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! NEBRASKA IN GENERAL ! i t WANTED TO OWN THE FARM. Why Borchers Boys Murdered Their Stepfather in Cold Blood. COLUMBUS—Excitement over the disappearance of Gerrard Borchers from his home near Humphrey was greatly increased by the report that the skeleton of a man supposed to be Mr. Borchers was found in the re mains of a straw stack on his farm, burned since he left home. All the flesh, except a part of one foot, was burned from the bones and one of the bones of the leg was broken. Later—Herman and August Boreh ers, two of the three boys who were brought to Columbu3 by Sheriff Byrnes to answer to the charge of murdering their stepfather, Girhard Borchers. and cremating his remains in a strawstack at their home near Humphrey, are in jail pending pre liminary hearing. John, the youngest boy, was permitted to accompany his uncle, George Borchers, to the latter's home near Humphrey, the officers considering him innocent of real com plicity. It is now said that the hoped-for ac quisition of the farm prompted Her man, the 14-year-old boy. to plan the crime, and that they believed them selves proprietors of the place is evi denced by the fact that two days af ter the tragedy and before the dis covery of the cremated remains, the boys drove to Humphrey and ordered a windmill to be put up on the farm, remarking that as their father had disappeared, they thought they would hx the place up. It lias come to light that the two older boys, commonly known as step sons of the deceased, were in reality the illegitimate offspring of the de ceased mother by a German before her removal from the old country. It is also said that the father of the boys was an unprincipled scoundrel and it is thought that the depravity manifested by the boys was inherited from the father. Confession of the crime is this: (That about 9 o'clock Friday morning the father was sitting in the kitchen eading a newspaper, when Herman slipped in and placing the gun within two feet of his father’s head fired with deadly effect. After having done the shooting he proceeded to the barn, harnessed a team, hitched to a plow, and plowed a fire line around an old straw stack which stood about twen ty rods from the house. Then he went back to the house, fastened a rope around his father and dragged him out into the straw stack. Then Herman hitched to the plow and plowed up to the house, covering the stains of blood. The boy then hitch ed the team to the wagon and got a load of fresh straw and piled it on the body and cremated it w'th the ex ception of one foot, which was the only portion of the body left. IT LOOKS MUCH LIKE FRAUD. Land Entries in Nebraska May Be Cancelled. Washington dispatch: The interior department has suspended, with a view of cancellation, a large number of alleged fraudulent land entries in Nebraska made by soldiers’ widows, who, it is charged, have entered into an agreement for the transfer of the lands to cattlemen. W. N. Lesser of Iowa, a special agent, whose head quarters have been for several years at North Platte, Neb., has been sus pended in connection with these pro ceedings. ine action roiiows an Investigation that has been quietlv conducted in Nebraska by Colonel John S. Mosby, the former guerrilla leader, who is now a special agent of the general land office. The exact extent of these operations is not disclosed, but so far as known there are about forty iflve or fifty of them, each entry being for 16b acres. The government re cently has been enforcing its regula tions for the removal of fences erected )sy cattlemen on public lands, and an effort to validate as far as possible jtbe land now occupied by cattlemen, lender the law soldiers' widows have la right to make entries of public lands •without any residence requirements, but they are required to make im provements and cultivate the lands. It is understood that the women who made the entries are mostly Chi cago people, who were influenced to take these steps by the agents of cattlemen, with the agreement to transfer the land to the latter by leases with the right to purchase it. Walnut Stumps Become Valuable. Walnut stumps have assumed an anlooked-for value in Tennessee, where an Indiana firm has been buying all that it can lay hands upon. The stump of a tree felled several years ago consequently brought more than its trunk and branches formerly did. The uglier and knottier the stump the better the price. It is said that the stumps are used in making veneer ing material used in the manufacture of high-grade furniture. BRIEF NEWS NOTES. Burglars got into L. C. Weber & Son’s drug store at Arlington. The Isafe was blown all to pieces and about $60 in money and $4 in jewelry taken. The Beatrice canning factory has put up 15,000 bushels of apples this year and recently sent five cars of canned corn to New York in one ship ment. The $10,003 libel suit brought by Mrs. Martha Daniels against Ham mond Bros., publishers of the Fre mont Tribune, has been dismissed by the plaintiff and the cost paid by her. One day last week an elderly wid ower named Thomas, who has been residing on his farm ten miles south east of Fremont, was found dead in bed. His demise is attributed to heart disease. The Catholics of Battle Creek and vicinity are making great preparations for the dedication of their fine new brick church at Battle Creek. The building is 37x76, with all modern conveniences. L. W. Holland of Osceola was found one mile west of Ogalalla by section men with both legs cut off below the knee. He was enroute to San Fran cisco with a car of chickens and fell beneath the cars. James Babbit, a young man who has been in the employ of the T.'nion Pacific railway at North Platte for some years, became despondent and attempeted to end his life with a dose of carbolic acid. Medical assistance saved him. The' “woman in black” has made her appearance on the back streets of Falls City again, always appearing after dark. “It” molests no one but woman and girls, by following them. Women are afraid to venture out after dark alone. The following are the farm ana city mortgages filed and satisfied in Saun ders county for the month of October: Farm mortgages filed, 9; amount, $8, 090; satisfied, 22; amount $22,208.41; city mortgages filed, 10, amount, $3, 909.99; satisfied, 20, amount, $11,723.94. Charles Margeleth, an old settler of western Nebraska, killed himself at a school house ten miles north of North Platte. He went from his farm to the school house, pulled off his boots and shot himself through the heart with a revolver. He had been acting queerly of late. While Ovid Lemise and a Mr. Dyer of Polk county were stacking straw for a neighbor, who was threshing, the machine was stopped from some cause and the two men commenced scuffling in play. Both fell to the ground, a distance of only five or six feet. Dyer was not hurt in the least, while. Le mise sustained injuries to his spinal column which resulted in his death. The Fremont Commercial club has adopted a resolution expressing its sense that the action of the I'nion Pacific Railroad company in causing a grain elevator to be erected on its line at Mercer Siding, a new station just east of that place, is an encroach ment on the city’s legitimate territory. The Cnion Pacific officials will be not ified of the sentiment of the club. Two suspicious appearing men ar rived in Stanton and were taken into custody by Sheriff King after they had disposed of a $12 suit pattern for $3. Later it was learned that a store at Norfolk had been broken into and robbed the previous night. The men proved to be the one3 wanted ami Madison county officers took charge of the prisoners. Llasped in each other’s arms, lyinj? on the floor of the pastor’s study in the German Baptist church in Omaha the other day Oscar Bcrndes. janitor of the church, discovered the d<ad bod ies of Rev. W. C. Rabe, pastor, and Augusta Busch, a missionary. An open gas jet attached to a small stove, and a room full of gas, told the cause of death. The asphyxiation is sup posed to have been accidental. A mail sack which was lost off pas senger train No. 6 about August 12, a few miles west of Exeter, was found by a farmer in a small pond. Diligent search was made for the sack at the time of its loss and it was thought to have been destroyed by someone. The sack contained a number of let ters. The strap on the sack was cut, but the mail matter had not been mo lested, which was in bad condition and thoroughly soaked. Seth P. Mobley, chief of the consular and statistical department for the I'nited States in Manila, formerly edi tor of the Independent of Grand Is land, Neb., was in Omaha the o h,*r day making preparations for return to lii3 official post in the Philippines. Hr. Mobley is greatly pleased with his personal affairs and conditions in genera] in Manila and asserts that American influence has wrought a wonderful change and will produce a still greater change for the better In Manila. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET, and Kansas City SOl'TlI OMAHA. CATTLE—There were not enough corn fed steers to tell much about the market, but for the week the tendency of prices has hern downward. The market, though, has been very uneven nil week, nnd owlnp to the hip break at Chleapo tlurinp the last two weeks buyers have been very bearish. The cow market did not show much change herp. Buyers went around and bought up nractlcnlly everything In the yards nt steady prices. The market has been In very satisfactory condition all the week. There were only ft few stockcrs and feeders In sight yes terday. so that prices on anything good held just about steady. As compared with the close of last week the desirable grades are fully steady, while the com mon stuff, if anything, is a little easier. The cattle weighing from 6*1 to 1.699 pounds are now In the best demand. There has been a pood demand all the week for western liecf steers, and the market mnv Vie quoted firm. The quality of the offerings, though, has been de cidedly on the common order. Western feeders are also firm, if good, hut weak •f common. Range cows are strong to 19*» 13c higher whore the quality Is de> sira hie HOGS—There was a liberal supplv of hoes, and as all other points were quoted fully lower the market declined ahout a like amount. The local demand, though, was in pood shapp, so that the market was quite active, nnd nractlealiv every thing offered was disposed of in good sea son. There was very little change in the market from start to finish and the trains arrived In better season than us ual. The hulk of the sales went from $6.32V" to $6.5744. with the long string nt $633. Choice light and butcher weight hogs sold from $6.69 to $6.65. while the common and heavy packing grades sold from $6 32b. down SHEEP—Quotations: Good to cho’ce yearlings. $3.75(54.00: fair to good. $3 954? 3.65: good to choice wethers. $3,504:3.(15: fair to good wethers. $3,194:3 35: cho'c® ewes, $2.754V.3.25: fair to good ewes. $2,254? 2.65: pood to choice lambs. $4.754:5.90: fair to good lambs. $4,904:4.65: choice native lambs. $5,004:5.50: feeders wethers, $2.7547 3.90: feeder yearlings. $2 304:3.25: feeder lambs. $3,904)4 Ob’ cull lambs, $1.50412.50: feeder ewes. $1,234:2.90: cull ewes, 75eS7 $1.23; stock ewes. $2 504:3.23. KANSAS CITY CATTLE—Stockers and feeders dull and weak: rows stead; ■"inrantlne slow and barely steadv: eboloe export and dressed beef steers. $6 5607.25: fair to pood. *2 S' 0*5.46: stockers and feeders, $2.5004.40' western fed steers. $3.7005.60; Hexas and Indian steers. $2 7704 25: Texas cows. *2 75 03.00: native cows. I1.7504.5O- native holf pts. $2.50414.00: canners *1.0202.25: bulls. $1.2504.25: calves. $2.250 0.00. HOGS—Market otaened 2*-05c bipber. clos'np steadv. with vesterday's ad'-ance lest; top. $6 05: bulk of sales. $■! 52V-00 00: heavy. *0.5506 05: mixed packers. *".150 0.05; lip.be. $6.450 0.53: yorkers, $6.5006.55; pips. *5 $306.32% surer AND LAMRS—Market steadv: lambs weak and lower: native lambs, $3 00 05.25: western lambs. $30005 70' fed ewes, $3.10173.75: native wethers, $3.0504 10: west ern wethers. $3.0001.00: stovkors and feed ers. $1.0503.25. NIEGENFIND TO BE HANGED. Judge Overrules Motion of Attorney for New Trial. PIERCE, Neb.—In the district court here Judge Boyd heard the arguments for a new trial in the murder case of Gotlieb Niegenfind, the murderer of Albert Breyer and Anna Peters. The argument was presented by George T. Kelly, attorney for Niegen find. After hearing the argument Judge Boyd refused to grant a new trial. He then sentenced Niegenfind to hang by the neck until he is dead, on March 13. 1903. CHURCH EXTENSION FUNDS. Methodist Committee Continues the Work of Distribution. PHILADELPHIA — The general committee of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal church, in ses sion here, continued the apportion ment of the church building fund among the 126 conferences. Some of the apportionments made were: Colorado, $4,000: Arizona, mission, $r>00; Arkansas, $550; Austin, $750; Black Hills, $500; Blue Ridge, $675; California. $4,000; California, Ger man, $375; Central German, $7,800; Central Illinois, $2,000; Central Mis souri, $700; Central Swedish, $800; Columbia river. $4,000; Dakotas, $2, bOO; Des Moines, $3,000; East Ger man, $4,000. The Colorado Legislature. DENVER—The Incoming legisla ture, according to the. latest returns, will be sonstituted as follows: Sen ate—Democrats, 24; republicans, 11. House—Democrats, 29; republicans, 2G. Total on joint ballot—Democrats, 53; republicans, 47. Should the re publican majority in the house un teat th* fifteen democrats elected in the Arapahoe district, as proposed, the legislature on joint ballot will he: Republicans, G2; democrats, 38. 28. Indicted on Two Counts. SIOUX CITY, la—Rev. C. FI. Mc Kay, a Methodist minister at Maple ten, la., who has been In jail for two weeks at Onawa, charged with as sault upon Ida Kraft, 14 years of age. and secduction of her sister, Clara Kraft, aged 1G years, was on Friday indicted in both cases by the Melons county grand jury. He waived pre liminary hearing and in default of 31,000 bail was returned to jail until his trial. Si IS WEEKLY ! gj PANORAMA | OUR MINISTER TO HAYTI. Hon. W. F. Powell Has Shown Both Tact and Cleverness. Our minister to the republic of Hay ti, Hon. W. F. Powell, has had an in teresting and diversified experience in political life. One of the most exciting incidents of his diplomatic career occurred three or four years ago. when the al leged German citizen, Emil Lueders, was subjected to indign ties by the lo cal authorities of Port au Prince. The German minister got very much wrought up at the time, and was threatening the government of Hayti with all sorts of punishments, but while he was talking about warships and dynamite, Minister Powell was quietly and courteously interceding with the government for the release of Lueders, as an art of courtesy toward the United States. As a result of his intercession Lue ders was freed and the threatened rupture with Germany averted. At the same time the incident established a precedent virtually asserting the protective policy of the United States over small American states. This is only one of many services * ' that our tactful representative to Hay ti has rendered to his own and other countries. ATTRACTED TOO MANY VISITORS. Shadow Portraits of McKinley and Roosevelt Painted Out. So much annoyance has been caused by the crowds that have visited the capitol to view the shadow portraits of McKinley and Roosevelt, that the pictures have been painted cut. Samuel Allison, the artist who decorated the famous brick columns in the pension office, and who outlined the two portraits of the presidents in Statuary Hall by means of cracks and veins in the imitation marble, serious ly objected to their removal, but the capitol authorities thought the draw ing power of the pictures as mere curiosities was too great. There have teen more visitors at the capitol dur ing the past week than during any similar period since congress ad journed, and the presence of the crowds who came to see the shadow pictures greatly inconvenienced the workmen who are engaged in remodel ing the interior of the building. The authorities assign as an additional reason for their removal of the por traits that they are undignified, their value as works of art being over-bal anced by their attractiveness as ca llosities. — Washington correspon dence in Cleveland Plain-Dealer. OVERSTUDY CAUSES A SUICIDE Chicago Schoolgirl Gives Up Unequal Struggle V/ith III Health. A long search for Miss Peterson, a Chicago schoolgirl, came to an end V U-*7 r 1 when her body was found In the Lin coln park lagoon. Her friends are confident that she committed suicide while her mind was deranged from overstudy in Northwest division high school, from which she disappeared after leaving letters indicating that she intended to kill herself. Her health had for some time been fail ing, and on this account she was un able to keep pace with her compan ions in her studies. Oldest Anglican Bishop. Bishop Clark of Rhode Island en joys the distinction Of being the oldest Anglican bishop In the world. He be longs to a family distinguished in the religious annals of America. One of his brothers, Rev. Dr. Rufus Clark, was for many years pastor of the First Reformed church at Albany, N. Y. Bishop Clark himself began his ministerial service as a Presbyterian, hut only remained in that denomina tion one year. He was made bishop of Rhodfc Island In 1654. M BEFORE SHE If; | PYB1IC EYE | Ll---1_ HE BELIEVES IN ADVERTISING Col. Pope Ascribes Blame for Falling Off in Bicycling. One man who believes that busi ness success is dependent upon adver tising is Col. A. A. Pope, prominent among the officials of the American Bicycle company. "The cessation of advertising killed the bicycle busi ness, and the way to revive it is to resume that same important matter,” says Col. Pope. In one year the latter expended $500,000 in this sort of pub licity. In 1877 Col. Pope organized the Pope Manufacturing company, which started a year later with an output of fifty wheels. Now the com pany employs a capital of upward of $20,000,000, covers ten acres of floor age in its factory at Hartford, Conn., and besides an army of skilled me chanics engages the services of 2,000 selling agents. Col. Pope gained his title in the war of the rebellion, en tering the service as a private at the age of 18 years and receiving his dis charge with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served under Burnside, Grant and Sherman. FORCED TO LEAVE WELLESLEY Daughter of Booker Washington Goes to Lesser Institution. Booker T. Washington’s daughter, who recently was reported to be do ing well at Wellesley college, has now, it transpires, been forced to leave tho institution and go to Bradford acad emy. It is said she failed in music. While Miss Washington was taken up and made much of by the Northern girls at the college, her reception by girls from the South was, it is de clared, of a nature to give the faculty some embarrassment. From Stage to Pulpit. Bishop Potter officiated at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, New York city, at the ordination to the priesthood of Rev. Walter E. Bentley. Until ten years ago Dr. Bentley was an actor, having played in most of the Shakespearean roles, and at the pres ent time is a diligent student of the great English writer. Mr. Bentley was ; flaying in Boston when he happened to drop in to hear Phillips Brooks preach, and was so impressed that be felt called to enter the ministry. O’REILLY TO SUCCEED FORWARD Will Be Surgeon-General of the Unit ed States Army. Col. Robert M. O’Reilly, it is an nounced at the war department at Washington, is to succeed Gen. W. H. Forward as surgeon general of the ‘ »1 11 ’ * V |y| United States army. Col. O’lteilly won his rank and much distinction in the civil war. He will have many years to serve before his enforced re tirement on account of the age limit s 3 ; 3 3 SiTTTTMT^WTTTTfTTTTTTnTTnTTTyfTTTfTTTTT EARTH A GOOD TRANSMITTER* Convey* Sound* of Bombardment Over a Hundred Mile*. A curious instance of the transmis sion of sound through the earth was noticed by two French engineers at Kef. On July 22 they happened to be in an excavation in a volcano In the Dyr Mountains which has been extinct from time immemorial. The altitude of the excavation was about 3,400 feet above the sea level. Suddenly they heard the sounds of heavy rannonadlng, the reports fol lowing at regular intervals. Returning to Kef a day or two later, they read in the papers that in the course of some naval maneuvers the French fleet on the day and at the hour at which they had heard the reports had been engaged in bombarding Dizerta. The sound, therefore, must have been transmitted through the earth from liizerta to Dyr, a distanco of some what over a hundred miles. HONORED BY IOWA KNIGHTS O. M. Gillette Chosen Grand Chancel lor by Pythian Lodge. O. M. Gillette, who has been chosen as grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the state of Iowa, has been a member of the grand lodge of that domain since 1884 and has served on many of the grand lodge committees. He was born in 1850 and came to his present home in Independence in 18fi0 and in 1875 was admitted to the bar. A few years later he served as county clerk and at the expiration of his term engaged in the banking business, in which he has been engaged ever since. Paper Chrysanthemums. “No, it’s no particular secret, though I'll not tell you the name of the acid we use,” said a fair maker of paper flowers in reference to the deftly shaded chrysanthemum she had just finished. “Oh, yes, it’s the shad ing that makes them so true to life. Without that they’d look decidedly crude and artificial. Each and every petal—and there are a few in each ijower, I can tell you—has to be dipped in acids of varying strength to shade it down to the palest tint re quired; and then 1 curl it as carefully as any coiffeur ministering to a belle. One good thing is that my beauty can’t cry when I pull, a3 I'm likely to now and then. See, there’s the finish ed flower. I wrger it would fool Flora herself if she happened in here while inspecting her autumn output.”—Phil adelphia Record. TO BOTH BLUE AND GRAY Imposing Memorial to Be Erected on Chickamauga Battlefield. The imposing memorial soon to be erected on the battlefield of Chlcka mauga in memory of the Union infan try regiment and the Confederate bat tery of Marylanders who participated in that historic engagement, is a handsome granite shaft, simple in de sign, its soldier significance marked with the figure of an infantry picket at its pinnacle. The memorial is pre- -« senced by the state of Maryland out of an appropriation made by the last legislature. ai
