Nebraska Newspapers

    THIS IN NEBRASKA
EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE
OR LESS IMPORTA*NCE.
State Auditor Searle Completes His
Semi-Annual Report in Relation
to Insurance Matters.
Insurance Matters.
LINCOLN — State Auditor E. M.
Searle, tne head of the state insur
ance department, has completed his
aemi-annual report to the governor,
showing the collection of fees. From
all sources, including the reciprocal
tax. amounting to *30,000 due and un
paid for the past three Fyear. the au
ditor has collected *118.890 in the past
six months. The income during, the
next six months will not exceed *5,000.'
This showing is the best that has been
made in the history of the state by the
insurance department. Ten or fifteen
years ago the total income in the form
of fees from insurance companies did
not exceed *50,000 a year. Now the
revenue is more than double that
amount and is enough to materiallv
assist in paying the current expenses
of the state. For the corresponding
six months last year collections were
*84,843. The reciprocal tax, which the
insurance companies resisted to the
last in the state courts, was unpaid
for three years and its collection by
Auditor Searle after prolonged litiga
tion has swelled his total receipts. His
collections included all fees from in
surance companies, a 2 per cent tax
tax on life companies of other states
and the reciprocal tax.
Increase in Trust Lands.
LINCOLN—State Treasurer Morten
sen's seipi-annual report of the condi
tion of the state treasury shows that
the balances on hand December 1,
1905, were $325,598.54, and on May 31.
1906, were $599,816.38. He had $8.
913.S1 in cash on hand and cash in
state depositories amounting to $590.
902.57. The expenditures during the
six months were $3,565,455.39 and the
receipts $3,S39.C73.13.
The trust funds on hand and unin
vested May 31 were larger than usual,
being $141,220.62, divided as follows:
Permanent school fund, $110,954.37:
permanent university. $17,354.12: agri
cultural college endowment, $12,920.93.
There was no cash in the normal en
dowment fund.
The total trust funds invested in
creased during the six months from
$6,783,757.50 to $7,148,948.70. The war
rants held by the state as an invest
ment decreased during the six months
from $2,138,407.41 to $1,819,986.23. The
bonds held as investments increased
from $4,582,783.76 to $5,331,031.62. The
following are the trust funds invested
at the date of the report May 31:
Permanent school fund... $6,526,568.96
Permanent university ... 144.144.76
Agri. colleg endowment... 406.291.91
Normal development .... 71,948.07
Total .....$7,148,948.70
W3in Gets His Life Term.
OMAHA—Calvin Wain, the young
colored man convicted of being an ac
complice of Harrison Clark in the
murder of Street Car Conductor Flury
at Albright last March was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life by Judge
Sutton if the district court.
The National Guard.
The National guard wil go into camp
at Fort Riley about August 1. accord
ing to an announcement made by Ad
jutant Genera] Culver. Notification
has been sent by him to all of the
companies in the state-that they will
be prohibited from enlisting recruits
after Ju'y l end until the close of the
encampment. The minimum for the
various companies is established by
law as follows: infantry. 50 enlisted:
signal corps. 30 enlisted: ambulance
company, 41 enlisted; troop, 51 enlist
ed: battery, 53 enlisted: band, mini
mum 24, maximum 28.
Bondsmen Settle Shortage.
FALLS CITY—The city council met
ssi agreed to accept the proposition
for settlement made by the bondsmen
of E. O. Bode. They all settled with
the exception of P. H. Jussen. who
had r.ot signed the agreement, and so
far as they are concerned the affair
is closed.
Stenographic School Report.
Miss Jennie B. Adams went to
Geneva, where she will take a com
plete stenographic report of the doings
of the Union Normal institute, which
proceedings laier will be published in
pamphlet form and distributed among
the rural school teachers of the^state.
Wesieyan Grants.Diplomas.
At Wesieyan university this morn
ing diplomas were presented to the
largest graduating class in the history
of the institution. The board of trus
tees elected Chancellor Huntington
and practically the same teaching staff.
Bishop IV. T. McDowell of Chicago
delivered the address.
Both Regiments May Go.
LINCOLN—Adjutant General J. H.
Culver is now confident that the tv*>
Nebraska regiments will be permitted
to attend army maneuvers either at
Fort Riley or elsewhere. One regi
ment may go to Fort Riley and the
other to another post. The former in
tention was to hold a state encamp
ment for one of the regiments. The
Sheridan Rifles, on account of being
far removed from the eastern part of
the state, will be ordered to hold a one
week’s encampment of their own for
target practice.
Father and Son Are Held.
BROKEN BOW — The preliminary
"hearing of Charles Dennis and two
small sons. John and Harvey, charged
with killing George Morrison on May
18, was held before Judge Humphrey.
They were bound over to the district
court.
Engineers on the Ground.
KEARNEY—A party of seventeen
B. & M. engineers has arrived at Ne
wark across the Platte river to com
plete the survey for the new line to
North Platte.
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
Crops in Scotts Bluff county are
said to be very promising.
A village improvement society has
been organized at Plattsmouth.
A. Gillespie of Scotia, on the 4 th of
June, celebrated his 100th birthday.
The Farmers’ Elevator company of
De Witt has filed articles of incorpora
tion with a capital stock of $20,000.
Articles of incorporation have been
filled with Secretary of State Galusha
by the Farmers' Grain association ol
Luceila.
The big ditch in Burt county has
been completed. It opens to cultiva
tion a large trad of larnd that here
tofore was too wet for cultivation.
• Secretary Boyse of the state banking
board has issued a charter to the
Farmers' State bank of Brainerd. The
authorized, capital stock is $30,000.
Mprley Whitney, a farmer living
north of Westerville, shot himselt
through the heart. He brooded ovei
his wife leaving him a month ago.
A farmer by the name of Marley
Whitney, aged 50, who lived north of
Anslev twelve miles, committed sui
cide. Cause is said to have been do
mestic troubles.
Henna i Reutter, who makes his
home with his brother, J. J. Reutter,
in the northeastern part ot Burt
county was dangerously if not fatally
kicked by a mule.
At Norfolk Roy Nichols, aged 18,
was bound over to the district court,
charged with attempted statutory as
sault upon a little lame daughter ol
Louis Schenzel. a butcher.
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Hoag, have filed articles of incorpora
tion in the county clerk's office. The
capital stock is $5,000, subscribed by
leading farmers in that vicinity.
After the second battle the progres
sive liortion of Madison achieved a
splendid victory. Thti proposition to
issue $10,000 bonds for a city hall car
ried by an overwhelming majority.
An election has been called by the
village trustees of Oxford, to be held
cn June 26, to vote upon the proposi
tion to bond the village for a system
of waterworks and a lighting plant.
The merchants' piano voting contest
at Nebraska City closed last week.
The piano was awarded to Miss Ruth
Baner. she having received 100,000
more votes than any of the other con
testants.
George I’attison was instantly kill
ed in a runaway at Minden. He was
thrown from a road cart. His head hit
against a corner of a house. Mr. Pat
tison was a traveling Sunday school
missionary.
Sam Kee, who for several years has
been operating a laundry in Humboldt,
sold his effects and left for his native
land. China. He goes by way of San
Francisco, and expects to remain in
that country.
Believing that bis land is underlaid
with mineral wealth George Starkey,
a farmer living near Beatrice, has re
fused $150 per acre for his quarter
section. He has placed the price at
$250 per acre.
At Edison the cornerstone ot the
new church building .hat is being
erected by the Christian church of
that place was laic, with impressive
ceremonies conducted by the pastor,
J. Stuart Miller.
In the district court of Dodge county.
Fay Baker pleaded guilty to having in
his possession a team of horses w'hieh
had been stolen from G. W. Heine of
Hooper and was sentenced to eighteen
months in the penitentiary.
The mortgage report of Gage county
for the mouth of May is as follows:
Farm mortgages filer, twenty-one;
amount. $43,970: released, thirty
three: amount, $56,184. City mort
gages filed, twenty-eight; amount. $13.
530; released, thirty-nine; amount,
$17,351.
. Governor Mickey received a lettei
from the director of the department
of commerce and labor at Washington
asking for information and statistics
regarding marriages and divorces in
Nebraska for each year since January
1, 1887.
supe. or is snowing a great aeai oi
activity ’his year in tae number of
new residences and business houses al
ready building and those projected.
The most important business building
so far Contracted for is the large two
story bru it to tie erected by J. H. Kes
terson on the corner eX. Third street
and Central avenue, to cost about $10,
000.
The br.dy of G. G. Dennis, commer
cial ageu: of the Northwestern railroad
at Deadwood. S."D.. who shot himself
in that city last week, was brought to
Blair, and interred in the cemetery
there. Air. ‘Dennis .was married in that
place same eighteen years ago. His
wife's family resided there at that
time and he was telegraph operator at
that place.
A. Si Greiget has over 100 Japs at
work in his fields west of Fremont.
He had a contract with the Standard
company to raise 100 acres of beets,
which was made long before the bank
ruptcy proceedings were commenced
against the company, and at the time
the petition was filed had seventy-five
acres ready for planting, which are
now looking well.
There were sixteen farm mortgages
filed in Otoe county during May,
amouting to $45,242.50. and twenty-two
released, whose value was $5,465. On
city and village property six were filed
of .the value of *4,600 and nine re
leased to the value of $4,990.
A serious automobile accident occur
red at Pawnee which resulted in the
death of the victim, Mrs. Brown. She
and another woman were out driving
and the horse was frightened at the
machine and ran away, throwing Mrs
Brown out and injuring her so serious
ly as to cause her death.
Tlie latest independent telephone
company to file articles of incorpora
tion with the secretary of state in the
Chadron Telephone company of Chad
ron. which will operate the telephone
exchange now owned and operated bj
A. W. Riehman.
Guy Doty, who is believed to have
committed suicide while demented b>
drowning in the Missouri river at
Council Bluffs, is well known in Hast
ings. He is the son of C. E. Doty
living nine miles east of that place
He attended business college at Hast
ings.
NOT ONLY USEFUL, BUT NECESSARY.
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FINDS EASYROADTO RICHES
COAL COMPANIES JXJST FORCE
CLERK TO TAKE MONEY.
Donate from Three to Five Cents on
Every Ton Purchased to Agent
of Railroad.
Philadelphia.—That he accepted
gifts of stock amounting to $46,000
from coal mining companies during a
period of about three years was ad
mitted Wednesday by Joesph Boyer,
chief clerk in the office of A. W. Gibbs,
superintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Mr. Boyer purchases the fuel coal
used in the locomotives of the com
pany and the donors of the gifts were
the coal companies which furnished
the fuel to the railroad. Mr. Boyer
named live companies which allowed
nim from three to five cents on each
ton sold to the railroad company. He
declared that he never asked for the
allowance, but accepted it because he
believed he was following a custom of
the department. In fact, one of the
coal company officials told him that
he had paid it before and wanted to
continue paying it to the witness.
A. W. Gibbs, Mr. Boyer’s superior
officer on the stand, said he was un
aware that such conditions existed in
his department.
Mr. Boyer said he was at first disin
clined to accept the money, but after
thinking it over decided that he was
doing nothing unusual.
M. K. Reeves, assistant to Vice Pres
ident Pugh admitted that he had ac
cepted stock frojn Col. George S. Huff
and David E. Williams. Col. Huff, he
said, purchased some of his holdings
in the Keystone Coal and Coke com
pany, paying him $30,000 for it. Mr.
Reeves stated that he has known Col.
Huff since boyhood and declared the
latter knew he was not in a position
to favor him when the stock was pre
sented.
Philadelphia.—Joseph K. Aiken,
chief clerk to A. G. Mitchell, superin
tendent of the Monongahela river di
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad,
admitted owning stock in numerous
coal companies, some of which was
given to him while for the other
shares he paid a privilege price. He
testified to having paid to Joseph Boy
er, former clerk to A. W. Gibbs, five
cents a ton commission for fuel ccal
which one of his companies furnished
to the railroad.
Philadelphia.—W. G. Spangler, lo
cal agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
at Milton. Pa., before the interstate
commerce commission Friday testified
that in addition to his duties as rail
road agent he also acted as sales agent
for the Keystone Coal & Coke company.
He said that the greater portion of
the coal tonnage for Milton had been
shipped over the line to the Reading
company until he became sales agent. ’
when the Pennsylvania’s tonnage was
increased about 1,000 tons monthly.
He was made sales agent after a con
ference with Robert K. Cassatt. He
received a commission of 2% cents a
ton.
Constables Shoot Miners.
Indiana. Pa.—The new mining town
of Ernest, on the Buffalo, Rochester
| & Pittsburg railroad, five miles from
here, was the scene early Friday of a
conflict between a detail of state con
stabulary' and striking coal miners, in
which eight strikers were wounded. |
three of them fatally.
Three Lives for Hat.
St Paul. Minn.—Dennis E. McQuinn.
0. J. Nordby and John Saga were
drowned while fishing in Bass lake.
The wind lifted the hat from the head
of one of the men. and he jumped up
suddenly in an attempt to uatch it.
capsizing the boat.
Limited Tram Derailed.
Cheyenne. Wyo.—The Los Angeles
limited, on the Union Pacific, was de
railed east of Pine Bluffs. The en
gine. tourist car and diner left the
tracks, as did one of the trucks of a
Pullman, but none was seriously hurt.
To Play World’s Champion.
London.—A tennis match has been
arranged for June 15 between Jay
Gould, of Lakewood. N. J., the Amer
ican champion, and C. Faires. cham
pion of the world. Faires conceded 15
and one disque.
Gunboats Sold for Junk.
Manila.—The gunboats Alba, Minda
nao and Maileno, which were captured
by Admiral Dewey when he destroyed
the Spanish fleet, have been sold as
junk at Olongapo. The boats partici
pated in the battle of Manila bay.
Tornado in Kansas.
Hillsboro, Kan.—A tornado struck
Goessel, a German Mennonite settle
ment 15 miles southwest of here, early
Thursday, destroying the largest star*
In town and several residences. Sev
eral persons were badly injured.
PACKING CHARGES DENIED
Agent for Chicago Meat Men Invites
Congressmen to Investigate
for Themselves.
Washington.—The house committee
on agriculture Wednesday decided to
comply with the request of the Chica
go packers to be heard on the Neill
eynolds' report regarding conditions in
the Chicago packing houses. The re
quest was made by Thomas E. Wilson,
manager for the Nelson Morris com
pany, but in this instance was au
thorized to speak for all the Chicago
packers.
Mr. Wilson made a general denial
of the existence of conditions in the
packing houses of Chicago as set forth
in the Neill-Reynolds" report. He be
gan by inviting the committee to come
to Chicago and spend a week in per
sonal investigation of conditions.
Some of the suggestions made in the
report, he said, had already been com
plied with by the packers, such as ad
ditional sanitary facilities.
As to the charge that canned meats
were boiled in water to “freshen them
up,” Mr. Wilson said there was abso
lutely nothing in this. Canned meat,
he said, was as good five years after it
had been put up as it was five minutes
afterwards, providing no air had got
to it.
Washington—Tuomas E. Wilson, of
the Nelson Morris company, repre
senting the big Chicago packing
houses, continued his statement Thurs
day to the house committee on agri
culture, said:
“The results of the agitation have
been disastrous. The sale of fresh and
manufactured products has been more
than cut in two. Every country in
Europe has taken up the agitation. It
is hurting us very materially. Other
countries that pjoduce in competition
are taking advantage of it. We will
not be able to handle the stock that
raisers and farmers send us, and I
don’t know how we are to avoid a
terrible calamity in the western coun
try at least.”
FLOODS COME AFTER RAINS
Western Pennsylvania Rivers and
Creeks Overflow Their Banks, Do
ing Considerable Damage.
Johnstown, Pa.—Thunder showers,
electric storms and heavy downpours
of rain that have prevailed throughout
western Pennsylvania during the en
tire week culminated Thursday in
cloudbursts in Cambria, Westmore
land, Somerset and Butler counties,
that caused the rivers and creeks to
overflow, flooding the streets in many
communities and disseminating a gen
eral flood scare. Reports from the
various sections affected indicate that
the waters are receding, the weather is
clearing and all danger of further
damage is passed. Probably 853,030
will cover all losses sustained in the
sections affected.
Dying Sian Confesses Murder.
Enid, Okla.—Cole Ward was shot
and killed by members of a sheriff's
posse Friday. Ward was in com
pany with his half sister whom, it
is alleged, he was abducting. After be
ing fatally wounded, Ward confessed
to having killed Martin Julian near
Ponca City last fall, for which crime
A1 Harpster is now serving a life sen
tence in the Lansing penitentiary.
Senator Mason Escapes Drowning.
Peoria, 111.—Ex-Senator W. E. Ma- ;
son, W. E. Mason, Jr„ and a party en
route from Chicago to St. Louis in
the launch Eleanor had a narrow
escape from drowning Friday after
noon. The launch near Pekin en
countered a heavy head wind and
rough water, which partially over
turned the craft and filled it with wa
ter.
Oil Stove Kills Three.
Syracuse, N. Y.—The explosion of
an oil stove in an apartment here re
sulted in the death of Mrs. Desmond
Davis, aged 26, Mrs. Hosmer Alexan
der, sis!er-in-law of Mrs. Davis, and
three-year-old daughter, Gladys.
Oklahoma Hotel Burned.
Lawton, Okla.—Fire early Friday
destroyed the Palace hotel at Waurika,
in Comanche county, near here, caus
ing a loss of $50,000. Half a dSzen
persons were injured slighilly by
jumping from windows.
Observe Birthday of Empress. ♦
St. Petersburg.—Thursday was the
empress' birthday and it was observed
as a general holiday. The lower house
of parliament, without specifically
mentioning the reason, honored the j
occasion by adjourning.
Ohio Deadlock Broken.
Mansfield, O.—The deadlock in the
Republican Fourteenth district con
gressional convention was finally
broken and Jay F. Laning, of Huron
county, was nominated for congress to
succeed A. R. Webber.
PACKING HOUSES CLEANED
BETTER CONDITIONS APPEAR AT
CHICAGO YARDS.
Proprietors Provide New Toilet
Rooms, More Fresh Towels and
Additional Dressing Rooms.
Washington.—in response to a re
quest from the house commit'ee on ag
riculture, President Roosevelt Fri
day forwarded to Representative
Wadsworth, the chairman of that com
mittee, the report made to him by a
committee of the department of agri
culture regarding conditions in the
Chicago meat packing houses. Ac
companying the report was a letter
from the president, in which he points
out that there is no conflict in sub
stance between the Neill-Reynolds re
port and that of the agricultural de
partment experts.
The president quotes a letter re
ceived from a most competent and
trustworthy witness in Chicago, to the
effect that the packing house pro
prietors are manifesting almost ‘‘a hu
morous haste to clean up, repave and
even to plan for future changes.”
New' toilet rooms are being provided,
with additional dressing rooms and
clean towels. The report says that
"the haste towards reform would have
been amusing if it were not so nearly
tragic.”
The president's correspondent says
his investigations have not been com
pleted. but that "enough has been de
veloped in my judgment to call for
immediate, thorough-going and radical
enlargement of the powers of the gov
ernment in inspecting all meats which
enter into interstate and foreign
commerce.”
EICHT KILLED IN MINE.
White Damp Fills Corridors After ;
Fire, Carrying Death to Work
ers and Rescuers.
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Anaconda, Mont.—One of the most !
serious accidents in the history of coal I
mining in Montana has occurred in the
mines of the Northern Pacific at Rocky
Fork, near Red Lodge, Carbon county.
Eight men are dead, all victims of
the deadly white damp that filled the
corridors of the mine after the fire
which started Wednesday. Their
bodies have been recovered, but the
story of the work of rescue parties is a
tale of unexcelled bravery and heroic
self-sacrifice.
Of the dead, two were members of
one of the parties that entered the
mine in the effort to reach the men
known to be there.
The fire which caused the trouble
started in incline No. 6 Wednesday.
This was believed to be under control,
after along, hard fight. At 7:30 Thurs
day morning the rescue party started
down No. 6 incline, proceeding cau
tiously, as it was found that there were
still traces of the fire. When they
reached a depth of 1,200 feet all were
overcome. Seven managed to struggle
back to where they could be reached.
NEW SENATOR FROM KANSAS
Gov. Eoch Names Foster Dwight Co
burn to Succeed J. Ralph Bur
ton,Who Resigned.
Topeka, Kan.—Foster Dwight Co
burn, the widely known agriculturist,
was appointed United States senator
by Gov. E. W. Hoch late Monday af
ternoon to succeed J. Ralph Burton,
who resigned Monday morning. Mi.
Coburn has not definitely accepted the
appointment. Mr. Coburn was not a
candidate for the appointment, nor
has he been a candidate for the elec
tion to the senate seat to be filled by
the legislature next year. Mr. Co
burn w'as bora in Jefferson county,
Wisconsin, in 1846. He served in two
Illinois regiments during the civil war
and settled in Kansas in 1807. He ha 3
served for the past 16 years as secre
tary of the Kansas state board of agri
culture, and is well known all over
the world for his agricultural reports.
Mr. Coburn’s home is in Kansas City.
Kan. ne was a commissioner of live
stock exhibits at the St. Louis expos:
tion in 1904.
Guatemala Rebels Elated.
Mexico City.—News received early
Wednesday from Gen. Toledo, in com
mand of the revolutionary party, say-3
that he has. in two engagements, bad
ly routed Cabrera's troops and as his
forces are being reenforced by the ar
rival of large bodies of men he has no
doubt of his success and triumphant
advance to Guatemala City.
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Favors Pensions for Miners,
London.—The Miners’ International
Congress held its closing sitting Fri
day under the presidency of J. P.
White, president of the American j
Mineis’ Association. Resolutions were
adopted in favor of miners’ old age I
pensions and the nationalization ot ;
miners.
Women to Meet at Jamestown.
St. Paul, Minn—The General Feder
ation of Women's clubs' council decid- i
ed to hold the next meeting at James- j
town, Va., in April, 1907.
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Firemen Killed in Collision.
St. Louis.—A collision between pas
senger trains occurred on the Iron
Mountain road near Men go, 115 miles
south of here, early Friday, resulting
in the death of a fireman and injuries
to three trainmen.
Deneen Names Flag Day. ,
Springfield, 111.—Gov. Deneen Fri
day issued a proclamation designating
Thursday. June 14. as Flag day. The I
proclamation urges citizens to display
from business houses and homes the
flag of the country.
Girl to Be Liberated.
New York.—Decision was reached at
the office of the district attorney
Thursday to discharge Josephine Ter
ranova from custody on Monday. She
will not be held for trial on a charge
of killing her uncle.
Earthquakes in Philippines.
Manila.—Three slight earthquake
shocks were felt In Manila on June 5
and 6, the last at 8:38 p. m., on the
6th inat The shocks are believed to
have been severe on the inland of i
Samar.
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EASTERN ONTARIO STORM
Streets of Chatham Filled with Debris
from Unroofed Houses and
Fallen Trees.
Detroit, Mich.—Eastern Ontario was
swept by a terrific wind and rainstorm
Friday afternoon. Chatham suffered
severe property loss from the storm-,
which unroofed houses, blew down
trees, felled wires and filled the streets
with debris; but no loss of life re
sulted and no one was seriously hurt
Considerable damage is reported
from small towns and farms between
here and Chatham.
A torrential rainstorm, accompanied
by a 40-mile mind, swept Detroit just
before six o’clock Friday evening.
The rainfall in less than an hour
measured 1.36 inches, and the wind in
five minutes sprang from a gentle six
mile breeze to 40 miles an hour.
North Branch, Minn.—A tornado
passed about one-half mile east of
here at five o’clock Wednesday after
noon doing heavy damage.
The storm is known to have destroy
ed at least three farmhouses near
town. Mrs. Mygran and Benjamin
Lagoo were badly injured. Physicians
have followed up the path of the storm
and indications are that several per
sons have been killed and many in
jured.
The village of Wyoming was also in
the path of the storm. The home of
Mr. Funk at that place was complete
ly destroyed and some members of the
family hurt.
La Crosse, Wis., Six persons ware
seriously injured and ten buildings
were leveled by a tornado near Stod
dard, Wis., Wednesday.
The hurricane centered, apparently,
one and one-half miles east of Stod
dard, Vernon county. It passed up
Coon valley and Mormon Coulee,
striking Stoddard and Brinkman most
heavily.
A windstorm also did damage at
Leon, Wis.
Many farms are reported to be com
pletely devastated.
SENATOR GORMAN DEAD.
Well-Known Democratic Deader
Passes Away at Washington^
After Dong Illness.
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Washington.—Arthur Pue Gorman,
United States senator from Maryland,
died suddenly at his residence in this
city at 9:05 o'clock Monday morning.
While Senator Gorman had been 111
for many months, he had shown some
improvement lately. Heart trouble
was the Immediate cause of death. He
leaves a widow and six children.
The senate adjourned immediately
upon receiving the announcement of
Senator Gorman’s death.
The house also adjourned when the
anneuncement of the death of Senator
Gorman was made.
Senator Gorman long had been a
notable figure in the national con
gress. He first took his seat in 1881,
and served continously for 18 years,
and nearly all of that time he was
the leader of the Democratic party in
the senate.
Winning early a reputation for saga
city, and the keenest judgment in con
gressional affairs, he attained promi
nence not only as a leader in the sen
ate but it the country at large, and by
many men was considered the most
avaHable man in his party for the
presidency. He was chairman of the
executive committee, and managed the
campaign that resulted in the election
of Cleveland in 1884.
KANKAKEE ASYLUM PROBE.
Insane Woman Who Gave Birth to
Eabe Appears Before the
Grand Jury.
Kankakee. 111.—Purchasing Agent
Charles Armitage, of the Illinois East
ern hospital, was summoned before the
grand jury Friday afternoon with the
records of coal purchases made by the
state institution for three years. Later,
it is said, subpoenas will be issued for
officials of the railroad companies that
haul the coal in order to see if the
institution's records correspond with
the railroad way bills.
Kittle Ward, the insane patient
who recently gave birth to a child,
was the first witness. Miss Ward ap
parently had no knowledge of the
character of the proceedings and
gave incoherent answers. When asked
if she knew the father of the child she
named one of the questioners. A gen
eral laugh followed and the interroga
tion was brought to a sudden end.
Frank B. Liensey, a teamster, and
Charles Zedorf, a farmer, testified
that they saw an attendant strike a
runaway patient named Merrill on a
road near the hospital a few days ago.
May Trade Expanded.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Week
ly Review of Trade says: Current dis
tribution of merchandise is largely de
pendent upon the weather, which va
ries widely according to locality. On
the whole, the week’s results were en
couraging and monthly reports for
May show splendid gains over last
year’s figures.
Fire in State Capitol.
Baton Rouge, La.—The saving of the
state capitol building from destruction
by fire Thursday night was accom
plished in a spectacular manner with
Gov. Blanchard, assisted by many
Louisiana legislators dressed in their
night clothes.
Mattress Makers Meet.
La Crosse, Wis.—Mattress manufac
turers of several western states met
here Friday.to perfect a trade associa
tion. State organizations will be ad
vocated throughout the west.
Lightning Kills Two.
Syracuse, N. Y.—A heavy thunder
storm over this section Friday did se
rious injury. John Long and John
Burns, farm hands working five miles
from the city, were struck by lightning
and killed instantly.
Names Successor to Gorman.
Baltimore.—Gov. Warfield has ap
appointed Wiilliam Pinkney Whyte, the
noted lawyer and former governor and
United States senator, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of United
States Senator Gorman.
HE SEESJANCER
CHANCELLOR DAY DWELLS ON
LARGE CORPORATIONS.
HIS ATTITUDEJOWARD THEM
Warning Against the Assumption of
Too Much Power by the President
Charge That He Coerces Senate and
the Courts.
SYRACUSE—Chancellor Day, in his
annual baccalaureate sermon Sunday
reaffirmed his attitude toward large
corporations, saying that they were the
logical result of the great stride that
the world was malrng. He again is
Bued a warning against the assumption
3f too much power by the president
ind in referring to the reports of con
ditions in packingtown slaughter
houses and said if the one-hundredth
part of what was printed was true
people would by dying by tens of thou
sands.
The sermon in part was as follows:
"When senators and representatives
receive orders from the executive,
when appeals to popular passion are
made to force them to action to which
their sound judgment and honest con
victions are opposed, the government
by the people and of the people be
comes a misnomer and a deception. In
that hour we are a monarchy without
the name.
"It is to be hoped that we are not
so dazed and daft by an office that has
grown great with out greatness that it
may be permitted to set aside the
courts, senators and congresses,
j “Recently pressure was brought by
a message, the purpose of which the
senators instantly understood and
which evidently was intended to ap
peal to the long-prepared prejudices
of the people.
is mis me meinou oi legislation to
which this great nation has descend
ed? Is this new way the best to make
ou laws? The people should awaken
to the danger that threatens repre
sentative government. We heve fallen
into a scandal-mongering epoch. The
foul harpies of slander have created a
condition, and all the civilized world
is nauseated at the thought of us. It
nas cost us tens of millions of money
and the respect of mankind. It will
and should cost our self-respect if we
do not burn out with the caustic of a
aot indignation this sore of slander.
“The scandal monger who drags the
people through slaughter houses to ex
hibit in loathsome forms the foods of
±eir tables by exaggerations and Mun
chausen stories of things that always
must be offensive at best are mistaken
igitators, especially dangerous to us
is a people at this time. A man
writes a hook or publishes a series of
magazine articles and makes frantic
efforts to have a condition of frenzy
created that will sell his foul smelling
oages to a people delirious with the
’ever of sensationalism. If what such a
scandal mongers says were a hundredth
part true the people would be dying -
ly tens of thousands from the poisons
if the meats they eat, or the doctors
are all mistaken about the toxic effect
of such putrid things.
“But there are hundreds of thou
sands who never ask a question or ap
ily the simples analysis to any charge.
A scare line in a ’yellow paper’ is
equivalent to the verdict of a jury,
And the people upon this verdict pro
nominee sentence of damnation.”
MASSACRES IN MACEDONIA.
Natives Traveling Under Escort of
Troops Attacked by Greeks.
VIENNA—The sanguinary massa
cres in Macedonia continue. Ten Kut
towallach families, traveling from
Jrevena to Monastir, escorted by forty
soldiers, were attacked by a Greek
band of 200 men. One officer was
wounded, eighteen soldiers were kill
ed. the remainder being disarmed and
set at liberty. The total number of
Kutzowallachs killed, among whom
were children, is as yet unknown.
The report of this attack has caused a
great impression, both in Turkish and
diplomatic circles.
Lonqworths Reach London.
LONDON—After a voyage, which
both declared to be the most pleasant
n their experience, Mr. and Mrs. Nich
olas Longworth reach London early
Sunday afternoon, having journeyed
from Southampton, where they debark
ed from the American line steamer St.
Louis, in a beautifully appointed rovai
carriage attached to the American line
special on the London & Soufhw'estern
New Soanish Cabinet.
MADRID—The cabinet, as approved
by the king, includes Senor Moret, as
premier, and the Duke of Almodovar,
as foreign minister. The new minis
ters have taken the oath of office.
Roosevelt's Uncle III.
NEW YORK—Robert B. Roosevelt,
mcle of the president, is seriously ill
at bis country home, Lotus Lake, Say
ville, L. I. He is 70 years old and anx
iety is felt by his relatives.
Colonel Henry J. Latshaw Dead. '
KANSAS CITY—Colonel Henry J.
Latshaw, who at one time represented
the Fifth Missouri district in congress
and who has been active in Missouri
politics since the civil war, died in
ihis city Sunday, aged 71 years. Colo
nel Latshaw in his early life was a
civil engineer and he first came to
Missouri to build what is now one of
the Burlington lines in northern Mis
souri. He was a friend and associate
of Colonel Robert -G. Ingersoll and
they co-operated in organizing a regi
ment.
Blackburn Succeeds Gorman.
I WASHINGTON—At a meeting of
the democratic senators Senator
Blackburn of Kentucky was elected
chairman of the democratic conference
to succeed Senator Gorman.
Brazilian Ambassador to Leave.
WASHINGTON—Mr. Nabuco, the
Brazilian ambassador, will sail from
New York for Southampton on June
15. He will sail Tune 25 from Sbuth
ampton for Rio Janeiro to attend the
j Pan-American conference