NEBRASKA NEWS
A FREMONT BRIDE OF 3 MONTHS
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
NO CAUSE IS ASSIGNED
Taken to Hospital and Cared For
May Pull Through Happen
ings of the State Collect
ed and Condensed.
Mm. Frances Ilanlon, a brldo of
threo inontliH, wlfu of Ed. Ilanlon, a
woll known local singer, shot herself
with a 22-cnllbor revolver while Hitting
in MorteiiHun &. ChrlstonHon's grocery
storo, Fremont, In which Mr. Ilanlon
Is omployod in head clerk. Mrs. Ilan
lon entered the store, called for her
husband, found him busy and sat
dpwn upon u stool near the middle of
the room. A moment lator Walter
Matthews, another clerk, saw her take
u rovolver from the front of her dreHB
and linger It. The Bhot rang out and
Mrs. Ilanlon fell forward over the
countor. The bullet had entered be
low the heart, taken a downward
course and lodged In the liver.
Mr. and Mrs, Ilanlon were married
at Platte Ccnt-jr In April. Mrs. Han
don for a year had made her homo
with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Header, In
Fremont, and for a time had boon
omployod as bookkeeper In tho Mor
toiiHon & Chrlstonsen Htore. She Is a
beautiful young woman. She was
twenty-two years of age.
KILLED BY LUMBER WAGON.
Infant Son of Fred Burke Fell Into a
Wheel.
Floyd Hurko, the two-and-onc-hulf-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Burke, Lincoln, was killed by a lum
ber wagon belonging to tho Oborlles
Lumber "ompany and driven by Peter
Horner. From tho story told by tho
mother, tho children had boen across
tho street to sue a neighbor girl and
it was on their way back that tho
wagon passed. Accounts conflict as to
how tho accident occurred and It will
probably never ht known just how It
lliapponod. Horner Bays ho stopped to
iflx tho wagon where a bolt had jostled
loose. Hefore ho started tho children
asked for a ride, aftor which tlioy got
on but tho boy fell botwoen tho stand
ard and tho spokes of tho wheel crush
ing hlB body. Hornor says ho carried
tho boy to tho sidewalk and drqvo on,
not suspecting that tho Injury was so
serious.
Dies While Saving Son.
Word has just reached Hastings of
the accidental 'death by drowning of
Charles Gentert, a woll known farmer
Residing northeast of Ilolstoln, about
.twenty miles southwest of Hastings.
Tho accident occurred while Mr.
Gentert and two of his sons woro
fishing with a seine in a small pond
aioar their homo. It seems that ono
of tho boys got in deop water and
bolng unable to swim called to his
father for help. Mr. Gentert rospondod
and succeeded in gottlng tho son out
beyond tho edge of a deep hole when
he hlmsolf became entangled In tho
net in som6 manner and met death be
fore it was posslblo to rescue him.
The young men succooded in recover
ing tho body shortly afterwards, but
not until life was extinct.
Run Down Dy a Train.
Alexander Maril, a Bohemian farmor
who lived near Morse Bluff, lost his
life on the Superior lino of the North
western when frelglft train No. 204
ran over him. Maril was aBleop on tho
track. Ho had boon In Morso Bluff and
had been drinking, so it is said. Tho
trainmen did not see him till it was
too lato to stop. His body was horribly
crushed. Maril was a woll known
farmer of the vicinity. Ho had llvod
there for flfteon years.
Sues For Libel.
Supremo Judge J. B. Barnos has au
thorized his attorney, Hurt Manes, of
Norfolk, to commenco action against
Georgo A. Miles, editor of tho O'Neill
Independent for criminal libel. Tho
basis of tho suit is found in an article
which appeared in tho Independent in
which vicious and libellous charges
are Baid to have been made against
tho character of Judge Barnes.
Fireman Falls From Engine.
W. A. Wndick, aged 29, a fireman
on the Burlington, died whllo being
taken to St. Francis hospital in Grand
Island, as a result of injurlos rocoived
in falling from his engine. A plug in
a fluo blow out lotting steam oscapo
and Wadick ovidontly leaned out of
tho engine to escape tho steam and
fell. Tho train was making thirty
miles an hour and Wadick struck
some ties, fracturing his skull.
PROMISE 1,000 CAR8 FOR WHEAT.
Missouri Pacific Says It Will Furnish
Needed Rolling Stock.
At a meeting of the Nebraska Grain
Dealers' association In Nebraska City
It was shown that tho wheat promises
a bigger yield than last year.
This association Is composed of
dealers who have olovntors along tho
lino of tho Missouri Paclllc railway.
Ono of the ofllclals of tho road was
present and promised to put 1000 grain
cars on this division within the next
two weeks and agreed with tho deal
ers to take up any complaint they
might havo regarding cars and right
the wrong at oncoby supplying them
with cars. Ho assured thorn that no
trouble llko last fall or spring would
occur on this division this year.
DROPS DEAD AT HIS HOME.
Prominent Dodge County Man Sud
denly Expires.
It. II. Schurman, a prominent resi
dent of Scrlbner, Dodge county, ono
of tlio early settlors of tho place,
dropped dead from heart falluro. Mr.
Schurman was chopping down a tree
in tho yard at his homo when ho bo
camo faint. lie sat down and in flvo
minutes he had expired. Mr. Schur
imm was a director of tho Lutheran
Orphan's Homo In Fremont. Ho la
survived by threo grown children.
Child Eats Lump of Lye.
131 vu, tho llttlo two-year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. W. II. Henderson, of Cal
laway, got hold of some concentrated
lye. Tho child's mother was doing
her work, and had use for some of tho
lye. She took tho can from Its place,
took out a lump of the lye and laid
It down, and while sho was replacing
tho can, tho child got hold of tho lump,
and child llko, put in it her mouth,
tho mother not knowing it until tho
llttlo ono began to spit. A doctor was
Immediately called and administered
oniotlcs. It is thought tho llttlo ono
swallowed but little, If any of tho
poison, but her mouth was fearfully
burned, and sho can now take no food
of any kind except milk. It is thought
sho will recover without any bad re
suits.
Boys Arrested for Swindling.
Abe and Nicholas Rcimer, son3 of
N. H. Itelmor of Jansen, have been ar
restod by Postolllco Inspector Thomp
son, charged with using tho malls to
obtain money under false pretenses.
Thoy will bo brought before Commis
sioner Cobboy, Beatrice! for trial.
ihoy are charged with sendlntr
jowolry to Sears &, Roebuck, claiming
th'at they purchased it of tho firm and
demanding their money back. After
sending tho money claimed to bo duo
tho boys, tho company discovered that
tho jowolry had not been purchased
at their establishment.
Wymore Without Lights.
City ofllclals, In an effort to cut
oxponses, havo left Wymore without
street lights for some months past.
Merchants bocamo tired of this con
dition and started a subscription paper
among themselves for funds for Hcht-
lng tho main streets. Tho city coun
cil then took action and has ordered
1G0 Incandescent lights strung along
three blocks in the center of tho
"main business streets. Thcao are be.
ing put in. '
Farmer Hurt In Binder.
August Sohofsky, a prospoj-ous
farmer in tho 'south part of Jefferson
county, on tho Kansas lino, was
thrown from a binder and got mixed
up in tho sicklo blades of tho machine
His left leg was terribly cut and man
gled. Ho wns taken to Falrbury and
placed in care of physicians who ex
amined tho wounds carefully, at first
concluding It would bo necessary to
amputate tho Injured leg, but lator do
clded it might possibly bo saved.
Alliance Wants Sewers.
Allianco citizens aro boglnning to
talk sewerage again. Tho offensivo
smell and odors from cess pools and
from tho garbage wagons on tho streot
has sot tho people to thinking. It is
realized by mnny that if tho present
system is kopt up that in timo it will
r6su;t. in an opldomic of typhoid fever
that will cost tho city more than a
good seworago system.
Small Boy Is Drownded.
Tho llttlo son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Bassott, residing seven miles south
If Elmwood, drownded in a tank of
water. The little ono wont out with
his mother to shut up tho chickens.
Playing about, ho wandorod to the
watorlng tank, whoro ho fell In head
first, and was found doad by his par
ents a few minutes after the accident
happened.
Accused of Kidnapping Girl.
Recently at Bladen a warrant was
isued charging men named Gouldlng
and Staffen with kidnapping Sophia
Andorson, aged fifteen years. The war
rant was placed in tho hands of Con
stnblo Norris, who at onco started In
pursuit, tracing tho parties across
tho state lino into Kansas, whoro he
lost track of them.
CAPITALCITYGHAT
VETOES Or GOVERNOR ARE- HELD
TO BE VALID.
KEARNEY LOSES ITS CASE
Will Not Get the $85,000 Appropriated
By the Last Legislature for
New Building Other
Items of Interest.
Tho supremo court has sustained
tho validity of Governor Sheldon's
veto messages, and In effect holds that
tho legislature did a poor job of stop-
ping tho legislative clock. Tho rec
ords of the two houses contain con
flicting dates, ono showing that tho
legislature adjourned April 4, and
other entries showing that business
was transacted after that day.
An appropriation of $85,000 for an
additlonoal building at tho state nor
mal at Kearney was the bill in ques
tlon. This validates vetoes of acts
appropriating a total of $225,000, in
eluding buildings at Beatrice, Omaha
and tho wolf bounty claims, and all
other vetoes filed after the legislature
adjourned. An application for a writ
of mandamus was filed by John F.
Crockor to compel Secretary of State
Georgo C. Junkin to authenticate tho
act passed by the legislature appro
priating funds for the normal school
building. It was alleged the govomor
did not approve the bill, nor did ho
file it with his objections In tho office
of tho secretary of state within five
days after tho adjournment of tho
legislature, and that by reason of this,
the enactment became a valid law. In
computing timo to ascertain how long
the governor had retained veto bills
In his possession It was necessary to
show when tho legislature adjourned.
Part of tho records showed that it ad
journed at noon April 4. Other por
tions of the legislative records showed
that tho legislature was in session as
late as April G. Tho court admitted
parol evidence in regard to the dato
of adjournment, and evidence showed
that tho governor did not retain the
bill longer than five days. Tho court
holds that whoro tho evidence fur
nished by tho journal of tho legisla
ture Is ambiguous or contradictory as
to the actual time of Its' final adjourn
ment, so that It is impossible to 'tell
with certainty upon what day the
legislature adjourned sine die, re
course may be had to other competent
evidence to show tho actual facts, and
to supply tho evidence which the jour
nals fail to sot forth. The governor,
as respects approval or veto of bills,
acts as a part of tho law-making
power, and may approve or reject
within the timo limited by tho con
stitution as long as bills remain in
his possession or under his control.
The governor had offered to file tho
Kearney normal bill with tho secre
tary of state at midnight, April 10,
and called up thosecretary of state by
telephone for that purpose. The sec
retary did not go to his office, but
said ho would consider the bill filed
as of that date. The court holds that
this does not tako the place of tho
actual filing if tho bill remained in
the governor's possession subject in
all respects to his control. Judge Let
ton wrote tho opinion of tho court.
Epworth Assembly Approaching.
The program of the eleventh year of
the Nebraska Epworth assembly
which mots in Lincoln July 31 to
August 8th Is ono of 'tho best in its
history.
The vlco prosldont of the United,
States, Hon Charles W. Fairbanks, is
to bo present and address tho Assem
bly. This will be a great opportunity
for tho people of Nerbaska to see and
hear this distinguished citizen. Sena
tor "Bob" Taylor of Tennessee, the
great southern orator, wit and poet is
also to speak. Bishop Galloway, ad
mitted to bo tho most eloquent minis
tor in Methodism, is on tho program
fdV two lectures. Dr. Storms, the pres
ident of Iowa Stato College, and Fred
erick Wardo, tho groat Shakespearean
lecturer, are features of tho great 1907
assembly, also Dr. Frank M. Bristol,
tho famous Washington preacher; Dr.
Georgo It. Staurt, only lecturer en
gaged for threo successive Beasons at
tho assombly. Koklchl 'Mortlmoto, pro
lessor In tho Imporlal Uulverslty of
Japan, has been secured for ono of his
lecturos on his native land. Alton
Packard, the popular and well known
chalk talker and who ranks among
tho best as an entertainer and humor
ist, has been securod for ono day. Tho
musical features of tho program aro by
fyr tho strongest ovor offered by tho
Assembly. Two grand concorts will bo
glvon by tho famous Innos Band. They
como direct from tho Jamestown expo
sition where thoy have been especially
ongagod as tho principal musical at
traction of tho ontlro fair. Tho Par-land-Nowhall
Co., who have so cap
tivated tho Assembly audlonces at Ep
worth Park before, have beou engaged
for four concerts.
State Assessment Board Sustained.
Tho supreme court has refused to
issue a writ of mandamus to compel
tho state board of assessment to re
convene and distribute tho value of
railroad property according to average
value per mile, as asked by Judge Sul
livan on behalf of Plntte county. Tho
board found tho value of tho Union
Pacific worth $75,000 a milo over the
system In Nebraska, but distributed
tho value according to main and
branch lines. Branch lines traverse
Platte county, consequently tho road
in that county was not valued at the
average, or $75,000 a mile. Tho court
hold, Chief Justice Sedgwick writing
tho opinion:
"When a statute has for nearly
forty years been practically construed
by tho officers whoso duty it Is to en
force it, and has during that time
been several times re-enacted by tho
legislature in substantially the same
terms, such construction will bo re
garded as adopted by the legislature,
although tho languago of tho statute
would Indicate a different meaning."
The stato board of assessment in
Nebraska have valued tho main and
branch lines separately, or at different
value, and this mothod has been up
held by tho court.
In the mandamus case of the Union
Pacific against the state board of as
sessment, a suit to compel tho board
to reconvene and tell of its methods
in assessing railroads, the court has
given further time to both sides to
arguo the case. The railroad Is given
thirty days to file briefs, and the state
board, as respondent, Is given thirty
days thereafter to serve and file briefs.
A re-argument Is to be heard at tho
first session of tiro court in Septem
ber. Ingredients of Stock Food.
Tho last legislature endeavored to
Incorporate In the food law a pro
vision that will make manufacturers
of stock and poultry food show to the
world something about tho Ingredients
of their dope and the proportions of
the mixture. Some of the provisions
of tho law are still In doubt and tho
millers of. the state aro much Inter
ested In the Interpretation to be placed
upon the law. Some have written to
Food Commissioner J. W. Johnson to
nsk whether they will bo compelled
to stamp the ingredients and amount
of each on ground feed sold to local
consumers. Mr. Johnson bus appealed
to the attorney general for an opinion
but that officer has been too busy to
answer.
Tho pure food law cannot be en
forced for some time, owing to tho
fact that the governor did not appoint
a commission until a few days before
the law took effect. In the meantime
every dealer will do as he pleases
and none feel safe for fear they may
bo prosecuted for violating the law.
The commissioner has not had time
to organize the necessary machinery
to enforce the law and no rules or
regulations havo been promulgated
and no inspectois have been appointed.
Fonda Files Complaint.
H. E. Fonda, manager of an elevator
at Genoa, has filed an Informal com
plaint with the railway commission.
Ho has been notified that the Union
Pacific road will not renew a lease
for an elevator site at Genoa and
that tho building now on leased
ground must bo removed. Tho lease
expired July 1. Mr. Fonda says he
aas been In business ten years and
desires to continue, which he asserts
will be Impossible if he is compelled
to give up his trackage. He runs a
mill In connection with his business
and ho Is of the opinion that another
mlllor in that part of tho state is
trying to get him out of business.
Convicts on Bread and Water.
Some of the convicts at. the peniten
tiary who rofusod to work at their
tasks and who were put pack into
their cells on a diet of bread and
water, refused to accept the Invitation
of tho warden to go to work. Those
who refused woro left in their colls
and will continue to eat bread and
drink water. Tho cause of tho strike
as explained by tho convicts, was that
tho hash which forms the principal
artlclo of food for breakfast, was
spoiled ono morning. It Is admitted
that this Is true, but Warden Boemer
says the prisoners have no cause for
complaint as a general thing. PrI-
vate Secretary M. W. Dimery of tho
governor's office, went to tho prison
to investigate and talked to several
convicts. Ho said they told him tho
food was good ordinarily but that on
the morning complained of it was an
exception.
n Federal Court.
An imposing array of legal talent
nppeared in the federal court Friday
to arguo tho caso in which tho rail
roads seek to remove tho attorney
gonoral's Injunction from tho state to
the United States tribunal. It was an
mposlng array on tho bench also, tho
two Judges Munger sitting; together
for tho first time In Lincoin. Although
the matter Is or great publlo interest
it attracted no audience to speak of.
DEATH ONTHE RAIL
SIX NEGROES KILLED IN SOUTH
ERN RAILWAY WRECK.
GAR CRUSHED IN COLLISION
Negro Laborers Killed and Maimed
When Their Coach Was De
molished In a Tennessee
Railway Accident.
Six persons mot instant death and
twenty were injured when eastbound
No. 42 on the Southern railway col-.
Hdod with a switch engine one milo
west of Johnson City, Tenn.
Tho switch engine was in cahrge of
a hostlor, who, when he saw the fast
passenger train coming toward him
reversed his engine and jumped to
safety. He had scarcely done so before
tho passenger crashed into tho light
engine with fearful force.
The engine of the passenger, bag
gage car and mall car and second
class coach were derailed and over
turned, but the switch engine was not
lifted from the rails and with a full
head of steam started on a wild run
which was not ended until a switch
was thrown for it and it was ditched
at Carnegie.
The lives of tho mall clerks were
saved because of the fact that their
car was of heavy steel construction.
This car, howevor, played havoc with
the light second class coach behind
which was entirely telescoped.
Tho second class coach wa3 occu
pied by George Moore, white, a labor
agent for the Virginia Southeastern
railroad, who was conducting a party
of twenty negroes from Alabama to
North Carolina. Moore was perhaps
fatally hurt and of the negroes six
were killed outright and all the others
maimed and injured.
The list of victims follows :
The dead:
SIX UNIDENTIFIED NEGROES.
The injured:
Sam Bush of Knoxville, right arm
broken and slight internal injuries..
Fireman Harry Bryson, Knoxville,
slight injuries.
F. O. Shipe, Knoxville, mall clerk.
seriously Injured.
Archeola Moore, mall clerk, one leg
slightly hurt.
George Moore, labor agent, badly
crushed, perhaps fatally hurt.
Reports received at Washington to
night by the Southern railway say that
tho deaths from the wreck near John
son City, Tenn., number from six to ten
and that the wreck was caused by the
telegraph operator making a mistake
In copying train orders.
TAILORS WILL GO ON STRIKE.
Fifty Thousand Men Demand a Nine
Hour Day.
Fifty thousand members of the
brotherhood of tailors, including locaL
unions in Newark, Brooklyn,, Browns
ville and New York will go out on
strike.
At a meeting of tho executive com
mittee of the brotherhood, a vote was
taken, and the strike formally de
clared. At a special meeting forty-five work
shops, which employ non-union men,
were organized, and joined the union.
They, too, will go out.
The men include the operators,
basters, finishers and pressors. The de
mands of the tailors are a nine-hour
working day and a 10 per cent advance
in wages. The operators, who aro
earning $18 a week, the basters $15
and the finishers and pressors from $9
to $10, say they do not make enough
money to keep their families on.
SURPRISE FOLLOWS INQUEST.
Physician Testifies at Inquiry Into
Girl's Death
Tho first bit of evidence in any way
connecting Representative Charles E.
Ward with the operation which led to
the death of Edith Presley, who was
the stato senate proofreader, was in
troduced nt tho Inquest, at Detroit,
Mich. Dr. Russell P. Wlxom, a former
family physician of Ward, testified
that on April 18 Ward met him In De
troit and tried to make arrangements
for tho care of a woman friend who
needed medical attention. Tho in
quest was adjourned to July 23, to por
mit Ward, who Is now In Duquoin, 111.,
at tho bedside of his sick father, to ap
pear. TOM NELSON UNDER ARREST.
Man Wanted for Years Is In Custody
s,t Deadwood.
Sheriff Moses of Belle Fourche and
.Too Farrell of Sundanco, Wyo., lnvo
taken Tom Nelson to Deadwood, S. D.,
for safo keeping. For ten years a re
ward of $1,000 has boon hanging up
for his capture. It is charged that ho
was tho loader of a gang-of horse
thelvos which stole thousands of dol
lars worth of horses on the Suudance
and Belle Fourche ranges.
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