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Loup City Northwestern VOI.IMIXX1X._LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JULY 6. 1911. ' MMULll :;r>. ! OF A I j WEEK'S EVENTS! • - - ■ • • • l Latest News of interest I • Boikd Down fix the • l Busy Man. * • • •••*•>•••••••••••••••••••• Washington Oaor** H Earle Jr, of Philadelphia. ae«e« fci» a i lark upaa funner Pre»e*ei TVuaorf Roosevelt before •a* b .** * .*a- tnir. tnieeticaflnc uautltt*-* at H'a»buc*QCL He a a* espern' deaaaciaio.T of Mr Rooae »ei: • all **d faiitre to tarifttite trim na rvn pryTloa of American Socar Kehj..-a 'ua.aacv >ft< tai» after the, IVhc-- afc.a f r»- -eheerv deal »a* eKpaaed 1C l*eC • • • Aa si^itcvna to defermne •kMVr *be lB-ertitioaal Harveater ‘•ampan* ba» tmtateo the aau-truat. talaradate aaert# or na*i'«ai bank tar «•>«. iaa*. i» proposed Sa a Wdotkia Mttrod- -d by Rrprroeata-. ■ i re lakfft c# Nebraska • • • A threat of proMsirulloB at attsesrea .* perjury **» made l»* Senator Ken an Mi tb* a.i2»: eg the examination of Edna;* lithe* f 'he Lotteer In v«arta< tMB e .attain** ai » uktif'oii K-nyua as- • uf-a to niter a aord of a'art iu« *.ier Mr. Htoe had made a kt* -of d*n-*I» at < har*e» 'tat I.* r*.seo a •IM.asa bortnirr kluat jmJ made ••aaiai him before ike rostautlea TV » .an recipient* 1411 was •■utprcied to a . -k.c.:C4 lire la jm Vested !*?*•*'» senate. tb* • tue! cat annnder* betas been: or* ('uaa.i.t -»nd •rVteo Tb* 6*fct amt opened by ' ttc.y.m* tb. .a preaent.fa# a p.a no- o' asmndmant* to tba bill tie tvat'M It aa c-bt. jo*:t unjust • • • la istdU '1..—tuir**- ol raided ft* r» Cosaot Wlttiaai H bit. aael. at — liita. aae Thoma* MomKO. au ee —as aerk at '** atal* e-part tea:. ■* V- Moot: at reur&t tateauication of 'be Day portrait trmod V recommend *4 la a report *bu-b a at 1b* boar- o ^ aitu* oo -tprdr err* ta tb* ana:* r ] lrnnat *..i pr-**nl t« a* (OB maablar • • • U*an T. den of Cblea*u president 4 tbo N*'.oca. Pa*tunc company, mad* etpta . trtab be:or* tbe l>or nor tnteatismtlon .uwairw at Wash isdtnan tbnt be «i> treasurer of tbe tie-sb* : ..*4 said so bar* been u*e4 ta 'be election of Sm'o: Lo timer. H* juoatea i.bat be oeitber -ontrib 3te4 any master toward bl* elect ion nor i»i* *4 an; iaafi t<«*ted by otbne* • • • Tb* < .r.t.*Ur cnnl claim* In Uaaba •'b.rb aere ai tbe bottom of tb* lOO i Hal:. **- Piacbot COB'.'O taray oere LeW illenal by Fred Den ars coaoMMar of tbe seeeral land Tkia dispose* of tbe rontro icray. as tb* *erT»:arr of tbe interior, L. P-krt. a»- approved tbe bnd.csa Tber* .* possible only an ap peal to tb* -M*r*» on tb* la* points fanatang • • • Domestic Kgt'Mmr »i e that. ..torturer* aad •Wtr ematoyer. nepcmawttag thirty #»e rwmpoalee wn indicted by tbe toderai grand Jury at New Turk dty mm tbe • tar** they bad oS ended again*' toe she-ruao aao-truat law by urn. my ntae pooling associations •back acted la reotraiai of trade • • • Tbe Sap.'' me court of tbe I ourd Stated leaned a*, order ta tbe attoraey grseml di'* 'in* him to taatruct tbo lower court* ta carry out tbe Supreme ’ » dertetc* pirnetdlgg for tbe dls «f tbe AtnerU-aa Tobacco »? Tbe days allowed tbo to e#h 'or a rebearlng bare • • • l» D F Uiaa*. aijot of Caaa Lobe Mat waa held to await tbe ae •ea «d tbe grand Jury at bU prelimi nary bearing for omplldty ta tbe ar ■•a plat nt Pupoaky. Tb# testimony gl*«a br Marne Behan tbe raptured Peposk) baadtt. waa auflk-ieat ret ddwe wrerdar ta Court I'ammtmclan m Puree* to bold tbo doctor for tbo aes* grand jury • • • Dr Arthur A TIB wewt lato the <-e} lnr of Ua home nt Matieawac. X T, and found a it old rault some 440. *m ta money aad securities The treaawre la beiievod to bare been placed there by WjJliam H Badeau who Bed aeeeral mouths age • • • Two raiaaarb were killed and a number ad pa «ar tigers wem Injured ia a wreck eg tb* Cbicaga. Milwaukee A m Pool rand at Bard well. win. Those fcUJad were James Dugg. engineer, aad Ptoiemaa llmaey. beak of Madison. • • • Mrs. Ida Schiff, weakened from loss of blood which she gave to save a dying woman, fell from a lire escape platform at her New York home and was lulled. • • • The Connecticut house of repre •eaututf judiciary committee is con sidering passing a law lining every person who attends a Sunday eon cert |4. • • • A. i ordihf 10 a report ai Newcastle. 1*»- 2.'>00 engineers on the entire Bal : more & Ohio railroad system will re ceive an advance in pay July 1. • • • Gilt.- to the amount of $1,200,000 re f.;ved by Harvard university during the last year were announced by Pres ident Lowell to the 2.000 6r more Harvard men gathered for the alumni m-etiug at Cambridge Mass. • • • J tin J. Joyce, an instructor at the Cbi> ago School of Aviation, fell 5u0 feet in a biplane. He broke through Sve telephone wires, one trolley wire and a heavy wooden backstop for a baseball diamond. Joyce escaped with only a sprained ankle, a scratched '■>(■» atoi a possible minor fracture of -ha leg. • • • F-me starting in the after-turret am munition hoist of the hattleship Ohio, undergoing repairs in the Brooklyn navy >ard became so threatening that 'be forward and aft magazines, con taining about 40.0u" pounds of pow 5vr were flooded in order to prevent an explosion. • • • Simon. Captain Frisbie and Rene Barrier. Mcisant aviators, mak ing a tour of 'he United States, were arrested at Marion. Ind.. witfc their managers because >f their failing :o make asi « n.-ions as advertised. • • • Drou*!. and heat which caused mo h at prehension iu Kansas for three me. k- -j. •> broken by showers, which were general 'hroighout the corn bell. • • • S« > • : it.g down from an immense b'lghi lr. a ^burner of rain. Lincoln Beachey in his biplane passed over th« Horseshoe falls at Niagara, under the steel arch bridge, -on down the corse almost to the Whirlpool rapids, then rose, mounted again and, shaving •ne wooded . iff. landed saiely and un ocrernodly on the Canadian side. • • • A com t.inatlon of magazine publish era. organized in July. 19n9, was sued it The ederai courts here under the Sherman antf-tru-t law. The petition filed by Dis;r1<-: tuorney Wise alleges titaw' ii combination and conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and for eign 'omtnerce in magazine and other periodical publications. Dissolution of the combination is asked for. • • • Nathan Alien, whose money is said to have purchased be fortune In jew els possessed by Mrs. Helen Dwells lenkins. which the government alleges were smuggled ln'o the country, has quit active business Announcement! was made from the offices of N. R. Allen 4- Sons company at Kenosha. Wi- that Mr. Alien had resigned as president and member of the board of directors of the big leather concern • * • Hesitating to truvt to a bans Jl.ObO which she had received from the sal6 of a small farm. Mrs. C. D Secor of Niles. N Y . lost all of her little for tune to robbers. • • • Personal George Clinton Paine of Elmira, N. Y.. who will be one hundred years old July 9. is in Montclair. X. J., can vassing for subscriptions for books. He boasts he is the oldest book agent in the world. • • • Cnited States Senator Francis War ren of Wyoming was married to Miss Clara Le Baron Morgan in the little liall room of the Hotel Gotham in New York city. Senator Warren is slaty even years old and his bride thirty i ffve • • • Mrs. John Laughmar. widow of a Civil war veteran and former populist andidate for congress, was killed by a street car at Rister park, a suburb of South B«*nd. lnd. • • » John W. Gates, who had arranged to sail for America with Mrs. Gates and Lord Cowdray. has been obliged to postpone his departure owing to his serious illness. He has submitted to seven slight surgical operations in as many days for an abscess in his throat • • • The board of regents of the Univer city of Michigan appointed Robert Campbell. Port Huron, Mich., treas urer of the university in place of George Baker, resigned. • • • Foreign Twenty thousand wheat growers of (Saskatchewan sent to King George as ‘ a coronation gift a silver bread basket filled with bread made from Saskatche wan wbeai flour. The basket has ar rived in London, but the bread is missing. • • • Serious rioting in connection with the seamen's strike occurred in sev , eral ports in England and on the conti nent. At Hull more than twenty per sons were injured, including several ! policemen, of whom three were serf ously injured. The riots resulted I from the failure to reach a settlement between the ship owners and the strikers. • • • China has begun to fortify Hsin chiang. in northwestern China, which is considered a commanding location against Russia. MARRIED 60 YEARS MR. AND MRS. W. H. PARIS CELE ERATED ANNIVERSARY. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read arm Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Auburn.—Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Paris celebrated their sixtieth wedding an niversary with a family gathering at their home in Auburn this week. Mr. Paris and Miss Alvian Fraser were married in Iowa in 1851. Forty-seven years ago this couple came to Ne braska and located in Nemaha county, near Auburn. Two Boys Badly Injured. Lyons.—Two young sons of George Keister were severely injured, one hav ing his foot cut off abort an inch above the toes, while the other had 1 his foot split along the instep. The 1 accident was caused by a pony which I the two boys were both riding running ! into a wire fence with such force that ! the wire wounded the boys and cut the i pony so badly that it died soon after. Partial Failure of Suicide Pact. Fairbury.—\ ?ddy' Brown and Miss Emma Cook. both of Endicott. swal j lowed doses of strychnine, the former with fatal effect, but the latter appar ! enth regretting her act. saved her life by swallowing a quantity of suds, this being wash day and plenty of the an tidote being at hand. The young peo ! pie. who were supposed to be lovers. e\idently intended to end their lives ' together. _ Arrested in Russia. Lincoln. Neb.—Denounced by the widow of his alleged victim. Max Kalo wotoff is under arrest in a village of i southern Russia. He is accused of j killing John Kurlchick in this city j July 8. 1910. It is said that Mrs. Kurlchick discovered Max visiting his relatives and immediately notified the local police. Kurlchick was brutally stabbed to death near his home in the bottoms west of Lincoln. “Horned” by Catfish. Fairbury.—Jack fstbirth is con fined *o his home with a serious case of blood poisoning. He was fishing! on tbe Little Blue river and larded a ; large- yellow catfish. The fish “horned” him on the right hand and ; blood poisoning set in. Received Electric Shock. Kearney—Ruth. the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Scoutt. 1 is in -a critical condition, the result of : in electric shock received from a vi . brator while standing in a bath tub. i The child remained unconscious for six hours after the accident. Lincoln.—The Young Men's Chris tian association held its election for I the coming year. The new officials | are: President. J. E. Miller; vice presi i dent. \V. A. Selleck; secretary. George Tobev; treasurer. G. A. Loveland. 1C l'riend will celebrate on the Fourth. Neligh has voted $10,000 for sewer age. Two girls were drowned in Parter lake near Omaha while in wading. Sterling is worrying about burglars who are getting in their work there. A fund is being raised with which to advertise the town of Broken Bow. Carl Atwood, a York boy, was seri ously injured in an auto accident at Kansas City. Lightning caused the death of Joe i Sunday evening, near Champion, m Chase county. The poisoning of three horses on a farm near Jamestown in Dodge coun | t>' is being investigated by officials of | that county. An electrical parade on the order of the parade of the Ak-Sar-Ben pageant 1 will be one of the features of the Ger man day celebration to be held in Lin coln. probably September 27 and 28. Bethany citizens have organized a commercial club to promote the growth of the Cotner college town. A. R. Talbot of Lincoln was re-elect ed head consul of the Modern Wood men at the recent session in Buffalo. During a light shower lightning struck on the Eisman farm in Nemaha county, killing a colt and slivering a number of telephone poles in the vicin ity. J. L, Fowler, an aged resident of Lincoln, committed suicide by shoot ing. He was eighty-two years of age. and was formerly United States mar shal at Peoria, 111. Thomas Cannon, an expert machin ist from Kansas City, who was burned by ammonia. at the plant of the Bea trice Poultry & Cold Storage company Saturday, died of his injuries. J. F. Losch. a prominent attorney and capitalist of West Point, is seri ously ill with a mysterious malady which baffles the medical men and which they appear unable to diagnose. Aurora is suffering from a scourge •f tramps. They may be found In the railroad yards by the dozens and scores, and pester the citizens by ap pearing at back doors and asking for food. Calvin Gray, the twelve-year-old son of C. W. Gray of Callaway, was acci dentally shot in -the leg by some com panions who were shooting at a target with a .22 rifle. “Tom” Carr, convicted of the illicit sale of liquor at Lincoln, has been taken to Fremont to serve sixty days in the Dodge county jail. He was con victed in the federal court. Arrangements are being made by the Commercial club at Cedar BiuiTs to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniver sary of that place on July 26 instead of the usual Fourth of July -celebra tion. Congressman J. A. Maguire has nom inated Colgrove Reynolds of Johnson county for a cadetship at West Point. Mr. Reynolds will accept and will go to Fort Leavenworth for examination on July 5. George Geisler. the twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Geisler. at Lyons, died as a result of injuries he had received Monday while riding a pony which ran into a barbed wire fence. Mrs. Henry Stokesbary of the vicin ity of Aurora dropped dead from heart failure Tuesday afternoon as she was carrying a lunch to her little boy whu was working in the 5eid. Three small children are left motherless. Three bars of silver and lead bullion weighing 100 pounds each was discov ered lying along the Burlington tracks recently by a hrakeman of passing train near Burnham. They had been lost in transit from the smelting works. John Friday is undisputed ma>or of Norfolk. Counsel for E. E. Coleman, the rival candidate, dropped the legal ! contest against Friday’s election. On ! recount in court they found Friday bud fairly won by a majority of three to five votes. Conductor A. E. Pounds of the Northwestern is lying at the Fremont hospital with a bullet wound in his ! leg as a result of being shot by Sher- i man Richardson of B’air. Physicians i saj that unless unlocked for com plica- i tions set in he will recover. A demand for $10.<H>d. accompanied ! by a threat to blow the place into smithereens by a stranger who walked into the First National bank at Om aha. momentarily disturbed the routine of that establishment, but the stranger ; made his departure without making good on either item. Edward tVarnes, 9* rears of age. and one of the first settlers of Lincoln, died Saturday night at his home. T01 ! A street. Extreme heat brought on a sinking spell which resulted in his death. He was the first man to build a log house tr Lincoln find was the oldest man in the city. Twenty-five hundred quarts ot cherries were picked from fifty-eight trees on the Union college farm near ! Lincoln. This makes an average yield I of almost a bushel and a half to the tree. The trees are ten years old. and this is said to be an exceptionally, good yield for trees of that age. Reformed spelling will be recognized as correct in the state superintend dent's department, and teachers using reformed orthography will not be graded down or criticised, according to a letter written by State Superin tendent Crabtree to E. Benjamin An drews, chancellor emeritus of the University of Nebraska. Dr. Andrews has long been a champion of reformed spelling. After August 1 the selling of colored distilled vinegar in Nebraska will be considered a violation of the law. The pure food department is now send ing out notices to dealers stating that the time between now and then will b« allowed them in which to sell off the goods they have on hand which do not confornl to the new law. State Chemist Redfem, after analyz ing samples of a patent medicine ad vertised to cure rheumatism, has found it to consist of two cheap ingre dients. sugar and chlorate of potash. The directions instructed the user to dissolve it in whisky or in cherry wine. The dope was put up in small packages in powder form and sold at the rate of about $S per pound. The Platte Shirt company of Chi cago. which had a contract for convict labor at the Nebraska state peniten tiary and which is said to be delin quent in the sum of $4,700 in payments to the state, has telegraphed Secre tary of State Wait that it will pay The message also asks the state board to cancel its contract for convict labor. The telegram asks the board to re lease the Platte Shirt company from its contract "as per information we get from newspapers that yon had agreed to the proposition of our re lease.” In a letter given to the press. Attor ney General Martin defends the action of the state board of public lands and buildings in locating the agricultural school at Curtis. He claims that the town is the logical place for the new school, is not inaccessible, and four kinds of soil are available for experi ments. Father Tihen, the successor of the late Bishop Bonacum. will arrive in Lincoln July 19. A religious ceremony will be held at St. Theresa's procathe dral and a civic reception will take place the same day. OUTLOOK IS BETTER RECIPROCITY ATMOSPHERE IS GROWING CLEAR. k VOTE EXPECTED IN JULY A Rest Until After the Fourth of July, Then More Speeches Will Be Forthcoming. Washington.—The Canadian recip rocity situation cleared to a marked degree Friday and a canvass of the situation in the senate was in every way assuring to the friends of the measure. With not more than a doz en set speeches in prospect, many of the senators count upon a vote before the end of July. When the senate adjourned after three hours of anti-reciprocity speech making by Senators Gamble and Cum mins there was an understanding that there would be no further effort at legislation until after July 4 and that when -business is resumed there will be no cessation until final adjourn ment. There will be a brief session of both houses, but only to meet the constitutional inhibition against eith er body adjourning for more than three days a: a time without the oth er's consent. The recess will continue until July 5. The most formidable speech still tc be made is that of Senator 1-a Fol lette. He will present his long prom ised tariff amendments to the reel- j procity bill and will talk for three oi four days discussing the tariff even more than reciprocity. These amend ments will be in the nature of a sub- ] stitute cf ali other tariff suggestions The oniy speeches promised in sup j pert of the reciprocity bill will be made by Senators Stone of Missouri and Burton of Ohio. In addition to Senator La Follette. Senators Ciapp, Bristow. Grenna. Nelson. Bailey. Sim mons and other will be heard, but none except La Follette and possibly Bristow will talk at length. 1a ith reciprocity disposed of it is not believed that the session will be ' greatly prolonged. The standpat re- ] publicans are disposed to concede a vote on the wool and free list bills. The democratic senators have said from the beginning they would be sat isfied with a roll call on the two tariff bills and there are indications that they will let these go to vote without much debate in view of the threat ened presidential veto of both bills. Senator Cummins, who has had the floor during parts cf the last three days, announced that he would con clude his attack on the bill next Wed nesday and that be would like to have his amendments, enlarging the free list on Canadian products voted upon July 6. Bomb Explodes. Madrid.—It is officially stated that while the eticharist procession was passing through Oalle Mayor, one of the city’s greatest thoroughfares, a bomb was exploded in a side street. Xo one was injured. One arrest was made. Green Corn Curling Up. Lexington, Xeb.—Thursday was the worst day in this vicinity for many years as far as damage to the crops is concerned. The wind blew high and was scorching hot. Green fields of corn were badly burned and curled at night. Declared a Common Carrier. Washington. — The Manufacturers' Railway company of St. Louis is a common carrier and payment to it of a reasonable portion of the St. Louis rates for the terminal switching ser vices rendered by it is not unlawful. A decision to this effect was handed down by the interstate commerce commission. The National Treasury. Washington.—Revised estimates in dicate that the closing of the fiscal year 1911. will find the federal treas ury showing a surplus of approximate ly $33.0t>0.000 on all ordinary accounts. Receipts from Panama canal bond sales indicate that there will be no to tal deficit on account of canal opera tions. Naval Officers Retire. Washington.—Much to the gratifi cation of the “plucking" board of the navy department, the following six captains voluntarily retired from ac tive service: Burns T. Walling of Ohio, commandant of San Juan naval station: James C. Gilmore of Arizona, commanding the armored cruiser Maryland; John M. Orchard of Mis souri, commanding the West Virginia; Thomas D. Griffin of Virginia, captain of the Mare Island navy yards; Ben W. Hodges of Mississippi, now on sick leave, and Edward Lloyd of Maryland, commanding the Wabash. General Potts Takes Command. Chicago, 111.—General Ramsey D. Potts of Fort Leavenworth took com mand of the newly created central di vision of the United States army with headquarters in Chicago. Withdrawal of Troops. Washington.—After a talk with Sec retary of War Stimson and Major Gen eral Wood, chief of staff of the army. President Taft authorized the with drawal of four regiments in the man euver division now at San Antonio. Texas. ^ FALLS IN COAL HOLE WAFTING WIFE A KISS — NEW YORK NEW HUSBAND TAKES A TUMBLE WHILE GIVING BRIDE PARTING SALUTE. • New York.—Daintily waiting a kiss to his wife Herbert Corthell deftly stepped backward into a coal hole in West Forty-seventh street, i Corthell was married recently. De parting from his apartment in the Mayfair apartments, West Forty-sev enth street, after the custom of new husbands he stepped to the other side of the street, walking backward and gazing upward to the window where the sharer of his bliss waved forth tc him. Still walking backward, Cort hell waved an airy salute and from his finger tips sped a kiss to the up per window. At that precise moment the North American continent dropped away Falls Into a Coal Hole from beneath Corthell's feet and rose up around his equator. His sudder descent had wedged the man firmly j in a coal hole. After the first sensa , tion of surprise he gazed up at a win- j dow in the Mayfair and continued tc j waft an adieu. A large and appreciative gathering 1 viewed his unhappy predicament. Presently Corthell's pathetic moans brought two porters from the Hotel Portland to his assistance. Tenderly they took hold. He did not budge. They used force and despite his fran tic outcries as the coal hole reluct antly yielded him they drew him forth to West Forty-seventh street. BOYS ATTACKED BY WOLVES Two St. Paul Youths Have an Exciting Adventure With Ravenous Ani mals in the Woods. St. Paul. Minn.—Attacked by wolves in a swamp near Morrell. Minn., and escaping only after three of the pack had been killed and one wounded by the heavy revolvers which they car ried. was the thrilling experience Frank Mikals and Frank Seidl related when they returned from a trip to northern Minnesota. Their first warn ing of danger was the distant howling of the pack, which attracted their at tention about dark, and just as they entered the border of the marsh. The animals' cries came nearer and the beys took stock of their weapons. Each had a heavy pocket knife and the chambers of their revolvers were well filled. Without warning a half dozen silent forms slunk from the bush and closed in from the front. Before Mi kals. who was ahead, could loosen the 3S-caliber gun from his hip they were Fired Just in Time, close upon him. SeidI had dropped back, and as Mikals struggled with his weapon he opened Ore. He was just tn time, for one of the pack had al ready sprung at Mikals, tearing his hand in an efTort to reach his throat At the first report of the revolver the pack turned tall and fled. Kneeling In their tracks, the two boys emptied the chambers, and when they finished three victims marked the path. A splash of blood on the ground showed that a fourth shot had gone true, and the boys followed it until they lost the trail in the gathering darkness. CHICAGO Cl 10 SWINDLED FARMER IURV RETURNS VERDICT AGAINST MISS MILLER AND BROTHER IN S11.0C0 CONFIDENCE GAME. WORKED AN ANCIENT STUNT Bride-to-Have-Bcen Got the Granger's Money, Then Told Him to Accept the Bible, Join a Church and Marry a Rich Widow. Chicago.—Miss Lodavine Miller and aer brother. Attorney J. Marion Miller, Mio swindled "Tommy” Foulkes, the sentimental Iowa farmer, out of aboul all of his considerable wealth while he was under a spell wrought by the charms of Miss Miller, were found guilty of conspiracy. They will have to serve a sentence of from one to ten years in the penitentiary at Joliet. Miss Miller did not flinch when she heard the word "guilty.” She was much cooler than her brother. "Senti mental Tommy” Foulkes showed no feeling of vengeful elation. "They swindled me out of every thing 1 possessed, and should be pun ished for it." was his cool comment. "Tommy” had read the eye-for-an eye and tooth-for-a-tooth law in the Bible chat represents the only thing he got in return from Miss Miller for his wealth, save a lonesome kiss. “Tommy" said he had expected the verdict, and that he was prepared to stop in Chicago a year longer if neces sary, to see that his former charmer and her brother got their punish ment. The story of a remarkable court ship, ending with his being “jilted" after he*-h*d given the bride to-have been jn,312, was told by Thomas Foulkers. a farmer of Danbury, la., in Judge Dever's court, here, where his former fiancee, Miss Lodavine Miller, and her brother, J. Warren Miller, a lawyer, were tried on a charge of swin dling Foulkes. "After she got the money from me, she told me to go to Los Angeles, join tmtvu rummy a church and marry a rich widow,” Foulkes said. “She said she would make a better mother to me than a wife.” Foulkes said he met Miss Miller in 1901 when he came to Chicago with «some cattle. The biggest blow of all came in 190? when notes I had made came due and I had to sell my farms worth $40,000,-' said Foulkes “1 went to California to see her and get some money. I took two drafts with me, one for $500 and the other for $2,543 and before I got away she had both of them. When I told her that was all the money I had she gave me a Bible and told me to join a church and marry some rich widow, but first to consult her.” Attorney Miller was charged by Foulkes with having fraudulently in duced him to settle & suit against G. S. Leonard. This was based on a promissory note for $2,500, which Foulkes denied ever having made. He v also says the lawyer swindled him out of a farm near Pipestone, Minn. BOLT LIFTS CARPET TACKS A Pennsylvania Woman’s Houseciean ing Aided by Curious Freak of Lightning. York, Pa.—A useful bolt of light ning struck the home of Mrs. Michael G. Finchbaugh of this county just as she was preparing to take up the car pets and linoleum to clean house. The rooms were filled with a hazy smoke after the lightning struck, and when this had cleared Mrs. Finchbaugh found that every tack in the carpets and linoleum had been pulled by the lightning. No damage was done to the house. Kill 4,000 Rats. Princeton, Ind.—Four thousand rats were killed in Gibson county in the second anneal rat day. As the govern ment estimates each rat costs two ,-ents a day for maintenance, the coun ty by the slaughter saved nearly $30, 000 for a year, to say nothing of the progeny cut off.