Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
NEWS OF IHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER on
LE8SKR IMPORTNCE.
A
OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Othor
Matter In Brief Form for All
Classes of Renders.
WASHINGTON.
According to Stato Geologist R. C.
Allen of MIchlgnn, that Btato may
coaso to be a coal producing Btato
within fifteen years.
Tho commission of flvo appointed
by Uio French government to select
a Bito at tho Panama-Pacific exposi
tion has been recolved by Prosidont
Wilson and Secretary Bryan.
President Wilson's nrwilly will cioso
tho "summer White- houso" at Cornish
on Octobor 15 and roturn to Washing
ton. Had tho currency situation been
loss acute, Mrs. Wilson and her
daughters would have romaincd hero
until later, being Joined by tho presi
dent for a brlof vacation.
Fatalities in tho coal mlnos of tho
"United StatcB during tho first seven
months of tho year numbered 1,137,
as compared , with 1,419 in tho samo
porlod last year, according to reports
to tho bureau of mines.
Argontina Is about to secure tho
uorvicoB of two agricultural exports
from this country. They aro Dr. A. D.
Molvin, who has boon chief of tho
bureau of animal Industry since 1005,
and Wlllot M. Hays, former assistant
of agriculture.
On tho hools of tho failure of con
gress to logislato in tho tariff bill to
prevent gambling In cotton futures,
Representative Harrison of Mississippi
Introduced a resolution providing for
an international campulgn against
such speculation.
Secretary McAdoo haB called a con
ference of collectors of customs to bo
hold at Now York beginning Novem
ber 3, to consider improved mothods
In oustomB administration. In thu
Interest of economy and ofllciency It
Is expected that tho conforonco will
recommend sweeping reforms.
From tho north and from tho south
Secretary McAdoo rocelvod contribu
tions to tho federal treasury from conscious-stricken
cltlzons. An unknown
resident of Portsmouth, N. H., sent
$1, which ho said he "thought" ho
owed tho United States, and a citizen
of Birmingham, Ala., anonymously
llkowlso contributed $319.
Surounded by tho loadors of a uni
ted democracy, President Wilson
(signed tho Underwood-Simmons tariff
bill. Simultaneously telegrams wore
sent to customs collators throughout
tho country by tho treasury depart
ment, putting into actual operation tho
first democratic tariff revision Blnco
1894.
Democrats of tho sonato wroto Into
tho urgent dollclency appropriation
bill a provision oxompting from the
classified civil sorvlco all doputy Uni
ted States Internal revenue collectors
and all doputy marshals. To repub
licans have denounced tho provision
an "an outrago on tho civil service
eyBtein."
' President Wilson has romovod Judge
Cornollus D. Murano, Unltod StatoB
district judgo at Nome, AlaBka. Attor
ney General McReynoldB, by direction
of tho president, roquostod tho resig
nation of Judge Murnno sovornl weoka
ago and tho latter refused to resign
until next Juno. This resulted In tho
president's Bummary action.
DOMESTIC.
Tho prlco of all standard grades of
granulated sugar has been reduced 35
points and 1b now 4.45 polntB per
' pound.
Waltor Johnson, who Is loading all
pitchers In tho major leagueB has
elgnod a contract with Managor Grif
fith of tho Washington team for tho
1914 season. Tho salary wub not an
nounced, but It Is understood to be
112,500.
Miss Harriet Otis Croft, a Boston
bachelor maid who died abroad last
summer loft one of a $1,000,000 es
tate to public churltlcs In her uatlvo
city.
Six dynamlto bombs wnro thrown
into tho, stockade surrounding the Mit
choll mino company's property near
Lafayette, Colo. Tho bombs struck
tho rear of a company boarding house,
domollshins It
While her two hUBbands aro war
Ting in tho Lob Angeles probate court
over tho 17,000,000 OBtato of Mrs. Ar
cadia Do Baker, who dlod suveral
months ago, a grandnloco Mrs. Ar
cadia Bandlnt Breunau, illod a suit
claiming that all other claimants bo
enjoined from asserting any right to It.
,
'After a rifle battle with several cltl
rohq recently n band of robbers, who
had looted tho vaults In tho First
Btato bank ut Dardanello, Ark., eacnp
cd. Their loot amounted to suveral
thousand dollars.
Minneapolis now has a 70-cont rato
on gas. '
Twelve thousand street signs of an
ornamented brncket pattern are lying
at streot intersections In Chicago.
Mrs. Anna M. Union, aged 91, has
taught In Sunday shool in Belvldoro,
N. J., snvontyclght yoars and is still
at. It
A medal which was lost July 4, 18C2,
on tho battlefield of Gettysburg lias
just been returned to Its owner, John
Earley, of Nashua, N. Y., a veteran
of tho Tenth Now Hampshire volun
teers. FIro broke out. In Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, causing $5,000 damago. Tho
church is one of the most 'famous in
greater New York and its pulpit waB
onco occupied by Henry Ward
Beecher.
Albert Chittenden of Murlon, Ky.
while hunting recently found a purse
containing bills which he lost two and
a half yearn ago. The bills wore at
most ducuyod and hardly lasted long
enough to ho redeomod by the United
States treasury ofllce.
F. W. Folton of Topeka won first
prlzo In tho ombroidery contest at tho
Kansas Btato fair. Pieces of erqulBltb
neodlevvork were entered in tho con
test by 1,07.1 women, but Mr. Folton s
dainty centerpleco won tho favor ol
all tho judges.
A cablo messago from London re
ports that tho Pacific mall liner Man
churla, returning from the orient tc
San Francco, put into Hong Konfe
Bllghtly damaged' by tiro which broke
out in the hold shortly after leaving
Nagusakl September 30.
Mino guards and othor employes ol
tho Ammook mining company, u sub
sldlary of the Calumet and Hecla lu
tho Kowoonaw county copper strike
district, may no longer carry concealed
weapons. The blunket llconso Issued
by tho couuty authorities giving thai
right to the company hus been ro
voked.
MIsb Clara B. Laughin, tho Ameri
can novelist says that American wo
men can not conceive of tho English
working women. Tho shop girls, for
Instanco, lodged by their employers,
aro herded like Bheep and fed tho
poorest food. Tho American girls
would not tolorato such conditions,
sho Bays.
Mrs. G. H. Fobs, aged 45 of Palo
Alto, Cal., who haB refused food slxty
ono days and has lived on a water
dlot during that time, continues to re
sist all orforta to administer Busten
unco. Tho physicians nscribo hor
acts to melancholia and predict her
death in a short time. Mrs Fobs has
becamo greatly emaciated.
An increase in criino in Boston is
shown by tho estimate of a now rec
ord in tho number of cases handled
by tho municipal court In a year. For
tho year ended September 30 the
total was 50,200, nB compared with
40,700 in tho previous yoar. Tho In
crease was most marked In drunken
nosB and automobile lalw vloatlous.
Amalgamation of all the temperanco
forces of the contry into one organiza
tion, an educational campaign and a
campaign for constitutional prohlbl
tlon are tho chief alms set forth In tho
formal call iBued by tho council of
ono hundred for tho meeting of the
tompornnco forces In national conven
tion In Columbus, Ohio on Novomber
14.
FOREIGN.
Absolutely no damago was done to
tho structures of tho Panama canal
by tho earthquake whluh occurrod In
tho canal zone N recently.
A sound-proof Iioubo lu Berlin has
fifty rooms, and a musician may prac
tice in any ono of them without In
terfering with his neighbor
Prince Louis Phllllppo, duke of Or
leans, and pretender to tho French
throno la travelling Incognito uudor
tho title of the Count Do Vllllers.
Tho Canadian cabinet Is oxpectod
to tako up tho question of admitting
grain from tho United Status froo of
duty ut tho seslon of Parliament
which opeim early in January.
Rusian figures place tho average
number of occupunts of a houso at
olght In London, forty-eight in Vlonna,
llfty in Berlin and llfty-two in Moscow
and St Petersburg.
An utter doadlock apparently exist
ed lu the negotiations for placing
Prince Ernest AugUBt of Cumberland
and his bride, Princess Victoria
Loulso of Prussia on tho throno of
Brunswick, and tho Emperor William
may bo disappointed In his hope of
seeing hid only daughter tho wife of
a reigning sovereign.
King Gustav of Swcdon 1b suffering
from tho offocts of an oporatlon for
nppondlcltlB performed in 1910 and
has boon obliged to tako to his bed
at Skaborsjoo castlo to undergo
special treatment
Tho health of Princess Augustluo
Victoria of Hohonzollora wife of
Former King Manuel of Portugal, Is
Improving so rapidly that she and her
husband will soon be ablo to under
tako tho journey to Stgmarlngon and
London, planned bofore her lllueas.
PREDIGTEARLY END
MEXICAN OFFICIAL8 HOPEFUL
OF WAR'S END.
ELECTION MAY BE POSTPONED
Bill Has Been Introduced In Chamber
of Deputies, But Docs Not
OF TERMINATING WAR.
Mexico City, Mox. Government of
ficials regard tho fcdoral successes in
the last week as ''a deathblow to tho
organized revolution In tho north."
Tho defeat of tho rebels at Santa
Fosalla nppoare to bo confirmed. Ad
vices from Gonoral' Samuel E. Mor1
cado, military governor of tho stato
of Chlhauhua to the department of
tho intorlor, describes tho result as a
rout of the enomy.
Several thousand men were Bald to
bo engaged at Santa Posalia, and
lighting had been in progress for a
week.
ThlB victory, together with tho oc
cupation by General Alans of Sablnos
.on his march to Picdras Negras, has
greatly encouraged tho war depart
ment officials.
Tezlutlan, In tho state of Puebla,
still is besieged by tho Indians, but
foreigners and non-combatants havo
boon allowed to leave tho town, reach
ing Puebla safely undor federal es
cort Raiding, pillaging and burning of
ranches continuo In various parts of
Puebla and Morolos. Tho efforts of
tho rebols in San Luis Potosl, Coa
hulla and Neuvoleon aro confirmed
to tho cutting of railroads and tho
raiding of small towns.
Fredorlco Gamboa, tho nominee of
tho Catholic party for tho presidency,
Manuel Calero, tho liberal candldato
and followers of Gonoral Felix Diaz
aro pushing tho work of organization
for the elections on October 26. Tho
bill for 'the postponement of tho elec
tions, howover, is due to como before
tho chambor of doputles this week.
Tho question of the constitutionality
of tho measure is said to havo cre
ated a division of committee, to
which It was roforrcd recontly upon
Its introduction in the chambor. In
political circles tho defeat of tho
measure Is regarded aB likely.
To Reopen Negotiations.
Toklo. -Tho newspaper J1J1 Shim
po sayB that negotiations shortly aro
to be reopened with tho Unltod
States in the matter of tho California
allon land act
"Japan," says the paper, "desiring
to reach a fundamental solution of
tho California question and finding
tho acquisition of naturalization tor.
Japanese la California most difficult
is about to propoBO a now treaty
with tho United States. Formal nego
tiations, which havo been delayod on
account of Washington's preoccupa
tion with tho Mexican trouble and
tho tariff bill, will bo begun at an
oarly date"
Sulzer Counsel Will Proceed.
Albany, N. Y. Out of the mass of
rumors, denials and contradictions
regarding tho Sulzer impeachment
trial thoro came this one confirmed
pleco of news counsel for the gov
ernor will bo ready to prdcoed with
their caso when court convenes. No
further adjournment will bo asked,
Senator Harvey D. Hlnraan will mako
tho opening statement and, perhaps,
tho llrst witness, Louis A. Sarocky,
tho governor's former campaign sec
retary, will bo callod bofore court ad
Jouin8. A final conference between
the governor nnjl his counsel was
held. No Information aout what took
place was given out.
Socialists Vote to Defy Court
Seattlo, Wash. Tho stato oxecutlvo
cominlttoo of the socialist party mot
and decided to violate tho injunction
of Suporlor Judgo K. Huinphrlos, for
bidding speaking on Plko-Wost Lake
square; appointed a managor to luui
dlo tho campaign and appropriated
tnonoy to carry It on. It was stated
that several meetings would bo hold
la tho forbidden square.
Diaz Wll' Return.
Biarritz. Gonoral Porilrlo Diaz, ox
presldout of Mexico, is Btlll at Biar
ritz. It is stated that ho probably
would roturn to Mexico towards tho
end of the month. Recently ho was
Bummonodhomo by tho Mexican War
department for sorvlco In tho army.
Fllos With Head Downward.
Lllllo, France. Lieutenant Poulot
of tho French army flying corps fol
lowed tho uxamplo of tho airmen Po
goud by Hying head downward for
Boverul socouds in his aeroplane.
Powder House Is Blown Up.
Trinidad, Col. The power houso of
tho PrlmroBo mine at Rugby, thirty
miles north of here, In Huerfano coun
ty, tho southern coal Holds strike dis
trict, was blown up, according to
moagor report that roachod horo. No
fatalities aro given.
Admiral Soon to Retire.
Washington. Roar Admiral Aaron
Ward, at present on duty as supor
vlBor of tho port of Now York, was
detachod from duty and ordered
homo, preliminary to his retirement
NEWS FROM STATE HOUSE
Vorty-Boven girls are enrolled in the
physical education department of the
Btato university this year, an lncrcaso
of twonty-ono over last year's enrollment
Joseph Roberts of Fremont, first
vice-president of tho stato board of
agriculturewlll succeed the late T. W.
Haws of Mlnden us president of that
body.
Thomas Riley of Omaha has bpon
appointed by the governor as stato
bank examiner, succeeding Eugeno
Mooro of St. Paul, who resigned some
time ago.
Dirt will fly, weeds will tall and cul
verts will bo leveled to tho earth, or
the earth will be brought up to tho
qulverts October 9 and 10 If half the
men turn out who have promised to
observo Governor Morohead's good
roads proclamation.
Tho stato's motion for a rehearing
In tho William Flcge case waB over
ruled by tho oupremo court and tho
suit will again be tried In the lower
court, making a third trial for tho de
fendant, who was onco sentenced to
life imprisonment for the killing of
his sister on a Dixon county farm.
Tho opening of tho buttorino Beason
was signalized Wednesday by the ap
plication of elghty-ono firms for tho
food commissioner's permission to Bell
that product In this state. Previously
about 200 Arms had been granted tho
Bamo privilege under tho existing law.
Total receipts from this class of per
mits havo amounted to $2,607 since
July 1.
Building and loan associations of
Nebraska are in flourishing condition,
according to the annual summary of
their business made by tho stato bank
ing department from reports it has
gathered. Tholr assets under dato of
Juno 30, 1913, nre shown to be in the
neighborhood of $33,000,000, tho gain
being almost $4,000,000 over tho previ
ous year.
Internal Revenue , Collector Ross L.
Hammond has made an estimate of
tho number of incomes in Nebraska
that will como within tho provisions
of the income tax law. Ho puts the
number between 5,000 and 6,000. To
come within tho law an income must
be $3,000, with a possible allowanco
of an additional $2,000 for a wife and
two dependent children.
Tho monument marking tho Oregon
trail at tho point where tho trail en
tered tho state of Nebraska will bo
formally dedicated soon, though the
date has not been set since it was
postponed on account of the weather.
Tho location of tho monument is two
miles west of tho town of Lanham,
Nebraska, at tho point where the lino
between Jefferson and Gage counties
Intersects the Kansas state line.
Nebraska wheat has found a new
output for milling purposes. Owing
to its excellence, for several years It
haB been n favorite grain with tho
Minnesota mlllerB, where It has been
mixed with tho northern wheat, mak
ing the best flour in the world. Now
Nebraska wheat Is going to Kansas,
whore, by the millers of that state, It
is being mixed with the softer wheat
grown there, thus grading it up and
making a superior quality of flour.
Tho material for a passenger ele
vator in tho state house has arrived
and workmen havo started construc
tion. Tho old car, which was used
more than twenty years ago, will be
equipped with electric lights and olec
trlc power and now cables and run
ways will bo put In the Bhaft There
aro two 'old shafts In the state house,
but only ono will bo refitted for use.
The oighteon rooms bolng fitted up In
tho fourth floor of the attic will bo
roady for uso within ono week.
The stato food, drug, dairy nnd oil
commission, under the supervision of
Commissioner Harman, mado 1,743 in
spections during tho month of August.
It nlso issued '354 sanitary orders,
filed nineteen complaints, conducted
two prosecutions and made 196 chem
ical analyses. The collections of the
department for the month aggregated
$7,721.62. Of that amount $5,863.43
was for oil, $599.67 for permits issued,
$245.70 for stock food tags, and $4.50
for seed analyses.
To inaugurate tho initiative and
referendum In Nobraska next year will
cost the state not less than $15,000,
and possibly as high as $25,000. The
expense cannot be accurately esti
mated until It la known how many
propositions will be submitted and
voted upon, but If only tho three or
four now In, sight arc placed before
tho voters It will entail a minimum
outlay of $15,000 from tho state
treasury.
Tho village of Spraguo has been in
corporated. Governor Morohead addressed tho
convicts at the state penitentiary at
chapel service, Sunday. Ho talked on
good citizenship and delivered a mes
sage of hope to Jho men who will have
to mako a new start in life on leaving
tho prison walls.
National guardsmen who are to
compote In the state rifle shoot to bo
held on the government range at
Platt8mouth will report tothe ofTlcer
in chargo during the forenoon of Oc
tober 6, according to orders Issued by
General Hall.
STANDS T WIS
WILL WITHSTAND HOT WINDS
AND DROUTH.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented In
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Discovery of corn that will with
stand hot winds and grow despite of
drouth Is bollovcd to havo been mado
by Curator M, R. Gllmore of the stato
museum as a result of experiments
conducted on the advice of an Indian
tribe which formerly lived in this
state. Tho seeds for the corn were
sent to Mr. Gllmore by Sitting Bear
of tho Arikara tribe, now in Wiscon
sin. Tho local man planted the corn
in Juno and left it to Its own re
sources. There were no rains to help
It along In, Its growth, but while
plants and vegetables around it were
withering up this corn flourished and
ripened. Its hardness and tendency
to grow without moisture and general
adaptability to Neb'ruska conditions
such as prevailed In many sections
during the season just closing, are
looked upon as points that will com
mend it to the average Nebraska
farmer. Federal corn experts havo
become Interested In the plant and
state authorities will also- look Into
tho matter. It is likely that a bulletin
will bo put out on the subject within
a short time.
Marked Success of Dairy Train.
Nothing In tho way of a promotion
and educational train has ever trav
eled over Nebraska with such marked
success as the state dairy train. The
train has taken to tho people of north
ern and western Nebraska practical
Illustrations of the possibilities of
farm development, and Increase in
farm profits to come through increased
milk and dairy production. In the
two weeks that the train has been on
the road fully 40,000 farmers havo
heard the practical lecture talks, have
seen the cow demonstrations, have
passed through the exhibit cars and
returned to their farms with now and
practical Ideas, not given them in the
spirit of dictation or Interference, but
simply given them as the results of
practical experience in other places
and showing the practical way to
work out problems in the dairy Inter
ests at their own homes.
Tuberculosis In State Cattle.
Dr. Klgln, state veterinarian, has
completed an inspection and test of
dairy cattle at the Hastings asylum
for tuberculosis. He found forty
seven tuborculars out of 120 hoad
tested. In order to demonstrate tho
ravages of tuberculosis he dissected
rthe carcass of one .animal, which
proved to be affected throughout tho
entire system. The animals that show
signs of tho disease will be sold sub
ject to inspection, after they are
slaughtered. Where the disease is
local tho meat 1b approved for sale as
food. Dr. Klgln reports the stablo at
the Hastings asylum in very poor con
dition from a sanitary" standpoint It
is poorly lighted and badly ventilated
and has been crowded most of the
time. He heartily approves the plan
of tho board of control to build a new
up-to-dato sanitary dairy barn. Dr.
Klgln killed two more glandered
horses at Mlnden. Five were killed
thoro recently, but he does not expect
the disease to appear again in the
same locality.
Must Not Overtest Cream.
If a buyer of cream desires to raise
his price and outbid a rival for busi
ness he will in the future bo com
pelled to openly announce that he will
pay more than his competitors instead
of trying to get business by over-testing
cream and in this manner pay more
than his rival and at tho same tlmo
make producers believe his rival is
making an unfair test. It Is against
tho state law to overtest or to under
test cream bought for commercial pur
poses. This law is upheld by a de
cision given by the supremo court In
tho case of tho State vs. Thorp, from
Cuming county. Another result of the
decision is that Nols P. Hansen of
Lincoln, formerly stato food commis
sioner, will not havo to pay $50,000
damages 'to Thorp.
What Is believed to be the shortest
brief on record has Just been filed by
Assistant Attorney General Edgerton
In a case bofore the Nebraska supremo
court The brief contains twenty-three
lines, not counting signatures and tho
date line.
A quarterly magazine will bo pub
lished by tho Mississippi Valley His
torical society, tho first issue to ap
pear In December. Tho Nebraska His
torical society Is one of the guaran
tors of tho magazine and Secretary
Paine Is its Becretary-treasurer.
Bank Deposits Reach High Mark.
Nebraska state bank deposits
reached tho highest amount ever bo
fore kuown in Nebraska during the
quarter ending August 26, according
to tho consolidated report of the
stato banks, Just compiled by tho state
banking board. The total is $94,194,
166.83. or an increaso of $6,603,716.45
over that of the previous quarter. The
total number of depositors was 290,370.
Tho number of banks reporting Is 710,
with deposits of $94,194,166.83, and an
average reserve of 30 per cent. Loans
havo Increased $7,834,000
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Dlller boasts of having the best
Toads In the state.
Tho magnificent $30,000 athletic
park at Beatrice was dedicated last
wcok.
York will compel Infractors of tho
city ordinances to work on the Btreots
horcafter. The Stato band of Lincoln will fur
nish music for tho Seward festival,.
October 8.
J. W. Dodd, a Falrbury laborer, fell
whHo pushing a wheelbarrow and bit
off his tongue.
Mrs. R. J. Woodworth of Wnhoo suf
fered a broken wrist when she fell off
tho porch nt her home.
MIsb Alice Cleaver of Falls City Is
soon to start for Paris to spend the
year studying painting.
Marie Strauch, three years old, was.
burnod to death at Lincoln when her
clothing caught on fire.
Rolland Scott, of Alliance, suffered a.
broken limb in a football practice
game at Hastings college.
Thomas O'Gorman, coroner of Hall
county, was fatally injured in an auto
accident near Wood River.
J. L. Slocum has sold the apples In.
his twenty-acre orchard near Shubert
to StJoseph buyers for $1,700.
Mrs. Mary Flynn, 81 years old, was,
found dead in bed at Seward by rela
tives who had called to visit her. ,
Tho Iowa-Nebraska Public Service
corporation at Norfolk has been ad
Judged a bankrupt In federal court.
Frank Worthlngton, a Beatrice boy,
was killed at a fire at Billings, Mont,
by being run over by a hose truck.
Attorney Henry Nunn of St. Paul,
who accidentally shot himself in the
foot while hunting, died from blood,
poisoning.
Prizes of $30, $20 and $10 are offered
at the German day celebration at Lin
coln for out-of-town clubs marching in.
the parade.
James Bratunek found a wallet con
taining $900 on a Union Pacific train
near Grand Island. It belonged to a.
cigar man.
One hundred out of a herd of 30O
sheep owned by John Welnert, a Rich
ardson county farmer, were poisoned
by corn fodder.
A musical fostlval will bo held In
Seward, October 8, under tho. direction
of the commercial club and business
men's association.
Tho commercial lighting ordinance
was passed by tho Lincoln city com
mission without a dissenting vote and
without comment
Tho splendid new St. Llbory Catho
lic church, costing $65,000, 1b nearlng
completion and will bo dedicated some
time in November.
A vicious dog attacked a six-year-old
girl at Falrbury, and tore several
bad gashes in her face and arms be
fore it was beaten off.
Many of the Nebraska booster edi
tions issued throughout the state were
a credit to the publishers and tho
offices putting them out.
James Weeks accidentally shot off
two of his fingers and a portion of his
left hand while hunting ducks on the
Elkhorn river near Neligh.
Frank Manlcy, a conductor on the
Union Pacific, was held up in the resi
dence portion of Grand Island and re-
lleved of a diamond ring.
Probably the oldest man In the state
is Thomas Morris of Custer county,
who was born at Berrew, North Wales,
in 1794, nearly 120 years ago.
Bert Marts, the Rock Island brake
man who was shot and killed by a
tramp at Llmon, Colo., was a Falls
City boy, the son of Sam Marts, the
chief of police In that city.
Abraham NIcholB, a peddler, was
Instantly killed Wednesday morning
when a Burlington passenger train
struck his buggy at the main crossing
of Burnham, near Lincoln.
Sylvia Kramer of Syracuse was
probably fatally burned and the fam
ily home demolished by the explosion
of a gasoline lighting plant resulting
from a visit to tho cellar with a light
ed lantern.
William F. Kelley, a Lincoln attor
ney, has been appointed confidential
secretary to Secretary of State Bryan,
and has gone to Washington to as
sume his duties.
The dedication ceremonies for the
Oregon trail monument located on the-Kansns-Nebraska
state line, near Lan
ham, have been indefinitely postponed
owing to weather conditions.
Harvey Livingston, a Lincoln boy,
was badly wounded on a hunting trip
Sunday when a shotgun was accident
ally discharged by a companion, tho
load taking effect three Inches above
the knee.
Many farmers in Hall county aro
putting In small Irrigation plants of
their own, using large wells supplied
with centrifugal pumas and dyking
the fields.
Members of tho cadet band of tho
Omaha high school are on strike on
account of the efforts of four colored
boys to become members of the or
ganization. The last Sunday in October was
designated "Wesleyan Unlvorsfty day"
by the M. E. conference, and collec
tions for the support of the collie
will be taken in all Nebraska churches
that day.
Mrs. Grant Wllloughby, living near
Falrbury, was thrown from a buggy
In a runaway and received injuries
that may result fatally.
Mrs, Maggie Johnson, wife of the
man whoso dismembered body was
found In Salt creek at Ashland a week
ago, is under arrest charged with the
crime.
A. A. Lasch. who owns a large spplo
orchard near Weeping Water, Is mak
ing preparations to harvest what will
bo one of tho largest and best crops
ever produced In the orchard. Ills es
tlmate on the yield la 8,000 to 10,000
bushels.