Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
■'H.l.||:.\\l\_ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2i>, 1910. NUMBERsT*
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b»r4 e4 versarjr.
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b-tu *1 ' . e vanted aa air rifle. Fred
• Kht Rear* old. .. rre' .-d
a - tv a degboa**- in the rear of
h«* e» e J Trtatua. X J for three
* .4 *:.» found ia *h- little .true
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ggr, . amputate U4h legs
K wafti from Port Litaon. Costa
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.ar* is* *4t island ia the I!) igugo
t.r ,e. , a the interior of Saltaiur.
»,.* , eared. with the drounlar of
y..*, « --a find chi;Jrea. is nirbogl
fu - r OblR a Mlghf eartbquaki
jaiatTn*
W*t- *a «tn were digging lor the
f ' t of « new building outslce
of tfce area of the bur city of
Pom - found the body of a woman
eb b ad been petrified Moth bands
were full of Jewels.
Fot.i:j Cio-hiide de Kol II, s Ho!
• it Fne :aii cow owned by Stevens
Brot of Liverpool. N Y.. bus broken
the world's seven-day butter record,
producing 37*8 pounds
Two additional iranscontlnental
r :l*sys are e*p»- ted to be In opera
by January. 1813 between Argen
tina and the Pacific roast
Vai Hi ha.an. ten years old. is In
» New York hospital suffering front a
i r.rerous t-ivi wound Inflicted in a
• fcoolrootn -man-el with an eight
. at old Italian lad In tbe East Side
public si bool which he attends
!•• '»! the I'nited States army
are "a readiness to be rushed to Cuba
t» maintain pence and protect Arner
an a d o’her lore-go Interests. Of
:als of the war department al
j- i.- >u I «*k for a crisis in th>
• >f ' lai. nd republic by Feb
ruary
Th* 11!i ... aupreaie court held tlk
l»g.» t:te primary a<-t providing fo:
• .nation of members of ihelow
er . -e of the legislature valid in :
e »n handed down. Tliree opin
lot.» were handed down by the court
■fc> t- ■ iie ra «r- divided as lo tbe
interpretation «.f tbe act.
Fire de- -oyeu -ue recently con
•r-i.ted -rnnenl tiiiil and package
depart nt n» the Great Western
< er#-ai <. .ny at Fort Dodge, la The
fpartly covered by in
* inner
t'arrie Kersh. ciarged with
!• r -irv <•>!. ri with the death
v. \ Johnson, whose body was
ki
•: alt*-..- zhti-r .? Portland, tire
K; - n the factory district of On
:r..: • au —d dat-ieg- estimated ai
f- >-J i dea'h of a fireman and
bo? . d ’he r.jurv of six firemen
■a Are ■ is finally brought im
- -r i • •• u ■ : f ad been burned
1 • 4 * large buildings de
stroyed.
' j ply if -„j;i d and unskilled
h. Panama canal at ['resent
t* a ' » * - of 'h - demand. except in
a.- »t 1 .i-rmak- rs This situa
’ - c» -,-d ihe Isthmian-canal
i- ’-.-ion to Issti a warning
. :r burrow* chairman of the
■ >g, s pod elections.
; -he nc .mil senate the
• of tae in. ’s: gaiiou of chart's
d : •••.-■. mad*- n connection with
a- - - ' 000: Sina c.r leoriiner. The
: ♦ -ton rearb-J by tl.a commit
" " r oy.lt
•vie .f ‘dr. Ijo aier to a seat in
- rate has not been shown to be
v I by the i . or employment of
• ot ■ pt methods or practises.
tt* !a ions betwe n w estem railroad
n ‘ th- !wth hi d of Lo
ur,.»?;>•• Kttgfneers are b- coming si
•r. 4 ’bet an op.-o rupture n.ay
ak ; la - within the next few days,
a spit- .4 conciliatory efforts cl La
■. itter l)r P. Neill
tt Chi. . t:- ither side has conceded
» ,gi. ‘n’ no: evinr-d a desire ic
1- l«i a little ’o pr- serve peace.
•:.a It li* . k c'ler has piven the
- ‘ > ( *ii« 40 ar.oihk r $10,
• 1 xnaounc m.-nt oi this tact
was ta?*» at th.- aa*versity convoca
Al -tin A Itycr-oB. chairman
"rf 'fc. t.-d of trus.es. In making
■he g<: • Mr. i: ■ k. f. !!-r -aid that he
•'u •; r. ia all c. n.ctlon with the
al’.-r > and »o:il.l give it nothing
Ip toisi gilts in 11 y.-ars ag
. r.-gate t te/Hie.'SHt
A * t.-rt ti 1-. !• r. seventy years
•Id ■ n* il fr.r the r. public of Panama
• . ; •• • --v in chern
j 1 the ■ trv. r-i y of Cbfeago. w as
srr* -.-d at Chicago on orders from
Assist ast I'ntt.-d States District
*n»-jr »I :;*r: charts-tf with mia
• cut ‘nil a«lc 'rating headache
powders.
S Caheti. twenty six y-ars old. son
f f ii;-n a »-ilto-do retired tm r
cl »"• n Jv-.xt-n 'ti death hv three
tic :i * 'h clubs In a meant lot at Ixts
*r.r ;«**. Cal.
F> -• • • two w uni.cl government sol
tiers have teen brought in at Chihua
h :a. '!■ xico, out:, uung reports that
'he tnuti train which left there De
»t.i«r IT was -hot to piece* In the
on a i-up known as Matpasa. a
• w r. :!••* . jst of !' dernales. The of
tc.a! report -:*t. that the federal*
■ i-t 31 killed and that ten are missing
sad 43 wounded.
Italians . f X. »:• X” Y. have re
reived « t: .-Liars from Er e. Pa., in
• hah »h> y zr» invite.: to buy spar la!
terri rv for 'h .!.s'rituition of coun
trrfMt 11. jr. and Sid notes
Justice Edward Douglar-a
V! 'e cf 'he Supreme court of the
' tilted State* 1 - anre ulnifc chief (us
of list ei- . t ; d;. wber. the oath
4 s.teglance »;•« adnu. *;er> d by a*.
-'elate Justice Hritlat The public
•t-'i .,f 'he in-rallaCon was sim
pi-v. '*. • uth 1 .nt uiken in the seclu
■ n of the rc;'. ng r.iotn if 'he justices.
The g. r -ra! Hrln-h elections have
tn- o a .. wl h -very indication
' o: _ ; ■ ;.:n af one lor the govern
a .. iticn. Th* elections have
. *• ' •■" ’v *he .i'ula.ions of the
i iii'-t.- v ho had seriously expected
. ga.n r • lets tbr.n 3- at*. On the
n r-ry th union st* are likely in
he end to suffer a n- t loss of one.
Th>- h» irt of New York was shaken
by a terrible explosion of illuminating
eas In the auxiliary power house of
•he Grand Central station. Nine per
sons. two of them women, were kill
'd. four ott-ers who are missing are be
.leved to be dead. 135 were injur. <1 and
property damag. d to the extent of
SSdMOt).
Because Ms youthful bride of five
seeks objected to walking with him
barefooted in the dew-covered grass
before sunrise, Ernest Hockstader,
i'ri ityfoor years old, a wealthy con
tractor. has started a suit at Pough
keepsie, X. Y, for separation.
i^HlS DEAD
FREMONT MAN SUCCUMBS TO
SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Fremont—Grr.-vr Doihanyk died
Sunday at the Fremont hospital from
if If indicted wounds. Doihanyk had
lived since Friday night with his
throat cut from ear to ear and his
windpip* severed in two places. Fri
'ay nivht. llolhanyk, while in a fit of
despon lency. left his bed. Later his
wife fou-.d him in a pool of blood on
the kitchen floor. He was taken to
the h<-;e;al. Seven small children
u’.ij a wife survive the deceased.
Electric Light Plant Blows Up.
Orleans—The Orleans electric light
ph.ni a .is blown up Sunday morning
and th town is in darkness. Just
after the electrician turned on the
i ehts something got out of fix about
tin machinery and an explosion fol
oued which completely demolished
engine and di.l considerable other
damage to the plant.
Heavenly Messenger at Hastings.
Hastings.—a meteor was seen in
*■ northern slcy Friday evening by
a number of p ople. It appeared as
a string of light and when seeming
shout twenty feet from the ground it
bursted and east a blue flame which
din med the street lights for an in
stant.
For University Removal.
Fremont—Senator Fred Volip of this
district may introduce a bill at the
vf\t s-.-cion of the state legislature
as a r.s-uit of a conference on a plan
which lculcs 10 tiie putting of the uni
vershv buildings on the same site as
that occupied by the agricultural col
lege.
—
Ponca—William C. Flege. convicted
by a jury of killing h:s sister, l.ouise,
« < s' a;. ncs-J to life imprisonment in
ti:e a miiMjtiarv by Judge Graves, j
The court passed sentence immedi
. :eiv after hearing arguments on a
motion for a new trial, which he over
ruled.
Franklin—Ernst Arnold. county
treasurer, has on exhibition In his
office in car of corn that has fourteen
distinct ears grown together.
Beatrice firemen will have a fair
wst week.
X bra - ka sheriffs are in session at
CV>'' mutts.
York will vote bonds for a $33,00u
waterworks plant.
Hustings will give a free Christmas
dinner to the poor.
J. S. Young, an old resident of Ne
braska City, is dead.
The State Lumbermen’s association
w ii! meet at Omaha, January lit and 20.
Over five hundred birds have been
entered in the poultry show at Fre
mont.
A local association of Nebraska
retailers was organized in Diller re
cently.
Buffalo county will hold a poultry
show at Kearney the second week in
January.
The city council at Fairbury refused
to allow an exhibition of the Jeffries
Johnson fight pictures.
Will Hayward of Nebraska City, ac
companied by his wife, has gone to
Cuba to spend the winter.
Rev. H. 1). McGan of Xuma, Colo.,
has accepted the pastorate of the
Presbyterian church at Fairbury.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Nebraska State Bar association will
be held in Omaha December 27 and 28.
Nebraska Scots will celebrate
Iturn>' birthday at Omaha, January 24.
A program of Caledonian games has
been arranged.
McCook will cultivate about a thou
sand acres of sugar beets next season,
find contracts to that effect are rapidly
being signed up.
Beatrice is much interested in a
waterworks system, and will probably
build an electric plant of its own to
furnish power.
The Hastings fall festival developed
so niu h interest and was so success
ful that it will probably be main
tained permanently.
James Fieischman. a farmer near
Avoca. was seriously injured by the
ta-caking of a chain with which he
was palling stumps.
Became his father reproved him for
dissipation. William Dill, a Lincoln
youth, shot himself in the head. He
will probably recover.
The farmers around Lyons are or
dering cars and shipping their own
corn, instead of patronizing the ele
vators.
Fremont ministers have fixed New
Year’s day as the date for beginning a
revival meeting. The meetings will
be conducted by the pastors of seven
local churches and will continue for
an indefinite period.
James G. Imwrence. who for the
past twenty-three years has acted as
deputy postmaster in the Beatrice
postofllce. had just been notified by
Washington that he has been given a
life position as deputy postmaster.
Harold Smith, a farmer hoy rear
Howe, was thrown from a horse and
dragged along & barbed wire fence,
which nearly severed one leg.
Dr. Giffen was thrown from his
buggy by a frightened team at Lin
coin, and so severely injured that he
had to be taken to a hospital.
The German clubs of Ian coin will
put the iocker system Into use in their
halls that they may in a measure
avoid even the appearance of evil. ;
An investigation as to the cause of
the delay in the erection of the new
federal building in Kearney has been
commenced by the commercial club.
Temperance sermons will be deliv
ered in all Lincoln churches of which
the pastors are members of the minis- .
terial association, on Sunday, Janu :
ary 22.
A large number of converts was the
result of a series of meetings just
closed at Franklin. The conversions
were principally among the younget
people.
Ben Henderson, a brickmaker. was
picked up in the Burlington yards at
Lincoln with his skull badly frac
tured. Huw it occurred is still a
mystery.
Prof. 1). .1. Park, w ho has been teach
ing botany and other studies in the
Beatrice high school, has resigned and
will accept a similar position at Yal
.halia. N. Y.
A wail is going up from various
parts of the state over the reported
scarcity of turkeys with which to
properly observe the time-honored
Christmas feast.
1 lie annual meeting of the Ne~ j
braska Historical society at Lincoln, j
January 9 to 11. inclusive, promises to i
be the best meeting of the organiza
tion yet held.
Frank Calkins, a ten-year-old boy at !
Filler, was sc badly injured by the ;
explosion of a can of powdt r with
which he was experimenting that he j
may lose his eyesight.
The management of the Fremont :
Young Men's Christian association is !
planning for a big reception New i
Year's. The day has been set for j
Monday evening. January 2.
While out hunting Sunday near
Sterling. Owen Frost lost his right
hand and Otho Carrey sustained a
bad wound in the head by the acci- I
dental discharge of a shotgun.
A. M. Berry, county treasurer at
Fairbnry. announces that his office is
overburdened with work on account
of farmers from all parts of the coun
ty coming in to pay their taxes.
William Lyle, employed at a Hoi
drege brick yard, was caught in the j
huge conveyor shaft and severely in
jured before a fellow workman could 1
stop the machinery and rescue him.
An old fiddlers' coutest will be held i
in Auburn some time in January. All J
the fiddlers of Nemaha county over
forty years of age are eligible for the
contest, and some valuable prizes will
be awarded.
It is estimated that it will cost
nearly $6,000,000 to run the state the j
next two years.
The state board of public lands and
buildings has awarded the contract
for wiring the basement of the state
house to the Union Electrical com
pany of Lincoln. The price was fixed
at $464.tO.
W. S. Whitten, secretary of the Com
mercial club, has gone to Chicago,
where he is to appear before the in
tegrate commerce commission repre
senting the shippers in their fight
against an increase in freight rates.
Secretary of State-elect Wait is pre
taring a new automooile tax law
which lie will have introduced in the
coming session of the legislature.
This act will provide for a flat rate
of taxation. The other details of the
bill have not been made public.
John Y. Ashton of Lincoln, who foT
the past three years has been prin
cipal of the schools at Hickman, has
been appointed by Superintendent
Manuel to the position of grade man
ager in the state industrial school at
Kearney.
Adjutant General John C. Hartigan
who is to retire from office January 3.
decided to remain in the Nebraska
national guard. He lias ap.pointed
himself quartermaster of the Second
regiment, with the rank of captain, to
take effect January 5. He hopes to
be promoted when war breaks ou;
with a foreign nat’on.
The Union Pacific has been permit
ted to put into effect a new weighing
rule on live stock destined for the
South Omaha market similar to the
rule permitted the Burlington a few
days ago. The new, rule, which allows
unevenly filled cars to be averaged in
weight, instead of charging each car
separately, will go into effect January
10. The change amounts to a reduc
tion of rates in the cases to which it
will specifically apply.
The Lincoln Traction company will
appear before the state railway com
mission in an attempt to get the old
3-cent fare pnt hack into operation.
Notice of this has already roused a
large majority of Lincoln street car
patrons and the hearing promises to
be lively.
The university board of regents are
reported to look with disfavor on the
plan of removing the general colleges
from the city campus to the state
farm.
The comig legislature will be asked
to provide for a warehouse or arsenal
for the national guard in Lincoln.
\
CIO OF BANKER
JESSIE HABERSHAM MITCHELL
WAS SCION OF DISTINGUISH
ED BALTIMORE FAMILY.
PASSES AWAY IN CINCINNATI
Remarkable Story of Her Life With
the Nomadic Band Whose King She
Married—Was a Descendant of
Francis Scott Key.
Cincinnati. O.— Jessie Habersham
‘Mitchell, wife of J. H. Mitchell, king
of the Romany gypsies, who. it be
came known, w as the daughter of H.
(1. Habersham, a wealthy Baltimore
banker, and a great-great-granddaugh
ter cf Francis Scott Key. author of
"The Star Spangled Banner."' died
here recently.
The discovery that the gypsy qneen
was a scion of one of the oldest fami
lies in Maryland created a sensation
In St Louis some time ago. Detec
tives and agents who were sent by
the woman's relatives and who tried
to get her to return to a life of lux
ury and ease, railed to impress her.
She said she preferred the life of a
nomad.
According to the death-be.l story,
told by Mrs. Mitchell at the hospital
in Cincinnati, she was stolen from her
home five years ago by a band of
gypsies and sold to one of the tribe
for $900.
During ail this time her father
spent several fortunes in searching
for his daughter. I.ast April she was
located in St. Louis, but the search
was all in vain. Jeu-ie had become
innured to the life of the noaiad and
refused to shake off its fascination
and lure, despite the prayers of her
relatives. Her mother died several
months after her abduction.
During the first few years she was
held in bondage and not allowed to
communicate with her father. The
iribe would quietly leave a neighbor
hood whenever she was suspected of
having made any attempt to get in
touch with her own world. Accounts
of her abduction and the endeavors'of
her paren's to trace her, which ap
peared in the newspapers, she was
compelled to read to all the gypsies.
Tsiter she was wooed and won by
King John H. Mitchell and married
The Gypsy Qucin.
him. While In camp with her band
of rovers south of St. Louis she made
a small fortune from the curious so
ciety girls who took the long journey
to the gypsy tent to see the whfte
queen. Like the women of her band,
she was learned in the art of telling
fortunes.
Cincinnati folks weA apprised of
the strange life of the American gypsy
queen only after her death. Her con
fession of her career to the Sister Su
perior of the Seton hospital was the
channel through which her story be
came public. She told th-> sister that
she was not allowed her freedom un
til she really became infatuated with
the life led by the roving people.
Mrs. Mitchell was a great-grand
daughter of Mrs. Marie Lloyd Key.
one of the most famous beauties of the
South; grand-niece of Roger B. Taney,
the Justice of the Supreme court;
cousin of Lloyd Lowndes, a former
governor of Maryland; great-great
grandniece of the first postmaster gen
eral of the United States, and niece
of a commander in the United States
Navy.
Gita $10,000 if Sober Three Years.
New York.—If Andrew L. Colvin of
Brooklyn takes a seat on the "water
wagon” and Is still there when he
reaches the age of forty, which means
abstinence for at least three years, he
will become the sole owner of a $10,
00 estate left by his mother. Mrs.
Susan Colvin, if he falls he will get
only the interest on the estate during
his liietinie.
Mrs. Colvin's will was Sled in the
Kings county surrogate's office and it
contains a long clause providing for
her son to inherit her estate if he is
leading a life of sobriety at the age
of forty and has not been under the
influence of intoxicants for the previ
ous three years.
Hiccoughs Kills Pastor.
Asbury Park, N. J —Rev. James W.
I-aughlin. retired Methodist Protes
tant minister of Belmar. who after an
attack of hiccoughs lasting four days,
became unconscious, is dead. Water
on the brain developed as a result of
the hiccoughing and other cotnpllca
tions. • r
MINNESOTA PAIR WHO
ELOPE ON A ‘CYCLE’
DAUGHTER OF A FARMER SPEEDS
AWAY WITH HER LOVER IN
LATEST FASHION.
jr Lesueur. Minn.—There was an
! elopement extraordinary from the
; home of Wilbur Methmen. a rich
farmer of Cleveland township, when
his twenty-year-old daughter. Eliza
beth. sped away with her lover.
George netting. She was seated in
front of Hetting on the handlebars of
a motorcycle, which was exceeding
The speed limit at the rate of SO miles
an hour over none too good country
roads. They were pursued by the
wrathful parents in an automobile.
The route was along the devious
windings of the old Dodd road, and
Methmen kept up the chase, never
more than a half mile behind, across
Cordova and into Waterville township,
until a blowout of a front tire landed
him and his machine in a ditch.
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Eloping on a Motorcycle.
George, with the race and the bride
both won. sped on across the county
line and down to Waseca, where the
couple were married and soon after
forgiven by telegraph bv the defeated
father.
BANK NOTE IN AN OLD BIBLE
Currency of Ninety Years Ago Is in
the Form of Personal Notes
of Today.
Jeffersonville, Ind.—A bank note for
$5, more than 90 years old. was dis
covered a few days ago by Gray Morri
son. but it is doubtful whether the note
has any value except to a collector.
Recently Mrs. Edward Bradley of
Newport. Ky„ presented an old Bible
to Morrison, her grandson. Mrs. Bai
ley is past eighty and the book had be
longed to her parents. While turning
the leaves of the volume, Morrison
found the bank note. The local banks
said they did not believe it could be
cashed, as It was not national cur
rency.
Part of the writing is so faint as to
be undecipherable, but the president's
name staDds out as clearly as writing
only a few days old. The note reads
as follows, as far as it can be read
at all.
“Xo. 861. - months afterdate
(number is torn off) the President,
Directors and Co. of the Bank of Vin
cennes. the State Bank of Indiana,
promise to pay on demand at their
I Branch (this is written and is barely
i decipherable) Bank, at -, Five
1 Dollars to the Bearer. Vincennes, April
7, 1819. Xathl. Ewing. President,
!-. Cashier."
The place where it is payable and
the cashier's name cannot be read.
The back is blank and the paper
was apparently white with "black let
tering. and it bears a picture presum
ably of Vincennes and its bank, but re
sembling a small cross-roads settle
ment. It appears to have been print
ed from a wooden block.
KNOW? HIS MASTER’S VOICE
Pet Hidden In Cellar Squawks Loudly
When He Hears Owner
Shout “Bill!"
Allentown, Pa.—“Bill." a pet gander,
knew his master's voice, and Gustav
Conrad, of this city, recovered a Sock
of geese that had been stolen from his
poultry yard.
Conrad began a house-to-house
search on discovering that his geese
were missing, constantly yelling “BUI!
Bill:" At last there was an answering
squawk from a cellar, which he recog
nized as the note of his gander.
Conrad went into the house and be
gan to ask questions. The woman ad
mitted she had a number of geese in
the cellar, which she said she had
bought from a man in a neighboring
house, who said he had won them at a
raffle in the country. She returned the
geese to the owner.
Bays Cat Meat Is Fine.
Cleveland, O.—Recently Edward
Sanders bought a big black Tom cat
for 25 cents. Today Sanders would
have to pay $1 for the same cat
Young men of the neighborhood of
East Sixteenth street and Hinds ave
nue organized a secret society called
the Cats Jammers. According to mem
bers. cat meat has a certain piquant
flavor found in no other animal.
“Cat meat is irresistible," said Ed
ward Dufek. “After you have once
overcome aversion to the meat you
can relish it more than venison or
squab."
II IS FAST LIVING
DR. STARR SAYS THAT IS REAS
ON FOR INCREASING INSANITY.
AMERICAN HUSTLE WRECKING
‘•Crying Need of the Present Day is a
Realization that We Live Too
Fast.”
New York.—The records of Ameri
can lift and more especially of Ameri
can hustle are to be found in the
many insane asylums of the country
is the opinion of Dr. N. Allen Starr,
who addressed the Academy of .Med
icine here.
“The crying need of the present
day.” continued Dr. Starr, “is a realiz
ation that we live too fast; that we
work too hard; that we strive too
intensely; that we feel too keenly.
Moderation, not excess, leads to
health."
The meeting was called'to discuss
the prevention of insanity on the the
ory that many cases now incurable
are the result of comparatively triv
ial causes.which. if their sequelae had
been wisely foreseen, might have been
checked before they become irreme
diable.
Dr. Albert YVarren Ferris, president
of the state lunacy commission, esti
mated that almost half the cases of
insanity under observation in state
hospitals were the result of loose liv
ing and nervous strain.
Homer Folks, secretary of the
state charities aid association, em
phasized this relation between loose
living and insanity, a relation., lie
said, insufficiently understood, and
one which it is planned to make
plainer to the layman in a special
series of articles for general distribu
tion.
In the last ten years, said Dr. Fer
ris, while the population of the state
has increased t7.fi per cent, the num
ber of insane has increased 103.9 per
cent, making « total of 32.639 mental
ly deranged persons now in the siate.
Nearly half of these were of foreign
birth.
Twenty-eight r.er cent had been
driven mad by alcohol and drugs.
Discussing a plan of campaign.
Secretary Folks said that it would he
much similar to that employed in the
fight against tuberculosis.
To Extend Crop Reports.
Washington.—To enable everyone
interested in the department of agri
culture's monthly crop reports to re
alize the full meaning of the crop
estimates in the growing season. Vic
tor H. Olmsted, chairman of the crop
reporting board, contemplates includ
ing quantative 'interpretation of the
figures for improtant crops
Twenty to Forty Years.
Seattle.—Bert Schuman. alias Her
bert Rolason, was convicted today of
kidnaping Henry Willman. IT years
old. Schuman was given an indeter
nrinate sentence of from twenty to
forty years in the state penitentiary.
Schuman and th^ boy were found in
Omaha in September.
Rooeveslt Will Talk.
New York.—The Periodical Pub
lishers' Association of America will
hold its annual dinner at the Wal
dorf-Astoria on the evening of Jan.
6. and former President Roosevelt
will be the guest of honor and will
make the principal speech.
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Fourteen Firemen Killed.
Philadelphia—Thirteen known dead
12 firemen and one policeman? and
more than 40 injured, of whom 2f> are
still in the hospital, is the recit’d of
Wednesday night’s fire at the lather
factory of Daniel Friedlander, in this
dty. 1
New Trial for J. N. Huston.
Washington.—James N. -Huston,
former treasurer of the United States,
recently convicted of conspiracy to
use the mails to defraud.”virfjs5gr^inted
a new trial by Justice ■Wi'idpt it» the
criminal court. ‘.jfo j
-rtdPt
Priest Murdered fh'-4mj|^t
Hong Kong.—Father MertgOt. who
had been a French missionary in Chi
na since 1503, was murdered by na
tives in Yung Pey in the province of
Yunnan.
-’s;5B
Dies in Hotel Chair, -\
Anthony. Kans.—T. W. Dantes. 60
years old. a traveling.from
Clarinda. Ia.. died in a cnair al a ho
tel here yesterday
Urbana. O.. Bank Closes.
Urbana, O.—The Farmers and Mer
chants* bank of J^osewood- ck>sd its
edcors. The court appointed O. F.
Birkhold receiver.
Banks Ready for Emergency.
Washington.—-Completed statis Jcs
show that more than 32 per cent of
the national banking power of the
United States, bow representer in
emergency' currency associations,
which Secretary MacVeagh has been
urging the bankers to form. Returns
show that out qf 7.204 national balks
in existence,' 22? are member^ of cur
rency associations, but thajt ^^lali
number represent $524,024,720 of cap
ital $nd surplus. The capital of all
the banks in the association is $288.
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