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lOt-P CITY. • NEBRASKA
EPfflE Of EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS that pertain to
Many Sue.ECTS.
ME SHORT Bill IHTEBESTIHfi
C-rief Men* Ml of Aral •* Transpiring
Ip Vinout Sectors of Our Own
•nd Fere gn Cnn'! tt
Cpapre—
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Ware -i- te II.
TW hwiir |<a)«r4 a bill Ki-ltiC lb» ;
prr-oArW pus.-r Ur fruirtr federal
oiui tisrlu
TW WwiPr |it»r4 ibr rivers und
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of S-V^ie.uK#
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St uTft l« pui’lx* lMu> before war- |
ruar |»vsrA <br eesnte.
Kr>nvV« Hr ilaiitui introduced
««u baits tu steel 'terra]tied rnonopo
1} derMUonp of tW »u|«reioe court ,
!.»,-reset, tnl .« ptedtnan «•-< Uueil j
tvsbrfte and bar report rrHi' idi*
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for a na>!tonal primal > la*. provid
ing for U>* brat sa' .••aal primary
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lhorifinie tu rii.uirui iwrtfripanon iu
th* ei|a»tM;os at <\»tUf*>btt» *- C.. ■
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itii kw«> 'i>r "prphbttonar) iude
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fr» U» ri*ar th-- < »U-;diir of ail i***tl
B.ob I**i» at .on this *<-*c
f'-k.riiis Ko.»-r} loid licanc- ' om
it.-''.** . t- u!d **U* t*o )fjr: for
tart* t*». :d to .B • **t .*•»'«• ail r* ned
nt*» of |.n -**.’ tar £ lam.
at Taft asked cottar.-** to
adjourn Utttirfar. ana in
bo4« *''. ad mctnoriul M-ri nm for
ba**.*»h.l> Mats* victims
TV- iMtnut* masrirr commit:** :
decwhd to aj#)*.ict a *nb**HDaaitt*e to I
na>4rr ib* hill to ev’ead Ur Krd
SiaL »<i to «oa! tnis*-o*ti*rj
ris rtnas 1I0-- o' Asr • uiimral d*
»i . vprsdiiare* lomatittf* an
anas 1 iavaotiamtioa :n*o affair* of
Cb» ii~nitarT* so 4 be * lOtic :*4
mil imK* and rotisafar r.*fortn
reprmmtam** advocated Ik for* the |
foreign affair* committ** th* :>«ilz*r ,
bill. Mvntdmc aaainat political af il
lation* ta rusaular a*r»*r*
A mtaurity of tb* Iftrtvlitc font- i
m*rre «usv it;** fl»4 a report
aaatr.*! tb* Piiaai goverutneat bill,
roc th* assessment of tolls j
against American snips mould aid rail
road*.
General,
of Tail » il dominate
11» lataaa stair rog>»i.iluii
TU wow! bill is th. test knotty
truWria 11 it kvttw dta*nii« to
tackle.
Prat* cally til the tmuns of the
m.ne 4tma»**r is Oklahoma h_\c been
accounted lor.
Taltars ty of CaV-ago faculty :uem
U ■ > ir4 their autos* are to tie the
W*e6> lanes of a pension y*t*tu with
as *a<So« meat of iZ.'PJ*'."’*)
At Phi-ad-lphia a tua >|ati.K pro
fe*h.w afnrUMf for a fern perron* to
try out a om rare for sarts. Two
U art answered the ad ten •ruent.
business rues of Nelson. H are
M the i. rye of a panic because of the
•wpp. sed ofenlioei of incendiaries.
Three buildings are belter .-d to have
bene set afire recently
A naieatioa of proposed sdi acres
of freight rate* oa cement by western
railroads, was made by the interstate
Commerce con anas ion from March
3d until September 'A.
At t'hiengo Her John M. McCain
has ordered b>* electric signs for his
church sad parish home. To show
people where we are at night and
what we are doing ~
At Spokane. Wash . Oliver S Orif
t:. sard <a he a professional wrestler.
Is trader arrest charged with being a
fugitive from justice He is canted
at <iareota. Neb., for arson
President Taft promised four sen
ators. Martin of Virginia. Bacon of
lieorgta. Fletcher of Florida and Du
Pool of Iieiaware to look imo the
caae-s of f'e cadets recently dismiss
ed from Meat Point for drunkenness.
Position* as singers in motion pic
ture shows are attracting so many
choir hoys that churches !a Cfcirjgo
are toasidertag in-tailing choir girls.
Owe rtwrrh. the Trinity Episcopal. ai- i
r«ady has substituted » rl« for the
cootr of hays.
The interstate commerce commie
•ion ruled that wood pulp should take
ordinarily a loner freight rate than
lumber
Mbs! is to be the worlds largest
egg has bes laysd by an Elgin. III.,
kea The egg measures eight and a
kvM by six and a half inches in cir
cumference and weighs fifteen ounces.
Mrs Kaialeei. Irslle Doyle I .oril
ls rd wife of Eeckmas Lor’Urrd of
Asheville N C. com twitted suicide in
Nrw York by hanging herself in 'ho
bathroom of the apartments she and
her husband had occupied at the Hol
land house
The ornate military affairs commit
tee added 1.T:>» for equipment of
eosst artillery companies of the mi
tttia.
The mottos of Mrs. Mary A. laven
der to have her mi! against Her. E.
B Crawford of Omtha. forme* pastor
«f her church la Chicago, dismissed
was dernod If «** court.
There were more than a hundred
men killed in a mine explosion in Ok
lahoma.
Vice President Wood of the Penn
sylvania railroad says the steel "or
poration should quit carrier busi
ness.
Pen l ewis, aped business mana
ffer of the Quincy. 111., Journal, com
mitted suicide.
Investigation cf an alleged coal
trust has been undertaken by the
government.
<;-t.--ral Joh.i W. Noble, secretary of
th~ .!*: t -i-ir und - I'r* s.dent Ilarrisor.
dbd in St. IjOu;*.
kliuera at Cleveland rejee'ed a pro- \
po**l of operators to continue at the j
prt-seui scale of wages.
The result in North ! akota is cold J
comfort for political managers of Taft
and Itoosevelt.
The home rule bill Is not to be in
trodund into the house or commons
beiore Easter.
A wholesale dynamite plot was
•! *ait* d. according to the i>oliee, by
the'arrest of six men.
A presidential primary may be held
m Illinois by the ruling of Judge
AA'icdes at Chicago.
The right of the people to rule was
the theme of an address by Theodore
Roosevelt at New York.
Senator l.aFollette is the benefic
iary of the first pnsidf nial primary 1
u> be held in any state.
Prog; democrats gathered in ,
lam »iii at a birthday banquet to do j
honor to Bryan.
'ohn P. White, bead of the united i
r :i e workers, can see no other out
«i-me than a strike April 1.
itor Im Follefte has a substan
a! bad in the North Dakota presi
de atial preference primary.
Tinto is to be no resumption of
mining in Great Britain until the min- j
in uni bill has passed the commons.
If an amendment to the govern
ment camJ bill is adopted, railroad
ouaed ships cannot enter the water- I
way.
The Interstate Commerce commis
si 'i:i ruled that wood pulp should take
ord larily a lower freight rate than 1
lti tuber.
T.e statewide prohibition bill pre- '
; ar- <] by the anti-saloon league of
Maryland was pa .-.d by the house of j
delegates.
rv-nator Smoot introduced a bill for
consolidation cf all federal health
agencies into 'he i nited States public
health service.
A resolution of regret at the res
pur :< n of Dr Wiley offered by Sen
ator Marline, was objected to by Sen
ator Cal linger.
The remains of the heroes recov
■ red from the wrecked battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, were laid
to rest at Arlington.
Woman suffrage and the election
of Vnited States senators by direct
vote were defeated in the .Massachus
etts senate by a clcse vote.
Senator Simmons advocated a
reading and writing test for immi
gran's as an amendment to the Dil
lingham general immigration bill.
.Tame- Hill, railroad builder, paid
$1 for a city Uirectorv of St. Paul.
M on . of Ik." in w : i<-h iiis name ar
•ears ,i> a c lerk in a brokerage office.
Two bills amending the pateut laws
and intended to tneei the "legalized
monopoly' decision of the supreme
•ourt were introduced by Represoma
live Hanna of North Dakota.
Representative Kahn of California
introduced a bill to appropriate
floe/wat to establish a small arms
ta-get range for the navy on the
Pacific coast.
Representative .Icnes cf Virginia
chaoman of the house committee or
insular affairs, proposed "probation
ary independence” for the Philippine
islands from July 4. 1913, to July 4
mi.
At least thirty-two men were kill
ed and parts of their bodies strewn
for blocks around when a big pas
senger engine in the Southern Pac
ific shops blew up at San Antonio,
Texas
Charges tl at railroads of the cen
trai west have discriminated in the
distribution it coal cars in favor of
their own mines are to be investigat
ed by state officials from Kentucky,
Indiana and Illinois.
Senator Cummins of Iowa intro
duced in the senate a nation-wide
presidential primary bill, the effect
of which would be to do away with
local state and national conventions
of the various political parties.
Person *1.
Senator LaFollette is to follow up i
his North l>akoia victory.
Rear-Admiral George \V. Melville I
succumbed to heart disease.
Grover Cleveland s birthday anni- |
rersary was observed in New York 1
city.
Return of Forrjer President De La- :
Hana to Mexico is feared by Mader- j
ists.
Secretary of State Knox is receiv- |
iug a warm welcome in southern
countries.
A. P. Wilder, consul general of the
1'nited States a- Shanghai, arrived at
San Francisco.
Colonel Roosevelt was accused of
bemg too hasty in championing the
New York employers' liability law.
The women's Roosevelt leagtie of
California was organized temporarily
at San Francisco.
Senator Kern sjvoke in favor of
Sherwood ‘dollar-a-day” pension bill
and denounced Smoot substitute.
President Taft insists that there be
no more personalities in the campaign,
so far as his side is concerned.
Governor Marshall of Indiana was
formally launched as a democratic
presidential candidate.
Clark ar.d Harmon men are dis
pleased at the acnon taken by pro
gressive Nebraska democrats at Lin
coln .
Out of a t«tal of 22.106 stockhold
ers of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad. 13.294. or 60 per
cent, are women, trusts and guard
ian*.
Mr Bryan said at Kearney that he
would not go to the national conven
tion as a delegate if Harmon Is the
choice of Nebraska.
Attorney Genera! Wickersham has
decided that a collector o» customs
cannot refuse clearance papers to 9
vessel in which opium has been found,
pending the iiayment of fines imposed
by t>w collectors for alleged smug
sHnr
HORSE'S KICK FATAL
Lincoln telephone girl
TAKES HER LIFE.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and Thera
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Madison—Jacob Bahn, residing six j
miles west of Madison, was kicked by '
a horse and instantly killed, Friday j
morning. He was struck in the chest |
just oxer the heart with such force j
that his body was hurled against the
barn door, breaking it from its hinges. I
Air. Bahn was sixty-eight years ol age !
and leaves a wife and three sons to
muurn his sudden departure.
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To Be Finest in the West.
Hastings—The new Catholic church !
of Hastings promises to be one of the
most beaurilui in the west, according |
to tne plans shown by architects and I
furnishers who have contracted lor
the various parts of the ediflce. One
of the features in the furnishings' of ;
the church will be the altars, for j
which leading altar companies from
all par;s of the L’nited States com
peted.
Forty Pupils Suspended.
Beatrice—Forty members of the
senior ciass of the Beatrice high :
school were suspended for ten days ■
because of their having observed 1
"sneak day" on Tuesday of last week.
In order to be reinstated the pupils I
must apply to the superintendent and i
principal, must take examinations on
t-:e lessons missed during the ten days
and must take all future examinations
offered.
Result of Domestic trouble.
Lincoln—Mrs. Vella Scott, a young 1
marries: woman employed at the Y. 51.
V. A. building as telephone operator,
committed suicide Wednesday night '
by swallowing the contents of an
oux.ce bottle of carbolic acid. The i
act xs thought to be the result of long
brooding over marital troubles.
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Dropped Out of Sight.
Havelock—Arthur G. HaiTis, resid
ing at Twenty-seventh and \V streets, |
disappeared Wednesday, and since j
that time he has neither been heard J
frotr nor seen by friends. He was j
employed at the Havelock shops ct
the burlington. He left home at 6: la ■
Wednesday morning to go to work.
1 hat was the last seen of him.
New High School Building.
( hadron—x’liadron's new west high !
school building has been turned over
to the school board for occupancy,
and 2b0 pupils are made happy in
modern quarters.
Frc-mont—Temporarily insane over
religious suojeets. Morris Christensen,
a car rcpaii'er, heated a poker till it
was red hot and then announced that j
he would kill his young wife and in
fant child. Mrs. Christensen escaped
to the home of a neighbor with her 1
child.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE
A present valuation of *104,000.000 j
has been placed upon the property of
the Burlington railroads in Nebraska j
by the state railway commission's \
physical valuation bureau. The de- ■
partment estimates that it would cost
*122.000,000 to replace the property
new. The less amount was arrived at
by estimating depreciation.
Governor Aldrich has. since his elec
tion to the office of governor, received
callers at any hour of the day and
frequently at night, but he finds that
he cannot attend to his official cor
respondence if he continues this prac- i
tice. He has announced that he will I
require one hour, from 9 to 10 in the
forenoon, to attend to correspondence. ;
Only about fifty towns in the state !
are taking advantage of the amend
ment to the Slocumb law, passed last
winter, providing for the submission
of the license question separately and
distinctly from the election of city
officials. according to Superintendent
H. F. Carson of the State Anti-Saloon
league. The annual election in prac
tically every city of the state except
Lincoln and Omaha will be held
April 2.
A monthly bulletin at the expense
of the state will hereafter be issued
by the state board of health. It is
proposed to make Secretary O. P. Fall
or Beatrice editor of the bulletin.
President Hayes of Peru normal has i
been elected a member of the national
council of agricultural education to
represent Nebraska. The council is
composed of one representative from
each state, and will consider wages
and means for bringing this great in
dustry into closer relations with the
schools.
The fifty Oregon trail markers or
dered by the last legislature are now .
completed and will be set in place as
soon as the weather permits. An ad- j
ditional twenty-five markers are being j
planned and will be placed some time i
during the summer. The shafts are
all alike, each one bearing the inscrip- '
tion. "Oregon Trail, marked by the '
state of Nebraska. 1912."
Commandant H. E. lates and regi
mental officers of the cadet battalion '
are making tentative plans for a ca
det encampment about the middle of
May.
Secretary of State Wait has received
a letter from Daniel Chester French. ■
the designer of the Abraham Lincoln
statue, stating that the bronze found- i
ers have hastened the work of casting
and the statue will be completed the
first week in April, so there is no
doubt of its being ready to unveil
May 15 or earlier if the state commis
sion desires an earlier date.
State Superintendent Delzell has i
completed all arrangements for junior !
normal schools to be held at Alliance. :
Alma. Broken Bow. Geneva. McCook.
North Platte. O'Neill and Valentine
from June 3 to July 26,
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Lincoln is to have a city market.
The women of Rosalie have organ
ized a woman's club.
Whooping cough is prevalent iu the
community around Bancroft.
The Keith county fair will be held
at Ogalalla. September 24. 25 and 26.
The Otoe Democratic club has post
poned its fourth annual banquet to
Tuesday, March 26.
Peter Zumbrum, a gardner farmer
living near Columbus, was bitten by a
dog and died within thirty minutes.
Clarkson—The old commercial club
at Clarkson, which has been dormant
the last five years, i.as been revived.
The village council has passed an
ordinance fixing a fine of $25 on any
person conducting a dance hall in
Peru.
William Spraaling. §n old resident
of Auburn, was found dead in his
room, death having resulted from
heart failure.
Farties from Iowa are negotiating
with the Pawnee City Commercial club
for the building of a modern fireproof
hotel for that place.
The case of .Miss Meyer, who sued
Nebraska City for $3,000 for injuries
received in a fall on an icy walk, has
been settled out of court.
Wymore claims to have the cham
pion egg sucker of the state—Harry
( ampbell—who ate twenty-four raw
eggs at one sitting recently.
Mrs. W. Broyhill accidentally fell
from the hayloft at her home near Dr
kota City and sustained several in
juries, breaking two of her ribs.
Word has reached Fairbury that
John Friesen, formerly of that place,
recently committed suicide iu Denver
by drinking a quantity of carbolic
acid.
-no stock toss nas open reported as a
result of the recent storm, nor were
there any trains into Burwell for two
days and mail routes have all been
tied up.
Driven to despondency through his
inability to find work. Alexander Bern
stein. an 18-year-old Omaha boy. shot
himself through the head at his home,
dying instantly.
Mrs. Cyrus Black, wife of former
State Representative Black, editor of
the Enterprise, died at her home at
Hickman after a lingering illness from
Bright's disease.
The recently organized mothers'
club of Wymore will establish a rest
room down town. Popular subscrip
tions are depended on to furnish the
necessary funds.
The first mail received at Syracuse
since Wednesday was brought in from
the east Saturday afternoon after a
snow plow had opened the track on
the line of the Burlington.
The young men of Glenville have
organized a gymnasium society of
sixty members and propose to physic
ally develop themselves as well as en
tertain the Glenville public.
Joseph Hamilton, for fourteen years
county judge in Boone county, and at
one time a member of the Wisconsin
legislature, is dead at his residence in 1
Albion of pneumonia, at the age of
eighty-five.
Grant Mears. sheriff for ten years
in W avue county, who retired volun
tarily last fall, has filed for the re
publican nomination for the office of i
representative in the lower house of
the legislature.
J. Jerabek of Sterling has located a
brother he had not seen for twenty- j
two years and who he thought dead ]
Mr. Jerabek found his brother in busi- I
ness in St. Joseph and he left for :
there at once.
There were 1,441.800 eggs shipped
from Syracuse last year, thirty dozen
to a ease, making 4,0u5 cases: live
puoltry. 123,335 pounds: 34.SSS gal
Ions of cream. 581 head of horses.
7.095 hogs and 1,346 cattle.
Nearly all of the Sterling people
have taken down their base-burners,
as there is a famine in hard coal.
Coal can only be had at one neighbor
ing town, but as the roads have been
almost impassable no one can he
found to haul the coal.
The funeral of Mrs. Hannah Martin
the Tecumseh woman who died at
Pasadena. Cal.. March 1. was held at i
the Christian church. Tecumseh. It !
was conducted by the pastor of the ;
church, the Rev. Rodney McQuary. j
and was largely attended.
i^mcuin—rormer county ireasurei
William McLaughlin of Lanrastei
county died Saturday morning at his
home here, after a long illness which
confined him to his bed for the last six
months. Mr. McLaughlin was 72 years
of age. He has been a resident of Lin
coin for nearly forty years, and one ol
the best known residents of Lincoln.
When Ralph Scott of Lincoln re
turned home for lunch Saturday he
found no one at home, and thinking
it strange, started in to search for hie
mother, who usually awaited him.
Having searched the house, he went*
into the cellar and found his mother
lying dead at the foot and a little to
one side of the steps. lie immedi
ately notified the coroner, who con
ducted an investigation and concluded
that death was dne to a fractured
skull, caused by a fall in descending
the steps.
An epidemic of chickenpox prevails
at Oxford. No severe cases have oc
curred. and comparatively little other
sickness prevails.
After having been without a minis
ter for a year, the Christian church at
Plattsmonth has called the Rev. A. L.
7-ink. who was a pastor at Colorado
City, to the charge.
A petition signed by over nine hun
dred Lincoln citizens has been filed
with the beard of education asking
that the teaching of German be start
ed in some of the ward schools next
fall and that this matter be considered
in connection w ith next year's budget.
Students of the Grand Island col
lege will undertake, with the assist
ance of some experienced workmen,
to build a gymnasium of cement
blocks 60x80 feet in dimension. Work
is to be commenced as soon as the
snow is off the ground.
Last year proved so successful to
growers of sugar beets around Scotts
Bluff that the field men for the factory
are this year swamped with applica
tions for acreage. Last year there
was about 11.000, acres grown, and
this year there is already 15.000 acres
signed up, with others still looking
for arallable lands.
RULES ARE UPRELD
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DECISION THAT RAILROADS MUST
DISREGARD STATE LINES.
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FEDERAL AUTHORITY SiiPREME
The Principle of Justice to All Com
muniiies Is Sustained by a Vote
of Four to Three.
Washington.—The Interstate Com
merce commission in an opinion just
made public established the far-reach
ing principle that a railroad must so j
adjust its rates that justice will be
done between communities regardless
of state lines, if a railroad makes a
low rate upon traffic wholly within a
state, even when forced to do so by a
state commission, it must accord the I
same rate to interstate traffic moving
under substantially similar conditions.
The principle was laid down by a !
vote of four to three. The minority j
held that the powers of congress were i
usurped by the majority opinion and
that the remedy for such a situation '■
should be applied through additional
legislation as in the case of the rail
road commission of Louisiana against I
the St. Louis & Southwestern railway
and other carriers operating between
Louisiana and Texas.
The case practically precipitated a j
conflict between federal and state au
thority over the control of interstate
traffic. The opinion of the majority .
of the Interstate commission, prepared
and handed down by Commissioner
l.ane. is a definite assertion of the su !
premacy of national regulatory an- ,
thority over the powers exercised by ]
any state. It is the first time this as
sert ion has been made distinctly by j
the commission. In making it Chair- ■
man Prouty and Commissioners Clark
and Meyer concurred with Commis
sioner 1-ane and Commissioners Clem
ents. Harlan and McChord dissented.
The proceeding brought by the ,
Louisville commission placed in issue
the right of interstate carriers to dis
criminate in favor of state traffic and
against interstate traffic.
“The gravamen of the complaint." :
the opinion says, "is that the carriers
defendant make rates out of Dallas
and other Texas points into eastern
Texas which are much lower than
those which they extend into Texas
from Shreveport*, La. A rate of 60
cents carries first-class traffic to the
eastward from Dallas a distance of 160 j
miies. while the same rate of 60 cents !
will carry the same class of .traffic '
only fifty-five miles into Texas from
Shreveport.”
Asks Proof of Bryan.
Columbus. O.—Prior to his depar
ture for Nebraska. K. H. Moore, chair
man of the Ohio Harmon campaign
committee, gave out an open letter to |
William Jennings Bryan, in which lie
calls upon the latter for proof of “in
sinuations that Governor Hannon is '
the candidate of Wall street inter- j
ests.”
Crisis This Week.
Cleveland, O.—A crisis in the coal ;
situation, determining whether more i
than 450,000 miners in the bituminous
and anthracite fields shall strike on
April 1 or suspend until new wage j
agreements can he effected, is expect
ed this week.
Stephenscn Will Retain His Ceat.
Washington—Senator Stephenson of '
Wisconsin, whose election has been
under investigation, will retain his j
seat by a safe majority, according to
a canvass made by the regular repub- j
lican leaders, who predict that be- ■
tween forty-six and fifty senators will ;
vote for him.
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Bad Men With Big Guns.
St. Joseph, Mo.—Two armed men
who had terrorized passengers on
Burlington train No. 43 from Kansas
City, were captured by Police Officers
Berenburg and O'Brien after a battle
in the chair car as the train drew 1
into the union depot here.
Taft in Lead in Indiana.
Indianapolis. — According to com- j
plete. but unofficial returns from the
republican primaries held in Indiana '
Friday and Saturday. Roosevelt won
in six and Taft in seven of the con- j
rgessional districts.
Foreign Official Assassinated.
Constantinople—Andre Kepassis E£- j
fendi, prince-governor of the island of
Samos, was assassinated Sunday by a
Greek, who fired several shots at him.
The assassin was arrested.
Vote by Proxy.
Chicago. 111.—Nearly 20,000 Jews
will vote by proxy at the state and
county primaries here April 0. The
date is a Jewish holiday and members
of the faith are forbidden to write.
Going Back to New York.
San Francisco, Cal.—Theodore
Roosevelt, jr„ departed for New York
to take up his duties with the broker- i
age firm there with which he now is
associated. For the last two years he
has been in the carpet business in i
this city.
General J. W. Noble Dead.
St. Louis. Mo.—General John W. No
ble, who was secretary of the interior
in President Harrison's cabinet, died
here on Friday. He had been ill a
month.
Wool Bill by Minority.
Washington.—Republican members |
of the ways and means committee in- j
troduced a minority bill revising the j
woolen schedule of the present tariff
law in accordance with their interpre
tation of the report of the tariff board .
as recently given out.
Women in the Unions.
Copenhagen.—The men's trade un
ions of Denmark have opened their
ranks for the admission of women.
Equal pay will be demanded for wom
en who do men's work.
irVONDERS OF THE DEAD SEA
Interesting Trip Around This Body of
Water Told by Jacob E.
Spafford.
Jerusalem. — An interesting trip
around the Dead sea was made in a
motor boat by Jacob E. Spafford, a
member of the American colon}- in [
Jerusalem.
In circumnavigating the lake four or
five very fertile plains or ghors were
met with. “These plains,” writes Mr.
SpafTord. “naturally bring to mind the
connection of the Dead sea with So
dom and Gomorrah, the ‘cities of the
plain,’ that were overthrown. They
have been variously placed on every
side of the sea.
“These plains and the small oasis
at Engedi are the only points where
life of any kind and water are to be
Defile Leading From River Ammon.
had. This evidently was a little para
dise in the time of Solomon and is
frequently mentioned in the Old
Testament.
“About ten miles from Engedi lies
the peerless natural fortress of Ma-;
cada (Sebbeh), first fortified by the
Maccabees, then used as a place of
refuge by Herod. At the foot of the
tableland can be seen the Roman wall
of circumvallation and the two Ro
man camps on either side of the small
ravine.
“The fortress, which is 1.700 miles
above the sea. has steep sides at about
an angle of 75 degrees and cannot be
approached, except from a connecting
neck called the Serpentine. A more
inhospitable place or one more disad
vantageous to besiegers could not be
imagined.
“Eight miles away is Jebel t'sduim
a mountain of rock salt rising to a
height of 500' feet. In this mountain
is a large cave which was explored
to the extent of about 200 yards, at
which point a tapering cylindrical
shaft of about 20 feet in diameter was
discovered, piercing the solid rock salt
SO feet high, as though through pol
ished marble, evidently the effects of
the rain.
“Great snow white stalactites hung
from the ceiling. The approach to this
mountain presents most fantastic ap
pearances of walls, buttresses, par
apets. projecting towers, etc., caused
by the stratification and lay of the
salt boulders.
"A little south of Masada lies the !
rich Ghor-el-Mixra. Here and else- |
where abound the apple of Sodom de- j
scribed by Josephus.”
CHEESE DENOTES THEIR RANK
Swiss Family Found Without Agee
Variety of Delicacy Is
Scorned.
Lucerne.—The English, the Ger
mans, and the Norwegians are great
con uimers of cheese, but the people
of Switzerland surpass them all. The
cheese of Zermatt is so hard that one
is obliged to scrape It or cut off chunks
with a hatchet, and its use is con.
sidered most Important on all cere
monious occasions. The rank of a
Swiss family is known by the age of
its cheese, and the more affection oi
respect a guest inspires the harder Is
the cheese which is cut in his honor.
It is said that there are families in
Switzerland whose cheeses date from
the first French revolution, and these
are served only at baptisms, weddings
and after funerals.
The larder in every ramilv is guard (
ed with care and the cheese is named j
Upon the birth of a new heir a cheese
Is made that takes the name given
him or her, and that particular cheese
is never under any circumstances cut
until the boy or girl grows up and is
married. On 6uch occasions each oi
the guests takes a piece of cheese
from the bridegroom and from the
bride and drinks to their felicity, the
cheese held aloft —Harper s Weekly.
Girls Steal a Bath.
Fbrt Worth. Tex.—Chief of Police
Renfro and three policemen were call
ed to a barber shop late at night to
arrest burglars. With drawn revol
vers they opened the door of a bath
room where the ’ burglars'* were hid
ing. and were amazed to find two pret-;
ty young women, nude, bathing in the
tub. Feminine screams startled pass-j
srsby. The two girls threw water into
the chief’s face and he beat a retreat, j
£>a'er he arrested them for stealing a
hath. They gave their names as
Miss Kathaiyn Reid ana Miss Jessie
Hoover.
Deposits Savings of 20 Years.
Monticello, N. Y.—Miss Cynthia
Pintler deposited in a local bank near
ly $1,800 in old coins of small denom
inations. the pavings of her brother
luring TO years.
Was Disappointed in Wife.
Chicago.—Held for deserting his 17
rear-old wife, Albert Kosticky de
dared he was disappointed in her, for
American girls were far prettier.
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