Nebraska Advertiser
W. W. SANDhKS, l'ltoi'
NEMAHA,
NEBR.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
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Ex-Governor Prank V. Hlggins oC
Now York, 1b dead.
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Tlio WcBtem Union Telegraph has
announced an anvancc or 10 nor cent,
in telegraph operators' wages, effect
ive March 1st.
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Mr. Motono, tlio Japancso ambas
sador at St. Petersburg, lias notified
the foreign office tliat tlio mlkudo had
ordered the immediate evacuation of
Manchuria. In his note on the sub
ject tlio minister says this Is done In
order to rcstoro the normal state of
affairs In Manchuria and as also
showing a sincere desire to resume
complete friendly relations with Rus
sia. Only sufficient troops will bo left
to guard tho railway.
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Princess Lonlso of Belgium, tlio di
vorced wifo of Prince Philip of Snxo-Cobnrg-Gotha,
In an open letter pub
lished in the Paris Matin, complains
bitterly of tho heartless fashion in
which lier father, King Leopold, has
abandoned her, oven allowing tlio her
itage which she derive from tho lato
queen mother to bo seized for debt. It
was announced from Paris recently
that tho trunks of Princess Louiso had
been attached for $IG,G00, tho amount
of a Jeweler's bill.
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Interesting details aro given In a
public offering of C million dollars 6
per cent, ton-year bonds of tho
Schwurzschlld & Sulzberger company
concerning tho volumo of business
turned over in n year by that packing
company. Tho circular says tho com
pany docs a gross business of 75 mil
lion dollars a year. It has a paid cap
ital of ?4,373,400 and owns real estate
and plants valued at $8,G97,88G. Its
et earnings for 190C. after providing
for all expenses and net charges,
amounted to ?922,75S. Its excess of
quick assets over current liabllltlos
December 31, last, was $S,073,894.
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Tho statement is made at the State
department that at a conference hold
between Mr. Bacon, tho assistant sec
retary, and tho Mexican ambassador,
it had been decided thnt Mexico and
the United States would unite with
Salvador, Costa Itica and Guatemala in
making identical representations to
Honduras und Nicaragua to the effect
that they -would bo expected to settle
their differences without resort to war.
It is also said that the arbitration
which recontly was terminated at San
Salvador must ho reconvened in ordor
that the issues between tho two coun
tries may he peacefully settled In ac
cordance with oxistlng treaties.
S. N. D. North, tho director of the
census, who was a membor of the tar
iff commission which went to Germany
to confer with a similar commission
appointed by tho German government
with n vlow to arriving nt a basis up
on which tho tariff of tho two coun
tries might bo satisfactorily arranged,
had a conference with Secretary Root.
(While, no statement on tho subject can
be-had, it is believed that tho draft of
ft treaty in process of perfection, looks
rather to a correction of rules to
which objection was made by tho Ger
man government against the adminis
tration of filir niotniriD lon.o i
. ..uiw.ulj iiino mull MJ
any change in duty.
President Roosevelt has sent to Con
gress, a message calling attention to
what he terms "Tho urgent need of
legislation affecting tho different
phases of tho public land situation In
the United States." The President ad
vocates the conservation of coal and
other fuel resources on government
lands, urges government control of tho
.,Wetern public land pastures, with a
yatera of small grazing fees, and asks
xor an appropriation of 1-2 million
dollars to aid in detecting and prevcat
ing land f raudB. He contends for a sys
teta 6f government leasing of its nilnr
ral lands and for treating these fuel
lands as public utilities: The Pres
ident asks for legislation which will
provide two distinct titles to public
lands one for the surface und the
other for tho underlying minerals. Tho
details of this plan ho leaves for Con
gress to work out, arguing only for
the adoption of the plan.
AN ALARMING POSSIBILITY.
Tho Alarmed Waiters Sir. wo think unless you milt n.it.Inf? Rn tnnrli
you'll bust!
U is stated that John D. Rockefeller believes with Secretary Shaw that
there Is too much prosperity in the United States. News Item.
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STEAMSHIP DISASTER.
Collision of Two Ocean Vessels
Destroys 150 Lives.
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Tho Joy line steamer Larchmont
sank in Block island sound, Rhode
Island, late Monday night, February
1.1, after a collision with tho three
m&Bted schooner Harry Knowleton.
The Larchmont was bound from Bos
ton for New York. The Knowleton
was beached by the crow to keep her
from sinking.
Captain George McVey of the Larch
mont, who escaped, says ho had on
board between 150 and 200 passengers
when the collision occurred nnd only
olght of these escaped with their lives.
At tho time he made the statoment
fourteen bodies had bcoi washed
n&hore.
Captain McVoy communicated with
the Joy lino officials In Boston by tele
phone from Block island. He said that
the Larchmont sank within ten min
utes after the collision. After cruising
about in a small boat in tho icy gale
from 11 o'clock to 8 o'clock next
morning ho landed on Block island.
Close behind his boat several others
landed bringing eloven dead and nine
teen badly injured passengers.
Tho passengers met their deaths in
various ways. Some of them attempt
ed to launch lifeboats and woro frozen
to death on tho decks of tho flounder
ing steamer. Others wero drowned in
tho attempt to escape before tho ves
sel wont down and still others who
woro successful In launching a life
boat woro frozen to death before the
small craft reached shore
Captain McVoy said his steamer left
Providence lato in tho ovonlnt; and M
tho time of the collision Captain Mc
Vey had not had an opportunity to ox
amino tho passenger list, which had
been handed to him just .before bis
steamer loft -Providence The captain's
SOME GREA"ES
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throughout the morning.
' At 11:30 o'clock four more bodies
' were washed ashore, making a total
' of eighteen bodies recovered with
' eight survivors of the accident being
cared for on the island.
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor, is CO
years old. In an interview he said it
was now time for him to knock off
work and play awhile. "For forty
five years I have been making experi
ments with electricity," said Mr. Edi
son, "but all these years I have been
turnlqg these experiments to commer
cial value so fast that I have not had
a chance to play with electricity for
the fun of the thing, just to see how
much I can find out about it But
from today I am going to give up the
commercial end of it and work in my
laboratory purely as a scientist. That
w'ill bo a pleasure I have long been
promising myself." "Is it possible to
foretell what the next great step in tho
application of electricity will bo?" Mr.
Edison was asked. "I would bo a dar
ing man to venture a prediction," ho
answered. "Wo aro all busy collecting
data, we Investigators and maybo In
100 years more wo will begin to sus
pect something."
Says a Naples dispatch: A tidal
wavo destroyed 122 houses at Marina
do Catanzaro, tho fishing village on tlio
Calabrian coast. Great suffering en
sued and tho government sont troops
nnd assistance.
T COLLECTIONS.
osumaie or tne number or those on
board agrees, however, with the esti
mate made by tho Joy line officials at
Providence who said that tho Larch
mont carried about 150 passengers and
a crew of thirty.
Tho inhabitants of all parts of the
Island turned out to assist in rescue
work, although many of them live sev
eral miles from tho point off which
the steamer sunk. The northwest gale
continued with zero tenmcrature
INSANITY.
Dr. B. D. Evans, Alienist, Tcstl-
fles In the Thaw Trial
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Dr. W. D. Evans, head of tho Mew
Jersey Insane hospital at Morris
Plains, who visited Harry K. Thaw In
tho Tombs eight times after tho shoot
ing of Stanford White, gave an analy
sis of tho different forms of Insanity,
which is of general interest, aside
from Its bearing on tho case of the cel
ebrated tragedy of Madison Square
Garden. On his first visit to Thaw August 4,
he. said the prisoner exhibited a pe
culiar facial expression, glaring of the
eye, restlessness of the eye, suspicion
of his surroundings and of the witness,
nervous agitation and restlessness
such as comes from a severe brain
storm common In those who have re
cently gone through an explosive or
fulminating condition of mental un
soundness. Ho exhibited delusions of
a personal character, an exaggerated
ego, and along with them delusions of
a persecutory character. He thought
himself of exaggerated Importance and
believed himself persecuted by n num
ber of persons.
By an "exaggerated ego" Dr. Evans
said he meant "a disproportionate
idea of importance of self, a belief
that one Is clothed with powers, ca
pacity and ability far above normal
or above those actually possessed. "
These symptoms, he said, were
characteristic of several mental dis
eases, one of which in Thaw's ca30 is
adolescent insanity. It is character
istic of tho development period of life
from 10 to 40 years. The person
thus afflicted is known as having u
psycopathlc taint; a predisposition to
mental unsoundness, tho result of
heredity.
"Another form of insanity indicat
ed," said the witness, "is known as
paranaoid or fixed insanity on some
subject. The third is maniacal, where
the patient jumps from one idea to an
other. These forms and others are
characterized by tho exaggerated ego.
They are well defined forms about
which there can be no difference of
opinion." ,
"Is there any specific jiame doc
tor," asked Mr. Delmas, "given to that
form of Insanity wherein one Imagines
himself omnlpresclent the ruler of
the world?"
"That is included in the forms of in
sanity to which I have referred. Both
adolescent insanity and paranavid in
sanity are characterized by delusions
as to self importance and exaggerated
ego. In adolescent insanity the pati
ent exhibits no marked symptoms. But
when the stress comes" Dr. Evans
took on a declamatory tone of voice
"the man does not break down as the
ordinary or normal man would. There
is a complete loss of mental balance,
an explosive condition of the brain,
the reason becomes dethroned, the will
power is lost and the brain is operat
ing as a ship does in tho wind with
out a rudder tho balance wheel Is
gone.
"The nets of such a man are not
the acts of a normal man, but show
him to be guided by disease and stress.
His mind has left its moorings and
yielded to diseased conditions.
"On my first visit I also noticed that
Mr. Thaw suffered from a rapid How
of words not characteristic of tlio
normal mind. Ho showed a condition
of abnormal excitement a diseased
condition of tho brain."
"In tho disease you describe how do
tho conditions differ from tho condi
tions in a normal man who speaks
rapidly?"
"An ordinary normal man speaks
more or less deliberately on all mat-
l tors of grave Importance; ho talks
slowly and his Ideas como logically
and connectedly. In a man of unsound
mind the ideas como rapidly, tumbling
over ench other, Jumping from one
subject to another, that at onco leads
a trained observer to suspect that tho
mind, has either recently como
through or Is just going into a severe
mentnl storm; In other words, It Is
olthor tho twilight or dawn of a state
of mental unsoundness, or explosion.
"By delusions I mean false ideas out
of which a man cannot bo argued by
logical and ordinary' arguments. Mr.
Thaw exhibited what I bellovo were
false ideas which my arguments could
not shako."
Mr. Delmas asked: . '
"What was your opinion after the
first three visits as to the, mental con
dition of the defendant, with refer
onco to his mind being sound or un
sound?" "I was then and am now firmly of
the opinion that during the first three
visits Harry K. Thaw was unsound in
mind because of a diseased brain."
"As a result of your observation
during tho last five visits, did you
form an opinion as to Mr. Thaw's
mentnl condition?"
"I did."
"Please state It."
"Tho stability of his mind was still
Impaired but seemed better than on
the three former visits."
"Was that Improvement sudden or
gradual?"
"In my opinion it was gradual."
"What, in your opinion, was the
condition of mind the result or sequel
of?"
"1 am of tho opinion that he was
suffering from a positive disorder or
derangement or mind as a result of
hereditary predisposition. I am of the
opinion that there were additional ex
citing causes in the ordor of stress,
strain and ordeal of mind which form
ed a brain storm or mental explosion
which left its traces behind."
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BY DIRECT VOTE.
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Senator Bourne, Jr., a Testlmon-
lal to the Efficiency of Ore-
gon's New Law.
The first United States senator even
elected by popular vote of the people
has arrived In Washington and he is
the subject of much curiosity. His
name is Jonnthan Bourne, Jr. and he
comes from Oregon.
"Yes." said Senator-elect Bourne,
when askod about his election, "I find
wherever I go there Is great curios
ity about this new scheme by which
senators are elected by the people, r
have been up in New England, and
even in Canada. And everywhere I go
there are the same questions."
"Does the Oregon law really put
tho matter directly up to the people?"
Mr. Bourne was asked.
"Directly, and in just as binding a
way as In a presidential election. Our'
law works. I am hero as a testimon
ial of its working powers. I am here
in spite of the opposition of the bosses
and the influence which ordinarily con
trol the bosses. After the people had
expressed their choice at the primary
olectlons in April and June, I went
away and stayed away. I was con
vinced that the law would work, and
I wanted to give It a fair chance. I
have been away for six months in
fact have not ;been back-and yet I
received 80 out of 90 votes in the leg
islature. I received a lot of votes'
which were not under any pledge to1
me."
"Was this not a personal tribute?"
"Not at all. It is merely a tribute
to the intelligence of the people in,
adopting such a law. It was the law'
and principle they had In mind. I
just happened to be the man who had
made the fight to 'ge tho law. So
they made me the candidate to test it'
out. My election Is merely an oppor
tunity. "I am here to make good.
"If I make good there will be no
question about my return. And to
make good I will havo to make good
with tho people. So long as I look
after their interests I will bo as cer
tain of my continued return as I am
that I am here now."
Mr. Bourne paused before he added:
Undor our new law the senator
from Oregon will have to play poll
tics with his brains, not his pocket
book. He will havo to give his best
thought to the service of tho people, or
they will hold him to account."
The United States district attorney,
Mr, Stimson of Now York city, has
served notice on tho publishers of all
the principal newspapers of that city
that he intends to bring before tho
United States grand jury for criminal
prosecution nil violations of the fod
oral laws against tho circulation of
obscene matter in reporting tho Thaw
case. Mr. Stlmson's notice read as
follows: Information has been1
brought to me indicatln gthat some of(
the newpapors of this, city, under the'
guise of reports of tho Thaw trial,
have beon sending through tho United
States mails lowd, lascivious and ob
scene matter in violation of section
3891$ of the revised statutes. I beg tc
advlso you that tho mere fact that
such matter purports to bo an account
of a Judicial proceeding furnishes nc
excuse for a violation of the statute li
question in regard to the malls, and
that I propose to bring before the fed-
oral grand jury of this dlitrltt fori
criminal prosecution all ufc rloliw
tlons that may oocur.