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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST f'ROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ‘ fiU. SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious,1 Scciai, Agricultural, Polit ical a.-.d Other Matters Given ' Cue Cor.cidc. etion. r-* risers of Beatrice are Hguilag cn a raise ia prices. Construction S& going forward on the new depot at Ailiar.ce. The new United Evangelical church at York was dedicated last week. Beatrice's nev/ Catholic school has been completed and will soon bo decli calcd. t The Tecumseh Chautauqua associa tion has been organized for tho com ing year. Wakefield has organized a commer cial club for encouraging growth cf the town. Fire, for the second time in three months, destroyed the barn of Ekl ward Keligh at West Point. Edward S. Grimes of Omaha has been named deputy oil inspector by Governor Sheldon, to succeed George Templeton, also of Omaha. Rov. W. P. Ferguson o£ Lincoln, re cently acquitted of having improper relations with cnc of his congregation, Mrs. Cross, filed suit in the district court for $5,COO against Atwood £ Gui.'c and C. R. Smith & Co. After a Fire or Wind loss you heed the money. Friends may sympathise but if you want a company which pays cash try the Farmers and Mer chants Ins. Co., established since 1885. Over a million dollars already paid to NO LOCAL CALL FOR LABORERS. Neither Manufacturers Nor Officials Answer Circulars Sent Out. Uncoin—"Something of a curiosity from the sociological viewpoint is this recent flurry in the metropolitan pa pon: about the new ‘bureau of informa tion,’ ctf the Department of Commerce nail Labor,” said Deputy I.abor Com missioner Ryder. "Judging from some articles recently carried by the As.-:o c s.ted Press, Nebraska and other states where laborers and domestic help are reported to be scarce are to at once be supplied with all the help they need frem among the a'icas who are arriving at New York and other depots for immigrants. ' Some two months ago the Nebraska bureau cf labor took up this mattei with T. V. I’owdcrly, head of the bureau of information, to ascertain just what hie b :reau contemplates do ing. We received a bunch cf blanks which were self-explanatory, and the idea look ft ro feasible that a ciicufer was at once prepared and sent to ev'ry county clerk in Nebraska. A copy was r out to 503 editors cf the state also, ac companied by a second letter ad dressed directly to the editors, ’these '"tiers of the Nebraska bureau set out that information was wanted as to scarcity of labor, the kind of workers uaedod, business chances, etc., and we promised, if such information came to hand, to collate it $nd forward it to the bureau of information at Wash-' ington. ' ‘‘Up to date no notice has been t_Ken 1 of the circular to editors, and but two county clerks have taken the trouble to wite this depatment elative to the matter. We have had one call from a Lancaster county manufacturing firm, for Mr. Powderly's blanks. That Arm wanted a hunch of workers, mar ried and single, at good pay, and with cheap house rent as another induce ment. I have not heard that the re quired workers have been secured as i yet. THE BALLOON RACE. CUSH TO BE PLENTY j INCREASE OF BANK NOTE CIRCU LATION SEEMS CERTAIN. MUCH GOLD ON THE WAY Comptroller Ridgely’s Plan Generally Approved by Bankers—Cortelyou Disposed to Help Cotton Movement. New York. — Indications that the available supply of cash would be materially increased within a short time, both by imports of gold and the increase of the bank note circulation, and that the movement of cotton and grain crops would be facilitated in every way possible with the result of increasing our credits abroad, wore the salient, features of Thursday's financial situation. It seemed to be recognized every where that the acute stage of the crisis was over and that all that re mained was to obtain sufficient cash to resume currency payments upon a broad scale and thus to restore condi tions prevailing before the crisis. The engagements of gold made in New York, Chicago and elsewhere, brought up the total import movement within the past week to $23,7^0,000. As the amount of gold will afford a basis of credit to four times the amount, or about $95,000,000, it will in itself af ford much relief to the existing pres sure. RAILWAY STRIKE IMPEHDIHS EMPLOYES’ UNION IN ENGLAND VOTES TO QUIT. Some Hope That Lloyd-George May Avert Trouble—Railroads Blame Socialism. London.—Notwithstanding the* pow erful influences that have been at work for some time past in the hope of averting trouble in the British rail road world, there seems to be but little probability of preventing a strike which will have the most seri ous consequences to the traveling pub lic and the men and companies in volved, as weil as to commercial in terests generally. The action taken Friday by the executive committee of the Amalga mated Society of Railway Servants, in passing a resolution to call a gen eral strike, leaves little or no hope for a favorable outcome. This society al ways has been locked upon as one of the most censervative of the labor unions, and its dealer, Richard Bell, M. P., has been noted for his efforts to prevent strikes and for his utter ances in favor of the rights of capital as well as the rights of the working man. While there is a long list of alleged grievances, the principal one has turned on recognition of the union, and this the railroad companies, whose chief spokesman is Lord Claud Hamil ton, are determined not to concede. I The general strike, however, under the rules of the society and the re-* BRIEF NEWS ROTES EOS THEBUST MM YOST 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. Financial conditions in New York and the east generally were nearly normal again. The need of currency to move the cotton crop developed in the south and a committee from New Orleans conferred with Secretary Cortelyon. The California Safe Deposit & Trust company's bank in San Francisco closed but was believed to be solvent. Bankers in the 3tate of Washington ignored the holiday proclaimed by the governor. Indications that the available sup ply of cash would be materially in creased within a short time, both by imports of gold and the increase of the bank note circulation, and that the movement of cotton and grain crops would be facilitated in every way possible with the result of in creasing our credits abroad, were the salient features of the financial situa tion. As Viewed Every Day by Mr. Noteholder. patrons. The Union Pacific HaUrt-asi. Company at Grand Island wilbtJfeirVlmd dis charged 200 men who were working on extension of trackage in the west end of that city. All laborers working on the construction of the ice lake east cf the city were also discharged. John Dingman, a brakeman on the Northwestern read, was, it is thought, fatally hurt at Bbit. Dingman had cut the train at the-’»oad crossing, stepped across the track and attempt ed to Btep back again when the cars came together and crushed his abdo men end back. Chief Game Warden George L. Car ter has received a report from the clerk of Douglas county that 1,185 hunting and fishing licenses have been issued there since the first cf the year. Of that number, twenty-nine were is sued to nou-rcsidents of Nebraska, who paid the regular $10 fee. The request of Superintendent Kern of the Hastings asyiunj^to be allowed to buy turkeys for Thanksgiving and for Christmas has been turned down by the board of purchase and supplies on the grounds that turkeys come too high aud chickens still taste good. All the other institutions will be noti fied that the usual Thanksgiving tur key dinner is to be dispensed with, i C, H. Frank, who lived some eight jOi£n ine miles southeast cf Table Rock, *in the (Sjrpcf of the county, commit ted suicide. He had taken a shotgun Sand gone out, remarking that he would kill a rabbit, and he crossed over the Jjne ti^o thg edge of Nemaha county, 'and, stepping on the porch of Luther Burrow, one of his nearest neighbors, he placed the muzzle of the shotgun to Ms head and fired, instantly kill ing himself. me slate railway commission, in answer to an appeal for justice &ade by J. W. Haper of Geneva, has re plied that his transaction with the Northwestern railroad was purely in terstate, and so out of the jurisdiction of the Nebraska commission. Mr. Haper objected strenuously to be com pelled by the Northwestern to pay S117.G0 on a carload of potatoes from Hitchcock, S. D„ to Geneva. He claims that he was made to pay 30 cents per hundredweight, when the limit is 32 cents. Two men arrested by Sheriff Dayley of Saunders county, and now in jail at Wahoo, had concealed in their waist bolts, collars and around in their coats several bills ranging in l’s, 2’s, 6’s, 10’s and 20’s on the Merchants’ and planters’ bank of Savannah. Ga., and other hanks of the south, and in different parts of their clothing good money and express orders were found. About $2C5 good money was taken from their clothing. They had passed a good deal of the spurious money. Adamage salt for $10,700 has been filed by Miss Kate Hinckley against Charles B. Jewett of Lincoln. Of this amount $10,000 is to reimburse Miss Hinckley for wounded pride, injured feelings and loss cf social standing and $700 for her unused wedding tros seau and a trip to Pontiac, Mich. Miss Hinckley, who for some time has been a cashier in a local restaurant, charges Mr. Jewett with breach of premise to wed. Jewett is considered well-to-do and owns a farm nerth of Lincoln. James Moles was fatally injured at Plattsmouth, being struck by freight train No. 14, east bound, while he and a number of Italians were riding on a handcar from that city to their bunk car. Notice has been received from -the referee in bankruptcy at Omaha that a 10 ger cent dividend has been de clared on the claims against the Stand-. ard Beet Sugar company. This com pany has several hundred creditors in Lincoln county and their claims ag gregate tens of thousands of dol lars. Qsring to the scarcity of labor, sev eral, patented corn buskers hare been s^Id in Stanton county. It seems al most impossible to obtain laborers to busk, corn at any reasonable figure, other work being so plentiful and re ‘ These facts taken together, espe cially the lack of Interest among coun ty officials and editors, indicate to me that the shortage o? labor is generally acute and not chronic. That is, there are certain times when there is a de mand in specific sections for a certain kind of labor, as at harvest time and corn shucking time. Taken the year round, however, the shortage is more apparent than real. MONEY FOR P03TOFFICE SiTE. Kearney Is to Have an $75,CC0 Federal Building. Kearney—A Washington dispatch states that a treasury warrant was mailed Saturday io J. G. Lowe of Kear ney, Neb., in payment for the site for the new postoffice building in this city. The site which Mr. Lowe has sold to the government is located at the northeast corner of Central avenue and Twenty-fourth street. The history of the appropriation in brief is: Congressman Kinkaid secured an item of $00,000 in the house omnibus' bill; later Senator Millard introduced a bill in the senate appropriating $100, 000 which was reduced to $90,000 by that bod7, and the bill went to con ference and a compromise was accept ed at $85,000, for a building and site at which figure the bill was "passed. Deducting the $5,000 paid for the site there is to the credit of the Kearney public building $48,000 to commence construction with $27,000 yet to be appropriated co that Kearney will eventually have $75,000 for the erec tion of its postoffice. Fellow Had Big Tooth. Beatrice—While digging in the In dorlied sand pit near DeWitt, F. P. Baker unearthed a mastpdon tooth in an excellent state of preservation. It ?s a grinder and measures 9x3 inches at. the base and weighs seven pounds. Several years ago a knee bone wa3 fcund and at different times since no rrains of these animals have been found in that locality. An extensive search will be made for fossils near where the tooth was found. Pofhto Grower Has Complaint. A dealer in potatoes, who shipped a car of tubers from Hitchcock, S. D., to Geneva, on October 11, complains that the railroad has charged him $117.60 for the service, when as he figures on tiie rate sheet, the total charge could not be in' excess of $45 on a car of 39,200 pounds at 30 cents a hundred. He has applied to tha railroad com mission 'for aid. After Lower Coal Tariff. North Platte—Senator Sibley of this county has asked that rates on Wyom ing coa to pc:nts in Nebaska be low ered, cr at least, equalized, and the state railway commission has filed a complaint with the interstate com merce commission alleging that the rates charged Nebraskans are higher than rates charged Kansas people. After a Wind fx>ss 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 milliop collars already paid to patrons. B!oodhour<ds Track Thief. Beatrice—With the aid of several bloodhounds. Sheriff Trude succeeded in recovering a numfier cf articles that had been stolen from the farm of F. H. Wandersee, southeast of this city. The property consisted of several over coats and whips which had been taken from carriages at different times. The dogs followed the scent to a farm where a number of men were at work shelling corn, and by a little question ing a man named Cool Is said to-have admitted taking the goods while intox icated. Good Prices for Hogs. Cedar Rapids—At R. R. Steele’s sale of purebred Duroc Jersey swine, a half interest in the yearling boar Steele's Chief sold for $325, the other half interest having bsen sold at the .state fair for $625. The balance of the herd fcverkgdd $47 per head. Short on Hard Coal. Herman—Thors Is not • pound of hard coal ha Herman for sols. Tbs dealers all erdsrsd. bat nons of. It la ths last two :r— !> : • v;,. . -.vvi- „• ■/- . HELD FOR LETTER THEFTS INFORMATION IS STOLEN FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY SIMS. Miss McLean, His Stenographer, and A. B. Gordee, Charged with Conspiracy. Chicago.—Peeping through a sky ' light just above her desk, a federal secret service operative saw Miss Etta L. McLean, trusted stenographer, secrete in her stocking the stolen copy of a letter from United States District Attorney Sims to Attorney General Bonaparte. Miss McLean a little later, having been arrested, produced the letter from" the self-same receptacle, while in the office of her employer, Mr. Sims. At the same time she confessed to having stolen another letter written to the attorney general several weeks ago. Eoth communications related to the Jolm R. Walsh bank case. Miss McLean, in her tearful confession, im plicated as her accomplice Alexander B. Gordee, with whom she has been living. From the secret service detective who witnessed the stocking episode it was learned that Gordee had gone to Mr. Walsh's office in the Grand Cen tral railway depot and, presumably, tried to negotiate for the sale of the first etter. All this was brought out Friday af ternoon at the hearing of Miss Mc Lean and Gordee before United States Commissioner Mark A. Foote. They had been arrested by government offi cers on the previous evening. At the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry the two were sent to the county jail in default of $5,000 bonds. The charge against the couple is conspiracy to steal and also against the woman the actual theft of the letters. For the conspiracy charge the penalty may be two years in the peni tentiary and for the second charge the penalty may be five years, with the addition of a $10,000 fine in either charge. BOLD FIGHT BY MUTINEERS. Crew of Russian Destroyer Battle with Four Other Vessels. Vladivostok. — An exciting little naval battle took place in this har bor Wednesday between the mutinous crew of a Russian torpedo boat de stroyer and their loyal comrades. The mutineers were finally subdued, but not before a number of men had been killed or wounded. The mutinous boat is the Skory, and she gave fight to the gunboat Mandschur, the destroyers Garsovoz, Smely and Serditz and the garrison of one of the harbor forts manned by the Twelfth regiment of artillery. The ikory soon was overwhelmed and she to be beached to save her from sinking. JYNAMITE IN TRUNK~EXPLODES. Blast in Pittsburg Depot Seriously Injures Two Men. Pittsburg, Pa. — A panic among about 300 persons in the Union _sta tion was narrowly averted Friday when a terrific explosion occurred in the baggage room under the waiting room. A quantity of dynamite packed in a checked trunk was set ofT, pre sumably by concussion due to han aling the trunk. James Lyons, a baggage assorter, and David Chappell, a porter, were ■■erlously but not fatally injured. Charles Flatch was arrested. Girl in Men’s Clothes Arrested. Kankakee, III. — After traveling around attired in man's clothes for six weeks, a girl, giving tier name as Rosa Moore of Newark, O., was ar rested Friday. She said: she wore male attire for convenience. Diphtheria in Xankakeo Asylum. Kankakee, 111.—Ten male inmates and one woman nurse are sick of diphtheria at .the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane and two cot tages are quarantined. The cases, with one exception, are mild. Cleveland Traction Man Indicted. Cleveland, O.—The grand jury Wednesday indicted John J. Stanley, vice president and general maaagef of the Cleveland Electric Railway com pany, charging him with endeavoring to Influence a witness. ' Seeks te Bnjein FettheU. Kankakee, 111.—Charging that fObt ball la prise lighting. Attorney 8. R. Moore Wednesday Bled a MR I* the circuit court for an Injun sRn re Mrt snhenl atnMh I BANK CASHIER A SUICIDE. Official of First National, Chariton, la., Kills Self. Des Moines, la.—Frank Crocker, cashier of the First National Savings bank, of Chariton, committed suicide early Thursday. His daughter found him dead in bed. He had taken mor phine. The bank is believed to be in good shape. Worry over losses sustained in al leged use of Modern Woodmen funds is believed to be the cause. Crocker left a note saying: “I can’t bear '-this strain any Jonger.” Crocker was once grand treasurer of the Modern Woodmen of America, and held a national office in that order at the time of hi3 death. Charlton is a town of 5,000 inhabi tants, 100 miles from Des Moines. National Bank Examiner H. M. Bcst wick is in charge of the bank. Crock er, before killing himself, addressed a note to Mr. Bostwick, whose visit was expected. This note explained briefly that the bank was overloaned and re quested the examiner to take immedi ate charge. The bank has a capital stock of $50,000, a surplus of $50,000, and carried about $900,000 in deposits. The other tanks of Chariton are entirely unaffected by the closing of the First National. The Bank of Rus sell, a private institution of Russell, la., of which Crocker was president, also closed its doors temporarily. MOUNTAIN BURIES VILLAGE. Karatagh, in Bokhara, Is Overwhelmed by Landslide. Tasbkend, Russian Turkistan.—The little town of Karatagh, in the Hussar district of Bokhara, has been over whelmed and completely destroyed by a landslide that followed the earth quake of October 21. According to the latest reports of the disaster, a majority of the inhabitants of Kara tagh lost their lives. The first reports of the casualties were exaggerated, the death list be ing placed as high as 15,000. Kara tagh had about 2,500 dwellers, and there is reason to believe that about 1,500 were buried alive. Among those who survived the disaster are the governor of Karatagh and his mother. Karatagh is remotely situated, and it takes a full week for news to get out from there, but according to one courier who has come through, an enormous section of the Karatagh mountain, which practically hung over the town, broke loose and thundered down upon tho village, which 1b al most completely burled. FOLICE STATION IS BURNED. - t Incendiary Fire Ruins the Headquar ters in Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y.—Police headquarters of this city was practically ruined Fri day afternoon by fire discovered in the lavatory and which spread rapidly through the two top floors. All of the 30 prisoners were re moved in safety. This is the fourth time the building has been on fire within a few months. Police records, the rogues’ gallery and many Important documents, In cluding the original copy of Leon Czolgocz’s confession of the assassin ation of President McKinley, were destroyed. The fire was of incendiary origin. Two companies of firemen were caught In the collapse of the roof and cupola and eight men were seri ously injured. None will die. Absorbs Its Subsidiary Lines. St. Paul, Minn.—Deeds were filed Friday with the secretary of state, conveying to the Great Northern Railroad company all the subsidiary lines of that syestem in Minnesota. The deeds filed covered the following lines: Minnesota & Great Northern; consideration, $1,000; Wilmar & Sioux Falls; . consideration, $7,327,904.23; Park Rapids & Leech Lake; consid eration, $512,817.26; Eastern Railway of Minnesota; consideration, $16,783. 545.04; Minneapolis Union railway; consideration, $808,607.16. Dr. Richard Mohr Falls Dead. Philadelphia.—Dr. Richard Mohr, general director of the Hahnemann hospital In this city and professor of materia medics and therapeutics, r dropped dead Thursday while walk ing dowm Chestnut street . . . Bubenle Plague. In Tunis. Tania.—It Is believed that babonle plague has. broke* out at this pert Seven oases aad three deatl^ appar ently tram the plague, were repiarta* thp man asapleyed at .; ?'•! •• * ■' .x.■ ■■ ■.4•' it V-‘i a ' i••• Ridgely’s Plan Liked. The prompt response of the national banks throughout the country to the suggestion of Comptroller Ridgely that they should employ their United States bonds a3 largely as possible to secure circulation and substitute other bonds for those pledged against de posits of public money, promises a considerable increase in the available stock of currency. The estimates of an increase in the bank note circula tion of $30,000,000 is considered well within the probabilities. It will re quire time, however, in some cases for the banks to obtain proper bonds to substitute for their United States bonds. Mr. Vanderlip, vice president of the National City bank, made the fruitful suggestion that the savings banks would at once improve the general sit uation if they would sell their hold ings of United States bonds to the na tional banks. Even In cases where they do not care to sell, it is believed that they will lend their bonds to the national banks, as has often been done in the past. Helping Cotton Movement. Interest continues to center in the movement of the cotton crop from New Orleans and other southern points, which is so essential to pro-, vide bills against the imports of gold. Secretary Cortelyou, according to Washington dispatches, was disposed to increase deposits of public funds in the southern banks as rapidly as such funds became available. This will supply the banks with the stock of cur rency so much needed to handle the cotton crop and will enable them to await with less embarrassment than otherwise the arrival of their cotton bills in Europe and the bringing back of the gold. The committee of New Orleans bankers which is in Washington has suggested that the New York banks can ease the situation by giving the southern banks credit for checks in foreign banks, forwarded as soon as they receive telegraphic advices of the amounts. This will enable the south ern banks to check against such bal ances in payment of collections and in making remittances to interior banks throughout the country. To Reopen Oklahoma Banks. Guthrie, Okla. — Four hundred bankers, representing the Oklahoma and Indian Territory Banking associ ations, agreed Thursday night on a plan to reopen all banks early next week. San Antonio Bank Suspends. San Antonio, Tex. — The West Texas Bank & Trust company of this city closed its doors under a temporary suspension of business Thursday and is now in the hands of the state commissioner of insurance and banking. The suspension is at tributed to the tightness of the money market and the refusal of northern and eastern bankers to ship cash. The West Texas Bank & Trust com pany is one of the principal banking institutions of San Antonio. Accord ing to G. B. Moore, president, the com pany will soon be in condition to re sume business. On Pilgrimage to Holy Land. South Freeport, Me.—The yacht Kingdom with about GO members of the Hely Ghost and Us colony at Shiloh on board and a crew of 20, sailed Thursday for the Holy Land. Among the number was Charles E. Hoilaid, who Is known as “Moses” and who during the absence of the leader, Rev. Frank W. Sand ford, ha3 been in charge of the colony. It is understood many of the disciples will remain at one of the colonies in Palestine, where Mr. Sandford is supposed to be located. Rich St. Louis Man Dies. Rutland, Vt.—Huntington Smith, a wealthy resident of St. Louis and a member of various clubs in that city, died in his summer home in Castle ton, near here Thursday night, fol lowing a stroke of apoplexy. Governors Agree on Rail Rates. Atlanta, Ga.—After a session lasting nearly all day, Govs. Glenn, of North Carolina; Cooper, of Alabama, and Smith, of Georgia, reached a complete agreement on the question of railroad rates within their states. Wage* at Houghton to Be Reduced. Houghton, Mich.—Notices posted about the Calumet & Hecla works, an nounce a reduction of wages on De cember 1 of 12'A per cent., approxl mately equal to tbs increase granted early in the year. ~7 -• Knoxville Seleene Closed. Knoxville, Term.—As e result at the application et the Pendleton lew by which citlec et Tennessee can /daces perate without the ealboa, star 1M aw Loses closed their doors ti Knoxville Thereday sight ^ *0:." i S —i . j' . ’J., -i' quirements of the law, cannot take place for some weeks. In the mean time there is a remote hope that the efforts of David Lioyd-George, who, with the influence of his high position, as president of the board of trade, has been working strenuously to bring about a settlement, will be successful. The railroads charge that the pres ent agitation is due to the growth of socialism and curiously enough, while this idea was being voiced by Lord Claud Hamilton Friday night in a declaration that socialism was “irre ligious and immoral in its teachings,” Mr. Lioyd-George was averring in his address that socialism was “a bogey of to-day introduced to frighten the unwary” and that there was no danger but a "certain advantage in socialism insomuch as it stirred the people to think.” EDITOR HARDEN ACQUITTED. Gen. Count Von Moltke Beaten in Ber lin Libel Suit. Berlin.—Maximilien Harden, editor of the Zukunft, was acquitted Tuesday on th-' charge of defamation of char acter brought by Gen. Count Kuno von Moltke, former military governor of Berlin. Gen. von Moltke was con demned to bear the costs of the trial. The scenes in court when the ver dict was rendered were as dramatic as any ever witnessed in a Berlin court room. Harden's victory gathers double emphasis from the fact that the court not only declared Herr Harden’s state ments in the Zukunft true, but af firmed that their publication was justi fied on the specific grounds alleged. The verdict, while not confirming the charge that Count von Moltke is a man of morbidly abnormal propensi ties, inferentially confirms Harden's other charges—namely, that Moltke, with Eulenberg, Hohenau, Lecomte and other high-placed personages be longing to Prince Eulenburg’s coterie of mystics and occultists, formed a vicious circle surrounding the throne and wielding through Eulenburg a powerful influence upon the emperor. In one case it positively enabled the emissary of a foreign government, Le comte, to obtain information perilous to the vital interests of Germany. JUDGE GROSSCUP ARRESTED. Accepts Service and Gives Bond on Charleston Indictment. Chicago.—E. H. Slover, sheriff of Coles county, came to Chicago Wednesday and arrested Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States cir cuit court on a charge of manslaugh ter, contained in indictments returned at Charleston, 111., as a result of the fatal wreck last summer on the Charleston-Mattoon interurban line, of which Judge Grosscup is a director. Simultaneously warrants were served on Francis S. Peabody, presi dent of the Peabody Coal company; Marshall E. Sampseil, receiver for the Union Traction company, and Arthur W. Underwood, all directors in the in terurban company and indicted on the same charge. Each gave bonds amounting to $5,000. Life Convict Kills Guard. . Rawlins, Wyo.—A convict named A. Eckard, serving a life sentence, Friday shot and killed Ed Samuelson, day cellhouse keeper at the state penitentiary, in an attempt to escape. Eckard had a pistol and a stick of dynamite and when Samuelson opened his cell the prisoner shot him dead. Eckard then tried to dynamite the outside door and, failing in this, shot and killed himself. Surgery for Backward Pupils. Pittsburg, Pa.—Surgery may be re sorted to to brighten the minds of backward pupils in the Pittsburg pub lic schools. It is planned to have phy sicians perform operations on pupils who are behind in their lessons. Weston Is Ahead of Schedule. Boston.—Edward PaysOn Weston, who is walking'from Portland, Me., to Chicago, repeating the trip he made 40 years ago, arrived here at 5:20 o’clock Thursday night, 40 minutes ahead of his schedule time. Eloping Couple Deported. Washington. — Commissioner Gen eral Sargent of the bureau of immi gration Wednesday denied the appeal of a confessed .eloping couple from Berlin. Germany, for admission to the United States. They were ordered deported and sailed from Baltimore. Several days ago Frau Elisabeth Hesse, aged 38, and Haas Nachtigall, aged 21, arrived at Baltimore on the ■beta They bad been preceded by a cablegram frees the husband at the weemat, wbe is aeeralary at ’the rfett wap mail aerviae la SarUa, •* The executive committee of tie Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of Great Britain voted to call a general strike and it was thought the trouble was unavoidable, despite the efforts of the president of the board of trade and others to effect a settlement. Dynamite in a trunk exploded in the Union depot at Pittsburg, Pa., and two men were seriously injured. Police headquarters at Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by an incendLary fire, all the records were burned and eight firemen were badly injured. A life convict at Rawlins, Wyo., killed a keeper, tried to effect his es cape with dynamite and failing, killed himself. The G. B. Rickmans Wine company cellars at Brocton, N. Y., the larges t and oldest plant in the Chautauqua grape belt, were destroyed by fire. After traveling around attired in man’s clothes for six weeks, a girl, giving her name as Rosa Moore, cf Newark, O., was arrested at Kanka kee, 111. Ten male inmates and one woman nurse were attacked by diphtheria at the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. Govs. Glenn, of North Carolina; Cooper, of Alabama, and Smith, cf Georgia, reached a complete agret> ment on the qu^tion of railroad rates within their states. Deeds were filed with the secretary of state of Minnesota conveying to the Great Northern Railroad company all the subsidiary lines of that system in Minnesota. Huntington, Smith, a wealthy resi dent of St. Louis, died in his summer home in Castleton, Vt., following a stroke of apoplexy. Papers in a suit for $300,000 in sal ary and commissions were served up on Mrs. L. Z. Leiter, of Chicago, as she landed from a transatlantic steamer in New York. The suit, is brought by Hugh Crabbe, of Chicago, who declared he was Mrs. Leiter's confidential agent. Cotton growers in all parts of Okla horna and Indian Territory held secret meetings and decided to hold the 1907 pick until cotton prices have ad vanced to a certain point. Ernest Saunders, aged 21 years, was found guilty at Pana, 111., of the mur der of John Lundak and his sentence fixed at 25 years in the penitentiary. The Illinois senate passed the Ogles by direct plurality primary bill as mutilated by its amendments. Pope Pius was reported to be con fined to his bed with heart trouble. Lieut. Gov. Sanders, of Louisiana, refused to fight a duel with Donelsos Caffery, son of the former Unite! States senator. Wages of Grand Fork (B. C.) miners and smelter employes wero cut by the Granby Smelter company 50 cents a day. A strike may follow. Mystery surrounds the death cf Princess Shun, sister of the dowager empress of China. Women connected with the foreign legations are stirred up over the princess’ death. A verdict of $589,000 against Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former president of the Wabash railroad, in a suit brought by John S. Jones, a financier and cos! land operator, was handed down in the supreme court of New York. In a battle between United State troops and Indians in southern Utah ^ three persons were killed, and another wounded, all believed to have been Indians. Miss Josephine Hill, :S0 years old, a teacher In the House of Mercy, a charitable institution conducted by the Sisters of St. Mary of the Protest ant Episcopal church in New York, committed suicide' by shooting. Hugh B. Ely, superintendent of the insurance department of the Pennsyl vania Railroad company :25 years, died at his home in Beverly, N. J. Elmer H. Dearth, former Minneap olis insurance commissioner, who wets indicted by the grand Jury on a charge of accepting a bribe from W. F. Bech tel, former president of a Minneapolis life insurance company, was acquitted of the charge in the district court at Minneapolis. Mischievous small boys iu Went Duluth, Minn., attached a piece of wire to an electric light wire and strung it in*front of an Austrian boarding house. Yova Mehis. the first man to approach, ateppsd on It and was Instantly killed. John D. Rockefeller in reported to ham cornered all available laborers teethe Tarrytowa district to work cn W<___„__ „„ aeronautical eoagresa In New Tort, U * Ck““*y . i-: ■■"ii