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* |i*t« Htitorie*! Socittj Loup City Northwestern V OLI ML XXIX LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 8, 1910. NUMBER 5. EPITOME OP A WEEK’S NEWS I I _ M ist Important Happen ings Told in Bnef. PERSONAL ' rub* ’ Allen, aged eighty * ti yea's a weal-by widow was md ttrx.UK e<j io death at her home -I 'te> W Va A large Eum of - wl.tr: sue had in the buu.ie 1- uie.iag -d* . "i A sb. t- t'otner-ir. law of vi: - t i <iao* and a brother of *->- .»■ Fram B Smith. president •f ■ tract! • Steel company, died .-«r ‘rouble in a taiicab in Pitts 'S a while lit. ton was hurry :< littii to a hospita art l-i-tie Wilton I nited States v.->-,-do- r Mexico Pity, has ap 'd <• "tie slate department for >.r bteij e from his ikjsi This .. eted .is indicative that con ■ Mex.. o art approaching a state ie i'.ij.ja me wc-ld's champion s and m.Z ball line billiards. * • eg. defeated George Slob »• 'heir championship tourney at New 1 ork City Hoppe by hia vie-! ir- 'eijict nit championship, and '* h a purse of $1,004* and the dia mond b.iUip.onship medal -- '■ H-igsto president of the Pa r iaiu A Northern railroad, urgi wit! manslaughter at Cald • eit. jab>. »a- acquitted 'ii*» • er "aft daughter of the *n made her bow to American inde- auapices and conditions a - e matchless in th« ir lini n'! enthusiasm This latest • J In he historio bouquet of White > :>e debutantes was formally pre *-T '.t a* a tea given in the famous - -ootu where so many notable so ■ jl. events have occurred. *V!,-n \\ iHmm .1 Bryan's admirers en 'ed ui bang his picture beside * . and Governor Haskell's in Ok ■ airi ttectiie chamber. Ijeut. Got. i • ie- ir-1 "never while 1 am — chair." aud tne picture was -Bed *o the wall on the floor Kie F.ugene N Foss began - - - 'ii; campaign against the rO- ( 1- r.ry Pabot l.odge to the c i—s senate at Provincetown. Masts. arvoil of Iowa, conceal z j**r :> by remans of a slouch and a -oat collar turned up. lie-d H r burning house at Ik:? . , a..e brought out a trunk liigh y . clued by an aged woman. GENERAL NEWS to amazing revelations ron -n:r.z Le boodiing operations of Js- r.t • tra' a lobby at Albany. N Y.. s ar.ei. bv me joint legislative ga-ing committee. Based upon -■ imat :»s made by members of the ■i es seems likely that befor* h- :nqu.-y is closed it will be shown more than $1.0o*'.iKRi was raised to. a. * interests in tbfls to ■ -a; th« VgnewHart law Ft freer i>ersoos were seriously ln *i-ed whet r Missouri Pacific pas —tiger Tat:: was wrecked two miles -f Kacbnoster. Mo. The wreck » is .mred by a broken rail. ■ mmuis loner Flynn of New rk m: eunced that the body found a tr • ■ !r tfce oe!lar of a West side roe eie-iitly has been identified posBveiv as that of Albert C. Oalliar. ‘he *u -sing artist. The trunk was .--ft V William I>ewis. a w-aiter. who i- missing .e Mister Unionist council of Bel as t Ireland decided, in view of the - s> al crisis, to invite tenders - "tic immediate delivery of arms tnd ammunition. B~r. n Academy of Sciences —-d Prof Lewis Boss, the astrono r at:.1 •• -e ' kTG director of Dudley s. r a;or> a' Albany. N. Y.. a corre- j - tn.-bttg member. The country home of Mrs. 0 1-. s' "1 us! ontsUe Quincy, ill., was to. .1 It was a historic place and •id nahogany furniture it con • ••J (... t>-en collected piece by ■<r ba the late Doctor Koch. Tt, -r to ft-e bureau of statistics tment of com mere- and la • krease.i receipts of cattle ‘ -l • -j and a shortage of hogs at ■ a co h ading interior markets, he act on of Hon A J. Balfour, leader of the opposition in the -h house of commons in accept ag ?fce ;iroj*osition to submit tariff ."x to a -efen adorn if the Un>on > w n in the coming election is •d v. :b tie great-s* enthusiasm The Unonist party A- :■ rt'cnt of the strike among «t v*. -> .c— tiary employes which tied •he express business of The lug •TasecrM- -tal companies fn New ■ ,rk ■?> *o- sereral w-eV.s was ef fected when the drivers and helpers a: a meet ing \o ed to aisept the ■ e-nos offered by tfce employers ‘t—n-'t-a! I Tata in command of the ml lary zone, raid that cine govern taen: .-ofcdte-s end ST tn~ .rgents were ■w Haoif Grahaaie-Wiiti#. the aviator, is sat it'd Jur Rnytand. bav mad** IJC.M? la this i-oaETT intends *• *T Kiw tkt ftglirt fcaae-! Fran , Held lug. a student in the Uni versity of Kansas at Lawrence, will lti-.i the -;igbt of both eyes, physicians say. as the result of an explosion of sodium in the organic chemistry lab oratory in the university. Joseph Wendling, charged with the murder of Alina Kellner, eight years old. at Louisville, Ky„ took the stand in his own defense and denied having any knowledge of the killing. He said he left Louisville because of domestic troubles. Electricity henceforth will be used to do all the cooking for sailors aboard the new ships of the navy, as tests have shown the superiority of the eW-tric range over the old coal galley, not only in convenience but in economy. A clash at Padernalles. 50 miles west of Chihuahua. Mexico, has taken place between 150 Government troops and a somewhat larger body of insur rectos. A country-wide reduction of upper Pullman berth rales of 20 per cent, where the lower berth rate exceeds $1 50. and various reductions in lower berth charges were announced before the interstate commerce commission at Chicago by G. S. Fernald. assist ant general solicitor of the Pullman company. Jack Thomas, negro, was shot and killed when he was robbing the pas sengers of a Memphis-St. Istuis Frisco train A. It. Walton, a Frisco watch man. killed the negro. New Jersey will receive $194.4.",! 46 as collateral inheritance tax from the estate of George Crocker, the mine owner The property left by Mr. Crocker, who died in December of last year, is valued between $11,000. 000 and $12,000,000. Elbert Merida, who lived his ninety years without having his lace shaved or his hair cut. is dead at his home n“i.r Nashville. Ind.. of typhoid fever. Theresa G. Thompson, a widow of St. Louis, is the principal beneficiary under the will of Col. Moses C. Wet more. millionaire and Democratic na tional committeeman from Missouri. The United States Steel corporation | with an $8,000,000 fund has combined , with the $4,000,000 relief fund estab lished at Pittsburg by Andrew Car- -j negie some years since, making $12.- j 000,000 to be known as the United States Steel and Carnegie pension j fund. From this there will be paid to employes of the United States Steel corporation all over the coun try pensions as warranted in condi tions laid down. Macao. China, a dependency of Portugal is in the hands of the loral garrison and the crew of the gunboat Patria. who revolted, marched to the public square and took po.- session of the city government at the point of the bayonet All the demands of the mutinous force were granted by the governor under threat. Three masked men broke into the tunnel of a rich gold mine near Win nemucca. Nev„ overlooked $8,000 worth of high-grade ore and departed j empty-handed. The Carnegie Steel company mills at Pittsburg began making briquettes . from ore dust. It is asserted briquette making means the saving of millions : of dollars on what has been accounted j as waste. The largest dry dock in the world I is to be constructed in the Erie basin. Brooklyn. N. Y. It will be more than 1.000 feel long and will accommodate the largest steamship planned by any builder In a letter published at St. Peters burg Count Tolstoi's sou. l.eo, holds j Count Tschertkoff responsible for h’s ! father's tragic end. He says that but ; for his literary ageut Count Tolstoi would have spent many more peaceful years with the family who loved him. The arrival of Tschertkoff. he says. ! was the beginning of the end. An ordinance prohibiting smoking ! at polling places on election day was j passed by the Seattle council. The ordinance is the direct result of the adoption of the woman suffrage j amendment to the state constitution. * A large number of tribesmen sur- j prised and attacked a French detach mem 'n Molina territory. Morocco, killing all its officers and a number of ; men. "Salome's'' fate in Chicago seems ■ settled. Announcement was made by the management of the Chicago Opera j company that the third iierformance of the gruesome mixture of tragedy and music r.ad been withdrawn. This ac ' Tion follow t-d a vigorous protest from Chicago's chief of police, who attend ed the initial performance. In response to the offer of several ! western railroads to employ him at his own salary if he could show them, ns he said he could, how American railroads might sate Sl.OihV it* a day. 1-ouis II. Bran dels of Boston says he will, without any charge to the com panics be glad to point out to a confer ence of railroa 1 presldt nt.-. hew such a saving could be effected. Mack Neal, a u- gro. who shot one person tc death -.nd bounded four others at Waverly. Ya.. was riddled with bullets hv a » -?• which sur ! rounded th- negro in a cabin. The population of ''ennsyivania is 1 T.S<i.lll. avcording to statistics o' the thirteenth census This is an in crease of 1.3tS3.99<S. or.21.$ per cent. I over ti.S03.llj in 190ft. In the list of appropriations for river 1 and harbor improvements for the fis ! cai year ending June 3ft. 1913. made • public by Secretary of War Dickinson, j congress will be asked to appropriate the sum of $30.09a.«9S for eonstrsettor : work in different parts of the country. ! Of this amount no provisiou is tuade for the lakes-to-the gulf water wav pro ject. Joan asestas. a Mexican miner, dreamed that the Frederick coal mine | at Trinidad. CoL. blew up. He toid the story to his fellow workers, and in j less than an hour ISO men had de- j aerted. II GIRL HEROINE ORA ACKERMAN OF FREMONT, 14 YEARS OLD, SAVES BABY'S LIFE. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest te the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Fremont.—By snatching little Viola Johnson, a 3-year-old tot, off the Bur lington tracks a few seconds before the afiernoon passenger train thund ered past. Ora Ackerman, a 14-year old girl, probably saved the child's life. The tot had wandered down to the railroad tracks from its home nearby, and was standing between the rails a3 the train bore down upon it. The engine war but a few feet away when the Ackerman girl caugnt up the babe and carried it to safety. Died from Blow on Head. Tekaham.—The death of Carl Roth, the 20-year-old son of >lr. and Mrs. Frank Roth, which was first thought to have been caused by a sudden at tack of infantile paralysis, it develops, was due to a blow received on the back of the head some time ago. which ■affected the brain and spina! column. He was oat in the cornfield some weeks previous and his team ran a way, throwing the end-gata cut. which struck liis head. York Teachers Banquet. 'i ork.—The York County Progres sive Teachers' club gave a banquet which was largely attended by mem bers of the new organization, about twenty-five being present. A program along educational lines was given. The officers of the club are: E. C. Bisbop, manager; Miss Alice Flore, assistant manager; L. Pres, president; Lulu Baugh, vice-president; Raymond Kurn. secretary, and Louise .Jellson. treasurer. New Postoffice Opened. Grand Island.—Postmaster H. C. Miller Saturday morning raised the flag for the first time on the new gov ernment building which is now in use. The new postoffice has a federal court room and offices for the internal reve nue collector, clerk of the court, etc., and a fine well lighted and ventilated worjing rc»i*; nnd lobby, the cost of the building being $125,000. Woodmen Hold Rally. David City.—The Modern Woodmen of America held a district rally and class adoption here Tuesday. A large number of Woodmen were present from several towns in the county and participated in the exercises of the day. New Socialist Paper. Broken Bow.—A number of social ists of this place, headed by John Painter. John Delane. Dr. C. F. Wil son. James Stockham and Robert Wil son. incorporated themselves into a publishing company, raj Italized at $5,000. Lutheran Emanuel church at Lin coin was dedicated Sunday. Lancaster county commissioners are figuring oa a new c-iock for the court house. S. Overton of Peru says he raised ree crops of potatoes from one piece of ground this fall. Ellis Overton, a veteran street car man of Lincoln, died very suddenly at fcis home in that city last week. The Nemaha Valley Poultry associ ation show at Adams Iasi week was 1 the best ever held by that body. Harold Boggs. 2 years old. fell from the second story of a Fremont ouild iag and escaped with a few bruises. 1-and near Albion is advancing. .1 ;igrt> refused f-l'i tUH* for a half sec tion three miles from town this week. t'nion college at College View cele brated Thanksgiving by inviting all tbe sn'-ients of the village to dine in the college home. in the Thanksgiving day game of football on the state university cam pus the H skel’ Indians lost to Ne Vaska by 121 to 0. Fire in the ro.-.l bin caused bv coon- i * 1 j ta neons combustion < r. danse red the Tecnmseh high school building, but ] was finally extinguished. The fourth annual s ate convention c? the Y. M. C. A. at York last week was well attended, and a successful end enicrtr.’u'.ng session was had. R v. J. M. r.aititid. a former pastor of the T'nited Brethren church and well kr: *wn throughout the state, died at his residence in Lincoln last week. : Elsborate pr-. pdraiiors are bo in.; , trade for the annual Merrick county ; corn show to be held in Central City ! on Friday. November 25. Rev. Arthur Brooks, rector of St. i I-uke's Episcopal church at Lincoln, j was married recently at Plattsmouth. I the bride being Miss Kathleen Hock strasser of that place. Rev. Gustave Zone!, for forty years a minister of the German Lutheran faith, died Tuesday at his home in Beatrice. He was sitting in a chair and death resulted presumably from heart trouble. Bert Moody, a young farmer living near Auburn, is missing. Custer county people are agitating for a new and up-to-date court house. Harmon Weyers and wife of Ster ling celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last week. Pender.—The Northwestern Nebras ka Poultry and Corn show will be held at Pender December 15 to 17. Mrs. Chris Schoffersman of Fonta nelle was seriously injured bv being thrown from a buggy in a runaway ac cident. The epidemic of scarlet fever which threatened Hastings has been checked, but a number of families are still un der quarantine. A young son of C. M. McCord was pretty severely injured about the face and head by the explosion of a gun while out hunting. He will recover. The bursting of the boiler connect ed with the heating plant at the high school at Ainsworth caused some con siderable damage, and school has ad journed until it can be repaired. There is an epidemic of whooping cough among the children of farmers living near VVaverlv. About eight fam ilies have been visited with the dis ease. William Groggins. an aged resident of Cortland, suffered the amputation of a leg last week, the result of bicod pioisoning caused by stepping on a tack some time ago. The remodeled First Presbyterian church at Fremont w ill be dedicated Sunday. An elaborate program is be ing prepared. The church has been rebuilt at a cost of $13,000. The annual Thanksgiving hall given by the volunteer fire department of Broken Bow—always one of the social features of the season—was bigger and better than ever this year. Ear! Weiderman of York, who it was thought at first was badly injured in the game of football with North Platte Thauksgiving day, is recover ing and no bad irrsults are now antici pated. Val Koyser. conductor of farmers’ institute work, will deliver a lecture in York on the evening of December 10. in connection with the corn con test. His subject will be ‘‘Agricul ture for Boys.” En route to X'piand in his automo bile. William Shepards, a business man of Macon, ran over a dog and his auto turned over. The machine fell on Shepards, splintered his shoulder and otherwise bruised his body. The redistricting of the state into representative and senatorial districts will be a feature of the coming ses sion of the state legislature. Land Commissioner Cowles has closed a contract for the state with John F. Witzkie to install a new boiler at the state institute for feeble minded youth. As compiled by Treasurer Staley of the State Teachers' association, the registration at the meeting which closed Friday night was 3.724. The registration in 1999 was 3,799. Governor Shallenberger has turned over to the state $4,538.07, that being the state's share from the sale of pub lic lands within the state during the last year. The state is credited with 3 per cent of the sale price The Fremont signal corps is to be mounted in accordance with recom mendations made with the report upon the recent encampment. The sum of $2,300 will be allowed for equipment ar.d the' signal men will be given new olive-drab uniforms. The state railway commissioner has authorized the Unooln Traction com pany to issue $30,000 of additional stock, making a total issue of about $328.000. The new stock is to be is sued for the payment of betterments and construction of new lines. Charles Wert man of Milford prom ises to add to the expected excitement of the legislature this winter by con test :ng the seat of Henry Scheele of I'tica. The two were opposing candi dates for representative. Scheele wot by five votes. The republitan candi date claims that one of the precincts gave Scherie only 14h votes instead of 143. as Scheele was credited. This difference would make a tie vote. A pc:: ion signed uy .-esuienrs or the western part of McPherson county lias been filed with the governor ask ing that the for-totten county of Ar thur b? revived and put upon the map once more. A provisional hoard of county commissioners is proposed and a county clerk is also suggested.,There are for.r. en signers to the petition. It is said that about LOGO people live in the area from which a new county may be created. Arthur county has euisttd h ral’y for thirty years oi more, bit no one has thought of its j esi'-ence. Why it was swallowed up | in McPhers. a county and when is not j known. Petitions arc heir.; circulated for the purpose of securing endorsemen oT Dr. R. S. Grimes of Lincoln for the position of superintendent of the state insane asylum. Nearly all of the '‘ate senator-s elect. and all but about twenty-five or the representatives-elect have select ed their seats for the coming session of the legislature. They hate done this either in person, by letter or throqgh friends. If they wrote for & seat they relied on the secretary of state to pick out the best cf the untakea places. NOW SCHOOL FOR THIS MMZEE SUSIE, FROM AFRICA. IT IS SAID, WILL GET A UNIVERSITY EDUCATON. GREAT THINGS ARE PLANNED Prof. Garner. Authority on Simian Speech, Selleves Susie Will Be come Most Intelligent Ape—She Minds Him Like a Child. Philadelphia.—There will be a new freshman at the University of Penn sylvania this term—Susie, the little chimpanzee that Prof. Garner, the world-famous student of simian speech, has brought with him from the Af rican jungle to educate in the human tongue. Susie will join the classes composed of the simian species of the university and will be educated along other lines laid down by Prof. Garner, who has ideas of his own concerning the right way to impart knowledge to a chimpanzee. Prof. Garner does not make any ex travagant claims for his monkey or predict any sensational future for Susie. In the course of a talk concerning his plans the professor said: "I have lived in the jungle of the Kongo for several years for the espe cial purpose of studying the chatter of the monkeys. in that long time I have heard enough to convince me that the monkey3 actually have a vo cabulary of their own. It is not a very extensive one. There are pos sibly about 30 distinct and different sounds, which through modulation and inflection may be made to convey an incalculable number of meanings. It would be impossible to tell you what the sounds are like. In my cage In the jungle, with the monkeys chatter ing around me. I caught the sounds of their speech in innumerable phono graph records, and these will later be submitted to the scientific world. “I have been able to distinguish readily the apes’ terms for ripe fruit and for dead fruit, which possibly are the subjects most frequently under dis cussion between the animals In their native haunts. I don't believe that any ape can reach a degree of intelligence commensurate with that of children— even the youngest children. Their brains are similarly formed, but they are very much smaller. My endeavor has been merely to study, not so much the methods of communication, as the mental processes which I am sure Include the reasoning faculty.” Susie during the time that the con versation wase being carried on was never for an instant still. The little \ chimpanzee had been given a box of i blocks to play with. She scattered them over the floor, built them lip into , r-_ r ... Susie and Her Doll. houses in the regular baby way, then rolled over them gleefully. A doll at tracted her attention, and she took it up and nursed it tenderly. Then she tired of this mild method of amusing herself and dashed for the Japanese screen that stood near by. Susie was about to climb to the top when her master's voice called her to stop. She stood stock still Instantly. “Come here, Susie,” said the professor. Susie cume instantly. "Give me that doll,” said the professor. Susie brought the doll. A little child was introduced. At first she gazed wide-eyed at the hairy little apparition on the rug. but the little girl showed no fear of the chim panzee and in a few minutes the two were playing amicably together. Susie sitting in the little chair that Prof. Garner made for her when in the jun gle, and the little three-year-old girl kneeling beside her showing her how , to play with the toys scattered around. ; Susie showed all the childish charac teristics during her play. Susie is able to distinguish between the primal colors without effort, knows • hem by name, and the profes sor thinks it remarkable that he has i been able to instill into the mind of such a young animal a knowledge of iorm which enables her to tell the dif- j ference between a block of wood and a ! ball, a yellow cube and a blue one. and so on. Susie is now seven months old. and has been in captivity about 12 weeks. Prof. Garner began his experiments as soon as he bought her from a na tive of Fernan Vax. In the French Kongo, and he thinks that her prog teas has been marvelous considering the short time he has been educating WOMAN’S SLAYER IS BURNED BY TEXANS INCINERATION OF ANTONIO ROD RIGUEZ WHICH THREATENED TROUBLE WITH MEXICO. San Antonio, Texas.—Antonio Rod riguez of Las Vacas, Mexico, aged 20 years, who was burned at the stake by a iuob at Rock Springs. Texas, fol lowing his confession that he shot and killed Mrs. l,em Henderson, wife of a ranchman, gave as a reason for his crime that the woman “spoke mean" to him. Rodriguez was ar rested when he applied at a ranch ■ near Rock Springs for food. The forming of the mob began early In the afternoon and by nightfall several thousand persons had gathered. The crowd stormed the rather frail jail structure at Rock Springs, overpow ered the guard aDd took Rodriguez some distance from the city to an al ready prepared pyre. Without a show of emotion and offering but little ro i - ' , i . Burn Woman's Slayer at Stake 1 sistance. the Mexican was bound to the stake and the torch applied. When his body was completely lncin- ' crated the mob dispersed. Incendiary newspaper accounts of j th# lynching of Rodriguez turned the ; customary indolent crowds of the 1 Mexican capital into a howling, tu multous mob. The El Diaro del Ho gah and other newspapers of the Mexican city were especially vituper ative in their attacks on the Amer icans. An American flag was taken from over an American business house and torn into ribbons by the rioters. The police were powerless to stop the demonstration. In many in stances the officers stood idly by watching the work of destruction, j without attempting to stop it. So tumultous did the anti-American dem onstration become that following a protest from the American ambassa dor. troops were ordered to charge the mob. Three of the rioters were * killed and 200 others arrested before the streets could be cleared. The for eign office informed the Mexican am bassador at Washington that the lead- i ers in the demonstration would be j punished. __ MUSICAL SPITE WAR IS ON Phonographs of Two Philadelphia Families Run 170 Hours—Neigh bors Threaten Arrest. Philadelphia. Pa.—For four years Philadelphia has had a "war of phono graphs," and the end is not in sight. Harry Le Dana and his next door neighbor, Fletcher Dumner, are own ers of the rival phonographs. At five o'clock in the afternoon the Le Dana phonograph had been grind- j ing out "Has Anybody Here Seen j Kelly" for 170 hours ai a stretch. Le Dana and his wife took turns winding the machine and resetting the rec ords. Next door it was the same way. with the exception that the tune was "America." The row started when Mrs. Dum ner. with her piano, endeavored to drown the noise making proclivities of the Le Dana phonograph. She was not a good endurance player, so her husband had to purchase a phono graph. Now the two machines grind day and night. The neighbors declare that unless the families settle their difference they will apply to the police. Tug of War for Bride. Atlanta. Ga.—A tug of war for pos session of a bride of a few minutes thr^w tbe congregation in the Cen tral Baptist church here into tbe wild est confusion and caused a suspen sion of tbe services. The tussle was between the young husband, George H. Coker, on one side, and the two maiden sisters of Mrs. Coker on the other. Mr. and Mrs. Coker had eloped and been mar ried by the pastor of Central church jnst before a special evening service. Two sisters of Mrs. Coker, declar ing Mr. Coker should not marry Uieir sister, arrived just as the ceremony was finished, and. not knowing it was all over, attempted to pull her up the aisle, while the husband sought to keep her at his side. The contestants left the church, after the sisters of the bride were convinced that the marriage had already taken place. MRS. EDDY IS DEAD FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASSES AWAY. WAS FROM“NATURAL CAUSES" End Came Peacefully Saturday Night After Indisposition Extending Nine Days. Boston.—Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, liet "discoverer and founder ot Christian Science,” is dead. An nonncen^nt of the passing away oi the venerable leader, which occ urred late Saturday night at her home at Chestnut Hill, was made at the morn ing ser\ ce of the mother church in this city Sunday. “Natural causes" explains the death according to Dr. George L. West, a district medical examiner, who was summoned a few hours after Mrs. Eddy passed away. Later Dr. West added that t»e more immediate cause was probably pneumonia. Dr. West, who tilled out the death certificate, made the following state ment: "1 was called to the home of Mrs. Eddy early this morning and arrived there about b 3U. 1 was met at the door by Calvin A. Grye and others flf the household, who directed me to a bed chamber on the second floor. Here 1 met Mrs. Sargent. "I found the body of a woman about SO years old lying on the bed, her hands crossed over her breast. The face was somewhat wasted, but kind ly. and in repose. I talked with Mr. Frye, "Mrs. Eddy had been in error about a week and passed away very quietly." Mr. Frye described the symptoms and spoke of an inflamma tion of the chest, which led me to the con-lusion that pneumonia had been the contributory cause of death. The news of Mrs. Eddy’s death was made know n simultaneously by Judge Clifford F. Smith, the first reader ot the mother church, at the close of the morning service and by Alfred Far low of the Christian Science publica tion committee, in a statement to the press. According to Mr. Fnrlow. Mrs. Eddy passed away at 10:45. Saturday. "She has been indisposed for about nine ilr.js." Said Mr. Fallow, “but had been up and dressi-d. and as late as Thursday transacted some business with one of the officials of the church. She took her daily afternoon drive nn til two days before her going. Sat urday night she fell quietly asleep and'those around her could at first hardly real ire that she had gone. Hei thought was clear until the last and she left n> final message. “No physician was in attendance hut she had the assistance of the stu dents who comprised her household “With her at the time of her depar ture were Mr. Calvin A. Frye, Mrs. Laura E. Sargent. Mrs. El’.n S. Rath von. Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson, her corresponding secretary. William R Rathvon and her secretary. Adam H. Dickey. “No arrangements regarding the time or the place of her burial have been decided upon. It is well known to her household tbat she believed in simplicity on such occasions and in compliance with this knowledge it is expected the service will he private and of a simple nature, probably con sisting of prayer and readings from the Bible, with some brief selections from the Christian Science text Book. ROOSEVELT WILL TELL The Why and Wherefore of Late Election Results. New Haven. Conn.—In a letter to Colonel Isaac M. Ulluian. president of the New Haven Chamber of Com merce. before which former President Roosevelt will speak on the night of December 15. Colonel Roosevelt says that at the dinner he will v. ake his first public statement as to f uses that led up to the recent po! il up heaval and will go into detail .a ex plaining them. Seats for New Senators. Washington — Colonel Ransdell. sergeant-at arms of the United States senate, placed orders for the four new desks to be occupied by the senators of Arixona and New Mexico. Wendling Wants New Trial. Louisville. Ky.—Attorneys for Jo seph Wendling, convicted of the mur der of S-year-old Alma Kellner, and sentenced to life Imprisonment, will file a motion for a new trial. Gen. Oliver F. Wood. Baltimore. Md.—Brigadier General Oliver F. Wood, V. S. A., retired. SS years old. died at the John Hopkins hospital following an operation for acute stomach trouble. Navy Department in China. Peking.—An important step has just : taken by China to expand and it. a so the efficacy of her anny and navy The throne has issued edicts creating a navy department which np to the present has consist ed merely of a tentative board for the conduct of naval affairs. Prince Tsai Hsun. uncle of the emperor, who recently paid an extensive visit to the United States has been appoint ed president of the new department and his full recommendations have been approved.