Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 190S> NUMBER 21) A Boiling Down of the More Impor tant Events Here and There Foreign. An empty ballon, the envelope of ■which had burst, descended near Lu beck. Germany, during a storm. It is thought that the aeronaut had fallen into the sea. Schefket Pasha, commander of the constitutionalist forces, has been ap pointed inspector general of the first, second and third army corps, or in other words, of all the troops in the capital and European Turkey. King Alfonso inaugurated the Regin a! Exposition at Valencia. Spain. It was followed by a flower fete in the streets of the city. Prince Lidj Jeassu. the 13-year-old grandson of King Menelik. was pub licly proclaimed heir to the Abyssinian throne in the presence of many chiefs and 30,000 soldiers. A destructive tire at Kingston, on the warf of the Hamburg-Ainerican line destroyed the entire dock, which was 130 feet long. Two-thirds of the cargo of the steamer Prinz Joachim, valued at $72,000. was destroyed. That all of the members of his im mediate family had survived the Ar menian massacres was the cheering word brought to K. K. Krikorian (Gregory) an Omaha Armenian, in a letter from his brother. Of all his numerous relatives only one met death. Without any tlourish of trumpets Japan has made considerable strides in the matter of airship building, and while the utmost secrecy is main tained there is reason to believe that an inventpr of some repute lias re cently patented improvements that are calculated to startle aeroists all over the world. It was learned at Autar. Asiatic Turkey, that the local governor re ceived from Constantinople on the day following the outbreak of anti Christian rioting at Adana a message suggesting the killing of Armenians as a precaution against insurrection. General. The president's wife .viH put asid? social duties for a time in tile inter est of her health. Governor Hughes vetoed the Allen bill, which proposed a bond issue of $2.t)iK).0,000. Sehefkct Pasha, commander of the constitutionalist forces, lias been ap pointed inspector-general of all the troops in the capital and European Secretary Ballinger has received the resignation of W. Scott Smith, super intendent of the Hot Springs reserva tion. Arkansas, to take effect June 30. Without a dissenting vote the Wis consin , assembly concurred in the senate bill fixing the penalty for kid naping at life imprisonment. A divorce was granted in London in which White Cloud, an American Indian, was cited as co-respondent. Henry H. Rogers, New York, presi dent of the Standard Oil company, died from aploplectic stroke. The “big hat" bill failed of passage in the Uiinoia legislature. It is the outcome of this year’s crops not tariff revision, that interests the people, says Jim Hill of the Great Northern. President Taft lias appointed Lieu tenant Commander Leigh Carlyle Pal mer to act as naval aide at the White House. He succeeds Lieutenant Simins. An amendment to restore Dingley tariff rates on razors was lost in the senate. According to the figures presented the world’s stock of gold has increased about one-half in the last decade and doubled in the last quarter of a cen tury. A new freight rate schedule from all the teritory east of the Missouri river to all the western cities not located on the Pacific coast will go into effect on the transcontinental lines July 1. The'United states dirigible balloon No. 1. otherwise known as the Baldwin air ship, arrived at Fort Omaha. One hundred and seventy mules were burned to death in a tire at the Kansas City stock yards. Thos. A. Creigh, past department commander of the Nebraska G A. R., died in Omaha a few days ago after five days' illness from pneumonia. He was taken sick while attending the state encampment at York. W. .1 Furse, private secretary to Gov. Shallenberger, announces in a letter to R. Insinger, chairman of the board of control of the national irri gation congress, that delegates have been appointed to represent the state of Nebraska at the seventeenth ses sion in Spokane, Aug. 9 to 14. A friend of Petrosino. the Italian de tective, was assassinated at Nev,- York. The Great Northern railroad has offered a reward of $10,000 for each robber in the recent train holdup. Speaker Cannon says it will take 100 degree temperature to get action in the senate on the tariff bill. President Taft attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Louise Dalzell, wife of Representative John Dalzell of Pitts burg, Pa., who died in Washington. There was a large attendance in Omaha of the funeral of I-orenzo Crounse. former soldier, pioneer, leg islator. judge, congressman and gov ernor. Washington. Brigadier general John 3. Kerr, re cently detached from command of the mounted service and post at Fort Riley, Ivas., has been placed on the retired list of the army on his own application. Ensign Edward Guerrant Hargis, of the United States navy, a nephew of the noted (Judge Hargis of Kentucky, was declared by a jury»to be afflicted with "depressive insanity.’* He must be taken care of by his father. Representative Kinkaid invited Secre tary Ballinger to visit North Platte ir rigation district this summer, f.nd Mr. Ballinger promised to do so. at a date to be fixed later, when he is on his way back to Washington after his summer vacation. There were 1,932 fewer fatalities to passengers and employes in railway accidents during the calendar year 1908, than in 1907. Comparing the re turns of 1908 with those of the fiscal year 1900.07, the decrease in Vitalities was even more gratifying, being 2,173, or 43.4 per cent. These postmasters have been ap pointed: Mallard. Palo Alto county, la.. Arvin C. Sands, vice A. D. Johnson, removed. Palmer, Pocahontas county, Martin A. Hansen, vice R. H. Borrey, resigned. Spragg. Rock county. Neb.. George R. Sage, vice G. Spragg, re signed. Spring Ranch, Clay county. David M. Roush, vice J. D. Morehouse, resigned. James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, called on President Taft. He ex pressed the belief that if the tariff agi tation was cut off short and the ora torical steam in congress shut off, the country would begin a great era of prosperity at an early date. That seventeen republicans have pledged themselves 'to vote for the compromise income tax bill is the claim put forth by Senator Cummins, leader of the republican movement for this legislation. "This means that the bill is likely to pass at this time,” said the senator. “Though of course accidents may happen. Because nobody wants to he post master the postofflce at Glenrose. Mc Pherson county, Nebraska, will be dis continued. Representative Kinkaid has been so notified. Personal. “Civic betterment of cities” will be the star to which the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs will nail its flag during the coming two years. Samuel Avery was made chancellor of the state university of Nebraska. The president struck a popular ohord in his recent speech at Char lotte. N. C. Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, has accepted an invitation to unveil the monument erected at Gettysburg, Pa., in memory of the soldiers of the regular' union army, who participated in the Gettysburg campaign. The Illinois legislature thus far has been unable to elect a Unite! States senator. Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in a hundred years all drudgery will be done by machinery. Henry H. Rogers, New York, Just deceased, was 69 years old. Lieutenant General Stoesuel and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff were par doned by Emperor Nicholas. Mrs. Annis, wife of the man killed by Capt. Haines, will go on the stage in vaudeville. St. Joseph lawyers voted to inves tigate the charges against Federal Judges Philips and McPherson. William Williams has been ap pointed commissioner of Iro migration. The president nominated Walter E. Clark, a Washington newspaper m"ti, *o be governor of Alaska. LUTED IS ED I UNION PACIFIC OVERLAND TRAIN MEETS ROBBERS. REGISTERED MAIL SACKS MEN Four Men Concerned In Work Are Be lieved to Be at Present Hiding in Omaha. Omaha—Overland Limited train No. 2 on the Union Pacific was held up by four masked robbers on the Lane Cut Off at 11:20 Saturday night, the train crew and mail clerks subdued with guns and seven sacks of regis tered mail taken from the mail cat by the robbers, who jumped into a waiting automobile and escaped. “One of me features of the holdup was that the train was held less than fifteen minutes,” said Mr. Foley, whp was at ins home, but soon hurried to his office to hear the reports of the train crew. The place where the train was held up was on the country road between the Northwestern crossing and the overhead bridge, just' west of South Omaha, less than a mile from the west side of Hhnscom park. The train had just crossed the big fill over the Little Pappio when the rob bers climbed over the tender into the cab and ordered tne engine crew to run the train a little farther before stopping. Tue stop was finally order ed on the county road. The Limited was doming into Oma ha over the Lane Cut off and had reached a point this side of Seymour when two masked men crawled over the tender into me cab of the engine and forced Engineer Ellick R. Mickel jolin and Fireman Herman Prawl to throw up their hands. After they had been searched for weapons they were toid to run the train a little further and stop, the place of stop ping having been planned with refer ence to the waiting automobile. A third robber soon appeared on the scene and was jomed by a fourth as soon as the train stopped. Taking the engine crew along with them the robbers went to the mail ear and found the door open. They fired a couple of shots and brought the eight main clerks to the door of the car, where they were soon confronted with guns and lined up and searched for weapons. The robbers, after lining up the mail clerks, forced the engine crew to carry seven sacks of registered mail to the waiting automobile, and as soon as the seven sacks were loaded, the four jumped in the auto mobile and started for the north. Late but meager clues, all tending to show the men who robbed the mail car of the Union Pacific Overland Limited on the boundary line between Omaha and South Omaha at 11:30 Saturday night are in the city of Omaha have been found by Omaha police and railroad detectives. These officers believe the train rob bers are in Omaha, and that perhaps at their leisure they sorted the seven sacks of registered mail taken from the car while in hiding Sunday. The amount of loss is not known and will not be for several days. Coney Island Still Does Business. New York.—Two hundred thousand persons, according to estimates, went down to Coney Island Sunday to watch the police clap on the lid, as threatened by Mayor McClellan's re cent declaration that the Sunday clos ing law' would be enforced. Those who expected a clash between the law and the showmen were disappointed, for no friction whatever occurred. All amusement resorts ran as usual and only six arrests were made during the day. Two were peddlers and two were for violation of the excise laws. One Hundred Engines for U. P. Dunkirk. N. Y.—It is reported that the Union Pacific railroad has placed an order for 100 engines with the American Locomotive company and that they will be built at the Sche nectady and Brooks plants. Big Reward for Robbers. Omaha.—Assistant Superintendent Foley says: "The Union Pacific will give a reward of $5,000 for the appre hension of each of the robbers who held up the Overland limited Satur day night.” HAMMOND FOR CHINA POST. Famous Engineer is Said to Eie Slated for the Position. Washington—While it is impossible to secure any confirmation of the re po*t that President Taft will tender the post of minister to China to John Hays .Hammond, it is believed here that such an offer will be made. Whether Mr. Hammond would feel that he could leave his business inter ests in this country and take up his residence in Peking without serious detriment to the former has been the subject of much speculation. Fairbanks is at Tokio. Tokio. — Former Vice President i Charles ,W. Fairbanks and party ar rived here from San Francisco. Mr Fairbanks will be received in audi ence by the emperor. Kermit Gets Third Buffalo. Xaibori, British East Africa.—Tho Roosevelt expedition is still hunting buffalos on the Nairobi river, and Mr. Roosevelt and his son Kermit succeeded in bringing down their third animal of this kind. I AN OUNCE OF EARLY PREVENTION. " a 7 (M FORCES UN iPOLOSf EARL OF RONALDSHAY “SORRY” FOR HIS INSULT. Called Countess Granard a “Dumped American Heiress Fortunate Enough to Secure a Title.” London. — The earl of Ronald shay's apology to the countess of Granard (who was Miss Beatrice Mills of New York) for publicly calling her "a dumped American heiress who has been fortunate enough to secure a title.” has not even the merit of spon taneity. The apology was made in deference to the king's express wish. Were it not for the American peer ess and the American “millionairess” that luxurious circle of English so ciety patronized by the king could not exist a month. So King Edward ! frowns on anvihing that might dis- | courage English peers from marrying ! wealthy American women, or any thing likely to render English society distasteful to American women. Lord Ronaldshay, eldest son and heir of the marquis of Zetland, be longs to an influential family. Ronald shay is the unionist member of the house of commons for the Hornsey | uivision of Middlesex. Thither went | the countess of Granard and opened ! a bazar organized by Lord Ronald- i shay’s Liberal opponent. The count- i ess. who has been active on behalf of her husband's party, spent money lav ishly at the bazar, and consequently I made a deep impression on the voters. ! Lord Ronaldshay, much irritated, made his insulting remarks about the countess speaking in a North London suburb. DECISION AGAINST NEGRO. Elack Does Not Suffer Same Humilia tion for False Arrest as White, Says Court. New York. — A negro and a white man do not suffer equal humilia tion in the eyes of law for false arrest, according to the appellate division of the supreme court, which sustained an order of Justice Dugro of the supreme court, reducing the amount of dam ages awarded George Griffin, a Pull man porter, from $2,500 to $300. The negro was arrested in Montreal, charged with stealing a pocketbook, but the charge was not substantiated and he was released. He brought suit against Daniel H. Mraily, a New York manufacturer, who caused his arrest. In his order, Justice Dugro said: “While in some senses the negro un der the law is just as good as a man as the president of the United States, it would be a bad argument to say that he is just as good in some re spects. The damages in a case of this kind depend on a man's standing and circumstances. It he is colored, that fact should be considered." KILLS SELF AND BABES East Hampton, Conn., Woman Cuts Throats of Children and Herself. East Hampton, Conn. — Mrs. Louis Carsten cut the throats of her three children and then her own at the Carsteu home, a farm about two miles from the center of this village. Two of the children, Louis, aged ten years, John, seven years oid, and a ten-months-old girl, are dead, and Mrs. Carsten is dying. Mrs. Carsten lived long enough to reply to her husband when he asked the reason for her acts: “I wanted to die, and I wanted to take the chil dren with me. 1 did not want to leave them." Miss Taft to Unveil Monument. Washington.—Mi3s Helen Taft, daughter of the president, has accept ed an invitation to unveil the monu ment erected at Gettysburg, Pa., in memory of the soldiers of the regular army \vho participated in the Gettys burg campaign. The ceremony will take place May 31. Removes Duty on Coffee. % Caracas.—President Gomez has re moved the export tax on coffee, cocoa and hides tor the purpose of stimulat ing trade. CONSERVATION WORK URGED. Joint Committee Proposes a Plan to the Commissions in the Va rious States. Washington.—Inventories of the nat ural resources of every state and ter ritory are proposed in a plan just an nounced by the joint committee of conservation in this city. The joint committee is national headquarters for the conservation movement, and has offices in the Wyatt building. All of the 48 big national organizations now working with the joint commit tee through their conservation com mittees are to be asked to help, each in its own special field. The plan contemplates the practi cal application by the states and na tional organizations of the conserva tion principles declared by the gov ernors and presidents of the great national organizations in their notable conference at the White House a year ago. Letters explaining the plan have been sent out to the chairmen of the official conservation commissions which the governors of 28 states have appointed, and letters to the national organizations -will follow. The joint committee suggests early meetings of the state conservation commissions to take up, first, the most pressing conservation problems in the respective states. For instance, in Louisiana it is the terrific waste of natural gas which the state conserva tion commission is already trying to stop. In Oregon a pressing question has been water power, which is also a leading issue just now in Michigan and Wisconsin. In many states it is the forest question. The question of the conservation of water power takes a front rank in a great many states, and it is becoming more and more of a general issue. ROOSEVELTS SLAY BISON. Ex-President Bags One Alone and He and Kermit Kill Another Together. Nairobi. British East Africa.— Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit are continuing their hunting excursions from their camp on the Heatley ranch on the Nairobi river. Two bull buffaloes have fallen before their guns. One, the bigger of the two. was brought down by Mr. Roose \elt alone, while the other was bagged by Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit together. Nairobi, British East Africa. — Theodore Roosevelt has begun his hunting expedition from the Ju Ja ranch of George McMillan, whose guest he is. He went out and bagged a female rhinoceros. The first shot wounded her in the shoulder and the animal fled to the bushes. Mr. Roose velt followed on horseback and six more shots were required to bring her down. The head and skin weighed 532 pounds. SHERMAN FOR GOOD ROADS Vice-President in Address to National Congress Favors Improvement of Public HiJthways. Baltimore, M<1. — With a speech by Vice-President. James S. Sher man. the National Good Roads Con gress held its final session. -I am interested in any meeting,” said Mr. Sherman, ‘ which has for its object the promotion of good roads good streets and good highways in general. It is the ability to transport our goods which makes our country so prosperous. "We should devote our time and en ergies to our commercial industries and our internal improvements. Our highways have not been developed. The roads of England, France and Switzerland put our roads to shame.” Wreck Fatal to Three. Grand Rapids, Mich —Two work men were killed and a third was fatal ly injured when a work train on the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muske gon interurban jumped the track near Grand Haven on the Highland park branch Friday. Paris Strike Sympathizers Riot. Paris.—The strikers in Paris made several attempts to invade the fac tories and buildings where the men had refused to quit work. Minor riots and a number of arrests resulted. AMERICAN BUSINESS WORLD LOSES ONE OF ITS GREAT EST GENIUSES. LEAVES $75,000,000 FORTUNE Successor of John D. Rockefeller as Standard Oil’s Chief, King of Cop per Industry, Victim of Apoplexy— Funeral Services Friday. New York.—The American business world lost one of its greatest geniuses when Henry Huddleston Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oil Com pany. leader in the Amalgamated Cop per Company, director in a score of big concerns, builder of railroads and philanthropist, died Wednesday of apoplexy. Death came a little more than an hour after Mr. Rogers had risen for the day, mentioning to his wife that he was feeling ill. At seven o’clock he lapsed into unconsciousness and before the family physician arrived he was dead. Mr. Rogers was 69 years old. While Mr. Rogers’ death was sud den and unexpected, he had been in indifferent health since he suffered «n apoplectic stroke in 1907, and was almost constantly under a physician's care. His end was a great shock to his business associates. News of the financier's death did not become generally known till about two hours after it occurred. The stock exchange had not opened H. H. Rogers. when the report reached Wall street, but with the opening there was hard ly an appreciable effect on the market. Henry H. Rogers was a money maker and one of the most successful men of the so-called Standard Oil group. He began life as a poor boy at Fairhaven, Mass., where he was born, and retained his legal residence there until the day of his death. He is variously reported as having com menced life as a newsboy and as a driver of a grocery cart, but whatever his humble start in business he achieved a success attained by only a few men of a generation Mr. Rogers was a man of many friends and an enthusiatstic yachts man. Until recently he had held the reins of the Standard Oil Company following the retirement of John D. Rockefeller, although J. B. Archbold' attended to the routine management of the great corporation. Just how much money Mr. Rogers leaves is not known. His fortune is variously esti mated at from $50,000,000 to $75,000, 000, which will make his son, H. H Rogers, Jr., one of the richest men in the country. Whether the son or Mr. Broughton, son-in-law of Mr. Rog ers, will carry on his affairs is a matter of speculation in the financial ^district. The widow he leaves is his second wife, his first wife having died 14 years ago, and he is survived in ad dition by four children, the son men tioned, and the following daughters: Mrs. W. E. Benjamin. Mrs. Urben H. Broughton and Mrs. William R. Coe. New York.—The funeral services in this city of Henry H. Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oil Com pany, president of the Amalgamated Copper Company, took place In the Church of the Messiah Friday morn ing. Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer deliv ered a touching euiogy to the famous financier. The pall bearers were Messrs. El bert H. Garry. George W. Perkins, James A. Moffett, John D. Archbold, C. A. Peabody, A. S. Paine, William Rockefeller, E. H. Harrtman, Edward T. Bedford, James M. Beck, Melville E. Stone, James Jordan. John D. Ryan, Samuel L. Clemens, Dr. C. C. Rice and Raymond Dupuy. Anti-Cigarette Bill Passed. Springfield, 111.—The anti-cigarette bill, providing penalties for the sale or manufacture of cigarettes or paper wrappers and prohibiting minors un der 18 years of age from smoking the seductive coffin nail, was passed by the house of representatives Thursday by a vote of 89 to 2. Bank Robbed of $3,500 Lisbon, N. D.—The State bank of Englevale was robbed of $3,500. Of ficers are on the ground, but have no definite clew. ACCEPTS TILLMAN'S ADVISE ALDRICH ADMITS HE DESERVES SENATOR’S CRITICI8M. Complaint That Too Much Tima !• Spent in Useless Wrangling Agreed To. Washington—The unusual spectacle of Senator Aldrich accepting the ad vice and admitting he deserved the criticism of Senator Tillman, was pre sented in the senate Thursday after the finance committee had triumphed on the lead schedule. Hefore another paragraph could be taken up. Senator Tillman arose and said he wanted to make a suggestion to the chairman of the committee on finance. "We have,” he said, ‘‘just spent the best part of a day in a useless wran gle resulting in the usual victory of a majority of eight or ten votes for the astute manager in control of this bill. I want to suggest that he might get a good many more votes if he would en force the rule which forbids a senator to speak more than twice on the same subject.” "I am not sure," said Senator Aid rich in reply, "that 1 do not deserve the suggestion and criticism of the senator from South Carolina. 1 have been hoping that much of the discus sion here which seemed unnecessary would cease." Senator Aldrich appealed for re levancy in the discussion in the para graphs of the bill. “I accept," he said, "the criticism of the senator from South Carolina because I think it is deserved.” Senator Tillman, being accussed by Senator Bacon of being the chief of fender in speaking many times on the same amendment, protested, and Ilia protest was followed by a statement by Senator Aldrich that it was his in tention at an early day to satisfy the senator from South Carolina that the tariff bill should be proceeded with “morning, afternoon and night until disposed of." The lead duty fixed by the commit tee was originally 2yg cents per pound, but Senator Curtis, who is a member of the committee, suggested a reduction of one-eighth of a cent a pound, bringing the figure down to cents, and Chairman Aldrich accepted the reduction. Senators Beveridge, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Clapp, Cummins. Dolliver. Gamble, La Follette and Nelson voted with the Democrats. Senator Borah voted with the Republicans. "The trusts are ghosts," declared Senator Heyburn in replying to sug gestions that the “lead trust" was in terested in the duty on lead. CLARK MONUMENT UNVEILED. Statue of Soldier and Explorer Ac cepted by Gov. Deneen on Behalf of People of Illinois. Quincy.—Illinois' tribute to Oen. George Rogers Clark, the revolution ary soldier and explorer, an heroic bronze statue, was unveiled Saturday in the presence of an immense con course of people. Gov. Deneen ac cepted the monument on behalf of the people of the state. The statue, which is nine feet high, is the work of Charles J. Mulligan at the Chicago Art institute, and is pro Statue of George Rogers Clark. nouneed by critics to 'jo one of tUw best In the middle west. The base of the monument, designed by W. Cnrbys Zimmerman of Springfield, the state architect, is of gray granite on a ce ment foundation and is 18 feet high. Mr. Mulligan anil Mr. Zimmerman were both present at the unveiling. Standing on the brow of a hill from which may be seen the expanse of the Mississippi, the statue depicts the American leader in a pose which la thoughtful, gentle and yet heroic. It represents him as elad in the uniform of a continental general, as he was when he captured Kaskaskia in 1778. Elliott tc Philippines. Washington.—President Taft scut to the senate the nomination of Judge Charles D. Elliott of the Minnesota supreme court as a justice of the su preme court of the Philippines to succeed Judge Willard. Gives Birth to Five. Eau Claire. Wis.- The wife of Fay Irish of Thorp, Clark county, has given birth to five babies, three daugh ters and two sons. All are alive end well. There are now tea children ia the family.