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POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME LIFE
Vol. 18. No. 927.
Lincoln, Nebraska, March 15, 1906
Subscription $1.00
FIND A WATERY GRAVE
TWENTY-SEVEN MEN GO DOWN
ON OCEAN FREIGHTER.
Caught In Atlantic Storm and for
Many Days at the Mercy of the
Tempest A Part of the Crew
Was Saved.
Boston, Mass., March 14. Suffering,
mental and physical, and numerous
acta of heroism In saving life rarely
equalled in the records of tragedies of
the soa attended the loss of the
Phoenix line steamer British King,
which on Sunday last, in a raging At
lantic storm, foundered about 150
miles south of Sable island, and car
lied to death twenty-seven members
of the crew. Thirteen men were
rescued from the sinking vessel by the
Leyland line steamer Bostoiiian, bound
from Manchester to Boston, and
eleven by the German tank steamer
Mannheim, from Rotterdam for New
York. Five others who had been
drawn in the vortex into which the
British King was engulfed, were
picked up by the Bostonian from a
frail bit of wreckage which they had
grasped after a desperate struggle for
life in the whirlpool.
Bring Details of Disaster
The Bostonian arrived here this af
ternoon and the details of the disas
ter became known.
Captain James O'Hagan of the Brit
ish King died on board the Bostonian
from the effects of terrible injuries
sustained In trying to save his ship.
The rescued who were brought here
today Include James Flanigan, the
second officer; J. D. Crawford, the
chief engineer; Adolphus Beck, the
fourth engineer, and William J. Curry,
the steward. The others were coal
passers and sailors, mostly Belgians,
and one stowaway, Henry Farkotch
of New York.
Two life boats from the Bostonian
were crushed to fragments and the
volunteer crews which manned them
wtro thrown into the high-running
sea- while engaged in the work of
H'kcuc, but all weres afely landed on
board the steamer.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD
It Noted as An Abolishionist and an
Equal Suffragist.
KfiehtMter, N. Y. The long and
ivtntful lift of Susan B. Anthony
cl ed at 12: t) ocloek on March 13.
Tl: Hil came peacefully. Miss An
thony had been unconscious for prac
!.: 1;. twenty four hours, and her
iKuh had been momentarily expected
ni ru- Sunday nUht. Only her wonder
ful roiWUuHon kept her alive.
t r. M, rf. Ulcker, her attending
lhU'tun, ald MUa Anthony died of
h-trt future, induced by double pneu
umrl.e Phe had had Merlons valvulary
heart trouble for the last six or seven
years. Her lungs were practically
clear, and the pneumonia had yielded
to treatment, but the weakness of
her heart prevented her recovery.
Mayor James G. Butler announced
that as a mark of respect to the
memory of Miss Anthony the flags
of the city will be displayed at half
mast the day of the funeral. ,
Miss Anthony was taken ill while
on her way home from the national
suffrage convention in Baltimore. She
stopped in New York, where a ban
quet was to be given February 20, in
honor of her eighty-sixth birthday,
but had an attack of neuralgia on the
18th, and hastened home. Pneumonia
developed. After that she became
unable to retain nourishment and
showed an alarming.
Last week, however, she seemed to
improve and her friends hoped she
was out of danger. Then came the
the attack of heart failure Sunday
afternoon, - following which she sank
into unconsciousness. From that time
on almost the only sign of life man
fested was the feeble pulse beat and
the labored breathing.
Miss, .Anthony -herself had believed
that she would recover. Early In her
illness she told her friends that she
expected to be as old as her father,
who was over ninety when he died.
OIL RATES IN KANSAS
To Be Investigated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission
Kansas City. Acting upon resolu
tions passed by both houses of con
gress three members of the interstate
commerce commission began an in
vestigation here today into charges
made by independent producers of
Kansas that the railways of Kansas
discriminate in favor of the Standard
Oil company in the matter of oil rates
outside the state. The railroads in
volved are the Santa Fe, the Missouri
Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas Texas,
the St. Louis & San Francisco, the
Rock Island, the Union Pacific, the
Kansas City Southern and the Bur
lington. The members of the interstate com
merce commission who will make the
investigation are Francis M. Cockrell,
Judson C. Clements and Charles A.
Prouty, John T. Marchand, who has
been in the southwest for the last
two weeks making a preliminary in
vestigation of the producers' charges,
was present as the attorney general
of Ohio; and Clifford Thome of Wash
ington, la., were present -as counsel
for the independent producers.
Democratic Victories in Maine
Portland, Maine. The democrats
carried off . six of the eleven Maine
cities holding municipal elections, and
came within 16 votes of electing their
mayoralty candidate in Bath. .
They turned over Auburn, Rockland
and Waterville, and retained control
of Lewkston, Saco and South Portland,
while the republicans carried Bath,
East port, Ellsworth, Gardiner and
Hallo well.
The great surprise was In the vote
of Rockland, where for the fifth time
In 23 vears the democrats elected a
mayor, and furthermore, carried six
of the seven wards, something never
before done in the history of the city.
The result is generally taken to be
a strong rebuke to Governor Cobb for
his indorsement of the Sturgis Leffer
law, for Rockland is the governor's
home, and his fellow republicans had
been appealed to to stand by, him.
Scores of them.however, voted the
straight Democratic ticket.
Will Bore For Oil
Bennett, Neb. Bennett is the cen
ter of a big excitement over the pros
pective discovery of oil. The Nemaha
Development company has been
formed for the purpose or sinking test
wells, and the work will be started
as' soon as cflmatta conditions will
permit. Back of it is Lincoln capi
tal, Messrs. Burnham, Ferguson and
Foster, of that city being the principal
men interested. J. N. Maupin, the
Missouri oil expert, has been all over
the ground here, employing his di
vining rod, and insists that there is
not the least doubt but that there is
plenty of oil beneath ,he surface.
Unusual Episode In Court
Charles E. Means, of Lincoln, who
has figured considerably in the courts
of late, deve'loped a big case of re
morse and went into court and paid
the costs of a suit which he had won
and in which the costs had been taxed
to the plaintiff. Means had been sued
for a lumber bill and when the case
was tried he produced a receipt for
the amount charged against him. He
said he had secured the receipt by un
fair means and as he had started on
the right and narrow path he wanted
to pay the costs of the suit, which
amounted to $106.
French Mine Disaster
Paris: The worst fears as to the
enormity of the mine disaster in the
Courrleres district of the Pas de
Calais Saturday morning have been
realized. The death list numbers 1,100
and the whole of the region stands
appalled at the terrible tragedy which
has brought sorrow to six thousand
fathers, mothers, wives and children.
The last great mine disaster in
France occurred in 1885 when 292 per
sons were killed and 80 injured, but
that and all others sink into insignifi
cance before Courrieres.
. Wife Refuses to Pay Fine .
Tecumseh, Neb. George Howell,
the man arrested in incoln by Sheriff
Harry Miner and brought to Tecum
seh on the charge of stealing a pair
of horseblankets from the rig of Wil
liam ogsdon in Cook, is still in jail.
Howell was brought into the county
court, where he pleaded guilty and
was fined $25 and costs; $50 in all.
Howell has a wife who is worth sev
eral thousand dollars, but she has re
fused to pay his fine.
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RATE BILL JNTHE SENATE
INTEREST CENTERS ON AMEND
MENT PREPARED BY BAILEY, .
The Measure Doomed Unless it Re
ceives Practically Solid Democratic
Vote Some Facts About Panama
Canal the Congressional Muddle.
Washington, D. C, March 14. (Spe- x
cial) Interest here centers in the
probable action of the democratic sen
ators on the rate bill. Rumor has it
that Senator Bailey is about to throw
himself into the breech, and line up
at least thirty democratic senators for
the measure. Senator Bailey is -reported
to have prepared an amend
ment covering the question of court
review, - which amendment provides
that a rate determined upon by the
Interstate commerce commission and
going into immediate effect, may be
reviewed by the courts if the claim
is set up by the railroads that the
rate does not allow them reasonable
compensation for the service per
formed, or an appeal to the courts
may be taken and a review of the
rates made by the courts if the rail
roads plead that the interstate com
merce commission had exceeded its
authority under the law, but that in
no case can the courts make an inter
locutory order suspending the rate
established by the commission pend
ing its reaching the court in the regu
lar order of proceedure.
An amendment to this effect is said
to be netlrely satisfactory to the
friends of the bill and that they will
give it their full support. It is ru
mored that an understanding has been '
reached regarding the Bailey amend
ment and that It will not be intro
duced by Mr. Bailey himself, but will
be introduced by Mr. Tillman or some
other member of the interstate com
merce commission and thereby become
a committee amendment.
The report that Senator Bailey with
his acknowledged ability as a consti
tutional lawyer, and his recognized
strength as a parliamentary leader
has determined to make the bill a
democratic measure in a party sense,
and line up the democrats in its sup
port has created a good deal of a sen-'
sation in political circles here.
Far seeing republican politicians
realize that if Senator Bailey is cor
rectly reported he is likely to suc
ceed, and that his success will result
in giving the democratic party a pres
tige before the country that it has
not enjoyed since ante-bellum days.
They admit that it is within the power
of the democratic senators to win
great credit for their party and to
force a split in the republican ranks
upon lines that will be irreconcilable
and destructive to the future prospects
of the party.
They recognize that the republican
senators who are to come up for re
election ' before the legislators to be
chosen next fall must support the
president in his efforts to regulate the ,