Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 28, 190!) NUMBER 51 _ IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES or II WEEN LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLC OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the 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. V 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. '\ - r 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.