THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
LOREE GOT $450,000
EX-HEAD OF ROCK ISLAND AND
FRISCO COMMITTEE8 TELL8
OF DUAL PAY AND BONUS.
"FIRED" AND GIVEN CASH
Purchaser of Line Upholds "Million
Dollar" Salaries, But Wouldn't Own
Road Now Others Tell of Gifts
Less Legislation Needed.
280 LIVES ARE LOST
WRECKAGE OF BRITISH ARMED
MERCHANT VESSEL FOUND.
Washington, March 1. An nnnual
salary of $37,500 as chairman of tho
executive coinmltteo of tho Chicago,
Hock Island & Pacific railroad, tho
same amount for serving simultane
ously ns chairman of tho executive
committee of tho Frisco system and a
miarantoo of $500,000 additional con
Htltuted tho compensation pledged to
L. V. Loreo when ho left tho prcai
dency of tho Baltimore & Ohio road
linnlr Islnnd forces. Ho
hull! (tin now nlncos ton months in
1004 and then was asked by Daniel (J
Held to resicn.
Cornnlvlnir. ho received in settle
ment of his agreement with Mr. LcedB
$450,000 in Rock Island railway oonuB.
Mr. Loreo testified to this effect on
Friday at tho interstate commorco
commission's investigation of the
Rock Island's financial affairs during
tho Rcld-Lccds-Mooro control from
1901 to 1914.
Criticizing payment to C. II. Venncr
of $250,000, J. W. Folk, counsel for tho
commission, brought out tho fact that
Rock Island people did not llko this
transaction. R, A. Jackson, thbn gen
eral counsel for tho Rock Island, sent
thlB telegram to Robert Mather, presi
dent: "United StatcH circuit court at
Springfield, 111., has Just committed
Venncr to Jail for six months and fined
him $1,000."
Mr. Mnther sent this answer to
Jackson: "Mcssago received. Couldn't
vm Infnrvnnn nnd oak tllO Court to
send Jim Ham with him?"
Jamca Hamilton Lowis, now United
States senator for Illinois, was counsel
tnr Vnnnnr In his suit ncalnst the
Rock Island.
Another witness was Mr. Rold hlnv
self, who defended tho "big salaried"
paid to Rock Island officials, declarod
that ho would not now accept as a
dft thn control of any western or
southwestern railroad and that whon
ho nnd IiIb associates took over tho
Rock Island It had a "surplus" of
$8,000,000, "but no railroad," being
morely a "streak of rust." Ho said
also a man capnblo of operating an
8,000-mllo railway wbb worth $1,000.'
. 000 a year.
The. commerce commission Itself
waa hold responsible for tho llnancinl
troubles of tho Rock Island rnilroud
by Mr. Hold,, who contended tho trou
bio wbb not caused by tho taking over
of bad securities or by payment of
heavy salaries and bills, but by tho
rulings of the commission, which pre
vented advances in ratesf to meet
higher wages nnd costs of Improve
ments. R. A. Jackson, gcnernl counsel for
tho Rock Island from 1902 to 1910, also
told tho commission ho hnd been asked
to resign by Mr. Rohl and had no
knowledge of why. Whllo ho had no
agreement, ho had rccolved $100,000.
C. II, Warren, assistant to Presldont
LcedB lit 1902-i, said ho had been in
duced to go to tho Rock Island under
an agreement that ho receive stock
worth a minimum of $150,000 at tho
end of two years. When ho loft tho
'company "becauso tho situation be
came unsatisfactory" he was glvon
$50,000 cash and New Jorsoy holding
company stock having a faco valuo of
$205,000.
Mr. Held said what tho railroads
needed was "more ratoB, morn tariffs
and less legislation."
TURK
FORTS
RUINED
MANY DARDANELLES TOR
TRE88E3 FALL BEFORE
HUGE GUNS.
Boat 8ald to Have Been Wrecked Dur
ing 8torm, but It May Have
Been Torpedoed.
London, Fob. 20. Tho German sub
marine blockade about tho Dritlsh
isles has been drawn closer. The gov
ernment Is preparing to tako tho
most drastic measures against tho
Teutons, and in furtherance of this
scheme Lord Charles Ueresford will
proposo to Premier Asquith in par
liament .that all Germans caught sink
ing undefended vessels without an at
tempt at rescue bo publicly hanged as
pirates If thoy aro captured.
Wows' comeB from Amsterdam that
tho Dutch government has seized tho
merchant ship lianna following dis
covery of .1,000 pounds of copper hid
den in her hold, which, it was charged,
was to bo smuggled into Germany.
Tho Dutch alBo aro considering calling
to nrmB tho men of tho 191G class to
combat any possiblo attempt to vlo
late Holland's neutrality.
Sttvoral moro vessnls havo fallen
victim to tho German raiders one of
them an armod merchantman, tho
Clan MacNaughton, with which 280
men went down.
Tho British admiralty nnnounced
on Wednesday that tho Clan Mac
Naughton, an armed cruiser, has been
missing since February 3, and It Is
feared has been lost. T?o vcssol was
under tho comamnd of Robert JoffryB.
Tllo Clan MacNaughton carried 20
officers and a. crow of 201 mon.
Wreckage bollovcd to bo part of tho
missing vessel has been found.
Tho ndmirulty states that tho Clan
MncNaughton Is believed to havo been
lost as tho result of a storm that
ragetl on February 3, but It Is possi
blo that bIio was sunk by a German
submarine
Tho steamship Rio Parana, laden
with coal, was sunk seven miles east
of tho pier at Eastbourne, England.
There Ib little doubt that tho loss was
duo to a Gorman submarine. Tho Rio
Parana's crow of 31 men wero rescued
by another steamer and taVcn into
Now Haven.
Tho other vessels reported lost are
British transport No. 192, sunk In
English channel, according to official
announcement In Berlin.
British steamer Oakby, sunk by sub
marine in channel.
British collier Brnnlcsomo Chine, tor
pedoed In channel.
Swedish steamer Specla, sunk in
Nortli sea.
Holland-American liner Noorderdyk.
ashore near Poortershnvon, supposed
to havo struck mlno.
SHELLED BY FORTY SHIPS
Russian Troops Prepare to Attack
Constantinople Transports With a
Large Army Sent to Take Sultan's
Capital From the Land 8lde.
PRICE IS NOT FIXED
HEAD OF CHICAGO BOARD AP
PEARS AT PRICE INQUIRY.
i
3 SLAYERS ARE
Murderers of Women Die In the Elec
tric Chair at Ossln
Ing, N. Y.
O&slntng, N. Y March 1, In a triple
execution in 8lng Sing prison thrco
slayers of women wero put to death
In tho electric chair on Friday. Tho
throe men who paid tho penalty for
murder wero Robert Kano, Oscar
Vogt and Vlnconza Campanollt. Only
25 minutes and 10 seconds woro con
sumed in putting the thrco mon to
death. Alt marched in to tho death
chamber with hands erect and with
out faltering.
Becker Denied New .Trial,
New York, March 1. Supremo
Court Justlco WeokB on Friday denied
tho application for a now trial for
formor Lieutenant of Pollco Charles
Becker, who Is under sontonco of
death for tho murdor of Herman Rob
enthal. Tho application waB based on
an alleged affidavit by James Mar
shall, a negro.
SPARKS FROM
THE WIRE
East St. Louis, III., Fob. 20. Jobn II.
Stutzman, a grocer, his two daughters
and a son wero burned to death when
their homo was destroyed by ilro
on Wednesday. Another Bon, Dean,
sovontoon years old, escaped by jump
Ing from a socond-Btory window.
Washington, Fob, 25. Tho Call
fornla eight-hour law for women pro
vldlng that no woman shall bo om
ployed moro than eight hours a day or
moro than 48 hourB a week In any
mercantile establishment, factory, ho
tcl, hospital oi apartment Iioubo, was
held constitutional by tho United
States Supremo court on Tuesday.
Ringside, Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 27.
There was no doubt about who won
the second of tho White-Welsh series
of fox trots Thursday night. Champion
Freddlo outdanced the Chlcagoan
from start to finish, and piled up a
lead that wns indisputable, after 80
minutes of stalling, clinching, holding
cycptlTPn and tapping. Eight of tho rounds
w , MM I . ... tTT.l-U
wuru won uy vvuiBii.
Doa Moines, la., Fob. 24. Tho en
gineer was killed, a mall clerk fatal'jr
Injured, tho fireman lost his llfo acd
eight pasBongors wore injured on M'oy-
day when Chicago Qreat Wetsorn pa-
senger train No. 1, bound from Dts
MolneB to Kansas City, was wrecked
at Talmagc, la. Tho engineer was
James Maxwell of Dcs Moines.
Washington, Fob. 24. Davllraar
Thcodoro has abdicated his offico of
presldont of Haiti and taken refuge
on tho Dutch Btoamor Frederick Hcnd-
rlk in tho harbor at Port au Prince
After touching at ono of the southern
Haitian ports tho steamer will proceed
to Curacao, Local officials havo taken
chargo of tho capital, official dispatch
es say, and aro maintaining order
nwaltlng General Gulllaumo, leader
of tho revolutionist army, which 1b
outsldo tho city. Tho Unltod States,
will carry out Its purposo to sond a
commission to tho ropubllo In .an ef
fort to put Its finances In condition
to satisfy foreign creditors and re-
storo order.
London, Feb. 27. The forts at tho
entranco of the Dardanelles havo. been
reduced after nn nil-day bombardment
by tho Franco-British fleet, according
to an announcement made on Thurs
day by tho admiralty.
Tho announcement states:
"Tho weather moderating, tho bom
bardment of tho outer forts of tho Dar
danelles was renowed on Thursday
morning. After a period of long range
firing, closo rango llrjng was adopted.
"All tho forts at tho entrance to tho
straits woro successfully reduced
. . . Tho operations aro contlnu
Ing."
ThlB means that the bombardment
and possible capture of Constantinople
by the allied fleet, whloh has been
reported to includo 40 warships, la
Imminent, and that the fleet is at preo
cut smashing Its way through the
straits.
Tho Dardanelles forts, for years con
sidered among the ntrongest military
barriers In the world, have been sub
jected to almost Incessant battering
by tho shells of tho battleships' guns
since last Friday, when tho supremo
effort to force the straits was com
menced. Beforo that there had been
several attacks on the fortifications.
Tho bombardment was continued all
day Saturday and Sunday and moro
than two thousand shells wero dropped
on tho forts in that time. Bad weath
er for tho tlmo compolled tho cessation
of tho efforts of tho fleet to reduce
tho forts, but tho bombardment was
resumed Monday afternoon, ngaln to
bo ended by bad weather until Thursday.
Constantinople reported that tho
bombardment had been almost without
effect, but tho official announcement
of tho British admiralty said that Iho
forts wero unnblo to reply because
Iho ships wero out of range, and that
five of thom wero reduced by Saturday
night.
The attack on Constantinople will
be simultaneous, It la believed here,
with nn effort on tho part of tho Rub
slan army to tako tho Turkish capital
from tho land side. It wns announced
last week that Russian transports hnd
been sent with a large army to the
Turkish port of Midi, CO miles noth-
weot of Constantinople, for an over
land march against the gates of the
capital.
C. H. Canby Tells United States It
i vestlgators There Is No Danger
of Wheat Shortage.
Now York, Feb. 25. At tho re
sumption of tho attorney general's In
vestigation of tho Increased cost of
wheat bread nnd flour, C. H. Canby,
presldont of tho Chicago Board of
trade, tho first of several wltnosfies
of national reputation on tho subject
under inquiry, gave IiIb views on price
advances.
Mr. Canby denied speculation was
responsible for tho high prlco of wheat.
Ho asserted that the law of supply
and demand has caused a steady rise
in tho price of grain and that tho pres
cut quotations are Induced by the Eu
ropean demand.
Mr. Canby said Uiat tho United
States still has 75.000.000 bushels to
export.
"Thoro Is no shortage and no dan
ger of one," he continued.
"Tho rate of exportation has slowed
down and Indications nro for contin
ued diminution until tho now crop Is
harvested. The high cost of ocean
freights practically double what they
wore at tho outset of the war Is one
causo for this lessening of the out
ward tldo. That has discouraged ex
ports and has resulted in a gradual
lowering of prices. There will be less
buying for futuro delivery from now
on."
Mr. Canby announced himself as
opposed to an embargo on the expor
tation of wheat.
"That would be tampering with the
laws of supply and demand," ho said.
"The farmer is really selling wheat
for less than It is worth, In a world
Bcnse, at tho present time, Just think
what Germany would pay for 500.000,-
000 bushels If she could get It."
PLAN SECOND HY
RESERVES, KNOWN AS AMERICAN
LEGION, TO BE FORMED.
ENDORSED BY GENERAL WOOD
Roosevelt Asserts He and His Four
Sons Will Become Members
of the Legion.
15,000 RUSSIANS ARE TAKEN
Germans Capture Przasnysz and 10,-
000 of the Czar's Troops Russ
Relnvade Bukowina.
Berlin, Feb. 27. The capture of 10,-
000 Russians, twenty cannon, machine
guns and a great quantity of war ma
terials at Przasnysz, ns well as the
city Itself, was announced by the Ger
man war office Thursday.
Tho capturo of 5,000 Russians in
battles north of tho Welchsel (Vis
tula river) is also reported.
London, England, Feb. 27. Russian
troops have relnvnded Bukowina and
ro-occupled Sadagora, on the railroad
four miles north of Czernowitz, ac
cording to a dispatch recolved on
Thursday by tho Evening News,
MANY PLUMBERS ARE GUILTY
SWEITZER BEATS HARRISON
Chicago Mayor Loses Nomination for.
Re-election W. H. Thompson,
Republican, Wins.
Chicago. Feb. 25. Robert M. Swolt-
zor on Tuesday defeated Carter H.
Harrison for the Democratic mayor
alty nomination by a plurality of ap
proximately 75,000.
Chicago's flvo-timo mayor mot tho
most crushing defeat over recorded in
a mayoralty fight since tho enactment
of tho direct primary law.
Tho voto was tho largest over cast
In a Domocartic primary in Chicago.
Tho total was approximately 300,000.
William Halo Thompson won tho
Republican nomination for mayor by
a plurality placed at approximately
1,000 over Judgo Harry Olson, fusion
candidate.
Convicted of Trade Restraint by Jury
In Federal Court In Des Moines
Sentences Later.
Des Moines, la., Feb. 26. All 36
master plumbers who have been on
trial hero since February 10 on charges
of violating the Sherman antitrust law,
wero convicted by a Jury in tho fed
eral district court on Wednesday.
Judgo John C. Pollock will pass sen
tence later.
Tho men nro residents of Iowa, Ne
braska, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota
They are members and officials of the
National Association of Master Plum
bors and of the stato organizations of
that body.
New York. Formal announcement
haB been made here of the formation
of an organization of first reserves,
to bo known ns the American legion,
to be composed of former army, na
vy and militlnmen, which will better
InBiiro the nation's preparedness in
case of war.
Captain Gordon Johnston aide-de-camp
to Major General Leonard
Wood, commanding tho Department
of tho East, made tho announcement
on behalf of a group of army and
navy men who, in an unofficial capac
ity, aro acting with civilians in pro
moting tho movement . Captain
Johnston said that It is planned to
establish within a short time a first
reserve of between 230,000 and 300,
000 former army and navy militiamen
for instant call In case of emergency,
Major General Wood has already
given tho plan his unofficial indorse
ment, and former President Roose
velt has written a letter approving
the proposal. Numerous other public
men havo indorsed the project, and
a statement by tho promoters says
lint, formor secretaries of war and
of tho navy have Indicated their wil
Hngness to act in an advisory capac
ity.
Asserting that he and his four sons
will becomeu members of the legion,
Colonel Roosevelt, in a letter to the
orEanlzors. says that in the event of
war he intends to ask congress for
permission to raise n division of cav
alry.
Important Dlncoverlej.
Washington. Two discoveries, both
of vast importance to American in
dstries and ono regarded also as a
priceless military nsset, wero an
nounced by Secretary Lano of the In
terior department.
Thoy are chemlcnl processes, de
veloped i after years of research by
Dr. Walter F. Rlttman, chemical en
gineer of tho bureau of mines. Ono
is expected to enable oil refiners to
increase their output of gasoline by
200 per cent; the other makes pos
sible the production from crude pe
troleum of toluol, and benzol, bases
for dyes and hlgU explosives for
which in the past, the United States
and the rest of tho world have de
pended almost exclusively upon Germany.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
PLAN TO POSTPONE BIG FIGHT
IDAHO TO BE 'DRY' NEXT YEAR
Bill
for State-Wide Prohibition
Passed by Senate Now Goes
to Governor.
Is
Boise, Idaho, Fob. 27. Tho senate
of tho Idaho legislature on Thursday
passed the state-wide prohibition bill,
which makes the manufacture, salo
und transportation for salo of Intoxi
cating liquors unlawful aftor January
1, 1910. Tho voto in the senate was
23 to G, in favor of tho bill. The bill
now goes to the governor, who has an
nounced that he will sign it
Promoter Curley Decides to Delay
Heavyweight Bout at Juarez Two
Weeks Johnson Delayed.
El Paso, Tex., Fob. 26. Official an
nouncement made on Wednesday by
Promotor Jack Curley that tho fight
between Jack Johnson and Jess Wll
lard for tho world's heavyweight
championship will not be held until
at least two weeks later than March
6 settles the question that has been
tho big topic of discussion hero since
Johnson began to lag in his Jour
ney from Barbadoes to Juarez.
WILSON NAMES TRADE BODY
BERNHARDT'S LEG CUT OFF
Great Acress Undergoes Successful
t Operation at Bordeaux,
France.
Bordeaux, France, Fob, 24. Mmo.
Sarah Bernhardt has been successful
ly oporated upon. Hor right leg was
amputated at tho knee ns tho result of
an Injury Buffered Bevoral years ago
whllo playing "Joan of Arc." It wns
stated that tho operation hnd been n
comploto success.
President Sends to Senate Hie Nomi
nations for the New Interstate
Commission.
Washington, Fob. 24. President
Wilson on Monday nominated the
members of tho Interstate trado com
mission. He sent to the senato tho
names of Joseph E. Davles, at present
commissioner of corporations; Edward
Nnsh Hurloy of Chicago, William J
Harris of ucorgin, at present uirector
of tho census; William H. Parry of
Seattlo, Wash., and George Rubleo of
Cornish, N. H.
$216,000,000 More for War.
London, March 1. Tho government
has requested $215,000,000 additional
for the war oxpcnseB of tho year 1014-
15, bringing tho total for tho year to
$1,800,000,000. Tho total for England
alono 1b $3,060,000,000,
700,000 Prisoners.
Borlln, March l.-r-Tho Gorman min
ister at Berno. Switzerland, declares
there aro 58,027 Gorman prisoners of
war intornod In France. Great Britain
and Russia. In Gormany thoro nro
now about 700,000 prisoners of war.
May End Bread Cost Inquiry.
New York, March 1. A rotum to
the wholesale prlco of four conta a
loaf for bread will result, Doputy At
torney-General Becker indicated In a
discontinuance of the Inquiry ho is
conducting.
Wade Named for Judge.
Washington, March 1. Martin J.
Wado, Domocratio national committee
man irom iowa, was nominatod by
President Wilson to bo United StateB
Judge for tho southern district of
Iowa. Wade lives in Iowa City.
Des Making War Speech.
Milan. Italy. March 1. Slg. Moatl-
Trottl, radical deputy, died whllo de
livering a speech In favor of tho In
tervention of Italy In tho war. Quo
person was killed and many wounded
In riots in favor of neutrality.
j
British Warships Damaged.
Berlin, March I (by wireless).
Tho Cologno Gazette publishes a lot-
tor from Montevideo which says an
ATgentino steamer reported seven
British cruisers lying severely dam
aged at tho Falkland islands.
Favors Purchase of Monticello.
Washington, Fob. 27. President
Wilson Thursday sent a letter to Rep
resentative Underwood and Senator
Kern, Indorsing tho resolution to pur
chaso by1 tho government of Monti
cello', tbo homo of Thomas Jefferson
Plum for Detroit Man.
Washington, Fob. 27. President
Wilson Thursday sent to tho senate
tho nomination of Richard. I. Lawson
of Detroit, Mich., to bo collector of
customs tor customs collection district
No. 38.
Chinese Boycott Spreading.
San Francisco. Representatives of
the Six Companies, the powerful
Chinese organization, which has Insti
tuted a boycott against Japanese on
tho Pn'ciflc coast, owing to the de
mands made on China by Japan, said
tho movement would bo in full swing
by the end of this woek throughout
tho west and In parts or i;anaua ami
Mexico. They said the boycott would
b0 continued in tho expectation that
ultimately tho Japanese affected
would bring pressure to bear on their
homo government to modify tho
terms of Japanese demands.
This movement Is purely patri
otic," Baid a prominent umnese
merchant of this city. "And we shall
endeavor by every available means
of publicity arid communication to
reach every Chinese In this country
and to induoo him to join in mo
campaign."
Peace Federation Meets.
Chicago, 111. Resolutions asking
President Wilson to call a conference
of neutral natiouB to attempt to end
the European war, were adopted by
the Emergency Peace Federation, at
a meeting here. Miss Jane Addams
wob named permanont president oi
tho newly organized society, and
Louis F. Lochner, secretary of the
rhlrnco Peace society, was chosen
secretary.
Allied Flags Over Dardanelles.
London. A dispatch to the Ex-
nhnneo Teletrrnnh company irom
Athens says: "Tho allies have dis
embarked detachments of artillery
near the destroyed Dardanelles forts
and British and French flags are now
flying over thom. Tho fleet hau
reached as far as the lighthouse near
Fort Kllld Bahr. The rorts on mo
European sldo have been reduced to
Bllence, Mlno sweeping operations
continue. Thtfro are 50,000 Turns on
tho European side unu 15,000 on the
ABlatlc side."
Report 1,800 Soldiers Drowned.
Berlin. A story by tho Over Seas
Hews acency is that tho Corrlero
Delia Sera, a newspaper of Milan, de
claTos that Lloyd's agency hasrecelv
ed a telegram from. East Bourne, In
Sussex, to tho effect a British trans
port haB gono down with 1,800 men
Refuse Peace Proposals.
Berlln.-"Tho Berlin MKtag Zeltung
states that It learnB from special au
thorities in Vienna that Russian unof-
nlnl neirotlatlors offered favorable
peace terms nnd Austria declined."
The Otoo county Jail Ib empty.
Tho Htnev buss 'over has hit Grand
Island.
The ilrst Has ts Jitney tho first
day mado $10.50.
A new business block will soon be
erected at Scrlbncr. . 1
Tho price of electricity has been
reduced In Beatrice
Hastings 1b4 figuring on a municpal-ly-owned
heating plant.
Jay Palmer heads the Jitnoy bu
service in Grand Island.
Omaha's now million dollar hotel is
now open to tho public.
Sarah Wright, 105 years old, died
at her homo at Hyannls.
Dr. H. L. WollB has been appointed
physician of Cuming county.
Dean C. Bessey of the University
of Nebraska died at Lincoln.
A commercial club has boen formed
In Wood Lake, Cherry county.
A move is on foot at Fremont to
establish a Jitnoy buss line.
Henry Slants of near Fremont got
$9,000 for his 1914 wheat crop.
Nebraska retailers selected Lincoln
for Its meeting placo next year.
Germantown is organizing a Far
mers' Grain and Elevator company.
Ice gorges in Blue river did great
damage to bridges in Soward county.
Tho basball club of Grand Island
got $1,000 from a fair held in that
city.
The merchandise firm of Kllllan &
Stuehrlt of Cedar. Bluffs has been die
solved, A stock company Is being formed at
Greenwood for building a telephone
system.
Hastings high school students are
preparing to manage a lecture course
next year.
Dr. C. A. Phillips is president of tho
newly organized Adams County Dene
tist society.
Henry Krueger, a farmer living:
southwest of Weeping Water, is still
husking corn.
G. A. Gell recommended In Wash
ington for appointment as postmaster
of Grand Island.
An eagle, measuring eight feet and
two inches from tip to tip, was killed
near Kearney.
John G. Kyi of Wlsnor has been ad
Judged a dipsomaniac by tho insanity
board at West Point
Nearly $3,000 have already been
subscribed for tho 1915 State league
baseball team at Rastings.
Nebraska is twenty-fifth in point
ofx school elliclency, according to
figures in superintendent's office.
The North Plntto Valley Teachers'
association will hold their annual
meeting at Alliance March 25 to 27.
After Guy Martin of Hastings was
operated on for appendicitis it was
discovered ho had smallpox Instead.
Five hundred women of Hastings
Methodist church have pledged them
selves to raise $5,000 for a new build
ing. William Eck, sentenced to Adams
county Jail for ten days, can't get out
becauso of a quarantine of tho Jail for
smallpox.
A two-year-old son, of Charles Hran
nac of Geneva was severely scalded
when he overturned a basin contain
ing boiling water.
Hastincs citizens are planning a
mass meeting to select a candidate
for mayor to oppose present incum
bent nnd three others.
The forty-first carload of relief sup
plies for Belgian war sufferers has-
been sent by the Nebraska commis
sion for Belgian relief.
The re-appolniment of Clarence
Harman as deputy commissioner of
tho food, drug and oil bureau, has
been announced by Governor John R.
Morehead.
State Treasurer Hall has purchas
ed $19,662.89 worth of the bondB of
drainage district No. 1, of Johnson
county; also $5,600 worth of tho water
bonds of the village of Spingview.
Two tons of dynamite wero used In
blasting a hill of lime rock in Supe
rior. Pieces of stone were thrown
half a mile high. Tho rortiana ue
mout company is to use tho rock.
Nine Hastings cigar factories nave
a total output of three and half mil
lion cigars, annually, according to in
ventories completed and turned over
to G. N. R. Browne, internal rovenu
collector.
rireakors of tho law In Grand isiana
nro sent to tho "coal pile," according
to a Grand Island newspaper. "Seven
Collars and Beven days ou the coal
pile," reads one police- court sentence
One person is dead, and thirty woro
made Berlously 111 as a result of eat
ing rolls sold aa a church festival at
Alma. Rat poison is believed to havo
been accidentally mixed with tho
flour.
Assessments paid into tho stato
bank guaranty fund may bo deducted
by Nebraska banks from their state
ments of Income under Income tax
law, according to a ruling announced
by tho treasury department at Wash
lngton. Fear Is expressed In some sections
of the Btato that sleet may have in
jured 'wheat and alfalfa
F. A. Klmbrough of Grand Island,
chartered a Bpeclal train to go to
Hastings when ho learned his daugh
ter, there in school, was 111 with ap
pendicitis, In per capita of rural population,
Nebraska is second of all the state
in tho union in production swine, ac
cording to flgureB received by Secre
tary Mellor of the Stato Board of Ag
riculture from the United States Board
of Agriculture.
