AS THE WORLD
R.EVOLVES
WILL ATTEMPT GREAT FEAT.
Roumanian Woman to Try to Swim
English Channel.
“The Beautiful Blue Danube," has
been immortalized in aor.g and waltz,
but never until recently has it made
claim to distinction as the training
place of the most marvelous woman
swimmer in the world. The fair ex
pert is Mme. Waiburga von Isaceacu.
the beautiful widow of a once noted
Roumanian nobleman.
She lives in Vienna and the Danube
has been the scene of nearly all of her
daring achievements. For several
years her fame was confined to her
family and friends, for the feats of
daring she performed then never
reached the ears of the public. But
one day a yachting party by chance
witnessed her prowess ir. the water,
and the beautiful swimmer’s fame
spread apace. What no other woman
has ever dared to undertake she ac
complishes with the utmost ease.
But Mme. Isacescu is not content to
rest on her laurels. She sighs for
other worlds to conquer, so she is
preparing for a try at that chief goal
of swimmers the world over—the
English channel. No other woman has
ever dared to make such an attempt,
but that fact In no way disconcerts
Mme. Isacescu. She i? receiving
daily instructions from Holbein, the
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world-famous swimmer, and is con
fident that she will be able to swim
the channel and live to tell it.
A FIRE-PROOF COSTUME.
French-Caradian Said to Have Made
Successful Invention.
A young Frencli-Canadian engineer
has boon making experiments with
fireproof clothing, and these, so far as
they have gone, have been decidedly
satisfactory. By means of a smock
as asbestos, with gloves, cap and
boots of the same material, he has
constructed an entirely non-combust
ible costume. Over the face is w'orn
a mask, fitted at the mouth with a
species of respirator, which permits
the wearer to breathe without inhal
ing noxious vapors. This suit has
stt*)d its baptism of fire successfully,
a man having entered u burning house
and simulated all the maneuvers of a
fireman without suffering the slight
est damage or discomfort. Such a
garment, if adapted to the use of resi
dents in the higher flats of cities,
should make the fortune of an ingeni
ous inventor.
LADY SYBIL DEFIES THE EARL.
Will Marry a Dancer Despite Objec
tion of Rosebery, Her Father.
In spite of the Earl of Rosebery’s
objections to the match Lady Sybil
Primrose has announced her engage
ment to Charles Grant. The earl is
Lady Sybil’s father. Her fiance is
LADV SYB*. PUmDOSE Jt
noted chiefly for the fact that he is a
clever dancer. Lady Sybil has a for
tune in her own right. This was be
queathed to her by her mother, who
was a Rothschild.
Prejudice of Dr. Webb.
Dr. W. Seward Webb, who married
one of Commodore Vanderbilt’s daugh
ters. makes no secret of his opposition
to labor unions. He is president of
the Rutland railroad in Vermont. The
city council of Burlington. Vt„ offered
valuable inducements if he would re
move the headquarters of the road
from Rutland to Burlington, but he
rejected the offer because of a condi
tion providing that union men should
be employed on the office building to
be erected.
Persons, Places
and Tfcin^s
WINS HONORS FROM ROYALTY.
Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, Prima Donna,
Boasts Many Decorations.
Mme. Blauvelt. the American prima
donna soprano, can boast of more dec
orvUions and medals from royalty and
Decoration Conferred on Mwe. Blau
velt by Queen Victoria.
from ancient musical societies of the
old world than probably any other
American singer. She has jeweled
medals fr^m Queen Victoria and from
Queen Margherita of Italy, but the
honor that, she most prizes is the dec
oration conferred upon her by the
Order of St. Cecilia. This order is the
oldest musical organization in the
world.
TO SETTLE ALASKAN BOUNDARY.
Long-Standing Dispute to Be Decided
by a Commission.
Interest in the Alaskan boundary
controversy has been revived by the
signing of the treaty between the
United States and Great Britain by
which the entire dispute is to be sub
mitted to arbitration by a joint com
mission composed of three men nomi
nated by the United States and the
same number selected by Great Bri
tain. As eacli country has equal rep
resentation. in order to secure a de
rision it will be necessary for one
party to win over one of the arbitra
tors representing the other side. For
years Great Britain has been eager
to secure the submission of the dis
Map of Disputed Territory.
(Lilies Show Hotli the Present Boundary
and the Boundary Claimed by Canada.)
pute to a commission, but the United
States steadfastly maintained that
there was nothing to arbitrate. This
country had purchased Alaska from
Russia in 18*>7 with certain defined
boundaries fixed by a treaty between
Great Britain and Russia in 1825 and
refused to go back of that treaty. The
point now to he established is the
proper interpretation of that treaty.
Should the British contention be sus
tained Canada would be given several
valuable point3 upon the sea coast
and the United States' holdings from
the Lynn canal southward would be
materially reduced.
Short Men Form a Club.
C. R. Aldrich of KVanston, 111., is one
of seven Yale seniors short in stature,
but not in originality, who have organ
ized the Yale Pee-Wee club. No man
more than 5 feet 6 inches tall is eligi
ble. Its aim is to disseminate among
the public food for reflection on the
advantages of lack of size and to call
attention to the eminence in history
of small men, like Napoleon and
Grant. The club at Its first meeting
discussed “Traits and Peculiarities of
the Pigmies In South Africa.”
PEOPLE MS
EVENTS
BRING SUIT AGAINST ROAD.
Stockholders’ Quarrel Likely to Be
Aired in the Courts.
A petition for the appointment of a
receiver for certain stock of the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way company and for an injunction
enjoining the controlling interests of
the company from carrying out a trust
agreement entered into by the major
ity stockholders with the Central
Trust company of New York was filed
last week in the circuit court at Chi
cago. The bill was filed by J. Hamil
ton Lewis, representing Clarence H.
Venner of Boston, who asserts he
represents $300,090 of dissenting
stock. The bill recites a history of the
various times the stock was trans
ferred and relates a scheme of recog
nition by which it is alleged the pro
moters without adding a dollar to the
value of the property of the company,
represented by Us authorized capital
stock of $75,000,000, caused to be
issued and floated on the market
securities aggregating over $200,000,
000.
The defendants in the suit are: The
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
way company, of which W. B. Leeds is
president; Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railroad company; Rock
Island company of New Jersey; Cen
tral Trust company of New York; Wil
liam T. Rankin. F. P. Olcott, R. R.
Cable, William H. Moore. James H.
Moore, William B. Leeds, Daniel G.
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Reid, Henry C. Frick, Marshall Field,
F. D. Hine, George C. McMurty, Anson
R. Flower, George S. Brewster, Ogden
Mills, George T, Boggs.
ARE PROUD OF MRS. MITCHELL.
Wife of the Mineworkers’ President
Reared Among Miners of Danville.
There are over 3,000 coal miners in
the Danville, 111., coal field and every
one of them is proud of the ability
displayed by their national president,
John Mitchell In the recent strike and
before the strike commission. Dan
ville miners are still more proud of
the fact that .Mrs. Mitchell was born
and for many years lived among them.
Mrs. Mitchell was born in Catlln, a
small mining town five miles west on
the Wabash railroad, and grew to
young womanhoood in that village.
She was the daughter of James
O'Rourke, coal miner, who was em
ployed In the old Ohio shaft, located
just west of the village.
Catherine O’Rourke attended the
public school of Catlln. When about
eighteen years of age she removed
with her family to Beardstown, where
she met and married John Mitchell,
then a common coal miner. “Old Man”
O'Rourke was a member of the “holy
rollers." as the miners employed at
mi JOHN MITCHELL'
the Ohio shaft were called, and is re
membered by al) of the old-time min
ers of this Beetion.
To Mrs. Mitchell's devotion end en
couragement. the president of the
Mine Workers' union admits he owes
much of his success.
Tells Joke in Supreme Court.
Senator Hoar has upset precedent
by telling a funny Btory to the United
States Supreme Court. The Senator
was arguing a point which, he said,
reminded him of the man who was
arrested for stealing forty cowbells.
The man said he didn't steal the cow
bells; that they were in the barn, and
somehow the cows got them on their
necks. “That might do for one cow
Dell,” said the judge, "but no forty
cows in creation acquire a taste for
music at the same time.” T
preme Court smiled grimly.
Hoar chuckled audibly.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
J. M. Bray dropped dead on the
streets of Kearney.
A live sUwk commission company
has been organized at York.
The mayor of Nebraaka City has is
sued orders to the police to suppress
all slot machines.
Otis Jofinson of Polk county had
h.. foot badly injured by, having it
caught in a corn shredder.
The legislative committee visited
the soldiers’ home at Grand Island and
made a thorough investigation.
Under orders from proper authority
the street commissioner of Fremont
is chopping down telegraph poles.
Thomas J. Rhodes, aged 77, fell on
the icy street at Alliance and sustain
ed injuries from the effects of which
he died.
A state convention of the Young
Men's Christian association will he
held in Beatrice from February 20 to
March 1.
Herman R. Young, county clerk of
Otoe county suddenly dropped dead at
h's home in Nebraska City, lie was
about 35 years of age.
The Nebraska Automatic Telephone
company will begin putting in ex
changes at Dakota City and Homer as
soon as the weather will permit.
The state insurance department has
admitted the North Union Fire, an old
line company of Pittsburg, it has a
paid up capital stock of $750,000.
The resignation of Rev. Kills M.
Jones, pastor of the First Baptist
church in Nebraska City, has been ac
cepted by the members of the church.
The trial of I.ena M. Lillie of David
City, indicted on the charge of mur
dering her husband, will take place at
the present term of the district court,
mendations for permanent improve
ments and repairs made in his annual
report were not excessive and would
probably be further recommended to
the house.
Prominent lovers of horses in Om
aha have decided to give a horse show
in that city, September 8 to 11 next.
It will be held in the auditorium
which is expected to be completed by
that time.
Dr. C. I„. Pickett, who is pastor of
the Tecumseh Christian church, but
wlio has been practicing medicine in
Humboldt, has decided to locate in
Tecumseh and will practice his pro
fession there.
Homer M. Sullivan, judge of the
Twelfth judicial district, has resigned
and Governor Mickey has appointed
Charles L. Gutterson of Broken Bow
to serve out the unexpired term.
The Beatrice Ministerial association
has completed arrangements for the
state convention of the Young Men's
Christian association, which convenes
in that city February 26 and continues
until March 1.
Adjutant General Colby has issued
an order declaring that Albert Herman
Barber has been duly elected second
lieutenant of Company E, Second regi
ment. He was formerly first sergeant
of the company.
Preparations are already in prog
ress for the next G. A. R. state encamp
ment. which is to be held at Fremont
in May. It is expected that the hotel
facilities of the city will be exhausted
during this gathering.
Sixteen editors attended the third
annual meeting of the State Democrat
ic Editorial as ooiation in Grand Is
land. James Tanner of Central City
was elected president and ,1. W. Barn
hart of Auburn re-elected secretary
treasurer.
P. Opocensky of Knox county sent
several barrels of clay to a brick-test
ing firm in Illinois a couple of months
ago and now has received word that it
makes the very finest brick. On the
strength of this report he has ordered
a brick-making plant that will turn
out 20,000 a day.
There promises to be an interesting
telephone war at York and all over
York county between the York County
Telephone company, a local concern
that recently started and now has 100
miles of poles in the county and is put
ting in a central plant at York, and
the Bell company.
Henry Behm. an aged citizen of
West Point, dropped dead at his home.
The deceased was a retired farmer,
and, although comparatively wealthy,
lived in a very penurious and eccen
tric manner, he and his aged wife re
siding in a squalid hovel and denying
themselves the necessaries of life.
Judge Gordon has again won out in
his legal contest with the city of Om
aha. The supreme court last week af
firmed the decision of Judge Estelle,
granting a writ of mandamus against
Mayor Moores to compel him to sign
warrants for Gordon’s salary as police
judge for 1901. The amount included
Is $2,500.
The house committee on public
lands and buildings, which is making
a tour of Inspection of the different
public institutions of the state, looked
over the industrial school at Kearney.
After a thorough inspection of tha
buildings and the institution and in
mates so far as possible, the members
of the committee indicated to Superin
tendent Heghtol their satisfaction with
the management, with a further ex
pression of opinion that the recom
M NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both. Branches
of the Twenty-Eighth General
Assembly.
wor-LD j.r:T ttik prauc rx,
Lieutenant Qovernor McGilton has orig
inated a plan with reference to the con
sideration of bills before the legislative
committees which lie thinks ought to be
Incorporated In the rules of the senate
over which body he presides. The plan j
provides a method whereby nil parties In- ,
teres ted directly or Indirectly in any i
measure may appear before the com
mltto>» having the bill in charge and be1
beard in Ibe discussion of it.
Lieutenant Governor McGilton has
framed his idea in this manner:
All standing committees shall keep a i
.calendar of bills In the order In which
they are referred and consider the some
in such order, except where passed by
the vote of a majority of all members
of said committee, in which ease the bill
thus passed shall not lose iis place on
the committee calendar. Kaeh standing j
committee shall give nutlce to this body, i
through its chairman, at least one day j
in advance of the time and place of meet
ing and of the bills to be considered by |
it, so that all persons interested may ap- |
pear and request a hearing, subject to 1
such limitations as the committee may
impose.
The lieutenant governor further outlin
ing his plan, says:
"The time to be heard on any bill is
wlille it is before the committee. The re
port of the committee, while not necessa
rily or Inevitably linal as to its disposi
tion. always lias a great Influence on the j
action of tlie senate or house, to which- |
ever body it is made, it too frequently |
happens that a bill gets past the com- i
rnittee in the senate or house, before the
committee of the whole and is placed on
its final passage before outsiders who
have a legitimate Interest in the measure
get the opportunity of being hoard on It.
They have no way of knowing when the
committee Is to consider the bill and
consequently no opportunity of giving
expression to their views. The adoption
of this proposed rule, which could be
used in the house as well as the senate,
would obviate all this, and, I think, he
a very good thing for many other rea
sons."
TO GET INTO PRINT.
“I see that some adverse comment Is '
attempted.’’ said Attorney Baldwin, “be- I
eaus*- the railroad companies utilize the
newspapers to present their side in (he
tax controversy, and because they ex
press a willingness to pay the expense of
printing. Why should tl py not. The ar
guments presented are unanswerable.
The outside counties of the slat? are vi
tally interested. The Omaha papers give
only one side of the question. The out
side newspapers are entitled to receive
information exposing the selfishness of
the Omaha real estate boomers. And the
railroads have a perfect right to pay for
the expense of printing (his information.
“The railroads have no newspaper of
their own to present the case, and there
Is no one newspaper of wide circulation j
standing up for the rights of the country j
as against the t ucroachments of the large j
city. The defense of the country must I
come from the country papers. We can
not demand that they use their space
without recompense, although many of
them, recognizing their own local inter
est in the controversy, decline compensa
tion and freely open their columns to
forcibly express their opinions of the
Omaha scheme. The criticism from the
Omaha boomers is ridiculous. It sounds
like the plaint of a failing and hopeless
cause.”
•WORKING ON REVENUE UW.
“ A revenue luw having for its basis
the constitution of the state will be re
ported by our committee to the legisla
ture when the legislature convenes next
week," said Representative Loomis of
Dodge, the fusion member of the revenue
revision committee. "The reports that
have been published to the effect that
our bill will be modeled along the lines
of the present revenue law of Nebraska,
or of the Kansas bill, are alike Incorrect.
Portions of the Nebraska law will be
used; portions of the Kansas plan will
be used: features will be Incorporated in
the bill from the revenue laws of Cali
fornia, Indiana and other states; and
portions of the bill will be largely orig
inal with the committee. But ns a whole
the bill will be built along no hard and
fast lines; it will be Independently con
structed to meet the requirements of the
situation according to the best judgment
of the committee.
“While In a. general t\py. the commit
tee is pretty well ugreed as to the salient
features of the revenue law it will rec
ommend, I could not myself tell, at the
present time, just what those features
are. The whole work lias been divided
among snb-comniittoes. None of these
committees have completed their work.
Their work, when It Is completed/ will
be subject to review and correction by
the whole committee. Consequently noth
ing Is tlxed. nothing is decided on. and
no correct statement of the committee's
work can be given out until the task Is
completed."
IRRIGATION UW iS UPHELD.
The constitutionality of the law creat
ing and defining the powers of the state
board of Irrigation is upheld in a deoi
several letters from men In various lines
of business in his district, urging him to
push this bill, insisting that It was of
extreme necessity.
Mr. Currie's bill provides that all farm
ers within the territory most affected by
these pests shall take proper means—nnd
these meuns are described In the bill—
for exterminating prairie dogs at the
proper season and Imposes a penalty
upon all who fall to observe this law.
In the penal provision it Is ordered that
the road overseer shall be paid $3 a day,
or hire someone at that price, to dis
tribute the prairie dog killer for the
farmer and assess the cost to the latter.
OPPOSK COl'NTY OFFICER8’ BILL.
The bill Introduced In the senate at the
request of the County Ofileers' associa
tion I» hung ui> In the committee, ami
when It comes forth there will likely be
absent from It “that we recommend that
it he passed.” though the bill will be re
ported favorably. It Is not the fact that
the committee does not favor a four-year
tenure of olMce. for a majority of the
committee dues. But the committee does
no* intend to recommend that a ‘county
officer hold office for a time longer than
thi' time for which he was elect -d. An
other objection is that the committee
does not favor having every county elec
tion held on presidential year or even
year, as provided by the bill. Said one
of the committee:
“We are In favor of county officers
holding office for four years, but I fot
one do not want to tell a community
that the man It has chosen for two years
should serve three. It is the right of the
people to do that and not the legislature,
in my opinion. And if we make county
elections come on even years or on presi
dential years It will not. in my opinion,
serve the la*st Interests of the people.
In presidential years, as a rule, county
and local affairs are lost sight of almost
completely, and persons who are entirely
unfitted for office could easily be run In
and elected.”
FRATERNARS OBJECT TO BIEL.
At ii meeting of members of fraternal
societies of York held at lie city hall
the following resolutions were unani
mously adopted. The fraternal societies
of York will send delegations to l.lneoln
to work with the representatives of York
county.
Whereas. Senate File 19, now in the
hands of the senate insurance committee,
is being urged for passage.' and believ
ing that if the bill ever becomes a law
it will work irreparable injury to fra
t< rrial benefit societies for at least two
reasons:
1. It takes from the membership of
these societies a large portion of the
management thereof and transfers it to
tin otfleers and committees appointed by
them.
1’. It permits the management of any
sielety to invest the reserve fund of any
such society in buildings contrary to the
purpose for which said fund was raised.
Therefore, 6e it
R< solved. That we, members of Ancient
Older United Workmen. Modern Wood
men of America, Tribe of Ben Mur. Roy
al Highlanders. Woodmen of the World,
Knights and Radies of Security, and
Bankers' Union of the World, lodges of
York. Nebraska, in mass convention as
sembled. hereby earnestly protest
against the passage of said senate file
19 Tor the reason that we believe that
It strikes at the very foundation stone of
fraternal benefit societies and destroys
our representative form of government,
so sacred to our organization. And we
appeal to the entire memebrship of the
state to use every honorable means to
defeat senate file 19. lie It further
Resolved, That our senator and repre
sentatives are hereby requested to use
till honorable means to defeat said bill.
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REVENUE COMMITTEES WORK.
Whatever else may he said about the
rt venue committee, whatever Uiml of bill
it sublmts to the legislature, it cannot
be said that it has not worked faith
fully since the adjournment of the legis
lature. It has met morning, noon and
night and meeting, lias worked. The
committee will stand by the bill it roc
commends until the last. Word came
out from the meeting room that the
committee would tight to the end any
attempt to amend or strike out any sec
tion of the bill being prepared. The
committee speaks as one voice or It re
mains forever silent, and If a majority
say this is right, no other member will
object to it on the floor of the legisla
ture.
Chairman Hrnwn said: “We are work
fng faithfully, conscientiously and, above
all, we are working harmoniously, and
l believe we will have the bill ready fot
the legislature by the time it reconvenes.
We are studying each section carefully
and we are putting in some good, strong
points that 1 believe will be acceptable
to the people of the state. It is u mosf
difficult task to prepare a bill of this
nature in one week and whether it suits
or not. whether it is a good bill or a ban
bill, we have put our best endeavor on
It and that is all we can do.”
Member Sears is getting somewhat
pessimistic contemplating the manner lr.
which the bill will be received by the
people. "No matter what kind of a bill
we submit, whether good or bad, flaws
will be found In it and wo are up for a
‘cussing’ from some quarter. But there
is one consolation, we won’t know any
thing about it a hundred years from
now.”
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Alleged Noble in Toils.
ST. LOUIS—A man who styled him
self “Lieutenant Colonel the Honora
ble F. Seymour F. Barrington, of His
Majesty’s Horse," and said he was
of noble family and had great wealth,
was found guilty of disturbing the
peace and fined $500, or in default
one year in the workhouse. Barring
ton’s arrest resulted from an encoun
ter with James F. Cochrane of Kansas
City, whose sister he declared had
been duped into marrying the Eng
lishman.
Express Company Tax Free.
HELENA, Mont.—The supreme
court has decided that no franchise
tax could be collected from the North
ern Pacific Express company by ths
state of Montana because the concern
[was engaged in interstate business.
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