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'WWK'' WW"""" ?K' :l jf-tl-! ' JT" V t i)(m7,-'-T- "faTr i?8t"vmi y -v-ip fvwwsn w "iM.ie,,'r"'"WH'' THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. , FOB THE BUS! IN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON DE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con" densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs, WASHINGTON. Formal stops io start the adminl Itration nuti-truut legislation through congress w'cro taken by tho houso mles committee when It mot to for mulato a special rule for tho expedi tious passage of tho three bills which tnako up tho anti-trust "program." c Tho United States legations In Ar" gcntlna and Chllo will bo raised to tho rank of embassies under bills passed by tho house. Tho Argentine Mil already has passed tho senate and deeds only tho president's, signature. Tho Chilean bill now goes to tho tenato, It has becomo apparont that the icnato cannot reach a voto on tho pro- fosed repeal of tho tolls exemption laueo of tho Panama canal act for at least ten days or two weeks unless democratic leaders mako an extra ordinary effort to speed up tho pro ceedings. Tho controversy betwoon tho Den ver & Mo Orando Railroad company nnd tho Arizona Railroad company of Now Mexico over a right of way from tho Colorado-New Mexico stato lino to Farmlngton, N. M down tho Animas river, was decided by tho supremo court In favor of tho latter. Reports filed in tho senate Bhowod that Senator Chamborlaln of Oregon npent $58.55 in his campaign for re liominatlon, and R. A. Booth, his re publican rival, spont $1,1.36.45. The primaries aro to bo hold May 15, Senator Chamberlain received no con trlbutlons whllo Mr. Booth's amount ed to $1,550. Carrying a total of $37,273,270, an Increase over tho houso provisions of $705,169, tho senate appropriations commltteo reported tho legislative, executive and judical appropriation bill. Tho bill Is $914,551 over tho act of" 1914, but nearly $2,500,000 under tho estimates." Tho Indian appropria tion bill, carrying $12,049,G7C, an In crease over tho houso bill of $2,403, $39, also was roportod, President "Wilson has signed tho Mils passed by congress raising tho Amorlcan legations In Argentina and Chllo to embassies. Minister Naon of Argentina and Minister Suarez of Chllo, who aro conspicuous figures in Washington Just now as two of tho mediators in tho Mexican difficulty, woro present, togothor with Secretary Bryan and other high olllclals of tho government. A supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for army medical and hospital supplies, "to moot omorgency condi tion's now existing or likely to ariso 'ji tho near future," was asked in an (estimate sent to tho houso of repre sentatives at "Washington by tho War department Secretary Garrison said the money was noeded to covor oxtra Ordinary expenditures lncldontnl ;to tho occupation of Vtra Cruz, and to tho mobilization of troopa for sorvlco Abroad. DOMISTIO. Testimony was given in the trial at Herkimer, N. Y of Jean GlaBhinl, 16 years old, by his father and a phyBl can to tho effect that tho -youth wus tnsano when ho klllod his school teacher, Llda Boecher, for whoso inurder ho is on trial. Thomas Ryan, a millionaire land ownor, who dUnppoarcd flvo years ngo from bis home hi Marion, Ariz., has boon located in a Winnipeg hos pital. For many mouths search for him has been conducted by detective agencies along tho Pacific coast, in tho RocktoB and finally across tho prairies. Colonel James Lockett, commander of the federal forces In tho Trinidad district of Colorado- aro adjusting casoB growing out of the order bar ring minors. Eight men woro allow cd to work at tho Oakdalo mlno and elxtoen wero barred. At tho Primorn mine ono of llyo was pormlttod to work. In'dcilnlto torms ot sunshine, frosh nlr and honost work woro doclarod tho only way to reform society's immoral nnd diseased cltlzons by spoakors be fore tho Nutlonal Conferonco of Char ities nnd Correction at Memphis. Honry Slogel, undor indictment In Now York charged with grand lar cony In connection with his dry goods establishments and also for receiving deposits of money attor ho had know ledge that his private bunk was in eolvent, landed at Plymduth, England, Jrom Now York. The navy department has sent -or-ders to tho tiuval recrutlng stations to accept no more applications for. en listment in tho iuvy except Crpin , those who havo beon honorably discharged, Havana Is to havo a capital building to cost $1,000,000, Tho silver alone stored In tho Unit ed States treasury at ,Ncw York weighs 2,500 tons. William "Walnwrlght, first vlco pres ident of tho Orand Trunk railway, died at Atlanta, Qa., of. a complica tion of diseases. Two tanks, containing approximate ly 50,000 barrels of oil, tho property of tho Plerco Oil corporation near Tulsa, Okla., were fired by lightning and efforts to extinguish them havo been abandoned. The lots is estimat ed at $50,000. Strung up with a log chain to tho rafters of a barn near Farmlngton, Utah, tho body of John S. Morrow, a Salt Lako City laborer who had been employed on construction "work, was found recontly, the man's head having been crushed in' with a hatchet. Protesting his lnnocencd, "Hand some Jack" Koettcrs was takon from Chicago to tho Illinois stato prison at Jollet, to servo a life sentence for tho murder of Mrs. Emma Kraft, the Cincinnati widow, who was beaten to doath in Chicago with a hammer in November, 1912. Special prayer for tho success of the mediation conference nt Niagara Falls, looking to an adjustment of differences between tho United Statos and Mexico, will bo offered by tho general conference of the Mehodlst Episcopal church, South, in session at Oklahoma City. At a meeting of tho board of direc tors of tho Missouri Pacific Railroad company In Now York it was voted to petition tho holders of the $25,000,000 three-year notes maturing, Juno 1 to extend tho time of pay ment for one year, Increasing tho rato of Interest from 5 to 6 per cent. Thlrty-ono states of this country and Bovoral sections of Canada wero represented at. tho socond annual conference of grand masters of tho MaBonic Ordor of the North Amorlcan Continent which opened in St. Louis. Tho grand lodges of Missouri and Iowa conferred tho third degree on now applicants. A coroner'B jury which Investigated thtf sulcido of Charles W. Post, the cereal food millionaire, returned o non-committal verdict, simply finding that ho died from tho effects of a gunshot wound. Dr. J. C. Balnbrldge, his physician, testified that Post un questionably was sufforlng from tern porary insanity when he shot. him self. Mrs. Mary Bonnomoro, known as tho cattle and sheep queen of - tho west, died at Salt "Lako City. Mrs. Bonnomoro came to Utah from Scot land In 1865 at tho age of 20 yours and immediately engagod In tho cat tle and sheep business with great success. Later sho became Identified with tho real cstato business in Salt Lako City, which with her cattle ven tures netted her a fortune computed at $2,000,000. FOREIQN. Tho military , aviator, Semichkura, fell from an aeroplanoat Sobastopoj and was killed. Tho London nowspapois are mak ing a renewed complaint over Pre mier Asqulth's delay in dealing with tho question ot British participation In tho Panama-Pacific exposition. Tuxpam, in tho" oil Holds south ot Tnmplco, has been evacuated by tho federal garrison nnd occupied by tho constitutionalists, In spite of tho efforts of tho Ameri can authorities to get all Amorlcans out of Mexico there aro still about 1, 000 in the Mexican capital who ap pear determined to remain there. Tho tomb of ArlBtomeuos, tho colo bratod MesBenlan horo of tho second Spartan wnr in tho Seventh century before 'Christ, was diBcovorcd at Rhodes by Italian oxcavators. Numer ous antiquities wero found in tho se pulchre. Nicholas II Is having a new wall built "to tho north ot Potorhof park, where ho dwells overy Bummer, and ho will shortly havo tho high gates of Tsarskoo Solo made still h.gher. Those aro signs nnd symbols ot his latest hormlt-llko phase. At a woman suffrage mooting at Rome, which was attended by 3,000 women and a fow mon, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw waa warmly upplauded during n spoech In which sho outlined tho basis of tho demand of woman for enfranchisement. Dr. Shaw said suffrage for woman was opposed by Italian and other Latin mon because thoy believed that In giving woman the voto it would muko her loss at tractive. This idea was ridiculed by tho speaker. - iwo army airmen, Captain P. D. Anderson und u mechanic named Car tor, woro instantly killed and Lleuton ant C. W. Wilson was gravely Injured when two biplanes collided In the air ut Aldarshot. Tho famous yacht, PrhicesB Alice, formerly owned by tho prlnco of Mo naco and used by him In his deep sen researches, has been purcn&sed fyy Lord Inverclyde, who will take a party of friends on ft" to San Francis Co for the opening of tho Panama Pacific International exposition. CITY OF MEXICO PLACE OF TERROR Medill McCormick Tells Perils Met In Huerta's Capital. AMERICANS KEPT IN PRISON Correspondents Are Arrested and In sulted Trade Is at a Standstill and All Feel Dictator's Gov ernment Is Doomed. By MEDILL M'CORNflCK, Special Correspondent In Mexico of the Chicago Dally News. Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 12. Ameri cans aro In prison in Mexico City, hold incommunicado In places un known to tho Brazilian legation. I do not know how many aro so held by tho police. Whon I loft Mexico City on a Fronch special train for Puerto Mexico, Waltor Whlffen of tho Asso ciated Press was undor arrest for the second tlmo within 24 hours. Mr. Doster of tho International News serv lco was In Jail, nnd so was Mr. Sutton of tho Washington Post. An Amorlcan named Schuler nnd a locomotive engi neer who had returned from Cuba looking for his family were also In prison. Luis d'Antin, Interpreter for the Amorlcan embassy, dares not leave the precincts of tho Brazilian legation, whllo his wife Is afraid to leave the houso in which sho is hiding. Tbo Mexicans would havo taken d'Antin, but for tho Intervention of tho repre sentatives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, tho mediating powers. Americans Are Not Safe. Tho City of Mexico Is Inartlculato, dazod, afraid. Americans are not safe thoro and they ought to leave. Other foreigners are alarmed. Mexicans do not speak aloud tho names of con spicuous men or of strategically Im portant places. There are Mexican spies everywhere and everywhere they aro looking for American spies, The Moxlcan authorities hold that war ex ists, but that thoro Is an armistice by vlrtuo of tho mediation ot tho "A.-B.-C." powers. Yet no American Is per mitted to send a cable messago or tolegram. I had to get a foreign friend to inform my family and tho Dally Nows of my release a second time" and ho doubted whether the message had passed the censor. Press messages by correspondents who aro not Americans are censored so that thoy are valueless. Although Americans aro not safe and are for bidden to cable homo, they cannot go to tho British or German legation for protection. Thoro may bo reasons of high diplomacy why Brazil should represent our Interests In Mexico, but It Is a fact that although he does his best, Sonor Cardoso do Ollvlera Is unablo sufficiently to protect our fel low citizens In Mexico City If thoro bo rioting. Even if there is none 1 nm afraid we shall bo sorry that tho caro of American Interests -was taken out of tho hands of Sir Lionel Carden, tho British minister. Suspicion and Menace In Air. When Richard Harding Davis and I reached Mexico City after our trip from Vera Cruz wo went about looking for lodging and food. Suspicion and menace woro in tho air. Rurales and pollco with firearms patrolled tho stroots, which by day wero almost as baro of lifo as by night. Every auto mobile bore tho flac of its owner. Many flags hung from the windows for tho protoction of tho houses and gave tho city a sardonic look, like that of a horrid old -woman dying with a palntod foco and decked with finery. Saturday morning I set about my mission to see certain woll-Informod foreigners and Mexicans, to bring out of tho city tho nows of conditions which tho censor refuses to pass and Tvhlch, lndeod, it would bo dangorous for a resident to go about collecting. I saw Important members of tho Fronch, Gorman and English colonies, as well as Americans. I havo reason to bollsvo that no correspondent for wcoks has been ablo to recelvo such Important expressions of opinion. Huerta Government Dnnmari .Tho Huerta goVornment cannot ad vance against General Villa, starved aa It is for rovonuo and ammunition, and presently It must fall. How long It can resist Villa's advanco is problem atical, Thoro la now talk of General Huerta's overthrow by local revolution and of his assassination. I Baw him out automobillng. Many people think mat no wishes to provoke intervention and that ho sent General Navarott to ward Vora Cruz for that purpose. Trade Is at a standstill. No freight la moving on tho railroads and oil fuel Is bocomlng so scarco that tho number of passenger trains has been radically reduced. Control ot tho Mexican rail way has boon taken by tho govern ment from its English owners. Poo plo fear a sacking of tho city by tho victorious Villa forces or Its looting by tho mob If General Huerta Is killed or overthrown by a local revolution. They Advocate Intervention. Thus It happens that pomo Moxicans and nearly all foreigners now advo cate Intervention. Everywhere, I asked two questions: First "If Genoral Huerta resign aud tho Carranzlstaa consent to a compro hlso, aro there enough elements out of which a reasonably representative government can bo constituted?" "Yos," waa tho answer most frequent ly given, "if they and tho mediating powers glvo to tho United States their moral authorization to intervene, it tho Hucrtlstas -and CarranzlsLis re fuso to compromise their differences, no." Second "Is a singlo presidential autocrat necessary to tho preservation of order in Mexico?" "No, if a compromise government Is assured of American military support in tho event of further revolution." Pessimism le General. But nono of thoso with whom I talked wns sanguine. All considered compromlso posBlblo rather thnn prob able. I shared their pessimism as I went past tho battered American club to tho beleaguered and worried little Brazilian minister. What hope Is there for a pcoplo whoso government builds nn opera houso more beautiful than any such building in tho British em pire or tho United States, whllo the majority of tho peoplo havo neither letters In their head nor shoes on their foot? Honry Rice, who used to live in Chi cago, took mo to tho general of pollco. Wo drovo post cabmen who looked and dressed like blanket Ino.'ans nnd past officers as smartly uniformed as tho French artillery staff. Tho gen eral gave us permission to leave" tho city. Wo hurried pass tho boulevard ed Y. M. C. A. building to tho French Epeclal train, on which wo had been invited to go to Puerto Mexico, lest the general of police change his mind. Describes His Experiences. I do not like to glvo too much spacp to our own experiences, but I must re late them in so far as they illustrate) conditions and tho attitude of tho Huertlstas toward Americans Twice wo wero arrested and onco held In communicado a short tlmo and searched as spies for incriminating documents. Thursday morning Rich ard Harding Davis, Frederick Palmer and I left Vera Cruz by train for tho gap In the railway where tho Moxicans cut the track April 22. It is not sur prising that wo wero stopped. It Is surprising that two ot us got to Mex ico City and back again with so little delay. Palmer has the appearance of an American man of letters. Davis says the farther we advanced into the inter ior the more I looked like a, shaven Uncle Sam. Davis himself looked to mo like n mixture of John Drew Und Theodore Roosevelt shaken well be fore using. He and I, anyway, seemed selected for defeat. Adam Weimar, a German-American employed by tho Banco National, who started with us from Vera Cruz, did what ho could to help us. Davis had letters from the Brazilian consul to his minister in Mexico City. I had a personal letter from the French consul introducing Davis and me to General Maas, while in addition I had a certificate which showed that I represented a great Eng lish newspaper. Our credentials, like Mercutlo's, were not much, but enough, but Palmer had only a visiting card. Men Placed Under Arrest. From tho gap wo rode by rail to Paso del Macho, where wo stopped for luncheon. It was very hot and tho platform was packed with waiting Mexican ref ugees from Vera Cruz. Suddenly I saw Davis going through tho crowd with a shabby little officer at his el bow. As I started to hla rescuo an other officer, still shabbier, tapped me on the arm and invited me to follow him. I did. As the guard closed around us wo turned to welcomo Palmer's eolomn accession to out rankB. Off to tho Jail wo marched, little sandaled soldiers shuffling along on either sido. They drove a crowd of men and women out of tho Jail court Into tho Jail and asked us for our pa pers. Thoy read tho papers and then offered a chair first to Palmer, not to sit on, but to facilitate tho removal of his boots to see if his sockscontalned dispatches. They searched us, but I politely refused to glvo up ray lettei to General Maas, which saved us. 1 unflmbered my Spanish. They put us in a nico cell and sent for anothor officer. Sentinel Loads Hla Gun. Meanwhllo a lieutenant, who looked like a doorkeoper In a "movlo" show, put a sentinel over each ot us and os tentatiously loaded his gun. Davis said something by way of condolence. "Sllcnclol" said hla sentinel. So wo sat, cross, hot and mum abovo all, mum. Presently came a lieutenant who could speak French. I unllmbered that language, too, and out wo were sent without a guard. Gen eral MaaB was very civil. Ho did not ask Davis or me about our nationality, but Palmer's visiting card would not do. Ho had to go back to Vera Cruz. Wo had no more adventures. A drunken brakeman said ho was death on Americans, but if we were English wo could glvo him a fow contavoB for beer. At Orizaba wo spout a comfort ablo night in a hotel kept by a French man. Friday wo left for Moxlco City. It was not until wo woro leaving the railroad station for our hotel in tho capital that anything befell us. Then a young man with tho manners of a hotel runner stopped us. Wo dlscov ored that ho was a detoctivo. Accompanied by this man and n halt a dozen ot hla colleagues, wo wont to tho ofllco of tho Inspector of pollco. With us went E. T. Oakley, resident correspondent ot the London Times, to soo us through. There we found Waltor Whlffen, who had beon conflnod for twenty-four hours without a bed, linon or sanitary facilities. Sut ton also was there. Oakley vouched for uo and presently wo wore taken to tho Brazilian legation and after an hour's parley were released upon our agreement to leave tho Aty within twenty-four hours and to send no news by mail or cable during our rtuy there. PEACE OVER MEXICO HUERTA ENVOYS WILL URGE COMPLETE SETTLEMENT. WOULD ELIMINATE GARRANZA Favor Selection of Future President Who Would Be Acceptable to All Factions In Mexico, Washington, D. C -Peace delegates of 'tho Huerta government, who havo departed from Washington for Niaga ra Falls, Canada, to attend tho medi ation conferonco, are confident of tho Buccess of 'their mlslon, which it was learned 1b the broad question of paci fying all ot Mexico. Tho three Mexican envoys havo lit tlo Idea how long- tho arrangement of & settlement will keep them at Niaga ra Falls, but they arc confident that their trip will not havo been in vain. The Mexican delegates aro said to roalizo that tho present administra tion in Mexico City Ib fast crumbling and that the choico of someone to succeed Huerta 1b inevitable. But conceding tho retirement of Huerta, tho delegates are said to bo most interested in tho vital question 3f what is to follow, what guarantees are to be obtained against tho pos Blblo confiscation of property by tho '.nvndlng constitutionalists, protection against conditions of anarchy, and what kind of government will bo stable and will obtain world-wide re cognition. Question of Pacification. On tho other hand, those close to President WilEon and Secretary Bryan assert that tho question which Is to bo mediated Is no longer the fail ure of Huerta to salute, or tho offenses committed against the digni ty of the United States, but tho broad question of pacifying Mexico. Thoso who know the broad view point of tho Washington government declare tho Amorlcan troops will not bo withdrawn from Vera Cruz until a stablo government Is established or la in sight in Mexico City. Persons closo to Emilio Rabasa, chairman of tho commission and In timate adviser of Huerta, said tho Huerta delegates would awalt sug gestions of tho threo mediators, but when tho timo came for their answer to suggestions as to a successor for Huerta, they probably would insist that no man who had gained military prominence or was obtaining power "by arbitrary force," as set forth in President Wilson's Latin-American declaration, should bo permitted to take tho reins of government This would, in effect, eliminate Generals Carranza and Villa, but there are other men In tho constitutionalist ranks who are looked upon as of pres idential caliber, who would not be un acceptable to the Huerta faction. These, it has been stated, aro mon of thfc type of Luis Cabrera, prominent Mexican attorney and closo friend and counsellor of General Carranza, and who has won tho confidence of the Washington administration In his in direct dealings with them for tho con stitutionalist cause. Cabrera at pres ent is on route to New York from Spain. - Rebels and Germans Clash. Vera Cruz, Mex. Tho first claBh between the constitutionalists and foreigners at Tamplco occurred when 140 refugees of various nationalities were compelled to seek passports per mitting their departure from tho port after thoy had boarded the German steamer Yplranga, bound for Vera Cruz. During tho conference ono of Gov ternor Cabellero's aides usedlnsultlng words, whereupon the Yplranga of ficer and his aide reached for their pistols, but wero calmed by Cabollero. Tho governor, after tho situation was explained to htm, assured the Gorman consul that the passports would bo honored. Baseball Replaces War. Vera Cruz, Mex. Americans and Mexicans met in friendly battle on the baseball field and the nine of the Fourth infantry defeated the Agulllas, an all-star Moxlcan team, in a four inning game, 4 to 0. The grandstand was crowded with white uniformed navvy and khaki clafc army officers and a largo number oi tho Mexican population. Roof tops -from which tho snipers recently did deadly work against tho Amorlcan forces held hundreds of cheering natives. Ten Killed by Blast. Detroit, Mich. Ton men, most of them chemists, wero killed by an ox plosion of acid and chemicals in the mixing room of tho Moxlcan Crude Rubber company. Train Strikes Auto. St. Louis, Mo. Threo persons wero killed at .Kaufmann, 111., eleven miles cast of Edwardsvlllo, 111., when an automobile in which thoy wero rid ing was struck by a train. Members of the train crow said tho automobllo ran into the train. Tom Watson Indicted. Augusta, Ga. Thomas E. Watson, Georgia editor, historian nnd politi cian, has been indicted by the fedoral grand jury here on a charge of send ing obsceno matter through the malls. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Mayor Nelson bns placed an em bargo on tho tango dance in York. Tho Stato Medical association met in annual convention at Lincoln, Tues day. Over 1,000 children participated In the May day1 festivities at Athletio park in Hastings. A stercoptlcon machine ot tho latest design is being installed in the Metho dist church at York. H. W. Halg, aged 50 years, founder of the town of Halgler, died in a Den ver hospital last week. ' The boys of the Beatrice Y. M. C. A. will tramp to MaryBvIlIo, Kan., start ing on their trip Juno 1. Fire of unknown origin destroyed all but two buildings in a block in the business section of Dubois. Knights of Pythias grand rougo is lr session at Lincoln this week. The thirty eighth annual grand chap tor of the Order of tho Eastern Star cohvened at Lincoln, Tuesday. Tho Commercial hotel at Kenesaw was badly damaged by a fire that for a tlmo threatened to destroy It. Miss Francis Paddock, daughter or the late Senator Paddock, died at her mother's homo at Lincoln last week. Harry Gcrdls of Auburn was killed when the timbers of a roof upon which ho was working gave way and crushed him. Burglars entered tho Ammon hard ware store at David City and carried off $100 worth of revolvers and cut lery. Mrs. J. K. Adams of Lyons was In jured when she fell down tho stairway leading into tho basement of her homo. Sunday baseball games scheduled at Beatrice In the Nebraska State league will bo played in Wymore thls season. Will Fox, a Plattsmouth electrician), fell from a ladder at the new Elks, building at that place, and was badly Injured. J. P. Gibbons, manager at Kearney for tho Trans-Mississippi Grain com pany, has purchased the elevator at Kearney. The board of education of Madison, will let the contract for tho construc tion of a $40,000 high school building on May 19. Mrs. Francelia Holmes of Hastings by mistake swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid and died in great agony thirty minutes after. The next meeting ot the association of Nebraska commercial clubs will be; held at Lincoln during tho legislative session in February. A city baseball league composed of six teams representing business firms has been organized at Fremont under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Tho call to tho beet fields of west ern Nebraska Is not being listened to by the usual number of German-Russian laborers In the cities this season. Rov. J. H. Salsbury, for several years pastor ot the Presbyterian church at Falls City, has tendered his resignation to accept a charge at Au burn. " J. M. Farmer, Jiear Stella, has a field of 'fifteen acres of volunteer wheat which Js nearly eighteen inches high and will probably produce a big: yield. William Schnell, a farmer near Scrlbner, suffered a fractured leg when he fell under a narrow ne was driving and was dragged several yards. Henry Ruff of Grand. Island had his left leg badly crushed when his team, frightened by a motorcycle, dragged him for some distance under the wagon wheels. C. G. Eakln, a well known traveling man of Lincoln, was found dead In a room at a Fremont hotel where ho was stopping. Ho remarked that ho was feeling badly when he was shown to his room. Coach W. G. Klino of Nebraska Wesleyan is sending out invitations to members of the Nebraska Intercollegi ate Athletic association for the annual state track meet to be held at Univer sity Place on Friday, May 29. Several head of llvo stock on tho farm of Henry Plugge, near Arlington, have developed hydrophobia as the re sult of getting bitten by a mad dog. Tho congregation of the First Bap tist church at Beatrice has extended a call to Rev. F, B. McAllister off Rochester, N. Y. The church has been without a pastor for some time, Mrs. Lucy A, Reed, claimed by tho Hebron Champion to be tho oldest member of tho order of Rebekahs in the United States, is dead at that place. She Joined the order in. 1857. and at her death was nearly 87 years old. Rev. John E. Spencer has been for mally installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Kearney John Ingraham, n horso dealer oC Valley, dropped dead In the horse barn at the stock yards In South Omaha. Apoplexy Is supposed to havo been tho cause. He WLaa.65 years of age, The penitentiary baseball league Is prospering. A number of players havo been released from tho several teams. These men, Warden Fenton says, would be gobbled up In a minute by the state leaguo If tho players them selves were not bound by the peni tentiary agreement. II. H. Relmund, who is to be sue coeded next year by T. V. Truman as superintendent of tho Weeping Water, public schools, has been elected an- perlntendent at St. Paul, Neb. Tho Wymoro city council voted to issuo four saloon llconses in spite oft remonstrances. Tho remonstratofs havo appealed tho matter and the sa loons must await the court's action. An explosion of an empty Iron gaso line barrel on the Carse farm, near Foster, caused by scratching a match on It, so seriously injured seventeen-year-old Charlie Carse that ho died In. a few hours. I- v f.- gn iAll J - A W is n - '"vy.wifr'Wwtof-y"' -it' I - - - j-f,"' r I vv?W3r -- 'wrtr3Hrtcyator "4"