Nebraska Newspapers

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Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXV
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908
NUMBER 31
PERSONAL.
Mayor Busse of Chicago admitted
that he and Miss Josephine Lee had
been married more than a month.
The conviction of Dr. Walter R. Gil
lette. formerly vice-president of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, on
the charge of perjury, and his sen
tence to six months in the iteniten
tiary were set aside and the indict
K ment against him quashed by a deci
sion of the appellate division of the
supreme court of New York, on tech
nical grounds.
It was announced at the White
Mouse that President Roosevelt would
go to Africa in April. 19U9, to hunt
big game.
Charles Henry Brent, bishop of the
Philippines, has declined to accept the
post of bishop of Washington.
S K. Strother of Taylorville was
elected president of the Illinois Press
association.
Maj. Alfred Dreyfus was shot and
slightly wounded by Louis Gregori, a
military writer, in the Pantheon just
after the canonization of Emile Zola.
Dr. William C. Gorgas of the isth
mian canal commission was elected
president of the American Medical as
sociation at Chicago.
The funeral of former Senator James
K Jones of Arkansas was held at the
family residence in Washington.
C. .1 L. Meyer, former millionaire
and once president of the Northwest
ern railroad, asked to be admitted to
the Milwaukee county poorhouse.
Congressman J. F. Lanning. former
ly vice-president and director of the
defunct Ohio Trust company, was in
dicted at Norwalk, 0.. on s* ven counts
charging embezzlement.
William Jeffries was hanged at St.
Charles, Mo., for the murder of Wil
liam Wussler.
President Roosevelt narrowly es
caped serious injury when a horse
he was riding reared and fell with him
into a creek.
John Hays Hammond, the noted
mining expert, entered the contest for
the nomination for vice-president on
the Republican ticket.
Gaston P. Philip, civil engineer and
clubman of New Y'ork and V. ashing
ton. was acquitted of the murder of
Frank Maraboy, a cab driver, by a
jury in Washington.
Robert A Smith, retiring mayor of
St Paul. Minn., was presented with
111,000 by business men.
C. C. Hanson was appointed receiver
for the Gulf Compress company by
Judge McCall of the United States
court at Memphis, Tenn. The concern
has a capital stock of $1,000,000.
King Gustav of Sweden reviewed
30 000 soldiers of the German amy at
Berlin.
I GENERAL NEWS.
Four men were killed and ten in
jured by the bursting of a steam pij>e
on the armored cruiser Tennessee
while she was on a speed trial near
San Pedro. Cal. Rear Admiral Sebree
and other officers had narrow escapes
from death or severe injury.
Eight persons were killed and a
score injured in a head-on collision on
the Washington, lialtimore & Annapo
lis electric railway between Annapolis
and Camp Parole.
Three packing companies and one
railroad company, convicted in 1900
of rebating and sentenced to jiay fines
aggregating $01,000, handed to the
clerk of the I’nited States court in
Kansas City a check for the total
amount of their fines, plus costs.
Contests for 24 seats in the Repub
lican national convention were de
rided by the national committee in
favor of the Taft delegates. These
contests came from Alabama and
Arkansas
King Edward. Queen Alexandra and
Princess Victoria started for Reval.
Russia, for a visit to the emperor of
Russia.
Sheriff George W. Garrison of Okla
homa City. Ofela., was shot and killed
by negroes while trying to arrest a
murderer
Gregory Grey of Laporte City. Ia..
made a will leaving his $50,000 estate
to a poor man who had befriended
him. and ten minutes later he died
Sebastian Guyla, a clerk in a whole
sale liquor house in Wilkesbarre. Pa.,
and Mrs. Anna Kares a married worn
an whose husband had deserted her.
carried out a death pact. Guyla killing
the woman and himself.
Safe hl°wers robbed the post office
at Maryville, Tenn., of about $1,000.
George Ftune, who shot his neigh
bor. George Priebe, at Laporte, Ind..
was found*guilty of manslaughter.
At a Special election held in Kansas
City. Kan., the proposition to substi
tute the commission form of govern
ment for the present one was de
feated.
C. A. Coey's balloon Chicago traveled
irom waincy, in., vu oicg Lut, o. u.,
over 800 miles, in 11 hours, setting a
-lew speed record.
The Mexican government stated that
reports that peace with the Yaqui In
dians had been declared or was as
sayed were premature.
[ A tornado which passed near Ge
j r.eva. Neb., caused two deaths, tatally
injured two other persons and de
stroyed several thousands of dollars'
worth of property.
Stacy Matlock, chief of the Pawnee
tribe of Indians, and Miss Blanche
Hill, a Pawnee girl, will be married at
Carlisle, Pa., where the voting woman
is attending the government school.
In the case of the Minneapolis, St
Paul L Sault Ste. Marie Railway com
pany against the Wisconsin railway
commission, the supreme court ot
Wisconsin upheld the commission and
favorably established the constitution
ality of the law that created it
It was declared in London that
210.00U pounds of American meat that
has been stored in London. Glasgow
and Liverpool was teshipped by fast
steamer to New York to meet the con
tinued shortage of meat in America.
The full Republican national com
mittee met in Chicago and began the
hearings on which will be determined
the contests involving 229 seats in the
convention.
The City of Cleveland, largest pas
senger steamer on the lakes, started
from Detroit on her maiden trip.
About 20 persons were killed and
$20,000 damage done to property by a
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Mae O'Reilly, who, Julius G. Truel
son Jr., declared in a "confession” to
the Texas authorities, was murdered
on the Gunness farm at Laporte, Ind.,
ts in Saratoga, N. Y.. alive and well.
Three persons were killed instant
ly and more than a dozen Injured In a
collision between an Elgin. Joliet &
Eastern freight train and an Aurora
car of the Joliet & Southern Electric
Traction company.
Joseph M. Brown defeated Hoke
Smith for the gubernatorial nomina
tion in the Georgia Democratic pri
mary.
forty ships were wrecked ana _iu
pearl fishers met death in a terrible
typhoon off the west coast of Austra
lia.
The Wise levee, constructed along
the Missouri shore of the Mississippi
river, across from Alton, broke and
about l.OOu acres of farm land were
submerged.
Mrs. Minnie Grunert was found
strangled to death at Appleton, Wis.,
and the police believed she was mur
dered.
The jury at Allegan. Mich., disa
greed in the case of‘ Mrs. Neelly,
charged with manslaughter because
her child died while under treatment
by mental healers.
Reports of principals of schools in
the East side. New York, have re
vealed the shocking fact that hundreds
of the pupils are starving. A commit
tee of East side school board members
ha; organized fur the relief of these
poor children and emergency meas
ures have been adopted.
In a desperate fight with a large
wildcat near Cannonsburg. Pa.. John
Ilrady, a farmer, was fatally injured.
Robbers cracked the safe of the
Hank of Fairland, Okla., and obtained
SI 0,000.
Idaho Democrats were split by the
Mormon question and held two con
ventions. Democrats of Maryland and
Louisiana elected uninstructed dele
gations.
Preparations for the placing of
Emiie Zola's body in the Pantheon
aroused the anti-semites of Paris to
violent rage and some rioting oc
curred.
Charles T. Muir, paying teller of a
New York hank, committed suicide be
cause a shortage in his accounts was
discovered.
ovuaiur ^iiiibuu ueieaieu vju\ . v um
mins in the Iowa primaries by about
12,000 majority.
The Burlington road was fined at
Springfield, 111., for violating the 28
hour live stock shipment law.
A, P. Camden, a Chicago traveling
man, was murdered in Minneapolis
by a youth supposed to be insane.
The federal grand jury at St. Paul
returned three indictments against
James L. Lovering, publisher of the
Mail Order Monthly and of Successful
Agriculture charging him with using
the mails for the purpose of promoting
a lottery and a scheme tj defraud.
With appropriate exercises, the peo
ple of the south celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Jefferson Davis.
Mrs. William Dorner and her four
young daughters were asphyxiated by
gas in their home in Chicago.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that an agreement had been
reached with the British government
for a letter postage of two cents an
ounce between the United States and
Great Britain and Ireland, to become
effective October 1.
The president appointed Roy H.
Chamberlain, an attorney at law, of
Iowa, as general appraiser of mer
chandise at New York.
The Kosciusko county bank at War
saw, Ind., was closed by the state au
ditor because of bad loans.
C. F. Wilber, a butcher of Beatrice,
Neb., built a gallows and hanged him
self.
Theodore P. Shonts denied the
stories that his son-in-law, the Duke
de Chaulnes. was a drug fiend; he said
the nobleman was stricken with heart
disease while praying by his wife's
side.
For perhaps the first time in history
there will be a fair election in Central
America the first week in July, when
Panama chooses its new president.
The campaign has become so threaten
ing that it has been decided to guard
the polls with United States marines.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision of the
Ststes circuit court for the
I eastern district of Missouri in the ex
tradition case of H. Clay Pierce of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company of St.
Louis, holding him subject to extradi
tion tc- Texas, where he is under to
diet-meet on a charge of perjury.
JUNE HAS ARRIVED.
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MR. BRYAN WILL_PUT IT BUCK
IF IT CAN BE PROVED THE MONEY
WAS PAID.
Replies to Charges of New York
World Regarding that Nebraska
Campaign Fund.
Lincoln—W. J. Bryan has reiter
ated his statement of his intention to
make good the $.0,000 said to have
been contributed to the Nebraska
campaign by Thomas Ryan of New
York, if the story published in the
New York World can be proven. His
statement given out tonight is as fol
lows :
‘‘I have just read the World's story
charging:
1. That my brother-in-law, Mr.
Allen, chairman of the democratic
state committee, had a conference
with Mr. Sheehan in 1904 in regard
to campaign funds.
2. That Mr. Sheehan, as Mr. Ryan's
attorney, secured from Mr. Ryan
$20,000 for the Nebraska campaign.
3. That Mr. Ryan made the contri
bution to secure my “open and un
qualified support of Judge Parker.”
4. That “to disguise the source of
the contribution, Mr. Ryan gave the
check to Mr. Sheehan, and that Mr.
Sheehan gave his checks to Mr. Al
len.”
“Chairman Allen and Mr. Dahlman,
the Nebreska member of the national
democratic committee, have already
denied the World's charges and stated
that the only money received came
from the national committee, but I
desire to add the following state
ment:
"Mr. Allen says that he never saw
either Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan, and
1 nave no reason to doubt his word.
If Mr. Ryan contributed to the Ne
braska campaign it was not with my
knowledge or consent. While I had
j but a remote personal interest in the
: Nebraska campaign that year. I am in
i terested in Nebraska politics and am
i also interested in national -politics,
and I am not willing to be. in the
i slightest degree, obligated to any
i favor-seeking corporation. If. there
fore, the World will secure from
j either Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan a
! statement, or prove in any oth * way
j that Mr. Ryan gave to Mr. Sheehan,
to any one else, or to the national
committee any sum whatever with
the understanding that the sum would
be used in the Nebraska campaign. I
shall see that the amount is returned
to Mr. Ryan.
“As to the charge that my support
of Judge Parker was purchased, I
need only say that 1 announced my
support of Judge Parker immediately
after the St. Louis convention and
that that support was open and un
qualified from the convention until
the polls closed. I had opposed his
nomination, but he had no more loyal
supporter during the campaign. I
was in correspondence with him, and
both on the stump and with my pen
rendered him all the assistance I
could. While the World was selling
its columns to the republican commit
tee to be use in caricaturing Judge
Parker, my paper was urging his elec
tion.”
SENATOR ALLISON IS NAMED
WILL SUCCEED HIMSELF TO
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Returns Are Far From Complete. But
Enough Known to Determine the
Successful Men.
Des Moines—Allison has been nom
inated by at least 7.000 majority.
This is generally conceded. Returns
are not all in and the headquarters
of the various candidates have been
closed. The only returns being re
ceived are those by newspapers.
Forty-nine counties scattered over the
state give Allison a majority of 9,000.
The other counties are not going to
reduce this materially and may raise
it some. Forty-seven counties give
Carroll 37.487 and Garst 25,841. Ham
ilton in twenty-four counties got 4,717.
Carroll will probably have a majority
ot 25,000 over Garst. Speaker Clarke
is in all probability nominated for
lieutenant governor and Bleaklev
for state auditor. It is believed that
not half of the republican vote for
Roosevelt was cast at the primary
election.
If Judge Prouty is nominated for
congress in the Seventh district it is
by such a narrow margin that only
the full complete returns will deter
mine the matter. Wednesday night
he had a majority of six over Con
gressman Huli. with some precincts
to report yet.
In the Tenth district Congressman
Woods, chairman of the state central
committee, was chosen over J. P.
Conner, present incumbent. Elbert
H. Hubbard was renominated for con
gress in tlte Eleventh district.
The only democratic contest was
in the Second district, where Mark
Walsh of Clinton won over J. E. De
Armand of Davenport, he carrying
Scott county against his opponent.
The congressional nominees nanied
in the primaries are: First district,
C. A. Kennedy (rep.i, George S. Tra
cy Idem.); Second district. A. F. Daw
son I rep.), Mark Walsh Idem.); Third
district, Charles E. Pickett (rep.I,
Charles Elliott Idem); Fourth dis
trict, G. N. Haughen (rep.), democrat
in doubt; Fifth district, James W.
Good (rep.) S. K. Tracy idem.); Sixth
district, N. E. Kendall (rep.), D. W.
Hamilton (dem.t; Seventh district,
Hull or Prouty (rep.), D. C. Holly
(dent.); Eighth district, W. P. Hap
burn (rep.), W. A. Jamieson (dem.t;
Ninth district, W. I. Smith (rep.), R.
C. Spencer idem): Tenth district,
Frank P. Woods (rep.), democrat
doubtful; Eleventh district, E. H. Hub
bard (rep.), no democratic nomina
tion.
CHURCH UNION ABANDONED.
United Presbyterians Take No Action
on Movement for Present.
Pittsburg—The proposed union of
the Presbyterian and the United Pres
byterian churches, or at least to bring
the two denominations into closer re
lation, which has been before the gen
eral assemblies for some time, hits
been abandoned for the present. At
the closing session of the general as
sembly of the United Presbyterians, a
report recommending such action was
adopted. The report was submitted
by the committee to which the subject
had been refused by the last general
assembly.
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Oliver Belmont Very III.
New- York.—With his family at his
bedside. Oliver H. P. Belmont was hov
ering between life and death late
Thursday night at his country home
near Hempstead, L. L, after an opera- '
tion for appendicitis. <
Fewer Diamonds, More Sugar.
New York—Largely increased im
ports of sugar and a continued falling 1
oil in the value of diamonds brought 1
into the United States are features of 1
the May report of Appraiser Wanna
maker of the port of New York. Prec- 1
ious stones and pearls to the value of
♦ ubo.tOd »VU:U uiltiug did) , iX
large drop from the same month last 1
year, when imports of jewels and prec
ious stones amounted to 12,951.435. i
Ninety-four automobiles of the ap- '
praised value of $238,122 were brought t
in against 120 cars in May. 1907. J
Tariff Committee to Toil.
Washington.—The senate committee
on finance, which was authorized to
make an investigation of the tariff dur
ing the recess of congress, to be in
readiness to take up a review of the
tariff next winter, will hold its first
meeting in some cool resort about the
middle of July. The exact date has
not been fixed, but will be announced
soon.
—
Walker Freed in Mexico.
San Diego. Cal.—The steamer St.
Denis, which arrived here Thursday
from Ensenada, brought the report that
William F. Walker, the New Britain,
Conn., banker arrested in Lower Cali
fornia after a long chase and who was
fighting extradition, has won his case
ixi iiitrAu.au t /Uits Oi U iliut uiUbib i 6*
yoking the commitment to the Ensena
da prison were expected to reach Ense
nada soon. If Walker has won in the
upper court he must, now wait the slow'
action of Mexican courts before he
«e*» be released
ALLIES BACK DOWN
ANTI-TAFT FORCES DECIDE NOT
TO BOLT.
FORMAL STATEMENT ISSUED
Presentation of Evidence in Contests
Will Continue in Regular Way
Until the Close.
Chicago.—Representatives of tha
“allies have recalled their statement
that the\ will bolt the republican na
tional committee so far as the presen
tation of evidence to support the
claims of anti-Taft delegations from
southern states is concerned. There
is evidence that the announcement
made Saturday night upon the author
ity of Representative Francis J.
Burke, manager of Senator Knox, af
ter he bad been in conference with
Senator Hemenwav of Indiana. J. B.
Healing of Indiana and others identi
fied with the campaign being made by
the "allies” created dissension. Some
of the other spokesmen for the "al
lies” declared the announcement to be
ill advised and they busied them
selves Sunday to counteract its ef
fect.
After numerous conferences the fol- i
lowing, which was headed, “Statement
from the allies,” was issued:
“Upon the authority of the repres- ■
entatives of all presidential candidates !
other than Secretary of War Taft it j
was announced today that they would |
continue to present their side of the ;
contested delegate cases to the nation
al committee. The decision of the na
tional committee will not be taken as
final by the candidates known as the
‘allies,’ but an appeal will be taken in
cases where it is believed injustice
has been done, first to the committee
on credentials and later to the conven
tion itself.
“The determination of the repres
entatives of the 'allies’ to continue the
presentation of the contests to the na
tional committee is not to be taken as
an indication that they approve of the
manner in which these contests have
been decided. But in order to be in
the position to present all of the cases
in proper form to the committee on
credentials it is deemed advisable to
comply with the form of procedure
laid down by the national committee.
"It is the firm determination of the
representatives of the 'allies' to first
give the national committee an op
portunity to consider all the contents
on their merits.”
STORM VICTIM DEAD.
Mrs. E. Arganbright of Shickley Dies
of Injuries.
Davenport. Neb.—The results of the
tornado Friday night east of here,
at Carleton, are just being realized.
The wire of E. Arganbright, who was
killed at his home two miles east of
Shickley died, and the loss to prop
erty east of Shickley ts conservative
ly estimated at $50,000. The loss at
Carleton where two were killed, will
reach $60,000. Following is a partial
list: New school building, $6,000;
S. W. Bailey, residence and out buid
ings, $5,000: Lutheran church and
parsonage. $2,500; United Brothren
church. $2,500; W. C. Bates, $700; D.
M. Smith, $1,000; E. E. Lichty,
51,000; Philip Mall. $400; Mrs. Bris
tow, $500; Lester Carter, $500; Wil
liam G. Chen, $500: Frank Kochrow;
5600: John Edwards, $300; W. F.
Bradley, $300; Mrs. Yearnshaw, $300;
rhad Easterbrook, $300; Frank Fitz
simmons. $500: Dr. Westerhoff, $200;
Frank Sissell, $500; J. G. Bader, $500:
President Names Commission.
Washington—Carrying out his dec
larations to the conference of gover
nors that should congress fail to pro
ride for the continuanse of the Inland
Waterways commission, he should
continue it by executive act, and con
gress having failed to take action on
the subject. President Roosevelt has
re-appointed the members of that com
mission.
Great Crowd of Teachers.
Cleveland, O.—Thirty-one thousand
nemberii of the National Educational
association have signified their inten
tion of being present at the conven
:ion of that organization to be held in
:his city June 29 to July 3. inclusive,
rhe attendance may swell to 60,000 or
nore.
NAVAL BILL BEATEN.
Russian Duma Defeats Appropriation
for Four Battleships.
St. Petersburg—The Duma by a
mte of 194 to 78 rejected the item
n the naval budget appropriating $5.
■00,000 to lay the keels of four battle
hips during the current year. This
ote is tantamount to a vote of lack
if confidence in the present officials
if the ministry of marine and whole
ale resignations from the ministry
.re expected to follow.
Calls Uncle Sam Bad Names.
Caracas—El Constitutional, the offl
:ial organ of president Castro, pub
ishes a New York letter stating that
t is rumored that the United States
rill secretly support Colombia in case
if war with Venezuela. In an editorial
article that paper discredits the re
ulfil his duty, whatever that may be.
["he paper also publishes a partisan
ipeech in which the United States is
■ailed “th^ Cain of America, which
mmulates fraternal cordiality in order
o brutal instincts.'" *
RAVAGES OF THE TORNADO.
Several Towns Visited With Disas
trous Results.
Omaha.—Three different portions of
Nebraska were visited by as many tor
nadoes Friday afternoon and night,
and as a* result six people are dead,
two fatally injured and the number
more or less seriously hurt cannot be
estimated until more details are added
to the meager reports now in.
Twisters descended on St. Paul.
N'eb.. Thursday night late, on Franklin.
Fairfield. Edgar and other small places
Friday evening: the one which result
ed most seriously swept a path just
west of Geneva.
A large number of houses and farm
buildings have been destroyed. At
Fairfield several churches were entire
ly demolished and the school house
badly damaged. No fatalities there.
At Geneva two were killed, two
fatally hurt and several others in
jured. The State Industrial School for
girls was badly damaged.
At Franklin one person was killed
and many houses completely de
stroyed.
At St. Paul two were killed and
much property damage was done.
At Carleton the same twister that
struck Franklin tore up a number of
houses, killing a woman and injuring
several other people.
At Edgar a number of buildings
were blown down, but it is thought no
one was killed. It is reported that
Scandia. Kas.. was wiped out. but no
reports of a definite nature can be se
cured from there. The towns of Ina
vale and Chester are also struck.
Geneva. Fairfield. Inavale and Ches
ter were evidently visited by the same ’
tornado. Franklin and Riverton were
visited by a different one, and St
Paul, in an entirely different locality,
was struck by the tail end of the wind
that tore things up near Kearney a lit
tle while before.
EXPLOSION ON TENNESSEE.
Break in Boiler Tube Works Havoc
on Armored Cruiser.
San Pedro, Cal.—A terrible accident
occurred on board the United States
armored cruiser Tennessee on Friday.
While the ship was steaming at nine
ten knots on a speed trial off Point
Huenene. California, a tube in a boiler
in the starboard engine room burst
ing under 2115 pounds pressure, killing
four men and injuring ten others—all
of the men in the compartment at the
time. The explosion, the cause of
which is unknown, occurred only a
few minutes after Admiral Uriel Se
bree. Captain F. B. Howard and Chief
Engineer Robertson had left the en
gine room on a tour of inspection.
Four of the men were instantly killed
and two more are expected to die.
Congressman Laning Held.
Norwalk. O.—Congressman J. F.
Laning. formerly vice president and a
director of the defunct Ohio Trust
company, who was indicted on seven
counts charging embezzlement, was
jointly indicted with James P. Gibbs,
president of the closed bank in two in
dictments in which obtaining money
by false pretenses is alleged and an
other indictment charging misapplica
tion of the funds of the bank. F. W.
Christian, secretary and treasurer of
the bank, was twice indicted on the
charge of perjury.
EIGHT KILLED IN COLLISION.
Electric Cars Come Together Head-on
Near Annapolis. Md.
Annapolis—In a head-on collision
betwen two special cars on the Wash- j
ington, Baltimore & Annapolis rail
road eight persons were killed out
right and a score of others were seri
ously injured, some of them perhaps
fatally. The collision was due to t\
confusion of orders, as the line haa
been running several extra cars.
Troops for the Philippines.
San Francisco—The United States
army transport Buford sailed Friday
for Manila via Honolulu and Guam
with nearly 700 bluejackets from the
east, who will be distributed among
the American ships on the Asiatic
station.
“Mere Newspaper Gossip.”
Washington — Postmaster General
Meyer after the cabinet meeting said
that all talk to the effect that he
might be chairman of the republican
national executive committe to con
duct the coming campaign was "mere
newspaper gossip.”
Hoke Smith Beaten.
, Atlanta, Ga.—With the returns prac
tically complete from all counties in
the state, Joseph W. Brown's puralitv
in the democratic primary is 15,000.
Governor Smith lost his own county,
Fulton, and most of the other larger
counties in the state.
Burkett's Daughter Operated Upon.
Washington—Miss Josephine’ "Bur
kett, daughter of Senator and Mrs. j
Burkett, submitted to a surgical oj»er- j
ition for abscess of the bladder. She '
has been afflicted for a considerable
time with the trouble.
KANSAS RIVERS AT FLOOD.
Torrential Rains Cause Nearly All
Streams in State to Overflow.
Kansas City—Flood conditions pre
tail in all the rivers in Kansas and
Oklahoma, owing to the torrential
■ams wcicn ha.<. .Vium ^ver,> „.*y uw- i
ng the last week. The Kaw river and I
ts tributaries, which drain the greater j
jortion of the state of Kadrov are j
>ut ot their bank* an tsi-.ay and i
lave destroyed «wps . and washed J
ivray l-'ve stock asd bullffifcga.: •• • *
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON
DENSED FORM.
THEPRESS, PULPIT SNA PUBLIC
What is Going on Hers and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
Spanish veterans held their first
meeting at Lincoln with a good at
tendance.
Rev. Hayes, for two years at Co
lumbus. has accepted a call to St. Paul,
in this state.
The corner stone for the proposed
new Catholic church at Schuyler was
laid last week.
The spring wheat harvest is expect
ed to commence in Gage county about
the 20th of June.
At a recent meeting of the Wood
men of the World in Omaha 1.205
members were initiated.
Washington county apple growers
believe they will have much of the
fruit to sell in the autumn months
The Masonic temple at Fairbury
appears to be a go. judging by the en
thusiasm of the people in the pro
ject.
A number of harmless insane will
he discharged from the Lincoln asy
lum to make ro om for more pressing
cases.
Frank G. Cox, who passed forged
checks at Fremont, will think over his
transgression for three years in the
penitentiary.
Baptist ladies in Fairburv are "try
ing to gather up a load of waste pai>er
that their church exchequer may be
strengthened.
J. Ahew Smith, wanted at Carlisle.
111., on the charges of forgery and
murder, was arrested in Syracuse by
City Marshal Meeker.
The season for destructive storms
is at hand. WIND and LIGHTNING
will destroy and damage buildings and
kill and maim stoci; in barns and
pastures. Protect yourself by insur
ing them in the Nebraska Mutual Ins.
Co., home office, 141 South Twelfth
street. Lincoln, Neb. Write us for
particulars.
The Crete Young Men's Christian us
sociation has started a campaign to
raise 120.000 to erect a building. Mo, e
than $8,000 has already been pledged
Pr E G. Winkler, a dentist who re
cently located in Valentme. was ar
rested on the charge of practicing den
tistry without a license from the state
board.
The Alma Interstate Driving park
stables are full of horses in training
for the fall races which take place dur
ing the Alma Interstate fair in Sep
tember.
George and Scott Burke, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Burke, were
drowned in Hooper creek, four miles
south of Adams, while out picking ber
ries. The boys were eight and nine
years old.
Jacob Crocker, a well-to-do farme
living about ten miles southwest of
McCook, threw himself head fore
most down an abandoned well on his
farm. The well was 150 feet deep He
was instantly killed.
Two hundred chickens were lost and
$500 worth of property destroyed as
the result of a fire on the Charles l;ll
farm, southwest of Hastings The fire
started in a barn from a defective
brooder or incubator lamp
E. C. Burns, formerly deputy oii in
spector for the Fremont district for
many years postmaster at Scribner
and representative for two tern,- of
Dodge county in the state legislature,
died at his home in Scribner.
The Cass county mortgage record
for May show’s: Fifteen farm mori
gages tiled, amount $44,450 released
eighteen, amount $47 :189. Ten mort
gages on city property filed, amount
$4,975; released ten. amount $2.
His attorney at Grand Island ta^
filed suit for John J. Slattery for $10.
000 damages against the Chicago. Bur
lington & Quincy, and Thomas Gra
liam for the injuries sustained bv hi
being pushed off a moving freight
train, as alleged, and having his skull
badly injured and his (eg cut off
The annual camp meeting of the
Nebraska state holiness assoc:a' ion
win De neia tms year at Epwortn park.
Lincoln, starting June 18. Men f-om
the national association have been se
cured to lead the meetings, which are
expected to be this year very success
ful. Ministers and laymen from all
denominations will be present
Coroner Howard of Howard was
called -to the farm home, some eigb'
miles northwest of that city, of Pen r
Paulus, the information being that a'
an early hour Mr. Paulus took hi
shot ^tun and went out to the bam
and shot himself and that he soon
ijied. Mr. Paulus lost his wife a few
months ago after some month- of
severe sickness, and it is thought that
his mind had become unbalanced from
this and other causes.
John Petersen, residing near Friend,
was drowned while attempting to
crass a- swollen stream
At the election held in Wayne the
proposition to vote $50,000 bonds for
the construction of a high school
building carried by a large majority.
-The fees collected in the office of
the secretary of state during the
mofith nf Vfo t» n«*nnn• •« *1 •>».'' f*C
j.*iueu os follows: For ntuo- - . >
of incpnporation. *T s". notary <^m
missions. $»S.1<>; niator vehicles.
5o,540j!0' brands, $52.50: certificates
and transcripts. $47.25: labels and
traae marks $30.63.
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