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1 1 f 55 fa- People and of Etdents Oh Late Judge Woods. Judge William Wood whune drain w recorded a few days since, wag orn on May 13, 1837, at Farmlngton, (Marshall County, Tenn. He left the roungMt of three children, the other two being girls. At the ace of four months William Allen Woods' father died. When be wan 10 years of age he look his share of the work on the farm and continued for font yean. He was then aent to Wabash College, from which place he graduated in 1859. After fearing college he taught Bchool at Marlon, Ind., which was broken up by tu outbreak of the war. He began the practice of law in 1873. Judge Wood' THE LATE JUDGE WOOU3. access at the bar was rapid. In 1873 he was elected to the office of Circuit Judge of the Thirty-fourth Circuit of Indiana and wag re-elected In 1878. In 1880 Judge Woods was elected to the State Supreme Court bench. In 1883 Prealdent Arthur appointed Judge Woods aa United States District Judge, succeeding Judge Walter Q. Qresham. On March 17, 1892, President Harrison appointed Judge Woods Judge of the United States seventh Judicial cir cuit, which he held until his death. Besides a widow, two children survive him, Floyd A. and Alice, both of In dianapolis. He gained celebrity by is suing the injunction against the rail way strikers In 1894 and sentenced Eugene V. Debs and other officers of the American Railway union to Jail. Manchester's Municipal Trams. In 1895, one year after Glasgow had begun the successful operation of its tramways, the City of Manchester be gan to debate the wisdom of similar action. The matter was carefully con sidered for two years, and it was fin ally decided to municipalize the tram way service of the city and Install the overhead electric system In place of horse traction at the expiration of the operating company's lease of the tracks In 1901. The company endeav ored to withstand this project before parliament, but its effort was unsuc cessful, and a few clays ago tho first reconstructed lines, comprising about eighteen miles of Rlngle track, were opened by the city with appropriate ceremonies. Electrification of the other lines is proceeding. Cen. Comet' Visit. General Maximo Gomez, the greatest soldier of Cuba, came to the United States with words of gratitude to the American people. He expresses the opinion that if the CubanB had under stood some things better there would GEN. MAXIMO GOMEZ, not have been so much delay In the action of the Cuban convention, and adds: "Our people simply want an op portunity to develop their possessions and live in peace, freed from the gall ing yoke which has held them hereto fore." Undoubtedly Maximo Gomez is one of the remarkable men of the age. His career as a revolullonlst In Cuba was one of strange adventure, of many sacrifices endured with Indomitable fortitude, of desperate courage In guer rilla warfare and of moderate opinions as expressed since the freedom of the island was secured through the help of the United States. t A. "Prompt Lesson. The city of Philadelphia has Just of fered tor sale $9,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds and has failed to find a pur chaser. Only one bid of 15,000 was re ceived. Some bond experts think that the franchise scandal has Impaired the city's credit, as It well might. Others any that the rate of Interest offered Is too low. But howevrr, that may be, If Mr. Wanamaker's original offer had been accepted the city would have had to borrow only $6,600,ii)0 Instead of 19,000,000 and might reasonably have expected better terms. And If this new offer should be accepted and the stol en franchises be put up at auction, an amount might be secured that would prevent the necessity of Issuing any bonds at all. IF Z5he WeeKJy "Panorama. "Xetnard of Heroism. riy a display of much courage and ingenuity Edward Mullvehlll, a bag gagemaster. saved the life of Mme. Schumann-Heink In New York the other day and at the same time pre vented her from falling Into the hands of the poliie who wished to detain her aa a witness to a runaway. When the. danger was over and she was safe on board the steamer, on which she sailed for Germany the famous prima donnu rewarded the hero by throwing her arms around his neck and giving hi ip a kiss. The question is at once raided whether the ordinary hero would consider himself properly and sufficiently rewarded for saving the life of an elderly song bird by a single kin from her ruby lips. If the value of a prima donna's kisses is to be com puted on the same financial scale ab her high notes the most unmercenary of heroes might be excused if he pre ferred to take the equivalent of the kiss in rash. Such an equivalent in the c ase of so famous and highly paid a singer as Mme. Schumann-Heink might well amount to a sum sufficient to allow the humble baggagemaster to retire from business and live there after on the Interest of his money. At any rate It Is to be hoped that Man ager Orau will not prove ungrateful. Ho should at loat send to Mr. Mull vehlll a check for a sum equal to what Mme. Hchumann-Heink would earn ir. a single evening. Injustice to a Child. The Ignorance or stupidity of tho constable and police Justice who brought a 13-year-old girl from Matte son. III., to put her In the county Jail in Chicago, almost passes belief. The child Is too young to go to Jail for any crime, a fact which both these country officials should have known. Moreover, her offense appears to have been noth ing more than the taking of someeggs from a hen's nest grass along the her home. A tho child's arrest, found In the railroad near neighbor canned and there appears to have been nobody to defend her. The Justice of the peace, whose duty It Is to know the law In such caces and to prevent in justice Instead of Inflicting it, has dis played a degree of ignorance that is highly discreditable. The mittimus by which he meant to send the child to the county Jail charges the prisoner with "larceni and Insolltlng a lade." The spelling Is .merely a surface Indica tion of the deeper ignorance of the duties of the position he holds. This child appears to need a little parental care and attention rather than Im prisonment. She was promptly re leased and sent home by Judge Tuley of Chicago without trial. An American Countess. Though the Countess of Strafford has been little heard of since the sud den death of her husband a year or so ago, she Is still as popular and as much sought after as ever, and is exported to re-enter Boclety as soon as the pe riod of mourning for Queen Victoria Is over. The Countess, us Is well known, is an American woman, whose first husband was the late millionaire Col gate of New York, fine married the Earl of Strafford in Nr.v York in 1898, and had there been a male heir result ing from the union the countess would now be entitled to occupy Worthnm Castle and the house in St. James square, J.ondon, both of which were put In order with her money. The Earl was killed by a railway train, and, COUNTESS OK STRAFFORD, leaving no heir, the estate all went to his brother, the Rov. Francis E. C. Byng. The countess visited her mother, Mrs. Samuei Smith, at the Laurel House, Lakewood, N. J., last summer. The Countess has one daughter by her first husband. Horses and the Crip. More than fifty thousand horses In New York city are disabled by a dis ease which the veterinary surgeons say Is the grip. Tho symptoms arc the same as those shown by human beings with that disease, including the sud denness of the attack and the subse quent weakness and collapse. The per centage of deaths among the horses al so appears to be about the same as that among people when the grip first ap peared In Its virulent form. The great est loss to the owners of horses Is caused' by the Inability of the animals to work during the week or two In which the disease runs Its course. i Current Topics Problem of Labor on the Farm. Economists and students of Indus trial conditions who "view with alarm" the constant Invention and multiplication of labor-saving machin ery in this country will find food for thought in the present efforts that are being made to coax the idlers and hoboes from the cities to the western wheat fields. It is the same old Macedonian try for help from the farmers of Kansas and Dakotas. The harvest is ripe and the reapers are few. Vast fields of golden grain are already overrlpened and the farmers are threatened with heavy losses through inability to se cure the necessary help to harvest the crop. Employment agencies and rail road companies are making the most tempting offers to the unem ployed. In some instances wages as high as $3 per day and free transporta tion are offered. Bi!t the Idlers prefer the overcrowded city ?.'!h a meager and uncertain livelihood to good wage and plenty to eat on the harvest fields of the Dakotas. Samuel Gompers Hurl. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, Is lying ill at his home in Washington, D. C, differing from concussion of the brain und a possible fracture of the skull. While bis condition is critical, his SAMUEL GOMPERS. physician says he probably will recov er. He was injured as he alighted from a car on which he had been taking his two children for an outing. Gifts to Ifale and Harvard. Commencement week is the time when the colleges "take stock" like business firms and reckon up the finan cial receipts of the year. The presi dents of Yale and Harvard have made announcement showing that the year has been one of remarkable prosper ity for both Institutions. In the last twelve months each has received gifts aggregating about $2,000,000. No fur ther proof is needed to Ehow that the remarkable new era of educational donations and of university expansion continues unabated. The most strik ing announcement is that of J. Pler pont Morgan's offer to erect a group of buildings for the Harvard Medical School at a cost of about $1,000,000. The buildings are to be a memorial to Mr. Morgan's father. The new archi tectural building and an endowment of $300,000 for that department have been given by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson of New York. In addition to these important gifts President Eliot was able to announce that more than $750,000 In cash bad been given to Harvard University in the last year. Horse ttith Strait) Hat. How are you, Mr. Horse? I seo You wear a new straw hat. And it is quite becoming to You, too, I'll tell you that; I watch you plodding down the street, And as I stand and gaze I think of those old ladles who Wore shakers and looked much like you Back In the glad, old days. Ah, good old horse, I'm glad to sea That some one cares for you. That some one cares for you. As I and others do, Kind linnds still smooth your mane, that they For whom yon strain and sweat Know that you have the sense to feci The pain of woe, the Joy of weal And, knowing, don't forget. Chicago Record-Herald. HighUays Versus "Railtirays. An average speed of forty-five miles per hour, exclusive of stops, was made by the winner of the first run of 282'., miles In three days' automobile race from Paris to Berlin, which Is to be finished today. Does this mean that the railway Is to yield to the highway? In an exceedingly suggestive article In the June North American Review Mr H a Wells foretells the recon struction of modern cities In this conn try through the automobile moving over new systems of broad, smooth roads, carrying freight as well as pas sengers, eclipsing railroads In enter prise, comfort, adaptability, and speed, and lengthening the limit of the one hour's ride, and so the radius of the urban district," to 100 milea. A PUN OF IIIKIGAT1 Colossal Undertaking Proposed for Ecotts Bluffs acd Cheyenne. THE BIGGEST YET FOR NEBRASKA. Projected Canal Wonld Add Sixty Thousand Arras to tlia Irrigated Strip North of the Flail MUcsllaaeous Nebraska Matters. LINCOLN. July 6. A plan for ir rigating on a colossal scale a long atrip of land north of the Platte river In Scotts Bluffs and Cheyenne coun ties has been brought to the attention of State Engineer Dobson and a com mittee of citizens residing in Scotts Bluff county is searching anxiously for capital with which to back tho scheme. The territory through which it is proposed to run the principal canal has been organized into an irri gation district and $400,000 of bonds have been voted for the purpose of raising funds to complete the work already begun. "It is undoubtedly the biggest Irri gating scheme ever attempted in the state," said Mr. Dobson. "The people who are pushing it started their work quite a while ago and they have con structed already a canal of upwards of twenty miles In length, extending from a point on the Platte river, very near the Colorado line, eastward and about parallel with the river. They say they have invested approximately $100,000 in this canal and it is esti mated that $400,000 will be required to complete it." The district included in the plan would be the owner of the canal. The residents of the territory have voted the bonds, and if these can bo disposed of for cash the work will be pushed. Completed, the canal would be about fifty or sixty miles in length. It would follow closely the banks of the river for -a mile or so and then east fcr the remainder of the distance. THE NEW GAME LAW. Deputy Warden Uoea Not Anticipate Trouble In Enforcing Same. LINCOLN, July 6. George B. Simp kins, deputy game warden, said that he did not anticipate any serious diffi culty In enforcing the game law which was passed by the last legislature. The law went Into effect July 2 and the deputy and undar deputies are al ready on' the lookout for violations, but do not expect to find many. "The railroad, express and trans portation companies have assured me that they will abide by the provisions of the act, and this Is a long step In Ue right direction," said Mr. Simp kinB. "Everywhere people seem to think that the law is a good one, and I don't think there will be many efforts made to break it." The office of the game warden was opened at the state house. Mr. Simp kins will have full charge of the de partment and will probably devote considerable of his time to directing the movements of the under deputies from the office at the state house, but. he will be In the field a good share of the time. Killed While Drlnklnt Beer. ELK CREEK, Neb., July C Otto Mucler, a farmer 23 years of age, near this place, was trying to open a bot tle of beer and, being unable to pull the cork out, he pushed It in. It caus ed the bottle to explode, driving a three-cornered piece of glass into on; of his limbs and cutting an artery. He bled to death In thirty minutes and be fore Dr. Roh, who was summoned from this place, could get there. Disease Among Stork. DEWITT, Neb., July C. A peculiar disease which the veterinary surgeons find difficult to understand and which is proving fatal In a number of cases. Is attacking horses and cattle In this vicinity. The animals attacked ap pear In almost their usual health up to within twenty or thirty mnutes of their death, when symptoms appear and soon after the animals fall to the ground where they die In a short time after hard struggles. Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON. July 5 Following is a statement ot the treasury balance In the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve In the divis ion of redemption: Available cash balance, $172,005,544; gold, $93,314,. 002. Choice Cattle for Fxhlhltlnn. LINCOLN, Neb., July C Nebraska will be represented In the National Stock show In Kansas City In October by a selected lot of the finest Duroc Jersey hogs that ran be found In the state. This was decided at a special state meeting of swine breeders. Tho object Is to have the exhibit consist of the best Duroc hogs that can be found among the cattle exhibited at the state fair. Twenty-five stock own ers attended the meeting. GOMEZ TALKS WITH TALMA. Conference Supposed t Have Bearing Upon Cuban Republic NEW YORK, July 2. General Max imo Gomez has been spending much of his time in conference with Totnas Es trada Paiuia at the Waldorf-Astoria. Neither would divulge the exact nature of their talk. It is thought General Gomez is here to sound the head of the Cuban junta on the question of his can didacy for the presidency of Cuba. Gen eral Gomez, who is himself a presiden tial possibility, declared recently in fa vor of Senor Palma. When this subject was mentioned to Estrada Palma last night he said: "I would rather not discuss the mat ter. It is too early anyway and the Cu bans have not yet made up their minds whom they desire for president." General Gomez will leave the city this morning with Senor Palma for the latter's home at Central Valley, N. Y. He expects to go to Washington tomor row and call upon President McKinley, Before going to the capital it is possi ble he will issue a statement covering the object of his trip north and setting forth bis views on Cuban affairs. AMERICA INVADING CANADA. Capital from the L' ill ted State Is Bajluf Vp the Dominion. LONDON, July 2. J. Henry Bour assl, member of the Dominion parlia ment and some years director of La Review Canadienne, has arrived in London for a holiday. Interviewed by a reporter for the Daily News he re fered among others matters to the way American capital is invading Canada. "American capital," be said, "is spreading around the lakes, up the riv ers and along the railroad systems. It is breaking down the barrier between Canada and the United States. The Americans are not conquering us, but they are buying us. When this is ac complished it will only need a slight political difference with the home gov ernment and the annexation move ment, now dead, will revive. i "Then you will have to look not to the half Americanized business men of Canada, but to us French Canadians, who have saved Canada for you more than once and may have to save it again, unless you hopelessly alienate us.'! Spanloh Claims Considered. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 3. The Spanish treaty claims commission held a session today and heard argu ment on the question of taking testl many in Cuba or other foreign terri tories. Several attorneys presented arguments on the subject, but no de cision was reached. The motion filed by the attorney for the- government to dismiss the case growing out of the sinking of the Maine for want of jurisdiction was called up, hut in the absence of Mr. Fuller, who prepared the motion on behalf of the government, the case went over, subject to call. ttnylna: Missouri Lead Fields. NEW YORK, July 3. The Herald says: With the passage of a check for almost $1,000,000 from the Morton Trust company of this city to the Union Trust company of St. Louis, the first definite step on the part of the Union Lead and Oil company to ward the acquirement of title of all purchaseable Missouri lead fields has been taken. More changes of titles for large amounts are expected soon. Damage at Fort Crook. FORT CROOK, Neb., July 3. A windstorm verging close upon a cy clone passed over this section yester day about 4 o'clock doing consider able damage. The depot building was unroofed, a section of which was car ried fully 300 feet distant. It was scattered In fragments for an entire block. Lightning struck a telegraph pole near which a soldier was pass ing, riddling the pole Into splinters. The soldier was not hurt. Wrecked at Rock f prl--. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 3. A special to the News from Chey enne, Wyo., says: Eastbound Atlantic express No. 6 on the Union Pacific ran Into the rear end of a freight train at Rock Springs last night Between fifteen nnd twenty persons, all but two of the passengers on the east bound train, were slightly Injured. Traffic was delayed for nearly fourteen hours. Km Rrvenne District. WASHINGTON, D. C July 8. Tho now revenue collection district em bracing North and South Dakota was established with Herman Ellermand as collector. The office is located at Aberdeen, S. D. Fight on Plan of Settlement. GUTHRIE, 0. T., July S.-Tho goy err.ment'8 proposed lottery plan of settlement of the Kiowa and Com manche country Is to bo contested by settlers who expect to take claims when the country In opened. The plan of contest is the legality of the drawing scheme. Among those who wilt be leading plaintiffs is Lewis N. Ilornbeck ot Mlnco, I. T., who has been a government surveyor. He has retained coiidkI to make his case. mm aim heat In tho Great Cities of the East Are Many . Deaths aod Prostrations. NO RELIEF AS YET IN SIGHT Hundreds Drop and Die an Heroins; Pavements Fubllc Vehicle Inadcejoata to Care Promptly for the Unfortunate) Victim. Deathis. New York 223 Philadelphia 52 Baltimore 2.1 Pittsburg and vicinity 51 NEW YORK, July 4. The heat which has worked such havoc on this city recently was somewhat mitigated late yesterday by a succession of thun derstorms, which sent the mercury tumbling dowp ten degrees between the hours of 4:30 and 8 p. m. Never did a downpour of rain receive such an enthusiastic reception as did this one. The thunder and lightning were heavy and many houses were struck, causing fires, but so far as known no person was killed or injured. During the last downpour hail fell in quantities. It was after tho hottest July 2 in the history of the local weather bu reau and a day that almost reached the city record of September 7, 1881, that this cant relief came. The rooming opened with the tem perature at 83 at 6 a. m., and in an hour it had gone to S7, and in another hour had climbed a point higher, jump ing all the way to 93 by 9 o'clock. The wind was scarcely perceptible and the humidity, which was i9 per cent, aggravated the conditions. Then the mercury kept on climbing, registering 95 at 11 o'clock and going up to 98 between 12 and 1 and stayed there un til after 3 o'clock. The humidity had fallen to 41 per cent. The suffering caused by the heat was unprecedent ed. All the ambulances in the city as well as the patrol wagons and many other vehicles were kept busy answer ing calls. At the rate of about one minute the calls came in over the po lice wires all day, breaking all records for the amount of ambulance servico and providing patients enough to crowd all the hospitals. The official temperature up In the lofty weather bureau remained at 9S. the temperatures on the street level ranged from 100 to 10G. Tho terrible fatality of the heat was shown by the large percentage cf deaths among those prostrated. Out of 328 onsno ot prriKti-atton. lepm-ted. un to 11:30 o'clock la3t night, t48 , fatally. Among the most prominent victims were the Rev. Dr. Newland Maynard, the Episcopal clergyman and lecturer, and Jacob Rogers, the former locomo tive builder. Between the honrs of 2 a. m. Tucs- dey, and 12:4a a. ro. yesterday, Wed nesday, there were In the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, 158 deaths and 178 prostrations. The same weather conditions which prevailed in this city were experience;! In Brooklyn. It was estimated by th! police at midnight that during Tues day there had been sixty deaths and 150 prostrations by the heat in Brook lyn. PROCLAMATION IS READY. FreaWlent Will Soon Issne Statement Opening Indian Reservation. WASHINGTON, July 4. Secretary Hitchcock informed the cabinet today that the proclamation for the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apachs Indian reservations In Oklahoma was completed. The secretary will go over It with the president tomorrow and it will be issued either tomorrow evening or July 4. It will fix the day of open ing nnd will proscribe the methods and rules to be observed by prospective homesteaders. Secretaries Hay and Long were Uk absentees at today's meeting. Little business was transacted. The most im portant action decided upon was a change in the civil service rules re garding clerks and carriers in the pos tal service. The age limits within which applicants could apply for posi tions as carriers heretofore have been 21 years as the minimum and 40 as tha maximum. 1'he minimum for clerks has been 18 years, with no maximum. The civil service commission' proposed a uniform minimum of 18 and a maxi mum of 40 years. It was the opinion of tho postmaster general and the rest of the cabinet, however, that thU maximum was too low and it was de cided to fix 45 years as the maximum for both classes of employes. Fncts Abnnt June Weather. OMAHA, July 4. Only twlco in thirty-one years has the mean temper ature of June been so high as In 1901. In 1871 average for the month was 70 and In 1881 the average was 75. This year the average was 75, three de grees abovo normal for the month. The highest temperature ever record ed at Omaha In Juno was on the 2Sth, when the mercurr reached J00, Th. mean maximum Uiaperature for th month was U.4.