I 99i Miles
VeeeVTVVee!e)JO'ee.
A seventy-foot car on the Berlln
Zowen High Speed Electric Railway,
a military road between the German
cities of Berlin and Zoaaen, made the
remarkable speed of ninety-nine and
a half miles an hour In a test.
The car which established this new
record for railway speed, steam or
electric, has been building In Germany
for the past year, and has attracted
worldwide, scientific attention be-
catic nf Ita 1'inlmiA constructive feat
ure of having three trolleys, and tba
expectations of Its builders that It
would run 124 miles an hour, or more
than two miles In a minute.
In running at a rate of ninety-nine
and a half miles an hour, the three
phase, or three-trolley, electric par
The Three-Trolley F.lectslo Cur, Which
employed 10,000 volts of electricity,
2,000 volta less than the capacity. The
current wag furnished by the Ober
spree Central SUtion of the Berliner
Elektrlcltaetswerke, the distance from
the central station to the nearest point
on the line conductor being 9.3 miles.
The transformers are carried by the
car Itself, a low voltage (435) being
used for the motors. In a paper be
fore the International Engineering
congress at Glasgow, Scotland, (printed
In America by the Scientific American)
A. Lasche, one of the builders of the
Berlln-Zossen road and Its equipment,
says It is still questionable whether
to mount the heavy transformers on
the car, or whether It Is not better to
reduce the high pressure 50,000 volts
by transformers alongside the track
. i .Km.f o nni
lO a lilt u I u in preBMuie UL UUUt O.VW
I mormon
There is being erected on the corner
of Ontario and Howard streets, a
church which is the first of its kind
to be established In Philadelphia. It
ill U 1. Ctu rViiirh nf
Will W flUUWU ttO inn not
the Latter Day Saints, and here will
worship the followers of Joseph Smith
and believers in the Book of Mormon.
Reverend W. E. La Rue and Elder
George W. Rob'ev administer jointly
to the spiritual welfare of a congre
gation of over 100 persons. The new
church Is an Imposing edifice of stone
and brick which cost $7,000 to erect
and which will comfortably seat 500
persons. The pastor expects the con
gregation to double Its numbers this
winter; already ho has gained new
converts, and although the Mormon
doctrines and all who follow them
were at first severely condemned by
the cloth and the lalety of this city,
those who listen to the faith set forth
by Mr. La Rue find very little to cen
sure, many of the principles being
atrictly orthodox.
The members of the congregation,
although thny adhere to the doctrines
of Joseph Smith, have little or nothing
In ' common with the Mormons of
Utah. They look upon the teaching
of Brlgham Young as a defilement of
the sacred doctrines of the true Mor
mons. The pastor and member of this
Latter Day Saints Church, says the
Philadelphia Times, repudiate the
doctrines of polygamy nd claim that
their social codes differ not the slight
est from those accepted as orthodox
by city and state.
Wonderful Cave In Montana.
A new and wonderful natural rave,
believed to be one of the largest
known, has been discovered In the
canyon of the Jefferson, on tno line or
NEWLY-FOUND GREEK TABLET
v 2.600 YEARS OLD v
. ......,! nrr.rinllirlral find llSS
jy TMIUOIiin ... ... ... D .
ust been reported by the American
Bchool of Archeology of Athens. It
It a brome fragment or plate, dating
from the seventh century B. C, con
taining a decree, or law, emanating
from some high official source, king or
council, which was Intended for the
people of Argos. It was recently un
earthed a few feet below the surface
near the old Temple Hereum, at Ar
gos, on one of whoso pillars It was
tacked.
The Inscription Is a sort of compact
between the City of Argos and nelgh-
ai Hour by
volts, and to wind the motors for this
latter voltage.
The car which has come within a
half mile of 100 miles an hour was
built at Cologne-Duets to accommo
date fifty passengers. 1U length over
all is sixty-nine feet, and the distance
between its buffer plates is seventy
two and a half feet. The full width
is eight feet and six inches. The
windows of the car are closed, venti
lation taking place through the side
window of the lofly skylight. The j
apparatus Is in the center, dividing the
car into two apartments, though pas
sengers may pass through the appa
ratus room while the car is at full
speed. The trucks, carrying the body
of the car, are forty-three feet seven
Has Attained a Speed of 90,' Mile an
Inches apart. The diameter of each
truck wheel Is 49.2 Inches. Each truck
has three axles, the two outer axles
carrying the motors. The distance
between the wheels measures twelve
foot and bIx Inches. The load for each
axle is a little more than fourteen
tons. Each of the eight motors is
adapted for a normal output of 250
horsepower, and for a maximum out
put of 750 horsepower. The speed of
the motor is about 960 revolutions per
minute, which corresponds to a car
wheel speed of 140 miles an hour.
The tension of 12,000 volts, at which
the current Is supplied from the over
head wire, is reduced in the transform
ers to 435 volts.
The current is taken from each of
the three feeding wires by two trol
ley bows In parallel. The upper part
CDurcD in Pbllaaelpbia f
Rev, W. E. La Rne.
the Northern Pacific railway, about fif
ty miles east of Butte, Mont An ex
ploration party from Butte spent sev
eral days In the cave, going over an
area of ten miles and to a depth of
nearly 1,000 feet.
A large river with a cataract of
about 100 feet was explored for a dis
tance of several miles without discov
ering ita source or outlet. A few ar
ticles of stone and copper utensils and
some bones, believed to be human
bones, were also found In one of the
large apartments of the cave. There
were other evidences that at some time
in a prehistoric period the cave was
Inhabited.
Teaching by Phonograph.
A system of teaching the French lan
guage by phonograph Is -to "be tried In
England. Several prominent French
professors are devoting their energies
to preparing phonograph cylinders car
rying French lessons upon tbem. The
Creak Alphabet Written 700 B. C.
fcn rPoipd PrtrVrjrPiwI
Electricity
of each of these arms carries a num
ber of aluminum rods, attached by
means of narrow plate springs. The
masses of the Individual rods must be
sufficiently small to insure that they
bear constantly against the wire. The
head of the arm, carrying the bow, is
pressed out of aluminum sheet, and is
connected to the vertical base by rods,
the base being mounted on ballbear
ings in the socket of the car. The bow
is pressed against the wire by springs,
the,
j-tnnai.Mi nf which fa regulated bv
means of cams.
The Germans and the A us tr lane
claim for the three trolley system im
mense advantages over the direct cur
rent, or single trolley, method. If the
Berlln-Zossen line tests continue as
Hoar on a German Military Railroad.
satisfactory as they have begun it la
not unlikely that it may result in a
worldwide substitution of a distinctly
European method of transmitting elec
trical energy for railways of every
description.
Kaey Traveling by Balloon.
It is one of the peculiarities of travel
by balloon that you do not feel any
thing; all Is still with you, no matter
how fast you may be going. You see,
you are riding with the wind; you
move as fast as It moves; you are part
and parcel of It, whether you wish to
be or not. It takes you in its embrace
so firmly yet so softly you do not know
it Is there. You may be in the teeth
of a hurricane, but you never know it;
all Is calm and placid with you.
The Chnrnh a Planned.
phonographic records are accompanied
by a book, which contains thirty les
sons, each of which corresponds to a
phonographic cylinder, and each lesson
is Ingeniously illustrated. All that the
student has to do is to set the phono
graph in motion and the book will ex
plain what the instrument is saying.
The object of this system is to give the
French accent correctly.
Chicago' Many Lawyers.
There are between 8,000 and 10,000
lawyers In Chicago. That Is to say,
there are between 8,000 and 10,000 men
In the city who have studied law and
been admitted to practice. Of this num
ber, however, only 4,000 to 6,000, or
about 50 per cent, are following their
profession. The other 4,000 or 5,000 are
In the ranks of trade.
The accumulation of coffee In New
York has reached 3,250,000 bags, an
unprecedented supply.
boring towns. It also contains an or
dinance relating to personal violence,
which described the penalty In store
for those who sought to annul Its pro
visions. The fragment Is especially note
worthy, as It vividly portrays the
form of the alphabet at this early
stage of time, and Is also one of the
oldest known specimens of Arglvo
writings In existence, As a forcible
type of criminal code It Is worthy of
comparison with our modern methods
and practices, which are not all that
could be desired.
FLAWS OF THE TREATY
Senator Eicon in 8peech Proceeds to
Point Tbem Out.
HE REPLIES TO SENATOR LODGE
Disapproval af Canal Treaty not Giving
Thl Country Full Control Fault of
the Old Treaty Still In Evidence Ml
eellaaeeus Matter.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.
Two speeches on the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty were made In the executive ses
sion nf the senate yesterday, one by
Senator Bacon in opposition to the
treaty and the other by Senator Cul
lom, the prospective chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, in
support of it.
Mr. Bacon replied to the speech
made by Senator Lodge. He summed
up his objections in the statement that
he could not freely accept any treaty
which does not place the isthmian
canal entirely under American aus
pices and American control. This,
he said, the pending treaty does not
do, nor does It do anything like it
It did not by long odds accomplish
what had been accomplished by the
senate amendments made to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty at the last session
of congress. The Davis amendment,
he said, had abrogated all the objec
tlonal provisions of that treaty as ne
gotiated, and it did not matter what
provisions there were in the agree
ment, for long as the United States
was authorized as it was by the prin
cipal Davis amendment to secure the
safety and maintenance of the canal
by its own force. That amendment
had given this country a free hand
to do what was necessary for the pro
tection and defense of the canal,
whereas the present treaty carried all
the restrictions which were originally
contained in the old treaty, leaving
out the modifications of the Davis
amendment.
He also pointed out that the treaty
reproduces the restrictions of the old
Suez canal treaty which had been in
corporated in the original convention.
He charged that these restrictions
had been copied almost verbatim
from the old treaty, the only material
change being in the omission of the
words, "In time of war, as in time of
peace," from the rule of the Suez
canal agreement. This omission did
not, in his opinion, change the char
acter of the agreement.
"The only reply," he said, "which
the advocates of the treaty make to
criticism is that the canal would be
rinder the full control of the United
States in time of war, but this is no
more true now than under the old
treaty, and it Is a strange thing that
all the provisions refer to the control
of the canal In war, notwithstanding
it is contended here that In that con
tingency the removal of this phase
places the canal under our absolute
control."
He said the war restrictions of the
treaty were entirely inconsistent with
the claims of Senator Lodge that this
country should say who should use
the canal and who should not In case
of hostilities. He contended that the
only power given to Great Britain
was found in the last sentence of reg
ulation two, providing that "the
United States shall be at liberty to
maintain such military police along
the canal as may be necessary to pro
tect It against lawlessness and dis
order." This, he said, was not suffi
cient to make the canal an American
Institution and if the Davis amend
ment had been necessary to render the
original treaty acceptable It was
equally necessary In this instance. He
considered the pending treaty every
whit as objectionable as the treaty of
last session.
AGREE ON IRRIGATION BILLS
Western Member Hold Canon and Se
lect Measure for Support.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12. At a
caucus of western members of con-
gross Interested In Irrigation legisla
tion it was agreed to incorporate in
their recommendation for a bill pro
viding for irrigation of arid lands the
following essential features:
The money derived from the sale of
all public lands shall apply to the
revenue provided for irrigation; all
irrigation projects shall be under the
direction of the interior department;
settlers upon such lands shall pay
, $5 an acre In addition to the home
stead fees; -each settler shall be lim
I ited to the purchase of 80 acres;
charges for Irrigating their lands shall
not exceed $10 per acre.
Will Re Gen. Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The army
board which has been for several
months preparing a list of officials
which shall be recommended for
brevet rank In recognition of gal
lant services In Cuba, Porto Rico,-the
Philippines and China has completed
Its work and the report will be sub
mitted Jo the secretary of war in a
day or two. This list is to take the
place of that laid before the senate
1 last session and withdrawn.
'NEBRASKA CATTLE KINO" EREE
Ah Moor data Oat of Chicago Jail
After Tear Confinement.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18. After a year In
the county Jail Abe Moore, "The Ne
braska Cattle King," walked out a free
man.
Moore was released on a writ of ha
beas corpus by Judge Dunne. He had
been held in Jail under a fine of $1,000
and filed a petition as a poor person.
It was shown to the court that he
could not y the fine and that nothing
remained except to discharge him, as
the additional sentence of Judge Wa
terman for one year in Jail expired
yesterday.
Though comparatively a yousg man,
Moore was known in the west as a
"cattle king." He established a credit
among stock yard dealers in Chicago
and was enabled to draw upon them to
a considerable extent
In the spring of 1889 Moore drew
heavily upon the Strahorn-Hutton-Evans
Commission company. Accord
ing to the story he represented that
he had 900 head of fat cattle in the
slock yards at South Omaha. These
he was desirous of advancing to the
Chicago Union Stock, yards. But It
was necessary that he have money to
secure the release of the stock. He
gave a mortgage upon the latter, it Is
asserted, and the money was sent to
him. Later it is said no such cattle
could be found.
Moore was convicted of obtaining
money by false pretenses.
ENTITLED TO WATER POWER
The State Board of Irrigation Decide a
Question.
LINCOLN, Dec. 14. The state board
of Irrigation delivered a decision in
the case of the Farmers' and Mer
chants Irrigation company of Lexing
ton against the Gothenburg Power and
Irrigation company, holding that the
latter is entitled to appropriate water
from the Platte river under its orig
inal claim for use in an extension of
the canal east of Gothenburg. Under
the claim the Gothenburg company
asked for permission to use 200 cubic
feet of water per second for the Irri
gation of specified lands and for the
operation of a power plant at Gothen
burg. The application was allowed
and since the plant was put into oper
ation the canal was -extended fifteen
miles eastward, so that instead of re
turning the water from the power
plant to the river it was turned into
the extension. The Farmers' and Mer
chants' company demurred to this ac
tion, contending that the water could
be used only for the purposes specified
In the claim. Former Secretary Wil
son upheld this contention and the
case was appealed to the irrigation
board. Under the decision of the board
the Gothenburg company may turn the
water into its extension canal.
LOOKS BRIGHT FOR IRRIGATION.
George H. Maxwell Discusses Probable
Action of Congress.
OMAHA, Dec. 14. The presence of
George H. Maxwell at the meeting of
the Commercial club's executive com
mittee naturally turned the subject of
discussion to Irrigation. The secretary
of the National Irrigation association
made a short address, in which he con
gratulated the members of the commit
tee on the fact that .the message of
President Roosevelt and the report of
Secretary Hitchcock were practical
and full endorsements of the ideas ad
vanced by the association and en
dorsed by the Omaha Commercial club.
He advised the members to stand firm
to the plan of the association, and said
that the fight upon the measure will
come from the western representa
tives, the majority of the representa
tives from the east who have expi-ecs
d opinions being in favor of the asso
ciation's plan. Referring to an article
from the Brooklyn Eagle, he sail that
It represented the sentiment of the
pasters, representatives and thatthey
would stand for no plan contemplating
state ownership and control. ' A gen
eral discussion followed, in which each
speaker pledged himself to spread the
sentiment in favor of the - plan en
dorsed by th? national administration.
Norval Will Mot Accept.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 16. Judge
Norval has given his friends a positive
statement that he will under no con
slderalon accept the commlsslonershlp
which will be vacant upon Judge Sedg
wick taking his seat on the supreme
bench, Judge Norval says that he In.
tends joining with his two brothers In
the practice of law in his home town
of 8eward.
Territorial Pioneer' .Meeting.
BROWNVILLE, Neb., Dec. 16. The
annual meeting of the Nebraska Ter
ritorial Pioneers' association will be
held at University chapel, Lincoln,
Tuesday, January 14.
Wreck on the Rurllncton.
M'COOK, Neb., Dec. 16. Accommo
dation train No. 175 on the Imperial
branch was wrecked near Pallsado.
Eight cars were ditched, but no one
was hurt
Manufacturing Capital in Vebraika Ehowi
Handsome Increase.
01 HOOK IS VERY ENCOURAGING
Cenia Bnrean Iaaue a Report that Bo
real Remarkable Progress la the State
Court Docket Belug Cleared Ml
eelliucou Nebraska Matter.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The cen
sus bureau has issued a preliminary
report on the manufacturing Indus- -tries
of Nebraska, showing a total
capital in vested of $71,978,877, an.ln
crease of 92 per cent since the census
of 1890, and value of products $143,
986,127, an increase of 55 per cent
Other figures are:
Establishments 5,413 wage earners
24,471, total wages 111,570,268, miscel
laneous expenses $6,933,748, and cost
of material used $102,196,397.
Statistics for the three cities separ
ately reported1 follow:
Lincoln, capital $2,608 992, increase
11 per cent, value of products $4,105,
951, Increase 11 per cent; establish-'
ments 252, wage earners 1,736, cost of
material used $2,173,345.
Omaha, capital $34,282,063, increase
87 per cent; value of products $42,
991,876, increase 2 per cent; establish
ments 837, wage earners 7,422, wages
$3,755,810, cost of materials used $22,-;
113,388. ....
South Omaha, capital $16,471,328,
value of products $70,080,941, no sub
sequent figures for 1890; establish
ments 139, wage earners 6,606, wages
$3,368,591, cost of material used $61,
277,486. CLEARING IP THE DOCKET
Supreme Court I Catching Up With It
Work.
LINCOLN, Dec. 11. According to
Clerk Herdmann of . the supreme!
court, rapid strides are being made
in reducing the size of the docket.
When the commission began work the!
court was about six years behind in.
business. If thej present progress Is
continued it is estimated that the
docket will be cleared before the next!
session of the legislature, which Con-j
venes in January, 1903. It is noted!
that the number of appeals to thei
supreme court are decreasing, partic-J
ularly in that class of cases which are
appealed merely to occasion delay.
When It took from four to six andl
seven years to reach a ease, mortgagel
foreclosures and other suits inwhlchi
the adverse party might profit by Us
ing up litigation for an indefinite tlmtf
were appealed ..with great frequency,!
while other , cases, really meritorious,;
in which the average party could not!
afford to wait the tardy action of the'
supreme court, he would compromise!
instead of appealing. Now conditions1
are reversed. Cases are seldom ap
pealed for the meTe -purpose oi delay,
and meritorious ones are usually taken,
up with the result that a better class
of litigation is being entertained now
than before the commission's appoint
ment. "" . ,
Iowa Traveling Men Meet.
DES MOINES, "Dec. 11. The twenty-first
annual meeting of the Iowa.
State Traveling Men's association was'
held here, with an attendance of about'
500 from Iowa and adjoining states.
The old directors were re-elected and
W. H. Wheeler and-F. E. Haley were,
re-elected president and secretary. Aui
ineident of the convention was the ap
pearance of A. B. Cummins, who hasi
long been the counsel of the associa-'
tion. .
Game Warden Alert.
THEDFORD, Neb., Dec. 1J. Deputy
Game Warden Frank Nash and Sheriff
Crow arrested A..L. Leland and Harry I
Lei and on the Dismal river in this
county, and brought them before!
Esquire Wright. The boys pleaded1
guilty to hunting without a license
and each one was fined. Thomas
county Is a hard place for the poacher.
snrr Factory Shnt Down.
FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 11. The(
sugar factory at Leavltt, closed its sea-i
son's ' work, after a very successful!
run. The factory' has been .in con
tinuous operation since October l,i
and the delays experienced the first'
two seasns have been - entirely ab
sent
Fall to Stab HI Heart,
SUTTON, Neb., Dec. 11. Wes A1-,
berts stabbed Ed Scott with a dirk,,
the knife being aimed at his heart.'
Scott, parried the blow and received
the knife in bis arm. It severed the
muscles down to the bone.
' : .
Die Twenty Minute 'Apart.
FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 11. Isaac H.
Brown and wife, Mrs. rjarah Brown,'
died at their home within half an
hour. They were nearly eighty years
of age. Mr. Brown had been In poor
health for years and was attacked with
heart trobule. A- physician was sum
moned, but -when he arrived he was'
dead. Twenty minutes after be was
again called to the Brown residence)
and found 'that Mrs. Brown had just
breathed her last
