The Chief C. D. HALE, Publisher ftED CLOUD NEBRASKA EVENTS OF THE DAY TOLD IN A FEW LINES. THE DAY'S NEWS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Intel licence of Various Kinds, Inter esting to the General Reader Given In Condensed Rorm. Washington. President Tnft 1ms sent to congrcs a npeclnl messago urging the fortifica tion of tho Pnnnmn cnnnl. Rear Admiral Edward It. Harry, commnnder-ln-chlef of tlio Pacific fleet, has applied for retirement. A bill will soon bo presented to con gress to prohibit tho Importation or manufacture of parlor matches In tho United Status. Opposition to hla appointment will probably delay tho confirmation of Judgo- Smith of Iowa to tho clicitlt bench In tho Eighth district. Tho senate proposes to provide n permanent resting place for the body of John Paul Jones in a crypt In tho naval neademy at Annapolis. Md. Representatives of the employes mndo a fctrong plea before the Inter stnto commerce commission at Wash ington in support of tho proposed trolght rate Increase A measure providing for a limited parcels post on rural fire delivery routes has been reported favorably to tho senate from tho commltteo on poatofllccB nnd post roads. A troaty between nil the powers tending to dlBcournge the circulation of obscene literature has been ordered reported to tho scnato from tho sen ato committee on foreign relations. Tho postofllco appropriation bill, ag gregating $253,000,000, nn Increase of more than $9,000,000 over tho current appropriation, has been reported to tho houso by the postofllco committee. A committee representing tho col ored grand order of Odd Follows called on President Taft and pledged him and tho administration tho united support of tho 750,000 members of that organization. Tho president has nominated Repre sentative Walter I. Smith of Iowa to bo United States circuit Judgo for tho Eighth district. Ho will succeed Judgo Willis Vnndeventor of Wyoming, who was rccontly promoted to the United States supremo bench. Tho appointment of a board by the president to prepnro a comprehensive plan of Inland wnterwny development for tho consideration of congress is provided for In an amendment to tho rivers nnd harbors bill Introduced In tho senato by Senator Ncwlauds of Nevada. General News. A "hat pin" bill Is before tho South Dakota legislature. Mayor Brand Whltlnck of Toledo Is seriously HI of appendicitis. Conditions in tho famine districts )t China are said to bo growing worse. The Dexter, Me., Savings bank has been closed by order of the' stato bank examiner. Governor Woodson Wilson has as sumed tho duties of chief executivo of New Jersey. t A national convention of women voters hns been called to meet at Tn koma, Wash. Employes of tho Armour Packing company, over sixty yearB of age, are to bo pensioned. James A. Heed of Kansas City was elected to tho U. S. Fenato by the Mis eourl legislature. There will probably bo no opposi tion to tho probating of the will of Mrs. linker G. Edilv. Tho child welfiiio exhibit now in session In Now York City Is attract ing world wide attention. Deaths from bubonic plnguo In China nvernge over 150 per da, and the epidemic Is spreading. An attempt was made on tho life of tho French Premier Hrlnnd by n for mer clerk named Gibolme. A passenger train on tho Mexican Northwestern railway which left Chihuahua Monday has been lost and no trace can be found since It left Tojolucachle. The epidemic of bubonic plague threatens to become nn International danger unless foreign control Is Intro duced, because of tho Ignorance of tho Chinese authorities. In the suburb of Fudzladlnn the ChlneEO nnd Euiooan physicians have been beaten by tho soldiers. John Worth Kern was elected to tho United States senate by tho Indiana loglslnturo to succeed Albert J. Hev oridgo. Regular steamboat freight scrvico will bo established between Kansas City and New Orleans bv Mnrch 1. Tho legislature of New York faces n dendlock In tho election of n member of congress to succeed Senator Choun coy M. Depew. Tho Union of American Hebrews, or Bani'.cd In 18711, tho largest body of reformed Jews In America, Is fn ses sion In Now York City. Mrs. Esther Davis, the oldest In- mate at the Home of tho Daughters of Jacob, at No. 302 East Broadway, Now York City, Just celebrated her U7th birthday. OM I PUGES Chinese residents nro vigorously op posing tho burning of tho bodies of thoso who died from tho plaguo nt Pe king. John Brodcr, a pioneer railroad builder of tho middle west, was found dead In bed nt his St. Joseph homo Ho was clghty-ono years old. Rumors current In Imdon that Am bassador Bryco Intended to resign ns nmbnssndor to tho United States are denied nt tho British embassy. A slxteon-hour bnttlo between sev enty government volunteers, so-called, and 100 revolutionists occurred at tho vlllngo of Coyomo, Chihuahua, on Sat urday. Charges that Danville, III., tho homo of Speaker Cannon, has been de bauched by vote buying hnvo been brought to the grand Jury In that county. The unemployed of ICnnsaB City marched to the city hull and present ed resolutions to the mayor, asking for work. Tho mayor promised his help. King Gustnvo has opened tho riks dag. Tho proposed expenditures for tho army nnd navy was C.OOO.OOO crownB greater than for the preceding year. The ouster suits against tho Interna tional Harvester compnny, tho lumber companies and the Gould companies were continued in Missouri until the April term. Dr. Manuel Gondra and Juan IJ. Oar ha, respectively tho president and vice-president of Paraguay, liave been forced to rcFlgn by Colonel .Tarn, tho minister of war. Tho German submarine boat "U-3" that sunk with Its crew of 7." men In tho harbor at Kiel. Germany, was raised after three hours work by tho salvage ship Vtilltnn, " Six miners wero killed, two bndly Injured and It Is feared several wero lost In the workings when an explo sion occurred In tho Keating coal mines near Holenn, Mont. W. II. Edwards, who graprled with Gallagher when tho latter attempted to assassinate Mayor Gaynor as ho was leaving for Europe, has been grnntod a medal for bravery. Provisional President Ilonllla of the revolutionists In Honduras has ap pointed Maximo Rivera personal secre tary of state and will namo tho other members of bis cabinet in tho near future. Henry Miller, nn American, wns de coyed Into tho woods near Paris, robbed or his money nnd clothcB and tied to a tree, where ho was found several hours later by a party of hunters. During n lire In St. Joseph's orphan asylum at Grand Rnplds, Mich., Sister Mnracolcnn, one of tho nurses In charge, went Into the burning building and rescued threo persons who wero In bed helpless. Governor WUIson of Kentucky hns refused a pardon to Henry E. Youtsoy, convicted of tho murder of Governor William Goobol. The governor says ho believes Youtsoy Is guilty of a cruel minder. Eight men mot instnntnncous death and one was so horribly burned that bo will probably die as the result of a boiler explosion on board the battle ship Delaware, tho causo of which Is yet unexplained. Tho Franeo-Llbcrlnn boundary treaty, tho ratification of which was condition or French approval of the American plan to re-cstnbllsh tho finances of Liberia, has been signed at the foreign olflce. A party of firteen scientists who have been on a survey or tho Hudson Day country, bnve arrived at Winni peg, nrtor a trip on root or over 1,000 miles, with tho mercury rart of tho time at 00 degrees below. There Is pending, before tho Iowa legislature n bill providing that there shall bo no treating In tho saloons of Iowa, either between customers or by tho bartender. Bartenders are also forced by tho provisions of tho bill not to permit treating. Mrs. Joseph 11. McConnell of Sara toga. N. Y In opening the crop of a chicken In preparation for her New Year's dinner, found In It a diamond worth $".". which her mother, Mrs. K. V. Lutz of Guttenberg, N. J., lost while visiting her last summer. Resolutions calling lor a general strike of all minors In the Irwin coal fields or Westmoreland county. Penn sylvania, and a general strike of United Mine Workers In Colorulo will bo tho first Important business to como neioro mo convention or xne United Mine Workers of America. H. R. Whltmoro aged sixty-eight, leaped from a window in the eighth story of tho Mnrquetto hotel at St. Louis to the pavement below, killing hlniFclf Instantly and creating a sinnll panic among pedestrians. Despon dency over his continued Illness and the death of his wife, who was the daughter or George Knnpp, one tlmo publisher or tho St. louls Republic, Is given ns the cause for Mio net. A confeienco Is being held nt Cin cinnati for the puno?e of considering was and menus whereby the Episco pal, the Protestant Methodist and tho MetbodUt Episcopal church south, can consolidate. The million church members are Involved. Carrie Nation Is Mn a snnltarlum nt Eureka Springs, Ark., suffering from a nervous breakdown. Twenty nllogcd anarchists wero ar rested while holding a meeting nt Mu nich Pipers suppoM-d to be of an Incriminating nature were solved. Rnlltnads throughout Portugal nro pural)7cd as a result or the recent strike In that republic. In his Innururnl address delivered before tho legislature Governor Em- mntt O'Neal declared Alabama's pro hibition laws to bo an Invasion of In dividual lights and constitutional guarantees. KIND OF "SLEEPING SICKNESS" FOUND AT KEARNEY. 18 HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Kearney. A pecullnr malady which has baffled local physicians Iiiib de veloped in tho cnBo of U. C. Parr, who for several months hnB been affected with a kind of "sleeping sickness." He J is un aged man, and si It hough Appa rently In excellent health Is nt times attacked with a drowsiness during which ho loses consciousness, often falling from his chair, so sudden is tho approach of the disease. Wedded After 36 Years. Lincoln. Stricken 111 while, enjoy ing n honeymoon with tho man who had waited thirty-six years to take her ns his bride, Mrs. James L. Strluc Is suffering from pneumonia at her home here. Mrs. Strlne came to Lincoln a week ngo from Mnrtlnsburg, W. Vn., where sho was married two weeks ngo to her lover of nearly two score years ago. On tho trip she contracted a cold which doveloiK'd during the pnst few days Into tho more serious Illness. Epidemic of Smallpox. Tccumsch. At tho present time there Is nn epidemic of smallpox in many of the towns In southeastern Nebraska. Tho village of Elk Creek has several cases. Tecumseh hns had n number of cases, but tho dlscaso has now disappeared. Cases are reported nt Talmage, Auburn nnd many other places. Tho disease Is In mild form, frequently tho patients not being obliged to take to their beds. ' Four Gencratlom Present. Geneva. One or the very few oc currences of four generations or one family being present at the same time was that of the Peterson family, which wnB bold at the home or Johannns Peterson, the great grandfather, last Snturdny. Tho four generations pres ent wero Johnnnns Peterson, great grandfather; J. A. Peterson, grand father; Lee Peterson, father, and Ros coo Peterson, son. Smothered In a Cave-In. McCook. Alfred Iifvenborg of this city wns smothered and crushed to death by a cave-In nt the Flltcrntt snnd bnnk a row miles west or Mc Cook1. Ren Ix)rvenborg and Leon Clark escaped death by a nnrrow mar gin. A rarmors' Institute will bo held at Brock on January 31 nnd February 1. An effort Is being made to reorgan ize tho TccumsoLv Commercial club. Custer county b.s voted a seven mill levy to build a now court house. Cnmbrldgo Commercial club has been organized with a good member ship. Mason City will have a new bank the charter having been issued re cently. Tho superintendents and teachers association or the stnto Is In session at Lincoln. Clay Center will number her resi dences in order that city mail delivery may bo perfected. Friend suffered a disastrous fire on Tuesday night, losing a number of business houses. Capt. Charles II. Downs, ono of the ploners of Nebraska, died at his borne in Omnha, aged 02 years. Tho Job of paving tho Seward streets, which hns been under way slnco August, was completed last week. Mr. and Mrs. O. Lehrack of Tecum seh will celebrate their golden wed ding anniversary the last of this month. Newt Jnrvls at Nemaha has killed sovon hawks this season, ono or which measured nearly live feet, from tip to tlr. Georgo Tucker, a farmor near Car lson, got his hand caught In a corn shellcr nnd badly mangled It before getting released. HnBtlngs high school pupils will present tho comic opera, "Tho Prln ccsb Ronnie," nt tho opera houso In that place shortly, Ealrbury denies that It required a consus or the circuses that winter there to swell its population to Its present proportions. The surviving members or company E, First Nebraska regiment, who served In tho White River Indian war or 1803, will gather together at a banquet at Fremont. Lincoln members or tho Knights o! Columbus went to Fremont Sunday to Initiate a largo number or candi dates nt that place. A special train wns chartered for tho occasion. Extensive preparation is being made by tho commltteo for tho state poultry how, which will bo bold in tho nudl torlum at Hastings, Jnnuary 1G to 20. Tho Indications nro that a consider ably greater number of fowls will be exhibited than wore shown Inst year. Among tho notable speakors will bo Professors PIcrco and Gardner of the stato agricultural college, nnd Will Mnupln of Lincoln, 1 IBlSlS Broken Dow Is laying pipes for a $100,000 packing houso plum, and in dications nro that she will land it. Mrs. Mary K. Osgood, tho wifo of Daniel Osgood, dropped dead or heart failure at her home near Sterling. At tho annual meeting of the Rank of Cortland, a dividend was declared and tho capitalization was Increased from $15,000 to $20,000. County treasurers from over the stato are in session at Lincoln this week, lerfectlng nn organization that may bo of mutual benefit to that body. Helen Hloss, a six-year-old Omaha girl, In getting out of tne way of n dog that had f lightened her, fell un der a street car nnd lost three lingers from her right hand. Miss Ornlee List nnd MIbs Ollvo Adalr, members of tho Tulsa, Okla., "40," who are earning their way around tho world selling papers, wero In Lincoln last week. Tho Fnlrbury Commercial club is arranging for a minstrel show to bo given tho latter part of January. The show will comprise local talent, there being sixty members In tho cast. Some tlmo during Sunday night nn attempt was mndo to burn the build ings belonging to tho county poor farm at Broken Row. Investigation showed a quantity of Inflammable ma terials placed In secreted places about tho main building and outhouses. The incendiary was evidently frightened away before completing his work. A deputy United States marshal made a raid on a gang of "bootleggers" at Mason City nnd arrested flvo sus pects, and with them found 118 quarts or "Kentucln rye." The marshal spent some tlmo before he wns able to lo cate tho violators or tho law. F, L. Reynolds, living southwest or Tecumseh, was attacked by a vicious bog while engaged In doing chorea about tho place, nnd sustained some serious injuries upon the side, the wounds being or such a nature that a physician was summoned to nllevl ato tho Injured man's Bufferings. In nn attempt to bo arrango stato examinations that school teachers from Nebraska may go anywhere In tho country under the reciprocal cer tification rules, a meeting of tho presi dents of colleges and normals wns held Saturday, at which It was decid ed that all colleges and normals should offer state examinations In tho flvo essential branches. Dean For dyce presided at this meeting. Tho stato university, Peru normal, Chad ion normal, Wesleyan university, Cot nor university. York college, Hastings collcgo nnd tho Lutheran college at Wahoo were represented. Only tho Kearney nnd Wnyne normals wero not represented from among the schools of this clnss. A special order from tho ofllco of tho adjutant general has restored MnJor C. E. Eraser of Madison to duty again. MnJor Eraser was dropped rrom tho list some months ago when J. C. Hnrtlgan, then adjutant general, decided to drop companies and offic ers where tho required standards of efllclency had not been maintained. Governor Aldrlch has Issued a proc lamation declaring Falrbury to be n city or tho first clnss, bnving a popu lation or between 5,000 and 25,000. Sat lsructory evidence wns presented, based on tho last cciisub, that Fair bury had a population or 5.294, nnd the proclamation was issued In accord, unco with this evidence. Tho hopes of San Francisco to re ceive an endorsement of Its plan to capture tho recommendation of con gress as the seat of tho Panama-Pa cific exposition proposed to bo held In 1915 when tho cnnnl shall have been completed was handed a solar plexus blow, both in tho action of the senate and that of the house. In the senate the question was side-tracked for a time by reference to a special commit tee Tor Investigation, nnd In tho houso tho San Francisco proposition was turned down flatly and New Orleans given tho preference by a two to ono vote. Tho houso hns taken It all back and decided to havo Its postage stamps. A motion to allow each member 15 cents' worth of stamps a day for or llclal business was voted down; tho samo motion was reconsidered nnd carried by a plenty good majority. Gordes, tho watchdog or tho treasury at this session, wanted tho allowance cut to 10 cents ench, but tho allow ance went through at the usunl figure, 15 cents. The house will have no sessions during the arternoons this week. This action was taken because many farm er members wnnt to attend tho ses sions of organized agriculture. Tho senate did not take such action, al though It ndjourned to meet again nt 11 o'clock Wednesday. It Is possible that this body will follow the action of tho house. Hiram S. Craig of Lincoln has been appointed by Governor Aldrlch ns ad jutant at tho Grand Island soldiers' homo. Tho commission hns been Is sued nnd ho will a-ssumo tho position In a short time. "Good dirt roads for less money,' tho slogan ot the Nebraska good roads association which meets In Lincoln January 20, meets with tho lull ap proval or Thomas Vihners or Bclvl dero, tho man who first Introduced In tho Nebraska legislature a bill foi what Is now known as tho "road drag system" of pood roada. PAUL IRION DEAD HEAD OF EQUITABLE STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY. FALLS IN A HOTEL HALLWAY Active and In Company With His Brother Joy Morton, Almost Up to Hour of Death Reared In Nebraska. Now York. Paul Morton, president or tho Equitable Lllo Assurance so ciety and secretary or tho'navy under Theodore Roosovelt, died of cerebal hemorrhago In tho Hotel Seymour. Ho was stricken In n hallway of the hotel and dlod an hour later without regaining consciousness. Ills wifo and his older brother, Joy, were sum moned to his side, but ho died a few minutes before they arrived. His close friend, E. J. Ucrwln, arrived ten minutes before Mr. Morton breathed bis last, but tho stricken man wns un conscious from tho moment of the stroke, and neither recognized thoso about him nor spoke. Tho body was removed to tho home but no statement or funeral plans wns given out. Tho coroner's ofllce Is sat isfied that death resulted from natur al causes, and there will bo no autopsy. Mr. Morton himself bad no Idea that his life was In danger, but hla family, his physicians and a few close friends knew that his condition was precarious. -- Mr. Morton was reared at Arbor Lodge, near Nebraska City, to young manhood. Ho wns born in Detroit, Mich., May 22, 1S57. When between sixteen and seventeen years old ho wont to work for the Burlington rail road. He has two brothers, Murknnd Joy Morton, living In Chicago. rho latter owns considerable property In Nobraska City. National Board of Trade. Washington. The national board of trade has substantially endorsed tho principles of tho Aldrlch plan of monetary reform by adopting the res olutions offered by the chamber of commerce or tho stato of New York, the merchants' nssoclatlon of New York, and the New York produco ex chnngo, recommending a "central bnnklng organization." Tentatlvo plans wero Jrawn for n monetary league of business men soon to be organized by tho national board. Nominated by Acclamation. "Washington. Champ Clark, demo cratic leader or the house, w.ib nom inated by acclamation for speaker of tho houso In tho Sixty-second congress by tho democratic caucus. This, with tho selection of a commltteo on ways and meanB to make an early preparation of tariff legislation for submission to congress at tho begin ning of the next session when tho houso becomes democratic, was the event of tho caucus. Dangsrous Counterfeit Bill. Washington. Tho best counterfeit bill slnca tho famous "Monroe hun dred" silver certificate turned our by tho Taylor-Jacobs gang In 1898, has been found circulating In Kansas by tbe secret service. It Is a ten dollar note on tho National Bank of Com merce of Wichita and will deceive any but tho most expert. It Is probably an engraving or an exceptionally good wood cut. Texas Governor for Prohibition. Austin. Tex. Gov. Oscar Branch Colquitt has sent his first messnge to the Texas legislature. Tho governor recommends thnt the law regulating tho so-called "social clubs" be made more stringent; favors local option as tho "most rational form of prohi bition." and recommends control of stnto penltentlnrles by a commission similar to tho state railroad comnils- i slon. Rising Against tho Turks. Aden, Arabia. The Imam of Snna, Seyld Ynhya. hns declared war against tho Turks, and armed bands are gath ering In the Yemen mountains. Tho notorious sheik, BcnJ Pasha, has Joined tho Imam's stnndnrd and a ris ing throughout Yemen, a region of southwestern Arabia, is expected. Washington. Postmaster General .-Iltchcock's economy of administra tion In tho postofllco department came la for sharp criticism at tho hands of several members of tho house of rep rescntntlves during tho consideration of postofllco appropriation bills. Toklo, D. 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