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P M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
I BRIEF TELEGRAMS
A great many settlers are pouring
into South Dakota
Very heavy rains have recently oc
curred in Oklahoma
Fire at Davenport la destroyed
250000 worth of property
Announcement was made at New
York that Mrs Marie H Tiffany had
been granted an absolute divorce from
Perry Tiffany
Eight or ten thousand women are
in Los Angeles attending the biennial
convention of the General federation
of Womens clubs
President J W Springer of the Na
tional Live Stock association has sent
a telegram to President Roosevelt
asking him to veto the oleomargarine
MIL
The Bolivian minister at Washing
ton Senor Don Fernanda E Gua
chlale has been granted by his gov
ernment permission to proceed to Eu
rope
Ex Governor Morrills apple or
chard in Kansas now contains over
64000 trees and is said to be the
largest single apple orchard in the
world
Postmaster H W Harris of Lytton
Springs twenty five miles south of
-Austin Texas was shot and killed by
Joe Halden also of that place Halden
was arrested
Admiral Dewey Rear Admirals
Coghlan and Entwistle and others cel
ebrated the fourth anniversary of the
battle of Manila bay at a banquet
ity of accident
The royal family of Greece has been
safely landed at Chalkis Euboa is
land thirty five miles from Athens
The royal yacht Amphitrite has not
yet been floated
A cablegram received at the state
department from Minister Conger
states that there are serious disturb
ances in the southern portion of the
province of Chi Li
The Associated Press understands
that J Pierpont Morgan gets 2500
000 in stock of the shipping combine
in return for his services in organiz
ing and financing it
The bill for a commission to in
vestigate the status of the colored
race caused a warm discussion in the
house committee on labor but no ac
tion was taken on it
Somewhere about a hundred mem
bers of congress are base ball cranks
of deep or shallow dye and over half
of them were at the opening gume of
the season in Washington
The Neue Frle Presse of Vienna
says that as the result of systematic
persecution 3000 Jewish families
comprising 1200 persons will leave
Roumania for the United States in a
few days
Congressman J J Butler of Mis
souri is made the defendant in a suit
for 10000 damages instituted in the
district court at Washington by Au
gust Scholz a waiter at a local hotel
He alleges assault
A dispatch to the London Central
News from Rome says Princess Be
atrice Borrone daughter of Don Car
los the Spanish pretender attempted
suicide by throwing herself into the
Tiber but was rescued
Emperor William has ordered Direc
tor Fritz of the government shipyard
at Kiel to proceed to the United
States to study the methods of Amer
ican shipyards particularly as re
gards labor saving machinery
At Youngstown O May 1 two
thousand men employed in the build
ing trades went on strike for an ieight
hour day and increase of wages all
efforts to settle their differences with
the contractors proving unavailing
It is reported in Liverpool shipping
circles that the British government
has intimated its willingness to sub
sidize British shipping in the event of
the Atlantic shipping combine prov
ing really harmful to the mercantile
marine of Great Britain
The magnificent silver service
made from silver coins taken from
the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon
to be presented to Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley by his friends in his own
state and in Washington has been
completed and is on exhibition
There is no truth in the story that
Dowager Queen Margherlta of Italy
has decided to enter a convent
At his own request Ambassador
Meyer has been granted a leave of
absence of sixty days from his post
at Rome
Carroll D Wright United States
commissioner of the bureau of labor
statistics has been elected by the
trustees of Clark university president
of the new collegiate department to
be established in connection with the
university in Worcester Mass
Representative Foster of Illinois
has introduced a bill to place all live
stock on the free list
A J Drexel son of the late An
thony J Drexel of Philadelphia was
caught for 4000000 in the crash of
International Power stock
ISLANOAWASTE
NEITHER ANIMAL NOR VEGETA
BLE LIFE REMAINS
ACTIVE SINCE THIRD OF MONTH
Expert Commission Examines it Then
and Reports There is No Danger
Lulls the People Into Security and
Then Suddenly Becomes Active
FORT DE FRANCE Island of Mar
tinique May 12 Advices received here
from the vicinity of St Pierre ten
miles from here contain further de
tails of the terrible volcanic upheaval
which resulted in the utter destruction
of that town and the death of nearly
all of its inhabitants
The crater of Mont Pelee has been
wearing its smoke cap since May 3
but there was nothing until last Mon
day to indicate that there was the
slightest danger On that day a stream
of boiling lava burst through the top
of the crater into the valley of the
River Blanche overwhelming the
Guerin sugar works and killing twenty-three
work people and the son of
the proprietor
A commission was appointed by the
governor to investigate the outbreak
and it returned a reassuring report on
Wednesday evening but about 8
oclock on Thursday morning a shower
of fire rushed down on St Pierre and
the coast from Le Carbet which had
a population of G000 to Le Precheur
which had a population of 4000 burn
ing up everything in its path
Throughout Thursday the heat in
the vicinity of St Pierre was so in
tense and the stream of flowing lava
was so unremitting that it was im
possible to approach the town dur
ing the early part of the day As
evening approached the French cruiser
Suchet after a heroic battle with the
heat suffocation and sulphur fumes
succeeded in making a dash toward the
shore nearing the land close enough
to enable it to take off thirty survivors
of the disaster all of whom were hor
ribly burned and mutilated
St Pierre at that time was an ab
solute smoking waste concealing 30
000 corpses whose rapid decomposi
tion necessitated in some cases in
stantly completing their cremation
which was only partially accomplish
ed by the lava The inhabitants of
Fort de France were panic stricken
the morning of the disaster when the
sky suddenly blackened until it was
as dark as midnight The sea shrank
hack thirty yards and hot rain began
to fall and gravel of large size be
gan to fall onto the town This last
ed fifteen minutes About 450 sur
vivors who were brought here from
the vicinity of St Pierre by Pouyer
Guertier came from the town of Le
Precheur where surrounded on all
sides by flowing lava they were near
ly roasted to death and expected mo
mentarily to be engulfed The work
of relief is progressing here on the
most extensive scale possible but in
anticipation of disturbances the
treasury building and the warehouses
are guarded by troops
The latest reports received here
showed that lava continues to pour
down the slopes of the mountain
slowly engulfing the whole north side
of the mountain while fresh crevasses
are continually opening
Cudahys Invest in the East
NEW HAVEN Conn May 12 Cud
ahy Bros of Omaha and Chicago have
just purchased the big beef plant of
C C Andrews Co and the Anglo
American company of Chicago has
leased the plant of the Hoyt Beef and
Produce company Hereafter the
western operators will deal directly
with the smaller firms instead of
through local commission men
House Program
WASHINGTON May 12 Today is
District of Columbia day in the house
Special orders have been made for
the consideration of several bills to
follow the disposition of district busi
ness They include the bill to author
ize the issue of passports to residents
of our insular possessions the Adams
bill for the reorganization of the con
sular service and a day at least for
the consideration of war cleaims
Passports Not Needed
MANILA May 12 W M Shush-
ter customs collector for the Philip-
pine islands has abolished the sys
tem which requires travelers to ob
tain passports before leaving the is
lands but the order compelling them
to obtain permits to remove their
baggage is still in force
Pauncefote Still Sick
WASHINGTON May 12 Lord
Pauncefote the British ambassador
continues quite ill here and his con
dition is giving the family some con
cern He is suffering from asthma
Morgan Gets the Ship Canal
LIVERPOOL May 12 The Liver
pool Journal of Commerce asserts
positively that J P Morgan has ar
rived at some arrangement with the
Manchester Ship Canal company
VOTE ON PHILIPPINE BILL
Prospect that it Will Be Reached
Some Time Present Week
WASHINGTON May 12 Senator
Rawlins senior democratic member of
the senate committee on the Philip
pines expressed the opinion that a
vote can he reached on the Philippine
government bill towards the end of
the present week Other members of
the committee think the date of the
vote may be postponed until some
time next week but none of them
place the vote later than the 24th
instant two weeks hence They say
that whenever the debate is exhausted
they will agree to vote but that they
object to naming a day for a vote un
til they are quite certain that there is
nothing more to say pertinent to
the subject
The consideration of the bill this
week will be interspersed with the
consideration of appropriation bills
today being set apart for the fortifica
tion bill and Tuesday for the agricul
tural appropriation bill Neither of
these measures will consume a great
deal of time and on each day it is ex
pected there will be time left for the
consideration of the Philippine bill
Among the opponents of the bill still
to be heard are Senators Clay and
Money It is probable that consider
able debate will grow out of the
speeches of Senators Foraker and
Spooner
Senator Lodge has given notice that
on Tuesday he will move to meet at
11 oclock each day to facilitate con
sideration of the Philippine bill
LAST TRIBUTE TO SAMPSON
All Departments of Government Rep
resented at Obsequies
WASHINGTON May 12 With a
pomp and circumstance exceeding
that of any naval funeral in this
country in recent years at least the
remains of the late William Thomp
son Sampson rear admiral in the
United States naval forces on the
North Atlantic station during the war
with Spain were yesterday laid at
rest
Every department of the national
government was represented The
executive by the president and his
cabinet and many prominent officials
of the civil civil service the legisla
tive by senators and representatives
the judiciary by the United States su
preme court and military and naval
services by officers of all ranks The
diplomatic body accompanied in
many cases by their ladies attended
the church services
The military and naval features of
the ceremonies were brilliant and im
pressive They were conducted un
der direction of Rear Admiral Terry
commander of the Washington navy
yard assisted by Lieutenant Henry
George The funeral escort gathered
early
ORDERED TO ST VINCENT
British Cruiser Will Render All the
Aid Possible
LONDON May 12 Sir Robert
Llewellyn the governor of the Wind
ward islands has cable from St Lucia
as follows
In continuation of my last tele
gram my intention was to go to St
Vincent in a small coasting steamer
but I was strongly advised not to at
tempt the trip as the steamer nar
rowly escaped being wrecked yester
day and as the weather was looking
very bad in that direction The is
land is invisible owing to a dense
black fog and cinders 1 am very
anxiously awaiting the arrival of a
warship
The colonial office announced today
that in addition to the British cruiser
Indefatigable ordered to St Vincent
from Trinidad the British third class
cruiser Pallas has been ordered to St
Vincent from Jamaica with supplies
for the sufferers on the former is
land
DESTRUCTION AT ST PIERRE
Surpasses All that Imagination Can
Conceive
PARIS May 12 The Temps re
ferring to the destruction at St
Pierre says
We believe from the information
received here from the island of Mar
tinique meaning doubtless the offi
cial dispatches that the disaster sur
passes all that imagination can con
ceive The whole northwestern por
tion of the island is laid waste Three
large communities exclusive of St
Pierre have been destroyed The vic
tims comprise two candidates for to
days ballctage for members of the
chamber of deputies
Alarmed About Dominica
LONDON May 12 The latest re
ports received here say that the state
of affairs at St Vincent creates grave
alarm especially as dispatches from
the island of Dominica reported that
the Souffriere volcano was in active
eruption Small boats loaded with
refugees from Grand Riviere Martin
ique have arrived at Dominica in a
pitiable condition They report that
six other boats left that village at the
J same time
SARPY MAY LOSE HATCHERY
Fish Commission Objects to Being
Tied Down to One Location
WASHINGTON May 12 Commis
sioner Bowers of the department of
fisheries in explaining why the bill
for the establishment of the fish
hatching and fish culture station in
Sarpy county had been changed so as
to include the state of Nebraska in
stead of locating the station near
South Bend as Representative Mer
cers bill indicated said congress had
not heretofore limited the department
of fish and fisheries in the selection
of a site He stated that the estab
lishment of a fish culture station in
Nebraska was most desirable but to
be compelled to locate it at some
point named by a bill would be detri
mental to the Interests of the de
partment and he had therefore recom
mended that the bill be made general
in character so as to provide that a
site should be selected by the fish
commissioner without limitation in
the state of Nebraska
It was stated today that the com
mittee on merchant marine and fish
eries of the house of which General
Grosvenor is chairman would bring
in an omnibus appropriation bill pro
viding for all fish cultural stations
that have been recommended by the
committee and it is thought the bill
to locate a station in Nebraska will
be included in that measure
W B PRICE IS NAMED
Succeed J Sterling Morton on the
Purchase Commission
LINCOLN Neb May 12 Gover
nor Savage has appointed W B
Price of Lincoln to succeed J Ster
ling Morton on the Louisiana Pur
chase commission Mr Price was
deputy insurance commissioner dur
ing the latter part of State Auditor
Cornells administration He is a
populist The commission is non-partisan
in character all political par
ties being represented
As the St Louis exposition has
been postponed until 1904 the incom
ing governor and the next legislature
may provide for another commission
If this is done the present commis
sion will have nothing to do The
gentlemen now serving have held
several meetings but have done little
toward representing Nebraska at the
fair
May Be Nebraska Horse Thief
WHEATLAND Wyo May 12
The authorities believe that in the
arrest of O J Young they have secur
ed a notorious horse thief It is al
leged that last March Young stole
fourteen head of horses from F M
Troy a prominent ranchman of Ger
ing Neb The horses were driven to
Sidney and there sold and shipped
to various points Youngs father
lives near Gering Neb
Nebraska Homeopaths
OMAHA Neb May 12 At the
regular annual meeting of the Ne
braska Homeopaths in this city the
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year President Dr E
B Finey Lincoln Dr F E Way of
Wahoo first vice president Dr H
R Miner of Falls City second vice
president Dr E Arthur Can of Lin
coln secretary and Dr O S Wood
of Omaha treasurer
Nebraska at Washington
WASHINGTON May 12 Senator
Miliard has introduced bills appropri
ating 40000 for the purchase of sites
for public buildings at Columbus and
West Point Neb
Representative Mercer has intro
duced a bill aiming to repeal the law
approved July 23 1SS8 providing for
the sale of the site at Fort Omaha
and the purchase of a new site and
construction of buildings
Big Pension for Nebraskan
WASHINGTON May 12 Congress
man Stark has the honor of having
secured one of the largest back pen
sions ever granted to residents in
Nebraska Hiram J Kietland of Ar
borville York county has just had
a pension allowed dating back to
March 1865 and which gives him up
ward of 2700
Ccal Near Fremont
FREMONT Neb May 12 A sec
ond prospect hole has been sunk on
the Remcle farm to a depth of 218
feet The same coal vein was struck
as in the first hole and at about the
same depth
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for the condition of na
tional banks at the close of business
Wednesday April 30 1302
Under Christian Science Treatment
OMAHA Neb May 12 Donald
the 15-year-old son of Judge J W El
ler died at his fathers house under
Chiistian Science treatment which
was being administered by C W
Chadwick first reader of the church
in this city assisted by Judge Eller
himself No physician had been call
ed on the case and the boy died in
intense agony after a struggle of
hours without having had medical
asisstance
NEBRASKA HAS CANDIDATES
Circuit Judge Caldwell is About to
Renre
WASHINGTON May 10 There s
a well defined rumor current in Wssh
ington that Judge Henrv Clay Cald
well of the Eighth United States cir
cuit is shortly to retire rom the
bench in which event there will be
a most interesting contest for the va
cancy thus created on the part cu men
well known in the west Already
Juage B Mcpherson oi jwa
has announced himself as a candidate
for the position and it is understood
that Judge William Cather Hook
United States judge for the district
of Kansas will be a candidate while
Nebraska will in all probability pre
sent two aspirants for this very dis
tinguished position Geneo M Lam
bertson of Lincoln and Charles J
Greene of Omaha It is stated that
Mr Greene should he desire to be
a candidate as now seems possible
will bring to bear upon the appointing
power the very strongest recommen
dations possible Judge Caldwell was
appointed in 1864 United States judge
for the eastern district of Arkansas
by President Lincoln and in 1890 was
appointed by President Harrison
judge of the Eighth United States cir
cuit Judge Caldwell went out from
Iowa to the war and became major
lieutenant colonel and colonel and en
tered Little Rock Arkansas capital
booted and spurred to take his posi
tion upon the district bench He is
now 70 years of age and believes that
he has reached the retiring period
WAS GENERAL AND COPIOUS
Nebraskas Rainfall the Heaviest of
the Season
The recent rainfall in Nebraska
was the heaviest of the season It is
regarded as the salvation of the win
ter wheat which this year is the most
extensive in acreage in the history of
the state Nearly every station re
ported rain and nearly every one re
ported at least one inch but at Cur
tis the gauge showed two and one
half Only three stations reported
less than half an inch of rain The
record in inches is as follows Arap
ahoe 100 Ashland 118 Aurora
150 Benkelman 50 Bluehill 74
Burchard SG Burwell 80 Central
City 126 Chester 60 Columbus
64 Curtis 250 Edgar 110 Eric
son CO Fairmont 144 Grand Is
land 132 Greeley 100 Hastings
158 Hickman 110 Holdrege 150
Imperial 10 Kearney 122 Lincoln
92 Loup City 74 McCook 120 Ne
braska City 114 North Platte 40
Omaha 94 Palmer 94 Plattsmouth
100 Ravenna 116 Rulo 104 Sa
lem 100 Schuyler 70 Seward 90
Strang 98 Superior 52 Syracuse
80 Tecumseh 78 Valentine 44
Wilber 110 Wilsonville 44 Wy
more 50
Fire at St Edward
ST EDWARD Neb May 10 The
most destructive fire that ever visited
St Edward occurred resulting in the
loss of five business houses and two
unoccupied store buildings The fire
started in the restaurant and dwelling
of Harry Richmond who lost all of
his household effects and stock of
goods In all seven buildings were
burned The total loss will reach
15000
Lively Reception to Burglar
GRESHAM Neb May 10 Burg
lars were given a warm reception at
Hylton Clems store Fred Van
Gorden who sleeps in the store
heard a noise and discovered the vis
itor helping himself to a pair of new
shoes and opened fire on him at short
range but his aim was poor and the
thief escaped leaving his hat and
hose behind
Coal Prospecting Progressing
FREMONT Neb May 10 The
second prospect hole for coal on the
Remele farm at Jamestown is now
down over 218 feet The same vein
which was struck in the first hole
was struck in this one at a depth of
218 feet
Bright Prospects in Chase County
IMPERIAL Neb May 10 Chase
county has been blessed with a most
copious rain Small grain is looking
fine and the farmers are busy put
ting in corn The indications are
that the crop outlook will be unusu
ally large in this county this year
Cut Worms Injuring Wheat
TAYLOR Neb May 10 Prospects
for spring wheat in Loup county are
quite flattering but it is said that cut
worms are doing considerable dam
age to fall wheat and rye
Ex Convict Held for Robbery
NEBRASKA CITY Neb May 10
Chief of Police D W McCallum ar
rested John Armstrong a former res
ident of this city who returned but a
short time ago after a protracted ab
sence The arrest was made upon
the request of the authorities at Des
Moines who allege that Armstrong
robbed the home of his brother at
Churchville a suburb of Des Moines
He has confessed to the crime and
will be extradited
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TWO IMMENSE PIANO STOCKS
Bought for Spot Cash
Never in our business experienci
have we been able to offer such
bargains In Pianos as now Lacic
of lloor space necessitates tbft
slaughtering of prices on at least
100 pianos
Brand new Pianos from I11S00 up
to the price of the celebrated
Stelnway We sell new pianos on
5 monthly payments Call or
writo at once for catalog prices etc
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Every farmer his own landlord no fncum
branues his bnnk account Increasing ycty by
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churches low taxatun
high prices for evile
and grain low rallvjy
rates and every
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condition or tho fanner in Western
Province of Manitoba and districts or AssiuJ
boia Saskatchewan and Alberta Thousand
of Americans are now settled there Reducta
rates on all railways for homeseekers and set
tlors New districts are being opened uj tbia
year The nev7 forty page Atlas of Western Ca
nada sent free to al applicants F Pedley
Superintendent of ImmigrationOttawaCannda
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