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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1907)
news notes 6f interest from VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL eOOJEGTS TOUGHED UPON . * Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical ar.d Other Matters Given Due Consideration.. The new opera house at Tekamuh is ijcaring completion. Humboldt will hold a special elec tion on the question of putting in a sewerage-system. The new Y. M. C. A. building at Hastings has been dedicated. The structure cost $3u,000. Thomas McComas died at Bassett a; the result ot an injury received by falling out of a wagon. Kimball is discussing :t water works proposition and will vote bonds on that question in a few weeks. Bishop Keeae of Cheyenne, Wyo., confirmed a class of fifty at Holy . Rosary Cathode church in Alliance. Flank Robinson, the most prosper - « v.s and respected colored man in Ne 1 *aska City, died suddenly of heart i.din re. The Law and Order league has or-’ ganizc-1 in Hall county for the pur pose, it is believed, of closing every saloon in the county on Sunday. The barn of S. J. Rice, in the north east portion of HarvarS, and a long distance from the nearest fire-plug, was destroyed by fire last week. Kimb;.\U county is ovorryn now with, buyers of real estate. Land has ad vanced ar.d is still going up. Good mops prevail generally all over the t o.mty. The Sheridan County Agricultural* society closed a very successful four days’ fair and carnival. The attend ance was the largest of any fair ever held in the county. ' Reliable information has been re ceived tha* the Burlington will, in a very short time, commence the re building and enlargement of its paint shops in Plattsmcuth. \ Airs. J. H. Chamberlain, living north of Ashland, who was bitten by a rat tlesnake, is improving and is past the critical stage. While walking in the orchard she was bitten. Superintendent Avery of Pawnee county recently received from the State Fair association a check for $63 for the premiums won on his educa tional exhibits at the state fair. judge ar.d Mrs. W. H. Newell of Plattsmouth have gone to Portsmouth, ()., where they will attend a reunion of the surviving members ot the Fifty sixth au:i Ninety-first Ohio regiments. York college opened with an in ti ease ir. attendance over last year end with good prospects for the year. The enrollment of the York schools Is 3.025, of whom 280 are in the high school. H. .7. Wolcott, a fireman ou Union Pacific local freight No. 58, was in jured at Waterloo quire severely, be ing struck on the hear! by the gate of the battle chutes while the eugine was switching. A substantial building boom has set in at Clarks The Clarks State bank, just incorporated with an authorized eapitl of $25,000, is beginning the erec tion of a fine building to be finished about November 1. Word has been received in Oakland of the death of Mrs. Ira Thomas at Wenatche, Wash., of malarial fever. iC:’. and Mrs. Thomas were residents ’ of Oakland from 1880 until a few years ago. when they moved to Washington. William Koefcner, formerly of Elk 8;orn, who has been residing with his _ son near Osmond, was accidentally killed while returning from Osmond ( with a load of'lumber. His horses be came frightened at a camp of gypsies and threw him out o£ the wagon, the wheels passing over him. Contracts baye been let at Exeter for an up-to-date system of water ■works, city hall and jail, and a fran-, < hise granted private parties for fur nishing electric light and power serv ice. In addition to these, contracts have been let for nine brick business buildings. Secretary to the governor. Djmery. has returned from Central City and Chapman, where he^ investigated the causes leading up to the -death of James McGirr, near Central City., July 16 last. He is rather inclined to be lieve McGIrr was struck by a Union Pacific train-and met his death in that way rather than at the hands of a mob. 0. M. Robison, from five acres of ground on his ranch just north of Bridgeport, cut the heads of wheat grass and threshed more than 1,000 pounds of seed, which he sold direct to the government for $175. He then cut the remaining grass and found that he had ten tons of choice hay worth %8 per ton. His five acres marie just $255. E. O. Puller, who for more than two years was clerk to the register and rev eeiver of the United States land office at North Platte, in the civil service, has been reinstated and has returned to assume his former office at an in-' -•creased salary. William Graf of Grand island, aged 70 years, was dragged a quarter of a mile behind a runaway horse and yet no serious results are feared. He had hitched up the family horse for his daughters. It managed, while defend ing itself from flies, to free itseir from the bridle and started to run away. A report eomes from Nehawka, in Cass cpunty, that the orchards or Con gressman E. M% Pollard, numbering 12,000 trees, will' this year yield fbut 500 barrels of apples, less than 5 per cent of the average crop. When the corner stone of the Meth odist church in Blue Hill was lemoved last week it was found some one had removed all the money, keepsakes, etc., which had been put in the recep tacle at the first dedication, seven years ago. The stone was removed last week to Bed Cloud to be repol NEBRASKA EXPERIMENT STATION Economical Rations in the Matter of V . Beef Production. Bulletin No. WO, entitled ‘‘Economi cal Batons In Beef Production,” just igsued:' by the department of animal husbandry of the Nebraska experi ment 'station, contains forty pages of experimental data, together with comments upon each of the problems investigated. The results cover a period bi four years and are briefly summarized at (he dose of the re port as .follows: PraiHe hay when fed with corn alone to fattening cattle gives small and un satisfactory gains and very little or no profit. Alfalfa hav with corn alone gives large and profitable gains. The use of well cured corn-stover with alfalfa and corn, while it may • not produce larger gains, will make tiie gains less costly because of its low market value, thereby increasing tiie profits over corn and'alfalfa alone. Ir. feefling only prairie hay as roughness to fattening cattle, much larger and more profitable gains can be made if linseed meal or possibly some other protein concentrate is fed with corn in small quantity rather than feeding corn alone. The results of two experiments indi cate hat linseed meal is a little more valuable than cottonseed meal and j much more valuable than wheat bran , for supplementing corn when fed with' prairie hay or corn-stover. When alfalfa is made at least half of the roughness with prairie hay or , cnrn-stoeger. good gains may be made' and at less cost than when no al-, falfa is fed, the protein being supplied' by the use of linseed meal. In other-' words, it is possible to grow protein on tiie farm at a price much below! wbat it will cost on the market in the form of some commercial protein food./ Corn-stover cut immediately after' the oars ripen and cured In shocks possesses a value fully two-thirds as great as prairie hay. The part usu ally consumed, viz., the leav“s and upper portion of stalk, is quite the equal of prairie hay pound for pound. Tiie results of a single experiment In which but little more than half a’ full feed of oojn was supplied two’ lots of fattening steers suggest the possibility of making a larger use of hay in finishing cattle for market than is ordinarily made and at less eost. especially where hay is relatively low and corn high in price. From a commercial point of view the results of this entire series of ex periments go to show that cattle feed ing can be made profitable when dls eretion is used in ihe selection of foods , for tiie ration. On the average farm in Nebraska where grain and hay c.ommand figures below Lincoln prices and •hen> cattle' art undisturbed by fn-ou” t weighings which experiment al feeding necessitates, the profits can be trade much greater than those re ported In this bulletin. Good, feeding will make our corn bring more as beef than when said direct to the elevator companies., even though the selling price of finished cattle is not r«r in advance of cost price, as was true in many of these experiments. The im portance of manure and the growing of alfalfa and clever as agencies con tributing to the maintenance and in crease! of land fertility argue.further for tics mode of selling a larger part of our annual corn crop. The cattle industry deserves much greater atten tion in this state than has been given it in tiie past. This bulletin will be sent free to all residents of Nebraska who request it liy writing'-,to the Nebraska Expor tin' it Station, Lincoln, Nebraska. Nurse Gets Big Money. Lincoln—Mrs. A. M. Shevalier, wife <••' the locu4 baggage agent of the Northwestern, has fallen heir to the $100,000 left by Mrs. Helen A. Horn. Vi ho died here. Mrs. Horn lived alone i and eared for her property and re cently became ill. Mrs. Shevaiier. who tv.as her constant friend, took her to 1 er own home and nursed her. When. <tho will was opened it was found the good Samaritan had been left the en tire fortune, estimated at $100,00, con sisting of two buil lings in the busi ness part of Lincoln, two farms and a home here. - Dismantling Sugar Factory. Fremont—It is reported here that the machinery of ^the beet sugar fac tory at Leavitt is to be taken out and moved to Scott’s Bluff. If the litiga tion now pending concerning the plant results in fav'w of the bondholders, it is thought that the building itself will also be moved to that point. This wee a a quantity of syrup, left over from last season, was worked up. Northwestern Earnings. Omaha—A statement of Nebraska earnings of the Northwestern road for July show's the money received -from state business to be $28,977.37, and from interstate business in Ne braska $6,956.82, or a total for the month from passenger business of $35,934.25. _i Cochran Given Freedom. Kimball—A reminder of former stir ring times in the return of "Al" Coch ran from the penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., after an absence of eleven years. Cochran was sent up from Colorado eleven years ago on convic tion of rustling cattle, under a sen tence of thirty years. Texas Fever Breaks Out. McCook, Neb.—Inspector W. J. Jones of the United States bureau of animal Industry reported an outbreak of Texas fever among cattle just across the Nebraska line in Cheyenne county. Kansas. Thirty-two head have died. Suspects Are Identified. Lincoln—At the preliminary hear ing of the alleged Rock Island train robbers in Justice Risser’s court, Con ductor Harry L. Duval positively identified them as the men who he’d up the passengers of his train. Other witnesses also identified them. Makes Big Fish Stories. Central City—The Platte river is so low at this point that several fine catches of fish have been made in the shallow pools left by 'the receding waters. The largest reported is a twenty-five-pound catfish taken from the river Tuesday by Merle Rowland, and other large catches of carp, cat and pike are reported. Most years the river goes dry at this point about the middle of August, and rises again in September when the water is re leased from tho irrigation ditches at the headwaters. Baptists Condemn Lynching. Palmyra—Tl^- state Baptist associa tion passed resolutions condemning the recent lynching of the murderer, Higgins at Bancroft and calling upon Governor Sheldon and Attorney Gen eral Thompson to- punish the men guilty of the cflme. Back to Colorado. iLncoln—Harry Brophy. now un der arrest at Omaha, will be taken bade to Colorado to stand trial for at tempting to sbopt the town marshal of Florence, Colo. • . v -—— ■ " - REWARDED. * / _ t -\ BUT ^ U/1CCRSTAHD ? I NE*T T1WE-L GLOVER LEAF BUYS ALTON DIRECTORS VOTE TO SIGN CON TRACT FOR PURCHASE. Road’s Physical Condition Found Good—Unification of Shonts-Haw ley Properties Will Follow. New York.—The directors of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railway at a meeting here Friday voted to sign a contract for the purchase of the Chicago & Alton railway from the Rock Island interests, in accordance with the Agreement that such should be done provided the Alton received immunity in connection with the Standard Oil rebating investigation. Attorney General Bonaparte recently announced that such immunity would be granted. Before the directors acted, a com mittee submitted an exhaustive re port of the physical condition of the rcp.d, which was declared to be highly satisfactory. The oiu Chicago & Aiton board will probably meet during the coming week and resign in a body, after which the new interest will assume formal control. It is expected that some .unification of the so-called Shonts-Hawley properties, namely the Toledo, St. Louis & Western. Chicago & Alton, Iowa Central and Minne apolis & St. Louis roads, will speedily follow. It is planned to make direct connec tions between the Iowa Central and Chicago & Alton and the Toledo. St. Louis & Western road, thereby ef fecting a link with Minneapolis and St. Louis. This will give the unified system direct lines between Detroit, St. Louis and Kansas City, as well as direct lines between Chicago and Kansas City. FRISCO WELCOMES SQUADRON. Four Vessels from Asiatic Station Arrive in Pacific Port. San Francisco. — The first di vision of the Pacific fleet, the fore guard of the American navy which is to assemble in Pacific coast waters Thursday or Friday, steamed through the Golden Gate at sunrise Friday morning. The four armored cruisers passed the Heads in file formation, led by the flagship West Virginia flying at her masthead the two-starred flag of the commander of the fleet. Rear Admiral James H. Dayton. Five hundred yards to the rear came the Colorado, fol lowed at a like -distance -by the Mary land, and that by the Pennsylvania. The arrival of the four big sister ships marked the end of a 36,000 mile cruise, which began at Newport, R. I., last September. GETS AFTER OMAHA PACKERS. Nebraska Food Commissioner Starts Out to Enforce the Law. Lincoln, Neb. -— Food commission er Johnson is beginning a cam paign against the packing houses which are offending against the pure food law. Packages of meat must hereafter have the net weight stamped upon them. To start his campaign for packages of honest weight. Johnson Wednesday ordered the county attorney of Doug las county to institute proceedings against the South Omaha packing houses. It is found that packages of bacon and ham are wrapped with pa per and cloth until five or six per cent, of the stamped weight is thus accounted for. The order is that all Nebraska packers must comply with the law. If outside packers do not, the retailers handling the goods will be held responsible. AMASA CAMPBELL GUILTY. Jury, However, Asks Clemency for Slayer of Dr. Harris. Chicago. — A verdict of man slaughter, with a recommendation to the state board of pardons for ex treme clemency, was given by a jury in Judge Windes' court Tuesday even ing against Amasa C. Campbell, the lumber dealer of Antigo, Wis., who shot and mortally wounded Dr. Ben jamin S. Harris last December in the Stock Exchange building. Campbell suspected Harris of improper rela tions with the former’s wife. Attached to the verdict was a peti tion to the state pardon board, signed by every member of the jury, recom mending that Campbell be confined In the penitentiary not to exceed the minimum term prescribed by law. This is one year. President in Capital Again. Washington.—President Roosevelt arrived here from his summer vaca tion at Oyster Bay at 5:57 p. m. Wednesday. A large crowd was at the Pennsylvania station to greet him. Postmaster General Meyer, Secretary Straus, Assistant Secretary Murray of the department of com merce'and labor and a number of other federal officials met the presi dent at his car and accompanied him to his carriage in Sixth street, where it was surrounded with people who cheered lustily. Grand Duke of Baden Dying. Constance, Grand Duchy of Baden, —Grand Duke Frederick, who has been suffering from intestinal inflam mation for a week or more, is rap idly growing worse and is not expect ed to survive long. RICHARD WALTON ARRESTED. Alleged Murderer of Chicago Womar Caught in Springfield. Springfield, 111.—Richard Walton, the negro charged with the murder of Mrs. Lillian White Grant in Chicago by strangling her Sept. 18, was ar rested Thursday morning and is be ing held awaiting orders from Chicago. Walton was picked up on the charge of vagrancy and when taken before the police magistrate was dismissed and ordered out of the city. Before he had left the station, however, he was recognized from* a photograph fur nished the police, and was rearrested on suspicion. He later admitted that he was Walton. NO THIRD TERM: ROOT. Secretary of State Declares Rcoseveit Wil.l Not Run. Little Rock, Ark.—Elihu Root, sec retary of state, spent a short time here Friday, en route to the City of Mexico, traveling la the private car “Signet” attached to Iron Mountain train No. 5. When pressdtt for a po litical statement, he said: “President Roosevelt will not be a candidate of the Republican party. It is true that from many sections of the country there are coming requests that the president allow his name to be pre sented to our next national conven-' tion, but this will not be the case.” Police Shoot Crap Players. Pittsburg, Pa.—During a raid Tues day by fhe police on a crap game par ticipated in by a number of negroes, the officers opened fire on the men when they ran and Daniel Murphy, 12 years old, white, was fatally shot and Hays Kessler, colored, was shot through the back. The others es caped. President Dines Bishop of London. Washington.—The first entertain ing done by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt since their return to Wash ington was a dinner given at the White House Friday evening In honor of their house guest, Rt. Rev. A. F. Winnington-Ingram, lord bishop of London, who arrived here Friday. Taft Reaches Yokohama. Yokohama.—The steamer Minneso ta, with Secretary Taft and Ws party on board, arrived here at seven o’clock Saturday' morning. Ex-Judge Morse Stricken in Court. Ionia, Mich.—Ex-Judge Allen B. Morse, former justice of the Michigan supreme court, was stricken with apn. plexy while on the witness stand in court. It is believed that the stroke will prove fatal. Mr. Morse is 69 years old. 200 Railway Clerks Strike. Toledo, O.—Two hundred railway clerks, representing six roads, struck Friday demanding a working agree ment with the roads. More than that many remained at their desks. Nebraska Wins Rate Victory. Omaha.—Judges T. C. Munger and W. H. Munger, in the^ United States court Thursday night denied the in junction asked for by the railroads operating in Nebraska to prevent the state railway commissioner from en forcing the laws reducing grain rates. The restraining order issued some time ago by Judge T. C. Munger was dissolved. This is regarded as a de cisive victory for the state, although it is presumed Ciat the case will be car ried to the United States court of ap peals by the railroad companies. , r > Fourteen Drown in Alabama. Mobile, Ala.—A ferryboat crossing the Tombigbee river at the govern ment works at McGrew Shoales near Jackson, Ala,, late Thursday was cap sized, drowning one white boy and 13 negroes. The boy was Leslie Ver nuille, 16 years of age, residing in •Oaksdale, a suburb of this city. Nine Poieoned by Ice Cream. Statesboro, Ga.—Cone Hagan, a farmer living near here, and eight chil dren were poisoned .by ice cream 1b which condensed milk had been used. MYSTERY OF A SAFE WHEREABOUTS OF STANDARD OIL BOOKS NEARLY FOUND. ■_;_ 4 SCENT GROWING WARM By Them Kellogg Hopes to Prove Combine Didn’t Dissolve—Disap _ peared Without Secretary Seeing Contents. New York. — Evidence of the existence recently of a mysterious steel safe in the Standard Oil com pany’s offices, brought out in the gov ernment’s suit Friday, Indicated that Attorney Frank B. Kellogg was close on the trail cf the books of the Stand ard Oil trustees and liquidating trus tees. When the hearing was concluded, Mr. Kellogg said that he was closer to the books, from which he hopes to prove that the oil combine never un derwent a legal dissolution, than he had been at any time since the gov ernment’s action was commenced. Assistant Secretary Doesn’t Know. Charles White, the assistant secre tary of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, said on the witness stand Friday that when he went to the sec retary’s office to assume his ne6 du ties there were two steel safes in the office. One of them contained the books and records of the Standard company; what' was in the other safe he did not know. Mr. White said that no one told him the nature of the con tents of the second safe, which was removed two weeks after he had been there. From whom the order came or where it was taken to, the witness, said, he could not answer. Mr. White said that he had _ never seen the records of the Standard Oil trustees or the liquidating trustees showing the various transfers of stock in the trust liquidating period. He had hunted for the records recently but was unable to And them. STEAMER TRAIN IN COLLISION. French Special Carrying Americans Wrecked—All Escape Death. Paris.—The rear coach of the sec ond section of the special train carry ing 150 first-class passengers from Paris to Cherbourg to embark on the White Star line steamer Adriatic, for New York, was telescoped Wednes day by the regular Rouen express at beyond Nantes. Strangely, no one was killed, and according to the latest authentic information, no one was seriously injured. Ail the passengers in the last coach, however, were badly shaken up and seven or eight were injured. A man sustained a fractured leg, and a wo man, it is feared, suffered internal in juries. AH the injured American pas sengers, with the exception of one. continued on their way to Cher bourg. ANTWERP STRIKE IS ENDED. Great Victory for the Federation of Ship Owners. % _ Antwerp—The strike of the dock laborers of this city, which has been going on since last June, came to an end Tuesday afternoon with a sweep ing victory for the Federation of Ship Owners. At a meeting of the strike leaders, it was decided that the men should return to work unconditional ly. at the terms of the employers. The men have been astonished and overawed by the solidarity of the federation, and there will not be an other dock laborers’ strike in Ant werp for many years to come. The power of the strike organizers has been completely broken. This strike has brought about a coalition among i the ship owners of the world' for mu tual protection which, in the future, will make a shipping strike - -an ex tremely hazardous undertaking. CHEAP DISTURBERS IN CUBA. Parra and Others of His Gang Put Under Arrest. Washington.—Official word of the arrests of conspirators in Havana reached the war department Thursday in the following cablegram addressed by Gov. Magoon to Acting Secretary Oliver: “Information more specific and cer tain than heretofore received was se-' cured late Wednesday night that Maso Parra, angered by failure to bring about an uprising, threatened to dynamite some building in Havana and then escape. The local police ar rested him and two of his gang named Lara Miret and Ducassi and they are now in jail.” -s_ Wife Slain; Aged Man Held. Chicago. — Mrs. Cyrus Baldwin, , 83 years old, wife of a wealthy pi oneer of Hampshire, Ilf., ten miles northeast of Elgin, was the victim of a pitiful murder tragedy Wednesday. New Boxer Outbreak. Shanghai.—An outbreak of Boxer ism has occurred at Nankangsien, in the southern part of the province of Kiangsi. An Italian priest and a num ber of converts have been murdered at the village of Tawouff, Actress Found Dead in Bed. Washington.'—Mrs. Marguerite Bow er, the leading lady in the “Broadway After Dark” company, playing at a local theater, was found dead in bed at a hotel Friday. Her husband lives ,at Mineral City, O. Lipton Depends on Fife’s Advice. London.—Sir Thomas Lipton was in terviewed Thursday night after he had learned the reasons why his challenge to race for the America’s cup had been declined by the New York Yacht club, and said: “I still have plenty of time to issue another challenge but all depends upon what I am advised to do. Mr. Fife is coming especially to consult with me on the situation. I know the New York Yacht club feels its respon sibility and I am quite willing to abide by its decision." —ftm'i II iir II ‘ ' MAY EXTEND WIRE STRIKE GOTHAM LOCAL WANTS LEASED WIRE MEN CALLED OUTi Await Sanction of National Officers and .Ask Them to Take Action Throughout. New York.—The New York local of the Commercial Telegraphers’ . union voted Wednesday night to call out all j leased wire operators employed by the press and brokers’ offices in this ! city, if such action shall be sane- i tioned by the national officers. Ac tion by the national officers will be awaited before anything further is done. '• - > it was voted also to ask'tbe national officers to issue a call for tbp brokers' and press telegraphers throughout the country to quit work. The demand upon the nffin who are n6w working under contract is made in the; inter ests of those who have struck. against the Western Union and Postal Tele graph companies. The decision to call upon the press and broker operators to break their individual contracts and go out in a sympathetic strike was reached after a heated debate which occupied sev eral hours of a meeting of the New York local No. 16. On the final vote it was declared that the strikers were practically unanimous. Daniel Li. Russell, chairman of the strike- committee, who until Wednes day bad opposed the movement &ot a sympathetic strike, made a vigorous speech in which he reversed his posi tion and declared that expediency de manded such a war measure as was proposed. An amendment introdtjeed by John G. McCloskey of the Hearst News Service, exempting from the- strike operators of leased wires ’who were bound by a union contract with their employers, signed six months previous to the strike of the commercial men, was defeated, amid much cheering, and the original resolution passed with little opposition. After the meeting Chairman Rus sell said if the present course was not effective the railroad operator^ would be called upon to quit work. OIL REFINERY IS BURNED. Plant of Sterling Company at Mari etta, O., Destroyed. Marietta, O. — Many, thousands of dollars’ loss was caused Tues day by a fire that destroyed most of the plant cf the Sterling Oil re finery. The conflagration raged for seven hours, dying down only when there was nothing more for the flames to feed upon. The water pumps were out of order but several lines of steam were played into the fire and by strenous efforts ten tanks of. crude oil on a hill above the works were saved as the wind was blowing in the opposite direction. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have originated in a1 retort in which bones used in clarify- j ing oil are reduced to char. Over 200 barrels of machine oil and 14 tanks of refined oil and much finished product was destroyed. The officials of the company aefuse to give the amount oi less. The Sterling company is one of the independents mentioned in the list as making agreements to sell the entire product to the Standard Oil company in exchange for crude oil. The plant was modern and well equipped. SAYS HIS TRIAL IS UNFAIR. Rev. W. P. Ferguson Resigns from the ^ Nebraska Methodist Conference. Lincoln, Neb.—Rev. Wilbert P. Fer guson, of University place, Friday re- j signed from the state Methodist con ference rather than proceed with the ‘ church trial in which he was being tried for unbecoming conduct with Mrs. E. A. Cross, a member of bis congregation. His counsel declared the withdrawal took place because of the prejudiced rulings of Rev. J. T. ! Roberts, the minister presiding at the trial. Mr. Ferguson’s counsel asserted that the ruinig preventing depositions in favor of Mr. Ferguson or reflecting on Mrs. Cross was highly unfair. -:—1 Striking Car Men Violent. 1 Latrobe, Pa.—After cutting the trol- < ley wires, causing the stoppage of 1 traffic, striking employes of the West ’ Moreland Street railway attacked a car in charge of Supt. Schwartz early < Tuesday near here, and put the crew < to flight The strikers then smashed 1 the car windows and destroyed the < seats and furnishings. r Conspiracy in Cuba. Havana.—A conspiracy to start a ' revolutionary movement in Cuba has 1 been discovered. Under instructions issued by Gov. Magoon, a number of 1 suspicious persons believed to be con- ' nected with the conspiracy have boon shadowed for several days past. It is ' believed that the movement is backed ' by New York capitalists. _ ' i Woman Testifies Against Minister. Lincoln, Neb.—The church trial of Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson «f the Methodist church of University place was resumed Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. E. A. Cross, the accusing witness, on the stand. Her testimony waS similar to that given during the preliminary investigation, alleging that she had been guiity of miscon duct with the minister, who was her boarder. Mrs. Cross stated that she , loved the minister, and that -he had | assured her that love was greater than law. Mexican Foreign Minister Hi. Mexico City.—Ingacio Mariscal, the minister of foreign affairs, is reported to be seriously ill. Senor Mariscal will not be able to take part in the en tertainments to be given in honor of Secretary Root. Leap for Freedom Is Fatal. Dayton, O.—William E. Burch, of ! tJlendale, O., a federal prisoner en ■ - route to Cincinnati, plunged from a 1, last flying train near here Tuesday. I His neck was broken and death was 1 j instantaneous. ] t -• — ■ — - jaejife-v: ■ - "■ - ■ ; MOST IMPORTANT EVENT9 OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. The federal grand jury at San Fran cisco returned indictments against the Southern Pacific Railway com pany and the Pacific Mail Steamship company for secret cutting of rates. The armored cruisers West Vir ginia, Colorado, Maryland and Penn sylvania arrived at San Francisco from the Philippines. Two army surgeons were named to physically examine every officer re quired to make thel5-mUe test ride: Those not healthy enough will not take the test. Secretary of State Root, on his way to Mexico, declared that President. Roosevelt would not be a candidate for renomination. The steamer Minnesota, with Secre tary of War Taft on board, arrived at Yokohama. Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson of Lin coln, Neb., resigned from the state Methodist conference rather than pro ceed with the church trial in which he was being tried for unbecoming conduct with Mrs. E. A. Cross. The directors of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railway at a meet ing in New York voted to sign a con tract for the purchase of the Chicago, & Alton railway from the Rock Island interests. Methodists of Indiana refused to elect Vice President Fairbanks a lay delegate to the general conference be cause he served cocktails at a dinner in honor of President Roosevelt. Mrs. Marguerite Bower, the leading lady in the “Broadway After Dark" company, playing at a Washington theater, was found dead in bed at a hotel. President Roosevelt defeated the Bishop of London at tenuis and then gave a dinner' in his honor. Richard Walton, colored, confessed to the murder of Mrs. Lillian White Grant in Chicago. Six hundred lives were lost by, the jverflowing of the river Otonashiga wa in Japan. Hundreds of houses and boats were iestroyed by fire in Wuchow, China, ind it is feared many lives were lost. Theodore F Rice, a resident of Chi cago for over 40 years and well known In the whAesale paper trade, lied after a month’s illness. Eight persons were injured in a ivreck on the Pennsylvania railroad it Duncannon, Pa., when the Altoona iccommodation train ran into a 'reight. , Henry T. Scott, builder of the Ore gon, said in a New York interview hat in future warships could not be milt on the Pacific coast owing to the ligh prices of labor and material. Three men—James Cooper, James rteiyy and Richard Smith—^ho were oading a sprinkling cart with oil for, ise on the Morris park automobile rack at New York, were killed by an ?xplosion of oil at a tank in the 3ronx. Children playing with matches in a lay shed on the Traflord farm, near 'few Haven, 111., started a fire that re sulted in the loss of four lives. < Two hundred railway clerks in To edo, 0., representing six roads, struck, demanding a working agree nent with the roads. More than that nany remained at their desks. President Roosevelt announced at he White House that he assumed here would be no objection to the ippointment of Wu Ting-fang sts min stei- from China to the United States. The handsome home of Francis G. ^andon. ex-secrgtary of the American embassy at Vienna, was robbed by wo men at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. High officials of the Persian army lave signed a document presented to he shah saying that unless full ac ceptance is given to their demands or a constitutional' government' they vill resign in a body. The union labor city and county convention of San Francisco nominat :d a ticket headed by P. H. McCar hy, president of the Building Trades' council, for mayor. The bishop of London preached in trinity church, New York, to a great hrong of financiers and business men. ,nd scored the dishonesty of the wealthy. \ Gov Folk of Missouri, was the guest (f honor at Nashville, Tenn., on home iomer's day. Trinity Episcopal cathedral at Cleveland, O., was dedicated with ■laborate ceremonies. The edifice cost 11,000,000 and has been under con .truction five years. Gov. Folk lost his suit against the :ity of St. Louis for back pay as cir :uit attorney. George W. Beavers, who was sen enced to Imprisonment in connec-1 ion with the postal frauds several rears ago, was released from the peni entiary at Moundsville, W. Ya. William E. Burch, of Glendale, O., t federal prisoner en route to Cinc innati, plunged from a fast flying rain near Dayton and was killed. Mrs. John Routh, aged 40, a deaf nute, was burned to death at Koko no, Ind., when she tried to start a fire vith kerosene. In a fire at 3425 Morgan street. St. xrnis. Miss Grace Slocum attempted o lower her sister Nellie from a sec md story window with a blanket, but Nellie lost her grip and fell headlong o-tbe pavemeht, fracturing her skull. Trace jumped from the window and ' ractured both ankles. The postoffice at Mindoro, Wis., waia down open by a gang of burglars and £ he safe demolished with dynamite. [Tie robbers got a large quantity of aluable jewelry. The Hotel Ampersand at Saranac .ake, N. Y., horned down, the loss be ig $270,000. .