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HEWS OF IE WEEK CONCENhATiONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. I SOILING DOWN OF EVENTS Nat>eaa<. Political. Personal Otnor ttancrs m Brief Form for AU CiMti of Reader*. WASHINGTON. Senator Penrose introduced a reso NUua fur a euainMue ul trim to Aran a bill tor a reorgai i/ation uf in Bate afiatnt. M Unary omatniUOB of the senate tuu4 to laturabii retort the txitntca «joc of « ouw-t W V. is*. to be ii'pvr. general of hr army. TV Senate Fonin :eiatkm>‘ com a:t'rr baa lulrf to fa > ora hi. report Itr acMataatloe of Henry M |*ii»de.'! of ('«'.» III. tor antortotor to Rus sia. • • • Senator Oh-tbu ltt'ofiKrd a rr*i> lot Mia to require tb« president to con eider tram'to* ottli European power* lor ibr u-jtn;a> :«b ot U»e Phllip f’.ne island* • o o flatmartt regulation o' al'. forms *! iMnur roaipaiiiea aa* iropoaed la a Joint resolution for an amend ment u> tbe ruwtittikn introduced By Senator Weeks • • • The * nat«- Judu ar romautu-e ha* •mended the narkmea’* compensation kill to prurtde that it should not cur tail the rights of rallruad employee under yrrw-a law* • • • Is preparation fur a gath*Mug of tfce laterparktaecun union here tn Pe; -en Per. At* 11. the house foreign af fair* oon.m*t:*->- practically agreed to a»> for aa wppr prtauon of fld/Mf hwiftot VYUsor baa decided not to accept the natgetua of Jobs tt. Corel, minister to Argentina, form Wily tendered when the pr*. idem took •ftra. nod the minister a ill continue Is *.h« d p.rwuatic oervice. ladttidaai*. wbooe net nc-une from Mar*- * 1. i*l*. to Uecetnber 21 1*13. waa or more, must make re turn* of tbetr annual income for the yea:*, according to a regulation issued t the Treasury department. Senator E'ifcu Root urged Secre tar> Bdyaa to take step* to bare The Hunt conference called to meet In 1*12. according to the original pro gram Secretary Br as has taken the a abject under naniiir'ilxa • • • Prc- *v.-nt Wilson recently made* these t.'-mtaaUouo Rw* ' t*ri of pub lic aaoiea It. tt. Turner of ©.-etton at tUiet irt. Ore : John W. Chiyd of (Vi)unf« ai Storting. Cola.; George !. Smith of Oregon at Portland. Ore. i>'»! . he* to 'he f ,u>:i*utionalitr. a*-o< . L»-re report the arre-t of Wil liam Hanses at Victoria. Met., by tier.-ea! « arranza a forte* on tiie chat* of being a Huerta rpy Haa aes was al one time a I sited Stales marshiil ta Texas Wbe* the Alaskan bill was ; Uku u;> (be bouse Representative | bk« of Tru> made a point of no quorum Speaker Clark. apparently { with bis m.ad <mi (he Mexican situs-' tux. rteopiuJ "Mr. Diaz/' while the \ boose roared with laughter DOMESTIC. lumbermen from all ports of the oiutrjr are in session at Memphis., Tret • • s The Men'rr A Knaeabloom company or Kurbewter. X. f. operating a chain of fifty-nine installment stores throughout the cosBiry has placed its afla:r* ia the hands of a com :c'tie- of Its creditors, to whom the entire assets are being tranalerred Arrangements for the caring Indefl niteiy of On. Salvador Mercado and hit 4.3*s u-deral soldiers who ran in to the l otted State- after being de tested by the rebels at Ojmigt. Mexi co. hare been completed at Fort Bliss Confident optimism of the adottis trat.or. over the outlook for commer cial and Industrial prosperity under democratic rule was voiced by Jose phus Mantels, secretary of the navy, in an address before the Brooklyn Mer«: arts and Manufacturer as o ciaiion of Brooklyn. The Traveler's bank of Atlanta. Gs.. has closed its down for business. The hunk sas organized about two years ago with a capital stock of Its depct t • are said to be leas than that amount Attorney genera! McReyuolds has worked oat plans for radical changes In the method of operating federal penitentiaries and in the handling of Hr coniemplhte* the aba’i tk>n of the system which allows con victs to be used in making articles afterwards put on the market. Willem Ash. mfttber of a band of eoaiiierfciiefs. »bo mad* $5 bank Botes la Troy. X. Y. and circulated thru, la Ne» Yorh. has been sentenc ed U» taro yearn io the federal peni teetiary at Atlanta. Increased rates on lumber from po.at* » Arkana**. UMUnUna. Mite owri Oklahoma aad Texas also from Memphia. Teen.. to Illinois Indiana aad «krr north central states, except as to rates on bard mood and yellow ptut to Shura CUy. acre sustained by inter state cotnmer. e commission Jaats M recently appointed New yost state comtnlssioacr of la aft Albany far Indiana poll*, to aer^r his connection with the Interna •Ml Typographical nnton as its Italy has o . < r S00 hermits living in caves. • • • The I'nited Slates battleship Michi gan after ton months in Mexican waters has arrived at New York. The Chicago Anamoza 4: Northern railroad was sold at public auction at Dubuque for $252,030.0?. The South Carolina general assem bly has gone on record as favoring the rei>en,' of the fifteenth amendment to the Cnited States constitution, which in effect gives negroes the right to vote. • • • Ten Kansas City Greeks were order ed deported following a government investigation of a syndicate of Greek wlu'e slavers alleged to have operated extensively in the middle west. Most of th- men are keepers of coffee houses or saloons. An organization of farm mortgage dealers, national in scope, has been formed at Chicago, and \V. D. Hurd of New York, chairman of the organiza tion conimi’tee, sent out a call for a general convention, to be held at New York. February 2t> and 27. • • • Veiled charges that attaches of the loderal court and district attorney's office proti'ed by the disappearance of Sol l.ewinsohn. a missing banker, who was bondsman for .lack Johnson, will be the subject of investigation by the federal grand jury at Chicago. The collection of manuscripts and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, owned by the late Harry Elkins Wide ner ot I'ii ladelphia. a victim of the Titanic disaster, will be presented to Harvard university on the completion of the Widener Memorial library. • • • Mediation of the differences be tween the New York. Chicago & St. la>ui- railroad and its telegraphers. I tation agents, tower men and signal men. who have voted to strike, will be undertaken at Cleveland. O. b> Judge William L. Chambers. I'nited Sta'« - commissioner of mediation and conciliation. Federal officers at Los Angeles will institute proceedings to revoke thq natural :7.at on I'ape s of l*. S. Kaneko, one of the wealthiest Japanese in 1 California. He is the only Jananesq 1 citizen of the I'nited States. He was i granted naturalization papers eigh teen ear- ago. despite the law denying citizenship rights to orientals. ■ • Stockholders of the Hercules Pow der company of Wilmington. Del., has approved a propo-ition of the direc tors to increase the eaptial stock from $10 •< . to 12" • 0.0 ’ The Her cules company is one of the concerns formed after the dissolution of the origin;,’ DuPont Powder company in obedience to an order of the I'nited States court. FOREIGN. All the bishops of Italy hate for t bidden dancing ot the tango. • • * i Th.- Haitian government is making efforts to subdue tre revolutionists. The city of Panama celebrated the two hundred and forty-first anniver : sary of its foundation. The Japan Trust company of Van cou-.eb. wh;c b carried on a real estate and loan business of st>me dimensions ; among the orientals of Vancouver, has i gone into liquidation. * * * Francis de Pressense, a French poli I tical writer, who was for a few months .n 1880 secretary of the French am bassy at Washington, died at Paris, aged sixty years. The birth rate in Germany is now s^pwljr increasing and the death rate decrea-,ng Therefore, the prediction .* mad*- that the empire will have 80, 0<>4,^oO inhabitants in 1»30, twice the l«opuia':on when it was founded in * 1871. • • • The decree imposing a 5 per cent tax on merchandise has not yet been issued in Mexico, although it is ex pected that sim ’ar loans will enable President Huerta to keep up a dogged resistance so long as mcney from any ! source can be obtained. The recent decree suspending interest payments on the national debt should net the government about $l.VOuO,UOO. • • • Both Car-e Haitien and Fort Liberts on the north coast, are in the hands of the revolutionists. The vanguard of the rebels, under General Paul en tered Cape Haitien without resist ance. Another little difference between Buckingham palace, over which Queen Mary preside*, and Marlborough hous-e. of which Queen Mother Alex andra is mistress, has risen, this time over the title by which the deposed King Manuel of Portugal and his bride are to be known officially. For many years no suit has aroused such uid-pread interests in the Brit ish Isles as the proceedings at Bow street polite court. London, against eight British army officers and eight civilians on charges of wholesale graft The urgent need of a new commer cial treaty between the United States and France, to that American pro ducts may receive just treatment, was dscussed by B i. Shoninger. president | of the American Chamber of Com ■ inerce. at the annual meeting of that I organization at Paris, , • • • It has been announced at Brussels ' that the difficulties between Princess j laiuise of Belgium, daughter of the i late King Leopold, and her creditors I have been settled, and that the prin cess will receive about $300,000 • • • Many of the cities of France have j begun to experience? famine, owing tc * the cutting off of traffic by the heavy | snowfall At Perpignan, which is completely snowbound, supplies ol bread and fuel are practically exc'ud j ed. while the pinch is felt also at • rina Pan Toulouse_and Toulon FRAME FOUR BILLS TO CORO‘TRUSTS” MEASURE APPROVED BY WILSON HAS NO ESCAPE LOOP HOLES. TO BECOME LAWS VERY SOON Penalty for Restraint of Commerce. Unfair Business and Interlocking Directorates — Ample Provisions Made for Trade Commission. Washington, Jan. 23.—The adminis tration's trust bills, embodying the program laid down by the president in his recnt message, have been present ed to congress. The bills have received the approval of Mr. Wilson and the Democratic leaders of both houses of congress. With little modification they will be enacted into law. Their purposes are: 1. Definition of unlawful monop oly or restraints of trade. 2. Prohibition of unfair trade practice. 3. Creation of an interstate trade commission. ■4. Regulation of corporation di dectorates and prohibition of in terlocking directorates. Unlawful Monopoly Defined. Unlawful monopoly is defined as any combination or agreement be tween corporations, firms, or persons designed for the following purposes: 1. To create or carry out re strictions in trade or to acquire a monopoly in any interstate trade, business, or commerce. 2. To limit or reduce the pro duction or increase the price of merchandise or of any commodity. 3. To prevent competition in manufacturing, making, transport ing, selling, or purchasing of mer chandise, produce, or any com modity. 4. To make any- agreement, ea ten into any arrangement, or ar rive at any understanding by which they, directly or indirectly, undertake to prevent a free and unrestricted competition among themselves or among any pur chasers or consumers in the sale, production, or transportation of any product, article, or commod ity. The penalty for violation of the law Is fixed at not more than $5,000 or im prisonment for one year or both. Guilt is made personal through a section that whenever a corporation shall be guilty of the violation of the law the offense shall be deemed to cover the individual directors, officers, and agents of such corporation, as authorizing, ordering, or doing the prohibited acts, and they shall be pun ished as prescribed above. A paragraph prohibiting holding companies is to be added to this meas ure. Covers Unfair Trade Practices. The bill forbidding unfair trade practices declares that to discriminate in price, between different purchasers of commodities, with the purpose or intent to injure or destroy'a competi tor. either of the purchaser or of the seller, shall be deemed an attempt to monopolize interstate commerce. It is specifically declared that the law is not intended to prevent dis crimination in price between purchas ers of commodities “on account of difference in the grade, quality, or quantity of the commodity sold, or that makes only due allowance for difference in the cost of transporta tion." Further, it is prescribed that noth ing contained in the act shall prevent persons from selecting their own cus tomers, “but this provision shall not authorize the owner or operator of any mine engaged in selling its prod uct in interstate or foreign commerce to refuse arbitrarily to sell the same to a responsible person, firm, or cor poration. who applies to purchase." An attempt at monopoly also is de clared to exist for any person to make a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise or fix a price charged therefor, or dis count from or rebate upon such price, on the condition or understanding 1 that the purchaser thereof shall not deal in the goods, wares, or merchan dise of a competitor or competitors of the seller. Deals With Damage Suits. A judgment against any defendant In a suit brought under the anti-trust I lav. the bill provides shall constitute as against such defendant conclusive evidence of the same facts and be conclusive as to the same issues of law in favor of any other party in any other proceeding brought under and involving the provisions of the law. For the benefit of parties injured in their business or property, by any per son or corporation found guilty of vio lating the law the statute of limita tions applicable to such cases shall be suspended. Injunctive relief is accorded against threatened loss or damav" by a viola tion of the act under the same condi tions and principles that injunctive re lief against threatened conduct which will cause loss or damage is granted by courts of equity. It is required that a proper bond shall be executed against damages for an injunction improvidently granted, and it must be shown that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is im mediate. Hits Interlocking Directorates. Concerning directorates, the bill on that subject, which is to become ef fective two years from date of ap proval of the act. provides: “No person engaged as an individ ual or as a member of a partnership or as a director or other officer of a corporation in the business of selling railroad cars or locomotives, or rail road rails or structural steel, or min ing or selling coal, or conducting a bank or trust company, shall act as a director or other officer or employe of any railroad or other public service corporation which conducts an inter state business. "No person shall at the same time be a director or other officer or em ploye in two or more federal reserve banks, national banks, or banking as sociations. or other bauks or trust companies which are members of any reserve bank; and a private banker and a person who is a director in any state bank or trust company not oper ating under the provisions of the re cent currency law shall not be eligible to serve as a director in any bank or banking association or trust company operating under the provisions of the law.” Violation of these sections is made punishable by a fine of $100 a day, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. If any two or more corporations have common director or directors, the fact shall be conclusive evidence that there exists a real competition between such corporation and such elimination of competition shall be construed as a restraint of interstate trade and be treated accordingly. The trade commission bill provides for commission of five members, with the commissioner of corporations as chairman, and transfers all the exist ing powers of the bureau of corpora tions to the commission. The principal and most important duty the commission besides conduct ing investigations will be to aid the courts when requested in the forma tion of decrees of dissolution. \\ ith this in view, the bill empow ers he court to refer any part of pend ing litigation to the commission, in cluding the proposed decree, for infor mation and advice. Much Criticism for Bills. The trust bills as framed will be the subject of sharp criticism on the part of progressives of all parties who claim they do not go far enough. It will be declared that the definition of monopoly remains inadequate that the prohibition of unfair trade practice does not cover this evil in our econ omic life that interlocking stock con trol is not covered and that the pow ers of the proposed trade commission are insufficient. It is interesting to note that the proposal to place the burden of proof upon a combination believed to be vio lating the law has been omitted. Xo attempt is made to prevent or destroy monopoly based on patents. The great est difficulty exerienced in the effect ive enforcement of the law has been found to be in the unwillingness of the courts to impose jail penalty. It remains optional under the proposed measures wiht the courts to fine or imprison. Trade Board May Disappoint. In connection with the trade com mission President Wilson declared in his message that the country “de mands such a commission only as an indispensable instrument of informa tion and publicity as a clearing house for the facts by which both the pub lic mind and the managers of great business undertakings should be guided.” The bill prescribes that the commis sion acts are to constitute a “public record" but the body is authorized to make public the information "in such form and to such extent as may be necessary" or “by direction of the attorney general." It Is apparent that the public mind cannot be guided unless it has the facts, and then it will not get unless the commission or the attorney gen eral deems it politic. In other words, public hearings will not be held as they are held by the interstate commerce commission. Settlement of Differences. The most important feature of the bill is that which legalizes the policy of the administration of terminating an unlawful condition by agreement between the combination attacked and the attorney general. This feature is comprehended under a section which requires the commis sion, upon the request of the attorney general or any corporation affected, to investigate whether a combination is violating the law. In case the com mission should find the violation to exist it must report to the attorney general a statement of the objection able acts and transactions and the readjustments necessary for the of fending combination to conform to the law. These conclusions are to be “ad visory to the attorney general in ter minating by agreement with the cor poration affected or by suing the said unlawful conduct or condition " In other words, whatever may be the agreement made by the attorney general with the combination investi gated. it will give the reorganized combination legal standing, so long as it conforms to the term of the agree ment. Thus it js proposed to place by law a tremendous power in the hands of the attorney general. This power has been assumed to attorneys general, and particularly so by Mr. McRey nolds; Will Give Courts Advice. In a statement accompanying thf bill made by Congressman Clayton chairman of the house judiciary com mittee. it is said that the “principal and most Important duty of the com mission, besides conducting investiga tions. will be to aid the courts, when requested, in the formation oi decrees of dissolution. Their Difference. "Women don’t understand men. They are always sympathizing with you or praising you. They think that is what men like, but it only means that it is what they would like. Men like to be left alone.”—A. C. Benson. Reason He Jokes. V-’hen a man jokes about his wife being jealous you may depend upon it his wife has not a jealous bone in her body. Men with jealous wives do not Joke about it—Atchison Globe. J Shark Easily Scared. The fiercest shark will get out of the sea-way in a very great hurry‘if the swimmer, noticing its approach, sets up a noisy splashing. A shark is in deadly fear of any sort of living thing that splashes in the water. Danger in Piano Study. A medical expert contends that out of 1,000 girls studying the piano be fore the age of twelve, about six hun dred are afflicted with nervous trou bles in later life. WILSON WINS POINT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE CIVIL SER. VICE LAW DEFEATED. ASS’? NASBYS NOT EXEMPT Rider to Postoffice Appropriation Bill Affecting 2.4C0 Employes Fails of Passage. Washington, D. C.—A point of order struck out of the annual postoffice ap propriation bill the "rider" to exempt all of the country's 2.400 assistant postmasters from the civil service law. Advocates of this provision, which had drawn emphatic disap proval from President Wilson made an ineffectual attempt to have report ed a special rule to head off the point of order. With a roll call in prospect on a provision to authorize a workmen's compensation scheme in the postoffice department caused the house to ad journ without final action on the ap propriation bill. The measure prob ably will be passed. During the de bate, Representative Moon of Ten nessee, chairman of the postoffice com mittee. again attacked the president and Postmaster Burleson on account of their attitude toward the "rider.” ‘i hope," he said, that the presi dent has not descended to the point where he will demand that the men in this house shall vote according to his will instead of their own will.” "When matters have progressed so far that members of the rules commit tee of the house shall go to the post master general and take dictation from him as to whether they shall bring in a rule to make this section in order and they then decline to report a rule here, men in any party have gone a little further than I think any democrat should go.” Goethals Wants Fun Sway. Panama.—Colonel Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal, re cently was tendered the position of police commissioner of New York city by Mayor Mitchel, and in reply to the letter sent him by the mayor, through George \Y. Perkins, signified his willingness to accept the pest under certain conditions. These con ditions were that he should be per mitted to remain on the isthmus un til the canal is completed and in suc \ cessful operation and that he be giv en complete control over the police department. Smallpox in Refugee Camp. El Paso. Tex.—Several cases of smallpox have been discovered among Mexicans interned with the federal soldiers and refugees from Ojinaga. Mex., at Fort Bliss. AU . the 4.900 Mexicans were ordered vaccinated. Although the discovery of the small pox resulted in the exclusion of sightseers from the camp, the physi cians said there was no danger of an epidemic. The patients were iso lated. To Confer With Senate Committee. Washington.—President Wilson in vited the senate committee on foreign relations to confer with him at the White House. The purpose was not indicated in the invitations, but per sons close to the president, said, how ever. that Panama canal tolls, the Japanese alien controversy, the Mex ican situation, the unratified arbitra tion treaties and the proposed Bryan peace treaties probably would be dis cussed. W'ould Bar Hindu Laborers. Washington.—Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Labor, has sug gested to congress that the doors of the United States be closed her after to the Hindu laborer. Injury to labor conditions on the Pacific coast through an influx of Hindus and possible extension as to the same condition in the southern states were the reasons given by Mr. Wilson for urging their immediate ex clusion. Feeds 1.0C0 Hungry Men. New York.—Nearly 1,000 homeless and hungry of the Bowery were fed by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, formerly Helen Gould, in celeqbration of the first anniversary of her marriage. Mass of Cotton Burned. Memphis. Tenn.—Approximately 4, 000 bales of cotton were destroyed or damaged by fire which swept the warehouse of E. W. Trout & Co., here. The loss is estimated at between $200,000 and $200,000. Three firemen were slightly injured. Tries to Save His Wife. Parker, S. D.—William J. McCoy, his wife and 4-year-old son, perished in a fire on their farm home near here. Mr. McCoy lost his life while trying to save his wife and child. Rate Reduced to 4 Per Cent. London.—The banks of England was enabled to reduce its minimum rate of discount to 4 per cent owing to the improvement in the monetary situation both here and abroad and to the settlement of the South Africa general strike. Curtis Again A Candidaet. Topeka. Kans.—Charles Curtis, former United States senator from Kansas has made formal announce ment of his candidacy for the republi j can nomination for senator. J. P. Interprets a Treaty. » Washington, D. C.—Solicitor Folk of the state department has rebuked a justice of the peace in Tampa, Fla, for overreaching his authority by do ciding a question of extradition with out consulting the offish Is of the United States foreign affairs. Death of Veteran Driver. Flint. Mich.—Deverne Matson, a veteran grand circuit racing driver, died here after a long iVne«e. He was one of the pioneers in the hap ness racing sport In Michigan. BRIEF MEWS OF NEBRASKA The Presbyterian church at Oxford has installed electric lights. School enrollment at Lincoln ha* grown 600 in the last two years. After many years, prospects are de veloping for a big union depot at Lin coln. Farmers of Buffalo county are mak ing an effort to organize a co-operative store at Kearney. Stinmeier At McManus have just fin ished harvesting 3.000 tons of twelve inch ice at Ansley. Two paving districts. comprising four miles of streets have been created in Beatrice. Cititens of Erickson are talking of securing power by damming the Cedar river at that point. Kev. John McClusky of Laurel has accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Plattsmouth. An epidemic which State Health Offi cer Wilson has pronounced smallpox has been discovered in Florence. Hastings Chamber of Commerce has inaugura-ed a "Washday Luncheon,’’ to be served to business men Mondays. The little town of Thayer, near Tork. will incorporate the county board having given them permission. Losses by the fire which swept over half a block in the business section of Greenwood, will reach about $50,000. Ernest Hopperbauer. a former resi dent of Beatrice, died at Stuttgart, Germany, recently, of Bright's disease. The Masonic bodies of Omaha will have a ntw temple to cost about $300, 000 and probably be eight stories high. Merle Schaal of Murray was so badly injured in a gasoline explosion a week ago that he died from its effects. Isaac Cook, father of W. P. Cook of Plat-smoutb, recently died at Salem, Iowa, at the age of 102 years and 3 months. Nebraska City Elks are already mak ing preparations for celebrating the glorious Fourth of July in an elaborate manner. Sterling has granted an electric light franchise to W. W. Marks of Wymore and the plant will be ready for service in six months. The new M. E. church building erected to replace the one destroyed by the tornado at Berlin will be dedi cated February 1. Hugo Chaloupka. a seven-year-old Omaha boy. died from hydrophobia, the result of a bite from a rabid dog received October 9. Joe Cooper, a Case county fanner, mar lose his eyesight as a result of a few stray shot received in that mem ber in a recent wolf hunt. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meehan of York was scalded to death when it stumbled and fell into a pan of boiling water. .Famarn suffered a $30,000 fire from a blaze originating in a department store, which, together with other build ings, was entirely destroyed. Members of the Boy Scouts at TVa hoo entertained their fathers at a ban quet recently, which was pronounced 1 by every one in attendance as a com- i plete success. City health officials are alarmed by the possibility of a serious smallpox epidemic in Omaha, following the dis- : covery of two of the worst infection spots in years. Hosea Norris, an Adams county ! farmer, has succeeded in raising a , race of odorless mephitis, from which i he is developing an industry that promises a fortune. Rev. P. C. Johnson, nearly seventy seven years of age. chaplain of the : state penitentiary and for many years a resident of Johnson county, died at the penitentiary Tuesday. Neighbors called at the home of Mrs. H. C. Kleinschmidt at York just in time to rescue her and her two granddaughters from asphyxiation by coal gas from a defective stove. John Way. an engineer at the power plant at Schuyler, was found dead in the engine room there. No one wit nessed the accident and it is not i known how he came to his death. Incendiaries for the second time set j fire to the Bartz poultry house at Rear- ; nev, this effort successfully destroy ing it. v arena Aiienspacn-coad. who achieved some prominence a few years ago in a suit against Mark M. Toad, a Nebraska cattle king. Is dead of narcosis, at her home in Lincoln. J. P. Taylor of Central City is one of the oldest employes of the Burling ton system west of the Missouri river. He is also one of the oldest railroad employes in the United States, having been in the service for more than fifty years. The Ohiowa high school is preparing ! to give a play on January 30 to raise j funds to take the boys' basketball team to Lincoln to participate in the tourna ment to be held in .March. The Seward Blade is in its thirty sixth year and E. E. Betzer. its pres ent publisher, has been connected with it in different capacities for over thirty-four years. Ernest Bohling. a farmer living near Tecumseh. fell twenty-five feet to the ground when a ladder on which he was working gave way. Although he j landed squarely on his head, he was j uninjured. Preparations are being made in Cass county for one of the biggest wolf hunts ever held in that part of the state. The event is to take place in the vicinity of Union and five hundred ! men are expected to participate in the hunt. Farmers in the vicinity of Fairbury ! are hauling their winter wheat to town I to exchange it for corn. The prices of the two grains at that point are almost the same. Over 300 persons engaged in a wolf hunt on a territory four miles square near Tecumseh. but failed to make a killing. The annual report of Fire Chief Woelke of Beatrice shows that there were fifty-nine fires in the city during 1913. The origin of fifteen of these fires is a mystery. The skeletons excavated and nearly destroyed by boys digging for hidden treasure near ■ Kuio. have been pro nounced those of Indians that in habited that section from 200 to 500 years ago. The suit for $3,000 damages brought by Mrs. Charles Sapp against the city of Tecumseh, for injuries caused by a fall on a defective walk, will be warmly contested by the defendants. ADASS COUNTY FARMERS STOR ING SNOW FOR SUMMER USE. NEWSFROM OVER THE STATE What It Going on Hers and There that 1$ of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Hastings.—Farmers of this vicinity having proved to their satisfaction that ice houses filled with snow give quite as satisfactory results during the summer months as do those con taining ice, many tons' of snow have been stored by residents of Adams county. The experiment was tried last season, and it was found that the snow could be kept as well and was as satis factory for cooling purposes as ice. Found Wife’s Body Hanging in Barn. Madison.—Mrs. John Wieland, living with her husband four miles east of this place, committed suicide by hang ing herself in the barn on their farm. Wieland had attended church here and on returning home noticed that there was nc smoke issuing from the chim ney of the home and on hurrying into the hojse found his twin babies, two months old. sitting on the floor, shak ing from the cold and crying. The fire was out in the kitchen stove and the breakfast dishes were still unwashed on the table where they had last used them. In Nebraska, Germany and China. Lincoln.—The Nebraska loess soil, such as forms the bed for thousands of Nebraska apple trees now being recog nized over the country for the richness vof their fruit, is found in only two other portions of the world. One place is in Germany, where the land is worth more per acre than any other place on earth, and the other is in China, where more people per square mile are sup ported from it than elsewhere in the world Such is the statement of G. S. Christy, the Johnson county apple raiser. Met With Peculiar Accident. Harrison.—Amil Williams, the 11 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.'J. D. Wil liams living northwest of Harrison, had his eye badly injured while buz zing a button on a string. The button broke and one portion of it was hurled violently into his eye, cutting a gash in th,' ball. He was brought into town to be doctored, and it is thought that by gcod care his sight may be saved. Wouldn’t Stand for Thirteenth. Meorefield—Albert J. Hill and Miss Julia Violet Delate were united in mar riage by Rev. E. T. Stinnerte at the parsonage in Moorefteld early the morning of January 14. Really, they simply waited until January 13 had gone and very soon after midnight the ceremony was performed. Pugnacious Rooster Attacks Bey. Hyannis.—The three-year-old son of Floy 3 Moran was attacked by a rooster and thrown to the ground at the Moran home before he could be gotten out of the way of the fowl. The rooster had cut a gash nearly an inch in length over the eye of the child and pierced the eyeball. It is not thought that the eye is seriously af fected. Lumbermen Elect Officers. Lincoln.—At the session of the state lumber dealers here. F. A. Good of Cowles was elected president for the coming year and Moses Campbell was re-elected vice president. J. W. Mel ville of Sterling and S. W. Lighter of St. Edward were elected directors. Met Death in Machinery. Fremont.—John Way. a well known man of Schuyler, met instant death at the power station, when in some man ner his body was caught in the ma chinery. ‘He was found dead by fellow workmen. Way was thirty-five years of age and was the head of a family of nine children. Boosting the Town. Harrison.—The commercial club of Harrison is busy agitating some im provements for this town, among which are electric light3. a telephone system ar(l a general upbuilding of the town. Tecumseh—Steps are being taken to revive the Xemaha county fair, in past years one of the principal annual events of the county. Officers and Stockholm rs of the fair association, backed by the Auburn Commercial club, are making plans for the re opening of the fair this fall. There has been no county exhibition for the last two years. The commercial club at Pawnee City is soliciting funds to install orna mental light posts in the business sec tion of the city. Discuss Plans for Fall Fair. Kearney—The annual meeting of the Buffalo County Fair association was held last week and plans for the com ing year's fair discussed. Among the features is to be a race meet to be held July 2, 3 and 4. The association also decided upon a change of name and will be known as the Buffalo County Agricultural and Midwest asso ciation. A more extensive display of horticultural, agricultural and live stack is being arranged for and addi tional lands will be purchased to make such extensions possible. Not Interested in Movies. Grand Island—Edna Fender, eleven years old, slumbered in a moving pic ture theater for several hours Sunday while her parents organized search parties and the Are whistles were blown to summon aid in finding the little girl. She was surprised when she was talten out of the theater and found that night had fallen. The little g rl had gone to the theater in the afternoon and huddled in her seat, had gjne to sleep before the performance was over.