Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER
Published ltTsry Thursday bp
THR FRONTIER PRINTING COMPAHT.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Finally he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills
and he stopped right there. No one
who tries Dodd's Kidney Pills for
Kidney Complaint ever needs to look
any further. Here is what Mr. Cun
ningham says:
“Dodd’s Kidney Pills are all right
for Kidney Trouble. I have used
them and know for they have done
me more good than anything I ever
used.”
Fewer marriages would be failures
if the contracting parties were not
such hypocrites during courtship.
-DREWS
JUNIPER BITTERS
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the Stomach aud Periodi
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