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Last Movement Declared Com-
plctc Failure.
HAS RECROSSED TilE TUGfEA RIVER
Monitor) rum iiiln. Cut No Aetlic
richtliiB I-'Iral Jtf port lriiiii liner
Iliiiliiliirtlr 'lulling of Itetrcut
('iik.ii Cniiiti million.
A Lcipsie, February ! dispatch says:
Tin- Ncuste Naehrichtcn prints ti spe
cial dispatch from a correspondent
who claims that General ltutlcr's third
attempt to relieve I.uilystnith has com
pletely failed.
Mr. Italfour, tin government leader,
replying to a question in the house of
commons us to whether tiny informa
tion had been received front the seat of
war, said:
"Our information points to the fact
that (Jencral Ituller is not pressing tin
advance ftotn the position lie has oc
cupied. We do not consider it i irlitto
prcshlm for details of the opciations
which arc in progress, nor if he gives
.such information do we deem it proper
to make this puhllc until such opera
tions are completed. The government
had no information as to whether Gen
fcial MaeDonuld has rctlied."
A dispatch from Itoer Head Laager,
Ladystnith. Thur.sday, Feb. 8, says:
The ltritish who were in possession of
the kopje at Molen's drift abandoned
it after after a bombardment by ltoer
cannon this morning and retired across
the Tugela river to their fot met- po
sition. A desultory cannonade is proceeding
at the Tugela this morning, but other
wise everything is quiet.
A London, Feb. !, dispatch says: l'p
to the present time the war olllce has
evidently heard nothing of General
Boiler's retreat as described in the dis
patches from the Boer Head Laager,
Ladysmith, February 8.
When shown the Boer dispatch the
ofliclals appeared utterly dumfonnded.
Apparently they had not the least sus
picion of the possibility of such an out
come of the operation.
It is said on reliable authority that
(icncral Uullcr' dispatch announcing
Monday's ami Tuesday's movements
was particularly hopjful. II? de
scribed the position gained as effect
ive, so the news of another retirement
is exceedingly bitter to the ltritish,
and, though it come.s from ISoer
.soutces, there is little disposition to
discredit it.
The news spread rapidly, and, nat
urally, disappointment was visible on
all sides, although the long silence
from the I'pncr Tugela had already
aroused apprehension that General
Ituller might have found it impossible
to go forward, In which e.ise he would
hae no option but torccrois the river.
APPEAL TO FEDERAL COURT
AttornejH for Minor Main Oltlffr
In
Kentucky Appeal to Com In,
A Cincinnati dispatch says: .ludge
William II. Taft, who has just been
appointed as president of the new
l'hilippine commission, has given no
tice to counsel that on February 1'-' he
would hear arguments on the petition
of the state officers of Kentucky other
than governor anil lieutenant govern
or for a restraining order against the
thice members of the Kentucky state
board of election commissioners and
the contestants other than those of
governor and lieutenant governor.
The legislature in Kentucky hears
and decides contests for governor and
lieutenant governor, but the contests
for other state offices comes before the
state board of election commissioners,
sitting as a contest board and in which
.said board hits final jurisdiction. This
jH'tition for an injunction against the
present state board of election com
missioners and the democratic contest
ant for minor state olllces is therefore
not one affecting (Jovernor Taylor and
Lieutenant Governor Marshall.
IRISH GIRLSGET "FORTUNE
Ilrcliiroil Kntltleil to Properly of .lohn
Mit'lrlluii.
In the celebrated case at Sioux Falls
involving the heirship to the estate of
John Meridian, the wealthy pioneer
who was crushed and killed in an ele
vator in the Vancps building on Au
gust U last. County ludge Wilkes the
other day handed down his decision, In
which he holds that the Ireland claim
ants, Mary McClellan and Margaret
Hamlll, nieces of the deceased, have
made the best prima facie casu and, in
accordance with their petition, Wil
liam Vaneps, a prominent business
man, was appointed administrator of
the estate.
I'ooil Company AhhIkiin.
The Standard Food company, propri
etors of the new Desipota factoiy at
Aberdeen, S. I)., have made an assign
incut. .1. (J. Neumati, late of Indian
apolis, and W. L. Shunk, principal
stockholders, declare the embarrass
ment is only temporary. The factory's
product In manufactured from potatoes
by patented processes.
For .Ni'ir Cabinet .Member.
Senator Nelson has been authorised
to report his substitute for a bill
providing for a department of com
merce with u cabinet officer. An
amendment was made to take the pat
ent olllce from the interior department
and include it in the new department.
Jlrt-oines Catholic. Trlmt.
General XV. A. Olmstead, who served
through the civil war, lias been or
dained to the priesthood of the Roman
Catholic church at the church of tho
Sadred Heart. Notre Dame University,
South Hend, J ml.
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PEACE PACT PUT OFF
Governor Tnjlor Itefnv to Sljrn A r roo
mful unit Trouble Cipeetrit.
Governor Taylor hail not, up to Sat
urduy morning, signed the Louisville
peace agreement. He announced,
moreover, that he had no intention of
doing so for some time, and did not
know whether he would sign it tit all.
On the other hand, the democrats were
eonlldent that he would affix- his signa
ture to the document. Ft iday was a day
of conferences in Frankfort. They
were in full swing from 10J0 in the
morning until flt.'IO at night, and out
wardly nothing tangible resulted from
them. The situation is now, to all ap
pearances, exactly where it was when
the peace agreement was llrst submit
ted to (Jovernor Taylor.
The tension under which the repub
lican members of the state legislatinc
who are at Loudon, ICj., has been la
boring, especially during the. past
week, reached a crisis when the fol
lowing message from Governor Taylor
was received by a member:
'Have warrants Issued for members
of the house and put in the hands of
sergcant-at-arins to serve."
The warrants were made out late
Friday anil given to Sergcattt-at-Arni!)
(.Veil of the house. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Marshall telegraphed he would
come to London.
Sergennt-at-Arnis Cecil of the house
and Howard of the senate left after 1
o'clock Saturday morulngon the north
bound train armed with warrants for
the arrest ot absent democratic mem
bers of both houses.
LOOK FOR BAD NEWS
London Accept nn True Third Hrportcd
lteicre.
A London dispatch of February 1(1,
f:"0a. in., says: London accepts as
true the Itoer statement that General
Ituller has failed again. These state
ments were passed by the ltritish cen
sor at Aden and are read In the light
of Mr. Balfour's announcement In com
mons that General Ituller is not press
ing his advance. Mr. Winston Church
ill wires that Viitil krantv. was imprac
ticable for the lack of guns which were
needed to support a further advance.
His cablegrams leaves General Ituller
on Tuesday night sending a fresh
brigade to relieve the tired holders of
Van I kraut.. The descriptive writers
with General Ituller were allowed a
rather free hand again in explaining
the ugly position which the ltritish
held and the natural obstacles which
had to be overcome. So it is easy to
infer with itoer riflemen and artillery
defending them these hills, ravines
and jungles have not been overcome
and thus the public is prepared in ad
vance for bad news.
Heliorams from Ladysmith. dated
Monday, describe the effect General
ltuller's cannonade had on the worn
ganison. Hope ran high that the long
period of inactivity and tedium was
drawing to a dose. The crash of guiib
was almost continuous for ten hours
and at times it seemed as if as many
as twenty shells burst in a minute.
The liners, preparing always for the
possibility of defeat, were driving
herds and sending long wagon trains
towards the Drakensberg pisses. In
tense darkness and silence followed,
broken only by frogs croaking and the
occasional bla.e of star shell", (un
rounding the town with a eirleof light
to prevent tho unobserved approach
of the enemy. A series of ltritish
mines laid for the Hocrs exploded ac
cidentally, shaking and alarming the
city and camp.
One, Knelory to Control.
Fruit jar manufacturers of Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, and Indiana, representing
the entire production of the country,
have completed an organization where
by hereafter, it is said, all the product
will be sold from the Munch factory,
and each factory will shine in profits
as per capital invested. Jobbers have
not been allowed to buy this year its
vet and the entire season's business is
yet in the hands of the manufacturers,
who have advanced prices ',':. per cent
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Colonel XV. IS. Thompson, who was
secretary of the navy when Rutherford
It. Hayes was president, died at his
home iit Terre Haute, Inil., at the age
of !1 years.
ltcnjainln llovce. a well-to-do farmer
near l)iie. Wash., was shot to death
by his grandson, Frank Royce, who
afterwards cremated tin," body and com
mitted suicide.
Three persons were killed and three
seriously injured in a head-on collision
between fast freight trains on a branch
of the New York Central at Gordon
Heights, I'll. Moth engines were de
molished, and thirty-seven curs were
wrecked.
The coremakers' strike, which was
inaugurated at a number of foundries
in Cleveland several weeks ago. has
terminated in a victory for the strikers.
They will get S'i.no per day, time and
a half for over hours and double pay
for work on Sundays and holidays.
Word was received in Lincoln Fri
day that the plant of the Beatrice
Creamery company at Harrington,
Kas., burned. The entire plant was
consumed The insurance carried did
not cover the entire property, but It
was sutllclent so that the loss will not
be complete
A London, Kng., dispatch say: Kit
Henry M. Stanley, the celebrated Af
rican explorer und unionist liberal of
parliament, was taken suddenly 111
with gastritis in tho house of com
mons Wednesday night and is in u
bomewhat serious condition.
Reuben Ross (colored) was hanged at
Lamberton, N. C, for criminal assault
upon u white woman named Mrs. Net
tle Ingram. Ho declared hit innocence
of this crime, but said ho was gulltj of
assault on a young white woman of
Rockingham, for which u negro named
John livans was bunged.
MAKES fW ISSUE
AntiVTrust Conference Plan
ning to Overthrow,
WOUID SEIZE THE MANY RAILROADS
I'etliirullini Miuto for (Internment Own-
rlil -Differ nn to llm I'roj-riiiii-
Some for I'nll ln meiil
OtliiiM for Only I'nrt.
A Chicago. February ft dispatch
says: After a heated debate the reso
lutions committee of the anti-trust
conference tonight decided to teport in
favor of government ownership of rail
roads and for their M'luri on payment
of actual value and without payment
for "watered stock or other fictitious
values." There was a sharp discussion
in the committee and several tilts be
tween members brought on by an ef
fort to make the platform read as it
had been drawn up, that the govern
ment seize the railroads on payment of
actual value- "and without payment
for franchise values." I'nauimous ac
tion was finally obtained by cutting
out the words 'franchise values," in
serting instead the phrase "watered
stock or other fictitious values."
The committee also unanimously fa
vored direct popular legislation as a
means of obtaining the result.
The discussion in the committee
room far outranked the deliberations
of the main body of the conference.
Ignatius Donnelly, John l Altgeld, A.
I. McQuirk of Iowa anil George Fred
Williams urged the committee to strike
from the resolutions proposed a state
ment that any payment for railroads
should be of exclusive franchise value.
"This is a long light," said Mr. Alt
geld, "and it will be years before we
come to the actual discussion of the
proposition on which we are to base
payment. Let us not encumber the
discussion with it now."
Henry George, however, took the
other side of the question. "Wc are
going before the people," he said,
"Let lib go with the whole, plain
truth and let them judge of it."
Jerry Simpson also favored this
view, declaring that he had had years
of experience with this question In
Kansas.
Many startling statements were
made before the committee, among
them one by President M. L. Lock
wood, in which he said that before
government ownership was finally se
cured it would be necessary to im
peach at least one justice of the fed
eral supreme court. The eotntnittee
also considered a proposition to recom
mend to the attention of congress Sen
ator Pettlgrew's bill for government
ownership of railroads, and it was
voted down.
A number of sef speeches were
heard at the morning and afternoon
sessions of the conference.
The night session was in the form
of a mass meeting, which was held
at the Auditorium and brought out
some of the strongest speakers among
the delegates.
GO BACKTO WORK AS USUAL
Contractor' Agreement ut CIiIihko Ite
Kiirilril n eiik.
Of the 7,000 building trades men who
took their half-holiday on Saturday,
February 10, in defiance of the new
rules of the bullilingeoutractors' coun
cil, one-half, it was announced by the
labor leaders, resumed work as usual
on the big buildings Monday.
When the men quit work Saturday
noon they were instructed to return to
their jobs as usual, placing the respon
sibility of tying iqi building operations
on the contractors, who, because of the
fracture of their rules, were expected
to declare a lockout. The fact that
many of the men resumed their work
is regarded by the labor Sntciests as
indicating great weakness in the build
ing contractors' agreement to stand by
one another. At the headquarters of
the contractors it was declared that
the men still at work were doing so
under special agreements in order to
complete certain portions of the work.
COUNTER STROKEOF BOERS
AoKiimr AKRremtUo unit 1'oree llrltlnli
to Itetlre I'roin Cloliiirc OUtret.
The latest news from South Africa
is the enforced retirement of the Brit
ish from the Colesburg district, under
heavy Itoer pressure and probably after
brisk fighting. Thus at a time when
Lord Roberts Is apparently to push an
army Into the Free State, the Boers
make a counter stroke in unknown but
seemingly great force, not far from the
vital line of railway connecting De Aar
and Orange river.
Military observers do not regard this
as more than a menace. Nevertheless,
the news produces an unpleasant Im
pression at London.
.Mother Slioota Her Hon.
A Youngstown, ()., February 'i dis
patch says: At Hubbard last night,
Khner Kgue, while under the influence
of llquor.thrcatened to kill his mother,
whereupon the latter drew ti revolver
and shot fOlmcr twice, probably fatally.
ArcbbUliop I'eeliun III,
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan of the
Roman Catholic arch-diocese of Chica
go, is ill with pneumonia at his resi
dence in that city. The venerable
prelate was taken ill on Friday with
what seemed to le a severe cold. Tho
archbishop's regular physician was
called. He diagnosed the disease as
pluro-pneumonia.
At the archeplscopal residence it is
Mild that the prelate's condition is not
regarded as critical. The archbishop
ih seventy-one years of age.
FOUND DEAD ON SIDEWALK
N i orli CmiKrciMimin I'ltticr .liniipt or
l'ill I'rom Iniloir.
Congicssniiin Charles A. ('bickering
of Copenhagen, N. Y.. was found dead
outside Hie Grand I nlon hold In New
York. He had either fallen or jumped
from . i fouith-stoi,, window of the
hotel.
The body of Mr ('bickering was
found on the sidewalk of the Potty
first sttect side of the hotel, under the
open window of ids loom, which was
on the fourth floor, by a milkman who
was driving through the sttect at .1 a.
m. P.vidcutly It had been lying there
for some time, as tin clothing was
saturated with rain. It was clothed
In underwear, socks, night shirt, trous
ers and vest. There was a bad gash
in the right side of the head.
Mr. ('bickering had been in the ho
tel all of tin day befoie. lie hud
complained eoiishleiably of rheuma
tism, but nothing irrational in his ac
tions had been observed bv those at
the hotel.
.Members of eongiuss wen greatly
shocked at the news of Representative
( bickerings death in New oik city.
The news of the death was kept ftoni
Mrs. ('bickering for fear the shock
would prove too gieat. ami arrange
ments were made for her to leave for
New York at noon. Mr. ('bickering
was one of the well-known ami univer
sally esteemed incn of the house. He
was last seen at Washington when the
vote on the tlnancial bill was taken.
He Insisted n coining on crutches lu
order to reeoid his vote for the bill.
SALOON CONSENT PETITION
FlrM Cimo I'nilrr llir Nrv l.iiw l Arcnril
ill Ilea Molnr.
The llrst saloon consent petition to
be filed in Iowa since the recent de
cision of the supreme court that all
counties must secure new ones, has
been tiled in Pes Moines. The new
law requires that the board of super
visors shall pass on the sutllelcncy of
such petition. When the boaid sat to
take up the petition for Pes Moines,
the question was immediately raised
whether the boa id was to sit as a ju
dicial body to pass on all the legal
questions imolvctl to determine the
genuineness of the signatures and to
hear all arguments, or whether its du
ties wete simply to count and canvass
the number of names without going
into the judicial investigation. The
attorneys for the saloon men Insisted
that the board could only canvass the
number of names. The anti-saloon
attorneys declared the board must in
U'sligate tin genuineness of every
questioned signature. The board ad
journed without rciuliiug a decision.
Whichever decision the boaid reaches,
the matter will at once be taken into
the courts to test the law.
ANOTHER DEPARTMENT
.Ml n I lit; lndiutry or tlie Country Wiuiln
Kepretontiitloii In Cabinet.
A new cabinet ofllcer, to be known
as the secretary of mines and mining,
is provided in the bill favorably acted
on Monday by the house committee on
mines and mining. Another mining
measure favorably acted on establishes
a mining experiment station In each of
tin mining states, similar to agricul
tural experiment stations, and provides
for the appointment of a government
geologist at S.'I,!00 a year and an as
sayist at S'-VIOO in the several mining
states. These otllcers are to furnish
assays, issue public bulletins and to
conduct explorations of mining re
gions.
M'GIFFERT ESCAPES TRIAL
New York I'renb.vler) Simply DIhuvou
Ills Trnt-lilui;.
The New York presbytery decided
by a vote of seventy-seven to thirty
nine not to tiy Dr. Arthur G. McGif
fert of the I'nion theological seminary
on the charges of heresy preferred by
Rev. (1. W. Birch, the stated clerk of
the presbytery, at the January meet
ing. A resolution was adopted declar
ing in effect that the action of the
presbytery in December, when it de
elded not to try Dr. McGlffert for
heresy, but to disavow his teachings,
was stifllcient under the circumstances
and that the opinion of the presbytery
was that tin: charges should not be
considered.
Worklnc for Convention.
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee and for
mer Governor Peck of Wisconsin ate lu
New York, to secure, If possible, the
democratic national convention for
Milwaukee. Mayor Rose said that
Milwaukee had made an active and he
believed a successful canvas to secure
the next convention, He said that the
people of Milwaukee had raised a guar
antec of S100.000 for that purpose.
To Ailjuit Imlebtt'iliii'NX.
Mr. Powers of Vermont bus intro
duced a bill in congress for a commis
sion to adjust the indebtedness of tin;
central branch of the Union Pacific
railroud to the governments. Other
bills introduced were: Mr. Smith
(Illinois), amendment to the interstate
commerce law so as to give the com
mittee greater powers; by Mr. Noonan,
(Illinois), prohibiting the transporta
tion of convict-made goods.
Hint the Ilrn.il lloily.
City Treasurer King of Grand Island
has received information from Pay
ette, Idaho, that the body of Walter
King, his brother, who was drowned
in the Payette river in November had
been found. The remains will bo
brought buck to Grand Islund,
WeililliiR of riiylilun.
Dr. P. II. MeCull, osteopath, and Miss
Hettle Healy, also a practicing osteo
path, were married in Grand Islund,
by Rev. T. 0. Clark.
FIGHT FOR A BRIDE
Story of Two Suitors for Dodge
County Widow.
A GUN riOUREI) 1,1 THE C0NTR0VERS1
Illreil Mini of Hie, Weiillli Wlilou At
lempteil In Tulip l.tTe of tbe Sne-
rexifiil suitor A Mnrrbiu
I'lll I'ml to llnlter.
On Satuiday evening of last week
Mrs. Ihuma Chinburg. aged forty-one.
a wealthy widow with a farm four
miles south of Oakland and owning
Fremont piopcr'y was married to WH
limn P. Aeor. aged tlfty-thiee. whose
headqiiiiiters ure in Fremont.
There were elicuniHtiiuccs attending
on the wedding which weieofa very
exciting natuie. Mrs. Chlubutg was
sought by two siiltms ami the unsuc
cessful one tried to get the better of
his fortunate rival bj alleged foul
means about a month ago. accoidiug
to the story which Mr. Aeor docs not
now hesitate to tell. Mrs. Chinburg
lived on a fuiui between Craig and
Oakland and was well to do. Her
hired man. It is claimed, was ttuious
to get into the good graces of the
widow, tint Aeor, who had met her
while selling patent incillcinc In the
vicinity, was the favored one. About
a mouth ago Mr. Aeor and Mrs. Chin
burg drove back to her farm after
stopping a day lu Fremont. The widow
went into the house when the farm
was reached, ami Aeor went to the
barn to put up the horses. He says
that his rival was waiting for him
and shot at him twice witli a rllle,
luckily missing him. Acor's story af
ter this Is that the hired man struck
him on the head with h heavy club,
and with a second blow crushed his
hand which Aeor had thrown up to
waul off the blow. Aeor says he then
fell down, and his assailant striking
at him in tip darkness, beat him on
the ankle. Acor's cries brought help
from the house and he was carried In,
his wounds keeping him In bed some
days. Aeor said lie could not swear to
having seen his rival's face, or he
would Iiiim had him arrested ere this.
He kept strict silence, hoping to get
evidence some other way. Now that
he has won his bride he docs not can
so much for revenge.
IN BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT
U'lmt t'liiiKri'KNiiii'ii Ar Securing for tlio
1'iople ot Nebnmltn.
Conirressman Buikctt has lust se
cured the allowance of the claim of
Captain L. Wilson of fllnti. and has also
secured an order for general repairs of
the Lincoln postofllce. 'I'h.s docs not
Include new paving or walks.
Congressman Sutherland has secured
a ruling by the laud commissioner af
fecting the rights of county Judges lu
taking final proof entries. The mat
ter came up on account of the icfusal
of the MeCook olllce to designate Judge
Pyle of Frontier county to take final
proofs. The department holds that
the tegistcr must designate the court
olliccr whom the applicant requests.
The president has nominated Peter
Jansen as one of the commissioners to
the Paris exposition. This -was to
fulfil a personal promise made by Presi
dent McKlnley over a year ago.
Claire Roberts has been appointed
postmaster at Rising City, Butler
county, Neb., vice A. Roberts, te
signed. Comptroller of the Currency Pawcs
has approved the application of II. 10.
Adams, N. P. Nelson, Thco. Windliu
sen, Christ Krugcr and II. It. Treat for
authority to establish the First Na
tional bank of Hooper, Neb., with n
capital of SMI.OOO.
The postal receipts at Omaha for
January, as reported to the postofllce
department, were S.'ll,:il." against 8.10,
01 1 for the same period last year. This
Is an increase of SI, 301.
UPHOLD SHERIFF SECORD
KlllliiB or lluwhlnitiliiHtlllril at tlm Demi
.Miin'N Home.
The body of "Smoky Jack" Hawkins
the man killed by Sheriff S-jcord at
Davenport was taken to Harvard and
buried in the cemetery. Theodore
Clark, one of the gang to which tho
dead Hawkins belonged, bad u leg
badly Injured while attempting to
hold up a couple of men near the cem
etery at Harvard. He has been lodged
in jail at Clay Center.
The shooting of Hawkins by Sheriff
Sccord is all the conversation at Har
vard. While the killing Is deprecated,
yet there are not many who do not
think that the sheriff was wholly jus
tilled. Hoillm Arrle.
Adjutant General Barry bus received
meisages from the depot qnarterinestcr
at Sun Francisco showing that all tho
bodies of Nebraska soldiers that ar
rived on the transport Ohio had been
forwarded to the state witli the ex
ception of the following: II. Guy
Livingstone, company M; George J,
.Smith, company II; Kdward Pay, com
pany A; Guy C. Walker, company G,
So far as known the transport Indiana
has not arrived.
llUlrrm llnim Orouter.
The India olllce at London has re
celved a dispatch from Lord Curzon,
the India viceroy, in which ho snyn
that the distress arising from the fam
ine is steadily incrcatilng, und that
there now In receipt of relief number
.1,784,000.
Vote llonibi to llullil Komi,
By a vote of about four to one Val
entitle bus decided to bond Itself in tho
hum of SI, ','00 for tin, purpose of build
ing a road ucross the Mlnnechaduin.
canyon.
FRED KELLEY IS ARRESTED
iiri'lirmleil In S.m 1'nunMio oil Itn4
turn I'mm .Miinllii.
Frederick S. Kelley, formerly an
employe of a pioinlncut Insurance com
pany lu Omaha, but who left that city
about two years ago when defalca
tions, amounting lo about 9.1,000 were
about to be discovered, has been ar
ti'.steil by detectives lu San Francisco.
The arrest was kept a secret for some
time when it was learned that Kelley
left for Chicago lu the custody of de
tectives lie was accompanied by his
young wife, formerly of Oakland.
Since his depart ure from Omaha Kelley
has traveled much ami held a good
position lu Manila, but his love for his
own country got the better of him and
he returned. Kelley's relatives are
wealthy and piomliient people of Lin
cult), Neb.
CANNOT BE EXCLUDED
Inlereillni; Cnic of Violation of Sellout
Iti'Kiiliitlon iiMlrnnil Iftlitml
The police court at Grand Island,
fudge Abbott presiding, was the scene
of an Interesting ease recently. On
Thursday of last week. Principal
Matthews of the high school suspend
ed IM dayman, a young man lu his
room, for not complying with tho re
cent ly-inade regulation, declaring it
compulsory for male students of the
high school to take the cadet work of
the school as a physical exercise. The
young man appeared willing but his
father objected. On Friday morning
the young uriu returned nnd took his
seat. The principal took from him bin
books and in a friendly conversation
with hliu asked him to obey the order
of suspension until the matter causing
the suspension, over which be, tho
principal had no control, was other
wise settled. The young man obeyed
and went home, but returned In twen
ty minutes, lie had seen his father anil
told the teacher that he must remain
and continue his work in school. The
principal asked the student, not to
cause any more trouble, but the stud
ent persisted and the principal sworo
out n warrant against the student for
the disturbance of the school dls-lpllno
and the trial was had before a jury.
The defense tried to go into the cause
of the suspension, but was warned by
the court that tin only questions to be
decided were if the principal had power
(o suspend, ami whether, if he had,
the pupil was creating a disturbance
to the discipline of the s-hool In refus
ing to leave the room when requested.)
The jury took the cause into consider
ation, evidently, for it took but a few
minutes for It to bring in u verdict of
not guilty, and the result will prob
ably be that the young man niav be al
lowed to sit In the rooms, without)
boolts and without, study, as long a.t
he pleases, or be asked from day to
leave tbe room. That Is to say, the
question really at Issue, the ciiinpiil-
order, was not decided.
DIED AT POST OF DUTY
runrrnt ut Stmilon of Anotlirr Ne
brimlui Soldier Hoy.
The funeral services of Klmer
Viuighan, late of the Twenty-third in
fantry, who died In Manila. P. I, im
September, ISUS. were held at Stanton
Saturday. They were in charge of
Captain Gegnerof Madison. Neb., latn
of the Fighting First Nebraska, anil
now captain of company F. N. N. 0.
Tins body arrived Thursday. It wuh
taken in charge by the local ex-soldiers
of the Spanish war and by them a
guard of honor was maintained until
the hour of the funeral exercises. Atj
H o'clock assembly was sounded nnd
the funeral procession, headed by the
Stanton military band, was promptly
formed on Pacific avenue and marched
to the cemetery. Here a short address
and prayer was made by Rev. Klopp.
Then three volleys were fired over tho
open grave by a detachment of the
Madison company of national guards.
The services at the cemetery were con
cluded by the sweet, sad notes of
"Lights Out."
Klmer Viuighan was the son of tho
present county surveyor, a bright
young man, and well liked by all. He
enlisted In the regular army after war
had been declared tinder the act pro
viding for enlistments for "during the
war." was assigned to the Twenty
third infnntry mind participated witli
bis regiment in the campaign which
culminated in the capture of the city
of Manila.
l'lit n ill iitr Aniillier Now Oepot.
It is authorlatlvely stated that the
St. Joseph A- Grand Island road will
begin the erection within the next
mouth of a new passenger depot at
Hastings on the east side of Denver
avenue on the ground now occupied by
Heller's coal yard. The coal yard will
be removed across the avenue to tho
place now occupied by the charred
wreck of the old depot and the old
grain elevator standing on St. Joe
avenue will be removed to the south
side of the tracks and east of the flour
ing mill. This will bring the St. Joe
depot within abloek of the site selected
for tho Burlington's new passenger
depot.
Tho Methodists started n revival at
Ccntcrville Sunday.
County ConiniltHliinera Meet.
County Commissioner V. Rcckmann,
of Lancaster county, president of tho
county commissioners' association of
tho state, has sent out a call for tho
annual meeting of tho association nt
Hastings, beginning on February 20.
Tho meptlng this year will be none
tho less interesting than last year,
when tho legislature was in bcssion.
Secretary Will Urookloy joins with,
President lleckmann in asking nil
members of tho association to attend
I the meeting.
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