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    Loup City Northwestern.
VOLUME XIX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1902. NUMBER 40.
KING IS CROWNED1
PLACED AT LAST ON THE HEAD
OF THE RULER.
EDWARD BEARS UP GRANDLY
After Coronation Experiences but Lit
tle Fatigue—Attends Religious Serv
ices with the Queen—A Grand Gala
Time.
LONDON, Aug. 11—The king was
crowned at 12 o'clock oil Saturday.
The news of the crowning was an
nounced by an official outside the ab
bey. It was repeated by signal
through London and was received with
|A» cheers, which spread throughout the
stands and crowds far up the street,
as the bells peeled joyfully. The queen
was crowned at 12:56 p. m.
Yesterday (Sunday) the festivities
were continued in laindon. There
were considerable crowds almost all
day long in the vicinity of Bucking
ham palace and along the route of
yesterday's procession viewing the dec
orations and watching the flow of no
table personages to and from the vari
ous thanksgiving services.
In the evening the Canadian arch,
which is an exceptional novelty for
Sunday, was brilliantly illuminated
and was a great center of attraction
and served to bring an immense con
course of people into the neighborhood
In spite of the welcome announcement
made last night that King Edward had
borne the fatigues of coronation day
well, today's bulletin concerning his
health was awaited with a certain de
gree of anxiety. Perhaps this is the
reason that his majesty’s physicians
issued the bulletin at the rather un
usually early hour of 9:30 o'clock. Be
cause of the early hour very few people
W’pre about when it was oosted at
the gates of the palace. The bulletin
is as follows:
“His majesty bore the strain of the
coronation ceremony perfectly well
and experienced but little fatigue. The
king had a good night ana his condi
tion is in every way satisfactory. No
further bulletin will be issued.
(Signed) TREVES
► LAKING.
After the posting of the bulletin
there was still some doubt as to
whether his majesty would drive out,
but the small crowd that remained at
Buckingham palace hopeful to see the
sovereign, was rewarded by the ap
pearance of the king and queen. They
were accompanied by Princess Vic
toria, Prince Charles of Denmark,
Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia
and the crown prince of Denmark and
were attended by a largo following of
the royal household.
The procession drove along the Mall
and St. James palace without receiv
ing any notable demonstration from
the people. Tickets to the chapel royal
had been sparingly granted. The choir
hoys who took part in the service
in the chapel were clad in quaint
• gowns of crimson and gold lace. The
service was very simple, special pray
ers for the occasion, however, were
read.
An almost Identical service to the
one held at the chapel royal of St.
James was conducted at Marlborough
house chapel and attended by the
prince of Wales and his family and
other royal personages.
The most interesting of all the scr
oll vices was held at St. Paul’s. This
was essentially a people’s service in
gratitude and thankfulness that the
sovereign had been restored to his
health and it presented a striking con
trast to the sad service of supplica
tion held there in June, on the day
the coronation should have takpn
place.
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Convict Woman of Killing.
- STURGIS, S. D., Aug. 11.—The case
of Mame Hill, charged with murder,
came up In the circuit court. Mame
Hill shot Kitty King in this city on
the morning of March 20. State’s At
torney J. K. McClung and M. McMahon
appeared on behalf of the state and
Wesley Stuart and Thomas Harvey oe
behalf of the defendant. The trial con
tinued all day and went to the Jury
late at night. After being out about
twenty minutes the Jury brought in a
verdict of manslaughter in the second
degree. Judge Rice has set the date
of sentence for Wednesday, August 13.
Oregon is Fire Swept.
OREGON CITY, Ore., Aug. 11.—One
.thousand acreB of timber and farm
mnd are on fire twenty-five miles from
j§> this city. Great damage is being done
§j|;' to lumber and grain,
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1 8ENAT0R M’MILLAN NO MORE.
Michigan Legislator Dies at Summer
Home at Manchester, Mass.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—A dispatch
was received here yesterday announc
ing the death of Senator James McMil
lan of Michigan, at an early hour this
morning, at his summer home at Man
chester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Death was
the result of heart failure, following
congestion, after an illness of a very
few hours.
The news came as a great shock to
his fripnds here, as when the senator
left Washington shortly after the ad
journment of congress he appeared to
foe in good health and looked forward
wdth much satisfaction to a quiet and
restful summer. For some years Sen
ator McMillan has made his summer
home at Manchester-by-the-Sea, having
erected a very fine cottage at that
place.
While no information on that point
hits been received here, the expectation
is that his remains will be taken to De
troit, Mich., and l>e deposited in the
family vault at Elmwood cemetery.
The body of his son, Captain John H.
McMillan, who served in the Spanish
war and who died several months ago,
rests there.
DESTITUTE HAYTIENS APPEAL.
Inhabitants of Petit Goave in Great
Distress.
PORT AC PRINCE. Hayti, Aug. 11.—
The people of Petit Goave to the west
of here are in great distress and have
asked for assistance.
It was reported from Port Au Prince
August 6, that further government re
inforcements had started for Petit
Goave to aid the government forces
beaten there by the revolutionists.
A battle between 400 Foucharists,
supported by a regular regiment, and
the forces under General Chicoye, the
Firminist commander, was fought at
Petit Goave August 8. The town was
almost completely destroyed by fire.
Two Moro Parties Located.
MANILA. Aug. 11.—General Sumner,
commanding the American forces on
the Island of Mindano, has sent a dis
patch to General Chaffee, saying there
are two Moro parties at Bocolo, Min
danao. one peaceful and one hostile.
Captain John J. Pershing of the Fif
teenth cavalry, who is in command of
the American forces at I^ake I^anao,
Mindanao, has expressed his doubt of
the success of the efforts being made
i*y the Americans to placate (he hostile
Moros. The situation in Mindanao is
not regarded as serious.
Cholera continues to decrease in Ma
nila and a majority of the provinces,
and the prediction that the disease
would be worst in August has not been
fulfilled.
Volcana Begins to Growl.
MANAGUA, Nic„ Aug. 11.—The San
tiago, one of the Masaya volcanoes in
Nicaragua, has been emitting vapors
accompanied by groaning sounds for
the last twenty days. The commis
sioners and the governor of the depart
ment of Masaya in which the volcano
is located, report that in their opinion
there is danger of an eruption occur
ring shortly.
San Fernando de Masaya is situated
at the foot of the volcano of Masaya.
It has a population of 22,000, nine
tenths of whom are natives. The vol
cano is about 3,000 feet high.
Money in Making Wagons.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—The cen
sus bureau has issued a report of the
manufacture of carriages and wagons
for the census year ending May 31,
"1900. The report shows a capital of
$118,187,838 invested in this industry
in the 7,632 sstabllshments reporting
for the United States. The value of
the products is returned at $121,537,
375.
Robbers Torture Victim.
, Rebels Capture Barcelona.
PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trini
dad, B. W. I., Aug. 11.—News has
reached here from Venezuela that, af
ter three days of very severe fighting
in the streets of Barcelona, in the
state of Bermudez, the revolutionists
under the command of General Pena
loza captured the town from the gov
ernment forces. The government lost
sixty men and General Ruperto Brava
Farmer Strikes Oil.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 11.—A special
from Mass City, Mich., says: While
digging for water on his homestead
near her John Pearson uncovered a
vein of oil which gushed out in large
volume. Already the petroleum has
covered several acres some inches
deep end a lake is being rapidly form
fed, no appartus being at hand to stop
the flow.
BIG WHEAT FARM
8YNDICATE, LED BY NEBRASKAN,
WILL ESTABLISH IT.
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BUY FORTY THOUSAND ACRES
The Syndicate Will Introduce Steam
Plows and Other Modern Machinery,
as Well as Own Its Own Elevators,
to Do the Work.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 9—A syndicate of
Americans, led by T. B. Hoard of Ne
braska, a wealthy cattleman, will es
tablish the first bonanza wheat farm
in Canada between Craik and Davld
(#n, on the Prince Albert branch of
the Canadian Pacific. Forty thousand
acres of land have been purchased at
an outlay of $200,000 and another $100,
000 has been set aside by the syndi
cate for improvements. None of the
methods which made the great wheat
farms of North Dakota famous have
yet. been applied in Canada and wheat
raising has been confined entirely to
small areas and to the work of small
farmers.
The syndicate includes F. J. Waddell
of Aurora, Neb., another wealthy cat
tleman, and capitalists from Iowa and
Illinois. One whole township is to be
converted into a monster wheat field
and the greater portion of the town
ship adjoining Is to become a portion
of the syndicate's interests.
Mr. Hoard and his associates will
introduce steamplows and other mod
ern farm machinery.
The syndicate will own its own ele
vators, two of which are to be built
this fall at Garvin, in the center of
the new farm. It will also operate
nine elevators at adjacent points.
NEELY WANTS THE MONEY.
Asks that Currency Found in His Pos
session Be Returned.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—C. W.
Neely, who was convicted of Cuban
postal frauds and afterwards granted
amnesty by the Cuban legislature, has
applied to the attorney general to he
reimbursed for the money found in his
possession at the time of his arrest,
amounting to $5,234.
This money was sent to Cuba as an
exhibit at the trial of Neely, and was
returned by the military government
to the War department. Secretary
Root wrote a letter to the postmaster
general informing him that the money
had been returned and was held, to be
disposed of at the latter’s direction.
The postmaster general has not ac
cepted the money and it still remains
in the possession of Secretary Root.
The War department is holding it un
til an adjustment is made and a bal
ance struck between the Cuban gov
ernment and the late military govern
ment regarding financial affairs.
The officials have not yet determined
what action they will take after this
balance is struck.
HELPING NEEDY FILIPINOS.
Poverty Stricken, Hundreds of Thou
sands Are Being Fed.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 9.—
Major B. K. West, of the commissary
department, writing from Manila to
General Weston, chief commissary, has
the following to say concerning the
feeding of natives in the Philippines:
"I was in hopes that the closing up
of the campaign in Batangas and la
guna would end the feeding of the na
tives, but such is not the case, al
though the camps have been broken
up. The natives were left in a desti
tute condition, had been unable to
plant new crops, all the old crops had
been destroyed in the military opera
tions and bo the work has to go on.
"General Bell was in the city and I
asked him about the number of na
tives he was feeding. He told me that
in Batangas he was feeding approxi
mately 250,000 people. In Laguna he
could not give the exact number, but
I judge from the quantity that we sup
ply that there must be about half as
many.’’ ;
Joe's Boy Gets a Job.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Official an
nouncement was made today that Aus
ten Chamberlain, son of the colonial
secretary, has been appointed post
master general, vice the Marquis of
Londonderry, resigned.
Twenty Miles by Auto.
WORCESTER. Mass., Aug. 9.—Ths
twenty-mile motor paced race at the
Coliseum between Elkes and Freeman
resulted in a victory for the former,
who covered the distance in 31:27 3-5.
CUBA TO INCREASE DUTIES.
Senate Orders Executive to Raise Im
port Revenue.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8—The state
department Is advised by Minister
Squiers that the Cuban senate has au
thorized tlie executive to Increase im
ports duties to the following maxi
mum*:
Shoes and boots, from 10 to 17 per
cent; coal, 25 cents per thousand ki
los; pine lumber, 40 per cent; stear
ine beef in cans, fresh beef, fresh
mutton, salt beef, jerked beef, hams,
herring, coffee, cider, beer, 50 per
cent; hats, 60 per cent; butter, liq
uors, wine, 70 per cent; poultry, fresh
pork, salt pork bacon, lard, cheese,
condensed milk, wheat flour, codfish,
rice, alimentary preserves, eggs,
beans and peas, onions, potatoes,
'dive oil, 100 per cent; common soap,
150 per cent; corn, 333 per cent.
SOUP IS THEIR ONLY FOOD.
Condition of the Peasant Inhabitants
of Eastern Galicia.
VIENNA, Aug. 8.—After a special
Investigation of the labor trouble in
eastern Galica. the Neue Freie Presse
draws a gloomy picture of the miser
able conditions which led to the ex
isting strike.
The average mortality from famine
for several years past, according to
the Neue Freie Presse, aggregated
50,000.
Laborers’ wages range from 8 to 16
cents a day and women earn from 4
to 8 cents a day. The peasants rarely
taste bread and exist chiefly cn a soup,
the principal ingredients of which are
water and herbs.
MET DEATH IN A CYCLONE.
Sixteen Men Know to Have Been
Killed by Gas Explosion.
TRINIDAD, Colo., Aug. 8— Sixteen
men are known to be dead and some
others are reported missing as the re
sult of an explosion of gas in one of
me mines of the Union Coal & Coke
company at Bowen, six miles from
Trinidad, at 7 o'clock tonight. The
work of rescuing the bodies was begun
nt once, and four had been taken out
at 10 o’clock. No names are obtain
able at this times.
The mine employs about six,ty men.
They are all Americans and Irish.
Most of the dead are said to be mar
ried. Only meager details have been
received here.
Union Pacific Buys Abroad.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8—It is learned
from reliable sources today that the
Union Pacific has placed a big order
for steel rails with a firm in Germany.
Part of this order is for the Southern
Pacific, though delivery is to be made
to the Union Pacific at Omaha and
such other points westward as it may
later instruct. The order is for 1,000
tons. Premiums for early delivery
were quoted ranging from V* to 1 per
cent. A prominent man connected
with the steel industry said: “It is
not surprising to hear of the Union
Pacific's order. Domestic mills can
not deliver before the third quarter
next year. They are stacked up with
orders lor millions of dollars in steel.
Iron orders will have to go abroad
before long.”
Groesbeck Makes Reply.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8.—Col
onel Groesbeck of the judge advocate
general's department has written to
the adjutant general a reply to the re
quest for an explanation of an inter
view published on his arrival at San
Francisco in which he commented on
court-martials in the Philippines. Ad
jutant General Corbin, to whom the
reply was addressed, will return to
Washington in a few days.
He Won Women’s Hearts.
SIOUX CITY, Aug. 8.—E. S. Porter,
an alleged real estate man from Des
Moines, with many aliases, who is tin
der arrest here as a fugitive from
South Dakota, where he is said to have
swindled numerous women in the sale
of patterns, seems to be a winner of
the hearts of women as well. His
grip contains letters of a very loving
nature from women in Omaha, Ha
warden, Denison, Brainard, Minn., and
other places.
Today Mrs. Sarah Carr of York,
Neb., arrived to meet Porter and upon
learning of his arrest, confronted him
at the police station and severely re
proached him between sobs.
Becomes a Chicago Lawyer.
CHICAGO, III., Aug. 8.—President
Roosevelt will receive the honorary
degree of LL. D. from the University
of Chicago during his visit to Chicago.
HOLD UP A TRAIN
MASKED MEN ROB BURLINGTON
EXPRESS AT MARCUS, ILL.
ONE OF THE NUMBER IS KILLED
The Other Five Easily Escape After
Rifling the Contents of the Express
Car and Obtaining a Considerable
Sum of Money.
MOUNT CARROLL, 111., Aug. 7.—A
daring and successful train robbery oc
curred at Marcus, on the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railway, five miles
north of Savannah, about midnight.
The line vestibuled passenger train
of eleven coaches, Conductor Emerson
In charge, was flagged at. the little eta*
tion and six masked men boarded the
engine. The engineer and fireman
obeyed the imperative orders of the
robbers and at once uncoupled the en
gine an 1 express car from the train
and ran them u quarter of a mile up
the track.
They then blew tip the express car
with dynamite, ran the engine north a
distance of a mile from Hanover and,
the locomotive becoming dead, the rob
bers abandoned It and escaped.
One of the highwaymen was killed,
being 3hot above the eye and also in
the leg. He met Instant death while
on the engine and hiB body was dumped
to the ground by his companions as
they sped away. Express Messenger
Byl claims to have done the shooting.
The deed was done quickly, the
trainmen and passengers making no
defense. Six sacks of money were se
cured, but the amount is not known;
The passengers were not molested.
There was no way of telegraphing
news of the holdup, and a flagman
walked back and gave the alarm. A
special train of citizens and several
policemen at once proceeded to the
scene, but, as the track runs along
the Mississippi and the country le
well adapted to a successful flight, the
robbers easily escaped. The work was
evidently that of experts, as they went
at it coolly and methodically.
The train attacked is one of the fin
est in the world and usually carries
considerable money, which must have
been known by the robbers.
The dead highwayman was a
stranger in this vicinity. He was a
middle-aged man and well dressed.
In his pocket was found an Iowa
Central mileage credential from Grin
nel to Gilman, la., issued in the name
of A. Ij. Jacobs.
Four explosions were required to
complete the destruction of the safe
and the car was badly wrecked. Th6
robbers were six in number, all mask
ed. They evidently were railroad men,
one being a good engineer. Messenger
William Byl fired five shots at the rob
bers, but without avail, and an attempt
was made to blow him up in his car.
The bandits had arranged to ditch
the entire train had not the signal tc
stop been heeded. Several passengers
in the buffet car, including the porter,
were held prisoners during the strug
gle to crack the 6afe.
It is thought the dead robber was
killed by a comrade by mistake. The
body wa3 put on the tender and rim
by the others a short distance and
then thrown Into the weeds.
Official announcement was made by
the officials of both the Burlington
road and the Adams Express company
that a purse of $1,000 would be made
up by the two companies and given to
Express Messenger Byl for his bravery.
Daring Climber is Killed.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 7.—Daniel
Barry, a daring climber known as
"Steeple Jack,” fell ninety-eight feet
while working In the city hall tower,
painting Inside of the dome, and was
instantly killed. Barry placed the
electric lights around the brim of th6
statue of William Penn, which caps
the city hall tower. 640 feet above the
pavement, and occasionally would low
er himself over the edge and hang in
midair by his hands.
Condition of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—Today's
statement of the treasury balances in
the general fund, exclusive of the
$160,000,000 gold reserve in the divi
sion of redemption, shows: Available
cash balance, $203,479,337; gold, $101,•
317.111.
Stock Yards Stock at Boston.
BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 7.—Today’s
regular semi-weekly auction sale oi
securities brought out fifty shares ol
Union Stock Yards, Omaha, which
went at 101. This was one of the fea
tures of the day's sales.
TESTING CAPTIVE BALLOONS.
To Be Used ir Naval Demonstration
by Rear Admiral Higginson.
UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 6.—Major Ruber
and a detachment of the signal service
balloon corps under First Lieutenant
Cllffton and Sergeant Bloodsoe of Fort
Myer, Washington, are now stationed
at Frankfort in the interest of the gov
ernment In supervising the construc
tion of eleven captive hydrogen gas
balloons being made for use In the na
val demonstrations to be made by
Rear Admiral Higginson with the
squadron off the Atlantic coast late in
August.
The first balloon has been practic
ally completed and a successful tost
has been made by the government
officials. Controlled by a kerosene oil
motor windlass, the balloon is said
to have made flights of nearly a quar
ter of a mile in thirty to forty sec
onds and then was slowed, checked
and reversed and was brought to the
ground in three or four minutes, with
two to four passengers each time, none
of whom could immediately detect the
stop or reversed movement at the top,
although the wind was brisk and at
times quite severe.
PRESIDENT BEARDSHEAR DEAD.
Noted College Man of Iowa Passes
Away at Des Moines.
DBS MOINES, la., Aug. 6.—Dr. Wil
liam M. Beardshear, president of Iowa
State college at Ames, died early yes
terday morning as the result of nerv
ous prostration while attending the
meeting of the National Educational
association at Minneapolis a month
ago. Dr. Beardshear was president of
the association.
Dr. Beardshear was one of the fore
most educators in Iowa. Prior to as
suming the presidency of the State
Agricultural college ten years ago he
was superintendent of schools for
West Des Moines. Before that he hail
been president of Western college at
Tama, la. When he became head of
the state college it was less than half
its present size, its growth being due
in large part to his efforts.
CHINESE ARE NOT SINCERE.
A Hitch in Negotiations Over the Abo
lition of the Likin.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6.—The hitch in
the negotiations between Sir Janies
Mackay, the British tariff commis
sioner, and the Chinese commissioners
for the adoption of Sir James’ scheme
for Chinese tariff, which arose from
the fact that the Chinese objected to
the British regulation concerning in
land navigation, convinces every one
outside of the British commission of
the utter dishonesty of the Chinese in
their professions in favor of the abo
lition of the likin, or provincial tran
sit duty. The American commissioner
assured Lieun Kun Yi that the United
States would never consent to the
abolition of the likin. because the bulk
:>f American imports go to Manchu
ria and the northern provinces^where
there is no likin.
Prefer to Be Left Alone.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Thlechumi
Flxico, Goso Fixico Cliee, Ufoula Hor
igo and James L. Gray, representing
themselves as agents and delegates of
the Creek Indian tribe in Indian Ter
ritory, today brought suit to enjoin
Secretary Hitchcock and Commission
er of Indian Affairs Jones from pro
ceeding in execution of what is known
as the Creek agreement for allotments,
etc. They ask to be allowed to re
main in undisturbed enjoyment of
their landed interests and that such
property as already has been taken
from them under the agreement and
the ratifying act be restored to them
and an accounting made to them by
the government.
Aostolic Delegate at Manila.
ROME, Aug. 6.—Italia announces
that Mgr. Guardi, at present in the
ifflce of Cardinal Rarr.polla, the papal
secretary of state, has been appointed
apostolic delegate at Manila.
Saw a Glad Bright Light.
DENVER, Colo.. Aug. 6.—Mrs. Sar
ah Nessler of this city, who has been*
blind for seven years and whose case
was pronounced incurable by oculists,
claims to have recovered her eyesight
in a miraculous manner. She says
that while praying at a revival meet
ing of the Holiness sect, sometimes
called “Jumpers,” a white light broke
on her eyes and soon she was able to
distinguish objects. Her vision, she
declares, Is now nearly as good as it
waa before she became blind.