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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1906)
WITTE HAS HAD ENOUGH 'COUNT WiTTK KXI'MCTUI) TO KUTIKIV AS PltK.MlUK Trciiilor Councillor KoUovotofT Iti'snnteri tin lll SueecNNor. Kleetlou Itc Kit riled an I'urcu ST. PETERSUURG.-In high cir cles the rumor wns current thai Count Witto lind definitely decided !to retire from the premiership. Tho Associated press is unable to confirm the rumor as Count Witte had retired nnd the ehancellory was closed when ithe correspondent called shortly after midnight. From an absolutely authoritative source however, it can be stated that Count Witto at a session of the council of the empire made an enigmatical statement which is interpreted by many members of the council as a virtual declaration that his career as premier is ended and that he will bo suc ceeded by Privy Councellor Koko vosofT, former minister of finance. A project for the solution of the agrarian problem by the purchase of lands lrom the nobles and other large proprietors through the peasant banks and their re-sale to peasants on long time installment payments was under discussion. As the treasury is in no condition to advance the money to the banks for this purpose Count Witte advo cated a scheme under which the banks should purchase tho land with fifteen years' credit bonds instead of cash. ( A very marked division of tho cabinet resulted. Finance Minister BhipolT opposed the premier. Sud denly M. KokovosofT arose and in a warm speech earnestly supported Count Witte's views. When lie had concluded Count Witte clo?ed tho debate in a few words rather apolo gizing for his seeming indifference and thankinc M. Kokovosoll for his support, adding: "I also might have made a better defense had I been as much inter csted in tho future as 'Alexander Nioholivitoh' menning KokovosofT Russians even on formal occasions referring to persons by their christian names. On .what is apparent reliable au thority it is stated that the condition Df Count Witte's health is quite tin latisfactory. He is said to have ex perienced a rather alarming attack of heart trouble a few days ago. His nhvsieians advised1 him some time Ago to give up work. It is known that Count Witte, believing that ho had weathered the political storm, formed si determination 10 relinquish the premiership upon the meeting of the national assembly. Recently, however, the strength of the re Betiouaries increased, and the premier was obliged to keep up the light against, heavy odds. Ic may bo Unit his endurance was thus exhausted and that feeling that his health was declining, has reached the decision to retire immediately Ah the elections proceed mere is tnore and more evidence of tho virtual exclusion from participation of the radical elements of the popu Jation. The preliminary stages of the elections will rob the national assembly of much of its national character. Its authority to speak will be absolutely denied by the uroletarint organization which bore the lirunt of the fight for liberty. Complaints of interference and duress in the country districts are increasing. Many flagrant instances are cited of the terrorism of loca officials in preventing a free expres sion of the peasants and often practically compelling the selection 'ol priests and village elders. Tho seeming apathy of the small land owners' assemblies, at which an average of only 10 per cent of the voters were present, is orplai liable to choose. Carefully collected information from the outlying industrial districts Bhows that the elections were a com plete farce. Nominally e loven out ol the forty-nine . working t groupi entitled to participate, elected jtwonty out of fifty-seven delegates Ho the convention which will select eighteen representatives for the eity to the conventi ni which in turn fleets for St. Petersburg six mem bers of the national assembly, la reality the number of workmen par j.ici jiating was infinitesimal. Some of the men held mootingi and discussed the advisability ol participating, but the great mass simply withdrew, declaring that during the present reign of terror tho designation of their real choice wa equivalent to turning over the men t nolice. MILLER GOES A-GUNNING SHOOTS WIFK, l'ATIIKK-IN-I.AW AND MOTIIKIt-IN-I.A W. Vounjr SI an ton County runner Stvenra to Kccini'r 1IU Wife or (lot UluoU lCplilrnilc of I'evornt IMfiir, WINS IDE, Neb. August Miller a young farmer in Stanton county, wont to the home of his father-in- aw, Fred llohneko, near here and shot llohneko, Mrs. Hohnckc and his wife. Miller's wife will die. Miller shot his father-in-law three times and his mother-in-law twice. They may recover. He shot his wife in tho left side. Then he ran a mile, jorrowed a horso from a neighbor, whom he told of tho shooting, and rode out of the country. The sheriff and a posse pursued. Miller lived on a corner of Hohneke's farm and had had trouble with the old folks. His wife had her parents. Ho de would get his wife or llohneko ran for a wounded the lluoing gone Hack to elared that he blood. Father shotgun and Miller. Miller's attempt at murder was committed upon Mr. and Mrs. I' red llohneko in their farm home, between Winside and Stanton, jitst inside the Stanton county lino. He has thus far made good his escape, and was still being pursued by the sheriff and four posses of well armed and highly enraged citizens, who declare that in case Miller offers tho slightest resistance to capture they will shoot to kill. The three victims wore still alive in the evening though his wife, with a bullet in her left side may die at any moment. Mr. Ilqhneke the assassin's father-in-law, may recover, in suite of the three wounds in his arms and legs, while Mrs. Hohneke merely lost two fingers when she grabbed tie revolver to protect her husband. After tho wounded father-in-law seized a s hotmin and drew wood on - - CJ the assailant's neck Miller ran a mile to the house of a neighbor, named Miller, borrowed a grey horse, and rode away bareback. Tho shooting began in the barn at 7 o'clock in the morning, where Miller found Hohneke. He began firing, following Hohneke into the house. Cut Tract) of Cold COOK, Neb. A tew days ago while Mrs. David Ferguson was d res ing a ehicken she discovered a small niece of vellow metal about the size of a grain of wheat among the con tents of the gizzard. Mr. Ferguson brought the find to town and n local iewolor snbiected it to the usual tests and declared it to be a nugget of pure gold. Mr. Ferguson lives on Mrs. Hub bnrd's farm, one-half mile north of Cook, where the chicken was hatched. It has never been off the promises M ik' 1 1 speculation is being indulged in regarding this particular chicken'? feeding ground. BEATRICE, Neb. Cold lias been found in tho gravel of a sand bank on tho nlace of F.d Dole at Fifth and Hoyt streets. A little of the grave was tested byj K. 0. Kioons, who renorted the nresence of the trace of gold, so far as his chemical tests will show. The gravel in which the precious metal was discovered is made up largely of iron pyrites often found associated with gold. Murder Trlul ul O'Neill. NORFOLK, Neb. Tho trial of Myron Irwin, charged with the murder of Hob Cearns a year ago near Badger, near the Boyd-Holt county line, began at O'Neill and will continue during ten days. This is tho second trial, Irwin before hav ing been found guilty of murder in the second degree. The killing is alleged to have resulted from a quarrel that started at Butte, Neb , March 30, I WW. ft is alleged that Irwin stabbed Cearns twice after they had left town and after they had crossed the Niobrara river into Holt county. Cearns died a hall' hour after ho was stabbed. Ono wound was in the heart and tho other in the stomach, Killed IIok" Miillclouftly PIERCE, Neb. Nick J.ackas, ono of the prosperous farmers of Allen precinct, says that some ono tried to kill all the hogs on his "place. On the next morning eight of them were found lying around the yard, some being cut around the neck and others on the legs with the liesh sliced from one or two. Eight were either dvad or in a dying condition. LOOTING OF A BANK DARING UOIlllliUV COMMITTIM) 11KAKT Ol' .MOSCOW IN C4 Get Nearly Half A Alillion CJUAKDS HOUND AND WOKK .1IADK OAlUilCD AND HASY Lender of Thltives Show Perfect I'utiill lurlty With Surrouiidliu:- ltittti or of .Mutiny lit ScluiNtoiiol MOSCOW. The Credit Mutual, one of tho largest banks in Moscow, was mysteriously robbed by maskec men at dusk, the robbers securing 423,500. It was an extremely daring job. Tho facts already developed raise tho question whether tin robbery was committed by or undo the direction of some one at prccet or previously employed in the institu-t t ion. The bank is situated in Ilinka street, in the heart of the eity. The last of tho clerks had just departed, leaving an inside guard of three men, while under the portocochere outside were a police and the house porter. The street was crowded with people burring homeward. Accord ing to the story of the guards, in tho twinkling of an eye they were con fronted with revolvers in the handi of twenty masked men, who had en tered silently by tho main door, which had been locked when the office force left. After a command to the guards to hold up their hands nc word was spoken. The guards were bound and gagged and thrown into a dark corner. Tho robbers then took up positions at; all tho entrances and the curtain? of the windows were lowered. The chief of the robbers, who directed the operations of his associates by gestures and without speaking, showed familiarity with the location of the vaults. When all was roadj he went to the heavy btirglar-prool safe and with a few whirls of the knob threw tho combination of tht lock, the heavy door swung open anil tho treasure of tho bank was revealed The plunder, consisting of gold. silver and notes, was speedily thrust into sacks. When a clean haul ol tho money had been made, not kopec being left, the robber.' departed as silently as they came making their exit through the mair entrance and leaving no trace behind them. They had been in the banl loss than half an hour. Twontj minutes later one of the guard! succeeded in freeing himself am gave the alarm. The dumbfounded policemen and house porter who had been standing in front of the haul throughout claimed they had seen no one enter or leave it. An immense crowd was attracted t tho scene by the news of the robbery. M. Vitchniakoir, the managing director of the bank after hasty investigation rushed otT to Counsu Cenoral Doubaseoff. It is the general impression that the key to the mystery is within tin bank itself. ST. t'lSTEKSBUKtf. -Most sensa tional reports are current that the execution of Former Lieutenant Schmidt, which has made a deer impression throughout Kussia, liu; been followed by au extensive mutiny of sailors at Sebastopol, the massacre of their olficers and firing by the fortrosg upon the city. Tht truth of the storv is doubted, thh being the "phycho logical moment' for tho appearance of such wild reports. No dispatches confirming the storv have been received, but if the story shall prove true, tht absence of news mieht be accounted for bv the imposition of a censor ship. The alleged news came in the fonr, of two cypher telegrams of a prom inenr. member of tin social revolu tionary party, such as the revolu tionaries have sometimes been abk to transmit through accomplices ic the telegraph offices when the public and oven the government has beer unable to communicate. As trans latetl and displayed at the offices ol radical newspaper.- here, tho tele grams say briefly that the sailors infuriated by the refusal of Emperot Nicholas to pardon Lieutenant Schmidt and their fellow sailors rose in their baracks and siezed and imprisoned the majority of thou officers. The dispatches add that tht city of Sebastopol is almost entirety in llames. J t is also stated that n student at the technological institute has ceived a similar telegram. re ARE KILLED IN A MINE KXPI.OSION IN A WKST VIKOINIA CATCHICS WOK KM KN itodlei lludly Mutilated and Twenty- tho InJurod CiiUAO of At-illduut Not Vet Dellnltely Known FAIRMONT, W. Vn. Fifteen men are known to bo deatl, twenty-live in jured and from twenty-live to t-ov- enty-ttve missing and believed to bo dead as the result of an explosion of gas in the shaft of the Century Coal company at Century, a small mining town situated fifty miles south of Fairmont, on the Molliugtoit and lUiekhanunon branch of the Balti more it Ohio railroad. Tho explosion took place at -i tfQ in tho afternoon, but owing to tho telephone wires being put out of commission by tho high winds details are lacking, and Hie victims, six of whom aro foreigners, were not. secured at a late hour in the evening. The Century mine, which is owned by Shaw Brothers of Baltimore Md., is ono of tho largest independent operations in northern West Virginia. Over L"0 men are oninloyed daily in the shaft, and had tho explosion been an hour earlier the loss of life would have been appalling. As it was there were but a few remaining in the shaft, the main body of the miners having quit work for the day. The giant fan, which furnishes air for the shaft, was partially wrecked by the force of the explosion and was repaired immediately, and within an hour of the accident Superin tendent .lames Ward had a re'ief gang in tho mine. The first trip brought, out ten men, live dead and live badly burned. They were found in the main heading near tho bottom of the shaft. The living could give no details of the explosion, saying that they wore on their way to the surface when the explosion tool; place, behind them. A second expedition immediately went, down and explored the main heading which was found to bo uninjured by tne explosion, except that the. brattics were blown out. Four more bodies were found in this heading and twenty injured men were making their way toward the bottom the shaft, were brought to tho surface by the rescuers. Fourteen sub-headings at midnight were yet unexplored and Superin tendent Ward who was still in tho mine, sent out word that owing to the prevalence of gas he was un decided at that, time whether or not to push the work into the sub-headings for an hour or so. Tho mine, however, was being readily freed of the fumes of t he explosion by the fan ami the work of rescue will be pushed on throughout the night. Immediately following the ex plosion the ollicials began a house to house canvass to ascertain the number of men to be found on tho surface. This resulted in ICO miners b'iing found ,who had come out' previous to believed that the explosion. It is there are many more have not yet been If this is not true outside who accounted for. there are still seventy-live men in the mine with little hope of their being alive. The relief trains bear ing physicans were hurried from I'hillippi and Buchammon and tho doctors immediately took care of the wounded. The office building was transformed into a temporary hospital. The families of the dead, wounded and missing men gathered quickly at the opening, and the pathetic scenes always witnessed at such accidents were enacted. Several foreign women insisted upon going into the wine and were only prevented from boarding the cage by force. Many of the women were still hovering about the opening at midnight, refusing to go into the camp store or other places to escape the biting cold. An official of tho company who 'locked after the work on tho surface said at midnight that the company was doing all in its power to ascer tain the names of the dead and wounded and that a list would be made up sometime during the night. Ho stated that owing to the horribly mutilated condition of the dead it was impossible to recognize them at that hour. The Century mine employes were about equally divided between Americana and foreigners, and a report was current here that it was the belief of those at the scene of the explosion that most of the dead are .foreigners, because they were in the habit or remaining longor in tho mine than the American miners. r.rrfrccrcrrcc NEBRASKA NOTES OOOOO OOftlOOOC Oliver linker, n farmer, who lived six miles south of, Nebraska 0ity,t was found dead in bed. Baker was 4fi years of age. Fannorslin the vicinity of Pockford are talking of organizing a company for the purpose of prospecting for coal and oil. A young man named Stevens, who resides at llluo Springs has been up before the insanity board and ordered sent to the asylum. Clement .Drew of Beatrice was given a necktie shower by his young gentleman friends and Mrs. Drew a linen shower by her young lady friends. t County Attorney William' Ely of Ainsworth wont to Long l'lno and seized all tho Riot machines in tire - saloons of that town. Ho will begin prosecutions. j DawsoiiB it MoKoovors held a sale of thoroughbred Poland China hogs at Uentrieo. Forty-four head were sold ut good prices, somu of the animals bringing as high as $80. The sale was largely attended. F. J. Kimball it Co., the livery inn, have purchased tho barn at Eighth and Courts streets, llontrico ami moved to the now quarters. Troadwell it Moschell, implement dealers, will occupy the building vacated by Kimball it Co. Patrick llogan, a young man of Columbus who was injured while working with a railroad bridge gang in tho western part of the state, died at St. Mary's hospital in Columbus. Hu was injured by falling from a bridge on which ho was working. Fifty farmers comprise a com mittee which is soliciting funds for the new farmers' elevator at Iloag. The building is to cost $5,000, and about one-half that amount has been raised. Sherilf Cnrrig has placed notices on the door of McCliutock it Carter, druggists at Columbus and the store is closed on au attachment for $U,J00. It is claimed by the linn that they have been swinled in trade, their ready money gone and they could not raise the money to pay out. Herman Prandeburg and August MnrquarUt, two young fanners, or Norfolk, wore both injured more or less seriously In a runaway accident. Their carriage was overturned and they were dragged over the very vough roads. Maquardt sustained agash in the forehead so deep that the skull bones wore visible. JJrande burg was merely badly bruised. As a reflult of an explosion or some boiling naphtha soan in the basement of the Paddock hotel at Beatrice. J. L. Jackson, one of the proprietors of the Paddock hotel had his hands badly burned ami his eyebrows and hair singed while engaged in extin guishing the llames. He is confined to his room at the hotel from his injuries. Through tho efforts or the 'lkfimuh Commercial club the Nebraska Tele phone company has made an ap propriation to pay the expenses ol extending its lino through the rural districts tributary to that place. The work will bo commenced this spring. Tho Tekainah exchange has something over -100 subscribers at present and already fourteen have applied for telephones, which will be put on the new line. Judge Halet ot J'.eatrice, who recently made a trip to Washington, D. C, in the interest of the paid-out-settlers On the Otoe and .Missouri Indian lands has received word froir Washington that the committee o) congress having the consideration ol tho bill for tho relier or the settlers had recommended its passage. The bill is one which interests every purchaser or Indian lands in that part or the state who paid out on his purchase, and it is hoped by those interested that it will pass the house and be approved by the senate. liev. H. E. Mottor, pastor of the Christian church at Craig, 1ms been burned. He attempted to start a fire with gasoline, pouring the explosive fluid out of a five-gallon jan. Tho force of the explosion blew nim clear across the room, setting his clothing on lire and practically wrecking tho house, which was set on lire, and his little child, sleeping in an adjoining room, was saved by being taken out through the window. Mr. Hotter was rescued from the building, but was so badly burned that no hopes are entertained of hie ecovery.