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s •: ■ \ •> - Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVII__ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 9, 1909 NUMBER 5 I Foreign. By a majority of 215, after a brief but exciting sitting, the house of commons recorded its claim to ex clusive control of the nation’s purse —a claim never before challenged in modern tyifes. The protocol with the United States lor the reference of the Alsop claim to King Edward for mediation was signed by the government of Chile. The cabinet of Premier Giolitte of Italy resigned. The ministerial commission which has been discussing with business men various matters of trade, has ap proved the suggestion of placing a tax of seven-tenths of one cent on each pound of cotton grown in European Russia, Bokhara and Khiva. Admiral Togo, chief of the general staff of the Japanese navy, retires from the naval command and becomes a member of the military council. He is succeeded in his earlier office by Vice Admiral Sir Gero Ijuin. An individual believed to be insane and having an imaginary grievance against the war department, shot and seriously wounded General Verand in Paris on the steps of the Hotel Con tinental. It was later discovered that he hr.d made a mistake in his man. It is nineteen days since the Her rera line steamer Maria Herrera left Santiago, Cuba, with a cargo of cattle, bound for Ponce, Porto Rico, where she was expected to arrive November 11. The steamer, however, has not been heard from and it is believed that she was foundered. General. Five more men were added last week to the bankers’ colony at Ft. Leavenworth penitentiary. J. P. Morgan has secured control of the Equiable Life society. The British house of commons adopted a resolution of censure of lords. Mexico will maintain a neutral atti tude in the Nicaraguan rumpus. The Richard-Glcason bid for the .feffries-Johuson fight, to be in Cali fornia, was accepted. President Taft has taken steps to put the Red Cross society on a perma nent business footing. Congressman Hinsbaw says Cannon cannot be elected speaker at the ses sion of the next congress. Following a charge of murder at St. Louis against Mrs. Doxey of Colum bus, Neb., a requisition was issued. The president will exert all his in fluence looking to ehanges in the in terstate commerce act. Duke Karl Theodore of Bavaria died from kidney trouble. D. L Winchell, president of the Rock Island, has beeiu elected Presi dent of the SL Louis & San Francisco road. The Kansas state treasury will re ceive J25,000 cash, as an inheritance tax, from the estate of James Clarke, a farmer in Marshall county. This is the largest tax yet assessed against a Kansas estate under the new law. The Kansas State Agricultural Col lege 2-year-old Angus steer. King Ellsworth, won the grand champion ship as the best steer in America at the International Stock show in Chi cago. ‘•More men are killed as the result of playing football in one year than are killed in labor troubles,” says John Mitchell. President Taft soon is to receive a call from the legislative committee of the Grand Army of the Republic, for a conference upon matters pertaining to pension legislation this winter. John Harvard, a negro preacher, who had committed murder, was burned at the stake near Cochran, Georgia. According to an official dispatch from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, several small villages in that vicinity have been destroyed by an earthquake.^ Secretary of War Dickinson advo cates changes in army affairs in an nual report. A strike of switchmen involving over two thousand men was inauguar ated at St. Paul, Minn. Senator Brown says the insurgents will be in evidence at the coming ses sion of congress. ' A Greenville (Ohio) man killed his mother and a deputy sheriff, wounded tw-o others and committed suicide. Senator Aldrich says the panic of 1907 cost the country $2.000,vui),0u0. Sec. Meyer has proposed sweeping changes in the navy. Attorney General Wickersham, Sen ators Elkins and Cummins conferred on changes in the interstate commerce act. ^ The United States and Chile at last have reached final agreement as to \ the terms of a protocol referring to King Edward for a definite settlement of the celebrated Alsop claim. Twenty Japanese were killed and fifteen injured, several of them fatal ly, in the wreck of a work train on the Great Northern railway between Vancouver and New Westminster. In a fire at Kansas City 140 horses were burned to death. Tho cruiser Des Moines lias been dispatched to Nicaragua to look after American interests in that country. It is said that beginning with the opening of the session of congress changes in the personnel oi the gov ernment are going to take place rap President Delano of the Wabash railroad, is said to have been profered the Chinese mission. The Iowa stock food law is declared by Judge McPherson in the federal court to be all right and sufficient to hold water. In the United States court of ap peals at St. Paul the sentence imposed by the United States district court of Nebraska upon members of the Ne braska Land & Feeding company was affirmed. The defendants had been given both fines and jail sentences and the original infliction will now be carried out. “There Is absolutely no foundation for the report that the Oregon Short Line Is to relinquish control of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pa cific,” said President Lovett of the Harriman system. “I cannot imagine where or how the rumors originated.’ Congress is to be assai.cd by re form organizations within a day or so after it convenes.. Governor Deneon of Illinois, it was made known recently, will postpone convening the general assembly in special session pending the outcome of the investigation of the Cherry mine disaster. The government faces important j problems relating to channels and i terminals in proposed waterways inti-1 provement. The National liberal federation has ! issued a manifesto declaring action of j the house of lords should be repudiat- J ed by the people. The government show's that there j were great chances for deceit in the ; inquiry of the alleged sugar frauds in New York. The Nicaragua official at. Washing-' ton was given his passports anij a scathing letter by Secretary of St.a:e j Knox and diplomatic relations were , therefore severed. The British house.of lords, by vot-j ing to reject the budget, have precipi-! tated a crisis in England. An Ohio lumber merchant says he i overheard a plot, to kill John D. Rocke- j feller. Secretary Wilson, in his annual *e-! port, said the past year had been one j of great prosperity for farmers. Representative Norris of Nebraska 1 says it will be useless to ask Speaker ! Cannon to resign. Judge Charles Amidon, of the Unit- j ed States district court of North! Dakota, advocated the execution of professional criminals and the hope lessly insane in an address at Fargo. The court of appeals has granted Gompers and his Associates a^stay pending appeal to the supreme tribun al. The prohibition amendment was de feated by a large majority in Alabama. Emperor William opened the Reich stag by personally reading the speech from the throne. f James Freeman Curtis of Boston, now United StatC3 district attorney and once intercollegiate golf champion of the United States, has been chcsen assistant secretary of the U. S. j treasury. Speaker Cannon, in a speech at Kansas City, defended the rules of the house. Congressman Carter of Oklahoma is critically ill. Washington. Representative Hitchcock of Omaha expresses the opinion that the forth coming session is going to be the live liest exhibition that congress has given the country in a long time. He expects there will be something going on every minute and that the fighting will be forced from the very opening. Mr. Hitchcock is disposed to take especial interest in pressing for postal savings banks, on which he has long had a bill pending. President Taft said he enjoyed his Thanksgiving dinner because n« speechmaking had to follow. Despite the state guaranty law tor state banks iD Oklahoma, many appli cations are pending at the treasury department for o-ganization as na tional banks in the new state and one for the Germania national bank of Ponca City was approved. It is capitalized at $25,000. A gag order afTe&ting the furnishing of information to any committee of the house or senate or any member of congress except as authorized by the head of the department in which such official serves, has been promulgated by the president. Secretary of State Knox returned the passports of Felipe Rogrigues, charge d’affairs of the Niearaguan le gation with a letter scathingly de nouncing the Zeiayan government The letter is definitely declared to represent the views of President Taft/ Congress will turn the light on the water power problem. The consular service is to receive more attention with a view to its in creased efficiency. The secretary has appointed Wilbur J. Carr, chief clerk of the department of state, director of the consular service, a newly created office. Personal. Control of the Equitable has been secured by J. Pierpont Morgan. King Edward, through the foreign office, formally accepted the invitation to act as_ arbitrator of the Alscn claim dispute between the United States and Chile. George Poster Peabody, William Dean Howells, William M. Ivins and Herbert ^Parsons are all advocates of woman suffrage. The cabinet session blue penciled the president’s message before it went to the printer. Walter Wellman calls Dr. Cook a fraud, and says his claim to the pole discovery is bogus. Cubans are becoming dissatisfied with the administration of President Gomez, and want him displaced. Dr. Cook, of Arctic fame, is said to bo on the point of a nervous break down. SESSION TO OPEN PROMPTLY AT NOON MONDAY. MESSAGE GOMES AT ONCE No Well Defined Program Arranged, Members Desiring First to Hear President’s News. Washington.—At noon Monday tho first regular session of the Sixty-first congress will be convened. Vice Pres ident Sherman will preside in the senate and Speaker Cannon will wield the gavel in the house. The beginning of the session is re garded always with interest, but there have been few sessions in recent years for which there has been so little plan ning among the members. Ordinarily Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich who speaks for the majority of the senate, have a program at the begin ning of a session, hut this year (hey have none; or, if they have one, they are not talking about it. They are waiting upon the president. By com mon consent, apparently, all are hold ing back until the president recom mendations can be received, as they will be on Tuesday, in his first an nual message. That his suggestions will be acted upon is too much to say. But there is a disposition to accom modate him as far as can be done, and there is a determination to hear his intimations before entering upon any effort at legislation along the lines upon which ho lias intimated a desire to be heard. Hven the “insurgents” generally ex press a willingness to wait upon the \\ hite House before attempting to for mulate a plan of action. This is true both in the senate and the house. They manifested much interest ift the forth coming message, but that until it is received they will be unable to form any plans. They proclaim no fight against the president, but some at least of them are avowedly irrecon cilable In their attitude toward the speaker and Senator Aldrich, whom they hold responsible, the one for the house rules and the other for the tar iff law. Unquestionably they will be heard from in some way before the session grows very old, and it is not hoped by the friends of the new tar iff .that they will escape criticism. The principal interest in the outlook centers in the possibility of railroad legislation, and ail hands are waiting! with keen expectancy to see what recommendations, if any, Mr. Taft may make on that subject. Representative Mann has bills pre pared on all these points and will pre sent them as soon as the message is received. He is chairman of the com mittee which will have the measures in hand and will press them with vigor. Much interest is felt m the Nicarag uan situation, but the general disposi tion is to permit the executive branch to deal with it without legislative in terference at least in the present stage. Congressmen generally express no apprehension as to the outcome. While t..e corporation tax provision of the tariff bill was under considera tion during the extra session, Senator Aldrich expressed the opinion that it might not be of long life, but he prob ably will take no steps to abrogate it until the full effect of the tariff as a revenue producer can be ascertained. All Land Men Included. Omaha.—Tnere was some doubt as to whether all the big land men— Richards, Comstock, Jameson, Triplet, Huntington, Todd and Hoyt—were in cluded, or just some of them, in the decision of the federal circuit court of appeals ufflrming the ruling of the federal district court fining and im prisoning these men, but there is no doubt now. They are all included. Zelaya Ready to Flee? New Orleans, La.—According to private reports received here from Managua President Zelaya has made all arrangements to leave Nicaragua on the first steamer sailing from Co rinto. The report is not confirmed. Bishop Goodsell is Dead. New York.—Rev. Dr. Daniel Ayres Joodsell, resident bishop of the Me thodist Episcopal church, died Sun day at his residence in this city. He had been ill several weeks and death followed an operation for a carbuncle. PLEA FOR STATEHOOD. New Mexico Wants to Come Into the Union. Washington. — Recalling the fact that the fading political parties dur ing tfceir last national conventions pledged themselves to statehood bills, George Curry, who recently resigned the governorship of New Mexico, in his annual report to Secretary Ballin ger again urges his aid and influence toward obtaining statehood for the territory at the coming session of con gress. Bishop Stringer Is Missing. Edmonton, Alberta.—According to advices brought down by northern In dians, Bishop Stringer and his wife, two of the best known missionaries of the north, have perished somewhere between here and - Dawson City, for which place the couple started over land last June. Bishop and Mrs. Strin ger expected to reach Dawson City in October, but nothing has been heard from them by trappers of voyagers for the last two months. Bishop Strin ger and his wife have worked among the Indians for years. CONGRESS AND THE SUGAR QUESTION. The Walter—Sug3r, Sah? , The Congressman—Sugar? No! I Don't Want to Hear About Sugar. U, S, AGENT OFFERED BRIBE TREASURY SLEUTH RETELLS STORY OF SUGAR FRAUDS. He Caught Tally Clerk Manipulating Crocked Scales in Interest of Refinery. New York. — The storm center of the sugar trial focused upon Richard Parr, the special agent of the treasury department, who was fore most in discovering and exposing short weight frauds on the Williams burg docks of the American Sugar Refining Company. Parr rehearsed once more his story of how he caught Kehoe, a tally clerk, manipulating the crooked scales; how Oliver Spitzer, one of the six com pany employes now charged with con spiracy. offered to let him name his own price for pushing the thing up, and how Brzezinski, Spitzer’s partner, hooked him by the elbow and asked anxiously: “Dick, this fellow says you’re all right. Does that go?” “Nothing goes with me,” Parr testi fied he said. Told with heat and great circum stance, the narrative made a visible effect, and counsel for the defense was quick to retort with an attack on Parr’s credulity. “You started to investigate without orders from any superior officer?” he was asked. “If you call President Roosevelt and his secretary” (now Collector Loeb) “superior officers, I was working un der orders,” replied Parr, "but if you mean the secretary of the treasury, then I was working without orders.” Further inquiry along this line was dropped. WALSH DENIED REHEARING Former Banker, Broken in Health, Faces Prison Unless Higher Court Intervenes. i PLOT TO SLAY OIL KING Conversation Is Overheard in Which Scheme to Assassinate John O. Rockefeller Is Discussed. Cleveland. O.—Acting upon informa tion given by a man who said that he had overheard a conversation in which plans to assassinate John D. Rockefeller were discussed, East Cleveland police guarded Forest Hill, the oil magnate's house, all Monday night. Several suspicious men were or dered away from the place. The po lice of Cleveland and other towBS are Investigating the alleged plot The information was given by Saw yer Smith of Minerva, O., who de clares he heard the plot being dis cussed by two men at Alliance, O.. Sunday night. Smith said he over heard the two men in subdued con versation in an alley. He says he heard one say that the death of Rocke feller would be worth thousands of dollars to a person named. Smith soon learned that the men were plot ting against Rockefeller, and that they were to be paid well for either killing or kidnaping him. It was agreed by them that it would be easier to kill and the reward would be the same, Smith says. It is believed that owing to this warning. Rockefel ler decided not to attend a church ban quet at which he was to have spoken Smith at once took the matter up with the chief of police at Canton, who in turn sent Smith to Chief Koh ler of this city with a letter of recom mendation. Kohler referred Smith to Chief of Police Stamburger of East Cleveland, in which village Forest Hill Is located. Chief Stamberger said he drove two suspicious characters away from For est Hill during the night. No arrests were made. Extra precaution was used by the Cleveland police In guarding Rocke feller at the East One Hundred and Fifth street station when the departed Tuesday for his New York home. RUEF RELEASED ON BAIL Chicago.—Broken in health and broken in spirit, John R. Walsh, con victed bank wrecker, was Friday taken Into custody as a prisoner of the United States government, after the federal court of appeals had de nied him a rehearing and refused to grant a renewal of his bond. With a five-year term in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth staring him in the face, the only thing that can now save the aged financier is the intervention of the United States su preme court. Judges Grosscup, Seaman and Baker announced the fate of the former mil lionaire and railroad promoter, so far as the court of appeals is concerned. As Judge Grosscup read the decision the aged bank wrecker’s head dropped between his shoulders and his face took on the look of a man for whom the last ray of hope has vanished. He will be constantly under the guard of two deputy United States marshals until the United States su prrme court takes action^on his case. Beats All Air Records. Mourmelon, France. — While bat tling against a wind of nearly 40 miles an hour, Hubert Latham, the French aeronaut, attained a height of 1.C00 feet, beating the world’s record. Big Schooner Goes on Shoals. Beaufort, N. C.—The schooner Marie Palmer, the largest four-master on the coast, is ashore on Frying Pan Shoal3 in a dangerous position. China Will Forbid Raising Poppy. Seattle, Wash.—Reports brought from China by the steamship Minne sota assert that in an effort to abol ish the opium traffic certain Chinese provinces will forbid the cultivation of poppies. Plot Revolution in Russia. St Petersburg.—A conspiracy to bring about a revolutionary rising has been discovered. Arrests have been made at many places in connec tion with the plot including 438 at Kieff Convicted Politician Is Freed Follow ing Doctors’ Report on His Phys ical Condition—Bond $300,000. San Francisco.—Judge Cabaniss or dered the release from custody ot Abraham Ruef on $300,000 bail. This action followed a report of three physicians appointed by the court to examine the physical condi tion of the former political leader. Ruef had been confined in the county jail since November 13 of last year. He is under sentence of 14 years in the state prison for having bribed a supervisor to vote for a trolley fran chise for the United railroads. GR0SSCUP TO LEAVE G. 0. P. Federal Judge Criticises Taft and Praises Roosevelt—Dissatisfied with Republican Party, Chicago.—Judge Peter S. Gross cup of the federal court has an nounced himself as a political revo lutionist, ready to renounce the Re publican party and join the fight against it His views are given in an article on “Prosperity with Justice” in the December number of the North American Review. President Taft is criticised, and the Roosevelt policies are commended and held to have been shelved by the present admin istration. French and Arabs Fight. Paris.—Advices received by the minister of the coltfnies Friday state that a detachment of French troops attacked and routed an Arabian band near Bilma, French West Africa. The Arabs lost 15 killed and the French five killed and eight wounded. Dunbar Furnace Co. Raises Wages. Pittsburg, Pa.—A voluntary Increase of ten per cent, to 1,000 men was an nounced Friday by the Dunbar Fur nace Company, operating coke ovens In the Connellaville (Pa.) district U. S. TAKES CUBE LANDS MARINES ON NICARAGUAN SOIL—REGULARS ARE TO FOLLOW. WARSHIPS ARE PREPARED Secretary Knox Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations by Handing Charge d'Affaires His. Passports with Letter Branding Zelaya as an Insulter. Washington.—Senor Rodriguez, the Nicaraguan charge d'affaires at Wash ington, received his passports from the state department Wednesday and the United States has taken charge of Nicaragua. Marines have been landed and the regular troops will follow. To show Its intense anger at the conduct of President Zelaya, the mes sage notifying Rodriguez of the sever ance of diplomatic relations is bitter with denunciation of a ruler that has seldom been equaled ir the history of civilized nations. Commanders of American vessels off the Central American coast have been instructed to adopt every pre caution to prevent the escape of the president of the revolution riddeD re public, even to searching all outgoing vessels. Zelaya is tc be tried as the mur derer of Groce and Cannon, the Amer icans tortured and executed at his or ders. Whether the trial will come der the regime which would attend the success of the revolutionists or tinder the provisional rule of the United States should an army of oc cupation be landed, later events will determine. The personal feeling against Zelaya in the state department is astonishing to those who contemplate that depart ment as a grave and judicial and dip lomatic branch of the government. It Is not less than the feeling that for mer Secretary Root had in the case of Castro, president of Venezuela, when Mr. Root declared that he would have no further negotiations with. Cas tro, as his word was not worth the cable toll that brought it. Secretary Knox has had the same feeling toward Zelaya. The president of Nicaragua has not only been a dis turbing element in Central American affairs but he has been so unfaithful in the ordinary affairs of state, in the exchange of proposals and promises, that Secretary Knox has become dis gusted. In this disgust the presi dent of the United States shares, and it was for that reason that Mr. Knox was told by Mr. Taft to run the af fair as he chose and it was eliminated as a subject for cabinet discussion. With the Vicksburg cleared for ac tion In the harbor of Corinto and its guns trained upon the town, and the fact established that an American landing force is camped in the; plaza of Bluefields, the state and navy de partments worked in harmony in the endeavor to place Nicaragua under the absolute control of an armed force at the earliest possible moment. As a result the cruiser Prairie steamed away from Philadelphia with 700 marines aboard, bound for Corin to via Colon and Panama, and the cruiser Albany and the gunboat York town are rushing from Magdalena bay to the same destination, under impera tive orders. Rear Admiral W. W. Kimball was hurried to Philadelphia to catch the Prairie before she left. He will be In command of the naval forces at Nicaragua. t)rders were issued to navy yards along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to get their detachments of marines In readiness to respond to a hurry call which may be issued at any moment The climax to the situation came when the president summoned his cabinet in special session to discuss the Nicaraguan situation. This par ticularly related to the advisability of the president sending a special mes sage to congress asking for permis sion for the executive to go forward uninterruptedly In the completion of its plan for the protection of American life and property and the establishment of a stable government in Nicaragua, as well as the secur ing of permanent peace in Central America. STRIKERS INSULT U. S. FLAG Foreign Workmen Hoist Black Rag and Dare Officers to Haul It Down. Pittsburg, Pa. — For pulllDg down a black flag In defiance of the edict of an Infuriated thob of striking foreign workmen near the plant of the Colonial Steel Company of Monaca, near here, Deputy SherifT Crowley was shot and probably fatally wounded. Striking workmen at the steel plant after taking down the American flag, placed a black flag on a pole and gath ered about It, daring the police officers to take It down. Fearing further vio lence, the sheriff has placed deputies on duty at the steel plant. San Fran Gets Big Fight. New York.—The fight for the heavy weight championship of the world between James J. Jeffries and John Johnson will be held In. California, in the vicinity of San Frantisco, on July 4, 1910, and will be staged by "Tex” Rickard of Nevada and John J. Gleason of San Francisco. Their hid of $101,000 and two-thirds of the moving picture privileges to the con testants was formally accepted, dur ing a stormy meeting, at Hoboken, N. J., and the final articles will be drawn up and signed there Friday TAILRGAD SWITCHMEN STRIKE INDUSTRIES IN NORTHWEST TIED UP BY TROUBLE. Thirteen Roads and 12,000 Men ln» volved—Flour Mills at Minne apolis Are Closed. St. Paul, Minn.—Twenty-three hun dred switchmen struck Tuesday oa i3 northwestern railroads after nego tiations extending over 15 day3 had failed to bring about a settlement be tween the Switchmen's Union ot North America and the railroad man agers. It is estimated that upwards of 12„ DOO men are idle on account of the strike order, thousands of freight handlers and teamsters are losing time by reason of the freight block ade in the terminal towns, while a. continuance of the strike for several days will throw additional thousands out of work. In Minneapolis the flour mills closed down, and it is estimated that 3.500 men employed in them are idle. A continuation of the strike will throw out of employment about 1,500’ more who are employed in the cooperage and allied trades. In the iron range country the small towns will soon be facing a famine unless trains of foodstuffs can be brought in there. The most serious effect will b in Montana, particularly at Butte. Ana conda and Great Falls, where the cop per mines and smelters are located. Hundreds of non-union men from Chicago are being brought in, and trouble is feared. Reports from Du luth that rioting had broken out thera increased the fears of the authorities here. Duluth, Minn.—Reports from th» yards sent police reserves hurrying to the aid of non-union men who wera attacked by rioters and stoned Thurs day. The strikers posted themselves on the viaducts crossing the railroad tracks, and several of the crews were stoned. If the switchmen's strike Is not set tled within 48 hours, probably 5,000 men will be idle in Duluth, and the range cities, which get ail their sup plies from the head of the lakes, will be in imminent danger of a food and coal famine. Duluth also will suffer from a shortage of food supplies. Chicago. — The railroad strike cloud still hangs threateningly over Chicago, and the attitude main tained by the officers of the two rival switchmen's unions, the Switchmen's Union of North America and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who apparently realize that this may be a death struggle between the two organizations if the conflict break! nit in the Chicago district, offers lit tle encouragement to those trying to prevent a freight tie-up here. HUNTERS’ DEATH TOLL BIG 33 People Slain, 36 Wounded in Sea* son Just Closed—Many Promt, nent Men Killed. Milwaukee. — Thirty-three people killed and 36 wounded is the bunting season record from September l to December 1, which marks the close ol the deer bunting season. While the death toll is targe, it is not as heavy as in 1907. This list includes more men of proa* inence than ever before, among them being Dr. John R. Moore, one of the leading surgeons of the upper penia> sula; Dr. H. L. Bacon, one of the best known physicians of northern Wiscon sin; John G. Hoeizel, a prominent business man of Milwaukee; A. HI Miles, one of the leading druggists of northern Wisconsin, and Isaac Bradley, reputed one of the largest land owners of central Wisconsin. HARRIMAN WEALTH IMMENSE Appraisers Estimate Dead Railroader's Fortune at $149,000,000— Widow Gets Alt. New York.—Edward H. Harriman, when he died, was worth $149,000,000. This became known when the ap> praisers appointed by the surrogate's court completed their estimate of hi* holdings. The state of New York, under the inheritance tax. will receive from Mr. Harriman’s estate the comfortable sum of $1,490,000. as it collects ons per cent, of the total where the estate is left to one person. That was the case with Mr. Harrt .nan He bequeathed everything of which he was possessed to his widow. Maty Averell Harriman. whom he niarriet'. in Poche6ter when tie waa merely a small trader In Wall street. Husband Held for Wife Murder. Decatur, Tex. — D. H. Hokett. fanner of Anneville, is in jail charged with the murder of his wife. The woman had been shot and her throat cut. Hokett asserts she committed suicide. Circus Man a Suicide in Georgia. Columbus, Ga.—J. M. Brown, a circus man, said to have been the son of a wealthy Cleveland (O.) real estate dealer, committed suicide here Friday by swallowing carbolic acid. No motive for the act 1c [■ known. Wedded Fifty Years, Divorced. Los Angeles, Cal.—Mrs. Lucinda 1 Sheppard, 70 years old, wife of Sam j uel Sheppard, 71 years old, for near i fifty years, was granted a divorce and $50 a month alimony.