THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher._
FNEILU NEBRASKA
The observatory on Mltnjoy hill. In
Portland, passes into the centenarian*
class this year. It was erected In 1807,
when the now thickly populated section
surrounding it was an immense pas
ture, in which the families of the city
kept their cows, and from which the
boys of the city drove them home
- through the streets at evening. For
100 years It has been one of the city’s
moat prominent landmarks; it has wlU
nessed many scenes of festivity which
took place beneath its \yalls; it has
served in the privateer days of 1812 to
announce to the townsp'eople the sail
ings and winnings of Portland’s ships,
and throughout the days of our highest
commercial and maritime prosperity it)
has flown the private flags of the city’s
most successful merchants and ship
owners.
Two English scientists discovered,
about ten years ago, that fused silica
might be treated in the same way on
glass, but it was left for Germany to
develop its commercial possibilities. An
English Ann has now taken up the or
iginal process and Is enabled to place
this material on the market at reason
able rates. To chemists the discovery
is of great service, for the vessels made
of fused silica will not crack even when,
heated white hot and plunged Into wa
ter. They are also impregnable to
acids, and it is even possible to use
them for melting platinum.
The flber of the dwarf palm—a tree,
until lateU' regarded as worthless or
harmful Is developing an Important
Angerlan Industry. Factories are mul
tiplying, and to these the natives bring
the palm leaves, which are transformed
Into vegetable flber by a steam card
ing machine, and then spun and braid
ed. The material has the advantage
over horsehair of being proof against
moths and insects. It is being psed for
mattresses, woven products, harness
and carriage work, military bedding,
various tissues and even hats.
The crescent-shaped sand dunes
which move in thousands across the
Sesert of Islay, near La Joya, Peru,
have been Investigated by Astronomer
B. I. Hailey, who found the points of a
crescent to be 160 feet apart, while the
convex side .measured 477 feet and the
greatest width w*as more than 100 feet.
The estimated weight was 8,000 tons,
yet it was carried 125 feet a year by the
prevailing south winds.
Although there is a great ertori maae
to keep secret the thefts In hotels and
restaurants of New York, It Is quite
evident they are on a rupld Increase.
The manager of a large restaurant
lays the system of having servants
lepend almost entirely upon patrons for
their pay lowers their moral standard
end causes them to look on those they
sre supposed to serve as their legiti
mate prey.
The fact that a man today can sit
town In ,a restaurant overlooking the
Thames embankgripnt, or at a table un
ler the trees at the edge of the Thler
yarten and, dine on fresh salmon
Vreught from.the waters of California,
Dregon and Aluska shows graphically
how Industrial efficiency has given ro
mance to modern trade.
It la understood In Lhasa, the
Thibetan ca-ital. says the Indian
Trade - Journal, that the Amban In
tends'to open a new trade route to
ward China by way of the Po-yul.
This will save fifteen days In Journeys
to Sanga-Chojong and by Pothang to
Cyando.
A steam vessel has been provided for
the Rev. Louts Ives, of England, who
has taken the chaplaincy of the Mis
sions to Seamen at the port of New
castle, New South Wales, this being
lone that he nuyc minister at any hour
to ships at anchor In any part of the
harbor.
A New York Methodist church,
which lately gave the use of its build
ing to a congregation of Jews, who
temporarily weyd without a place of
meeting, recfflye'd In return not only a
Vote of thanks, but a check for 11,000.
Bt. Giles’ Christian mission. In Lon
Son, every year dives about 20,000 free
reakfasts to discharged prisoners,
finds work for 6,000, secures homes for
tOO shelterless or destitute women, and
takes care of 500 Juvenile offenders.
The richest unmarried woman In
Trance Is probably Princess Marie
Bonaparte, daughter of the late Prince
Roland. She Is pretty, accomplished,
young, and Inherited a vast fortune
from her maternal grandmother.
IAiec Burns, orotner ot tne ut. Hon.
John Burnsi was once well known In
the ring as a boxing champion. The
brothers studied boxing together, and
the cabinet minister cun still use his
“mauleys a bit.”
A man who has given the subject a
| great deal of study says that there is
a greater variety to be found among
divorce laws of different nations than
| among the laws governing any other
f subject.
' In all France there are only 1,100 per
sons who are millionaires in our sense
of the word (In dollars!. Of million
aires In francs, there are about 15,000
opart from the 1,100 already counted.
A monument has been erected to
Anna Holsel In .the Schlossgarten, at
I Mannheim. Germany. She was the wife
!of a carpenter who is 1784 saved the
poet Schiller from a debtor's prison.
• The poetical dreams, "Rosamund," by
I Charles Algernon Swinburne, will be
translated into German and presented
In Germany next season. Schubert's
“Rosamund" music will be used.
j The other day at Aldershot Tommy
Atkins had a pageant of hts own—1.000
I soldiers paraded In all the uniforms
! that have been worn In the British
i army between 1807 end 1907.
M. Safanoff, the Russian conductor
never uses a baton. Instead lie waves
his arms, clenches his fl«ts. and fights
the air in a manner disquieting to the
average concert-goer.
If Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of
the secretary of war. has many accom
plishments. notably that of music. She
Is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conser
vatory of Music.
* The west coast countries of. South
America arc nearly 2,000 mlles closer
to the manufacturing districts of the
United States than they are to the
manufacturing districts of Europe.
Chile, which has the reputation of
being the most progressive of the
| Spanish speaking countries, has o'er
J.000 miles of railroad and 11,000 miles
; of telegraph.
California .tins the world-wld- repu
tation of fathering Cm most dnrfng en
gineering projects in the world In the
way of electrical generation and trans
mission.
NO QUARTER FOR
EXPRESS COMPANIES,
SAYS COMMISSIONER
nsists That Nebraska Law Ig
Plain and Commission Ought
to Enforce It.
Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 3.—The stata
will file answer today in the suit
brought in the federal court by the ex
press companies to restrain the en
forcement of the Sibley law reducing
express charges 2;> per cent. Commis
sioner Williams refuses to Join with
his fellows in recognizing that the ex
press companies have any claim fotf
consideration at the hands of the com
frilsslon.
Williams Insists that the law Is plain
nnd the commission ought to enforce
At, while his colleagues believe that nu
arrests should be made and no prose
cutions pursued until the question has
been decided by the federal court
whether it lias jurisdiction of the case
The court has so far refused to issue
any injunction, contrary to the old
practice of federal judges in issuing
injunctions first and afterwards find
ing out whether it had right to do so
Williams objected to one paragraph
in the answer which denies that the
commission is proposing to enforce the
; law, but sets up that it is preparing
and will adopt a schedule of reductions
made up by its experts. He says lie
will file an independent answer setting
up that one part of the commission haJ
its mind made up to enforce the law.
Tlie answer sets up first that the ex
press companies’ case Is really a suit
against the state and, therefore, cannot
be maintained, it also alleges that for
many years the companies have
charged excessive fees for transporting
goods, and by reason of the fact that
the express companies are largely
owned by the railroad corporations and
their officers’ charges are so appor
tioned and divided that no one can
compute the actual cost of operation.
DENIES REQUEST OF
RAILROADS TO RAISE
THE CREAM RATES
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 3.- -The siatw
fullroad commission has denied the re
quest of the railroad companies to be
Sermltted to raise cream rates In Ne
raska. The action was taken last
evening upon motion of the attorneys
representing the creameries.
The railroads had submitted a
tchedule of rates which raised from
10 to 110 per cent, so arranged that
It was practically prohibitive to haul
cream long distances. The ostensible
reason was to build up local cream
eries in opposition to the big central
ised Institutions, but the commission
finds that the evidence submitted does
pot Justify the raises asked.
The commission has Instructed Its
own rate expert to formulate for the
adoption of the board a new sched
ule of rates, which will be drawn so
us to allow some raises In rates on
cream, but will give the consumer of
butter benefits also by reducing the
rate correspondingly on that pro
duct.
TEKAMAH OLD SETTLERS
HOLD ANNUAL REUNION
Tekamah, Neb., Sept. 3.—The fifth
annual reunion of the pioneers and old
settlers of this county took place yes
terday In Folsom park. The attendance
was about 3,000. Colonel T J. Majors,
of Peru, who was to speak on “Mili
tary Frontier Life." was unable to be
present because of sickness. Hon. W.
R. Patrick, of Omaha, took his place
and gave an eloquent discourse. An
other Interesting speaker was the Rev.
Mr. Ollnger, now of California, who
settled In Burt county fifty years ago.
Prizes to men who plowed the first
furrow In the various townships were
awarded as follows:
William Harrington, Tekamah: Geo.
Peterson, Riverside; J. D. Hart, Ever
ett; George Morter, Logan; tile Lar
son. Bello Creek; James Asklvlg, Oak
land; T. S. Gibbs. Oakland.
Officers were re-elected as follows:
J. P. Lett a, president; M M. Warner,
secretary: M. R. Hopewell, treasurer;
J. R." Sutherland, historian.
The veterans of the Grand Army oi
the Republic held their reunion with
the old settlers, and in the eventng had
a campfire.
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4 OPEN REBELLION ON 4
4 NEBRASKA PMMARY LAW: 4
4 SHERIFF IS ASSAULTED. 4
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4 Stanton, Neb., Stpr. 3.—Open 4
4 lebellion against tne new prl- 4
4 mury law, to tie tried for the 4
4 fiist time in Nebraska Tuesday, 4
4 took place in Stanton county, a 4
4 tew days ago, and Sheriff Stuck- 4
4 er was assaulted. 4
4 That official ill posting notices 4
4 of the primary in a rural pre- 4
4 ilnct started to use the door of 4
4 a school tiouse as a billboard, 4
4 when he was attacked by a large 4
4 swarm of tees. The sheriff made 4
4 a heroic effort to stand ills 4
4 ground, hut after being stung 4
4 numerous times on the face and 4
4 hands, he was forced to retreat 4
4 and post the notice on a fence 4
4 post. 4
4 Another l.lg fight is expected 4
4 next Tuesday when the election 4
4 officers come to open the polls, 4
4 as the bees have not left or is 4
4 there any indication that they 4
4 will do so. li is openly charged 4
4 that they are secretly encour- 4
4 aged by the railroad machine. 4
4 that is so violently opposed to 4
4 the primary law. 4
4 a prominent politician of this 4
4 city, who does not cure to have,4
4 ids name made public, says that 4
4 he is confident that the bees be- 4
4 long to Pen White, political boss 4
4 of lire Noitlvv.cstern railroad in 4
4 tills state. 4
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4 Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 3.—Mieheal 4
4 Madden, of ibe-ton, la., went to 4
4 sleep i:i the : bad' of u boxcar 4
4 along the Missouri Pacific 4
4 tracks yesterday afternoon. He 4
4 stretched himself,' and when 4
* the shifting creiv moved the box 4
4 ear the wheels ran over his ex- 4
4 tended left arm. It was cut off. 4
4 Madd- n had to si working upon 4
* the ral’ro d. hut had just been 4
4 released Loin tile city jail, where 4
4 he had sei aj a term for drunk- 4
4 unneec. 4
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WOMAN OFFERS TO
GIVE HERSELF AS
SECURITY FOR LOAN
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Wealthy Nebraska Ranchman,
77, Waiting in Lincoln for
Her to Keep Promise.
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug, 31—August F.,
Arndt, a wealthy ranchman of Paxton,
In Keith county, is hanging around
Lincoln waiting for Mrs. Minnie Hol-J
stein, of Fulls City, to come and re
deem her promise to marry him. Arndt
Is 77 and Mrs. Holstein 42. The old
man has been wooing her for somq
time, and finally secured her promise to
meet him here Tuesday. So sure was
he that she would marry him that he
invested $2 in a license and hired the
minister to come to the hotel at a cer
tain hour.
Instead of the bride there arrived u,
telegram. The telegram told him that
a letter would explain. The letter set
forth that her children were sick and
she was not feeling well herself. Be
sides she was not sure that she and
Arndt could live happily together.
Arndt has written her insisting that
she come, and he says he will wait un
til she gives her consent. He has a
number of letters from her that con
tain decidedly warm expressions of her
love for him. In one she playfully
asks him for a loan of $1,000 and prom
ises to give herself as security, and
in all site conveys her love to him
Arndt says she wanted him to deecj
her half of his property, but he naive
ly says he is afraid to do that fur feaj
she might nut marry him.
RAILWAY DENIES
STATE S AUTHORITY
TO FORCE REPAIRS
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 31.—The Missouri
Pacific filed an answer before the state
commission denying the authority of
the commission lo order it to repair Its
tracks. It asserts that It is an inter
state carrier and not subject to the
commission's orders. It also avers that
the trackmen's union is not clothed
with authority to represent the track
men of the country In filing a com
plaint.
The answer, however, was merely to
preserve a legal record. Privately the
managers of the road have told the
commissioners that they will strength
en the roadbed at once, and will put
several hundred men at work at once
If they can get them. The commission
will require weekly reports from sec
tion foremen so as to keep track of
the repairs.
:GGS SMELLED BY
COURT GOST FINE
Grocer’s Garment Decorates
With Own Goods by Irate
Housewife.
St. Louis, Aug. 31.—The quality of
a grocer's eggs engaged the noses of
Justice of the Peace Werremeyer aiyl
many witnesses when Mr. and Mrs.
Charles T. Gregg were fined for dis
turbing the peace of Arthur Manner
ncn.
Mannernon is the grocer. He brought
into the court room a suit of clothing
highly decorated with the petrified re
mains of one-half dozen oggs which
testimony said had been cast over him
by the indignant Mrs. Gregg.
Mrs. Gregg said the eggs were bad.
Mannernon said they were good. Jus
tice Werremeyer smelled the garments
and the witnesses sniffed them. Jus
tice Werremeyer concluded that the
Cftgs must have been fresh when they
were thrown. He fined Mrs. Gregg $1
and costs and Mr. Gregg $10 and costs
for daring Mannernon to come out ot
his shop.
This was after Mrs. Gregg had sent
one bad egg. broken, and five other
whole eggs back to Mannernon, with
the request that he take them back.
He refused, whereupon Mrs. Gregg
went to the grocery and there dec
orated the grocer.
Justice Werremeyer told Mrs. Gregg
that he would remit her fine and costs
If her husband came Into the court and
paid ills fine.
LORD BARRINGTON
BEGINS SENTENCE
St. Louis. Aug. 31.—In a driving rain
that soaked his custodians to the skin
“Lord” Frederick Seymour Barrington
was taken in an automobile from the i
Clayton jail, where he had been con- J
fined for four years and two months, to
the union station and conveyed to Jeff
erson City, where he began his life
sentence in the penitentiary for the
murder of James P. McCann. Bar
rington was handcuffed, for the first
time since his arrest in 1003, to Thom
as W. Morgan, who was also taken
to Jefferson City to serve a sentence
of twenty years for murder.
Barrington was under sentence to be
hanged last Monday, but Gov. Folk !
commuted the penalty of life imprison- |
ment.
SON RUSHES TO
DEFENSE OF MOTHER,
FATHER KILLS HIM
Mascoutah, 111.. Aug. 31.—John Oster,
Jr., 23, died this morning from stab
wounds, alleged to have been inflicted
by his father, John Oster, aged 60, now
under arrest.
During a quarrel last night between
the older Oster and his wife, the son
went to his mother's defense. This so
enraged the father that he attacked the
son with a knife and a struggle fol
lowed during which the son was
stabbed several times and ran from the
house, pursued by bis father.
The young man collapsed near a
neighbor's uome and was carried In,
where he died today.
IMITATE MUKDEN IN
AMERICAN MIMIC WAR
Washington, Aug, 31.—A spectacular
e-ar game will begin at Fort Riley,
Kas„ next week. It is to be an attack
by the field end siege artillery upon a
fortified position such as might be
taken by a huge army in the field. The
artillerymen are going to tackle the
same sort of proposition, as nearly as
the conditions can be simulated, that
the Japanese met at Mukden, where
General Kuropatkln had all winter to
prepare hinvael* against attack
LAIMS STANDARD
OIL GETS BETTER
RATES IN NEBRASKA
/owa Independent Oil Company
Joins Chorus Which Is Cry
ing Shame on John D.
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 30.—The Mar
ehall Oil company, of Marshalltown,
la., has come In on the chorus which Is
crying shame on John D.
' H. S. Jones, division freight agent of
the Burlington road, is In Lincoln be
fore the state railroad commission of
Nebraska, hearing the complaints of
the Marshalltown oil men against the
/Standurd Oil company.
The Iowa oil men complain that the
(Standard is getting better rates on the
Burlington in Nebraska than the in
dependent companies on shipments of
the raw oil as well as the finished prod
uct.
They also allege that the Nebraska,
rate on oil is higher than the Iowa rate,
iand that only John D. and his con
freres get .the same rate In both states.
Their complaints are not confined to
the Burlington, but embrace almost
every other road in Nebraska.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ENTERS SALOON FIGHT
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 30.—Claiming that
rthe mayor of Schuyler and the county
attorney of Colfax county, wherein that
city is located, are permitting the sa
loons privileges that the state law de
fies them and have refused to shut
them up on Sunday, complaint was
.made to the attorney general today,
with a request that he take action to
■force the recreant officials to do their
duty.
1 Notice of the charges will be served
at once upon the officials, and they
may be formally tried or the attorney
general may go there in person and
exercise the functions of prosecutor.
MURDERERS SELDOM HANG,
NEBRASKA RECORDS SHOW
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 30.—Little dis
position is shown around the state eap
itol to take action against the mob that
lynched Hlvofins at Bancroft Monday.
Half of the state officers openly say
that there was Justification for the
hanging insofar as the people believed
that he' would never otherwise have
paid the life penalty.
One officer looked up the records, and
these disclose that of the twenty-six
convicted murderers landed In the pen
itentiary in the past six years, only two
were hanged. Of the others Governor
Savage pardoned or altered the sen
tence of seven, while Governor Mickey
.lid the same for seventeen. Sheldon
has given none, and Deitrich, who pre
ceded Savage, gave but one commuta
tion.
These facts are cited to show that
‘.here is no menace in the Nebraska
courts towards any murderer, and that
fife sentences mean only about an aver
age of ten years. Governor Sheldon
Is out of the city, but it is expected
that he will ask Judge Graves to make
i judicial Investigation, either by grand
lury or otherwise, In order that respon
sibility for the lynching may be fixed,
faf the judge refuses to call a grand
lury, the governor has the power, un«
ler the law, to order one specially.
PRIMA DONNA TO
TRAIN PASTOR’S GIRL
Mme. Schumann-Heink Will
Teach Dr. J. W. Chapman’s
Daughter, a Soprano.
Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 30.—While.
»t Winona Lake Mme. Schumann
Heink had Miss Bertha Chapman,
daughter of Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chap
man, formerly of Philadelphia, sing for
her. and is so delighted with the girl's
voice that she will take her to Europe.
Mme. Schumann-Heink will return
to Winona Lake early in June next
year for two recitals, and will then go
direct to Germany. On this trip she
expects to take Miss Chapman, and as
Mme. Schumann-Heink is a personal
friend of Mme. Wagner, every oppor
tunity will be given Miss Chapman.
Mme. Schumann-Heink herself intends
giving Miss Chapman lessons.
Miss Chapman has a mezzo-soprano
voice, very sweet, but not strong. Mme.
Schumann-Heink thinks Miss Chap
man will excel in oratorios.
Miss Chapman’s father at one time
was pastor of Bethany Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia. He is a widely
known evangelist.
0 I lmlo q?riu, unu»*o
WEALTHY; IS PARDONED
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.—Will
iam Pearson, who escaped from the
Alabama penitentiary thirty years ago
while serving sentence for stealing a
pig, and tied to Texas, locating at
Palestine, where he has become a man
of prominence and influence, lias been
pardoned by Governor Comer.
The petition for his pardon was
biade by Governor Campbell und Con
gressman Gregg, of Texas, who say
Pearson Is a leading and wealthy citl- I
zen of Palestine and that he and h!s
wife and children stand higli socially.
The petition states Pearson has fre
quently refused political offices because
lie knew he could not legally hold them.
Governor Comer had the ease looked
up and found Pearson had been con
victed In 1876 in Clay county when he
was 18 years old of stealing a pig val
ued at $2 and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. After serving two
months. Pearson escaped by knocking
down a guard, and nothing was hoard
of him till the petition came from tile
Texas governor.
X STEAMSHIP WAR MAY X
V MAKE SHOPPING TRIPS f
4 TO EUROPE CHEAP. 4
4 New York. Aug. 30.—Shipping men 4
4 are watching with interest the 4
4 trans-Atlantic steamship war 4
4 which continues to grow. livery 4
4 day has its developments now as 4
4 one line after another cuts the rate. 4
1 if the conflict keeps up much long- 4
4 er bargain hunters will get a change 4
MANSFIELD EI1S IN
HIS SUMMER HOME
Well Known Actor Empires After
a Long Fight With Dis
ease.
HE WAS HERE FIVE TIMES
La?* Stage Aopenrance Was in Sam»
Play in Which He Scored
His First Suc
cess.
New London, Conn., Sept. 2.—Rich
ard Mansfield, the heat known actor
on the American stage, passed away
,thls morning at his summer residence.
Mansfield’s "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde,’’ his magnificent production of
,"Richard III.,” and later his production
of "Cyrano de Bergerac." helped keep
his name at the top of the roster of
American players.
His father was Maurice Mansfield,
and his mother, before she married.
KJCHARBJlAlidrmLD^
Was Emma Rudersdorff, a famous
Dpera singer. When 10 years old he
was sent to school in Germany, and
later to the Derby school. England,
where he made his first stage appear
ance in a school boy presentation of
“The Merchant of Venice.” In 1872. his
mother having come to America, Rich
ard came, too, and obtained a position
in a dry goods store in Boston and for
a time served as musical critic on the
Boston Globe. He also tried his hand
at painting, and went back to England
in hope of selling some of his pictures.
He was unsuccessful and he soon found
himself stranded and penniless. After
three years of hardship he obtained a
position as a parlor entertainer, but
his privations had so weakened him
that he failed to do the work he had
set for himself. Then he Joined a pro
vincial company playing “Pinafore,”
and kept this position three years. He
later obtained a position at the Globe
theater, London, where he made a hit
In comic operas. In 1882 he returned
to America, appearing at the old
Standard. New York.
No One Else Available.
Among his other successful plays may
be mentioned “Prince Karl.” "Beau
Brummel," "The Devil’s Disciple," and
"Henry V.”
The leading "Parisian Romance” role
had been assigned to J. H. Stoddard,
but Stoddard backed out at the last
moment and Mansfield was substituted
because there was no one else available.
The audience soon forgot plot and play
in the acting of the leading man.
Mansfield was married in 1892 to
Beatrice Cameron, his leading lady,
who has since played Shakespearean
roles with him. His last stage appear
ance, by a singular coincidence, was in
a New York theater where he played
in the same piece, “A Paris.an Ro
mance,” taking the same part, as he
did when he scored his first success.
Mansfield’s malady was a combina
tion of kidney and liver troubles.
CHINA RESENTS THE
FRANCO-JAP PACT
4* * Parish Sept.*2*—'The*Japmiese*a*m-* V
4 bassador, M. Kurino. in behalf of 4
4 the Japanese emperor bestowed the 4
X order of the Chrysanthemum upon 4
X President Fallleres, who came to 4
4 Paris from Rambouillet especially 4,
4 ^for the^occasion
Pekin, Sept. 2.—China has made pro
test to France and Japan against the ,
terms of their agreement providing for
interference in the vast regions of the
sovereign Chinese domain. The pro
test lias resulted In a remarkable sup
pression by the authorities of public
matters. It is claimed that China has
been browbeaten from her lights, ow
ing to the cowardice of the present Chi
nese government, the cowering position
of the throne and its overlording by
Japan.
The protest has aroused the indig
nation of the Japanese, who have ig
nored it, leaving the French here to
persuade China to drop it.
LOSES $25,000 SUIT;
WAS“F ELLOW SERVANT”
Columbus, Sept. 2.—J. G. Oberheimer,
clerk of the Ohio supreme court, re-,
reived a mandate from the supreme'
court of the United States today in
the case of Reuben U. Martin, a rail-1
way mail clerk, vs. the Pittsburg and
Uake Erie, which the court has de
cided against Martin, affirming the de-‘
i'lsion of the Ohio courts in the matter.
This means that Martin gets noth
ing for the injuries which he received
in a wreck on that railroad on June
24, 1301. He asked for $25,000 in his
petition. It was admitted that the care
lessness of employes of the railroad
company left a switch open. Martin
is shut out by the fellow-servant doc
trine from getting any damages from
the railroad company._
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4 AUTO IS WRECKED. 4
4 Waterbury. Conn.. Sept. 2.—With 4
4 one arm around the waist of his 4
4 wife, whom he was kissing, and 4
4 steering a big red automobile with 4
I his other hand, the driver lost eon- 4
X trol of the car, which struck a 4
X wall and he and his companion 4
twere thrown Into a swamp. The ac- 4
cident occurred on the Meriden 4
4 mountain on the road to South- 4
4 hampton. The machine overturn- 4
4 lng, pinned the man by one leg. 4
4 The woman crawled out from un- 4
4 der the machine. They are Mr. and 4
4 Mrs. J. M. Southwick, of Trenton. 4
SUES MAN FOR NOT
GETTING A DIVORCE
New York, Sept. 2.—As a climax to.
/he elopment which a year ago stirred
the little village of Como-by-the-Sea.
,ar.d the neighboring summer resort
downs in Monmouth and Ocean coun
ties to unwonted indignation, there haai
been filed in the supreme court of New;
■Jersey one of the most remarkabla
■breach of promise suits ever instituted.
Miss Ida Eggeman, of Como, who
'July 3, 1906, eloped with Gilbert Van
Cleaf, a leader in the Methodist church.
:of the town, now sues him for $5,000
damages. According to the girl's com
plaint, the man for whom she left
home strengthened his ardent court
ship with solemn promises to obtain
a divorce and marry her as soon a a
.they were safely settled in the west.
So the usual humorous, pathetic,
scented missive complications of the
ordinary breach of promise suit are, in*
the Eggeman-Van Cleaf instance, su
perposed upon the grave question
whether the defendant can be consid*
ered culpable in breaking a pact to
put aside his lawfully wedded wife.
Sympathy for the Girl.
. In Como, where both the plaintiff and
defendant had spent most of their lives
before their infatuation for each other
took them away, the sympathy In alt
hvith pretty little Ida Eggeman. Her
■extreme youth and her former popular*
jity in the church and Sunday school,
[where »he first met Van Cleaf. bring to
!her the support of the townspeople.
Again the few who point out that shei
knew very well Van Cleaf was married!
end was old enough to realize what
■must be the consequences of such al
flight, there are hundreds who insist
[that the man is entirely responsible.
Only twice, and then at night, when!
she would not be compelled to face hert
friends, ■ has the girl visited her old
home since the elopement. When Van!
Cleaf deserted her in Philadelphia shei
found work and stayed there. On two
'occasions she slipped into Como after/
dusk, and left on the earliest, train in
the morning. There was little to bring
her back even to the pretty vine clad
inn on the turnpike where she had
spent her girlhood, because all her pic
tures had been destroyed and her name
was a forbidden subject in the house
of Eggeman. But on these two visits
her father’s heart relented toward her.
and he consented to aid her in the
present suit.
Van Cleaf Still in Jail.
Since he returned to Como several
months ago Van Cleaf has been asso
ciated with his father-in-law. John H.
Brown, in the Bay Head fisheries, at
Bay Head, N. J. He was arrested FTU
day by the sheriff of Ocean county and
lodged in the jail at Toms River lr»
default of $5,000 bail.
Had not Miss Eggeman, spurred b^
the desire to see her old home again,
slipped into Como at night and madet
her way to the inn, Van Cleaf would
probably have been left in peace, as it
was after the partial reconciliation wltb
her father that Miss Eggeman brought
the suit.
ARKANSAS IN FLUTTER
OF GEM EXCITEMENT
The Discovery of Diamonds ii»
Southern State Sets Land
Owners Agog.
Little Rock, Sept. 2.—Arkansas is iv
i flutter of excitement. The rest of the
country has read with interest of the
discovery of diamonds, but this is noth
ing to the commotion that the report
has caused in the state itself. Every
owner of a rocky farm in the hills see
himself the prospective owner of a
diamond mine that will rival the Kim
berley mines.
Up to the present, however, only one
And of what are believed to be dia
monds in paying quantities has been,
made. This find is near Murfreesboro,
in Pike county.
The mere fact that diamonds had
been found would not of itself be of
Importance, because they have been
found in twenty-nine other places in
the United States at various times, but
all other finds have been of one or two
stones at a place and in each case they;
have been glacial.
Survey's Report.
The geological survey has issued this
report relative to the Pike county dia
monds:
"They occur in an igenous rock, sim
ilar to that in the South African mines,
which forms a small stock near Mur
freesboro. The first two stones wers
found August 1, 19CG, and since then,
many have been picked up. the total
number found at last report being 130.
Many are white and of good water;
others are yellow and some are brown.
The two largest stones weigh six and a.
half carats, one being exceedingly fine
white and the other brown. They are
found on the surface as well as within
the greenish, friable, decomposed pe
riodtite, a rock somewhat like the fa
ir.cus blueground of Kimberley."
John Wesley Huddleston owned a.
farm in the hills of Pike county. He
was an enthusiast about minerals and
always carried around specimens of
ore-bearing rock. He lives much out
doors and bought a farm more for it*
mineral possibilities than for its fer
tility.
A Bright Crystal.
But one day he picked up a crystal'
which glinted brightly in the sunshine
arid seemed to hold the light more than
any other he had noticed. He
took it home to add to his col
lection. Rubbing it against an
other crystal, he noticed that
it cut it. He then decided to take the
stone to Murfreesboro and get some
other person's opinion on it. Mr. Hud
dleston rode muieback toward Mnr
freesboro. Possessed now with the Idea
that the crystals on his land were val
uable, he kept his eyes on the grouhd
as he rode along. Passing through one
of his fields his eyes caught a glint of
reflected sunshine from a pebble in the
dirt. Dismounting, he picked it up and
proceeded on his way.
Eventually he showed it to Judge J.
C. Pinnix, who, finding that it cut a
watch crystal like a glasscutter. ad
vised him to send it to Little Rook.
The specimens were sent there and
thence to New York, where experts de
clared they were diamonds.
DYING KE CONFESSES MURDER.
Columbus, Sept. 2.—On his deathbed
Louis longshore, a clerk, confessed to
his wife and members of his family
that he was the slayer of John Staunch,
a fishing companion, two years ago.
The dying man said that while fish
ing on Buckeye lake in Lyking county,
in May, tSC'5. the rest of the party went
ashore, leaving himself and Staunch on
the boat.
It was almost midnight and dark he
said. Longshore and Staunch quarreled
over who should row. the dying man
explained, and in the argument tie
struck his companion over the head
with an oar, killing him.