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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1903)
— , THE O’NEILL FRONTIER PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSDAt BY D. H. CRONIN. ‘ r O'NEILL, - - - NEBRASKA. t E 0 . I I BRIEf TELEGRAMS. R Congressman Vincent Boi*eing o'. Kansas Is critically ill with pneu monia. Word comes from Paris that Rich ' nrd Croker, who is at Wantage, Eng. , Is desirlous that Arthur Gorman bt S the democratic nominee for president A dispatch from Kobe, Japan, says } three Japanese have been arrected or suspicion of plotting the assassination of the premier of Japan, Viscount Kat i *ura. Mrs. Anna Bcllew, whose husband Is an employe at the ’Frisco ice house at Ceresco, Nevada, shot and killed her 18-year-old daughter and then killed herself, A New York man, after overpower ‘ lng a policeman, ended hie life under an elevated train, a panic resulting among the hundreds of people on the | train and platform. The village of Sant Antimo, near Naples, has been destroyed by Are, One woman was burned to death and { twelve persons were Injured. All *10 Inhabitants are homeless. The Berlin Tageblatt says the Ger man Levant liner Pyrgos has been Mown to atoms In the Black sea by a Macedonian bomb. Th* Pyrgos car ried a crew of twenty-three. Sir Charles Eliot, the high commis sion for East Africa, is said to have reported strongly against the British government’s project of a Zionist col ony In the East African protectorate. A large four-masted schooner founds ered near Southeast lighthouse in Rhode Isalnd. No trace of the crew lias been found. It is believed the ves sel was run Into and sunk during the fog. The final session of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which had been In convention In New York for several days, was held Friday. Baltimore was selected as the place for the next na tional convention. At Vinton, la., the two-story brick building occupied by Quinn’s grocery store partly collapsed, killing William Johnson, a laborer, and injuring five painters. An Iron corner support gave way while the building was being re paired. There Is a movement on foot to have New Mexico agree to Join Ari zona for single statehood. The effort will be to join the two territories Into one state. Delegate Smith of Arizona has consented. The plan is to present "ongress with a petition asking that this be done. Franklin Farrel, Jr., a Yale grad uate and the heir to a fortune estimat ed at 18,000,000 has entered the employ of his father’s iron foundry in Ansonla as a toolmaker’s apprentice. He is working ten hours a day at a grind stone, learning to sharpen tools for the machinists. The Pittsburg Dispatch is authority for the statement that President The • odore Sharer of the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work ers la missing mysteriously. He start ed for Cleveland to attend a meeting of the sheet metal workers, and has not been seen since. commencing Monday morning and continuing for one week, not less than 130,000 spindles, one-third the entire number in Fall River, Mass., will be idle, throwing into idleness 12,000 operatives, who will lose $84,000 irt wages, and is due to the depressed condition of cotton. The ministry of the interior has di rected the police president of Berlin to organize special police, in plain clothes^ to protect woman and girls from the attentions of men on the streets. These daylight insults are probably practiced more in Berlin than in any other Continental city. Figures compiled from records by the local Internal revenue officers show that the sweet wine output for Southern California for the season of 1903 will exceed 1.300,000 gallons. The output of brandy is estimated at 40,000 gallons tax-paid, and 250,000 gallons free of tax for fortifying purposes. A special trom Bristol, Tenn., says: Miss Cloyetta Brownlow, daughter of Congressman W. P. Brownlow of Jonesboro, Tenn., eloped with Mark E. Pritchett, a liverman of Jonesboro, and they were married at Brist#. The attentions of Pritchett to Miss Brown low are said to have been opposed by the congressman. The comptroller of the currency has received a report from th6 receiver of the Groesbeck National bank of Groes beck, Tex., giving the total liabilities of the bank at $165,159, and the esti mated value of the assets at $144,694, showing a deficiency of $20,465. In reply to a question regarding his reported intention to retire from the leadership of the Liberal party in the British house of commons, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman telegraphs that there Is “no truth whatever" li the report / try try. TRY _TRY aca,n '• 1 J 'f I IN QUEST OF THE SHAMROCK. AFFAIRS POSTAL LOOKED INTO BY ATTORNEYS BONAPARTE AND CONRAD. WHAT THE LATTER AFFFIRMS Investigation by the Lawyers Made at the Personal Request of President Roosevelt and Independent of the Postofflce Department. WASHINGTON—By direction of President Roosevelt a thorough Inves tigation has been made into the charges preferred by Seymour W. Tul loch against the management of affairs of the Washington, D. C., postofflce. This investigation has been made by Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte and Hon. Holmes Conrad, special counsel of the government in the prosecution of the postofflce cases, and it is independent and supplementary to the report made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow. Mr. Bristow's report, Mr. Conrad says, was simply a collection of facts in the case reported by postofflce in spectors and contained no opinion as to the merit of the charge. The in vestigation made by Messrs. Bonaparte and Conrad will go into the merits of the charge and will express an opinion as to whether or not the accused per sons are vindicated or are guilty of -the offenses charged against them. The conclusions drawn from their inquiry will be emobdied in a report which will be submitted to the attorney general the latter part of the week. Whether or not this report will be made public Mr. Conrad could not say tonight, as that matter rests with the officials of the administration. No prosecution will arise from any results of the In vestigation, as the offenses, if any have been made, are barred by the statute of limitations. Mr. Conrad said he and Mr. Bona parte had been engaged for five weeks in the inquiry. > They had examined thoroughly the matters themselves, with all charges on the subject made by the Treasury and Postoffice depart ments. The president, said Mr. Con rad, was very anxious that the whole matter should be gone over carefully so 4mt if persons named in the charges of Mr. Tulloch were not guilty they should be vindicated and if they were that this fact might go on record. Their duty had been to act in the ca pacity of a master in chancery and report on the facts as they found them. It was not a party affair with the president, Mr. Conrad declared, but an honest desire to get at the facts in the case, both democrats and republi cans being involved in the charges. The president was anxious to have the matter thoroughly sifted and any crit icism, credP or blame arising from the inquiry would be borne by him. Postoffice Investigation to End. WASHINGTON.—Postmaster Gen eral Payne said that when the federal grand jury in this city disposes of the postoffice cases now before it the in vestigation in Washington will be practically complete, leaving maters in .New York still to be closed. Wants Booker to Train Waiters. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.—The Inter national Stewards' association in ses sion here adopted a resolution urg ing Booker T. Washington to estab lish at the Tuskegee institute; a training school for kitchen and dining room employes. Tried to Kill King Peter. VIENNA—Special dispatches give an unconfirmed report of an attempt on King Peter's life at Nish on Sat urday. It is said that stones were thrown at the royal carriarge, one striking the king in the face, and a pistol was fired from a neighboring window. It is also rumored that the Sixth Servian regiment, notori ous for the part it played in the re cent regicides, has been ordered tc Nisn. DEATH OF A CHURCH PATRIARCH. Right Rev. Thomas Clark Dead at tho Age of 91. NEWPORT, R. I.—The Right Rev. Thomas March Clark, bishop of Rhode Island, and by virtue of his se niority presiding elder of the Episco pal church tn this country, as well as the oldest bishop in the Anglican communion, if not in the world, died suddenly Monday at his home in Mid dleton. Bishop Clark was born in Newbury port, Mass., on July 4, 1812. He was once deacon of Grace church in Bos ton in 1836, and advanced to the priesthood in November of that year. He officiated at Grace church until 1843, when he left for Philadelphia, where he was rector of St. Andrew’s church until 1847. He then returned to Boston as assistant rector in Trin ity church, and finally become rector in the Church of Christ at Hartford, Conn. He remained there from 1850 until 1854, when he was consecrated bishop of Rhohde Island. In 1898 he gave up the active duties of his dio cese. BLOODY DEEDS AT HAND. Macedonians Threaten Violence of a Revolting Character. LONDON—Special dispatches from the near east published here Tuesday morning furnished little news regard ing the situation in the Balkans. All the correspondents at Constantinople emphasize the apparent danger of wai with Bulgaria, while the Sofia corre spondents are equally insistent as to the prudent and correct attitude of Prince Ferdinand and his govern ment. Accounts from both Turkish and in surgent sources of the operations in Macedonia show that the work of ex termination is proceeding unchecked, and although apparently realizing the danger of a conflagration, the powers are making some attempt to interfere, It is believed that nothing of a seri ous nature will be done until after the meeting of the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna, when it may be too late. The insurgents are now said to number 26,000 well armed and efficiently commanded men. MISFORTUNE PURSUES HIM. Prof. Langley’s Airship is Once More Disabled. WIDE WATER, Va.—Prof. Lang ley’s airship was disabled again Wed nesday by the wreck of the starboard propellor. which broke under pressure of its own velocity about the middle, one of the blades dashing against the frame work and doing considerable damage. The blade whirled through the air at a fast rate, barely missing several men on the deck of a tug boat. ! Prof. Manley, who was in the car, at i once had the machine placed inside. The structural weakness which this I second accident indicates may require much work before a launching is at tempted. Prof. Langley was not here, i but a test would have been made if all had gone well. Dipping Order is Modified. CHEYENNE, Wyo.—After listening I to protests of sheep owners against i the recent order compelling the dip ping of all sheep on account of the prevalence of scab, the board of sheep commissioners Tuesday modified the I order so as to allow flocks not. af fected by scab to have clean bills of health, inspection to begin at once. Hanna a Live Man Still. CLEVELAND, O.—Senator Hanna, referring to the sensational reports sent out to the effect that he had suffered a relapse and that his con dition was worse than at any time since he was taken ill, said Friday: “Well, some of the newspapers may bo trying to kill me off, but neverthe less I am still attending to business every day. although it is true 1 have not entirely recovered my normal con dition.’’ I General Nebraska News, f X v X ... ‘ * NEWSY STATE BRIEFS. The Great Western is now running regular trains out of Omaha. Little five-year-old Esther, daughter of Fred Grimm, a farmer living five miles east of Norfolk, was horribly cut In a mowing machine. At St. Edward Elmer Kussell was ar raigned before the county judge on the charge of incest and was bound over to the district court in the sum of $2, 000. Mrs. L. F. Dunn, wife of L. F. Dunn, manager of the Florence Lumber and Coal company, who was severely burn ed two weeks ago, died from her in juries. During a rain storm the grocery store of Jomes G. Stokes of McCook was struck by lightning and both building and contents were practically destroyed. Ed Crossman, who resides near Ina vale, was brought to Red Cloud and arraigned before the board of insanity. His condition is very serious and he was to Lincoln. The engineers and firemen of the en tire Burlington system have been vol untarily granted an advance of front 5 to 10 and even 15 per cent in wages. The new schedule became effective September 1. Mr. William Drusker, one of the leading merchants of Beemer, broke one of his legs. He was out on the farm of G. Karlen and in scuffling with a friend made a mis-step and in some way caused the break. At the farm of Wm. Reynolds, in Hall county, fire destroyed the thresh ing machine of J. A. Ross, a small grain crop of Mr. Reynolds, amounting to over $1,000, besides a new granary just recently erected. Mr. Reyonlds carried $300 insurance on the grain. The village of Shelton has voted $12,500 in bonds for the erection and maintenance of a waterwroks system. The bonds carried by over two to one and as soon as the usual formalities are gone through with the enterpris ing town will have a water works sys tem. The rarm house or Morris worris, three miles northwest of Stella, burn ed to the ground. The family were awakened by the smoke and at that time the house was so far gone that they were barely able to get their clothes and were unable to save any of the household goods. Mrs. John Pollock of Beatrice under went an operation for the amputation of the left leg, about five inches above the ankle. She jumped from a buggy about a week ago and broke the bones in a number of places, but walked about twenty feet before she realized how serious was the injury. F. A. Wylie of Falls City was seri ously injured a few days ago. He was hauling a wagonload of freight, riding on top of the load. In some manner he lost his balance and fell to the ground, lighting on his head. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and his recovery is doubtful, Al. Peterson, a young blacksmith, has been arrested charged with the theft of a diamond ring from a call box in the postofflce at Randolph. The ring had been placed in a small pack age and sent by mail, but its non-de livery led to an investigation, that lo cated the ring in a local jewelry store, where it had been left by Peterson for repair. Some one broke into tne general merchandise store at Edholm, in Saun ders county, and stole goods of the value of $io and about $10 worth of postage stamps. Sheriff West was no tified and upon investigation conclud ed that the thief or thieves had gone in the direction of Schuyler, but fail ed to locate them. Alax Gibson, who was injured by the falling of a large bridge near Ne braska City the 15th of Vast month, has filed a claim with the county for $2,500 damages and has given notice that unless it is paid within twenty days that he will file suit against the county. He fell some fifty feet with the bridge and suffered three ribs brok en and other injuries. Michael Morris and Joseph Keller have filed damage cases in the district court of Nuckolls county praying for judgments against Henry Gilsdorf, A. H. Bowman, Dr. J. Barrett, I. J. Riley and others in the sum of $30,000 each. They allege that the defendants testi fied falsely in the celebrated arson cases, the trials of which consumed over twenty days last winter. The members of the Congregational church of York, who have been with out a pastor for the last thirty days and who have had in view several pas tors, had a meeting and decided to in vite Rev. W. H. Medlar of Alexander, Minn., to come and look over the field. There never was a finer and better stand of corn in York county than now. Some of the corn was late, due to the heavy rains in the spring, and if there is an early frost it will be caught. The rainfall during the month of August was about six Inches. MEN LOSING THEiR JOBS. Male Teachers in Nebraska Growing Less. LINCOLN.—The increase in the percentage of women who are enter ing the profession of teaching and the decrease in the number of men is such as to excite considerable com ment from Superintendent Fowler, who has just returned to Lincoln after having traveled pretty much all over the state. He says the rapidity of the increase of females as teachers and the equal rapidity of decrease in male teachers is becoming astonishing. ■Last year the ratio of men to women was about 18 per cent. This year it is figured from returns coming into the office that it will not be over 16 per cent. At the same time there is an in crease in the number of women who are becoming candidates for the posi tion of county superintendent. Six teen out of the ninety superintendents last year were women, while this year there will be a much larger number. The same conditions are found in the institutes and normal schools. In some of them this year there were very few men, while in others there were no men at all. It appears, the superintendent said, that teaching is becoming more and more the province of women. The reason for this is believed to be thy fact that men are finding employment which pays much better elsewhere and they do not care lo compete in the teaching profession. CIRCUS MAN WEDS HEIRESS. Young Nebraskan Effects Rescue and Wins a Bride. BINGHAMPTON, N. Y.—Arthur L. Roberts of Holland, Lancaster county, Neb., a cowboy with Main’s circus, and Miss Ethel Gould, an heiress and society leader were married at the bride’s home in Cortland county. The wedding is the result of an heroic rescue on the part of the groom. While Main’s circus was exhibiting in this section Miss Gould, seated in a landeau, was watching the parade when the horse took fright at an ap proaching elephant, and becoming un controllable dashed madly toward a steep embankment. Roberts was in the parade, mounted on a mustang, with a lariat at his saddle. Quick as thought he pursued and lassoed the frightened steed rounding him up without any injury to Miss Gould. It was a case of love at first sight and the wedding followed Sarpy County Mortgages. PAPILLION.—Thft following Is -a list of mortgages filed and released in Sarpy county for the month of Aug ust, 1903: Farm mortgages filed, $16,900; released, $17,775. Town mortgages filed, $2,923; released. $1,025. Chattel mortgages filed, $5, 331.90; released, $2,695. Nebraska Woman Killed by Engine. OAKLAND.—Mrs. Frederick Hill man, a native of Germany, 72 years old, was struck by a local train and instantly killed. Mrs. Hillman, ac companied by her husband, was on her way from Nebraska to Southern California. Engineers’ Report This Month. FREMONT.—L. D. Richards has just received a letter from the Kelly Engineering company of New York, stating that work is progressing sat isfactorily, but slowly, on the plans; surveys and estimates of the survey recently completed of the Fremont canal route, and that it will be com pleted and submitted to the determin ing board the latter part of this month or the first of next. They will re quire several weeks to act. Settlers Will Fight Suit. LINCOLN.—The state will soon be involved in a law siiit affecting the ownership of some 2,700 acres of the best land in Boyd county and with a rental value amounting to between $3,000 and $4,000. At a meeting of the board of education, lands and funds a resolution was adopted au thorizing the commissioner of public lands and buildings to take steps to fight an injunction secured August 14 by the holders of this land pre venting the board from leaving it. Will Sue for Libel. NELSON.—J. S. Machera, a farmer living about three miles from this place, has employed R. D. Sutherland to bring an action for criminal libel against such papers as have published a story to the effect that he had eloped with the daughter of a neigh bor. He says that he has not been from home at all except a day here and there helping his neighbors is threshing and hay-making. -T-— -— Dry District Ruse. Rodriek—That druggist had a great scheme for putting a “stick” 'in his soda water. Van Albert—What was it? Rodriek—Why, he soaked the straws in liquor and all his customers tasted it and thought it was the glass. Green is not becoming to any per son when it’s the shade produced by envy. Never fail to keep your appoint ments, nor to be punctual to the min ute. Be the stake ever so insignificant aa a rule it makes the game. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Privations of the Poor. A slum inspector told the Glasgow Municipal Commission on the Hous ing of the Poor that on some occa sions he had found families sleeping dn tiers—the parents on the floor, then a mattress, and a layer of chil dren on the top. Superior quality and extra quantity must in. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Wisdom follows in the wake of ex perience, but doesn’t always catch up. Her Amirer Remembered. Miss Eldora Sinks of Marengo, la., has been notified that she has been bequeathed $500,000 by B. J. Thompson of Colorado Springs. Thompson was a mine owner and a bachelor when Miss Sinks with a party of friends, visited Colorado three years ago and became acquainted with him. He was evidently attracted by her. She spent the entire summer in the west, and, returning home, supposed .she would never again hear of her middle-aged admirer, festerday the notice of his death came. With the statement that be had willed his entire estate to her, having no heirs. An Early Chamberlain Speech. Some fanciful stories are being cir culated about Joseph Chamberlain and his oratorical powers as a youth, but from what a friend of his says concerning the great statesman's col-’ lege days, it is a mistake to say that young Chamberlain could speak well when at, school. In fact, he could never be induced to speak, and in this he somewhat resembled the retiring Arthur Balfour. One day one of the masters of the school asked Chamber lain to make reply to a speech which had just been delivered by one of the older students of the debating class. The hour c'ame, and with a firm step Chamberlain mounted the platform. With perfect outward self-possession he faced the audience and made his bow—a low bow. Every one waited expectantly. People became anxious when the young man again bowed but said nothing. Then a titter went round among the boys. Suddenly the coming colonial secretary, with a look Of utter despair, sidled off the plat form witfi another bow, not having said one word. ART OF ■'REST, j May Be Acquired and Uaed With) Great Benefit. Complete and restful poise of the body and mind Is an art not easily gained. Perhaps nothing brings one as much content, comfort, happiness and pleasure as those conditions of easy, restful, resourceful and well balanced mind and body, that make of work a pleasure and the daily life happy and peaceful. The nervous housewife busy with a hundred duties and harrassed by child ren; the business man, worried with the press of daily affairs, debts, etc., cannot enjoy the peace and restful repose and healthful nervous balance unless they know how. There is a way. First and foremost the stomach must be consulted. That means leaving off coffee absolutely, for the temporary stimulant and the resulting depression is a sure ruin to the nervous system, and the whole condition of health and happiness rests upon stomach, nerves and mind. Start with the stomach, that Is the keystone to the whole arch. Stop using things that break down its power, upset its nervous energy and prevent the proper digestion of the food and the consequent manufacture of healthful blood and nerves, brain and tissues. TT71_- ~ ~ „ 1— n turn Food Coffee. That is like stop ping the payment of interest and starting on a career where you are loaning money and receiving interest. The good results are double. You stop poisoning the system with coffee and start building up the broken down nerve cells by powerful elements con tained in Postum. These are pure food elements ably selected by ex perts for the purpose of supplying just the thing required by Nature to perform this rebuilding. These are solid substantial facts and can be proven clearly to the sat isfaction of anyone, by personal ex perience. Try the change yourself and note how the old condition of shattered nerves and worried mind chaises to that feeling of restful poise of a well balanced nervou3 system. The managing physician of a hygi enic sanitarium in Indiana says that for five years in his practice he has always insisted upon the patients leaving off coffee and taking Postum Food Coffee with the most positive, well defined results and with satisfac tion to the most confirmed coffee toper. The Doctor’s name will be furnish ed by the Postum Co., Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville.”