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Complete Review of Happenings of
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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