Nebraska Newspapers

    MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS 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.
William G. Rockefeller, assistant
treasurer-of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, testified in the govern
ment's suit for the dissolution of the
oil combine, that the Standard was a
heavy lender of its surplus funds in
Wall street, for which it obtained the
prevailing rates of interest. Mr. Rock
efeller made this declaration when
asked to account for the loans of $32,
000,00# made by the Standard Oil
company of New York, in 1906, to
"interests other than the Standard."
Aeronauts J. C. McCoy and Capt.
Charles De F. Chandler, who ascended
from'St. Louis for a test flight, won
the Callm cup by traveling about 500
miles to '.Vest Virginia,
Acting under instructions from
Judge Cochran, the jury at Decatur,
111., returned a verdict acquitting Fred
WagTTl SEtt bis wife, Fo.ye Gea»
Ibatai ftfadli, of the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Pet Magiil, the first wife of
Magill.
Lewis M. Wilsqiv h slurtow ai the
Eureka CdVcge Tliuotegica! Seminary
at Eureka, 11!., shot and seriously
wqujveiefl John Walsh, a classmate,
f Edwin R. Wright was reelected
president of the Illinois Federation of
Labor, and James F. Morris, seere
•tary-treasurer.
Gov. Hughes, addressing the Repub
lican dub of New York city, declared
that he war. not seeking the presiden
tiid nomination, directly or indirectly.
Negroes in New Orleans started a
riot in which they killed a policeman,
barricaded themselves in a house and
wounded several other officers before
they were captured.
The direct New York-Havana cable
of the Commercial Cable company was
completed, the final splice having
been made at sea. 120 miles from
Coney island.
The Canadian Pacific liners Tartar
and Charmer collided off the mouth
of the Fraser river and both were bad
ly damaged.
E. R. Brundick, former cashier of
the Peoples bank at Huntlngburg.
Ind., attempted to commii suicide
after he was arrested on charges of
perjury and for receiving deposits
after the bank was in an embarrassed
condition.
Delegates Frederick W. Priesmeyer
and Ferdinand Warder, of St. Louis,
were arrested on the floor of the
house of delegates on indictments for
bribery, returned at a special session
of the grand jury after the passage by
the delegates of a bill granting per
mission to build a garage on Delmar
boulevard.
Princess de Bearn, formerly Miss
Beatrice Winane, of Baltimore, Md.,
died in St. Petersburg.
John Antrobus, an artist, who was
widely known throughout this coun
try and the father of Miss Suzanne An
trobus, the novelist died in Detroit,
Mich.
The peace conference at The Hague
.closed in a blaze of oratory.
George Kincaid, head of the public
tworks department in Yukon Territory,
who was arrested at Dawson on a
charge of stealing 140,000 from a reg
istered mail sack, committed suicide
by taking poison.
President Roosevelt succeeded in
shooting a large black bear.
The police of Manila were warned
t that an attempt would be made to
throw a bomb at Secretary Taft.
Four persons were killed and many
hurt in a trolley car collision at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
A Chicago jury returned a verdict of
life imprisonment for Michael Maher,
accused of attacking an 11-year-old
girl.
W. W. Westcott, tfiie of the most
successful gamblers in America and
brother of Mrs. Katherine Tingley,
head of the Theosophi3t organization,
is dead at his home in New York.
Gov. Gen. Grey of Canada an
nounced that some members of the
royal family would visit the dominion
in connection with the centenary of
the landing of Champlain.
The Danish steamer Alfred Eriand
sen was wrrecked off Castle Point,
Scotland, and 2Q of the crew were
drowned.
Burglars butchered Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Self red, an aged couple, near
Franklin, La.
The supreme court of Wisconsin de
cided that fine-cut tobacco in a leaf
wrapper is not a cigarette and that the
sale of such product is not a violation
of the anti-cigarette law.
The state department designated
Algernon Sartoris, of the District of
Columbia, to b<? secretary of legation
at Montevideo. v Mr. Sartoris is the
grandson of President Grant. Gustavus
L. Monroe, Jr., of Michigan, has been
designated as secretary of legation at
La Paz, Bolivia.* \
A fall of slate in a coal mine at
Portvlew, Pa., crushed a man and a
young girt to death. The girl’s mother
was probably fatally injured.
Nineteen persons were killed and
many injured when a train left the
tracks and was wrecked near Shrews
bury, Rngland.
It is declared in Paris that Philip
Coon, the young New Yorker who dis
appeared from a well-known hotel
there October 12. has eloped.
Robert L. Carson, a prominent
financier and street railway magnate,
died suddenly while watching a play
in a Philadelphia theater.
I The ferryboat running between
Point Pleasant,. W. Va., and Kanau
gam, O., sank in deep water. The
crew were saved with life belts and
Ufa preservers.
The Dixon (111.) high school build
ing was burned. All the 4<NI pupils
' escaped without injury.
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MAGILLS ARE NOT 6UILTY
JUDGE INSTRUCTS JURY TO AC
QUIT THE DEFENDANTS.
Slflrte Did Not Prove the Corpus De
licti—Verdict Is Greeted with
Cheers.
Decatur, 111.—Acting under instruc
tions from Judge Cocliran, the jury
Friday night returned a verdict ac
quitting Frederick Magill and his wife,
Faye Graham Magill, of the charge of
mihrdering Mrs. Pet Magill, the first
wife of Magill. In his instructions
tfie judge said the state had failed to
prove the corpus delicti.
The verdict was greeted with cheers
despite the efforts of the court to
maintain order. The crowd in the
courtroom hurried forward and of
fered congratulations to the Magills.
The jury afterwards filed by and each
shook hands - with the defendants.
On May JO (last, Mrs. Pet Magill
wa£ found deai? in her home at Clin
ton, 111., and a postmortem examina
tion held six weeks after her death
showed that she had been suffocated
by chloroform. On July 5 in Denver
Frederick Magill, her husband, and
Miss Faye Graham, a young womau
who had been a close, friend ef the
family, were married. Four days
later in San Diego, Cal., Magill and
his second wife were arrested on a
charge of murdering the first Mrs.
Magill. They were brought back to
Clinton arid secured jt change of venue
to this city, in the trial the state
‘claimed that Magill and Miss Gra
ham by their conduct had driven Mrs.
Magill to suicide and were therefore
guilty of murder.
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WANTS UBELERS HANGED.
Dr. Andrews Denounces Distortion of
Acts of Public Men.
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Washington.—President E. Benja
min Andrews, of the University of
Nebraska, in addressing the fall con
vocation of George Washington uni
versity here Wednesday, bitterly de
nounced what he termed malicious
and willful misrepresentation of ,the
acts of public or prominent men by
the press. Hanging, he said, should
be the punishment meted out to a
proved libeler. “None of the busi
ness villainies alleged to be so rife,”
he continued, “can compare in atroci
ty with these squalid campaigns of
libel and libelous caricature which re
tent months have produced.”
Given Life Sentence for Murder.
Boston.—Walter *Stock was sen
tenced to life imprisonment by Judge
Brown in the superior court Friday
for the murder of his sweetheart, Mary
Agnes Bates, at the street railway
waiting room at Roxburg Crossing on
April 30 last. Stock was indicted for
murder in the first degree but the
court accepted his plea of guilty of
murder in the second degree.
Minnesota Mayor Missing.
Fairmount, Minn.—W. W. Ward,
mayor of this city, is missing. Four
or five weeks ago he went to St. Paul,
and three, weeks ago left that city,
saying he was gcing to return to Fair
mount. Since then nothing has been
heard of him. His wife went to St.
Paul, Chicago and Peoria, his former
home, to search for him, but found no
trace of him.
John Antrobus, Artist, Dies.
Detroit, Mich.—John Antrobus, an
artist, who was widely known through
out this country and the father of
Miss Suzanne Autrobus, the novelist,
died Friday at his home in this ci^.
He lived in Chicago and Washington
before coming here.
Northern Pacific Has New Manager.
St. Paul, Minn.—President Howard
Elliott, of the Northern Pacific rail
way, Friday announced the resigna
tion of Harry J. Horn, as general man
ager of the road, and the appoint-'
ment of George T. Slade, son-in-law of
J. J. Hill, to succeed him.
President Kills a Bear.
Stamboul, La.—President Roosevelt
killed a bear late Thursday. It was
a female, of the black variety and be
yond the average size and the presi
dent went into the thicket after her.
Wooden Steamer Sinks Near Detroit.
Detroit, Mich.—The wooden steam
er Case of the Gilchrist fleet was sunk
Wednesday afternoon in a collision
with the Pittsburg Steamship com
pany’s steel steamer Mariska In the
Lime Kilns Crossing.
Sets New Automobile Record.
Birmingham, La.—Christie Strang,
a nephew of Walter Christie, lowered
the ’ world’s mile automobile record
for a circular track' here Wednesday
covering the distance In 61 S-i sec
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WIN THE LAHM CUP,
Chandler and McCoy Travel 500 MilM ,
in Walloon.
St. Louis.—Swinging through the at- J
mosphere at a spand roughly esti-:
mated ut 22 miles an hour, the United
States signal corps balloon No. 10,
in which Aeronauts J. C. McCoy and
Capt. Charles DeF. Chandler, of the
United States signal corps, ascended
here Thursday evening, passed over
Illinois and Indiana Thursday night,
and across Ohio Friday, and at night
fall was apparently about to land in
the vicinity of Point Pleasant, W. Va.,
when last heard from.
The distance covered, on a straight
line measurements, is approximately
500 miles, and the voyage won for the
aeronauts the Lahm cup.
The Lahm cup was instituted by the
Aero Club of America, soon after the
international races at Paris in 1906, at
which Lieut. Frank P. Lahm \tfon the
James Gordon Bennett cup for the
Aero Club of America. So joyful were
the members of the club at the vic
tory that the cup was named for the
pilot of the balloon United States, and
it was put up by the club to be won by
the aeronaut who traveled more than
402 miles, the distance traveled by the
United States in the Paris races, pro
vided the start was made from Ameri
can soil. Lieut. Lahm has never held
the cup, and this was the first time it
was ever won.
When the ascension was made here
Thursday evening it was the intention
of the aeronauts to remain in the "air
all night as a test of the gas to be
used by the balloons in the interna
tional aeronautic contests which begin
here next week. However, consider
ing the likelihood that they might be
carried a long distance, they went
amply prepared for a long flight.
Provisions in tin cans, self-heating
by a lime-slacking device, were stored
in the-basket, and a number of differ
ent instruments for testing purposes
were carried.
SHOOTS HIS FELLOW STUDENT.
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Eureka Theological Seminary Boy
Tries to Kill Another.
Peoria, 111.—Lewis M. WilEon, a
student at the EiiTeka College Theo
logical Seminary at Eureka, 111., Fri
day afternoon shot and seriously
wounded John Walsh, a classmate,
during the assembling of the class for
a recitation. #
Wilson fired a revolver point blank
at his victim, and the bullet lodged
in Walsh’s neck near tlje jugular vein.
Thursday afternoon Wilson chal
lenged Walsh to a fight, which was
rejected, and Wilson ihirchased a re
volver and practiced target shooting
on the college campus just prior to
the convening of the class. Walsh’s
home is at Sydney, Australia, and Wil
son comes from a small town in Mis
souri.
Nineteen Perish in English Wreck.
Shrewsbury, England.—The latest
report from the scene of Tuesday’s
railway wreck near here says that 19
persons were killed, while 39 others
were injured. There is still no ex
planation of the accident. It is sug
gested the cause may be failure of
the vacuum brakes to respond. It*
seems certain that somebody blun
dered, for the engine was going at a
tremendous rate of speed when the
train left the tracks.
Fatal Fire in a Sawmill.
Bay CitV, Mich.—The - sawmill of
the Kern Manufacturing company was
destroyed by fire Friday afternoon
and William B. Lapham, a lumber in
spector, was burned to death. The
loss will reach $75,000, insurance $20,
000.
Steamer Wrecked; 20 Drown.
London.—The Danish steamer Al
fred Erlandsen has been wrecked on
the rocks off Castle Point, near St.
Abb’s head, Scotland. She went
ashore during a gale Friday night and
20 of her crew were drowned.
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Three Chinamen Killed in Riot.
Philadelphia.—A fight between two
Chinese in Chinatown Friday after
noon developed into a riot, the rival
Tong societies taking sides. PistolB
and knives were freely used and three
of the participants were killed.
Vesuvius Causes a Panic.
Naples.—A panic was caused here
Thursday, owing to the sudden ces
sation of smoke from all the craters
of Vesuvius, accompanied by loud
detonations which usually mean a re
sumption of activity hy the volcano.
Clairvoyant Steals Diamonds.
Beloit, Wis.—A 'clairvoyant Wednes
day stole diamonds valued at $1,000
from Mrs. George Williams. He asked
to he permitted to perform some
charms on the gems, and both
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AWFUL POWBER BLAST
NEARLY TWO SCORE PERSONS
KILLED AT FONTANET, IND.
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ENTIRE TOWN DESTROYED
More Than 600 Are Injured, About
50 of Them 8eriously—Loose Box
ing of Explosive Blamed for
the Disaster.
Foiltanet, Ind.—Thirty-eight lives
snuffed out, 600 injured, of which
number 50 were seriously hurt, and a
property loss of approximately $750,
000 is the latest estimate of the de
struction wrought by the explosion at
the Dupont Powder mills Tuesday
morning.
Where stood a thriving and busy
town of 1,000 people there is ruin and
scattered wreckage. The dead and
more seriously injured have been
taken away. Five hundred inhabit
ants, all more or less wounded, remain
to gather their scattered household
goods and sleep under tents and on
cots, guarded by soldiers of the state.
From a workman employed in the
glazing mill it was learned Wednes
day that a “hot box,” which was
caused by too much friction on the
shafting, causing sparks to be trans
mitted to some loose powder, was in
all probability the eause of the ter
rible catastrophe.
Loose Boxing Blamed.
The employe, whose name is Wil
liam Sherrow and who is dangerously
hurt as the result of the explosiodl
said:
“The explosion in which so many
lives were lost was caused by loose
boxing on the shaft. The day before
this terrible explosion happened we
had to throw water on it when it be
came too hot. This time it got too
hot and sent off the sparks that
caused the explosion.”
Another company of state militia
arrived from Ifidianapolis Wednesday
evening and immediately went into
camp. The town is now under mar
tial law, the two companies of state
troops being in full control.
Seven Mills Blow Up.
witnout warning tne powaer mins,
seven iu number, blew up at 9:15
Tuesday morning. They employed 200
men and of these 75 were at work
when the first explosion occurred in
the press millT- In quick succession
the glazing powder magazine blew up,
followed by the cap mill. In the
magazine, situated several hundred
yards from the mills, were stored 40,
000 kegs of powder. The concussion
when it blew up was felt nearly 200
miles away.
Every house in this towtt-was de
stroyed. Farm houses two miles away
and schoolhouses equally distant were
torn to pieces and their occupants in
jured. A passenger train on the Big
Four railroad four miles away had
every coach window broken and sev
eral passengers were injured by fly
ing glass.
The mills went-up with three dis
tinct explosions, followed 90 min
utes later by a fourth even more seri
ous than the others when the maga
zines went up. Immediately following
the explosions the wreckage took fire
and the inhabitants of the town who
rushed to the rescne of the mill em
. ployes found themselves powerless to
aid those burning in the ruins.
They worked frantically in constant
danger from possible succeeding ex
plosions, unmindful of their ruined
homes. Dead and dying were picked
up and collected. Eighteen bodies
horribly burned and mangled were
carted to a protected spot to await
identification while the badly injured,
numbering upward of 50, were put on
a special train and taken to Terre
Haute for hospital accommodations.
Scarcely one of the 1,000 inhabitants
of the town but carried blood on
hands and face from bis own wounds
or those of people who had required
aid.
The mills were located one mile
south of the town. With the first
explosion the employes ran for safe
ty, but most of them were killed or
wounded by the quick-following ex
plosions in the other mills. When the
heat from the burning mills exploded
the great powder magazine, 90 min
utes later, destroying the town by the
concussion, many of those engaged in
rescue work were badly injured and
several were killed.
Superintendent, Monahan of the
plant was killed while sitting in his
office and his wife and sister-in-law
were killed in their home some dis
tance away.
Gov. Hanly at Indianapolis ordered
the Terre Haute ’ company of the In
diana National Guard here to patrol
the ruined district and protect life
and property. The governor arrived
in the evening about the time the sol
diers reached here. He brought with
him 700 tents and cots.
Citizens subscribed more than $5,000
to the relief fund and the council ap
propriated $1,000 to be expended to
relieve .suffering.
Snow Falls on Upper Lakes.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Snow fell
over the upper lakes Friday accom
panied by high winds which created
the heaviest sea of the year4 All
boats are tied up here waiting for
better weather.
New York-Havana Cable Laid.
New York.—The direct New York
Havana cable of the Commercial Cable
company was completed Thursday
night, the final splice having been
made at sea, 120 miles from Coney is
land.
Shoots Brother to Death.
Minot, N. D.—A. Boertz, of Burling
ton, shot and killed his brother
Wednesday nighL The men operated
a poolroom and it is alleged they had
been quarreling. Boertz says the
shooting was accidental.
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• Cuban Bandits Surrender.
Havana.—The group of bandits un
der the command of Gil Calder, which
recently had been committing ex
tensive depredations in the vicinity
of Ctenfnegos, surrendered Thursday
to OayC Witteaayer.
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HEINZES ARE HARD HIT
THEIR BUTTE BANK FAIL8 AND
FIRM IS SUSPENDED.
Copper Dividends Cut—Prominent
-Banking House of Hamburg, Ger
many, Forced to Wall.
New York. — Sensations followed
each other in rapid succession in the
financial district Thursday as the re
sult of the collapse of the projected
corner In United Copper and the sus
pension of a prominent brokerage
firm Wednesday.
The firm of Otto Heinze & Co. was
suspended on the stock exchange.
F. Augustus Heinze, the Butte cop- ]
per magnate, resigned the presidency i
of the Mercantile National bank of
New York.
The Amalgamated Copper company
at its directors’ meeting cut Its quar
terly dividend from two per cent, to
one per cent.
The directors of the Boston & Mon
tana Copper company declared a quar
terly dividend of six dollars in place
of a former dividend of $12.
The failure ,of Haller-Soehle & Co.,
prominent bankers of Hamburg, Ger
many, with liabilities that may reach
$7,500,000, was announced.
The State Savings bank of Butte,
Mont., of which the Heinzes are the
principal stockholders, suspended.
As a result of these sensations the
Slock market was halting and irregu
lar, but there was apparent feeling
that break of the attempted corner in
United Copper had cleared the at
mosphere somewhat, and the market
rallied before the close.
The suspension of Otto Heinze &
Co., of which firm Max M. Schultze is
the stock exchange member, was
based on a complaint to the exchange
made by Gross & Kleeberg, the stock
exchange firm which failed. In a com-1
munication to the president of the
stock exchange this firm charged Otto
Heinze & Co. with refusing to accept
3,202 shares of United Copper, said to
have been bought on the order of the
Heinze firm. The action, Gross &
Kleeberg state, was responsible for
their failure. Attorneys for this firm
stated that the amount owing to the
firm by the Heinze firm aggregates
$600,000.
OLD TEXAS BANK ASSIGNS.
T. W. House of Houston Unable to
Realize on Assets.
Houston, Tex.—One of the oldest
banking houses in Texas went to the
wall Thursday afternoon when T. W.
House, banker, filed a general assign
ment under the state law. W. B.
Chew, W. D. Cleveland ^id J. S. Rice
were named as assignees. It is stated
that the resources are amply sufficient
to pay creditors 100 cents on the dol
lar. Inability to realize on securities
not readily convertible into cash is
considered the only cause of the as
signment.
The House bank was established in
Houston in 1838 by the father of the
present banker. Mr. House has enor
mous holdings of land and other invest
ments in many portions of the state.
MISTAKEN FOR BURGLAR; KILLED
North Dakota Editor Shot by Woman
Who Becomes Maniac.
Minot, N. D.—J. T. Neal, editor of
the Columbus Reporter, was shot and
killed Wednesday night by Mrs. R. C.
Rasmussen, who mistook him for a
burglar. Editor Neal was at work In
his office when he saw a house on fire
down the street. He started for the
fire, but on the way down stopped for
Mr. Rasmussen who, however, had al
ready gone. Neal attempted to enter
the Rasmussen house and Mrs. Ras
mussen thinking he was a burglar
procured her husband’s rifle and fired
through the door, killing Neal in
stantly.
Mrs. Rasmussen became a raving
maniac when she learned who it was
she had shot.
Rich American Loses $1,200.
Paris.—A wealthy American during
the lunch hour of the dressmaking es
tablishments on the Rue de la Pah
got into conversation with two pretty
young women who he thought were
dressmakers. Suddenly the bell re
calling the girls to work w-as heard
and the vtmng women rushed indoors,
taking the man’s pocketbook with
them. It contained $1,200. The police
were notified and found that the girls
were not known in any dressmaker’s
establishment in the neighborhood.
Wireless Links Two Worlds.
Glace Bay, N. S.—The inauguration
of a regular transatlantic wireless
service was accomplished by William
Marconi and his assistants Thursday.
Mr. Marconi stated at night that more
than 5,000 words had been transmit
ted between the station at Port
Morien, six miles from here and the
Irish station. Among the messages
transmitted Thursday was one from
Sir Hiram Maxim, and a telegram
from the London Daily Mail to Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Accused of Criminal Libel.
San Jose, Cal.—Charles M. Short
ridge, ex-state senator, editor of the
Daily Times and former owner of the
Mercury, was arrested Thursday on
complaint of Congressman E. A.
Hayes, on a charge of criminal libel.
The action grew out of an assertion
by Shortridge. in a public speech last
Wednesday, tha't he had information
that Hayes had burned his former
mansion at Edenvale for the insur
ance, which statement, together with
another serious accusation, was pub
lished in Shortridge's paper. /'
Girl Wins Typewriter Contest.
New York.—In the preliminary trial
for the typewriter speed contest at the
national business show in Madison
Square garden MIbs Rose I* Fritz led
all competitors with 1.133 words cor
rectly written in 15 minutes.
Burglars Butcher Agdd Couple.
Morgan City, La.—Near Franklin,
SL Mary parish, Tuesday night per
sons supposed to have been burglars
entered the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Selfred, an old couple, and
butchered them with an ax.
CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE.
An Omaha Institution That Has Ac
complished Great Good.
This institution has accomplished a
great work the past ten years in pro
viding temporary shelter and food for
more than two thousand homeless chil
dren and afterwards placing them in
permanent family homes. These
homes where so many little ones have
been adopted have been repeatedly vis
ited and are known to be good homes,
giving evidence that the homeless ones
taken from the institute are now sur
rounded by moral and uplifting Chris
tian influences with advantages foi
education and social life ana protection
in a financial way. Many of them
have already been made the sole heirs
to farms and to other valuable prop
erties. Some of the children in the in
stitute were taken from evil surround
ings and others from homes of extreme
poverty and still others from county
poor houses. A few years ago a
mother died in western Nebraska,
leaving eight children, the oldest beiag
12 years of age. The father was an
invalid receiving help from the county.
The eight children instead of going to
the poor house were brought to the In
stitute and are doing well in good
homes.
Three hundred children annually is
the average number sheltered and
provided for by this institution. The
number on hand daily is from 40 to
60. What would become of these home
less children without this place of
shelter and protection? This work is
a necessity in our Community. In spite
of all that has been accomplished and
in spite of its being a necessary work
it lacks financial support. The offi
cers of late have been struggling with
a debt on current expenses. The work
after all does not seem to be well
known. Surely, in this prosperous sec
tion of our country, and in these pros
perous times, there is money enough
to take care of the orphan and depend
ent little children. This institution
does not send out financial agents to
collect funds. It takes about half of
what sueta agents collect to pay their
salaries. There is one field agent of
the Institute who travels to visit chil
dren, investigate homes, who inci
dentally receives donations of funds.
It is hoped that readers of this article
will send contributions, making checks
payable to C. W. Lyman, treasurer of
the Child Saving Institute, Eighteentn
and Ohio, streets, Omaha, Neb. Every
penny will go to the benefit of the
helpless and homeless. All food sup
plies have advanced in prices. How
can the children be fed during the com
ing winter? How can fuel be provid
ed to warm the building? How can
nurses and helpers r>e paid to take
care of the babies? The readers of
this article, friends of the friendless,
are looked to for assistance to help
‘answer these questions. If people
could only understand and realize the
needs there would be generous re
sponses.
BRYAN AND HOME FOLKS.
A Famous Painting by Madam Car
lisle Cooley Now on Public Exhibi
tion in the City of Omaha.
Some months ago in this publica
tion was given two pictures of “Milk
ing Time on Gov. Sheldon’s Ranch on
the Weeping Water,” and “The Pio
neer Haymakers’ Lunch Beyond the
Missouri,” made from the paintings
by Catherine Carlisle Cooley of
Omaha. The paintings for some time
were in the show windows of promi
nent Omaha merchants, attracting
much attention.
Another painting by the same artist
is now on exhibition in the’Nebraska
metropolis and is receiving much fa
vorable criticism. This later acquisi
tion is a painting of William J. Bryan,
Mayor James C. Dahlman and mem
bers of the Nebraska “Home Folks”
delegation who met the Nebraska
statesman on his return from Europe.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Cooley,
the picture is publicly shown for the
first time, and that, too, alongside of
the famous painting of the renowned
artist, Rosa Bonlieur, whose pupil she*
was. Mrs. Cooley is the woman who
presented a $5,000 painting to Alice
Roosevelt, the white house bride, and
who has made portraits of Blaine,
Conklin and other distinguished peo
ple. This famous painting is now on
tree public exhibition at Nicoll, the
Tailor, Karbach Block, Omaha, Neb.
Fire at Fremont Normal.
Fremont—The main Dullding of the
Fremont Normal school was badly
damaged by fire. The loss will reach
$45,000, with only. $20,000 insurance
on both building and contents. The
origin of the fire is unknown. It
caught In the southeast part of the
building above the laboratory and
when It reached the chemicals spread
rapidly to the east, and north.
After a Fire or Wind
Loss you need the money. Friends
may sympathize but if you want a
company which pays cash try the
Farmers and Merchants Ins. Co., es
tablished since 1885. Over a million
dolars already paid to patrons.
Cannot Bring Body Home.
Plattsmouth—Word was received
from D. E. Thompson, United States
minister in Mexico, that tie body of
Will Edgerton, who died in Mexico,
had been buried, and that according to
the laws of that country It could nol
be removed for five years. Edgerton
was a Plattsmouth boy, and was em
ployed with a boring gang in that
country. He died in a hospital at Guy
nas, Mexico. He was a member o;
the Masonic lodge here, and members
took considerable pains to have th«
body brought home.
Complain of Bonding Company'
General Colby of Beatrice has re
quested the state insurance depart
ment to cancel the right of the Ameri
can Bonding company of Baltimore to
do business in Nebraska until a Judg
ment secured against the company and
several saloon keepers of Beatrice has
been satisfied. The bonding com
panies and two other parties w«sre
sureties for one or more saloon keep
ers in Beatrice against whom a judg
ment was secured by the widow of a
Beatrice citizen who was killed while
voder the Influence of liquor.
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
JILL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The frontier festival at Hastings
proved a great drawing attraction.
Pastor Roberts, who has been uwo
years in Table Rock, has been trans
ferred to Dorchester.
Building operations in Central City
this year betoken great prosperity in
that section of Nebraska.
Congressman Pollard has recom
mended the appointment of Frank
Titus as postmaster at Nemaha City,
to succeed W. W. Saunders.
William Stinhon was arrested at
Fairbury and brought to Beaver City
by Sheriff Modlin, charged with the
murder of Charles Criptin at Edison,
that county, In August
A test suit has been filed by a few'
south side residents of Fremont to in
validate operations in the drainage
districts which are building dikes to
prevent the Platte river floods.
Joseph Zwonechek, of Wilber, found
part of the petrified antlers of a large
eTk in the bed of the Blue river, re
eently The antlers are over three
feet long and nfltrly four inches in
diameter near the base.
S. B. Whitman, proprietor of a small
store at Moorfield, was arrested and
taken to Stockville, on a charge of
selling intoxicating liquor. He plead
ed guilty and was fined $20 Oand costs.
I Chersia Wilson, who was murdered
at Falls City by Clyde Elington, for
merly resided in Beatrice and was a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Wilson, who
left Beatrice about eight years ago.
A. J. Warrick, proprietor of ihe Ains
worth House, leased it for one year to
A. Watkins, who will take possession
on the first of November. Mr. War
rick will move into his residence on
the west side of Main street.
The Chautauqua board of Beatrice
met and organized for the coming
year by the election of the following
officers: President, C. L. Reed; vice
president, Samuel Rinaker; secretary,
E. A. McGlossen; treasurer. E. F. Wilt.
The Missouri Pacific road has asked
the railroad commission to permit it
to furnish a pilot whenever the mem
bers wish to make an exploration of
the company’s line. The officers de
clare they are perfectly willing for the
members of the board to go out over
the tracks.
Oswald Wirth and wife, who were
born and raised in Nebraska City and
have reared a large family of children,
have sold their real estate holdings and
will move to Topeka, Kas... w here 1-hey
will make their home, he having pur
chased a large tract of land near that
city. '
Myrtle Closson, a girl 16 years old.
in Justice Laird’s court at Fremont,
has filed a charge against Albert Mil
ler, aged 20. The complainant gave
birth to a child, and is said to be In
a critical condition. Two mouths ago
a sister of hers was in county court to
prefer a similar charge against another
Fremont young man.
Attorney John O. Yeiser, of Omaha,
asked the supreme court to grant a
writ of mandamus to compel Secretary
of State Junkin to place his name on
the official ballot Yeiser is candidate
for district judge and he wants both
the democratic and republican votes
cast at the primary to be counted in
his favor.
The most important business trans
acted at the Omaha Presbytery meet
ing was the plan to raise $25,000 for
Bellevue college. It was voted that the
state clerk notify church sessions oif
all Presbyterian churches that they
observe Sunday, October 27, as Belle
vue college day, at which time the
claims of the college are to be pre
sen ted to the people.
Food Commissioner, Johnson has no
tifled the county attorney of Washing
ton county that the Fontanelle Cream
ery company is selling butter not
properly stamped, and a number ol
grocers in that county are doing the
same thing. He told the attorney tc
get busy and prosecute, aid offered te
send an inspector up to get the evi
df nee, if this is necessary.
The temporary , injunction secured
by R. B. Howell, an inmate of the Sol
dier’s Home at Grand Island, restrain
ing the collection of a certain percent
age of pensions by the management
of the home has been met by the board
of public lands and buildings with the
announcement of a "stand pat” policy.
The board declares that Mr. Howell
may keep all his pension money, if he
likes, but wrill be discharged from the
home.
After a Fire or Wind loss you n€ted
the money. Friends may sympathise
but if you want a company which
pays cash try the Farmers and Mer
chants Insurance Co., established
since 1885. Over a million dollars al
ready paid to patrons.
A meeting of the fire department of
Nebraska City was held for the pur
pose of making arangements to prop
erly entertain the State Volunteer Fire
men’s association when they meet
there In January next. The necessary
committees were appointed to take
charge of the afTair, and the visitors
can expect a hearty welcome.
The City council of North Platte has
granted a twenty-year franch\;e to the
electric light company of that city. A
few months ago a franchise to the
same company was voted by the people
of that city.
The Young Men’s Christian associa
tion of York has secured as its lec
ture course; Adam Bede, congressrmm,
from Minnesota; Edward Burton W!©
Dowell, traveler; Samuel Parks Cad*
man, lecturer; Durno, magician; tha
Royal Gypsy Concert company; the
Katherine Ridgeway company.
The news was received In Hastings,
of the sudden death of Albert Schaeft
er of Glltner by having his n eck broken
: In a fall from a building on which he
was working. Mr. Schaefer was a
prosperous and highly respected fann
er of that yldnlty.
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