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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVIII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910 NUMBER 12 SECRETARY MELLOR SAYS THIS IS NEBRASKAS NEED. MUST BE MORE PRODUCTION Recommendation That at Every Poor Farm in State Experimental Schools Be Established. At the recent meeting of the State Board of Agriculture Secretary W. R. Mellor made his annual report, in which he reviewed all the work done by the association, the state farm, the farmers' clubs and all associated bodies which have for their object the increase in the production of the Ne braska farm. At this time he said, the land of Nebraska which is avail able is practically all under cultiva tion. and for that reason it has be come a necessity for an increase in the production per acre. A financial report of the state fair shows a bal ance of $20,000 on hand. Mr. Mellor recommended . that at every poor farm in the state there be established an experimental farm and that the various schools each have at least five acres upon which experi ments should be made for the bene fit of the students. He argued that the farmer who is too busy to attend institutes or schools of agriculture may learn from the boys and girls who get their new ideas each day from the school farm. Alojjg these lines Mr. Mellor said: “We confidently believe that the yield of crop production will be nearer perfection if each county poor farm be made an experiment station, under the control Of an experienced scien tific agriculturist, for whose services the county and state might share equally in expense. These experts could be obtained from among the young men taking the long course in our School of Agriculture and would furnish a means of providing funds for worthy young men to secure addition al agricultural knowledge. “It is a well known fact that people living twenty miles away from an ob ject lesson receive very little benefit, from the fact that in the busy season they have very little time or oppor tunity to learn what is taking place out of their limited range of vision. Their time and attention must of ne cessity be devoted to home labors, therefore the nearer we can bring proper methods in agriculture to them the greater their profit. "In addition to the county farm ex periment station, the time will come in Nebraska when each school dis trict will have from one to five acres of an experiment station, to be scien tifically worked by the scholars as a part of their schooling, for which proper credits will be given. This will create the ideal method, as the father and mother who have charge of the work on the farm throughout the day will have daily instruction from that gathered by the children along timely, practical lines, ultimate ly resulting in love of farm life, a growth and retention of farmers for the future, added fertility to the soil and wealth to the state. Farmers’ Wives Organize. Organization among the farmers’ wives of Nebraska received fresh im petus at the annual meeting of the Nebraska Home Economics associa tion held at the university farm at Lincoln. Four officers, who have served the organization during the last year were re-elected. The session wa devoted largely to discussion of the problems of the farmers' wives. Mrs. F. .1. Burnett of Omaha leading. The noon luncheon of the school children in the country afforded an interesting topic. That the children bring the ingredients and under direction of the teacher prepare soup and other simple nourishing food, thus relieving the busy mother of preparing a basket luncheon and at the same time affording the opening wedge for the teaching of domestic science in the rural schools, was a plan that met with general approval. Miss Anna L. Barbee, county superin tendent of Christian county. Illinois, offered a course of twenty-five lessons in domestic science that has been proven successful in Illinois. This course includes the simple but import ant things from ventilation and sanita tion to the preparation of simple foods and also met the approval of the wo men. Big Broom Plant. The Leed Broom and Duster com pany, with factories ^ Boston, Daven port and Lancaster, has purchased the Lincoln Sash and Door company and will convert the plant into one of the largest broom factories in the country. This company has the contract at the state penitentiary. Depot at University Place. The order issued by the state rail way commission to compel the Rock Island railroad to construct a depot at University Place has been upheld by the supreme court. Ruling is Asked. i State Auditor Barton has been asked to rule on whether or not Wil liam B. Hughes of Omaha, secretary of the Nebraska State Bankers' asso ciation, has been guilty of receiving rebates for his association. THE CORN QUESTION. Bulletin of the Nebraska Experiment Station. The Nebraska Experiment station has just issued Bulletin No. 12 on Ex periments with Corn. This bulletin is a report of the experimental work with corn which has been carried on at the station for several years. Copies may be obtained free of cost by residents of Nebraska on application to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Lin coln, Neb. The results secured by two methods of conducting an ear-to-a-row breeding plat are reported. An average increase of about eight bushels per acre has been secured by selecting the best yielding ears by means of the ear to row test. Directions for conducting an ear to row breeding plat are also given. The effect of different rates of plant ing on the yield of grain and fodder Is discussed, also the effect of thick and thin planting on the value of ears for seed. It has been found that seed grown in plats where the planting was uniformly thick has given better re sults than seed from thinly planted plats. The physical characters of the corn plant that are to be considered when selecting seed are also discussed, and conclusions are stated where experi mental evidence will warrant. The economic value of tillers is also considered, the work being a continu ation of that reported in Bulletin No. 91, and largely confirming results se cured at that time. A comparison of different methods of distributing seed in planting has been made for two years. Corn planted at a uniform rate of three grains per hill has been compared with corn dis tributed in various ways, as would be the case if a planter were dropping unevenly. Very little difference in yield has been secured from the dif ferent methods of distributing seed. Short Horn Breeder Premiums. Governor Shallenberger, on his ar rival from Denver, Colo., where he attended a meeting of Short Horn breders, brought the cheering informa tion that the national association has decided to give Nebraska and Iowa state fairs $1,500 each for Short Horn premiums the coming year. Nebraska and Iowa had previously been discriminated against in favor of the state of Minnesota, which enjoyed the prestige of having its state fair of ficially known es the National Short Horn show. That state also got tlje big share of the money. Now the un due advantage has been taken away, and Nebraska and Iowa have an equal chance to attract the big feeders. Ne braska's premium allowance was raised from $700 to $1,500 without the state fair association being required to contribute extra funds on account of the extra allowance. Hereafter no state will be allowed to enjoy the privilege of running a national Short Horn meeting in con nection with its state fair. Each will attract the cattlemen on its own mer its. Under the previous arrangements Minnesota enjoyed an undue advan tage. and Nebraska and lotva had the little end of the deal. How much is thought of these states as the coming regions for the development of the Short Horn industry is demonstrated by the fact that they get more money for this year's state fairs than any others. Maupin Will Proscute. Deputy Labor Commissioner Will M. Maupin will appear to prosecute about twenty-five prominent Lincolnites Jan uary 25, for their failure to observe the regulation touching the building of fire escapes. It is likely that those who show a disposition to comply with the law will not find its majesty dif ficult to appease. On the other hand, a few have indicated that they will fight, and there is no question that they will have their hands full of trouble, for it is determined to enforce the lawr. To Fight Hog Cholera. At a meeting of the Nebraska Swine Breeders' association, it was prac tically decided to -petition the next legislature to appropriate money for fighting hog cholera. Swine fanciers believe the state should have a plant for manufacturing the serum used in combating the disease. State Fair Finances. Secretary Mellor of the State Agri cultural Board, in his annual report, shows total receipts for 1909 to be $58,140.78. Disbursements for same period, $69,049.41. Balance on hand Jan. 20, 1909, $31,406.01; receipts from Jan. 20, 1909, to Jan. 18, 1910, $58,140. 78; expenditures, $69,049.41. In treas ury Jan.. 1910. $20,497.28. Superintendents Get Busy. County superintendents of Nebraska will not depend upon the legislative committee of the State Teachers’ as sociation hereafter to secure them larger salaries. The superintendents decided to select a committee o£. their own for the reason the legislative com mittee had failed to deliver the goods. Surety Company Wins. Judge Cornish decided that the American Surety company was entitled to do business in the state despite the efforts of Attorney General Thompson to oust it from Nebraska. In the case of the state against the surety com pany. in which the state asked for an order from the court preventing the company from doing business in Ne braska, Judge Cornish ruled*that the demurrer of the defendants should be sustained. The judge upheld the in surance legislation of the state, saying Tie anti-trust law did not apply. "Hey, Come Down Here, and Let's See How Works.” ■ WOMAN RECLUSE MURDERED BODY OF MRS. M’INTOSH FOUND TERRIBLY MUTILATED. Robbery Is Believed to Have Been Motive for Crime—Slayer Dis embowels Victim. Rockford. 111. — Winnebago coun ty authorities are confronted by a murder mystery that, promises to parallel the unsolved Grippen case of last spring In the finding of the body of Mrs. Mary E. McIntosh in her home at 1239 West State street Thursday. The victim's head was crushed in. her throat cut and great gashes in the abdomen allowed the bowels to pro trude, while one lung was cut out and thrown on the floor. Evidence of any struggle w'as absent, the terribly mu tilated body being found just inside the front door of the room in which the deceased lived. The rest of the house was closed off. and the other oc cupants were not molested by the mur derer. A close survey of the house failed to teveal weapon or Instrument of mur der, which evidently was carried off. Discovery of the crime -was made by ' Henry Branthauer, a milk man. Rob | bery is supposed to have been the mo i tive, as a ridge on the body would in ] dicate she wore a money belt, and that in getting it off the murderer dis : emboweled the victim. 1 Mrs. McIntosh lost part of her for tune through a dishonest agent years | ago. since which time she has been most eccentric and lived as a recluse. Clinton St. Clair and wife were later i arrested as suspects and under police pressure St. Clair confessed he killed Mrs. McIntosh. Chicago. — A murder rivaling the atrocious Whitechapel outrages com mitted in London a quarter of a cen tury ago, was revealed Thursday with the finding of the headless body of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn, 48 years old. a woman of former wealth, in a cheaply furnished room at 54 West Seven ! teenth street. The body was grewsomely mutilat ed. The head had been cut from the woman's shoulders and carried away by the murderer. The heart and other organs had been cut out and then re placed. A hundred detectives searched scores of houses within the radius of a mile of the house for the missing head. Fully half a hundred women and men were taken to the Twenty ' second street police station and ques tioned. Eight persons wrere held. The first one arrested was Tillie Taylor, an | elderly negress who runs the house ■ where the Cleghorn woman was slain. SLAYER HAS COLD HEART Alleged Murderer of Girl Spurns Offer of Forgiveness from Victim’s Mother and Sister. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Mrs. Susan Lee. a Dowieite, of Zion City, III., and her daughter came here to forgive George L. Marlon, the New York theatrical man, who, it is alleged, murdered her daughter here last August, but she was spumed by Marion, who declined to pay aDy attention to her. Mrs. Lee as a Dowieite believes in forgiving those who have wronged her. When Marion was brought into court she advanced, extended her hand and murmured that she had come to tell him she forgave him. Marion ignored her and turned away and then her daughter. Miss Grace Lee, also extended her hand. “We forgive you and have come to help you,” she said. Marion turned away exclaiming "I don't know who you are.” Begin Action In Cherry Cases. Joliet, 111. — Clark Johnson, as sistant to Si^e Factory Inspector Davies, said he had filed an informa tion against the St. Paul mine in Eu reau county for employing ten boys under lfi years of age. Three of these boys perished in the fire last fall at the Cherry, ill., mine. Not Much Trouble To Write Sorre Proper Narr.es That at Least Have the Distinguishing Merit of Novelty. In the Zuyder Zee there is a hay called V, and Amsterdam has a-river Y. while, strange to say, in quite an other part of iho earth, in China, the ■janie brief name is given to a town, elsewhere In the flowery kingdom. in the province of Honan, there is a city called U, and in France there is a river and in Sweden a town rejoic ing in the name of A. Proper names of this brief nature are not, however, monopolized by places; instances are on record where individuals have been similarly named. Some years ago there was a shop kept on the Rue de houvan. Iirussels, by ALLEGE THEY LOOTED ROAD Charged in Civil Bill That Three Prominent Chicagoans Obtained $850,000 Railroad Money. Chicago.—Purchases cf millions of dollars’ worth of real estate by the Chicago & Western Indiana railroad for a new depot and freight yards may he held up pending the investigation by State's Attorney Way man Into real estate deals through which Henjamin Thomas, former pres ident of the road; John C. Fetzer and Charles K. Kappes. real estate deal ers, are aleged to have obtained $850, 000 of the railroad company's money [ lor their own purses. The three men, two of them repre sentatives of the railroad, are accused of obtaining titles to real estate sought by the railroad and then of turning the properties over to the road at prices far above the actual pur chase prices and putting the differ ence in their pockets. Sometimes, ac cording to the bill filed in the civil suit Wednesday, the railroad was charged twice what the property cost. Whether the charges against the three men will be taken before the grand jury State's Attorney Wayman would not say. Denial of the charges was made by Fetzer and Kappes. The former said all his transactions with the road had been made in good faith. 1.000 SIGN AT WILMINGTON All Classes Are Pledg'-ng Themselves to Abstain from Meat Until Price Is Lowered. Wilmington, Del. — It is estimated that 1,000 Wilmingtonians already have signed the petitions agree ing to abstain from meat for 30 days, or until the price is lowered to a rea sonable figure. The petitions are being signed by lawyers, physicians and business men, as well as workingmen. Local meat dealers are becoming alarmed. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 21.—Fifteen thou sand men in Omaha refusing to eat meat for one month is the number for which the labor unions of (his city are striving as members of the Anti-Meat Hating club, which they have formed as a protest against the high price of meats and the exactions of the beef trust. ARREST TWO BANK OFFICERS President and Secretary of Cleveland Banking Company Are Charged with Perjury. Cleveland, O.—President IT. Grant Walker and Secretary W. G. Dun can of the South Cleveland Bank ing Company were arrested on indict ments for perjury. The men are out on bail. The bank of which they were active officers failed recently because of loans aggregating $1,144,000 made to the Werner Publishing Company of Akron, now in the hands of a receiver. Tribesmen Slay 200. Tangier, Morocco.—Two hundred of the sultan of Morocco’s troops have bene hilled In a terrific battle with tribesmen, according to news received from Fez. The tribesmen attacked the government forces, defeating them sharply. The attackers fled, pursued by soldiers. Big Firm Suspends. New York.—Following the sus pension of the firms of Lathrop, Haskins & Co., and J. M. Fiske & Co.i as a result of the sensational drop on Wednesday of 63 points in the price of the stock of the Columbus & Hock ing Coal and Iron Company, President R. H. Thomas of the New York stock exchange shortly after the opening of the exchange Thursday announced the failure of the firm of Roberts, Hall & Criss, brokers, with offices at 52 Broad way. In a general way the failure of Roberts, Hall & Criss represents $3,000,000; that of I.athrop, Haskins & Co., something like $1,000,000, and that of J. M. Fisk & Co., $2,000,000, or about $6,000,000. f REPORT 46 KILLED CANADIAN PACIFIC PASSENGERS CRUSHED, EURNED, DROWNED WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED. CARS PLUNGE INTO RIVER One Coach and Diner Sink in River, Flames Sweep Other Debris, Deal ing Death—100 Are Reported In jured. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Canadian Pacific train No. 7, west-bound, due here at. 4:15 Friday evening, when crossing the bridge at Spanish river, near Espanola, 140 miles from here, was thrown from the track, and 46 people killed and about 100 Injured. It is supposed the derailment was due to spreading rails. The accident evidently occurred as the last cars were going over the bridge, and the first-class coach and diner were precipitated to the river below. News from the scene of the wreck Is hard to obtain, the railway com pany, who control the only telegraph wire, not allowing much Information to trickle through. From the crew of a freight train which arrived here, however. It Is learned that the dead are In the cars In the river, and also in the second-class cars, which were derailed after crossing the bridge, and which afterwards caught fire, adding to the horror of the accident. Eigh teen are said to have been burned in the second-class coaches. It is supposed the engine was safely across the danger point, and after the accident took the news to Webwood, a distance of three miles. A relief train was at once dispatched from Sudbury, which Is 42 miles east of the scene, with physicians and nurses. A majority of the injured were taken to Sudbury as scon as possible. There is a fall of 35 feet to the wa ter at the place where the accident occurred, and the ice is very thick, so that the names of those imprisoned in the cars will not be learned until the diver arrives there. A special train with submarine diving outfit left here for the scene. The Pullman car did not go off the track, remaining safely on the other side of the bridge. TO INVESTIGATE PACKERS Grand Jury V/ill Inquire Into Charges That National Packing Com pany Is Combine. Washington.—The government Is preparing to summon the Chicago beef trust to the bar of justice. Criminal prosecution Is contemplat ed and if the plans do not go astray some of the men responsible for the rapidly increased cost of living will be landed behind the bars. This information was obtained here in connection with an announcement that the attorney general has received a full report of the investigation which he recently ordered into the re lations existing between the National Packing Company of Chicago and Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Morris & Co., the three concerns which joint- j ly control the National Packing Com pany. Within a couple of weeks, or as soon | as the details can be arranged, the at- | torney general will institute a grand jury proceeding in Chicago, the intent i of which is to ascertain whether or i not the National Packing Company is j a combination in restraint of trade un der the Sherman anti-trust law. Inas- j much as the grand jury proceedings are only resorted to where criminal j proceedings are contemplated, the in ference is plain, though Mr. Wicker sham will make no statement that his hope is to land somebody in jail. That the beef trust is alarmed over the outlook is also evident, because it is known that agents of the trust learned that a report on its operations had been received here in advance of the information being made public. It was the fact that the trust had got hold of this information that brought ! out the story of the contemplated pro ceedings. Tom Taggart Wounded. Natchez, Miss.—Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis, Ind., national Democratic committeeman for that state and for mer national Democratic chairman, was accidentally shot while hunting quail near here by his private secre tary, Harry Norton. Birdshot from Norton’s gun struck Mr. Taggart in the face and his right shoulder. He was brought here and was taken to Indianapolis for medical treatment. The wounds are not fatal. Nelson Knocks Out Lang. 'Memphis, Tenn.—Battling Nelson celebrated probably his last appear ance in public prior to meeting Ad Wolgast in California next month by delivering a knockout to Eddie Lang, the Chicago lightweight, Friday nigh| in the Memphis Athletic club's new arena. Theresa O, and there is a Mine. O in Paris, who is well-known as the pro prietor of a popular cafe An amusing incident is recounted in connection with the impressment into the military service of the son of one of the members of the O family. The young man could not write, and so signed his name on the military pa pers with a cross, it not occurring to him or to any of the officials how easily he couid have written his name NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. | Items of Interest Taken From Hers and There Over the State. The late farmers’ institute at Fair bury was the best held for years. The doctors of Norfolk will hereaf ter charge ministers the same rates as others. I The Custer county courthouse was [destroyed by fire. How the conflagra tion originated is a mystery. Sheriff Churnside of Jefferson coun ty returned from Ainsworth with Joe A. Smith, who is wanted on the charge of forgery. R. A. Wallis, a nephew of C. O. .Whedon, was found dead in bed at Lincoln. Death is supposed to have been due to heart disease. Burglars entered the hardware store of Babcock Brothers at Cambridge and stole knives, razors and silver ware. The thieves were overhauled at McCook. Lafe Baker, residing in the south eastern portion of Nebraska City, was held up by two masked men, but he fought them off and escaped without the loss of any of the fund which he had on his person. The funeral of Louico Hunter, who was burned to death at Eycheta. Wyo., in an ineffectual attempt to save the life of his infant son, was held at the Methodist church Nickerson, his for mer home. The Dannebrog Co-Operative Creamery association reports a pros perous year for its business during 1909. It made and marketed $41,000 worth of butter. The annual oratorical contest of Hastings college was won by Will Re ney. who recently obtained a Cecil Rhodes scholarship in state competit ive examination. Decision for second place was in favor of Miss Lois Owens. The mortgage record for York county for the year 1909 shows that there were 109 farm mortgages amounting to $5:14,963.11 filed. Farm mortgages released 208, amounting to $399,107.36. City property, 187 mort gages, amounting to $198,625.17. Many of the farmers about Danne brog are wondering when they will get their corn husked. Because of the I early winter many are but just in the | beginning of the husking. Some farm ers have as much as fifty to one hundred acres of corn still unhusked. The board of count}’ commissioners of Johnson county has made an es timate that it will require $67,700 to meet the expenses of the county the coming year. Of this amount, $16,000 is to be spent to keep up the roads and $18,500 to maintain the bridges. The State Board of Agriculture elected the following officers: O. P. Hendershot of Hebron, president; I. W. Haws of Minden, vice president; Charles McLeod of Stanton, second vice president; George F. Dickman of Seward, treasurer; W. R. Mellor, secretary. Such a thing a3 cattle freezing or starving to death in the region around Verdon is almost unknown, yet ten head in the Cornell herd in the pas ture near that place have died from starvation. The cattje were left to pick for themselves, which was im possible, owing to the deep show. Contracts for the construction of the new addition to the Hasting’s asy lum were let by the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. Ernest Rokher of Lincoln secured the main contract for $38,862. L. W. Pomerine of Lin coln was given the contract for the plumbing and heating for $8,695. James C. Purdy and Mrs. Nancy J. Lane, who, with two of the Lane chil dren. arrived in McCook December 5 from Denver and have since been liv ing there as man and wife, were traced by William H. Lane, the in jured husband, and both are now in the Red Willow county jail awaiting trial in the district court. Mike Riley, who escaped from the constable in McCook some time ago, was recaptured in Benkelman and tak en before Justice S. R. Smith of In dianola on the charge of selling whisky without ilicense. Judge Smith, ifter due consideration of the law and the evidence, bound him over to the district court. W. F. Bailey, secretary of the Kear ney Commercial club, has received information from L. W. Page, director of the good roads department of the agricultural bureau, that he will send an engineer to that city to make sug gestions as to what method is the most adaptable in improving certain roads. Judge Graves ofUhe Eighth Judicial district has made up the following circuit calendar for the different coun ties for 1910: Cuming, January 31, September 12; Dakota, February 14, September 26; Stanton, March 7, Oc tober 10; Cedar, March 14. November 7; Dixon, March 28, November 28; Thurston, April 11, October 17. H. F. Hooper, superintendent of the Blue Hill public schools, has secured the controlling interest in the Logan County Abstract and Loan company of Guthrie, Okla. He will leave Blue Hill immediately after the close of the school year to take up the duties of secretary-treasurer of the com pany. A state association of county fair associations was organized at Lincoln with the following officers: a. W. Her vey of Omaha, president; L. H. Che ney of Frontier county, vice president; W. H. Smith of Seward, secretary and treasurer. A misfortune has come to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Patten, living near Charleston, York county. Some months ago Mrs. Patten lost her mind, but was harmless, and was kept at Lome under treatment. Through worry over the condition of his wife Mr. Patten became insane, and both of them were brought before the board of insanity. DEATH III A MEGA OCCURS ON "SOO” BRANCH OF CANADIAN PACIFIC. FOUR GARS GO IN IRE RIVER Some Passengers Drowned, Some Burned, and Others Crushed by Splintered Timbers. North Bay, Ont.—Death in its most terrible forms blotted out the lives of at least a score and perhaps two score people Friday, when four cars of a Canadian Pacific passenger train on the Soo branch leaped from the track and, tearing down a steep em bankment, plunged through the ice into the Spanish river. Some were drowned, others were burned almost within hand reach of rescue, while others were crushed by timbers. The number of dead and injured was still uncertain at a late hour at night, as telegraphic communication, was not established to the scene of the wreck. According to stories told by injured passengers brought to Sud bury, it W'as one of the worst catas trophes in the history of Canadian railroads. The train wrecked was enroute from Montreal to Sault Ste. Marie and Minneapolis. An official statement says the accident was probably due to a broken rail. The engine, baggage, express and mail car and one second-class coach remained on the rails, while one second-class, one first-class, a diner and sleeper went down the embank ment. The first-class car and diner went into the river. The sleeper and second-class car stopped on the em bankment, the second-class car catch ing fire. The wreck occurred about thirty seven miles west of Sudbury, where the tracks cut into the side of a steep hill, which is shortened by the river. The forward part of the train passed over the break, whatever it was, in safety. The day coach, which was the fourth from the end of the train, was the first to leave the rails. The train was running at the rate of about forty miles an hour and the momentum carried the car down the hill in a terrific plunge. About twenty five passengers were in this car and It is practically certain that none es caped. Two minutes after the first crash only the roof of the day coach showed above the floating ice in the river. The second-class car smashed against the end of a culvert and was crushed like an egg shell. Some of the pas sengers Were killed outright, but oth ers, caught in the wreckage, which al most immediately broke into flames, were roasted to death before they could be rescued. The stanch construction of the din ing car saved its occupants. It fol lowed the day coach to the very brink of the river, but everyone on board escaped without serious injury. The sleeper turned over on its side on the embankment. There were several members of the train crew in the sleeper at the time and they escaped with slight injuries. North Bay, Ont.—Railroad men who arrived here shortly after midnight state that at least forty persons were killed in the wreck. Iowa Rates Reduced. ■Washington.—Railroad freight rates between Mississippi river crossings and Ottumwa, la., are declared by the Interstate Commerce commission to be unreasonable and excessive. In an order issued by the commission Thurs day in the case of the Ottumwa Com mercial association against the Chi cago, Burlington & Quicy railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Wabash railroads, the rates on first class freight were reduced from 61 cents to 56 cents a hundred pounds. Blanket Ballot Bill. Springfield, 111. — While Governor Charles S. Deneen refused to commit himself several of his friends said that the governor would veto any pri mary election bill that might pass both houses of the legislature, carry ing the blanket ballot provision. Thanks General Bell. Washington.—Tribute to General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the army, was paid by the house commit tee on military affairs when it passed a vote of thanks for Gec€ial Bell’s “Uniformly frank, manly and honest treatment” accorded that body. Kansas City Joins Meat War. Kansas City.—Seven hundred re cruits were added to the ranks of the small army that has waged a war for lower priced meat here by agreeing to eschew it for a month. Every mem ber of the carpenters’ union No. 4, the largest labor organization here, signed the pledge. Tom Taggart Shot. Natchez. Miss.—Thomas Taggart, democratic national committeeman for Indiana, was accidentally shot while hunting with his private secre tary. Harry Horton, near Fayette, in Jefferson county, Friday. Forty-two bird shot struck Mr. Taggart in the face, right shoulder and chest, and as a result, besides other injuries, it la feared that the sight of one eye will be destroyed. Horton tired when a bevy of birds was flushed, the charge striking hi3 companion, who was in the heavy underbrush.
