THE FRONTIER Published ltTsry Thursday bp THR FRONTIER PRINTING COMPAHT. O'NEILL, • • - NEBRASKA. Jb.S. A ■« J. .1. .»■■«. J. t. -t-.I.-I. .1 "t v V .^vvvr^^i^ 'rT*.^ BRIEF TELEGRAMS. j: The town of Venura, Iowa, suffered a Are loss of $500,000. The government tariff bill was passed by the German reichstag. The body of Mrs. Grant will be laid by the side of that of her husband. , Vice Admiral Kruys, the minister o' marine of the Netherlands, is dead. The bureau of insular affairs report shows that the Philippine trade has expanded greatly since American poa eion. The Treasury department does not feci called upon to take any action to relieve the Wall street financial strin gency. Another contribution of $1,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller to the Uni versity of Chicago was announced at the convocation last week. The Victoria hotel In Quebec was completely destroyed by fire. The guests and employes escaped unin jured. Lons $110,000; Insurance $75, 000. At New York, on the lGth, negotia tions wero concluded for the Importa tion of $250,000,000 in gold from France this week. The metal will leave Havre next Saturday. A general Increase In wages of trainmen on the Southern railway, averaging about 5 per ednt In amount, has been granted by tho officials of that road. Lieutenant Colonel H. J. Foster, commanding the Royal engineers on the Island of Guernsey, has been ap pointed military attache to the British embassy at Washington. Cardinal Martlnelli has recommend ed to the congregation of the propa ganda the appointment of the Rev. J. F. Regis Ganevin, rector of St. Paul’s cathedral, Pittsburg, to the post of coadjutor bishop of Pittsburg. Tho testimony taken by the sub committee of the senate committee on territories on the house omnibus statehood bill, has just been printed as a senate document is now made public. J. J. Terrel!, land commissioner of Texas, reports having found hear in the Davis mountains and has assured President Roosevelt that If he will come down the boys will hold ono while he shoots it. During a quarrel at Clinton, la., Charles Grenderson of Sioux City, was shot and killed, Benjamin Carroll was wounded twice, and Mrs. Carroll was probably fatally shot. The shoot ing resulted from jealousy. George W. Prescott, aged 05, one of the founders and first president of the Union Iron works, was found dead in his apartments at the Palace hotel, San Francisco. It Is believed that death resulted from heart failure. Three girls, aged two, four and seven years, children of Louis Smith, a negro, were burned to death in a Sixteenth street tenement house, in New York. The parents went out, leaving the children in bed asleep. So many storiee of the way bear* are running riot in the far west have leached the president since he has returned from the Mississippi cane brakes, that he has decided to try his luck out beyond the Missouri next time. W. C. McMillan, son of the late Senator James McMillan, denied the rumors that he might run against Senator Alger for election to the United States senate in the session of the Michigan legislature to open in January. The Hudson Valley Railway com pany, operating between Albany and \Varren8burg, has engaged C. O. Fitch of Omaha, Neb., as superintend ent of power and wires, with head quarters at Glen Falls. Mr. Fitch was chief electrician of the Cudahy Packing company. Major Alexander Shaw, financier, coal operator and philanthropist, died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Baltimore. Alexander Shaw was born in Long Branch, N. J., in 1S37. He came to Maryland twenty years later, and became identified with the coal mining industry of Alleghany county. The corrugating mills, the paint shop, the store room and the building containing the flour mills of the West Side of the American Sheet Steel company’s mills, burned to the ground at Canal Dover, Ohio, and the com pany is confronted with a loss of over $1,000,000; nearly $750,000 in finished product and the balance in buildings and machinery. Dr. Wyman, government physician at the Sac and Fox Indian agency in Oklahoma, announces that a large majority of the tribes are afflicted with tuberculosis, scrofula and other ” ” incurable diseases, and adds that the tribe will be practically annihilated within a few years. The latest report says there are but forty members of this once powerful tribe left. POWERS ANSWER BRITAIN WANTS SAFEGUARDS AND GERMAN APOLOGIES. NEED OF GUARANTY A DRAWBACK Private Financiers May Step in Now— Individual Firms May Offer Assur ances—England Sees No Value in Arbitrators’ Award. WASHINGTON.—Secretary Hay has ceived partial responses from the governments of Great Britain, Ger many and Italy respecting the pro posal to arbitrate the Venezuelan dif ficulties. Great Britain is favorable to arbitra tion with proper safeguards; Germany accepts arbitration in principle, but finds a multitude of small adjustments to be made before entering into the agreement; Italy, as the junior part ner of the allies, declares that it is favorable to arbitration, but would be bound by the action of the senior partners. As far as England is concerned the safeguards referred to are believed to relate to the question of guarantee, which is full of difficulties. In this connection some consideration Is again given to the feasibility of re sponsible parties assuming responsi bility for any award assessed against Venezuela. If this can be arranged the United Statos government will do what it ear. to reduce their risks. The feeling is growing here that The Hague tribunal should undertake the case if arbitration is agreed to. Mr. Bowen, it is reported, wishes to come to Washington in order person ally to effect an adjustment with the resident ambassadors of the allies, but, while the State department makes no statement on the point, it is be lieved that it does not regard this plan with favor. It is also pointed out that in some phases the disputes will not admit of arbitration. Sueii, for instance, as the attacks on Brit ish and German subjects and the Ger man legations at Caracas, and the ar rests of consular officers. The United States government in clines to the view that there is a dis position to insist needlessly on guar antees for payment of any judgment that might be rendered by the arbitra tors. It believes that the force of public opinion would absolutely in sure a settlement. Answers German Demands. CARACAS—The Venezuelan answer to Germany’s ultimatum has just been made public. In part it is as follows: “The Venezuelan government is un able to discover in its correspondence a single sentence offensive in tone. "With regard to the publication of the note of March 8, 1901, marked confidential:’ This note lost its confi dential character through the publica tion of a memorandum by the German ambassador to the United States in which was incorporated the note in question. "Regarding the other points, each of which comes within a certain law, it Is only necessary to call your attention to the abnormal circumstances which have paralyzed any course of actlou relating to these matters. The Vene zuelan government is now considering the appointment of a fiscal agent. “The Imperial government desires that Venezuela Immediately satisfy the claims arising from the civil war and that other matters be arbitrated. "The Venezuelan government only awaits the time when the work of pacification, in which it is earnestly engaged, shall permit it to issue an order re-establishing public credit. The claims arising out of the present war, which still devastates the repub lic, will be treated with all justice under the laws to be passed to cover the requirements. “Upon the special command of my government 1 refrain from replying to that part of your note which relates to joint action on the part of Ger many and the United Kingdom. A power like Venezuela, which is in need of no stimulus to cause it to fulfill its legal obligations to its utmost abil ity, can never expect any course of action which shall not conform to the principles of mutual respect and the rules of reciprocal cordiality. “R. LOPEZ BARALT. “Minister of Foreign Affairs.” Rounding Up Ladrones. MANILA.—The roundup of La drones in Risil province is proceeding. A large force of constabulary is in the field and the Manila police are co operating with it. They are cordon ing the north part of the city to pre vent the I>adrones entering. The United States fleet is assembled for the evolutions which are to commence tomorrow and continue for a fort night. They will consist largely in landing tactics and the seizure, forti fying and supplying of a naval base on the west coast of Luzon, near Su big. The battleship Kentucky is here and the Oregon is expected daily. J CASH FOR CATTLE. It is Voted by the Lower House of Congress. WASHINGTON.—The house on Monday passed the senate bill for a union railway station in this city, to •cost $4,000,000. The station is to be situated north of the present site of the Baltimore & Ohio depot at Dela ware and Massachusetts avenues, and in front of it is to be a large plaza park. The Pennsylvania is to remove its tracks from the Mall and reach the site of the proposed atation through a tunnel to run btewcen the capitol and library buildings. The govern ment is to pay the Pennsylvania rail road $1,500,000, and the Baltimore & Ohio $300,000, in addition to provid ing for the plaza park. The house also pased an urgency deficiency bill, which carried among other items an appropriation of $500, t'00 for eradicating the foot and mouth disease in New England. A bill was passed to provide for the allotment in severalty of the lands of the New York Indians. The bill provides that prior to allotment the claims of the Ogden Land company should be de cided in the courts, and if found good should be purchased for the benefit of the Indians for a sum not exceed ing $200,000. The senate on Monday discussed the militia bill and also the omnibus state hood bill. After agreeing to the house resolu tion for an adjournment from Decem ber 20 to January 5, Mr. Proctor (Vt.) called up the militia bill. An amend ment by Mr. Pettus (Ala.), striking from the bill section 24, Having par ticular reference to the reserve force of trained men, provoked some dis cussion, Mr. Pettus raising the point if enacted would be an infringement of the constitutional authority of the states, and put the custody of the militia into the hands of the general government. The bill was laid aside for the omni bus statehood bill, Senator Dillingham (Vt.), who (s opposed to the bill, oc cupying the remainder of the session in rehearing the testimony taken by the subcommittee on its tour of in vestigation. Mr. Bate (Tenn.) submitted a report of the minority on the omnibus state hood bill, which was read. It favor ed the omnibus bill. A message from the president was laid before the senate, recommending the payment of indemnity to the heirs of certain Italians killed in the south ern states. n Consideration of the statehood bill was resumed. Mr. Quay (Pa.) said that as the senator from Minnesota (Mr. Nelson) had ‘‘suddenly and tu multuously’’ withdrawn the substi tute it was his desire to know if Mr. Nelson intended to re-report the same. Replying, Mr. Nelson said that it was his purpose to re-report, but could not say at this time when he would do so. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN MEETING. Called at Lincoln, Nebraska, Jan. 22nd, 1903. There will be a meeting held at Lincoln, Nebraska, Jan. 22nd, 1903, at 2 o’clock p. m., In University hall, In the Interest of and for the purpose of advancing the Farmers’ Co-Opera tive Grain and Live Stock associa tion and extending Its usefulness In Nebraska. All farmers and others interested in extending the work of the association and in th’e building of Farmers’ Co-Operative elevators are requested to attend and take part in tho meeting. We recommend that farmers and shippers meet at the various shipping stations of Ne braska and send representatives or delegates to this meeting. All per sons Interested in the success of tho co-operative movement and desiring information regarding the same are cordially Invited. James Butler, manager of the Central association and other speakers from Kansas will address the meeting. Reduced rates have been granted by all railroads in the state. Ask for them when buy ing your ticket. THE FARMERS’ GRAIN ASS’N, of Benedict, Neb. D. W. BAKER, Pres. E. E. WATTS, Sec’y. THE FARMERS’ GRAIN ASS N, ot Thayer, Neb. R. B. PRICE Pres-. T. C. PRATHER, Sec’y. THE FARMERS’ BUSINESS ASS'N, of Shelby, Neb. H. THELEN, Pres. H. H. HEWITT, Sec’y. Pension Appropriation. WASHINGTON—The senate on Wednesday passed the pension appro priation bill without discussion. It carried $139,8^7,00. An urgent defi ciency bill was also passed. The amount carried by this bill is $1,14S, 400, and includes an item of $500,000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to stamp out the foot and mouth dis ease. which has become epidemic in the New England states. f & If NEBRASKA IN GENERAL I i I TEACHERS COMING IN FORCE. Superintendent Losks Forward to a Well Attended Meeting. Superintendent of Instruction Fow ler believes the meeting of the state teachers this year will be more suc cessful and of more interest than any previous meeting. In an interview he said: "The teachers of Nebraska are com ing to the state association this year in larger numbers than ever before. The vastly better program is attract ing them. Many will be heVe Monday and Tuesday (29th and 30th) to take the state examination for life certifl ' cates. In fact, the office of the state superintendent of public instruction will not be large enough to contain them ail. Many other teachers will be in Tuesday to see the art exhibit before the regular meetings begin, 'the county superintendents will all be here Tuesday to attend the busi ness session in representative hall and to discuss school law. The education al council will meet Tuesday evening and Wednesday forenoon, and Wednes day afternoon nine meetings of the auxiliary association will be in full blast. From that time until Friday night you won’t be able to throw a snowball on O street, or between the Lindell and the Lincoln, from St. Paul’s church to the university with out hitting a schoolma’am. And they will not all dissolve from view Friday night. Many will remain over Saturday to do some shopping, and others will remain faithful to the program at St. Paul’s church Friday evening and go to the "play” at the Oliver Saturday afternoon or night, "Much Ado About Nothing.” CLAMORING FOR GRAIN CARS. Farmers Complain That They Cannot Get Their Crops to Market. THAYER, Neb.—The farmers living around Thayer are complaining bit terly of the treatment that the Farm ers’ Grain Elevator company is receiv ing at Thayer from the Fremont, Elk horn & Missouri Valley railroad. They assert that the Elkhorn is furnishing the trust elevators with empty cars and that the farmers are unable to get a car. Officers of the company are leaving for Omaha, where they will see the proper officials and see if they cannot receive fair treatment from the Elkhorn. The grain bins are full and farmers have had to stop threshing machines. They think it pretty hard to have to stop taking grain when the company elevators are taking in grain right along and are receiving cars. BENEDICT, Neb.—Elevator men on the Kansas City & Omaha railroad complain that since the road has been operated by the Burlington it is hard er work to get cars than under the old management. Every elevator is full of grain and many of them in York county on the Kansas City & Omaha have filled the driveways. Corn shellers and threshing machines have had to stop, as elevators cannot take any more grain. FREE DELIVERY IS ASKED. Protest Against Changing Land Leas ing Laws. WASHINGTON — Representative Burkett on Wednesday called at the postofflce department, and requested the establishment of a free delivery service at Plattsmouth. Three deliv eries of mail in the business portion and two deliveries in the residence sections is desired a day. Both Burkett and Mercer introduced resolutions in the house from the George A. Custer post. Grand Army of the Republic, of Omaha, protesting against any change of laws affecting the leasing of public lands in Nebras ka. Frank I. Teeter of Nebraska, clerk in the pension bureau, has re ceived a salary promotion from $900 to $1,000 a year. Saves Life by a Miracle. BEATRICE, Neb.—Gus Schmidt, a resident of this city, came very near losing his life while shoveling snow off the roof of a brick building. He accidentally slipped off the rear edg^ of the roof that was concealed by the heavy snow drifts and fortunately caught himself by a piece of 2x4 pro jecting from the fire wall. He hung there for some time suspended forty feet above the ground, and by the greatest effort succeeded in pulling himself back on the roof, thereby sav ing himself from a serious if not fatal accident. Found Hanging in Barn. j BLOOMFIELD, Neb.—William Hil kemeier, a well-to-do German farm | er, living south of this place, was found hanging from a beam in his barn. | When the body was discovered life : had been extinct for some hours. Hil ! k-meier was a widower with several small children. It is supposed grief over the loss of his wife impelled his rash acL I Mrs. Guy Barton, who has been held at Sheridan, Wyo., on the charge of killing her father-in-law, returned heme to Plattsmouth, accompanied b7 her brother, Lawrence Stull. Mrs. Berton was released upon ball pend ing her trial, which is set for Febru ary 2. Governor-elect Mickey was a visitor at the State Industrial school at Kear ney, dropping in without announce ment of his coming. He made a criti cal inspection of all parts of the in stitution, but made no comment on the administration of Superintendent Bcghtol. A new democratic daily will be started in Fremont about January 1, or before. A stock company has been formed and will be incorporated aa soon as a few preliminaries are out of the way. The stock will be $4,000, of which Waldo Wintersteen of Fremont will own half and about twenty lead ing democrats of the city and county hi*- nan. The “Hello Bill” company, which showed at Beatrice, had the receipts of the box office and baggage attached by Miss Mildred Claire and Frank T. Glenn, members of the company, who claimed that Manager Kellogg owed them back salaries to the amount of $100 each. Mr. Kellogg denies the fact that he owes the alleged debt and proposes to fight the case. Fire broke out in the store of the Anderson Mercantile company at Ne ligh and the fire and water rendered the stock of merchandise nearly a total loss. The stock was probably worth $10,000, on which there is but $2,000 insurance. The fire came from a lamp set too near some cotton wrap pers displayed on a line through the store. The building is badly damaged. Plans are being made by a number of local business men o fAshland to purchase the south half of block 17, Flora City addition, and present the same to the City of Ashland, to be used as a public park. The ground is finely located for a park, being within one block of the business center. F. H. Chickering and C. N. Folsom are circulating a subscription paper, head ed by a donation of $1,000 from E. A. Wiggenhorn, and ranging in amount from $150 down to $60. The Nebraska Association of Osteo pathic Physicians held its annual con vention in Lincoln. A number of in teresting papers were read and dis cussed and a legislative committee ap pointed, which will look after matters of interest to the association before the coming legislature. These officers were elected for the coming year: Dr. Milligan of Grand Island, president; Dr. Moss of Ashland, vice president; Dr. Grace Beedan of Omaha, secretary. Twenty-four hours after leading his bride to the altar, Mead Morrell, a fireman on the Burlington railroad, lost his life in a head-on collision at Table Rock. Train No. 64, standing in the yards, was about to pull out. Train No. 67, coming into the yards at twenty-five miles an hour, crashed into the standing engine. Both en gines, their tenders and a number of cars of merchandise were totally de stroyed. Morrell was told to jump, but evidently did not have time. Governor-elect Mickey was in Ne braska City to investigate the manage ment of the institute for the Blind. In an interview Mr. Mickey stated that he found the people very well satis fied with Mr. Morey, the superintend ent at the institute, but that there is some dissatisfaction as to the way in which the school is managed. Mr. Mickey said he had not yet decided whether he would retain Mr. Morey, but would carefully investigate the situation before rendering a decision. Much legislation is asked from the coming legislature by the legislative committee of the State Teachers’ asso ciation, which met in Lincoln with State Superintendent Fowler. One of the most important recommendations is in regard to the age of teachers. The committee was unanimous that no person under the age of 17 years ought to be permitted to teach in the public schools of the state. This measure will result in many changes if adopted by the legislature. There are hundreds of teachers in the state below that ape. To exclude them will cause a greater demand for older teachers and the increased demand will probably be followed by a raise in the wages that the teachers will re ceive. The rules of the State Normal school at Peru may also have to be changed to conform to the new meas ure. The four men who robbed Hayden Bros, at Grand Island, Saturday night were captured in Kearney and the Grand Island chief of police arrived and identified some of the articles stolen. The water famine at Nebraska City is over and the company has all the water needed to supply all of the de mands of the city and industries. The river has been rising steadily for some time past and now there is three feet of water at the intake pipe at the pumping station. There are plenty of people who have become depressed and discouraged, because that dry, hacking cough hangs to them continually. The/ have taken much medicine, mostly of the advertised quack sort, nothing like Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburg Breast Tea, the discovery of a then noted German physician 60 years ago. We do not say that this will cure a case where the lungs are badly dis eased, for it will not, and up to this date there is nothing that will cure under these conditions; but on the other hand, If the lungs are not hard hit, the patient should take Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburg Breast Tea, a cup full every night on going to bed, have it hot, drink slowly, then every other night rub the throat and top portion of the lungs with St Jacobs Oil, cover with oil silk, let it remain an hour, then remove. Eat good, plain, nour ishing food, live in the open air as much as possible. By all means sleep as near out of doors as possible, that is, windows wide open, except in the very severe weather. Take a cold sponge bath every morning; then im mediately rub the body vigorously with a coarse towel. Take Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburg Drops every other day according to directions. One can buy the three remedies for $1.25 of any reliable druggist. Begin the treatment at once and see how much better you will be almost within a week’s time. Hadn’t Found Either. Henry Ward Beecher returned to In dianapolis after he had gone to Brook lyn, for a little visit, and his friends arranged a reception for him, which was inadvertently planned for Wed nesday evening—prayer-meeting night. Late in the evening there appeared a severe looking elderly gentleman, who came to Mr. Beecher with an air of re buke, and said: “Mr. Beecher, this is prayer meting night. 1 went to the First Presbyterian prayer meeting, to the Third Presbyterian prayer meet ing, and to the Fourth Presbyterian prayer meeting, expecting to meet the Lord Jesus and Henry Ward Beecher.” The good man paused, and Mr. Beecher replied with that irrepressible twinkle in his eye: “Well, my dear sir, it’s plain that you didn’t find either of them.” A Versatile Typewriter. Selim Haddad, a Syrian educated at the American college at Beirut, Syria, has perfected a typewriter for writing in Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Though these languages each hav& over 600 letters or characters he has reduced the number of keys to fifty three. The machines are being made in this country, and the inventor has presented samples to the Sultan of Turkey and Khedive of Egypt. A Problem Solved. Cabbel, Kans., Dec. 22nd.—This part of Kansas has solved the great question. How can Kidney Troubles be cured, and as Rheumatism, Bright’s Disease, Diabetes and other ailments resulting from Diseased Kidneys are common to all parts of the country the news is of great interest. The cure is Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Hundreds of people will tell you this of their own experience. Take J. B. Cunningham for example. He had Kidney Trouble of long standing. He sought relief in vain. He had tried Doctors and Medicines of different kinds. 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