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D. H. CRONIN.
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Bourke Cochran of New York was
received In private audience by the
Pope.
j Captain Frank Pennell, chief of po
lice of Quebec, Canada, died on a Wa
bash train between Toledo and St.
Louis.
A high official of the United States
Steel corporation said there was no
truth in the reported cut in the price
of stete! billets.
Former Postmaster W. D. ICllRWorth
of Eveleth, Minn., pleaded guilty to
the charge of embezzling the sum of
$8,000 of government funds.
The Morton Trust company of New
York has made formal announcement
of its withdrawal from clearing house
privileges on and after May 20.
"Uncle" John Yancy, one of the most
famous characters in the West, is dead
at hiR home In Pleasant Valley, Yel
lowstone Park, where he had lived for
thirty yeears.
It was announced that an extraor
dinary session of the Colombian Con
grats had been called for June 20 for
the consideration of the Panama Canal
treaty with the United States.
Acute distress prevails in the Nan
ning and Tsun-Fa district of Kwangst
province. It is estimated that 73,000
personb are starving. The people of
Hong Kong are sending relief.
Circuit Court Attorney Folk of St.
Lulls has received information to the
efteet that Senator Frank Harris of
Steeleville, who is under a bribery in
dictment, has gone to Mexico.
Compressed powder will be substi
tuted for black powder In the ignition
charges of the guns of the vessels of
the North Atlantic squadron which are
now repairing at the New York yard.
According to a private cablegram re
ceived at Panama from Callso, Peru,
there were five cases of bubonic plague
there on Saturday, seven new cases on
Sunday and six new cases on Monday.
Bela Justh, an aristocratic Hungar
ian gambler, who Is known for his
remarkable luck at Monte Carlo and
elsewhere, won $-180,000 playing bac
carat at the National Casino at Buda
pest,
t At Chicago, the Master Bakers’ as
sociation decided on an advance of 25
per cent to the wholesale trade and 20
per cent to the retail dealers in the
price of buns, rolls, cakes, cookies and
crullers.
Fifty Baptist ministerial students
left William Jewell college at Liberty,
Mo., for their home because the fac
ulty refused to grant their request that
the fraternities of the college bo dis
solved.
Agnes Sorma, who has been regard
ed as the greatetst actress on the Ger
m m stage has entered an Institution
near Berlin suffering from a nervous
malady, after having canceled all her
engagements.
John G. Powell, postmaster of Ne
jada, Ind., has been arrested in Cali
fornia on telegraphic Instructions from
Indianapolis. Powell is charged with
having embezzled government funds.
This he denies.
The navy department expects that
the protected Cruisers, Cincinnati. Al
bany and Raleigh of the European
fleet, which nre destined for the Asi
atic station, will get under way in a
very few days.
Great excitement has been caused
in Havana and vicinity by the discov
ery of oil deposits within the land un
der the jurisdiction of the municipal
ity of Consolaeion Del Norte and In
the suburbs of Havana.
Overcrowding of naval training sta
tions along the Atlantic coast Is caus
ing much concern to the navy depart
ment. There has been considerable
sickness among the men recently, due,
it is feared, to this cause.
The army board, which has been for
months past considering the merits of
the new service rifle or musket, has
finally declared in favor of a weapon
with a barre! only twenty-four inches
in length, using a .30 ball.
Maurice Grau, accompanied by his
wife and Miss Louise Grau, sailed for
Europe on the French line steamer La
Savoie. He did not know when he
would return to New York. He was
through with opera, he said.
Mayor Campbell of Tacoma. Wash.,
has notitfled the navy department that
he hi»a selected Miss Julia Naoma Har
ris of Tacoma to christen the protected
cruiser Tacoma, now building at the
Union Iren works, San Francisco.
By direction of the president, Col
onel Charles A. Woodruff, the senior
colonel of the commissary department,
is to te appointed a brigadier general
and retired in July, when vacancies
will accur as the result of the retire
ment of Major General Davis.
Postmaster General Payne ax
nounced that there would be no more
establishment of rural free delivery
postoffices until July 1, the beginning
of the next fiscal year. This is one
result of the investigation of postofflee
aijairm.
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ABIC SLAUGHTER
BRITISH OPERATIONS IN NORTH
ERN NIGERIA.
MOHAMADONS MOWED DOWN
Rapid Fire Guns of British Do Fearful
Execution—Conquest Nets Great
Britain a Vast Amount of Terri
tory.
LONDON—Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain announced in the house of
commons Tuesday that an a result of
the British military operations in the
Sokoto and Kanao districts, ending
with the capture of the emir of Kaho,
100.000 square miles of territory had
been added to Northern Nigeria and
would he administered by the govern
ment of that territory. >
Interesting details have been re
ceived here of the capture of Sokoto,
March 14, by the British column com
manded by Colonel Morland. The en
gagement. lasted two and a half hours.
The British numbered about 600 men,
with four quick-firing guns and four
Maxims. The enemy's horse and foot
soldiers were estimated to number
6.000 men, their ritlemcn being armed
with modern rifles and using smoko
!e s powder. The British camped dur
ing the night of March 13 one and a
half miles from Sokoto, after a hard
march of 100 miles from Kaura, with
but lltle water and having passed
through a difficult country.
At daybreak March 14, the British
moved out in which Sokoto lies. Im
mediately after the British appeared
over a ridge the Fulahs charged with
a fauatlcal bravery, undeterred by a
withering Maxim and litio fire They
had no proper leadership, but the iso
late! bands continued to advance over
heaps of dead and dying, often only
Individuals reaching within a yard of
the square, where, refusing quarter,
they were shot down while shouting
"Allah" with their last breath.
The main body of the natives was
finally routed, leaving a remnant of
about thirty chiefs around the emir's
great white flag. These chiefs were
defiant to the last and their corpses
were found hedging the standard when
the British entered the city, which
consisted mostly of thatched houses,
Its semt-rulncd walls extending seven
miles around the place and were
pierced by eight gates.
EXECUTES THE INDIAN CHIEF.
Was a Leader of Guerrillas During the
Revolution.
PANAMA—Victoriano I.orenzo. the
Indian chief who was a leader of guer
rillas during the recent revolution and
who was sentenced to death by a court
martial Friday on various charges of
having committed serious crimes while
in the Held, was executed by shooting
here. Governor Mutls and the consu
lar representatives petitioned General
Briceno, the military commander of
the isthmus, to postpone the execution
until the government at Bogota had
time to answer a cablegram sent it
asking that the Indian's sentence be
changed to life imprisonment. Gen
eral Briceno refused this petition, say
ing an exemplary punishment was nec
essary. The shooting of Lorenzo has
created a profound impression hero,
as it is the first execution for a polit
ical crime in Panama.
Lorenzo died bravely. Before he
was shot he said he had only been an
accomplice and not the principal in
the crimes of which he was accused.
Land Grabber Sentenced.
ST. LOUIS—Frederick W. Fout, .Ir.,
an attorney, was on Friday sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary by
Judge Amidou of South Dakota, sitting
for Judge Adams in the United States
district court for violation of the
homestead laws. Fout filed motions
for a new trial and arrest of judgment,
but they, were overruled, and he de
cided to appeal.
Forty-One Years on Same Farm.
SIOUX FALLS. S. D.—Fester T.
Wheeler, a pioneer settler of Charles
Mix county, has made a remarkable
record, residing on the same farm for
forty-one y~ar». __
Jealousy Is cause or Crime.
ST. LOUIS—Leon Saunders, a bil
liard hall employe, shot and fatally
wounded Mary Burke, with whom he
had been living, and then blew out his
own brains.
U. P. UNDER FIRE.
Called to Account Regarding Grain
Rates.
WASHINGTON. — The Interstate
Commerce commission has begun an
Investigation to determine whether the
payment or allowances made by the
Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. of Kan
sas City and Council Bluffs for grain
elevator facilities and the grain rates
made to that concern are in violation
of the interstate commerce law.
The Union Pacific is made respond
ent in the proceedings and has been
ordered to file a full answer to the
charges by May 25 and to satisfactorily
explain the alleged rebates at a hear
ing to be called hereafter.
The commission in ordering the in
vestigation says it appears that the
Peavey company is purchasing grain
at western points of origin and ship
ping over the Union Pacific to Council
Bluffs and Kansas City and through
those points to eastern destinations;
that the Union Pacific uses the ele
vators of Peavey & Co. for handling
and transferring grain, for which fa
cilities it pays certain stipulated rates,
generally amounting to 1% cents per
100 pounds. These rates. It is charged,
result In large payments or allowances
by the Union Pacific to Peavey & Co.
and apsprently are excessivo(and g e. t
er than charges generally imposed or
allowed at Kansas City, Council Bluffs
and other elevator points.
The commission says it appears that
the rebates are not only on the grain
of Pavey & Co., but on grain of all
other shippers passing through the
Peavey elevators, and that the allow
ances may subject other grain shippers
to unjust discrimination and unjust
transportation charges, and that they
enable Peavey & Co. to obtain net rates
less than the regular drafts.
The International & Great Northern
and the St. Louis Southwestern rail
ways have filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission answers to the
order calling for information regard
ing class and commodity rates from
St. Louis to Texas common points.
Both lines admit making certain ad
vances but deny that the advances
were material or that they were made
to earn unreasonable revenue. The In.
ternatlonal & Great Northern says that
its cost of operation has been in
creased; tnat to reconstruct the bridge
equipment will cost upwards or $100,
000, and avers that its net earnings for
the three months ending March 31,
1903 were largely decreased. The other
road makes similar alleg on.
WOULD COMPEL ARBITRATION
Movement That Is Being Inaugurated
by Chicago Roads.
CHICAGO.—A movement has begun
by the management of Chicago rail
roads to compel labor organizations to
agree to submit differences to arbitra
tion whenever negotiations between
roads and employes fail. The leading
movement is apparently being taken
by the Rock Island, the Burlington and
one or two other strong western lines.
Thus far, however, the proposition
regarding ultimate arbitration has
been either refused or dodged by the
labor organizations.
The arbitration clause is being pro
posed with a view of insuring results
and increasing the probability of both
sides beginning negotiations with a
case which they are not afraid to sub
mit to the public.
MABINI ENDS A BUSY LIFE.
Cholera Catches Former Filipino Sec
retary of Foreign Affairs.
MANILA—Mabinl, the former ntinis
; ter of foreign affairs of the Filipino
government, died of cholera at mid
night Thursday. He was attacked
with the disease on Tuesday last.
Since his return from Guam, Jla
binia had lived in seclusion. Captur
I ed correspondence of the Rizal prov
ince insurgents showed that he had
[ been in communication with them, but
j the letters were not of a seditious
I nature.
Shuts Out Automobilists.
BUFFALO, N. Y.—As a result of an
' order just issued by the Canadian cus
toms officials no more American auto
mobilists will be permitted to go into
[Canada with their automobiles without
paying all duties. The duty is 25 per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
machine and the duty will be collect
ed each time a machine is taken
. into Canada. The duty is plac
ed not on machines of American
i make.
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GAME WARDEN AFTER SEINERS.
Consternation Created Among Sports
men r.t Humboldt.
HUMBOLT—Game Warden George
B. Simpkins of Lincoln was in the
city creating quite a disturbance
among the local sportsmen. The sec
tion foreman and three or four mem
bers of the force took a vacation Sun
day and, the game warden alleges, re
paired to a pond west of the city, part
of which is on the right of way of the
road and part on the land of A. E.
Stalder, and with a seine took from
the water a number of fiish in viola
tion of the law. There were six in
the party, and some of them protested
vigorously when a message from the
warden reached them instructing them
to call at tho Park hotel and fix the
matter up. The number of nsh charg
ed is ten and under the law the fine
would be $50, which the warden as
serts the men have agreed to pay. On
the other hand, the accused men claim
that the warden is not empowered to
fix and collect a fine without giving
them a trial in some court of compe
tent jurisdiction. So the matter is at
present unsettled.
ORDER IN THE LILLIE CASE.
The Mandate of Chief Justice Sullivan
Received.
The order of Chief Justice Sullivan,
suspending the sentence of Mrs. Lil
lie, the Butler ((county woman who'is
under life sentence in the penitentiary
for the murder of her husband, has
been received at the office of the
clerk of the supreme court. A copy
of the order has been made and for
warded to the sheriff of Butler coun
ty. This will leave the woman in But
ler county until the supreme court
can review the case. It will probably
be six months before the case can
be disposed of, since the supreme
court wnl take a vacation before the
case can be reached in the regular or
der for such cases. This means that
Mrs. Lillie will enjoy the comforts of
her private apartments at the Butler
county court house until fall.
Stock Drowned at Taylor.
TAYLOR—The heaviest rain storm
of the season, in fact for years, visit
ed this section. The canyons were
all filled by raging torrents of water
which carried everything before it.
washing away numerous bridges and
drowning several head of young cattle.
The waters when they reached the
Loup river valley spread out over the
level country between the hills and
river to a depth of several feet.
Osceola Has Two Attorneys.
OSCEOLA—This village now has
two village attorneys. The board of
village trustees had an adjourned
meeting and elected ex-Senator M. A.
Mills for the ensuing municipal year.
The board of officers now stands: F.
D. Mills, city clerk; J. C. Arnold, treas
urer; William Vanhoosen, marshal; N.
B. Nelson, poundmaster, and ex-Sena
tor M. A. Mills, village attorney.
Inspector for Nebraska Militia.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.—
Lieutenant Colonel M. B. Hughes,
Tenth cavalry, has arranged with the
adjutant general of the state of Ne
braska to begin the inspection of state
troops on the 25th inst., but his mem
bership on the court-martial trying a
lumber of student officers at the post
may prevent this. It is understood he
will ask to be relieved from the court
so as to enable him to carry out his
arrangements with the Nebraska adju
;ant general. *
Soldiers Talk to Children.
YORK—Soldiers of the civil war
and citizens will speak to York county
school children on May 22. A part
af the afternoon of May 22 in all the
schools will be devoted to speeches
of experience of the great civil con
3ict and to teaching practical lessons
of the war.
Injuries Prove Fatal.
NEBRASKA CITY—Herbert Mayer,
a, 7-year-old son of Henry Meyer, tried
to cross the track of the Missouri Pa
cific ahead of the passenger train
from Omaha and was caught on the
pilot of the engine and thrown some
distance. His body was so badly
bruised that he died three hours aft
erwards.
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Johnson County Marlg&ge Record.
TECUMSEH—During the month of
April there were twenty farm mort
gages filed in the county records of
Johnson county. They aggregated
$37,255. _
Remains Brought Back.
WAHOO—The remains of Alfred T.
Davis, who died last September while
serving as a soldier in the Philippine
islands, arrived here for burial. De
ceased enlisted from this county two
years ago. •
Corn Damagea by Rain.
OAKLAND, Neb. — Considerable
corn was washed out by the recent
hard rains and th.- fields will have
to be replanted on account of poor
seed.
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THE STATE IN BRIEF.
B. Meyers & Co., Norfolk, sustained
a fire loss of $2,000.
The G. A. R. encampment in 1904
will be held at Kearney.
The Wymore boaml of education re
elected most of its old teachers.
W. J. Bryan is billed to speak at
the commencement exercises at Beat
rice, June 5.
The next state reunion of old sol
diers will be held at Omaha. The date
has not yet been fixed.
The apple crop In Cass county, it is
said, will be a normal one, notwith
standing the cold weather.
Cedar Creek, Cass county, must get
along this year without a saloon, li
cense having been refused.
The Grand Army encampment at
Fremont elected Judge Lee Ssteele of
Omaha department commander.
A farm of ICO acres one mile south
of Geneva sold a year ago for $8,000
and was sold last week for $10,250.
A three-year-old child living near
Elmwood died from eating tablets
used as a preventive for chicken chol
era.
The saloon fight at McCool Junction
has resulted in a withdrawal of both
the remonstrance and the petition and
McCool will go dry.
A special freight train on the Rock
Island went into the ditch nine miles
west of Fairbury, near Thompson. No
one was seriously injured.
Thomas Masur, a popular young far
mer, who lives five and one-half miles
northwest of Tecumseh, shot and kill
ed himself. The shooting is thought
to be accidental.
Sheriff McBride of Cass county was
notified that a team, carriage and har
ness were stolen from M. S. Peterson,
a farmer who resides in the western
part of the county.
There is much push toward getting
the new building for the Young Men’s
Christian association at Beatrice.
Twelve thousand dollars has been
raised; $8,000 more is needed.
At Omaha, Judge Dickinson issued
a temporary restraining order against
the mayor and city council, restraining
them from passing or approving the
ordinance having for its purpose the
redistricting of the city.
An insane man giving his name as
Clancy was brought to Beatrice from
Liberty by Deputy Sheriff McGier and
lodged in jail. He is badly deranged
and has been sleeping in hay stacks
and roaming about from farm to farm
in that vicinity for some time.
Believing a collision to be imminent,
William Batten of Wymore, conductor
of Burlington passenger train No. 90,
jumped from his train near Lincoln
and received injuries which a few
hours later resulted in his death.
Charles F. Brundage, engineer, was so
severely injured that he may die.
The Forepaugh-Sells circus was
stuck in the mud at.Nebraska City
and was unable to give a performance.
Thousands of people from surround
ing towns and the country packed the
streets all day and were sorely disap
pointed by the failure of the circus
people to provide entertainment.
Louise Moore, an 18-year-old mail
carrier for the rural service, was
struck by No. 4 Great Western tram
near Bondurant, while driving across
the track, and sustained serious inju
ries. Miss Moore was coming in from
her daily trip, and did not see the train
until it was too late to avoid the dan
ger.
Dr. Gandy of Humboldt last week
made a shipment of a carload of bees
to the Watson ranch, near Kearney,
which shipment makes the people at
the ranch the second largest bee keep
ers of the state.
Rev. W. L. Porter of Salem, presi
dent of the Richardson County Sunday
School association, has issued a pro
gram for the coming meeting, which
will be held in Falls City, June 1-3.
The Beveridges have a place on the
list, as do also Field Secretary Steid
ley and Miss Mamie Haines of St.
Andrew Nelson, a Norwegian farm
er living near Ewing, Holt county, .s
in the county jail at O'Neill, having
confessed to a criminal assault upon
his daughter Mary. 1G years of age.
A complaint charging him with the
crime was filed by two other daugh
ters of the accused. Nelson is said
to have made a clean breast of the
crime to County Attorney Mullen, who
tiled a complaint against the man,
charging incest.
The board of regents of the State
Louis.
university met and denied the request
of the interurban railroad for a right
of way through the state farm. It
accepted the resignation of C. S. I.ob
ingier as piofessor of law; granted
certificates to thirty-eight members of
the medical school, provided for a
three years’ course for the law school
and located the new administration
building.
The Plattsmouth city council has
passed an ordinance protecting all
vegetation within Its jurisdiction.
Laconic Lord Russell.
Iiord Russell of Killowen used to re
late this story: ‘‘I remember a case In
which a very innocent remark of my
own elicited the fact of a previous
conviction. A prisoner was addressing
the jury very effectively in his own be
half, but he spoke In a low voice, and,
not hearing some of his observations,
I said: “What did you say? What was.
your last sentence?” “Six months, my
lord,” he replied. It was Lord Russell
who, in reply to the question, "W'hat is
the extreme penalty for bigamy?” ut
tered this classic: “Two mothers-ln
law.”
I1ALF RATES
via
WABASH RAILROAD.
The Wabash offers many rates to the
East from Chicago:
Bellefontaine. O., and return. Sold
May 29th to June 3rd.$7.35
Boston. Mass., and return. Sold July
1st to 5th.$21.90
Saratoga. N. Y., and return. Sold
July 5th and 6th.$17.45
Detroit. Mich., and return. Sold July
15th and l«th.$6.75
All tickets reading over the Wabash
It R. between Chicago and Buffalo are
good in either direction via steamer be
tween Detroit and Buffalo without
extra charge, except meals and berth.
Stopovers allowed. Remember this is
"The Cool Northern Route” and ail
Agents can sell tickets from Chicago
East via the Wabash.
For folders and all information ad
dress, HARRY E. MOORES.
G. A. P. D.,
Omaha, Neb.
Respect is the featherweight cham
pion of love.
Iowa Forms $4 Per Acre Cash,
balance H crop till paid. WTTLHALL. Sioux City, la.
Sweet things are usually sticky.
That’s why so many young men get
stuck on pretty girls.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS
Use the best. That’s why they bay Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents.
A missionary in the nand is worth .
two in the bush.
To Cure a Cold in One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money If it fails to cure. 25c.
“If there is anything I hate, it is
for people to try to make me over on
their last.”—Drake Watson.
All creameries use butter color.
Why not do as they do—use JUNE
TINT BUTTER COLOR.
There are two varieties of the smart
woman. One has a high forehead and
the other hasn't.
Flso’s Cure for Consumption is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Samuel,
Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1800.
A Particular Would-be Groom.
Charles Thenert, a fairly well-to-do
Long Island farmer, wants a wife, but
imposes certain conditions on candi
dates for a corner in his affections.
For instance, the lady must be a good
housekeeper over 30 years of age. He
is willing to buy his wife two gowns
every year, to cost not more than $20
each, with shoes, hats, etc., to corre
spond. The future Mrs. Thenert must
agree to forego high-heeled slippers,
open-work stockings, cigarettes and
poodle dogs, the would-be bridgegroom
thinking such frivolities are not suited
to a farmer’s wife.
Only One Lance.
At a dinner Chancellor Vo Buleow
gave before his recent departure for
Italy, Emperor William met Professor
Delitszch for the first time since his
majesty criticised the professor’s lec
ture on the Babylonian origin of the
Bible. The professor is hard of hear
ing, and the emperor’s part of the dia
logue was consequently in a rather
high voice. His majesty greeted him
with: “Well, professor, we have broken
a lance together since I saw you.’.’
"Only one lance, your majesty,” re
sponded the professor to the fact that
he had never replied to the emperor.
An Old Lady’s Discovery.
Garnett, Ark., May 18th.—For 18
years Mrs. Mary Dunlop of this place
has suffered with Kidney trouble,
which was so bad at times that it
made her life a burden. She tried
much medicine and many treatments,
but got no better.
At last, however, Mrs. Dunlop
claims to have found a perfect rem
edy, and she is so pleased at the won
derful cure she herself has received,
that she is telling all her friends and
praising the medicine to everyone
she meets.
The name of this medicine is
Dodd s Kidney Pills, and it has done
wonderful work for Mrs. Dunlop.
Everybody is talking about it, and
some people are claiming to have
been cured of Rheumatism by it.
A Mrs. Garrett who lives in Brazils,
this state, was at the point of death
with some Cerebro-Spinal trouble
and was saved by Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
It is certain that r.o other medicine
'ter introduced here has done so
much good in such a short time.
Gossip isn’t real had unless the tell
ing of it makes an hour seem like two
minutes.
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1 uESDA YS May 5th & 19th.
June 2nd & 16 th
To certain points in Southwest Mis
Eouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Ar
kansas, etc., at very low rates. Tick
ets limited to 21 days for the round
trip. Stop-overs allowed on the go
ing journey within transit limit of 15
ti o0. lor further information.call on
C1 np ircss any agent of the company,
nr Thomas F. Godfrey, Pass. & Ticket
Art.
, f'ITV TICKET OFFICE.
OUlUtast < ortn-r I «tb mid ISuuglan Sts.,
Omaha, Neb.