Nebraska Newspapers

    The Loop City Northwesters
S. W BCKLE3GH. Publisher
LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA
rpITOilF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ME SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Meet ten of What is Transpiring
la Various Sections of Our Own
and Fore 9" Countries.
Congress.
Tbe boose passed Par.-tra cucal
COieraBJeo! bill, I« to <1.
Tbe senate pensions comm.r re re
ported annual appropr.-iitti. biil car
ry ms SlSASMt.bWt.
Tbe bo us i Judiciary i.mauti**
continued its intestication Into • targ
t» anainst Judce Arrbba.d
W P Boland t« - lifted left:« tbe
boose Judiciary ronnitlc :tieic.;ca:
iN riarsH aaainst Judce Arcsfanld.
Senator Cranford spe te favor.&p a
eaastttaUonal amenctaetit te fix terms
lor superior court judge* to tec
;enra.
In the senate Senator Bose, b
spot, ertti' »ed tbe metbe-c* of tbe
aepubima presidential nomination
aspirants
Senator Smith acnounrec re woaid
file Titanic taveeticatiBC totem.nee*
teport next Tuesday when he uojid
i peak sa the » object.
Senator Cranford introd-red a pro
posed osasritatMmai imcotust to
mit terms of federal judge* of t.ten
or courts to tea years
Charyes of eftrnl miarcsdnet by
E Q Valentine. Indian ctMBxt:«M« her.
were renewed before tbe interior
department expenditure* committee.
la tbe boon*, by n vote d 117 tc
IN tbe pm tsioa in Panama bill re
fursy an tolls be rhsry'd roast m-<se
senseis pansinc through cant! *as re
•atharued- Senator Snort to report
adverse-ly the boose noci tariff revi
sion toll aad announce that a sabsai
tafe arum- invld be framed.
Report* of the majority aad xiaor
fty of the Larimer tavostigatiag ccro
m tte was subasit'ed; majcr:*y up
holding Sma'or Ijoriater* fight to re
tain tie mat; minority coed etna lag
fete
la the bouse Representative Aiken
Introduced muilntioa d:rec*ic-n Sec
retary Wilson to report tire xno-tine
as under shirk his mm »a* a**»*•->.tied
to pasatfoa siti a Colorado irrigation
mmpsay.
An an rto* at for a vote os the
meant tariff toil next Monday *a* car
maty f exd in the senate a* tbe re
sult af object*** by Senat; r Hey: ora
af Idaho, folios nr a lively tariff fit
Genera!.
hndes.1 Taft is confident cf U *ose
vei: * defeat
Roosevelt and Harmon are pro
nounced high m*a in Ohio.
There is no adjourstnent ye: in
a-gfit for '-eagres* The *et.ate is tied
ap lor a long time.
George W. Parkins suggests that
all letters an prosecution ci the tar
totcr trust be made public
Champaign >o selected tor the
seventeenth annual meetine of the
Il'inou Congregational conference.
The proposed amendment to the
eaastitutwa pr»< iding for direct elec
ta* af senator* has bees mailed to
the governors af the states by Secre
tary Knox
Ecprrimen* tag to find ways to
make a aane Fourth of July in New
York attractive. Mayor Gay nor* cox
mittee arranged a sample electrical
display on Riverside drive.
A fight is on in the Chicago board
af edaeaiioa to retire school teachers
and principals of advanced years.
They Mark the education of thou
sands of teacher*, is one contention.
Francis i McConnell, president of
lie Pas* university. Greencastle.
Ind. is the fifth bishop to be elected
at The present session of the general
conference of the Methodist Episco
pal charch
Ofhdaln of the Scbeniey iPm.1
Distillery rxsptt;. two of wboee
warehoaaes mere h«roj<d in one of
the moot tptcunhr Sres ever seen
td the Allegheny volley, mid the loss
would approximate ShMU.fthO.
At Bon Francisco. John Martin,
■tilhownlr* clubman, wax* made de
fendant >a a anit for $;<*•*•<«. dam
age* died by Ed* in V. Smith, a
wealthy business man. who alleged
Shat Mania ' at ole hi* wife.
Word *a» received at Halifax by
the White Star oWciala that the
•tea mer Mutrtmagsy bad been unable
to ted aay more boo.es from the Ti
tanic disaster and that she win rt
tsrtict is Halifax.
Warren * Stone of Cleveland,
grand chief of the brotherhood of lo
comotive engineer* since 1MJ. was
re-elerted far six ysert Bat one bal
lot «as tahea. and Stone had mi many
of the T»1 votea east that the eiet
tkoe on* made imaaimoo*.
Two thward members of the
grand lodge aad Rehalmh assembly of
(he I. O O F met at Be Lcsit for
their acnaai convention.
James A. fWersor. of Minneapolis
•aanani i i his eaadidac-y tar the
failed Stales sens'# to socreed Sena
tion Nelson at the September pri
Anrrx* • demand for the luxuries
cf life ha* not d miaished with the
ever mounting com of necessities. Ar
ticles listed as "luxuries" imported
Sato this ceaatry daring the Bocal year
coding Jaae 3* wtil exceed n value
tS»>.MBJBB.
The Episcopal church of Iowa will
Jain the inter-church fed* ration,
which will iarinde seven denomina
thcr ia the state
Lawremee L O Briea was sentenced
at Mexico Ctty to suffer lb- death
penalty for the murder a year aao of
Hr. Hal f. Clack, a date tat, by atari
Manager Dixon said the result in
Ohio made certain the nomination of
Roosevelt.
The senate committee on commerce
reported favorably the bill to permit
the construction of a bridge across
the Missouri river at Council Bluffs.
The British bouse of commons ad
journed to June 4. >
Houston. Tex., had million dollai
fire in business seection.
The Ohio contest will be fought
over at the coming state conventions.
The Presbyterian general assembly
took a strong stand against the liquor
traffic.
There will be an early report by
•he senate committee on the Titanic
j disaster.
President D. B. Perry of Doane
Neb > ccliege, died while traveling
.n the east.
Secretary Hayward is making up
the rc!' cs.il of the republican nation
, al convention.
The bouse voted against levying of
to Is on American-owned coast
wise steamers.
Koos-etelt said there would be no
on.i remise at the republican nation
al contention.
Senator Root of New- York will be
"eiuj^ rary chairman of the republican
national convention.
Francis J. McConnell, president of
Depaw university, was elected a
Methodist bishop
Senator Oliver said the pending
metal revision bill was to the liking
of the steel corporation.
President Taft sent to the senate
the com.nation as rear admiral ot
Capta.n Frank E. Beattie.
Prediciticn of Roosevelt domination
and a reign of mob law was made in
■he house by Dies of Texas.
At Santiago. Cal.. C. H. Tolliver and
w.fe were murdered Saturday. Tolli
j ver was a well known airship inven
tor and builder.
Robbers entered the bank of Car
| re;. Oti and escaped w<th booty
amrunt.ng to about $15,000. secured
< by the blasting of the safe
In Paris. 506 Midinettes. as the mil
j liner apprentices are called, have
formed a union for better pay, short
er tours and more regular work.
John Wesley Hoyt, former terri
torial governor of Wyoming and for
•he last twenty years chairman of the
national university committee, died.
Miners of district 13. comprising
j low* and the north tier of counties in |
Mi--c .iri. will vc.:e May 23 on the ten
•at e agreement reached at Des
! Mottles
Dr T. F Henderson of Brooklyn
ant. W O. She parti of Chicago are the
r.e-. bishops of the Methodist ‘Episco
,-ai -onf. recce elected on the elev
| cBth ballot
i i:r .rut: duu:i ui miiuiua v«uiwuv ;
so .eties of Illinois elected as presi- I
dent Lit J A. Bauer of Germantown
a no ‘elected Decatur as the next con
vention city.
The supreme court cf Missouri con
tinued the application of the Stand
ard O:! company for a modification of
the judgment against it until the ;
October term.
ilr. Roosevelt's comment on the se
lection of Senator Root as temporary
1 chairman of the republican conven- j
j tics contains a significant reference
I to the convention of IS84.
The German reichstag passed to
the th.rd reading of the bills increas- j
t g 'he German army and navy. The
navy bill provides for an extra battle- !
*• .p squadron, with three additional
lattloshii*s and two cruisers.
The inexplicable fact that many
holders of I'nited States bonds fail
to present their interest checks for
payment within any reasonable per
.od. caused Secretary MacVeagh to ;
place a limit upon the time in which
these drafts can be cashed without
encountering delay.
Heavy losses by Japanese troops in !
Formosa occurred April 2?. according
to mail advices brought by the Awe 1
Maru. Working toward a native
camp, the Japanese forces were am
bushed and the commander and manv
men killed. Another detachment sent
to Hak Ku also was ambushed.
Resolutions protesting against the
Itassage by congress of the Dilling
ham Immigration bill were adopted at
a mas* meeting in Chicago attended
by college professors, clerymen and
laymen. It was declared that if the
bill became a law. no political refugee
from Russia would be safe from de
portation.
The members of the subcommittee
on arrangements for the republican
national convention adjourned in Chi
cago without naming a temporary
chairman for the convention. After
adjournment Secretary Hayward an
nounced that the committee had de
etded to leave the selection of a tem
porarv chairman to Harry S. New
chairman of the subcommittee.
Personal.
President Taft will succeed himseli
! as elective member of the Yale cor
j poratien.
Married 56 years ago. Joshua Jones
and his wife died of pneumonia on
! the same day at Pittsburg.
Enemies of Judge Archbald are
accused of plotting to discredit him.
James M. Lynch has been re-elect
ed president of the International
Typographical union.
Champ Clark has a solid delegation
from Iowa.
Wyoming republicans declared for
Taft and democrats for Champ Clark.
John Stevenson, a protege of Car
negie. told how be sold steel proper
ties at a profit
Madame Coretta Found, who claim
ed to be the smallest midget in the
show world, was killed in a runaway
accident at Kankakee, 111.
Representative Underwood, demo
cratic leader, announced that the pro
gram for the adjournment. June 15,
mast be carried out as far as the
bouse was concerned.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
appropriation committee charged that
members were guilty of petty graft
ing.
Leo Blakeman. a freshman student
in Iowa university, was drowned
while swimming in Iowa river.
Mr*. Frank J. Mackey, wife of the j
famous polo player, horseman and
millionaire broker, died recently in
i London.
The name of Major Archibald W.
j Butt President Taft's aide, who went
i down with the Titanic, has been for
mally dropped from the United States
. krmy parrel’.
YOUNG m A HERO
ACCIDENTALLY KIBLED BY HIS
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BROTHER.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What it Going on Her* and Ther*
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Broken Bow—Through the heroism
of a 9-year-old boy, the little son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harbaugh of this
city, was saved from drowning. Three
little boys, one of them being the son
of A. L. Ford, went to the Swope ice
pond in the afternoon to fish. Becom
ing tired of the sport, the 3-year-old
Harbaugh boy climbed to the top of
the ice chute and. losing his balance,
slid down the incline into deep water.
Without hesitation the Ford boy
jumped into the water and with great
difficulty succeeded in getting his
little companion to shore.
Killed in Auto AccidenL
Arlington—Joseph Bruening of St.
James, a well-to-do Nebraska farmer,
was killed Sunday afternoon in an
automobile accident. The machine he
was driving turned over while going
down a hill in the vicinity of his
home. He was thrown some distance
and his neck was broken. Mr. Breun
ing was an old resident of Cedar
county and leaves a wife and ten
children.
Boy Shot by Brother.
Falls City—Sherman Wiltse. the
six-year-old son of Clarence Wiltse.
Thursday morning was shot by a 12
yeax-old brother with a .22 rifle. The
bullet entered the left temple. He died
about noon. The brother was shooting
English sparrows and Sherman unex
pectedly ran in front of the gun and
received the bullet. Physicians were
called, but w ere unable to do anything.
To Build Line of Their Own.
Bethany—Dissatisfied with the re
sults of their fight made against the
Omaha. Lincoln & Beatrice interurban
street railway, citizens of Bethany
have organized a corporation to be
known as the Bethany Traction com
pany and will build a street car line
from that suburb to connect with the
state farm line of the lancoln Trac
tion company.
Hastings Juniors Disciplined.
Hastings—The junior class of Hast
ings high school attended classes all
day Saturday, the first occasion of its
kind on record here. It was by the
order of Principal Mitchell and a di
rect result of the junior '•sneak" of
last Tuesday when the third class, in
imitation of the seniors, took a class
holiday.
Knights of Columbus Banquet.
Hastings—Over 300 Knights of Co
lumbus attended the initiations and
banquet of Hastings council. No. 1133.
Thirty-eight candidates were initiated
in the morning and afternoon, and at
night their admission to the order was
celebrated with a banquet at Fraterni
ty hall. _
STATE BASE BALL NEWS
Beatrice lost to Humboldt Satur
day. 9 to 5.
Parrott and Balderson have been
released by Superior.
Catcher Wacob of Wichita will play
with Superior this season.
"Ducky" Holmes' bunch in the Mink
league is playing good ball.
Saturday games at York will be
called at 3 o'clock hereafter.
Not a Kearney hitter reached sec
ond in the game at Hastings Saturday.
Beatrice Mink league players claim
to be in fine trim and are looking for
scalps.
Manager Bennett of the Fremont
Pathfinders says York has the best
ball park in the circuit.
In an exciting game at Falls City.
Monday, the first of the series. Beat
rice was shut out by a score of 4 to 0.
Beatrice has added an additional
catcher, who will also play first, and
the team is otherwise being strength
ened.
The Hastings-Grand Island game
scheduled for Hastings Sunday was
transferred to Grand Island, and the
local team was defeated 10 to 5.
The Hastings management has
made a special admission fee of 10
cents to the boys of the city.
Pierce expects to open the baseball
season about June 1. Last year when
the club disbanded it had won the
greatest percentage of games over all
the teams in northeastern Nebraska.
George Harms, the hard-hitting
right fielder, broke up Monday's Hast
ings game in the last half of the
eighth inning by sending the ball over
the left field fence after two runs had
been scored and one man on third.
Although Columbus got thirteen hits
ofT Wright in Monday's battle at York,
the visitors were only able to win by
a score of 2 to 1.
Manager Dorsch of Superior has
lined up his men in better shape, and
with the two new men. Hasier and
Kerr, he has a much stronger team
than at any time since he has been
training his recruits.
Superior lost to Grand Island Mon
day by a score of 7 to 4. Good work
in the outfield by Stuaft and Krusa of
Superior and the hitting of Hodges,
getting four successive hits in five
times up. were the features.
Badura sprained his shoulder in the
York game Saturday. He slipped and
fell when making a dash for a fly.
The Fairburv and Hebron baseball
teams played a warmly contested
game at the Fairbury city park dia
mond Monday, and a large crowd of
fans w$re on hand to witness the first
game of the season. Each team
worked hard to win. but it was a one
sided affair in favor of the Fairbury
players. The work of Galen Sitler,
pitcher for Fairbury. was responsible
in a large measure for its success.
The score was 15 to 0 in favor of
Fairbury.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
The Nebraska Press association
will meet at Lincoln. June 3, 4 and 5.
The Nebraska dental' association
will meet at Lincoln the last of the
week.
Twenty-one students will graduate
from the Tekamah high school this
week.
The Seward Cold Storage and Ice
company started making ice with its
new plant.
Rev. A. A. Brooks of Hastings will
deliver the memorial address for the
G. A. R.'s at that place.
A move has been started for macad
amizing the road leading from Fre
mont to the Platte river bridge.
At a meeting of Broken Bow citizens
it was decided to celebrate the Fourth
of July this year on a large scale.
Mrs. Conrad Schlatee. eighty years
of age. of Plattsmouth, is in a critical
condition from a stroke of paralysis.
The public school at North Bend
i has been closed by order of the board
of education because of a case of
scarlet fever.
The Central City school district is
sued $55,000 in bonds to provide funds
for tbe building of a new high school
and a new ward school.
The village council of Peru has
been reorganized with R. \Y. Kellev
chairman. Frank Martin clerk and
Earie Fioher. treasurer.
William Groteka. residing near
North Bend, is critically ill with blood
poisoning, which developed where his
rubber boot rubbed his heel.
Charlie McCarthy and sister. Kate,
of Hebron were passengers on the ill
fated Titanic. Only the sister's name
appears on the list of the saved.
The Fremont Commercial club is
taking the initiative in repairing the
Morehouse grade, the principal road
between Arlington and Fremont.
Nebraska eggs are in demand at
Vancouver. British Columbia. Deal
ers all over the state are sending
large quantities to that Canadian mar
ket.
The motion for £ new trial for Wil
liam Flege. found guilty of man
slaughter was overruled in the dis
! trict court at Pender Saturday after
noon.
Members of the German classes at
the Fremont high school gave a Ger
man entertainment at the public li
brary auditorium which is highly
spoken of.
Rev. Joseph Toms of Omaha, who
was recently elected to fill the vaean
i cy in the pastorate of the First Con
gregational church at Ashland, has as
sumed charge.
i ne coacn oi mo state tuoercuiosjs
hospital at Kearney, containing P. Fol
som. Miss Risser. J. E. Kennard and
Patti Garber, was struck by an automo
bile and badly wrecked.
C. H. Challis. editor of the Ulysses
| Dispatch, is dead as the result of a
brief illness with erysipelas. Mr.
Challis was well known among the
J newspaper men of the state.
Orchards in Podge and adjacent
counties are showing the effects of
the freak weather of the past year and
are damaged even more than some of
the nurserymen will admit.
Mrs. J. A. Goudie of Beaver City is
dead from injuries received in a run
■ away at Stamford, and her grand
. daughter. Miss Ethel Goudie. is still
suffering from serious injuries.
Work has been begun at Franklin
on the new Congregational church to
be erected, a number of the members
donating their services for excavating
the basement and other kinds of work.
The Nebraska Association of Com
mercial clubs is in favor of 1-cent let
ter postage, according to communica
tions received by members of con
gress from R. D. McFadden of Hast-'
ings. secretary of the association.
The fourth assistant postmaster
general has informed business men of
the state that carriers may deliver
packages weighing over four pounds
for hire, upon request of their patrons.
The village of College View has
voted to issue bonds to the amount of
$25,000 for the purpose of installing
its own water system. The proposi
tion was carried by a vote of 243 to 70.
Policeman W. J. O'Brien of Norfolk
was shot in the leg by V. St. Clair
Mitchell, a traveling salesman, who
mistook the officer for a burglar. Both
were pursuing the thugs in the dark.
What is probably a fine specimen
of mammoth tooth, with a portion of
the jaw bone attached, has been found
near Geona. Neb. The discovery was
made by some boys who were fishing
in Beaver Creek. The tooth weighs
seven pounds and measures in excess
of seven inches across the top one
way and three inches the other and is
seven inches long.
John Mcl^aughiin. son of the late
William McLaughlin, has paid to Lan
caster County Clerk Somraerlad $2.
297.75, in settlement of the shortage
in the treasurer's office during the
period when Mr. McLaughlin was
treasurer.
During a recent violent rain
storm the residence of John Hargens
at Uehling was struck by lightning
and Mrs. Hargens the only occupant
| of the place at the time, suffered from
the effects of the bolt, though she
| was not seriously injured.
Mr Scofield, who was so badly in- (
j jured by a fall from the roof of the ce- j
i ment works at Auburn three weeks
ago. is still alive, but unconscious.
The St. Cecilia society, an organiza
tion composed of ladies musically in
clined. held its second annual musi
cal festival with houses crowded to .
the doors of the Bartenbach theater |
at Grand Island.
Ex-Senator Luce and wife, of Re- j
I publican City, had a narrow escape
| from death when the team they were
i driving jumped from a bridge into !
| the creek, wrecking the buggy and j
! bruising them up considerably.
F. E. Pratt, proprietor of the Gold- j
I en Rod dairy at Fremont, realized $10.- :
149 from the sale of 100 head of cattle j
when he closed out his heard of milch j
I cows and calves. He was forced to do j
{ so because the river flood left his pas- 1
i cures under three inches of sand.
Phillip Keller, a young farmer of
| Pierce, Neb., marketed a load of
i steers at South Omaha Tuesday
I morning, which sold for $8.65 per 100
> pounds, the highest price ever paid in
j that market for cattle. The twenty
head averaged 1,433 pounds, making
the total of the draft $2,479.09, or an
average of $123.95 per head.
CANNOT HOLD PLACE
SENATOR LORIMER IT APPEARS
MUST STEP OUT.
REQUIRED VOTES IRE LICKING
—i i ■ ■
Son of Senator Says His Father Will
Not Give Up Seat Without a
Struggle.
■Washington.—Senator Lorimer of
Illinois will receive word direct from
his friends in the senate that they
cannot hope to save him in his fight
for the retention of his seat. While
it is not admitted that Lorimer will
be urged to resign, it was said he
might decide on that course.
Vice President Sherman left Wash
ington Sunday night for Chicago. It
w-as said his mission was private bus
iness. but it was rumored that he
would see Senator Lorimer and com
municate to him the result of a poll
of the senate that has just been con
cluded. That poll shows:
Certain for Lorimer. 40; certain to
jppose him. ;i9; doubtful, 16. There
Is one vacancy.
The attitude of the senators whose
votes are classed as doubtful has
given the friends of Senator Lorimer
much concern.
Although nearly a week has gone
by since the poll was made the Lori
mer supporters have not been able to
add one name to their list. Those
classed as doubtful have refused to
give the Lorimer men any indication
of their intentions.
Lorimer men were forced to the
conclusion that the list of doubtful
votes was too large to give them any
chance to win if the case were
brought to vote. It was decided,
therefore, to submit the exact situa
tion to Senator Lorimer.
There was no one of the Lorimer
supporters authorized to speak for
the junior Illinois senator, but it was
argued that he should resign and not
further uselessly embarrass his
friends in what they felt would be
a futile battle. It was argued further
that Senator Lorimer should be con
tent to rest cn his former victory and
the fact that a majority of the com
mittee which investigated the charges
the second time had reported in his
favor.
finally u was agrees mat me only
thing that could be done would be to
present the situation to the senator
himself. His health has been im
paired throughout most of the present
session and he has been unable to
remain here to look after his own in
terests. It was thought that he might
be influenced to abandon the fight
on that account.
Chicago.—William Lorimer. jr.. son
of United States Senator Lorimer.
said his father would not give up his
seat in the senate without a struggle.
Denial of a rumor that Senator Lor
irner's resignation had been taken
back to Washington by Vice Presi
dent Sherman also was made by Mr.
Lorimer. jr.
“It is no. likely that the vice presi
dent cf the United States would
make a messenger boy of himself,"
the son said.
Clapp Will Oppose Root.
St. Paul.—Following a conference
by Ormsby McHarg of New York, one
of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's man
agers and contest expert, Gifford Pin
chot. former chief forester and lead
er of the Roosevelt movement in Min
nesota. Hugh T. Halbert of St. Paul,
announced that United States Sen
ator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota will
probably be a candidate for tempora
ry chairman of the republican nation
al convention at Chicago next mouth
in place of Senator Elihu Root.
Eulogy cf Latta.
Washington.—The late Congress
man James Latta of Nebraska was
eulogized in a special memorial ser
vice held by the house of representa
tives. The speakers were Repre
sentatives Stephens. Norris, Kinkaid
and Maguire, all of Nebraska.
In Serious Condition.
London.—Dowager Queen Louise of
Denmark, is in a serious condition,
says a Copenhagen dispatch to the
Daily Mail. She has been removed to
Fruens Bcge. suffering from nervous
shock.
Exports for Aprii.
Washington.—The monthly state
ment of the Department of Commerce
and Labor shows the total v^lue of
exports for April to have been $176.- .
IrtO.OOO as against $15000.000 for the j
same month last year.
A Kind Judge.
Xew York.—When Daniel Walsh,
arrested for stealing a ride on a i
freight train, told Magistrate Kerno
chan he was trying to get to work, j
the magistrate gave him fare.
Declared Net Guilty.
Cleveland. O.—A verdict of not
guilty was returned in federal court ;
for the eight wall paper manufactur- t
ers and jobbers who were tried for
alleged violation of the Sherman law
in conspiring in restraint of trade in
the conduct of their business.
New Order for Police.
Chicago. 111.—The mounted police
men in Chicago public parks must
walk or learn to ride a motorcycle. 1
The commissioners have decided that !
he has become merely an ornament. I
Succeeds Titanic Victim.
London.—The announcement was
made that Edson Joseph Chamber
lain. vice president of the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway, has been ap
pointed to succeed Charles M. Hayes,
who lost his life in the Titanic disas
ter, as president.
Battleship Nebraska Aground.
Xew Orleans.—The battleship Xe
braska ran aground Saturday in
Southwest Pass, at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, while bound from
Xew Orleans to Hampton Roads.
NEW JERSEY YOUTH
A CHAMPION EATER
j Frederick Binks Establishes
World's Record in Art of
Consuming Cream Puffs.
Paterson, N. J.—Emulating “the
young man with the cream tarts,"
from Robert Louis Stevenson's “Mod
ern Arabian Xights.” Frederick Binks,
sixteen years old, of 80 Ellison street,
has established a world's record.
He ate 42 cream puffs on a bet,
hereby being the champion light
weight cream puff eater of the world.
As a grand finale and at the same time
to prove there was no ill feeling,
Binks. with great satisfaction, ate
three cocoanut pies. The entire per
formance took twenty minutes. Binks
now stands ready to meet all comers
j in the cream puff line.
Louis Geng. a farmer of Wanaque.
1 and a close friend of Binks, came to
‘ visit the latter. During a conversa
1
The Contest Was On.
tion about his fondness for cream
puffs, Binks declared he could eat a
dozen of them. Geng. who has a keen
sense of humor, made a wager that
Binks could not eat fifteen.
Before accepting the bet Binks
asked to be excused for a few min
utes. He left the room and came
back in ten minutes smiling. He an
nounced that he would take the bet
and the money, $10. was placed in the
hands of Ernest Steinheibler of SO
Ellison street, who was made referee
by mutual agreement.
Then the contest was on. When the
fifteenth puff had been eaten Binks
never stopped, but kept right on un
til he had eaten all the puffs on the
pan, 27 in all. There was nothing
left to eat but three cocoanut pies.
Binks finished these and smacked his
lips.
“Tell me." asked Geng after the bet
had been paid, “why you left the
room before you would 6ay that you
would take the bet."
“Well. I wanted to see if-I really
could do it.” he replied. He had gone
outside and eaten fifteen to make sure
of things.
LEGS BURNED AND FROZEN
Section Hand. Camping Near Village.
Has Fit and Falls Into
a Bonfire.
Norwalk, O.—Suffering from burns
on his right leg, extending from the
hip to the ankle, and with his left leg
badly frozen. Joe Moyrock. aged thirty
one years, a Polish railroad section
hand, was brought to the county in
firmary in this city recently from
Greenwich.
Moyrock started to walk along the
railroad track from Shelby to Green- i
wich. and when darkness overtook him
he built a bonfire alongside the track
just outside the village. He reclined
beside the fire to spend the night.
During the night he was seized with
I—_-1
Was Seized With s Fit.
an epileptic fit. and while in that con
dition his right leg fell among the
embers of his fire. When he regained
consciousness. Moyrock says, he was
unable to walk or to drag himself to :
where he could receive assistance.
He was not found for two days. Dur
ing that time his left leg and right
foot and ankle were froxen. Both legs
were amputated.
Talked in His Sleep.
Detroit.—Because he talked In hi*
sleep Greene McAdoo betrayed to his
associates in a local boarding house
that he was wanted in Greensboro
X. C., for wife murder. He was ar
rested.
Required Two Graves.
Xew York.—It took two graves to
hold the body of Frank Larson. He
weighed 465 pounds when he died ol
fatty degeneration of the heart. The
coffin was three feet four inches deep.
STORMS TO PREDICT SELVES
Wireless Stations tc Be Used to Make
Tempests Send Their Own
Warning Ahead.
Storm centers move usually in an
easterly or northeasterly direction.
Hence the prediction of storms on the
Atlantic coast is possible, since most
of them come from the Mississippi
valley. Some come up the coast from
tea Caribbean sea, but even in this
ease we have no warning.
But western Europe is less fortu
nate. Its tempests come from the At
lantic, and with little warning. Euro
pean weather men have made as much
as possible a study of the paths of
American storms across the Atlantic
and are sometimes accurate in pre
dicting the time of their arrival; the
same has been done with storms com
ing up from the South Atlantic.
But It often happens that storms vary
either their route or the rate of move
ment, so that predicting cyclones on
the coast of western Europe is more
or less guesswork.
As a possible help in this respect
Director Andre of the Lyons observa
tory is making a deep study of the
galvanometer records of various wire
less telegraph stations.
He has found that the antennae are
sensitiv to any stray electric currents
as well as to messages, and he hopes
to discover a way to make the storms
telegraph their own warnings ahead of
their arrival.
Every storm is accompanied by elec
trical disturbances, and already M.
Andre has accumulated a mass of evi
dence to show that each storm in this
way gives warning. Just how to read
this evidence is the problem to which
he is devoting himse'.f.
Simplest Way of All.
The following story the Saturday
Evening Post says is told of Col.
George W. Goethals. who at the time
it took place was an instructor in en
gineering at West Point.
One day. in a recitation he gave out
this question to a class of cadets:
"The post flagpole, sixty feet high,
has fallen down. You are ordered by
your commanding officer to put it up
again. You have under your command
a sergeant and ten privates of the en
gineer corps. How would you get the
pole back into place?”
Each cadet, after long consideration
and much figuring over the derricks,
blocks, tackle and so on, evolved a
different method.
“No.” said Goethals. "you are all
wrong. You would simply say: ‘Ser
geant, put up that flagpole!’”
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"Mercy. Laura, what do you mean
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the train pulls out?"
"Oh, I'm just writing a post card to
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Judged by the Wires.
Hostess (to her little guest)—So
you den t burn gas tip at your house
at all?
Dorothy—Oh. no, indeed; every bit
of light we use is sent by telegraph.
Nothing Doing.
The Cat—Come on down and I’ll
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The Bird—A dark one. I suppose,
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