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THIS IN NEBRASKA EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE OR LESS IMPORTANCE. Nebraska Land Owners Will Pay In creased Taxation This Year— Legislation Needed for County Jails. Higher Taxes on Lands. • The individual tax payers of Ne braska who own lands will pay state taxes this i^ear on an increased valua tion of $1,784,000, or a total assessed valuation of $145,000,000, while the owners of railroads will pay taxes on an increased valuation amounting to $440,000. most of which represents the value of new lines. Secretary Bennett of the state board of assessment is getting his tabula tions in shape so that these facts now stand out plainly. Half a million town lots are this year assessed at $43,000, 000. an increase of $1,617,000. Statistics of improved lands in the state give 19.377,635 acres, the taxable value of which is $128,321,542, or an average of $6.62 per acre, equivalent to an actual value of $33 an acre. Un improved lands give a total acreage of 14,202,411. Their assessed valuation comes to $16,894.S03, which is $1.19 per acre, or $5.95 actual value. Of improved lots iu cities and towns there are 280,700, whose combined tax able valuation stands at $40,593,791. The number of unimproved lots is 214, 762. and they are assessed at $4,274, 000. From 52 cents per acre in Banner county, the lowest assessed valuation lu the state, to $10 per acre in a dozen or more counties and $12 in two or three, is the range of land values. This does not represent extremes, as the average is \aken for each county. Authority Over Jails Wanted. Secretary Piper of the state board of charities and corrections is getting ready to have a meeting of the board to discuss legislation needed to give it greater authority in dealing with county jails and charitable institu tions. Mr. Piper has just returned from a trip through the state and many of the jails he found in poor condition. At his suggestion in some instances the authorities did some painting and cleaned tip the places, but in other cases the county authori ties refused to act. Mr. Piper will recommend a separate institution he erected for the habita tion of epileptics, taking them from the insane hospitals because of the effect such cases have on the other patients. He will also recommend a bill to abolish jails in basements and a law which will give the board's sec retary power to order officials to clean up the tails and keep them in first class sanitary condition. To compel this now Mr. Piper has to bluff his way through ana he has not the au thority under the law to get his orders enforced. Threshing in Cedar. HARTINGTON—The first threshing of winter wheat is turning out better than expected. Fred Cole has thresh ed 1,700 bushels on the Linghart farm that tested sixty-eight pounds to the bushel. James Steffen has threshed 1.200 bushels that yielded twenty-two and a half bushels to the acre. The spring wheat also looks good, and is filling well. Found With Broken Neck. OSCEOLA—The discovery near here of the dead body of Fred Beckman in a granary has developed something of a sensation. It is believed that Beck man was killed in a quarrel with drunken companions and an investiga tion is being made to learn the details. Examination of the body developed the fact that his neck had been broken. Nebraska Crop Acreage. LINCOLN — Labor Commissioner Bush has issued a detailed statement of Nebraska crops. The acreage of all crops has increased 308,877 since last year. Corn, winter wheat and oats have increased acreage, while spring wheat, barley and rye have i'.tllen below the acreage of last year. A C.cod Opening for Young Men. WANTED: Students to learn den tistry. One thousand to eighteen hun dred a vear as soon as competent. Cannot supply the demand. For par ticulars address Dr. Clyde Davis, Lin coln, Neb. May Test State Law. PLATTSMOUTH—If the plans of ■ Dr. A. P. Barnes of this city mater- 1 ialize an effort will be made to have i the new veterinary law repealed at ♦ he next session of the legislature. Mr. Barnes, who is an old veterinary prac titioner, was recently prohibited from using the title of ‘'Dr.” before his name by the state veterinary board on the ground that, he had failed to pass the required examination. Dr. Barnes j is securing the addresses of all the old practitioners iq the state who are affected. W. J. Bryan is expected to be a big drawing card for the state fair. Col onel Maher a year ago expected to have Judge Alton B. Parker to visit him during fair week, but for some reason this plan has been abandoned j and the colonel will go to New York ! to meet Bryan. The reception to Mr. Bryan will occur during the state fair and as the railroads are going to sell tickets for one rate plus 50 cents, which includes the fair ticket, it is expected that thousands of those who come to the Bryan reception will also visit the fair and turn in the coupon. Game Warden Assaulted. NORTH PLATTE—Sunday morning when a deputy state game warden 'from Grand Island went to the North Side livery stable of this city he was assaulted by ruffians and would prob ably have been killed but for the in terference of bystanders. As it was he was severely hurt and his face is ibruised almost beyond recognition. ;The game warden has been gathering evidence and causing the arrest of parties violating the game laws and it seems some of the parties or their ifriends were implicated. NEBRASKA BRIEFS. Sterling is arranging for a carnival August 24, *25 and 26. A terrific hailstorm in Knox county did much damage to crops. T*e Commercial club of York has got into its new and elegant quarters. Mrs. Nancy Brown of Wellfleet is accused of selling liquor contrary to law. Engineer Anderson of the North western road dropped dead at Fre mont. The firemen’s tournament at Hum boldt will be held August 30, 31, and September 1. Beatrice will send a fire team to the Humboldt, tournament the latter part of the month. Corn that in some portions of the state needed rain, got it good and plenty last week. Joseph King, accused of stealing a horse, has been taken from Platts mouth to Seneca, Kan. During July in Platte county farm mortgages were filed amounting to $74,503; released, $25,232.50. Two divorces were obtained in Johnson county last week. In both instances desertion was the charge. At a mass meeting it was unani mously decided to hold a three days’ carnival in Sterling August 23, 24 and 25. The report of vital statistics for Columbus and Platte couutv for the month of July shows nine births and ten deaths. J. S. Koch, who resides two miles from Lawrence, has finished thresh ing a sixty-acre field of winter wheat which yielded 56 bushels per acre. Cuming county proclaims itself as the possessor of splendid crops. That seems to be the story coming from all counties in Nebraska this year. From fourteen acres of oats J. JJ. Carpenter, a farmer living seven miles southeast, of Beatrice, received a yield of 869 bushels, or 62 bushels to the acre. A daughter of S. C. Sondav, a girl 16 years of age, living south of Sew ard. accidentally cut her foot and nearly bled to death before medical assistance arrived. At a special election in Ravenna, called for the purpose of bonding the village in the sum of $4,250 for a gas lighting and heating plant the propo sition ca.rried by an overwhelming majority. H. H. Beene of Logan township, Cuming county, threshed six acres of oats which yielded 420 bushels, ma chine measure. This means a yield of 7o bushels per acre from the ma chine, and about 80 bushels by weight. The oats are of the early Kherstan \ ariety. The number of applications for space for county exhibits at the state fair has already exceeded the number of exhibits of last year and now the secretary of the board of managers is wondering if he will have enough space to accommodate all the counties that apply. Lee Fugate, a young man who has been working ten miles southwest of Bertrand, attempted to croes Turkey creek af er the hard rain and drove into a deep hole. The stream being swift carried his buggy and horse into the brush, where both man and horse were drowned. The stock men of Lincoln county feel that they have a serious griev ance against the State Board of Equalization because they raised the assessed value of cattle and horses in Lincoln county 20 per cent. Cattle of all ages were listed at an actual value of $14 per head. Mrs. Ida Blair has returned to Grand Island from Aurora after a fruitless search for her two children, abducted from her home by their father while the mother was absent. It is believed lie has taken the child ren out of the state, out of the juris diction of the courts. While completing the erection of a new windmill at the Rogers home in Danbury J. L. Sargent fell from near the top of the tower, a distance of about forty feet. He had an armful of tools and was unable to catch him self or protect himself in falling. He was severely bruised and shaken. Nebraska assessors have succeeded this year in uncovering $1,120,000 more cash than they found in 1905. The footing for "Money on hand and on deposit” in the ninety counties of the state shows the aggregate assess ment under this head to be $4,486,895 for the current year, as compared with $8,666,486 last year. This is on a ba sis of one-fifth the actual value. The university officials intend to bring a mandamus suit against Audi tor Searle to compel him to issue a warrant for $9,000 appropriated by the government and held by the state treasurer. When the demand was made for the warrant ir was refused by the auditor on the grounds that the money had not been appropriated by the legislature. The university officiate hold, under an old statute, all money for the use of the experimental station donated by the government need not he specifically appropriated by the leg islature. Consequently suit will be brought. John Harper, a farm hand employed by Clarence Shively near Glenville, was arraigned before County Judge Palmer on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape on the person of Mrs. Shively. Food Commissioner Redfern is busy getting up a pure food bill to be pre sented to tbe next legislature along the lines of the national law. Under tbe present Nebraska law the food commissioner has no authority to punish merchants for selling adulter ated foods and practically has no au thority to even make investigations. James Melick, a 15-year-old boy who has been working around Mil ford. is in jail on the charge of steal ing. His mother is dead, and his fath er has been In the penitentiary three times for theft. Miss R^hel Engel, stepdaughter and daugbPr of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kent of Grand Island, lies at death’s door as the result of an attempt upon her life by John Hamblin, aged 35 of 40, the motive being jealousy, or the ; rage of unrequited affection. The | young woman, though wjell developed i for her age, is but 15 years old. WHAT WOULD NOT THE CZAR GIVE TO HAVE A NIGHT’S REST LIKE THIS? BOARD GUTS GRAIN TARIFF IMPORTANT RULING BY WISCON SIN RAILWAY COMMISSION. Cut of Practically One Cent a Bushel Affects Every Railroad Doing Bus iness in the State. Madison, Wis.—Grain rates for the state of Wisconsin will be reduced practically one cent per bushel by an opinion of the railway commission, handed down Thursday. This is the most important decision that has ever been rendered by the Wisconsin commission. The order will affect all of the railroads operating in the state of Wisconsin. The matter was started by a com plaint made by O. G. Kingy against the Wisconsin Central and later by a complaint of W..L. Houser, against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Minneapolis & Omaha and the Chicago & Northwestern. The matter was conducted as an in vestigation of grain rates between sta tions in Wisconsin and Milwaukee by the railroad commission acting on its own motion. The two complaints in volved grain rates from Colfax and Hondovi to Milwaukee only. The commission notified the rail road companies that a complete in vestigation would be made on their own initiative of the whole question and the railroad companies appeared at a formal hearing, July 10, when sworn testimony was received at that time on the matter. The hearings in the matter of pas senger rates have contributed much to an exact solution of the question. PRAISE BY INTERSTATE BOARD. Credit Gven for Success in Rebate Cases. Washington.—In a statement is sued Thursday by the interstate commerce commission legarding the conviction of the Atchison, Tope ka & Santa Fe Railway company for violating the law with respect to the giving of rebates, the commission says “the avowed purpose of the practice tends to support the view ’’that there was no criminal intent on the part of Paul Morton, former secretary of the navy and former head of the traffic department of the Santa Fe. and the other railroad officials involved. The statement calls attention to the fact that with the imposition of the $15,000 fine on the railroad "the his tory of the famous Santa Fe rebate case Is practically closed” and praises President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody for carrying out with success the administration's declared purpose to enforce the statute in all such cases. Veal for Potted Chicken. Columbus, O.—Reports of the analy sis of about 50 samples of potted ham. potted chicken, hamburger steak, luncheon sausage and similar preparations sold by meat packers submitted to State Dairy and Food Commissioner Aukeny show the pres ence of preservatives, and in tome cases traces of tin and zinc poison. The latter are attributed to the use of a, poor quality of containers. One sample labeled “Potted Chicken” was found to be veal. inquiries Into Meat Supply. Washington.—President Roosevelt has become interested in the reports of bad meat supplied the New York and Norfolk navy yanfck and has written to Secretary Bon* arte to in quire about it. To Attend Irrigation Congress. Springfield, 111.—D. H. Anderson, of Chicago, was Tuesday appointed by Gov. Deneen delegate to the four teenth international irrigation con gress. which meets September 3 in Boise, Idaho. Pope Has Heart Trouble. Rome.—Shortly after his return from the ceremony attending the cele bration Thursday of the third anni versary of his coronation, the pope had a severe attack of heart weakness. He was attended by Dr. Lapponi. Alfonso’s Mother 8toned. Madrid.—The queen mother, Maria Christina, while on an automobile tour, coming from France, was stoned oy countrymen near San Sebastian. Many stones were thrown at the auto mobile, but no 9ne was injured. BANK CASHIER SURRENDERS Official of Closed Chicago Institution Found by Reporters. Chicago. — Henry W. Hering. the missing cashier of the bank rupt Milwaukee Avenue State bank, gave himself up to the Chicago police Thursday afternoon. He de clared that he had been in Chicago since Monday morning. Hering was found, not by the po lice, but by newspaper reporters, to whom he made a statement Wednes day night and promised to surrender to the police Thursday. Although a number of persons knew the whereabouts of Hering, the police made no demand on them to produce him. An amazing story of loose and crim inal banking methods will be revealed by Hering, the police and Bank Exam iner C. C. Jones believe. More specific Information about Stensland's opera tions, it is thought, will make him out a man whose greatest asset was the ability he had to win the friendship and confidence of the people who gave him their money. Each business deal made his straits more desperate. Chicago. — Conclusive evidence has been unearthed by State Bank Examiner C. C. Jones that Paul O. Stensland, the fugitive president of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, has been guilty of highly criminal acts in conducting the business of the institution of which he is the head. This was officially anonunced by Mr. Jones Wednesday. At the same time culpability for the crimes which have brought the far-reaching disaster on the northwest side is narrowing more and more to Stensland. Henry W. Hering. the missing cashier, who was declared to be an embezzler of large sums of money, is being in a measure exonerated because of the lack of di rect proof against him. Mr. Jones confirms statements that the frauds amounted to over Sl.000,000. Chicago.—Frank Kowalski, paying teller of the wrecked Milwaukee avenue bank, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head Fri day night. Since the bank failed, Monday. Kowalski had been stopped on the street many times and accused by de positors of having known their money was in peril. He had been in the service of the bank 13 years, handled all of its business among the Poles, and, until the crash came, was as highly regarded by them as were Paul O. Stensland and Henry W. Hering. IOWA DEMOCRATS MEET. Claude R. Porter Is Nominated for Governor. Waterloo, la.—The Democratic state convention Tuesday nominated a full state ticket, headed by Claude R. Por ter, of Appanoose county, for gover nor, adopted a platform and adjourned sine die. The platform favors a tariff for rev enue only, the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people and demands the enactment of such legislation as will effectually destroy all trusts. The platform expresses sympathy with the purposes of national labor organisations, as set forth in recent addresses by Samuel (tampers, Jphp Mitchell" and others calling on labor to assert • is political • rights at, the ballot box. Students Capture Thief. Berkeley, Cal—Alfred Johnson, of New York, attempted to steal the cash drawer from a local Jewelry store. He was captured after an ex citing chase, in which several hun dred college students joined. Chance for Convicted Man. Fredonla. N. Y.—Justice Hooker granted a certificate of reasonable doubt in the case of John W. Neff, former auditor of Erie county, in con nection with the alleged cemetery scandal at Buffalo. Divorce Court Sara Artists. London.—The president of the di vorce court Thursday announced that the court had decided that hereafter a newspaper artist shall not be al lowed .to make sketches in court, since the practice was embarrassing. Heavy Rainfall at Madison. Madison, Wis.—Wednesday night’s rainfall was the greatest ever record ed at Mpdlson in a single day. In two hours 4.9S inches fell, raising Lake Monono five Inches. The storm did great damage, flooding cellars. TO PURCHASE SILVER UNITED STATES CALLS FOR BIDS TO SUPPLY BULLION. DELIVERY AT THE MINTS Provides Against Disturbance of Mar ket by Securing Contracts for Future Delivery, So as Not to Disturb Quotations. Washington.—For ilie first time in 13 years the government announced Thursday its purpose to purchase sil ver for coinage purposes. Tenders are invited at the office of the director of the mint in this city in Wednesday, the 15th instant, up to one o'clock p. m. and every Wednesday thereafter until further notice. These tenders are to be for delivery at the Philadel phia, New Orleans or Denver mints, settlements to be ou the New York basis of bullion guaranteed 999 fine. The treasury reserves the right to re ject all tenders or accept such part of any tender as may suit its conveni ence. It is understood that, anticipating that its reappearance as a purchaser might temporarily disturb the market unduly, the treasury has obtained control of considerable amounts for future delivery, so that it is in posi tion to drop out of the market for sev eral months if desirable. The average requirements of the treasury throughout the year will probably not exceed 100,000 ounces per week, and it will be the policy of the department, while keeping a rea sonable amount in hand, to • so dis tribute its purchases throughout the year that its demands will be uniform and not an element of uncertainty in the market. For the resumption of specie pay ments in 1879 down to the year 1900 the constant increase in the stock of subsidiary coin required by the grow ing population and trade of the coun try was supplied by the recoinage of old and uncurrent subsidiary coins which accumulated in the treasury un der the resumption act. In 1900, as this stock was running low, authority was granted in the monetary act of March 14 to the secretary of the treasury to divert bullion, purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, for the coinage of silver dollars to the coinage of subsidiary pieces. Under this au thority about $33,000,000 has been coined since 1900. The stock of bullion in the treasury was exhausted more than a year ago. LARGE YIELDOF WINTER WHEAT Illinois Board Reports Increase of Nearly Five Million Bushels. Springfield, 111.—The state board of agriculture issued a bulletin Thursday afternoon stai ug that re ports from Its correspondents in Illi nois show that the yield of winter wheat in Illinois this year is 27,365,552 bushels, an average of 20 bushels per acre, an increase of 4,906,232 bushels over 1905. Quality of wheat this year is re ported as excellent and free from cheat and dirt. Yield of spring wheat in state is 1,692,122 bushels. Area of oats harvested is 3,018,295 acres, giv ing a total yield of 90,971,381 bushels, or 33.593,943 fewer bushels than last year. The condition of corn on August 1 is but 81 per cent, of the seasonable average, which is a decrease of eight points since June 20, and 15 points be low August 1, 1905, and four points below the ten years' average. There was great damage done by a drought of 60 days’ duration. NORTH DAKOTA MAYOR GUILTY Jury Sustains Allegation That He Was Member of Horsethief Band. Williston. N. D.—W. M. Denny, mayor of Williston, and a promin ent banker, was found guilty on a charge of receiving stolen prop erty. It was charged by the authori ties of Valley county, Montana, that Denny was the head of a band of horse and cattle "rustlers," and that he disposed of the booty. An at tempt was made to extradite Denny and take him to Montana for trial, but failed. He was brought to trial here on a charge of having received and disposed of six horses stolen in Mon tana. K Pulajanes Slay Americans. Manila. — First Lieut. John F. James and two privates of the Eighth infantry, with Contract Sur geon Calvin Snyder and Internal Rev enue Collector Williams, of Illinois, were killed Thursday afternoon in a hand-to-lfand fight with a force of Pulajanes at Julita, island of Leyte. The detachment, which consisted of ten men, was greatly outnumbered, but made a gallant fight. The Pula janes captured three pistols, four Krag-Jorgensen rifles and 300 rounds of ammunition. Death of Mrs. C. E. Smith. Philadelphia.—Word was received here Thurday of the death at Block Island. R. I., of Mrs. Ella Smith, wife of former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. Mrs. Smith had been ill but a short time. Saloons to Pay for Roads. Stewartsville, Mo.—Gov. Folk will ask the neat general assembly to pass a law by which the retail liquor inter ests will be taxed for the benefit of the public highways, each dramshop to pay the state $200 a year. Shoots in Family Quarrel. Milwaukee. — Alfred Munkiewicz during a family quarrel Wednesday shot his wife In the breast and an other woman in the arm, then turned the pistol on himself, inflicting what is said to be a fatal wound. Not to Bo Dictator. 8k. Petersburg.—The Official Tele graph agency declared the statement that the emperor intends to place Grand Duke Nicholas in immediate command of the whole army to be de void of all foundation. STANDARD OIL INDICTED CHARGED WITH RECEIVING RE BATES FROM RAILROAD. Latter in Form of Exemption from Storage Charges—May Be Fined Sum of $339,000. Chicago. — The first victory in the tight against the Standard 0;1 company for violations of the Elkina law was won by the government Wednesday when the federal grand jury returned an indictment of 19 counts against the oil trust on the charges of receiving rebates in the form of nonpayment of storage charges from the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway company. While the railroad company itself was not indicted for granting the rebates, the celerity with which the jury took hold of the case and handled the evi dence presented by the government attorneys led District Attorney Mor rison to make the prediction that the transportation company will also be indicted. Immediately after the re turn of the indictment Judge Bethea fixed ihe oil company's bonds at $25, 000. Under the 19 counts fines of $380, 000 may be levied, should the govern ment prosecutors be successful in se curing conviction. Jamestown, N. Y.—The federal grand jury for the western dis trict of New York Friday returned in dictments against the Standard Oil company, of New York; the Pennsyl vania Railroad company, and the Vacuum Oil company, of Rochester, for violations of the interstate com merce law. There are 24 counts in each indict ment of the Standard Oil company and of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, and a smaller numbei against the Vacuum Oil company. The evidence presented to the grand jury in the oil cases having in dicated that shipments of oil were made from Rochester to Rutland, Vt., over the New York Centra! railroad, Boston & Maine, and Rutland rail road lines. United States Attorney Brown asked that he be given time in which to prepare for an investlgfe tion into the connections of these three great roads with the shipments of the Standard Oil company's prod nets at the alleged discriminative rates alleged to have been given by the Pennsylvania railroad. MOB LEADER IS CONVICTED. North Carolina Lyncher Given 1! Years in Jail. Salisbury, N. C.—What is said to be the first instance of the convic tion of a lyncher in the history of the state was furnished here Friday night when George Hall, a white e* eonvict of Montgomery county. North Carolina, who was one of the party that Monday night lynched three ne groes in jail here for the murder of the Lyerly family, was found guilty of consipracy in connection with the crime and was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Hall's trial ended Friday evening at seven o'clock. The jury was out but 35 minutes and returned then with a verdict of guilty, after several wit nesses had been heard. Judge B. F. Long sentenced Hall to the maximum term provided by law—15 years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The evidence against Hall was overwhelm ing. He was remanded to jail. His counsel has appealed on the ground that Gov. Glenn was in Atlantic City when the special term at which Hall was tried was ordered and that being out of the state's bounds he had nc jurisdiction. The state sprung a surprise in the trial when the offense against the prisoner was changed from murder tc conspiracy. When the court was called to order at 10:30 o'clock Fri day morning, former Congressman T .1. Kluttz announced his client would contend that the court was unlawful It was argued that the governor could not sign a commission for such a court unless he was in the state and it was claimed that he was at Atlan tic City, N. J. ADMIRAL ASSISTS MUTINEERS Condemned Sailors Will Be Given New Trials in October. St. Petersburg.—The sentences passed upon the Sevastopol mutineers probably will be mitigated* It will be recalled that the papers in the cases of these men disappeared mysterious ly after the arrival at Sevastopol of Admiral Skrydloff. commander of the Black sea fleet. Before he left Sevas topol the admiral intimated that he considered the condemnation of the mutineers prearranged and unjust and said he thought the officers had been more to blame than sailors. There is more than a suspicion that the "seizure by revolutionists” of the pa pers in those cases was staged by Ad miral Skrydloff himself. On the rec ommendation of the admiral, Minister of Marine Blrileff, instead of confirm ing the sentences has ordered a com plete rehearing of the cases at the end of two months. Visible Supply of Cotton. New Orleans.—Secretary Hester’s statement of the world's visible sup ply of cotton shows a total of 2,120, 904. against 2,255,292 last week. Of this the total of American cotton la 1,095,904. against 1,135,292 last week. Mrs. Corey Leaves Reno. Reno, Nev.—Mrs. William Ellis Corey, who recently secured a divorce from her husband, left Friday for Pacific coast points, where she will spend several weeks. She was ac companied by her son, Allan. Newspaper Man Dead. Albany, N. Y.—Thomas Newcomb, for over 20 years appointment clerk in the office of the governor, died Wednesday. In early life he was prominent in newspaper circles in San Francisco. Morphine for Former Liquor Agent. St. Louiis.—After writing a note stating that he took his life rather than again earn his living by selling liquor, Ernest Steinhardt, 57 years of age. committed suicide b* drinking morphine. WILL NOTACCEPT GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS TURNS DOWN AN OFFER. DECLIN ES THE COMMANDERSHIP Second Birthday of Czarovitch Ob* served in St. Petersburg—Assassin ations Plentiful in Warsaw and Libau. ST. PETERSBURG.—Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, the Asso ciated Press is informed by a member of his entourage, has declined to ac cept the post of commander-in-chief of all the troops of the empire, "where martial law exists,” which was ten dered to him August 4. Whether this was decided before or after the attempt on the life of the grand duke at Krasnoyae-Selo on Aug ust 10 is not known, but the ostensi ble reason is that Grand Duke Nich olas believes such a post should not be given to a grand duke, but to a purely military man. He advocates the appointment of General Linevitch, formerly commander-in-chief of the Manchurian army, but the emperor has not finally decided the matter. Sunday, the second birthday of the czarevitch, was observed with the usual display of flags and illumina tions, but there was no enthusiasm in the celebration. In fact few per sons seemed even to know what was the occasion of the decorations. The day was quiet in the capital. The activity of the terrorists in the provinces include, besides the usual harvest of assassinations in Warsaw, an attempt on the life of General Karateieif, chief of the gendarmeries of Samara province, and the wounding of Captain of Police Ivanoff of Libau by a youth who fired thrice at him in the street. The assailant of General Karateieff mounted the stairs of the general's chancellory and threw a bomb at random. The missile failed to explode and the miscreant escaped in spite of hot pursuit. General Strijoff, acting governor general of Warsaw city and province, has been relieved of his office and will be succeeded by General Von Larsky. It is conjectured that the change is due to General Strijoff's order with reference to the responsibility of towns, which General Skallon, before his transfer to Helsingfors as gov ernor general of Finland, was obliged to cancel. DATE FOR BRYAN’S ARRIVAL. Reaches New York August 30 and Home September 5. PARIS—William J. Bryan and his party went in automobiles to Fontain bleau Sunday where they visited the palace. Mr. Bryan hones to pay his respects to President Faillieres at Rambouiilet Monday or Tuesday. He cabled C. W. Bryan of Lincoln, Neb., today, fixing the date of his ar rival in New York as August 30. He will visit New Haven and Bridgeport, August 31; Jersey City, September 11;' Louisville, September 12, and Cincin aatl, September 13, stopping at Kan sas City on the return trip. SEVEN MUTINEERS SHOT. Two Lieutenants and Five Soldier* Get Death Penalty. HELSINGFORS, Finland.—The trial by court-martial of the Sveaborg mu tineers commenced Saturday and Lieutenant Kochanovskv and Emilia noff, aged respectively 20 and 21 years, and five soldiers were at the first sitting found guilty and con lenined to death. All were shot and buried in a common grave without ceremony. Kochanovsky’s father is a colonel of the guards at St. Peters burg. Relieves Freight Congestion. SAN FRANCISCO—The officials of the Southern Pacific will issue a state ment to the consignees having freight on the tracks of the company that it will be unloaded at once and stored at the cost of the consignees. This action has been decided upon after a long conference among the local offi cials. Longworths at Oyster Bay. OYSTER BAY—Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who arrived from Europe by the steamer St. Paul, reached Sagamore Hill Saturday night and will remain the guests of Presi dent Roosevelt for several days, when they will proceed to Cincinnati by way of Washington. Ten Cent Fare is Illegal. NEW YORK—Justice William J. Gaynor c.f the appelate division of the supreme court, in Brooklyn decided that a ten cent fare to Coney Island, Is illegal and that a passenger has a right to refuse to pay the second fare. The dce:ision was handed down In a habeas corpus hearing to obtain the release of a person who had been ar rested for refusing to pay the second fare on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines Chinese to Be Protected. WASHINGTON.—Care will be taken by the United States government to prevent contractors from doing injus tice to the Chinese laborers employed for work on the Panama canal. The specifications advertising for proposals to supply 2,500 Chinese to the canal commision will stipulate that the sec retary of war shall have the privilege of passing on contracts which labor agents make with Chinese who are to be sent to the isthmus. This provision will make It possible to prevent dis crimination. * Williams is Under Arrest. CASPKR, Wyo.—H. W. Williams, who atempted to murder Mrs. John Adams and Homer Green at the Adams ranch, five miles east of Cas per, last Monday, was bound over to the district court in the sum of $2,500 bond, which he furnished. Kruger’s Grandson Arrested. JOHANNESBURG—Stephanus Paul Kruger ;8mit, & grandson of the late Paul Kruger, has been arrested in the Rustenburg district of the Transvaal M a charge of murder.