Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 23. ltHKt NUMBER 7
NEWS OF IKE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National. Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
Foreign.
The pope appointed Rev. James
O'Reilly, new rector of St. Anthony
of Padua, Minneapolis, Minn., to the
bishopric of Fargo, X. D., and Rev.
F. M. Failon of the provincial oblates
of Ruffalo, N. V.. to the bishopric of
Ixindon, Canada.
An official telegram from lluenos
Ayres states that the authorities hav
ing the 1910 exposition in charge have
set apart a special building for Ameri
can railway exhibitors.
At st. Petersburg, the publisher of
Tolstoi’s book. “The Kingdom of God
Within Us,“ was sentenced to a year’s
imprisonment in a fortress.
W. G. Spilter, an American, pro
prietor of the Astor house at (Colon
and alleged owner of the Cuban steam
er Otori, was expelled from Panama
territory. He was put aboard the
Royal Maii steamer, Magdalena, bound
for Jamaica and New York, by a de
cree of President Obaldia. He is
charged with enticing employes on the
Panama canal to leave their work.
Chan Yin t'ang, successor to Wu
Tung Fang as minister to China from
the United States, accompanied by
his family and a party of forty secre
taries and Chinese students arrived
in San Francisco on the liner Mon
golia.
A severe earthquake, occurred in
Guam, causing considerable damage,
according . a cablegram received at
the navy department. The women's
and children's hospital was wrecked.
There were no casualties.
(evidence is multiplying that Zelaya
intends to retire from the presidency
of Nicaragua. Reports to that effect
are general throughout that country
and the American consular officers
seem to gh e credence to them.
General.
St. Paul uas begun a fight tor lower
telephone rates. (
The interstate commerce commis
sion ordered a reduction in charges
of the Omaha, & Council Bluffs rail
road.
Bed Cloud. Sioux Indian warrior,
who died on the Pine Ridge agency,
will be buried according to the ritual
of the paleface and not above ground
as he requested.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska and
Representative Hull of Iowa are in a
contest for next fall's military tourna
ment.
Hight persons were fatally injured
and a number of others less serious
ly hurt In the wreck on the Southern
railway near Greensboro.
The Rev. Datid C. Hughes, father
of Governor Hughes of New York,
died at the executive mansion, fol
lowing a recent stroke of apoplexy.
Testimony of the Brokaw divorce
went to show that the plaintiff made
the money of the millionaire fly.
Reports from the east say Mr. Wil
lard has been offered the presidency
of the B. & O. railroad.
Senators Burkett and Brown may
split on the selection of a new district
attorney for Nebraska.
President Taft has promised to
speak at the next meeting of the
farmers’ national congress, which
meets in Lincoln October 5 to 11, 1910.
lieslie M. Shaw declared tnere is no
doubt in the minds of those who have
studied the proposed central bank
that such an institution would be
owned, or at least controlled, by the
Standard Oil company.
The state occupation tax upon cor
porations was upheld by the supreme
court of Nebraska.
President Taft said at Hartford.
Conn., that the time might come when
a civil pension list will become a ne
cessity.
George A. Puckett, five years edi
tor of the Roswell (N. M.) Dally Rec
ord. died from tuberculosis.
Many million acres of coal land will
be opened to use for agricultural pur
jioses if congress should pass a bill
introduced by Representative Mondell
of Wyoming.
Mrs. Frank Hicks and four of her
children were burned to death when a
crude oil stove exploded setting fire
to their house at Wayne. Kansas.
Another failed hank in Oklahoma
Is giving state officials much concern.
Nebraska hogs topped the market
at Denver, bringing JS.47V2.
Imports of hides and skins for the
calendar year will aggregate nearly a
hundred million dollars.
Oeneral Leonard Wood, now in com
mand of the department of the East,
will be the next chief of staff of the
army.
Iowa has a candidate for the United
States supreme court when there is
another vacancy. He is Judge Horace
E. Deemer, of the supreme court of
that state.
J. P. Morgan. Jr., came back to the
Vnited States from England. He de
nied the report, that he would take
charge of his father's great interests.
Tli j 5-cent fare proposition on Oma
ha street railway has gone glimmer
ing.
Congress, before adjournment for
the holidays, is doing some work at
night sessions.
The proposed plan to abolish the
Isthmian canal cpmission met with
vigorous opposition.
News of the resignation of Zelayn
was received with seeming satisfac
tion at Washington.
The only orders issued by the
Navy department to the "Nebraska
are for it to rejoin the battleship
fleet. That is the statement made by
officials .
Notwithstanding his unpopularity,
there seems to be much mourning
over the death of the king.
Zelaya is said to be untruthful as
well as inhuman.
After ten rounds of furious fighting
"Cyclone Johnny" Thompson of Syca
more. 111., was awarded the decision
over "Fighting Dick" Hyland of San
Francisco, before the Empire Ath
letic club in Kansas City.
Henry W. Blodgett. United States
attorney for the eastern district of
Missouri, has resigned.
Four persons were killed and a
number of others injured when a Cen
tral of Georgia passenger train col
lided with a passenger train on the
Macon & Birmingham road.
Four hundred and forty thousand
of the Red Cross stamps, the profits
of which are to be used for the war
on tuberculosis, have been placed on
sale in Nebraska.
At the request of Representative
McGuire, Secretary Wilson ordered
that the government good roads ex
hibit which was sent to the Topeka
convention be transferred to Lincoln
for the state convention which will
be held in that city during the week
of January 17.
A number of members of the Ne
braska and Iowa delegations take ad ,
vantage of the recess of congress to j
go home for the holidays.
Alaska's delegate to congress. Jas.
Wickersham. said that upon his ar
rival in Washington early in January,
he would introduce a bill providing
for the establishment of a territorial
government for Alaska.
The Towle Syrup company's plant
at St. Paul, Minn., was almost totally
destroyed by fire. The loss is $l.fl0.00f>.
The house passed the Esch bill, re
quiring railroads to make full monthly
reports to the interstate commerce
commission of all accidents.
After perfunctory sessions of boih
houses the Illinois general assembly
adojurned until Tuesday, January 4.
and the prospective battle over deep
waterway, primary and other legis
lation advocated by Governor Deneen
goes over until the new year.
Some choice heavies sold at To
ledo. Ohio, at $S.70, the highest price
reached in the local hog market since
189.'!. The market advanced a strong
ten cents, the top price of the bulk
of sales being $S.60.
The president gave the first of his
formal white house dinners.
Washington.
News of the resignation of Presi
dent Zelaya at Nicaragua was re
ceived with evident satisfaction at the
state department and elsewhere bnt
not one sypllable of comment could
be elicited from any responsible
officer of tlip administration.
Severely attacking Secretary of the
Interior Richard A. Ballinger, the Gug
genheim interests, and the administra
tion of the land office in general. Rep
resentative Hitchcock of Nebraska
urged upon the house the necessity of
appointing a speciai pommittee to in
vestigate “tlie notorious land frauds
of recent years."
By a joint resolution offersd in con
gress a commission of seven persons
to investigate the prospects for a
semi-centennial celebration of the
emancipation proclamation in 1913. is
provided.
On the occasion of the 110th anni
versary of the death of George Wash
ington the Alexand ria-Washington
lodge of Masons, in accordance with
its annual custom, placed a memorial
wreath on the tomb at Mount Vernon.
Conservation of all the timber lands
lying within the bounds of the Yose
mite National park in California is
urged by Major Forsythe, acting su
perintendent of the park, in his an
nual report to the secretary of the
interior.
“Hands off Hawaii in liquor mat
ters" is substantially the protest re
ceived by congress from the Hawaii
an legislature. The secretary of Ha
waii transmitted to the two houses of
congress a resolution declaring that
any legislation to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquor In that territory,
as proposed in a pending bill, would
brand Hawaii as incapable of self
government.
The estimates of expenditures of
the war department for the coming
year amount to $94,799,067, and were
favorably acted on by the house com
mittee on military affairs and the bill
is ready to be reported to the horse.
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Personal.
State Senator John Raines of New
hork. author of the Raines law, died
a few days ago.
Horace H. l.urton has been appoint
ed associate justice of the United
States supreme court.
Rev. J. Albert Hyden. whose father
was with General Washington when
General Cornwallis surrendered, died
at his home in Ottawa, Kansas, aged
83 years.
George Dudley, former commission
er of pensions, died in Washington.
Vigorous denunciation of President
Zelaya was .made by Senator Rayner.
President Zelaya is pictured as rul
ing Nicaragua with an iron hand.
President Taft made a speech be
fore a bowery audience Jn «ew York.
In a speech at London Premier As
quith pledged local self-government
to the Irish.
Henry Augustus Willard, the last of
the three well known Willard broth
ers of Washington, D. C., died a few
days ago. aged 87.
President Zelaya says he is the vic
tim of a big and strong nation.
NOT MUCH DOING UNTIL AFTER
THE HOLIDAYS.
ADJOURNMENT FOR A TIME
Appointment of Lurton to Be Asso
ciate Justice Occupying Atten
tion of the Senate.
Washington.—With probably fewer
than a Quorum of members of either
house in the city, all legislation in
congress during the next two days
will be by common consent. The
house will undertake nothing more
than the passage of some bills of
minor importance and the comple
tion of its work on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill, which al
ready has been under consideration
for two or three days.
It has been hoped that the army
supply bill might be taken up and dis
posed of before adjournment, but that
program has been abandoned in the
face of the departure of so many
members. It is expected that very
little time will be necessary for the
disposal of the District bill, and with
it out of the way the house, in the
main, will simply "tread water" until
the time for adjournment for the holi
days.
The senate will undertake very lit
tle except the confirmation of Hon.
•Horace H. burton to be' associate
justice of the supreme court of the
Cnited States. The nomination will
be reported favorably to the senate
on Monday and an effort will be made
to have it acted upon. The present
indications are that there will be no
objection to such a course and that
Mr. burton's confirmation will take
place before the beginning of the holi
days., thus enabling him to take his
seat on the supreme bench Upon the j
reconvening of that'body after the
holidays.
It is not expected that a quorum
will be present either Monday or
Tuesday, and if such should prove to
be the case a call for an aye and no
vote would have the effect of postpon
ing action until January. No one
seems twilling to accept this responsi
bility, and Senator Bacon of the judi
ciary committee, who has charge of
the nomination, is hopeful that the
expediency of 3uch a call will not be
resorted to.
Undoubtedly there are a number of
senators who consider Mr. burton’s
age to be against him. but their ob
jection does not go to the extent of
pronounced opposition.
Some investigation is being made of
Judge burton's decisions as a circuit
judge, with a view to determining tlie
foundation of the charge that they are
in the interest of corporations, and a
statement covering this phase of the
question probably will be presented
to the senate when the subject is tak
en up for consideration.
In the main, the disposition is to al
low the president to have his way in
the selection of a successor to Justice
Beckham, but many of the senators
are disposed to make a record regard
ing Mr. burton's shortcomings, if be
has any.
If it were a question of success or
defeat. Mr. burton would have many
champions and there is no doubt that
he would be confirmed on a vote. The
only question involved at this time is
the advisability of delay. He would
be confirmed soon after the holidays,
even though the question should be
deferred so long.
Both houses will adjourn on Tues
day for two weeks, the day for the re
convening being fixed for Tuesday,
January 4.
Green B. Baum Is Dead.
Chicago.—Gen. Green Berry Baum,
former commissioner of pensions, died
at his home here after an illness of
several weeks. He was 80 years old.
To Enforce Food Law.
Washington.—A comprehensive en
largement of the activities of the De
partment of Agriculture in the admin
istration of the pure food act is con
templated. Their object is to inaugu
rate for ports where the department
has no chemical laboratory, a system
atic inspection of foods, as in done at
the ports where such facilities exist.
For this purpose there has been estab
lished a complete chain of laboratory
districts, with headquarters, to which
will be sent samples of imported goods
when necessary.
Oklahoma Bank Law Attacked.*
Oklahoma City.—Restraining orders
against State Bank Commissioner
Young were asked in a suit argued in
the district court. The United States
Fidelity and Guaranty company and
the Southern Surety company, sure
ties for the State School Land com
mission in the protection of funds de
posited with the Columbia Bank and
Trust company, asked the court to pre
vent the bank commissioner from mak
ing the state guaranty fund and slate
banks preferred creditors in closing
up the bank's affairs.
Cardinal Satolli Fatally III.
Rome.—Cardinal Satolli has suffe red
a severe relapse from nephritis. Ex
treme weakness has been marked and
he is often delirious. The doctors L'ea.r
a fatal issue.
Rumor of Menelik’s Death.
Rome.—A rumor was circulated here
that King Menelik of Abyssinia, was
dead, but there is no confirmation of
this. The latest dispatches from Ab
yssinia. which are dated December 12,
merely announce the illness of the
king, but give no details.
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ORGANIZED LABOR PREPARES TO
OPPOSE ‘ OPEN SHOP.”
Copy of Grievances Is Sent to Presi
dent Taft and Governor of
States.
Pittsburg, Pa.—At tlio close of a
momentous two-days' conference here
Tuesday, war was formally declared
upon the United States Steel cor
poration by the leaders of organized
labor throughout the United States
and Canada.
The decision to battle long and hard
against the stand taken by the steel
corporation in its policy of “open
shop" was reached by the labor con
ferees only aftej- hours of debate and
a deal of IToubri?.
In a resolution adopted by the na
tional labor leaders, organized labor
throughout the country is called on to
thoroughly and completely organize
all employes in the iron, steel and tin
plate industry, ordering an assess
ment of ten cents per member, rec
ommending appointment of commit
tees to see the president, congress and
the governors for the purpose of lay
ing before them the “grievances from
which labor suffers at the hands of
the steel corporation.”
At the conference, which passed
the remarkable battle decree, Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, presided, and
through him the measure was put
upon the record books of the execu
tive council of the federation.
The grievances of organized labor
against the steel corporation, as set
forth in the resolution, have been for
warded to President Taft and the Uni
ted States senate and house of repre
sentatives. The governors of the
states in which the United States
Steel corporation owns plants or has
interests will also receive a copy of
the resolution.
The resolution deals principally
with the low wages paid the men In
the employ of the steel corporation,
the hours of work and the general
condition of oppression under which
the corporation is alleged to hold its
employes.
Thorough organization of all em
ployes in the iron, steel and tin plate
Industry and co-related trades la urged
and a call for organizers to assist in
the work is made.
JOHN W. GATES IN NEW ROLE
Appears Before Methodist Conference
and Warns Delegates Against
Speculative and Other Gambling.
Galveston. Tex.—John W. Gates,
the once prominent Wall street
figure, appeared in a new light at the
Gulf District Methodist Episcopal con
ference in session at Port Arthur,
when he addressed the gathering of
church men and laymen, warning
them against speculation and all other
forms of gambling.
He pictured the life of a man who
gambled, and speculated, and turned
fortunes in a few hours. Jumping from
pauper to millionaire, and then to
pauper, as compared with the tiller of
the soil, and the mechanic and the
merchant, who earns his money by
labor and by shrewd business meth
ods, invest well his savings.
Woman In Quantrel! Raid Dies.
Emporia, Kan.—Mrs. Sallie McKin
ney, who. tradition says, led Quan
trell and his band into Lawrence
on the memorable occasion of the
sacking of that town on August 31,
1863, died here after a long Illness.
Prison for All Who Aid Strike.
Sydney, N. S. W.—Business has
been so demoralized by the miners’
strike that the legislature took the
drastic step of passing a bill render
ing both strike leaders and employes
who instigate or aid a strike or lock
out liable to imprisonment for a
year.
New Japanese Envoy Arrives.
San Francisco. — Baron Yasupa
Uch.'ia, new Japanese ambassador to
the United States, arrived here Fri
iuy on the liner Tenyo Maru.
COOK COMMITTEE IS AT WORK
Members Are Fully Acquainted with
Explorer’s Records—Loose-Dunkle
Affidavits Create Excitement.
Copenhagen.—The meetings of the
Cook committee at the observatory
are rigorously guarded.
The committee is now fully acquaint
ed with tile explorer's records and it
is said that they contain nothing Dr.
Cook could not have compiled alter
his return, during his five months' stay
in Greenland or aboard the Hans
Egede, where there was an abundance
of voluntary assistance by a scientist
versed in exploration, a knowledge of
instnmienis and also of the use of a
typewriter.
The Loose-Dunkle affidavits have ar
rived and are creating much excite
ment.
Private advices from Christiania
state that Nansen, who has' hitherto
declined to give an opinion, disbe
lieves Dr. Cook’s claims.
New York.—Capt. B. S. Osbon of
this city, secretary of the Arctic
club, has written Capt. Joseph
E. Bernier in Ottawa. Ont., and others
that Capt. August W. Loose’s story
of his dealings with Dr. Cook, as pub
lished in a New York newspaper, was
concocted for sale without regard to
the truth.
“In the presence of witnesses.” said
Capt. Osbon, “I heard Loose say:
“ ‘I was out for the money and I
didn’t care how I got it.’ ”
Capt. Osbon does not believe that
Loose’s narrative as supported by his
.affidavits, was a part of any plot to
discredit Dr. Cook.
"The idea originated with Loose
and Dunkle,” says Capt. Osbon. “They
had for sale matter in this contro
versy so explosive that nobody dared
handle it. When they found that out,
they cast about for something else.
Dunkle was the promoter. Loose the
workman. Also, Dunkle got most of
the money. That’s what Loose says,
and now he is casting around to see
where lie stands. He’s got a corn
science and it smarts.”
SUGAR CO. PAYS $695,573
Arbuckle Bros. Reimburse United
States For Money Due as Cue
toms Duties on Imports.
New York.—Arbuckle Bros., gener
ally credited with being the largest
independent rirals ot the American
Sugar Refining Company, have ac
knowledged that from 1898 to 1907
they, too, failed to pay the govern
ment all the money due as customs
charges on imported sugar.
In settlement of all civil claims
against them, the Arbuckles hare of
fered and the treasury department,
with the concurrence of the attorney
general, has accepted payment of
$695,573. But criminal prosecution of
those responsible will in no wise be
hampered or conditioned by this ac
ceptance.
Johnny Thompson Gets Decision.
Kansas City, Mo. — The cham
pionship aspirations of “Fighting
Dick” Hyland were rudely shattered
last night when, after ten rounds of
fast milling, Johnny Thompson was
awarded the decision over the CSalifor
nian. The bout was a whirlwind affair,
both boys being of the aggressive kind.
Thompson twice sent Hyland to the
,.oor.
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Gen. W. W. Dudley Dead.
Washington.—Gen. W. W. Dudley of
Indiana, formerly commissioner of
pensions, died Wednesday of Bright's
disease.
To Take Over Potash Mines.
Berlin.—The government of Prussia,
which owns three potash mines, has
presented to the federal council a bill
extending imperial control over the
potash production of the country.
Many of the existing potash contracts
are with American firms.
Blow Up Bank; Steal $Z,000.
Lawton, Okla.—Five robbers entered
the Citizens’ State bank at Geronimo,
a small town near here Friday, dyna
mited the safe and escaped with >2,000
in cash.
ZELAYA TENDERS HIS RESIGNA.
TION TO NICARAGUAN NA
TIONAL CONGRESS.
LOOKED UPON AS FORMALITY
Ruler's Action Is Acclaimed by People
with Shouts for United States
and Estrada—Sends Message to
Assembly.
Managua, Nicaragua. — President
Zelaya has resigned. He sent bis
resignation as chief executive to the
national congress of the Nicaraguan
republic on Thursday.
Five deputies were appointed im
mediately upon the receipt of the
resignation to draft a bill looking to
its acceptance, which is now consid
ered a mere formality.
Accompanying his resignation Ze
laya sent the following message to
congress:
“The painful circumstances into
which the country is plunged call for j
acts of abnegation and patriotism on
the part of good citizens, who are the
witnesses of the oppression of the
republic by the heavy hand of fate.
The country is staggering under a
shameless revolution which threatens
the nation's sovereignty and a foreign
nation, unjustly intervenes in our af
fairs, publicly providing the rebels
with arms, which has only resulted
in their being defeated everywhere
through the heroism of our troops.
“To avoid further bloodshed and for
the reason that the revolutionists have
declared that they would put down
their arms when I surrendered the ex
ecutive power, I hereby place in the
hands of the national assembly the
abandonment of the remainder of my
term of office, which is to be filled by
a substitute of their choosing, with
the hope that, this will result in good
to Nicaragua, the re-establishment of
peace and particularly the suspension
of the hostility of the United States,
to which I do not wish to give a pre
text for intervention."
News of the president's action
spread throughout the city, and soon
great crowds moved through the
streets, shouting for the United States,
Estrada and the revolution.
Appareixtly theye was no other
course for Zelaya to take. The'-p^ople
were aroused. The guns of the revolu
tionists threatened. The warships of
the United States lay in Nicaraguan
ports. v
Managua has been seething for days.
The spirit of revolt has spread even
to the gates of the palace. Zelaya sur
rounded himself with an armed guard.
Unchecked, the people have marched
through the streets, crying for the eud
of the old, proclaiming the new regime.
Who will take up the reins no one
knows nor cares. There is no doubt
that congress will act quickly.
Df. Jose Madriz, judge of the Central
American court of justice at Cartago,
who has been close to Zelaya and is
now his ohoice for president, is on his
way here.
Madriz has his following strong and
influential, even among the revolution
ists, but Gen. Estrada, under whose
command the great body of fighting
insurgents now face Vasquez's troops
at Rama, will have none of him.
Estrada's word will bear weight in
the choice of president.
Zelaya has known, too, that Madriz
is not acceptable to the United States,
and he has sought to learn who would
be looked upon with favor by that
government as his successor, but the
American government, so far as can
be learned, has named no man and the
choice probably will lie with those
who have gained the upper hand.
RUSH MARINES-TO COR INTO
U. S. S. Buffalo with 700 Men Aboard
Gets “Hurry-Up" Sailing Orders—
American Citizens Alarmed.
Washington.—The United States
ship Buffalo, now at Panama with 70C
marines on board, was Friday ordered
to sail at once for Corinto.
This action was taken as the result
of a telegram received from the United
States consulate at Managua, in which
it was stated that inasmuch as Ze
laya, in his message resigning the
presidency, had made unpleasant ref
erence to Americans, and owing tc
a report which was current in that
city to the effect that civilian adher
ents of Zelaya had been armed with
daggers, the citizens of the United
States had appealed to the consulate
for protection.
Another telegram from the Ameri
can consulate at Managua states that
it Is currently rumored there that
when Madriz arrives in Managua Ze
laya will formally surrender his office
to the national assembly, and that that
body has already received instructions
from Zelaya to cast its vote for Irias
as president of Nicaragua.
The conclusion of the United States
officers at Managua is that by the
selection of Irias, Zelaya would stil!
retain his hold on power and continue
to dominate the situation.
Children Burn In Locked House.
Winnipeg, Man.—Two daughters,
aged two and five years respectively,
of Sydney Masters of Fort Rouge
were burned to death Friday in a fire
which destroyed the Masters’ home
Mrs. Masters locked the children in
the home while she was away.
Henry Vy. Blodgett Resigns.
Washington.—Henry W. Blodgett
United States attorney for the eastern
district of Missouri with headquarters
at St Louis, has resigned and the
resignation has been accepted.
KING LEOPOLD PUSSES AWAY
AGED MONARCH UNABLE TO
LONGER STAND STRAIN.
After Restful Day. Alarming Symp*
toms Appeared. Physicians Unable
to Prolong His Life.
Brussels.—King Leopold of Belgium
died at 2::!i> o'clock Friday morntng,'
his aged and wasted body being un
able to stand the strain put upon It.
The collapse occurred suddenly and
at a moment when the doctors seem
ingly had had the greatest hopes fot
his recovery.
Apparently the drainage of tho
wound was perfect, as no fever was
present and during the day the king
had been able to take nourishment.
The public at large was satisfied
that the king was on the road to re
covery, but within the pavilion, where
the king lay, there was a feeling at
anxiety, chiefly because of Leopold's
great age.
After a restful day the patient was
able to sleep for a brief period early
in the evening and the night passed
quietly. But towards two o’clock
alarming symptoms appeared.
Suddenly the king turned and called
to Dr. Tbiriar:
“I am suffering.”
Dr. Do Page was summoned and the
two physicians did everything possi
ble to prolong life, but without avail.
The end came quickly and. after a
spell of weakness, peacefully.
Prince Albert arrived at the death
bed about twenty-five minutes later.
The young man who will ascend
the Belgian throne, the pride of hia
nation and one of the best educated ol
royalty, a lover of outdoor sports anti
fair play, wept as he stood beside the
remains of the uncle whose death
had made him king and across the
watching city there swept the cry:
‘The king is dead; long live the
king!”
Leopold II., king of the Belgians,
was born April 9, 1S35. His father was
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, an
uncle of the late Queen Victoria. His
mother was a daughter of Louis Phil
ippe of France.
Leopold's father was elected king
of the Belgians in 1831 when they es
caped from Hutch rule, and Leopold
II. succeeded to the throne in 1865. At
the age of IS he was married to Marie
Henrietta, daughter of the Archduk**
Joseph of Austria. On his majority he
entered the Belgian senate. During
the following five years he traveled in
Spain, Morocco, Algiers, Egypt, Pales
tine, India and China, earning the dls
tinction of being the most traveled
monarch in Europe when he became
ruler of Belgium. Leopold often ei
pressed a desire to visit the United
States in later years, but the coming
of old age, his cares and perhaps, to
a certain extent, his pleasures pre
vented.
12 DEAD; 25 HURT IN WRECK
Broken Rail Derails Southern Railway
Passenger Train—Cars Fall Down
Thirty-Foot Embankment.
Greensboro, N. C.—Local passenger
train on the Southern railway, known
as the Richmond and Atlanta train,
was wrecked Wednesday at Reedy
Fork trestle, ten miles north of here,
and 12 dead bodies have been re
moved from the wreckage. It Is re
ported 14 are dead. Twenty-five in
jured are at St. Leo's hospital.
George .1. Gould, who with his son
Jay, was in one of the Pullmans when
the train jumped the track and who
w'as reported dead, escaped uninjured.
The derailment was caused by a
broken rail about 200 feet from the
trestle that spans the small stream.
The engine and baggage, mall and
express cars passed over in safety,
while the day coaches and Pullmans
were thrown from the trestle into the
creek 30 feet below.
DR. DOXEY HELD FOR MURDER
Official* at St. Louis Cannot Explain
Arrest — Wife la Charged with
Poisoning William Erder.
St. Louis. — Dr. L. B. Doxey. Co
lumbus, Neb., husband of Mrs. Dor*
E. Doxey, was lodged in the police
hold here over night. Opposite hta
name on the record is, “Charged with
first degree murder.”
The arrest of Dr. Doxey was sur
rounded with mystery. No indictment
has been returned by the grand jury
investigating the death of William J.
Erder. The circuit attorney’s office
said the police were not ordered t«
make the arrest.
Mrs. Doxey was brought here from
Nebraska on information charging
first degree murder. The coroner's
jury returned a verdict holding that
she poisoned Erder, whom she is
charged with having married las;
April.
Dr. Frank W. Reilly Dead.
Chicago.—Dr. Frank W. Reilly, for
many years assistant health commis
sioner of Chicago, union soldier, pio
neer sanitarian and editor, died at his
home after an illness of 15 months.
Mexican Insults Old Glory.
Monterey, Mex.—A drunken Mexi
can has been placed in jail here for
tearing down and spitting upon an
American flag in token of his con
tempt for the attitude of the United
States in the'Nicaraguan affair.
Sneezes Out Bullets.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—After carrying
three bullets in his head for 47 years
Francis Rogers of this city, a civil
war veteran, ejected them from his
nose during a fit of violent sneezing
Thursday.
