Nebraska Newspapers

    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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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