The Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH. Publisher. VOUP CITY, . • NEBRASKA ME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What Is Transpiring in Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. CONGRESS. The nomination of George W. Guth rie as ambassador to Japan has been reported favorably by committee. The bill for an appropriation for the expenses of delegates to the interna tional congress on alcoholism at Mi lan has been favorably reported. The Works bill to direct geological survey to locate water supplies in deserts and arid lands has been re ported by public lands committee. The woman suffrage committee has ordered a favorable report on the Chamberlain resolution for constitu tional amendment to give women the right to vote. Senator Owen made a futile attempt before the senate Indian affairs com mittee to abolish the Board of Indian Commissioners. The board is ap pointed by the president and its mem bers serve without compensation * Congress will be asked next year to appropriate for one battleship a mammoth dreadnought, displacing 40,000 tons atid costing about twenty million dollars, according to tenta tive plans of the navy general board. Senate republicans began their first big fight on President Wilson’s nominations when the appointment of W. J. Harris of Georgia as director of the census, succeeding E. Dana Dur land, was taken up^in executive ses sion. The Interstate Commerce commis sion. by rescinding in part its recent ruling on the issuance of free trans portation. held that nurses employed, by a family entitled to passes might be considered as a member of such family. GENERAL. Last year's sugar beet crop was worth >10,000,000 to Colorado farm ers. The school children of Clinton, Mo., dug up 10,747 pounds of dandelions last week. Charles A. Fullaway of Philadelphia, has been appointed assistant direc tor of postal savings. Dr. Eusebio Morales, the newly ac credited minister from Panama has arrived in Washington. Wisconsin expects to collect $], 750,000 from the first application of the state income tax law. A bill in the Illinois legislature prpvides a penalty of from one to ten years for stealing an automobile. The British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Gerard Augustus lx>wther, has resigned his post owing to ill health. William Edward Davis, passenger traffic manager of the Grand Trunk railway, died at Montreal after a brief illness. The Cnited States sent a new am bassador to the court of St. James when Walter Hines Page sailed for his post in London. Construction of railroads and open ing of coal mines was asked of con- j grcss in a memorial from the Alaska legislature laid before the senate. Representative Francis of Ohio re cently re-introduced his resolution of the last congress proposing an inves tigation of the American Woolen company. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson went “slum ming” with a party of local social workers and visited “Goat alley,” •'Snow court,” “Ragland -alley” and other squalid spots of the capital. R. A. Thompson, chief engineer of the California railroad commission, has resigned his position to accept a place on the advisory valuation board of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. Jack Harris, a coal miner of Phil dia. Ia., and father of twenty-three children, witnessed the marriage re cently of his daughter, Lora Harris, his thirteenth child to enter upon mat trimony. A proposal that an interval of at least three months be required be tween the filing of a divorce suit in Jackson county and its trial has met with opposition from several of the circuit Judges of Kansas City. It gives an impressive idea of the immensity of the international trade carried on in vessels to read that 56,000,000 tons of coal are consumed In a year in the furnaces of ships em ployed in international commerce. The expenses of the Monte Cario gaming palace last year were $5,000, 000, the profits, $3,800,000. Abbatoir for dogs has been ordered in Berlin to provide for the increas ing popularity of dog meat as a table delicacy. ' Alexis E. Georgian, editor of a so cialist weekly newspaper of Min neapolis, was convicted in the district court of crimminel libel. A Chicago man left his prospec tive bride in the corridor of the court house while he went to get the license, and then ran away with her money. The prohibition state central com mittee of California will begin at once a campaign to obtain und^r the initia tive a petition to have a constitu tional prohibition amendment- submit, ted to the people at the next general election in 1914. William G. McCoy of Kansas City, sent to prison for life from Elk coun ty, Kansas! nine years ago, has been paroled by Governor Hodges. Fesident Wilson gave $300 to a popular fund being raised for an cmergancy hospital and declared he aory he could not write his check for more. , _ Miss Frances A.' Shaw, for thirty years a resident of Minneapolis and widely known as an author, is dead. The “freak” legislature of Califor nia is seriously considering a bill to pay wages to prisoners in state peni tentiaries. Germany's machine tool industry employs 80,000 men. Pittsburghers have started a noise suppressing crusade chiefly aimed at yelling hucksters and store “barkers.” “Coil-Oil Johnny” is reported visit ing his boyhood friends in Pennsylva nia. Johnny is now in his seventieth year. In 1912 the commonwealth govern ment of Australia distributed $11,176. 055 by way of old age and invalid pensions. John S. Kennedy, warden of Sing Sing, demands an investigation of cer tain charges which have been made against him. James J. Hill and Governor Cox of Ohio, w-ere guests of honor at a lunch eon given at the capitol by Speaker and Mrs. Clark. The Wisconsin legislature has ap proved the proposed constitutional amendment providing for the inita tive and referendum. The national peace congress adopt ed a lengthy program, which it de manded the French goverment should support at The Hague in 1915. Paul Aeken, a mine foreman and Dr. C. B. Jones are dead at Johnston, Pa., the result of an electric feed wire crossing a telephone line. The Sultan of Turkey has been re fused any special favors in the Ameri can courts. He must take same stand ign as any other litigant. A special session of the New York legislature is scheduled for June 18, to act on a direct primary measure defeated at the regular session. An international naval force com manded by Vice Admiral Cecil Bur ney of the British navy has taken possession of the fortress of Scutari. Governor Johnson has replied to Bryan's message regarding the alien land bill and declares the state's in terests demand that he sign the meas ure. A notable record is possessed by Mrs. Thelia M. de Beei*, of Victoria, Ga. At the age cf seventy.eight she recently became a widow for the tenth time. The native population of Pitcairn island, famed in history and romance of the South seas, has been reduced over 30 per cent by an epidemic of measles. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Atwater Moore, of Hartford, Conn., have just cele brated their seventieth wedding an niversary. Both are in their ninety first year. Max Fried, a Butte, Mont, politician and man of affairs, was found guilty by a jury in the Pnited States court of having violated the Mann white slave act. Miss Floretta Mining, a Boston edi tress, shifts from a suff to an anti “because,” she says, “women are not yet ready for voting, nor to have an opinion of events." The largest mortgage ever exe cuted covers the new subway about to be built in New York City and calls for 5300,000,0000. The mortgage tax amounted to $1,500,000. After being nearly totally blind for ten ^ears, Hiram Fry of Lincoln, Pa., had an operation performed on his eyes and the same proved so success ful that he is able to see. The dangerous counterfeit Indian head five-dollar silver certificate, re cently discovered, continues in circula tion despite the vigilance of secret service and treasury officials. An Illinois woman who married a preacher with a small salary and grew weary of the job of making ends meet, was refused a divorce by a Cal ifornia court. The court, however, awarded the decree to the preacher. The fate of the Titanic was nar rowly escaped by the steamer, Chil tem Range, In a collision with an ice berg to the east of the Newfoundland banks on her voyage to Montreal. In storming a native village in Kamerun, a German colony in West Equatorial Africa, the Germans lost two killed, including the commanding corporal. The natives lost tthirty killed. High school girls who wear “puffs” and ”rats” and other "trappings” of false hair, were rebuked by Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker of Austin, Texas, president of the General Fed eration of Women's clubs in an ad dress to the Kansas Federation of Women’s clubs at Chanute, Kao. 8PORT. Lewis and Engle of Boston are now way above the .300 mark, which shows that the world’s champions arei hit ting pretty good. George Stovall of the Browns is in the .300 class, which is one of the rea sons Colonel Hedges is so anxious to have his manager reinstated. Cleveland is leading the American League in batting and is sixth in field ing. The Athletics ,are first in field ing and second in batting. The High landers are last in both and also in the league standing. A French aviator recently crossed the English channel from Bremen to Hendon in twenty minutes. First Baseman Woessner of the Kalamazoo South Michigan baseball team, broke his left leg while sliding into the home plate. A new world’s amateur running re cord of C.12 5-8 for fifty miles was made at the Stamford bridge athletic grounds by E. W. Logue. Harvard defeated Cornell at la crosse by the score of 5 to 1, thereby clinching its claim to the champion ship of the northern division of the intercollegiate league. The militant suffragettes in Eng land have created a reign of terror with fire and dynamite. The Topeka Western league team has sold catcher Billings to the Quincy, 111., club in the Tbree-I-lea gue under an optional agreement. Pitcher Qbarles McCoy of the St Joseph Western League club has been ordered to join his team in Lincoln to accompany ft to Denver. Froglegs, a 4-year-old colt, broke a world’s record for running horses when he ran a mile and twenty yards in one minute and thirty-nine seconds flat. NO PUBLIC HEARING PENROSE-LA FOLLETTE AMEND MENT DEFEATED bV 5 VOTES. THEY HAVE A WARM DEBATE Senator James Comes to the Defense of President Wilson’s Stand for Free Sugar. Washington, D. C.—By a vote of 36 to 41, the senate defeated the Pen rose-La Follette amendment and thereby refused to give open hearings 'to the industries affected by the Un derwood tariff bill, notwithstanding it was shown by senators that many American interests had been refused a hearing by the ways and means committee of the house. The bill was ordered to the finance committee for its consideration. Senator Clarence D. Clark of Wyo ming, who is not given to “tearing a passion to tatters,” broke his usual reticence by an impassioned speech, in which he predicted dire things to the democratic party in putting the Underwood bill through the senate without proper consideration. He said the Underwood bill was as much a law as if the vote had been taken and the president had attached,his signa ture to the measure. ' “Many of you democrats are ashamed of this bill for you know it's wrong,’" said Senator Clark, “but you are going to vote to railroad this bill through because of a secret political caucus. “By your vote you are going to tell the American people that a section of the senate is eminently equipped with ability to enact a tariff bill without so much as a hearing from the manufac ! turers since the Underwood bill passed the house. “For you, oblivion in 1914, and la I bor will smite you hip and thigh. “Already the farmer, the stock rais er and-diversified industry are tired of your professions." Two Democrats Break. Two democrats. Senators IRansded I and Thornton of Louisiana, voted for the republican amendment. Senator Poindexter of Washington, progress ive, voted with the majority. Senator Jones of Washington, republican, who previously had determined to vote against public hearings, announced just before the roll call that he had changed his mind because the finance subcommittees were giving private hearings to some interests which he thought should be public. The closing day of debate on the hearings was enlivened with a discus sion of the democratic platform and its bearing on free sugar by Senator James of Kentucky, who vigorously defended the stand taken by President Wilson for free sugar, declared that the party had stood for free sugar and campaigned on it and defied the Louis iana senator to find a man President Wilson had ever told he was opposed to free sugar. Seward Buries Her Dead. Seward, Neb.—At a meeting of citi zens at the Commercial club commit tees were appointed to solicit for a re lief fund for the people who encoun tered losses in the Seward tornado. Mr. Lies of the Red Cross was pres ent at the meeting. Seward citizens are giving liberally, but as the loss is $100,000, 25 per cent of this must be raised. The linemen are busily en gaged in extricating the network of wires into something like order. Very little has yet been accomplished in cleaning up the debris, as the families are placing the dead in their last rest ing places. The funerals of Mrs. Imlay, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Wasserman, Mrs. Has singer, Gustav Schultz and little daughter, and Samuel Crim were largely attended. The body of Mrs. Ed Edmonds was taken to David City, where interment will take place. Moonshiners Flee Before Posse. Springfield, Mo.—A band of armed moonshiners, owners of a “wandering” illicit still in the Ozark mountains of Ripley county, Missouri, are in flight before a posse of federal officers who left Springfield to raid the still. The moonshiners are reported to have crossed into Oregon county, hotly pursued by the posse. Page Sails for Europe. New York.—The United States sent a new ambassador to the court of St. James, when Walter Hines Page sail ed for his post in London. Nebraska Pioneer, Dies in Poverty. Los Angeles.—John J. Gosper, once secretary of state of Nebraska and a veteran of the civil war, died in pov erty here, a ward of the county. He was 71 years old. — Gives $40,000 For Temperance. Medicine Lodge, Kans.—The Wo men's Christian temperance union of Kansas was bequeathed $40,000 by Dr. Henry C. Wisner, of this city. The money is to be used by the temper ance union, -“in any way that it3 charter provides.” Circus Tent Blows Down. Muscatine, la. —Several persons were seriously injured when the large tent of a circus was blown down, in a servere wind storm here. The wind was followed by a hail storm. Rare Presence of Mind. St. Joseph, Mo.—Although but 4 years old, Mary Whitten, saved her self from death by lying flat on the ties when she saw a freight train ap proaching so rapidly she was unable to jump from the track. The engine and twelve cars passed over her. Shriners Finish Meeting. Dallas, Tex.—With the election ot officers and naming of 19l4 convention city the Shriners brought their annual meeting to a close. William W. Irwin becomes imperial potentate. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Tbe annual practice shoot of th« state militia is now being held. Government reports show' that the alfalfa fields of Nebraska are free from alfalfa weevil. Willis E. Reed of Madison has been secured to deliver the Memorial day address at Wisner. ■ Work began today on the basement of the new agricultural building at the state fair grounds at Lincoln. Registrar George D. Temple reports the birth of nine boys and five girls for the month of April in Washington county. A tennis club has been formed at Shubert with a membership of twelve. C. H. Smiley is treasurer and man ager. Thousands of gallons of petroleum being shipped to Norfolk were lost when the train was wrecked by a de fective rail. The Missouri Pacific depot at Weep ing Water caught fire from the sparks of a passing engine. Little dam age was done. The Omaha tornado victims are now about on their feet and few re quests are being made to the relief headquarters. The graduating class of the West Point High school will consist this year of thirteen members, of whom eight are girls. The Peru public school board is contemplating the addition of the ninth and tenth grades to the schools; course of study. Harley G. Moorhead of Omaha has been appointed election commissioner of Douglas county. He is no relation to the governor. Colonel Will H. Daly, formerly own er and publisher of the Cairo Record at Cairo, Neb., has purchased the Dunbar Review plant. The State Board of Health lias ap pointed Miss Gertrude Smith of Omaha as a member of the Nurse Examination board. W. E. Travis of Shubert was the victim of an air rifle. The shot was imbedded behind the ear and medical | assistance was necessary. Although not yet confirmed by the directors, the plans for Omaha’s new $1,000,000 hotel, as under way, con templates a fourteen story building. Four firemen were painfully burned at a blaze at the National Oil Refin- ! ing company’s plant at Omaha when i ! about $3,‘000 worth of oils was de I stroyed. i nere are 22o moving picture shows in Nebraska, which, according to the labor commissioner, entertain I on an average 225,000 people every day. | Sam Patterson of Arapahoe, who iF j seeking the office of auditor of the H. S. treasury, is unanimously backed by the state's representatives at Washington. John Dohn was elected president, August J. Baumann vice president, and S. E. Sinke, secretary of the Grand Island board of education for the ensuing year. According to a report given out by the publicity department of the State Board of Agriculture, Nebraska and Wyoming lead all other states on the condition of winter wheat. The friends and patrons of base ball at West have organized an asso ciation and elected Wiliam Stieren, jr., president; Casimir Zacek, vice president, and A. J. Krause, treasurer. The following old soldiers of Thay er county were in the battle of Get tysburg: John Hughes of Hebron, W. W. Cameron and Dan Sweeney of Chester and Sam Patten of Hubbell. J. W. Scatterwood, who has been editor of the Beatrice Daily Express has resigned his position and will leave for New Orleans, where he will have charge of the sporting page of a daily. John Wiebe, formerly associated with the Blue Valley Mercantile com pany of Beatrice, has purchased the Keystone Cash grocery from G. O. Garrison. J. M. Hurst, who has been justice of the peace at Wymore for some time has been appointed police judge at that place by Mayor Reuling, to succeed Judge F. E. Crawford, ree signed. A. M. Shubert of Shubert, who is treasurer of the eastern Nebraska Fruit Growers’ association, reports that the organization is thriving and that new applications for membership are being received daily. Judge Pemberton at Beatrice re fused to grant the peremptory writ of mandamus compelling the mayor and city council of Wymore to revoke the saloon license granted to Daniel O’Donnell on May 2. The divorce.mill was busy In dis trict court at Seward, when Judge Corcoran granted legal separations to William Thomas from Sarah L. Thomas, Ellen Nye from Emery W. Nye and Fred Wellenmann from Jes sie Wellenmann. Committees have been appointed and plans are being rapidly formu lated by the local aerie of Eagles for the entertainment of delegates who will be at Beatrice for the state con vention of Eagles which will be held June 12, 11 and 12. Six marksmen qualified at the shoot ing of the Nebraska company at the Lincoln range and it is expected that tile record will continue. The. Board of Supervisors in session at Beatrice threw out all bridge bids for the coming year for the reasons that they were too complicated. Arvid Norgreen has filed his suit In district court at North Platte against Harry Dixon, asking $15,000 damages for personal injuries. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was perma nently injured when he was struck by an automobile driven by the defend ant. I Paul Janulouis, former employe m the kitchen of a hotel operated by the Union Stock Yards company in South Omaha, was awarded $7,500 damages for an injury to his hand, received when a window fell upon it, by a ju^y in Judge EsteleB’ court. With 356 men detained at the state penitentiary at the present time the record shows that the population of the prison has decreased nearly 100 Inmates In the past year. A general decrease in the crime of the state and the activity of the state pardon board in paroling the men are given as rear sons for the drop In the figures. ■ !j-’l I -■■’U W,_ 3 ■ M ■ ■ HMI I I ■ ■■ PROSPECTS GOOD " SECETARY MELLOR FILES RE PORT OF CROP CONDITIONS. PLENTY OF RAIN IN APRIL Facts and Figures Furnished From Many Sources Make a Re markable Showing. Lincoln, Neb.—Prospects for a re cord breaking crop from one end o£ the state to the other this year are moat flattering, according to reports received and compiled by Secretary Mellor of the state board of agricul ture. The satisfactory condition appar ently prevails over the state at large and to a greater degree, for this sea son of the year, than for many years past. In gathering data for his report the secretary of the agricultural board had the benefit of the railroad reports, the data furnished by county crop re porters and the sectional reports sent in by creamery and grain men over the state. The state university like wise contributed much information on the subject. The consequent report contains the following information lor the people of the' state: Details of Report. “While the soil was dry at the be ginning of spring work the recent rains have thoroughly soaked the sub soil, while the intermittent snowfall cf March prevented injury from high winds and dust storms Wheat—For perhaps the first time in many years Nebraska fanners were surprised to see the fall whea