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/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.
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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 <mpl >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<!
Nebraska Coal Dealers' association, in
session here today, demanded a re
ciprocal demurrage bill and appointed
a committee to present the matter to
the state legislature this winter.
H. L. Laird, of Marshalltown, secre
tary of the association, proposed the
measure, providing that railroads fur
nish cars for loading within five days
of the time ordered or be fined $5 a day
for every day's delay. It also provides
for movement of cars for not less than
50 miles a day, beginning within 24
hours from the time the railroad com
pany is furnished with a bill of lading,
or a fine of $5 a day for every day a
60-mile run is not made.
At present all cars must be unloaded
in 48 hours. The proposed bill places
it at 72 hours for 60,000-pound cars.
LOVERS ELOPE UNDER
COVER OF DARKNESS
Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 18.—Stepping out
the back door of her home In this place
Monday evening, soon after dark, Miss
Margaret Byrne failed to return as
soon as expected, and communicating
witn Judge Stinson, of Dakota City, the
parents of the girl confirmed their sus
picions that an elopement had oc
curred .
The other party to the event was
Michael M. Hickey, a saloonkeeper, of
Waterbury. this county. The groom Is
29 years old, and the bride 22, and they
will live for the present at Waterbury.
The ceremony took place at Vista Mon
day evening, the license having been
issued the morning of the same day.
BIRDS AND BEASTS
ON COLLEGE CAMPUS
Chicago, Dec. 18.—Leafless trees on the
Northwestern university campus held
many rare specimens of the trophies last
evening, for several students broke Into
the well stocked museum of the institu
tion and carried exhibits far from their
resting places.
Birds of paradise, monkeys, jackals, and
other specimens were wrested from their
fastenings and hurried out onto the cam
pus. Three valuable kangaroos were found
perched firmly in the tree tops. Just
how they managed to maintain their an
chorage in the barren trees Is not known,
but it is said an investigation will be !
started that may result in the expelling |
of at least a few* of the “Ring Leaders."
One of the kangaroos is reported to have j
suffered considerably in being hoisted to
Its uncertain position and may not be fit
to exhibit longer In the museum.
The basketball game between the '
"Freshies” and varsity was on at the time.
A wild scream from one of the coeds caused
a score of students to hurry to the place
where the largest of the animals has been
deserted. It was only "the tall of a kan
garoo," but it was being fanned by a
slight breeze and dangling among the
branches. Perched high above it in the
tree was a raccoon, and down at the
trunk stood a mountain goat.
PASTOR BARS PENNIES
FROM THE COLLECTION
Wllkesbarre, Dec. 18.—Pennies will not
be accepted hereafter in the collection
baskets at St. Mary’s Catholic church,
which has the largest congregation of any
in this city.
Some time ago the pastor, the Rev. R.
A. Me Andrew, requested that nothing less
than a nickel be placed In the baskets.
This request was not heeded and yesterday
morning he made the announcement at all
masses that after this pennies will not
be accepted.
“Any one who Is ?o poor as to give the
church no more than a penny at the
Sunday collection,’’ he said, "needs the
cent more than the church does."
He added that if his words are not
heeded he would be compelled, disagree
able as It might be, to accompany the col
lectors and personally return all pennies
placed in the basket.
He said that last Sunday not fewer
than 1,000 persons gave pennies.
ONE KILED IN MARSHAL’S
ENCOUNTER WITH TOUGHS
Toledo, Ohio, Dee. 18.—An unknown
man was instantly killed and Marshal
P. C. Woods, of Greenwich, Huron
county, was seriously wounded early
today in an encounter with five men
in the railroad yards of that village.
The marshal accosted the man stand
ing near the postofflee and acting in a
suspicious manner. In reply to ques
tions the man said he was a stranger
in town, but desired to leave on a
freight train. The marshal escorted him
to the railroad yards. Just as they
reached the tracks four other men
jumped from behind a car and shoot
ing began. A posse today is searching
the surrounding country for the men.
YOUNG HAYS’ “WIDOW”
HAS JUST TURNED UP
Fniladelphia, Dec. 18.—That Adelbertr
Hay, son of the late Secretary John Hay,
w'as a husband and a father at the time
of his death from a fall from a second
story bedroom wdndow was declared by
Mrs. Rachel Worick, the mother of Mrs.
Mary Hyland Hay, who claims to be young
Hay’s widow, after her daughter had ap
plied for a marriage license to marry Dr.
Arthur Kraut, a v ealthy manufacturing
chemist of this city. Adalbert Hay, she
said, elo; -j from Washington to Atlantic
City in August, 1900, with her daughter.
“MODEL KITCHEN”
SACRED PRECINCT
President of Corn Exposition
Not Allowed to Approach It
During Woman’s Talk.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 17.—Mary F
Rouse, a me mber of the faculty of the
Unlversity of Colorado, was a lec
turer at the “model kitchen” during
the afternoon and the importance of
her address was emphasized by a po
liceman, who stopped President Gordon
W. Wattles, of the corn exposition,,
who unceremoniously attempted to es
cort a friend to the culinary depart
ment. The president of the exposition
was stopped by the guard, who told
him Mrs. Rouse was delivering a lec
ture and could not be disturbed. The
official displayed his badge, whereupon
the guard declared that "orders ts or
ders” and sent him back down stairs
to await the next lecture.
Iowa had a real day and delegations
from all parts of the state were on
hand to see the exhibition. Sioux City,
Dts Moines, Storm Bake, Boone,
Marshalltown, Burlington, Corning,
Red Oak. Shenandoah. Onawa, Bogan
and Cherokee each had a good delega
tion, and Iowa badges were displayed
on lapels to indicate the pride of that
agricultural state as its citizens
moved up and down the aisle of the
exposition.
The students of the Nebraska deaf
and dumb institute placed a unique ex
hibit in the main building today which
attracted a big crowd, principal of
whom were the 1,200 students of the
institute, who attended the exposition,
today.
BACHELOR ADOPTS
WAIF: WILL WASH
AND DRESS A EOT
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 17.—Request to.
adopt a 5-year-old Omaha waif by Of
young bachelor of Valentine astounded,
officers of the juvenile court yesterday.
H. C. Jennings, a photographer. Is
the bachelor-father. His new adopted,
son is George Winship, a boy at the
detention home, abandoned by his pa
rents.
Jennings is 30 years of age and fell
in love with the Winship boy from a
photograph. He is living alone, keep
ing bachelor quarters in his photo
graph gallery.
Agreements to wash, dress, cook ami
tend to the child like a mother wore
made by Jennings. He will adopt ami
educate the boy as his own son.
In asking for permission to adopt,
the child, the bachelor-father wrote ti>
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.
