fv r--v i C I JTl C V-- JTl 1 i C. D. HALE, Publisher JtED CLOUD NEBRA8KA EVENTS OF THE DAY TOLD IN A FEW LINES. THE DAY'S NEWS BOILED DOWN ("ersonat, Political, Foreign and Intel ligence of Various Kinds, Inter, eotlng to the General Reader Given In Condemed Rorm. Washington. It 1b not certain that President Tart will approve the Arizona constitution. Captain Peary has promised to fur nlah congroBB with the proofs to show that he discovered the north pole. Dr. l.umsdcn of Washington in in Dcb Moines Investigating the cnuso of tho typhoid fever epidemic there. Five thousand dollarn has lieen cabled by tho National Ited Cross soci ety for tho aid of the famine stricken people of China. Tho coming congressional reappor tionment will provldo for a member Hhlp In tho Jiouko of 43C. CongrcRH will Bhortly Investigate tho wlrclesa telegraph companies for alleged: stock irregularities. .Major William Siuford, for over iwenty yearn recorder of the lyul Legion, died at Washington, aged CC years. Mr. Hitchcock haa introduced a reso lution In congress to provide for tho disposition of reports in tho Hulllngor Plnchot investigation. A marked falling off Ib noticed in iho Importation of manufacturers' materials, according to tho Import iccord Just completed. A national currency associatipn hns been formed in tho cast, which it is thought will protect every banking dlatrlct cast of tho Mississippi. Customs oJIlclalB at Uoston arc in vestigating n plcturo believed to bo n Van Dyke, which tho owner claimed Iho had bought abroad for $40. Ab a mark of esteem to n friendly state, an Impressive- military funeral will bo held in memory of iho late Chilean minister, Anabel Cruze. Customs experts nro maklm? an in. vcBtlgation of tho BUgar trust which it la thought will recover to tho gov ornment several millions of dollars. Arrangements between tho stnto de partment and the Mexican embassy have been concluded for tho construc tion of a dam and devco on tho Lower Colorado river in Imperial val ley. CongrcsB will probably compromise tho Panama exposition question by granting concessions to each of the three eltleB wanting to celebrate New Orleans, San Francisco and Washington. Domestic. Mt. l'itnn i again In a state of erup tion. Heavy fighting Is reported at Mai Paso, Mexico. .Iowa nro again being expelled from St. Petersburg. Hnmon Lucco has been Inaugurated president of Chile. Halttmoro has enacted a law segre gating tho whites and blacks. Tho American Historical association in In session at Indianapolis. Dr. Cook says ho .will never at tempt another trip to the pole. II. M. Wells, postmaster nt Crete, Web., suicided Tuesday by shooting. Cincinnati had a $2,000,000 fire Wednesday. Several ilrcnien were In jured. Cuba Ib contemplating the recon struction of six essels for coastguard bcrvice. Two billion dollars was represented by tho attendants at a banquet 5n Cleveland. Tho Russian government will ox pell students who Incited disorder at iho universities. Father Merlgot, a French mission nry In China, Is reported to have been killed by natives. Tho Creat Western Cereal com pany's plant nt Fort Uodgp, Iowa, was burned Wednesday. Mrs. Ksther Deas of Montgomery, Ala., will celebrate her 101th birth day during ChrlstniHF, week. Navajo Indians In Colorado am said to bo committing depredations in the southern counties of the state. Over ono hundred convicts In tho Alabama penitentiary have been given paroles bb a Christmas present. Tho Lleycllyn Iron Works at I,os Angeles wore wrecked by an explo sion, supposedly by dynamite. Sunday. An Ashevllle. N. C. man received a Jail sentence for performing tho mis tletoe stunt at a neighbor's house Christmas day. Many street cars and considerable property liavo been damaged during the street enr strlko at Winnipeg. Kx-Presldent llonllla of Honduras nnd Con. Leo Christmas, an American, uro said to hnvo loft Now Orleans to lead a revolution In Honduras. J. M. (3111, editor of tho National lias been arrested at Tampa on a chargo of conspiring to prevent cigar jnnkcrs from returning to work. Dr. Allen Starr, In an address In New York says that Americans arc living too strenuously, and that the jnsauo asyiumB are being lllled as a result FROM MM PLACES J " " "rcnch steamer Savonn of Hnm- I brg Js BiippoBctl to have sunk with 3 tin l nrTtt rf t tit sin I iMin ttlitln n her crew of twenty-one whllo enrouU to Nnplcfl. Tho volcano Annmn in Japan which buried thirty villages three centuries ago, is again in eruption. Women nt Kansas City must nol wear tho deadly hatpin under u pen ally of $1 to $500. Flvo children have died in tho losl fdw days nt HokobIiI, Okln , from cut lig mlBtletoo berries. Ten thousand tons of hay stored In a warehouse at Stockton, Cal., were destroyed by lire Tuesday. Two thousand Immigrants, detained nt Kills Island, celebrated Christmas by services In hlx languages. A number of Italians at Hergen, N. J., were poisoned by drinking punch made from wood alcohol. A peaceful settlement will probably bo mado of the border dispute be tween Santo Domingo nnd Haytl. Arkansas touchers uro making u study of tho hookworm ono of tho fea tures of the Btato convention nt Llttlo Hock. Twenty firemen and tiollcemen were killed by the fnlling of n wall during a fire at a leather factory in Philadel phia. Flvo thousand dollars worth ol woolens being- delivered to non-union shops wero stolen in Chicago Wednes day. Archlo Hoxscy bent tho world's alti tudo record at Lob Angeles by soar ing over two miles into the air Tues day. The board of education of rtochos tor, N. Y., has declared against fra ternities and Bororltles in tho high school. Telegruph companies are consider ing tho delivery of mcBsaKes bv tele. phone instead of messengers ns at present. Alexander Sklblnskl. a Polish vio linist, loBt three- flngcrB by tho explo sion of n giant llrecrackor at Home Georgia. Robert Etmsllo, who has served the National league as an umpire for twenty yours, will bo retired on u pension. Tncoma's nnti-trcatlng law has gone Into effect, and tho result Is being wntched with much Interest tho coun try over. A lono hold-up man wont through tho Sunset express nt El Paso, Tex., and relieved the passengers of consid erable cash. Tho actions of the National Orange. Patrons of Husbandry, wero severely criticised by the Maine state grango at Its Inst session. An engagement between Boldlnrs and inBurrcctos nlong tho Haytlon oorucr resulted in the k nc of bv. oral on both Bides. A recent earthquake Is believed to bo tho causo of largo fissures in tho earth that havo appeared In tho'nelgh borhood of Wichita. Kan. A bomb, supposedly placed by mem bere of tho ninclc Hand society, wrecked n tenemont in the Italian qunrter of New York city. It required but ten minutes for a Jury nt Brooklyn to return a verdict or guilty against one of tho Italian kidnapers arrested there. It is reported that threo Americans wero seized by Honduran nollco. thrown into Jail, la&hed with whips. deported to Guatemalan territory and landed penniless in the forests. Tho family of Ralph Johnston, who was killed, nt Denver In nn aeroplane accident, will recelvo nn annuity of $1,000 from tho Wright IlrothcrB com pany, in whoso employ ho was. Mantella Watlm. who took part In a lynching last July, has been found guilty at Newark. Ohio, of man slaughter and sentenced to twenty years. Tho year old baby of Mrs. K. J. Cox was lied up In pillows and thrown from n window during a lire at Chi cago. It was caught unhnrmed and tho mother afterwards rescued. Tho mother camp of the Arctic Brotherhood Thursday celebrated the triumph of tho sun over tho power of darkness, symbolized by tho length enlng daylight after tho shortest day. A lone bandit held up a Missouri Pacific train at Kansas City Monday and got away with a comfortable sum of money, not to mention watches and other Jewelry. Tho Amorlcnn Association for thi Advancement of Science at Mlnneup oils will bo participated In by many ol tho foremost scholars of the rnlteu States and Canada. In a fire at tho Morris meat plant at tho Chicago stock yards Firo Chid James Horan and twenty-live firemen wero killed by fnlling walls. Fifty other persons wore Injured. Rov. Norman Plass, Charles Hrool.s and John Traphaden havo beep indict ed by tho federal grand jury at Uos ton for using tho mails in a scheme to defraud. In n haudhag belonging to W. J. Darling, arrested at Dondwood, S. !., was found evidence that ho was In correspondence with over 350 yoiiiiu ladies in different nnrts ' the conn. try. At a Christmas dinner given nt Dolmar, Dela.. by John Onv. It v. quired eight largo turkeys and the ouier trimmings to feed his thirty two children, together with grand children and great grandchildren toe numerous to mention. Several conductors on tho Union Pacific between Denver nmi n,u havo been discharged, recused ol grafting. James Qoodcnouch siilimiiini' in ! loss of a quart of blood for transfusion into tno veins of Mrs. l,. f!. Knot n sufferer from blood wilEonlmr nt ?jn. J coin. The oDcrntlon was successful. I GOLDEN IDD FREMONT COUPLE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FIFTY YEARS. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There That is of Intereet to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Fremont Mr. and Mrs. P. Nelson celebrated their fiftieth wedding an niversary with n big dinner given to forty of their friends Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, who wero married In Sweden, settled In Fremont In I8GU, being members of Iho first Swedish band who came to Dodge county. Penitentiary Minstrels. LancaBter Tho annual , Christ mas tiny Bhut-ln minstrel show' was given by tho prisoners at the state peniten tiary before i n largo audience. For two hours and a half the men In the cast entertained the crowd that oamo from tho city to witness the perform once, nnd it was evident that the members or the cast were thoroughly enjoying themselves in presenting the program. May Lose His Foot. Tccumsoh. While attempting to fltoal a ride on n Burlington freight train at Table Rock. Robert Hedges. a young man of this city, sustained an injury which may cost him tho loss of his left foot. A wheel passed over tho member nnd a surgeon had to re move one too and take numerous stitches In the lacerated foot. Will Go to Annapolis. Fnirbury. Raymond, the ?on of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas II. Wright, has received notice of his appointment to tho United States naval academy at AnnnpollB and will leave In a, few duyB for tin place to undergo the oxnminutions. Mr. Wright graduated from tho Falrbury High school In the class of 1010. Oldest Man in Thayer County Dies. Hebron Franklin Macy paBfed away Tuesday night at the iikc of ninety-six years and two days. He was the oldest man In tho county and wiib among the oldest in the state. To Stop Gambling Devices. Beatrice Mayor Rutherford has In structed Chief or Police McGIrr to put nn end to gambling devices, raf fles and. "punch boards." ,sucli us have been conducted lit local stores. Harvard Man Killed by Cars. Sutton Fred Tumor of Harvard wiib run over by a freight train in the ynrds here. Both of his legs wero cut off and ho died a few hours later In a hospital. e R !?Jgi Firo at Salem destroyed property valued at $25,000. Miss Nora Miller won the piano in tho Geneva Gazette contest. Work has commenced on tho now federal building at Falrbury. Tho Franklin schools 'have been closed on account of scarlet rover. A lodgo or tho Woodmen or the World has been organized at Axtell. Dr. W. J. Doyle died very suddenly Monday morning at his homo In Gree ley. Work will soon be started on the now $110,000 Catholic church at Chad ron. Merrick county will hold a special election to vote cm new court house bonds. A wolr hunt by Hustings nlmrods re suited In the capture or two of the animals. .Myron Cllne. y0!i,s ,,1,1, W!lH drowned while skating on n pond near Cedar Creek. The convention or charities and cor rections will bo held nt Lincoln Janu ary 15. Iti and 17. D. V.. Vandeventer or Brownvlllo wiib seriously Injured when a runaway team ran Into his automobile. Oniahii linckinen are up in arms against the introduction or tnxlcabs, claiming that they frighten their horses. Fire originating In the general storo of William Puttomin or Pleasant Dale caused 11 loss estimated at from $l(i. OOo to $20,000. The real estate men or tho state will meet at York December 2S to discuss matters or Interest pertaining to that business. The Nebraska checker association will hold Its annual tournament Febru ary 7th. The place or meeting lint not yet been decided upon. Falrbury merchants complain or tho Black ChrlstmiiB trade, which they say fell far bolow that of former years. Roy Wllscam who was badly burned by an explosion which wrecked his home at Lincoln some tlmo ago, has beon sent to the peultentlnrv for ono year after pleading guilty to ar son. Petitions asking that the poHtofllco in Central City close on Sunday ex cept between the hours of a and 10 In the morning wero presented nt tho various churches In the city Sunday muiiiiug .win were quite generally lti!IVU, jaE&t&jpnixmM.. SnHfo)Ti fSrlHlJL?JLl The annual inspection of the Ne braska nutional guard by the war do partment will begin the latter part o' Januaiy. Whllo working In his fnther's mill at Valparaiso, Carl Dcane got his left hand In tho cogs and the thumb was cut entirely off. The board of directors of the Hast ings Independent Telephone company declared a .'I',, per cent semi-annual dividend, payable Janunry 1, 1011. A fire which started In the home of VV. L. Brown nt Fairfield was held In check with snowballs by the neighbor until tho arrhal of tho fire department. Nlnot)-ulv boys nnd girls of Wy more were supplied with clothing anc given a supjer at Wymoro Frlda night by the Ladles' Improvement ho clety. Business men of Hlldreth have em ployed a night watchman with the powers of n policeman to look after their Interests during the winter mouths. Mrs. Hurry Hull and her little son Harold of York were badly burned by the explosion or a can of stove black ing which Mrs. Hull was using near the stove. Major Moore, for a number or years one of tho custodians at the state house at Lincoln, was the recipient of a L'O pound turkej Christmas from the olllciuls and otllce force around the building. Six men worked for a day and a half shoveling coal out of the fuel storage room at tho steam heating plant on the state capltol grounds to the source of a smouldering lire In n big pile of eighty tons. The coal became ignited from spontaneous com bastion Saturday. Bishop George Allen Boechcr of Omaha hns accepted tho Invitation of Chancellor Avery of tho stnte univer sity lo deliver the annual Charter day address before the members of the mld-wlnter graduating class. Tho mid-winter graduating exercises will be held February 15, tho anniversary of the founding of the university, which will bo appropriately celebrate" by the students in the afternoon, and with the graduating exercises In the evening. Nebraska's "death rate Tor the year 1000 fell below lilne-tcnths or 1 per cent on the basis of figures compiled Oy the bureau of vital statistics. Tho total number or deaths occuring in that year and reported to the bureau was 10,:i7-f, whllo the population is estimated to havo been 1,175,000. Miss Leila Kline won the first hon ors in a silver medal contest held in tho Fremont college auditorium by tlic W. C. T. U. under the direction of Mrs. J. A. McGee. The second lion ors went to Miss Delphlne Wldmun. The forty-second unnual meeting of tho Nebraska state horticultural soci ety will be held at the university farm, January 17 to 10. One of the events of the meeting will bo an apple Judging contest Thursday afternoon at 1! o'clock. Noble Bowleg and Prince Carolina, alleged to bo IndlaiiB from Wowokn, Okln., have been extradited for mur der. They arc under arrest In Omaha. It Is charged that Noble Bowleg shot and killed Caesar Steppney November 2(5, 1008, and Hint Carolina shot and killed Dennis Stowart. April !!. 1010. More than 25,000 children wore born In Nebraska during the year ending December 1, 1010, the record or which has been compiled and summarized In exhaustive form by State Health In spector W. II. Wilson. His figures show a total of 25,171 births for tho period referred to, as compared with 211,051 tho year before a gain of 1,520 for tho last annum. On the basis or tho go eminent census showing a total population or 1,102,211 far tho state, tho birth rate stands at 2.1 per cent. The executive committee or the di rect legislation league met at the New Llndell hotel where after dining in tho banquet room, they considered a draft or the proposed amendment to the constitution providing for tho In itiative and referendum. Tho draft was drawn by a sub-conimitteo com posed or A. K. Sheldon. Professor L. K. Aylsworth nnd Walter Incite. .Notning definite , was decided, the evening being taken up with tho dis cussion or tho technical phrasing of trcctlons of tho bill. Manager Adams of tho Lincoln Gas company has asked tho stato board of public lands and buildings to connect tho penitentiary electric lino with his company by a switch to coBt the stato $;i0. so that In case tho peniten tiary line Is out of order tho state house can be lighted by electricity from the gas company's plant. Tho board has the matter under considera tion. Tho coming legislature will bo asked to require the' candling or eggs sold in Nebraska botween June I and December 31 or each year, according to tho terms or a uniform bill agreed on by the rood commissioners or live states at their mooting Just hold at Kansas City. Secretary W. R. Mellor of tho stato board of agriculture has received no tice from tho Shlro horso society of 12 Hanover Square, London, that It will offer two silver medals for tho best Shlro stnlllon and colt and tho best Shlro inure and filly, respectively at the Nebraska state fair next year. FOR 0 CONTROL UNCLE SAM AND MISS CANADA GO WOOING IN NEW WAY. WOULD FIX RAILWAY RATES Steady Increase In Traffic Between tho Two Countries Makes Ar rangement Necessary Meet ing Being Held. Washington. As a result of 11 con ference between Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate commerce commission, and the Hon. J. B. Mayble. chief of the railway commission or Canada, an agreement has been reached to recommend the "stabllshment or an International com mission which shnll have supervisory authority over rates In operating be tween the countries. Mr. Mayble came to Washington rrom Ottawa in accord ance with a previous arrangement with Chairman Knapp to dlscusB tho details of an. agreement they had reached last August, and the two of ficials have since been in conference. Their report hns not been completed, but will soon be nnd will then be filed with tho stnto department and with the foreign ofllco In Canada. No details aro yet available beyond the fact that It recommends tho estab lishment of an International commis sion upon which shall be conferred certain defined regulatory powers. Whether the commission Is to be cre ated by treaty between the two gov ernments by joint legislation cannot now be announced. Unearth Counterfeiters' Den. New York. Further arrests, gov ernment officials say, may be made In connection with the raid In Brooklyn, which unenrthed ono of the blggeBt, best equipped and most dangerous counterfeiting plants which veterans In the secret service ever had seen. A large lot of spurious quarter dollars, mostly In partly finished shnpe, was found in a heap on-the lloor of a ram shackle building in the rear of a tene ment, while in an adjoining room a man was caught filling moulds with hot material. There were moro than three hundred pounds of metal In vari ous stages of progress toward th coinage stnte in the plant. New York Bank Suspends. New York. Tho Northern Bank of New York, with deposits in Its nine branches or $0,012,582 at the tlmo of its last published statement, wns closed by O. II. Cheney, state superin tendent of banks, "for tho benefit of tho depositors," because of "certain conditions" and "also certain irregu lar transactions." An inventory of the bank's assets and liabilities is now under way, but until it is com pleted no further statement will be available. Loses Lifetime's Savings. Pittsburg. Carrying in his jiockct (500, the savings of a lifetime, Adam Price of Warrior Ridge, near Hunting ton. Pa., came to Pittsburg to give his dnughter a present of $100. Tho re mainder ho expected to put in a bank. He was met on the train by a stran ger who offered to show him his daughter's home, but when they reached tho Pennsylvania bridge over tho Allegheny river Price was knocked iown and his money stolen. Neat New ar's Present. Washington. Richard Parr, tho cus toms detective, who di&covcrcd the steel springs In tho scales on the American Sugar Refining company's dock at Williamsburg, and furnished much of the evidence through which moro than $:S,000,000 has been re turned to the federal treasury, will get his reward as 11 New Year's greeting. Parr's moiety was $100,000 for the work. He was paid $20,000 yomo time ago, but the treasury had no mor funds to complete payment. Find New Cotton Field. New Orleans. Experiments mado ay the sea Island cotton In the rich marshes along tho lower coast of l.oti ,lslana have met with such marked sue ,ces that tho raising of sea Island eot ton will be pursued on an extensive scnlo next yenr. Specimen stalks brought to Now Orleans during tho InHt few days average us many as fifty bolls to tho stalk. Must Pay Inheritance Tax. Kansas 'City. The estate of Chris- man Swope, nephew of tho Into Col. Thomas II. Swope, must pay $10,007 to tho University of Missouri as a col- 'oteral Inheritance tax according to a '.oclslon or the Judge or the probate KHirt here. The estate waB appraised it $;i:i3,050. The money waB be lucathcd to him by Colonel Swope. Troops Drive Out Revolters. Constantinople. Turkish troop? sent against tho Bedouins hnvo driven tho revolters out or tho Elkerak dis trict, in tho vilayet of Syria, near tho Dead sea, after a sanguinary engage ment, Olllclal advices received here stato tho Bedouins lost 150 killed and GOO prlsonors In the battle. Hutto, Mont. Reports' havo reached horo that n party ofprospectors from Nebraska havo struck an eighteen fool wldo rich vein In gold at Salmon City, Idaho, A stampede Is expected. THE EXPLANATION. 73P Tho Professor You aro better fed thun taught. Tho Stout Student I reckon you're right. You teach mo, but I feed my solf. Mean of Her. Mrs. Galey (back from tho moun tains) Well, my dear, did you keep open house during my absenco? Galey (earnestly) I should say I didn't, Louiso; why, there wasn't a night that I didn't lock tho doors at nlno o'clock. Mrs. Galey Yes? And where did you go then? Important to Mothors Examine cnrcfullv nvnrv lmtHn CASTORI A, a safe nnd euro remedy for. 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