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OF A ! 1 WEEK'S EVENTS i . i • • • Latest News of Interest ! • Boiled Down for the • J Busy Man. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a Washington Ai£>ms the run argued before the laienute . omurrrt rum mi as ion was ik* proposed incre ase in railway rate* «n amk rattle and sheep against which various chambers of commerce in the at -die west have protested • • • » J Bryan will be the first wit ness summoned before (he national bouse committee on banking and cur rency to t entity in the money trust" tat *»r cation which the Democratic cam- • repudiating Mr Bryan's de mand for a special committee, re (erred to standing committors of the • • • Five rtg.men's of cavalry were dropped from the army list whea the house at \Yhing^on passed an amend ment to the Ha? military bilL This means the mustering out of hearty OM eni Med men the absorption of *te aCccn into other tranches of the net vice, toe an annual saving in pay ar.c equipment of more than ll.iOO. Mt. • • • Every railroad in the l'u*»«d Sates that i*9..r* free transportation will be j prose* sted by the interstate commerce , nmaiMMM An order ncitifyire ail sa: roads to appear before that body and g ir evidence cn this point has been sent oat. • • • Piw dent Taft's meditations on fill ing the present vacancy in the Su preme »urt were momentarily din turbei by a ccminuts -ation lion the Wonsan Suffrage Association oi the { District of Columbia suggesting that a woman be appointed • f • Intervention 1*/ Mexico by the l ei- ' '•d States is not intended fc» any twi..iuUuR, of troop# that might be mad aga. j along (be southern border. This sajfthe attitude of the state department telegraphed to various dipk^atsr representatives in Mexico v'j Lil complained that intervention talk there was fostering a dangerous anti Americas sentiment. ^ * * * • harie. M Sensab. the steel mag- j Late, lev Bed befor.- the senate fi nance committee, in Washington, that the probable effect of the house Dem ocrat steel bill on larger steel prod ucts would be of most serious conse la t e to the business in the eastern state*, and thst without protection he would east so financial interest in Hear eg of tes'tmony la the scan- : tonal Investigation of Senator Lore caera election has been concluded. Attorney Hsneer * as given permis tsa to file a brief and also prevent a : idea of res adjudira Final action by tbe senate is not expected before Jus*, although tbe preparation of its i report will be begun at once by the ‘ committee s s • Tbe nomination of former Got My- I roe T Herrick of Ohio to be ambas sador to France has been sent to the senate by President Taft. He will suc ceed Hebert Bacon, resigned • • • Secretary of Bute Knox. In a note to tbs German ambassador. m;.ke» pub Be the fact that the Vnlted States has insisted on the reaffirmation of the j open door policy whatever may be the fats of tbs present Chinese empire The Knox note is n warning of hands : •8 to all the powers that seek special aggrandisement la Chinn. • a a Tbe American Numismatic society has presented to tbs American Red Cross at Washington, a series of fine designs modeled by the sculptor. Goaon Borgiam. for medals to be given for meritorieos Red Cross serv ing. • • • Domestic St. Lc..ls physicians received let ters from tbe city health commission er warning them of tbe dangers of an epidemic of meningitis. • • • Cfcauncey Hammond, who in 1910 *u acquitted of tbe (bars# of flea! Inc a I1T.0M pay roll from a Detroit automobile concern, was convicted of ftoaBtr an adMtoailf He will be sentenced later Hammond was ar rested in Co'ambus. O. • • • Charles W Morse returned to New York from Atlanta. Ga . where be baa been bHd a United States prisoner since January. 1910. He will leave In shorn two seeks for Ilad Nauheim, Germany • • • State Auditor of Public Accounts McCullocnb baa filed suit for Sa.ddO tbe Western Union Teiey-upi, *T at WprlnsSfll. III. because _’ boy on n bicycle ran into him. injuring him • • • Shltoh. “the Holy Ghost and Us" entany near Brunswick, lie, has not Cipitulated to Rev Arthur Hersee. went from Vancouver to take Frank W*. Sand ford s -place as i Heroes styles himself itosn tbe Son of Thunder Sixty-two miners entombed in the Bunker Hill mine for 23 hours by a cave-in in the mouth of the shaft at Suter Creek, Cal., were rescued, after desperate work by miners from a near-by mine. None of the men was injured. Several were weak from lack of food, but none will suffer any per manent ill effects. • • • A cordon of policemen and detec tlvea paced the streets surrounding Bellevue hospital. New York, through out the early morning hours to guard an expected attack on the institution by gangsters, who. it is said, weir planning to rescue from the prison ward of the institution a man who waa abot in a street fight January 26. • • • it is announced at The Hague that the third peace conference of the pow ers will not assemble before 1915. It is hoped that the Carnegie palace of peace will be ready for opening about the middle of 1913. • • • The five bandits who held up Rock Island train No. 43 near Hurlburt, Ark., were poorly recompensed for their efforts, according to express company officials. They deny there was a large amount of specie on the train and postal officials say but one pouch of trail is missing. • • • The collier !>eonidas has arrived at Annapolis. Md., loaded with relics of the wrecked battleship Maine, which are to be distributed among rnunicl palitiee. societies and relatives of sur vivors of the Maine. • • • Colon labor officials and agents whom the government bolds criminal ly responsible with the McNamaras and Ortle E. McManigal for perpetrat ing more than 100 explosions which occurred in cities from Massachusetts to California in the last six years, and in which the wrecking of the Los An geles Times building was an incident, were indicated by the federal grand jury at Indianapolis. Thirty-two in dictments were returned. • • • The death rate in New York state for 1911 was the lowest ever recorded, w. !e -he number of births and mar r ages increased substantially, accord ing to the annual report of the state ommissioner of health. The death rate was 155 a 1.000 population, against 16.1 for 1910. Births ex ceeded deaths by 75.300. • • • Arrival of the steamer Devonian with her cargo of 90,000 bushels of potatoes from Liverpool brings the foreign shipments of the tuber Into the port of Boston since December 1 to 330.000 bushels, a new record. • • • Foreign A clash occurred between United States and Honduras authorities at Puerto Cortez. Honduras, over en forcement of a government decree di recting representatives of \V. S. Vai entice to sucrender to the government authorities the railroad, wharf and other properties held under lease by the Valentine syndicate. Seventy-five marines from the United States gun boat Petrel landed and seized the w harf and railroad. • • • Twelve men were killed and five in jun-d by a premature explosion of dy namite in the construction camp of Johnstone & Carry on the Canadian Northern railway near Fort Francis, Ont. The meeting of tlie Interparliamen tary Peace union at Brussels is re garded at Rome as highly important, owing to the decision of the Italian group not to participate and to sever connection with the union if the meet ing insists on condemning the action of Italy in the conflict with Turkey. • • • New s was brought to Victoria. B. C., by the Canada Maru of the arrival at Yokohama of the Teyo Risen Kaisha steamer. Klyo Maru. from South America, without fuel. Chief Engineer Yamashita committed suicide by jump ing overboard. A note he left says he did so to atone for his fault for the fuel shortage. • • • The evening edition of the Novoe Vremya. a St. Petersburg newspaper, sad the Octoherist organ Goiosmesky a Moscow publication, were confis cated for describing Gregory Rasputin, a reputed mystic who is wielding enor mous influence at the court, as "a corrupter of bodies and souls.” • • • Winston Spencer Churchill's incur sion into Ulster, which threatened at one time to cause sanguinary rioting and serious loss of life, ended with out even a broken head. The first lord of the admiralty and John E. Redmond, leader of the Irish nation alists, spoke from the same platform at Belfast on the home rule bill, • • • Tbe king and ]i>een of England ar rived at Spithead from their Durbar trip to a blinding snowstorm. • • • Doctors say that the condition of ; Baroc de Rio Branco, the Brazilian foreign minister, who was stricken suddenly at Rio Janeiro with uremia, has become so critical that his death may occur at any moment • • • Actual Invasion of the Republic of Mexico to protect American interests is being prepared This came fa the | order by the war department at Washington that 5,000 men be held In readiness for a hurry order to pro ceed to the border. Another 5.000 men will be beld in reserve. • • • Personal Free marriage licenses are offered | by County Clerk Singleton of Padu ’ rah, Ky.. to all girls in "Jackson's ! Purchase.** who will make affidavit | upon application that they proposed i to their fiances. This offer stands, the ! clerk says, until February 28. * * * Brig. Gen. Charles H Whipple, pay ' master general of the army, applied I to be placed on the retired list under ; the thlrty-year service law. CLAY CENTER FEED BARN DE STROYED BY FIRE. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and Thers That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Fremont. — Eph Johnson, who dis covered coal on his farm in the north ern part of the county, says further investigation has convinced him that he is in a position to lay claim to the state's offer of $4,000 for a coal vein over twenty-six inches thick, as the vein on his farm is thirty and as much as thirty-five inches thick in places. Below is is a clay like sub stance. Above is a shale, resembling the shale from which cement is made. Twenty Horses Cremated. Clay Center.—A large farm barn belonging to George Schlyck, three miles southeast of here, was burned with all its contents. There were twenty horses in the barn and all per ished but one. A large quantity of grain and other property was con sumed. The cause of the fire is not known. Mrs. Fletcher Sisson Dead. Fremont. — Mrs. Sisson, wife of Rev. Fletcher M. Sisson, pastor of the First Methodist church, is dead here after a protracted illness covering six years. Mrs. Sisson was sixty-one years of age. She was well known through Nebraska and on account of her books, througnout the middle west. Lost Arm in Corn Shredder. Beatrice.—Loren Reimund. aged thirty-three, suffered the loss of his left arm from a corn shredder acci dent. Reimund was feeding the ma chine when the fingers of the left hand became entangled in the feeding j mechanism and pulled in to the shoul der. Neck Broken by Fall. Columbus-rJohn Kipp, night watch man at the water company station at Platte Center, was found dead in the basement of the building, his neck having been broken by a fall. Mr. Kipp was a single man. and had held his position at the plant one year. Omaha —Prof. H. R. Smith, retiring head of the department of animal hus bandry of the University of Nebraska, was the guest of honor of the live stock exchange and other South Omaha interests at a banquet here " ednesday evening. Scores of live stock dealers, who have been acquaint ed with Professor Smith during his service in bettering meat producing conditions in the state, were present. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE. . H. Smith of Seward, secretary of the senate at the last session of the state legislature, has filed as a candi date for the democratic nomination for state senator. As president of the Red Cross so ciety, Mr. Taft has informed Governor Aldrich, ex-officio president of the so ciety in Nebraska, that famine suffer ers in China are in need of aid. it is suggested that the governor may de sire to supplement this appeal by issuing a proclamation. Prof. L. L. Zook, a corn specialist in the department of agriculture at \\ ashington. w*ill visit Nebraska and accompany the seed corn trains, which will tour the state the last week in February. Professor Zook is deemed one of the greatest corn spe cialists in the country. . His visit to Nebraska at this time indicates that the urgency of the seed corn situation is recognized at Washington. In reply to complaints which he has received from citizens over the state. Chancellor Avery has written a letter setting forth his view of the water situation in Lincoln. He calls attention to the fact that the Rice well, now shown to have been re sponsible for the epidemics of dis ease, has .been closed for several weeks and that every effort has been made to check further diseases. These efforts are proving successful, relates the chancellor. State Auditor Barton has received several thousand dollars which offi i cials of the Union Fire Insurance com pany are placing in his hands pending the solution as to its ownership. Three machines for making shoes will be purchased by the state for in stallation in shops at the Kearney in ! dustnal school. The institution in the past has been turning out between 500 and 700 pairs of shoes each year, the product of the hand labor of the boys. All of the footwear used at the insfi tution is made by the boys themselves. State Senator J. A. Ollis. jr„ of Od declares that he will not be a candi ! date for the state railway commission. State Auditor Barton has prepared a statement from records in his office j showing that bonds aggregating $$, | ‘.‘43.030 were registered in his office J from January 1. 1909. to January 1. 1912. He has no means of knowing how many bonds were paid off and j cancelled during that time. He askeu j the legislature to pass a law to re quire counties, precincts and other subdivisions of the state to report bonds paid and the amount of the re maining banded debt. Governor Aldrich has received and will probably accept an invitation to l k® the speaker before the Progressive : Republican league of Cincinnati at its banquet on Abraham Lincoln’s birth day. February 12. Pure Food Commissioner Nels ?. Hansen will test seed corn submitted to his office for examination, despite previous intention to the contrary. The offer of an Iowa company, which will donate the use of two of Its corn testing machines to the state, enabled the commissioner to change hia for r?r opinion. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Beatrice will organize a camp of Spanish-American war veterans. Plans for holding a modern county fair at 7ork next season are under way. The Methodist church at Howe will install a gas lighting system in the building. The Nebraska Retail Hardware Dealers' association will meet at Lin coln next week. A call has been issued in Fremont for funds for suffering Chinese in the famine districts. Harold Lehr, son of Superintendent Lehr of the Pender schools, broke his leg while coasting. Thurston county farmers have or ganized an elevator company with headquarters at Pender. Gage county fruit raisers have taken steps toward the organization of a horticultural society. The Odell farmers' elevator com pany has declared a 6 per cent divi dend for the annual business. Fred Ratcliff has bought the opera house at Gothenburg and will turn it into a moving picture show house. John Russell of Callaway was se verely injured when a heavy piece of steel rail slipped and fell on his foot. John B. Donovan, a well known Ne braska newspaper man, is dead of heart disease at the home of his sis ter in Omaha. Wolf hunts are becoming fashion able over the state and are a means of reducing the volume of a serious menace to farmers. Charles Bachle, a farmer living , near Beatrice, while herding cattle [ was thrown from a horse and sus tained serious injuries. Harry Condron, a conductor on the Union Pacific, was struck by a switch engine in the Fremont yards and will probably lose Lis right foot. The ladies’ aid society of the Meth odist church at Crete has issued the "Crete Cook Book" and created quite a source of revenue from its sale. The Blue Valley Mercantile com pany, wholesale grocers at Beatrice, held its annual meeting and declared a dividend of S per cent on common stock. The Commercial club at Kearney was host at a "get acquainted” ban- ; quet which was given for traveling j salesmen who make their home in that place. About seventy were pres- | ent. The Malmo cornet band, assisted by the Prakup orchestra of Waboo. gave an enjoyab!* concert at the 1 former place to a big house and con siderably augmented its exchequer thereby. A fife and drum corps of twenty five pieces belonging to the National Association of Civil War Musicians, will be one of the attractions at the Grand Army encampment at Beatrice in May. A petition is being circulated among the business men of Hastings asking the city council to take the ! initiative toward securing for that place the municipal ownership of a gas plant. The committee in charge of the Grand Army of the Republic encamp ment, which will be held at Beatrice in May, is making arrangements to . have Daniel E. Sickles of New York attend the meeting. Following the snow fall last week ; each member of the Fremont council appointed himself a self-constituted policeman to see that the ordinance relative to the cleaning off of side walks was enforced. Business men of DeWitt are con templating the organization of a stock company with $10,000 capital for the purpose of building a dam across the Blue river in order to furnish light and power for the town. Chris Spaas, a section hand at Fre mont, failed to stop work just when "time” was called and was hit by a passing train. He is now in a hos pital. victim of his ineonoclasm in shattering a long established prece dent. The steel for the extension of the Kearney and Black Hills branch of the Union Pacific from Callaway to near Gandy, the county seat of Lo gan county, is now being unloaded. The Bridge gang has completed its wcrk as far as Arnold and the lay ing of the steel will begin March 1. The Southwest Nebraska Teachers' association will meet at McCook, j March 27, 28 and 29. The best meet ing for many years is being planned. A contractor estimates that should the month of February prove a fa vorable one. there are 300 to 400 men in Hastings now idle who will be able to secure work again. After a life of hard work, in which Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McKain of Lin- ! coin have participated, the couple have fallen heirs to a legacy of $15,000 left them by the death of a sister of Mrs McKain. . According to Chairman Strader who is in charge of the movement tc secure a half million dollar endow ment for Wesleyan university, scores of responses and words of encourage ment are coming in from all parts ol the state and he feels quite sanguine as to its successful result. Jefferson county farmers are ex periencing unusual trouble with wolves this year. The animals are plentiful and very bold. Mrs. Casper Sands, one cf the old est settlers in the eastern part ol the state, died at her home in Ne braska City, Sunday. Her funeral ! took place from the St. Benedict Catholic church. One death, a twenty-year-old daugh ter. resulted from the trichina poison ing in the family of Fred Nickel, neat Central City, who were stricken about j a month ago as the result of eating poorly cooked pork sausage. Nearly 200 were present at the third annual banquet of the Plattsmouth Commercial club, and many speeches were listened to with interest. Prof. George Martin has tendered his resignation as superintendent of the public schools at Nebraska City to accept a situation at the state univer sity. J. E. Beltier, manager of the Ne braska Indian baseball team, has made arrangements for a three-week camp training at Crete. Manager Beltaer said he was expecting re cruits from California. Minnesota western Nebraska and Oklahoma. CONGRESS FACES A BIG WEEK OF BUSINESS. ALL EYES ON THE CAM Tariff, Arbitration, Senatorial Elec tions, Agricultural Disputes and Other Matters to Consider. Washington.—Congress will work this week with the tariff, arbitration treaties, senatorial elections and army and agricultural controversies. Republicans and democrats are looking sharply- ahead to the coming national campaign. The presence of presidential candidates on both sides of the capitol lends keen interest to the increasing congressional activity. Both parties in the house are tilting for advantage, with nearly every move aimed at the effect on the polls next November. The problem in the senate is the exact position which the progressive flank of the republican party—the balance of power in the senate at this and the recent extra session—will assume when the test comes on the steel bill and ou the! other tariff revision measures which will be sent over by the democratic house. The exoneration of Senator Steph enson from the charges of corruption in the use of 1107,593 in the primary which resulted in his election will be rejtorted to the senate, possibly Mon day. Senator Heyburn. chairman of the subcommittee which conducted the inquiry, will make the majority re l>ort. House democrats will caucus this; week on the chemical tariff revision bill which would reduce duties on chemicals used in paints and for other common purposes, but raise the tariff on soajts, perfumes and other luxuries. But before the caucus the house is existed to dispose of the army appropriation with its train of controversy over army revision and consolidation and following that the agricultural appropriation bill will be taken up. The senate finance committee will resume its hearings on the hcuse steel tariff revision bill on Tuesday. The j hearings may continue two weeks. ; The bill will be negatively reported by | the committee. The house will be busied during the ' week with its variety of investiga tions. including the Florida Evergla des affair and the money trust by the banking and currency committee. Taft Headquarters Open. Washington.—At a conference be- i tween Charles D. Hiles. secretary to | President Taft, and Representative ; Wiliam B. McKinley of Ilinois plans j were completed for the opening Mon ; day of a Taft headquarters in a down- j town- hotel. The headquarters will be known as the Taft renomination bureau and Mr. McKinley will assume charge as director. Wreck of Maine Floats. Havana. Cuba.—The wreck of the ; Maine floated free of the mud Sunday j night when water was turned into the dam surrounding the wreck. The water within the dam is about four teen feet below the harbor level at , low tide. It is the intention Monday to , admit the water more rapidly, so that by nightfall the wreck will be raised to the harbor level leaving nothing more to be done except to break the dam and float out the ship. Deputy Warden Killed. Lincoln. A'eb.—As the prison chap lain was about to pronounce the ben ediction at the close of the Sunday morning chapel service at the state penitentiary, Albert Prince, a negro 1 under sentence for assault with in tent to kill, stabbed to death Deputy Warden E. D. Davis. The warden re ceived six wounds, three of them se vere gashes in the abdomen. Davis died Sunday night at 11:45 o'clock. Roosevelt Gets Medal. Paris.—Theodore Roosevelt. ex president of the United States and big game hunter, has been awarded the special grand medal of the Society d'Accimation. Halbert Switches to Roosevelt. St. Paul, Minn.—Hugh T. Halbert, who resigned from the board of diree- ; tors of the Minnesota republican league following the board's endorse ment of Senator Robert W. La Fol j lette for the presidential nomination before the Chicago convention, an nounces himself for Roosevelt. — New Ambassador on «sy, because he was a "carpetbagger.” Mr. Samuel thereupon promised to live in the division if he were success ful, and bills were immediately posted that “if Herbert Samuel is returned next Tuesday he will come to live here.” Some of the other side, however, posted one of these bills on a pigsty. Mr. Samuel did not win the election. —London Telegraph. The Difference. "After all, there isn't much differ | ence between the editor and the office boy.” "You're joking." “Not at all. The editor fills the . waste baskets, and the office boy emp j ties them.”—Life. Bostonese. Hokus—So that Boston girl said I wasn’t worth my salt, eh? Pokus—Well, she did remark that you were in inverse ratio to our chlor ide of sodium.—Puck. Damp One. Mrs. Suburbs—I'm going down cel lar. Suburbs—Well, bou voyage.—Har per's Bazar.