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DEATHJNJUMES
TWO FAMILIES BURN IN KEN.
TUCKY FARM HOME.
BLAZE STARTS AT MIDNIGHT
Neighbors Find Bodies Chnrred Be
yond Recognition Evidence
Hints at Foul Play.
Mayfleld, Ky. Charred hcyond rec
ocnltlon and with only parts of limbs,
trunks and skull recovered, tho bodies
of elovon persons, represcntlnK two
families, wore found burned to death
At tho homo of Ernest Lawronuo, six
miles norJta of this city, near Hickory
Qrovo.
Tho flrfl, which destroyed tho log
mid framo three-room farm houso,
started aUout midnight and lasted un
til nearly 4 o'clock In tho morning.
When thu flro had subsided onough
for neighbors to reach tho victims,
lliero wris hardly enough flesh and
bones to Identify tho dead.
Neighbors residing north of tho al
most Isolated Uttlo farm homo statod
under oith at tho coroner's Inquiry
that thoy hoard tho screams of wom
en and ohlldron and heard six or sovon
shots. Tho discovery of a .32 caliber
rifle, a pistol, a shot gun, ax and an
oil can all In tho front room whero
tho families wore sleeping hints of
foul play or tho work of somo mad
dened maniac. After searching far
and near not tho romotest motive for
tho action could bo gleaned. Nolthor
family, so far ati is known, had a sin
glo onomy and scores of people attest
ed to their gontool relations.
Sheriff Marlon McCain said after
spending tho day working on tho caso:
"Thoro Is no doubt ovory person In
t)lo houso was murdered. A dress of
one oA tho bodies was dronchod in
blood which prevented tho clothing
from burning. An ax was found in a
hod wUh ono of tho women. A flvo
gallon coal oil can, usually kept In tho
kltchon, was found Just insldo thu
room whoro tho elovon woro sleeping.
"Tho only plauslblo hoory I hnvo
Is Hint Lawrence, who was struck a
blow on tho head sovoral yoars iigo
and slnco has been addicted to occa
sional spells, .became Insane. Ho nev
er had shown vlolunco when ho as
, doUrious before, however."
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Irish Peace Move Made.
London. Promlor Lloyd Georgo hns
stnt a letter to both Kiunon do Valora,
tho Irish republican loader, and Sir
James Craig, tho Ulster premier, de
claring tho British government to bo
rtooply anxious that King Qeorgu's ap
peal for reconcllatlon in Ireland shall
not havo beon In valu. Tho lottor ap
peals for a conferonco botwoen repre
sentatives of tho government and
southern and northern Ireland.
Fight for Liquor Begun.
Chicago. Moro than a halt .million
dollars worth of liquor now in govern
ment warehouses In Chicago will bo
roloasod if tho niandatnuB und lnjuc
tlon usked of tho district court nro
erautod, Former Senator J. Ham
Lewis, ropresentlng a hundred ownors
of this city, is tho loading meiiibor of
the law firm making this now attack
upon tho Volsteud act.
Woman Swims Around Manhattan.
Now York. Mlas Amolla dado, 22,
swam around Manhattan lHland, a ills
tancu of about forty miles, in 15 hours
and 57 minutes. She wan tho second
woman to perform tho feat, Miss Isa
Ellonsky huvlug been credited with
doing It in 1015 In 11 hours and 35
minutes.
Tulsa Police Chief Indicted.
'TulBa, Oklu. Chief of Pollco John
A. Gustufson, of tho Tulsa police de
partment, and other members of tho
dupartmuut, were Indicted by tho
grand Jury In connection with tho re
cont race riot and on charges of per
mitting ylco.
Earthtllde In Corinth Canal.
Corinth, Grooco. A serious earth
slldo bus occurred In Corinth canal,
blocking all shipping. Vessels sailing
for riroauu, Constantinople and Asia
Minor ports uro forced to go urouml
Matapau, involving u delay of thirty
six bourn.
Not to Halt Near East War.
Athens. Greeco declined tho offor
of Fruuce, Grcut Ilrltaln and Italy to
modluto with tho TurkUh nationalists
for tho purpose of putting an end to
thu hostilities botwoen thorn and thu
Greeks In Asia Minor.
A. F. of L. Reelects Qompers.
Denver, Colo. l'resldont Samuel
Gompera, America's vetorun labor
leader, overwhelmingly defeating his
first serious opposition since 1894, was
returned to offlco with his entire ad
ministration for another year by thu
American Federation of Labor. Daniel
J. Tobtn, of Indianapolis, was reelect
ed treasurer and Frank Morrison, ol
Washington, wub reelected secretury,
Jacob Fischor, of Indianapolis, aud
Matthew' Woll, of Chicago, woro reject
ed seventh and eighth vlco presidents,
respectively.
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EQUAL RIGHTS ARE DENIED
WOMEN BY THE A. F. OF L.
Convention Takes 8tand that Offlll
nted Organizations Cannot Rec
ognize Negroes.
Denver, Colo. Tho convention of
tho Amorican Federation of Labor
voted down n constitutional amend
ment designed to glvo women "equal
rights and privileges of membership
In the union of their trado or indus
try." All affiliated unions, however, woro
urged not to discriminate against tho
woman wago earnor and admit her to
membership.
EffortB to wipe out tho "color lino"
In organized labor organizations also
failed. Tho convention took tho stand
that national and international unions
could not be compollcd to recognize
nogro workers, aud that this was a
matter to bo adjusted by conferonco
betweon tho negro wago carnors and
tho various organizations.
Iloth questions woie thu subjects of
long and stormy debates in which dis
crimination by certain unions against
tho nogro und woman wago curners
was blttorly denounced.
Tho committee's report rejected the
constitutional amendment to glvo
women "Industrial equality," defended
tho federation's stand on women in
Industry and eltod efforts to got bettor
wages and working conditions for
thorn. It doclarcd that only a "f6w
unions" woro discriminating against
women and for that reason disap
proved tho nmondmont and urgod thut
"those International and national or
ganizations which do not admit worn
on to membership glvo early consid
eration for such admissions."
Equal rights for women In Industry
was volcod by delegatos from tho cigar
makors and tho laundry workors un
ion, who doclarcd "if n woman docs a
man's work sho should rucolvo a man's
pay."
All doclarcd that organized labor
should protect tho woman wago earn
ers. W. D. Mahon, president of tho Amal
gamated Association of Streot and
Electrlo Railway Employes of Amor
lea, declarod that hla organization
would not allow tho federation to dic
tate to it in tho matter of woman's
labor. Ho said ho was In favor of pro
tection for woman workers, but ho did
not bollovo that tho "back platform of
a streot car was tho placo for a wom
an." Tho defeated constitutional amend
ment would havo provided for tho Is
suauco of a separate charter by tho
fodoration to a woman's local without
tho consent of tho union having Juris
diction over tho particular trade.
Tho nogro question arose on tho ro
port of tho committee on laws, which
disapproved a resolution calling for
tho suspension of unions that discrim
inated against negro workers. Tho
commlttoo, however, wub uphold by
overwhelming votes.
Draft Deserters Held.
San Antonio, Tex. Flvo allogcd
draft dosortors woio delivered to mil
itary authorities at Fort Sam Houston
horu, making tho first arrosta slnco
tho publication of tho war department
Hut was started hero nbout two months
ago. .
Theaier Collapse Kills Seven.
Johnstown, Pa. Investigations at
IlnrnoBboro rovenled that tho collapso
of tho Grand tlieator thoro, costing sev
en lives, resulted front excavations
which uudorinluod thu bulldtug'B walls.
Probe of Mingo War Ordered.
Washnlgton. Sonata Investigation
of tho disturbances In tho Mingo, W.
Va coal fields, finally was ordered.
The committee on labor Is uxpectod to
begin tho inquiry next month.
Sinn Fein Wreck Train.
Ilolfast. Three soldlors and a train
guurd woro killed aud homo 20 soldlors
and an assistant train guard woro In
Jurod when a troop train carrying sol
diers from Belfast to Dublin wub
wrecked by tho explosion of Sinn Fein
land mines at Aborvoylo, near Dun
dalk. 8ugar to New Low,
Now York. Iteflned sugar broko lu
to now low ground when Boveral largo
roflnore cut refined granulated to 5.40
cents a pound.
Have Departed
A BITTER FIGHT RAGING
OVER THE IRISH ISSUE
Verbal Encounter at White Heat Whon
Recess Is Taken Committee
Report Cuts Out Boycott.
Denver. Tho forecast bitter fight
over tho Irish question waB precipi
tated upon tho floor of tho eovontlon
of tho1 Amorican Federation of Labor
nnd was at Its height when. President
Samuel Gompers adjourned tho con
vention. Tho debate started when tho resolu
tion commltteo reported as substitute
for tho four resolutions Introduced by
Irish sympathizers. Tho substltuto
ignored tho effort to initiate a boycott
against British manufacturers and im
ports. The commlttea's report disposed of
tho Irish question by asking tho con
vention to reaffirm its sympathy for
tho Irish causo, by urging recognition
of tho Irish republic and by urging
trial and punishment for British army
men guilty of atrocities In Ireland.
No sooner had tho commlttoe's re
port been read whon Cornelius Foley,
dclcgnto of tho barbers' union, took
tho floor reading a telogram from Har
ry Bolnnd, secretary to Eamon do
Vnlora, "provisional presldont of tho
Irish ropubllc," which said:
"Tho organization (American Fed
oration of tabor) Is looked on to do
soiriothlng for Ireland. Wo want tho
boycott or nothing."
Mr. Foloy declared that "thoro Is
only ono placo whero wo can hurt
England und that Is in her pocket
book." Christian M. Madson, of tho Chi
cago Federation of Labor, then moved
to amand the commlttoo roport by
adding a clause calling for a boycott
by American labor against British
goods aud British companies as long
as tho British govornnient maintains
"It barbarous nnd destructive policy
In Iroland."
A point of ordor was raised that this
could not bo Introduced becauso It was
part of tho resolutions alroady re
jected by tho committee. Provident
Gompors sustained tho point of order
and adjourned tho convention whllo
sovoral dolegatos woro struggling for
rcognltlon df tho chair.
Tho roBOlutlon reported by tho com
mlttoo was virtually identical with ono
submtttod by n commltteo of Irish
sympathizers headed by Potor Brady,
of Now York, oxcopt that somo of tho
moro drastic phrases woro omitted.
Tho commltteo also struck out a para
graph demanding thnt Prosldont Har
ding, his cabinet und congress take
nccessury stop3 to demand from Great
Britain tho defaulted interost aud loan
duo tho United Statos and now used
In part to "promote tho brutnl cam
paign in Iroland."
Woman Presides In Congress.
Washington, D. C For tho first
tlmo In tho history of tho American
congross, a woman prosldod over tho
deliberations of ono of Its houses.
Miss AUco Hobortson, of Oklahoma,
tho only womnn member of congress,
wlolded tho gavel whllo tho houso of
roprosontntlvos nt tho roquost of Pres
ident Harding and Socretury of State
Hughes, passod a bill authorizing tho
Bending of n Unitod Statos commission
to Peru during tho contonnial celobra
tlon In tho republic.
French Demobilization.
Paris. Tho cabinet authorized tho
war minister to begin demobilisation
of tho entire class of 1919 June 25.
This doclslou was reached on receipt
of a roport Hint tho cIussob of 1920
and 1921 havo beon trained ade
quately. Crude Oil Drops.
Caspor, Wyo. Tho Ohio Oil com
pany nnnouncod a reduction of 10
cents a barrel in tho price of Mulo
Crook crudo, bringing tho now prlco
to 60 cunts. No other grudes uro af
fected, i
Would Make Rich Disgorge Liquor.
Washington, D. C Congress should
mnko tho rich disgorge their hugo pri
vate stocks of liquor, Roprosentatlvo
Pou, of North Carolina, said. Tho
rich liquor drinker cun bo hit, Mr.
Pou suid, by making moro possession
of intoxicants a crime, and ho Is con
sidering framing. leglBlatlou to this ef
fect. lowan Killed by Lightning.
Charlton, la, James Curfman was
struck by. lightning and Instantly
I killed on hla farm near hero
BELIEVE PIRATES AT WORK
Opinion Either Piratical Work Off At-
lantlc Coast or Seizure of Craft
for Soviet Russia.
Washington, D. C. Aro pirates op
crating off tho Atlantic coast? The
crew or an American ship Is missing
and what seems to be conclusive evi
dence hns beon obtained that they
wero made prisoner on unother ves
sel nnd taken nway to parte unknown,
If they were not murdered. A second
Amorican vessel Is long overdue and
two other Amorican ships aro unac
counted for under circumstances rais
ing suspicion of a similar fate. The
United States government has under
taken to solve these mysteries of the
sea, which, In tho opinion of officials,
point either to piratical occurrences
off tho Atlantic coast or tho seizure
of tho vessels for tho benefit of soviet
Russia.
The state department has Instruct
ed its consular officers to be on the
lookout for tho missing vessels or the
members of the kidnaped crew. The
treasury department through Its coast
guard and Hfesavlng service Is mak
ing n search of tho Atlantic coast
Tho navy department has sent out
vessels to search. Tho department of
commerce through its bureau of nav
igation is assisting in trying to lift
tho veil of mystery. Tho department
of Justlco has assigned somo of its
best secret servico agents to tho caso,
for tho government Is working on the
theory that all tho mysterious inci
dents aro inter-related.
Several months ugo tho five-masted
schoonor Carol Doerlng, of Portland,
Me., was found abandoned off Diamond
Shoals, N. C, with all sails set and
her officers and crow mslslng. Tho
Deerlng went ashoro near Diamond
Shoals lightship, and when the men
of tho .nearby life saving station went
aboard they found evidence Indicating
thut sho had been abandoned in a
hurry for no conceivable reason, for
tho vessel was In good shape, with
plenty of food. In fact, it was appar
ent that sho had been abandoned when
a meal was about to bo served.
A little later a bottlo camo ashoro
near where the ship was found and It
was a note purporting to havo' been
written by tho mato o? tho schooner,
which road3 as follows:
"An oil-burning tanker or submarine
has boarded us nnd placed our crow In
Irons. Get word headquarters of
company at onco."
Tho captain and crow of tho Doer
lng numbered twelve, nnd not a traco
of them has been discovered. Tho
Deerlng left Portland last December
for Rio do Janeiro, Brazil, with a gen
oral cargo. It was on her return voy
ago with another general cargo that
she went ashoro on Diamond Shoals.
Tho writing found In the bottlo has
boon compared with tho penmanship
of hor mlashig mato, and handwriting
experts havo testified that there 13 no
question that tho mato wrote tho mes
sage. Tho stool steamor Howltt, owned by
tho Union Sulphur company, of Now
York, Is also mlBsing. Sho sailed from
Sabine, Tex., several months ago with
a cargo of sulphur for Boston nnd
Portland. Tho government authorities
havo boon unablo to got any traco of
hor. Not a boat nor a spar from hor
has como ashoro or beon picked up,
and not a body of any member of her
crow has beon found. Sho might havo
boon off Diamond Shoals about tho
tlmo that tho Deoring went ashoro,
and tho authorities believe that sho Is
still afloat Intact.
At tho dopartmont of commerco tho
statomont was mado that two other
Amorican vessels had disappeared
under circumstances that led tho de
partment to bollovo that thoy had not
foundered, and thoy suspected that tho
shlp3 had beon tho victims of pirates,
porhnps soviet sympathizers, who had
sailed away with them to ports of
soviet Russln.
Another Rail Wage Cut Soon.
Chicago. Announcemc-.it of a wage
reduction order affecting nearly all
railroads Involved in tho ?GOO,000,000
wago award of July, 1920, and not
named In tho reduction ordor of Juno
1, Is expected, it was learned at tho
United States railroad labor board. A
briof hearing, covorhig about 30 roads
asking wngo cuts, was hold. Tho
board's decision on this caso and on
tho hoariug of Juno C, when moro
than 150 roads prosented potltlons,
will bo rondored simultaneously.
Floods Sweeping Japan.
Toklo. Torrlfic floods aro sweeping
largo areas of Jupan. Tho death list
approached 200. Entire villages woro
submorged under 15 feet of water in
tho Ilita district. In Kyushn ' moro
than 600 houses wero wnshod away.
Heavy ralna caused tho floods.
House for Philippine Bill.
Washington, I). C Tho houso
passed n bill authorizing tho Philip
pine government to increase tho limit
of indebtedness from $15,000,000 to
$30,000,000. An effort will bo mado
to obtain quick souato action.
Miners Strike In Pennsylvania.,
Wllkeabarro, Pa, Nearly 10,000 an
thraclto mluo workers employed by
tho Pennsylvania Coal company wont
on strlko, claiming the company is not
paying wngeB in accordance with tho
agreoment signed last year. Company
officials declare tho strlko Is Illegal.
Ontario Goes "Dry" July 18.
Ottawa. Tho Duke of Devonshire,
rotlrlng govornor general of Canada,
in his last official act in Ottawa signed
tho ordor in council which will rosult
In a "dry" Ontario July 18.
CORNHIiSKEf. ITEMS
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
The Mute administration is con
tinuing Its drive tigunst Nebraska tux
slackers. W. II. Osborne, Mute tux
commissioner, In open 'letter'' to county !
clerks has rolled for typwrltten copies
of the minutes of meetings of county
commissioners, explaining that It Is
for the purpose of ascertaining tho
work done by commissioners us equal
ization boards on taxation questions
und In order to give the state depart
ment an opportunity to ascertain If
local politics Is playing any part lu the
nss.ment.s levied by county boards
on certain persons.
Members of four rural school dis
tricts surrounding Gllend, Nos. 17, 45,
74 mid 81 are planning n unite five
districts, Including Gilend, No. S9, for
high school purposiM. It Is the desire
of the people to establish n rural high
school, ouch district to retain Its
present organization, boards of cdu
cation nnd school house for lower
grade purposes.
Wlllluiu Muttox, farm hand, who
shot and killed his employer, John G.
Schnier, on the hitter's farm near
Pender, was taken to Oiuulm for safe
keeping, I'ccnusp of fear thnt neigh
bors of the murdered man might report
to mob Iolcnce to avenge the act. An
argument over Muttox's employment
und pay was the cause of the shooting.
At n conference nt Grand Island the
factional light between various olllcers
of Thomas county at Thedford, wns
settled by agreement, the records of
the county clerk returned, the ouster
suits dismissed and nil have agreed to J
co-operate harmoniously.
linns Jensen of Red Cloud was one
of tho crew of 49 men aboard the
naval tug, Conestogn, which has not
beon heard from since leaving .Mare
Islnnd, March 2,", Washington reports
sny.
Tho nppllcntlon of the Union Pacific
fov approval of tho location of two
stations, No. 1 nnd 2, upon the North
Pintle extension In Scouts Bluff" county
has received the approval of the state
railway commission.
A test cae made In Nuckqlls county
by the stnte department of agriculture
proved that hogs which follow tuber
cular cattle contract the disease.
The first wheat threshed In Jeffer
son county yielded eighteen bushels to
the ncre. Dealers offered .$1.10 n
bushel for the grain.
Promised current nt 2M: cents,
Beatrice people have taken .$00,000
Stock In the P.urnoston hydro-electric
project. The city uses 2,400,000 kil
owatts annually.
Arrangements have been completed
for nn Inter-stnte aeroplane meet nnd
show to be held nt Nelson, July 14, 15
and 10.
Announcement hns been ninde that
state aid will bo secured If possible
for the construction of tho proposed
Broken Bow, Callaway nnd Gothen
burg highway. '
Valentine now has n baseball bend
quarters with sleeping rooms for vis
iting teams.
Prospects for nn enormous sugar
beet crop In Western Nebraska were
never better, according to reports.
A movement Is on foot, bucked by
two North Platte men, to establish nn
nlrplnne'fuctory nt Omnhn.
Citizens of Pawnee City voted $75,
000 bonds for building a new electric
power plant.
A fund hns been raised by the busi
ness men and citizens at Table Rock
for n free band concert each Saturday
night by tho town band.
The Central City chapter of tho Red
Cross has forwarded $100 to Pueblo
Hood victims.
Damage to rouds and the destruction
of six bridges along Sweet Creek by
the recent Hoods lu Ruffulo county will
cost taxpayers about .$:t5,000, It Is
said.
The shortage of fnnne help In Saline
county has mused women to go into
the fields. Many men from Crete are
assisting In the harvest of the whent
crop, which Is beyond expectations.
Plnttsinouth city ofllcluls nro urging
the establishment of n municipal light
plant as the result of the boost In both
gas, and llirht rates Imposed by the
prlvnte company operating In tho city.
The threo river bridges across the
North Platte In Garden county were
badly damaged by the recent high
water and all three havo been con
demned by the board of county com
missioners. The 1020 com crop cost un average
of 4!) cents a bushel to produce In one
of the central Nebraskn counties, ue
lordlng to figures compiled by the
statu college of agriculture. The
average cost was figured from i coords
kept by members of the county farm
bureau and are considered conserv
ative. A Jury Investigating the wreck of
Northwestern passenger, No. 000 near
Whitney, In which live lives wero lost,
found the bridge over Big Cottonwood
creek through which the train plunged
was lu good condition n short time be
fore the accident.
Itolla and Delhi Deliurt, man and
wife now In Jail at O'Neill chnrged
with the murder of, John Mlze of
Platte, S. D whoso body was found
In the Niobrara river north of Atkin
son several weeks ago, will be tried nt
a special term of district court in
August.
Announcement by S'n'e Tresi,nror
C'ropsoy thnt S4H0,:iS.V,7 Is available
for the July M'liilininunl' state , .iol
apportionment culls for u new b.isis
of distribution under it law pns.se. I by
the 1021 legislature providing thnt
each district lu which lion-UiMiblo
stnte school laud Is Inyutcri shall re
ceive out of the appropriation an
equivalent to the school tax on thnt
land If It wen- privately owned. This
will require M valuation of nil school
land oil the basis of surroundtr.g land
and u computation of what the school
levy ,tn each school district having
such land would raise.
No seriously menacing pesl has yet
nppenred on the horizon of Nellnska
agriculture, according to the motuhiy
report of the state entomologist, Prof.
M. II. Swenk, nt Lincoln. Grasshop
pers have been hutching out In rather
large numbers in n few counties, (mil
n little damage has been done. The
Hessian fly has also caused injury
In two sections of the state, and one
or two other pests hnve put In their
appearance. However, no extensive
dnmage has been reported from any
pest.
The stnte hns entered Into the fight
being made against the Norval lan
guage law In Platte county by th" Ne
braska District Evangelical Lutheran
synod of Missouri. In tin answer to a
petition for nn order enjoining state
and county ofllcluls, from enforcing tho
new Inw, Attorney General Davis de
clared that It was not In the province
of the court of equity to undertake to
restrain ollklals from onforcmeiil of a
criminal statute.
The state of Nebraska Is after the
man who Is making u business of
trade in illicit booze, according to
an address made by Governor Mc
Kelvle nt Norfolk before 200 sheriffs,
mayors, county attorneys, roadmen ,
nnd other law enforcement otlicera
who were enrolled into tho Stnte Law
Enforcement bureau, which the gov
ernor stated Is endeavoring to help
local authorities to enforce stnte laws.
Similar meetings are to be held la
other parts of the state.
A report. Issued by the s'nte depart
ment of public Instruction shows there
lire now 100 consolidated school dis
tricts in Nebraskn consisting of from
six to 7:t sections or Innd which have
a valuation of frofn ,'4,02(1 to .$1,
0!l,07:t. These districts also own
grounds from one to 20 acres.
AVheat harvesting this year In Ne
braska Is one of the earliest in the
state's history, owing to the unseason
ably hot weather In May. In average
years the last week In June and the
first In July is the ofllclnl opening.,
Farmers In southern counties are fully
a week or ten days ahead of schedule.
Nebraska bankers nnd live stock in
terests are taking an active part in
the format Ion of a .$50,000,000 financial
pool by J. P. Morgan and big Chicago
Interests for the purpose of llnuncing
the cattle growers of the west and
southwest during the coming twelve
months. ,
Sutton Is facing a water famine, all
wells but one from which the city re
ceives its water supply liuve given out.
Drastic measures are contemplated to
meet the emergency.
The Nebraska State Fair, which
opens nt Lincoln September 4, prom
ises to bo the greatest exhibition ever
held In the state, according to Secre
tary Daniels of tho fair board.
Robert Carsh charged with slaying
Henrj Johnson In n hand-to-hand tight
on tho streets of Humboldt June 1, wns
bound over to the next term of dis
trict court under .$0,000 bond.
Governor McKolvIe hns1 offered a re
ward of .$100 for the capture of the
person or persons who held up and
fatally wounded Mrs. Margaret Hyland
of Palmer, In Omaha recently.
An election held nt North Platte on
a bond proposition for extent Ion of the
wnter works nnd sewer carried by a
majority of 75 votes.
A Boy Scout troup of thirty-two
members has been organized at Odell.
Custer county farmers are reporting
the loss of cattle from black leg.
A band of tweiil.v-.slx members hns
been organized nt Liberty.
The Rev. Dr. William Franklin
Eyster, 00, oldest college graduate in
the United States died at Crete.
Women of Red Cloud are planning
to organize a civic club to encourugo
property owners to keep their premises
In better condition.
By a vote of 102 to 01, citizens of
Davenport approved the playing of
baseball on Sunday.
From December 1, 1010, to December
1, 1020, the stuto department of ag
riculture made 0,104 Inspections of
Nebraska food establishments, accord
ing to a statement Issued by the de
partment, based on the bleunlnl re
port. It brought twenty-five pros
ecutions. F. M. Ridings, president of tho
Farmers' State bank at Halsey, wiW
sentenced to one to 10 years lu tho
statu prison by the Thomas county dis
trict court nt Thedford for Issuranco
of certificates without any security of
value.
Dawson county fanners expect to
harvest the biggest wheat and rye
crops in the history of the couniy
this year. Cutting of the gurlu vwi,
started lost week.
Keith county commissioners aro
making plans to rebuild the bridges at
Brule, Ogalltila and Paxton -it once.
These bridges were all made impass
able and were partly washed out by
tho Into (loods lu the South Platto
river. The bridge at Roscoo Is tho
only bridge In western Nobrusku that
stood the test against the high wntor
lu the South Platte river.
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