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LoHP City Northwestern \ ()U Mi: XXIX_LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MARCH !>■ 1911. NUMBER IS. C ! SOIES OF * WEES LATEST - NC.S the WORLD C.ER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EvESTS HERE A\D THERE Coeae*-aer -te a P»» L re* fo* the Por-aa v* the Bji> Man Latest Pe'oenal Intor »ratlo*L Washington ■ -i ’ rs/V't of (Acer* of tl* n..»:*if':ae govormcsi of *1—-- i m^uiert* •-» jT itnpruprle tt*e .• r.aei t. a eft •he adn-in:* Its* ".. «*.• «.•* >e*r *f letd* It the SeiitLi* - r i ttf e vt ^ottttM! rrltl dent 'V me4iief«~y of the »*• to ;r- • —• : ...,«* a, e Lai an- atio-ec u - . Lit la bo-t "te feJodtT etc r:.. ■ * of tbe rostaut ir* - * jiar . reboalt'di so tie t k' Li I L--*L»- as Vi**: l.ilt.L • • • -.. .. f,.., m ,. ., par - »*- v::w it Tb* ftmes - 'ii.,.'Ur* r TVx 2.: : * *■ * : * ,jf * * r : gatost tbf < -j -• 4-^-f ' * e- •- -*:• r 40 ».<n * ' W" * ’* *" r- . ' ni.* ttjif.. t.-e-r g*?u rrt k- t ? -lit A: r.’ ? Tfi: to rao —lfS f ~ *2- ri.-4-ri3Xf.tml J4r t- ^ ,#«r. 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TJ’ ant -arfed with re «*r_ r* of tr*d» and tarrfal monopoly U*» -'lot cd the aiiesrd -'ombine is Mfbt • • • The b -odif«:ns the ia* ■ which w*.: -f.-c. : • the preside** c:r*ually a . • •• e ■ i-tslt «<K.e| and !s t> in »«rfc now performed by the v _rt* t-jJtiti *ne dlrtnc* court }-~x*' !»-». ring • he cl rcui’ court *e* for • - more import*** • M-i upe* the ci.rr*H conn of ap pea_* V-* :a He* ? f-*rong the oatujrl. *r of •• : * lUa» L Scott. the mil Ife tut •» napmu of Erie. Pa. a ! s r <-_r? • _s J. or# Ti’ed by jut t :.•• 'at t**. fed a -• »■ k >**.-r .cmanding a cer • • re of as<< w ■• a»*. -»* * - * (’.re TTP4;. itdcr To herself and Msafeers of ter family • • • '< *• we ".*1- a *• -Mind ff»4#t5f» tar •- ■! ■ w *-*:-• a’ He I’enn *:■• of K«lmu «!•• f.Hve fa:.ed ae V a* act -JT;e*et enl by ffe* St ’ »f 't..: :n». ber on*-third aro •Oman • • • Tb- antiT cd * tie M aaarm (sly pa»md a MS1, aijowing damage* am.-w-'tg to l .«•» for menial an g- lor the fa.: m of *->gra*.b com {*.-*• ’ telegram* prompt!?. • • m 1 * *«■ ... . .-—a as* fe did not re ■e-'* f. tte« *e a frtend 'luring mt'T* T1*” *>•""!» -lay* Mr* Josephine V, if • - Tib -.ears old a SUtg -r ot ’ iib K Wi'k f'Tijjer got err- r of i 4>«mdr commit led sot dee at lata Angelas i fn haling g»*. • • • Tb* ante WUcg of S!»at Rt Mar? * cofkgr a large OatboHr :nsti * on ’A a:-i.on* mo attain, near PltanSrld X J, a as burned Tee Samar- at* mere that f2ntt.0«0 Near IT ~ • *•■ **aa and iat*n got out in safety • • • Eat at * meet of a women » college at Sc* Ui-wk* Conn la ensured by tU anaout remecp that an endowment fticd of I * ft fear been raised b« e-o. t tar? * '-ptler. Tb. la-r<wt •*** * «•' • one of It' tm from m«i (an E P«art He-.ry T*. Meyers, judge of the dis *' of Ravalli county, was < - :-d I nl'.ed States senator from ■ ETit .. to succeed Thomas H Car *er 1 — received every Democratic ' ’ r - iTal f votes, against 45 "ter i.d three scattering Repub lican rotes. • • • : - ; 7. G Robin the fallen New Y •■inker pleaded guilty to an in c t:. -i.t ...re : g him wi’h the lar -n> ' 1-7 -em fr .m the Washington :.a-- bank of which he was for n • - ; J-nt Seven indictments ;-zu:v.*' !. ti remain He was remand • • Tombs until March 27, when he will t»e sentenced • • • 1- a family quarrel at Rockdale, ir.c Kct war: Loos, aged fifty years,; -a- - • na killed by his brother-in law flam *5 i: waiL The latter de Jcres h- shot in self-defense. • • • 1. c ••■ Dutrh farmers and their an arr— d ;r. New York aboard the liter Noordam on their way to -a and V rth Dak' ta. the advance F -.rd f seven or eight thousand far:: • r- w:.' will leave Holland wlth 'h. n, - • ;ew weeks to take up land :c the western I'nited States. T • V;m o.a hous** has passed a pr ling f - rh' abolishment of :a_ punishment in that state. • • • ■ ■ " r »■■■:. en dr iik as much as ■ • •; re that English women, in •■•• : >f Dr Tot.a D. Quacken • Xew '• i-k wl. has made a - * v * > i *.! • qi> sion • • • - • • ;rg twenty-one years * • ar.d killed his stepfather. - ,. : •- r : • Davenport. Ia., after - ■ - mot. r that Muell er -ad abused her Personal W 1* K‘: n< has been appointed t :.c c< : -a traffic manager of the — at N.ir-h«m railway, to succeed W \V i root r• : w'r has become vtce -r’ f the P.'tsburg Coal com t-an> • • • Frank H Kaub Sr-t master mech&n ' It’ Pacific railroad and a • eer ' ! ■ "t died there at the ar of seventy-eight tears • • • T • *• ..' •' trustee- of \KiIbrahaai a a . rt - -e / the oldest New Eng land prej«ara'or> schools at Spring fie. Mass has voted to abolish co d' af ric.-t of the present -cbool tear a a a t Jar... ‘ •' Napier of Tennessee was named tay ?•-. sld«nt Taft to be regis ter v ' i e treasury Napier Is a ne gro • • • 1 r M* 'v- - Carr»"e. the New York ■ • • ' :: .red when a street car - - .- k a tax ab in which he was rid tr.r " v. . ek- ur" di"d a: fte Pres • yteriac hospital it. that city. • • • It •• c t v Pr-s'jer.t Taft to inspect it* Panama canal, a party of 80 en i '.eer- a. o' whom are members of ?:• Vmeri an Society of Civil Engi ne- with their wives and daugh t--<- c.t.l- r fr n New York for Pan ic a in b ird 'he steamship Zacapa. a a a ~ rc“« B .J|e*'d. probably Eouis s v weaithies- citizen, is crit ical ' * '"implication of diseases at h:a home in that city. • • • Promlnetr physicians and edu at *rs me- :r Chicago at a conference : 'he auspices of the American association to discuss vital ;• ■: *n.- • :b- medical profession a a a Sporting ' Knockou ' Brown the tow headed little New York lightweight, gained a i ; '_- c< ' .-.on over Ad Wolgaat. the . .lgh'welght champion, in a «.im ng en -ound bou' at the Nation Sporting Club of America at New York The crowd of 3,'K'O which saw t:.» ficbt vo-ed Brown a victory, al •ii the law requires that no de cision be rendered. • • a Foreign T*«-nty-one persons were trampled *o dea’h at Sha-Yang. Haupeh prov ince. w:.**n a horde of starving Chi 1,*!-*- fought for the food which mis tionan*-t were attempting to distrib ute A g'*-a‘ many others were in jured. * * * > A to cable advices received • N-o York from Costa Rica. Itr. Ru th- :. Espinosa well known through <• • Central America, and 45 others •it* to lb shot by the Estrada govern ment of Nicaragua The date of exe cution is kept secret. • • • Orde*f have been given by the .Tap- : ati-o- admiralty to the Mitsulbishl : .. |,.rv an.I the Kawasaki dock ^ards for t«', battle ships of 22. 00 tons. ! • twi, c anies have rent four ex - the Vickers Maxim yards In I i-:a w • .-re a .Japanese warship :s being built * * * Austria and Italy are hurrying troops and guns to the frontier that separate them The military movement is be ing executed quietly, but both govern- . ' ments are animated by a spirit which bevies trouble. The irredentist agita tion in Italy to regain possession of j Trieste on the coast, and Trent, in ; the Tyrol, from Austria, bas assumed i sudden force and activity. • • • London underwriters with whom j Mrs Maldwin Drummond had insured | her stolen pearls and rings for $100. 000 have offered a reward of $5,000. i is IN JE CHI YOUNG WOMAN EXPIRES UNEX PECTEDLY AT EDGAR. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE Wnat is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicfnity. Edgar—While sitting in a dentist's chair in the office of Dr. J. R. Shive ly. Miss Alice E. Forst. of Deweese, died unexpectedly Saturday. The den tist had just extracted a tooth and had stepped into an adjoining room when Miss Forst expired. When he returned he thought she had fainted and tried lo revive her. A nearby physician was summoned, but the young woman was dead before he arrived. Destructive Fire at Ogallala. Ogallala.—Fire broke out in the Os born meat market Monday morning and consumed the entire building, to gether with the following: S. M. G. ardware stoel, $3,000; J. R. Eneas jewelry stock $3.00'': Keith <'->unty News Printing company. $2. •: Briscoe harness. $1,000; Kendall restaurant. $M>>; I O. O. F iodge par:-.: hernalia. $'00: Mrs. Adam Hull, hut i'ngs M. Searle. building. $' ■ : the real estate office of the Kearney I^ar.d company and also E. M. Starh & Son. totai loss. Purchase Tract of Land. Tecumseh.—The committee appoint pd bv the Tecumseh Commercial club to secure funds to build an auditorium for the joi.pt u*e of the fair and ohau qua associations, on the fair grounds, has bought, a small tract of land ad joining the fair grounds on the north. Bible 400 Years Old. Grand Island—H. P. Makeley of this cry is the proud possessor of a Bible containing the old and new testa ments and the book of Pt-alms all un der one cover and in perfect condi tion. that was printed in Edinburg. Scotland, in the sixteenth century. Will Go to England. Fairmont.—Lofts Cashburn and wife are soon to leave for Ireland for an extended visit They expect to locate permanently iu London. England. Mr. Cashburn recently gold his thirteen Bcre farm northeast of Fairmont for $2,500. There is not a vacant house in Xe ligh. John Bayle won the old fiddlers' contest a: Nebraska City. A large class of the Knights of Co lumbus was initiated at Grand Island Sunday. Platte Lodge. I. O. O. F„ at Platts mouth recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Nick Rastick. a T'nion Pacific rail read employe at Columbus, was struck by an engine and instantly killed. The city council at Peru has noti fied all business houses that they must close up on Sundays hereafter. A number of women took part in the big wolf hunt at Bassett, which covered a territory of 175 square miles. Rev. R c. Moodie, pastor of the Congregational church at Wisner for some time past, has accepted a cail from the church at Blair. James K. Robinson, engineer at the State Journal plant, and for thirty years a resident of Lincoln, died sud denly at that place Friday. Efforts to locate the relatives of John Beck, the young man who was accidentally shot to death at Fremont, have proven unsuccessful. The Falrbury Elks lodge moved into their new home, and 150 of them with their families celebrated the event with an entertainment and banquet. Patrick Waters, an aged an ' eccen tric old man. was found dead at his home near Xaponee Friday. He lived alone on the farm he had owned for over thirty years. The Nebraska Speed association will hold meets at Beatrice. June 13. 14. 15; Friend. June 20 21. 22; Fremont. June 27. 28. 29; Tekamah. July 4, 5, 6; West Point. July 11 12. 13. H. F. Phelps, editor of the Orleans Chronicle, while breaking kindling stepped on a rusty nail w hich passed through bis foot. Blood poisoning set in and he has been in a critical condi tion since. The following dates have been made for the South Centra' Nebraska fair circuit: Geneva. September 12 to 15; Nelson. September 20 to 22; Bladen. September 27 to 29; Minden. October 4 to G; Campbell. October 11 to IS. The Humboldt Commercial club has been reorganized. The general store of W. J. Burger & Son. at Doniphan, was burglarized Sundav night, presumably by two men. Entrance w-as gained through a cellar srindow. The Woman’s club of Holdrege has adopted a novel method of raising money for the entertainment of the state federation this year. The sec ond week of March the ladies will take charge of the Citizen newspaper office and wili receive a percentage of all business done in that office for that week. For a Hctel Commission. The committee on miscellaneous subjects of the house, at a meeting Monday night, d.scussed the compro mise hotel bill agreed upon by repre sentatives of the Nebraska travelers' association and the hotel keei>ers' association, and it was reported after the meeting that The report thereon would be favorable to its passage. The new measure embodies changes in the law agreed upon at a conference held by hotel men and travelers at Omaha on January 3(». The bill provides for the establish ment of a hotel commission in this state making the governor the hotel commissioner and placing upon him the duty of seeing that the law is en forced. He is required to appoint a deputy hotel commissioner, who shall be paid Sl.SOO a year, and the deputy may employ one stenographer at a salary of J70 a month. The deputy will hold office at the pleasure of the governor. The Governor's Staff. The military committee of the house has introduced H. R. 505. an act pro viding that “colonels’' on the gover nor's staff shall bi c hr sen from the ac tive list of the Dinars o; the Nebras ka national guard. TU staff officers shall be detailed for staff duty for such periods of service as the gover nor ma> on orders designate The officers so detailed are to be eiven the rank of colonel by reason of such ap pointment They shall be given no greater rank than that to which they are entitled by virtue of the:r commis sions in the guard and while on duty as aides-de-camp shall serve without pay in times of peace. The same bill provides that no one nnder eighteen years shall be enlisted in the guard, and in time of peace no one under twenty-one years shall be enlisted without the written consent of parents or guardians. On the Right Track. That Governor Aldrich was misin formed on the main points in the charges of election frauds in Omaha; that he was right in only one or two minor instances; and that a new reg istration law should __be enacted for Ou.-i-a. are tf j luichs finding, .. ujs house committee which investigated the governor's charges of wholesale frauds in Omaha at the last election. The committee made its report to the house late Tuesday afternoon. To Increase Officers’ Salaries. The senate has placed on third reading Volpp's bill increasing the salary of state officers and Tanner's bill providing for a bipartisan publi cation of constitutional amendments. 1 The Yolpp bill, as amended, provides that the governor shall receive $7,500 a year, the auditor, treasurer and at torney general. $4,500. and the other state officers. $5,500 per annum. Stock Yards Bill on General File. In spite of an adverse report from the committee on live stock and graz ing. the house placed the stock yards regulation bill on general file. The committee has held several hearings on the bill and sent a sub-committee to South Omaha to investigate stock yards conditions. It reported the bill to be indefinitely postponed. Senators May Smoke. . By a standing vote, in which there were only four negative votes, the senate has suspended ruie 54. which prohibited smoking except during com mittee of the whole. Now senators may smoke all the time if they wish. Must Vote at Home. The senate passed Senator Volpp’s bill prohibiting students from voting in the city to which they have come for ah education if they arc supported in whole cr in part by funds from the parental home. The vote was IS to “• _ One of the most important matters undertaken by this session of the legislature is embodied in a report made to the house by a special com mittee appointed to investigate the i subject of the expenditure of state money. The report of this committee was accompanied by a set of bills, de signed to put the financial affairs of Nebraska upon something like a busi ness basis. The hills drafted by the committee wiil be pushed to the front and are ex pected to pass without any serious op position. In the investigation it made. In the preparation of its re port and in the drafting of the bills the committee has had the valuable assistance of State Auditor Barton many of the ideas included in the bills being those which have been in cubating in his head since he was first elected two years ago. ■■■ - — ti ‘■Jim Crow” Bill Dead. The “Jim Crow” bill introduced by McKissiek of Gage is considered a dead One before it even starts out of a standing committee. The bill pro : vides that negroes shall not ride on street cars or trains or sit in places of public entertainment. except in separ ate compartments, the line of separa I tion to be marked by a sign posted in a conspicuous place. “There was never any need of such ; a law In Nebraska,” said Governor Al i drich. “and there is no danger of it I Becoming & law." THESE BABY TWINS LIKE SIAMESE PAIR BOYS ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY LIGAMENT AT BASE OF THE SPINE. DOCTORS CANNOT PART THEM Examination Convinced Medical Men That Separation Would Mean Death—Little Fellows Speak Sev eral Languages.. New Orleans.—Lucio and Simplico Godino are the most remarkable ba bies in the world. They are twins, not quite three years old. and are our lit tle brown brothers of the Philippine islands. Of course, there's nothing so remarkable about that, but listen: Nature has so joined the flesh of these little fellows that even the great est of human surgeons do not dare to part them Back to back they will have to go throughout their whole lives. When one dies the other must of necessity follow him into eternity. Nature has so decreed. A compact but somewhat elastic mass of tissues joins them together at the base of the spine. Just like our "everyday" twins, the kind more or less common throughout the whole country. Lucio and Simplico pla> with jumping-jacks, blow horns, hug their dollies, and pound on toy drums. They usually play sitting on the floor, as under the circumstances they cannot use chairs. Loosely fitting dresses make them look much like one big baby with two heads. But in doors they discard most of their cloth ing. and romp about with much of their bodies exposed. And just like ordinary twins, they quarrel, fight and go after each other with little fists and finger nails. They both speak English as well as American children of about their age. Besides that they speak a little Spanish and German. But of course they know Filipino best. It is nothing unusual for Lucio to be talking English while at the same time Simplico-will be speaking in another language. At times when they are not both wanting to play with the same toy at the same time. Lucio and Simplico are m The Filipino Twins. very fond of each other and are good playmates. Of course, the one always follows the other about. When Liqfio wants to go anywhere he starts, and Simplico is dragged along behind. The feet of the one in the rear barely touch the floor. The one who gets off first is master of the situation They never consult each other about walking. Simplico is rather quiet and some what reserved, while Lucio is erratic and quick tempered. When Lucio be gins to get ' het up" about a little dif ference of opinion and shows a dispo sition to start something. Simplico just gets up and walks away; that keeps Lucio busy trailing along be hind and backwards. One of them had the measles about four months ago but the other escaped. Sometimes while one is asleep the other is wide awake, playing with his toes. Nat urally they sleep on their sides. Both were vaccinated. It "took" on one only. They were brought to America in the vain hope that they might be cut apart by skilled surgeons. A clinic was held in this city with a number of America’s best physicians in attend anee. After a most thorough examine tion it was the unanimous decision that an operation which would sepa rate the babies would be fatal to both. The twins were born in Samar island in the Philippine archipelago, of native parents. They were found by J. R. Louis and M. A. Clark, wealthy Americans living in the^ islands. The American protectors of the twins say they will take the boys around the world in the interest of science, that they will be exhibited before medical clinics in the great hospitals of America and Europe, and that under no circumstancesxwill they be exhibited in public. The parents of the twins, who are also in America now, were at first im mensely proud of their curious twins, and took great pleasure in showing them to strangers who happened to visit the little Filipino village. Later on. as the parents became more civil ized and Americanized, they looked forward with great joy to the separa tion of the children, but now that the surgeons have rendered their verdict against attempting an operation both mother and father are once more reconciled. HUNGRY DOGS ATTACK LITTLE CHINESE BOY LAD IN DANGER OF BEING EAT EN ALIVE BY STARVING CURS. Salinas, Cal.—Having wandered in to an inciosure where a pack of starv ing dogs were kept by an aged Chi nese in the Oriental quarter, Dong Quen Yun, a nine-year-oid lad. was in danger of literally being eaten alive when his screams called a number of men to the rescue. He is in a serious condition from lacerations on the ■hest and thighs. When the res. uers beat the dogs from the boy his cloth ing had been torn off. and the savage brutes w ere tearing at his flesh. How the dogs had been secreted and why is a mystery. The chief of police or Boy Attacked by Starving Dogs. dered them all shot. When officers went to the place they found no less than 15 lean and snarling curs in the Inclosure. PAIR NOT POISONED BY GAS Test Proves Nothing, and Elosser Twigg Tragedy Is as Much a Mys tery as Ever. Cumberland, Md.—The effort to prove that the dual killing of Charles Twigg and Grace Elosser. on their wedding eve. was an accident due to carbon dioxide, caused by a gas stove in a closed room, has caused a touch of the ludicrous to enter into the tragedy. A test was made, with the sanction of the prosecuting attorney, with a cat and a rabbit- They were placed in the room where Twigg and his fiancee were found dead. Then the gas stove was lighted and turned on full. In an hour and a half the cat w as dead. The rabbit was still alive. There was no autopsy made on the cat. but the physician who made the test said the murder was solved. The physicians who made the au topsy on the bodies of Twigg and Miss Elosser were indignant, and announced the proceedings as assi nine. One of them offered to remain in the room one hour and a half with the stove lighted. It is known that the man and w oman were there only 30 minutes. The doctors who performed the au topsy and decided death was due to cyanide poisoning are just as em The Dead Couple. phxtic now in their opinion that the case was one of a double murder as were after the autopsy. The eat in cident has served to revive public in terest and cause a demand for the solution of the mystery by the au thorities. Boy Gathered Up His Severed Toes. Philadelphia, Pa.—Carrying mangled portions of his toes in his hand, thir teen-year-old William Ramsey, whose foot had been run over by a coal car, calmly asked a policeman for an am bulance and was taken to a hospital. His foot was so badly crushed that amputation wan necessary. HE EXIRHSESSIDN PRESIDENT SURPRISES MANY BY ISSUING A CALL. THOUGHT IT WQULD NOT COME Though Chief Executive Threatened an Extra Session Some Senators Did Not Look For !t. Washington.—Notwithstanding the positiveness with which President Taft had repeatedly said, in all but direct and official language, that un less congress should enact legislation to put into operation the Canadian reciprocity agreement, he would sum mon an extra session to resume con sideration of the subject, his fulfill ment of that threat within two hour9 of adjournment was an actual sur prise to many members of that body It was especially so in the senate As late as an hour before final ad journment Saturday, leading sena tors and others about the capitol made bets there would be no extra session. Pressure nothing less than tre mendous had been brought to beai upon members of congress to pre vent the calling of the extra session Until the last moment rumors were incessant that a way would be found io avoia 11. One of the most persistent was that there were in progress negotiations between the president and the Cana dian government looking to the with drawal of the agreement by one par ty or the other so as to give excuse for withholding the special call. Anothr rumor was that there was an understanding between the presi dent and the republican leaders in congress that one or more of the ap propriation bills, preferably the gen eral deficiency bill, was to be “lost in the shuffle." so that the special session would be unavoidable. Still another was that the leaders had determined to hold up some ap propriation in which the White House was especially interested, and at the last moment make its passage conditional upon the abandonment cf the extra session projects. The blockade of the appropriation bills in the filibusters in both houses yester | day tended to give color to these stories. Some gut so far • as to say that if j certain senators had believed the president would actually make good i his threat they would have made strenuous efforts to pass the reci i procity bill. Whatever may be the de gree or absence of truth in any of ; these stories, there can be no doubt j that the issue of the president’s I extra session proclamation met scant I welcome at the hands of thgse mem bers of congress who after the stress of the past session will barely have j time to go home for a brief respite I and to adjust their affairs for another session, which many think will ex i tend far into the summer. There are those who believe it will be so long as to leave only a “constructive re cess." before the regular session be gins in December. CONGRESS AT AN END. Sixty-First Adjourns Without Acting on Big Measures. Washington.—The Sixty-first con gress. heedless of one of the most im portant legislative tasks set before it, came to an end shortly after noon Saturday. Within the hour following ; President Taft had issued a proclama tion calling the new congress to meet in extraordinary session at noon on Tuesday, April 4. He will then sub mit for ratification to a house over whelmingly democratic, the reciproci ty agreement with Canada. Big Fire at Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Minn.—One of the most disastrous fires this city has ever known destroyed on Sunday the Syndicate block on Nicollet avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets The ! total loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Mrs. Schuyler Colfax Dead. South Bend, Ind.—Mrs. Ellen Wade Colfax. 73 years old, widow of Vice President Colfax, died here Sunday after an illness of several months. She was a niece of Senator Ben Wade of Ohio. Extra Session Date. Washington.—It was at the request of the democrats of the house and the senate that the president fixed the date for the beginning of the extra session at April 4. Reign of Terror in Hayti. Cape Havtien, Hayti.—This city is experiencing a reign of terror ap proaching that of 1908 when citizens suspected of disloyalty to President Alexis were taken from their homes at night and shot. Lorimer Welcomed Home. Chicago.—Admirers of Senator Wil liam Lorimer to the number of sev eral thousand, greeted him here Sun day upon his return from Washing ton. Two hundred and fifty automo biles, forming a parade with two bands, escorted the senator from the station to his residence, where an enthusiastic reception followed. Sen ator Lorimer was accompanied by for mer Judge Hanea and five detectives who met him at Fort Wayne, Ind. He was given a noisy welcome by a great crowd.
