Nebraska Newspapers

    The Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA
FOR THE BUSY IN
NZWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign* Intelligence Con
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
CONGRESS.
The senate passed the bill author
izing payment of $71,000 to American
Injured by firing on the Mexican bor
der.
The house refused by a vote of 213
to 114, to pass tlie Dillingham-Bur
nett immigration bill over the presi
dent’s veto.
The house money trust investigat
ing committee has begun considera
tion of the financial regulation legis
lation which will be recommended in
its report.
Secretary MacVeagh submitted to
President Taft his plan for the reor
ganization of the customs service in
accordance with the authority grant
ed by congress.
. Senator Brown introduced amend
taents to the public building bill pro
viding for the following public build
ings: Alliance, $125,000; Wahoo,
\ 100,000; Auburn. $68,000.
A bill to reduce the number of of
ficers for each regiment of infantry,
cavalry and field artillery was intro
duced in the House by Chairman Hay
of the house military affairs commit
lee.
Secretary MacVeagh told the house
committee on Treasury department
expenditures that $35,000,000 in the
treasury above current liabilities was
a practicable working balance and
that in emergencies it could be run
below that amount.
Representative Webb of North Car
olina has introduced a resolution re
questing the attorney general to fur
nish the public with information as to
why the criminal prosecution of im
porters of china from Limoges.
France, had been discontinued.
The largest pension bill ever re
ported to congress, carrying appro
priations aggregating $180,300,000,
was passed by the house by a vote of
219 to 40, with an amendment which
will make necessary an additional ap
propriation of more than $1,000,000.
Resolutions commending the efforts
of Secretary of State Knox as chair
man of the governing board of the
Pan-American union for the last four
years to further amity and friendship
between the 1'nited States and Latin
Ameriea were adopted unanimously
at a meeting of the governing board
of Pan-tmerican union.
A coat of white paint applied to the
square reading desk from which
Woodrow Wilson will deliver his in
augural address March 4 constituted
one of the real “finishing touches" to
the great temporary structure that
has gone up on the east front of the
capitol in preparation for inaugura
tion.
i Plain labeling of food packages with
the net weight and contents before
they are sold to the public is required
by a bill passed by the senate, which
already had passed in the house.
Slight changes made by the senate
will requiVe a conference committee
of the two houses before the measure
Is sent to the president for signature.
The proposed $100,000,000 Rocke
feller foundation for benevolent pur.
poses constitutes the safest disposi
tion that can be made of that portion
of John I). Rockefeller's immense for
tune, is the conclusion expressed in a
majority report from the senate judic
iary committee to the senate recom
mending the passage of the Rocke
feller foundation bill.
Intervention of the Vnited States
government to secure justice, or at
least a fair trial for fallen President
Madero of Mexico, as announced by
Secretary Knox at the cabinet meet
ing was an unexpected development
of the State department policy in re
gard to that republic. Recently it was
announced that there was no intention
to depart from the policy of nonin
tervention in the Mexican troubles.
Extravagance in the present sys
tem of improving waterways and the
need of closer co-operation between
the states and the federal government
were emphasized in the senate in a
fight over certain provisions of the
annual river and harbor appropria
tion bill. Senator -Nelson, chairman
of the senate committee, said better
results could be secured in waterway
Improvement if congress would appro
priate a lump sum and leave the de
tails of river improvement to a com
mission of army engineers.
GENERAL.
Postmaster General Hitchcock's an
nual report tentatively suggests reduc
tion of some parcels post rates and
increasing the limit of weight beyond
eleven pounds
Ye Ho Na I*a, empress dowager of
China, is dead. She was the widow
of Emperor Kwangsu, who died No
vember 1", 1908.
Hurried preparations are being
made in Mexico City for the flight of
American women and children from
the stricken city to safety within the
borders of the United States.
Three hundred and fifty clergymen
of New York City, representing more
than forty denominations, met at a
luncheon recently in honor of James
Bryce, who has announced his im
pending retirement as ambassador
from Creat Britain.
Order is being restored in Mexico
City. Ambassador Henry Lane Wil
son so notified the State department
In Washington.
The Third cavalry at Fort Sam
Houston, has been ordered from
Washington to hold itself in readiness
to entrain for Galveston, prepared for
foreign'service.
y .
Over $6,000,000,000 is invested in
the electrical business in the U. S.
The Showmen's League of America,
an organization composed of owners
of various kinds of tent shows and
outdoor attractions, has been formed
in Chicago.
Don Arturo Bandini, one of the last
members of a distinguished Spanish
family, which traced its history back
to Castillian days in Mexico, died in
San Francisco.
Scarcely a district of the capital of
Mexico has escaped injury. Almost
everywhere shells have torn their
way through buildings. Hundreds of
buildings attest this.
Threatened litigation over the $10,
000,000 estate of the late Richard T.
Crane, of Chicago has been averted,,
according to a statement by Richard
Crane, Jr.
The "telephone trust" situation on
the Pacific coast is being intestigated
by the federal government to deter
mine wether the Sherman law is be
ing violated.
uenver, t 010., according 10 siaus
tics, uses more light in proportion to
its population than any other city in
the country; three candle-power per
head. Boston conies next.
A bili making it a misdemeanor,
punishable by a tine of from $10 to
$25 for any person to give, solicit or
receive indirectly a tip, has been in
troduced in the Pennsylvania legis
lature.
The national chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president and senate of the United
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1908. •
Three bandits who held up a raloon
at Eagle, Colo., and secured $2,500
are still at large. Sheriff Schrader
of Lake county has a force of deputies
searching the mountains.
The lower house of the Michigan
legislature passed the Glassner eugen
ics bill, which provides that every
person seeking to marry must submit
to physical examination.
Denial was made by D. L. Bush,
general manager of the Milwaukee
railway, that a demand tiad been made
on officials of the road for a raise of
5 cents per hour in the wages of the
boiier makers.
A resolution was adopted at the an
nual convention of the Illiuois division
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, providing for arranging a wage
scale one year before the expiration
of the present one with the operators.
Bishop John Joseph Hogan of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Kansas
City, the oldest Catholic prelate both
in years and point of service in this
country, is critically ill at the ecclesi
astical residence here of pneumonia.
A great fire which occurred in the
center of Tokio, destroyed 1.000 build
ings. These included several
churches, the Baptist tabernacle, the
Salvation hall, the school of foreign
languages and several other schools.
One hundred Christians have been
massacred by Turkish troops in the
village of Kenaminio, Bulgaria.
After shooting his wife dead. Henry
Goldberg, a painter, was shot and
killed by his 21-year-old son, Edward,
at Oakland. Calif.
Nathan B. Goff, judge of the United
States circuit court of appeals, a re
publican, was elected United States
senator by a joint session of the West
Virginia legislature to succeed Clar
ence W. Watson, democratic incum
bent.
According to information received
at the suffrage headquarters neither
President Tuft or President elect Wil
son will be present on March :! to re
view the suffrage parade that will
march down Pennsylvania avenue
from Capitol hill in Washington.
Insurgent Modern Woodmen of
America from the Second congression
al district and members of the organ
ization's executive committee at a ban
quet in Omaha decided by resolution
to renew their efforts to have the leg
islature enact what is known as the
referendum rate bill.
Three of the assassins of the 'ate
president of the republic of Salvador.
Dr. Manuel E. Araujo, have been shot
by platoons of soldiers. The shooting
took place on the Camp D? Marte race
course in the presence of a large con
course of people.
At the closing session of the conven
tion of the Laymen's Missionary move
ment of the Southern Presbyterian
church, the proposed world's tour of
missionaries under direction of the in
terdenominational laymen's mission
ary movement was approved.
Francisco I. Madero, arrested in the
j national palace in Mexico City, by
I General Blanquet, one of his own com
j manders, was forced to sign his res
I ignation from the presidency. General
I Victoriano Huerta, who has been
; fighting Diaz, has been proclaimed
| provisional governor. Gustav Madero
and all the cabinet ministers, with
the exception of Ernesto Madero, are
under arrest. The vice president of
the republic, Jose Pino Suarez, still
is at liberty, but in hiding. The
American ambassador and the other
foreign diplomats held a conference at
the American embassy to discuss the
re-establishment of order and the
further protection of foreign residents.
Francisco I. Madero. deposed from
the presidency of Mexico, will be ex
iled. Preparations for the transpor
tation of the deposed president and
Vice President Suarez and their fam
ilies to Vera Cruz to catch a steamer
for. Europe have been completed.
That Francisco Madero will get out
of Mexico without having to face of
ficial investigations erf one charge or
another now appears improbable. He
already has been charged with re
sponsibility for the deatli of Colonel
Riveroll. whom be is alleged to have
! shot at the time of bis arrest in the
palace.
Governor Oddie signed the Barnes'
amendment to the Nevada divorce law.
SPORT.
Jim Johnstone, late of the National
league, has signed to umpire in the
Amercan Assocatnn.
Gustav F. Touchard won the four
teenth holding of tne national indoor
tennis championship singles in New
York.
Willie Beecher handed out a very
artistic trimming to Bobby Scanlon of
Philadelphia in the ten-round windup
before the Olympic Athletic club re
cently.
KILLED ON WAY TO PRISON.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS TRAGEDY
It Is Claimed That the Prisoners
Attempted to Escape—In
vestigation Ordered.
Washington, D. C. — Ambassador
Henry L.ane Wilson telegraphed to
the state department that Francisco
de la Barra, minister for foreign af
fairs, had invited all foreign diplo
mats in Mexico City to take luncheon
with hiiA. The ambasador stated
that none of the diplomats would at
tend the luncheon unless the tragic
death of former President Madero
and former Vice President Suarez is
cleared of mystery.
Mexico City.—Francisco I. Madero
and Jose Pino Suarez are dead.
In a midnight ride under guard
from the National palace to the peni
tentiary they were killed.
The circumstances surrounding the
death of the deposed president and
vice president of the republic are un
known, except as given in official ac
counts. which do not conform in all
eases. The only witnesses were these
actually concerned in the killing.
The provisional president. General
Vietoriano Huerta, says the killing of
the two men was incidental to a fight
between their guard and a party at
tempting to liberate them. The minis
ter of foreign relations, Francisco de
la Barra, adds that the prisoners at
tempted to escape. Neither makes a
definite statement as to which side
fired the fatal shots. It is not impos
sible that neither knows.
An official investigation has been
ordered to determine the responsibili
ty, and solemn promises have been
made that the guilty will be punished.
Not unnaturally a great portion of
the public regards the official ver
sions with doubt, having in mind the
use for centuries of the notorious
"ley fnga.” the unwritten law which j
is invoked when the death of a prison- i
er is desired. After its application
here is written on the records, j
'Prisoner shot trying to escape.”
Senora Madero, widow of the ex
president, received the first definite
information of his death from the
Spanish minister, Senor Cologan y j
Cologan. She already had heard re- <
ports that something unusual and ser
ious had happened, but friends » had j
endeavored up to that time to pre
vent her from learning the whole
truth.
Soon afterward, accompanied by his j
brother, Jose Perez, and Mercedes |
Madero, a sister of Francisco. Senora j
Madero drove to the penitentiary, but
was refused permission to see the
body of her husband.
The tragedy occurred shortly after ;
midnight. Madero and Suarez, who
had been prisoners in the national
palace since their arrest on Tuesday ,
last, were aceqmpanied by another car -
and escorted by 100 rurales, under ;
the orders of Commandant Francisco i
Cardenas and Colonel Rafael Pim
iento.
Veteran Printer Passes Away.
Omaha.—Calvin D. Schulz who died
Saturday night at the age of 72 had
been a printer since he began on the
Rockford, 111., Republican in 1856 at
the age of 16. In 1866 he came to i
Council Bluffs, working on the Bugle, j
Two years later he came to Omaha, >
working on the Republican and the
Herald and was forman of the Herald
when, with other union printers, he
went out on a strike from all three
dailies. He was held in high regard
by the printers and the Omaha Typo
graphical union will send flowers to
his funeral and two members for pall
bearers. He was comrade in Grand
Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
and was an officer of St. Mark's
Lutheran church.
Million Dollar Fire in Columbus.
Columbus, Ga. — Approximately
41,000,000 losses are charged against
the fire which destroyed the plant of
the Atlanta Compress company, the
factory of the Columbus Barrel com
pany and other property of lesser val
ue. About 11,000 bales of cotton were
burned.
Little Graft In Washington.
Washington.—There is less graft,
(here is less scandal, police protection
is better and nature appears more
beautiful in Washington than in any
city in this country, President Taft
declared in a farewell speech thu
other day.
Plot to Break Out of Pen.
Carson City.—The arrest of an ex
convict has led to the discovery' of an
organized plot for an outbreak at the
penitentiary. The former convict told
the story when arrested.
Would “Nationalize” University.
New York.—In an effort to "nation
alize" the University of Pennsylvania,
delegates representing 19,000 alumni
all over the world met in this city
recently. India, China and Brazil
were among the countries represented
at this gathering.
Sngar Co's Demurrer Sustained.
New York.—Federal Judge Coxe
sustained the demurrer of the Federal
Sugar Refining Co. in the suit to re
cover re-liquidated duties on imported
sugar aggregating 4119,080.
Record Cargo of Corn.
Baltimore.—What is believed to bo
a record breaking cargo of corn taken
out of an Atlantic port is in the steam
er Vnrldura. which sailed from here
for Amsterdam recently. There are
stowed away in the vessel 324,C15
bushels.
Larger Army for France.
Paris. — Raymond Poincare, new
president of the French republic, in a
message to Parliament, made some
pointed references to the necessity of
increasing France's military forces.
NEBRASKA 1^ BRIEF.
Coming Events in Nebraska.
Feb. 24 to March 1.—Omaha Auto
mobile Show, Omaha.
March 5 to 15—“Made-in-Nebraska”
Show, Omaha.
March 11 to 14—Convention Feder
ation Nebraska Retailers, Omaha.
The l. M. C. A. will erect a new
building at Havelock.
Merrick county’s new court house
is nearing completion.
Heartwell recently had a destruct
ive fire.
The farmers of Thayer have organ
ized a Farmers' institute.
Tlie Loyal Order of Moose held its
annual fair in Omaha recently.
George Allen, a prominent and
widely known stock raiser of Lexing
ton, is dead.
The contract for the construction of
the new court house at Greeley has
been awarded.
Work on the route of the Fremont
power canal will be begun at an early
date.
Wm. M. Jones, who died decently
at Hulo, was the oldest man in that
county.
Several small bridges on the Platte
river near Fremont have been wash
ed away.
Sugar beet growers in the Scotts
bluff country are making contracts
for the 19L! crops.
Miss Ethel McCabe, who was hurt
in an automobile wreck, at Tekamah
recently, died as a result.
W. D. Guttery of Pilger has been
appointed first assistant superintend
ent at the Norfolk insane asylum.
A few women of Beatrice met and
organized the Beatrice auxiliary to the
Nebraska State Suffrage association.
The Platte river at North Bend is
bank full and running over the ice
and through well worn channels.
At Kearney an election has been
ordered to issue $40,000 in bonds for
the improvement of city parks.
The Broken Bow' High school basket
ball team was defeated at Aurora by
the city Y. M. C. A. team by a score
of 25 to 20.
John Harper, while chopping down
a large oak tree southeast of Arling
ton, found a cannonball weighing
nearly six pounds.
The use of liquor by Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Car company
employes is absolutely forbidden in
an order recently posted.
Food Commissioner Harman is ar
ranging plans (o have a pure food and
pure seed special tour the state of
Nebraska in a few' weeks.
A suffragist club was recently or
ganized at Nehawka, with a roster of
sixtv-three. and the pledges of some
fifteen or twenty more.
Dr. W. S. Fast of St. Joseph has
been appointed superintendent of the
Feeble-Minded institute at Beatrice
by .Governor Morehead.
No trace of Charles Frost, the boy
who disappeared from Seward, after
believing that he bad fatally injured
a fellow student, has been found.
Five solid trains—more than 200
cars—all loaded with dressed meats
from the South Omaha packing
houses, went east out of Omaha re
cenuy.
Fire that had its origin in a de
fective lighting plant gutted the gen
eral store of D. W. Butler at Heming
ford. Water and smoke makes loss
on stock almost complete.
Frederick Small, a 9-year-old son
of H. A. Small, of Kearney, was badly
hurt when he fell from a fire escape
while going through the fire drill ex
ercises at the school house.
Albert .Martin was brought to trial
and found guilty of the forging of sev
eral checks in Kearney some time
ago, at the sitting cf the district
court in that city.
Ten mail cars, all constructed from
the newest specifications furnished by
the United States railway mail depart
ment, have been received in Omaha
by the Union Pacific.
Congressman-elect Silas R. Barton
of the Fifth Nebraska district and
Miss Ellen T. Metcalfe were married
at the home of the parents of the
bride near Lincoln recently.
An amendment to the Federal pub
lic building bill to set aside $2,000 for
seeding, sodding and the construction
of walks around the Beatrice post
office '*has been offered by Senator
Brown.
Topeka and St. Joseph figured in a
deal whereby St. Joseph acquires
Pitcher McGrath by purchase. Mc
last year. The Denver-St. Joseph
deal, involving Players Lindsay and
Reilly, was all but declared off. Sioux
City is after First Baseman Lindsay
and may acquire him by purchase
from Denver.
Little 10-year-old George Moles is
lying in a precarious condition at the
home of his parents, six miles north
east of Fairbury, with a bullet lodged
in his left breast. In company with
his brother, Williard, and several
other companions, they were playing
in the yard with a twenty-two caliber
rifle and in some manner the weapon
was accidentally discharged.
Mrs. Maggie Davis, who killed Ira
Churchill n°ar Coleridge, on Novem
ber 2, 1910, was discharged by District
Judge Welch from the Norfolk insane
hospital after an insanity commission
named by the court had reaffirmed its
former decision that Mrs. Davis is
Govprner Morehead has announced
the following appointments: E. Bur
gess, farmer. Grand Island Soldiers’
home. William Sandusky, Pleasant
dale, physician at Milford Industrial
home. Dr. Deogrey, physician, Mil
ford Soldiers' home. Anna Wheelan,
York, secretary to garfie warden.
Enable to stand the humiliation of
being whipped by an oider brother,
Amos Leech. 16 years old, attempted
to end his life at his home in Omaha
by swallowing a quantity of copper cf
sulphate.
Following the refusal of the city
council of Grand Island to submit a
proposition to the voters to sell the
municipal lighting plant to a private
company, the local press contains a
letter from the latter in which he in
dicates a willingness to sell his elec
tric business and plant at a price to
j be agreed upon, the proposition to be
submitted to the people.
PRISON LABOR BILL
SENATE APPROVES MEASURE IN
TRODUCED BY DODGE1.
TO BENEFIT STATE AND MEN
Dill Proposes That State Employ
Prisoners to Make Furniture,
Shoes, Etc.
The Dodge bill to provide that in
mates of the state prison and propos
ed state reformatory be employed to
make furniture, clothing, shoes, etc.,
for state institutions, be worked on
country roads, and that part of their
wages be paid their dependant fami
lies, has been approved by the senate.
The employment of the men was
left to the new board of control, who
will have full direction of the work.
The object of the bill is to abolish
the present system of prison contract
labor and substitute a method by
i which the state will receive direct
j benefit from the men's work and the
men themselves will be benefited.
At present men are hired by the
| prison contractors for 55 cents per
! day per man, less than it costs the
! state to keep them. In consequence
j prison made goods can be sold for
| less than those made in free estab
; lishmonts.
Bills Passed by the Senate.
On third reading the senate passed
the following bills:
Senate File No. t>l, by Saunders of
Douglas- Provides that property left
with jewelers for repair or alteration
may be levied upon as a lien.
Senate File No. lob, by lloagland of
Lincoln—Provides that water appro
priations and point of diversions of
flumes and ditches may be changed
upon authorization of state irriga
tion board.
Senate File No. 118. by Spirk of
Saline- Makes it unlawful for hard
ware dealers to sell, give or lend lire
arnts to persons under age of 18 years.
Senate File No. 1117. by lloagland of
Lincoln—Amends civil code and
authorizes the assignment of cases in
action for the purpose of the assignee
maintaining suit thereon.
Senate File No. 132. by Heasty of
Jefferson— Provides for sterilization
of habitual criminals.
Senate File No. 154 by Grossmann
of Douglas—Makes it unlawful for
person to have fraudulently issued re
ceipt for ffaternal dues in liis posses
sion.
Senate File No. 159, by Taleott of
Knox Provides for sanitation and
upkeep of workshops, factories and
mills of the state.
Senate File No. 175, by Haarmann
of Douglas—Cuts of birth and death
reporting fees of Omaha registrars.
Senate File No. 191. by Dodge of
Douglas -Physician member of Board
of Pardons to be member of peniten
tiary medical board.
Senate File No. 200, by Haarmann
of Douglas—Pure linseen oil bill.
Senate File No. 204. by Taleott of
Knox—Revokes cream testers' licens
es in case of law violation.
! Senate File No. 282, by lloagland of
Lancaster—Prohibits use of strycli- I
nine or arsenic in embalming fluid.
Fourth Story for State House.
Slate ■ Land Comissioner Fred ;
Heckman is investigating (lie cost of j
adding another story to the larger .
portion of the state house. The sen- ]
ate recently asked for an estimate of
the cost of fitting up the basement as |
for office rooms and received the an- !
swer from Hird Miller, superintendent j
of construction of state buildings, say- ;
ing it would cost $!jt),t)(>u to do this j
and fit up a few rooms near the lower I
portion of the dome and to put in a
passenger elevator.
Makes Governor's Term Four Years.
The house has completed its part
of the task of increasing the salary of
the governor and extending his term
to four years. Palmer’s resolution to
submit a constitutional amendment
covering the subject passed on third
reading, 80 to 12. The proposed
amendment makes the governor in
elible to re-election after a four-year
term and raises his his salary lrom
$2,500 to $5,000 a year.
Neswpaper Advertising.
A bill by Dodge of Douglas, which
provides that politicians running for
office shall not he compelled to pay
any more for advertising than the reg
ular display rates charged the com
mon people, was passed by a vote of
19 to 10.
Mallery’s Bill Passes House*
By a vote of only 55 to 33, the house
committee of the whole approved
Maliery’s bill for a constitutional con
vention to revise the organic law of
the state.
Governor Imports Superintendent.
Governor Morehead justifies his
action in going outside of the stare
for a superintendent of the institute
for feeble-minded youth at Beatrice
j by saying that Dr. W. S. Fast of St.
Joseph. Mo., is really a Nebraska
prodoct.
House Passes Lee Bill.
The house has passed the Lee bil!
permitting the city council of Omaha
to vote $50,000 for park improvements
and to construct a work house.
Want Settlement Now.
Friends of the university insist that
the question of consolidation with the
farm should be settled this session.
They fear that if the proposition of
the Lincoln city council is accepted
someone will enjoin the levy of the
tax, and thus the matter iwll be held
up in the courts for months and may
be tow years. Thus everything wil
have to be done over again by the
next legislature. la the meantime
with things unsettled, it will be doubt
ful if the legislature will provide fot
any more buildings on present site
ELECTION DAY IN FRANCE
Republic Choose Versailles as City in
Which Presidents Are Named—
Executives All Have Doubles.
Versailles, France.—The day of the
presidential election revived some of
the old glories of Versailles. Louis
XIV., as we know, selected Versailles
In preference to St. Germain as his
abode. He, in fact, created it. It was
In the course of a hunting party that
he was fascinated by the beautiful sur
roundings and the wooded country of
Versailles, and immediately after
wards joined and formed the nucleus
of the chateau. For nearly a century
Versailles was abandoned, and it was
the Republic which restored some of
its prestige. First of all the senate
and chamber met there regularly till
1S79, and then the Constitution pro
vided that even after the removal of
1
Bed of Queen Marie Antoinette, Pre
served in the Palace of Versailles.
the parliament to Pans the election
of the president of the republic should
always take place at Versailles. The
great event of January 17 being po
litical. Versailles lacked some of the
gay and fashionable elements to which
such an occasion might lend itself.
President Fallieres may or may not
regret his disappearance from the
Elysee. Hut there is one man who
does. The good ex-president has a
double in Paris, who for years has
basked in a subtly reflected glory. He
realized early—friends rushed to tel!
him—in the career of the new presi
dent that he would be constantly
taken for the head of the state, and,
being a humorist and genial person
withal, he prepared himself for his
fate. When any one bowed to him
respectfully he returned a sweeping
"coup de chapeau" and smiled an am
ple Fallieres smile. He even wore a
hat such as the worthy president af
fected, and a spotted butterfly tie.
These things reassured many people
who were at first inclined to doubt
whether it really was the president
after all.
Every French president, they say,
has his double, and for some one the
honor which has been withdrawn from
the double of M. Fallieres will be be
stowed upon some one as yet perhaps
all ignorant of the greatness thrust
upon him. Let us hope he will take
it in the same gracious spirit that has
characterized M. Fallieres' double.
That complaisant personage will not
be shorn of all his felory. He will still
shine with a modified luster as the
double of an ex-president.
WHY CAT HAS NINE LIVES
Has Ceased to Be a Question to This
Official Cat and Dog
Executioner.
New London. Conn.—Why a cat has
nine lives ceases to be a question. The
presence of electricity explains it.
This important contribution to sci
entific knowledge is made by Herbert
A. Deau of Providence, who holds the
delightful job of official cat and dog
executioner in Providence and New
London.
lie has cut short the careers of nu
merous dogs here by asphyxiation in
a large tank. None of them gave Dean
a bit of trouble.
Several months ago he placed a cat
in the gas tank and turned on the
fumes. Within a few minutes the tank
exploded, almost consigning Dean and 1
his assistant. Earl Brown, to the fate 1
decided on for the cat.
Dean thought that was just an ordi
nary accident, but the other day when
a second cat was tossed in to the
tank, the death chamber blew up
again. Brown was slightly injured !
and Dean's hair was singed. What
remains of the tank will never form a
topic of conversation.
Dean, seeking an explanation, went
to the office of the New London Gas
and Electric Company and told his j
story. One of the officials laughed :
and said that when a cat is thrown in- |
to the tank the feline arches its back
and by rubbing the same against the
side of the tank generates so much
electricity that an explosion is inevi
table.
The gas expert said that this was !
so because one of his engineers who !
had looked into the thing said it was j
MAN TAKES BACK HIS DOLLAR
Husband Keeos Eight-Year Record for
Stinginess Free From
Stain.
Minneapolis.—The limit cf a hus- i
band's stinginess was brought out in
a divorce case in District court here.
The plaintiff was on the witness stand,
when she made the statement that her
husband had never contributed to her
support.
"Didn't your husband ever give you
any money?" asked the court.
“Well, he did give me a dollar soon
after we were married, eight years
ago,” answered the witness. "but
shortly afterward he insisted upon
my returning It. Then die desertec
me.”
The divorce was granted.
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