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McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA iG9 I THE NEWS IN BRIEF Lieutenant Guy Hanna of Iowa here tofore detailed at Fort Hunt Virginia baa been transferred to San Francisco Part of the navy department build ings at Buenos Ayres was destroyed by fire The loss is estimated at about 80000 The statement of the treasury bal ances in the general fund shows Available cash balance 221971889 Cold 102571296 At a meeting of Americans In Ha vana it was arranged to hold memo rial exercises at the wreck of the Maine on the anniversary of the de struction The Idaho senate passea ttoe house bill providing for a tax on the net out put of mines Strong efforts it Is said will be made to induct the governor to veto it Joel Sumner Smith of the class of 1853 of Yale died at his home In New Haven Conn He was assistant li brarian at the university and was 72 years of age The Kansas senate adopted a con current resolution recommending Uni ted States Senator William A Harris for appointment as a member of the isthmian canal commission Joseph E Cot and Juan Gonzales were hanged at San Quentin Cal for the murder of an old man in San Ben ito cotnty named Buiz whom they killed for purposes of robbery 1 The international convention of the Building Laborers Protective union in session at Fort Wayne Inu for two weeks adjourned after choosing St Louis for the meeting place next year Twenty five states were represent ed by more than 100 delegates at the first session of the annua meeting of the American RoadniaKers and In ternational Good Roads conference at Detroit The foot and mouth disease has be come serious again in Massachusetts and Dr Salmon chief of the bureau of animal industry will return to Bos ton in a few days to investigate the situation At Mystic S D the air compressor plant of the Castle Creek Mining com pany was totally destroyed by fire The plant consisted of boilers and en gine as well as air compressor and pump The loss is 7000 The great prevalence of smallpox in the Pennsylvania coke region has prompted the officials of the H C Frick Coke company to issue an order calling for the free vaccination of all its employes and their families Captain W W Brown general man ager of the United States Transpor tation company of Cleveland O died suddenly at Rome Italy He was 43 cars of age and was in good health w2in he left for Europe in January Willie Stoltzman aged 20 years ac quitted ten days ago at Fort Scott Kan of the charge of killing R J Morrison postmaster at Pawnee Kan was arrested at Kansas City for steal ing a suit case from Dr A Craig of Chicago Orders were Issued to shut down the print works of the Cocheco Manufac turing company at Dover N H The closing of this branch of the industry is due to the strike df the 250 ring spinners and carders ana win tnrow out of work about 1000 additional operatives William E Parnell superintendent of the Tamarack Osceola Consolidated and the Isle Royale mines of the Bige Iow group Michigan died at Calumet of cancer of the intestines He was vice president of the National bank of Houghton and was interested in many other enterprises The Nebraska Telephone company has filed amended articles of incor poration increasing the capital stock from 2000000 to 3000000 This ac tion was taken at the annual meeting at which provision was made for the expenditure of about 60000 this year in improvements and extensions An agency dispatch from Corunna Spain says that a resolution was pass ed at a meeting of workmen there In favor of a general strike in conse quence of the increase of the octroi duties which have advanced the price j of food The authorities have taken j precautions to cope with possible j turbances Senator Cullom from the senate j committee on foreign relations report- ed an amendment to the general de- i ficiency bill providing for the payment of 5000 to the Italian government on account of the killing of two Ital ians in a riot at Erwin Miss in 1901 The greater part of the 10000 worth of watches and jewelry stolen from the sale of S Vann Co jewel ers of Albuquerque N M November 20 1902 was found under an old barn by two boyB who were hunting for iens eggs - - T rfV VY Y THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE I A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of i T 5 the Twenty Eighth Geriera1 SENATE Most ot the day In the senate on the 11th was taken up as a committee of the whole in discussing the bulk law providing that no retail merchant should bo allowed to sell his stock entire or Jn part outside of the regular trade routine without first having notified his creditors and filing a list of credit ors with the county clerk The bill was amended and discussed so much that it was finally sent back to the committee Yhich was instructed to patch on the amendments and again bring it forth S F 114 calling for a convention to amend the constitution after a lengthy discussion was recommended for pas sago by the committee of the whole Sheldon of Cass introduced a resolution authorizing the judiciary committee to get up a bill making such changes In the ballot law regarding constitutional amendments as may be deemed neces sary and submit the same on or before February IS 1903 Bills on first reading Included Fixing fees for county clerks for Issuing instruments To provide for the sale by railroad companies of un claimed goods Authoriizng mutual fire Insurance companies to do business uot slde of the state To extend the bound aries of all cities villages school dis tricts and other municipal incorporations bordering upon igable streams which constitute state boundaries To define the crime of desertion of minor child or children wife or husabnd or home by father mother putative father husband or wife and to provide punishment therefor After being in session an hour on the 12th the senate adjourned for the day This was done in order to give the com mittees time to get up a large general file Standing committees reported as fol lows S F GS providing for the payment of certain fines into the school fund in definitely postponed S F 9 providing for a board of pardons recommended for pas sage S F OS to prevent the mutilation of horses recommended for passage S P G5 relating to marks and brands rec ommended for passage S F 139 for is suance of bonds for irrigation purposes recommended for passage S F 138 In regard to water rights recommended for passage S F 137 water rights irriga tion recommended for rassage S F 131 relating to the destruction of wild ani mals favorable II R 16 substituted for S F 23 providing for the division of counties into districts S F G4 relating to county treasurers deposits indefinitely postponed S F Ill providing for the calling of a constitutional convention was passed Bills on first reading were Providing for general revision of elec tion law Providing for the appointment of a union soldier having served three years a member of Board of Soldiers and Sailors to serve three years and the ap pointment of one member annually there after The senate on the 13th went into com mitce of the whole to consider bills on general file with Howell of Douglas in the chair S F 12G an act to provide for the stale superintendents making a uni Iform course ol study for district schools was ordeied engrossed after it had been amended so that no change be made in text books S F 9 provding for the ap pointment of a board of pardons to con sist of three members one of whom shall be a practical attorney After some dis cussion the bill was allowed to retain its place on the general file and no action was taken S F 131 to repeal act pro viding for bounty paid for killing wild animals ONeill wanted to amend by at taching the emeregncy clause The fol lowing bills were placed on general file To provide for school districts in metro politan cities paying for cost of bond for treasurer Providing for making five year contract for purchase of text books by school districts Relating to qualifications of teachers Relating to notice of annual school meetings Relating to printing re port of state superintendent Relating to establishment of public school system Providing for payment of bond of treas urers of school board by school district An act proSdivg for compiling abstracts of title bonds Providing for the pub lishing nt statutes- Providing for the pro cedure against tenants holding on Pro viding for appeals to supreme court De fining child dependency neglect cruelty etc and providing for protection The senate with eighteen members in sight and twenty seven marked present held a thirty minute session on the 14th beginning at 9 oclock This early was chosen so that those wiio had not gone home would be able to get out of town and the entire thirty three members would draw nay for a full day The read ing of the journal was cut short The committee on enrolled and engrossed bills reported that II R No 60 appropriating S2SO00 for incidental expenses of the legis lature was taken Hti the governor Thurs- j day evcnuiK at i oclock Three bills were introduced and read by title and two sen ate bills and three- house bills were read a second time and on adjournment was taken until Monday at 2 oclock One of the house bills advanced to second read- ing is to prevent me uocKing or norses tails and the others were of little more Importance The following were the bills Introduced S F No SS by Hall of Douglas to legalize illegal special as sessments levied in the city of Omaha S F No 187 by Cox by inquest relat ing to the removal of guardians Jennings of Thayer introduced In the senate on the loth a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of three to investigate the management of the office of the commissioner of labor and to report finding within ten days The resolution went over one day S F Go relating to marks and brands ordered engrossed s is to prevent mutila tion of horses recommended for passage II R 1G to provide for township organ- izulion recommitted S F 49 providing j Assembly c - if iirkirkicMckickkickickirkirk for school districts in metropolitan cities paying for bond of treasurer Committee asked leave to sit again S F 120 relat ing to school lands and funds H R 32 to make five years contract for purchase of textbooks reported progress and asked leave to sit again HUCKE A petition from the Nebraska Federa tion of Womans Clubs praying for the passage of a pure food law was intro duced in the house on the 11th by Gregg of Wayne and referred to the committee on commerce H R 119 by Gregg re quiring district school board to notify of ficers when reports are due was read the third time and passed Anderson of Kearney moved thrit the house go Into committee of the whole to consider II R 112 a bill introduced by Deles Dernier of Cass to authorize and empower boards of county commissioners or supervisors to make contracts for the construction and repair of bridges to buy material and employ the necessary help to construct or repair the bridges The matter was discussed at much length but definite action was not taken Bills were intro duced To amend section S3a article I chapter xvili Compiled Statutes by clerks of district courts to file notice of foreclosure or payment of mort gages with both county treasurer and clerk Emergency clause To authorize county commissioners to appropriate un expended balances credited to any pre cinct to such precinct To permit the payment of money arising from the sale or purchase of irrigation bands or cou pons at county treasurers offices as wel as state II R 301 by Rouse relating to district court fees A joint resolution re lating to the unexpended balance in the hands of the Nebraska State Relief com mission created by an act of the legisla ture at its twenty fourth session and to provide for conevrting said balance of 39G9G into the state treasury The house on the 12th concurred in the senates amendments to II R 60 reduc ing the appropriation for legislators ex penses from 48000 to I2SC00 It was shown by a report by the house deficiency cemmittee that the reduction was war rented as last session thousands of dol lars were spent for furnishings and dec orations which are not required this year These bills were read the third time and passed H R SS by Shelly of Doug las to prevent and punish the desecra tion of the federal flag H R 16G by Kit tel of Sherman repealing the wolf bounty law H R 173 by Burgess of Lancaster known as the anti printing trust bill was recommended for passage New bills in troduced were To establish an experi mental station at or near Crawford Neb fixing the control and management of the same and making an appropriation of 18 000 therefor Providing for holidays to be known as Lincoln and McKinley anni versaries and Flag day February 12 January 29 and June 14 respectively To amend an act to give an award for the discovery of coal iron ore gas t nd crude oil and to provide an appropriation of 23000 to pay the award To provide for the abandonment of onerations by irriga tion districts and for their disorganiza tion To provide for full width of public roads of sixty six feet and to keep them unmolested This resolution by Cropsey of Jefferson was adopted Whereas This the 12th day of Febru ary being the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Whereas His memory is revered by all people his ability and loyalty acknowl edged and admired his unbounded love for humanity and devotion to principle marks him as an honorable example for generations to come therefore be it Resolved That the flag of our country for whicli he gave his services and his life be placed at full nlast for today as a token of respect to the memory of the lamented saviour of our country In committee of the whole the house on the 13th considered the following bills among others II R 133 by Gregg To repeal the law providing for rural high schools without lequiring a consolidation of districts Recommended for indefinite postponement II R 112 by Deles Der nier to authorize county boards to con struct bridges without letting contracts when such boards deem it best to reject all bids for the contract After a num ber of futile attempts to amend the mo tion for indefinite postponement was lost by a vote of 27 to 43 An amendment was offered by Kittell of Sherman re quiring boards to advertise for contracts by competitive bidding for bridge work costing 300 or more The amendment was adopted An amendment by Rouse of Hall to provide that the work done by the county board shall not exceed the cost of the lowest bid rejected was adopted McAllister offered an amendment striking out all that portion of the bill which au thorizes the board to build bridges with out contract where the amount involved is 300 or more It was lost and the bill as amended was recommended for passage II R 132 by Gregg To provide that in cities of over 1300 and less than 100C09 inhabitants school boards shall con sist of five members to hold for a five year term one members to be elected each year The committee voted against the bill Mookett of Lancaster then amended the bill so as to make it apply only to the city of Lincoln The amendment was adopted and the committee then decided to report progress on the bill The house convened on the 11th with a bare quorum present Because of the small attendance Spurloek of Cass mov ed to adjourn when the order of bills on third reading should be reached This prevailed Rouse of Hall was very anx ious to compel the members to labor In committee of the whole and though many demurred they were finally com pelled to do a little work H R No 152 by Gregg was first considered The measure was amended by Speaker Mock ett so it related only to Lincoln reducing the number of members of the school board The hill was passed over till the amendment might be printed H R No 143 by Gregg specifying qualifications for county superintendents was next on gen eral file The committee rose without taking action on the bill Mr Gregg en deavored to amend the report of tho com mittee by ordering II R No 143 to a third reading A parliamentary struggle resulted over the attempt to adjourn with out acting on Mr Greggs motion A mo tion to adjourn by Wilson of Pawnee finally prevailed by a vote of 26 to 23 The following bills were Introduced in the house on the 14th H R No 31G by Koetter of Douglas to amend section 215 of chapter 21 of the criminal code Re lates to the statute concerning keeping gaming fixtures H R No 317 by Bacon of Dawson to amend section 59 of article 1 chapter 18 of the statutes of 1901 Re lates to the duties of chairmen of board of county commissioners H R No 318 by Mockett of Lancaster to provide for the appointment of a board of commis sioners to be known as commissioners of inspection and weighing for the state of Nebraska and prescribing their compen sation duties and regulations pertaining thereto H R No 319 by Jones of Otoe by request to prevent shooting and In jury to pigeons and other birds The house renewed consideration of H R 143 by Gregg of Wayne providing that no one shall be eligible to hold the office of county superintendent of schools who does not hold a first grade teachers cer tificate Mr Gregg moved that his bill be engrossed for the third reading Doug las of Rock opposed the bill arguing that many of the counties in the western part of the state were without first grade cer tificate teachers and therefore if this bill was passed it would impose the neces sity of importing persons for county su perintendent Bartow of Valley thought this was an argument for the bill Spur lock of Cass made a forcible speech In favor of the bill urging the importance of raising the educational standard Greggs motion finally carried by a vote of 50 to 23 These bills were passed Ap propriating 10000 from the unexpended board and colthing fund of the Norfolk asylum to the maintenance of patients re moved from that to the Lincoln asylum Permitting the small printer to bid on any state work in separate items he can furnish instead of as at present letting the printing out in bulk This is the so called anti printing trust bill Strength ening the powers of county commission ers and supervisors in the suppression of contagious and infectious diseases To provide county treasurers with a seal Providing the school vteachers principals and superintendents shall not receive their full terms pay until they shall have made the full report required by law REAPPORTIONMENT OF JUDGES Warner of Dakota is out in a bill to reapportion the state into judicial dis tricts According to the bill introduced the state will have four less judges than at present the Omaha district losing one judge The Lancasted district gnins one county Following are the districts as apportioned under the bill First Johnson Richardson Nemaha Second Otoe Cass Sarpy Third Douglas Washington Burt Fourth Jefferson Gage Fifth Lancaster Saunders Sixth Platte Colfax Dodge Seventh Boone Madison Stanton Cuming Thurston Dakota Antelope Perce Knox Cedar Dixon Wayne Eighth York Seward Polk Butler Ninth Clay Fillmore Saline Nuckolls Thayer Tenth Franklin Webster Phelps Kearney Adams Eleventh Hamilton Hall Howard Merrick Nance Twelfth Dawson Buffalo Sherman Custer Thirteenth Cherry Brown Rock Holt Keya Paha Boyd Wheeelr Garfield Dawes Box Butte Sheridan Sioux Grant Hooker Thomas Valley Greeley Blaine Loup Fourteenth Scotts Bluff Banner Kim ball Cheyenne Deuel Logan McPher son Lincoln Keith Fifteenth Chase Hayes Hitchcock Dundy Red AVHIow Furnas Harlan Frontier Gosper In the third district there shall be six judges in the fifth district three judges in the seventh and thirteenth districts two judges each and in all other districts one judge each LEGISLATIVE NOTES Major Buchanan general passenger agent of the Elkhorn road appeared be fore the house committee on agriculture in the interests of H R 13S by Jahnel of Washington providing for more ex peditions methods of compiling and pub ilshing state statistics Major Buchanan said the railroads favored the bill as it would facilitate the work of their adver tising departments Since the introduction of bills into the legislature providing for the killing of prairie dogs the legislature has attracted attention outside the state Governor Mickey received a letter from a Hoosier who has a remedy that he desires to be tried in Nebraska that he guarantees will bring about the desired results The let ter dated Clifty Ind follows Your honor I have a device for the extermina tion for the destroying of the pests the piairie dogs guaranteed to do the work If your state will remunerate I will send you the device I have applied for patent The device is this attach rubber hose to steam engine insert the nozzle in the holes occupied by the dogs Let steam on by proper attachments will burn them out in a few seconds Will destroy badg ers or anything that lives in the ground by this means you can destroy the dogs on the prairie Please give notice in some paper that will extend over the state that is infested with doge Belden of Richardson presented a bill designed to impose greater restrictions on the proprietors of barber colleges and their students It contemplates an an nual license fee of 300 to be paid August 1 each year provides not less than a two years course for every stunt who in addition to this must possess a certificate frcm the manager before he can work at the barbers trade That Beef Trust Case CHICAGO 111 The principal brief of the argument for the government in the beef trust case was filed in the United States circuit court Wednes day and the whole case is now before Judge Grosscup for consideration It is possible that a decision will be giv en next week NEBRASKA IN BRIEF man was run companys yards CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN RY Fist Road to Double Its Track from A new bank will begin business In Chicago to Omaha n ic v - i Barneston March 1st A doublo track block system line of Tho Nebraska Editorial association t transcontinental railway now reaches meeting at Hastings was unusually from the Missouri river to Chicago well attended will be in tho way of a distinct revelation to the man who made the The telephone company at Arlington trfp acrogB the pialns twenty five years will erect a suitable building for car- j ago jn a prairie schooner or on tho rying on its work emigrant train of the seventies Yor count armers are orsaaMas ThrapM Sg to handle their own products by of to a certaln degree in the discussion vator and otherwise that has arisen lately concerning the a sit f A 3 Fire destroyed four buildings in commercial invasion oi umim u Bartley and scorched another so badlj far east our occupation of the Philip pine Islands the annexation of Hawaii as to practically render it worthless whnlfi eeneral movement by The Y M C A board of Fremont which wo have suddenly become a has decided to build a two story build- world power But while wo have pa lag wth hasemea to cost ahout SEffi S SS 00- I and relentlessly in the direction of the The Fremont public labrary build- Pacifi ccoast raising up new towns ing the cost of which 15000 was do building up old ones naklng facto- where wild prairie had rles and farms ii i -11 u e uuu llUi nated by Andrew Carnegie has been completed and accepted by the library TQe resuit js shown in part in the- board 1 necessity on the part of tho Chicago Cyrus Kelley a young man of Bur well was instantly killed by the ac- cidental discharge of a gun The re Northwestern for this douuie iracit line where great trains of live stock and grain move in long lines eastward to feed not only the eastern states but mains were taken to Tekamah for I to afford an outlet for the products of burial what i3 now more than ever before the granary of the world The two children of Mrs James To tnQ westward there is also a con Lyons Lincoln were burned to death tinuous stream of travel The North while the mother was temporarily western Line with its connections op sent She had locked them in the urates three daily passenger trains be- tween Denver and Chicago and three- lt i vi i ii call house while making a neighborly from gan Francisco to tho east Ono- While trying to start a fire in the of these known as the Overland Lim furnace at the home of Mrs Wads- ited is probably the most luxurious worth at Beatrice Miss Bessie Mc 1 and beautiful train in the world Pullman service from Den- Kinney was badly burned about the Through ver Ogden Cheyenne Portland San face and hands by the explosion of daily Fraclco aml 0maha t0 Chicago eas As to freight movements the great Mrs Nancy J Taylor of Fremont double track system across the plains has sued the Union Pacific Railroad Is busy carrying manufactures for Asi atc Russia cotton cloths for the Chi company in the district court for 20- i neae various articles required by the 000 damages alleged to have been pIoneer8 who have cr0ssed the Pacific- tained at the passenger station in j t0 Manila and gone north to the gold Council Bluffs mines of Alaska as well as the tre The Lange Canning Preserving mendous traffic for Colorado compan or BeaMce hid XSSSTSSL plated moving its plant io Fremont I tranch of the countrys commercial has decided to remain in Beatrice and activity will erect a new factory north of town It was In 1848 that the Galena which will cost about 15000 Chicago Union having been completed from Chicago to the Des Plaines river t nu 4 ii t Fred Sibert a young man living dlstance of ten mlleB the first train fourteen miles southwest of Red aver the line opened the traffic to Chi Cloud was killed while chopping down Dago by stopping on its way east to trees A tree fell carrying him and take on a farmers load of wheat the rst by rail to Chicago- pinning him to the ground His arms Bln salient from the west It may be imagined and legs were broken and his body lhat thls wheat was hardly deslned for horribly mangled export and that the travelers on this H C Grese representing the Ames junket of early days little thought to- beet sugar people has been at what proportions this nucleus of a- ton iaterosuas tae farmers to sugar - fto beets He secured a number of con- ne to Council Bluffs was complete tracts and a large acreage wiljl be put and the Pawnees on the Platte and in Culbertson has organized a sugar Sioux on the Missouri began to feel beet association tne4crVdillf Tthe w55e maS OUt posts In 1880 Iowa Minnesota and Otto L Gibson former x a prominent wisconsin had become well settled resident met death in a peculiar man- While along the Platte the Indians ner near Blackfoot Idaho recently still remained The Northwestern had He ate from a raisin stew prepared in however built a line across southern -d i Minnesota and into Dakota as far as a galvanized iron vessel By some - Watertown with feeders to various chemical action a poison was formed points while in Wisconsin and north causing death during the night era Michigan lines had been extended Swen E Benson an Elkhorn section Into the Lake Superior district through Escanaba to Negaunee and Ishpemlng over and killed in the I This all seems very recent but sinco at Fremont He L was fW ttma that time the system has until clearing the ice from a switch and was struck by some cars that were being kicked back The dead man was 35 years of age and leaves four small children grown It penetrates nine states of the union and its heavy lines of freight trains and its palatial passenger service reach all important points from Chi cago to Milwaukee Madison St Paul and Minneanolis Duluth and Sunerinr John Krema a prominent Bohemian Omaha the Black Hills and Colorado and former business man of Schuyler with three fast trains between Den shot himself fatally He had been ver Salt Lake Ogden Cheyenne and brooding over financial matters forgcaf fy fast frvice to and from the Pacific coast some time and was it is alleged short The completion of the first double in his accounts as treasurer of the track between Chicago and the Mis Woodmen of the World He leaves a EOUri ver puts the road not only at wife and three children the front as compared with the other western roads but in advance of At Anoka during a quarrel between J manv of the eastern 5nes tfaat Clarence Dutcher and F L Williams country where he population is much bus drivers of Butte as to the proper more dense places to have their buses at the de- pot Dutcher drew a 45 caliber revolver Th rFgir Amerl an Expansionist Captain Thomas Read was the and shot at Williams but missed He in neer our expangion policy but was arrested charged with shooting was just 112 years ahead of time On with intent to kill and bound over a voyage this is interesting history under bail of 800 in the ol1 frigate Alliance which his Albert Gerling a farmer residing feond el0 had coerted mto a merchantman he made the first twelve miles north of Humphrey made out-of-season passage to China There an attempt to commit suicide by were supposed to be million in it but ing strychnine It seems that an over- tney did nt pan out Commodore dose was taken and with medical as- Dalf Tand leorfe HarrJson nied him the former as chief officer sistanco he was saved Gerling has and the latter as supercarg d been ailing for the past two years is discovered two islands which he nam the only cause given for his attempt- ed Morris and Alliance They were ing to take his own life In the Caroline group and by virtue Raymond Brooks carrier on rural ff discovery belonged to the United States The Carolines are not far from rural route No 1 was killed by tram the Philippines Spain came along No 6 at Glen Creek He arrived in and appropriated them while America town at 320 and was struck at the sat back on her dignity and looked crossing by the train which was go- 0r rights never were as to fortl ve miles aa hoar The ea- r3to5ffiySKj2K gine struck the middle of the carriage islands in 1899 for 10750000 marks demolishing it and carrying him Reads discovery is a forgotten chap eighty feet He fell close to the track ter in our history Sheriff Hodges took Joseph Robin son to the penitentiary from Nelson The Oldest School House The old log school house at Hsmn to begin serving a sentence of seven Run Westmoreland county Pa is years at hard labor for setting fire said to be the oldest school house in to a saloon bulding in Lawrence last thls cUIJtry It is very primitive in lts aPP5ntnients but the teacher June wnicn resuiteu in a propeitj loss Miss Celia j MilIer who is onlv 16 to the extent of about 9000 Robin- old has enlisted years the help ot son made a confession in which he the big boys to make some improve- stated that three saloonkeepers here nients hired him to burn out their competitor j SeCe and SuPetition While a train of the Union Pacific j was pulling along at the rate of forty thA minister of Alsace T Lorraine by miles an hour in the vicinity of to the Societe Industriel de Mulhouse ington in the baggage car there was whom he has asked to select for him born to the happy parents passengers a competent electrical specialist ca- from the west to Fairfield Cornish by Pae Z writing series of articles in order to refute scientifically the - v u i ttt name a bright bouncing baby When stitions of various viIlagers in the train arrived at Grand Island the it seems that the villages in which company physician was at the depot those superstitions people live have but his services were not needed and Deen recently provided with electric all in the party were reported to he TK8111118 beIieve that the aerial wires attract storms doing finely and are the special cause of heavy falls of hail fc 5 bQi S 9 i m