Loup City Northwestern VOJLUMEXXV LOUP CITY,:XEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 21, Mis NUMBER 2S oooocxxxxxxooccocoocoooooo Most Important Happen ings of the World Told in Brief. IN CONGRESS. The senate substituted the Aldrich currency bill for the Vreeland bill passed by the house, and passed it. The house passed the military acad etny appropriation and omnibus pub . lie building bills. The Vreeland currency bill, agreed upon by the Republican caucus, was put through the house under a special 4 rule by a vote of 184 to 145. Fifteen so-called insurgents of the majority party voted with the Democrats, who went on record solidly against the measure. The great sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying a total of about JldO, 000.000. was passed by the senate. The further consideration of the Brownsville affair was postponed by the^se’nate until December 16 next. The senate passed the house bill re storing the motto in God We Trust" on coins of the United States. The house agreed to the conference report on the naval appropriation bill and it went to the president for signa rure. The senate passed the post office appropriation bill. Republican members in conference adopted an emergency currency bill. The house, by agreeing to senate amendments, took the final congres sional step to stop betting at the Hen ning race track. The senate passed the agricultural appropriation bill. PERSONAL. Mrs. Christina Metsker of South Bend. ind.. was found not guilty of the murder of Carieton Morgan of SouLh Bend, whom she shot April It) in front of the home of Mrs. Mae Green in Cassopolis, Mich. The ver dict occasioned a remarkable demon stratum in the courtroom. Walter S. Farmer, a prominent mer chant of Colchester. Ind.. was indicted on a charge that he is responsible for four fires which burned one-quarter of the business section of Colchester. Thomas W. Harvey, former teller of the defunct Enterprise National bank was sentenced at Pittsburg, Pa., to seven years in the penitentiary. Taft was indorsed by Republican conventions of California, Oregon Washington. Montana. North Dakota and Alaska. Socialists in convention at Chicago nominated Debs for president. Gov. Alien Card of I>anao Province! Philippine 'Islands, who was injured by Moro bolomen recently, is not dead, as has been reported. It was reported in Washington and Chicago that Federal Judge Grosscup would resign to practice law Dr. Arthur L. Kllboume of Roch ester, Minn., was elected president of the National Medico-Psychological association at Cincinnati. Gov. Hughes formally declared that he would not accept a nomination for the vice-presidency. , Republicans of Michigan and Idaho instructed their delegations for Taft. *_H. Heath Bawden, professor of philosophy at the University of Cin cinnati. was asked by President C. W. Dabney to tender his resignation be cause of his private views on mar riage. A son was born in Florence to the Countess Montignoso, es-Crown Prin cess Louise of Saxony, now the wife of Signor Toselli. GENERAL NEWS. Command of the great Atlantic . fleet of battleships passed to Rear Ad } * miral Charles Stillman Sperry, who succeeded Rear Admiral Thomas ' 1 The conference of governors at Washington on conservation of the nation's natural resources ended after the adoption of a declaration of co operation and suggestion that the president call the conferees together again in the future. Five suits in action of debt aggre gating $1,750,000. and for damages of $150,000. were begun by Attorney Gen eral Stead and Gov. Deneen of Illinois against the sureties of former state ■ treasurers and one former state aud itor. for fees retained during their ad ministrations. The handsome Catholic church and parish house at New Coeln, Wis., were destroyed by fire. President Roosevelt laid the corner stone of the new home of the Interna tional t'nion of American Republics in the presence of a throng of emi nent persons. The church and school of the Im maculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cleveland. O., were complete ly destroyed by fire. Seven mine workers were instantly killed and more than a dozen injured in an explosion in the Mount Lookout dbiljery at Wyoming. Pa. Charles M. Krogh. an Omaha archi tect, tried vainly to hill his wife at Beatrice, Neb., and then committed sotcide. Miss Carrie Ade. who said she was going to Washington to kill President Roosevelt, was arrested as insane at Louisville Three more names were added to I th» list of supposed victims of Mrs. Bella Gunness on her farm near La porte. Ind. Evidence was obtained hr Laporte officials that Mrs. Gunness had an ac complice who aided in luring victifhs to her farm. A. K. Helgelein. last of the victims of Mrs. Gunness, was buried at La pone The fragments of jawbone found in the ruins of the farmhouse were identified by a dentist as from Mrs. Gunness’ skull. Two trainmen were killed and 15 passengers injured in a collision on the Missouri. Kansas it Texas road near Muskogee. Okla. The old plantaof the Omaha Packing company in South Omaha was de stroyed by fire together with 11.000.000 pounds oi meat, involving a loss es timated at $500,000. The right of President Roosevelt summarily to dismiss a negro soldier of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al leged participation in the riot at Brownsville, Tex., was sustained by Judge Hough in the I'uited States dis trict court at New York. A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa . containing 2.600 barrels of whisky was burned. After it had been mislaid for 25 years, workmen found in the sub basement of the war department building at Washington a wooden box containing the personal relics of Lieut. Delong, who commanded the ill-fated Jeannette Arctic expedition and who perished in 1881. Gen. Snarski, commander of the Russian punitive expedition intc Persian territory, has been ordered to 1 resume his advance into Persia and to punish the bandits with fire and sword. He will destroy villages, but spare the women and children. The Democrats of Minnesota in dorsed Gov. Johnson as a presidential candidate and at the same time, by a vote of T72 to 166. refused to declare in favor of Bryan as second choice. Wyoming Democrats indorsed Bryan Bandits bound and gagged the sta tion agent and a guard in the depot i at French. N M-, and escaped with j $25,000. i ne armorea cruiser .uaryiana was ‘he trophy winner In the recent target practice at Magdaiena bay. The Wright brothers' aeroplane was wrecked at Kill Devil hill. North Caro lina. after a flight of eight miles. Two men were shot and almost in stantly killed and a woman wounded at Coney Island, victims of the jeai ousy of a young Italian. O J. Sturgis of I'niontown. Pa., a well-known editor, committed suicide An incendiary fire in a tenement at Passaic. X. J., caused the death of three children. .lames .1. Hill and others addressed the conference of governors in the White House cn the dangers of forest and soil depletion. A court in Paris granted the Hart McKee divorce, blaming both parties and giving Mrs. McKee custody of the child except for one month yearly. It was announced in London that Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the Amer ican ambassador, and John Hubert Ward would be married in St. James palace June 23. Eight hundred brewery workers of Kansas City went on strike. The Reserve Trust company and the American Savings bank, of Cleveland, O.. closed their doors. A tornado wrecked the hamlet of Gilliam. La., and damaged neighboring towns, several persons being killed and many injured. Much damage and some deaths were caused by tornadoes in Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas. Earley B. Palmore and Miss Lois M. Palmore of Virginia were wedded in the rotunda of the capitol at Wash ington. Numerous addresses were made and great enthusiasm exhibited at the na tional conference on conservation of iiatural resources in the White House It was proposed to form a permanent organization. Three former aldermen of Rockford 111., pleaded guilty of accepting bribes and were fined $2,000 each. The Wright brothers made two more successful flights with their aeroplane at Manteo. N. C. Mail advices say the recent tidal bore In the Yangtse-Kiang resulted ir nearly 10,000 deaths at Plankow. Miss Maud Fleming of Waterloo, la., shot and kilied her father while defending her mother. An attempt made by prisoners tc break out cf the government jail at Yekaterinoslav. Russia, after making a breach in the wall of the guard room with a bomb, resulted in the deaths of 29 of the fugitives. Four miners were killed and three injured oy a tall ot rock m a colliery Midvale, Pa. The national conference on the Con servation of Natural Resources opened at Washington with the governors of nearly all the states of the union and prominent men representing every line of thought and industry of the nation in attendance. Tornadoes in Mercer and Henry counties, Illinois, in the vicinity of Madison, Wis., and in Oklahoma and Texas killed several persons and de stroyed a great amount of property. St. Louis and vicinity were swept by a violent gale. Roy Waller, aged 18. was arrested at Lincoln, 111., charged with threaten ing Hiram L. Keays, a wealthy resi dent of Elkhart with death unless he placed $300 in a designated place. The celebrated market and general j barar in Madrid called locally "Las I Americas,” and well known to anti ; quarians, was practically destroyed by fire. In a pitched battle at the Canadian I Pacific railway sheds near Owen Sound. Out., between striking long ! shoremen and a detachment of sitecial j constables from Toronto, three men | were shot and two detectives clubbed. GREATEST NEED OF TORNADO VICTIMS AT PPESENT. OMAHA AND LINCOLN MONEY Some Details of the Great Storm in i the Matter of Loss of Life, De struction of Property. Etc. Omaha.—Aftermath of the tornado which devastated portions of Cass and Sarpy counties, and wbicli was i*ar ticularlv severe at Louisville. Bellevue and Fort Crook has developed into aid being solicited for the sufferers. Omaha and Lincoln have appointed committees for ihe purpose and other towns and communities will do like wise Thu )>eople of Louisville through committee issued the following: “To the People of Nebraska—We. the committee appointed by the Louis ville Commercial club, appeal to you for aid in behalf of the people of Louis ville. who suffered from the cyclone which swept through our town on Tuesday afternoon, leaving a number of our people destitute and homeless. Ten thonsaud dollars will be needed at once to provide these people with provisions, clothing and furniture to enable them to again care for them selves. All remittances should be made to George Frater. treasurer of the Commercial club of Louisville, Neb.” The Bellevue relief committee is sued the following: "The Bellevue relief committee has after a personal examination, made a careful and conservative estimate of the needs of the recent tornado suf ferers of this community. In this esti mate Bellevue college and the two churches are omitted, as well as all illbureu propert> uoiue rs. luosh « uu are fully able to take care of them selves. or whose friends are assisting them sufficiently. To meet the immed iate demands $15,000 is imperatively needed. We believe, with your kind assistance, the people of our two neighboring cities would gladly co operate in securing this relief. Can you aid us in this matter? Oscar j Keyser is treasurer of the committee, j to whom all funds may be sent, or to some member of the undersigned." Up to this time the number of deaths from the storm are six. though perhaps one or two may succumb from j their severe injuries. Iu Louisville eighteen dwellings were destroyed, the storm leaving nothing of them but kindling wood. ! As many mtrre were damaged, some ! considerably and others escaping with i minor ioss. The Burlington depot, ' pump house, semaphore tower, a small ! mill, a small elevator, the bank of | Commerce and Odd Fellows hall build ing. a livery barn and two store build ings were badly wrecked. Business men differ in estimates of the damage done, some being certain that the loss is no more than forty thousand dqllars. while others declare it will reach sixty-five thousand dol lars. The best estimates seems to be fifty-five thousand dollars. In some of the estimates buildings are counted as total loss that can be repaired and much salvage claimed. That more people were not killed is due to the warning given by its ap proach and the noise made hv it. The storm formed on the top of the bluffs, the fury of the twister apparently be ing exerted after the residence section had been reached. The ground move ment of the storm was slow, its velo city being estimated at eight miles an hour. In fact there is good evidence to show that it required ten minutes to cover onp and one-fourth miles of its path in length. The town of Bellevue was literally swept by the wind and rain and onty a . very few buildings in that picturesque ; old village escaped injury. Buildings ' —home and stores—were unroofed, or caved in and filled with water. The college buildings were badly damaged, Clarke hali. thp main structure, being unroofed, as was also the president’s residence. •Tlie fact that more lives were not lost is regarded as all but miraculous. College campus and town streets and lots are strewn with fragments of de sirucuon. At Fort Crook the storm was severe, working much destruction to property, but at this point no lives were lost. It will take *150,000 to repair the dam age, for which congress has already made an appropriation. In the country districts in the path of the storm buildings were unroofed and some of them blown down. Many people saw what was approaching and got into cellars and caves for safety. While the ground movement was slow the rotary movement of the storm was rapid, and the air was filled with fly ing timbers, roofs of houses, barns and trees. One citizen said the great fun nel shaped cloud looked like a giant cushion in which all sorts of property had been inserted. STORM NOTES. Acting Gov. Saunders offered the use of national guard tents to those rendered homeless. Residents of Springfield. Sarpy county, who watched the storm, say that the storm divided jus: as it crossed the river and that one storm moved toward the east while the other traveled toward Springfield, passing ; west of that town and finally dissolv ing in the air. after a number of barns | and outhouses near Springfield had been demolished. THE DEATH HARVESTER. A Crop on the Gunness Farm. AID FOR THE MANY SUFFERERS AN APPEAL FOR HELP FOR TORNADO VICTIMS. Tents Ordered Forward and Move ments are on Foot to Raise Funds for the Unfortunate. Louisville Asks for Help. To the People of Nebraska—We, the committee appointed by the Louisville Commercial club, appeal to you for aid in behalf of the people of Louisville, who suffered from the cyclone which swept through our town on Tuesday afternoon, leaving a number of our people destitute and homeless. Ten thousand dollars will be needed at once to provide these people with pro visions, clothing and furniture to en able them to again care for themselves. All remittances should be made to George Frater. treasurer of the Com mercial club of Louisville. Neb. L. ,T. MAYFIELD, N. W. G.MNES. W. A. CLEGHORN. Committee. Omaha.—Corrected figures of dam age by the tornado that swept portions of Sarpy and Cass counties Tuesday, place the property loss at Bellvue at about $50,000, with but little insurance. Late developments emphasize the need, above all else, of immediate aid for the victims. Citizens of Louisville issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Nebraska for help. Ten thousand dollars is needed at once. At Bellevue, where the need is none the less urgent, the official appeal for help will be made. At both places tem porary funds ar badly needed at once. Fuller returns from the stricken ter ritory show that the loss of property is greater than was first reported, and that additional loss of life may result. Acting Governor Saunders ordered Nebraska national guard tents and sup plies sent to Nebraska tornado suffer ers. requesting Captain Phelps of the adjutant general's office to investigate conditions. A funds for the relief of sufferers from the tornado in Louisville, Belle vue and other places south of Omaha was started by the Omaha Commercial club. It is the aim to raise $10,000. The number of deaths from the tor nado remains at six. Ed. Miller of Richfield, at first thought to have been instantly killed, lived ar.d underwent an operation for the injuries sustained about the head, but he died later. It now transpires that two sandpit men reported killed near Louisville es caped death. Their temporary absence gave rise to the report that they had been killed. Elmer Leader, the 10-year-old child of August Leader of Richfield is dead. The funerals of Martin Teig and his son killed north of Papillion were also held Thursdav. Latest reports are that Mrs. Clara Marcoe of Bellevue, who was first be lieved to be among the dead and later reported fatally injured, may recover, at least she is improving, as are the others who were seriously injured at Bellevue, where the casualty list was so large. Order is gradually coming out of the chaos which has been supreme in the tempest visited districts of Bellevue and Fort Crook. Thirty Lives Lost in South. Shreveport, La —Thirty dead and 200 injured is a conservative estimate of the fatalities caused by the tornado which swept through northwest Louis iana. destroying three small towns and leaving wrecked homes and ruined crops in a path a mile wide and fifty miles long. Report on Indian Bill. Washington—Senator Gamble se cured a favorable report from thecom mittee on Indian affairs on his bill providing for the construction of the act of congress which provided for the dividing of a portion of the Sioux res ervation in South Dakota. Extend Time for Bridge. Washington.—Senator Burkett called up and passed through the senate the bill for extending the time for con struction of the South- Omaha bridge across the Slisscuri. AT LEAST SEVEN ABE DEAD FATALITIES OF EASTERN NEBRAS KA TORNADO INCREASE. Wreck and Devastation on All Sides, With People in Distress-Who Must Be Given Help. Summary of Tornado. Place—Northern Cass and eastern and central Sarpy counties. Time—1:2') to 5:30 p. m. Tuesday. Killed—Seven. Injured—Thirty or more. Property Damage—$450,000. Louisville. $75,000. Bellevue city. $100,000. Bellevue, college. $10,000. Richfield. $50,000. Fort Crook, city. $73,000. Fort Crook, post. $73,000. Meadow. $10,000. Omaha. $7,000 Farm property, $30,000. Omaha—The latest reports of th* tornado Tuesday evening indicate a death list of seven, fatal injuries of perhaps four and property loss some thing like $450,000. though it is diffi cult, if not impossible, to get at an accurate estimate of the loss, chiefiy because it is spread out over such a wide territory and diversity of inter ests. The storm was confined to a sec tion in eastern Nebraska within com paratively a few miles of Omaha, and yet. strangely enough. Omaha did not feel the devastating effects, though it was thoroughly drenched in the tor rential down]>our. Bellevue appeared to be the center of the tornado, and when the storm got through with it the town, with its picturesque college campus and buildings, was the scene of grim devastation whose financial destruction was limited only by the limitation of the modest structures and whose casualties were astonish ingly few. Louisville. Meadows. Rich field. Crook Town. Springfield and Fort -Crook were seriously stricken. Though the loss of seven lives and the serious injuries to scores of per sons brought general grief and sor row. the fact that the casualties were no greater was simply astonishing in view of the completeness with which the tornado did its work of devastat ing property In these small towns and the intervening country. Bellevue is a wrecked village. Debris lies every where. Scarcely a building in the old town escaped without some mark of the fateful elements, in some cases the property loss wrought irreparable personal injury, as it represented life time fortunes. Standing on oid Elk hill at Belle vue. a sorry sight spread before the eye of the spectator. Far off to the | soutnwest could foe seen J-ort urooK, with its roofless buildings, and then from the fort to the Missouri river could be traced a swath half a mile ; wide, where the giant had spread de vastation in its wake. Farm houses looked like simply piles of wreckage, and what was formerly the home of seme prosperous farmer was nothing more than a pile of rubbish. Trees were torn aside as though they were blades of grass. At Louisville, and for the radius of several miles that the tornado cover ed, it is estimated that the damage will not fall short of $250,000, The heart of this little city was actually plucked out and destroyed. At Fort Crook the damage to the buildings of the village and the army post will aggregate $150,000. Senator Burkett Wednesday introduced into the senate a bill calling for an apppro priation of $150,000 to repair the dam age done to the army post. Carnage in Russian Prison. Yekaterinoslav.—The attempt made on Tuesday by prisoners to break out of the government jail here after mak ing a breach it. the wall of the guard room with a ouuiu was a complete fail ure. but it brought about a horrible j scene of slaughter in and around the ; jail building. Twenty-eight of the' I prisoners wrere shot to death by the j guard 'and another of them has since j died of his wounds. Thirty others j were wounded and it is expected that j several of these will succumb. PACKING PLANT IN FLAMES. Destruction of a Big South Omaha Plant South Omaha—A loss that is esti mated at $800,000 and three men se verely injured is the result, of a con flagration that nearly swept away the entire old Omaha Packing plant Fri day evening. The fire, was one of the largest that has ever visited any of the large industries of the city. Com ing at a time when the packing indus try is struggling against other odds, it is a severe blow. Shortly after . since last summer, before the financial crisis developed. The persistence of the advance and i's freedom from in fluence or check by events seeming unfavorable to values, gave it impres siveness and had the effect of convert ing a growing number of scepticts in the professional operating class who had contested the advance by short sales at various stages and had been forced repeatedly to cover at a loss. The abandonment of the opposition by this class and their turn to the long side had set a little to do with the in creased animation and buoyancy of the market. The success with with all obstacles were overcome and prices aggressively advanced from the in ception of the present movement has been convincing proof of the wide re sources commanded by the leaders of the movement, who are commonly be lieved to include great banking houses and individual capitalists whose influ ence commands the resources of the most powerful group of capitalists iu I A. A V WUUkl . The suspicion of a manipulative origin for the rise in prices with the purpose of meeting a semblance of im provement where the realty did not exist served to hold aloof from the market most of the general public, which generally joins in an important market movement. The confidence and consistency with which the move ment is pursued had a growing influ ence on sentiment last week and had the increasing effect of causing a be lief in the satisfaction thus expressed on the part of great capitalists with the degree of improvement in affairs. In the department of the money market .this movement was clearly enough perceptible. For the easy money market to further the success of the financial plans of cornoratlons, however, there was necessary the ad dition of a demonstration of confidence in the security of values. The rise in the stock market has operated as such a demonstration. The scepticism with which it was accepted at first was due to the conflicting evidence of news af fairs in general. Waiting on Sick Senators. . . "Washington—The illness of Sena tors Elkins and Foraker. combined with not a little politics, has held up in the senate for several days the pas sage cf the Elkins resolution to sus pend the operation of the commodi ties clause of the Hepburn railroad rate law. It. is expected the resolu tion will be passed, however, as soon as these senators are able to return to their duties. There is considerable feeling against the resolution even among senators who have promised to vote for it, and it may not pass. Johnson on Floor of House. Washington—Governor Johnson of Minnesota was a visitor to the capital Saturday and spent some time on the Soor of the house, where he was the recipient of much attention. Demo crats and republicans alike extended cordial greetings. He received gener ous applause when, escorted by Mr. Tawney. he ascended the rostrum and was introduced to Speaker Cannon. Governor Johnson bowed his acknowl edgments and for several minutes en gaged in conversation with the speaker. Strike Authorized. Chicago. 111.—A strike of 5.000 truck drivers was authorized because of the refusal of the team owners to grant an increase of $1.50 a week. A com mittee was instructed to make another effort to get an increase. Albania to Try a Primary. Montgomery, Ala—The democrats of Alabama for the first time in many years will vote for all state and coun ty officers in a general primary. FLEET TO GO TO PHILIPPINES. Naval Circles Interested in Report Reporting Cruisers. Mare Island. Cal.—Naval circles here are greatly interested in a re port that the armored cruisers West Virginia, Maryland. Colorado. Penn sylvania. California and South Da kota may be ordered to the Philip pines in the fall. There they will again meet the Atlantic fleet and en gage in target practice in Mayla bay in October. Orders have been re ceived here to expedite all repairs on the Atlantic torpedo flotilla now here. Find 57 Sticks of Dynamite. Pensacola. Fla.—Fifty-seven sticks of dynamite, each from one-half to two pounds in weight, were found at a point about 500 yards from what is known as Big Bayou trestle, west of the city. Death List is Fifty. Shreveport. La.—The count of the persons who met death in Wednes day's tornado in Caddo and Bossier parishes will probably total fifty. The number at present known to have hnea tilled is forty-four. _ ___—*