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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909 NUMBER 10 I i - j i A Boiling Down of the Kars Impor= * tant Events Here and There X ■1 ► •trwvwwvwwwvw’a’vvwrrwwmw^.. Congress. I* A bill lias been introduced by Sen ator Burkett, giving the Elkhorn Jf railroad the right-of-way over the Niobrara Military reservation, Ne il braska. Great crowds were attracted to the house during discussion of the pres i idem's message, which was formally tabled as being disrespectful to con 1 gress. congressman Smith of Council Bluffs is on the warpaih and proposes tc reply to strictures of the president. Congressman Kinkaid has intro duced a bill authorizing the resurvey of the west half of McPherson county. Nebraska, the east half being now in j course of resurvey by a bill passed by congress about two years ago. Governor Sheldon of Nebraska is w, anxious for the passage of Senator UlMoCuinber's bill providing for free ■(water to any educational institution ||lki irrigated districts. In a letter to ^pSenator Brown the governor urges the p assage of this bill, declaiing his de feire for the establishment of an ex reriment station in the irrigated coun **Mry similar to the dry farming station now located at North Platte. X President Roosevelt sends a mes sage to congress giving detailed infor Sc mation as to why the secret service 'bureau is necessary, n Following the receipt cf President Bcosevelt's special message asking at appropriation cf SSuo.'JOO for the IX ief of Italian earthquake sufferers t® e house and the senate pa.-^ea res cjkr.iiyi.s appropriating 8;iff which vi:l! oe immediately available. ■ Members of the house mentioned in ®e president's special message on tt * secret service declined to make *i.y public reply, "i have no com jr - nt to make at this time," said Mr. Fitzgerald. "Whatever comment I d> sire to make wt'l be made from my place on the floor as a member of £&Gngres3.” Wafer I. Smith, cf Iowa, eaid he would make a speech in ref erence to the rr ntion of his name, is® tit that he would hot rise to a ques tion of personal privilege. W Speaker Cannon conferred with the » president at the latter's invitation con i' concerning ssage which will be ft rent to ocn!M<£ relief cf the Ital ||Tian Snffererg^Si'r. Cannon said con ... [gress would provide a liberal appre fljpiriation as quickly as possible. So many protests have been sent in jMto senators and Representative Hau Ife-en over the proposed appointment of lyj. H. Anundson of Mason City as bam: ^examiner for northern Iowa to succeed E B. Shaw that it is now regarded as '"^■tactically settled he .will not be intmed. Objections are being made to t' Armndson on the grounds that he is not qualified for bank examiner. - i i Genera!. 'ear Admiral Roblev D. Evans in address to Navy league, said the •cess of the voyage cf the baltle ps to the Pacific was due largely the good work cf stokers and >ks. ml. Former United States Marshal Mat thews of Fremont. ^Cebr.. replies to President Roosevelt in a tart letter. ij which the president is bluntly so used of lalsehrod. Purchase of the Colorado £ South i n road by Hi!j spurs Hardman up 3 push railroad building in the wc-at. I Washington au:korit;es stave there little danger from epidemic d s ses ;a earthquake region. Papers were sent to the senate by e president to show that secret rvice agents investigated Senator liman’s alleged connection with cer in Oregon laud deals. Governor Sballenberger took the th of office before a large crowd of ectators and he and retiring cor ner Sheldon read their messages to e Nebraska legislature. Governor Folk of Missouri in his pssnge to the legislature advocates ate commission on waterways and rest preservation. [Senator cutcerEon m cn extended j peech in the senate raid the »>resi pnt's action in Steel trust merger as arbitrary and lawless. Governor Sheldon in his message to [ientifle study of Nebraska to de iate-wide prohibition with suspension lause. favors physical examination of andidates for matrimony and re iews condition cf state affairs. Judge Trft discussed cabinet mat- j its with Sena'or Knox and after Other cnference s.oon some an ouncements of appointments may be lade. President-elect Taf* puts himself >n record as favoring heartily the Jrild labor laws in the south. Six night riders were found guilty of ■nurder in the first degree and two of rpurder in the second degree. ! Governor Shallenbfirger, elect of ■Nebraska, advocates bank guaranty Saw with a fund created by tax of L. of 1 per cent cn capital stock of ■ stockholders of the Omaha & Ne Raska Central railway, a projected Hterurban line, want to know what Has become of the money they have Hiid in ■ Mr. Bryan insists that house com MUees of Nebraska assembly be Kmed by the advisory committee. Bishop Thoraas F. Lillis of the Leavenworth Catholic diocese tele graphed $1,000 as his personal con tribution to the Italian earthquake sufferers to New York. Paul Morton was the first witness examined in the government’s investi gation of the so-called Harriman merger, which was begun in New York. Charles L. Wagner, secretary of the Lecleure bureau, Chicago, which has charge of the public appearance of Mrs. Florence Maybrick. entered a vigorous denial of a report that h9 and Mrs Maybrick are to wed. The Omaha and Lincoln commer cial clubs presented memorials to congress asking substantial allow ance for postal clerks, more pay for federal judges and for a tariff com mission. The Supreme court handed down a decisicn refusing to review the gov ernment's appeal from the United States court of appeals reversing the fine of $29,000,000 against the Stan dard Oil company. Italians of Omaha held a meeting and started a fund for sufferers at home. Mayor Dahlman addressed them expressing sympathy. The election of senators whose term will expire nine years hence were made in France. They resulted in an endorsement of the government. The suit of Count Boni de Castel lane for custody of his children was settled in favor of their mother, form erly Miss Anna Gould, of New York. Archbishop Ireland, speaking of the lalian earthquake, says: “It is simply a terrible thing. One teust be near the scene of any disaster to have any con ception of it. It is becoming clearer every day that nothing ever occurred in Italy to equal this earthquake.” Gregory county (S. D.) towns are in a contest for the land office which is to be moved from Mitchell, S. D. Con gressional delegation divided on the subject. It is now believed that the loss of life in Italy and Sicily by earthquake will reach 200.009. Washington. The house committee, headed by Perkins, reported in favor of tabling President Roosevelt's secret service message and a hot uebate followed, after which recommendations of the committee were adopted. A census cf the crippled and de formed children of the United States may be taken by the government. Senator Burkett has reintroduced his amendment for such a census. Senator Burkett has received nu merous petitions from citizens of Ge noa. asking him to use his influence to prevent the abandonment of the Genoa Indisn school Commissioner Leupp recommended closing the school, owing to the decrease in at t< ndanee. Congressman Kinkaid has recom mended John M. Dietel for pcstmaste; at Adaton. Sheridan county, vice C. S. Rucker, resigned. Also the appoint ment of Archie B. Wynes as postmas ter at Oshkosh, vice August Sudman, resigned. The house passed bills authorizing the Delaware, Lackawanna £: Western Railroad company and the Lacka wanna Railroad company ~to construct a bridge across the Delaware river be tween Columbia X. J.. and Slateford, Pa., and providing for the granting of leaves of absence with pay for thirtj’ days to employes on the Panama canal injured in line of duty. Drastic measures were considered by the Perkins special committee of the house appointed to recommend action in defense of the body in replt to the criticism made by the president in his annual messas-e in referring to secret service legislation. When the matter comes before the house an in teresting debate is anticipated. Suffering Italy continues to occupy the thoughts of most of the citizens and officials in Washington. Aroused to a full consciousness of the appalling disaster which swallowed up so many lives, the one aim is to get relief to the stricken people as speedily as pcs t-uKe. Money is pouring into the suffice- of the American Xational Rec: Cross ansi is being telegraphed abroad ass fas; as received. Senator McCumber of North Dakota, is preparing to press his bill for feder al grain inspection. H - hopes to get it passed by the senate this winter. Sec tetary Wilson is earnestly In favor of it, and says that unless conditions with respect to grain shipped abroad by this country improve, America’s export grain trade will hptseriously affected A largr number of prominent army and navy officers will retire for age in ibe course of the year 1909. Among them will be Lieut. Col. Levy p. Hunt r'f the Second cavalry, who will retirc Auyust 7. Personal. People of Georgia ask for a chief ex ecutive that is fond of possum. Anson R. Flower. New York’s banker philanthropist, died a* Watertown. Sam Blythe, the Washington cor respondent, votes Will Hayward of Ne braska -he handsomest man in public life. Dr. George E. Howard of Nebraska university contends that divorces are a good thing. President-elect Taft will deliver a message io the whole south at a banquet at Atlanta January 15. Judge Tail regrets that unfair in terpretation has been placed on the ' withdrawal cf his brother from the Ohio contest. His action was not at the suggestion cf the president-elect or Chairman Hitchcock. Mr. Pool, of Johnson county, was chosen speaker cf the lower house of the Nebraska legislature. Italians in this country are raising much money for the earthquake suffer ers. A Slate Chapter of the Daughters of 1812 was organized at Omaha. AS TO TOE CABINET IT IS ALL GUESS WORK UNTIL THE FOURTH OF MARCH. FORECASTERS CAN CET BUSY Review of the Names Being Mentioned and the Probabilities of Them Final Selection. Washington—The decision of Presi dent-elect Taft to refrain from making public the names of men he has select ed to be members of his cabinet, with the exception of Senator Knox and Frank H. Hitchcock, has had the effect to incite much gossip. With no possi bility of an official contradiction con fronting them, would-be cabinet build ers are now free to exercise their in genuity and imagination to the full and are not slow to avail themselves of the opportunity. Without doubt the many names which are being brought forward for the various portfolios are those of at least a few successful as pirants. but it is decidedly unsafe to attempt to indicate who they are. The most that can he done is to accept probabiiiies as such, simply because any attempt to make positive state ments would be unwarranted ill the light of last night's announcement from Augusta. The only possibilit) of accurate in formation transpiring regarding the seven vacant cabinet positions lies in the promise of the friends of some of the selected persons to discuss the matter, for it is hardly conceivable that any public man would decide upon the acceptance of a cabinet office without conferring with his personal friends. Yet Senator Knox, on his return from Augusta Sunday, rather grim ly hinted that any candidate who either personally or through his friends betrayed the confidence of the president-elect might find that after all he was not on the list and this statement may have seme effect in re straining cabinet talk by people who are really advised. But following in the line of prob abilities certain names, by dint of te itoration in connection with cabinet vacancies without developing denials, have come to be regarded as feasible. Such, ffir instance, is that of George W. Wickersham, the New York law yer and legal partner of Henry Taft, the preside.nt elect'* brother. He has been consistently mentioned in con nection with the attorney general, hip Bit: it should be remembered that Senator Knox is a potent influence with the president-elect and that he has a feeling of the highest regard and admidstion for the anilities of So licitor General Hoyt, with whom he was in intimate relations during his own occupancy of the office cf attor ney general. It easily may be be lieved that he would urge Hoyt's se lection should it develop that Wicker sham’s appointment was found to be inexpedient in the very fact of his bu siness connections with the president elect’s brother. The fact being conceded that the Pacific coast is to be represented in the new cabinet causes great weight to be given to the suggestion that Richard A. Ballinger is to be the lucky rran and his name has been connected with the secretaryship of the interior, although :t is well known that the Pacific coast people would prefer that the naval portfolio come to their section, because of their im portant navy yard interests. CHARLES P. TAFT AT AUGUSTA Will Remain with His Brother Until He Starts for Panama. Augusta, Ga.—Charles P. Taft with his wife and daughter, arrived here Sunday night and were met at the sta tion by the preident-elect and Msrs. Taft. They expect to remain here un til the preisdcnt-elect leaves for Pana ma. At that time the Taft family may go to Cuba, though their plans are said not to be matured. Panama Treaties Signed. Panama.—President Obaldia has re ceived advices from the Panama le gation at Washington,!saying that at midnight Saturday night the final drafis of the treaties between the United States and Colombia and the United States and Pnnama were signed. As the national assembly is now in session, it is probable that these treaties, which cover questions i.u dispute between Panama and Co lombia will be submitted for ap proval before adjournment. Ten-Year-Old A Bank Robber. Joplin. Mo.—Charged with looting the Noel State bank of Noel, forty miles south of here. Oliver P. Billings, aged 10, was arrested her<;> by Sheriff Carnell, culminating a five weeks’ case. The tot entered the bank through a rear window while Ca hier Kissler was at his noonday meal ana looted the cash drawer of its entire contents, $020. Trade With Panama. Washington—Sis million dollars of imports from Panama and $0,000,000 of exports to Panama represent th-'1 trade of chat republic with the United States during the past five years, ac cording to a bulletin by the bureau of statistics made public a few days ago. While it is contended that a large part cf the $0,000,000 represented merchandise sent to Panama, it is stated that a larger part than would perhaps be supposed has been for other purposes especially food stuffs and clothing. THE ICY MIT. s'j/LWAJt'rr i<r/v RIGHT RIDERS USE CONVICTED SIX GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. Two Escape with Twenty Years for Second Degree Murder—Death Probable for Otners. Union City, Tenn.—With a verdict of guilty in varying degree, the jury in the night rider trials reported at S:45 p. m. Thursday night. The 12 men found Garrett Johnson, Tid Bur ton, Boy Ransom. Fred Pinion, Ar thur Cloar and Sam Applewhite guilty of murder in the first degree with mitigating circumstances, and Bud Morris and Bob Huffman, the other defendants, guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixed their punish ment at 20 years in the penitentiary. The punishment of the six first named defendants was left, to the court, and may be death or life im prisonin', at. The court probably will sentence the six first named defendants to dhath. The defeadau.s Laok -the verdict with calmness, as they had.been ex pecting it since the closing of the ar guments. Attorney Pierce turned to them when it was announced, and said: "We will tear this case to pieces in the supreme court.” The state expected a verdict of first degree murder in all eight cases, and was visibly disappointed. Bob Huff man. one of the men to escape with 20 years, is the man who, according to the confession of Frank Fehringer. fired the shot which killed Capt. Ran ken as he was being drawn up by the "ope. When the jury’s readiness to report was announced the military quietly surrounded the courthouse and a de tail of soldiers, with revolver holsters open, was deployed around the walls of the courtroom, but there was no demonstration. The prisoners were quickly handcuffed and under military escort taken to prison. The verdict is considered a compromise one, and no trouble is feared by the authori ties. TOOK MONEY TO GUILD HOME. Embezzling Granite City Banker Sen tenced to Five Years. _ Springfield. Ill—Pleading guilty to the charge of embezzlement and giv ing as an excuse that he took the money to build a home for himself and his bride, Wesley A. Martin, for merly a Granite City banker, Friday was sentenced to live years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., by Judge J. Otis Humphrey in the United States district court. Martin, prior to his arrest, was a social leader of Granite City. He took $20,000 of the bank's money. The shortage was made good. His wife has stood by him, and she was at his side when he was sentenced. Accused cf Stealing Bank Funds. Philadelphia. — Dewitt C. Hil legt.s. a well-known insurance broker of this city, was arrested yes terday by the United States authori ti-s, charged upon the affidavit of Paul: Examine- Folds, who accuses him with misappropriating funds of the r.oyertown N’at onal bank in con nivance with Morris L. Hartman, the cashier, and being responsible for the failure of the institution in June 1007. Big Mail Rcbbary in Paris. Paris. — A mail sack containing bonds, etc., worth $200,000 was stolen from a delivery wagon in the Chaussee d'Antin in broad daylight yesterday* The police have not the i slightest clew to the thieves. Bury 1,300 Quake Victims. Messina.—A most impressive funer al ceremony was witnessed near here Thursday when Archbishop Barrigo made his way through the ruins of the city to the cemetery at Mare Grosso: and blessed a grave 100 feSt wide and 30 feet deep, containing 1,309 bodies. The dead wera piled one on top of the other and the bodies covered with quicklime. The prelate was followed ; to the cemetery by a large gathering of survivors whose lamentations mingled with the Latin words of the i service and benediction. MINISTER MOT THE VICTIM. Carpenter Was Murdered and Cre mated—Pastor Is Sought. Port Huron. Mich.—By means of two false teeth it was definitely estab lished Friday afternoon that Gideon Browning of Adair village was the man who was butchered last Tuesday evening in the little 'Rattle Run” Methodist church in Columbus town i ship. With part of the mystery which has | enshrouded tho brutal crime thus j cleared, the supervisors of St. Clair county immediately offered a reward of $300 ior the arrest of Rev. John H. ; Carmichael of Adair, pastor of the lit tle church, who was at first supposed i to have been killed, dismembered and . then burned in the church stove. Strenuous efforts io discover some motive for the destruction of the car ; penter by the minister have been fruitless. Rumors that Carmichael had been seen crossing the St. Clair river imo Canada could not be cor j roborated. An officer sent to St. ; Thomas, On!., reported no trace of him there. Mrs. Carmichael and Miss Carmi j cbael. wife and daughter of the min ister, were examined bv the prosecut ing attorney here and he stated after ward that he was convinced they knew nothing of the murder nor the man’s disappearance. “FATHER” HORTON IS DEAD. Founder of City of San Diego, Cal., Passes Away. Sr.n Diego, Cal.—Alonzon Erastus Horten, founder of the present San Diego and its oldest inhabitant, died Thursday, aged >S5 years, as a result of infirmities incident to old age. In 1867 “Father" Horton, as he was uni versally known, surveyed, and pur chased at auction for 26 cents an acre, the 880 acres of land around the bay upon which San Diego now stands. Every flag in this city is at half-mast. Heside being the oldest local Inhabi tant, Horton was the second oldest Elk in America. RG3EERY CALLED A FAKE. Deputy Postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie Arrested as Embezzler. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Deputy Postmaster Frank L. Higgins was ar rested Friday on a charge of embez zlement. The arrest is the outgrowth of an alleged robbery of which Hig gins reported himeeif the victim De cember 14. it was stated at that time tha, three foreigners assaulted the deputy postmaster with a sand bag while lie was alone in the pest office making out his payroll the previous evening, and that his assailants es caped with ?2,500 of post office funds. -— -i_ Forest Re:erv;s Upheld. Denver. Col.—The United States government Tuesday won its case in defense of the constitutionality of for est reserves, when .Judge Lewis in the United States district court handed down a decision in favor of the com plainant in the case of the United States against Fred Light et al. The case involved the right of the depart ment of forestry to charge grazing fees and was regarded as of the ut most importance in the west. Deputy Kills Texas Ranger. Amarillo. Tex.—Texas Ranger “Doc" Thomas was snot through the head and killed Tuesday morning by Dep uty Sheriff Keaton in the county court house. It is said that bad blood had existed between the two men since the smuggling from the county jail here Several days ago of Arthur Liuister, wanted at Hot Springs. Ark., in con nection with a murder case. Boys Charged with Murder. St. Louis. Five boys, ranging in ttS? from 8 to 13 years, were arrested iu their classrooms in the Shaw school Friday and charge! with the murder of William Wnchter, a peddler, who was found with his skull crushed. The arrests followed information given to the police by Mrs. Mary Goebthardt, r.232 Wilson avenue, mother of two of the prisoners. The boys are: Joseph Leo, 13 years old; George Remmel, 1" 1 ears, Frank Mamie, nine* yearn old, and Henry and Arthur Goebe hardt, 11 and 8 years old. SLAP ATPRESIDENT HOUSE LAYS SECRET SERVICE MESSAGES ON TABLE. DEVOTES DAY TO CENSURE Won’t Receive Any More “Disrespect ful” Communications — Roosevelt Tells Alleged Facts Disclosed by Tillman Probe. Washington.—After having made him the target all day for criticism, with here and there words of com mendation, the house of representa tives Friday night by a vote of 212 to 35 rebuked the president by tabling so much of his message as reflected on members of congress regarding the secret service detectives, and also declaring it to be the sense of the house that they shall decline to con Senator Tillman. sider any communication from any source which is not in its own judg ment respectful. Senator Culberson's resolution in structing the' committee on the judi ciary to report whether the president had authority to permit the absorp tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation was adopted by the senate. Tells About Tillman Probe. President Roosevelt Friday night made public the details of an investi gation by post office inspectors and secret service agents of Senator Till man's connection with an alleged ■'land grab" in Oregon. As he pre sents the evidence to Senator Hale, in response to the latter’s request to the heads of the various executive depart I ments for a statement of the opera tions of the secret service, the presi dent undertakes to show: That Mr. Tillman used his influence as a senator in an effort to force the government to compel a railroad cor poration to relinquish its control of land grants from the United States in order that he and his family and his secretary. J. B. Knight, might Profit through the purchase cf some of the land; That the senator used his govern ment franking privilege in numerous instances for the conduct of private business. Comparatively few senators were favored with the opportunity of read ing the president’s report to Senator Hale, but those who did read the re port took a serious view of it, al though most of the senators refused to believe that Senator Tillman had ever done anything iu violation of his oath as a senator. Dean Howard Poisoned. Dcs Moines, In—Dr. Howe, special examiner appointed by Coroner Iver G. Xewlen to look into the sudden and mysterious death of Dean Frederick Howard of Drake university. Thanks giving day, reported Wednesday night that the distinguished professor was a victim of poison. Quantities of mor phine were found in the intestines. The report says that there are marks pointing to asphyxiation. As to who administered the poison or whether it was self-administered, is not known. Accused of $1,000,000 Forgeries. Oakland, Cal. — F. B. Signor, real estate promoter and mining broker of this city, was arrested on com plaint sworn to by James H. Murray, a multi-millionaire banker and mining man of Montana, Salt Lake and Seattle, but more recently of Monterey, Cal., charging Signor with forgeries aggregating nearly $1,000,000. Signor is alleged to have forged Murray’s name to four notes of $100,000 each, as well as to numerous other negotiable documents. Afghan Army Invades Persia. Teheran.—There is a persistent ru mor in circulation here to the effect that 6.000 Afghans with nix guns have crossed the Seistcn frontier into Per sia. The Scistan frontier is the junction where eastern Persia and southwestern Afghanistan meet. Courthouse Sold for Two Dollars. Kankakee, 111.—The Kankakee coun ty courthouse, built in 1871, was sold at auction Friday for two dollars to a local contractor. It will be replaced by a $150,000 building. NOT GUILTY OF ERB MURDER MRS. ERB AND MRS. BEISEL ARE ACQUITTED BY JURY. U.fendants Scream and Fall Into Each Other's Arms When the Verdict Is Announced. Media, Pa.—Mrs. M. Florence Erb, wife of Capt. J. Clayton Erb, who was well known in political circles all over Pennsylvania, and her sister. Mrs. Catharine Beisel, who were charged with the sensational murder of Capt. Erb on the night of October 6, 1998, walked from the Delaware county courthouse Thursday free women. After the jury had been out nearly 18 hours it brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of each woman, both of whom had been charged separately and jointly with shooting the captain. Thus ends a trial that has held the interest of the people of the country for more than a week during which much scandalous evidence was brought out, some of which did not reach the reading pub lic. Judge Johnson took his seat just as the jury was escorted into the room. There was absolute silence. Then the court clerk went through the usual proceeding of asking whether the jury had agreed and the foreman announced the verdict of not guilty in each case. There was a second's pause a dead silence, then, with a half scream, the sisters fell in each other's arms. Everybody in the court room was on his or her feet and women wept as they looked at the pathetic scene. Surrounded by Wild Crowd. In an instant the women were sur rounded by friends and their attorneys and overwhelmed with congratula tions. Harry Beisel threw his arms around his wife and his sister-in-law, Mr*. Erb, and tears came to their eyes. This scene lasted several minutes. The jury was not polled, and after Judge Johnson had thanked them. Mrs. Erb hurried from her seat to Dickinson, the foreman, and wrung his hand. Mrs. Beisel did likewise, and they went down the line of the 12 men. Tears stood in the eyes of most of them and the thanks of the women were sobbed out in broken syllables. EXILE CAUSE OF DOWNFALL? Overthrow cf Yuan Shi Kai Blamed on Ousted Reformer. New York. — Special cable ad vices from Penang. Straits Settle ment, says that Kang-Yu-Yvei, China's exiled reformer and leader of the Chi nese Empire Reform association, claims credit for the overthrow of Yuan Shi Kai. Yuan Shi Kai, the eminent Chinese statesman, as member of the grand council. According to the dispatch Kang-Yu Wei charges Yuan Shi Kai with com plicity in the death of the emperor. He is quoted as follows: “We know Y’uan Shi Kai paid a • physician 40,000 taels (about $33,000) to poison the emperor. Yuan Shi Kai. seeing the dowager empress’ death impending, feared retribution at the hands of the emperor for his betrayal a decade ago which forced my flight and resulted in the dowager empress seizing the reins of control.” Kill Montreal Ice Carnival. Montreal, Can.—The end of the win ter ice carnivals of Montreal, long a feature of the winter days of Canada, was indicated by the action of rep resentatives of all the Canadian and many eastern roads in a meeting at Montreal. Feeling that the continua tion of the carnivals and the advertis ing of the country mainly during the winter time does not operate to the best advantage of the country, the railroad men have decided not to grant reduced rates for the annual Ice carnival or other similar events. Object to a Larger Navy. Boston.—A remonstrance against further increase of the United States navy was sent to congress Thursday by the board of directors of the American Peace society. It was signed on behalf of the board by Rob ert Treat Paine, president, and Benja min A. Trueblood, secretary cf tbe society. Woman Freed of Murder Charge. Newark. N. J. — Mrs. Josephine Amoro, who had he-’n on trial here on a charge of having murdered Michael Martellanen on August 5 last was ac quitted Friday night. The woman's defense was \hat she shot the muu in defense of her honor. Dates for the Confederate Veterans. Memphis, Tenn.—By a unanimous vote the executive committee having in charge arrangements for this year’s confederate reunion Friday decided cn June 1, 2 and 3.
