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THE NEWS IN BRIEF
3SS3S
Last year America imported onlj
8000000 bushels of potatoes
Twenty four persons living in
ty Tipperary Ireland are centenar
Jans
It is said that Texas alone mar
kets 50000000 worth of cattle an
nually
Secretary Hay will remain at his
family home in Sunapee N H until
October
Japanese is the latest language to
be added to the list at the University
of Chicago
It is said in London that J M
Barrie has reaped larger profits from
fiction than any other contemporary
writer
According to mail advices from
Shanghai several hundred lives were
lost in the great floods at Chefoo
briefly reported by cable
MiSB Ida M Tritt has been elected
treasurer of the New York Queens
County Street Railway company She
possesses unusual business qualities
-Mrs ShawN wife of the secretary
of the treasury and their two daugh
ters who are now in Paris will re-
turn to this country late in Septem
ber
Mr Cleveland has written friends
in St Paul Minn accepting condi
tionally an invitation to visit Minne
sota on a hunting expedition in Oc
tober
Daniel E Hubbard who has been
in his time educator lawyer consul-
general and acting commissioner of
education for Porto Rico is in the
Grafton Mass almshouse
Nicholas Murphy a New York pol
itician who died the other day was
the former long distance pedestrian
oJU America in the palmy days of
that sport
Rear Admiral Harris the recently
appointed paymaster of the navy will
spend two weeks at Narragansett
Pier with Mrs Harris who has been
there about a month
The Catholic organ Germania hears
from Rome that the late Pope Leos
fishermans ring which disappeared
shortly after his death and which was
thought to have been stolen has been
found
Chinese representatives from Pek
ing assert that the banished Prince
Tuan is there incognito and that he
lias had several secret interviews
with the dowager while the emperor
was asleep
H A Bigelow an attorney of HonJ
olulu to whom was tendered the chair
of criminal law in the University of
Chicago has accepted the offer and
will shortly leave Honolulu to assume
his duties
Hon David B Henderson ex-speaker
of the house is the recipient of a
great deal of attention at Magnolia
where he and Mrs Henderson and
Miss Henderson are spending the
summer
Leon C Marshall who has recently
been called to the chair of economics
in the Ohio Wesleyan university is
probably the youngest man to occupy
such a position anywhere He is now
24 years of age
Mr Joseph Pulitzer has provided
the sum of 2000000 to establish a
school of journalism at Columbia uni
versity A new building for the school
will be erected on Morningside
Heights at a cost of 500000
Gen Leonard Wood has returned
from a visit to the governor of Bor
neo where he has been for some time
observing the methods adopted by
the British government to pacify and
promote the interests of the natives
and to improve the commercial con
ditions of the country
The Berlin Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals is taking
the initiative in attempting to bring
about an international understanding
on the subject of cruelty to animals
and birds in Italy with the aim to
support the work of the Italian so
cieties and with the co operation of
the Italian government
The assistant attorney general for
the postoffice department has render
ed a decision depriving the commis
sioners of tne District of Columbia
of the franking privilege which they
have heretofore exercised The de
cision is based upon the fact that they
are not officers of the United States
but officers of a community
Mr McMaster of Montreal a lead
ing Canadian lawyer will represent
the United States before the privy
council of England on the application
for leave of appeal from the decision
of Justice Caron of Quebec fn the
Greene and Gaynor cases
Acting Secretary of State Loomis
has received two cablegrams from
Minister Beaupre at Bogota the
latest dated August 15 conveying the
information that efforts are still be
ing made to find a way to revive the
canal treaty
Clevelands Saby Boy
NEW YORK The baby boy re
cently born to Mrs Grover Cleve
land at Buzzards Bay Mass has been
christened Francis Grover Cleveland
a name selected by the other chil
dren
Funds for the University
LEXINGTON Ky Dr George H
Denny president of Washington and
Lee university who has just returned
from Chicago announces that the
widow and children of the late Cyrus
H McCormack have given a fund of
10000 to the university the pro
ceeds of which are to maintain the
new science hall Prior to the death
of Mr McCormick he gave 20000
to the university and this latter gift
Is in line with his wishes
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DESIGN SUGGESTED FCR MONUMENT IN WALL STftCET
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SEX MASKED MEN
ROBJTHE DEPOT AT MFARLAND
KANSAS
STATION IS QUICKLY LOOTED
Railroad Men Are Soon Subdued
Passengers at Lunch Counter Rush
to an Uustairs Room and Save
Themselves by Blocking Entrance
MFARLAND Kan At 1 oclock
Friday morning six masked men
heavily armed appeared at the Rock
Island depot and started to enter the
office door
Conductor Monnehan of freight train
No 48 which had just pulled in and
Night Baggageman Charles Toler saw
them and hurriedly attempted to block
the door but the robbers forced an
entrance and after taking their mon
ey and watches beat the railroad men
into insensibility
They then rifled the depot of its
contents and going hurried to the eat
ing house held up and took all the
valuables from half a dozen men on
the platform employed at the round
house and a part of the train crew
Passengers at the lunch counter scur
ried upstairs and blocked the entrance
effectively The bandits then looted
the eating house cash register and
silverware doing their work in a cool
and collected fashion after the man
ner of veterans
Then apparently as a joke they
marched and carried six of the Rock
Island employes including the night
hostler and Baggageman Toler and
locked them in a refrigerator car and
disappeared in an easterly direction
During the thirty minutes of their
presence not a shot was fired and
only Monnehan and Toler were in
jured
Two hours after the robbers disap
peared Sheriff Fry had organized a
posse released the prisoners from the
refrigerator car and galloped in pur
suit The bandits were headed to
ward Topeka
The banditts secured eight watches
and probably 150 in money They
left McFarland on foot The night
agent at Paxico four milees east of
McFarland saw them pass by along
the tracks on foot at 230 oclock
At 1 oclock Friday afternoon there
is a report from Paxico that Sheriff
Fry and Chief Custy of the Rock Is
land detective force aided by four
county deputies have the robbers lo
cated in a patch of timber near Pax
ico
Advices from Paxico at 230 show
that the bandits eluded the posse in
pursuit and passed on through the
thick brush
DEMOCRATS AND POPULISTS
The Respective Conventions Unite on
the Same Ticket
Supreme Court Justice
J J Sullivan
University Regents
W A JONES DR E G WEBER
GRAND ISLAND The populists in
state convention here put in nomina
tion the above ticket It referred to
next years convention a resolution en
dorsing the Denver manifesto
After nominating Judge Sullivan of
Columbus lor supreme court justice
there was discussion of the question
of notifying the democratic conven
tion at Columbus of what had been
done Following this the convention
nominated by acclamation two candi
dates for regents Prof William A
Jones of Hastings and Dr E O
Weber of Valparaiso
The resolutions adopted declared
national issues are not involved in
this campaign
The Democrats
Supreme Court Justice
J J Sullivan
University Regents
W A JONES DR E O WEBER
COLUMBUS The democratic state
convention was late in assembling
and as it gathered news had been re
ceived of the action of the populist
convention in Grand Island in mak
ing nominations P L Hall announc
ed the fact in calling the convention
to order
H W Risley of Grand Island was
named for secretary The delega
tions were accepted as reported and
the temporary organization was made
permanent
W I Alen of Schuyler placed
Judge Sullivan in nomination for su
preme judge and it carried by ac
clamation The nomination of Jones
of Adams and Weber of Saunders for
regents was made by a rising vote
In accepting his nomination Judge
Sullivan modestly denied the posses
sion of any special qualifications ex
cept independence He went on the
bench a free man and promised so to
remain
The resolution committee reported
a platform It reafllrmed the plat
form of the Kansas City convention
in the fewest words possible aria con
demned the fsset currency plan and
further legislation along the line of
the Aldrich bill
FREIGHT DEPOT DESTROYED
Rock Island Sustains Big Loss at
Chicago
CHICAGO 111 At midnight Thurs
day fire started in the freight house
of the Chicago Rock Island Pa
cific railroad situated at Polk and
Sherman streets The flames had
secured quite a start when discover
ed and by the time the first engine
arrived the building which is 250
feet long and two stories high was a
mass of flames The firemen from
the first had no hope of saving the
structure or its contents
The loss was primarily on outgoing
freight and is estimated at 500000
Jan Kubelik is Married
VIENNA Jan Kubelik the violin
ist was married at Debreezin Hun
gary on Wednesday to Countess Mari
anne Czaky niece of Coloman Von
Czell former premier of Hungary
Only a few friends were present
Bishop Wolotka performed the cere
mony The couple have proceeded to
Prague to visit the bridegrooms
mother and from there they will pro
ceed to Marienbad to spend their
honeymoon
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I Genera Nebraska News I
CLERKMICKEY HAS A PLAN
New Method in Bookkeeping for In
stitutions
LINCOLN Chief Clerk Mickey of
the governors office has a plan for a
uniform system of bookkeeping for
all the state institutions and has sent
out invitations to bookkeepers of the
institutions to meet together in Lin
coln Wednesday September 9 for the
purpose of discussing the feasibility
of putting some such plan into oper
ation
Mr Mickey has figured out a com
bination record and ledger which is to
be substituted in each of the insti
tutions for the ones now in use At
the top of the page of the new book
will be a statement of the fund un
der which the items entered will
come and the appropriation made for
the fund The columns of the book
will contain in order a space for the
date name and claimant number of
the voucher amount of the voucher
number of the warrant date of pay
ment amount of warrant amount of
the appropriation expended the bal
ance of the appropriation left and gen
eral remarks
Heretofore each institution has had
its own system mf bookkeeping The
chief clerk audits all the accounts ot
the institutions every month and he
has found it rather difficult to keep
track of the various systems used
Suggestions will be asked for from
the various members at the confer
enae and it is possible that the
scheme worked out by Mr Mickey will
be altered to some extent
BIG CATTLE FEEDING CONTRACT
One Firm Makes Deal for All Beet
Pulp from Sugar Factory
NORFOLK Every pound of beet
pulp which emanates from the Nor
folk sugar factory during the next
half decade will go into the mouths
of dattle which Butterfield
stock dealers are feeding A con
tract has just been closed whereby
this firm agrees to purchase the en
tire output of the institution during
the coming five years This will
mean the feeding of 2000 additional
head of cattle in Norfolk each winter
They will be maintained in the yards
near the factory so that the pulp may
be transported by machinery Farm
ers have been feeding this material
for years and it has proved a wonder
ful success
Chance for Big Corn Crop
COLUMBUS E M Sparhawk a
successful farmer who lives on the
Butler county line just south of the
Platte river was in town In speak
ing of the crop prospects he said he
had never had a better prospect for
a bumper crop of corn than he has
right now He has been farming in
this locality for thirty five years and
should know what he is talking about
Hold your frost off for two weeks
he said and I will raise the biggest
crop of corn ever
Chews Off Opponents Ear
PAPILLION Charles Clinton was
arrested and brought from Gretna by
the sheriff It is alleged that during
a country dance Clinton got into a
fight with John Thomas and chewed
the latters ear off
Mad Dog Scare at Holdrege
HOLDREGE Mrs Charles Hedlund
and three small children were bitten
by an apparently mad dog Two of
ex County Surveyor Billings children
a boy named Charles Paitzer and the
son of Al Anderson have also been
bitten The Pitzer boy was taken to
Chicago Monday for treatment and
Mr Hedlund took his wife and chil
dren to Chicago two days later
Adjudged to Be Insane
NEBRASKA CITY On complaint
of J D Durr Fred Wilkenning living
near Paul was brought to this city
charged with insanity When brought
before the insanity commission he
was adjudged insane and taken to the
asylum at Lincoln
The state bureau of labor has is
sued an estimate of the value of the
crops that Nebraska will garner this
year The figures are as follows
Wheat 36681516 oats 21310884
corn 86836538 rye 3211107 to
tal 148040045 per capital values
12340
Wolf Bounty Warrants Unclaimed
Auditor Weston was authorized by
the last legislature to pay all claims
for wolf bounty accruing since the
year 1599 at the rate of 1 for each
scalp Since then Deputy Anthes has
forwarded warrants to upward of 300
claimants while also rejecting a large
number of claims for bounty dated
as much as twenty years back Of
the claims allowed many are now re
turning to the auditors office being
wrongly sent
THE STATE AT LARGE
Many veterans attended the reunion
at Riverton
Recent heavy rains interfered great
ly with threshing
Pierce rently had a fire that entail
ed a loss of 4500
A dog supposed tobe suffering from
rabies was killed at Nebraska City
Work on the electric line from Om
aha to Papillion it is stated will com
mence soon
The board of supervisors of Gage
county met to take some definite ac
tion on riprapping the Blue iver just
east of Blue Springs
Two brick buildings in Omaha fell
the other day with a great crash No
lives were lost though in one of the
structures much damage was done to
a stock of groceries
J S Wheeler residing three miles
southeast of Beatrice threshed his
wheat crop The early sown grain
yielded twenty six bushels to the acre
and the late sown nineteen bushels
to the acre
Rt Rev C A Lysaght of the Cath
olic church of Jackson died there af
ter an illness of several months He
was about 53 years of age and had
been engaged in church work here for
twenty years
The Fifth judicial republican con
vention was held at York and placed
in nomination Judge A J Evans of
David City and Judge Smith of Au
rora There were four candidates
seeking the nomination
The building committee of the
Young Mens Christian association at
York is experiencing difficulty in se
curing bids for the erection of the as
sociation building Many more car
penters and a few more contractors
would find continuous employment at
York if they would locate there
Chief Deputy Game Warden Carter
after having returned from a two
weeks trip through the northern tier
of counties has come to the
Son sion that there is less violation of the
game laws in that section than had
been supposed He says the viola
tions this year are about the same as
in previous year
Pure Food Inspector Thompson has
forbidden the sale of a barrel of vin
egar sold by the Nebraska Mercan
tile company of Grand Island to Fred
bchwartz of Wood River The vine
gar was represented as malt product
but examination made by the state
chemist proved it to be a chemically
concocted affair and not what it was
claimed to be
The signal corps at Fremont re
ceived from the adjutant generals of
fice a consignment of lances wires
brackets and insulators for tempo
rary telephone service with a half
dozen telephone instruments and a
switchboard The lances or poles
are twenty feet long and sharpened
at the bottom so they can easily be
stuck into the ground
The preliminary hearing of Alex By
lair charged with the murder of
Charles Baltiet near St Helena Au
gust 10 occurred at Hartington be
fore Judge Bridenbaugh All the tes
timony taken was introduced by the
state The witnesses were members
of the murdered mans family The
court bound Eylair over without bail
to appear at the fall term of district
court to answer to the charge of mur
der
Mrs D P Rolfe of Nebraska City
Edward Himes a soldier of the
Twenty second infantry at Fort
Corok was brought to Papillion
charged with criminally assaulting
Ruth Hammon a 16-year-old girl also
of that place
is disposing of her household goodB
and will go east to make her home
with her adopted daughter She has
been a resident of that city for the
past forty years and is the widow
of the late ex Mayor D P Rolfe who
was one of the best known men in the
state among the pioneers
Four judicial aspirants filed certifi
cates showing the amounts expended
by them in securing their nomina
tions Judge John B Barnes of Nor
folk certified that his expenditures
were l650 of which 16 was for
headquarters at a Lincoln hotel and
50 cents for letters Albert H Bab
cock of the First district puts his ex
pense at 2145 and George I Wright
nominee for supreme judge on the pro
hibition ticket declares that he didnt
spend a cent
William Stratford a youth living in
North Bend had his leg broken in a
curious way He was swimming with
some other boys and in diving from
a board his foot caught in a rope
causing the weight of his whole body
to sprain the limb and snap the bones
At Waco J Mullan and Ed Markum
two young men became involved in
a quarrel that finally resulted in a
mixup which was of short duration
and the outcome was Ed Markum
was shot in the leg causing a serious
and painful injury
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THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
Latest Quotations from South
Omaha and Kansas vuy
SOUTH OIIAIIA
n4irnrp Thn hMLVV ralnS
i
interfered
materially with the live stock market
unable to feet
Many of the trains were
here In time for the market while those
As a result
that did arrive came In lute
stock on sale at
sult there was not much
the opening of the market ackr
for supplies ana
though were anxious
as a result tho market was active unU
fully steady on desirable grades
The few corn fed steers that arriven
sold freely at steady to strong price
where the quality was at all desirable
The better the quality the more strength
there was to the market and the top
price of the market was 550 It wa
also the top price of the year to date
The cow market was not quite as good-
as yesterday Some or tne qmco
to any great extent
bunches did not suffer
tent but the general run of cows sold
did not
generally a dime lower Buyers
cows today bo
much for
seem to care
salesmen finally had to take the prices
offered Bulls veal calves and stags did
not command any more than steady
prices There were only a few stockers
sold with
and feeders offered and they
If inequality
steady prices
out much trouble at
quality was at all desirable Common
stuff though was more or less neglected
Western grass fed steers were very
scarce and the few that were offered
changed hands freely at fully steady
prices
HOGS There was a light run of hogs
but counting those that were carried
over there was a good supply on sale
The market opened slow and generally
a dime lower Heavy hogs sold largely
from 3515 to 520 with some coarse
heavies as low as 510 The medium
weights sold mostly f rom - 520 to 530
and lightweights from 530 to 540
There were no choice lights on sale such
as have been selling at the top prices of
late Trading was slow from start to fin
ish and as a result the day was well ad
vanced before the bulk was disposed of
SHEEP Quotations for grass stock
Good to choice lambs t75f500 fair to
good lambs 425fii75 good to choice
yearlings 340i5 fair to good year
lings 325340 good to choice wethers
310fi325 fair to good wethers 290ftf
110 good to choice ewes 2402S5 fair
to good ewes 2251240 feeder lambs
50f425 feeder yearlings 12311350
feeder wethers 3Xi325 feeder ewes
Sl50ft250
Kansas rrrv
CATTI7E Corn cattle highest of summer-
wintered western steady stockers
and feeders dull lower native cows-
slow quarantine cows strong quaran
tine steers steady choice export and
dressed beef steers S47Cfi540 fair to
good 35o470 Mockers and feeders
250l20 western fed 340475
Texas and Indian steers 2151313
Texas cows 150250 native cows
150 6420 native heifers 2Xfi425 fan
ners 1001243 bulls 200g423 calves
2 0023CO
SHEEP AND TAMBS Market stead
lambs weak stockers and feeders firm
native lambs 30015 15 fed ewes VLWit
400 Texas clipped shep 24OS4C0
stockers and feeders 225g350
HOGS Market 5fd0c lower top 580
bulk of sales 540fe565 heavy 530Jc
550 mixed packers 347 i5G5 light
555Q5S0 yorkers 570fr50 pigs 500
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PERSIANS WANT OLD TIMES
Mohammedan Leaders Serve Notice
on Shah
BERLIN The Christian Orient a
3erman missionary paper published
in Berlin prints correspondence from
Teheran alleging that the leaders of
the Persian Mohammedan church
have served notice on the shah that
unless he purges the country of the
foreign religions and commercial in
fluences especially British and Rus
pian the church will precipitate a
revolution
The church leaders also demand
that the shah restore the religious
and economic conditions which pre
vailed in Persia a century ago The
correspondent says the anti foreign
movement Is not directed against the
Germans because the natives are
convinced that Germany has no politi
cal intentions and that they consider
Turko American friendship to be a
forerunner of good feeling toward
Germany throughout the Mohamme
dan world
GERMANY VANTS AN ISLAND
Would Take Fernando Po From Spain
to Protect Colony
BERLIN Major Morgen the well
known German colonial expert writ
ing in the Cologne Gazette asserts
that the German government has al
ready taken steps and is preparing
o take further steps to insure the
sland of Fernando Po coming into
the possession of Germany whenever
Spain is ready to dispose of it Major
Morgen says
If the island were to fall into the
hands of a military and naval power
like Great Britain it would consti
tute a wedge in our flesh such as
tre have permitted to he driven into
us at many points but which we
must hereafter guard against
Nebraska Day at St Louis
ST LOUIS The committee on
ceremonies has designated October
18 1904 as Nebraska
day at the
vTorlds fair the assignment being
nade at the request of the Nebraska
Chief Coburn of the live
stock department of the exhibition
returned from Des Moines la where
be attended the state fair and
con
ferred with members of the Iowa
commission in reference to exhibits
at St Louis next year
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