I s McCook Tribune ST F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams 3 At Boston Tom Sharkey won In tho wrestling bout with John Pienihg Details of an alleged dynamite plot along the Lehigh Valley railroad have come to light Dr Simon Bell of Rosedale Kas has given the university of Kansas 25000 in Missouri lands The shops of the Wheeling Lake Erie railroad at Canton O were gutted by fire Loss 50000 to 75 000 The supreme court of Missouri has upheld tho constitutionality of the eight hour law passed by the legisla ture three years ago John Hayes Hammond the Ameri can mining engineer of New York has increased his gift of 50000 to 100 000 for the metallurgical laboratory at Yale college John Mitchell denies the report sent out from Trinidad Colo that the United Mine Workers has withdrawn financial support of the striking min ers In Colorado Governor Pennypacker issued a proclamation to the citizens of Penn sylvania requesting aid for the fam ilies of the victims of the explosion in the Harwick mine near Cheswick Near Hobart Okla Frank Warner shot and killed his father-in-law P Towne because the latter had taken Mrs Warner to the postoffice against his wishes An effort will be made to secure an additional appropriation of 100000 in the New York legislature for an exhibit at the St Louis fair An ap propriation of 200000 has already been made Charged with robbing the body of a woman victim of the Iroquois thea ter fire Louis Witz a Chicago saloon keeper was found guilty T McCar thy and iCharles Conway were con victed of aiding Witz President Stuart R Knott of the Kansas City Southern railway an nounces the resignation of B F Dick son general superintendent of the road and the appointment of T E Jarrett to fill the vacancy The supreme court at Havana Cuba has modified the sentence of six years imprisonment imposed on Con gressman Corona editor of the El Cubano Libre of Santiago who was eGRvicted of killing Senor Insua Through President A- C Wharton of the International Machinists union the demand of the 2500 machinists of the Missouri Pacific and the Iron Mountain railroads has been present ed for an increase in the wage scale The Ihipont Powder company has secured practical control of the man ufacture of powder on the Pacific coast through the absorption of the California Vigorite company The consideration paid is said to be 200 000 Official advices have reached Wash ington from Santo Domingo and Port Au Prince showing a distressing con dition of affairs in San Domingo and Hayti Business is declared to be almost at a standstill in both coun tries The graduation exercises J the midshipmen of the class of 1904 wore held at the United States naval acad emy Secretary of the Navy William H Moody delivered an address and handed out the diplomas to the grad uates The report of the commissioner of patents for the calendar year 1903 shows that the patent business acted exceeded all previous records The total cash receipts of the office were 1616698 leaving a surplus of 188000 A branch of the Russo Chinese Bank association is to be established in San Francisco a license for it hav ing been issued by the board of bank commissioners This concern is or ganized under the laws of Russia with a capital stock of 75007000 At the Korean legation the state ment is made by one of the secre taries that Minhui Cho the minister who has recently been recalled by his government will be appointed as minister to Japan a post of consider able importance at this time Several accredited agents of the Japanese imperial remount depart ment are in the Okanogan and Nicola districts of British Columbia purchas ing horses for the Japanese cavalry and for the land transport service Other buyers are in Assinabola and Alberta A large number of horses have been secured Daniel M Lord for twenty three years head of the advertising firm of Lord Thomas locked his desk last week and retired from active business life His act in severing his connec tion with the business world was in accordance with a promise that he made nearly a quarter of a century ago to enjoy a life of leisure when he reached the age of 60 A trainload of thoroughbred Mis souri mules passed through Joplin en route to Port Arthur where they will be shipped to Rtrssia to be used in the Russian army in the threatened war with Japan W I Buchanan United States min ister to Panama has sailed for home Passenger agents of the- Trans Missouri association have completed arrangements to put a 2000 mile in terchangeable ticket into force March 1 This ticket will be good on all roads in the territory west of the Mis souri river and east of thr Rocky mountains WAR JAPAN AND RUSSIA BREAK OFF NEGOTIATIONS LEGATIONS ARE CALLED HOME Japan Would Not Wait for Russias Long Delayed Note Imperial Gov ernment Sends Messages Tele graphs Ministers an Official Notice ST PETERSBURG Count Lams dorff the Russian foreign minister has officially informed the Russian representatives abroad that Japan has decided to break off all negotiations with Russia and to withdraw the min ister and whole Japanese legation staff from St Petersburg The Rus sian foreign minister has thereupon ordered tae Russian minister Baron de Rosen and his staff to leave Tokio The Official Messenger publishes the following circular telegram dated Feb ruary 6 It has been sent out by the Russian foreign minister to the repre sentatives of the Russian government abroad Acting under instructions from his government the Japanese minister at the imperial court has presented a note which informs the imperial gov ernment of the decision of Japan to break off further negotiations and re call her minister and the entire staff at the Japanese legation In consequence of this his imperial majesty has been pleased to order that the Russian minister at Tokio with the entire staff of the imperial mis sion shall leave the capital of Japan without delay Such an attitude on the part of the Tokio government which has not even awaited the an swer of the imperial government which was sent off during the last few day throws the whole responsibility for the consequences which may arise from a rupture of diplomatic negotia tions between two empires on Japan TOKIO The severance of diplo matic relations between Russia and Japan appears to be only a step to ward war although when the minis ters of Russia and Japan withdrew from their respective posts quick and decisive action is expected When the minister for foreign affairs Ko mura on Saturday notified Baron de Rosen the Russian minister of Japans determination to sever diplomatic re lations he is reported to have declared to him that Japan is tired of Russias delays evasions and insincerity and has decided to take independent action for the conservation of Japans orien tal interests During the final negotiations Japans repeated requests for answers were treated in a most unsatisfactory man ner Japan waited until convinced that it was useless to wait longer and has now ended uie dicussion The in dications are that there will be no formal declaration of war FLAMES SWEEP BALTIMORE Fire Department Absolutely Powerless to Check Progress of the Fire BALTIMORE One of the greatest if not the greatest fire in the history of American cities is now raging in the city of Baltimore It started at about 11 oclock Sunday forenoon in one of the large dry good stores in the heart of the city and at the pres ent writing it is as far from being under control as at any time since its inception Aid has been sent by the fire departments of Washington Phila delphia and Wilmington but the com bined efforts of the firemen are mak ing no Impression on the Ames Dynamite is being used to stop its spread buildings in its path being blown up in the Iiope of destroying the food for the flames These are being driven however by a fierce gale and burning brands are being scat tered all over the city and constantly starting fires in new places There appears little hope of stopping the progress of the fire until it has swept everything in its path Over 400 streams from fire engines have been playing on the flames but for all the apparent good they have done the heroic work of the firemen might just as well not have been done Owing to the nature of the buildings involved the fire has not spread with the rapidity of some conflagrations and consequently so far as known no lives have been lest The immense warehouses stores and office build ings however have been reduced to ruins s The estimates of the losses vary widely and in fact It is an impossi bility at this time to make an intelli gent estimate The estimates given however range all the way from 40 000000 to 200000000 This latter figure is 10000000 in excess of the loss from the great Chicago fire cf October 9 1871 For Lewis and Clark Exposition WASHINGTON Senator Mitchell Introduced a bill as an amendment to the urgent deficiency bill to appro priate 2150000 for the Levis and Clark exposition to be held at Port land Ore in 1905 Japans Demands Were Moderate LONDON The London Times as serts Sunday morning that the Japan ese demands were of a moderation that will astonish the worldwhen they are disclosed Japan did not even ask Russia to promise to move a single soldier from Manchuria o to renounce a single right in Manchuria - The Daily Graphis dealing with this same subject asserts that the original draft of the treaty submitted to Rus sia was drawn up by Baron Komura in consultation with Baron de Rosen f v- TO AMEND ANTI TRUST LAW Would Empower United States Attor neys to Enforce Act WASHINGTON Representative I Hearst N Y introduced a bill to empower United States1 attorneys without the direction of the attorney general to enforce the act to protect tradeland commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies The bill amends the Sherman anti trust law to read as follows in sec tion 4 The several circuit courts of the I United States arc hereby vested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act and it 3hall be the duty of the several district attor neys of the United States in their re spective districts to institute proceed ings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations Such proceedings may be by way of petition setting forth the case and praying that such violations shall be enjoined or other wise prohibited When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed to the hearing1 and determination of the case and pending such petition and before final decree the court may at any time make such temporary re straining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in he premises but nothing in this act or in the acts of which it is amendatory shall be so construed as to apply to trade unions or other organizations of labor or ganized to deal with hours of labor wages of other conditions under which labor is to be performed RUSSIA IS TO STAND FIRM No Concession is to Be Made to the Japanese LONDON English correspondents in St Petersburg refer to au excep tional honor which has been accord ed the American press The corre spondent of the Times in St Peters burg who considers war inevitable declares that the czars hesitation has beene overcome and that Russia will make no concession He says Up to the present time not a line of information or apparently a word of inspiration has been given the Rus sian press on these serious negotia tions although the American press has been honored with the granting of an audience to the czar of the rep resentative of a trans Atlantic news agency DIPLOMATIC BILL PASSES Carries Nearly 2000000 Several Po litical Speeches Follow WASHINGTON The animation of Wednesday was completely lacking in the proceedings of the house Thurs day The principal feature of the day was the rivalry between republican leaders for the honor of moving an adjournment The diplomatic bill carrying 1 995600 was passed without amend ment Everything but the bill was discussed during its consideration Sir Morrell Pa led with an argu ment for some system of building up the American merchant marine A democratic political speech by Mr Hamlin of Missouri followed and re ceived a brief reply from Mr Fuller of Illinois Mr Lind of Minnesota spoke for Canadian reciprocity DIES RATHER THAN SURRENDER Minnesota Doctor Wanted for Embez lemert Ends Life SAN FRANCISCO Malcolm de la Fer doctor ex soldier and inventor who was wanted by the Minneapolis police authorities for embezzlement has committed suicide here by tak ing poison De la Fer came to this city last Aprii from Minneapolis is or der to escape trial for the misuse of funds entrusted to him While in Minneapolis he attained some distinction as an inventor of electric railway devices a number of which are at present in use When the Spanish American war broke out he enlisted n the Thirteenth Minne sota volunteers and vas made an as sistant surgeon serving -with distinc tion in the Philippines ROOT TALKS FOR ROOSEVELT Glad to Hold Up the Presidents Hands NEW YORK Eihu Root was the guest of members of the Union League club at dinner Wednesday night Mr Root spoke at some length- of the re gard President McKinley had inspired J in him and reviewed the progress made in Cuba and the Philippines since the war with Spain Speaking of President Roosevelt Mr Root said 1 count it one of the greatest priv ileges of my life to have been able when that sad day came that brought the death of President McKinley to hold up ttia hand3 of his true and loy al successor Health cf New York ALBANY N Y The state depart ment of health in its bulletin of vital statistics published Tuesday states that there were 127100 deaths during the past year in this state which makes a mortality per 1000 popula tion of 1650 Czar is Considering It ST PETERSBURG The czar now has before him the report of the spe cial council on the Russian response All the papers relating thereto were submitted to him Tuesday by the Grand Duke Alexis and the czar is giving them earnest consideration He had not rendered his decision up to G oclock Tuesday evening and it is authoritatively said it may possibly be several days before the response is forwarded to Tokio Prices on the bourse are again 4 per cents falling a point -- j WJT KILLED Bl A SHOT REBELS FIRE ON AMERICANS KILLING THE ENGINEER ACTiOH OF MINISTER POWELL Drastic Measures to Avenge the Am ericans Death All the Houses Out side of the City Walls of San Do mingo Pillaged SAN DOMINGO The insurgents on Friday deliberately fired on the launch of the auxiliary cruiser Yankee kill ing J C Johnston the engineer Tho bullet entered his head above the eye United States Minister Powell has directed the captain of the Yankee to take drastic measures to avenge Johnstons death and this insult to the American flag Johnston will be buried on shore this afternoon The German consul here has re quested United States Minister Powell to afford protection to Herr Worman the German vice consul that he might bring his family into the city as the insurgents have given Mr Worman forty eight hours to leaye where he is or suffer the consequences Mr Powell secured a guard of sixty men from the cruiser Columbia and informed the government that it was the intention of the German con sul and himself to bring Herr Wor mans family into the city and asked the government that its troops not fire upon this party while it was on its mission He said that if fired upon this party would protect themselves The guard started out As soon as they passed outside the city they were covered by the guns of the Columbia No attack was made and the Worman family and their belongings were brought back here in safety All the houses outside the city walls have been pillaged The insurgents are desperate and are destroying for eign property wherever they find it Mr Powell has received urgent ap peals to protect foreign property against this pillaging and the Colum bia may be compelled to land marines to do so The firing around the city continues The situation is serious the prices of provisions are very high and the poor are suffering from want of food The funeral of Johnston took place yesterday The body was escorted to the grave by a detachment of ma rines bluejackets and officers from the Yankee headed by the ships band United States Minister Powell the American consul and vice consul and nearly all the diplomatic and consu lar representatives here went to the funeral FIVE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH Mother Unconscious and Fatally Burn ed in the Hospital COUNCIL BLUFFS la Five chil dren were burned to death and thi mother fatally burned in a fire whiei consumed the homo of Peter Christen sen 1C02 South Tenth street Council uluffs shortly after midnight Monday The dead are Etna Christensen aged 11 Frank Christensen aged 8 Lila Christensen aged 5 James Christensen aged 2 Peter Christensen baby aged- 6 months Fatally burned Mrs Dora Christensen mother of the children The bodies of four of the children have been recovered from the ruins but they are so badly burned that they are unrecognizable The mother has been taken to the hospital in an unconscious condition and nc hopes are entertained for her recovery Seventeen Cents for Cotton NEW YORK July cotton sold above 17 rents a pound Zvlonday The market opened ejcited and higher Notwithstanding tie sensational ad vances of Saturday Liverpool again cabled higher prices than expected and the opening here was strong at an advance of G to 20 points carrying July through to 17 cent mark and making new high records Following the call the market advanced still further though in a somewhat Irreg ular fashion with March before the end of the first half hour reaching 16S6c Increase of Public Debt WASHINGTON D C The mor in ly starcLenl of the public debt shows that at the close of January SO tho total debt Ies cash m the treasury amounted tc 915062543 which i an increase of 911663 as compared with the preceding month Tuis in crease is accounted for by a corre sponding decrease ii the carh on hand More Cardinals are Wanted ROME It seems more and more likely that the pope will meet the vjslifs of the Brazilian government ly cre ting tho archbishop of Rio Ja neiro a cardinal the pontiff remarking in this connection that Brazil con tains over 15000000 catholics Bell Company Loses Suit BOSTON The American Bell Tel ephone company is ordered by Judge Colt cf the United States circuit court to give an accounting to the West ern Union Telegraph company the successful plaintiff in a damage suit involving millions of dollars Judge Colt ha3 also appointed Everett W Burdett special master to take charge of the company and secure all evi dence that may be presented The suit was brought to recover royalties in the American Bell eompesy on cer tain inventions ameMMHmbgSMeiaMMBt ii flllurllrlif1lalffl tfMhtii rf TtrrniirirvritfflntwrminrM i r r i n n NEBRASKA STATE NEWS LINDSAY ISSUES THE CALL Republicans to Meet in Lincoln May 18 to Name Ticket LINCOLN Chairman Lindsay of the republican state committee has mailed to the chairman and secretary of the various county committees the official call for the state convention to be held in the auditorium in Lin coln Wednesday May 18 By the rules of the national committee it is necessary for the call to be published at least thirty days before the state convention Tho call follows The republicans of the state of Ne braska are hereby called to meet in convention at the auditorium in the city of Lincoln on Wednesday May 18 1904 at 2 oclock in the afternoon for the purpose of placing in nomina tion candidates for the following of fices to be voted for at the next gen eral election to be held in the state of Nebraska November 8 1904 viz Governor Lieutenant governor Secretary of state Auditor of public accounts Treasurer Superintendent of public instruc tion Attorney general Commissioner of public lands and buildings Eight electors of president and vice president And to elect four delegates-at-large and four alternates to the republican national convention to be held in the city of Chicago Hi on Tuesday the 21st day of June 1904 and for the transaction of such other businesses may regularly come before said state convention THE STATE PENITENTIARY What is Set Forth in Varden Beemers Report The report of Warden Beemcr of the state penitentiary filed with the sec retary of state shows that there are now in the institution 286 persons nineteen of them having been receiv ed during the month five were dis charged and two were paroled Of those paroled eleven were from Doug las county and were John D Smith assault to rob three years James Jaughan assault to rob three years John Baily robbery three years Har ry Johnson robbery and burglary four years Frank Coleman assault three and one half years Ella Monroe cut ting to wound one year Minnie Brown larceny from the person one year James Hunter burglary four years Warren Henley daylight burg lary four years Andrew Tucker mur der fourteen years James Mosley daylight housebreaking one year The The others received were Paul Kosin ski Antelope criminal assault three years John McCcol Dakota horse stealing four years Bert Butler for gery one year David Wickborg for gery two years Lincoln John Smith burglary three years William Davis burglary three years from Dodge T J L Peck assault to kill two years Garfield James Burke burglary three years Lincoln county James Diggs of Douglas county was returned from parole Nebraska Resources Illustrated This is a condensed history of Ne braska covering a period of fifty years from the first settlement in this state down to the present time It is a book of 111 pages and over 200 illustrations of scenes public in stitutions and men who made the state Many interesting historical facts about Nebraska are enumerated in this condensed history making it alike valuable to retain and to send abroad as an invitation to settlement The book is issued by the Nebraska Farmer Omaha and goes free with a subscription to that journal at the regular price of 100 or is sold sin gly for 50 cents County Clerks Did Not Report LINCOLN Adjutant General Cul ver has stated that many of the coun between the ases of 18 and 45 as pro vided by the Dick bill Destroys Saloon at Bassett NORFOLK Impersonating Carrie j tiary duriu Nation Mrs J Courtney visited a loon at Bassett Neb with a hammer and smashed all of the glass in the j mirrors behind the bar pounded the bottles into bits rolled amber fluid and liquors out upon the floor poured j beer into tne cuspidores and scared the little crowd of men who were standing up to drink until they j bled She nas not yet been arrested i School Closed Suddenly NORTH BEND A country school two miles north of this place was clos i his old THE STATE AT LARGE Grand Island has a Peeping Tom for whom many guns are loaded A new company has been organized to operate the Koehler hotel at Grano Island The superintendent of schools of Auburn has been re elected for tho sixth time Methodists of Auburn are taking the preliminary stens for building a 1C 0U0 church Rev C F Shultz the Lutheran pas tor at Stella for the last three years has handed In his resignation and will accept a call to Wellington Kas The Cass county mortgage record for January is as follows Farm mort gages filed amounting to the sum- of 31280 released 134S0 filed on city property 3550 released 5941 Nineteen life insurance companies and nine fire insurance companies do ing business in Nebraska have not fll eu their annual reports with Deputy Auditor Pierce of the insurance de partment Tho supreme court granted the re quest of Ure and Wead of Omaha who asked leave to file a mandamus suit to compel the city council of Omaha to reconvene as a board of equaliza tion to assess railroad property The Cedar Telephone company has mado arrangements to connect with the Petersburg local company and as soon as the weather will permit the work of running the line from Elgin to Petersburg will be completed While hunting on the farm of A T Cole adjoining Beatrice Fred Gould killed a large wolf The animal was snot not a great distance from the barn and it is supposed it was in search of pigs chickens or other prey The Wahoo board of education vot ed to issue 8000 bonds of 100 each witn interest at 4i per cent payable in 1914 with an option to pay any amount after 190G home purchasers to be given preterence in the sale of the same William M Chapman an employe of the Cooper Ice company Lincoln has fiied a suit against Dr G O W Farn liam in the district court asking dam ages to the amount of 15000 He al leges negligence in treatment at the hands of the physician While coasting at Plattsmouth the sled on which Mrs John Kopp yjls riding became unmanageable causing a collistion Mrs Kopp was removed from the week badly bruised and with an ugly gash on her right limb some eleven inches in length William Schieferecke a farmer liv ing north of Petersburg had the mis fortune to fall from a load of hay and striking upon the frozen ground broke his hip bone at the joint and sustain ing other injuries that will cripple him for the remainder of his life Members of the Congregational church of Petersburg are making ar rangements to observe the tenth an niversary of the Petersburg church March 15 An effort is being made to have former pastors present and a general resume of the church work for the last ten years wi be one of the features i The officers of Johnson county have j notified the officers at Nebraska City that they want Frank Roberts as soon as he completes his jail sentence Roberts was found guilty of stealing a large number of chickens from the farmers of Osage precinct and was given a jail sentence The Johnson county officers have evidence that he did the same thing In their county Word came to Riverton of a mur der which happened five miles east of that place Daniel Barker and wife are missing and Frank Barker his brother is under arrest The bloody carpet and clothing indicate a murder A hole has been found in the ice in the Republican river which is the onlv as to their where abouts Harley Feazle living near Bost wiclr in a rather secluded and rough portion of the county is in jail at Nel son charged with the murder of his uncle E W Feazle The alleered ty clerks of the state have failed to crime is supposed to have been com report the able bodied male citizens mitted in November The complaintj is sworn to by a brother of the sup- posed dead man It cost 8 cents per day per man to feed the 286 convicts at the the month of January and 10 cents and 4 mills to feed the guards Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the R C Land and Cattle company of Plattsmouth The capital stock is 30000 The company expects to do a general ranching business in Ne braska and is incorporated by C A Rawls M E Rawls B R ChurcMll and P H Churchill William E Hill who broke jail at Seward January 12 1S01 is back in quarters He was in iail eu suddenly and tne teacner Miss cnargeu wun burglarizing Forman filed charges against aj worths hardware store at Milfordto Fremont young man charging him which charge he pleaded guilty athis with being the father of her chiid I preliminary hearing and was in jail which was born about the time that j awaiting action of the district court the school closed He says he has been in Minnesota Ac the session of the council of Fear a Warrant Famine Grand Island the proposition of Mr LINCOLN Two hundred blank war- j Abbott a mechanic in the Union Pa rants are resting in the office of the cilic shops who is the patentee of one state auditor and no more can be had device used on a voting machine to The state printing board advertised bring a machine there free of cost if for bids but no one responded It the council would inspect and test u has been ascertained that the plates was accepted belong to the State Journal and are Northwestern officials at Norfolk considered expensive Other printing are making preparations to handle a firms did not bid neither did the Jour- crowd of 75000 people when the Rose nal The state printing board is con J bud reservation is opened Alreadv sidering the plan of getting new plates - the rush to Gregory county has beua and loaning the set to the printers and every train carries a score of pas making the bid This will prevent any sengers or more who are gettingin on hold up or overcharge j the ground floor s M I r J A F v - V- 4 r