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THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA I ARGUE THE ELECTION CASE. Question of Biennial Elections Now Up to the Supreme Court. LINCOLN—The supreme court lis tened to the arguments of the attor neys interested in the biennial elec tion law case. The opponents of the bill urge that it flies directly in the face of the constitutional amendment face of the constitutional provision which requires that there be an elec-; tion each year. This language is so! clear, so explicit and unambiguous that it was claimed there could be no other interpretation. On the other hand, the friends of the measure in sist that the provision referred to is complied with from the fact that the bill does not abolish the annual elec-1 tion directly, leaving it theoretically, while providing that all elective offi cials shall be chosen in the even num bered years. In this connection it was claimed that the provision requir ing that the supreme judges be se lected in the odd numbered years was I merely directory, intended merely for the convenience of the state, to be superseded as soon as the legislature could take the matter in hand. The attorneys for the relator urged that the purpose of the constitution iramers was clearly to prevent the election of the judicial and education- j al officers of the state at the same ' time that the political officers were chosen. It was absolutely denied that ! the framers of that document intended to allow the legislature any latitude in that connection. DAM CE DONE TO WHEAT BY THE HESSIAH FLY LINCOLN—According to reports be- j ing received by Prof. Bruner of the ! state university serious damage has | been done to the wheat crop by the j Hessian fly. It is stated that the de- j velopment of the plant has shown the ' ravages of the insect in many in-! stances where fields were believed to have been immune. The most com mon indication is the lopped head, the j boring of the fly through the stalk j causing it to bend. Prof. Bruner made j the following statement: “Hessian flies are working In the southern and central section of the state and have done damage as far west as Kearney. “It is difficult to tell at this time ! just what damage has been done, but j from repons received from various ! sections I judge that it will be exten sive. Most of the reports or damage j have come from York, Saline, Fillmore ; and Clay counties.” Deaf Children Going Home. OMAHA—One hundred and ninety ^ seven deaf boys and girls, students at the state school in Omaha, left on the various outgoing trains Wednes day for their homes to spend their summer vacation. The children were all the way from 7 to 20 years of age. Little tots who entered school a year j ago, knowing nothing of the sign lan- j guage. were talking with their hands j as nimbly as their older associates. They will return to the school in Sep tember. Columbus Man Insane. COLUMBUS—Sheriff Carrrg took Joseph Soullier 10 the asylum at Lin coln, he having been adjudged insane by the commissioners. Mr. goullier is a well-to-do farmer living in Lost Creek township, where he has a large family. He has been in a hospital !ot treatment before. His trouble is not of the violent form, but just a gradual weakening of iue brain. It Is doubtful if treatment will restore him to a nor mal condition. Nebraska Man in Company. Shenandoah (la) dispatch: A new lumber company with $50,000 capital stock, of which $20,000 is to be paid in. has been organized at this place. E. H. Dabey of Shenandoah is presi dent, J. H. Briggs of Universrty Place, Neb., vice president, and Ed Curfnaan of Marysville, Mo., secretary. The company owns a mill at Glendale, Tex., which will supply lumber to be handled here. Seen Fifty Years of Wedded Life. OSCEOLA—Fifty years ago Robert A. Fleming and Miss Malinda C. Olitzzman were married in New York. The anniversary of their wedding was held at the M. E. church here, with a gTeat many of their friends in attend ance. They have lived in Nebraska about twenty years. Fletcher Bound Over. NORTH PLATTE—The preliminary hewing of Joseph Fletcher, charged with an assault upon David King, with intent to kill, and also in a second count with assault with intent to wound was completed in tne county court, and the defendant, Fletcher, was bound over to the district court. LINCOLN—James Young killed Samuel Winter last fall in self-defense and in the defense of his habitation. This is the substance of a brief sub mitted in an appeal to the supreme court by R. D. Searns and W. P. Mc Creary, attorneys for Young, the ne gro horseman. A declaration is made by the lawyers that the juGge failed to adm- Instructions to the jury on this feature of the defense and that this constitutes an error sumclent for the reversal of the case. Testimony is quoted showing that Young had no ^ ill feeling for Winter. Peru Attendance Grovulng. State Superintendent McBrien has received a letter from Principal Crab tree of the Peru normal stating that the total enrollment for the year is over 1,000. This is accounted for by the heavy registration of new stu dents for the summer school work. The enrollment in the summer school is 2oQ more than last year. Advices from Holdrege and North Platte indi cate that the junior normals are well attended and similar information has been received from the other institu tions throughout the state. STATE NOTES. W. A. Morrison, a machinist in the Dempster factory, Beatrice, got his hand caught in a press drill and suf fered the loss of a thumb. The Farmers Independent Telephone company, which was recently drgan ized at Blue Springs, is doing much business. It is extending its lines in all directions through the county. An ordinance regulating the sale and use of firearms, firecrackers and other explosives in the city of Seward has been passed by the city council and passed and approved by the mayor. At Ciav Center August Anders of Glenville was bound over to the dis trict court by the county court on a charge of exploding dynamite in the Blue river for the purpose of killing fish. Word was received at Beatrice that Percy Oliver, the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Della Oliver, a former Beatrice resident, was drowned in the Republi can river near Superior while in swim ming. At Ravenna burglars pried open the windows of the saloons belonging to E. C. Stanton and Vesley & Mot sick. They secured $20 and some cigars and whisky. They were ar rested. A telegram reached Grafton from Canada announcing the death of James Longman of Panoka, Province of Al berta. The remains will be buried there. Deceased removed from Graf ton two years ago. According to the government rain gauge kept by C. C. Gray of Colum bus. the total precipitation for the month cf May was S.96 inches. While this is unusually heavy, yet May, 1903, beat it by just a half inch. Prof. Charles C. Danforth, recently re-elected principal of the schools of Sidney, tendered his resignation and the same has been accepted. Mr. Dan forth has been elected superintendent of the city schools of Tecumseh. Lightning struck the house of Geo. Hannel. a Bohemian farmer residing five miles from Leigh. His G-year-old daughter was instantly killed and his boy of 8 years was seriously burned. The house was not much damaged. Henry Kauffeldt. a prosperous farm er living a short distance northeast of Minden. was found dead in his bed late Sunday morning, and his death is attributed to heart failure. He and his mother, who is about 70 years old, were living alone. Mrs. A. H. Kaley. wife of a former merchant at Red Cloud, committed suicide by hanging herself to the rafters of the barn. Her mind had become unbalanced by grief over the death of her daughter and her own long continued illness. Friends of Amos H. Gould, the wrecker of the Bellwood bank, made an appeal to Governor Mickey to grant him a commutation of the six year sentence of which he has now served one-half. It is claimed that the man ought to be permitted to assist his family. A prominent Missouri Pacific official who visited Plattsmouth, is authority that that road has under considera tion a project to ballast its main line track between Omaha and Kansas City with “chert.” a fine crushed rock which comes from the zinc mines of Missouri. “Jake” Rife, a young man who works for B. Somberg in the latter’s drug store at Graf, a village in John son county, was brought into the coun ty court on the charge of selling drugs without a pharmacist’s license. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $10 and costs. One of the city markets of Fremont is displaying a number of channel cat fish caught in the Elkhorn in the northern part of the county. The largest tips the scales at ninety-two pounds. Catfish are no more plentiful in the Elkhorn this year than usual, but they are above the ordinary size. James H. Criss and William H. Thompson were lodged in jail at Beatrice by Sheriff Trade, charged with assaulting and cutting a man named Richardson near Lanham Sun day night. Richardson was nearly dis emboweled, and it is thought that he cannot recover. The men were in a saloon playing cards when the trouble arose. A curiosity in the form of a calf with two heads is owned by Edward Mitchell, a farmer residing near Plattsmouth. The heads of the mon strosity are so heavy that it cannot hold them up. Nevertheless, it con tinues to eat lively and is hungry. The calf is fed at both mouths—both tongues wagging in a hungry way un til appeased. F. F. Blakeslee of Hastings, had the muscles and bones of his right arm badly crashed at the elbow in the west yards of the B. & M. R. R. in that city. It is not definitely known just how he was hurt as he was in an intoxicated condition at the time, but it is thought that he fell under a wheel while trying to steal a ride on the train. An Omaha party has purchased three quarter sections of railroad land lying just northwest of Sidney. There is an immense gravel pit on this land, which he intends to utilize in the manufacture of paving brick and pat ent sidewalk blocks. D. C. Foley and E. C. Neal were drowned in the Elkhorn, half a mile i north of Hooper. They were putting in a ferry to use until the new bridge is completed. Supervisor Jorgen Lar sen. John Schrader, John Pietz and three boys were on the ferry when it tipped and threw all into the river. The boys swam ashose. The State Board of Public Lands and Buildings this morning let con tracts for remodeling the wing of the insane asylum at Norfolk and for drawing plans for the improvements at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home at Grand Island and the Home for the Feeble Minded at Beatrice. Attorney F. C. Hamer astced Gov ernor Mickey to grant a hearing in the Barker case. Governor Mickey did not give him any encouragement, but it is believed that he will grant the hearing. An effort will be made to con vince the governor that the man who is to be hanged shortly is insane. I IMPOSING CEREMONIES AT MARRIAGE OF HEIR TO THRONE OF GERMANY JUMV&JS CECJHA i—agWM-a-ti 3»A3aax7irBzoRSiJi* rxox • •W2CB3t£ 2>XZDJ> JZAJDIr JTF,X tsZjbJZL utxhy To j&jrlzit vv riting in the Chicago American, Henri Pene du Bois, special corre sopndent of that paper, gives the fol lowing description of the German royal marriage: When I went into the chapel of the castle the voices of the talkers there had just been hushed. It seemed to me I had intruded upon the eighteenth century. A mist of white powder brought to gether sexagenarian foreheads and others which were not yet twenty one. Some were snowy, while others were in their flower, but this fragrant mist of white powder equalized them. They were all young temporarily. The wedding procession came from the civil ceremony. There were the Emperor, the Kron Prinzessin’s moth er, the Duchess Anastasia and the Empress. Two pages carried the Duchess Anastasia's train and four Countesses carried that of the Em press. When the newly wedded cou ple appeared 1 saw the Kron Prinzes sin very distinctly, in spite of her veil. She is more beautiful than her photographs say. They have Prus sianized her a little. Her expression is archly satirical. They let one know' that her chest nut hair is abundant and that her dark eyes smile sweetly, but photo graphs do not let one know that her eyes, drawn at the temples, observe things around them. The complexion is brown, tinted with pink. She was not fed with metaphysics, as other German girls have been. Her grace is timid, al most frightened, but to reconcile that with the description I have made of her eyes you may think, if you wish, that her grace is studied. She replied “Ja” to Pastor Dryan der's inevitable question in a tremu lous whisper, which made the battle scarred old soldier beside me sigh with delight. The Kronprinz said “Ja!” as if it were an order to take a citadel. I saw Prince Riarisugawa, whose features were not mobile, smile at that “Ja.” The English delegation was star ing at the Duke of Connaught, whose appearance was not too elegant among the stiff but splendid German officers. Mme. von Dele Winckler, the Kron Prinzessins lady of honor, seemed to admire immensely the great train of silver cloth on her mis tress’ gown. It was embroidered with myrtle and orange flow'ers by young women of Mecklenburg-Schwerein. They are delicate artists. Count Bismarck Bohlen, the Kron prinzessins chancellor, looked at the Emperor, -who needs a painter like I.enbach to do him justice. Those Prussian cameras do not tell the glow ing tenderness of his eyes. He em braced the Kronprinz with a rough energy which was admirably affec tionate, and the Kronprinzessin with refined delicacy. The Empress’ look was troubled for an instant, but she raised her head to suppress her emotion. To attain the same end Count Hohenthal, captain of the castle, coughed. Pastor Dryander spoke. His ser mon was in two parts—and each part much too long. In the first part he praised the newly wedded pair. In the second he gave advice to them. He talked to them like a Dutch uncle. I heard a pretty woman say (I am sure that she was an American) that the pastor pointed his finger at the newly wedded couple, warning them of dire things that happen to the sin ful. He was so much in earnest that the Empress. Chancellor and Baron Knesebeck pretended to shudder. The sermon was so long that many persons looked at the windows, and the rain that was beating upon them made their faces radiant. The Em peror looked at the rain and then smiled at the Princess Christian, who seemed to say with her eyes, “Rain at a wedding is a good omen.” Cecelia carried a bouquet of white carnations, the favorite flower of the Crown Prince. The chapel was too small for the guests, two-thirds of whom remained in the White Hall of the palace. The cathedral choir sang Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” Pastor Dry ander performed the ceremony. Leaving the chapel the Crown Prin cess walked slowly, as if measuring her new dignity. The Crown Prince observing this, laughed, took her hand and made her run with him to one of the rooms a few minutes ahead ol the guests. The Emperor and Em press were happy—and the cynical said it was because the ceremony was over. The Empress, with white hair and elegant figure, seemed ex tremely youthful. She is an inch tall er than the Emperor, and pointed archly to her daughter-in-law, who is an inch taller than the Crown Prince, but the Crown Princess is a Slav in appearance, while the Empress re sembles a French Marquise of the seventeenth century. Helen Goula s Charities. Helen Gould’s methods are not those of male philanthropists like Car negie and Rockefeller, who leave de tails to secretaries and simply sign checks. There is nothing impersonal about her giving. When she is sut ficiently interested to help any per son or institution financially she visits that person or institution. To tne various day nurseries of New York city she makes regular calls, chatting with the matron, inquiring into the needs of the house and taking a peep into the children’s room. Milliners’ Artistic Circulars. One of the leading New York mil liners recently had a spring opening and decided to convince her customers that her taste had not deteriorated. So she had her invitations printed on mauve paper in purple ink. The en velopes were of mauve paper, ad dressed in purple ink, and the har mony of this color scheme was main tained in somewhat extravagant fash ion. A violet-colored 3-cent stamp was used, although the 2-cent cne would have sufficed. Reid Given Good Advice. At the farewell banquet tendered Ambassador Reid by the New York Lotos Club, ex-Mayor Low said the best advice he could offer the new ambassador was that given to St. Clair McKelway by two negroes who found the Brooklyn editor hemmed in a very close space by pieces of wreck age in the south two weeks ago. “Now, boss,” said the negroes to Mr. Mc Kelway, who, Mr. Low pointed out, is of generous girth, “you just push yourself ahead, but don't spread your self.” Worried Over Immigration. Mr. Metcalf, secretary of commerce and labor, holds that the immigration problem is the most serious that faces the country, its chief difficulty being the question of distribution. A few days ago he received a letter from Louisiana saying that state alone can give employment to 100,000 workers in the field. The western portion of the Mississippi valley stands in equal need, but concentration in the cities goes on steadily. He thinks it is time for congress to take action. Humorist’s Caustic Rebuke. John Kendrick Bangs once ran across a gift copy of one of his books in a second-hand bookshop, still hav ing this inscription on the flyleaf: “To his friend, J- G-, with the regards and the esteem of J. K. Bangs. July. 1899.’’ Mr. Bangs bought the copy and sent it to his friend again with a second inscription be neath: “This book, bought in a sec ond-hand bookshop, is represented to J g- with renewed and reiter ated regards and esteem by J. K. Bangs. December. 1899.” _ Men Who Draw Large Salaries. James H. Hyde's $125,000 salary drawn from the Equitable company has called attention to the enormous sums paid to officers of all the big in surance companies. First, second and third vice-presidents of all the big companies receive more money than the president of the United States for a year's work and they are not obliged to entertain half so lavishly. Nevertheless, most of them are doing fairly well in the matter of living and spending money. WHITELAW REID NEW UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND. li -r* .PGJFC AfXtJ XX JP JTOU^SS. XAJTC? • /\ r ff£ ZjKi««/y tw-iOA^CI *P The American line steamer Phila delphia. having on board Whitelaw Reid, the new Ambassador of the United Slates to the court of St. James, and Mrs. Reid, arrived at Ply mouth, England. June 3, from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Reid landed and took a train for London. Mr. Reid, on his arrival, was wel comed by the Mayor of Plymouth, the | president of the commercial bodies and the corporation of the people of Plymouth, who presented him with a handsomely engrossed address ex pressing the hope that his official labors would promote and strengthen the good will which had so long ex isted between the United States and Great Britain. At London Mr. Reid was received in audience by King Edward. The ambassador has chosen tor his resi dence Dorchester house, one of the finest mansions in this city. Market for Tree Stumps. A new industry in the region at the head of the lakes is the gathering of the tree stumps for use in the Maine shipyards. A large number of wooden ships are built every year, and it has been found that the most efficient cor ner braces are those made from these stumps and hundreds are shipped east every day. The roots of the trees and a short section of the stump are used in making the braces, and stumps from trees about a foot in diameter are found to be the best. The stump is taken from the ground and roughly hewn into shape before being shipped. After its receipt at the shipyards it is made into a perfect brace. The cost of a carload of the stumps is close to $400, and the freight charges run over $100 a car.—Milwaukee Sen tinel. Small Profits of Authors. The profits of authorship in Poland are not very great. It is said that no author except Sienkiewiez would re fuse $2,500 for a novel, and two novels by Mr. Barrie brought to him more than all Sienkiewicz’s books put to gether yielded to the Pole. The trans lator of a foreign novel gets for his work only from $25 to $50. Notable Anniversary Celebration. John Baker Shaw and wife, a well to-do couple of South Connellsville, Pa., were quietly passing the fortieth anniversary of their wedding a few days ago when without any warning their thirteen married sons and daughters, twenty-five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and a lot of neighbors drove up ar.d took pos session of the place. The old folks had been feeling rather hurt that no notice seemed to be taken of the day. The visitors brought materials for a bountiful dinner, at the conclusion of which A. J. Shaw, a grand-nephew, drove up with Miss Sarah Buskiner and a clergyman and was married. Altogether it was the most notable celebration seen in that section for many a day. Organ of British Liberals. Franklin Thomasson. a descendant of John Bright, will shortly start a new penny daily newspaper in London to represent the Liberal party. The paper will be called the Tribune. It will have $1,500,000 behind it and the new enterprise obviously betokens be lief on the part of its backers that the Liberal party will be returned to power at the next general election. DIAGRAM SHOWING RUSSIA’S APPROXIMATE NAVAL FIGHTING STRENGTH AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF OTHER GREAT NATIONS. RUSSIA u - S. (In making this comparison only battleships, cruisers and gunboats are ta ken into account Russia's naval strength was cut in two by the bat ttle in Korea strait) , Explorers in New Rivalry. In the present struggle for some sort of supremacy between Norway and Sweden it is rather odd that two men, world-famed as explorers, seem to be the chosen spokesmen for the two countries. Dr. Nansen is Nor way’s man and Dr. Sven Hedin, the famous explorer of Asia, is taking Sweden’s side. These two men, both able in their own lines of science, have got into a newspaper conflict, each trying his best to make the cause of his own country appear in the most favorable light. President’s Style of Speech. Newspaper men who are accus tomed to hear President Roosevelt’s speeches note a marked difference in his style of delivery as compared with former years. When a candidate for governor of New York he spoke with much greater rapidity than now, in terspersing his remarks with extem poraneous phrases hurled forth at lightning speed. Now he speaks slow ly and with evident realization that his words will be quoted and closely scanned all over the country. An Emperor’s Palace. The palace of the Emperor of Abys sinia is a .large building, built like a Swiss chalet, with a red-tiled roof and white washed walls. It is a very or dinary affair, and is surrounded by huts and other inferior buildings. There is nothing splendid about the palace or its furnishing, and. indeed, it would be considered as quite lack ing in everything except size as a residence for an American of modcr- ■ ate means. But it is the palace of an emperor, nevertheless, and of a pow erful one. Formaldehyde in Milk. To detect formaldehyde in milk, three or four teaspoonfuls of the sam ple are placed in a teacup with at least an equal amount of strong hydrochlo ric acid and a piece of ferric alum about as large as u pinhead and the liquid mixed by a gentle rotary mo tion. The cup is then placed in a ves sel of boiling water, uo further heat being applied, and left for five min utes. At the end of this time, if for maldehyde be present, the mixture will be distinctively purpfc.