L< >up City Northwestern \ -— _,_\ VQl'LMl-.XXIX_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JANUARY 19, 1911._NUMBl^l. IMPORTANT HEWS NOTES OF II WEE* LATEfcT HAPPEN NGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IM ITEMIZED FORM. • - events here and there Ccmdsnssd ..into a Fe» Line* for tha R»ruaa! of tr* 9imj Man— Lot*** Ponacuai Infor mation. PERSONAL W'atsea voter* from 'he state* of 1 w asht**?-* Idaho firmiig ruh •M Cbtundo mot u Tacoma is a ccm Hsaot called by Governor Brady of Idaho. Bfoauaeat Harry A tla-fc’-id of WU : *aa t crth-g*. accompanied by Mrs ‘..jorfie.E ha* '--ft us a souther* and ••alert trip Be a ill rlali at least ••**t| aowthevw and a eaters institj He* Te Wang ’he first jeieaa Clsi- ! hear diplomat ever weeti is Ne» York. )• 'there os bis »»y from Vienna to Tokyo He «n.i visit several *«■*’-ru cities. The jA Bru Aiya tome of Dr FYsd •tick A Cook has tem bold to a Xea "hr - »’*•« *-V " -ai« asd aillj shurilj be tors down to aakr room for 1 * ssoders *parta*eat house The Imperial Order of Osughtms of u* Empire in ’he l* sited h'atea. of • kirk Mr* James Bryce, wile of the British aan.ssssd jf. ts Loti- rary presi lent at., -.f ee* p-aa* for ’he !>..:ldlag •< a S'»ae tor ag*d Brl'ist a« and •nmes 'ta this wastry rbtrjgfc ’he fact has bees kept •e-iat g is x-arse-d os the Ligbt-s; sOthsBHy that -L* cxarlLr os Russia. .* aga.n danger on sty til. all cosrt !«!.«* being put off - r. that at oset. Member* of Jae Na t hat CMe Wf : atlas f*rat •Unj-lo.r state* me- :.n Ne» York to discs** rompsssatios for txaCicMsal acddesia. regulation of rtrrpocatiess and industrial arbitra te* Roosev-fe. MarVeagfc. Root. artingje Cb—mis asd other promt ta*: a.- a »n» * the fist of speak era, * •'Earles J Hughes. j-Si. r rsited fitsMs seas’or from Colorado, died at tie husw at I merer. after a ioag lU ass* Death am* Sse ts a gaseral iTlSnw Bet.jar :a H ''ramp, a former mem ber of the < ramp RMphsttdl&c com p«ar. died at a hospital ts i*tu:adel ; feia of gas paisomisg Kelaiiiss cay h# a a* found ta 'he bathroom of his r«aides~s with the ga* turned oc C.EKERAL KEW1 Err eased a* the -lannad her trunk a the N-» Y-vfc Central railroad sta tjcm at Rochester. N T. Mr* Edith Maiber. a Urtden Of :Srhe®ectady who ears she » 3 years o*d. confessed, accord** to the nolle- that in a >nc; near ASbnny on Jar; nary « she Cave her S ynroif mam ’i»orfe car hot. arid, fro* the e5r~~* of vfcict! he fed The Fond d® Isar Wta • Cheese and Bftar -omparv onpt'altxed for ft® Mf. to# bran f'SCad u> the vail Tbe BabsltUe® ot -he osapary total IX. SI*. nfciie the tnr'J are I1I«.*1T keabrar dts moat famous ; i<- _r* The Mcfct Watch, mas badly dssax -d try a dssrharprd naval "»* named a^nst. oho entered the Rjjks Ha e* at Rv’erdam and vith a knif« fe'ibeca’ely slashed the masterpiece RaUruad oasamanicatiae •fcrouch’nit the nivlihi of Por~ucal Is practically psrala aed as a result of the strike of empic-yii mm Beet ujcal ss eat off by land froa® the r»»i of Europe Sin snflroad laborers were killed and an o'her vas probably fatally in ur»4 by ’be premature ei plosion of a bias- '* the -irand Trunk Pacific ri*fct at vay a* Piute Rupert. R C. That the 1'cited Sta'e* army may Aaee tbe curb-ua of a trained rorpt ot tdsien. Ciena Curtiss has • ffered to inatrarf a cumber of officers in the •perm(tan of aeroplanes The var de jmr*m~r' has a-ctyred the offer. Althouch RMMRffiar traffic across 'fee Pacific fro— Americas and (ana dint ports m nod been profi'able. 'be eteamet-ip companies are piano®*: 1© build larcer fa—*r and bet'er ships for the service five men am dead, two am prob ably fatally Injured and over a score asm nui* or lees serious}? hurt in •fee wreck -if the Western express and fee Hasten d !tuiraki special, both west bound, an the New York Central, at Hatavta X. Y The baflesS.p Arkansas. 26.00“ as. the lirpw! ever built by the 1 rft«d Stales, was launched at Cam d-fi. X S Juba Teruune v- e pcvtdru' of the -* Jcfes «Wash t State bank, com •stood rsldd* by sbootinc He leaves a widow and two eons Oc—Issm—ers for the t'nlted fit—os and Canada, who have been n—bnn the fishery regulations uats ... a decision The Cana dian and Newfound la rid gormaaotmts undertake le 'fiance tbe reculatioas to re—eve ibe objections of tbe : —cod States Five per at— **t» killed aad 'w—re —Jwrwd la a (as explosion that wrecked a weB filled five and ten cent store — Conne*: wills. Pi The fi e ’fiat tcllowed ron.pietetJy destroy «J the ba-‘C.rx Clerks and custom «v Wee- tuned -B the collapse of tbe t—dta. That the United States senate Is ready to yield to the election of Its members by direct rote of the people became evident when the advocates of the plan won on a test rote of 43 to IT. The matter arose in conn ev en with the joint resolution for the amendment of the constitution recent ly re pored from the committee on Judiciary. President Taft, in an address at the banquet of the National Tariff Commission association at Washing ton openly indorsed the Longworth bi!l characterizing it "as a concilia tory measure embodying all the lm portant features that are necessary to make the tariff commission ef fective." He had previously sum moned the Republican members of the w.-.yg and means committee to •be White House, and urged them to larmonize their differences The gift of 1TOOTOOO to the "Moth • i.urcfc of Christ. Scientist, de- | < ssed in the will of Mrs. Vary G. e- Eddy, may be null and void, j ana 'be e«--a'e may go to her sorts The residuary clause in the will is not leg..!, the opinion of ex United S «-e» Senator William E Chandler. Hanm- Taylor, the professor of con st::.' nal law at George Washing *on unlver.-ity. and others In an address before the annual meeting of the National Civic federa tion at New York city. Samuel Un • •:• :-»-r ana t ed the government’s attitude toward the trusts as a "mon nous -..am" According to him the large and ■•vicious" corporations go unmolested while "tne little fellows :•*- being ptrsotd with a brass band end • :.e er» ..tes’ press bureau ever put in action." Ano’her -“no.is battle between the Mexii an revolutionists and the fed en: forces has been fought just. a> toss the border and the dead are e ••. e nd in an open .-• »- he t»s’ens to congra'ulate the ta sp-.-j.- rs on their independence. P~o? S J Hunter of the University Katjsss says the solution of the gr=ssr 5 ;»e* problem is to disk the vtaufa :■ Ids in 'he '•prieg. just after ■he frost has left he ground. This. *• »*f‘ kills tie • kgs of the hoppers. The Union I’aciflc Railroad company equipped ita passenger trains on •-be i -ah divis; >n with an armed guard in : reparation toe attempted robbery ft .owing The hold up of the Overland Limited last week n-tonic ; ague has caused ieaths :n Harbin. Manchuria, within 2'’cen days, according to consular re ports received by the state department at Waehlngtan. Hubert Latham, the young French ana'or. tad a remarkable escape from death on the San Francisco aviation held In bi6 second flight he encoun •erec adverse winds that forced him suddenly »o the groar.d He crashed tc*o a tence wrecking tis monoplane Senator David W Hoistlaw was d' ;-ped from ihe Illinois senate by | Lie tvnant Governor Ogl-sby, acting o® a ' cmmunlcati >n from Governor! Deneen The communication and the rullag of the chair ’hat the Ivtka bank-1 er is no longer a member of the sen ate ior “railed ’he report of the com mtttee investigating ;he reports of br ta»ry in i mpareu with the state's total of S17.041. The senate parsed a bill intrcc. tcei m December by Senator Ccllom of Illi nois. providing for the erection cf a mar- fl -ent memorial or mcntimeut tc A bra 1: an Lincoln a» a cost not to ex feed $2.0* •‘(/•oo The memorial wii’ be erected at Washington. In a scathing review of the testi mony taken by the senate committee on privileges and election in the case of William Lorimer of Illinois, who is | charged with having obtained his seat In the United States senate by cor rupt practices. Senator Crawford of South Dakota pledged himself to vote to unseat Lorimer on the ground that his election vras illegal and void. Tbe New York Slate Jersey Cattle Breeders' association will give four pairs of Jersey heifers and bulls to tbe four boys who attend the next state fair and write the best descrip I tire eaaays on their visits. ANNUAL MEETING AND BANQUET IN LINCOLN, JANUARY 17 HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What it Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity, Lincoln—The second annual meet ing of the Nebraska association of fair managers will be held here, January IT. The opening session will be held at the Commercial club rooms at 6:30 p. m. .the program to be preceded by a banquet. with G. W. Hervey of Omaha toastmaster. The program is as follows: ‘'Publicity." James E. Ryan. Indian o'.a; "The Circuit.” H. P. Wilson. Ge neva; “Concessions," L. II. Cheney. Stockville; "The Stock Show." E. E. i Youngs. Lexington; "Our County Fair," Jos. Pigmam Broken Bow; "Fre** Attractions." George Jackson. Nelson. __ Commemorate Founding of Church. Surprise.—The Baptists of this place held a dinner to commemorate the founding of the church here twenty eight years ago. The dinner was v:>en at the home of Rev. Francis N. j Brown and fifty members were pres- | ent. Two of the charter members. Mrs. C. E. Bentley of Lincoln and 1 Mrs. Wilbur I.udden of Surprise, were present. The o:her five are dead. The church was organized on the C. E. ' Rentlej farm seven miles south of' ' town in August. 18SP. Record Price for Ranch. Fairuurv—Probably the largest sum ' ; ever ; aid for one pic< e of land in Jef , fereon county was received by Isaac Bonham when he sold a 1.000-acre ranch near Reynolds, southwest of Fairbury. for $36,000. Gustave Prie fert. a farmer living near Reynolds, pun hase.i the tract. Worst fetorm in Years. Aurora—The great storm of Sunday and Monday is declared by the old , residents of this county to have been the most severe in m..cy years. The coldness of the atmosphere combined with the high rate of velocity cf the , wind made a combination hard to com bat. _ Nebraska Pioneer Dies. Portsmouth—Francis S. White, who for the pas: fifty-three years has re sided in this city, is dead at his resi dent e here of pneumonia, after being sick hut a few days. Suicide of Mayor’s Son. Osmond—Charles J. Billerback. son of the mayor of this place, ended his ' life here Friday. The bullet entered his temple. He was despondent over ill health. - 6 ' ) I ! ' Adams suffered a disastrous fire Tuesday. The City hotel, one of Fremont's old landmarks, was burned Tuesday, j Omaha claims to have the largest j savings and loan association in the world. ' Fairbury is still discussing plans for the organization cf a juvenile brass band. Broken Bow has pledged $75,000 for the establishment of a j>ackiEg house at that place. The first patron of the piostal sav ings bank at Nebraska City was the janitor of tfce building. 1 Cornelius Madden, a bachelor sixty years old. was found dead in his bed near Kearney by a neighbor. Fruit men around Norton are puz i ling in smudge pots lo be used in case of late frosts the coming spring. Will Maupin was elected president j of the State Federation of Labor at its session just closed at Havelock. The Cudahy Packing company of Omaha are developing the silica beds at Ingham recently acquired by thorn. Kdgar S. Dudley, a former com mandant of the state university ca ! dets. is dead at his heme at Johns town. X. J. Walter Xioore. a state farm student , at Lincoln, had the end of his nose ■ bitten off by an angry stallion he was ! caring for. Rev. Janies Gearhart, a well knov-a Xlethodis* minister, died at his heme 1 in University Place, the result of a stroke of apoplexy. Xirs. Ucra Rhodes of Glenover died Xlcnday from the effects of a dose of j paris gr een, tai e" with suicidal intent. Her husband kil’ed himself six months I ago. W. B. Xicek. a railroad man. was j run down by a street car at Lincoln | Tuesday, receiving injuries frem which he died in a hospital later. Lincoln offices of the Union and Pcs.nl telegraph companies are ar ranging to deliver messages by tele phone instead of by messenger ser ' vice as heretofore. While a party of young folks were enjoying themselves at a dance near Filley some thief took advantage of the opportunity and stole about a dozen lap robes and horse blankets from the rigs. The goods stolen were worth about $150. Miss Clara Kohiff, a 15-year-old Omaha girl, lost an envelope contain ing over $2,100 on her way to a bank when she went to deposit it. The new Burlington station at Peru will soon be ready for occupancy. The foreman says it is the best building between Lincoln and St. Joseph. Joe McGraw, once a prominent Lin coln politician, and formerly adjutant at the Grand Island soldiers’ home, dropped dead at his heme in Lincoln Friday. Rev. Lewis Gregory, for twenty-five years pastor of the First Congrega tional church, and since 1900 presi dent of the American Savings bank of Lincoln, died Friday of apoplexy. Mayor Burrell has formulated plans whereby the city of Fremont may en ter the business of heating business blocks, bringing the city an approxi mate income of $60,000 at an outlay of about one-twelfth of the gross income. Work on the new Stromsburg high school building has been suspended for the winter, as good work cannot be done during the cold weather. The work has reached the second story and will be pushed to a finish as soor as the weather will permit. Seven fires within five days is the , record for the Fremont tire depart- j ment. and the volunteers are pretty • well worn out with the w ork and ! worry incident to keeping on edge fo: I further alarms. Four were still alarms • and damages in none of them amount ed to much. Fremont firemen have decided that they will engage a special Pullman car to carry them to the annual con vention of the state association of fire men, which is to be heid at Alliance. January IT to 19. The car will be decorated with banners bearing the inscription "Fremont Fire Depart- ; ment" and “Fremont Lobster Club. { No. 1." the latter being the title of a new order of municipal boosters or ganized by ex-Mavor George Wolz. _. i Labor Commissioner Will Maupin will deliver an address January IS be fore the Nebraska state poultry asso ciation. Fire Commissioner C. A. Randall re ceived his official cv^trnL-sior from Governor Aldrich on Monday forenoon and at once took possession of the office, succeeding A. V. Johnson. A bond for $10,000 has been filed by the new commissioner. According to the usual custom, the Lincoln Commercial club has sent hon orary cards of membership to all mem bers of the Nebraska legislature. The cards entitle the legislators to all privileges of the club, including tbose of the cafe, billiard and reading rooms. ' and committee rooms. One hundred and thirty-three lawmakers were hon ored. i The work of checking nearly $9,000. 000 of bonds and warrants held in the state treasury vault as an investment for state trust funds was completed Saturday. Treasurer Waiter George gave a receipt to the outgoing treas- ; urer. Lawson G. Brian, for securities amounting to $S.91L4S3.73. Last ! Thursday Treasurer George receipted for $603,714.36 In cash, being the total . amount of state funds in depository backs and cash on hand. Speaker Kuhl is wielding a gavel made from wood cut from a tree on Lookout mountain. The piece from which the head of the gavel was turned has a ballet imbedded in it. This historic Instrument was loaned by the State Historical society. A movement is on foot to present the j steaker with a gavel which will have a sentimental interest connected with the history of the state of Nebraska. The source or character of historical interest has no: been divulged. One cf the first bills to be intro duced in the legislature will be a measure to appropriate $35,000 for the extinction of hog cholera in Nebraska. A considerable part of this sum. ac cording to the purpose in view, will be spent for the manufacture and dis trunnion of serum. Tee erection ot a building on the campus of the state agricultural college for this specific purpose and the employment of an ex pert as superintendent of the serum department are also contemplated. The value of the newspaper train- ; ing of Chief Clerk Henry C. Richmond is shown in the provision which he has arranged for facilitating the work of the legislative correspondents. He is having a platform constructed above the private cloak room in bis office, which will be reserved for the exclusive use cf the press. The result will be to avoid the confusion which has been caused by newspaper repre sentatives in his office and to make their own work more easy by giving j them a place to work free from the : intrusion of outsiders. The bond of State Treasurer-elect VC. A. George has been approved and filed at the executive office. The bond is for $1,000,000. The principal surety j is the National Fidelity and Casualty company of Omaha. _ Governor Shallenberger commuted the life sentence of Charles Pumphrey to seven years. Pumphrey was nine teen years of age when he was con victed of complicity in the murder of a Chinaman named Ham Pak of Oma ha. the crime having been committed for purposes of robbery. HUGE BEAR KILLED BY BIG BLACK BAM GUARDIAN OF FLOCK LANDS ON BRUIN LIKE A ROCK FROM A CATAPULT. INTRUDER’S NECK IS BROKEN Knocked Out Completely in Three Rounds While the Owner of the Ram, With Loaded Gun. Looks On in Utter Amazement. Harrisburg, Pa.—"Whether or not the bear that was an eyewitness of the killing of another bear by Farmer Peter Moreley’s big black ram went off and some way carried the news to bears in general, as Farmer More ly firmly believes it did,” said Colonel Parker of Cameron county, “so that from that time until the death of the ram not long ago no bear had ven tured to trespass on the Morely farm. “A monstrous big bear had been for sometime devoting himself to thinning out the Morely sheep flock, and after he had killed three of ihe sheep the hired man was detailed to stand guard over the pasture, armed with a double-barreled shotgun loaded heav ily with buckshot and with orders to give Rruln both barrels the Instant he stuck his nose in among the sheep. On the forenoon of the fourth day. the confident guardian of the flock was start’ed to see the bear scramble over the stone wall only a few feet from where he a as standing sentinel. Rruin put forward such a ferocious front that the hired man dropped the gun. took the wait at one leap and ran with news of the bear’s new invasion to Farmer Morely. “Farmer Morely hastened to the pas ture lot. All the sheep had fled to a far corner of the field, except the big black ram. “Without delay Farmer Morely picked up the gun. and as he did so he saw in the edge of the brush on the outside of the field another bear standing there as if taking note of what might happen in ihe pasture be fore he ventured to come over into it himself and take a paw in collecting some mutton. Neither bear was within pood gunshot and Farmer Morely. dis concerted a moment by the fact that there were two bears to deal with, started to draw closer. “There being mutton more choice than the black ram to be had in the flock, the bear in the field paid no at tention to him. but was passing on by. him. Shuffling contemptuously along, he got in range of the ram. and just then the ram seems to have made np his mind to resent that con tempt as well as the Intrusion. Ta king a jump forward, he leaped in the air and hurled himself like a cata pult against the bear. “The jolt was so great and unex pected that the bear went down before it like a lump of lead The wind had been so thoroughly knocked out of him that he lay there almost long enough to have taken the count, with the ram. now mad all the way through, stand ing ready to land again If he got the Bout Between Ram and Bear. chance. The bear scrambled to bis i'eet by and by and gazed in wild sur prise at the ram. Farmer Morely him self had stopped in amazement, and he saw that the bear at the edge of the brush lot had risen on his hind feet as if to get a better view of the battle, and the farmer says that as tonishment stuck out ail over him. The bear in the pasture didn't have time to figure out what had happened to hint, for the black ram landed oh him again, and down he went, “The b-'ar in the bush now danced , about all excited. Farmer Morely said. ; and the fanner hurried on again to ■ get in sure gunshot of the one the j ram was pounding, but he needn't have been anxious. The bear hadn't got all .he way to his feet the second time when the ram hit him again. This time the blow fell square on the bear's neck. The ram stood ready to give j it jo him again when he got up, but I he didn't get up. And he never did get up. When Farmer Morely ar- j rived he saw that the bear was dead. | The black ram's last smash bad bro ket his neck, killing the big intruder, j doubtless instantly. RESCUED JUST IN TIME FROM THE QUICKSAND MAN STRUGGLES FOR TWO HOURS IN TREACHEROUS SLIME WHICH ENGULFED HIM. White Plains, N. Y.—Gilbert Ste phens is under the care of physicians at his home in Silver Lake Park, and may be weeks in recovering from the shock of a long battle with death in quicksand recently. Stephens had taken a short cut homeward and stumbled into a depression which was formerly the bed of a small lake. The place is widely known as spotted with dangerous quicksands and Stephens found himself in the grip of one of them. The more he struggled to get out the deeper he went in. For two hours he shouted for help, until finally his voice was silenced by the mud. which rose about his shoulders and pressed on his lungs so that he could barely breathe. The quicksand reached his chin and was pulling him slowly but surely to death by suffoca tion. William Piscule. a town con stable. who was out duck shooting, saw him and went running to his res cue. Piscule hurriedly picked up an Trapped in Quicksand. armful cf brush and several boards from a fence, which he threw out on top of the Quicksand. This gave him a foothold and he reached down to Stephens, tying the straps of his gun bag beneath the helpless man's shoul ders. Then, after a long struggle, he dragged the prisoner out and laid him down, exhausted. SEW MAN UP INSIDE A MULE Georgia Jokers Treat a Comrade to an Experience Similar to That of Jonah. Young Harris. Ga.—Bart Brown of Gum Log. recently emerged from the unusual experience of being sewed up six hours in a mule's carcass. Brown and several companions were wending their way homeward down the country road. The "going" was too heavy for Brown. He collapsed by the roadside, near the carcass of “old Humpback." a mule that had carried the mail to and from Brasstown for many years, but died several hours be fore Brown and his companions came along. Brown's companions stowed him away clumsily in the mule's carcass, stitching up the hide with strings so the man inside coaid get air. The sleeping man finally awoke and be gan to scream. Several people pass ing along the road beard the screams, made sure that they came from the body of an apparently dead mule, and then ran for their lives. Finally two men. braver than the rest, were at tracted by Brown's cries, examined the dead mule, cut the stitches and pulled Brown, covered with blood, but perfectly sober and badly frightened, out. Brown at first threatened a court suit, but finally compromised by mounting the water wagon. _•_ Men Doomed to Freeze. Washington.—Men will freeze to death on the equator millions of years hence, according to Dr. Harvey W. Wiiey. who forsook the subject of germs in food, in addressing the Secu lar league in Washington, and dis cussed the question. "Is man ultimate ly to starve or freeze?" Doctor Wiley said he believed the earth was slowly cooling, and that the people of the distant future must freeze, though he declared that for “a million years, at least,” humanity would not suffer from lack of food or fuel. In the frigid days to come, ac cording to Doctor Wiley, the winds wii! serve as fuel. Bulldog Beheads a Spaniel. Logansport, Ind.—When a small toy spaniel rushed into the street and at tacked "jack." a brindle bulldog owned by Alien Nelson, it looked as if the toy dog had "lost his head.” A moment later he had literally lost his head, for Jack resented a nip on the Sank by turning on his little assail ant. The little dog’s head was grabbed by the bulldog and when the spaniel' had been decapitated the bulldog ran after his master s buggy, carrying th« head as trophy. HMKOKY IS GREAT OBJECT A Caucus to Be Held This Week to Name Committees and Transact Other Business. Washington.—Democratic members of the house of representatives are busily engaged in preparations foi the party caucus to be held next Thursday eight and which all demo cratic representatives-elect are ex pected to attend. In ac tual effect it is intended to commit the democratic majority of the next house to an or ganization- to be perfected next win ter. It is expected that a committee on ways and means, the body which frames the tariff laws in their initial stages, will be chosen; the method of designing the personnel of the stand ing committee will be determined and a selection will be made tor speaker of the house. The selection of Champ Clark of Missouri, the present min ority leader, seems a foregone conclu sion. as more than a majority of the democrats of the next house already hafe pledged themselves to his elec non. Nearly all of the democratic lead ers favor the selection now of the membership of the ways and means committee, in order that there 'shall be no delay in beginning work on the tariff revision program to which the democnus are pledged. The majori ty of the committee intends to begin work at once, although the republican minority of the committee probably will not be chosen until the new house is organized next winter. This delay will not be a handicap to the democrats, however, as they in tend to follow the custom of exelud- HUH ing the minority from the committee during the framing of a bill, just as the republicans when they were the majority excluded the democrats un til their bill was ready to report. The slate which seems to find favor with most of the democratic leaders gives the chairmanship of the ways and means committee to Underwood of Alalv.cia. and disposes of the re maininc places as follows: Peters of Massachusetts. Harrison of New York. Palmer of Pennsylvania, i Dixon of Indiana. James of Kentucky, ! Hammond of Minnesota. Hughes of New Jersey. Shackelford of Missouri, andall of Texas. Brantley of Georgia. Kitchin of North Carolina. Hull of Tennessee, and Rainey of Illinois. The method of selecting committees is not expected to be disposed of with i out a contest, although the declara j tion is freely made that two-thirds of | the democrats of the next house favor j the selection by caucus of a "commit ! tee on committees." Fitzgerald of New York, the ranking member of the committee cn appropriations, who was appointed by Speaker Cannon to his presnt place on the committee on rules after beaking with his own par ty. probably will introduce a resolu tion providing for the continuation of j the present method of having commit | tees appointed by the speaker. FOUR KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Niobrara Hotel Is also Burned to the Ground Niobrara. Neb.—Four persons were killed and four injured in a gas ex plosion which occurred here at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. Fire, which resulted from an explosion, burned to the ground the three-story frame ho tel owned by Michael Kendall. The explosion was caused by a leak in a gas plant which was located in the cellar of the hotel. Mr. Kendall no ticed that gas was escaping and went to the cellar to investigate and it is supposed he struck a match and ig nited the gas in the cellar. It is tnought that all of the injured will recover, though the injuries of three are serious. Nebraksa Wool Crop. Boston.—According to the annual census of sheep in the United States, results of which are announced by the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, there are 42,000,000 ia the country of shearing age and 250,000 in the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska clip last year was 1,625.000 pounds in fleeces, averaging six and one-half pounds each. The shrinkage averaged 60 per cent, which brought the weight down to 650,000 pounds. All Quiet in Portugal. Washington.—George L. Lorrilard. chareg d'affairs of the American lega tion at Lisbon. Portugal, cabled the state department that the railway strike In that country had ended and there appears no danger of further disturbances. Race Riot in Arkansas. Hot Springs, Ark.—Meager reports received from Benton. Ark., ^ay two negroes are dead and a third fatally injured as a result of a race riot there. Kline Has New Job. Washington—Charles A. Kline was appointed assistant general pasenger agent of the Southern railway, with headquarters in Washington. Mr. Kline was formerly chief clerk of the passenger department and has been with the Southern about fifteen years.