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What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to hte Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shlvcly and Ed
ward Fussel, victims of the tornado in
Fillmore county in June, are all nblo
to bo out, although Mrs. Shively Is
lame, and her hUBband's face is still
bandaged. As soon as they are able,
they will go east to have his nose
treated. Mr. Shively's watch, which
was in his pocket, was badly dented
and the fob was gone.
While Thos. Bower, jr., living near
Ainsworth, was hauling hay the wind
blew a barn door shut and caught
Bower's head. Two pieces of his skull
were taken out above the left eye at
the hospital. He may not live.
Rev. Emanuel Hartig, who has been
pastor of the St. Benedict Catholic
church of Nebraska City since 1801,
has been sent to Atchisonn, where ho
will enter the St. Benedictine home.
He has become quite feeble and had
to be replaced by another priest.
F. M. Hall of Lincoln has accepted
the invitation to be chairman of a com
mittee to select an artist to make the
Abraham Lincoln monument to be
erected on the statehouse grounds by
popular subscription. Mr. Hall was
selected because of the great experi
ence he lms had in matters of this
kind and because of his knowledge of
artists and their work.
C. C. Jones of Beatrice has re
covered his two greyhounds which
were stolen from the kennel. The dogs
were found with a farmer near Plck
rell and arrests are liable to follow.
James Brott, an old resident of
Beatrice, was arrested by Sheriff
Trude on the charge of bootlegging.
A Masonic lodge has been estab
lished at Franklin.
State Superintendent McBrlen says
he knows of no school houses in Ne
braska that have been abandoned be
cause of want of teachers.
Western Douglas county farmers
have at last arrived at the. conclusion
that the only way to successfully com
bat and correct the existing bad con
ditions is by an efficient drainage syB
tern, and to this end they are prepar
ing to organize themselves Into drain
age districts.
The York Count" Telephone com
pany, one of the largest independent
companies in the west, has purchased
the copper trunk Independent toll
lines between Columbus, Seward and
Grand Island, and Is going to build
to Ravenna, Neb., and other points.
There Is great activity at all the
stone quarries and sandpits along the
Platte river between Ashland and
Plattsmouth. Full forces of men are
at work at all of the Louisville and
South Bend quarries and many car
loads of crushed stone are being ship
ped dally.. The Burlington sand dredgJ
ub have been at work constantly since
the high water receded along the
Platte.
Nearly 1,500 people attended the
third day's session of the Wayne Chau
tauqua, held at the Assembly grounds.
Gov. Hanley of Indiana was the princi
pal speaker.
The peach crop in Pawnee county
surpasses all expectations and the
quality is excellent.
Wihile raking hay George Funk, a
well known young farmer living north
west of York, was thrown from the
rake and one of the steel rake teeth
entered the left leg, tearing the ten
dons and causing a fracture of the
bono.
The Hastings Chautauqua was a suc
cess financially and otherwise.
York will soon have an $80,000 post
office building that will be strictly up
to date and one of the latest and most
beautiful modern structures of Its
kind In the west.
Doputy Game Warden Hunger ran
up against an experience out in Loup
county which netted the state two
fines, where only one had been con
templated. It was a case where the
complaining witness after sticking tho,
defendant, became the defendant in
the same case, and also got stuck.
The one-year-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Piatt of Tocumseh fell from a
second story window but was not
severely hurt.
Rev. Sturdevant of the Baptist
church at Tocumseh desires to go to
another field and asks that his resig
nation bo accopted.
Passenger train No. 15, west-bound,
picked ui), between Dawson and Salem,
a stranger lying alongside the tracks
with his legs cut off. The man was of
middle ago and ovldently a tramp, who,
It Is thought, fell from a passing
freight on which ho was stealing a
;rlde an-1 wns injured by the wheels of
'the train.
NEBRASKA NEWS' AND NOTES.
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State.
Old settlors of Nemaha county will
hold their picnic August 5th.
The son of L. Young fell from a
horse, receiving injuries from which
he died.
Farmers who havo commenced
threshing around Herman report an
uneven yield.
Trcshlng outfits in operation find
the yield of wheat very satisfactory
and the grain of good quality.
Peter Goldberg had the third finger
of hla left hand torn off while attempt
ing to tie a horse to a post in Ken
nard. Tlib state insurnnco department has
refused a license to enter tho stnto
to tho Fraternity Reserve associa
tion of OshkoKh, Wis.
Two lawyers In a Beatrice court
came lo blows In a dispute, one of
them receiving a knockout blow. His
assailant was fined $10.
While shocking oats on the farm of
George Robertson in Washington
county, Frank Roper was bitten on
tho hnnd by a large rattlesnake
A. H. Jensen of Fremont took mor
phine with suicidal intont. His recovery-is
doubtful. Family troubles 'seem
to have been the causo of tho act.
While in bathing at Capital Beach,
a pleasure resort near Lincoln, Henry
Hnuschildt, jr., and Joe' Orlofsky,
each 12 years of age, were drowned.
Both bodies were recovered.
A traction onglno belonging to
John Soakin exploded on the farm
of M. C. Cassln near Columbus. Mr.
Seakin was badly scalded, but is
thought to be not dangerously so.
The bankruptcy proceedings Involv
ing the property of M. A. Chandler,
who went out of business In Central
City a year ago have been finally ad
judicated at 41 cents on thq dollar.
Napoleon Walbrldgo of Tecumseh
has been taken before the local board
of insanity and adjudged a fit subject
for the dipsomaniac treatment. He
was taken to the Lincoln asylum.
The T. B. Hord Grain company will
put in an elevator In Columbus that
will store 200,000 bushels of grain
and get ready to handle tho large
crops of grain that Platte ccunty has
raised.
G. R. Mavis of Columbus has in
vented and patented a concrete tie,
which has been approved by street
railway companies of Lincoln and
Omaha. He has orders for largo
numbers.
The beautiful tviade trees which
usually grace Sidney at. this season
are largely becoming denuded of their
foliage. The devastator Is the little
green worm which thrives upon maple
trees and their cousins'.
The county commissioners have put
several large forces of men to work
in the various parts of the county to
replace and repair tho bridges in
jured or takon out by tho heavy
storms of the past month.
The present harvest in Saunders
county shows that winter wheat is
running much better that was at first
expected. In Sarpy county there Is a
general average of 30 bushels to tho
acre, all of which tests high.
Sheriff Class Mencko of Washington
county went to the Minnesota to bring"
back John Eames, a young man whoso
home Is in Chicago, wanted in Nebras
ka for obtaining $50 from the Blair
National bank under alleged false pre
tenses. Llgtning struck at O. L. Spire's farm
about eight miles northwest of Aains-
worth and killed two cows and calves,
one horse and crippled another, and
the rain and hall destroyed eighty
acres of corn.
The Farmers' Independent Lumber
company, the only Independent lumber
company In York county, notwith
standing the great fight put tip on
them by the other lumber yards, havo
declared a 10 per cent dividond.
Myrtle Walkup, who committed
suicide In Colorado Springs, had lived
witli her parents in Saunders county
on the farm, whoro she was born. Sho
had been In Colorado suffering from
a nervous disease for several years.
The quarterly report of the births
and deaths in Cuming county for tho
quarter ending Juno 30, as compiled
by tho State Board of Health, con
tains tho gratifying Information that
tho births exceeded tho deaths by six
ty-six.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bright, who havo
been teaching school in tho Philippine
Islands for the last three years and
'who used to be principals of tho
school in Winsido, returned from
their trip and their many friends woro
clad to bco them back.
T. H. Tollo of Otoe county tiled a
complaint with the board of commis
sioners on Insanity, charging his
daughter, Miss Suo Q. Tollo, with be
lng insane. The board had a hearing
of tho matter and declared the young
lady Is all right mentally.
The Commercial club of Hartlngton
Is arrnnglng to celebrate tho twenty
fifth anniversary of tho town of Hart
lngton on Soptomber 18. Soptombor 18,
1883, town lota wero sold, and tho
erection of buildings was commenced
on tha open pralrlo in Cedar county,
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
efit of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.
Attorney Goncral Bonaparte has de
cided that national banks In Okla
homa cannot take advautago of tho
stato law under which deposits in
state banks aro guaranteed.
Tho second debate between Senator
Long and Josoph L. Brlstow In tho
cnmpalgn for United States senator
from Kansas occurred in Topeka tho
other day beforo an audience of 2,500
persons.
Floods In tho vicinity of Florence,
Col., caused by a cloudburst, caused
a property loss estimated at $100,000.
Henry Larson, a llremnn on tho
steamship Horda which Just arrived
In New York from La Guna, Mexico,
was taken to tho Swlnoburn Island
hospital with a well-developed case of
yellow fever.
Ono man was killed and 25 others
injured, some fatally, in a riot be
tweon Italians and Slavs at Gates, Pa.
As tho result of bush Hros, Ferule,
British Columbia, Is completely wiped
off tho map. Flvo thousand persons
aro reported homeless and without
food. The conllagratiou is said to bo
tho greatest which ever visited Can
ada and ranks only with the San Fran
cisco disaster. Many people havo per
ished in tho flames.
A 15-year-old boy has boon arrested
at Cartervillo, Mo., and has confessed
to starting many fires In southwest
Missouri. At the time of his capture
ho was trying to set fire to a woman's
clothing. Tho boy had served a term
in tho Missouri reform school and
was out on parole. He is considered
irresponsible.
For 20 days during tho month of
July the jail at Macon, Mo., was with
out a tenant. Tho saloon licenses of
tho county oxplred on July 1.
Ono man was killed and ono fatally
injured in a wreck on the Rock Island
railway at . Blake, Mo.
Farmers of Douglas county, Kan.,
aro doing their plowing at night to
avoid tho heat.
Mayor Wolls of St. Louis has re
fused to sign tho public utilities bill
passed by tho city council. Ho gives
as a reason that it was not passed
legally.
Suits wero filed in Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas simultaneously in an
effort to dissolve tho alleged lumber
trust recently formed In St. Louis.
The suit was to havo been filed In
Oklahoma at tho samo time but was
prevented by Gov. Haskell. Tho states
will exchango the evidence gathered
when the trial of the caso comes on.
J. B. Caso of Abilene, Kan., Its
president, has Issued tho call for tho
annual session of the Trans-Mlsslssln-
pl Commercial congress to meet at
San Francisco on October 7 to 10.
Gen. Drain, president of tho Amorl
can Rifle association, was robbed in
London of two medals recently won
at tho match at Bisley.
Tho conference at Lenox, Mass., be
tweon Attorney General Bonaparte
and leading government prosecutors
resulted in tho unanimous decision
to push tho cases against the Standard
Oil company and to Beok to got a re
vision of the decision of tho circuit
court of appeals at Chicago In which
the fine of $29,000,000 against tho oil
company was reversed.
An unknown man fired at an Ohio
river stoamor on which Judge William
H. Taft was a passenger at Cincinnati.
Several of tho shot struck a woman
passenger.
Thomas Tootle, aged 89, millionaire,
ploneor merchant and banker of St.
Joseph, Mo., 1b dead.
Tho Chinese steamer Ylng King
foundered in a typhoon near Canton,
China, and 300 Chinese woro drowned.
Only 12 of those on tho vessel at tho
time wero rescued.
Two Italian smugglers wero arrest
od In New York charged with having
brought In $5,000 worth of tho finest
grades of silk wearing apparel and
drapery concealed In mattresses.
Tho Peoples party executlvo conv
mltteo has decided to Issue a chal
longo to William J. Bryan for a Joint
debate with their candidate, Thomas
E. Watson, upon tho issues of tho
campaign.
Stockholders for all tho railroads in
Arkansas havo applied to Judgo Van
dovonter at St. Paul for an Injunction
restraining tho Arkansas officials from
lnforclug tho railroad rate laws of
that stato. Tho hearing Is sot for
August 28.
Joy Wright and Georgo Fogls, mom
bor3 of tho Nebraska City company
of tho National Guard of Nebraska,
weo drowned whilo bathing in tho
Plutte river at Ashland.
Henri Fannan, tho French Inventor
Is to exhibit his aeroplane prlyatoly to
President Roosevelt in tho near future.
Whilo playing with a shotgun a
Ronssellaor, N. Y., oppoulto Albany,
Frank Burdock, a 15-ycar-old boy, Bhot
and killed his 19-ycar-old sister.
Kansas holders of stock and an
nuity certificates In tho Great West
ern Agency company hold a meeting
in Topeka and adopted a plan to try
and get control of the slock and as
sets of tho company now in tho hands
of receivers.
Tho valuation of nil property In
Kansas for assessment purposes Is
$2,l5t,7GG,715 according to tho figures
of tho stato tax commission.
Tho Juno floods this year cut abort
tho potato crop In tho Kaw valloy
fully GO por cent.
Chairman Mack of tho Domocratlo
national committee has announced hla
various campaign committees. David
R. Francis of Missouri is chairman of
tho advisory commltteo and J. G.
Johnson of Kansas is secretary.
Twenty-three men wero entombed
by a cave-in in a initio at Coal Creole,
B. C. Twenty of them woro lator
takon out allvo ufter hard work by
tho rescuers.
President Roosovolt hold a confer
onoo at Sagamore Hill with Gen.
Wright and Secretary Bishop of tho
canal commission on conditions In the
canal zono and on tho relations of
zone to tho Panama republic.
Holland Is preparing to send a bat
tleship to Venezuela to reinforce tho
warship already in those waters.
Tho moinbora of tho Irish-American
team who aro visiting Ireland re
ceived a hearty welcome at Dublin. A
reception was held at their hotel at
which Joseph Devlin, a inombor of
parliament, delivered an address of
welcome.
Tho oxooutivo council of Iowa has
issued a certificate of nomination to
Congressman J. A. T. Hull, which
makes him tho regular nominee of the
Republican party.
Tho California limited train on the
Santa Fo 'was recently wrecked at
Vvakarusn, 12 miles west of Topoka,
Kan. Tho engineer wns killed and
the fireman and a woman pnssengGr
dangerously injured.
Stato-wido prohibition was defeated
In tho Texas primary by a majority
of upwards of 50,000 votes.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma was do
feated in his attempt to prevent At
torney General West from bringing
suit to restrain tho Pralrlo Oil &
Gas Co. from laying pipe lines in
public highways in tho stato.
Tho Japanese privy council haa
passed tho trademark and copyright
treaty between America and Japan.
Tho Independence party national
convention at Chicago nominated
Thomas L. Hlsgon of Massachusetts
for president and John Tomplo Graves
of Georgia for vico president. An at
tempt to bring tho name of William J.
Bryan before the convention by a Kan
sas delegate nearly caused a riot, and
(pilot was only restored after tho of
fender had been escorted from tho hall.
Personal
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore was
received in audienco by the popo on
his arrival In Rome.
Ezra Butler McCagg, a proiiilnon
citizen of Chicago since 1847, Is dead
aged 82 years.
On tho advico of his physician Lord
Roberts has canceled his Canadian
tour and will sail for homo Immedl
ately.
William J. Bryan and Gov. Sheldon
havo been elected honorary members
of Lincoln Typographical union.
Dr. Shelby L. Knox, a physician of
Springfield, Mo Is dend from pto
limine poisoning.
Representative James S. Sherman
will be formally notified of hit! noml
nation as vice president at Ills homo
In Utica, N. Y on August 18. Son
ntor Burrows will make the address
on behalf of tho committee.
John Mitchell, formor president of
the United Mine Workors is to do
vote his entire tlmo in tho future to
tho trado agreement department of
tho National Civic Federation.
Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas has
been placed In a sanitarium at St.
Josoph, Mo. Ho is suffering from
acute melancholia.
Wado H. Ellis, attomoy gonornl of
Ohio, has been offered tho position of
first assistant attornoy general of tho
United States. Ho has asked for tlmo
to consider tho appointment.
Geno S. Waterbury of Emporia ha
been elected ns tho Independence
party's national committeeman for
Kansas to succeed J. I. Shoppard.
James II. Budd, ex-govornor of Call
fornia and widely known In Demo
cratic circles, is dead at Stockton.
Mrs. Estolla M. II. Morrill, formerly
widely known as a newspaper wrltor
undor tho iiamo of Joan Kincnld, Is
doad at hor homo in North Cambridge
Mass.
G. Winthrop Sands, a stepson of W.
K. Vandorbllt, was killed In a motor
car accident at the country seat of
Mr. Vandorbllt, near Paris.
Mrs. II. YV. Burkott, mother of Son
ator Burkott of Nebraska, is dead at
Glenwood, la., after a long Illness,
Charles II. Moyer has again been
elected prosidont of the Western Fed
oration of Minors.
FILINGS ARE MADE.
Democrats and Republicans Have Full
State Tickets.
From the filings at tho closo of tho
time It seems Hint tho democrats and
tho republicans havo full stato tlckota
which entlroly oxtonds through tho
congressional candidates a8 woll. Tho
socialists missed out on auditor, treas
urer, and commlBslonor of public
nnds. Tho prohibitionists did not fllo
any candidates for auditor, for treas
urer, for superintendent of public In
struction, attornoy gonornl, and rail
way commissioner. Tho socialists did
not file for congress In tho First dis
trict and tho Fourth. Tho prohibition-
sts apparently did not attompt to
i t
naiuo a congressional ucicoi, waving
candidate in tho Fourth district
only. Following Is a list of tho 111
ngs for stato offices:
GOVERNOR.
Roy R. Teeters, prohibitionist, Falla
City; James C. Dahltnan, democrat,
Omaha; A. C. Shallenbergor, democrat-populist,
Alma; Georgo W. Borgo,
doniocrat-popullBt, Lincoln; J. W.
Walkor, socialist, Hastings; C. II.
llarbough, socialist, Broken Bow.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
M. R. llopowoll, republican, Tokn-
man; E. O. Garrett, detnocrat-populist,
Fremont; Thomas Jorgonson, so
cialist, Florence; James A. Grim Ion,
dotuocrat-popullst, scltuylcr; W. C.
Rogers, socialist, Walioo; A. 8. Tib
botts, domocrat, Lincoln; Frank 13,
Llnch, prohibition, Lincoln.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Georgo C. Junkln, republican, Smith
field; John .Mattes, jr., democrat-pop-
ullBt, Falls City; Dr. A. T. Gatowood,
doniocrat-popullBt, Arapahoo; Honry
F. J. Iloekenborgor, prohibition, South
Omaha.
AUDITOR.
H. L. Cook, ropubllcan, St. Paul;
John L. Pierce, ropubllcnn, Lincoln;
Robert A. Hayncs, ropubllcnn, College
VIow; Georgo Anthes, republican,
Omaha; W. B. Price, deniocrat-poptt-list,
Lincoln; S. R. Barton, republican,
Grand Island; E. II. Lhlkart, democrat-republican,
Tlldeti; John II.
Aldon, republican, Beatrice; Charles
S. Allen, ropubllcan, Gonova; John C.
F. McKesson, republican, Lincoln.
TREASURER.
Clarence Mackoy, democratic-populist,
Ansley; Lawrence G. Brian, ro
publlcnn, AlTHon.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN
STRUCTION.
N. C. Abbott, democratic-populist,
Tokainah; Georgo D. Harrington, ro
publlcan, Auburn; James E. Dalzell,
republican, Loxlngton; S. II. Martin,
ropubllcan, St. Paul; E. C. Bishop, ro
publlcan, Lincoln; Ada K. Schell, so
cialist, Ponca.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Warren Torry, democratic-populist,
Beatrice; William T. Thompson, ro
publlcan, Central City; E. B. Quacken
bush, populist-democrat, Auburn; N.
II. Nye, socialist," Pender; Harry B.
Floherty, doniocratlc-popullst, South
Omaha. '
COMMISSIONER PUBLIC LANDS.
J. M. Shlvoly, ropubllcan, Fromont;
Hnrvey L. Sams, republican, Gohring;
W. B. Eastman, domocratlc-popullBt,
Broken Bow; William Hussonetter, re
publican, Llnwood; Edward B. Cowlos,
republican, Fnlrbury; C. B. Manuel
populist-democrat, St. Paul; Albort
Thompson, prohibition, Aurora.
RAILWAY COMMISSIONER.
S. M. Wallace, republican, Clay Con
tor; J. A. WIlllaniB, ropubllcan, Plerco,
J. A. Van Waggenen, republican,
Pierce; W. H. Cowglll, popullat-domo-erat,
Holdrogo; Georgo O. Rrophy,
democrat, Omaha; F. II. Abbott, re
publican, Aurora; C. L. Headland, re
publican, Holdrogo; Myron D. Karr,
ropubllcan, Columbus; Andrew Fin
korkollor, soclnllst, Florence; William
M. Aaron h, republican, Omaha.
BIG CAR RUN8 AWAY.
Automobile Accident Causes Death of
Five.
Tho second disastrous automobile
accident within forty-eight hours, In
volving prominent San Francisco peo
plo occurred Monday morning near
Burllngnme, the fnshlonnblo suburb
near San Francisco, when a huge ton
neau occupied by flvo women and two
children plunged down a steep em
bankment as the result of the snap
ping of the brakes and caused tho
deaths of five of tho occupants and
Injury of two others. Tho doad:
Mrs. Thomas A. M'Cormlck, MIbs
Clara McCormlck, aged eighteen,
Robert T. O'Brien, son of Mrs. Ira
G. O'Brien, Ira G. OBrlon, aged threo,
Mrs. Ira G. O'Brien.
Mrs. A. McCormlck wns tho wifo of
Thomas A. McCormlck, president of
the McCormlck Iron works of San
Francisco, and Mrs. O'Brion's husband
is tho proprietor of the stone manu
facturing works. Both families aro
prominent In society circles of that
city.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Frodorlclc
Mnrrlot, wife of a prominent manufac
turer ot San Francisco, and Jamos I).
Gilbert were killed in a similar acci
dent sixty miles south of San Fran
cisco and threo otjiors Injured.