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Loup City Northwestern. ■ ■■ ■ ■ mmm ■■■ ■ ■ ■■■ .mu i. ■ — ■■■—. ■ - ■ ■ ■' ■ ■ " ‘ 11 “ “ 1 ” —1 1 -■ VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1903. NUMBER 8. WILL ARBITRATE POWERS AGREE ON THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL. END OF TROUBLE^ IS IN SICHT European Powers Preferred that the President of the United States Serve as Aribitrator, but Have Assented to v The Hague Plan. v WASHINGTON—The notes receiv ed from the European governments interested in the Venezuelan oontro versy, and from Venezuela, agree to submit the question at issue to The Hague tribunal. A note is now being prepared by Secretary Hay. in which this govern ment announces its hearty approval of such a course. There appears to be no question but that it is the general understanding that the Monroe doctrine is not to enter into the question of arbitration. President Roosevelt will not be the arbitrator for the Venezuelan contro E£\® -j whole subject will be referred * ** j; J'bitration to The Hague tribunal, .is was the situation as it had re ed itself at the conclusion of the inet meeting Friday. The meeting not so long as the sessions usually All the members except Secre ry Root were present. The Vene telan question 'was the principal and ractically the only topic of general conference. t —'Bflay presented the net re sults of hila|j|e correspondence with the gover|ent8 at London, Berlin, \ Rome aiuMara<,as |n accordance with the 4gestion made by Presi dent Roon|eIt through Secretary Hay, Freshly castro was represent ed to liave|jree(j to submit the dif ferences 1‘lthe arbitration of The Hague. 11 European powers not only oonseul, to submit the contro versy to OJlmtiop, but while they had express# a preference for an ar bitration to fu-onducted by President Roosevelt, tlj. ,m(j ^gented to his suggestion tu the matter be refer red to The j l (lp ) So fear is pressed by the admin istration that e Monroe doctrine will be brought to the controversy in an> manner at m|ght result in an embarrassing wuatj0n for the United States. An intimatit} ,g gi ven of the condl ,_ tions which ii| have been imposed bv the Europq,t p0Wera or by Presi dent'astro Pj le(jent to the arbitra tion. it's ki^»|n t,iat Great Britain .was willing1*!libmit the subject to the arbitrate ? f president Rooso . ( velt, fA( ticalW wmjout conditions, but tne suggeaL jg ni£U,e that per haps t o of th }ther powers involv ed proposed sc | other conditions which might h *, prove(j embarrass ing to the presi j ha£, he lin(jertaken the reBponsibil l f determining the V question. l • is unaersys that money must pass, but it ay.l8 known that the amount of ca8vl> be required of Venezuela ^^Mi Arbitration is not nearly so largq j bag been 8tated. * It is not possir|to iearn whether 1/4 the allies insis(3]>n apologies from Castro, and w li ( jg as8Umed that if the' blockade w.} gpeedlly raigedt | 1 no arrangement! d Jgt end b&ve been made. x j j I w J- Bl*' wlN MEXICO. aj ! Visit Varied by It .Seeing and 0ffi I Cii J1* I MEXICO Cm nnlam j. Bryan’s > v^8*t ^aa keen 1 b by sightseeing \ and offlcial call^fc! has been re i ceived in audlenLe pre8j(ient Diaz and Minister of)av<nce Linton,.. Mrs. Bryan and 4n4,hUdren vl8lted |the shrine of tHorf ,n of Guada. ?ope. P S,| Last evening tlP^l party took ' ’> tra,n *or Cor 1 whence they | 'Will travel over t! ]ra Crug & Pa. | ciflc road to Alf.,uIlghop Magon.g hacclenda. The p* V,, return hcre f- .*sday morning. ha| !! frhe governmen lol baye nQt j .ought Mr. Bryan fOlfomiatlon on iiver as his vie' «i| ^ tere. c 1 _iel | Postmaste J.l"' . SPRINGFIELD, nel t. Greening, tostmaster at Cor v A, i ! . , , y 1 Logan coun ty, committed suici ] 1 . _ l I . . . , Ira postoffice dRispector had ehecl it a. . ! •. r , „ , ,, ..ibis accounts Vi nd found him to ulsi . . ,m,l .400 short. / (reening was foum 10Ut. . ® . . , k l\m a barn in ill he rear of his resi< , „ . ill , . . . , r 1th a bullet jr, j1 round over his r gl, , , , . . , , . ue otind a revol U er clutched in his CATTLE DISEASE COSTLY. Will Take Much Money to Keep it From Spreading. WASHINGTON—While the Impor tance of the subject is not generally j appreciated, it is still a fact that no other matter has come up in congress at this session which is of greater moment than the proposition to spend $1,000,000 in an attempt to stamp out the cattle disease which has broken out in New England. Thus far the foot and mouth disease, as it is call ed, is practically confined to Massa chusetts and Vermont. It was, with out doubt, brought to Boston from Europe in the fodder of a consign ment of horses. Just as soon as the department of agriculture learned of the outbreak prompt steps were tak en to prevent its spread. But it is estimated that there are at least 15, 000 cattle suffering from the disease in the states named. Many affected animals have been transported from1 place to place in railroad cars and these cars doubtless contain the germs, which may readily be carried to every state in the union. It will cost the federal government more than $500,000 to pay for the cattle which must be slaughtered and buried in New England alone. Should the disease spread, ten times that." sum would scarcely pay a tithe of the cost which the government^ will incur in enforcing the provisions of the law applicable to cattle disease. ROBBERS LOOT MISSOURI BANK. Vault Blown Open and Entire Con tents Secured. UNION, Mo.—The Bank of Union was robbed Saturday morning, the; 1 vault blown open with nitro-glycerine' and $50,000, the entire contents, were stolen. The robbers were two in number and are believed to be professionals They escaped. About 1 o’clock a loud explosion was heard and shots were fired around the public square. Most of the citi zens who heard the noise supposed it was caused by boys out on a lark, celebrating Christmas, and paid no attention to it. Oscar Biu-eh, a hardware dealer, who lived across the street, noticing that the bank was being robbed, went to the window to look out, but "was covered by a revolver. He then kept quiet. Others in the vicinity of the bank were also kept quiet by a dis play of revolvers. About fifty shots were fired to ter rorize any who might want to venture out. Some say seven men were seen around, but Mr. Busch says but two men left the ba.'k after the roC bery. The wreck was complete, the vault door and the safe being completely demolished, as was th> whole interior of the bank. The gfv is front of the building was also completely destroy ed. When the work was finished the men left town, walking toward Hart man. F. W. Hartman, cashier, was called after all was over. He estimates the loss at about $50,000. The bank car i ried $10,000 Insurance against burg | lary. There is no clue. — MRS. GRANT WRITES STORV. Leaves Interesting Manuscript of Per sonal Reminiscences. WASHINGTON—Mrs. Grant has left a very interesting and valuable manuscript of personal reminiscences which she began when her distin guished husband was writing his me moirs, and has added to it from time to time as her health and disposition permitted. It consists of 300 or 400 pages of typewritten matter, sufficient for a book of ordinary size, and neat: 1 ly tied up in chapters with blue rib bon. She describes many incidents in her domestic experience, beginning with the time of her marriage, and' gives important facts concerning Gen eral Grant that have never been pub lished. Her stories of army life, events that occurred while she was living in the White House, and her de scription of the attentions which the general received during his tour around the world will be a valuable contribution to history. Y. M. C. A. in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG—The third an nual meeting of the Young Men's Christian association, under the pat ronage of Prince Oldenburg, was held here. Among those present were Prince Plato Obelensky, Senator Tag antzey, E. L. Nobel and Franklin Gay lord. The Russian branch of the as sociation is nearly self-sustaining and its membership in the last year has increased. PRINCESS FLEES WIFE OF SAXONY’S HEIR MYSTE RIOUSLY DISAPPEARS. UNPLEASANT RUMORS AFLOAT — No Trace of Missing Woman, Who is Said to Have Vanished Because of a Love Affair with an American Dentist. VIENNA—The crown prncess of Saxony, an Austrian archduchess, left Dresden in great distress for Salz burg, where her parents live, owing to a love affair with an American den tist, the consequences of which are undeniable. Her parents, who have three young daughters still unmarried, disowned her and drove her from the castle. | One of her four brothers took her part and accompanied the crojvn princess. The Saxony cr<ywn prince refuses td nush up the/icandalxJ'fce^ii^ujjjfcs tlvlties have been countermanded. ^ DRESDEN. Saxony—By order of the king and crown prince the court circular Monday announces the crown princess of Saxony fled from her home on the night of December 11. *Tn a state of intense mental excite ment she suddenly deserted her fam ily at Salzburg and went abroad,” says the official record. “The Saxon court functions for the winter, including the New Year’s reception, have been can celed.” Rumors to this effect have been current for some days, but have been generally discredited, but it is now known that she has vanished so completely that the police of every kingdom in Europe have for ten days been unable to trace her. The offi cial announcement was made in order to obtain the aid of the general pub lic, and because the court fiction that she preferred to remain in retirement at Salzburg rather than to return to her husband and children at Dresden cannot longer be maintained. Accompanied bv the crown prince, the princess went to the castle of Em peror Francis Joseph, near Salzburg, a month ago. A week after their ar rival the prince broke his leg while hunting and was brought back to Dresden. The princess, however, re mained at the castle. Why she did so the people of the court did not know, exceit^ that with gloomy tenac ity the princess usually does what she pleases. ' It was said the princess had sur rendered herself to periods of nervous excitement and that her eccentricities caused much concern to her suite and to some of her A.istrian kinsfolk, it Is now believed that she was under surveillance, and her disappearance is therefore considered the more extra ordinary. On December 11 the princess, who appeared to be in an unusually tran quil mood, retired before 12. Three hours later, when a maid looked into the royal bedchamber, something in, the appearance of the bed prompted her to go closer and examine it. In stead of the princess the maid per ceived a dummy figure. She awaken ed the lady in waiting and the latter, with other members of the princess’ suite, searched all the neighboring apartments, then the entire castle, and finally the grounds, but no trace of the missing woman was found. At dawn the police of Salzburg were informed of the disappearance and inquiries were made throughout the whole countryside, but with no tangi ble result. The inquiry was gradually extended to all parts of the kingdom, and on authority from Dresden, by the end of the second day, to all Eu rope. The theory of suicide was sug gested and a fruitless search for the princess’ body has been made without result. The disappearance of the princess doubtless will cause the circulation of many stories, and it is already report ed that she eloped, but inquiries made here have brought out nothing to sub stantiate this statement. VIENNA—It is officially explained here that the princess’ disappearance is due to mental derangement. There is little doubt that It was caused by domestic discord, growing out of her husband’s relation “with an actress of the Dresden court theater. It is as serted that the princess frequently threatened flight on this account and that she was incensed at her father, the grand duke of Tuscany, for coun seling her to forgive her husband. Miners Want More Pay. SPRINGFIELD. Ill—W. D. Ryan, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, says that the min era of the Unlttyl States will make a demand for a material increase fa wages at the national convention at Indianapolis on January 19. Mr. Ryan says that the operators are receiving a larger price for coal than ever before, and they, cannot make the excuse that the mines are not paying expenses. Mr. Ryan says that the convention will produce figures to show that the total cost of mining a ton of coal and give the public an idea of the profit being reaped by the operators. Mr. Ryan will attend the convention and no doubt lead the fight for higher wages. AVENGE POLICEMAN'S DEATH. Mob Lynches a Kansas Negro Who Committed Murder. PITTSBURG, Kan. — Montgomery Godley, a negro, was tak«.t from the jail here Thursday an<! lynched by a mob because e«..°; in the morning he shot and k lied Milton Hinkle, a po liceman, who was trying to protect “"kyivself against a crowd of unruly blau^is. The negro jerked the officer’s pistol from the holster and shot him with it from behind. Two hours later a mob gathered and took Godley from the city jail, where he had been in carcerated, and hanged him to a tele phone pole. As he was choking to death one of the members of the mob cut his throat and ended his suffer ings. A large number of negro men and women from the various mining camps in the vicinity, among them Mont and Joe Godley, brothers, were drinking and carousing at a ball. Hin kle requested them to be quiet. The Godley brothers answered him in an insulting and insolent manner and he tried to arrest them. They resisted and Hinkle blew his whistle for help. He then began to use his club in or der to protect himBelf from the on slaught of the crowd. He was hold ing his own against three of them when "Mont” Godley grabbed the offi cer’s revolver, and, placing the muz zle behind Hinkle’s right ear, pulled the trigger. The ball passed through his head and came out over the left eye. He fell to the sidewalk. Other officers pursued the negroes, all of whom started to run when the officer fell. The Godley brothers were both captured and locked up in the city Jail. Hinkle was carried to tlie city hall, where he died at 2 o'clock. » - GUAM DOES NOT FLOURISH. Annual Report from Governor of the Island is Interesting. WASHINGTON.—The annual report of Commander Seaton Sebroeder, gov ernor of the island of Guam, which is dated July 10, has Just reached the Navy department. The receipts last year were $66,000 and the expenses $57,000, leaving a bal ance of $8,000, which, however, is a decrease of more than $13,000 in the cash balance for the preceding year. This loss is due largely to the unex pected expenses incident to the estab lishment of the leper colony and a de crease of over $10,000 in import duties. Commander Schroeder reports that it has been deemed prudent to stop all work of public improvement until fur ther appropriations are made. The value of the exports and imports dur ing the year were, respectively, $35,549 and $35,165. The exports consisted almost entire ly of Mexican dollars. Not a pound of copra was exported, and neither cacao or coffee was produced in suf ficient quantities to supply the home market. The census of the island, taken last autumn, shows a total population of 9,676. of whom only forty-six are for eigners, fourteen being cltiiens of the United States, but officers and men of the navy or other civil employes, tem porarily imported from the United States, were not included. Above the age of 7, 46 per cent of the natives read and write SpaniBh. The natives still refuse to allow their sick to receive medical attention, but conditions were improving, an excess of births over deaths being shown for each of the last two years. Jap Marries a Corpse. VICTORIA, B. C.—A correspondent of the Associated Press from Yoko hama says: The Japan Times has an account of a Japanese of Kochi hav ing been married to a corpse. The bride-elect committed suicide on the evening of her marriage. The body was recovered and at the request of the dead girl’s parents the ceremony took place between the living and tho dead. LIVES ARE LOST % FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON GRAND TRUNK RAILROAD. TWO TRAINS CRASH TOCETHER Number of Dead Reaches More Than Thirty—Responsibility for Accident is Believed to Rest on Telegraph Operator. LONDON, Ont.—A train wreck bringing death to over two Bcore of passengers and terrible pain and suf fering to about thirty-five, occurred at 10:10 o'clock Friday night at Wan stead, Canada, a station on the Sarnia branch of the Grand Trunk, forty miles from this city, when the Pacific express, flying westward at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and crowded to Its capacity with passengers returning to their homes from holiday visits, crashed into an eastbound freight. The latest estimates of the fatalities is thirty killed and thirty-five or more injured. The darkness of the night and the raging of a blizzard added horrors to the wreck. Fire broke out in the wreckage of the day coach, but it was smothered with snow, which was thrown on it before it gained any headway. The Pacific express is a fast train. J*8t night it was delayed two hours by the heavy travel and at Wanstead j it was speeding to make up time. The freight was working slowly east under orders to take the switch at W’anstead and allow the express to pass. In the blinding snow storm neither engineer saw the other train approach ing, apparently, and the freight had Just commenced to pull in the siding when the passenger train came up. The shock was awful. In a second the baggage and express cars of the passenger train telescoped into the day eoach. This day coach was reduced to splinters and fragments back to the last three windows. As it was crowd ed, the results were terrible. Fire that broke out was quickly smothered, but the fire was scarcely more dangerous than the cold. For three hours or more injured passengers were pinned underneath wreckage, crying piteously for help, while they suffered from ex posure to the elements. Exposure probably hastened the death of some of the injured and caused the death of some of those who might have been saved if it had been only a question of extricating them from the wreckage. The Pullman cars stayed on tne track and were comparatively unin jured, although the passengers in them were severely shaken In the shock. Andrew Carson, the operator at Watford, the first station east of the wreck, whose failure to deliver or ders to Conductor McAullffe of the Pacific express to pass the freight at Wanstead is said by the Grand Trunk officials to have caused the wreck, made to the Associated Press his first statement since the wreck. He says he received the order for No. 6, the express, to pass the freight at Wanstead at 9:48 o’clock, but de clares positively that a few minutes later Dispatcher J. G. Kerr at Ix>n don called him and ordered him to “bust" or cancel the order. He said: About 9:54, after calling Wyoming and ascertaining that the freight was there, the dispatcher called me rapidly a half dozen times. When I answered on the wire he told me to ‘bust’ this order. I wrote ‘bust it’ across the order just as McAullffe came in and asked me what the order board was out against hiih for. I told him we had had an order for him but the dis patcher had ‘busted’ it. He asked me to hurry and write him a clearance order, which I did. After the train had started and was out of my reach the dispatcher learned that the freight had left Wyoming. I told him I could not stop No. 5, as it had left. He immediately began calling Kings Court Junction, the station between Watford and Wanstead, on the rail road wire and I tried to raise them on the commercial wire. WTe both failed to do this, however, until after the express had passed the Junction.” Carson admitted that he knew that it was against the rules to cancel a train order without sending a substi tute for it, but said that the dispatch er was his superior officer and he dis liked to question his order or dispute his authority to take this action. Dis patcher Kerr’s order book in the local Grand Trunk office does not show that the order wa3 “busted" or can r celled as Carson claims. According to the book It. was still in force and should have been delivered to the conductor of the express. Kerr has not made any statement even to the railroad officials and will not until he takes the stand at the inquest. Division Superintendent George D. Jones of Toronto says that the rule against cancelling or ‘ busting” train orders is the strictest In the company’s code. “I do not believe,'' he said, ‘‘that it has been violated since the standard dispatching rules went itno effect. Dispatcher Kerr is one of the best and most efficient dispatchers In our service. He is the operator who acqompanled the train bearing the duke and duchess of York on the royal tour of Canada a year ago. I have every confidence in him.” MOORS PUT TO ROUT. Two Thousand of Sultan’s Troops Killed or Wounded. TANGIER, Morocco.—On December 22, 10,000 Shereeflan troops, command ed by a brother of the sultan’s minister of war, received orders to concentrate and take the offensive against the pre tender at Taza. Before the Sherecfl ans moved upon him the pretender at tacked them with large bodies of cav alry. The imperial army was sur rounded, completely routed and fled in disorder toward Fez, abandoning ail materials of war. The first fugitives arrived at Fez on the morning of De cember 24. The gates of Fez at present are shut. Shops there are closed and the popu lation is greatly excited, but there has been no disorder. * The European colony of Fez, em bodying about 500 persons, is taking no steps to leave the town and appears to be satisfied that it is in no Imminent danger, although the situation is re garded as serious. It is said that the pretender's followers have received nu merous additions since his success and he is already negotiating with the tribes of Wedmaweb valley. The pop* ulation of Fez is reported to be gen erally hostile to the sultan and ready to acclaim any pretender who will guarantee the town from pillage. No details of the imperial losses have yet been received here, but it is rumored that 2,000 of the sultan’s sol diers were killed or wounded. The authorities here are trying to minimize the disaster. It is said that a section of the imperial troops sent as rein forcements deserted to the rel>els and aided in driving the local troops back to Fez. ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE. » Caleb Powers of Kentucky Says His Means Are Exhausted. I GEORGETOWN, Ky.—Ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, who has had two trials and now awaits in Jail here his third trial for complicity in the murder of the late Governor William Goebel, issued the following appeal to the public: “I have had written a number or I letters to different states asking for | financial aid in my coming trial for ' alleged complicity in the Goebel mur der. A portion of the press has, through a misunderstanding of the facts, attempted to thwart my plan for raising the much-needed money with which to defend myself, by circulating a report that these letters were not genuine because signed by different persons for me. t “It is true that many of the letters were signed by different persons, be cause it was impossible for one person to send them out in the limited time before my next trial, but all of these letters are genuine. “I have been continuously in the jails of this state for nearly three years. My means are exhausted. The generosity of Kentucky has been taxed i to the utmost in my former so-called trials. In a few weeks I am again to be tried for my life. Hence my appeal now to my friends outside of Ken tucky.” DESTITUTION IS APPALLING. Four Hundred Thousand Finlanders Reported Starving. ST. PETERSBURG—Four hundred thousand persons are reiwrted to be destitute and starrving as a result of the crop failure in Finland. The An glo-American church here has under taken to feed and clothe the school children of four Finnish parishes, and Pastor Francis has issued an appeal for assistance in this work. He says the conditions today are worse than those of 1867, when 100,000 persona died.
