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AS THE WORLD!: | R.EVOLVES | CHINESE USE PLAYING CARDS Queer Name* Given by Celestials to Instruments of Gambling. If there Is one thing the Chinese In America cannot understand regard ing our customs It is why the police and courts should take cognizance of gambling. It Is a recognized amuse ment in China, and the Chinaman is a reckless gambler. They have several kinds of playing cards, but the general name for them is che-pae, or paper tickets. The cards are two inches and a half in length and half an inch wide, and the kind most commonly used are called tseen-wan-chepae, “a thousand times ten thousand cards.” This pack has thirty cards—three suits of nine each and three independent cards, which are superior to the rest. The suits are named respectively “nine myriads of strings of beads," “nine units of cakes” and “nine units of chains.” There are several queer names for other varieties of playing cards. One is called “the hundred boys’ cards,” another “chariots, horses and guns,” and a third, curiously devised on the principle of some of our historical games, is called “a thousand times ten thousand men's names cards.” CHOSEN TO CHRISTEN CRUISER Miss Elsie Macomber to Act as Spon sor for the Des Moines. Gov. Cummins of Iowa has selected Miss Elsie Macomber of Des Moines to art as sponsor for the cruiser Des Moines, which will be launched at Boston, Mass., Sept. 20. The event will be made a state occasion and the governor and staff and state offi cers, as well as the mayor and city ■ ■ ' / r Miss Elsie Macomber. officials of Des Moines, will partici pate. Miss Macomber is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Macomber. Mr. Macomber is a prominent attorney and for several years served as city solicitor. Mrs. Macomber has traveled extensively in foreign lands. She is well known as a lecturer, her subjects relating chiefly to her travels. Miss Kfpcomber is a pronounced brunette, with a shock of black hair, fine dark eyes, and a complexion that is the envy of her sex. She is one of the most popular girls in Des Moines. She spent last summer traveling in Italy, France, Switzerland, and Spain. Ex-Senator Turpie's Views. David Turple, formerly United States senator from Indiana, is pass ing his declining years in his com fortable Indianapolis home. Mr. Tur ple declines to be interviewed, saying he has absolutely retired from public life. "It seems to me,” he said re cently, "that newspapers give too much space to trivial matters. Twen ty-five years ago the reporters only sought interviews on subjects of mo ment. I don’t think they are so care ful nowadays.” IRISH APPROVE OF DUDLEY Successor to Earl of Cadogan Is Popu lar In Dublin. The appointment of the earl of Dudley to succeed the earl of Cadogan as lord lieutenant of Ireland, was re ceived with great enthusiasm at Dub lin. The social element of the city is well aware of the magnificence of the hospitality of the countess of Dud Earl of Dudley. ley, and this is in addition to her claims as a beauty. The earl of Dud ley is affirmed to have stated on a r*revlous oecaslcn, when the question af appointment was mooted, that he thought it the duty of the lord lieu tenant to stay in Dublin most of the time. One of the complaints which was constantly being made concerning Lord Cadogan was that he was sel dom at the vice regal lodge. Current News and Views - — MAY HANNA TO WED A LORD Senator's Former Daughter-In-Law Finds an English Spouse. May Harrington Hanna, former wife of Daniel R. Hanna and one of Cleve land’s cleverest society women, Is rumored to be about to become the bride of an English nobleman. She declines to affirm or deny the report. The prospective bridegroom is said to be one of the most manly men of May Harrington Hanna. [Former Wife of Daniel R. Hanna, W’ho Rumor says. Will Wed an English Nobleman.] England and a close friend of King Edward. Mrs. Hanna’s Cleveland friends say the wedding will take place this fall either in Cleveland or New York. Senator and Mrs. Hanna are said to favor their former daughter-in law’s selection. She has three chil dren. She was divorced from Dan Hanna several years ago. She recent ly returned from Europe. Mistaken Kindness to a Horse. The Humane Society agent at Al toona, Pa., has entered suit against Patrick Logue on a charge of cruelty to animals. The case is a peculiar one. Logue. about five years ago, purchased a good horse and devoted it to family use. One day during the winter he was sleighing with his family when a part of the harness broke, allowing the sleigh to slide down against the horse and partly down over an embankment. The horse made no effort to get away and Logue vowed that the horse should not do another day’s work for its action; for had it started the family would have been thrown into a ravine and badly injured, if not killed. This was four years ago and the horse has not been out of the stable since. Logue feeds it and cares for it, but has steadfastly refused to take it out, hence the prosecution. LOSS TO TEMPERANCE CAUSE Samuel F. Pearson, "Parson Sheriff" of Portland, Me., Is Dead. Samuel F. Pearson, the late "parson sherifT” of Portland, Me., would have been tendered, had he lived, the presi I Samuel F. Pearson. aennai nomination ior iau4 ny tne national Prohibition party. Mr. Pear son was known throughout the length and breadth of New England for his devotion to the cause of prohibition and for hi9 deeply religious character. For twenty-four years he conducted at Portland one of the largest mis sions in the country, and as a lecturer on temperance he was regarded as a second John B. Gough. In his tours of Europe and America he converted a total of probably 500,000 persons from drunkenness to sobriety. His record at home as a sheriff was re markable. Within three months the town was cleared of saloons and “dives." Mr. Pearson was born in Boston in 1841. Purchased Whole Library. Andrew Carnegie is not the first millionaire to buy a historian’s library. The 7,000 volumes of chronicles and travels from which Gibbon distilled the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" were purchased by Rockford after the writer’s death. “I bought it,” said the author of "Vathek,” "to have something to read when I passed through Lausanne.” There were few rarities in the collection, but most of the authors were in the best obtain able editions and in perfect condi tion; the fastidious Gibbon was in capable of behaving disrespectfully to a book. For six weeks Beckford rev eled In his purchase and read him self nearly blind. He soon tired of his books, however, and presented the whole collection to a German physi cian named Schell. The recipient show ed his appreciation of the treas ure by promptly selling it. m WEEKLY PANORAMA CLAIMS THE MACKAY MILLIONS Mr*. Fender of Springfield, Mo., Make* Startling Charge*. Mrs. Albert C. Fender of Spring field, Mo., claims she is legally en titled to John W. Maekay’s millions. Mrs. Fender is the niece of the late "bonanza king." She says she will begin suit for Mackay's vast fortune, and will base her claim upon a charge that Clarence Mackay is not a legiti mate son. Mrs. Fender is the daugh ter of Peter Mackay, who lives near Monett, Mo., and who is the only liv ing brother of the wealthy Californian. She was born in England, and came to this country when she was a child. Her mother died when she was 2 years of age, and, as her father is of a secretive and distant disposition, she learned very little of her uncle whose estate she now claims. To a correspondent she said: "As my father refuses to take up the matter and will make no attempt to obtain the fortune which I think is rightfully ours, I have decided to take the matter in my own hands. My father and his brother became es tranged when they were young men, and gradually drifted apart. I always thought there was some trouble be tween them, for my father would never speak of him when he could avoid it, and now he will not con sider making an attempt to gain his millions. Just where this Clarence Mackay came from I do not know. I think that I have something in sight which will bring out startling facts. I firmly believe vhat I have as much right to the money of my uncle as any one now living, and 1 think that Mrs. A. C. Fender. I will make my claim stand in the courts. So far as I know, John W. Mackay left no will, and if there is none found it will make my case stronger, as the distribution of the money will oe left to the courts. We have taken no important steps in the matter so far. We are moving very quietly, but when we take a step it will be a decisive one." Big Millionaires Are Worried. President Haffen of the borough of Bronx, in New York, intends to have all of that section of Westchester county known as Throggs Neck divi ded into city lots. Many New York millionaires have estates in this lo cality, and it is probable that a strenu ous protest will be made when the plan is known. Mrs. C. P. Huntington, Mrs. Eliza M. Von B. di Zerega, Jacob Lorillard and J. C. and F. C. Have meyer are among those who have mansions in that vicinity and who prefer the present exclusiveness of the place to a coming boom. WANT WRIGHT TO ANSWER. English Company Promoter Faces Angry Shareholders. Petitions are being circulated in London asking that Whitaker Wright, who promoted companies with a total capitalization of $111,775,000, be brought to answer charges. It is now estimated the English public lost $100,000,000 in his companies, number ing forty-one, of which nearly all have failed or gone into liquidation. The receiver has action to recover $750, 000 from Wright and one of his asso Whitaker Wright. uaies. yyucii ai me neigni or ms prosperity Wright made plans for a mansion, the most superb in England, but the crash came before the build ing was finished. Even now the struc ture is magnificent in its stylo and equipment. Sultan’s Gift to the Czar. The sultan of Turkey is anxious to win the good graces of the czar of Russia. He has recently given the Muscovite ruler a present of two large porcelain vases and a tea service made in his own factory. One of the vases, intended for the empress, is covered with oriental ornaments, the other with scenes from oriental street iifq and pictures of Turkish palaces KILLED IN WYOMING. Fremont Man Supposed Victim of Stockmen’s Feud. FREMONT, Neb., Aug. 18.—News of the killing of Charles Osterman, a young man aged about thirty years, who was born in Fremont and lived here until he grew up, near Rock Springs, Wyo., was received in this city. It came by way of Nickerson, where relatives of Mr. Osterman's wife live. t The information was embodied in a telegram and did not give details of the manner in which he came to his death, but it is conjectured that he was shot in some of the trouble that has been in progress between the cat tlemen and sheepmen of Wyoming. Osterman was the owner of a sheep ranch and had been in the business of raising those animals for some years. His father, Charles Osterman, sr., lives at Central City, Neb. He was formerly a member of a Fremont partnership in the commission busi ness. Only three months ago the young man married Miss Bessie Ha vens, a niece of Platte and M. Havens of this city, at Nickerson, and the cou ple went west to live on the groom's ranch. BAYARD CATTLEMAN SHOOTS. Wounds Clyde Ingram, Who Attempts to Regain Stock. BAYARI), Neb., Aug. 18.—As the re sult of a controversy over some stock, Clyde Ingram Is seriously wounded and a disastrous feud Is threatened. Ingram, who belongs to the famous family of Maud Ingram, the “western cattle queen,” tried to demolish a cor ral of a neighbor and free some stock which had been caught for trespass. The neighbor protected his property and an altercation followed In which Ingram attempted to shoot the other, who then emptied a charge of shot into Ingram's neck. Drowned in the Nemaha. STERLING, Neb., Aug. 18.—Hattie, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Ind Webber, a farmer living two miles west of town, was drowned in the Ne maha river. Her brother was repair ing a fence near by and 'the girl was fishing in the stream. She was in the water only a short time, but life was extinct by the time medical aid had been summoned. The young lady had been having fainting attacks recently and it is thought one of these had cume on and she fell in the water. Gladson Gets Feathery Coat. SEWARD, Neb., Aug. 18.—A man by the name of Gladson came from Au rora to visit his 12-year-old son, who is in jail here charged with stealing a team. Gladson proceeded to gc*t on a drunk of Sew'ard liquor and while walking down the street insulted a wo man. It is reported that a party of men caught him and taking him to the river administered a coat of tar and feathers and then turned him loose. Militia Waits for Orders. LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 18.—Gover nor Savage as the commander-in-chief and Adjutant General Colby are await ing further information from the war department before they issue forma' orders for the mobilization of the Ne braska National guard at Fort Riley, Kan. It is -a settled fact that the two regiments will be ordered into camp, but the exact time has not been de termined. Frontier County Fair. STOCKVILLE, Neb., Aug. 1.—Sec retary Cheney of the Frontier county agricultural society is making exten sive arrangements for a good fair to be held here September 23 to 26. The speed program, which has just been issued, shows upward of $500 In purses for that department alone. Child is Scalded to Death. ST. PAUL, Neb., Aug. 18—The ten months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Shultz, who live near Palmer, died from the effects of an accidental scalding. Wheat Crop in Buffalo County. RAVENNA, Neb., Aug. 18.—The crop of winter wheat seems to be a surprise to all farmers here, as they have been raising wheat here but a very little. Last fall all was winter wheat, and now, since threshing has oegun, it is going all the way from twenty-five bushels per acre to forty md fifty-five. Of course the latter is but a chance field, but a very com mon yield is thirty-five. Corn is looking fine. Grand Army Reunion. CAMBRIDGE, Neb., Aug. 18.—Great preparations are being made to make the southwestern district Grand Army of the Republic reunion to be held at this place August 25 to 30 a grand success. Attractions and speakers of note will be present. Concessions are being sold at a lively rate already. The reunion will be held In the beau tiful Lavonia park, which' is noted as one of the finest parks in southwest ern Nebraska. G. A. R. AFFAIRS. Department Commander C. F. Steele Issues an Order. A general order signed by Com mander C. F. Steele and Adjutant General Mart Howe, addressed to G. A. R. posts in Nebraska, contains of ficial notice of the death of Comrade Paul Vandervoort. past national and department commander. The order contains the following information concerning the department encamp ment, which is to be held at Hast ings: The state reunion will be held at Hastings, Neb., commencing Septem ber 8 and continuing for six days. The reunion committee and local com mittee of Hastings are doing every thing possible to make this, the sec ond year, a grand success. The de partment commander urges all com rades who possibly can to attend this gathering of old soldiers and their friends. We anticipate a good time. Good speakers and camp fire "talkers' have been secured. Jesse Cole, “the hummer,” chaplain of the soldiers’ home of Iowa, will be with us, as well as Comrade Hutchins of Des Moines, and Department Commander Lindt of Iowa. We expect John W. January, the Illinois soldier, who am putated both his feet with a saw knife in Andersonville prison, to be with us and give us his celebrated lecture on said prison. All persons wanting tents or con cessions must address T. J. Creeth, secretary and quartermaster, Hast ings, Neb. September 10 will be "governors’ day,” when Governor Sav age and the candidates for governor will be present. The 11th will be "congressional day.” when all the congressmen and candidates will be present and deliver addresses. Com radese “fall in.” This will be the last opportunity of many of us to grasp the hands of our comrades this side the “grand camping grounds” over yonder. It will do you good; you will feel younger and be better prepared to follow your vocations after spend ing a few days with vour comrades. All Spanish-American war soldiers in this state are invited to camp with us. and sons and daughters of veter ans. Tents, headquarters and accom modations that are necessary will be furnished. One fare for the round trip will prevail over all lines entering Hast ings; on sale September 7-11, inclu sive, from points in Nebraska where the local one-way rate is $3 or less, and from all other points September 8, 9 and 10, good for return leaving Hastings September 15, 1902. Deceived Woman Anxious to Return. YORK. Neb., Aug. 15—Mrs. Sarah Tlppin, alias Sarah Carr, who has gain ed some notoriety in going to Sioux City, la., to meet and marry a man and was saved the trouble of fulfill ing the contract by the man being arrested before he reached the hotel where Mrs. Tippin was stopping, was cook at the Mothers’ Jewels home, and left there a few days ago to visit friends at St. Joseph. Mo. A mes sage has been received asking for her place back again, but it has been taken by another. Body Ground to Pieces. M’COOK, Neb., Aug. 16.—Max An ton, foreman of the paint gang of the McCook Burlington shops of this city, fell under the wheels of the second section of train No. 3 about a mile east of Edison, and was instantly kill ed, being horribly cut up and man gled. The remains were not discov ered until next morning. He was homeward bound from visiting a daughter at Des Moines. Nebraskan Dies in New Mexico. SEWARD. Neb., Aug. 16.—Clarence Cameron, who has been agent and op erator for the Elkhom at Bee for sev eral years, died at Las Vegas, N. M. His malady was consumption. He was a member of the M. W. A. order, in which he carried $3,000 insurance in favor of his wife and $900 with the Ben-Hurs for his mother. He was one of the most popular agents on the road. lA Mad Dog Killed at Fremont. FREMONT. Neb., Aug. 16.—A dog which possessed unmistakable symp toms of having the hydrophobia was shot in this city. It is not known that the animal had bitten any one. Young Lady Adjudged Insane. WAHOO, Neb., Aug. 16.—The exam ining board has adjudged Frances Po korney. a young lady twenty-one years of age, insane. She will be taken to the asylum at Lincoln. Youthful Desperadoes Held. SEWARD, Neb.. Aug. 16.—Sheriff Smiley returned from Oak, Neb., with Nicholas Mattingly and Edward (Hud son, the two boys who stole a team and buggy from the square In this .place. The boys traded the buggy for a spring wagon and then proceeded to load up with anything they could find at Oak and undertook to raid the whole town. Mattingly is 17 years old and Oladson 12 aud both allege to live at Aurora. THE LIVE 8T0CK MARKET. ^ Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City. SOl’TH OMAHA. CATTLE—There was not an excasslvn supply of cattle, so that the prices paid were fully as good as those in force yes terday. ami trading on the better grades was fairly active. The bulk of the offer ings consisted of western rangers and. the quality could not be called betteir thun fair. There were a few loads of cornfed steers on sale and they sold at Just about steady prices. Some of them were of pretty good quality and one bunch sold us high ns $7.85. They were out of the some feed lot as the $8.15 whleh were sold last Tuesday, but these cattle were lighter weight and not quite! so good. The cow market took on con siderable life and the better grades of both com cattle and grassers sold freely at steady to strong prices. There was an active demand for Stockers and feeders of good quality and flesh and such kinds sold a little stronger today than they dldi yesterday. There was a good demand) from the country, as is shown by the fact that close to seventy-five cars went shipped out. Dehorned cattle continue to sell 20(540c higher than the same quality of orned cattle. Western beef steers that lout any flesh and quality sold at just about steady prices without much difficulty. The commoner stuff, though, was more or less neglected and a little weak, if anything. Good range cows were a little stronger and In active demand, but medium grades were only steady. HOGS—There was not a heavy supply of hogs In sight at any point, but pack ers continued to pound the market. At this point trading started out fairly ac tive on the best grades at a decline of about 5@10c. After the good hogs were disposed of the general market was fully a dime lower. It was a rather uneven market all the way through, being flrst strong and then weak, but as a general thing the best hogs sold 5@10c lower and the others a good dime lower. The bulk of all the sales went from $8.70 to $6.75, and as high as $6.90 was paid. SHEEP—Quotations for clipped stock: Good to choice yearlings, $3.75@4.10; fair to good, $3.3853.75; good to choice weth ers, $3.4(853.75; fair to good wethers, $3.13 @3.40; choice ewes, $3.20(53.50; fair to good ewes, $2.9oii3.20; good to choice spring lambs, $,-..0055.25; .air to good spring lambs, $4 73@5.00; feeder wethers, $2.75@> 3.25; -eeder yearlings, $3.O0tf*3.40; feeder lambs, $3.5(854.10; feeder ewes, $1.2352.25. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Market steady to lower; na tive steers, $4.50#8.25; Texas and Indian 'steers, $3.25®4.00; Texas cows, $1.75®4.50; native cows and heifers, $1.50®4.75; Stock ers and feeders, $2.85®5.75; bulls, $2.25# 4.50; calves, $.4,75®5.50. HOGS—Market steady to 10c lower; bulk of sales, $6.70#6.85; heavy. $6.85# 6.95; packers. $6.60*r6.80; medium, $6.70# 6.90; light, $6.5o®6.65; Yorkers, $6.60#6.70; pigs, $6.to® 6.65. SHEEP—Market steady; muttons, $.4.40 #4.25; lambs, $4.70#5.80; range wethers, $3.70®4.00; ewes. $3.25*14.15. KING EXPRESSES GRATITUDE. Edward Replies to the Congratula tions of Portsmouth. COWES. Aug. 16.—King Edward’s reply to an address from the city of Portsmouth yesterday was handed to the mayor of Portsmouth today. ^ v On behalf of himself and Queen Alexandra his majesty thanks the •city for its congratulations on his (coronation, the recovery of his health and the conclusion of peace, and adds: "We are unfeignedly thankful for the mercies which It has pleased Al mighty God to vouchsafe to us and to our people and we trust now that we are happily at peace with all the world, that the recent rejoicings wherein the whole empire shared, may send us forward, each in his own station, to work with renewed earnestness for the maintenance and improvement of our noble heritage and the accomplishment of the ends that become a great people. “For myself I shall ever he stimu lated in my exertions for the welfare of the empire by the recollection of a tribute of loyalty and offection which has touched me deeply.” MRS. OELRICHS PROSTRATED. Society Leader Greatly Affected by News of Death of Her Brother. NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—A Newport telegram says that Mrs. Herman Oel richs, elder sister of Charles L. Fair? > was out driving when news reached her that her brother and bis wife had been killed in an automobile ac cident in France. j On her return to Rose Cliff, ht*r summer home Mrs. Oelrichs found a* cable message from Paris, announc ing the death of her brother and his wife. This she answered, giving in structions to have the bodies em balmed and sent to New York at once. Later in the afternoon Mrs. Oelrichs received a cable dispatch from William K. Vanderbilt, who places himself at her disposal and who in all probability will attend to the duty of sending the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Fair to this country. Danger is Now Over. BANGKOK, Aug. 16.—Great anxiety prevails here because no telegrams have been received from Europeans in the north since nine days ago, when the Shans attacked Lakon and were repulsed. The telegraph line is open. Reports are reassuring. Later French troops, after a record journey occu Pled Phrae and it is reported the Shans were defeated with a loss of 200. The ◄ t.anger is believed to be over with Eu ropeans unmolested.