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'((" " Jf. S T"t -wwE 9 NEGROES LYNCHED Meet Death at Hands of Mob Near Hemphill, Texas. Five of the Victims Hanged to Same , Tree, Another Shot Down While Trying to Escape and Bodies ofTwc More Found In Creek Bottoms. Nino negroes mot death at tho hand! of a mob In tho vicinity of Hemphill, Snblno county, Tex. Doth races have bo cured arms and tho tension 1h such that a rnce clash appears Imminent Tho dead: Jerry Evans, Will John, eon, Moso Spellman, Cleveland Will iams, William Manual, Frank Will iams, William McCoy, two unknown negroes. Tho lynchlngB followod tho killing of two white men by negrooB. Two weeks ago Hugh Dean and several other white men visited a negro church and school house, whore a dance was In progress, presumably In quest of liquor, It being tho custom ol somo of tho negroes to sell whlBky during tho progress of such nffalrs. During tho evening Dean was killed and six negroes wero held for the killing. At the preliminary examina tion tho ovldcnco tended to show that tho plot was formed at tho dance to lclll Dean. Saturday last Aaron M. Johnson, n prominent farmer, was as Bnssluated while seated' nt the dining tablo with his wlfo and child, tho bul let being fired through a window. For this orlmo Perry Prlco, a negro, was arrested nnd, It Is stated, confessed, Implicating Robert Wright, a rela tive of ono of tho negroes held for Dean's murder. Price declared lib wns offered $5 to kill Johnson. Then followed tho forming of the mob, tho ovorpoworlng of tho Jailer nt Hemphill nnd tho lynching of the bIx negroes held for tho murder ol Denn. Five wero hanged to tho same tree, while another attempted' to es cape and was shot to death. Later In tho night William McCoy, another no to, was shot and killed while stand ing at tho gato of tho Johnson homo nnd tho bodies of two moro negroes wero found in tho creek bottom. Wright, tho negro who confessed to tho killing of Johnson, and the man he implicated wero taken to Beaumont for safo keeping under guard of the military company of San Augustine. MANILA PAPER COMPANIES FINED Judge Hough Imposes Penalty Upon Confessed Trust. Twenty-four companlos manufactur ing Manila wrapping paper wero fined $1,000 each by Judge Hough In the Unltod States circuit court In New York city. They pleaded' guilty on Friday last to maintaining an illegal combination in restraint of trade. Thoy wero membors of tho Manila and Fibre association. In imposing tho flues, Judge Hough said that tho combination of papet manufacturers was a clear violation of tho Sherman anti-trust law, but bo causo of extenuating circumstances he would imposo n fine only. Tho com panies havo arranged to pay their fines through their counsel. Tho caso against tho companies was Instituted through tho Instrumentality of tho American Newspaper Publish ers' association. District Attorney Stlmson, who had chargo of tho caso, stated in court that In viow of tho fact that tho com panies had savod tho government ex pense by pleading guilty, he would be willing that light fluos should be im posed. Counsel for the companies do chrrod that-tho combine was formed two years ago to save them from bankruptcy because of tho methods of agents for consumers, who, ho alleged, favored first ono group of paper mills nnd then another In order to cut prices. Counsel also declared that the combine was dissolved when It learned that tho association camo within the provisions of the Sherman act. STOLEN MAIL POUCH IS FOUND Picked Up In Railroad Yards at Kan- , sas City, Kan. Tho mall pouch which contained $50,000 In money nnd $100,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry, stolen from a mall car at the Union depot on the night of Juno 6, was fouud by a switching crew In tho railroad yards of tho Rock Island road In Kansas City, Kan. Tho pouch still contained a number of valuablo articles of Jew elry, but four empty envelopes, which had contained the $50,000 In currency showed that tho thief had made goo.: on the smaller part of his haul. Hastings Man Is High Gun. High scores characterized the practlco day at the Grand American handicap at flying targets. Over 200 shooters were ready to face the traps nnd get used to the Columbus Gun club grounds before entering the shoot propor. Visiting shooters were pleased with tho almost perfect back ground and when the smoke had oloared away It was found that George W. Maxwell of Hastings, Neb., and C. G. Spencer of St. Louis had accounted for 118 out of 120 of the Illusive -birds." Four Years for Mr. Immell. Frederick Immell of tho Columbus, O., board of public service, which was ousted from office because of the East Broad street Improvement scandal, voluntarily appeared In the criminal court, forestalled his trial and pleaded guilty of accepting a bribe from H. C. Lang, superintendent of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving compauy. Ho was sentenced to four years In the Ohio penitentiary and fined $1,000. OVER 300 BUILDINGS BURNED Business Section of Three Rivers, Quebec, Wiped Out by Fire. Fanned by a high wind, a firo which bio.to out In a stable at Threo Rivers. Quebec, was not checked until tin creator part of tho lower town, con taining tho business section of the city, had bcon consumed. Then, with the nsslstanco of tho firemen sum moned by special trains from Mon treal, Quebec, Shorbrooke and Grand Mere, it was held in check. Almost ovcry building of any consequence In that section of tho city was destroyed, including tho postofTlce, tho city ball, every hotel worthy of tho name, with ono exception, tho flno building of the Iiochelaga bank and most all of the leading stores. Over 300 buildings wero burned. Tho narrow streets ol tho town and tho lnflammablo nature of many buildings rendered tho task of tho firemen an almost Impossible one. Outside the town is locnted the camp of tho Sixth military district and soon after the fire started' 1,000 men wero sent to help fight the flames. Tho local brlgado was entirely Ineffective when It camo to coping with a conflagration and tho soldiers rendered tho best assistance they could, but their bucket brlgado was not equal to the task. It was not un til nearly four hours after tho fire had assumed threatening dimensions that organized effort by tho firo fight ers from tho other cities was avail able. Among tho buildings burned bo side thoso mentioned above nro the St. James church, the oldest Anglican church built In Canada; tho old Ger man Catholic church, Drolet, LaLond & Co.'s big department storo, tho Du fresne, Windsor, Dominion nnd Rich elieu hotels;' tho telegraph offices and tho Dell Telephone company's ox change. Tho loss will be considerably over $1,000,000. So far no loss of life has been roported, but a woman and two children aro roported to have been badly burned. PEDESTRIANS DROP ON STREETS Humidity Brings Death to Eight at Chicago. A hot day, with the mercury stand ing at 04 degrees, brought death and suffering to Chicago. Eight deaths were reported to tho coroner's office and heat prostrations wero numerous. In addition a mad dog scare spread through tho city and the chief of po lice ordered his men to shoot nil un muzzled dogs. A similar order Issued at Morton Park, a Buburb, resulted in the killing of forty canines in a few hours. The death list follows: Frank Cass, overcome while working In his garden at LaGrange, a suburb; Sam uel Douglas, negro, made dizzy by heat and fell off a yacht Into Jackson park lagoon, drowned before aid could reach him; John Golden, drowned in Desplalnes river while seeking relief from tho heat; William Hobson, dropped dead of heart dlseaso, super induced by heat; Baby Gunter, died at county hospital of heat prostration; Sarah Oskmos, died at the Presby terian hospital after heat prostration; Estell Eyel, died' at county hospital of heat prostration; William Dettllng, negro, crazed by heat and committed sulcldo by drinking paris green. Tho number of prostrations roported to tho police totaled several score. The mad dog scare was duo to the unusual number of attacks made by vIcIoub canines within the last few days. Chief of Police Shippy said that ten such cases had come to his notice since Friday, and he sent out a general order that all unmuzzled dogs should be killed. Thus far nono of tho persons bitten has developed symptoms of rablos, but all are being watched by the health department of ficers. STEVE ADAMS ON TRIAL Case Opens With Bitter Wrangle Be tween Opposing Attorneys. The trial of Stove Adams of tho West ern Federation of Miners, charged with the murder of Arthur Collins of Tellurlde, niino superintendent, had hardly been called In tho district court at Grand Junction, Colo., Mon day, when the opposing coun sel became involved In a bitter wrangle over tho efforts of the prose cution to Indorse new names upon the Indictment as witnesses and an at tempt on behalf of the defense to pre vent ex-Congressman Hogg of Pueblo and J. S. Camahau of Grand Junction from acting as attorneys for tho state. The judge decided that Hogg and Car nalian should remain in the case, It being shown to his satisfaction that they were employed by San Miguel county. The sheriff was ordered to summon 100 men for Jury service. Lumber Rates Reduced. Lumber rate reductions west of tho Missouri river and 5 per cent reduc tion In the advanced rates In the east, as well as other changes In the tariff, are ordered under decisions announced by the Interstate commerce commis sion. Tho rulings are made In a group of Important cases, Involving tho rates on 'lumber, shingles and other forest products from points In the Willa mette valley to San Francisco and from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon tana aud British Columbia to eastern and southern markets. Tornado Hits Wisconsin Town. A tornado hit Appleton, Wis. The roof was blown off the Patten paper mill and two school houses wero partially wrecked. A number of small build ings are in ruins. Wind and Hall in Wisconsin. Damage to crops, houses, telephone wires, etc., Is reported from various points in Wisconsin and Minnesota, due to high winds and' rain and ball storms. BLOWUPDUETOBOMB Latest Explanation of Disastei on Liner Arcadia. Bits of Steel nnd Broken Nails Found In Bodies of Three Dead Men Be lieved to Work of Striking Hamburg Longshoremen. Investigation by officials at Philadel phia Into the cause of tho explosion on bonrd tho Hamburg-American line steamer Arcadia, In which three per sous wore killed nnd a number In jured on Saturday, strongly tend to substantiate tho theory that the burst Ing of a bomb caused the damage. Tho explosion occurred In hold No. 4, in which the officers and agents of the vessel declare there were neither chemicals nor explosives. An exami nation of tho steel bulkhead separat ing No. 4 hold from tho coal Shows that it Is covered with small Inden tures, ns though volleys of bullets had' been fired against It. Tho steel partition was torn looso by tho explo sion and rolled up llko paper, and somo of tho firo Inspectors say that an ordinary gas explosion would not have caused such a condition. Even the ship's officers, who at first de clared tho assumption that there was a bomb on board was absurd, now ad mit tho possibility of such a thing. Tho theory of tho bomb Is also the only ono that explains tho fact that two of those who met death In tho explosion wore riddled with small holes, apparently made by flying bits of Bteel nnd broken nails. A handful of such scrap was gathered up from tho torn clothing and around the bod ies of the-dead men. Members of the crew told' tho coro ner's deputy who Is Investigating the accident that the Hamburg-American lino has been facing a strike among dock employes at Hamburg and the belief Is expressed that a bomb was put In the cargo of the Arcadia before sho left that port, with tho Idea of causing Its destruction while in mid ocean. NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION. One Man Killed by Accident which Destroyed Plant Near Denver. Luthor Hockem was killed and a number of persons shocked and bruised', though not seriously injured, by the explosion of 3,000 pounds of nitroglycerine at tio E. I. Dupont De mours Powder company's works at Louviers, twenty miles south of Den ver. The building containing tho neu tralization plant was destroyed. Tho loss Is estimated at $3,000. Hockem was tho only person In the building In which tho explosion occurred. His body was blown to atoms. Many windows in the town were broken nna the shock was felt at Llttletown and Fort Logan, thirteen miles distant. The cause of the explosion was not ascertained. MIMIC WAR BECOMES REAL. Two More Deaths In Hospital Bring Casualties Up to Three. Two deaths In tho hospital at Fort Wadsworth brought the casualties of tho mimic war to threo. The dead' aro John Welsh, George Harvey and James McDowell, all members of the Ninth regiment, New York National Guard. Tho explosion nnd death of the vol unteer artillerymen did not halt tho war game. Two futllo attempts wero made by the hypothetical battleship fleet to pass the batteries and then the mimic war was pronounced over. The militiamen have returned to the city. Wright Succeeds Taft. Secretary of War William H. Taft presented to the president his resignation, to taljo effect Juno 30, and It was announced at tho Whlto House that Luke E. Wright of Tennessee will be appointed secretary of war to suc ceed Mr. Taft. In making this ap pointment the president was Influ enced somewhat by the desire to rec ognize In an emphatic way that there Is no longer any dividing line between the north and tho south and that all good' Americans are In thought and deed one and the president was Influ enced still more by tho fact that Gen eral Wright's personal attributes and experience pre-eminently fit him for this particular position. New Yorkero Wilt Under Hot Sun. Heat which has enveloped the eastern states for three days prostrated over a score of persons in and about New York. No relief is promised for two days by the weather burerii and hos pitals aro preparing to handle any number of heat cases. All New York and Its environs sweltered. There was little reduction In the tempera ture, which reached a maximum of 8G degrees at tho weather bureau. Should the heat continue, the public parks will be thrown open to all who wish to sleep on tho lawns. Wooley Tells of Liquor Evils. The evljs of liquor and tho progress Of the wavo of prohibition wero themes dealt on by John G. Wooley of Chicago, candidate for president on' the Prohibition ticket in 1000, In an address before a meeting of the world's temperance congress at Sara toga, N Y. Nineteen Death Sentences In Russia. A man and woman were condemned to death at Warsaw on the charge of be ing Implicated in a recent attempt to kill General Skallon, governor gen eral of Warsaw. Seventeen death soutences were announced from other towns and cities In Russia. SUFFRAGETTE DEMONSTRATION Women Throng Hyde Park, London, In Giant Appeal for Votes. Tho suffragette demonstration In Hyde park, London, wbb a great suc cess. Encouraged by previous suc cesses, tho suffragettes planned the demonstration as a climax of the year's fight for woman's Biiffrngo. It is hardly too much to say that never befcre was such a political demon' stratlon Been In London. Fully half a million people assem bled In and around Hyde park as ac tive or passive participants In the great meeting, whllo for two or three hours In the mlddlo of the day the Whole center of the city was in a fer ment. Various processions appeared, each about a mile long, and tho routes through which these passed were densely crowded with spectators. Tho suffragettes from "the prov inces" were met at tho various rail road stations by delegations from the London organization, and these, form ing Into line, marched from different points of the compass to Hydo park. After arriving there, the leaders and speakers for the various sections had literally to fight their way to the plat forms. Probably there were about twenty speakers In all and these ha rangued the masses on tho rights ol women to vote and tho necessity ol forcing parliament to adopt a resolu tion on the question. ' HYDE AND SCHNEIDER GUILTY Jury in Land Fraud Case Returns Ver dict Dlmond Is Acquitted. Tho jury at Washington. D. C. In western land fraud caso rendered a verdict for Hydo nnd Schneider, guilty, and Benson and Dlmond not guilty. The court thanked the mem bers of the Jury nnd Immediately re leased them from nny further service Sentence in the case of Hyde and Schneider was deferred and when Im posed by the court the two men will have four dayB In which to file notice of an appeal to the district court offi cials. Tho maximum penalty for the offense on which they are held by the Jury is Imprisonment of two years or $1,000 fine, or both. Benson, one of the two men ac quitted, was convicted some time ago In California, with Dr. Perrln, under another section of tho conspiracy law, In connection with public land mat ters. He was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment and his appeal from that sentence Is now pending. CURE OF LEPROSY RECORDED Louisiana Discharges Inmate Who Has Recovered from the Disease. A medical report touching on the cure of leprosy will be presented to the Louisiana assembly by the leper home of tho state of Louisiana. In this report appears the words: "Discharged cured, one; practically well and kept for observation, five." Briefly explained, tho meaning ol these figures Is that out of sixty-one lepers at the Louisiana Institution In the past two years, six have been prac tlcally cured. A fact of significance is that his report Is not submitted to the assembly as Indicating that any specific cure for leprosy has been dis covered. It is simply a statement ol tho results which have been obtained from giving lepers the same sanitary surroundings that the average person enjoys and an equal opportunity to re colvo first-class medical treatment. Kentucky Bank Goes Broke. The Citizens' bank, Dover, Ky.,closed. At the meeting of tho directors it was discovered that neither a single piece of paper nor a cent of money was In the safe. The bank was capitalized at $7,500, with deposits amounting to only $7,000. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Features of the Day's Trading and Closing Quotations. Chicago, Juno 22. The local wheat market was Irregular today the July option being heavy and tho distance options firm. At the close July was unchanged. Corn was 0Hc higher. Oats unchanged and provisions were 2H!7VC to 10c higher. Closing prices: Wheat July, 86j86c; Sept., 85c. Corn July, 69c; Sept., 70c. Oats July, 45c; Sept., 39Vc. Pork July, $14.50; Sept., $14.75. Lard July, $8.92H..; Sept., $9.12V$. Itlbs July, 8.12; Sept., $8.37. Chicago Cash Prices No. 2 hard wheat, 9192c; No. 2 corn, 72c; No. 3 whlto oats, 51253c. South Omaha Live Stock. South Omaha, June 22. Cattle Re ceipts, 2,800; best stronger, others lower; native steers, $4.7508.00; cows and helfers,$3.256.00; western steers, $3.506.10; Texas steers, $3.1005.75; canners. $2.0003.50; stockers and feeders, $3.005.10; calves, $3.00 6.00; bulls, stags, etc., $2.755.25. Hogs Receipts 5,500; 10c higher; heavy, $5.7505.85; mixed, $5.755.80; light, $5G55.80; pigs, $4.5005.40; bulk of sales, $5.755.80. Sheep Re celpts, 6,000; slow, 1015c lower; yearlings, $4.755.25; wethers. $4.50 5.00; ewes, $4.0004.60; lambs, $5.50 6.50. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, June 22. Cattle Receipts, 20,000; strong; steers, $6.008.25; cows, $3.C05.75; heifers, $4.0007.00; bulls, $3.5005.30; calves, $2.50G.80; stockers and feeders, $3.2505.25. Hogs Receipts, 36,000; 1015c high er; choice heavy shipping, $6,050 6 15; butchers, $6.0006.05; light, mix ed, $5.8506.00: choice light, $6,000 C.05; packers, $5.0005.95; pigs, $4.00 r,.50. Sheep Receipts, 18,000; steady; sheep, $4.2505.25; lambs, $5.0007.00; yearlings, $4.5005.50. THE CASH M. O. NEW, Propr. OUR MOTTO Pure Old CirJer" Vinegar JVI Q Trade JAMES KEELER "& WESTERN NEBRASKA 'awet FRICTION-DRIVE Full Line of Auto. Accessories Wemake a specialty of See us for... Cultivators Mowers Hay Rakes and Stackers Newberry's Hardware Co. First-class Views and Commercial Work Alliance Art Studio M. E. GUEIIE, Propr. Artistic Portraits a Specialty ALLIANCE, NEIUt. QUALITY WILL TELL I NOWHERE can quality be made to express care and skill more than in laundering. You can get clothes washed anywhere. But steam laundering means more than washed. It means, ist thor- ough cleansing with steam and harmless soap; 2d finishing by good machinery and skilled laoor. 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