THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA,
OVER THE STATE.
Some cases of diphtheria are report
ed at Pickerill.
Many candidates are appearing for
U. S. marshal of Nebraska in place
of Matthews, removed by the presi
dent.
The Farmers' Grain and Live Stock
company of McCool Junction, a far
mers’ elevator company, has voted to
discontinue business.
During the month of November
twelve children were born in West
Point, and during the same time only
two deaths are reported.
The McCool hotel, B. A. Cole pro
prietor, closed last week, leaving this
town without a hotel. Residents and
boarding houses are earing for tourists.
The George Krutman family of
Madison, who have had diphtheria,
are about recovered. Eight children
were down with the disease, one died,
a little girl of 7.
W. E. Damon, a former resident of
Johnson county, has invented a new
airship. He lives at Los Angeles, Cal.,
and a company has been organized
which will promote the new inven
tion.
Van Overton and wife, having dis
posed of their farm near Nebraska
City, where they resided for over
forty years, left last week for Seattle,
Wash., where they will make their
home.
The St Paul roller mills were de
stroyed by fire, the loss being $15,
000. The insurance was very low, only
$G,000 on mill building and machinery
and $800 on the warehouse, and none
whatever on the stock.
W. J. Hollenbeck, who resides near
Greenwood, in Cass county, it is claim
ed, husked 116 bushels of corn each
succeeding day except Sundays for
twenty-one days, and claims the cham
pionship of his state.
Some miscreant shot into the
liroadweil school house in York
county, breaking out window lights
and doing other damage. The Broad
well school house is a country school
alHJut four miles southwest of York.
Sutherland reports that shipments
of sugar beets go slowly owing to the
fact that the factories are crowded
to the limit. This year's crop, while
not of the very best, has generally
proved a paying one to the growers.
Sheriff Campbell of Dundy county
of which Benkleman is the county
seat, was in Grand Island with a war
rant for a student, on the charge of
bastardy. Sheriff Eby could not or
would not reveal the name of the stu
dent.
Mrs. Mary Jane Gruppe. aged 69,
was found dead in the rear of her
home at the town of Filley, eight
miles east of Beatrice, by a neighbor,
Mrs. Smith, who came over to milk
her cow, which was stabled in the
Grupps barn.
William Miller of Brunswick. Neb.,
has been held to the district court in
Neligh on a charge of assaulting wdth
intent to do great bodily harm to
George Nagle of Brunswick. The two
men were business rivals as stock buy
ers at Brunswick.
A number of the members of the
Peru normal faculty will take part in
the program of the state teachers’ as
sociation at Lincoln. December 27-29.
Miss Ellis, the head of the history 'de
partment, will read a paper, "History
Work in the Grades."
Ed Carpenter, the young man who
was convicted at the last term of the
district court of Cass county on the
charge of removing mortgaged prop
erty from the state, was .taken to the
state penitentiary where he will serve
one year for the offense.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Noelt
ing of Nebraska City was testing with
other boys, how much electricity he
could stand by grabbing hold of an
electric wire. He was severely shock
ed, and it took the physicians two
hours to restore him to consciousness.
The Burlington is having a new
snowplow built at the Plattsmouth
shops which will soon be ready fbr
service!. This plow is much larger and
has many improvements over the old
ones. It is so constructed that it will
throw the snow on each side of the
track.
Bulletin No. 3 of the Peru normal
has been issued to teachers over the
state. It contains the new course of
study, photos of members of the
faculty, and an announcement of the
banquet Tor normalites at the Lindell
hotel during the state teachers’ asso
ciation.
Alleging that his wife was insane
and ought to be brought to the Nor
folk hospital, Andrew Roseboom of
Itoyd county took his frau to Butte
for examination by the board of in
sanity. The board found that the
woman was perfectly sane and com
pelled Roseboom to pay the costs of
the case.
Lawrence McConnell, on trial for a
statutory offense, was found guilty by
the jury at Beatrice. This is the sec
ond trial of the case.
Will Bolin, son of T. J. Bolin, living
northeast of Overton, had a narrow
escape from death by being knocked
from the track by the Overland Flyer
No. 1. The train struck the wagon
just behind the spring seat, smashing
it to pieces, and the only thing that
saved the boy was his bolding to the
lines. The horses lunging to get away
pulled him away from the train and
out of the wagon, thus escaping any
injury.
The Beatrice Y. M. C. A. is making
an effort to raise money for a new
building.
The station on the Great Northern,
a half mile south of the Platte river
lin Dodge county, has been named
Woodside. An elevator has been built
on the bluff west of the track, and a
spur put in. The place is beautifully
located and is likely to become a fa
vorite spot for picnics. It is only a
short distance from the monument
erected in May last to commemorate
the fiftieth anniversary of General
Thayer’s council with Chief Pita-lach
ara of the Pawnees.
WILL BE NO EXTRA SESSION
[Governor Decides Against Calling the
Legislators Together.
Governor Mickey issued a statement
in- which he declares that in his judg
ment there exists no sufficient reason
for calling the legislature together in
special session. He states that he is
in favor of certain constitutional
amendments, but he does not believe
that the electors would adopt them
if they were submitted, and on that
ground objects to the expense of a
session of the legislature. He advo
cates, by way ’of preference, a consti
tutional convention as an efficient
means of securing changes in the or
ganic law. if it were not for the mag
nitude of the state debt.
While the governor has been known
to favor maximum freight rate legisla
tion this authorized statement goes
mrther and is more explicit than any
previous utterance. His suggestion
that the executive be. given power on
his own motion to bring an original
action in the supreme court to enforce
equitable and reasonable rates is in
tended to expedite hearings and pre
vent the delay involved in an appeal.
It is believed that the suggestions
of the statement given out will be em
bodied in his message to the next leg
islature. Part of what the governor
says follows:
in my judgment there exists no sin- j
flcient reason for calling the legislature
together in special session for the pur- j
pose of submitting constitutional j
amendments or for any other purpose j
to which iny attention has been called !
up to the present time. In view of j
the experience Nebraska has had in !
voting on proposed amendments to the
constitution no one can reasonably
hope to see the amendments carry at
the next general election if submitted.
While I am in favor of amending the
constitution in a number of particu
lars. I do not feel justified in putting
the state to the expense of an extra
session for the purpose of again sub
mitting the proposed amendments. ]
That method of relief is an acknowl- 1
edged failure in this state, and 1 know
of no greater reason to hope for its
success next year than in previous
years when constitutional amendments
have been defeated.
“The holding of a constitutional con
vention would be the better way of ac
complishing the desired changes in the
organic law, but owing to the magni
tude of the state debt I would not feel
warranted at this time in encouraging
such a convention. Fortunately, we
now have legislation in force which
will gradually reduce the debt, and
when it hhs been paid off. or brought
down to reasonable bounds, then a con
stitutional convention, with its attend
ant heavy expense, might be consid
ered w'ith propriety.”
Will See Before Signing.
Secretary of State Galusha an
nounced that hereafter he -will not
sign vouchers for miscellaneous cup
plies, unless they are brought to him
before the warrants are issued on
them. He will not refuse his signa
ture to salary and other vouchers,
where the expenditures are fixed bv
statute under such circumstances. He
says that it has been the custom to
aive the warrants to claimants as
much as a week in advance of the
time that the vouchers come to him
and insists that he has a right to pass
on claims.
W'H Go to a Higher Court.
LINCOLN—N. V. Halter and Harry
H. Hayward of Omaha will appeal the
suit against the flag law case to the
supreme court of the United States.
Recently they were fined $100 each
for using the American flag to desig
nate the merits of a brewery product.
They appealed the suit to the Nebraska
supreme court and the verdict of the
lower court was sustained .
Charged With Stealing Horses.
Glass Factories for Sand Hills.
VALENTINE—Plans are under vay
for the converting of the hitherto
useless sandhills of western Nebraska
into marketable glass, and the project
is being undertaken on a scale which
promises to bring a large number of
people into that sparsely populated
country.
Will File New Charges.
TECUMSEH—It is officially stated
by tne prosecuting attorneys that
most all of the cases against the ex
cashier, Charles M. Chamberlain, have
been dismissed. A number of new
cases will be filed in the district court
against Chamberlain and it is thought
that the new rases will be much
stronger than some of the older ones.
NEBRASKA POULTRY SHOW
And Meetings of State Labor Associa
tions at Same Time.
LINCOLN—The twenty-first annual
exhibition of the Nebraska State Poul
try association is to be held in the
state university armory, January 15
to 20. The premium list, which in
cludes more than $1,000 in cash prizes,
is now mailed to the poultry raisers
of the state. All premiums are to be
paid in cash.
Corn Carnival is Success.
FREMONT — The corn carnival
closed with the awarding of prizes.
Willis Hartwig of District 45 was
given the first prize of $25 cash. Sam
uel Brunner, District 69, second, a
cultivator valued at $17. and Alexan
der Bleyhl of District 58. third, a
phonograph valued at $15. A total of
seventy-four prizes was awarded the
school competitors. Prizes were also
awarded the general corn exhibits.
Clar Wilcox won the first prize for
device made of corn, $10 in cash, his
entry being a map of Nebraska.
Boy Shot Through Hand.
NORFOLK—Horace Walters, aged
thirteen, son of Dr. F. G. Walters, who
was recently appointed government
surgeon in Panama, was shot through
the hand here, by the accidental a s
charge of a 22-caiibre revolver, which
ue was twirling.
Governor Not Deeply Impressed.
LINCOLN—Governor Mickey says
that he thinks the underwriters should
prefer charges against the Nebraska
life insurance companies, in case there
ar« any abuses.
World’s Finest Railway Station
THE VA9HIN&TOM TERMINAL.
The Washington Terminal Railway
station, now nearing completion at
the intersection of Massachusetts
and Delaware avenues, in the capita.'
city, at a cost of $14,000,000, will be,
undoubtedly, the finest railway sta
tion in the world. It is a magnificent
edifice in white granite, a great tri
umphal arch in design, and is said
to be the apotheosis in imperishable
marble of the Chicago world’s fair
architecture, its designer, Daniel H.
Burnham, having declared at the
close of the White City's magnifi
cence, that he would some day build
a monument to that wonderful crea- !
tion. In every aspect excepting
height, the new structure is larger
than the national capitol, stands upon
a plaza 1,000 feet long and 500 feet
wide, other sites upon the plaza be»
ing reserved for a continuation of the
plans for a "city beautiful” by the
erection of other fine structures. j
WEDDING AND FUNERAL ALIKE.
Much Resemblance in Ceremonies, Ac
cording to Western Writer.
There is mighty little difference be
tween a wedding and a funeral. At a
wedding the relations walk slowly
down the aisle, followed by the bridal
couple and a string of attendants. At
a funeral the relations enter the
church slowly, followed by the coffin
and the pallbearers. At a wedding the
real relations of the bride sit on one
side of the church and the in-law
relations sit on the other. The kin
of the remains take opposite sides of
the church at a funeral. The *>rgan
rolls out the same deep music and the
odor of flowers is as heavy at a wed
ding as at a funeral. After the church
services are over the bridal couple
and attendants leave the church first,
followed by the relatives, and at a
funeral the coffin and pallbearers are
given precedence of the relatives In
leaving the church. The same hacks
stand at the door and the processions
in both cases pass slowly out of sight.
After everything is over the relatives
get together and talk things over very
much the same in both instances.
There are some tears, some criticisms,
some complaints about blunders and
the Incidents are closed.—Atchison,
Kan., Globe.
Lawyer’s Fall From Grace.
Abe Hummell, the celebrated New
York criminal lawyer, who for over
twenty years has been a leader of the
bar there in the practice of a certain
kind of law. has dropped out of sight
since an indictment was brought
against him charging perjury. He
has not entered the district attorney’s
office in a year and all his immense
business is carried on through subor
New
dinates. Huimr.ell is not especially
missed from the office of the district
attorney, but he is missed along the
Rialto. It was his boast for years
that he never missed a first night.
Since his indictment he has missed
100 of them. He has grown pale and
subdued and his once rotund little
frame has shrunk considerably. Hum
mell is about 5 feet nothing in height
and three years ago he weighed about
130 pounds. He now weighs about
fifteen pounds less.
OWNERSHIP OF LITTLE VALUE.
Art Dealer’s Purchased Treasures
Must Not Be Moved. .
Italy desires the keeping of its art
I treasures within its own boundaries
and sometimes with rather odd re
sults. The other day a farmer, find
ing his finances low, yielded to the
solicitation of an art dealer and sold
him the removable masonry of two
ancient windows belonging to the
' fragment of an ancient abbey, now an
, outhouse, in his grounds. The gov
ernment commissioner, bearing of the
, transaction, visited the farm and of
fically prohibited the removal of the
windows. The farmer was in de
spair: he had received his 500 francs
j and, like the Irishman, had squan
dered his fortune in paying his debts,
j The, commissioner used comfortable
| words: “You have sold the windows'
and he has paid you money which you
have prudently spent. Be content."
But the buyer was not equally con
tented. He sought out the commis
sioner, who blandly congratulated
him on having become the owner of
1 the windows, which, however, he
could not remove. Shvlock's pound
of flesh mildly repeats itself in a ton
1 of masonry.
Battleship Laui
ARID LAND TO BE RECLAIMED.
Irrigation Will Make New Mexico
Blossom Like a Garden.
A new star on the flag Is the mean
ing of the national irrigation act ap
plied to New Mexico, where the blos
soming gardens and populous, pros
! perous communities of Pueblo Indians
; which flourished there when Coronado
i sailed up the Rio Grande hundreds of
I years ago are to be revived from its
122.460 square miles of arid America.
The Rio Grande valley is-to be re
I claimed by a great dam over this ca
pricious river, which one day has lit
tle or no surface flow and the next is
a raging torrent, cutting new chan
nels, carrying off dams, and sweeping
away entire farms. Some of the rich-,
est mines in the world are to be de
veloped and a remarkably fertile soil
made to yield its teeming crops. Last
year one onion grower realized a profit
in excess of $600 from less than an
acre of Bermuda onions, and a farmer
exhibiting at the St. Louis exposition
was awarded the gold medal for su£ar
cane over all competitors, including
those from Cuba and Hawaii. Marvel
ous yields of alfalfa, cereals, veget
ables, and fruit are produced.
How Fine Hymn Was Written.
John Henry Newman, afterward
cardinal. was taken ill while in Sicily.
One morning w ithout apparent cause
he sat up in bed and began to sob bit
terly. His servant asked what was
the matter and Mr. Newman replied
that he wanted to return to Englsv
As soon as he was able to travel he
started for the mainland in an orange
boat, and it was while he was be- i
calmed in the Straits of Bonifacio that j
he wrote the famous hymn “Lead, ;
Kindly Light.”
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ZZ. $. JSattLuki/o IDAHO :
The battleship Idaho was launched
at the yard of the William Crami
Ship and Engine building company ai
Philadelphia Dec. 9. The vessel was
named by Miss Louise May Gooding
daughter of Gov. Gooding of Idaho.
In addition to Gov. and Mrs. Good
ing, Idaho was represented by a dele
ga'ion of cHizens.
The Idaho is a sister ship of the
Mississippi, which was launched on
Sept. 30. Except for windlass and
steering gear, practically all her
; auxiliary machinery will be operated
by electricity, and her two military
masts will be fitted for wireless
| telegraphy.
The keel plates of the Idaho were
laid in May of last year. She will
have a displacement of 13,000 tons
and a speed of 17 knots. Her main
battery will consist of four 12-ineh,
eight 8-inch and eight 7-inch breech
loading rifles, and she will be fitted
with two submerged torpedo tubes.
The Idaho will have s complement
of 750 officers and men.
ncdi txai.wutf rioneer.
Mathew Sawyer, who died last
week in Atchison county, south of Ev
erest. Kan., was 97 years of age and
had lived on the farm where his death
occurred since 1858. His wife was a
practicing physician in the border
days and administered to the wants of
the early settlers. Mr.- Sawyer helped
to make the inauguration suit worn
by President Jackson. He hauled
corn fo Atchison in the early days, re
ceiving 10 cents a bushel, and it took
an entire load to purchase a pair of
boot*.
Moving Day.
“Are you sure we brought every
thing from the house, William?”
‘‘I don’t know Maria: I don’t miss
anything, but I feel like we had forgot
ten something.”
“Did you compare the things as the
man took them out with the list?”
“Yes, and it’s all right.’
“Then what was it that we didn't re
member?”
“Good heavens, Marla, I know now!
We forgot the children!”—Baltimore
American.
Epitaph for Chamberlain.
In a recent address Lord Rosebery
paid his respects In this pungent fash
ion to Joseph Chamberlain: “I can
not pay a sufficient tribute to Mr.
Chamberlain. Looking far into the
future, however. I feel that I could
write his epitaph and it would run as
. follows:
“ ‘IN A POLITICAL CAREER
OF THIRTY YEARS
HE SPLIT UP
BOTH
THE GREAT POLITICAL PARTIES
OF THE STATE.’ ’
Is It Possible?
It looks suspiciously like a fact
that Chinese graveyards are being
made to give up their “pigtails,” On
1 nc other ground can the supply of hair
i trom China be explained. In life, the
Chinaman will part with any other
possession rather than his head-dress;
moreover, hair from the living man
is not charged heavily with sand.
Nevertheless, the hair comes to mar
ket, is trafficked in by the thousand
pounds weight, and is value for some
36 cents per lb.—Textile Merqury.
Sleuth Not to Blame.
A Manchester, N. H., woman com
plained to the police that thieves were
stealing her milk before she could get
it into the house. A watch was set,
who guarded the place faithfully until
dawn, but the milk was gone as usual.
It looked as if it had been stolen di-.
rectly under the nose of the officer.
The mystery was only cleared up when
the milkman told the sleuth that he
had not left any milk there for five
days and didn't propose to until the
good housewife settled in full for
“goods had and received.”
Gold Piece Turns to Nickel.
In a street car, in Cleveland, the
other day a young man suddenly stop
ped and picked up something from the'
floor. After looking at it a moment
he asked, in a loud voice, "Has any
body lost a five-dollar gold piece?”
Instantly a solemn man at the front
end of the car rose and walking back
to the young chap, said: , “Yes, I have
lost a flve-dollar gold piece,” and held
out his hand. “Well,” said the young
man, “here’s 5 cents I just picked up
toward it.”
, DEATH’S SUMMONS IS SUDDEN. |
Edward Atkinson Succumbs to Attack
of Heart Failure.
Edward Atkinson, the well known
authority on social and political econ
omy. died suddenly Dec. 11 in his
home in Boston after an attack of
acute indigestion affecting the heart.
He was 78 years old.
For forty years Mr. Atkinson had
been looked upon as an authority on
economic questions, and in this con
nection had been called upon to per
form many important public duties,
among th jm being an appointment by
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President Cleveland in 1887 as special
commissioner on the status of bi
metallism in Europe.
He was a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fel
low of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, cor
responding secretary of the American
Statistical association, and a member
of the International Statistical insti
tute.
He was also a member of the Cob
den club of Great Britain. He held
the honorary degrees of LL». D. from
the University of South Carolina, and
Ph. D. from Dartmouth, as well as
having been an honorary member of
the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard uni
versity. Mr. Atkinson was a prolific
writer on economic questions. A
widow and several children survive.
He had been prominent in ‘'anti
imperialist” agitation.
GERMANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
Fatherland Wants Information as to
Its Wandering Sons.
The German government has made
an inquiry to ascertain the number of
people of German birth who are liv
ing in foreign countries. The figures,
based on the German census of 1900
and on the latest census of eaCn of the
other principal countries, supplement
ed in some cases by special investiga
tion, have recently been purbllsl.'id.
It appears that 3,029,514 persons of
German birth live in countries other
than Germany: that 430,002 not of
German birth have acquired German
citizenship and 700,710 living in for
eign countries are reported as having
retained German citizenship.
Compared with earlier statistics, the
number of Germans in almost all Eu
ropean countries have increased, while
the numbers in the United States, En
gland, Canada, Chile and Argentina
have decreased.
POPULAR AUTHOR NEAR DEATH.
Miss Mary Johnston Stricken with
Apparently Fatal Illness.
, Miss Mary Johnston, author of ‘'To
Have and to Hold.” hovers between
life and death in Richmond. Va. Her
youngest sister, Miss Elizabeth John
ston, has been summoned to her bed
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side, as has her brother, John W.
Johnston, of New York. The author
is unconscious, however, and recog
nizes no one. Miss Johnston is suf
fering from Bright’s disease. While
her death momentarily is expected,
it is barely possible she may linger
some time.
Sweden Electric Company.
Sweden is electricity wise and elec
tricity busy, using from five to ten !
times as many telephones per capita i
as America, and employing the magi- I
cal force for a thousand and one daily
uses and economies which have not 1
yet begun to be considered in this i
country. The Swedish Niagara at
Trollhattan has been in operation at
least as long as Niagara if not longer
with electrical power generated from
the waters of the Gotha river, falling
a hundred or more feet in two or three
miles and supplying a wonderful de
velopment of industry.
First Elevator on Record.
In the “Greville Memoirs" (Genoa,
March 18, 1830, evening) there is a j
reference to the king and queen, who, j
“for the comfort of their bodies had
a machine made like a car, which is
drawn up by a chain from the bottom
to the top of the house; it holds about
six people, who can be at pleasure ele
vated to any story and at each landing
place there is a contrivance to let
them in and out.”
Is this the first mention of anything
approaching our modern “lift"?—
Notes and Queries.
Jap Lamp Chimney Factory.
The Japanese lamp chimney fac
tory in Swatow is doing a good busi
ness, and is working a constantly in
creasing force of men. It is turning
cut a cheap product, which answers
the demand of the Chinese market.
Pensions For Confederates.
Texas, in the fiscal years of 1906
and 1907 will pay $900,000 to Con
federate veterans for pensions, be
sides expending $154,538 for the sup
port of the Confederate home.
WORKINGMAN IN NEW CABINET.
John Burns. Labor Leader, New one
of Britain’s Rulers.
For the first time in English history
a workingman, a man who labors with
his hands, who all bis life has been
dependent upon his own exertions
for his daily bread, has been named as
a member of the British ministry and
assigned to a place therein which con
fers the highest of honors, that of an
officer of the cabinet. John Burns, a
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leader of strikes, once on trial for
his life, having served a term in
prison because of his defiance of laws
which curtailed freedom of speech, has
after years of conscientious striv
ing, reached one of the most distin
guished positions in the world. He
is the leading type of the new democ
racy which advocates reform along
social and municipal lines without dis
turbing the system of political insti
tutions, adopting it to the social needs
of the time.
SILKS PRODUCED FROM COTTON.
Brilliant and Durable Material Much
in Demand.
If thistles cannot grow figs, cotton
evidently can grow silk. It has been
found that brilliant threads of silk
like appearance can be produced from
cellulose. The best material for the
purpose is said to be carded cotton.
The artificial product is of an even
white color, of silky touch, and when
pressed' together has some of the
characteristic crackle of genuine silk,
which in brilliancy it much excels.
For trimmings it is said to be pre
ferred to the natural silk, while for
embroidery it is ideal, the luster add
ing much to the appearance. In hats
it may be made to take the place of
straw with good results. It forms an
excellent imitation of human hair, as
soft as the natural growth and not to
be distinguished therefrom. It is also
cleaner and cheaper. There appears
to be an increasing demand for the
artificial silks even in silk-producing
countries. Germany and France lead
in its manufacture.
IMPRESARIO WAITS FINAL CALL.
Hope for Recovery of Maurice Grau
Is Practically Abandoned.
Maurice Grau, the impresario, is
seriously ill at his home in Paris.
When Mr. Grau gave up his man
agement of opera two years ago, to be
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succeeded by Heinrich Conned, he was
completely broken in health and went
abroad to recuperate.
He has never returned. After a
year of complete rest, for the greater
part of the time in the south of
France, his health was greatly im
proved. Then, with his wife and
daughter, he took up his residence in
Paris.
Nearly two months ago his health
began to fail again, and since the last
of October he has been steadily losing
ground. His trouble is an affection
of the heart.
Giant Financially and Physically.
When Thomas F. Ryan, the rail
road and insurance magnate appeared
before the insurance investigation
committee the onlookers were amazed
at the physical poportions of the man.
He is a giant The man who bought
up the Equitable over night and who
makes a daily practice of making
f 1,000,000 deals had not appeared in
public up to this time. The city hall
s as crowded with curious New Yorkers
who were anxious to see the man who
was big enough to hire Anthony
Brady and Chauncey Depew as clerks.
Ryan is about 54 years old. He is in
perfect physical condition.
Reporter's Rise to Prominence.
Franklin K. Lane, whom the presi
dent has nominated for interstate
commerce commissioner, is a San
Francisco lawyer who entertains
iome radical views, being a believer
in the Henry George single-tax idea.
Fifteen years ago he was a reporter
an the San Francisco Chronicle. He
took a prominent part in the demo
cratic reorgan, zation movement which
lent Christopher A. Buckley, the
rweed of San Francisco, into Canada
is a fugitive from justice. Mr. Lane
»as also editor of the Tacoma News
Ferry Across the Channel.
A scheme is now before the British
parliament for the establishment be
ween Dover and Calais, of a service
5- ferryb°a‘8 that carry railroad
“rs- so that passengers will not have
° change between London and Paris
Rises From the Ranks.
Thomas Price, the new nr»mio
5fflceh ^tf31.!11, Wh° has «»me !n2
-ffice as the head of a labor °t0
nent, is a man who can claim fn T™*
risen from the ranks t0 hav*