iOT-UTWEDDING
YOUNG SOLDIER V/CD3 DAUGH
TER OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
IS A BRILLIANT AFFAIR
President, Vice President and Other
Distinguished Guests Present—
Union (s P«rely a Love
Match.
Washington—in the presence of
President, and Mrs. Uoosevelt, the
Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks,
• lie justices of the supreme court and
the.ir wives, several senators, repre
sentatives arid other distinguished
guests. Miss Edith Hoot on Wednesday
became the wife of lllyases Simpson
Grant 3d. Lieutenant United States
Engineer corps.
The wedding was generally recog
nized at tiie capital as being the sec
ond in social and official importance
that has taken place during the Roose
velt administration, there being only
less interest in the marriage than in
that which centered about the mar
riage of Mis.; Uoosevelt to Mr. I King
worth.
The bride is the only daughter of
Secretary of State and Mrs. Elihu
Root, while the groom, as everyone
knows from his name, is the grandson
of General Grant, his father being
General Frederick Dent Grant of the j
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MRS. U. S. GRANT.
arr.iy. Lieutenant Grant is a nephew
<;i Mrs. Potter Palmer ;>f Chicago.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Ur. Stryker of Hamilton college,
who was for ^ veral years the pastor
of the Court, v- 'resbyterian church at
Rush and Superior streets. Chicago,
and who was a college friend of Sec
retary of State Root, a friendship that
is to be male:the closer by the mar
riage of the secretary’s sou to the
college president’s daughter.
The tying of the (?am!s united two
young people who are very much in
love with each other. There is not a
whisper in any Quarter that position
nr name had Hie least thing in the
world to do with the engagement.
*J'he funner Miss Root has always
rather shunned the gayer life of the
capital, and Lieutenant Grant has
never been any too fond of it.. He is
studious, and so is his bride and both
are of domestic inclinations. It was
a good old-fashioned American wed
ding, with Cupid's heart engaged in
every detail.
The cards of invitation to the wed
ding read as follows:
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Present at the wedding were Elihu
Root, Jr„ and Miss AHda Stryker,
daughter ofceftr. M. Woolsey -Stryker.
president of’ Hamilton college. Mr.
Hoot, who is the Mldest son of the
secretary of stAte, will marry Miss
Stryker just ten days from the day
that saw his sister married to Idea
tenant Grant.
The Invitations to the wedding were
restricted as far as Washington was
concerned to the persons who “must
be invited.” The local invitations were
about 250 in number and they includ
ed only the closest family friends and
those persons who hold such official
positions. A%aU thoy .^i^j todfltaecaa.
•sitl'hbthirtted b5 he'l»n»ent. \ ;
The out-of-town invitations greatly
outnumbered those given in Washing
ton. tint there were comparatively few
of' the outof-town guests present. The |
wish; of ike secretary of state and hi'S
family, too, for that matter, was to
have the wedding company as small
as possible, ami the ceremony marked
by attending simplicity.
Oi the groom’s family there were
present his fat her and mother. General
and Mrs. Grant; ids aunts. Mrs. Nellie
i Grant Bart oris end Mrs. Potter Pal
mer, and several of his first cousins,
one of whom, Mrs. Bartons' daughter
Vivian, not long ago married Frederick
Roosevelt Sccvel, a . cousin of Presi
dent Roosevelt, and so. although
rather indirectly, a connection is es
tablished between the Root and the
Roosevelt families by the Root-Grant
marriage.
Tlie Root residence. where the cere
mony took plage, belongs to former
Vice-President Levi P. Morton, who
occupied it for months between the
times of the leaving of Count Cassini,
who leased it for the Russian embas
say quarter?, and its renting for resi
dence purposes by Secretary Root.
While the wedding party was compara
tively small, the house is big enough
to boll a multitude, it stands on a
triangular piece of ground with Scott
Circle at one end. Fifteenth street at
the other o..'u and a street on each
side.
Lieutenant Grant and Miss Root
wore married in the great south room
on the first floor of the residence, a
room which is ns long as the house
itself. Tt is a huge drawing-room
known in the days when the Countess
Cassini presided over social affairs
iu the residence as the “yellow room. ’
Miss Root had no bridesmaids. Sev
eral of Lieutenant Grant's classmates
and other army officer friends were
present at the wedding, and his cous
in, Potter Palmer, dr., of Chicago, was
his best man.
After the wedding Lieutenant Grant
and his bride left for a short honey
moon trip. They will go to Clinton.
X. Y„ to be present, December 7, at
the wedding of the bride's brother and
Miss Stryker. From there Lieutenant
Grant wifi • take bis Pride directly to
Boston, where in the suburb of Brook
line there is a pretty little house 1
awaiting their occupancy.
The house was selected by the bride
whose mother recently has interested
herself in furnishing it completely for
housekeeping. Lieutenant Grant was
ordered a short Ume ago from Wash
ington to Boston to carry on his en
gineering duties under the direction
of Major Edward Burr, who lias
charge of the river and harbor work
along-the Massachusetts coast.
Miss Root made her debut in New
Vork several seasons ago and has
twice been a cabinet girl, although
she was extremely young when her
father was see re; ary of war in Presi
dent McKinley's second administra
tion. She is a gifted linguist, an ac
complished musician, and is devoted
to outdoor sports. She is an expert
horsewoman, and her smart trap is
familiar to all the uptown sections of
Washington.
Lieut. Grant has served as military
aid at the white house during the
Ui3t two seasons, acting with Capt.
Fifzhugh Lee, Jr., and Lieut. Phiiip
Sheridan.
He is a nephew of Mrs. Potter Pal
mer of Chicago, his mother being Miss
Louise Honore,-sister of Mrs. "Palmer.
He is a brother of Princess Cantacu
zene of Russia, who was. Miss Julia
Dent Gram, and the only child of the
Grant family born in the white house.
Lieut. Grant's early education was
obtained in Europe while his father
was minister to Austria-Hungary and
LIEUT. U. 8. GRANT 3D.
he then spent four years in a state
military school founded by Empress
Maria Theresa. He entered Columbia
college in New York on his return to
the United States and was graduated
in 1898, when he at once joined his
father in Porto Rico, where he had
his first experience in warfare. At
the end of a year he entered West
,Plaint, graduating sixth in his class, of
1902.' He was ordered at once to ihe
Philippines, where he did good service
for three years, and, returning to the
United States, was ordered to Wash
ington barracks.
A Wireless Addenda.
Mr. Bacon—I see a Japanese elec
trician has invented a wireless system
which is asserted to be superior to
anything, now in use.
Mrs. Bacon—Gracious tnfe'! Art bus
tles cornin' in-style onto more, really?
—Yonkers Statesman
World's Submarine Cables.
This world contains altogether 1,750
submarine cables, totaling 200.000
miles in length and dropped into their
watery bed at a cast of $275,000,000.
r Sympathetic Nature.
“Even the weather has shared in
the .recent panic."
"In what way?”
“Dtdn’h you see where there was a
flurry of snow from the cloud hanks?”
—Baltimore American.
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Plagues of Nerve Sufferers.
There is a class of well-defined
“phobias,” as they are called, with
which nerve sufferers are plagued.
“Monophobia,” or fear of being alone;
“castrophobia.” or fear of closed-in
crowds or of broad open spaces; "in
spaoes; a “goraphobia,” or fear of
sonmiaphobia," or fear of not going
to sleep, and many others. The one '
great remedy for all these and similar
mental miseries, writes Dr. Samuel
McComb in Good Housekeeping, is
auto-suggestion.
% Light Cure for Cancer.
! Experiments are in progress at the
New York Skin and Cancer hospital,
330 Second avenue, for the alleviation
of pain by the use of intense light. So
far the physicians are unwilling to ex
press any definite opinions as to its
efficacy, and content themselves by
saying that their hospital tries every
device which promises to be of assist
ance in curing or alleviating cancer.
The results with the “light cure,” how
ever, have been sufficiently satisfac
tory to induce them to continue the
’ experiments.—N. Y. Times.
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ADMINISTERING THE GQLD CURE.
CLEVELAND MAYOR IS HIT
TOM L. JOHNSON ACCUSED BY W.
M. IVINS IN NEW YORK.
Reorganintion of Nassau Company
Said to Have Provided $6,250,000
of Water.
New York.—William M. Ivins, while \
investigating the affairs of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit company for the
public service commission Friday, de
clared that Mayor Tom L. Johnson of
Cleveland and his friends, who for- j
nierlv owned the Nassau Electric Rail j
way company of Brooklyn, had watered
its stock to the extent of $(5,250,000
and then sold it to the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company.
This was alleged to have taken
place in a reorganization of the Nas
sau company in January, 1899.
Questioning Timothy S. Williams,
vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company, about the reorgani
zation of the Nassau company, Mr.
Ivins said: “On that reorganization 1
find that they increased their bond
issue, which had theretofore lteeu $5.
500.000. by an additional $8,946.9(50.
They made an entirely new issue of
preferred stock - of $6,000,090, they
theretofore having no preferred stock,
and to the theretofore existing $6,000,
C09 of common stock they added $2,
500.000, making a total of new issues
of $17,946,960, and your acquisition
was after this increase of capitaliza
tion. Can you teii me what these new
securities were issued for?”
Mr. Wiliiams said an explanation or
the transaction was given in an agree
ment which Mr. Ivins had, but this
was not read. Mr. Williams also con
tended that the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company, if it had bought $6,
250.000 of water, had subsequently
squeezed it out.
"I cannot agree with yon." said Mr.
Ivins. “It looks to me like a plain
case of stock watering, and the com
pany had no right to charge that $6,- |
090.000 on its books to the cost aud J
equipment of the road. It was wrong
in principle, and if it wasn’t then
against the law, the law ought to be
amended so as to make such a trans
action impossible.”
BOROUGH BANK MEN INDICTED.
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President, Cashier and Controlling l
Stockholder in the Toils.
New York.—The Kings county grand
jury, which is investigating the recent
management of the suspended Bor
ough bank of Brooklyn, returned in
dictments Thursday charging larceny
and other offenses against Howard
Maxwell, who was president of the in
stitution when its doors were closed;
Arthur D. Campbell, the deposed
cashier, and William Gow, a director
who holds a controlling share of the
bank's stock.
The three men were arrested and
arraigned. All pleaded not guilty and
were held for a hearing. Campbell
and Gow each furnished $20,000 bail.
Maxwell wa3 unable to secure the
$30,000 bond required of him and went
to jail for the night.
“Suffragettes” Silence Gladstone.
Leeds, England.—The woman suf
fragists Friday virtually compelled
Herbert Gladstone, secretary of state
for home affairs, to abandon his at
tempt to address a meeting here. The
interruptions from the “suffragettes"
became so persistent that Mr. Glad
stone declared he would no longer
struggle against such tactics. One of
the suffragists thereupon tried to take
possession of the meeting. While she
was speaking a free fight broke out
between the men and women of the
audience.
Dishonest Banker Sentenced.
Birmingham, Ala.—Louis M. Dyke,
president of the former Atella Nation
al bank, charged with misappropria-'
tion cf funds of a national bank, en
tered a plea of- guilty Friday. The
court sentenced Dyke to five years in
the Atlanta penitentiary.
Crushed to Death in Elevator.
Pittsburg, Pa.—O. K. MeCutcheon,
50 years old, a wealthy merchant of
Turtle Creek, near here, wis crushed
to death in an elevator in a downtown
skyscraper Friday.
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Mauretania Makes Record, Day’s Run.
New York.—The new Cunard liner
Mauretania broke one of her sister
ship Lusitania’s records Thursday
when, at noon, she completed a day’s
run of 624 knots. The Lusitania’s best
record for a day was 618 knots.
Big Boost for Westlnghouse.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Nearly $2,000,000 of
new business has been placed on. tbe
books of tbe Westlngbouse Machine
and the Westlnghouse Electric & Man
ufacturing companies during the week
bjr concerns treat of
mmm
PRESIDENT NOT ENDANGERED.
Officers and Crew of Steamer Fowler
Exonerated.
Cairo. 111.—Exoneration from the
charge of reckless navigation, which
endangered (lie life of the president
of the United States during the river
(rip from Cairo to Memphis October
3, was obtained Thursday for the offi
cers and crew of the steamer Dick
Fowler, who were found not guilty by
United States Inspectors Waltz and
Hodge, of Memphis, after a trial.
The charges were brought by Com
mander L. S. Vanduzer, lT. S. N\, in
spector of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
lighthouse districts, who was on the
lighthouse tender Lily, which acted as
escort to the steamer Mississippi, the
boat on which President Roosevelt
traveled from Keokuk to Memphis.
The Fowler was accused specifically
of running by the Lily without sound
ing her whistle and running too close
to the stearner Mississippi, the boat
the president was on, thereby endan
gering liis life. At the trial only evi
dence for the defense was heard, as
the testimony of Commander Van
Duzer and his witnesses was taken at
a hearing held soon after the disposal
of the other case arising from the
river trip and the summary suspen
sion for six months of the license of
Pilot C. L. Nichols of the steamer
Fred Hartweg, at the order of the
president.
LIEUT. CRAWFORD MISSING.
Admiral Dewsy’s Secretary Thought
to Have Drowned Himself.
Washington.—Lieut. John W. Craw
ford. secretary of Admiral Dewey, has
disappeared and it is believed he has
committed suicide. Friday Rennett A.
Allen. 1901 Fourth street, a friend of
the missing mas. received a special
delivery letter from Lieut. Crawford
in which it was stated that ho had de
termined on suicide and requesting
Mr. Allen to break the news to Mrs.
Crawford as gently as possible. Late
in the evening Lieut. Crawford's hat
and coat were found on the deck of a
ferry boat plying between Washington
and Alexandria. To financial difficul
ties Lieut. Crawford's resolve to end
his life is ' attributable, his- friends
say.
HURT INSPECTING TRACKS.
Nebraska Railway Commissioner and
Clerk in Bad Accident.
Lincoln. Xeb.—Railway Commission
er Joseph A. William and H. G. Pow
ell, rate expert in the office of the
state commission, were seriously in
jured late Thursday night while mak
ing an inspection of the Missouri Pa
cific tracks near Elmwood. Commis
sioner Williams was removed to a
hospital. Powell was able to go to his
home.
The men were using a gasoline mo
tor, and were running at considerable
speed in the darkness when the car
struck an obstacle on the track and
was thrown from the rails.
George P. Miller a Suicide.
St. Louis. — Physically wrecked
through excesses, George P. Miller,
aged 48 years, once a brilliant law
graduate and private secretary to
Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania,
who was speaker of the national house
of representatives, swallowed whisky
and morphine in a Pine street board
ing house Thursday night and died
Friday at the City hospital.
Two Killed in Auto Accident.
Des Moines. Ia. — O. R. Matting*
was killed and Frank Getchell was
seriously injured in an automobile
accident Friday night. Miss Ruth
Wilkinson and Miss Isolde Benny
were severely hurt
Five Children Perish in Fire.
Titusville, Pa.—Awakened by the
barking of his dog early Thursday,
Thomas Zuver found his house in.
flames. -With difficulty!he saved his
wife and their baby. Two sons es
caped, but were badly injured. Ffv6
children were burned to death.
Noted Jew-Baiter Goes Insane.
Berlin.—Count von Pueckler, the
well-known Jew baiter, who at various
times has come into collision with the
law owing to excessive anti-Semitic
agitation, has been sent to an asylum.
Fatal Collision Near Peoria.
Peoria, 111.—A Chicago & Alton pas
senger train and a Vandalia freight
came together head-on Wednesday
noon at Farmdale, six miles east of
here. One trainman was killed and
the list of injured numbers seven.
Five Killed by Goiter Explosion.
Norfolk, Va.—Five men were killed,
one fatally injured and a number seri
ously hurt, as the result of the explo
sion of a boiler in planing mill No. 1
at the John L. Roper lumber mills,
Qllmerton, Wednesday.
WAS OFFERED BRIBE
GOMPERS TELLS FEDERATION OF
ATTEMPT TO CORRUPT HIM.
HIS STORY IS VERIFIED
Purported Agent of Manufacturers’
Association Offered Immunity and
Money If He Would Betray
Labor.
Norfolk. Va.—A great sensation was
created in the American Federation
of Labor Wednesday afternoon by
President Gompers in his speech re
plying to the attacks u|>on him and
other officers of the federation by the
Manufacturers’ association, when he
told of an alleged attempt to bribe
him at the Victoria hotel, New York,
in October by a young newspaper man
giving his name as Charles Branden
burg.
President Gompers said the man de
clared that he represented the Na
tional Manufacturers' association, and
was prepared to offer him immunity
from all exposure and make him finan
cially secure for the remainder of his
life if he would sign a certain paper
and otherwise aid in the “exposure
of the other leaders in the American
Federation of Labor with a view to
virtually destroying the influence of
organized labor.’’
Verifies His Statement.
The paper. President Gompers said,
was to purport to have been signed
when he (Gompers) was ill in 1595.
This paper, Mr. Gompers said, he had
preserved, and while deathlike still
ness prevailed in the-convention Presi
dent Gompers drew forth the original
document and read ft. Mr. Gompers
during his recital of the alleged at
tempt at bribery railed upon different
delegates present, who were with him
at times at interviews with Branden
burg, to verify his statements. This
the delegates, rising in their seats,
did.
At the close of President Gompers'
speech there was a great demonstra
tion, even Victor L. Berger, of Milwau
kee, the socialistic opponent of Mr.
Gompers, declaring that although he
had at convention after convention bit
terly opposed tiie roelection of Presi
dent Gompers, he will be the one this
year to move to make his election
unanimous, with a vote of confidence
not only to President Gompers but
also to the other officials of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
“This,” declared Mr. Berger, “is the
answer of the socialists to the Manu
facturers’ association.”
Brandenburg’s Side of It.
New York. — Broughton Branden
burg. president of tiie National In
stitute of Immigration, and a mag
azine writer, said Wednesday night
that lie was the man referred:
to by President Gompers. He em
phatically denied thatrhe had attempt
ed to bribe Gompers. lie also stated
that he had no connection with the
National Manufacturers’ association,
and that his dealings with Gompers
were solely in the interests of a pub
lication which he represented. He,
himself, he said, had been the intend
ed victim of a plot that, failed. Ho de
clared that Gompers’ statement was
an effort to forestall the effect of what
he’knew was about to be published.
FIGHT DESPITE GOV. CUMMINS.
Militia Captain May Be Puni&hed for
Nat Stopping Mill.
Des Moines, la.—Adjt. Gen. Thrift
of the Iowa National guards will or
der an immediate investigation of
the conduct of Capt. Kulp of Daven
port, who was ordered late Thursday
afternoon by Gov. Cummins to as
semble liis men of company R, Fifty
fourth regiment,.under arms and stop
the prize fight scheduled for that
night.
It Is the impression of Adjt. Gen.
Thrift that the fight at Davenport was
a prize fight and la clear violation of
the law, and that under the strict or
ders Issued by the governor to Capt.
Kulp. the militia should have stopped
It.
The fight took place but no decision
was made, though McFarland easily
defeated Herman.
FATAL PANIC AT FUNERAlu
One Man Is Killed and Eight Injured
Near York, Pa.
York, Pa.—Ell Cross, of Zione View,
was probabty fatally Injured and eight
other persons were hurt In a panic in
Quickel's church, six miles north of
this city, Wednesday.
While the funeral of the- victims of
last Saturday’s double murder was in
progress a report gained carrency that
the building was falling. The church
was crowded to its doors. To aggra
vate the rumor the healing stove was
pushed over. The congregation im
mediately became frenzied and a
struggle ensued among the peoplo to
escape from the building.
Tahiti Prince Accused of Fraud.
San Francisco.—Prince* Salmon of
Tahiti was arrested Friday In the po
lice court on two charges, one of de
frauding an automobile livery com-,
pany and the other of failing to pay a
board bill.
Jury in Lewis Trial Disagrees.
St. Louis.—The jury in the case of
Edward G. Lewis, mayor of University
City, who was charged with having
used the mails fraudulently in organiz
ing and establishing the Peoples Unit
ed States \>ank, disagreed Friday.
Speaker Cannon in a Wreck.
Danville, 11L—Speaker Cannon was
in a railroad wreck at Bismarck, 111.,
a short distance from Danville Wed
nesday. He escaped injury, although
his life was in great danger. Train
NTo. 14, of the Chicago & Eastern Illi
nois railroad, ran into an open switch,
derailing two cars, in one of which
Mr. Cannon was riding. The speak
er's car turned squarely across the
track, but fortunately did not over
turn. Beyond being badly shaken up,
none of the passengers, or trainmen
was injured. . Vl-i'-r
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WILLIAM R. HEARST HELD
NEW YORK EDITOR BOUND OVER
TO GRAND JURY,
Justice Wyatt Takes Action—Criminal
Libel Charge Made by
Chanler.
New York. — Justice Wyatt in
the coifrt of special sessions Thurs
day hcltf W. R. Hearst for the grand
jury on a charge ot criminal libel pre
ferred by William Astor Chanler. S.
S. Carvalho gave bail for Mr. Hearst.
The amorsnt of the bond was fixed
at $500, the usual sum required in
misdemeanor cases. Mr. Carvalho is
the general nanager of Mr. Hearst's
New York newspapers.
Both Mr. Heiret and his bondsman
were in court When Justice Wyatt
handed down his decision. They' re
paired to the office of District Attorney
Jerome while the bail bond was being
prepared. It was later approved by
Justice Wyatt and Mr. Hearst and his
attorneys drove away in the big red
automobile which had brought them
to the criminal courts building.
The charge against Mr. Hearst grew
out of a publication in the New York
Evening Journal concerning the case
of Raymond Hitchcock, the actor. Mr.
Chanler's name was mentioned in con
nection with the article. Several
hearings weTe had before Justice
Wyatt, dbrfng which Mr. Chanler posi
tively denied that he had ever been at
Hitchcock's honse when little girls
were there. His counsel claimed that
the publication had been made for the
purpose ot injuring politically Lieut.
Gov. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, a bro
ther of the complainant against
Mr. Hearst.
This was denied by Mr. Hearst's at
torneys, who made the counter claim
in court that Mr. Chanler’s proceed
ings against Mr. Hearst were taken
in tlie hope of hurting the chances of
the Independence League ticket in the .
last county election.
The grand jury, it is said, has al-',
ready undertaken an investigation of
the charge against Mr. Hearst, and a
score or more of witnesses have been
summoned.
RUM ROUTED IN~ALABAMA.
Remarkable Scenes When Senate
Passes Prohibition Bill.
Montgomery. Aia.—Unprecedented
scenes were enacted in the senate
chamber of the historical capitol of
Alabama Tuesday when the statutory
prohibition bill was passed. Women
and children thronged the corridor
and gallery and even usurped the
sanctity of the floor itself, pushing the
senators from tlieir seats and giving
vent, to th. ir enthusiasm by shouts
and cheers that echoed and reechoed
through the building.
Senators who opposed rife bill were 1
hissed down when they arose to
speak against the measure.
The statutory prohibition bill which
was passed was in the nature of a
compromise between the antis and
prohibitionists. The antis, seeing the
handwriting on the wall, agreed to
give up tbe fight provided the time 1
was extended to January 1, 11*03,
when the sale of whisky will-be for- i
hidden in the state of Alabama. This ;
amendment will be sent to the house <
and will be concurred in without a
fight.
Gov. Coiner will approve the bill ,
and It is understood that a movement <
has already' been started by the state
W. C. T. IT. to make the signing ot j
the bill a very formal occasion.
Mobile, Ala.—An indication of the
wrath of the “home rulers” over the ■
prohibition policy of the Democratic ,
party in the state is shown by the fot- ,
lowing telegram that was sent to
State Senator Hamburger by M. J. ‘
McDermott, president of the Bank of ‘
Mobile:
WANT FORAKER FOR PRESIDENT. '
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Committees of Ohio- League of Repub- 1
tican Clubs Endorse Him.
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Columbus, O.—United States Sena
tor Joseph Reason Foraker, of Ohio,
was endorsed Wednesday for both re- ]
election to the senate and the Repub- I
lican nomination for president, at a t
joint meeting of the executive and ad1- 1
visory committees of the Ohio League i
of Republican chibs. i
The committee* also declared that
they had no sympathy whatever "with (
the proposittaa that has been ad- j
canned that Senator Foraker be ,
eliminated amt retired from public life '
because ho- was not able to agree with j
President Roosevelt as no the rate bill, \
or joint statehood for New Mexico and ,
Arizona, or about the Brownsville
matter."
The action of the joint committees
it once brought out a challenge from
A. I. Yarys, manager of the Taft presi
dential canvass, for a popular primary
to determine tho choice of the Ohio
Republicans of a candidate for presi
dent.
Iowa Village la Burned.
St. Joseph* Mo.—The village of
Chain, la., was wiped out by fire
Wednesday night, but one building
being saved. Loss, $50,000.
Yellow Fever Kills American Woman.
Bridgetown. Island of Barbados, B.
W. I.—Mrs. Alleyne, wife of Dr. Al
leyne, surgeon general of the hospital
here, died Friday of yellow fever. She
was taken sick November 18. Mrs.
Alleyne. was an American.
Ohio Legislator Dies of Burns.
Columbus, O.—Dr. W. C. Whitney,
member of the Ohio legislature from
Franklin county, died Friday night
of bums received several days ago
while attempting to rescue a horse
from a burning barn.
Big Lumber Mills Closed.
Houston, Tex.—The Bronson and
Kirbyville lumber mills of the Kirby
Lumber company shut down Thurs
day because of alleged unwillingness
to sell lumber below cost. Six hun
dred men are idle.
Gelatine Explosion Kills Two.
Pinole, Cal.—Two workmen were
killed and a building was blown to
itoms Thursday by an explosion of
>00 pounds of gelatine at the Dupont
De Nemour Powder.company’s plant
sear this place.
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The new Burlington station at York
is nearly finished.
Work is progressing rapidly on Fair
Sury’s $50,6*00 hotel.
While out hunting Todd Fallen of
.Tecumseh, had iiis thumb shot off his
left hand.
J, P. Muuligare and Albert Heller,
two progressive farmers of Cumirg
county, are each feeding 000 head o£
sheep on their farms.
Frank Harmer. 'Residing in Cass*'
county, is reported have husked
03G bushels of corn fn eigbt da., s, !t
being an average of 317 bushels per
day.
Burglars of unusual discrimination
attempted to blow the safe in the of
five of the Auxieger-HerokI, a German
newspaper at "5rand Island, but were
disturbed.
Frank Morse; who has been weigh
in aster and superintendent at the Un
ion Stock Yard* in Nebraska City, for
the past twenty-four years, has severed
his connection' with that institution.
Nearly all of the Greek laborers who
have been working in Plattsmouth for
the Burlington during the past sum
mer received ttteir time check's ami
most of them have left for other parts.
Clyde Ellington, the negro wh» shot
and killed Church Wilson at Auburn,
a couple of weeks- ago. is seeking to
have his trial postponed until the next
term of court. His plea will be sell
defense.
State Treasurer Brian received a
payment of $10,000 from the county
treasurer of York county vrhich will
lid malterialiy in relieving the finan
cial stringency that has been hover
ing over the state treasury.
Several days ago a burglar entered
i loeai warehouse in- Xebra?k City and
itole some beer and a number of
toxes of cigars. A young colored man
was arrested and the police claim -bat
they ftave evidence to eom ict.
The recent Duroe Jersey hog mle
ield 6y George Briggs &. Son. near
tllay Center, was a record breaker, the
average price.being $170 per head,
rhat of Henry Waire brought around
>65 per head fcr the same line of hogs.
The new Optometry Law will be in
ffeoii on and after January 1. ISOis.
All opticians who wish to continue
he practice of Optometry mart make
tpplieafion for a certificate of exemp
i£m or registration.’ before January 1,
iOOS:
John Yv'iison. aliirs Hendricks., who
vas found at Daitota City with the
lorses stolen from Barclay Lamb and
vas brought back by Sheriff Babb, is
low at the county jail in Fullerton
iwaiting trial the second week in Dt
;ember.
i
The state railway commission out
ined an order directing the railway’
tad express companies of Nebraska’
0 give improved service to dairy men;
1 shed must be ejected in Omaha to.
>roteet cream shipments from tile
veather.
Congressmen E. H. Hiushaw and Ok
A’. Norris were in Beatrice for the
lurpoae of looking over the post o£Br*
luilding and ascertaining what ini
movements are necessary. The post
naster recently made a. request tvr
uore room.
Word was received in Nebraska City >
hat Mr. Bremer, trawejing for rite O.
j. Gregory Vinegar works of that city,
lad dropped dead in a small town in
’irginUk. His family, which resides
•t Ottumwa, la., was notified from the
iehratka town.
H. E. Rayfield and I. R. 'Sail, two
lock Island employes at Ibtirbury,
iave received from Den*er. Colo.,
wo mounted bear skins taken from
wo large silver-tipped grizzly bears
vhljeh they killed while on a hunting
rip near Walcott, Colo., last June.
Rutledge's grading oetftt of slv
:ars pulled i-uio Herman last week
rom Wheaton, Kas., afoer having their
trading contract cancelled at that
ilace. They worked: all spring la
South Dakota on the Milwaukee rot.fi
ixtensioa into Moutaaa and expvCted
o have winter work in Kansas. Tboyj
will da some county work for both
Jurt and Washington counties and
hen tie up for the winter.
H. C. Haverly, steward of the- hos
pital for the insane, will retire from
lis place December 1 to take tha
Management of the Bostwick hotel, t
uid thus far no satisfactory person \
has been found to succeed, him. Nu
merous applications have been made
for Mr. Haverly’s place, bi*t It is un
Jerstood none quite meet the require
ments, which call for a young man of
jxperience and he must be unmarried.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
moved the office of the state confer
ence from College View at Lincoln to
Hastings, and are established now In
heir new home ia the conference
imiWing recently completed.
The Missouri Pacific has applied
tor permission to restore the old rate
»f 2% cents on stone and stone
screening;; from Weeping Water to
Dmaiia and Lincoln. This comas up
in a cross petition to the request of
the Lincoln Commercial club for the
rate of 2 cents now charged from
Weeping Water to Omaha
News has been received in West
Point of the death, at Pueblo, Cclo.,
of Mrs. Herman, wife of Rev. G. C.
Herman, the former local pastor of
the German Methodist Episcopal
thurch at West Point.
The two men brought to Geneva
from Wahoo on charge of passing had
lurrency, pleaded guilty in Judge
King’s court, and were fined $75 each
md costs amounting to about $50. Ia i
iefault of payment they will serve me
lerm In jail. The men are wanted in
two or three other places for similar
offenses. *