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maura _ ' WOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF TfdE 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. CONGRb .SIONAL NEWS. An annual tax of one dollar on every barrel of beer brewed In the United Stales, for the creation of a “perma nent investment fund” of $50,003,000 yearly for the development o£ the country’s waterways, is the proposal tarried in a joint resolution intro duced in the house by Mr. Ache son. of Pennsylvania. The annual message of President Roosevell was read in both houses of congress, and practically no business was attempted bv either body beyond listening to the message. Speaker Cannon was reelected by the house of representatives and the old rules adopted on the opening day. W .1. Bryan entered and was given an ovation. Senators Aldrich and Crane, two of the Republican leaders of the senate, after a call on President Roosevelt, announced that they were convinced he was not a candidate fpr third-term honors. f.'.'TCELLANEOUS*. | Ttte Cornell association football ‘team probably will play in South America next summer, the manage ment having received an offer of ex penses and 75 per cent, of the1 gate re ceipts for a series of three games with the football of the Province of Sac Paulo. Brazil. • our r '.5:.re;; mine.-.' sre im.—ro lu'.v-'M»ecn killed by aa explosion of b'.ju !•: -lamp, or methane, in mines Nos. P and S of the Cnns didation Coal com pany of Baltimore at Monongah, W. Vo. Five men escaped, more dead than alive, through air shafts. Five companies or the Twenty-sec ond iniar.try, sta ioned at Fort Me Ik.well in Fan Francisco and four coni pan: s of the same regiment at Mon terey, were dispatched to Goldf. Id, Neva, by Prig. Gen. Fred Funston, com manding the department of California, iti compliance with orders received from the war department. Carling's restaurant la St. Paul was partly destroyed by fire and a woman employe was burned to death. Flames destroyed the big implement warehouse of David Bradley & Co. at Council Bluff:', la., the loss being $225, 030. The sentence of the three Ameri cans. Richardson, Mason and Hare, " ho were to be shot at Chihuahua for the murder of two other Americans "hose insurance they attempted to collect, was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment. James Bartlett Hammond, head of the Hammond Typewriter company, was declaied sane and given his free dom. The jury which will try the case of George A. Pcttibone for complicity in the r.iurd€-r of former Gov. Frank Steuncnberg was completed and sworn in at Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa., was murdered by a burglar, t. Whj. William L. Geary, U. S. A., died in tire army general hospital at the Presidio, San Francisco. He was the Srti American child born in San Fran cisco. his father having been the last alcalde and the first mayor of that 'city. - President Roosevelt entertained at dinner a nunibey of bear hunters from the Ixmisiana cane brakes. The secretary of the treasury has ac cepted bids for the Panama canal bonds to the amount of $25,000,000. The average price of all the bids ac cepted is 103. • - The Southwest Bridge company of Joplin, Rio., with a paid-up capital stock of $265,000, one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in the dis trict, went into the hands of a re ceiver. The Fort Pitt National bank, one of the cider financial institutions of Pitts burg. Pa., was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. The State hank, of Admire, Kan., and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotes bur.Vi, Rio., closed as a result of the failure'of the National Bank of Com merce of Kansas City. H. II. Perry, of Salt I,ake City, prominent capitalist and Democratic national committeeman from Utah, died at Los Angeles, Cal. The “Jim Crow" bill passed the Oklahoma senate and will become ef fective in 60 days after being signed by the governor. Twenty bandit3 attacked a monas tery near Pskov. Russia, but were re pulsed. Six monks were killed. Anthony F. Haleb. ranchman, plead ed guilty in the United States court at Omaha to the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of public lands and was fined $300. R. W. Ma liaffey, indicted with Hatch, pleaded guilty and was fined $500 and given a jail sentence of 4a days. Burglars, who reached the place in nu automobile, blew the safe in the post office at Garden City. L. I., and se cure d $1,000 in cash and stamps. A fire which is supposed to have originated from defective electric wir ing destroyed part o.f the army bar racks at Leavenworth. Kau. The July brouglit iu a verdict of not guilty in the Tirey L. Ford trial in San Francisco. The police of Geneva discovered a Russian terrorist plot to assassinate the emperor, biow, upi the imperial pal ace and the damn and pillage the Im ()Crial Bank of Russia. An.atfcaiPtto kill President Cabrera of Guatemala with a bomb was made l-.ut ho escaped serious injury. George Mooney and A. J. Elliott of Atlanta and John Horn and W. F. »Iunt of Savannah were drowned in Altamaha river at Mount Pleasant, Ga, by tbe capsizing of their boat THE GRASSHOPPER -AN3 THE ANT. j X^CROP TO OUT CANAL BOND ISSUE CORTELYOU DECIDES ON ONE HALF REDUCTION. Allotments to the Amount of Only $25,000,000 Made—Reasons Given. Washington. — Secretary Cortel you has decided to reduce by one half the issue of Panama canal bonds and allotments to the amount of only $25,000,000 have been made. The low est price at which offers will be ac cepted will be between 102 and 102»g ranging up to over 10i>, the average being a figure slightly in excess of 102. The amount of ceitificates which will be allotted is between $12,000, 000 and $15,000,000. During Mr. (Cortelyou's term as secretary of the treasury the perma nent addition to the interest bearing debt of the country has been increased by $25,000,000 of Panama bonds and ‘he temporary debt running only for - r.e year tas been increased by $15, 000,000 certificates. The interest heal ing debt on July 1, the beginning of the present fiscal year was approxi mately $894,000,000, which on Novem ber 1 had been reduced to $858,090. 000. a reduction of $26,000,000. and counting the Panama bonds, a net de crease of $11,000,000. The annual in terest charge since the first of the year has been reduced by over a mil lion dollars. MRS. BRADLEY ACQUITTED. Slayer of Ex-Senator Brown Is Set Free by Jury. Washington.—The jury in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of ex-Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, at a local hotel on December S last. Tuesday morning brought in a verdict of not guilty. The jury reached the courtroom at 10:03. When the court asked the jurors if they had reached a verdict the fore man answered: “We have.” “What is your verdict, gentlemen?” “Not guilty.” A demonstration of applause fol lowed the announcement of the ver dict. Immediately after the jury deliv ered its verdict the court thanked the jury for the manner in .which it had performed its duty and the jury in turn, through its foreman, expressed to the court and counsel its thanks for the consideration and courtesy shown it The jury was then dis charged and Mrs. Bradley was re leased from custody. MICHIGAN BANK IS CLOSED. State Treasurer Glazier's Institution at Chelsea in Trouble. Detroit, Mich.—In order to avoid a threatened run on the bank Tuesday' and to afford all depositors and cred itors an equal chance in the settle ment of the bank's affairs. State Banking Commissioner Zimmerman Monday announced that the Chelsea Savings bank would not open for business Tuesday. The president of the bank is State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier, who has deposited in the bank approximately >684,000 of the funds of the state of Michigan. Attorney General Bird said Monday night that the state is pro tected by the state treasurer's bond of >150,000, so that the state would not suffer any loss unless the assets of the bank should fail to pay 50 cents on the dollar, which is consid ered altogether improbable. D. L. Perry of Utah Dies. Los Angeles, Cal.—D. H. Perry, of Salt Lake City, prominent capitalist and Democratic national committee man from Utah, died at the Lanker shim hotel Friday, after an illness of several weeks of Bright's disease. Food Cheap for Canal Workers. Washington.—Supplies of food are sold on the isthmus of Panama to canal workers at an average cost less than they can be had at New York, according to a statement contained in the last issue of the Canal Record. Wife-Beater Severely Punished. New York.—Five years in prison and a fine of >1,000 is the penalty John Nahan must pay for wife-beat ing. The sentence—the maximum provided by the law—was imposed Thursday by Justice Dowling. Four Children Perish in Fire. Three Rivers, Que. — The resi dence of Mrs. Dupont caught fire while her husband was attending a meeting of the school commissioners and four of her six children were burned to death. HENRY O. HAVEMEYER DEAD. Head of Sugar Trust Succumbs to Heart Failure. New York.—Henry Osborne Have meyer, president of the American Sugar Refining company, died Wednes day at his country home, Merrivale Stock Farm, at Commack, L. I., of heart failure, following an attack of acute indigestion on Thanksgiving day. Front the first the patient’s heart was affected and his condition was critical. Resort to the use of oxygen Henry O. Havemeyer. to prolong life was had a few hours before the end. When death came Mrs. HavemeyAr, her son Horace and her daughter Electra and Dr. L. C. Frisbell, were at the bedside. Mr. Havemeyer was the son of the late Frederick Christian Havemeyer, who, with his father, was the pioneer in sugar refining. He was born on October 18. 1847, in this city, where his father and grandfather amassed a fortune in the sugar refining business. After an education in the public schools he entered the business of Havemeyer & Co., and later was with Havemeyer & Elder. His genius for organization showed itself in the for mation of the American Sugar Refin ing company in 1887. His brother, Theodore A. Havemeyer, was elected president of the company and held the office until his death four years ago. H. O. Havemeyer succeeded him in the presidency. TAFT IS SPEEDING HOME. Stops in Berlin Only Long Enough to Attend Reception. Berlin.—Secretary of War Taft and the members of his party arrived here Friday evening from Russia, and late at night, after attending a reception in his honor, the secretary and his son departed for Hamburg and Cuxhaven, where they embark on Saturday on the steamer President Grant for New York. Mrs. Taft at the same time left for Paris. Ambassador Tower and Lieut. Col. John P. WIsser, the Ameri can military attache, met the secre tary and his party at the railway sta tion here. A number of German and foreign newspaper correspondents joined Mr. Taft’s train en route from the frontier and came with it to Berlin. Former Mayor Is Fined. St. Cloud, Minn.—State Senator J. C. Robinson was fined $100 Wednes day on the charge of malfeasance in office when he was mayor of this city over a year ago. The prosecution was the result of the failure of Robinson, as mayor, to enforce the Sunday clos ing law. The fine was paid. \ - Dies as Did His Father. St. Joseph, Mo.—In response to a telephone message from E. V. Moore house, who said he was in trouble, Dr. J. Koch, of Maryville, Mo., went to the Moorehouse home in this city Wednesday afternoon and found Mr. Moorehouse dead on the floor, one bullet hole in his right temple and an other near the heart. There is no mo tive known for his suicide. He was JO years -old. He was the son of for mer Gov. A. P. Moorehouse, who killed himself in Maryville September 31, 1891, by shooting. Recover Child from Gypsies. St. Louis.—By means of a writ of habeas corpus secured from the Clay ton county circuit court, Antonio Thompson and his wife, of Los An geles, Cal., Wednesday secured posses sion of their 16-year-old daughter Marie from a band of gypsies en camped on the western outskirts of St. Louis. The parents declare the daughter was stolen from them a year ago and that since then they have traveled thousands of miles and spent practically all their money in search ling for her. - A -f_. TROOPS OIM WAY GEN. FUNSTON SENDS NINE COM PANIES TO GOLDFIELD. MAY GO THERE HIMSELF Sheriff at the Nevada Mining Town Denies That He Is Unable to Control the Situ ation. San Francisco. — In compliance with President Roosevelt's order. Brig. Gen. Funston. commanding the department of California, Friday dis patched troops to the Goldfield (New) mining district, where trouble is threatened because of the differences between the miners and mine owners. Gen. Funston sent five companies from Fort. McDowell and four companies with a machine gun platoon without animals from Monterey, all of the Twenty-second infantry, in command of Col. Reynolds, to go to the dis turbed district. The total strength of troops prob ably did not exceed 250 men, and Gen. Funston says that in view of the large amount of property liable to de struction and the scattered condition of the same, he thinks it better to send the troops enumerated instead of a small detachment. He says that if conditions are such as to make it advisable he will go to Goldfield him self. By rapid transit the scene of the trouble can be reached in about 18 hours. Goldfield, Nev. — In view of the admission of the mine operators that they applied to the president for orders holding troops in readiness to come to Goldfield, there is a wide spread divergence of opinion. Few people can be made to believe that such action would be taken over the head of the sheriff, who says he has not been consulted. He denies that he is not able to con trol the situation and adds that he has not been approached. Several in quiries directed to the governor asking on what grounds he asked for troops remain unanswered. Appealed to President. Washington. — A situation of the utmost and immediate danger at Goldfleid. Nev., is revealed in the of ficial correspondence between Gov. Sparks of that state and the president, just made public. The governor's ap peal to tiie president, dated at Carson City, follows: “At Goldfleid, Esmeralda county, state of Nevada, there dops now exist domestic violence and unlawful com bination and conspiracies which do now so obstruct and continue to so ob struct and hinder the execution of the laws of the state of Nevada and now deprive and continue to deprive the people of said section of the state of the rights, privileges, immunities and protection named in the constitution of the United States and of the state of Nevada, and which are secured by the laws for the protection of such rights, privileges and immunities: and the constituted authorities of the state of Nevada are now and continue to be unable to protect the people in such rights and the reason of such inabil ity and the particulars thereof are the following, to wit: Unlawful dynamit ing of property, commission of felo nies, threats against the lives and property of law-abiding citizens, the unlawful possession of arms and am munition and the confiscation of dy namite with threats of the unlawful use of the same by preconcerted ac tion. Governor Asks Aid. "Therefore, pursuant to article four section four of the constitution of the United States and to sections 5297 and 5298 of the revised statutes there of, I, John Sparks, governor, do here by respectfully request that your ex cellencj', Theodore Roosevelt, presi dent, do immediately send to Goldfleid, Esmeralda county, Nevada, two com panies of the troops of the army of the United States to suppress unlawful disorder and violence, to protect life and property, to restore peace and to insure protection of law to the people of the state of Nevada.” The presi dent ordered the soldiers sent. Miners Prepare Defense. Already wild rumors are in circula tion as to preparations being made by the miners to resist the soldiers. One report is that 500 red rifles have been secured: another that immense quantities of dynamite have been stolen and stored, and another that many of the principal buildings of Goldfleid have been undermined and will be blown up by the miners. Harvester Trust Convicted. Topeka, Kan.—After being out an hour, the jury in the case or the state against the International Harvester company, Thursday reached a verdict against the company on 42 counts. This verdict charges the company with being a trust and entering into an unlawiul combination to control the price of harvesting machinery and to force dealers to handle its products exclusively. Big Concern in Receiver’s Hands. Joplin, Mo.—The Southwest Bridge company, a Joplin concern, with a paid-up capital stock of $265,000, one of the largest manufacturing enter prises in the district, went into the hands of a receiver Friday. Schooner Sunk in Collision. Philadelphia.—The schooner Hr.r land W. Huston, Philadelphia for New port News, with coal, was sunk in the Delaware river in a collision with the Clyde line steamship Pawnee. The crew of the schooner escaped. Toledo Man Held for Contempt. Columbus, O.—Former Senator Aus tin, of Toledo, was brought here late Thursday under arrest on the charge of contempt for accepting a certificate to practice law when he had not taken the examination. He was arraigned and placed under $500 bond. Slays Wife and Commits Suicide. Norfolk,-Va.—V. B. Nethaway jmur dered his wife on a Union Pacific train here Thursday afternoon in sight of scores of people. He then ran a block and blew out his own brains. It iLjs. NOTED ACTRESS A SUICIDE MRS. CLARA BLOODGOOD KILLS HERSELF IN BALTIMORE. Only Known Reason for Action Is That She Feared Attack of Nervous Prostration. Baltimore. Md.—.\iis. Clara Blood good, the actress, committed suicide by shooting in her room at the Hotel Stafford here Thursday evening. Mrs. Bloodgood's body was found ly ing on the bed with a bullet hole through the roof of her mouth. Near by lay a book entitled “How to Shoot Straight," and a tlS-caliber revolver with three chambers empty. She at tended a matinee performance at Al baugh’s theater in the afternoon and returned to her hotel about four o'clock, seemingly in the best of spirits. Later when it was time for the cur tain tc rise for her own show at the Academy of Music, where she was ap pearing in "The Truth,” she had not put in an appearance. Word was sent, to the Stafford and a bellboy was sent up to her room. Just as he approached ihe door he heard a pistol shoot. Hur rying back to the office he notified the clerks and an investigation was made, and Mrs. Bloodgood was found dead on her bed. Before retiring to her room she had a talk with her stage manager, John Emerson, who declared that he ob served nothing unusual in her de meanor. The only motive he can as cribe is that Mrs. Bloodgood feared an attack of nervous prostration. She had been working very hard, he said, and she feared a breakdown. Mrs. Bloodgood left a note addressed to her 1 husband, who was said to be on his way to this city. j The audience at the Academy of Music was dismissed with the an nouncement that there would be no performance owing to a sudden indis position of Mrs. Bloodgood. KANSAS CITY BANK CLOSES. Second Financial Institution in That City !s in Distress. Kansas City, Mo.—The National Bank of Commerce, the second finan cial institution in importance in Kan sas City, announced its suspension Thursday morning, after a steady run of six weeks, during which the bank had paid off $10,000,000 of it3 deposits, reduced its loans $2,500,000, cut dowu its cash resources $11,750,000 and sold $2,000,000 cf high-grade bonds in an (-Sort to meet demands upon it. The comptroller of the currency ap pointed James T. Bradley, national bank examiner, as temporary receiver of the bank, and he at once took charge. He has issued no statement; as to the bank's condition, nor have the officers of the bank. The directors of the bank made a statement to the public saying that ihe bank could not stand "slanderous statements made against it,” and saying they do not believe it possible for a depositor to lose a dollar. BEAR DINNER AT WHITE HOUSE.! President Entertains Louisiana Hunt ers and Other Guests. Washington.—President Roosevelt entertained at dinner Friday night a number of bear hunters from the Louisiana cane brakes. The guests in cluded Clive and Harley Metcalf, of Greenville, Miss., famous bear hunt ers; John and "Tom" Osborn, John M. Parker, Maj. Amacker, Mr. Vasey, Sur geon General Rixey, Postmaster Gen eral Meyer. Assistant Secretary Bacon, Secretary Loeb, Gifford Pinchot, Rep resentative Ransdell of Louisiana, J. ; M. Dickerson, Col. Cecil Lyon and Capt. Fitzhugh Lee. Bear meat was served. MAJ. W. L. GEARY IS DEAD. Was the First American Child Born in San Francisco. San Francisco.—Maj. William L. Geary, IT. S. A., died early Friday in the army general hospital at the Presidio, where he has been ill with Bright s disease. Maj. Geary was the first American child born in San Fran cisco. his father having been the last alcalde and the first mayor of San Francisco. He entered the army dur ing the civil war when 13 years of age as drummer boy in a Pennsylvania in fantry regiment, was breveted captain at the close of the war and then was graduated from West Point. Oklahoma Bank Robbed. Carney, Okla.—Five men, at an early hour Thursday morning, suc ceeded, after firing nitroglycerin shots, in breaking into, the coin safe of the Carney bank and securing $4,000. While two men time after time j charged the safe cracks with nitro glycerin, and explosion after explosion shattered and broke up bank furni ture, the other robbers stood guard on the outside of the building and kept ujJ a steady rifle Are in every direc tion, shooting at any citizen of the town who made an appearance. Supposed Murderer Arrested. Des Moines.—A man supposed to be Harry Jones, the alleged murderer of Mr. and Mrs. William Van Winkle, of Fairport, la., is under arrest at Coal Valley, 111. Van Winkle and his wife were beaten to death. “Jim Crow” Bill Is Passed. Guthrie, Okla.—The "Jim Crow” bill passed the senate Friday afternoon by a vote of 33 ayes, 3 nays, 4 absentees and 1 excused. The bill will become effective in 30 days after being signed by the governor. Shonts Made Head of the Alton. New York.—At a meeting of the directors of the Chicago & Alton Rail road company Wednesday Theodore P. Shonts, president of the '.^Itdo, St. Louis & Western Railroad com pany, was elected president. —caw,-— Taft Has Audience with Czar. St. Petersburg.—Secretary Taft was received in audience Wednesday by Emperor* Nicholas at Tsarskoe-Selo. The emperor requested Mr. Taft to convey his greetings to President Roosevelt. STA-n* Ot£ST iS DECREASED. Treasurer Files His Semi-Annual Statement with Governor. Lineoln—The semi-annual report of State Treasurer Brian shows a de crease of $007,988.07 in the state war rants held as an investment by the state, and an increase of $1,068,273.71 in- bonds in which state funds are in vested since the report r.' one year ago. The warrants owned by the state in November. 1906, aggregated $1,819,087.58: The warrants now held by the state amount to $1,211,099.51, not including $115,181 in state war rants that are held as cash items by the treasurer, which were bought with money from the temporary school | fund. Had the state treasurer regis tered these $115,181 of warrants when presented bv the individual the individ ual would have drawn interest on thorn trom the state. By using the tem porary school fund for their purchase the interest accruing goes into this* fund, resulting in the state saving the interest. In other words, the state merely takes the interest money out of one pocket and puts it into the other. The funds invested by the state one year ago aggregated $7,458,716.57, and now the sum invested amounts to $7, 919,002.21. an increase of $460,265.64. I-ast year the warrant investment was $1,819,087.58, and the bond investments $5,639,628. At this time the warrant investments is $1,211,099.51 and the L»jnud investments $6,707,902.70. Pay for Third Nebraska Officers. Recently Adjutant General Schwarz received funds from Washington in the sum of $5,228.81, which were al lowed by the auditor of the War de partment as pay for the officers of the Tihrd Nebraska regiment which served in Cuba. The claim was prosecuted by attorneys in Washington and they have written to Governor Sheldon asking for permission to appeal the case to the comptroller of the treasury on the ground that the allowance is* too small. The attorneys represent that in the case of the pay for enlisted mlie of this same regiment, by prose cuting an appeal from the decision of the war department auditor, the sum was increased from $9,453 to $ IS,787. The attorneys receive 20 per cent com mission, hence their zeal. To Hang on March Thirteen. Beatrice—In the presence of attor neys. newspaper men and officers. Judge Kelligar sentenced R. Mead Shumway, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Martin, to be hanged in tha penitentiary between the hours of 10 and 5 o’clock, March 13. 1908. Shurn way asked if he had anything to stay, he remarked: "I am not guilty. You are punishing the wrong man.” Shum way was taken to the penitentiary. His attorney will file a motion for a new trial. New Rules of Court. The new rules of the supreme coirt are being mailed to every member of the state bar by Clerk Harry Lindsay. The most important change, ih the mind of many, is the amendment to rule No. 9, which formerly allowed forty days for filing briefs. Under the construction placed upon it by Clerk Lindsay four months are now allowed, which gives time for attor neys to make complete argument and incorporate the latest citations. New Steel on Missouri Pacific. Auburn—Information comes from reliable sources that the Missouri Pa cific railroad officials have at last awakened to the fact that this divi sion of the road is in a deplorable con dition and that they have decided to rebuild this line from Falls City to Union a distance of more than sixty miles. Dead Beside a Whisky Jug. Waterloo—With a nearly empty jug of whisky by his side, the dead body of Harry Lee, a character of the town, was found in a vacant building in the western part of this town. It is thought that the jug well Indicates the cause of Lee's death. __ NETHAWAY MURDERS WIFE. Crime Committed in Crowded Pas senger Coach at Norfolk. Norfolk—In full view of a panic stricken coach load of passengers on an outgoing Union Pacific train here Valley P. Nethaway, a local hide buy er and a shotgun marksman of note, blew out the brains of his wife and then leaping from the- train, sent a bullet Into his own brain in a nearby grain elevator. Two charges from a shotgun he poured into the head of his wife, but he used a revolver for his own slaying. The woman is be lieved to be mortally wounded. Mrs. Nethaway had sued for divorce and was starting to Madison, where the case was to have been heard, when the tragedy occurred. Passen gers dodged under seats for safety and some -escaped through the win dows. One man's coat, hanging over a seat was riddled by Nethaway’s shot, and the hat of Mrs. Fred Har der, a friend who s'at with Mrs. Neth away, was also struck. It was thought •perhaps he fired at Mrs. Harder the second time. Looking Tor old Timers. Lincoln—D. W. Johnson, who wcs a member of the territorial legislature and who at one time served as chair man of the, committee on federal rela tions, wants to get in touch with some other members of the territorial legis lature. Mr. Johnson now lives at Otego, Kas., and is 88 years old. His daughter, Mrs. J. A. Wiggins, wrote to Secretary of State Junkin quite re cently asking for the address of any old-time legislator he might have rec ord of. She said her father was still in good health. Condition of State Banks. Lincoln—Secretary Edward Royse of the state banking board has issued a circular to the Nebraska state banks, calling for a statement as to their con dition at the close of business Satur day, November 30. Brakeman Eastwood Killed. McCook—Brakeman John W. East wood of this city was killed at Akron, Colo., while switching a freight train on to the siding. Both legs were cut off and he died soon after. NEBRASKA IK BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious. Sccial, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Neligh's new auditorium has been opened for business. E. J. Brown, of York, who has been stenographer for Judge Evans, will move to Lincoln antf become stenog rapher for Supreme Judge Letton. At Beatrice a thief who stole a suit case from Miss Harmon, a teacher, became conscience stricken and left the goods where they could be found. Governor Sheldon has appointed Dr. Gustave William Dishong first assist ant physician at the Norfolk asylum, the appointment to date from Novem ber 1. Ben Burkey was seriously injured at the mill dam of F. S. Johnson & Co.. Milford, being run over by a push car used in conveying material acrors the mill dam. A man supposed to be William Fred erick was found dead in a room at the old European hotel In Fremont. Lying with his hands folded across h s» breast, and with a smile upon h a face, he appeared to have fallen into a peaceful sleep. It is believed that he suicided. Karl Schreiter, a well to do farmer residing northwest of Nebraska City, was sitting at the table with his fam ily eating dinner, when his head fell forward on his breast. He was picked up and carried to a lounge by his fam ily, where it was found he was dead, having died from heart failure. The local plant of the American Beet Sugar company at Grand Island closed the campaign of 1907 last week, one of the shortest runs in the history of the plant. The sugar making p<> riod lasted fifty-geven days, as com pared with 147 days last year—the longest in the history of the plant. “Bird Heartwell, 39 years and 11 months old, the oldest horse in that part of the country If not in the stale, died at her owner’s barn in the north part of Hastings. She belonged to Cotv.'itqy Surveyor C. A. Heartwell. who has owned her for seventeen years and who bought her from a Sun day school missionary in the early days. Following is the, mortgage repoit for Gage county for the month of No vember: Number of farm mortgages filed, twenty-five amount, $54,552; number of farm mortgages released, fourteen; amount, $37,250. Number of city mortgages filed, twenty-one; amount, $11,899: number of city mort gages released, nineteen; amount, 57,678. The new modern brick Burlington Plaitsmouth for violating the pure food depot at York, an exact duplicate o fthe Burlington depot at fremonl. Is now receiving its finishing touches and will soon be ready for occupancy. York business men are pleased with any building, having for years toler ated a barnlike structure that was un fit for barn use. Warden Beemer of the state peni tentiary and C. H. Nelson, convicted in Platte county on a charge of at tempted bank robbery in Columbur. have a disagreement. Nelson has ap pealed to the Norwegian minister at Washington for assistance in getting out of prison, claiming he is a Nor wegian citizen and innocent. The war den has asked that a commission sit on Nelson’s case. The legal papers have just been filed in a case which promises to be one of the liveliest heard in Red Wit low county for many months. The case is an aftermath of the recent election, and involves the county clerkship of Red Willow county. Charles Skalla. republican, was elected upon the can vass of the returns by a majority of three votes, and W. M. Hiller, hi« democratic opponent, contests the elec tion on numerous grounds. G. W. f.osey, chief captain of the North Nebraska Anti-Horsethief as sociation, returned to Battle Creek from Elgin with the team of horses stolen from Charles Preuner. a farmer. Pursuit was taken up immediately after the theft. The thieves were trailed to Petersburg, and from there to Elgin. Just north of Elgin Mr. Ldsey and his assistants succeeded in heading off the thieves, who aban doned the team to make their own es cape. Sparks from a traction engine se; fire to the dry grass along the road two miles north of Grand Island, and in a moment the fire was beyond con trol. Almost an eritire section wan burned over, including four haystacks. The grass was very dry, and some oi it long and thick, and the farmers in the vicinity were compelled to get out in short order and by plowing furrows and beating with wet gunny sacks succeeded finally in checking the flames. Camillo Beckman, a 10-year old daughter of Alex Beckman, died at th*' hospital in Fremont from the ef fects of burns which she received while playing around a bonfire Thanks giving day. In a corn husking contest on the farm of Charles Rickard, northwest of Wood River, Charles Rickard husked 102 bushels; William Stolley, eighty bushels, and William Leonard, 95 bushelr, all done in a day of ten hours. The field from which the coni, was husked yielded twenty-four bush els to the acre. The amount of tax against the rail roads in Sarpy county is $34,648.02, oi! which the Union Pacific has paid $10, 153.60 and the Burlington $10,628.83. The Misouri Pacific has not paid its tax yet, which is $6,193.17. Thirty-eight thousand silver dol lars, weighing 2,300 pounds, left Val entine In charge of a squad of four teen mounted police, for the Indians at the Rosebud agency. The money la the first installments of the $110,000 which will recompense the Indians for the land surrendered by them in tho Bones tee 1 tract ■
