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KEARNEY GETS IT
Tho Midway City Draws Stato
Normal Prize.
j BALLOTING LASTS ALL DAY
j One II i-ttlrcri ml IHotcn Trlnln Mmlp
,. ItnrW'i lloitnl Ouulil Acrrn on
One of llm fifteen Ail
rniit for Honor
Kearney won I lip contest for tho now
iKiiiiml school on thu Mlih ballot.
" KenrtuT off wed Iho state $:t i.OOO worth
of rimpcily The offer co uprises u
IwciUy-iioro itllu for tho fich ol ami 11
.Inigo il.il building which mi) ho used
fo m do.'iultory. A. yator power priv
ilege Ih.iiiioiik Ihu things w' icli thu
fituli.' wl'l gain tlinjujjli tho t lection
of Kearney.
Tho Australian Imllnt under which
(ho inomheis voted Is secret, hut thern
was llttlii secrecy iihout tho voting. It
Is Known for n ceitalnty that tho four
members who votoil for Kearney oil
tho laU ballot were Majors, Fowler,
, Delzel mill Rogers, the latter changing
from llrciltcn llnw nnil settling tho con
test. Luddeii nml Tawncy, who had
changed hack mid forth between vari
ous (owns, wcro voting for liroknn
How when tho crash camo and Statd
.Trcasmer 'Moitensun died In tno last
(llteh with hit homo town,
Kearney was ono of tho pincers
finoreil hy the Pern people In order to
ct tin new school us far away from
(lie ol dau pitiwllilo.
Kearney offoiod twenty ncrea com
lirlRlnn blocks 2, U, 4 and 0, Frank's
iiddlltoti, with two avenues In the tract
vacated,, valued at not less than $500
Mi acio, n total of $10,0.00: nlso tho
" Orecn Terrace, three-Htory brick build
ing lo 1io usod foe a dormitory, sltu
Mtcd across tho Htreot from tho alto,
ntatidlug tn ono and a half acres val
ued nt'J&O.OOU; also $1,000 t,o bu.,spent
on improvements on (Jrcen Terrace;
water right from Lnke Kearneyvalued
Hi $10,000; estimated saving to the
ulate for newor and city water mains
now on tho alto, fsO.ODO. Total esti
mated tost lo tho state of providing
thcao necessary essentials, $91,000.
' Tho stato board of education con
ftlats of Slalo Treasumr Mortensen,
fJuperiiitcudent Fowler, M. Tawney of
Merco, Mr. Dclxel of Lexington, Mr.
Itogora of Omaha, chairman of tho
loard; Thomas Majois of Peru aud
Hov. L. P. Luden of Lincoln.
After the ninuty-ilfth ballot had beeu
cast a motion was made to adjourn
until Wednesday. Tho motion was
opposed vigorously by some of tho
tnemtoro, particularly by Rev. Mr.
lAiddon, who will have to depart from
Toru Tuesday nvonlng. Balloting con
tinued until Kearney was chosen on
, tiio tilth ballot.
AN ALARMINQ PLAGUE
Mor Deadly Thea Bubuuln llremk- Out
la Cuba.
A New York, Soptomber 1 dispatch
nays: Menaced by a dlscaso which has
tiaflled the host medical skill on tho
Island, tho health department officials
of Cuba liavo applied to tho author
ities of Columbia university and Jef
ferson rordleal college of Philadelphia
for aid In dotormlnlng the nature of
tho disease.
Tho most nmlmmt pathologists nnd
bacteriologists of thoeo Institutions are
working in conjunction with the med
ical authorities or the marine honpltul
and public health department of the
United States government In un effort
to determine, tho naturo of tho disease.
All details of tho investigation are re
fused. The d I booh a in many of the t.ymp
toma resembles bubonic, plague, hut it
lo said to bo rnoro awlft in Its progress
nnd moro deadly In Its ofTcctF,
It first appeared some months ago
In tho Isolated town of Daiquiri, prov
ince of Santiago. Men employed In
the troa mines In that locality woro
Hffectod. Tho dlnoase did not yield to
treatment and tho mortality was great
er than lu yollow fever or any kindred
disease. Tho Inhabitants beramo panic
utilckon, nnd an American steel com
pany with large Interests there took
up the mattor. References to tho New
Vork and Philadelphia experts fol
lowed. Tho description or the disease fur
nished by natlvo physicians says that
It, presents tlio.worst symptoms of yel
low 'lover, black fovor and spotted
fovor. Tho paliout Is usually dead a
few hours after first complaining of
lllneea and turns a bright yellow utter
death. .
It la In the delh that the disease
liresontA Its most horiiblo phase. The
victim's pulso rato tushes to 100. n
licart beat which Is deemed almost Im
possible by physicians of experience.
Tho respiration counts 58. These or
Kttnlo disturbances, together with a
leiuperaturo of 107 and 108, do iiot
cause Instant death hut the high fever
Konoratcd soon burns out life. Tho dU
ue always atUeks persons who have
NUffored from Intermltten maloilal
fover.
Hurt Oil Ailranr
Operators In tho Indiana li'mk roal
field bavo announclil in advunce of 25
cents a ton on .ill coal free un board
care at II rax! I I ml it U explained
that the rise Is caused by tho unprece
dented demand ni thfii M.ison and tin.'
liborlngtt of earn
Hut I'm-mittml to Kiitpr
A telogmm litis been received at
Pehln announcing llm steamer Stanley
Dollar (formerly i Danish vessel, but
now owned hy mi American) sent by a
tiiMlan company from Tien TsJu to
YoiigHinpho, itt (be mouth of the Yalu
liver, Korea, fn- a cargo of lumber
from tho Iliiksian concession on the
Vain rlvor, wn provented from enter
ing the port 'it Yougampho by u Jap
liuoso gunbont, whose commander said
VoiiRampho was not an open port and
that foreign merchant vessels had io
right to cult l'
WARM WEATHER NEEDED
Corn l IIiirliiK Hruvlly hut Milking Sloiv
rrogrt'ii
In Ihe weekly 'summary of Section
Director l.ovclund, leaned September 1,
especial emphasis In laid oir tho need
of warm, dry weather for .corn. It Is
earing uenviiy, itui mailing slow prog
ress towards Maturity. Ho saB;
The past week has been cold, wet
and rather unfavorable for crops. Tho
'mean dally temperature haw averaged
It degrees below normal In eastern nnd
northern counties and 2 degrees below
In fiouthwostern counties.
The rainfall has been above normal
In all districts and very heavy In most
parts of tho state. Tho region of heav
iest rainfall was the eastern half of tho
Unto Just north of tho Platte, river,
vhcte l ranged fiom three to nlim
tidies.
Very little progress was made with
hrcshlni' during tho week nnd sonic
.rain In shock nnd n llttlo in stack
as Injured by tho hravy rain. Haying
Mho was delayed nnd some hny Injured.
In the region of heaviest rainfall tho
'ow lands were flooded nnd consider
able hay nnd grass damaged. Corn Is
glowing nicely, eaiing heavily, nnd
forming large cairt, but has made very
slow progress toward maturity, and
warm, dry weather Is much needed by
corn. Kail plowing has ptogressed
well, although In parts of the state the
ground wns too wet much of tho week.
A few fields of wheat have been sown, ,
with, tho ground lu unusually good con
dition. Pastures continue exception
ally good. , i
PASSES ALLOWED NO MORE
1'rlrltoKei flrantnl Weitnrn Hluckmaa
to be Out Oat
A Chicago, September 1. dispatch
Bays; Stockmen throughout the west
who have for many yenis been enjoy
ing freo rtansportatlon from their
homes nnd, the shipping ccntors, will
And this privilege curtailed nflcr Jan
uary 1, 1904. The executive- ofllclala
of western lines met hero today and
agreed that oh and .after tho dato
mentioned 'thoy wpuld discontinue the
Issuanco to Rtockmen of return trans
portation, thereby compelling them to
pay their fare to tholr homes after
having come to the various shipping
cohters with stock. Before the agree
ment can be carried out, however, a
great' deal of work will have to lie
dono by tho trudlc men. Committees
will bo appointed for the. purpose of
preparing a digest of all tho lows of
the various states pertaining to the"
subject of stockmen's passes with a
view to seeing what violations, If any,
will result from tho observance of the
order. A. large number of western
states have enacted laws compelling
the railroads to Issue passes to men
In chargo of stock cars, but there is
no uniformity In the requirements.
The now regulations are the same aa
thoe In force In eastern territory,
where the stock traffic Is not nearly so
great. The change Is proposed largely
for tho purpose of curtailing tho op
orations of ticket scalpers.
A BLOW AT NEGRO SCHOOL
Effort to Abnllih Appropriation fof
Tii-begr
A Montgomery, Ala., September 1,
dispatch says: Iteprcsenfatlvo Woods
of Macon county today Introduced In
tho Alabama house of representatives
a bill which seeks to tako from tho
Tuskegeo normal school and negro
normal school at Montgomery tho an
nual appropriation from the agricul
tural funds.
Interest Is added to Mr. Woods' bill
by the fact that he Is a resident of
tho town of Tuskegee, and represents
tho county in which tho Tuskegee nor
mal school Is located and that he only
recently finished a term of offlco as
mayor of Tuskegee.
The bill of Mr. Woods seexs to re
peal the act of tho leglBlaturo of 1895
establishing two branch agricultural
schools for negroes. One of the branch
schools was at tho time established Id
connection with the Tuskegeo normal
school, of which Hooker T. Washing
ton la the head. The other was placed
with tho stato normal school at Mont
gomery. From tho agricultural fund
tho Tuskegee Institute receives $ 1,000
aud tho Montgomery school Is paid $1,
000 annually. Tho bill was referred to
tho committee on education.
llriuund I.lfo of 1'rlioner
A niub of fifty masked men went to
the Jail nt Shawncetown. III., Tuesday
morning nnd demanded that Jailer
Calloway turn over to them John Grif
fin, colored, who was under arrest for
an attempted assault on Mrs. JoBeph
Hobbs, a white woman, near her own
home. OrltHn had been frightened
away hy the woman's screams and had
been arrested a short while afterwards.
When the mob demanded that Jailer
Calloway turn the negro over to them,
Oalloway armed himself and after
irasonlng with the men from tho Jail
door, he warned them that any effort
to forco tho jail would bo at their
own peril. The mob, lnsplte of tho
Jailer's words, mado several Ineffectual
attempts to break down tho Jail doors,
Anally dispersing.
Will Itetlrn Krora Cabinet
The Westminster Gazctto Bays It
heart tho Duko of Dovonahlro, liberal
unlonlbt, lord president of tho council,
will announce definitely at tho forth
coming cublnet Ills disagreement with
tho tiscal proposals of Mr. Chamber
lain and will then retire from tho cabi
net. t'litnr Iiitermitlonitl Control
A technical paper published In Ber
lin says that It learns that the dele
gates of ncurly all the countries which
participated lu tho recent International
congress of wlreles telegraphy In Ber
lin, whoso sessions wero secret, favored
international control of wireless teleg
raphy und advocated that no land sta
tion refuse to tako a message, If com
prehensible, from any ship using a sys
tem different to that of the company
owning the station.
Beatrice merchants have of late been
very much troubled with shoplifters.
BOUND TO MARRY
lingorous Man Demands to Seo
N tho President
IS ARMED AND PERSISTENT
DrrlnrcA lie Want to Mitrrr Ml" Allc
Jtuonntnlt Mmlo it 1'rlnaiiirr by
Mlflit (Junril itiul TiirntiJ
Our lu Aiilliorltlr-
An Oyster Day, September 2, dlspntch
rays: What the secret service men
characterize as an attempt on the life
of President itoosevelt was made last
night by Henry Welnbrenner. of Sy
osset, I., n small place eeveu miles
from Oyster Hay, tho president's sum
mer homo. Hhu drovo to the pres
ident's house lit 10 o'clock mid an
nounced to the secret sen Ice men who
stopped him 100 feet down the load
that he had an engagement to meet
tho president. He gave his name anil
snld the president had telegiaped him
to come at once.
Tho guard examined his llht and
found no such name among those who
wcro expected by the president anil he
ordered Welnbrenner to drive on. The
latter objected, but finally left after
being threatened with being arrested.
Ho returned In half tin hour nnd In
sisted that tho president wns anxious
to seo him on important business. He
was ngaln refused entrance and again
departed, apparently very much cha
grined at his failure to face the execu
tive. Three-quarters of nn hour Inter lip
again put In his appearance nnd the
guards locked hlmtup ns a matter of
precaution. When senrched a G2 cali
bre revolver,, fully londed, was found
on bis person. An examination of the
ground!) revedlcd the footprints of
tiespassere In tho rear of the presi
dent's house and four additional guards
were brought from Oyster Uay to Sag
nmnro Hill.
Welnbrenner Was taken to the Oys
ter Day lock-uptfor four hours. His
answers to tho questions this morn
ing showed him plainly to be demented.
He Is thc-Bon of a Qermun truck driver,
Is twenty-eight years old and weighs
200.ponuds. Tho guards have no doubt
but that ho Intended to kill the presi
dent had he beeu able to reach him.
DIE ON STEAMER
More Than Score of I.Ues I.nlt m lt3
milt of Kxploslon
Three explosions occurred Septem
ber 2 on the Austrian steamer VauUapu
soon after lcalnt: the Bulgarian port
of Durgaa en route for Constantinople,
by which twonty-nlne persons per
ished. The vessel caught fire and hud
to be beached.
A telegram conveying this news was
received by the agent at Constanti
nople of the Hungarian levant line, to
which the Vaskapu belongs. Tho J.elc
gram said the Vaskapu has been de
stroyed In the Dlack sea. The captain
and officers of the steamer and six of
her crew were killed, a total of twen
ty-nlne lives being lost.
Tho Vaskapu Balled from Varna, Bul
garia, and after calling nt Burgas, was
steaming through the Black sea to
Constantinople when threw explosions
took place on board.
The deck of the vessel took lire and
she had to be run ashore at Mislvroa
Bey, eighteen miles north of Burgas,
where she Is still burning.
The Vaskapu belonged to the. Hun
garian Lcvnnt Steamship company of
Flume, Austria, and hns been engaged
on tho Black sea service. She was
built In Newcastle lu lblU and was a
steamer of 1,070 tons. She wns 2C0 feet
long and 'M feet beam, nnd had u depth
of 16.9 feet.
C'riiihml by Threshing Knicliie
C. F. Malm, living In tho vicinity or
I. ootids, In PhclpB county, received fu
tal injuries while moving a threshing
outfit across tho country Wednesday
with a number of men. They came to
a Bmall and muddy draw about seven
miles north of l.oomls. They had
hitched the separator to the engine
with a long chain, but could not pull
It, and backed the engine to get a
shorter hitch. The engine did not
stop as soon as expected and the feeder
was still on. Mr. Malm was caught be
tween tho engine ami tho separator
with considerable force and was found
to bo seriously Injured. He was car
ried to n neighboring house antl n
physician sent for.' He lived nbotit an
hour nnd a half. He was a well known
young man and leaves a mother,
brother and sisters, his father having
died about two years ago.
Itinula Wnntii Much Snure
Commissioner General Alexandrov
fiky has applied for live thousand feet
of space In the ngrlculturo building for
tho Itusslnn government, which desires
to make exhibits In Hiibhlan grown
cotton and tea, several varieties of
forage grasses and Russia's staple
cereals, such as rye, wheat antl barley.
A permit for the erection of the Illinois
building nt tho world's fair was Issued
September 2 to James- I.nw rente Brown
the superintendent of tho building for
tho Illinois tommlsslon. The permit
for the Illinois building names $.10,000
as tho contract price. It does not In
clude tho tine decorative staff work nor
tho ornato Interior phihttilng. Tho
cost of tho building will bo closo to
G0,000.
tie! 1'urt Witcm
The Standnrd mill nt Colorado City,
Colo., owned antl operated by the
United States Reduction and Itcllnlng
compnny, against which institution the
present strike of the miners in tho
Crlpplo Creek district had Its Incep
tion, wns closed down for nn Indefinite
period this morning. The employes of
tho mill, number,lng nbout 200, will
roeelvo ono-thlrd wages for an In
definite time because of their loyalty
in rcmutulng with the company at the
time of tho first trouble with the mlll
meu's union.
NATIONAL CROPS
Kxct-Mlin Moisture In Nurltntft Delnr
I'n nn Work
The weather bureau's weekly sum
mary of crop conditions, Issued Sep
tcmber I, is as follows:
Hnrvcst of spring wheat is finished,
except In tho northern Ilocky moun
tain states and on the north Pnclllc
coaht, where ruins have delayed its
completion. In the Dakotus, Nebraska,
Minnesota nml Wisconsin stacking and
threshing hns been seiloukly Inter
rupted, ami considerable daninge caused
by excessive moisture.
While there hnn been some Improve
ment In tho condition of cotton, main
ly in poitlons of tho central districts,
the crop as a whole has suffered de
terioration, rust und shedding being
very general throughout tho belt and
prcmatuto opening lu some of the
eastern districts, where excessive heat
proved unfavorable. In Texas thero
has been much shedding, nnd whllo
boll woims arc dlsnppcailng, and tho
ctop Is more promising lu the northern
counties, tho boll weevil continues very
destructive in, the southwest, central
and eastern portions. Picking Is now
general throughout the southern dis
tricts of tho cotton belt.
Favorable repoits respecting apples
aro received from portions of the mid
dle At IntUlr states, New England and
the upper Ohio valley mid from south
ern Kansas, hut elsewhere there has
been n general decline In tho condltlou
of this crop.
The soil Is In fine condition for fall
plowing, which Is well advanced aud
homo wheat has been sown iu Ne
braska. LANDS A BIG ONE
MIm Mur (Joclet anil Her Mlltloui Catoli
Duko of Itoxehurgh
The engagement is announced at
London of the Duko of Koxoburgh antl
Miss May Goelel, who Is the heiress to
twenty millions. Tho duke Is now a
guest of Miss 'Godot's mother at New
port, It. I. Miss Goolot has been the
heroine of many stories un dhas been
reported engaged many times. Sho
was also tho victim of a number of
conspiracies, one of which was tho
suit of Prince Hugo von Hoheulohc of
Germauy, who agreed to pay ten thou
sand to procure the consideration of his
proposal. The prince Is nearly fifty
years old. Miss Goelet objected.
Prince Henry Hnren of Bohemia was
also debarred by his uge. Among tho
others to whom she was reported en
gaged are the Duko of Manchester, the
Karl of Shaftsbury, und tho Grand
Duke Boris. Henry John Innesker la
the eighth duko of lloxeburgh. Ho was
born In 187C, and his ancestral seat Is
a splendid castlo at Kelso, near the
Scotland' border. He also has a rich
estate at Brosmouth Park. Ho holds
honorable war records.
Planning- n rucking llouie
Tho western cattlemen who propose
to build a packing houso of their own
recently hold a meeting at Kansas
City to agree upon articles of Incor
poration for a packing company. The
nrtlclcs. when prepared, will bo filed
In Arizona, because, the lawyers say,
they can get greater privileges thero
than elsewhere.
As explained by C. F. Martin, sec
retary of the national live stock asso
elatlon, the purpose Is not so much to
fight tho packing houses now In exist
ence as to establish competition and
make the paekers pay a reasonable
price for cattle. "Wo want enough for
our beef to encourage farmers to con
tinue the business," Mr. Martiu ex
plained. The cattlemen flnlEhed their worn
September 2 and left for. their homes.
When asked to stato who tho Incor
porators of tho Independent packing
company are. they said it would not
do to give the public this information
at this time.
Mur Kutubllnh Nmr l'oU
The general staff of the army Is con
sidering tho advisability of realigning
the departments to conform to changes
in the transportation situation. An
other proposition even of more Inter
est to the country that is being con
sidered by the general Btaff la the re
habilitation of numerous Torts and
posts lu various parts of the country,
but mainly in the west, which havo
been abandoned for several years. Now
that the army consists of nearly 70,000
men, It Is not Improbable that In this
necessity some new posts will have to
be established.
Wreck In Knniiat
A special freight train on tho Atchi
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, car
rying thirteen passengers In the ca
boose, bucked Into nu open switch nt
Enterprise, Kan. Five cars of mer
chandise and the caboose woro
wrecked. Three passengers were Ferl
ously hurt; rMs. Munn, Glasco, Kan.,
foot cut and head bruised; Joseph
Kochenover, Hope, Kan., collar bone
broken and Internnl Injuries, may die;
Henry Kandt, Woodbine, Kan., arm
Injured.
Kicrimlvo Joy Kills
Joao Marrero, a non-leprous patient
who was liberated from the leper col
ony as a result of tho recent Investiga
tion, tiled Tuesday at San Juan, Porto
Rico of heart disease, superinduced by
Joy at his release. The probing into
tho leprosy Bcantlal continued to pro
duco unpleasant developments. Tho
public roport of the committee of the
executive council Investigating the mat
ter will bo mado next week.
Kmhvllle, Tenn.. Ilti a fire ,
Fire which started In the dry goods
storq of Timothy Brothers, Nash
ville, Tenn,, practically destroyed that
establishment and caused serious loss
to firms on either side of their store.
The total losses aggrogato $175,000;
partially Insured.
Sheldon Will Have Witter
Tho special election held at Sheldon,
Neb., Tuesduy to vote on tho proposi
tion to Issue $12,500 In bonds for water
works resulted In the bonds carrying
by a vote of 130 to 40.
INSTANTLY KILLED
Mrs. Drapello, of Schuyler Fails
to Hoar Whistle
DAUGHTER WAS ON TRAIN
The I.nllrr llitil liven Mnrrleri In Cnl-
'jinliuft In the Afternoon nntl
n Miirtlnir on Weil-
ill n If Trip Note
At Schuyler. Neb., Friday, Mrs.
Thoman Drapclla was struck by tho
cast-bounil (Koi land Limited which
arrives thero at 7 o'clock, and was In
stantl yklllcd. She stood lu tho center
of tho track watching n freight train,
and evidently did not hear the warning
whistle of the Limited. Her daughter
was married nt Columbus In tho after
noon and was on tho tialn thut killed
the mother.
READY FOR TROUBLE
Marine of l'ow-r on lliiml nt C'nnslun
tli.nple Minister Irishman has cabled the
state department Hint owing lo tho
disturbed condition In Constantinople
an addltlonnl kavnss, or detective forco,
has been stationed nt the American
legation. This action was taken on
tho suggestion of tho Turkish govern
ment, which has assured tho American
minister that It will use every precau
tion to protect all foreigners, but has
warned the different embassies and
legations that It would be well to
strengthen the forco Inside tho build
ings. Iu caso a necessity develops, it Is
probablo that the Turkish government
will bo requested to nllow the United
States to send n detachment of ma
rines from tho squadron which Is ex
pected to arrive nt Beirut soon. Tho
United States has no authotlty to send
a warship through the Dardanelles, and
would buve to have the consent of Tur
key and nlso that of other European
powers to do so.
Minister Lclshmnn, In his cable
gram, Informed the department that
a number of governments had landed
marines In Constantinople for the pro
tection of their embassies.
No British marines havo been land
ed at Constantinople, so far us tho
rBltish foreign office Is Informed, but
it Is reported that if the British em
bassy requests protection tho British
ambassador is authorized to call upon
tho commander of the rBltish guard
ship for guards.
Tho foreign office considers it prob
able that Russia and Austria havo
landed marines to protect their embas
sies as a result of tho portc's note to
the ambassadors warning them that
the Bulgarian agitators were project
ing outrages against tho embassies,
legations and public buildings at Con
stantinople. So far as the foreign of
fice knows, Constantinople Is quiet.
NEBRASKA LAND CASE
Ltatoln County Dlfllculty Appeuletl to
8ntnr Mllhtrd
A boundary difficulty in Lincoln
county, Nebraska, which for nineteen
years has been tho source of much
trouble, has been' appealed to Senator
Millard. Tho misunderstandings arlso
among owners of property In and sur
rounding the abandoned military reser
vation of Foit Mr.Pherson. Judge H.
M. Grimes of Noith Platto and Charles
Ross, county surveyor of Lincoln
county, have Joined In a letter to Sena
tor Millard asking him to apply to the
commissioner goneral of tho land office,
requesting that official to order a sur
vey of the land on tho eastern boun
dary of the old reservation to establish
the corners of tho sections. Judge
Grimes says there has been uncertainty
and contention over slnco the reserva
tion was abandoned, nineteen years
ago, and adds that tho establishment
of these corners Is highly necessary
and will be of great benefit to settlers
on the lands enclosed In tho reserva
tion. Tho senator will tako the mat
tor up.
To ttnjnln (la Vnmrmny
In junction proceedings havo been
instituted nt. St I.oiiIk lir Attnrnov
General Crow before Judge Taylor of
the circuit court which reveal an ap
parent attompt on tho part of tho La
clede Gas Light comnunv to reanlate
and control the prices of gas ranges
noanuiaciureu and sold In St. Louis.
The Laclede Gas company was rccontly
SOtd to tho Nnrfh Amnrlpnn. pnmnnnv
ot Philadelphia, which Is capitalized
at o,wu,wji). Tiie petition for injunc
tion charges that tho Laclede Gas
Light company sorved notlco on all St.
Louis manufacturers to tho effect that
their ranges would have to bo sold at
a certain price or the gae company
would refuse to make connections freo
of charge.
YV a Dcflremluiit of Andre
Samuel Jncobs, a lineal descendant
of Major Andro of Revolutionary fame,
Is dead at his homo In St. Joseph, Mo.,
aged 82 years. He was a civil engineer
nnd surveyed tho route of tho Chicago,
k-trHngton & Quluoy railroad across
th Btfte of Iowa. Ho was ono of tho
promoters of the Kansas City, St. Jo
seph & Council Bluffs railroad from
Council Bluffs to Kansas City, now a
part of tho Burlington system, antl as
sisted lu the survey for It.
New Automobile Itcrord
At the annual races of the Cleveland
Automobile club nt Glcnvllle track,
Cleveland, O., Friday, tho feature wns
the ten miles open event, lu which
Hurney Oldncld of Cleveland, D. Wur
gls of Detroit and J. Stnchollc of Paris,
France, wore the contestants. Oldfleld
was handicapped two miles. His
fourth mile was In1 C9 4-5 seconds, n
world's record. Oldfleld quit the race,
however, at the four and a half mile
marl; and Slnchollo continued to the
end, winning in 10:33 4-5.
! RIVER TO BE DIVIDING LINE
Decision ttcui'heit In NebrmtkifSoiith Ila
kotn Cnne
A Sioux City, lu., September 4, dis
patch says: The Nebraska-South Dar
kola boundary commission, composW
of Dr. F. O. Robinson of Hartltigton,
Neb,; C. J. Swnnson of Oakland, Neb,; j
E. A. Lundberg of Wayne, Neb., nntJ 4 !
E. C. Erlcson of Elk Point. S. D.; Cap
tain S. H. Dlx8on of Sioux Falls. S. 1).,
nnd J. L. Jollcy of Vermillion, S. D.,
met hero yesterday nnd decided to
recommend to tho state legislatures of
Nebraska and South Dakota that Ne
braska take all laud south of tho presi
cut channel of the Missouri river and'
South Dakota tako all laud north of
the present river channel, lu disputed
territory. 'A
The legislatures of the two slates
will probably ratify this agreement,
mid thou It will bo up to congress to
definitely settle tho matter which has
given much grief to the two stntts.
Such a settlement would give to Ne
braska In dry Hcasons. whoa tho Mis
souri Is within Its banks, ubout 5,00(1
acres of sandbnr land, very little of
which Is of any nluc in an agricul
tural way. South Dakota would get a,
lesser area of land, but moro of It
would be tlllublc; a comparatively
smnll amount, however, something less
than 300 acres. It would settle tho
court jurisdictions of tho disputed
Innds, however, an Important points '
which hns caused both states consider
able annoynnce.
The disputed land Is In Union coun-i
ty, South Dakota, anil Dixon county,
Nebraska. Three years ago the riven
left the main channel and cut Its way)
crookedly through land on both eldest
of the old channel, leaving the laud lnj
dispute. Nebraska claimed part of thq
territory on the north sldo of tho newi
channel and South Dakota claimed nj
part of tho land on the south side.)
Nono of tho land Is- particularly vaiu
ablo excepting that lawless squatter
can settlo upon It and defy the Iuwfk
of cither stato. neither commonwealth
knowing definitely which hns Jurisdic
tion. Tho squatters on tho north sld
of tho river claim they aro not amena-,
bio to the courts of South Dakotu.
Want foreigner Kxelndetl '
Influential German newspapers antl
magazines are urging the government
to limit tho number of foreigners in
structed lu tho German technical high
schools, or, more properly, technical'
universities, which aro overcrowded.
Out of a total of 14.G2G students, 2,242
aro foreigners. Nearly half of these
are Russians and there arc a few
Americans. Besides giving trade com
petitors tho benefit of German knowl-.
edge, tho promoters of tho exclusion
argue thut the overcrowding provents
tho GcrmanV from getting tho best re
sults from tho instruction.
Colored Men to Convene
A cnll has been Issued by Represen
tative John G. Jones, colored, for a
state convention of colored people to,
bo held in Springfield, III.. Monday,
October 12, under the auspices of th
civil rights protective league of Illinois
to devise ways and means that will
best promote the interests ot the col
ored people lu the state.
I.nimlry Again Falls
Efforts at Tidewater, Va to launch t
Prof. Samuel P. Langley's sixty-foot)
mun-cnrrylng aerodrome had to bo
abandoned owing to the failure of thej
gasoline motor to work properly. Thq
trouble wns caused by a'brokou valvo
in tho engine. Piofessor Langley was
greatly disappointed.
Hilled he C'nllupue
William Johnson, n laborer, wan
killed, and five painters wcro injured
at Vinton, la., by the collnpso of the.
walls of a two-story brick building.
Tho building had been undergoing re-i
pairs and an iron support gave way
None of the injured will die.
HERE AND THERE
Paris has beeu suffering from Intense)
heat.
King Edward has left Vienna for
London.
Three hundred milk dealers of Pitts
burg, Pa., have formed an organiza
tion. Costa Rica is likely to mnke a bid
for tho canal if Colombia falls to meet
tho situation.
Murtln Zldmalcr, in jail at T.lvlnn-r
ston, Mont., under sonteneo ot death,
wns found dead in hla cell.
Tho W. II. Pcnn Mercantile com
pany of rBoken Bow, Nob., has Incor-.
porated with a capital of $15,000. t
Tho 7,000 Japaneso In tho Hawaiian!
Islands are to bo organized Into onei
Boclety for the betterment of their
condition. '
Tho Homo Independent Telephono
company of Filley, Gage county, has!
been incorporated. Tho authorized!
capital stock Is $3,000.
Six persons wcro killed In a wreck
on tho Southern Railway nenr York
vllle, S. C. Tho wreck was caused lfj
tho callanso of a tunnel.
Charles Keeler, a Fremont telephone
llnoman, fell from a ladder and broke
the bones across tho Instep ot ono foot,
besides sustaining other Injuries,
Tho seventeen-months-old child of
City Clerk Charles Johnson, of Ne
braska City, got hold of a bottlo of
pills containing strychulno and bella
donna, und eat a sufficient quantity to
cause death. The parents are frantic,,
and it is feared the mother will loso'
her reason,
At Weeping Water, Creda Wolcott
was stricken with a fatal attack of
heart failure while In attendance nt,
tho wedding of her brother Lloyd toi
Miss Allco Hltchman. I
Baron Henri D. Rothschilds appeared!
in po Ico court In Paris to answer to
the charge of automobile scorcMng.'
He was sentenced to one' day lu prison
and to pay a flno of ten franca.
Whllo a train, composed ot Jtfocb
and fru t cars, was passing thraCJh. a
sidetrack at Papllllon. the englti urn
two cars of fruit Jumped the track,
toarlng up the track for a shSrt dis
tance, UrlM.-.,nBVora ami nvium nt hrfnt
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