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C. D. HALE, Publlsncr
RED CLOUD
NEBRASKA
END OF OLD REGIME
STANDARD OIL COMPANY PA83E8
OUT OF EXISTENCE.
RESULT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS
Work of Apportioning Company'
Holdings of Over 30 Subsidiaries
Is Expected to Occupy at
Least Three Months.
New York. The Standard Oil com
tmny of New Jersey, the corporation
; which has been tho storm center 08
anti-trust agitation throughout thj
country for years, has passed out o?
j 'xlHtence, so far as Its present form)
und functions are concerned.
After Friday this famous corpora
'tion will cease officially to carry on itrf
operations as tho head of a vast on
gnnlzatlon wponcactfvltlcs extend In
to alindsUcYerypart of the prld.j '
In obedieno Jcthe decision Qfj'Ui1
supremfa oourt It js jeJlnQuljjhJpg'ttsj
control of' the" 'subsidiary concerns.'
and September 1 was the datoset.for
tho ending 'of tho old regime."
With, the end of business tho cotm
pany's books,' containing tile list 'ol
stockholders will jcloscnQd the, Jftdol
of Its subsidiaries will bo distributed'
nmonglitlietj'tockholo'efalln the Tnronf
organization of record at that time.
The work of apportlotfitig- thd'fcomf
pnny'a holdings-of tho. stock of mora
than thirty subsidiaries affected will
accupy at least three months, It Is cxi
pectcd, so that tho readjustment will
not borvcomp)tcj)tlQrJP. UccenibcrlJ
Has Annexation In Mlnd.2 4
Mount Forest, Ont. Tho declaration
that President Taft nnd hts friends
lmvo bad tho idea of futnro nnnoxa
tlon of Canada in. their minds was;
mndo In tho nddress of Sir James.
Whitney, premier (of Ontario., ,Hqi
nssertcd that tho reciprocity agree
tnent wns" IntcmfeJFby -itr ml voeaTeBTfT
the United States "to hamstring nm
kill anything In tho imturo of tho com
centratloiv and' cbnsolldatl6ii of thu
DrltlBh empire." i i.
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To Meet Kruttsqhnltt. i
, San Francisco. General officers ,98
Jitornntlonnl unions of railroad shop,
crafts bavo urrlvcdlHerM.tp tdfe,JiP, as,'
representatives of ...their Individual
tuilons,th"o question of recognltio'n by'
tho Ilarrlman lines nf tho federation
of shop employes. They expect to
meet JiilluBJyriittschiiltt, ylco-prcsl-
dent and director of maintenance or
tho Hnrriinan roads, to 'discuss tho
situation. 1 , 1 '
" 1 1 1 ) a '
Boys Subdue Bad: Fire;
New York'. Two hundred ibeys,
members of tho 'volunteer fire depart
ment of Mandrill's Island, Whore 'thej'
city has 'reformatory' ( school and
other correc.tlyo. institutions,' fought jX
(Ire hero j that Imperiled, tho lives', ot
125 women 1 employ edi In tho big laun,
dry building,' nnd subdued It utter a,
two hours' struggle. ''
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Heavy Rains ipi thecEa'at.
finlty nrobeing 'visited by"onb oflm)'
heavlest jaliisoim&,Jn Jjoflent yoajSj
From 6:&r o'clo'ck Wednesday even-'
ing, AufiUijt'iiat'untll, iqonTbttrsdayj
the totnl precipitation has amounted
to 9.08 Inches. Tho downponr con--tlnues
and the record of twenty-nine
years ngo will probably bo equalled.
Many Deaths from Cholera.
Chlaso, Switzerland. According to
fin official statement by the Italian
government there were 1.G35 cases
of Cholera nnd r.!):'. deaths from this
dlseaso through Italy between August
20 and August 20, inclusive.
Swiss Bridge Collapses.
Saint Ma'rliz, Switzerland. A brlilgi
Milch uas being constructed across .1
deep Rorpo nt Uru'l In the upper Enga
din, collapsed, cnrrylug with U'.thlrty
workmen. .Flftoe" of tho uion. wero
taken outl.-of'the wreckage dead ami
the other fifteen aro probabl
(at'ijly.
Injured.
U.J
fating ei
'dig to a
JIN. iV
, RaH(riM(.Qire Retrei)chJno- '
' ChIca$p;-ollinj a plali for re
irenclnne'nKfwllrloadef tho country in
Iho lastlytttfAiifltl off 8'.i;670 meriv,
ffectlnaisTiWfiaBxIal snvlnc'ln oner r
WmiMXbfvJB4,000.00.0 "accord.
T.uaii,iVi,LU'.i..Kii -
' Washington. Treasury ofllclals who
Jiave been niaklng a, study of cxporta
Ion of money 6Jdhlnn h'ave Concluded
that no less thtin $7,000,000 In gold Is
sent home by Chlneso In .this country
every year.
' Sneezing Caused Death.
I Oklahoma City. Stephen Frpesli, a
young German Is doad In a hospital
liere as the result of hemorrhages
started by sneezing. He began te
to sneeze' August 24, and at tho samt
time his noso began to bleed. I'liysl
clans could not check tbo bleeding and
death rosultcd from loss of blood. .
Doone, In. Klotln,g tool; place, at
tgden, Iowa, between negro and whlto
miners and two negroes were shot, one
f-tallv. J fFnrthor' dl$tnrhajicfsf tfr
feared,
illU"Ultnh
EVENTS OF THE DM
SOME PARAGRAPHS OF TIMELY
INTEREST.
ARE BRIEF BUT TO THE POINT
Items of Events That Are Transpiring
In Our Own aa Well as In
Foreign Lands Washing
ton Political News.
Washington.
President Taft, in his speech at
tacking the tariff bills, take tho view
that the bills wero Ill-considered and
badly drawn.
Substantial Improvement Ib noted In
tbo condition of Congressman J, L.
Latta, who underwent n surgical op
eration last week at a Minnesota san
itarium. la bis annual report to be laid be
fore congress In December, Mr. Hitch
cock will recommend tho establish
ment of a. parcels post service on rural
mall routes.
Tbo treasury and the banks will bo
called on to finance no less than J94,
000,900 In dividend nryT jntejreit ay
ments during September, j Oft that sum
155,000,000 will bo dividends j j i
An order wlileli will eliminate from
the malls absolutely the Red Cross
stamp? und tho McN'amara defense
fund.stamp.s, has been .Issued .by PJat-'
mastW'aoWriu -jiftcfiVoJic ni , ' -'
1 Tho, fcfljpr, 4fi population o'f tho
united Siites Is announced ,by tho dl-
irecoridf Ihoicontu's burcaii to bo In
tno western part of tho city of Bloom-,
Infetdttf'Mon'roe cMnnty,' intilanal"' n
-Women nnd' girls-employed in-the-bureau
ot engraving and printing will
raiso money forjthe nsslfetaace oil 3.
J. McNamaraV now n JhlP at "'Lob
Angeles, -Calif, charged with dynamit
ing tho Los Angeles Times building.
' uiuvs svs wiu wtuivu uiaivo iw
control tho vaBt resources .In IN
northern ' territory, tho covcrnment
'tnust'own orio or moro railroads 'lr,
Alaska, according to President
Plnchot of tho conservation congress.
1, ' . M
, .-. .GcneraLNcws. ,
AFoIs KionTTiasHuecn launcliciTby
slasschusetts democrats.
Plots and counterplots arc being tin
tarth'cd' 'dally' against thu Honduj-nn
govcmWcHt: ' ' ' i ,
' Dry 'Nveatllcr has caused cracks,
dmo of them ten feet deep, oii lauds
In eoiithcrn Oklubomn.
A rainfall pf ten hours' duration has
broken tho'worst drouth ot thirty
years .ln..the .state, of JicjJtuckiv
Frank Clemmons will drlvo n te.im
Df deer hltcd fo a jfcht wajton rVbir
Ban Franclfco to Nihv.YonltJAty. .1
.Aaaf..Jab Nlxaniaul-Alulk.Jiio . nlznm.
jf Hyderabad nnd tho preniler prince
of tho Indian cmulrodlctl Tuesday.
Let by a twenty-year-old girl, four
Hen held un Casimcr, Krnnz and
robbed him of a gold wntch' and" $5,
1 t:,.ii .'t'.. ' .i.v r.;.. ci..VJ
JI1UIWII11UIIS 1IIU lllltl diuiu suiiuiur
5pfman of Maryland will b6 tbe demo
cratic candldato for'goveHior'of that
Bt,aje. ' ' 11 .i 1 -. I
, iWIth no'dlssentlng'Tolce. Francisco
I. Mndcrohas been nominated, by- thei
progresBlvo party for' ipresldent. of
Mexico. ,i,
, Thirty rersons were Injured when
tho grandstand nt the Elqln, 111., race
courso collapsed during ttie'Oautomo-
lURoeL ,
Hall two Inches deep fell nt
Mitchell, I?. .D(;dtn;lng n,.rjftenrali,
ttorm, aoing Immense damage to corn
it flak. KM Hi ' ') '( N. '.I I I
Owing to torrential rainfalls many
cities along 'the Atlantic coast" are
Inundated an1 much property loss has
occurred. j " 1'
nerauso ofl tho high prices of .food
a great manV provinces of Fontuern
Franco havo stopped eatlngmeatnj
together. American Roldlors stationed In the
roclnlty of tho Toxbb border nre now
permitted to mako short excursions
Into Mexico.
Dr.F. H. Spencer of St. Joseph, Mo
I'Crforjncd a, unique- .surgical ojieratlon
on a train running fifty miles tin hour
when he" tied up 'tho arteries of a sol
dier who had thrust an arm through n
Vaiio of glass In a car. ""
Chicago's, pdp'tilhtlon Isi now "2.2C"!.-
ISt, accordlngto 4inNnnnounccment.
knindo by tho publishers of tho new
cuy directory.
Twenty-six men, jyomen., nnjL,cJill
drni who left Ohio to'scarch for n
eabrod stream In cdllfomta. 'art'hldl
to;bo facing starvation In that state,
having failed In their efforts to llnd
tlin stream. ' ,,'; ! J rxl Ji
In anticipation of another revolu
tion In Honduras Genpral X,ee Christ;
mas Is In teiicigalpa?, working' to'
make his llttlo army the best drilled
nnd equipped in (Central .America. t
Whllo cuttlifg corn' with' a grass
sickle at Marathon, N. Y the ten-year-old
son of, WHford Mqrgan accl
! dentally slashed tfio throat,of his Utile
sister, killing her 'almost Instantly -Mtb.
Jano Dowle, widow of the late
John Alexander Dowle, founder of
Zlon City, will found a new colony of
the Dowle faith at hor summer home,
Bop MncDhul. near Whltehlll. Mich.
I Six torpedo boats were swept
whore and the Charleston navy 'yard
damaged to the extent of $20,000 by
the Btorm' which struck the Georgia
and' South Cnrollna Coast Sunday
nlRht,
11 The nope. Sunday morning celebrat
ed mass' and afterward proceeded to
UiCyVatjcan garden,, wljoro , ho, ro
selved this -first visitor, outsldo of the
private circle since bis Illness. t . ,
1 , u , "
Six lives were lost as a result of a
collision between a caboose nnd a flat
car on tho Grand Trunk railroad al
Reglna, Sask.
Paul Kwltt nnd Martin Gnns, bank
ers nt Berlin, nre under , arrest
charged with embezzling $500,000 of
tho bank's funds.
Kccent heavy rains In Nebraska
and northern Kansas havo caused the
Hluo river to cut a now channel nnd
change Its course.
Lieutenant Zlotncliln, n Russian mil
itary aviator, fell with his areoplano
whllo making a flight at St. Peters
burg and was killed.
Admiral Count Togo has arrived nt
Seattle from Vancouver, D. C., to 'pay
his farewell visit la tho UnltelStates
beforo sailing for Japan,
Tbe new comet recently discovered
by Dr. W. F. Brooks has become so
bright as to be seen with opera
glasses or small telescopes,
Tho National Association of Travel
Ingmcn has been organized In Chicago,
Its purpose being to demand respect
from baggagemen and draymen.
Spanish soldiers aro making prep
arations to embark on the transport
Admiral Lobo, to occupy Salnto Croix
I. Mlncuro, ontho Moroccan coast.
Vaccination against typhoid fever
has been made compulsory for every
officer and enlisted man In tho United
StateSjaniiy under foity-llvo years of J
Be1 ,ii f- I V
President Tafi's'j speech nt ?jostpn
aturdfly night is regarded as tlfe be
ginning of tho .Taft-La Follettoflght
which may lust through the 1912 cam
paign. . . .. .
Berlin is stewing In a sauce of
heat,. The, lrou(fi is'U.lofjgfest.ndi
tne wentner tne notiesi tnai nas en-
velojicd the j'nltr diai soviQnty.$evop
yenrs.
tiOne 6Mth'o largest' flectitoJlfcavte
Pittsburg In years, has, Btarted, down
tho''tih& rlVSr 'fdr silfthern"tWt8;
carrying upward of -six-million busbelB-
of coal.
Rfcv. John W. fiiinn, D. D., pastor
of-tno church of tbo Sacred Heart of
Atlftnta,-Ga-hRB- been conaeorated
bishop of tho Roman Catholic diocese
of Natchez. "
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, a Parisian
Journalist, arrived in that1 city Satiir.
day after having made a trip around
tho world' In a few hours less than
forty days.
iMrs. JkiiuaB T.lMonahnnof Musca
tine,. Ia.x lmj bather, life Byed and
"herpaln - nllCvmted - - by - the - graft1ns - of'
UUU IIIUIIL'X Ul BlUil ilUlll UVI lliuilltii
and friends.
The Abornatbv bovs. who are mak
ing a irlp a'grfln'st1 tlmo on horseback
from' New York" to tboTnllflo coast,
Wero two days behind time wheri'thoy
left Chicago. ii 1 1 '
Plunging from tho top floor of the
twelvetor.xiIUalto;'4buMlnR at Kan
sas City, W. L. Goln of Leavenworth.
Kal?.ri'neriTcTin7rdn"nr6i)aTefirciTtr:00-
feet below.
Champ Clark, In a speech atQuIncy,
111., arraigned President Taft for al
Tcged hiissTalcmentB and""pffr"?STiar
strictures In his explajjatlon ot tho
tariff bill vetoes.
High prices of food staKs In Franco
havo led Jo thq.vergq of, violence in
some of ,tho provinces, !thp police
bnvlng been called' oh to 'suppress
demonstrations! ' J ' ' l
CharI6s J. Greene, one bf the best
.known lawyers of tho 'Nebraska bar,'
uieu Sunday atternoon in a sanitarium 1
. -. f- '!....
In New York city, two days after his
return from Europe.
The relief fond ofr4llltaa-foV. tho
benefit of tho widows of firemen who
lost their lives in the stock yards fire
at Chlcagofri-becembcrMaBl, nHstfccn
ordcred-dlstrlbtrted
DamaKCBiof $20,000 havo .been re-
tW. Af A'MVa Hf'f'nrYbU aUtfllnols
Cental, .flreman, for the, loss of his
two 'fegk liWVnrtrdad 'accltfcnt ' atf
Storm .Lake,. la... May 2C. . ,
Samuel P. Gompers, president of tho
.Amerlcnn J-'ederatloa of Labor j.maj'
go to Des (Moines Vcxy week to fight
againsc me injunciion uy n;u i-
recent street car sirlkfe was stopped.
David Korschnk, alleged licad ot an
arson ring, which Is said to bavo set
flro to fifty buildings in Chicago dur
ing the past yenr, causing a propert
loss of $1,000,000, wns nrralgned beforo
Municipal J.udgel.Dlnkcr, charged, with
arson and conspiracy.
Having a (lisflnct "rocollectloa of
every president In tho-Unlted -State
except the first live, and remembering
when the" first railway train was run
Initho United States, Alvln Austin ot
lilucago. nas.reBisiereu, .iyr u numu m
tho Fort Horthold Indian rescrvatloa
at tboaxe ol ninety-four j'ear.
. For tbo flrsttlmo) slnco tho revolu
tionproperty nlbrig'-tlib right ot way
of tho' Mexican -National rnllway ha3
been restored to normal conditions.
A countrywide search is being In-
stftsjed fox. twojittallansjiwho yere
bluing In tbo gaVlery nnd whoso cry
of tiro Is alleged to havo caused tbo
onsburg, Pn.
..roptaJn.yan Scljalck, who.wasn
conimaiid of the steamer 'GcneraT'Slo
cum, when over 1,000 lives wero lost
by fire, has been paroled from the
New. .YoVk prlsonr where be has beep
confined tor sev6n years. ' 3 ' y
Twenty-six persons were killed and
moro tbanrslxty Injured whena raov
Ing picture film exploded In tho Can
oneburg, Pa,, opera house.
One of the biggest gold- stampedes
In recent years is In progress from
Ska'gway and otho'r 'towns to' JTcClln
tock Creek, Alaska, 'where a great
placer gold Btrlke has been made.
After 'years of lltlcatlon. icccluslas-
tlc'al and secular, Father William Mur
phy has i en reconciled to tho au
tbor,lty of tho Catbpllc chui;chf(Jn No
braska. Tho reconciliation lwns ef
fected by Bishop Tlhcn 'of tha' Lincoln
diocese ' ' 1 .1 il , 1
Hi VEIN OF COAL
THE DISCOVERY MADE BY WELL
DRILLERS NEAR DU BOIS.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What la Going on Here and There
That Is of Interest to the Read-
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Du Dois. While boring an eight
Inch well for William Rohlmcler,
south of town, at a depth of twelve
feet, Shellham brothers struck an out
cropping of coal. At a depth of sixty
feet they passed through a ten or
twelve Inch vein of coal. At seventy
five feet the drill passed through a
two and one-half foot vein.
St. Libory Watermelons.
Grand Island. St. LItiory, 'a small
station on the Ord branch of the
Union Paclfjc, Is a candidate (for hon
ors as the watermelon station of the
state. Its sandy soil' seems peculiarly
adapted to the raising of the fruit.
Some years ago two or three, farmers
began raising a specially lame and
.desirable sort. At present nearlv a
dozen farmers engage In the culture
as a side line, and the melons aro be
ing Bhlpped out by the carload to
many points, In thia and other states.
Two Lives Lost In Auto Accident.
Stanton. W. G. Munger and Louie
Hoppel, two business men ot Pllcer.
Neb., wero killed In an ' automobile
'accident near this plade. When
fluiid an hour after tho accident both
men were dead. Munger's body was
under tho overturned machine, the en
gine of wblcji was still running. 'Mun-
ger Is a, brother of Unitod States.DIs
trlct Judge W. H. Munger of. Omaha,
Lincoln. Two boys, Herman and
Max Sapson.t brothers, laged' twelve
and seven, were burned to ddath In
a flro at. the homo ot J. Lockhart.
Tho boys had gone to spend the night
with a spnof Lockhart and were
sleeping In a tent on tho back norHi.
T, Ll, .' . .
.WJjcn It was discovered U.o younger
- K6yvas dcnfl and. tho ag
'" ""Kin 01 me itro is a
taken, from the tent In a 'dying 'con!
union.
Tecumseh. MJphnel ,- Murphy, an
eJglit-ycar-oM boy. fell from a. trapeze
a conslderaold distance to the ground
nnd j alighted in such' a munn'cr as 'fo
break the ''ratlin's bono of each 'arnS
about ah' Inch beldw tho Molrit Ami'.rts.
..locate tHo ulna bono -of each nrih nt
wio wrist, tbe injury to the two arms
being almost Identical.
Humboldt. Cecil Lawson." twentv.
iWd'years of ago, of Falls City, a mem-
ocr or tno BurllngtbridgBjsqsg.vtiui
struck by. a Burlington train Saturday
nlsht(MdMirM.II8laiMi9! was not
discovered until next morning. His
skull was fractured and. bis facc'badly
cut.'
NEW3FR9M THE'sTATE HOM8E
Valuations of railroads In Wbraska
for 'purposes' of terminal t'nva'tlnn
shor an Increase of $450,430 oyc last'
year. . . : .
After Bleeping continuously ' for
iwejre aays, earn Prtklos.'aged tWeri
ty-four, a recent immigrant to this'
country, died at an Omaha hosultal
of a .very rare disease known by the
mcujca world as poxemla, ,
State banks that wero called to ac
count by the state banking board for
advertising that the state of Nebras
ka guarantees deposits under ihe
guarantee law have all ceased tho
methods wblch tho board found fault
with.
Tho recent primary drew more
voters to tho polls thnn any previous
election, appenring to Indlcato thnt
tho primary Is bringing out, a more
representative expression of pplnlpn
ns tho voters becomo moro familiar
with It;
A portrait of Champion S. Chase, at
torney general of Nebraska from 1SC7
to 18(10, has been resontAl to tho
legal' department by Clement Chase
pf Omaha, son' of tho formor official.
Tho portraits" 'of former attornoys
genernl arc now complotc, except for
tlint of A. S., Churchill, 1, who served
from' ,1895, to 1897. , 1 , ,
Governor Aldrkh has appointed the
following delegates to attend a public
lands convention to bo held nt Don,
ver, September 28 to 30: G. E. Part
roe.' Mlnden': ' Prof.r Georso Ri Chat-'
burn, Lincoln S. A. Searlcs. OhiabriT
Dan V. Btenhcns. Fremont1. . ?'.' l
Adjutant General (Phelps of thoNe
braska national guard 1 has (gone, to
Oklahoma City to attend the national
meeting pf ,the United Spanlsh-mor,-,
lean war veterans. , He is pas- de
partment commander of tbo depart
ment bf Nebraska and Is entitled to a
vote in tho national meeting of the
organization.
Tho coin turnstiles used nt tho en
irnnce ot tho Mate fair grounds this
year can bo operated only by tbo use
of -a B0-cent silver 'piece. Monday,
September 4, tho opening day of the
fair, Is expected to bo ono of the be'st
days of tho fair. The program will
lncludo the' dedication of the' grand
stand at tho race courso by Governor
Aldrlch, concerts by Llberatl's band
and opera 'company, an unusually
good program of races, daylight fire
works, -and tho famous Wright
brothers', enroslanes in sensational
, flights. , ,. , 1 it
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BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Possums aro playing havoc with
Tecumseh chickens.
Tho old settlers' picnic of Jefferson
county will, be held September 14.
The York public schools are
scheduled to open Monday, Scptcm
her 4.
Work on tho high school building
destroyed by the storm at Hebron la
progressing rapidly.
Mrs. J. C. Mcsslck of Hnstings t
dangerously 111 from ptomaine poison
Ing fro meatlng Ico cream.
The Grand Island Canning com
pany has begun operations In puttlni
up the season's crop of sweet corn.
Tho citizens of Stelnauer will vote
on Issuing bonds In tho sum of $7,500
for the installation of a water worki
system.
Phil Brust, a Nebraska City car
penter, walked through a big plate
glass window, completely demolishing
it and cutting himself badly.
William Brockelmeycr, a well-knowi.
pioneer of Lincoln, wns found dead It)
his room at the Capital hotel, pre.
sumably from heart trouble.
Every child in the Havelock schools
la to have an individual towel every
time he washes his hands at schoo'
during the coming school year.
C. M. Davis, a printer, met a hor
Tlble .death at , Columbus,, Neb., by
having both legs and on"e of hls'arfnt
cut off In the Union Pacific yards.
W. -W. Dye,1 an -old -soldier at Fair
,bury, 69 years old, has returned from,
a visit tot his old bonle in. Virginia)
bringing with him a bride IS years ofj
age. ( ,,
The Woman's club at Lincoln ''Is
making efforts to secure a chapter
house for thaTplibe. A banquet wai'
tendered sonfe of" the national officers
Saturday night. ',
Harry B. Hunsi'rkor, the real estate
man whose neck was-broken .on Aiij
gust 12, when he" doyo In xshnllowl
water at Courtlanil licach, died after;
two weeks suffering. . '
1 As Grand Island officers-were, about
to 'arrest a man answering the de-'i
scrlntlon of E. E. Hesse, wanted for
murder at Tecumseh, ho fled to a 'corn
field, where all trace of him was lost
Qermaps ,in largo , numbers from,
over the, state assembled, Jn Lincoln,
Sunday to assist the members of tho
'Krelgerverein In the ceremony' of
dedicating the Germ'an and Americai
flags. ! " '
During the recent wind and mln
storm by actual count 773i sparrow
were killed nt tho- lumber yard ol
J. Ai Sire at DeWItt. The sparrows
when picked up filled two , busho'
baskets. ' '
John M. Prrslnpor, county clerk of
MCrrlck county, enjoys tho distinction
06 'being a candidate for re-election
on 1 four different tickets, tho 'repub
lican, democratic, people's' ln'deiiend
pnt and' prohibition. 1
, foich year the-children of, Nebraska
City ,are taUf n to Lincoln ,to ,,850, the
s'ights, apd, attend the, statq fair. All
children that cannot pay tlielr fare
(anj( given tickets from a fund collect
ed for1 that 'purpose. ' '
D. Hnwkswohh, ' familiarly known
as "D. II.," one of the pioneers of N'c-.
braska,,, prcHnlnently. connected ,with 1.
tho nurlng;on.rnJ!roaaitnn,l a -etcran
of, the civil war, passed away at
Plattsmouth. Friday. I',
Tho'funernl services over the re
malnsdf the' la'to' Judge Joseph )E-.
Cobbey were held from the homo. In
Oeatrlce and werp. iqrh.aps thq most)
largely .attended seryjees of like na.
tue .eer hejd inf Jthat place.'
'I 'City Dog. Catclier Randall at Lin
'coin has captured' l;3i7 dogs 'slnco he
began' his war on 'untaxed 'dogs. !Of
thJa number but 175 wbre redeemed.
Fifteen (hundred dog. taxes have, been
taken out during this time.
Through the efforts of the Rev. E
D. Eubank a. Christian church has
been organized nt Coburg and a house
of I worship built. . The church will
seat 250 people and will be dedicated
wltbin a few weeks, as soon as th
pews and other fixtures arrive.
Tho elghten-months-old baby of Mr
and Mrs. Lostcr Johnson, near Table
Rock,, was scalded by pulling the
plug from n washing machine which
had been filled with- boiling water.
Tho child was a mass ot burns from
head to foot. '
Ono ot the big features of tbo fall
festival to bo held at Hastings during
tho week of October 9 to 1G will be a
band contest, open to, the state, when
'It Is expected .a number of bands will
compete for tho casb prizes . off cred
.by tho board of governors., of-Vt-'.
Nuoc-Smada. --
Lillian Chrlstcnson, tbo ten-year-pld
daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Law-'
rejjco Chrlstenson, near Vuleritina
wa's dragged to death by a horse.
I A drunken Indian nt Valentlna
realised considerable excitement by
lassoing a traveling man and taking
several shots at his victim, all ol
wblch, however, went wide of the
mark,
Tho volunteer firemen of Wymoro
have taken over the old city hall In
that town and will convert the samo
Into a department' headquarters, wllh
rooms for fire apparatus and assembly
hall.
A lighted clgaretto carelessly laid
on a window ledgo was responsible
for a Are that destroyed the homo of
W. A. Dodge at Fremont.
Tho grounds ot tbo experimental
farm will bo thrown open to atnto
fair visitors, and several guides will
bo on hand to look after their per
sonal comfort and convenience.
Hnrry Forbes, John Evans nnd
Charles Taylor, alleged bank robbers,
were sentenced' to twenty-eight years'
In the penitentiary with one. day's sol-,
lta'ty confinement each year on thq
anniversary of the crime, .by.Judgo
i,f-orr.nran at Aurora. Il .1
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