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I ■• I f VOI-t MK XXIX._ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1911. NUMBER 49. IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK -ATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EYEMTS HERE AND THERE Csncr'iM Into a Few Line* for iho P*'**as' of tee Buoy Man— Latoat Paracnai Infer* Italian-Turkish War At a awetisg ta the mosque at St "«<*hin. ta Constantinople. a telegram * pewent again*: Italy's declaration f war tm Turkey waa formulated and «w»t ta all the parliament* of the ewfld. pence and arbitration societies oabefetlM. socialist organisation* a4 TV* Hague pane* tribunal. The efeenta says the occupation of Trip *■ I. Bnjas>ifi«4 and that Italy tu no awn at at a plane amocc the great SOWUHL • • • Aa affuial amt < meat issued in Rome •ays that the l’ahaas Lavs occupied a* was at Tripoli. Rear Admiral **ur«w d'Oimo has been appoiated gov ■near at Tripoli Further detachments d sailors * Kb guns and mitrailleuse* •*rr landed and the military occupa MW completed without Incident • • • Tha lotto Evening Time* ha* re nab;* information that Austria in ends tab ag action against Italy as • revolt at the operations of the Italian fleet off tbs Albanian coast, vgalnat »tkb Austria has vigorously pawantai. Vic* Admiral tb* Duke of tb* Abruxxl •-a* amt •• ultimatum to tho call of Prrteaa threatening a ben. bard men t -bless U surrenders lb* Turkish war - i» »hicb hat* takes refuge in the harbor. • • • Italy * warships ay a succession of •wtft attacks at many point* tar* • wept tb* Turkish 1t| frets the Medt t'cairu Aceordl-g to UBcinl re <**». St of 'inf sultan's teasels, la i -Jjkts* sara craft. Centners and 'Kfctt. nav* beet captured or <t© Ike i ii| si Germany has taken - * faf.iaur# in t^e attempt to brie* •host tstrrseeiici.by the powers in •tm struggle ter* ©eh Turkey gnd It aly He has sent a personal message to the suits* recommending that Tur key accept tho sltlmatum of Italy and adding ts» personal assurance that Germany would stand by Turkey- in h« negotiations that will follow. see Washington la n sudden sure-easi on of orders •a initial more is the eapocied re -rgaalsatton of tho department of agrl -ul'ur*. Mieltor George P McCabe | was retired fro* ’ho pure food and :rwg hoard, associate Chemist P L. | Dnaiap. closely identified artth Me "»he. was allowed leave of absence .Mil the president's return, and Chetn *i Harvey W Wiley was left appa •aUy ta supreme command of the board. m m m Domestic Half 'he burl new* section of Black diver Fails. Win. and n portion of the residence section was destroyed when Ue swollen waters of Black river over sowed the dam of the La Croaae Wi rt aad Bower company at Hatfield in s dela«e that did damage estimated st between S2.tM.tM and fJ.CM.MO kevent heavy rnins were responsible .'or the break In the embankments of the dam shew the overflow occurred • • • Postmaster General Hitchcock In bis -sumstea for the nest fiscal year in . tides an Item for I let. MO for experi mental parcels pom in cities and conn try districts aad for an investigation ! 'or the establishment of a general parcels pool on all railway and steam boni transportation mates. ... Vi Mourns street car men number si nearly SM have voted to go on •tribe unless three members of the aim recently discharged are relo cated ■ • e All Japanese servants at the New 1 LI naval station have been foliowtac the discovery service plans had disap vritb the departure • s at Taft briefly assailed the of the Supreme coart of the Staten aad reiterated his views •a to the relations at the government Chamber of Commerce la Pocatello. • • • Mrs Soe Varney Webster, second wife at Ik. Harry E Webster. — fanned slayer at his third wife, granted a divorce la the district In. She will The commission in charge of the Illinois farmers' hall of fame haa ac cepted the name of B. F. Harris, for merly of Champaign. 1U.. for a place In the hall of fame at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. • • • Governor Baldwin of Connecticut haa asked the attorney general to pass upon the validity of a law recently passed over hla veto, giving every Civil war veteran in Connecticut a r early pension of $30. • • • Capt. John Bradie. giving exhibitions at the South Georgia fair at Tifton. Ta.. was killed when he fell from his balloon and plunged 700 feet to earth • • • Roue! neather drove to earth seven of the nine racing balloons that left Kansas City. Mo., in contests for the James Gordon Bennett trophy, the Lahtn cup. and the altitude record. Nothing has been heard from the ofh r two The missing bags are Condor j< France and Berlin II. of Germany. • • • On application of attorneys for the Southern Pacific Railroad company a temporary injunction was issued in the United States court restraining strikers and others from interfering In any manner with the affairs of the road One man was shot and probably fatally wounded in New Or leans when a party of Illinois Central strike breakers were fired upon by strikers. • • • Senator Stephenson must make a satisfactory showing as to exactly what became of every dollar of the $107,000 expended in his campaign for the senatorial nomination in 1908. This ruling »as made by Senator Heyburn. chairman of the senate in vestigating committee, at the hearing In Milwaukee. • • • Attorney General WIckersham by filing a brief in the Supreme court of the United States, began his fight to bare the principal coal-carrying railroads and coal-owning companies in the anthracite regions adjudged to be In violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. An entirely different attack was made on the corporations from that in Pennsylvania, where the government lost on nearly every point. • • • The innovation of picking cotton oy moonlight has been introduced by j x farmer near Americus. Ga.. because if his dgslre to harvest the crop juieklv as possible. The unusual sight j it pickets in the field at.night has at- j tracted fcidejutentlpn. _ ' i’ <•-•' a V • 1 > be legal contest to determine | whether New Hampshire or Massachu- ] setts Is emitted to the Inheritance tax I upon the estate of Mrs Mary liaker ; Eddy, valued at $2,000,000. is being ! waged before Justice Morton in tbe i supreme judicial court of Heston. • • • James Leonard, eleven years old. | uid his brother. Henry, fourteen, were brought to Washington. D. C., j by Marshal Tyree of West Virginia to serve two years in the government reform school for making coins. The j boys are said to be clever counter- ! feiters • • • • Light indictments against four wall paper manufacturers and four wall paper jobbers, members of the so- j called “wall paper trust.” charging j them with a conspiracy in restraint i of trade in violation of the Sherman j anti-trust law. were returned by the j federal grand jury at Cleveland. O. Fire of incendiary origin swept through the business section of Scott date. Pa., causing a loss of $125,000. Fifty guests were driyen from the Central hotel before that structure wae destroyed. • • • Erik me S Walker shot and prob ably fatally Injured Miss Magdalena > Kotnp. a telephone girl, at Rock Is- ' land. 111., and then killed himself. • • • Sporting The first game of tbe world's base ball championship series between tbe Giants and Athletics will be played on tbe Polo grounds in New York City on Saturday. October 14. • • • Peter Thompson, tbe Peter the Great-Lydla Thompson bay gelding owned by A. B Cose of Paoll, Pa„ won tbe $14,000 Kentucky Futurity by taking the three final heats of tbe race. He set a new world's record for three-year-old geldings in the fourth heat when he went the mile in 2:07*. • • • Foreign The famous picture. "Neptune and Amphitrite." by Boucher, has been stolen from the municipal museum of Oulmper, France, in a manner ident ical with the theft of the "Mona Lisa” from the Louvre in Paris. • • • Two hundred and forty lives are known to havo been lost In coasting craft daring the recent storm which swept tbe North see More than 100 bodies have been washed ashore. • • • Another rising has been started in the state of Sonora. Mex„ against 'he Chinese. Officials of Sonora, Lies., have decided to raise the taxes against the Chinese to such a figure that they cannot pay them, and thus compel them to move. • • • Nearly one hundred persona wars killed and twfes as many worn wound ed In riots. following the presidential election. la widely scattered parts of Moira. Among the dedh at 8aUna Crus Is an Amartcaa named Cart REMARKABLE YIELD TWELVE ACRES OF ALFALFA NETS ITS OWNER NEARLY $1,500. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Murray.—Mr. Charles Philpot threshed twelve acres of alfalfa this week on his farm six miles west of here, yielding ninety bushels, which he has sold for $900. From this field he also cut thirty-six tons of hay. valued at $300. In the spring he pas tured seventy-five sboats on this field for four w eeks, and has had 100 head of full grown hogs running on the twelve acref since the seed crop was removed four weeks ago. He will pasture these hogs on this alfalfa field another month. -This twelve acres has yielded in seed and hay $1,260 and pasture estimated at $150, or a total of $1,410 Silver Jubilee Convention. Lincoln.—The Nebraska Christian Endeavor Union will hold its twenty fifth annual convention here October 26-29. More than fifty speakers— among them such men as William Shaw, general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor; Karl Lehman, international field secretary for the United Society of Christian Endeavor, and a host of other prom inent Endeavor workers—will appear on the platform during the sessions of the convention. From 2,500 to 3,000 delegates are expected. Richardson County Gats Wet. Humboldt.—An eight and one-half inch rain in this section in approxi mately fifteen hours has proven too much for the capacity of the new drainage ditch in district No. 2. Rich ardson county, and as a result the low lands adjoining are inundated front a depth of six inches to two feet. These bottoms are producing a fine stand of corn this year an-? were it not for the slow current might suffer considerable damage. As it is the owners anticipate no werv great " ' . ' ' Beatrice.—Some time Wednesday night thieves entered the public li brary and after breaking open the librarian's desk, stole $28 19 cash. Entrance to the building was gained through a rear window which was pried open. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE - N J. C. Elliott, editor of the West Point Republican, was nominated for congress in the Third district. According to the quarterly report of the state banks, deposits have in creased $2,500,000 in three months. Platte county has made application to the state for aid in building a 2,000 foot bridge across the Platte river at Monroe. The bridge is to have a six teen-foot roadway and will cost $34. 000. If state aid is extended the state will bear one-half of this cost. Ernest p. Bicknell, national direc tor of the Red Cross society, has written a letter commending Adju tant General Ernest H. Phelps of the Nebraska national guard for issuing an order to discourage the abuse of the use of the Red Cross emblem by persons who are not authorized to use it. Teachers throughout the state are planning to attend the state teachers’ association which will meet this yea. November 8 to 9 in Omaha. The teach ers of Hastings, sixty-four in number, have decided to attend the meeting and have already completed arrange ments. The faculties of the state nor mal schools at Chadron and Peru have decided to attend. L. W. McOonnel. a druggist at Mc Cook. has been appointed one of the secretaries of the state board of pharmacy. The appointment is made to fill the term or Mr, Sherman of Omaha, which has expired. The ap pointment was made by Attorney General Martin, Secretary of State Wait. Auditor Barton and Land Com missioner Cowles. Since July ^ the state has paid Jt. 248.14 in indemnities to owners of horses and mules suffering from glanders and killed under direction of the state veterinarian. Governor Aldrich declined to par don Albert Jacobs of Howard county, but instead issued a parole. Jacobs is twenty-two years of age and is serving a term of eighteen months for burglary. Judge J. N. Paul, who was the trial judge in the district court and the county attorney, recommend “d a pardon, but the governor accept ♦he recommendation of the board of pardons that a parole be issued. An efficient Are drill in the public schools at York is reported by Fire Commissioner Randall and Inspector Buck of the same office, who have just returned from Chat city. They saw 960 pupils march out of the Central school building at York in 1 minute and 60 seconds, at the sounding of a Are alarm. The chiMren did not know in advance that the Are drill waa to he given. The 1911 stallion registration law requires all males, pom bred, cross bred, grade or Jack to he examined by a state inspector. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Slot machines have been ordered oat by the mayor of Grand Island. John Vanderheiden was accidentally shot while out hunting near Rushville. The Johnson county fair just closed, was one of the most successful in its history. The new commercial club at Dav enport is making plans to hold a win ter fair. Carl E. Peterson has been appointed mail carried and Edith Peterson sub stitute at Bertrand. The university report for the first week shows '2,051 registered, an in crease over last year. Mr. and \lrk. E. I.. Evans of Shu bert recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Westerville is proud of the fact that a man 117 years old is an in; habitant of that place. Earl Luther, working on a ranch near Broken Bow, will lose an eye as the result of a corncob fight. Teggmen blew up the safe in the Farmers State bank at Wabash, Neb., and escaped with the contents. Work on the new Lutheran orphan's home at Stromsburg has begun and will be pushed as rapidly as possible. T. E. Henry, a Northwestern brake man, was fatally injured under the wheels of a freight train at Fremont Hastings will be a lively place from October 9th to 14th. when the Central Nebraska fall festival will be ir. progress. John Wayt, for some time railroac agent at Pickrell. has disappeared and numerous townsmen are anxiou* to locate him. Frank Collier was dangerously anc perhaps fatally injured when he goi tangled up in the lines of a runaway team at Alliance. The Nebraska federation ol women's clubs will hold its - seven teenth annual convention at Hoi I drege. October 9 to 12. J. W. Ault, near Wood lawn, hai succeeded in raising quite a crop of cotton, the seeds or which he secured during a recent visit to Oklahoma. St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church at David City gave a reception to Rev. J. R. Gettys and family on their return to David City for th« fourth year. The body of George .larrels, a bach elor 42 years"^id. was discovered it his shanty at Syracuse. His skull ! was crushed in and his throat was cut comrJeccly .across, i The wheChpaf the sugar factory at. Scott* Bluff have begun revolving fat the grind of 1911. The beet crop Is better than expected, being about lit 1 per cent of a normal crop. Rev C. G. Grassmueck and wife o. j Osceola celebrated their silver wed ding last week, aud friends from al over the county gathered to wish them many happy returns. The Normalite, a school publics tion issued by the student body at Peru, started on its sixth year undei most favorable circumstances, with an advance subscription of over 600. Small worms in great numbers ap pe&red in the wheat field of Wilbut Hiatt, northwest of Odell, and aftet working twenty-four hours in the field, destroyed about one-third of it The annual Merrick county corn show, an event w’hich is always looked forward to with interest, has been set for November 15 and 16. this year. As usual, it will be held in ! Central City. Bishop Tihen of the Catholic dio cese of Lincoln will speak in Omaha the night of October 12, the occasion being a meeting of the fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus. His sub ject will be\"Our Heritage, Our Be quest." . The spire of the Teeumseh Pres byterian church was struck by light ning during a recent storm and the shingles badly torn therefrom, but the building did not catch fire. The lightning struck in many places in the city. Wifi Sudman was instantly killed and Charley Hudson seriously in jured at Chappell when the auto in which they were riding skidded on the wet ground, throwing them out and running over them. The first demonstration of the real work of the wireless telegraph in Tekamah occurred last week, being carried out for the government by a squad of soldiers from Fort Crook. N'eb.. under the direction of Sergeant Eaton. The atmosphere was very clear and conversation was carried on with the station at Key West. Fla. Anselmo has started the building of a water works system which when completed will compare favorably with any in the state. Rev. E. M. Furbion. who has just b»en returned to the M. E. pastorate at Hebron, was tendered a reception by the congregation and friends. Jefferson county farmers are busily engaged in sowing their winter wheat An unusually large acreage is being placed in winter wheat this autumn. A man and a woman traveling through the country in a buggy sold a baby for $5 to Homer Howell, a young fanner, residing near Auburn. Civil service examinations will be held October 28, for rural carriers at Gladstone. While playing with n revolver which he didn't know was loaded, “Bunny," the tee-year-old non of Mr. and Mm A. A. Ballard of Beatrice, put a bub let In his leg. which win disable him for tome time. The two-yearold child at C. H. Win hie at Bine 8prlags found mm tnelfhea and set them afire, aad be tore members of the family could re spnod the clothing was nearly burned off the body. It Is thought the child wilt racotat. ; V • -\ • -w. v. ; V union UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOW IN SESSION. MANY CKSES ON THE DOCKET Eight Hundred of Them for Consider ation Which Will Require Until May. Washington.—The supreme court of the I'nited States will convene Mon day at noon after a four-months’ re cess. It will remain in session until the last of next May and will consider as many of the 800 cases now on the docket as time will permit An esti mate has it that the court will dis pose of about 400 cases during the term, but that about 20o additional cases will be docketed before next June. The members of the court have ar rived with the exception of Associate Justice Day. The illness of Mrs. Day has detained him in Canton. O. Chief Justice White was among the first to arrive while Justices Harlan. McKen na. Holmes. Lurton. Hughes, Yande va-ater and Lamar returned in ample time for the opening term. Unlike past sessions, members of the court returned from their vaca tions to meet duties other than the routine work of their offices Chief Justice White and Associate Justices Lurton and Yandevanter are j to complete their work, if possible, at [ an early date, of revising the equity rules of the federal courts. At their | suggestion the circuit judges appoint ! ed committees to recommend amend ments to the rules, which generally are regarded as having outlived their usefulness. Some of these committees : are ready to submit their reports. Others are expected to send in their recommendations soon. These recommendations will be con sidered by the committee of the court and a final draft of new rules prepared for promulgation by the tribunal. Dur ing the summer Justice Lurton spent some time in England learning directly impressions of the English jurists, who recently prepared new equity rules for the contts of their country. "Becaifse of the abolishment on Jan ' uary 1, T913. of all Circuit courts of the United States, leaving only the dis trict courts, the court of appeals and the supreme court, it will be neees- \ sary to revise the rules governing pro cedure in the supreme court. It is be lieved the court will not only revise them to meet the abolishment of the circuit courts, but it will modernize them in many ways. * A long list of important cases, sec ond only to the great Standard Oil and tobacco cases, will demand the court’s attention during the first month of its session. Three cases involve alleged violations of the Sherman anti-trust iaw. These are the suits against the principal anthracite coal carrying rail roads and coal owning companies and against the railroads operating the bridges over the Mississippi at St Louis. — —— — WINS AVIATION PRIZE. Lieut. Hans Gerieke the Successful Man. Kansas City, Mo.—In winning the James Gordon Bennett trophy in the internationalballoon race which stan ?d from this city Thursday. Lieuten ant Hans Gerieke, pilot of the Berlin II, was lost to the world for the third ame. The Berlin II landed in the wil ierness near Holcomb. Wis.. at 7 j’clock Saturday morning, thereby traveling seventy-five miles further :han its competitors in the race. For three days he was entirely lest to the world. Contractor’s Body Found. Cleveland.—The body of Domas Pe jeau. 62 years old, a wealthy contrac tor, was found in a new house which be was completing on Clifton boule vard. Hts skull had been crushed. Capt. Cook Resigns. Washington.—The resignation of Captain Frank A. Cook, recently court-martialed at San Francisco for conduct unbecoming an officer, h'as been accepted by tbe president, it was announced at the War department on the 6tb. Earthquake Recorded. Washington.—An earth shock, esti mated to have occurred at a distance of about 2,600 miles from Washington, was recorded at the Georgetown uni versity observatory. Bomb in Chicago Bakery. Chicago.—Excitement was caused here by the explosion of a bomb in the rear of the bakery of Charles Sachs on the south side of the city. Xo ar rests were made. Observe Peat Riley’s Birthday. Indianapolis, Ind-—The first general observance of Jamas Whitcomb Ri ley's birthday anniversary was held FVidny in every Indiana school, in recognition of the honor, the “Hooaier poet” issued greetings to his children friends. In Hands of Woman. Topeka, Kan.—The entire admini stration of ^aaaewell. 'Kan., in the hands of yromea appears now to be the plan of Mr*. EHa Wilson, mayor of the town. BABE’S TOMB FOUND RATTLESNAKE DEN Cannot Change Resting Place of Child Until Colony of Rep tiles Is Exterminated. New Orleans. La.—A battle to the death with a den of rattlesnakes wi!1 be necessary before a baby's grave ran be removed from beneath the crumbling ruins of Fort McComb, neat here, when workmen begin their oper | ations next year preliminary to the \ erection of the proposed $75,000 clut I house of the Louisiana Motor league The site of the old fort is a wild i and weird spot. The moss-covered I structures have crumbled away, leav | ing the large rooms, areaways, tun Snakes Infest Tomb. i nels and underground chambers to the hundreds of venomous reptiles, spi iers and lizards. In the shadow of the wails of the fort a plain white headstone marks ihe grave of the infant* of Sergeant i Smith, which was bom in 1888 and j lived five weeks. A single . plank I serves for the primitive dra vis ridge : ikat once aided soldiers hi. crossing .he moat, now a ditch of mud the wa ;er teeming with slimy moccasins Rattlesnakes, seven feet long, with innumerable rattles, have been killed recently by fishermen near the ^ort. It is said that if a stone is thrc -n intc 1 the “chamber of death,” where the big tattlers have their home the sounds oi hissing and the shirring of rattles re semble the noise made by arousing s monster swarm of bees. - - - 1 - CRAB BITES FAMILY GUEST Tethered tt> a Table Leg, Hia Crab ship Starts Something During Dirv ner Hour. Chelsea, S. I.—Do not let your little boy make a living toy of a hard shell crab, you can never tell what will happen. John Kane, Who lives on Decker avenue, caught some hard shell crabs and his son John, five years old. appropriated the largest one. tied a string to It and amused himself by watching it crawl back ward. When he wearied of this amusement small Johnnie tethered the crab to a leg of the dining-room table and soon forgot all about 1L Kane had his brother-in-law. William Tennyson, to a crab-meat supper. Crab Bites Guest. Suddenly Tennyson let out a yell sprang Into the air, tipping the table onto two legs, and bopped around tbe room. “Whafs the matter, William?" cried Mr. and Mrs. ' Kane, who feared Tennyson had gone mad. "A scorpl on! A scorpion! It stung me! I'm a dead man!** shouted Tennyson. "Oh, that’s my crab!” exclaimed Johnnie do lightedly. “I forgot about it. Give it to me.” His papa “give it to him”— where it would do the moat good. Kata SB Corn Ears at Bitting. Boston, Maas.—Another world’s rec ord was smashed by Charles W. Gild den, champion enter, who, in a res taurant devoured 5S ears of con in one hoar and 65 minutes. GIRL IS HELD FOR' INCITINGA MOB Nebraska Young Woman Charg ed With a Cruel and Most Unusual Crime. PLOTTED A LYNCHNG Four Ranchmen Hanged Her Sweet heart, and It Is Said the Girl, Be lieving She Would Get $7,000 Insur ance. Planned It. Valentine, ,\'eb.—Eunice Murphy, of this place, the girl accused of having incited a mob to hang her fiance in order that she might inherit his lift insurance, has been held for the dis trict court. The presiding judge de dared that Miss Murphy is just as guilty as the men who took her sweet heart to a tree and hanged him. Silent to all but her attorneys, de spondent, but dry-eyed, Miss Eunice Murphy is composedly waiting in bet jail cell the day when she shall be called to trial as accessory "to the atrocious murder of Charles Sellers her suitor. • To all appearances an unsophisticat ed country girl, the young woman is intelligent enough to keep quiet about her affairs. She is charged with incit ing her fiance, George Weed, his brother Alma, her const!! and former fiance, _iarry Heath, and her brother KennetP Murphy, to their cruel at tack upon a man who had for three years sought her hand In marriage Avarice Is alleged as the motive. Thus are all the dements of a melo drama present in her case. Taking advantage of them, she might, with a newspaper interview, clothe herself with all that morbid glamor so dear to a sensr.tion-Ioving public. Vet she prefers to keep her own counsel, re fusing to make fhe simplest state ments about the affairs and referring all questioners to her lawyers. The hanging of Sellers. June 18, by some of his neighboring ranchmen The Hanging of Seller*. near Cody, Neb., created a sensation for a time, but when four men charg ed with the crime were put in jail and bound over to the district court, the excitement subsided. Now it 19 charged by John M. Tucker, county attorney, that Miss Murphy Incited and procured the murder of Sellers her alleged motive being to get pos session of |7,000 of insurance policies and considerable personal property which she is said to have believed would be bequeathed to her upon the death of Sellers. At the time of the killing of Sellers, it was rumored that one man in the party that hanged him to a telegraph pole was Inspired by jealousy, he be ing a sqitor of the girl. Hutch Jack and Sellers, who lived together, were awakened one night by a knock on the door by George B. Weed. Jack knew Weed and invited him into the house. Weed had said be was making a social call. Weed asked Sellers, who was In bed in an adjoining room, to get up and come Into the room where Jack and Weed were, but Sellers excused blmself by saying be was not feeling well. Fif teen minutes later, Jack says, a party of men, composed of Kenneth Murphy, Harry Heath and Alma Weed, came to the Jack home. They were armed and they covered Jack and command ed him to remain in the room where he was. George Weed told Sellers to get np. “We are after you," he said, ac cording to the affidavit of the county attorney. Sellers arose and Harry Heath is alleged to have thrown a rope around his neck and pulled it tight, and George Weed, Heath, Mur phy and Alma Weed are charged with having dragged Sellers out of the house to a nearby telephone pole and hanged him. Horse* In Nail-Studded Car. Savannah. Ga.—For transporting horses and mules lor 90 hours In a ear studded, sides and bottom, wit* heavy nails, which maimed or killed all the animals, a Georgia railway has ben made defendant in a suit for dam ages. The animals had been trans ferred from their original car and were In another which had nails stick ing oat ail around.