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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1897)
ifi 1 1 Ki tS 1- 1 i i 3JsmMSSf3fjrmwxftmrmm tJIIIIIHHiMHaNMrMaMrta THE DAYS POMS SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS BY WIRE A MESSAGE ON CUBA PRESIDENT URGES RELIEF FOR AMERICANS ON THE ISLAND Message -Says Noarly 800 Are in Need and Recommends an Appro priation of 50000 Senate In dorses the Plan but It Is Side tracked in the House Presidents Mssage on Cuba The president sent a special Cuban mes sage to congresB Monday which deals with the destitution of the Americans on the Island He says To the senate and house of representa tives of the United States Official in formation from our consuls in Cuba estab lishes the fact that a large number of lAmerican citizens in the island are in a state of destitution and are suffering for food and medicines This applies partic ularly to the rural districts of the central and eastern parts The agricultural classes have been forced from their farms into the nearest towns where they are without work or money The local au thorities of the towns however kindly dis posed are unable to relieve the needs of their own people and are altogether power less to help our citizens The latest report of Consul General Lee estimtaes that there are 600 to 800 Americans without means of support I assured him that provisions will be made at once to re lieve them To that end 1 recommend that congress make an appropriation of not less than 50000 to be immediately available for use under the direction of the secretary of state It is desirable that part of the sum which may be appropriated by con gress should be in the discretion of the secretary of state to be used for the trans portation of American citizens -who de siring to return to the United States are without means to do so WlLLlASl MCKINLEY The senate committee on foreign rela tions decided in furtherance Qf the plan suggested in the presidents message of the terms of which it was informed in ad vance to report a resolution appropriating 50000 for the relief of American citizens in Cuba As soon as the message was read in the senate the committee reported the resolution and it was at once passed without division In the house Mr Hitt of Illinois asked immediate consideration of a bill appro priating 50000 for the relief of destitute Americans In Cuba but Mr Bailey of Texas said he must object unless an amendmuit embodying Senator Morgans resolution for recognition of the insurgents be added Mr Dingley objected to the amendment whereupon Bailey objected to the bill and the Cuban question was side-tracked ANOTHER NOTE FROM POWERS It Declares That Greece Shall Not Be Crushed Representatives of the powers in Con stantinople have drawn up a note which will be presented to the Turkish govern ment as soon as one of the ambassadors receives the necessary instructions from his government This note does not deal with peace conditions but merely repeats the request for an armistice and declares the powers will not permit Greece to be crushed The tone of the military officials in Con stantinople and elsewhere is most emphat ically against abandoning Thessaly They argue that if the European powers have been unable to make Greece evacuate Crete how will Europe be able to force Turkey out of Thessaly Dies in South America J D Speaker son-in-law of John H Starin of New York died at Managua Nicaragua as the result of malaria and heart affection James D Speaker was until a litte over a year ago accounted one of the most prosperous steamship and gen eral supply merchants in New York His tudden failure then came as a surprise to many of his friends even his family being llgnorant that his affairs were in disorder Shortly after the failure he separated from Jiis wife and left New York His ancestors founded the town of Speakers N Y Thinks the Revolt Is Over Official reports from Montevideo Uru guay announce that Gen Vi liars forces had an engagement with the insurgents commanded by the rebel leaders Lamas and Seraiva and defeated them with heavy loss The battle lasted eight hours The insurgents made a desperate resistance tout were at last compelled to retreat in dis order to the Brazilian frontier The gov ernment regards the victory as decisive sod believes the revolt has received its death blow Winding Up a St Iiouis Bank Receiver Stone of the defunct Mullanphy Savings Bank at St Louis reports that rapid progress is being made in winding up the affairs of the bank and that a final settlement will be reached much sooner Jthan expected He says he will be able to ipay out 175000 or 200000 within the next faw days if the court grants the order he has asked for Miss Willard Is 111 Frances E Willard is critically ill at the hwne of her friend Mme Demorest in New York Her malady is said to be acute And persistent gastric trouble combined with prostration from overwork Cigarette King Very 111 Haj Lewis Ginter the multi millionaire -cigarette manufacturer of Richmond Va and head of the American Tobacco Co is so ill that he resigned as a director of the corporation a few weeks ago Maj Ginter has gone to Old Point Comfort accom panied by a prominent physician of Rich lmnd His recovery is very doubtful Mrs Langtry Is Divorced Mrs Xangtry the actress has been granted a divorce in Lake County Calf where she has a legal home There was mo oontest to the alleged desertion TRIPLE TEXAS LYNCHING Ttoree Negroes Are Hanged by a Mob Near Rosebud Saturday night three negroes Dave Cot ton Henry Williams and Sabe Stewart were taken frSm the officers of the law and hanged near Rosebud Texas They had been confined in the jail at Rosebud several days on the charge of attempted rape upon a daughter of William Coates white Williams made a confession About 12 oclock a number of men heavily disguised rode up to the jail and demanded the prisoners The guards refused to de liver them and the crowd retired Immediately the officers and guards summoned a bus and took the prisoners leaving by a roundabout route for Martin hoping to reach Po3t Oaks in time to elude the mob When about three miles east of Rosebud they were overtaken by about a thousand masked men who overpowered them took the prisoners and hanged them to a tree TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERY Bandits Believed to Have Made a Haul of Nearly 10000 A Southern Pacific passenger train was held up by masked men and robbed about 250 miles west of San Antonio Texas Both the through and the local safes were opened and the contents secured The local contained about 2000 or 3000 The amount secured from the through safe is unknown but it is believed it will not fall far below 7000 or 8000 The express car was badly wrecked by the force of the ex plosion of dynamite used in forcing an en trance The top was blown off and the sides and floors badly shattered The mail was not molested by the robbers but it was greatly damaged by the force of the ex plosion Officers are in pursuit of the rob bers who went north A P A SCORES VEST Calls on the Senate to Impeach the Missourian The supreme council of the American Protective Association adopted resolutions indorsing the attitude of Senator Morgan of Alabama on the Cuban question and denouncing Senator Vest of Missouri for asserting the teacher3 in the Indian ser vice were broken down preachers and teachers to whom a Catholic priest was far superior and called on the senate to impeach Vest on the allegation that he is not truly American in his views FLORIDA CONTEST ENDS Stephen Mallory Is Elected Senator on the 25th Ballot Stephen Mallory was elected United States senator Friday on the twenty fifth ballot at Tallahassee Fla Stephen Kus sell Mallory was a member of the Fifty second and Fifty third congresses He lives in Pensacola where he was born in 1848 To Grant Wholesale Amnesty A newspaper correspondent at Madrid says The queen regent having intimated a desire to grant amnesty to Cuba on the kings 11th birthday the minister of war Gen Azcarraga consulted with Capt Gen Weyler who agreed that it would be feas ible except in the case of dynamiters Amnesty therefore will be extended to many suspects autonomists and separatists who have been expelled from Cuba or who are now confined in Spanish fortresses provided they belong in the provinces of Havana Matanzas Santa Clara or Pinar del Rio all of which are regarded as paci fied A Triple Trust Manufacturers of wire nails wire and rods are about to form a grand combina tion to control the market for all these products The originators of the scheme are the wire nail manufacturers Manu facturers of rods wire and nails met in New York a week ago and laid the foun dation for the organization The policy outlined will only include a moderate advance in the price of each product and not the extortionate prices under the re gime of the nail pool All the firms which were in the nail pool have signified their willingness to enter the new combination Twenty Eight Cents Is Left John V Ryan supreme inspector of the Provident Union Insurance Company that for the last six months has occupied pala tial offices in the big new Chemical Build ing St Louis has decamped and the su preme treasurer Mrs N MRobinson says all the cash in the strong box is 28 cents She is treasurer but has never handled any money Ryan did that She states that the company has made thou sands of dollars in premiums since its or ganization by Ryan last November but she nor any of the other officers nave got ten sight of it Militias Guns are Stolen Lieut Linck commanding a company of the Idaho National Guard stationed at Wardner received word from Mullen that the place where the guns and ammunition of the state militia at Mullen are kept was entered the other night by a band of masked men who stole 75 guns and 800 rounds of ammunition Lieut Linck wired Gov Steunberg for instructions Linck will try to recover the guns and ammunition It is feared by many that this may be a prelude to another fierce labor war in Coeur dAlene Gets Six Cents for Liibel The suit of Tyndall Palmer against George E Matthews Co proprietors and publishers of the Buffalo Express was tried and decided in part 1 of the supreme court of New York Palmer brought ac tion for 25000 damages for alleged libel The jury returned a verdict awarding 6 cents to the plaintiff Mile Bike Record Broken Con Baker of Columbus Ohio broke the worlds record for one mile on an indoor track at Atlanta Ga Saturday night cov ering the distance in 201 1 5 The previ ous record was 206 1 5 Goodyear the Minstrel Man Dead Charles Goodyear the well known min strel man living in Denver Colo is dead of heart disease A P TSdgerton of Indiana Dead Hon A P Edgerton ex civil service commissioner died Sunday night at Hicks ville Ind ANTI BEITISH UNION RUSSIA GERMANY AND FRANCE AGAINST ENGLAND These Powers to Force the Evacua tion of Egypt and Will Also Try to Put the Transvaal on an Inde pendent Basis Other News Items Scheming Against England The Associated Press correspondent in Berlin Germany has been informed that during the past week a defciite under standing was perfected by which the cab inets of Germany France and Russia will soon reach the solution of the Egypt and Transvaal questions and this will be done systematically in an anti British sense As soon as the Greco Turkish trouble is settled the subject will be jointly taken up unless Great Britain in the meanwhile precipitates matters in which case she will encounter the united open hostility of the three continental powers The ultimate object of the agree ment is to force the evacuation of Egypt and the nullification of the Pretoria convention of 1886 and to put the Transvaal upon a perfectly independent basis France in the settlement of the peace conditions with Greece will persistently side with Russia and Germany in spito of the strong cur rent of public opinion to the contrary AN ARIZONA TALE OF BLOOD Ahuvotc the Piuto Assassin Slain by Member of His Own Tribe A dispatcli from Kingman Ariz says Ahuvote the notorious Piute Indian who has in the last three days murdered not less than ten white men is dead lie met his fate at the hands of members of his own tribe who were compelled by miners in Eldorado cannon to trail the murderer to death the penalty for their failure to do do so being iixed at th j annihilation of every Piute the miners could reach The miners congregated in Eldorado canon and told the Piutes that if they did not bring or kill Ahuvote they would kill every Piute they could reach The In dians followed him down the river found where he made his last landing and trailed him ten miles up the canon into the moun tains where they crept up and bhot him as he was going over the range The board of supervisors of Mojave County Arizona offered a reward of 250 for Ahuvote and Mouse who murdered Davis and Sterns last February Over 100 white men and Indians joined in thfi chase for the murderer Telephone advices from White Hills fifty miles north state that fifteen armed Piute Indians came into town and made threats that if the whites molested them they would do more killing A deputy sheriff attempted to dis arm them but got only one gun FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED Passenger Train Goe3 Through a Trestle Near Ardmorc 1 T South bound Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train No 1 went through a trestle sixteen raile3 south of Ardmore 1 T Sunday and tumbled down a twenty foot embankment Fifteen pas sengers and members of the crew were in jured some of them fatally No one was killed outright The train consisted of six passenger coaches and one Pullman Ail save the engine and the sleeper went through the trestle which had been washed out by high water Many of the passengers had to chop their way out of the coaches WILL GET A NEW TRIAL Dr Goodmanson to Ilavc Another Hearing in July Judge Evans of Ponca has Granted Dr Goodm mson a new trial to take place at a special session in July One of the mo tions which the judge took two days to consider was the objection to the form of the verdict and the judge said that although the weight of the evidence was against the defendant he would grant the prayer of his counsel Secreted the Salary Bill Secretary of the Montana senate John Bloor was convicted at Helena Saturday of having secreted the salary bill to pre vent its passage and the punishment was fixed at one years imprisonment The bill in question had passed both houses the last day but was never signed by the speaker of the house It would have cut down the salaries of the county officers and the number and salaries of the deputies S3 per cent Blow at Tobacco Trust Judge Gibbons of Chicago rendered a decision Saturday declaring the American Tobacco Company an illlegal corporation and prohibiting its agents carrying on its business within Illinois This sustains the action of Attorney General Moloney on the ground that the company was a monopoly and an illegal trust Illinois Embezzler Suicides John E Doehring ex city treasurer of Bellville 111 suicided by hanging Satur day His accounts as treasurer are correct but he had overdrawn his salary 590 which he had to make good this week Being unable to do so he suicided It is probable other business embarrassments are partially responsible OConnells Anniversary Celebrated The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Daniel OConnell was observed in Rome Saturday by a requiem mass at the Irish College Bishop Keane formerly rector of the Catholic University at Washington and now bishop assistant to the pontifical throne delivered an oration Kellihan to Die August SO The date for the execution of Lew Kelli han the Sherburne Minn bank robber and murderer is set for August 20 There is no probability of intervention by the board of pardons or the supreme court Australia Is Shaken A Melbourne dispatch of May 14 says Over ninety earthquake shocks have been felt in South Australia in the last three days Kingston has suffered most Many buildings were damaged and the people areiiviug in tents TRAGEDY AT VERMILLIO i I Cny Darrow Killed by Marion Warns ley and His Wife VcrmiPon was the scene of a shocking tragedy Friday night Marion Wamsley and wife killing Guy Darrow known also as John Moore The story of the Wams leys is that the trouble grew out of an in sult offered by Darrow to Mrs Wamsley during the day Darrow had threatened to kill the woman if she told her husband This she did Darrow who was boarding at WnuislejPshome came thereat 8 oclock and was met by Wamsley at the door who asked him why he had threatened to shoot his wife Darrow replied addressing Mrs Wams ley You told did you Ill fix you and immediately pulled a revolver Wams ley had a knife in his hand The two men clinched Wamsley grabbed Darrows hand and two shots which were fired did not take effect The men were scuffling about the room when Mrs Wamsley seized a stick of stove wood and struck Darrow about the head until he fell He rose to his feet and Wamsley took the stick and felled him to the flooragain and pounded him for some minutes Darrowd body presented a terribly ghastly appearance The coroners jury rendered a verdict that Darrows death resulted from wounds inflicted by the Watnsleys in self defense GLOCE BANKERS INDICTED Dreyer Berger and Moll Hold on a Dozen Different Counts The special grand jury which has been investigating the bank failure of E S Dreyer Co and the National Bank of Illinois made a final report in Chicago Saturday evening Indictments were re turned as follows E S Dreyer obtaining money under false pretenses five counts holding funds from successor one count receiving deposits after insolvency seven counts conspiracy one count larceny one count total fifteen counts Robert1 Berger son-in-law and partner of Dreyer obtaining money under false pretenses five counts conspiracy etc one count re ceiving deposits after insolvency seven counts Carl Moll cashier National Bank of Illinois larceny one count Dreyers bonds foot to a total of 32000 Bergers and Molls bonds are fixed at 10000 each Court Decision Affecting Trademark An important decision concerning rights in trademarks and names of preparations has been rendered by the Philadelphia court of common pleas restraining George A Hires a name ake of Charles E Hires from manufacturing and selling a prepara tion under the name of Hires Koober In their decision the judges said It is estab lished that an article of commerce known as lIIires Rootbeer by a long and costly method of advertisement has attained a trademark and value pecuiir to itself The sales have reached an extraordinary yearly volume The respondent Hires a kinsman of the plaintiff is about to manu facture and place on the market for sale a root beer which in all the externals of physical preparation might be termed a complete reproduction of the plaintiffs preparation and device The testimony in the case we think makes it indubitably clear that the respondents purpose was to fabricate sin article of trade which resem bled the plaintiffs article and thereby de ceive and mislead purchasers We find therefore that the allegations of the plain tiffs bill are established and that the tem porary injunction prayed for should bo awarded Spicer Family Murderers The preliminary hearing of the five Sioux Indians who murdered the Spicer family at Winona N D in February last has been completed at Williamsport Emmons County Holy Track one of the accused took the witness stand and told the terrible story of the crime implicating Black Hawk and Candotte two half breeds and Standing Bear Defender and himself full blooded Sioux The officials are satisfied now that they have the story of the mur der as it happened Basso Cowles Sued for Divorce Eugene Cowles the basso of the Boston ian Opera Company is now on the rack answering a suit in the supreme court of New York brought by his wife for incom patibility of temper Mr and Mrs Cowles have been married fourteen years and have one child a son who lives with his mother m Harlem BXASKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 5350 to 550 hogs shipping grades 300 to 400 sheep fair to choice 200 to 500 wheat No 2 red 74c to 76c corn No 2 25c to 26c oats No 2 18c to 19c rye No 2 34c to 36c butter choice creamery 14c to 15c eggs fresh 8c to 9c potatoes per bushel 20c to 30c broom corn common growth to choice green hurl 35 to 70 per ton Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 525 hogs choice light 300 to 400 sheep common to choice 300 to 450 wheat No 2 8Sc to 90c corn No 2 white 27c to 2Sc oats No 2 white 21c to 23c St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 300 to 475 wheat No 2 94c to 96c corn No 2 yellow 22c to 23c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c rye No 2 33c to 35c Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 250 to 475 Wheat No 2 91c to 93c corn No 2 mixed 26c to 27c oats No 2 mixed 21c to 23c rye No 2 35c to 37c Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 475 wheat No 2 red S9c to 90c corn No 2 yellow 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 23c to 24c rye 36e to 37c Toledo Wheat No 2 red 91c to 92c corn No 2 mixed 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 19c to 20c rye No 2 30c to SSc clover seed 430 to 435 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 77c to 7Sc corn No 3 23c to 25c oats No 2 white 21c to 23c barley No 2 30c to 33c rye No 1 37c to 38c pork mess S25 to 875 Buffalo Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 425sheep 300 to 475 wheat No 2 red 88c to 90c corn No 2 yellow 30c to 31c oats No 2 white 25c to 27c New YorkMSattle 300 to 525 hogs 350 to 450 sheep 300 to 475 wheat No 2 red 82c to 83c corn No 2 30c to 31c oats No 2 white 23c to 24c butter creamery 12c to 16c eggs west i en 10c tc lie STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Various Charges Have Been Filed with the State Board of Public Lands Against the Superintendent of the Institute for Feeble Blinded To Remove Dr Fall The state board of public lands and buildings on May 11 made public formal charges preferre 1 against Dr C P Fall superintendent of the Beatrice feeble minded institute ne is charged with in competency resisting superiors and finally neglect of duty in that two violent deaths occurred at the initltute which fact it was sought to hide from the state board The board has endeavored for two weeks to re move Dr Fall but lie has resisted by in junction and otherwise He is cited to ap pear before the hoard for trial when it is claimed sensa ional disclosures will be made He was appointed by the present state administration Nebraska Crop Outlook The Nebraska weekly weather and crop bulletin says The temperature has been above the normal continuously during the past week averaging a daily excess of four degrees The rainfall has been below the normal except in small areas in the eastern section The past week has been very favorable for the advancement of farm work and the growth of all vegetation Plowing for corn has been pushed and con siderable corn has been planted The con tinued rains this spring have delayed the corn planting until now the work is about a week behind the normal advancement at this time of year The result is that an un usually large acreage is being listed The early planted corn is coming up in the southern counties Rye is beginning to head and wheat to joint in the southern counties Finds Stolen Property At Grand Island recently a search war rant was placed in the hands of Sheriff Dean and with the assistance of ex Police Officer Joseph fcmith he searched the premises of the old Grand Island Hotel and under a stairway found a heavy cheat Under the chest was a trap door and this led to a small hole in the ground which was well filled with silks and worsted dress goods also gloves handkerchiefs neckties velvet goods and three pairs of trousers Some of the goods were marked T S and N Y The value of lhe lot is about 200 The man ager of the house Johns Reynolds was arrested and placed in jail Girls and Boys Who Graduate Superintendent TV J Williams of the city schools of Columbus and his staff of assistants are busy arranging the program for the commencement exercises which will be held at the opera house June 4 The graduating class this year is much larger than usual and is composed of five boys and seven girls as follows Benjamin Davis Annie M Dodds Lois Early Metta M Hensley David T Martyn Carrie D Parks Fred Rollin Jennie Saffron August Wagner George SWilson Jennie Wilson Winnie 31 Young Give the Pastor a Bicycle The first Congregational Church of York on the 12th inst celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary Brief historical sketches of the church the Sunday school and of the various auxiliary societies of the church were read When organized in 1872 there were but six members Today the church has nearly six hundred on its rolls and is in a healthy condition The pastor on this occasion was presented with a high grade bicycle Old Man Shot and is Dying Gideon Summers was shot and seriously injured at Oil the other night The ball entered the back of his neck and came out of his mouth tearing his tongue and knocking out one of his front teeth The shooting was done by Walter McPher son a bad man from Boyd County After the shooting he skipped out for the sand hills The sheriff and posse started in pursuit but so far do trace of him has been found Mayor and Marshal in Jail 3Iayor Darrah Marshal Colby and Street Commissioner Hanns of Auburn are in the county jail at Lincoln where they were placed for violation of a court order in that they refused to give bond to appear at the next term of the district court in a peace warrant case tried at Auburn The trouble grows out of a suit in ejectment in which the city of Auburn is plaintiff The Imprisoned officials are charged with ignor ing a restraining order Plant Plenty of Potatoes y Notwithstanding the very low price of potatoes last year the acreage being planted at North Loup again this season will be very large the argument in favor of so doing generally being that seldom if ever do two yca s of minimum come con secutively Excellent seed of the best standard varieties from last years crop is stored in the neighborhood and is abund ant as well as cheap Tate Is Exonerated The Nebraska grand Iol je of the A O U W has exonerated Supreme 31 aster Workman Tate from the charges of mis feasance in office preferred by his local lodge The case was on trial at Omaha for two days Saloon in New Hands The new tovn board of Ashland has granted a license to Ed Swanson to sell liquors for the ensuing year During the past year John S Noll ran the saloon as agent for Omaha liquor men Bad Fire at Stellar A fire broke out at Stella the other night which consumed seven stores about half of the business part of the town The loss will amount to 25000 Boy Breaks an Arm The youngest son of J TV Warren of Red Cloud fell from a tree the other day and broke his right arm just above the wrist 9 May Call an Extra Session The rumor that the United States supreme court had rendered a decision in the maximum rate case affirming the judg ment of the circuit court has caused a re port that the governor would call an extra session of the legislature at an early date to pass a new freight rate law Saloon Pays for a Marshal Since the inauguration of the new village board at Nelson a billiard hall and saloon have been licensed there The license fee provides the funds for a city marshal and A J 3rcClU3key has been appointed to the position T Am- Falls Down an Elevator Shaft A sad accident occurred at Grand Lilandj the Tast week in the Wholesale house of j Minton Woodward Co when an em ploye Prank Dunlap fell down vator shaft and met with instantaneous death Dunlap was evidently going up toi the third story of the building and it being dark made a miscalculation as to reaching the third floor landing It appears that he- grabbed the sliding door after sending down the elevator that he wrenched it from the grooves and that he and the door both fell down the shaft striking the ele vator when it had probably descended half way to the basement His neck was bro ken Foundry for a New Hog Fence Charles Tully of Grand Island has se cured the Hooper foundry and will in a short time begin the manufacture of a patent hog wire fence He has secured the territory of Nebraska and South Da kota from the patentees of the fence and will put in the necessary machinery at once having already sent for it Little Boy Is Accidentally Shot A sad shooting accident happened at 3Iinden this week The two little sons of J II Jensen aged about 4 and 8 years were playing with a pistol when it ex ploded shooting the younger child in the head He lived about half an hour after the accident Sing for the Church Debt A concert was given at Hastings by the Presbyterian Sunday School orchestra for the purpose of raising funds to apply on the church debt and proved a success as the large church was crowded The pro gram was rendered under the direction of Prof Rees Started to Walk to Germany Kari Kobs a German is unduly anxious to go to the old country and the other night he started out to go afoot After chasing him twenty miles the neighbors overtook him and brought him back Kobs lives near Thayer and has a family Nebraska Short Notes The general merchandise store of Bryne Bros at Blanden was entered by thieves Monday night and looted of clothing dry goods shoes and other goods Henry Hegerdorn of Portal recently dug out a wolf den and secured nine youngi wolves The April collections of the treasurer o Furnas County were the largest of any one month in several years John May who lived near Stanton fell from his wagon and the wheels passed over his neck killing him instantly Robert Klotz a 12-year-old Saunders County boy living near Ashland fell from a cornstalk cutter and one of the blades took off his heel Sarpy County fruit growers are of the opinion that should no further misfortune befall the fruit apples will not be more than half a crop this year A tramp made a peremptory demand on aGresham woman for something to eat and the plucky female picked up a shotgun and made hifctrampship fly The question of county division is aain agitating the people of Custer County Catherine 3rcPheely of 3Iinden stepped on a rake tooth and it ran clear through her foot What is supposed to be the tooth of a mastadon was unearthed at a stone quarry near Louisville last week The molar is of enormous size and was imbedded in solid rock five feet below the surface 3Iatt Besch a Bellwood fanner lost eight hogs stolen on as many different nights He watched his hog yard one night armed with a shotgun The thieves came but his aim was bad andheduJno better than frighten them away L V Mayor Moores Wins Judges Powell Dickinson and ICeyser of the Douglas County district court sitting en banc on Monday heard the argu ments in the mayoralty contest Ex -Mayor Broatch had secured a restraining order to prevent 3Iayor 3Ioores from assuming his office and Moores had asked for man damus to compel Broatch to vacate Both caseswere argued together The judges announced their decision late in the after noon dissolving the restraining order and issuing the writ of mandamus asked for Mayor Moores at once entered on tho duties of his office Will Import Cattle from Pern L L Tully of Cedar Rapids has gone to San Diego Cal enroute to Lima Peru Mr Tully goes to South America in the interest of a South Omaha commission firm with a view to importing a lot of South American cattle to the United States He does not expect to return before Au gust If the enterprise proves successful it is thought that other stockmen will fol low suit Hurls Blazing Oil Tank Into Street - When 3L S E Hill of Arcadia lighted the gasoline stove to prepare supper a few evenings since the stove and tank which feeds it became enveloped in flames Mr Hill was present and with remarkable presence of mind wrenched the tank from its supports and threw it into the street He then threw out the stove Mr Hills hands were slightly burned but the house was saved Subscribers Get Off Easily The subscribers who stood out on the settlement of their shares subscribed for the Valley creamery on account of the contractors not doing as they agreed have received word that their offer of 1000 for sixteen shares had been accepted thus saving them 40 on a share This does not please the subscribers who have already settled at the contract price 100 each Brick Yards Start Up at Nelson The brick yards at Nelson after an en forced idleness of three years will be operated to their full capacity this season When the financial crash came the kilns were filled with brick ready to be burned Fires have now been started and as soon as the kilns are burned a full force of men will be put to work This means the em ployment of about twenty men Colored Soldier Murdered Andy Tonnage a colored trooper from Port Robinson was found dead in the house of 3Irs Fuller a questionable resort at Crawford with two bullet holes in his head Robert Walker another colored trooper and the Fuller woman have been arrested charged with the crime A cor oners jury returned a verdict declaring them guilty The supposed motive was robbery Attorneys Fined for Fighting Attorney E E Carr and County K Jk ney J 31 Day of Aurora had a dispute 5S 3 over a case in court They met in the street and had a quarrel which ended in a fight They were arrested and Day pleaded guilty and was fined 3 and costs Carr stood trial and Police Judge Walsh fined him 5 and costs He gave notice of appeal m -- m i ffl fu i i i ft i m 0 ST h 1 f i U