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    THE O'NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
5'NEILL, NEBRASKA
The emperor Is the head of the Shinto
religion and Is himself worshipped as
being directly descended from the gods,
and every Japanese subjects pays him
homage as such head, but this does not
Interfere with the subject's worship of
multifarious other deities of the wind,
the ocean, fire, food, pestilence- of
mountains and rivers, and of special
objects in nature—more than eight
hundred in all. It was very simple to
add to all these the gods of the Hindus
when Buddhism was Introduced from
Chine, through Korea, In the sixth
century of the Christian era, but It was
not so simple to displace them at the
command of the statesmen. So the
Buddhist priests still flourish, though
shorn of the power and grandeur which
were theirs under the rule of the Sho
guns.
Kansas City Journal: Very few
states have done more than Missouri
has to people the rest of the
the country. Uncle Sam's census enum
erators in 1900 found Missourians dis
tributed all over the United States. A
little more than 100,000 of them were
living In Kansas In that year, 69,000
in Illinois, 51.000 in Texas, 47,000 in
Oklahoma, 45,000 In Arkansas, 35,000 In
California, 34,000 In Iowa, 33,000 in
Indian Terltory, 31,000 in Colorado, 26.
000 in Nebraska, 17,000 in Oregon, 16,
000 in Washington, 10,000 in Indiana
and smaller numbers in other^locallties.
In all 615,000 natives of Missouri In that
year were living In other parts of the
United States. The number, of course,
is much larger in 1904.
Miss Alice II. Luc-e, one of the few
American women receiving rare honors
from a European university, has re
cently decided to make her permanent
home In Germany, and with this end In
view has purchased the famous Willard
■chool for American girls In Berlin.
The school has a record, having a num
ber of prominent American girls on its
roster during Its eighteen years of ex
istence. It was at the Willard school
that Mrs. Grover Cleveland spent two
years before her marriage. Miss Luce
is a graduate of Wellesley college and
among other honors has received the
degree of doctor of philosophy from
Heidelberg university.
The eminent German astronomer,
Wllehlm Forster, has Just celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of the date
■when he received his doctor’s degree.
He is In his seventy-second year and
has been director of the Berlin observa
tory for forty years. Besides astrono
my there are several other fields in
which he achieved prominence. He was
one of the first to prepare the ground
for a more cordial feeling between
Germany and France after their war;
he led the German experts who came to
an agreement with France In regard to
the metric system of weights and meas
ures, and he founded several scientific
societies, as well as the German society
for ethical culture.
When such indulgence Is necessary
the federal government allows its em
ployes "sick leave” of thirty days each
year with full pay. Not long ago Willis
Moore, chief of the weather bureau,
discovered that three clerks had
availed themselves of this privilege
regularly every year for five years.
Thereupon he promptly reduced their
rank, on the grounds that their official
records show them to be physically un
fitted for the higher grades In the ser-!
vice. The health of the clerks In Pro
fessor Moore’s department Is expected!
to improve with wonderful rapidity in
consequence of this order.
London Globe: The emoluments of
* Spanish matador of the first rank
appear to be quite equal to those of an
English Jockey of equal prominence.
The famous matador, Louis Mazzantlnl,
has Just retired from the bull ring after
a professional career of twenty-three
years. He Is now only fifty years old.
His total profits, without Including liv
ing expenses, have amounted to £ 160,
OOO. but he lost £80,000 in unlucky
speculations. He looks forward, how
ever, to enjoying his otlum cum dlgnl
nata on the £80,000 remaining. Ano
ther Mazzantlnl has killed In the ring
MOO bulls._
London Engineer: -During the com
ing winter the Paris, Lyons and Medlt
erranean railway company will greatly
accelerate Its express service from
Paris to Nice. The distance from Paris
to Nice Is <75 miles, and the distance
will be covered In thirteen hours and
fifty miputes. On the down journey
the train will leave Paris at 9 a. m.
and reach Nice at 10:50 at night, and
on the up Journey Nice will be left at
• :80 a. m. and Paris reached at 10:20,
ao that for the first time the Riviera
will be brought within a day's journey
of the capital._
Vice Admiral Albert Maldonado, of
the Chilean navy, has arrived In this
country to attend the International geo
graphical congress in Washington.
Maldonado has had twenty years of
active service in the navy and has been
at the head of the hydrographic de
partment between the parallels 18 and
CS south latitude for ten years and Is
at present director of hydrography of
the port of Valparaiso. All the plans
of hydrography, navigation and geo
graphy are made up at that port.
The descendants of Mary Setoun, one
«f the four maids of honor to Mary
Queen of Scots, have In their possession
A curious watch, which was given by
that queen to her favorite. The watch,
which Is in the shape of a miniature
•hull, is about two Inches and a half In
diameter. It Is supposed to have been
purchased by Mary herself when on a
visit to Blots with her husband, the
dauphin of France, as It has the name
«f a celebrated Blols manufacturer
■engraved on It.
Italy now boasts the highest mete
orological observatory In the world, on
a summit of Mont Blanc, and to thlB
there Is now to be added the second
highest. This Is to be on the Qutfettl
**•£'•* Monte Roua, at a height of
M.800 feet That of Mont Blanc Is
14,464 feet high. Many of the instru
Be ments with which the new observatory
to being equipped were used during the
duke of Abruzzi’s polar expedition.
Professor Alessandri will be in charge.
Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the author, is a
Stalwart cricketer, and, they say. can
provide as exciting a time with bat as
with pen. He has recently been cover
ing himself with honor on the crease,
i playing on the Maryiebone eleven In
An international match In England
Against the Haverford college cricket
team. He held top score and was "not
out"
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King Alfonso, of Spain, has under
taken to organize an International re
gatta at Bilboa similar to the Kiel re
gatta. The king will present a cup and
has promised personally to endeavor tc
h secure foreign entries.
Patriarch Fish, a Seminole Indian, if
gr said to be the oldest living union sol
m 41er and pensioner. He is 119 yea if
ii* fS,d and draws a pension of $12 a month
*s>. j»* W» A member of company K of th«
• pndian home guards.
YOUNG MAN HAS
A NARROW ESCAPE
Falls in a Well and Pulls in
Team of Horses on Top
of Him.
WAS NOT BADLY HURT
A Scraper He Was Using Fell in Well
in Such a Way as to Keep Weight
of Horses From
Him.
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Beemer, Neb., Sept. 28.—Arthur Nel
lor, son of George Nellor, a prominent
business man, met with a terrible ac
cident while engaged In filling up an old
iwell on the Farran farm, one mile north
of Beemer. The young man was work
ing with a scraper and accidentally fell
|lnto the well. The horses fell in on
ihlm, taking the scraper with them,
which was undoubtedly the means of
saving his life, as he fell under It In
'such a way as to protect him partly
from the weight of one horse, which
went to the bottom, the other going
'down only about seven feet. The acci
dent happened about 2 o’clock and the
young man was not released until 8
o’clock. The extent of his Injuries Is
not fully known, although It Is not
thought he Is dangerously Injured. The
horses were both dead when taken from
the well.
BURNS SELF TO DEATH.
Suicide of an Aged Woman in a Lin'
coin Institution.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 28.—Taking ad
vantage of the temporary absence of
;her husband from the room, Mrs. Oes
trach, an aged inmate of Tibatha home,
llgnlted her clothing' with a sulphur
match and was smothered to death by
flames. Oestrach was gone scarcely five
Imlnutes. When he returned he heard
a noise and found his wife enveloped In
flames. There was no tire or light In
the room. On the floor a burned match
Iwas found.
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PETRIFIED MAN FOUND.
Hardened Body of Man, Believed to Be
Genuine, Dug Up Near Waterloo.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28.—An alleged
petrified man has been dug up on the
Dayton Compton farm, three miles
south of Waterloo, In the Iron Bluffs
district. Murray Schwartz, Andrew
Ruan and W. Shawl of the county sur
veyor’s force, found the body while dig
ging for a section corner post. They be
lieve It the remains of a man burled
about four feet below the surface In a
low place, where water often stands.
The features are those of a white man
In their Judgment and the body is per
fect, except for the Injuries received In
digging it up. They noticed a place
under the heart which looks as though
It might have been a bullet hole. Mr.
Compton now has possession of the
[body, which he claims, but the survey
ors hope to get It. The knee was the
first part uncovered and was taken for
a stone. They knocked pieces out of
the leg and a chip from an arm before
the nature of the substance was discov
ered. They estimate the weight of the
:petrllied man at from 600 to 700 pounds.
WAS A FATAL FALL.
Albion Man Sustains Broken Neck
Through Accident.
Albion, Neb., Sept. 28.—William Kee
shan, sr., an aged resident of this city,
fell from a rack which he had been
fusing to haul hay and broke his neck.
| He climbed upon the empty rack \ and
before he got hold of the lines to start
;hls team the rack toppled a little and
he lost his balance and fell to the
ground. Several onlookers satv the ac
iddent and the jury decided he met his
death by accident.
MET VIOLENT DEATH.
Thrown From ■ Load of Straw ana
Instantly Killed.
Kearney, Neb., Sept. 28.—Claude, the
11-year-old son of Fred Fester, living
near Butler, north of here, was instant
ly killed. He and his brothers were
! hauling a load of straw when the team
became frightened and ran away, up
; setting the wagon. The boys were
Ithrown to the ground and Claude's neck
was broken.
DROWNED IN WATER TANK.
Little 3-Year-Old Child Meats a Pecul
iar Death.
Lyons, Neb.. Sept. 27.—Alfred, the little
3-year-old child of Ernest and Ida Wlltse,
met a peculiarly sad death by drowning
in a water tank. Air. Wlltse Uvea two
miles east of Lyons and Is well known
here, having lived In this county for many
years. The futher is almost frantic over
the loss of his child.
The Corinthian Canal.
Comfort; "Speaking of canals," salt
the engineer who has been talking about
Panama, “a very Interesting canal, and
one not much heard of, Is that con
necting the gulf of Corinth and the gulf
of Aegina In Greece. It’s some older
than any we have In the western hemi
sphere, also, for Perlander, tyrant of
Corinth, proposed to cut through the
Isthmus as long as six hundred years
‘before Christ. Superstition stopped
him, however, Julius Caesar and Cali
gula took it up again when Rome had
hold of Greece, but It was too much for
them. Then came Nero, and he went
at It with vigor, but the work stopped
when he died. Others kept pounding
away at It for the next several hun
dred years, but It was not until 1881
,that real work of the Nero energy was
put upon It. Then Gen. Turr, ald-de
camp to Victor Emanuel of Italy, organ
ized a company and worked on till the
money gave out in 1890, the chief ob
stacle being some kind of a flint which
dynamite couldn’t break.
“About $10,000,000 was spent up to
1890, and then Mr. Syngros took hold,
organized a new company with $900,
000 working capital, and finished the j
Job In 1893. It is only about four miles
long, but it Is stxty-nlne feet wide at
the bottom, about eighty feet wide at
waterline and 26 feet and 3 Inches deep
in water, and it is cut nearly all the
way through solid rock, rising at some
points for 269 feet above the canal. It
is like a canyon, and ships do not take
kindly to it, the entrance being bad,
a strong wind blowing through it as
through u great air shaft, and there
is at times a strong reverse current.
?.t is an Interesting trip through the
j canal, and It saves 123 miles of very
rough water and twenty hours of time;
but so far skippers prefer to go around
the peninsula rather than through the
canal, though with some changes which
will be made, It is believed the canal
will become of general use as soon as
a few ships begin to use it und remove
the prejudice now existing against It." 1
SHAW AT OMAHA.
Boyd’s Theater Is Packed by Audiorteo
Assembled to Hear Iowa
Cabinet Member.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 24.—Secretary
Leslie M. Shaw of the United States
treasury spent t e greater part of the
day In Omaha and last evening ad
dressed a large gathering at Boyd’s
theater. He was met at the Union sta
tion by Governor Mickey, Senator Mil
lard and others prominent in republic
an politics and escorted to the Omaha
club, where he was the guest of How
lard H. Biadridge at luncheon. Follow
ing the luncheon there was an informal
.reception. Secretary Shaw and a few
guests were entertained at the home of
Gordon W. Wattles.
YIELD ABOVE LAST YEAR.
Nebraska Corn and Oats Also Show
Larger Acreage.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 24.—Agricultural
bulletins just issued show what is be
ing done this year by the farmers work
ing in conjunction with Mother Nature
in the production of corn, wheat and
bats, in Nebraska. In both corn and
pats, Nebraska makes a splendid show
ing, both by taking this year’s crops by
’themselves, and by comparison wit’,
'last year. In wheat, there is a falling
Off In acreage.
The corn acreage increased from
6,694,048 last year to 6,174,040 acres this
Jyear. This acreage produced an aver
age yield of 34.2S bushels, making a to
tal corn crop of 211,230,303 bushels. The
corn averages of higher quality than
last year.
The oats crop has a slightly larger
acreage, and a better yield by 7,000,e00
bushels than last year. This year It
amounted to 2,096,011 acres, averaging
33,11 bushels to the acre, making a to
tal of 69,410,312 bushels.
Winter wheat was short In acreage
about 300,000, as compared with last
year, and rust struck the eastern por
tion of the state at the wrong time.
But a showing is made of 1,661,110
acres, averaging 13.68 bushels, and ag
gregating a yield cf 22,954,440 bushels.
Adding to the winter wheat output
that of the spring wheat, an estimated
total wheat crop for the state of 30,
000,000 bushels is made.
ARRE8TED FOR BOOTLEGGING.
Frank Orr and Charles Maney Charged
With Selling Liquor to Indians.
Homer, Neb., Sept. 24.—Special Dep
uty United States Marshal George Cain,
appointed for the special purpose of
enforcing government laws on the Win
nebago reservation, began his work
here today by arresting two men for
boot-legging, Frank Orr and Charles
Maney. Orr has been away during the
summer. Neither of the men resisted
arrest and they were taken to the coun
ty jail at Dakota City.
The case which was brought against
George Rice Hill and Schell by Ashford
Bros., to recover on a $199 note, did
not come up In the justice court of
John T. Spencer at Dakota City today,
and Father Schell is Inclined to regard
this as a victory for him. The question
at Issue In the case was whether Father
Schell had the right to handle Indian
money. When the $199 note was pre
sented to George Rice Hill for payment,
he Informed Ashford Bros, tnat Father
Schell had received his pay check. The
firm consequently garnished Father
Schell and sued him and the Indian
jointly for the money.
Itemized Account Refused.
Before this, Father Schell demanded
an Itemized account of the debt the
money represented, as he does in all
cases, but it was refused. The case was
brought In justice court here, but
Father Schell secured a transfer to
Justice Spencer’s court. The plaintiffs,
It was said today, did not transfer the
case, and consequently Father Schell
Is technically the victor. For he still
has the money and has declared him
self ready to fight, the case In court.
The priest is entirely alone in his
fight for an abolition of the abuses of
the Indians, and the nang that has
profited illegally at the expense of the
Indians for so many yearn, realizes that
the most agreeable solution of the dif
ficulty In which they find themselves
would be to have Father Schell sent
away. They are confident that in that
event no one would disturb them fur
ther In their looting of the Indians.
So It is that scores of |‘tters have
been sent to Bishop Scandell, stating
that Father Schell Is disrupting the
Catholic parish at Homer by antagoniz
ing members of the church. It is also
represented that the Indians dislike
him. Bishop Scannell has not an
nounced whether he will yield to the
demand for Father Schell’s removal or
not.
OLD MAN SUICIDES.
Carl Hann, 80 Years Old Shoots Him
self.
Grand Island, Neb., Sept. 24.—Carl
Hann, nearly 80 years of age and one
of the oldest settlers of this vicinity,
committed suicide by sending a 44
calibre bullet through his brain. He
was found by his step-daughter, Mrs.
August Nless, with whom he had been
living for the last three years since the
death of hla wife. He was sitting in a
rocking chair, one arm hanging down
beside the chair and the revolver on
f the floor beneath. He was the owner of
!two good farms and was well-to-do. He
has been a heavy drinker and for the
Hast three days has been on a spree.
CRUSHED AND DROWNED.
Member of Thrashing Crew Is Killed
Near Hartington.
Hartington, Neb., Sept. 23.—Bert Smith,
a young man working with Frank Cook’s
threshing outfit, met death by the engine
;of the separator breaking through a 40
foot bridge over East Bow creek, ten
miles east of here. The engine broke the
entire middle span of the bridge, and En
gineer Smith was caught under the en
gine as it fell In two feet of water, and
was drowned before he could be extricated
by the crew. It was over two hours be
fore the body could be removed. Smith
was a young man 28 years old and un
married. His parents reside In the north
part of this county.
Steel for Interurban.
Dakota City, Neb., Sept. 24.—It is re
ported that fourteen carloads of steel
ihave arrived at South Sioux City, to
be used in constructing the Sioux City
‘Homer and Southern railway from
.Sioux City to Homer, which road, ac
cording to the franchise granted by the
county, must be completed and in op
eration between the two points by Sep
tember 30.
A POLAR EXPEDITION.
Captain Bernier and tha Canadian
Party Leave for a Three Yeara'
Stay in the North.
Sydney, C. B., Sept. 23.—The steamer
Arctic, commanded by Captain Bernier,
with the Canadian expedition under Ma
jor Moodie, sailed today for Hudson bay
.and the north. The party will remain
■ three years. Captain Bernier expects to
make an attempt to reach the north pole
.after completing the present trip.
ATTACHE OF BRITISH
EMBASSY IS FINED
Held in Contempt of Court and
for Speeding His Auto
mobile.
CASE TO BE INVESTIGATED
Serious Results Are Possible for Under
Law Persons Attached to Embassy
Are Relieved From Legal
Responsibility.
Pittsfield. Mass., Sept. 28.—Hugh
Burney, third secretary of the British
embassy, was fined $50 In police court
pt Lee for contempt of court and for
Speeding his automobile in Stockbridge
punday.
Washington, Sept. 27.—Notice of the
action of a special justice at Lee,
Mass., in fining Hugh Gurney, the third
secretary of the British embassy, was
received at the state department in a
telegram from Mr. Raikes, first secre
tary of the embassy, who is at Lenox.
(The department immediately transmit
ted this telegram in substance to the
governor of Massachusetts that he
plight do whatever might be necessary
to secure the .diplomatic immunity of
Mr. Gurney.
It is believed at the department that
the matter may be far more serious
than the local officers at Lee seem to
yegard it. In the first place, by con
ptltutional and statutory law, the per
sons attached to an embassy are ex
pressly relieved from any legal re
isponsibility, and the exemption even
extends to domestic servants. Section
<063, revised statutes, declares that any
writ prosecuted in any court of the
United States or of a state or by any
judge or justice intended to cause the
arrest and imprisonment of any public
minister or his servants shall be void.
The suceedlng section, 4064, of the re
vised statutes, provides that every per
son by whom any such arrest is ob
tained or prosecuted, whether as party
or attorney, and every officer con
cerned in its execution, "shall be
deemed a violator of the law of na
tions and a disturber of the public re
pose, and Bhall be Imprisoned for not
more than three years and fined at the
aiscreuon oi rne court.
It will remain for the governor of
Massachusetts to. take initial action in
this case, which will require prompt re
dress.
The last similar incident occurred in
1882 at the picnic resort of Bay Ridge,
near Baltimore, when Dr. George, an
attache of the Swiss legation in Wash
ington, was arretted by a deputy sher
iff on a charge of being a pickpocket
and was searched and otherwise treat
ed in a humiliating manner by the local
authorities. The state department se
cured his release at an early moment
through the governor of Maryland, who
also caused the dismissal of the offend
ing deputy and extended an apology
for the incident. Though the Swiss min
ister might have pressed further pun
ishment he accepted what had been
done as sufficient, but the matter was
deemed of such importance that he
could not give this notice to our gov
ernment until the Swiss federal coun
cil had formally examined the case and
expressed itselt satisfied.
fiir Henry Mortimer Durand, the
British ambassador, has received a
telegram telling of the arrest of Gur
ney and stating that the matter had
been referred to the state department.
The ambassador took no action in the
platter, nor dees he expect that it will
be necessary for him to do so. He ex
pressed confidence that the state de
oartment will take whatever action is
proper.
POPE FEELS INSULTED
Gained by the Meeting of the Freo
Thinker* Recently Held in the
City of Rome,
Rome, Sept. 28.—The pope, in a letter
to Cardinal Respighi, the vicar general
of the pontiff, said in part:
"A new cause of bitterness ha3 been
added to many anxieties which espe
cially in our times accompany the gov
ernment of the Universal church. We
have learned with infinite sorrow that
jt is asserted that the cultivators of
free thought have met in Rome, while
the painful echo of their speeches is un
fortunately confirmed by their grim de
signs. Intelligence is the noblest gift
the creator has granted us, but it be
comes sacrilegious when subtracted
from dependency on the almighty, or
rejects the direction and comfort of
divine truth.”
The pope says the insult was ren
dered the more grave by the free think
ers’ meeting in Rome, the city which
had been destined as a depository of
the faith, thus taking from Rome its
designation as the tranquil, respected
see of Christ’s vicar.
MANY IRREGULARITIES.
Investigation of Indian Affairs in the
Southwest.
Kansas City, ept. 28.—Charles J.
Kappler, chief clerk of the United
States senate committee on Indian af
fairs. has Just completed a week's trip
through Indian Territory with Senator
Stewart chairman, of the committee.
Mr. Kappler said that the trip had
opened their eyes to many irregulari
ties in the affairs of the Indians that
they would never have known of with
out personal investigation.
"We found that the Dawes commis
sion had done good work,” he said.
“The Indians in the Creek nation,
though, are selling their lands for a
song, and spending their money rapidly.
They will be paupers in five years.
The Indians in the Chickasaw nation
are leasing their lands at a ridiculously
low figure. There are only 1,000,000
acres in the nation, and we found one
jWhite man in control of 120,000 acres.
He boasted of the fact that it had
taken him nine months to get the land,
and that it would take congress nine
years to get it away from him. The
district court, however, has ruled that
these lands must be leased for a rea
sonable consideration, and this may
enable us to get the lands back into
the hands of the Indians again.”
$26,000,000 IN GOLD.
Immense Output of the Yellow Meta,
for the Alaskan Season Just
Closing.
Seattle, Sept. 28.—The Alaska season
for 1904 is closed so far as shipments
to the north are concerned. All the
north coast lines are preparing for a
rush of outcomers from all points in
Alaska.
The gold production of the entire
northern district for the present year is
estimated as follows:
Klondike, 511,000,000; Nome, 510,000,
000; Tanana, 52,000,000; all other dis
tricts, 53,000,00. Total, 526,000,000.
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DECISION IN COAL CASES
Controversy Between Anthracite Miners
and Employers Is Settled in
Favor of Men.
Scranton, Pa., Sept. 28.—Judge
George Gray, to whom was referred the
controversy of the anthracite miners
on the check weighman question, which
had previously been adjudicated by
Carroll D. Wright in favor of the min
ers. has also decided the issue in the
same way.
The opinion is a lengthy one, making
a thorough review of all the issues
piesented by both sides, and is sub
stantially ajong the lines taken by Mr.
Wright.
The controversy related to Inter
pretation oi one of the regulations laid
down by the anthracite commission
which settled the great strike. One of
the complaints of the men was that
they were not treated fairly in weigh
ing their coal. They are paid for ac
cording to weights taken out, and they
claimed the companies habitually ma
nipulated these so as to underpay the
men. It was decided that they should
have the right to employ check weigh
men, to see all weighing done and keep
a tally on them. These check weigh
men were to be paid by the miners.
The companies raised the question
whether all miners should be assessed
to make this payment, or only those
who were members of the union. The
companies declined to collect assess
ments from any but the union men.
The men appealed, and the decision re
quires that all alike, union or nonunion,
shall pay their proportionate share of
the cost of maintaining the check
weighmen.
GIFT TO SCIENCE DENIED
Relatives Cremate the Body of a Doc
tor Who Had Willed Away
His Brain.
New York, Sept. 28.—The desire ex
pressed by Dr. George Conant, who died
last week that his brain be delivered to
the department of physiology of Cor
nell university in the interest of sci
entific research, will never be fulfilled.
The body of the physician has been cre
mated by order of his relatives, who ob
jected to the fulfillment of his reported
wish regarding the disposition of his
uru.ni.
Dr. Conant discovered some years ago
that he had diabetes. For this disease
no “sure cure” has been discovered.
The secretions of the kidneys contain
more and more of grape sugar, and the
patient wastes away. In Dr. Conant’s
case, the deposit of lime salts in the
arteries, which usually accompanies old
age, showed itself to such an extent
that his arteries were hardened as they
are in some very old men who have
died of paralysis or apople-^. Dr.
Conant gave his medical friends his
own expert observations on his ail
ment.
A Disease of the Brain.
Medical men have come to believe of
late years that the origin of diabetes;
is in the brain. They have observed
that a derangement of the fourth ven
tricle of the brain is accompanied by a
derangement of the glycoginic function
of the liver, that is, the work of that
organ is disposing of the Aigar chemi
cally produced in the process of diges
tion. An accurate demonstration as to
whether this theory is true or false will
be of great value.
Dr. Burt Wilder of Cornell univer
sity, is recognized as a leader in in
vestigations relating to the brain.
Tears ago he organized a “brain so
ciety,” each of whose members agrees
to leave by will his brain to the so
ciety for scientific purposes. One of
the most important objects of this so
ciety is the study of the brains of dis
tinguished persons.
Dr. Wilder is also qualified above
most specialists to examine diseased or
abnormal brain tissue. It was with
this in mind that Dr. Conant desired
him to examine his own brain, with a
view to recording exact scientific ob
servations on the relation of the fourth
ventricle to diabetes.
Dr. Otto Maier of No. 212 East
Eighteenth street, was a neighbor and!
close friend of Dr. Conant, and was
summoned when Dr. Conant died. He
said last night that he had frequently
been consulted by Dr. Conant. “He was
a brave man,” said Dr. Maier. "Con
ant never seemed to let his knowledge
that he had an Incurable disease inter
fere with his work. He studied as if
he hoped to live forever,”
FOUR KILLED IN WRECK
Besides Those Fatally Injured a Dozen
More Sustained Bad Injuries—
Ran Into Washout.
Peoria, 111., Sept. 28.—In a wreck on
the Burlington early today near Elm
wood, which was caused by a washout,,
one coach was overturned and John
Bock,.a laborer, was killed, three other
passengers were fatally injured, and a
dozen others less gravely hurt. '
The fatally injured are:
Rev. J. Kenniston, Elmwood.
Frank Reeding, Galesburg.
M. Lentz, Galesburg.
The wreck took place at the junction
of a small stream and the Kickapoo
creek. A terrific rain storm last night
had washed out the roadbed for a short
distance, leaving the rails suspended
in the air. The train struck the un
supported rails at high speed. The en
gine, baggage car and two coaches
were ditched. The chair car remained
on the track.
MOURNING IN NASHVILLE.
Death List in Southern Railway Wreck
Placed Now at 58.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 28.—This is a
day of mourning in Knoxville, nine fu
nerals of people killed in the Southern
railway wreck near Newmarket being
held. The death list completed today
by the Southern railway officials ag
gregates fifty-eight killed and the
number of injured is placed at 162. The
wreckage has been cleared away and
trains are again running. Several
bodies are still unidentified.
A Wreck in Michigan.
Bay City, Mich., Sept. 28.—Cows on
the track caused the derailment today
at Unwood of a through Michigan Cen
tral passenger train from Mackinac.
The locomotive and five coaches left
the track. Engineer Thomas Rae was
fatally injured, Fireman Horace Shaw
and Mail Clerk E. Miller also hurt.
None of the passengers was injured.
Freshmen Duck Sophomores.
Iowa City, la., Sept. 26.—The fresh
men and sophomores had their annual
fight this morning. The freshmen
won and ducked the sophomores in a
horse trough.
Cheapening the Necessaries of Life.
Peoria, Sept. 26.—Whisky was quoted
at $1.26% on the basis of finished goods
on the board of trade today, a drop of
1% cents. It is said the drop in quota
tions was made to meet the prices set
by the independent houses.
JAP ADVANCE IN
FORCE IS BEGUN
Kuropatkin Reports an Engage*
ment in Which There Were
Many Casualties.
CANNOT FIGHT IN WINTER
Doubts Begin to Be Expressed by Rus*
sians Whether They Can Continue
the Campaign After the Real
Cold Sets in.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 28.—A dispatch
has been received from General Kuron
patkin announcing the Japanese arq
preparing an extensive turning move*
ment east of Mukden. A large force
Is advancing from Liao Yang by way
of Tai Che to Tsien Tshian. Skirmishes
have occurred in the valley of the Hun
river and at Inpu, between Bentsia-.
putze and the railroad. There werq
many casualties at Inpu.
General Sakharoff, in a dispatchj
dated yesterday, telegraphs that thei
Japanese advance guard during the
last few days attempted to occupy
Koautou pass, commanding the road to!
Fushun, but were repulsed by thel
Russian advance. On the south frontt
ail is quiet, though shots are exchanged!
daily and skirmishes occur between the
advance posts.
Cause of Oyama’i Delays.
The cause of the extreme delibera*
tion in the Japanese advance on Muk*
den was explained by a dispatch re*
ceived from Kuropatkin this afternoon,
which indicates that Oyama has not]
yet concentrated his forces. Fresh
troops are constantly arriving at Bent-i
staputsze. while others, which recently
reached Liao Yang, are marehing up!
the Taitse river to Sian Chan. Thesq
reinforcements presumably come front.
Japan. As soon as the fourth Japanesq
army, at Sian Chan, is sufficiently
strong, it Is now evident the Japanese
Intend to resort to their favorite flank*
Ing tactics and move in a formidable
array against Kuropatkin’s left ani|
compel the evacuation of SIntsintin.
They are evidently reconnoitering the
ground over which the Sian Chan army
will march up and cross the river.
i\ui uni it mi wi usa mvoi>
Meanwhile Kuroki is trying to seize*
and cross the Hun river, far east of
Mukden. Thence he will move down!
the river and co-operate with the,
fourth army from Sian Chan, while*
Oku and Nodzu will engage Kuropat-i
kin’s attention south of Mukden. Thet
attacks on Da pass and San Lung Ku*
September 20 were the first symptoms)
of this vast flanking movement. Kuro
patkin now reports that Japanese;
scouts have been encountered near the)
Hun river, half way to Mukden, trying!
to seize Keoutou pass, ten miles north-! I
east of Bentsiaputze, in order to clear ^
the way to Fushan, and that Oku’s and;
Nodzu’s outposts have been engaged ini
skirmishing with the cossacks near
lnpu, between Bentsiaputze and the;
railroad.
After reviewing the troops at Odessa,
the emperor will go to Kishineff andj
bid farewell to the Fourteenth division.!
famous for its passage up the Danube!
under General Dragomiroff.
Winter Campaign May Be Impossible.
Mukden, Sept. 26.—Doubts are begin-j
ning to be felt as to whether it willj
be possible to continue the campaign
through the winter, which begins ini
November. The Chinese have been un-i
able to harvest their crops and there*
will probably be much distress, as it is*
very difficult to bring up stores from
China for the native population.
ADVANCE IS AT HAND.
Japanese Have Great Reinforcements,
and Are Ready to Move.
Mukden, Sept. 24.—(Delayed.)—The
Japanese do not appear to be moving,
but it is believed they will begin a gen
eral advance within a day or two. They
are continually receiving reinforce
ments. Kusslan scouts who penetrated*
beyond Bentsiaputze saw large en
campments of Japanese, and a strong,
column Is reported to be forming north
west of Liao Tang. Thousands of Jap
anese are daily crossing the Taitse riv
er over three bridges which have been
built above the railroad.
Reform in Department of Interior.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 28.—Interior;
Minister Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky’sf
reception here today upon his arrival
from Vilna was In the nature of an
ovation. A great deal is expected off
him by the public and the newspapers.
Sweeping changes in the ministry of
the interior are anticipated, and little*
of the Von Plehwe regime is expected,
to survive.
HOAR IS NEAR DEATH.
: Relapse Which Began Friday Has Left:
the Senator’s Case Nearly
Hopeless.
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 28.—The fol
lowing bulletin on Senator Hoar's con-j
dltion was given out:
“The senator slept all night and is in
a stupor this morning. He did not take(
food or medicine during the night. The
end is not immediately expected."
At Noon—Roekwood Hoar, the sen
ator’s son, said that his father had re- •
mained in a state of semi-consciousness
since morning, but that hope was felti
that he would rally. He still refused to'
take nourishment, though some medi-:
cine was administered during the fore
noon. The sick man has failed grad
ually since last Friday, and there have
been indications that his mind was be
ing affected by the increasing weak
ness. The members of the family are
now in constant attendance at the bed
side, as they were a few weeks ago
when the end seemed near.
REGRETS ARE EXPRESSED
American Consulate at Carthagena Be
smeared With Filth.
Colon, Sept. 28.—The American con
sulate at Cathagena having been twice
recently besmeared with filth, Rear
Admiral Sigsbee, with his flagship, the
Newark, was ordered to proceed to
Carfhagena and investigate the cir
cumstances. In a communication to
the governor, Louis Patron,* Admiral
Sigsbee says in part:
"I find your expressions of regret for
the acts of indecency on behalf of
yourself and your government satis
factory, but they have not been given
sufficient publicity. I suggest addi
tional precautions to prevent a recur
rence of such incidents and fuller pub
licity of the government’s expressions
of regret in order to avoid a friendly
visit assuming a more difficult fea
ture.”
Governor Patron complied by reiter
ating his regrets.