Loup City Northwestern vuu .m: xxix_ loupcity, Nebraska. Thursday , January ac. 1011! number ii LATEST rVPPEv A'j THE WORLD c. 1R TCLD N TEMiZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Ci'ae'Md T'to a Ft. L net for the t4 tn# Bit. Van— Latctf Re-to "a infor mation. PERSONAL. Mtirsot i-mvidcbt of tbs EfWt*’i* !JV Assurance aoetrty and i *• V ! the t.i » iej ! »- a*. ■ H-e! S .moor X-a I'it* el:? afcere be bad pot»e jire ■** *-ej a basilicas • tsape SurR' Aj«r leiy caused death Eiytetw E the aiiator aeeotn as-* fe»- a: »-ru. uvipnkiii at Sat. Fraujr-isc*. by fi? in* from iand It. a CMPtle* t>!J labe tad t'if* ' i f OH the ce • of a varri.it* anchored in Sat Franco*- . hay He started tt re*urn Cipbt at- Bt:*t)ed It stirresafBKy,. H»tr 1 jivir !/.;*. was re-elected i y tt- Rasi arbmartr Ja*i*iaTBre to , ft* S" »* it "he rure-iS senate f f the i or-■ 1:2,.* i.? "he :..ar*»a of •!* !*« of • fetch c&me from IbrBiwTatr It- ■. *t Ks -ura**-: three minister* Of lii*- JafSKkeae nriu&rt ha'- reeiinse.1 ! thr ' a ►•..ee f re»;* • . ■••■ Tor tin.M°d:* ? r*-» I.-:p isg m the i s of tt • attar a bo a ere niii dmttad V. death Chi:. ; • ark ••» Viaawer. *u unanV- . r -r • v the ' iji -r "f tbe Jjssaorrst n.ca.Wr» « Isrt a* bis ;-ar i- - «a: . iab* tor efmker of the t. repT'e-ttat .*-» in tie Sixty **- at ■ ■•*'*.-- Tbe eao<*ur tended 1 ix.- ;• m. the r; ak« r all power u» . ■tali- r-S::v-» fStn»':L« that d’-ty *t ai t asd mean* commit- ! Ire A -h; ,.jr: CStarie* M Schwab and W „an E < r- t- {reel .^ctt of the ! t ’■ g’i.’-r S'eel rurporatK.* re s' I a '-ear Jar:,*-* a Far r* Va ;-re-...~nt a. , receive sc. j E.* Gw* iofan A UU n a rtateruent ai :*•*»*-1 ti* N**w York S*ite Agri rv 'sira.. aociet act>ocnc*-» That be will r&c.-u-a* - • - >»rr :ng of *i--3T16c sgricaiUBT' m t-gt acb'ioU and cots c. *_ tbr -ugfaoc’ New York State -• rr A:-*r* J Ilever. Ige of In i.ai.a »- . fay tbe t-.de of a *ele gmpt «t*-rmi?«r In Washington was tt- rti*! t.e-aker at tie- annual dia ler i» N* * York f the dress fabric S..i.ii. tuners. GENERAL. NEWS At* -rr :** - E Er!>r***in was * - a* f - - - *e* of hi."- .nr • ••:.» a -tmir ui hi* effort* u» prove la < • Ne Broace former mi trwit ;e- --T icgi.-atur* not guii'y o' ..retiming for the elec h ia.-riE.er iv ..- United ff*ate* #a-5sa‘e • » e*- - ... mi an at; An.- rican es: *-r*» < sn»*-s. afer a conference a* New \ ■ *rfc aounced a reduction It tfcrou;' rat*— soon to take effect te * .. a- A. -a . - * ne l tit* . lit ate* ■til man - of Canada After li t >*t tfcre* da** of argument cm the *«!*Jecf the executive council m\.» -.-at 1> . -ti■if l.a- r at Waal.:: gtoc :*<•; *-d to gran- a <-h.ar t* r to t:.e Weef-rt Fe,jerat»*» of V t * *- * -iuii. terre* srtch the one v * be '..t the United Min- Workers sf America. * . An re* am* it- announced at New 1- *. * .* that l»- had riven another f • tt.e endearment fund of the < art.*. ■ !* * • • rf Research (if Watfuagt-.c Tht !at*-»* ocutribution bm.g* tt* - ai of Mr Carnegie , gift* t*> the- faj-titatk* to fiS f**e ~4». \.w * it ■ ah* w -n the fe--t round of the fight fog the jnrtnfltm of the Pana ma . I,-. *. t »bet Tbe ei|, wJtiotl rate of the house at Washing Iox. : a i ute of > to C. derided in fa etc of ft a* The site for the fair to eel -:.«r*t* fh* o;--t.ng of the Panama canal fa !S*1S Th» ;■ •* Wa* gc m are look it i * • % : 'A tt - • ■ a former *r:,-> t» -eh*-e * ho . a.-*-ged *o have #e*- *■ *er a bun-tret citizen* of the ti- - . v*.' out iif IT. eg more by at entirety near •game” War tetamen Haiti and Panto Flo tnfagi* appears inevitable Iamtsican trout * have ucevt'M-c Gran . Gosier. on t.*.- Hu-.-1 m ifhern fr* • .--r. and are marrhu-g on Saltrou. Hi '1 The * nange in the political coin piraioc of the house next -essIon has aroused the ambition of many negroes • ho hare supported the Iiemocrstlr par*jr in the past to replace the KtiO colored hej-t-b.. an* a-ho are no* em ployed about the bouse wing of the raptui A nation-wide movement was lunched a' Baltimore to celebrate th* attainment bv Cardinal Gibbons of the fiftieth year of hi* ordination and the twee** fifth of hi* elevation to the cardmalate by the erection of G»t -bans ts.:i a* the Catholic uniter - nity at Washington (i®-la: statistics show that lAf.OOO Spaniards emigrated is !&!<*, many of them going to the United States An . -boat srfcfch looks lire a big Bonoi-ae* propelled by aeroplane t* foot ;.r* -je.jer*. made a speed of s*-’ f seventy miles an hour on the fiver at A lasts burn. -v V, i Th- * schooner !.aknie, watew < - - of Honduras, has ►o-jt -at : : > the revolutionary forces ..i) • r Marti*-] Bonilla, and an attack .i;i» is expected at any time. I*ri es*::ic against certain decora : bat:.-ship Ctah. Mrs. H. i I'w.-n in Washington spoke of Brig i.ar V ::-.c as a "treacherous rebel.” Tt.e Sangamon 111. i county grand nas begun an investigation of the j ■ graft in Springfield city af : At - r.t investigation shows a s irtage of $22,000 i reat to withdraw from the • F ieratton of Labor was • : • . -eti .!. .. -e- iution introduced at • - • u 'the I'nited Mine Work Am*r ca at Columbus. O. The • are? that if the Ameri K- . • . n f Labor does not at • •„(!■ ir. ' • Wes'ern Federation Miner? :• ?:.ai i r?-ak off all reta il ■? ai-h th* i • t body A re- ommendation for the establish* • »-f i Mu-? -h setts of school sav c bat. .? v..-h -he idea of encour ..r r.f : dret in the schools to form ->f sating money is em b f.» : in the annual report of Bank < n.i: i. sioner < 'hapin. i- :? :.nn< ::i > d tha* President Taft, ernor 1 is tad day or Gsynor will si- a’ th same table on the evening • ■ niton ? birthday as guests of :• Pc. » Lieutenants' Benevolent a?-o 'on a* the Waldorf-Astoria. New York. a ■ orruptiOB and vote selling ■*r buying in Vermillion county. 1111 - n ..t • reveale.. as the result of "he ailing of half a dozen of the lead ' .nk* r? c.f fanville before the c-it. :r> to testify concerning the J.i she rtage of former County Tr» .aur*-r Hardy Whitlock, which they, a- bondsmen made good. Th- nati nal board of trade, in ses at Washington, substantially ln r?- . • - : rinciples of the Aldrich p.ar. of nior.e-ary reform by adopting -* - u.'ion? recommending a "centra! an sing organization " State banks, h •*-•-• are included within the . *•* r?hip of the proposed organiza tion. The New Tors Central railroad has - ...rged Albert Seagrove. the n ■ rmar. in barge of the train . • t.r.o- kcd over a bumper and in • y caused the explosion at the Grand i cr.'-al m New York, in which ea •• <-ri ;ieople were killed. tr- conclusion of the argu " "~ ‘ • ;.n posed advances of "• at Washington Chairman 1 interstate commerce a.kv-ion ant cur. red that the car *• r- Lad consented further to post : r • :i ■ : • - from February 1 to Mar-h 1." in rder to afford the • mimss'im adequate time in which to • ; v tii- gr<-a‘ question presented. ■ hundred and fifty-five pauic *r ■ • r chi .ren. need from three to • r *.-rc saved from death by the ■ n - of a'tendants and firemen when tfc* Susquehanna Valley home a" Binghamton. N Y., burned. The Japanese supreme court pub • sentenced a' Tokyo twenty-three men and one woman to death who v r ■ charted with conspiring against '1 roue an with forming a plot to murdc r the row n prince and govern ment officials of the empire. < hump t'lark and Joseph A. Iiaiiey of Texas came into direct conflict at tiK h;g Iiemoeratic conference at Ba ' more and on the vital issue of the tariff Clark unqualifiedly de clared in favor of tariff revision b7 s' bedule With equal insistence. Bailey demanded a straightforward and complete revision in one compre hensive measure Govern; ii Hay of Washington has N»n notified by Secretary of State Knox that the action of the Spokane 1 ■ moil in passim an ordinance bar ing aliens from employment on pub lic work is In conflict with a treaty between ’he I’nited States and Italy. The Callan automobile law, which . - vide> that a person who runs down at -r r w -h an automobile must stop .nd c;v» his name and address. Is un f.nstitutional. according to a ruling by Justice Crain in New York This is the year for the seventeen year locusts to appear. They are due along the A'lantic seaboard from Vir g.t.ia New York, but Dr. Raymond L Biumirs. curator of the Bronx xoo, said that he believed the Hudson river wonld check the pest. "There Is absolutely no proof in the case direct or indirect, from which a legitimate inference could be drawn that a single member of the general assembly was corruptly influenced to vote for Mr. Lorimer.” This was the conclusion of Senator Burrows in a speech in the senate at Washington defending the right of Senator Bon nier to his seat in the senate. A playground institute for the mid dle west, covering the state of Michi gan. Illinois. Ohio. Indiana. Kentucky and Missouri, was opened in Detroit under the auspices of the Playground AssociaUon of America. _ PHYSIGIANSBAFFLED KIND OF “SLEEPING SICKNESS” IS FOUND AT KEARNEY. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Kearney.—^ peculiar malady which has baffled local physicians has de veloped in the case of B. C. Parr, who for several months has been affected with a kina of “sleeping sickness.” He, is an aged man. and although appa rently in excellent health is at times attacked with a drowsiness during which he loses consciousness, often falling from his chair, so sudden is the approach of the disease. Wedded After 36 Years. Lincoln.—Stricken ill while enjoy ing a honeymoon with the man who had waited thirty-six years to take her as his bride. Mrs. James L. Strineris suffering from pneumonia at her home here. Mrs. Strine came to Lincoln a week ago from Maninsburg. AY. Va.. where she was married two weeks ago to her lover of nearly two score years ago. On the trip she contracted a cold which developed during the past few days into the more serious illness. Epidemic of Smallpox. Tecumseh.—At the present time There is an epidemic of smallpox in many of the towns in southeastern Nebraska. The village of Elk Creek has several cases. Tecumseh has had a number of cases, but the disease has now disappeared. Cases are reported at Talmage. Auburn and many other places. The disease is in mild form, frequently the patients not being obliged to take to their beds. - 3 Four Generations Present. Geneva.—One of the very few oc currences of four generations of one family being present at the same time was that of the Peterson family, which was held at the home of Johannas Peterson, the,great grandfather, last Saturday. The four generations pres ent were Johannas Peterson, great grandfather; J. A. Peterson, grand father; Lee Peterson, father, and Ros coe Peterson, son. Smothered in a Cave-In. McCook.—Alfred Lofvenborg of this city was smothered and crushed to death by a cave-in at the F’.itcraft sand bank a few miles west of Mc Cook. Ben Lofvenborg and Leon Clark escajied death by a narrow mar gin. A farmers' institute will be held at Brock on January 31 and February 1. An effort is being made to reorgan ize the Tecumseh Commercial club. Custer county has voted a seven mill levy to build a new court house. Cambridge Commercial club has been organized with a good member ship. Mason City will have a new bank— the charter having been issued re cently. The superintendents and teachers' association of the state is in session at Lincoln. ( lay Center will number her resi dences in order that city mail delivery may be perfected. Frit nd suffered a disastrous fire on Tuesday night, losing a number ol business houses. Capt. Charles H. Downs, one of the pioners of Nebraska, died at his home in Omaha, aged 92 years. The job of paving the Seward streets, which has been under way since August, was completed last week. Mr. and Mrs. O. Lehrack of Tecum seh will celebrate Their goiden wed ding anniversary the last of this month. Newt Jarvis at Nemaha has killed seven hawks this season, one of which measured nearly five feet, from tip to tip. George Tucker, a farmer near Gar tson. got his hand caught in a corn sheller and badly mangled it before getting released. Hastings high school pupils will present the comic opera. “The Prin cess Bonnie." at the opera house in that place shortly. Fairbury denies that It required a census of the circuses that winter there to swell its population to its present proportions. The surviving members of company E. First Nebraska regiment, who served in the White River Indian war of 1893. will gather together at a banquet at Fremont. Lincoln members of the Knights of Columbus went to Fremont Sunday to initiate a large number of candi dates at that place. A special train was chartered for the occasion. Extensive preparation is being made by the committee for the state poultry' show, which will be held in the audi torium at Hastings. January 16 to 20. The Indications are that a consider ably greater number of fowls will be exhibited than were shown last year. Among the notable speakers will be Professors Pierce and Gardner of the state agricultural college, and Will Maupin of Lincoln. Broken Bow is laying pipes lor a $100,000 packing house plant, and in dications are that she will land it. | Mrs. Mary K. Osgood, the wife oi I Daniel Osgood, dropped dead of heart j failure at her home near Sterling. At the annual meeting of the Bank of Cortland, a dividend was declared and the capitalization was increased from $15,000 to $20,000. County treasurers from over the state are in session at Lincoln this week, perfecting an organization that may be of mutual benefit to that body. tielen BIoss. a six-year-old Omaha girl, in getting out of the way of a dog that had frightened her. fell un der a street car and lost three fingers from her right hand. Miss Oralee List and Miss Olive Adair, members of the Tulsa. Okla., j ••40.” who are earning their way around the world selling papers, were in Lincoln last week. The Fairbury Commercial club is arranging for a minstrel show to be given the latter part of January. The show will comprise local talent, there being sixty members in the cast. Some time during Sunday night an attempt was made to burn the build ings belonging to the county poor farm at Broken Bow. Investigation showed a quantity of inflammable ma ! terials placed in secreted places about the main building and outhouses. The incendiary was evidently frightened away before completing his work. A deputy United States marshal made a raid on a gang of "bootleggers” at Mason City and arrested five sus pects. and with them found 14S quarts of "Kentucky rye.” The marshal spent some time before he was able to lo cate the violators of the law. F. L. Reynolds, living southwest of Tecumseh. was attacked by a vicious 1 hog while engaged in doing cho-es ; about the place, and sustained some serious injuries upon the side, the wounds being of such a nature that a physician was summoned to allevi ate the injured man s sufferings. I In an attempt to bo arrange state examinations that school teachers from Nebraska may go anywhere in the country under the reciprocal cer tification rules, a meeting of the presi dents of colleges and normals was held Saturday, at which it was decid ed that all college*; „nd normals should offer state examinations in the five essential branches. Dean For dyce presided at this meeting. The state university. Peru normal. Chad ron normal. Wesleyan university. Cot ner university. York college. Hastings college and the Lutheran college at Wahoo were represented. Only the Kearney and Wayne normals were not represented from among the schools of this class. A special order from the office of the adjutant genera! "has restored Major C. E. Fraser of Madison to duty again. Major Fraser was dropped from the list some months ago when J. C. Hartigan. then adjutant general, decided to drop companies and offic ers where the required standards of efficiency had not been maintained. Governor Aldrich has issued a proc lamation declat-ing Fairburv to be a city of the first class, having a popu lation of between 5,000 and 25.000. Sat isfactory evidence w-as presented, based on the last census, that Fair bary had a population of 5.294. and the proclamation was issued in accord ance with this evidence. 1 he hopes o: ban Francisco to re ceive an endorsement of its plan to capture the recommendation of con gress as The seat of the Panama-Pa cific exposition proposed to be held in 1915 when the canal shall have been completed was handed a solar plexus blow, both In the action of the senate and that of the house. In the senate the question was side-tracked for a time by reference to a special commit tee for investigation, and in the house the San Francisco proposition was turned down flatly and New Orleans given the preference by a two to one vote. The house has taken it all hack and decided to have its postage stamps. A motion to allow each member 15 cents’ worth of stamps a day for of ficial business was voted down; the same motion was reconsidered and carried by a plenty good majority Gerdes, the watchdog of the treasury at this session, wanted the allowance cut to 10 cents each, but the allow ance went through at the usual figure 15 cents. The house will have no sessions during the afternoons this week. This action was taken because many farm er members want to attend the ses sions of organized agriculture. The senate did not take such action, al though it adjourned to meet again at 11 o'clock Wednesday. It is possible that this body will follow the action of the house. Hiram S. Craig of Lincoln has been appointed by Governor Aldrich as ad jut&nt at the Grand Island soldiers home. The commission has been is sued and he will assume the position in a short time. “Good din toads for less money,* the slogan of the Nebraska good roads association which meets in Lincoln January 20. meets with the full ap proval of Thomas Lahners of Belvi dere. the man who first introduced in the Nebraska legislature a bill for what is now known as the “road drag I system” of good roads. _ MORE TROUBLE FOR NEW YORK SLEUTHS MUST NOW STROLL ALONG RUB BERNECK ROW IN FULL EVENING CLOTHES. CITY TO HAVE DANDY SQUAD ( Detectives Detailed for Social Func tions Have Got to Learn to Drink Tea. Have Their Nails Manicured, and Look Like Real Gents. New York.—Hist! The new detec-a tive has arrived! There are several dozen of hipi in this little old town, and Second Depu ty Police Commissioner Flynn is his boss. There never was a sleuth like unto him since the days of Vidocqand M'sieu Decocq, and he is making tremendous new strides in his recrudescence from your old-time “bull." so well known at all our best social functions where jewelry and a showing of gowns are displayed, to say nothing of fair backs and shoulders. There's going to be dress inspection every evening soon, just as well as marking time in the morning. Already orders have been put in for full dress clothes, dinner jackets. English walk ing suits and the latest in morning sartorial effects. Dress inspection is to be something of marvelous interest if plans do not fail. The big boss is to look over his society detail and will probably criti cize something like this: “Here, you big boob, you’ve got on square toes. Away with them even if the pointed ones will give you corns. And that coat Isn't cut right. Who’s your tailor anyway? Don’t you knew that a lavender tie is only to be worn with your afternoon frock or English walking suit? "Take that piece of brass cable of? your shirt front. Get a fob if you in sist on wearing a watch. No turn i down collars with evening dress. Get a spite fence effect or you don’t get the Waldorf detail. ’Remember what I say. if yon go into a restaurant you are not to St) the sword swallowing act with ycur knife or use your fork as a toothpick. Now that’s about all for today.” Hereafter any person in our very best young social circles may not be surprised in the slightest if the dis tinguished looking gentleman who at tracted such attention strolling down Rubberneck row in the Waldorf cr eat ing prodigiously but with becoming and charming manners at the grill of the Knickerbocker in the last analysis proves to be one of ’ Big Bill” Flynn’s bright young men. You can never tell by the wrapper just what the cigar is like, and there is going to be a genuine savoir faire about the new style detee a-tive which wili cast a distinct thrill among the fair sex as well as among wn-rs hJt k ^ /), -TAnes'* C 5 o’ciow. \ Tfcft »W3T WS*R. “SoKtHtic fVHP* New York Detective's Outfit. cur best dressed young men. provided they are not called upon to feel the steel hand beneath the white kid glove. But the members of the Social squad aren't going to soil those white gloves at two simoleons per pair. Not much! With languid grace, the kids may i-e split in applauding an aria from “La Tosca" or Caruso's efforts in Pag liacci," hut that will be about ail. The genuine grabbing of “Mack the Bite" and other second story experts, is to be left 'tis said, to the common garden variety of coppers who wear brass but tons and old-fashioned brogans. “Raaly old chap." said cne of the new detec-a-tives to a Met. section in quirer. “it would be a beastly bore, y'know. to be compelled to manhandle ’ any of these fellows of the under- j world. Hereafter, y'know. It's a mat ter of £rain work, deep thought and all that sort of thing. We have been | selected because of our fitness to wear properly cut clothes and with the gray matter y’know, the gray matter, old | top. For example I exercise the prop- i er amount of perception and an ade quate quantity of those deductive and Inductive processes of reasoning that made my old friend Sherlock Holmes so noted. Having evolved my oase and selected the inevitable perpetrator of the act, don't y'know, I merely get in communication with the boss and some ,vulgah coppah is placed upon the works to effect the mere physical result of my cumulative reasoning. Very clevah idea, very clevah and car tain to effect amazing results y'know.” DOG AND CAT STIR UP A RUMPUS IN CHURCH ANIMALS CAUSE PANIC DURING PRAYER SERVICE AND WOR SHIPEPS FLEE FOR EXITS. Buffalo. X. Y.—In a made race for life in the hamlet of Spartanburg a cat and a dog caused a panic in the local church during the prayer serv ' ices and many members of the con gregation were injured in their haste to get out of doors. The services were well under way. the church I doors were open, when a dog passing up the street espied a cat in front of the church and gave chase. The I cat ran into the church, up one aisle and across in front of the pulpit, the dog at its quarry's heels, barking furiously all the way and throwing the congregation into a turmoil. Be lieving the dog mad. the worshipers fled for the exists. Meantime the cat started up the stairs leading to the steeple, the dog in pursuit. As the Cause Panic in Church. belfry landing was reached the cat realized that it was cornered: so without a moment’s hesitation it plunged through one of the windows to the ground, a distance of about forty-five feet, landed on all fours and in a jiffy was across the lawn and out of sight. The dog jumped through the broken window, after the cat, but was killed by the fall. After a time the interrupted services were re sumed. FEAR OF PLAGUE STARTS WAR Rats and Pet Cats Slaughtered in England After Recent Investiga tion of Death of Animais. London.—Fear of the plague has started a war on rats in several towns of Suffolk, and in proclamations the medical officers have warned the pub lic to destroy all rats and vermin. Even the domestic cat is under suspicion, and many have been sacrificed in the effort to prevent the plague. An iron cart, ordinarily used to col lect all sorts of dead animals, is now used exclusively for rats, and travels around the district dally with a man walking ahead and calling on residents to bring out the rats that have been killed. The official notice states that it has been proven beyond a doubt that certain animals in Woodhridgs died from the plague and a raid on the rats is directed because they are be lieved to have much to do with spread ing disease. Efforts are being made in London to keep rats from coming ashore from vessels. The most effective means is to place a concave slnz disk on each hawser. The rat when he reaches the disk cannot pass and must either go back to the ship or jump in the river. BOY DREAMS OF OWN DEATH Scene Youth of Seven Describes as His Funeral Soon Becomes a Reality. Philadelphia. — “Mother, I just dreamed I was dead.” cried seven year-old Charles McGrath, when he awoke and ran to his mother's room. A few hours later he was crushed un der a pile of bricks and stone that fell from a chimney on the roof of his home. He died while his mother was carrying him to a hospital. Mr. and Mrs. McGrath were startled by screams from the room where Charles slept. The lad ran to his moth er's room, trembling with fright. “Oh, mother, I dreamed I was dead,” he cried. “I was all covered with blood and they put flowers all over me in a coffin." Believing that the child was ill, Mrs. McGrath did not allow him to attend school. Charles and four-year-old Charles Keenelly went to the roof of the McGrath home to fly a kite. Soon afterward Mrs. McGrath heard screams from the housetop. She ran to the flat and found her son pinned under a mass of brick and mortar, fallen from the top of the chimney. Woman’s Body Turned to Stone. Nagaunee, Mich.—While removing bodies from an old cemetery here, the body of Mrs. Joseph Fay. who had been dead 11 years, was found in a petrified condition. It weighed 600 pounds and was easily recognized. PROGRESSJS GOOD CONGRESS DOING VERY WELL WITH WORK BEFORE IT. EXTRA SESSION NOT LIKELY Fair Results Achieved on Big Bills( Many of the Larger Appropria tions Having Beer. Passed. Washington—When republican lead ers in congress were asked if there is likely to be an extra session be cause of the congested condition of the calendars in both branches they invariably answer in the negative. They insist, in spite of the extra ses sion gossip, that the present short session is not jammed more than was the short session two years ago, so far as appropriation bills are con cerned. Comparison proves the truth of the leaders' claim. Already the house has passed the Indian, river and har bors. pensions, legislative, urgent de ficiency and army appropriation bills, and is nearly through with the post office bill. Two years ago the house had passed only the pensions, legisla tive. District of Columbia and naval bills in the same time. It is true the senate has passed only the urgent de fieiency bill, but two years ago only the legislative bill had been passed. Senate leaders are not disturbed by the situation. Two years ago. thir teen big appropriation bills were pass ed in the last four weeks of the ses sion. and the republican leaders saf what has been done can be done. Some senators believe there haa been no particular effort made to pre vent congestion and that appropria tion bills have been delayed to kill off general legislation. It would surprise no one now if members opposed to votes on the Lorimer case, the resolu tion providing for the election of sen ators by direct vote of the people, the tariff commission bill, and other con troversial matters, should be victori ous in their effort. The ship subsidy bill is being used as a buffer and ' there are several treaty matters that | may be brought in if needed to kill time. Gossip among democratic members of the house is directed toward the meeting called for next Friday night of the fourteen democrats of the new ways and means committee. These will select the democratic members of a new rules committee and map out a program for the preparation of tariff legislation. It virtually is conceded that Repre sentative Henry of Texas, once a speakership candidate and leading minority member of the judiciary committee, will head the new rules committee in succession to Dalzell of Pennsylvania, the retiring republican chairman. HOTEL FIRE IN OMAHA. — Disastrous Early Morning Blaze in the Milliard. Omaha—One man dead and five oth ers in a serious condition from suffo cation by smoke, one with a broken leg as the result of a disastrous fire early Monday morning in the Mil lard hotel. Breaking out as it did in the middle of the night, every one of the 300 guests in the hotel were asleep in their beds, ^lany barely escaped with their lives and many thrilling rescues were effected. Thomas J. Field of Sioux City was suf focated by somke and died on the way to the hospital. A number of men were overcome by smoke, some of whom are in a serious condition. Paul Morton’s Funeral. New York.—Double funeral serv ices for Paul Morton, preisdent of the Equitable Life Assurance society and former secretary of the navy, were held Sunday. The public serv ice. at St. Thomas Episcopal x;hurch on Fifth avenue, was attended by his many former associates at Washing ton and by leading financiers and bus iness men here. The body, it is stat ed. will later on be removed to Ar bor Lodge for final interment. Claims Cure for Paralysis. Vienna.—After three years' experi mentation. Prof. Wagner von Jauregg of the university of Vienna, claims to have cured 23 per cent of the cases of progressive paralysis out of 1,500 pa tients, by injections of Koch's tuber culin. The disease heretofore has been considered incurable. Near Enough to Pole. Washington—That Captain Robert E. Peary came within 1.6 miles of the north pole—near enough to establish his claim of having been at the exact spot, is the decision of the house com mittee on naval affairs, which has been considering the bill to retire Captain Peary with the rank of rear admiral. Mrs. Longworth to Write Play. Washington.—Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth is writing a play. It is a society play and is to be produced, perhaps, at the new “playhouse,” the home of the fashionable dramatic club, which has just been opened. Farmer Kills Wife and Self. Xeligh, Neb.—Oscar Johnson, a farmer living in Pierce county, killed his wife with a butcher knife and then ended his life with the same weapon. They leave a family of eight children.