Nebraska Newspapers

    MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
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Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For
eign Items.
Queen Victoria, of Spain, gave birth
to a son and the entire country re
joiced. The baby was formally pre
sented to the court and diplomats by
the king, who also proclaimed a pub
lic holiday and pardoned thousands
of prisoners.
Both the strikers and the street car
company in San Francisco refused to
arbitrate their trouble. Experimental
trips showed the cars could not be
run without heavy police guards and
that the police force is inadequate to
supply protection for a real resump
tion of the service.
Mexico decided not to press to the
point of war her demand on Guate
mala for the extradition of Gen. Jose
Lima, but to show her displeasure by
sending her minister to Salvador,
leaving the legation in charge of a
consul.
The heads of the steamship compan
ies in New York included in the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company
served notice upon the striking long
shoremen that unless the latter re
turned to work within a week their
places would be filled.
Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Willcox, U. S.
A., a retired, former governor of the
National Soldiers’ home at Washing
ton, died at Coburg, Ont., aged 85.
The body of Miss Aurora Wittebort,
the artist, who lost her life in the de
struction by fire of the University
building in Kansas City, was recov
ered from the ruins.
Nine persons were badly injured
near Edwardsville, 111., by a collision
on an interurban electric road.
Harry Cole, suspected of being one
on the North Coast train robbers, was
killed by a Butte policeman as he was
trying to escape from custody, and a
mob tried to lynch another officer who
they thought shot Cole.
Mrs. Michael Pendergast, of Sterl
ing, 111., stepped on a match, set fire
to her clothing and burned to death.
W. R. Fulton shot and dangerously
wounded his wife, from whom he had
been separated, in Wichita, Kan. Ful
ton was pursued by a crowd and sur
rounded in a freight yard. After a
battle with revolvers he escaped, but
is believed to have committed suicide.
Two persons were killed, two fatal
ly injured and ten badly hurt when a
train broke through a trestle near
Flemingsburg, Ky., and fell 50 feet
into a creek.
Dr. T. B. Rider was probably fatal
ly Stabbed in Hot Springs, Ark., by
Dr. A. N. Williams, one of the best
known physicians in the city.
Thomas S. Marshall, cousin of Wil
liam J. Bryan, and a member of the
Illinois state board of agriculture,
filed a petition in bankruptcy in the
United States court at East St. Louis,
fixing his liabilities at $300,000.
The heaviest creditors are the trus
tees of the Chicago National bank, of
which John R. Walsh was president
at the time of its failure. Among his
creditors is W. J. Efryan, to whom
$6,000 is due.
The Penn-Wyoming Copper com
pany’s smelter, tramway terminal and
crushers at Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
were destroyed by a fire believed to
have been of incendiary origin. The
loss was over $100,000.
Troops and engineers have been
sent to Stromboli to render assistance
to the islanders, whose exodus, due to
the volcanic outbreak, continues,
while many of those who remain are
destitute.
Abraham Hummel, the New York
lawyer who was convicted of conspir
acy in the Dodge-Morse divorce case,
was sentenced to one year in state
prison and to pay a fine of $500.
The Master Builders’ association of
Berlin and its suburbs decided to lock
out all masons and bricklayers assist
ing building workmen on May 18.
Over 100,000 men are affected by this
decision.
Capt. A. Krech, of the Hamburg
American line steamer Graf Walder
see, one of the oldest commanders in
the transatlantic service died on board
his ship while the steamer was in
midocean.
William Schellhas, a prominent
brewer of Winono, Minn., died from
pneumonia.
A pitched battle between strike
breakers in the uniforms of car in
spectors and strikers and their sym
pathizers was fought in San Francis
co for more than an hour. Eight men
were shot, among them a policeman,
and one of the wounded men died in
the night.
Irvine L. Lenroot, of Superior. Wis.,
withdrew from the senatorial race
without making any requests as to the
future course of his followers.
The life insurance companies Inti
mate that they will withdraw from
Texas when the new insurance law
of that state becomes effective June 1.
Indictments charging violation of
the Elkins anti-rebating law were
handed down by a federal grand jury
in New York against the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific railroad, the
Ontario & Western railroad, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
and the Western Transit company.
The entire leper colony of D’Arcy
Island, B. C., consisting of eight Chi
nese, has been sent back to China.
Eleven of the 13 Italians who had
been on trial at Wllkesbarre, Pa.,
charged with “Blackhand” crimes
were declared guilty. The other two
defendants were acquitted.
Seven battalions of Turkish troops,
about 6,500 men, were practically an
nihilated in a battle with rebels, hi the
province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia,
’ -Qttt. Juan Estrada, of the Nicarag
uan army, was appointed commandant
of Peurto Cortez, in place of the Hon- j
"When the trial of William D. Hay
wood for the murder of former Gov.
Steunenberg opened at Boise, Idaho,
counsel for state and prisoner entered
at once in a business-like way upon
the examination of prospective jur
ors, and kept steadily at the task for
five hours. No juror was finally ac
cepted, but substantial progress was
made and the indications at the close
of the session were that a jury would
be obtained in ten days. The case
was adjourned three days to obtain a
new panel.
The former wife of Sidney C.
Love, Chicago broker, has been mar
ried to W. H. Kemble, son of Clay
Kemble, one of Philadelphia's million
aires, in New York, and the two are
now on the way to Europe.
Cannibalism, which became preval
ent in the Hardy islands, in the South
sea group, recently,' was suppressed
by the Cerman authorities, according
to advices brought o Vancouver on
the liner Manuka.
The business section of Gibson,
Mo., was almost wiped out by fire.
Five of the seven stores and two resi
dences were destroyed.
Armed bandits are reported to be
committing depredations in the Songo
district of Santiago and near Mana
cas, Santa Clara.
The Homewood golf clubhouse at
Flossmoor, a suburb of Chicago, was
burned down, the loss being $100,000.
Despondent because of ill health,
Mrs. Carrie Sigsworth, 31 years old,
killed her 18-raonths-old child and
then shot and killed herself at her
home in Allegheny, Pa.
A fatal train wreck occurred on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
in Chicago at the Hamlin avenue
crossing. One Chicago woman was
killed and more than 20 persons were
injured.
One man was killed, one fatally and
two others seriously injured in a rear
end collision at Jones Station, seven
miles south of Hamilton, .0.
One man was killed and several in
jured in a collision between a street
car and the Chtisapeake & Ohio flyer
between Louisville and New York at
Lexington, Ky.
John Hibben, in a communication
from the Princeton alumni committee
of 50, announced the gift of $1,200,000
ko Princeton university by a wealthy
family.
The state of Montana offered a re
ward of $1,000 for the arrest and con
viction of the men who, in attempting
to rob the North Coast limited pas
senger train at Welch’s Spur, killed
Engineer Clow.
Sixteen brokerage concerns in St.
Louis, which would be affected by the
new law going into efTect June 16,
have agreed to go out of business on
June 15.
The latest report received at Mar
seilles concerning the loss of the
French steamer Poitou, wrecked off
San Jose Ignacio, Uruguay, is to the
effect that 40 passengers and eight
members of the crew lost their lives.
San Francisco women, admiring the
bravery of strikebreakers in taking
cars out and facing the mobs un
armed, gave them flowers, cakes and
cheers.
The San Francisco conflagration of
April, .1906, swept away not only
every dollar of profit previously made
by the insurance committees out of
underwriting since 1860, but cost them
$79,705,174 besides, according to a
statement made by President George
W. Burchell, of the National Board of
Underwriters in the annual meeting
of that organization in New York.
May Floyd was shot and killed In
Piqua, O., by Ban Upling, a rejected
suitor. He then put a bullet in his
own brain.
Americans arriving at Puerto Cor
tez, Honduras, report that the Guate
malan government is committing un
speakable outrages and atrocities.
Even women and children are not be
ing spared. A family of ten was mas
sacred by Guatemalan soldiers near
Guatemala City by order of the gov
ernment.
Senator Thomas C. Platt said In
New York: “I have no idea whatever
of being a candidate to succeed my
self. I shall serve out my term. Then
I shall wait for the call to the other
side.”
The so-called “drug trust” waa per
petually enjoined in Indianapolis from
continuing its operations by the en
tering of a decree In the United States
circuit court for the district of Indi
ana on the complaint of the United
States government filed by John B.
Kealing, United States district attor
ney. '
A verdict of murder was returned in
.the Croyden (England) police court
against “Pedlar” Palmer, the English
pugilist, who killed a man named
Robert Choat, April 24, by beating
him while they were returning from
the races in a railroad car.
Josez D. Dos&I, Mexican consul in
Kansas City, brought 15 suits agrainst
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad. He asks $150,000 damages
for the death of 15 of his countrymen
killed in a wreck on January 2.
Rt. Rev. George Worthington, bishop
of Nebraska, has been appointed to
take charge of the American Episco
pal churches on the continent of
Europe, in succession to Bishop Henry
C. Potter, who has resigned.
The North Coast Limited, east
bound train No. 22 on the Northern
Pacific railway, waa held up by two
masked men near Welch’a Spur, a aid
ing 18 miles east of Butte, Mont En
gineer James Clow was shot and killed
and Fireman James Sullivan waa shot
through the arm. Several Buapects
were arrested.
Lieut Col. George Vincent Fosbery,
inventor of the paradox gun, an auto
matic revolver, la dead in London.
Rev. Father George F, Arenth, 32
years old. rector of Holy Angels
cathedral of St. Cloud, Minn., died at
the St. Francis hospital in Pittsburg.
A strike of employes of the Chicago
& Joliet electric road waa averted by
concessions to the men.
Burglars blew three safes in Oliver,
Ga., and escaped with considerable
money.
Certain persons have voluntarily re
stored to the government between
1,000 and 2,000 ifcres of valqfble coal
lands in Colorado, acquired irregu
larly.
Four trainmen were Wiled, *tonf oth-,.
era were injured and three passengers
were hurt in a collisIHn on-'the Balti
more ft Ohio railroad near Wheeling,
Charles F. Turner, former United
States consul at Ottawa, Ont, died at
Toronto of pneumonia.
Joseph Turcott and a woman known
as Mrs. Laplonte were ambuscaded
near Osconda, Mich., and shot by an
unknown person. The woman died al
most instantly, and Turcott is dying.
Attorney General Bonaparte an
nounced his intention of prosecuting
the International Harvester company
under the provisions of the Sherman
anti-trust law.
It was announced in Baltimore that
the Susan B. Anthony memorial fund
of $60,000 for the cause of equal suf
frage had been raised.
Excavators on Palatine hill in
Rome, uncovered the ruins of a church
used by emperors in the fifth century.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis,
in session at Washington, elected Dr.
Frank Billings, of Chicago, president.
The University building in Kansas
City was destroyed by fire. George
De Mare, an art instructor, was killed;
Maud Witteborn, piano teacher, prob
ably perished and 15 other persons
were injured. The property loss was
$250,000. ,
Under adequate police protection,
two cars were run for six miles in San
Francisco, the mob being kept back
with clubs. There was no shooting,
but four men were injured.
Striking longshoremen in Brooklyn
attacked strikebreakers and a bloody
fight with the police ensued, many
men being badly Injured.
George B. Cox, former Republican
leader In Ohio, came out for Taft for
the presidential nomination, adding
the advice that the party in Ohio se
cure harmony by nominating Foraker
for the senate and A. L. Harris for
governor.
Congressman H. A. Cooper with
drew from the senatorial race in Wis
consin.
Judge Wood, at Boise, overruled the
motion of Haywood’s counsel for a
bill of particulars and the way was
cleared for the beginning of the trial.
Edmund C. Ross, former United
States senator from Kansas, whose
vote saved President Andrew Johnson
from impeachment, died at Albu
querque, N. M.
Attorney General Bonaparte recom
mended that John William January,
alias Charles W. Anderson, be par
doned July 19, 1907. The president
approved the attorney general’s rec
ommendation.
The business section of Barnes
boro, Pa., was almost wiped out by a
fire that members of the Black Hand
were suspected of having started.
Tommy Burns, of Los Angeles, won
the heavy-weight championship of the
world from “Philadelphia Jack”
O’Brien before the Pacific Athletic
club at Los Angeles, alter 20 rounds
of fighting that was for the most part
a foot race.
The French steamer Poitou went
ashore off the coast of Uruguay and
many of her 300 passengers and crew
jumped overboard in panic. It was be
lieved about 100 were drowned.
H. Clay Pierce, head of the Watera
Pierce Oil company, surrendered him
self in St. Louis on the indictment re
turned against him in Texas charging
perjury, and was released on bonds.
Gov. Magoon appointed Cuban dele
gates to the second peace conference
at The Hague as follows: Antonio
De Bustamente, Gonzalo De Queseda,
the Cuban minister to the United
States, and Manuel Sanguily. Oves
tes Ferrera has been made secretary
to the legation.
Shriners at Los Angeles selected St.
Paul for the conclave of 1908, the
dates being July 13 to 18.
The British government decided to
give Jamaica $750,000 and guarantee
a loan of $4,000,000 to assist the peo
ple of Kingston.
Twenty-five congressmen arrived at
Honolulu on the transport Buford.
Mrs. Mary Vito and her mother.
Mrs. Maria Brignoll, were literally
slashed to pieces with razors in New
York. Qiovannl Vito, the husband of
the younger woman, is under arrest
charged with the crime.
Maj. Boykin, a negro officer, was
shot and killed from ambush at Or
ange, Tex. Negroes are blamed for
the affair, as well as for firing upon
two white men seated on a stage.
Clyde St Clair, son df a prominent
citizen of Independence, Mo., was
shot and killed by Van Tappan, his
intimate friend. The two quarreled
over a girl.
The will of the late James Henry
Smith was made public in New York.
The value of the estate is estimated
at not more than $25,000,000. The
widow is le(t $3,000,000 in lieu of her
dower, all his nearest kin receive leg
acies and St. Luke’s and the Ortho
poedic hospitals, of New York, are
given $100,000 each. His nephews,
George Grant Mason and William
Smith Mason, are the principal bene
ficiaries of the estate, receiving two
thirds and one-third, respectively, of
the residue.
Twenty-nine St. Louisans have been
subpoenaed to appear before the fed
eral grand jury at Denver, Col., to
tell what they know of a supposed
scheme to combine a large number of
coal land claims under the control of
some syndicate whose identity has
not been publicly established.
The case against Mrs. Annie M.
Bradley, who killed former Senator
Arthur Brown, was continued at
Washington until October 7. Her
counsel said her defense would be
insanity.
Ganand Moore, who - killed Glara
West at Springfield, Mo., because she
jilted him, was found guilty of mur
der in the second degree and sen
tenced to 25 years in the penitentiary.
' William A. Clark, Jr., youngest son
of former Senator Clark, was married
at Butte, Mont, to Mrs. Alice T.
Medin, divorced wife of Marco J.
Medin, a business man of Butte.
“Lyndhurst,” the pretentious home
of Mrs. William Thaw in Pittsburg,
Pa., has been mortgaged for $100,000.
The mortgage was made some time
ago. It is held by the Fidelity Title
& Trust company and will mature in
three years.
Excavation for the month of April
in Culebra cut of the Panama canal
amounted to 879,527 cubic yards, and
at the Gatun lock site to 108,000 cubic
yards:
Walter C. Davis, a San Francisco:
carpenter, went insane, and murdered
a family of six persons with whom be
HHBHBBnImibwi
urn KILLED
AN APPALLING OISASTER ON THE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
SCORES DEAD UNO WOUNDED
Calamity Occurs to Shriners’ Train as
They Were Hurrying Northward,
Homeward Bound.
Santa Barbara, Cal.—While hurrying
northward over the coast line of the
Southern Pacific railroad Saturday af
ternoon. homeward bound, after a
week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los
Angeles, 145 Shriners of Ismalia
temple of Buffalo and Rajah temple of
Reading, with their families and
friends, were hurled into the midst of
death when their special train, run
ning fifty miles an hour, struck a de
fective switch at Honda, a lonely sta
tion on the sand wastes of the Pacific
beach, derailing the train, smashing
the cohches into flinders, killing thirty
two almost instantly and injuring more
than a score of others. The bodies of
twenty-five lie in the morgues of San
ta Barbara and ten more are at San
Luis Obispo. The injured, many of
whom are terribly hurt and will prob
ably die, are in two sanitariums at
San Luis Obispo.
The wreck occured exactly at 2:35,
one hour and forty-five minutes after’
the conclave visitors forming a merry
party, had spent all the morning sight
seeing in Santa Barbara. The state
ment that the train was making a ter
rific speed when it struck the defec
tive track is borne out by the fact that
it covered the sixty-one miles of curves
and crooked track between her and
Honda in exactly 100 minutes.
There was no warning of the Im
pending calamity. The special plunged
upon the defective switch, and In an
instant the big locomotive, baggage
car, diner and Pullman, coupled with it
were hurled together in a huge heap
of wreckage. The engine shot for
ward on the broken track, tearing up
the and twisting the huge iron spans
into fishhooks. The baggage car half
buried itself in the sand on the right
side of the locomotive. It was
smashed almost to kindling wood.
The dining car, in which were thirty
two people eating their noonday meal,
leaped into the air and was thrown di
rectly on top of the demolished loco
motive. Nearly every person in this
coach was Instantly killed. Scores
were scalded by steam escaping from
disconnected pipes in the kitchen of
the diner.
The terror and turmoil of the scene
was indescribable. Many of those
who escaped instant death by the first
impact were crushed by the rear
coaches hurled upon the wreckage.
Others pinioned in the debris were
roasted alive. The wreckage caught
fire from the coals of the engine, but
was extinguished in a few mtnutvs by
the passengers who escaped injury.
Reading, Pa.—Large crowds, anxious
for news of the Southern California
disaster and eager to learn the fate of
members of th Rajah Temple Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine of this city be
sieged the telegraph offices. The esti
mate of the dead from Reading ranged
all the way from eight to fifteen. A
private telegram received here today
says that the Reading party suffered
the brut of the disaster; that City
Treasurer M. Tyson and wife and a
few others escaped and nearly all the
remainder were either killed or in
jured.
FRUIT CROP IS DESTROYED
Loss to Growers in Southwest and
South Will be Enormous
Kansas City—Reports from all
parts of Kansas, western Missouri,
Oklahoma and Indian Territory indi
cate almost complete destruction by
frost of tree fruit crops, and serious
injury to bush fruit3, grapes and
strawberris. Tender garden plants
throughout the southwest were de
stroyed, but this causes small direct
loss and the growers have already re
planted. The replanted fields will not
be yielding produce until summer,
however, and the gulf states will send
vegetables and small fruits north for
several weeks longer than in usual
seasons.
Mrs. D. M. Houser is Dead.
St. Louis—Mrs. Agnes Barlow Hous
er, wife of Daniel M. Houser, presi- >
dent of the Globe Printing company,
publishing the Globe-Democrat, died
Sunday from the effects of a self-in
flicted bullet wound in the right
temple. Mrs. Houser was found by
her husband on his return from an
automobile ride with his two sons,
Duncan and Douglas. He was Informed
by servants that his ^ife was in her
room breathing heavily and evidently
ill. Mr. Houser entered the room and
found his wife on the bed with a re
volver in her hand. ,
Kuroki Leaves for Jamestown.
Washington—After spending the day
sightseeing. General Baron Kuroki,
with the Chilean and Chinese visit
ors. left on the steamer Newport News 1
'6r Norfolk to visit the Jamestown ex- 1
position. <
Ravages of Green Bug. <
Wichita, Kas.—-“Wheat, especially In
die southeastern portion of Nebraska i
las suffered about 10 per cent, owing >
■o the influx of green bugs and con- i
:inued drouth. Sumner county, Kan- i
sas. will not make over 40 per cent. <
Impossible.
“There are no lovers like Romeo
nowadays,” said the sentimental girl.
“No.” answered the practical girl.
"Our police would have Romeo In cus
tody as a porch climber before he got
half way up to the balcony.” ,
Sizing Him Up.
"So die la going to marry the count,
eh? How much la he worth?”
“I a ain’t ’know, but Ilf bdthe'ftn’t
8he la paying tor j
haWili^Hi
HEIR FOR THE THRONE.
Son Born to King and Queen of Spain
on the 10th.
Madrid.—Queen Victoria gave birth
on Friday to a son, who becomes heir
to the throne of Spain.
The birth of the royal baby has
been awaited with great interest
throughout Spain. The news from
the palace that the accouchment was
imminent spread like wildfire and
crowds flocked to the great plaza
fronting the royal palace. The happy
event had taken the capital somewhat
by surprise, for only yesterday after
noon the queen had taken her cus
tomary drive and the court physicians
had intimated that another two weeks
would pass before confinement.
Messengers were hastily dispatched
to the prime minister and other chief
court dignitaries, as the advent of an
heir to the throne of Spain is an
event of the deepest political signifi
cance. Through the early morning
ministers and big functionaries ar
rived at the court of the palace.
Meantime word reached the waiting
throngs that the queen was progress
ing well. The doctors pronounced her
condition normal and satisfactory.
King Alfonso remained at the queen’s
bedside.
At 8 o’clock in the morning the king
cancelled the meeting of the council
of ministers, which was to have con
sidered current state affairs. By 10
o’clock the high functionaries of the
state and capital, with many ambassa
dors and ministers, in their court cos
tumes, had reached the palace. At
noon this assemblage of the nobility
and power of Spain was grouped in
the royal apartments set aside for of
ficial ceremonies awaiting with feel
ings of profound emotion the an
nouncement of the birth of the heir.
The birth of the babe occurred at
12:45 p. m. The announcement was
immediately conveyed to the waiting
officials and crowds outside the palace,
who received the glad tidings with
mingled feelings of enthusiasm and
emotion. That the queen had been
blessed with a son—a male heir to
the throne—was no less welcome than
the happy event itself.
The formal announcement of the
birth of the child was made by the
camarara mayor, or mistress of the
robes, to Premier Maura, who for
mally communicated the fact to the
distinguished company in the words,
“Gentlemen, it is a prince.”
BRYAN'S COUSIN BANKRUPT.
Nebraskan is Among the Creditors of
Thomas S. Marshall.
St. Louis—A special to the Republic
from Centralia, 111., says: Thomas S.
Marshall, formerly cashier of the Sa
lem National bank, a cousin of Will
iam J. Bryan, a member of the Illinois
State Board of Agriculture from the
Twenty-third congressional district,
failed Friday and filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the United States court
at East St. Louis, fixing his lia
bilities at $300,uOO. The heaviest cred
itors are the trustees of the Chicago
National bank, of which John R. Walsh
wa3 president at the time of its fail
ure. Among his creditors are W. J.
Bryan, to whom $6,000 is due.
TWO-CENT FARE IN ILLINOIS.
Law Passed Making This Maximum
• Passenger Rate.
Springfield, 111.—The bill providing
For a maximum passenger fare of 2
cents a mile on all railroads in IUM
uois was passed by the legislature
Friday. The bill as it goes to the gov
srnor provides a maximum rate of 2
cents, except that in case a passenger
Fails to purchase a ticket at a station
where the ticket office is open thirty
minutes preceding the departure of
his train; 3 cents a mile may be
charged aboard the train.
The Baby’s Name.
Madrid—The son born Friday to
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria will,
according to a decree of the Spanish
government, bear the title of Prince of
the Asurias. The principality of the
Asturias was formerly the mountain
refuge of the aboriginal inhabitants
cf Spain, who remained there uncon
juered alike by Roman and Moor. In
many respects the Asturias is regard
ed as the cradle of the Spanish mon
archy, hence the pride taken in the ,
ittle prince of the Asturias. ,
Costly Monument for Dog.
Webster City, la.—His love for a
log has caused Jacob Slifer, a wealthy i
tnd retired farmer of Grundy Center, ,
:o erect a monument to his memory
costing $1,500. The stone has been ,
erected and is attracting a good deal •
)f attention.
Arrange Public Funeral. I
Liverpool—The lord mayor and the .
city corporation are arranging a pub
ic funeral for the late Rev. Dr. John
iVatson (Ian McLaren), who died Ma.y
> at Mount Pleasant, la., and whose I
xedy is to be brought here. I
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Earthquake at Arkutsk. <
Irkutsk, Siberia—A severe undulat- i
ng earth shock was felt here at 5:30 I
j’clock Friday morning. / I
Rails For Harriman Lines.
New York—One of the largest indi- j
ridual orders for steel rails placed j
vith a single steel company has been
siven to the Tennessee Coal and Iron
:ompany by the Harriman lines. The
contract calls for 150,000 tons of rails, <
■epresenting close to $5,000,000. Of I
his order 110,000 tons are for the (
Jnion and Southern Pacific systems (
md the balance for the Illinois Cen
ral. The contract calls for delivery <
n 1908 at the rate of 15,000 tons a 1
nonth. The rails are to be of the c
>pen hearth variety. I
What Is the Language Coming To?
“How often do your housemaids
lust?"
“Do you mean how often do they
Ian the furniture.” asked slangy Mrs.
Muwedd, "or how often do they skip
>ut?”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Getting Chilly. '•
The Thermometer—It seems to me
rou*ve sunk pretty low.
The Mercury--New, don’t 'bfr too
inrd on'me Just because I*re taken
HOW TO REGULATE AN OVEN.
Proper Temperature Requisite for
Best Effects in Baking.
For the successful making of bread
it is necessary that the oven be care
fully regulated. After the loaves go tn
increase the oven heat slightly for ten
minutes, then reduce gradually. ' In
the ordinary small range the loaves
should be turned every ten or 15 min
utes to insure even baking. If they
show signs of browning too rapidly
cover with oiled paper. In 40 or 50
minutes a loaf will shrink somewhat
and ‘slip easily from the pan. When
well baked an empty, hollow sound
will follow a tap with the fingers and
the crust feels firm. Take from the
pans as soon as done and tie up
against the bread board, so that the
air may circulate freely about the foaf.
Never leave loaves in pans or on a
pine table to sweat or absorb the odor
of the wood. If you like a crisp crust
do not cover the loaves when cooling,
but if you prefer a soft, tender consist
ency wrap in several thicknesses of
cloth. When perfectly dry and cold
put into a well-aired tin box and cover.
A rule briefly summarized, then, for
a plain white bread to be baked in one
day would be like this, subject to
minor variations. This amount will
make four loaves: One quart milk or
water, or half and half; two com
pressed yeast cakes, one tablespoon
ful of sugar or not, as preferred; two
tablespoonsfuls shortening, two tea
spoonfuls salt and about three quarts
sifted flour. Dissolve the yeast cakes
in 'some of the lukewarm water or
milk, add shortening, put in flour to
make as stiff a batter as you can beat,
then beat five or ten minutes, remem
bering that the more you beat the less
kneading will be required. Add the
rest of the flour, turn out on floured
board and knead from 15 to 20 min
utes. Let rise to double its bulk (two
or three hours will be required for
this), at a temperature from 75 to 80,
make into loaves, handling as little as
possible, let rise to double its bulk,
then bake.
FOR THE OCCASIONAL NAP.
Why the Couch Should Be Considered
Indispensable.
“A room without a couch is only
half furnished,” says an authority on
homemaking. “Life is so full of ups
and downs that often and often all
that saves the sanity of the mentally
jaded and physically exhausted for
tune fighter is the occasional half hour
rest or momentary loss of conscious
ness on the breakfast room lounge or
the old sofa in the sitting-room.” A
long, comfortable couch, on which one
may throw himself, boots and brains,
unmindful of tidies and tapestries, is
a veritable means of grace. The need
of a good, healthy nap is often mis
taken for suicidal tendencies. Instead
of a speedy introduction to a future
state, business men and working wom
en want systematic doses of dozing,
and next best to a mossy bank in the
shade of an old oak is the low, long
couch in the dusky corner, where tired
nature can turn her face to the wall
and dream away the blues.
For the Nursery.
The walls of the nursery are gigan
tic picture books nowadays, and the
small occupant dwells in a land of pic
toral fairy tales. Mother Goose stories
and all sorts of quaint fancies, rang
ing from rabbits to stories of the cru
sades. The variety of subjects now to
be procured for nursery wall papers is
so tempting that it is difficult to make
a choice.
One of the newest designs shows as
a base a wooden fence, with almost
life-size children peeping through, with
a background full of all sorts of inter
esting pictures to amuse the little peo
ple.
If one does not care for such a pat
tern to cover the walls entirely, which
in the case of a bedroom would not,
perhaps, be particularly judicious, the
border may be allegorical and the side
walls of plain-colored moire.
Escalloped Onions.
Peel half a dozen large onions and
ay in cold water for an hour. Cut
n, thick slices and put on to cook in
toiling salted water. Boil ten min
ites, drain and cover again with boil
ng water. Cook until they are ten
ier, but still firm. Have ready a
>ther layer of onions, then sauce and
er a baking dish, put in a layer of
mions, then one of the sauce, and
iprinkle with bread crumbs. Add au
>ther layer of onions, then sance and
:rumbs and so on until the dish is
ull, having the last 'layer of buttered
'rumbs. Bake in a quick oven until
irown. A little cheese may be used
vith each layer of crumbs if desired,
rhere should be enough of the thin
:ream sauce used to show generously
ibove the onions when served.
For Buffalo Bugs and Moths.
A correspondent writes that buffalo
>ugs cannot stand the gas formed by
ormaldehyde; neither can moths.
Sprinkle the carpets with a 40 pei
:ent. solution once a day for three or
our days, and you will find no more
mffalo bugs. Place a shallow dish
illed with a 50 per cent, solution in
rour closet and shut the door tight
itop the keyhole, and the formalde
lyde will do the rest in 12 hours. It
s harmless to finest fabrics.
Corn Cake.
Sift one and one-half teaspoonfuls
if cream of tartar with one cup of
tour, one cup of Indian meal, one-half
up of sugar, and a little salt. Dis
olve a teaspoonful of soda in a cup of
varm milk and stir into the dry ingre
dents, then add a well beaten egg.
lake in gem pans or in a sheet, and
ut into squares. The oven should be
retty hot.
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Popovers.
Beat two eggs without separating
whites and yolks, until light. Add twc
ups of milk, then continue beating
rith' an egg-beater while two cups of
ifted flour, sifted again with half a
easpoonful of salt, are gradually
eaten into the liquid mixture. But
er an iron muflin-cap, one with rounc
ups preferred, and put a level tea
poonful of butter into each cup, then |
urh’tn' the batter, filling the cpps j
wo-thirds full. . Bake in fr fcotMnvei
NEWS NOTES FROM PAPERS AND
PRES8 DISPATCHES.
A CONDENSATION OF DOINGS
Matters of a Week as Portrayed by the
Press Locally and Tel
egraphically.
Columbus will have two horses in
state fair races.
Building at Tecumseh this year is
going to beat all records.
The people of Fairbury are organ
izing to build a hospital.
Sterling has unanimously decided to
celebrate the Fourth of July.
Sleigh bells Jingled merrily in the
streets of Crete on the 2d of May.
Thirty-two pupils will graduate from
the Platcsmouth High school this
year.
Nelson Jacobsen, a patient in the
Norfolk asylum, hanged himself in the
cellar of that institution.
About June 1 the Union Pacific will
begin running a through train between
Kansas City and Omaha.
A new library building, to which An
drew Carnegie has donated $3,000, is
to be erected at DeWitt.
William, Barclay, a Plattsmouth sa
loonkeeper, is in trouble because of
having sold liquor to minors.
Ashland Masons have one of the
prettiest lodge rooms in the state and
a substantial growing membership.
The Dawson County Chautauqua as
sociation has by subscription pur
chased a new site for holding its meet
ings.
Crawford is rejoicing over the let
ting of contracts for new building3
amounting to between $300,000 and
$400,000.
Governor Sheldon has offered a re
ward of $200 for the capture of Her
man Boehe, the man who murdered
F. J. Jarmer, at Norfolk.
The entries of 123 horses for the
stake races at the state fair have
been received by Secretary W. R. Mel
lor of the state fair board.
Hyannis is having trouble over
granting a saloon license, a remon
strance having been entered against
granting license to E. G| Marts,
Changes in the articles of incorpora
tion of the Nebraska Methodist Epis
copal and Deaconess’ home have been
filed with Secretary of State Junkin.
A twenty-five pound catfish was
caught in the Blue river at Seward.
It was the largest ever seen in that
vicinity and appeared as big as a good
sized dog.
The Tilden Citizen calls attention to
the fact that several heads of families
in that town are liable under the
child labor law recently passed by
the legislature.
Frank Benson, a young man living
south of Oakland, was taken before
the insanity board at Tekamab^ and
adjudged insane and ordered sent to
the asylum at Norfolk.
A lineman at Chadron fell from a
forty-foot pole. He landed on the
back of his head and shoulders and
outside of being terribly stunned he
was practically uninjured
A class of thirty-six students at the
Bchool of agriculture, a department of
Nebraska university, was graduated
after a three years’ course in scientific
farming in that institution.
Cooper Dunn of Nebraska City, who
has just completed a five years’
course and graduated at the Univer
sity of Nebraska in forestry and land
scape gardening, has accepted a pos
ition in Chicago.
Dr. Frederick E. Clements, profes
sor of botany in the University of
Nebraska, has received a call to be
come the head of the department of
botany in the University of Minne
sota. He will probably .accept.
Over one hundred and eighty boys
have entered the corn crowing con
test in Gage county, the entries for
which closed last week. Four bushel
of seed has been distributed to con
testants throughout the county.
According to information received In
Lincoln, a Ponca man named McQuil
lin is hopelessly ill in a Sioux City
hospital with the glanders. His daugh
ter is also dangerously ill. They
caught the affliction from a colt.
Dr. J. B. Fulton received word from
the sheriff of Shelby county, Iowa, to
the effect that the parties captured by
the .Beatrice bloodhounds near Har
lan. Ia., recently, had confessed to the
burglary with which they were
charged.
Upon the occasion of his marriage
to Miss Julia Piersen at Aurora, Sey
mour Jones, formerly a resident of
Central City, received a valuable pres
ent from his parents. It was a deed
of sixty acres of choice land, valued
at $10,000.
Following is the mortgage report
of Gage county for the month of April:
Farm mortgages filed, 270; amount.
$65, 210. Farm mortgages released,
480; amount, $84,426. City mortgages
Bled, $400; amount, $25,611. City mort
gages released, $300; amount, $20,854.
John W. Bassett, a farmer residing
near Unadilla, has filed a suit in the
district court against the Farmers and
Merchants’ Insurance company to re
cover $300 insurance on his home,
which was burned on June 11, 1906,
and insured in that company.
.Relatives of Charles Standcliff
came to Nebraska City from Brown
ville and had him taken before the
commissioners on insanity, as he has
been acting strangely of late. The
commissioners declared him insane
and he was sent to Lincoln for treat
ment.
ShertlT A. J. Trude and Sheriff Page
sf Fillmore county arrested Will Brit
ton, cbargtd with assault with intent
to commit murder on the person of
Mr. Miller at Wymore, March 18. Brit
ton had hired to a farmer three miles
south of Geneva where he was found.
Charles Thompson and four com
panions of Nebraska City are building
two motor boats which they will use
there thi3 summer and tak« a trip to
Sew Origans in them in the.fall. The
boats are..Jtiyity feet. .Iqng aqd are
equipped with a six hcrse-jxjwer gas