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A RULING ON INSURANCE.
Important Decision Announced by the
Supreme Court.
An important decision on life insur
ance is announced in the supreme
court in the case of the Royal Neigh
bors of America against Wallace, an
error case from Dodge county. The
court auneres to its former ruling of
reversal, announced at the last term
of court, but changes its mind ma
terially as to the rule that applies
to answers to questions in the appli
cation. The matter turned upon
whether these answers are warrants
or merely representations. The court
says that the proper rule is that the
asking of a question by the company
is a declaration that the fact sought
to be elicited by the question is ma
terial, and the answer by the app.l
cant, when he procures a policy to be
issued is an assent to its materiality,
the form of application and the pol
icy constituting an agreement that the
statements are material to the risk.
This still leaves it open, says the court,
to the determination of the jury
whether the answer was true, and if
not true, whether the variance was
mateiial to the risk. It is not for the
jury, however, to say that the answers,
though substantially true, were nev
ertheless immaterial.
WANTS A BOND REGISTERED.
Auditor Refuses Because He Alleges
it is Not Legally Issued.
LINCOLN.—J. Y. Niles has filed a
suit in the supreme court for a writ
of peremptory mandamus to compel
Char.es Weston, state auditor, to re
cord a bond for $1,000 issued by Doug
las county in 1877. Weston refused to
record the bond because, he claimed,
the law under which the bonds were
issued was unconstitutional. The
bonds were issued to the Omaha &
Northwestern Railroad company,
bearing 8 per cent interest. In 1887
the county refunded the bonds and
issued others bearing 5 per cent. These
were issued under the law of 1885,
which the supreme court has declared
unconstitutional. This year the bonds
were again refunded and others issued
bearing 3% per cent. The state bolds
$176,000 worth of the bonds.
Earnings of Iowa Railroads.
According to the reports of the rail
road companies for the year ended
June 30 last, as made to the railroad
commissioners in accordance with
law, there has been a rapid increase
in the earnings the first half of the
year. The aggregate of earnings on
Iowa business as shown by the reports
for the year ended June 30 last was
$3,000,000 more than the aggregate for
the year ended January 1 last, as re
ported at that time to the state. The
mi'eage reported in Iowa for the year
ended June 30 last was 9,614, the gross
receipts $59,106,191.41, the expenses
$39,839,794.93, leaving as net earnings
$19,686,396.58.
Hr.s t. Corpse on His Hands.
BEAVER CITY.—The Burlington
agent here has a piece of express on
hand which he would be glad to dis
pose of. It is the dead body of James
Bisbee, formerly of this county, who
died at the insane asylum in Lincoln.
His mother lives twelve miles south
of thi3 place and the authorities
shfped the body to her with C. 0. D.
charges for the casket and transporta
tion, amounting to $66. When the
family of the dead man called for the
remains they were surprised by the
charges and were unable to raise the
money.
No Fear of Contagion.
The “hoof and mouth” disease, so
prevalent among cattle in the New
England states and against which
many of the states in the west have
quarantined, need occasion no alarm
among cattle and stock men in Ne
braska, was the statement issued from
the state veterinary surgeon. While
some of the surrounding states have
quarantined against the disease, Ne
braska will not do so. for the officials
do not believe there is any danger ol
the disease reaching here. “We see
no occasion for alarm),” said Dr.
Thomas, “and therefore will establish
no quarantine. It would interrupt
traffic and do no good.”
Russell Verdict Affirmed.
The supreme court affirmed the de
cision of the lower court in the case
of Charles Russeli, sentenced to twen
ty years in the penitentiary for the
murder of Alios F. Slandenmaier. The
latter was found dead about three
miles from his home in Sioux county
and about six miles from the home ol
Russell. It was claimed by the state
that Russell had waylaid Slandenmaier
as he was going to feed his cattle and
shot him.
Sunday closing is to be enforced at
Crete.
A bank is about to be established at
Sterling.
An ice making plant is to be estab
lished at York.
Crete’s new lighting plant has been
put in operation.
A series of religious meetings are
being held at Wymore.
A war is on between the telephone
companies of Fremout.
The postmaster at the village of
Smartville has resigned.
At Broken Bow, “Pink” Brown was
killed by the kick of a horse.
The Burlington road will put in a
new passenger station at York.
A brick factory at Hastings was
damaged by Are to the extent of $1,200.
The new Methodist church at
Geneva will soon be ready for occu
pancy.
Dr. Covert of Pawnee was thrown
from his horse, sustaining a broken
collar bone.
The saloon of .Tacob Thomas of
Wahoo was robbed of 800 cigars and
a few bottles of wine.
Dogs are dying off fast in Fremont,
all classes of the canines suffering
from some unknown disease.
George H. Thomas, a colored barber
and an old resident of Wauneta, was
found dead in bed at Wauneta.
There are six divorce cases to be
disposed of by the district court of
York county at the December term.
Peter McDermott, for a long time
an engineer on the Burlington, run
ning out from Alliance, fell dead in
Salt Dake.
An unusually large amount of wheat
has been sown in Gage county this
season and farmers report that it is in
splendid condition.
Mrs. Myattway, wife of the pastor
of the Baptist church at Falls City, in
taking a dose of medicine got the
wrong bottle and took arnica. It al
most proved fatal.
At Valentine John and Harry Junod
were sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for stealing about 6,000
pounds of wire from David A. Han
cock, a large ranchman.
Dr. Alma Chapman, second assist
ant physician at the Hastings asylum
for the incurable insane, has handed
in her resignation to the governor and
the same has been accepted.
The Alfred Cownie farm of 280
acres, near Beatrice, was sold for
$62.50 per acre, the top price so far
paid for Gage county land. The pur
chaser was Charles Hentges, who the
same day sold his farm in Hanover
township to William Pardee for $50
per acre.
William P. Redifer, who nas made
his home in Fremont for some time,
was arrested at St. Joseph, Mo., on a
warrant issued for him here, charging
his with disposing of some horses and
other property after first obtaining all
that he could get from them on a
chattel mortgage.
Chester Brown, alias John Finn, is
under arrest at Wayne charged with
stealing a team of horses from a citi
zen there some time ago and later
leaving two citizens of Fremont in the
lurch by departing from that city with
three horses on which they held chat
tel mortgages. He was captured after
being traced to Platta, S. D.
Hallie, the 20-year-old daughter of
John Rathbun, a merchant of Shelby,
had her life hanging by a thread for
several hours. She arose to build a
lire and was discovered later in a
chair, partly dressed, unconscious and
her body quite cold. Through mis
take she had taken carbolic acid, mis
taking it for a cough remedy.
Proofs were offered to the governor
by Frank Lasse, E. W. Cullen, David
Leary and Perry Boram of Winside,
in support of their claim of the $200
offered by the governor for the appre
hension of Gottlieb Niegenlind, the
Pierce county murderer. In order that
there might be no mistake about it
the certificates were made out so that
each one of the four is entitled to $50
and payment will be made in that
WAV
The report of the officers o' the
Fremont Sugar Beet company shows
that the crop of 1902 yielded a profit
of 30 per cent, a dividend of 25 per
cent being declared and 5 per cent
added to the surplus fund. The syndi
cate raised 1,749 tons. Out of the
total disbursements of $5,861, the sum
of $4,352.18 was expended for labor.
The company has rented 480 acres of
land near Fremont for a term of four
years and will rotate beets with other
crops.
A pension of $12 per month, with
$263 back pay, has just been granted
to Joseph Grothe, the father of a Cum
ing county boy who was killed in the
charge at El Caney, Cuba. Two young
men of Cuming county lost their lives
in the Cuban war.
William Gates, local agent for the
Beatrice Creamery company, broke
through the ice while on Haywood
lake and would have been drowned
but for the courage of Clyde Plainer,
who skated two hundred yards over
thin ice and dragged him ashore.
CONVINCING PROOF.
Case No. 41,206.—Capt. Alfred O.
Rlgler of Hose Company No. 4, Can
ton, Ohio, says: “I had a weak back
ever since I was a boy, and about
six years ago the cause developed
Into rather a bad case of kidney com
plaint. It was not a little backache
now and then, but backache which
caused actual suffering day and
night, and the harder 1 tried to get
rid of it the worse It became.
When the attacks were in the acute
stage It was difficult to sit down, and
when down It was Just as hard to re
gain an erect position, on account of
the twinges of pain in the kidneys. I
can only describe some of the pangs
as similar to that received from a
knife thrust.
In time, distressing and terribly
Inconvenient, urinary weakness result
ed, causing annoying embarrassment
during the day and loss of sleep dur
ing the night.
I took everything which came to
my notice from reading, from observa
tion, and which my friends and ac
quaintances advised. I consulted
physicians, but none of them were
able to relieve the trouble, let alono
stop It
It became so well known that I had
a pronounced case of kldndy com
plaint that I often received circulars
from medical companies offering to
cure me, and one day eighteen letters
were handed to me by the mall car
rier.
When Doan’s Kidney Pills attracted
my attention I wanted to try them.
Just as 1 had tried everything else,
and Mrs. Rlgler went to Durban &
Wright Co.’s drug store for a box.
Relief followed.
I knew after a dose or two that
the medicine was acting directly on
the kidneys from the altered condi
tion of the kidney secretions, and,
encouraged, I continued the treat
ment. Finally, the backache and
other complications stopped.
Let me sum up my opinion about
Doan’s Kidney Pills by saying, I
would willingly pay one month’s
wages for a box of them if I could not
buy them for less. You can refer
any one to me about Doan’s Kidney
Pills and I will convince them that
they act just as represented.”
Four Years After.
’’Lapse of time has strengthened
my appreciation of Doan’s Kidney
Pills. I gave this remedy my unquali
fied endorsement in the summer of
1896, because of the results I obtained
from a course of the treatment. I
can now add to my original endorse
ment the experience of a number of
others who are Just as enthusiastic,
when they express their opinion of
Doan’s Kidney Pills, as I.”
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr. Rig
ler, will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Ad
dress Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists, price
60 cents per box.
1 Out of a male population of less
than 600 the Wiltshire (Enr-and) vil
lage of Box sent thirty-six men to the
war.
Dearness Cannot Be Cared
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that Is by consti
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of
the mucus surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
sirculars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Japanese national flags are alleged
to be practically unobtainable just
now in London.
Don’t you know that Defiance
Starch, besides being absolutely su
perior to any other, is put up 18
ounces in package and sells at same
price as 12-ounce packages of other
kinds?
“Distinction" for Prussian Teachers.
The Prussian ministry of education
has resolved on conferring a special
mark of distinction upon lay teachers
in the municipal schools when they
retire from service. It has been felt
that years of faithful and exception
ally valuable service In the cause of
education call for recognition on the
part of the government, and the min
istry, convinced that the thing should
be done handsomely, therefore decid
ed that each teacher who has display
ed marked ability In the performance
of her duties shall, on retirement, re
ceive a colored portrait of the empress
in a gilt frame. Middle-aged teach
ers who fall to attain the prize may
console themselves with the reflection
that an article of this kind Is to be
obtained for a shilling or so In most art
shops In Berlin.
Queen Alexandra’s Dainty Fad.
Queen Alexandra's especial fad has
a daintiness well In keeping with her
personality. It is that of having her
pocket money made perfectly clean
and bright before she fingers It. When
ever a check Is turned Into hard cash
for her use the coins are scrubbed
in a lather of spirits of wine, water
and soap before being placed In her
purse, and any change that may be
tendered her when making purchases
is taken charge of by the lady-in-wait
Ing until It has been subjected to a
like process of purification.
How Advertising Grows.
N. W. Ayer & Son, the "Keeping
Everlastingly at It” advertising
agents of Philadelphia, have found it
necessary to move Into new and
larger quarters at 300-308 Chestnjt
Street in that city.
This announcement will Interest
many publishers, because Ayer & Son
are so widely known as promoters of
newspaper publicity. They began
business thirty-three years ago, with
two people and an annual business of
$16,000. They now have one hundred
and ninety employes, and have for
years done the largest advertising
business In the world. The difference
between then and now is, they say,
simply the result of making news
paper and magazine advertising pay
their customers.
Britain last year imported no less
than £1.352,000 worth of musical In
struments— £750,000 worth from Ger
many alone.
The sermon mapes the pulpit; a
pure heart makes the altar.
DO YOtTK CLOTHES LOOK YELLOWr
If bo, use Red Cross Boll Blue. It will make
them white as snow. 2 os. package 5 cents.
In the union of limburger anti beer
there is strength.
If you don't get the biggest and best
it’s your own fault. Defiance Starch
is for sale everywhere and there is
positively nothing to equal it in quality
or quantity.
There are hoards made of wood and
wooden boards.
Defiance Starch is put up 10 ounces
in a package, 10 cents. One-third
more starch for same money.
You can view life through either
stained glass windows or an old piece
of smoked glass.
Valuable Pointers About Texas.
A 144-page book, profusely illustrat
ed, of present day conditions and
prospects in the Lone Star State. It
is worth your while to get a copy;
free on request.—James Barker, Gen’l
Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 501 Waln
wright Bldg., St. Louis.
Every old bank where the wild
thyme grows pays interest on depos
its.
Fruit acids will not stain goods
dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES.
There is wonderful material be
tween the lines of the youthful essay.
Piso’s Curs Is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.—WE.
O. Ehdslbv, Vanburen. Iud., Feb. 10,1000.
Self-preservation is the first law of
politics.
Many Food* Are Adulterated.
The Stewards’ club of Cleveland,
representing the leading clubs and
hotels of that city, has just completed
an Investigation of the character of
food products sold there with surpris
ing results. Of 175 samples of oleo
margarine examined, 170 were found
to contain Impurities; of 460 milk
samples, 132 were Impure; 27 per
cent of the mustards tested were adul
terated and 32 per cent of the flavor
ing extracts were doctored. Many
other food products fell far short of
the standard.
It’s Worth the While
To know of the prosperity and nn
cqualed Inducements In the South
west. Illustrated pamphlets, “Indian
Territory," "Texas," "Old Mexico,”
"Winter Tours,” "Trade Follows the
Flag,” etc., will be sent free by writ
ing. James Barker, Gen'l Pass. &
Tkt. Agt., M„ K. & T. Ry., 520 Wain
Wright Bldg., St. Louis.
The German emperlor's present to
the United States hears a striking re
semblance to Simon Tapperttt.
The modern theatrical hit must
have a blush in every line.
Clear white clothes are a sign that ths
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue,
Large 2 os. package, 5 cents.
Marrrled women who are reformers
generally get the fever after the wed
ding.
fiva permanently cured. No flu or nerrougnM* after
■ 11 w flint clay’d use of Dr. Kllne'ii Great Nerve Hector*
cr. Hond for FHKK B'S.OO trial bottle and troatlce.
Dit. R. HKljnr, Ltd., VS1 Arch Street. Philadelphia.****
A man of resources Isn't always a
man of means.
Mrs. Winslows isoottiliiK Syrup.
For children teething. Boften* the gum*, reduce* In*
(lamination, allay* pain, cure* wind colic. 35c a bottle.
THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING
can bo obtained only by using: Defiance
Starch, beside* getting 4 oz. more for
flame money—no cooking required.
llenpeck thinks the Mormons are al
ready sufficiently punished.
HALF RATES
TO
CANADIAN POINTS.
The Wabash will sell tickets from Chi
cago to many points In Canada I)ec. 18,
19, 20. 21st, good returning until Jan. 10th,
1903. For rates and all Information call
at the Wabash office, 1601 Fnrnam St., or
address Harry E. Moores, O. A. F. D.,
Omaha, Neb.
It needs but a slight scratch of the
pen to turn pathos into bathos.
DEFIANCE STAKCH
should be In ever-' household, non# do
good, besides 4 os. more for 10 cents than
any other brand of cold water starch.
Wisdom is silent. You’ll know Fol
ly by the bells.
Ht4>ps the Cough and
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Bronio Qutnino Tablets. Price 25c.
It is only after love is dead that
people dissect it.
THE 3T. PAUL CALENDAR
FOR 1903
six sheets 10x15 inches, of beautiful
reproductions, in colors, of pastel
drawings by Bryson, Is now ready for
distribution and will be mailed on re
ceipt of twenty-five (25) cents—coin
or stamps. Address F. A. Miller, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Adversity is the sauce of life, but a
lot of us don’t care for sauce.
[1ANUABY BUYING
There is no time like January for
satisfactory buying. The holiday
rueh ia over ana the early Spring
trade has not yet begun. In January yon al
ways get first pick of all tho earliest Spring
goods and there is antplo time to fill and
ship your orders with greater promptness.
Send 15 cents TODAY for our IsrgeOeneral
Catalogue No. 71. It gives pictures, descrip
tions and prices on almost everything you
eat, wear or use. 8sve *4 to 4 on everything
you purchase by sending your orders to
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* Many women and doctors do
not recognize the real symptoms
of derangement of the female
organs until too late.
“ I had terrible pains along my
spinal cord for two years and suffered
dreadfully. I was given different
medicines, wore plasters; none of
these things helped me. Reading of
the cures that Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has brought
about, I somehow felt that it was
what I needed and bought a bottle to
take, llow glad 1 am that 1 did so;
two bottles brought me immense re
lief, and after using thpee bottles more
I felt new life and blood surging
through my veins. It seemed as
though there had been a regular house
cleaning through my system, that all
the sickness and poison had been taken
out and new life given me instead. I
have advised dozens of my friends to use
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound. Uood health is indis
pensable to complete happiness, and
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound has secured this to me.”
— Mas. Laura L. Urkmer, Crown
Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladies Relief
Corps. — $5000 forfeit If original of atone letter
proving genuineness cannot te produced.
Every sick woman who does not
understand her ailment should
write Mrs. Pinkbam, Lynn,
Mass. Her advice is free ana
always helpful. “
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