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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JUNE 4, 1903. 12 . ' . . .- . - j a . AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE What The Dyspeptic Saw la nil Morula rpr M Dt Grumbled Om Uli Health Food Friday Morning, May 29. Joe Chamberlain asks for a mandate to tax food and power to engage in & tariff war "with Germany on Canada's account and to fight the American trusts. It looks as though England might reach the protective tariff stage about the time America gets 1'ree trade. Melazgherd. in the valley of Erz eroum, on the Euphrates, Asiatic an earthquake and about two thou sand people tilled. The Presbyterians at Los Angeles . finally cut infant damnation out of their creed. United Presbyterian general assem bly met atTarkio, Mo. . Former Governor Savage calls on Governor Mickey of Nebraska and the twain engage in a red-hot discussion over some of Mickey's gossip about bribery which occurred in preceding administration. Postoffice department busy probing into scandals, but no further arrests made. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief of the Philippine constabulary, has a plan io Increase his force and thus give additional jobs for impecunious "sons of their fathers." Minister Leishman at Constantino ple repoTts that the Turkish authori ties acted admirably in the recent clash at Salonica. United States coast line is divide-: into thirteen naval defense districts. under recommendation oi Admiral Dewey. War department ha3 purchased iif- reichstag have published a manifesto attributing Crotian disturbances to. sad condition of affairs, because their national rights have been violated. Rev. Edward J. Vatmann, chaplain of the 29th U S. I., is in Rome from Manila, interviewing members of the sacred college about his report on Philippine affairs. Denver national convention B. R. T. declares against sympathetic: strikes. Philadelphia textile strike begins ahead of schedule time. Chi cago freight handlers of Lake Shoro road go back to work on 4 per cent raise. President at Salt Lake, Ogden and Evanston. Charles H. Cramp Indignantly de nies that he ever said that the Mor gan ship combine had resulted in the United States outstripping England in shipbuilding or tonnage. Present indications are that thj Yukon output of gold will be one to three million dollars greater than last year. The Delaware Surety company of New York, with capital stock $1,000, 000, has been dissolved. Governor Mickey's gabbling gives him more trouble. Fred Beckman called on him and denies attempting to bribe anybody in the oil inspector ship fight Group 8, Nebraska bankers' asso ciation, in session at Crawford, de clared against branch banking or the issue of currency secured in any oth er manner man oy government bonds. Next meeting, Alliance. Sweet girl and boy graduates all over Nebraska tell how things ought to be tun. . Daily News reports that the Bulgar ian revolutionists have a supply c India plague bacilli and are deter mined to infect Constantinople. Sa lonica and even Berlin if the powers fail to interfere in their behalf. John Mitchell has hopes that the anthracite troubles may be settled soon. - Policemen of Erie, Pa., have gone on a ftrike for higher pay. Sunday Morning, May 31. North i Topeka scourged by fire and flood. Probably 200 lives lost. Exciseman Hoskins of Lincom. ty 3-lnch field guns from Dusseldorf, Neb., calls , on State Journal and Germany. The Wisconsin Central railroad has raised its trainmen's wages 12 to 13 per cent. President Roosevelt visits Boise and rocatello, Idaho; and goes on to Salt Lake City. Secretary Hoot has whitewashed Majors Hunter and Howze for cruel ties practiced in the Pnmppmes. claims he has been made a scape goat. Says that Mayor Adams told him that $1,000 license was hign enough and that he Hoskins) agreed to stand by the mayor. When the vote came the mayor "flunked" and voted for $1,500 in order to hold his lob as hat-passer in the St. Paul's Methodist church. Brooklyn Eagle claims government Is paying half a million yearly too Iowa prohibitionists nominated the mucn for nastoffice rentals in New following ticket at Marshalltown; York state Tuesday Morning, June 2. Gaines ville, Ga., and suburbs hit by a tor nado; 85 persons killed, 40 fatally injured and about 150 more wounded. President Roosevelt passed throug'i' Nebraska over Union Pacific, speak ing at Sidney, North Platte and Kear ney. Illinois Judicial election Monday. Fifteenth district (Freeport) three re publicans elected circuit judges; at Jacksonville, three democrats; Eighth district (Quincy) three democrats; at Chicago, three republicans and four teen democrats; First district (Car- bondale) three democrats. Binger Hermann, republican, de feated A. E. Reames, democrat, by about 2,000 votes at special election in First Oregon congressional district, to fill vacancy caused by death of Thom as H. Tongue. Judge Ilanecy, of injunction fame, Chicago, was defeated for re-electicn at the judicial election Monday. Flood receding at Topeka. Kansas City the center of flood now. Philadelphia textile strike is nov on. At least 55,000 refused to go to work. Two firms granted a 55-hour week, but the others refused. After nine weeks' strike about 4. 000 out of 18,000 have gone back ia work in the Lowell cotton mills. Half a million dollars in gold or dered for shipment-to Europe Thurs day. United States supreme court decided case of Hawaii vs. Osaki Mankiehi against the defendant, a Japanese who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced under the old laws of Ha waii. Justice Brown wrote majorii-y pinion, with Justice Harlan dissenting. Philadelphia loses its- tax case cgainst the W, U. Telegraph company. Deputy Auditor Anthes reports that appropriations made by the Nebraska, legislature amount to $3,557,3bl.29. Now Is the time to take up work at the Modern Com mercial School. They five special work this summer in all branches You At A Is 4 nri si 4 1 s ri aari jdqq , Governor, J. P. Hanson oi Managua county; lieutenant governor, J. II. Scull, Henry county; superintendent public instruction, J. A. Ward, PoLk county; R. R. commissioner, E. Dew- ey, Woodbury county; attorney gen eral, Wm. Orr, Page county. " Floods in Des Moines, la., Salina, Topeka and Abilene, Kas., La Crosse, Wis. Several people killed in Ind iana storm; Alexandria, Walton Hammond, Greensburg, Frankfort, Thornton, Decatur, Windfall, Cam - dom, Geneva and Indianapolis, among the cities suffering loss. Government scandals at Victoria, B. C result in resignation of sev eral officials. President Charles Moyer reporting . to western federation of miners in session at Denver finds fault with John Mitchell and recommends a "renewal of the declaration in favor of social ism. The St. Louis teamsters are out on strike. ' Two hundred thousand textile oper atives in Philadelphia threaten to strike, asking a 55 hour week instead ; of the present one of 60. - Saturday Morning, May 30. Worst flood ever experienced at Beatrice, Neb.; Bine river rising rapidly. To peka flooded and 5,000 people of No. Topeka homeless. $200,000 damage at Madison, Neh. Kansas City, Ma; Guthrie, Okla.; Winona, Minn.; and Council Grove, Kas., also report much damage. Postmaster General Payne makes public the reply of Postmaster Merritt Kansas North .of Washington, D. C, to the Tulloch . charges, and tries to catch Tulloch in his own trap. The Presbyterian assembly at Lo3 Angeles adopted a caustic resolution attacking the Mormon church and asking the senate to expel Senator Reed Smoot something in violation of the agreement made between the Mormon church and the republican machine. London is all stirred up over Joey Chamberlain's protectionist propagan da. A general election seems prob able within the next year or eighteen months. The London Times correspondent has been expelled from St Petersburg for "general hostility of the Times toward Russia." - Celebration of the M-centenary of the founding of St Petersburg began Friday Crotian members of the Austrian Beatrice, Neb., and Des Moines, la., in grip of a flood. Attorney of San Francisco board of trade has gone into United States cir cuit court asking that the Copier King Mining company be declared an involuntary bankrupt. Liabilities 541,000; assets, $2oO,0'0. Albert O. Mathes, for 35 years treas urer of the Stafford Five Cents Sav ings bank (N. H.) is a defaulter in the sum of $15,452. Consul General McWade reports that the famine in Kwan Si, China, is appalling. Hundreds are dying. Chaplain Vatmann reports to Car dinal Rampolla at Rome that arbi tration in matter of buying the friars' lands is not looked upon with favor at Manila. The friars deny the pope's right of interference. The St. Louis teamsters' strike i-5 becoming serious. Charles R. Keyes, for two years past instructor Df German at Univer sity of California, has resigned to ac cept a similar position in Cornell col lege, Mt. Vernon, la. President visited Cheyenne an! Laramie. Took a sixty-mile horse back ride into Cheyenne. Associated press summary of flood to date: Homeless: Kansas North Topeka, 7,000; near Emporia, 500; Sa lina and vinicity, 800; Lawrence, 500, Kansas City, Armourdale and Argen tine. 10,000. Missouri Harlem and Sheffield, 700. Iowa Des Moines, 6, 000: Ottumwa, 200. Uebraslca Bea trice, 200 families). Financial losses: Topeka, $1,000,000; Lawrence, $100,000; Concordia, $100,- O00: Abilene and vicinity, $300,000' Salina and vicinity, $15,000; Solomon, Chapman, Detroit and Woodbine and intervening country, $400,000; De3 Moines, $500,000. may take as' many studies as you choose and pay ac cordingly. Individual In struction is a strong point with them. Call at the office and see what nice work they can give your or tliey will be glad to send you one of their lat est catalogues for the ask- MODERN COMMERCIAL SC3001, 1309 St., Lincoln, Nebr. SEVEN GREAT llftl I CfiCP Chillieotke Mnsical College UULLLULO Chiiiicothe College of Oratory For free catalog address ALLEN MOOHI Pres't, Cliillicotke, Mo. Car fare paid. Ckillieothe Normal College Chillicothe Commercial College Chillicothe Shorthand College f&illicothe Telegraphy College Laullieotbe Fen Art College ' Monday Morning, June 1. The Jusa of life and property at Topeka is ap palling. Probably 200 dead and four millions In property destroyed. Kan sas City seriously damaged and other Missouri towns are threatened by the flood. Postmaster General Payne has made public the reply of former P. M. C Smith to the charges of Cashier Tul loch. German Baptist brethren in session at Belief ontaine, O.; 25,000 in attendance. Chicago restaurant keepers threaten a lockout against union employes Sofia correspondent of London Wednesday Morning, June Z President Roosevelt visited Dubuque. la. Another ""falve" telegram from Enid, Okla., via St Louis, says that Junius Brutus Booth has identified as his uncle, J. Wilkes Booth, the remains of David E. George who committed suicide at Enid January 14. A. E. Ames & Co., one of the lead ing firms of bankers and brokers in Toronto, Canada, closed their doora Tuesday. Liabilities, ten millions, assets, "ample under normal stoei market conditions!" Their notice posted on the door says they suspend "owing to the continuous severe de cline in the securities market." The worst of the flood is over at Kansas City and Topeka, but the riv er is at the 30-foot, or danger, poiut at St Louis, with predictions that it may reach 34 leet by Friday. Dam age at Kansas City: Loss of lire es timated at S to 35 persons; and ten to 25 millions in property. Topeka: greatly overestimated; Known dad, 48. Governor Bailey has issued a proclamation calling for help. The Buskin -university of Chicago bas accepted Walter Vrooman's res ignation as trustee. Perry S. Heath also engages in an open letter to Postmaster General Payne regarding the Tulloch charges. Says Tulloch lied about the lady friends on the pay roll. Svend Schibsby of Kansas City, a postal derk, has been removed be cause he dug up an old law which &1 lows postal clerks traveling expenses while away from home on duty, it would cost $1,500,000 to settle with all postal clerks, and the government too busy spending money on tne navy and army to think about it Northern Securities case set oown for nearing in United States supreme court December 14. INVESTMENTS IN SOUTHERN LANDS Such investments are not peculator. The south is not a new country. Market and ship ping facilities are adeqnate and flrat-nlast. The climate is mild and favorable. Notwithstand ing these and other advantages, southern laud a are selling lor prices far below their real value, and at present prices set large returns on th investment. For a free set of circulars, Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive, concerning tne possibilities of lands in Kentucky, West Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, on and near the Illinois Central Eailroad, for homeseekers and investors, ad drees the undersigned. "W. H. BRILL, District Passenger Agent, Umaha, Neb. Wednesday Evening, June 3. Lan caster county, Neb., republicans meet and nominate the following ticket a "dog-fair in the tussle between the machine and bushwhackers: Tor judges of the district court, Lincoln Frost, Lancaster precinct; Albert J. Cornish, First ward; Edward P. Holmes, Fourth ward. For clerk of the district court, Will C. Phillips, Sixth ward. For county sheriff, Nich olas Ress, Fifth ward. For county treasurer, Benjamin F, Knight, Stev ens Creek. For county clerk, Walt Dawson, Fourth ward. For coxint judge, Frank B. Waters, Third ward. For county commissioner, First dis trict, Fred Kinyon, Little Salt For county assessor, J. R. C. Miller, .Den ton. For county superintendent, Oscar R. Bowman, Waverly. For county surveyor, Winfield S. Scott, Fourth ward. For county coroner, Dr. F. A. Graham, Sixth ward. For justices cf the peace, Phil F. Greene, Fourth Fritz Westermann, Fourth; Geo. H. Risser, Second ward. For constables, E. Hunger, Sixth; A. M. Bartram, Second; W. A. Bentley, Fourth war. L For sanitary trustee, N. A. Bacon. Fourth ward Missouri river, at Kansas City be ginning to fall. Gauge this morning at 34.4 feet a fall of 6 feet since Tuesday morning. Rising eastward, 3L2 at St Louis. North of St. Louis river is rising slowly. Lower Arkan sas a foot -or two above danger line, Pension Commissioner Eugene Ward ("Ironquill") marooned at Topeka. Berlin advices from Odessa sa7 Jews in Russia are arming themselves and preparing for any future troubles like at Kischineff. President John Gordon of Tabo.' college, Iowa, has resigned to accept the presidency of Howard university, Washington, D. C. Non-partisan civic ticket makes a clean sweep In Denver over republi can candidates, electing 21 lelegat?3 to a new charter convention for con solidated Denver city and county. Ohio state republican convention meets. Effort made to break tha slate by raising cry against third termers. Anthracite situation grave. Wilkes- barre operators refuse to meet Nich olas Fahey and Duffey, the district presidents, recommended by Mitchell, but Mitchell "stands pat" Believed that Grover Cleveland has taken Roosevelt's "race suicide" talks seriously. Pittsfield, Mass., gossips ra port that he has leased "Sweet House" in Taringham In anticipation of stork's visit. But. this may be a scheme to swell his boom for a thinl terra. President itoosevelt's speech at Du buque In behalf of a greater navy sug gests the fact that whereas McKinle 5 -6. -9