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McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
BRIEF TELEGRAMS
Thousands of acres of corn land in
Bouthern Indiana have been flooded
by the raise of the Ohio and Wabash
rivers
A disease supposed to be the bu
bonic plague has broken out in Mazat
Jan Mexico Several deaths have al
ready occurred
The piano factory of Ernest Gabler
Bros New York was almost totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday night ea
tailing a loss of 150000
The United States supreme court
has rendered a decision providing that
an insurance policy is Invalid when
the holder thereof is hanged for mur
der
An elevator man in one of the Chi
cago stores has been driven insane
by the questions of Christmas shoppers
Even an elevator man cant stand ev
erything
One day last week four mail steam
ers bound for Great Britain and Ger
many left New York- with 7000 sacks
filled with Christmas presents
The isthmian canal commissioners
are paid 1000 a month each With
such a salary as this they ought to be
required to do a fair share of the dig
ging
The United States Steel corpora
tion has purchased the Champion mine
at Champion Mich and the large
tract of adjoining iron ore lands for
a reported consideration of 2000000
Pittsburg Is to have a new home for
working girls to be built next spring
at a cost of 250000 The building
will be a skyscraper twelve stories
high and will accommodate 400 in
mates
Monday was the shortest day of the
jear The sun arose at 721 and re
tired at 435 at least these are the
hours he was supposed to keep in the
neighborhoods where ho put in an ap
pearance at all
Dr Ryno an aged farmer living
near McPherson Kas has been found
guilty of shooting Miss Maude Holmes
an 18-year-old girl She was shot
while standing before the mirror in
her bedroom July 5
After lingering three days in agony
City Marshal R E Coulter and Justice
of the Peace A E Musgrave who
were shot on the street at Parmington
la Friday afternoon by George Stil
well are dead of their wounds
The second election for representa
tive in the legislature from Yellow
stone county in Montana has resulted
in another tie Before each candidate
received 738 votes and this time each
got 535 A third election will proba
bly be held
Brookline Mass is the richest city
in America but there are more mil
lionaires in Uniontown Pa than in
any other town of its size leaving out
health restorts In fact says a trav
eler from that place millionaires
are so common there that they cut no
more ice than the average citizen
General Bourbon Y de Castellvl
a cousin of King Alfonso was arrested
in a Madrid gambling club He was
arrraigned before the captain general
and subsequently released The gen
eral has challenged the prefect who
is responsible for the energetic at
tempts made to suppress club gam
bling
Five hundred million dollars in gold
is the amount of American capital
invested in Mexico by 1117 American
companies and individuals according
to estimates carefully prepared by
the consul general at Mexico City
Practically all of th has been invest
ed within five yea s Seventy per
cent of the total is invested in rail
roads
A voluntary advance in wages for
the motormen and conductors in its
employ has been announced by the
Omaha Street Railway company The
advance will be effective January 1
and will be 5 per cent for the men
who have been employed by the com
pany for more than a year and 10 per
cent for those who have served more
than two years
James B Ewing whose home is said
to be in Indiana was shot and killea
near Atlanta in the smoking compart
ment of a northbound Southern rail
way train by Frederick L Stephen
son a railway clerk of the Southern
railroad Stephenson lives in Atlanta
According to all accounts obtainable
Stephenson was intoxicated There
were no witnesses to the tragedy and
the cause is unknown
A jury in the superior court at
Brockton Mass has awarded Frank
J Cashin of Springfield 37000 in his
suit against the New York New Ha
ven Hartford Railroad company for
injuries received as a passenger in the
Avon railroad accident in 1901
Cashin brought suit for 75000 Tes
timony was offered to show that the
plaintiff received injuries from which
he was growing worse Instead of bet
ter
PRINCESS FLE
WIFE OF SAXONYS HEIR MYSTE
RIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
UNPLEASANT RUMORS AFLOAT
No Trace of MlBsing Woman Who 16
Said to Have Vanished Because of
a Love Affair with an American
Dentist
VIENNA The crown pincess of
Saxony an Austrian archduchess left
Dresden in great distress for Salz
burg where her parents live owing
to a love affair with an American den
tist the consequences of which are
undeniable
Her parents who have three young
daughters still unmarried disowned
her and drove her from the castle
One of her four brothers took her part
and accompanied the crown princess
The Saxony crown prince refuses t6
hush up the scandal The court fes
tivities have been countermanded
DRESDEN Saxony By order of
the king and crown prince the court
circular Monday announces the crown
princess of Saxony fled from her
home on the night of December 11
In a state of intense mental excite
ment she suddenly deserted her fam
ily at Salzburg and went abroad says
the official record The Saxon court
functions for the winter including the
New Years reception have been can
celed Rumors to this effect have
been current for some days but have
been generally discredited but it is
now known that she has vanished so
completely that the police of every
kingdom in Europe have for ten days
been unable to trace her The offi
cial announcement was made in order
to obtain the aid of the general pub
lic and because the court fiction that
she preferred to remain in retirement
at Salzburg rather than to return to
her husband and children at Dresden
cannot longer be maintained
Accompanied bv the crown prince
the princess went to the castle of Em
peror Francis Joseph near Salzburg
a month ago A week after their ar
rival the prince broke his leg while
hunting and was brought back to
Dresden The princess however re
mained at the castle Why she did
so the people of the court did not
know except that with gloomy tenac
ity the princess usually does what she
pleases
It was said the princess had sur
rendered herself to periods of nervous
excitement and that her eccentricities
caused much concern to her suite and
to some of her Austrian kinsfolk It
is now believed that she was under
surveillance and her disappearance is
therefore considered the more extra
ordinary
On December 11 the princess who
appeared to be in an unusually tran
quil mood retired before 12 Three
hours later when a maid looked into
the royal bedchamber something in
the appearance of the bed prompted
her to go closer and examine it In
stead of the princess the maid per
ceived a dummy figure She awaken
ed the lady in waiting and the latter
with other members of the princess
suite searched all the neighboring
apartments then the entire castle and
finally the grounds but no trace of
the missing woman was found
At dawn the police of Salzburg were
informed of the disappearance and
inquiries were made throughout the
whole countryside but with no tangi
ble result The inquiry was gradually
extended to all parts of the kingdom
and on authority from Dresden by
the end of the second day to all Eu
rope The theory of suicide was sug
gested and a fruitless search for the
princess body has been made without
result
The disappearance of the princess
doubtless will cause the circulation of
many stories and it is already report
ed that she eloped but inquiries made
here have brought out nothing to sub
stantiate this statement
VIENNA It is officially explained
here that the princess disappearance
is due to mental derangement There
is little doubt that it was caused by
domestic discord growing out of her
husbands relations with an actress
of the Dresden court theater It is as
serted that the princess frequently
threatened flight on this account and
that she was incensed at her father
the grand duke of Tuscany for coun
seling her to forgive her husband
DESTITUTION IS APPALLING
Four Hundred Thousand Finlanders
Reported Starving
ST PETERSBURG Four hundred
thousand persons are reported to be
destitute and starving as a result of
the crop failure in Finland The Anglo-American
church here has under
taken to feed and clothe the school
children of four Finnish parishes and
Pastor Francis has issued an appeal
for assistance in this work He says
the conditions today are worse than
those of 1867 when 100000 persons
died
AVENGE POLICEMANS DEATH
Mob Lynches a Kansas Negro Who
Committed Murder
PITTSBURG Kan Montgomery
Godley a negro was taken from the
jail here Thursday and lynched by a
mob because early in the moming he
shot and killed Milton HInkle a po
liceman who was trying to protect
himself against a crowd of unruly
blacks
The negro jerked the officers pistol
from the holster and shot him with
it from behind Two hours later a
mob gathered and took Godley from
the city jail where he had been in
carcerated and hanged him to a tele
phone pole As he was choking to
death one of the members of the mob
cut his throat and ended his suffer
ings
A large number of negro men and
women from the various mining
camps in the vicinity among them
Mont and Joe Godley brothers were
drinking and carousing at a ball Hin
kle requested them to be quiet The
Godley brothers answered him in an
insulting and insolent manner and he
tried to arrest them They resisted
and Hinkle blew his whistle for help
He then began to use his club in or
der to protect himself from the on
slaught of the crowd He was hold
ing his own against three of them
when Mont Godley grabbed the offi
cers revolver and placing the muz
zle behind Hinkles right ear pulled
the trigger The ball passed through
his head and came out over the left
eye He fell to the sidewalk Other
officers pursued the negroes all of
whom started to run when the officer
fell The Godley brothers were both
captured and locked up in the city
jail Hinkle was carried to the city
hall where he died at 2 oclock
GUAM DOES NOT FLOURISH
Annual Report from Governor of the
Island is Interesting
WASHINGTON The annual report
of Commander Seaton Schroeder gov
ernor of the island of Guam which is
dated July 10 has just reached the
Navy department
The receipts last year were 66000
and the expenses 57000 leaving a bal
ance of 8000 which however is a
decrease of more than 13000 in the
cash balance for the preceding year
This loss is due largely to the unex
pected expenses incident to the estab
lishment of the leper colony and a de
crease of over 10000 in import duties
Commander Schroeder reports that
it has been deemed prudent to stop all
work of public improvement until fur
ther appropriations are made The
value of the exports and imports dur
ing the year were respectively 55549
and 35165
The exports consisted almost entire
ly of Mexican dollars Not a pound
of copra was exported and neither
cacao or coffee was produced in suf
ficient quantities to supply the home
market
The census of the island taken last
autumn shows a total population of
9676 of whom only forty six are for
eigners fourteen being citizens of the
United States but officers and men of
the navy or other civil employes tem
porarily imported from the United
States were not included
Above the age of 7 46 per cent of
the natives read and write Spanish
The natives still refuse to allow their
sick to receive medical attention but
conditions were improving an excess
of births over deaths being shown for
each of the last two years
Statehood Report is Out
WASHINGTON The testimony
taken by the sub committee of the
senate committee on territories on the
house omnibus statehood bill has been
printed as a senate document and was
made public Monday night It makes
a book of 394 pages with maps and
includes quotations and answers of
many people examined with reference
to the size population resources
schools and churches business moral
and other characteristics of the peo
ple of the three proposed states and
miscellaneous information
Officer is Missing
DENVER Second Lieutenant Wil
liam M Kistler Company M Eight
eenth United States infantry has been
missing from Fort Logan for nearly
two weeks The Denver police de
partment has been asked to help lo
cate him
Lieutenant Kistler is 23 years old
and enlisted as a private in the Sixth
cavalry seven years ago at Philadel
phia He went with the battery to
the Philippines and saw service in and
about Manila
Cattle Said to Be Starving
DENVER Thonsands of cattle are
reported to be starving to death on
the range in northwestern Colorado
The Humane society appealed to the
owners to rescue their stock who
have explained that they are power
less to do so The cattle are snowed
in on the high range in Routt and Rio
Grande counties without pasture and
without water It is impossible to
get feed to them and equally impos
sible to drive them into suitable win
ter quarters
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NEBRASKA IN GENERAL
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FIRES IN NEBRASKA CITIES I A row of seven frame buildings in
South Omaha and Beatrice Suffer
Considerable Damage
The big sheep barns at the Union
stock yards in South Omaha were tot
ally destroyed by fire Thursday It is
estimated that the loss will be a little
over 50000 fully covered by insur
ance
Just how the fire started has not
been ascertained One of the employes
discovered the blaze and immediately
sounded the alarm Before any of the
firemen arrived the entire main struc
ture was in flames and great clouds of
black smoked rolled lazily away to
wards the south The smoke attracted
the attention of people all over the
city and within half an hour after the
flames broke out the yards and sur
rounding fences were almost black
with people
The main structure was 700 feet in
length 160 feet in width and thirty
feet high It was constructed of tim
bers and was sheathed on the outside
with corrugated iron The flooring
was of vitrified brick This building
was erected several years ago Last
year the stock yards company found
a need of increased capacity and erect
ed an addition 200 feet long by 200
feet in width thirty feet high south
of the big barn This building was
similar in construction to the other
and was also destroyed
At the time of the fire 993 head of
sheep were confined in pens in the big
barn When the alarm was given some
of the men at hand hustled out 500
head into the alleys and these were
saved the balance were smothered to
death
BEATRICE Fire originating in the
basement of Days drug store in the
Masonic temple block totally de
stroyed the entire block and contents
Conservative estimate places the loss
at 150000
The fire is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin The flames spread
from the basement to the floor above
and before the arrival of the fire de
partment was beyond control
The Beatrice National bank Trevitt
Mattis Baker private bankers Days
drug store and a number of lawyers
insurance agents and real estate men
occupied the building
The fire was discovered by Judge
fTflllison who roomed over the drus
the business center of Culbertson was
destroyed by fire
The annual meeting of the state bar
association -will be held in Omaha
January 8 and 9
The state bank at Surprise was en
tered Tuesday night the safe blown
open and 2200 stolen
The first train on the new Union Pa
cific extension from Cedar Rapids to
Spalding was run Tuesday
Mrs Bernard Dolan an elderly Lin
coln woman was found in the Ice of
Salt creek frozen to death
William Zeplin a prominent young
man of West Point slipped on the
ice and fell dislocating his neck He
died a few hours later
Livestock Agent Upton of the Bur
lington says the recent storms in the
range country of Nebraska Wyoming
and South Dakota have caused no great
losses to stock
Adams county has paid off 25000
of the bonds held by the state leav
ing 100000 in bonds still in the
hands of the state treasurer Another
block will soon be taken up
Mrs Lena Lillie has been arrested
charged with the murder of her hus
band Harvey Lillie who was mys
teriously killed while asleep in his
home at David City two months ago
The papers in Mexico City all com
ment on the arrival of W J Bryan
but it is understood that his visit is
merely one of pleasure and recreation
he being accompanied by his family
It is authoritatively stated that
Governor Mickey will make no ap
pointments to the positions of adju
tant general of the Nebraska National
guard and state oil inspector until
next spring Several candidates are
making a lively scramble for these
positions
Charles S Young formerly assist
ant general advertising agent of the
Burlington has been appointed gen
eral advertising agent of the Mil
waukee with headquarters in Chicago
Mr Young was formerly a reporter
in Omaha His advancement in the
railway world has been rapid
Two unusual marriages occurred at
Ainsworth Christmas week The con
tracting parties in one were Levi Lind
quist and Miss Grace Hagerman the
groom weighing a little over 100
pounds while the bride weighs 320
pounds In the second marriage Ca-
leb Hiveley aged 72 years- was united
store He was awakened by the smell
of smoke and although crippled by
rheumatism managed to crawl to a
window break the glass and call for
help
His cries were heard by the printers
in a nearby printing office who turned
in the alarm and rescued him
UNITED AFTER MANY YEARS
R G Backus Finds Daughter After
Long Separation
PLATTSMOUTH There is connect
ed with the life of Mrs Agnes Lieber
shal formerly Miss Agnes Backus of
this city a story which reads like fic
tion
Mrs Liebershals mother died six
months after the former was born
and her father R G Backus after
placing his child in the keeping of Mr
and Mrs Dennis McCarthy of this city
drifted out into the world to seek his
fortune and not from that day until
recently did he hear anything directly
from his daughter
Then he recived a letter from her
addressed to Cincinnati O He im
meditely answered it expressing his
great pleasure at hearing from her and
stating that he had written many let
ters to relatives and others in Platts
mouth inquiring about her but for
some unknown cause these letters were
unanswered and he had been kept in
ignorance as to whether or not the
child was still alive
Mr Backus arrived the day before
Christmas and is spending the holi
days with his daughter He is a rep
resentative of the Cincinnati Times
Star and from general appearance is a
very happy man His daughter was
married about six months ago to An
tone Liebershal a cigarmaker
Ten-Year-Old Boy Suicides
Adelbert Lemon the ten-year-old
son of Rev H A Lemon of Bethany
state evangelist of the Christian
church with self destruction in his
childish mind on the day before
Christmas placed a rifle against his
body and fired The bullet passed en
tirely through his abdomen severing
the internal organs in many places
After telling his sorrowing parents
that he did the deed on purpose he
submitted to a surgical operation with
out sign of faltering and died from
hemorrhage and the shock
He was a bright intelligent boy a
model son whose life had a short
time before been bubbling over with
Christmas joy On his death bed he
said he had been considering the daed
for several weeks He gave no partic
ular reason why he had thought of such
an act
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in marriage to Mrs Anna E Sopher
aged 67 years
An interesting suit will soon bet
started in Lancaster county wherein
the county commissioners will seek to
compel County Judge Waters to pay
into the county treasury fees which he
has collected for performing marriage
ceremonies Judge Waters insists that
he is just as much entitled to the fees
for performing the marriage ceremony
as are the ministers of the gospel who
perform them
J H Hadkinson of Omaha has been
appointed head gardener for the de-
partment of horticulture in connection5
with the worlds fair Mr Hadkinson
is a native of England and studiecj
gardening in that country He hau
charge of the gardening at the Omaha
exposition and of Nebraskas horticul
tural exhibit at the Pan American
For two years he was secretary of
the State Horticultural society of Ne
braska
NEBRASKA CATTLE ALL RIGHT
State Official Makes Investigation and
Reports Favorably
LINCOLN State Veterinarian
Thomas who has just returned from
Scotts Bluff county reports that after
a critical examination into the condi
tions prevailing in the western end of
the state he finds the cattle industry
in excellent condition This tends to
relieve the alarm that has been cre
ated by the reports sent out to the
press concerning the condition of the
ranges in Wyoming and Colorado The
snow injures the grass for forage pur
poses to a certain extent but the Ne
braska ranchmen are awakening to the
need for exercise of more foresight and
less dependence on providence to safe
guard their herds and keep them
through the winter He saw much
stacked hay that had been put up in
preparation for the winter He did
not see any herds that appeared to be
suffering from the stress of the weath
er and heard no stories of distress
among the ranchmen on the Nebraska
side of the line
Much interest is being stirred up m
the state university at Lincoln in an
ticipation of the preliminary debates
next month The university will hold
debates with Colorado at Denver
Kansas at Lawrence Kan and Mis
souri at Lincoln early in May
John Gotte a well-to-do Kimball
county ranchman is believed to have
perished in the recent storm He left
his ranch to look up stray cattle Noth
ing has been seen of him since Three
da3s after his departure his horse re
turned alone
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Miss Alice
Atlanta Ga tells how she was
permanently cured of inflamma
tion of the ovaries escaped sur
geons knife by taking Lydia E
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
I had suffered for three years with
terrible pains at the time of men
struation and did not know what
Sthe trouble was until the doctor pro
nounced it inflammation of the
ovaries and proposed an operation
I felt so weak and sick that I felt
euro that I could not survive the or
deal The following week I read an
advertisement in the paper of Jjydia
E Pinkhams Vegetable Com t
pound in such an emergency and so
1 decided to try it Great was my joy
to find that I actually improved after
taking two bottles and in the end I
was cured by it I had gained eighteen
pounds and was in excellent health
Miss Axice Bailey 50 North Boule
vard Atlanta da 5000 forfeit If original
-- MUW W J W f a f VIIUIHH
of above letter proving gen
genuineness cannot b pro-
fuced
The symptoms of inflammation
and disease of the ovaries are
a dull throbbing1 pain accom
panied by a sense of tenderness
and heat low down in the side
with occasional shooting pains
The region of pain sometimes
Shows some swelling
WESTERN CANADA
Is attracting moro attention than any other district
In tho world
The Granary of tho World The land of Bun-
ihine The Natural Feeding Grounds for Stock
Area under crop in 1902 1987830 acres
Yield 1902 117822754 bushels
Abundance of Water fuel
Plentiful Cheap Building
Material Good Gnus for
pasture and bay a fertile
soil asulEcientralnfalland
a climate giving an assured
and adequate season or
growth HOHESTEAD
LANDS OF 160 ACRES
FKEE Close to Churches Schools etc Kailwaye tap
ell settled districts Send for Atlas and other literature
to Superintendent of Immigration Ottawa Canada
or to wV Bennett Canadian Government Agent 801
New York Life BldiOmanaXetiwno will supply you
with certificate giving you reduced railway rates etc
Send a Christmas Postal Card
All over Europe and especially in
Germany it is the custom during holi
day week to exchange greetings by
postal cards usually of the pictorial
character They are sent to friends
and relatives at home and abroad
and their interchange adds much to the
gaiety of the season With commend
able enterprise Leslies Weekly has
taken up the foreign fad by including
in its handsome Christmas number a
sheet of eight Christmas postal cards
each containing a beautiful and appro
priate picture and space for a brief
message These cards can he cut
apart and readily mailed As the
Christmas edition of Leslies Weekly
is 125000 copies it will be seen thau
it will circulate just a million holiday
postal greetings
The people of a certain Yorkshire
town are blamed as a rule for look
ing at both sides of a penny before
parting with it says Spare Moments
Quite a laughable example occurred
the other day
A man slightly deaf went to the doc
tor with a bruised finger
The doctor washed and bandaged it
and when the man asked the charge
said
Oh it is just a trifle and wont
cost anything
No no sir you will need to make
it less an that
The doctor catching on said
Very well we will say two and
six pence which the man promptly
paid thinking he had knocked some
thing off
A good many of the very rich young1
men of New York are among the bus
iest people belonging to Manhattan is j
land For instance Cornelius Vander
bilt and Jack Astor are continuallyj
at work inventing something or other
Harry Payne Whitney takes a deep
interest in his fathers business
George is up to his waist in big affairs
all of the time Clarence Mackay is
carrying on his fathers extensive en-
terprises and J P Morgan jr flndsj
ample occupation in representing his
father in London
How Titian
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case of Catarrh that casaot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure
F J CHENEY CO Props Toledo C
We the undersigned have known F J
Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tions made by their firm
West Truar Wholesale Druggists Toledo
O Walding Kinnan Marvin Wholesale
Druggists Toledo Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally act
Ing directs v upon the blood and mueoussurf aces
of the system Testimonials sent free- Price
Jbc per bottle Sold by all druggists
Halls Family Pills are the bt
Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of Defi
ance Starch is fast taking place of
all other brands Others say they
cannot sell any other starch
The biggest tree fears the beavers
teeth
If you are coughing take Dr Au
gust Koenigs Hamburg Breast Tea
A locomotive engineer can make hi3
own headlight by tanking up
Defiance Starch Is guaranteed big
gest and best or money refunded 16
ounces 10 cents Try it now
