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    Loup City Northwestern
VOI-l MK \ XI \_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY" MARCH 16. 1911. NUMBER If.
NEWS or A WEEK III
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Jare.-i I>* person* art borne.e*r.—
Ttr in Pleasant P^iirse jr«t< a HrlatoS;
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Is at address before the Southern
i mmerctal Congress at Atlanta. Ga^
Hr- . s- Taft declared that the fail
are to enact reciprocity with Canada
he greates- disappointment of
the Sixty-first con press and that the
c*-e *»- a v as the ratifica
tion of the treaty with Japan
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Governor Cruce rd*-red out three
■”r eat!*-' of "he Oklahoma National
»u*r. to prevta- rioting in connec- j
t> 2 with -he sire-• car strike at
slat n.M ■ t> The order followed
n < arr.e as a result of an
efetnj • to operate cars after a set
*-: f the '-rike had been agreed
• the company and the m*-n.
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t .t* as to -he purpose of the
— ::>ent tr. sending _ -*<•■> troop.s
M-xicai :-order has at last
way The I'nited States
. that the revolution in
• . u to -he sou'h muf' end.
An.* Tear troops have been sent.
* - a - td mlh-ary wall along
• K --ai.te to sto; filibustering
c. r ha- "here :s no further
.it np f arms an ! men across
i* tr- rua"local boundary.
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Vt* Harporis Humes Lov. who is
- :.e :.* r t - and Sidney C. Love, a
- .*■ - Ken f Ct ago for diver*-*
u- fiMdMM county IS. Y I
ha* obtained a re
'ralmn. • rd*-r to prevent her bus
-r : • Tying »o ge- possession at
fi* tr 1 -ti- daughter
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he deed
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V . np •> adv *-e» which reached
i. vc navy ya*d the govem
• u . ap- .-ed the thief who stole
t- ■■ ron 'he strong box of the bat
.- u.; G- rg.a a- Guantanamo bay
- weeks up T is said that he
a: : to tee paymaster and non- |
■oni missioned
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:* New Y<*k hits teen be
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-• *•-. r: ar. i ;-ers of building
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Art tatior.
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P"*- .. nt ~att will have a chorus
-r >’Bger> sing :>efo*e him at
a t. .eu a: ■ to be given: at the ■
Ah •* House \!a* if* The eh iru« will I
- : of - id^nts **- the
e . e. uag- ii on -
• " "be S’a'es
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Personal
~ . re tn.nary to a rive work
- * *v taken t- tt - t'arnegie endow
r -: for Internationa! peace at the
--- tsee- rg o the board of trustees
n 'A ushir.gton Senator Eiibu Root
• : I resident of the endow
nent
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The pre- dear-, of ’he Missouri Pa
tf. *>af *o succeed George Gould
tea} !** Here : to John AY Kendrick
y ft.' ago vice-president of the
^trbison To;»eia A Santa Fe. it is
said
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f.dw ard E McLean of Washington
-.as d— ided that he does not care for
th* supposedly hoodooed Hope dla
m.f: d bu* the firm w hich delivered it
to nm has sued for {180.000, the price
if *he famous getn
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A' a onventlon of Episcopal church
men and laymen at Kansas City,
c shop Sydney C Partridge of Japan
• es • ie. -ed bishop of the diocese of
Kansas City to succeed the late
H’.shof Edward R At will.
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Mi Gen Frederick D Grant, at
.reset ■ commanding the department of
he east has been selected as military
ltd n the staff of John Hays Ham
tan. "he special ambassador to repre
ven* President Taft at the coronation
K r.g George V
m m m
Ki S-nator Th m.as H Carter of
uon-una has accepted a place on me
'< 5:r -sum established under a treaty
»i*h • anada for the adjustment of
•tltr-.. • rsies over the question of
•n* verse* of 'he question of
*E**r mu es and bihe* border priv
ifges
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Foreign
British natal *s- mates provide for
he expenditure of S-Iil.iKid.MO. an in
reuse of 11 ?.<•'«.. ov.jr the pre<-ed
ng year The -ost of new construc
ion is fixed at ST r.. T1 **.3S'
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A severe epidemic oc ’he bubonic
wi- if reported at Siokhe. a village
if the Interior 5t> miles from Amoy.
~T.‘na SSokbe is the seat of a mis
sion station of tbe board of foreign
missions of the Reformed church in
America.
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Herent rumors that a number of
> r t -tc b • n massacred a; Kief? are
mine. According tc a cablegram re
«-.ied by the state department from
he A men-, an ~onsul at Odessa
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Laron Vincenzo Paterao. who will
ne tried for the murder of Princess
Trigooa di Sant Kiia at Rome, has
been acting strangely for several
lays The attending physicians be
Aeve be is simulating insanity.
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Senor De La Barra. Mexican ambas
sador to Washington, gave out a d»
fiant statement declaring that Mexico
• ill repent any intervention by the
I'm led State* or any other country
Tor the purpose of protecting the livea
-nd property of their citizens resident
b Mexico.
BURGLARS AT WORK1
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postmaster frightened then
WITH ALARM CLOCK.
HAPFENINGS OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and Thors
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Fremont.—Burglars w ho cleaned uf
I^skara. burglarized three stores and
breaking into the fourth, were fright
er.ed away by Postmaster Oie Nelson
w:.o set off an alarm clock and held
it out of his window in order tc
s.a:e ’hem away. The burglars, whc
had just entered the Feuerstein gen |
era merchandise store, heard the
6ound of the bell and fled The?
took with ’hem J1.10 in cash and a
quanti’j of liquors, a gold watch and
a d aniond ring.
Largest Ear and Yield.
Hastings—In a local store there is
on display what is said to be the |
largest ear of com ever produced in
this country. It came from a field in
North Carolina which produced tits
bushels to the acre, satd to be the
largest yield of corn j>er acre ever
recorded According to scientific test,
the ear contains Pd per cent com and
but S per cent cob. This is attracting
quite a bn of attention among the
farmers.
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New Delivery System.
Grand Island—A merchants deliv.
ery system is being installed here
designed to take up into one system
the deliveries about the city of the
various merchants joining in the er.
terprise. Several systematized deliv
eries are to be made in one day.
No CrimNial Cases.
Vork—For the first time in the his
tory of the county there is not a
criminal case on the district court j
docket.
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The re it iio; a » «•*'*: i- mr.ra- in Nt
ligh.
Niobrara has organized a fire de
part men*.
Four brick blocks are to be erected
at Fremont thi6 spring.
Tiie next convention of the Royal
Neighbors will be held at Omaha.
Kenesaw s new electric light plant
is completed and ready for operation.
Grand Island residents have pe- j
tioned the council to extend the water 1
mains
A rea' estate dealers' clearing hous«- 1
association may- shor^v be established
in lancoln.
Daniel Goodman, a prominent farm
er near Adams, died Sunday at the
age of 68 years.
The proposed franchise for the
York Water company was defeated by
a vote of 546 to 400.
' Mother Lc*shen of Hildreth cele- ;
brated her 88th birthday anniversary
by doing the family washing.
Mrs. H. Shaffer of Franklin, wha
was seriously injured in an ante acci
dent last week, is recovering
The board of education of Diller
has re-elected Prof J A. Eastwood
superintendent of schools for another
year.
Boys and cigarettes are supposed
to be the cause of a fire that de
stroyed a half block of buildings at
Crete.
i ne AeorasKa j>peed association will ,
hold meets at Beatrice. June 13. 14
1.'.; Friend. JuDe JO 21. 22: Fremont. 1
June 27. 28 20; Tekamah. July 4. 5. 6; j
West Point. July ll. 12. 13.
Fiftj-three horses perished in flames ,
which completely destroyed the Ed
Tanner livery barn and nearly all its
equipment at Hastings Friday night.
Seven horses were rescued, but one
which was badly burned was shot to
end its suffering.
John MrI>eod. a Lincoln real estate ,
broker, who formerly lived at Neiigh,
was found dead in his office by his j
stenographer. He had apparently
committed suicide a shotgun being 1
used, some time between noon and :
7:30 p. m. Sunday.
Miss Hazel Robinson and Miss Mae
Brennan of Hastings were run into by
an automobile and knocked down.
The car passed over Miss Robinson
and severely injured her. the rear
wheel striking the side of her head,
almost tearing the ear off
The coroner's jury at Lincoln in the
case of John H. Eastwood brought in
a verdict that Eastwood came to his
death at the hands of some unknown
person. I: was at first supposed that 1
he had met his death by fa’.Iin?
through the worn floor of his black- j
smith shop into the basement below.
Mrs John Wharton of Auburn was
knocked down by a runaway team
and probably fatally injured.
The Waverlv farmers' institute
held Tuesday attracted many farmers.
A free lunch was furnished by the
business men at noon.
Elder W. T. Maupin. the aged
father of Will Maupin. editor of Will
Maupin's Weekly at Lincoln, died at
Hennessey. Oklahonia, Thursday.
The patrons of the Beatrice post
office. by a vote of 2,722 to 11. have
voted to sustain the request cf the
postal employes for a closed office on
Sundays.
HOUSE PUTS THROUGH INITIA
TIVE AND REFERENDUM.
After a two hours" deadlock in the
house Tuesday morning the support- j
ers of the amended Hatfield initiative ;
and referendum bill won a complete j
victory over the opposition and passed j
their measure by a vote of 75 to 23.
This result was not accomplished :
without the most tense situation seen
in the house during the session. Men j
were corralled in every part of the i
house by groups of other members,
who were pulling them this way ana
pushing them that way in an effort to
persuade them to change their votes.
The result was that the supporters of
the bill were the only ones who se
cured chances, the opposition failing
signally.
The fight is not yet over. After the
bill was passed the house, on motion
of llerdes of Richardson, asked the
committee on constitutional amend
ments to rei>ort the senate bill at once
and made the consideration of that !
measure the special order for Wed
nesday. Although the bouse bill uas 1
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JOHN A. MOREHEAD.
Senator Fir»^ 0«*ri= and ?re*W*r.ti
Pro Tem ot Senate
none to the senate, and although the
senate bill was passed in that body (
with only two amendments of conse
quence. the opponents to the bills as
they stand, who had strength enough
vesterday in the house to block the
passage of the Hatfield bill for two
hours, will attempt to insert their
amendments into the senate bill
Bridge Bill Passed
Cronin of Holt carried to a sue-!
ressfu! termination his effort to se-1
cure state aid in the construction and !
maintenance of bridges "over streams
more than 175 feet in width. It had
been anticipated by many members
that the bill would never get through
on third reading but Cronin was able 1
to count fifty-six votes The bill pro
vides for a state levy of one-fifth of
a mill, or approximately $100,000. for j
the biennium for aid in construction
and maintenance of these bridges.
Pure Food Legislation.
The senate committee on medical
societies was surrounded Monday by j
i crowd of able lawyers and lobbyists !
who represent manufacturers through-'
out the country. The lobbyists direct-1
ed their talents against H. R 276. a
bill that requires goods in package]
form to bear the net weight, measure
or numerical amount. The committee
listened to argument and took the bill j
under consideration.
Defeat of County Option.
Every member of the house who
voted on the county option bill when
it came up for third reading stayed
by his pre-election pledge, without a
single exception. But two members
were absent. Regan of Platte and San
born of Sarpy, both of whom were
pledged against the enactment of
rottnty option legislation.
The house passed bills all Monday
afternoon with ninety members pres
ent. It killed the Moody pool hail bill
and the Grossmann wage exemption
bill, and saved the life of the initiative
and referendum bill only through a
hasty adjournment. An agreement j
was made by forty-one members to
vote against the house bill, and to try
to amend the senate bill when it
comes up in the same manner that<
the same men had failed on the house
bill two weeks ago.
The Shoemaker bill, abolishing the
office of fire warden in Omaha, was
passed by an over* helming vote in
the house. It carries the emergency
rlause and if passed by the senate,
will become effective immediately.
The Old Ones Won Out.
A proposition to extend the age limit
Tor eligibility for jury service to men
of seventy, occasioned a lot of good
natured badinage in the house be
tween the gray whiskered patriachs
on the one side and the youngsters on
the other. Age finally won out.
A Pure Seed Bill.
A pure se*d bill, house roll 219. has
been recommended for passage in the
house after a rather beligerent pre
sentation of the case by the sponsors
3f the bill.
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REBELS ABE ACTIVE
INSLRRECTOS ARE CAUSING PAN
IC ON EVERY HAND.
PLAN RETALITQRY MEASURES
Chihuahua ar»d Sonora are the State*
Where Greatest Activity is Shown
by Rebeis.
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EH Paso. Tex.—Conditions border
ing on pack reign almost throughout i
northern Mexico.
Stirred by the belief that the revo
lutionary niovea-'n: had reached a
critical stage the insurrectos in the
states of Chihuahua and Sonora are j
re;-orted to have reached activity in
tearing up railroads and telegraph j
wires. Numerous towns, according
to reports, are under siege by the
insure' tos and thousands of women
and children cut off from tood sup
plies are rendered helpless .
Following the receipt of correct
ed details concerning the battle at j
Casas Grandes. a town of about 300 i
population at>ou: l.e- miles south- j
west of El Paso. «here y> men w ere
kiliea last Monday news reached j
» er« oi a figlr a' A ;g;‘ Prieta on the
border across the river from Doug- :
las. Ariz. Five hundred insurrectos j
r*l tr
repulsed with a total of 33 dead and
wounded on both sides. The fight
ing was short and the insurrectos.
armed only with rifles, soon scat
tered under the tire o- a machine gun.
What is believed to be i reliable re
port of the casualties at Casas Gran
des says that fifteen Americans were
killed and seventeen Americans were
taken prisoners.
The following at first reported to
have been killed are know a to have.
escaped: Colonel <I spl.; Garibaldi,
Raoul Maderu brother of Francisco I. j
Madero. providential president of the )
insurrec'os- Captain Guitierrtz de
1-ara and Lieutenant I. Valencia of El
Paso.
Captain Eudaro Ma .de. a Mexican j
of Mader.i’s jversonal staff, was not
killed, but was taker prisoner. Raoul j
Madero was wounded
R F. Harrington. ion. - sergeant
in th«*i*nited States army, who lived !
*rt El pc' •: p i.ee •*a»ietf
Evans cm San rra** ,
Glenn, a boy of Mineral Springs. Tex.,
were killed The names of the Amer
icans killed and taken prisoners are
not known.
A letter written by Madero was re- i
ceived here in which he denies he
made another attack on the town af- j
ter he was driven away. He asserts, j
however, he has gathered a force of
1.090 men and is new within a few
miles of the town.
MURDERER SAWS FROM PRISON.
Jesse Smith, Convicted of Killing in
Omaha and Comrades Escape.
Lincoln.—Jesse Smith, serving a ;
ten-year sentence for a murder in
Omaha, and three other convicts es
caped from the state penitentiary
near here at 4 o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
Foliowing are the men who es
caped with Smith: John Hayes of
Box Butte county, serving a three
years' term for robbery. Joe Bush- :
neil of Jefferson county, up for four
years for burglary. Charles Peabody,
sent from Cass county, serving a five
years' term for forgery.
Eleven Killed in Battle.
Douglas. Ariz.—Eleven federal sol
diers dead, eleven wounded, with the
losses to the rebels unknown, is the
result of a battle just east of Agua
Frieta Sunday The opposing forces
were 590 insurrectos under General
Jose de la Luz Blanco and a federal
force of 300 directed by Colonel Mora.
The battle was spectacular and was
witnessed by several thousand Ameri- j
cans, many of whom rushed close to 1
the battle field while the firing was at
its height.
Money Dropped From Train.
Yankton. S. D.—Express Messen
ger May on the Great Northern. I
dropped a package containing $1,000
while in the toilet near Tea. the sec
ond station this side of Sioux Falls,
and the morning passenger train was
delayed while the lost money was
searched for unsuccessfully.
Vesuvius Again on Rampage.
Naples —A severe earthquake, ac- j
companied by strong detonations from
Mount Vesuvius, occurred Sunday eve
ning. Investigations showed that a
great land slide had dropped from the
upper part of the crater.
Madero Killed in Battle.
E ^Paso. Tex.—Raoul Madero.
brother of Francisco L. Madero. was i
among the insurrmo officers kilied
in the fight at Casas Grandes Mon
day morning.
Chinese Will Try Electricity.
Amoy.—A company composed of
Chinese has been organized to equip
and maintain an electric lighting
plant for Amoy.
Will Not Talk to Insurgents.
San Antonio. Tex—Colonel Roose
velt will not talk with any represent
ative of the Mexican insurgents on
his trip through Texas. He made
this statement because of rumors
that some son of a conference had
been arranged by friends of the in
•armsts
CORPSE FOUND IN THE
RIVER IS LOST AGAIN
FISHERMAN LANDS CASKET BUT
LOSES THE BODY IN HIS EF
FORT AT RESCUE.
West Point. Ga.—A fisherman dis
covered in the Chattahooche river a
casket containing the body of a young
woman. In removing the casket from j
the stream, the lid became uatastened
allowing the body to fall back into tie
stream The officers at once be
gan a searching investigation into the
mystery. The body had been in the
water probably a week The casket is
i costly one. being trimmed with ex
luisite material So far as cotsld be
■earned n woman is missing from the
-ommunit: who would fit the descrip
tion of the body given by the man who
made the discovery.
In draining a fish basket from the
stream, the casket became enmeshed
Corpse Found in the River.
with a lot of driftwood hanging tc
he line, and was dragged to view In
:ent cn pulling the uncanny find
ishore. the fisherman, witn difficulty
got hold of one end of the casket. Ir
irawlng it up a steep bank, the weigh i
of the body forced the lid off. allowing
» form, handsomely clad in white, tc
drop back inio the river. The fisher
man says he got a good view of the
body
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Southwestern Genius Invents a Device
by Which It May Now Be
Conserved.
Kansas City. Mo.—Always. Just
when the world seems about to 1
breathe its last gasp, someone comes
along with an idea designed to give 1
the poor old creature a new lease on
life. This has been true in many in
stances—if the theories of the inven
tors be accepted. Say in the case of
the porous plaster, the gin rickey. the
Boston trot, the tried oyster and the
spit ball. Now a southwestern genius
has once more revived our hopes of a
continued existence by inventing a de
vice to measure and store the power
heretofore wasted in the mastication
of chewing gam Jaw- units are the
basis of computation. They are reg
istered by a mechanism somewhat
iike that which records temperatures,
height and weather conditions for bal
loonists. It is very small and is con
cealed at the point where the wire
comes in contact with the band around
the neck as shown in the illustration.
A somewhat similar arrangement on
the other side of the lady's neck, and
which would prove worthy of exam
ination if she only would turn around,
stores the power
This miniature storage battery is 1
detachable. When a battery is filled
it can be taken off and put in the
pocket and another connected with
the machine The power may thus
be utilized for winding the clock, put- !
Conserving Wasted Power.
fcn« out the cat or performing othei
household duties A sufficient amount
of it, withdrawn from its original
storage cases aad concentrated, might
oe used in operating a moving picture
machine or In other ways adding to
Jie merriment of nations.
The inventor believes that if he can
get orders in sufficient quantities, he
ran bring the cost of construction
down to a point where the computing
and generating machinery can be
given free with a package-of chewing
gum. He points out that once the ar
ticle is introduced the money will fair
ly roll in for the manufacturers in the
sale cf additional storage batteries.
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Pupils Kick on One-Dollar Gowns
Pittsburg. Pa—Graduation gowns tc !
cost not more than one dollar are to be
popular among teachers and parents oi j
Pittsburg. Hundreds of young women
are in tears, however, over the stand ;
a ken by the parents and principals. '
ind many warmly declare that they i
will not try to pass the examinations
for graduation if they cannot wear
something better than a "cheap old
dollar dress." The principal reason
.'or the move is that a great jercentage
ft those who are graduated cannot af
ford to spend *25 or *50 on a gradua
tion dress, as do the richer girl*.
SKOWHEGAN DOG
HAS TOBACCO HABIT
INTELLIGENT CANINE HAS BEEN
AN INVETERATE SMOKER
FOR THREE YEARS.
"BUSTER" ENJOYS HIS PIPE
First Induced to Whiff the Weed by
Mischievous Boy and Afterward Got
the Habit—Taxes Daily Smoke With
His Master.
Skowhegan .Me —There are a great
many dogs in Skowhegan. but only
one has the tobacco habit. This dog
Buster by name, is owned by Arthur
Morrisette
Buster learned to smoke about
three years ago. His master was pro
prietor of a clothing store and Buster
was somewhat of an assistant man,
ager Mr Morrisette had trained the
dog so that when he wanted to have a
special sale, he could place a blanket
n th- dog with lettering advertising
his business and hoist on bis back a
banner fastened to a large standard,
rois attracted a gr* at deal of atten
tion.
Alter a time Mr. Morrisette thought
It would add to his assistant man
ager s appearance, as he went through
the streets, to have a pipe in his
moutfc So in time the dog learned to
'arry the pipe.
For a joke one day. as Buster was
attending to his business, a boy
caught him and filled the pipe with to
bacco aud then lighted it. Buster took
it and appeared to like the taste of it
Soon hs returned to the store and
acted sick His master, looking at the
pipe saw what had happened. The
dog wrs sick for several hours, but
the next day he came to his master
begging for something After a time
Mr Morrisette saw that the dog want
ed the pipe'. He gave It to him. with
cut the tobacco, but the dog dropped
it Then his master filled It with to
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"Buster" and Hie Pipe.
bacco. lighted it and gave it to him.
Buster enjoyed it and is today an in
veterate smoker
He smokes every day-in the morn
ing with his master. Buster has been
taught to get the mail and carry it
home and if sent with a note to a
store will bring home any package
tied to his neck.
GRIPS HOT PIPE FOR LIFE
Locomotive Fireman Has a Thrilling
Ride—May Lose His Badly
Roasted Hand.
Pittsburg. Pa—Clinging with one
hand to a raasting-hot steam pipe on
the side of a locomotive, John Stutler.
a fireman on the Pittsburg & Hake
Erie railroad, rode three miles in
three minutes before he was discov
ered. It is probable that Stutler's
hand will have to be amputated. To
let go the hot pipe would have result
ed In his death.
Stutler. shortly after leaving New
Castle Junction. Pa., crept out upoD
his running-board to tighten a leaking
union on an injector pipe. His foot
slipped, and to save himself he grasp
ed the hot pipe. His other hand clutch
ed the side of the running board tc
keep his feet from being crushed in
the spinning drivers. After three min
utes the train was brought to a stop
by a red light, and Stutler’s plight was
discovered by his engineer.
THE MARRIED MAN'S HANDICAP
Washington Benedicts Fear Bachelors
Will Be Given Preference for
Jobs Involving Risk.
Spokane. Wash.—An employer’s lia
bility law is under consideration by
the Washington legislature that, if
adopted, may make It difficult for a
married man to get employment
w re single men can be. obtained.
fcis is because of a marked excess
.In the damages to be paid to a mar
ried man or his widow over a single
map in case of disablement or fatal in
jury.
Tudor the proposed act every line
of industry employing men around
machinery or On risks deemed at all
hazardous wiil^ be assessed a percent
age based on pay rolls for three
months preceding October 1 c: each
year.
The revenue thus derived > j ; te
bandied by a commission v hi.h will
have sweeping powers in executi g
the provisions of the act.