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'"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."
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