Nebraska Newspapers

    AN ASSAM Oil
DOUaLAS COUNTY JAIL
AN EFFORT MADE TO GET PRIS
ONERS THERE.
Opbr Is Battered Down, but the Men
Wanted by the Mob Found to
Be Spirited Away.
OMAHA—Incensed at the news that
Edward Flury was dead, a crowd of
about 1,000 people, without a leader,
made a desultory attempt Thursday
night at taking from the county jail
and lynching the three negroes held
for the murder of the street car con
ductor the night of Wednesday, March j
7, at the Albright end of the Walnut
Hill street car line. The mob swore
vengeance also on the four youths
held for the murder of Nels Lausten,
the Cuming street saloon keeper. Two
or three hundred men mounted the jail
and courthouse terrace from Harney
s£reet and with the aid of a pole
broke down two doors forcing its way
into the jail on the east side.
. Sheriff McDonald invited a commit
tee to enter and inspect the jail to
prove his word the prisoners were not
there. The committee was headed by
Joseph Flury, 3431 North Thirtieth
street, brother of the murdered man.
It was in the jail about an hour and
when it emerged Flury made a speech
to the crowd, declaring every' cell had
been searched in vain; the prisoners
were gone. That speech and the pres
ence of thirty-live policemen had the
effect of dispersing the crowd.
me mgnt was cola. The ground
was hidden under a deep coat of
snow. The crowd was disorganized.
It was quite apparent that had the ele
ments been milder and the crowd
headed by one or two determined
leaders there may have been different
conseauences. provided, however, the
coveted victims were in the jail.
Sneriff McDonald declared they were
not and the committee failed to find
them.
The strongest, at least the most
realistic suggestion of summary dis
position of the prisoners, aside from
the presence of the howling mob. was
a long grass seed rope. A big man
who had nothing to say carried it. He
stayed well in the center of the active
crowd and when the jail door was
broken in was on hand.
Clarence Gathright. Cal Wain or
Warren and Harry Clark, the three
negroes held for the F iury murder,
were, primarily, the objects of the
mob's wrath. Jay O’Hearn, on trial
for the Lausten murder, and his pals,
Raymond Nelson. Leo Angus and Joe
Warren, were also wanted.
RETURNS FROM INSPECTION.
Report on Wreck of Valencia Will
Shortly Be Made.
' WASHINGTON.—L O. Murrav of
the steamboat inspection service has
returned ’"from the Pacific coast,
where he was sent by the government
with H. K. Smith of the same service
to investigate the Valencia disaster.
Mr Smith has not returned but when
he reaches Washington a report will
be compiled covering the findings in
the premises. The report will be
made to the president and no infor
mation will be given out relative to
the findings until it is made public at
the White House.
SHOT DOWN WITHOUT TRIAL.
t
Englishman Makes Terrible Charge
Against Russian Officials.
LONDON—Lionel Walter Roschild,
member of parliament for the Ailes
bury division of Bucks, speaking
at Chesham on the question of exclu
sion of aliens and the number of poor
Russian refugees excluded from Great
Britain the last few months, said he
possessed irrefutable evidence that
every' one of these men sent back was
shot at the Russian frontier without
trial.
FACTIONAL FIGHT IN OHIO.
Two Republican Candidates in Ohio
Congressional District.
WILMINGTON. O—C. Q. Hilde
brand was nominated as a republican
•candidate to suceecd Congressman
iScroggy from the Sixth district, and
a rival convention will meet at Xenia
jnext Wednesday, at which it is ex
pected Mr. Scroggy will also be nom
nnated. Attempts made to compro
mise difficlulties have thus far been
ifutile.
FARMERS ALLOWED TO POOL.
Kentucky Pipposes to Cope With To
bacco TrusL
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The house
passed the •senate bill allowing farm
ers to pool their crops and hold them
for higher prices. Although the mea
sure is a general one the main pur
pose for which it was introduced was
to allow Kentucky tobacco growers to
combine and secure satisfactory prices
for leaf tobacco.
Many Soldiers Are Missing.
ST. PETERSBURG—The Invalid,
organ of the military, is still printing
daily lists of the losses sustained dur
ing the war. which, without including
Port Arthur, now total 151.000 killed,
v.oundpd and disappeared. The lists
covering the fighting at Mukden are
just beginning to appear. A remark
able feature is the percntage ot men
whose fate is unknown, having been
abandoned on the field of battle. The
staff is receiving thousands of in
quiries from relatives regarding the
fate of soldiers missing.
Resurveys in Nebraska.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Kinkaid introduced a bill authorizing
the secretary of the interior to resur
vey certain lands in Nebraska. These
lands, it is asserted, were not accu
rately surveyed when the country was
opened to settlement, or if they w»re
the monuments has been misplaced or
dost sigtyt of. The Kinkaid bill pro
poses to furnish relief in having a re
survey made of the lands in township
23 nc«rth, range 12; township 23, north;
range 13, township 28 north, range j
14; township 32 north, range 47.
FORGER MAKES CONFESSION.
Tells flow He Cleared Up About
$65,000.
DAYTON, 6.—C. S. White. the last
of a gang of forgers, which has
worked extensively in Chicago, Omaha
and St. Louis, was arrested Wednes
day in Lima and confessed in this
city that he had led the gang of check
workers. He stated that, checks were
printed by himself and his men iden
tical to those used by the Illinois Steel
company. They were made out in
sums of $50 and $51, and on pay day
at the plant the men would dress as
Hungarians, get in the crowd and pre
sent th%ir checks for payment at
banks or saloons near the factory.
White stated that he was a little
scared at first, but that it was so easy
that he worked hard afterward and
cleared up $55,01)0 before leaving Chi
cago.
TO HEAR EVIDENCE.
Kansas Railroads May Defend Their
Oil Rates.
NEW YORK —Announcement was
made that an organization, including
prominent men of affairs as well as
leading men of letters has been formed
to urge the simplification of English
spelling. This new body is called the
simplified spelling board. It will ap
peal to all who for educational or
practical reasons wish to make Eng
lish spelling easier to acquire. An
drew. Carnegie has generously under
taken to bear the expense of the or
ganization.
CARRINGTON CASE AFFIRMED.
Major Will Appeal to United - States
Court in Case Against Him.
MANILA.—The supreme court of
the islands has confirmed the decision
of the lower court in the case of J.
F. Carrington, formerly a major in the
United States army. Carrington will
now appeal to the United States su
preme court.
Carrington was convicted in Febru
ary last of falsifying vouchers of the
civil government when an officer in
the army and in charge of a battalion
of Filipino scouts, to the amount of
$1,500. and was sentenced to a total
of sixty years and live uays imprison
ment. He subsequently was tried by
court-martial and dismissed from the
army.
NELSON MANUSCRIPT SOLD.
Memorandum on Plan of Battle at
Trafalgar Brings $18,000.
LONDON.—The original draft in
Lord Nelson's handwriting of the his
torical “general memorandum" to his
captains at the battle of Trafalgar
was sold at auction at Christie's today
for $18,000. The purchaser was a
bookseller who was reported to be
acting in behalf of an American col
lector, but the bookseller denied so
doing and said he thought the docu
ment ought to remain in England, add
ing that he was ready to hand it over
to the British museum for $18,000.
Snow Valuable to State.
OMAHA—All Nebraska rejoices
over the white blanket of snow which
has covered the state for several days.
It has been called another “$1,000,000
snow.” The warm weather had put
the ground in a receptive hood and
the eight inches of snow will make
a first edition of a spring wetting.
The snow, farmers say, will have
been of value to all sorts of crops.
The railroads have not started their
crop bulletins, but reports received at
general manager's offices -show every
thing to be in fine shape.
TO MAKE SPELLING EASIER.
New Movement Is Started in New
York City.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.—Francis M.
Cockrell, Hudson C. Clements and
Charles A. Prouty, members of the
interstate commerce commission, ar
rived in Kansas City and will at once
begin the hearing of testimony on al
leged illegal rates charged by railroad
companies for shipment of oil from
the Kansas fields It is expected that
two and probably three days will be
consumed in the hearing.
ALGECIRAS DELEGATES WAIT.
Men at Conference Are Unable to Set
tle Questions Presented.
ALGECIRAS, Spain—Moroccan con
ference has reached a peculiar stage.
It is completely helpless to solve the
deadlock which has arisen over the
remaining details of the police and
bank questions. The sessions are tem
porarily suspended wdthout knowing
when they wHI Tesume. The French
and German delegates are bound by
their instructions and therefore are
unable to make any further conces
sions and the conference not having
judicial or legislative powers cannot
settle the difference by a majority.
Comanches Apply for Divorce.
LAWTON. O. T.—For the first time
in the history of this country, divorces
were applied for in the district court
by two Comanche policemen.
No. Progress At Algeciras.
ALGECIRAS, Spain—The French
ana German delegates to the Moroc
can conference are awaiting further
instructions. In the meantime no prog
ress is being made towards an adjust
ment of the details of the police and
bank questions.
Tons of Dynamite Explode.
DULUTH—In an explosion of eight
tons of dynamite at the works of the
Great Northern Powder Co., at Thom
son. Minn., tonight seven men were in
jured, none fatally.
Chauncey Depew Improving.
NEW YORK—The Tribune says:
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, it may
be asserted on the authority of a man
who talked with him, is deriving the
benefit from his temporary absence
from Washington.
Walter Wellman is Back.
NEW YORK—Wra!ter Wellman, who
has been in Europe preparing for an
attempt to reach the North pole by
dirigible balloon, was a passenger on
the steamer La Lorraine, which ar
rived in New York.
HAS FLOOR
INJHE SENATE
RATE BILL DISCUSSION ALL THIS
• W2EK.
It Is of Paramount Importance and
Therefore is to Be Given the
Right of Way.
WASHINGTON—The debate on the
railroad rate bill will continue in the
senate during the present week. The
prospect is that this rate bill will more
completely monopolize attention this
week than it did last, for while under
the original arrangement the rate bill
could not be taken up until 2 o'clock
each day, its consideration can be now
entered upon under Senator Tillman's
present policy every day as soon as the
routine of bills and presentation of re
ports, is concluded. Mr. Tillman has
announced his purpose of pressing the
consideration of this bill to the exclu
sion of everything else when anyone
is prepared to sp ;ak on it. He said:
“And when there is no one ready to
speak I shall ask the senate to proceed
to vote upon the measure.”
That, however ho will not be unrea
sonable in this respect was shown by
the fact that he agreed on Thursday to
take a recess until Monday because,
notwithstanding there are many sena
tors who will as!: to be heard upon the
Mil before the final vote shall be taken
no speeches had been prepared. Jt is
the intention to give everybody who
reallv wants to speak an opportunity
to do so, but if when all the speeches
ire made there should seem to be a dis
position to delay final action this effort
will be antagoo zed.
The speech making during the pres
ent week will l-e lMii'gurated on Man
day by a speech by fra tor McCreary
Df Kentucky. A number of senators
will he heard during the week in frr
mal speeches, but the order of deliv
ery has not been determined. Among
those who are preparing speeches are
Messrs. Elkins, .Spooner, Lodge. Foster
and MeLaurin. Senator Spooner will
discuss the legal aspects of the subject
dealing especially with the question of
review of the findings of the interstate
commerce commission by the United
States courts. Senator Lodge will de
vote himself especially to the presenta
tion of his reasons for desiring the en
largement of the commission as out
lined in his amendment. In all prob
ability most of the speeches will pre
cipitate running debates, as did Mr.
ftayner's address of last Wednesday.
Indeed, the disposition is to question
most of the statements made on the
floor of the senate, and from this time
'orward very few speakers will be per
mitted to escape without interruption.
Though much attention is being
given to the presentation of the merits
5f the question pro and con. a still
'arger numbzer of senators are devot
ing themselves even more assiduously
:o the preparation of amendments to
the bill. The republican senators who
fln not accept the house bill are con
centrating their efforts upon a review
proposition and they have practically
a greed on the fifth section of Senator
Knox’s substitute for the pending bill
as the basis of their amendment.
BUFFALO BILL IS ALL RIGHT.
Never in Better Health and Now in
Italy With His Show.
NEW YORK—Colonel W. F. Cody,
(Buffalo Bill) has cabled from Genoa,
Italy, emphatically denying the reports
widely disseminated throughout the
United States that owing to family
troubles, business perplexities and
failing health he is threatened with
complete collapse and would shortly
retire from the head of his famous
Wild West show, which is now on tour
in Europe. Colonel Cody's cablegram
was addressed to J. A. Bailey, general
director of the Barnum & Bailey’s cir
cus, who is Colonel Cody's business
partner in the Wild West show. It is
as follows:
GENOA, Italy, March 12.—Barnum
& Bailey, 25 West Thirty-fourth
street. New York: Strongly deny re
ports of failing health, bad business
and retirement. Never in life felt
better and business immense.
CODY.
May Get Small Increase.
PITTSBURG—Fortv-flve coal ope
rators of western Pennsylvania and
eastern Ohio left here for Indianap
olis. Tomorrow afternon the party
will open a conference at Indianap
olis to decide whether or not the min
ers shall get an advance and the
amount to be given. This conference
will probably end Wednesday after
non, when the operators will meet the
miners in convention.
One of the operators said that he
thought the imners would be given an
increase of 5 per cent, but not any
more.
ROME—The sacred college will be
received by Pone Pius X and will pre
sent its greetings to him. the occasion
being the feast of St. Joseph, the
nameday of his holiness. The pope is
in the best of health and spirits.
Geological Survey Wants'Building.
WASHINGTON — Director Walcott
of the geological survey has recom
mended to congress that a new build- j
ing will be erected for the use of that
branch of the government service at !
an estimated cost of $1,200,000. The
director says the government property
and records in the rented buildings
now occupied by the survey, the value
of which amounts to about $6,000,000,
are in constant danger of loss by fire
as the buildings contain over 100.000
square feet of varnished and inflam
mable wooden partitions.
Ware To Take An Appeal.
DEADWOOD, S. D.—A bill of ex
ceptions is being prepared by counsel
for Rev. G. G. Ware, recently convict
ed of conspiring to defraud the gov
ernment of land, and sentenced to pay
a fine of $1,000 and serve one year
in jail. A certified copy of the rec
ord will be filed with the clerk of the
court of appeals at St. Louis sixty
days after the judgment of February
27. The case will be presented ai the
September term of the court of ap
peals at Denver. In the meantime
Mr. Ware is out os baiL
STATEHOOD BILL.
Action Feared That May Defeat the
Measure.
WASHINGTON—There are indica
tions that the statehood bill may be
referred by Speaker Cannon to the
committee on territories. This action,
the friends for Indian Territory fear,
will entirely defeat the measure. The
committee can retain the bill indefi
nitely and should it appear that there
are “insurgent” votes enough to con
cur with the senate the bill would
not, they say, be brought in the house.
Under the rules of the house a sen
ate amendment to the house bill which
changes the charge on the treasury
sent the bill to committee automat
ically. The amendment in question
is one granting lieu lands to the
state for school urposes in case sec
tions 13 and 33 reserved in each
township, prove to be mineral lands.
Although the bill goes to committee
without a motion in the house, it is
still .on the speaker's table. Unless
some member insists that the refer
ence be made at once, the plan is to
defer the reference until the return of
members who have gone south on a
river and harbor inspection tour. This
delegation will return Saturday. An
agreement was made before they left
whereby nothing was to be done with
the statehood bill until their return.
The news that the bill was to go to
the committee, which leaked out was
somewhat disconcerting to the “insur
gents,” who have been bending their
energies to strengthen their numbers
in the expectation of a direct vote on
the motion to concur in the senate
amendments. If some way had not
been discovered to send the bill to
committee this motion to concur would
have been in order and would have
taken precedence over a motion to
disagree and go into conference. Just
how the “insurgents” are to meet the
new situation has not been decided
upon so far as can be ascertained.
TOM LAWSON SOUNDS ALARM.
Exposes What He Claims Is Insurance
Plot.
BOSTON—Thomas* W. Lawson, for
warded a telegram to Chairman Arm
strong of the insurance investigating
committee of the New York legisla
ture. In it allegations are made to
the effect that interested parties have
received assurances that the proposed
insurance legislation can be killed.
The telegram concludes:
“I assure your committee its work
was never in greater danger than at
present. I have in my custody insur
ance policies issued within a few
days signed by new reform officers and
affidavits from the insured that they
received them for nothing by proxy
and in some cases w'ith large rebates.”
DEATH FOR O'HEARN.
Jury Finds Him Guilty and Assesses
Extreme Penalty.
OMAHA—After deliberating less
than three hours, the jury in the
O’Hearn murder case brought in a
verdict at 7 o'clock Saturday night
finding him guilty of murder of Nels
Lausten on the night of January 20
and fixing the penalty at death.
Every precaution was taken by the
authorities to prevent a demonstration
and when the verdict was read only
O Hearn, his guards and the court of
ficials were present. The outer doors
of the courthouse were locked, and no
one was admitted until after O’Hearn
had been escorted to a cab. which was
in waiting on the west side of the
courthouse. He was taken to the pen
itentiary for safe keeping.
BASIS OF A COMPROMISE.
Possibility ef Two Rate Bill Factions
Getting Together.
WASHINGTON—If a compromise is
effected in the senate Od the railroad
rate bill, the indications are that it
will be in the nature of a time limit
on the suspension of orders of the in
terstate commerce commission. Sev
eral senators said that if they thought
a review by the courts could be facil
itated in such manner as would insure
the protection of the interests of ship
pers a judicial review feature could be
adopted.
Cleveland Reaches 69 Years.
PRINCETON. N. J.—Former Presi
dent Grover Cleveland, spent his birth
day away from home Sunday for the
first time since he moved to Prince
ton. This is his 69th birthday. Mr.
Cleveland is now in Florida with Prof.
Howard McClenahan, where the two
have been for ten days. He will
likely remain south a month longer
on account of poor health. Mrs. Cleve
land on Sunday night said that his
outing in Florida was improving him
and that she expected him to return
much better.
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Body Will Be Cremated.
CINCINNATI. O.—The body of Herr
Johann Most, the anarchist, who died
here yesterday of erysipelas, will be
cremated at the Cincinnati crematory
next Tuesday. Mrs. Most arrived from
New York late tonight.
Talk for Liquor Men.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Barthold. Mo., and former Senator J.
M. Thurston, addressed the house
committee on judiciary today in oppo
sition to proposed legislation for the
regulation of the interstate shipment
of liquor.
Americans Sentenced in Mexico.
EL PASO, Tex—Ole E. Finstad and
L. G. Coughener, of Los Angeles,
were sentenced at Santa Rosila, Mex
ico, to twelve years and six months
each in the penitentiary for murder.
Horrible Execution.
MINSK, Russia—The execution of
Ivan Koukiioff. who attempted ,.0 as
sassinate General Koukiioff, was a hor
rible affair. He was hanged at the gate
of the prison in the presence of a gap
ing crowd, but the noose was so badly
adjusted that Koukiioff suffered
agonies for ten minutes.
Production of Hard Coal.
WASHINGTON—The production of
Pennsylvania anthracite in 1905, as
reported to the United States geolog
ical survey, was the largest on record. !
THIRTY FIVE DEAD
ill RAILROAD WRECK
HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN
PASSENGER TRAINS.
It Occurs on the Denver and Rio
Grande, Four Miles West of Flor
ence, Colo.
PUELBO, Colo.—A wreck, accom
panied with horrors exceded only by
the Eden disaster, which occurred
•August 7, 1904, on the line of the same
railroad, resulted from a head-on col
lision of two passenger trains on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, four
miles west of Florence. Golo., at an
early hour Friday morning. The trains
were the Utah-California Express No.
3 westbound from Denver, and the
Colorado-New Mexico Express No. 16.
eastbound from Leadville and Grand
Junction. They met on a sharp curve
and were less than 20 yards apart
when the engineers discovered that
a collision was imminent. It is known
that the engineer of the westbound
train put forth every possible effort
to bring his train to a stop, but his
efforts were fruitless and although he
succeeded in checking the speed of
his train the crash that followed was
beyond his power to prevent and he
went to his death with his hand on
the throttle, faithful to his charge.
This much is vouched for by his fire
man, who, seeing the uselessness of
remaining in the face of sure death,
jumped and saved himself. Of the
conduct of the engine crew of the
eastbound train it can only be said
that they died at their posts, for no
one lives to tell the story of their
heroism.
The disaster was made more hor
rible by the manner of the death of
many of the passengers, variously es
timated at from twenty to thirty five.
Fire swept over the wreck, engulfing
the victims in a caldron of flames and
leaving only charred and black
ened bones to tell the tale of slaugh
ter.
A list of the injured given out by of
ficials of the railroad company com
prises twenty-two names. None of.
tHe injured are dangerously hurt and
it is believed they will recover.
Conservative estimates on the total
loss of life place the number of dead
at thirty-five. Rio Grande officials in
sist that the exact number of persons
on the two trains cannot be ascer
tained, that it is impossible.
S. F. Lively, night operator at Swal
lows, whose alleged failure to deliver
orders to train No. 3 is supposed to
have been the cause of the wreck, has
been in the employ of the road for
many years. He was relieved from
duty tonight and will be suspended
until the matter is thoroughly investi
gated by the officials.
ALTAR IN THE OPEN AIR.
Churches Not Large Enough to Care
for Funerals of French Miners.
PARIS.—Hundreds of funerals are
being held at the towns surrounding
Courrieres, where the mine disasrer
Saturday resulted in the loss of over
1,000 lives. Sncw has fallen but lines
of mourners fill every road, many
of them carrying caske's where
hearses were not obtainable. At B*l
lv-Montigny, a rough altar was erect
ed in the open air and funeral ser
vices were conducted over sixty
bodies. Another and similar cere
mony occurred r.t Mericourt over the,
unidentified dead
Postponement at Algeciras.
ALGECIRAS—Postponement of the
plenary conference on Moroccan re
forms until March 20 arouses among
the delegates hopes that Germany
and France meantime will reach a
basis of accord. The symptoms of
agreement were more favorable to
day, when the representatives of neu
tral nations energetically endeavored
to influence mutual concessions. The
French and Spanish delegates, how
ever. still claim that their acceptance
of the principle of inspection by
France of Spanish police gives an ef
ficatious guarantee.
Bellamy Storer to Retire.
"WASHINGTON—Other than admit
ting that Bellamy Storer, the Ameri
can ambassador to Austria-Hungary,
is to retire immediately from his post
Secretary Rot declined to make any
statement regarding the change in of
fice. A successor to Mr. Storer will
be named by the president. The sec
retary refused to say who the new
ambassador would be. It is known
that there has been some friction with
the administration, which neither Mr.
Root nor others will discuss at the
present time.
Populace Panic Stricken.
ASKABAD, Russia—News received
here from Seistan, in Eastern Persia,
says that a pest is spreading; that the
populace is becoming panic stricken,
and. that many persons are fleeing.
To Fight Bell Company.
DES MOINES, la.—At a meeting of
the representatives of independent
telephone companies of Iowa, the or
ganization of a one-fourth million dol
lor corporation to fight the Bell Tele
phone company in the state was
started. Signers are being obtained
from all the delegates present, each
company to put one thousand dollars
into the fund to fight the so-called
trust in and out of the courts. The or
ganization of the independent lines
of the state into one company en
tirely covering Iowa was also started.
Funeral of Miss Anthony.
ROCHESTER — Funeral services
over the body of Susan B. Anthony
were held in the Central Presbyterian
church Thursday. Hundreds of men
and women were unable to gain ad
mission to the church and stood out
side during the services. Those who
participated in the last rites over the
body of the dead leader included the
Rev. Dr. Charles C. Albertson, pastor
of the Central church; the Rev. Dr.
William C. Gannett, pastor of the First
Unitarian church; William Lloyd Gar
rison of Lawrence, Mass.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
Her Long and Eventful Career Finally
Ended.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The long and
eventful life of Susan B. Anthony
closed at 12:40 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. The end came peacefully. Miss
Anthony had been unconscious prac
tically for twenty-four hours, and her
death had been momentarily expected
since Sunday night.
Dr. M. S. Ricker, her attending phy
sician, said Miss Anthony died of
heart failure induced by double pneu
monia. She had had Eerious valvularv
heart trouble for the last six or seven
years. Her lungs were practically
clear, and the pneumonia bad yielded
to treatment, but the weatness of her
heart prevented her recovery.
Mayor James G. Butler announced
that as a mark of respect to the mem
ory of Miss Anthony the flags of the
city will be displayed at half mast OB
the day of the funeral.
Miss Anthony was taken ill while on
her way home from the national suf
frage convention in Baltimore. She
stopped in New York, where a ban
quet was to be given February 20 in
honor of her 86th birthday, but had an
attack of neuralgia on the 18th and
hurrieu borne. Pneumonia developed
after her arrival here, and on March
5, both lungs became affected.
After that she became unable to re
tain nourishment and showed an
alarming weakness. Later, however,
she seemed to improve and her friends
hoped she was out of danger. Then
came the attack of heart failure Sun
day afternoon, following which she
sank into unconsciousness.
Miss Anthony herself had believed
that she would recover. Early in her
illness she told her friends that she
expected to be as old as her father,
who was over 90 when lie died.
Feeling that her life could not long
continue, Miss Anthony evidently was
disturbed by a desire to express some
wish with regard to her will, and on
Wednesday last she said to her sister:
“Write to Anna Shaw immediately and
tell her I desire that every cent 1
leave when I pass out of this life shall
be given to the fund which Miss
Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising
for the cause. I have given my life
and all I am to it. and now I want
my last act to be to give it all I have—
the last cent. Tell Anna Shaw to see
that this is done.”
PLACE IN CABINET.
Another Promotion Possible fo^
Charles E. Magoon.
WASHINGTON — Nebraska may
soon be represented in the cabinet
The name of Judge Charles E. Magoon
is being freely mentioned as a pos
sibility to succeed William H. Taft
as secretary of war, providing the lat
ter concludes to accept a seat on the
bench of the United States supreme
court. Judge Magoon is now filling
the duties of minister of Panama,
member of the canal commission and
civil governor of the canal zone. It is
well known that President Roosevelt
regards the Nebraskan as a man of ex
traordinary executive ability and is
interested personally in his walfare.
Harriman Buys Electric Line.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.—Official con
firmation of the recent rumors that
E. H. Harriman had gained control of
the Los Angeles Pacific electric in
terurban system is found in the offi
cial record of the meeting of the boa’-J
of directors and a stockholders meet
ing just filed with the county clerk.
It was declared semi-authorita
tively that the Harriman interests had
bought the system in its entirety. The
lines transferred include approximate
ly 100 miles of street railway now in
operation.
Missouri Pacific Earnings.
WASHINGTON—Gross earnings of
$42,518,000. a decrease of $1,175,000
as compared with the preceding year,
are shown by the annua] report of the
Missouri Pacific Railway company fot
the year 1905, which was made public
today. The net earnings for the
period covered by the report were
$12,341,000, a decrease of $947,000 as
compared with 1904. The report
shows that the total rn^eme from
other sources amounting to $2,439,
000. as 498,000 less than in 1904, and
that after the payment of the regular
5 per cent divident there is a deficit
for the year of $18,000.
To Prevent Rebates.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Hearst of New York, introduced a bill
prohibiting secret rebates, discrimina
tions and concessions, and providing
imprisonment of from one to ten years
as a punishment for giving or receiv
ing such concessions or rebates.
Still Cutting Passenger Rates.
BOSTON—President Mellin. of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad company, authorized the
statement that reductions in passen
ger rates would be put into effect on
all lines during the spring and sum
mer.
Date for Statehood Bill.
WASHINGTON—At a conference of
republican house leaders it was decid
ed to consider the statehood bill on
Wednesday, March 21. Chairman
Hamilton of the house committee on
territories probably will seek to send
the bill as amended by the senate di
rectly to the conference, ir there
should be no objection to this motion
the bill will go automatically to the
house comittee on territories, which
will report it to the house with a
recommendation that it be sent to con
terence.
Chinese Rebels Beheaded.
CANTON—The leader of the rebels I
of Kuang Si province and three others
who were implicated in the attack on
the house of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Beat
tie, the American missionary at Fati, in
February, were beheaded March 13.
Finds no Sign of Trouble.
MANILA—Colonel Knight, Major
General Wood’s chief of staff, has re
turned from a reconnaissance of the
situation in China. He reports that
there is absolutely no danger of
trouble and that tranquility prevails,
ROUTED THE TIGER WITH MAPJ
Pretence of Mind Saved Life of Eng
lish Surveyor.
How an English surveyor routed a
Malayan tiger, with no other weapon
than a rolled-up map. is told by the
Straits Times of Singapore: “While a
well-known local surveyor, who had
been kept out late at work on Satur
day night, was driving in* a rikisha
along Tampenls road, about 7:30
o’clock, his rikisha coolie suddenly
dropped the shafts and ran for his life
into the edge of the jungle. On peer
ing into the darkness—the vehicle
was not carrying a light—the gentle
man saw a large creature standing in
the middle of the road. He got out of
the rikisha and went towards the
beast, thinking it some large dog that
had frightened the coolie. When
within six or seven yards he per
1 ceived that the brute was a large ti
ger.
“He had no weapon except a large
district survey map rolled up. He
saw the futility of attempting to dis
able the tiger with the rolled-up map,
but the thought struck him that he
might manage to frighten it my mean
of his roll. Suddenly he unrolled it
with a quick flip, spreading it to its
full area of four or five feet square.
With a single bound the tiger cleared
off into the jungle.
“The next thing was to find the
coolie, who eventallv was discovered
in a state of collapse in the ditch. He
was unable to pull his fare back and
it was not until three or four miles
had been traversed with both men on
foot that he recovered sufficiently to
pull the European home.”
BORNE TO HIS GRAVE IN CAB.
Eccentric Englishman Arranged for
Queer Funeral.
The eccentric life of the late Hora
tio Bright, a wealthy retired manufac
turer of Sheffield, was no more eccen
tric than his funeral, which took place
yesterday.
Before daybreak an ordinary cab
drove up to the door of his house,
and his body, contained in a plain
coffin, was placed in it. A second cab
carried a party of undertakers’ men.
and they were driven over the bleak
moorland to the village of Moscar. six
miles away, where Mr. Bright many
years ago erected a magnificent
mausoleum to shelter the coffins of his
first wife and son. He used to sit in
it for hours beside the coffins.
There was no religious ceremony,
as Mr. Bright, although born a Jew,
scorned all religion.
Mr. Bright made his money as a
steel die maker to the Royal Mint and
mints in other countries. Fifteen
years ago he retired from business,
burned his books and refused to sell
his goodwill of the business to any
one.
His favorite amusement was to
drive a six in hand through the streets
of Sheffield, and occasionally he added
outriders and postilions to his equip
ment.—London Daily Express.
Distrust.
It may be my intelligence ain't what it
ought to be.
But somehow human nature's most mys
terious to me.
It gets me fooled completely when I see a
solemn man
Rise up to advocate some glorious philan
thropic plan.
And then find out he had extensive inter
ests at stake.
An' that he's figured all the time on prof
its he might make.
It gets me downright nervous; it's hard
to keep serene,
A-listenin' to what people say an' guess
in' wh^t they mean.
It's hard to disregard the words whose
steady rhythmic flow
Stirs up your inmost feelings, jes' like
music sweet an' slow ;
But I'm gettin’ so suspicious that I mere
ly sit an' try
To size the talker up an' catch a twinkle
in his eye.
I note the kind of clothes he wears, and if
they're brushed with care;
The way he trims his whiskers and the
way he cuts his hair.
I've had hard work, but 'bout the tough
est task I've ever seen.
Is listenin’ to what people say an' guess
in’ what they mean.
—Washington Star.
His Labor Over.
“The civil service.” said Senator
Knox, “is not what it used to be.
Merit counts in it as in business now
and industry and intelligence are the
qualities that bring success.
“It was not always so. I remember
meeting a man on Pennsylvania ave
nue one morning many years ago. It
was late. He was all dressed up.
Plainly he was taking a day off.
“ ‘Well,’ he said, as we conversed,
‘I worked mighty hard during the last
three months trying to get a civil ser
vice appointment, but I’m going to
take it easy now.’
“ ‘Failed through lack of influence.
I suppose?' said I.
“ ‘No, no,' said he, ‘I've got the ap
pointment.’
“And he resumed his pleasant
stroll.”
He Was Not a College Boy.
Representative Fitzgerald of Brook
lyn overheard an amusing dialogue on
his way home from the House of Rep
resentatives the other evening. He
boarded a Georgetown car, the con
ductor of which was about 50 years
old and anything but an Adonis.
When the car reached Fourteenth
street, within a stone's throw of the
Eagle Bureau, an elderly woman ran
up and shouted; “Conductor, oh, con
ductor. do you (meaning the car) go
to Georgetown College?”
The collector of nickels looked at
her a few seconds and then gave two
bells. As the car started, leaving the
woman in the middle of the street,
the conductor turned and asked.
“Madam, do Oi look loike a student?”
—Washington Star.
Women Wear imitation Jewels.
“Never have I known such a craze
for imitation jewelry as now," was
the remark of the manager of one of
the big city department stores, and It
only needs a glance to see that in. a
store where the crowds are greatest
the imitation jewelry lies.
“We can’t supply the demand.”
went on the manager, “and I* know it
is the case not alone with ns, but
even more so with those firms who
make a specialty of selling it alone.
“Jewelers who have for years been
in the business have told me that
their trade has suffered greatly from
this cause. Such art and skill have
entered into its manufacture that in
many cases It can’t be told from the
re*i.”