THE O’NEILL FRONlfiEf a H. CRONIN. Publisher. WEILL, NEBRASKA Galveston has not only displaced all but one of her American com petit* ih in the volume ami the value <»f tier for eign commerce, thereby relegating Bos ton to the fourth place in the column, but was the only port in the l ull'd [States to show a gain in her * xporta mnd imports during 3908, all the others. Including New York, suffering declines, as compared with the business of 190.. The California club, the largest civic club In San Francisco, has succeeded In getting the birthday of Luther Bur bank set aside as bird and arbor day tor the state. While the day is not to be a holiday, all public schools and educational institutions are directed to observe it by including in the school work .such exercises as will teach tho children the economic value of birdq And trees and promote a spirit of pro tection toward them. Iceland is to have an art museum. The sculptor, Cinar Jonsen. has lontf desired that his native country should possess an art collection, and wth tlia| object in view has presented all hit works—forty-nine in number— as a nucleus. The only condition named by film was that a suitable housing place tie provided by the government, and (this to be accessible to the people. The Althing by a unanimous vote, agreed to Accept the gift and to comply with the terms. Australia is perturbed by the discov eries of Mr. Batchelor, the common wealth minister for external affairs, who has been inquiring into the illegal Influx of Chinese. There is a wealthy organization in China with agencies In all the principal Australian ports And with the connivance of ships’ offi cers the systematic smuggling of Chi pese into Australia has been carried on for a long time. The Farnham board of guardians yesterday were asked by the barber for extra payment upon the amount of his contract for shaving and hair putting at the workhouse during the last quarter, owing to the increased toumber of Inmates. He said the pay tinder his contract worked out at Id for from four to five shaves and Id for three haircuts. I --- The largest grape vine in me wui m Is 120 years old. and Is at Sun Gabriel, Cal., planted by Franciscan friars. Thu fetalk is one and one-half feet In diame ter, eight feet high, and the branches and foliage cover an area of 0,000 aqua re feet. Its average crop of grapes is two and one-half tons yearly. It forms the summer dining place of the Ban Gabriel hotel. South America has not yet a trans continental railroad, but soon will have a line reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The promise has been !fiven, and there Is small doubt as to ts fulfilment, that the Transandlne allroad, which Is to connect Buenos e.lres on the east coast with Valparaiso n the west will be open to traffic from ocean to ocean In March, 1911. 1 A project Is on foot to found a social ■Club house for the girl students of Bos ton. During the Inst school term there ■were said to have been 20,000 girls and Women studying In that city. The per sons at the head of the present move ment believe It would be a greut safe guard If a club house on the lines pro posed could he established. Four years only have elapsed since the first’ Indefinite news of the design of the Dreadnought became known, end now 70 ships. representing In varying degree the adoption of the nll talg-gun principle, are either built, building or about Immediately to bo authorized for the world's navies. An arrangement of a ship’s lights in a definite triangle on a known plan Is urged as a safeguard against collis ion The lights would then show an observer on another ship the vessel’s course, her distance from the observer, and her approximate speed. Seaweed, dust, goat’s hair and Irish |nnss, compounded by a secret chemi cal prove.®. Is claimed to be, by Its Inventor, John Campbell, a perfect aubstltute for leather, vulcanite, wood and marble. It makes serviceable soles tor shoes. Lady Aberdeen, who has been rarry lng on an energetic propaganda to bet ter the health of the Irish people, has (undertaken the editorial work of a monthly magazine, which will be Issued (by the Women’s National Health asso talatlon. i A - ’ In some years the total or conee. ua knd cocoa Imports Into this < ountry Its considerably more than $100,000,000. (Coffee imports alone have on certain joccassions approximated $100,000,000 in rvalue. ear bread sent Coriolanus Into exile and Louis XVI to the guillotine; also Jdarie Antoinette, although she kindly •uggested that the hungry people Blight eat cake. Tiie University of California is about to try the experiment of raising grape fruit from trees imported from Amoy. China, said to produce the best fruit of the kind in the world. During 1908 19,328 fort igners landed at Yokohama and 15 other open ports of Japan, 1.400 fewer than In 1907. Chinese led with 6,844, followed by 3.122 British. In the current number of Marz Al bert Langen has an artlclt on ' The {Barnum of German Music," in which that title Is conferred on Richard Strauss. Within a circle of 60 miles in diam eter, w ith its center in New York, there are more telephones than in all Great Britain. The annual emigration from Europe amounts to 960.000. A small percent age of these persons return after a few jreurs. Angleworms may live fully 10 years, as has been shown by experiments Vnade In Marburg. Germany. The hide of a cow weighs about 35 pounds, but that of a horse is about naif that amount. According to La Nature It has been found that good paper can be mude out ■cf grapevines. Great Britain's coal output in 1908 ghows a decrease of 2.35 per cent, or I €.306,473 tons. The Japanese government has placed an order In England for an entire gun factory. About 10,000 tourists visited Cuba during the last winter season U March 1. The coal bill of the United States gravy during 1908 amounted to $5,545,000 The microphone makes the footsteps pf a f'.y plainly audible. LINCOLN FLOODED FOUR FEET DEEP BY NIGHT STORM Heavy Wind Accompanies Rain —Track Washed Out— Tornado Hits Beatrice. — Lincoln, Neb., May IS. Two Inches of rainfall last evening between the ! hours of 6 and 7 o’clock gave Lincoln j a little Hood and was a vivid reminder | of that of last June, when several per- I sons lost their live*. At Twelfth ind O streets, in the heart of the business aecticn, last evening there was four feet of water, a fid some damage was done iii the way of flooded basements. In the residence district many cellars were flooded on account of the storm, *ew«rs being unable to carry off the surplus. A 45-miles an hour wind ac companied the rain. Some damage wan done in the country districts near Lin coln, but no lives were endangered. At the town of Denton there was a cloud burst. six Inches of rain falling In less than an hour. Three hundred feet of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy rail road track was washed out and other damage done. Kurther south the storm Is reported to have taken on the form of a tornado. Twister at Beatrice. Beatrice. Neb.. May IS. A tornado passed through a farming section south and west of Beatrice last evening and wrecked a number of buildings. Wires are down and the extent of the storm Is unknown. Railroad reports show some damage done to tracks In northern Missouri and along the Missouri river. The rain was very heavy in the southeast corner of Nebraska. An elevator- was blown over on the railroad tracks at Hollis. Kan., on the Concordia branch. Details of this storm are lacking and telephone and telegraph wires leading to that locality are down. The Bell Telephone com pany received word from Kansas City that many telephone lines in the vicin ity of Concordia were out of service because of the storm. DAKOTAN DEFENDANT IN NEBRASKA SUIT Lincoln, Neb.. May IN.—Fred Sehner inger, a wealthy land owner of Brown county. South Dakota, la the defendant in a suit filed by his wife, who wants a divorce and a liberal share of his $50,000 worth of property. Mrs. Schner Inger asserts that he has frequently threatened her with violence, that he has often violated his marriage vows with other women, that he bus been extremely cruel in his treatment of her. and has refused to give her any money whatever for her support. She lists his 320 acre farm in South Dakota at $30,000. and says he owns real estate In Lincoln and York and has a large amount of personalty. JUDGE MUNGER RENDERS IMPORTANT DECISION Omaha. Neb., May IN. Judge Mini' ger. in the federal court, yesterday handed down an important decision, sustaining the interstate commerce commission In allowing elevator? c harges to elevator concerns on the line of the Union Pacific railroad. That road allowed these (harges to the Omaha Elevator company and the trans-Mis sissippi Grain company, and the Up dike Grain company, sought relief through the interstate commerce com mission. The commission decided that the Updike company was entitled to the same allowances given other grain concerns and suit was brought by the Updike company, with two other grain companies as intervenors, to recover about $10,000. which amount Is allowed by yesterday's decision. The Union Pacific resisted payment on the grounds thHt the payment of elevator charges was Illegal, but the court decided they were legal at the time they were al lowed to the Omaha Elevator company. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT LITTLE PASSES AWAY Wayne. Neb.. May 18.—County Super intendent Littell. who lias been sick for some time, died here last night at 10 o'clock. STONE BREAKS NOSE OF A THIRD PARTY Madison, Neb., May IN. A stone thrown by one boy at another on the Madison school grounds yesterday struck a little daughter of Dr. Long in the fa c. breaking her nose. 4 WOMEN KUKLUX i «♦ FIGHT BIG HAT 4 4 ««■%•.***• 4 4 I .OS Angeles. Cal., May 18. 4 l 4 The police are looking for a 4 4 number of women in this city 4 4 said to have formed a secret 4 4 society for the purpose of the 4 4 annihilation of the big hat. The 4 -♦ receipt of a dozen or more com- 4 1 4 plaints from women regarding 4 4 assaults upon their headgear is 4 4 responsible for the activity of 4 4 the police. 4 4 Women who wear big hats 4 ♦ arc the object of attack. The 4 4 finer the hat the. more vicious 4 ♦ the assault upon it. The 4 ♦ women who make the attacks 4 4 are well dressed and apparently 4 ♦ rt fined and wealthy 4 4 They all wear small hats and 4 ♦ s< cm to hold a violent hatred for 4 ♦ t!a big straws and ultra Celts. 4 ♦ (in*' woman was ejected from a 4 4 Hollywood car because of her 4 ♦ attack upon women passengers 4 4 who wore big hats. 4 4 4 NORDICA SHUNS CONCERT WHEN ALDA IS STAR { 1.end >n. May IS. Passengers who arrived »n London from the steamship ; Kaiser Wilhelm II. tell of an operatic wt i on a MYutll scale waged on the* \ o\age Messrs. Gutti-Casazza and . !’iippel and Mesdamos Nordica and ; Alda were aboard, and gossips had it 1 that neither impressarios nor singers \\« i c on the best of ttrnis with one un i other The trouble reached its culmination *'t ; concert when Mine. Alda sang .‘• viral selections and Mme. Nordica i remained conspicuously absent. BOY'S VISION OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH TRUE I m monition of tin* 3-year-old son of l ruoo Tong. a Delaware ami Hudson railroad brukenn n, that his father would la killed tana true. At night ids mother hoard the ehild j toning and moaning on its bed. She asked why hi was not asleep I s.nii was Startled with the answer, ; "Papa is dead; he is dead under the j tars and his leas are out off." I Two hours later the body of the father was brought home. 1 PHYSICAL VALUE i OF RAILROADS TO BE DETERMINED - i Chief Engineer Named and WilJ Begin Task at Once—Will Take Two Years. l.iconln, Neb., May IT.—With the ap pointment of E. C. Hurd, manager of the Interurban railroad, as chief engi neer, the first step towards the physi- ' cal valuation of the railroads of Ne braska has been taken. Mr. Hurd is a constructing civil engineer, having built a portion of the Northern Pa cific. The selection was made from a large number of applicants. As soon as Mr. Hurd selects his as sistants, the commission will desig nate which road to value first. Forty thousand dollars was appropriated for , this work, and It is expected that it, will require the greater part of two years to finish. The work will be so, apportioned as to expend the entire appropriation before it can lapse, and: if it is not then complete, to ask for more money. The commissioners make it plain that they intend to take the physical valuation into consideration only ak one factor in determining rates. The railroads will offer no opposition, hut will give whatever aid is reasonably asked. They figure that if it proves to he less than they are now taxee^ on. they will be able to have their taxeq reduced, but the stale board has the; right to value franchises in addition. | 4 4- OBJECTS TO CORNFIELDS 4i 4- ABOUT HER HOUSE 4 4 ■f 4 Lincoln, Net),, May 17.—Mrs. 4 4 Klizabeth Paden, who confklen- 4 4 tially informs Ihe police that she 4 4 is the world's conitnandress ap- 4 4 poir.tfd by President McKinley, 4 4 is insisting upon the police re- 4 4 straining her neighbors from 4 4 planting coin around her. Mrs. 4 4 Pad m lives in north Lincoln, 4 4 where everybody owns five or 4; 4 10 acres of land, and she fears 4 4 that if she Is surrounded by 4 4 cornfields It will afford a lurk- 4 4 ing place for designing men who 4 4 will attack her and her daugh- 4 4 ter, who live alone. 4i 4 Mrs. Paden is the wife of a 4 4 wealthy pioneer citizen, but fig- 4 4 tired as plaintiff in a sensution- 4 4 al divorce suit a number of 4 4 years ago. She attires herself 4 4 in a uniform of gray, with nickel 4 j 4 buttons over her tunic and vest 4 4 and a cap to match. 4 4 4 i —4— COW DRAGS BOY TO DEATH BY ROPE Omaha, Neb.. May 17.—Daniel, the 8-year-old son of P. J. O’Brien, rail road yardmaster. was dragged to death by a cow last evening. The boy had gone to get tile cow. picketed on a vacant lot. tv.o blocks away. He tied the rope around his waist and started to drive the cow home. Be coming frightened, she ran, throwing the boy down. He was dragged over the stone pavement, bounding like a ball. The cow ran into the yard just as the mother come to the door. She fainted and neighbors who came to assist, found the boy Insensible, his skull crushed and the flesh on his arms and face terribly lacerated, tie was taken to the hospital, but died during the evening. -4— EX-GOVERNOR CROUNSE OF NEBRASKA DEAD Omaha, Neb., May 1C.—Forver Gov ernor Lorenzo Crounse died at his, home In this city just before mid night, after an extended illness, the immediate cause of death being artel ial troubles. Governor Crounse was born In Scho harie county. Nt w York. He served during the civil war as a captain of light artillery, being severely wounded in action. Coming to Nebraska in 1864 he served successfully as a member of the territory legislature, justice of tHe supreme court, member of congress, assistant secretary (if the treasury un der President Harrison, and governor of the state, being elected in 1893. He was a republican in politics. Mr. Crounse is survived by four children, Mrs. G. M Hitchcock, wife of the pres ent congressman from this district; William G. Crounse. associated with Mr. Hitchcock in the publication (if the Omaha World-Herald: Mrs. Georgi McIntyre and Miss Marie Crounse, both of Omaha. SAME OLD STORY OF UNLOADED GJN Winside, Ni le. May 16.—The same old story. Herman Hoffman did not think the gun was loaded, but it was, and when it went off part of his hand went also. Tl: accident occurred yes terday. INDIAN STATUE FOR GOTHAM PROPOSED AT BUFFALO BILL DINNER New York. May 16.—The erection of I a collossal statue representing the j American Indian to be placed in New | York harbor opposite the statue of lib I erty was advocated by General Leo i lutrd Wood and other speakers at a I dinner given at Sherry’s last night by Hodman Wana maker, son of John Wanamaker, In honor of Colonel W. F, Cody tBuffalo Bill). Such a statue was originally suggest ed. it was said, by Mr. Wanamaker, who has devoted much time to the study of the Indian. He hopes to raise the required sum through a public subscription. The speakers at the dinner included General Horace Por ter. General Nelson A. Miles. Colonel Cody, Mr. Wanamaker and Homer j Davenport, the cartoonist. GOTHAM BANKERS DINE M’VEAGH New York. Max 16.—Franklin Mac Yeagh, secretary of the treasury, was the guest of George S. Terry, assist ant treasurer of the United States, at New York, at a private dinner last night at the Union League club. Mr. MacVeugh was introduced to the prom inent banking presidents of New York, all of whom had been invited. WOMAN MURDERED WITH A BUTCHER KNIFE Hartshorne, Okla.. May 16.—Mrs. George Hooks, wife of a restaurant keeper, was found dead In bed in her home here today. She evidently had been murdered with a butcher knife which lay near the body. The body I had been hacked and one arm broken, as if in a struggle, was found by the husband. There is no clue to the mur derer, nor Is a motive known. 'WHY BANKERS j WILL ATTACK THE DEPOSIT LAW! - i President Nebraska National Says It Does Not Guarantee and Is Vicious. Omaha. Neb., May 16.—"Nebraska j banki rs are going to test the guarantee of deposit law in Nebraska, not because they do not want such a law, but be- • cause the one passed does not guaran- j tee, Is unconstitutional and vicious to the extent of being almost rriininai," was the declaration of Henry W. Yates, president of the Nebraska National bank, of this city, in outlining the plan of attack which bankers are to make on the guarantee of deposit law iri Nebraska. Mr. Yates made the state ment In a public address in Omaha yes terday afternoon when he said he be lieved the law was made a law which could be called illegal by the courts. "But the points on w hich we intend to attack the law are these: “It Is unconstitutional, because it provides for the levying of a tax of 1 i per cent of the $60,000,000 of deposits in Nebraska banks. No tax can be levied ! In any such way. We are going to con tend as the law prescribes that a tax must be levied on property or certain occupations. This law proposes to levy a tax in an unheard of manner and not by assessing it against the capital stock of the banks, but against the deposits—actually against the debts of, the banks. They will not pay propro tionately, because the bank with $100. 000 capital, which has $200,000 in de posits will pay on the $200,000. while the bank with $100,000 capital, which has j $600,000 deposits, will pay on the $600,000 I and not on I he capital stock. “There are technicalities in the title 1 of the law; in the fact that it con- J tains so many provisions that it is not I one law, but a new chapter to the banking laws, but laying, all these things aside, the state could never col- ! lect the tax in our judgment, and it is just as well to test it on the start as to wait until there is a panic and then I have the people lose their money be- 1 cause of the failure of banks started by ! irresponsible people who could not start a bank if It was not for this law. 'Then i the legitimate bankers will refuse to pay. The state will say they will close- 1 up a bank which does not pav. What. If every member of the Nebraska Bank-' ers' association says he will not pav. I Will the state of Nebraska put all these banks out of business? Not yet. i "The Nebraska law is framed differ-’ ! ent from any law ever framed in the world before. It is dangerous to de positors instead of being a safeguard misleading them in the belief that the state has a fund collected and in the treasury to pay depositors immediately if a bank shuts its doors. As a matter of fact when the total of 1 per cent «f deposits is all assessed it will amount to $600,000 to protect depositors for $60 - 000,000 In Nebraska banks, but not a. | cent of it will be collected. It will only mean the banks must credit the amount on their books to a fund which they : must set aside to help pav the losses ] of some other fellow if he fails. 1 "For this reason the bankers of Ne- ! | braska are going to fight this law as | well as test It because it is represented to be something It is not—a guarantee as safe and certain as the government itself, which will make the people’s money as safe in the hands of a crooked banker us in the hands of one who has a reputation for honesty covering a life I time. LIGHT SIX MILES AWAY BY WIRELESS SYSTEM Omaha, Neb., May 15.—The. lighting ! 1 of the big auditorium by electric im- I pulse from the wireless tower at Fort Omaha, six miles away, was a novelty j to which visitors at the show of the ’ Omaha Electrical exposition were treated last evening. The method used was developed by Dr. F. H. Millener, experimental engineer for the Union , Pacific, and is the same used by him some months in operating a motor at a distance. Dr. Millener had the co operation of the United States army signal corps under command of Lieu tenant Colonel W. A. Glassford. to 1 whom wireless experiments are par ticularly interesting. The corps has had wireless telegraph connection be- I tween the auditorium and the fort since the show opened. From now on the show will be lighted by wireless each night. ALLEGED BANK ROBBER PLACED UNDER ARREST Minden, Neb,, May 15.—By the ar rest at Alma of Regner Aabel, jr., of 1 Minden, it is believed the mystery of the Keene and Heartwell bank robber ies last fall and winter and of a large, number of minor crimes has been solved. According to the report received here. Aabol has confessed to the sher | iff of Harlan county and has impli i cated as his accomplices two men named Galloway and Crow, who have, been living here for several months j Following the receipt of the news of the confession here Galiowav and Ci ,>w hired an automobile and speeded to Kearney, where they took the train and have not been apprehended yet. FINALLY DIVORCED FROM MOTHER LODGE I Lincoln, Neb.. May 15.—The Ne braska grand lodge of the A. O. I", W. has summarily and finally divorce^ itself frdm the supreme lodge of the United States. This action was taken in spite of the fact that the supreme lodge sent two missionaries here to patch up a peace. All that the Ne braska lodge is willing to do is to be on fraternal relations, but it will no longer pay any part of the losses in curred by the national order in doing business in other jurisdictions. The whole trouble came up over the j fact that the Nebraska order lias a I much lower death rate than tin na [ tional order, and as it had the right to constitute Itself into a separate juris diction, levying such assessments only as are necessary to pay death losses within the state, it concluded . that it was economy to keep on doing so. If has paid a considerable sum into the national coffers, but a supreme court, decision lias been secured to the effect j that it does not have to do so, and iv has been decided not to do it. ' MAJOR T. ROOSEVELT, JR., DECLINES TO SERVE Hartford, Conn., May 15.—Major Theodore Hoosevett, Jr., son of ex President Roosevelt, who was a mili tary aide on the staff of the late Gov ■ ernor Lilley, will not serve in a like ca ■ j pacity in Governor Weeks' staff. The , ! latter today reappointed Governor i ^ Lilley's staff as his own, but Major ■ ! Roosevelt's name did not appear, he having declined to serve. SMOKE MINGLES FROM TWO LARGE PACKING CITIES Sight Which Greeted Aeronauts From Army Fort When Nearly Mile in Sky. Omaha. Neb.. May 14.--"There is a point about 3,200 feet above tne earth, and north of Tekamah, where the smoke of both Sioux City and Omaha can be seen. It's hard to tell which makes the most," said Captain Charles DeF. Chandler, of the United States Army signal service, when he returned here last evtning, after his flight with IJeutenant James K. Ware, from Fort Omaha to Jackson, just west of Sioux City. Both officers declare the trip was suc cessful. and the next time they decided to go up the Missouri river and drop in on some town for the night, they will go to Sioux City, though Jackson peo ple gave them all the entertainment they could stand for after the explosion which wrecked their balloon and slight ly injured both men. It was the first trip ever made by a United States army balloon from the signal service school at Fort Omaha. The explosion is explained by Captain Chandler by the fact that while in the high altitude, 4,400 feet, the balloon be came charged with static electricity, and when near the ground an arc was formed, producing an electric spark. Another balloon is kept at the fort and a second one has been ordered, that the experiments may be continued. The explosion at Jackson is said by army officers to be the only one which ever occurred in this country, but a war balloon blew up in Italy a short time ago, presumably from the same cause. —♦— T ♦ TAKES CERTIFICATE * •f AND LEAVES CHILD if -f ♦ -f Aurora. Neb.. May 14.—When -f ■f Mrs. James Rice eloped with her -f ♦ husband's hired man, she ac- -f •f cepted the latter's advice and -f ♦ took along the marriage eertifi- -f ■f ♦ ♦f f-ff f f f f-f f-ff-f-f-f f-ff-f-f f f-f f MORE WAR BALLOONS AND AERONAUTS FOR FORT OMAHA TESTS Washington, May 14.—Owing to the failure of congress to provide funds for the construction of a gas plant and balloon house at the Fort Mver aero drome, General James Allen, chief offi cer of the signal corps, has been forced to change bis plans for the aeronaut trials and tests at Fort Meyer this summer. The army rrotor balloon No. 1, pur chased last full, will be shipped imme diately to Fort Omaha, where a modern hydrogen gas plant and a hangar, or balloon house, has been erected. With in 10 days the balloon detachment and Lieutenants Lahm. Foule, Winter, Bamberger and Dickenson, of the aero nautic division, will go to Fort Omaha. In the meantime flights will be made in the signal corps spherical balloon No. 11. w hich has a capacity of 35,000 cubiu feet of gas and can carry three men. Lieutenants Lahm and Foule will re turn to Washington for the aeroplane trips after instructing the other officers in the handling of the dirigible. PLAN INDEPENDENT JURISDICTION FOR UNITED WORKMEN Lincoln, Neb., May 14.—In connec tion with the meet ng of the A. O. IT. W grand lodge, which began here yes terday. a movement was set 'n motion that may lead to the formation of an independent western jurisdiction. Delegates from the jurisdiction of Arizona and New Mexico are here seeking on behalf of the territories they represent to become part of the independent jurisdiction, which at present belongs to Nebraska alone by reason of its defection from the su preme lodge of the United States. It is declared that Colorado and South Dakota are favorably disposed to the plan. WHAT WILL LINCOLN DO WITH THE CLUBS? Lincoln, Neb.. May 14.—In order tc prevent any legal action to overturn the vote for prohibition, the excise board, which is vested by law with the power to refuse all licenses, has adopted a rule that no saloons will be per mitted. but it is likely that a dispensarj ■under the control of city officials will be operated to supply the legitimate de mands for medicinal, mechanical am sacramental purposes. The board has decreed that the Elks Eagles and all other clubs in the city where liquor is sold to members musi stop the practice, and the chief of po lice will serve notice to that effect to day. The supreme court has held tha where liquor selling is only incidental t( the main purpose of the club it is not £ violation of the Slocum law, but thi city attorney holds that as another lav vests the excisemen with the exelusivi control of liquor selling in the city, i can forbid the social clubs from sellinj . to members. Sentiment among the Elks favors ; test of the power of the board. At i recent meeting the Elks voted down b; a 111 to 1 vote a proposition to dispens with the bar. and they don’t rellsl 1 what they think is beyond the power o I the board to order done. The board, however, thinks that 1 can't take away the poor man’s clut the saloon, and leave the rich man out his club. A peculiar thing ubout it i that this rule will not apply to th Countrv club, which has its club hous across the street from the city line. ! CHICAGO GIRL DANCES HERSELF TO DEATI I Chicago, May 14.—Marie Fron. ' years old. danced herself to death in 1 jmblli dance hall last night, accordin to th* verdict of a coroner's jury. Th girl possessed a frail constitution, bt waltzing was her mania. She wa warned bv her parents not to exert hei self, but when the music started sh forgot the warning and danced cor i tlriuously until the last dance of th evening. Then she was carried out t the hall and died at a hospital. FAMILY EXPENSE FORCES COUPLE TO BANKRUPTCY "The Butcher and Baker and Candlestick Maker” Make Showing in Court. Lincoln. Neb., May 13.—Cheater O. Rouse, who Is now a traveling sales man. b”t who recently came from Mount 'usant, la., holds the record among bankrupt applicants for a. variegated line of credit. Rouse and his wife have Just filed applications with the federal court to be adjudged unable to pay their debts and made free to accumulate new ones. Rouse's total amounts up to $1,434, £.nd the claims he admits as due num ber 67, divided among almost as many different classes of business One claim is for $60 for funeral expenses of a relative, owing to H. T. Btrd. a jMount Pleasant undertaker. Babb & 'Babb, a firm of Iowa attorneys, are jiisted for $16, and the debts he sched ules Include bills for drugs, newspa pers, advertising, magazines, coal, clothing, drayage on household goods when he moved, (there are six or seven of these), rental for telephone for removing garbage from home, serv ice by gas company, doctor bills, gro ceries, a $3 hat, milk, liquor, livery, butcher—in fact he seems not to have missed anybody. Both telephone com panies in Lincoln were impartially treated. He mentions no bill as hav ing been paid. His wife filed a list of $1,200, being duplicates of the other. Among the items owing is a gas bill in Kansas City, and $3 for the Literary Digest. BARGAIN DAY PRICES IN LINCOLN WET GOODS Lincoln. Neb.. May 13— Last, night brought the close of the municipal year in Lincoln, and with it the banishment for a year of every saloon in the city for the first time in its history. It was "bargain day" in the 25 drinking places, the owners of the saloons mak ing an effort by materially reducing prices to dispose of the goods on hand, and it is claimed with a good deal oj success. More of the bar-rooms were disman tled early in the evening. Accumu lated stocks will be shipped hack to wholesalers. The saloonkeepers whc remain in Lincoln say they will unite with officials in striving for the en forcement of the prohibition law to tht letter. 4 4 4 TORNADO WARNINGS 4 4 GIVEN BY PHONE 4 4 4 4 Lincoln. Neb., May 13.—The 4 4 farmers in the vicinity of Frank- 4 4 lin. Neb., have organized a Tor- 4 4 nado league, its object being to 4 4 devise some method by which a 4 4 general warning can be given in 4 4 time for farmers and their fam- 4 4 llies to reach places of safety. 4 4 "Twisters” have been frequent 4 4 in that locality and in the tor- 4 4 nado of last June several were 4 4 injured and one man was killed. 4 4 At that time people watched the 4 4 storm coming and followed its 4 4 track for a period of at least 30 4 4 minutes, and constantly copi- 4 4 municate by 'phone with friends, 4 4 warning them and getting assur- 4 4 ance of their safety. From this 4 4 experience it Is thought that 4 4 there will often be time to send 4 4 out at least one general warning. 4 4 4 GASOLINE SETS FIRE TO BILLIARD HALL Wayne. Neb., May 11.—An explosion of gasoline carried in pipes used for lighting in the D. A. Jones billiard and pool hall here last night destroyed the contents of the building, valued at 13, 000, and completely gutted the struc ture. Before the firemen could check the flames, although they did splendid work, they spread to the building ad joining, occupied by the Democrat, owned by W. S. Goldie, and consider able damage to types and presses was done. Mr. Goldie's loss will reach in the neighborhood of J1.500. Only great work on the part of the fire boys pre vented greater destruction of prop erty. 4 ♦ 4 ALLEGED WITCH IS 4 4 SENT TO JAIL 4 1 4 4 1 4 "Butler. Pa.. May 13.—All ged 4 4 by her accuser to be a wlt'h. 4 4 Mrs. Laupaule Orber was tried 4 4 on a charge of disorderly con- 4 4 duct, was convicted and sen- 4 4 tenced to pay a fine of and 4 4 serve 10 days in jail. 4 4 The charge was preferred by 4 4 Mrs. Julia Kroner, who alleged 4 I 4 that Mrs. Orber went into Mrs. 4 4 Kroner's barn and by the use of 4 4 witchcraft cast a spell over a 4 4 cow which has prevented it 4 4 from giving milk. 4 4 4 LITTLE NURSE GAVE THE BABY ALCOHOL New York, May IS.—Becaus the ; sick baby she was nursing cried and , she could not quit it, Maggie James , a negro girl 17 years old, who was brought here from Shreveport, La„ by , Mrs. Sol Loeb as a nurse for her 4 , months-old son, Charles Hill Loeb, at , tempted to kill the child by pouring ; wood alcohol down its throat. The fact that the child’s stomach was weakened by illness so that it Immediately re • jected the alcohol, saved Its life. ' j In a statement to M. M. Bogle, an k assistant prosecuting attorney, the girl L said she was homesick and that the r continual crying of the child made her . desperate. She said she believed If she j did something to it, Mrs. Loeb would f discharge her and send her back home. b1 EL PASO. TEX.—The town of Tobin „ 10 miles northeast of here, was practl ’ cally destroyed by. fire. Two build j lngsu in which were housed the v equipment of the interurban to El Paso i and the work shops were among the buildings destroyed. EL PASO, TEX.—Harold Sanborn, the young Chicagoan, now in a MexP Iran prison, as the result of a riot on the Sanborn plantation near Vera j Cruz, In which six Mexicans were . 0 killed, is exonerated of any blame in i a detailed story of the riots received g, . here, * !_- ___ tl CINCINNATI, OHIO.—Nine veteran* s of the civil war, two of them offle'al - represent:^.ves of the state of Ohio e left last night for Selma, Ala. to re - turn with proper ceremony the’confed e erate flags captured by the Fourth Ohio f cavalry on the battlefield near that town.