-Ml w " we-ti4 ., hnwhh ,mm m Mmwdpiwiww,,,,,, ..fc ,,.... .hk 4- . tt3 iffiu I? Stfi 5 I I f ft n X u &. M i; M R The Chief C. B. HALE, Pabllsner RID CLOUD NEBRASKA GONFESSTHE HE McNAMARA BROTHERS PLEAD GUILTY TO CHARQE8. BROUGHT TO AN ABRUPT CLOSF dames Confesses to Murder Charge John Destroyed Iron Works i. Will Probably Escape t Hanglny. Lob Angeles. The trial of tho Mc Namara brothcrH horo was brought U nn abrupt closo Friday when James B. McNamara pleaded guilty to having placed a dynamite bomb under tho Los AngclcH Times building In October, 1910, and caused tho death of twenty, onp persons. John J. McNnmnrn, secretary-treasurer of tho International nBBociatlon of brldgo and Btructural Iron-workers, brother of James 11., did not enter a plea nt this tlmo to tho Indictment Hlmllarly entered against him for tho TImeB explosion, but when ho Is ar raigned noxt Tuesday li is virtually certain proceedings against him for this chnrgo will bo dismissed, as tho Htato admits it has not evidence con nectlng John J. McNamara directly with this particular disaster. John J. McNamara, however, pleaded guilty to tho chargo of having caused tho explosion of tho Llowcllyn iron workB, In which no fatalities oc curred. District Attorney John D. Freder icks will recommend llfo Imprlsbnmont for James B and fourteen years for John J., but Judgo Walter Dordwcll alono can fix tho sentence. Ortle E. McManlgal, who confessed to having actually blown up the Llewellyn Iron works horo In Decem ber, 1910, at tho direction of John J. McNamara, will bo brought to trial, but it Is expected tho stato will rec ommend a light sentence because ho turnod state's evidence. Bribery charges against Bert H. Franklin, a dotectlvo employed by tho McNamara defense, probably will be dropped now as irrelevant to tho main issue. Mother Believes Them Innocent. Cincinnati. Had n bolt descended from a clear sky It could not havo cast ft greater shadow of gloom over the homo of James B. and John J. Mc Namara, in Cincinnati,' than did tho newB of their pleas of guilty. "I know my boyB aro Innocent," wailed Mrs. Mary McNamara, their grlor-Btrlckon mother. "I am forced to bellovo that they havo pleaded guilty, but I know they are Innocent." When questioned ns to her plans and as to whether or not sho would go to Los AngoleB to see her boys, Bho said: "I don't, know. In fact I cannot de cldo upon anything now." .-' ' v- Have Troops In Readiness. ' Washington. Tho United States Is keeping In readiness at Manila nn ex peditionary force of COO to 2.C00 sol dlerB for Immediate dispatch to China for tho purpose of projecting foreign ers and to keep open the railway conu rnunlcation between Pelting and tho sea. This, it wbb declared by tho state department, Is not to be consid ered an intervening force in favor of either the rebels or the imperialists, but 1b merely the United States' part in complying, together with the other powers signatory to the boxer proto col, with the provlsIonB of that docu ment. Nanking About to Fall. Shanghai. While Nanking still re mains In tho possession of the Imper ial forces under command of Lieuten ant General Kwo Chang, the revolu tionists are bombarding tho city and knocking at Its four gates, demanding admission, it Ib bolloved much dam age to the city has resulted. Large forces of rebel infantry aro ready to lush Into tho city If the gunB mako bleaches in tho wnlh. Washington. Opposition to a na clonal parcols post on tho ground that It will drlvo out tho jmiall retailers and establish tho grip of tho mall or dor Iioubob In small communities was lolced by John A. Green of Cloveland. i-ecretary of tho national association of retail grocers. Mr. Green from per ianal observations In England told tho committee of postoffices and pose roadB of tho sonaie that but few small merchants could survive the compotl tlon from tho big city stores. Allege Illegal Use of Fund. Concord, N. H. The allegation that tho Interest on trust fund left by Mrs. Alary Baker G. Eddy, founder of tho Christian Science church, for the ben efit of her grandchildren 1b being used In whole or part for the maintenance of litigation looking toward tho set ting aBJdo of tho residuary clauso of Mrs. Eddy's will, Is contained in a bill In equity filed In tho probato court by .General Frank S. Streeter, ono of the trustees. Tho trustees claim that this alleged use of the money 1b in .YlolaUx)B,f the terms of the trust NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD ITEMS OF INTEREST PERTAINING TO VARIOUS LOCALITIES. GREATER OR LESS IMPORTANT The News of Many Climes Told In Short and Pithy Paragraphs, Writ ten Expressly for the Busy Man's Perusal. Washington. Senator .Miles I'olnduxtcr, of Wash ington will open tho La Follettu cam paign In North Dakota. All records wcro broken in tho last llscal year In tho production of alco holic llquora In the United States. J'rcsldent Taft'B message to con grcsB will bo devoted almost Bolcly to the question of Industrial combina tions. Tho "plumbing truBt" hns about ca pitulated to the government and is trying hard to avoid court proceed ings. KiihhIii hns demanded tho resigna tion of W. Morgan Sinister, tho Amer ican llnanclnl ndvlser to tho govern ment of I'ersln. President Tart has finished his message and It is now in tho handB of tho government printers. It Is said to contain about C,000 words. According to announcement nt tho White houao, President Tnft and Sec retary of State Knox will bo guoBts at tho peaco dinner In Now York, De cember :io. According to a mandato of tho courts tho Standard Oil company or ganization camo to an end Friday and tho corporations comprising It will hereafter conduct business individu ally. Dispatches from Tripoli give a har rowing account of tho finding of muti lated bodies of tho Italian members of tho Red CroBs society, who had ap parently beon tortured to death In various revolting ways. The American minister to Santo Domingo, W. W. Russell, who was or dered to roturn from tho United StatcB when President Cacereu wbb assassinated, November 19, has ar rived at his post and reports tho situ ation quiet. General News. An Italian warship has been bom barding Fort Sheik Said on the Ara bian coast. The Red Cross society proposes to assist both tho Italian and tho Turk ish forceB. For the second tlmo within sixty days tho price of beer at Chicago has been raised. Baron Rothschild, 83, ono of the beads of tho famous banking house, 'is dead at Paris. Tho American Rhodes Scholars' club held a Thanksgiving dinner at Oxford, England. M. J. Pratt of Belleville, Ont., has been consecrated binhop of tho dlo Iceso of Kingston. -General LI, commander of tho revo lutionaries, Is reported to be prepared to fleo to Shanghai. Elmo Wlnklcmar, flvo years old, who was stolen threo years ago, has been returned to her mother at Chi cago. "Lord" George Sanger, the circus showman, was murdered by an om ploye on his farm nt Llnchloy, Lon don. Capt. John Schilling of Hiawatha, a pioneer of Kansas, for many years prominent In politics, Is dead at his homo. The supreme court of Missouri has reduced tho fine of the International Harvester company from $50,000 to $25,000. V Great Britain Is considering the negotiation of a loan or $150,000,000 for the Improvement of her naval equipment. Nanking, China, Is at tho mercy of the rebels and likely to fall at any momont with warships on tho way to bombard the city. FigureB secured by tho Manitoba government show that damage to grain crops by rats will amount to 12,000,000 this year. Hunting has cost 100 lives In the United States this year and has brought serious injury to thirty-seven, according to records kept by Chicago newspapers. The government buildings nt Prince Rupert, B. C were completely de stroyed by flro Monday afternoon. All papers wero destroyed. The constitutionality of the homo rulo law passed by tho last legislature for tho cities of Wisconsin has boon decided favorably to tho law. Lady Constnnco Lytton and Lady Sybil Smith, both leaders lu tho jBtiffragotto movement, have been sen tenced respectively to a fortnight and a weok in Jail for smashing wlndowB during a rccont riot In London. Theodore Stanlslcs, convicted of an arson chargo In the Lancaster county district courL whoso ball bond was recently forfoltcd, nnd who war. re turned to Lincoln from Utica, N. Y a nervous wreck, rutcldcd in his cell at tho pollco station Thursday by tying a chain around his neel: nnd Jumping from his bunk. Detroit has boon selected ns tho mooting placo of tho 1912 convention of tho American Bankers' association at Its session In Now Orleans. The tlmo of tho next convention will bo named by the exccutlvo council at Its meeting la the spring. Tho republican state committee oi West Virginia haB decided In favor ol a statowldo primary, with tho stato as a unit, for 1012. Colorado stato troops may have to bo called out to settle labor troubles In tho coal camps where strikes have bcon on for some time. Tho stato of Oaxaca has formally declared that It does not recognize tho central government of Mexico and threatens to secede. Several portions wero killed In vio lent rioting at Lisbon, tho result of a meeting of protest against tho expul sion of two Chinese doctors. Mrs. John L. Griniths, wlfo of tho American consul genernt In London, gavo a reception to the Society of American Women In London. Tho pnsscngers of tho stranded steamer Prlnz Joachim wero landed at Port Antonio by the Ward Vlgl lancia which picked them up. Fire starting in a pool room at Jamestown, Kan., destroyed forty of the business houses of thnt place and caused a loss of over $300,000. A plea for permanent and universal poace was the theme at a pan-American mass at St. Patrick's Catholic church In Washington Thursday. Georgo Lockwood, Bert Franklin and "Cap" White aro under arrest at Los Angeles, charged with bribery lu connection with the McNamara case. Tho paralysis which haB overtaken James Whitcomb Riley has mado It almost impossible to use u pen nnd It Is hardly possible he will ever write again. Dispatches from Hankow say the Imperialists captured linn Yang after prolonged and despcrato lighting. The rebels Buffered severely and lied in confusion. A tremendous sea which swept tho decks of tho Fabre lino steamship Santa Ann, caused the death of four seamen and tho scrloiiB Injury of threo others. Aviator Fowler, In sight of Fort Worth, Tox., was forced to descend In tho midst of a drove of steers, when his cnglno broke down in midair. He was uninjured. Two thousand elk, which for wcolcs soldiers and scouts have been en deavoring to keep within Yellowstone park, stampeded and scoreB havo been killed by hunters. Joe Anchor, a rancher, his wlfo and four children are believed to have per ished and many summer homes de stroyed In a forest fire in Topango canyon, California. Mark Lowther, a Burlington Junc tion newspaper man, dropped dead in the pulpit at the city mission at St. Joseph, Mo., just as he had finished an address Thursday night. The German cruiser Berlin and the gunboat Eber havo been recalled from Agadlr, in Morocco, where they have been stationed since the departuro of ,the gunboat Panther last July. Twenty Chinese who wero attempt ing to land at Monterey, Cnl., from the steamer Kamrat, together with several of tho ship's ofllcers, wero captured by immigration officials. An eleven-car train, known as the Western Governors' Special, departed from St. Paul, Minn., Monday night for a twenty-day trip to twenty-ono cities of the enst and middle west. Much anxiety, Is felt for tho safety of passengers aboard tho Canadian steamer Teese, which Bent out a dis tress call Wednesday after striking a rock on tho Vancouver island coast. What was apparently an "Infernal 'machine" sont through tho malls to Governor John K. Tenor, of Penn sylvania, proved to be a harmless device, of pasteboard, wire and saw dust. Tho North American publishes an "authoritative statement" reiterating Mr. Roosevelt's declaration that he will not bo a candidate in 1912; nor will he lend his aid to any prospec tive candidate. The Impeachment of the mayor and several city officiate of Milwaukee, Wis., Ib asked for in charges sub mitted to the council, for malfeasance In office in connection, with the tax fund of that city. A resolution commending tho hero ism of Ernest Weekly, the Nebraska boy who lost his life In the rescue of a young lady from the wheels of a train at Chicago, was included In the coroner's verdict of accidental death. While chBBlng an automobile in which a newly married couple were attempting to escape them, Julia Gal vin and Mnry Gaffey wero killed and two other persons injured when their pursuing car skidded and turned tur tle at Boston. Yuan, Chlnoso premier, is again master of tho situation at Peking, and tho Imperialists aro greatly encour aged by tho outlook. Football gamos killed thirteen per sons and sovercly Injured forty-seven others during 1911, according to rec ords kept by Chicago sporting writers, Wharton Barker, a Philadelphia banker, nlleges that President Roose velt had been given tho details of tho Impending panic of 1907 several months before it happened, but took no action to prevent it. Robbors got about $1,375 from a Mead, Okla., bank Monday night. Throe explosions were necessary to open tho nafo. Tho samo bank was robbed February 21 laBt' and $1,277 secured. Tho robbers escaped ench time. Ernest Weekly, nn Insurance ngont of Valley, Nob., leaped directly In front of an on-rushing passenger train rulo la wpansed by tho last loglplaturo young woman who had bocom6 con fused In the glare of another cnglneV headlight just as the locomotive knooked him down and crushed out his life. M MANSLAUGHTER HENRY 8TEHR GETS INDETER. MINATE SENTENCE. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Hore and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Mndlson After motion for u new trial wob denied and notice of appeal filed Judge Welch sentenced Henry Stehr, who was found guilty of man slaughter In connection with the death of his thrco-yoar-old stepson, to an In determinate sentence of from one to ten years. Result of Disappointment. Lincoln Despondent over tho fu tility or his wish to make a trip to California, Arvld A. Erlckson, tho twenty-year-old son of A. Erlckson, a farmer living bIx miles cast of Davey, In Iincastor county, went Into a field nenr tho residence of his father Wed nesday morning und fired a charge of shot from a 12-gnuge pump gun Into his breast, Instant death resulting. Weekly Lived at Fremont. Fremont Ernest Weekly, tho young Nobraskan who lost his life at a sub urban Btatlon near Chicago while sav ing a girl from death tinder tho wheels" or a train, formerly resided with his pnrentB lu Fremont. Weekly waB born hero. Celebrated Fiftieth Anniversary. Wilber Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cha loupka celebrated tho llftloth anni versary or their wedding at tho opera house Saturday night. Ten or their twelvo living children wore present, besides a large number of guests. Boy Fatally Injured. Lincoln Robert Wilcox, stable boy ftt Pat Smlth'B bam, was fatally hurt by being thrown to tho pavement and struck by a horse In front of 1321 O Btreot. Ho died at tho hospital two hours later, concussion of tho brain being given as the immediate cause of death. NEW8 FROM THE 8TATE HOU8E. Secretary Royse of the stato bank ing board was elected vice president of the National Association or Super visors or State BankB at the meeting just closed at New Orleans. A restraining order haB been grant ed against the city of Beatrice and Kb officers by Judgo Munger of tho fed eral court to prevent the enforcement of an ordinance lowering tho rate on gas charged by tho Gage County Light and Power company. Tho case of the Stato vb. Theodore Stanlslcs, dismissed the other day in tho supremo court upon tho sugges tion of the attorney general that the defendant had died pending tho ap peal, will not be revived. An order to that effect has been entered. W. H. Thompson of Grand Island has filed for tho democratic nomina tion for United States senator at the primaries which are to be hold April 19 next year. HIb is tho first filing for the place, but, according to state ments made some time ago, ex-Governor Shallenberger and Willis E. Reed of Madison are to get into tho race within the near future. Secretary Royso of tho state bank ing board has returned from a meet ing or tho national association or su pervisors or state bankB. The gath ering was held at New Orleans and thirty states were represented at the affair, according to the Nebraska sec retary. Mr. Royse read a paper on bank examiners' reports and how they should be followed by 'letters from tho supervisor or .commissioner to bankB Involved In tho various states. According to Manager Eager of state university athletics, the total receipts of the Michigan game were about $10, 100, of which the Wolverines received a total of $5,092. Tho original con tract with that team called for 50 per cent of tho total receipts at the gate, with the guarantee of $4,000. Tho past season at the university has been very profitable and although no figures aro yet obtainable, It is thought that the net profits will be well up with those of the best former year. Many departments of stato have paid fees to tho stato treasurer under the Gerdes law, a law which requires nearly all departments to pay fees In and which appropriates such fees for the ubo of tho departments, The ef fect 'of the law Ib to compel all de partments to mako a full accounting of all fees taken In and expended. Some departments rormerly received large fcos and expended them without having their accounts audited by any of tho state auditing officers. The attorney general Is preparing to resist tho efforts of G. L. De Lacy, administrator of tho Theodore Stanl slcs, deceased, to revive tho appeal of Stanlslcs in a criminal case. Tho ad ministrator alleges that if tho sen tenco of seven years against Stanlslcs is affirmed, the estato will have to pay the costs. Tho attorney general will contend that the administrator i can not servo tho sentence If the judg ment Is affirmed, The court dismissed tho cano when notice of tho death of the plaintiff In error was brought to Its attention. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Tho Christian church at Beatrice will install a $3,000 pipe organ. Fremont sports aro ranking efforts to hold a dog show there after tho holidays. Tho new system of waterworks and electric lights for Ogalalla are Hear ing completion. Robert McNalr, a Kcnesaw rarmer, loBt a number or cattle from the eat ing of cornstalks. v Tho Platte County Corn Growers' association will hold Its meeting at Columbus, December 15 and 1C. Owing to tho large number of bur glaries, Fairmont has now two mar shals and two night wntchmen. Naponco will havo a newspaper, J. A. Barker having moved tho Wood ruff, Kas., Sentinel to that place. Celobratlon of tho Michigan-Nebraska result at Lincoln Saturday was a joyous and at times boisterous affair. Civil service examinations will be held January 6 for rural carriers at ClarkBon, Fllley and Louisville, Nob. The commission form of govern ment plan will bo voted on In Ne braska City within tho next ninety days. The river nt Nebraska City Is blocked with Ice and dealers In that article aro already staking out their news. Charity Organization society's tag day resulted in tho collection of $2, 335.63 on tho streets of Lincoln S.it. urday. Mrs. Fannie Freeman, an old resi dent of Fremont, who located at that placo In 1874. Is dead from linnrf failure. Miss Grace Moore, a York howr. paper woman, has bought tho Teller from Frank & Son and will take tip its management nt once. A year old baby escaped unhurt, but Its mother was seriously injured when sho leaped with it In her arms from a burning building at Omaha. Charles Clems has been acquitted of the murder of Frank Smith al Franklin on tho night of September 11. Tho jury wns out eighteen hours. A number or farmers around Hast ings havo reported the death or cat tle from corn stalk disease. Robert McNalr, living west or tho city, re ports five head dead from the disease. Jofferson county farmers aro feeling pretty blue over the prevalence or hog cholera In that county. Tho disease Is general and hogs aro being forced to market regardless of weight or con dition. Rev. C. Sparks or Canon City, Colo., and president or tho Rocky Mountain synod of tho English Lutheran church, haB accepted tho call extended to him by the church of his denomination at Auburn. Grandma Riley, who Is probably the oldest woman In the state, celebrated her 111th birthday recently. Sho is a colored woman and resides In Hast ings. Sho enjoys good health for one of her ago and can see well. The Presbyterian churches of Au rora havo united under the leadership of tho Aurora Sunday School associa tion to take a religious census of tho city and country district lying within two mllea of the city limits. MIbb Besslo Clnyburg, who was seri ously burned about two weeks ago when llvo coals fell upon her clothing, setting them aflra whllo sho was em ployed In the laundry at 3t. El za leth'B hospital at Lincoln, died Friday morning. Tho husking of corn In Hamilton county Ib proving an agreeablo sur prise to farmers. A largo part of the acreage la averaging from twenty-five to thirty bushels to tho acre. The September estimate was ten bushels per acre. A seventy-five yard run made by Howard Spurrier it tho last half mln ute of the game netted the only score made In tho Cotner academy vb. WeB leyan academy Thanksgiving day con test at Wesleyan. Cotner won by a score of 5 to 0. The city of Tecumseh Ib advertising for bldB for proposed public improve ments amounting to $29,500, the bonds having been recently voted. The Im provements will consist of an Im proved water service with a new con crete reservoir and scwor mains. Jofferson county claims tho distinc tion of having -one of tho largest sorghum factories in the United States. ThlB factory Ib located at the little town of Endlcott and Ib owned and managed by Falrchlld Brothers. It has been running for a number of years and the buBincBB of 1911 ex ceeds that of any other year. H. H. Putnam and K. Butler woo badly hurt when an auto tiro blew out and the machine flopped over near Schuyler. M. D. Hurst, aged seventy-four years, died at his home at Humboldt nt an early hour Sunday morning. Death was duo to asthma. In accordance with tho action taken sometime ago by citizens of Lincoln, a campaign for funds to buy the two blocks Immediately east or tho uni versity for tho nso of tha,t Institution will be started at once. Ira Harlan, a farmer and potato raiser northeast of York, lost between 700 and 800 bushols of tubers by the sudden cold wave which Bwoopod down on that section of the stato re cently, They wore still in tho ground and wero badly frozen. A movement has been started In the state to assist in organizing a Ne braska branch of the American poace soqiety, which haB for one of its ob jecto tho creating of public opinion In favor of the ratification of the peace treaties negotiated between tht United States and England and France. mmJmammmmmmmmmmamammm I Yours for unl- 1 fortuity. 1 Yours for great- 1 est leavening power. 1 Yours for never 1 failing results. 1 Yours for purity. Yours for economy. Yours for every thing that aoc n make np a strictly blah rrade. over- dependable baking powaer. That is Calumet. Try it once and nnin th lm. provemeot in your bak ing. Sea how much mora economical over the high nrleed trait hmtH. hn mnch better than thn rhn tad big-can kinds. Calumet is highest in quality -moderate in cost. Recelyed High- Award- World's Pure Food Exposition. HARD LUCK. The Fortune Teller You are de tlned to marry great wealth. I. M. P. Cunlous Fine. The Fortune Toller Unfortunately, death will claim you two days after the event. USED HYPODERMIC8. Only Relief from Terrible Suffering. Thomas E. Vest, 1505 So. 12th St. Terre Haute, Ind., says: "I had no control over the urino and thn nnin when voiding waa so great, I often creamed. I grew worse and lay in bed for weeks, the only relief coming from hypodermics. I was treated by three phy sicians without help and the last one said" an operation wae necemarr. I thnr. upon began using Doan's Kidnev Pills and passed a grave stone as large aa a pea. The next day I passed' two more and from then on improved rap idly until cured." "When Your Back Is Lame, Remem berthe Name DOAN'S." BOc.all stores, Foiter-Milbura Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Practical Suggestion. A now association proposes to have All American railroads lined with flowers and hedges, but what our railroad rights of way really need is to bo lined with feather beds. What good would It do anybody to fall on a pansy when trains collide? Detroit Free Press. Natural. Lady Visitor Doctor, the hurt In toy llttlo dog's paw looks so angry. Veterinarian Naturally, my dear lady, when you consider It Is In a pet In Hard Luck. Hewitt You aro alwayB broke. Jewltt I know It; I couldn't raise tho wind with nn electric fan. Stiff neck! Doesn't amount to much, but inighty disagreeable. You will be sur prised to see how quickly Hiunlins Wizard I'l'". lJr,v. that tffncs8 out! Ona night, that's all. Located. Stella If the third finger Is for the Wedding ring, which Is for divorce? Bella Tho finger of scorn. Judge. Jfwi?'nSing.!' jR'n'ljr (" the smoker a rich, mellow-tasting Co cigar. ' If you have anything to say to a mule, say it to his face. ")) PRof.TBl.LUM B M i aW ''j'j'Jr'iSF A .H &. .. rVWi&. Jlrti I gyvVAiTw't .ijs!i!h)r',yixrmi..t i 'ayB"B"jpWPJ.i orwittnntfn-iiii