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,ti m x The Chief E. B. DoWOLF, Publisher RED CLOUD, - NEBR. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Ben efit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. In a hendon collision between two fast pwacnger trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad nt Knobnostor, Mo.', nine persons were killed and tip' wnrdB of 5!) Injured. The arcldont was duo eluinr to disregard of train ordcrB or failure to receive them. All the dead ami most of the Injured wero on the castboiiPd train. Last month was the wettt dune In 41 yearB In hnnsiirf, according to Dr. Snow's records. Tho negro arrested at Monroe, Mloh., Huspcctcd of HtenlliiK a mull poueh con talnlng f r.0,0U0 nt Kansas City, roves 10 be the wrong man. It linn been finally decided to have the notification of Mr. Taft's nomina tion take place at Cincinnati on July 28. flold In paying quantities has been bound In the Itrownwood oil Held about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Tex. A negro giving (he naino of Charles StevciiB has been arrested In Monroe, Wis., charged with stealing the $r(), 000 registered mall pouch at Kansas City. He was Identified by photo graphs. An nlrshlp flight that lasted all day wns nmdo recently by Count Zeppelin Htnrtlnfc from Lako Constance, Swlt 'crland, In tho morning nml returning there In tho evening. A. J. UllKB or White Clou.l. Kan., has been arrested on a. charge of per tiry for making false returns to the tax assessor. He listed $100 when he bail $0,000 on deposit in a bank. Tho new Lehigh viaduct In lluffalo, N. Y., was badly damaged by the ex plosion of two heavy charges of dyna mite. One man has been arrested on tiiisplclou. Tho New York grand Jury has re turned two indictments ugalnst Mae Wood on charges of perjury and for gory la connection with thu suit against Senator I'latt. JuBtlco Lambert directed the Jury to find a verdict for Mayor McClellan in tho suit brought by William It. Hearst to oust him from olllce as mayor of New York. Tho Kansas r.upreme court liaa dls mlsncd nil tho attachment milts recent ly filed ngalnst Pittsburg jolutlsts. A. Ilooth &. Co., one of the largest flBh and oyBtcr concerns In the west has pleaded guilty in Chicago or hav ing accepted rebati'B from railroad companies. The maximum penalty for tho offense Is $20,000. Revolutionists attacked the Mexican post nt I'alomas, Chihuahua, but were repulsed by tho garrison. HocauBO tho education given was not satisfactory tho Japanese of Se attle, Wnsh., hnvo decided to with draw their children from tho public schools. Japanese schools with na tive teachers will be established. Ab tho result of a cloudburst at Wellington, Kan., four persoiiB wero d'owned nnd hundreds of families wero forced from their homes by tho ruslw Ing waters which washed thu houses from their foundations. Tho Northern Kansas Millers' club, whoso primary object Is to procure hotter seed wheat for fanners has boon orgnnlzed at Junction City. C. K. Currnn of Concordia !b tho first president. Tho westbound California limited on tho Santa Fe railroad was wrecked near Hardy, Arizona, killing two train-men nnd a passenger and Injur ing about 20 persons. Tho Missouri I'ncllle has opened tho freight car workB In tho new shops at Scdalla, Mo. r, Tho tracks of the Joplln & Pitts burg Klectrlc lino were blown up with dynamite by Indignant citizens ol Chlcopeo, n coal camp, who objected to an Increase In car fares. Lightning caused tho destruction ol. four 1, COO-barrel tanks of oil In tho Glenn Pool In Oklahoma recently, making tho fifth fire in that section In throo months. National Committeeman Sullivan of Illinois says that John Mitchell can bo tho state's cnndldato for vlco presl dent at Denver If ho Bays tho word. Two St. LouIb "nodal" clubB wero recently raided by tho police, C5 per Bona nrreated and 49 kegs of beer con fiscated. Fifty thousand school tenchers from all parts of tho country aro nttendlng tho forty-sixth annunl convention ol tho National Educational association at Cleveland, Ohio. Two men wero killed and throo oth ers seriously Injured by tho collrpso or n building In process of demolition in Minneapolis, Minn. Attorney General Strauss, of Mary land Is to second Gov Johnson's nom ination for prosldent at tho Donver convontlon. William Harr, a former merchant of, St. Louis, ban bequeathed $100,000 to "WaEhlngton university of that city. ' Tho Lincoln memorlnl commission proposes a magnificent hlghwny ex tending from Washington to Gettys burg, Pa., an a national memorial tc President Lincoln. Two hundred miners met dentn toy an oxplofllon of gns In u mlno nt Yuvoso, Kuropenn Russia. Seventy three men were rescued nllvo but ten of them died after being taken out of tho shaft. Sylvnnim 10. Johnson, for mnny years Washington correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer nnd other pa pers and a former president of the Gridiron club, Is dead. Six persons, five women and a five-year-old boy, aro dead and a score (of otherB Injured ns the result of an explosion of fireworks in a live nnd ten cent store In Cleveland, O. A panic nmong the hundreds of custom ers and employes followed tho explo sion and many were Injured In Jump ing from the windows of the upper floors. A slight earthquake shock Bhook San FranclBco nnd Los Angeles the other day but did no damage. Frank Coy, a wealthy farmer and n United States mall rarrler of' Taney county, Mo wns shot from nmbush nnd dangerously wounded while on his route recently. Grant Ferguson, n negro credited with having saved 12 persons from drowning at Des Moines, In., him been presented with n gold medal by the Commercial club of that city. The public debt Increased $1,79:1, 7!) I during June. The United States mints coined din ing the last fiscal year $2iri,7n,8(i2. The recelpta of tho government foi the lineal year just closed wero $!!)"., 895,70:1 and tho expenditures wen $ti.VJ,ri.VJ,12l, lenvlng a dellclt of $09, C5C.:i0L Three brothers named Khodus, or gnnlzors of the Central Life Securl ties company nnd half n dozen sub sldlary concerns have been urrested In Chicago charged with using thi. malls to defraud. F. C. Hrockhauser, a Chicago man who swindled working girls out ol $8,000 by selling them fake mortgagee ban been returned to Chicago from Oklahoma where he wns captured. The railroads of tho middle west have decided to restore the old rates on package freight. The movement means a saving of thousumlB of dol lars to shippers. The cortlllcates or the ofllelal list ol candidates to be voted on at tho prl mary election In Kansns has been sent to the county clerks. The list Is llvi Teet long nnd six newspaper columnt wide. Secretary Cortelyou has Issued it stntement saying that tho dellclt ol $(10,000,000 hhown by the treasury statement Is more apparent than real because of the antiquated system ol bookkeeping In vogue. Personal A temporary restraining order hap been Issued against tho Prahio Oil & Gas company, restraining them from further work on the oil pipe line from fancy, Kan., Into Oklnhomn. Five persons were killed, 10 In jured and many rendered homeless b a tornado nt Fort Summers, N. M. Sunday theaters are illegal in Kan sas under a recent decision of the supremo court. The entire Japanese cabinet has tendered ItB resignation to tho cm peror. Prominent publishers hnvo offered Mr. Roosevelt $1 per word for the story of his Impression of Africa nf ter his coming hunting trip. Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas. l S, N.. retired, who was second In command of tho Atlantic battleship .tlcet on Its voyage to tho Paclllc, died .suddenly nt Del Monte, Cal., of heart failure. Joel Chandler Harris, famlllarl) known as "Uncle Remus," and an nu thor of note, Is dead at his home In a suburb of Atlanta, Gn. Herman Rldder, editor of the New York Stunts Zeltung, one of the recent callers at Mr. llryan's home, asked the Nebraska candldato to withdraw from tho race for the Democratic presiden tial nomnntlon. Mr. Hrynn refused. Thomas P. Uashaw, u former speak er of tho Missouri house, Is dead at his home In St. Louis. 11. C. Townsend, for many years general passenger agent of the Mis souri Paclllc railroad, Is dead In Port Huron, Mich. lUshop H. C Potter of New York Is dangerously 111 nt Cooperstown. Tho return of Representative Sher man to his home In Utlca, N. Y., was the occablon for a great non-partisan demonstration by his fellow citizens. Mural Halstead, one of the leaders of American Journalism for over half a century, widely known ns a vigor ous editorial and magazine writer, Is dead at his homo in Cincinnati of cerebral hemorrhage. He wiih In his seventy-ninth year. Mr. Halstead per sonally reported many battlca ln the Civil, Frnnco-Prussinn and Spanish American wars. An operation for gout has been per formed on Rear Admiral F.vnns at Lako Mohonk, N. Y. Tho will of Grover Cleveland has been filed for probato In New Jersey. Tho bulk of the property is left to tho widow. Tho amount of tho os tato Is not given. L. D. Harvey, Ph. D., superintendent of tho schools nt Menominee, Wis., has been olocted president of tho Na tional Educational association. A. 11. Chamberlain of Pasadena, Cal., was ro-olected treasurer. Dr. William Wilson, a Philadelphia physician, was recently killed by drinking nlo In which had been placed cyanido of potassium. Tho bottlo bad been sent to him by oxpresB by parties unknown. Albert Gallnher, ono of tho secret service men who acted ns body guard for Presldont McKlnley nt tho Umo ol bin assassination. 1b dead in Chlcaco. I CONVENTION IS OPENED Proceedings of the First Day in the Great National Gathering of the Democrats at Denver---City Elaborately Decorated in Their Honor Denver, July 7. The Democratic national convention was formally called to order at noon by Thomas Taggurt, chairman of the national com mittee, in tho spacious auditorium erected by the citizens of Denver for tho use of the con.entlon. Rt. Row Jnmes J. Ken tie, arch bishop of Wyoming, one of the most eloquent nnd able prelates In Amer ica, made tho opening prayer. Call for Convention Read. At ter tho delegates and visitors had settled In their sentB, Uroy Wood son of Kentucky, secretary of the na tional committee, read the cnll for the convention, and n brief period of do lay followed. The committee on rules then mndo Its report, nnd the ofllcers of tho convention wero nnnounced. They are as follows: Tompornry Chairman Theodore A. Roll, Cnllfornln. General Secretary Prey Woodson, Kentucky. Abslstnnt General Secretary Kdwin Scrton, Washington, D. C. Sergonnt-at-Arms John I. Mnrtin, Missouri. Chief Assistant Sergennt-nt-ArmB J. C. Fenn, Indiana. Chief Doorkeeper Eugene W. Sul livan, Illinois. Parliamentarian H. D. Crutchfield. Kentucky. Chaplain for Opening Day Rt. Rev. Jnmes J. Keaue, nrchblBhop of Wyo ming. Official Stenographer M. W. Ilium berg. Washington, D. C. Temporary Chairman Theodore A. Hell, In his speech, frequently uroused his audience to enthusiasm, nnd tho npplnuso was especially generous and lasting where reference wns mado to tho record of tho pnrty or tho leaders whom Democrats dollght to honor. National Colors Used. Red, white and blue woro tho only color3 used In decorntlng tho audi torium, and tho decorations wero tho most olnborato over seen In a Demo cratic convention. A tinlquo feature wns 52 hugo stars urtlstlcnlly ar ranged on tho celling. Thcso stars represented tho states, territories and Insular possessions, tho names appear ing In bluo letters ond u whlto back ground In tho center of each star. The i! .i! r WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN points of the stars were red and white. Directly over tho speaker's plat form, against tho wall of the building near the junction with tho celling, was a largo shield, 10 feet high, carrying six Hags 12 reel long draped in artis tic folds. In addition to this main shield there were tour other shields over the plntform. each ten feet high. The six flags on these shields were eight feet long. Just below tho main fhleld hung a mammoth portrait of George Washing ton, 11 by 10 feet In dimensions. Rod, white nnd bluo bunting was draped from the Hides of the shield to the bottom of tho portrait of the "Father of His Country." Dlroctly under tho last shield, on each Bide of tho Washington portrait, was suspended a poi trait, ono of Thomas Jefferson and tho other of Andrew Jnelaon. On each side of these pictures a large American flag was draped. These lings aro 40 by 00 feet In dimensions. Heyond those pIcMircs. nt each end of tho wall, nnd hanging above tho gallery, was sus pended a pendant, ten feet In diame ter, upon which hunting was draped. Upon these pendants a tiger was painted. The back of the platform was banked with palms. Twenty stuffed Amerlcnn eagles, with extond ed wings, were suspended over tho platform, each bird currying In his bill red, white nnd bluo silk ribbons that were draped back to tho wall. Balcony and Galleries Draped. In tho auditorium tho balcony ex tends nil the way around tho hugo building, but tlid galleries are limited to onch end. The front of tho balcony nnd tho frontB of the gnllerlos nnd boxes wero draped with hunting. 55,000 yards being necessary to completo this pnrt of the decorative scheme. At Intervals of five feet shields, thrco feet high, wero placed. Thousands of yards of bunting woro used in draping tho corridors of tho building and tho wnlls of tho bal cony and galleries. DelogatcB woro supplied with small American (lags to wave when their toolings reached n pitch that compelled an extraordin ary demonstration. Although tho dccoratlonB In tho auditorium wero elaborate, tho Btroet decorations were even more pictur esque, nnd tho illumination Bchemo was tho most brilliant Denver eyer at tempted. Fifteenth, Sixteenth nnd Seven teenth streets, three of the main thoroughfares In the city, wore reve lations In color. On Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets there nro, eight Iron ornamental electric poles "to a block, four on each Bide of the street. On these streets tho poles wero draped with red, white and bluo bunting. Wires were Btretched across the street from thoso poles and from each wlro two American Hags wero suspended. Tho lings hung over tho street nnd woro "weighted" to prevent them from becoming tangled nnd torn by tho wind. On Seventeenth street tho Bchemo was tho finmp, except there wero only six polc3 to 'each block, two nt ench corner nnd two at each alley. At each crossing two wlre3 woro strung diagonally across tho Intersec tion, from which red, whlto nnd bluo incandescent lights hung. Tho busi ness houses along tho tluoo streets wero handsomely decorated with hunting nnd flags. Elaborate and cost ly electric dlsplny signs had been put In placo on tho buildings, nnd at night Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven teenth sheets wero a blnzo of light. Electric display signs nre one of tho mnln features of business life In Donver. Every mcrchnnt has an elec tric sign, nnd ns all of tho streets that cross tho three thoroughfnres de scribed nro live business streots, the commlttco on illumination did not find It necessary to add much In the way of light to these avenues of trade. However, tho business houses wero handsomely decorated with bunting nnd flags, bo tho entlro business sec tion of Dcnvor was n mass of color when tho big convention opened. Tho peoplo of Denver, In addition to decorating their city and providing a beautiful nnd commodious auditorium for tho Domocratlc national conven tion, Boomed determined to convlnco every visitor that truo western hos pitality Is not n thing of tho past in this city. Tho real Donverlto is lios pltablo becnuso hospitality Is In tho atmosphcro in tho wonderful Rocky mountain ccimtrv. HEALTH BRINGS HAPPINESS. Invalid Once, a Happy Woman Now. Mrs. C. R. 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