« - l ' . - • • NATURALIZATION PAPERS ANNULLED FOR. 16 CITIZENS Papers Are Faulty and in Some Cases There Is Evidence of Fraudulent Intent. Lincoln, Nab.. Oct. 3. Rees use of •vnriousiirregularities In obtaining nat uralization papers, lfi Nebraska resi dents ot different nationalities will probably have to go through the pro cess of being made citizens a second time. Papers have been completed in ihe office of United States Attorney A. \V. Lane for filing in the federal court attacking the validity of their certifi cates. Most of those whose citizenship is thus called into question live at Omaha and South Omaha, but others are scattered over the state. The list includes Germans, Bohemians, Scandi navians, Italians, an Irishman or tvm and others of miscellaneous nativity^ The suits to have the decrees of nat uralization set aside will he commenced In the districts where the persons re spectively live. Only two of the num ber will be filed in the Lincoln division. In some cases it will be alleged that the individual was naturalized illegally before he had been in this country five years. Another ground will be that some of them were more than 18 years old on arriving in this country and did not make a formal declaration of Jtheir intention to become citizens, which is required of all except those coming here as minors. In one or two instances the claim will be made that the certificate is defective because wit nesses for tlie person naturalized were not themselves citizens. ILLINOIS SEEKS TO TAX E. H. HARRIMAN’S ESTATE Chicago, Oct. 5.—Enforcement of the new Illinois inheritance tax law is ex pected to bring into the state treas ury a large sum from the estate of Ed ward H. Harriman. Walter K. Lincoln, inheritance tax at torney, acting for Attorney General Stead, petitioned County Judge Binaker to have J. Scott Matthews appointed inheritance tax appraiser to appraise the estate of Mr. Harriman, which was granted. Although Mr. Harriman died a non resident of Illinois, this fact, it is con tended, will not prevent the taxation here of a large part of his estate. As no appraiser lias been appointed in New York state, the first official valuation placed on the vast Harriman estate may be had when the Illinois officials publish their investigation. In his petition the inheritance tax attorney specifically avers that the enormous holdings of the Harriman es tate in the Illinois Central Railroad company, Chicago & Alton railroad, Illinois Tunnel company and a long list of properties with plants in Illinois aro all subject to taxation under the new law. It Is expected the first hearing .will be early this month. MISSING 30 YEARS; RECTOR’S BODY BARELY ESCAPES DISSECTION Philadelphia. Oct. 5.—For more than 30 years nothing was heard from Rev. James Williams, once one of the best known Episcopalian clergymen in this city, by his freinds. Yesterday his body was recognized in the Presbyterian hospital just before it was to have been sent to the anatomical board for dissec tion. He was a victim of dissipation. The manner in which he lived caused his retirement from the Protestant Episco pal church. He joined the Reformed Episcopal church, and next his friends 'heard that he was a Free Thought de bater. He then dropped out of sight. .Men who had admired his talents be lieved that he was dead, or did not think of him at all. His wife, unable ito bear with his alleged dissipations, left, him and died several months ago. A week ago he was found starving in a room in the cellar of 914 Green ■ st. He had been without food for sev eral days and was suffering from can cer of the liver. He was too weak to move. His only money consisted of a Lincoln cent wrapped in tissue paper. MRS. W. VANDERBILT, JR., WILL SUE, PARIS LEARNS Paris. Oct. 5.—Friends of Mr. and Mrs. (Vm. K. Vanderbilt, jr.. are declaring that there may be a suit for divorce instituted before long, instead of the arrangement for merely a separation. Tiie Vanderbilt intimates say that Mrs. {Vanderbilt, who is at present in Now York, is and has been for a long while .very angry over what she has termed his undisguised infatuation for Mile. Cav alier!, the stage favorite. Air. Vanderbilt’s friendship for Mile. Caval.cri has been much talked about bore in Paris, and, it is said, Newport has dis cussed it with great interest, too. Mrs. Vanderbilt, her friends say. has threatened a suit, and they will not be surprised to hear any day that she has already filed it. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, sr., who Is here, is .said to he greatly upset over the unpleas ant publicity that has recently come to Ills family through his son. Not long ago. the friends'says, he wont to Mr. Vanderbilt, jr., and spoke sharply to him about Mile. Cavalier!, going even to the extent of declaring that he would make his son suffer financially if he per sisted in keeping the family name in the linn l'ght. y,:>inig Mr. Vanderbilt, however, de clined, it is said, to make overtures to liisr wife ft r a reconciliation. COUNCIL BLUFFS’ SHOW. Council Bluffs, la.. Oct. 3.—-This city is planning to entertain one of the largest crowds in its history during the week of the horticultural congress an 1 exposition. November 13-20. This .s the only national show of its kind in the I’nilcd Staten and 40 stales and territories have signified their intention .—After Thomas Gray, 18 years old, was shot once In the chest two inches from the heart and mce in the thigh he walked the streets for two hours before going home, fear ing that his father would not believe that a mysterious stranger in a door way had wounded him without reason. On reaching home he talked pleasantly with his parents for half an hour and then retired. He had been in bed three hours when his mother had occasion to pass through the room and found the bloodstained garments. This led to the discovery that the youth had been shot. The father walked him more than a mile to Belleview hos pital, where the doctors said the wound in his chest might prove fatal. Gray Insists that he did not know who the man in the doorway was that shot him, nor the cause of the shooting. MINNESOTA CREW WINS. New York, Oct. 5.—The cutter crew Df the United States ship Minnesota •von the race for the Eot'enl urg cp today. The crew of the Louisiana was second and that of the British cruiser Drake third. LAKE SHIPMENTS ARE INCREASING RAPIDLY Bureau of Statistics Makes Re. port for August Which Shows Advance. Washington, Oct. 5.—The largest to tal of shipments ever marie from the great lake ports developed In August, according to a bulletin just issued by the bureau of statistics. During August the domestic ship ments of nil kinds of merchandise amounted to 12,543,507 net tons, as compared with 10 065.449 net tons for the same period in 190S. Domestic shipments of Iron ore showed 6,947,506 gross tons, an increase of 45 per cent over those for the same period of 1908. Up to August 31, the total season shipments amounted to double those reported for the same period of 1908, being 22,228,003 gross tons. Wheat shipments showed an exceed ingly small total. Although the ship ments of coal and lumber were rather heavy during August, they fell below the average for the same month of 1908. The movement of lake vessels in do mestic trade computed by the number and tonnage of vessels departing from the lake ports, was also the largest ever reported. ALBANY, N. Y.—When the court of appeals resumes its sessions next week following the summer vacation, it will be asked to pass upon the question of the legality of the commitment of Har ry K. Thaw to the Mattrawan state hospital, and also whetlrer oral betting is a violation of the race track gam bling laws. HOUKFORD, ILL.—Resolutions com mending General Frederick D. Grant for leading the temperance parade in Chicago recently wore adopted yester day by the Ministerial and Laymen's association of the Rock River confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church. PEARY’S STEAMER IN NAVAL PARADE Explorer Arrives fti New York, but Won’t Talk About Oook Controversy. r44444444444444444444444j ROOSEVEL'T STRANDED 4 IN THE HUDSON fyVER 4 West Point, N. Y„ OoL 4.— 4 4 Commander Peary’a snip, tWe 4 4 Roosevelt, is strcncfod In the 4 4 Hudson river near J. Pierpoht 4 4 Morgan’s private landlhg, below 4 4 Highland Falls. 4 4 4 4444444444*444444444444444 ^ .. New York. Oct. 4.—The whistles of a hundred harbor craft shrieked a con tinuous salute to the steamer Roosevelt as she ploughed up the harbor this morning at the moment when Com mander Robert E. Peary stepped from a train in the Grand Central station, returning to New York from his trip to the north pole to participate in the Hudson-Fulton naval parade up the Hudson river. The Roosevelt was -well on her way from the quarantine station on Staten island to the pier at the foot of West Forty-second street, where the ex plorer was to board her, when Com mander Peary arrived at 7:15 a. m. He was accompanied by Mrs. Peary. Few to Meet Them. The hour of their arrival was so early that few persons were at the sta tion to greet them. They were warm ly greeted, however, by Herbert L: Hrldgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club. A group of newspaper men also was gathered on the platform, and they crowded around the com mander and questioned him about his trip to the far north. With the laugh ing remark that he was too hungry to talk. Commander Peary turned aside the questioners and hastened across the street for breakfast. After a hurried breakfast the com mander and Mrs. Peary left the hotel for the pier at the foot of East Forty second street, where they were to board ithe Roosevelt. Won’t Talk Any More. Members of the Peary Arctic club and close friends of the explorer will discuss with him during his stay in the city the various phases of the north pole controversy, but Com mander Peary said he would not talk about the subject for publication until his formal statement was prepared. "I appreciate the honor of being in today’s naval parade," said the com mander. just before alighting from the train, "and it is an especial pleasure to be with my crew on board the Roosevelt on such an occasion. There is nothing to be said now about the Cook controversy.” Commander Peary did not know how long he would remain in New York be fore returning to his home at Eagle island. When Commander Peary, Mrs. Peary and Herbert L. Bridgman boarded the Roosevelt for the trip up the Hudson it had not been decided how far up the river he will go. Crowd Doesn’t Know Him. I After reaching the pier Mr. Peary ’walked up and down for several min (utes without being recognized by some 1200 persons gathered there for a glimpse of the Roosevelt. The little steamer was anchored out in the stream with Ithe north pole flag at her mizzen mast and the flags which in the international 'signal code read "Thank you” flying (beneath It. "How does it feel to be back home?” asked some one. 1 “It does not feel so worse, in the words of Chimmie McFadden," replied Peary. Then his eyes turned back fondly to the Roosevelt. “She does not look like a very im posing ship, dors she?” lie said. "But up in the ice she looks like something, and there were times W'hen she locked mighty good to me. You notice the way she is built. The round of bow prevents the ice from keeping hold of her when she is squeezed, and she bobs up when the ice crushes together." Telling of the adoption of the north pole flag which the steamer bears, Commander Peary said: “I wanted a piece of the silk flag I flew at the pole to bury at that, point with my records, so I cut a diagonal strip out of it. Then, to preserve the flag, I sewed a strip of white silk into the cut when I returned to the Roose velt. The design seemed so appropri ate that we lettered this strip and adopted it as the north pole ensign.” Mr. and Mrs. Peary had stepped on board the tug and were on their way to the Roosevelt before the crowd at the dock realized who they were. Then there was a burst of cheering. Hand kerchiefs and hats were waved and the whistles renewed their blasts. Captain Bartlett and the crew of 19 men still wore on the Roosevelt, the garments they had chosen for their rough trip to the Arctic—flannel shirty fur boots and picturesque sea togs. LIQUOR MEN WILL FIGHT NEW LAWS Meeting at Des Moines Decides, However, to Obey Them Until Set Aside. Dps Moines, la.. Oot. 4.—Brewers from Dubuque, Sioux City, Davenport, Council Bluffs and Waverly held secret meetings here yesterday to discuss the Moon and Bennett laws. While refusing to state whether they will fight Attorney General Byers’ de cision on the Moon law, that it took effect on date of passage Instead of July 4. it was announced today that attorneys for the brewing interests will work out a line of action on this statute, and in the meantime, every brewer and every saloon man is urged to comply strictly with the statutes. The Moon and Bennett laws provide for the stricter saloon restrictions and limit the number of thirst parlors in Iowa. INSURANCE MAN IS SUICIDE. Grand Rapids. Mich., Oct. 4.—Dr. Alfred M. Webster, general secretary of the New Era association, a life In surance organization, was found dead today in the association’s office with a bullet hole in hts head. He had shot himself, evidently with suicidal Intent. No rearon is known. "PONY” MOORE DIES. I-ondon, Oct. 4.—George Washington Moore, founder of Moore & Burgess’ minstrels, and known in sporting cir cles as ’’Pony’’ Moore, died here this morning. [girl elopes from SEMINARY AND WEDS Student Whose Family Is Rich Overrides Objections of Her Parents. \ Washington, Pa., Oct. 4.—Slipping, away from the Washington seminary* wheffi she was' a senior student, Miss1 Mae Griffith, member of a wealthy fam ily of Pittsburg, went by train to that city, met her sweetheart, Lloyd Ray mond McCoy, and the two made a quick1 trip to Youngstown, Ohio, where they were married. *■ The seminary authorities, .when they learned thqt the girl had eluded >thelr watchfulness, had this whole section isearched, but. heard no trace of her until today, .when they wjre Informed , by her parents that she had been mar ried and returned Home. McOoy, who was graduated from1 Washington and Jefferson College here Jn 1908, Is the spn of a wealthy pot tery manufacturer at Zanesville, Ohio. Miss Griffith and McCoy met while Me-] Coy was In college. It is said that the! girl's father objected to the young, man's attentions on account of the youth of his daughter and forbadfe Me-’ Coy to see her. TWO MEN ARE HANGED IN TENNESSEE PRISON Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 4.—Just at sun rlso today William Mitchell, a white man convicted of the murder of Squire W. H. Hindman In Rutherford county, and Cecil Palmer, colored, sentenced to death for criminally assaulting a wom an near Lebanon, paid the penalty for their crimes on the gallows. These were the first executions under the new law which provides that all executions In this state be held at the state prison. Both Mitchell and Palmer had been respited twice. AMERICAN BEAUTY IS DYING IN PARIS Peggy Gillespie, Who Set Fash ions for Europe, Has Tuberculosis. Paris, Oct. 4.—Peggy Gillespie, the| pretty American girl, who for a fewj years cut a swath In Monte Carlo, Paris and London, Is said to be crit ically 111 with consumption. For a time she set the fashions for the smart set of Europe, and the way she spent; money attracted attention. Yesterday afternoon, In her magnifi cent apartment, where she Is surround ed by spoils of Jewels, paintings, antiques, Peggy Gillespie had consul tations with three medical experts. They did not tell her their opinion, but her friends know that they believe It to be an almost hopeless case olj tuberculosis of the lungs. The doctors even debated whether It was worth 'while to order the little Pittsburg girl away to Algiers or Cairo. Peggy GUesple, who Is only 24 years old, was formerly the wife of George McClelland, of Pittsburg. WIDOW ROBBED 6FM0NEY MEANT FOR SON’S RELEASE Trenton, N. J., Oct. 4.—A pickpocket took $50 from Mrs. Mary Hoagland, of Yardley, Pa., the sum total of a poor widow’s wealth, and Including the money by which she had planned to secure the freedom of her only son. Mrs. Hoagland came In from her home prepared to pay a line she knew was to be Imposed on her son, who had been arrested for drunkenness. She visited him In the lockup and was told that his hear ing would be conducted an hour later. Then she went to get him some breakfast. She got some dainty dishes at a res taurant and hurried back through a crowd. When she reached the police sta tion she had the breakfast, but that was all. Her purse had been stolen. Michael would have gone to jail In de fault of his fine had not some friends learned of the plight of his mother and gone to her assistance with a loan. Mother and son left the court room hand In hand, the boy declaring that he would never drink again. PRISONERS GET A GL JSEOFNAVY Convicts at Sing-Sing Per. mitted to View Vessels in Big Parade. Ossining, N. Y., Oct. 4.—The convicts In the state prison here were allowed to see the Hudson-Fulton naval parade as it passed up the river today. Just before the first ships reached a point off Sing Sing prison. Warden Frost and Chief Keeper C. Connoughton stopped work in the prison shops, and, forming the men in squads, marched them into the prison yards and lined them up where they could get a good view of the parade. They were not permitted to make any demonstration. As the naval fleet passed up the river they stood stolidly gazing at the vessels, and when the last one had passed they were returned to their shops. The river banks at Ossining were lined with hundreds of people, who watched expectantly for the appear ance of Commander Peary’s ship, the Roosevelt. STEAMER IS DAMAGED. Harvre, Oct. 4.—A wireless dispatch received here says that the breakdown in the machinery of the French line steamer La Lorraine affects her pro peller, but the nature of the accident is not otherwise specified. The safety of the vessel is in no way jeopardized. HAZERS ARE EXPELLED. Champaign, 111., Oct. 4.—After a meet ing of the council of administration of the University of Illinois today, H. D. Emmert, of Muskogee. Okla., and Ar thur W. Ide, of Mineral, 111., both soph omores, were expelled for alleged haz ing. _ _ _ M’ALEER SIGNS CONTRACT. New York. Oct. 4.—James R. Me Aleer, manager of the St. Louis Ameri can league baseball club signed a con tract today to manage the Washington American league team for one year, at a salary of $10,000. MILWAUKEE TO BUM BRANCH IN MONTANA President Earling and- Partj Now on Tour of Inspection * Out There. MissofilUt Mont., Oct. 4.—A party o^ Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and Puget Sound directors, headed by Pres ident A. J. Earllng, have started on a trip of inspection over the' line sur veyed along the Iiiackfoot river, north of Swan Lake, with a yiew, it is under stood, of making recommendations for the Immediate construction ®f a rail road from Bonnen, Mont., to the inter national boundary. The tour is to be made in autos, by team and with pack outfit, and la scheduled to take four days, the party returning to Missoula over the Flat head reservation on Monday night. The Officials reached Mfssoula last night. In the party are President A. J. Earllng, Chief Engineer E. J. Pear son, General Superintendent H. B. Ear llng, Directors Geddes, Coffin, Hark ness, Clark, Llewellyn, Petit and Percy Rockefeller, a son of William Rocke feller. The tour Is, without doubt, being made with a view to establishing, di rect rail communication between the main line of the Puget Sound railroad and the Crow’s Nest over the Cana dian boundary. It Is a well known fact that the survey which has recently been run through the north country connects with the world’s most famous colliery district In British Columbfa, the survey ending at McGilvray. At McGllvray the line will connect with the road recently constructed by Cor bin, of Spokane, which enters the very heart of the Crow’s Nest pass country. SOLDIERS UNABLE TO MAKE FORCED MARCH Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 4.—While BOO men of the Second Infantry, U. S. A., were returning to Fort Thomas, Ky., at an earfy hour today on a forced march of 43 miles from Fort Perry, Ohio, many dropped in the ranks from sheer exhaustion. Lieutenant C. W. Dawes, surgeon of the regiment, fainted and fell from his horse while passing New Richmond, Ohio. He Is said to be suffering from appendicitis. One army ambulance, overcrowded with disabled men, broke down In the city limits. The regiment, under command of Colonel Mansfield, made the forced march under orders from the war de partment. 4-444» ++ »♦♦♦♦ 44444444444444 4 4 4 NATIONAL SOCIETY '4 4 DECIDES AGAINST 4 4 RECOGNIZING COOK 4 4 4 4 Washington, Oct. 4.—In view 4 4 of the polar controversy, the 4 ,4 board of directors of the Nation- 4 4 al Geographical society today ,41 4 held a special meeting to deter- 4 4 mine the attitude it should as- 4 4 sume toward Dr. Frederick A. 4j 4 Cook on the occasion of his visit 4 4 here next 8unday, when he will 4 4 deliver a lecture on his Arctio 4 4 experiences. 4 4 The decision was reached that 4 4 Dr. Cook, under the circum- 4 4 stances, could not be recognized 4 4 in an official way until the con- 4 4 troversy is settled. 4 til I II I H I H II I.I I I I it SPANISH GENERAL IS KILLED IN SKIRMISH Moors Ambush Foes in Wa? That Madrid Thought Was All Over. Melilla, Morocco, Oct. 4.—A Spanish force from Zeluan, reconnoltering yes terday In the direction of Sokeljemis, encountered the Moors and met with |a serious reverse. General Dlez Vlcarlo. three other of ficers and 14 men were killed, and 182 men were wounded. The Spanish force was under the command of General Orozco. The other officers who lost their lives were a lieutenant and two captains. The Span iards were ambushed by the Moors. Madrid, Oct. 4.—The latest Spanish defeat In Morocco, In which General Dlez Vlcarlo lost his life, Is not yet known to the people of Madrid, and the authorities are carefully sup pressing the details of the activities of yesterday and Y/ednesday, which In dicated that the Moors were resuming the offensive. GREAT COMMONER CELEBRATING HIS SILVER WEDDING Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4.—Mr. and Mrs. SV. J. Bryan celebrated their 25th wed ding anniversary today at Fairvtew, the house being decorated with flags am} flowers and filled with messages and presents from all parts of the world. Their three children and two grand children were at home, and the formei aided in receiving the long line ol neighbors who called to greet them. Although there was much correspon dence to be taken care of, Mr. Bryan dropped all business for the day and devoted himself to his family and tha visitors. 44444444444444+44444444444 4 4 4 CHILD SCALDED TO 4 4 DEATH IN A PAIL 4 4 4 4 Estherville, la., Oct. 4.—The 4 4 daughter of Mr. and 4 4 Mrs. Jno. I. Dale, who live near 4 4 Greattlnger. fell into a pail of 4 4 hot water her mother was using 4 4 to scrub the floor and was 4 4 scalded to death. The funeral 4 4 was held yesterday. 4 4 4 444444444444-M44444444444+ THREE PASSENGERS HURT. Wilson, N. Y., Oct. 4.—Three pas sengers were injured and a'dosen oth ers badly shaken up when the Niagara Falls train on the New York Central collided here this morning with an east bound through freight about 100 yards east of the station here. DR. DORN IS DEAD. Washington, Oct. 4,—Dr. Anthon Dorn, founder and director of the fa mous biological station at Naples, Italy, and well known to naturalists through out the world, is dead, according to a cablegram received at the Smithsonian Institution.