F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA r3 News in Brief Half tae sodfers of the czar are Il literate The per capita wealth of England is 9210 that of Canada 240 Of the public school teachers in the United States- 57 per cent are men During the last decade American ex ports to China have increased sixfold The senate has confirmed the nom inations of the Isthmian canal com missioners Seventeen persons in 100 in the state of Now York live to oe over 70 years of age Exclusive of locomotives we man ufacture 30000 engines of 2000000 horse power every year The Rock Island railroad has been admitted to lull membership in the Western Passenger association The Standard Oil company has re duced the wholesale price on refined oils in Ohio one half cent per gallon A sealed bottle containing four pints of liquid air was sent from Berlin to Geneva but on arrival it was found that three and a half pints had evap orted Senator Fairbanks was shown a pub lished dispatch stating that he had de cided to become a candidate for vice president He decline to make any statement In 1900 according to the census there were 877 gas plants in the Uni ted States and the number was not growing They earned an income of 75000000 John P Cooper former cashier of the Oit zens National bank of Mc Gregor Tex was convicted of embez zlement and given five years in the federal penitentiary An exhibition is being arranged at St Petersburg of all the Russian art objects wmch it was intended to ex hibit at St Louis The proceeds will be devoted to the Red Cross society The wife of a Methodist preacher Rev J W Prickett of Penton Mo has fallen heir to a 500000 estate through the death of Mrs Charlotte V S Mil ler a relative in the island of Ja maica Dr Eduard Zelier emeritus profes sor of philosophy in the University of Berlin has just celebrated his 90th birthday and Emperor William pre sented him Avith a portrait and an au tograph letter The governor of Kieff has instruct ed the local police not to interfere with the families or servants of Jewish sur geons who have gone to the far east although the law forbids them to re main outside the pale Thomas F Smith secretary of Tam many Hall has just oeen in St Louis making arrangements for housing Tammany at the democratic national convention About GOO braves and their friends will be present Whether the beef trust is violat ing the injunction resting against it is to be made the subject of official investigation by the department of commerce and labor according to a resolution ordered reported favorably It is believed that Charles F Kratz former member of the house of dele gates of St Louis who was recently extradicted from Mexico to stand trial on the charge of bribery while a mu nicipal official has returned to Mex ico The board of control of the naval in stitute has awarded the annual prize for the best prize essay to Lieutenant S P Fullenwider United States navy The subject was The Fleet and Its Personnel The prize was 200 and life membership in the institute It is now certain that the duty on sugar entering Mexico will bereduced from 15 per 200 kilograms to 240 per 100 kilograms The government has decided to become a party to the Brussels convention thus securing an English market for Mexican sugar Suits for damages aggregating 50 000 were filed at St Joseph Mo by Blanche E Martin and the administra tors of the estate of Winfield S Mar tin and Eliza Martin Buchanan county residents who were killed in the wreck of a Rock Island passenger train near Willard Kan the morning ot January G Will Sen wink was almost instantly killed and his wife Mary probably fa tally suot by John White a sheep herder at Billings Mont White says nothing regarding his motive for the shooting except that those parties were after him He came from Em mett Mo and was considered some what eccentric Upon recommendation of Willis L Moore chief of the United States weather bureau at Washington the Argentine Republic has appointed Xontrose W Hayes of the Helena Mont weather office chief of the weather department of that govern ment Mr Hayes expects to leave soon tor Buenos Ayres Merritt O Chance of Ohio who has been secretary to the secretary of wai for several years has been appointed chief of the division of supplies ol the postoffice department to succeed Michael W Louis who was removed as the result of the postal investiga tion Announcement of a further cut of 4 mills in lake grain rates to take effec March 9 was sent out by the Pennsyl vania railroad Swuzerlana is inaugurating a systerr of itinerant school teachers who wil visit andspend some time in the Iso lated outlying villages McCook TribuneAPS OPEN A FIRE DIRECTED AGAINST BATTERIES AT VLADIVOSTOK RUSSIAN BATTERIES SILENT Battleships Remairv Out of Range of the Russian -Guns and No Damage is Done on Either Side Land Move ment Near at Hand VLADIVOSTOK A fleet of five Japanese battleships and two suisers appeared off this place at 125 oclock Sunday afternoon and bombarded the town and shore batteries for fifty five minutes The fleet approacned from the di rection of Askold island at the east entrance of Ussuri bay and about thirty two nres south of Vladivostok Entering Ussuri bay the enemy formed a line of battle but did not approach to a closer range than a mile and one third They directed their fire against the shore batteries and the town but no damage resulted as most of their 200 lyddite shells failed to burst The Russian batteries commanded by Generals Veronetz and Artamo noff did not reply awaiting a closer approach of the enemy The Japa nese lire ceased at 220 p m and the enemy retired in the direction of Askold island Simultaneously two torpedo boat destroyers appeared near Askold island and two more near Cape Maidel The Japanese ships Avere covered with ice The attack resulted in no loss to the Russians but cost the enemy 200000 roubles 100000 in ammunition Most of the projectiles Avere six and twelve inch shells The population of Vladivostok was warned Jhis morning of the presence on the horizon of a hostile fleet and the prospects of attack during the day but everything remained tran quil St Petersburg Advices from Vladivostok say that the 2500 Japa nese troops who landed at Plaskin bay on the east coast of Northern Korea are advancing toward Mu sung 21S miles from Gensan with the intention of ultimately reaching riuncnun on the left bank of the Tumen river about 100 miles west of Vladivostok and threatening the Russian flank In order to checkmate this move the Russian outpost 1500 strong which recently crossed the Tumeri is advancing to occupy Kionwon on the Tumen river a Availed city command ing the trails along which the Japa nese must pass SYMPATHIZE WITH RUSSIA Irish Nationalists at St Louis Pass Resolutions ST LOUIS Mo The Irish nation alists of St Louis at their celebra tion of the birth of Robert Emmet Sunday night adopted resolutions up holding Russia in her way Avith Japan and expressing sympathy Avith Chris- tian Russia against this pagan horde The resolution concluded That the special thanks of the ex iled children of the scattered Gael be extended to the Russian govern ment for her Avork done in the inter ests of humanity by her opposition to the designs of England in Persia Turkestan Thibet and other Asiatic countries thereby preventing the ex tension of Englands jtyranny over helpless people A copy of the resolutions Avill be sent to the Russian nnnister at Wash ington Chinese Troops in Field ST PETERSBURG A Russian cor respondent of the Associated Press at Shanghai telegraphs that it is report ed at Tien Tsin that 4000 additional Chinese soldiers have been posted in northern China and that the Cninese government has recently placed large orders for guns and ammunition Victims Now Number Twenty NEW YORK three more bodies were recovered bunday from the wreck of the Darlington hotel mak ing the total number of fatalities tAventy They are believed to be bodies of Avorkmen employed on the structure Porto Rico Adopts a Black Flag SAN JUAN Porto Rico The house has unanimously passed a bill recom mended in a message form Governor Hunt the purpose of which is to pre Aent the desecration of the United States flag and the use of the black flag in Porto Rico Ready for Reciprocity MELBOURNE Premier Bekin has announced in the House of Represen tatives that the federal government is prepared to alter the tarn in favor of Great Britain making sacrifices if necessary to secure reciprocal pref erences Some of the sheep feeders in Dodge county are shearing their sheep and sending them to market England Gets Tobacco Trade RICHMOND Va A deal has been consummated whereby the British American Tobacco company acquires the export business of Alexander Cameron Co and William Cameron Bro of Petersburg in the United States and the Melbourne Sydney and Adelaide Australia branch houses Concerning the terms of the dealer Alexander Cameron said that he could give not details as his nephew George Cameron isnow en route to San Francisco from Australia wth all particulars NOMINATION WOOD It Will Be Considered by the Senate This Week WASHINGTON The plans of the senate managers contemplate keeping supply bills to the front to the ex clusion of other business Consider ation of the naval bill will be re sumed Monday and then tne army appropriation bill Avill be taken up It is expected that by that time the army bill shall have been disposed of and that the bill making appro priation for fortifications or that pro viding funds for the District of Co lumbia will be ready An effort will be made to secure consideration of the nomination of Brigadier General Leonard Wood to be a major general during the Aveok and if time is found for executive ses sions this matter will be given dence Senator Foraker will have charge of the contest in tavor ot confirma tion and Senators Scott and Black bun of the opposition If the appropriation bills and the Wood case do not consume the entire time Senator Lodges Philippine billl Avill be further considered- RUSSIA ACCEDES ONE REQUEST United States Officers May Accom pany Army to Observe Operations WASHINGTON The Russian army formally has granted the request of the United States that certain officers of the American army be permitted to accompany the Russian troops and Avitness their operations in the Avar with Japan Ambassador McCormick in a cablegram informing Secretary Hay of this fact states that the offi cers cannot join the Russian army before April 15 of the Russian calen dar The officers who have iieen desig nated for this service are Colonel J B Kerr of the general staff Captain Carl Reichman of the Seventh infantry Captain George Gatley and Captain William Judson of the engineer corps All of the above are in Manila except Captain Judson Avho is in this city and Avho leaves at once for St Peters burg CHINAS EXHIBIT AT ST LOUIS A Large and Rare Display Is to Be Made St Louis Mo Francis Cail com missioner of the imperial maritime customs service of China and assist ant commissioner with Wong Kai Kah in charge of the Chinese worlds fair exhibit arrived from the orient oday Mr Carl said that China Avill have at tne Worlds fair the largest rarest and most comprehensive ex hibit that has ever left the Celestial empire Speaking of the Russo Japanese Arar Mr Carl said that the Chinese would undoubtedly pitch into Russia should she invade neutral territory though such aliberty might be taken though such liberty might be taken quences Is Enchanted by a Voice NEW YORK There have been nu merous cases of love at first sight but cases of love before sight are rare James Delaney of o07 Manhat tan avenue Jersey City states that he fell in love with Miss Emma Laur ens of Long Island City just through hearing her voice la a phonograph He made this state at the bachelor dinner Avhich he gave to members of his club After hearing the voice De laney sought an introduction to Miss Laurens and now they are to be married Eight Carloads of Exhibits CITY OF MEXICO The Mexican commissioners for the St Louis ex position will leave in a special car for that city General Director Nu nez Avill take with him plans for the Mexican conservatory which has not yet been built but upon which work will begin immediately upon the ar rival of the commissioners in St Louis The commissioners have ar ranged their business here with a view to passing a year in the exposi tion city Eight carloads ot exhibits have been forwarded Marcus A Hanna Memorial CLEVELAND O The Marcus A Hanna Memorial association was in corporated at Columbus by seAeral prominent citizens of Cleveland The purpose of the association is to estab lish a chair of political science at Western Reserve uniArersity in mem ory of the late Senator Hanna Aged Woman Murdered ALBUQUERQUE N M Mrs An nie Boone 70 years old was found murdered in her bed at her home here She had been murdered by be ing struck over the head Avith a piece of gas pipe Michael Cudahy Goes to HoGTital PASADENA Cal Michael Cidahy the millionaire packer of Chicago has been removed from his Avinter resi dence here to the Pasadena hospital suffering from an attack of mastoidi tis Japan Has Plenty of Morey PARIS The Liberte quote- Baron Hayashi the Japanese minister to Great Britain as saying in regard to tne rerort that the United States does not tavor the floating of a Jap anese loan in America Fortunate ly Ave have no need of a foreign loan as our oAATn financial resources are suf ficient The French Red Cross so ciety has decided it has been stated to send to Japan besides two cam nnrnn nr monmA mtdo ur nuoor a SATISFACTION AT TONE AMERICAN DISPATCHES OF REGRETS THAT THERE IS STRAIN Deprecates Effect of Estranged Rela tions Between Two Nations and In sists Prudence Must Ultimately Sur mount Impulse ST PETERSBURG The Russian press hails with great satisfaction the American dispatches of the last few days as indicating a change in the disposition of the Washington govern ment toward Russia The Bourse Ga zette and the Novoe Vreniya Friday morning discuss in a sober minded fashion Russo Amerlcan relations and the danger of a permanent estrange ment The Gazette says there is something profoundly regrettable in the present relations betAveen these two world poAvers They transcend the bounds of com mon logic The position taken by America since last June and the anti Russian newspaper campaign in the United States are so Inexplicable that they seem like a nightmare Since the Beginning of its history America has inspired the liveliest feeling of friendship and admiration among Rus sians and diplomatic and political ex pressions of these feelings haAe been continuous and constant In Russian social circles there has ever been a eritable Avorship of the classic land of liberty and the Americans have al ways heretofore made Russian friend ship tie corner stone of their foreign policy Suddenly as if an evil spirit had broken loose the Americans despite their practical turn of mind began to do everything to stimulate Japanese aggressiveness and seem iioav to be anxiously aAvaiting Japanese victories in Asia where important American commercial interests are centered As a matter of fact hostility betAveen the united States and Russia Avould be as great a misfortune to civilization in the twentieth century as Avas the rivalry Between France and Germany in the nineteenth The duty of every right minded man is to arrest the growth of this animosity Russian diplomacy oAves it to the Americans and to the Avhole civilized world to do its utmost We are not called upon to re echo hostile sounds coming from be ond the Atlantic be cause unfriendly sentiments do not exist among us The latest advices permit tne belief that it -will be much easier to remove this misunderstand ing than the enemies of Russia may think The Novoe Vremya says it does not know Avhether the Washington cab inet influenced such incidents as the gift of 10000 by Charles R Crane ot Chicago to the Young Czarinas fund for Russian soldiers and sailors the pro Russian Irish demonstration in NeAV York and the quieter tone of the British press but the paper believes it notes an important change in Ameri can official tactics beginning Avith a disinclination to favor the Japanese cable project followed by the report of Secretary Hays dissatisfaction with the anti Russian press campaign Avhich disposition Avas further proved by his not insisting on dispatching United States consuls to Antung and Mukden at this time Avhich quite agrees with President Roosevelts deci sion to allow Mr Morgan appointed United States consul at Port Dalny to remain at home for the present and not send the battleship Kentucky to the scene of the hostilities in the far east DIES AT AGE OF 132 YEARS Enlisted in the United States Navy in 1805 NEW BRUNSWICK N J Noah Raby died Tuesday in the Piscataway poor house of Avhich he had been an inmate for the past forty years If he had liA ed until April 1 next ac cording to his OAvn statement he AA ould haA e been 132 years old Pie retained his memory and would re call many incidents of his long career until Aery recently He is said to have been born in EatontoAvn Gates county North Caro lina on April 1 1772 In 1S05 he en listed in the navy and served on the ship Constitution and the frigate Bran aywine on the latter of which Farra gut was a lieutenant KRUGER IS IN GOOD HEALTH Alarming Rumors Set at Rest by Statement of Physicians MENTONE France Contrary to the alarming rumors circulated in re gard to the health of Mr Kruger for mer president of the Transvaal Dr Huysmans his physician says that not for some years has the healt h of Mr Kruger been as good as at present PARIS The Mentone correspond ent of the Associated Press says he saw Mr Kruger taking his usual daily Avalk today and adds that he appeared in excellent health Senator Gamble Loses Brother YANKTON S D Hugh S Gamble brother of Senator Robert J Gamble died in this city Tuesday night of pneumonia and other complications following a seA ere attack of grip He is survived by a Avite two daughters Jennie and Edith and two sons J James and Hugh S jr The latter is at the Tome institute Maryland and is expected Friday with his uncle Senator Gamble Hugh S Gamble paign hospitals a large quantity of has resided here for twenty years linen and clothing for the Japanese i j I coming to this place trom ox laKe wounded i Wis Mol- - t I U S SENATOR CHARLES DICK He Is Formally Elected and Makes a Speech COLUMBUS O Wednesday after noon Lieutenant Governor Harding formally declared that General Chas Dick had been elected to the United States senate for the short and long terms in the place of tho late Sen ator Hanna at the joint session of tho legislature The vote stood Dick 174 and John H Clarke 25 General Dick AAas introduced by Mr Harding and said in btfef No man can fill as Senator Hanr did the place made vacant by his death but each and all of us can share the task and carry forward his unfin ished work Nor shall ve fully ap preciate our loss or the weight of his burden until Ave endeavor to take it up where he laid it down Recent elections state and nation al have registered the Avill of the people unmistakablv In view of this it becomes our duty to give to the ad ministrations of Governor Herrick and President Roosevelt that earnest and loyal support Avhich they merit and Avhich the people meant they should have and to uphold Senator Foraker in maintaining Ohios splendid pres tige to which he and Senator Hanna by their able service and command ing influence in the upper house of congress have contributed so signally and so much SMITH CONFESSES POLYGAMY Says that He Has Five Wives and I Eleven Children ASHINGTON Attorneys for the j protestants in the Smoot investigation said they intended to prove that the defendant is associated Avith a hierar 1 chy Avhich practices polygamy and conniAes at violations of the hnv and that his very vote as a senator of the United States is subject to the Avish t and command of tho Mormon church President Joseph F Smith confess ed that he himself had continued to cohabit with his plural family since the manifesto of 1S90 and that he le alized fully tnat he Avas violating state laAvs President Smith also tes 1 tified that Reed Smoot had to get the consent of his associate apostles in the church before he could become a candidate for senator The confession of President Smith Avas the sensation of the proceedings Thursday before the senate commit tee on privileges and elections Mr Smith said that the manifesto of 1890 had lei- him and others with plurai families in the unfortunate situation of being compelled to defy the laAv i or desert their families For himself he had preferred to take chances Avith the laAv rather than to disgrace himself and degrade his family by abandoning his AviAes and the j dren they had borne him FAIRBANKS FOR SECOND PLACE Will Mot Resist Movement Regarding vice Presidency WASHIMGTOX The Star says Senator Fail banks Avill not resist a movement n make mm the vice pres idential nominee of the republican party If the convention nominates him he Avill accept More than that he Avill not attempt to discourage ef forts looking to his nomination It is only fair to say that no ex plicit declaration by Senator Fair banks to that effect has been made The Indiana delegation in congress was convinced today that Senator Fairbanks had yielded to the solicita tion of men high ir the councils out side of Indiana to take second place on the national ticket Almost Avithout exception his clos est political friends have advised him in his own interests against ac cepting the vice presidency Influen tial republicans in the senate such as Spooner Allison and Piatt have urged him to take it on the ground that he Avould strengthen republican ticket especially in financial circles and that his first duty is to his party rather than to his own political fu ture TOY WITH PORT ARTHUR Japs Will Not Begin the Land Invest ments for a Fortnight WASHINGTON The landing in force of the Japanese on the Lia Tung peninsula and the beginning of the land imestment of Port Arthur Avili not be for a fortnight according to advices received here from Avhat are believed to be re liable sources It was expected that the attack upon the fortress Avould take place yesterday or today but these later advices Avith out explaining the delay show ihat there has been a change in the original plans Army officers heer think that the Japanese have decided that Avith the railroad connecting Port Arthur with the outside Avorld cut thus preventing supplies from reaching the place ia o weeks privation Avill render final as sault easier Moreover as Port Arthur can be safely lett as it is for the time Linr the Japanese troops may be cmpl c 1 instead in Northern Korea and the Yalue river Avhere they are ir ot needed Senate Passes Shipping Bill WASHINGTON The senate Tie day passed the bill requiring the use of American vessels in transporting gov ernment supplies and took up the 5 il prohibiting the use of other than American vessels in shipping mer chandise to the Philippines and re lieAing the interisland trade of the Philippines from the exactions of the coastAvise laAvs tf the United States The first mentioned requirement of the latter bill is already in force in effect but this measure exacts it in different form - 4 How3 This 6n6 Hundred Dollar KW7K Wo olt llail cured by bo cato or Catarrh U cannot Catarrh Cure CJ c0 Toledo O We too nndersiBucd tevo taon Vjj oy o or tbolait yeans and cllcvo him PCcctlr and iinaaciaujr orablo in all baatnoM transaction- Sue to carfy oSt any oMUmtlonr inrdo by hteflna AWwhoiolWwTlfio0 Halls Catarrh Cure tnlren lnteraonr S tbo blood and nucou wrfoceort directly lytenj upon Tcmlmontala font irec lrtco 3 ccata per bottle Sold by nil DruRrJiw Talco nalla Family 1llla for ooaatlpitiOa - Some infants migt cry less if their mothers wouldnt attempt to vocalize Faith is the hand wherewith wo tako everlasting life Latimer A woman who looks ahead of time Avonders if she will bo as are other old persons THE WALASH KAILROAD East and South Special rates on sale daily to all Winter resorts or tho South Half fare round trip plus 200 on first and third Tuesdays each month to many points South The only line Avith its own station at main entrance of Worlds Fair grounds The Wabash runs on its own rails from Omaha Kansas City Des Moines St Louis and Chicago to Toledo Detroit Niagara Falls and Buffalo Avith through connections be yond All agents can route you via tho Wabash For Worlds Fair descrip tive matter and all information ad dress Harry E Moores G A P D Omaha Nebr A fault which humbles a man is of more use to him than good action which puffs him up Avith pride Glittering generalities are as likely to hurt the devil as tissue paper bul lets To the housewife who has not yot become acquainted with tho new things of 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