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BfEWS 0E NEBRASKA.
TA Nebraska Division Bill to President.
T -1 Waahlncton. Fob. :i. Tho Xohras-
a juuiciai division mil wm oc signou
by the president hcfoio the etui of the
.week, having paased the senate in the
.exact form In which it went thrnugn
Hie house. There was no objection
and when called up in the senate by
Burkctt It passed at once.
BUS.HNELL AGAIN PRESIDENT.
Other Officers of Nebraska Assocla
tion of Commercial Clubs.
Lincoln, Feb. 23. H. M. Buslinell,
J was re-elected president of tho state
f association of commercial clubs which
A closed its session here. Other ofuccrs
y.electcd were: A. F. Buechlor, Grand
mtim, secietary; C. T. Buttorflold,
Tokamah, treasurer; John Ward, To
cuniseh: J. McVnnn. Omaha: 13. P.
'ttGrllllth, Tekaniah; II. Gilkeson. Wn
I boo; G. P. Mllbourn, Mlnden, and II.
I llomax, Broken Bow, district vice
'presidents.
RAILROAD AMENDMENT VALID
Constitutional Provision for the Com
mission Held Legal.
Lincoln, Feb. 22. Tho supreme
court handed down a decision dcclar
ing the' adoption of the railway com
mission constitutional amendment en
tirely proper and recognizing tho elec
tion of .the tin eo commissioners. Tii'j
opinion contains no reservations.
Tho opinion enables tho commission
to begin work immediately. Tho throj
members of the commission will havj
supervision over railway affairs in
Nebraska. Tho validity of the amend
ment was attacked by the attorney
general and made a test case. The
fate ot"a number of bills pending in
tho legislature is contingent on the
constitutionality of tho railroad commission.
.. EDITORS ELECT OFFICERS
Resolution Adopted Opposing Increase
)' In Mail Tariff.
s Omaha, Fob. 21. Tho proposed
change of postal rates on second rias'j
mall mntter from 1 to 4 cents per
pound and, other regulations affecting
particularly newspaper publishers, to
gothor with tho capabilities of Third
Assistant Postmaster General Madden,
was brought up In vigorous manner at
tho second day's meeting of tho Ne
braska Press association. After Sec
retary Maupin read a paper on "Mad
denlsm Run Mad," written by Ed A.
Fry of Niobrara, and Mrs. F. O. Edge
combo read her husband's paper on
"Proposed Postnl Law Changes," a
resolution, offered by Ross L. Ham
mond of Fremont, opposing tho pro
posed Increaso In the ratu of second
class matter, was adopted.
Tho following officers wero elected
President, H. C. Richmond, Fremont,
vlco president, A. B. Wood, Goring;
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for I'tocurinu 100 of tho ahovo hand
some eight-day Regulators, and tliey
will he given iiwny absolutely fiut,
upon the following plan:
Each person sending in 10 new year
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entitled to one of tliu clocks.
Each person sending in 15 renewals
lo.ianuary 1, I DOS, will bo untitled to
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Nobody barred! School districts,
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uals arc untitled to enter the race.
THE CHIEF PUBLISHING CO.,
Red Cloud, Nebraska.
secretary-treasurer, v. t. Maupin,
Lincoln; corresponding secretary, C.
C. John. Wood Hiver.
HOUSE FOR TVO CENT FARE
Passenger Rate Bill Is Passed With
Emergency ClauEe.
Lincoln, Fob. 22. The 2-cent pas
senger rate bill was passed In the
house, with tho emergency clause, by
a vote of 90 to 0, ten members being
absent.
A bill providing for the submission
of a piohlbllory amendment to the
constitution was Introduced In the
house.
Dodge of Douglas Introduced In tho
house a bill to establish at Omaha an
orthopedic hospital. It carries au
appropriation or $00,000.
A bill was Introduced in the house
for a compulsory eight-hour day go"
ornlng nil railway train dispatchers,
telegraphers, levermen at Interlocking
switches and other employes who as
slst in the operation or trains, nsldo
from englnenien, trnlnmen nnd switch
men. If a railroad company permits
any such employes to work over tin
eight-hour limit, it will become sub
ject to a lino of $."00 to $1,000.
A. A. Welch of Wayne has been ap
pointed by Governor Sheldon to sue
cecd Judge Boyd, olccted to congress.
SALT LAKE OFFICIALS TAKEN
Chief of Police and Chief of Detectives
Accused of Fleecing Tourists.
Salt Lake, Feb. 27. George Sheets,
chief of tho Salt Lake police depart
ment, and George Haleigh, chief of de
tectives, were arrested, charged with
complicity in a conspiracy to ileece
tourists and travelers passing through
Salt 'Iake.
Floor Gives Way With Wedding Guests
Knoxvlllo, la., Feb. 27. Twenty per
sons wero hurt, many seriously, when
the floor in the homo of C. K. Davis
collapsed during the progress of the
wedding of his daughtor to II. O.
Hrcen. Eighty persons foil into tho
basement and only a fow . escaped
without bruises.
TELEGRAMS JERSELY TOLD
Tho Minnesota senato passed a 2
sent fare and an anti-pass bill, making
a Hat 2-cent rate for passenger fares
throughout tho state.
A number of former members of tho
negro compnnles discharged at
Brownsville testified bel'oro tho sen
ate Investigating committee. No new
facts wero brought out.
Tho count of votes of tho Butte
minors' union shows that tho propo
sition fixing the scale of wages nt 4
a day carried by a large majority, and
will go into effect May 1.
Tho president has approved the sen
tence of tho court-martial which trlod
Lieutenant John S. Hamilton, Twelfth
Infantry, on charges of embezzlement
nnd desertion, which found him guilty
and sentenced him to eighteen months
In tho Fort Leavenworth penitentiary
ALL ARE LOST BUT 15
ONLY HANDFUL SURVIVE FRIGHT.
FUL SEA TRAGEDY.
lll-Fated Berlin Is Resting on Rem
nant of Steamer Leeds, Which Was
Lost on Same Spot In 1882 Prince
Henry a Hero.
Hook of Holhuid, Feb. 23. Largely
as a result of the courage and deter
mination of Prlnco Henry of Tho
Netherlands, tho prlnco consort, that
which appeared to bo an impossible
tnsk, has been achieved and tho he
roic and unflinching efforts of tho
Dutch lifeboat men have succeeded In
rescuing allvo eleven more of tho sur
vivors of the Ill-fated steamer Berlin.
This makes tho number of Raved ilf
teen out of the Ml who wore on board
the vessel.
Tho gallant Dutch lifeboat men wnro
rewarded after more than thirty hours
of hard and dangerous work. Buffeted
and driven back time nfter time, they
refused to relax their attempts to res
cue tho handful of shipwrecked peo
ple, and llunlly at 3:30 the receding
tide nnd some improvement in tho
weather lining made the conditions
easier, their long light was crowned
with success.
Although several of the persons
rescued were in tho last stages of ex
haustion, they are on the road to re
covery and some of them have been
able to tell of their awful experiences.
Tho names of tho saved passengers
follow: Mr. Young, Mr. Broederson,
Frank in Battel, Frauleln Gnbler, Frau
Schraeder. Under the reviving Influence of food
the survivors soon became coinpnta
lively cheerful. Frauleln Battel and
Fran Schraeder, although practically
starving nnd with their hands and
fcot terribly frostbitten, showed re
markable cheerfulness.
Relating her experiences, Fran
Schraeder said: "I noor can forget
the terrible hours of anguish and de
spair we passed through while watch
ing the gallant efforts of the crews of
the lifeboats and tugs to snatch us
from the jaws of death. Mountainous
death-cold billows broke over the ship
every minute and tho dense, blinding
blizzard hid from us the comforting
lights of the Hook. We watched tho
operations of our rescuers with breath
less nnxlely, but when wo finally un
derstood their actions and saw there
was a chance of life, wo could hardly
believe our eyes. Exhaustion, expo
sure, hunger and fear had mndo us so
miserable that even the joy of llfo
Drought no smile to our faces and no
words to our lips."
It now appeals certain that after tho
catastrophe there wero many more
than fifteen persons remaining on the
wreck, and that most of them were
washed off by tho waves. One woman
was carried away just bcroro the res
cue was olfected. Tho survivors hud
dled together for wnnnth and tho
members of the crew who wore still
alive shared their food with tlc oth
ers. There was not enough to go
around, however, and for twenty-four
hours not a morsel of food passed
the lips of theso unfortunate people.
Tho survivors highly pralso Prince
Henry, who personally assisted tho
women nnd had gloves provided for
them. Tho prlnco wrapped his fur
overcoat about ono woman.
It has been discovered thnt tho
Berlin Is resting on tho remains oi
the British stenmor Leeds, which was
lost on tho same spot in 1882.
FAST TRAIN IN A RIVER
Sleepers Leave Track In Pennsylvania
and Fifty Persons Are Injured.
Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 23. Fifty per
sons wero injured when Pennsylvault
railroad train No. 29, the clghteen-hour
special limited between New York nnd
Chicago, westbound, left the track at
a sharp curve near Mineral Point,
olght miles west ol here, early this
morning. No ono was killed outright,
although several of tho Injured may
die. The three rear sleoplng cars
went over an embankment. Into tho
Conomuugh river. The trnck Is torn
up for a distance of 500 feet. Tho
curve Is one of the worst on tho lino
and Is dreaded by trainmen. It 1b
said tho speed of the train was too
great In rounding tho curve.
The train was more than an hour
behind schedule time and when tho
nccldent happened It was running at
terrific speed. On leaving tho rails
tho train tore down all telegraph and
telephone poles for a distance of 500
feet and thu Pennsylvania railroad
Itself, in order to get Information, was
obliged to send yardmen from Johns
town with a ynrd engine.
Nearly every ono of the fifty-four
passcngets was Injured. Thirty-seven
of tho injured were sent to this city
and tho others were taken to Altoona.
Extent of Accident In Mexico Grows
Eagle Pass, Tex., Fob. 23. A dis
patch from Las Esporanzas, Mexico,
says that 100 dead bodies have been
taken from tho coal mine of tho Moxi
lean Coal and Coke company, in which
an explosion occurred five days ago.
There are known to be twenty-threo
men still entombed In tho shaft and It
Is practically certain that all aro dead.
Niar'y one-half of tho dead miners
are Japanese. Sevcrnl hundred men
are nt work clearing nway tho debris
of tho mine and opening n way to tho
Imprisoned men.
Twenty-third Victim Succumbs.
New York, Fob. 23. .Mabel Smith,
the school teacher at Natonah, who
was Injured In tho New York Central
wreck at Bedford Park last Siturdny
night, dhd in Fordham hospital. The
humhi'r of fatalities following tho ac
cident Is now twenty-three.
DEMURRAGE BILL INTRODUCED
Railroads Must Furnish Cars Within
Six Days Pe.ialty Applies to Shipper.
Lincoln, Feb. 23. A reciprocal do
mm rage bill was lnti""liu,d In tho
state senate by Senator Sackett, au
thor of the 2-cent fnro bill, it pro
vides that railioad companies shall
I mulsh ears within sj: daja of tho
time of application. I allt.ie shall sub
ject the company to a lino of $3 por
day for each car. Tho sumo penalty
applies to the shipper who tails to
load the car within forty-eight hours.
Forty-eight hours Is given u consignee
In which to unload cars.
The senate passed tho bill prohib
iting rnllroid companies from making
up or operating trains with a passen
ger car In I rout of baggagv, mall, ex
press or freight cars.
Maximum uttcs for shipments of
wheat, corn or other grain and grain
products arc contemplated by Senator
Sibley In .' bill Introduced In tho sen
ate. It provides a tariff for such ship
ments up to HO.) miles and Is In lino
with a number of measures Ilxlng
maximum rn'cs on stnndard cointuodl
' tics alteady lnlioduced, nnd to bo in
troduced within the next few dnys.
In Its preparation tho present maxi
mum rate law Is need as a basis anil
the maximum provided on the products
named prurMcilly are 15 por cent re
ductions of the old tariffs.
I 'I'll.1 house adopted the autl-tlpplng
hill.
A RARE BIRD.
Why an American Showman Could
Not Got It For His Museum.
When the eminent French writer
Ferdinand Brunellero visited thu Unit
oil States some years ago, lecturing at
Harvard and other leading unlvc-d-tles,
he had au amusing experience,
which he described In the recollections
of his American tour which he after
ward published. The great litterateur
devoted much attention to the life and
works of Bossuet,who was often styled
the "Eagle of Meaux," on account per
haps of lrt-i lofty (lights of eloquence,
i This fact, with other. pertaining to
I his literary career, was mentioned by
some dally papers during his slay In
, this country. It caught the eyes of a
1 shrewd American showman, who, how
' ever, got somewhat mixed over the
meaning of the allusion. Ho wrote tho
following letter to the French author:
Sir I bavo Just heard thnt a certain
Meaux eagle, very i-clt'liralcd. It .ippoar.s,
In your country, has Ih'ciiiiio your ex-
I elusive property. Xow. I am tliu miin1
iiKcr of a museum In om or the largest
cities In the StateH. This Mi-aujl e:ii;le,
whose reputation lina been i-nlianenl bj
your eloquence, would certainly not fall to
I pxelto Hie ourloilty of my public. If you
will let mo bavo tho rare bird ami tell inu
how to feed It, you can miote your own
figure.
Brunetlere politely explained thai the
"rare bird". had been dead for nearly
I00 years. '
For a Sluggish Liver.
When your liver Is really sluggish,
practice the following exercises at
least twice a day: Stretch one arm up
as high ns you can, while with the oth
er ono try and reach down toward the
floor. Then reverse the position of the
arms. You will And that you will un
consciously bend tho body lowar.il the
lower arm. By this exercise the side
muscles are strengthened, and the liv
er, which Is like a sponge, is squeezed,
and is thus much assisted hi Its w.H:.
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Thousands Have Kidney
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How To lMnd Out.
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pain in tho hack, kidneys, liver, bladder
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unil scalding naiu in 'passing it, or hail
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