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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1911)
NEBRASKA NEWS Farmer Shoots When Woman Refuses to Return to His Home. RESULT OF FAMILY QUARREL LYON fc HEALY PIANOS pERSONS WHO KNOW the merits of the celebrated Lyon & Healy Musical Instru ments will be pleased to learn that they have established an agency in Alliance for the sale of their goods. The first shipment of pianos has been received. They are on exhibition at 405 Box Butte Ave., where they may be in spected by prospective purchaser. These are strictly high-class instruments. Persons who wish this class of pianos can save money on each instrument purchased by buy ing at the Lyon & Healy Alliance agency. I M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II II II 1 1 1 Ml HIIHmMMMIimiMM I Need A TRAINED Man 1 ggaaaaaPr vJSrWgjMCT4: ' -3d M il af aEBftrr-k ' W Sf3 He Is in n Critical Condition, but Has Chance to Recover Tragedy Occurs at Home of Mother in-Law in Pres ence of Their Infant 8on. Hunting, Neb., April 3. Murder of his (rife arifl mi attempt at suicide, leaving Ms life in the balance, einti l UM marital difficulties of Harry Pal liter, twenty-three years oid, a farmer. Palmer shot hU wile in front of the home of her mother, where she hid taken refuge, and in the presence of their sou, an Infant of two years. Mrs. Palmer died live hours alter the shoot Ing. PaJatu is in a critical condition, but with possible chance to recover. Three uas ago differences between the Palmers reached the breaking point. They separated and Mrs. Pal mer went to the home of her mother, Mrs. John Nelson. Palmer took his Infant son and went to the home of his mother-in-law to call on his wife. He asked her at the door to get into his buggy, drawn up nearby. "I will not go," she replied. "Arc you going to live with me any more?" he inquired. "No, never," she replied. The two shots, murder and attempt ed suicide, followed. Palmer is the son of O. R. Palmer, a farmer. Both families are widely known in this county. Both formerly lived at Juniata. CAPITAL NATIONAL CASE "Yea, I'm tony, too, that you cannot fill the position, but what I need ia a TRAINED man a man who thoroughly understands the work." "No, there's no other position open we've hundreds of appli cants now on the list waiting for the little jobs. This position calls for a TRAINED man. Good day." That's it. There's a big call for the trained man the man who can handle the big things -the man who is an expert. You can easily receive the training that will put you in the class of well-paid men. You can't begin to under stand how quickly the little coupon below will bring you success. Already it has helped thousands of men to better paying positions and more congenial work. It will cost you only a two-cent stamp to learn how it is all done. Just mark the coupon as directed and mail it today. The Inter national Correspondence Schools have a way to help you. During last year over 4,000 students voluntarily re ported better positions and higher salaries secured through I. C. S. training. To only this small per centage of our student body there was brought in creased salaries amounting in one year to over Two Million Dollars! Don't fill a little job all your life when you can so easily move up in the world. The Business of This Place b to Raise Salaries Decision Reached by Court in Long Pending Controversy. Seward, Neb., April 3. At a special sitting of the court here District Judg. Good rendered a decision in the Cap ital National hank case, finding gen et ally for the plaintiffs. The eases grew out of the failure of the Capital National bank of Lincoln sixti 00 years ago. The plaintiffs were the Bank of Ctiea. Jones National bank of Bp ward, Bank of Staplehurst, Thomas Bailey, and the estate of Isaac Holt. The (minim tits were for $75, 090, divided as follows: Bank of Ctiea, $11,737: Jones National hank of Seward, $23,477: Bank of Sttipleimi st, $l!t,"2:; Thomas Bailey, 14000j es tate of Isaac Holt, $7,501). This case has been trie, In all the courts and was triad to a jury in Sew ard in IMS and the venliit whs then rendered in I heir favor, alter which It was carried to the higher courts and there reversed on technicalities. I). K. Thompson was the defendant in the Jones National bank case and the Staplehurst hank case, and Director Yates of the Capital National bank was the defendant in the other suits. Intrraational Correspondence Schools ex 7M. Scraatoa. Pa. Please ctplale. without further obllgatloa n my part, auw 1 taa quality for a tartar aalary la lee potlttoa belora whu h I aavc narked X. Bookkeeper Stenographer AoSatuauueat Writer Show -Card Writer Waatiow Trimmer Cnafiiil Law IBuaualot GvJ Service Te.ule MJI Supt. Electric Electrical Fajiarrr Mechanical Drahamao Telephone Engineer f lr. in. I lithium Sip Mechanical Engineer Surveyor Stationary Engineet Gvil Engineer Building Contractor Architectural Dlafoj. Architect Structural Engineet Banking Mining Et e A'ome I Street . J Obj 'AY.. Sim INCENDIARY PLOT THWARTED Attempt Made to Destroy Italian Tenement at Omaha. Omaha, April 4. Incendiary fire and a possible attempt at double mur der v. ere discovered at an Italian groeary store, 10(4 South Twentieth street Torches soaked in oil were placed against the celling of the basement directly under a tank of gasoline standing on the floor above. But a thin layer oi flooring separated the explosive fluid from the flames. Four families, each 'including sev eral children, occupy the apartments above the store. Two men were sleep ing in a room against the wall where the gasoline tank stood. Firemen aroused the sleepers only after re peated efforts. When the fire department arrived the blare was easily controlled. An Investigation by the Are wa.-den re vealed the cause of the Are. Wads of waste soaked In fish oil were wired to the celling ol the cellar. The work indicated care and deliberate plans for th destruction of the building. CONGRESS MEETS Both Houses Convene In Extra ordinary Session. CLARK IS ELECTED SPEAKER. I Jk 7MCHESTER f iW f i i T- - Repeating Shotguns SID IN THE U. ft. ARMY. The U. S. Army authorities know a gun; that ia why, when they decided to equip some troops with repeating shotguns, they selected the Win chester in preference to all other makes. The experts of the U. S. Ordnance Board also know a gun; that'a why, after submitting a Winches ter Repeating; Shotgun to all sorts of tests, they pronounced it safe, sure, strong and simple. I f you want a shotgun buy the one whose strength and reliability led the U. S. Army authorities to select it and the U. S. Ordnance Board to endorse it that's the Winchester. ELIABLE R EPEATE RS EVANGELICAL MEETING ENDS Four Delegates Are Elected to Gen eral Conference. Grand Island, Neb., April 4. The annual conference of the Evangelical association of Nebraska came to a close here with a sermon by Bishop Strong of Cleveland. The conference has been hugely attended. No little a 1 1 en t ion was paid to foreign missions and the reports of the work in this department were gratifying, as were those of the growth of the churches at home. Delegates to represent this state at the general conference at Cleveland, O., in October, were elected, as fol lows: He. H Soh! of Fremont. Ilev P. U Wiegert of Hastings, Rev F. H Roatachaf of Mil ford and layman Otto H. Hugemeier of North Ixiup. McCook After New School. McCook. Neb., April 4 Quite ex traordinary interest is concentrating In southwestern Nebraska over the lo cation of the agricultural college, and McCook and the western portion of the district embraced within the pro visions of th bill are keenly interest ad in the lo ation of the school here Captain H. E. Palmer Is Dead. Omaha, April 3. Henry Emerson Palmer, a prominent citizen of Omaha for the laM twenty-five years and former postmaster, died suddenly at his home. Democrats Have Majority of Sixty Seven in House--Nine Senators Re tire, Many of Whom Have Long Been Prominent in Upper House. Washington, April 4. The Stxty-sec-pnd congress convened at noon today In extraordinary session. Speaker Champ Clark received a re markable ovation when ho took up the gavel, after b 'Ing elected over Repre sentative Mann of Illinois, the Repub lican candidate. The galleries were crowded and there was a good attendance of sena tors and representatives. The polit ical complexions of the two branches of congress are as follows: House Democrats, 228; Republic ans, 1C0; Socialist. 1; vacancies, 2, the Ninth Iowa and Second Pennsylvania districts. Senate Republicans, 50; Democrats, 41; vacancy, 1, from Colorado. The roll calls in the two branches will show som remarkable changes from the last session. In the house the Democrats show a gain of fifty- CHAMP CLARK four members nnd the Republicans a loss of flily-five, the Socialist mem ber, Victor Bergvr of Milwaukee, ac counting for the difference In theeqiia tion. By reason of the change resulting from the election last November, new faces are aem Fifty Republicans in Senate. Tnstend of the fifty-nine Republicans who occupied seats in the senate on March 4, there are only fifty today. The ranks of the minority are In creased from thirty-two to forty-one. More notable even than the large number of new faces In the senate and the house are the absence of so many veteran legislators. Chief among those whose absence loomed large were Tawney of Minnesota, Boutell of Illinois, Scott of Kansas, McKinley of California, Bennet, Fish. Parsons and Cocks of New York, Hull nnd Smith of Iowa, Denby of Michigan, Keifer of Ohio. Cannon appeared in the ranks of the minority. Four mem bers, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Poindex ter of Washington, Gronna of North Dakota and Townsend of Michigan have been elevated to the senate. Senator Aldrich Absent. No longer will the senate roll call open with the familiar name of Aid rich, the Rhode Island leader having voluntarily reuounced another term to devote himself to leisure and the study of monetary reforms. He is succeeded by Henry P. Lippltt. Many other striking figures are missed from the senate floor, notably Hale of Maine, succeeded by Charles F. John son; Beveridge of Indiana, who was vanquished by John W. Kern; Kean of New Jersev, in whose place is James F Martine; Warner of Missouri, re placed by James A. Reed; Dick of Ohio, replaced by Atlee Pomerene, and Carter of Montana, succeeded by Henry L Meyers. All of these changes represent Democratic gains txcept in the CRM of Rhode Island. Th" other henate changes are Fra iler o Tennessee, succeeded by Luke Lea, the youngest of all the senators: Money of Mississippi, whose place is filled by John Sharp Williams, former ly the Democratic leader of the house; Flint of California, succeeded by John D Work: Bulkeley of Connecticut wno gave way to George P. Mclean, form erly governor of hU stata; Burrows of Michigan, whose mantle is worn by former Representative Townsend: Burkett of Nebraska, succeeded by former Representative Hitchcock; Scott and Klkins of West Virginia, the former succeeded by W. B. Chil ton, while C. V. Watson, already had taken the place of Senator Klkins, and Piles of Washington, succeeded by termer Representative Polndexter, while the place of Senator Depew Is filled by the election of Justice James A. O'Oorinati Gfrm.in Bluejackets Killed. Kiel, Germany, April 1 Three blue Jackets were killed and four other? Injun d in an explosion of methylated spirits aboard the ironclad cruiser Yort k 1st the German navy. 9 10 If 12 1314 ffi BlflT lip 20 21 221 23242526272829 Njjru CONDENSED NEWS Otto Rlngllng, of circus fame, dleo in New York America holds the record for ntim her of homicides. Camorrist chief says any one with out a passport tan land in the United States for $20. Fear is felt for the safety of Cap tnln Elmer Mikkelsen and companion 'ost on the east coast of Greenland. Diplomas were presented to the twenty-three graduates of the Carlisle Indian school at the commencement cxercltea. aY pen and ink artist who raises one dollar" Mils to $10 and $20 national bank notes Is being sought by the se cret service. General Bell's Idea of the "world'" greatest garrison," which will cost $20,000,000, is being carried out at Fort Sill, Okla. Filth in Chicago's milk supply In a year if gathered together would fill four big freight cars, according to the health department. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cary Rumaey at the home of Mrs. Rumsey's mother, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, in New York. The grand jury began an Investiga tion into the charges brought by Mag lstrate Corrigan that vice and crime are rampant in New York city. The Maine senate adopted a state Income tax bill and declined to ratify the federal amendment to the consti tution providing for an income tax. As a result of the murder of Will itm Deviate, white, at Muddy, 111., by a negro, Alexander Dixon, the whites at that mining hamlet have driven all negroes away. An audit of the finances of Butte, Mont , for th" last ten years has been made public by the Butte Business Men' association. Many discrepancies Ifl the accounts of the various officials ire reported. A threat by her husband to cut oft her head and hang It up on a nail brought Mrs. Delia Bartlett, 5303 Windsor avenue, Chicago, before Judge William Feniniorc Cooper seek ing a divorce. She got it. Earl Ppranklc, an automobile deal er of Akron, O., charged with causing the death of Helen Starr and Laura Waldkirk on Nov. 4, 1910, by running them down with his automobile, was found guilty of manslaughter. The supreme court of the United States declined to enjoin the federal judges in Oklahoma from enforcing the decrees they had issued in liquor cases, involving questions of jurisdic tion over liquor In Interstate com merce. The First National bank of Thayer Kan., with a capital of $25,000, was closed and a national bank examiner has been placed in charge of its af fairs. Crop failures in southern Kan sas and Oklahoma are reported to be tho cause. William Weegln, a rancher of South Prairie, Wash., went violently insane uid. taking a rifle, went out on a coun try road and shot and killed the first three passersby, who were John Ranke, William Ranke and John Ware, all of Burlington, Wash. After a five-minute speech on the scaffold, in which he declared his guilt and complete willingness to ex piate it with death, Frank Henson, a negro, wai hanged at Tulsa, Okla., for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles S. Tamper last October. The Anal obstruction to the Loetsch berg tunnel through the Bernese Alps was pierced by the laborers after five and a half years' work and the ex penditure of $20,000,000. The tunnel, which is the third longest In Europe, measures approximately nine miles. In a complaint filed with the Inter state commerce commission practical ly all the publishing companies of Des Moines Joined in the allegation that the railroad freight rates on print paper from points in Wisconsin and Minnesota to Des Moines are unrea sonable. President Taft enlivened the pro ceetlings ot tne Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church by declaring that he could only do with congress what ministers hope to do with their congregation-!, make his recommendations and then pray for the best results. The third death In New York city during a fortnight from excessive rope skipping by school girls is being in vestlga'ed by the coroner's office May Tnniplln, eight years old, Is the latest vi.-tim. She died alter engaging In a rope skipping contest for the championship of her school. Booker T. Washington, the negro educator, will spend bia summers hereafter In one of the finest sections of Ixng Island a neighborhood where many wealthy New Yorkers have large estates. He has just purchased the J. Cornell Brown property, overlooking Long Island cound, at Fort Salonga. WRECK NEAR CRAWFORD Runaway Freight Train Crashes Into Passenger. Crawford, Neb , April 1. A runaway freight train containing fifty-nine carp crashed into No. 42, Burlington east bound passenger train, wrecking one engine nnd ten boxcars. That no one wns Injured is considered remarkable. The freight train had been set out on a lid !(, which is on a steep grade, and the brakes became loosened, al lowing the train to run down the main line at a spcrd ot eight miles an hour No. 42's train requires a helper engine hetween Crawford and Belmont and this engine, which had just been at ?n hed. received the full Impact of the runaway cars and undoubtedly saved Lie lives of the Imperilled passengerB No. 42 was standing still at the depot nnd the engineer and fireman of the wrecked engine saw the danger and Mv)d themselves by jumping. Traffic was delayed several hours by the wrecked cars. GERMAN MAY BE DEPORTED Prisoner at Nebraska City t Be R turned to Fatherland. Nebraska City, Neb., April 1. Aome time since a German, giving the ame of Bergcr. was arrested because he assaulted the wife of a farmer when she refused to stop her house work and supply him with something to ent when he came begging, but promised him food as soon as she got through sweeping. Since the man hae heen In Jail it has been ascertained that he was sent away from Germany because he could not keep out of trou ble and was finally jailed because of. an assault on his mother. The church furnished him money with which to come to this country. It has been de cided by the county officials since they have looked up his record to ask that he be deported and returned to the country from whence he came. This is th" first case of deportation from this section of the state. EDUCATORS ELECT OFFICERS Southeastern Nebraska Teachers' As sociation Adjourns. Nebraska City, Neb., April 1. The Southeast' Nebraska Teachers' as sociation elected the following officers for the eiisu'ng year: President, Su perintendeot A. H. Bteley of Superior; vice president. Superintendent B. A. EVtstwood of Diller; secretary, Super intendent Lain Woodford of Pawnee City; trcasurtr, Principal E. K. Hunt of Falls City: executive committee, R. C Harris of Fuirbury and Superintend ent B. J, Bodwell of Beatrice. AGED MAN IS DROWNED Body of Hastings Pioneer Found Floating in Lake. Hastings. Neb.. April 1. The body of John Davidson, Sr.. aged sixty five, pioneer citizen, was found floating in Heart well lake. Death resulted from drowning, probably ac idental. On in vestigation the coroner found no evi dence of suicide and no inquest was ordered. For many years he conduct ed a tailor shop here. It Is thought the man suffered a stroke of apoplexy while fishing and fell into the lake. HASTINGS DOCTOR IN TROUBLE Dr. Swigart Is Held Responsible for Death of Sixteen-Year-Old Lass. Hastings, Neb , April 1. A coroner'e jury held Dr. H. M. Swigart responsi ble for the death of Miss Grace Baker, aged sixteen, who died last Monday as a result of a criminal operation. Dr. Swigart was arrested and released on $5,000 bond pending preliminary examination Boy Killed by Automobile. Grand Island. Neb., April 1. Les ter Brayton, seven years old and son of a farmer residing near the western line of Hall county, was almost in stantly killed by being run over by an automobile driven by Henry J. Becker, a dealer in musical instruments In this city. The boy was playing In the road when the automobile passed by the school house Safe Blown at Northport. Bridgeport, Neb., April 1. Burglars entered the branch store of the Bridge port Mercantile company, across the river at Northport, blew open the safe and secured $75 in money. The post office is in the same building, but neither the stamps nor any of the merchandise was interfered with. Omaha Pioneer Ends Life. Omaha, April 1. Allen Koch, a re tired dry goods merchant, shot and killed himself. Mr. Koch was sixty two years old and had been ailing for some time The body was found In the basement of the home. Mr. Koch had held a mirror before him and fired the bullet hut, his brain. Wcyne Goes After Depot. Wayne, Neb., April 1. State Rail way Commissioners Clarke and Furse were here in a case between F. A. Berry, representing the Wayne Com mercial dub. and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railway, in wh; "h th" complainant asked for a new depot iu Wayne Eastern Nebraska Teachers Hold Meet Fremont, Neb., April 1. The East ern Nebraska Teachers' association met in annual session at the opera house, with Charles Arnot of Schuyler presiding. The principal speaker was J R. Garfield. His subject was the progressive movement, which he treat ed as not confined to political Maea,