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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1908)
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Hartford, Conn Fireman Fund Insurance Co. Hochestur German Ins. Co. Office UoStnlrs.rictchcr Ulock. Good turnouts, strict attention to our business, and courteous treatment to all has won for us the excellent patronage we enjoy. Try us. Wallace's Transfer Line Household goods moved prompt!' and transfer work solicited. Phone 1 Frank Wallace, Prop'r. TO Candidate's Townsmen Givo Him Rousing reception. Dozen Bands Furnish Music, Fireworks Add Spectacular Feature and Tens of Thousands Along Route Shout Themselves Hoarse. The home-coming of James S. Sher man was mado the occasion of such a demonstration at Utlca as has rarely hceii soon In the Empire state. The welcome to the Ropubllcan candU dato for vlco presidential honors was a non-partisan affair and to a great extent personal, for the congressman's recovery from his recont somewhat alarming Illness gavo added reason for public rejoicing on his safo return. Mr. Sherman, accompanied by Mrs. Sherman and Dr. Carter, reached hero on tho Now York express from tho west Thursday night. As the train drew into the station bands played, fire works woro set off and church chimes rang out. In Dags square and every other Bpot adjacont to tho Now York Central station thousands of persons were crowdod. Mr. Sherman stopped from tho train Blowly, looking palo and worn. But he had stood the jour ney well, his physician said. A monster procession formed in the vi cinity of the station and escorted tho candidate to his home. Tho lino of march covered fully two miles and tho paraders Included representative civic, military and fraternal organizations. Tho route lay through tho principal streets, tho buildings of which were decorated with flags, streamers and mottoes, all Illuminated by electric lights. A dozen bands furnished mu sic, fireworks added a spoctacular feature and tens of thousands of per sons along tho routo shouted them selves hoarse. At Mr. Sherman's homo the formal welcome took place, tho principal speaker being Mayor J. D. Kernan. FIELDING WINS BALLOON RACE Comes to Earth in Quebec, 800 Miles from Starting Point In Chicago. Tho "Chicago to ocean" long dis tance balloon race ended Sunday night, when the last of tho nine contestants came to earth at West Shefford, Que., S00 miles from the starting point. This craft was tho Fielding, owned by F. J. Fielding of San Antonio, Tex. It covered approximately 100 miles more than its nearest competitor, and Is also believed to have captured tho prize for the balloon which remained In the air the longest. The contest was marked by soveral thrilling escapes from drowning. The Ville do Dieppe dropped Into Lake Michigan 'soon after tho start, and' for an hour or moro Colonel A. 15. Mueller and George Schoeneck, its occupants, wero swept across the surface, finally arising with their craft to a height or 7,000 feet, from which they descended to Denton Harbor, Mich. A similar experience fell to the lot of C. H. Perlgo and J. D. Case, crew of the Illinois. While endeavoring to effect a landing near Lake Ontario, their balloon fell into tho Bay of Quinte. The aeronauts had donned life preservers and managed to keep afloat until a yacht put off from Glen Island and rescued them. The fate of their balloon Is not known, Per igo's message to his family stating simply that he and Case were safe. Tho third serious accident took place near Clinton, Ont. The balloon Columbia could not bo controlled by Captain Peterson and Captain Lelch letter and they were dashed against trees and dragged through barbed wire fences. Both men were painfully injured. Tho landing places of tho nine balloons were as follows: Field ing, West Shefford, Que.; America, Carsonville, Mich.; King Edward, Port Huron, Mich.; Chicago, Atwood, Ont.; United States, Plnkerton, Ont.; Co lumbia, Clinton, Ont.; Cincinnati, Co vert, Mich.; Illinois, Glen Island, Ont.; ,VIlle do Dieppe, Benton Harbor, Mich. MEET NEXT AT DENVER National Educational Association Rec ommends Colorado Capital. Denver was named by the board of dl was recommended by the board of dl rectors of tho National Educational association as the place for the next annual convention of the association. Final action will not be taken until the next session of the board, In De cember. Denver won out over Atlan tic City, Chicago and Seattle. That a very large per cent of pupils are driven to light and sentimental reading as a result of methods now In vogue in tho public schools, was the charge made before the library depart ment meeting by L. E. Wolf, superin tendent of city schools, San Antonio. Tex., in an address on the means by which the library can become of more benefit to the schools. "Instead of reading fifty pages a day at school," said Mr. Wolf, "a few pages would stimulate the pupil to a desire for better reading Tho department of school admin istration was addressed by William D Ittner, architect of schools, St Louis and John Latenser, school architect, Omaha. Evans Has Chalk In Tissue. Dispatches from Poughkeepsle say Hear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who is spending the summer at Mohonk lake, has submitted to an operation for gout. The admiral has been suf fering from a chalky substance in the tissues. A large quantity of chalk was taken out by Dr. G W. Poucher The result of the operation was to greatly relieve the admiral. 0 TO SHERMAN DLA2E CAU8ES SEVEN DEATHS Explosion In Cleveland Store Followed by Flames and Panic. Seven persons wero killed, two woro fatally Injured' nnd fully thirty more were soverely hurt as tho result ol a flro In S. S. Krcngo's 5 nnd 10-cont store, on Ontario street, Cleveland, O. The dead: Emma Schumackcr, Mnrle Wngnor, Anna Trefnll, Friday Trefall, Elizabeth Rols, Mary Hughes, James L. Parker. Tho flro followed an explosion ot flroworks on display In tho storo. Opinions differ as to tho exact cause of tho explosion. A woman who was at tho fireworks counter said the stock was ignited by sparks from a dcvlco which was being demonstrated to her by a clerk. Flro Chief Wallace and tho storo managor wero of the opinion that tho pieces woro Ignited by nn arc light. immediately following tho explo sion an alarm of flro was sounded and a panic seized tho hundreds of clerks and shoppers. A mad rush wns mnde for tho doors and windows. Many jumped from tho second and third floor windows. Tho Btore, which Is located near tho busiest corner In tho downtown district, was well filled with shop pers, moBtly women and children. Practically all of tho clorka woro young girls. Although tho explosion of the fireworks caused consternation, the real panic did not occur until Bomo one shouted "Fire." For an Instant a hush camo over tho crowd. Then women screamed, soino fainted and sudden fear over came them. Crazed by the possibility of death, all on tho main floor rushed to tho front and rear doors. Quickly they wero Jammed In tho. front door way. During tho jam those who had attempted to escape by tho rear door were blocked In their progress. Tho back door was too small for all who sought safety thero and tho rear win dows wero closed with Iron bars. Those who could not escape in this direction, turned to tho front door. While practically every ono on tho main floor was able to leavo without Injury through the front door, it was mainly because of the Jam nt that door that tho seven unfortunato onos lost their lives. Two of tho clerks, seeing no possibility of Immediate es cape at the front door, ran to tho basement. Tho basement windows also wero barred with iron, nnd tholr return to the main floor was cut off by the npproach of tho flames. Tho other women, again forced to tho rear of tho store by tho approaching flames, finally sought safety under a counter, whoro their bodies wero found two hours after tho explosion. The five women had been Buffocated. WRECKED MINE 18 ON FIRE Two Hundred and Fourteen Bodies Recovered at Yusovo. The bodies of 214 persons, recovered from the Rlkovsky mine, which wns tho scene of an explosion of gas, wero burled nt Yusovo, Russia. The horror of the situation was added' to by Are, which broke out in the shaft. It penetrated the Inner galleries, where 150 men were impris oned, and made tho efforts of the res cue parties almost useless. In tho distance, from behind heaps of fallen debris, could be heard cries for help all day. Fifty-three moro bodies were taken out, all horribly mutilated. Some of the men had been burned to death, while the heads and limbs of others had been torn off by the forco of tho explosion. Seventy-five wound ed .wore taken out and removed to hospitals. Of these, ten succumbed during the day and many others aro in a precarious condition. Three women, who stood at the mouth of tho pit and recognized tho bodies of their husbands, dropped dead from the shock. A number of others have gone mad. REBELS WIN IN PARAGUAY Revolutionists Install Dr. Navelro as President. Advices received at Buenos Ayres, Argentine, state that tho revolution ists have been victorious In Paraguay and that a new government has been established. These advices have been confirmed by a dispatch received by the minister of foreign affairs from tho Argentina legation at Asuncion, officially notifying tho minister that the revolutionary party had succeeded In overthrowing the Paraguayan gov ernment and that several of the Para guayan ministers of state had taken refuge In the legation. The revolu tionists have appointed as president, Dr. Emlllano Gonzales Navelro. He held the office of vice president in tho government which has Just been ousted. Fighting has been proceeding In the streets of Asuncion for some days past and many of the public buildings have been seriously damaged. Pre vious estimates of the killed and In jured have been exaggerated, and It is now believed that the number will not exceed COO. 8TORM CLAIM8 FIVE VICTIM8 Town of Sunnyslde, N. M., Wrecked by Fierce Gale. Five persons were killed and forty bad ly Injured In a terrific storm, whlcn swept through the towns of Sunny side and Fort Sumner, on the Santa Fo cutoff, in Guadaloupe county, N. M. The dead: Henry Gerhardt and in fant son; Miss Mack Alverado; two unknown Mexicans. All of the fatalities were In Sunny side, a town of 500 Inhabitants, and practically every residence and busi ness building in the town were wrecked. Or Seven Lives Lost at Lincoln and Fivo at Unadilla. Train Servlco In and Out of Nebraskn Capital Stopped and City Wlthou Electric Light or Gas Result of Five Inches of Rain. Lincoln, July 7. Tho death less from the tremendous floods caused by tho big rains now number soven, John Nelson was drowned while trying to rcscuo some stock. D. Amen took his four children In a boat and was mak ing an effort to reach n pluco of safe ty, when tho boat overturned. Thb youngest, n child of four, was rescued, by onlookers, hut tho father and othor three children wero swept away by tho strong current and nil were drowned. Gulllard' Nichols, aged fif teen, was swept from a bridge and drowned. Nono of tho bodies have been recovered. In addition to these Mrs. Schuster, who had been 111, win being taken from her homo In a bont to a placo of safety, and died on tho way from exposure nnd' fright. Tho flood caused a property loss which cannot yet bo even approxi mately estimated, an almost total sus pension of railroad traffic to and from tho city and misery to hundreds ot families who havo been driven from their homes and aro sheltered In pub lic buildings and' private residences. The flood followed the greatest down pour of rain known hero for many years a fraction over flvo Inches. Tho lowlnndB In tho western part of tho city, occupied by tho Burlington, Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific roads, and whero tho Russian colony lives, was a vast sheet of water, vary ing In depth from three to fifteen feet. Rescuo work by police, firemen and citizen volunteers was prompt, elso thero would havo been n much larger death list. Of tho forty trains which dally enter Lincoln, only one, tho Mis souri Pacific, which was able to util ize its suburban depot of Peck's Grove, got within tho city limits. Tho Lincoln gas and electric light plant is flooded nnd householders who de pend on gus for cooking and light wero obliged to return to primitive methods. Newspapers were badly handicapped on account of tho inabil ity to get gaB for their linotype ma chines. Tho flood Is subsiding, hut It will bo days before the flooded houses can bo reoccupled, and probably twenty-four hours before trains can run regularly. Five Drowned In Nemaha. Unadilla, Neb., July 7. Five per sons, all members of ono family, wero drowned In tho Nemaha river, near here. Tho dead: John Doyle, Mrs. John Doyle and their three children, Tho DoylcB lived on tho Nemaha bot toms. A flood of water, following a cloudburst, lifted their house from Its foundation nnd carried it to tho swollen river. Doyle got out of the house and started for help, but fell from a bridge Into tho torrent. All the occupants of the hquse were lost Sixty Head of Cattle Stolen. Beatrice, Neb., July 7. Sixty head of yearling cnttlo have disappeared from the Madding ranch, five miles northwest of Beatrice, and W. H. Bowman, proprietor of the ranch, who discovered the loss today, believes the robbery was committed som; tlm on Saturday or Sunday. Mr, Bowman has been feeding a herd of 000 bead for the past few months, and they were all fat and just ready for ship ment. The animals stolen aro valued at about $3,000. Bloodhounds are be ing employed to run down the thieves Shot by Runaway 8on. Chadron, Neb., July 7. While en deavoring to persuade his fifteen-year-old runaway hoy to return home, W D. Combs was shot by his son twice with a double-barrelled shotgun A doctor extracted the shot, which struck Combs from his chin to the waistband. The trouble is the outcome of persistent effort on the youth s part to leave homo and explore other regions. The youth Is in custody Silver Creek to Have Saloon. Central City, Neb., July 7 By a do clslon of Judge Hollenbeck, the town of Silver Creek will have a saloon this year. An appeal had been taken to the courts against the action of the village board In overruling the remou strator and Issuing a license, and the court sustains the action of the board Electrical Storm at Lexington. Lexington, Neb , July 7 In a se vere electrical storm the Union Pa cific depot was struck by lightning and caught fire. It was entirely de stroyed Judge TurtonV residence wa3 struck twice and greatly dam aged and several other buildings were partially wrecked Ogalatla Board Grants Saloon License. Ogalalla, Neb . July 3. After an all night session, the village board grant ed a saloon license to C, C. Menter. Vigorous opposition to the granting of the license was made by the ami saloonlstB, who will now carry the case to the district court. Bolt Strikes Grain Elevator. Scotia, Neb., July 7. Lightning de stroyed the Weeks grain elevator The loss is estimated at (15,000, with in surance of $5,000. Sheldon Honors Requisition. Lincoln, July 3 Governor Sheldon honored the requisitions for the returr to Burlington, la., ot M V Mapes and Nellie Dwyer, charged with forgery. MEWS NEBRASKA KING AND KEMP CONTEND Nance County Wants Its Turn at8tato Senatorshlp Nomination. Central City, Neb., July 3. With E. L. King of Polk county, tho present Incumbent, being put forward by his friends for a renominatlon for stato senator, and Attorney J. II. Kemp oC Nnnco county, also In tho Hold, thero is prospects of n spirited strugglo for tho placo on the ticket. Tho district comprises tho counties qf Polk, Nanco and Merrick. Nnnco county politicians contend tho nomination bolongs to them, for the reason that It always has gone to each of the threo counties In turn, and for this reason they will Insist thnt Kemp bo recognized. Sen ator King's friends, on tho other hand, contend thnt his record entitles htm to a second term and that on nccount ot his support of reform mensures In tho legislature there Is u strong popular demand for his renominatlon which cannot be Ignored. Merrick county, with no cnndldato of its own to put forward, Is playing a neutral rolo, HUMPHREY AERONAUT KILLED Clinging to Ropes, Is Thrown by Wind Against Brick Building. Columbus, Nob., July C Paul Hack- stack of Humphrey, nn nmatour aero nnut, was killed while making an as cent In a balloon. As tho balloon started up a gust of wind caught It, throwing it against some electric light wires and Hackstack apparently re ceived a shock. Ho clung to tho ropes, however, but ob tno balloon, with no one to control It, reloascd Itself from tho w,lres, it throw tho man with terrific force against a brick building, and ho fell to tho ground on Eleventh street, striking on tho stono pavement. He died on tho way to tho hospital. Death List Now Numbero Thirteen. Valentino, Neb,, July 0. Tho death list In the Northwestern wreck near tho llttlo station of Clinton, west of hero, now numbers thirteen, nlno trarnpB and four trainmen. Tho spot whero tho culvert was washed away has never been known to contain moro than a foot of water at a time, and when tho double-header freight plunged Into the hoto, It was filled with nlno feet of water. Had the pas senger train been on tlmo, It would have been running ahead ot tho freight and tho death loss would doubtless havo been much larger. Express Companies Pay Fines. Lincoln, July 4. Tho AdamB, Amer ican and United States Express com panies confessed judgment in tho county court nnd paid fines of $500 and costs each as penalty for falling to file their reports with tho stato railway commission. Tho action of tho express companies Is considered an admission of .the validity ot tho railway law requiring the filing of tho reports. . ( Street Marriage at Beatrice. Beatrice, Neb., July 4. Despite tho protests of the church people, tho street marriage advertised as a Fourth of July attraction In Beatrlcn will bo pulled oft today at the timet set. Juago Frank Crawford will of ficiate Rev Mr, Dean of the Episco pal church filed a written protest against tho affair, claiming the sanc tity of the marriage ceremony would, be debused by such a proceeding. Petition for Grand Jury. ' Tecumseh, Neb., July 4. Alleging that gambling and other lawlessness is being practiced In Tecumseh, forty citizens have presented u petition to Judge J. B. Raper ot the district court asking him to call a grand jury. Tho petition was referred tu tho county attorney The general Impression is that a grand jury will be called tor the next term of court. Chamberlain Gets Change of Venue. Tecumseh, Neb., July 4. Charles M. Chamberlain, cashier of the failed Chamberlain National bank of this city, against whom two cases are pending, charging him with receiving money when ho knew the bank wus Insolvent, has been granted a chango of i venue Judge Raper signed an or der transferring the cases to Gage country for trial. Grandstand Falls at Edison. Arapahoe, Neb , July 6. During tho ball game between Oxford and Edi son, at the latter place, the grand stand tell, seriously Injuring Ave and slightly bruising a score or moro Ruth Budeher, a young woman, had both legs broken and received Injuries to her back Roy Wilson was in jured in the hip, as was Charles Cur tis. Nebraska Buys California Bonds. Lincoln. July 4. Stato Treasurer Brian has bought $500,000 worth of California state bonds at par to njt the stato 4 per cent interest. Treas urer Brian went to California last week, In answer to a notice that the bonds were to bo sold to the highest bidder, and he wired that he had se cured the entire issue. Seventeen Tralnloads of Democrats. Omaha, July 6. Almost a continu ous stream of special trains, loaded with Democrats headed for Denver, arrived in Omaha during the day and most of the delegations spent a few hours here. Altogether, seventeen tralnloads of Democrats poured through Omaha. Sheridan County Farmer Slain. Rushvllle, Neb., July 6. Emllo San dose, a prominent farm.er living on Pine creek, was shot and killed by Ralph Neuman, a young man who has been In that section of the country for about one year. The cause of the killing arose over a homestead filing.