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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JUNE 3, 1901) NUMBER 30 A Boiling Down of the More Impor tant Events Here and There roreicn. Theodore Roosevelt, who is at pres ent the guest of Governor Jackson of Nairobi, has accepted an invitation to a public banquet to be given there in his honor August 3. Considerable interest has been aroused in musical circles in Germany by the statement that Richard Strauss, the composer of "Elektra" and "Sa lome." is about to start work on a light opera. The dispute between Portugal and China over the possession of the de pendencies of Macao has reached an acute stage. At Oboyan. Russia, a gang of des l>eradoes attacked a government wine shop. They killed live persons and mortally wounded the keeper. The police at Odessa arrested 192 Baptists, including thirty women, charging them with meeting illegally on a mountain top near that city. The body of George Meredith, the English novelist who died May 18. was cremated at Dorking in the presence of a few members of Isis r family There was no religious service. A political meeting that was being __ addressed at Sheffield. England, by Premier Asquith was stormed by a crowd of suffragettes. The women, however, failed to effect an entrance to the ball and several of them were injured in (encounters with the police. General. * There is no doubt, in the mind of officials that the three men arrested in South Omaha are those who held up and robbed the Overland Union Pacific Saturday night. They have been identified by operatives of the train and will be held for trial, lhe mail pouches stolen with letters there in rifled, were found in the attic of a South Omaha school house. Chil-' dren playing in the woods found guns and aceoutrenents that gave officials the first clue. Four men were in the robbery, but only three thus far have been caught. Woods. Torgensen and Gordon are caught. the names given by the three men arrested for robbing tne Union Pacific at l.ane Cut-Off and making away with mail sacks. The names may be as sumed. Government has taken the men in hand and will prosecute. Criticism of the Foraker act was made by Mr. Garrett of Tennessee. In the big reward offered for appre hension of the Union Pacific railroad robbers, many wili share, including a number of school children. Gov. tiasken of Oklahoma has again been indicted for land frauds. Mrs. Alice Choppin. a daughter of a former Austrial consul to' New Or leans and connected .with the best families in that city, died at Mexico City in poverty at the home of her aged motner in the leper colony. Three men were arrested in South Omaha as suspects in connection with the recent Union Pacific holdup. S. N. D. North, director of census, has resigned his position as the re sult of a quarrel with Secretary Ne gel over final control of department. An effort to break the Dutch stand ard of sugar grading for tariff pur poses stirs up the beet sugar advo cates. President Taft spoke words of en couragement on occasion of gradua tioa of class of colored (people from Howard university. Porto Rican affairs were again threshed out in the house, the re marks being based on the bill taking from the legislature of the island possession of certain powers now vested in it and providing for other reforms which it is designed to in augurate in behalf of those people. “Adam God” is now on trial in Kan sas City for the murder of patrolman M uliaae. Brigadier General James Allen, chief sigua! officer, will leave Wash ington for a visit of inspection of the signal corps property at Fort Omaha and a visit to the signal school at Fort Leavenworth. Four heavily armed and masked men held up Union Pacific passenger train No. 2. the Overland Limited, in a deep cut a few miles west of Omaha Saturday at midnight and robbed the mail car of seven sacks of registered maH. Passengers were not molested. The April statement of the bureau of statistics shows a marked increase in the importation of manufacturers' materials and a decline in the expor tation oi foodstuffs. The deadlock in Illinois was broken by the election of Congressman i^ori mer as United tSates senator. There is an automobile-hating so ciety among Washington senators. ’ The trial of the $30,000,000 suit of the Pennsylvania Sugar Reiiniug com pany against the American Sugar Re fining company was begun in New York before Judge Holt in the United States district court. .1. P. Morgan, jr.. has been selected a director of the United tSates Steel corporation and a member of the finance committee, to succeed the late Henry H. Refers. The Brotherhood of Railway Train men passed resolutions condemning the present immigration laws. Lee Smith, third baseman for the Kokomo club qf the Northern Indiana league, died from injuries received in a game at Kokomo, The United States army signal eo'ps dirigible balloon No. 1. better known as the Baldwin dirigible airship, made a successful flight at Fort Omaha. Wool prices continue to advance in Boston despite heavy shipments. Senators Cummins. Borah and Eiai ley had a long conference on the in come tax situation in the senate. They hoped to be able to decide on a p an whereby all the income tax strength could be consolidated in one vote. Financial problems are becoming the botheration of Cuba. The purchase by Kuhn, l.oeb & Co. and the National City bank of New York of $30,000,000 of bonds of Ar mour &. Co. of Chicago was announced. This is part of an authorized issue of $50,000,000. The reconstruction of Athens, ac cording to German ideas, is the latest possibility. The sugar trust was the object of an attack in the senate by Senator Owen lOkla.), who sent to the secretary's desk a denunciation of the trust pub lished in a local newspaper. Andrew Carnegie of New York lias arranged to give $1,000,000 for the establishment of a “hero fund" in France. Word reached the state department from Honduras of the acquittal of Eugene O. Griffith and Mrs. Caroline Beauchamp, who had been sentenced to twenty-live years on a charge of arson. President Taft will visit California if Uncle Sam will pay car fare. President Taft has accepted honor rary membership in the Associate So ciety of Chapin post. Grand Army of the Republic, at Buffalo. N. Y„ said to be the largest G. A. R. post in the world. Swift and Co.'s sales of fresh beef in Omaha for the week ending May 22 averaged 9.to cents per pound. The Union Pacific has ordered one hundred locomotives to be built by the American Locomotive company. The Omaha Commercial club made a tour of Iowa covering 117 cities. Carl Erickson of Colorado Springs. ;il years old. holds the record for somnambulistic feats. While asleep he walked out of the window in his apartments and foil twenty-five feel to the ground without awakening s.nd kept right on sleeping for more than three hours. Washington. The president nominated P. Emer son Taylor of Nebraska to be consul at Port Louis, Mauritius. Senator Crawfofd of South Dakota is out in an indignant denial that he intended appointing his son to a West Point cadetship. The charge has been widely circulated in South Dakota, and has aroused much feeling. The facts are. Senator Crawford explained, that his son has had for a long time an ambition to be a cadet, and years ago determined be would try for the honor. Accordingly, when a competitive ex amination was to be held in the state, the young man went and took it. He took his chances with others and won on his merits, according to the sen ator. The council of fine arts, created by President Roosevelt, and which was to have charge of the beautification of Washington and to pass upon the de sign of government buildings, was abolished by President Taft in an ex ecutive order. This action was re quired by the last sundry bill, which failed to appropriate money for the expenses or salaries of any of the commissions created by President Roosevelt, without the consent of con gress. E. P. Smith of Omaha perfected ar rangements with .Mr. Bowers, solicitor general, for the test case on the bleached (lour question which is to be started at Omaha. Mr. Bowers had practically agreed some time ago to the proceeding, but until now the de tails were not arranged. Elmer Dover, the former secretary of the republican national cominitlee, whose appointment as national bank examiner at New York has been held up by the comptroller of the currency, will be offered, it la said, a similar position in some other district. The senate, by a vote of 5G to 25, refused to place lumber on the free list. An extended plea for a differ ential duty on dressed lumber was I made by Senator Smoot, who cited the various lumber interests along the Canadian border. Personal. A Silver Creek (Neb.) man was in Denver looking for his wife, whom he thought bad been kidnaped. Father Miles, at one time identified with church work in Omaha, is dead in St. Louis. Bally of Texas had a fight with a New York correspondent in one of the i Senate corridors. Senate , millionaires. Stephenson Guggenheim and Newlands are ex pected to vote for the income tax. A French. New York sculptor, may be chosen to make the proposed Abra 1 ham Lincoln monument at Lincoln, Neb. > The two Nebraska senators divided on the question of the sugar standard. President Taft insists on the lowest possible limit In department estimates j Ten Lincoln (Neb.) educational in stitutions grant between eight and 1 nine hundred diplomas this year. President Taft’s great task is to 1 withstand the upsoaring of national j expenses. Senator Beveridge spoke in favor ol downward revision of the tariff. John Hays Hammond has declined . the tender of the ministership tc ! China. Elmer Dover is not to get the New i York national bank examinership Admiral Ijichi of the Japanese war ship was given cordial welcome ai Tacomah, Wash. ZEPHYR, FIFTEEN MILES FROM BROWNWOOD, DESTROYED. MANY FATALITIES RECORDED Apparently One of the Most Destruc tive Twisters That Ever Visited the Lone Star State. Brownwood, Tex. — A tornado of great fury struck the little village of Zephyr in the eastern portion of Brown county at 1 a. m. Sunday morn ing and left a path of death and de struction seldom paralleled. The death list has reached a total of thirty-two and the number of seriously and fa tally wounded will reach fifty. A score are more or less injured. Nearly fifty houses were entirely demolished. Lightning struck a lum ber yard and started a conflagration which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to light the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all atten tion. A section baud rode a handcar to Brownwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Santa Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine surgeons and a score of Brownwood citizens. Hundreds of persons directly in the storm's path saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were horribly mu tilated. v County Clerk Thad Cabler and wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night, were killed. The big stone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earth By daylight sixteen surgeons were working on the wounded Brownwood hurried its second relief train at noon Sunday, loaded with provisions, cloth ing and necessary articles and forty nurses. A special train will leave Zephyr for Temple, carrying the more seri ously injured to the hospital. '* The storm swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is considered the most terrific of any tornado ever ex perienced in tnis section. The surgeons who formed the first party out of. Brownwood found a deso late scene awaiting them. The hill sides at Zephyr were covered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burning buildings and the cries of the wound ed rose above the sound of the ele ments. which threatened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debris-strewn streets was killed while attempting to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found .twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. People walked the streets al most naked. Residences which escaped the storm were turned into hospitals, into which were carried the bodies of the dead. One house collapsed oil a family of nine without serious injury to any of them. Brownwood, with organized relief work, has the situa tion well in hand. THE SENATE WILL HURRY. And Congress Will Probably Adjourn Early in July. Washington.—Progress on the tariff bill is being made steadily between speeches, and while the leaders are unable to predict the end. they feel that the time for the final vote is gradually approaching, and they now predict that the work will be disposed of in time to permit congress to finally adjourn early in July. The outlook for the present week is for many speeches and for slow progress on the schedules. The prob ability of night sessions is not so great as it was a week ago. but the policy of reference to them will not be decided for several days. OFFICERS ARE ON THE HUNT. Important Developments Expected in the Train Robbery. Omaha — Developments of decided importance in connection with the train robbery are expected shortly by the government, railway and police officers who are working on the case, if,present indications hold good. It is not unlikely that within the nest twenty-four hours the fourth man concerned in the Lane Cut-Off holdup will be in custody. The missing bot tom half of a mail sack may also be brought to light. Some of the police officers think it holds valuable loot. The French Pension Bill. Paris.—The amendments of the senate commission to the workmen’s pension, which, after passing the Chamber of Deputies last year, comes before the senate early in June, modifies the plan of the original bill so as to provide for specific contribu tions from workmen and employers instead of percentages, as provided for in the bill of the Chamber of Deputies. KAISER REVIEWS GARRISONS. Americans Occupy Places with Im perial Party. Berlin.—Emperor William and the empress reviewed the Berlin and the Potsdam garrisons at the Templehof field today. Thirty thousand troops, including 8,000 cavalry, passed before their majesties and made the usual brilliant spectacle. Tn the reviewing party were Ambassador Hill. Allison Armour of New York. Prof. W. N. Sloan of Columbia university and other distinguished people. THE BIG FROG IN THE POND. V MANY CITIES FEEL QUAKE TOWNS IN MIDDLE WESTERN states'tremble. No Loss of Life Reported, but Sev eral Slightly Injured—Some Property Damage. Chicago.—Reports continued to come in Thursday of the earthquake which shook the middle west Wednesday. In this city the tremor lasted from two seconds to three min utes and in cities in Illinois, Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin, Iowa and Mis souri it was just as severe. So far no loss of life has been re ported. although there has been slight property damage and a great deal of fright. The most severe shocks were felt in Chicago and Dubuque, la. Following is a list of towns where the earthouake was felt: Janesville. Wis.; Cedar Kar-< Is. la.; Sterling, 111.; Rockford, 111.; Moline, 111.: Joliet, Til.; Streator, 111.; Dixon, 111.; Dubuque, la.; Burlington, la.; Galena. 111.; Bloomington. 111.; Freeport, 111.; El Paso, 111.; Fairbury, 111.; Springfield, 111.; Mount Carroll. 111.; Springfield. Mich.; Peoria, 111.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Madison. Wis.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Benton Harbor, Mich.; Aurora, 111.; Kewanee. 111.; Hanibal. Mo.; Beloit, Wis.; Michigan City, Ind., and Grand Rapids, Mich. The last previous earthquake shock recorded in the Chicago weather bu reau was on October 31, 1895. One of the reports at the weather bureau came from Dubuque. Ia.. where it wTas said that the Bank and Insur ance building, a seven-story structure, was nearly thrown to the ground by the violence of th^ shock. Clerks, stenographers and hundreds who were employed in the various offices ran in panic from the building. Two seismic disturbances were reported there. In Chicago chimneys were thrown down on the West and North sides, and several women were thrown from their feet as a result of the shock. Large flat buildings were shaken and families ran out, fearing the walls would collapse. Many were reminded of the disasters recently in Messina and San Francisco, and were in fear for hours after the shock had passed. WANTS A NAVY ALLIANCE. England Would Guard the Atlantic Ocean and Leave the Pacific to United States. London—The report that Great Britain, through Ambassador Bryce at Washington, hopes to bring about a naval understanding with the United States, has attracted great at tention in this country and is a relief to the minds of many persons who fear that England and Germany are sure to have war. In a nutshell the plan, which, it is hoped, may be adopted, is for Eng land Jo take care of the Atlantic ocean and the United States to look after the Pacific. Such an arrangement would give America a great advantage should she be forced into a conflict with Japan and would be of immense benefit to Great Britain should this country have to fight the Germans. Supreme Court Adjourned. Washington.—Chief Justice Fuller Monday declared the United States supreme court adjourned for the summer, and most of the justices lost little time in getting away for their vacations. The court suspended the docket a month ago and since then has held three sittings to announce decisons and hear motions. Little Boy Kills Brother. Reliance, Va.—While at play in their home, Alvin and Reggie Jenkins, seven and five year old boys, found an old gun. “Run, or I’ll shoot," Alvin shouted. Reggie stood his- ground and received the entire contents of the old blunderbuss in his abdomen. He died a few hours later. Bandmaster a Suicide. West Point. N. Y.—George Essigke, for the past' 15 years bandmaster at West Point, committed suicide by in haling illuminating gas. ALASKA-YUKON FAIR OPENED President Taft Presses Key and Starts Wheels—Seattle Is Wild with Joy. Seattle. Wash.—At exactly 12:"0 o'elock Tuesday afternoon. Seattle time. President Taft in the White House in Washington, pressed a beau tiful gold telegraph key, and at the signal that flashed all the way across : the country the wheels in every part I of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition ; began to turn and the great fair was opened. When the auspicious moment ar rived every whistle in Seattle was pulled wide opefl, every other noise making contrivance was brought into use. every man. woman and child of the city's inhabitants and of the thou sands of visitors already here cheered, and the opening of the exposition was accomplished in the midst of a deafen ing din and general rejoicings. For two minutes every street car stood still and all business was suspended. Then came the formal and impres sive ceremonies in connection with the opening. The parade and speech making were participated in by all the officers of the exposition, the officials of Seattle, and Gov. W. B. Hoggatt of Alaska. Lieut. Gov. James Dunsmuir [ of British Columbia. Gov. M. E. Hay ! of Washington. Gov. J. M. Brady of ! Idaho, Gov. William Spn? of I’tah, I Gov. F. W. Benson of Oregon and Gov. Gillett of California. In addition to the Pacific coast executives. Gov. Fort of New Jersey was represented by his son. Leslie R. Fort. i LAYS CRIMES TO TRUST. , Senator Bradley Says American To bacco Company Is Responsible for the "Night Riders.” Washington.—After the opposition had fiercely assailed the sugar and tobacco trusts as the beneficiaries of high tariff legislation Friday the finance committee's schedules on those products were adopted by the senate by the usual majority. Senator Bradley of Kentucky in urg ing his amendment for a repeal of the internal tax on leaf tobacco charged the uprising of the "night riders" to the oppression of the tobacco trust. After reviewing the growth of the trust, Senator Bradley said that, not content with destroying all .competi tion in the I'nited Staets, this concern drove the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain, its chief competitor, to a compromise and obtained an agreement by which the Imperial yielded up all competition in the United States. The panic of 180:1 was the subject of ! an interesting cross-fire of accusation and denial between Senator Stone and various Republican senators. —— Bailey and Scribe Fight. Washington.—Senator Bailey of Texas and W. S. Manning, represen tative of the New York Times in the senate press gallery, exchanged blows Thursday as a result of a conversa tion they had in reference to an ar ticle printed by the New York news paper questioning the sincerity of the senator in his course on the income tax. Neither of the participants was in jured. as they were separated by Sen ator Clapp, Porto Rican Commissioner Larrinaga, several senate employes and newspaper correspondents. The ver sions of Mr. Bailey and Mr. Manning are in substantial agreement as to the cause of the trouble, and differ only as to the number of blows struck by each. When they were separated Bailey had Manning by the throat. Goes to Perfect Bond. Muskogee, Okla.—Gov. Charles N. Haskell, who was re-indicted here, to gether with five other Oklahomans in the Muskogee town lot fraud cases, ar rived in Muskogee Friday to perfect his bond. Bond in each case was placed at $5,000. Chicago Gets Prison Office. Washington.—Prof. Charles R. Hen derson of the University of Chicago was appointed a member on the part of the United States of the inter national prison commission. TAFT HONORS DEAD PRESIDENT DELIVERS ORATION ON GETTYSBURG FIELD. MONUMENT IS DEDICATED ✓ Daughter of the Chief Executive Un veils the Shaft Erected in Mem ory of Regulars—Lincoln Statue at Hodgenville. Gettysburg, Pa.—Seldom has the historic Gettysburg battlefield wit nessed more impressive Memorial day exercises than those of Monday. The chief feature of the ceremonies was the dedication of the fine monument erected by act of congress to com memorate the services of the regular army of the United States in the Get tysburg campaign of June and July, 1SU3, and President Taft was the cen tral figure in the day's doings. The president arrived early in the morning from Pittsburg, and was met by a committee of prominent citizens and an escort of United States regu lars. After luncheon a great concourse of people gathered on the battlefield, and the exercises began. Secretary of War Dickinson delivered an ad dress and formally transferred the monument to the Gettysburg National Park commission, the chairman of which, Lieut. Col. John P. Nicholson, made the speech of acceptance. Unveiled by Miss Taft. The shaft was then unveiled by Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the pres ident. Laurel wreaths were placed at the base of the monument by the old est regimental and battery command ers of the Gettysburg campaign, and the ceremonies ended with a review of the troops on the field by President Taft. The monument is a beautiful shaft 85 feet high surrounded at the base by a broad granite terrace. It stands on Hancock avenue a short distance south of the high-water ma:*k of the battle of Gettysburg. The monument represents all of the 42 cavalry, artil lery. infantry and engineer organiza tions of the regular army that partici pated in the campaign. In addition there has been erected a small monu ment seven feet high for each of the commands at the location it occupied during the battle. Lincoln Statue Dedicated. Hodgenville, Ky.—For the second time within a few months this little town was Monday the scene of a notable ceremony. This was the un veiling of the Lincoln memotial statue erected at the birthplace of the mar tyred president. Henry Watterson, the famous Louis ville journalist, was the chief orator, and was followed by E. J. McDermott, also of Louisville. The statue was then unveiled by Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm. Nest came addresses of ac ceptance by former Appellate Court Justice George Du Relle for the Lin coln monument commission, Gov. Au gustus E. Willson for Kentucky, and David Highbaugh Smith for LaRue county. Arkansas Negro Lynched. Pine Bluff. Ark. — Lovett Davis, a negro, charged with attempt ing to commit a criminal assault on a 16-year-old white girl here last Fri day night, was taken from the Jail in this city by an unmasked mob of 300 men. and hanged to a telegraph pole on one of the principal streets. Just as the negro was being raised high above the street, the rope broke and the body fell to the ground, but he was immediately raised again and left hanging Islanders Ask Citizenship. Washington. — A committee of Porto Ricans has come to Washing ton. representing the Republican party of Porto Rico, to urge that the United States government grant citizenship to the islanders. It is their intention to see President Taft and enlist his sympathies, if pos sible. as well as those of various sena tors and representatives, and to get congress to take up the Porto Rican citizenship piank contained in the last Republican national platform. Advances Religious Liberty. St. Petersburg.—The law legalizing the sect of Old Believers, the first of a series of important measures de signed to put into effect the princi ples of religious liberty enunciated in the emperor's manifesto of May 13, was adopted in the douma. Continue Musical Prizes. Grand Rapids, Mich.—The sixth biennial convention of the National Federation of Musical Clubs c losed. Sat urady -t was voted to continue the prize competitions for American composers. 30VS TO SHIRE IN REWARD OMAHA LADS HELP TO CAPTURE TRAIN ROBBERS. Find Guns, Tell the Police—Rifled Mail Bags Discovered in * School Attic. Omaha. Nob.—Three Omaha school boys will share in a reward which may reach $20,000 should the three suspects arrested in connection with the Union Pacific train robbery prove to be the bandits. Chief of Police Briggs and two detectives made the arrests Thursday night and will have to divide with the boys. Developments in the running down of the men had their climax Friday in the discovery in the entrance of Brown Park school in South Omaha of six large and two small registered mail pouches, the contents of which had been rifled. Following the arrest in the vicinity of the schoolhouse of three suspects as they were approaching a point where they had hidden revolvers and other material that were discovered by the boys, a hundred secret service men. private and city detectives early in the day began to search the lo cality for further evidence. The principal and teachers of Brown Park school were thrown into a small panic when they learned what had occurred during the night and an open base ment window which had been discov ered Monday morning formed the basis of an investigation. Mrs. Nora FYeeman, one of the teachers, noticed that a ladder used for reaching the attic of the building, and which is usually suspended from the ceiling by a rope, had been dis placed and the janitors were called, lanterns were procured and two men crawled into the attic. They were astounded to find eight registered mail sacks, two raincoats, a long top coat and a pair of overalls. An examination of the contents of the packages showed that every letter and package had been torn open and the contents of value removed. In each case the letters were stuck back into envelopes, the robbers having satisfied themselves with removing money and other valuables. There were several jewelry packages, the contents of which had been taken by the robbers. The post-office authorities and rail road officials are fully convinced that in the arrest of Woods, Gordon and Torgensen they have secured the right men. The chain of evidence al ready secured is, in the minds of the police sufficient to convict the men. and Chief Briggs believes he will be able to secure a confession from one of the trio. LORIMER ELECTED SENATOR, Chicago Man Selected to Succeed Albert J. Hopkins by Illinois Legislators. Springfield, III. — Congressman Wil liam Lorimer of the Sixth congres sional district was elected United States senator on the ninety-fifth bal lot taken by the joint session of the general assembly. He had 108 votes. The election of a junior senator to represent Illinois in the upper house at Washington came about through a coalition of Democratic assemblymen and the anti-Hopkins Republicans, breaking the deadlock which had last ed since January 20. William Lorlmer was born at Man chester. England. April 27,1861. ' he was five years of agq he < America with his parents, and i. iocated in Chicago. At the age of ten years his father died and he became a sign-painter's apprentice and later worked for the Chicago packing houses and for a. street railroad company, being a con ductor when he quit that vocation to work for himself. He entered the real estate business in 1886, and later became a member cf the firm of Murphy & Lorimer in the building and brick manufacturing business. In 1892 he ran for the office of clerk of the superior court, but was defeated. Three yeat3 later he be came a member of congress and served the Sixth Illinois congressional district and was again elected for the congressional seat last spring. For a decade he has been a leader of the Republican party in Illinois. Gov. Haskell Indicted Again. Tulsa, Okla.—New indictments charging fraud in the Muskogee town lot cases were returned Thursday by the United States grand jury against Gov. Charles X Haskell, F. B. Severs. W. T. Hutchins, C. W. Turner, A. Z. English and W. R. Eaton The accused men are charged with, obtaining titles from the government to town lots in Muskogee by illegal methods. Bond in each case was fixed at $5,000 and was promptly furnished. “As a result of four government at torneys and an army of secret men snrounding the grand jury and limit ing the testimony to just what suited them, indictments have been secured against me,” said Gov. Haskell. Tracy’s Debts Are $690,000. New York.—According to a report issued by Receiver E. G. Benedict of Tracy & Co., the brokerage firm which failed recently, the New York office of the firm, his liabilities of about $690,000, and actual assets of about $100,000. fioyal Arcanum Picks Montreal. St. Louis.—The supreme council of the Royal Arcanum ended its thirty second annual session here, Montreal being selected fcr the nert meeting in May, 1310.
