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nsT1 . TW) "t, , -. ..r,- ,p .. .........in .w y iPtf iU'WI 1 Hjl't) 'UMMMyiXP' '7 v ' i..v LEGISLATURE TO 1 LEGISLATURE MAKES APPRO. PRIATION FOR TORNADO SUFFERERS. WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE Record of Events Transpiring In Both Houses of Nebraska Legislature. Members of both bonnes of the etnto legislature took olllelal cogniz ance of Sunday's dcath-denllng tor nado at Omaha and nearby villages in the passage of a resolution provid ing for tho appointment of a joint committee ' to confer with Governor uMorchcad over relief for sufferers. Practically nil members of tho com mlttco visited tho scono of devasta tion and were appalled at the loss of life and property that resulted from tho storm's terrible sweep. The mem bers unanimously, along wlthj Gov ernor Morohead, favor extreme liber ality In tho matter of appropriations and will not endeavor to Btlnt tho sufferers whatsoever, despite tho un usually heavy appropriation list that confronts tho present session. The committee met with tho governor and an appropriation of $100,000 was de cided upon, this to become available Just as soon as the bill providing for it can bo hurried through the legisla ture. Too Late With the Bill. A peculiar coincidence between leg isfation and tho Sunday tornadoes was noticed Tuesday. Tho senate passed tho house bill permitting villages in which no newspaper is printed to nd Krortlso proposed elections for voting bonds by posting notices in place of 1n newspaper advertisements. Tho bill was intended for the relief of tho villngo of Ralston, a suburb of Omaha, which wanted to vote bonds for public Improvements, but could not do so legally becauso no news paper is edited In tho villngo. Tho Tilll is now ready to go to tho gov ernor. But tho lllago Is a thing of tho pnst. It was wiped out of exist enco by tho tornado which also swept across tho city of Omaha. To Hold Evening Sessions. With tho end of tho present session In sight and only a few days remain ing in which tho members can draw their $10 per diem salary, tho lower house leglslativo house voted to hold vcnlng sessions from now on, unless oy special notion such sessions are dispensed with on particular days. "Snyder of Adams explained his motion -providing for this Btcp by asserting that a glanco at tho general file and tho committee work still outlined would convince nny member that it behooved tho body to "be up and do ing" if a reasonable early adjourn ment is to be accomplished. County Ownership of Telephone Lines. Tho senate, by a vote of 19 to 13, amended tho Puller bill for county ownership of telephone lines by pro viding that counties shall purchaso 'existing lines before going into tho telephone business. This amendment was declared by friends of tho bill to practically kill the bill, but they hope to get tho senato amendment changed or stricken out when the bill goes to a conference committee of the two bouses. Must Give Full Measure. No more berries are to bo sold In Nebraska In boxes with falffo bottoms. Wholesale fruit dealers must purchase where false bottoms are not used or stamp their boxes before they leavo the wholesale house. This was the decision of the house on the effort of overal members of the Lancaster delegation to have the state weights and measures bill amended to except berries in crates from Its provisions. Weights and Measures. Tho bill establishing a bureau of .weights and measures under the pure food department was recommended for passage. Tho measure, S, P. 187, provides that the deputy pure food commissioner shall bo the sealor of weights and measures. It provides for the stamping of corroct weights and measures and defines tho various weights and measures. It provides also for city, municipal and county sealers where such arc desired. Capital Punishment Bill. Tho senate committee on judiciary decided to report out the bill from the house for the abolition of capital punishment The committee will place the bill on general file with an amendment providing for tho punish ment by hanging of persons who, while under conviction of murder in tho first degree, kills a keoper or an other in the act of attempting to escape from the penitentiary, or who kills another after having escaped. This provision has boon upheld af legal In tho state of California. For Fish Hatchery on Verdlgre. Tho nueHtlon or appropriating $5,000 for the establishment of a branch -Btato fish hatchery on Verdlgro creek In Antelopo county gavo members of Jtho house a chanco to Indulge In vol umes of pent-up oratory. In tho ond, desplto tho strenuous objection which was rnlsed, tho hill was recommonded for third reading. Harrio Thomas of Harvard, with his family, has gone to Washington to as. sumo his duties as privato secretary 'to Congressman Barton. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Wymoro boasts a wireless tole graph station. Seward will purchase a now chem ical flro engine. A socialist newspaper is to be start ed at Falrbury. Lushton was visited by a disastrous fire last week. State Yeomuu conclave will bo hold at Lincoln next week. Tho Cortland creamery will expand and Increase its capital stock. Democrats at York have decided not to put a ticket In tho Held this spring. Fremont will voto on tho Sunday baseball proposition at tho spring elec tion. Some localities in the Btato aro be coming overrun with wohes and coyotes. Miss Kato lleechler killed a large gray wolf with an ax on a ranch near Callaway. Tho estimated property loss In tho Btato from Sunday's tornado will rench near $7,000,000. Efforts aro being made by York business men to laud tho state tenuis tourunmcut this summer. The socialists of Falrbury aro mak ing an nctlvo campaign for the munici pal election to be held April 1. More than an Inch of rain fell In less than an hour at Grand Island. Many basements were flooded. Frank Tiuchuer, nominated on the citizens ticket for mayor of Falrbury, has declined to make tho race. Fremont has passed a new hack and taxi fare ordinance, llxing tho maxi mum at fiO cents within the city limits. A sale of blooded cattle at Falrbury was declared off by the state veteri narian on account of tuberculosis In tho herd. lleatrlco poultry fanciers have re organized the Southeastern Nebraska Poultry association which flourished a few years ago. The Northwest Nebraska Teachers' association meeting will be held In Chadron on Friday and Saturday, March L'S and 29. Tho twentieth annual session of the Nebraska Educational association opened at Beatrice with an enrollment of over 300 teachers. The Greenwood school board at a recent mooting re-elected Prof. 15. D. Lehman ns principal of tho high school for tho coining year. The proposition to hold a special election on Sunday baseball at Kear ney has been withdrawn, as public sentiment seemed to opposo It. A. Alberts, a farmer living near Cortland, was seriously Injured by get ting caught In a belt wheel while saw ing wood with a gasolines engine. Sheriff Kerwln of Leavltt Is at a Fremont hospital with a badly mangled foot as a result of tho accidental dis charge of tho shotgun he was carry ing. Tho employes of the Nebraska divi sion of tho Hock Island railroad held a "safety first" meeting in tho divi sion superintendent's offlco at Falr bury. The Bradshaw Monitor nnnounces that It will open Its columns to all outsldo advertising if Its merchants do not better patronize their homo paper. Editor Smith of tho Elwood Bul letin was compelled to tako nn en forced vacation of a few weeks on account of a bum finger ho had it amputated. Tho Gago county breeders of pure bred swine offer $500 In prizes 'to the boys and girls of Gage county who produce the most pounds of pork from one litter of pigs. J. A. Edgerton, at pne time promi nent In Nebraska popullstlc circles, has been appointed purchasing agent for the postofflce department under the new administration. Six hundred and ninety-eight Ne braska state banks reporting at the close of business on February 15 show thafr-the resources of the state since March 16, 1912, have increased $8,285, 259, nnd the deposits have Increased G,232,959 In the sarao time. PlanB and specifications for the new $55,000 school house at Albion are now complete. It will be an Imposing look ing structure and as up-to-dato as can bo made. At a meeting of tho Drcshler Com merclal club, E. J. Mitchell was elected president; A. B. Ude, vice president, and H. Harms, secretary treasurer. Charles Boltz of Albion was 70 years- old Monday and has worked at his nhoo making business for fifty-six years. He Is an old pioneer, Bays ho Is In good health, and can do as much work as over. Stockmen report b little loss of live stock in Butler county In the re cent blizzard. Socialists of Falrbury have placed a full ticket in tho field for the approach ing city election. Tho Wahoo board of education has been considering plans for the erec tion of tho two new school buildings for which bonds were voted a few weeks ago. It Is reported that the Superior state baseball league management has pur chased all the players which had signed with the Beatrice Mink league for the season of 1913. The timely arrival of Deputy Sheriff Watts prevented tho suicide of Minnie Roberts, sixteen years old, in one of tho rooming houses of North Platte, With but two negative votos the houso passed on third reading Sena tor Smith's bill Imposing a 2 per cent annual tax on tho gross receipts of all express companies in Nobraska. Convict Maynard, a llfo termer at tho penitentiary, attempted sulcido In his cell by hanging. Tho prisoner Is one who has been shut off from his supply of dope, and his shattered physical condition Is supposed to have been tho reason for bis act. I foam iip dime ACTUAL FATALITIES LESS THAN AT FIRST ESTIMATED. OHIO RIVER ON A RAMPAGE Fifty Millions Will Cover Property Lo:s Flood Waters Receding Fatalities In Indiana Are Cut Down. Fiord waters have receded suf llclently to show that the number of persons drowned In all the affected cities in Ohio nnd Indiana may not exceed 500. Whllo many persons still aro missing to friends nnd relatives, Investigations made to date Indicate that many were safe who were thought to be lost. In l).iyton careful estimates placed tho number of deaths at 200 or fewer, although a meeting of undertaken1 assorted that the total might reach S00. Relief woik went on rapidly In Dayton and all parts of the city were reached. Columbus will have the next largest loss of life, sixty bodies having been found In the Inundated portion of W.'-t Columbus. Unverified figures of Mlamlsburg, O.. glvo firty dead, but In all other flooded cities tho llgures fell off rap idly as relief expeditions covered the ground. Mount Vernon did not confirm its prtvlous report of fifty dead, and no confirmation was hnd or thirty-two reported drowned at Venice, O. Chllllcotho and Tiffin, O.. where there hnd been reports of fifty or moro dead, each had found eighteen corpses up to midnight. Tho best figures from Plqua glvo a death toll of fifty persons. Middle town and Fremont. ()., each has four teen dend, Troy four, Maeslllon one and Masonvllle four. Indiana's totnl drowned receded to fewer then fifty, distributed as fol lows: Peru. 20; Brookvlllo. Ifi; Fort Wayne. S; Torre Haute, 4. No bodies have been found in West Ind'nnnpolls, whrre at one time ns many as 200 deaths were reported. Crave Conditions at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. O. As the waters of the Ohio river continue to rise, in creased in volume by tho flood waters from tributaries east nnd north of here, this city Is facing the worst flood in its history. Tho river stage was sixty-four feet Friday, with indica tions that before many hours tho Kaugo will have reached seventy feet,! almost the mark of 1884, the record year. Weather forecasters here ex press the conviction that tho river would reach sixty-eight feet and would go to tho seventy-foot mark early in the week. Floods almost unprecedented In area following the tornadoes and rains of the last few days swept tho Missis sippi valley, causing a loss of llfo that may reach into tho hundreds and dom age to property amounting to many millions. Ohio and Indiana, and In a lesser degree, Illinois and Missouri, felt the brunt of the disaster. At Dayton, O., scores of persons were reported drowned following the breaking of the Miami river levee and jthe Laramie reservoir fifty miles above the clyt. Marooned In office buildings in the center of the town, hundreds of persons were awaiting rescue. Millions of dollars In property dam age has already been Incurred and the flood Is reported still on the Increase. From Indianapolis came reports of one hundred thousand homeless throughout Indiana and a property loss reaching the enormous figure of $10, 000,000 In cities, towns and villages alone. This does not Include the losses to farmers. Tho loss of life, while not bo great as In Ohio, has not been estimated. Tho climax of tho flood In Ohio was reached at Dayton, where It was re ported that tho water is from twenty to forty feet deep In many strcots, that bodies wero floating past windows of'otnce buildings and that the catas trophe assumed tho proportions of a tidal wave. A telephone messago to Chllllcotho asserted that thirty thou sand of Dayton's inhabitants wore homeless and that a relief train had been dispatched from Xenla. Hun dreds of fires which could not be ex tinguished were said to have added to tho horror or the situation at Dayton. At Delaware, nineteen persons were reported dead, many missing and rour hundred families homeless. Sixteen or seventeen dead at Hamil ton, 0 where conditions similar to thoso at Dayton, render rescue work Impossible. Otto, a hamlet of 100 per sons, was said to have been destroyed and the fate of the Inhabitants un known. Hundreds of lives have been lost In Indiana, r Columbus, Ohio. "If our worst fears are confirmed It will bo neces sary for us to call on tho outsldo world for tents and supplies In order to make provision for tho worst ca tastrophe that has ever bofnllen this Btatc," eald Governor Cox in a telo gram sent to tho New York World. Columbus, O. Governor Cox has Issued an order directing Adjutant Goneral Speaks to call out tho entlro Ohio national guard for duty In the flood-swept district, which comprises practically tho whole state. LIFE SAVING CREW RESCUES ORPHANS Captain Carland and Men From Chicago Do Fine Work at Fort Wayne. LEADER'S STORY IS GRAPHIC Five Boatloads of Children Taken Safely Across Mile of Rushing Water Incidents of the Flood at Peru. Chicago. Half-fioen nnd wllhou, food, fifty-eight chlldien and their at tendants wero rcecucd ftoni the Fort Vn lit Orphan Asylum by Captain Charles Cm land and IiIk crew from the Chicago llfo Having station Cap tain Cm land and six life saveis re turned to Chicago from Fort Wayne with thrir mil f boat, but immediately departed for Tene Haute to continue their rescuo woik Captain Carland's story was graphic He told how he and his men arilvcd at the asylum just after four children had met death when an attempt was made to loseue them. 1'lvo trips to the as.vlum wero made by Captain Cm laud and enrh time a boatload was taken safely across half a mile of swiftly flowing water. Hesldos the eliltdteu four matrons ami six men were rescued fiom the building. Carland Tells Story. "We arrived at Fort Wayno when the water was highest," said Captain Carland. "No sooner had we arrived when n report reached us that the children were marooned In the Orphan AtHhiin. One attempt had been made to lescuo them which ended disas troiihly for four of the children nnd two bravo men. The small low boat In which tho would-be rescuers hnd reached the building overturned after four of tho children hnd been taken from a hecond story window. All were drowned. "Conditions In tho asylum wero aw. fill when six men mid myself llually rem hod the building. In one hiiiiiII loom, huddled together half fioeu and hungry, were the llttlo girls anil bosfi with their attendants. "Many wero crying, u few woie asleep from cxhnuatlon. Ono of the women had fainted. Afraid to Trust Boato. "At first they refused to trust their lives to our boats. They had witnessed the fnto of tho first boat and wore afraid. Wo finally carried twelvo of the llttlo ones out of tho second-story window and then our fight back start ed. It needed the combined strength of every man on the boat to fight the current and prevent the boat from overturning. Then we wore hampered by tho cries of the children nnd at times the ono matron wo took with us would becomo panlo stricken. Aftor getting to Bhore the children wero placed in the care of merchants of tho town, and wo went back for another load. "Wo received a different reception on our second arrival at tho asylum. A shout of Joy went up when thoy hoard that the first load had been landed safely. A llttlo confusion resulted from the natural anxiety of tho tots to get Into tho boat. No ono was hurt, however, and after five trips wo suc ceeded In removing all the children and their attendants to safety. Children Go Hungry. "Tho merchants thankod us for what wo had dono. Ono of the ma trons told ub the children had not had a full meal for 48 hours. Thoy had run out of coal and were breaking up tho furnituro in the place for fire wood. The Are they kindled In the middle of the room, braving tho danger of the entire building burning up." Brings 200 Peru Children. Charles H. Thacher and his wife, who live at 32C0 Groveland avenue, arrived hero from Peru, Ind., with 200 Peru children, many of them now orphans. A man in Peru, having a boat, de manded $50 from Thacher to tako the two away. Thero was another worn an In tho marooned houso, and tb boatman refused to take her. "A shot was fired and tho man fell out of the boat, dead," Bald Mr. Thach er. Mr. Thacher escaped with his wife and the other woman In tho boat. A second man, Dr. Hupp, offered a boat man $100 to take his wlfo to a hospital, there being Imminent a visit from the stork. Tho man refused and tho doc tor knocked him out of the boat with a brick. A Winona college student rowed tho doctor's wife to the hos pital, where a baby was born, mother and child being saved. Trio In 8tolen Boat Drowned. Threo unknown men wero drowned at Peru whon a leaky boat, which they had stolen, Bank. The boat was own ed by Oliver Wilson, a rarmor who lives near tbo water line or the Inter urban tracks. Wilson discovered the thcrt when tho three men wero 100 yards from shore. When thoy had gone a half mile, they appeared In distress. The Wilson family watched the men struggle In tho water and disappear. No effort has been mado to recover the bodies. At Logansport horoio work was dono by tho crow sent from Lako Bluff and by the cadctB from Culver Military academy In saving lives. Many pathotlo Incidents marked tho work of rescuo. In all mora than 5,000 persons wero rescued from marooned homes and taken to safety In rowboats. Many lost everything thoy possessed. Horses, cattle and other animals were killed by the hundreds. IN WARFARE OF FACTIONS Snapshot of Quiet Domestic Scene When Rivals Fought for the Control of Mexico. Thero was a dramatic bIIoiico. "Wo need butter for supper," Bnld tho wlfo and mother firmly. "I don't seo how we can got nlong without it. I'll send Johnnio to tho grocor's. It's Just across tho street, you know, llo's llttlo nnd can run fast." 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