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/ Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JANUARY 28, 190<> NUMBER 12 Congress. February 12, next, was the day de cided to be a special legal holiday and a survey and plans for a highway from Washington to Gettysburg., to be known as “The Lincoln Way,” as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, was provided for by a joint resolution passed bv the senate, after an ex tended debate. The resolution did not not commit congress to the con struction of the highway when sur veyed. Thirteen new 1'niled States sen ators have been elected and seven teen re-elected. The deadlock in Illi nois continues./ Five ballots have, been taken and Speaker Shurtleff and Frank O. Lowder are looming up as possibilities. Senator Gamble has secured a favorable report from the commit tee on public lands of the sf nate on the Le Beau land district bill. It was reported without amendment and provides for the location of land office at 1/e Beau. Senator Brown of Nebraska has accepted an invitation to address the lariff commission convention at In dianapolis, February 16. A statehood bill granting the terri tories of Arizona and New Mexico separate statehood has been intro duced in the house. The senate voted to place the salary of the president at 5100,000 per year. The house passed the pension bill, which carries 5160,869,000 and abol ishes a:l pension agencies but one. An increase of nearly $10,000,000 is asked for in the estimates of the war department for the fortifications ap propriation. Of this amount $3,000, 000 is wanted for fortifications in the Philippine Islands, and the estimates lor armament of fortifications is in creased from $2,000,000 last year to over $4.o00.000 this year. Nebraska senators help out con gressmen. and as a result of joint la bors, Genoa, Neb., is likely to retain its Indian school. Gregory, S. D., gets a land office. Secretary Garfield in a letter to senate and house, said that public lands to the value cf $110,000,000 had been fraudulent! acquired by corner- j aliens and individuals within the last j two years. Bitter invective against President Roosevelt by Willett of New York was stoppel by a vote of the house of representatives. The senate voted to increase the salary cf the speaker to $15,000 a year. Hearing on the Burkett bill to pro- j hibit the use of telegraph lines in in terstate gambling will be bad before the senate judiciary committee this week. The senator expects to get the bill through. No change in the form of govern- | ment of the isthmian canal zone is to be recommended to congress at this session by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Congressman Pollard has received endorsements for his forestry bill fr/'in the officers of the American forestry association and other or ganizations aiming to promote forest preservation and restoration. The bill was introduced last session. General. A landslide following a severe earth =hcck in the region south of Tetuan has wiped out several vilages. Representative Hitchcock made a fight which resulted in amendment of the nava! appropriation bill by the in sertion of an item appropriating $250, 000 to enlarge the government pow der factory at Indian Head. Attorney General Bonaparte de clined to honor a oolite summons to appear before a house committee. Governor Deneen of Illinois, issued a requisition on the governor of Ne braska for the return to Canton, 111., of James Blake, who is now an in mate of the Nebraska slate penitenti ary at Lincoln and whose term will expire on February 29. The death list in the Chicago crib fire is now sixty-six and fears are en tertained it may be 100 . Representative Pollard of Nebraska believes there is no chance to change the rules of the house this session. Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell has been confirmed as president of Har vard university. The widow of Rear Admiral Joseph B. Ooghlan of Manila bay fame will have to seek employment unless the government grants her an adequate pensio£ is the information that has been brought out in connection with the bill granting Mrs. Coghlan a pen sion of $100 a month. James J. Hill, who has returned from a tour of the northwest, says the commercial situation looks healthy. President Gilmore of the Model Li cense league in session at Louisville, declares the people want reformed saloon and no prohibition. Bill for submission of a suffrage amendment passed the Dakota senate Its advocates are confident it will go through the house. Plans for an Independent long dis tance telephone line from Boston to Omaha and Lincoln were discussed ai a meeting in Boston. General O. O. Howard, treasurer of the Lincoln Centennial Memorial uni versity, endowment fund, announces that generous subscriptions are being made. Governor Gillett of California iit a formal statement says there will be anti-Japanese legislation this year. Issurance of “John Doe” subpoena in libel investigation reveals fact that United States government is plaintiff in proceedings against New York World. Charles F. Searle of Council Bluffs, a brother of former Auditor Searle of Nebraska, committed suicide by tak ing carbolic acid. No apparent rea son for his act. A conference of President-elect Taft and J. C. Shaffer of Chicago disclosed the fact that: secretary of the treas ury has not been selected. All 1 todies taken from railroad wreck at Datsero, Colo., have been identified. Twelve of them are from Nebraska. An attack is made on Governor Sheldon of Nebraska for having used up the funds for the biennium before its close, leaving the incoming Governor Shallenberger of Nebras ka proclaims the adoption of the judicial amendment and names Sulli van. Holcomb, Root and Fawcett as supreme pudges. Union labor leaders assert that 100 factories, employing 15.000 men, are tied up by the strike of the hatters Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, caused the arrest of an agent of W. 11. Hearst and seized evidence col lected to use in the libel suit filed by the governor. The house committee on foreign affairs wants information on expendi tures from Assistant Secretary t'.a con. Receipts of hue forest service amount amount to nearly half the sum expended for administration and improvements. Judge Taft in an address to the ne gro Young Men’s Christian associa tion of Augusta discussed the Chris tian uplift and the era of religious tolerance that has developed in recent years. Policemen and officers from four cities attended the funeral of Patrai man Lafayette Smith of Omaha, shot by an outlaw in the performance of his duty. Ashland, Neb., soives the tramp problem by escorting them out of town and refusing to furnish grub.. Elihu Root was nominated for sena tor at a New York republican caucus. Many deaths have marked the emi gration of Richardson (Neb.) county people who emigrated to Canadx It is a great country for penumonia har vests. Washington. Date for filing on Rosebud lands has been postponed to April 1 for low numbers and September S, for all , above 4,000. ' The president conferred with Cali fornia congressmen regarding anti Japanese legislation. He says the matter is the most important- public question now pending. The labor leaders sentenced for contempt of court say they will not j ask for clemency, as a pardon would make it necessary to fight the case over again from the beginning. The compulsory retirement of metii ca\ officers of the rank of major in the army is provided for by a bill passed by the senate. Such officers, when found deficient upon examina tion for promotion for causes not originating in the service, are to he retired without increased rank, ac cording to the terms of the bill. The Iowa delegation in congress forwardede to William H. Taft at Au gusta a strong and sweeping endorse ment of Secrc tary James Wilson and asked that he he continued at the head of the Department of Agricul ture. The senate adopted Representative Dawson’s resolution authorizing the postmaster general to design and is sue a special postage stamp in con nection with the 100th anniversary of the hirt.h of Abraham Lincoln. The president will nominate John C. O’Laughlin of this city, now sec retary of the Tokio Exposition com mission an a prominent newspaper and magazine writer, to be assistant secretary of state. President Roosevelt in one day made a trip ninety-eight miles on horseback to demonstrate that physical tests pre scribed for army officers are not un reasonable. Senator Burkett’s bill to allow the Fremont, Elkhom and Missouri valley railroad permission to change its course was refused. Senator Frazier of Tennessee said that the negroes in the Brownsville affair did not deserve reinstate ment. Personal. A carload of seventy-five babies was distributed in New Orleans, com ing from the New York Foundling ani Orphan asylum. The twenty-sixth victim of the Rio Grande railroad collision is dead. Senator Bacon declares is favor of a bill providing for right of senate to de mand papers of any departssent. President Roosevelt wants to pre vent the California legislature pass ing an adverse Japaneses bill. Richmond county, Georgia. pro claimed President-cdeet Tan as one of its citizens because he was living there when he was formally elected president. Herbert Erl) has been elected presi dent of the Wisconsin Central rail way. George E. Chamberlain (dem) has been chosen United States senator from Oregon. Judge Andersen is to preside at the retrial of the Standard Oil ca3e. RAMMED STEAMER SINKS WITH OUT LOSS OF LIFE. NONE ON BOARD AT THE TIME Rescued Passengers Safely Trans ferred Twice During a Heavy Fog at Sea. New York—The palatial steamship Republic of the White Star line, which was in collision with the Italian liner Florida early Saturday morning off Nantucket, Mass., went down at 8: CO o’clock Sunday. No one was lost. Its passengers, taken off many hours before, are on the steamship Baltic, which was off Sandy Hook at a late hour, making for this port. The Republic was in tow of the revenue cutter Gresham and the dere lict destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New York, when it sank. On board was Captain Sealby with a volunteer detail of its crew. It had been towed but n. short distance when it began to settle rapidly. - Aeeing no hope of saving the ship. Captain Sealby gave the order to abandon ship and the crew was taken off by the Gresham, which cast loose from the crippled liner and stood by until it sank. The Gresham and the Seneca then headed for the Massachusetts coast and will land Captain Sealby and his crew a: Gay Head. Mass., or Newport, R. 1. As to the exact point of laud ing. wireless advices differ. The point where the Republic went down is described in brief wireless messages received here Saturday night as off No Man's island, a small island south of Martha's Vineyard Island, off the Massachusetts coast. The Italian liner Florida, which crashed into the Republic in 'he dense fog off Nantucket, Mass., early Sat urday morning and gave it its death blow, is slowly steaming toward New York, convoyed by the American liner New York. Its passengers are also on the Baltic, having been trans ferred along with ttiose of the Re public. The Baltic, which was called by wireless telegraph to the aid of the Republic yesterday and transferred from the Florida, not only that steamer's 900 and more passengers, but the 442 passengers and part of the crew of the Republic, was nearing New York late Sunday night. It was in wireless communication with the Fire Island station at 11 o'clock to night. but did not define its position. The weather was thick and it could not be sighted from the observation station on Fire island. This, in brief was the situation Sun day night in the stirring story of the sc a, following the first wireless flash on the collision of the two big ships. For thirty-six hours the suspense of the public was unallayed, for almost every hour since the first flash of the mishap came from the Republic's wireless operator, has brought con flicting reports from many points all giving a different phase to the shifting scenes and tending to confuse the situation. REMOVAL OF WRECK OF MAINE. Wreckage a Serious Menace to Ship ping in Harbor. Washington—Governor Magoon of the provisional government of Cuba, in his annual report to the secretary of war brings to his attention the wreck of the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor and recom mends that the government take im mediate sieps to accomplish its re moval without further delay. Herrin-,an Bill Turned Down. Washington—That President Roose velt's recommendation for an appro priation to reimburse E. H Harriman for the expenditure of about $2,000. 000 by the Southern Pacific railway company to control the overflow of the Colorado river into the Salton sink a lew years ago will be disre garded by congress now appears probable. Hearings on this recom mendation have been conducted by a subcommittee of the senate commit tee on claims composed of Senators Kean, Smoot and Martin. Huts ■'or Messina Refugees. Messina.—The work of cleaning up the ruins of Messina and feeding and housing the refugees is now thorough ly systematized and good progress is being made. Feur Killed ir Snowslide. Durango, Colo.—A disastrous sno^r slide occurred at the Camp Bird mirie near Ouray. Four men were swept from the camp and killed, together with twenty horses and sixteen mules. Forty-Seven Hearses in Line. Chicago.—Forty-seven hearses, es corted by 200 policemen, forming one funeral procession, on Saturday con veyed to their graves the unidentified bodies of the men who were k’iled in the burning of the crib in the lake last Wednesday. DRASTIC PROHIBITION BILL Measure, it is Predicted, Will Pass in the Utah Legislature. Salt Lake City—Prohibition that shall be state-wide and absolute :s the intent of a bill introduced in the lower branch of Utah’s legislative as sembly. The measure is drastic in the extreme. Under its provisions the manufacture, sale or free dispensing of intoxicants is prohibited. Sup porters cf the prohibition bill assert that two-thirds of the members are pledged in its favor. SOME REASONS WHY THE PRESIDENT’S SALARY SHOULD BE RAISED. OF COURSE IT TAKES TWICE AS «UCH TO PAY HIS GROCERY Bill A Tlunci ASttJfH tfOODS rot>^ a suit uf ciuthis BY RIQHTS HE SHOULD.HAVt TWO HOHStS < MIS FURHiTUKE. THOULI Ai lL'L OOU81I s'TIfrNGiH *ND WIDTH. joum.il HOUSE PASSES NAVAL BUDGET •PEACE” ADVOCATES ARE HOPE- j LESSLY IN MINORITY. Senate Makes February 12 a Special Holiday and Authorizes Survey of ‘‘Lincoln Way” to Gettysburg. Washington.—Exactly as reported by committee, the naval program for the fiscal year 15*10 was adopted Fri day by the house of representatives, and the naval appropriation bill was passed. The opponents of the navy increase feature of the bill found themselves in a hopeless minority. The only vital alteration made in the measure was the striking out of the provision re storing marines to naval vessels. The aggregate amount appropriated by the bill is $135,000,000. As ha3 been thf -use. in the past, the increase in the naval estimate gave rise to extended and heated de bate, in which members were afforded ; an opi»ortunity to air their views of the Japanese question. The peace ad vocates were much in evidence in op position to such increase, while the adherents of the proposition were alive at all times to every move made to cut down the number of vessels au thorized. February 12 next was decided by the senate to be a special legal holi day, and a survey and plans for a j .highway from Washington to Gettvs- j burg to be known as "the Lincoln way," as a memorial to Abraham Lin- j coin, was provided for by a joint res- | olution passed after an extended de- I bate. The resolution did not commit j congress to the construction of the highway when surveyed. Final action was also taken on the i legislative, executive and judicial bill, the senate refusing by a vote of 41 to 27 to fix at $75,000 the salary of the president, previously increased by ar amendment to $J 00,000. Stockmen's Conspiracy Revealed. Belle Fourche, S. D.—From confes- j sious alleged to have been secured from the leaders, following the arrest of nine prominent stockmen in Crook county. Wyoming, a great sensation is expected to result. The men under ar rest are Ike. Andy and Sam McKean. D. W. Mosbarger, George Martin, Stan ley Baugh. J. C. Hulholland, Terry Zimmerschied and A. O. Sauiers. It is alleged that they are members of a secret band of stockmen organized and operated solely to drive out the Guthrie Stock Company. Must Pay Duty on Foreign Coin. New York.—That an importer must pay a penalty in the shape of 45 per cent, duty on coin currency of a for eign country brought to the United States was the unique principle es tablished in a decision of the board of United States general appraisers, rendered Wednesday. In its decision the board sustained the collector in assessing duty on a consignment of .Japanese coin currency imported by a local firm for the New York branch of the Yokohama specie bank. Tennessee Drys Score Again. Nashville, Tenn.—At 5:40 o’clock Thursday afternoon the lower house of the legislature, by a vote of 60 to 36, passed, on final reading, the bill to ' prohibit the manufacture of intoxi cants in Tennessee after January 1, 1910. The bill has already passed the sen ate and now goes to the governor, who is expected to veto it. Morgan Buys Washington's Sword. Baltimore, . Md.—J. Pierpont Mor gan of New York has purchased from Miss Virginia Tayler Wise of this city the sword worn by Gen. George Wash ington when he resigned his commis sion as commander-in-chief of the American army in Annapolis in 1783. Mr. Morgan will in due time, it is un derstood, present the relic to the Mount Vernon association. An idea of its value may be gleaned from the fact that some years ago the United States senate passed a bill appropriat ing $25,000 for its purchase. FIVE KILLED IN RAIL WRECK. Collision on the Pennsylvania Road— Many Are Injured. Johnstown. Pa.—Running at a speed of nearly fifty miles an hour, the sec ond section of the St. Louis Express on the Pennsylvania railroad, which left Philadelphia at 4:30 o'clock Fri day afternoon, crushed into the first section, which had met with an acci dent at a point between South Fork and Summer Hill, known as “Running Ground." with terrific force early Sat urday morning, killing five persons and injuring many. The second section was a double header. with two large engines, and is said to have plowed its way through the first section. Immediately after the wreck hurry calls were issued for all available physicians at both this place and at Altoona, and in less than an hour nearly fifty physicians were on their way to the scene of the acci dent. 160 DIE IN FLOODED MINE. Disaster in the Transvaal Caused by Heavy Rains. Johannesburg.—One . hundred and seventy-three persons are known tc have lost their lives Friday as a re sult of the floods which are general throughout the Transvaal colony and northern Natal. By the bursting of Knights dam, the Witwatersrand gold mine in the southwestern part of the Transvaal was flooded and ten white men and 150 natives were drowned. The water from this dam also flooded the lower section of the town of Elsburg. where a number of houses were swept away and 13 persons perished. INFIRMARY INMATES BURNED. Fifteen Aged Men Injured in Fire at • Canfield, O. Canfield. O.—Fire of unknown origin Thursday afternoon destroyed the men's building of the Mahoning county infirmary here and 15 of the aged in mates received burns more or less serious. The men were endeavoring tc check the fire at the foot of a stair way when a shift in the wind sudden ly drove a sheet of flame down upon them. They crawled to safety, and were taken to the infirmary hospital. The fire loss will be $30,000. Shortage of $13,0C0 Found. Kansas City, Mo.—A shortage ot $13,000 in the city auditor's office was disclosed Wednesday following the in stallation of a new system of account ing. Vernon H. Green, the auditor,, says the shortage may be due to cler ical errors, but more probably is the result of systematic stealing by clerks extending through an indefinite period of years. No formal charges have been made. Billik Saved from Death. Springfield. 111.—Gov. Charles De neen Friday night commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death which had been pronounced on Her man Billik of Chicago, who was con demned to hang for the murder of Mary Vrzal, whom he poisoned, with other members of the family, it tvas charged. Leiter Under Surgeon's Knife. Chicago.—Joseph Leiter, millionaire mine owner, former grain king, a ben edict of a few months, was operated on for appendicitis Friday at August aca hospital. Fixing Up Toga for Bryan. Lincoln, Neb.—The Nebraska house Friday approved the report of the committee of the whole recommending the passage of the Humphreys bill for the election of senators by the Oregon plan. This bill will pass both houses. The bill is intended to give W. J. Bryan a chance to be elected senator, as Democratic leaders believe that a preference would be expressed for him, although the next legislature which, under the present law, would elect a senator, is expected to be Re publican. ' LAKE HRE HORROR ABOUT SEVENTY MEN PERISH IN j CHICAGO DISASTER. CRIB IS A BLAZING TRAP Workmen Burned to Death or Drowned in the Icy Waters—Many Rescued by a Tug. Chicago.—Death in frightful form— a choice between incineration or drowning in the ice-clogged lake—de scended on probably 70 men at eight o'clock Wednesday morning when fire attacked the temporary crib of the new southwest land and water tunnel a mile and a half off Seventy-third street. As nearly as can be learned. 120 men, mostly employes of George W. Jackson (Inc.), were in the crib a* the time. Of these 47 are known to have been burned to death, as that number of bodies, so charred and mutilated as to make identification practically im I possible, were recovered. Others Perish in Lake. Still others—number unknown and probably never to be revealed—lost their lives while battling with the icy waters which surrounded the blazing crib, having cast themselves into the lake in the vain hope that they might survive till help should arrive. With the exception of the Iroquois disaster, which stands high in the list of world horrors, it was the most ruth less slaughter Chicago ever has ,ever known. The cause of the fire and responsi bility for the disaster remain undeter mined. A rigid inquiry has been be igttn by Coroner Hoffman and the po lice. Tug Prompt in P.eseue. Had it not been for the arrival of the tug T. T. Morford within ten min utes of the beginning of the fire every man on the crib probably would have perished. Some of the men sprang naked into the water, with portions of their bodies burned to a crisp, and bat tled their way to ice floes. Here they dragged themselves up, only to freeze to the floes and to leave strips of flesh upon the icy surface when they were removed by the crew of the Morford. Others of the men endeavored to hold themselves suspended by ropes at ar. angle from the burning struc ture, only to be roas:ed piecemeal or to have the ropes budi: through, plun ging them to death in the water. Many of these men were of those who could not swim and who knew that to jump into the water was only to leap to death. Death by Slew Burning. They, therefore, made pitiable at tempts to elude the flames and met a harrowing death by'slow bunting. Even those men who could swim and who were not burned suffered terribly from the cold of the water and from freez ing on the ice floes. Some of those who could swim failed ;to reach a hit of ice whereon they could drag them selves and died from drowning. Still others of the unfortunates, and these were more lucky than their fel lows. inasmuch as they met only death and not agony, were caught in their bunks asleep and died almost instantly in the raging hell of the crib. The fire broke cut shortly after the night shift had gone off watch. Some of the men had gone to bed or were preparing to go. and thus were caught without even clothing. Many of tlie men rescued from the floes by the Morford were naked or nearly so. Some of these, however, had been fully dressed when the fire*roke out, but had their clothes burned off them. Anguished Women Shriek, i Nor was the agony at the crib by I any means the total of all the anguish 'Of the time. Eight thousand feet dis tant. on the shore, helpless, shrieking, hysterical or dumb with horror, were grouped women and children and men —the relatives of those who were dead or dying. ine news oi tne catastrophe spread as rapidly as the flames themselves, and in a short time the shore between Seventy-fifth street and Sixty-eighth street was lined with human beings whose mental anguish was as frightful as the physical anguish out in the fog covered lake. The smoke and the flames could be seen from the shore, despite the gray fog bank. Every eye was on the flames, and each impotent onlooker realized that those flames meant death or indescribable suffering to father, brother, husband. The inferno at the crib was in creased in horror about fifteen, minutes after the beginning of the file by the explosion of dynamite which was used in blasting. Nearly three hundred pounds of dynamite were at the crib and part of this exploded. There is a conflict of opinion as to what caused the Are. One theory is hat one of the workmen threw a light ed match on a small portion of the lynamite and that it burned slowly. Others declare that the fire was due to crossed electric wires. Twenty-Fifth Victim of W'eck. Glenwood Springs, Col.—W. H. Jefl -ies, one of the freight engineers who was injured in the wreck on the Den ver & Rio Grande railway near Dot sero last Friday night, died Thursday, making the twenty-fifth victim of the catastrophe. Confirms Cheney’s Successor. Washington.-^The senate Thursday confirmed the nomination of Stuart K. Lupton of Tennessee to be consul at Messina. Italy, vice Arthur S. Cheney, 1»{lloJ It* *.H*» oQidhrmnlra RUTH BRYAN ASKS DIVORCE SHE ALLEGES NON-SUPPORT AGAINST HER HUSBAND. “Commoner’s” Daughter Begins Action for a Legal Separation from William H. Leavitt. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 23.—Suit for di vorce from her husband, William H. Leavitt, was filed here yesterday by Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of Wil liam J. Bryan. Her counsel at once withdrew the petition. T. S. Allen, brother-in-law of Mr. Bryan, is the attorney for the plain tifi. Leavitt is now in Paris. The reason given in the petition is alleged non-support. To minimize publicity, the attorney exercised a common privilege of taking back into his possession the documents in the case. The suit is not withdrawn. Leavitt, who is a prominent Ameri can portrait artist, met Miss Ruth jfesj&rzffS&zurzzArzrT. Bryan for the first time in 1902, when he went to Fairview, the Bryan farm, to paint Mr. Bryan's portrait. The two fell in love, and.in the face of firm opposition from Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, they were married. Mrs. Bryan refused to attend the ceremony, tut Mr. Bryan gave away tfce bride with what got d will he could muster. The j date of the marriage was Octo-cr 0, 1903. The two soon quarreled. Leavitt an impiovident Bohemia.n, was unable to support his wife, and they lived in J Denver for a time in absolute want Two babies were born, and Leavitt raising & little money, decided to gc to Europe to study. It was soon after this that Mr. Bry an went to Denver, found his daughter and aer children actually lacking food, and brought her back to his home. ROOT’S LAST WEEK IN CABINET. Robert Bacon Will Succeed Him as Secretary of State. Washington.—Secretary Hoot, fol lowing his election as senator from New York by the legislature of that state Wednesday, hopes to be able to attend to some pressing matters In the state department and retire by the end of the week. After he give? up his work in Washington he will go to Hot Springs. Ark., for rest, but ex | pects to return to Washington in timo for the inauguration. Upon the secre tary's relinquishment of his office, it . has been announced semi-officially I Robert Bacon, now assistant secretary, will be named for secretary of state, and he in turn will be succeeded as as sistant secretary by John C. O'Laug'n lin of this city. Tragedy at Galva, III. Galva, 111.—Alvin Boline. aged 2€. of Ottawa.Ill., after an ineffectual attempt to effect a reconciliation wit^his wife, Obina, from whom he h^i biln parted for some time, entered the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Swanson, where his wife resided, here Thursday night, shot his wife through the shoul der. fatally injured Mrs. Swanson, and then shot himself, dying instantly. The wife will live. Comer Awarded One Cent. Birmingham, Ala.—After a trial last ing one week, the jury in the case ol Gov. B. B. Comer against the Mont gomery Advertiser, in the city court here Wednesday arternoon awarded damages of one cent for the libel. The governor demanded $25,000 dam ages for an advertisement printed dur ing 1904, when he was candidate fat railroad commissioner. Four Men Blown to Pieces. Newark, N. J.—Four men were killed and ten others injured, one fatally, Wednesday, when several tons of dynamite in one of the buildings of the Forcite Powder works at Lake Hopatcong blew up. The detonation of the huge mass of explosives shook the country for miles around and b!jw the building containing it to atoms. Biological Station for Iowa. Muscatine, la.—United States Com missioner of Fisheries George M. Bow ers of Washington Friday decided to establish a biological station for the propagation of clams and fish eight miles above Muscatine. Wheeler Won’t Come to Michigan. Berkeley, Cal.—President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of Cal ifornia announced Friday that he would not accept the invitation to be come to the head of the University of Mirhiirau
