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CONCENhATiONS OF GREATER OR
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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.