Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.