Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXIX._ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1911. NUMBER
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK!
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bomestic
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Mr KarfccfrQcr leaped from under
te tbe ■orkscs te jump foi
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• -stained aenoufe injuries
•a* «ill Cm,
e e e
’ J *'crags cEferkae is i»ei>*-ted te
here caused -be death of William
^srtsaifecr of Xeer Torfc and tbe
lltbeai at t—'oeeb sixty abd seventy
’all*** eB board tbe battioakip Micbi
Cat. (fens arrived ml boston Irons tbe
eoutber* drtU grounds JUi of tbe sir*
u« have recovered.
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!«su' mated at Slkk.kdk »a*
Ve* abd cake hfe loot :n a ‘ loudburst
Obtrb feeep* Kxna. sitarpebur* and
dtSul*. suburbs of Plratourgfc. Pa
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taeorgsa er«I be tbe first southern
to tegu tbe mobufert ure «l
or bug botera Tbe serum m U!
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A wbtfetn -covered automobile re
tununa Sroas tbe Coney island Mardi
liras a as wrecked while roundtn* a
narat in i.nxA!)*. IS. Y. A ’at.C-.on
ably dt**sed woman, raid to be Airs
uatpc n* Xokia. was killed Her e»
"« r* Thomas -»alt p robtmrtor was
pn'Sobi*1 fatally injured
a a a
Governors of twenty-five states. :a
aotic'enee at Spna* Lake. X. J. de
•iJed to protest to tbe Vaited Stales
-».|rioi coon a fairs* wtni they coo
sber on liiittdt af ’k- nr rt*t*ta by the
eberal own The decision of Judfe
Sanborn la the T atted Staten circuit
o— in tbe Ifisnesota case la tbe par
tcalnr ~lnvsaian" to which tbe p>T
-mars object Judeos Harman, eov
-nor at Ohio, will bead a committee
4 protest
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President Taft started from Boston
a hta usur of the country, the tttn
*r*n of w t.-ch caters UMO miles
a :« ■taion
v v a
*. hr- - armored cruisers and et*bt
•rpedo hoot destroyers nailed from
inn Fmaoac-c for Hawaii
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The seed widow of James D. Fink.
If. victim a the famous traded y that
ttirrod New York shi Edward S
stokes start aim an January «. ItTi.
- repuc -^i be dytuf *a tbe humble
tttke frame * -rttase ,c South Boston
a here the has lived in poverty-ottick
-* retirement for Zi yamr%
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tiicjc*!!* J.OW -ullor shops In Xew
liar*, where the better ciaaa of *»r
neni* for women are made, were de
sored by thesr workers Ten fboa
<oa4 tailors. :.«W at them women
acre **;>joyed la (he shops affected.
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Lost la a res'- mass of railroad
racka Artatar Jimmy Ward of Chi
-a#a. lb* second at tbe contestants
ar the Hamm SSd AM coast tocooat
«enal pnae made only a miles actual
asodwny durt&c his first day's work.
Aard atoned from Governor# Island.
>-*» York, and landed at Paterson.
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-t round numbers the cost of tba
*«asexett i kps lit film la to Africa un
ier tb* sospue* of the Smithsonian
oottratton ■ a» I'jaaa. The expenses
d 'he actual fesnunc »«e dirided.
be Smithsonian perm* abotr tbree
if*n» sad Catomd Booserel; about two
xftba
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Jobs A < leucalda') Johnson. form
*r ceanct and former Inmate of the
‘hate insane as* ions at Men dots.
••*«aded gnat* St Madison. Mo , to the
-bar** of bonne bldnsped and ntur
fcered Aans LemSer*er on September
( Me was immediately sentenced to
he mate pnsoa for Et. harried Into
aa aatomutdie and driven across the
wastry to Maopna
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Whs*—sir fnad* la the hrandine of
tmamtar erodes at liquors with spurt
a— trademark* at staple products
•er* rer—ipd through fbe arrest of
Marti* Aiborte to New York city,
charged with infringement of trade
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G—dea State Ua
*— derailed jnet
at Ainsworth. Is
tajared aad
up. bat
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The trial by coort martial of Gunner
Hear* MrEiert. C. 8 X, whose wife
haeas at the Mare Island ICsLj as^
yard. McEeert it charged with drunk
skta'^y 11 th*t *•
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Three tornadoes, each of greater in
leu ty than Its predecessor, and all
acccmpaaied by terrific rain, swept
Springfield. PL leveling trees, block
ing Traffic, flooding the streets, wreck
ng the copper dome of the state cap
i'oL and cutting the city off entirely
■ tea communication with the nearest
villages. No loss of life was reported.
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Mounted police discovered alive
Eleanor Gladys Brice, school teacher
af Rlverdaie. flTe miles north of Snow
Sake. Manitoba. She told of having
pen attacked by a tramp and carried
!rr-m her school to a lonely gully.
• here she was kept a prisoner, while
her captor regaled himself on a bottle
sf whisky Miss Brice is a niece ot
Premier Hoblis
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Prom New York to St. Louis by
iroliey in five days, traveling only In
he daytime. Is the record made fcy
Lieut William A. J. Koenig of the
New York city police force sod his
wife
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Bending over a shotgun and pulling
he trigger with fats toe. Dr. John C.
Dree tan. forty-five years old. a promi
■ent physician and a member of the
1 enn<-r»ee senate, killed himselt at
ais home. Woodbury. Tenn.
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Oitober 9. the fortieth anniversary
af the Chicago fire, has been set aside
fcy Governor Deneen in a proclamation
•sued from the executive office as
Illinois Eire Prevention day.
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There is asore suffering Irom pov
-ny in New Y'ork this year than last,
vr cord mg to the Association for He
ieritg the Condition of the Poor
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The Twenty-seventh company of
coast artillery, practicing with the
"f Inch guns at Batte-y Cranston, in
-be Presidio military reservation, bit
i moving target at 10.000 yards six
‘me* with six shots
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Personal
A report is current In Los Angeles.
~ai that Nat Goodwin, the actor, has
■named Marjo-ie Ram beau, who was
laying :n the company with which
ioodwic was associated until recently.
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' *®i iala of the New York state fair
s’ Syracuse, who have given unusual
recognition to the suffragists at this
'ear’s meetings, have voted to Dr
Mary Walker the annaa! prize for be
rig the best dressed woman on the
grounds She appeared in masculine
'osturne
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5 S HPe. known from Canada to
he gulf as an exjiert lisherman. and
whose grandfather came frcm Ken
.ucky with Twniel Boone. Is dead at
Louisville. Kt.. rt the age of eighty
hree years
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Sporting
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman,
.ought a winning battle of ten terrific
-ounds with Carl Morris, the gigantic
aewvyw eight of Oklahoma, at Madison
-><juare garden. New York city. At the
nd the Oklahoma man's face was bat
ered to a pulp, while Flynn was un
marked save for a lump over the left
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Washington
Ju*r before departing on his western
np at Beverly. Mass.. President Taft
.nnounced his decision in the Wiley
■aae. finding the food chemist guilt
>eai of intentional wrong and declin
ng ’c remove him from office. The
eeomraendation that Doctor Wiley be
red came from the personnel board of
he department of agriculture and was
ndorsed by Attorney General Wicker
ibam
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A saving to the government of fully
11.000.000 on the transmission of pe
iodical mail by fast freight was es
imat-d by Postmaster General Hitch
■ock after a two weeks' trial of this
nethcd of shipment.
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President Taft's visit to SL Louis
rill embrace among other functions
uacbeon at the City club, which has
juarters in a downtown office bulld
og. To insure the personal safety of
the president in ascending to tne
banquet room, new cables have been
ordered for the elevators
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Foretem
Five burglars stole $315,000 from
he branch of the Bank of Montreal in
Vew Westminster. B. C. They entered
he place by the front door, blew the
safe with nitroglycerin and escaped
without being seen except by a Chi
3esc caretaker, who they bound and
tagged. There is no clue to the rob
>cra
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Latest advices received by the Cbt
jese foreign board and the foreign le
gations at Peking indicate that Cheng
Tu. capital of Sze-Chuan province, is
■tnder siege, that most if not all the
missionaries are Inside the walls, and
hat the city Is garrisoned by 1.800
troops, who have had several engage
-rents with the besieging forces.
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The river of lava from Mount Etna
j a still advancing, sweeping everything
: aefore It. Thousands are being driven
I tram their homes. The 20.000 inhabi
tants of Castiglione and Francavilie
save turned their backs on their
aotnes. fleeing before the advancing
Sow at lava.
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Two thousand modern troops have
refused to join In the siege of Cheng
Tn. China, at the command of the
viceroy. The authorities fear to force
he relief of Cbeag-Tu lest the noa
rembataau there join the rebels.
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RIOTERS jID 01
SAVAGE STREET FIGHTING IN
AUSTRIAN CAPITAL.
A SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION
High Food Prices Given as the CauM
for This Most Serious
Outbreak.
—
Vienna.—Traceable to the high
priie of the necessaries of life riots
i-roke out Sunday and many persons
were killed or wounded. Troops fired
on the mob. which had erected barri
cades in the streets. There was a
fierce exchange of bullets awd the sol
diers were pelted with all sorts of mis- •'
siles.
Following a huge socialistic demon- j
stration outside the Rathhaus. held j
for the purpose of protesting against j
the high price of food. it. became nec-1
essary to call out troops to dispense j
the rioters, in the early clashes fifty |
cf the rioters were wounded and 100 I
arrested.
Fifty thousand jtersons were present j
at the demonstration and fiery speech-'
es were made, demanding that the j
government permit the importation of ;
foreign meat and take other men.-urea j
to remedy the conditions which haee |
resulted from the prohibitory inci easel
in the price of food products.
After the meeting a large procession |
marched to the parliament buildings, i
cheering for revolution and Portugal, j
Revolvers were fired in the air andj
then the mob began stone throwing.
The windows of many public and pri- j
vate buildings, restaurants and train
cars and street lamps were smashed, j
Finally a squadron of dragons and a |
♦etaehment of infantry appeared on
the scene. They charged the rioters ]
and dispersed them. The mob reas- i
sembled. however, in the suburbs j
whi< h are occupied by the working!
class, where they wrecked more prop-1
erty. The troops were retained
throughout the day guarding the im
perial palace and government build
ings and holding all approaches to the
inner city.
The rioting was of a most deter
min* d and savage charac ter. The mob
was es|>ecially inflamed by the ap|>ear
ance of »roops on the scene, and al
though an official account states that
only ore person was killed by a bay
onet thrust, several wounded by a vol
ley and about sixty seriously injured,
it is believed that th" casualties were
much higher.
Former Senator Carter Dead.
Washington.—Former 1'nited States
Senator, Thomas Henry Carter of
Montana, for many years a notable
and picturesque character in national
politics, once chairman of the repub
lican national compnuee. and since
last year chairman of the American
section of the International commis
sion. died at his home Sunday of in
fection of the lungs. He was 57 years
old. Mr. Carter had been under the!
cars of a physician for months, but
not closely confined.
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Big Hail Stones.
Osceola. Neb.—A heavy hail storm
at 4 o'clock this afternoon damaged
com in this vicinity and broke sev
eral plate glass windows in Osceola.
Some of the hail stones were nine
inches in circumference. Neighboring
towns suffered little.
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Kills Man. Attacks Woman.
Jacksonville. Fla.—Cicero Thomp
son. a carpenter, aged 45. was killed
and a woman com par ion. whom he
was accompanying home, was at
tacked by a negro at Ortego. a suburb
of this city.
Death-Dealing Automobile.
Syracuse. N.—Nine persons were
killed and fourteen injured, some of
them seriously, as the result of an
accident during the closing miles of
a fifty-mile automobile race at the
state fair track Saturday, when a
Knox car. driven by Lee Oldfield,
leaped front the track. crashed
through the fence surrounding it and
plunged into the throngs that lined
the other side of the speedway.
Presbyterian Report.
Chicago. III.—The annual report of
the general assembly of the Presby
terian church, just issued, gives the
! following statistics on the Nebraska
synod: Presbyteries. 6: ministers.
183: churches. 231; communicants,
20.279; baptisms. 859; Sunday school
membership. 20.225.
Milwaukee Girl Elopes.
Milwaukee. Wis.—A Milwaukee girl
played a jcke on her parents by elop
ing to Chicago and then sending her
email brother'to the newspaper offices
»o let her father know through them
that she is a wife.
Train Kills Four.
Milwaukee.—Four members of the
family of Frank Klein, postmaster
and notary public of Rockfleld. Wis.
and a servant of the family, were
killed when Soo road passenger train
No. 202, due in Milwaukee at 0:50 p.
m., struck their double buggy.
Five Millin Dollar Fire.
Rio Janeiro.—The national printing
works were destroyed by fire Sunday.
Other valuable property was burned
and the damage is estimated at
Ja.fcOO.OCO.
NEW YORKER FOUND A
TURTLE IN HIS BED
FRIENDS GAVE HIM A JOLLY GOOD
TIME WHILE ON A VACA
TION TRIP.
New York.—“Good time? Certain
ly: always do." said a Times square
trequenter who had ’-.‘turned from
a vacation trip to a resort on the
south shore of Long island. “Every
body conspired to see that I was kept
entertained: they always do with a !
bachelor.
"One of the pleasant little attentions
they paid me was to deposit one even
ing a turtle in my bed.
"There had been some hints that
something was going to happen tc
me. and so when I slipped between
the sheets and felt some sand 1 knew
it had come. I was too tired to re
Turtle Explored the Room.
make the bed. and so 1 slipped under '
the sheets and lay on a blanket. Then j
I had a long tussle to compose my !
overwrought muscles and nerves. 1
Finally. 1 felt that sleep was coming. I
and rolled over to get into just the j
right position. As 1 stretched my teet ,
full out they touched something at the :
toot of the bed. 1 kicked, and there j
was a wild scramble and knocking
along the footboard and vail.
"There was nothing to do but get up
and remove the visitor. When 1
caught it I thought of putting it out ,
into the hall and letting it wander
around and put the joke on some one
else. Tor the curtained doors were all
open. Rut there were some Inoffen
sive old ladies ihere, and 1 couldn't
commit the crime of scaring them to
death So 1 put the visitor on the
floor to sleep while I slept. Ah. no!
T got up. found the turtle under the
dresser, forced out the window screen
and dropped it on to the piazza.
"WhaL I didn't know then was that
that piazza had a rin roof and that
there were drains on it about every
ten fedt that would step any turtle.
The sound of the shell on the metal
was enough to make any scary wom
an 'think a whole regiment of burg
lars was comln§ np. 1 waited for a
while for the tttrtle to go to sleep,
hut he didn’t want to sleep that way.
Bo. finally, I got out. hunted him down,
and dropped him on to the lawn. 1
thought that the ahorit might be fatal,
hat next moraine he w as gone ”
AUTO 1ST “CRANKS” NORSE
Then Animal llwule Off and Marts
Both Feat on She C ranker’s
aaaiZD J
Decatur. Ind.—When OH Dobbin
calked •‘while beidjt driven near this
city and emitted several grpnta. re
sembling the exhaust of an .engine.
Frank Bogner. living here, absent
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Gets Kick for "Cranking."
mindedly leaned over the dashboard
and proceeded to “crank" Dobbin's
tail just ss he would sn automobile
when it had “gone dead."
Dobbin never having been an auto
mobile, and disliking anything that
savored of this enemy of the horse,
hauled off and planted both feet on
the cranker's person so hard that
he landed in the rear end at the
vehicle. His injuries are not so seri
ous but what he win recover, hot K
Is certain he will never a
DIES FROpiSTAKE
PUTS CARBOLIC ACID ON HER
TOOTHBRUSH.
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NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going cn Here and There j
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
1 inecln—Florence Arnold, a 14-year
old girl, died here Monday morning;
within two hours of the time when
she poisoned herself with carbolic '
acid used by mistake in brushing her ;
teeth. The girl confused the bottles
found in the semi-darkness ot the ‘
bathroom and put the acid on her j
toothbrush.
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An Omnivorous Bovine.
Holdrege.—A Phelps county cow ;
has done remarkably well in the mat-,
ter of solving the high cost of living I
Unfortunately it was not known ho* :
well she was succeeding along this
line until she was dead. In the
stomach of a three-year-old heifer
killed by local butchers was found a '
remarkable collection of rusty nails. !
old Iron, glass and similar articles cot
generally placed on a cow's bill of
fare.
Indian Killed by Train.
Valentine.—Turning Bear, an Indian,
was struck and killed instantly Mon
day by a westbound passenger train, j
His family were on the station plat- i
form and he was running trying to get j
there also from the other side of the j
track. Spectators say that he was not
three feet from the engine when he '
tried to cross and he seemed to run
right into the engine.
Take a Long Canoe Trip.
Valentine.—t’harles Belzer and Har
vey Hornby, two young men of this
city, took an unusual trip, going iron-,
here to Sioux City in a canoe via the
Niobrara and Missouri rivers. They
left here in a canoe about fifteen feet i
long and two feet wide.
Buying Shubert's Apple Crop.
Shubert.—Buyers are here pure has
ing Shubert's big annual apple crop.
It is estimated that over two hundred
carioads will l>e sent out. Last year
over three hundred cars were
shipped.
Nebraska City—Engineer William
Lewis, in charge of the Burlington en
gine that hauls the passenger train
between this city and Red Oak. suf
fered from heart failure and was
found unconscious in his cab as the j
engine entered the yards here. The
fireman brought the train to a stop.
His alertness alone averted trouble.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE
The report of the state banking
board shows building and loan associ
ations growing rapidly in the past ten
years.
Plans for the two new buildings to
be erected at the state asyinm for the
insane at Lincoln, have been filed with
the board of public lands and build
ings. 1*"
Rev. J. H. Presson. former com
mandant or the Milford home, has as
sumed his duties as recording clerk in
the executive office, succeeding the
governor's 6on. George Aldrich, who
will enter the university.
Governor Aldrich has directed Attor
ney General Grant Martin to begin
ouster proceedings against John J.
Ryan and Joseph Povonka. fire and po
lice commissioners of Omaha.
The resignation of P. J. Harrison as
state university registrar having be
come effective. Assistant Registrar E.
M. Rutledge assumed the duties of the
office, in accordance with iiis promo
tion by the board of regents.
E. O. Stoehm. the new all-} ear ath
letic director of the §tate university,
will begin work on the formation of a
football team at once. Coach Stoehm
does not regard the latest changes in
the rules as of great importance.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
his address at the state fair grounds,
warmly commended the reciprocity
treaty with Canada and dwelt at
length on the beneficial results which
he believed would accrue from the
adoption of the treaty.
The 6tate legal department will
moTe for a judgment in the supreme
court September 19 in the quo war
ranto case against Chief of Police
Donahue of Omaha. The motion trill
include application for a decree for
feiting Donahue’s right to hold office.
Receipts at the office of the secre
tary of state for the month of August
were $10,843.15, obtained from the fol->
lowing sources: Articles of incorpor
ation. $1,243.75; notarial commissions.
$84; motor vehicle licenses. $77;
brands. $46.55; certificates. $66.75;
corporation taxes. $9,225.10; corpora
tion tax penalties. $100.
The board of pardons will hold a
meeting September 11. at which time
It will hear three applications for par
don and about twenty applications for
parole. The men seeking pardons are
Phillip Mauve, convicted of larceny;
Andrew Hawkins, who was sent from
Frontier county for a life sentence for
the murder of a. man named Jansen;
Albert Jacobs, convicted in Sheridan
county for burglary.
The Nebraska banking board has
Issued a call to the 664 state banks
for statements showing conditions of
their business on August 31. This is
the fourth call made for 1911.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Kenesaw wants a new school build
ing.
Kearney s new federal building is
practically completed.
An agitation is on toot in Aurora tc
organize a V. M. C. A.
The harvest home festival at Hii
dreth was a big success.
The national convention of postmas
ters is in session a: Omaha.
Free delivery cf mail may be estab
iished shortly at Broken Bow.
The receipts of the state fair wil
amount to more than $92,000.
Rev. Francis Brown, pastor of the
Baptist church at Surprise, has re
signed.
Fifty-one county fairs will afford
amusement and instruction for Ne
braskans this year.
Groat preparations are being made
for the com show and horse fair ai
Deshler. September 19 and 2t>.
Claud Floyd, a rural mail carrier out
of Beatrice, has purchased an automo
bile and will make his trips in it.
Civil service examinations for mail
carriers at Cedar Bluffs. Martell and
Western. Neb., will be held October 7
Nebraska's com crop will probably
be larger than that of last year, ac
cording to the Burlington crop report.
Rev. H. Danielson, pastor of the
Danish church at Fremont for several
years, has been transferred to Grant!
Forks. N. D.
Robert Sadler, a negro, who escaped
from jail at Central City, hid in a
trunk at his borne at Clarks, where
he was found.
Abel Shaffer, a young farmer neat !
Hooper, was mangled by a freight
train at that place, while trying tc
cross the tracks.
Tne pioneer* and old se'tiers asso
elation of Harlan county. Neb., will
meet in annual reunion at Orleans
September 20 and 21.
The October term of the Cnitec
States federal courts, districts of Ne
braska. Lincoln division, begins on the
first Monday in October.
Edwin Overbeck, a farmer neai !
Pickrell. in chasing a cow to the bare j
slipped and fell in such a way as tu
break his left arm near the shoulder.
Dr. Thomas R. Ward, a practicing
physician in Omaha for twenty-si^
years, dropped over dead at the break
fast table in his home Sunday morn
ing.
Miss Eunice Murphy, charged witl j
inciting the hanging of Cha'les Seller*
of Cody, was given a preliminary hear ,
ing and bound over to the distric! 1
cou-% t
A rain storm almost equaling a ,
cloudburst visited Beatrice early Sun
day morning, flooding the streets and 1
lowlands. The precipitation was thre*
inches.
While trying to board a freight it I
the Burlington yards at Broken Bow
Fred Forbes. 33 years of age. wa: ’
thrown under the wheels and badly
mangled.
While driving his car Sunday at thi J
rate of forty miles an hour, near Pax j
ton. Chris Tborning crashed into *
barbed wire fence and received seri
ous injuries.
The decomposing body of Ed wart
Graham, an old soldier, was found ir
his bachelor home at Kearney by ar
old comrade. He had evidently beet 1
dead several days.
While left alone for a few moment: i
in her room at St. Bernard’s hospica
at Omaha Sunday morning. Abbie Fro :
lik of Crete. Neb., committed suicid< 1
by hanging herself with a towel.
Louis Hornkohl was shot by hi: j
brother Charles on the farm of Me
Donald Bennett, near Wilsonville
which they had rented. The brothers
quarreled over the division of hay.
Rev. Thomas Bithell. pastor of tht
Methodist Episcopal church of Fre
mont, and at one time president o!
the Methodist conference of that dis
trict, has announced his retirement.
Miss Jeanne Boyd, a Fremont youni
lady, is developing a remarkable tal
ent in a musical line, being the autho:
of a number of popular airs, includini
the score of a meritorious operetta
Her friends predict a gTeat future foi
her.
An increase of over 200 in the tota ;
enrollment of the Lincoln city schools j
exclusive of the high school, is indi |
cated by the reports of the various j
principals to Superintendent W. L
Stephens.
Roland McQuiston was seriously in
juned and John McQuiston suffered »
broken ankle when an automobile ip
which they and Jim Wheeler and Joht
Blair, all of Pender, turned turtle »
mile from Beemer.
A flower parade will be one of the
features of the big German celebra
tion to be held in Lincoln in October
The citizens of Gretna will hold t
silver anniversary picnic Septembei
22 to commemorate the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the town.
August Anderson, living near Jun
i*ta, has two acres planted to turnips
and it is estimated will harvest from
400 to 500 bushels from the plot.
C. W. Cramer and his wife of Valen
tine, celebrated tbeir golden wedding
at the city park where, in the big pa
viiion a banquet was spread for ovei
100 guests.
The thirteen-year-old son of Mr. ant
Mrs. Jim Robertson of Broken Bow
was kicked by a mule and his skul
crushed. It is thought he may recover
Rt. Rev. 3. Henry Tihen, bishop ol
Lincoln, will address the mass meet
ing of the annual convention of the
American Prison association in
Omaha the afternoon of October 15.
In an alfalfa field north of Aurora
a Urge crack has appeared in the
ground. The crack reaches cleat
across the field of ten acres, and is
two feet deep and eighteen inches
wide at the top. No one can explain
the phenomenon.
WOK WIT WINS
LETTERS OF UNCLE
FORTUNE-TELLER GETS COMPRO
MISING MISSIVES. BUT CLEVER
NIECE REGAINS THEM.
LAYS CLAIM TO $10,000 FEE
Diplomacy of Mrs. Mae Briant of Ar
kansas Enables Her to Get for $5C
Documents for Which Wealthy Re
cluse Offered a Fortune.
Little Rock. Ark.—By exercising the
diplomatic ability which twice made
her postmistress of the House of Rep
resentatives of Arkansas. Mrs. Mae
Briant of Harrisburg, will, unless the
supreme court decides otherwise, re
ceive HO.rtOO from the estate of A. W.
Shirey. the wealthy recluse who was
assassinated in his store at Minturn
last year.
isnirey. during the iatter part ol
his life, was a spiritualist. He wel
comed all who pretended to know any
thing of spiritualism and paid well for
their teachings. In 1909 a woman from
Little Rock, calling herself a spirit
ualist. went to Minium and called up
on the aged miser in his store. Shir
?y immediately made arrangements
for readings in the attic room of the
store at night. For several weeks the
woman remained. Shirey holding
lightly communion with the spirit
world through the alleged medium
Finally he was persuaded to write five
letters and place them in custody of
.he woman until a later date.
After the woman had gone Shirey
began to consider the consequences
If the letters shonid be made public.
His efforts to locate the woman were
fatUe. so he sent for Mrs. Briant, his
favorite grandniece. He offered her
*10.000 if she would get possession of '
the papers, and Mrs. Briant undertook
the task.
Coming to Little Rock. Mrs. Briant
nad little trouble in locating the al
leged spiritualist and arranging for a
series of readings. At one of these
Mrs. Bryant confided to the spiritual
ist that she had been jilted by a
wealthy old merchant of I^awrene*
county and was seeking to force his
huiid. The spiritualist grabbed at the
bait and informed Mrs. Briant she had
A yr.&fsszy
Recovers Coveted Letters.
some tetters from such a person
whlda if placed in the possession ot
the Injured young woman, might ma
terially assist her in her case. The
letters were offered to Mrs. Briant for
$500. Several days were spent in ne
gotiating, and the letters finally went
to Mrs. Briant for $50 and were then
returned to ’ey.
Mrs. Brla claim has been &1
lowed by the probate court of Law
rence county, but an appeal has been
taken to the supreme court by the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the
chief beneficiary under the Shirey
will.
The assassination of Shirey was the
most atrocious crime committed in
Arkansas last year. The old man. who
owned several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of property In Lawrence
county, had been married several
times, the last to Falre Belle Hill, a
girl of fourteen years, whom relatives
claimed he had wronged. The couple
did not liTe happily and both made ef
forts to get a divorce.
The supreme court of Arkansas de
dined to permit either a divorce and
required Shirey to pay the girl-wife
alimony. He was abou‘ to bring
a new suit for divorce when
he was assassinated. Shirey
was seated on a sack of pota
toes near the door of his store, across
the road from the Minturn depot
when a lone horseman rode up to the
porch and shot him dead. The assas
sin escaped In the gathering darkness
Shirey left all his property to the
Odd Fellows’ lodge in Arkansas, but
relatives filed suit to break the will,
and the lodge compromised, giving the
relatives a liberal portion, and agree
ing to defend all other suits filed
against the estate, any judgment to be
taken from the lodge’s share.
Mrs. Mae Briant Is one of the best
known women in Arkansas. She first
came to the Arkansas legislature a
young widow and at the close of the
session was married to a member. She
again came to the session of 1911 as
a widow and was easily re-elected
postmistress.
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