Loup City Northwestern.
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VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1903. NUMBER 48.
THE 8EA8O N’8 CHANGE.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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