ff,!"' 1 t t h I7 lap Rl.t si. 5 WW, The Chief C. D. HALE, Fubllsnor RED CLOUD NEBRASKA HAS WHOPPER VOTE COTTON BILL PUT THROUGH THB HOUSE WITH EASE. NOT AN AMENDMENT OFFERED Three Nebraska Republican Give Sup port Underwood Springs Coup on the Fret List Bill. Washington. Suprortcd by nil tho democrats ami by thirty Insurgent ret publicans tho democrntlc tariff bill, the third of the big revision measures brought forward by tho democratic houso ot representatives, passed that body by 202 to 91. The bill cuts tho averngo tariff on cotton manufactured Roods from 48 to 27 per cent ad valor em, a 21 per cent reduction in duty that tho democratic leaders estimate to reduce revenue by about $3,000,000. Not an amendment was offered to tho bill, although the republicans attacked It vigorously on account of alleged in creases in certain items over tho rates of tho Pay ne-AId rich tariff law. Scarcely had tho cheers that greeted the passage of the cotton revision bill subsided when Democratic Lender Un derwood, calling up tho frco list bill ns it passed the Bcntito a few days ago, accomplished a strategic move which surprised tho republicans. He asked for a conferenco on all tho amendments to the free list bill, ex cept that of Senator Oronna of North Dakota, rutting cemcntT on tho freo list. Mo urged that tho house accept that amendment, adding to it lemons. Threat of a New Uprising. Mexico City. Enraged by tho dls-, missal ot Emlllo Vasquez Gomez from tho post of secretary of tho interior, numerous former officers of tho revo iutlon have openly declared that thoy would recall their followers and lead them in a second rebellion. President do la Harm intimated that Pranclsco !. Madero 1b the ono really rcsponslblq for the elimination of Gomez. Ho stat rd that he did not regard the sltua tlon as critical. Oldest Railway Mall Carrier Diet. Lawrence, Kan. J. D. Herrlngton, M years old, said to be the oldest man In tho railway mail service, both from point ot age and length of service, died hero Monday. Mr. Herrlngton entered tho government service as a railway mall clerk in 1865, at tho closo of tho civil war, and since that time has worked on nearly ever road west of tho Mississippi river. Ho had served nearly forty-six Jears continuously. Start a La Follette Boom. Madison, Wis. A vigorous campaign In support ot the presidential candi dacy of Senator Ln Follutto has been determined upon at n meeting of tho cxecntlvo committee of the Wisconsin branch ot tho national republican pro grcssivo league. A meeting of the pro grcsBlvo clans will bo called to bo held ln Milwaukee, September 12 to 10, when n declaration of principles will bo rromulgatcd by the'leaguc. Give a Welcome to Togo. New York. Tho United States ot midnight Thursday formally welcomed to Its shores Admiral Count Ilclha-s-lilro Togo of tho Japaneso empira iud naval hero of tho nusso Japan ese war. The welcome was given aboard the steamer Lusltanln at Quar antine by representatives of the state, war and navy departments and n rep resentative of Governor John A. Dix. Peace Treaty Is Sinned, rarls. American Initiative In unre stricted arbitration hns been crowned by tho signing of n treaty of perma nent peace by the terms of which Franco and tho United States agree to 6ubmlt to a neutral court all differ ences that may nilso between them even though tho dignity, honor anJ vital Interests of either republic mnj bo Involved. Hindu In Chicago Threatens Harrison. Chicago. Hnspar Shahlnan, a Hin du, until recently employed ns a per former by a traveling wild west show, who declares that Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police McWeeny had him discharged from bis last position, was examined by county Judgo Owens and committed to the Dunning Insano asylum. He was unrstcd ln the city bnll last Saturday after he had made repeated attempts to enter the ofnee ot Mayor Harilson. Ho was unarmed when arrested. Reapportionment Bill Pastes House. Washington. The amended house congressional reapportionment bill providing that after March 3, 1913, the house ot representatives shall consist of 433 members, exclusive of Arizona nnd 'New Mexico, an Increase of forty two oyer tho present membership, was passed by theeenate Thursday without roll call. The bill now goes to confer ence between the two Iiouscb for agreement ns to the senate, amend ments before going to the president for his approval. SUMMARY OF weeks EVENTS LATEST NEWS TOLD IN BRIEFEST AND BEST FORM. ALL ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Review of Events of Greatest Interest To Readers From all Parts of the Globe. Washington Investigation of tho so-called "sugar trust has been resumed by the houso committee. Representative Slooji of Nebraska has made a speech In tho houso In favor of Immediate pension legisla tion for tho old soldiers. A pension of $1 n week for every man and woman tnoro than sixty years of ngc Is provided -for ln n bill b Representative Victor Berger. Tho Nebraska delegation ln congress will vote solidly for tho democratic re vision of the cotton schedule. This has been determined by a poll of tho delegation. Ono hundred nnd twenty-ono years ago Monday the United States grunted its first patent, liy the end of the week tho patent office expects to Issue patent No. 1O0Q00O. Democratic leader Underwood, in n speech before the houso denounced us false William J. Liryun's nttack on Mr. Underwood, charging him with blocking tariff schedules. President Tnft expects to send in the arbitration ticaty between the United States nnd Great Britain nnd piobably the treaty with Frnnco be fore the special session adjourns. Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Lou isville, Jersey City, Wilmington, Del., and Long Island City will hnvo postal savings banks in operation on Sep tember 1. A threatening letter received sev eral days ago by Speaker Champ Clark declared that If congress did not start a navy yard Investigation at once twelve pounds of dynamite would be exploded and that congress would feel tho shock. Leaders In both houses of con' gress believe an agreement will be quickly reached on both tho wool and farmers' free list bills, both of which the president 1s said to be as-determined as ever to veto. Representative Sloan of Nebraska delivered a speech In the house Mon day severely criticising tho democratic leaders for their failure to bring u pension bill into the house for enact ment into law at this session. Tho democratic tariff program was moved up closer to President Tuft Tuesday when tho senate, by another remarkable coalition ot democrats and republican Insurgents, passed n farm ers' free list bill, after voting down tho oilqlnal Iioubo measure. Tho next big investigation to be un dertaken by tho houso of representa tives will bo to determine whether there Is n great banking combination with power to control credits, ex changes and deposits, nnd cause busi ness depreciation and panics. General Nawa Fire ut Faucctt, Mo., caused n loss of $30,000. Tho Texas legislature met ln special session Monday. Flro wiped out the llttlo town of Pollock, S. D. Iown Is making efforts to secure tho next nntlonnl convention qf advertis ing clubs. Tho recent prohibition eloctlon In Texas, In which the "wets" won, may be investigated. Attorney General Wiokersham will bo in Omaha Tuesday, Ortouer 17, to attend tho National Prison congress. A 110,000,000 fund for the relief of Its aged ministers is being contemplat ed by the general committee of the Presbyterian church. Ono of the biggest and most spec tacular delegations? nt tho Ad Mon's convention nt Boston nrrlvcd Tuesday morning from Nebraska. Polio A. Mansfield, sixty-five years old, the first woman ever admitted to the practice of law lu tho United States, died suddenly nt the home of her brother In Aurora, ill. . Four miners were killed nnd nlno Injured by nn explosion In the mino of Standard Pocahontas Coal company at Shannon, W. Va. From Coney Island to the Pacific coast on horseback 1b the trip which Is being undertaken by tho Aber nathy boys, the two little voternns of tho saddle, who Inst year rodo Into New York from Oklahoma. It Is believed there Is no hope of saving the Canadian Pacific Railway company's steamer Empress of China, which struck on a submerged rock off Awn peninsula while trying to make tho port ot Yokohama. nuwuiiB minion ana n unit 4 per sent bonds were oversubscribed more than six times at the Bale made by Treasurer David L. Conkllng of Ha waii In New York. Tho Portuguese consul at Dadajose, Spain, while entering the consulate discovered a bomb that had been placed In the doorway of the building. Two persons nre known to have been kllltd, a score are Injured and practically every business houso In Abilene, Kan., Is more or less dam aged as the result of a storm ot wind and hall which swept orer that vlcln- 1 ity Friday night. Tho American training squadron has arrived at Gibraltar. After being entombed in a mine cave-In at Joptln, Mo., for seventy-two hours, Joseph Clary was released lit tie the worse for his experience. ' The coal famlno continues all ovet Saskatchewan and Alberta. Even were the mines opened tomorrow the famlno would not be dispelled by win ter. Ninety per cent of the crop In one of the richest sections of the Niagara peninsula fruit belt In Canada was de stroyed by a terrific hall storm Sun day. Fifty nations, Including the United Stutes, are represented at the first universal raco congress, which was opened Thursday nt tho University of London. At lenst eight nnd perhaps ten lives aro tost In u flro which partly de stroyed ono of the main buildings of the insano asylum nt Hamilton, O. Tuesday. Colorado day, the thirty-fifth anni versary of the admission ot tho state of Colorado to the union, was ob served Tuesday as n holiday through out the state. , The flro which hns been raging for a week on tho San Bernardino moun tains in California has assumed a size far greater than any other In the bis tory of the range. A cablegram from Shanghai, China, indicates that tho relief expected lu the famine stricken districts of China from the sprlng'crops huvo been mini mized by another flood. The present drouth In Kentucky Is the worst in years, according to ic ports from ull over tho state. In many counties, streams and cisterns are dry and drinking water Is scarce. Tho government has taken the duty off coal Imported Into Canada at nil ports between Soo, Ontario, and the Pacific coast to relieve the coal fain ino in tho western provinces. A light run on its savings account department was experienced Monday by the Continental .National bank of Salt I.ako City. The regular deposits, it was stated, were not affected. Several hundred descendants of John Alden nnd Priscilla Mulllns, of Pilgrim fame, aro gathered at 'Dux bury, Mass., for the eleventh annual reunion of the Alden Kindred ot Amer ica. Two women were killed nnd a mnn probably fatally Injured when an Erie pasEcnger.trnln running sixty miles nn hour struck an automobile on a cross ing at North Randall, near Cleveland, Ohio. Murdered, apparently by burglars, William Henry Jackson, a well known Wall street broker, seventy years old, was found dead on the floor of bis bedroom at the Hotel Iroquois ln New York city. Angry because the Chllllcothe, Ohio, jail authorities had compelled him to take a bath, John Tarsons, a negro, attempted to commit suicide by cut ting his throat with tho handle of a rusty tin cup. , The .voters of Missouri Tucsdny authorized a bond issue of $3,500,000 for tho lebulldlng of the state" captlol nt Jcfferton City. Tho building was destroyed by lire a little more than six months ago. Owing to tho continued pressure brought to benr upon them by candi dates for re-election of the, Ontario parliament the leaders of both parties decided to begin active campaigning early next week. Samuel Rompers, Frank Morrison nnd John Mitchell, the labor leaders, have been allowed twenty dnyaliy Jus tice Wright ot tho supreme court In which to answer tho charges of con tempt against them. The first step of the special session of the legislature towards stringent saloon regulation ln Texas was taken when a senate committee reported fa vorably a resolution for the closing of the saloons from seven o'clock at night until six ln the morning, a ten mile law and a quart law. As a result of the charges and counter charges between Democratic leader Underwood and William J. Bryan, over Underwood's position on the Iron nnd steel schedule, it is said to be possible that a revision of those schedules will bo added to the democratic platform for this session. A daughter was born at the general ho3pltnl In Sault Ste. Mario to Mrs. Angelln Napolltlna, tho convicted slayer of her husband, who wns sen tenced to bo hanged Wednesday next, but whoso sentence wns commuted to llfo imprisonment. Tho Infant Is said to be robust. But three cases ot cholera remain at tho Swlnburno Island hospital at quarnutlne whero two weeks ago thero were eighteen. Three mnsked men robbed the First National bank of Harlem, Mont.. Mon day forenoon, but the man who had the booty in his possession was killed nnd the money recovered. Tho arrival of Quceu Wllhelrr.inn of tho Netherlands, accompanied by Prince Henry and the infant Princess Juliana, at Brussels was made the oc casion for an Immense and cordial demonstration of good will towanUtke neighboring atate. A long report branding as, false in every particular the chargeB that B0, 000 disabled volunteers, soldiers of tho civil and Spanish wars, in the na tional soldiers' homes In various parts of tho country receive neglectful and Inhuman treatment has been made public by President Taft. Mayor Harrison of Chicago has, at the request of women's clubs und the 60dal settlement workers, ordered traffic stepped on Oault Place between Chicago avemie and Oak street dur ing the summer months to make the street available as a playground foi poor children. SOME "AGE" THERE OLD FOLKS GUE8T8 OF "PRISCIL LAS" AT BEAVER CITY. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Her and Thar That la of Interast to the Read era Throughout Nebraska anal Vicinity. Beaver .City. With their combined ages totaling G.706 years, and an aver age of 70, the guests of the Priscillas, who met on the lawn of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gaddis ot this placo, have covered more years together than have elapsed since tho beginning of historic time. The oldest man present wns 00; the youngest, 70. The oldest womnn was 89; the youngest, 70, and one, true to her sex, refused to give her exact uge. Tho Invited guests numbered seventy-five, which Included every per son 70 years old or above In a town of l'.OOO. Attempt to Burn County Records. Imperial. 'An .unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Chase county records by flro was made by botlng a hole through the wall of tho stone vault and paper or some combustible mate rial Inserted and set on fire. Appear ances indicate that the fire was start ed some time Saturday night nnd smouldered until C o'clock Sunday morning, when discovered by passers by, who gnve'the alarm. Will Lay Cornerstone. Dunbar. The cornerstone of the new modern PreBbyterlan church nt this place, which Is now under process of construction, will bo laid in a few days. This Is a magnificent church edifice for a town tho slzo of Dunbar, and will cost between SJ12.000 aud $15, 000 when completed. Coming Gcosv'enor's Way. Aurora. When J. 11. Grosvenor re turned home from the populist con vention at Lincoln he was welcomed by a. baby boy, which had arrived dur ing his absence. At Lincoln he waa elected chairman ot the populist state central committee "" Hoxey Making- a Flight Aviators at the State Fair. Secretary' Mellor bf the State Fair Board has closed contracts with the Wright company for two aviators and two aeroplanes for the coming state fair, September 4 to. 8. The contract calls for four flights each day, each -flight to consist of raising 200 feet ln the nlr and remaining up for a period NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE F. W. Taylor of Denver, who once occupied the chair ot horticulture in tho state university, has been called to take the place of director of agri culture in tho Philippines, and has given his acceptance. State Land Commissioner Cowles has received word that Dr. Thomas, superintendent of tho state Institute for feeble minded nt Beatrice, is very low with typhoid fever. His condi tion Is considered serious, but ho him self contends that he will recover and that tho disease has about run its course. One new cuseof fever and ono death Is reported from tho Institu tion. Joel Piper, secretary of the state board ot charities and corrections, has been nppolnted a member of tho na tional commltteo on the supervision ot administration of public penal in stitutions. The thlrteen-lnch bored well which the stn-.e ordered dug when twenty four cases ot fever were discovered at the Instltuto for feeblo minded at Beatrice is about completed. It will furnish enough water for the entire institution and th9 old well which was used until recently and water frqm the creek for domestic purposes will be abandoned. C. C. Husted, formerly editor ot the Dally Pioneer of Omaha, a Danish paper, and recording clerk In the ex ecutive office during the administra tions of Sheldon, Shallenberger and a part of that of Governor Aldrlch, died at bis home in Lincoln Sunday. The board of public lands and build ngs has let a contract of 1800 for a burglar alarm for the vault In tho auditor's office and referred tho bids for furniture In the auditor's office to the department heads. A contract for the erection ot a laundry at the Hastings asylum was also let for 116,187. BBBBBSaSjyM"4BSjRaU3MKji0aBjQASSV BBBBBaaBBaBBBBBBBBpBjBBPHBjBJBEBJ Hire -M DRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Exeter will have nn M. W. A. picnic August 24. Tho Rock Island depot nt Falrbury burned Monday night. Mrs. George Cooper wns seriously Injured in a runaway at Wymore. The elevator of the Schaaf Grain company nt Ord was destroyed by Are. The Fidelity Trust company, cap italized at $100,000. has been organized at Fremont. Johnson county's loss In bridges nnd culverts from the recent rains Is about $10,000. Masked burglars chloroformed nnd robbed Mrs. Mary Powell at Kearney of money and valuables. Lester Howell, a 9-year-old Howe boy lost several fingers by getting them caught In a gasoline engine. Robort G. Lynch has been appoint ed postmaster at Roseland, Adnms county, vice C. M. Caton, resigned. A case of Infantile paralysis Is re ported in Nemaha county, the sufferer belnff Lovcn- Jones, a H-yoar-old boy. Charles Sullivan fell from tho brake rods of n train on which he was riding neat Benklcman nnd sustained serious but not fatal injuries. Edward ThomaB, who lives nine miles west of Broken Bow, was kicked by a horse while plowing corn and tho accident may result fatally. Leo Morris of Preston 'was struck by a Northern Pacific passenger train at Huntley, Mont., Tuesday night, sus taining injuries which proved fatal. While wading In the still water of tho Nemaha near Glen Rock, August Bourlicr of Auburn was drowned. He was with three companions nnd -they did not know of his misfortune until they noticed that he had disappeared. The race meet follows the Chautau qua at Nebraska City and will be a three days' meet from August 22 to i'4. Already over 100 fnst horses havo been entered nnd Secretary L. F. Jack son anys ho expects not less than 1F0 entries of the best horses in this part of the country. The federal net prohibiting the use of the red cross except as permitted by the American National Red Cross society has been brought to the atten tion of Adjutant General Phelps, and he expects to take measures to ceo that the act Is enforced. The banking board will soon insti tute suit against n dozen or more state banks that nationalized before June 1. Banks that did this must pay at the 1910 State Fair of ten, mlnuteB. Tho accident which befell Hoxey on Tuesday morning of ihc last fair determined tho board to secure two complete outfits so that patrons who qprne from a distance will have reasonable assurance that they will not again be deprived of the op portunity to witness modern "bird men" In action. four semi-annual, assessments, or one per cent, of their average dally de posits, whereas banks that did not na tionalize are required to pay one as sessment of one-fourth of one per cent for the benefit of the guarantee fund. Two dlscolorod papers, ftnnl proofs on homestead entries of Orclla Blako and Samuel L. Yunt, have been re ceived nt the United Stntes lnnd office. Tho papers had been water soaked and were blackened by emoko from tho -incendiary flro In the Chase county court houee nt Imperial. Tho ink on the papers is blurred, but tho records will be accepted. Water and sower bonds carried at a special 'election nt Tccumseh. Cedar Bluffs Wednesday celebrated Its twenty-fifth anniversary. Twenty flvo years ago the town lot salo was held nnd scores of enthusiastic pio neers commenced the erection ot buildings In the cornfields, which at that time furnished tho slto for the village. Cedar Bluffs has slnco then'' grown to a population ot 400. A fire which started In the ware house ot tho Omaha Implement and Transfer company caused a Iosb to Implement and accessory dealers esti mated at $200,000. The building was tenanted by sixteen Arms and the Indi vidual losses run as high as $50,000. - Aboard two special cars, the Lin coln Ad club delegates to the national convention of the associated adver tising clubs of America left Thursday for Boston. A coroner's jury In the Inquest into the death ot David McFry, who died at Lincoln Wednesday, brought in the, following verdict: "Said David JIcFry came to his death Wednesday, July 26, caused by a fall at 1:30 p. m. Mon day near Eighth and M streets. The fall was caused by a blow struck by John F. Harris." A complaint charg ing first degree murder was filed in Judge Stevens' court against Harris. aaJ atasf flb eta to aa taactrre Horn el Ik Liver, StosMta sad Bowels, asty fc isuin.i. saset aWaMatrr sal awst roBsp h wiaf Straw el Rfs assl Ossr f Setae, It b aot a atw asal eafeiaJ neaesy, to is Mel ty eat tke wV to aatl streagtkea at lamllw tenuity is Waea fayfef tJtofcOaat of Ik FJfSmto Cekriatol ea every saclraf el tat IltoTaBjrie60'perlntaMiteBaV, Far sale by el IMJHHIJl.lllWHl HE WAS HUNGRY, TOO. Mrs. Justwed There's nothing la the house fit to eat. I'm going home, to my mother. Mr. Justwed (broke) Walt till I get my bat, and I'll go with you. Nothing Doing but Talk. Tho following Is told ot a federal official, formerly a senator of the United States from Kentucky. In the days of his youth the Ken tucklan was asked by a friend to sec ond him In a duel. He consented, and at sunrise the parties met at the ap pointed place. Now It was this Kentucklan's duty to say the last words touching the terms of the duel. But, although ha faithfully performed tbis duty, tha duel never took place. A murmur of "Why not?" Invariably goes round whenever this story laj told, whereupon the answer is as fol lows: "For a very simple reason. When Joe finished speaking it was too dark for a duel." Chicago JournaL A Bitter Critic. Ex-Governor Penny packer, at a din ner in Philadelphia, said of the di vorce evil: "There would not be so many di vorces if there were not so many, families of the Dash type. "Mr. Dash said sternly one day to his little son.: " " 'Your mother and I agree that you require a sound whipping.' "The little boy's Up curled, and ha retorted bitterly: "'Oh, yes; that's the only thing that you and mother ever do agree about' " Generous. "Was he generous when a boy at ichool?" "Yes; he always let his t school mates take bis share of tha punish ment." Judge. LUCKY MISTAKE. Grocer Sent Pkg. of Postum ana) Opened the Eyes of tha Family. A lady writes from Brookllne, Mass.:, "A package of Postum was sent ma one day by mistake. , "I notified the grocer, but finding that there was no coffee for breakfast next morning I propared some of tha Postum, following tho directions vcrjr, carefully. "It was an Immediate success in my family, and from that day we have' used it constantly, parents and chil dren, tbo for my throe rosy young sters are allowed to drink It freely at breakfest and luncheon. They think it Delicious, and I would bavo a mutiny on my hands should I omit the be loved beverage. - "My husband used to have a very delicate stomach while we were using coffee, but to our surprise his Btom ach bas grown strong and entirely well since we quit coffee and have been on Postum. "Noting the good effects In my fam ily I wrote to my sister, who was a coffee toper, and after much persua alon got her to try Postum. "She was prejudiced against It at first, but when she presently found that all the ailments that coffee cava her left and. she got well quickly she became and remains a thorough and enthusiastic, Postum convert. "Her nerves, which had oecoma shattered by the use of coffee have grown healthy again, and today she la a new woman, thanks to Postum." Nam given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., and the "cause why" will be found In the great little book, "Tha Road to Wellvllle," which comes la pVcga. Ever reatl the afcrre letter? A aew appear, from time tine, Tfcey are kcbU, true, aa fall f feaaMua Ultfflii v it t' ' .- k f o "V A T &' IA- iaBduaia vjferlS r mrm ,. jtiTii f ,"5 i- -4 ,iiVA. -.V i'V)4 JSU? i MP P-IW juaiti iTJB-llBjrKTniiS