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Loup City Northwestern
volume xxv
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 2S; 1008
NUMBER 20
IN CONGRESS.
Practically all hope of a ship sub
sidy was abandoned when the house,
by a vote of 1 45 to 156. rejected the
conference report on the post office
appropriation bill, containing a pro
vision therefor. By a strict party vote
of 160 to 125. a campaign contribution
publicity bill with an amendment pro
viding for a reduction of representa
tion in the house in the southern
states was passed.
Announcing that the conferees of
the senate and house on the currency
bill would be unable to agree if con
gress is to adjourn at an early day.
Senator Aldrich reported from the
committee on finance a joint resolu
tion creating a national monetary
commission.
The senate passed the general de
ficiency and military academy appro
priation bills.
The house passed bills establishing
in the interior department a bureau
of mines and providing for the co
operation of states for the conserva
tion of the forests and waters of the
White and Southern Appalachian
mountains, and the appointment of a
national forest commission.
The conclusions of the special com
mittee which has been investigating
the charges of Representative Lilley
of Connecticut that members of the
house had been improperly influenced
in connection with submarine torpedo
boat legislation, that Mr. Lilley had
violated his obligations as a member
and had acted in bad faith with the
committee and in contempt of the
house, were sustained by the house by
a vote of 157 to 82.
The senate passed the omnibus pub
lic buildings bill which carries appro
priations aggregating about $35,000,
000.. and a bill to prevent the desecra
tion of the flag of the United States.
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PERSONAL.
James Brimmingstall of Dowagiac.
Mich., was arrested on a charge of
trying to kill his wife and is sus
pected of having committed six mur
ders.
J. H. Wade, secretary of the Uni
versity of Michigan, resigned because
of charges of irregularities in his ac
counts. and reimbursed the institution.
Rev. R. A. Eliwood, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Leavenworth,
Kan., resigned when a woman accused
him of writing letters to her young
daughter.
Miss Mae C. Wood lost both her di
vorce suit against United States Sen
ator Thomas C. Platt and her liberty.
Justice O’Gorman dismissed the case
and ordered her held on a charge of
perjury. Her bail was fixed at $5,000
and she was locked up in the Tombs.
Joseph Rosenbaum was elected
commander of the Illinois G. A. R.
Mrs. Sarah Morasch, aged 48 years,
was found guilty of murder in the
first degree by a jury in Kansas City,
Kan., which tried her on the charge
of poisoning four-year-old Ruth Miller.
David Sheehan has been sentenced
by a court-martial in San Francisco to
15 years' imprisonment for desertion.
He quit the army ten times, re-en
listing after each desertion.
Senator Platt, testifying in Mae
Wood's divorce suit, denied that he
ever married or promised to marry
the plaintiff, repudiated the signature
purporting to be his on the marriage
certificate, and the genuineness of sev
eral letters which Miss Wood testified
came to her from him.
T. A. McIntyre, bankrupt broker of
New York, was indicted and arrested
on a charge of grand larceny.
GENERAL NEWS.
B. Kvasnicka, a Chicago jeweler,
was murdered at his country home
near North Judson, Ind.. and a work
man whom he had discharged was ar
rested for the crime.
Two persons were killed and 42 in
jured by an explosion in a sugar re
finery in Paris, France.
Old Christ church. Philadelphia, an
historical edifice, was badly damaged
by lightning.
Two bridge workers were killed and
three injured in Detroit by the fall of
a steel girder.
Four persons were injured when a
“black hand" bomb was exploded in
a New York tenement house.
Forty-six members of the New York
cotton exchange were subpoenaed by
the federal grand jury, presumably in
connection with the case of Edwin S.
*' Holmes.
Night riders near Lancaster, Ky..
prayed and sang hymns as they burned
a large tobacco barn.
John E McGaugbey of Indianapolis.
Ind.. former county commissioner,
committed suicide because his name
had been connected with official scan
dals.
•. a With much pomp and ceremony the
* body of Rt. Rev. I. F. Horstmann,
bishop of Cleveland, was interred at
that city.
Rioting became more serious in
Cleveland. - Strikers burned a car and
in a pistol fight with guards four men
were shot.
That one of the seven unidentified
bodies dug up in Mrs. Gunness' barn
yard near Laporte. Ind., is that of a
woman was reveal by the autopsy,
and it is thought to be the body of a
woman who disappeared from the farm
at the same time as Jennie Olsen.
That Mrs. Gunness was dead was
made certain by the finding of her
false teeth in the ruins of her home
near Laporte Ind.
The Laporte county (Ind.) grand
jury returned seven true bills against
Ray Lamphere. Mrs. Belle Gunness
also was indicted, in order that a
true bill might be found against
Lamphere as accessory in the murder
of Andrew Helgelein.
The Lusitania broke all trans-Atlan
tic records for average speed and for
time over the long course
Lightning struck the shaft of the
Superior Coal mine at Ogle Station,
near Belleville, 111., and imprisoned
the night shift of 100 men for almost
an hour.
airs, kosip Aron wan. an inmaic w
the Home of the Daughters of Jacob
at New York, celebrated her one hun
dred and seventh birthday with a
party. One man present was 106
years old, and the oldest woman there
was 112.
Mayor McBride of Paterson, N. J..
ordered suit for libel begun in behalf
of the city against a New York maga
zine which calls Paterson the "home
of anarchists."
A bill in equity to restrain the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad
company from exercising any control
over the Boston & Maine railroad, and
to separate the New Haven road from
the various trolley lines it has ac
quired. was filed in the United States
circuit court at Boston.
Zenas Crane of Dalton. Mass., gave
$10,000 toward equipping Commander
Peary's arctic expedition. ,
A new moderator of the Presby
terian church in the United Slates
was elected at Kansas City in the per
son of Rev. Dr. Baxter P Fullerton of
St. Louis. He succeeds Rev. Dr. Wil
liam H. Roberts of Philadelphia.
The Illinois supreme court issued a
writ of mandamus against the mayor
and members of the city council of
Alton requiring the city officials to
permit Ambrose and Minnie Bibb,
negroes, to attend the same school in
which white pupils are taught.
Strikers in Cleveland again resorted
to violence, blowing up several cars
with dynamite. Two persons vere
seriously injured and eight others
hurt.
About 60 persons were killed and
100 injured at Con.tich. six miles
southeast of Antwerp, in ore of the
most disastrous railway collisions
that has occurred in Europe for many
years.
One man was killed and much prop
erty damaged by a cyclone in the vi
cinity of Albia. Ia.
The jury in the trial cf Abe Ruef,
ex-boss of San Francisco, for bribery
failed to agree.
A new bridge under construction on
the Harlem branch of the New York,
New Haven & Hhrtford railroad at
Baychester was wrecked by dyna
miters.
Six residents of South Bend, Ind .
were badly injured when their auto
mobile rolled down an embankment.
Marshal Hollowell shot his former
sweetheart, Miss Mary Ertel, near
Rushviile, Ind., and then killed him
self.
The French police have recovered
practically all the securities stolen
from the liner Savoie in January,
1907.
Thugs robbed and murdered Robert
C. P. Holmes, a well-known electric
light man, in the business district of
Chicago*
Several persons were killed and
others injured in a fire that destroyed
J. C. Wintermeyer's box factory in
Chicago.
Democratic state conventions in
'Michigan. Missouri and South Caro
lina instructed for Bryan. That of
Pennsylvania refused to instruct its
delegates.
Mrs. Carrie Shaw, a wealthy widow
of Hortonville, Wis., was found mur
dered and her friend, Charles Abrams,
of New London was arrested.
The Atlantic battleship fleet rounded
the extreme northwestern point of
the United States and entered the
Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Three persons perished in a fire that
destroyed a hotel at Tilsonburg, Ont.
Col. Evan T. Williams of Ironton,
O., a prominent attorney, was killed
when a street car hit his buggy.
The marriage of Miss Helen Ma
loney of Philadelphia to Arthur H. Os
borne was annulled by order of Justice
McCall of the supreme court of New
York. This leaves her the wife of
Samuel Clarkson.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
awarded 15 bronze and 15 silver med
als. $13,950 in cash payments and
monthly payments to four persons. *■
The Arkansas legislature failed to
convene in pursuance to a call issued
by Speaker Allen H. Hamiter, while
he was acting governor, and as the re
sult there will be no extraordinary
session of that body.
The appellate court at Chicago (de
cided that Mayor Busse could not be
compelled to enforce the Sunday sa
loon closing law.
Seven young society persons of Clar
endon, Ark., were drowned when the
gasoline tank of their launch ex
ploded.
Fire destroyed half the business
section of Russell, Man., the loss be
ing $150,000.
The attempt by the members of the
state board of arbitration to bring
about peace between the Municipal
Traction company of Cleveland, O.,
and its striking employes resulted in
a failure. Violence broke out again,
non-union employes being beaten, sev
eral cars dynamited nnfi trolley wires
cut.
TREATIES APPROVED
THIRTY-SEVEN DEALT WITH BY
THE SENATE.
LARGEST IN TWENTY YEARS
Gains in Arbitration Recorded as Dis
trict Victories for American
Diplomacy.
Washington.—With little discussion
and less publicity, the United States
senate has at this session placed its
approval of thirty-seven treaties—
more in number if not in importance
than had been ratified during the twen
ty years preceding. In making effect
ive so many agreements with the na
tions. international advancement has
been made along three distinct lines.
Twelve nations have agreed by treaty
with the United States to arbitrate
future disputes, which is taken to
mean nothing less than that the world
has now been established on the plan
of arbitration.
The foundation for continued friend
ly procedure in adjusting questions
with the Orient is believed to be con
tained in the treaties with and the le
gislation in respect to Japan, to which
is added the friendly visit of the fleet
to that part of the world.
A basis cf settlement has been ar
rived at with Great Britain, by which
longstanding questions between tana
da and the United States are assured
of satisfactory adjustment.
To these important accomplish
ments. directed throughout by Secre
tary Root, may be added a number of
lesser magnitude. The territory avail
able as asylum for the fugitive from
justice has been further restricted
through extradiction treaties with
Spain. Portugal. Urugay ami San Mar
tino. while naturalization treaties have
been concluded with Peru, Salvador
and Portugal.
The gain for arbitration is regarded
as a distinct victory for American
diplomacy, initiated by the instructions
to the American delegates to The
Hague conference. The result so far is
approval of general arbitration treaties
with Great Britain. Japan. France,
Italy, Spain. Switzerland. Mexico. Por
tugal. the Netherlands. Sweden and
Denmark. Besides the general arbi
tration treaties eleven ot the interna
tional treaties resulting from The
Hague conference were approved. They
include these subjects: Recovery of
contract debts, opening of hostilities,
law's and customs of war on land,
rights and duties of neutral powers;
submarine contact mines, bombard
ment of naval forces, naval war and
the Geneva convention, right of cap
ture in naval war, discharging pro
jectiles f-om balloons and the final act
of the peace conference.
As to the orient the important ac
complishment is the bringing of Japan
into the group of nations committed to
arbitration. Besides this are the con
ventions with that country which
guarantee in Korea and China protec
tion for inventions, trade marks and
copyrights.
President Signs Bills.
Washington—President Roosevelt
has signed the bills providing for the
participation of this country in the
exposition to be held in Tokio in 1912:
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, and a bill author
izing the extension of the street rail
ways of this city to the new Union
station.
Mrs. Eddy's Son in Jail.
Deadwood. S. D.—George Washing
ton Glover, son of Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy, came to town from Lead. An
hour later a policeman hunted him
up and told him to remove his frac
tious horse to a livery stable. Glover
declined. An alteration ensued and
the officer placed him under arrest.
Night Riders Miss Baby.
Ripley, O.—Night riders destroyed
the tobacco beds of Walter Hook, six
miles from Ripley. Hook fired at the
men and in return they riddled his
house with bullets. One bullet came
within two inches of hitting the Hook
baby.
Alcohol Decimates Paris.
Paris—After devoting two years of
study to the question of death due to
alcohol, directly or indirectly, Mr. Fer
net of the French Academy of Medi
cine announces that J3 per cent of all
deaths in Paris are from use of alco
hol.
CONGRESS TO ADJOURN SOON.
Both Houses Shaping Business to End
Session This Week.
Washington—Both the senate and
house will devote their best efforts
to so shaping their affairs as to bring
about an adjournment at the earliest
time possible during the present week
and as a consequence whatever is
done will be in the nature of com
pleting work already begun.
Vote to Return to Work.
Cleveland, O.—By a vote of 640
against 611 the striking street railway
conductors and motormen decided to
return to work as '“new men.” The re
sult of the vote, which was taken
Sunday, was not announced until mid
night. The vote is in accord with the
demands of the Municipal Traction
company upon this point. At midnight
the non-union men now at work run
ning the company’s cars began to vote
on the question of whether they would
submit their claims of seniority to ar
bitration.
GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO RECOVER.
Mr. Business Conditions—“Say, Old Man, an Awful Headache la Just
Leaving Me. Talk, If You Wish, But Not in Too Loud a Voice.”
Sim ARE CRUSHED TO DEATH
BESIDES MANY WOUNDED. SOME
OE WHOM WILL DIE.
The Catastrophe Due to a Defective
Switch Where One Railroad
Crosses Another.
Antwerp.— One of the worst rail
road accidents in Europe in recent
times occured at Contieh, a station six
miles southeast of this city, on the
main line at 8 o’clock Thursday morn
ing. The exact number of victims had
not been determined up to late at
night, owing to the difficulty of re
moving the bodies from the debris,
but the latest estimate places the
number at bixty killed and 1U0
wounded.
The catastrophe appears to have
been due to a defective switch where
the main line crosses a local line. At
this pcint a train carrying a large
number of pilgrims on their way to
a local shrine was standing. Into
this the Antwerp-3russels express
dashed at the rate of fifty miles an
hour. The heavy coaches of the ex
press crushed the lighter train into
splinters. The sides of the express
cars'were torn from their fastenings,
the floors practically collapsing, thus
precipitating the passengers to the
side of the track uninjured, whence
they fled frenzied across the fields.
But for this fact the death roll would
be njuch greater.
The rescuers, even the doctors who
were hardened to such scenes, were
sickened at the sight that met their
gaze. Evidences were found of hor
rible death struggles that occured in
the crushed coaches. In one place a
dismembered hand was found clutch
ing oue of the supports of the torn
car. One body was found lying across
the boiler of a locomotive, crushed in
to a shapeless mass The majority of
the dead could not be recognized,
either being decapitated or their
heads being terribly crushed.
The judicial authorities of Antwerp
soon arrived on the scene and opened
an investigation into the disaster.
They ordered the signal men in
charge of the switches under arrest,
although it is believed by the author
ities that they were blameless. The
engineer and-fireman of the'express
were both killed a! their posts.
Prince Albert went to Contieh and
visited the injured, having cancelled
an engagement to preside at a ban
quet at 'Antwerp. *
•- Congress Ten Days Yet.
Washington—After the adjournment
of the republican caucus of the house
Speaker Cannon expressed the opinion
that it would be eight or ten days be
fore fiinal adjournment of congress
could be reached. He said: "We have
a filibuster on which prevents action
on more than five or six bills a day.
There are twenty-nine measures now
in conference and you can make your
own estimate as to the time it will
take to dispose of them. We are not
going to turn tail and run.
Preacher Commits Suicide.
St. Joseph, Mo.—With two daugh
ters on the stage, which weighed
heavily upon his mind as a minister,
and on account of other domestic
troubles. Rev. Rufus R Fletcher, a
Methodist minister living in St. Joseph
and with a charge at Fairport, Mo.,
I committed suicide by swallowing' car
bolic acid. After taking the poison
in a shed he entered his house, took
his Bible and opening the book began
reading. He died a few minutes later.
He was about 45 years of age.
Rranchman Pleads Not Guilty.
Butte, Mont.—Ole Nordanl, a Mus
selshell ranehman, was arrainged at
Lewistown for the murder of the en
tire Schleutfer family, a mother and
three children, who were found dead
two months' ago. Nordahl pleaded not
guilty. v , -j
Laborers' Wages Cut.
Chicago, m.—A general cut In wages
of all section men and unskilled la
borers ■ has been ordered by the rail
roads extending west from Chicago.
Several thousand men are affected.
OUTLOOK APPEARS HOPELESS
APPARENTLY NO CHANCE FOR;
CURRENCY AGREEMENT.
Some Prospect for a Measure Provid
ing for a Commission to Be
Put Through.
Washington.—The appointment cf a
currency commission to be composed
of nine members of the house will be
provided for in a bill which Senator
Aldrich will introduce in the senate,
and if this is passed by congress it
will comprise all of the financial legis
lation that will be enacted at the pres
ent session.
This course was decided upon by
the conferees on the Aldrich-Vreeland
currency bill at a conference which
demonstrated beyond question that
there is no hope of getting an agree
ment between the senate and house
on an emergency measure. Undoubt
edly this decision means that leaders
in congress are determined upon a
final adjourment cf congress next
Saturday.
No question before the congress at
the present session has received such
earnest attention as the passing of a
bill that would provide against finan
cial crises of the character experi
enced last fall. The efforts to legis
late, however, were complicated from
the start with demands on the indi
viduals who desired to bring about a
general revision of the lavs to reg
ulate hanking and the whole currency
system of the government. These de
mands were made in both branches
of congress and the bills reported in
each house in consequence were more
or less compromise measures. In the
house of representatives it became
necessary in order to get an agree
ment on a bill to accept provisions
which were antagonistic to each
other.
Conferees on the part of the senate
and house failed to get down to a
discussion Of the details of the two
hills finally sent to conference. The
senate passed a bill providing for the
issuance of national bank notes on
bonds other than those of the United
Slates, and it appeared from all of
the debate in the house that such a
hill would be rejected even if present
ed in the*-form of a conference report
recommending the main features of
the house hill. The house passed a
hill providing for the Issuance of
emergency currency on securities
guaranteed by clearing house associa
tions and the. sen<*te refused to re
gard this in other light than that of
asset currency and therefore would
have none cf it.
TWO NEW BISHOPS.
Methodist Conference Elects Drs. And
erson and Nuelsen.
Baltimore. Md.—Rev. Dr. William F.
Anderson of New York and Rev. Dr.
John Nuelsen of Nast Theological
seminary, Berea, O.. were elected bish
ops of the Methodist Episcopal church
upon the second ballot, taken Wednes
day afternoon at the session of the
general conference held at Lyric thea
ter. There were 765 effective votes
cast on the second ballot, 510 being
necessary to Choice. Dr. Anderson
received 548 and Dr. Nuelsen 540.
Special Duty for Admiral.
Washington—Secretary Metcalf has
detailed Admiral Robley D. Evans,
late commander-in-chief of the Atlan
tic fleet, to, ditty with the general
board of the navy, which has to do
with the preparation of plans for
naval campaigns for use in time of
war.
Summer Work for Troops.
Washington — Preparations have
been completed by the War depart
ment for joint maneuvers during the
coming summer of all branches of the
regular service and many state militia
organizations. Congress has approp
riated $1,000,000. for these maneuvers.
Omaha Man Found .Dead.
Springfield. O.—Coming, here from
Omaha. Neb., to find life, Henry Van
lossad, aged 91, xas found dead in
stead. Mr. Vanlossan died at the home
of his daughter. *
THE LABORS OF CONGRESS.
Resume of Results of Session Nearing
an End.
Washington.—A resume of the pres
ent sessionof congress elicits the in
teresting fact that there was more im
portant questions presented to and
discussed by congress on which the
public generally or sections or clas
ses demanded action than ever be
fore in its history. A majority of
these were of President Roosevelt's
making. Comparatively the enact
ments were few. On the other hand
the aggregate of appropriations were
great and when the final figures are
obtainable it is not doubted that they
will exceed those of any previous ses
sion, in time of peace.
Standing above all questions with
which congress dealth was the effort
to pass an emergency bill. Thrust
upon the attention of legislators at
the opening of the session by a finan
cial depression that had not fully sub
sided it was the first big question to
be considered. Likewise it was the
hardest to meet and it did more to de
lay adjournment than any other. The
senate and house failed to agree, with
the result that a commission of sen
ators and representatives in congress
whose duty it is to study the subject
and report at the next session was the
alternative adopted.
Numerous bills affecting labor were
considered by both the senate and
the house. In the form in which the
hills were presented organized labor
was not heartily behind them and
questions concerning the constitution
ality of many of the measures, in the
light of recent decisions by the su
preme court of the United States,
raised other barriers.
It is conceded that more legislation
would have resulted had it not been
for the pending national election. The
election placed the maojritv in a del
icate situation. a fact not overlooked
by the democrats in the house, who
further complicated the republicans'
position by a filibuster to compel the
passage of measures demanded by
President Roosevelt and opposed by
a majority of the republicans in both
branches of congress.
Out of this condition of affairs was
steered a new employer..' liability
law. to take the place of that declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court,
and there is pending a bill providing
for the compensation of government
emploves in hazardous occupations,
who are injured in iine of duty. Othe’
matters of equal or greater import
ance to organized labor failed. These
include an anti-injunction law with the
provision for the exemption of organ
ized labor from the treble penalty
ciause of the Sherman anti trust law
and other amendments, to relieve
labor unions from operations of this
law.
Bryan Talks to the Bankers.
Chicago—William Jennings Bryan
made a plea before the Bankers' club
of Chicago for an emergency currency
that would enable state as wel as na
tional banks to relieve money strin
gency and sounded a warning that the
people would demand the government
•bank unless absolute security for de
posits can be assured them. He spoke
on "The Banking Business” before
several hundred members on the occa
sion of the 104th meeting of the club.
Miss Wood Still in Jail.
New York—Mae C. Wood, the
Omaha woman who was sent to prison
in her default of $5,000 bail on a
charge of perjury after her complaint
against United States Senator Thomas
C. Piatt, whom she had sued for di
vorce. had been dismissed, was still
in a cell Friday.
Allen for Indian Agent.
Washington — Senator Gamble
called upon President Roosevelt and
recommended tHe appointment of San
ford E. Allen of Sisseton. S. D., to be
Indian agent at the Sisseton Indian
reservation, to succeed C. B. Jackson,
whose term has expired.
Black Hills -Road to Be Sold.
Rapid City. S. D.—Judge MaGee in
the circuit court ordered a receiver's
sale of the Missouri River & North
western railway, a line forty miles
long, operating between here and Mys
tic. The sale is to take place June
Hinshaw is Pleased.
Washington — Representative Hin
shaw is carrying a smile about with
him that refuses to ‘'come off" because
of the treatment accorded his district
in the omnibus public building bill.
Beatrice and Fairbury both being
taken care of.
American Car Off for Paris.
Paris—A dispatch to the Matin from
Vladivostok dated Friday says: The
American car in the New York to
Paris automobile rate left this morn
ing. The military governor general
furnished its driver with papers for
safe passage.
Currency Commission.
Washington—The house committee
on banking and currency voted by a
substantial majority to recommend
the passage of the Aldrich joint reso
lution creating a currency commission,
which passed the senate.
TWENTY PEASANTS HANGED.
Russia Begins Sevre Policy to Punish
Men Guilty of Disorders.
Kherson, Russia—Twenty peasants
who took part in recent disorders in
Yekaterinoslav district were hanged
here under decree of a court-martial.
They belonged to a peasant associa
tion, the avowed object of which was
to drive out landed proprietors by the
burning of their estates. The resort to
the deathe p naity for agrarian out
rages is a new departure. '
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious. Social. Agricultural. Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Valentine has begun work on its
new city park.
Hastings dealers are accused of sell
ing impure milk.
The water bond proposiiion in Oga
lalia was defeated.
All of the Nebraska City teachers
have been re-elected for another year.
Omaha banks show a million and a
half increase since last report in Feb
ruary.
The cornerstone of the new Cath
olic church at Fairbury was laid last
week.
Mrs. 1 eomans, a sister oi rx rresi
I dent Cevelaud, was visiting in Omaha
last week.
The Young Men's Christian associa
tion of Crete will build a home to
cost $20,000.
Cadets of the state university are
camping in Nebraska City this week
for live days.
At Lincoln, John Lundgren. an aged
man. was run over and killed by a
Rock Island train.
About 500 veterans were in attend
ance upon the Grand Army encamp
ment at Hastings.
The mayor of Hastings issued a
proclamation designating "cleaning up
day” for the city.
At Lexington bloodhounds readily
traced a thief who had committed rob
bery in a boarding car.
The town of Winslow has voted a
bond of *1.000 for a new school house
to be built this summer.
Christopher Sehavland of Madison,
was the unanimous choice of the State
Board of Assessment for secretary.
The Morton-Gregson packing plant
at Nebraska City has closed down for
sixty days that repairs may he made.
Mrs. Miohaelson. a violently insane
woman in the Norfolk hospital, was
operated upon for gall stones, since
which she is rapidly regaining her rea
son.
Some of the citzens of Ctica who
participated in the assault upon Evan
gelist Miller March 21 must answer in
court, according to the grand jury’s
findings.
The authorities of North Platte have
decreed that henceforth all tramps
caught loafiing around the streets or
railroad yards will be corralled and
put to work on the streets.
Beatrice citizens feel highly elated
over the passage of the bill appropriat
ing *50,000 for the extension of the
postoffice building. The force has
been cramped for quarters for some
time.
The commencement exercises of the
j Beatrice High school will be held in
I the Christian church, June 5 and 6.
The graduating class numbers fifty
two, thirteen more than has ever grad
uated before. *
The board of education has elected
George E. Martin of the high school
as superintendent of the public schools
of Nebraska City. He has been prin
cipal of the high school for the last
six years or more.
At Beatrice Matt Kaffy was found
dead at the home of his niece. Mrs.
George ITpson. at Lanham, by a mem
ber of the family who went to call him
for breakfast. Death was supposed to
have been due to heart trouble.
Crookston fs to have a station agent.
Recently Max E. Veirtel tiled a re
quest with the State Railway Commis
sion for an agent to be placed at
Crookston. making a shewing that
$22,000 of business was done the last
year at that station and asked for an
investigation. The result was an
agent will be forthwith installed
there.
James A Garland, who is in the
Custer county jail charged wish the
murder of John Sanderson, and who
cannot be tried in the district court
till September, alleges that he will die
before that time if confined in the
Custer county dungeon. His attorney
H. M. Sullivan has applied to the su
preme court for a writ of habeas cor
pus. the object being to require the
sheriff to place the accused in some
other county jail or in the peniten
tiary.
It will cost the state about $15,000
for two years to carry out the new
plan of paying each member of the
Nebraska national guard 25 cents for
attending weekly drill. The plan has
been in force long enough to show re
sults, but in the case of many com
panies it has shown a falling off in at
tendance rather than an increase. lr.
addition to this payment the state
makes a service payment to the offi
cers in accordance with the length of
time they have served in one position.
At Weston, Charles Wondra. was
found dead early in the morning with
in about two blocks of his home. He
had been drinking heavily.
Edward Schrank, a prominent fann
er and owner of the old Chritudwig
j farm south of Wisner, was instantly
i killed by a fall from his wagon.
The 14-months-old child of Andrew
Nass, a prominent German farmer re
siding near Ord. met death by falling
into a stock watering tank. The child
was just old enough to toddle about
and was out of sight of the nurse hut
a few minutes, and when found was
| floating face downward in the tank.