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THE NEWS IN BRIEF
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The amount invested in the Siberian
railway Is 401700000
In the United States 40000 loco
motives haul 1500000 cars
The worlds population iB increasing
-about 500000000 a century
The first electric railway was that
of Siemens of Berlin in 1879
The Caspian is a land locked sea
84 feet lower than the ocean
Tho railway from Caracas to Val
encia 55 miles has 8G tunnels
A wealthy Frenchman died in a
coffin which for years he used as a
bed
The annual loss of fruit by insects is
put by the United States entomologist
at 300000000
It is a popular saying in Brazil that
every tone of rubber from the Upper
Amazon- costs two lives
Tolstoi believes that the best time
for literary work is between 9 a m
and 3 p m7 and he seldom writes at
other times
When a large badger was caught
And killed recently in Hemingby Lin
colnshire England it was found to
weigh twenty nine pounds
Since three men have hanged them
selves in Gibbet lane Halesowen
Worcestershire England it has been
decided to change the name of the
thoroughfare
Compensation in the form of a pen
sion of 425 a year is being sought at
Frankfort by a man who received a
paralyzing shock while using a long
distance telephone
The authorities of British Columbia
have established traveling libraries
for the benefit of the numerous lum
ber and mining camps in that West
ern Canadian Province
A womans rights woman wearing
rational costume was arrested and
roughly handled by a Weimar Ger
many policeman who thought her a
man in womans clothes
John R McVicar of Boston the
first white child born north of the
Arctic circle has just celebrated his
golden wedding anniversary He was
christened by Sir John Franklin
Governor Dockery of Missouri is not
quite so well but his illness is still
not considered dangerous The at
tending physician has instructed that
he remain indoors for several days
yet
It is reported that the new German
ambassador Charlemagne Tower in
tends purchasing the Bleichroder pal
ace which with its picture gallery
and luxurious furnishings is one of
tho finest houses in Berlin
A good many members of congress
and others in Washington regret that
Senator Hanna is not keeping house
this winter Last season the senator
used to give corned beef hash break
fasts which were the delight of those
favored with invitations This win
ter Mr Hanna will live in one of the
Washington hotels
Emperor William of Germany is
fond of billiards but is too impetuous
to play a good game If he misses
an easy shot he becomes rattled
and can be easily beaten by the most
amateurish of the palace guests But
it is not considered good form to beat
his majesty and no matter how bad
his game may be his adversary con
trives to play a worse one
Although the diplomatic circles at
Washington lost a treasure in Wu
Ting fang the late Chinese minister
his place is likely to be well filled by
his successor Sir Liang Cheng That
distinguished Oriental will soon marry
the daughter of Yu Keng the Chinese
minister at Paris She is 22 years
old and has lived for the last three
years at her fathers legation being
almost as well known in Parianian
society as Madame Wu was in Wash
ington
The Steljes typewriting telegraph
as used for the London police is an
apparatus for sending a message
simultaneously and in typewritten
characters to several places at once
The battery is a powerful magnet and
the parts are actuated by springs The
operator at one end touches the keys
representing the letters and figures
at the same time turning a handle
and the message is received and
printed automatically by all the re
cording instruments on the circuit
A Swedish sculptor has solved the
problem of casting statues In one
piece
An enormous sunfish weighing one
and one half hundredweight has been
left stranded by the tide at Blakeney
Norfolk England
BIoodgotr 1 Cutter the Long Island
farmer poet and one of the Inno
cents whe accompanied Mark Twain
and his biood abroad on the ship
Quaker City has just sold his old
house in which he was born in 1817
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COAL ON FREE LIST
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
BILL PROVIDES FOR REBATE
WILL EQUAL PRESENT DUTY
Measure to Go Into Effect Upon the
Passage of the
Effect for the
Year
BUI
and to Be in
Period of One
WASHINGTON Tho ways and
means committee of the house decided
to report a bill providing for a rebate
equal to the duty now imposed on all
kinds of coal coming from all coun
tries for a period of one year
This bill is a substitute for the one
introduced by Representative Hill of
Connecticut which provided for a re
bate until June 30 next It is expected
the bill will be called up in the house
at noon
The bill adopted provides
That the secretary of the treasury
be and is hereby authorized and re
quired to make full rebate of duties
imposed by law on coal of every form
and description imported into the
United States from foreign countries
for the period of one year from and
after the passage of this act
Representative Richardson Tenn
proposed an amendment striking out
the words for a period of one year
which was voted down He then pro
posed an amendment placing all coals
on the free list which was likewise
voted down
The final vote on the adoption of the
bill was unanimous
Representatives Payne Dalzell and
Grosvenor held a conference with the
president relative to the action which
had been taken by the committee
The committee reported the bill but
will not call it up in the house for
consideration today as originally con
templated the decision having been
reported to bring it up under a rule
Wednesday
The report of the committee sub
mitted to the house by chairman
Payne after recommending the pas
sage of the bill says
This is an emergency measure de
manded because of the scarcity and
high price of coal resulting from the
recent prolonged strike in the anthra
cite coal mines
Precedents for such action are found
in the Chicago fire and the fire at
Eatsport Me in which cases congress
gave rebates on the duties on lumber
used in rebuilding the burned districts
Whether the legislation will increase
the importance or reduce the price of
coal is a question on which men differ
but it is all congress can do in the
premises and will satisfy the demand
of many of our citizens While there
is a threatened coal famine in any
part of the country we cannot turn a
deaf ear to the cries of the people
The committee did not consider it
best to make any changes in the tariff
on coal after the period of one year
had expired preferring to bring in this
as a purely emergency measure and
not desiring to go into the question
of tariff revision even upon this one
article If any relief can come to the
people from such legislation it will
be amply secured in the period pro
vided for in the bill
PRUSSIA RUNS FAR BEHIND
Big Deficits for Years of 1901 and 1902
and Must Borrow for 1903
BERLIN The Prussian diet was re
opened Tuesday The cnancellor
Count von Buelow read the speech
from the throne No mention was
made of foreign matters nor of the
canal bill The speech took a gloomy
view of the finances of Prussia It
said the accounts for 1901 closed with
a deficit of 9375000 marks and add
ed that it was not anticipated that
the accounts for 1902 would be ap
preciably more satisfactory As for
1903 a demand would have to be
made on public credit for a consider
able loan in order to establish equili
brium between the revenue and ex
penditure as in consequence of the
depression in agriculture trade and in
dustry a further depreciation in the
receipts of several of the administra
tive departments would result
Bills were announced for furthering
the Germanization of the Polish prov
inces of Prussia for their economic
development and for increasing the
salaries ot oliicials and teachers there
Measures to improve the administra
tion of the lailroads and for the ex
tension of the state railroad system
also were proposed
No Crime to Steal Coal
TOLEDO O The work house board
has issued an order setting at liberty
all prisoners held for stealing coal
from the railway yards and tracks
The order includes directions to the
superintendent to receive no more
prisoners from any court sending them
in for petty coal thefts It is said that
no prosecutions for coal thefts will be
recognized by the board during the
coal famine
LEPER COLONY IN HAWAII
Senate Committee Recommends Fed
eral Control of Settlement
WASHINGTON The senate com
mittee on Porto Rico and the Pacific
coast met to receive the report of
the sub committee appointed at the
last session of congress to investi
gate conditions in the Hawaiian is
lands
The sub committee consisted of Sen
ators Mitchell of Oregon Burton ot
Kansas Foster of Washington Cock
rell of Missouri and Blackburn of
Kentucky The last two named did
not visit the islands but Senator
Blackburn joined in the recommenda
tions numbering twenty six
The visit to the islands was made
last September and covered twenty
five days during which time forty
three meetings were held and 176 wit
nesses were interrogated
The investigation was general and
covered all questions with which the
government could possibly be concern
ed including the laws local and fed
eral and their execution the public
lands labor the plantations the har
bors taxation the leprosy settlement
Queen Liliuokalanis claims and other
subjects
The condition of affaire In the leper
settlement on the island of Molokai ex
cited the liveliest interesc
SENATE MAY DISCUSS COAL
Vests Motion Likely to Displace State
hood Debate at Any Time
WASHINGTON The senates pro
gram for the coming week includes
the continuation of the statehood de
bate each day after 2 oclock and the
discussion of the militia bill during
the morning hour There is also a
probability of a return at any time
to the question of the scarcity of coal
in connection with Senator Vests mo
tion to abolish the tariff on anthra
cite
Senator Nelson has not completed
his speech on the statehood bill In
deed he does not even feel able to
prophecy when he will conclude it
but when he does Senator Burnham
will be ready to -proceed The oppo
nents of the bill now make little ef
fort to conceal their intention to con
tinue the debate indefinitely with the
hope that it will be sidetracked by
the appropriation bills which must
be pressed before long Friends of
the bill on the other hand see no
necessity for making way for the ap
propriation bills at present
It is probable that the first general
appropriation bill that providing
funds for legislative executive and
judicial departments of the govern
ment will be reported during the
week but it is doubtful whether it
will receive consideration at that
time
MAJOR THREATENED DEATH
Filipinos Forced to Act as Guides Un
der Penalty of Instant Death
MANILA Two natives former of
ficials of Calbaygo island of Samar
were the only witnesses at the trial
Wednesday of Major Edwin F Glenn
They told of Major Glens arrival
at Calbaygo and said he directed the
citizens to assemble in his office
When they appeared he read General
Smiths order and advised them to aid
the Americans in the pacification of
the island He said this pacification
was in their hands and directed them
to go out and confer with the in
surgents He warned the citizens that
if the insurgents failed to surrender
they would be used as guides to con
duct the American column against the
enemy
To Utilize Corn Stalks
E B Thaw of New York is in Om
aha trying to interest local capital in
the manufacture of paper from the
pith and fiber of corn stalks The re
sults are produced by a patented de
vice which is being operated in Illi
nois successfully it is said by the
company which secured the rights of
the inventor It is averred by the
company that the product of the corn
stalks can be made in imitation of
the higher grades of linen papers as
well as taking the place of the pulp
papers which are now generally used
for newspapers and cheaper publica
tions Samples of the paper which
have passed through the pulp mill only
are shown in support of the claim of
the company By products from the
manufacture of paper are cellulose and
a stock food
Perkins Must Resign Post
LEAVENWORTH Kan The ab
sence without leave of Lieutenant Ed
ward O Perkins Fourth cavalry Uni
ted States army has been reported to
the war department In case of his
return to the post his resignation will
be asked for
Gas Puts Fire Out at Last
JEROME Ariz The mine fire that
has been threatening to destroy the
United States Verde copper mine at
this place for four months has been
extinguished
Heavy carbonic acid gas was forced
down the shaft displacing the oxygen
and finally soothering the flames
3303s3s3s
NEBRASKA IN GENERAL
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CHADRON HAS THE OIL CRAZE
Two Hundred and Fifty Claims Al
ready Filed
CHADRON Neb The oil field ex
citement continues and the county
clerks office is daily thronged with
men and women eager to get an ap
plication certificate filed for a placer
mining oil claim
Certificates have been filed with the
county clerk for about 250 oil mining
claims and at the present rate 30000
acres of land will have been filed on
for this purpose before the end of the
week
Hud Mead now manager of a new
company known as the Guatemala Oil
Mining company with Ed Satterlee
J Brogheimer W H McCann and
other substantial Chadron business
men in the company are locating
group after group of claims and mak
ing arrangements for machinery to
commence boring This will make
one of the strongest companies in the
field
Another company composed of Om
aha and Douglas county men includ
ing G W Loomis J C Holtorf
James Hodge and L A Harmon have
part of their machinery on the ground
and wiil be ready to begin boring
soon They have an experienced
geologist here who in speaking of
the geological conditions of the dis
trict says in substance that the shales
covering the anticline existing here
as shown in the outcrop of the
stratum show unmistakable indica
tions of oil This anticlinal fold ex
tends to the northeast and southwest
entering the Sioux reservation about
the northeast corner of Dawes county
Reports come from the reservation
that some half breed Indian cattlemen
who occupy land on the reservation
within the belt have in times past
discovered coal beds while digging
wells but had never reported it un
til the oil excitement began
The Indians are also anxious to be
come a factor in the exploitation
LAWYER BECKETT FROZEN
Milkman Finds Body in Road West
of Benson
W D Beckett a well known local
attorney of Omaha was found shortly
after noon Sunday frozen stiff and
lying in a snow bank two miles west
of Benson and a mile and a halt
south
Henry Rapp a milkman living sev
eral miles west of Benson was driv
ing home after having completed his
morning delivery when he discovered
the body lying face downward by the
side of the road not far from the
Little Papio creek and the Missouri
Pacific railroad track He at once
reported the discovery to the coroner
and the body was taken in the am
bulance to Coroner Braileys under
taking rooms
The last seen of Mr Breckett was
by his nephew Mr Woodrough in
this city about 130 in the morning
He left his nephew with the supposed
intention of returning to his apart
ments at the Her Grand hotel where
he has been living for the past few
weeks He did not go to the hotel
however and probably walked all the
distance to Benson as it is said he
often had been in the habit of taking
long journeys on foot
He formerly lived at Benson and
was earlier in the evening at a hotel
there At the hotel an attempt was
made to prevent him from going out
and he was given a room where it
was supposed he would remain dur
ing the night He slipped out un
noticed and came to Omaha where
he met and talked with a number of
people
Babe Swallows Arsenic
LINCOLN Neb The 18-months-old
baby of M F Perry accidentally swal
lowed a number of arsenic pills about
6 oclock Monday evening and died
two hours later in terrible agony The
child was playing on the floor where
the pills had been accidentally drop
ped and baby fashion found and put
some of them in its mouth It was at
a time when the physicians of the city
were going home and considerable dif
ficulty was had in getting medical as
sistance This is the third case of
the kind which has occurred here this
year
Incorporation Papers Filed
LINCOLN Nob The Shiverick Fur
niture company of Omaha filed amend
ed articles of incorporation in the of
fice of the secretary of state changing
its name to the Baker Furniture
company Articles of incorporation
have been filed by the Ord Telephone
company having its principal office
at Ord Neb The capital stock is 10 J
000 The incorporators are F J Bell
S E Bell Horace M Davis and J D
Laverty
BRIEF NOTES
Tho total number of deeds filed in
Gage county for the year 1902 was
1237 the consideration stated therein
being 2241503
The fourth annual banquet of the
Dempster Mill Manufacturing company
was held in Nichols hall Beatrice
Saturday evening
The Ord Independent Telephone
company has 140 phones now in op
eration as against eighteen of the Ne
braska Telephone company
Robert J Shankland a prominent
and wealthy farmer of Superior Is
dead of appendicitis The body has
been taken to Red Oak la for in
terment
The Nebraska Park and Forestry as
sociation will meet in Lincoln January
13 at 730 p m The meeting will be
held in the room of Prof Bessey at the
State university
Tho Nebraska City branch of the
U N Association of Postoffice Clerks
has elected the following officers
Clyde E McCormack president H
Clifford Leigh secretary Melvin
Thompson treasurer
Fremont ice dealers have over half
of the crop put up and if the weather
continues as it is will have all they
want Tho second crop of ice Is now
six inches thick and perfectly clear
F M Feicler a druggist at Denver
who is in Beatrice on a visit sustained
an ugly scalp wound and other injur
ies by falling on the slippery sidewalk
He is under the care of a physician
The school house at Wolbach has
been destroyed by fire The fire was
of unknown origin The insurance pol
icy of 750 expired about thirty days
ago and consequently the building is
a total loss to the district
The only coal in Sidney is a few
cars in the Union Pacific yards There
is not an ounce in the yards of any
of the dealers The situation is be
coming desperate and the coal in the
railroad yards will be seized unless
there is speedy relief from some oth
er source
Mr Baggee a Swede farmer C5 years
old living thirteen miles northwest
of Cozad has been killed by a vicious
bull Pie went to the field to drive
up the cattle when the animal at
tacked him He walked to the house
about a quarter of a mile and died
soon after
The damages from the heavy wind
at Fremont are much greater than at
first reported A great many wind
mills were put out of use and prob
ably as many more blown down or
broken In Saunders county south of
the Platte twenty six mills were de
molished
A list of improvements made in
Ashland and vicinity during 1902 has
just been compiled It shows over
70000 expended by Ashland citizens
for new houses barns additions to
residences and buildings of similar de
sign The largest item is Railsback
Bros elevator costing 250001
Beatrice volunteer hose company
has elected officers for the coming year
as follows Ed Maxwell president
Ira Lock vice president W D Moore
secretary Patrick Quinn steward
John Plebuch foreman E A Gordan
first assistant G Kuhn second as
sistant A P Sage treasurer
The cattle stealing case against
Four Spot Hurlburt was dismissed
after the evidence disclosed the fact
that the brand of the complaining
witness was not recorded with the
state brand commission Mrs Haynes
a well known ranchwoman southwest
of Alliance was the complaining wit
ness
At a meeting of sugar beet grow
ers in Hershey Mr Leavitt of the
Standard Beet Sugar company of Ames
stated he would erect at that place a
modern factory if 5000 acres of beets
could be raised and that he would
erect and maintain a testing and
weighing station this year for 500
acres The prospects for a factory
there in 1904 are good
Several bad cases of cattle being poi
soned by eating hay which contained
ergot have come to light at Fremont
One herd of cattle northwest of Fre
mont is in an especially bad condi
tion nearly all of the 150 head show
ing some symptoms of it and a num
ber were ordered shot by the veter
inary The disease affects the hind
feet which swell up and in some cases
actually rot and fall off before the
animal dies
The following dates have oeen given
out for holding district court in the
Fourteenth judicial district Frontier
February 9 September 7 Furnas
March 2 September 28 Red Willow
March 16 October 12 Hitchcock
March 30 November 9 Gosper April
6 November 16 Dundy April 14 No
vember 23 Hayes April 20 Septem
ber 21 Chase April 27 November 30
It has not yet been announced who
will succeed Judge Norris A num
ber of people regret to see Judge Nor
ris leave the bench
WHENCE GOMES
THIS MIGHTY
HEALING POWER
ALL THE LAND WONDERS AT THE
REMARKABLE CURES EFFECT
ED BY PROFESSOR ADKIH
Heals Diseases ailed Incur
Ministers Doctors and Professional
Men Tell How He Has Cured
the Blind the Lame the
Paralytic and Many on the
Very Brink of Death
FREE HELP fOR THE SICK
Professor Adkin Offers to Help AU
Sufferers from Any Disease Alv
solutely Free of Charge
Professional Men Invest
tigate His Powers
rrOF THOMAS F ADKIN
President of the Institute of Physicians and
Surgeons
In all parts ot tho country men and women
loctors anil surgeons clergymen and educators
ire wondering at the remarkable cures mad by
Prof Thomas F Adkln discoverer of the Adkin
Vltaopathlc treatment
Prof Adkln heals not by drugs nor by Chris-
Man Science nor by Osteopathy nor by Hypno
tism nor by Divine Healing but by a subtle
psychic force of nature 1c combination with
certain vital magnetic rcdemies which contain
the very ileraents of life and health i
A reporter recently talked with Prof Adkln
and was asked to Invltf all readcrH of this paper
who are sick or who are woried by tha Ills ot
those dear to them to write to hira lor assist-
ance Some people have declared said Prof
Adkln that my powers are of God they calr
me a Divine heller a man of msterioU9 pow
ers This is not so I cure because I understand
nature because i use the suLtle force of nature
to build up the system and restore health Hut
at the same time I believe that the Creator would
not have given me the opportunity to make thw
discoveries I have made or th ability to develop
them if He had not intended that I should use
them for tho good of humanity I therefore
feel that It is my duty to give the benefit or
the science I practice to all who are suffering
I want you to tell your readers that they can
write to me in the strictest tontldence If theyi
lire troubled with any kind of ditease and Ii
Iwlll thoroughly diagnose their cases absolutely
free of charge and explain by a simple guar
anteed home treatment how a complete cure
feaould be effected I care not how serious then
pase3 nor how hopeles3 thej may sfem I want
Lhem to write to me and let me make them
troll I feel that this is my life work
So great is tho sensation wrought In the nedl i
cal world by tho wonderful cures performed cy
Prof Adkln that several professional gentlemen
were asked to Investigate the curea Amonti
the33 gentlemen were sr L B Hawley and
pr L G Doane both famous physicians and
surgeons After a thorough and painstaking In
vestigation these eminent physicians were so as
tounded at tho far reaching powers of Prof Ad
kin and the wonderful efficacy of Vitaopathy that
Ithey volunteered to forsako all other ties In
life and all other kinds ot treatment and devota
themselves fo assisting Prof Adkln In his great
work for humanity With tte discovery of the
Xdkln Vltaopathlc treatment eminent physicians
are generally agreed that the treatment of dis
ease has at last been reduced to an exact science
la all some 8000 men and women have been
cured by the powers of Prof Adkln Some
were blind some were lame some were deaf
soma were paralytics scarcely able to move so
ii At was their Infirmity Others were afflicted
with Brlghts disease heart disease consump
tion and ether so called Incurable diseases Soma
were sufferers from kidney trouble dyspepsia
nervous debility Insomnia neuralgia constipa
tion rheumatism female troubles and other sim
ilar Ills Some were men and women addicted
to drunkenness morphine and other evil habits
In all case3 Prof Adkln treats he guarantees
a cure Even those on the brink of the grave
with all hope of recovery gone and dtspalred ol
y doctors and friends alike have been restored
to perfect health by the force of Vitaopathy and
Prof Adkias marvelous skill And remarkabU
as It may seem distance has made no differ
ence Those living far away have been cured la
the privacy of their own homes as well as those
Tvho have been treated In person Prof Adkln
asserts that he can cure any one at any distance
ks well as though he stood before them
Not long ago John Adams of Elakesbury la
who had been lame for twenty years was per
manently cured by Prof Adkin without an opera
tion of any kind About tho same time tha
city of Pochester N Y was startled by the
cure of one of its oldest residents Mr P A
Wright who had been partly blind for a long
period John E Neff of Mlllersburg Pa wher
had suffered for years from a cataract over hii
left eye was speedily restored to perfect sight
without an operation From Logansport Ind
comes the news of the recovery of Mrs Mary
Eicher who had been practically deaf for a year
Vhile in Warrent Pa Mr G W Savage a noted
photographer and arUst who was net only par
tially blind and deaf but at deaths door from a
complication of diseases was restored to perfect
health and strength by Prof Adkln
Vitaopathy cures not one disease alone but It
cures all diseases when used la combination
with the proper remedies If you are sick no
matter what your disease nor -who says you can
iiot be cured write to Prof Adkln today tell
bin the leading symptdms of your complaint
how long you have been suffering and he will
at once diagnose your case tell you the exact
diFase from which you are suffering and pre
scribe the treatment that will positively cure
jou This costs you absolutely nothing Prof
Adkln will also Eend you a copy of his marvel
ous new book entitled How to Be Cured and
How to Cure Others This took tells you ex
actly how Prof Adkln will cure you It fully and
completely describes the nature of his wonderful
treatment It also explains to you how you your
self may possess this great healing power and
cure the sick around you
Prof Adkln does not ask one cent for hi
services In this connection They will te given
to you absolutely free He has made a wonder
ful discovery and he wishes to place it in the
hands of every sick person la this country that
he may be restore to perfect health and strength
Mark your letter personal when you write and
no one but Prof Adkin will see it Address Prof
Thotaas F Adkln Offlce 35 N Rochester N T
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