Loup City Northwestern.
VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY. SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 0. 1903. NUMBER 17.
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A BIG FIRE LOSS
CINCINNATI SUFFERS A GREAT
CON FLAG RAT'ON.
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DAMAGE IS TWO MILLIONS
Flames Rage for Nearly Twelve Hours
—Half a Square in Heart of City is I
Totally Destroyed—Pike Theater
and Scores of Offices Burned.
CINCINNATI.—This city was visited j
witn a fire Thursday that destroyed
one-half of a square in the center of
the business district and caused a loss
of over $2,000,000.
The fire departments of Covington,
Newport and other Kentucky towns
came promptly to the assistance of the
local firemen, but it took twelve hours
before their combined efforts got the
fire under control. Crews were at
work all the time on the roofs of sur
rounding buildings, and a general con
flagration was narrowly averted.
It was perhaps the greatest scare
the city ever had, as it was thought at
one time that the entire business sec
tion was doomed and such would have
been the case if there had been a
high wind.
Joseph Shaefer and John Kennan
were seriously injured by falling walls,
but both will recover. Captain
O’Keefe, with seven firemen, was
caught on the roof of one of the
buildings, and ail came near perish
ing when the flames broke out under
them, but they were rescued in the
nick of time, and it is not believed
any lives were lost.
About 1:30 Thursday morning flames
were discovered in the cellar of George
Joffe's grocery building on Fourth
street, between Vine and Walnut. An
hour later there was an explosion, sup
posed to come from some liquors in
storage, and the flames soon after
ward shot up through the roof of the
six story stone front building, and
from that time on for several hours
the fire was beyond control.
The Pike building was totally de
stroyed, including the offices of the
United States Express company, the
Adams Express company. White’s res
taurant, owned by Maynard & Kerr;
George Joffe's grocery, John II. Mar
tin’s restaurant, Empson's confection
ery, Henry Strauss' cigar store and
the offices of the Pike Theater com
pany on the first floor, the Pike thea
ter auditorium and green rooms and
other offices on the second floor and
all of the offices on the third, fourth
and fifth floors.
The Scasor Good building, adjoining
the Pike building on the west, at the
corner of Vine and Fourth streets,
w as badly damaged.
CONSUL SAWTER IS AFRAID.
He Decides to Not Accept Post Be
cause of the Yellow Fever.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. — United
States Consul General Sawter and
Mrs. Sawter, who arrived here Febru
ary 25, via Payta. Peru, have started
on their return to the United States,
on the steamer which brought them
south. Mr. Sawter, it Is alleged, be
came afraid of the yellow fever when
he saw the consulate where Thomas
Nast, the former consul general, died
December 7 of the fever.
Strong winds have caused an over
flow of the Allausi river. Some dam
age has been done to the railroad line
ito Quito, but traffic will be resumed
gn a few days.
CORBETT AND HANLON FIGHT.
Mill is a Fast and Furious One and
is Decided a Draw.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—After
twenty rounds of the fastest fighting
ever seen in San Francisco, Referee
Graney decided the bout between
Young Corbett of Denver and Eddie
Hanlon of San Francisco a draw.
Young Corbett clearly demonstrated
to the crowd present that he has not
gone back, as some sporting writers
would have the public believe.
MAY PAY MEXICAN DEBT.
Multimillionaire Offers Diaz $50,000,
000 to Square National Account.
MEXICO CITY—President Diaz has
received a communication from Pedro
Alvarado, a multimillionaire mining
man of Parral, Mex., offering to con
tribute $50,000,000 for the payment or
Mexico’s foreign debt.
Several weeks ago Alvarado wrote
to Minister of Finance Joseph Ives
LJmantour offering to pay off the pub
lic debt of Mexico. The offer was de
clined at the time,
MEAT TREATED WITH BORAX.
Germany Against It if It Comes
From This Country.
BERLIN.'—In the reichstag Wed
nesday Herr Ortel, editor of the
Deutche Tages Zeitung. urged tho
government to enforce with the ut
most stringency the regulations
against meat treated with borax, espe
cially against meat so treated in the
United States.
Home Secretary Von Posadowsky
Wehner remarked that the American
house of representatives had passed
a bill prohibiting the export of, im
port of or internal trade in adulter
ated food or foods treated with un
wholesome ingredients. A motion to
except borax from this prohibition had
been voted down in that house.
The secretary added that the gov
ernment was determined to strictly en
force the regulations until borax was
proved to be injurious by indisputable
scientific authority.
CORNER STONE OF SEA WALL.
Great Ctructure to Protect Galveatoo
From Tidal Waves.
GALVESTON. Tex—The corner
stone of the $125,000 sea wall was laid
Monday with impressive ceremonies
and a parade of citizens and marines
and officers from the United States
battleships at anchor in the harbor
here. The work of the wall has pro
gressed satisfactorily since its begin
ning last October.
The wall will be three miles in
length and will give absolute protec
tion to the city, even from a 6tage of
water equal to the great and disastrous
tidal wave of the 1900 storm. The
funds for its construction were raised
by popular subscription to a bond
issue, most of the money being sub
scribed by local men. The city has
been exempted from state taxes for
a period of eighteen years as assist
ance in the erection of the great wr ’i
for its protection.
FOUR NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Naval Appropriation Bill Provides for
Building.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Hale,from
the committee on naval affairs, report
ed the naval appropriation bill.
The most important amendment
recommended by the committee re
lates to the increase of the navy. The
entire house provision is stricken out
and in its stead provision is made for
four first c!a.;s battleships of the gen
eral type of the Oregon and two first
class armored cruisers of the type of
the Ilrooklyn. The battleships are
to cost not exceeding $2,200,000 each
and the cruisers $2,750,000.
The battleships are to be of 12,000
tons displacement, and the cruisers of
9,500 tons. There is a provision that
not more than two of tliC3e vessels
shall lie built by one establishment,
and for the building of any or all of
them in the government yards in case
of a combination to deprive the gov
ernment of the benefit of fair compe
tition.
MONEY FOR HAWAIIAN QUEEN.
Liliuokalani is to Be Paid $200,000
in Full Settlement.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—The senate
committee on appropriations Monday
concluded consideration of the sun
dry civil appropriation bill. The
committee recommends increases
over the appropriations made by the
bill as it passed the house amount
ing to $3,279,701, bringing the total
up to $83,279,650. The following aro
the principal items of increase:
Quarantine stations, $65,000; light
houses, beacons and fog signals, $1,
175,100; revenue cutter service, $360,
000; for payment to Queen Liliuoka
lani of Hawaii, $200,000; armories
and arsenals, $283,000; for miliary
posts, $750,000; soldiers’ homes, $126,
500; beginning of new buildings for
the agricultural department, $250,000.
Divinity of the Savior.
PRINCETON. N. J.—President F. L.
Pal ton of the Theological seminary
delivered a sermon before the stu
dents of theology on “The Person of
Christ.” The sermon was evidently
suggested by the recent discussion of
the views or Prof. Delitzsch of Berlin
concerning the divinity of the Savior.
Dr. Patton s^id that while the theory
of evolution might not be considered
inconsistent with belief in the incarna
tion of Christ, it would not establish
the fact of the incarnation, and that
while revelation gave us a belief in
God it was only through Jesus Christ
that he could be revealed as a God of
love.
A SHORT SESSION
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE THE
PAST THREE MONTHS.
MANY BILLS UNACTED UPON
The Short Session, However, is Nota
ble for the Great Amount of Legis
lative Work Accomplished — Four
, Laws Directly Aimed at Trusts.
WASHINGTON. — Three or four
years ago the correspondent of a great
metropolitan daily newspaper receiv
ed a dispatch from his managing ed
itor which read: “When is congress
likely to adjourn? Rush answer.”
There are a great many people in
this country, including the managing
editors of important newspapers, who
do not know or fail to remember that
under the law the final session of ev
ery congress must adjourn sine die at
the close of the legislative day of
March 3. This means, invariably, at
noon on March 4 of each odd num
bered year. The final session of the
Fifty-seventh congress will adjourn on
Wednesday next at noon. It will have
left a vast mass of bills, probably up
wards of 10,000, unacted upon at that
time, but the short session will never
theless be notable for the great amount
of legislative work accomplished dur
ing the last three months. Because
there are a few days more still re
maining in which bills may be rushed
through one or both houses, it is im
possible at. this time to say accurate
ly just what has been accomplished.
But the short session of this expir
ing congress lias enacted no less than
four laws directly aimed at trusts,
which have been the prime objects
of attacks for several years past. The
first of the four has for its purpose the
expedition of the hearing and deter
mination of suits in equily now pend
ing or which may he brought in the
future under any laws now in force,
or that hereafter may be enacted, upon
the certificate of the attorney general
that the case is of general public im
portance. The second act directly re
lated to anti-trust legislation is a
clause in the general deficiency bill
authorizing the president to appoint
an assistant attorney general at a sal
ary of $7,000 and another at $5,000 a
year, and also authorizing the attor
ney general to appoint two confidential
clerks without reference to the civil
service commission at salaries of $1,
C00 a year each. These new officials
are directed to perform such, tasks as
may be assigned to them by the at
torney general, and it is of course un
derstood that their duties shall con
sist mainly in looking especially after
the enforcement of anti-trust laws.
SANTO DOMINGO WILL PAY.
Concludes to Settle Without Arbitra
tion.
SAN DOMINGO. Republic of Santo
Domingo.—The Dominican govern
ment has notified the United States
minister, Mr. Powell, that it has re
considered its intention to send an
envoy to Washington to make repre
sentations there against the Ros and
Clyde companies’ claims, and that it
will accept Mr. Powell's proposition
in regard to the Ros claim and has
requested further time to consider
the claim of the Clyde company.
The treasury officials here have
paid Minister Powell $18,750 as the
first installment in the payment of
the Improvement company’s claim,
amounting to $4,300,000. The Domin
ican government has agreed to pay
during the first year $225,000 in
monthly installment of $18,750.
CONGRESS WORKS ON SUNDAY.
Little Accomplished in Face of Oppo
sition of Democrats.
WASHINGTON—The house of rep
resentatives held a four hours’ ses
sion Sunday and put the District of
Columbia appropriation through its
last parliamentary stage, in the face
of the democratic filibuster. The pre
vious question on the report of the
Alaska homestead bill was ordered,
and the vote on its adoption will be
taken when the house reconvenes at
11 o'clock Monday. That was the net
result of the Sunday session. Al
though it was Sunday by the calen
dar, it was still Thursday, February
2fi. according to parliamentary fic
tion. The democrats put a block in
the legislative wheel at every oppor
tunity and it required six roll calls to
accomplish what was done Sunday,
l^arge crowds watched the proceedings
Child Saving Institute of Omaha.
The county commissioners of Gree
ley county, in the month of January
of the present year, appealed to the
Child Saving Institute of Omaha to
look after the welfare of live little
children which were found in a piti
able condition in that county. Prompt
attention was given to this matter by
• he management of the institute and
plans have been formed for the fu
ture good of the children. A similar
appeal recently came from Custer
county and some children were taken
from a condition of destitution a.id
neglect and good homes were provid
ed for them. Several other counties
have of late also appealed to this in
stitute because they believe in the
principles controlling the manage
ment and also believe in the methods
which are employed in the work.
The 1st of February au urgent ap
peal came to the institute from the
county officials of Schuyler to come
to that place at once, to take charge
of some little children requiring im
mediate care and attention, and this
appeal was promptly responded to, as
are all such appeals.
This institute is supported wholly
by voluntary gifts from the people,
and since the work extends through
out Nebraska and western Iowa it is
hoped that many good people will
count it a privilege to make a dona
tion to help in this important work
of providing for the helpless and de
pendent little ones.
In many cases the parents or rela
tives are permitted to know the wher
aliouts of their children who are plac
ed in permanent homeB for adoption.
This is only done in cases where the
best interests of the children would
not be in any way endangered .
The cost of maintaining this work
is considerable and the society, has
always been governed by the princi
ple never to go in debt. It is earn
estly hoped that contributions will
soon he made by those who are inter
ested in this work throughout the
country, to enable the institute to re
spond to the many appeals which ar*
coming.
CAR SITUATION IS CRITICAL.
Many Mines Are Shut Down Because
the Product Cannot be Moved.
PITTSBURG. Pa—While the car
situation at the mines in the Pittsburg
district has not been good for several
months, the condition just at present
are pronounced by coal operators the
worst in history.
Outside of the river mines and those
along the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and
the Monongahela division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, fully 70 per cent are
idle. Of the twenty-eight mines of the
Pittsburg Coal company on the Pan
Handle road sixteen are shut down
and the others have but a lair supply
of cars.
Six of the largest mines on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, out of fifteen
owned by the combination, are idle.
This is said to be a good showing,
compared with the conditions at the
independent mines.
BILL TO DIVIDE NEBRASKA.
It is Dead for This Session of Con
gress, at Least.
WASHINGTON—The bill to divide
Nebraska into two judicial districts
has gone glimmering. A prominent
member of the sub-committee of the
house committee on judiciary stated
that the bill would be reported out
of the committee. The members, he
stated, did not think there was any
necessity for such a measure, the at
torney general having opposed it, and
his opinion was known to all. In ad
dition to this several members of the
Nebraska delegation had expressed
themselves as opposed to the division
of the state. It is safe to prognosti
cate, said the member, that the meas
ure will not pass the house, at least
not at this session.
Encampment Date Fixed.
SAN FRANCISCO—General Thom
as H. Stewart, commander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, mem
bers of the national council of ad
ministration who are accompanying
him on his tour and the local com
mittee in charge of preparations for
the coming national encampment,
have directed the holding of the en
campment during the week of August
17. Tickets will be put on sale by
the railroads August 1 and they will
be good for stop-overs both coming
and going. The time limit will prob
ably be sixty days. The executive
committee will he empowered to In
vite President Roosevelt to attend
the encampment.
IS URGED TO ACT
PRESIDENT SENDS A SPECIAL
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL
Action is Asked in Behalf of Humanity
as Well as From the Standpoint of
Wise Government—President Points
Out What Is Needed.
WASHINGTON.—The president on
Friday sent the following message to
the senate:
“1 have just received a cable from
Governor Taft, which runs as follows:
“ 'Necessity for the passage of the
house bill is most urgent. The condi
tions of productive industry and busi
ness are considerably worse than in
November, the date of my last report,
and are growing worse each month.
Some revival in sugar and tobacco
prices have been experienced, due to
the expectation of a tariff law. The
interests of Filipinos in sugar and to
bacco are excessive and the failure of
the bill will he a blow in the face of
those interests. A number of tobacco
factories will have to close and many
sugar haciendas will he put up for sale
at a sacrifice If the hill should not.
pass.
" 'Customs receipts have fallen oil
this month one-third, showing the de
crease of the purchasing power of the
islands. General business is staguant.
All parties, including labor unions,
most strenuously petition for the tariff
bill.’
“Vice Governor Luke Wright en
dorses in the strongest manner all
that Governor Taft has said and says
he has the gravest apprehensions as
to the damage that may come to the
islands if there is not a substantial
reduction in the tariff levied against
Philippine* goods coming irfto the
United States. I most earnestly as1',
that this matter receive the immedi
ate attention of congress and that the
relief prayed for be granted.
“As congress knows, a series of
calamities have befallen the Philip
pine people, lust as they were emerg
ing from nearly six years of devastat
ing warfare, with the accompanying
destruction of property and the break
ing up of the bonds of social order and
the habits of peaceful industry, there
occurred an epidemic of rinderpest
which destroyed ‘JO per cent of the
carilious, the Philippine cattle, leaving
the people without draught animals to
till the land or to aid in the ordinary
work of farm and village life. The
extent of the disaster can be seen from
the fact that the surviving caribous
have increased over ten fold in value.
At the same time a peculiar oriental
horse disease became epidemic, further
crippling transportation. The rice crop
already reduced by various causes to
but a fourth of its ordinary si/.e, has
been damaged by locusts so that the
price of rice has nearly doubled.
“Under these circumstances there is
imminent danger of a famine in the
islands. Congress is in course of gen
erously appropriating $3,000,000 to
meet the immediate needs, hut the in
dtspensible and pre-eminent need is
the resurrection of productive indus
try from the prostration into which it
has been thrown by the causes above
enumerates
“i ask action in the tariff matter not
merely from the standpoint of wise
governmental policy, but as a measure
of humanity in response to an appeal
to which this great people should not
close its ears. We have assumed re
sponsibility toward the Philippines
which we are in honor bound to ful
fill. We have the specific duty of tak
ing every measure in our power to
see to their prosperity. The first and
moss important step in this direction
has been accomplished by the joint
action of the military and civil au
thorities in securing peace and civil
government. The wisdom of congress
at the present session has provided
for them a stable currency, and its
spirit of humane liberality and justice
will be shown in the appropriation
now substantially agreed upon, but
there remains a vital need that one
thing further shall be done. The
calamities which have befallen them
as above enumerated could have been
averted by no human wisdom. They
cannot be completely repaired, but the
suffering can be greatly alleviated and
a permanent basis of future prosper
ity assured if the economic relations
of the islands with the United States
are put upon a satisfactory basis.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
TO ANNEX CANADA.
England’s Views Regarding Same to
Be Ascertained.
WASHINGTON — Representative
De Almond (Mo.) on Wednesday in
troduced a resolution requesting the
president upon what terms, if any,
honorable to both nations, and satis
factory to the inhabitants of the ter
ritory primarily affected. Great Brit
ain would consent to cede to the Uni
ted Siates all or any part of Can
ada, to be formed In due time into
one or more states.
Count Yanagiwana, a cousin of the
Mikado, who is in the United States
on a pleasure trip, arrived here. He
desires it known that he is marrried
and has not come in search of an
American wife.
The secretary of the treasury sent
to the senate a letter from the at
torney general recommending an ap
propriation of $946,063 to satisfy the
decree of the United States supreme
court in the prize money case of Ad
miral Dewey and others on account
of the sinking of Spanish vessels.
One-half of the money decreed goes
to Amiral Dewey and the officers and
men under his command, and the oth
er half to the navy pension fund. The
request for an appropriation is made
in order to comply with the decision
of the court.
Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of How
ard university, has resigned, owing
to advanced age and infirmities. Dr.
Teunis S. Hamlin, a member of
board of trustees and pastor of the
Church of the Covenant in this city,
has been elected president pro tem.
Howard university is a negro institu
tion.
The democratic members of the
committee on postoffices had another
conference with the republicans favor
able to the omnibus statehood bill and
discussed the possibility of yet se
curing a compromise. The democrats
were requested to suggest a basis of
agreement, and proposed that New
Mexico and Arizona might be admitted
as one state, with the understanding
that Arizona be made a separate state
when its population reaches 200.000
and on the \ote of the people of that
area alone. The republican conferees
promised to present the suggestion
to other republican senators.
Senator Elkins has introduced a
bill providing for a duty of 10 per
cent ad valorem, in addition to pres
ent. duties, on all goods imported on
vessels not owned in this country,.
The interstate commerce commis
sion submitted a report to the senate
showing the total par value of rail
way securities is $11,724,035,829 and
their market value is $8,351,103,523.
The capital stock is, par value, $6,
021,364,502, and market value. $3,250,
144,596. The par value of the funded
debt is 15,702,661,327, and the market
value $5 100,958,927.
CHINA SITUATION IS SERIOUS.
Importation of Arms Has Reached
Alarming Stage.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Represen
tations have been made to the state
department by the Russian ambas
sador, Count Cassini, regarding the
increasing seriousness of the situa
tion in China, in the hope that the
United States will co-operate with the
other powers to stop the illegal im
portation of arms, which has reached
an alarming stage of activity.
Similar representations have been
made through the Russian represen
tatives to Belgium, Germany and
Groat Britain. The Chinese officials
claim they are powerless to stop the
practice and the Russian government,
in the interest of peace, has called
the matter to the attention of the
powers.
ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF WAY.
It is Granted to Railroads and Water
Companies.
WASHINGTON—The senate com
mittee on public lands favorably re
ported the bill introduced by Senator
Warren, granting to railroads and
water companies the right of way
through public lands and reservations
for reservoirs and pipe lines. Under
the present law these companies do
not acquire absolute right of way
across public lands, and when any
portion of these lands, upon which
these reservoir or pipe lines have
been erected or laid, are sold to home
stead settlers, the railroad companies
are required to settle with them for
damages or take up their pipe lines.
The proposed measure gives them an
absolute right of way, and tne pro
posed purchaser takes the land with
this understanding.
