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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY7, NOVEMBER 20, 190S NUMBER SUMMARY OF NEWS CONDENSATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS. BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD General, Political, Religious, Sporting, Foreign and Other Events Re corded Here and There. Political. Senator Scott, after a visit to Judge j Taft, says he is confident the pres ident-elect has plans for a progressive and courageous administration. William H. Taft carried Missouri by a plurality of 1,026, according to the tabulation of the official returns made by Governor Folk. The defeat of Congressman D. L,. D. Granger, democrat, for re-election in the First Rhode Island district by William P. Sheffield of Newport, re publican, was confirmed by official can cellation. Norman Mack says there is a deficit in the democratic campaign fund, but all bills will be paid. A Savannah paper suggests that the democratic party run a southern man for president in 1912. President-elect Taft believes revision of the tariff must be thorough and made in good faith. He is seeking light regarding personnel and organi zation of next congress. The American Federation of Labor modified President Gompers’ recom mendation regarding resistance to in junctions, but a vote on it was not reached. Governor Crawford of South Dakota has sent an order to Pierre appointing Judge Charles S. Whiting to the su preme bench to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Howard G. Ful ler. A campaign fund of $1,500,000, con tributed to the national republican committee in the recent campaign, will be shown when the list of con tributors is filed at Alabany, according to the New York Evening Post. Ex-Senator Millard of Nebraska may be in Taft’s cabinet as secretary of the treasury. President-elect. Taft discussed polit ical affairs with Vice President-elect Sherman and William Ward, national -tommitteeman from New York. President-elect W. H. Taft declares that Secretary Root meets his ideal of a far-seeing statesman. Generar. Explosion of a gas main under a Brooklyn street engulfed workmen and men, women and children who were on the street at the time, over twenty, it is believed, being killed. The American Federation of Labor adopted the report of President Gom pers after debate of a day and a half. Several herds of cattle in Pennsyl vania and New York were destroyed by officials in the fight on the epidemic among swine. Charles Leonard, porter at the Hen shaw hotel, Omaha, checked a $40,000 pewelry trunk to himself at St. Jo seph, where he went, was arrested and confessed and the valuables were recovered within four hours after the deed. Otto Braemer Grimm, lieutenant in the United States army signal corps, died suddenly of hemmorrhage in a drug store at Long Beach, Cal. Mexicans who are coming to the Omaha corn show are anxious to know what kind of clothing it will be neces sary to wear. The gorgeries of Peter Van Vissin gen. the Chicago real estate broker, will reach $2,000,000. He was taken to Joliet to begin his sentence. Frank Shercliffe will be placed on trial in Minneapolis next week for alleged complicity in train robbery. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland has announced that his fortune has been swept away in his efforts to pro tect his brother’s estate. He will give u his big house on Euclid avenue and sell his automobiles. The inventory of the estate of the late Nelson Morris shows that he had extensive holdings in South Omaha. Wild scenes- at the palace followed the deaths of the emperor and' dow eger empress of China. Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska vie with each other to see which will lead at the corn show. In the United States circuit court of appeals at New Orleans the case of the Pullman company against the Texas railroad commission was again decided in favor of the Pullman com pany. The case involved ti.e order of the Texas commission ordering a re duction of about 20 per cent in Pull man car charges. The sentence of one year’s imprison ment administered upon Charles J. Hartlove for desertion from the navy to marry a daughter of the late Sena tor Gorman has been affirmed. Venezuela has completed prepara tions for the threatened blockade of her seaports by Holland. The Southern Pacific railroad has announced a reduction of rates on shipments of lumber originating in California, Nevada and Utah. It meets rates recently made from Ore gon and Washington points. Major General Duvall will succeed General Weston in the Philippiines. Owing to the reports of threatened uprisings, the Equadorean government has declared the army on a war foot f ing. * Eight convicts were suffocated in an attempt to escape from an Ala bama mine by setting fire to the workings. Labor leaders who were guests of President Roosevelt suggested a num ber of changes in laws, several of which will probably be incorporated in his annua? message. The state board of Nebraska makes up total of assessment roll, showing valuation of $391,735,464. The National Corn show of Omaha will take on an international aspect by the presence of delegates from Mexico, Canada and Great Britain. The state labor bureau of Nebras ka issues an estimate of Nebraska crops showing the state has ample basis for prosperity. Returns from Cuban elections indi cate the success of the liberal ticket, headed by General Gomez, by a big plurality. President-elect Taft was orator of the day at the dedication of the mon ument to the prison ship martyrs at Brooklyn. Two counties of Ireland are in a turmoil over the Question of licensing an insignificant inn out on a country road. The federal court of appeals has de cided that the American Tobacco com pany is a combination in restraint of trade. Washington. That a Special session of the fifty first congress will be called soon after March 4 to take up the matter of tar iff revision became known positively when William H. Taft, president elect, stated that i.e intended to call such session soon after his inauguration. The temporary roll call of the house of representatives for the sixty-first congress has been completed and pub lished. It presents a complete list of members of the new house as shown by unofficial returns, and gives the politics of all of them. According to the publication the next house will consist of 219 republicans and 172 democrats, a total of 331, as against a total of 389 in the house during the last session, or whom 223 were repub licans and 166 democrats. President-elect Taft announces a special session of congress will be held as soon as practicable after March 4 for the purpose of revising the tariff. The chairmanship of the interstate and foreign commerce, made vacant by the defeat of the veteran W. P. Hepburn of Iowa, who came to con gress twenty-six years ago, will, in all human probability, be filled by James R. Mann of Illinois, who has been Hepburn's lieutenant and who has special qualifications for 1he place. President Roosevelt, upon learning of the attempt made on the life of Francis J. Heney in San Francisco, sent telegrams to Mrs. Heney and Rudolph Spreckels, expressing his “horror and detestation" of the deed. Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf tendered his resignation to the president, to take effect Decem ber 1, on account of ill health. The National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, gave a reception to O. H. Kelley of Washington, D. C., the only surviving member of the small group of men who organized the grange about half a century ago. The German Emperor takes the po sition that his pledge is only a reaf firmation of his oath of office and that he has not changed his official rela tions to the people or government in any way. Reform edicts in China indicate that the new administration will be progressive and modern. Death of the emperor is said to be due to nurasth enia and heart trouble and that of the dowager empress to apoplexy. Lack of unity among political parties in Germany make it evident that the kaiser's concession to public opinion will not be followed by Parliamentary government. A resolution demanding amendment to constitution making ministry responsible to the Reichstag will be introduced, but it will not com mand over one fourth vote. The funeral of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, uncle of Emperor Nicholas, who died here November 14, took place in Paris and was accompanied by the traditional pomp and ceremony of the Russian church. Count Boni is still making an effort to secure his children from his former wife Anna Gould, but the case has been repeatedly postponed. Personal. Apparent indifference of Emperor William to public sentiment in Gee many irritates the people greatly. Indications from Washington are that Mr. Cannon will be re-elected speaker without much opposition. William D. Cornish, ^second vice president of the Union Pacific railroad, died suddenly in Chic-'go. Forced by the angry tide of popular feeling that swept the empire from end to end, Emperor William has yielded to the nation and promised henceforth to conform himself to con stitutional methods of conducting the policies of Germany. Attorney Reed of Madison, who stands near to Shallenberger, says a bank deposite guaranty law and re peal of the county assessor law will be main pieces of legislation in Nebraska. General Gomez, liberal candidate for president, carried every province in the island of Cuba. W. J. Bryan in formal statement said he would not prejudice the future by saying that he would not again be a candidate for president. All dilatory motions made by attor neys for Abraham Ruef were denied by Judge Lawler, and his trial will proceed. MINISTRY RESPONSIBLE TO PAR LIAMENT SOON TO OPEN. THE EMPEROR IS IN SONTROL Advance Liberals Do Not Anticipate Much of Importance From the Present Reichstag. Berlin.—The debate in the Reichstag on the motions introduced by the so cialists and radicals. demanding changes in the constitution, with the object of making the chancellor and ministers responsible to Parliament, and giving the sole power to the Reichstag to declare war. will prob ably begin on December 2. The de bate is expected to last one day, cr two days at the most. The advanced liberals, whose aim is to convert the German political system into a government responsible to Par liament, do not anticipate much from 'the present Reichstag because in the days when feeling ran the highest the •party leaders would not agree to urge even the simplest resolution of cen sure or inquiry. The radicals and so cialists count upon making their first great campaign in the elections of 1912. unless the house is dissolved sooner. The. power of the associated mon archies forming the German empire is entrenched in two principal ways—in the Bundesrath, which has equal legis lative powers with the Reichstag, and in the conservative and clerical par ties. which have, under the ancient system of the Reichstag electoral dis tricts. the means for holding the ma jority in that body by about one-third the votes cast. The Bundesrath. which consists of fifty-eight members appointed by the sovereigns of the states of Germany, except one each from Hamburg. Bre men and Lubeck, stands directly across the path of a government re sponsible to the elected represent atives of the people. The kings, grand dukes and princes who rule the fed erated states, also through ministers responsible to them alone, while will ing to unite in limiting the freedom of initiative and speech on the part of the king of Prussia as emperor, are one with him in their determination to jtesist representative government. Fourteen votes ill the Bundesrath against any amendment to the consti tution will suffice for its rejection. The emperor, as king of Prussia, nominates seventeen of the members and, as a consequence, tnere is no possible chance for the adoption of an amend ment without his consent. Carnegie on the Tariff New York.—A notable article from Andrew Carnegie dealing with the tariff, will appear in the fourthcoming December number of the Century Mag azine. The iron master takes the po sition that "infant industries” no longer need protection; and the steel and other industries have now grown beyond the need of tariff protection; that duties oti luxuries used by the rich should be maintained, but that those on manufactured articles should be reduced greatlv, or abolished en tirely. when no longer needed. Stock Deal Halts. New York.—Dealings in stocks last week contracted to a daily average of but little more than 1,000,000 shares at the New York Stock exchange, com pared with the average of upwards of 1,500,000 shares a day for the week preceding. Coupled with this diminu tion in the activity of the market there appears to grow up a degree of uncer tainty in the price movement in con trast with the uniformly strong up ward movement which had prevailed since the presidential elections. All Now Quiet in China. Peking.—While all is quiet at Pe king, detachments of troops guard the city gates and gendarmes are on duty at the approaches of the foreign lega tions. The government has not ceased to .take precautionary measures for the revolutionists are spreading all kinds of reports, which might act like fire brands to the spirit of uneasiness un derlying present conditions in China. Democratic Expenditures. Chicago.—The democratic national committee received in all $620,644.77 and spent $619,410.06 during the re cent presidential campaign, leaving a balance on hand of $1,234.il. So reads a statement made public by the officers cf the committee. Sheldon Abandons Special Session. Lincoln, Neb.—Governor Sheldon has practically abandoned the special session idea. He is concentrating his attention upon the question of the ap pointing of judges. It is believed he will name two democrats and two re publicans. TURKEY FOR WHITE HOUSE Bird for the President's Thanksgiving Dinner Westerly.—The Rhode Island Tur key, which Horace Vose will send to the president, according to his annual custom, to grace the table of the White House on Thanksgiving day, went on the execution block Monday. It is the best of a lot of chestnut-fed birds which have been selected and specially reared as candidates for the distinction and weighs twenty-six pounds. ENOUGH TO WAKE HIM. t J CHILDREN COHTRAOT PLAGUE FOUR HAVE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN DANVILLE, PA. Officials Believe Spread of Contagion Will Be Checked—Cattle Ship ments Are Stopped. Washington.—Alarming results fol lowing the outbreak of a contagious foot and mouth disease in New York and Pennsylvania, causing those states to be quarantined against in terstate shipments of cattle, etc., were shown Friday in advices which reached Secretary of Agriculture Wil son. stating that four children in Dan ville, Pa., had contracted the dis ease. A rigid investigation is in progress in Danville and elsewhere to deter mine whether others have become similarly affected. The officials be lieve that the spread of the contagion will be checked, although admitting that the situation is grave and will re quire energetic and concerted action by the state and federal authorities. New York, Nov. 21.—Cattle ship ments to foreign ports from New York and Philadelphia were brought to an abrupt close Friday by the cattle quar antine established in this state and in Pennsylvania on account of the out break of the foot and mouth disease. The quarantine does not affect ports outside of New York and Philadelphia, except as to cattle from the two states affected by the ruling. Western cattle may still be shipped abroad from either Boston or Baltimore. Buffalo, N. Y. — Business at the stock yards here was completely tied up when at a meeting of the East Buffalo Livestock association Friday night the members adopted a resolu tion calling on the railroads to cancel all orders for shipments of cattle or swine to or through Buffalo. The as sociation formally approved the strin gent measures of quarantine used by Chief Melvin of Washington and Com missioner Pearson of the state depart ment of agriculture. Two cases of foot and mouth disease were found Friday on a Niagara counly farm and one in fected herd in Erie county was de stroyed. London. — Confidence is expressed here that the energetic action of the American officials soon will stamp out the foot and mouth disease. Officials are not alarmed concerning the possibility of a beef shortage. In this connection John Burns, president of the local government board, called attention to the rapidly growing con sumption in England of home-grown cattle. , CAIRO TRACTION DEAL. McKinley Syndicate Is Given City and Interurban Franchises. Cairo, 111.—The Cairo city council Thursday granted a 50-year interurban franchise and a 20-year street railway franchise to the McKinley syndicate. This syndicate has already bought the local electric street railway, the elec tric light plant, and the Cairo City Gas Company. An interurban line will be built to connect Cairo with Mounds, Mound City and Villa Ridge, and will later extend to St. Louis. Insane Farmer Kills Nephew. Danville, Ky.—Hugh Thompson, a wealthy young farmed became sud denly insane Thursday and shot and killed his nephew, Frederick Garrison, aged 18 years. The boy after being shot fired one shot at his uncle, the bullet lodging in a lower limb. The wound, it is believed, will prove fatal because of the large amount of blood lost. Thompson had only recently been released from aji insane asylum. Finds But Cannot Have Her Child. Bellingham, Wash.—After prosecut ing a search for her child for 13 years, finding the boy in Bellingham last June the adopted son of A. W. Dem ing, Miss Maude Fields of St. Louis failed Friday to secure possession of the child. Judge De Tiere of the su perior court gave the boy into the charge of its adopted parents. Richmond Publisher Dead. Richmond, Va.—Joseph Bryan, own er of the Richmond Times-Dlspatch, died suddenly Friday night. EMPEROR WILLIAM YIELDS. Promises People to Conform to Con stitutional Methods. Berlin.—Warned by the angry tide of popular feeling that swept fhe em pire from end to end. Emperor Wil liam Tuesday yielded to the nation and promised henceforth to conform himself to constitutional methods of conducting the policies of Germany. The climax to the public utterances of the emperor was reached in an in terview which he gave to an English man and which was published in the London Daily Telegraph on October -S. As the outcome of this the whole country was aroused; the reichstag indorsed the attitude of many of its prominent members when they de nounced the sovereign, and Chancellor von Buelow, while he attempted to smooth away the affair, undertook to communicate to his majesty a straight forward and unvarnished statement of how the German people viewed his in tervention in affairs of state. The interview between the emperor and the imperial chancellor took place at the new palace in Potsdam Tuesday morning and at its conclusion the em peror made formal promise to his peo ple that in the future he would not act except through the chancellor and his associate ministers. MINE HORROR IN MONTANA. Nine Men Believed to Have Lost Their Lives at Red Lodge. Butte, Mont.—Fire Friday morn ing in the fourth drift east from No. 2 slope of the Northwestern Im provement Company's mine at Red Lodge caused the death of nine min ers. The bodies of three have been recovered. Six are missing and there is no doubt that they are dead. Seven men were taken from the working at one p. m. in a half-dead con dition and are now in the hospital. Members of the tire department and 50 volunteers then started the work of rescue and within half an hour the skips wrere running down the fourth entry and a hundred men were loaded on the cars and brought to the surface, many of them completely exhausted. LOOKOUT INN 10 BURNED. Famous Hotel on Mountain Top De stroyed by Flames. Chattanooga, Tenn.—Famous old Lookout Inn, on the crest of Lookout mountain, was burned to the ground late Tuesday, together with all its contents. The owners, Messrs. Jung and Shammotulski, stated that a deal had just been consummated for the sale of the inn property, for a consid eration of $135,000, and but for the fire the deal would have been closed Tues day. Aside from the hotel, four cottages and their contents were destroyed, en tailing a loss estimated at $16,000. The hotel was completed in 1889 and had been visited by persons of note from all over the world. Philadelphia Brokers Assign. Philadelphia.—The firm of John A. Boardman & Co., stock brokers, made an assignment Thursday to Lincoln L. Eyre, who has taken charge of the company's affairs. The firm had sev eral branch offices in New York. The' offices were closed Thursday and have printed notices directing that all in-, quiries be made to the main office in Philadelphia. The firm has a chain, of 19 offices in eastern cities, two offices being located here. Injured During Initiation. Lincoln, Neb.—Gov-elect A. C. Shal lenberger sustained a fractured leg’ while being initiated as a member of, the Shriners Wednesday night. • Naval Officers Court-Martialed. ^ Manila.—A court-martial convened on the battleship Louisiana Friday for the purpose of trying Lieut. Com-' mander Jewell of the Louisiana and Lieut. Bowers of the Rhode Island on charges of personal misconduct dur-1 ing the visit of the fleet to Japan. ' Forest Fires in Southern Illinois. Evansville, Ind.—Information received from Grayville and Carmi, 111., states that forest fires have been raging in southern Illinois and the damage has been serious. i AWFUL BLAST FATAL TO 25 GAS EXPLOSION IN BROOKLYN TEARS UP A STREET. One Woman, Five Children and About Nineteen Workmen Killed—Remark able Escape of Four Laborers. New York. — Twenty-five persons are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion of gas which tore up a great section of Gold street, Brooklyn, Friday. It is definitely known that 15 persons were buried under the hundreds of tons of earth and timber that were thrown into the air by the explosion, and ten more persons are reported as missing. The exact number of dead cannot be determined yet, for those working to recover the entombed bodies must dig through 50 feet of dirt, rock and a tangle of pipes and timbers. The explosion occurred in a 50-foot deep excavation that had been made in Gold street between York and Front streets where a water main was being laid. The gas main recently sprung a leak and in a manner un known a spark came in contact with escaping gas. Immediately there was a .terrific ex plosion that lifted the surface of the street for half a block in both direc tions and hurled dirt, paving stones and debris into the air. Gold street was crowded with school children when the explosion oc curred and that scores of children were not killed or injured was re markable. A woman and three chil dren were almost opposite the excava tion when the earth crumbled under their feet and they wejfe swept down into the hole under tons of wreckage. Two other children were on the oppo site side of the street when the side walk caved in and they lost their lives. Only four of the men working in the excavation escaped, and their es cape was remarkable. These men were digging near the opening of a four-foot sewer and the force of the explosion blew them to the entrance of it. Arthur Strand was hurled far thest in and he pulled the other men after him. Water from the broken main began to pour into the sewer and the four men. in danger of being drowned, ran to the river where there was an out let to the sewer. MAYOR TOM JOHNSON BROKE. Fortune Is Gone and He Must Give Up His Mansion. Cleveland, O.—Mayor Tom L. John son, who for years has been credited with posessiou of a very large fortune, Tnursdav announced that he had lost everything and would be compelled to Mayor Tom L. Johnson. give up his beautiful home on Euclid avenue and move into smaller and less expensive quarters. The mayor also stated that he would give up his automobiles and other lux uries because he could no longer af ford to keep them. His fortune was wrecked, he de clared. by his devotion to the affairs of the estate of his dead brother Albert, who was heavily interested in traction properties in the east. Vast Quantity of Whisky Burned. Louisville, Ky.—Two warehouses of the Tom’ Moore Distilling Company of Bardstown, in which were stored 15, 000 barrels of whisky, were burned late Wednesday, entailing a loss to the firm of about $400,000. The loss to the government is $750,000. Hundred Girls Have Bad Fall. Dayton, O.—A platform bearing over 100 girls employed at the Mercantile Corporation's plant in this city col lapsed Friday afternoon, while the young women were being photo graphed. Fourteen were injured. Missionary Dies in Egypt. Philadelphia.—Word was received here Friday of the death in Cairo. Egypt of Rev. William Harvey, a mis sionary for the United Presbyterian church since 18G5. His relatives reside near Detroit. Lawton’s Sen Gets Commission. Washington.—Marley Lawton, a son of the late Maj. Gen. Henry W. Law ton, who was killed in the Philippine islands in 1900, has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts. JOHN D. IS QUIZZED SHARP CROSS-EXAMINATION OP STANDARD OIL CHIEF. IMMENSE PROFITS SHOWN Earnings of the Octopus in 190/ Were About $30,000,000—Witness’ Memory Concerning Re bates Is Not Good. New York. — For over five hours Friday Johu D. Rockefeller, wit ness for the defense in the govern ment suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, faced an unceasing fire ol questions from the federal counsel Frank R. Kellogg, and when adjourn ment was taken until Monday the head of the oil combine was still being cross-examined on the charges that the company in its early days accepted re bates to the disadvantage of its rivals Mr. Rockefeller's cross-examination will probably not be concluded until late Tuesday, as Mr. Kellogg made it known that he would inquire into every detail of the company’s busi ness. Enormous Earnings Shown. The enormous earning power of the oil combination was sharply brought out in Friday’s heating when Mr. Rockefeller, after stating that the Standard had paid dividends amount ing to $40,000,000 in 1907, said it had earned as much more and that this was added to the company's surplus, which was stated by the government's counsel to be $300,000,000. It was further stated by Mr. Kellog that the company within the last eight years had earned nearly half a billion dol lars. The course of Mr. Rockefeller's testi mony in the hands of government counsel ran not so smoothly as on Thursday when he told his story un der the direction of friendly counsel, but the rapid lire interrogations of the prosecutor were always met with un shaken imperturbability and readiness to answer except when, as he ex plained: "It is quite impossible for me to re member after 35 years. 1 do not re call." , Remembers Only One Rebate. Mr. Rockefeller was questioned closely regarding rebates which the Standard was charged with receiving, but with the exception of the agree ment with the Pennsylvania railroad, which, Mr. Rockefeller explained, gave the Standard a rebate because it ef fected an equalization of oil ship ments, he could not recall any other rebates, though he thought it was like ly that he might have heard of it at the time. The president of the Standard Oil Company when he learned that the government counsel would not be able to conclude the cross-examination by Saturday night, suggested an adjourn ment until Monday, which was agreed to by counsel. Cross-Examined by Kellogg. New York. — With the telling of the story of the first score of years of the industrial development of the Standard Oil Company, the testi mony of John D. Rockefeller, president of the oil combine, on direct examina tion in the federal suit to dissolve the Standard Company, was brought to an unexpected close Thursday afternoon. The head of the Standard told of the processes and causes of the company's growth up to the trust agreement of 1852 and, after he identified the par ties to that agreement, counsel for the defense announced that Mr. Rockefel ler had concluded his direct testi mony and requested an adjournment until Friday. Friday found Mr. Rockefeller on the witness stand under the sharp fire of the cross-examination of Frank B. Kel logg, special assistant attorney gen eral, prosecuting the case for the gov ernment. The cross-examination by the government will be coniined to the period from 1862 to 1882, except where the testimony has direct bearing on developments in the company's affairs in its later period. New Revolution in Hayti. Port au Prince, Hayti.—-Gen. Antoine Simon, commander of the south for 20 years, having refused to comply with the recent request of President Nord Alexis to come to Port au Prince and confer with the president oil the political situation, has been de clared a rebel. The revolutionary movement ap pears to be serious, as Gen. Simon is in the possession of arms and ammu nition. Communication with the south is interrupted. Tries to Burn Mother Alive. Muscatine, la. — Enraged because his widowed mother would not give him money with which to pay his excessive gambling debts. George Dal ton, aged 20, set fire to the house and his mother was barely rescued by neighbors. Dalton is being huntee with hounds and it is feared that lit may be lynched. Actress Weds Viscount’s Heir. London.—Another romance of the stage was recorded Thursday after noon in the marriage of Eileen Orme a musical comedy actress, to the Hon Morris Hood, heir of Viscount Brid port. Miss Orme is 18 years old. Woman Convicted of Murder. Sioux City, la.—Mrs. Mary Harboui accused of the murder of Miss Rose Adams, her foster daughter, ,,-as Thursday found guilty of murder it the second degree. The jury deli her ated 17 hours.