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NEBRASKA NOTES I
Scribner lias voted bonds in tlio
mini of $20,000 for a water works and
gas plant.
Paul Witzki of Beatrice, was
awarded the contract for building the
now plant for tho Beatnco Poultry
and Cold Storage company.
James Oleary, tho Fremont restaur
ant inn, was knocked down in front
, of his place of business recently by a
vr'iolt of lightning, but no serious
damage was dono.
Andrew Elias of North Platte, at
about 2 o'clock on awakening, found
his wife at his sido dead. She had
not been feeling well when she
retired, but did not seem to be in a
dangerous condition.
Breaking the ground for tho new
$50,000 building for the Kearney
Military academy has been begun
and there aro eight teams at work
excavating for tho foundation and
basement.
Fire caused by firecrackers de
stroyed a barn at Roatrico belonging
to W. R. Smith. A horse and surry
were saved, but tho structure with
its contents went up in smoke. Loss
about $000, insurance $500.
Columbus is to have a new national
bank. It is to bo called the German
National. Its capital stock to be
$50,000. Its directors aro Hans
Elliott, Theodore FreidholT, Walter
G. Phillips, P. J. MoKillip and J.
F. Sims.
A cheek passed at the store of
Brandt & Hobbs of Beatrice,, for
J7.50, proved to bo a forgery. It was
turned in as cash by O.ll. Wording
and had the si emit urn nf .inlm
Kopccky. The forger has not been
apprehended.
At a meeting of the Iloag Farmers
Elevator company at Beatrice
William Keefer was elected manager.
Work has been commenced on the
new L'0,000 bushels capacity elevator
&nd it will be pushed to completion
with all possible haste.
A 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
John Lundholm, living south of
Oakland, fell in a water tank and
when taken out was thought to bo
dead. Dr. Steward was called and
ifter working with tho child for some
(imo life was restored and the little
, Jiie is getting on nicely.
M. Brockway, who lives about ten
miles east of Lyons, had his barn
itruck by lightning and burned to
the ground. Six horses and one colt
wore killed by the lightning and
nothing inside the barn was saved
from tho lire. The barn was insured
for $100.
The 10-year-old son of George
Orebo, of Plattsmouth had a deep
gash cut in his right foot with an ax
in the hands or Charley Nouman.
The boys were returning from the
Burlington shops after taking the
noon lunch to their fathers when the
accident occurred.
Tho necessary bonds for tho es
tablishment of a packing house in
Beatrice have been practically
secured and this industry for
Nebraska's third city is now an
assured fact. The proposed plant is
to cost $250,000 and will employ
Koveral hundred skilled workmen.
Miss Lucy Lloyd, the young woman
at Nebraska Oity who killed her
Bister Delia by choking her to death
lias been taken to the asylum. While
being examined by tho commissioner
she became very hysterical and would
not talk. She confessed to the crime,
but would not tell anything about it.
Tlu Board of Regents of the Ger
man Lutheran seminary at Seward
met and decided to erect two largo
residences for the professors. A
building fcr tho model training
fchool is ono of the structures to be
orected. One main building for class
rooms'and assembly hall at a cost of
120,000 will be built. Tho cost of the
improvements will bo :I5,000.
The agents of the various lire insur
ance companies of North Platte have
received notice of a raise of lire in
surance rates for that oity. The
raise is as follows: College and
school build ings.L'o per cent ; churches
2C per cent; terminal and elevators
and contents and llouring mills and
stocks of goods in all stores, 20 per
cent.
Nearly thirty miles of tho new
Union Pacific railroad up the fertile
valley of tho North Platte river ha
been constructed. Tho North Platte
tvcr has been bridged and crossed
by tho now track, and now two crews
of trains are working on tho now
road to Northport. The steel is being
laid at tho rate of a nnilo a day, and
the rate at which tho work is pro
gressing bids fair to completion of
the route by tho middle or end of
0optomber.
DROWN IN A LAKE
SIX KNOWN FATAMTIKS IN MANAWA
DISASTKU
Crowded on the Platform
FKAIIj HTKUCTIJIIK OIVICS WAV AND
SCOKUS GO DOWN
Kit en t of Accident Nat Tally KonlUcil
Until Mornlne After Muny
Oniulin People on tlio
Htmcturo
OMAHA, NEB. At least six and
possibly double that number of lives
wero lost as the result of the collapse
of n boat landing platform atMauawa
lako.
Tho accident occurred at a Into
hour in the evening, when the people
were crowding tho platform in an
effort to secure a boat from the bath
ing beach to the Manawa sido of the
lake.
Two young women who live in
Omaha Katie and Clans Perllnger
wero hitting on tho platform a little
before it went down and they have
not been lound, though it is believed
they were not drowned, but left the
place before the catastrophe.
Bill Hall, the diver at the lake, is
still pursuing, with assistance of
others, the work of searching for the
dead. It is believed, however all
those drowned have been recovered.
No arrest has been made. The
question of jurisdiction has been
raised. Some claim Sarpy county,
Nebraska, has authority in the
matter, and others Pottawattamie
county Iowa. The liquor selling
license is taken out from the latter
county, and the coroner of the latter
county has taken charge of the
bodies. What will be done toward
fixing the responsibility is not cer
tain as yet.
CrorIoil on Plutfonn
The accident was due to a rush of
people upon the dock in an effort to
get a boat to the other side of the
lake where the ear line terminus is.
Tho boat dock, which extended into
the water, from three to seven feet,
deep, suddenly gave way and a hun
dred or more men, ronien and
children went into the lake. Great
excitement prevailed for a time, but
it was thought that all had been res
cued, though some were hurt.
It was not until the work of repair
ing the dock was begun that it was
known that any were drowned. The
bodies found were under the timbers
of the (lock. A number of persons
are still reported missing and it is
feared that, their bodies will be found
in the water.
Manawa lake is a pleasure resort
on the Towa sido of the .Missouri
river about seven miles from Omaha,
with which it is connected by an
electric car line.
Incitement If Intenso
The greatest excitement prevailed
the moment the platform went down.
Unfortunate ones in the water sought
frantically to get back to safety or to
hang onto some piece of timber, and
persons on terra lirma who had
friends whom they last saw standing
where the accident occurred tried to
get to the water's edge and render
aid.
Dozens of men threw themselves
heroically into the lako to rescue
women and take them safelj to shore,
and the men who went down with
the rest were been to work to save
tho helpless and terror stricken
women first. Many persons were
injured in the crush whose names
will not bo known, as they fled from
th spot as soon as possible. Within
another hour the cars returning from
Manawa brought watersoaked men
and women, shivering in the cold
night air many ,tnem minus portions
of their clothing.
Had Nil r row ICncnpn
John Bunn, connected with Boyles
commercial college and boarding at
the Rose hotel, narrowly escaped
being one of the victims. He said:
"I camo so near going down with
the platform that my toes just
reached over the edge of the platform
that went down. Tho platform
broko squarely off and went down
with a crash carrying with it, I
thinK, between sixty and 100 people.
I do not think as large a number
went down as reported. A number
of peoplo wero badly bruised by the
ragged edges of the broken platform.
I do not think that there were nny
children on that part of the platform
that went down."
MAY BE AN AFFIDAVIT
i:xiSTi:.Nch claimed piwi'iti: mt
niai.s or I.AWYUIIS
Tliuu Declared nt Ono Time, to lliivc
lluoi) Defendant In Action In
Which MlNKNcMilt Wax
riiiintirr
NEW YORK. Conflicting stories
as to the existence or non-existenco
of an affidavit made by Evelyn Nesblt
in a' breach of promise suit which it
is alleged sho toolc stops to bring
against Harry Kendall Thaw prior to
her trip to Europe, and marriage to
him later, wore told by persons
interested in tho investigation of tho
Thaw-Whito murder. Early in the
day Assistant District Attorney
Garvan was quoted as saying that
there was no truth in the htory that
ho expected to come into tho pos
session of tho alleged affidavit, and
further that ho had no reason to
believe such a papor existed.
Counsel for Harry Thaw and Mrs.
Thaw herself addod thoir denials to
the report that ttiere had ever been
such an affidavit mado or contem
plated. The reports were said to bo
circulated by soino enemy of Thaw
and wero wholly untrue.
Some Sort of AMdmlt
Later in tho day a private detectivo
who had been engaged by Stanford
White to shadow Harry Thaw was
examined by Mr. Gurvan and snid ho
hnd submitted his reports to Howe &
Hummel and Delancy Nicoll, at
torneys. Following this came a state
ment attributed to the district at
torney's ollico that it was known that
the Nesbit girl had visited the offico
of Howe it Hummel; that she did
have a consultation with Mr. Ilutn
niol and it is alleged that tho affida
vit in question was the result of that
interview, the case being Mr. Hum-
mel's personal matter, and not a part
ot the ollice business.
It was further stated that whilo
the district attorney's ollico had
learned the affidavit was really made,
it had been destroyed upon the1
reconciliation of tho Nesbit girl and
young Thaw.
There was a further report current
that tho distriet attorney's office had
been informed that a record of thd
alleged affidavit exists, is available
and will play a prominent part ir
the evidence introduced by the prose
cut ion at Thaw's trial.
Robert Cambridge, a negrc
prisoner who occupied a cell in tho
Tombs just abovo that of Harry K.
Thaw, died suddenly. The negro was
stricken during the night, and tho
rest of Thaw and the other prisoners
wtis broken by the groans of tho
dying man and the scurrying feet of
guards and attendants through tho
corridors.
(iiirvnn Siij-m It In tTut ruu
Assistant, District Attorney Garvan
said that there was no truth in a
story which had gained wide circula
tion to the effect that the district
attorney's office expected to e.omo
into possession of an affidnvit, said to
have been made by Mrs. Thaw beforo
her marriage in an act i n she is said
to have contemolated against Harry
K. Thaw, Mr. Garvan said that thero
had been all sorts ot rumors of tho
existenco of such an affidavit, but
that the district attorney's ollice had
been unable to find nny trace of any
such paper or any reason to believe
that it existed.
.fndgo Oli-ott'fl MiiNunent
Thaw, his counsel, Former .Judge
Olcott, and Mrs. Thaw held a long
consultation in the Tombs. At tho
conclusion Judge Olcott said ho
wished to add his denial to Hint of
Assistant District Attorney Garvin
with referenco to a story of the affi
davit alleged to have been made by
Mrs. Thaw in a contemplated suit
against Thaw previous to their
marriage
"You can't make the denial of thai
story too strong, tno positive," said
Judgo Olcott. "No such affidavit
exists, nor any such suit instituted
or even contemplated. The story is
an absolute lie, manufactured out of
whole cloth by some enemy of Harry
Thaw's."
"I havo nothing to add to what
Judge Olcott has just told you," she
said.
Judge Olcott said that Mrs. Thaw's
statement of several days ago in
which she declared that sho and
Thaw wero married In Europe ana
that the ceremony in Pittsburg wai
performed solely upon tho request ol
Thaw's mother, was made under a
misapprehension. Ho said that tlft
confusion arose through Mrs. Thaw"7
misunderstanding a question on tha
telephone and that, as a matter oi
fact, tho Thaws never wore married
in Europe.
HANG AND BURN
UN It A OKI) INDIAN TKKKITOKV MBN
LYNCH NKCltO
Lower tbc Body Into Firo
DKATt! COMi:s TO L'OI.OItttD .MAN IN
1' LAM ICS
"our Hundred Mot) .lolned In Clinic for
Alnn Who Ananltod Silicon-Vcur-Old
Olrl nt Wo
nine it
OHICKASHA, I. T.-A nergo who
committed a criminal assault upon
the sixteen-year-old daughter of Ira
Robertson near Womack was captured
and after beinu taken back to tho
fcene of his crime was hanged and
burned near tho spot where he. com
mitted the crime. Ho confessed his
crime ,and olTerod no resistance to
the mob. To ono person the negro
gave his name as ClilT .Mays of Mar
shall, Tex., and he told another that
it was Will Newbright of San
Antonio. By tho time the negro was
overtaken near Brndioy fully 400 men
had joined in the chase and soon
iftor the capture the march to
Womack began. It was nearly II
o'clock in the morning when tho
Robertson homo was reached and the
negro brought before tho assaulted
pirl. "That's the one," said she at
once and the negro replied: " Yob,
lady, I'm the one. Gentlemen, I
idtnit the crimo. "
The mob then proceeded with their
victim past the spot where he had
committed his crime and to a treo in
the road on the bank tif Walnut creek
whore a rope was thrown over a limb
about eighteen feet high, the other
end knotted about the man's neck.
He was given an opportunity to
jpeak and again he confessed his
guilt and after a fervent prayer to
God for forgiveness he was drawn
into the air to die by strangulation.
Before life was extinct the body was
lowered to the ground, logs and
brush were heaped upon it und the
mass ignited. For a moment tho
body writhed, a few groans wero
heard and the flames completed their
work. Two hours later the charred
body was buried under the same treo
under the direction of n deputy
marshal from Purcell, who had been
thwarted in his effort to take tho
negro from th" mob.
Miss Robertson's condition is
serious.
Hits Her 'I rial Trip
V A ? 1 1 1 N G TO N . - Pros id e nt 11 ns -I'clf
has sent the following letter to
Senator Beveridge of Indiana:
"My Dear Senator Beveridge: 1
send you herewith the pen with
which I signed the agricultural bill,
containing the meat inspection
clauses. You were the man who first
called my attention to tho abuses in
the packing houses. You were the
legislator who drafted tho bill which
in its substance now appears in tho
amendment to the agricultural bill,
and which will enable us to put a
complete stop to the wrong-doing
complained of. Tho pen is worth
nothing in itelf. but I am glad to
send it to you as the expression of
my acknowledgement of your ser
vices. With all good wishes believo
me, faithfully yours.
"Til KO DO R E ROOSEVELT. ' '
Send Ituvurldt;" 'o Van
SFATTE. Wash -The battleship
Nebraska, nn a builder'' tria1, made
IS. 05 knots over the prescribed conrsu
off Point Beals. The battleship,
with Captain .lordison in command,
waR sent over the course three times,
twice at the record speed and onco
slowly. The requirements of the
navy department are that the battle-
f-hip shall make nineteen knots and
her builders assert that th ia will, bo
easily accomplished.
Lieutenant Commander K. E.
Coontz, inspector of equipment
Naval Constructor Arthur Grimshaw,
inspector of machinery and ordin
ance, and Naval Constructor Rutin
wero aboard tho battleship in uti
official capacities. Robert Moran,
head of the shipbuilding firm thut
completed the Nebraska, hud his
family aboard.
The Nebraska was out all the fore
noon and part of the afternoon. Tho
early part of tho day was spent in
cruising und adjusting compasses,
testing the machinery and watching
tho behavior of the boat. When she
was sent over the prescribed course
on a tria! trip the machinery worked
in a manner which Chief Eifgmeoi
L. B. Crossett pronounced a? entirolj
satisfactory
CZAR FEARS ARMY
Kt'KKiAN r:Mi'i:uou ih ouAunni) EX
CLUSIVELY UY lrOItHKINKHH
Will Remain at Potorliof
KI8POKT THAT IMl'lUtIA I. KAMILY ttt
TOUOTOTHAKKKOK-Sin.O DliNIKD
Liberal itiitl f nniitltutlonnt Dmnonrntc
Lock Horn Over I.rvxr Limiting tlio
lllclit of AHeinlily
ST. PETERSBURG.- An oflloirrf
denial is given to the report that
the emperor and court arc leaving;
Pelerhaf and returning to Tsarskoo
Selo, owing to tho discovery of tc
revolutionary plot nmong the
palaco servants, Tho report ie
officially accounted for by rumorn
following tho retirement of General
Plesko, tho commandett t at Poterlyit
and the appointment of Colonel
l.ermentolT, cotninander of tho
imperial regiment of Uhlans ns hie
successor. The former's retirement
is staled to be due purely to private
considerations, but several officers cf
his stalf are indignant at the promo
tion of Colonel LermentofT over tli'iir
heads and have asked to be relieved.
ThiH gave rise to the report of tho
discovery of a revolutionary plot.
Whilo the olllcial explanations art?
regarded with suspicion hp it ie
beyond question that the terrorist
and revolutionists are constantlr
attempting to gain a foothold in tha
palace, there no cause to doubt tho
truth of the olllcial statement that
the coin t has no intention of return
ing to Tsarskoo Selo this summer.
Peterhof in reality is much safer
from tho imperial family than Tsars
koo Slo, being located on a gulf,
enabling the imperial yacht to hf
moored at a wharf 200 yards front
the palace, always available to con
vey the emperor and his family tV
Finland, or some other pjnoe ot
security. There is an elaborate
system of wireless telegraphy con
necting the palace at Peterhof with
the fortresses of Cronstadt, VI boric
and 1 ielsingfors and with (he war
ships in the gulf, thus insuring the
emperor against being cut off from
the outside, world as he was during
the operator's strike last fall. Sine
the revelations that disltiyalily hail!
invaded even li is majesty's own"
regiment of tho guards it is inserted
hro that nothing would he surpris
ing General Trepoir, communiicr.
of thu palace, who is personally
charg?d with protecting the safety,
of the emperor's person, hoc
redoubled his precautions. k.
The gnrrifon at Peterhof has bono
strengthened by a guard of Giroasfam
and the detachment of Cossack
about the palaco has been doubled.,
The servants of tho palace, as here
tofore, are tho emperor's faithful
Nninolukos and Tartars, some ot
whom do not speak tho Russian
language. The Russian servants ara
confined for tho time being to trieii
lackeys and valets, but among thes
the terrororists have freqiicntlf
boasted that they have spies. Nmrs
boys carrying Backs aro forbidden tn.
enter the grounds of the old pala-ft,
to w'lich the public is admitted, and1
no ono is allowed within the wallw
surrounding tho grounds of the smalft
palace where tlio imperial family
resides without a permit. Sceict
p.jlice by the hundreds, in civilian
clothes throng the parks and streeti;'
The emperor never drives out boyontV
the grounds of (ho small palace an
the members of (lie court are practi
cally prisoners within its walls. The
principal amusement is tenuis, butt
all the customary gaiety of court. Iitt
lias vanished. J
.Mm. Junit'M Tiinnor Killed
HELENA, Mont. Mrs. Jamei.
Tanner, wife of the commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of th
Republic, died as tho result of nt.
fiutou.ohilo accident. Mr. and Mrs.
Tanner arrived here, the former
being on a visit of inspection of tha1
Montana dapaitment of tlio Grannj
Army. In tho afternoon Mr. and!
Mrs. Tnnnor, Mrs. J. K. Todlo, wifaj
of the governor, and General Lester
Wilson, "of Bozcman made up asi
nutomobile party to visit points iit
the vicinity of the city. -On the way;
to Fort Hurrieon they wore go in z at
a fairly swift rate along tho narrow
road, when tho chauffeur turned oufi
to make room for a freight wagon.
The road runs along an ombankmenfi
nnd was so narrow that tho auto
mobile run off the edge, turned ovea
And threw the occupants out. Mr.
Tanner was unconscious and witw
;nkon immediately to a hospital
lying just as lie .reached there,.