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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1910)
fHE O’NEILL FRO?ITiLi D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. rNKILX, NEBRASKA Cents, being of small value, are care lessly handled and are lost In such great numbers that the Uulted States treasury has to work hard to maintain the supply. The profit to the govern ment on their manufacture is large, however, inasmuch as the blanks for them are purchased for $1 a thousand from a firm in Connecticut that pro duces them by contract. Blanks for nickels are obtained in the same way, costing Uncle Sam only a cent and a half apiece. Vienna has an orchestra composed exclusively of physicians and students of medicine. This organization gave Its first public concert a few weeks ago for the benefit of a public charity, and, according to a published report, "earned the applause of a large and critical audience." Among the promi nent members of the orchestra are Professors Strumpell, Rethl, Stoerk and Ivnnovlcs. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the overture to ’’Egmont" and a composition by Haydn were the features of the entertainment. A novel means of Identification has been adopted by one of the large insti tutions for deaf mute children of New York. The children sometimes wander away or become lost while traveling, and. as many of them can not read and write, it is often a dlfllcult thing to return them to the Institution. By tattooing the name and address on the akin it Is an easy matter for the deaf mutes to be Identified. The tattooing Is done in'Ink that Is not Indelible, but which will stand for a year or two. Thera Is an Immense quantity of coal lr. the mountainous portions of Colorado and New Mexico. There are vast quantities of oil taken from the different sections of California. Tn New Mexico little or no oil is used as fuel for power purposes; in California little or no coal Is used. At an inter mediate point between these two a di vision will bo found where the cost of producing power, all factors being tak en into consideration, will be the same whether coal or oil is used as fuel. "The dance has never played so Im portant a part In stage entertainment as It does at the present time," says a writer In Figaro, "and the novelties in that lino seem to be Inexhaustible. The old ballet, ns portrayed by Grlsl and Ellsler, has been revived, and, In addi tion, we have all sorts of dances, from the stntely minuet to the grotesque cake walk. New artists, each one with a specialty, make their appearance at ■hort intervals. They all claim the public’s attention until they melt away before the rays of a new star. During the French revolution a thief and a marquis jolted in a tumbril side by side through the wild streets of Paris, on the way to the guillotine, while a venerable priest tried to con sole their terrible last ride with moral reflections. "A bas In noblesse! Down with the aristocrats!” shouted the rod capped mob. Thereupon the thief rose In the cart and cried, "My friends, you deceive yourself. I am not an aristo crat, I am a thief!" The priest plucked him by the sleeve, saying reproachful ly: "Sit down. This Is no time for vanity.” The famous old single-track suspen •lon bridge over the Niagara river on the line of the Grand Trunk railway, was opened for traffic In 1855, and was In continuous use from that time until 1897, a period of 42 years, it was built by the late John A. RoebUng, was 821 feet, 4 Inches long between the centers of the towers, and was carried by four 10-lnch steel cables, The tower was 145 feet above the water. The lower chord sustained a roadway for foot passengers and vehicles. During a furious storm in Paris a Janitor was struck on the shoulder by ' a small, but heavy tin box which had fallen from an upper story of a house In the Rue de l’Ouest. The box was found to contain $6,000 In gold and notes. It was claimed at the police station by an elderly woman, who said that the money constituted her entire savings, which she had hidden by tying the box to the drain pipe out aide her window. .,rwU..e, »* • *. i.ivvnigiuiy Biven 10 ■lang, went wfth her mother to the funeral of an aunt. The dead woman had been strikingly handsome In life and her features retained all their at tractiveness. "How do you think Aunt Blanche looked?” asked the mother, ■when thrty had viewed the corps. En thusiastically the child replied. “Dead swell, didn't she, mother?" William Travers Jerome once went down to Georgia to address the Geor gia Bar association. Colonel Peter Meldrlm was showing Jerome around. "You see that man?" said the colonel, pointing out a distinguished person •who sat on the hotel porch. "I do" “Well, suh, that is a man in whom, our state takes grout pride. Ho is Judge -, eah, the only man in Georgia who can strut sitting down." The number of cremations in Great Britain last year was 855, an increase of 60 from 1908. The grand total of the 12 crematoriums since the opening of the Woking crematorium In 1885 to the end of last year was 8,121. In 1908 there were 6,568 cremations In France. Ger many In 1909 cremated 4,779, making a grand total to that date of 23,000 for Germany. Sir John Benn, at a recent meeting Jn London, told of a boy who was asked what he would like to be. The boy said; "A lighthouse keeper." The schoolmaster said. "Why?" The boy replied; • "It would be so’nice to sit up at the top of the lighthouse and see all the wrecks going to pieces below.” The average speed of a homing pig eon in calm weather Is 1,210 yards”a minute With a strong wind in the direction of flight, some pigeons have made 1,980 yards, or more than a mile a minute. -.—.» --- Seventeen species of shark, some of them twenty-live feet in length, inhab it the fur eastern seas, while the bask ing shark of the Indian ocean frequent ly attains a length of fifty feet. Hood shaped headgear has been de vised for torpedo boat crews, affording rirotection for ■ he eyes and shielding he ears from the wind caused by the high speed. The amount due to depositors in the British "postoffice savings bank In 1908 was $803,241,070 The increase in 1908 was only $15,740,685 A flexible rubber mouthpiece for telephones is a novelty, the Idea being to prevent breakage should a desk in strument be upset There are workingmen with families In Germany who. with an Income of >5 a week, are able lo buy an oc casional book. People us a rule, hear better with *b« right ear than tho left ear. PUGILIST JOHNSON MAD AT JEFFRIES Will Make Him Atone in Ring for Unfavorable Remarks. Omaha, April 26.—Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist, at a banquet tendered him last night In Omaha by admirers of his own race, speaking of his fight with Burns, said, according to the World-Herald, this afternoon: "Of (hat fight I can truthfully say that I never before entered the ring with a heart so full of malice. Mr. Burns had said many unkind things about me, and in the ring that day I remembered them all. Every time 1 forced him to his corner I would ask him if he remembered when he had made some certain statement, and 1 followed it up with one of my best blows." Continuing, he said: "Mr. Jeffries, too, has said many hard things about me in return for the courtesy that I have always tried to show him. But I shall remember them all upon the day of the battle. I shall ask Mr. Jeffries In the ring if he recol lects certain of the things he has said, and for each recollection he shall make atonement.” 44 4444 4 4 4 44 4 44444-4 4 4-44 4 444 4 4 4 BARBERS TO REFRAIN 4 4 FROM EATING ONIONS 4 4 4 4 Waterloo, Neb., April 26.—At 4 4 last tho city council here has 4 4 come to tho relief of men who 4 4 patronize barbers, an ordinance 4 4 has been passed and signed by 4 4 the mayor and is effective at 4 4 once. Among other things, it 4 4 regulates matters relative to the 4 4 cleanliness of shops, and then 4 4 provides: 4 4 “It shall be unlawful for any 4 4 barber in this town to eat onions 4 4 between 7 o’clock a. in. and ft p. 4 4 m.. No barber, while shaving 4 4 a customer shall Insert his 4 4 thumb or finger In the said cus- 4 4 tomer’s mouth; shall not dis- 4 4 cuss the gossip of the town and 4 4 shall not use tobacco while 4 4 working over a chair; shall not 4 4 insist upon a customer having 4 4 his neck shaved, or his hair 4 4 singed.” 4 4 A violation of any of tho pro- 4 4 visions shall subject the barber 4 4 to arrest, and a line of not less 4 4 than $5 for each and every of- 4 4 fense. 4 4 4 PEOPLE AROUSED OVER MAN’S MURDEP Lincoln, Neb., April 26.—According ti a report received at the office of Gov ernor Shallenberger yesterday frorr Mullen, Neb., a serious condition ol affairs prevails there that, accordinf to the governor’s Informant, may re sult In bloodshed or an uprising. The situation is the result of the al leged murder of O. F. Hamilton, the recent finding of his body and the ar rest of his alleged slayers. Threat! have been made, It Is asserted, b> friends of the accused men against oth er people In the community, and Gov ernor Shallenberger Is asked to afforc protection. It Is charged that influential men lr the community are in sympathy wltl those connected with alleged land anc cattle fencing frauds, and are opposec to any prosecution of the men chargee with the killing of Hamilton, who as sisted government secret service men Governor Shallenberger and Attor ney General Thompson are co-operat ing and announce they will see thai the law Is enforced. X FARMER BRYAN INSPECTS 4 4 HIS STOCK AND PASTURES 4 4 - 4 4 Lincoln, Neb., April 26.—Since 4 4 his return from his South 4 4 American trip W. J. Bryan has 4 4 been spending his timo quietly 4 4 at his Falrvlew home. Domestic 4 4 affairs are engaging his atten- 4 4 tlon and he is not permitting 4 4 politics to interfere. Yesterday 4 4 he took a walk ov*r his farifl, 4 4 taking getieiOT observations or 4 4 the crops and live stock, 4 4 Lincoln4 democrats are not yet 4 4 ready to abandon the Idea that 4 4 Mr. Bryan will eventually be 4 4 drafted ns the party’s candidate 4 4 for United States senator In the 4 4 August primaries. It is now said 4 4 that he will have to be very 4 4 emphatic or else this will be 4 4 done. -i 4444444444444444444444Y444 THOMPSON’S WIFE DECIDED HIS CASE Lincoln, Neb., April 26.—Close friends of W. H. Thompson, of Grand Island, have just announced that the lattei withdrew from the senatorial race be cause of the wish of his wife. Mrs Thompson did not want her husband to enter the campaign, even where a senatorship was the prize, because oi its strenuousness. Political admirers of Mr. Thompson say that no “big stick” had anything to do with his withdrawal. They' say it was simply a family affair. MEMORIAL IS PROPOSED FOR J. STERLING MORTON Washington, April 26—As a memorial to the late J. Sterling Morton, sec retary of agriculture during President Cleveland’s second administration, a bill was introduced yesterday by Sen ator Burkett to provide for the establishment of "the Morton Institu tion of agriculture and forestry” al or near Nebraska City, Neb., the for mer home of the late secretary. Tin measure is designed to advance the sci ence and practice of forestry. The In stitution would be conducted under the direction of the department of argt culture. The cost of the site and build ings is limited to $250,000 and $10,00( is asked to begin the work. NEGRO LEADER JAILED. Havana. April 26.—General Evaristr Estenoz, the negro leader, and four other negroes were arrested during the night, charged with having held a meeting In the suburbs of this city, without tirst securing a police license. THIRTEEN~^Wli DEAD. Steubenville, O., April 26.—Seven dead men, and three miners still alive were removed from the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal company's mine at Amster dam, 25 miles northwest of Steuben ville today. Tills leaves but two men still missing. The total known dead number 13. BURNED TO DEATH. Chicago, April 26.—Nelson Harrison 43 years old. was burned to death to day in a fire at his home while trying to rescue a neighbor’s child which hi supposed was sleeping on the second door. BRYAN ONCE MORE AT FAIRVIEW HOME; NOT A CANDIDATE Doesn’t Want to Go to Senate and Is Against State Dom ination by Saloon. Lincoln, Neb., April 25.—W. J. Bryan returned to Lincoln last evening after an absence of over live months. Mr. Bryan was welcomed by his daughter, Brace, and other relatives, members of the Lincoln Commercial club and a few close political friends. He said he was not familiar with local political condi tions and could not discuss Nebraska politics intelligently, but reiterated his denial that he was a candidate for United States senator or any other office. Simultaneous with Mr. Bryan's return a statement coming from him was published yesterday defining his position on the questions of county op tion and prohibition. Mr. Bryan in his statement reiterates his previous declaration against saloon domination In politics and his personal advocacy of county option in Nebraska. He de pies, however, that he has any inten tion of starting a prohibition newspa per or that he desires to inject the pro hibition question into national politics. He says he does not expect to see that question a paramount Issue during his lifetime. Mr. Bryan will remain in Lincoln and Nebraska three weeks or a month. Views on Local Option. In a third person editorial prepared by Mr. Bryan it is announced in the current issue of the Commoner that no personal liberty restrictions will be in dorsed by Mr. Bryan. In the editorial he says: Mr. Bryan believes that the 8 o'clock closing law enacted by the last Nebraska legislature is a reasonable regulation of the traffic and he, therefore, favors the retention and enforcement of the law. He disputes the proposition advanced by the liquor interests that the right of an indi vidual to drink Includes the right to sell or give liquor to others, and he favors leg islation which will enforce the law against treating. In Nebraska county option has become an issue and Mr. Bryan believes that the , people of each county should be permitted to exclude the open saloon when they see fit to do so. The exclusion of the open saloon does not necessarily deny to tlie individual the right to use liquor in his home or under other restrictions; it sum ply closes the public sale of liquor when, in tile opinion of the people of the county, the public sale is detrimental to the in terests of the county. Whether the people of a county should, In the exercise of their rights, close the saloons is a question entirely separate and apart from the right to do so, and Mr. Bryan is no more willing to deny the people of a county the exercise of a clear and undeniable right, merely because they may make mistakes in exercising that right, than he Is to deny the people the right to vote, merely because they may, in the exercise of that right, vote the re republican ticket. Is there anything un democratic or revolutionary about these propositions? 4 POLITICIAN MAY HOLD 4 4 BUNCH OF OFFICES 4 4 - 4 4 Lincoln, Neb., April 25.—If a 4 4 man is able to get elected or ap- 4 4 pointed to two offices in Ne- 4 4 braska, says Attorney General 4 4 Thompson, there is nothing in 4 4 the law to prevent his holding 4 4 onto them. 4 4 The question was put up to 4 4 the attorney general’s office by 4 4 Red Willow county authorities, 4 4 who complained that after Sid- 4 4 ney Dodge had been elected 4 4 clerk of the district court he in- 4 4 sisted on holding on to his old 4 4 Job of court reporter. 4 4 Mr. Thompson says that the 4 4 duties of the two offices do not 4 4 conflict, and that as neither the 4 4 statute nor the common law 4 4 limits the number of offices 4 4 which may be held simul- 4 4 taneously by the same person, 4 4 unless the duties are incompati- 4 4 ble, there is no way to remove 4 4 Dodge from either. 4 4444444444444444444444x444 B. & M. ROAD SUFFERS SUSTAINS $6,000 LOSS Lincoln, Neb., April 25.—With the wind blowing a gule, a spectacular fire raged for ‘hours in the yards of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail road yards last night. An estimate of the loss is between $125,000 and $150, 000. Starting in the old roundhouse, which had been used as a storehouse, the fire spread to the material yards, the large ice house and coal sheds. Nearly a dozen railroad buildings with their contents were burned, together with 88 cars, some of them filled with lumber and merchandise. The high wind carried sparks and brands nearly half a mile, threatening the Burlington passenger station and business houses near. --4— MEMBER OF CHARIVARI PARTY IS KILLED Holdredge, Neb., April 25.—Henry Swanson, member of a charivari party which was celebrating the wedding of a young couple on a tarm rwar Bert rand late last night, was shot are! in stantly killed by some one not yet known. The coroner and sheriff are in vestigating, but no arrest3 have thus far been made. FORDYCE IS SCORCHED; SUSTAINS $6,00 LOSS Hartington, Neb., April 25.—Fire which started in the station at For dyce yesterday destroyed that building, together with an elevator near by. and also a livery barn. The loss will ex ceed $6,000, and the amount of insur ance is not known. EIGHTEEN MEN THOUGHT TO BE KILLED IN MINE Steubensville, O., April 25.—Eighteen of a night force of 25 machine nu n em ployed in the mine of the Youghiogheny ib Ohio Coal company, near Amster dam, are thought to be dead as a re sult of an explosion in the mine late last night. So far six bodies have been recov ered. Seven were taken from the shaft in an unconscious condition. Twelve men are missing. It is thought that the explosion was caused by coal gas being ignited by the lights on the helmets of the miners. CROOK MUST RETURN. London. April 25.—Frank Mathusic, alias Bates, who was identified b>* John O'Shea, ol St. Louis, Mo., as the man who escaped after having been sentenced for theft in that city, was ordered extradited by a Bow street magistrate today. Mathusic has been serving d three months sentence at Crewe for robbery. CENTERVILLE CELEBRATES. Centerville, S. D., April 25.—At the "jubilee” meeting following the tem perance victory at Tuesday's election $500 was raised to enforce the liquor law. BECOMES A BRIDE THROUGH DECEPTION OF HOTEL CLERK Has Audience With Victim of Practical Joke and Agrees to Wedding. Plattsmouth, Neb., April 23.—Miss Della Gillis, dining room girl at the Hotel Riley, has presumably found a husband, under peculiar circumstances. Some months ago Bert Lamphler, clerk at the hotel, answered the matrimonial advertisement of Neels P. Jorgensen, a farmer near Oklahoma City. Lam phier writes a feminine chirography, and in his letter he represented him self to be Ruth Ayres. Jorgensen was evidently taken with the epistolary at tainments of “Miss Ayres" and replied. Within a short time the letters be gan to warm up on both sides and Damphier began to be fearful about tlie outcome of his joke. The other day Mr. Jorgensen himself came to town and calling at the hotel asked to see Ruth Ayres, whom he was informed lived at the Riley. Lamphier and his fellow clerk, who was a co-conspirator, had visions of a personal chastisement at the hands of the big Oklahoman, and rather than tell him the truth they secured the consent of Miss Gillis to be introduced as Miss Ayres. The introduction was duly made and for the next two hours maid and farm er held the parlor. At the conclusion of the interview Miss Gillis called for her pay check, packed up, and with Mr. Jorgensen took the train for Omaha. Nobody had nerve enough to inquire if she had explained the joke or if they had become engaged to marry, but the presumption is that they are now in Omaha on their honeymoon. Miss Gillis is an unusually pretty girl. DESPERATE MEN ATTEMPT ESCAPE ucavciiwurui, tvan., April zd.—r ive train robbers, serving life sentences, escaped from the federal prison here early today. Within a short time two of the men were recaptured. At 11 o'clock the three others were sur rounded in the brush within a short distance of the prison, and it was be lieved all would be taken. The men recaptured were Bob Clark, sent up from Tyler, Tex., and John Gideon, of Moscow, Idaho. The three others were: Thomas A. Rating, sent up from Allen, Okla.; Arthur Hewitt, from Caddo, Okla., and Frank Crigar, one of the men who held up a Union Pacific mail train near Omaha last fall. The break for liberty was made about 8 o’clock this morning and was the result of a cleverly planned plot on the part of the five convicts. The execution was most daring. Two of the convicts were at work in the car penter shop, and the others were in the tailor shop. A Union Pacific switch engine had backed into the prison ya-rd. At the sound of the engine whistle the men dashed into the yard and made toward the engine. Leveling what is believed to have been dummy guns at the engi neer, the men climbed into the cab and compelled him to reverse his machine. The engine rushed through the west gate into the open country, and was soon speeding toward the woods. When the escape became known a few mo ments later, the siren whistle at the prison was sounded as a warning to farmers in the surrounding country to be on the lookout. The whistle may be heard for miles, and its use caused consternation. At the same time heavily armed guards were thrown around the gates to prevent any fur ther attempt at escape, while others started in pursuit of the fleeing men in the engine. When the engine had reached a point a half mile from the prison the five men jumped to the ground, and made for the woods. Clark and Gideon sepa rated from the others and soon were captured. They were taken without much show of resistance and landed safely in their cells. Then every available guard, led by Deputy Lemon, started in pursuit of the other three men. A half mile fur ther on the trio were surrounded in the woods. No shot had been fired on either side, up to 11 o'clock, when the guards began to close in on the con victs. Although the convicts are des perate men. it is believed that their only weapons were guns made of wood and painted in the carpenter shop. Fake weapons taken from Clark and Gideon had been ingeniously made. Even the cylinders showed imitation bullets protruding. When the men made their dash for liberty they covered Harry Reed, a guard with their "guns” and forced him to enter the engine cab with them. But one other guard, named Burnett, was in the vicinity. He rushed up and struck Rating over the head, causing a w'ound from which blood flowed freely. Rating was only stunned and running after his confederates he scrambled into the engine just as it was getting under way. The guards inside the prison do not carry weap ons. jvaLiue vyu» empioyeu ior nve years as an engineer on the Lake Shore rail road and he assumed the leadership when the engine started. He directed Charles Curtain. the engineer to "throw her wide open" and told Fire man Millard Heeter to shovel coal "as he had never shoveled before.” When the engine had arrived at a point six miles northwest of the prison, where the road was skirted on both sides by heavy timber the engin eer and firemen were instructed to "kill” the engine. Then the despera does forced the engineer and fireman to disrobe and two of the convicts appropriated their garments. The men started to force the guard to disrobe, also, but Hewett said enough time had already been wasted and the men plunged into the woods. The trainmen then fired the engine and rushed it back to the prison. HORSESHOERS AFTER MORE MEMBERS Des Moines. Ia.. April 23.—The Horseshoers- Protective association, in state convention here today, decided to make a state wide fight for members, sending men into each county to or ganize it. JUDGE DEEMER CALLS ON PRESIDENT TAFT Washington, April 23.—Representa tive Smith today presented Judge Deemer, of the Iowa supreme court, to the president. Judge Deemer is being considered for the supreme court of the United States, to succeed Justice Brewer. It was given out at the White House, however, that the call was social and that the president had not sent for Judge Deemer, who is in the east on another matter. ! EDUCATION BOARD FILES ANSWER IN CASE AT CHADRON Petition of Alliance Pec .e Calls Forth Statement About New Normal. Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—The state board of education filed yesterday in district court an answer to the petition of Ira E. Tash, of Alliance, praying for an injunction to prevent the board lo cating the new normal school provided for by the last legislature at Chadron. The answer is signed by Attorney General Thompson, Deputy Attorney General Martin, A. W. Crites and F. M. Hall. After reciting the history of the nor mal board of education which the leg islature attempted to create, and which was ousted by the supreme court, the defendants assert that dur ing the pendency of the litigation they held their powers to be in abey ance and that neither board attempted to act in locating the new school, as required by the terms of the statute establishing the Institution. Chadron, as well as the other towns, which competed for the school, acting in good faith, filed its bid with the new board in manner prescribed in the law. After November 15, the date when the old board resumed its func tions, the Chadron people caused their bid and bond for deed to be trans mitted to such board, and thereafter the members visited the various towns, finally selecting Chadron as the location for the school. It is denied that the Chadron peo ple will be unable to convey a clear title to the 80-S.cre tract, which it is proposed to donate to the state and the statement is made that the money has been paid for the property and a deed, running to the state, ordered by unanimous vote of the board of trus tees of Chadron academy. Such deed has been duly executed and delivered to the state. KI L l F n BY TB»IN. Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—Mrs. C... .Glen ...... Mi. .on. ...... ... sistersinlaw, were struck by an incom ing Burlington railroad train at a crossing here last night sjid Instantly killed. The horse they were driving became unmanageable and ran in front of the engine. AMERICANS BITE AT ART SWINDLE Paris, April 22.—The revelations made in the case of Count De Gatigny who, with the countess, is being ex amined at Tours on a charge of having misrepresented the origin of paintings and the antiquity of furniture pur chased by Mrs. Charles H. Paine, of this city, but formerly of Boston, have caused a profound impression in the world of art, and served to open up the whole question of the many-sided traffic in sham paintings, other works of art and antique furniture. Although the declarations of Henri Rochefort, editor of the Partie, re garding the Rembrandts may con stitute a satirical exaggeration, it is the general opinion that there is some truth in his assertion that celebrated collections in hundreds of homes in America and elsewhere contain spuri ous Rembrandts as well as copies of other masters. Roehefort Is Sarcastic. M. Rocherfort has said that 80 per cent of the "Rembrandts,” owned in America were forgeries. “I have seen so many 'Turners’ ” said M. Rocherfort, “that I have almost ' decided that Turner never existed. He could not have turned out the works attributed to him if he had lived 200 years. It is the same with Rem- ' brandts. "I never could convince my Ameri- ' ,can friend that his collection of the Ischool of 1830 containing -Millets’ and ' ‘Corots' were not genuine, but I did convince him of the falsity of his works of one great living artist, for the artist himself, upon seeing the pic- I tures, exclaimed: 'I will send my seconds to the man who says I did that.’ ” Exposure Checks Fraud. The recent exposures are hailed here as helping to check the brazen frauds perpetrated in Prance and elsewhere and as a warning to foreigners to buy masterpieces with the greatest caution. The newspapers pursue the Gatigny affair with avidity and are immensely amused over the various reports of how the count entered the most ex clusive society. Early photographs of Gatigny show a handsome young man, dressed in the uniform of a chancellor of the Order of Melusine, his breast literally laden ' with ribbons and medals. YOUNG MEN CAUGHT EREAKING IN SCHOOL Principal Puts One to Floor—. Were Trying to Destroy the Records. Canton, S. D., April 22.—Pro fessor E. C. Woodbury, principal ' of the public schools of this city, was seriously injured last evening by two young men. who had broken into the high school building and were caught in the act of destroying the school records. Professor Woodbury, having learned that some young men were bent upon , breaking into the school house for that purpose, was on the watch for them, and at about midnight the rowdies ap peared and started upon their crime. When they found themselves trapped one of them jerked a drawer out of the superintendent’s desk and threw it ! at Woodburn, striking him on the left cheek and cutting a deep gash to the bone. One of the lads Woodburn sue- , ceeded in catching, but the other fel- , low got away. The school board is determined to make an example of the , young fellows, although they are sons , of respectable citizens. TOM TAGGART WANTS TO GO TO THE SENATE Indianapolis, Ind., April 22.—Thomas Taggart, former chairman of the dem I ocratic national committee, formally announced today that he would be a candidate before the general assembly next year to succeed Albert J. Bever idge in the United States Senate. If the democratic state convention next week adopts a plan approved by Governor Marshall and indorses a can didate for the Senate, Mr. Taggart’s name will be presented. i MURDERED MAN’S BODY RECOVERED AFTER TWO YEARS Man Confesses to Being Un. willing Witness of Crime Where Man Lost Life. Broken Bow, Neb., April 20.—Two years after the mysterious disappear ance of O. F. Hamilton from Mullen, county seat of Hooker county, his body was Saturday dug from a hastily made grave near the stock yards at that place. The finding of the body was brought about by a confession made by Frank Cleavinger, who filed an affidavit stating that C. W. Rector and himself had been unwilling witnesses to the murder, and charges H. G. McIntyre, who is now a Burlington brakeman, with having committed the crime. On the night of the murder, which,, occurred about 11 o'clock, Cleavinger'* confession states, he and McIntyre en tered a saloon at Mullen by a rear en trance, and that Hamilton was seated In a corner, apparently asleep. Ac cording to Cleavinger, McIntyre first awoke Hamilton and then struck him over the head with a revolver, render ing him unconscious. The prostrate form was then rolled down the cellar- , way, where, the affidavit says, the murderous work was completed. Identified by Ring. Cleavinger states that C. W. Rector also was a witness to the murder, and that both were compelled to assist Mc Intyre, under threat of death, in bury ing the body, first in the cellar and the next day in removing it to the grave, where it was found. Hamilton’s body was recognized by a ring which he wore. Judge Homer Sullivan, who ex amined the exhumed body, declared he could find no evidence of the skull laving been fractured. Cleavinger and McIntyre are under arrest, but Rector has disappeared. McIntyre was a drayman at the time of the alleged murder and later became a railroad switchman at Seneca, Neb. He was given a pre- i lmlnary hearing Saturday afternoon, it which he pleaded not guilty. The trial of the case has been set for the May term of the district court. Owing to considerable excitement at Mullen, McIntyre has been removed to 3rand Island as a precautionary meas lre. Two years ago secret service men. were sent into Hooker county to in vestigate alleged land frauds. Ham lton was active in giving aid to these officers and thereby, it is said, incurred the enmity of a number of people. Soon his property was burned and he •eceived threatening letters warning lim to cease his activities. Hamilton then disappeared. Several weeks ago a statement from persons residing in the vicinity of Mullen was sent to Governor Shallen jerger. The statement was to the ef fect that many persons in the vicinity jelieved Hamilton had met with foul olay and asked that an investigation >e made. The matter was placed in he hands of the county attorney at Mullen. 4 ♦ 4 BREAKS JAW WHILE -4 4 CALLING HIRED MAN -f XI 4 — \i 4 Dunbar, Neb., April 20.— -4 4 Miss Ida Bethune is suffering -4 9 4 the pains incident to a broken 4- 1 4 jaw. And Miss Bethune’s jaw 4 4 was broken by herself, while in -4 4 the act. of calling a hired man 4 4 to dinner. When she was call- 4 4 lng at the top of her voice, Miss 4 4 Bethune felt the muscles of the -4 4 lower jaw give way and this -4 4 was immediately followed by 4 4 severe pain. Dr. Simpson pro- 4 4 nounced the jaw broken, square 4 4 across, between the third and 4 4 fourth molars, on the left side, -4 4 caused by over exertion of the -4 J 4 muscles and their rapid con- 4 4 traction. 4 CHINESE DRIVE OUT THE FOREIGN DEVILS Jiots in Changsha Assume Serious Aspect and Lives Are in Danger. Changsha, China, April 20.—All the 'oreign owned buildings in Changsha lave been destroyed by fire with the •xception of the British consulate. All he buildings rented by foreigners have >een looted. The Chinese officials on ruesday issued a proclamation that hey were unable to protect the lives ind property of foreigners, and there lpon all foreigners made haste to leave- ' he city. So far as is known no foreign ■esidents lost their lives. The governor of Hunan province, Vou Toung-Siu, and his son, and sev -ral other government officials fled. 2ven yet a section of the city is in lames. Six thousand foreign drilled ioldiers are stationed here, and a few >f these protected the governor’s house or a time, but soon all joined the •ioters. The riots began on April 13, when „ he famine sufferers looted the rice ihops. A captain of police was wound 'd while trying to restore order, but housands crowded around him and his issistants, and he was obliged to flee > o the yamen. The rioters followed dm there and besieged the place all light. The following day the disturbances leca.me anti-foreign, this being a itrong anti-foreign province. The China nland mission and the Norwegian and -atholic missions were burned. The ither missions were destroyed on April 5. The missionaries attached to the American Episcopal missionary alii ince, the United Evangelical church, ind the 'Wesleyan and Yale missions, lumbering 41 in all, took refuge in loats. They left ail their effects. The iestruction of all foreign property, in •luding the Japanese consulate and the Iritish warehouses, followed. The fate 1’ if the Standard Oil company's newly ■rected tanks is unknown. i'OUTH GOES TO DEATH SHOWING GREAT FEAR Auburn, N. Y., April 20.—Showing ear in every movement, Earl B. Hill, onvicted of murder on August 26, 190S, if Eldridge Davis, a prosperous farmer if the town of Bainbridge, Chenango :ounty, was put to death in the elec ric chair in Auburn prison today. Hill passed his 21st birthday in the irUon four days ago.