Nebraska Newspapers

    The Chief
E. B. DoWOLF, Publisher
RED CLOUD,
NEBR.
Efforts aro being mafl 'n London la
further tho emigration of British worn
en to South Africa.
Mmc. Jcanno Marnl lies Just won
tho Chaucunrd prize given by tho
Bocloto des Gens do Lett res of France.
Alfrod Sodcrman of Worcester,
Mass., lias succeeded In growing po
tatoes and tomatoo on the snmo vino.
Tho schools of London uro to have
foghorns, but not, It may b, as n
symbol of tho pedagogy of old Kng
laad. It Is proposed to build a medical col
lego at Lucknow ns a memorial of the
visit of tho princo of Wales in 1905,
at a cost at $1,250,000.
One nolntTin" favor of the dlrectolro
sown is tho fact that It could not pos
sibly bo as bad ns somo of Uic Imag
inative artists picture it.
Sweden is Rending to tho United
States for somo of her rons who have
forsaken her and hnvo mado a succcsh
of carccra in UiIh country.
In order to keep tip tho supply ol
billiard ballH Bovcral hundred olc
phnnts havo to bo killed every year.
Billiards Is an expensive game.
Japan's now primu minister say
hlB ono aim will bo to preserve tho
world's peace, but thus far he has not
ordered tho Japanese navy to sink
itself.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr, havo a second son. The outlook
for that youngster is brighter than it
la for tho second sou of the king ol
Spain.
Tho Pan-American idea continues to
And favor. Tho president has ap
pointed nlno delegates to tho Pan
American scientific congress, to bo
held in Santiago, Chile, In December.
A WilkcBbarro Judgo has an
nounced thnt debts for bhcath gowns
aro uucollcctablo In his court. It Is
a poor stylo that cannot chronicle Its
own pecu'lar foolishness at tho
start-off.
Wu Ting-Fang has eight ancient
rules which nssuro n person that ho
caa llvo for 300 years. Tho rules must
be tho limit of unbearabloness, or
somebody would have tested them by
this titno.
A co-educational collcgo In Ohio is
reported to havo been responsible for
10,000 weddings during Its career of CO
years. This looks as If tho co-educational
system is not us bad ns homo
persons say it Is.
Tests of rolnforced concreto barges
and pontoons havo been conducted by
tho Italian government since 1807, and
tho results havo been so gratifying
that several mora of tho strange con
structions havo been ordered.
Tho EnglUh papers havo combined
to boycott tho woid suffrngotto. They
dlscovorcd that Its uho was no assur
ance that a circulation solicitor
wouldn't get a panful of dishwater
whero ho had been counting on u kind
ly welcome
John Ruskln piopoaed old-ngo pen
sions more than CO years ngo. In his
lectures at Manchester in 1857 on
"Tho Political Economy of Art" he
pleaded for pensions to "soldiers of
the plowsharo us well as soldiers ot
tho sword."
A Chicago profesfeor predicts that
English will bo among tho dead Inn
euoges in tho year 4000. However,
when it is considered that tho lan
guage has been pretty well used nnd
abused without showing tho weat
most persons aro sangulno enough to
hope thnt it will llo n little longer.
Who donles that tho world Is grow
Ing bettor? asks tho Omaha Hoc. A
man has been sentenced to soven
years in prison at Gohlllcld, Nov., for
selling fnko mining stock. Life Is go
, Ing to loso somo of Its attractiveness
In tho wost if it Is mndo a crime to
flcoco a tenderfoot by tho mining
stock game.
Ono want begets nnother. The
harvest is uncommonly big this year,
and tho demand for agricultural Imple
ments Is on n corresponding scnlo. In
somo quarters tho announcement is
that all records havo been broken.
Such activity means busy times and
lots ot work in tho manufactories oi
mowers and reapers nnd other up-to-dato
machinery for farmers.
"Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the
Imperial caglo on tho labels the
"vodka" trado is n government mo
nopolybut a commission of tho
Duma, appointed to consider tho drink
evil, has lately recommended that tho
caglo bo removed from tho lnbol. and
a skull nnd crossboues bo put In Its
placo, with npproprlato warnings
against tho ueo of tho poison.
It looks as though tho potato bug,
Ilko tho elm treo beetlo, tho cotton
boll weevil and tho wicked Ilea, which
havo on their bucks lesser crltlorH to
bite 'em, la going to got his. Farmers
In Maine, which Is a big potato stnte,
are rojoleliig over tho alleged dis
covery of n parasite which Is oxter
initiating tho potato bug. That In
sect has been for muny eain ono or
tho scourges of tho eountiy, Infest
lng every region where tubers nro
raised, ir tho paraslto proves to bo
all that is claimed tho days of tho po
tato bus are numbered,
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POINTERS
STATE NEW8 AND NOTE3 IN CON
DENSED FORM.
THEPRESS. PULPIT AND PUBLIC
What Is Going on Here and There
That Is of Interest to hte Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
Tho vlllago of Oralg w:il hold a
corn carnival September 10 and 10.
A personal liberty league was or
ganized In Nebraska City last week.
Tho Nebraska City ehautauqua
lasted ton days- nnd netted ?C00 to tho
munngers.
Arrangements nro hetng perfected
for n big pure food show In Omaha In
Novcmbc r.
M. C. Springer of Lincoln Is to ask
North Platto for a franchise to
operate u gas plutiL
Tho farmers over this section of
the state, nays n Cnmbrtdgo dispatch,
uro complaining about helr corn
crop, which is being largely destroyed
by ii worm.
Tho management of the Gage Coun
ty Agricultural society Is making ox
tcnslvo preparations for tho county
fnlr to bo held In Beatrice at the
driving park September 21 to 20.
Sheriff Bockwlth left for Roswcll.
N. M., where ho goes to take charge
of Ralph N'pltnan, n fugltlvo from
justice, charged with shooting Kmll
Snndoso south of Rushvlllo on July
3, 1908, nnd who died two days later.
Thu 8-year-old son of August Wlsch
nick of Cortlnnd was killed by tho ac
cidental discharge of a shot mm In the
hands of a brothor only 10 years old.
Tho boys were out hunting, when In
some manner the gun was discharged.
C. M. Schneider and son of York
havo mado nn assignment of their
stock of dry goods and groceries for
tho benefit of their creditors C. A. Mc
Cloud president of tho Fanners Na
tional bank of thnt city bus been
mimed ns thu assignee.
At Guide Rock tho Crary Mercan
tile company's store was entered nnd
caHh, Jowolry and other things taken.
At Spires' shoe store a window glass
was removed and a $5 pair of shoes
and srmo cash, In nil about $10 woith,
was stolen.
At n meeting of tr.e executive com
mit too of tho Omuhn branch of the
Missouri river congress a resolution
wns passed expressing n preference
for early January as the tlmu for hold
ing tho next meeting of the congress,
which will bo at Yankton.
Prof. W. L. French of tno depart
ment of agriculture In tho Peru state
normal, haB resigned to accept n po
sition as manngor of a large agricul
tural and llo stock Intel esti; near
Kansns City. His placo will not be
lllled nt Peru until March or April.
With nn cniollmeut of 191 and
probabilities of reaching the 200
mark, tho Podgo County T-Michers In
stitute nt Fremont bus broken the
stuto record. Tho Instructors arc
enthusiastic over tho success of the
Institute, freely complimenting the
teachers on tho enthusiasm displayed.
Edward Hlckotts, n tramp, entered
some cam occupied by Graek section
men nt work for tho Missouri Pacific
vallvvny in Nebraska City nnd broke
open a number of their trunks. They
caught the thief and nearly bent him
to denth before ho was rescued and
placed in Jail to await his tilal.
Just when about to bo married in
tho oftico of tho county Judge at
Grand Island. Miss Sadie Hodgson
and Mr. Everett Allen, of Cairo, re
ceived n rudo shock. A telephone
message indirectly from the father of
the bride, entered protest on the as
sertion that tho grcoin was not of ngo.
Tho marriage wus postponed.
Thu cereal mills nt Nebraska City
nre Installing new nuichlneiy in their
packing department, nnd In the futuro
all goods will bo put up in sealed a'r
tight tin packages. This Is done to
pi event peevlls from gernilnntlng In
any of their products. All of t'-o
machinery belongs1 to a new patent
piocess which Is Just out.
011,0 family nt Guide Rock has live
generations now living. The lino of
descent Is tho elder Mrs. Montgomery,
now 90, her sou, William Mont
gomery; hit; daughter, Mrs. Sheeley;
her daughter, Mrs. Maude Hlatt, to
whom a llttlo girl was born last week.
All aro Guide Rock people, hut tho
two last named now reside in Kear
ney. August Mischnlck, n prominent
fnrmer llvlug at Cortland, who was
taken in by a matrimonial bureau nt
Indianapolis, Ind., sonio time ngo to
tho tuno of $1,400, last week tocured
a license to wed Miss Louise Kncss.
In his tlrst matrimonial venture,
Mischnlck went to Iudlannpolls, where
ho found his Intended In jail. Ho se
cured her release and married her,
Mischnlck and bride camo to Gage
county to live nnd a tew weeks after
their arrival In Nebraska Hho desert
ed him with her mother and money.
Although tho railroads have as yet
failed to announro nny reduced rates
to tho stnte fair at Lincoln, they nro
making big preparations for linudllng
n largo crowd. The dato of tho fair
l.i August 28 to September 3. Tho
Hinlliigtou road has m ranged for
twenty-live special trains to ncconi
moduto tho peoplo riding along tho
lines of that syBtom.
Tobacco raising In N htihl;n has
been demonstrated to bo a practical
possibility by Jpuso (oldster ef
Chapmnn, who htu raised a crop or
nn flno tobacco as could ho found mow-here.
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTCO.
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State.
Drown county has a political orator
In the person of a thirteen-year-old
girl.
A pioneers' association for Cuming
county has been organized nt that
point
Tho Fullertnn chnutnucpia this jear
was tho most successful over held
there.
The Chautauqua tent at Pawnee
City was wrecked by storm. The loss
Is $750.
The Cass County old settlers' picnic
wns laregly attended. Gov. Sheldon
mndo nn nddress,
Fred France of York county was
badly gored by a vicious cow. Ho
was nearly cxhauctod when icscucd.
Mr. nnd Mrs, O. Yockcy, pioneer
residents of Gage county, celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
Lightning stnrted n bad pralrlo flro
north of Cronkston, which raged sev
eral days before It wns under control.
A oung man named Bryan was ar
rested nt Arcadia for bootlegging, lie
will bo tried at tho next term ot court.
The Seventh Hay Advenllsts in Ne
braska will hold their annual camp
meeting nt Hastings, commencing
August 27.
Jnmes Mnrtln (colored), a trusted
ompolyeo, swindled a Nebraska City
firm out or $000. Ho paid back $400
mid lift the town.
F. L. Zlegler, a traveling man out ot
Lincoln, attempted suicide at Hold
rpge by taking laudanum. Physicians
saved him by heroic work.
Fii.il II, the Heatriee horre driven
by Fred Rabare, won flist place In
the 2:10 pace at Coffcyvllle, Kns.
The race was for a $1,000 purse.
Charles Hagen, who was killed by
a freight train on tho Omaha rallioad
about three miles soulh of Blair was
41 years old nnd a baker by trade.
Tin state railway commission has
compiled n set of figures, giving as Its
guess that railio.ul legislation has re
sulted In u saving to the state of over
$0,000,000.
Tho management of the Gage coun
ty agricultural society la making ex
tensive preparations for the fair, to
bo held nt tho driving park Septem
ber 21 to 20.
A final quietus has been put to the
proposition to have Merrick county
bulM a big drainage cnnal at Clarks,
tho County Hoard of Supervisors hav
ing refused to mnkc any nppropilation
for catrylng on tha work.
Tho l'i-year-old daughter of John
Meeher llvlug ten miles northeast of
Lindsay, drank tho contents of a bot
tle of fly killer which had been
knocked to tho lloor In the wash room
and died a few hours later.
The Otoe Canning company has be
gun packing corn. The pack tills year
does not piomlse ns large as that of
last year, because of the high water
during the mouth of Juno and tho
cold weather In the Bprlng.
The Morton-Gregson Packing com
pany at Nebraska City has closed
down ItB plant for lojnlrs and Govern
ments fnsppctors Hugh E. Hervoy and
M. Johnson have been transferred to
Kansas City, nnd Dr. B. O. Hull to St.
LouIr.
During a thunder storm at Prague
the bam of V. J. Fninn. containing
threo horses, wns struck by lightning
nnd burned to tho ground. The same
storm killed six head of cattle belong
ing to Frank Kornuda and destroyed
somo stacks of wheat.
Tho Merrick County Agricultural sc.
cloty wns given Biibstantlnl encourage
nient when tho County Hoard of Su
pervisors met and voted an appropri
ation of $150 for the annual county
Talr which the association holds at
Clarks In September.
John 11. Reed, who was arrested at
Wymore and bound over to tho dis
trict court on n chnrgo of bootlegging,
escaped from the oincors. Ho nsked
to see his family before being taken
to jail, nnd whllo tho ofllcors waited
at the front door of his homo, Reed
escaped through the back door.
Tho York flro department Is now
equipped with a flue team of horses,
to be used on the now chemical onglno
recently purchased by tho city coun
cil, which arrived last week. At tho
Inst meeting or tho city council tho
city hall was ordered to bo remodelled
so ns to accommodato tho new onglno
and provide sultablo loom for tho
horses.
Joseph Cutrler, a tramp, who In
company with L. E. Truscott, was
stealing a ildo on a Rock Island box
car loaded with Iron tubing, wns badly
crushed In tho yards nt Beatrice. In
switching tho engine struck tho car
pushing the tubing to tho cud in
which tho men were riding, Currlor
was so badly Injured Internally that he
may not survive.
Thomas F. Costollo, ex-Union Pacific
conductor, has filed u suit nt Grand
Island for damages in tho sum or $20,
000, making the Union Pacific tho de
fondant, nnd alleges that ho was per
manently Injured by n i en rend colli
sion in Omaha, In 1901. Whllo his
train was puling Into that city on tho
down grade another frolght crnshod
Into tho rear or his train.
When the rural mall carrier drove
to tho water tank of Alex Fnrrls,
near Murray, In Cass county, to wa
ter his team, he was surprised to find
tho llttlo 2-year-old child of tho family
In tho tank doad, having accidentally
fallen In and di owned.
Railroads from tho east of Omaha
havo decided to reduce tho oil rates
from the enet to Omaha between 3
and 4 cents per hundred pounds. Tho
rnllioadii maintain that although this
cuts quite n figure In their reveuues,
tho reduction was made on their own
volition and will affect a largo vo'iuno
of buslncsu.
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.
Tho Missouri board of railroad com
mlssloners has ordered an Inspection
of the Santa Fe tracks out of Kan
sas City.
Two hogs were recently sold at
Klrknvllle, Mo., for $2,000 each. Tho
average price for the entire lot of 50
was $200 per head.
It was announced nt Republican
headquarters In New York that the
conference of President Roosevelt
with party leaders at Oyster Hay re
sulted In the Indorsement of Gov
Hughes or Now York for renomlnatlon.
Tho government's petition for a re
hearing by the United States court of
appeals of the casu against the Stan
dard Oil company has been tiled nt
Chicago. The government attorneys
ngree that if the Interpretation of the
lnw stands ns decided by the appeal
Judges, successful prosecution of re
bate cases against corporations would
bo impossible In the future.
Just four dayi before the annual
Talr was to bo held at Mexico, Mo., all
the mal. buildings on the grounds
were totally destroyed by fire. Incen
diarism is suspected.
A suit ior $25,000 damages has been
filed by an employe against a Louis
ville rug manufneturer. Tho employe
alleges that ho contracted tuberculo.
sis while working In the factory.
The Illinois mllltnry authorities
hnvo turned over to the civil otllcers
the task of keeping order In Spring
field. Only one regiment of troops rc
mnins in the city.
William J. Bryan fired tho opening
gun in the Democratic natlonnl cam
paign In Des Moines, la., where he
discussed the question of the tariff
before a largo audience.
Tho little town or Bow, near Belling
ham, Wash., was nearly wiped out the
other day by u forest fire.
Nearly $10,000,000 are involved in
two contracts recently signed In New
York, providing for a sewer system
and paving In Havana, Cuba.
The flubcommltteo of the National
Monetnry commission has completed
Kb labors In England and separated,
some returning home and others visit
ing the continent.
Tho Indiana miners now on strike
have been advised by their national
president, T. L. Lewis, to return to
work immediately.
Thirteen men were dangerously In
jured, six of them probably fatally,
In the lower Detroit river when a
charge of dynamite exploded under
the drill vessel Destroyer on which
they were at work.
Klnscy Crow, a mine operator in tho
Jopllu district, was thrown out of a
tub and fell 130 feet to the liottom
or n shaft and wns Instantly killed.
His rather and brothers witnessed tho
accident.
Tho farmers who live along tho
Smoky Hill river in Kansas havo
formed an association for thu purposo
of getting the legislature to remove
obstructions In the stream which
causo flood.
Threo severe oarthquako shocks oc
curred In northern California recent
ly. At Eurokn more thnn 100 chim
neys wero knocked down and much
plato glass and crockery were broken.
No fntalltles were reported.
Tho Natlonnl Editorial association
In session nt St. Paul has adjourned
nfter Bolectlng Seattle, Wash., as tho
next place of meeting. Will II. Halns
of Brownwood, Texas, was elected
president.
Tho Pennsylvania pure rood law has
been declnred unconstitutional.
It Is believed that not a single one
ot the 70 mluers entombed by an ex
plosion In a coal mine at Wlgan, Eiir.,
will bo taken out alive.
An nppllcntion ror the appointment
or a receiver ror tho Indlanola Con
tracting company, ot which Gov. Has
kell Is president nnd owner or tho ma
jority or the stock, has been filed In
tho rederal court at Muskogee, Ok.
The team ot motorists which piloted
the American car to victory In tho
r.ico from Now York to Paris wero re
ceived by President Roosovell at Saga
moro Hill. Tho president compli
mented them on their victory.
The request of tho Kansas City
grand Jury that it bo allowed to open
tho primary ballot boxes has been de
nied by Judge Walleco, who declared
that under tho present law tho hon
esty of the ballot was sacrificed in
protecting tho secrecy of It.
Pcaco having apparently been re
stored at Springfield, 111., the authori
ties have turned their attention to fix
ing tho responsibility for tho threo
days or mob rule In tho city. A grand
Jury has been summoned nnd moro
than 200 arrests have been mado ot
alleged rioters.
Tho Baldwin dirigible balloon has
been formally transferred to the gov
ernment nt Fort Myer.
President Castro of Venezuela has
caused n sensntlon In diplomatic cir
cles by refusing to permit tho Bra
zilian minister to take chargo of
French Interest In Venezuela.
Threo persons wero killed, two fatal
ly Injured and a number of others bad
ly hurt as the result of the blowing up
of tho steamer l.eoland on Carp lake,
near Traverse City, Mich.
A general strike of tho Brotherhood
ot Tailors has beou ordered in New
York.
An Incipient race wnr was started
at Holton, Kan., when a negro at
tacked a Kansas City traveling man.
The negro wns pursued by n largo
crowd but managed to make his es
cape. Two carloads or beer wero selcd
by government pure tcod ngents nt
Junction City, Kan., on thu ground of
misbranding. The beer wan bald to
contain nearly I per cent of alcohol
Instead of Vi per cent as printed on
tho labels.
Tho Harris mineral springs, north
of Centrall.i, Mo., a health nnd pleas
ure resoit, has been purchased by
Kansas City parties, who will erect a
modern hotel on tho property.
Gov. Folk has granted the usual 30
day respite to Albert Fllloy, sentenced
to be hanged In Caldwell couuty, Mo.,
to Sept ember 21.
At Neosho, Mo,, a live wire foil upon
Oranlne Weaver and a 10-year-old girl
named Meadows. Weaver was almost
Instantly killed and the girl's life Is
despnlred of.
The receivers ror, tho New Yoifc
City Railway company report n deficit
for the nine mouths ending Juno 30
last of SG.OOO.Out).
Condition.-! at Springfield, 111., havo
assumed such a satisfactory aspect
that two leglmcnts of mllllla are con
sidered enough to control the situation.
Fleice fores-1 fires nro reported to
be devastating the timber region of
Vancouver Island.
Half a million people assembled at
Sydney, X. S. W., to welcome the
American battleship licet upon their
arrival from Xew Zealand. The fleet
arrived on schedule time In perfect
alignment.
The machinists on nil the Gould
lines have voted In favor of a striko
In sympathy with the Denver & Rio
Grande machinists. Another effort
will be made to settle the trouble be
fore a strike Is called.
The last formal ceremony attendlnr.
the official launching of the Republi
can national ticket was held at Utlca,
X. Y when Representative James S.
Sherman was tendered and accepted
the nomination of his party for thu
vico presidency.
Mrs. Ida Spooner, n widow of Fough
kocpslo. X. Y., while temporarily In
sane, gave her four children morphine
and then attempted to shoot hersel.
Ono child Is dead und two nro in a
dangerous condition.
Tho turbine steamer Lusltanla mado
the last run from Queenstown to Now
York In four days and 15 hours, break
ing all records for the trans-Atlantic
voyage by nearly fourjiours. An aver
age speed of 25.03 k'nots was main
tained for thu entire distance.
Senntor Newlands of Nevada has
proposed to his Republican opponent
that their candidacy be submitted to a
vote of tho entire people ot the stato
nt the next general election.
E. W. Chatln, Prohibition candidate
for president, expresses the belief that
Chicago Is hi danger of the same state
of rioting as was experienced Spring
field, sooner or later.
The race war In Springfield, 111., has
quieted down to such an extent that
Gov. Deneen has ordered two regi
ments of the milltln to return to their
homes.
Personal.
John V. Farwell, multi-millionaire
nnd a prominent figure In many re
ligious movements, is dead in Chicago,
aged S3 jears.
P. C. Ayers, president or tho First
National bank of Coffeyville. Kan.,
dropped dead at Stonewall, Col., a
summer resort, whero ho was spending
a vacation with a number of friends.
Gov. John A. Johnson was re-noml-nated
for governor of Minnesota by
tho Democratic state convention nfter
a demonstration which hi3ted for C4
minutes. Tho executive's declaration
that he would not run ngain was to
tally Ignored by the delegates.
Rev. J. E. Moore or Columbus, Ohio,
has been elected superintendent ot the
Missouri Antl-Salcon league to succeed
U. G. Robinson who resigned.
Eugene W. Challn was formnlly
notified of his nomination ns tho Pro
hlbltlon candidate for president nt Chi
cago. In his speech or acceptance Mr.
Chatln scored both tho old parties ror
tholr standing on tho liquor question.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the
government bureau or chemistry, Is
to preside over the International pure
rood congress nt Geneva, Switzerland,
In September.
Herbert S. Hadley or Missouri made
tho opening address or the second an
nual meeting or tho National Organ!
zatlon or Attorneys Goncral at Den
ver. His subject wan "The Results ol
Anti-Trust Litigation."
Dr. Henry Hopkins, ex-president ol
Williams college nt Wllllamstown,
Mnss., and lor many years pastor of
tho First Congregational church In
Kansas City, Is dead or pneumonia In
Rotterdam, Holland.
A celebration In honor of tho retire
mont of Rear Admiral Evans from ac
tive service in tho navy wns held at
Lake Mohonk on tho olflcers' Blxty
second birthday. A silver loving cup
was ono or tho girts or his friends
nnd admirers.
Georgo R. Estabrook, for years a
member of the Iowa Stato Republican
committee, is dead nt his homo In
Mnrshnlltown.
Senator Warner of Missouri is re
ported to bo having tho time of his
lire touring Now England In an auto
mobile. A corporation Is being formed to
control the 153 coal mines In southern
lllluols which supply St. Louis and
East St. louls. An Increnso or 10 to
15 per cent In tho prlco ot coal Is
predicted.
Tho pope is again reported 111 and
all audiences hnvo been suspended.
BURNS WINS THE DOUT.
Squires, the Australian, Beaten In
Thirteenth Round.
"Tommy" Burns, tho chumplnti
heavyweight pugllBt, ugaln detailed
"Bill" Squires, the Australian, nt Sid
ney, N. S. W Monday, knockfrig
him out in tho thirteenth round of
n fast battle which was witnessed
by 20,000 peo,de, nmong them lnr
dreds of sailors from tho Amoricai,
battleships now in tho harbor.
The betting was C to I against
Squires when ho entered Win ilia
pitched In tho big stadium which had
been erected at Hirshcuttpro Bay for
the fight and faced Harry Nathan, the
referee He received nn ovation from
his countrymen on his appearance.
Bums followed him into tho ring and
was received with cheers. The sun
Lent down fiercely on tho o;on ring
nnd Burns winning tho tons, choso
tho northwest corner.
In the eailler part of tho bnttlo the
comhatpnts seemed ovenly matched,
the Australian holJIng his own, and
when the gong sounded an Into a
the twelfth round, Burns wns de
cidedly groggy and staggered to his
seat. In tho thirteenth, however,
Burns came up utrnng and opened the
lighting with a terrific right swing
that grazed tho Ausrallan's chin Tho
men fell into a clinch aud ax they
broUe, BurnB planted a half-urm bloxr
near the point of Squlros' chin, send
ing him to the floor. It took tho Aus
tralian nine seconds to recover and
as ho arose, groggy, Burnj put hlni
down again with a short uppercut.
Tho releree had counted elfiht he
lore he wns able to rlso and then
Bwaylng on his feel he landed a light
right on Burns' ribs. Tko American
cooly awaited nn opening and when
It came clipped the Australian n right
hander on the chin that sont him
down and out. Tho referee counted
Squlros out mi his second threw up
the Bponge.
ROBS THE TOURISTS.
Lone Bandit Operates In Yellowstone
Park.
One highwayman, wearing a black
mask, hell up and robbed tho pu
stngero of r.even stage conches In
Yellow stono pary Monday uiorulng nr
a point only a few miles distant from
tho Old Faithful Inn, near tho upper
basin. Tho coaches left the hotel
In the usual order, at lntorvals of
a few minutes, and were held up one
nfter the other, ns fast vat they came
In sight. Tho highwayman was sta
tioned at a bend In tho road where
ho wns invisible from either direction.
At tho point of a rlflo ho lined up
the passengers nnd ufter relloving
them of money and valuable.! allowed
them to enter tho stago aud resume
their journey. This performance the
bandit enacted seven times. It I
understood from tho accounts ie
ccivod of the ufTalr that he collected
in all more than $2,000 iu cash,
drafts worth $10,000 and other paper
and transportation, besiden a rich
haul in watches and jewelry.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR DIES.
Baron Speck Von Sternberg Yields to
Long Continued Malady.
Baron Speck von Sternberg, tho
Gcrmnn ambassador to tho United
States, died In the Hotel Victoria.
Ileidelburg, Germany, about midnight
Sunday night. Tho baroness, who
was Miss Lillian May Langham of
Louisville, Ky., was with her husband
at the end. They had be-on visiting
in Germany since May.
Tho Gorman ambassador, personally
nnd ofllclally, was ono of tho most
popular nnd highly esteemed members
of the diplomatic corps In Washing
ton. Whllo a resident of tuo Amer
ican capital bo became Intimately as
sociated with a coterie of prominent
men iu civil and ofncial lire, of whom
President Roosevelt, Assistant Secre
tary of State Adeo and Olffonl Pin
chot, chief of the forestry department,
wero three. They wero together much
of tho time. Tho lmmodlnte cause
of Baron von Sternberg's denth wns
inflammation or tho lungs.
GOOD CONDITIONS ON ISTHMUS.
President Roosevelt Pleased With
Findings of Committee.
President Roosevelt hns mado pub
lic a report submitted to him by a
special commission regarding condi
tions In Panama. That tho president
is pleased with tho report la shown
in n letter which ho sont to each
membor of the commission on Frlda.
and the president has had a copy
of tho Teport mailed to Col. Goothals
requesting that tho recommendations
mado by tho commission bo put In
immediate effect bo far ns possible.
Tho commission reports thnt it In
spected the entlro lino of tho canol
excavation from La Been, Uio south
ern or Pacific terminus, to Cristobal,
tho northern or Carrlbean terminus,
and traveled through tho excavation
several times, lntorviowlug tho man
nt work. Indicating tho scopo of tho
inspection tho commission reports
thnt it visited tho government work
shops, construction plants, warehouses,
courts, police stations nnd tho con.
valescent homo nt Tabogn.
Men Given an Ovation.
There was a grand rovlow at noon
Monday In Centennial park. Sidney,
N. s. W., In which COO won of tho
Royal navy, 3,000 men or U Amer
ican fleot, 7,000 or tho navni and
mllltnry forces or New South Wnlos
aud 4,000 endcto took part. It wnn
tho largest ceremonial purado nvor
witnessed In Sidney, Tho yaat nat
ural amphitheatre wob flllod with
more than 100,000 spco'atnr.i. The
men on parade ansvvcrod tho choor.
or the crowd by "oyes right." The
men of the Amerlcau licet wero given
an ovation aa thoy marched pnat.