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BRIEF NEWS NOUS MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUNDABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Homs and For eign Items. Decaying ties, rusty nails and dilap idated equipment of the Southern Pa cific, a San Francisco man says, were responsible for the fatal accident near Bradley. Cal. After an investigation of the track he asserts the road has been negligent. Bank clearings in Chicago touched another-new high mark for May, the total for the month being in excess of $1,120,000,000. or more than $55,000, 000 higher than the last preceding rec ord total. Reports to New York insurance de partment show large increase ili com missions paid to agents. The tip comes from New York that the Democratic leaders have decided on Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, for their presidential candidate in 1908 and John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, for his running mate. Wisconsin university eight won the two-mile boat race from Syracuse by a length and a half. Ambassador Cambon telegraphed to Foreign Minister Pichon from Berlin that the basis of the Franco-Japanese agreement had been communicated to the German foreign office. Whiie attempting to make a land ing above the rapids in the Payette river, 12 miles from Garden Valley, Idaho, seven loggers were drowned. The two boats they were using were carried over the rapids. Nine other occupants of the boats reached shore. Returns from the Bavarian diet elections showed that the clericals elected 66, the socialists 21, the lib erals 19 and the peasant league nine representatives. ine rcvuiL m uiiua is spreading, 30,000 armed rebels are marching to attack Amoy. Ex-president of Santo Domingo, de ported from that country, arrived in New York. “Nickie" Shepard, lost Minnesota boy, was found dead in a swamp. The president of Salina (Kan.) Na tional bank walked 186 miles, rather than break faith with his 15-year-old daughter. President Roosevelt dropped a hint at Lansing. Mich., that May, 1909, would find him an active member of Harvard. President Roosevelt, speaking at the Agricultural college celebration at Lansing, Mich., praised rural life and advised his hearers to stick to the farm. Howard Gould, it is said in New York, will tell in court the treatment Mrs. Gould accorded a red-whiskered bos'n on her yacht to prove her vio lent temper. New York Society of Self-Culture incorporated with 100 women mem bers and only one man, to spread a knowledge of the principles of real social courtesy to the farthest comers of the country. Walter S. Cheesman, president of the Denver Union Water company and one of the foremost capitalists of Den ver. died, following a stroke of pa ralysis. Mr. Cheesman was bom at Hempstead Harbor, L. I., June 27, 1838. John Ball, five times winner of the British amateur golf championship, again captured the title, defeating C. A. Palmer by six up, four play. Pal mer is comparatively a new comer in first-class golf. The Danish government has decided not to take up again the question of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Mrs. Frank Croxton, aged 43 years, living near Roanoke, Ind., gave birth to four children. There were three girls and a boy. The combined weight of the four was 11% pounds. Two of the children have since died. According to a dispatch from Rome, the pope adopted vegetarianism lqpt January, hoping to defeat his perpet ual enemy, the gout. He has not suf fered since, and he attributes his con dition entirely to his diet. Mrs. Harriet Matilda Bain, aged 79 years, widow of Edwarad Bain and one of the wealthiest women in Wiscon sin, died at her home in Kenosha. Sor row over the death of her daughter, Mrs. F. S. Newell, of New York, caused an attack of apoplexy. Wonderful operation of putting cap sule In eye restored sight to Miss Car rie Leidlein, of Saginaw, Mich., blind for 33 years. Serious revolt aiming at overthrow of dynasty has started & Canton and neighboring provinces in China; for eigners have narrow escapes. President Cabrera, of Guatemala, to avert war with Mexico may spare lives of men accused of plotting against him. Charges are made in New York that poet office employes, on the order of an inspector, tampered with the mail of Mrs. Howard Gould. The king and queen of Norway were enthusiastically greeted by French officials and people in Paris. President Roosevelt and a party were caught in a atom while horse back riding to Mount Vernon and re turned to Washington drenched and mad bespattered. Mrs. William McKinley died at Can ton after many years of invalidism and sorrow, death being hastened by a recent stroke at paralysis Daring the term of the supreme court of the United States which be gan last October and ^closed May 27, 422 cases were disposed of. Defense In Haywood murder cam claimed Sheriff Hodgins la irndsavra lag to peck the Jury. In a runaway stage accident near "Lopey, Cal., in southern Oregon, the driver, George Galbraith, and two commercial travelers, names unknown, were killed and two other passengers were perhaps fatally injured. ▲ general strike of sailors and oth ers belonging to the French naval re serve begun at almost all the ports of France threatens the complete paraly sis of French commerce. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Bondholders’ Protective association of the United States Inde pendent Telephone company, a resolu tion was passed favoring the sale of the properties to the syndicate which recently offered $6,006,000 for them. President Roosevelt, in his Indian apolis speech, clinched his policy to ward railroads, saying stock jobbers must be punished, overcapitalisation checked and publicity enforced, while at the same time honest operators must be encouraged. William J. Bryan In a speech at the Jamestown exposition in observ ance of Patrick Henry day, said the ef fect of the rate hill was to enable the railroads to keep the money formerly paid out as rebates. Secretary Tuft in an address at St Louis praised Ihe nation’s altruistic at titude toward Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and declared the sac rifice being made for them is worth while. Senator Poraker, in a Memorial day address at Steubenville, O., declared the people may safely be trusted to name their own officials and entered a protest against one-man power in the nation. Declaration day was generally ob served in northern cities, the serv ices including the decoration of the graves of the dead, while in many places the observances were of a more elaborate character. Finding the constant care of her lit tle crippled sister too great, Cora Leaderbrush killed the child and her self near Springfield, 111., the discovery of their bodies leading first to se ports of a double murder. John R. Walsh’s Chicago newspa per, the Chronicle, has quit publica tion. Relief from the existing tariff was the keynote of an address by Judson Harmon before a Cincinnati club. President Finley in speech to mill ers’ convention said unjust rates will react on public by causing inferior service. National Committeeman Frank O. Lewden declares “Uncle Joe” Cannon is making gains in the race (or the Republican presidential nomination. The great destructiveness of rats is pointed out in a statement issued by the department of agriculture. In a complaint to the state depart ment an American sailor asserts that he was asked to aid in scuttling a steamship by the captain of the ves sel. Chinese rebels have issued a procla mation declaring their intention to kill ali officials and overthrow the government. The Spanish government submitted to parliament a plan for the distribu tion of uncultivated lands. Japanese newspaper urges the gov ernment to demand of the United States that San Francisco officials be made to protect Japs in treaty rights. In welcoming visiting British jour nalists to Germany Herr Iluehlberg, undersecretary of state, asserted that his country is for peace, seeking only free and fair competition in the world’s markets. San Francisco Japanese issued a statement blaming race prejudice for recent assa.ults and demanding pro tection. Comptroller Ridgley in an address told Detroit bankers that under the Aldrich law the treasury is able to keep volume of money in circulation up to maximum by placing govern ment funds, with banks. In a speech at a dinner signaling his retirement from the federal bench of New York Judge William Wallace asserted the Bryan plan to abrogate judicial life terms is a blow at exist ing government. Sentence of Abraham Ruef on a plea of guilty of extortion was post poned for two weeks by request of the prosecutor. Mrs. Howard Gould demands $250, 000 alimony, which sum the husband refuses to consider. It is reported that the Standard Oil company Is about to grasp control of the turpentine market of toe world. Government Chemist Wiley declared any man could live to be 100 years old. ‘ Packers' agent at New York was arrested because chickens are sys tematically sold at short weights to butchers. Bertha Bellstein, matricide, who escaped from an insane asylum, sailed from New York, leaving statement as to how she got away from institution. Attorneys for plaintiffs, in actions tar penpaaal damages aad loos of life in the Iroquois theater lire ask the United States circuit court in New York to {postpone the trials until the October term of court. Defendants will ask that the cams lie If plaintiffs are not ready at calling in June. Miss Acbha Clark, a native of Bal timore, reputed to be worth several million dollars, died at Bellingham, Waoh., aged 90 years. She owned property la every Pacific coast city. Miss Clark was the lint woman to crass the plains to California in ’49. District Attorney Jerome declared New York is morally a model for Peoria fugitive deposited three $1,000 bills in Davenport bank and was arrested as suspect in Chicago subtreasury robbery. A frightened horse endangered the lives of Queen Maud, of Norway, Mme. Fallieres and Gen. Michel, latter saving ladies from going into lake with landan. Official government bulletin de scribed rats as worst: pest in exist ence, which costs the country millions annually. Actions against Klaw & Erlanger tor damages for Injuries and loss of life in tha Iroquois fire were dismissed by New York court because the plain tiffs' attorneys delayed in preparing their cases. Indiana supreme court ruled that the liquor traffic is lawful and consti tutional unless prohibited by the state, the decision reversing lower courts. Right of cities to restrict the traffic to prescribed areas also is upheld. The New York senate, under spur of Gov. Hughes, passed a bill in the interest of W. R. Hears t, providing for a recount of the New York mayor alty vote in 1905. Dr. Long has written to the presi dent, citing proof of the truth of hiB animal stories and demanding a public apology. Wealthy clubwomen, of Rockford, 111., aided the escape from a hospital of a mother accused of murdering one of her twin babies, ah automobile being provided for a wild dash to the train. Mrs. Delia E. Dalrymple, of Worces ter, Mass., whose husband, a preacher, fled to Chicago, has made public a let ter written by a young woman con fessing her relations with the minis ter. Floyd Pegg, cowboy, arrived at Washington on horseback, covering the distance from Chicago to the cap ital on a pony. Thomas D. Jordan, former control ler of the Equitable Life Assurance society, was indicted at New York for forgery. A friend said Howard Gould would reply to wife’s charges; chose to fight case before giving wife $4,000,000. Uprising in China gains in strength and inhabitants flee to Swatow, a forti fied coast town, for protection. The loss of valuable art treasure from a church at Perugia, Italy, is laid to an American. Discrimination against the blue jacket of the navy has led to com plaint to naval secretary, Jamestown exposition management claiming it has no jurisdiction. Attack on Japs in San Francisco may be settled by cabinet's explana tion that the strike was responsible. Chief Dinan, of San Francisco, is charged by Prosecutor Heney with ap proaching graft witnesses and pos sible jurors. Employes of the Chicago South Side Xraction lines decide to withdraw their wage demands and vote to accept two cents increase voluntarily offered by the company. Action means general peace among traction interests. President Roosevelt left Washing ton Tuesday to attend Mrs. McKin ley’s funeral and to speak at Indianap olis and Lansing. Mayor McClellan, of New York, dis approved the utilities bill on the ground that it confers too great pow ers on commissioners. The measure will be repassed by the legislature without his signature. According to a ruling of the su preme court West Virginia must pay a proportion of the Virginia debt in curred before the separation of the state. One hundred thousand railway em ployes may lose positions through gen eral retrenchment order caused by lack of business. A heavy snowstorm from Sault Ste. Marie to Ontario tied up shipping and damages Michigan farmers. Severe weather is reported in many other sec tions. Plan of Hindu rebels against Great Britain was to call pn Japs for aid, according to information from Lahore. The funeral of Theodore Tilton was held in Paris with simple ceremonies. No summer weather is in sight, de clares the weather bureau at Washing ton; frost conditions are general and snow falls as far south as Texas. Herman LeRoy, a prisoner at Fort Sheridan, escaped, his guard and later was shot and killed by two negro troopers. The supreme court of the United States handed down several important decisions before adjourning until Octo ber 14. In the senate inquiry into the Brownsville, Tex., riot one army offi cer flatly contradicted the testimony of another. The orthodoxy of half a century ago is about gone and the change is for the better. Dr. Borden P. Bowne, of the Methodist Theological squinary, says in an address to Cincinnati min isters. Homer E. Grafton, acquitted by court martial of murder charge in the Philippines and convicted for same affair by civil court, was freed by high tribunal. The treasury is alarmed by Wall street’s latest made to order “panic" for speculative purposes; west now financial center and is loaning money in New York. Widespread rain bas aided Russian wheat and is boon to famine district Police of a score of cities are searching for a Chicagoan and two others believed to have been involved in the murder of the New York priest whose body was found in a trunk. Ar rest of a man in Chicago failed to throw light on the mystery. Joseph Barteck, aged 80 years, com mitted .suicide at Eastport, N. Y., hang ing himself to a rafter in a shed near his house. Before he ended his life he wrote this note: "The Lord would not kill me, so I killed myself." A son was born to Mrs. Spencer Eddy, wife of the first secretary of the American embassy, in Berlin. Mrs. Eddy was Miss Spreckles of San Francisco. The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock at Madison, Win, was finally broken by tbs nomination of the Republican caucus of former Congressman m Stephenson, of Marinette. Harry DL Sellers, aged 20, member of an <fid and wealthy Pittsburg fam ily, was found lead in his bedroom in his residence, 1422 Wightman street. Squirrel hill. Tbs family claims the d<-*Sh of young Sutlers was nn -no client, hot It is believed he committed sulfide, and the coroner is an investigation. Qs*. Denesn signed the two-cent passenger tars bUL with tbs statement OPPOSITION TO LAW KANSAS RAILROAD COMMISSION- j ERS TO BE ATTACKED. THEIR LESJUin IS QUESTIONED The Missouri Pacific Will Fight for • Decision That Promises to Be Far Reaching. Topeka, Kas.—The very existence of the Kansas Slate Board of Railroad commissioners will be attacked in the supreme court here Monday when a case involving the Missouri Pacific railway comes up, according to B. P. Waggoner, state senator and general attorney for that company. The deci sion promises to be far reaching. The Missouri Pacific will contest a recent order of the board requiring the rail way to establish a daily passenger service on what is known as the Mad ison branch, a small line extending from Kansas into Missouri. The peo ple along the line say they are entitled to this service, although a report of a referee appointed to take evidence has filed a report declaring“the business of the road does not justify it. An appli cation made for a writ of mandamus to compel the road to maintain this service will be argued Monday be fore the supreme court, ft is under stood the state will ask to have the report of the referee set aside and the supreme court order the service estab lished. Mr. Waggoner i9 quoted as saying he would attack thp whole law creating the board and if the supreme court decides against him the case would be taken to the United States supreme court. Attorney Waggoner said: “It is a recognised principle of law, coming to us from numerous decisions of the su preme court, that a commission creared by the legislature is an agent of that body and that its powers are purely of a legislative nature. What ever orders a board or commission may make are simply the acts of this board as the agents of the legislature. “We will try to show that the leg islature has no right to delegate these powers to a board. We will try to show that these acts must be done by the legislature and not by a board. “They talk about government owner ship of railroads. If this law creating and defining the powers of the Kan sas Board of Railroad commissioners is valid Kansas has absolute control over the railroads. It has the same power over the roads that It would have if the state owned them." REVOLUTION IN CHINA SPREADS. Officials Are Being Murdered and Public Buildings Detroyed. London—According to a special dispatch from Shanghai the revolu tionists in the district surrounding Swatow and Amoy are murdering the officials, burning official buildings and occupying towns and villages. The totai of Swatow, the dispatcn adds, is only reporting losses suffered by the revolutionists, fearing that the news of their depredations would lead to foreign interference. The dis patch also adds that the market is overstocked with American piece goods and that 10,000 pieces are being reshipped to New York. BRYAN ADMITS HIS CANDIDACY. Would Run if Party Demands it and it Appears Best for All. Richmond, Va.—In an interview William J. Bryan declared that the matter of section should no longer be a bar to a man's nomination for the presidency by the democratic party. He explained why he could not re gard President Roosevelt as a demo crat and said that under certain con ditions he (Bryan) would be a candi date for the nomination. Stuck for $546,301. New York—George J. Gould, Jo seph Ramsey, Jr., and William E. Guy must pay John S. Jones of Ohio $460,000 for acquiring coal lands in Ohio for them In 1902, according to a verdict-rendered in the supreme court here. Earthquake Rings Bells. Guayaquil, Ecuador—Three earth quake shocks caused the inhabitants of this city to jump from their beds and run, panic-stricken, into the streets. The first and last of the shoks were slight, but the second was heavy and lasted forty seconds, caus ing the bells in the churches to ring and stopping the clocks in the church. Japanese May Protest. Tokio—It is reported that the mem bers of the progressive party will soon hold a meeting specially called to con sider the American question and to formulate demands upon the Ameri can authorities through the Tokio government relative to the treatment of Japanese in America. Snow Falls in New York City. New York—Snow fell in New York City on the first Sunday in the sum mer month of June. The flakes were not of the sort that make sleighing and snowballs, nor did they fall as snow all the way to the pavements, but. coming fiwm a colder strata, they swirled about the tops of the sky scrapers and before dissolving added a midwinter touch to the most re markable June 2 that New Yorkers bare ever known. At the wannest moment of the day the temperature was officially recorded at 51 degrees. THE PACKERS STANDING PAT. Executive Committee Favor* the Ante Mortem Rule. Chicago—The executive committee of the American Meat Packers' asso ciation, whose members embrace 275 large and small packers in twenty-nine states, met here Friday and unani mously adopted a resolution asking all inspected slaughtering establishments to buy cows and other "she" cattle subject to post-mortem inspection by the United States government. The request was made that immediate ef fect be given the resolution. Secretary George L. McCarthy of the association said: "The diseased cows to which we object come from dirty, filthy farms, and it naturally follows that the dairy herds from which most of them come are dis eased. The danger to the public by consuming milk and other dairy prod ucts from the tubercular cows and cows suffering from other diseases would be appalling if it were general ly known. The farmers who are re sponsible for this condition of affairs have no incentive to keep their farms clean and their herds free from dis ease so long as they are paid full value for diseased animals sent to the market for slaughter, but when cattle are bought subject to inspection after death every fanner who has been criminally negligent will immediate ly clean up his place and take meas ures to keep disease out of his herd.” PROTEST AGAINST REMOVALS. Men in Montana and Minnesota Object to Vacation of Forts. Washington—Upon his return to Washington Secretary Taft will ‘find awaiting him a number of telegrams and letters from various points in the west protesting against the reduction of military garrisons in that part of the country. Particularly strong re monstrances have come from Minne sota and Montana, where the senators and representatives have all joined forces to prevent the withdrawal of the artillery from Fort Snelling, Mont., and the abandonment of Forts Assin boine and Keogh, Mont In the ab sence of Secretary Taft no response has been made to these appeals, but it isitated at the War department that’ they can not be heeded, as the move-' ments ordered are deemed indispen sable to the successful working out of the plans of the War department. JAPANESE RESIDENTS'VIEWS. Believe Violence is Due to Racial Pre dice. San Francisco, Cal.—The Japanese association, composed of leading resi dent Japanese, issued a formal state ment concerning the recent assault on Japanese in this city. The statement is in effect that Japanese restaurants were systematically attacked, which made it plain that such outbreaks were not accidental. While deploring the necessity of asking for special po lice, the Japanese say that they think this the wiser course than to wait un til more aggravated outbreaks occur. The outbreaks are clearly due to race prejudice say the Japanese. BILL AGAINST POWDER TRUST. Government Will File Bill Against Alleged Combine. Washington—The bill of complaint which will be filed by the department of justice in the United States circuit court at Cincinnati against the so called powder trust is nearly com pleted, and it is not unlikely that il will be forwarded to the United States attorney at Cincinnati for presentation to the court within the next week or ten days. Iron Workers’ Strike Settled. San Francisco—The first rift in the series of strikes and unsettled labor conditions which have overshadowed San Francisco for many weeks oc curred Friday when the strike of 10,000 iron workers was amicably settled, settled. The men went out several weeks ago to enforce a demand for in eight-hour work day and an in crease in wages. This resulted in clos ing the Union Iron works, the Fulton Iron works and all the foundries, ma chine shops and iron works, not only in San Francisco but in all the bay cites. Thirty Thousand Take Arms. Amoy, China—An isurrection has broken out forty miles southward of Amoy. Thirty thousand rebels are un der arms and are stated to be well led. The revolt is supreading to towns near Amoy. The viceroy of Fu Chow is sending 8,000 troops to deal with the rising and warships are expected here shortly. La Follette Boom Launched. Milwaukee — Definite steps were taken Friday night toward promoting the candidacy of Senator LaFollette for the presidential nomination at a meeting of 150 of his supporters in the club rooms of the Plankington house. Resolutions were adopted declaring Senator LaFollette the strongest and most logical candidate. Merger Was Fraudulent Act. Kansas City—Judge Walter Little field, special master in chancery ap pointed to take evidence, announced that he is ready to make a report of hia findings in the investigation into the merger of the American Bond Re serve company, "i find that the merg ing of the several companies was a fraudulent transaction," Jndge Little field said, “and that the proceeds of the fond deposited with the state treasurer at ICiuourf should be dis tributed pro rata among the creditor* of the several comiamtea." RIGHT OF A LIQUOR LICENSE. The Question to Be Brought Square!/ Before Supreme Court. Lincoln—The right to issue a liquor license at all is brought squarely be fore the supreme court in an appeal from Hindoo to prevent the issuance of a license to Lilbura Phillips. The remonstrators question the right of the state to lot Use the saloon busi ness. The council and mayor of Mla den granted the license in spite of the protsts of a number of citizens. The district court sanctioned tne action of the authorities, and tne anneal is from that decision. 8ome of the objections filed are as follows: First—Li 1 burn Phillips is not a man of respectable character and standing, as contemplated in chapter 50, en-| titled “Liquors,” of section 1 of the statutes of the state of Nebraska, un der the general proposition that any man who will engage in the sale of malt, spirituous and vinuous liquors is not such a man of respectable charac ter and standing. Second—Because the issuance of a license to sell malt, spirituous |nd vinous liquors is contrary to a portion of section 16 of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, which says that “religion and morality are essential to good government.” Third—Because theissuance of a li cense to sell malt, spirituous and vinous liquors is contrary to section 19 of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, which reads as follows: “The blessings of a free government can only be maintained by a firm ad herence to justice, moderation, tem perance, frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” Fourth—Your remonstrator further objects to the issuance of license to the said Lilburn Phillips for the rea son that that part of chapter 50 of the statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Liq uors,” of which section 1 provides for and authorizes the granting of license to sell malt, spirituous and vinous liquors is contrary to the letter and spirt of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, and therefore unlawful and unconstitutional. DRUGS FOR THE INSANE. Increased Bills Not in Accordance With Contracts. The purchase of medicine for use at the insane asylum at Hastings during last month has exceeded the estimate on which the contracts were based by over $377, to say nothing of the stir it has created among the members of' the state board of purchase and sup plies. The estimate called for drugs to the amount of $384 for the quarter, and already bills have come in for $771.18 worth of drug supplies. As an example, the contract called for one half dozen pint bottles of wine cham pagne for $2 and when the bill came in it showed one dozen bottles had been bought at $4. Other items were increased the same way. The contract is held by A. M. Clark, a druggist at Hastings. Governor Sheldon, as well as other members of the board, have given strict orders that the Institution must buy within the estimate submitted by the superintendent and the steward. FIND HUMAN BONES AT BLAIR. Farmer Uncovers Ten Skulls Buried in Circle. Blair—Edwin Hovendick, a farmer living about two miles south of this city, while plowing i# his field, un earthed a lot of human bones, and re turning later with a pick and shovel he carefully removed the earth to the depth of about one foot and there found ten skulls and a lot of bones, among which were several thigh bones and some ribs. Site Granted to Elevator. The Farmers’ Elevator company of Alda, which some time ago complained that the Union Pacific had refused it a site on its right-of-way upon which to erect an elevator, withdrew the complaint saying everything had been fixed up and it expected to get the site without any further trouble. Wil! Appeal Case. Lincoln—The city of Lincoln will appeal to the state railway commis sion and endeavor to compel the Lin coln Traction company to give six tickets for 25 cents. Several ordi nances have been passed, all of which the company has resisted in the fed eral court. Nebraska Professor Chosen. Amherst, Mass.—Prof. William R. Hart of the Nebraska Normal school has been named by the Amherst col lege faculty to head the new depart ment of agricultural education to be established at the beginning of the fall term. "Lid” On in Indianola. Inflianola—For the first time in ten years the “lid” is on In Indianola and a prohibition may, with a majority of the council behind him, is sitting upon it At the city election this spring the mayor, clerk, treasurer and police judge were elected by temperance peo ple. YOUNG GIRL SUICIDES. Thought to Have Been Despondent Over Love Affair. Ashland—Sylvia Stubbs, a 17-year old high school girl., whose parents live on a farm a few miles west of Ashland, committed suicide by taking chloroform at the home of Mrs. 8. Mc Intyre, where she was boarding, it Is thought she had become despondent over a tyre affair, aa she had been keeping company with a young man of Ashland. First Pardon Hearing. Gov. Sheldon granted his first hear ing on application for s pardon under r the new law. The petitioner was Dave Archer of Cherry county, sentenced for one year for shooting Louis Bock. Senator Hanna appeared for the pris oner sad County Attorney Tucker op pound the application. Archer said he shot Beck after Am latter had shot at him sad repeated his story on the iturt He nM bis attorneys got $2li to Mrs another lawynr to keep MISCELLANEOUS NEWS . NOTES. HERE AND THERE. ITEMS OF SENERAL INTEREST Social, Agricultural, Religious and Other Matters Having Reference to This Commonwealth Alone. Work has begun on the neer rail road depot at Anti land. Utica schools have closed tempo rarily on account of smallpox. Exeter has enough money pledged for the Fourth of July celebration. Mrs. Komma of Otoe county, died in Oklahoma while on a visit to her daughter. The city council of Ashland will sell to the highest bidder refunding water bonds to the amount of >7,000. The house on the farm of R. S. Trumbull of Minden was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Tramps and sneak thieves are com mon in Ashland, due to the spring mi grations of jail birds from the cities. John Bodel of Fremont was found to be a fit subject for the asylum for inebriates and will be taken to Lin coln. The farmers’ elevator at Odell shipped 7,700 bushels of white corn to the Chicago market one day last week. The village of Weston will hold a special election on June 10 to vote on the question of installing a water works system. Burglars entered the house or & banker at Wahoo, but found only 30c, which for the trouble and danger, looked mighty small. Six inches of rain is reported to hare fallen ten to fifteen miles north west of Indianola. Creeks leading from that section were out of banks. In the hearing before County Judge Palmer at Clay Center the cases against Mann and Jacobson for viola tion of the game law, both were found guilty and fined |50 each. Simon Hanson, who ate phosphorus from the heads of many matches, died in Immanuel hospital, Omaha, aged 45 years. The bodv was interred near Nehawka, Cass county. George Frye, a fanner living north of Meadowbrook, walked into Crook’s livery stable and going behind one of his horses slapped aim on the rump without due notice or formality. The horse responded with a kick that left Mr. Frye unconscious for some time and might have proved fatal. Workmen at South -Bend discovered the floating bodies in thd Platte river of the Wortman and Dewey boye, who disappeared from home at Ashland last December. The young men were known to have started from home to go skating, and were never heard of again. v H. H. Pratt, proprietor of the jewelry store in Fremont, while ripping the wooden fixtures out of his steel safe, found two brilliant diamonds worth $150. The stone, mounted in eayrings, were stuck into a paper holder just as they had been sent to the store twenty five years ago. Frank Lahoda of Plattsmouth, twenty-three years of age, was run dow by a Burlington yard engine and instantly killed. The w'heels of the engine passed over his abdomen, cut ting his body in two. Lahoda had sat down upon one of the main rails to rest and fell asleep. August Henneman, Sr., proprietor of the Blue Valley mills, while mending the mill race in Seward county was hit on the head by a timber 6x6 feet in length which fell fourteen feet He was rendered unconscious and-be lieved to be almost fatally injured,, but later regained consciousness and may recover. ' At a meeting of the T. P. A. and U. C. T. organizations to be held in Fre mont soon, J. F. Knowles, who was representative from Dodge county in the recent legislature, will be pre sented with a memorial in apprecia tion of the work he did on behalf of the two-cent mile bill and the bill pro viding for 2,000-mile books on the rail roads. ' Sheriff Rohrs of Nemaha county, returned from Lexington with Edward Mason, who was brought bacx to an swer for a charge of arson on account of the burning of the livery barn at Brownville, the latter part of March, 1907. Mason was indicted by the grand jury which wr,s in session about a week ago. i.is home was originally at Brownville. County Superintendent King of Otoe county has a peculiar question to de cide. At the beginning of the fiscal year saloon license was granted to a man in Burr; remonstrators closed the saloon, and after a few weeks the dis trict court ordered that license be granted. Now the man who took oat the license wants the village board and school district to reimburse him for the time his place of business was closed. Some claim that it cannot be paid back legally out of the school fund. A large corps of Union Pacific survey ors under the direction oj Assistant Engineer Richardson, commenced work at Seward running lines to Lin coln. The grade between Seward and Stromsburg is satisfactory. Simon Hanson, the Cass county man who ate a large quantity of matches several months ago with suicidal In tent, died at a hospital in Omaha Mr. Hanson had for a number of years been suffering from stomach trouble, and being unable to find a cure for the ailment, he decided to end hbi life by the suicide route. W. H. Wills of Pilger was stsbbed twice in the side with a pocket knife by Stephen Cloufh. Wills had secured a gun and was hunting tor Clough. Ia the mix-up the town marshal took Wills’ gun and Wills was stabbed. His wounds are not serious. The remains of a man were tound lying beside the Burlington track near Nebraska City an the side of the river. The body was badly dismem bered. The remains proved to be these of Mi Grier, a tarmw midlag ■ear Fwetval. who had been kilted