TARIFF OCCUPIES
BOTHBRANCIIES
Revision Measures Will Come
Up in Senate and House.
FINANCE COMMITTEE IS READY
Senate Committee Will Vote on Lorl
mer Report Saturday and on Steph
son Election Case Next Monday.
Appropriations Are Waiting.
"Washington, March 18. Tariff re
vision will continue to occupy both
houses of congress this week. When
the house passes the excise income tax
Mil tomorrow and submits a woolen
schedule revision to the Democratic
caucus, possibly by the end of the
week, the revision program there will
have been ended.
Democratic revision measures are
piling up on the senate. The finance
committee's adverse report on the
house Iron and steel bill will be made
this week. Chairman Penrose and
his Republican colleagues will make
an elaborate statement of their atti
tude on the revision bills.
The finance committee will hear
Chairman Emery of the tariff board to
morrow on the house chemical tariff
bill, hearings on which propably will
occupy the week. Hearings on the
free sugar bill, passed by the house,
will follow the chemical bill.
Meanwhile the Democrats and pro
gressive Republicans are no nearer an
understanding, though some of them
express confidence that the talked of
common ground might be reached on
come tariff legislation.
Democratic leaders In the house are
determined to speed up legislation.
Some members of the ways and means
committee and many other Democrats
are Insisting upon free wool, to which
Democratic Trader Underwood is as
much opposed as he was originally to
free sugar. Mr. Underwood's Idea is
to report a schedule wnich would con
form to the conference report on
schedule K of the present law last
summer, which proposed a 27 per cent
ad valorem tariff on raw wool.
Disposition of the excise bill in the
house will open the way for further
consideration of appropriation bills.
The postofflce bill, which would estab
lish a parcels post system, will be
considered under a special rule. Op
ponents of a parcels post have op
posed the bill on the ground that it
bears new legislation, a point the new
rule Is designed to meet.
The senate on March 25 will vote
on the Stephenson election case. The
Wisconsin senator has been exoner
ated of allegations of bribery and cor
ruption by one senate elections com
mittee and condemned by another.
On Saturday the special senate com
mittee which Investigated Senator
Lorimer's election will vote on its re
port. There is no hope of unanimous
action.
PLANS FOR ALASKAN ROAD
Taft Approves Project to Use Panama
Canal Equipment for Purpose.
Washington, March 18. Secretary
Walter I Fishei of the interior de
partment conferred with President
Taft about his plan for utilization in
the construction of a government rail
road hi Alaska of equipment and force
soon to be released from work on the
Panama cajial. The secretary con
ceived the plan while in Alaska last
K'uvnter rt. Prudent Ta t omovt-d
it. Mr. Fisher returned to Washington
no.u -4. (...lUiineu s.uiii.iiai.uu o. i..c
equipment now in use on the canal
and brought with him a complete list
of the machinery and rolling stock bo
lieved to be available, together with
the probable dates on which it could
be released. He also talked with
army engineers who soon will bo ready
for other assignment and found them
ager to undertake railroad building
in Alaska.
General W. L. Marshall, the engi
neering adviser of Secretary Fisher,
will begin at once the outline of a
scheme designed to show congress the
feasibility of the transfer of men and
material by water from Panama to
Alaska. It will contain an estimate
of the value of the road now building
from Seward, Alnska, to the Matr.n
uska coal fields, which probably will
be taken over by the government, h
the proposition originated by Mr.
Fisher Is adopted.
Rear Admiral Melville Dead.
Philadelphia, March 18. Rear Ad
miral Ooorge Wallace Melville, U. S
N., retiiec', died at his home here from
paralysis. He was national command
er of the l.oynl Legion at the time o
1ms death and was a noted authority
on Arctic explorations as well as engl
neering and naval affairs.
Switchman Elected Speaker,
rhoenix, Ariz., March 18. Samuel
B. Bradner, a switchman In the yards
of the Southern Pacific tt Benson, was
selected as speaker of the house oi
Arizona's first state legislature by a
caucus of Democratic members, who
control the house, 35 to 4.
Mulal Hafld Is III.
Tangier, March 18. It Is announced
that the sultan, Mulal Hafld, who has
been suffering from a severe nervoua
affection, recently announced his In
tention to abdicate and leave the pal
ace. He was persuaded, however, ti
reconsider his decision.
NEBRASKA'S FIRSTSONTALKs
Samuel P. Merrill in Pulpit at Cal
vary Baptist Church, Omaha.
Omaha, March 18. At Calvary Bap
tist church the pulpit was occupied by
Rev. Samuel P. Merrill of Rochester,
N. Y., the first white man born in Ne
braska. Rev. Mr. Merrill is In the
city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Milroy,
and being a Baptist clergyman, he
was induced to talk to the Calvary
I'oople. His address was brief, deal
ing to a large extent with his recollec
tions of incidents in connection with
the early days when Nebraska was a
wilderness, inhabited only by wild
beasts and still wilder men.
Rev. Mr. Merrill recounted the fact
that he was born at Bellevue in 1835
and at a time when his father and
mother were both missionaries among
the Indians. Rev. Mr. Merrill stated
that at the time Bellevue was 230
miles from any white settlement and
that in order to reach it, It was neces
sary to pas3 through a country inhab
ited only by Indians. At the time
there were some boats on the Missouri
river, but they were few and passed
Bellevue nt irregular Intervals.
EMBALMERS PLAN INSURANCE
Auditor Tells Them They May Form
One If They Desire.
Lincoln, March 18. The State Em
balmers' association has asked the
state auditor if It can organize within
its membership a life insurance com
pany on the assessment plan and the
auditor has replied that they may.
A. E. Howard, attorney for Albert
Prince, the colored convict who killed
Deputy Warden Davis, asked that a
compulsory process be issued to take
the testimony of Charles Burns, James
Sullivan, John McAdaw, Edward Stoge
man and Mike Berry, convicts recently
discharged from the penitentiary, by
whom he hopes to prove that Prince
had been mistreated by Davis and
other prison officials.
TRIBUTE TO MEMORY
OF GROVERGLEVELAND
Public Meetlag In New York Com
memorating 7511) Birthday.
New York, March 18. Stephen Gro
ver Cleveland's memory was honored
at a public meeting in the city college,
commemorating his seventy-fifth birth
day anniversary. Tributes from Presi
dent Taft, Governor Dix of New York
and Governor Harmon of Ohio were
read and eulogistic addresses delivered
by men with whom Mr. Cleveland was
associated.. The exercises were attend
ed by Mr3. Frances Folsom Cleveland,
widow of the former president, and
Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont, widow of the
secretary of war in Cleveland's cabinet.
Valuable Animals Dead in Transit.
Sidney, Neb., March 18. A valuable
carload of emigrant movables arrived
here on a Union Pacific freight train,
the property of W. C. Brown, president
of the New York Central railroad. It
contained a lot of Jersey cattle on
their way to the ranch of Mr. Brown
at Gooding, Ida. When the car was
opened here they found a Jersey bull,
valued at $3,000, and a high priced
cow dead. The car was In charge of
W. C. Callaway, who claims that rough
handling of the train between North
Platte and Sidney was responsible fcr
the loss sustained.
Nebraska Woman Testifies.
St. Louis, March 18. Mrs. Ellaabeth
A. Webster of Emerson, Neb., testify
ing in the trial of E. G. Lewis In the
United States district court on charges
of using them ails to defraud, said she
invested $1,210 In the Lewis Publish
ing company's 7 per cent nates.. Of
these $000 were of the unsecured Is
Rue. She also bought $130 of the pre
ferred stock. All she ever received In
return, she said, was $3.
William McLaughlin Dead.
Lincoln, March 18. William Mc
Laughlin, formerly treasurer of Lan
caster county and resident of Lincoln
since 1SG7, died at his home hero. He
retired from office Jan. 1, but during
the last year of his term had been
unable to perform any of the duties
of the office. He was ono of the best
known and most popular residents of
Lincoln.
Western Nebraska to Have Baseball.
North Platte. Neb., March 18.
Plans are nenring completion for the
forming of a central Nebraska base
ball league, to Include Lexington,
Gothenburg, Cozad, Julesburg, Oga
Ialla anJ North Platte. It Is the In
tention to play a short schedule and
give the people of this section some
semi-professional ball.
Presiding Elders Given Assignments.
Kearney, Neb., March 18. Ilev. M.
T. Maze, presiding elder of the Kear
ney district of the United Evangelical
chinch, was elacted to the Lincoln dis
trict with residence In IJncoln. Bev.
,T II Williams of the IJncoln district
will move here and will have charge
of the Kearney district.
Nebraska Liundrymen Meet in Omaha
Omaha, March 18. The Nebraska
Launderymen's association will meet
In annual convention at the Rome ho
tel tomorrow. About 120 to 130 laun
drymen are expected. George M.
Strain of the Kimball Laundry com
pany is president of the association.
BOMB MYSTERY
BAFFLES POLICE
Rosalsky and Taylor Infernal
Machines Are Alike.
THREATENING LETTERS SENT.
Police Inspectors Busily Engaged In
Searching for Postman Who Deliv
ered Package Inspector Egan Has
Narrow Escape.
New York, March 18. The home of
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of the court of
general sessions, where a bomb deliv
ered to him exploded, was the scene
af renewed excitement, caused by the
appearance of a man who wildly
kicked at the door and demanded ad
mittance.
The stranger was a shabbily dressed
man, who forced his way past the hall
attendants In the apartment building
on Riverside drive and climbed six
flights of stairs to see Judge Rosalsky
about some fancied grievance of "per
secution by the tobacco trust." Police
were called and the man was taken to
Bellevue for observation as to his san
ity. He gave his name as Wolf Her
man and ills business as that of a
clgarmaker.
The police believed him to be ln
Rane. but harmless, and In nowise con
nected with the attempt made on
Judge Rosalsky's life with the bomb.
Inspector Owen Egan of the bu
reau of combustibles who was injured
while examining the bomb in the
judge's library, insisted on leaving the
hospital, although he suffered pain
from a mangled hand and torn face.
With face and hands bandaged, he
joined a score of the best detectives
In the police department in Investigat
ing the bomb mystery. It was Inti
mated that the detectives were work
ing on Important clues suggested by
further talks with Judge Rosalsky.
Judrje Will Not Talk.
To newspaper men the Judge de
clared he had no particular suspicion
of any one, but admitted that he had
received many threatening letters, one
at the time he sentenced CarlessI, a
forger, to twelve years In prison two
weeks ago. This threat was to blow
up the criminal courts building.
As to any suggestion that the bomb
sending might have any connection
with the Folke E. Brandt case, In
which Rosalsky sentenced the former
valet of Mortimer I Schlff to the thir
ty-year term, over which there has
lately been such a controversy, the
J-irige would say nothing.
Postal Inspectors have joined detec
tives in the search for the letter car
rier who delivered the bomb.
Another feature of the Investigation
was a comparison of the Rosalsky
bomb with one which killed Helen
Taylor In her home on Feb. 3. The
police never cleared up that mystery.
Similarity in the construction of the
wo bombs !s said to be remarkable
'.a some particulars.
Both bombs bore typewritten fid
dresses on white paper pasted onto a
manllla paper wrapper. The boxes
were about of the same size and each
contained two tiny electric batteries
and a spring arrangement designed to
produce an electric spark when the
rover was removed. That this did
not work when Judge Rosalsky opened
the box Is believed to have been due
to small particles of dirt which had
accumulated about the spring.
Inspector Egan. who was examining
the bomb when It exploded, believes
he owes his life to the fact that the
inside pockets of his coat were stuffed
with heavy documents. Without this
protection he believes some of the
slugs from the bomb would have torn
Into his body. His coat was torn and
several slugs were found lodged
"gainst the papers.
EXPORTiTtO MEXICO DECLINE
Trade Falling Off Materially Due to
Disorders In South.
Washington, March 18. Trade of
the United States with Mexico la
showing the effect of the disturbed
business conditions In that country.
This Is especially true with reference
to exports, which show a much greater
decline than Imports. Exports to Mex
ico during the last year show a fall of
About 20 per cent when compared
with the Immediately preceding year,
while imporO show also a slight de
cline, but less than that of exports.
The to;al value of exports to Mexico
during the twelve months ending with
January, 1012, Is $52,271,987, against
$04,671 iF,9 In the corresponding
months of the Immediately preceding
year, a decline of about $12,000,000,
er an average falling off of a little
more than a million dollars a month
during the same period. Imports from
Mexico during the same period
amounted to $r9.227,51C, against $59,
981,890 during the corresponding pe
riod of the preceding year, being less
than $1,000,000 decrease.
Socrates of Broadway Dies.
New York, March 18. George Arms,
known by his many literary friends as
"The Socrates of Broadway," is dead
at the aged of eighty-two years. He
had made his home in a Broadway ho
tel for thirty-seven years. During the
civil war Arms made a fortune manu
facturing swords. He later traveled all
over the world. Of late years he has
entertained literary friends almost
daily at the hotel. Mark Twain used
to be a frequent caller.
JUDGE AND COURTHOUSE
Judge Thornton L. Massie,
Who Was Killed on Bench;
Courthouse. Scene of Crime.
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Photos by American I'reii Association.
ALIENS CONTINUE
TO ELUDE POSSE
Hillsvllle Assassins Barricaded
in Wilds of Blue Ridge.
Hillsvllle, Va., March 18. Two thou
sand feet above sea level among the
cralgs of the Blue Ridge mountains,
the Allen gang, who demonstrated
their contempt of constituted law by a
massacre of the judge, the prosecutor
and sheriff of the Carroll county court,
continue to defy capture.
The search by a posse of seventy
five detectives and citizen volunteers
demonstrated that unless the militia
Is sent here to begin a systematic
siege of the hiding places of the out
laws, they may never be brought to
answer to the Indictments for murder
returned here. For such a plan a
campaign site was selected by repre
sentatives of Governor Mann.
C0LCNELT0 TAKE THE STUMP
Will Start In New York and Go South
to St. Louis.
Oyster Day, March 18. First Infor
mation of the plan.of campaign mapped
out by Roosevelt leaders at their con
ferenees at New York, was given by
Colonel Roosevelt. Ho said he had do
elded definitely to make a number of
speeches In various parts of the coun
try In the near future.
His speech before the Civic Forum
in New York Wednesday night Is first
on the program. Later this week Col
onel Roosevelt will talk somewhere on
the East Side In New York If a hall
can be obtained. Early next week he
will start on a short tour of the middle
west. Three speeches have been do
elded upon to be made at Chicago, St,
Paul and St. Louis.
In the week beginning March 31, Mr.
Roosevelt will go Into New England.
The colonel said that he did not be
lieve the Roosevelt forces would have
control of the Republican national
committee and that all he wanted from
the committee was a square deal.
Three Cruisers Sent to Philippines.
Washington, March 18. Significant
orders were Issued from the navy de
partment directing three of the big
armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet
to proceed at once to the Philippine
Islands for an Indefinite stay. The
navy department will not admit that
the big vessels are to be attached to
the Asiatic fleet, but their arrival In
the Orient will give the United States
the most powerful foreign fleet, ex
cepting that of Japan, In touch with
Chinese waters. The vessels crdered
to the Philippines are the flagship Cal
Ifornla, the South Dakota and Colo
rado, now at Honolulu.
Girls Take Boys' Places In Choirs,
Chicago, March 18. Positions as
olngers In motion picture shows are
attracting so many choir boys that
churches here are considering- Install
Ing choir girls. One church, the Trin
Ity Episcopal, already has substituted
girls In the choir for the boys. The
girls sing at two services a day more
willingly than did the boys.
Wife of Lorillard Hangs Herself.
New York. March 18. Mrs. Kath
leen Leslie Doyle Lorillard, wlfo of
Heekman Lorillard of Ashevllle, N. C
committed suicide by hanging herself
In the bathroom of the apartments she
and her husband had occupied at the
Holland house for the last four or
five days.
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WILEY CHARGES
ARE TO BE AIRED
Inquiry of Department of Agri
culture Will Be Reopened.
MORE FRICTION PREOICTEO.
Party Leaders Believe Too Many Men
Pass on Pure Food Laws President
Not Satisfied With Conditions in
the Department.
Washington, March 18. The resig
nation of Dr Harvey W. Wiley as
chief chemist of the department of ag-
iculmre has caused an Immediate re
opening of the congressional Inquiry
Into that department. Chairman Moss
ol the house committee on expedltures
In the department announced that his
committee intended, in view of Dr.
Wiley's charges, to resume its investi
gation. "The complete lack of harmony,"
continued Mr. Moss, "and consequent
lack of efficiency In the chemical bu
reau never has been satisfactorily ex
plained to the committee. We have
Dli. HAHVEY W... WILEY AND Ml. 11E5RY
E. HAHNAItl), 1118 CHOICE FOH 8UCCE8
8C-H (UK. HAn.NARI) AnoVK).
been unable to obtain a record of the
abatement of Dr. Wiley's decisions,
tiiid orders by these two boards had re
sulted in the waste to the government
of $1,190,000."
Hope for Less Friction.
The president is not satisfied with
conditions In the department of agr!
culture, but. Is hopeful now that Dr.
Wiley has gone there will be a cessa
tion of friction and a consequent In
crease In efficiency of the service.
From ail thnt can be learned he has
no intention of dismissing Solicitor
McCahe or Dr. Dunlap, the two officials
of whose supervision and espionage
Dr. Wiley especially complained.
It has been the claim of these offl
clals that Dr. Wiley was the trouble
maker, and It will bo for them now to
demonstrate whether or not this was
the case.
It Is the view of members of both
parties In congress that there Is real
need of a reorganization of the depart
ment of agriculture.
Dr. Henry E. Barnard, state chemist
of Indiana, Is favored by Dr. Wiley
as his successor.
DEMAND RANSOM OF $100,000
Chinese Bandits Capture Son of Mil
Honaire OH Magnate.
Shanghai, March 18. Bandits kid
naped the young son of Sheng Kung
Pas, the millionaire oil magnate. A
note received by Mb father several
hours later said that If $100,000 ran
som wap not paid the boy would be
murdered.
General Sheng Yun, with his army
of 10,000 troops from the province of
Kansu, who was reported a few days
ago to be marching on Peking after
defeating a republican army, confines
his advance In the capital in spite of
the appeals of President Yuan Shi Kai.
A telegram from Mukden says that
General Chang Tsao Lin Is expected
to march on Peking at any moment
with an army from Manchuria to co
operate with General Sheng Yun.
Rev. McFarland Found Guilty.
Pittsburgh, March 18.--Rev. Dr. T.
D. McFiuland, minister and educator,
former head of the Pittsburgh Central
high school, hut later connected with
United Presbyterian mission work at
Greenville, Tenn., was convicted by a
Jury In the criminal court here of
causing the death of his former secre
tary, Elsie Dodds Coe, last January.
Co-operative Bakery Opens.
Minneapolis. March 18. The fl:;
co-operative huslnes enterprise ever
undertaken by labor unions In Minne
apolis for organized labor wns started
today. It la a bakery Incorporated for
$50,000 and stock Is held only by mem
bers of organized labor. A number of
local unions BubRcrlbed for stock from
their treasuries.
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PUBLIC SALE
The undersigned will sell at
Public Auction at bis late livery
an it back barn, corner Sixth and
Vine streets, Plattsmouth, Neb.,
SATURDAY, MARCH 30th,
the following described property
to-wit:
One team driving horses, weight
1,900.
One team of work horses,
weight 2,400.
One team of work horses,
weight 2,500.
One good work horse, weight
1,200.
Two single drivers, weight 900
each.
Three sels of work harness.
Three sets of buggy harness.
Two sets of single harness.
Two backs and one coupe hack.
One pall-bearer hack.
One Ililcy bus.
Two carriages and three single
buggies.
One wagon and hay rack.
One wagon and one trunk
wagon.
Numerous other articles.
Terms of Sale:
All sums of $10 and under.
cash in hand; over $10 a credit of
twelve months will be given if de
sired, purchaser giving good
bankable paper bearing 8 per cent
interest from date. All property
must be set I led for before being
removed. Sale to commence, at 1
o'clock I M. sharp.
C. L. MARTIN.
Mold. Wilkinson, Auctioneer.
T. M. Patterson, Clerk.
THE "CfUGRER
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Annual Engagement of the Show
That Invariably Packs the
Gayety, Omaha.
Once again Hob Manchester's
Cracker Jacks come for a week's
stay at the popular fiaycty, Oma
ha, and it is always a welcome
feature, for never has it appeared
without giving the greatest of
entertainments, and this season
promises wonders in I he way of
novelties. The comedians are six
in number, headed by that funny
fellow, Johnny Jess, and also in
cludes John Williams, Harvey
Urooks and Charles Ascot.
The first part is Ihe best the
"Cracker Jacks" has ever had. It
was built for laughing purposes
only and brings out a coterio of
twenty-five pretty girls in elegant
ensembles. It is inlerspersed'with
many ridiculous complications,
finishing with a unique melange
entitled "Past, Present and
Future,"- something entirely out
of the ordinary. The olio is in a
class by itself. Hob Manchester
presents Mollie Williams and
company in a spectacular ex
travaganza, "La Danse P'Entice
ment," something entirely out of
the ordinary and a world-beater;
Williams and Hrooks in a great
laugh-maker, "The New Cadet,'
and Ascot and Eddie, the acro
batic dancers.
The show is headed by two
prime favorites, the queens of the
travesty stage, Mollie Williams,
the great, Anna Held entertainer,
and Ruby Leoni, the Model Venus.
Tlio closing skit is a satire on
New York's latest craze and in
troduces all that is good in songs
and dances, poses and ensembles,
and embraces tuneful melanges
and local hits, with girls who
know how to sing and how to
dress with effect. A sumptuous
array of elegant costumes, beauti
ful scenery, bewildering electrical
contrivances and everything
necessary to make the most com
plete show on the road may he ex
pected. All in all Ihe "Cracker
Jacks" are to the fore for laugh
ing purposes only. Ladies' dime
matinee every week day.
TAKE NOTICE!
10 Per Cent Discount for This
Week.
HENRY'S NOTION STORE.
With every purchase amount
ing to One Dollar we will return
to you 10c. All this week only.
Come in and gel some bargains.
The latter part of this month wo
will move our slock of goods to
the Hiley Work, first door south
of old poslolllce, formerly oc
cupied by Nemelz & Co. We ex
pect to be ready for business at
Ihe new stand about April 1st. We
have added a soda fountain to our
line ami will handle ice cream
and soda; otherwise will carry
about the same line as heretofore
A. L. Henry, Proprietor.
Try a sack of Forest Ros Flour
the next time you need flour. Ask
your dealer what he thinks of it.
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