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Loup City Northwestern. / ._ _______ VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1903. NUMBER 48. THE 8EA8O N’8 CHANGE. * —------- I— I The Last of the Good Old Summer Time. From the Minneapolis Tribune. A DIPLOMAT BUSY CHINESE MINISTER CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION. THINKS HIS BROTHER INSULTED Immigration Inspectors Are Asked to Explain the Detention of Consul— After Facts Causing Clerk’s Arrest— Consular Employe Who Killed Him self May Cause Some Friction. WASHINGTON—The Chinese min ister is awaiting the return to Wash ington of Secretary Hay, when he will file an official protest against the treatment accorded hia brother, Lang Hsun, consul general to the Philip pines, and a party of women who ae companied Iflm by the immigration inspector at San Francisco on their arrival at that city recently. Although the inspector was in structed to facilitate their landing, they were detained for some time, finally being permitted to land after the minister had made representa tions to the state department. The immigration officials claim that their action in the matter was en tirely Justified in view of the fact that only two of the party had pass ports which served as a means of identification, as the law in such cases requires. Further, they say there were three members of the party whose names had not been previous ly furnished as entitled to the cour tesies of the port. These were Mrs. If Chang Choh Fan, wife of the Chinese consul at Honolulu, her daughter and a maid. The Chinese minister sub slquently to giving advices concern ig the intended arrival of his brother and the two women at San Francisco, asked the state department to facili tate the landing of the others at P Honolulu. The immigration bureau of ficials claim that inasmuch as other Chinese arrived on the same steamer it was necessary for the minister’s brother and his entire party to be identified, and say that on this being done they immediately were shown every courtesy and their landing facil itated. me untnese minister aoes nor in tend to drop the matter of the arrest of Tom Kim Yung, the Chinese con sular clerk at San Francisco, which is said to have beeu the direct cause of the young man’s suicide, until he is fully satisfied that the whole af fair has been probed to the bottom. Should the investigation which the secretary of the Chinese legation who was sent to San Francisco and who will report in person to the min \ ister. Is now making, confirm the ln i formation already received here that ** the arrest of Tom Kim Yung by the San Francisco policeman was unpro voked, the minister will make a vigor ous pretest to the state department. Relatives of Tom Kim Yung have Bmployed an attorney and he is as sisting in the investigation. > Preliminaries for Church Merger. ■ ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Committees of the Cumberland Presbyterian church spent Wednesday in conferring on the question of union of the two relig ious denominations and it was an nounced at night that all preliminar ies had been completed and that each body is ready for the joint confer ence ROBERTS' REPORT. Uncle Sam's Treasurer Submits His Figures. WASHINGTON—E'.lls H. Roberta, treasurer of the United States, has submitted to Secretary Shaw his re port on the condition of the treasury June 30, 1903, and its operations dur ing the last fiscal year. The total net revenue for the year was $560, 396,6 74, an increase of $38,988,439 over the year preceding, and the to tal expenditure $506,009,007, an in crease of $36,782,034. The surplus was $54,297,667, as compared with $91,278,375 'n 1902. In the receipts there was an increase of upward of 3,000,000 from customs and a falling ofT of over $41,000,000 from internal revenue the letter being the result of legislation enacted with that ob ject. On the side of the expeditures there was an increase in every impor tan account except pensions and in terest, in which there were slight de creases. The expeditures for the tw® military departments, which amount ed to $191,237,554, forming by far the heaviest outlay for any single pur pose. were upward of $21,000,000 greater loan the vear before. The ag gregate income, including, besides the revenues, the receipts from bonds, notes and coin certificates, was $1, 211,394,097. and the aggregate outgo $1,222,667,065. At the close of the year the treasury held $893,068,869 in gold and silver on deposit against outstanding cer tificates and treasury notes, besides the $150,000,000 in gold which forms the reserve against United States notes. Treasurer Roberts places the mone tary stock of the country on June 30, 1903, including gold and silver. Uni ted States notes, treasury notes and national bank notes, but not certifi cates, at $2,688,149,621, an increase of $124,882,963 for the year. The in crease in gold was $60,137,401, and in national bank notes $56,998,559. PRESIDENT DEEPLY GRIEVED. Sent a Personal Message *of Condo lence to Lady Herbert. WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Roosevelt was deeply grieved when informed of the death of Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador to this country. He and Sir Michael and Lady Herbert were personal as well as official friends and he has sent a personal message of condolence to I-ady Herbert. Official Washington learned with profound regret of the death of Sir Michael Herbert. The state depart ment cabled Mr. Choate, the Ameri can ambassador at I^ondon, Instruct ing him to convey to the British for eign office an appropriate expr^psion of the Washington government's sym pathy. Two National Banka Fail. WASHINGTON—The comptroller of the currency has received telegrams announcing the failure of two national banks, the Packard National bank of Greenfield, Mass., of which Bank Ex aminer Frank L. Fish has been ap pointed receiver, and the Bolivar Na tional bank of Bolivar, Pa., of which Bank Examiner John B. Cunningham has been appointed receiver. The president of this bank telegraphed the comptroller that his bank was Insolv ent and be had closed Its doors. ACTIVE CONFLICT FIRST FIGHT BETWEEN TURKEY AND BULGARIA. THE TURKS ASTHE AGGRESSORS Moslems Accused of Attacking Fron tier Post and of Pursuing Refugees Across the Line—Measure for Relief of Sufferers. SOFIA, Bulgaria.—Serious news has been received here from the frontier of fighting between Turkish and Bul garian troops at Demir-Kapia, both sides sustaining losses. In official quarters all knowledge cf the affair is denied, but the circum stantial details given seem to indicate that there is some foundation for the accounts of the conflict. According to one report the Turks attacked the Bulgarian frontier post. Another version says the Turks pur sued a number of refugees across the frontier. It is asserted that the Turks have frequently attempted to provoke hostilities, firing into Bulgarian terri tory and crossing the frontier to steal horses and sheep, The war office here is working at high pressure and 24,000 recruits will be called three months before the usual time. Prince Ferdinand has sanctioned numerous other measures of a warlike nature. All the cavalry, with the exception of a single regi ment, which is stationed at Sofia, has been sent into the frontier districts, with a strong force of artillery. Vig orous efforts are being made to pre vent bands from crossing into Turkish territory. Two bands which were sent hack have reached Sofia. Dispatches from the frontier receiv ed at ’the revolutionary headquarters report that the refugees in the moun tains are in a terrible condition through their pursuit by the Turks and cold and hunger. Many are dying. Measures are being taken here to relieve the worst cases of suffering among the fugitives from the frontier districts. Madame Bahmeteff, wife of the Russian agent here, is taking a prominent part in this charitable work. From insurgent sources it is report ed that the Bulgarian villagers of Obiditt and Kremen have been pillag ed and burned. Many of their inhabi tants were slaughtered. The Bulgar ian quarter of Belitza is in flames. Seven hundred refugees from Belitza are reported to have been killed in a Turkish ambuscade near Samakoff, province of Kirk-Kilisse. AWARDS SATISFY GERMANY. Well Pleased with Amounts Granted Against Venezuela. CARACAS, Venezuela—The Vene zuelan-German mixed tribunal has offi cially closed seventy-three claims pre sented against the government, involv ing a total of $1,317,817. Two claims amounting to $116,250 were withdrawn and one of $558,000 for the closing to navigation of the river Catatumbo, on the Colombian boundary, and the caus ing thereby of losses to German traders, was disallowed by the um pire, General D. M. Duffleld of De troit, Mich. The other claims, which aggregate $643,800, were discussed and recognized and the claimants were awarded $389,085. According to the protocol, the awards are payable in gold. The German railroad obtains payment in full of its claim and in ad dition a sum of $800 a day as in demnity for the interruption of traffic during a period of seventeen days. The Germans here are much pleased with the awards and compliment Um pire Duffleld upon his decision. Schwab Disappoints Them. BALTIMORE — Much disappoint ment was expressed at the failure of Charles M. Schwab of Pittsburg to be present at Music hall Sunday after noon when the last meeting in the nature of a reunion of the national boys’ brigade was held. During the day the visiting delegates to the con vention. which closed its business ses sions Saturday, visited the various Protestant churches of the city in squads. Earthquake at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondolet, the southern part of the sity, at 8:51 o'clock Sunday night. The seismic disturbance lasted one minute and caused alarm among the citizens. At the same time a slight shock was felt la the western portion of th« city. MANDERSON ON COMMITTEE. Appointsd with Others to Arrange for Congress of Lawlers. ST. LOUIS—President James Ha german of the American Bar associa tion has announced the appointment of a committee of members of the as sociation to act in co-operation with the committee of authorities of the Louisiana Purchase exposition for the convention of the Universsal Con gress of Lawyers and .Jurists in St. I^ouis during September, 1904. FUty two members are appointed to consti tute the committees, with Jacob Klein, St. Louis, chairman, and including Hold) of Boise, Idaho, Adolph Moses of Hugh Butler of Denver, Hansford A. Chicago, Clifford L. Jackson of Mus kogee, I. T„ JCmi 1 McLain of Iowa City, la., Charles Blood Smith of Topeka, William W. Dixon of Butte, Mont., i Charles F. Manderson of Omaha, Bav ary T. Hainer of Perry, Okl., Bartlett Tripp of Yankton, S. D„ P. L. Wil liams of Salt Lake City, George M. Foster of Spokane and Charles N. Pot ter of Cheyenne. KING EXPECTED TO PARDON. Conspirators, Although Convicted, Are Likely to Be Set Free. BELGRADE.—The trial of the army officers charged with conspiracy against the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga was concluded Tues day. Captains Kovacovitch and La zarevltch, the former being the ring leader. were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and the loss of their commissions. Dr. Vellkovltch and Capetain Ix>tki jevitch. the former aide-de-camp of King Alexander, each received sen tences of a month's imprisonment. Other officers who took a less promi nent part in the conspiracy were con demned to from three months to a year in prison. It is anticipated that King Peter will pardon all the conspirators. WESTERN MEN NOT AFFECTED Packing House Employes East Not in Same Organization. DENVER, Colo.—Replying to ru mors that a strike was brewing among the packing house employes of the west, in sympathy with a possible strike of Chicago packing house em ployes, the representatives in Den ver of the American labor union and the Denver Butchers’ union gave out a statement denying that the butch ers west of the Missouri river con template going on a strike. The butchers west of the Missouri are af filiated with the American labor union, while the eastern butchers are i affiliated with the American Federa j tion of Labor. Western butcherB : have no grievances. TURKS WITHDRAW TROOPS. Supposed to Be in Compliance with Bulgaria’s Request. BURGAS, Bulgaria—Dispatches re ceived here from the insurgent chief Gerjikoff, who has been conducting operations in the Kirklisz district, an nounce that the Turkish troops have i been withdrawn from Zabernovo, Kar j lovo and Gratiatlcoco, three points on I the Turkish frontier. It is understood that this move I ment was in accordance with the re quest of the Bulgarian government that Turkey withdraw her troops from the frontier as a sign of the sincerity of her pacific declarations. The positions vacated by the Turks are now occupied by insurgents. I - BIG BATTLE 18 IN PR0GRE88. Turks and Insurgents in a Desperate Fight. LONDON.—According to a special dispatch from Constantinople an trade of the sultan intimates that the ad vance of $5,000,000 in the new loan will be spent entirely on war material. Another dispatch says that in the neighborhood of Lucovo, an the Ser vian frontier, 8,000 Turks have en gaged five bands of insurgents and desperate fighting is reported. The insurgents are employing bombs and the Turks have lost 300 men and sev eral officers. The battle continues. I*ucovo Is said to be in flames. Wages Cut at Steel Furnaces. ALLENTOWN, Pa.—The Empire Steel and Iron company, which oper ates six furnaces, and the Thomas Iron company, which also operates six stacks, posted notices of a 10 per cent cut in wages to go into effect Ootobeff 1. The reduction affects 900 men. TWO TRAINS MET DISASTROUS COLLISION ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. CONDUCTOR HARPER IS KILLED Twenty or More Are Injured—Dis charged Soldiers Render Aid—Many Remarkable Escapes from Death Told by the Passengers. BEOWAWK. Nev.—A disastrous head-end collision occurred Thursday night on the Salt l>ak<> division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of train No. 6, the Atlan tic express from San Francisco, col lided with a freight train. One pas senger was killed and twenty Injured. The dead: Allee Harper, aged about 34 years, Pocatello, Idaho a member of the Or der of Kailway Conductors and a Knight Templar. Relief trains were sent to the scene of the wreck front Winnemucca and Carlin, carrying doctors. Among the passengers on the train were a doctoi and a trained nurse and two discharg ed soldiers. The latter had served In the hospital rorps. They rendered great service to the injured before the arrival of other medical assist ance. The concussion was so great when the trains collided that a passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Three engines are now locked together. Mr. Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned In the wreckage, being horribly inangled. Death waB not Instantaneous, but near ly two hours were consumed In ex-1 tractlng the body. Many remarkable escapes from death are told by passengers. The second section of No. 219, the freight train, came down the main line at Beowawe to allow another freight to pull out. Conductor Dorsey. In charge of No. 219, saw what the engineer was doing, and, as No. 6 was about due, turned the air on the train, breaking It in two. The head brakeman went back to chain up. while the fireman went to flag the first section of No. 6, which was coming. It being on a curve, the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was Impossible to prevent the crashing together of the powerful engines. Both engine crews Jumped and both engines were demolished. • The dead and Injured were taken on the second section of No. 6 to Ogden, with the exception of Fireman Stone and Grant Byle of San Francisco, who were sent to that city. THREE DIE IN DEATH CHAIR. Brother* Are Electrocuted for Murder , of Their Uncle. DANNEMORA, N. Y.—Without one unforeseen incident to mar the per fect and dignified execution of the death penalty imposed by the trial court, sustained by the court of ap peals, and not Interfered with by Gov ernor O’Dell, Willis, Frederick M. and Burton Van Wormer were put to death in fifteen and one-half minutes at Clinton prison Thursday for the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hol lenbeck, at Greendale, on Christmas eve, 1901. The motive for the mur der was ill-feeling growing out of the foreclosure of a mortgage on the Van Wormer home by Hallenbeck. x The men walked from the doors of their cells in the care of their priest and flanked on either side by prison deputies, with calm demeanor but ex treme pallor. The entire proceeding from the start of the first man from his cell to the doctor’s declaration of the death of the lnBt consumed but fifteen and one-half minutes, and no untoward in cident marred the execution of the law. Available 8upply of Grain. NEW YORK—Special cable and tel egraphic dispatches to Bradstreet'a this week show the following changes In available supplies, as compared with last accounts: Wheat, United States and Canada, east of the Rockies, increase. 2,969,. 000 bushels. Wheat In and for Eu rope increased 4,700,000 bushels. To tal supply increased 7,669,000 bushela Corn, United States and Canada, east of the Rockies, increased 1,212, 000 bushels. Oats, United States and Canada, east of the Rockies, decrease. 698,000 bushels. INCREA8E IN IMMIGRATION. Nearly Twenty Thousand Greater Than August of a Year Ago. WASHINGTON, D| C.—The bureau of immigration, in a statement given out, reports a heavy increase in Im migration to the United States during August, 1903, compared with August* 1902 The total number of Immi grants was 64,977, against 45,549 a year ago. The statement shows marked increases in the immigration from Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Finland. Germany, England, Itaiy, Russia, Scotland and Wales. A slight decrease is noted in immigra tion from Asia, while Chinese immi gration increased slightly. There were 810 immigrants debarked, of whom 545 were paupers, 146 diseased, six convicts, seven polygamists, nine ty five contract laborers and one idiot. Out of the total arrivals, 48.000 were at the port of New York. The increase in immigration for the first two months of the fiscal year Is 48 per cent. BELIEVES GERMANY 8EEKS WAR. A Strong Undercurrent Against the United States. CHICAGO. III.—‘in plain English, the attitude of the Germans toward us, the United States, is, ‘We like you awfully, but we've got to fight you all the same.’ This does not mean trade * hammering with tariff regulations. It means sooner or later shooting to kill.” Prof. Albion W. Small, on arriving at the University of Chicago Tuesday, after a summer's tour through Europe, uttered these words and gave as the reason for this German intention of provoking war with the United States, Germany's desire for trade expansion in South America and the east. "The Germans are making extraor dinary efforts to please the Americans and if we want those efforts to con tinue we haven't a minute to waste till we have a navy a little stronger than theirs,” be said. -.—.. /-I-- ' j POPE PREDICTS HI8 FREEDOM Surprise Members of Religious Or ders. ROME.—According to the Tribuna, Pius X., on receiving the abbott of the selebrated monastery of Monte Cas sini, in Campania, said: “We shall soon meet, most reverend father, at Mont*Ca8slni.” Then, noting the ef fect that his words produced—the im^ prcRsion that his holiness would somet day leave the Vatican precincts—he added: “Pray, for all things are ob tained by prayer.” The pope Is said to have told the abbott of the Benedictine monastery at Cava Del Tirenne, that he himself would inaugurate the jubilee .of the Immaculate Conception. TO PROTECT THEIR VISITOR Anarchists of Franco Under Strict Surveillance. PARIS.—In anticipation of the ap proaching visit of the king of Italy to Paris the French police have institut ed a strict surveillance over the an archists in this country. Several de tectives have been sent to Marseilles to maintaain a strict watch over the Italian colony there. Two suspected anarchists were arrested today at Nice upon information furnished by the Italian government. ~ The police at Marseilles today seiz ed some compromising anarchist cor -espondence and made four arrests on clues given by the Italian government. The two Italians who were arrested at Nice are charged with complicity in the anarchist conspiracy. Reported Massacre of Jews. VIENNA.—The Czernowitz, the newspaper which first announced the Kishineff riots, reports that another massacre occurred at the town of Mo hllev-Podolsky, nera Kishineff. yester day, in which 300 Jews and 100 Chris tians were killed. This report is not confirmed from any quarter. Mohllev Podolsky is a town on the Dneister, with a population of 18,128, compris ing many Jews. Concussion of a Larger Gun. SAN FRANCISCO.—The concussion caused by the discharge of the 12-inch gun on Angel island, which was fired by the artillerymen In practice, shat tered windows in Sauaalito, shook houses, knocked down plaster and caused much excitement among the people. The Presidio was also well shaken. The boom of the heavy gun made the general hospital unsafe for a few moments. ^ -w
