Loup City Northwes
Foreign.
An empty balloon came down near
Conti, and apprehension is felt for
the three aeronauts that sailed away
in the airship from Paris.
The latest intelligence from German
Southwest Africa says the discoveries
of diamonds at Luderitr Bay are
more important than was at tirst
supposed. Diamonds hitherto have
been picked upon the sandy desert,
but attempts to bore for water led to
the finding of blue earth pockets
containing diamonds similar to the
Kimberley and other South African
stones.
At Fried richsha fen Count Zeppe
lin's airship made a successful ilight
of twelve hours' duration. It went
first to Wangen. in Wurttemberg,
and returned to Friedrichshafen by a
different route.
The British torpedo destroyer Black
water was sunk off Dungeness as a
result of a collision with the steamer
Hero. The crew of the Black water
was saved.
Sir Alpbonso Ruffer, an English
nobleman, died suddenly at hotel in
San Antonio, Texas.
By the bursting of 2 dyke at Catan
zaro. twenty-two fishermen were
swept to sea. Eleven of them were
drowned.
It is believed at Palermo that the
names of the assassins of Joseph Pet
rosini, chief of the Italian bureau of
the New York detective f«ce, are
known to the inspector of the ministry
of the interior sent down from Rome,
and that they have been communitat
ed to Premier GiolotbL
Charles E. Magoon, former provi
sional governor of Cuba during the
last intervention of the United States,
cabled to Genera! Thomas 11. Barry,
who commanded the American troops
left on the island after the with
drawal of the provisional government,
congratulating him upon tbe success
ful termination of the military occu
pation.
General.
The Payne tariff bill passed the
house on the 9th.
Eli Hitchcock, secretary of the in
terior under McKinley and Roosevelt,
died in Washington.
The new Cuban minister, Carlos
Garcia Velez was formally received
by President Taft. There was a fe
licitous interchange of friendly greet
ings.
Fifty thousand pounds of govern
ment powder exploded at Wayne. X.
J.. at the Dupont black powder mills
instantly killing one workman and
seriously injuring several others.
Among the nominations sent to the
senate were the following from civil
life to be second lieutenants in the
coast artillery corps: Robert Elton
Guthrie of Nebraska and George El
mer Nikirk of Iowa.
F. Marion Crawford, the novelist,
died at Sorrento. Italy. He was born
in 1S45. He had been ill for some
time.
Mexico City was the scene of a de
monstration for President Diaz.
Governor Shallenberger's signature
to senate file No. 100 affords Ne
braska this year the novelty of a non
partisan state election.
Jules Lumbard, the last of the three
I.umbard brothers, all great vocalists,
is dying" in Chicago.
President Taft will attend the meet
ing of the Yale corporation on April
15.
A winter wheat average of 82.2 per
cent of normal against 91.3 a year ago
and rye average of 87.2 against 89.1
a year ago were announced in the
report of the department of agricul
ture.
A statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $15i>,UOO.OOO gold reserve,
shows: Available cash balance. $132,
950,920; gold coin and bullion, $41,505,
502; gold certificates. $47,767,760.
.Mr. Ilryan is left off the list of
speakers at the New York Jefferson
day dinner April 13.
The funeral of ex-Goveruor Poynter
was largely attended. His burial took
place at Wyuka cemetery.
Victor Emanuel, king of Italy, met
and cordially welcomed ex-Presidcnt
Roosevelt.
Ex-President Roosevelt spent a few
hours in Naples, being given a cordial
greeting.
The house rules committee lias
fixed April 10 as the date for a vote
on the tariff bill.
The French tarifT bill has been
amended and notable concessions
made to the United States.
Railroads of Missouri have beer: re
strained from putting a 3-cent fare.
The legislature of Minnesota, with
but one dissenting voice, passed re
solutions requesting representatives
of the state in both houses of con
gress to use their best efforts to see
that lumber is put cn the free list.
Paris newspapers poked fun at the
mannerisms of Mr. Roosevelt.
Nebraska will have no state primary
election this summer, though three
supreme judges and two regents of
the state university will be elected
this fall.
In the recent elections in Nebraska
the “wets" appear to have a few more
victories than the “drys."
Washington women expect much of
Mrs. William H. Taft as the first lady
of the land.
The tariff revision, after all. will be
downward, sai*. Senator Aldrich.
Treating friends to drinks of
whiskey or beer o« Sunday is a
violation t>f the law. according to a
dcsrisictli handed down by the acting
Judge Krieger of Kentucky.
Jlon. W. J,. Bryan urged the Texas
legislature to pass a bank guarantee
law.
The centenary of the birth of “Niko
lai Vasseiliei itch Gogol, the Russian
novelist, is being celebrated.
Special agents in the Held service
force of the general land office for the
investigation of alleged land fra .ids
in the west were appointed by the
secretary of the interior.
Air. Roosevelt was given a kindly
welcome when he landed at Gibraltar.
Edmund Pennington was elected
president of the Wisconsin Central
Railway company.
Ex-Governor Poynter. who died sud
denly in Lincoln, was governor of
Nebraska from 1899 to 1901.
The Missouri house committee cai
constitutional amendments voted to
re (Kin. the statewide prohibition con
stitutional amendment without recom
mendation.
Washington.
Rev. F. E. Davidson of the First
Chr istian church of Washington, who
is charged with having contracted a
common law marriage with Miss
i Laura Dunn Clark, daughter of a for
| mer mayor of this city, at the Metro
politan hotel, St. Louis, last Decem
ber. has resigned liis pastorate. Mr.
Davidson denies he entered into any
sort of marriage contract with Miss
Clark.
The State college of Washington
won the national competition cham
pionship for rifle shooting, with 22
caliber cartridges, among the col
leges anil universities on their in
door ranges in the contest last week,
that institution making the highest
score—949.
President Taft lias won a signal
victory for the Philippine islands in
the acceptance by the senate com
mittee on finance of the provision -of
the Payne bill for the free admission
of 3u0,000 gross tons annually of Fili
pino sugar.
in honor of Tokutaro Sakkai. com
missioner general, and Hlkojiro Waca,
commissioner of the Toltio exposition,
who are in this country in the inter
est of tiie Japanese world's fair, a din
ner was given at tiie White house.
The fight for free lumber was lost
in the house by the nerve-wrecking"
vote of 174 to 170. But this is not
final and the advocates of free lumber
are confident they will wii later. *'•
The Wyoming stock growers' asso
ciation. representing practically all
the cattle-growers of the state, adopt
ed a resolution protesting to congress
against the removal of the tarifT on
hides. The resolution asserts that in
view of the high tariff on manufac
tured leather goods, the placing of
hides on the free list is an unjust dis
crimination against the cattle-growers.
Wrangling, confusion, captious ob
jections. personalities and language
bordering on vituperation, marked the
first day's discussion of the Payne
tariff amendment in the house of rei>
resentatives.
The fixing of rates for the new tariff
bill was begun by the senate commit
tee on finance. Xight sessions will be
tieid by the committee henceforth.
A delusion has been rendered by
Commissioner Dennett of the general
land office against the Ked Lands Ir
rigation & Power company, a Colorado
corporation, in a case involving four
teen desert land entries aproxima'ing
4,30b acres in the Montrose land dis
trict of that state.
Personal.
Three of the colonels oil Gov. Shal
lenberger's staff have resigned since
he signed the dayligt saloon bill.
Chairman Payne says department
stores are misrepresenting his bin.
Mr. Bryan and wife are in Texas to
spend some days on their farm.
Dr. Charles \Y. Eliot, the retiring
president of Harvard university, has
definitely and finally decided that he
cannot accept the tender of the am
bassadorship to Great Britain.
President Taft sent in the name? of
Judge Richard E. Stone of Prescott to
be governor of Arizona.
Mr. Roosevelt and King Victor Em
manuel met at Messina, Italy.
William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia Gazette, is being boomed Tor
the republican nomination for lieuten
ant governor of Kansas.
Judge O. E. Booe. defaulting clerk
in the Kentucky state auditor's office
was sentenced to eight years' addi
tional in prison. This makes his to
tal sentence thirteen years.
The Mexican minister to Russia has
requested the government to send a
circular to Russian manufacturers ask
ing for bids on new railroad construc
tion in Mexico.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Judge Richard E.
Sloan of Prescott as governor of Ari
zona, vice Kibbey, whose term ex
pired.
Several persons claiming to be the
kidnaped Charley Ross have bobbed
up in various parts of the country.
Mrs. Herbert Ellsworth Gates, presi
dent of the Nebraska State Society of
United States Daughters of 1812. has
been appointed an officer of the na
tional cabinet.
The president of Nicaragua is the
latest aspirant for a brush with the
United States anil other nations.
The British government has decided
not to permit Cipriano Costro, former
president of Venezuela, to land at
Trinidad.
Samuel Goinpers says he is a be
liever in the boycott.
The president hopes to get away
from Washington by June 10.
A LARGE REDUCTION
HOUSE CUTS DOWN PAYNE BILL
$20,0o0.0C0.
MANY CHANGES ARE EFFECTED
Senate Finance Committee Will Have
to Provide Means for Making
Up Difference.
Washington.—The estimates of the
revenue which the Payne tariff hill
will produce for the government have
been reduced nearly $20,000,000
through the amendments made to the
measure before it was passed by the
house, and the senate finance commit
tee will have to provide means for
making up this difference if the
original estimates are to be met. The
striking out oi several countervailing
duty clauses on which no estimates
were made probably will lessen the
hill’s productiveness another $20,000,
000.
The amendment taking off the S
cent duty on a subtracted $7,000,000
from the estimated revenues. The
striking out of the countervailing duty
>n coffee and the maximum duty pro
.ision for a rate of 20 per cent ad
valorem on coffee coming from coun
tries which do not givp the United
States the benefit of their most fa
vored nation clause, disposes of what
probably would be $15,000,000 in
duties.
Taking out. the countervailing pro
viso for lumber and for petroleum,
two amendments made by the house,
means a lost opportunity to increase
the revenues by several million dol
lars, it is estimated. Ity repealing the
manufacturers' license tax lor farm
ers desiring to sell the leaf tobacco
which they raise, the house lias with
drawn considerable revenue under the
internal revenue law. A slight in
crease in revenue may be provided by
the increased tax on Turkish filler to
bacco. pineapples and barley and bar
ley malt.
The senate finance committee ma
terially reduced many of the schedules
of the Dingley hill as it passed the
house, but in order to increase the
revenue producing power of the
’ Payne bill the committee will have to
take different action with, regard to
the latter measure. The fifty or more
amendments, all of which were offered
by the ways* and. rn^ans / ommutse.
have added a few more changes to
the Payne hill as compared u> the
present tariff law.
In 1897 the senate committee placed
a duty of 1% cents per pound on
hides, which was later changed to 15
per cent ad valorem, as it now stands.
The Payne bill, as it passed the house,
like the Dingley bill when it went to
the senate, places hides on the free
list. Under the Dingley law, hides
have produced a revenue exceeding
$3,000,000 annually.
CREEK INDIANS COMPLAIN. ^
Mulitia Arrest Full-Bloods Not Con
nected with Crazy Snake.
Washington. I). C.—Word was re
ceived by Commissioner oi Indian Af
fairs I,eupp from Eufaulia Iiarjo. the
head man of the Four Nations coun
cil. saying that the state militia, in
its attempt to caplure members of
the Crazy Snake band who partici
pated in the recent outbreaks, were
arresting fullblood Indians in no way
connected with the Snakes or their
troubles, and asking that the federal
government prevent the further ar
rest of innocent Creeks and demand
the release of those already in cus
tody. Instructions have been issued
directing Agent Kelsey of Oklahoma
to protect innocent Indians.
ARMY IN ITS FULL STRENGTH.
Recruited Up to Maximum First Time
in Eleven Years.
New York.—For the first, time
since the Spanish war the United
States army is recruited up to its
full strength. This fact was made
public here with the posting of an
order signed by the adjutant general
of the army, in which all recruiting
is ordered temporarily discontinued,
except in the ease of time-expired
men, to whom the privilege of re-en
listment is given.
Liberal Party Meeting.
Atlanta, Ga.—A call for a meeting
of the national executive committee
and state committees of the liberal
party at St. Louis, June 29, was issued
by Charles J. Moore, chairman of the
national executive committee of the
party. The meeting, it was announced,
will be to devise ways and means for
better organization and conducting
the organization for the next four
years.
No Agreement Reached.
Philadelphia.—Despite many confer
ences, conditions with regard to
wages in the anthracite coal fields of
Pennsylvania remain unchanged up to
this time.
President Greets People.
Washington.—President Taft at
tended Easter services at St. John’s
Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Taft
is a member. Afterwards he was
compelled to ’’old an informal recep
tion on the 's of the church.
Rate Hearing Postponed.
Jefferson City, Mo.—o he hearing of
the injunction suit against the eigh
teen Missouri railroads to prevent
the threatened increase of passenger
rates to three cents a mile has been
deferred for several days.
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AURORA MANIAC KILLS TWO
SLAYS WOMAN. SHOOTS TWO AND
COMMITS SUICIDE.
Starts Out with Two Revolvers, Three
Bombs and Shotgun, to Murder
Twenty for Fancied Insults.
Aurora. 111.—Armed with two pistols,
a shotgun and fastening three bombs
to his body with a harness, John An
derson, whose mind has been af
flicted, became suddenly violent
Thursday, and started out to avenge
fancied wrongs. When he had fin
ished he had killed one woman,
wounded her husband, shot another
woman and ended his own life. Scores
of persons were panic stricken.
The dead:
Mrs. John McVicker, shot through
heart.
John Anderson, committed suicide
by blowing off head with shotgun.
The injured:
Mrs. John Belford. flesh wound and
broken arm from pistol bullets.
John McVicker, scalp grazed by bul
let.
Anderson s violent manner and his
insane armament of bombs and revol
vers terrorized tli« entire square to
which he had announced his intention
of laying waste. That ids already
weakened mind had completely given
way was obvious. Doors were locked
and barred and women and children
fled to cellars and attics as soon as
they saw the maniac walking along
the street.
His first stop was at the home of
Mrs. John McVicker, probably hfs
oldest and best friend. Mrs. McVick
er and her husband had repeatedly be
friended Anderson, who was a widow
er. They had received him at their
home, and had nursed him when ill.
With a pistol in each hand Ander
son began firing. The first bullet
grazed Mr. McVicker's scalp. Mrs.
McVicker ran toward the kitchen
where her four children were playing,
in order to protect them. She fell
dead across the threshold with a bul
let through her heart.
Apparently satisfied, Anderson left
the place and proceeded to the home
of John Belford, a few doors distant.
Anderson's resentment was centered
in Belford, whom he accused, with
what neighbors state was without a
shadow of reason, with circulating
slanderous stories about him. Mrs.
Belford and her mother, Mrs. Amanda
Minton, 80 years old and blind, were
alone in the house.
Anderson opened fire with his pis
tol on Mrs. Belford. One bullet in
flicted a flesh wound and another
shattered her arm and she fell to the
floor.
Then he shot himself and fell on a
couch across the form of the blind
woman, which kept the bombs from
exploding.
STUDENTS ON A STRIKE.
Minnesota University Pupils Demand
a Full Week’s Vacation Which
Had Been Promised.
Minneapolis, Minn. — Two hun
(lreil engineering students at the
state university have gone on strike
for a week’s extra vacation. The
strike became effective Tuesday after
noon.
The students say last year a full
week’s extra vacation was requested of
the faculty, but the students were in
formed that while the request could
not be granted for 1908, arrangements
would be made for a full week this
year.
The students were appeased for the
time being, but when they learned last
week that only two days’ absence from
recitation -were to be given them, they
decided it was time to declare them
selves.
Elephant Kills Keeper.
Des Moines, la.—"Tom,” an elephant
m the winter quarters of the “Yankee”
Robinson circus here Thursday eve
ning suddenly ran amuck and seizing
bis keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him
high into the air and then trampled
him to death. The infuriated beast
then ran through the animal park, up
rooted small trees, destroyed three
circus wagons, and demolished a
bridge across .a lagoon. Forty bullets
were fired into the beast before it was
subdued. Bellew was 44 years old and
single.
EIGHT MEET DEATH IN STORM.
Michigan and Ohio Swept by Fierce
Winds—Bet cf Five Dollars
Costs Three Lives.
Detroit, Mich.—This and other
cities and towns in Michigan were
swept by a windstorm Tuesday night
and Wednesday which caused at least
eight deaths.
Anthony Kaup. « saloonkeeper; Jo
seph Katiich. a barber, and Adam
Felin. all of Wyandotte, attempted to
cross the Detroit river in a rowboat
from Wyandotte to Canada in a 50
mile gale, to settle a flvc-dollars
wager, and all three were drowned
when their boat capsized.
At Jennings, in Missaukee county,
three young men named Bernard Carl
son, Charles Jacobson and John Tor
rev, were killed by being caught under
a wall that was blown down by the
wind at the Mitchell Brothers’ mill.
Eight-year-old Benjamin Hellmer
was killed by lightning near Ionia and
Ray Miller was killed at Brighton
when he was struck by a roof that
had been blown off by the wind.
The damage to roofs, chimneys,
plate glass, etc., probably will reach
$50,000 in Detroit and Michigan. The
wind velocity reached 70 miles an
hour early Wednesday.
The copper country Is practically
isolated from the outside world as the
result of a blizzard which swept down
on the district Tuesday.
Toledo, O.—Northwestern Ohio ex
perienced one of the most severe wind
storms in its history. Scores of per
sons were injured, many of them seri
ously, and the property damage is
large. In Toledo losses are estimated
at $25,000.
FORCE CASTRO TO STOP.
Former Venezuelan Dictator Not Per
mitted to Continue His Voyage
and Leaves Ship.
Fort de France. Martinque.—Cipriano
Castro, in a rage against the British
government and the state department
at Washington, left the steamer
Guadeloupe at this port Wednesday
and has taken up quarters on shore.
Finding all ports in the West Indies
except Fort de France barred against
him, the present course was the only
one left open to the former Venezuelan
dictator.
Senor Castro’s wife continued on
board the Guadeloupe, which left at
noon for Port of Spain and Venezuelan
points. She was followed out of the
harbor by the United States cruiser
Montana, which came into port in the
morning.
The decision of the British govern
ment, acting on a request from the
state department at Washington not to
let him land at Trinidad, was unoffi
cially communicated to Castro a sec
ond time Tuesday morning.
SLAY MURDEROUS FATHER.
Three Boys Kill Sire After He Attacks
Their Mother and Leaves
Her Unconscious.
Sail Bernardino. Cal. — Harry
Irvington, a miner, arrived and
brought news of a tragedy at Dela
mar, Nev., in which three boys killed
their father in defending themselves
after he had attacked their mother.
According to Irvington. William
Thomas, a well known miner at Dela
mar, attempted to kill his wife by
beating and kicking her to death.
Leaving her unconscious be went to
a shed near by where his three sons
were chopping wood. Thomas, who
had armed himself with a. rope, de
clared that he had come to hang them
all. He had placed the noose about
the younger boy’s neck and was pre
paring to haul him from the ground
when his other sons interfered. With
axes they rushed upon their father
and killed him.
Mrs. Sampson Quickly Acquitted.
Lyons.—The jury which tried Mrs.
Georgia Allyn Sampson on the charge
that she murdered her husband, Harry
Sampson, nephew of Admiral Samp
son, brought in a verdict of not guilty
Friday night, after deliberating less
than three hours.
Kentucky Negro Is Lynched.
Hopkinsville, Ky.—Ben, alias “Book
er” Brame, a negro, was lynched by a
mob of 300 farmers Friday afternoon.
He was charged with attempting to as
sault Ruth. Gee, a white girl.
PUSS TARIFF BILL
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HOUSE ADOPT’IS PAYNE MEASURE
BY VC ITE OF 217
Ti^ 161.
IGNORE PROTE TS OF WOMEN
increases Duty on iCloves and Stock
ings—Coffee, Tesy Oil and Hides
Placed on Free Li ist—Keep Tariff
on Lumber.
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Washington.—By a 1 ote of 217 to
161 the Payne tariff b 11, which has
been under considerati< in for three
weeks, was passed Fridi J night by the
house.
One Republican, Austin of Tennes
see, voted against the measure, and
four Democrats, ail fro my Louisiana,
.Messrs. Broussard, Estopijnal. Pujo
and Wiekliffe, voted for it. .tin attempt
by Champ Clark, the minonVy leader,
to recommit the bill with instructions
signally failed. \
Hides, hosiery and gloves uVere left
as reported by the committey, hides
remaining free and an increased duty
being presented for gloves and\ stock
ings. \
One of the principal changes efilected
in the Payne bill since its intryduc
tion was the placing of petroleunp on
the free list. This involved a nuort
seriously contested fight than an>\ ol
the other amendments. Speaker Cam
non. during the debate Wednesday \>n
the amendment to reduce the duty
took the floor in defense of the higluy
rate of duty. Although an amendment
to place oil on the free list was lost!
Thursday, a similar amendment of \
fered by- Chairman Payne yesterday n
was carried.
Among the other important amend
ments that have been made since the
bill came from committee were those
striking out the provision for a duty
on tea and the countervailing duty
proviso on coffee. The elimination oi
the maximum duty of 20 pc-r cent, on
coffee, contained in the maximum and
minimum section of the bill, was also
significant.
To the free list were added ever
green seedlings, cloves and nut oil,
which is used in making varnish. The
patent law provision, intended to re
taliate for the new British patent law.
was stricken out on account of an in
ternational convention. The so-ca ed
“joker" in the cotton cloth schedule
which it was claimed would increase
the duty of the Dingley bill several
hundred per cent, was corrected, the
proviso for the method of counting
threads in the cloth- being made the'
same as in the present law.
The section of restricting the con
tents of packages of tobacco was
amended to conform with the present
law in order that union labels may not
be excluded from such packages. The
countervailing duty clause on lumber
was stricken out, but a strorg effort to
place lumber on the free list did not
succeed.
The duties on barley, barley malt.,
charcoal iron, pineapples n crates,
saccharine, medicated cotton and cot
ton collars and cuffs, as originally in
the bill, were increased. To retaliate
against Turkey, which country prohib
its the importation of American filler
tobacco, a proviso was included in the
tobacco schedule increasing the duty
on filler tabocco from any country
which prohibits the importation of the
American tobacco,
$10,000 BILL IN BOX.
Pennsylvania Church Thinks Mistake
Was Made and Offers to Re
turn the Money.
Washington.—The insertion, of an
advertisement in a local paper
Thursday that there had been found
in the collection plate of the Roscoe
Methodist Episcopal church, near
here, after the service last Sunday
night a $10,000 bill, developed the fact
that the church officers think the
donor made a mistake.
The yearly collections of the church
do not average much more than this
amount, and the officials, in the ad
vertisement, state that they will re
tnrp the money to the owner if he
wants it back and can prove he inad
vertently dropped it into the plate.
Walter Reeves Dies Suddenly.
Streator, 111. — Walter Reeves,
aue of La Salle-coimty's foremost, citi
zens, and a member of the Republican
state central committee, died of
heart failure Friday night. Mr.
Reeves was 00 years old nnd a
native of Fayette county, Pennsyl
vania. He moved to Illinois witli
his parents in his boyhood g.nd located
at Odell, Livingston county.
F. Marion Crawford Dead.
Sorrento, Italy. — F. Marion Craw
'ord, the novelist, died on Fri
lay afternoon. Although lie was
known as an American writer, Mr.
Drawford was born in Bangi di Lucca.
Italy August 2, 1854. He was the son
if Thomas Crawford, an American
sculptor, who was studying in Italy.
Jeffries Refuses to Fight.
New York.—Jim Jeffries Friday de
fined to accept Hugh McIntosh’s offer
if $50,000 purse to fight with Jack
Johnson, in Australia. Jeffries reit
erated that he was not an yet con
vinced thathe could get in proper shape.
“King of Usurers” Flees.
Vienna.—Fritz Relcher, “king of the
isurers,” of Vienna, has bolted with
in immense sum of money, leaving
fraudulent debts amounting to $2,000,
100. He is supposed to have gone to
America.
ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK DEAD
FORMER SECRETARY OF IN
TERIOR EXPIRES IN CAPITAL.
Famed as Prosecutor of Western
Land Grafters—First Am
bassador to Russia.
Washington. — Following an 111
ness of several days, Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, former secretary of (he in
terior, died in Washington. Fri«la>.
aged 74 years. He was appointed to
the cabinet by President McKinley
and served until March 6, 1S07! under
President Roosevelt.
His passing marked the close of a
career whose preeminent feature was
an administration of the interior de
partment that stirred the western land
problems as never before. Brought
here from St. Petersburg, where he
had served as ambassador under an
appointment of President McKinley.
Mr. Hitchcock was almost immediately
plunged into a vortex of complications
growing out of vast frauds and charges
\ Ethan Aden Hitchcock.
nV fraud and count er-enarges growing
om of the acquirement of public lands
in\the western slates. Mr. Hitchcock
diiipcted the most sweeping investiga
tio\s. arousing the enmity of powerful
political interests. That work is re
caiiiwl to-day as one of the most un
sweiwing and relentless inquisitions in
the i&tiitls of government prosecutions.
He prosecuted cases against numerous
men mi public life and private busi
ness. i*eluding United States Senator
Mitchell of Oregon, who was convicted
and die* not long afterward; former
Congressman Dinger Hermann, who
had settled as commissioner of the
general laud office and who was ac
quitted; farmer United States Dietrich
of Nebraska; Representative William
son of Oregon, and John A. Denson, a
millionaire Veal estate broker of Sau
Francisco. 4
Mr. Hitchdpck was a target for at
tack on the moors of congress and tu
protests tiled l(t the White House. The
Hitchcock family were well knowu in
Washington society, where they fre
quently i nterlained at cmart furc
dons. • i
Mr. HitchcockVs home was in S*.
l.ouis. He was reputed to be worth
several millions dollars. He is stir
rived by three daughters, Mrs. Sims
wife of a lieutenant commander of the
navy. Mrs. Sheplei of St. Louis and
Miss Margaret Hitchcock.
REJECT MINERS DEMANDS
Anthracite Operators .Refuse to Ac
cept Offer of Men aVi Conference
Fails to Acwee.
Philadelphia—After conferences ex
tending since Wednesday between (be
anthracite coal operator! and the of
ficials of the United Min! Workers of
America, representating tlfc miners, at
which the question of a wage agree
ment was discussed to replace that
brought about by the anthracite strik •
commission, the operators griday re
jected the modified demand^ of the
miners presented Thursday land the
conference adjourned deadlocked.
There will be no strike inaugurated
by the mine .workers, however, and
the only danger of a suspension of
mining in the near future, according
to the mine workers’ officials, arises
from the possibility of a lockout.
CALLS THREE MURDER®*
Sensational Charges Are Made ky
Evansville Woman in a Suit k
for a Divorce. k
Evansville, Ind.- That her own lnik
band. Frank Rice, his sister, Mrs. A®
bert Taylor, and Dr. D. M. SlnmiH
brought about the death of Albert Tay®
lor at Terrell, Tex., January 8, 190»S
by poison, is charged by Mrs. Ida Rice®
in an affidavit filed in her suit for di- ®
voice.
Mrs. Rice alleges that an insurance ®
company paid $5,000 on the death of
Taylor, and that this money was di
vided among those she accuses.
Nitroglycerine Kills Three.
Huntington, W. Va. — Three men
were killed when 100 quarts of
nitro-glycerine exploded In the rail
road construction camp of Uoxley &
Carpenter at Elue Sulphur Wednesday
uight.
Gets Wife Through Want Ad.
Rockford. 111.—John Smith of Cran
don, Wis., Friday married Miss Agnes
Tracy of Janesville, one of 50 girls an
swering; hi^- advertisement for a wife
who was honest, temperate and had no
objection to children.
Gladys Visits New York.
New York.—Count Szechenyi and
Countess Szechenyi, formerly Mias
Sladys Vanderbilt, were passengers on
the steamer Mauretania, which arrived
Friday from Liverpool. They left their
baby at home.