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THIS IN NEBRASKA EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE OR LESS IMPORTANCE. An Aged Farmer Loses His Life by Burning—Reduction of Bonded In debtedness in Butler County—Mis cellaneous State Matters. Aged Man Fatally Burned. NEBRASKA CITY—F. M. Shaefer. aged 70, residing on a farm seven miles south of this city, was fatally burned and cannot recover. His wife and family were away from home and he attempted to build a fire in the cook stove, using gas oline by mistake. An explosion fol lowed, throwing blazing fluid over him and the room. Despite the fact he was a mass of flames he ran out into the weeds and tried to put out his burning clothe. Neighbors saw the smoke and coming to the house put out the fire and found him lying in the weeds suffering untold agony. Physicians were called, but he Is so badly burned that no hopees are en tertained for his recovery. Butler County Reduces Bonds. DAVID CITY—A large transaction was closed here by the county board of supervisors, which saves the tax payers of this county $3,000. Years ago $119,000 in bonds were voted to aid the Union Pacific Railroad com pany to build through the county. These bonds ran for twenty years and drew 10 per cent interest. At their maturity $30,000 in cash was paid and $39,000 in new bonds issued, running twenty years at 5 per cent interest. The county board, a few years ago, began to raise a sinking fund to re tire these bonds when they mature and in this fund had accumulated about $33,000. The City National bank worked up a deal whereby it could buy these bonds for the county at a price that would save the tax payers $3,000 by taking them up new instead of letting them run. Case of Copper Poisoning. AUBURN—As the result of taking a friend's advice. Homer Howell, a young man living at Howe, a few miles east of here, is suffering with a terrible case of blood poisoning, i He was afflicted with ring worms and a friend advisesd him to use a lotion consisting of vinegar in which a num ber of copper pennies had been soak ed. He tried the peculiar remedy, with the result that blood poison ing has set in. His face is terribly | swollen, being twice its normal size, j and the features have been twisted into the most hideous shape. He is in a critical condition. Stock Breeders' Association. NEBRASKA CITY—A number of j the breeders of fine stock in this 1 county have formed an association to be known as the Otoe Thoroughbred ; Stock association, with H. H. Hanks, j president: Orin Lathrop and D. Schin dler. vice presidents: Olin Overton, secretary and Geerze Justice, treas urer. Tfe association will hold a stock show in this city in October and already work is being done on the program. To Stop Sunday Shooting. GRANT) ISLAND—An organization Is being perfected in Center town ship. an exclusively country pre cinct, to stop all shooting on the j Sabbath. Many of the people of the 1 township refuse to join in the effort, however, some because they want to i do a little hunting themselves occa sionally on Sunday, and others be cause they do not want to force their Sunday views on others. Killed by Train. NICKERSON—Edward Hayes of j this place was instantly killed by be-; ing run over by a train on the Chi cago. Burlington & Quincy railroad : one mile east of Nickerson. Mr. j Hayes, in company with another man. ; was riding a track velocipede when j the train, running backwaard to Fre- i mont, caught them. His body was j badly mangled. Pawnee County Prohibitionists. PAWNEE CITY—The Pawnee county prohibition convention nomi nated the following county ticket: Representatives. J. D. Nesbitt and Rev. Idell H. Wood, Pawnee City: commissioner Third district, A. E. Hey wood. Table Rock. Doesn't Favor Reform Spelling. LINCOLN—State Superintendent McBrien is opposed to the plan of President Roosevelt in regard to spelling. McBrien favors a commis sion to revise the linguistic rules. He declares the president has tackled a job far more extensive than the dig ging of the Panama canal. Requisition for Walker. Requisition was- issused by Gover nor Mickey for the return from Iowa of C. H. Walker, who is wanted in Omaha on a charge of obtaining mon ey under false pretenses, with an um- j brella factory as the starting point. He is under arrest in Sioux City. Fall* to Her Death. OMAHA '— Miss Lena Jefferies, aged 23, a Nebraska Telephone com pany operator, fell to her death in [ the company’s building at Eighteenth and Douglas streets at an early hour Wednesday morning. The body was found about 6 o'clock on the first floor of the building with every bone broken. Miss Jefferies had fallen through a skylight on the third floor, which was part of the floor to the north known as the rest room. Fell Dead on Fence. PENDER—Nick Kuehl of the firm of Kuehl A Paasch. saloon keepers, was found dead hanging over a picket fence at Pender. He was troubled with heart disease and fell dead while returning from a party. Returned to the Asylum. AUBURN—John Clayton of Brown ville was brought before the insanity board and it was decided to return him to the asylum. Mr. Clayton has been an inmate of that institution, but was released last December. NEBRASKA BRIEFS. _ Land in Cuming county sold last week at $lf8 per acre. The schools of Nebraska are again busy all along the line. There is an unusually large yield of pears in Seward county. Prof. Campbell, superintendent of the Nelson schools, died last week. Alfred Palmer of Ulysses sold 8.000 bushels of old corn the other day for 83.200. Some sections of Nebraska that had become rather dry got copious rains last week. Thirty years Aunt Rachael Winchell boarded at the Seward poor farm, and then she died. Near Steinauer the other day a hunter took a shot at a jackrabbit and killed a horse. August 26 there was a light frost in the vicinity of Broken Bow. Very little damage was done. Adams county boasts of haring 8.302 acres of alfalfa, the most profitable crop grown in the state. Democrats of the Sixth congres sional district have nominated G. L. Shumway of Scotts Bluff. F. L. Beatty, formerly of Te'—nseh, is under arrest in Oklahoma charged with using canceled postage stamps. Caught in a pulley, William Brass field had a narrow escape from death at the Grand Island canning factory. Joseka Sunlyeh, aged 15. was drowned in a water tank. He was found standing on his head in the water. i ne L mon pacific company is mak ing plans to establish motor car serv ice on its line between Beatrice and Lincoln within a short time. Towner V.'achter, a 17-year-old boy of Custer county, was arrested for placing a tie on the track wtth the in tention of wrecking the train. A new hau of science three stories high is to be added to tjie campus of Fremont, college. The hall will be equipped with laboratories cad lecture rooms. The baby crop in Nebraska this year is keeping pace with soil produc tions. Twins are recorded in numer ous instances and triplets are not en tirely lacking. A farm house belonging to J. Wiltse, a few miles south of Humboldt, was burned to the ground together with the contents, property of James Ged tisen and wife, tenants. The Humboldt Baptist congregation, which has been without a pastor for a year or more, has issued a call to Rev. W X. Hamilton, at present pas tor of the Burchard church. A gang of bums got into a fight among themselves in the railroad yards at Wood River and one of them had his threat slashed with a razor, barely missing the jugular vein. The new town three and one-half miles north of Arborville on the new Union Pacific line is named Polk. The town is platted and the erection of a new elevater and hotel is under con struction. ~ Another sale of one hundred dollar per acre land is reported in Johnson county. Albert Valandingham has sold his 160-acre farm five miles east of Tecumseh to Mrs. L. A. Graf of Graf for $16,000. .Norton, the. newly named town be tween Stromsburg qand Central City on the Union Pacific extension, must find a new name, as Uncle Sam has said so, there being another postoffice by the same name tn tne state. The next regular term of the Cum ing county district court is scheduled to take place on September 17. with Judge Guy T. Graves of Pender on the bench. At this term only matters of naturaliiation will be taken up. A man named Mungerson. employed ai Minden a month ago by the Minden Edison Light and Power company, who left for parts unknown, taking a lot of tools, besides selling several pounds of copper belonging to the company, has been capture-1 at Gales burg. 111. A movement has been started at j Grand Island for an elaborate celebra tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Hall county and that section of the state in July of next year, and in connection therewith to erect and dedicate an appropriate monument to the original settlers. Henry Alberts, a well known pioneer and retired farmer residing in the west part of Humboldt, came near meeting his death by accident, and sustained injuries which may yet re sult fatally. He went out to the barn to hitch up his driving horse with the intention of taking his wife to church, and in some manner was thrown down while harnessing the an imal and tramped upon until he be came unconscious. The state board of educational lands and funds declined to take any action on the request of Boyd county settlers to purchase state lands. Thir teen hundred acres of state land in that county are involved in litigation. The supreme court recently held in favor of the settlers by deciding that the improvements on the land should have been appraised separately from the land before the state issued lease contracts to others than the occu pants of the land. In the republican congressional con vention at Fremont Judge Boyd secur ed the nomination for congress on the first oalk>r. Congresssman J. J. Mo Carathy of Dixon. J. F. Boyd of Ante lope county and W. W. Young of Stan ton were the candidates. A. T. Connor’s large bam. about ten miles northwest of Valparaiso, was discovered to be on fire during the night, but was too nearly destroyed to save any of the contents. Roy Con nor. a young man aged 20 years, was burned to death. His body was found after the fire. The Jonhson county fair association will erect a $500 swine shed on the grounds at Tecumseh for the purpose of giving hog breeeders a better op portunity to display their stock. For the coming year C. J. Pierson of Auburn has been engaged as assistant science teacher at the Kearney state normal school. Mr. Piersco is a grad uate of the state normal school at Penr and has also been graduated from the Iceland university. Since that time be has been in the employ of the government, serving four yean in Manila. SPAIN'S TURN TO SMILE. I f f STANDARD OIL COMPANY IS INDICTED ON 6,428 COUNTS TWO SPECIAL GRAND JURIES AT CHICAGO RETURN TEN TRUE BILLS FOR VIOLATION OF ELKINS LAW. Chicago. — The first skirmish in the crusade of the government against the Standard Oil com pany to compel the concern to com ply with the letter of the antitrust and monopoly laws was ended Monday afternoon when the two special federal grand juries returned ten indictments against the oil company, containing a total number of 6.428 counts. In respect to the scope of the indict ments the number of counts and the voluminous nature of the documents all records of the federal courts was broken and when the juries were dis missed by Judge Bethea after three j weeks of continuous work they had ‘ the satisfaction of knowing that they had hung up a mark for future inves tigators. The charges named in the indict ments are violations of the Elkins antirebate law, which prohibits the accepting or granting of rebates on oil and other products. The fine as fixed by the Elkins law is not less than $1,000 and not more than $20,000 on each count. At this rate the maximum fine which might be imposed upon the Standard Oil company would aggre gate $128,560,000. The railroads named in the indict ments, but which for the present are not charged with guilt by a federa* grand jury, are: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Chicago & Alton. Chicago & Eastern Illinois. Evansville & Terre Haute. Illinois Central* Southern Railway. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. The ten indictments very only in the name of the railroad involved and in the particular shipment alleged to have caused the illegal rebate. Liable to Heavy Fines. Practically the ten form one big in- - dictment, under which the minimum j fine of $1,000 on each count would be $6,428,000. If Standard Oil is found j guilty under each count and the fine is j CONSIDER RAILROAD TARIFFS New Rate Law Is Discussed by Ship pers and Carriers. Washington.—To discuss certain phases of the railroad rate law which took effect Monday, there was a con ference which lasted, the greater part of Tuesday between the members of the interstate commerce commission and representatives of the railroads and shippers of the country. The railroad representatives uni formly gave assurance of their inten tion to fully comply with the new law. but presented their views as to the operation of certain provisions, among the points urged being extension of time in which carriers may file their tariffs with the commission. The shippers’ representatives urged the protection of their interests, par ticularly against the railroads shifting classifications so as to put up rates and contending for the discretion of the commission in the export and im port changes and for the publication of tariffs in the full acceptation of that term. The commission reserved de cision of the questions brought up. Guard Kills a Prisoner. Atlanta, Ga.—In a desperate fight within the walls of the United States prison here Edward Richmond, serv ing a ten-years’ sentence for train robbery, was shot and instantly killed by Guard Frey. Seize Chief of Pulajanee. Manila.—Native volunteers have captured Armogines. Sanchez, a chief of the Pulajanes, in the province of Leyte, near Baybay. The escape of the bandits from I>eyte has been cut off by troops. Author of Children’s Books Dies. New York.—Rev. C. Winter Bolton, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, ] at North Pelham, Westchester county, ’ died Tuesday. He was 86 years old. i Hr. Bolton was the author of several I books for children. \ Friend of Lincoln Dead. Atchison, Kan.—11 S. Weils, one erf the first civil .engineers employed by the Burlington raflwev. and a friend I of Abraham Lincoln, woe» both lived 1 In Springfield, HL, died nt his home **«i» seed 73 years. i I placed at the minimum of $20,000, the total of the fines would reach the as tounding figure of $128,560,000. Standard Oil promises to contest the battle at every step, and the first strife will come when District Attor ney Morrison appears before Judge Bethea to ask that the company be required to furnish bonds for its ap pearance to answer the indictments. John S. Miller, who has been re tained as special counsel by Standard Oil, will resent the piea for bond. Mr. Miller said: On the earlier indictment Judge Bethea fixed the bond of the Standard Oil company at $25,000, which has not been given as yet. If the same ratio is pursued the total demanded would exceed $S,000,000. Laughs at Bond Plea. "The Standard Oil company does not propose to resort to obstructive tactics and will not unnecessarily de lay the hearing of the cases. It is ridiculous, however, to ask the Stand ard Oil company to give bond for its appearance in court. The company cannot run away. I have never heard of a corporation being compelled to gi'ie bail in a criminal prosecution." The indictments returned far ex ceed any advance estimate of what the two grand juries have been doing in their secret sessions, yet it is de clared to be apparent that the reports are but the beginnings of the govern ment's battle against Standard Oil. The indictments referred simply to re bate giving and receiving, and were returned as under the Elkins inter state commerce law of 1887. The vastly more important phase of the proceedings vMch are now the upper most endeavors of the Roosevelt ad ministration as betokened by the policy which has l^en mapped out by the president and Attorney Gen eral Moody is to bring Standard Oil to an accounting as violating the Sherman anti-trust law, as a corpora tion acting in restraint of trade. Two Killed in a Collision. Pittsburg, Pa.—Two trainmen were killed and three injured in a head-on collision of heavy ore trains near Milltown, on the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad. NEW RAILROAD LAW IN EFFECT Lines Have Been Unable to File Schedules for Switching. Xew York.—The new railroad rate law which applies to all railroads do ing an interstate business went into effect at midnight Monday, it will be enforced by the interstate commerce commission. According to the new law the roads were to have filed with the commis sion by midnight ail their tariffs and charges, showing not only the full cost of transportation from point to point, but also what items go to the making up of this cost. From now on here can be no extras.” but the ship per is expected to be able to obtain n advance a final statement of the charge he has to meet. It was stated that not a single com pany has been able to fully comply with the provisions of the law requir ng them to have all their schedules >n file by midnight. The schedule of .witching charges was the most diffi cult of completion, and it is said that 10 road has been able to finish k in ime to file as the law directed. Clothier New Tennie Champion. Newport, R. L—William J. Clothier >f Philadelphia, Wednesday won fhe national tennis championship defeat ng Beals C. Wright, of Boston, the present holder of the tiUe, in straight sets, 6—3, 6—0, 6—4. Russian Consul Shot. Tientsin.—The Russian consul here VI. Laptew, was shot in the stomach Wednesday by a Russian concession contractor named Levinsky. who fired ils revolver four times at the consul, ind hit him once. Crown Prince Baptized. Potsdam.—The son of Crown Prince Frederick Wiliam was baptized Wednesday in the so-called Jasper [allery of the new palace, which had >een arranged as a chapeL The child ras named Wililam Frederick Francis oseph Christian Olaf. Chilians Off to Meet Root. Santiago.—American Minister he foreign minister and the mem >ers of the reception committee itarted for Lota, by the i»nd route, o receive Secretary Soot CHURCH FUNDS LOST PRESBYTERIAN CASH TIED UP IN TRUST FAILURE. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER Big Philadelphia Institution, With Liabilities of $10,0<xf000, Closed When Death of President Re veals Its Condition. Philadelphia.—Unable to meet its obligations because of the large amount of money loaned on insufficient security by Its president, now dead, the Real Estate Trust company of Philadelphia, which up to last Satur day, was considered one -bf the strong-! est financial institutions in the city, closed its doors Tuesday. Soon after the doors closed George H. Earle, Jr., ! a prominent financier, was appointed receiver. The liabilities of the com pany are placed at *10.000.000 against j which there are quick assets of about $3,500,000 and collateral of about *8,000,000 which is not negotiable or readily convertible. This doubtful col lateral is held mostly as security for j loans of about *5.300,000 made to1 Adolf Segal, a promoter of this city. I The man responsible for the fail ure was Frank K. Hippie, one of Philadelphia’s best known citizens, who died suddenly last Friday morn ing in his country home at Bryn Mawr, near here, under circumstances which, in the light of developments ' lead to the suspicion that he may ! have committed suicide. Mr. Hippie, in addition to being president of the Real Estate Trust | company was the treasurer of the j board of trustees of the General As sembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States and of several oth er church funds, and was a director of the Franklin National bank. In addition to the deposits of the General Assembly, the Real Estate Trust also had about $25,000 of funds placed there by Dr. Roberts as stated clerk. The Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia and the Presbyterian board of relief, also had sums of money in the failed institution. For the loans to Adolf Segal Hip pie accepted as collateral securities of the Majestic hotel, a big new apart ment house, operated by Segal; the Swedish Steel company of Lancaster, Pa., and the Pennsylvania Sugar Re fining company of this city. The steel company and the sugar refining con cern have never been placed in op eration. Segal claims the collateral he gave is good and that he will meet all his obligations. There are others to whom Hippie loaned money on in sufficient security but their name? have not been made public and the sums are not believed to be large. How far Hippie benefited in the loans made or whether he was merely the tool of others is yet to be determined. Philadelphia.—Receiver George H. Earle. Jr., Wednesday took charge of the affairs of the Real Estate Trust company which failed Tuesday be cause of the heavy loans made by j Frank K. Hippie, late president, to Adolf Segal, a promoter, upon insuffi- j cient security. John H. Converse, a director of the company, and one of the foremost j Presbyterian laymen in the country, upon whose petition the receiver was appointed, said he was satisfied that the securities of the various Presby- j terian church boards are safe. The presbyterian hospital, of which Mr. Hippie was treasurer, elected the j Fidelity Trust company as his suc cessor and through that concern , learned that the insittution's 'securi- I ties, amounting to $1,500,000 are in- j tact. Hollidaysburg. Pa.—Adolf Segal. : of Philadelphia, Wednesday sold the town of South Altoona to Bor land & Waddell, of Pittsburg. This j town had been developed by the j Knickerbocker Contracting company, of which Segal is the head, at a re puted outlay of ll.SOO.OOO. The price paid by the purchasers was $500,000. Mr. Segal is the promoter who figured in the failure of the Real Estate Trust company. ARMOUR AFFIDAVIT QUALIFIED Annual Rsport to State of Missouri Is j Thrown Out. Jefferson City. Mo.—Pursuant to the j Missouri statute requiring each cor poration doing business in the state to file an affidavit once a year with the secretary of state, that it is not a member of any trust or combine, attor neys for Armour & Co., and the Ar mour Packing company, of Chicago, j asked permission of Secretary of State | Swager to file affidavits for their ; companies that "they were not mem bers of a trust or combine subject to the decision of the courts in the anti trust proceedings now pending against them.’’ Upon advice of Attorney General Hadley, the secretary refused to allow these qualified affidavits to be filed. Sues for Quake Loss. New York.—T. C. Watkins institut ed a suit for $38,500 against the Trans Atlantic Fire Insurance company, of Hamburg. Germany, for alleged losses in the earthquake fire in San Fran cisco. Fairbanks and Cummins May Talk. Kansas City, Mo.—An invitation was extended to Vice President Fairbanks : and Gov. Cummins, of Iowa, to make 1 speeches at Fairmount park Septem ber 8 by the Missouri Republican elnb. i Iowa Reports Frost. Des Moines, la.—Frost was reported in Iowa lowlands Monday for the first I time this season, although it is not 1 thought that the great Iowa corn crop ' will suffer damage because of it The < mercury dropped as low as 40. 1 Operator Murdered at Post. South Bold, lad.—Lloyd Gynes, formerly of Windsor, Ont_, night oper- < itor for the Michigan Central railroad < st Galien, Mich., was found murdered < at his post early Monday by the con- < doctor of a passing train. 1 BRYAN ARRIVES IN SAFETY POPULACE CHEERS NOTED DEM OCRAT ON RETURN. Delegations from Nebraska Enthusi astically Hail Their Well-Known Neighbor as Next President of the United States. New York.—Under gray skies but in exuberant spirits and bronzed by the suns of many climes during a year of travel completely around the world, William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, twice the nominee of the Democratic party for president of the United States and already indorsed as the candidate of 1906, steamed up New York bay Wednesday afternoon on the steamer Princess Irene and re ceived an ovation from large welcom ing parties which went down to quar antine to meet and cheer the incoming vessel and its distinguished passen ger. Mr. Bryan did not enjoy his usual health during the voyage, but he was much better Wednesday and said that he felt sure he would be able to carry out the plans which hare been made for him during the next few days. He was very much fatigued i when he boarded the steamer and { during the entire voyage suffered I from indigestion and severe headache, tils illness was not serious enough to interfere with his work, however, j and he devoted a large portion of j the nice days at sea in preparing his j speeches and in keeping up his corre spondence. Mr. Bryan did not land in New York city proper until Thursday aft ernoon when he was received at the Battery by delegations of prominent Democrats from ail parts of the coun try and escorted to the hotel where he will make his headquarters while here. He was taken off the Prinzess i Irene by special permission of Presi- ; dent Roosevelt shortly after the ves- j >e. had anchored in quarantine. First he went aboard two tugs which had j been chartered by "Bryan's Nebraska j Home Folks,” where he was exultant- ! ly greeted and hailed as the next j president. He then went aboard the 1 trim little yacht "Illini,” owned by his long time friend and schoolmate, Edw-ard F. Goltra, of St. Louis, and where such well known Democrats as Norman E. Mack, national committee man for New York, and Daniel J. j Campeau, national committeeman for Michigan, were awaiting him. In the "Illini” Mr. Bryan was taken to the j landing of the Ocean Yacht c’ub at I Stapleton, Staten Island, where he , landed and was whirleu away in an i automobile to the home of Lewis ! Nixon, "Ben Braw,” on the heights of Tompkinsville and overlooking the harbor. VICTIMS NUMBER 32. Daughter of Premier Stolypin Not Killed by Bomb. St. Petersburg.—The daughter of Premier Stolypin. who was injured by the bomb explosion in the premier’s summer home Saturday and who was erroneous!/ reported to have died, was still alive Sunday, having passed . a quiet night under the effects of an opiate. The premier's son, who also was hurt, is better. Two more persons injured by the j explosion died Saturday night, bring j ing the total number of deaths up tc ] 32. Twenty-six persons were killed i instantly. Saturday's unsuccessful attempt on ! the life of Premier Stolypin with its j sickening, useless slaughter of 32 persons, was followed Sunday night by another revolutionary outrage in i which Gen. Min, commander of the Seminovsky guard regiment and whc j since his promotion to be a genera! has been attached as a personal ad jutant to the suite of the emperor, was killed on the station platform at Peter hof by a young woman, who fired five shots into his body from an automatic revolver and then, without resistance, submitted to arrest. The capture oi j the girl wes effected by Gen. Min’s wife, who held her until the arrival of an officer. ! DECIDES BOYCOTT IS ILLEGAL Racine Judge Holds Unions Liable for Damages to Employer. Racine, Wis.—Union labor was dealt a heavy blow by the decision of Judge Chester A. Fowler In the boycott suit for $25,000 damages brought by Baker j Otto B. Schultz. By the decision the contract exacted j by the boss bakers by the union men,! by means of which the workmen j sought to enforce the closed shop, is held illegal, the trades council and j the individual members are enjoined from using the “unfair list;” the boy-1 cott is declared an actionable con- j spiracy to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose: Baker Schultz is al- j lowed to recover damages of $2,500 for the loss of profits from the time of: the commencement of the boycotting ' acts up to the time of the trial, and $3,500 in damages for the amount of injury to his business and property in ! relation to its selling value. Dreyfus to Retire from Army. Paris.—The Patric Wednesday af-! ternoon positively announced that Maj. Alfred Dreyfus will retire from the army in October on a pension. No confirmation of the report could be obtained at the war ministry. Lumber Schooner Wrecked. Pacific Grove, Gal.—The steam schooner Celia, with a cargo of 160, 000 feet of lumber, was wrecked on the coast near here Tuesday night All on board were saved with the exception of eight persons. Shaw to Stump Missouri. Kansas City. Mo.—Secretary Shaw has accepted an invitation of the Re publican state speakers’ bureau to spend a week making campaign speeches la Missouri. He will speak at Harniihai September 17. Was Member of Quantrell Band. Oak Grove, Mo.—CapL J. Frank Gregg, who for the first half of the civil war was in Gen. Joe Shelby’s command, bat who later was with Quantrell, the raider, died at Grain Valley, near here. BRYAN INDOTHAM GREAT RECEPTION GIVEN TO DISTINGUISHED NEBRASKAN. MAYOR TOM JOHNSON PRESIDES The Madison Square Garden Proves to be Sounding of Democratic Call Outline of What the Political Policy Should Be. NEW YORK—William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, who arrived in New York harbor Wednesday after non and spent the night with friends on a steam yacht down the bay, land ed in New York City Thursday after noon at 4 o'clock and was the recip ient of marked attentions from that hour until late at night when he had finished a notable eighty-minute ad dress before 20,000 persons gathered tn Madison Suare garden. Mr. Bryan outlined clearly and vigorously the principles ho thought should guide the democrats in their campaign. Greeted by nearly every prominent democrat it: the country and accom panied by them, Mr. Bryan was driven from the yacht landing at the Battery to the Victoria hotel, where he was called upon for an impromptu speech and then shook hands for more than an hour with an apparently neverend ing line of citizens. He dined with his family and friends and then was driven in ai automobile to Madison Square garden, where his welcome home was made complete by demon stration. The garden meeting was presidedq ! over by Mayor Tom L. Johnson of j Cleveland. There were brief ad i dresses by Governor Joseph Folk, Mis souri; Augustus Thomas, the play wright; Hairy W. Walker of the Com j mercial Travelers’ Anti-Trust league, : under whose auspices the reception ' was given, and Mr. Johnson. There were several outside meet • ings. the principle one of which was ; addressed by Representative Sulzer of i New York, Governor Glenn of North t Carolina and Mayor Dahlman of i Omaha. When Mr. Bryan had con cluded his garden address at a few minutes after 10 o'clock and appeared outside the hall, he received another ovation. He needed no introduction to the vast crowd which had waited to long to bear him and spoke briefly. Mr. Bryan was then driven with Mrs. Bryan in an automobile directly to his hotel where he was greeted by W. R. Hearst. The party went to the reception rooms where they talked for some minutes. Shortly before 11 o'clock. Mr. Bryan, much fatigued, re tired to his apartments. The night reception, which was given under the auspices of the Com mercial Traveler's Anti-Trust league, proved really to be the sounding cf the democratic campaign call. Mr. Bryan's speech was a clear cut out line of his ideas as to what the demo cratic policy should be. The election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, regulation of the trusts by the government, a universal eight-hour day. settlement of all inter national disputes by arbitration rather than by resort to force, and revision of the tarifl were his chief points. Mr. Bryan declared, however, that he was merely expressing his own opinion and not attempting to forecast the policy of his party. EMBEZZLEMENT AND SUICIDE. Sensational Developments Come Thick and Fast in Philadelphia Failure. PHILADELPHIA — Examination of the list of securities held by the de funct Real Estate Trust compaD de veloped the fact that Frank K. Hippie, president of the institution, who ecunmitted suicide, was an em bezzler. The authority for this statement is George H. Earle. Jr., receiver for the trust company. Mr. Earle declined to say what securities are missing, but he declared that Hippie had hypo thecated $i>5,000 worth of the paper, securing $50,000 for the securities, which he never returned. Receiver Earle further declared that President Hippie embezzled the $5,000,000 he loaned Adolf Segal, the promoter. Fighting in San DOmingc. CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti. — A mes sage received here from Santo Do mingo says that after insurgents had occupied Dayabon. In the northern part of the country, the government forces made an attack upon it and compelled the enemy to abandon the town. Famine Relief Bonds. ST. PETERSBURG — An mperial nkase issued recently, authorizes the minister of finance to issue $25,000,000 in 4 per cent rentes to cover the ex penses of the relief of the districts affected by the failure of crops. Hippie Killed Himself. PHILADELPHIA — The suspicion entertained that .Frank K. Hippie, president of the embarrassed Real Estate Trust company, who was found deac. at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., last Friday, committed snicide, was confirmed by Joseph N. King, cor- . oner of Montgomery county. Ultimatum to the Packers. WASHINGTON — Nothing short of the placing on meat products of labels which will not deceive the public was the ultimatum which Secretary Wilson delivered to forty representatives of various packing houses here. Here after. if the packers want their goods accepted lor interstate shipment, the packages must bear labels more spec ific than 'thon used hitherto. It will not do. for instance, to state merely that a package contains sausage. The label must distinctly describe the article. Soldiers Going to Study. WASHINGTON — Forty enlisted men from various army posts through* ont the «eastern part of the United States will be ordered by the War de partment in Washington in a short time for instruction in taking finger prints and in photography, prepara tory to carrying out the new identifi cation plans for the army. It is the purpose to have at least one man nt every post who is familiar with the finger print and photographic work. Hen detailed to Washington will re main a week.
