TH EO’NEI LLF RONTIE P PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSDAY BY D. H CRONIN. * OStelLL, - 7 NEBRASKA^ rK4W*«<"!'«-H+W“W"X^ BRIEF TELEGRAMS. It Is officially announced that Presi dent Loubet will proceed to Ixindon between July 18 and 20 to return the visit of King Edward. Present Indications are that the Yukon's output of gold this season will exceed that of last year by from #1,000,000 to #3,000,000. The director* of the United Slates Leather company met at New York and declared the usual quarterly div idend on the preferred stock. A ferryman and eleven children were drowned as the result of the capsizing of a ferryboat on the river Warthe, near Dcmbro, Poland. Lady Henry Somerset has resigned from the presidency of the National British Women’s Temperance associa tion on account of her health. Department Commander Smtlh of the Kansas G. A. R., has fixed Sep tember 16-20 as the date for holding the state reunion at Lawrence. Mrs. Richard J. Oglesby, widow of the former governor of Illinois, was taken in a special train from Chicago to Elkhart, owing to her critical ill ness. Savings deposits In Chicago bank* have passed the #100,000,000 mark. In the past year they have Increased upwards of #22,000,000, or more than 26 per cent. Three men were killed by a caving bauk in a mine near Cectlville, Cal. The victims were Will Luddy, a news paper man, and two miners, named Booth and Cady. The Southern Presbyterian general assembly decided against consolidat ing the office of the general superin tendent of Sunday school and young people’s societies. W. J. Bryan announces that he Is perfectly willing to give up the lead ership of his party, but he will not consent to a surrender of the silver plank In the platform. Emperor William has presented the New York Yacht club with a gold cup, two feet high, to be known as the “emperor’s cup” to be competed for the first time next fall. The navy department baa decided to send the battleship Kearsage to Kiel as flagship of the European squad ron Instead of the Alabama, which could not be prepared in time. It is stated that out of 200,000,000 people in Africa, only 2,000,000 have ever heard the gospel. In the Soudan region alone there are 90,000,000 who are without religious instruction. Considerable anxiety has been aroused by a recrudescence of the activity of Mont Pelee. The general council urges the Immediate evacua tion to the entire northern part of the island. An active movement has been set on foot in southwest Louisiana to se cure the commutation of the death sentence of A. E. Batson of Missouri, convicted of the murder of seven members of the Earl family. Head camp Modern Woodmen of America has been officially notified that concessions would be made by the various railroad lines in connec tion with the coming head camp, to be held in Indianapolis June 16-20. The program for the international concert to be given at Berlin under the Wagner commemoration society In October, haB been arranged by the musical committee. Prof. Stillman Kelly of Yale will conduct the over ture to his opera, "Aladdin,” as the American selection. The Wabash railroad will take 600 Nebraska school teachers from Chi cago to Boston for the annual meet ing of the National Encampment as sociation, July 2. The party will travel in two special trains and will make a stop at Niagara Falls and other points of interest. The secretary of the Interior has received a telegram from F. C.- Hub bard, world’s fair commissioner for the Indian territory, announcing that $25,000 had been subscribed by the citizens of the territory to secure the $25,000 appropriated by congress for the territory's exhibit at St. Louis. The excess in the treasury receipts over its expenditures for the first eleven months of the fiscal year amounts to $38,946,616, and treasury experts estimate that for the year the surplus will be about $44,000,000. The total receipts for the year to date are $510,633,471, and the total expendi tures $471,584,855. The surplus for the present month is $3,528,960. S. E. Pette, inventor of the ma chine for making paper bags, died at Cleveland, O.. aged 81 years He was a native of Foxboro, Mass. Over fifty cases of smallpox have been discovered in the southeastern part of Salt Lake City. The armored cruiser King Alfred has been selected to take the Prince and Princess of Wales to India in the autumn. For want of sufficient evidence 128 policy shop cases were dismisebd at Chicago. | General Nebraska News. f T t 2 .f JiVTT't1 ll"WfVV,i"i"fyn rrvirT’.TT’f THE STATE AT LARGE. A new bank Is about to be started at De Witt. Plattsmoutb reports a great surplus of vags and thieves. Reports from over the state say the rain has ceased falling and the floods subsiding. The rainfall for the month of May In Grand Island, as taken by the gov ernment observer, was 12.08 Inches. A special train consisting of twelve carloads of cattle and hogs left Bea trice for the St. Joseph market. The stock belonged to Messrs. Stoll, Flro ved and Neuhauser of Beatrice. Dr. Bentz of Beatrice was seriously Injured at his home in Plymouth, Jef ferson county, by being kicked out and trampled by a team of bronchos while he was engaged in feeding them. The summer school of the state normal opened last week for a six weeks’ term and up to the present time 410 have enrolled. Fifty-one counties of the state are represented. The mortgages filed and satisfied in Saunders county for the month of May are as shown: Number of farm ntortgages filed 20, amounting to $32, 490; those satisfied 36, amounting to $57,060.20. The first annual meeting of Salem German Lutheran church of Fremont was held last week. The secretary’s report showed an increase in member ship from fourteen to slxty-slx, or more than 350 per cent during the year. Conductor Ed Hamilton, who has been confined to his room for a week at Odebolt, is getting along nicely, but his face Is still badly swollen. While at Valparaiso In a barber shop the bar ber cut his neck and blood poison set in. The case against Charles Green, charged with having in his possession malt and spiritous liquors, was called in the York county court. The de fendant waived examination and was bound over to the district court in the sum of $300. • G. F. Downle P. A. Kllner and Yv. F. Downle has filed articles of Incorpora tion with the secretary of state for the establishment, of a foundry and machine shop at York to be known as the Downie-Wrlght Manufacturing company. The authorized capital stock of the corporation is $75,000. Jesse Miller and a young woman, as yet unidentified, but believed to have been a student at the University of Chicago, were drowned in the lagoon at Jackson park, Chicago, in a mem orandum book In the clothing of the dead man was the following: "if any thing happens to me notify Ira Miller or Sophia Casse, 1636 M street, Lin coln, Neb.” Owing to excessive rainfall which prevented a few of York county farm ers putting in all of their corn and places in corn fields washed out York county farmers are buying and order ing new seed corn of the earliest ma turing kind. Winter wheat in low places is heading out and where water has stood will be damaged while wheat on higher places promises to be good. The rainfall In Gage county, taken at two different stations, during the month of May this year, was nearly three inches greater than it has been In any year of which there is any rec ard. In 1896 the fall was 9.62 inches and during the month just closed the fall was 12.28 Inches. There were only fourteen days out of the thirty one on which there was no trace of rain. At the meeting of the board of pub lic lands and buildings James Tyler, Jr., was chosen state architect accord ing to the provisions of the law passed by the last legislature. Despite the fact that it will be necessary for the holder of this office to wait two years or until the next legislature can make an appropriation for his salary, there was a rivalry for the place and the board experienced no little difficulty in fixing upon a choice. Dodge county has been relieved of responsibility for the board of smallpox patients quarantined in its boarding house, according to the rul ing of the supreme court. Herman Deirs was running a lodging house in which a number of railroad construc tion men roomed. Small pox broke out among them and the whole lot were quarantined. They refused to pay board and as Dierks could not fire them out without violating the quar antine rules, he kept them and sued the city to recover the amount due him. Articles of incorporation have been filed by J. T. Donahoo, E. E. Howard, I A. Howard of Edgar and H. R. Eoll mer of Nelson for the Artificial Stone Basin Tank company, to be located at Edgar. The company is incorporated at $,'5,000. During the month of May there were two farm mortgages filed in Dundy county, aggregating $602.50. During the same time twelve similar mort gages were released which amounted to $1,255. One city mortgage was filed. » w*jrw%*v vvtt *—r x THEY WANT TO BE SOLDIERS. Several Comnanies Would Join the National Guard. LINCOLN—A flood of new enlist ments in the state militia is beginning to pour into the office of the adjutant general. These are coming in at the rate of about a dozen a clay. Twenty three were received Thursday. A large mimbbr of the enlistments are men who have been recently dis charged owing to the expiration of the term of service. There are several companies now waiting admission to the nations! guard. As the guard now has the full number of organizations allowed by statute, It is necessary for these to re main independent companies, stand ing their own expenses, until such time as the disbanding of some pres ent company leaves a vacancy in one of the two regiments. If the Dick bill Is taken to mean that a state to re ceive the government aid must con tain 2,000 men, it is thought that it would necessitate the placing of an other regiment in the state. The two regiments could be enlisted up to that number, but it is a difficult matter to keep them there. AS TO SUNDAY BASE BALL. Is a Misdemeanor, Punishable by Fine and Imprisonment. The playing of base ball on Sunday in the state of Nebraska is a mis demeano~ punishable by fine and im prisonment. So holds the supreme court in a case brought before it from Nebraska City, where Sunday ball playing became offensive to the law and order league and arrests of play ers followed. In the case of the state again O'Rourk, decided twelve years ago. the same holding was made by the court, but in this case it was hoped to secure a reopening and a reversal of this opinion. Nowhere in the stat utes is the playing of base ball on Sunday specifically inhibited, but the court holds thfit the prohibition of sporting includes base ball. Girl Fatally Burned. ASHLAND—Betsy Erickson, a do mestic living with Mr. and Mrs. Fen ton a mile north of Ashland, was so terribly burned that she will die. Mr. Fenton heard a piercing scream from her room. He ran up and found her door locked and was obliged to smash the door before he could get in. She was running around with her clothes on fire. He extinguished the flames, but she is burned fatally. Crop Prospect Is Good. TAYLOR.—Although Loup county has had a heavier rainfall in the past month than ever before in a like period of time within the memory of the oldest ii^iabitant, the crops are in excellent condition. Corn is all plant ed and several fields have already been cultivated. The stand is excep tionally good. Spring wheat is in prime condition, and rye, winter wheat and alfalfa fields are beautiful to be hold. Omaha Man Goes to Beatrice. BEATRICE—Ed F. Schurig of Om aha, a technical electrical engineer, arrived in the city to succeed E. J. Sullivan as manager of the Beatrice Electric Light company's plant. Mr. Schurig recently resigned the position as city electrician of Omaha. ‘ Pay Bill for Execution. The bill for the execution of Gott lieb Nieginflml has finally been allow ed by the board of public lands and buildings. The total bill allowed was for $253.80, of which $10 went to the rope; Douglas county gets $50 for the scaffold, and $150 goes "to allowance as per order of board.” This sum is supposed to go to Warden Beemer, because he was warden at the time o) the execution. Brakeman Loses a Leg. FREMONT—Frank Herse, a freight brakeman on the Northwestern, was seriously and probably fatally injured at Scribner. The train was doing some switching and Herse in some way slipped and fell between the plat form and the cars. One leg was al most severed at the knee and will probably have to be amputated. His other ankle was crushed. Strikes Oil in Well. YORK—For some time it has been generally known that coal oil under : laid York county and Thursday well S diggers at a depth of ICO feet on the 1 farm of Mr. Brandhoeffer. near Waco, j struck oil in such quantities that it ; was impossible to use the water from the well. The well filled up to a depth : of forty-five feet and the odor of pe troleum is very strong. Mr. Brand* ! hoeffer is sinking another well, hop 1 ins that he will not strike oil. It is reported that Kansas farmers have press gangs out after “tourists." MACHEN IS INDICTED. Grand Jury Returns True Bill Against Head of Rural Delivery. WASHINGTON—The grand jury on Friday reported an indictment against August W. Machen, former superin tendent of the free delivery service of the Postofflce department, who was arrested several days ago, charged with sharing profits on government contracts for letter box fasteners. The indictment was brought tor violation of section 5501 of the revised statutes, the penalty for violation of which is a fine of not more than three limes the amount asked or accepted or received, and imprisonment for not more than three years. The amount which the indictment states he received illegally is $18,978.79. As an incidental result of the inves tigation. Thomas W. McGregor, for merly of Nebraska, in charge of the matter of rural delivery supplies for the Postofflce department in Washing ton. and C. Ellsworth Upton, one of his assistants, today were arrested on warrants sworn out by postofflce inspectors. The charge is conspiracy to defraud the government the gov ernment in the purchase of pouches from C. E. Smith of Baltimore. Mr. Machen was in court with his attorneys when the grand jury report ed in his case and immediately gave bond in the sum of $20,000 for his ap pearance. ONE MILLION PEOPLE STARVING. Women and Children Are Freely Offer ed for Sale. HONG KONG—The estimate of Gov ernor Wong of Kwang Si province that over one million natives are starv ing in that province is pronounced here to be approximately correct. The dis tress in certain districts is more acute. Children and women are freely offer ed for sale. The rice harvest promises well, but it will not be available for from four to six weeks. Extensive re lief operations will be difficult without foreign supervision, which will be hard to obtain in Kwang Si. Assistance has been sent to that province from Hong Kong ar.d Canton, but the funds available are becoming exhausted. _ _•_ Smallpox at Salt Lake. SALT LAKE, Utah.—Over fifty cases of smallpox have been discov ered in the southeastern part of this city. The disease, on account of its mild form was at first taken for chicken pox and children attended school and their parents attended church and dances while suffering from the disease. The health officers believe nearly every family living in that section of the city has been ex posed and a quarantine will result. Secretary Moody Will Quit. WASHINGTON, D. C.—It is an nounced authoritatively that Secre tary Moody of the navy will not re main in the cabinet longer than the present term of President Roosevelt. Mr. Moody expects then to resume j the practice of law. — Favors Chamberlain's Plan. LONDON—A telegram was reeeiv-' ed from Albert Brackin, the attorney general of the Australian common wealth, saying that the Australian commonwealth and all the govern ments of the separate Australian states approve Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's proposals. Only an ex treme section of free traders oppose them and an immense majority is as-! sured for the new policy when it is submitted. NAMES OHIO TICKET. Myron T. Herrick Nominated for Gov ernor Without Opposition. For Governor.. ..MYRON T. HERRICK For Lieutenant Governor. .WARREN G. HARDING For Auditor. .WALTER D. GITII.BERT For State Treasurer.. W. S. McKINNON For Attorney General. .WADE HAMPTON ELLIS For Supreme Judge. .AUGUSTUS M. SUMMERS For School Commissioner.. E. A. JONES For Member of Board of Public Works.i.. .GEORGE H. WATKINS COLUMBUS, O.—The republican state convention closed Thursday after nominating the state ticket, en dorsing Hanna for another term in the senate and Roosevelt for another term as president. While Senator Foralter was presid ing, the delegates formulated the campaign cry of “Hanna, Herrick, Harding and Harmony.” It seemed to be the policy to have "harmony” on the ticket as well as in the declaration of principles. While all conceded that it was “Hanna’s year,” yet he would not use his influence except that for the head of the ticket he named his neighbor, Myron T. Herrick, for gov ernor'. The senator's great friend, George B. Cox, of Cincinnati, certainly named Warren G. Harding for lieuten ant governor and Wade Hampton Ellis for attorney general, as well as being the most potential factor in nominat ing Judge Summers. GOVERNMENT LENDS AID. Commander at Fort Leavenworth Is sues Rations. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Adjutant General Corbin received the following dispatch from Colonel Miner, com manding at Fort Leavenworth: "Issue 10,000 rations to Kansas City, Kan., last night. Need was impera tive. Ask to have action approved. Rations for this command up to 20th here. Believe when we can get to the country to the west of us it will be destitute ol food. Advise shipping rations here as central point to meet this demand, 'j wo companies of en gineers and pontoon train are in read iness to be sent west. Believe they might be of use at Lawrence.” The department has taken no action yet upon Colonel Miner’s recommenda tion for concentration of supplies at Fort Leavenworth. HARRIMAN-GOULD INTERESTS. Said to Have Purchased the Erie Railroad. NEW YORK—The Evening Tele gram printed the following: "According to stories current in im portant financial circles W’ednesday the control of the Erie railroad has been acquired by a combination of Gould Harriman and Rockefeller in terests. and the road will be made the eastern connection of the Burling ton, Union Pacific, St. Paul and Gould systems. The Pennsylvania has been crowded out, although Pennsylvania interests have been heavy buyers of Erie shares.” Passes an Amnesty Bill. HAVANA—The senate, by a vote of eight to three, passed a bill grant ing amnesty to everybody arrested in connection with disturbances which arose out of the strike of the cigar makers last November. The bill as originally drawn up excluded ex-May or OFarrill and the other arrested municipal officers from the amnesty, but an amendment offered by. the na tionalist senators was adopted, in cluding all offenders. WESTERN CANADA’S IMMIGRATION. Rapid Settlement of the Wheat Fields Lying North of the 49th Parallel. (From the Chicago Record-Herald.) "Canada has anticipated a. very heavy immigration this year, and she now has figures to show that she is actually getting it in a way to meet all her expectations. In the first four months cf this year the doors of the Dominion opened to 40,672 persons, according to a report prepared by the committee on agriculture and coloni zation of the Canadian parliament. This is almost twice as large as the Immigration in the corresponding months last year, and fully three times as large as in 1901, the respec tive figures Tjelng 22,482 and 13,393. "Most of these newcomers have been attracted by the wheat lands of the Northwest teiritories. They have moved direct to Winnipeg and they have turned that city into a great camp, in which they have been fitting themselves out fer the last stage of their advent ire for new homes. “Of the immigration of this spring a little over a third has come from Great Britain, the figure being 16,457. This Is three times as large as the British Immigration of the correspond ing months of the preceding year, and it, is within 2,500 of the number of immigrants that the United States at tracted from Great Britain and Ire land in the same period this spring. As to the remainder of the immigra tion into Canaui 13,7.0 settlers came from the United States, a 60 per cent Increase over the preceding year, and 10,445 from Continental Europe, a 40 per cent Increase. "These 40,672 immigrants Into Can ada may appear trifling in compari son with 297,070 persons who entered the United States in the same period, but they are proportionately more im portant to the country. Canada's pop ulation is one-fifteenth of ours, but her immigration is now two-fifteenths as large as ours. It Is worth remem bering also that Canada’s immigrants are almost entirely Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic races, while our Immigra tion is now two-thirds made up of Romance and Clav elements." "Speculation is natural as to the future of Canada in her relations to the United States when her North west territories are filled up, but the one absolutely certain fact of the near future is that the United States is to have a great competitor in the grain markets of the world.” The above editorial article taken from the columns of the Chicago Rec ord-Herald of .May 26th, shows the condition of the Canadian immigra tion, which as pointed out, has had a constant growth—a marvellously in creasing growth—for the past six or seven years, until this year, it is con fidently assumed the Increase to Can ada’s population, by way of immigra tion, will exceed 100,090. This is ac counted for by the great agricultural resources which abound there. It is no fairy tale, but the mater-of fact experience of the tens of thousands bear ample testimony to the wealth and riches in store for all who choose to accept of the opportunities of fered. Those who wish to learn more of the country can secure illustrated at lases, pamphlets, etc., giving full and reliable data issued under government authority, by applying to any of the authorized agents of the Canadian government. These agents whose names appear below will quote you the exceptionally low rates that take you to the free grant lands of West ern Canada and render you any other assistance In their power: W. V. Bennett—801 New York Life Building, Omaha, Nebraska. Some people who like hops drink beer and others eat frogs' legs. If every man has his double, how is it that so many of them remain sin gle? More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results th'-n possible with any other brand and onS-third more for same money. A reformer is generally a man who tries to convert others to his way of thinking. "Still waters run deep”—but the shallow splashing wave attracts the most attention. HALF RATES via . WABASH RAILROAD. The Wabash offers many rates to the East from Chicago: Boston. Mass., and return.$19.00 Sold June 25th, 26th and 27th. Boston, Mass., and return.$21.00 Sold July 1st to 5th. Saratoga, N. Y.. and return.$17.45 Sold July 5th and 6th. Detroit, Mich., and return.$6 75 Sold July 15th and 16th. All tickets reading over the Wabash betwen Chicago and Buffalo are good in either direction via steamers be tween Detroit and BufTalo without extra charge, except meals and berth. Stop-overs allowed at Niagara Falls and other points. Remember this is 'The Cool Northern Route” and all Agents can Rell tickets from Chloago eaRi '1 a the Wabash. For folders and all information, address HARRY E. MOORES. G. A. P. D . Omaha, Neb. A wise man swallows his pills. A fool chews them. reliable remedy. * WSAL^ is a wonderful reliever of sore, weak I and inflamed eyes. One bottle usuallv I effects a complete cure. ? ^_CURES_ALL EYE AFFECTIONS. J