Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXIX
LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MARCH 30. 1811.
NUMBER 21.
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for ■aar' «rtnio:t Ctrl*rmai
dinner* and Cbnatmaa present* fo
tbe boor of lie city of Brockton
The Firat Vatioeal bank of B
Sioeed a «lice tear Decatur, in 3
n* aoaety Hllnott. *aa entered
robber* and tbe cashier tu for
at tbe pate: of a tmher to (fire
tZ2*m t* caab. Tbe too tore a
!-*■ Honduras National railroad, of
* htch L. H Fairbanks of Mansfield.
I: . brother at former Vice-President
Fairbanks, is j resident and chief pro
■Her. was placed in the hands of a
r«~-*“iT*r according to Information re
reived from Trujillo. Honduras.
. . .
A :v* opposition to revision of the
tariff was undertaken by the officers
at the National Wool Growers' asso
- latloa after a conference at Salt
l*ke 'Sty on the tariff situation as it
affects wool.
The 'ederal goTernmert scored a
•weeping ri. tory when Federal Judge
Ntiyes verruled the demurrers Inter
by Jam-s A Patten. Eugene M
i'-ii- Frank B Hayne, William P
Brown and Robert M Thompson
They are -j-der Indictment for con
• Irai y to moo pollie imerstaie trade
a-d commerce In conducting the fa
mous xittoc pool last summer.
The I'.Tnois state senate passed
the a ..man -cuff-age bill, with a refer
“td'jm < iause. by a vote of SI to 10.
Shattered by a storm of shell the
•Id b»"c ship Texas rests on the mud
n 'h-sapeak- bay The veteran of
he States navy sank under
h- tar-alar marksmanship of her
wer sister the New Hampshire
• a; r.g : ir. her port side and two
igc-d wounds :n be- forward armor,
wtse-e -dicils passed completely
hrough her. showed how she sue
mm ted
T.» ~ i<h‘s of ’hena’ional capital can
*e at. nr* * c hope of a masterpiece
•he form of four bronse tigers,
r : « < re pis- -d on the corner para
;-r« T the new Sixteenth street
'• ,r- The •lgers are the work of A.
:: f-.er Proctor, a New York s~ulp
or and cost 110.000
V •*» de*-royed 'he mechanical arts
-. - : c of *te Missouri state univer
umbta Mo '-at-sinc a loss e»
mated at $5o,000
I..* -::.g struck ’he Wfci-e S'ar
: • ' i ' tuic In mid:we.ar daring a
err.* *hurd« 'storm The foremest
• a* Sir* k«-T !T and fell beavilj to the
*• k waking up passengers and
'aa«:cg a s tr»
• • •
T • udi ed f'hi'ago packers lost
r*’.r f:rt- aga.nst going on trial on
t». r.*» obtained by -be gor
" err several months ago. when
. r- f’,.-t V't- In the Vntted States
>tr • "turt at Thi'-ago overruled
<4*-:. rr-r *o the charges and
■t i -tint * be .mmanity granted by
H r three ' the federal cir
■ did not apply to tbe
resent <barge*
1 • t i:. in p tlreejje who was con
• fee fraud :• th* Savannah iGa 1
t.arV>- inpr cements rase and who
as - a term in the fed
ra : *:-■ t. at Atlanta was granted
•—> a* *be r.< iusior. of a hear
rg ' > a; t-li.-ation to take the pau
’-s c-ant
ed and Captain *.r< me immediately
ook the oath.
The I>-a>ea worth county court
a-e I>-at- Tiworth Kan burned to
■ • g- ;nd Valuable records and
."-**.- were destr yc-d. bringing
; to nearly II OoO.OOO
T - T. .war '. F Ashley, a ban»r1olo
*• • • Swinburne island, in New
V > - of er< bral meningitis, a
ui-'tvr t 1. - fight agamst the entry
a* I ■* ' meningitis through in
'e« *«*d Greek immigrants.
The Illir • ;» state militia sent by
,..er. • T i. : .» n on request of Sber
“ ICtTer f M - < upir. county io keep
at the mining towns of Kenld
have returned home, all
< rtlier truhle being past.
Personal
Mr* Amanda Fisher, mother of
Waiter L Fisher secretary of The in
'f-r or died at the home of her son.
Dr K uard F:sher in Washington.
«i- ra -<-<j »jy a nervous break
. »s. : wine an aci Idem a year
!
Per F I>..r;re for 'to years gen
eral of the Southern Pacific
mpar.y. nsmior. -ed at San Francis
h.s r» s gt.ut: :: to r-sume private
prarute.
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Foreign
Pt. :-e ■ hlues received by London
!.:c business bouses from repre
sentatives in »he f:.r east are dis
g They assert that it is ex
:• i that Russia sill soon declare
»sr against China.
The Diaz cabinet resigned in a body
u *;• i;tl meeting of that board
The miouncement brings a crisis in
the Maicsa war situation which all
*: M«\: ■ < City, off ial or civilian, be
I'cvc an be settled only by a miracle.
T!.a- •■.e resignation of the cabinet
v .. 'ause ’h. Fnited States iir.medi
.c: rvene :s the consensus of
opinion.
Thl"v six rebe ls ar.d eight federals
are dead &e the result of a nine-hour
haul* at La Colorado, south of Her
mofilio. Mexico. The rebels had pos
s- r Ion of the town, but after hard
fighting were driven out.
Provisional census returns estimate
the population of Austria at 2S.567.898,
an increase of 2.417.190 in ten yearn.
• • •
The official census returns show
Kuneu-y to have a population of 20.
25' " This is an increase of 1,596,
•.‘.*0 ;n ten years.
KEPI BOY LOCKED
UP FOR TWO YEARS
MOTHER DIDN'T WANT YOUNC
SON TO LEARN BAD THINGS
FROM PLAYMATES.
MADE TEA AND TOAST FOR HEP
Prompted by Intense Mother Love.
Woman Kept Her Child Under
Lock and Key That He Might Not
Associate With Other Children.
New York.—“1 want my boy to grow
up good and honorable. 1 don't want
him to learn bad things from the boys
m the neighborhood. 1 want him for
aiyself, to help me in case I need it."
So Mrs. Annie De Graaf explained
why she had kept her eleven-year-old
son Henry locked up in the rooms of
her tenement. The little fellow is
now in the custody of the Children's
Society.
One look at the boy is sufficient to
lispel any idea of brutality or im
proper guardianship Mother love, in
:ense. almost anima: prompted Mrs
De Graef to keep the child under lock
ind key. to deprive him of all but un
lerclothing. and to burn trousers and
waists smuggled in to him by the
\vmpathetlr youngsters who lived In
he same house.
"There's too much badness here."
Mrs De Graaf continued. "I have seen
:oo much of It and I didn't want my
ooy to be like the rest of them He
seed to go to school, and he used to
play on the streets, but 1 was afraid
So when we moved in here 1 made up
'Ey mind that I would keep him away
rom everything that was bad. and
each him how to grow up good and
Pones t."
Then another phase crept into the
*tory "1 need that.boy for myself. I
have taught him how to make his
nother tea and toast, and how to take
•are of her if she should take sick, or
run and get an ambulance for her."
ibe said
Are jov a sickly person?" sbe was
is ted
"No but one can never tell what is
going to happen to them His mother
taught him everything that was good
'or him and good for her His mother
raught him how to write and speli and
“Git Me a Pair of Pants.”
•ount. Oh. I want my boy back. Help
me to get him."
"But why didn't you let him go to
i ;chool?”
'Because the had boys would fol
j »ow him and entice him away from
me"
As eager as Mrs. De Graaf was to
Keep her boy by her side. Just so eager
was he to get out into the street and
be a "real” boy. He wanted to go to
school, he wanted to play, he wanted
to see the picture shows. His confine
reent of two years had deprived him
! of even the few joys of tenement child
hood. and as he sat in the boys' room
tit the Children's Society his big blue
! eyes gazed in wonderment at the lit
tle tads who romped about the room
sbou'ing gleefully.
He looked startlingly out of place
n that room, his long brown hair
brushing his shoulders, setting off a
pale, but chubby face of girlish beau
' ty.
I "I don't want to go back to my moth
1 er unless she sends me to school and
lets me go outside She never hit m*i
and we always ate four times a day
and she taught me to read and write
I and count. But 1 want to go to school
' and to go outside." he said.
The boy's liberation was brought
about by a note be threw out of the
window which fell into the hands of
■ the Morris children, who live in tha
same bouse.
"Git me a pair of pants." the note
' ‘cad. and the Morris boys smuggled
them across the alrshaft to him. He
bid them away until one afternoon
when his mother was out marketing
! Then he slipped into them and was
almost frantic with Joy until his moth
I er returned and threw them into the
; fire.
Then Mrs. Morris complained to the
j Children’s Society and an agent and a
policeman climbed Into the rooms over
a fire escape and found Henry, wear
| ing only his underclothing, but eager
! to get away.
RUBBERING ON PHONE
MAY COST $10 A TIME
TATTLE POINT" GOSSIP MOVES
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOLON TO
FRAME BILL ON SUBJECT.
Concord. X. H.—A bill presented
In the Xew Hampshire state legists
tnre provides a fine of $10 “for each
and every offense of unlawfully break
lug in on a telephone conversation or
.aklng down a receiver and listening
to a conversation between others or
the party line."
The bill was prepared by Represen
tative Herman A. Clark at the request
af telephone subscribers in the rural
districts, where four and five partj
telephones are numerous.
"A great deal of trouble has been
caused." said Mr Clark, "through
people listening to telephone conver
sations which they knew were not
"Rubbering" on the Phone.
intended for their ears. Why, down
where I live there has been so much
of this rubbering' going on and then
these private conversations repeated
that the section has come to be called
•Tattle Point.’ “
People who may have been In the
habit of abusing their enemies by
means of the temporarily safe and
sometimes sa'isf^tfc • ; -iephonc
should take warning from the condi
tion brought about by similar pro
.eedings In Texas A bill Introduced
in the Texas legislature makes it a
criminal offense to swear over a tele
phone.
HOSIERY FOR THE CORONATION
Gorgeous Hand-Painted Stockings and
Slippers Are Now All the Rage
In England.
London.—Americans, who sing in
one of the classical vaudeville ditties.
“Rings on My Fingers and Bells on
My Toes." will be interested to know
that the refrain in England during
coronation year is “Flowers or. Her
Stockings and Gems Near Her Toes.”
Artists in England are busy these
days designing all sorts of floral dec
orations and silver and gold orna
ments for milady's stockings and slip
pers. as hand-painted stockings, shoes
and slippers will be all the rage dur
ing the year that will mark the
•rowr.ing of King George. Already,
he ladies, young and middle-aged,
have begun to wear some high
ly pleasing styles, as shown in
this illustration. Here is a pair of
elaborately adorned silk stockings and
uand-painted shoes.
Some of the silk stockings will have
lesigns of love birds in various col
ored silks, some will show silk
spiders, storks, etc., while others will
»e embellished with Parisian dia
monds. As to the slippers they will
ilso be enriched by Parisian diamonds
in the place of buckles, and there will
Coronation Style of Hosiery.
be golden shoes ornamented with sil
ver.
From London comes this photo
gTaph of h&nd-palnted coronation hose
and shoes. English styles this year
bid fair to excel in bisarre effects, for
they're exerting themselves to be
gorgeous and brilliant in honor of
King George's coronation.
Hen Lays Four-Ounce Egg.
St. Louis. Mo.—Mrs. C. B. Morgan
has a ben which for three weeks has
laid an egg every other day. Each
egg measures 7\ inches at the larg
est circumference and 6 inches at the
smallest and weighs four ounces.
BURKED JO DEATH
GRAND ISLAND MAN KILLED IN
KEROSENE EXPLOSION.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What la Going on Here and Thar*
That is of Intarect to the Read
•re Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Grand Island—Bert Stafford was
fatally burned by the explosion of a
can of kerosene, with which he was
attempting to kindle a fire at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Simmons,
where he was boarding. All of Staf
ford s night clothing was burned from
his body. The fire was extinguished
by the department with the chemical
engine.
To Have Boosters' Day.
Edgar —At a meeting of the Com
mercial club it was decided to have
the telephone and electric light poles
painted through the business district,
to mark t^e streets at intersections
and to number the houses. The club
has also inaugurated a "boosters' day"
for the merchants and offered prizes
for the best kept iawns during the
summer.
Big Banquet at Ulysses.
Ulysses.—The farmers noon-day
oanquet. given by the Ulysses Grain
&■ Supply company, was held with
great success. The large, new Ulys
ses hotel dining room was a scene of
beauty, with tables set for 130 and
insufficient to seat the crowd. C. H.
Chahis. ed tor of the Ulysses Dis
patch. acted as toastmaster.
Jilted Suitor Seeks Revenge.
Nebraska City—Peter Mogis. a
Jilted suitor, was in the act of throw
ing Miss Lyon, a telephone operator,
from the Missouri river bridge when
the girl was seized and saved by J.
Gibson, the bridge watchman, attract
ed by her screams.
Gas In Shale Near Fairbury.
Fairbury.—As a result of an inves
tigation made under the direction of
the state conservation congress. Dr
Condra believes that gas of commer
cial value has been found in a shale
formation south of Fairbury. it is be
lieved that the shale will yield about
5.000 feet of gas to the ton and that
the solid matter may be used in mak
ing Port'and cement.
Dr. Noyes of Valentine was serious
ly injured in a runaway.
Broken Bow is contemplating the
use of oil on her streets and roads.
Mrs. Cederburg, living near Minden.
celebrated her ninety-fourth birthday
Friday.
The eating house of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway at Norfolk
burned to the ground Sunday.
Robbers at Powell looted several
business houses, including the postof
fice. where they secured two dollars
in pennies.
Professor Boles, principal of the
high school of Auburn, was badly hurt
by being thrown from an auto driven
at a righ rate of speed.
The Congregational church at David
City has called Rev. R. A. Harrison
of the Crawford Congregational
church of Chicago to the pastorate.
The eighteenth annual session of
the Southeastern Nebraska Educa
tional association will convene in Ne
braska City on March 29, 3t» and 31.
The Pi Beta Phi sorority house at
Lincoln was robbed Saturday evening
of about $20*0. This was mostly
money and little jewelry or clothing
was touched.
A prairie fire came very near get
ting into old Fort Niobrara, where
there are lots of big buildings, but the
guards and a gang of men saved the
fort after some hard work.
Secretary of State Waite is inter
ested in securing a roster of the old
soldiers of the state and is sending
out blanks to county assessors for the
purpose of collecting the information.
The Colonial Dantes of Nebraska
have unveiled a bronze tablet marking
the site of the first state house in
Nebraska, which was built in 1S54
the M. E. Smith wholesale house in
Omaha.
Chris Kmgge butchered a porker at
Alexandria from which he rendered
out 209 pounds of lard. That is "go
ing some."
Frofessor Charles Rush Richards,
dean of the college of engineering of
the University of Nebraska, has been
appointed professor of mechanical en
g neericg in charge of the department
at the University of Illinois.
The old county court house at Paw
nee City is being torn down prepara
tory to beginning work on the new
one to be erected this summer.
William Schipman. aged twenty-two
and a farmer, residing near Abbott,
was found dead In the summer kitch
en at the rear of the farm home, his
entire face blown off by the discharge
of a shotgun.
Mrs. George Worthington, widow of
the late Bishop Worthington of Ne
braska. is dead in New York. Though
she had been an invalid for years
her death was sudden, coming as a
shock to her many friends.
SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS NEW
BUILDINGS ARE BAD.
The senate committee on public ]
i lands and buildings have filed a re
port asking for an investigation of
: the construction of state buildings
| that have been recently erected at
■ the different state institutions It re
ports that it found a frightful waste
of state funds and the committee ex
i presses its indignation when speak
: ing of the architecture, construction
and business management :n the con
' struction of buildings. In order that
; the blame may be laid to the proper
i source, it asks for an investigation.
The committee also severely con
: demns the management of the state
; industrial school for boys at Kearney. |
1 A most deplorable condition, is what !
I the committee calls it. In the opinion ,
i of the committee the school as now
I conducted is of no advantage or help j
; to the boys kept there and it recoin- j
! mends that if the state cannot get
■ better results the institution should ;
be abolished both in the interests of
! the state and of the boys, and some j
I other arrangements be made for the
training and education of the boys. ;
This is the only institution whose :
management is condemned by the i
committee.
Is Eastman Bill Valid?
It is the opinion of opponents in !
: the legislature that the Eastman bill,
which calls for an appropriation of
$100,000 for the establishment of an
| agricultural school in southwestern
Nebraska and which fulfills a demo
! cratic platform pledge, may be invalid !
because of the conflicting provisions
\ in regard to the board under whose
control it will be and on account of 1
a provision which states that though
the school is to be built at the in- j
stance of and under the supervision
of the board of public lands and
| buildings, the money paying for such
construction is to be paid out on war
j rants officially certified to by the
board of regents of the state unver
sity.
The Board of Control.
In the selection of a bill which will
redeem the pledge of both democratic
and republican platforms, to tike the
management of the state institutions
| out of politics through provision for
a non-partisan board of control, the
legislature is facing one of the most
difficult problems of the session. If
nothing else were needed to convince
members of the legislature that a rad
ical change is needed in the manage
ment of the institutions the disclos
, tires which have been brought to I
| light by investigating committees dur
ing this session are sufficient.
Favorable to Medical College.
The house unanimously accepted
the special investigating committee's
report recommending the university
provide four years of medical training
in Omaha after two years of academic
work in Lincoln. The final test on
the question whether the medical
school is to be maintained or be suf
fered to perish for want of support,
will come when an effort is made to
pass the bill appropriating $100,000 |
to build a laboratory and recitation
room building.
Concur in Report.
The senate concurred in the report
of the conference committee having j
under consideration house and senate
amendments to S. F. No. 1, by Skiles.
initative and referendum. The report
of the committee, which concedes ;
two house amendments and recedes 1
from one senate amendment, was j
adopted, twenty-six voting to adopt
and none against.
To Conserve Roadways.
Senate File No. 251. an act to pro-1
vide for cultivating the unused por- j
tions of the public roads, defining j
j terms, providing that such cultivation 1
shall in no way obstruct or injure the '
roadway and that the products shall
not be allowed to cumber the ground
has ben reported back to the senate.
The bill was introduced by Represen
tative Smith of Fillmore county, and
has an emergency clause.
Members Protest.
The course taken by the commit
tee on finance, ways and means of |
the house cn the bill establishing per- !
manently the medical school of the ;
university in Omaha, will be over
turned by a majority of that commit
tee. Seven members have signed a
protest addressed to the speaker
against the report indefinitely post- j
poning the bill.
Local option county unit won in .
the Missouri house
Speaker Kuhl has consulted Attor
ney General Martin on whether the
state banking board is intending to
demand back payments of the banks
under the guaranty law. A bill is j
pending to relieve the banks of pay
ment by deferring the first assess
ment until next July.
Representative John H. Grossman
has received a letter from the Central
I,abor Union of Lincoln, commending
him for his fight in behalf of labor,
particularly in the bills proposing to
exempt to the wort'ngman his wages.
150 OR MORE DEAD
APPALLING DISASTER IN NEW
YORK SKIRT FACTORY.
MOSTLY WOMEN ANO GIOLS
Penned in Rooms. Cut Off from Es
cape. Victims Have Only the
Choice of Which Way to Die.
New York.—Lying under flapping
sheets on the bleak, wind-swept pier
of the charities department are the
bodies of 141 girls and men. victims
of holocaust in the American Book
company building, northwest corner
of Greene street and Washington
place, late Saturday. In the hospitals
are seven more bodies and twenty-five
inured, some of whom will not re
cover.
The fire, the most apjialling in the
history of Manhattan island. is
charged to criminal negligence, near
ly all of the victims, young factory
girls, employes of the Triangle Shirt
waist company, being trapped in the
upper floors of the ten-story structure
unprovided with outside fire escapes,
and forced to leap to certain death on
the pavements below, or perish in
the flames.
The entire loss, it is thought, will
not exceed $100,000.
Of the 141 bodies recovered by mid
night, thirteen were those of men and
the rest women. Thirty-three bodies
were burned beyond recognition.
The fire resulted from an explosion
believed to have occurred in the cut
ting room on the seventh floor, where
a quantity of gasoline is said to have
been stored.
Trapped on the top floors of a burn
ing factory building, supposedly of
the most modern fireproof construc
tion. more than 500 persons had the
choice of probable death by fire or
by jumping to the pavement below.
Of those who jumped, three sur
vived. The others were crushed out
of all numan semblance. Some others
reached the street by stairways, and
two of the four elevators. The re
mainder perished miserably, w uile
firemen and spectators raged impo
tently on the street.
Strong men wept, while other*
stormed to and Iro. vainly endeavor
ing to do something lor those who
were beyond human aid.
Sunday night what will go down in
history as the fire disaster of Wash
ington square entered up its after
math with eighty-two of nearly 150
victims identified. The official death
list has been lessened rather than in
creased
A revised count shows 141 dead
with twelve women and girls at
death's door in the hospitals. One
hundred and fifty, all told, will per
haps conservatively cover the casual
ties. Nearly all of the dead were un
der 30 years of age; the large majori
ty between 17 and 22. Many were
only 16 and a few 15 years old.
ASSASSINATION IN OMAHA.
Prominent Merchant of the City Shot
Down Near His House.
Omaha.—Herman B. Cohn, vice
president of the Nebraska Clothing
company, and one of Omaha's pion
eers. was shot and almost instantly
killed, no: thirty yards from his own
doorstep, by one of two masked men
at 12:50 o'clock Sunday morning.
A buliet from a .32 caliber revolver
entered the second intercostal space
at the left border of the breast. Mr.
Cohn died before Police Surgeon T.
T. Harris arrived.
The assassins gave no warning and
asked for no money, but one of them
shot point blank at Mr. Cohn. The
two then ran across the street, one
of them dropping his gun on the
way. Two men under suspicion have
been arrested.
Red Cross to Collect Funds.
New York.—Robert \Y. De Forest
announced that ’he New York c-hai»
ter of the National Red Cross would
collect funds for the relief of the sur
vivors of the Washington Square fire
and that Mayor Gaynor had headed
the contribution list with $100. More
than a thousand persons held a mass
meeting the labor temple and adopted
resolutions of sympathy for the be
reaved friends and relatives. Nearly
every pastor in the city alluded to the
disaster in sermons either in the
morning or at night.
Fifteen Years for Dynamiter.
Omaha.—Frank Frdman, convicted
two weeks ago of attempting murder
by placing dynamite on the porch of
Tom Denrison. was sentenced by
Judge Lee Estelle to fifteen years in
the penitentiary at hard labor.
President Diaz Cabinet.
Mexico City.—Francisco de la Bar
ra. Mexican ambassador to the Unit
ed States, was on Saturday named
minister of foreign relations of the
Mexican cabinet by President Diaz.
Senor de la Barra has telegraphed
his acceptance from Washington. Al
though up to this time no official an
nouncement has been made, it is
known that five of the new members
of President Diaz's cabinet have
been selected and it is almost certain
Senor Jose Yves Limantour will re
main as minister of finance.