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WOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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