Loup City Northwestern. VOL. XVIII. LOUP CITY, SIIERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1001. NUMBER 13. The Senate Will Continue to Wrestle With It This Wenk. SI’fCIAl SPEECHES ARE PROMISED Allison May Inject Appropriation Hills for .Senate** CotiaicleratIon Wednesday nnd Hoiute Will Have Them Up All Week—The Hmme. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The senate will continue its discussion of the ship subsidy bill during the first half of the present ween, with probable interrup tions during the morning hour of each day. There probably will he a move ment to secure night sessions on the part of the friends of the shipping hill Monday or Tuesday and other strenuous efforts will be made to se cure a vote upon the hill. If it should appear probable that the <*nd of the discussion is still not in sight Senator Allison on Wednesday will ask the senate to tasc up the hill making appropriations for the District of Columbia for the next fiscal year. This appropriation hill will be debated for several (lays and when its consid eration is concluded there will he other appropriation bills requiring attention. The earlier part of the day Monday will be given to the ceremonies in honor of tlie memory of Cuief Justice Marshall and Senator Bacon has given notice that he will ask the attention of the senate to some remarks of his upon the resolution introduced by him self deflating the right of the senate to demand and receive all papers on file in the executive departments. He will speak at length upon that question and tf he should conclude during the day lie will lie followed by oue of several extended speeches on the subsidy hill, which arc still in reserve. Senator Teller is counted on for anotuer speech, and in case of a night session Monday night probably would under take to speak the session out. ft is ex pected that Senator Cattery will talk Tuesday. The democrats do not hesitate to say that In case night sessions are ordered they will denianu that a quorum shall be maintained. On Saturday eulogies, will be delivered in honor of the lute Representative Harmer of Pennsyl vania. The house will continue the consid eration of appropriation bills this week. The postofflee appropriation hill is not yet completed. It will be followed by the consular and diplo matic and the sundry civil bills, which last will be reported to the house tomorrow. The bills to promote the efficiency of the revenue cutter service and to es tablish a national standardizing uureau and conference reports will consume whatever time remains. Tomorrow the exercises in connec tion with the celebration of the cen tennial anniversary of John Marshall’s appointment as chief justice of the United States will be hold in the house of representatives from 10 to « o’clock. MEMORIAL TO KING tUWARD. Ka>br.i*knn*, Formerly Ilritinh Subject*. Extol the Merit* of Verlt*. LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. 4.—Service in memory of the late queen of England were conducted in Holy Trinity Epis copal church this afternoon under ihe auspices of former British subjects who are residents of Lincoln. Ad dresses on the life of the dead sover eign were made by Chancellor and Al bert Watkins. Music appropriate to the occasion was by the First Con gregational and Holy Trinity choirs combined under the leadership of H. J. W. Seamark. Resolutions were adopted and will he forwarded to King Edward by Major J. F. Stnney, formerly an officer in the British Royal guards, now attached to the American army at the Department of Missouri. Clergymen from all the churches were present and participated in the ser vices. KIDNAPER SUSPECT IS IMASY. SlirrlfT of II»IUs. Tex.. Confident He Ham the Man Wanted DALIjAS. Tex., Feb. 4.—Sheriff Johnson is more positive than ever that H. Henderson, the man he lodged in Jail yesterday, is one of the Cudahy kidnapers. lie did not let his prisoner know until last night the real charge against him. When lie was told that he was held as a Cudahy kidnaper suspect he showed much un easiness. He walked his cell all night and did not steep a wink. The sheriff states that he has learned that on Friday before Henderson had $1,000 in a package. When arrested Henderson hail only 15 cents in Itis pockets. The prisoner declines to make any statement concerning his financial af fairs, or how he came to have a pic ture of Pat Crowe in his trunk. Ho is to be photographed tomorrow and his picture sent to the chief of police at Omaha and other cities. Will llnnm Tlielr Home City. KANSAS clTY, ^'eo. 4.—Sixty m<*m hers of the Commercial clut>, including the principal manufacturers and job bers of Kansas City, started tonight on a week’s trade trip through Kan sas. Oklahoma and Indian Territory and northern Texas. The party went in a sepcial train and carried hundreds of pounds of literature expounding Kansas City’s advantages as a trading point. TO MOB MRS. NATION. Rough P.leiucut of hniiani Tamil Hutohes Plot of Tur and Feathers. KANSAS CITY. Feb. I—A special to the Times from Topeka, Kan., says: Policeman Luster h .s reported to City Marshall Stahl a plot on the part of the liquor men to tar and feather Mrs. Carrie Nation, the joint smasher. 1.lister says hat a negro tough, whom lie once bctYli tided, give him the tip. Marshal Stahl is making an investi gation. Tile report has frightened Mrs. Na tion and her sister crusaders, but they declare that they will continue the work of destroying "murder shops." 1 They met at y o'clock this morning at Mrs. Nation's room and held a season of prayer, asking the Lord to protect them from bodily harm in the dis charge of what they termed meir duty to the community. Mrs, Nation hmvod the storm today and made three temperance speeches— In Wesleyan Method st churen in the forenoon, in the Christia 1 church in the afternoon, and in the I.owinan Hill Methodist church in the evening. A recruiting office for the Topeka brigade, Kansas division, Carrie na tions army, has been opened. Three hundred "soldiers ’ have signed the roll, mostly women. The program for the defenders is to march down Kan sas avenue at 2 p. m., tomorrow, with drums and flags flying, and hold pray er meetings In front of every joint. Mis. Nation says that it was the in tention of the home defenders to smash joints tomorrow, but this feat ure of the crusade may be postponed for a few days to enable secret service agents to inquire into the story that armed men are guarding the joints. Mrs. Nntio i says she does not mind a shotgun, but she does net want to lead other women to their death. Postmaster Guthrie says Mrs. Na tion receives more mail than any hank in Topeka. Many of the letters contain money, and it is said that Mrs. Nation already has put aside $500 to help carry on the liquor war. PRESIDENT BURT TALKS SOME K*‘ccni Transaction Will Not Affect l*rei» ent Arrangement. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—The Tribune tomorrow will say: Horace O. Hurt, president of the Union Pacific rail road, is at the Waldorf-Astoria, ac companied by his wife and several friends, including J. H. Millard, presi dent of tiie Omaha National bank, and .Judge W. R. Kelly, general solicitor of the Union Pacific. The party will spend a week or ten days in this city. President Hurt in an interview, ex plained at length the present condi tions of the Union Pacific, which has just acquired the Southern Pacific. He said that the great transaction would not affect present traffic arrange ments. In conclusion. Mr. Burt out lined the improvements of the Union Pacific roadbed and important changes which are being mane on the main line in Wyoming, where are the heaviest gradients and curvatures. About 200 miles of this section have been practically rebuilt, materially re ducing the grades. In another two years still more changes on the divide and the Salt Lake- section in western l tali will be completed. The road will be shortened about thirty-four miles, making the distance between Council Bluffs and Ogden practically 1,000 miles. Revise* the Building Illll. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The house committee on public buildings an 1 grounds today acted favorably on what is known as the omnibus public build ing bill, increasing the limit of cost of a number of public buildings. Th'> following revision of increases was made before the bill was reported: Cheyenne, Wyo.. $o*.i,U)0; Helena. $350,000; Jopim, Mo., $100,000; Hot Springs, Ark., $8o,00o; St. Paul, $1,150, 000; Salt Uike City, $500,000; Seattle, $750,000. (i. .•%. K. M H«ure Tnrnc«l Dom ii. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—The bill for a pension court of appeals, which has attracted considerable attention as a Grand Army of the Republic measure, met a reverse in the house committee on invalid pensions today, where, by a vote of (I 1o 7, a motion to report it was defeateii. A sub committee consisting of Representa tives Norton, Graff and Minor was then named to perfect the department bill providing vor pension appeals. Piracy Oil the Increase. HONG KONG. Feb. 2.—It is learned from Canton that the- German consul there has demanded an indemnity of $100,000 for each man wounded in the recent outbreak on the W'est river and $50,000 for other damages. Piracy is increasing to such propor tions that the consuls have demanded better protection for the waterways. The viceroy replied to their demands that he was doing all that was possi ble. liner Attack Succc»»fnl. l.ONDON, Feb. 4.—The War offico has received the following from Lord i Kitchener, commander-in-chief in South Africa: “PRKTORI \, Feb. 2.—Our post at Mcdderfonteln, on the Gaterr and southwest of Krugersdorp, was at tacked by 1,000 Poors. The relief column sent out from Krugersdorp failed to prevent the fall of the post. No details yet at hand, but officers and men captured at the post are ar i riving at Vereeniging. TO PAY OLD il'AH HILLS House Passes the Measure for Reimburse ment of Southerners. CLAIMS IS1AT AOGRfGATL $344,480 Mugt of Them for Storm m.d Suppllm Taken liy the I'ninn Army Durlm; the Ket.elliitli — Opposition Overcome— Other Wavlilngton Mutters WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The house today 1,418:50(1 4»n omnibus bill carrying cliams for stores and supplies taken by the union army during the rebel lion. The claims were passed on by the court