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WORLD'S DAILY HEWS
CAREFULLY COLLECTED
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OIL TJtlJST BARRED
MISSOriU SC I'I'.KMK COlllT ItKX
ei:h swkkpinu onxiox.
Watcrs-Plerco Co. May Continue In
Business If ly Januury 15 It Una
Taken Stcps.to Operate as an In
dependent ami Paid $50,000 Fine.
Declaring that the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, the Republic Oil
Company of Ohio and the Waters
Pierce OH Company of Missouri, had
conspired and combined to monopolize
the oil business In that state, the su
preme court of Missouri Wednesday
Issued a decree ousting all three from
the commonwealth and lining them
$0,000 each.
The decree against the Waters
riorce company Is tempered by the
proviso that It may continue In busi
ness If by January 15, 1909, it can
show to the court that It has taken
teps to operate as an Independent
concern and has satisfied the Judgment
against It. The other companies are
given until March 1, 1909, to wind up
their affairs In the state.
The Republic Oil company, accord
ing to a statement filed with the secre
tary of state last June, has ceased to
do business In Missouri, having sold
Its interests March 1, 1907.
The decision, which was unanimous
on the part of the seven judges, is so
sweeping that Attorney General Had
ley and Gov. Folk hall It as the end
of the Illegal commercial combina
tions In Missouri, and the former as
serts that, in conjunction with the de
cision of the supreme court of the
United States in the tobacco trust case.
It will affect similar suits In other
states.
Attorney General Hadley, -who has
prosecuted the Missouri case since Its
inception In March, 1905, will become
governor in less than a month, and
then will be charged with the enforce
ment of the decree issued Wednesday.
The attorney general followed up tile
promulgation by the court with ' a
statement in which he asserted that
attempts hud been made to compro
mise the suit. .
MANY IIVKT IN A HIOT.
Factions In Cliurcli Have a Serious
Clush Xenr Pittsburg.
Waring fractions of a Catholic con
gregation In Homestead, a suburb of
Pittsburg, Tuesday night engaged In
a riot In which four persons were ser
iously hurt and several hundred Slavs
were slightly Injured. Twenty-five of
the participants have been arrested
and are in jail and warrants are being
prepared for many other participants
In the melee. After the Homestead
riot had been queUed the rioters went
to Municipal hall, where they destroy
ed the Interior of St. Michael's Slav
onic parochial school, home of the new
priest. Rev. M. C. Flagensky, whose
life they vainly sought. The trouble
was over the removal of furniture
from St. Michael's Slavonic Roman
Catholic church to the parochial school
at Municipal hall, a nearby borough,
by a new pastor.
IiABOR CHIKFS FOUND GUILTY.
(idinpent, Mlu-lioll and Morrison Are
Sentenced.
The famous contempt cases of the
Buck Stove and . Range company
against President Gompers, Vice Pres
ident Mitchell and Secretary Morrison,
of the American Federation of Labor,
was decided Wednesday by Justice
Wright, of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, adversely to the
federation officials. Gompers was
.sentenced to twelve months' Imprison
ment, Mitchell to nine months and
Morrison to six months. The case
grew out of the alleged boycott of the
company's products and the putting
of that company on the unfair list, and
the federation's alleged violation of
Judge Gould's recent mandamus, and
lias attracted wide attention.
Consumption Death Kate High.
According to a bulletin by the state
board of health, of the 31,443 deaths
in Illinois during the first half of the
present year, 3,788 were from tuber
culosis. From only one other cause
were there more deaths, 4,117 from
pneumonia. Therateofdeathisll.lt
per cent of each 1,000 of population
"Bathhouse" Not Guilty.
' Alderman "Bathhouse John" Cough
Jin, accused of assaulting Lyman At
well, a newspaper photographer the
night of the First ward democratic
ball, was found not guilty Wednesday
at Chicago by a jury.
Sioux City live Stuck Market.
Wednesday's quotation on the
Sioux City live stock market follow:
Top beeves, MS. Top hogs, SS.S5.
Baby I11 Five Ktorle.
After falling Ave stories down an
levator shaft and alighting on a ce
ment floor, the 2-year-old baby of Cash
Mtchum, a railroad agent, of St. Jo
seph, Wednesday, escaped with noth.
ling more than a few scratches.
Five Injured In Wreck.
A local passenger train on the Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois railway ool
' llded with a freight train at Chaffe.
jMo., Wednesday night. Five person
ware Injured.
GOMKZ NOW Kl'IiKU.
I'stnhlllixc a New Government In
Venezuela.
Vice President J. Vicente Gomes, t(
whom Gen. G. Cipdlano Castro handed
over the presidency on his departure
tor Europe, hns established ' n new
government In Venezuela. He has re
placed the old ministry with a new
body of men who represent various
factions In the ntnte, and who have
llgured prominently In various wnys
In the country's political history. Not
only has Jose da Jesus ruul been dis
placed from the counsels of the na
tion, but Dr. I'.aldo, who Is now trav
eling In Castro's suite, also has been
remvoert from his official position as
minister of education. Gen. Diego
Ferren, the minister of war, has been
superseded by Gen. Hcdulo Ollvares.
who took a prominent part In crushing
the revolutionists six years ago.
Secret advices from Curacns, where
the strictest conscript Is being ob
served, Indicate thut the whole of
Venexueltt has been In a ferment evet
slnco President Castro'salled. and that
the crisis was reached a few days ago
when It became neeespary for Acting
President Gome to take decisive
steps.
The revolutionary factions played a
prominent part In the demonstrations
against the absent president. These
were temporarily checked by a show
of force, and later the revolutionary
influence that threatened to sweep the
.country was overcome In a measure
by promises that could not be held
long in abeyance.
Aquiles Strube has been appointed
governor of Cnraens by Acting Presl
dent Gomez.
AID FOB TIIK INAUGURATION.
About $fl.t.OOO Already Subscribed for
the Commute.
The Washington. D. C, newspapers
from day to day are printing the
names of the patriotic contributors to
the Inauguration fund. Monday they
reported $63,000 pledged. By March
4 they hope the fund will exceed $100,
600. which will permit the city to
break all records for Inauguration
gorgeousness.
Incidentally It may be added that
all the gifts are not pure charity. It
Is believed that a modicum of the
bread now cast upon the waters will
return in the revenues of the firs)
week in March.
DOCTOR PLAYS MARTYR.
Former "Sioux ' CHynn Inoculate
Himself.
Dr. Harlan Shoemaker, of the Meth
odist hospital at Philadelphia, has in
oculated himself, an assistant physic
ian and two women nurses with anti
typhoid serum as an experiment, the
first of the kind to be made in this
country.
Dr. Shoemaker has Just announced
that the reactions In all four cases
were satisfactory, the fever and pain
lasting four days. The city author
ities have great hopes of warding off
by general vaccination, as Is done if
case of yellow fever.
Beat Ills Wire to Death.
Chas. Holmes, a railway clerk, was
arrested Monday at Chicago charged
with beating his wife to death. A
young son of the couple says Holmes
told his wife not to answer a telephone
call. When she Insisted on doing so
his father beat her with his fists. She
fell against a window sill, fractured
her skull and died.
Mothers Awful Crime.
The American wife of George Ah
Wong, a Chinese restauranter, said to
be the daughter of reputable Chicago
parents, early Monday at Piano, III.,
gave her fous children wood alcohol
and stabbed one little girl to death.
After drinking some of the poison the
woman threw herself under a train.
Thaw Not to Get Outing.
Harry K. Thaw, now confined In the
Mate hospital for the criminal Insane
at Matteawan, X. Y.. cannot bo taken
to Pittsburg to testify In the bank
ruptcy proceedings, according to a de
cision handed down by the United
States court of appeals. . .
Root Signs Another Treaty.
Secretary Root Monday signed a
treaty with Minister Mejia, of Salva
dor', providing for the arbitration of
disputed questions which may arise
with that country. It follows the line
of similar conventions negotiated with
various countries.
Jury Unable to Agree.
The Jury In the case bf the state
against James II. Parrish, of Owens
bo ro, Ky., a banker, charged with re
ceiving depobltu when his bank, the
Owensboro Savings Bank and Trust
company, was Insolvent, Monday dl
agreed and was discharged.
Big Cirri atmas Mall.
More than 1,000,000 letters and par
cels, aggregating In weight 250 tons,
passed through the Chicago postofflce
Monday.
Works of Art Are Costly.
Mrs. Emily Crane Charbourna Mon
lay at Chicago, obtained possession of
the art treasures selxed last summer
by the government by paying Into
court $81,411. In addition to tha $70,
40 previously paid by her for duties
and penalties on the property. The
goods, which were originally the prop
arty of Mrs. "Jack" Gardner, of Bos
ton, were Imported by Mrs. Chad
bourne as household goods under a
valuation of $1,000,
FIUK RUINS TIIKATF.R.
Herald Square Building Is Damaged by
Flumes.
Fire broke out in tho Herald Square
theater at Thirty-fifth street and
Rroadwny, Now York, Tuesday night,
ten minutes before the close of the
performance of "The Three Twins,"
and before It was brought under con
trol had done considerable damage to
the building and had driven the actors
and chorus Into the streets In their
scant costumes and had caused con
siderable commotion among the
crowds on llroadwuy. There was no
panic, and no one was Injured, the
audience remaining In Ignorance of the
fire until most of them had passed Into
the streets. The tire caught from an
electric sign on the front of the thea
ter building and spread to the execu
tive offices, which are opposite the
second gallery of the auditorium.
It was just ten minutes before the
time of the performance to end when
two women came down from the sec
ond gallery and reported to the theatet
attaches that there was smoke In the
upper part of the building. Treasur
er Lyon quickly went behind the cur
tain and explained the situation to the
actors and told them to cut the play
short. This was done and the curtain
was lowered without nny announce
ment to the audience. The big crowd
shuffled slowly out, not knowing that
a fire was being fought In the uppei
gallery. Most of them soon reached
the streets, but some remained be
hind, waiting for their wraps to be tak
en from the coat rooms. As'the flame
began to gain headway the alarm
spread among the actors and chorus,
and many of the young women left
the building by the stage entrance and
went out Into the storm without giv
ing thought to thelrscant and uncon
ventional attire. With the temperature
hovering around the 20s and a fierce
wind driving the falling snow Into
their faces the chorus girls beat a
hasty retreat for cover at the Marl
borough hotel, where they were made
comfortable.
An alarm quickly brought the Are
departments) and water was turned
upon the flames. About $60,000 dam
age had been done to the front part
of the theater building and to the gal
lery of the auditorium. A saloon and
cigar store next door were practically
destroyed.
BIG SCANDALL IX PITTSBURG.
drafting in High Places Has Been Un
covered. Following the sensational arrests at
Pittsburg, Pa., Monday night of seven
councllmen and two bunkers on
charges of alleged corruption In con
ducting the public affairs of that city,
It was Intimated Tuesday that even
more startling developments will
transpire at an early date. Meantime
the people of Pittsburg are surprised
almost beyond description at the sud
denness of the arrest of the nine men,
who are all well known. According
to the best information obtainable It
Is possible the municipal scandal of
San Francisco will be insignificant
when compared to the alleged graft
ing here.
The arrests made were at the In
stance of the Voters' league, a civic
reform organization.
Alleged facts In establishing deposi
tories for the funds of the city were
enumerated In the complaints, and it
Is said a number of persons occupying
official positions In local banks wlU
shortly be arrested.
RICCI IS ELECTROCUTED.
So Attempt Was Mnde to Resuscitate
the Body by Dr. Scuiintil.
Glaclnto RIccI was electrocuted at
the New Jersey state prison Tuesday.
The electrocution took place a few
minutes before' 11 o'clock. The much
'talked of test to resuscitate the elec
trocuted man was not attemptod.
County Physician Scannell, who had
threatened to make the test, was not
present and made no demand for the
body. Dr. Scannell evidently aban
doned the proposed test when Head
Keeper Osborne of the state prison
was advised by the uttorney general
that the county physician had no
lights or duties In the premises. RIccI
was convtctod of assault and murder
of a 1-year-old girl.
Stork Is to Visit Qiioon.
It was officially announced Tues
day in the chamber of deputies that
Queen Wllhelmlna, of Hollund, was in
an Interesting condition. The state
ment was greeted with joyful "bravos"
from practically the entire house. The
event Is expected early in the spring.
Several times the hopes of the people
that Wllhelmlna would give birth to
an heir have been dashed to pieces.
Dr. Tart Is Missing.
Dr. Frederick D. Taft, third cousin
of President-elect Taft, Is reported
missing from his home In Berkeley,
Cal., with his cousin, Walter J. Wat
son. The two men went to Bouldin
island to hunt ducks Wednesday night
with the Intention of returning Sun.
day night.
Earth Shakes In Montana.
Six earthquake shocks within the
course of twenty-four hours threw the
people of Virginia City, Mont., into a
panto Tuesday, causing them to rush
irth Into the street.
Panama Canal Opening.
Tha Panama canal will be opened
January 1, 1(15, according to the an
official communication received Mon
day by the California promotion com
mittee from Joseph Buckllne Bishop,
secretary of tha canal commission.
Elbert Ilubburd Injured.
Elbert Hubbard, author and lectur
er, was seriously Injured y being hit
by a falling tree in the woods near
his colony at East Aurora.
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Merchan": out In some of the small
towns of tr ttate are patronizing a
traveling nCvciiisinjr man. Instead of
their local newspapers, and conse
quently are liable to get Innocent par
ties Into trouble. Tlie scheme being
worked Is tp print on afcnrd the panic
laws for 190U-09 and ell advertising
space on 'he cards to the merchants.
Copies of the card have been received
by Game Vurdi-. Carter, who de
nounced the jn who la doing the
business as a tnlghty bad man. Here
is w t Mr. Carter said:
There are no game laws for 190X
0. The legislature which Is shortly
to meet may change all of the game
laws on the statute books. The circu
lation' of these cards might get Inno
cent parties Into trouble because they
might think they are really the game
laws of the state. The man who got
up tho advertising scheme did not even
use the present game laws. I have
written to several parties who have
sent me cards and told they are all
wrong Insofar as they relate to the
tame laws." Mr. Carter received
some of the cards from Falrbury and
they contained advertising matter
from merchants of that town.
LINCOLN'S CITY CHARTER.
Mayor Think Commission Should
Have Pay.
Mayor Brown, of Lincoln, who has
Just recently returned home from an
absence of several weeks at Excelsior
Springs, where he went to rest up af
ter election, has begun to look Into the
matter of the city government by com
mission. Mayor Brown Is opposed to
the Idea of having a commission to
serve without pay. He believes such
a commission .will not attend to the
duties of the city government and
business men should not bo asked to
give their tfme to the city for nothing.
While the making of the charter
has gone on in the absence of the
mayor and with little advice or sug
gestion from him, the people here now
realize that It Is time his honor was
being consulted Therefore a number
of leading citizens have dropped Into
his office during the last few days to
get his advice.
BURGLARS ARE TAKEN.
Two Men Accused o Stealing Ostrich
Plumes to Be Tried In Lincoln.
Detective James Malone. of Lincoln,
arrived In Sioux City. In., from les
Molncs with requisition papers for
Mauve and C. W. Silvers. These men
were arrested about a week' ago by
Sioux City detectives and In their
room were found several ostrich
plumes and furs. A. H. Whiteworth,
manager for Miller & Paine, at Lin
coln, and Mrs. Compton, one of the
head clerks, arrived In Sioux City Sun
day and Identified two sable muffs and
most of the plumes as property which
had been stolen from tho store about
four weeks ago. Omaha police believe
that these men are guilty of burglaries
In that city.
HIT BY THE MILI.EBS.
Attack Secretary Wilson's Blenched
Flour Order.
The South Plntte division of tho Ne
braska Millers' association In an ani
mated meeting at Lincoln Tuesday af
ternoon discussed plans for appealing
to the federal court for relief from Se
rctary Wilson's order against bleached
flour. The millers asserted the ukase
would cause the Nebraska millers
heavy loss and would ruin the Industry
in the state. They accused Wilson of
gratifying a private grudge. It was
tacitly agreed to seek relief In the
courts. The millers also framed an
emphatic protest against the Increase
In freight rates asked for the Nebras
ka railroads.
Old Settler Is Culled.
Samuel Wymore. founder of the
town of Wymore, died Monday morn
ing at his home near that pluce from
a stroke of paralysis which he suffered
Saturday. Mr. Wymore had resided
in Gage county for forty-five years
and at one time owned the land on
which Blue Springs and Wymoie arc
situated. He was 73 years of age.
Good Showing by Bunk.
The First National bank of Shelby
will erect a two-story brick building
in the spring. This bunk has been in
business twenty-three years, did not
borrow or discount any of Its note.
during the three years of hard times
from crop failure, anil was on n full
ensh puyment basis during the recent
bank panic.
Convict Returns lo Prinoit.
Ci4Jj u-t Itussell, who has been out
on parole for some months, turned tip
at the penitential y at Lincoln brlKht
and smiling and asked to be taken
back. He wanted to get in on that
Christmas dinner. lie bus been pa
roled to a mun out In Frontier county,
but the cold wiuther drove liim hrtrk
home.
No Pardon for Clement.
Lieut. Gov. Hopewell ha decided
that Fred W. Clements, of Surpy coun
ty should serve out tho remained rot
a sixteen-year term for murder, lie
was convicted of killing Luke Golden
In the outskirts of South Omaba about
two years ago.
Robber Promptly Captured.
Tha storo of J. I. Hopper at Gibbon,
was robbed of money and goods. The
robber was caught at Mtndcn by Wal
ter fcammon. of Kearney. - He ac
knowledged the theft and told where
he had hidden the goods.
Vote Bond for School.
A school bond election was held Sat
urday afternoon at Shelby to Issue
$8,000 for a new school building Four
thousand dollars has been accumulat
ed In four years by taxation, which
will be added to this fund.
KIXG CORN ABSOLUTE.
National ExiM?sltl n Comes to Close In
Positive Triumph.
These nre ihe flsiirefl which show
that the first Nutlnnul Corn exposition
held In Omaha, which closeu at 11
o'clock Saturday evening. Is an un
questioned success when held at the
logical point, nntl mr.ko Omaha, the
"homo of the corn show," an Interna
tlonal nttraetlon:
Attendance, 10 5.661.
ilvul'i and grnsn exhibits, 7,73 .
I'arm Implement ixhlblts,-1,028.
Ears of corn Fold at auction, 43.000.
Amount distributed in premiums,
$54,000. ' ..
Special premiums and medals, 4,400.
Agricultural colleges represented,
14.
Regular attendance domestic sci
ence lectures, 221.
Foreign countries which had visit
ing delegations: Mexico, Canada. Hun
gary. England, China. Cuba, Philip
pine islands and Germany,
i Knowledge of plant life which has
been burled In the libraries; stem
facts known on'y to science; lessons of
the students and scholars of ages have
been taken down from the musty
nooks, planted In the soil as It were of
future generations.
Silent nature; Invisible forces which
work constantly to help man, have
been revealed to more than 100,000
people. School children and busy
men; experts In the many lines far re
moved from the farm, the Indifferent
and the Interested, have alike seen In
graphic form, the progress which hai
been mnde In the handling of the
earth given ti mankind for an ever
lasting resource.
Without any boasting the business
men of Omaha have caused almost
tho whole civilized world lo stop and
see what nature has for the people of
the earth; brought thousands to a
realization of the resources which,
have been wasted and the opportunity
which knocked at tho door of every
cultlvutor of the soil.
ANOTHER BANK IS ROBBED.
Cracksmen Get Three Thousand Dol
lars from Knro In Creseo.
Three bank robbers at 1:30 a. m.
Sunday blew tho safe of the State
Bank of Cresco and stole $3,000. They
made their escape In a stolen tig that
they abandoned later In the morning
a mile west of Ashland, where the
horses were found nearly driven to
death. j
James Boyle, a young man, was go-
Ing home at the hour of the robbery..
When he passed the bank tho men
confronted him and at the point of re
volvers forced him to submit to their
wishes. They pried open the door of
tho bank and taking him Insldclblind
fokled him and tied him to a chair,
after which they blew the snre. The
Interior of the bank building was not
badly wrecked, but the vault and safe
were shattered by -the force. Of the ex
plosion. '
When the robbers left they saw to It
that Boyle was safety tied and gagged
and the robbety therefore was not dis
covered until the officials reached th
building, giving the 'men ample time to
make their getaway.
CASHIER COMMITS SUICIDE.
Rullrond Man Kills Himself at Homo
In Omaha.
William R. Kelley. cashier of the
Union Pacific railroad at South Oma
ha, committed suicide some time Sat
urday afternoon by firing a bullet
through his brain. The bifilywas not
discovered until after midnight, when
J. It. Westover, a close friend of Kel-
ley's. went to present him with an,
Elks' pin. the dead man having Joined
that order Friday night. Westover!
found Kelley's body lying across the
bed with a bullet In his brain. A sec
ond bullet bad been fired from the
weapon and went through the bed,
clothing. It is believed to have been
discharged by the twitching thumb of
the dying mun after he had shot him
self. (
The suicide Is considered most re
markable, iniil beyond a letter left
for his wife, who, with her children,
was visiting her parents In Kansas
City, no reason Is given for the deed.
.FARM ERS.VES FAMILY.
Barely Escape from Burning Hontt
Without Clothing.
The one-story frame dwelling on the
Pella farm, four miles northwest of
Tecumseh. and occupied by J. W.
Morris, was burned Monday morning.
together with the contents. Mr. Morris
had difficulty In saving the lives of his
wife and five children after he discov
ered the house to be afire. The fire
started from ii flue and the whole roof
was ablaze, the Hemes being In the
rooms when the struggles of a chok
ing Infant awoke Mrs. Morris. Mr.
Morris grabbed the children one by
no threw them out of the window and
then took them to tho barn, where
they were kept warm until neighbors
brought them clothing. The Morris
family are renters and did not save
a tiling. They had no Insurance on
their household goods
Contest for .Mayor's Office.
Believing that a decision of the su
preme court In n local election con
test Is In their fuvor, the prohibition
1st of Hustings contemplate beginning
'liio warranto proceedings to oust
Mayor Miles tun) set U. S. Rohrer,
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spring. No eleetlon was called for
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eritl votes for the place.
Freight Trains Collide.
Two freight trains on the Missouri
Pacific came together In tho yards at
Nebraska City, wrecking the caboose,
two cars and an engine. It was a rear
end collision, caused by the air not
working on the rear train. The pas
sengers and crew In the caboose barely
escaped being crushed to death, being
warned by a passerby.
Kevercl Sentenced to Prison.
Judge Itaper adjourned district
court t Falrbury after sentencing tq
the penitentiary Frank Williams for
four years, Joseph Bushnell for four
years. Joseph Williams for eighteen
months, all having pleaded guilty to
breaking Into the HablUh store at
Dlller.
Death of Valentine Boy.
Ross Pettycrew, of Valentine, a boy
1$ years of age. It Is thought, wag
caused from a couplo of falls ha ha4.
aoui a wren ago.
ILINCOIjy
vntrnt
The biennial report of State Audltot
Scarlo, now being printed, will show
that from December 80, 1906, to De
rember 30, 1908, there wero registered
l! the auditor's office, bonds of all
kinds amounting to $2, S01,68(i. 65. Of
this amount $75,000 was Issued by
counties, $9,000 by precincts, $886,
500 by cities and villages and $1,331,
186.65 by school districts. While this
largo amount represents an Indebted
ness against the municipalities and
school districts. It docs not necessarily
follow that it has all been contracted
within the tlmo stated, as a goodly
amount of It Is refunding bonds, Is
sued to tako the place of other bonds
voted years ago, which have matured
and have not been paid. From tha
school districts of many of tha west
ern and northern counties of the stata
many Issues of bonds have been regist
ered In' order to provide school build
ings In districts where none have ever
before been erected.
Lancaster county promises to supplj
the coming legislature with enough
freak bills or bills to that order, to
keep the session busy. - As a hint of
what Is to come from this county, tha
newspapers are publishing Interviews
with one of the members. This representative-elect
has announced that ha
has under course of construction a bill
making Saturday afternoon a legal
holiday. While thla part may not be
so freakish as It appears at first blush,
his reason for the passage of auch a
bill is that it will compel more people
to attend church on Sunday. Ha la
of the opinion that If all clerks and
working people have Saturday after
noon off, and no legal business can ba
transacted on that afternoon, these
people will be in a frame of mind to
better appreciate Sunday and will at
tend church.
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In bulletin No. 14, which he' has.
just received from the printer Deiuty
Labor Commissioner Ryder has a
table showing the amount of farm and
city mortgages filed and released dur
ing 1907 and 1908 and of Interest paid.
In 1907 there were 16,658 mortgage
filed Involving capital to the amount
of $36,432,073.26; there were released
17,990 Involving $126,357,391.56. In
the same year there were filed city
mortgages to the number of 12,436,
Involving a capital of $13,258,930.57;
there were released 11,014 Involving a
capital of $9,887,902.36. The rate on
the city mortgages was from 6 to 10
per cent and on farm mortgages from
E to 10 per cent.
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Deputy Attorney General Grant
Martin has received a number of let
ters from out In the state congratulat
ing him on his opinion regarding tha
sale of short weight lard. Because
the lard Is sold In tin cans the mer
chants held it was exempt from the
provisions of the pure food law, relat
ing to the branding of wotght. The
food commissioner, J. W. Johnson, has
collected evidence showing that three
p und cans of lard are short about 20
por cent, and, as a result, he has
ordered prosecutions begun In a num
ber of localities against the local mer
chant The money made by prisoners In thi
stato penitentiary for overtime hai
reached such proportions that the
warden who has it in charge does a
big business with more depositors
than most banks of ordinary capital.
The biennial report, of Warden Beemes
shows that daring the biennlum $56,
000 was deposited, an Increase of
$22,000 over the previous two years.
The sum represents 12,000 deposits.
The convicts make thta money by
working overtime In the broom factory
and receive It from various sources.
Thomas L. Hisgen, lale candidate
for president on the Independen'ee
league ticket, Is going to ask tha legis
lature c Massachusetts to enact on
of Nebraska's laws. Mr. Hisgen has.
written Secretary of State Junkln foi
a 'copy of the law enacted last winter
which prohibits the selling o'f any
commodity at a different price in one
place than In another, freight rate
being considered. Mr. Hisgen said h
desired to have tha hill before the,
Massachusetts legislature, which meets
January 1.
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Tag day and the Salvation army and
the Volunteers of America have col.
llded In their efforts to help the poor
and needy in Lincoln, and as a result
a fight is on not unlike that which was
pulled oft in Omaha soma years ago,
where two different societies or pel,
sons wanted the exclusive privilege c
praying in the city and county jail.
Senator Brown Tuesday filed a copy
of the resolutions of the last republi
can state convention in Nebraska,
dealing with the Irrigation problems ol
western Nebraska, urging a further
Increase In the fund of the reclamation
service.
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The supreme court Judges have de
cided to retain the present supreme
court commissioners, four in number,
until April 10. On that day the Court
calendar, encumbered with 600 casta
will ba cleared for the first time fn
tha history of the state.
Lawson O. Brian, Nebraska's state
treasurer, has another one on his,
Christmas list. Mrs. Brian Tuesday
presented him with a girl baby, tha
fourth In the housj of Brian, and of
children the eighth.
Representative-elect Sid Botts of
Ord, cams to Lincoln Wednesday an!
selected his seat In tha next house and
Incidentally ran into an old collage
chum. He and Secretary of Btate
Jnnkin were boys together over tn Red
Oak, la., some thousand or lass years
ago and their meeting was in keen
ing with that of long-lost brothers
separated for that length of time.
Governor Sheldon is almost covered
un In tha work of listening to anntlea..
Bona for executive clemency and other
nmairs or state.
E LEGAL POWER
5
Attorney-General Says It Is Needed
in Prosecution of Rich
Defendants.
CITES THE STAHDABD FINE.
That Case, He Thinks, Shows th
Necessity of a Change in the
Present Statutes.
That the United States should haT
the right of appeal to the Supreme!
Court of the United States ns a matted
of right, wheneven.
a conviction la re-!
versed on appeal byj
the defendant to aj
Circuit Conrt ofi
Appeals, is tho
opinion expressed!
by Attorney Gen-j
oral Bonaparte lai
his annual report'
for the flBcal year
ending June 80,!
3
o. . BOWArABTt 190S, submitted to1
Congress. In this connection he cites
the case of the reversal of the Standard
Oil fine of more than $20,000,000, In
which nn application for a writ of cerj
tlorarl has been made to the Supreme
Court.
He holds that an amendment of the
present laws would be appropriate in
the case of all criminal proceedings, but
suggests that it would be especially bo
in connection with prosecutions where
the wealth of the defendant usually
renders an appeal on his or its part
from any adverse Judgment a matter
of course.
The Attorney General's opinion is
that in such cases there is no question
of doublo Jeopardy, as the- appeal of
the defendant from the original convic
tion is recognized by the undoubted
weight of well-considered Judicial an-,
thorlty as a waiver of his rights in
this respect and as in the absence of
some such provision of law as the At
torney General recommends guilty per
sona may escape from Just punishment
under the law as finally, determined by
the court of Inst resort
H declares that tho consistent pol-
ley of the Department of Justice during,
tho year In enforcing the statutes in-1
tended to protect the Interstate and for
eign commerce of the country from
evils arising through combinations in
restraint of trade and attempts to cre
ate monopoly, as well ns discrimina
tions and other illegal practices on the
part of common carriers engaged In
Buch commerce, has been to investigate
carefully all complaints submitted to It,
whether by public authorities or by re
sponsible private citizens, and to au
thorize proceedings, whether civil, or
criminal, only wheu such Investigation
has shown the complaints to be serious
and well founded and that success
might be reasonably expected.
Mr. Bonaparte reports that this pol
icy was attended during the year by si
fair measure of success in thb proceed
ings authorized and that as a conse
quence of decisions already obtained
or expected soon the statutes dealing
with such cases will soon be Interpreted
bo authoritatively that those seeking to
comply with the law will be relieved
from all uncertainty as to what the law.
really Is. He says that serious obsta-.
cles have been encountered In enforcing
the statutes and that these may be with
advantage readily removed by further!
legislation.
The United States has had occasion,
of late years, and will probably have,
occasion In future," he declared, "to
prosecute criminally many corporations,
or other artificial persona As such of
fenders cannot be physically arrested.
It la obviously desired that a simple
and convenient form of process shall be
prescribed by law to have the legal ef
fect of an actual arrest and removal to
the trial district as in the case of a
natural person."
COUPLE MTJBDERED IN SLEEP.
Wife with Hatehet.
Wlcents Florczlk and bis wife wars
snurdered by an assassin at their real
flence, 132 Bird street, Wilmington, Del.
Their bodies were found by Alexander
Flercxik, brother of the murdered man,
and a ledger at the bouse, who Is detain
ed at police headquarters. Alexander
told the police that when he went home
about 11 o'clock at night be was unable
to gain admittance, and spent the night
with an uncle. lie went to the boose,
about 0 o'clock in the morning and found
tte bedles. He said the two children, a
girl 2 years old and a 2-months-old baby,
bag not been molested. The baby ky isj
a crib between tha beds occupied by the
parents. Both of the victims had beets
backed In the face with a hatchet which
was found on the man's bed. Tha murtUa
la thought to have been committed tor
revenge. Florcsik was '38, and his wife
14 years eld. The prisoner is 13.
8&ZBX PUTS OTrXCXAL JS CELL.
r rater Member mt CUr Bear
teed ( Faaltaatiary.
Fred Lied, formerly member of the
Co Iambus board of control, was sentenced
to fear years in tha Ohio penitentiary,
for accepting a bribe from Nelson Can
non, representative of tha Trinidad Par
ag Company of Cleveland, in connection
with East Broad street paving. Fred
IbUmI, another former member of tha
board of control. Is serving a tana la the
fealtantliry, ,