Loup City Northwestern J. W BURLEIGH. Publisher. IX5UP CITY, - • NEBRASKA. I News in Brief Baron von Mannlieher, Inventor of the Mannlieher rifle, is dead. Osma Molhato and his four-year-old son, Juan, were burned to death at San Bernardino, Cal. Fire, while the thermometer was 35 degrees below zero, caused a loss of $105,000 at Dawson. John Alexander Dowie, with his party from the east, sailed from San Francisco for Australia on the steam er Sonoma. Mrs. H. Crocker of San Francisco has given $25,000 to the University of Calif' .nia for archaeological work in old Mexico. The main dining room, dormitory and laundry of the State Normal col lege at Greensboro, N. C., was de stroyed by lire. Empress Augusta Victoria of Ger many has varicose veins In one of her legs and is obliged to keep it extended on a cushion. Secretary Hay left lor inomasviue, Ga., where he expects to remain two weeks as the guest of Colonel Payne. The secretary leaves for his health. Simon S. Goldman, said to have been the inventor of the tucker and needle thread in general use on sow ing machines, Is dead at. New York. Albert von Maybvch, former Prus sian minister of public works, who successfully nationalized the Prussian railroads, died, aged eighty-three years. Five hundred students of the South division and Lake View High schools. Chicago, engaged in a fight on the streets, and the police made several arrests. The presence of smallpox among the troops at Jefferson barracks has resulted in the vaccination of all the men in the Fourth and Eighth regi ments of cavalry. The festivities in honor of the sev enty-fifth birthday of King Oscar were inaugurated with special services in all the churches of Stockholm. The city was profusely decorated. Nebraska grain dealers to the num ber of nearly 200 will be entertained in New Orleans during carnival w-eek. They are members and officers of the Nebraska Grain Dealers’ association A serious native disturbance has oc curred in the interior near Pyeng Yang, cables the Seoul correspondent of the New York Herald. The au thorities are apprehensive that it may spread. According to a cable report from United States Minister Finch at Mon teviedo, th“ revolutionary disturb ances in that country are much more serious and extensive than has been supposed. The house committee on naval af fairs authorized a favorable report on the Hitchcock resolution, calling on Secretary Moody for details as to car riages used at government expense by heads of departments. All the St. Louis theaters except the Odeon will get new licenses fnm License Collector Clifford to replace those revoked two weeks ago, Build ing Commissioner Hlllburger having found they are complying with the law. President Piantz of Lawrence t Wis.) university said that there ■ would be no more Thanksgiving foot ball for that institution. The decis ion was reached because of the agita tion in religious papers against the game on that day. Much excitement prevails at Dodge City, Kansas, over the strike of a one-inch vein of oil at a depth of 280 feet in the Bunyan farm, fifteen miles south of that place. The owner of the farm was boring for artesian water when the oil was struck. Cyrus \V. McCartney, a newspaper man. who disappeared from La Porte, Ind.. several years ago and was sup posed to have been murdered, has been heard from in a telegram from him at Dawson, Alaska. McCartney says he is well and rich. George Hail, defaulting county clerk of Buchanan county, Missouri, who left nine years ago with a deficit of over $20,000 In his accounts, sent word to his bondsmen that he is now in Monterey, Mex., and will soon re turn to reimburse them for losses. Senator Gamble, from Die commit tee on Iudian affairs, made a favorable report on the bill ratifying the agree ment with the Indians on the Lower Brule agency in South Dakota for the . cession of a portion of the reserva tion at the price of $1.25 per acre. The third anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria was observed in London. There was the usual me morial service at Frcgmore, which was attended by the king and queen and the royal family. The anniver sary of the queen’s accession was marked by salutes at the naval sta tions and dressing of tlm warships. Hon. Augustus Anderron of Strat ford, one of the oldest and most high ly respected citizens ot Central Iow.t. died last week, aged (>6. He had served two terms In the state legisla ture, and hail been a resident of Strat ford since 18(13. He wa3 a political leader in his section of the state. The supreme court of California, by a majority decision, decided that a railroad ticket is not a contract, it also decided that transportation com panies may make rules and regula tions beyond what appears on the face of a ticket, and that passengers must -comply with them all. IN THE FAR EAST OUTLOOK THERE SAID TO BE LESS HOPEFUL. JAPANESE LANDING AN ARMY Russian Does Not Regard Situation Serious Enough for Hostile Action —Talk of China Going to War Re garded as Absured. ST. PETERSBURG—Reports of an a'arming nature of the situation there continue to jtour out of the far east. These include the states meats that the Japanese are landing an army at Ma Sam-Pho, Corea, and that 3.000 Rus sian troops are crossing the Yalue river. The reported dispatch of Chi nese army of soldiers trained by Eur opqean officers beyond the great wall to preserve order in Manchuria cannot be confirmed here and the reports of the Japanese at Ma-Sam-Pho and the Russians at the Yalue are discredited at the foreign offices here and by M. Kurino, the Japanese minister to Rus flirt M. Hartwig, a departmental chief of of the Russian foreign office, spoke feelingly to M. Ktirlno regarding Ihe liarin being done by often utterly base less report-;. While the Russian gov ernment understands the situation in Corea to be disturbed and possibly threatening, it has not information of a situation grave enough to warrant the landing of a large Japanese army there. Russia freely admits Japan's right, under existing conditions, to land in Corea a reasonable number of soldiers to preserve order, but the landing of an army at this stage of the negotia tions eould not be viewed with equanimity. M. Kurino is in no way anxious because of the delay in Rus sia's response to the latest Japanese note and says that Japan is not press ing for an immediate reply. "Russia will bo given all the time she needs." the minister is nuoted ns saving. The statement published by the Novoe Vremya that because Rus sia desired peace she cannot surrender all, coinrides with the distinct impres sion gathered by the correspondent of the Associated Press at the foreign of fice that Russia will continue to main tain that the question of sovereignty of Manchuria is solely a matter be tween Russia and China. The Svjet. and the St. Petersburg Listoe have raised an outcry over the reported sending of Chinese troops to Manchuria, and the latter newspaper declares that if it is true that these troops go with the purpose of threat ening the railroads between Port Ar thur and Vladivostoek, it means war with China and not with Japan. In an interview, Soo Wei-Teh, the Chi nese minister to Russia, is quoted as saying: “The talk of China going to war with anyone is absurd. We have no Intention of fighting. If Chinese troops are being sent north it is solely for the purpose of inspiring confidence In our people, who are alarmed and who would become panic-stricken in the event of hostilities between Russia and Japan. Personally, l have no knowl edge of this reported movement, but the fact of it would not necessarily be communicated to me." FIRE CHIEF MUSHAM REPORTS Blames Management and Builders for Iroquois Fire. CHICAGO, III.—Upon the manage ment and builders of the Iroquois theater has been placed the responsi bility for the fire horror, in a report rendered to Mayor Harrison by Fire Chief Mttsham. The report is prepar ed by Fulkerson after examination of nearly 100 witnesses in the days im mediately following the fire. No criticism is made of the build ing department, although seven viola tions of the building ordinances are noted. Attorney Fulkerson concludes that tho theater building was not com pleted at the time it was opened: that the theater employes did what they eould to put the fire out, and that the doors were generally locked throughout the building. Pope Sends His Biessing. ROME—Monsignor Serafino, the new apostolic delegate in Mexico, has been received in farewell audience by the pope and was entrusted by his ' holiness to express to President Diaz and the Mexican government his satis faction with the measure of liberty granted under President Diax to Cath olicism in Mexfco. which resulted in he prosperity of the church there. Crushed by an Elephant. LONDON.—George Lockhart, the well known elephant trainer and cir cus proprietor, was accidentally crush ed to death Sunday by an elephant while he was attending the unload ing of the circus animals at the Hoe street railway station at Walthams town. Hurrica"s in Fili Islands. MELBOURNE—A disastrous hurri cane has blown over the Fiji islands, resulting in great loss of life and prop erty. Rosebud Reservation Lands. WASHINGTON—The house commit tee on Indian affairs ordered a favor able report on the bill tyj open for settlement 400,000 acres of the Hose bud Indian reservation in South Da kota. Term cf Service Increased. WASHINGTON.—The war depart ment has ordered that hereafter all details of staff officers for Philippines duty shall be for three yearn instead of two years as at present. THE PANAMA TREATY. Discussion Will Be Continued in Sen ate This Week. WASHINGTON.—The senate has i no program for the week beyond a | continuation of the debate on the Pan i ama question. The fact that the Gor 1 rnon resolution of inquiry was dis posed of last week does not change the situation, except thar it makes necessary a new basis for speeches. This will be supplied in the resolu tion of inquiry to be introduced Mon day as the result of Saturday's confer ence of democratic senators. A num ber of addresses are still to be nvade on both sides of the controversy, and it. is quite certain that the debate will continue for many days. It is well understood on both sides of the cham ber that in reality the treaty and not any particular resolution is being dis cussed. the reason feeing that the treaty itself could not lie discussed in open session, whereas the resolu tion can he. The democrats prefer an open discussion of the question and the republicans, as a matter of policy, and in the interest of the expedition to the vote on the treaty, have nor objected. When it becomes appnrcnt that the discussion in open session is exhausted, executive sessions will be ordered and the debate wdtll pro ceed behind closed doors. It is quite well understood that the amendments to the treaty reported by the committee on foreign relations will he withdrawn before final action is taken. COLD MADDENS AN ELEPHANT. Almost Kills Keener and Does Much Damage. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Maddened by the intense cold, which had frozen its ears and trunk, an elephant belong ing to an animal show which had been exhibiting at a local theater. Sun day almost killed its keeper. Conrad Castens. and partially wrecked the Milwaukee freight house. Many of the attendants had narrow escapes from serious injury. Castens then went to the animal's head and attempted to pacify it. but the beast threw him to the ground and planted his foot upon him. crushing in his ribs and. it Is believed, fatally injuring him. The brute then seized heavy articles of freight in the sheds and began toss ing them about promiscuously, doing considerable damage. After laboring for nine hours attendants quieted the animal. COTTON REACHES WAR PRICES. Dr. Brown Springs a Little Surprise nn thr New Orleans Ring. NEW ORLEANS—Dr. Brown sur prised the ring at the Cotton exchange Friday by telling traders to go to his brokers and give them everything they had for sale for May delivery at the market price. He said he was w.lling to buy everything offered up to half a million bales. Before he made this offer lie bid 15.18c for 25.000 bales of May His purchases were heavy. The market remained in a healthy condition in spite of the levels that have been attained. The present prices are the highest since wa'r times and ince the future market lias been established, "here appears to be no weak long interest in the market and 1 brokers are exacting heavy margins on all purchases. IRRIGATION COMPANY LOSES. County Has Right to Fx Rate for Water. WASHINGTON. D. C.—The decis ion of the circuit court of the United Slates for the northern district of Cali fornia in the case of the county of Stanislaus against the San Joaquin & Kings River Canal and Irrigation com pany was reserved in the supreme court Monday. The case involved the validity of the laws of California permitting the county authorities to fix the rate to be charged by the irrigation company for water. The company claimed the rate the comity fixed was loo low and that the laws prior to 188.", under which the company was organized, were equivalent to a contract, permit ting the company to fix its own rate. The circuit court accepted this view and decided that the act of 1885 could not bo invoked to impair the contract. BLAIR OWED HALF A MILLION. He Carried Life Insurance in the Sum of $i,000.000. ST. LOUIS. Mo—The policies held by the late James L. Blair, former general counsel for the world's fair, who died at Eustls. Fla., last Satur day, are rapidly being paid by ihe in surance companies. It is stated that the total amount of Mr. Blair's indebtedness, including the • money advanced for hint by friends j and relatives during the last year of ; his life, has been officially determin ed at $663,000. It is furthc stated that every dollar of this amount will be paid front the Insurance now com ing in, leaving $540,000 for Mrs. Blair and her two sons providing that a pol icy for $200,000. which one company began to congest before Mr. Blair's death, is paid Engage in Pitched Battle. KANSAS CITY. Mo.—Fifty non union bridge workers employed on the Union Pacific Railroad c mpany’s bridge across the Kansas river, and about a hundred members of the Structural Iron Workers’ union engag ed in a pitched battle at the new Union Pacific bridge in Kansas City, Kan., Tuesday, during which thirty revolver shots were fired, hundreds of bricks were thrown and several men injured, two seriously. It was thought for a time that more serious trouble would result. a A TORNADO SOUTH AT LEAST THIRTY PEOPLE ARE KNOWN TO BE KILLED. All INCREASE IN LIST LIKELY Entire Northern Portion of Alabama Swept by High Winds—In Addition to Loss of Life Great Damage Re sults to Property. TUSCALOOSSA. Ala—A disastrous tornado swept over Moundville, Ala., a town ot 300 inhabitants, fitteen miles south ot Tuscaloosa, early Fri day and as a result thirty-seven per sons were killed and more than 100 injured. Every business house, with the exception of a small durg store, was completely destroyed. Surgeons were rushed to Mound ville from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa and all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the Injured. By the force of the storm persons were blown hundreds of feet from their beds in the blacknes of the night. Through terror, a father, mother and three children fled from their home to seek refuge and in their excitement left a 5-year-old boy in bed. Later he was pulled from beneath some timber and tints far it is impossible to And any other member of the family. Bedding, carpets nnd wearing apparel are scat tered for a distance of ten miles through what was a forest, hut which is now as clear as if cut by the woodman's axe. Freight cars were blown to splin ters, the trucks trom them being hurled hundreds of feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, ware house, gins, thirty homes, live store houses, together wtih the stocks, were completely destroyed. Where they stood it is impossible to find even (he pillars upon which these struc tures rested. Bales of cotton, which were stowed in warehouses, were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint lodging in tres, mailing it appear as though that set tle 1 had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy iron safes, the doors of which in some instances were torn from their hinges, were carried away by the force of the wind. A young clerk employed by W. P. Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring of the storm, let himself into a well in the center of the store. He had no sooner found this place of safety titan the store was completely demolished. He was uninjured. The town of Hull, four miles north of Moundville, suffered from the tor nado. The Bates Lumber company’s planing department was completely wrecked and the negro fireman crush ed. Four residences and one church were demolished. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tornadoes Dlayed havoc at several places in North Alabama, resulting, as far as known, in the death of over thirty people and injury to many more. The storm center was at and around Moundville, a small town in the northern portion of Hale county, where heavy loss of life and great de struction of property are reported. Because of the fact that the wires were prostrated retails of the disaster are meager. Reports received at Tuscaloosa indicate that no less than thirty peopie were killed at. Mound ville and many more injured. The storm swept all of the northern portion of Hale county and destroyed many farms. It is feared that fuller reports will show an increased loss of life. Driven from Home in Blizzard. NEW CUMBERLAND. W. Va — Fully one-half of this town is tinder twelve feet of water and a blizzard is raging. Dozens of factories are sub merged and the big Chelsea China company plant is greatly damaged. At Empire, two miles above on the Ohio river, the town is under fifteen feet of water, and practically the en tire population are camped out in box cars. Six miles above Empire a heavy landslide has covered the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad tracks. Isl~v'd Trade Is Increasing. WASHINGTON. I>. C.—The Philip pine trade statistics of the insular bu reau of the War department show that the imports of those islands during the eight months ended August, 1903, ag gregate $22,266,581 and exports $20, 867,313. Those figures are exclusive of coin and government supplies. The aggregate of exports and imports is an increase of almost $6,000,000, over four-fifths of which may be credited to shipments from the archipelago, the hemp and copras output being espe cially large. Philippine Trade Statistics. WASHINGTON. — The Philippine trade statistics of the insular bureau of the war department show that the imports of those islands during the eight months ended August, 1903, ag gregate $20,867,313. These figures are exclusive of coin and government sup plies. The aggregate of exports and imports is an increase of almost $6,-, 006,000, over four-fifths of which may bo credited to shipments from the archipelago, the hemp and corpa out put. being large. Socialists to Meet. OMAHA. Neb.—The executive com mittee of the national socialist party, in session in Omaha, issued a call for a national convention to meet in Chi cago May 1. The call, after stating the result of the referendum vote on place of meeting, says the basis of representation shall he one delegate for each hundred members In good standing and one delegate at large from each state. The building in which the convention Ic to be held will be announced later by the local committee. THEY HEARD THE SAME THING ONCE I I I I > When Somrbodv Said Thai One of fhc Power* We to afford an excuBe tor interver. ion and the placing of large force n Korea. PURC FOOD BILL. 1 Measure Passed in House by Rising Vote. 1 WASHINGTON.—The house passed jthe Hepburn pure tood bill Wednesday ; on n rising vote, 201 to <>S, its oppon ents being unable to secure a roll cal!. | The amendment inserting the word I "wilful.'’ with reference to persons {who sell adulterated or misbranded ! goods and which would have compell ed the government to prove intent to violate the law by the venders, was stricken out on a yea and nr.y vote in I the house. Several attempts were ! made to amend the bill, but no mater ial changes were made. The bill fixes the standard of foods and drugs as to their purity, strength and character, and defines who shall 'lie considered adulterations or mis : branding of foods and drugs. It also prohibits interstate commerce, impor tation and exportation of such mis branded or adulterated scope of the bureau of chemistry to Include the bureau of foods and impose upon it the duty of performing all chemical work for the other executive depart ments. This bureau wil be charged with the duty of inspecting food and drug products which belong to Inter state or foreign commerce. The secre tary of commerce is given authority to employ such chemists, inspectors, i clerks and laborers as mav be neees ; sary for the enforcement of the act. One section of the bill provides pen alties for the introduction ot adulter i ated or misbranded foods or drinks 1 and another section requires the sec I retary of agriculture to prescribe 1 rules and regulations to govern the [ bureau of chemistry and foods in ex aminations of articles required to lie | inspected under the law. Violations of the law shall be reported by the secretary of agriculture to the proper [district attorney of the United States, who Is to direct and cause proceedings without delay. As soon as the bill was reported to the house Mr. Hepburn moved an amendment eliminating the amend ment offered yesterday on motion of Mr. Stephens, dem. (Tex.), which made it necessary to show “wilful" in tent on the part of persons prosecuted. Mr. Hepburn said that with the Steph ens amendment in the bill it would be entirely inefficacious as a law. The Hepburn amendment was agreed to by a vote of 145 to 120. The bill then was passed by a rising vote of 201 to 08, the yeas and nays being refused. Mr. Hull of Iowa, chairman of tho committee on military affairs, report ed the army appropriation hill ami gave notice that he would call it up Thursday. RESOLUTIONS AGAINST SMOOT. Lincoln Ministers Take Action in Case of Utah Senator. LINCOLN, Neb.—At the meeting of the Lincoln Ministerial association tho ministers passed resolutions and will -.end the following instructions to tho Nebraska senators to present to Sen itor Burrows, chairman of tho com mittee f»n privileges and elections: “Resolved, That, ns the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, we protest against Senator Smoot retaining his seat in the United States senate, prli vid ed if it be found by the senate com mittee that the oath of loyalty to the Morman church on the part of tho apostle Smoot subordinates his alleg anee to the government of the United States and interferes with a loyal sup port of the institutions of the govern ment.” The resolution was adopted nnanimoui ly. Explorer Hubbard is Dead. QUEBEC.—Word was received here I from Chateau Bay, Labrador, that a I courier had arrived there Friday from Northwest river with tile information i that Leonidas Hubbard, jr., of the ! exploring party seat out by the mag j izine Outing of New York, had died I from starvation in (he wilds of Lab i radcr on October IS. The remains are on thc'ir way to Quebec, so the re * port says, by dog train. With the ! other members of the expedition. Thcinpsen Will Return. LINCOLN. Neb. 1). E. Thompson, United States minister to Brazil, now on a leave of absence, is expected to arrive in Lincoln about February S. The steamer Tennyson, on which Mr. Thompson Bailed Irani Rio Janeiro January 2 is due to arrive at Brook lyn on Wednesday, January 2*1. Im mediately after lauding Mr. Thomp son will go to Washington to report to the stale department. From Wash ington he expects to go to Michigan o visit relatives, and so< a alter to come to Lincoln.