VOLUME XXV LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY . MAY 7, 11KH NUMBER 26 A BIG HOTEL BURNS FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY. CUT TING OFF MANY GUESTS. NUMBER OF DEAD UNCERTAIN Ten Bodies So Far Recovered and as Many More Are Believed to Be in the Ruins. Fo: t Wayne. ind.-—Ten known dead, many missing and thirteen seriously injured is the result o' a fire that de stToytd 'he New Avelina hotel. Fort \Vayn*-'s principal hostelry, at an early hour Sunday. Chief of Police Ancken bruck raid he believed twenty bodies were s'ill in the ruins. The ntire interior of the building i.- a .-iiioldering heap of ruins and how many dead are concealed by the debris n only lit conjectured. The hotel r- gister was consumed by the ^ fir- and here are no accurate means of dt:• running who is missing. The complete destruction of the in terior o: 'he hotel mak£S the work of recot i ring bodies n difficult task A confused heap of charred wood, bricks nnd rwisted girders'is piled up between the hare walls to the second story. Piece it piece this must lie removed liefort the roll of dead can be com p’eTer', some of the bodies taken out are mangled and charred beyond rec ognition. Infantry company D and , battery E of the National guards are on duty and aiding the fire and police forces to clear away the debris. The fire was discovered at 3:30 o'clock in 'he morning in ’he elevator ehaf! by Night Clerk Ralph Hopkins. He rushed to the tipper floors, alarm in- the guests, until the flames, which had spread with great rapidity. drov< i.iin back. His efforts, however, saved many lives. The hotel was erected Pali a —titury ago and the woodwork was dry as tinder, it burned like matchwood and within a few minutes from thf time the fire was discovered the whole interior of the hotel was :t mass of fames that filled the corridors end rooms with suffocating clouds of smoke and laid fiery barriers across all means of escapie save by the win dows The fire department rescued many by means of ladders, but some, frenzied by the onward rush of the flame- leajied front the windows to > the paved street. R S. Johnson of Pana, 111., jumped from the fifth story. His body struck a balcony and bottnd ( ed far into the street. He was a crushed and bleeding mass when pick ed up and died a short time later in St. Joseph's hospital. ROAD NORTH TO HUDSON BAY. Dominion Government Plans to Fi nance the Line. 'Winnipeg, Man—The Dominion governess n will submit to parliament a bill providing for the construction of a railroad to Fort Churchill, or. Hudson bay. The proposal is to pro vide money from the sale of :“... Bryant, who has attended Mr. Cleve land for years, said that, his patient was “all right" and that nil his re ports from Lakewood were favorable. In answer to the question ns to whether Mr. Cleveland was suffering from cancer of the stomach. P)r; Bryant said that as a physician he could not make public the diaghosi§ in the case of any of his patientsT Any information on such a subject', were it to be given to the* public, should come from the family." At the Lakewood hot< 1 5 was said that Mr. Cleveland was making very satisfactory progress and it was de nied that his case had assumed a serious aspeet. The rumor as to Mr Clevelands state of health attracted unusual at tention because of the reticence ob served since it became known ten days ago that the former president was remaining at Lakewood after the hotel at which he had been stopping was closed for the season, At Lakewood efforts were made to obtain an authorized statement re garding Mr. Cleveland's illness from the hotel authorities. But the same answer, "nothing to say." was all that was given out. Chance for Standing Rock Bill. Washington— Senator Gamble of South Dakota and Representative Marshall of North Dako a nave had a conference with Speaker Cannon with reference to consideration of the hill which has passed the senate opening the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations to settlement. Sen ator Gamble went over the provisions of the Itii carefully with .1 be speakei. who manifested considerable int* rest in the bill and from his talk Senator Gamble said he believed its consid eration would be permitted. TO PARDON SLOCUM CAPTAIN. Unfortunate Van Schaick May Soon Ee a Free Man. Washington—An immense petition, bearing the signatures or 245,000 per sons. requesting that a pardon be granted to Captain William Van Schaick. master of the ill-laud Gen eral Sloeutu when the vessel was de stroyed by fire in New York harbor an June 15. 1905, with a loss of more than l.ooo lives, was presented today to President Roosevelt and to Attor ney tieeral Bonaparte b; a committee of the American Association of Mas ters. Mates and Piolots. The commit tee was introduced to the president by Representative Law of Brooklyn and the national president of the as sociation. Captain John H. Pruett, made a personal appeal to both the president and to the attorney general for Captain Van Schaick's pardon. I H ELI E MUST CHANGE PAITH. ■ If He Wishes to Marry Mme. Gould He Must Change Religion. Rome—One of the greatest .difficul ties :n the marriage between the Prince de Sagan and Mine. Anna Gould is the fact that the Catholic church dees not recognize divorce and has refused to annul Mme. Gould's first marriage. The prince is determined to Marry Mate. Gould, and to this end he has decided to become a protes tant. as this will enable the couple I to be united by both a civil and re ligious marriage ceremony. Prince and Anna at Rome. Rome—Mme. Gould and Prince de Sagan arrived here from Naples. The entire party went to the Grand hotel. Front Rome Mme. Gould and the prince will go to the French Riviera. | Plague in Venezuela. San .lnan. Porto Rico—The Red D line steamer Philadelphia arrived here Thursday from Puerto Cabello. The steamer brings reports of alarm ing conditions it. Venezuela. Many people are leaving that country on ac count of plague Express Company Robbed. Laredo. Tex.—The Weils-Fargo Ex , press company has reported to the j authorities of Torrecn, Tex., a loss of SfiS.OOtt ir. Mexican currency, which they claim was taken from a through safe on their City of Mexico train. Fairbanks to Greet Prince. Washington—Vice President Fair banks will officially represent the T'nited States at Quebec. Canada, dur ing the visit there of the prince of Waies. July 23 to 29. on the occa sion of the celebration of the 3tlbth anniversary of the arrival of Cham plain. Taft Off for Panama. Charleston. S. C.—Secretary of War William H. Taft and party sailed for Panama on the naval transport Prairie Friday. CONGRESS SEEMS TO BE STRIVING FOR A SPOTLESS RECORD; EASY FOR tHEJCGRN SHOW ft NEW CURRENCY MEASURE APPROPRIATION FOR DENATURED ALCOHOL DEMONSTRATION. Grain Inspection Amendment Not So Easy for the Senior Senator From Nebraska. Washington.—The senate practical ly completed consideration of the agri cultural appropriation:?bill, laying it i aside, however, so that- Senator Hey j bflrn of Idaho may be heard upon , items relating to the forest service. ! The senate without the change of a word passed Senator Burkett’s amendment providing for the demon stration and illustration ’ '“'of the method for. making denatured alco hol on a scale suitable for utilization by farmers or associations of farm i ers." This amendment, which was | inserted by Senator Burkett, was sug gested by Secretary Wilson alter a consultation with the law officer of the Agricultural department as being all that was necessary to make the demonstration at the corn exposition in Omaha next December. As the item relating to the bureau of chemistry was not changed in any i manner whatsoever and the increase given by the senate committee over | *hat as udupted by the house appro ! priation includes SlO.Onu for demon ; stration work at Omaha, and this amount it is believed will be agreed ; to in c •: •• bgtweei the two 1 houses. 1 While Senator Burkett had little difficulty in securing the appropriation for the National Corn exposition, he ran up against a "snag' when his amendment authorizing the secretary of agriculture to establish laboratories at point he mat ledietat for ; he purpose of reporting and examin j ing upon the nature, quality and con | dition of “ecd or grain, such reports I to serve as a basis for the fixing of i definite grades and ‘ such grades when ; so fixed to become the official standard | for the grading of grain. The “snag” | which Senator Burkett ran up ; gainst was in the person of Senators Nelson ! of Minnesota. McCumber of North | Dakota and Teller of Colorad.ci_.i5en ; ator Nelsgg_,making a. point of ordA1 j rtga ins tithe, unicntl men i‘4>n; ;he ground •hat it .wa* logfsd: t'ipn of the most flagrant oh:; i a*>^at its provision.. which ate£Vttt|iethef payment of interest on government deposits in national hanks. The provisions for the issuance of emergency currency on corporate bonds are entirety swept away. The new hill provides for the for mation of nations' clearing house as sociations by not ies- than ten na tional banks having an aggregate capital and surplus of not less than $5,000,000. A ax of 1 per cent on emergency circulation, based on clear ing house association securities, is provided for the fir.-.’ mouth, tnis tax to lie increased 1 per cent each month until it reaches 1" per cent, v.here it is tQ remain until tne currency* is retired. Another section of th bill provides for the creation of -a currency com mission to consist of six members of the house, six of i he senate and six to he appointed by the president. Pollard Bill In Favor. The bill which Representative Pol lard lias introduced creating forest re serves outside of existing national forests, in order to conserve the waters of "navigable streams and au thorizing the appointment by the pres ident of a commission of fivi- men whose duty it shall be to make an iiive'srigallon of*the wau-rsh ds of the iYiited States and report to nim by particular description what parts of these watersheds have direct connec tion u*ith y Chief forester Gifford Pin chot and by-Speaker Camion. The only question which w.- to It- agitating j some of the member- of congress is a- to .the constitutional:’: of the bill. Mr. Pollard holds -ha: it is quite as I constitutional^ as the pure food or meat Inspection acts. LINES UP FOR KNOX. Pennsylvania Republicans Instruct for | . i Favorite Son. Harrisburg.—The republican state ,convention, which me* here Wednes day reaffirmed the action taken by the state convention last year when the | United States Senator Philander Chase Knox was placed before the republic ans of the country as Pennsylvania's choice of the presidential nomination. The resolutions adopted strongly en dorse the senator for the nomination and also praises President Roosevelt's administration. Governor Sparks Paralyzed. Reno. Xev.—Governor John Sparks, who for the last three weeks has been in San Francisco visiting his daughier. returned to Reno suffering from a stroke of .paralysis. The governor is in a ver\ serious condi tion. He is unable to move either of his hands. * Brown Pushing injunction Bill. Washington.—Senator Brown of Nebraska will appear before the judi ciary committee of the senate Thurs day in behalf of his bill to take away from''the'federal courts their right to enjoin state taxes. While he believes that he will secure a favorable re port on the measure, he is leaving no stone unturned to meet the objec tions of the lawyers on the committee as to Its constitutionality and its feasibility. He has spent consider able time on his argument and hopes to write the report from it soon IN CONGRESS. The special house committee ended ; its inquiry into the methods of the Electric Boat company after Attor ney F. It. Whitney, an officer of the Lake Torpedo Boat company, had ad mitted he wrote the anonymous let ters that figured in the case. A spirited attack cm prohibition was made by Representative Richard Bar tholdi of Missouri before the house committee on the District of Colum bia. which has under consideration the Sims Dili providing tor prohibition in the district. As a result of a series of confer ences between Republican leaders in i the house. Representative Vreeland of New York introduced a new currency bill. The president's special message was read in both branches of congress. The senate passed the pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills. PERSONAL. Reports were current in New York that ex-President Cleveland has can cer of the stomach and that there is little hope of his recovery. Miss Mary McMurray. for 11 years stenographer and confidential clerk for the Canton Bridge company, was in dicted by the grand jury at Lima, O., charged with perjury. Joseph Carabelli. a wealthy Italian M Cleveland. O.. reported to the police that he had received a "Black Hand" letter demanding J5.000. threatening his life, to kidnap his wife and son and dynamite his business place. Robert W. Gott pleaded guilty at Cincinnati to the murder of Dr. Leo Danziger, a prominent physician, and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Thomas W. Frankham. cashier of the St. Paul and Western Coal com pany, of St. Paul, Minn.. Is missing and is accused of embezzling 510,000. Louis A. Gourdain, the former mil lionaire lottery king, escaped from St. Elizabeth's federal asylum for the in sane at Washington. Mrs. Jennie A. Call, a Chicago matrimonial agent, was sentenced to the bridewell for a year for using the mails to defraud. Gov. Davidson of Wisconsin fell on a polished floor and broke his left arm. GENERAL NEWS. The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived at. Monterey. Cal. A supposed attempt of the lawless element in the little town of Verden. Okla.. to take revenge on City Mar shal Gillespie for his policy of strict law enforcement resulted in an in cendiary fire which destroyed the prin cipal business section of the town. Attorney General liird of Michigan filed a bill asking for a tAreiver tor the American Health and Accident as sociation of Detroit. Robbers tooi: S63.0un in Mexican currency from .1 Well--Fargo express car near Torreon. Mexico. Tbe National Prosper!;;. association, to uplift business interests generally, was organized i y St. Louis merchants. Conductors and motormen in Cleve land began voting on a proposition to strike because they were refused a wage increase. It was reported ir. Panama that Honduras was preparing to attack i The Michigan supreme court af ■ firmed the conviction and sentence of Philip A. McHugh and Charles P. O'Neil, two prominent young attorneys of Detroit, who were held in contempt by Judge Connolly of Detroit for fail ing to proceed with a murder trial at the time set by the court. President and Mrs. Roosevelt re ceived 000 New England working women who were in Washington sight seeing. A receiver was appointed for Wil liam A. Stetson of Poston, one of the best known leather dealers in the Uni ted States. Miss Georgia E. Bible of North Caro lina. arrested in Chicago, confessed to the theft of $8,000 worth of diamonds from Herbert Loeb of Philadelphia. The British cruiser Gladiator col lided with the American liner St. Paul off the Isle of Wight and was beached. Five of the cruiser's crew are known to have perished and 2.0. are missing. Catholics of the New York archdio cese began a week's celebration of the church's centennial in New York. Democrats of New Jersey refused to instruct their delegates for Bryan. Republicans of Colorado and Arkan sas instructed for Taft. E. F. Carty. one of the aldermen of Roc-kford, 111., accused of bundling, was arrested and two other council men resigned. At Lordsburg. N. M.. Oliver Garri son shot and killed his wife, shot George Allen through the abdomen, wounding him fatally, and then com mitted suicide. Mulai Plafid. the i ‘ Sultan of the South" in Morocco, suffered a defeat and fled. Fred Aiiterbuni. a prisoner at Atlan tic, la., locked lhe jailer in a coo and escaped. Two train robber- boarded ihe New York & St. Louis express on the Part Handle railroad a. Pittsburg, over powered the express messenger and got away with nun bags of currency More than 1M*0 men. including the captain and many other officers, per ished when tin Japanese training cruiser Matsushima was sunk by the accidental explosion of u projectile. Mirror Lain. a fin" fishing place near Baraboo. Wi.- . was ruined when high water destroyed two dams. Heavy frosts in southeastern Iowa, northeastern Missouri and western Illinois badly damaged strawberries and other fruits The mayor of Fort-de-Franee. Mar tinique, and s vend other men were killed in a political fight. Dr. .1. I). Garrison slue and killed .1. D. Williams, an electrician, at Flat Creek. Ala., in a duel. Eleven thousand pounds of green coffee which was confiscated by the Cnited States gov* rnntent or the ground that it contained 1« leterious and adulterous substances, was burned at Nashville. Tean. An attempt w is made to destroy the quarters of the fashionable Phoenix club in Cincinnati with a bomb. Ray Lamphere of Laporte, Ind.. was \ held on a charge of murdering Mrs. ! Delia Gunness and her three children. \ who were burned to death. .-vmuussauor neio announcea me en gagemem of his daughter Jean to Hon. John Huliert Ward brother of the earl of Dudley. Two seamen of the German battle ship Elsass were killed and six others were wounded at Kiel, as the result of the explosion of a mine. Three thousand Christian Ar menians are reported to have been massacred by Kurds in tlie provinces of Persia recently invaded by Rus sian troops on a punitive mission. Several of th« 'buildings on the! Jamestown < ^position grounds were destroyed by fire. Fire in Joliet, 111., destroyed the Boston store and damaged an office ; building. Loss, $210,000. Herman H. Peters of Port Huron. Mich.. committed suicide because he lost $10,000 by the failure of the I'nited Home Protectors’ fraternity. Two leopards leaped among the spectators in the Baltimore zoo. bad ly injured a boy and caused a panic. The plant of the John A. Bunn Chain company at St. Paul, Minn., was burned, the ioSS* being $.'>0,000, The private Jtank of Malone & Son of Cayuga. Ind.. was closed by the state bank examiner Republican conventions in Maryland and North Carolina instructed for Taft and that in Maine declared him its choice without instructing the dele gates. Serious damage was done in Leon county, the tobacco section of Florida, by a wind storm. Three French officers and 21 native soldiers were ambushed in Dagana. West Africa, and ail but one officer massacred. The largest Y. M C. A building out side of New York city was dedicated in Dayton, O. Two state conventions were held by Mississippi Republicans, one fact on indorsing the administration and the other Forakor. West Virginia Reptile licans instructed for Taft, and those of Pennsylvania for Knox, while Re publicans of Vermont and Democrats of Connecticut ejected uniustructed delegations. A plot of Koreans in San Francisco to murder Bishop Harris on his arrival from Korea was frustrated by the au thorities. The battleship flee: left Santa Bar bara on its way to Monterey. Steps were taken in St. Louis to form a $300,000,000 combine of yellow pine companies. Part of the Standard .Oil com pany;- plant at Cleveland. O., was burned, the loss being-over $200,000. Following the suicide of Charles Coster, a prominent broker and so ciety man. the firm of Coster, Knapp A: Co., of which Mr.- Coster was a member, announced its us pension on the floor of the New York stock ex change. uiinaits routied tne scanaia state bank of Crooksion, .MiitH.. of $8,000 and terrorized the town. Returns front the districts in the south ravaged by tornadoes show that at least 350 lives were lost and 46 towns were badly wrecked. It was stated in Loudon that two bags of mail from there, whose con tents were valued at $500,000, were stolen in New York. Robert Harrison and his six-year old son. Thomas, were killed by light ning at their home near Huntington, W. Ya. Mrs. Belle Gnnness, 40 years old, and her three children, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home near Laporte lnd.. and Ray Lamphere. formerly in her employ, was arrested. John Edward Libbey, president, and Charles B. Church, vice-president, re spectively of the Oldest Inhabitants’ associat'on of the District of Colum bia. died in Washington on the same day. Several men were injured by a boiler explosion on the British battle ship Britannia. Mrs. Leonora Pierce and Miss Grey ta Fulmer were arrested in Denver on a charge of swindling a blind woman out of $20,000 by spiritualistic seances. Half the little French hamlet of i Notre Dame De Salette, 16 miles from I Buckingham, Ont.. on the Lievre river, | was buried under a sliding mountain j and at least 30 of its small population i are known to have perished. A severe biizzard, with snow, gales ! and cold, raged over Great Britain, j doing much damage. NEBRASKA II BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious. Social. Agricultural. Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. The Grand Island Commercial club is favoring a paid fire department There is a large a crease of winte. wneat in Adams county and it has a most promising outlook. Henry Knott, a David City butcher paid SIT.r.u tor violating the pure took law. By a majority of 21 votes iiavil county has voted bonds of 51.non io build a sewer system. Tiie new Methodist church at \ hion. costing li’O.UPn, lias been >:• -i. caied. At Central City a one-day-old baby was found in a gunny sack. Guilty parties are not known. A number of burglaries art re ported at Schuyler, though los.se have been small. Miss Nellie S. Smith of Lincoln wa run over and killed by an automobile driven by William Coon, an uutoma bile dealer. In the vicinity of Nebraska City a great fruit-growing section, cold weather lias not. it is thought, done much damage. Ex-Governor Holcomb, after an ab sence of two years, has returned to Broken Flow to again make thai has name. At Orleans. Ben Coe was seriousl stabbed by his r.ieghbor. Oliver Ste phens. The men had a dispute over a wagon road. Cot* may die. Jake Wolf and Walter (lib s of Ful lerton gut into difficulty, during which the latter was seriously cut by the former. George Switzer, a former Beatrice resident, was brought bach front it* . ver by Sheriff Trade on tin- charge of stealing a horse and buggy irou George Arnold in that city. E. I. Barritt. aged 67 years, fell off a ladder at the Home-Miller earing house in Norfolk and sustained a fra tare at the base of the brain, from which in- died two hours later. H. E. McDowell and wife of Clay Center arrived home last week. They spent the winter in southern Califor nia. where .Mr. McDowell invested in a fifteen-acre orange farm. As the result of a run-away acci dent at Verdigre. thirteen mil«* northwest of Creighton. Mrs. Neis Nelson was fatally injured and her daughter. 15 years old. severely wounded. At a meeting of the citizens of Ogal lala. an organization was formed called the Ogaliala Law and Order c-iety. rlie object of the organization being to have an organized hotly i.» look alter the welfare of the town The Nebraska Telephone con pat y has been given permission ny the rail way commission to reduce tin - at St. Edvva^ front $4i* to $::<• a y for business telephones, and from to <18 tor residence ’phon s. At a special meeting of the voters of the school district of Atkinson the board of education was instructed o call a special election for May 15 to vote on the proposition of i>- ring $ln.nno bonds for putting ail aldr: t. on ihe present high school building. At Omaha. William Foust*, the ne gro convicted of murdering Joseph T Bowels, a Fort Cook soldier, on tie* night of December 11. was sentence; to suffer death on the gallows Tie date of the execution was fixed at Friday, August 14. The people of this state have spent for automobiles in the las tvelw months in the neighborhood oi 841,00b—enough money to v.dp- ne the state debt. This is basing Cm lota! on an average price of SIT*" a car. and windmill man of St. Edward >•••■ and windwill man of St. Edward, rt - cently received notice that on Aj>- ii 15 he had been granted a patent on pipe and rod lifting tongs, for which he had made application ih November* 1907. THE MIDWEST LIFE of Lincoln. Nebraska, an old line Nebraska Com pany wants local agents to represent it in every town in the state The Midwest Life issues all kinds of life policies and they are liberal and along the best lines in life insur ance. Write to the home office at Lincoln for additional information Seeking the release of his son from the discipline and regulations of the army blue. William T. Anderton of Edgar, has applied to Federal Judge Manger for a writ of hahea - corpus to be directed against Brigadier Gen eral Charles Morton, commanding tile department of the Missouri, demand ing that Albert L. Anderton be re leased trom the army. Charles L. Saunders of Omaha, by virtue of his position, president pro tem of the stale senate, is now acting governor of the state of Nebraska and for the nest three weeks will exer cise the powers and privileges of gov ernor. Both the governor and lieuten ant governor are absent from the state. Adams county has paid into the state treasury $75,000 and interest on county bonds which the state held as an investment. The payment is not due till May l. The state is sorry to lose this investment, as the bonds drew 5 per cent interest.