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2 rp ME RED CLOUD CHIEF. KAISER TO CHINAMEN. . , MONGOLIANSOF KAIG-CHAU WARNED. lrmn of tho I'rncliiiniitlon TuMng Io eMlon oT Ihe Coirtcd Hrnpnrt nnd Trr rltorjr Not lo lie ConMriird in tin Act of Hostility. Hut I'rleiidiihlp. Nbw York, Jan. 10. According to the Washington correspondent of tho Herald, tho navy department has re ceived from Hoar Admiral McNnlr, who waa recently rclluvod from duty in command of the Asiatic station, a copy of the following proclamation, Issued by Admiral von Dicdrich, com manding the Gorman navul force on the, Asiatic station: "To all concerned with reference to tho cession of the territory: I, high commissioner, in obedience to tho commands of Ills Imperial German Majesty, linvo landed a forco of ma rines and have taken and occupied Klao Clioti bay with a cluster of Ulnnds to the loft to ha held by Ger many for occupation owing to the murder of Gorman missionaries In tho provlnco of Shang Tung, and it is but reasonable that China should be called upon to make duo reparations. Tho nald territory Is thurefore taken as a guarantee thatsuoh satisfaction would be given as my government may de sire. "This proclamation is accordingly issued for general Information and merchants and others In tho various towns inr'Ching Toa are expected to unaerstnna mat iney uro to pursuo thotr usual avocations and not glvo a willing car to Inllamtnatory rumors of evil doers. "I have also to obsorvo that rela tions of amity and friendship have al ways existed botwecn my empire and China, and in tho interruption of place somo days slnco, Germany made every effort In coming to tho rescue, exhibiting thereby u spirit of neigh borly friendliness. The landing of n forco at present must not be construed as an net of hostility to Chlno, and you need not harbor any misgivings or suspicions on this point. More over, it will bo tho duty of ofllchils to protect nil law-abiding people to tho end thut tranquility and psuco may bo maintained and on tho othor hand sevcro punishment, In accord ance with Chlncsc.law will bo Inflicted upon all evildoers creating disturb ance! .Should thcro bo any fierce ruf fians to injure German subjects or in terests it will rest with Germany to take measures for their protection and let thcro bo no resistance. A willful violation of this will not only prove of no advantage, but calamity may over take tho cvildoor. "Oflieers of tho Chinese government will, however, still continue to exer cise their official functions in all good faith within the territory occupied by the German forces, but hereafter, should thero bo case9 that cannot bo personally, disponed of,, thoy should bo presented to tho government of tho brlgadlor general as tho military yaman for attention aad adjustment. As regards tho buying and selling of land, It will not bo permitted unless tho sanction of tho government bo first obtained. "Tremble and obey. Tho Empcra: of Germany " MOSES P. HANDY DEAD. Th Editor anil French Exposition Com missioner l'aioit Attkjt In Georgia. Ai)ousTA,Go.,.lan. 10. Major Moses I. Handy died at tho Hotel Hon Air at noon to-day. Tho body will be taken to Hcrlln, Md. Major Handy has been an invalid the last two months. Ho becume ill In Paris, whither he had gono as tho pecial commissioner of tho United States to the French exposition of 1900. Ho recovered aufllclcntly to make the journey to America and came here at once. Moses P. Handy was born in Vir ginia about fifty years ago. While under age ho entered the Confederate service and served with gallantry daring tho closing months of the war. He was employed by tho Now York Tribune as special correspondent during tho first Cuban troubles and won distinc tion by Ills report of the Vlrglnius massacre. Later ho became manag ing editor of tho Philadelphia Times nnd subsequently editor of tho Phila delphia Dally News. Ho was one of tho founders nnd many years tho president of the Clover club of Phila delphia. Ho was also a centennial commissioner. Mr. Handy moved to Chicago in 189 to become chief cf tho bureau of pub licity and promotion of the World's Columbian exposition. At tho closo of the fair he .went to Now York nnd engaged in literary work and newspaper correspondence. He re turned to Chicago In 180.'. to direct the editorial policy of ono of tho loading newspapers there. Last year he was appointed by President McKlnloy as special commissioner to tho Paris ex position and rendered valuable service. Hassan Oq of tin Bsoe Austin. Texas, Jan. 10. Ex-Senator John II. lUagan has retired from tho contest for United-States senator. FOUR NEGROES LYNCHED. rwo Arkeous Mobs Avence m Itrntal AmbuII anil a Murder Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 10. Four negroes have boeu lynched In the vicinity of the Ilcnrdon within tho lasts few days. Two, Davoe and nuntley, nccuscd of brutal as sault, a year ago, were hanged near Harlow Mill ranch, about threo mtloj north of Hcardon. while tho other two, murderers, mot their fato near tho town of Llttlo Hay, a few miles aonth of Uoardon. Tho work was done by two separate mobs. HANNA CLAIMS 75 VOTES. I'lrn llollrrn Nnlil lo Hittp Turned Hack .M'Kliilry Uotps lllm Out. CourJiiius, Ohio, Jan. 10. At caucuses last Saturday night, M, Hannn was apparently beaten In tho A. his contest for tho United States senator bhlp. To-day thcro are reliable re ports Indicating that ho has moro than tho necessary severity-three votes, and It Is predicted that ho will be elected on tho first joint ballot next Wednesday. Tho men at tho Hanna headquarters are jubilant nnd go so far ns to claim soronty-flvo votes to seventy for tho opposition. Tho opposition lias depended upon tho following ten Republicans voting wnii mo sixiy-uvo Democratic mem bers of tho legislature: Representa tives Mason nnd lira in ley of Cuya hoga, Jones of Stark, Grlflln of Union, Otis of Hamilton, Scott of Fulton, Redkey of Highland, Rutnnof Carroll, Manuel of Montiromorv and Senator Hurke, of Cleveland. This would mnku tho joint ballot stand 7.'. to 70 against Hnuna. At u public meeting nt Dayton last night Representative Manuel pledged himself for Htinna, first, last and nil tho time. John P. Jones of Starke county has tent a telegram to President McKln loy, promising to voto for Hanna. Jtones' ngod mother at Canton and President McKlnley himself arc re nponsiblo for Jones' desertton from tho bolters. Ills mother coaxed Jones away from Kurtz's headquarters back to Canton, nnd President McKlnloy, who, whllo ho was governor, picked Jones out of ucoal mlno and made him an Inspector, personally appealed to Jones by telegraph. Jones, who is tJ loot 10 inches tall, minds his aged mother like a school boy, and looks upon tho President ns n father. Mother McKinley, tho President's mother, when alive, had shown al most as much interest In Jones as sho did in her son. Jones's mother re minded him of this, nnd that he would bo In tho coal pits instead of a mlno inspector had it not been for "William." Her son did not make nny promises, but he packed his grip, turned his room over to Kurtz nnd went to Canton. When ho reached home, President McKlnloy iimdo a personal nppcnl to Jones, and Jones wired back a plodgo to tho President within an hour. This was tho news which General Grosvcnor brought from Washington yesterday morning, und President McKlnley has also confirmed it by telephone. Charles L Kurtz, lender of tho op position, handed tho following to the press to-day: "Tho Incorrectness of claims by Mr. Hanna was proven by the test votes In the matter of houso organization. Ho claimed tho organi zation up to the time tho test voto was taken and lost. Tho sarao claims are being made again on tho scnatorshlp and will result tho 6ame. Mr. Hanna will not bd elected senator. C. L. Kurtz." Tho antl-Hnnna mon admit that after securing control of both branches of tho legislature they roado a greut mistake In adjourning from Wednes day to Monduy and having tho mem bers go homo till inauguration day. The Republican members who are co operating with tho Democrats against llunmi havo thus been confronted with indignation meetings at their homes, which may turn tho tide in favor of Senator Hanna. Mrs. Griffith, the nntl-Honna wife of the Union county representative, went homo this afternoon to join her husband nt Marysvllle. Griffith an nounced at meetings of his constit uents last night and ngaln to-day that ho did not want to vote for Hnnnn, but if it was their wish he would do so. Thcro .Is no lock of ef fort in Union county now upon the part of tho people to e'xnress thotr wishes to their representative and he is being transferred from tho list of tho opposition to that of Hanna. CABINET LARGE ENOUGH. Senators Opposed to the rroposel Da- pari meat of Commerce. Washington, Jan. 10. Thore is lit tlo chance that a new department ol commerce with a cabinet otllccr nt its head will be made. The most that can be hoped for seems to be a commission under nn independent head. There it a strong feeling in the Sonato ngnin&l any increase in the cabinet at present Already appeals havo been made foi tho constitution of mining, health, scientific, commercial, census and la bor departments, cuch with a cabinet head, and many senators aro deter mined to stop tho whole thine nt ths beginning. Another lllc Will Contest. Chicago, Jan. 10. Tho will of th Into General Jumos I Torrenco is t bo contested. The contestant is David Torrenco, a young farmer of Logan county, Illinois, who asserts that hi Is the son of General Torrenco by th tatter's first wlfo. Wonderful Strike of Gold. San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 10. Ar rivals hero today from the Indian Creek gold fields in Uvalde county re port that a prospector named Uor tiegold has s-truck a vein of ore whlcfc assays 81,200 to the ton. Nearly 100 Uealhl toOo"e Itlrth. Havana, Jan. lo.-Kl Diaro do la Marina asserts that during tho rnontu of December last at Matanzas thert wero twenty-flvo births and J,09i deaths, and that dui lug the whole of last year thero wero 702 births in thi city und 0,705 deaths. Court of Inquiry for Weyler. MAimtn, Jan.. 10 The cabinet coun cil decided to-day to submit Genera' Weyler's conduct, with reference ti tho protest against President MeKIn ley's message and to othor matters, U a fresh inquiry. HARTLEY IS GUILTY. JUDGMENT OF THE LOWER COURT AFFIRMED. Haprcme Court Hold Hiitc. of Rlnto Wnr runts to llo I.'inhrrlcnirnt of Hluto Money .Mean Twenty Yearn for the Kx-Trcnniiriir No Appeal. On Wednesday, January n, tho su preme court of the stuto of Nebraska handed down Its decision in tho Hart ley embezzlement case. The court af firmed tho judgment and sentence of tho lower court und n mandate will be sent in due time to tho Douglas county Bherlu" directing him to carry out the judgment. There is no appeal from tho decision, but the accused has ti right to move the supremo court for a rehearing, but it not likely ono will be granted in this case. Forty days aro allowed in which to move for a rehearing, nnd It is probable an order for tho removal of Hartley will not be Issued until the expiration of that time. Ex-Auditor Moore, under sentence of eight years for embezzlement, but out on bail, was present in tho clerk's otllee when tho decision was announced. The opinion was w.ltten by Judge Norvnl, nnd every contention of de fendant was overruled. Tho syllubus of tho opinion is as fol lows: 1. On a motion to quash an informa tion, tho district will not inquiro into the validity of tho warrant of arrest issued by the examining magistrate. 2. In a prosecution for tho crime of embezzlement, tho pendency against the accused of n former information In the district court of another county charging him with tho embezzlement of the same property within the coun ty, is no ground for abutcment. 3. Error cannot bo predicated upon the overruling of a demurer to n. court in tho information, where n nolle prosequi is subsequently entered to such count. 4. An information, in tho nnd venue of which a given caption county nnd stuto arc named, which charges that tho defendant "in the countv aforesaid, then and there being iu said county1' did commit a crime, sufficiently nllegeo thnt the ofTenso was committed In the county stated iu the caption und venue. 5. The plncc of the commission of nn offense chnrged in one of the counts of tho information is sufficiently set forth by averment that tho defendant "in tho county aforesaid "did commit tho acts consituting tho offense, where by a former count the county, and state ure definitely stated. 0. An election by the prosecutor to proceed nlono under ono count does not so far take tho other counts out of the information as to destroy the effect of a reference to them as to time and place. 7. A county attorney of tho proper county may institute a criminal pro ceeding ugalnst a state treasurer for the embezzlement of the moneys of the state notwithstanding such prosecutor had received no direction from the nuditor of public accounts to take such step. 8. An information for embezzlement Is sutlleient If it sets forth the crime in tho lunguuge of the statute creuting It, without averring the particular acts In which tho offense consisted? 0. An indictment ngainst n state treasurer, which charges the embezzle ment to his own use of iv certain sum of money belonging to tho state is sufficient without nn allegation that u demand for tho money was made upon him by his successor in olllcc. 10. Where different felonies of the Bamo gencrnl character or grade arc charged in different counts of an in formation, it is within tho discretion of the trial court to require tho prose cutor to elect ns to counts. Korth vs. State, 40 Neb., 031'. 11. No cloction is required between counts charging the same offense. 18. Error cannot be predicated upon tho overruling of a challenge to a juror for cause, where tho record fails to disclose that tho complaining party exhausted his peremptory challenges. 13. The evidence in the ease is suffi cient to sustain a conviction of tho em bezzlement of tho moneys of tho state. 14. Warrants drawn by tho uudltor of public accounts upon tho stute treasury aro not negotiable instru ments. 15. The giving of credit as a deposit for tho nmount of n check by tho bank upon which it is drawn is, in contem plation of law, a payment of the check in money to tho same extent as though tho currency had been paid over tho counter on tho check nnd Immedi ately redeposited by the payee. 10. A Btato treasurer, who for nn un authorized purpose draws u check on u state depository bank having money of the state therein, which ho delivers to tho payee, and tho bank on presenta tion of the cheek places tho amount thereof to tho credit of a third party whom the payee represents in the transaction, and at the same time charges the account of the state with a like sum, Is guilty of the embezzle ment of tho money of the state within the meaning of section 124 of tho crim inal code. 17. Where a state treasurer employed a bank to negotiate the sale of a war rant, which waB tho property of tho state, the correspondence of such bank necessary to effect such Balo is admis sible in evidence in a prosecution of tho treusurcr for embezzlement of tho amount subsequently used to take up such warrant, where thero exists such a relation between tho sulo und tho payment of tho warrant that tho mo tive in tho hitter transaction is illus trated by the facts incident to the former. 18. In a prosecution for embezzle ment ono who has filled out his cntlro term of office cannot bo heard to urge tin n defense that when tho embezzle ment took place he was not nn officer tie jure; It h immaterial iu suoh ease whether ho was an officer de jure or do facto. 10. In a prosecution for embezzle ment or other crime, wliero tho books, records, papers and entries aro volumi nous nnd of such a character ns to ren der it difficult for the jury to arrive- at a correct conclusion lis to amounts, nn expert accountant may bo allowed to examine such books, etc., and testify as to tho result of his examination when such books, etc., are in the court room subject to inspection by the ac cused. 20. Instructions must bo construct! together, und if then thoy uro correct ly announced the rule applicable to the issues and evidence, they will bo up held, even though n single paragraph standing alone might be faulty. SI. Held, that the instruction defin ing a reasonable doubt did not deny to tho accused the benefit of a reasonable doubt arising from the lack of evidonco in the case, and that it was not error to state in said instruction ".you arc not at liberty to disbelicvo as jurors if from all the evidence you believe as men. Your oath imposes on you no obligation to doubt, where no doubt would exist if no oatli hud been ad ministered. S2. The court chnrged the jury that: "The Inw raises no presumption "guium inu ueienanni; on tno con trary, the presumption of tho lnw Is in favor of his innocence. This presump tion of innocenco continues through the trial until every mntcrial allega tion In tho information is established by tho evidence to tho exclusion of till reasonable doubt." Held, equivalent to the rule that tho presumption of in nocence is a matter of evidence to tho benefitof which the nccuscd is entitled. S3. In cn.so of conviction under an information charging the embezzle ment of money, a verdict finding the nmount of money embezzled to bo a specified number of dollurs, is a suffi cient finding of value. MEETING IS POSTPONED. The State I'ress Association U Put Off fol Tuo Weeks. The officers of the state press asso ciation have Informed the members that the annual meeting had been postponed from Tuesduy and Wcdnosday.Jnnuary IMS, until Tuesday und Wednesday, January 25 and S(l. Tho change is made because the dates first assigned come so near the time of letting county printing contracts that many of the publishers will not care to leave home. BOYCONVICTEDOFMURDER And tho Stute In ten cm- In tho Interest of I'alr Trial. An unusual thing occurred in the supreme court last Wednesday. Ed. P. Smith, deputy attorney-general, repre senting the state, made, an argument in ti murder case, but Instead of stand ing for conviction asked tho court to reverse the judgment of the lower court. Mr. Smith thinks tho circum stances justify his position. Edward Lorenz, n .sixteen-year-old boy of Red Willow county, was convicted of kill ing a man whose body was found two days after death had evidently oc curred. Hrlefs iu tho ense show that the boy was arrested on suspicion. A new lawyer in tho town, who after ward proved to bo a pretty good horse doctor, was employed by tho boy and retained by the court. When tho prosecution closed its evidence nnd rested the horse doctor rested his case also without offering any evidence. It is stated by those who have interested themselves in the boy that there was no real evidence that ho killed the man and It is thought suspicion was cast on him by parties who knew more about the murder than he did. Telegraph Itatci. Lambcrtson & Hall, attorneys for the Postal Telegraph nnd Cablo com pany, havo filed an nnswer with tho board of transportation in tho matter of the complaint of F. Q. Feltz. The attorneys deny that telegraph rates ure unjust to the nmount of 23 1-3 per cent, nnd ullego that the uct of tho last legislature extending tho powers of the board so ns to glvo them control over express und telegraph companies is unconstitutional nnd void, and for this reason the board has no authority to determine reasonableness of tele graph rates. It is further alleged that there is n misjoinder of defendants; that no proper complaint has been filed ngainst tho defendant. It is al leged that tho complainant has no interest in the complaint ns it is not shown that his business as farmer and stock raiser will bo interfered with or suffer by the alleged unreasonable rates, or that he over uses wires of tho tho Postal Telegraph and Cable com puny. Want Ottls Aniloy. Governor Holcomb has issued a re quisition for the return of Ottts Ansley yvho is under arrest ut Kansas City charged with burglarizing tho bank of. lloclus, Howard county, nnd carrying away 81,283. Thomas Lahowitz, sher iff of Howard county will go after him. A company that insures banks from burglary has traced the fellow for sev eral months through tho agency of Pinkcrton detectives. Arretted for Forgery. narry Hasklll, wanted at Ft. Madi son, la,, for forgery, was arrested at Heaver City by Sheriff Modlin and is now iu jail uwaltlng tho m-rival of IoWn officials. Hasklll was going un der an assumed numo und was in dis gulbc. Found Dead In lied. Mrs. Delilah V. Wnkefleld of Waver ly, aged sixty years, wife of Orssn Wokcfleld, was found dead in bed re cently. Heart trouble waa ths catue. NEBRASKA IN BIllEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OVER THE STATE. A Complrtn ICrtlrwof the PmJ Week's IlnppciiliiBii In the Trro I'Lintcr' Htntv Ktii-rliu-t Siiiimmry of the Mont lui portiint Xl-ms. The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the lower court In the case of ex-Treasurer Hartley, who was sen tenced to twenty years in the peniten tiary. Lou K. Hamlin, of Omaha, first wife of Hon. John C. Watson, of Nebraska Clty.who separated from him ten vear.s ago, died last December. She left to Mr. Watson real estate valued ut Sto, 000, antl llfo insuraucc of 82,500. There was no formality about the entrance of Judge Sullivan to tho of fice of judge of the supreme court. He arrived, filed his oath of otllee with the secretary of state and was received by the other judges in the court's con sultation room. A Mrs. Rctison, formerly an employe at the Grand hotel in Lincoln, has in stituted proceedings nirainst the i-ilv of Omaha for damages sustained some time ugo by her little dnughter, who fell into a coal hole while running along the street, anil received injuries that may cripple her for a long time. State Treasurer Mescrvc has Issued a call for warrants drawn on the uni versity fund amounting to S9,000. The call will take effect January 15.. After these warrants are taken up there will be warrants outstanding on the fund amounting to 816,804. If the fund is not drawn on very heavily for a few months tho state treasurer expects to catch up and keep it n cash fund. A Cuban relief committee litis been appointed by Governor Holcomb. He appointed Rev. H. O. Rowlands, Gen, P. It. Harry antl M. D. Welch of Lin- coin unti .1. j-;. utt antl W. N. Nuson of Omaha This action was taken in response to a telegram from Stephen E. Hnrton. chairman of the Central Cuban relief commission appointed by the president. Newton llurrows, of Rentrlcc, was ivayluid by three men as he was cross ing the South Sixth street bridge. He had nothing of value so he was left unharmed. The police were notified ami one of the parties was overtaken, who gives the name of Ira Kimball. Judge Calllson bound him over to the district court. His bond was fixed nt 8500 and he languishes In the county jail. He has peached on his pals and the oflieers are looking for them. A. O. Harrison of Nebraska City has filed u complaint with the board of ed ucation alleging that his sister Nellie, twelve years of age. was compelled by II. Morgan, principal of the Sixth ward school, to climb stuirs an exces sive number of times as punishment. The girl was taken sick a few days af ter the punishment is stated to have been inflicted, and dietl after two or three days' illness of inflammation of the bowels. The board has ordered an Investigation of the uffalr. Ex-County Treasurer Ezra S. Whit ney of Harlan county, and Ranker Renjamln D. Mills of Alma, are now In tho stato penitentiary. Roth have been found guilty of embezzlement of public funds. The ex-county treasurer is short iu his accounts over 811,000. He received a sentence of two years and a half. Mills got 80,000 of county funds and was sentenced to five years. The decision in the Whitney case con tains n ruling which clears up matters on which there has been much specula tion by disinterested parties in the Hartley case. It is held that if public funds aro embezzled and afterwards recovered the embezzler is not relieved from criminal liability any more than a person who steals a horse and re turns it is exempt from criminal prosc- lution. Tills is the Illustration used by the court. George Raker and his wife, living two miles southwest of Fnirbury, were brutally murdered in their home be tween C and 0 o'clock a. in. Tho mur derer fired two charges from a gun through the window while they were dressing, one load taking effect in the head of each of the victims. Two hired men were on the place at tho time antl heard tho shots, but the murderer made his escape in the darkness. A brother of the murdered man is charged with being the guilty party. Ho left the place where ho wus working, it is :lalmcd, near there, at IS o'clock in the night with a shotgun und has not been seen since. Tho trujl is being guarded antl bloodhounds aro on the trail. William Raker, the man suspected of the crime, has not been found, and evidence Is developing which points strongly to his guilt. A feud has ex isted, it is said, between him and his brother for the past twenty years, und It Is ullegcd he remarked about a year ago thut sometime he intended to kill the whole linker family. It is said lie was at one time a rejected bultor of fhe murdered woman. Later Wm. Raker, the raurde er of his brother, was traced by the blood hounds to u burn on the farm of an uncle three und u hulf miles from the scene of the crime. He was found dead in the loft, having killed himself. Tho rotation system of examinations has been adopted by the stuto banking board and hoi-eufter the examiners will exchange territory from time to time. While driving to Rnfdy Mrs. L. W. Miller, an aged widow, was thrown from her buggy und seriously injured. The horso became frightened at some children playing in the road. Schools employing 580 teacher have applied for space in the educational exhibit at tho trans-Mlsslsslppl exposi tion. All applications must be filed with State -uperintendant Jackson be fore February 1. .. - Chnrles Wallstrom of Fremont was the other tiny arrested for passing u forged check on A. Park. Mrs. Delilah V. Wakefield of Waver ly, ngctl sixty years, wife of Orson axonoiti, was found tlead iu bed re- eenuy. Heart trouble was lh cause. State Treasurer Mescrvc has Issued n call for general fund warrants from No. 35,8:12 to 30,021, amounting to 827,000. The call takes effect Jununry IS The authorities nt the Douglas coun ty jail are keeping closer watch on ex i'reasurcr Hartley since tho confirma tion of his sentence. It In muhii-i.t.wul that the tloor of his cell, which was formerly left unlocked, is now kept locked. T. E. Hill, a stock man from Wnyne, who went to Omaha recently with u car load of cattle and sold them at South Omaha, made a persistent at tempt to end his checkered career by the gas jet route. A clerk In the hotel discovered the escaping gas in time to save Hill's life. Wlllard Raker, cashier of the Albion National bank, shot himself. He Is still alive but little hope is entertained of his recovery. He has been in poor health for a number of years and tho lust week has been much worse. No motive can be assigned for the deed as his business affairs, so fur as known aro in good condition and his domes tie affairs wore pleasant. The stockholders of the Platte coun ty fuir and agricultural society held n meeting ut the office of Secretary Recher and concluded to go out o'f business. They will offer tho grounds with all improvements for sale unti will try and close, the business out by tho 1st of March if possible. This means no more fairs for Platte county In the future. Attorney-General Smyth lias ex pressed his conviction that the Douglns county refunding bonds uro valid, nnd said that the suit to test the validitv of the issue of exposition bonds was urougiii simply to protect the stato school fund which It is proposed to in vest in them. He believed it was better to have the question settled now than to have the validity of tho bonds disputed when their time has run und thoy have become due. Atljutunt-Gcneral Harry has returned from Illinois antl Ohio. He visited Adjutant-General Recce of Illinois antl Atljutant-Gencral Axline of Ohio. Gen eral Harry went to further the pro position of inolilliatlon of the national guard at tho trans-Mississippi exposi tion. In case congress tloes not pass an act for this purpose it is proposctl to induce authorities of many states to send a large representation of the guard to encamp at the exposition. Wesley Johns, a young man who has gotten himself into a great deal of no toriety during the last few years in Lincoln police court, recently either committed suicide or was murdered. The fuets urrounding the case nrc very mysterious, to siiy the least, and at u late hour the police seemed to think he hud not taken his own life. The police aro of the opinion that tho the matter wa.s a direct result of a drunken brawl. No arrests have been made. Mrs. Alice Johnson, aged about thirty-five, who has been living nlono with her little daughter nt 1140 South Seventeenth street, Omaha, was found dead by u young man, Oscar Sanstrom, a hasher in a restaurant, who called ut her home. He is held for investiga tion of the ease. The absence of her husband and the fact that she had rea son to expect to become a mother in a few months is supposed to have lod the woman to commit suicide. It Is supposed she poisoned herself, but no evidences of poison were found. An aunt of the tlead woman says that San strom is the caucc of the woman's con dition. A post mortem examination of the body of Mrs. Alice Johnson, who was found dead at her home in Omaha, found that death was not due to dis ease nor injury. Two bottles of medi cine of a character not determined were found in the house, which will bo submitted to chemical analysis. Oscar Sanstrom, the hasher who has been keeping company with ttio woman and who was held pending investigation, says that if it is true that the dead woman was about to be come a mother, he was probably the cause of It, but ho( denies all know ledge of how sho enmo to her tlcnth saying that he last saw her in life lost Thursday. The attorney-general lias given Au ditor Cornell nn opinion in relntlon to bherlffs' fees. Instead of allowing 75e a day for the keeping of prisoners bo fore bringing them to the penitentiary sheriffs will only be allowed that for tho first six days. If kept longer than six days they uro only allowed 50c per day. Under this ruling if a sheriff keeps a prisoner bIx duys he may draw 84.50, but if he keeps u prisoner clgli't days he will get only 84. Tho attorney-general gave uu opinion ulso in rc gurd to mileage of sheriffs. Ho has decided that the old mileage act under which sheriffs drew ten cents a mile, cuch way and 83 a day wus repealed by the net of the late legislature. rA sheriff is now allowed actual expenses and 83 a day. Charles Fuller, a brakeman, while making a coupling at DeWlit, wis caught between tho bumpers" and so badly crushed thut death ensued a few hours later. Carl Skoot, a German farmer resid ing on tho reservation northeast of Runcroft was instuntly killed whllo engogedin digging a well. Ho wa working in tho bottom of a ninety foot well when one of the bucket used to haul up tho dirt, when about forty feet from the top, slipped off tho wind lass hook and fell to the bottom, strik ing him oa the head. 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