Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 28, 190!) NUMBER 51 _
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES or II WEEN
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLC
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Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal Infor
mation.
PERSONAL.
Privy Councillor Albert Meissner,
secretary to Emperor William, died in
Berlin. He was in public life over
60 years.
Senator Patrick McCarren, the New
York Democratic leader, died as a re
sult of an operation for appendicitis.
Dr. James H. Carlisle, president
emeritus of Wofford college and one
south's best-known educators, died at
his home in Spartanburg, N. C. He
was 84 years old.
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univer
sity says the normal span of human
life is 150 years, and declares the
longevity of man increases as science
and medicine make advances.
Mrs. Josephine Floyd Jones, who
was a member of one of the oldest
families on Long Island, in her will
left $10,000 and her personal wardrobe
to her faithful servant, Hannah Dav
enport. who is to have a grave in the
family burial plot.
Bernhard Dernburg, German colonial
secretary, who is at Kansas City, de
rides the suggestion of war between
Germany and England.
Miss May Clayton, 25 years old.
daughter of a wholesale liquor mer
chant, and Peary S. Tsujl. a Japanese
restaurant keeper, were married at
Seattle. Wash. It was a romance of
the Seattle fair, the couple’ having
met at the “Pay Streak.”
Rudolph Gluck, 19 years old, will
sail for Russia from New York in a
few days to serve three years in the
Russian army, and so save his moth
er's property at Kaprin, near Warsaw,
from confiscation.
Lieut. Foulois of the American army
has arrived in New York after attend
ing the International Aeronautical con
gress in Paris. He says France is
crazy over flying machines, and this
class of craft is bound to supplant
dirigible balloons.
King Manuel of Portugal Is con
fined to his bed with an intestinal
trouble accompanied with a light
fever.
GENERAL NOTES.
A family of five, it is feared,, have
perished on the Mojave (Cal.) desert.
A rancher discovered the trail of a
man, woman and three children and
from the appearance of their tracks
they were in search of water.
Federal authorities are seeking to
have John R. Walsh, the former Chi
cago banker, sent to jail, pending the
appeal to the supreme court of the
United States of his case.
Six trainmen and a tramp were
killed and a score of other persons
Injured in a head-on collision between
a fast passenger train and a freight on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Col
linsville, O.
Ohio Wesleyan’ universptjj^ is in ,:a
campaign to raise $500,000 by Aprjltt^
1911. Of this sum Andrew Carrlegje
has given $25,000 and the educational
board $125,000.
The report of Gen. Benjamin F.
Tracy, as referee, fixing the margin
of unused bonded indebtedness of New
York city on June 30, 1908, at $106,
205,714, was practically sustained by
the New York court of appeals.
G. Stengel-Sembrich, husband of
Mme. Sembrich, the singer, and An
dreas Dippel, director of the Metro
politan opera house, were injured in
an auto accident in New York.
F. El Hanscome, cashier of the
wrecked Mineral Point (Wis.) First
National bank, killed himself at the
grave of his mother. Worry over the
bank's affairs was the cause. Mrs.
John Gray, bis aged mother-in-law, fell
dead upon seeing his body.
Mrs. Richard McMartln of Tbompson
ville, Mich., visiting at Ashland, Wis.,
walked out of the house while asleep
during the night and off the bridge
over the Bay City creek, falling on
the rocks and breaking both legs.
A diamond ring worth $1,100, the
property of Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
was found on the mountain side near
the Edison estate in New Jersey. It
was lost six years ago. Robert Mc
Carthy. the finder, was rewarded
with $100.
President Taft is spending four days
at his brother’s, C. P. Taft’s, ranch near
Gregory. Tex.
The fall of Premier Maura and the
conservative cabinet Of Spain has
brought a feeling of relief. It encour
ages the hope that a period of inter
nal tranquility has been ushered in.
Commander Robert E. Peary’s rec
ords and observations to( show that he
reached the north„pole April 6, 1909,
have been submitted to the National
Geographic society at Washington,
and the board of managers of that
body has referred them to a sub-com
mittee of three experts.
Earth shocks felt near Mount Etna
with the renewed activity of Mount
Vesuvius has caused alarm at Mes
sina, Sicily.
The United States and Germany are
likely to have a tariff war over, the
matter of potash, the imports of which
amount to less than $600,000.
The Spanish cabinet, headed by
Premier Maura, resigned and is super
ceded by one formed by Senor Moret,
former premier. This change resulted
from the outcry over Revolutionist
Ferrer's execution.
The American Ice Company .of New
York is on trial in the criminal court
on the charge of violating the state
law preventing monopoly. The con
cern is charged with creating an arti
ficial ice famine.
A dam at. Lake Derkos, which sup
plies Constantinople with water, burst
and 25 persons were drowned.
Calcutta dispatches to London say
10,000 people have perished in a ter
rific storm which swept the plains -in
the delta of the Ganges and Brahma
putra, in Bengal, India.
According to a report from United
States Consul General Griffiths, at
London, the army of unemployed in
Great Britain has grown steadily and
has now reached proportions that are
causing the government great uneasi
ness.
The grand jury at Chicago has
caused a stir by joining State’s Attor
ney Wayman in his demand that the
judges of Cook county courts clean
out the county jury commission In
such a drastic manner as will prevent
any opportunity for jury tampering in
the future.
A copy of a book written in 1810
by Robert Fulton, inventor of • the
steamboat,. and entitled, “Torpedo
War and Submarine Explosions,” has
been sold at auction in New York for
$60.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whitlock of
East Orange, N. J„ were so affected at
the prospect of "losing" their two
daughters by marriage that they went
to their country home to escape being
present at the double wedding. They
are said to be well pleased, never
theless, with their sons-in-law,
A fund to be known as the Charles
Eliot Norton memorial fund has been
endowed to1 the Archaeological Insti
tute of America in Washington’ by
James Loeb, a retired banker of New
York city.
Army officers to the number of 35
started from Fort Meyer, Va., under
the Jead of Gen; Tasker H. Bliss, presi
dent of the war college, for a 90-mile
endurance test. • ' . »
It is- Reported, in Lisbon, Portugal,
that King Alfonso’s mind'is in a serlohs
conditioh because |of fear of an upris
ing in -Spain hnd df his own assassina
tion.
King Edward" of England is much'
exercised over..,-the socialistic demon
strations in connection with Ferrer’s
execution and is laboring bard to pre
vent a general election on the budget,
fearing that owing to the highly fever
ish condition of public opinion the
house of lords would be imperiled and
possibly abqlished.
A typhoon of unusual severity swept
over, the island of Luzon, hashing out.
railroad beds, cutting off telegraphic
communication and doing much other
damage.
President Taft had the time of his
life on ’his brqJSrer’s ranch in lexas.
He rode a balky cay use, saw wild
steers roped by cowboys and wit
nessed the rounding: up' of a herd of
cattle, together with many other in
teresting things connected-with ranch
life.
The Minocqua (Wis.) bank' was rob
bed of several thousand dollars by.Qyg
men who, after being rounded up at a'
small station near there by a sheriffs
posse, turned on the latter with rifles
and -made.thfiirsescape.
The American Antiquarian society
l|iid the corlrer-stone of-.its new build
ing in Worcester, Mass., in connection
with the opening of the organiza
tion’s ■ annual convention.
Miss: El(ja£tpl*li*VitfUfl<? Beattie, who
was refceiuly extradite'd from London
op a charge'of grand larceny and who
is now under bonds for trial; -has £.d
vertised in New York for a‘ position
as chauffeur. She is willing to wear
a uniform and pilot a taxicab.
William Fason, a blind negro, , who
killed two men in a Paterson (N. j.)
saloon, when he was denied a drink,
was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
W. R. Hearst won a "strike” in the
New York political campaign Saturday
night when he threatened to retire
from the race for mayor and to leave
the fusion ticket -to its fate unless his
fellow nominees appeared 6n the
stage with him.
Two schooners, with 14- persons
aboard, are missing off fad. Newfound
land coast and are believed to have
foundered in the gale last week.
The annual convention of the Na
tional Woman’s Christian Temperance
union opened In Omaha with about
500 delegatbs In attendance. National
President Lillian M. N. Stevens deliv
ered her yearly address.
Illinois cities and towns celebrated
the second arbor and bird day of the
year with exercises In -the public
schools. .;
The United States supreme court
has issued art. order .staying 'proceed*-'
ings In the northern Illinois circuit
court in the matter of the application
of Capt. M. Carter for the, gllownnce
of further counsel fees in the govern
ment’s sult -agalnsl hltn for the re star*
ation of theHjlncls alleged to J|^ve
been procured by him through defal
cation. ~
Nicholas J. Martin, who bated the
secrets of-the jury-fixing gang at Chi
cago, is missing, and detectives from
the state prosecutor’s office are k&irch
Ing for him. t
Cleveland (6.) police are invest).
gating the cause of'illness of 14 per ,
sons who werd taken slbk' after edflng
chocolate chhdy purchased at an-East
side confeeffonfcty store.
The Natlonhl Purity congress Is
nOlding Its annual meeting at Burling
ton, la., and. Is attended by hundreds
of earnest,practical men and women
devoted to the uplifting of their fellow
Americans,
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OFF FOB THE SOUTH
FLOTILLA TO ESCORT PRESIDENT
TO NEW ORLEANS.
STARTS MONDAY AFTERNOON
Everything in Readiness for the River
Jaunt to Attend the Deep Water
Convention.
,'-St. Louis.—Governors. United States
senators and congressmen and foreign
diplomats arrived here Sunday to board
steamboats to make the trip on the
Mississippi river to New Orleans to
attend the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wa
terways association convention. The
arrivals are guests of the Business
Men’s league of St. Louis on the trip.
The first boats to depart for New
Orleans, where the convention will
open October 30, were the four tor
pedo boats which have been here
sin<ie October 1. They got away early
Sunday and will await the fleet carry
ing the deep waterway delegates at.
‘Memphis. The departure of the tor
pedo boats was marked by the blow
ing of the whistles of every craft in
port. -
The Oleander, the government light
house tender, on which President Taft
will travel, was made a floating white
house. Everything the president will
need after he embarks at 5 o’clock
Monday afternoon for a four and a
half days’ trip was placed on board.
To avoid any possible friction. W.
K. Kavanaugh, president of the Lakes
to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway associa
tion, anonunced the steamer St. Paul,
carrying the governors, will have the
prace of honor, next to the Oleander
from St. Louis to Helena, Ork.. where
the Quincy, carrying the senators and
congressmen, will take the St. Paul's
place in the column.
On the congressional boat a legisla
tive hall was installed so Speaker Can
non can hold mock sessions of con
gress. Speaker Cannon arrived at
East St. Louis Sunday night and will
remain there until he crosses the river
with President Taft. He and Vice
President Sherman, who arrives Mon
day?- will be guests of honor at the
dedication exercises of the new fed
eral building in East St. Louis.
Apjolkg the .surprises arranged for
the waterway delegates on the trip
..will.be a daily paper printed on one
of the newspaper boats. A fast launch
will be used by the reporters in
gathering the news from the different
boats in the fleet. The paper will
give the news as it develops.
Supervising Inspector General Gep.
Uhler inspected the craft, every boat
which will make the trip. There will
be twenty-two boats in the fleet, when
It leaves Memphis. The trip will be
made straight down the Mississippi
with the exception of when the fleet
turns up the Ohio to stop at Cairo.
The first stop on the trip, which will
be at Cape Girardeau, Mo., at 6 o'clock
Tuesday morning will be made just be
fore the sun rises. Electric search
lights will be in use to permit a safe
landing of the president.
SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
Justice Rufus W. Peckham Dies at
Summer Home in New York.
Albanay, X. Y.—Rufus W. Peckham,
associate justice of the United States
supreme court, died at 8:15 o’clock
Sunday night at Coolmore, his sum
mer home at Altamont. Albany coun
ty. Death was due to a complication
of diseases; heart trouble, bright’s
disease and hardening of the arteries
contributing.
Justice Pepkham had been in ill
health for some time, but his condi
tion was not considered serious until
recently. Following adjournment of
the May term of the United States su
preme court, he came on from Wash
ington with Mrs, Peckham to spend
the summer at Altamont, expecting to
return for the beginning of the Octo
ber term.
MONUMENT FOR CLEVELAND.
Committee Will Probably Select
T Princeton as Site for Shaft.
Princeton, N. J —That a site for the
proposed monument in memory of the
late Grover Cleveland will be chosen
in the near future and that. its loca
tion will-probably be in Princeton be
came known as a result of the in
formal meeting of the committee on
site and designation of the Cleveland
Memorial association.
Demonstration in Bilboa.
Bilboa, Spain.—Ten thousand per
sons took part here Sunday in an
anti-clerical demonstration, and extra
troops were drafted into service. The
religious establishments have been
heavily guarded. '• *’
To'Colonize Nebraskans,. South.
..New Orleans, I^a.—A deal has been
made at Zwolle, La., whereby the
Sabine Lumber company, disposes: of
16,000 «crt,s of its cutover land lying
north of this place to J. R. Pattison,
an attorney of Central City, Neb... who
'intends, it is understood, to colonize
it with farmers from Nebraska.
He’s Charming, Says Diaz.
Mexico City, Mex.—President Diaz
expressed him impressions of his re
cent reception at El Paso and his
estimate of President Taft in an in
terview. He said: “As for my per
sonal opinjon of President Taft 1 can
say that he' is a man of charming
personality, frank and sincere, whose
features carry, the unmistakable
stamp of a man with a high conscious
ness of duty, unmarried by a touch of
remorse. The interview which I had
with President Taft was of the most
cordial character.”
WILL HE GET THE CANARY?
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TRAGEDY IN JINK’S CRISH
CASHIER KILLS SELF AND WIFE’S
MOTHER FALLS DEAD.
F. E. Hanscome of Mineral Point Com
mits Suicide on Grave to End
Financial Troubles.
Mineral Point, Wis.—The body of F.
E. Hanscome, cashier of the wrecked
First National bank of this city, was
found Monday resting on the grave of
his mother in the family plot of the
local cemetery, he having ended his
life by shooting.
Mrs. John Gray,' aged 80, mother-in
law of the dead banker, and to whose
home Hanscome’s body was removed,
dropped dead when her son-in-law's
body was brought in.
Hanscome had been missing for sev
eral hours, but no alarm was ex
pressed until inquiv at the bank and
various other places about town failed
to reveal his whereabouts.
A searching party was finally or
ganized with the result that the body of
the dead banker was found lying over
the grave of his mother.
Hanscome was 55 years old and
had been despondent for some time
past. He was never known to take a
vacation. He leaves a widow and two
grown daughters, one a teacher in a
public school at Milwaukee and the
other a student at the Milwaukee
Normal school.
Hanscome’s heavy losses and worry
over the fact that he had told depos
itors shortly before the bank failed
that he was all right are said to be
responsible for his act.
The dead cashier had been con
nected with the First National bank
since its organization in 1884, ante
dating Vice-President Allen in point
of service. He began as bookkeeper
and teller, and carried much of the
bank’s responsibility on his shoulders.
He had a reputation of strict honesty.
FOUND DRIFTING IN BOAT
Chicago Man Is Picked Up Helpless
in the Lake Near Hol
land, Mich.
iiolland, Mich. — Unable to speak
coherently because of exhaustion,
George Scheibstein of Chicago was
found 40 miles off this harbor by
the steamer Puritan. The man had
been drifting longer than 12 hours in
a disabled launch.
Scheibstein said that he started
from Chicago for Whitehall, Mich., in
his 25-foot, boat Far out in the lake,
with a heavy sea running, the engine
stopped and the sailor found his gas
oline tank empty. When sighted by
the Puritan the craft was nearly sub
merged. Scheibstein left for Chicago
last night
ROMANCE KEY TO RICHES
$4,000,000 Left to Woman by Will of
Suitor Who Was Almost
Forgotten.
Jonesboro, Ark. — As heir of an
almost-forgotten fiance, Mrs. John
D. Erwin, wife of a farmer, will prob
ably receive an estate valued at $4,
000,000.
As Mary Duval of Carruthersville,
Mo., Mrs. Ervin was courted by a
young German who told her of vast
ancestral estates* Because of paren
tal objections they did not wed.
Recently the man died and his will
gives his property to her.
Woman Is Scalped by Machine.
South Bend, Ind.—Mrs. Gordire Mur
ray, wife of a Nappanee (Ind.) editor,
was caught in a piece of machinery
in the printing office Friday and
scalped from the eyebrows to the
back of her neck. Her condition is
considered serious.
Gen. Alfred Orendorff Is Dead.
Springfield, ni.—Gen. Alfred Oren
dorff, one of the most prominent law
yeni and 'Democrats’ in the state, died
at his home Friday in this city. He
was 63 years old. . .
FIFTY SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Efforts Are Being Made to Clear Up
Shooting of Italian by Alleged
“Black Hands.”
Chicago.—Fifty arrests were made
by the police in efforts to clear
up the shooting of Salvatore Fi
nello, who was followed to Chicago
from a hospital in Streator, 111., where
he had lain three months after be
ing shot by agents of the Black Hand,
and was shot a second time at Mil
ton avenue and Oak street. Clews in
possession of detectives, according to
Inspector P. D. O’Brien, were expect
ed to lead to the capture of Salvatore
and Stefano Uttida, brothers, who
were accused of the crime by Pinello.
Pinello was wounded the second
time with a shotgun. Physicians at
the Passavant hospital, to which he
was taken, held out little hope for
his recovery. His body was full of
shot.
The shooting of Pinello was the
sixth charged to the Black Hand so
ciety within a year.
Pinello told the police that he came
to this country three years ago from
Italy and went to Streator, where he
was a section hand for the Santa Fe
railroad.
The sufferer had not been in the
town long when the Uttida brothers,
who were in Chicago, began to write
him threatening letters demanding
money.
"We will tell the police that you are
a member of the Black Hand society
unless money is sent us,” was written
in one letter.
The threats continued and Pinello
became desperate. He threatened to
call on the police to arrest the men
annoying him. The following day he
was shot near his home. He remained
in the hospital at Streator three
months.
Pinello told the police at that time
that the Uttida brothers had shot
him.
SENATOR M’CARREN IS DEAD
New York Democratic Leader Dies in
Brooklyn Hospital as Result of
Operation for Appendicitis.
New York.—State Senator Pat
rick Henry McCarren, for many years
leader of the Democratic party in
Brooklyn and a power in state and
national politics, died shortly after
one o’clock this morning. The end
came at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, Brook
lyn, the patient never having com
pletely rallied from the effects of an
operation performed for appendicitis,
which was performed on October 12.
His death was not unexpected; in
fact, the senator himself realized
throughout the afternoon and the
earlier part of the night that his end
was near.
INDIA STORM KILLS 10,000
Houses and Temples in Many Towns
and Villages Causing Great
Loss of Life.
London.—Dispatches from Calcutta
say 10,000 persons have perished in a
terrific storm which has swept the
plains in the delta of the Ganges and
Brahmaputra, in Bengal, India.
The storm followed the close of
the rainy season—from June to Sep
tember—and destroyed towns and vil
lages in an area of 187,377 square
miles, which have a population of 400
persons to the square mile.
The loss of life was occasioned
mainly by the colV.pse of houses and
temples in the towns and villages and
by the river wrecks. .
Ryan for Lorimer’s Seat.
Chicago.—Frank S. Ryan is to be
the Democratic candidate to battle
for the seat in congress formerly oc
cupied by William Lorimer in what
promises to be the most active cam
paign of recent years waged by the
Democracy.
Shot; Hides Name of Assailant.
New York.—Although he has a bul
let wound in his abdomen, from which
the hospital physicians say he prob
ably will die, Frank Ranese will not
tell the police who shot him.
PUT U IN CELL
FEDERAL ATTORNEYS PLAN TO
TAKE BANKER TO PRISON
SOON.
ASK COURT FOR A MANDATE
Defendant’s Attorney and Government
Counsel Make Plans for Final Test
of Convicted Financier’s Case—
Ready for High Court.
Chicago.—If the plans of the gov
ernment attorneys are sustained John
R. Walsh, the convicted banker, may
be taken to the federal prison at Fori;
Leavenworth soon.
District Attorney Sims and Attorney
John S. Miller, representing Walsh,
appeared in the circuit court of ap
peals Friday to argue the question of
the $50,000 bonds on which W’alsh is
now at liberty.
Mr. Sims urged that • this bond be
set aside and that a mandate be is
sued at once ordering Walsh to be
taken to the federal prison.
Attorney Miller urged that the pres
ent bonds be ordered to hold until
the question of an appeal to the su
preme court was decided.
Final arguments on the point will
be heard within a few days. If Mr.
Sims is sustained Mr. Walsh may be
taken to Fort Leavenworth.
The action was begun by John S.
Miller, chief counsel for the convict
ed president of the defunct Chicago
Natnonal bank and the Equitable Trust
Company. After the proceedings Mr.
Miller admitted that the Walsh case
would -be carried to the supreme court
on a writ of certiorari.
District Attorney Sims and Assist
ant District Attorney Childs were
present with Mr. Miller at the secret
session. Neither would reveal what
transpired in court. Attorney Miller
took the same position.
PERISH ON MOJAVE DESERT
Man, Woman and Three Children Be
lieved to Have Died from Thirst
While Crossing Waste.
San Bernardino, Cal.—Somewhere
along the ancient trails of the Mojave
desert a man and his wife and their
three children are dead or dying. Who
they are or what led them to attempt
to cross the desert is not known, but
their trail has revealed a pitiable
story, and searching parties are
searching for them in a race against
death.
T. H. Kellogg, a rancher, was riding
over the Carisho creek country Thurs
day when he came across the tracks
of two teams. The trails indicated
to his experienced eye that the driv
ers were lost. He followed the trail
for some distance and came up with
a camp wagon and a buggy and farther
away a horse dying of thirst.
Pressing on he discovered the
tracks of a man and a woman and
three children. Uneven at times, re
treating and wavering, as though the,
travelers did not know which way to
turn, the footprints on the sand told
of the search for water against a des
perately growing need.
Sometimes the trail of one or the
other children disappeared, indicat
ing that the father or the mother
had carried their dying offspring The
tracks followed the bed of a dry
creek for miles, and then led to the
country from which few travelers re
turn.
Kellogg returned to civilization and
searching parties were seht out.
SIX KILLED IN COLLISION
Number Persons Injured on Pennsyl
vania Road When Fast Passenger
and Freight Trains Collide.
Richmond, Ind—Killed. E. G. Webb,
Richmond, fireman, arm torn off,
crushed.
C. A. Johnson, Eaton, O., mail clerk,
found under mail car.
C. O. Raines, Kokomo, Ind., mail
clerk, cut to pieces.
Lewis Marshall, Richmond, Ind., en
gineer of freight train.
R. H. Hatfield, Greensfork, Ind.,
mail clerk, death due to burns and
cuts.
Elmer Brown, Logansport, Ind., pas
senger engineer, cut and scalded.
Six persons were killed, and a num
ber injured In a head-on collision
which took place Friday at Collins
ville, O., about twenty-five miles south
east of Richmond on the Pennsylvania
railroad. The train wrecked was the
flyer from Chicago to Cincinnati, No.
18, which leaves here about four
o’clock. The train which was going at
the rate of 50 miles an hour ran into
an open switch on to a siding, collid
ing head-on with freight No. 76. The
impact w-as so great that both engines
were completely wrecked, freight cars
were strewn along the road and
smashed into fragments. The mail
car was completely wrecked, being
telescoped with the baggage car, the
express car and the smoker were de
railed.
In the smoker there were fifteen or
twenty who were slightly injured.
Aims at Theater in Her Will.
New York.—The will of Mis. Mary
S. Robinson, writer of children's
stories,; who committed suicide, be
queaths $20,000 for the support of dis
abled persons of good character, who
do not attend theatrical performances.
Illinois Town Has Shakes.
Sterling, 111.—Two distinct vibra
tions of the earth were noticeable
here Friday afternoon. The first last
ed about four and the second about
ten seconds. It rattled windows, but
did no damage.
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JUDGE SEDGWICK AS LAWYER
AND JURIST.
It is said of Judge Sedgwick, one of
the republican nominees for the su->
preme bench, that, in his thirty-ona
years' practice in Nebraska, exclusive
of his service on the bench, he ha3
been so successful in prosecuting
eases against corporations that his
services have been sought in nearly
every case of this kind that has been
brought in York county.
He believes in compelling all per
sons and corporations to obey the
law. and those more familiar with his
services on the bench unite in saying
that he is entirely free from prejudice
or fear, and that his decisions are not
affected by the personnel, either of the
parties or the attorneys. He is not
afraid to decide a case upon its
merits, and for this reason he is popu
lar as a judge with the best lawyers in
the state, and all who are familiar
with the work of the courts.
The decision of the Supreme Court,
sustaining the present railway com
mission. was wrlttfcln by Judge Sedg
wick, and his reasoning is so clear and
conclusive that it was accepted at
once by the bar of the state, and the
interested parties. It is to this deci
sion that Nebraska owes the exist
ence of the railway commission and
that the public is enabled to exer
cise control over common carriers
and all public service corporations
through the commission system.
Case of Polo-Myelitis.
Tecumseh.—There is a case of polo
myelitis in this vicinty. Gladys Irvin,
the 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Porter Irvin, who lives west of
Tecumseh, is the sufferer. Dr. Wilson
of Pawnee City, secretary of the state
board of health, says this is the only
case reported from Southeastern Ne
braska.
Protest Against Ferrer Execution.
Lincoln.—Circulars were scattered
about Lincoln announcing that a pro
test meeting will be held at which
protests will be entered against the
recent execution of Prof. Francisco
Ferrer at Modelo, Spain.
Good Yield of Wheat.
Dannebrog—The recent heavy frosts
have ripened the corn, and husking
will soon be in full blast. Corn is of
good quality and will average some
thing like forty bushels to the acre.
The threshing season is nearly over
and farmers in general are rejoicing
over the good yield of wheat, which
has averaged about twenty-five bush
els per acre. The acreage of wheat
sown this fall will somewhat exceed
that of last year.
At the National Corn Show.
Kansas, the habitat of alfalfa and
the “hogs' idea of heaven" will show
the results of some interesting ex
periments with alfalfa, the plant whioh
has not only given hogs the best feed
they have, but has at once solved the
problem of soil fertility and mainten
ance.
A Singing Candidate.
Aurora.—Political interest is now
running high in this county. The
Y/ood brothers' quartet is holding
singing and speaking meetings in
every part of the county. One of the
brothers is running for office.
Beaver City Corn Show.
Beaver City.—One of the most in
teresting events occuring in Furnas
county during the year was the boys*
and girls’ corn show and cooking con
tests held at Beaver City October 20.
Over 300 people, were in attendance,
an^ 125 entries, were made in the con
tests.
Quick Trip to Save Child's Life.
Lyons.—Ed. Burdick’s 4-year-old
child got hold of a bottle of strychnine
and swallowed a quantity of it. Dr.
Keetel was at once called py phone
and reached the place in his automo
bile in just thirty minutes—a distance
of eleven miles—and saved the child's
life by the use of a stomach pump.
This certainly shows the value of the
telephone and the automobile to the
farmers.
Beet Sugar Factory Starts Up.
Grand Island.—The factory of the
American Beet Sugar company of this
oity is now in full swing on the 1909
crop of beets. The roots are testing
about 15 per cent on the average and
a profitable campaign, though prob
ably not quite as long as some have
been, is expected. Applications are
coming in more rapidly than in former
years for contracts for the growing
of beets next year, the result of the
more favorable price of $5 per ton flat.
Land Sales in Kansas.
Washington—Public land sales in
Kansas aggregated $163,229 during
the last fiscal year and that state
will receive $7,382 of that amount for
educational purposes. The balance
goes Into the United States treasury
to the credit of the fund for reclae
mation projects in Kansas.
News and Notes.
The Chilean government has decided
upon naval expenditures to the
amount of $20,000,000. The program
includes the building of a Dread
nought.
Ismael Montes, the ex-president of
Bolivia, has accepted the post of min
ister to Great Britain.
Another of the alleged fraudulent
notes handled by John T. Lumbard,
treasurer of the town of Framingham.
Mass, came to light.
The general education board an
nounced that it had made a condition
il appropriation of $125,000 to Ohio
Wesleyan university at Delaware, O.
With an imposing military cere
mony the Royal Edward institute,
from which the fight against the white
plague In Montreal will in future be
conducted, was formally opened.