Nebraska Newspapers

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D. H. CRONIN. Publl.s.,.
FNEILL, NEBKA6K *
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The harbor of Nagasaki. Japan Is
«ne of the safest and most convenient
tn the orient. It Is spacious and al
most landlocked, and. having n mud
bottom, affords excellent anchorage In
depths varying from three and one-half
to fifteen fathoms ut low water, spring
tides A considerable urea of land has
been reclaimed by tilling In ut the
tipper end of the harbor, where land
ing stages on pontoons are provided
for small steamers to come alongside.
Nearly all cargo is handled by means
Of lighters. There arc no piers or
wharves of suftli tent size to accom
modate large vessels.
Kiss P. Stella Mlchelson, a young
attorney at law of Los Angeles, Cal.,
has decided to undertake the work of
Mslstlng William H. George In estab
lishing George Junior republics In ev
sry part of the country, fiho Is said
to be Independently wealthy. She will
first go to Freevllle, N. J., to study the
work and will then travel from state
to state and assist In organizing the
republics.
Umt Edna Bertonelle, a seamstress In
the Quartler Montmarte, Parts. Is held
to be the youngest great grandmother
tn the world. She was married at the
*g* of 14, and her llrst child, a girl,
married at the same early age. When
Edna was 81 sho was a grandmother.
Her grandson married ut 17 a young
Woman a few days his Junior. < tn Iter
48th birthday Mme. Bertonelle was a
great grandmother.
Mrs. Madeline Lucette Hyley, the
American playwright, presided at the
meeting of the Actresses' Franchise
league which was recently aeld In Lon
don. In opening the meeting Mrs. Ky
ley made a neat little speech In which
she declared that actresses belonged to
a favored profession, Inasmuch as they
worked side by side with men and re
ceived equal pay with men In their
work.
Over 1,00* miles of ratlronds were
built In Argentina In 1908 and conces
sions were granted for the construc
tion of over 8,000 miles more. Though
1007 showed a marked Increase In rull
road earnings over 190G, yet the record
for 1808 exceeded 1907 by, 20 per cent.
Out of $101391,000 earnings the profits
were $40,02#,000, or about 6 per cent on
ths $788,9*4,116 capital Invested.
The tie-treating plant of the Mexican
Central railroad has reached an output
9t 8,600 ties a day, making It one of t lie
largest concerns of Its kind In the
world. The plant is the first In the his
tory of rallwuy operation to make n
success of the treatment of ties by the
Ebano oil process. It Is expected that
ths treatment will prolong the life of
each tie from eight to 12 years.
At a meeting of the Academy of
Sciences In Paris It wus established
recently that ultra-violet rays passed
through milk will completely sterilize
the liquid and effectually rid ll of nil
microbes. The fluid Is sterilized with
out heating or tho use of chemicals
end what Is most Important of all.
without the less of any essential char
acter of the milk. ;
The smallest specimen of a baby
whale ever caught by a British trawler
was landed at Grimsby recently by the
King James. It was brought up In
the trawl net In the North sea, and
was so small—18 Inches long and 3
pounds 8 ounces in weight—that the
fishermen ceuld not, realize that It wus
a whale until an expert certified the
fact.
Giving up Ills profession, a Paris beg- '
gar offers his "pitch" for sale. His ad
vertisement reads: "For sale, present
holder retiring to tho country; good
•ltuatlon for one-legged man: neighbor
hood of the litolle; hours of work, 2
p. m. to 7 p. m. Receipts $2.40 to $3.’l5.
Regular pnssersby, children and
strangers. Or any infirmity would
suit."
Sir Robert Boyce, F. R. S„ dean of
the IJverpool School of Tropical Medi
cine, la, on behalf of the colonial of
fice, visiting the West indies for the
purpose of looking Into tho present
methods of deiillng with sickness and
recommending what can be done to I
promote the physical welfare of the
people.
The glass works at Baccarat, Franco,
have produced glass chimneys of re
cnarkuble properties for lamps used in
coal mines containing much fire damp.
Ten of these chimneys were placed in
water, slowly heated to the boiling
point and then plunged Into water of
*9 degrees Fahrenheit. Not one of the
chimneys was cracked.
The French government's project to
pension servants of the state railways
has been completed, and presented to
at parliamentary commission, ll pro
vides for the retiring of firemen over 1
60 years of age who have been 25 years
In the service on half-pay, and It gives
pensions to disabled men who have
had ID years of service.
Concrete Itself Is very old. The con
Crete stairs or Colchester and Roches
ter castles still show the murks of the
Incasing boards; the dome of Agrippa's
Pantheon, which Is 142 feet In diameter,
Is of concrete, and fragments of con
crete buildings are found In Mexico and
Peru.
Friedrich Thell, a peasant of Rauda, '
In Saxony, whoso leisure hours have
been devoted to the study of Greek
Latin. Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic ami
Gaelic, is if years old. He is beginning
to ntudy the Fnglish language. Tlieil
Is In correspondence with some of the
leading phllogists of the day.
Trudeau's classic experiment points I
tie In the right direction. After lnuen- !
lating a number of rabbits with tu
berculosis ho confined a number of
them Indoors and turned the others
outdoors. The hitter all recovered,
while the former all died.
The women school teachers through- !
cut the country are looking longingly
toward Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
wince the equal suffragists brought out
the fact that In these states women
teachers receive the same salaries as
the men.
There are 22 lepers—half of them
whites—In the hospital In New South
"Wales. From 1883, when the lazaret i
w«\s established, to the end of lllOT, i
114 persons have been Isolated there. I
British cocoa firms have decided not ■
to use any more, i ocoa from the Portu
guese Islands of an Thome and Prin
cipe because of tho 111 treatment of the
natives laboring on the plantations.
The University of Heidelberg has re
ceived from a foivlgn benefactor In
terested In the advancement of science '
!the sum of $30,000 toward the foundu- .
tlon of a radiographic institute.
Pennsylvania leads all the states in '
■the amount of personal property within
the state's borderu subject to taxation.
SUPREME JUDGES
NAMED BY SHELDON
RETAIN POSITIONS
Court Decides for Rose and
Dean and Upholds Right of
Canvassing Board.
Lincoln, X» b., May U Tin decision of
the supreme court late yesterday after
noon seating Judges Kota* and Dean,
and denying the light of Judge Sulli
van and Judge Oldham to a place on
the supreme bench, ends a very pretty
little political squabble.
After the amendment Increasing the
number of Judges was carried last fall,
Governor Sheldon, acting on a certifi
cate from the state board of canvassers
that it had received a legal majority,
appointed three republicans and one
democrat. The latter. Judge Sullivan,
refused to accept, and J. It. Dean, a
republican, was named In Ids stead, In
addition to J. S. Fawcett, W. H. Rose
and Jesse L. Root. Later Governor
Shallenberger appointed Root, Fawcett, j
Sullivan and Oldham, two republicans |
and two democrats, after the demo
cratic legislature had superficially can
vassed the returns.
The decision yesterday was expected
by all of the lawyers.
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4 PRISONER CRITIC 4
}4 LOSES “GOOD TIME” 4
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♦ Lincoln, Neb.. May 11. The* 4
4 frank statement of Convict Nel- 4
4 son at the penitentiary that he 4
4 would be blffaly blabboomed if 4
4 he couldn’t run the penitentiary 4
4 better himself, coupled with 4
4 other remarks, caused him to 4
4 lose six months’ good time al- 4
4 ready earned. The report of 4
4 Warden Smith shows that this 4
4 punishment was inflicted be- 4
4 cause Nelson “had criticised the 4
4 administration.” 4
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BOMBS ARE THROWN
IN ARGENTINE STRIKE
Buenos Ayres, May 11.- -The explos- i
ion of a bomb at the corner of Cor- j
rlentes and Corritos strets injured 1
20 persons, four of them seriously,
and caused great excitement for a
time. The bomb was hidden in a bas
ket of vegetables which was placed on
the platform of a trumear presumably
by some one In sympathy with the
strike inaugurated on May day.
Business Is at a standstill and com
merce has Buffered enormously.
A second bomb was exploded last
night. At the moment a street car
was passing through a prominent
street, but no one was injured.
FIRST WIRELESS MESSAGE
CHICAGO TO NEW YORK
N«*w York, May 11- Tho first aerial
inesstiKo ever tranmitteil between Uhi
I'ligo ami New York was received late '
the other night at the station of tin*
United Wireless Telegraph company,
on top of the Waldorf-Astoria. The
message was from <\ t\ Galbraith, |
general manager of the company, to
the home office. |
The message came in “strong," in |
the parlance of wireless operators, and
was received by S. W. llnnee. night
operator at the Waldorf-Astoria stu- i
tlon.
Ever since wireless telegraphy has
been established on a commercial ba
sis scientists have questioned the pos- ,
nihility of transmitting aerial mes- I
sages over land for long distances.
The transmission of this message and
the conversation held between the |
operators at each end of the "line"
proves that the scientists have been
wrong in their figuring. The Chicago
station is on top of the Auditorium
annex.
HAT CATCHES ROBIN ;
LIT TO PICK CHERRIES
Pushing. 1.. I. May 11. A deluded
robin came to grief because a pretty
girl wore n peach basket hut trimmed
with artificial cherries.
The girl whs walking along Broad
way, near the old court house, when
thi- robin, on a lower limb of a tree,
spied the hat and its trimmings. It
hopped from Hs porch onto the hat 1
and started to pick at the cherries.
The girl screamed and clutched at
her hat. The robin's feet caught in the j
trimmings and It was held a prisonei.
A man went to the assistance of girl
and robin.
The robin escaped.
BLACK HAND ASSASSINS
SHOOT RICH CHICAGOAN
Chicago, May 11. Another Black |
Hand crime—merciless, cruel and in
tangible has been given to the police
here to solve.
Mariana Zugone, 47 years old, a
wealthy cigar manufacturer, who 1ms
narrowly escaped death on three pre
vious occasions through Ills refusal to
comply with the demands of his mys
terious enemies, was shot in the tem
ple while sitting In a chair in his
hrotherinlaw's saloon, and is reported
to he dying at the Polytechnic hospital.
When the police arrived they found j
Kagone lying on the sidewalk In front
of the saloon.
INDICT RAIDERS OF
WYOMING SHEEP CAMP
Cheyenne, Wju, May 11.—The grand
fury investigating the raid on the sheep
camp of Allemand and Binge, near
Spring ''reek, returned Indictments
against George Sabin. M. A. Alexander,
Thomas Dixon, William W. Disc and '
Charles Ferris, all well known cattle
men. of Tenslcep, charging them with
complicity In the murder of a herder
named Lazier and Allemand and Binge,
All of the men Indicted are now la
Jail.
tin the night of March - the camp of
Allemand and Binge was attacked by
is men. The sheepmen were shot and
the bodies of two burnei]. The sheep
men lmd been warned not to cross a
certain line with their flocks.
CHOIR SINGS, ONE
DEAD, ONE HAS FIT
Sharon, fa.. May 11.—Never again
will tin- Inmates of the Men er county
poor farm he entertained with the an
thems rendered by a choir. One of Un
loading choirs of the town was trans
ported to the poor farm to sing at the
religious services.
During th» rendition of the first
number one of the inmates fell to the
floor and died within two minutes.
During 111'- .HOiond number one of the
liunat s had an i-plle; tic fit.
PRISONER ESCAPES
7-YEAR SENTENCE
WITH JAIL ALIBI
Record Shows He Was Not at
Liberty When Serious Crime
Was Committed.
Omaha. Nib.. May 10.—J. H. Davis, a
Nebraska man. wltn prominent family
t onneetloiis in Georgia, has saved him
self the Inconvenience of spending
seven years In the Georgia penitentiary
because he was at one time under the
delusion that he robbed the postofflco
at Walthlll, Neb.
Davis was sentenced to the federal
penitentiary in Atlanta for seven years,
last week, having been found "guilty”
of forging a postofflco money order on
December 22, 1908.
After he got to prison he determines!
to make himself known and told the
authorities he was wanted in Ne
braska for robbing the postofflco at
Walthlll, and had been in Jail in Omaha
from October 31, 1908, to January 1,
1909. He gave tils right name, Davis,
though in Omaha while under arrest
and In Georgia he gave an assumed
name.
Agents for the government made an
investigation hi Omaha yesterday and
found "Davis” under another name w as
really In the Douglas county Jail with
Homer Morris, the man finally held for
the Walthlll robbery, at the time the
money order was forged in Georgia.’
The authorities wired to release Davis
from the penitentiary as there was no
doubt he was In Jail when the forgery
was committed.
Davis was really not wanted for
the Walthlll robbery, but he thought he
was. He was arrested soon after the
robbery by a postofflee inspector who
suspected him of using the malls to
defraud. Davis always thought he was
held for the Walthlll robbery and
though the delusion complicated Ills
claim that lie was in jail December
22. 1908, it finally proved Ills salvation
and saved him seven years. His family
Is wealthy and has Influence enough
to secure the Investigation.
INCENDIARY FIRE DOES
DAMAGE AT PLAINVIEW
Norfolk. Neb., May 10.—An unknown
person early today attempted to burn
the entire town of Plainvlew, Neb.,
and succeeded in destroying the new
JlCi.000 Methodist church, the Metho
dist parsonage and an adjoining dwell
ing. The Incendiary broke into the
church, in the northwest part of town
at midnight, saturated the basement
Moor with gasoline and applied a match,
Outside a 60-mtle gale from the north
west raged and theatened to sweep the
entire town with flames. Forty small
tires started from flying embers. The
Norfolk tire department and others
from neighboring towns were sum
moned, For four and a half hours the
fire raged. Many men were prostrated
and women fainted during the fire,
which was conquered against seem
ingly hopeless odds.
Men who went to ring the fire bell
found the bell rope cut and had to
climb to the tup of the tower to give
the alarm.
A.
STATE EXPENSES WILL
EXCEED $5,000,000
Lincoln, Neb., May 10.—The state will
spend $5,203,754.91 In the two years
following April 1. 1909.
This Is the sum of the appropria
tions as discovered by Deputy Auditor
Shahan In making out the report of
the auditing department.
This is a per capita expenditure for
state government of something over
$2.25.
The exiienses of the last legislative
session will lie practically what the
legislature of 1907 spent, the expenses
so far amounting to $91,788.35. (’htet
t'lerk Cone, of the senate, will file sev
eral bills yet, and until these are paid
the exact expenses of the legislature
will not be known. The republican
legislature of 1907 spent a little more
than $95,000 on salaries, wages and in
cidentals.
Judge Alberts, of Columbus, who was
called on by the legislature to aid In
the preparation of the bank guaranty
bill, has been paid the $300 offered him
for his service. Each house provided
$150 of the sum. No money has been
paid Speaker Pool for his services as
speaker. The payment of this money
Was the practice up to six years ago,
and It was understood that the demo
crats mean to resume the payment of
extra money to the speaker.
PRESIDENT STARTS
ELECTRIC EXPOSITION
Omaha. Neb.. May 10.—With a mes
sage of felicitation. President Taft last
night opened the Omaha Electrical ex
position at the auditorium. The cere
mony at which the president's mes
sage was read, was under the auspices
.of the exposition management and was
attended by exhibitors from many
parts of the country. The exposition
will continue for 10 days.
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TWO YOUNG BOYS
ARE BURNED TO DEATH
Norfolk, Neb., May 10.—Ren and Joe
Berrer, aged 2 1-2 and 3 1-2 years, re
spectively, sons ol’ Anton Berrer, at St.
Bernard, a little postoftlee in Boone
county, were burned to death in a barn
lyesterday. They are thought to have
set fire to the barn. Their charred
bodies were recovered.
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TEN TOWNSHIPS ARE
IN BURNED DISTRICT
North Platte, Neb., May 10.—Fanned
by a, 60-mile wind, a severe prairie fire
raged over from six to 10 townships of
land yesterday, and is still burning on
the Garfield table in this county. The
fir** started in the southern part of
McPherson county. Several farm dwell
ings and much live stock were de
stroyed by the fire and many other
buildings, in addition to stock. Tele
phone lines were burned, so few reports
h*fc\v been received. The territory
burnd oWr Is generally sparsely settled,
range country.
It is estimated that the Canadian
Northwestern coal field, between Mor
rissey and Banff, contains about 45,«
000,000,000 tons of coal.
THREE INJURED IN A
BATTLE WITH POLICE
Pittsburg. Pa., May 10—Three persona
were injured curly today in a battle
between Toney Trappoli. a street clean- j
t:r, and a squad of policemen, who were •
trying to arrest him on a charge of!
stabbing W. H. Vaught. Trappoli's
wife was shot in the back and her con- i
dition is serous.
Trappoli was shot in the hand and I
Policeman Millerin was shot above the
eye.
PHYSICIAN MUST
PLACE A LABEL ON
HIS OWN COMPOUND
Commissioner Makes Stringent
Ruling Relating to Use of
Inhibited Drugs.
Lincoln, Neb., May 8.—A bottle of
■medicine or a package of pills put up
by a physician on his own prescrip
tion must be labeled if It contains
any Inhibited drug. This is the law,
says Food Commissioner Mains, and
he is going to enforce It as best he
may.
The pure food law exempts such
prescriptions if they are registered
with a pharmacist. If a doet«r puts
up his own prescription, however, he
must label the compound made.
The inhibited drugs are morphine,
opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta
eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indiva,
chloral hydrate, acetanilide, phenace
tln. antipyrlne, any real tar product,
belladonna or any derivative.
The ruling is expected to cause a
deal of trouble. The reasonableness
of the law is based on a number of ob
servations, among which was the in
vestigation of a member of the house
during the last legislature. This mem
ber went into a number of drug stores
in Lincoln and in a short time found a
score of prescriptions in which there
were enough proisonous drugs pre
scribed so that one dose would have
Caused death or would have been ex
ceedingly dangerous. These were pre
scriptions wherein physicians had
made mistakes. The mistake in the
quantity of inhibited drug was detec
ted by the pharmacist and corrected. |
This double check on the compondlng
of medicine Is deemed highly neces
sary and the enforcement of the law
regarding prescriptions put up by the ,
physician himself is thought neces- j
sary on that account. The druggists
are much in favor of the stand taken
by the food commissioner.
NORFOLK SUFFERING
FROM BJG THIRST
Norfolk, Neb., May 8.—Norfolk is 1
“suffering" from a “dry” spell because |
of a deadlock between Mayor Friday
and the city council. The council re
fuses to repeal an ordinance limiting
the number of saloons to seven, and
the mayor says there will be no sa
loons until it is repealed, as he be
lieves that there should be as many
as there are licenses applied for or
none at all. Roth sides are “stand- i
ing pat,” and the town has been "dry”
since Tuesday morning.
THREE SALOONS ARE
PUT OUT OF BUSINESS
Pender, Neb., May 8.—Pender, for j
the first time in her existence, is dry *
today. The saloon keepers who have
been put of business are R. C. Suhr, i
William Paasch, Jamec Malloy and
William Meyers. Paasch has made ap- :
plication for a license at Thurston, live, j
miles north of Pender, but an effort
Is being made to not allow over one !
saloon at t..at place this year.
BISHOPS ASSIGNED TO
NEBRASKA CONFERENCE
Wheeling, W. Va.. May 8.—At the
session of the Methodist Episcopal
bishops to the fall conference were |
made. Among the assignments were j
the following:
Bishop Neulson, of Omaha: West
Germany, August 25; Northwest Ger
many, September 1; Western Swedish, i
September 8; Nebraska, September 15;
North Nebraska, September 29; Da
kota, September 6.
Bishop Warden, of Denver: Wyo
ming mission. August 19; Black Hills
mission, August 26; Northwest Nebras
ka, September 24; Nebraska, September
9; West Nebraska, September 16.
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NEBRASKA DOCTORS
APPROVE SIMMONS
Omaha, Neb., May 8.—The Nebraska 1
State Medical association today took
action in support of Dr. George H.
Simmons, of Chicago, secretary of the i
American Medical association, and ed- ,
itor of the Journal of the association,
against whom charges have been made
in the Chicago association for alleged
professional irregularities. The house
of delegates of the Nebraska associa
tion, in session here today, adopted the
following resolutions:
"Resolved, That the Nebraska State j
Medical association, through its house
of delegates, desires to place itself on
record In opposition to the attack now
being made on Dr. George H. Simmons, i
We believe that the various and ill-dls- i
gutsed interests behind this attack 1
merit the severest criticism for the po
sition they have assumed.
"Dr. Simmons was for a number of
years a member in good standing and
for several years secretary of the Ne
braska State Medical society. He was
devoted to our interests and partieu- !
larly at the time of his election to the
secretaryship of the American Medical
‘association and as editor of the Journal ,
he was held in tiigh esteem.
"We believe that Dr. Simmons' rec
ord, in our own society and in his pres
ent ofliee, entitles him to encourage
ment and support in this crisis from
the Nebraska State Medical associa
tion and from all fair minded persons
and physicians everywhere.”
MISSOURI RATE CASES
ARE TO BE APPEALED
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Kansas City, Mo.. May S.—"There j
has been so much talk about the de- 1
oree of this court in the Missouri rail
road rate cases that it seems strange
to me that an appeal has not been i
taken from that decree. Do you in- I
tend to appeal?"
"Yes, sir; a transcript is now being
prepared for an appeal to the supreme
court of the United States."
Judge Smith McPherson, presiding, j
asked the foregoing question and At- i
torney General Major, testifying, gave i
the answer at the hearing in the fed
eral court to decide whether or not
the temporary restraining order of the
federal court enjoining the state from I
Interfering in the rate cases was to
be made permanent.
RICH FARMER RINGS
BELL FOR BROTHER,
THEN KILLS HIMSELF
St. Joseph, Mo., May 8.—Vernon
Karris, a wealthy bachelor, 62 years
old. who lived on a farm near Avenue
City, Mo., went into his yard and rang
a bell to attract the attention of his
brother on a neighboring farm. He
then returned to the house and fired j
a bullet through his heart, dying in
stantly.
The dead man lived alone and was
one of the richest men In Andrew ]
county. He had been in bad health. '
MUST PAY FOB
NORMAL SCHOOL
NEVER SECURED
Alleged Bribery and Corruption
Among Officials Failed to
Secure Plum.
Omaha. Neb., May 7.—Dakota coun
ty is not done with tne old normal
school enterprise, which has cost that
county considerable money because of
the ambition to have a normal school
and the corrupt connivance of public
officials.
Judge T. C. Hunger has just held in
federal court that school district No,
It, of Dakota county, must pay Edward
• Ihepard, of New York city, $4,313, as
interest on an old bond Issue for $22,
000. which was voted In 1887. though
the school was never established.
Judge Munger holds the district II
legally bound to pay regardless of cir
eumstances In the case tending to show
the issuance of the bonds was secured
through corrupt officials.
J. N. Peyson, saloonkeeper of Dakota
<’ity, testified In the suit Just decided
that as treasurer of the school hoard at
the time, he accepted a $2,000 bribe to
assist in getting the bonds registered,
and that he gave $750 to Eugene Moore,
then state auditor, to get the bonds
registered quickly. Moore denies the
charge.
Rome years ago the school district
was compelled to pay $6,000 in cancel
lation of Interest coupons. The part ot
the $22,000 is still unpaid, and from
Judge Munger's decision it is evident
the district will have to pay that
amount also.
It was in the old boom days that
the bonds were issued. Some of the
taxpayers of the county protested and
nn injunction was secured restraining
the state auditor from registering
them. Suddenly the. attorney for those
who secured the injunction tiled a dis
missal and the bonds were registered.
It has always been the claim that the ,
attorney acted absolutely without au- ,
thority.
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4 TEACHER REFUSED 4
4 TO “BOARD AROUND” 4
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4 Lincoln, Neb., May 7.—Be- 4
4 cause Edward E. Young, a 4
4 wealthy farmer south of the 4
4 eity, didn't like the teacher of 4
4 the district school, and remarked 4 !
4 that she was crazy, an unmerci- 4
4 ful liar and unlit to instruct the 4. j
4 young, he is the defendant in a 4 j
4 suit for $12,000 damages. prosc3- 4
4 cuted by Miss Jennie Fitzger- 4
4 aid. the teacher. 4
4 Miss Fitzgerald got into trou- 4
4 ble because she refused to board 4
4 around as had been the practice, 4
4 and there was a rumpus that 4
4 started about this and ended in 4
4 the Young faction on the board 4
4 having her dropped before her 4
4 year was out. She sought to on- 4 i
4 join them, but failed. After- 4 :
4 wards she sued and recovered 4
4 salary for the term for which 4
4 she was hired. Now she says 4
4 Mi'. Young must prove what he 4
4 said or pay her damages, since 4
4 she had been 17 years a teacher 4
4 and her reputation has been 4
4 damaged and her school lost be- 4
4 cause of his remarks. 4
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FARM BUILDINGS
BURN; LOSS $1,700
Laurel, Neb.. May 7.—All the build
ings on the Tolies farm, south of town,
except the house, were destroyed by
fire yesterday afternoon. Herman
Knight and his parents occupy the
place, arid their loss is some $600 or
$700 in feed, machinery and stock, a
number of hogs and a colt being
burned. Mr. Tolies also lost 1,000 -
bushels of corn, which he had just con- |
tracted to sell at 59 cents. His loss
was over $1,000. The supposition is |
that the fire was started by a little ;
grandson playing with matches in the i
barn. The men folks were all in the
field at work. The fire department ;
went out with the hose cart, but they I
did not have hose enough to reach it, |
Herman Knight saved the W. A. Price
buildings by plowing with a four-horso
gang, keeping the horses on the run, !
the flames having caught in the stub
ble, and were checked within a few
rods of the Price barn. There was no |
insurance.
DAHLMAN RE-ELECTED
MAYOR OF OMAHA!
Omaha, Neb.. May 7.—Fifty-two of j
the 54 precinct® in Omaha give Dahl-: ,
tnan. democrat, 9,481, and Breen, re- !
publican, G.014. a majority for Dahl- !
man of 3,417 as against his majority
in 190G of 2,794. These two missing J
precincts ure in the Twelfth ward and !
they may add a few to Breen’s total, :
probably.
The membership of the city council
will be evenly divided, six democrats i
and six republicans. This, however, !
concedes the First ward to the repub
licans. The vote In that ward is very
close. The four republican candidates;
for the lire and police board who were'
Indorsed by the personal liberty league,
are elected. The proposition to issue
$6,500,000 bonds for the purchase of the !
waterworks plant was Indorsed by a
2 to 1 vote. The republicans have
elected the city engineer, while citjl
clerk, city attorney, comptroller and
building Inspector are democrats.
CLOSE VOTE ON MAYOR
IN LINCOLN ELECTION
Lincoln, Neb., May 7.—The official
count probably will be needed to de
cide the Lincoln mayoralty contest.
Don L. Love, republican, claims elec
tion by a plurality of 46. while Robert
Malone, democrat, says he has a lead
of 23. More than 7,000 votes were
cast in the election yesterday.
A "dry” capital city for the next
year was the verdict rendered in the
municipal election yesterday. The
proposition to abolish saloons carried
by a majority placed at not less than
500, and possibly as high as 700, in
a total vote of nearly 9,000. The vote
of yesterday was a marked reversal of
that of a year ago, when license carried
by a majority of about 300.
After next Tuesday, when the mu
nicipal year expires, there will be no,
more saloons In Lincoln. The result
is surprising only in the size of the
majority piled up by the temperance
torces. The outcome throughout has
been regarded as doubtful, with
chances favoring the no license side,
but it was everywhere expected the
result would bo close.
SZECHENY! FOR CABINET.
New York. May 7.—Count Szechenyi.
of Austria-Hungary, who married Miss i
Gladys Vanderbilt, may be a member
of the new cabinet of his country when |
it Is formed, according to information
received in Newport.
BURLINGTON PUTS
! ALL EMPLOYES ON
THE MERIT SYSTEM
No More Suspension, but Dis.
| charge or Promotion, Ac
| cording to Service.
1 Omaha, May 6.—O. W. Holdredge,
general manager of the Burlington
railroad, has given notice thai here
after the company will deal with its
employes purely by tho merit system.
Suspension as a corrective measure for
I misconduct or neglect of duty is sus
pended and gone on an everlasting va
cation. A record will be kept of each
man, and if the employe loses his place
it will he because of a bad record. A n
employe guilty of disloyalty, drunken
ness, insubordination, will de dismissed
from the service and will not be re-em
ployed, and one whose record begins to
look so bad that ho is considered un
safe, will also be sent looking for a job.
Promotions will be mude as in the past.
Upon request an employe will be given
at any time a copy of his sercive rec
ord.
Officers directly in charge of tin- ,
ployes affected by this order are re
quested to report for entry all com
mendable actions on the part of such
employes as well as those which jus
tlfy criticism.
MAN, MONEY AND
GIRL ARE MISSING
Hastings, Neb., May G.—In the hope
of finding J. H. McCarthy, of Lincoln,
the missing administrator in the Helen
A. Horn estate, the authorities urn
seeking Miss Efflo Moline, a Hastings
girl, who recently has been known ten
have been ir. the company of McCar
thy in Chicago. Miss Moline was ex
pected nere from Lincoln Wednesday
to Join ,,er brother anr sister, but for
some unknown reason she changed her
3)lans and went through the city with
out getting off the train.
Entrusted in McCarthy’s care as ad
ministrator of the Horn estate was a
large sum of money, slightly more than
!$10,000, and all of this is missing. Miss
Moline was employed in the Bostwick
hotel as a waitress about a year ago.
She went to Lincoln from this city and
there met Mr. McCarthy, from whom
she Is said to have received numerous
presents.
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BOY’S MURDERER IS
HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Beatrice, Neb., May 6.—Ferreno Ber
tuca, charged with the murder of John
Preuhs, an 11-vear old boy at Wymorr
a week ago, was given his preliminary
hearing in county court Saturday and
held to thi district court without ball
A large number ol Wymore residents
‘some of them witnesses, attended the
hearing and the crowd was so larg.
that Judge Spafforl fourd it necessar\
to adjourn to the district court room
The boy’s dying statement that Bor
tuca shot him and the testimony of a
number of witnesses who found the
body and assisted in Bertuca’s captun
after a lively chase with a Burlington
switch engine, was Introduced In evi
dence. Beit.uca stoutly maintained his
innocence. The crowd was orderly and
Ithere wen no threats or attempts at
violence on the p-lsoner during tin,
hearing.
DEDICATE STATUE TO
THE POET LONGFELLOW
Washington, D. C., May 6.—A mag
nificent statue to the memory of Henrv
Wadsworth Longfellow, America "s
foremost poet, will he dedicated with
imposing ceremonies in this city on
May 7. The occasion will bo more not
able because of the presence of Fresi
dent Taft, members of the diplomatic
corps, men distinguished in letters and
by practically all of the living relatives
of tile poet.
Tlie statue, which is located In a
small, triangular park at the interse,
tlon of Connecticut avenue and M
street, Is of heroic size, of pure white
Parisian marble and the pedestal, in
Striking contrast, is of reddish brown
■marble, imported from Scotland quai
rles. William Couper, of New York, L
the sculptor.
WOMAN BREAKS MAN’S
SKULL WITH SUGAR BOWL
New York, May 6.—Two men were
taken to the Gouveneur hospital ami
10 are under arrest today as a result
of a fight artsng from the strike of the
bakers on the East side.
Schulem Rubenstein entered Michael
Novak's restaurant and wine cellar to
day, and when he found a loaf of bread
without the union label he attacked the.
proprietor. Novak’s wife threw a bowl
of sugar at Rubenstein, fracturing his
skull.
An attack by nine men was made on
a bakery kept by Nathan Fryer an,.
Samuel Broklower. Both were badh
injured, Broklower being taken to the
hospital. The assailants were locked
UP- _ _
STRIKE ON LAKES TIES
UP U. S. STEEL SHIPS
Chicago, May 5.— Two freighters, be
longing to the United States Steel cor
poration, scheduled to sail today, prob
ably will not get away for another
week.
Victor A. Olander, secretary of the
Lake Seamen's union, declares the non
departure of the two boats Is due to
their inability to ship crews, owing to
the strike which began Saturday.
"Our men are leaving their berths as
fast as their ships come Into port," sain
Mr. Olander.
Police are on guard at South Chicago
today, but no disturbances were re
ported.
DIES OF "SLEEPING SICKNESS.”
St. Louis, Mo., May 6.—George j
Owens Is dead at the city hospital her*
of a malady diagnosed by physicians
as the sleeping sickness. How the man
contracted the dlseuse In St Louis n
not known. He said he had never been
in the tropics, to which the malady" Is
peculiar, and the physicians can ac
count for it only on the theory that
he was bitten by some Insect ano
Inoculated with the germ. *
JAMES HAZEN HYDE
JAILED IN PARIS FOR
“JOY RIDING ACCIDENT
Paris, May 6.—James Haven i|v<i,
of New York, former vice president
of the Equitable Life Assuignce
ciety, and his ehuuffeur, Ladwlce w
condemned by default, Mr Hyde'!''
one month's Imprisonment an« ,, '
of S100, and Ladwlca to a month's i.,
prlsonment and u fine of $'0
were charged with running |,itVa
11c taxicab last October and
a passenger. Mr. Hyde l« „„ , / £
mobile trip In the Riviera. ‘