Nebraska Newspapers

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PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.. MAY 15, 1900."
VOL. IX, NO. 5
THK NEWS', Fstablshed Not. 5. 1891. 'consolidated Jan. 1.1895.
THK IlKliALD. hsiat.hshed April 10. IsCt fWMUllu,BU
ITLLEK NOW STRIKING
Tl i INHERITANCE TAX IS VALID.
Army IlrporliMl lo Have lrien
iidt-is I'roni ISifjjsirsburs'.
EEITI2H ONCE MORE EEACH DUNDEE
Union Jack Again at the Point Where
Hostilities Began.
Pretoria Kcpoi-t an Atlackon JIafe
khii Wliicli limns the Katftr
tuailcrs Bm-r Women
Dcuiaiul Arms.
London. May 15. General Buller has
at last li rii heard from iu action
airain. 11 has, it seems, driven the
Boers from their strong position iu the
Biggarslerg. anl has occupied Dun
dee, here the war began and where
General Synioiids fell. There Is noth
ing otlii ial from the seeue at this writ
ing, lint the following is u special dis
patch from Stone Hill Farm. Natal,
ilated yesterday:
"Gen. Puller's advance coiiitneuced
Thursday, when he left Ixtdysmith iu
strength. When within two miles of
llelpinakaar the I5oers opened a heavy
urtillery tire and the P.rilish jjuiis re
plied, while a portion of Huller's troops
worked rotmd the Boer Hanks. The
British attack was pressed home Sun
day, lleihmie, ou the right, out
ranked the Boers, whose splendid de
fensive isi tions on the Biggarsberg
were practically taken. (Jen. Huller's
mareh subsequent to the attack was
earrieil out without a hitch. The
liritish are still pushing on."
Another dispatch announces the ar
rival of 15rit!sh troois at Dundee.
Itorra Again Attack Mafekiug.
A dispatch from Pretoria is pub
lished, dated May 12. which says:
"A war bulletin has been Issued here
announcing that the British are ad
vancing against the federals at Help
makaar and Touders. Nek. The burgh
ers this morning attacked Maf eking.
The lelegrapliist at Maloio says that
a heavy title and canuoti lire was
heard before 0 o'clock today and that
the 'kahir location was in flames with
in au hour and was totally destroyed.
At lo o'clock, he athls, everything was
quieter.
ISoer Women Ask for Arms.
At a meeting of y50 Afrikander wo
men held yesterday it was resolved to
ask the government for arms and am-
National Supreme Court Det lares tb
Whole Law Proper and Good. I
Washington, May 15. The supreme j
court of the United States yesterday !
announced opinions iu the cases I
arising under the inheritance
tax provision ox tne war rev
enue act, and also in a case involv
ing the applicability of the state in
hertauce tax law of New York to es
tates composed of government bonds.
There were live decisions under the
federal law and one under thj state
law, but two of the former class ap
plied, as did one of the latter class, to
the taxation of government bonds.
The court held that neither under
the state nor the national enactment
were national bonds exempt from tax
tlon. The validity of the general fed
eral law was affirmed, but it was held
to be purely applicable to legacies and
not to the entire estates of deceased
persons, the court holding that "the
tax Is on the passing of legacies or dis
tributive shares of personalty, with a
progressive rate on each. seiarately J
determined by the sum of such legacies
or distributive shares.
GOV. TANNER IMPROVES.
May lie Able to Avoid the Knife or the
Surgeon Altogether.
Chicago, May 15. There will be no
operation performed on (Jovernor Tan
ner iu the Immediate future certainly,
and not at all unless there should be a
recurrence of the syrnixtoms of the
trouble from which he has been suffer
ing. This was decided at a consulta
tion held Sunday afternoon at the gov
ernor's apartments at the Great North
ern hotel by Dr. Nicholas Senn and
Ms regular attending physician, Dr. L.
C. Taylor, of Spriugtield.
The governor was given a thorough
examination, and it was decided he had
beuelited so much from the treatment
given him since his former visit here
that an operation at present was not
necessary. He is said to have gained
several jounds in weight. lie left for
Spriugtield yesterday.
Alleged Dynamiters Committed.
WVlland, Out., May 15. After three
adjournments the preliminary hearing
of the alleged dynamiters, Dallman,
Nolio and Walsh, was resumed here
yesterday. Only one witness was ex
amined yesterday morning when the
crown attorney stated that the crown
case was closed. (Jorman, counsel for
Dallman. made a strong plea for his
client claiming that he had a com
plete and satisfactory answer to every
charge brought agaiust him. The three
prisoners were committed for trial.
IE UPON STRI
RERS
St. Louis Police Catc-li AVire Cut
ters In the Act.
F0B0DT EITHEE HIT OR CAPTURED
Suburban Line Gives in to the Strikers
Negotiations with the Transit
Other Labor Troubles.
St. Louis, May 15. Nearly fifty shots
were fired in an encounter between
:ards and wire-cutters near Brent-
i.s-d, on the Meremac division of the
i- t.lurbau road yesterday. The fight
took place a quarter of u mile from the
power house at Brentwood. Four men
guardrng the property of the Suburban
saw two men on foot and one on
horseback moving along, the car tracks.
One began climbing a wooden trolley
pole, carry lug a pair of shears. The
guards opened lire at the climber, who
slid to the ground. The three men re
turned the shots and tied, with 'more
bullets following them.
St. Louis, May 15. There were im
portant developments in the street car
strike situation yesterday. At a confer
ence held between the officials of the
Suburban Railway company the only
system in St. Louis not controlled by
Lightning Struck Iilm in the Neck.
Holland, Mich., May 15. Henry D.
Brink, aged 23 years, of Hamilton,
Mich., member of the senior class of
munition and suggest that they do the j Hope college, this city, was killed by
work of the men officials in the town.
who they declared, 'ought to le light
ing at the front. The resolution was
carrid unanimously. The Volkstem
asserts that the British prisoners iu
the hands of the Boors will first feel
the effects of the embargo placed on
tinned meats and clothing destined for
the Transvaal at Delagoa bay.
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
lightning Saturday morning while pre
paring for breakfast at the home of
Henry J. Luidens. A broken collar
button and -burned shirtband indicate
where the bolt struck, passing down
his body, leaving a streak of discolora
tion, tearing a rubber shoe from his
right foot, and burning the floor and
carpet under him.
Record of the National Game.
Chicago, May 15. League scores on
the diamond yesterday were as fol
lows: At Chicago New York 0, Chi-
Pitts-
3. St.
Subject of Interchange of Telegrams Ite
tvrtn Kolwrtt and Kruger.
V, ' V '"-" . eago 4; at Pittsburg Boston 3,
published a dispatch from Lord Lob- , ,.. t St Tisnrooklvn
ci ts dated Kroonstad. Sunday, May 13, j iuis 2; at Cincinnati Philadelphia
giving me coriespoinience ueiweeu 7, Cincinnati 4.
Lord Roberts aud President Kruger American League: At Buffalo Mil
r. I.itive to the alleged ill-treatmt ut of ! waukee U. Buffalo 10; at Cleveland
Chicago 5. Detroit 3; at Indianapolis
Kansas City (J, Indianapolis 11.
Saloonlst Wants a Mandamus.
Tort Huron. Mich., May 15. John
Gustke, an Eighth ward saloonkeeper,
has asked for a mandamus to compel
the city of Port Huron to accept his
liquor bonds. The council recently
passed an ordinance prohibiting sa
loons within 'MO feet of a school house
and Gustke's place of business is just
across the street from the Eighth
ward school building. It is the first con
test under the law in this county.
Descendant of John Alden.
Waukegau. Ills., May 15. Little
Miss Dorothy Bradford Alden, aged
5 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Alden. is the youngest direct
descendant of John aud Priscilla Al
den. of Mayflower fame. Her ancestry
traces back to the Mayflower baud of
pilgrims in a line more direct and
stronger than that of any descendant
in other branches of the family known
of today.
Avenged Himself by a Triple Crime.
Butte. Mont., May 13. Charles
Paustein, a well-known athlete, shot
colonial ori.-oiicrs. The Transvaal s
reply was to the effect that there was
no difference in the treatment of the
colonial and other prisoners, and that
oi.ly a few who had contravened mar
tial law or who had tried to escape, or
who. it had been suspected, might try
to escape, had beeu placed in jail for
security. Otherwise they had been
treated like ihe other prisoners of war.
Regarding enteric fever, the govern
ment ef the Transvaal said it was pre
valent among the civil population as
well as among the prisoners, and every
remedial measure had been taken.
Lord Roberts replied April 22 that
he was glad to receive President Km
.gel's assurances, and pointed out that
no differences was trade by the British
autho'ities in egard to the Boer pris
oners against whom there might be
reasonal U ground for suspicion that
they would try to escape, adding that
such exceptions gave room for abuse
by officials without the knowledge of
kraal, killing Captain Elsworthy and
wounding two other officers and capt
uring two officers r.rnl twenty-one rcen.
When fired on the British were unsad
dling their horses.
the authorities.
Roberts also scuds an official dis
patch announcing another violation of
the white flag by Boers at a kraal on
May H. The white flag was Hying
over the kraal and a party of Britisa
rode up when it was lired on fron tne ' and killed Alexander Tate, manager of
a butchering concern; shot aud seri
ously wounded Mrs. Alexander Tate,
and then committed suicide. Paustem's
wife secured a divorce on account of
cruelty. Paustein charged Tate and
his wife with being responsible for
the separation of himself and wife and
avenged himself in the above manner.
litis Hopes for Mafcking.
London, May 15. The parliamentary
secretary of the war ojee, Mr. George
Wyndhain, replying to a question in
the house of commons yesterday, de
clined to divulge Lord Roberts' plans
for the relief of Mafeking, but. he add
ed that he hoped they would shortly
be accomplished.
Charged with Assassination.
Montgomery, Ala., May 15. War
rants wre sworn out yesterday for the
arrest of Warren S. Reese. United"
States district attorney for the middle
district of Alabama; Julian H. Bing
ham, internal revenue collector for
Alabama, and Frank Morague, on a
charge of conspiracy to kill certain
doorkeeprs at the state capitol on the
day of the meeting of the Republican
state convention.
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Poisoned Dy Eating Peanuts.
Liberty, Ind., May 15. Alex. Beard
and Leroy Martin are in an alarming
No Amalgamation vf Socialists.
Indianapolis, Ind., 13. Hugo Miller
yesterday announced that by a refer
endum vote of 1,313 to 931 the Social
Democrats have defeated the proposed
amalgamation with the so-called "kan
garoo' branch of the Social Labor
party and that this result will force
Job Harriman off the Social Demo
cratic ticket for vice president.
Motiou to (2uaslfau Indictment.
Lansing, Mich., May 15. A motion
to quash the indictment against ex-At
toruey General Fred A. Maynard, of
Grand Rapids, has been filed in the
circuit court by Attorneys O'Brien and
Taggart, of Grand Rapids, and Os
trander. of this city. Eight reasons are
assigned in the motion.
College Men on a Raid.
Kalamazoo. Mich.. Mav l.V Mem-
condition from eating peanuts. Itisa'bers of the sophomore and Junior
case of vegetable poison. Their lips, I classes of Kalamazoo broke Into th
mouths and tongues are swollen bad-, home of Rev. G. D. Adams, where the
ly, andi it is feared blood poisoning seniors were being entertained Thurs-
MAYOR HEKRT ZIEGENHEIJT.
the St. Louis Transit company and on
which a strike was inaugurated ten
days prior to that declared on the
Transit svstem and the omnloveS of
that road an amicable adjustment was
effected and the men returned to work
this morning. On lust what basis the
strike was settled could not be learned.
but it can be positively stated tliat tne
uuion received full recognition. In many
quarters it is figured that the settle
ment of the strike on the Suburban
presages an adjustment of the diffi
culties between the Transit comiany
and i:s 3.('.it) striking employes in the
near future.
May Settle the Trunsit Strike.
Iu fact, it was learned last night
that at a conference held yesterday
atternoou of the officials of the Transit
company the chairman of the em
ployee" grievance committee, and some
of the members of the citizens com
mittee, matters were adjusting them
selves nicely for a settlement of the
difficulties when a member of the citi
zens' committee injected into the pro
ceedings a propositioin of sucii a ciiar-.
acter that the discussion was brought)
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settlement than had heretofore exised.
It is thought, however, that a future
meeting of the same parties will result
in establishing a basis for the settle
ment of the strike.
Situation on the Lines.
The Suburban company had no diffi
culty in maintaining a thorough run
ning schedule yesterday and 110 seri
ous demonstrations on that line oc
curred. On the Transit company s
system there were a number of demon
strations more noisy than otherwise.
In one instance the police were obliged
lo charge on a crowd of strike sympa
thizers to disM'rse it. and in a number
of instances used the flat side of their
sabres in accomplishing their puqHise.
No casualties of a serious nature were
rcport-d during the day.
PESSIMISTIC PRESIDENT ItOYCE.
may follow, with fatal results. It is
the first case of peanut poisoning
known in this part of the state.
Washington, May 15. Acablegram
was received at the war department
yesterday from General MacArthur,
dated at Manila Sunday, stating that
Robert B. Cramer, first lieutenant of
the Thirty-fourth United States volun
teer infantry, had been sentenced to
dismissal from the military service by
day night, and made an unsuccessful
attempt to carry off the ice cream and
cake.
Sparta, Wis., May 1-f. El'mer Benja
min, the young man who shot Mrs.
Emma Priest Thursday, was adjudged
insane and taken to th easylum at
Mendota.
Bubonic Plague Record at Sydney.
Sydney. N. S. W., May 14. The
number of cases of the bubonic plague
a court martial, and that he (General ' officially reported to yesterday is 210.
MacArthur) had approved that sen- Of these seventy-three nave proved la-
teuce.
Famine Distric ts of India.
New York, May 15. The Indian fa
mine relief committee has issued an
nppeal to the citizens, saying that
Americ a ought to send at least $1,000,
OOO to the famine districts of India.
tal.
Torrid Weather at Fargo,
Fargo. N. D., May 14. It was torrid
Saturday. The official maximum tem
eprature was announced at 96, though
many other thermometers announced
100.
Labor Lender Who Paints I'nt le Sam in
Iurk Colors.
Denver, Colo.. May 15. In his ad
dress at the opening of the annual con
vention of the Western Federation of
Miners yesterday President Boycesaid:
"I will say wcfiout hesitation or
fear of contradiction that in
the grandest republic ever organized in
the world we are fast descending to a
condition worse than has ever existed
in any monarchy on earth. It Is time
for laboring people to say that no mil
itary despot shall exist iu any state or
county of this country.
"We should not longer endure the ac
tion of the judges sitting on the bench
of the Unted States supreme court who
issue injunctions restraining laboring
men. There seems no relief to be ex
pected from any political organization
existing today, I am sorry to say, and
all hope of gaining relief through poli
tics must come when we come to the
point where we can rely upon ourselves
to cast a united vote."
Another Labor Fight In Kansas City.
Kansas City. Maj 15. Following out
their declared Intention of last week
the builders" trade lockout became ef
fective yesterday. Members of the
club say that about S00 carpenters,
painters, tinners and plasterers were
locked eut. while the union men declare
that but between 300 and 400 are af-
fpctcil Tin 1i-L-iit ii n tost tf
strength between the boss buildersnd j
the unions. The lockout was ordered!
citing Incident yesterday. The strik
ers, to the number of about 200, pa-1
raded the streets with a brass band in
the afternoon, appearing on the streets j
after the chief of police had refused to
issue a permit for the parade and an '
appeal to Mayor Reed had been re-'
sorted to, the mayor issuing the per
mit. WAS A PREHISTORIC TUSK.
Supposed Tree Root In the Mud of a Wis
consin Creek.
Baraboo, Wis., May 13. A valuable
find was mado near the home of Jo
seph Carbary at Spring Green, this
county, ret'entlv. For several vears th
by the master builders in an effort to
break up the Building Trades Council
and force each union to treat with con
tractors independent of all other un
ions. Street Car Strikers Parade.
Kansas City, May 15. The street
railway strike here was devo'd of ex
family had seen what was supposed to
be a root of a tree sticking out of the
mud In the bottom of Bear creek. The
other day while the children were
playing about the creek they put a
rope around the supposed root and
hauled it to shore. It proved to be a
large tusk, evidently of some animal
that lived in these parts in the pre
historic age. It was thirty-seven inches
long, twenty inches in diameter and
weighed forty pounds. Mr. Carbary
also secured pieces of the other tusk
and is going to dig for the rest of the
skeleton.
LOVED THE STAGE BETTER.
Woman Leaves Her Husband and Chil
dren for the Footlights.
Kokomo. Ind., May 13. "Good-by,
husband and children. How I love yeu
all! (Jood-by, perhaps forever." The
above words were the closing portion
of a note F. O. Bloomfield found on a
dinnerless table Sunday. The missive
stated that the writer, Mrs. Bloomfield,
had gone to St. Louis to join a theat
rical company.
Mrs. Bloomfield, who is a fair sing
er and dancer, was recently a resident
of Hoopston and Danville, Ills., where
she figured in amateur theatricals. The
abandoned husband, who is left with
two small children, will make no effort
to see-ure the return of the stage-struck
woman.
White Woman Kills a Black One.
Danville, Ills., May 13. Mrs. Mary
E. Smith, white, and a colored woman
known as "Nigger Lucy" were arrestee!
Sunday evening for eifgaglng in a
street fight. The police put them in
the woman's department a single
large room of the police station. As
soon as the door was locked and the
women were alone hostilities were re
newed. "Nigger Lucy" threw Mrs.
Smith down and was kicking and bit
irg tn?r. when Mrs. Smith drew a
p -eket knife out of her stocking and
sUbbed "Nigger Lucy," iustautly kill
ing her.
Labor Unions In a War.
Tampa. Fla.. May 13. The labor
troubles here have taken a turn for the
worse. There is now a general strike
in all the cigar factories of the Havana-American
company in this city,
and about. 1,000 are out. The trouble
is .a struggle between the labor un
ions, eae-h tr3-lng to make the strike
settle the superiority of one over the
other.
Sul tiled at the Age of 67.
Vlroqna, Wis., May 13. Ilartwell
Allen, formerly superintendent of
schools of Vernon county, committed
suicide yesterday by hanging hdmself.
He was a native of Vermont and was
07 years of age. During the early days
he was one of the most prominent men
in the county.
Death of an Indiana Judge
Logausport. Ind., May 15. Judge
norace Biddle died Sunday night,
aged 00. He was an eminent lawyer
tcirlit;oratear and had served on the
bene-h of the circuit aud supreme courts
of Iudiana
Yukon River Is Open.
Victoria, B. C, May 15. The steam
er Amur has arrived from Skagway.
She brings ue-ws that the Y'ukon river
opened at Dawson on the morning of
the 8th and steamers are now running
regularly from Lebarge through.
No Michigan State Encampment.
Lansing. Mich., May 15. There will
be no state encampment this year ow
ing to the refusal of troops to waive
their per diem pay.
TIES UP THE STRIKERS.
Street Car Tie-Up Lealer Are
Served With Injunction.
i BURGHERS IN 111!
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MAKES THE PICKET A LAW BREAKER
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Very Comprehensive on All Points at
Issue St. Louis Has Peace ,
with the Cars Idle. 1
j
Free Stater.s and Trans
Are Reported to lie at CI
ROBERTS WALKS INTO KROo!
College Girl Gives a Comedy.
Champaign, Ills., May 14. The Thi
Beta Phi sorority of the University of
Illinois entertained 250friends in Music
hall Saturday evening toy presenting
the play. "The Man in the Case."
The young women took their parts in
excellent style. Their guests were the
members of all of the different sorori
.ties aud fraternities, besides many
"members of the university faculty.
Some More Mine Workers Strike.
Ishpeming. Mich., May 14. The
trammers at the Winthrop mines quit
work Saturday, the wage rate being
unsatisfactory. No demand was made
and the walkout was unexpected. New
men are being hired to till their places.
AU hoisting is4 suspended.
NEWS FACTS UT OUTLINE.
The president has appointed Charles
S. Wiuans, of. Michlgau, to be consul
at Iquique, Chile.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians, in
session at Boston last week, passed a
pro-Boer resolution before adjourning.
Archibishops Corrigan, of New York,
aud Kaiu, of St- Louis, have arrived at
Itome.
The board of foreign missions of the
Presbyterian church will for the third
successive time close irs fiscal year,
May 30, free from debt.
Chicago vacant lots are to be sown
with garden seed, the board of county
commissioners having douated $300 to
the Associated Charities for that pur
pose. George Flemming, accused at Chica
go of stealing a poeketbook, held l.OOU
pursuers at bay Saturday night at Thirty-sixth
and State streets by throwing
ttrieks.
John II. Clough, of Chicago, left ail
his property, worth $304,000, to his
wife. He expressly stipulated that his
children should never have any of it
French troops have occupied Ksarl
gli, thus gaining control of the Moroc
co frontier.
Russian Dedegate Kabeko has left
Sofia, declaring the czar will not ail
the Bulgarians financially.
John Buskin's will shows that he
left an estate valued at only $00,000.
Thomas F. Stockdale, of Chicago,
agent for a stock yards commission
company, was found dead in bed at
Burlington, la.
The betrothal of Princess Victoria,
daughter of the Prnice of Wales, and
Prince George of Greece is to be an
nounced soon.
John Wanamaker accuses A. L. Eng
lish, director of public safety of Pb";
delphia. with attempting to blackmail
him. English denies the accusation.
Stanley Stavicki stabbed Stephen
Podlinskl at Chicago because both
loved the lame girl. Podlinskl may
die.
Special treasury agents nave found
that quantities of Canadian wool has
been smuggled Into Boston.
Kansas City, May 14. Judge Will
iam C. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan.,
sitting In Kansas City, Saturday issued
from the United States district court
an injunction that is made absolute,
for a week, the matter being set for a
hearing on Saturday next, and if its re
strictions shall be observed by the
strikers the Metropolitan company has
Its fight M-on, for the strikers' hands
are tied for seven days. The injunction
is predicted upon the fact that several
of the persons complained against as
threatening the interest of the com
pany are residents of other states, and
the further fact that the strikers threat
en to prevent the company from carry
ing out its contract with 'the United
States government to transport thecity
mail carriers to and from their routes.
Effects of the Injunction.
Harry Brynn, the national organizer
of the Amalgamated Association, de
scribed as a resident of Michigan, aud
Is one of the parties enjoined, aud the
others named are twenty-two local
leaders of the union, several of whom
are mentioned as residents of Ohio aud
Kansas. The injunction restrains the
persons named and all others from iu
any manner, directly or indirectly, stop
ping or interfering with the running of
cars on the lines of the Metropolitan
company; enjoins them from harrass
iug, assaultiug or in any manner inter
fering with any person who may be in
the employ of the company as he goes
to or from his work, or as he Is en
gaged In the operation of a street car;
enjoins union men and all others from
picketing or patroling the car houses,
stoppiug places, stations, tracks or
approaches thereto, or loitering in
large numbers in or about any of the
places named, or making loud or bois
terous noises in the vicinity thereof for
the purpose of intimidating or interfer
ing with the company's employes.
Conoerted Action Retrained.
The injunction even goes further
than this, and enjoins any concerted
action to cause any act or annoyance
which will assist In stopping the opera
tion of the cars, or interfering in any
wise with an employe in moving a car
which may carry a mail carrier or a
messenger, or upon which a mail car
rier or messenger may wish to ride.
The restrictions not only apply to Or
ganizer Harry Bryan and the twenty
two men named, but to all others who
may be acting iu concert with them aft
er the entering of this injunction. In
addition to the police and the deputy
county marshals sworn in Saturday a
force of United States marshals will
be on hand to interfere in case the in
junction is ignored, and there is ev
ery probability that the strikers will
not desist in their efforts to bring out
the men who have so far failed to join
them.
All the Car Lines Running.
Every street car line in this city and
Kansas City, Kas., was in full opera
tion yesterday and no show of violence
was offertd by the strikers. The in
junction of the federal e-ourt, enjoin
ing the union men from interfering
with the running of the cars, and the
added fact that it was Sunday, e-om-bined
to have a salutary effect uion
the strikers, who, however, held a
meeting and adopt eel resolutions ad
elressed to the Missouri members of
congress, which say: "We appeal to
you in the name of humanity to use
your best endeavors to have congress
pass an act limiting the iower of Unit
ed States judges in issuing ' injunc
tions." They also favor the election
of judges by the people.
QUIET SUNDAY AT ST. LOUIS.
HYPNOTIZED THE JAILER.
Appears To Be the Way This Prisoner Got
1' ' His Liberty.
Indianapolis, May 14. A peculiar
case of Jail elelivery Is reported from
the town of Geneva, where Frank
Steed was arrested and placed in Jail
on a charge of assault with Intent to
kill. At noon Turnkey Johnson went
to Steed's- cell to serve hi.m with din- - -
ner. Afterward, when Johnson was '
found, it was several minutes before j Without Firing a Shot, a N
he could be induced to talk, and when f Burehera Surrendering
in- uivi ii Yiia niui rai euni mat
he could be understood.
He finally said that all be remem
bered was that Steed had fixed his eyes
upon him and had told him to unlock
the door and let him out. He did not
know why he did so, but he obeyed the
request and was powerless to stop the
prisoner as he walked out through the
door, though he knew that he should
not have done so. It developed later
in the day that Steed, who was a
stranger in town, was a hypnotist.
Press Dispatch Says the Back
the Keaistanoe Is Broken
ling Voices Loyalist L'eiuai
DID HE KILL HIS DAUGHTER?
That Crime Is Charged Against a Fisher
man Named Pearson. ,
Escanaba, Mich.,' May 14. John
Tearson.' a fisherman residing at Ston- j
ington, was arrested Saturday on a j
warrant charging him with the murder '
of his 15-year-old daughter. Stoning- I
ton is a hamlet on a narrow peninsula '
across Little Bay de Noquet and cut
off from al communication save by
boat. Pearson is a widower and for
some years has lived alone with bis
daughter. Ree'ently it was claimed
that the girl was being mistreated and
the neighbors threatened to bring
charges against the father.
Thursday she was taken suddenly
ill and died within a few hours. It is
claimed that Pearson buried the body
with his own hands Friday while in j
toxicated, related the occurrence to a
neighbor. A warrant charging man.
slaughter was sworn out and Pearson
was arrested and brought to this city
and placed in Jail.
Payne on the Vice Presidency.
Milwaukee, May 14. In regard to
Governor Scofield's proposition that II.
C. Payne be nominated by the Repub
lican nartv for vice nresldent. Pavne
had this to say to an Evening Wiscon- I -fu inhabitants.
sin reporter: "Naturally 1 reel gratified
at the kind things the governor has
said of me. . Regardless of
how I enter Into the matter personally,
I believe the governor's argument for
a vice presidential candidate from the
west or middle west is sound."
Londou. May 14. The S
publishes the following from
dated yesterday: "There are pel
rumors here of heavy righ
Natal. A Red Cross train
night for the north."
Cubans Orderly Daring Election.
Havana, May 12. Senor Diego
Taniayo, secretary of state of govern
ment, says that all reports from the
provinees go to prove that the people
were very orderly during the election.
Senor Taniayo adds that he is prepar
ing to make a full report of the num
er of cattle on the island and thor
oughly investigate the cattle Industry
in order to decide what taxes should
be levied on cattle breeders or what
protection is necessary to enable na
tive cattle to compete with the Im
ported meat market.
Troops Prevent a Lynching-.
Richmond, Va., May 14. At day
light all was quiet at Martinsville. Va.
The troops are guarding the jail where
the negro. Charles Hairston, is con
fined, and the governor will allow them
to remain as long as they are needed
by the sheriff. There were no mob
demonstrations other than an under
current of excitement and mutterings.
No Cars Attempt to ICun. Except a Few
Which Carried Mail.
St. Ixiuis. May 11. The sixth day of
the street railway strike yesterday
was especially quiet and devoid of in
terest. Not a wheel on any of the
lines, except of the mail cars was
turned in the city, in e-onsequence of
the decision of Chief of Police Camp
bell to give the men of the force, who
had had but little time for rest during
the past live days, a chauce to re
cuperate. The management of the two
street railway companies, who feared
to run cars without police ' protection,
decided to make no attempt to keep
their lines open. Yesterday was the
last day that the places vacateel by
men on the St. Louis Transit company
would be held open for them. All the
old men who returned to work yester
day were. to be allowed to avail them
selves of the new scale of wages and
get the increased pay to whiedi they
will be entitled by reason of their
length of service.
Saturday night nine men succeeded
In shattering a number of switches
with dynamite on Papin street. They
worked openly and without being
molested by the large crowd. When
the police came to the scene the men
scattered and escaped. With the as
sistance of the police the Transit com
pany succeeded in getting three more
of its lines open. Saturday, although
no cars ran after 7 p. m.
There were a number of small riots,
and as a result a number of broken
heads, for the police did not spare the
clubs. One mounted policeman was
struck on the head by a stone thrown
by a woman, who was arrested. Henry
Turner, a striker shot at a street car
on Laclede avenue, his bullet passing
through a window in a flat and miss
ing a woman's head six inches. Bar
ricades on the tracks were numerous.
Robbers and Money Found.
Indianapolis, May 12. Mrs. Cath
erine Schwartz, living alone a few
miles from here, was robbed of $2,500
In money and securities at midnight.
Two hours later polie-emen met R. F.
Poenitz and Marion Caudell, coremak
ers at the Atlantic Engine works, act
ing suspiciously. After the arrest th
money was found on them and they
confessed.
Jnilje Phillips Not Seriously 111.
nillsboro, Ills., May 12. Judge
rhillips caught a severe- cold and has
been compelled to remain in doors for
two days. He sat up Thursday and is
recovering from his slight relapse.
London, May 14. The war d
ceived the following dlspatc
General Roberts Saturday nig
"Kroonstad, May 12, 2. p.m
tered Kroonstad at 1:30 today
opposition, when the union Jaf
Hoisted amidst cheers from
British residents. President
fled last evening after vainly en!
ing 10-persuade tne burghers
tinue opposing us. The Tran
said Ithey would no longer 1
orsnse tree scare sou, ana n
for the Vaal river. Free Sta
cused the Tranvaalers of ha? id
use of them and then deserting
of the Free Staters have goue
homes. Before leaving
etaei rresident Steyu Issued
nation making Lindley the
government of the Free State!
erals Botha and Ie Wet accoi
the Transvaalers,
Bad Report of Irlsh-Americsl
1-ollowlng Is a press dUpatc
Saturday describing the si
"The arrival of Lord RobeH
hailed with enthusiasm by all t
three hundr
Staters were anxious to surrem
bridge to the south had not
atroyed, -but the large bridge 1
town had been demolished. T
brigade with the burghers ye
burned the goods shed. Accoi
the townspeople many of the
drunk. The Boers are now t
to the Vaal river, where they
trenching. General French enf
: northeast of the town and disp:
force to cut the line. The profl
ceeded late at night, but unfori
after the departure of the last
. Free State Opposition About C
"President Steyn has gone
ley, the new seat of the Fri
government. A number of t
ghers are trekking homeward,
position in the. Free State is p
ly over. All the prisoners in th
of the British here agree that tl
; rel between the Free Staters
i Transvaalers Is so acute that th
' vaalers have decided to leav
. allies, whom they accuse of col
and lack of patriotism
What May Happen Neat.
"Most of the Transvaal j
think that if they are defeate
Vaal river the Boers will re
Pretoria, but there appears
growing distrust in the Transv
ernment. In a word, the bat
Will of the Late John Ruskin. ! Boer resistance seems to ha
Loudon, May 14. The publication of broken. The burghers are
the will of the late John Ruskin shows without their previous stuM
that his nersonal estate was onlv 10.- 1 They seem ready to retreat
000, all that was left of his father's be- ; slightest pretext. The prlsonc
quest of 200.000. In a codicil Rns- the Transvaalers. appear glad
kin revoked the bequest of his art
treasures to the Bedlolan library at Ox
ford, and the treasures will remain at
Brant wood.
Renominated for Congress.
Kansas City, May 14. At Independ
ence Hon. William S. Cowherd of Kan
sas City was renominated for con
gress by acclamation by the Demo
cratic convention of the Fifth district
City High School la Ashes.
Bloomington, Ind., May 14. Thecity
high school, known as the old college,
was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss,
$10,000, covered by Insurance.
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE.
James N. Constable, senior member
of Arnold, Constable & Co., died at
New York, aged 88.
Omaha wires: "If we have the
weather and wind in July we are now ' Bft(j
It is
been captured. They say they
or a war wntcn can nave it
end. Several have exclaimed: '
lost our liberty: but why sh
lose our lives?' "
Hoers Making a Final Eflb
London. May 14. The I
Marques correspondent of Tint
telegraphing yesterday, says:
rumored that the Transvaal
secret session, has resolved to
residents, irrespective of na
to assist in the defene of tli
11c, in accordance with the t
the amended military laws. T
recognize that tbey are now
last extremity and all sorts ail
tions of men are being comma
The merchants here have
against the stoppage of a con.4
of clothing and corned beef, n
1 the latter was purchased In
United States oCnsul Stanley
whose smypatbies are noteH
to have remonstrated
'Interferen
having, it is good-bye to corn.
awful."
. One murder and five suicide is the
record of Chicago for two days.
There has been trouble in St. Mary's
Roman Catholic parish at Wllkesbaxre.
Pa., culminating in an attempt to as
sassinate the priest in charge.
ejamunage maue rwing usear 01 ,n b, uv.Ur.n mtntst
Sweden a Doctor of Laws. I . . . , .
, ,, , , . , . s president of the British Wesle
Charles II. Cole, former president of ' , , ,
the now defunct Globe National bank.' V ,,T " J
of Rnttnn. pops to the nenltentfarv for the two republics. To this ap?
what he called
American trades' J
KIPLING'S I"A 0 A PO
Great Britain Must NotBsOenen
Expense of Loyalists.
London. .May 14. Rudyard
brought from Cape Town the i
eight years for violation of the bank
law.
Captain Dreyfus Is at Paris and the
French government Isi worried.
, Arbuckle says be will bring suit to
compel the sugar trust to make a state
ment at its transactions.
" " n. ' Li Kellogg, a mill workman, for
merly of Tomahawk, Wis., bad his
hand mangled in a saw mill at Plain-
field, two fingers being taken off.
ling adds: "If. through any ini
lasclviousness, we in England j
tickle emotion by being generj
again at other people's' ex pen
the settlement comes, al lthlj
bloody work wll lhave to be o4
from the beginning, five or t
ahead. I assume that you i
knowledge of the situation
Africa, but I do not think you
ize how passionately and eag
"u "ur T' 'lovalists look to England fo
unoiera is sweeping tne muiaiain.u he mother oountry will n
V"'"V T1 , . , . ... ert them nor betray them
John Redmond warned England that r'lch
invaders who might land on the Irish The" Saturday Review, int
coast wouiu uyi oe greeieu as erue-uiiesi. - . Sntiohiirr'a recent eener
Mrs. Edna Becking has asked the cardjng hatred toward EngE
Chicago police to look for her daughter he neces8ity of arming the ce
uuDy, years oiu, wno uisappeareu especially applicable to tnt
Saturday. She fears kidnaping. Stategf declares: "During th
James Sloan, banker, died at Baltl- war there were a large numb
more, aged 67. I r-i,, this country who syn
Hundreds of Kansans are pursuing wjth gnaln. hut JhejAeDt ,tn
two bank robbers who tfroke Jail and mgs strictly to themselves. Ti
killed two men who chased them. --. cardan t note was newu iu e
Fire at Camden, N. J., destroyed and the British government I
1 the market, ten stores and fifty dwell- a combination or European p
Inrs. wouia nave iuwu iuc Aa
. The milltarv anti-ReDublican party ernment on its oaea. o
has control of the Paris council.
Tablets and sculptures of the My
cenaean ag were unearthed in Crete.
Rioting has been going on at Turtle
Creek, Pa., because the board of health
tried to use an abandoned school house
for a smallpox hospital.
Great Lakes Navigation company
has ordered two new passenger steam
ers, to cost $1,000,000 each, from the
Chieago Shipbuilding company at
South Chicago.
ed States repay us?
half the American press aci
Iwidly proclaim their sympa?
tne oBers. and are oragnlzli
tions for their delegates. V
have todefeod our empire, anr.
it. as Lord Salisbury says,
right arm."
Ninety-Five la trie Shad
Marquette, Mich., May 1
was a summer temperature
terday. 95 In the shade.
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