f Loup City Northwestern
V PLUME XXVII _ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1910 NUMBER 9
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_ A Boiling Down of the More Im=
portant Erents Here and There
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Foreign.
A telephone message from Kabula
Mliro states that the American expe
dition camjje-i on Monday night at
Katwe, eight miles beyond Kabula
Mliro. Colonel Roosevelt and' the
others of the party are well. The
hunters have covered fifty-four miles
since leaving Kampla Unganda De
cember 23. The immediate objective
point is Kisir.go. fifteen miles from
Katwe.
The Chinese government formally
complained to Japan against the viola
tion of tiie Manchurian telegraph con
vention of 190,8. The complaint con
sisted of two counts, which purported
to show that the Japanese were
guilty of extending telegraph and tel
egraph lin-' and traffic in Manchuria.
Tiie special committee of Copenha
gen university which investigated Dr.
Frederick A. Cook's polar records is
now considering whether or not it will
publish a second report, giving further
details of its work. If tiie committee
should (let :de to do so, it will issue
the report about the middle of
January.
Coione! von Ketten. chief of taa se
cret police of Moscow, has been ap
pointed to succeed Colonel Karpoff,
chief of the secret police of St. Peters
burg. who was assassinated December
o*>
Henry Lane Wilson, the retiring
minister, has left Brussels, the lega
tion now being in charge of U. Grant
Smith, the secretary, pending the ar
rival of the new minister, Charles
Page Bryan, who formerly was min
ister to Portugal.
The national defense committee of
the Russian duma has rejected by a
large majority the credit for new bat
tleships.
The body of Miss Harriet Smith of
Poston, who was killed in an automo
bile accident in Honolulu two weeks
ago, reached San Francisco on the
liner Korea.
General.
Representative Hinshav of Nebras
ka announced that unless the state
department brings about a speedy ad
justment of the case of James A.
Cook, tiie American conductor, who is
imprisoned at Guadalajara. Mexico, he
will bring the whole matter to the at
tention of congress.
The total internal revenue receipts
for November were $24,310,717; for
the first five months of the fiscal year.
$113,358,162, and for the correspond
ing period of 1908. $10 . .,->4,682.
Total public- benefactions in the
United States during the last twelve
months was $141,250,000, an amount
just $40,000,000 greater than any
. previous year in the history of the
' g country.
7 " The old war museum in Danville,
111., where President Lincoln had his
office when he was riding the circuit
as an attorney, burned. The museum
contained many valuable relics.
Scores of New York shirt waist
strikers played the part of newsies
recently. Garbed in their best, the
girls invaded ttie residence and busi
ness districts, selling copies of a
newspaper printed under their editor
ship. and setting forth their side of
the strike.
Consul Olivares was appointed to
take charge of consulate at Managua.
Champ Clark says that high prices
of produce are here to stay.
Gambling in futures is to form the
subject of a conference soon to be
held at the white house. President
Taft proposes to arrive at a means, if
possible, cf preventing an unnecessary
amount of stoc k market trading in fu
ture deliveries of wheat, corn, cotton
and other products.
Reports from the east say Mr. Wil
lard has been offered the presidency
of the B. & O. ratlroa*'.
Senator I-oriroer fears he is being
Ignored in the matter of patronage
in Illinois.
Statehood legislation at the present
session of congress will not. go be
yond giving authority to the people of
New Mexico and Arizona to hold con
stitutional conventions and provide
the means for such convention.
Notwithstanding his unpopularity,
there seems to be much mourning
over the death of the king.
The next regular meeting of the
South Dakota Board of Pharmacy for
the exeminatiou of candidates for
registration and general business will
be held at Redfield January 19.
President Madriz has been notified
that he will be held accountable for
the safety of Americans in Nicaragua.
Harry Orme, the inventor of an
aeroplane which experts have declared
to be a long step forward in the sci
ence of aviation, came to grief at
Washington in a private trial and his
flying machine was badly damaged.
A census bulletin says the cost of
maintaining Lincoln's police force is
lowest of any city in the country.
At Reading. Pa., five men were in
stantly killed by the explosion of a
boiler at the new plant of the Metro
politan Electric company.
At Y'opeka, Kan., Judge John C
Pollock in the Kniled States districi
court declared the Kansas bank guar
anty law to be invalid.
While driving home ir\ a coverec
wagon loaded with Chris\nas gift*
for :heir nine children, WiillNm Payn«
and his wife, Mary, of Hamilton, Ohio
Senators Burkett and Brown may
split on the selection of a new district
attorney for Nebraska.
Patens are issuing in Europe, it is
announced, for '“an apparatus for the
transmission of pictures by wire,
showing color and motion."
| The board of governors of the Ex
i plorers' club voted to expel Dr. Cook
j for alleged deception.
“If direct primary laws are safe and
can be operated wisely, then tlieir
scope can be extended.” said Leslie
M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treas
I ury, in an address to the Indiana
Teachers' association in Indianapolis.
George Hanley, a farmer living two
miles east of Colfax. la., drove his
wife from home at 2 o'clock in the
morning and with the thermometer at
least 12 degrees below zero, slit* was
compelled to walk in iter gown and
without shoes to a neighbor's resi
dence. half a mile away. She was
badly frozen.
The centenary of the birth of Wil
liam Edward Gladstone was comme
morated not only in the land of his
birth, but in countries like Greece, the
Balkans and Armenia.
The sultan accepted the resignation
af Hilmi Pasha, the grand vizier.
President Taft is trying to find a
way to make future payments in the
Panama canal work and reimburse the
treasury for amounts expended from
the working balance for canal dig
ging. To do this the president wants
j to devise a way to issue the Panama
canal bonds authorized in the Payne
tariff law.
Zelaya is on his way to Mexico City,
: where his stay is indefinite. He is in
no sense a prisoner. In an interview
he said Secretary Knox had been un
duly harsh.•
P. L. Gue. who lives near Tecum
seh. Neb., lias a photograph, recently
j taken, of a grist mill erected near
I Perryopolis. Fayette county. Pa., in
; ITTtJ. by George Washington. The
: mill is In daily operation at this time.
Death has thinned the ranks of dis
; tinguished figures in the world of
sport to an unusual extent in the
year now near its close.
New York striking shirtwaist mak
ers voted to refuse the settlement
offered by tlie manufacturers and de
clared their intention to continue the
strike until all of their demands are
granted.
The Atlantic coast, all the way from
Boston to New York, v.a; swept by
the worst storm for many years.
Senator Norris Brown has filed in
I the supreme court at Washington
j brief in a Nebraska railroad case.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
set about to reduce the deficit in his
department,.
The president is concerned lest the
Standard Oil decision, if affirmed, has
a bad effect on the business world.
The insurgent victory in Nicaragua
is declared at Bluefietds to have been
overwhelming.
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President Taft discussed with mem
bers of his cabinet the final details of
the special message he will send to
congress dealing with proposed amend
ments to the interstate commerce and
Sherman anti-trust laws. Mr. Taft be
gan work on the important document
Thursday.
The state department is becoming
impatient at the manner in which the
Mexican government is delaying ac
tion in the case of James A. Cook, an
American citizen, who was arrested,
charged with complicity in the rob-.
; bing of trains.
Executive clemency lias been exer
cised in the case of Thomas West
moreland now^ undergoing life impri
sonment following his conviction in
the circuit court, eastern district of
Texas, for murder committed in the
Indian territory in June 189J.
Representative Maguire of Nebras
ka announced that he has selected
Oeorge T. Liddell of Tecumseh as
principal to take the examination for
entrance to West Point, and Thomas
I. Doyle of Lincoln to take the exami
nation for Annapolis.
Prospects for remedial legislation
at this session of congress are not
entirely promising.
The magnitude of the sewer systems
of the largest cities is set forth in a
bulletin just issued by the census
bureau. Aggregating the seyers in
the 157 largest cities of the United
States, their combined length would
be sufficient to girdle the earth at the
equator; or if laid on the bottom of
the Atlantic would provide seven sub
ways from New York to London.
The American Red Cross has taken
the initiative in a new method of fur
nishing relief to those left destitute
through some great disaster, and if
the present plan is followed, it will
be put into operation first for the re
lief of the widows and orphans who
have been left helpless by reason of
the great disaster last month at the
Cherry uiin« in Illinois.
Personal.
Governor Haskell asks governors of
Nebraska and Kansas to join in an ap
peal in Hie matter of the bank guar
mty law.
The governor of More province re
commends two separate governments
irorn Philippine islands.
Speaker Cannon's friends are fear
ful that Taft may Join the insurgents.
Governor Frear has been attacked
by the Hawaiian delegate to congress.
Rear Admiral Kimball made an un
official call on President Madriz of
Nicaragua.
After two years in prison Russia’s
famous alleged female revolutionist
is to have a trial.
Frederic Remington, the artist, diec.
at his home in ftidgefield, Conn., from
heart failure.
The new president c.f Nicaragua,
.lose Madriz. is taking hold of affairs
with a strong hand.
i CONGRESS WILL BEGIN WORK IN
REAL EARNEST.
j
ALL HANDS TO THE PLOW
House Calendar Well Filled, With
Canal Zone Government Case
First to Come Up.
Washington,—Congress will begin j
business in earnest this week. With i
tiie Christmas holidays behind them i
and with the preliminary ante-holiday
plans completed, both houses will !
' start in upon reconvening, with the j
! intention of keeping their hands to
the plow, to continue until "the crop
is laid by," which it is now believed I
will take place in the early summer. I
The senate is not so forward with its
work as is the house, and tiie former
body may experience difficulty in
finding something to do during the
; first few days of its sitting. But the
house calendar is already well filled,
: and as soon as the formalities per- ,
1 rnit, that body will get down to;
i serious business. Both houses will re- (
j convene at 12 o’clock Tuesday, but I
, tiie immediate announcement of the
tecent death of Senator McLaurin of
| Mississippi will result In adjourn
j ment of both for the day out of re
! sped to his memory. It is doubtful
j also whether there will be a quorum
i on the first meeting day. so that but
; little business would probably be
transacted under any circumstances.
Wednesday will he canlendar day
j in the house and that body again will
flake up the Mann bill for the reor
i ganization of the government of "the
Panama canal zone." It is believed
this measure will be disposed of in
one day and with it out of the way
, the house will attac k the appropria
j don bills.
The army supply bill is already on
(the calendar and by the time it is
passed the fortifications will be ready
l for consideration. Following the tor
i' tifieations measure will come the
j urgent deficiency, the agricultural and
| the navy Dills. Even the sundry civil
! aud the legislative hills are well
: blocked out in committee. Indeed a))- .
| propriation legislation is further ad- j
I vanced in the house than ordinarily i
! at this season, and it is the opinion !
| of the experts that the supply bills
j will be so turned out by the cornmit
i tee as to render it jjossible for the
■ house to give almost continuous at
I tendon to them during the next two
! months.
i The senate committee on appropria
tions will begin soon, the considera
tion of tiie bill making appropriations
for the District of Columbia, which
already has passed the house and un
til it is reported, the senate will oc
cupy its time with the consideration
of comparatively unimportant meas
ures on the calendar. The state com
mittees have not been so assiduous in
their attention to duty as have been
the committees of the co-ordinate
body, with the consequence that the
senate calendar is completely barren.
Much interest is manifested in both
houses in the two announcements
that president’s message on the Sher
man anti-trust law and the resolu
! tious of Senator .lories and Represent
j ative Humphrey providing for an in
j vestigation of the Interior depart
ment and the forest service will be
presented on Wednesday, tiie first
legislative day after reconvening.
New Supreme Justice.
Washington.—Judge Horace H. Lur
, ton, who will be sworn in as an as
sociate justice of the supreme court
at noon Monday, arrived in Washing
ton Saturday. With him were Mrs.
Lurton. their son, Horace H. Lurton,
Jr., his wife ana their 6-year-old son,
Horace H. Lurton, third.
Three Big Christmas Gifts
Fort Worth, Tex.—Tnomas Wag
goner of this city has given each of
his three children property valued at
$2,000,000 as Christmas gifts. Wag
goner is 57 years old. a ranchman,
banker and capitalist. One nundred
thousand acres of land, 30,000 head of
cattle and 1,000 horses are given to
each child.
ON TO THE PRISON.
Convicted Banker Leaves New York
for Atlanta.
New York.—With a supreme effort
to he cheerful, but with emotion oc
casionally getting the better of him.
Charles W. Morse left New York to
begin serving a fifteen years' sentence
in the federal prison at Atlanta. Ga.,
imposed upon him for violation of the
national hanking laws. Before leav
ing the Tombs, where be had been
confined for the greater part of the
last year, Morse received his wife and
two sons and then the newspaper men.
He was too affected to say anything,
hut he handed out a carefully pre
pared statement of comment on his
case.
Hope for Peace Dwindles.
Bluefields.—Hope that the war will
be brought to an end through the
recognition of the provisional govern
ment by the United States has been
abandoned. Many believe that two
more battles must be fought, one in
the state of Chokales and the other
near Managua. There is a popular
feeling of gratitude toward the United
States because of the attention given
the wounded by physicians from the
cruisers aud the supplies sent for the
i relief of the half-starved prisoners of
] war.
NOT GOING TO WAIT FOR THE RIVER TO FLOW BY.
( ' £Al.T/i*tORe'^
A ^ AfffaHH9*r ^
BALLINGER .5 GOING TO DIVE IN AND BREAST THE CURRENT.
GEN. WEAVER A DIVINE HEALER
POPULIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDI
DATE WILL HEAD MOVEMENT.
Is Convinced That the Sick May Be
Healed Through Prayer
and Faith.
Des Moines, la.—Firmly con
vinced that thp Saviour’s promise
to heal the sick through prayer and
faith is for literal interpretation, (ien.
James B. Weaver, presidential candi
date on the Greenback and Populist
tickets at different times, has con
sented to head a movement for a na
tional convention of Divine Healers to
meet in Des Moines some time next
spring.
Gen. Weaver has been giving a
series of lectures'ion r.ivine healing at
a local church and the meetings have
commenced io attract wide attention.
He claims that his own health lias
beeu restored through prayer and
that he has seen so much benefit to
others through the same source that
he proposes to devote the remainder
of his days to the cause.
The general who has campaigned
every state and perhaps nearly every
congressional district in the nation,
regrets (hat his eyes were not opened
sooner to the truth.
RECORDS DEATH’S APPROACH
Lawyer Keeps Memorandum of His
Condition When He Feels His
Life Is Ebbing Away.
Kalamazoo.—Hearing the soft foot
steps of death approaching him,
Attorney William A. Luby, alone
in his office, kept a memo
randum of the reaper's approach while
he fought for his life during the 13
hours before the end came.
When Luby failed to appear in court
to try & case a bailiff went to his of
fice and found the body on the floor,
lying on its back, with the vest and
shirt torn open and the hands clutch
ing at the heart. On the desk were
these notes:
“I am not feeling well. Dr.-has
told me that the next attack will fin
ish me. The attack has begun. I am
taking the medicine prescribed. It
is one o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
“I am taking medicine every two
hours.
“At 4:20 my condition does not im
prove. Am still taking my medicine.
“I must have been asleep the last
two hours. 1 do not remember,”
wrote Luby shortly after seven
o'clock.
At nine o'clock he wrote: “I am
not feeling as easy."
There was no other notation until
two o’clock in the morning, when he
wrote:
“Cold; I know my condition is seri
ous. It is hard to breathe. I am—”
Mr. Luby was widely known as an
attorney and writer
Bias i-arewen to kurton.
Nashville, Tenn. — Nashville took
formal farewell Tuesday night of As
sociate Justice Horace H. Lurton of
the United States supreme court. The
occasion was an elaborate banquet at
the Maxwell house, tendered by the
board of trade of Nashville.
Cardinal Satolli Nears End.
Rome.—Cardinal Satolli. who is ill
with nephritis, is failing rapidly. Life
is being prolonged only by the arti
ficial administration of oxygen.
Ray Lamphere Is Dead.
Michigan City, Ind.—Ray Lamp
here, convicted of arson in the Gun
ness case, died here in prison Thurs
day. His death was due to consump
tion. He died without making any
statement as to his guilt or innocence.
Alton Shopmen Get Increase.
Bloomington, 111.—The Chicago &
Alton Thursday granted the demands
of the blacksmiths and helpers in the
shops of that system, allowing an in
crease of two cents an hour and im
proved working conditions.
MONROE DOCTRINE MENACED
i Mexico Rebels Against Dominance of
United States as Guardian of
. All Americas.
Washington.—A crisis in Central
and South American affairs not con
templated by the United States gov
ernment has grown out of the Nicara
guan war.
The importance of the situation was
realized thoroughly at the state de
partment Thursday and Secretary
Knox will consult with the presidentt
on the latter's return from New York
as to the best way of meeting it.
Th<- new situation involves not only
the rebellion of Mexico against the
dominance of the United States as the
guardian of all the Americans, but it
also threatens the Monroe doctrine,
in that European embassies and lega
tions in Washington sympathize With
Mexico.
Senor Creel, former ambassador to
Washington, was sent here as a spe
cial envoy in the Nicaraguan affair.
In spite of the statement of the state
department that it would hold Zelava
personally responsible for murder Se
nor Creel succeeded in getting Zelava
out of Nicaragua into Mexico, from
which country Zelaya is giving de
fiance to the United States.
Senor Creel has issued statements,
saying that everything was peaceful
between the United States and Mex
ico. The United States government
learned that Mexico will insist that
Madriz he recognized as president of
Nicaragua.
The United States will regard the
recognition of Madriz by any other
government as an act of international
discourtesy. Mexico, however, pxpeets
that such recognitions will be made.
TO PENSION CHERRY WIDOWS
Plan of Red Cross Awaits Only Sanc
ton of Mine Workers and
Legislature.
Chicago.—Maintaining that there
exists no physical suffering or
want at Cherry, 111., and declaring that
the real pinch among bereft families
will come next spring. Ernest P. Bick
nell, national director of the Red Cross,
announced that he would call a con
ference of foreign consuls in Chicago
ao a preliminary step to a final dis
bursement of funds to the widows of
mine disaster victims.
He announced also that his organi
zation had officially adopted a perma
nent relief plan for pensioning the de
pendent women, which now awaits the
official sanction of the Illinois branch
of the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca and the state legislature.
CHARITIES GET MILLIONS
Chicago Grocer Leave* 92,500,000 for
Charitable, Educational and Re
ligious Institution*.
Chicago.—Between $2,000,000 and
$2,500,000 was left to religious, edu
cational and charitable institutions by
the late Thomas Murdoch, president
of Reid, Murdoch & Co., wholesale
grocers.
The will, which was filed in the pro
bate court Thursday, disposes of an
estate which is estimated at approxi
mately from $3,500,000 to $4,000,000.
Mr. Murdoch, who was a bachelor,
left $900,000 to the widow and chil
dren of James Murdoch, a brother,
and $400,000 to John Murdoch, an
j other brother.
Finds Children’s Bodies.
Indianapolis, Ind.—In the village of
Santaclaus, two children were burned
to death Thursday. Their mother
found them with their clothing ablaze
in a room where she had left them
playing an hour earlier.
Light by Wireless Wave.
New York.—A wireless electric light
run by current shipped from the pro
ducing plant over ether waves will
supplant all the present methods of
lighting within twenty years, accord
ing to Nikola Tesla.
TO FIX TRUST LAWS
TAFT IS PREPARING SPECIAL
MESSAGE GIVING HIS
VIEWS.
DISREGARDS OIL DECISION
Will Not Wait for Ruling by Supreme
Court—Federal License for Corpor
ations to Be Voluntary, Is His
Plan.
Washington.—President Taft will
send to congress next week a special
message dealing with proposed amend
ments to the interstate commerce and
Sherman anti-trust laws, the final de
tails of which he and members of the
cabinet went thoroughly over Tues
day.
At one time it was thought that the
president might deal only with the in
terstate commerce act, leaving the
anti-trust law to some future date.
He has decided, however, that as the
two subjects are so closely related he
will adhere to liis original intentiou
of making his recommendations for
changes in the two acts in one com
munication to congress.
He also will bring forward his ideas
as to issuing federal licenses to cor
porations. The proposed license will
be a voluntary one, to be taken ad
vantage of by such corporations as
desire to place themselves under fed
eral jurisdiction, or left alone as the
directors of the corporations see fit.
It had been currently reported for
some time that President Taft might
delay his anti-trust recommendations
until the supreme court had finally
passed upon the recent Standard Oil
decision. Those to whom the presi
dent has talked within the past day or
two say, however, he has decided to
go forward with his legislative pro
gram regardless of the pending de
cision and that having determined
that many changes were needed in
the anti-trust law he will proceed to
recommend these changes ■without re
gard to the Standard Oil case.
The president and the members of
his cabinet, together with the inter
state-commerce commissioners, have
given more thought and study to the
needed changes in the interstate-com
merce and anti-trust acts than to any
other subjects since the begining of
the present administration. The pres
ident has outlined his views in gen
eral terms in speeches he has made
from time to time since his inaugura
tion and they have become pretty gen
erally known.
ICE GORGE IN OHIO RIVER
River Traffic Is Entirely Abandoned
—Bridges Across Stream at
Pittsburg Threatened.
Pittsburg, Pa.—With tons upon tons
of ice piled high against the piers of
bridges spanning the Ohio river here
and at points below Pittsburg, river
traffic has been entirely abandoned
and river men Tuesday prepared to
cope with one of the worst ice packs
ever experienced in the local harbor.
An estimated 10,000,000 bushels of
coal has been diverted from its usual
rover transportation to southern
points, and cars are being asked for
from all railroads by coal operators,
who realize that it may be weeks be
fore the packet owners can again lake
up the work of transporting the coal
fleets down the Ohio.
Philadelphia.—With food products
coming scarcer and prices higher,
with street car traffic uncertain and
slow and with many railroad trains
late, Philadelphia was Tuesday busy
raising the blockade caused by the
snowstorm. Eggs, vegetables and
other food are scarce and prices have
risen. It is expected, however, that
the blockade will be raised sufficiently
to make farm products more easily
transported.
INDICT CHICAGO COAL MEN
Two Prominent Dealers Are Charged
with Defrauding the City—Gam
blers Are Also Hit.
Chicago.—James P. Connery, secre
tary and treasurer of the Chicago
Fire Appliance Company and secre
tary of the Miami Coal Company, and
Michael H. Rogers. Democratic com
mitteeman of the Thirteenth ward and
head of the M. H. Rogers Coal Com
pany. were indicted Wednesday by
the December grand jury on charges
of obtaining money from the city of
Chicago by false pretenses in connec
tion with the sale of coal to the city.
The return of the two indictments
against the two coal dealers is the
first step in State's Attorney Way
man’s attack upon the alleged graft
combination, which Is charged with
defrauding the city of Chicago out of
many thousands of dollars.
Seven ijflictments were also re
turned by the grand jury against six
well-known Chicago gamblers. This
action is said to be the opening volley
of a determined attack on the part of
the state's attorney’s office to crush
out gambling in Chicago.
Bails Condition Is Improving.
Philadelphia.—The condition of
Bernard H. Bail, second vice-president
of the Philadelphia & Reading rail
way, who was taken to a hospital for
the insane Tuesday, is such that it
is hoped he will soon be able to leave
the institution.
Kills Self Over Postmastership
Springfield, 111.—W. E. Vlsden, for
ten years an employe in the Tuylor
ville post office. Wednesday blew out
his brains when he learned he was
not to he appointed postmaster.
SAYS PEOPLE ARE PLUNDERED
CHIEF FORESTER PINCHOT FLAY*
“RICH CRIMINALS.”
Declares Special I terests Have Mad*
Repeated Attacks on U. S.
Forest Service.
New York. — That the people
! of the United States have been the
complacent victims of a system of
plunder of the public forests—crimes
often perpetrated by men of high sta
tion in commercial and social life—
was the open declaration of Chief
United States Forester Gifford Pin
chot in an adress before a number of
prominent publishers at the Univer
sity club.
Condemning the methods of these
"rich criminals," he said:
“But they have suffered from a
serious moral perversion by which it
becomes praisworthy to do for a cor
poration things which they would re
fuse with the loftiest scorn to do for
themselves. Fortunately for us. all
that delusion is passing rapidly,
away.”
“The American people have evident
ly made up tneir minds that our natu
ral resources must be conserved,” ho
said. “That is good, hilt it settles only,
half the question. For whose benefit
shah they be conserved—for the bene
fit of the many, or for the use and
profit of the few? The great conflict
now being fought will decide. There
is no other question before us that be
gins to be so important—or that will
be so difficult to straddle—as the
great question between special inter
est and equal opportunity; betweea
the privileges of the few and the
rights of the many; between govern
ment by men for human welfare and.
government by money for profit; be
tween the men who stand for the
Roosevelt policies and the men wh*
stand against them.
PEACE TERMS ARE REJECTED
Gen. Estrada Rejects Proposals Of
fered by President Madriz for
Suspension Hostilities.
Washington.—Gen. Estrada, revolu
tionary leader in Nicaragua, will not
accept the extraordinary terms pro
posed by Madriz, new president, as &
basis for peace.
A telegram from Bluefields Tuesday
said that Madriz proposed to Estrada
December 22 a suspension of hostil
ities pending the arrival of a commit
tee which he was sending to Estrada
to discuss an amicable and equitable
settlement. In his telegram Madriz
begged Estrada not to obstruct his
efforts for peace.
Gen. Estrada, in bis reply, expressed
his willingness to meet the Madrix
commissioners, but said the revolu
tionary party would not recognize tha
action of the legislative assembly In
placing power in the hands of Madriz.
He denied emphatically the assem
bly's right to deal with the election
of president. He said that he saw in
Madriz the usurper of the rights of
the Nicaraguan people.
ROCK ISLANDTTOCK SOARS
! New York Exchange Appoint Commit
tee to Inquire Into Alleged “Cor
ner” in Common Shares.
New York.—Following one of tha
most sensational movements in stock
exchange history, with Rock Island
common shares as its subject—a move
ment, too, enshrouded in some mys
tery as to its direct cause—the gov
ernors of the exchange met Monday
and perfected plans for a rigorous in
vestigation.
The governors appointed a special
committee of inquiry who began their
labors at once to run down the men
who “cornered" Rock Island, and
gave Wall street a brief chill.
At the opening of the market Rock
Island common, which had closed Fri
day at 49*4, started at 50%, and in
one string of transactions amounting
to 18,800 shares ran up to 80. A min
ute later it touched 81 at which
price 2,000 shares changed hands. It
then fell back, as rapidly as it had
risen, to 50. The whole affair was
over in less than half an hour.
SLAYS GIRL; KILLS SELF
Fondly Embracing Sweetheart Roy
McKinney Shoots Her, Then Ends
His Own Existence.
Peru, Ind.—Embracing her fondly
as he placed a revolver against her
body Roy McKinney of Indianapolis
Wednesday shot and killed Dora
Chapell in the dining-room of the
Bearss hotel, and then ended his own
life with the same weapon.
McKinney robbed a restaurant in
Indianappolis, and it is believed that
the daring hold-up was committed to
gain funds to take him to Peru. Let
ters found in the dead man's pockets
show that the murder of his sweet
heart was planned a week ago.
Farmer Freezes to Death.
Bloomington. 111.—The body of Mar
tin Motts, a farmer of near Leroy,
aged 60, was found in the road near
his home. He had fallen from his
sleigh and froze to death.
Woman Killed at Crossing.
Mason City. ft.—Mrs. William Cros
by, wife of a prominent farmer near
Green, Iowa., was run over by a Rock
Island passenger train on a crossing
and instantly killed. Her husband es
caped uninjured.
Engineer Makes Last Trip.
Joliet, 111.—George W. Beiber of this
city, one of the oldest engineers in
America, made his last trip Friday.
He has been in the continuous employ
of the Michigan Central for 65
years.