at an
early hour
KANSAS CITY
Cattle Choice fed steers and grass
beeves were 5310c higher and others were
steady choice dressed beef steers 3S03S
C55 fair to good 5000375 stockers and
feeders 3OO0443 western fed steers
4750573 western range steers 3500
500 Texas and Indian steers 2600360
Texas cows J2OO02S3 native cows 260
450 heifers 3000550 canners 150
250 bulls 2230400 calves 3500600
Hogs Steady top 655 bulk of sales
6100615 heavy 6430655 mixed pack
ers 6100645 light 56O0G3O pigs 4250
340
Sheep and Lambs Market strong and 5c
hlirher lambs 3750450 western wethers
3150340 ewes 2750315 feeders 27501
340 stockers 1750275
BANDIT LEADER MEETS TATE
Brigand Suspected of Kidnaping Miss
Stone is Shot Dead
NEW YORK Oct 12 Three bat
talions of the Bulgarian infantry regi
ment marched through the country be
tween Dubnitza and Samakov and
searched the villages of the Riloklos
ters district in one of which it was re
ported the brigands had concealed
Miss Stone says the Sofia correspond
ent of the Journal and Advertiser
Colonel Gaschoff at the head of a
searching party composed of 300 Bul
garian infantry and 500 dragoons Is
scouring the ranges of Dospot and the
Rhodopegelbirgen
The American consul general at
Constantinople has arrived at Sofia
with an evangelical pastor from Phil
ippopolis a dragoman and both aro
taking energetic steps with the Bul
garian government to effect Miss
Stones release
The reputed leader of the gang who
killed Stambouloff has met his fate
Suspected of being associated in the
capture of Miss Stone he was shot
dead on the frontier near Kostendit
Though 1000 reward had been placed
on the head of the murderer of Stam
bouloff Hallo the name under which
he was known was too influential a
ruffian for the Bulgarian police to ar
rest
Four additional brigands have been
captured near Tschepino and a band of
twenty fully armed were discovered
near Dubnitza and driven into the
mountains again
TORNADO APPEARS IN KANSAS
Wires Down and Nothing Obtainable Con
cerning Damage or Xoss of life
TOPEKA Kan Oct 12 A special to
the Capital from Clifton Kan says
At 630 oclock last night in a clear
spell that followed a heavy storm of
rain and hail a large tornado cloud
could be seen to the southwest and ap
proaching the town The fire bell was
rung and the people were panic
stricken The storm however swept
about two miles to the west traveling
in a northeasterly direction A com
mittee of citizens drove at once to the
path of the storm L C Hoars house
and outbuildings two miles west of
TECUMSEH Neb Oct 9 here were found entirely swept
away
me family had escaped to the cellar
On account of the darkness the com
mittee could no longer follow up the
damage The path of the tornado was
from forty to eighty rods wide and
swept everything clear before it
Defeat Government Troops
NEW YORK Oct 12 Advices from
Ciudad Bolivar announce that the
Venezuelan revolutionists commanded
by General Geronimo
Rivas
have at
tacked and defeated the Venezuelan
government troops under General
Arostegui and he has been taken
pris
oner It is
announced
that the Ven
ezuelan troops have joined
arms with
the revolutionist troops from San Fe
lix and the force
commanded by Gen
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