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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1905)
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, OVER THE STATE. Edwin H. Barnard, founder of Fre mont, is very low from paralysis. One school in Beatrice has been temporarily closed on account of diph theria. Warren Snyder was arrested at Fre mont as being a deserter from the reg ular army. The Salvation Army of Omaha is planning a big Christmas dinner for The i»oor of that city. Two children living near Geneva ate rat poison and the doctors l ad a strenuous time in saving their lives. Churches of several towns have en tered upon an evangelestic campaign which promises a successful outcome. The Lincoln High school football team has disbanded after one of its members has been nearly killed in a game. .vtr. swanoaca. years cm. is constable,elect in Cass county, and he is said to be equal to handling the roughest customers. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the Grosshans Lumber company of Au rora. The capital stock amounts to $16,000. of which $12,000 is paid up. The new town of Nehling on the proposed Great Northern, seven miles south of Oakland, starts out with four new buildings, including a bank, hard ware store, saloon and lumber office and a livery barn. E. Carpenter charged with moving mortgaged property from Cass county, entered a plea of guilty before Judge .lessen in district court at Plattsmouth and was sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. At West Point Rev. Dean Ruesing recently purchased the D. C. Giffert residence and will convert the same into an administration building for St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged. Work will begin next spring. R. J. Clancy of Omaha, tax com missioner for the Union Pacific road, paid into the county treasury $6,381.50 as part payment of the taxes due the county from the company. The total amount due is $9,876.20. William Newby of Friend, secured a reversal of a two years’ term in the jienitentiary imposed, upon him by the districit court of Saline county, in which court he was found guilty of forging and uttering a warranty deed. Thomas Hcafey. who died at Council Bluffs in a hospital, was a resident of Nebraska City for many years and his death was the result of an injury in a B. & M wreck at Hebron two years ago. He leaves a widow and a large family of children. Mrs. F. P. Lawrence of Elk Creek, received a telegram conveying the in telligence that her brother George Smiley, and his wife had been killed in a railroad wreck that day. and that Mrs. Smiley’s daughter. Miss Mabel Thomas, had been badly injured. A petition was filed in the county court of Seward county to settle up the estate of Orlando Casler. who was hung in Seward in 1879 for the mur der of a man named Monroe Casler. He owned eightv acres of land in Seward precinct that is still in his name. A shipment made to Omaha of 1.200 fish, including catfish, bass, carp, crapies and buffalo were confiscated by Chief Game Warden Carter and distributed among the charitable insti tutions of the state. The confiscation was made under the Lacey act, the shipment violating the fish laws of Iowa. rmgiueer vviji n. uuugiiu ui mi Cook, had a narrow escape from death at Lodi. Colo. He was looking out of his engine from the gangway noticing the operation of a hot-box on his loco motive. when a switch target struck him on the head hurling him from the engine. He carries an ugly scalp wound. John Prettvman of Anolta, awoke from sleep in his prairie schooner at night to find his bed, his trous ers. his wagon and himself all on fire. The blaze had been caused by gaso line and the roar of the flames, as they seethed about his hands and ears, brought him from his dreams in start ling fashion. He was badly burned. A corrected list of awards of the winning Nebraska exhibitors at Port land has been compiled by G. C. Sheed. executive officer of the commis sion. and the exhibitors will be notified at once of the medals awarded them by the supreme jury of the Lewis and Clark exposition. Nebraska won: Gold medals. 66: silver medals. 28; bronze medals, 18; honorable men tion. 9. n uue making a coupling ai craw ford. W. H. Pfefer. a trainman on the Northwestern, was crushed beneath the wheels of the train. While they were doing some switching in the yards there Mr. Pfefer was making a coupling of some cars on the side track, and without his knowledge the train backed up and bumped the cars and threw him to the ground. He died from his injuries. John M. Lash of Gage county shelled 954 bushels of new corn in three and a half hours. Frank Marsh, living two miles northeast of Beatrice began marketing this year's corn crop, which yielded about forty-five bush els per acre. He received 35 cents per bushel. At a meeting of the Beatrice Chau tauqua board, definite arrangements were made to have Dr. W. L. David son. the veteran Chautauqua man. take charge of the platform for the assembly of 1906. The date for the assembly had previously been fixed for June 21 to July 3 inclusive. Honoring His Memory. LINCOLN—Memorial services in honor of Judge Amasa Cobb were held in the supreme court. A com mittee appointed by the court pre sented reoJtations and afterwards Chief Justice Holcomb paid tribute to the memory of the dead. Largest Porker in the State. BEATRICE—J. T. Elerbeck has purcbai' the celebrated boar, Logai B.. of W. E. Smith of Oketo, Kas The hog weighs 1,100 pounds and is the largest porker in the state. BRIEFS IN THE GRAIN CASE. State Contends for Right of Proceed ings for an Injunction. LINCOLN—Attorney General Brown and former Chief Justice Sullivan, in their brief on the suit for an injunction against the Nebraska Grain Dealers’ association and the members and offi cials thereof, which was filed in the supreme court, claim that the evolution cf society has made it imperative to extend the operation of injunctions for the prevention of illegal combinations and agreements for the control o! [prices as the only adequate remedy : for the protection of the interests of [the general public, thus answering the plea of the numerous counsel for the grain dealers that the equity powers of the court cannot be invoked. While the gist of the first brief filed by the attorneys for the grain dealers was the alleged unconstitutionality of several statutes, the second brief pre pared by a large number of eminent lawyers devoted itself to the argument that the state had no right to seek a restraining order against the defend ants, but must resort to quo warranto or criminal proceedings against the individual members. Attorney General Brown contends that the injunction Is the only effect ive remedy for the trust and combina tion evil. He says: "These cases show that it is conclu sively established by the chancery courts of England, by the courts of last resort of many states of the union, and by the supreme court of the United States, that the equity power derived from the common law may be exercised to prevent monopolies from injuring the public; that this power may be exercised to prevent acts pun ishable as crimes, and that it may be invoked by the state regardless of pecuniary injury thereto or the exist ence of a nuisance. It is also estab lished beyond question by the cases cited that the anti-trust statutes de nouncing monopolies and combinations in restrait of trade do not take from the courts of equity their power under the common law. to prevent such in juries to the public. BARKER. THE MURDERER. Authorities Prooose to File a New Charge of Killing Sister-in-Law. LINCOLN — The insanity charge against Frank Barker, the Webstei county murdered, may be dropped now that it has served the purpose of sav ing him from hanging June 16. A reprieve of two years was granted Barker by Governor Mickey, thereby stirring up much censure in Webster county, where the feeling against Bar ker is still very bitter. The county attorney there is said to be watching every move of Barker’s counsel and al ready has a new complaint, charging him with murdering his sister-in j law. prepared and ready for filing The , present conviction and sentence to ■death is for the murder of his brother i Daniel Barker. Finds Traces of Oil. Prof. George E. Condra of the de partment of geology of the University of Nebraska declares that traces of oil and natural gas exist near Salem. Falls City. Cambridge and Humboldt. He was inclined to believe that drill ing would yield no results at Burn ham. He declared that the oil bearing shales extend from Oklahoma, through Kansas and into Nebraska. He thought that test wells should be driven along the Nemaha and in southeastern Nebraska. These, he de clared. should be 2,000 feet in depth, in depth. Adams County Man Kills Self. HASTINGS—Tracey P. Sykes, one of Adams county's best known farm ers. who resided four miles southeast of Hastings, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a twenty-two calibre rifle. No motive is known for the deed. Medal for Mr. Bryan. LINCOLN—A gold medal will be forwarded to Lincoln and will await the return of W. J. Bryan. He was awarded the first prize at the Port land exposition for sheaf rye. Short on Coal. Complaints are coming from a large number of cities in Nebraska that there is a well defined shortage in coal, especially of the bituminous varieties. Many towns are without coal to sell. If a cold snap should descend suddenly on this section of the country suffering would undoubtedly result. N'-w Banks Organized. The state banking board has issued a charter to the state bank of Den ton. with a paid up capital stock of $5, 000. It has also granted a charter to the Bank of Waterloo, with $10,000 paid up capital stock. Horse Stealing at Laurel. LAUREL—Horse thieves entered Phil Most's barn four miles south of Laurel on Mondav night and stole a driving team, buggy and harness, val ued at $300. From there they went, two and one-half miles further to Olai Nelson's barn and took another team. The next dav they were tracked in the frost several miles northwest, but the trail was finally lost. Mr. Most offers $100 for their capture and the return of his property, and Mr. Nel son offers $30 for the return of his team. Dr. Wolfe Comes Back. Lincoln—Dr. H. K. Wolfe, for merly professor of pyschology. will re turn to the state university. He for merly was at the head of the philos ophy department of the state univer sity. Much Notarial Business. Secretary of State Galusha believes the largest item in the business of his office is the issuance of notarial com ! missions. From twenty to twenty-five I letters a day relative to the notarial ] commissions are received. PLAN FOR LOCK CANAL IN PANAMA r Sr>&***9 o/90 t*e ymr trtporronce of louo &on-o, rne- e/e morions GO ore ora-At ye/, ono tet* genera/ contour of ms e*ore Conor. A ; M>* 0*3*0 Aitmm-.e Sert'or* <» t+» L—e 0*000-0 e»u in00 ZO S9 30 /s 96 27 90 39 30 3/ Si jj jd Jj S6 J7 ~J0 £» *o * 1 43 43 44 45 ■** 47 40 40 30 * 32 S3 >•» *■> JK.^7 36*23 OO V Si 63 94 4 Diagram showing how some engineers proposed to construct the Panama canal. The different elevations are at tained by a series of locks or ga tes. The commission reports in favor of grading to the sea level, making the canal an unbroken waterway. CANAL MAY BE OF LOCK TYPE. j Commission Said to Be Opposed to ; Sea Level Proposition. Authoritative announcement is made that the isthmian canal commission will recommend to the President that a lock canal be constructed across the isthmus of Panama. This recommendation is opposed to that of a majority of the board of con sulting engineers, which voted in favor of the sea level type, and will support the view expressed by a minority of the board. The commission will not prepare its report until it has had a ; chance to examine the reasons to be presented by the majority and minor ity of the board in advocacy of the type of canal they respectively recom mend. Gen. Davis, chairman of the board, said the report of the board will be presented within three wreeks. If the commission unanimously rec ommend a lock canal this will be in accordance with the inference which has been drawn from a statement made a few weeks ago from the White house that before the President would ap prove of a sea level type he would have to be convinced it was the best in respect of engineering, time and cost. MARGHERITA TO VISIT AMERICA. Dowager Queen of Italy Will Travel Incognita. It is announced that the Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy is going to America next year. She will travel incognita and make a tour in an auto mobile from New York to San Fran cisco. whence she will take a steamer for Japan. Dowager Queen Margherita has beeu suffering from unassuageable grief since the death of King Humbert, five years ago. The queen in her youth was considered the most beautiful princess in all Europe. She is the daughter of the late Prince Ferdinan do of Savoy, duke of Genoa, and she was married to Humbert, then the prince of Piedmont, on April 22, 18G8. During her reign she was idolized by the people of Italy. The former queen knows French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, of course, aDd Lafin thoroughly. She knows Greek well and is familiar with | the literature of all ages. The queen rises early and retires late. She manages with six hours' sleep and thrives on it. Her work of charities, patronage, organization and society keeps her constantly busy. She is not at all domestic. She likes driv ing and out-of-door life generally, but has not much opportunity for indul gence in these tastes. She likes Ger many and the Germans and is a warm friend of William and his wife. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Hobby. Mrs. Roosevelt has one well-devel oped hobby and that is the collecting of old china. Under her supervision one of the most valuable collections in this country has been placed on ex hibition in the basement of the White House, and it is a proud day when she can add something of historic worth to the trsasures. The exhibit is made up entirely of remnants of the din ner sets which formerly served the presidential families. It begins with some rare gold-trynmed plates and cups and saucers which were the pride of Martha Washington’s heart and continues down to the era of Mrs. Ida Saxon McKinley. Singer* Found by Accident. Some of the world’s greatest singers have been discovered accidently. Once upon a time Wachtel, the greatest tenor of his day in Germany, was : cracking his whip and hailing fares in a musical rondo. Mme. Scalchi, the contralto, is said to have called her wares in the street before she was found for the opera stage. Campa nini., the king of tenors, was a black ; smith, but was heard singing like an angel and was enabled to desert the forge for the footlights. Cured By Whispers. It is said that stammerers rarely, if ever, show any impediment of speech when speaking in whispers. A new method of treatment has therefore been advocated, which is as follows: For the first ten days speaking is pro hibited. This will allow rest to the voice and constitutes the preliminary stage of treatment. During the next ten days speaking is permissible in a whispering voice, and in the course of the next fortnight the ordinary con versational tone may be gradually em ployed. GREAT LIBRARY FOR NEW YORK. Building to Have Capacity for Mil lions of Volumes. New York will soon have the great est library building in the world. It will have capacity for 4,500,000 vol umes. and its approximate cost will be $3,000,000. It occupies a frontage of two blocks facing on Fifth avenue, between Fortieth and Forty-second streets. Its site is that of the large city water reservoir on the east side of Bryant Park. When completed it will be known as “The New Y’ork Public Library—Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations." It will be a combination of the Astor and Lenox libraries, strengthened by the bequest of Mr. Tilden, which will give a total endowment of about 13,500,000. The work of construction has been going on since 1899, when the reservoir was removed and the foundation begun. The building, which is of marble, is 350 feet in length and 250 feet in width. The main reading room will have capacity for 800 readers and. in addition, there*will be a general read ing room open to the public, a chil dren's reading room, a periodical room and a newspaper room.-—Louisville Courier-Journal. Declined to Tutor Prince. Emperor William wished Joachim, the famous violinist, to give the Ger man crown prince lessons, but the mu sic master declined the honor. SAGE IS OLD-TIME FINANCIER. Business the One Thing Wealthy Man Lives For. Some Wall street men were com menting on the fact that Russell Sage had not been hit by the insurance in vestigation. One of the party said: “No: Sage is the old-time financier. He does not mix with the new school. He is living on the old plan. He is neither a groat philanthropist nor a great grafter. He is simply Sage, the biggest money-lender in the world. There need hardly be any fear that Mr. Sage will unload any great bales of tainted money upon an ungrateful community for the founding of col leges whose chief aim will be the up bringing of youth to cry ‘Great is Rus sell Sage!' Nor is there any great danger that Mr. Sage will spend his years this side of the eighty-ninth milestone in trying to form a giant trust for the cornering of the neces saries of life. Mr. Sage has made his fortune and he will hold on to it. He never outraged the world with a Stan dard Oil Company, neither has he set himself up as a great philanthropist.” —Chicago Chronicle. French Author Visiting America. Julien Tiersot, the noted French author, has arrived in this country on a lecturing tour. He is librarian of the national conservatory in Paris and author of several works on music. HEROIC DEEDS OF ENLISTED MEN One of the Brightest Pages in the History of the Sixth United States Cavalry In the War department in Washing ton is a letter written by Lieut-Gen. Miles in praise of the deeds of five en listed men. Gen. Miles' letter is writ ten simply as becomes a soldier, but it is a pulse-stirring epistle. It is probable that nowhere else in authen tic history can there be found an ac count of a battle won by a force of men when the odds against them were twenty-five to one. In no story which can be told concerning the people of the plains is there to be found a tale of greater heroism than that shown by a little contingent of enlisted men of the Sixth United States cavalry down near the Red river in Texas in the summer of the year 1874. The Sixth cavalry has had a fighting his tory, but this particular story shines bright in its pages. The Comanches, the Cheyennes and the Kiowas were on the war path and were leaving a red trail all along the borders of western Kansas. General, then colonel. Nelson A. Miles was or dered to take the field against the savages. His expedition fitted out at Fort Dodge and then struck for the far frontier. The combined bands of In dians learned that the troops were on their trail and they fled south to the Red river of Texas hotly pursued by two troops of the Sixth cavalry, com manded by Capts. Biddle and Comp ton. On the bluffs of the Tule river the allied braves made a stand. There were COO warriors all told, and they were the finest of the mounted plains Indians. The meager forces of the Sixth under the leadership of their of ficers charged straight at the heart of a force that should have been over whelming. The reds broke and fled “over the bluffs and through the deep precipitous canyons and out on to the staked plain of Texas.” It became imperatively necessary that couriers should be sent from the detachment of the sixth to Camp Sup ply in the Indian Territory. Reinforce ments were needed and it was neces sary as well to inform the troops at a distance that bands of hostiles had broken away from the main body and must be met and checked. The whole country was swarming with Indians and the trip to Camp Supply was one that was deemed al most certain death for the couriers who would attempt to make the ride. The commanding officer of the forces in the field asked for volunteers, and Serg. Zacharias T. Woodall of "I” Troop stepped forward and said that he was ready to go. His example was followed by every man in the two troops, and that day cowardice hung its head. The ranking captain chose Woodall, and then picked out four men to ac company him on the ride across the Indian infested wilderness. The five cavalrymen went northward under the starlight. At the dawn of the first ! day they pitched their dog tents in a ! little hollow and started to make the j morning cup of coffee. When full day was come they saw circling on the horizon a swarm of Cheyennes. The eye of the sergeant told him from the movements of the Indians that they knew of the pres ence of the troopers and that their cir cle formation was for the purpose of gradually closing in to the killing. Serg. Woodall and his four men chose a place near their bivouac which offered some slight advantage for pur poses of defense. There they waited with carbines advanced while the red cordon closed in its lines. The Chey ennes charged, and while charging sent a volley into the little prairie stronghold. Five carbines made an swer, and five Cheyenne ponies car ried their dead or wounded riders out of range, for in that day mounted In dians went into battle tied to their horses. Behind the little rampart Serg. Woodall lay sorely wounded and one man was dying. Let the letter of Gen. Miles tel! the rest of the story: “From early morning to dark, out numbered twenty-five to one, under an almost constant fire and at such short range that they sometimes used their pistols, retaining the last charge to prevent capture and torture, this lit tle party of five defended their lives and the person of their dying comrade, without food and their only drink the rainwater that they collected in a pool, mingled with their own blood. “There is no doubt that they killed more than double their number be sides those that they wounded. The simple recital of the deeds of the five soldiers ”nd the mention of the odds again*, which they fought, how the wounded defended the dying and the dying aided the wounded by exposure to fresh wounds after the power of ac tion was gone—these alone present a scene of cool courage, heroism and self-sacrifice which duty as well as inclination prompt us to recognize, but which war cannot fitly honor." When night came down over the Texas prairie the Cheyennes counted their dead and their wounded and then fled terror-stricken, overcome by the valor of five American soldiers.— E. B. C., in Chicago Post. A High-jumping Hog. A jumping hog afforded much amusement in the hogyards at the stockyards day before yesterday. Al • hough the animal weighed 180 pounds it would jump board fences five feet high. The speculator who bought the hog found it impossible to confine it to a pen. so the pen had to be covered with boards. According to men who have been at the hogyard for years, this was the first hog that had ever leaped a fence there.—Kansas Citj Times. Bear Knew How to Box. Walter Symonds of Randolph, N. H., has learned by experience that a bear is a good boxer. Symonds set some traps and the other morning found one of them full of the liveliest kind of game. His capture was a big black bear, which was caught by a forward paw. Having but one load for his gun. the hunter thought it best to dispatch the animal with a club. Three times the bear successfully parried Sy monds' stoutest blows, and the gun was resorted to in order to end the struggle. Pickup for Light keeper. Lightkeeper Robinson of Quoddy head. Mass., noticed a great commo tion in the water in one of the gulches near the light. He found that a num ber of old-fashioned blister-back pol lock had surrounded a school of her ring in the water there. To add to the unfortunate situation from the her ring point of view the gulls were swooping down in large numbers Robinson began to participate with fcis hook and line, landing three quin tals of pollock in a few minutes. Revival of Grecian Costume. High society in Great Britain is ex pecting a revival of the costume of ancient Greece. When two fair young ladies recently appeared at the opera in Greek dress the audience gasped but admired, and it is now suggested that the costume may come into favor. It is hoped that this new cru sade against the conventionality of modern attire will meet with greater success than that which had for its ob ject the revival of knee-breeches and buckled shoes for men. Map Showing the Treacherous Promontory Near St. Malo on the Coast of Brittany, Where Steamship Hilda Struck Rocks and Went Down with 123 Passengers. CHINA’S GREAT NEED RAILROADS MUST BE BUILT TO DEVELOP EMPIRE. Primitive System of Transportation by Coolies and Carts Over Roads Scarcely Worthy the Name Now a Fatal Drawback. After the war is over China finds herself in status quo so far as rail roads go. The war is credited with little influence in producing the prac tical deadlock in railway construction now obtaining in the celestial empire. An adequate railroad system would be a wonder worker, so great are its possibilities, but while the Chinese ap preciate the need of some railroading to supplement the work of their can als and coolies they have no realiza tion of the development of a country by railroads. The amount of goods transported by coolies and in north ern China by carts is almost beyond belief. In the interior of the greater portion of the country coolies and canals carry all the freight. What this means can be understood fairly when it is known that there is prac tically no railroad service at all in j the more populous and richest parts 1 of an empire of 400,000,000 people or more. Most of the roads are scarcely worthy the name. In the northern ! provinces the traffic in carts of a ; rough sort dominates the entire move : ment of goods to the seaboard. When : waterways are frozen a great part of , the year this is of necessity the case. It is in such regions that the first hold of the railroads has come. When i the empire is served at all it is serv i ed by waterways. Along the Chinese coast there is a series of navigable rivers coming down from the interior, a series which has few equals the ; world over. From the Yalu and Pei Ho at the north to West river, pass | ing through Canton in the south. | these rivers seem to be formed to reach inland from the coast, connect ing not only the coast cities, but the interior cities with each other by way of tfae coast as well. About midway between the north and south the great Yangtse reaches far into the in terior, navigable almost to the west ern borders of the empire, and by its tributaries offering still further con nections with interior points. These streams are supplemented by canals, large and small, until the whole Yangtse and Yellow river plains are a vast network of waterways design ed originally largely for irrigation and now used also for transportation. IN CHARGE OF MONEY GRANTS. z&fstzr’ James A. Tawney of Minnesota to head the house committee on appro priations. Would Separate the Sexes. “I do not believe in sandwiching courtship with religion," said the sec retary of the Y. M. C. A. in New York recently. “No man can hold a hymn book with a charming young woman and pay attention to what the minister is saying.” He advocates separate churches for the two sexes. Oddities in Collections. Some of the odd and curious things men make collections of are included in the following list of titles: Wash ington engravings, local imprints, transportation, portraits of one-eyed men. Niagara. Harvard College, for estry, international law, Valentines, ex-libris, almanacs, libel trials, local views, bindings, pirates. Each subject mentioned here was taken at random from the order book of a Boston print and book seller with an international reputation. Lieut. Bilse Has Done Well. Lieut. Bilse. the German officer who was sentenced to six months' Impris onment in a fortress for criticising German military life in a book called "In a Little Garrison Town.” seems to have fared well in the end. He has married a wealthy German woman and settled down in Switzerland. Will Grow Tobacco in Ireland. Sir Conan Doyle and other public spirited men have started in to ascer tain whether tobacco can be grown profitably in Ireland RUSSIA’S FALSE CZAR IMPOSTOR SAID TO BE AT HEAD OF FIFTY THOUSAND MEN. Movement Recalls Rebellion of 1773, Which Is Said to Have Cost 100.000 Live*—Started in Region Which Is Now Affected. The inflamed state of the people of Russia as well as the credulity of the Russian character is again manifested in the army of 50,000 that has gather ed in a few days in the Volga region to follow a false czar. This bogus emperor, as the dispatches tell, made his appearance near Penza, in the heart of the vast region extending westward from the Volga. This movement recalls the great Pugatcheff rebellion of 177", which is said to have cost 100,000 lives. This rebellion also occurred in the region where the false czar started his in surrection in the last few days. 1 emelyan Ivanovitch Pugatcheff was born in 1726 and died in 1775. The rebellion he led was known as the "Pugatchefshtchina.'’ He was a Cos sack of the Don and fought against the Prussians in the Seven Years War and in the campaign against Turkey in 1760. On his return from the latter war he was arrested for helping his broth er-in-law to escape across the Don. Fearing punishment he ran away to the Cossacks of the Terek. In the land of his refuge he heard the per sistent rumors that Peter III was still alive. It happened that he bore a striking resemblance to the murdered czar, and it occurred to him to im personate that, sovereign. Whether this Russian soldier dreamed of the bloody results that followed this Im personation is doubtful, but he boldly announced that he was Peter III and issued a proclamation in the name of that sovereign in 1773, declaring that he would dethrone Catherine II and again occupy the throne. The rebellion began in the same year. He attached to his cause the Raskolniks, whose religion he em braced, and won over several Finnish and Tatar tribes and thousands of the peasantry. After the capture of many fortresses on the tTral and the Don, Orenburg among them, he marched his army against Moscow. At a crucial time he was sold by some of his compan ions for 100,000 rubles and was cap tured. After his trial he was executed in Moscow. His execution ended the rebellion, which had been one of the bloodiest of its kind in history. Von Moltke’s Deserved Promotion. On Gen. Count Schlieffen’s retire ment another Von Moltke will suc ceed to the post of chief of the gen eral staff of the German army, which his famous uncle held for thirty years. Not family or influence, but personal merit, has won this high honor for Count "Von Moltke. Serving as a sub lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian war, he received the iron cross for bravery. It took him twenty years more to rise to the grade of major. Later he was aid-de-camp to the kaiser. After fur ther promotion he was appointed to the general stafT, where he has been quartermaster general of the a-my. The army maneuvers this year in which the kaiser took so active a part were planned by him. Now, after thir ty-five years' service, he attains the highest rank. Has "Made Good” in Life. Horace E. Burt, president of the Union Pacific railroad, has been visit ing the home of his childhood, Rac coon, Ind. Forty years ago he was a barefoot urchin there and was known as "boy no account,” because he seem ed to have an unconquerable aversion to hard work. At last he got a job at railroading, prospered and now comes back in a private car to visit friends whom he knew in the long ago. Camels Unable to Swim. Camels cannot swim. They are buoyant but ill balanced, and their Leads go in the water. They can. however, be taught to swim rivers with the aid of goat skins or jars fastened under their necks. During the Beloochistan expedition of 189S the camels were lowered into the sen from the ships and their drivers plunging overboard eiambered on their charges, causing the animals' heads to come up, and thus assisted, they were successfully piloted ashore. Bible Study in India. Facts show the failure of non Christian religions in India. The fol lowing is an illustration: In the dis trict of Punjab only iorty families of Brahmin priests are ieft, where for merly there were 360. Numbers of Brahmins are defying the curse and taking up secular callings, because the office of priest no longer affords them a living. Popular education and Bible study have broken down the adoration formerly paid to the priests, and their vocation is gone.
