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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
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