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y \ VOLUME XXV Loup City Northwestern HOUR CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1908 NUMBER 47 i MUCH IN SMALL SPACE FOR THE HURRYING READER. EVENTS COVERING WIDE FIELD » 4 Scmethirg cf Congress. Political Gos sip Here and There, and News and Notes cf General Character. Political. Senator L&Follette, in introducing Judge Taft at Madison, pledged his support to him and said that Wiscon sin would give him a magnificent majority William R Hearst in an address to the New York Independence league convention rt ad more letters from John Archbold to United States sena tors and part of an Ohio court record to show that Governor Haskell of Ok lahoma was one of the organizers of t :e Steel trust. U. T. Russell, editor of a democratic paper, in an open letter to \V. J. Bryan says that if the Nebraskan was ignor ant of charges against Haskell it is because he refused to read a ten-page statement given him last fall covering :ae governor's operations in five states. Senator Foraker has cancelled his engagement for the Lincoln Douglas celebration in Galesburg, Illinois. Octo ber 7. Mr. Bryan wrote a letter to Presi dent Roosevelt in which he defends Governor Haskell, treasurer of the national democratic committee and challenges the president to produce evidence convicting Haskell of con nection with the Standard Oil com pany. John Hays Hammond was re-elect ed by acclamation as president of the National League of Republican clubs. A change in the constitution was adopted providing for four vice presi dents in order to recognize all sec tions. Nebraska republicans, in state con vention refused to declare for bank guarantee in any form. General. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, af ter a conference with officials at democratic headquarters in Cemago, announced that he had resigned as treasurer of the democratic national committee. Report of umaha banks to comp troller of currency shows an increase in amount of loans, amount of de posits and amount of casn reserve on hand. Nineteen persons were lulled and about twenty injured by wreck of eastbound Burlington passenger train near Park City. Mont. The cholera epidemic in St. Peters burg has been checked by cold weath er and no further increase in num ber of new cases is expected. Liberals in England lose the Irish vote through the attitude of the par ty on the religious question pre sented at the recent Eucharistic con gress in London. General T. Coleman Dupont of Del aware has resigned as memner of the republican executive committee and as director of speakers' bureau. Senator Foraker, in an extended statement, says his connection with Standard Oil company was only tem porary ar.d defends his course in the Brownsville affair. Dun's Review of Trade says that fall business is increasing and that more factories have resumed opera tions. A A f James .1. Hi!l sent a communication on the hank guaranty to the Stale Bankers7 association in Lincoln, and Prof. J. Lawrence Laeghlin of Chi cago also read a paper on the same subject Samuel Gompers claimed in the hearing in which he is appearing that Mr. Van Cleave hired detectives to track him anr also at one time want ed to bribe him to divulge the secrets of the laboring men. Nebraska bankers in convention op posed postal savings banks and the bulk of sentiment is opposed to guar anty of deposits. The Textile American, an authority on the wool and cotton business, pays Omaha a high tribute as a wool mar ket and says the warehouses in that city have passed the experimental stage. , Frank Shereliffe, the notorious diamond robber, jumped from a train at Canon City, Col., just as he was about to be taken to the penitentiary for a term of twenty five years. A train on the ’Frisco road ran over a hank at Carthage, Mo., and a num ber were injured. The open hearth furnaces of the Carnegie steel works at Homestead and two departments of the Howard Antle works started to run on double turn for the first time since last Oc tober. Cholera begins to take persons in high places in St Petersburg. The laud office is receiving many letters concerning the Tripp county reservation land opening. President Roosevtl in 3,000-word letter furnished Mr. Bryan with infor mation he asked for regarding Gov ernor Haskell's connection with 'he Standard Oil company. Central T dephone building and ^jstoslce at Paris was destroyed by fire, canting a loss of ?5.000,000. Judge Tap began his western trip making a epeth at the home of George Ade and at night addressed the railroad run oT Chicago on labor problems. Forest fires in Maine, southern Can ada. New York and Pennsylvania do great damage and smoke interfers with movements of shipping. Drouth in New York and New Eng land the most severe in years and fac tories compelled to shut down. Forest fires are doing great damage. William J. Bryan has offered the mascot mule presented him by the Ag ricultural society of Minnesota as a prize to the county showing the larg est percentage of increase in the vote for democrati< electors over the aver age vote for electors in the last three eampaigns. Second Assistant Posfptastt r Gen era! McCleary has resigned in order to accept nomination as congressman in Minnesota. At the thi:r> first plowing match of Illinois held < n a farm. near (diet, !1 Alvin Stalk was proclaimed the champion plowman of the world. Stark drove a single sulky plow with three horses over half an acre. The judges deflated that there was not a variation of half an inch in the furrows, meas ured at the ends and the middle. Washington. On acoount of the rapid spread of cholera in Kus-ia. Surgeon General Wyman of the public health and mar ine hospital service has decided to send to that country a cholera ex pect to study the situation, advise the home office and take such steps as may he considered desirable in pre venting the spread of the disease to the United States, of which there is considered to be strong possibilities through immigrants. Orville Wright, who was seriously injured Thursday in the aeroplane ac cident which caused the death of Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, con tinues to improve. The Indian bureau has undertaken to prevent the continuance of what the commissioner considers has been an abuse in the manner of procuring Indian children for attendance at non reservation Indian schools, by issuing circulars prohibiting the schools from sending canvassers to the reservation to secure business. President Roosevelt is back in Washington from his summer vaca tion. The treasury department has order ed the acceptance of the proposal of the Bedford Stone and Construction company of Indianapolis for the con struction of the St. Louis posloftice building, using face brick and orna mental terra cotta for fating. The con tract price is $863,000. the work to be completed by July 1, mo. American business men wiTT fL>-d to continue unrelaxed effort if they hope to maintain their present trad? rela tions with Mexico, because o‘ the ag- I gressive methods pursued by other j countries *o capture that tracie, says ! Special Agent Batman of the depart- | ment of commerce and 1 a ho r. in a re- i port on trade conditions in Mexico. Foreign. The countess of Yarmouth, sister of Harry K. Thaw. and who recently was granted a decree nullifying her mar riage, announced formally through her lawyers at Londan that she had de cided to drop her title and henceforth be known as Mrs. Copely Thaw. J. Cornell Taylor, charge d’affaires of the American legation in the ab sence of Minister Morgan, was assault ed by a Cuban in Havana. Cuba. The assault was unprovoked and several Cubans were concerned in it. During gunnery drill at Tulon. France, one of the big turret guns on the French armored cruiser Lat ouche Treville exploded with terrific violence, completely wrecking the after turret and killing outright the entire gun crew of thirteen men. Cholera victims are dying by the score in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tile report is published in P’aris that Prince Miguel of Braganza, the eldest son of Dom Miguel, the pretender to the throne of Portugal, was recently secretly married to Mrs, Samuel Sloan Chauncey. a rich American widow. An imposing Anglo-German work ingmen’s peace demonstration was held in Berlin. Some 20,000 German workmen gathered to welcome a dele gation representing the British work men. and much enthusiasm was dis played on both sides. Personal. The court of the District of Colum bia ruled that Samuel Gompers must answer Questions asked by the attor ney for the range corn] any in the contempt case. The president and his family have returned to Washington. John Robinson, the veteran circus owner, was married in his private car at Clarksville, Teun., to Miss Mary Maud Dogan, a professional nurse, who has been traveling with him for st me time. Nat Goodwin, the. actor, has filed divorce papers. At Tilbury, Ont./Sir Wilfred Uu rier. premier of Canada, made cam paign speeches in both French and English and kissed several Tilbury young ladies who presented him with bouquets. Burglars who robbed Mark Twain's home at Redding. Conn., were captur ed after a fight and the humorist posts a notice advising the next robbers how to proceed. Chairman Mack sent a telegram to the president bearing on the temo cratic campaign contributions. Mr. Bryah st?nt a telegram to the president demanding proof of the charges made against Governor Has kell. The will of Banker Morosini was filed in New York and bequeaths an estate valued at or more to his children. DROUTH REMAINS SERIOUS CONDITION IN PENNSYL VANIA AND VIRGINIA. iGilSffilS OF MISERS IDLE Low Water Prevents River Improve ments r.nd Mr.ay Factories Are Closed Along the Streams. Pittsburg.—With loss's aggregating several uiii ion dollars from forest fires and heavy losses to crops and h'e stock, the reported loss of a num ber of lives due to fighting timber conflagrations. 11.« enforced idleness of thousands of workmen owing to the suspension of manufacturing establish ments because of lack of water, the health authorities anticipating a se rious epidemic of contagious diseases and many small streams dried up and prac' cally obliterated, the drouth of 1908. which has held western Pennsyl varfia. eastern Ohio and West Virginia in its grasp for more than two months, remains unbroken each day gradually increasing the seriousness of the un precedented situation. While in the Pittsburg district the water supply is sufficient to carry on all business, the Jow stage of the rivers has caused a congestion of much coal in this vicinitv. Every available barge and uoat has been loaded with coal and at present, with almost 20.000,enO bushels in the Pitts burg harbor, the river coal mines have been compelled to shut down for the want of shipping facilities. There are about 15.000 miners employed in .he river mines along the Monongahela valley. This great fieel of coal is for supply of points in the west and south and the probabilities are there will be a coal famine experienced, especially in the northwest should conditions prevent the shipment of the coal be fore cold weather sets in. In West Virginia lumber plants, glass factories and iron and steel mills located along the rivers, are closed on account of insufficient water. In east ern Ohio the same conditions prevail, and it is feared the great iron and steel mills at Youngstown. O., employ ing over 20.000 men. will have to sus pend operations unless the drouth is speedily broken. ' In’all sections of the dry zone pray ers are offered up daily and these prayers will continue until they are answered with rain. TOWNSITES NOT SELECTED. Map Showing Lands Subject to Entry is Not Ready. Dallas. S. D.—Because of the fact that a great many maps purporting to be correct plans of Tripp county, shew ing the allotments to Indians, some of which have not yet been approved by the government, and purporting to show the locations of the several gov ernment towmites. Judge J. W. Wit ten. superintendent of the opening, has stated, that as a matter of fact the secretary of the interior ha? not as yet made any reservation for townsite purposes, and the commissioner of the general land office has notified Judge Witten that his office has in tie way recognized any of the proposed townsites. and has direct’d Judge Witten to make and report me it inves tigations and inspection as will he helpful to the seer* tary m making -es ervations for townsite purposes. The secretary will, as directed by the act of congress, hereafter reserve from these lands such tracts for townsite purposes as in his opinion may be re quited for future interests. WHARTON TO HANDLE MONEY Chcsen Chairman of National Repub lican Finance Committee. Omaha—Hon. John C. Y. barton of Omaha has been appointed by Chair man Hitchcock of the republican na tional committee to be an assistant to Assistant Treasurer Fred W. Upham. having in charge the funds for the western district of the United States. .Mr Wharton wiil be the chairman of the Nebraska finance committee, and will have charge of the collection of the funds for the national campaign in this state. Oklahoma Thieves are Busy. Muskogee. Old.—Horse thieves have carried on their depredations in al' parts of Oklahoma recentlv to an ex tent not t nailed since the frontier days, according to a statement issued here hy R. R. Ramsey, sheriff of Mus kogee county. Sheriff Ramsey sgys that within two weeks he has received reports of 208 horses stolen in differ ent parts of the state. “It is evident,” said he, "'hat organized gangs of thieves, tempted by the prevailing high prices of horses, are committing the deprdatior.s. Fleet is Nearing Manila. Manila—The Zamboanga wireless station was in touch with the Atlantic battleship iieet at 8 o'clock (Monday) morning. TWENTY-ONE ARE NOW DEAD. Two More Men Injured in Wreck at Young’s Point, Montana, Die. Billings, Mont.—Twenty-one are now dead and nine injured as a re 0,.;'t of a collision at Young’s Point R. E. Vlvkers of Hardin, Mont., died after being brought to the hcspi *•'.] in this city, whi e Samuel Clcmo w 7.. a hide dealer of Billings, and Berg Western of Atchison. Kan., died dortly alter midnight Saturday Torning. FALL STYLES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS. • There will be wide variety in the styles in college boys, this fall, says the i current issue of a f shion journal. The prevailing college student style, how ever, will show coats worn to the knees, with five or six vents, and cuffs to the e bows. Cuffs will so be worn on -the trousers, the object being to expose the calf of the leg f om the knee down, affording a cunning little peek at the garter. Stripes, wriggles and spots will constitute the modest patterns. Green and pale lavender hats, with trimming in the back and floppy brims, turning up and down, back and sideways, will be popular to cover the collegiate cran ium. TWO TOWNS IN DISTRESS COUDERAY, WIS-. AND RUSH CITY, TV1INN.. MAY BURN UP. — Both Places Ask Help in Fighting the Flames—California Forest Fire Under Control. Couderay, Wis.—A terrible forest fire is raging on the outskirts of the town. The frantic people are packing their household goods and preparing to move out. Minneapolis has I* j«n asked to send ar; engine and appals will be made to other towns. Unless the wind dies down the town will be burned. St. Paul. Minn.—Rush City. Minn., I is reported burning. The St. Paul j fire department lias been appealed to ! for aid and Friday nigh; sent an en I gine company and seven men to the | burning city. Rush City is 54 miles i north of here on the Northern Pacific railroad. Eureka, Cal. — The forest fire which has been raging in the j northeastern part of Humboldt county i is reported to he under control. A | rough estimate places the burned area | at 20.000 acres. It is impossible to give any exact estimate of the loss, , but it is believed that it will exceed $200,000. Two men are known to have j perished in the flames. Washington.—A telegram was re | ceived Thursday from Raymond W. ! Pullman of the forest service, who j is in Minnesota investigating forest ! fire conditions for the government, j He estimates the loss in that state at j $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, with the fires I still burning. ■ He reports a heavy rain | fall lasting five hours, but says 36 ; hours of raiti are necessary to put out I all fires. MANILA SADLY DISAPPOINTED. Preparations for Entertaining Fieet All Are Wasted. Manila. — The effect of Secre | tary of the Navy Metcalf's order i that in view of the presence of cholera in Manila no shore leave was to be granted or visitors from shore allowed on the battleships when the Atlantic fleet arrived, has been largely dis counted by the realization Thursday that it would be impossible to cleanse the city before the arrival of the fleet about October 1. People fully realize the necessity of the situation but they are bitterly disappointed at the out come. Thousands of dollars have been spent in preparation for the reception and entertainment of the officers and men. The decorations have been prac ticEllv completed. A program elab orate and novel which represents four months’ work by 250 active commit teemen had been arranged. Drowned at Military Camp. St. Joseph. Mo.—The first acciden tal death at Camp Everett Peabody, where 5.000 regulars are encamped, occurred Thursday when Private John H. McCawl of Baltimore, Md., Troop M, Fifth cavalry, was drowned in Lake Contrary. He drove his horse into the lake, slipped from its back and started to swim. The horse kicked him on the head and he sank. Bubonic Plague May Enter Country. Washington.—That the gulf and At lantic coasts of the United States are in danger of an infection of the bubonic plague was the note of warn ing sounded Friday by Dr. N. K. Fos ter of California before the delegates in attendance upon the twenty-third annual meeting of the conference of state and provincial boards of health of North America. He expressed the belief that such an infection already may have taken place. The address of Dr. Foster, who is president of the organization, startled the delegates. FRENCH NAVAL DISASTER. Thirteen Men Killed by Explosion of Big Gun. Toulon. France.—During gunnery drill Tuesday one of the big turret guns on the French armored cruiser Latouche Treville exploded with ter rific violence, completely wrecking the after turret and killing outright the 'entire gun crew of 13 men. A num ber of men were seriously injured some of them probably fatally. The accident was similar to that aboard the gunnery schooiship Cou 1 roune off Les Salins d'Hyeres, August j 12 last, when by (he bursting of tbt breech of one of the guns six men ! were killed and 18 injured. The drill Tuesday had been proceed I ing for a considerable time when, with out warning, the whole turret seemed to blow out. Dismembered bodies were thrown in all directions and sev eral of them were burled into the sea through the great breach caused by the explosion. The spectacle was horrible, the dead and wounded, together with shattered arms and legs, littering the decks. A call to quarters was sounded and as speedily as possible the wounded were cared for. The gun that exploded was 7.6 inches bore, of which the cruiser carried iwo. Happening so soon after the accident on the Couronne, the ex plosion has caused a sensation in na val circles and doubtless will lead to a most rigid investigation. The La touche Treville carries a complement of 370 men YANKEE IS AGROUND. Cruiser Caught on Spindle Rock Near Buzzards Bay. Newport. R. I—The United States cruiser Yankee struck on Spindle Rock, near the western entrance to Buzzards bay. during a fog Wednes day. breaking several holes in her hull on the port side. She was still hard and fast Wednesday night. Several tugs attempted to release the cruiser in the afternoon, but with out success, and additional help was sent for. The naval collier Lebanon, a wrecking outfit and two tugs, have been started from the New YTork navy yard to the Yankee's assistance, and the naval collier Nero, which is on her way to Boston, will also be asked to come to the aid of the Yankee. The fog was still very thick in Buz zards bay at nigh:, but the sea was smooth and the Yankee was apparent ly in no immediate danger. Frank Robirson Is Dead. Cleveland. O.—Frank De Haas Rob inson. owner of the St. Louis National League baseball team, street car pro moter and capitalist, died suddenly at his home Friday night. Mr. Robinson was born in Pittsburg but went to Dubuque, la., at an early age. A widow and daughter survive him. Vanderbilt Divorce Made Absolute. New York.—Justice Gerard in the supreme court Thursday signed the final decree of absolute divorce in favor of Elsie French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt on the recommendation of Referee David Mc Clure. The interlocutory decree was granted on May 215. Well-Known Banker Dead. Philadelphia—The death of James W. Paul, banker and financier of the firm of Drexel & Co., Philadelphia; J. P. Morgan & Co., New Y’ork, and Mor gan, Harjes Company of Paris, was reported here Friday night from Hot Springs, Va. Mr. Paul, it was stated, died of apoplexy. Shah Orders New Elections. Teheran.—The shah Friday issued a manifesto ordering new elections and calling for the convening of the assem bly and senate November 14. HORRIBLE COLLISION OCCURS ON NORTHERN PACIFIC. SMOKING CAR TELESCOPED Between Thirty and Forty Passengers Killed and Injured—Bodies of the Victims Shockingly Mangled. Butte, Mont. — Nineteen persons were killed. 11 seriously injured, several fatally, and about 80 more or less hurt in a collision be tween passenger train No. Ik. known as the east-bound Burlington flyer, and a west-bound freight train at 8:1(1 o'clock Frida.' morning at a siding known as Young's Point, about 30 miles west of Biliiugs. on the Northern Pacific railroad. The passenger, running about 50 miles an hour, crashed into the freight just entering on the siding during a blinding snowstorm, the engineer of the passenger failing to see the signal ting of the brakeman of the freight train in time to avert the collision. Smoker Is Telescoped. The express car telescoped with the smoker and a majority of the fatalities and injuries were in this car. The express car was raised over the plat form of the smoker, the superstructure sweeping the seats and not a passen ger in this car escaped death or in jur' The other passengers escaped with cuts and bruises. On the train was the Spokane dele gation to the National Irrigation con gress at Albuquerque. None of these was injured. Fireman Ora Babcock jumped and was killed, striking on his head. Milo Halloway. a brakeman of the Billings train, was killed. The scenes around the smoker were horrible, heads, bodies, legs and arms being inter woven with broken seats and equip ment. In one place seven bodies were so tightly wedged together that they were only separated with difficulty. It was almost impossible to succor the injured without trampling on the dead. Partial List of the Dead. A partial list of the dead follows: Col. Bonson of Utah, John Cawlan. Billings. Mont.; Lon Anderson. Hardy, Mont.: Lorrenz A. Stewart, Dean, Mont.: H. C. Gomble, Ministon, la.; E. L. Eymock. Denver, Col.; D. H. Barnes Seattle. Wash.; G. M. Kon sick, Anaconda. Mont.; Ora Babcock. Billings, Mont.; S. Chingdon. Chico Springs, Mont,; Charles E. Johnson, Denver, Col., district passenger agent, Nickel Plate railway; George Battle rock, Anaconda. Mont.: John Ryan, Cushing, Okla.; Milo Halloway, Bill ings. Mont.; - Sichemratn, address unknown; two unidentified coal miners, en route from Anaconda, Mont., to Kirby, Wyo. ABE RAYMER IS ACQUITTED. Yerdict of Not Guilty in First Spring field Riot Case. Springfield. 111.—The case of Abe Fiaymer was given to the jury at 5;40 ■■ m. Wednesday and court took a re cess. At nine o'clock the jury re urned a verdict of not guilty. Ray uer was as white as a sheet when the iury filed into court. As soon as the cerdict was announced, he grasped be hand of each juror and made a speech thanking them. As this is the first of the riot cases, nvolving a total of 117 indictments ■eturncd by the grand jury, it is con sidered quite sig«ificant. It was iroved that Raymer was a member of he mob and the court held that any nember of the mob was guilty in the ‘yes of the law, but the jury acted on he lack of evidence to prove that taynier actually had a hand in the yuching. WASHINGTON LIFE IS SOLD. Pittsburg Syndicate Gets Morton's Old Insurance Company. New York.—The control of' the j Washington Life Insurance Company Thursday passed from the hands of j Levi P. Morton. Thomas F. Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a Pittsburg j syndicate headed by William C. Bald I win. president of the Pittsburg Life ind Trust Company. The deal was completed late Thurs fay afternoon, and Mr. Baldwin was! elected president of the Washington i Life Insurance Company to succeed lohn Tatlock. In retiring from the Washington Life former Gov. Morton ! severs a connection with the com pany which has continued for almost ill years, he having been one of the 'barter members of the company, one if the oldest in the country. Steamer Erik Hits Iceberg. St. Johns, N. F.—With her hull dam aged by collision with an iceberg, the steamer Erik, which accompanied the Peary expedition to the north, is re torted on her way to this port. The famage to the vessel is said to be ill above the waterline. Funeral of Lieut. Selfrtdge. Washington.—The funeral of Lieut, selfridge, who was killed in the fall )f the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer i few days ago, was held at Arlington National cemetery Friday. The Epis 'opal burial rite was observed at the trave and troopers from the fort fired i salute. Widow of Gen. Bragg Dies. New Orleans.—Mrs. Eliza Bragg, vidow of Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, of he confederate army, died in this city ate Friday afternoon. HIT IN $30,800 SWINDLE FIVE ARE INDICTED IN THE PATTEN CASE. True Bills Prepared—J. M McFarland Is One of the Accused Men Chicago. — Two indictments nam ing fivj persons involved in the operations by which Mrs. James A. Patten was induced to pay out $80, S00 for editions de luxe, were prepared 1 hursday in the office of the state s attorney. The indictments were based on true hills voted by the grand jury, were submitted again to the jurors and the investigating body returned them in court. J. M. McFarland, who testified as a state's witness before the grand jury in the Patten case, was named in the indictments as a codefendant. The other four persons against whom the indictments are named are said to have been McFarland's associates in his book deals. Two separate transactions are taken cognizance of by the indictments. The first of these was the one ot December 4. 190i. by which Mrs. Patten was in duced to pay out $8,800. The second Transaction is the one of April 30. 390S, by which she was induced to part with $22,000. In each of the indictments the charge was conspiracy to operate a confidence game. McFarland appeared before the Strand jury and there told the story of his own part in the alleged fleecing of rich people by means of the book scheme. At the same time he exposed the persons who, he says, worked the plot with him. and whom he accuses of having pocketed most of the profits Mrs. Patten was also a witness. She told of the large sums of money that she turned over to the alleged ring of book swindlers with whom, at the in troduction of McFarland, she did busi ness. She told of the notes she signed and furnished documents in support of her testimony.' Since the discovery that McFarland has turned state's evidence and that his own testimony as a co-conspirator w-ill be used to prosecute former as sociates, the men caught in the net are reported to have been making overtures of their readiness to return some of the notes and money which they secured. ARREST BROWN AND PARTNERS. New York Detectives Nab Members of Failed Frokera&e Firm. -New York.—Detectives from police headquarters appeared in the A. O. Brown & Co. case Friday giving it a sensational turn when they arrested five members of the failed stock ex change firm as they emerged from the federal building, where a hearing into the affairs of the firm has been going on for some days before United States (Commissioner Gilchrist. A sixth arrest would have been made if sickness had not detained still an other member of the firm in a New Jersey hospital, beyond the jurisdic tion. The charge against them was that of grand larceny and it was preferred by a former client of the firm. Miss Helen S. Abernethy of this city, who alleges the loss at their hands of 20 shares of Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway common stock valued at about $600, and 25 shares of United States Steel preferred stock valued at $1,184, on or about August 21 last. BURIED IN RED HOT BRICKS. Tragic Fate of Two Men at Kenmare, North Dakota. Minot, X. D.—Slowly roasting !o death under tons of red hot bricks, in plain view of their comrades, who were unable to assist them. E. W. Drake, Sr., and Clarence Bailey met a tragic death at Kenmare Wednes day. The big kiln of the Kenmare Brick & Coal Company burst when but ten hours from completion. Drake, who was the manager of the plant, was buried up to his arms in the red hot pile, and it was not for over 30 minutes that he could be reached by the rescuers. Bailey, the 17-year-old son of a prominent farmer, was com pletely entombed and was not found for an hour. His body was roasted to a crisp. Bad Band Is Broken Up. Winnipeg; . Man. — The arrest and conviction Friday at Moose Jaw of Joseph Cop very, for horse steal ing, of Kid Royal and George Birch in Montana and the sentencing of a fourth, named Hofferscn, to the North Dakota penitentiary, breaks up a bad band of horse rusilers who have been operating in southern Saskatchewan and adjoining states for some time. They stole hundreds of horses. These were the leaders. Federation of Labor Convention. Washington.—The call for the twen ty-eighth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor has been issued. The convention will assemble in Denver, Monday, Novem ber 9. Denver Coliseum Burns. Denver, Col.—The Coliseum, on Champa street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, this city, was completely destroyed by fire of un known origin Thursday. The Coli seum was one of the city's landmarks. Insane Mother Slays Babe. Elkhart, Tex.—Mrs. John Dalton, living three miles south of here, be came insane and choked her baby to death. There was no one at the house at the time except Mrs. Dalton and the child.
