The Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA FOB THE BUST ifij NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON EE COMPASSED. UNY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. CONGRESS. Progressive Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas was unanimously elected by the progresive caucus as its candidate for speaker of the house. The United States government has decidt d to recognize the Chinese re public. Secretary Bryan conferred with President Wilson for nearly an hour at the White house completing the details. Recognition of the Chinise republic r.nd the Philippine question has come prominently before the cabinet. The president and his advisers discussed the advisability of early recognition of 'v e Chinese republic, and there is • very likelihood that the United States will be first of the great pow l.-s to take that step. The democratic tariff revision bill was completed Saturday with the ex i option of a final decision on the su gar tariff. From beginning to end it is a measure modeled in accord with the ideas of President Wilson, with wool, meats and many other foodstuffs and clothing materials on the free list; with low duties upon all agricultural products and foodstuffs that are not free; and with the tariff on chemical, cteel and other commercial products cut far below the present protective rates. The money in the treasury is again being counted, but this time, with the exception of the cah in the teller's room, it is being counted by bundles. Should the piece by piece count be adopted it is estimated it would take six months to do the job. With the induction into the office ot a new treasurer of the United States, the money in the treasury has to be checked up. and the induction of es Governcr Burke of North Dakota, as treasurer under President Wilson, has proven no exception to the rule. GENERAL. J. C. Collins, a negro, the slayer of Sheriff Thomas Courtney cf Sheridan county, Montana, was taken from the jail at Mondak and lynched. Connecticut woman suffragists lost their Sight for equal suffrage when the house voted, 150 to 74. to accept the unfavorable report of the committee on constitutional amendments. A military aviator. Serge Phansoux, was killed at Amiens, France. He had just arrived from Rheims and made an error of judgment in landing. The machine tilted and the aviator was thrown out. The Tennessee senate concurred in a house resolution ratifying the fed eral constitutional amendment provid ing for election of United States sen ators by popular vote. Two are dead and ten seriously in jured as the result of a head-on col lision between two Burlington passen ger trains live miles east of Sheridan. Wyo. Ur. F. F. Friedmann has announced that, within a few days or a week, all reputable American physicians will be able to secure his turtle bacilla cul ture for treatment of tuberculosis in all parts of the country. R. D. Wrenn of New York, president of the United States National Lawn Tennis association, has announced that he received acceptance from R. W. Williams, W. F. Johnson of Phia delphia, H. H. Hacket.t cf New York and R. D. Little of New York to com pete in the trial matches for places on the American Davis cup team. To satisfy all factions in the Mexi can melee General Huerta has agreed to the naming of Pedro Lascurain as provisional president, said advices re ceived in El Paso, Tex., directly from the Mexican capital. Lascurain wrill serve out the uncompleted term of the late President Madero. The sentence in London of three years’ penal servitude imposed on Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the militant suffragettes, for inciting lier followers to destroy property has aroused the militant suffragettes to fury and they threaten strong repris als. The four automobile bandits con fined in the prison De La Sante, France, under sentence of death on the guillotine, were searched by war dens and were found to have hidden in their clothing sufficient poison to kill fifty persons. Rain or snow, according to reports to the railroads has been general over all of Nebraska, northern Kansas, Col orado and Wyoming. It has not neen cold and temperatures have ranged from freezing to *o and 50 degrees above zero. Although Fuller A. Cathaway, mill owner of La Grange, Ga., has been selected for commissioner of Indian affairs, no official announcement of the appointment is expected for sev eral days. Then the names of the new commissioner of the general land office and first assistant secretary of the interior will be announced. The Mexican government has made a formal protest to the American gov ernment against the shipping of arms and ammunition from the United States to the rebels and has request ed that greater vigilance be exercised in guarding the frontier. A freight train of fifty cars, it is re ported in Billings, Mont., was wrecked by a washout on the Milwaukee road between Lombard and Judith Gap. Four Burlington trains are still tied up fhere as a result of the high water end ice from the Little Big Horn river washing out 2,000 feet of track in the Crow agency. A heavy snowstorm is raging-in Minnesota. Several persons have been killed by a tornado in Missouri recently. Mrs. Hoke mitb, wife of the sena tor from Georgia, is seriously ill at hei home in Washington, D. C. Reports from Woodbine, la., are to the effect that the storm did about 5200,000 worth of damage and that five people were killed, but that none were injured. Three lives were lost and four peo ple were seriously injured in the storm at Neola, la. The storm centered in a farming community two miles north west cf the town. Mistaken for a burglar, Charles Pen nington, a commercial traveler whose home is believed to have been in Cleveland, was shot and killed in Chi cago by Harry Farrell, a friend. According to an official report from Bulgarian army headquarters, the cap ture of Adrianople cost the Bulgar ians from 10,000 to 1J,000 killed and wounded, and the Servians 1,200. Municipal elections throughout Iowa developed many peculiar results. Ot tumwa, a town of 40,000, elected Pa trick Leeny, a switchman of the Mil waukee read, as mayor. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter cf Theodore Roosevelt, was married at Oyster Bay, X. V., in Christ Episco pal church to Or. Richard Derby of Xew York. Six strike rioters were shot by the police in Auburn. X. J., during an at tack which a mob of 300 made on the plant of the Columbian Rope company. Two of the six are fatally injured. Messages continued to comp to President Wilson front foreign lulers expressing sympathy for sufferers in the western storms and floods. King George of England also cabled. Isom P. ' Wooten, pastor of the Friend's church in Seattle and former ly well known throughout the United States as an evangelist ar.d organizer of the Friends church is dead. The Japanese government has lodged formal protest with the State department against the proposed en actment by the state of California of what it considers anti-Japanese legis lation, the measure prohibiting the alien ownership of land in California. The body of a youth about 20 years old, was found recently in Kansas City, crushed under a pi'.e of machin ery in a Missouri Pacific coal car, con signed from Omaha. A card with the name of William Butler, S*13 Washing ton street, was found in one of the pockets. Mrs Catherine Waugh McCnllach of Evanston, 111., told the Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference which be gan a three days' session in St. L