Loup. City Northwestern
VOLUME XXV SS CDS
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY . JU’NE 25. 1908
NUMBER 32
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CONVENTION NOTES.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
was nominated for the presidency on
the first ballot in the Republican con
vention at Chicago, receiving 702
votes Then, amid scenes of wild en
• hu asm, be was made the unanimous
choice cf the convention. The major
■ty lerort of the platform committee
was adopted after a debate. For sec
ond place on the ticket Sherman of
Me-' York moved prominently to the
fore.
Representative James S. Sherman
was nominated for vice-president on
the first ballot by the Republican na
tional convention. The convention
then adjourned and a sub-committee
of the national committee went DCin- i
cinraii to consult Jlr. Taft as to his
choice for national chairman.
Fcr 45 minutes the delegates and
spectators in the Republican national
convention wildly cheered for Presi
dent Roosevelt. The vast throng in
the Coliseum was crazy with enthusi
asm and some people feared that the
threatened Roosevelt stampede was
about to take place. The demonstra
tion was started by Senator Lodge's
speech as permanent chairman. The
credentials committee reported, seat
ing all the Taft delegates, and the con
vention voted down the proposition to
i educe the representation of southern
states in future conventions.
At an all night session cf the cre
dentials committee of the Republican
national convention 110 contests
brought by the ••allies” wore consid
ered, ihe decisions being in favor of
the Taft adherents. A subcommittee ]
of the resolutions committee labored
over the platform, modifying many of
the planks. Gov. Cummins of Iowa
became the leading candidate for the
vice-presidential nomination, with ,
Fairbanks a close second.
PERSONAL. j
Congressman John Sharp Williams j
of Mississippi resigned the minority
leadership of the house of representa
tives. to tak" effect December 1 next,
saying it was for the good of the
Democratic party.
United States Commissioner of Pen
sions Vespa: :an W arner suffered a
iegal defeat in the litigation growing
out cf the administration of his fa
ther's citric when the Illinois supreme
court handed down a decision sustain
ing the contentions of his stepmother.
Mrs. Warner will receive about $500,
000 or one-fourth of the estate.
E. T. Bethel, convicted of spreading
sedition in Korea, was sentenced to
three weeks’ imprisonment.
George G. Metseger. one of the
.wealthiest men of Toledo and presi
dent cf the failed Broadway bank, was
indicted by the grand jury on counts
charging him with embezzlement and
misapplication of funds.
By the will of Oliver H. P. Belmont.
Mrs. Belmont is to receive all the real
and personal property and she is
named executrix of the estate. The
value of the estate is not given.
■ Secretary Taft’s daughter won a
Pennsylvania scholarship in Bryn
Mawr.
President Roosevelt told the Dis
trict of Columbia commissioners to
order all stray dogs in Washington
muzzled for 60 days.
GENERAL NEWS.
President Roosevelt accepted the
resignation cf Secretary of War Taft,
to take effect June CO, and announced
that he had selected Luke E. Wright
of Tennossee as Taft's successor. Mr.
Wright followed Mr. Taft as governor
of the Philippines and was the first
American ambassador to Japan.
An explosion in a coal mine near
Monongahela, Pa., resulted in 'the
death of three men, the probably fatal
injury of two others and the entomb
ing of 15, many of whom were thought
to be suffocated.
A jury found Carl Fischer-Hansen.
the New York lawyer, not guilty of
'he charge of extorting $15,000 from
Joseph E. O'Brien of Philadelphia.
The Capital City Savings bank of
Little Rock, Ark., conducted by ne
groes, is in the hands of a receiver.
The thirty-second national saenger
fest of the North American Saenger
bund opened in Indianapolis. Ind.
The government’s suit for injunc
tion against seven coal carrying rail
reads that transport anthracite from
their own mines was argued in Phila
delphia.
Three men at je.ma, UKia.. accused
of lynching a negro, were acquitted by
a jury.
Mrs. J. D. Tuthill of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
sister of J. S. Pomeroy, cashier of the
Security National bank, Minneapolis,
committed suicide by jumping into
Lake Minnetonka at Breezy Point.
Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the only
practicing woman lawyer in Detroit,
Mich., committer suicide by taking
laudanum.
The plant of the Royal Coal Mine
company at Argentine, Pa., was de
stroyed by dynamite, the loss being j
SSO Q(T
According to the Iron & Steel
Trades Journal of London. American.
German and Russian syndicates are
about to form an international steel
trust with £150,000.000 capital.
Three national guardsmen of New
York were killed by a ‘ flare back" in
one of the guns of Fort Wadsworth
during the mimic war.
Twenty-three wrapping paper com
panies pleaded guilty, in New York, to
indictments charging them with vio- I
iating the Sherman anti-trust act.
Sweeping reductions in lumber
rates west of the Missouri river, and
approximately five per cent, reduction
in the advanced rates in the east, as
well as other changes in the tariff,
were ordered under decisions an
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission.
Five unidentified Italians employed
by contractors on the Lackawanna
railroad cutoff at Lehigh on the
Pocono mountains, were killed by a
premature blast.
Twenty passengers were injured,
one fatally, in a:i interurban trolley
road collision near Bakertown, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was found guilty
at Watertown. N. Y.. of the murdor of
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, and was sen
tenced to be electrocuted.
Dr. Frank Stirn ci Cudahy, a suburb
of Milwaukee, was shot and probably
mortally wounced by a man named
Antony Kriz whom he had treated
unsuccessfully.
The famous Summit house on the
top of Mount Washington was de
stroyed by fire.
Gen. Khcroshkin, commander of a '
detachment of Cossacks stationed at
Vorkniskan, a town near Uralsk, was
assassinated.
Three members cf the Nc-w York
National Guard were seriously injured ‘
by the explosion of a powder charge
at Fort Wadsworth.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Shelby Steel Tube company at Shelby,
O., owned by the L'nited States Steel
corporation. Less was $2,000,000.
Several persons were injured, one
perhaps fatal.)', tv.-o houses and a half
dozen barns were destroyed by a
tornado which struck the eastern out
skirts of Sioux City.
Dominga Schiappa Pletra filed a
suit against the heirs of the late Leo
pold Pietra cf Los Angeles, asking for
one-haU' of an estate valued at $2,500.
000, alleging that she is the common
law wife of Frederico Pietra, an Ital
ian immigrant, who laid a foundation
for the immense fortune.
As officers, carrying a warrant charg
ing him with misappropriation of the
funds of the Aberdeen (O.) Banking
company, were breaking down the
doors of his barricaded borne to place
him under airest, D. H. Fawcett, pres
ident of the bank, placed a revolver
to his head and fired a bullet into his
braih.
Martin Finn of Salisbury, N. Y>,
was killed in his sleep by his wife,
who then took poison.
Mrs. A. L. Stairs of Sandy Creek,
W. Va., while temporarily insane
killed her two little children and her- i
self.
Lazarus Levy, the 65-year-old head ■
of the banking firm of L. Levy & Co.,
was sued at New York by Susie A.
Merrill. 30 years his junior, for $100,
000 damages for breach of promise.
The federal grand jury at New
York found a third indictment against
Alfred H. Curtis, president, and
Charles W. Morse, vice-president Na
tional Bank of North America, charg
ing them with making false entries in
reports to the comptroller of the cur
rency and the misapplication of funds
for speculative purposes, amounting
to about $1,250,000.
The president of the Russian revo
lutionary republic was sentenced to 15
years at hard labor.
Three Black Hand members were
killed and a fourth wounded by a
wealthy Italian merchant of New Or
leans from whom they had attempted
to extort money.
The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped
for 20 minutes in the narrows at New
York because the grfeat guns of For'a
Wadsworth and Hamilton were being
fired in the '‘war game."
The Democratic state convention of
Mississippi instructed the delegates to
vote first and last for the selection of
William J. Bryan as the presidential
nominee.
Dr. W. P. King, for 40 years presi- !
dent of Cornell college at Mount Ver
non. Ia., resigned on account of ill
health. Prof. James Harlan was j
chosen president.
Four hundred feet of the Missouri, !
Kansas & Texas railway embankment,
which served as a levee protecting St.
Charles county (Mo.) farms from the
Missouri river, gave way and 4,000
acres of farm lands were inundated.
Miss Miriam Frances Bloomer, i
daughter of James F. Bloomer of Cin
cinnati, drank poison by mistake in
New York and died.
Thomas Hagen, a marine, was killed
by a blow over the heart in a boxing
bout on the battleship Mississippi at
Philadelphia.
Two hundred lives were endangered
by an incendiary attempt to burn a
tenement house in New York.
Joseph Fangele. a wealthy merchant
and brewer of Gailitzin, Pa., commit
ted suicide.
OBITUARY.
Benjamin H. Richardson, known to
Harvard graduates as the bookseller |
of Harvard Square, and the landlord !
of President Roosevelt during his en
tire* college course, died, aged 76
years. I
State Senator James W. Milliken of j
Traverse City, Mich., died of apoplexy
on a New’ York Central train.
Dr. Thomas W. Small, chief surgeon
of the American line steamer St.
Louis, committed suicide in his cabin
on the steamer bv shooting.
Named as Republican Standard Bearers for
President and Vice-President.
TIE UTTER HAILS FROM MEW TCI STATE
Second Place Nominee Is Said to be Prominent in State
and Nation, Having Served Ten Terms
in Congress.
Chicago.—Seven hundred and two
votes for William Howard Taft
That announcement by Chairman
Lodge at the close of the first ballot
tells the story in a nutshell. The an
nouncement of the vote to the 15,000
and mgre people crowding the stifling
Coliseum from end to end and corner
to corner was followed by tumultuous
applause. A motion was made at the
first lull to make the nomination un
animous and then a recess was taken
until morning to permit of confer
ences on the vice presidency.
Thursday was Taft day in the big
convention, just as Wednesday was
Roosevelt day. It was not all one
way, however, and the presence of a
dissenting minority was distinctly in
evidence at different points, yet only
to accentuate the fact that the repub
went ringing through the great build
ing.
The close of his speech of nomina
tion was the signal for loosing the
long-pent-up feeling of the Taft
legions. Instantly the Ohio delegates
were on their feet, otncr Taft states
following while the convention hosts
in gallery and on the lloor broke into
mad demonstration.
“Taft, Taft, W—H—Taft,” came in
a roar from the Ohioans. Mega
phones seemed to spring from con
cealed places and swell the Taft tu
mult into thunder. A huge blue silk
banner, bearing the familiar lca:ures
cf the statesman-secretary, was
swun| before the delegates, awaken
ing a fresh whirlwind of enthusiasm.
All semblance of order was aban
doned and the delegates of the arena
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
lican party is a party of majorities,
and that the delegates and not the
visitors in the galleries make the con
vention record.
The roll calls were taken on reso
lutions without producing any modifi
cation of the platform draft present
ed as the committee’s majority re
port. Nebraska voted with the min
ority on several propositions on which
our republicans had already spoken in
state platforms, but at no time was
there encouragement hat any of the
minority recommendations would be
accepted.
Nomination speeches being the or
der of the convention on Thursday,
the favorite sons of a number of
sta es were named. As the Buckeye
state was reached, the tall gaunt form
of Theodore E. Burton advanced to
the patform to nominate Ohio’s can
didate. He spoke fervently, with the
singing voice of an evangelist, whi-h
was a malestrom of gesticulating men.
It was the repeti ion of the scene cf
the day before when the name of
Roosevelt broke tne convention into
frenzy, repeated in intensity and al
most in duration, cut there is a limit
o physical resources of throat and
lungs; relays had not been established
and at last the tired voices died down
to a hoarse shout and at last sub
sided.
The secretary was powerless to
make his call of the states heard
above the deafening clamor. Seizing
a megaphone, he shouted the roll of
states—Alabama. Arkansas—but his
voice was swallowed up in the mad
uproar. Gradualv, however, the curi
osity of the multitude conquered their
enthusiasm and they lapsed into si
lence to hear the result of the roll
call. A hush of expectancy hung over
the assembly as the call proceeded.
Hasty summaries showed that Taft
LOVABLE MAN, SAYS SHAW.
Former Secretary Enthusiastic Over
Tafts Nomination.
New York—On receiving the news
of Secretary Taft’s nomination for
the presidency. Former Secretary of
the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw said:
“Inere is no more lovable character
in public life than William H. Taft.
He will be elected easily and the
country will prosper under his admin
istration. Only snail men ever at
tempt to imitate and they always
fail.”
Enthusiasm for La Follette.
Chicago—Wild enthusiasm followed
the speech nominating La Follette.
The cheering rapidly increased when
a man named Seifert, who is a mes
senger in the United States senate,
held high a picture of Roosevelt. The
roar was so great at the time the pic
ture was shown that it was impossible
to tell exactly where the La Follette
enthusiasm died and the Roosevelt
cheers began. The Wisconsin men
took full charge of the outburst, how
ever. and led it with vigor and in
l creasing en husiasm.
HON. JAMES S. SHERMAN.
was far in advance. When New York
was reached the Taft column totalled
427. Ohio carried the Taft to al to
511, twenty more than enough to nom
inate. Still the call went on until the
final result was announced by Chair
Lodge, showing that Taft had 702,
Hughes 67, Cannon 58. Fairbanks 49,
Knox 68, La Folle.te 25, Foraker 16,
and Roosevelt 3.
General Stewart L. Woodford, for
Governor Hughes, leaping upon a
chair, moved to make the nomination
for Taft unanimous: Senator Penrose,
for Knox, and Boutell for Cannon, and
Henry of Georgia for Foraker, and
Wisconsin for La Follette, seconded
the movement for an unanimous vote.
The vote"was given with a ringing
cheer and then wi h shouts of exulta
tion Taft was made the unanimous
choice of the republican party for
president of the United States.
No further business for the day was
attempted, the convention adjourning
until Friday at 10 a. m., to make nom
ination for the vice president.
SHERMAN OF NEW VORK WINS
Republican Convention Nominates
Him for Vice President.
Chicago—Wi h Congressman James
S. Sherman of New York chosen as
vice presidential candidate and run
ning mate of Secretary Taft, the re
publican national convention of 1908
passed into history on Friday. The
final session lasted less than two
hours, adjournment without day being
taken at 11:47 a. m. The committees
to notify the candidates were official
ly promulgated. Senator William
Warner of Missouri, past commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public, being selected to head the
delegation that will call upon Secre
tary Taft, and Senator Burrows of
Michigan being placed at the head of
the committee to notify Mr. Sherman.
Before the convention assembled
this morning it was practically cer
tain that the .vice presidency would
go to Mr. Sherman. A large number
of states had indorsed his candidacy
in caucus and it spread like wildfire.
The New York delegation solidly
stood back of Mr. Sherman and when
the voting began there w'as a rush of
delegates to fall into line, victory be
ing assured to the New York repre
sentative long before the roll had
been half completed.
Roll call snowed Sherman to have
810 votes. On motiefn, the nomination
was made unanimous.
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp
shire offered the usual resolution to
appoint the permanent chairman,
Senator Lodge, as chairman of the
committee to notify the presidential
nominee and that Temporary Chair
man ±>urrows be appointed to head
the committee to notify the vice presi
dential nominee.
The usual motions of acknowledge
ment to the officers of the convention
and to the city in which it was held,
were passed.
Judson W. Lyon of Georgia was
recognized to make the motion to ad
journ without day. It was put into
effect at 11:47 a. m. The band played
“The Star Spangled Banner,” the dele
gates rapidly left the hall and the con
vention of 190S had made its way into
history.
Taft Starts East.
Cincinnati—Secretary Taft is speed
ing toward New York on the Pennsyl
vania Flyer, en route to New Ha .-on.
Conn. He left at 3:15 o’clock, accom
panied by Charles Williams, Jr., of his
political staff and expec s to reach
here Monday morning. H9 will be In
New Haven at noon. He will rem tin
at New Haven through the commence
i^ent exercises at Yale—his alma ma
ter. Incidentally he will attend a re
union of his class, ’78, and witness the
Yale-Harvard boat race at New Lon
don on Thursday.
WHO IS SHERMAN?
A Man Who Has Had Much Experi
ence in Public Life."
Chicago.—Mr. Sherman, of New
York, Dominated for vice president on
the republican ticket, has had long ex
perience in public life. He is a lawyer
of high standing and large practice, a
banker and a manufacturer He was
mayor of his native town, Utica, N. Y.,
iniSS4; was delefiate to the repub
lican national convention in 1S92.
chairman of the New York republican
conventions in 1895 and again in 1800
and has been elected to ten terms in
congress. For many years he has
been an active member of the repub
lican congressional committee ' and
was chairman of that body in 190$.
His work on that committee has given
him a familiarity with political condi
tions in every congressional district ;n
the country and brought him a wide
acquaintance with members of his
party everywhere. In congress Sher
man has been prominently identified
with the small list of hard-working
members.
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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Salient Features of the Platform of
the Party.
Hopublican party reached its highest
Fervice under leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt.
Accomplished complete overthrow of
al preference, rebates and discriminations
by the railroads.
Bettered tile condition of the American
wage-earner.
Exposed and punished evil-doers in
public service.
Took forward step in the improvement
of the inland waterways.
The convention declared its unfaltering
adherence to the policies inaugurated and
pledge their continuance under a repub
lican administration of the government.
Under the guidance of republican prin
ciples the American people have become
the richest nation in the world
Since the election of McKinley the
people have felt the wisdom of entrust
ing the republican party with the control
and direction of the national legislation.
The convention commends the passage
of the emergency bill, appointing the na
tional monetary commission, employers'
and government liability laws, widows'
1 ension bill, and many other acts consent*
ing the public welfare.
Republican party declares unequivocally
for revision of the tariff by special ses
sion of congress. Favors security against
foreign competition without excessive
duties, so as to maintain the high stand
ard of living of the wage-earners of this
couni ry.
The ronvention approved the emergency
measures adooted by the government dur
ing the recent financial disturbance.
Favors establishment of postal savings
bank system for the convenience of tha
people.
Approves the enactment of railroad
rate laws.
Behoves that insterstate commerce law
should be amended to give railroads the
right to make and publish traffic agree
ments, but maintaining always the prin
ciple of competition between naturally
competing lines.
Favors such national legislation and su
pervision as will prevent future overissue
of stocks and bonds by interstate car
riers.
Commends republican piartv for wise
policy in establishing the eight-hour day
on all public, construction and the adop
tion of child labor laws in the District
jot Columbia.
The republican party at all times will
[uphold the authority and integrity of the
state and federal courts and insist that
their powers to enforce their process and
protect life, liberty and property be pre
served inviolate.
Favors extension of rural mail service
to every community.
Believes in public aid in building and
maintaining country roads.
Republican partv for more than fifty
yearc has been the consistent friend of
the negro. Gave his his freedom and
citizenship.
Dec! ires for the rigid enforcement of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution without
any reservation.
Wright Will Succeed Taft.
Washington.—Secretary Taft pre
sented to the president his resignation
to take effect June 30, and it was an
nounced at the White House that
Luke E. Wright of Tennessee will be
appointed secretary of war to succeed
Mr. Taft. In making this appointment
the president was< influenced some
what by the desire to recognize in an
emphatic way that there is no longer
any dividing line between the north
and the south and that all good Amer
icans are in thought and deed one.
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON
DENSED FORM.
THEPRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC
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What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
The clergy of Hastings arc making
a strong fight on the saloon.
The Thayer county teachers’ insti
tute had an attendance of over 100.
Bridges and culverts out every
where and no money with which to
| build them—that is practically the
predicament that Gage county is in at
present.
J. M. Guille of Lincoln and S. K.
I Warrick of Alliance have l:cen ap
I pointed delegates to the World’s Tem
perance Centennial congress by Gov
ernor Sheldon.
New York dispatch: James H. Finn.
! a Nebraska cattle dealer, was found
i unconscious in a cab in this city. His
companion was arrested. Finn had
lost a gold watch and some money.
Otto Anderson is ly'ng in a critical
condition at St. Elizabeth's -hospital.
Lincoln. Crazed with jealousy he
slashed his throat with a razor andt
may die. He is past 60 years of ag:>‘
and Is fairly well to do.
A Sioux Indian by the name of
Thompson shot and killed himself on,
the Rosebud reservation. He hail:
been accused of horse stealing and an
Indian policeman was after him with
a warrant for his arrest.
The season for destructive storm«
is at hand. WIND and LIGHTNING
will destroy and damage buiidings and
kill and maim stock in barns and
pastures. Protect yourself by Insur
ing them in the Nebraska Mutual Irts.
Co., home office, 141 South Twelfth,
street, Lincoln, Neb. Write ue for
particulars.
Leon Pepperberg arrived from
Washington, D. C. last week and at
ter a visit with his parents in Platts
mouth departed for Livingston, Mont.,
and in company with four others will
cover 2,0(10 square miles this summer,
making a geological survey for the
government in search for coal and
other minerals and to fix t.»e price of
government lands within the area of
their surveys.
Frank A. Maurer, a lineman in th‘
employ of the Fremont Gas and Elec
trie Light company, was accidentally
killed while working on a pole. Just
how the accident happened is not
known, but he evidently came in con
tact with the electric light wires. He
was discovered hanging head down
ward from the wires, and when taken
down was dead. He was taken to the
hospital and attempts to resuscitate
him were unsuccessful.
The state historical society has re
ceived two fine mounted buffalo, com
ing with the compliments of GoL W
F. Cody. They were secured through
the intercession of C. H. Morrill or
Lincoln. “Buffalo Bill” has always?
had a warm interest in Nebraska, and
when he learned of the nesv historical
building and the fine site that had
been secured for it near the capitol,
he readily agreed to make an import
ant addition to the collec’ron.
A pitiful case was heard in Judge
C. C. Boyle’s court at Fairbury, under
the juvenile act of Nbraska, in which
the five minor children cf a Mrs. Her
bert were taken from her and placed
in the county poor house to remain
until other homes can be found for
tbem. Attorney W. H. Barnes was
appointed by the court to represent,
the children. The little tots, ranging
in age from 10 months to 10 years,
were provided with clothes by the
county commissioners.
From Saline county a question has
come up to the state board of assess
ment regarding the assessment of the
undivided profits of a bank. The
preposition is just this: When a.
bank loans a large sum of money not.
infrequently the interest is collected
in advance for three or six months.
This interest is fhen put in the fund
‘designated undivided prefits. The day
after the loan, along comes the as
sessor and counts tl is money in the*
total assessment. The bank claims
the money has not yet been earned
and should not therefore be counted
as belonging to the bank.
While excavating in Cherry county
George Cyphers found twenty-three
feet below the surface of the ground
the head of a monstrous buffalo with
horns attached. The skull measured
three feet two Inches from the tip of
the horns and each hrrn is one foot
four inches in circumference and no
doubt a part has crumbled away. The
bones are completely petrified and on
the broad forehead is a network of
holes which local scientists say were
probably made by ancient slugs and
spearheads and this together with its
depth in the ground lead people to
believe that it was killed centuries
ago.
William Kay of Gage county, the
young man who was so frightfully
Injured on a eircu’ar saw, died after
making a heroic battle for life. The
young man’s left arm was nearly
severed and a frightful cut in the
back exposed the lungs and heart.
The body of Dr. Charles C. Whis
ler drowned, at Ashland, was found
about four miles below that city. He
was drowned by the overturning of
his gasoline launch in Salt Creek, just
above the dam. Three boys who were,
with him at the time were rescued.
He was prominent in business and,,
social circles at Ashland. t