Nebraska Newspapers

    fbe Loop City Northwestern
J W Bl HL.E3GH. Publisher
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LOUS CITY. - . NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK
COMPENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
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j BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
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WNIyjl. Politics! Personal and Other
Matter* W» Brief Form far All
Claase* of Reader*.
The boeo ;»»*ed ikr Lever bill for
the rtlrSMoa Ot work.
I'oelrrm oa the army appropria
Uoa Ml re*, hed an agreement
Conferee* on for m*I treaty bill
agreed to Eve-year cloned season
The cor.termce report on the tray
appropriation bill oa* adopted by the
The general deficiency appropria
tion b.U. carrying fll.lS3.8Tl. report
ed in the ornate.
Senate conferee* mlth house on
naval appropriation bill agreed on
provision fur a flS.Mw.VOO battleship.
A resole!urn appropriating fTo.ooo
to f*ml*h subsieience for refugees
from llnkn nas adopted in tbe
torn*.
Senator Bacon discussed the Nlca
ncuL situation and urged rou
cideration of hi* resolution calling
\jc aa investigation
Senator New lands failed in attempt
it gam consideration for a Joint con- i
f resaw,nal committee to confer mith
tbe president on tariff legislation
The house repassed tbe legislative- 1
eaeecnre-Judicial bill with provision
for abolishing commerce court, but |
without seven-) ear tenure civil serv
ice protision.
Senator Hrarots announced he
would make a privileged statement
regarding charges In connection with
correspondence between him and
John D Archbald
Senator Penrose- renewed his talk j
so campaign contributions, charging
that G W Perkins underwrote $3.- |
•MM4* to nominate Colonel Roose
velt for the presidency.
Minority latader Mann joined with
Rep eecota'iie Zellery in cungratu- :
lating t'hairtcan Fitzgerald of tbe ap
propriation committee on hit work
daring the present session.
Keprs-aentative Rainey charged
Representative Austin with being per- j
aonailv interested in tbe water power
legislation. Representative Austin re
plying in a heated speech.
John n Arcbbold testified before
the ssibroanr.lttee investigating cam
paign funds contribution* concerning j
Standard Oil company's contributions
to tbe Ihot republican campaign
The house voted down. ISO to 79.
proposal for provision for two battle
ships in naval appropriation bill and
•eat bill hock to eocference with in
atruction* for acceptance of senat-t s
compromise for one vessel.
The kuue accepted the senate
amendment to the legislative, execu
tive and Judicial appropriation bill. ,
mat. mg provision for abolition of ;
commerce court and sent the bill to |
(be president.
At Friday night's sessiem Represen
tatlve Murdock of Kansas threatened
its! adjournment of congress by
point of bo Quorum in a fight against
the appropriation In tbe postoffiee
bill of $;■,«**• for Eads Bridge com
pany at St. Louis.
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General Booth of the salvation
army died at London
Higgling cirrus teat was destroyed
by fire at Sterling. 111. Boas $25,900
The senate reached an argreement
an the natal program calling dor one
sc* battleship.
A senate committee declined to Ini
tiate further canal legislation at the
request of the president.
By s vote of 151 to 5* the boose
adopted the conference report on the
naval appropriation bill
Acting Democrat Chairman McAdoc
sees no prospect of the presidential
den ion going into the bouse
Morris of Nebraska wants light on
the killing of Hagers an American,
by British troops in Africa.
A retaliatory step has been taken
by maritime powers against the Pa
nama canal tree tolls provision
President Taft appointed a com
■lti«» of government officials to in
vestigate the hoard of t'nited State*
genera! appraisers to ascertain if
there bad been neglect of duty, mal
feasance in office or inefBciency.
f atted States Ambassador Irish
man s in® daug-'ers have been in
jured in an automobile accident near
■Mrberhauarn They •ere return
ing from Mnatch to Berlin with their
mother at the time.
Had.cal Changes in the regulations
go. era mg surreys of lands in A law
fca under which fisheries companies
sad others have acquired rights to
t how sands of desirable sites without
patenting them, were made known in
Seattle
The national track aad field chain
psosehips of the amateur athletic
anluc of the Catted States sill bo
held again in Pittsburgh this year.
president Taft signed the navel
appropriation ME carrying $113,229,
TIC and providing fur one dread
nought to com not more than $15,090.
Kd
Commander Eva Booth, apprised
By cable that her commission as head
of the Kales:ion army in America was
renewed, sailed for England to attend
her fathers funeral Commander
Booth said she expected to reach
there in time far the Interment.
The American Philatelic society is
holding its twenty-seventh annual
eonvee wn and owing in Springfield.
With a plurality ext to fifteen fiy
correct ions in the official canvass.
John SI Haines becomes the repcV
Ikvs candidate (or governor of
Idaho
Judge Sutton says be will not sit
In the second trial of Clarence Dar
row.
Thomas E. Britiingham of Madison
has resigned as a member of the
board of regents of the University of
Wisconsin.
Senator Kenyon said he would nof
Join the new- progressive party.
General Mena, the Nicaraguan In
surgent, is reported to be a captive.
Kansas republicans secured an in
junction against Roosevelt electors.
The value of farm products in
America shows 83' per cent increase
in ten years
Colonel Roosevelt says the trusts
have not been harmed by the Wick
ersham prosecutions.
The fire in the general postoffice at
London was the cause of much disrup
tion of the mails.
There was a wordy battle in the
bouse between Rainey of Illinois and
Austin of Tennessee.
James Ward Rogers, an American
outlaw, was shot dead in an Aferican
jungle by a British posse.
Willis Leonard Clanahan. widely
know n i>oet and humorist, died in St.
Louis, age forty-five years.
President Taft is anxious to sign
the canal bill, but wants it possible
for foreign nations to appeal.
A favorable report was made on
the bill of Representative Kinkaid to
open Port Niobrara reservation.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
rapped Roosevelt and Flinn in a
statement made in the senate.
The American Meat Packers’ asso
ciation will hold its annual conven
tion in Chicago on October 14-16.
\lderman Louis Brdzo of Detroit
was bound over to stand trial on the
charge of having accepted a bribe of
SKKi.
Russia, the London Daily News
correspondent at Odessa declares, is
contemplating the repudiation of the
Brussels sugar convention.
At a meeting of the Arkansas state
central committee of the progressive
p.-rty it was decided not to nominate
candidates for slate or county offices.
The war department has disapprov
ed plans for a grand ret iew at San
Jose of regulars and militia who hate
been engaged in maneuvers in Cali
fornia.
The eighty-second birthday of Em
peror Francis Joseph was celebrated
with enthusiasm throughout the
country. Ills majesty is in good
health.
Rebels in Mexico are said to have
cay tired, looted and burned I.adur&
and hate seized the ship Benito Jua
rez and the gunboat General Guer
rero.
Railway officials believe train
wreckers were responsible for the de
railment of Southern Pacific east
bound passenger train No. 42 near
Lenoir City, Tenn.
The senate has passed the Pomer
ene uniform bill of lading measure,
holding railroads responsible for all
goods w here a bill of lading has been
issued before delivery.
Governor Oswald West served no
tice on the authorities of the city of
Portland and Multnomah county that
he purpssed to institute a moral
‘•house cleaning" In Portland.
Anna Held, the musical comedy ac
tress. has been granted an interlocu
tory decree of divorce from Florence
Ziegfield. jr. The court's order will
become effective in three fhonths.
The Ctiion Pacific railroad has filed
application with the Nebraska railroad
commission for permission to raise
its minimum carload rate on canned
goods from ::0,<hm.i to 36,000 pounnds.
The date for the execution of
George Engel, who was convicted for
the triple murder of his wife and un
born child and his sister-in law, lias
‘•een set for October 18, at Pinckner
vtlle. IP
One woman was seriously injured
aud two women and a man a slightly
hurt in Minneapolis when an automo
bile filled with Kansas City tourists
skidded c-n the pavement and struck
the curb.
Alderman C.linnan. leader of the
Detroit council, has been bound over
for Trial on a charge of grafting. Ex
amination of twelve other aldermen
»i- continued Friday. Five had their
cases postponed.
Characterising certain amendments
in the Indian appropriation as "bold”
steals. Minority Leader Mann told
the house that If the measure was re
ported out of conference with the pro
visions otJectionable to him retained,
he would urge President Taft to
veto It
At the trial of eight seamen and
firemen, chaged with rioting oil the
steamship St. Louis, the prosecution
declared that terror prevails on trans
Atlantic liners on account of the New
York seamen's strike. Four prison
ers got two months’ imprisonment,
and one twenty.one days.
Details of an inspection of the bat
tlefield near Managua, where govern
ment trocps and rebels fought the
recent gruelling contest. Sunday
reached the state department in a
dispatch f-om I'nited States Minister
Weltzel. Instead of finding mangled
bodies on the field, the charred bones
of burned victims were to be seen,
according to the dispatch. In the
hospitals forty women were found.
Pwraonai.
Woyprow Wilson likes campaigning
as far as it has gone.
Colonel Roosevelt said the pro
gressive party w?s constructive.
Secretary of State Knox has sailed
for Japan
Progressives of Nebraska will no
minate a full ticket.
The body of Gen. Booth lay In
state two days before burial.
Nathaniel B. Johns, known as the
oldegz actor, who in bis day was
know* throughout the country, died
at Scluarte, Mass
President Taft has ordered an in
vestigation of the board of general
appraisers.
Eugene W Chaffin, prohibition can
didate for president, opened his cam
paign In Vermont with an address at
Bennington.
Representative Sereno E. Payne
was designated by the republican con
gressional committee at Geneva, N.
Y.. aa a candidate for re-election.
Congressman Stanton Warburton of
Tacoma, elected two years ago from
the second Washington district as a
republican, announced his candidacy
for re-election as a progressive.
GONGRESSHOLDSON
FAILURE TO REACH ADJOURN
MENT AT TIME APPOINTED.
NINNY MEMBERS LEAVE CAPITAL
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Neither Senate Nor House Will Have
Quorum When They Again Con
vene on Monday.
AA'ashington.—A few score wear?
members of congress and an impati
ent president of the United States
Sunday confronted an unprecedented
governmental situation, following
Saturday night's prolonged and fruit
less struggle to adjourn the session
of congress. The outlook for Mon
day's sessions of house and senate
promised an even more chaotic legis
lative condition than obtained in the
fight that began Saturday morning
and continued until nearly church
lime Sunday.
Disguested with adjournment fail
ure many members of the senate took
early trains for their homes. Senatoi
Penrose predicted that there would
be much less than a quorum in the
senate when it meets at noon Mon
day and house leaders were satisfied
that that body would be nearly forty
members short of the number neees
sarv to transact business.
The double filibuster which com
pelled the abandonment of tit'e plan
to end the session of congress is ex
pected to be renewed when the house
reconvenes. Senator La Follette
made known to friends Sunday that
he would insist upon a record vote
on the adoption of the Penrose reso
lution for an investigation of cam
paign contributions of the Standard
Oil company in 1904. and of the cor
respondence between John D. Arch
bold. George AW Perkins and mem
hers of rnnuress.
Senator Chamberlain, who led the
other senate filibuster, the object of
which was to force the house to
agree to the payment of $600,000 of
old state claims, will have the sup
port of many senate democrats if he
renews his insistence to hold con
gress until these claims are paid.
The house leaders are determined to
fight the claims "until December" if
necessary.
Either of the senate filibusters
holds trohule for any plan of adjourn
ment. If Senator La Kollette should
insist on a record vote, it would be
come necessary to secure a quorum.
In such an event he could hold the
senate indefinitely, because it would
again be unable to make an adjourn
ment agreement with the house.
The general deficiency appropria
tion bill is agreed to on all points ex
cept the $600,000 of claims demand
ed by Virginia, Maryland, Oregon and
Texas, and the extra month's pay for
employes of the house and senate.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
conferees, renewed his declaration
that in no circumstances would the
house concede the payment of any of
these.
“If the senate insists on these
items in the bill it will force the
measure to go over until the Decem
ber session," he said. “The house
announced its attitude firmly and
Sooner than see it yield on the items,
I will raise the point of no quorum.
Members know that it would be al
most impossible to secure a quorum
now. except by the physical arrest of
absent members.”
Senate leaders were hopeful that
the senate might be induced to yield
on these claims.
Will Not Hear Roosevelt.
Washington.—Colonel Roosevelt'
will not have an opportunity to an
swer John D. Archbold'6 statements
before the senate committee investi
gating campaign expenditures until
late in September. Senator Clapp,
chairman of the sub-committee be
fore which Mr. Archbold told hia
story of having contributed $100,000
to the Rocsevelt fund in 1904, tele
graphed that the committee would
not be able to hear him Monday as
the colonel desired.
Secretary Stimson Coming West.
Washington.—Secretary Stimson of
the war department left Washington
Sunday for a tour of inspection of
western military posts, going by way
of New York.
Tally-Ho Turns Over.
Duluth, Minn.—A tally-ho carrying
a load of eastern tourists, turned over
while on the boulevard drive here
Sunday, severely injuring several per
sons. None of them was fatally hurt.
Petition for Suffragettes.
London.—Suffragettes started a
monster petition in behalf of Mrs.
Mary Leigh and Miss Gladys Evans,
who were sentenced to five years' im
prisonment for attempted arson.
Imprisonment Under Ground.
Peoria. 111.—After having been im
prisoned for twenty-five and one-half
hours at the bottom of a thirty-five
foot caisson, beneath the surface of
the Illinois river. F. J. Schmidt was
hauled to the surface and expired in
five minutes.
There’ll Be No Strike.
Chicago.—There will be no strike on
I Chicago transportation lines, accord
I ing to Mayor Harrison, who has con
| ferred with employers and employees
; regarding matters.
Arrested at the Altar.
Perth Amboy, N. J.—Efforts were
made to obtain bail for Mrs. Mary
j PfeifTer King, arrested at the altar,
and cast off by her wealthy husbannd
i of a moment, Paul King, when he
learned that his bride was charged
j with forgery.
Given Police Protection.
Vienna.—Marienbad police detailed
a guard to keep suffragettes from mol
esting British Chancellor of the Ex
chequer Lloyd-George. His vacation
Is being spoiled by English Women.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Six tons of cream was shipped out
of Aima in one week. When you
think of it, that's a lot.
Com In the vicinity of Fremont is
being damaged by a green bug that
resembles the Hessian fly.
Rev. Floyd Blessing of Auburn has
been formally called to the pastorate
of the Lutheran church at Wayne.
A stock company has been organ
ized at Tecumseh for the purpose of
building a new amphitheatre at the
fair grounds.
# Marie Van Kleck, thirteen years of
age. was burned to death when she at
tempted to pour kerosene on a lighted
fire at her home is Lincoln.
Marie Hurley, the ten-vear-old
daughter of George Hurley, at Auburn,
was severely burned last Monday by
an explosion of wood alcohol.
Hastings took the game from York
Wednesday. 7 to 3. taking two out of
three. The game was one sided and
decidedly slow all the way through
G. J. Crook, a prominent resident of
Falls City and a widely known politi
cian, was burned to death at his horn#
in that place by a gasoline explosion.
J. H. Jensen of Minden. after eight
years of work, has received a patent
on a self-feeder for threshing ma
chines. Mr. Jensen has received many
offers for his mechanism, but refuses
to sell.
The forty-fifth annual convention of
the Nebraska Christian Missicnary so
ciety was held at Bethany last week j
opening with a social and banquet
given by the Toadies' Aid society of
the Bethany church.
During a thunder shower at Fre
mont, Miss Gertrude Robinson, secre
tary to Superintendent A. H. Water
house of the city schools, was knocked
to the pavement and rendered uncon
scious by a bolt of lightning.
Miss Violet Sims, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. A. G. Sims of Aurora, sailed
last week from Philadelphia with Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Beveir Williams of Lin
coln for Berlin. Germany, where she
will spend a year studying music.
The reconstruction of the Fremont
Carriage company plant, which was
destroyed by fire several weeks ago.
is progressing rapidly and it will be
ready for operation by September 1.
At a recent meeting of the Belvi
dere business men it was decided to
celebrate the fall carnival of Yt-Xuoc
Re Yaht on August 22. 23 and 2L
This is the big celebration of Thayer
county.
This is one of Deuel countv's ban
ner years. Yields of small grain are
far better than expected. Wheat
shows from twenty-five to thirty-five
bushels an acre and oats from fifty to
ninety bushels.
A threshing engine blew up on the
'Fred Klattenberg farm, four miles
northwest of Beatrice, badly injuring
Henry Seibert, owner of the threshing
outfit, and Hanson Day, who wijs ,
working with him.
Overcome by the fumes of gasoline,
Clare Bunt, twenty-one years of age.
son of Rev. P. O. Bunt, a Methodist
minister at Alexandria. S. D.. died
while at work in the Burlington stor
age pit at Fremont.
Willie, four-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Dietrich of Lincoln. w«s
scalded to death Friday afternoon
when a younger brother, with whom
he was playing, pushed him over
backwards into a tub of boiling water.
R. L. Jones, a Rock Island brake
man of Fairburv, is confined to his
home by injuries received when he
was knocked from a box car at Hal
lam. He suffered severe internal in
juries. the extent of which is not yet
known.
Campbell Bros.’ circus, a Fairbury
concern, which was organized in that
city in 1SS3. stranded there last Satur
day when it gave its last performance.
For the last few years the circus has
been confronted with serious financial
reverses, and after the performance
Saturday evening the creditors forced
the concern to close.
William Davis holds the record for
the best yield of wheat in Xemaha
county. He had four acres which made
an average of fifty bushels to the acre.
Krnest Gigex of Creston and Otto
Losak of Creston were both injured
when an automobile they were driving
turned turtle between Ames and North
Bend.
Otto Kluenge lies at his home near
St. Libory. badly bruised up. as the
result of a head-on collision in broad
daylight, and on a country road, with |
a Mr Grace, the former on a motor
cycle, going at high speed, and the
latter in an automobile.
The thirty-first annual reunion of
pioneers and old settlers of Dakota
county is to be held at Dakota City,
Thursday. August 29.
Plans are being made by the pub
licity bureau of the commercial club
for an Omaha day at the state fair.
It is proposed to Bend down a delega
tion from the metropolis.
Political speeches, horse races and
a ball game furnished entertainment
for 5.000 people at the annual joint
picnic of the Nebraska Territorial
Pioneers' association and the Old Set
tiers’ association of southern Lancas- •
ter county, held at Hickman. Neb.
The east wall of the Fremont Car- j
riage company's plant, which is being
i reconstructed, was blown to the ]
ground, causing further delay is
| building.
Fire at the W. H. Fraser farm, west
| of Kearney, destroyed a large barn.
! eight valuable horses, including a
*500 stallion, a new automobile and all
of the fanning implements housed in
i a machine shed adjoining the barn.
George Austin, a well known citizen
| of Crab Orchard, became suddenly in
| sane while attending a religious meet
: ing in a tent there and was taken to
; Lincoln for treatment.
I .and prices in Saunders county con
tinue to go up. The John Andrew
farm of 240 acres, four miles north
of*Wahoo. sold at referees sale a
quarter section bringing *150 per
acre, an eighty going at *127.25 per
acre. There were a dozen or more
active bidders for each piece of land.
Hastings will get the next conven
tion of the Nebraska Christian Mia
sionary society. It was decided at a
business session of the convention at
Bethany park to take the next meet
ing to the Adams county town, pro
Tiding the commercial club of that
city will make a suitable offer.
LARGE HAIL STONES
TO DO AWAY WITH OFFICE OF
COUNTY ASSESSOR.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Wymore.—Edward Delaney brought
into town a watermelon packed
in hailstones. The hailstones tell
Wednesday. August 7. Air. De
laney says that southeast of town
there were piles of hailstones con
taining more than a carload. Some
of the stones he brought in measured
over two inches in diameter and they
had been melting nearly a week. The
hail fell in a strip about two and a
half miles wide and ten miles long, be
ginning about five miles southeast of
town and extending south and east.
Circus Man Killed.
Wahoo.—William Schwartz, a team
ster with the Hagenback-Wallace
show, was ran over by a heavy truck
wagon and instantly killed, his head
being completely crushed. He had
fallen asleep under the wagon and
escaped the notice of the others who
were loading up preparatory to mov
ing. He was twenty-eight years of
age, single and formerly lived at Can
ton. Ohio.
Tornado at Ainsworth.
Ainsworth—A tornado passed west
ward of the eit* Sunday afternoon, de
stroying the residences of M. A. .Miles
and J. -M Curry. Xot only the resi
dences. but all the outbuildings were
swept away. Fortunately, the families
were away at the time and no one was
hurt. The funnel-shaped cloud formed
about ten miles to the northwest and
seemingly was headed for Ainsworth.
Everyone who had a cave made for it
and the town was full of the wildest
excitement.
Would Dispense With Assessor.
Fremont—The initiative in a move
to do away with the office of county
assessor and have the assessment
cared for by the county clerk has been
taken in Dodge county by a Logan
township committee, which'has filed a
petition with the supervisors. Other
petitions will be filed later. The
proposition will be voted on in the
fall. -
Fatal Gun Accident.
Norfolk.—Fourteen >ear old Harry
Bowman was shot and almost in
stantly killed while hunting with
boy companions south of Norfolk. He
was walking across a railroad bridge
when the gun was discharged, tearing
out his entire right side.
New Plant at Grand Island.
Grand Island—The Glascow-Grand
Island Brick company is a new indus
try for this city, which, it is an
nounced. will employ forty men to be
gin with and will be a head plant for
a number of smaller ones throughout
the state.
Action Against Auto Driver.
Ansley—William Pursell of Mason
Pity, the father of the little girl killed
by being run over by an auto a short
time ago. has brought action against
Mrs. Henderson, the driver of the car,
and her husband.
Land Brinqs $800 An Acre.
West Point. — The record price
for Cuming county real estate was
reached here in the sale by a local
real estate firm of unimproved land
adjoining the city to Herman Selletin
for $SO0 per acre.
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| STATE BASE
X BALL NEWS |
Greenwood defeated a team from
Lincoln. Saturday, 9 to 0. Buffurn for
Greenwood did not allow a hit for eight
innings.
X'mpire Nugent officially declared
the Sunday game of the York and
Kearney clubs forfeited to Kearney
when the visitors failed to appear on
the ground at the time for the game
to commence.
Ftemont at home Saturday won the
second game of the series from Supe
rior, 10 to 3.
Humboldt won the second game of
the series with Auburn at home Fri
day by a score of 2 to 1. .The game
was close and much enjoyed by the
big crowd present.
Stillwell, the Auburn second base*
man. who was the victim of an assault
committed by Catcher Dietz of the
Humboldt team, is still suffering from
the effects of the blow. He is under
the care of a physician and it will be
some time before he will have com
pletely recovered.
Although Hiawatha outhit Auburn
and played without an error they
were unable to score at Auburn Tues
day. The feature of the game was
the pitching. Reed striking out four
teen toten and Brauen thirteen. Score
1 to 0.
At a meeting of the Grand Island
Baseball association it was decided to
appoint a committee to wait upon the
commercial club's executive commit
tee for the purpose of securing its co
operation in organizing a big booster
day for the league ball team, the man
agement finding itself about $1,500 to
$2,000 in arr^prs.
Hiawatha ^hut out Auburn Wednes
day in a hotly contested game. 3 to 0.
In the final game of the series of
five games. Central City, at home Sat
urday. defeated Clarks by a score of
7 to 1.
Wednesday was boosters' day at
Grand Island. In spite of wet grounds
and a drizzling rain a good crowd
turned out. The crowd went wild
when the locals won out by a ninth
inning rally in which Coe. Green and
Carev singled. Fentress struck out
fourteen men. The one-handed catch
of Schuren at the left field fence was
a feature. Score, 2 to 3.
Kursaai at Geneva.
.Marseillaise, the greatest of all war
. songs.
What is called the festival of the
j Escalade is the independence day of
I the little republic of Geneva—certain
i !y the most picturesque of all repub
i lies. It is now, of course, a par* of
■ Switzerland, but this is comparatively
| recent. During all the middle ages.
• with blooav wars raging on every
hand. Geneva—a quiet little town in
the Valley of the Rhone, surrounded
by snow-capped mountains—held its i
cwn against every foe and retained its
freedom.
But on the night of December 11. j
1602. it had an exceedingly narrow es
: cape. Large forces, secretly gathered. |
which had marched from several |
strongholds in Savoy, crossed the j
River Arve and began to scale the
walls with ladders. There was an ,
alarm and the citizens, springing from
: their beds, rushed out in scanty attire.
The enemy were driven back and by j
noon on the following day were com, j
pletely routed.
Italy, although a monarchy, has its
own independence day. This falls al
ways on the first Sunday in June and
is called the festival of the constitu
tion. It celebrates the final union of
Italy, which was accomplished in 1870.
TROOPS TEST HUGE MORTARS
—
Artillerymen at Honolulu Make a
Small Percentage Firing at
Target.
Honolulu.—Artillerymen engaged in
target practice with 12-inch mortars
beyond Diamond Head attempted to
demonstrate that it is possible to de. j
stroy any hostile warship at a long dis
tance by mortars.
The firing was at a small target set
4,800 yards off shore. In ten shots ;
fired there was one hit. and certain
officers believe that most of the shots
were entirely too wide of the mark.
Maj. Edward J. Timberland, who
was in charge of the battery, said,
however, that while the practice show,
ed a poor percentage of hits, the test
had proved the efficiency of the mor
tars.
The small percentage of hits was
partially due to high winds.
RUNS HOME WEEKS ON $55
Then Husband Tells Her She Is No
Wife for Poor Man, She
Testifies.
New York.—The most economical
housewife, one who can pay all the
necessary household expenses on a lit
tie over $1.50 a week, has been
i brought to light through an alimony
suit in a Brooklyn court. Mrs. Irene
Schroeder of Staten Island tells in het
appeal to the court how she ran her
husband's home successfully for 35
weeks on $55. That was hard enough
to do. she adds, but it was harder still
when they parted, to have her hus
band fling out at her that she was no
wife for a poor man.
WATER IN CANAL IN YEAR
—
This Indicated by Work of Excavation
on the Panama Ditch During
July.
Washington. D. C.—Within a yeai
water will be flowing where the great
steam shovels are now working on the
Panama canal if excavation continues
at the pace set in July. Reports just
received here show that during the
month 2,633,437 cubic yards of rock
and earth were taken out, compared
with 2.330,770 cubic yards in June.”
CHINESE WEDS U. S. WOMAN
Fan Shih Chien. Son of Mandarin, and
a College Man. Makes Helen M.
Court His Bride.
Boston. Mas*—The marriage ci
Fan Shih Chien. Harvard 1910, son of
a mandarin of Tientsin, and Miss Hel
en May Court of Peabody, Mass., July
13, has just become known through
a return filed at Cambridge. The
bridegroom took his degree from the
Harvard school of business adminis
tration and the pair left for China.
ENDS PALAIS ROYAL
Famous Estate in France to Be
Transformed by Wreckers.
Noted Rendezvous for Many Well
Known Characters Centuries Ago
to Make Way for New Paris
Bourse or Board of Trade.
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Paris.—At last it is settled that the
old Palais Royal is to disappear. The
bourse, or Paris board of trade, or
Wall street, or Fourth avenue, of
Paris, is about to take the place of
the old palace, which was the adorn
ment of the Paris of our great-grand
fathers. This center of frivolous and
corrupted Paris of the distant past is
doomed to disappear beyond redemp
tion. The Society of the Friends of
Old Paris are powerless to save it.
Indeed, it has been dead thi6 many
a day. It has become a cemetery
without mourning, a necropolis with
out poetry. There is hardiy a dream
of its past that has not been de
stroyed.
The great square is given over to
children and their nurses. No gild
ed successors of the, bedizened beau,
ties of the past now promenade the
Galerie de Montpensier. A few be
draggled creatures, nurtured by pov.
erty, rather than by vice, occasionally
traverse this ruined Palace of Pleas
ure. Even the jewelry shops have
long since moved away.
In the beginning of the eighteenth
century the Palais Royal was a sort
of open-air club where people dis
cussed the happenings of Europe and
of Paris from world politics to pri
vate intrigues, big things and little;
the Versailles and the opera; the side
lights of history and the history of
sidelights.
When the Duke d'Orleans of that,
day—crushed with debts—suppressed
a part of the famous garden to estab-;
lish shops, the shopkeepers made a,
fortune. The Orleans family opened
the garden to the bourgeoisie, and
the latter opened access for the Or
leans family to the throne from which
Louis Philippe fell for having trusted,
the bourgeoisie too much.
The Palais Royal is remembered as
the place where Richelieu died, where
Anne of Austria saw the throne of
voung Louis XIV. threatened, where
the bogus financier, the Scotchman
Law, sought an asylum, where Phil
ippe Egalite after having voted
for the death of Louis XVI. had to
stand for an hour before his own
lead was cut off. It is much remem
bered for its orgies during the Re
gency.
But to man's credit, be it noted, that
:his old palace is most vividly re
membered because here Camille Des
moulins harangued the people and dis
tributed green leaves and rallied
:hem to take the bastile the next day.
Vapoleon I. used the old palace as a
In the Palai* Royal Garden*.
•esting place for hie heroes after each
jampaign.
Almost all the characters of his “Hu
nan Comedy" passed through it. It
was the home of the world’s vices,
where men came and went, grumbled,
ihouted. jostled, blasphemed; it was
.he haunt of gamblers and libertines.
>f officers on half-pay, rascals on full
jay. of millionaires who came to pos
less everything and Bohemians who
;ame to see everything.
But all are gone! Now one dines
here with ghosts. The covers aie
still correctly laid In the restaurants
jearing illustrious names, but few
liners darken their doors. Everything
speaks of a world that has passed and
>f a vanished society.
SLEUTH ROBBED BY SHERIFF
California Peace Officer Takes Starch
Out of Detective by Going
Through Hi* Pocket*.
Sn Francisco.—There is a detective
n Chicago who was invited to dinner
is a guest of Sheriff Barnett of Ala
meda county, across the bay from this
jity, and under the mellowing influ
ence of the occasion became some
what boastful of his shrewdness,
rhereupon Barnett abstracted from
:he Chicago man's pockets a watch
ind all the money there was in them.
Later in the evening Barnett turned
jver the articles to the detective's
jompanion, who was one of the party,
ind explained the matter to him.
Now Barnett displays with much
rlee the following letter from Chi
cago:
"I, the greatest detective of Chi
'ago. am disgraced and humiliated,
rhe thought that I have sleuthed
hrough the most dangerous places in
"hicago and New York and other
wicked cities of the east, should travel
icross the continent to have my pock
ets picked by the sheriff of Alameda
jcunty, is so disturbing that I am be
ng treated for insomnia by my physi
5lans.”
Saw Big School of Whales.
New York.—Captain Collins of the
iYilson liner Galilee, -which arrived
lere. says he passed through a school
jf fifteen big whales oft Rockaway.
He threw coal at them to scare them
iway from the propeller.