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The Loop City Northwestern J. W. Bl-RLEJCH. Publisher LOUP CITY. - . NEBRASKA EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ME SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring la Various Sections of Our Own •nd Foreign Countries. Clll The senate Tltaalr investigating ..ttee beard suggestions for un fit at eondtt was at sea. Judiciary committee vot tjr an accept articles of 1 st against Judge Robert W. ArvbbaM. of the roamwe court, who has been under investigation fur alleged misbehavior in office, in con bortma with a “culm hank* iransac Um »rb the Erie railroad. The re port will be made during the seek of Jmif L The bouse has passed a bill which provide* “that all pending bume ■tead entries made in good fmitfa prior to September 1. 1*11. under the pro vrismas of the enlarged homestead laws, by person* who. before making mack enlarged homestead entry, had bcqntted title to a technical quarter toe*** at land under the homestead hv and therefore mere not qualified to make an enlarged Homestead en- . try. be aad the same are hereby val- j Mated, if m all other respect* rege- ( lar. la all cases abere the original homestead entry, was for less than l«» acre* at land ~ Congress will be 1c a linos! a total exrtlpse daring the neat fortnight The senate, perfunctorily meeting a few minutes every third day. will transact no business. The delay in tin it an nt at a done annual appro priation bills which prov ide for the opr ration of the government will make at necessary for both houses to pass a concurrent resolution about Jnly 1. continuing the present supply j bills into the nest fiscal year, for a brief period, with probable later ea topsiu&s of the period. The last sin liar embarrassing situation aas in (be fifty-third congress, almost twenty years ago. General. 0 ArUries of impeachment hare bees ; prelected agatnat Judge Arctbald. Daniel W. Site baud of Houston. Tex., su elected president of the na tional convention of T. P. A. Much interest Is being taken by naval officers in a hew device for launch.ng aeroplanes from ships Which will be tested aj Anus polls One million five hundred thousand lAkn to the fortune that will be di vtoed between four members of a Fall! urn va family as the result of the defilement at an old law suit in St. ' Louts At Zanesville. O. two were killed and a acore more injured when a cy- J done struck that city, toppling the steeple of the St- Thomas Catholic church through the roof w hile serv ices were being heard. Three men were killed and morn than a dozen injured by the prema ture explosion of six pounds of dyna mite in the Clearwater tunnel of the low Angeles acqueduct near Saugus, thirty-three miles north of Los An Cde*. Tbe Milwaukee Physicians' assoc la tiou will prepare a bill for the next legislature intended to stop the prac- ! Ciee of kissing and stamping the habit | as a blot on civilization and a menace ' to health and decency. E- W. Smith, a Chicago sporting ! writer, was selected referee for the ; Johnson Flynn championship battle at Los Vegas July « This decision was ranched at a conference between Jack Johnson and Jack Curley, the latter representing Jim Flynn. The Cunard company, owners of the Carpathia. which rescued and brought to !>w York the survivors of the Ti tanic disaster, will not present a ci%im for monetary loss, being con tent with the credit the act confers on the company's men. The count of votes at the recent primary in South Dakota, it was an nounced. gives the nomination for candidate for the republican nomina tion for secretary of mate to Galsner by JOS votes. The announcement was ? surprise, as unofficial figures gave ieppent nomination by about seven hundred votes Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, of the Tailed States dlstric court, has asked Judge William B. Gilbert, of the cir cuit court at appeals to designate a Judge la sit during the bearing at Seattle. Wash. of the evidence in the Investigation of Judge Hanford, order ed by the house of -epresentatives. .The order to move north on the Mexican rebel stronghold at Bachim ha was given by General Huerta, the federal commander. The vanguard of 1JM cavalry under General Kabage is expected to be is frequent skirmishes with the enemy. The Argentine government intro duced into the bouse of deputies a bill to establish a wireless telegraphic nenVc Mall advices received at New Or leans from Minefields says that many people are dying from famine in the Interior of Nicaragua- Lack of crops to given as the cause. Boston holders of underlying bonds nmounting to t7 £42.000 brought salt to the Tutted States court at Kansas f*ity »pt«s the receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway company to foreclose the mortgage and force the sale of ail the lines Mrs. Julia Clark of Denver, an avia tor. was lulled daring a practice flight at Che Mate fair grounds. Springfield. Ill fBxtv or more bouses in the village of Kay lor. Okla.. were smashed by a temfic gale, but every person in the towns population of 3M escaped with T~ fatalities sad only two were hurt. The conviction is strong at Santia go. Cuba, that intervention must come. ■ At Winnipeg. Man., in full view of a score of pedestrians on the street at High River. Caliste Bertrand shot and billed his wife. He was arrested. Russia is holding back in her reply i to the Chinese loan negotiations. Senator Root was elected temporary chairman of the republican national convention by a vote of 558 to 502. A savage attack on David Lloyd George. chancellor of the British ex chequer. w as made by a small band of suffragettes. President Taft signed the act of congress limiting to eight hours the daily service oi laborers and me chanics employed on government work. ' Vdmiral Csher has determined to check promptly any attempt by the Cuban rebels to make good their threats to burn the valuable mining property in the neighborhood of Ei Cuero. The deadlock vote for president of the German Lutheran synod of Min nesota and neighboring states was broken after eight ballots by the elec tion of Rev. Justus H. Naunian of Woodlante, Minn. At Hempstead. N. Y„ Henry Tur ner. an over-zealous aviation pupil, was perhaps fatally injured by a twenty-five foot fall in a biplane in which be attempted to fly in spite of orders from bis instructors to remain on the ground. An advance of 25 cents a hundred pounds for the transportation of hops in bales from north Pacific coast ter «n rials to Atlantic seaboard points proposed by the transcontinental roads, was suspended by the inter state commerce commission until No vember 5. The suspension affects an immense traffic. John Montgomery-, father of Mrs. J. B. Moore, who was murdered at Yalisca. la., has offered $250 addi-' tional reward. Mrs. Moore, mother of the murdered roan, has offered $250 and Joseph Stillinger, father of the two murdered girls, offers $500 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer or murderers. Chester Yates was arrested in San Francisco on information from New York police, in which he is charged w :th hat ing robbed an aged broker of $i>5. hmj worth of bonds in that city a year ago. The clew came from San Diego, where he is wanted for a series of hotel burglaries. An agreement on the subject of the Chinese loan was reached by dele gates of the groups of international bankers representing the United States. Great Britain. France. Ger many. Russia and Japan. The agree ment Is subject to approval of the governments participating in the loan, all but one of which have ratified it. William J. Bryan refused to com ment on the selection of Judge Alton B. Parker for temporary chairman of the democratic national convention. "1 wiil not discuss the Baltimore con vention until 1 get through with my discussion of this one.” said Colonel Itryan. referring to his reportial du ties in connection with the republican gathering. m * Mrs. Georgia M. Stewart, who was i recently found guilty of receiving money stolen by A. W. Shaw, presi dent and general manager of the A. i W. Shaw Boot and Shoe Corporation. | Bostotf and Freeport, Me., was placed ' on probation by Judge Crosby in the | superior court. Shaw was sentenced 1 to serve from three to five years in -late prison for the theft of $15,000 from the company. Traffic men report that the range cattle shipments from the northwest , will be light this fall. Sheep ship ments will also be light, the loss in volume being largely attributed to the severe weather of the past winter. Heavy losses of stock are reported in the northeast Wyoming territory, where midwinter and late spring storms caught heavy stock dealers without a sufficient amount of feed. The senate passed the Stephens bill for the payment of accrued annuities to the Winnebago Indians in Nebras ka and Wisconsin. The sum involved is about $128,000. Half or more of this sum will be divided among the Win nebago Indians of Nebraska, the pro portion depending upon the facts shown by a census for which provi sion is made. This census will be taken on June 30. Ross E. Holaday, United States consul at Santiago, Cuba, received a letter from General Estenoz, the rebel leader, protesting in the name of hu manity against the conduct of the gov ernment troops. He says that at Ramon de Las Yaguas. a suburb of El Caney. four miles to the northeast of Santiago, the government troops burned 120 houses belonging to ne groes who were totally unconcerned in the revolution. Personal. William C. McGowan, a prominent attorney of El Paso, Tex., committed suicide. Kermit Roosevelt, second son of ex President Roosevelt, is to take up chemistry as a profession. He is a member of this year's Harvard gradu ating class. Alton B. Parker has been selected as temporary chairman of the Balti more convention. During the exciting days of the Chi cago convention President Taft played golf as usual. Mrs. Anne Hibbard of Tompkins Corners. New York, fell and fractured her skull in attempting to hang up a picture of Colonel Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt paused in the middle of a conference with his lead: ers long enough to thank Mrs. W. A. Davis for attempting to stampede the convention in an effort to get his name in nomination. The board of regents decided that Joseph H. Hill is to remain president of the Kansas State Normal. , M.O. Bradley. Kentucky senator, ' was one of the prominent figures at Chicago. He was a supporter of Taft. General Edward S. Bragg, com mander of the famous iron brigade i and former congressman is dead at Fon du Lit. Wis. W. J. Gilthorpe was re-elected inter national secretary of the International Brotherhood ef Boilermakers, Iron | Shipbuilders and Helpers for the elev ‘ enth time at the biennial convention in Little Rcclt. Ark. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT / TAFT AND SHERMAN CHOSEN BY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Greatest Battle in History of American Folitics Results in Victory for President-Wins on First Ballot with 561 Votes—Roosevelt Men Refuse to Vote. For President. WILLIAM H. TAFT. For Vice-President. JAMES S. SHERMAN. Chicago, June 24.—These are the standard-bearers selected by the Re publican national convention to lead the presidential campaign of 1912. After five days and nights of the bitterest fighting in the history of American politics, in which the great est masters of political strategy in the ranks of the party were pitted against each other and every trick and maneuver known to the game were resorted to in an endeavor to wrest a victory from their opponents, it all ended in the choice of the men who led the party in the last na tional campaign and who are now oc cupying the highest offices In the land as the choice of a majority of the American people, to go before the public as candidates for a second icriu. Taft's Name Presented. President Taft’s name was pre sented to the convention by Harding of Ohio, and the nomination was sec onded by John Wanamaker of Phila delphia and Nicholas Murray Butlec of New York. LaFollette was the only other can didate presented to the convention. Colonel Roosevel early in the after noon expressing the desire that his name be not presented In the conven tion, and asking his friends to re frain from voting ir the convention. The convention sat in comparative quiet through the nominating speeches. The vigorous efforts of en thusiasts to start demonstrations for their favorites met with only mod erate success. The galleries were shouted out and the delegates were tired and wanted to get home. The result was foregone. Cheering Is Started. When the roll ca’l started with Ala bama and it threw its strength to Taft a burst of cheering started. It was settled that the Taft forces would stand firm, just as they had stood from the time they selected Senator Root as temporary chairman through the bitter days of the convention un der the assaults of the Roosevelt forces. Th> Taft forces had all their old strength and a fo^ band wagon climbers made It even larger. Pandemonium troke loose when the result was announced. The galleries rocked back an •. forth as if they would swell over and engulf the dele gates on the fit or. The band went through the motions of plaving but no one could he it. Finally it sub sided and the thousands started to crowd out of the ’eliding. The calling . the roll was filled with exciting incidents. Vice-President Next. After the tumult that followed the nomination of Taft had worn Itself out. Chairman Root announced that nominations for vice-president were in order. J. V. Olcott of New York was recognized and in a short speech presented the name of James S. Sher man to succeed himself. The nomin ation was seconded by representa tives from several states. Boies Penrose' name was next pre sented by a delegate from Pennsyl vania. but received no second, nor did Penrose receive any votes. Other candidates presented to the convention in brief speeches were Senator Borah. C. E. Merriam, Gil lette. Senator Beveridge and Govern or Hadley. Sherman Is Winner. The roll call was rushed through with the greatest expedition. Sher man winning on the first ballot. The vote: Sherman .....597 Borah . 21 Merriam . 20 Gillette . 1 Beveridge . 2 Hadley . 14 Absent .. 71 Not voting ..V.352 Thus ended a convention that will go down in history as the most re markable in history. The weary dele gates, exhausted with long hours- of strain and excitement, thankful that at last it was all over, broke into James S. Sherman. wild cheers and the convention wound up amid scenes of great excitement and confusion. Quelled by Police. Roosevelt delegates rioted for near ly a half hour in the Republican na tional convention as the temporary or ganization controlled by the Taft ma chine was made the permanent or ganizaten. Their riotous demonstra tions, quelled by the police, but served to delay the prepared action of the steam roller. The reports, majority and minority, of the rules committee were tabled and the convention proceeded under the old rules. Henry J. Allen, Kansas progressive, read Colonel Roosevelt’s two con demnatory statements of the day. elic iting some by play and a few cheers from the floor. Then Charles Warren Fairbanks be gan the reading of the report of the j resolutions committee, the platform, a Taft platform. Argument at con siderable length on the platform fol lowed. Wisconsin and N'orth^Dakota mem bers of the resolutions committee, rep resenting Senator La Follette, offered a minority report, almost as long as the one read by Mr. Fairbanks, which incorporated the views of the Wis consin senator on public questions. * At 5:30 the platform was declared MEAN END OF FRIENDSHIPS Numerous Snags. Small in Them seives, but Extremely Powerful In Their Effects. “Never send your maid or laundress or seamstress to a friend,” advised the woman who had been stung. “No matter how badly the work may be needed or how the friend may be suf fering for want of help, it is the mo6t dangerous, thing in the world to do. In the first place, if the worker makes mistakes or overcharges It Invariably will be laid at your door. On the oth er band, if the woman is competent and valuable you will lose her serv ices. There never is a case when kind ness is so mistaken as this. There al ways is gossip, and then you lose your friend. In fact, when you put yourself out to manage affairs for friends which they actually should look out for themselves, you are bound to get into hot water, no matter how kindly your intentions may be. Give all the ad vice you can, but don't set out and adopted by Chairman Elihu Root. The vote stood: Not voting .343 Against . 53 Absent . 16 For . 666 The La Follette platform bad previ ously been tabled. There was an outburst of cheering ; when the total Roosevelt strength | was announced as 343, the number of | delegates cot voting, but a greater 1 outburst followed the announcement j of 6C6 votes yea. The nays were 53, I and 16 were absent. No Nomination for Cummins. Immediately Chairman Root an nounced a call of the roll of the states I for nominations. Alabama was passed ! Arizona was silent. Down the list j silence followed the calling of each j state until Ohio was reached. A cheer greeted the state and Warren G. Hard ing arose to place President Taft in ) nomination. Then it was discovered Iowa had forgotten to nominate Cummins, and Root ordered that the state be called again. Silence greeted the second call, for the Iowar.s had decided not to nominate Cummins, but to vote for him. Then Ohio was called again, and Harding took the platform. g9?eted by scattered cheers, to nominate Taft Day cf Battle. Friday was a day of excitement and constant fighting between ahe Taft and Roosevelt forces cn the floor of the Republican convention. A partial report fram'the committee on creden tials was the cause of the sanguinary conflict. During the day four roll calls were i taken which furnished some little gleam of hope for both sides. On one i ballot the Taft men polled the highest t vote yet recorded for them. 605. A little later whatever significance might have been attached to that vote was somewhat discounted when the Roosevelt adherents mustered a strength of 539. which was the high mark so far for the colonel's side. The Roll Calls. The roll calls were occasioned by majority and minority reports from the credentials committee on the seat ing of contested delegates In the Ninth Alabama district. The roll call was on a motion to table Governor Had ley's resolution that contested dele gates be not allowed to vote on the reports. This carried by a vote of 569 to <99—10 not voting. A motion made at once following, to substitute the minority report seating the Roosevelt men, as against the m- j jority's steam roller candidates was : lost by a vote of 464 to 605. In the I j second vote eight Idaho and twenty- j I five Wisconsin votes went with the | Taft men. These states explained j that as members of their delegations I wore on the credentials committee | they desired to support that eommit i tee. They denied they had bolted to i , the Taft side on any other issue. The third ballot was on the Arizona contest case. The result was 564 to j 497. | The fourth vote was on the Califor nia case. This resulted 542 to 529. the highest vote yet mustered bv the Roosevelt men. uovernor Hereert S. Hadley of , ! Missouri swept the Republican con- i VOTE THAT GAVE TAFT THE VICTORY. I I lease apartments, engage hotel rooms, select wall papers and rugs. •These are snags that ruin friend ships between women. And it ail comes from good-heartedness and a ie sire to serve. Hs there a woman alive who has not learned the bitter lesson erf what it means to recommend a dressmaker?" Physical Impossibility. A young Englishman came to Wash ington and devoted his days and nights to an earnest endeavor to drink all I the Scotch whisky there was. He | couldn't do it, and presently he went ! to a doctor complaining of a disor | dered stomach. "Quit drinking," or jdered the doctor. "But, my dear sir, j 1 cawn't. 1 get so thirsty." "Well," I said the doctor, "whenever you are thirsty, eat an apple instead of tak ing a drink.” The Englishman paid his fee and left He met a friend to whom he told his experience. "Bally rot” he protested. "Fawncy eating 40 ' apples a day.”—Saturday Evening | Post PLATFORM IN BRIEF Reaffirms party's principles. Demands untrammeled and in dependent judiciary. To continue constructive legis lation. Demands laws to safeguard public health. Promises workmen’s compen sation laws. Favors legislation to facilitate court procedure. Declares recall of judges un necessary, but favors legislation to simplify removal of derelict judges. Declares against special priv ilege and monopoly, and favors changes in anti-trust laws. Recommends federal trade j commission. Reaffirms belief in protective | tariff and recommends reduction ! of some of present duties. Campaign contributions by cor porations should be prohibited. Conservation approved. Favors parcels post. Declares for adequate navy j and urges revival of merchant marine. Favors aid In improvement of Mississippi river. Asks mere generous laws for settlers. Favors more liberal and sys tematic river and harbor im I provements. Safeguarding of life at sea. Lauds Republican accomplish, ments and Republican rule un der McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. vention oft its tcet Vv tuUc^uay Uteruouh and. without having ut tered a word, became the hero of a demonstration which will hold a per manent place among the spectacular events in the history of the nation. This and a test vote which showed that the Taft following is holding its own were the two great features of the second day's session. When Governor Hadley appeared on the £cor to close the debate on his resolution to seat the Roosevelt dele gates who had been unseated by tbe national committee tbe demonstration unexpectedly broke loose. It was nearly an hour from the time the demonstration started before the tumult had sufficiently subsided to enable the convention to resume busi ness. Rcct Named Chairman. Senator Eiibu Root of New York was elected temporary chairman of the Republican convention Tuesday afternoon amid scenes of great dis order, thus scoring an Important vic tory for the Taft forces. The Roosevelt men voted for Gov. Francis E. McGovern of Wisconsin. With the completion of the long roll cal!, practically every minute of which had been strenuously contested by the Roosevelt people, led by Governor Hadley, Senator Flinn and Mr. Heney, Senator Root was given an ovation in which the Roosevelt delegates took no Fart At 6:30 he began the delivery of his speech, and continued until seven o’clock. IS MOST BITTER y IN ALL DISTORT — AMERICAN POLITICS CONTAINS NO PARALLEL FOR REPUB LICAN CONVENTION. "HAT IN RING” STARTS WAR : Disorder and Confusion Mark Battle for Republican Leadership—Cul mination of Combat Full of Charges and Recrimi nations. The history of American politics contains no parallel for the Republi can convention just closed. The bit terness of the struggle was respon sible for more disorder, more con fusion and more exciting and nerve wracking incidents than ever attend ed a political convention in this coun try. It required little to start a demon stration and when once started it could be quieted only after the dele gates had completely exhausted them selves. On Wednesday Governor Had ley, who was popular with the crowds at all times, took the platform tc make an explanation, a demonstra tion for him was started which the Roosevelt men subsequently turned into a demonstration for their lead er, which lasted almost an hour. During the reports of the creden tials committee on Friday the pro ceedings were interrupted time and time again by the Roosevelt men, who thus attempted to show their dis approval of the proceedings. Most Bitter Battle. Battle for the Republican presi dential nomination that is without precedent for the bitterness displayed by the contestants and the popular interest aroused has been waged for the last four months by Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft. The country knew the fight was on when it learned of Roosevelt's reply to those who asked his attitude on the presidency after his sensational speech at the Ohio constitutional con vention Feb. 21: "My hat is in the ring.” The colonel followed this challenge up on Feb. 24 by writing to seven Re publican governors who had urged him To declare his position: “I will accept the nomination for president if it is tendered to me and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its pre ference.” Taft Becomes Warlike. Too. Taft's candidacy had taken on a warlike tinge early in January wit'j the statement given out at the white house and attributed to the presi dent: "Nothing but death can keep me out of the fight now.” A national Roosevelt committee was. formed in January with headquarters in Chicago. Alexander H. Revell was made president and Edwin \Y. Sims, former federal prosecutor, secretary. Roosevelt headquarters were later re moved to Washington and Senator Joseph M. Dixon placed in charge of the campaign. Congressman William B. McKinley of Illinois was made the Taft manager. It was announced that the Taft literary bureau would re fr&’n from attacking Roosevelt per sonally. This idea was later aban doned. The president started the fireworks by characterizing Roosevelt's plan for recall of court decisions as “utterly without merit, crude, fitful, unstable.” , Roosevelt Defines Issues. Roosevelt, speaking in Carnegie hall. New York, March 20, declared the fundamental issue between him self and Taft to be: “Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule them selves, to control themselves? I be lieve they are. My opponents do not.” The president, in a speech at Bos ton March 18, had said: “Continued iteration and reiteration of the proposition, ‘Let the people rule,' if it has any significance at all and is intended otherwise than to flatter the people, is intended to be a reflection on the government that we have had down to the present time.” It was only a step to mentioning names. This began with some degree of mildness. In one of his early speeches Col. Roosevelt remarked: “Mr. Taft says cur government, should be a government of all the people by a representative part of the people. This is an excellent descrip tion of an oligarchy." Roosevelt Denounces Votes. The New York and Indiana pri mary decisions were given to Taft. Roosevelt promptly denounced the proceedings in both states as a ‘‘crim inal farce." The latter part of April saw the rivals denouncing each other’s works in red hot speeches all over Massa chusetts in their efforts to win at the presidential preference primaries there. Roosevelt accused Taft of breaking his pledges to the people, and Taft retorted that Roosevelt had misstated the facts about the Taft administration and was not giving him a square deal. The primary yielded a split delegation, with no advantage to either candidate. Roosevelt Carries States. The Massachusetts performance was repeated with increasing acri mony in Ohio and New Jersey. Roose velt carried both states by big ma jorities. but Taft was given the Ohio delegates at large by the state con vention, an act which Roosevelt called "pure brigandage." In Upper Circles. Mrs. Swallow—“My dear Mrs. Spar row, you don’t mean to say you live here all the year round. We have just returned from the south, where we always spend our winters.”—Life. A Help Towards Thrift. Few countries have so large a basic unit of coinage as the American cent. If America can learn to split pennies It will be a help toward the thriftiness the nation needs so much.
