••••••••••••••••••••••a** Of» WEEK'S EVENTS Latest News of Interest Boded Down for the Busy Man. • ••••••••••••••••••••Ml Washington 7b» lurmal ha mite Tie lit. < at platinum baa rtaen tc ft*n a pwcsdL 'be highest quotation on recerd. Tbere u» ari a dearth at •be met*! 'bat. afteral ‘ompames targe mn at the metal, are making sm'ernnftkr «9orta toward new diacov erien. The trial at Mayor Eugene Schmitt at tan rnndneo on charges at brib ery epenmd in the Ca.iloraia city, on# at the wftneaaet subpoenaed being Abe Ustf. the ore-time bora now TW Western Brea era Shipping aa aat at the tending trade or in the rolled States. baa It* office at Mil waukee, ft he*eg deemed by come of ^a members, tbat it »*» la notation Theodore Roosevelt In an Outlook editorial warns against mastery of the United Stales by the courts. He ad vocates that momentous decisions of the various state supreme courts af fecting great bodies of people shall not be accepted as Anal until they have been affirmed or overthrown by a vote of the people in the state af fected. •■■■*1,i ' • • _; • Henry Focbt. a Cleveland (O.J. elec trician, who had his back broken in South America and was rushed to the north, has left New York for Cleve land still alive, though paralyzed. Leonard Rliss. the fat man. known .he world over as “Baby." was found dead at his home in Bloomington. III. He was accidentally asphyxiated by gas from a stove. He weighed 575 pounds. * • • Harry Andrews, a striking Illinois Central shopman of Clinton. 111., was tried before Judge Humphrey of the federal court at Springfield and found guilty of violating the order restrain ing strikers from interfering with the men employed by the company. He was sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse at Peoria. Thefts from the large jewelry and silverware stores of New York city have been more extensive in the last few weeks than In any other holiday season in recent years, according to the pol.ee One large establishment elebraied the new year by dismissing IS men from its staff. President Samuel Gcmpers of the I ederation of Labor denies most em phatically that he stood on an Ameri can flag while making a speech at a labor meeting in Oakland. Cal. “I would." he declared, "as lief insult the memory of my revered mother as the flag of my country." Brought before United States Circuit Court Commissioner O- S. Clark, H. Montgomery Dearing. aged cashier of the Albion (Mich ( National bank, and bis son. Parmer M. Dearing, who were placed under arrest at Albion, con fessed that they had forged notes la the came of the bank and of the Cook Manufacturing company, of which the elder Dearing was presi dent and the younger Dearing mana ger. to the sum of $144.0Q0. • • • Foreign. Seven hundred imperial troops were reported killed in a battle with revo lutionists near Hankow, province of Hu-Peh. China. The intpetial forces were evacuating the city when two of their trains were destroyed. From these trains 1,000 troops were making an effort to return to Hankow. • • a American Minister Calhoun at Pe king cent-a cablegram to the United States government at Washington urging that American troops be sent at once to the interior to protect the Chin Wang Tao-Peking railroad. a a a Fire destroyed the Kxcelsior Mptor works and garage. 25 automobiles, a ten house terrace and several small stores and ether buildings located in the southern part of Winnipeg. Man., entailing i> lo.-s estimated ai $200,000. Dr. Sun Yat Sen took the oath of of fice as provincial president of the Chi nese republic at Nanking. The cere mony was simple but dignified. His £rst official net was to change the Chi ese calendar. • • • Sixteen Persians were banged at Tabriz. Persia, by order of the Russian* court mart ial in connection with the re cent attack on the Russian troops. The Russian court-martial is exacting a heavy toil for the casualties suffered by the Russia ntroops. Personal More than 100 Bulgarians and. Croatlans, not one of whom can speak Kuglish. have formed a singing class at Kansas City which will try to learn the national hymns of the United States in the tongue of this land.' v J. W. Yardiey, vice president of the Night and Day hank of Kansas City, Kas . which has closed its doors, says confusion of the institution by its de positors with the American Union Bank and Trust company, formerly the All Night and Day bank of Kan sas City. Mo., and which closed re cently. caused a run the bank was not able to stand. The remains oi the late Rear Ad miral Robley D. Evans were laid at lest In Arlington cemetery. A full military funeral that equaled If ’not excelled any seen in Washington was accorded by the navy department. President Taft, statesmen, warriors and diplomats attended the funeral services as a last tribute to. one of the nation's greatest etna; fighters. Mrs. William R. Day, wife of Jus tice Day of the Supreme court, died at the family residence in Canton, O. At the bedside at the time of her death were all .the .members aT the Day family • • • Miss Anne Morgan's restaurant for workingmen, at the Brooklyn (N. Yi) navy yard, is proving so successful the war department may take it ovei from the daughter of the financier, J. P. Morgan, according to a New York dispatch. • • • Charles H. Lewis, champion double scalier of the world with Edward N. Tea Eyck as a partner, died at Wor cester. Mass., afeer being confined to the hospital for several weeks with stomach ailment. Lewis was thirty five years old. ROMANTIC WEDDING ARDENT LOVERS UNITED IN VES TIBULE OF PASSENGER TRAIN. NEWS FROM OVER THE StATE Wifhat. la Going on Hera and Thera That I# of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska, and Vicinity. Lincoln—Earl Shock of Arapahoe and Miss Rathe! Givens of Weston, W. Va.. both twehfy-one years old. were married in The “vestibule of a' coach on a Burlington train by-Judge Bmce Fullerton- T'he bride came In on the train and Mr-Shock was‘wa'it lng for her with the license, the judge, and two witnesses, one of,them being Earl O. Eager, graduate manager Of athletics at the state .university. Another Victim to Epidemic. Lincoln,—Robert Ewart, ■eighteen months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ewart, died Wednesday evening, the second victim of the epidemic of in testinal disease which swept north east Lincoln. The child was stricken two weeks ago. at the time when a majority of the epidemic cases de veloped. For several days it was dan gerously-ill. But improved somewhat until the list few days. Staplehurst Will Have Power Plant. Staplehurst—A power planf will bo built here by the Jacobs Electrical company, a home concern. A daro will be built on the Blue river sixty feet long and eight feet high, with a wing on each side. It is-the iateotion of the new company , to furnish^ elec tricity for the town of Staplehurst;and surrounding territory. .v Have Remodeled the Church. Bradshaw.—The congregation of the Harmony I’nited Brethren church, near this place, have made extensive repairs and additions! improvements to their church house, converting the old dilapidated room into a modern and most beautiful auditorium. -*.OJd Resident Suicides. > Sewajrd.—Alexander Russnogle, an old resident and well known citir.ee of Seward county, committed suicide at i his home in Germantown by shooting himself , with a shotgun. Death result ed almost instantly. -- , Fremont. — Michael „Gorey, the North Bend man who was shot by Albert Pruyn oT 'that place on Christ mas day. ,died Wednesday evening. He was . fifty years old and unmar ried. P'huyn is now under arrest, hav ing been in jail since the night of the shooting. NEWS FROM THE-STATE HOUSE. Addison Wait, secretary of state,has filed as a candidate for re-election on the republican ticket. *‘:*_*;• ■There is a total'of $527,954.22' of state funds on hand- In the. various state depositories, according to the end-of-t.he-year report, made by State Treasurer George. ' ' L. A. Varner Of Sterling..one of the standpat supporters of ..the recently organized Taft club Iri tlys state, is to come out' for lieutenant governor on the republican ticket. ’ . Although as yet not graduated from Iowa state college at Ames, where he will finish jiext.June, Phintyts S. Shear er., of Marshalltown. Iowa, has been chosen as an instructor in animal hus bandry in the University of Nebraska. Young,. Shearor • graduated from - the high school in 1908. The state prison board has ordered the transfer of Jennie Geiger from the penitentiary to the Hastings asylum. The woman was sent 'up for life for ■murder committed In Kimball county, and' has the halucination that 'shte Is not Jennie Getger, but her slsfer. and Is being held for a crime she; n£ver committed. " ’ : •••' «- , It is said that LaPoliette managers1 intend to copy after the Yeiser peti-. tion, which is signed by tirenty-five persons, and also ‘ send a ■ copy to. Roosevelt to ask him if he desires his name placed on the ballot. It is supposed that Roosevelt has no power to keep his,{igme off the ballot when twenty-five ejectors petition to have It there. Clarence E. -Harman, democratic candidate at the last election