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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1902)
wtmf & lllllllilAliltllilillli.i.l.l.l -. ---- '"News from Over the State i Homo SuriirlatnK Hcault. At the recent election the repub licans carried five of the six congres sional districts. In tho Second dis trict Gilbert M. Hitchcock, fnsionlst, defeated Congressman Mercer 1,800 votes. In the First district Congress man Burkett was elected by a larger majority than two years ago. In tho Third, McCarthy, republican, has be- IION. DAVID H. MEKCEn. tween GOO nnd 700 pluralit' over Rob inson, fusion, who was up for re election. The Fourth district shows 'feW greatest reversal, Hinshnw de- Icnling too Ruling moinuer, omric, fusion, by over 3,000. The Fifth also sends Norris, republican, in place of Shallenberger, fusion, by a majority of over 500. On his third trial Kin kaid, republican, is elected in the Sixth district by a plurality of over 4,000. TIiomiiHoii AVI 11 Go to Hrnr.II. D. E. Thompson, of Lincoln, has ac cepted the appointment of United States minister to Brazil. This place was offered him by the president DAVID E. THOMPSON. about a mouth ago. Mr. Thompson was caucus candidate for United kStates senator from Nebraska two years ago, but withdrew in favor of iSenator Dietrich. "What the Uroi'crN Uoiiiaml. The Itotail Grocers' association of Nebraska is preparing to push legis lation before the next legislature. Among the important matters which the retail merchants of the state de sire is a law to make impossible- the Employment of children under the Singe of 14 years in shops and facto ries, a law which will result in the shortening of tho hours of labor in vUftll branches, a law which will make j$H possible for merchants to recover Kfifrom delinquent debtors for goods TWO they have purchased and 'J'if.lailed to pay for when the goods can iPe identified, a law which will make incumbent upon merchants to otify all creditors before they dis osy of their stocks of goods in ulA and a modi Mention of the pres ent garnishment laws of the state. Dcuthhcil Payment Invallil. Mrs. G. M. Decker, of Omaha, held & life insurance policy for $500 in the Royal Highlanders. Juno 3 she nl- ilowed her dues to become delinquent. On June 21 she became sick and phy- PuIpInnK informed her father hIip. (mild nmnot recover. He went to the lodge pi" secretary nnd paid the delinquencies. Mi Three hours later Mrs. Decker died. wi The lodge secretary tried to return &&n me (lues xo me oeneuciary, oui no 'm refused to take them. The lodge t resisted nuvinent nnd the supreme court of Nebraska has upheld its con tention. Am to Detective' Tcxtliiioiiy. Frank Fruide's conviction of the 'charge of selling Tolk county people (.Intoxicants without having a license therefor is reversed by tho supreme court, because the court below in- Btrueted the jury that it should give , the testimony of detectives the same t weight as it did other interested wlt 17 nesses. Fruide's conviction was brought about by two detectives frou Lincoln, who found him with a lverniiient license in his posses sion. He nnd his wife denied the charg". Nebrnftka LegUlnture, SENATOnS. Charles I. Norrls, Tablo Hock, rep, J. L. Younjf, Tecumseh, rep. Charles Marshal, Douglas, rep. George Li. Sheldon, Nehawka, rep. George Meredith, Ashland, fus. Matthew A. Hall, Omaha, rep. Robert B. Howell, Omaha, rep. Charles L. Saunders, Omaha, rep. Joseph Hall, Tekamah, rep. William P. Warner, Dakota City, rep. J. II. Burwell, St. Edward, rep. B. W. Reynolds, Fremont, rep. J. M. Alden, Pierce, rep. W. R. Wuy, Columbus, fus. C. J. Co rtee, Spencer, fus. W. C. Brown, Sprlngvlew, rep. M. Li. Fries, Arcadia, rep. Aaron Wull, Camp City, rep. W. 11. Harrison, Grand Island, rep. J. II. Umstend, Fullerton, rep. Shelby Hastings, David City, rep. Richard O'Neill, Lincoln, rep, P. F. Bochtol, Bennott, rep. L. M. Pemborton, Beatrice, rop. , C. B. Anderson, Crete, rep. W. II. Jennings, Davenport, rep. Robert J. Sloan, Genova, rep. J. M. Cox, Hampton, rep. Georgo L. Day, Superior, rep. J. C. Hedge, Hastings, rep. Frank Dean, Holdrege, rep. D. II. Hasty, Arapahoe, rep. W. D. GUIln, Gothenburg, rep. j REPRESENTATIVES. W. II. Hogrcre, Stella, rep. Cnss Jones, Rulo, rep. II. Bclden, Dawson, rep. W. II. Wilson, Tablo Rock, rep. J. M. Cravens, Armour, rep. J. W. Kerns, Auburn, rop. G. S. Christy, Johnson, rep. , C. C. Reed. Vesta, rep. E. Good, Peru, rep. Job Cassell, Nebraska City, rep. R. W. Jones, Dunbar, rep. M. Li. Fredericks, Cedar Creek, rep. W. Dellls Dernier, Elmwood, rop. Georgo M. Spurlock, Platsmouth, rep, J. M. Martin, Papllllon, fus. D. W. Gilbert, Omnhn, rep. W. T. Nelson, Omnhn, rep. John Wallace, Omaha, rep. W. B. Ten Eck, Omaha, rep. Thomas C. Shelley, Omaha, rep. E. M. Morsman, Jr., Omaha, rep. Peter Mnngold, Bennington, rep. J. II. Rlggs, Waterloo, rep. J. A. C. Kennedy, Omaha, fus. Frank Jnhnel, Kennard, rep. William G. Senrs, Tekamah, rep. W. G. Harrison, Blnlr, rep. Joseph Roberts, Fremont, rep. George L. Loomls, Fremont, fus. Chris Shlnstock, West Point, fus. C. J. Weyborg, Pender, rep. F. M. Gregg. Wayne, rep. S. P. Mlkesell, Poncn, fus. N. M. Nelson, Plnlnvlew, rep. F. E. Anderson, Wausa, rep. J. R. Herron, Ewlng, rep. Frank Jouvenat, Petersburg, rep. T. F, Memmlnger, Madison, fus. D. O. Bccher, Columbus, fus. E. E. Fellers, Fullerton, fus. J. G. Dobry, Schuyler, fus. W. J. Hnrmnn, Fremont, rep. J. J. Vlnsek, Prnguc. fus. C. C. Gelwlck, Bralnnrd, rep. John Kaveny, LInwood, fus. S. S. Atwood, Bc.aver Crossing, rep. John McLnln, Seward, lep. John Mockett, Lincoln, rep. J. II. McClay, Lincoln, rep. II. C. N. Burgess, Lincoln, rep. C. J. Warner, Wnvcrly, rep. J. G. Holllett, Havelock, rep. Curtis W. Rlbble, Dewltt, rep. Dclber A. Stetson, Western, rep. W. E. Robbln, Cortland, rep. J. II. Rnmsey, Fllley, rep. S. S. Spier, Odell, rep. Hersehcll Smith, Toblns, rep. J. E. Mcndenhnll, Falrbury, rep. Harvey Ford, Hubbell, rep. D. B. Cropsey, Falrbury, rep. Peter Egganburger, Strang, fus. I. N. Trask, Geneva, fus. H. M. DIctrIck, York, rep. William Meredith, rep. C. II. Hoy, Sliver Creek, fus. W. T. Thompson, Central City, rep. A. V. Cunnlnghnm, Glltner, rep. Charles Anderson, Phillips, rop. Georgo F. Flshbaek, Harvard, rep. P. A. Caldwell, Edgar, rep. John Muslck, Edgar, rep. Chnrles Hunter. InaValc, rep. W. G. Sadler. Hastings, rep. F. A. Sweezy, Blue Hill, rep. G. L. Rouse, Akin, rep. IT. G. Forrnr. Grand Island, rep. Soren M. Fries, fus. T. 11. Doran, Burwell, rep. W. N. Conts, Stunrt, rep. E. M. Waring. Middle Branch, fus. J. A. Douglns, Bassett, rep. David Hanna, Wood Lake, rep. Frank Currlc, Whitney, rep. G. C. McAllister, Chnppell, rep. A. E. Bartoo, Arcadia, rep. A. II. Copsoy, Wester vllle, rop. J. J. Tooley, fus. 13. IT. Kittle, Rockvtllf, fus. J. II. Davis, Gibbon, rep. Oscar Knox, Kenrney, rep. George E. Bacon, Doss, rep. Vic Anderson, Mlnden, fus. E. T. Spencer, RIverton, rep. A. N. Shumanl, Ragnn, rep. Fred Brown, Funk, rep. E. B, Perry, Cambridge, rep, J. E. Hathorne. Bnrtley, rep. J. C. Junkln, Elwood. rep. William Bionnnn, Culbertson, rep. Alice Elliott May Recover. Alice Elliott, the young girl who was in the carriage that was struck by tho passenger train Saturday night nt Winside, is still nlive. She was sitting beside her sister, Miss Mamie, who was instantly killed, and was unconscious from that time un til -Thursday. Tho sound of a train coming Into the station throws her into nervous fits of trembling, but it is now hoped that she will sur vive the horrible experience. SiiyH Property Wiin Hidden. Mrs. C. L. Tallmadge, daughter of Tobias Castor, once the democratic lender in Nebraska, has filed objec tions in court at Lincoln to the re port of the executors, her step mother and brother. She asserts that her., father left among his pri vate papers a number of securities and notes which were not listed by the executors among the property of the estate. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Power of Connty Donrda. An important decision defining tho powers of county boardB Is rendered by tho supremo court in tho enso of J. 13. Bacon against Dawes county, a controversy nrlsing over refusal to pny certain warrants held by Bacon. Tho court riays: "Levies made, for other funds cannot bo transferred by the county board to tho general fund beforo the tax bo levied has been col lected. Warrants drawn upon tho general fund of tho county In ex ccsb of 85 per cent, of the levy for that fund nnd whero there is no money In tho trensury belonging to that fund aro void. No right of ac tion accrues upon county warrants until there is money for their pay ment in tho fund upon which they aro drawn or tho proper authorities have had opportunity to provldo funds to pny them and have neglected to do so." Gov. Shviiko'k l'roclnmntlon. Gov. Savage has issued his Thanks giving proclamation naming Thurs day, November 27. After recounting the many blessings thnt have visited Nebraska citizens ho snys: "Hu manity becomes tho legatee of theso material blessings not without corre sponding obligations. In our hours of prosperity wo should remember our duty to society. We should re member the church, the school nnd the home. In these places we should labor to strengthen tho fiber and architecture of truu manhood and womanhood, thereby bearing attesta tion of our appreciation nnd grati tude, and elevating tho mental nnd moral standard of our fellow being. Providence causes rain to fall on fer tile lands; not on desert wastes. We are thereby admonished to em ploy our facilities and our materia blessings to righteous ends." "Wniitctl to Own the Farm. The three young Borcher boys, who murdered their father nenr Co lumbus and burned his body in the haystack, committed the crime in the hope of coming into possession of the fa rip, and that they believed themselves proprietors of the plncc is evidenced by the fuct that two days after the tragedy and before 'the discovery of the cremated remains the boys drove to Humphrey and ordered a windmill to be put up on the farm, remarking that as their father had disappeared, they thought the' would fix the place up. It lias come to light that the two older boys, commonly known as stepsons of the deceased, were in reality the illegitimate offspring of tho deceased mother by a German before her re moval from the old country. The Vote of nmieln County. Douglas county, in which Omaha and South Omaha arc located, de feated Mickey (rep.) for governor 2,417 votes and Mercer (rep.) for con gress 1,747 votes. Notwithstanding the personal fight of an Omaha news paper on Mercer he ran ahead of Mickey in Omaha, although this newspaper supported Mickpy. All the, republican state officers except governor won in Douglas county, and three republican senators and nine republican representatives were elected by majorities averaging near ly 1,000. Vniiln it Pardon Ilonril. Gov Savage says that he often finds It necessary to" work far into the night in going over the records of criminal cases in order thnt he may net intelligently nnd justly upon an application for pardon, and declares that he will recommend the appoint ment of a board of pardons, to com prise three men, who may give as much time to the work as may bo necessary. Filled for "Jokl'iiK" With Revolver, Earl Smith, of York, was fined $5 and costs. He was arrested and charged with assault by John P. David, who claimed thnt Smith drew a revolver on him nnd intended to do him bodily injury. Smith claimed that the revolver was not loaded and that the revolver play was more in the nature of a joke. SK-Koot Kail Canned Death. While Ovid Lemise and a Mr. Dyer were stacking straw for a neighbor nenr Fullerton they commenced scuttling in piny. Both fell to tho ground, a distance of only five or six feet. Dyer was not hurt in tho least, while Lemise sustained injuries to his spinal column which resulted in his death. ItitiiKe Hnvpl hy Klre. A big prairie fhe swept over tho section southeast of Ilemingford. It wns set by sparks from a locomo tive nnd burned over 7,000 acres of fine range and grass land, in addition to destroying hay which was depend ed on for winter feed for stock. f Child Swallow PoInoii. The three-year-old child of Mr. Thomas, a short distance southwest of Plattsmouth, ate a piece of cheese which contained poison for mice and wns taken violently ill. A physician was immediately called nnd the life of the child saved. MANUFACTURE AND USE OF BRIQUETTES IN GERMANY THE SUCCESS OF THE INDUSTRY POINTS A LESSON FOlt AMERICAN STUDENTS HUE anthracite coal strike, Al though settled temporarily, ia certain to give rise to the crea tion of an important new industry the making of heat from agencies little employed in the United States heretofore. Canada in al ready experimenting with tho manu facture of peat briquettes; in Cali fornia brlqucttew are made of coal dust and refuse, and in Pennsylvania investors and inventors are engaged in devising means for tho production of condensed fuel which may bchadatall times, whether coal mine's arc operated or not. Users of fuel and thnt means every body will be very deeply interested in a late report sent to the state depart ment by Frank 11. Mason, consul gen eral to Berlin, which deals with tho use of briquettes, made from brown coal, carbonized peat, coal dust and so forth, used ns domestic nnd steam fuel in Berlin nnd other German cities, and tho wholesome effect of such fuel, to gether with coke nnd fuel gns, in pre serving towns and cities from the smoke nuisance and at the same time affording a fuel cheaper than tho hard conl. Mr. Mason says there are in opera tion in Germany 89 manufactories of fuel briquettes nnd he goes on to say: "If Americans, are really-interested in MACHINE FOB MAKING the subject there is no need Mint they should risk nny large sums of money in uncertain experiments. They have only to study the machinery and meth ods employed in European countries, compare their crude materials with those found and used here, and they can thus start at the point of technical knowledge which Europeans linvc reached after ninny years of experi ence. When, some ten yenrs ngo, the attention of American ironniakers was called to the German system of making blnsit furnace coke in retort ovens, which saves the valuable volatile elements of the conl, it wns thought worth while by certain of them to bring over two carloads of Connells rille coal to be coked as a test by the Serman process. The complete success Df that experiment decided the intro duction of the standard German type of coking oven into the United States. "Something similar, it would seem, might profitably be done with the materiuls which Americans hae not et succeeded in comerting into Mitis factory briquettes. There are experi enced engineers and a dozen manufac turers of briquette-making machinery who would gladly cooperate Ju these tests and would furnish machinery adapted to working the material thiu technically defined. Upon a basis of such tests, plans and estimates could be obtnined for the erection of plants 4i the United States with specified dally capacity. Among the builders of briquette-making machinery in Germany the following may be cited nwof stand ard reputation, the first two named be ing more specially concerned with ap paratus for making briquettes from conl dust nnd sluck, while the latter build machinery for briquette-making from brown coal and peat: The Dustsel dorfer Eisenwerke, A. G., 55 liruch strasse, Dusscldorf; Schiehtemann & Kraemer, Dortmund; Tigler, Maschin enbau Gesellsohaft, Meiderich-on-Uhine; Itohrig & Koenig, Magdeburg Ludenburg; Masehinenfabrik Buckuu, 82 Schonebecker strasse, Magdeburg; Zeitzer Mnsehinenbau Gesellschaft, Zeltz, Saxony, and E. Fietsch & Co., Thurm strasse, Halle A. S. "Itobert Grlmslmw, an American en gineer large experience on the wib ject, whose address is ut 9 Warm bucher strasse, Hanover, may be con sulted personally or by correspondence by thobe who may desire technical in formation as to machinery or methods, the cost of plants, etc. "The Stauber process for drying most substances waw first brought into prominent notice in connection with peat coal manufacture In 1901, when the Imperial testing station at Charlot tenburg announced as the result of ex perimentb made with peat briquettes made by the Stauber system that they contained 45.14 per cent, of fixed car bon, 4.54 per cent, hydrogen, 29.34 per OF FUEL ECONOMY. cent oxygen and D.09 per cent, iwh nH had a thermal value of 3,800 ealrk. The Stauber system n tint applied in cludes a process for rapidly drying tho moist peat hy mcana of heated and! compressed air within a closed cham ber or channel, communicating with conduit pipes in such manner thai heat ed air can be forced through the drying channel nnd cold air through the out let pipe, tho effect being that tho oolil air quickly absorbs the hot, saturated air out of the drying chamber and con denses it in tJio conduit pipes, thus greatly stimulating -tho process of evaporation by which the peat in dried. Peat in Its raw Mate contains from 70 to 85 per cent, of water and in tho humid climate of northern Europo is usually a very difilcult.niatcrln) to dry. It is claimed for tho Stauber method thnt it reduces the moisture to 18 or 20 per cent, quickly, effectively and, what is" important, without chnnglng the chemical composition of the peat or in nny way adding to it. The drying) machine is in the boiler form (cylin drical) nnd of a size to conveniently produce five tons of dried peat per day. In a large plant thistinlt would be aim ply repented, ob a number of machines can bo worked with nlr curreulB gen erated by tho hi mo engine. The pent coal can ho used for locomotive or other fuel raw, or It can be coked, nnd BllIQUETTES FKOM PEAT. produces coke wholly freo from sul phur and as valuable aa clmruoul ion certain industrial purposed "Estimates furnished by tho com pany give the cost of n plant capable oC turning out 50 tons of peat briquettes per day s follows: milldlnBs fU.ZSO Machinery 17.&0 Steam etiKlno and' fixtures Si70' Means of trnnuportltu; material and product 9.C70 Total Jtt.ZW "A second process is that invented by F. Schulke of Bach strasse, Hamburg, the salient feature of which is that the turf or peat used is cleaned o roots, stones, etc., then liqucficl by, water and pumped through a pipo several miles to the works, where, ni claimed hy the inventor, it is leached nnd converted by hent nnd prcBBuro intobriquettcs at a uetcost of $2 a ton, or into artificial coal having a thermal value' of 0,250 calorics at a cost ofi $2.50 per ton. It Is understood that a large plnnt is in process of .erection on the northern coast of Germany for tho utilization of this method, but us to the actual condition of the enterprise or the practical value of the process on an industrial scale, no exact, infor mation is at hand. "The Schoenlng-Frlt. procesq for making artificial coal ami briquettes by carbonizing dried peat is an elab oration by a German engineer of tho system invented by Schoenlng and used with more or less success at Stamsund, in Norway. The Germuif patent is owned by a corporation knon'n as the Deutsche Torfkohlen Gesellschuft, which has Its office in Berlin and a biunll plant at the subur ban town of Hnlensee, where two inn chines of small capacity one worked by hand, the other by power have been set up for experimental purposes. "Of the processes actually employed, the vnluc of which has been fully es tablished by experience, one of tho most Interesting is thnt invented by C. Schlickeysen, of lUxdorf-Herlin, and practically operated there, at Mu nich and other places. The peculiar feature of this system is that hy it black, dense briquettes of high cnlorio value are made from peat witlmut tho application of heat simply through tho action of kneading and drying. "Turf briquettes ordinarily contain about CG per cent, of inflammable ele ments, the remainder being made up of inorganic ash nnd water. They are thus inferior as fuel to briquet ten made from brown conl, which average 70 per cent, or more of inlla mutable matter. Both represent In their present form the utmost thut science luiK been able to do In utilizing Inferior and otherwise almost worthless ma terials to supplement and eke out the insufficient coal supply of European countries." m Il I 'J Ft M kJr nVl x .. MS