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j NOVEMBER 19, 1909- f cellor Avery, Charles E. Bessey and Howard W. Caldwell, has formulat ed a set of rules to govern the giv ing of the annual prizo of $25, offered by W. J. Bryan for the best unpublished monograph on Nebraska history. Three judges are to be nampd by the board of directors of the society and writers who have published any important historical work are barred from competition. All manuscripts should be forward ed to the secretary of the Nebraska State Historical society and should bo in the hands of tho judges be foro May 15, 1910." Baron Yasuya Uchida has been appointed Japanese ambassador to America to succeed Kogoro Taka-hira. President Taft concluded his thir teen thousand mile trip through the west and south, reaching Washington November 10. Mrs. U. S. Grant, wifo of a son of the late President Grant, died at San Diego, Cal. She was the daughter of former United States Senator Chaffee. . James Thlelman who, for many years, was head' waiter at the Del mpnico restaurant, New York City, died recently, leaving an estate val ued at half a million dollars. It is said he invested his tips. Alfred J. Davidson has resigned from the presidency of the Frisco railroad. Vice President Sherman, in a newspaper interview, says he does not believe the Roosevelt boom for 1912. will materialize. He insists that President Taft is stronger than ever and that no important wing of tne republican, party is fighting, him. The Washington correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald says that President Taft will pay particu lar. attention to states where governors-are to be elected in 1910. He is getting in action for 1912. The supremo court of Oklahoma has declared that "marriage ties will not be dissolved except for grave and substantial cause." The opinion holds that when action is predicated on extreme cruelty there must be actual or imminent physical violence and that "incompatibility" is not sufficient ground for divorce. John L. Griffiths, consul general at London, in a report to tho de partment of commerce and labor, says that labor conditions in Great Britain are not satisfactory. Wages are being lowered, while the num ber of unemployed is growing. Dur ing the last year the wages of 464, 000 persons were reduced. From January to June, 1909, more than one million men suffered reduced wages. Joshua Strang of Indiana was elected president of the farmers' na tional congress in session at Ra leigh, N. C. The American Federation of La bor in session at Toronto, Canada, adopted resolutions declaring sym pathy with Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison. They recommended that organized labor take a part in the action looking toward the naming of lawyers to fill vacancies on the bench of the supreme court. The Commoner. ed Press cablegram from London says: "Tho new lord mayor is a Roman Catholic and is a son of Sir ?aort ?Tni11' who was lord mayor in ? T V , Is a member of tho firm of John Knill & Co., whoso landing wharves aro among tho oldest on the Thames. Sir John received his early education at Beaumont college, Windsor, and studied later in France and Germany. Ho is a mem ber of two of tho city companies tho goldsmiths and tho plumbers." King Edward of Great Britain cel ebrated thO Slxtinth nntllvnrnnrv nt his birth November 9. U The Nebraska corn crop for 1909 is estimated at 166,505,105 bushels, an average of 25.7 bushels per acre. Last year the yield was estimated at 178,599,000. an averaco of 28.7 bushels per acre. D. W. Woods, William Matthews, Lawrence J.. Golden, Frank Grigware and Fred Torgensen were convicted in tho federal court at Omaha on tho charge of robbing tho mall car on tho Union Pacific Overland May 22, 1909. The penalty is lifo imprisonment. The Nebraska supreme court has declared the eight o'clock saloon closing law to be valid. Sir John Knill was installed as lord mayor of London, succeeding Sir George Truscott. An Associat- An Associated Press dispatch from' Louisville, Ky., follows: "J. Har gary Fawcett, cashier of tho Mer chants' National bank of New Al bany, Ind.,'was killed; John K. Woodward, president of tho bank, was dangerously wounded, and James R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur of Louisville, was fatally wounded this morning when a young man, partially identified as Arthur Hall, a Louis ville dealer In second hand furniture, entered the bank and after command ing everyone to throw up his hands 'and get into the vault,' began shoot ing. Mr. Fawcett died almost In stantly after being shot through the neck and chest. Woodward was shot through the liver and Intestines and Tucker was shot through the body and may die. Following the shooting the murderer rushed from the bank and tried to make his es cape in an automobile which he had taken from the curb in front of the residence of its owner, Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louisville, forcing the negro chauffeur at tho point of a gun to drive him to New Albany. But the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror and apparently incapable of action, sat still. Tho robber jumped from the car and sent a bullet through the negro's body. Turning to the river bank, a distance perhaps, of two blocks, the youth ran with the speed of a deer. Ho quickly appropriated a skiff at the dock and was on his way to the Kentucky side before the frightened citizens of New Albany knew what had transpired. An alarm was given through a meg aphone from a dredge boat, and in a short time the police of the little city had started in pursuit In a fast motor boat, capturing their man and had brought him to shore only to confront the new peril of lynching. By a clever ruse, however, Captain Adams of the police stood off the crowd of 200 which crowded around the dock as the police boat landed. Commanding the prisoner to lie down the captain announced to the crowd that the man had taken poison and was dead, meanwhile carrying him to the patrol wagon and giving the word to drive ahead. The bandit was taken to the New Albany jail. A few moments later he was removed to the Southern Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville tp escape the mob which would not be quieted, and which had " assembled around the jail." David R. Francis, former governor of Missouri, has been appointed first vice president of the American ex position to be held in Berlin in 1910. J. Piorpont Morgan Is tho prealdont. Twcnty-ono states of tho American union havo made application for space. Now York dispatchos say that the shortage of C. L. Wnrrlnor, treasurer at Cincinnati of tho Big Four rail road, will amount to $613,000. Carl DI Forano, journalist and caricaturist, who was convicted of criminally libelling Rafaol Reyes Splndola, editor of El Imparclal of Mexico City, was sentenced to one year's Imprisonment. Over 300 miners were entombed In tho St. Paul mine at Cherry, Illinois, November 13. A firo caroleosly started, followed by an explosion, shut off all hopo of escape, and it is now believed all havo perished. A number of rescuers were killed or burned to death In a bravo attempt to reach tho imprisoned miners through tho air shaft, tho only means of escape, which was later closed In an effort to stay tho progress of tho fire. Governor Deneen has issued a call to the people of Illinois and tho entire country to aid In the re lief of tho stricken relatives and fam ilies of tho unfortunato minors. Halley's comet was observed at Brown University by Professor Win slow Upton. Professor Upton be lieves that the comot will bo visible to tho naked eyo in January. Tho now twentv million rtniinr Williamsburg bridco at New York In showing signs of weakness because or me tremendous strain put upon it by increasing traffic. , At Aberdeen, Wis.. Frank Czol- gosz, aged forty years, elder brother of Leon. .Czolgdaz,' the1 assassin of resident McKlnley. died of heart disease. Czolgosz believed his brother, Leon, was insane. A Toronto dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "Organized labor's attitude on tho question of Industrial education was set forth in a report to tho convention of the American Federation of Labor by tho special committee appointed by authority of tho Denver convention to Investigate the subject. The com mittee, of which John Mitchell Is chairman, held three meetings during tho year in New York, Washington, and Toronto. Says tho report: 'It is believed that the future welfare of America largely depends rn the industrial training of our workers and protecting them. Tho inquiries of the committee seem to indicate that If the American workman is to maintain tho high standard Of effi ciency, the boys and girls of the country must have an opportunity to acquire educated hands and brains such as may enable them to earn a living in a self-selected vocation and acquire an intelligent understanding of the duties of good citizenship. We favor the establishment of schools In connection with the public school system, at which pupils between the ages of 14 and 16 may bo taught the principles of the trades, not nec essarily in separate buildings, but In separate schools adapted to this public education and by competent and trained teachers.' " One necro and one white man were lynched by an infuriated mob at Cairo. III. The necro. Will James. was the confessed murderer of Annie Pellev. The white man, Henry Sal- zner, was charged with wifo murder. The town was placed under martial law by Governor Deneen. General William B. Rochester, U. S. 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