g.1 " . .: (THE O’NEILL FRONTIER1 O. H. CRONIN. Publisher. /NEILL, NEBRASKA The Anti-Cruelty society, of Chicago, has gone to the aid of herses that are unable to draw heavy loads up the Inclines at the Rush street bridge. In charge of an employe of the society, a big dralt horse has been stationed at the steep end of the bridge for use In assisting horses with heavy loads up the grade. The horse will be kept In use all winter, and arrangements may be made for permanent service. This plan is in line with that of the S. P. C- A., of New York, which tries to make the hilly streets of that city pass able In slippery weather by sprinkling them with sand. ___ The Cyclades, Islands In the Eegean sea, are famous for their marble quar ries. Among them Is Tinos Island. The marble quarries of Tinos are the freehold property of a British com pany, and contain large deposits of dark green marble with white and vio let veinlng. The Tinos green marble Is extensively used In Europo for fur niture tops, as well as for Interior dec orative work. In America and Great Britain, the marble is much sought for columns, pilasters, etc., principally for Its beauty and solidity. The production In 1907 excluded 1,900.000 tons, of ■which 692,5.87 tons have been exported. At the thirty-first annual meeting of the Iowa Association of Unitarian and Independent churches, recently held at Berry, a resolution was adopted declar ing tho conference strongly In "favor of both men and women In the minis try,” and as "believing women fully as efficient and valuable as men In all that pertains to religious leadership.” The Rev. Eleanor E. Gordon was secre tary of the conference. She Is also firesldent of the Iowa woman suffrag sts. One of the most successful meet ings of the conference was said to be that at which the Rev. Miss Safford was tho leader. _ To the average mind the conception of the atom, or electron, as a sort of whirl pool In tho ether, renders It difficult to understand how matter can be rigid. Rigidity is explained as duo to tho en ormous velocity of these etherlal vor tlces. It has been shown that water moving with sufficient velocity through «l tube can be broken Into by a violent blow from a sabre. "A layer of water a few centimeters thick," says M. le Bon, “animated by a sufficient velocity, which would be as Impenetrable to shells as tho steel plates of an Iron clad.” Parliament house. Melbourne, which has beon rushed by "the unemployed" of the commonwealth capital, Is the costliest legislative palace In Greater Britain. A million Iiuh been expended on It, and It is not yet completed. It belongs to the parliament of Victoria, but since federation it has been the meeting place of the parliament of the commonwealth, its owners moving to a wing of the exhibition building close j by. ____ An electric spark is the luminous ef fect produced when a sudden disruptive electrical discharge takes place be tween two charged conductors at dif ferent electric potentials. The length of the spark depends primarily upon the difference of potential of the two charged bodies; it is, hence, in general a conspicuous phenomenon with high potential frictional electricity, and not with ordinary voltaic currents. The growing scarcity of timber suit able for ties, with a resultant increase In their cost, lias led 11 roads to start forests. Ton roads in the East have al ready planted in their respective for est sites thousands of catalpa, black lo cust, red oak, pin oak and chestnut. One road has selected the eucalyptus because of Us rapid growth and adpta blllty to the climate of California, N.w Mexico and Texas. It Is difficult to estimate the total loss on the Scottish grain crop of this season, but if we put the deterioration at the quite moderate figure of £2 an sere for W) per cent of the lands under crop the total is a sum considerably over £2,000,000, says the Glasgow Her ald. The winter loss from using half rotten fodder and from protracted sales of discolored and musty grain is not so easily calculated. In the British army there is a de mand that the excessive smoking of cheap and bad clgarets be discouraged or prevented. In Beveral battalions ef forts are being made in this direction •o as to lessen the practice among the young soldiers. In one battalion com pany officers are enjoined to have an order against the clgaret read out at •very parade. Pipe smoking is not yet under the ban. Mrs. Cobden Sanderson is very re sentful of the suggestion that the women of England have a separate legislature. It was a mujor general in the army who suggested the plan, but the ladies will have none of it and declare that it would be most absurd. X-udy Warwick is also opposed to the Idea, as are the other suffragettes. A vapor blanket SO feet thick Is found by Professor Frank H. Bigelow to cover the reservoir at Reno, Nev. Assuming that a like invisible shield protects the Salton sea, It Is concluded that this body may lose by evapora tion not more than four or five feet yearly, instead of the eight feet hith erto expected. There Is a noticeable Increase in f ambling by boys In the streets of New ork. The police sometimes Interfere, as was the case recently, when a po liceman chased a score of urchins from In front of a well known gumbling house within a stone's throw of Herald •quare, where a game was going on. Resembling certain fo <11 quadrupeds more than any other living animal, a few specimens of the solendon, an in sectivorous animal, have been seen on the Island of Santo Domingo for the first time In several years. It had been supposed that the animal was extinct. Manoramabal, daughter of Pundtta Ramabal, and vice principal of the Bharada Sadan, the school for girls In tndia, which is supported by the American Ramabal association, Is to Visit this country. New York city has more restaurants than any other city in the world, and they represent the extremes of the good and the bad, with fewer of the middle grade than cither Paris or London. In disposing of an estate valued at (2,000, the will of Jennie Linn, of Phil adelphia, directs that the deed to her cemetery lot Is to be placed in the casket and burled with her. To cure Its office boys of loafing, a firm at Beloit. Wls., has equipped the push cart they use with devices for registering the distance covered In (rips, and the speed made. Astronomers of note are Inclined to the theory that the eighth entente of Jupiter, discovered last winter. Is the missing Lexell comet, last seen In 1779, SHMe lu Li.c planet. BLEACHED FLOUR RULING STRIKES MILLING TRADE Appeal to Agricultural Depart ment for the Reversal of Severe Restriction. Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 22.—-The millers of Nebraska are up against ih They have been recently hard hit by a de rision of the Washington authorities j that to bleach flour is a violation of the pure food law, and must be j stopped. They have appealed to the j agricultural department for a reversal i of this ruling, and while they are wait ing for it along come the railroads ! and propose to raise the rates for car rying their products. The millers have complained to the state commission, and so far have been able to hold the railroads back. They assert that If they have to pay higher freight rates In addition to buying out side grain that does not need to be bleached when made into tiour, they will be practically put out of business. —1~ CONCORD WORLD WILL CONTINUE PUBLICATION < Vmcord. Neb.. Dec. 22.—The Concord World, which was discontinued by its editor, James Brink, two weeks ago, will still shine. The business men of the town discovered lhat the adjoin ing towns were after the trade and they found it was getting away from Concord, so they called a meeting and guaranteed the editor a good living to remain. Miss Ktta Brink will manage the paper after January 1. BANK OF CERESCO ROBBED OF $3,000 Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 22.—The State Bank of Ceresco, 20 miles north of here, was looted by three robbers about 2 o’clock this morning. Three thousand dollars In currency was taken from the safe, the robbers stealing a rig from u livery barn and escaping. The team was deserted 15 miles east, near Ashland, where It was found this morning. James Boyle, a resident of Ceresco, was held up at the pistol's point by the robbers who were on the lookout, and who marched Boyle to the bank, where he was found gagged and bound to a chair, when ('ashler Leal opened the bank. Lincoln officers have hurried to Ashland and expect to cap ture the robbers before night. The bank’s losses are insured. DID THIS WOMAN CAUSE SIX DEATHS? In Three Years Mrs. Kelleher’s Hhsband, Son, Daughters and Sistersinlaw Died. Somerville, Mush., Dec. 22.—Six deaths In the Immediate faintly of Mrs. Mary E. Reliefer of Somerville, now In Jail in East Cambridge awaiting a hearing on the charge of arson, have caused the police to begin an Investigation Into the cause of the deaths. Tonight Mrs. Kelleher was examined as to her sanity. One of the six deaths was in 1905, three were In 1906 and two have been recorded this year. The names of the persons who died, the given causes off their deaths and the dates of the burials are as follows: Mrs. Bridget Knowles, sister of Mis. Kelleher’s husband; rheumatism, July 3, 1905. Annie Kelleher, sister of Mrs. Kelleher’s husband; complications, March 3, 1906. Stephen Kelleher the husband; ptomine poisoning, supposed to have resulted from eating lobster, May 19, 1906. Mary Kelleher, daughter, 3 years old; diphtheria, followed by paralysis, Novem ber 13, 1906. William Kelleher, son, 9 years old; heart disease. June 16, 1908. Catherine Kelleher, daughter, 12 years old; ptomine poisoning, July 25, 1908. All these deaths resulted' from Illnesses which began while the persons were in mates of Mrs. Kelleher’s home in Somer ville. It is said that the Insurance money In each Instance was paid to Mrs. Kelle he%, except possibly in the case of Annie, whose Insurance money it is believed, passed to her brother Stephen, who died two months after his sister. Hast Friday night Mrs. Kelleher was arrested at the home of A, J. Dowell In Cambridge, where she was employed as a servant. She was charged with having pet fires in that house December 6 and December 11. She admits having set the first of these fires, but denies any know ledge of the other. The police obtained Information regard ing the deaths yesterday and they began an Investigation. Five of the deaths were |n Somerville. Only one, that of Mr. Kelleher, was outside of Somerville. He dieii In the Carney hospital and was re moved there from his wife’s home in Somerville. HARVESTER TRUST TO BE CONVICTED UPON OWN MEN’S TESTIMONY Jefferson City, Mo.. Dec. 22.—Attor ney General Hadley announced today he has notified the attorneys for the International Harvester company that the state will present no further tes timony in tlie ouster suit which the attorney general is prosecuting against the concern on the ground that it ex ists in violation of the anti-trust laws of Missouri. The case for the state will thus rest upon the evidence of officials of tlie defendant companies only, no other witnesses having been called by the prosecution. If the defendant in terests wish to offer testimony It will be placed in the shameless position of attacking the statements of its own officials. FROM BANKS TO OVERALLS. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 22.—Kx-Stato Bank Commissioner Kendall, who lost ids office when he let Walker, the $500, 000 embezzler of New Britain, escape, has put an end to his long idleness by donning overalls and taking a Job at stripping tobacco in a warehouse. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WINS A DECISION IN COURT Warronsburg. Mo., Dec. 22.—There's no law in Missouri prohibiting the practice of healing by members of the Christian Science church, according to a decision handed down today in the circuit court. The case was brought to test the law. Mrs. Lena A. Jacard rnd Theresa M. Haywood, prominent Christian Science practitioners of Kan ins City, were charged with violating •aws that make it an offense to prac [lice medicine or surgery or treat the pick for i>a? ( KEEP TELEPHONES IN ALL STATIONS? Question Whether Railroads Are Creatures of the Law— Telephone a Necessity. Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 21.—A pretty struggle is on before the atat- railway • on'.mIssioh to settle the question <>f whether a railroad can be compelled t" maintain a telephone in its depot if it doesn’t want to. Th* railroads are lined up against the proposition solidly, and aver that it Is carrying regulation too far for the* commission to ea. what instruments it shall y in carrying on its busi ness. The state's attorney holds that the ' railroads are creatures of the law en trusted with c*«*\uin sovereign powers to subserve public me< ssith s and that tluv must conduct their affairs in the furtherance of tie public objects of their » r< ution. Under modern business methods the telephone is a necessity, and that where patrons of a road to any considerable number have tele phones. the railroad can be compelled to install one for the convenience of i persons who desire to take trains or , secure information about rates, ship ments, etc. The tact that it entails an extra ex pens upon the company is held to be immaterial, because the company can not justify its refusal where the public, rights tiro affected. It Is pointed out that If there tire two railroads In a S town each is eager to serve the public ' b> installing phones of till the systems then* are, and the fact that a railroad has a monopoly of the transportation business In another town is no reason to den.'- its patrons there of equal fa- j cilities for doing business with it. ROB TWO BANKS AND GET $5,500 Gibbon, Nell., Dec. 21.—Six robbers, nfter dynamiting the safe in the Farm ers' State bank, of Keene, 28 mileH south of Gibbon, and the Commercial bank, of Gibbon, engaged in a pitched battle here with a number of citizens early today and escaped In an automo bile with $5,500. One of the robbers Is believed to have been wounded and carried off by Ills comrades. Posses are In pursuit. The Keene bank was first entered. Here two vault doors were opened by the force of the explosion. The robbers se cured $3,000 and climbed Into an auto mobile and started north. An hour Inter the robbers reached Gibbon, and while four of their number began work Inside the Commercial bank two others kept guard outside. Here ] the explosion attracted a number of ' citizens, who partly surrounded the building and for 15 minutes a lively fusillade of shots was exchanged. Finally, at a given signal, the robbers made their escape through a rear door with $2,500. GOVERNOR SHELDON ON PLANTATION Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 21.—Governor Sheldon left Thursday morning for Greenville, Miss,, where he will spend a week In looking after the business end of his cotton plantation there. Governor Sheldon will go back to Mississippi after the expiration of his term of office and will probably take his family with him. Aside from the business of the trip, no program was outlined, as the governor must hurry back to clean up the pardon hearings now hanging lire, write his message and get matters and things in shape for the Induction into office, of his suc cessor. BURGLARS CRACK SAFE AND SECURE $3,000 Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 21.—The Farmers' State bank, at Keene, a village in Keurney county, was burglarized dur ing last night. The robbers cracked the safe and escaped with $3,000., Sheriff Ransom Is on the scene with blood hounds. There is no clue. MAYOR CAN VOTE ON LIQUOR LICENSE Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 21.—The supreme court today set a precedent in liquor license cases by ruling that the mayor of a town of a certain class has the light to vote in case of a tie. The ap peal was from Hastings, which at the spring election voted out the saloons. A contest on one councilman, however, developed that one of the "dry" mem bers had been defeated, making the council a tie. The mayor declared his right to vote, declaring for saloons, and the supreme court sustains him. DAUGHTER OF ANTI-NOISE ' LEADER FINED FOR “JOY RIDING” ON A “POP-POP” New York. Dec. 21.—Miss Dorothy Klee, arrested for speeding while mo tor cycling, was lined $10 by Magistrate Cornell today. "It’s true that you ride one of those a\\ fully dangerous motor cycles, isn't it?” asked the court when Miss Klee was introduced. Miss Rice replied that she rode a mo tor cycle, but that it is not dangerous. "At least,” she added, "if any one should be hurt by my machine it would be mo." "Were you going at this terrific rate of speed?" inquired Mr. Cornell, (eighteen miles un hour was the rate charged.) "I don't think i was.” replied Miss Klee. "Isn't your mother head of an anti noise society?" "She Is," “Doesn’t she object to your riding those noisy machines?” "My machine isn't noisy. I ride it so it doesn't make any noise." Then it is all the more dangerous when you go fust." replied Mr. Cornell. *T shall have to tine you $10." Miss Klee paid her fine and sailed out. TO CENSOR REPORTS OF NIGHT RIDERS’ TRIAL I’nion City, Tenn., Dee. 21.—That strict censorship of the press will be established dur'ng the night rider trials was indicated when court opened to day. Judge Jones requested the news 1 aper men to refrain from handling the testimony adduced at the trial, and said if the request was disregarded the court wou'd be compelled to take such steps as would protect the interests of the commonwealth. The taking of tes timony was begun today. DEMOCRATS DECIDE UPON CHARACTER OF BANK DEPOSIT LAW Will Provide Permanent Fund of $100,000 and Immedi ate Payment of Claims. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 19.—In order io defeat any organized eftort of the bankers of the state to secure any emasculation of the proposed law for the guarantee of bank deposits, tlie democratic leaders have undertaken to have drawn up for immediate presenta tion to the legislature, after organiza tion, a bill that will be known as the administration measure, and it is in tended to push tills through without any amendment. A computation is now being made of the losses to depositors through the failure of banks in the state, beginning with before the panic of 1891’ and clos ing witli the last statement. Upon this basis the assessment will be fixed, the idea being to secure a permanent fund approximating $100,000, available to sat isfy all claims. The bill will provide tor the immediate payment to deposit ors of the amounts they have in a failed bank, as soon as they prove up their claims. This is the point that hits the bankers. They want payment de ferred until the receiver has found out how much the assets fall short of meeting the claims. Mr. Bryan and Governor Shallenberger insist that such a provision would mean that the measure would fail of its purpose, since such a law would not attract any hid den money into the banks. ACQUITTED ON PLEA OF SELF DEFENSE Lincoln, Neb,, Dec. 19.—Wilson A. Wiley, on trial for the murder of Jo seph Watkins, a hack driver, was ac quitted this morning by the Jury aftef an all night session. Watkins was killed last September in the tenderloin district. Wiley es tablished a plea of s.elf defense. MURDERER GETS STAY OF SENTENCE Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 19.—The Nebras ka supreme court today postponed the execution of Mead Shumway, convicted of murder, from January X to January 29. JUDGE WON’T COMPEL $8 A WEEK HUSBAND TO SUPPORT WIFE New York, Dec. 19.—Judge Foster, sitting in the court of general sessions, gave a warning today to women who may be inclined to try to live In a cottage on $fi a week, that they cannot expect the law to force their husbands to support them. Emma Glassberg had applied to the corporation counsel to compel her hus band, Lesser Glassberg, to support her. They were married about a year ago. Glassberg then was earning about SO a week as an apprentice painter. He failed to increase his earning capacity and two months ago he gave up the struggle to keep house and separated from his wife. "This rushing into matrimony may appeal to the president of the United States," said Judge Foster, "but it does not to anyone who weighs evi dence and acts judiciously to determine whether or not such a thing is reason ably right and proper. "The most fruitful cause of misery lies in the large families the poor per sist in having. I am not going to en courage this kind of matrimony by making husbands whose earnings are $6 a week go out and steal to support their wives.” RACES TO IRELAND ON $1,000 WAGER Chicago, Dee. 19.—Among the passen gers aboard the Lusitania, which sailed yesterday from New York to Queens town, was Pat O’Malloy, a Chicago poli tician who is racing to Ireland on a wager of $1,000. Jim O'Leary, the stock yards “gambling king,” has the other end of the bet. It was at the First ward democratic ball Monday night that the unique wager was made. O'Malloy and O'Leary had boxes at the ball and according to custom, each sent the other a case of champagne. These and several other eases vanished when, at 2:30 a. m., O’Leary approached the box occupied by O’Malloy. Another bottle was opened. "You’d be a long time in Ireland, Pat, before you’d get any of this stuff to drink,” was O’Leary’s toast. “Oh. I don’t know,” replied O’Malloy. “I drank wine before I ever saw Amer ica, and at my father's table, too.” "You mean buttermilk, don’t you, Pat?" O’Leary rejoined. “You never saw any iizz water in Limerick.” The loud guffaws that greeted O’Leary’s badinage brought O’Malloy to his feet. "Say, Jim," he said, "I’ll bet you $1,000 that I can be in Ireland a week from today and I’ll have a bottle of wine with father and mother.” The wager was made and two hour? later O'Malloy was on Ills way. MRS. FISH PLANNING TO QUIT NEWPORT? Newport, R. I„ Dec. 19.—That Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish plans to absent herself from Newport next summer and for a second successive summer, is shown by an announcement that Crossways, which Mrs. Fish owns, is for rent or for sale. The magnificent colonial estate faces Bailey's beach, in close proximity to the summer homes of Henry Clews, George H. Warren and Williams Miller. Mrs. Fish had planned a trip to Eu rope and the Nile for the summer. There are Newport wiseacres who de clare if Mrs. Fish deserts Newport for a second consecutive season she never will return to live. ALICE NEILSON FILES A BANKRUPTCY PETITION New York. Dec. 19.—Alice Neilsen, an actress long prominent on the comic opera stage, filed a petition in bankruptcy. She gave as her liabilities $7,800 and her as sets at $7G. The case consists of unse cured claims, among them one of $1,900 for money loaned by Dee Shubert. The asset* comprise the wearing apparel ex empt by law. Miss Neilsen in private lift is Mrs. Benjamin Went wig. MAN LIVES THREE MONTHS WITH HIS NECK DISLOCATED Falls From Haystack and “Breaks His Neck’’— His Body Is Paralyzed. Central City. Neb.. Dec. 18.—Living for tiiree months with a broken neck, J. R. Dyche, the Clarks citizen who was Injured last September by falling from a haystack, finally succumbed to his injury. Mr. Dyche was working on a haystack when he was struck by the fork of the stacker and knocked off, alighting on his head. His neck was broken and his spinal column injured. Since that time he was a helpless in valid. and was partially paralyzed andj he grew gradually worse until the end came. GOAL DEALERS ASK FOR DEMURRAGE BILL Iowa and Nebraska Dealers Ini. tiate New Measure to Control Freight Transportation. Omaha, Neb., Doe. 18.—The Iowa an Dean Beecher as follows: ‘‘If you will send me this little fel low, who I have already set my heart on, you will have the lifelong grati tude of a man whose heart is hungry for the love of a child. I fell in love with him from the picture. It has al ways been my intention to adopt a. baby and do that much toward helping the little homeless chaps of the world." The Winship child has been un der the care of the juvenile court three years. His father and mother were heavy drinkers and are now in western mining districts. The boy has been living at the detention home ami is just flnirhing a course in the kiu dergarten. Jennings sent money to buy his fos ter son a complete outfit of new clotln-a. and some pocket money. UNION OF COOKS AND MAIDS IN ILLINOIS Chicago. Dec. 17.—Mistresses of largo* households in Chicago will be interested ir». learning that within a few’ weeks or months their maids and cooks probably will be members of the servant girls’ am** culinary workers’ union. The work of organizing all culinary workers, both men and women, into art organization embracing the entire state* was begun yesterday by Miss Anna Will ard, president of the waitresses’ union of Chicago, and vice president of the com* bined bartenders' and waitresses’ union of* Illinois. She started the campaign of organiza tion by sending letters outlining the plan, to cooks, waitresses, bartenders and ser vant girls employed in hotels, restaurant& and in private families in all parts of th*» state. The campaign originally was started At. the recent state convention of the liar tenders’ and Waitresses’ union held at' Alton. POLITICIAN RESORTS TO SAFE ROBBING In Company With His Reputed. Wife, Who May Possess Another Husband. Deadwood, S. D., Dec. 17.—Telegram* from influential Denver friends, offer ing their aid, betrayed the identity of the man who registered at a fashion able hotel here last week, with his re puted wife, as Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lange, of Detroit. He is none other than Jerry John - son, a well known democratic poli tician of Denver. Johnson and the woman ire charged with robbing Un safe of a department store here while a confederate kept the clerks busy. Both man and woman are now un der arrest here. The woman is be lieved to have deserted a husband, but her identity is still a mystery. When a treated she had railroad tickets to Rld YiW, Neb.__ _ TWO ROOSEVELT BILLS. Washington, Dec. 17.—With recom mendations for their passage, President Roosevelt sent to congress two drafts of bills providing aid for the military departments of civil educational insti tutions. One authorized the secretary of war to issue equipment stores and supplies, such as may be required fox field instruction in such schools, and the other appropriates $100,000 annuully for the promotion of rifle practice In public schools colleges, universities arid civilian title clubs. MEETING OF NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION New York, Dee. 17.—Chairman Wil cox, as head of the welfare department of the National Civic federation, opened the second days' session "of the annual convention of that body today with a speech in which he outlined the object of his department broadly as the Improvement of working and living conditions^ of workingmen. Dr. Lee K. Frankel and Louis D. Braudels, of Boston, delivered addresses.