The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, November 16, 1906, Image 2
I 4 i 'She CHIC RED CLOUD, NEB. PUBLISHED EVERY FKIDAf Mb, 4 Bntorerl In the PoMoillce t Kc1 Cloud kb Second CIrm Mutter Faui, C. Phare- Geo rob Nkwmousi Editor . Marnier - POLICE DIE INITRAP . ... TT7... . - UAuumu uumu r.,uua .nn.u OFFICERS AT TIFLIS. Recelvo Tip to Search Unoccupied House ami on Pulllnn Aside Window Curtain Explosion Follows-Ono of the Victims Hurled Over Roof. Tlllls, Nov. 12. A deafening bomb explosion occurred on Pethnnski street while the police wero making a search of an unoccupied house. Tho noise of tho explosion was audible Tor a great distance and tho entlto city wns slink- en. Thrco policemen wero killed and t . . four wounded. Tho pollco discovered somo revolu tionary proclamations under a bed in ono of the rooms in this house. They then went to a. window and pulled aside n curtain. Thero wns a Hash of blue fiamc, followed immediately by tho oxplosion, tho forco of which was bo great that tho body of a sergeant, ono or tho men killed, was hurled over a neighboring roof. Tho whole upper portion of tho houso fell in. It is apparent that a snaro had been ar ranged and tho polico lured Into it. Tho pollco received a tip to search this particular houso, which is lo cated In tho Tartar quarter of tho city. Warsaw, Nov. 12. Tho socialists havo commenced a campaign of mur der against thoso who are opposed to them and hnve killed tho director of tho gas works and wounded several nationalist workmen COUNT 'BONI'S PLEA REJECTED Court Adjourns for One Week, When Decision Will Be Handed Down. Paris, Nov. 9. Tho final word in tho divorce proceedings brought by tho Countess do Castcllane against hci hasband was Maltro Bonnet's assur ance of Count Bonl's undying affec tion for his wlfo and tho demand that tho caso bo adjourned for a fortnight In order to givo the counteBS an op portunity to reflect upon tho advisabil ity of a reconciliation. This tho court refused and adjourned for one week, when Its decision either tho ordering of an Inquiry or tho granting of a divorce will bo handed down. Tho proceedings wero confined largely to tilts between opposing coun sel over tho charges mado against Ed mond Kelly, of counsel for tho count ess. Mr. Kelly has denied these chargca Indignantly, and makes tho counter charge that tho count himself had hatched up a conspiracy for tho purpose or making his wlfo believe that he, Kelly, had organized a plot to bring about tho count's political destruction. Tho argument In the creditors' caso was opened by Maltro Mlllorand, who claimed that the lion's sharo of tho money involved was ow ing to tradesmen. It is stated upon authority that this claim will bo con tested by the countess' attorneys, who are said to bo settling all legitimate bills. RANGERS FIGHT WITH MEXICANS Four of the Latter Killed, Two Wounded and Two Captured. Austin, Tex., Nov. 10. Ranger Cap tain William McDonald, in command of tho rangers in Starr county, has sent tho following roport to Governor Innhum on the fight near Rio Grande City: "On tho way last night from Sam Fordyco wo wero fired upon by several Mexicans and had a general fight. Tho following wero killed: Juan Gar cia, Ferries Caldonla, Garzla Perez and Juan Osooa. Jose Venlra and Manuel Ostma wero "Seriously wound ed. . Wo have two othors In jail. About fifty shots wero exchanged In tho fight. We havo tho situation well In hand. Havo ordored both factions to lay off their arms or abldo by tho consequences." It Is bollevod thnt tho httacklng party belongs to tho same element which assassinated Judge Standloy Welch on election night- In response to a dispatch from Rio Grande City, Govornor Lanham or dered a troop of cavalry from Coral cana to tho sceno. GRAND JURY FINDS "TRUE BILLS Federal Inquisitors at Minneapolis Catch Many Concerns In Net. Minneapolis, Nov.-9. Elovon indict ments wero handed to Judge Lochren in the United States district court and they cover tho giving of rebates by certain railroads ami tho receiving of tho same by grain flrmB, as follows: Tho Great Northern railroad, four indictments and soventy-flvo counts; Omaha railway, one Indictment and 1-1 fifty counts; Wisconsin Central rall-l way, ono indictment, seventeen counts; Minneapolis and St. Louis railway, ono indictment, nvo counts. For receiv ing robntcs, W. P. Dovereaux Co., Mc Catil, DInsmord Co., Minneapolis; Ames, Brooks Co., of Duluth; Duluth Milling company. Killed by Pet Deer. New York, Nov. 12. it wns detinue- ly established at Montclnlr, N. J., thnt n pct buck kIIcd Hor))crt Drnd. loy, a wealthy flour exporter, whose STOtt dead body wns found on the preset ves nrudloy's death wns duo primarily to tho (lco,g rlpn- opcn an arlory ,n his hip. President Enjoylnn Trip. Washington, Nov. 12. According to Whok'83 mOFSilgOS received nt the white houso from the battleship I.ot.is- are 'experiencing fine weather and rrnnltv nntnvhm tho trln. I graatly enjoying the trip N1? WQ OT? N V R V A Tf A JNJMYb UJJ INJliiiJtAbAA. Four Year0 and $12,000 Flno for Bode, Falls City, Nob.. Nov. 9. E. O. "" " ,J "iiV lp;",rpr o r thT- Bode, defaulting city trensuicr ot una city, was sentenced by District Judge Haper to four jears in tho stato pom- tentlury and $12,000 fine. Pollard Returns Salary Lincoln, Nov. !). Congressman Ernest M. Pollard of tho First Ne braska district sent a draft for $1,- 861.81 to Sergeant-at-Arms Casson ol the national house of representatives, The sum represents salary paid Mr Pollnrd as a congressman from March 4 to July 18, 1905. As he was first uiuciuu on uiu miiui umu m. u. mv-im election to fill tho unexpired term of Elmer J. Burkett, his right to the sal- ary for the period, when ho was tech- nically not a member wns questioned.. and was made an issue in tho cam- palgn just closed. Mr. Pollard was re elected last Tuesday. SHELDON'S LEAD IS 15,000. Shows a Gain of Six Thousand Over1 Plurality of Mickey. i Omaha, NovlO. Complete returns from sixty-seven of the ninety cottn-, ties in tho state and partial returns from all of the remaining ones Indi-J cato Sheldon will have a plurality ini the stato of about 15,000. Of tho G.-j 000 gain over tho Mickey plurality, about half is represented by the in- creaso in Douglas county. The Republicans have electei all, congressmen, except in the Sand district, though the plurality of Boyd in the Third is uncomfortably small, Boyd claiming 230 plurality and the Democratic committee conceding only 102. STUDENTS DEFY SEGREGATION Seniors at University of Nebraska Re bel at Order to Change Quarters. Lincoln, Nov. 10. The student body of tho University of Nebraska, at a meeting, decided to defy the authori ties in so far as tho order segregating tho sexes is concerned. Tho rule has been disregarded since Its promulga tion, and Chancellor Andrews ordered two seniors to leave their present liv ing rooms or be expelled from the uni versity. Their rooms are in a houso occupied in part by girl students. Tho seniors threaten to bogin injunc tion proceedings against Andrews. The meeting discussed resolutions de nouncing tho order, but postponed ac tion in hope of effecting a compromise. BRYAN'S VIEWS ON ELECTION Says Return of Missouri to the Fold Is Particularly Gratlfyinq. Lincoln, Nov. 10. Commenting on the results of Tuesday's election, W. J. Bryan gets considerable satisfac tion in viewing the outcome from a Democratic standpoint. Ho regrets the defeat of W. R. Hearst In New York, but cannot see wherein Presl- E vote of -the Emp.ro stn(e: li, Brynn says tho president's personal aiiaciC on Mr. liuiuet wun in vuiy u.m taste, nnd he insists that tho nttnek did not favornbly impress tho public. Particularly gratifying to tho Demo cratic heart, says Mr. Bryan, Is the return of Missouri to tho fold. INDIANS IN GOOD HUMOR. Moving Along Peaceably Toward Fort Meade, Whero They May Winter. Omaha. Nov. 8. Telegraphic word was received at army headquarters) conductor waiiors wus sjiui m u.u from Colonel Itodgors of tho Sixth left shoulder nnd loft sldo and taken cavalry that tho band of Uto Indians to his homo at Lincoln In a very sod under escort of tho Sixth cavalry ous condition, while Kramer was had reached Rldgo, a small town on brought to Omaha on tho train and the Wyoming and Montana lino about taken to tho Omaha General hospital, mltlwav between tho Kittle Powder. It Is believed that Kramer has little and Bollo Fourcho rlvors nnd prob ably would reach Hello Fourcho about Saturday Tho Indians nro moving along peaceably and nro in a good humor at tho prospect of wintering at Fort Meade. Tho troops nnd Indians aro march- lng overland nnd will so continue to mnmi, in Fnrt Moado. South Dakota, , It is expected they will reach Fort ' Meade Saturday. j- IHTHMFH rvft TYnUrpTT ) I DUIUMjU XJ UXJIXXXl COLLISION BETWEEN EMIGRANT TRAIN AND FREIGHT. Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, Destined to Northwest, Perish In Burning Cars on Baltimore and Ohio Near Woodvllle, Ind. Chicago, Nov. 13. Moro than one- half of the passengers on an imtnl- MSfl-JSKSVS Ohio lls "?wocn the passenBcr train and u b . . ..-. . Ono bundled and sixty-five porsons wnfn ti Mlri tt-nlli nttil nf tlwiun frirlv. seven wero either killed outright or wero burned to death in the firo which broke out in the wreckago immcdl- ntoly after the collision. Tlte names known, as forty-flvo of the bodies wero cnnRHinoil r Kn l.iidlv bltniod that consumed or so badly burned that identification Is impossible Thirty-elght people were Injured and B0V0raior thes0 will dio. Eighty oth- crs esenped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing. ,, , U,aS w , , "' blunder of some employe of the rail Tho disaster was iittsed by a r0H(1 comi)any, but Just whero the blnmo lies has not been determined. Tho passenger train, which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, all or them recent arrivals In this country, and bound for places in ! tho northwest, wns the second section of a through train from Baltimore. As g00n ag thQ flrgt 8Cctlon of tho lmml. grant train had passed tho switch at Babcock, the freight train started east ward. A light snow was falling, which increased tho darkness of the eary morning and WM roflndlng slmrp of Woo(lvllle( tho secoI1 and as the freight curve just west cnpnnit nop.Hnn nf thfl immlgrnnt traln camo lnto 8gi,t n Bhort dlgtanc0 awaV( tearing toward ,,, nf thn rnif nf fnHv milns nn hour. The two trains camo together with unslackened speed, and In the crash three passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood and, together with the locomotives, went rolling down the ten-foot embankment. Firo broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and although a number of tho injured wero saved by the desperato efforts of tho train crew and surviving pas- sengcrs, tho greater part of those who were pinned down in the debriswore burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that It was impossible to save a number of people who were but slightly hurt, but wore held fast by timbers. Thoso wore burned In plain sight of tho throng which stood around the sceno of tho disaster utterly unable to lend assistance. The fire continued until all of the shattered cars wero entirely consumed and of the forty-seven peo ple whose death followed tho collision, forty-five wero burned to ashes. A largo number of tho relatives of tho passengers on the ill-fated train were in Chicago awaiting their arrival and when tho reports ot the catastro phe wero received, scenes at the depot wero hnrrowlng. Men were there who had come to this country to escape the massneres In Russia, and who aft er months of hard work had saved enough to pay tho passago of mem bers of their families, and their grief when they became aware that possibly all their sacrifice and effort had re sulted only In tho death of thoso whom thoy had sought to bring to them wns pitiful. . Crowds of Rus sians and Poles wero around the depot all day waiting for news from Wood vllle, and when a train camo In bear ing tho thirty-eight Injured persons, it wns with tho greatest difficulty thnt tho polico were able to open a pas sageway for the wounded. Several or the foreigners became so excited that they attempted to attack depot attaches, whoso uniforms led them to believe they wero employed by tho Baltimore and Ohio road. TWO MEN SHOT OVER FARE Passenger Shoot8 Conductor and Then Attempts to Commit Suicide. Omaha, Nov. 8. While en route to Omaha on Burlington train No. 4 be tween Ashland and Gretna, Carl Kramer of Memphis, Neb., became in volved in a dispute over tho payment or fnro with Conductor "Stubby" Wal ters and shot the conductor twlco with n revolver and then placed the weapon in his mouth and discharged . it in an attempt to end his own life. chnnco of recovery. Kramer boarded tho train at Mem phis, which is on tho Schuyler branch, paid his faro to Omaha and received a rebate check as a receipt. Ho was on his way to Excelsior Springs, Mo.. nnd changed trains at Ashland. When Conductor Walters insisted on tho payment of his faro to Omaha from Ashland, Kramer refused, as ho said , tho proper fare had been paid, and tho quarrel begun, which ended Itv tho ' i shooting. Kramer was In the smoking car and shortly before tho train ar rived at Gretna ho wont into tho car behind, which was filled with pas sengers, where ho renewed tho argu ment with tho conductor and .without warning, pulled tho revolver and be gan firing. ... SIX MEN SCALDED TO DEATH Five Others Seriously Injured by Bursting Boiler at Cleveland, Clovelnnd. Nov. 13. Six men wero killed and Jive seriously injured when a boiler In the powerhouse of tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail road nt Colllnwood, a. suburb of Cleve land, blew up. ;i'ho men were work- '"' v3,0 l tho b1,cr3' aiding tho foundation for a dynamo, when tho explosion occurred. They wero all in the mouth of (in subway facing the end whirh blow out of tho boiler and ?'.? ,m1!?0M0 VOltimO of Stl'MIl Which shot Oltt. Tho dead: Max Crawford, olec- r,(;mn; Albert Bloom, carpenter; A. Lntta' """5 P" . L.nVc,on1, laborer; Giovanni Pacionl, laborer; Julius Wnedor, pipefitter. Fatally scalded: Fred Korgan, mill-' wrlght foreman; W. A. Dnvis, elec' trlcinn. The explosion was due to tho forma' lion of a "mud ring" in tho filtering np nnmtus, which Harlfics the water be-1 imw-b -""' f f ocI f thc oxpIOBlon was hoard for lv" ,nlles- LOCOMOTIVE BOILER LETS GO Three Men Killed and Station on Southern Pacific Destroyed. San Jose, Cal., Nov. 13. Thrco men were killed by the explosion of tho engine on the southbound Sunset Lim ited on tho Southern Pacific at Sar gent's station. The dead: Josoph Goodfellow, su perintendent of tho Southern Pacific block system; Samuel G. Gillespie, en gineer of train; James Bladon, fire man. YIELD OF CORN 2,881,096,000 BU. Maize Is Still the King of All Ameri can Cropc Washington, Nov. 11. The crop re porting board of the department of ngrlculture finds from the reports of the correspondents and agents of tho bureau as follows: Tho preliminary returns on the pro duction of corn In 1906 indicate a total yield of about 2,881,096,000 bushels, or an average of 30.2 bushels per acre, as compared with an average yield of 28.8 bushels as finally estimated in 1905, 26.8 bushels in 1904 and a ten year average of 25.2 bushels. The general average as to quality is 89.9 per cent as compared with 90.C last year. It is estimated that about 4.4 per cent of the corn crop of 1905 was still in tho hands of farmers on Nov. 1,1906, as compared with 3.3 per cent of the crop of 1904, in farmers' hands on Nov. 1, 1905. SAGE MILLIONS OR POOR Widow Says That Is Where Bulk of $80,000,000 Estate Is Going. New York, Nov. 13. Mrs. Russell Sage will give away tho bulk of tfie fortune or about $80,000,000 be queathed to her by her late husband to individuals whom she considers worthy, who, through no fault of their own, are so unfortunate as to need as sistance and too proud to ask. It will not bo given to endow churches nor to assist tnoso who write begging letters. Mrs. Sage says sho will do all she can, however, for struggling churches and institutions devoted to the care of tho needy and sick. "I shall keep only sufllclent of tho fortune left to mo by my husband to llvo quietly and comfortably," Mrs. Sago said. ROB NEAR POLICE STATION. Woman New Victim of Pittsburg Hold ups No Arrests Made. Pittsburg, Nov. 13. Emboldened by tho apparent helplessness of tho po llco and dotectlvo forces of the city, tho highwaymen nnd burglars that havo terrorized this city for the past ten days have apparently extended their operations into broad daylight as well us working under covor of darkness. At the corner of Sixth avenue and Wood street, ono of tho most crowded spots in tho heart of tho city, and within a few hundred feet of pollco' headquarters) Mrs. A. G. Boykln wns 'assaulted and robbed by two men, who mado their escape. Coroner's Verdict In Hotel Disaster. Long Bench, Cal., Nov. 13. Tho coronor'B Jury, investigating tho causo of the collapse of tho Hotel Blxby last Friday, which resulted In tho death of ton men and tho Injury of a score of othors, returned a verdict, finding that tho nccldcnt was caused by the 'pro- mature removal of tho supports of tho fifth floor and proceeding with tho construction of tho roof before tho supporting cement had time to hard .en sufficiently. l i 1 J I M fefiSS r-v? u -rmJ&Mrm Tt . . . ..-.i-ii - aJBmijKKE&i WM Tlio HlTrrcncc lteen "' .i Mljilnjt lilie '' I'll olirlnrrnnnA Ir.lJ Inn Idle uiratc Arm. 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