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News in Brief
A number of cities have forbidden
the use of powder on the Fourth of
July
The exact republican plurality in
Pennsylvania is 285347 and the ma
jority 245241
Three times a3 much freight passed
the So last year as passed through
the Suez canal
It has been decided to have no paid
hostess for the Missouri building at
the Worlds fair
Swen sent three quarters of foui
million gross boxes of matches im
ported into this country last year
Atlantic City possesses a police mo
tor car which is used solely for the
conveyance of intoxicated prisoners
Cuba day at the St Louis exposi
tion will be August 12 Good Roads
day will be on Thursday May 19
1904
Government inspectors passed upon
59158449 live animals last year at
a cost of a little more than a cent
each
A varnisj manufacturers associa
tion was organized in Chicago by a
number of the leading varnish mak
ers of the country The sessions were
secret
- Charles Williams following a quar
rel with his wife shot and killed her
and then blew out his brains at Mur
physboro 111 The shooting occurred
at their home
Dario Campana a young Italian of
Leghorn has tried successfully a new
system of wireless telegraphy in
which the earth is used for the trans
mission of waves
The German emperor has more serv
ants in his employ than any other
monarch Altogether they number
more than 3000 about two thirds of
them being women
A jury in the case of Lou W Lyons
on trial for the assassination of Dis
trict Attorney J Ward Gurley at New
Orleans returned a verdict of guilty
Lyons will die on the gallows
For some time the volcano of Strom
boll near Rome has been showing
signs of increased activity emitting
considerable quantities of smoke
ashes and red hot stones accompanied
by loud detonations
Fisk Robinson of New York have
made a bid to take at par the pro
posed issue of 1000000 4 per cent
Hawaiian territorial bonds and their
offer has been accepted This issue
is due in fifteen years
The original estimate of the cost of
Philadelphias slow sand filtration sys
tem for the purification of the citys
water supply made by three expert
engineers after four months careful
investigation was 14000000
As Paymaster Snee of the Pennsyl
vania was leaving the bank at Logans
port Ind with 42000 of employes
salaries Sheriff Buckley took from
him the satchel containing the money
carried it to the court house and pour
ing it out onto a table seized nearly
20000
Because he declared it is said that
save Robert E Lee Booker T Wash
ington was the greatest man born in
the south during the last 100 years
and parents in consequence threaten
ed to withdraw pupils Prof Bassett
of Trinity college Durham N C has
tendered his resignation
The board of delegates on religious
and civil rigrfs of the United He
brews had a conference with Speaker
Cannon Representative Hitt and Sen
ator Cullom to urge a supplemental
treaty with Russia to secure uniform
passports of recognition to all Ameri
cans regardless of race or creed
A complete count of the votes cast
in the election in Cape Town on No
vember 11 for members of the legis
lative council shows that instead of
the Bond or Dutch element having
gained a victory as was expected the
progressives or British have a ma
jority of one member in the council
The examination of State Senator
George E Green on the indictments
found against him at Washington
which charged bribery and conspiracy
in connection with the sale of time
recorders and stamp canceling ma
chines to the government was com
menced at Binghampton New York
before United States Commissioner
Hfll
ohn Rideway for many years head
bookkeeper in the Chicago office of
a prominent life insurance company
was arrested in Boise Idaho at the
request of the Chicago police and is
being held pending the arrival of an
pfficer from that city
John G Carlisle secretary of the
treasury under President Cleveland
has expressed the belief that the dem
ocratic victory in New York City on
November 3 forecasts the rehabilita
tion of the democracy of New York
state
QUIT
8ENATE DESIRES TO BRING EX
TRA SESSION TO A CLOSE
HOUSE MEMBERS UNCERTAIN
It Is Expected However that Arrange
ments Will Be Made in a Few Days
Doubts as to a Quorum on Tues
day
WASHINGTON The senate will be
gin the week in a state of uncertain
ty as to whether the final adjournment
of the extra session will be secured
during the week or the regular daily
sessions continued A majority of the
senators are anxious to bring the ses
sion to a close and to this end an
agreement has been practically enter
ed for a vote December 16 on the Cu
ban reciprocity bill The acquiescence
of the house of representatives in the
program however has not been secur
ed and until the two houses reach an
agreement no definite announcement
can be made Leading senators on the
wnole are rather confident that an ad
journment will bo brought about and
say it will be impossible to hold a
quorum of either body after Thanks
giving
The present understanding is that a
proposition to fix a day for adjourn
ment will be made by the senate on
Monday or Tuesday whereupon it
will be formally conveyed to the
house This will form a basis for ne
gotiation as thus far there has been
no conference between the members
of the two houses on the adjourn
ment question The understanding in
tho senate is that the day for taking
a vote on the Cuban bill will be fixed
without the adjournment of the extra
session
The house will meet Tuesday Hav
ing disposed of the Cuban bill it has
no business before it and unless an
agreement is fixed by which the called
session is to be brought to an early
close an adjournment probably will be
taken until- Friday and then an ad
journment until Monday or Tuesday
It is suggested that it is extremely
doubtful if there will be a quorum
Tuesday and that if the point of no
quorum should be raised it would be
impossible to act on a concurrent res
olution providing for an adjournment
even should one be brought over from
the senate Some of the house lead
ers have expressed their views in op
position to an adjournment before the
Cuban bill shall have been disposed of
but what might be the result of a con
ference between the leaders of the sen
ate and house on this proposition re
mains to be seen It is possible that
the speaker may be ready to announce
the committee assignments by the end
of the veek If this is done the house
will be full organized and prepared
at the opening of the rgular session
next month to prozeed to business
Fishing Season is Bad
ST JOHNS N F United States
Senator Lodges declaration respecting
St Pierre and Miquelon becoming a
part of the American republic has ex
cited great interest in St Pierre That
colony has had the worst fishing sea
son in its history Trade there is de
pressed and the outlook is gloomy
The people are ready to welcome any
settlement of the fishery dispute that
will insure them prosperity and the
feeling in favor of annexation to the
United States finds much favor
Insurgents Besiege Turks
SALONICA European Turkey On
the arrival of the battalion of troops
which was dispatched Sunday from
Seres in Macedonia to reinforce a
Turkish command besieged for two
days in the mountains near Spatovo
by a band of 350 insurgents the latter
withdrew The losses of the insurgents
are unknown Thirty of the Turkish
soldiers and one officer were killed
and forty seven wounded
Must Keep Hogs at Home
WASHINGTON The acting secre
tary of the interior has rendered a de
cision prohibiting the running of hogs
on public lands within the forest re
serves Complaints have been made
that these animals running loosely
damage the growing crops seriously
Internal Revenue Increases
WASHINGTON The monthly state
ment of the collections of internal rev
enue shows the total receipts for Oc
tober 1903 were 21021584 an in
crease as compared with October
1902 of 381125
General Drake Dead
CENTERVILLE la General F M
Drake ex governor of Iowa died at
the home of his daughter Mrs Henry
Goss in this city at 1115 Friday
morning The ex governor was strick
en with diabetes several days ago and
has gradually been growing worse
ever since No alarm was felt until
late Thursday evening His son John
A and his daughter Mrs J L Saw
yer are on their way here from New
York
THREE HUNDRED MOROS KILLED
Fighting in Vicinity of Jolo is Most
Sanguinary
MANILA Three hundred Moros are
known to have been killed and many
others were carried off dead and
wounded as a result of fighting in Jold
between the American troops under
General Leonard Wood and the in
surgents
Major H L Scott of the Fourteenth
cavalry and five American privates
were wounded
General Wood landed near Siet lake
in Jolo November 12 The Moros
were soon located and fighting began
immediately and continued until No
vember 17 Major Scott was taking
Panglima Hassen the Moro leader
who had been taken prisoner to Jolo
While en route Hassen asked to be
allowed to see his family His appeal
was granted and he thereupon led
Major Scott into an ambuscade where
the American detachment was fired
upon Major Scott was shot in both
hands Hassen succeeded in escaping
during this unexpected attack but is
supposed to have been killed the fol
lowing day
TELEPHONES FOR USE AT SEA
Interesting Demonstration of Their
Workings Made
BERLIN Naval Designer Zopke re
ported exhaustively on the uses of the
telephone at sea before the Shipbuild
ing Technical society and exhibited a
new stentorian microphone whereby
a commander is able to give audible
commands to tho crews of six guns
simultaneously The instrument at
the same instant is susceptible to the
faintest sounds and experiments are
being made in the detection of the
approach of ships not yet visible by
placing the instrument under water
Designer Zopke also gave a demon
stration of fortification instruments
notably a call apparatus which is as
loud as a trumpet
The audience displayed interest in
explanations of Elisha Grays telauto
graph and in the wireless telephone
experiments of Prof Simon of Got
tingen
NEGOTIATING TREATY OF PEACE
Cessation of Hostilities in Santo Do
mingo
SAN DOMINGO Negotiations of a
treaty of peace between the rebels
and the government of President Wos
y Gil have been begun There will be
a suspension of hostilities for forty
eight hours under an amicable ar
rangement It is expected that the
rebels will demand that President Wos
y Gil announce a general election
The United States gunboat Newport
has arrived here to relieve the cruiser
Baltimore which leaves Saturday for
coal
Utah Board Grants Pardons
SALT LAKE CITY The state
board of pardons has commuted to
life imprisonment the sentence of
death passed upon Nathan F Haworth
for the murder of Thomas Sandal in
1899 Haworth was to have been shot
to death December 11
The board also granted pardons to
or commuted the sentences of a num
ber of other prisoners who rendered
material assistance to the penitentiary
guards in preventing a wholesale de
livery of prisoners during the lecent
outbreak
Thousands of Men Have Wages Cut
BOSTON Mass A majority of the
cotton mills of New England will be
operated Monday under a wage sched
ule approximately 10 per cent less
than has been in force in two years
In the city of Fall River 30000 oper
atives will be affected and in the state
of Rhode Island not less than 20000
At other points in MassachusettsfCon
necticut and New Hampshire the ag
gregate of employes whose wages will
be reduced will be several thousand
At other cotton mill centers a reduc
tion will take effect a week later
Crotians Attack Hungarians
VIENNA Croatian peasants of
Nagylak near Nagyenyd Transylvania
Friday last organized a murderous at
tack on their Hungarian neighbors
The Crotians assembled during the
day and armed themselves with re
volvers sticks and hay forks and at
nightfall stoned the Magyar houses
and dragged the inmates into the
streets One farmer was beaten to
death and most of the Hungarians
were injured many of them severely
A day without a good deed leaves
you in debt
Judge Sener Gone
WASHINGTON Judge James Bev
erly Sener a ntive of Virginia but
lor number of years a resident of
Washington died here Wednesday
aged 67 years after a long illness The
interment probably will be at Frede
icksburg Va During the war Judge
Sener acted as correspondent for
southern newspapers He represented
his district in congress after the war
and later was appointed U S judge
for the district of Virginia
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
Students
Arc Better
Prepared for
College
It has been currently reported this
fall by instructors and others in the
colleges and normal schools of Ne
braska that nevor before in the history
of the state have the members of the
freshman classes been so well pre
pared for their studies The rumors
Interested State Superintendent Fow
ler to such on extent that under date
of October 24 he sent the following
letter to tho heads of the state uni
versity the state normal school four
of the leading colleges of the state
and the three largest normal schools
The claim has been made that the
students entering the colleges and nor
mal schools of Nebraska this fall are
better prepared for the work they are
to do in these Institutions than ever
before This is a matter of great in
terest to me and I would be pleased
to receive from you at an early date
an expression of your opinion Are
the matriculates of 1903 4 better pre
pared to take up collegiate work in
your institution than those of past
years In other words does your in
stitution not need to maintain as
much preparatory or academic work
this fall as in previous years for its
freshmen classes If this condition
be true what conclusion do you draw
from it
TURKEYS ARE SCARCE
Fremonterc May Have to Eat Plain
Chicken Thanksgiving
FREMONT Fremonters may have
to Fail back on chickens this year for
their Thanksgiving dinners on ac
count of the prices that are being
asked for turkeys Twenty cents a
pound is what the dealers say they
will have to charge Too much wet
weather during the summer is given
as the cause of the dull condition in
the turkey market Many of the
young towls were drowned during the
August and September floods and even
the older birds on some farms lot
their lives
But the crop of chickens ducks and
geese is fully up- to the average While
the heavy rains were playing havoc
with turkeys they were just what
pleased ducks and geese These are
practically as succulent and toothsome
as turkeys and will be sold at for
mer prices or about 12Yz cents a
pound for young stuff Thus it will
be unnecessary to cut out the Thanks
giving dinner because the American
bird has not been able to withstand
the Nebraska climate
Husks Corn for Wager
DAKOTA CITY George Hirsch
bach the champion corn husker of
this section has wagered with an
Iowa man that he can husk and crib
150 bushels of corn in ten hours The
contest will be pulled off about
Thanksgiving
Collision on the Elkhorn
VALENTINE Train No G east
bound on the Elkhorn stopped at
Crookston for water and a cattle train
following crashed into the rear
smashing the sleeper so it had to be
left Nobody was hurt but the pas
sengers were badly frightened and
shaken up
Looking Into Harbert Case
LINCOLN Governor Mickey has
ordered an investigation in the case of
J C Harbert fireman at the Kearney
industrial school who has been arrest
ed by the Beatrice police while in com
pany with a young Beatrice girl who
upon being scolded by her mother
for being too often with Harbert
knocked her parent down and choked
her Harbert has a wife at Kearney
If found guilty he will be discharged
from the employ of the state
Hay Stacks Burned
NELSON A steam thresher en
gine passing along the road by Frank
Spurcks hay fields set fire to the
grass and before it could be extin
guished three large hay stacks about
thirty tons had been consumed
Highwaymans Victim Dead
RED CLOUD John Anshutz the
farmer who was held up by a high
wayman and shot near his home in
Kansas thirteen miles southwest oi
here died from his wounds
Safe in Bank Blown
LYONS The safe in the First Na
tional bank here was blown at 2
oclock in the morning The robbers
secured 2000 of which 1500 was in
bills 400 in gold and 100 in silver
The robbers were not seen by any one
At the eastern edge of town they
stole a team from the barn of E H
Harendeen a farmer and drove east
ward The bank safe and all the
furniture in the bank were utterly
runed
THE STATE AT LARGE
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
Charles F Higgins of Omaha died
suddenly in his chair while serving as
a juror I
The new union depot in Fremont J
will be ready for occupancy in De
cember
For stealing four turkeys two men
in Cass county wero sentenced to im
prisonment for thirty days
Death is announced of H A Bur
rill of Fremont who had resided
there for twenty five years
Near Docatur Albert Fuller a farm
er boy 17 years old was dangerously
hurt by the explosion of a gun while
out hunting
Typhoid and scarlet fever are prev
alent at PapilHon There have been
several fatalities from typhoid School
has been closed for a period
Washington dispatch The senate
in executive session confirmed tho
following nomination Church Howe
Nebraska consul general at Antwerp
Mr and Mrs George F Norton oT
Beatrice celebrated their sixtieth wed
ding anniversary They have been
residents of that city for a great many
years
The Clark Automatic Telephone
company of Sioux City is putting in
a rural telephone line to run out from
Dakota City covering a distance of
about thirty miles
W J Dresser the man who gave
himself up to Sheriff Bauman of Dodge
county stating that he was an escaped
convict from the Iowa state peniten
tiary was released It was learned
from the Iowa authorities that Dresser
had been released on parole but had
violated the terms of his release
A young man by the name of Don
aldson living five miles southwest of
Palmer while in the field husking
corn accidently discharged a gun with
the muzzle towafds him The entire
charge after passing through the end
gate of the wagon box lodged in his
side A favorable outcome is doubt
ful
The jury in the case of Robert Wag
ner vs the city of Columbus returned
a verdict awarding the plaintiff dam
ages in the sum of 400 Wagner fell
on a defective sidewalk last March
and sued the city for 5000 Judg
ment was entered on the verdict and
the amount will probably be paTd with
out any further litigation
On account of insufficient room to
accommodate the new offices of clerk
of the district court and assessor the
commissioners of Sarpy county have
decided to enlarge the court house
Burglars attempted early in the
morning to enter the residence of
Mrs Ida Bell at York but when they
heard the many burglar alarm bells
and saw the entire house immediately
lighted from cellar to garret they de
camped
John Crown an aged resident of Te
cumseh narrowly escaped losing his
life under the wheels of a moving
stock train The train was doing
some switching in the yards and was
backing down over the street cross
ing when the old gentleman attempted
to cross The moving cars struck him
in the back and knocked him down
and would have crossed over his body
had it not been for the prompt action
of F A Thiele who happened to be
standing near
An extra freight train west bound
was wrecked on the Rock Island neaj
Lewiston Eight cars left the track
and rolled down an embankment fifty
feet high The cars were loaded with
coal potatoes and lumber
Advices received by stockmen at the
union stock yards in South Omaha are
to the effect that no tariff legislation
whatsoever affecting western inter
ests will be accomplished this winter
This broad statement appears to in
clude the Cuban treaty which western
beet growing interests affirm will se
riously damage the beet sugar indus
try in Colorado and Nebraska
Judge Baxter has signed a decree in
the foreclosure suit brought by Eliza
B Patrick on the home property of
Former Senator John M Thurston
Thorwald at 24th and Farnam
streets Omaha Suit was brought on
a 12000 mortgage which with inter
est amounts to 1315220 Judgment
is rendered for that amount but the
defendant is given twenty days in
which to make payment before the
property will be ordered sold
One of the most prominent citizens
and Grand Army men of Osceola met
with a severe accident He was
inmming trees ana in puning down a
limb while standing in a wagon h
frightened the horses and they ran
Mr Pulver was thrown to the ground
striking on his head and shoulders
Mrs Anna M Ludeman has com
menced suit against August Moeiler
a saloon keeper at Goehner and his
bondsmen for 5000 for selling her
husband liquor by which she says he
has been made an habitual drunkard
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Looking for a Skull
It is related that a woman who vis
ted the British museum recently said
to an attendant I have been look
ng about for a skull of Oliver Crom
well Have you no skull of Crom
well here No madam the at
tendant answered How very odd
she exclaimed they have a fine one
n the museum at Oxford
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Figures Regarding Jews
The Jewish year book for the year
5C64 which has just been published by
the Jewish Publishing society of
America and edited by Cyrus Adler
gives some interesting figures about
the numerical growth of the race in
this country New York now has the
largest Jewish population of any of
the states with 500000 and then come
Pennsylvania and Illinois with Massa
chusetts fourth with 60000 The to
tal Jewish immigration through the
ports of New York Philadelphia and
Baltimore for the past twelve years
has been 761598 and during the past
year 58079 arrived at the port of New
York alone Among these were 30
536 Rudsian 18113 Austrian 83M
Roumanian and only 527 German
Jews The total Jewish population of
the United States is now 1127268
while there are only 276614 in the
British emnire
Sculptor Changed Design
While we are all sensitive to ridi
cule artists are particularly so
Quite recently a celebrated sculptor
was modeling a statue of one of the
most noted officers of the civil war
the horse prancing the general with
his hat off and the rest of the ordi
nary conception with the added fea
ture that a soldier was leading the
horse by the bridle and carrying in
his hand a branch of laurel The
branch was first moleded as a wreath
but a negro messenger looking at it
asked the artist what the life pre
perver was for and the sculptor im
mediately changed the wreath to the
bunch of laurel
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Vhat Proper Food Does for Both
Mind and Body
Physical health mental health in
deed almost everything good on this
earth depend in great measure upon
proper food
Without health nothing is worth
while and health can be won almost
every time by proper feeding on the
scientific food Grape Nuts
A California trained nurse proved
this Three years ago I was taken
very rick my work as a trained nurse
having worn me out both in body and
mind and medicine failed to relieve
me at all After seeing a number of
physicians and specialists and getting
no relief I was very much discouraged
and felt that I would die of general
nervous and physical collapse
My condition was so bad I never
imagined food would help me but on
the advice of a friend I tried Grape
Nuts The first package brought me
so much relief that I quit the medi
cines and used Grape Nuts steadily
three times a day The result was
that within 6 months
I had so com
pletely regained my strength and
health that I was back nursing again
and I feel the improvement in my
brain power just as plainly as I do ia
physical strength
After my own wonderful experi
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did success and it has worked wonders
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