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Nestled in the the shadow of Nebraska's handsome
state house, surrounded by a beautifully N kept lawn, with
plenty of shade and flowering shrubbery, and occupying
a commanding view of Lincoln's most aristocratic homes
and affording a landscape that is pleasing to look upon,
is located Esther's Hospital, owned and controlled by one
of the west's foremost surgeons, Dr. F. L. Wilmeth, whose
reputation as a successful master of the profession is not
confined to the boundry line of our own state but who is '
known and brought into consultation with leaders of
medicine and surgery in all parts of the middle west.
Esther's Hospital, 1 7th and J Sts;
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
8URNS WINS THE BOUT.
, Squires, the Australian, Beaten in
Thirteenth Round.
'Tommy" Burns, the champion
heavyweight pugllst, again , defeated
"Bill" Squires, the Australian, at Sid
ney, N. S. W., Monday, knocking
him out In the thirteenth round of
a fust battle which was witnessed
ly 20,000 peo.tie, among them hun
dreds of sailors from the American
battleships now in the harbor.
The betting was 6 to 1 against
Squires when he entered the rlug
, pitched In the big stadium which bad
been erected at Rushcutter's Bay for
the fight and faced Harry Nathan, the
referee. He received an ovation from
bis countrymen on his appearance.
Burns followed him into the ring and
v as received with cheers. The sun
tent down fiercely on the open ring
and Burns winning the toss, chose
the northwest corner.
In the earlier part of the battle the
combatants seemed evenly matched,
the Australian hoKling his own, and
when the gong sounded as late as
the twelfth round. Burns was de
cidedly groggy and staggered to his
seat. In the thirteenth, . however.
Burns came up strong and opened the
fighting with a terrific right swing
that grazed the Ausrallan's chin. The
men fell Into a clinch and as they
broke. Burns planted a half-arm blow
r.enr the point of Squires' chin, send
ing him to the floor. It took the Aus
tralian nine seconds to recover anil
as he arose, groggy. Burns put him
down again with a short uppercut.
The referee had counted eight be
fore he was ableto rise and then
swaying on his feet he lunded a light
right on Burns- ribs. The American
cooly awaited an opening and when
H came clipped the Australian a right
hander on the chin that sent him
dow n and out. The referee counted
Squires out as his second threw up
the sponge.
The state appropriates $6,500 a year
for conveying prisoners. Cherokee
county had the largest number of pris
oners, hut it did not have such heavy
expenses in proportion as Labette.
Cherokee county had nineteen pris
oners and it cost $320.21, while Labette
county had only twelve prisoners and
transportation cost $362.11.
A relic of great interest and his
toric value was on exhibition at the
Old Settlers' picnic held at Broken
Bow on Wednesday. It was the end
of the Broken Indian Bow which this
city was named after. This Indian
bow was found. In the canyon just
northeast of the city by Wilson Hewitt
nearly thirty years ago, and just at the
time when be was endeavoring to find
a nnme for a new postoffice. It sug
gested the name and on his recom
mendation the department at Wash
ington designated the postoffice as
"Broken Bow."
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Maoitirk For Coxoresjs
1 hereby announce my can
dicacy for representative in
congress from the First Ne
braska district subject to the
will of the electors at the dem
ocratic primaries to he held
on September 1st.
John A. Magimre.
FIFTY MEN ACCUSED.
Indictments by the Wholesale
at
Springfield, III.
Twenty-four Indictments, making
fifty all told, were returned by the
special grand jury of Sangamon
county, Illinois, late Saturday. The
latest batch of accusations includes
five indictments against Thomas
Marshall and 12 other negroes whom
he is accused of having led in a mur
derous assault upon William Bowden,
the chief clerk of the county treas
urer's office.
He has been hovering between life
and death for a week. The negroes
are charged with having committed
assault with intent to commit murder
upon Bowden. The other indictments
returned are against whites and are
based upon the destruction' and loot
ing of the Loper restaurant, in the
heart of the business section of the
city. Three of these are for burglary
and larceny.
Frisco Train Derailed.
North-bound passenger train No. 206
on the St. Louis & San Francisco rail
way, known as the Southeastern lim
Memphis and Kansas City, was de
railed at 1:15 Tuesday morning two
miles north of Brandsville, Mo., twen
ty miles from the Arkansas state line.
James J. O'Neal, the fireman from
Springfield was killed; H. B. Colvin,
tne engineer, or Springfield, was fatal
1 scalded; a mail clerk was probab
ly moi tally hurt and several passen
gers were more or less seriously in
jured. Men Given an Ovation.
There was a grand review at noon
Monday In Centennial park, Sidney,
N. S. W., iff which 600 men of the
Royal navy, 3,000 men of the Amer
ican fleet, 7,000 of the naval and
military forces of New South Wales
and 4,000 cadets took part. It was
the largest ceremonial parade ever
witnessed in Sidney. The vast nat
ural amphitheatre was filiea with
more than 100,000 spectators. The
men on parade answered the cheers
of the crowd by "eyes right." The
men of the American fleet were given
an ovation as they marched past.
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BROKERS ASSIGN.
A. O. Brown & Co., of New York Yield
to pressure.
A. O. Brown & Co., one of the
largest b-ol.erage houses in New York
announced their suspension on the
stock exchange Tuesday afternoon.
The transactions of the firm in the
remarkable stock market of last Sat
urday have been under investigation
by the authorities of the stock ex
change and it was announced that
transactions had been made for the
firm's account under the rule which
provides that where a firm is unable
to deliver stock sold to another broker
the purchaser may buy in the stock at
the expense of the firm failing to
make the delivery. It is presumed
that the assets and liabilities of the
company will be very large as the
firm is generally supposed to have had
a heavy interest in the market. At
the height of the boom markets of sev
eral years ago A. O. Brown did an
enormous justness, said to have been
larger than any other brokerage house
at one time.
Hurry Him to Penitentiary.
After being tried and convicted of
an attempt to assault a young white
woman, and sentenced to 21 years in
the penitentiary at a hurried session
of court held at Augusta, Ark., at
two o'clock Thursday morning, and
after narrowly escaping from a mob
at Augusta by traveling part of the
distance in a gasoline boat and the
remainder on fast trains, Randolph
Young, a negro of Augusta, arrived
in Little Rock Friday in the custody
of a deputy sheriff and was imme
diately placed in the penitentiary.
Judge Thompson, in the United
States court late Monday, denied the
petition of the Union Distilling com
pany, of Cincinnati, O., and others for
a temporary injunction restraining the
government irom carrying out Its or
der that "imitation" whisky must be
branded as such. Intense interest has
been taken in the case and for weeks
elaborate preparations had been made
by both the whiskey men and the gov
ernment in presenting the case to
Judge Thompson, whiheh was done last
Friday.
Miser Murdered for Money.
John Pilo, an aged miser who lived
alone, was found in his cabin near
Craig, Mo., Monday night with a bul
let hole in his head. Pilo had consider
able money hidden about his cabin and
robbery undoubtedly was the motive.
OMAHA HAS BAD FIRE.
Omaha Wagon Works and Surrounding
Property Burn.
Damage approaching $100,000 was
caused by a fire which started at one
o'clock Tuesday morning in the coal
chutes of the . Omaha wagon works
at East Omaha, Neb. The building was
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filled with wood and much inflammable
material, and it was but a few min
utes before it was completely envel
oped in flames. Eight cars of lumber
attached to' a switch engine were
standing on a side track nearby, but
the progress of the flames was so rapid
that it was not possible to move the
cars out of range before the sparks set
tled in the lumber, and the cars and
their contents were consumed. The
loss to the wagon works company is
from $60,000 to $70,000. The plant of
the Omaha Saddle Tree feompany was
damaged to the extent of $15,000 to
$20,000. The big plant of the Carter
White Lead works was saved after the
porch had been burned.
Bank Cashier is Missing.
Cashier M. A. Alston, of the bank
of Stevenson, Ala., has mysteriously
disappeared, and it is alleged that he
is short in his accounts to the amount
of from $20,000 to $24,000. Alston left
his home in Stevenson last Wed
nesday. Little Riot at Chicago.
Several persons were slightly hurt
at Chicago Friday when whites and
negroes became involved in a quar
rel, using bricks and stones as
weapons. No arrests were made.
The Union Pacific Railway company
lias asked permission to put in a rate
of one cent each way to the state fair
nnd the state railway commission has
granted the necessary permission. Ver
bal request for this action was made
Wednesday afternoon by Agnt E. B.
Slosson and the formal request from
E. L. l.omax, general passenger agent,
was received the following day. No
minimum was set for the ticket and
the letter asks for permission to put
in rates for the entire state. Other
roads may follow suit.
"Kid" Parker, of Omaha, Thursday
received a letter from his manager,
Ed. Shelton, of Spokane, stating that
he has posted a $2,500 forfeit for a
meetinf between Parker and the
winner of the Nelson-Gans fight which
is to occur September 9.
Considerable interest Is manifested
just now in the prospects of an elec
tric railway which is being surveyed
from Holdrege to Kearney.' 'Articles
of incorporation have been filed with
the county clerk by the Western Cen
tral Railway Company, and the work
of securing the right-of-way begun.
The directors named in the articles
of incorporation are T. E. Brady,
Charles Stanton, J. O. Burlingham, E.
O. Carlson and S. C. Neison, all of
Omaha. The line will run north from
Holdrege for a distance of about
seven miles, then go east almost to
the eastern line of the county, then
In a northeasterly direction to the
Platte river and across the river just
south of the reform school. The com-
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Fine carriages for funerals a specialty Cabs furnished
on call anytime, night or day.
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pany is organized with a capital stock
cf $250,000, and none of ' the , stock
is for sale. If the right-of-way is
secured without difficulty it is the
intention to begin the work of con
struction at once.
Forest Fires in Montana.
A message received Friday from
Taft, Mont., says that the forest fires
in that vicinity are assuming a very
serious aspect. They have worked over
ground from the Idaho side to points
west of Saltese and are spreading to
ward the spur of the Couer d'Alene
mountains to the. north. Already a
large quantity of timber on the north
side of Saltese has been destroyed
and it is feared the fire may penetrate
to the Clark . fork- of the . Columbia.
There are a large number of mining
plants in the section under fire.
In a Bad Predicament.
" With all of the funds of the county
running short and the anual levy not
being made, the board of supervisors
of Gage county is up against a serious
proposition. The board of equalization
has not completed its work and will
not for at least a week. It will then
be some time before the board will be
able to make the annual levy. The
general fund has 3,200 on hand with
$5,000 in claims against it, the bridge
fund has only enough on hand to meet
outstanding warrants and claims for
emergency work cannot be allowed.
Other funds are in the same predica
ment. Asks $2O,C00 Damages.
One of the largest damage suits ever
filed in Hall county is one by Thomas
F. Costello, who has sued the Union
Pacific for damages of $20,0u0, alleged
to have been sustained by the plaintiff
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on the 17th day of August, 1904, in
Omaha. Cost el lo was a passenger con
ductor for the company and as he was
on the steps of a coach going down
grade at Fourteenth street a freight
engine ran into the rear of his train.
He was thrown against a box car on
an adjoining track., His spine was in
jured and ever since he has bad se
vere pains in 'his head.
Candidate Sues a Railroad.
J. R. Roberts, of Parsons, prohibi
tion candidate for state senator in this
county, has brought suit in the district
court for '$20,000 damages against the
Missouri Pacific Railroad company.
Roberta says that his injuries were
suffered in the fall of 1896, when he
was the prohibition candidate for con
gress in this district. While in the
act of changing cars at Fredonia, while
on a campaign tour of the district, the
cars bumped,,, causing him to fall to
the ' platform, : inflicting the injuries
for which he asks damages.
MRS. HOWARD IS A SUICIDE.'
Female Rioter at Springfield Takes
Her Own Life.
Mrs. Kate Howard, forty-two years
old, one of the leaders of the riots in
Springfield, Ohio, - committed suicide
Wednesday by swallowing acid while
being placed under arrest. She died
as she was being led Into the jail. Be
fore the special grand jury now in ses--sion
many witnesses testified that Mrs.
Howard was one of the ringleaders
of the mob which wrecked Loper's res
taurant. The special grand jury re-,
turned an indictment against her
charging murder in connection with
the lynchings. She secretly swallowed,
a large dose of poison and as sue was
entering the jail door she fell dead.
