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NEBRASKA
News in Brief
Face all things even Adversity is
polite to a mans face Josh Billings
The New York Stock Exchange
strikes the securities of the United
States Shipbuilding Company from
the list but assigns no reason for the
action
The Studebakers plan a 250000
building in South Bend Ind for the
Y M C A which will stand as a
memorial to the five Studebaker
brothers
Republican senators in debate on
the naval appropriation announced
that the policy of the party is to make
the American navy second only to
Englands
Richard Sibley manager of a mo
lasses importing house at Boston has
filed a petition in bankruptcy stating
his liabilities at 451329 with prac
tically no assets
Prof Prank Thilly Th D of the
university of Missouri has been elect
ed professor of psychology of Prince
ton university in place of Prof J
Mark Baldwin resigned
Miss Juliet Ten Eyck McBlair of
Washington D C has been unani
mously elected as hostess of the
Board of iady Managers building at
the St Louis worlds fair
Walter Wellman says that states
men in Washington are amused at the
reports in St Petersburg newspapers
that the United States has changed
its policy toward Russia and Japan
The new United States protected
cruiser Des Moines built by the Fore
River Snip and Engine company of
Quincy was formally placed in com
mission at the Chanestown navy
yard
President Smith of the Mormon
church confesses to the senatorial
committee hearing the case of Sen
ator Smoot that he has five wives
and that several of the apostles are
polygamists
William E Curtis writes of the
superb specimens of Saracenic archi
tecture to be found in northern India
and of the decay into which almost
priceless specimens of ancient art are
allowed to fall
A jury at Carlsbad N M rendered
a verdict of not guilty in the case of
Claybourne W Merchant Jr who
killed George W Hutchin in a duel
Merchant who was badly wounded
claimed self defense
The Executive Committee of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters
has appointed a subcommittee to con
sider the advisability of advancing in
surance rates in the congested dis
tricts of the large cities
A letter from Grover Cleveland de
nying that he entertained a negro at
luncheon in the White House was
read in the House of Representatives
and preceipitated an acrimonious de
bate on the race question
President Smith of the Mormon
church who was before the senator
ial committee investigating the right
of Reed Smoot to his seat declares
he considers the revelations of his
church higher than the law
Secretary Shaw has notified spe
cial national bank depositories that
they will be called on by March 25
to pay 20 per cent of their holdings
of government funds on account of
the Panama Canal payments
A motion has been filed in court at
St Louis by the attorneys for Lord
Frederick Seymour Barrington re
cently convicted of the murder of
James P McCann setting forth that
he is entitled to a new trial
Religious Education in the Home
was discussed at the joint meeting of
the Religious Education Association
at Philadelphia among the speakers
heing Professor Richard Green Moul
ton of the University of Chicago
The Illinois Trust and Savings
Bank at Chicago has made a loan of
5000000 to the Chicago Burlington
and Quincy Railway company The
rate of interest is understood to be 5
per cent and the time nine months
Music from the stars is made audi
ble by the invention of Albert C Al
bertson an electric engineer of New
York Tne light rays falling on a
polished plate connected by electric
ity with a microphone produce weird
sounds
President Roosevelt in a letter to
President Shepperd of the James
town Exposition company indorses
the tercentennial to be held in 1907
as demanding the united action of the
people in commemoration of the real
birth of the nation
Secretary Cortelyou in addressing
a banquet n Washington of the Na
tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers As
sociation defended the term com
mercialism as representative in its
highest sense of the best qualities of
American citizenship
Advices received from St Peters
burg say that new orders have been
sent to Admiral Wirenius to keep his
squadron in the Red Sea for the pur
pose of watching passing war vessels
and to capture vessels carrying con-
traband of war
Representative Martin declared in
the House that the packers control
the price of crttle by having only one
bid made and then dividing the lot
He holds that conditions are worse
than they were before the injunction
-was granted
A FIERCE ATTACK
CONTINUAL POUNDING IS WEAK
ENING PORT ARTHUR
RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD SUFFERS
Fourth Attack Said to Have Been the
Most Effective Since the Siege Be
gan One Russian Torpedo Boat De
stroyed
TOKIO Official and private reports
both indicate that Admiral Togos
fourth attack on Port Arthur on the
10th instant was the most effective
since the first assault of a month ago
One Russian torpedo boat destroyer
was sunk and several Russian torpedo
boat destroyers seriously damaged
The fortifications of the city were sub
jected to a heavy bombardment last
ing nearly four hours The naval
bombardments of the land works have
generally been ineffective yet the pe
culiar topographical conditions of Port
Arthur maKe immunity from serious
loss from bombardment almost impos
sible
Admiral Togos torpedo flotilla open
ed the action by boldly steaming in un
der the batteries and successfully plac
ing a number of mechanical mines at
the mouth of the harbor Following
that there was a desperate bow to bow
encounter between the orpedo boat de
stroyers in which the Japs appear to
have secured a clear victory Then
there followed a long range duel be
tween the cruisers ending in the retire
ment of the Novik and Bayan the only
Russians engaged
The action was the bombard
ment of the inner harbor by the Jap
anese battleships The latter took a
position southwest of Port Arthur and
used their twelve inch guns There
were twenty four twelve inch guns in
the squadron of six battleships and
each gun fired five rounds making a
total of 120 huge projectiles that were
fired at the citv The bombardment
was deliberate and carefully planned
In order to aid in perfecting the firing
Admiral Togo stationed the cruisers
in a position due east of the entrance
to the harbor and at a right angle to
the battleships The cruisers observ
ed the range and effect of the firing
and signalled the results and sugges
tions by wireless telegraphy These
observations and reports greatly aided
the gunners in their efforts to make
every shot count
Admiral Togo was unable to defi
nitely learn the results of the bom
bardment but late private reports in
dicate that much destruction was
caused in the city wnere a series of
fires uroke out There also was dam
age to the batteries
THE SENATE THIS WEEK
Considerable Time Will Be Given
to
Woods Nomination
WASHINGTON The senate Mon
day will continue consideration of the
iorcincation appropriation bill and
when that measure shall be disposed
of will return to the nomination of Gen
eral Leonard Wood
The committee on military affairs
has recommended an amendment to the
fortification bill authorizing the pur
chase of a torpedo boat of the Protec
tor type for experimental purposes at
a cost of 250000 and as several sen
ators have indicated opposition to the
provision it is said that it will be de
bated at some length Other features
of the bill also will receive more or les
attention
There are still several speeches to
be made on the Wood case but Sena
tor Foraker who is in charge of the
nomination hopes to conclude iLs con
sideration during the week He will
make the closing speech in support of
General Woods confirmation
Squiers Entertains Engineers
HAVANA The members of the
American Institute of Mining En
gineers who with their wives and
families are touring the West Indies
on board the Hamburg American line
steamer Princess Victoris Louise
were entertained at a reception Sun
day at the residence of United Stites
Minister Squiers of Mariano a suburb
of Havana Assistant Secretary of
State Loomis who accompanied Ad
miral Dewey to Sanitago on board
the Mayflower is stopping at the
Squiers home
Corea Nullifies Russian Grants
TOKIO The Japanese Corean pro
tocol was published at Seoul in an
extra edition of the Gazette Thursday
The Corean government will publicly
announce that the publication of the
protocol nullifies the concessions
granted to Russia such as the non
alienation of coal mining at Kochyo
island and Rose island and the for
estry concessions in the Ulleungdo
Tuman and Yalu valleys
The Service Hension Bill
WASHINGTON That action on
the service pension bill will not be
taken during the present session of
congress is practically the decision
reached by the leaders of both
branches
Russians Lost Sixty five
TIEN TSIN Information from an
official who was an eye witness to
the bombardment of Port Arthur on
Wednesday and Thursday is to the
eftect that the Russians had twenty
five killed on the battleship Sebasto
pol twenty on the Retvizan and
twenty in the town The Russians
assert that their damaged cruisers
have been repaired and are against
ready for sea The battleship Czare
vitch will be redy in a few days
There is no dock here capable of tak
ing in the Retvizan
CLASH OF FORCES
Russians and Japanese Said to Have
Come Together
LONDON A dispatch to the Times
from Wei Hai Wei dated March 9
says
It is reported on good authority
that a collision on land between Jap
anese and Russian troops has oc
curred near Haiju Korea fifty four
miles northwest of Chemulpo which
resulted in the defeat of the Rus
sians
TOKIO Japanese warships bom
barded the forts at Talien Wan Port
Ualny on the night of March 8 and
then attacked Port Arthur
It is believed here that there has
already been a decisive naval engage
ment in the vicinity of Vladivostok
and tidings of it are anxiously
awaited
The Japanese fleet did not it is
said go to Vladivostok for the pur
pose of bombarding the town but to
locate and attack the armored cruis
ers Gromoboi Rossla Rurik and the
cruiser Bogatyer the Russan fleet
stationed there It is understood
that when the Japan fleet was there
on Sunday last it found the Russian
squadron absent If this is true it
gave the Japanese squadron advan
tage in the way of avoid battle close
to the inshore batteries at the same
time putting it in a position to pre
vent the Russian ships re entering the
harbor It is doubted that the Japan
ese withdrew their entire squadron
unless the location of the enemy had
been discovered as it would have
meant surrendering the advantage of
being in a position between the enemy
and the enemys base
There is a strong possibility that
the Japanese found the Russian ships
in the vicinity of Possiet bay and
gave them battle there The names
and number of ships in the Japanese
squadron have been kept secret but
it was probably sufficiently strong to
divide into two divisions the one to
go to Vladivosttok and the other to
cruise in search of the Russian ships
It is said the newly purchased cruis
ers Nisshin and Kasuga are taking
part in the present movement off
ladivostok
The navy department expects to re
ceive dispatches tomorrow from Gen
sen where it was planned that the
fleet would call after the operation
involving an attack upon the Russian
squadron had been concluded
The Japanese are quite confident
in the ability of their squadron to sig
nally defeat the Russian ships and
laughingly say that the big Russian
cruisers wnich stand unusually high
out of the water make excellent tar
gets
DEWEY WIRES EXPLANATION
Why He Failed to Call on President
Morales at San Domingo
WASHINGTON Admiral Dewey
who with several members of the
general staff and Assistant Secretary
Loomis of the State department are
now at Havana has teleggraphed the
Navy department the reasons why he
failed to Call on President Morales
of San Domingo when the party were
in San Domingo waters several days
ago The failure to visit caused con
siderable surprise at the time It ap
pears that there was fighting in prog
ress in the vicinity on the dav the
party was there and for that reason
the admiral did not deem it advisable
to make an official visit During the
iorenoon there were several casual
ties in San Domingo city from the
fighting then in progress This was
caused from shots crossing the river
through which the boat must pass
and as more fighting was expected
during the afternoon the admiral
gave up the projected visit The ad
miral however sent his respects to
President Morales by United States
Minister Powell
BRYAN HAS RIGHT TO APPEAL
Executor of Bennett Will Does not
Vaive the Right to Contest
NEW HAVEN Conn By a deci
sion handed down by Judge Gager of
the superior court on a demurred to
answers to an appeal by William J
Bryan from a decision of the probate
court which ruled against him in the
Philo S Bennett will case Mr Bryan
has the right to contest lor the 50
000 bequeathed to himself in the
sealed letter
The court says in substance that
the action of Mr Bryan in accepting
the office of executor does not cause
him to relinquish any right that he
may have in this appeal to establish
the validity of certain papers as a
part of the will The court says that
when a letter is presented to the
probate court the question is whether
the letter be acceped or rejected
The question of right of appeal can
not be passed on by the probate court
Ready for Reciprocity
MELBO URNE Premier Beldn has
announced in the House of Represen
tatives that the federal government is
prepared to alter the tanu in favor
of Great Britain making sacrifices if
necessary to secure reciprocal pref
erences
Patriotic Woman is Dead
BELLEVILLE 111 Mrs Alfred P
Bailey who before her marriage and
removal of residence to Canada over
a year ago lived here hurred here
from Montreal ast week that her
child might be born a citizen of the
United States She was accouched
of a daugnter Thursday night and
died early Friday but the infant lives
and thrives Mrs Bailey was 21 years
of aga She had come here to visit
her sister Mrs McLeary The hus
band has been notified by wire and
will come for tlte remains
LOOK FOR BIG BATTLE ON LAND
Russans Think Clash on the
Yalu
Rjver is Imminent
ST PETERSBURG The only
piece of important news up to this
hour from the seat of war was tho
Associated Press dispatch from Port
Arthur announcing a fresh attack on
that place by the Japanese fleet The
dispatch contained no details
Another telegram to the Associated
Press from Vladivostok has been re
ceived It makes no mention of fight
ing and it is assumed that all is quiet
there The reports that Japan has en
tered Manchuria west of the Yalu
river and has reached Feng Huan
Cheng on the Peking road which is
the Russian line of communication to
the Yalu cannot be confirmed If the
information proves true a land engage
ment of some magnitude is imminent
It cannot long be delayed as the Rus
sians have a heavy force south of the
line between Liao Yank and Mukden
and they are also occupying strong po
sitions along the Yalu A Japanese
column between them would be In a
desperate strait unless it moved hy
the flank to take the Russians on the
Yalu in the rear and was energetically
supported by a forward Japanese
movement from Corea
ARE ON THE RUSSIAN FLANK
Indications that Japs Have Secured
Some Fine Positions
WASHINGTON The government
here has received advices by cable
trom Che Foo opposite Port Arthur
to the effect that Japanese tond
forces a ve appeared at Fung Wang
Chang and at Tashan No details are
furnished
The first named place is about forty-five
miles north of Antung in Man
churia and the latter is a few miles
inland from the mouth of the Yalu
river
The naval officers here believe that
this movement has placed the Japan
ese on the Russian flank and perhaps
in the rear on their line of commrni
crtion
It is believed that Tuesdays attack
upon Port Arthur was a diversion per
haps to cover the expeditious land
movement ot the Japanese forces
who were probably landed from trans
ports at some point west of the Yalu
river
FINDING PLACE FOR BURT
Report That Former President of the
Union Pacific Is to Work for Czar
SAN FRANCISCO Cal It is stated
in local railroad circles on authentic
private advices from the far east that
Horace G Burt until recently presi
dent of the Union Pacific has been
given a years employment as an ex
pert by the Russian authorities on
communications and railways They
want him to make a report on needed
improvements for the Trans Siberian
road and the new Orenburg Tash
kend railway His remuneration will
be 100000 for making these two ex
pert reports
Burt is to consult with the Russian
engineers on the problem of building
around Lake Baikal instead of using
a ferry system forty eight miles in ex
tent across the lake He is also to
criticise the alignment of the Siberian
road and its bridge and culvert work
and the rails
WAR REGULATIONS IN JAPAN
Rules Governinq Corespondents
of
Newspapers
WASHINGTON In a mail report
trom Tokio February 18 Minister Gris
som furnished translations to the de
partment of state of a number of
portant ordinances and regulations
relating to the state of war Most of
these have been described in the
press reports
Newspaper corespqondents with the
armies must receive their admission
through their minister or consul All
3f their correspondence newspaper or
private must be submitted to the
consor and there must be no use of
ciphers The correspondents them
selves are required to wear a white
band on one arm marked with Jap
anese letters in red ink stating their
newsparer connection and no corre
spondent will be received who has
had less than one years actual ser
vice on a newspaper
BUFFALO BILL WANTS DIVORCE
Colonel Cody Files Petition Asking
Severance of Marital Ties
DENVER A petition for divorce
filed in the district court of Big Horn
county Wyoming January 9 last by
Colonel Vwiliam F Cody Buffalo
Bill has just been made public
The complaint charges cruelty and
alleges that on December 26 1900
Mrs Cody attempted to poison the
plaintiff Another cround on which
the plaintiff asks a decree is that the
marital relation has been made un
bearable to him by his wifes refusal
to entertain his friends at his former
home in North Platte Neb
Mrs Cody who is at North Platte
denies her husbands charges and will
contest the suit Colonel and Mrs
Cody were married at St Louis
March 6 1S66
Luetwin Needs Guns and Men
BERLIN It was said in Reischstag
circles that Colonel Luetwin governor
general of the Southwest Africa col
ony has asked for reinforcements to
the number of S00 men and two
mounted batteries He has found the
Herreros to be more numerous and
better armed than he supposed and
they occupy a strong position which
they are fortifying Further Colonel
Luetwin is expecting difficulty in pre
venting the enemy from le entering
the parts of the country 1 e has al
ready cleared
KBEPWHEATMARKET
MATTER OF SERIOUS MOMENT TO
AMERICAN FARMERS
Chamberlains Idea Is to Have Canada
Furnish the Food Products for the
Home Country Would Be Serious
Blow to Western Wheat Growers
On Feb 5 the Manitoba Legislature
unanimously adopted a resolution
strongly indorsing Mr Chamberlains
preferential tariff scheme This ap
pears to be the first formal legislative
Indorsement of Mr Chamberlains pol
icy It was given because that policy
would give Canadian wheat growers a
better British market than American
wheat growers would have
The United Kingdom is the largest
customer of American wheat growers
It takes now practically one half of all
our wheat exports But we are not now
supplying so large a part of its de
mands as compared with Canada as
we did twenty years ago
In roun figures the United King
dom imported in 1882 134000000 bush
els of wheat including flour of which
75000000 bushels came from the
United States and only 5000000 hush
els from Canada In 1902 the United
Kingdom imported 179000000 bushels
of wheat of which 108000000 bushels
came from the United States and over
2000000 bushels from Canada
Competing on equal terms in the
British market Canadian wheat grow
ers are gaining upon American The
Canadians have increased their trade
400 per cent while we have increased
ours only 44 per cent If Mr Cham
berlain succeeds in getting a tariff of
6 cents a bushel on American wheat it
is certain that our best wheat market
will be greatly curtailed and that Ca
nadian wheat growers will profit by
our loss That is what the Manitoba
Legislature sees and that is why it
indorses Mr Chamberlain
What can we do to prevent this
threatening narrowing of our best
wheat market Two courses are open
to us
One is to reduce our tariff on manu
factures to such an extent that the
broadly there is little warranter any
of mil
thousands
fear that Englands
lions of dollars worth of manufactured
-wares represented by her home con
sumption and by her exports stand in
any serious peril from tho competition
of dollars worth of
of a few millions
American surplus products sold at low
rates for special reasons
Tho American business man does
not hanker after any market which
permanently represents only a loss or
at best no profit Moreover this
applied as it is
process spasmodically
is not limited to the American mer
His English
chant or manufacturer
and German competitors take their oc
casional fling at it just as he does
occasion
is
and even our own market
ally subjected to the needs of the
foreigner for a little ready cash or the
relief of an overstocked warehouse
New York Sun
Military Work in the Philippines
Reports like that received concern
ing the wiping out of a band of Moros
prove that the pacification of the Phil
ippines requires a constant military
watchfulness such as England has
practiced in her long course of colo
nial expansion It is a fact however
that the need for the employment of
force is steadily diminishing There
have of late been very few disturb
ances in the more civilized islands of
the north where our earlier cam
paigns were conducted and there has
been nothing at all resembling a con
certed general effort at rebellion
against the American authorities
So far as we may judge from the
dispatches it would seem that the
races who followed the leadership of
Aguinaldo or acted in co operation
with him have given up the struggle
If there is still an aspiration for inde
pendence it does not express itself in
the appeal to arms Instead of any
thing resembling a national movement
there is only the occasional outbreak
of some few disaffected persons who
are commonly classed as ladrones
Canal Treaty Is Ratified
The senate ratified by a vote of 66
to 14 the Hay Varilla or Panama ca
nal treaty
The ratification of the treaty means
WILL THE SEA SERPENT BE AT THE WORLDS FAIR
British people being able to exchange
their manufactures for our wheat
might prefer to reject Mr Chamber
lains plan and go on as they are But
to do that would injure our manufac
tures and derange our whole fiscal sys
tem That plan is impracticable
The other course is to make it worth
while for Canada to reject Mr Cham
berlains plan and refuse to become
merely the farm feeding Englands
mills by opening to Canadas minerals
timber and other raw materials a bet
ter market in the United States
Since our own wheat production has
practically reached the limits of our
new lands and can be greatly In
creased hereafter not by increase of
area but only by better culture we
might also open our markets to Can
adas wheat and induce her to send it
here instead of to England to be
ground
By reasonable reciprocity conces
sions to Canada promptly made we
can without material injury to our
selves prevent her economic alliance
with Great Britain bring her into
economic alliance with the United
States and prevent the threatened
curtailment of our best wheat mar
ket
We can make Canada the farm feed
ing our mills rather than the farm
feeding Englands mills The benefits
that such an arrangement would be to
us on both sides of the Atlantic are
certainly worth consideration Chi
cago Inter Ocean
Slaughtering Surplus Products
If a particular British industry or a
particular British establishment suf
fers a loss of trade there are those
who raise the cry that the loss is due
to slaughter prices on goods from
the United States The cry was re
cently heard in Canada when Ameri
can steel rails on some very large or
ders were quoted at 5 to 0 per ton
Lelow the rates maintained in the
United States
It may be admitted that at certain
times and in certain lines American
goods have been are being and will be
sold in foreign markets at prices
which are below the rates prevailing
at the same time in this country But
the argument as an argument carries
a strong flavor of absurdity Taken
the triumph in our legislative halls of
patriotism over partisanship of states
manship over political astigmatism It
means that within ten years the
oceans which wash the two coasts oi
America will be joined It means a
doubling of the strength of the Ameri
can navy It means the American flag
will fly once again over fleets of mer
chantmen It means increased pros
perity to the commerce of the whole
world but especially of this nation
It means lower railroad rates across
this continent It means a ship canal
from Chicago to the gulf of Mexico
It means the consummation of work
which has been in the minds of men
for 400 years but which has defied all
efforts until attacked by the genius
of the American people
Much credit is due to Theodore
Roosevelt and to John Hay for the
American triumph Without their de
termined and sagacious managemet of
the isthmian crisis it is probable that
we should still be weltering in- a
chaos of uncertainty as to whether
we were to have a canal within the
next half century
Shoes and the Dutu in uj
The Record raises the question of
the annual duties on raw materials
wth reference to shoes
The Dingley tariff put a duty on
hides and while the Record and a
number of other papers declared that
this would kill the export of shoes the
foreign demand for our shoes has
grown ever sinc
What is the use of butting agrinst
facts in this way The experience of
the last six years shows clearJr a
duty on hides does nothing to orevont
the increase of our
exports of hoots
and shoes and this is the truth with
other duties on raw materials In
the end they increase the suppW of
raw material and diminish its price
Philadelphia Press
Not So Abusive
Maybe the tariff
showed its teeth to
the tariff haters and frightened them
out of their ten cent socks thev could
buy for nine cents under tariff reform
-if they had nine cents Thev are not
so abusive now of its
proven bene
ficence and Practicabilitr Sheffielc
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