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Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For
eign items.
Twelve persons were killed and 12
others injured in the wreck of an ex
press train on the Rock Island rail
road at Norris, la. The express train
jumped the track while going at full
speed and collided with a freight train
standing on the siding.
Prance and Spain decided that it
was necessary for them to occupy the
seaports of Morocco and establish the
* police organizations, the sultan being
admittedly powerless.
The Janies River bank at Frankfort,
S. D„ was dynamited and the robbers
ri.cape.1 with $8,000 in cash and val
uable papers, after holding the citl
-s ;t> bay with pistols.
■ receiver was appointed at Chica
go or tie* Beldiug-Hall Manufacturing
con ; any, whose president, Jesse F.
Hall, had disappeared. The assets
were figured at $400,000 and liabilities
at $550,000.
Three armed crooks, who had
picked the pockets of a number of
Rock Island passengers at the station
in Lincoln, and attempted to continue
their game on the train, engaged iu a
desperate encounter with Conductor
Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain
limited, near Alvo Station, Neb.
The $3,000 Oryden trophy and $150
cash, the most coveted prize offered
at the New Jersey Rifle association’s
tournament, was won in an exciting
finish by the United States cavalry
team which scored 1,001. points.
With every possible indication that
she was not guilty of the crime of
murder, for which she has already
served 16 years of a life sentence In
the state prison, Wilhelmiua Bache
was released from Waupun prison
in Wisconsin. Her life sentence for
tixe murder of Michael Sell, of Shaw
ano county, was commuted by Gov.
Davidson.
More indictments for rebating were
returned against the Standard Oil com
pany and the Pennsylvania and New
YorkVcentral railway companies by
the federal grand jury at Jamestown,
N. Y.
John King, a laborer, cut his throat
in the presence of hundreds of shop
pers in the Fair store, Chicago.
James Bellows McGregor, acknowl
edged to be the oldest Mason in the
world, celebrated his one hundred and
sixth anniversary at ML Sunapee, N.
H. Joining the Masonic order in 1827,
makes him a member of 80 yerrs'
standing.
A Manchester couple, respectively j
70 antf G5 years'old, having waited 25
years for the passage of the act legal
izing marriage with a deceased wife’s
sister, have given the necessary notice
of their intention to marry.
A wild boar bunt with javelins is
being prepared for President Roose
velt's entertainment i® Texas.
Acting Beerfetary of the Navy New
berry postponed indefinitely action
-upon the project to remove the famous
old frigate Constitution from the Bos
ton navy yard to Annapolis or to the
naval basin in Washington. Boston
people objected.
Gen. Morteza Khan, minister pleni
potentiary from the kingdom of Persia
to the United States and Mexico, ar
rived in San Francisco.
The Royal Typewriter company is
reported in New York to be the
nucleus of "a gigantic trust'backed by |
powerful interests.
President Roosevelt is said to be
planning a peace conference to be
field at Washington, D. C„ with the ac
credited ambassadors as members of
the gathering.
The members of the Hoboken, (N.
J.> Young Women's Christian assocla
tion have started oat to collect one
mile of pennies, whtoh they will string
together on a ribbon.
William S. Wirsing was awarded
$45,000 damages at Uniontown, Pa.
for injuries received at the hands oi
his father-in-law. James R. Smith, a
wealthy coal operator.
The International Harvester com
pany of Wisconsin pleaded guilty tc
a violation of the Texas anti-trust laws
and paid a fine of $35,000 assessed by
the court at Austin. The company also
agreed that a perpetual injunction be
entered forbidding it to operate in
Texas.
A scientific hunt for the germ of
infantile paralysis has been begun by
the .physlciana of New York city.
An exploding tank of gasoline in the
cellar of a burning building In Have
meyer street, Brooklyn. N. Y., serious
ly injured five firemen. Two probably
will die.
As the result of an appeal in behalf
of eight children in need of the care
of a mother, President Roosevelt has
granted a commutation ot sentence in
the case of Mrs. Adeline Rose, of
Jackson county, Ky„ convicted of
making and selling whisky in viola
tion of law.
Congressman Theodore G. Barton
consented to accept the Republican
nomination for mayor of Cleveland, O.
Practically all of Kentucky, except
the portion directly adjacent to thr
Ohio river, is threatened with a ccai
famine. Shortage of cars to haul thf
coal is given as the cause.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, while
stopping at the Hotel Astor in New
York proved generous with tips, giv
ing a waiter $100 and a chambermaid
$50.
Mrs. Louisa Hill Carabajal and sev
en children drowned in a flood in
Sierra county, New Mexico.
Labor day riots occurred In Steuben
ville, O., San Francisco and Louis
ville, several persons being injured.
The day was celebrated with parades
and picnics In many cities.
Prince Wilhelm ended his strenuous
visit In New York city and went to
Niagara Fails.
FURNISHING BACKBONE TO MOROCCO.
j Germany has been supplying arms and ammunition to the Arabs in Morocco.
ROBBERS DYNAMITE A BANK
TAKE $8,COO FROM INSTITUTION
!N FRANKFORT, S. D.
Citizens Held at Bay by Armed Men—
Bandits Make Escape on a
Handcar.
Frankfort, S. D.—The James River
hank, at this place, was dynamited
between two and four o’clock Friday
morning and the robbers escaped with
?S,000 in cash and valuable papers.
Eleven charges of dynamite were
used in blowing up the vault and the ]
safe. Persons aroused by the explo
sion were prevented from interfering
- by guards who were stationed at the
front and rear of the bank. Frank
Fitzpatrick, a hotel guest, who sought
to break through the line of guards,
was shot. His wound is not danger
ous. Many shots were fired to hold, on
lookers at bay.
After looting the bank the robbers
broke Into a section house on the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway and se
cured a handcar on which they made
their os( ape.
A posse has been organized and is
seeding the robbers.
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RECEIVER FOR IRON COMPANY.
One of Bank Wrecker Harper’s Con
cerns in Trouble.
Bristol. Va.-Judge A. M. Skeen of the
United States court here Wednesday
appointed Col. L. O. Pettit of Big
Stone Gap receiver of the Union Iron
and Steel corporation of New York,
owning furnaces in Virginia. Ohio,
Michigan and New Jersey.
The Union Iron and Steel corpora
tion is an offshoot of the Union Steel
and Chain corporation—the latter a
$60,000,000 concern—organized sever
al years ago by Edwaid L. Harper, for
merly of Cincinnati. -
It is reported that the receivership
is a plan of the creditors of E. L. Har
per to uncover his assets. Obligations
• aggregating several million dollars are
held by Cincinnati and Chicago bank
ers against Harper, as a result of the
failure of the Fidelity bank of Cin
cinnati about 20 years ago. Harper,
It wa3 alleged, wrecked this institu
tion in an attempt to corner the wheat
market. For this he was sentenced
to eight years In the Ohio peniten
tiary.
Warship Coming to St. Louis.
Washington—Acting Secretary New
berry has ordered the tug Lebanon to
tow the converted yacht Huntress
from League Island, Pa., to Pensacola,
Fla. There the Huntress will be form
ally turned over to the naval militia
of Missouri, a crew from which will
take the Teasel to SL Louis. This will
be the first time that a warship has
been permanently stationed as far up
tike Mississippi river as SL Louis. Re
ports to the navy department from
the recruiting parties In the middle
west show the development of a re
markable Interest in naval affairs In
that section.
Falling Tree Kills Seven.
Raleigh, N. C.—Details of the disas
trous effect of a lightning stroke at
Buckhom Falls, in Chatham county,
show that seven men were killed and
ten injured. A heavy storm had forced
60 to 70 men to seek shelter in the
cement house of the Buckhom Falls’
power plant. Lightning struck a large
tree back of the house and the tree,
splitting, fell over on the building, in
stantly killing two white men and five
negroes and injuring three whites and
soven negroes, alj of them residents of
this vicinity.
Good Work at Athletic Meet.
Norfolk, Va.—The features Friday
of the Jamestown exposition athletic
meet were the breaking of the junior
record lor throwing the 56-pound
weight by P. McDonald, of the Irish
Ataericau club; the lowering of the
half mile running record three sec
onds by F. C. Shehan. of Boston, and
the pole vaulting of E. T. Cook, Irish
American Athletic club, who came
within four inches of the world’s rec
ord. The events were closely con
tested, the Irish-American team win
ning the day’s honors on points.
Strikers Become Fire Bugs.
Antwerp.—The striking dock labor
ers Wednesday night set fire to an
other lumber yard and stacks of lum
ber covering 3,000 square yards were
soon blazing furiously. An entire regi
ment of troops was called out at ten
o'clock to assist the firemen, but their
efforts were futile. The loss was esti
mated at $300,000. Shortly after mid
night the rioters set fire to two ware
houses. Officers of the militia declar
ed the strikers were in a. dangerous
temper at. free liquor wan being dis
tributed to them in saloon.!.
OIL TRUST INDICTED AGAIN.
True Bills Returned Against It and
Two Railroads.
Jamestown. N. Y. — An investiga
tion ""which was begun before the
federal grand jury in- this city
early in July was concluded Friday
and the jury discharged by Judge
Hazel, of the western district of New
York. Before adjournment the jury
found four indictments, one each
against the Standard Oil company, the
New York Central Railroad company,
the Pennsylvania Railway company,
and one against the two railroads
jointly.
The indictment against the Stand
ard Oil company and those against
the railway companies separately con
tained 54 counts, all of them charg
ing a violation of the interstate com
merce law, either in accepting or
granting rebates on oil shipments from
Olean to points in Vermont. The
lt(w provides a penalty of $20,000 for
each provision violated or each count;
therefore, if convictions are made ac
cording to the indictments returned,
the three companies will be subject
to a total fine of $876,000.
CANNOT DISMISS CADETS.
Col. Howze Lacks Authority in the
West Point Difficulty.
Washington. — If • CoL Howze,
commandant of cadets at West
Point, threatened to dismiss a
whole class because the members sent
one of their number to "Coventry," he
overrated his authority, according to
the officials of the war department.
The power of dismissal in such cases
is not confided to any official of lower
rank than the president. The extent
of the commandant’s power would be
temporarily to suspend the offending
cadets and to recommend dtnm<anni_
first to the superintendent of the
academy, Col. Scott, and then to the
secretary of war and the president
War department officials do not be
lieve, however, that Col. Howze went
to this length, and they feel confident
that the matter is one that can be
handled by the faculty and the super
intendent of the academy without ref
erence to the department.
PICKPOCKETS FIGHT CONDUCTOR
Lively Encounter with Thievee on a
Rock Island Train.
Omaha, Neb.—Three armed crooks,
who had picked the pockets of a num
ber of Rock Island passengers at the
station in Lincoln, and attempted to
continue their game on the train, en
gaged in a desperate encounter with
Conductor Henry Duval on the Rocky
Mountain limited, near Alvo station,
about one o’clock Friday morning.
After standing off Conductor Duval
with a knife, the men leaped from the
moving train, about eight miles weet
of Alvo, and escaped in the darkness.
The Rock Island special agents have
been sent to the vicinity of their es
cape with good descriptions of the
men.
Wilhelmlna Bache Set Free.
Madison, WiB.—With every pos
sible indication that she was not guilty
of tne crime of murder, for which she
has already served 16 years of a life
sentence in the state prison, Wil
helmlna Bache was released from
Waupun prison Friday. Her life sen
tence for the murder of Michael Sell,
cf Shawano county, was commuted by
Gov. Davidson. She went to the peni
tentiary when she was 17 years old.
Indictment Served on Senator.
Boise, Idaho. — An indictment
returned last April by the fed
eral grand jury against Senator Wil
liam E. Borah and other prominent
men, charging conspiracy to defraud
the United States government, was
served on the defendants Wednesday.
Harvester Combine Pays $35,COO Fine.
Austin, Tex.—The International
Harvester company, of Wisconsin,
has pleaded guilty to a violation of the
Texas anti-trust, laws, and paid a fine
of $35,000.
Brick Concern In Trouble.
Springfield, HI.—Creditors of the
McNeil Pressed Brick company ol
Jerseyville, 111., with a plant valued
at about $50,000, filed a petition in
the United States circuit court Thurs
day alleging that the corporation is
insolvent and asking that it be ad
judged bankrupt. They allege that
the company allowed an attachment
to be issued in the circuit court oi
Jersey county in favor of certain
creditors on Aug. 20, and permitted
the sheriff of Jersey county to levy on
all the stock on band.
TWELVE DIE 11 WRECK
ROCK ISLAND EXPRESS TRAIN
CRASHES INTO A FREIGHT.
DOZEN OTHERS INJURED
Horrible Accident at Norris, la.—
Smoking Car of Passenger Is
Telescoped and Utterly
Demolished.
Waterloo, la.—Twelve persons were
killed and 12 others injured in the
wreck of an express train on the Rock
Island railroad at Norris, la., Friday.
The express train, which was north
bound, jumped the track while going
at full speed and collided with a
freight train standing on the siding.
The dead: P. B. Oliver, Waterloo,
la.; Will Goodman, Waterloo, la.;
John N. Watson, Waterloo, la.; C. L.
Landphere, Shell Rock, la.; W. Ray
Johnson, Dike, la.; B. R. Christy,
Minneapolis, Minn.; Lepovan Toja,
Hammond, la.; laborer, name un
known, Hammond, la.; W. H. Meyers,
baggageman, Burlington, la.; three
unknown men.
The injured: J. A. Newell, Illinois
Central conductor, Waterloo, la.;
John Shaw, Waterloo, la.; Dr. C. J.
Keefe, Marble Rock, la.; J. H. Doug
las, Waterloo, la.; Thomas Evenson,
Mora, Minn.; O. H. Martin, mail clerk,
West Liberty, la.; Edward Steppierre,
Minneapolis, Minn.; Trocoin Crismen,
St. Paul, Minn.; H. McMahon, fireman,
Cedar Rapids, la.; Albert Mason, en
gineer, Cedar Rapids, la.; A. L. Welli
ver, lineman, Cedar Rapids, la.; F.
Kinch, engineer, Cedar Rapids, la.
The injured were brought to Wa
terloo and placed in the Presbyterian
hospital.
Victims in Smoker.
Nearly all of the dead and injured
were in the smoking car, which was
immediately behind the baggage and
mail cars. The smoking car wtn
completely demolished.
The northbound express was ten
minutes late at Norris siding, which
is a small station three miles north of
Cedar Falls, la., and there a south
bound freight train was awaiting
the express, which came thundering
along at a terrific speed in an effort
to make up time.
Crashed Into Freight Train.
Just as the engine of the express
was about to pass the freight engine
the trucks of the express jumped the
track and the engine crashed with
terrible force into the engine of the
freight, wrecking both engines and
telescoping the baggage and mail
cars and demolishing the smoking car.
The passengers In the two day coaches
following the smoker escaped with
only a violent shaking up.
Rescuers were immediately at hand
to care for the injured and tg take the
dead from among the wreckage.
Dr. Keefe’s Heroism.
Sitting in the midst of the wreckage
was Dr. Charles J. Keefe, who, al
though badly Injured, little realized
how seriously he was hurt. With
heroic fortitude, while suffering in
tense pain, he waved the rescuers
aside and directed them to the assist
ance of those whom he thought were
in a more serious condition than him
self, for in front of him and behind
him on all sides were men writhing
and groaning in the agony of their
Bufferings.
1 Physicians and hospital attendants
were hastily taken to Norris on a spe
cial train made up In this city and,
pending their arrival, such medical re
lief as the little station afforded was
given the Injured.
TEN DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE.
Serious Loss of Life in Disaster at
Shelton, Wash.
Tacoma, Wash.—Ten persons ore
known to have lost their lives In the
burning of the Webb hotel at Shelton,
20 miles from here, early Thursday
morning. Another person is dying and
yet others may be found in the ruins.
The fire was discovered about 1:40
In the morning. It had started In the
hotel annex, probably from a lighted
cigar dropped In the sample room.
The hotel was a three-story structure.
The top floor was occupied by lodgers,
but the exact number Is not knowh.
Within a few minutes of the time
the fire was discovered the hotel was
a masa of flames, Screams and cries
for help were coming from almost
every window and dozens of people
risked their own lives to help bring
out the unfortunates. Those in the
upper stories were cut off from the
stairway and seven or eight jumped
from the windows before help could
reach them from the outside.
New Yellow Fever Cases in Cuba.
Washington. — Two new cases
of yellow fever in Cuba were re
ported to the war department Thurs
day by Chief Surgeon Taylor, one at
Clenfuegos and one at Campo Flor
ides.
Doctor Accused of Manslaughter.
Laporte, Ind.—Walter W. Nichols,
whose wife died Monday night be
cause of alleged lack of attention from
Dr. Charles Moore, of Rolling Prairie,
swore out a warrant Friday against
the physician, charging manslaughter.
Ball was placed at $5,000.
May Burn Frisco Hospital.
San Francisco.—The board of health
Frid^r recommended to the board of
supervisors that the city and county
hospital, which has sheltered a num
ber of plague cases, be burned.
McKinley Monument Unveiled.
Buffalo, N. Y.—In a heavy down
pour of rain and before a vast multi
tude, the McKinley monument on
Niagara square was dedicated Thurs
day afternoon and formally turned
over to the state of New York
through Gov. Charles E. Hughes.
Man and Girl Drowned Together.
Muscatine, la.—Bodies of a young
man and a ghl clasped in each other’s
arms were found in the Mississippi
river Thursday. ’There is nothing to
establish their identity.
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FARMERS SHOULD BUY COAL
BIG STOCKS HAVE BEEN SHIPPED
INTO NORTH DAKOTA.
Commissioner Lane Finds Railways
Are Doing Their Part to Avert
Another Fuel Famine.
St Paul. — Franklin H. Lane of
the Interstate commerce commis
sion, is in St. Paul conferring with
representatives of western railroad
lines in respect to the coal and grain
transportation situation and the pos
sible repetition of the shortage and
car congestion of a year ago. The com
missioner desires to acquaint himself
in advance with the probable short
ages in coal or cars.
Commissioner Lane Thursday held
a conference with President Louis W.
Hill, W. H. Begg and W. W. Brough
ton, of the Great Northern railway.
From statements made by the railway
men, the situation in respect to the
coal supply in North Dakota seemed
to be that an extra large amount of
coal has been transported over the
Great Northern road to the retail coal
dealers of North Dakota towns and
cities, but this large supply has not
been purchased by the farmers.
As to about 90 per cent, of the re
tail coal dealers, it appears that they
have enlarged their shed capacity and
have stocked up to the limit and will
not at present handle any more coal.
In Montana, Idaho and eastern
Washington the situation is less hope
ful.
There is an indication of heavy ship
ments of coal direct from Duluth to
the west.
From the testimony offered by the
Great Northern railway men and from
conclusions reached by Commissioner
Lane, it would seem that the situation
would be relieved greatly if the farm
ers would stock up with coal now,
rather than wait until later in the
season.
The commissioner expects to remain
here about three days and on Friday
will hear representatives of the North
ern Pacific.
FIVE YEARS FOR LOUIS GLASS.
San Francisco Telephone Man Is Sen
tenced for Bribery.
San Francisco. — Five years for
Louis Glass, was the news mes
sage that ^>ed with incredible rapid
ity to all parts of the city Wednesday
morning fcrom the Temple Sherith
Israel at California and Webster
streets, where was imposed the sen
tence that brought to a dramatic close
the second trial of the vice president
and former general manager of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, convicted last week of the
crime of bribery, a crime whose ex
treme punishment under the law of
this state is 14 years. Only a small
crowd, made up for the most part oi
lawyers and newspaper men, witness
ed the imposition of sentence.
After his attorney had applied for
and been granted a 30 day arrest of
judgment, within whose expiration
they will apply for bail and begin the
prosecution of an appeal, Mr. Glass
was removed by the sheriff to the
county jail.
The crime for which Louis Glass
waa sentenced to San Quentin and of
which he maintains his innocence, was
the bribing of Supervisor Thomas F
Lonergan in the sum of $5,000 to vote
against the application of the Home
Telephone company for a franchise in
this city.
BIG FAILURE ON 'CHANGE.
Watson & Co., Grain and Stocks,
Forced to Wall.
Naw York.—The failure of Watson
& Co., members of the New York
Stock and Produce exchanges, and of
the Chicago Board of Trade, was an
nounced in those exchanges Thursday.
No cause was assigned for the failure
nor was any estimate of the liabilities
and assets made public.
The firm has had extensive connec
tions in the west, maintaining offices
in Duluth, Minneapolis, Fargo and
Winnipeg. It is said to have carried
on one of the biggest grain broker
age businesses in the country besides
trading actively in railroad stocks,
particularly those of the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific railroadB.
The members of the firm are
Louis T. Watson, Henry P. Watson,
Charles E. Anderson and Herschell V.
Jones. Louis T. Watson is the only
member of the firm residing in this
city, the others being residents of
Minneapolis.
Failure Follows Trolley Wreck.
Mattoon, 111. — Following the wreck
last Friday that resulted in the
loss of 17 lives, the Mattoon City Rail
way company and the Central Illinois
Traction company, owned by Chicago
stockholders, including Judge Peter S.
Grosscup of the United States circuit
court, Thursday went into the hands
of a receiver. The bill filed says tfrgt
the companies are unable to meet
their debts.
Snow Avalanche Buries Fifty.
Santiago, Chili.—Fifty persons are
said to have been buried alive by a
vast avalanche of snow that filter
ated the Chilian custom house at Jun
cal. This station is on the Argentine
frontier, high up in the Andes.
Failure Follows Trolley Wreck.
Mattoon, 111.—Following the wreck
that resulted in the loss of 17 lives,
the Mattoon City Railway company
and the Central Illinois Traction com
pany, Thursday went into the hand:
of a receiver.
Famous Composer Dead.
Bergen, Norway.—Edward Hagerup
Grieg, the composer, died here Wed
nesday. He intended sailing for
Christiania Tuesday and his baggage
was already on board a steamer, when
he w»g taken sick.
Metz Tiger New Creek Chief.
Washington.—The president Wed
nesday authorized the secretary of the
interior to appoint Sub-Chief Metz
Tiger, of the Creek Indians, to suc
ceed Gen. Pleasant Porter as chief of
the tribe.
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IMPURE FOOD MU8T GO.
Dealer* May Encounter the Wrath «f
the Commissioner.
Lincoln—Those who deal la tainted
meat and flabby ice cream may en
counter the wrath of Food Commis
sioner Johnson. Ioe Cream men will
he raided next on the list. In a cir
cular issued Mr. Johnson says:.
Complaint has bean filed at the food
commissioner’s office that had meat
is being sold at Belvldere. County At
torney J. P. Baldwin, being notified at
this complaint, advises the food com
missioner that he will at once takA
up the complaint, investigate the facts
and, if the facts seem to justify, will
at once institute vigorous prosecution.
' Under the pure food act the penalty
for selling spoiled meat or meat taken
from diseased animals Is from $10
to $100.
Complaint has been made that at
some of the creameries the license
tester is being assisted in his work by
unlicensed persons whose work in
this line !s contrary to law. The food
commissioner holds that the law is
very positive in its requirement that
no one without a legal permit has a
right to test cream where the test of
the cream Is a measurement of the
value of the commodity.
The Hanford Produce oompany of
Sioux City, which operates forty re
ceiving stations in Northeastern Ne
braska, and whose testers refused to
participate in the examination re
cently held in that locality, on the
theory that their creamery, being out
side of the state, was not amenable to
the law, has forwarded to the food
commissioner's office a list of its re
ceiving agents and testers expressing
its desire to comply with the law
strictly in every particular.
THE DEBT OF NEBRASKA.
Mfey Be Wiped Out Before Next Leg
- is'ature.
State Treasurer Brian has great
hopes that the state debt will be prac
tically wiped out before the next leg
islature adjourns. At this time the
warrants registered amount to $1,094,
000, though from now until December
the debt will be increased and prob
ably by that time will reach $1,300,000,
and then will begin the chopping
down process. From the levy created
by the Sheldon bill he expects tte
State to raise during the biennium in
the neighborhood of $640,000. To this
there is to be added during the bien
nium no less than $400,000 collected In
fees, while he believes the surplus
left over after the appropriations of
the recent legislature have been paid
will be about $200,000, or at least
*109.000. Should the next legislature
Keep down expenses, Mr. Brian be
lieves Nebraskans will stop paying in
terest withen two years.
Big Deal in Corn.
Beatrice—E. J. Shinn, local agent
for the BookwaJter interests, consum
mated one of the biggest grain deals
made here some time when he dis
posed of 40,000 bushels of corn to lo
cal parties. The price paid was 50%
and 51% cents. Mr. Bookwalter still
has 100,000 bushels of last year’s crop
raised on his land on hand.
Charged With Serious Crime.
Fremont—Sheriff Hollister of Mer
rick county Is in the city, haring
come here to take into custody Harry
Havens, who resides six miles west
of Silver Creek, who Is charged with
a statutory crime with the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hunt. The girl
is but 14 years of age.
Gets Montana Farm.
Beatrice—W. V. A. Dodds of this
city drew No. 10 in the Huntley land
lottery In Montana recently. This
means that Mr. Dodd3 will hare.the
tenth choice of the 562 units of Ir
rigated land open for homestead and
will secure him a very fine piece of
land.
Pickpocket is Sentenced.
Kearney—Jack Hildum, a Pleasan
ton pickpocket, pleaded guilty to lar
ceny from the person In district court
and was given eighteen months In
the penitentiary. Hildum abstracted
a pocketbook containing $56.(0 from
a Pleasanton man recently.
Fine Stock Premiums.
Beatrice—J. B. Smith of this city
took three first premiums on Jersey
bulls at the Iowa state fair. He re
ceived first on old bulls, first on bulls
2 years old, coming 3, and first on 1
yearold bulls craning 2.
PACKING PLANT FOR ALLIANCE.
Ground Purchased and Buildings to
Be Erected at Once.
Alliance—The final arrangements
hare been made for the purchase of
thirty acres of land on the Burlington
extension Just west of town by the
Alliance Packing company, a corpora
tion composed of Alliance business
men and recently Incorporated. It is
expected that all the buildings will be
up by January 1, at which time it is
hopefully believed that meat will be
a much cheaper commodity than at
present
Refuse to Raise Rates.
Lincoln—Hie state railway commis
sion has refused to raise the trans
portation rates on cream and milk in
Nebraska. Attorney Ha*rer’s motion
asking to have the petition of the
railroads rejected was sustained by
nnanimous vote. This does not mean
the railroads will not make any
change in cream rates. Chairman
Winnett announced that the commis
sioners have their minds made up and
will establish a distance tarifT on
cream in Nebraska. This rate will
work reduction on short hauls.
Railroad Pays High for Ranch.
North Platte—Information has been
received here to the effect that James
Payne has sold his large ranch about
twelve miles east of this city to the
Burlington railroad for a consideration
of $125,000.
May Have Car Shortage.
Lincoln—According to a report filed
with the ra lway commission, the Mis
souri Pacific already admits the pos
sibility of a car shortage. On Thurs
day 125 cars were ordered and
ninety seven were available.
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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOU8 SECTIONS.
AIL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, PeWt
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Police at McCook made a rail on a
gambling house, gathering In six play
ers.
So far this season there bare been
230 cars of cattle shipped from Hyan
nis. Shipments started early and
will finish much sooner than in any
previous year.
During an altercation at Hyannis
between A. B. Hosman and John Mc
Michael, the latter struck the former
with a knife inflicting a deep gash in
the arm. McMicbael is now under ar
rest.
The state board of public lands and
buildings eentered an order that War
den Beemer of the state penitentiary
shall no longer charge a fee of 10
cents for visitors desiring to inspect
the institution.
While R. H. Jefferies, southwest of
Clearwater, was threshing, a spark
from the engine set fire to the stacks
and burned about 450 bushels of rye.
which was fully insured in the Ante-*
lope County Mutual.
The preliminary trial of Jim Butch
er,- who shot Fount Sanderson at Cody
two weeks ago, was held at the court
bouse in Valentine, and Butcher was
bound over to the district court under
a f500 bond, which he furnished.
Sam Belenky, an Italian grader, was
killed by No. 10 on the Union Pacific
near North Bend. He was moving a
handcar from the track and appar
ently did not see the approaching
train, which was running five hours
late.
A severe rain and electrical storm
visited the section about Beatrice.
Lightning fired the wheat stacks oil
the farm of S. Pheasant and a man’s'
grain near Ellis, causing a heavy
loss. Several barns were struck and
badly damaged.
County Surveyor Norton of Holt
county has completed a diagram for
a new town that has Just been laid
out in Holt county at Dorsey. The
town as platted comprises two eighty
acre tracts of the McEIhaaey land
that figured among the assets of the
defunct Elkhorn Vplley bank and
which was sold under execution a
short time ago.
The men s’nklng the deep well for
the Otoe Development, company arc
having all kinds of bad luck. Lasr
week they lost their drill and were
compelled to go to Lincoln to get ma
chinery with which to recover it. They
then sunk the well to a depth or 625
feet when the large cable troke, and
as It was 3,000 feet long, if. will be
some time before it can be replaced.
Rock Springs coal has been ad
vanced in Sidney from $8 to 89 a ton.
The local dealer claims it lias gone
up $1 a ton at the mines. “If there
1b anything on earth that will snake
the people steal coal,” said a Sid
ney man, “this new deal win cer
tainly have the desired effect, and
the Union Pacific will have to pot on
a better night watchman.'
Mr*. Jacob Martin, wife of a pros
perous farmer living about eight miles
southeast of Cortland, was murdered
by an unidentified man. Tire bcdv
waa found lying under the bed with
the victim’s head crushed at her home
by Mr. Martin, who had been away
for several hours attending the pri
mary election. She was altont 4f>
years of age.
Kilpatrick Broe. of Beatrice have
resumed work on the Marysville-To
peka cutoff of the Union Pacific, after
a shutdown of several months, dne it
is said, because the 2-cent rale went
into effect in Nebraska. The contract
ors have put a large force of men to
work and if nothing prevents it is the
intention to have the line to Marys
ville completed within the next sixty
days.
Mrs. Florence Lewis, wife o? O. L.
Lewis, president of the Citizens' brink
of Fairfield, died last week. Mrs.
Lewis was in the prime of Ffa no 1 ’
the best of health np to a few months
ago. She was a prominent elnb
woman and church worker public
spirited and especially active in
everything that tended to the better
ment and beautifying of her home
town.
Adolph Hogenkamp, a farmer resid
ing five miles northeast cf Cambridge
was found dead, having shot himself
with a shotgun. For some itme his
health has been poor, and it Is thou eh r
that he did the deed through de
spondency. The affair took pla-e dur
ing the night while the family wrs
asleep, and he was not found until
morning, when he was found seated
upon a wagon on which was a hay
rack.
A letter received in Nebraska City
announced the death of Mrs. May M l
ler at Salt Lake City on August 2S.
She left there some two weeks ago
with her mother to visit her sister,
and met her death in a street < a”
accident.
A young woman about 20 years old.
accompanied by a young man, tried
to commit suicide by, attempting to
Jump from the window of a moving
Oberlin train near RepubM'-an City, it
was tv main fores and very decided
talking that the young man restraint d
her.
Governor Sheldon has receive! a
latter from A. L. Steers of Chapman,
in which it is claimed that .lame i L
McGirr, a Greek laborer, who wa»
found dead near there July IS, e:lme
to his end at the hands of a mob
who clubbed him to death.
Mrs. Harriet R. Chase, wife of C! E.
Chase, one of the pioneers cf Richard
son county, has been adjudged insane
and removed by the sheriff from her
home near Verdon to the state hospi
tal at Lincoln. She is sixty years of
age and is the mother of seven grpwn
children.
