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Washington, Congressional, Politi
cal and Oilier Events Briefly Told
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Foreign.
The speeches of Samuel Gompcrs,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, delivered before the Franch
labor organizations are arousing In
tense Interest In labor circles. The
extreme socialists bitterly condemn
him as a reactionary.
Muhamed All, the dethroned shah,
who Is now In the Russian summer
legation, has declined to receive a
deputation to inform him of his de
position. Slpahadar and Sardarasad,
the leaders In the nationalist move
ment, sent a telegram to the British
and Russian legations requesting them
to fix a time when his majesty may
receive a deputation notifying him of
the change of sovereign.
A new dirigible torpedo recently
planned by a Swedish Inventor has
aroused great Interest In Swedish
naval circles. The torpedo Is operated
by electricity.
The Russian embassy at Constanti
nople has addressed a sharp note to
the port, calling the attention of the
Turkish authorities to the advance of
Turkish troops into Persian territory,
north of Uremiah, and requesting
their Immediate withdrawal.
The suffragettes In Hoilowny Jnll,
London, who have been making trou
ble for the authorities by refusing to
comply with the prison regulations,
have been ordered confined to their
cells for a period of 24 hours. Hut
their Bpirlts do not appear to bo de
pressed, and they ure as determined
as ever to refuse to work or submit
willingly to the treatment usually ac
corded to criminals.
Tho Peruvian government has given
orders that passage money be ad
vanced to all Peruvian Biibjccts In
Bolivia who desire to leave the coun
try on account of the 111 feeling en
gendered by tho arbitration award of
President Alcorta of Argentina In tne
boundary dispute between the two
countries.
General.
Reports from all parts of Mexico In
dicate that the sentiment in favor of
a strike In sympathy with that of
train dispatchers by the engineeis and
conductors of the merged railroads
of Mexico, Is rapidly crystallizing.
The French aviator, Latham, failed
Id attempt to cross the Straits of
Dover In an aeroplane.
Upon conviction by court inamal for
passing bogus checks and fatting to
pay his debts. Major Charles J. T.
Clark, Twenty-sixth Infantry. ha been
dismissed from the army.
'At the close of the first day of tegla
tratlon for the Spokane, Coeur
D'Alene and Flathead reservation
lands it is estimated that 28,000 appli
cations were filed.
Detroit was selected as next year's
convention city by the executive board
of the Catholic Educational Associa
tion, and the dates were fixed as July
6, 6 and 7.
James J. Hill thinks the best tning
that congress could do would be to ad
journ and go home.
The war department has passed
Judgment that a soldier whose death
resulted from an accident while en
gaged In athletic contest encouraged
by the officers of his regiment was In
the line of duty.
Money order ' transactions In the
postofflces of the country have grown
to so large an extent In the
.
cessary to
or two mat u is now necessary
maintain a force of 750 accountants,
bookkeepers, assorters and examiners
In the office of tho auditor of the post
office department.
Detroit was selected as next year's
convention city by the executive board
of the Catholic Educational associa
tion and the dates were fixed as July
5, 6 and 7.
Reports from all parts of South Da-
kota continue to give glowing nc
counts of the excellent condition of
crops of all kinds.
Sixteen persons, five of them wom
en, met death by drowning In tho
waters either surrounding or In the
vicinity of New York Sunday. i
Frank Carlson of Iron Mountain,
Mich., committed suicide Sunday on
a Union raclflc train Just west of
North Platte, Nebraska.
President Diaz of Mexico will come
to El Paso, Tex., to coufer with Presi
dent Taft upon the occasion of the
letter's western tour this fall.
Edward Hayden, Omaha, head of
the great department store, died sud
denly In that city a few days ago.
Congress will be asked at the In
stance of President Taft to authorize
the Issuance of bonds to the extent of
the latest estimate of the cost of the
Panama canal.
Albert Ryan of Colorado, an organ
izer of the Western Federation of
Miners, Bhot and killed II. F. Snyder,
and fatally wounded Otto Miller, a
porter, at the United States hotel in
Los Angeles.
Kcrmlt Roosevelt, son of the c::
president, shot a hippopotamus.
PUT IIIID ft
PARAGRAPH
President Taft called the tariff con
ference leaders into consultation and
told them the corporation lax must
make good.
A call has been Issued by Chairman
Warren Kelfer for a republican state
convention to be held In Lincoln, Neb.,
on July 27.
Two killed and a score injured, one
probably fatally, was the sudden ter
mination of a baseball game in Lead,
when the lightning struck In the grand
stand.
There were 15,416 persons to each
library and an average of seventy-two
volumes to every one hundred persons
in the United States In 1908, accord
ing to a bulletin Issued by the United
States bureau of education.
An aggregate of $380,494,598 in sav
ings deposits In the national banks of
the country is shown In the complete
report Issued by the comptroller of
tho currency on returns from tho na
tional hanks, under the call for their
condition on June 23.
Congress will he asked at the In
stance of President Taft to authorize
the Issuance of bonds to the extent
of the estimated cost of the Panama
canal.
Reproduction of etchings of former
Presidents Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln and of President Taft are to
adorn American embassies and lega
tlons throughout tho world.
The Rome Trlbuna says Arch-Blshop
Farley of New York will be created a
cardinal at the consistory to be held
In November.
The tariff conferees agreed on new
custom court except one provision,
and dlsputo over drawback provision
of law.
A falling building in Philadelphia
killed seven people.
The Retail Lumber Dealers' associa
tion of Mississippi and Louisiana was
sued in the chancery court of Holmes
county at Lexington, Miss., under the
anti trust Btatute for tho recovery of
penalties aggregating $14,184,000.
State troops were called out to keep
order among 3.000 rioting steel work
ers nt Pittsburg, Pa.
A conference nt :ne white house re
sulted In conclusion to reduce corpo
ration tax from two to, one per cent.
Tho story of a recent fight of Philip
pine constabulary with Moro outlaw
has reached America.
When the I'ncifl! coast Unitarian
conference affirmed Its approval of
the Methodist platform, it changed
two words In plank No. 1 to commit
the Unitarian church to woman suf
frage. Civil .service employes ore anxious
to have congress Investigate the sys
tem, for they believe they will get bet
ter salaries.
If departments nt Washington want
to show low estimates next winter
they miMt not expect congressional
relief.
President Taft speaks favorably of
tho plan to connect church and gym
nasluin, bnd praises the worker whose
vacation Is short. t
Congressman KInkald hns persuaded
the secretary of the navy to loan Ne
braska tne figurehead of tho battle
ship Nebraska.
More than 4,000 Western Union tele
graph poles In Iowa were broken by
the recent storms and Poods through'
out the slate.
Wolgast and Nelson fought a ten
round bout at Ixs Angeles, the for
mer getting much tho better of It.
Washington,
Declaring that any corporation
which "keeps Just and true books of
account," can make up the return re
quired by the proposed corporation
tnx law and meeting other attacks on
that measure, Attorney General Wick-
ersham made public a letter he hns
written to a Wall street firm of ac
countants who challenge some provis
ions of the proposed law as "abso
lutely Impossible of application."
All discrimination Is not forbidden
by the net to regulate commerce, but
only such discrimination as is undue.
This, In effect, was a decision of the
Interstate Commerce commission an
nounced in the case of the Morbeck-
Domer company arsilnst the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad and the Pennsylvania
railroad,
Somo itable Instances of the dis
advantages In which United States
Imports Into France are placed by the
nnnrntlnn of. Mia i,pmlln rrnnn.rn.
tariff agreement. Just ratified by
the French parliament nro given in
reports which have reached tho state
department.
A shake-up In the personnel of com
merce and labor took place when ap
proximately 100 employes were re
duced, and the resignations of about
ten othersvwere accepted. This ac
tion was taken by Secretary Nagel ns
I B re8,lU ot an Investigation Into "the
efficiency" record of the employes.
The revolution In Colombia Is at an
end, according to a message which
was received by Senor Gusman, Co
lombian charge d'affalrs, who rushed
immediately with it to the state de
partment.
Personal.
President Taft announces thnt his
dates for tho trip beginning Sept. 15
are liable to revision.
Charles It. Crane of Chicago, vice
president of tho Crane Elevator Com
pany, has been chosen by President
Taft as minister to Chlnn.
Twenty-five thousand dollars will be
at President Taft's disposal on hli
western tour.
Rockefeller has decided nearly all
his property In Cleveland to his son.
Terry McGovern, once feather
weight champion, Is a physical wreck
and has been taken to sanitarium.
The Roosevelt expedition which has
been hunting for the last five weeks
In the Sotlk district, arrived at the
farm of Gaptaln Richard Attenborough
on the south shore of lake Nalvasha.
Oov. Johnson of Minnesota who has
passed through several operations, Is
aid to be tmprowlng.
JAUNT OF I. TAFT
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UNCLE
8AM WILL PAY
WESTERN TRIP.
FOR
IDE $25,000 APPROPRIATION
What Bonding Companies Mutt Do If
They Get Business From the
Government.
Washington The urgency deficiency
bill was passed by the house Tuesday
after four days of tempestuous de
bate. The amount carried by it is
$454,809, or $20,408 more than the
original sum, and Includes the $25,000
traveling expenses for the president.
The session began calm enough, but
as the day wore on the members got
Into a more or less surly mood, and
this led to a succession of objections
to amendments and to almost every
one of the remaining paragraphs,
some of which were sustained.
After denying the usual extra
month's pay to officers and employes
of the capltol, the house threw out
of the bill the allowance for extra
work to committee stenographers and
then turned In and refused to carry
out a mandate of the United States
supreme court for the payment to J.
M. Ceballos & Co. of New York of
$205,014. Finally tho democrats, led
by Mr. Rowers (Miss.), sought to de
feat the proposition for payment of
the president's traveling expenses, but
In that they were unsuccessful.
Bonding companies must return to
rates of 1908 if they hope to get any
business from officers of the govern
ment occupying positions qf trust
The urgent deficiency bill contains an
express prohibition against the pny
ment of tho higher premUims de
termined upon last year by the com
panics.
The friends of the bonding com
panies In the house, however, sought
to havo the prohibition removed on
a point of order.
Their efforts were fruitless, for tho
committee on rules brought In a reso
lution making it in order, which was
adopted by a good majority.
Hitter denunciation was heaped by
Mr. Smith (la.) upon the bonding
companies, which he said had entered
Into a combination to boost their
premiums 300 per cent.
ROOSEVELT IS WRITING BOOK.
Former President Takes Brief Vaca
tion from Shooting.
Xaivasha, British East' Africa,
Col. Roosevelt, whose party Is hunt
Ing on tho south shore of Lake Nal
vasha from the ranch of Capt. Rich
nrd Attenborough, has done nc
shooting since Inst Thursday, but In
stead has remained at the camp
writing a book. The party will ar
rive at Nnlvasha Wednesday, and af
ter camping here for three days will
go to Nlarobl. The expedition wt'l
start for Kenya province Aug. 5.
Violated Eight-Hour Law.
Grand Island, Neb. O. M. Evans,
contractor on the government build
ing here, was arrested by t Marshal
Sammons on charge of violating the
eight-hour law, on complaint of E. K
Wllklns, Inspector for the govern
ment. Evans was brought before
United States Commissioner Ragan
at Hastings this morning, waived
examination and was bound over to
the federal court at the January term
here. Mr. Evans alleged that It Is a
case of spite work on the part of the
inspector and denies his guilt.
NEW GRAIN RATES IN OCTOBER
Tariffs Equalizing Haul to Chicago
from Middle West Points.
Chicago. According to a decision
reached by western railroads, tariffs
will go Into effect Oct. 1, equalizing
the grain rates to the southeast from
all points In Iowa, North and South
Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska, sc
that grain can be moved to this city
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and other Junction points.
Former Nebraskan a Suicide.
Columbia City, Ind. William J
Hoback, former station agent at Haz
'ard, Neb., committed suicide here,
He left a letter addressed to his wife
at Eagles Ford, 0., blaming some one
referred to as "That She Devil."
Body Recently Cremated.
Colorado Springs The body of Mrs.
J. Addison Hayes of Colorado Springs,
daughter of the late Jefferson Davis,
was cremated at the Riverside crema
tory, Denver. The cremation was
private and an effort was made to
keep It a secret.
Wanted In Nebraska.
ricrre, 8. D. Chaa. Wlllams and
Harry Mlddaugh were arrested by the
Stanley county officers, and are be
ing held in Jail at Fort Pierre for the
officers from Nebraska, who want
them on a charge of stealing a bunch
of horses.
Congressmen to Hawaii.
Washington. A party of twenty-five
senators and members of the house
Is preparing to visit Hawaii, In re
sponse to an Investigation by the
Hawaiian legislature. The party will
sail from San Francisco on August 24
Mule's Age Over SO.
Sundance, Wyo. A mule owned by
Al Mauch died here at the age of 51
years. The animal was brought to
this section by pioneers OMtr forty
years ago. It was then over 10 yean
of age.
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BRIEF8 RECEIVED FROM, JUDGE
ALBERT AND C. O. WHEEOON.
TWO QUESTIONS DISCUSSED
Primary Object of the New Law li
Not to Protect Depositors, But
to Prevent Panics.
The legal department of the state
has received briefs from Judge I. L.
Albert, who, with C. O. Whedon, is de
fending the recently enacted banking
law, which temporarily baa been en
loined by the federal court.
Judge Albert discusses two que
tlons only In his brief the right of
the state to limit the banking busi
ness to corporations, and the right of
the state to cause the payment of a
levy for the creation of a fund to pay
obligations of the banks to their de
positors. In discussing the latter point, Judge
Albert says the primary object of the
law is not to protect depositors, but
to avert panics, by some guaranty to
depositors that their money Is safe.
The fact that depositors are Incident
ally benefited by the act does not. ren
der it void, the brief says. The pas
sage of tho banking act, he says, was
the result of the financial disturb
ances some months ago, and it has
for Its object the welfare of the pub
lic. The brief calls attention to the
enactment of a gunranty act In New
York In 1829 and in Vermont In 1831.
A search of the records fails to dis
close, tho brief says, an attack on the
constitutionality of these laws. !
In discussing the right of the state
to limit the banking business to cor
porations, Judge Albert said the issue
of notes and bills was a part of the
banking business under the common
law, and yet this had been regarded
as a franchise. This, he said, shows
that what Is called a common lav or
natural right may pass to a right that
may be enjoyed only by virtue .of a
sovereign grant.
A private bank, the brief says, goes
out of existence with the death of the
owner, while the corporation bank Is
exempt from the accidents of dlserse
and death.
In his conclusion Judge Albert said:
"Legislative acts are presumably
alld. They are not to be set aside
on light or trivial grounds. The act
may not have been conceived In wis
dom, but It Is easily traceable to a
desire to serve the public good. Its
wisdom or Its lack of It does not con
cern the court, so long as the legisla
ture acted within the limits of its
constitutional powers. It was de
signed to allay distrust of the banking
system at times when such distrust
spells panic and commercial disaster.
While It may not bo the best means
of serving the end, It cannot bo fairly
eald that It will not serve It In some
measure. It la the will of the people,
expressed by the supreme legislative
body of the state, and as such, comes
before the court attended by the pre
Bumptlon of validity."
Questions Railway Board's Power.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has answered a complaint under the
Bartos telephono act by challenging
the Jurisdiction of the Btate railway
commission to act under paragraph 5
of the complaint of Representative
George Barrett, who complains that
the railroad company has failed to
provide telephone service In its de
pots at Gibbon and Shelton. Para
graph 5 of the complaint alleges that
the railroad company has failed to pay
the bill presented by the telephone
company for a phone at the station of
Shelton and that If the bill is not
paid the telephone company will dis
connect Its phone In the depot, and
thus deprive all of Its subscribers of
service, to the depot. The company
admits most of the allegations In the
complaint.
Pardoned Convict a Guard.
Jacob Frahm, who was pardoned by
Gov. Shallenberger on July 4, after
having served fourteen years of a life
sentence, will not leave the prison.
Warden Smith has made him a guard
and he now walks the east wall.
Fralyn did not care to leave the place
which had been his home for so long.
Will Ask for Rehearing.
Arthur Mullen, state oil Inspector,
who defended tho nonpartisan Judi
ciary act before the supreme court,
will file a motion for a rehearing of
the ense. Mr. Mullen Is not satisfied
with the decision of the court and is
anxiously looking for the opinion In
the case.
Three Repents to Elect.
The resignation of Fred II. Abbott
as a recent necessitates the election
of three regents this fall and the nom
ination of candidates nt the coming
primary. So far only Regents Allen
and Whltmoro have been talked about
as candidates.
Dope Treatment Successful.
Warden Smith of the state peniten
tiary Is still treating his-dope patients
and he has had such success that one
batch which he has confined, taking
the treatment, has quit asking for the
poison. Every prisoner taking the
treatment, the warden said, seemed
anxious to quit the habit. The dope
fiends were separated from the other
convicts and gradually they are losing
their desire for morphine. When he
started treatment the warden found
one prisoner was using a dram of
morphine a dav.
CHANGE GRAIN RATE.
Becomes Effective On and After
August 10.
On and after August 10 the Missouri
Pacific, Bjjrllngton, Union Pacific and
Northwestern railroads are authorized
by the state railway commission to
apply the wheat rate on all flour ship
ments in the state and the corn rates
on all shipments of mill stuff.
This order Is supplementary to a
recent order allowing the roads to
raise the rates on flour to a parity
with the wheat rate between about 10
per cent of tho mill stations in the
state and Omaha. These stations had
enjoyed for many years a low flour
rate, rates which were put in many
years ago to encourage local Industry.
This order followed on a complaint of
the Updike Milling company. As soon
as this order was filed it was found
that the Missouri Pacific had been left
out of the complaint. The commission
thereafter avoided a discrimination
by pulling the Crete-Omaha rate on
the Missouri Pacific up to the wheat
rate. The railroads then filed a peti
tion asking that other mill products
besides wheat flour be put on the
same basis ns corn, the general con
tentions being that the stations which
had the lower rates were not entitled
to discrimination as against 90 per
cent of the stations in the state and
that the finished product should, as a
general thing, take as high a freight
rate as the raw material from which
It Is made.
Several hearings have been held In
the cases. After referring In detail
to the reasons justifying the order on
flour rates the commission In the order
Issued says: "Mill stuff, which con
sists of bran and shorts, bears the
snme relation to corn as flour to
wheat. Both are more valuable than
corn and. If anything, more bulky, and
do not move In the same quantities.
The commission, for the reasons fully
set forth in the caso of the Updiko
Milling company vs. Union Pacific
Railroad company (formal No. CI), no
special reasons being developed to the
contrary, finds that the rates on flour
should not be less than the rates on
wheat, and that the rates on mill
stuff should not bo less than the rates
on corn between the stations herein
named."
Senator T. J. Majors, appointed by
Gov. Shallcnberger to a place on tho
new state normal board, has filed a
demurrer to the petition of the attor
ney general challenging the right of
Majors to accept the appointment be;
cause he is a member of the legisla
ture. The demurrer alleges that the
amended petition of the attorney gen
eral does not Btato sufficient facts to
constitute a cause of nction and that
the two causes of nction are Improp
erly Joined in the lnforsiatior. The
validity of the new nw nuthorlzlnp,
the governor to appoint a new normal
board Is Involved In the' suit.
Old Sotdiers Are Safe.
Members of the Soldiers' Home nt
Grand Island, who have exposed the
management of that Institution, are
now getting fearful that they will be
removed from the home and not per
mitted to come back. A letter to this
effect was received by a member of
the Board of Public Lands and Build
ings. The board has assured tho old
soldiers that none of them will bo let
out for telling what la going on. The
board has supervision over admission
and discharges from the home, and
the superintendent Is powerless to act
In the matter.
For Historical Society.
The state historical society has re
celved a large framed portrait of Wil
Ham H. Russel of the old freighting
firm of Russel, Majors and Waddell
who were the most prominent freight
ers on the plains In the early pioneer
days. The portrait was the gift of
Charles R. Moorhead of El Paso, Tex.,
who was on the plains as a young man
and knew and worked for Mr. RusBel.
The Nebraska state historical society
has never had a portrait of Mr. Russel
and has been anxious to get one.
Prize Packages Under Ban.
Food Commissioner Mains will test
the pure food law, which provides that
there shall be no prizes In food pack
ages, by arresting .1. R. Burley. e
grocer here. The grocer sells food
packages in which are library slips
which entitle the holder to books for
a certain number of slips.
City Attorney Stewart Resigns.
City Attorney John M. Stewart has
resigned and so has his deupty, T. F,
A. Williams. The resignation of both
are to tako effect any time between
now and October 1.
Hospital Needs New Engine.
Attorney General Thompson. Land
Commissioner Cowles and Secretary
of State Junkln visited the Hospital
for the Insane at Lincoln and decided
on the lmmedlato purchase of an en
pine and the construction of a stand
pipe. Tho present emergency englno
Is 20 years old and of little value,
while tho present reservoir would be
of little help In case of fire.
Bullard Takes Vacation.
8. Bullnrd, head Janitor at the state
house for a number of years, left for
a visit to Boulder, Co., where his son
retides,
Warden Needs Guards.
Warden T. W. Smith still Insists
that It Is a bnd venture for the state
penitentiary to ralso sugar beets with
convicts. As evidence of the bnd ef
fect of working convicts in the beet
field he recited on his monthly report
thnt four convicts escaped during last
month. The best field Is a mile or
more from the prison and the convict
have to be taken through a bottom
country across a stream, well wooded
At the time of the recent escape of
the four trusties, the warden had
guards working fifty convicts.
III
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJEcTsTon UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The democratic Btato convention
will be held In Lincoln July 27.
A test case of the eight-hour closing
law Is being made In Omaha.
The new German M. E. church at
Harvard has been formally dedicated.
Landlord Thompson of York Is look
ing for a man for whom he cashed a
$35 bogus check.
Joseph Pop of Weston, who was
shot In the hand with a blank pistol
July 3, died In an Omaha hospital.
Madison citizens are Investigating
the proposition of a sewerage system.
Albert Thomas, a farmer residing
eight and one-half miles southeast of
Edgar, Bhot and fatally wounded hlni-
Belf. He was of unsound mind.
The body of Perry Jerman was
brought to Beatrice from Rawlins.
Wyo., for Interment. He was drowned
ast September at that place and the
body was not found until recently.
A telegram was received In Beatrice
from Los Angeles, Cal., announcing
the death of W. E. Boddy, a former
resident of Beatrice, which occurred
at that place after a year's illness.
The Alma state bank Is the name of
a new banking company chartered by
the state banking board. The bank
will have a paid up capital stock of
$15,000. The incorporators are J. B.
ilings and A. A. Billings.
The barn on the farm of George Col-
lett, near PIckrell, was destroyed by
fire eutalling a loss of about $1,200.
Two valuable hores and a lot of ma
chinery and grain were consumed by
tha flames.
County Attorney J. C. Cook of
Dodge county and Sheriff A. Bauman
by" express were made recipients of
two handsome leather canes as tokens-
from Oscar Gardner, a life convict at
the state penitentiary.
The Union Pacific has filed an an
swer with the state railway commis
sion In the complaint of George Bar
rett against the company for not main
taining telephone service In its depots
at Sheldon and Gibbon.
Andrew Meyer of Lyons was taken
to Tekamah by the county sheriff for
safe keeping, as there had been talk
of a public whipping. He Is tho man
who is charged with whipping his wifo
on several occasions.
The 2-year-old child of Mrs, Myrtle
Troyer of Lexington, which had been
lost in the hills twenty-six miles
noTthwest of Lexington, was found af
ter a search of forty-two hours. The
child was in good condition.
The oatmeal machinery In the Sew
ard cereal mills Is to be taken out
and alfalfa millng machinery Installed"
with a capacity of twenty tons a day.
Mrs. J. W. Cook. Omaha, attempted
suicide by shooting herself. Her
chances for recovery are slim.
A telegram from Boise. Idaho, to
an Auburn citizen states that all the
complaints against Edward Neal who
was charged with forgery and enter
ing false entries in a bank In that
city, have been dismissed on tho mo
tion of the prosecution. Mr. Neal
lived In Auburn several years ago.
George Fendrlch, a rrominent ranch
man near Ilemmlngford, had a run
away with a team hitched to a mower
and caught In one of the wheels and
dragged several hundred rods. Ho
was dragged through the Niobrara
river twice and was terribly bruised
and one leg was broken In threo
places.
Christ Meyer, a farmer, aged about
55 years, living three miles northeast
of Berlin, met with a serious accident.
He was cutting wheat with a binder,
driving four horses, and In some way
the horses became unmanageable and
ran away with him, throwing hlm off
the seat In front of the Blcklo bar. He
was badly cut.
Omaha continues to be tho fourth
grain market of the United States.
The comparative government report
for May shows Chicago, Minneapolis
and St. Iou!s ahead of Omaha, and
Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati
and other grain centers trailing off be
hind. The relative standing for the
month Is the same as all through thla
yenr.
Washington dispatch: Tho abstract
of the condition of the national banks
of Nebraska, excluding reserve cities
nt the dose of business on Juno 27 as
reported to the comptroller of cur
rency shows the nverneo reserve held
nt 10.44 against 1G.53 per cent April
23.
i,oans nnu discounts Increased
from $50.2S2.0.M to $.-l.noi.57; geld
coin from $1.0Sfi.455 to $1,740,747; law
fill money reserve decreased from $4
127.926 to $4,112,830: ImUv'diml de
posits Increased from $"2,03r 4"7 to
$52,721,353.
The Beatrice city council went upon
record as opposed to skntlnir rink by
passing an ord'tinnce which Imwes
what Is supposed to be a prohibitive
tax upon rinks.
A curious feature discovered In
Broken l'ow aftn- tbo fourth cf July
celebration wn the r-atip dcmo'lt'on
of the Drake store roof hv roeVetR, it
seems that the rncVt hnt fron tho
fl'eworks stand worn 0 nlmrt thi,t R
portion of them fell on tVe biiM'ti-r
and punched rrlon through tr-n tin"
roofing. One of tr Mr!:n frrrtred
both the roof M rftr-ir. wng
found on the 1nMo n, tho st-M-o
EBIASKA
NE