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NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD
GIVES UP THE FIGHT
BUTLER WILL RETURN TO AUS
TRALIA
Accused Multi Murderer Says that
the Sooner the Thing is Over the
Better It AVouId Bo for Him Other
Items of Interest
Butler Gives Up the Fight
Frank Butler alias Ashe alias Newman
the accused murderer of Capt Lee Weller
Arthur Preston and Charles Burgess has
decided to give up his fight against the
efforts of the Australian police to secure
his extradition from this country He gave
as his reasons for this action that he lias no
hope that the United States supreme court
will reverse District Judge Morrow of San
Francisco and he cannot stand the cost of
carrying the matter to the court of last re
sort Butler said that ultimately he would
have to go on trial for his deeds and the
sooner the thing was over thg better it
would be for him He will go back and
face his accusers and depend upon the
loopholes of the Australian criminal laws
for his escape from the gallows
LEVEE GIVES WAY
Feared Many Lives Have Been Lost
on the Mississippi
Monday was a gloomy day for the home
less inhabitants of the flood stricken dis
trict at Memphis Tenn Rain began fall
ing shortly after 7 coming in torrents
Hundreds of head of stock and almost as
many people were taken from house and
tree tops The Mississippi rose a foot in
twenty four hours There are indications
of a further rise which already exceeds all
past records Word has already been re
ceived of a partial breaking of the levees
sixty miles away Great additional suffer
ing and loss is expected to result The
break in the St Francis levee is more
serious than at first reported The water
has fallen twenty five feet and rushed
upon the lowlands in almost a solid wall
It is feared many lives were lost
BIG STRIKE THREATENED
Dispute in English Shipping World
May Make Thousands Idle
Another serious dispute is pending in the
English shipping world It grows out of a
difference between the Employers Federa
tion and the Workmens Society as to
whether a certain boring machine at Sun
derlandjs to be tended by a skilled or un-
skilled workman There are also col
lateral questions of overtime and of
increase of wages But the Sunderland
squabble is the hub of the difficulty It
threatens to throw 30000 engineers out of
work and to paralyze the shipping in
dustry of England Public sympathy is
about equally divided
TOWN OF ELKINS WIPED OUT
Nearly All Its Business Portion De
stroyed by Fire
Fire which started in the building of the
Elkins Hardware and Furniture Company
in the town of Elkins W Ya the home of
Senator Elkins burned almost the entire
business portion of the place Elkins has
no fire department and the flames were
soon beyond control having mostly frame
buildings in their pathway In most of
the buildings were stocks of goods only
portions of which were saved The fire
was checked before it reached the Elkins
National Bank The total loss will exceed
100000
CONSIDERED AS A CANARD
Alleged Plot to Kill Ex Queen Not
Taken Seriously in Hawaii
The steamer Zealandic from Honolulu
brought the following News of the
alleged plot to assassinate the ex queen
was not received in a serious way in Hon
olulu The general impression is that Capt
Palmer the queens private secretary was
iimposed upon In a letter Palmer admits
lhat the Dole government would not resort
lo murder
CAN SERVE TERMS OUT
Postmaster General Announces the
Policy as to Postmasters
Postmaster General Gary has definitely
announced that the administration after
deliberation iiad decided to adhere to the
four year tenure office policy for post
masters Except in a few cases where re
moval Jor cause is required all postmasters
of the fourth class as well as presidential
will be allowed to serve out their terms of
iour years
A Brothers Fatal Mistake
Miss Helen K Leffingall of Peoria 111
-died of poisoning by strychnine given her
by her brother in the belief that it was a
headache powder The brother EberR
Leffingwell is near sighted and did not
reaKze his mistake until it was too late He
had a headache powder in his pocket but
gave herby mistake a package of strych
nine he had purchased nearly a year ago
Before her death his sister exonerated him
from all blame
vEje Gqv Thayer 111 in Washington
iEx Gov Thayer was taken sick at his
liiotel in Washington Friday with a low
form of bronchial fever His condition is
rby Jio means alarming and with rest hia
irecovery is expected to be rapid
Wash Hesing for Mayor
The mayoralty contest in Chicago was
made a four cornered fight Friday by the
formal nomination of Washington Hesing
held at Cen
at a non partisan convention
tal Music Hall A complete city ticket
whiehwill go on the official ballot under
the caption Business Administration of
Municipal affairs was nominated
Eva Booth Out of Danger
Commissioner Eva Booth of the Salva
tions Army who has been seriously ill at
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LIVELY DAY IN BIRMINGHAM
Three Fatalities and a Dozen Hurt
as the Result of a Burglary
Two tragic deaths a policeman shot and
a small race riot in which a dozen persons
were more or less hurt constitute the net
result of what occurred inside of thirty
minutes at Birmingham Ala Sunday
afternoon A burglary was committed by
Will Hunter a notorious negro Police
man William Perdue was detailed on the
case and he found Hunter and arrested
him nunter drew his pistol and fired
striking Perdue in the jaw inflicting dan
gerous wounds The negro made a break
for liberty the officer pursuing and firing
as he r n After firing three shots the offi
rvr tell from exhaustion his last shot
woundinc Hunter fatally in the back It
developed afterwards that one of Perdues
shots killed Myrtle Boland a 5-year-old
girl who was playing in the alley two
blocks away
When the police finally took Hunter in
charge a mob of negroes followed threat
ening to rescue the wounded prisoner A
number of white men soon appeared on
the scene and a general free fight ensued
between negroes and whites in which fully
a dozen rersons were more or less hurt and
sveral negroes badly beaten
BIG BID FOR BALL PLAYERS
Brooklyn Offers 100000 for the
Cleveland Aggregation
There was a secret conference of base
ball magnates in New York a day or two
ago It was learned that the Brooklyn
club had offered 100000 for the transfer of
the Clevelrnd team to Brooklyn Frank
De Haas Robison of the Clevelands was in
conference with C H Byrne at the
Hoffman House They refused to say
whether or not they had a confer
ence with Mr Conant of the
Boston club and that President Rob
ison said that the Brooklyn club had offered
him 100000 for the transfer of the Cleve
land club to Brooklyn President Byrne
confirmed this statement It was learned
also that Abell and himself had succeeded
in interesting a syndicate of Brooklyn men
in the enterprise and for that reason the
Brooklyn club felt perfectly safe in making
the offer for the Cleveland club
ALARMED ST LOUIS
Weather Bureau After the Posters of
Fictitious Tornado Warnings
Observer Frankenfield of the St Louis
weather bureau has received orders from
Washington to prosecute all persons en
gaged in distributing a few days ago ficti
tious warnings to call attention to a melo
drama called the Tornado soon to be
produced there The matter was laid be
fore the local authorities and as soon as
the names of the persons engaged in the
distribution are learned they will be
prosecuted for disturbing the peace The
posting of these warnings created the
greatest alarm throughout the city devas
tated by the cyclone last May
OFF FOR CUBA AGAIN
4he Three Friends Reported to Be
Headed for the Island
The steamer Three Friends is reported
to have left Roderiguez Key ninety miles
south of Miami Friday with a large
expedition for Cuba The Three Friends
has a deputy marshal on board or did have
and unless he has left the steamer
he has been taken along The tug O C
Williams is also connected with the ex
expedition having transported the supplies
from Miami
Jurors Given a Surprise
Charles F Dreher will not be hanged
March 18 for the murder of Bertha Hun
icke at St Louis as he has been adjudged
insane As the jurors were preparing to
file out of the court room Dreher who prior
to the verdict had been sullen and reticent
brightened up rose to his feet and seeing
Foreman Druhe said
I know you Mr Druhe I have known
you all along Gentlemen of the jury I
want to thank you for your verdict I
killed Bertha Hunicke and 1 have known
all along that 1 committed the deed I was
in a fit at the time and did not know what
I was doing I am sorry for it
The jurors looked at each other wonder
ingly but said nothing
Large Customs Receipts
The total payment on account of duties
at the customs house in New York on
Saturday amounted to 14S869367 of
which 1270096 83 was paid on goods
withdrawn from bond making one of the
largest totals in the history of the customs
house Payments on sugar alone were
said to have amounted to several hundred
thousand dollars This anxiety on the part
of refiners was caused by the fears that the
change from an ad valorem to a specific
duty would largely increase the rate of
duty on sugar at present held in bonded
warehouses
Negro Wins His Case
The court of civil appeals at Galveston
Texas has affirmed the decision of the
Jower court in the case of the Pullman
Palace Car Company against Thomas W
Cain a negro minister who purchased a
first class ticket from St Louis to Galves
ton but was compelled to ride in the
negro car The appellate court held
that where a ticket was sold for a separate
coach like the Pullman a negro was entitled
to passage in that kind of a oar or the
company was liable for damages
Puzzles Prispn Directors
The meu at the head of the state prisons
In Indiana are very dubious about the pos
sible effects of the law abolishing the con
tract system in prisons and requiring that
the products of prison labor be used to sup
ply state institutions It further requires
that all work of manufacture in the prisons
shall be done by hand where practical
and requires an industrial superintendent
in each prison
Jacksons Last Hope Gone
Gov Bradley of Kentucky at 6 oclock
Friday evening wrote Refused across
the back of the petition and record in the
case of Scott Jackson murderer of Pearl
Bryan over which he had been poring for
two days There are the best of reasons
except the governors own word for be
lieving that he is going to respite Walling
foras much as three or four days
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BLISS TAKES A HAND
REVERSES AN ORDER OF COM
MISSIONER LAMOREAUX
Case Involves Many Millions on a
Big Tract of Land in the Heart pf
Chicago A Betrothed Couple at
Fort Wayne Commit Suicide
Bliss Reverses Ijamoreaux
A sensational order repudiating the acts
of the general land office in the Chicago
lake front case and which will probably
be immediately followed by the dismissal
of S W Lamoreux of Wisconsin as com
missionar gejieral of the land office was
signed by Secretary of the Interior Bliss
at Washington Saturday The order directs
that all proceedings subsequentto the filing
of the application of the McKee scrip on
the lake front be annulled and a rehearing
had The action is based on the favprable
opinion of Lamoreux given out by him to
one of the parties in interest three days
before the time appointed by himself for
the formal announcement of the decision
The land on which the scrip is located is in
the heart of Chicago and estimated at a
value all the way up to 50000000 or
60000000
FORT WAYNE TRAGEDY
Betrothed Couple Believed to Have
Drunk Carbolic Acid
A supposed double suicide in Fort
Wayne Intl has caused a sensation such
as it has not experienced in years Will E
Colerick is a prominent young attorney
son of Henry Colerick one of Indianas
noted lawyers and for some time he has
been devoted in his attentions to Miss Mae
Hall a handsome and well known young
lady daughter of Mrs Hall a teacher in
the public schools In fact the couple were
betrothed and an early marriage was ex
pected
Miss Hall lived with her mother and was
the only child Thursday morning Mrs
Hall left for St Paul where she was to have
been married That evening both the
young people were seen by their friends
apparently in the best of spirits and it was
the last time either was seen until the dis
covery of the tragedy Thursday evening
Will Colerick called upon his betrothed
and from that time until Sunday morning
his whereabouts was unknown When he
failed to return to his home friends became
alarmed and instituted a search
Going to the home of Miss Hall they
found the door locked but an entrance was
effected and the dead body of Colerick
was found on a couch in the front room
while in a bed room near on a couch lay
Miss Hall unconscious and apparently
dead Both bodies were partially clothed
Physicians were summoned and it was
ascertained that Miss Hall was living She
was removed to Hope Hospital but will
probably die An investigation discloses
a bottle which had contained carbolic acid
in the room
SPAIN MUST BORROW AGAIN
Will Have a Cuban Deficit of About
100000000 to Meet
Capt Gen Weyler of Cuba has for
warded to Spain for approval by the
Spanish cortes the public budget bill
amounting to 35000000 in addition to an
appropriation bill reaching the high water
mark of 93000000 The latter bill it is
said will be carried through to meet the
extraordinary expenses of the war and
navy departments incurred on account of
the Cuban insurrection The income rev
enue from the new fiscal year
beginning in July will hardly
reach 14000000 which amount will shrink
considerably should the proposed treaty
with the United States be carried out
Therefore there will be an enormous de
ficit reaching probably 100000000 to meet
which the Madrid cortes must decree new
taxes in Spain or call for another public
loan to meet the interest on the same The
taxes on real estate in Cuba are to be in
creased 40 per cent There will also be a
special tax placed on manufacturing The
strong opposition of the planters to the
proposed taxe3 will be renewed
Wood the Winner
Henry Wood the Oberlin boy won the
six day bicycle race held at Cleveland
Ohio Wood was apparently as fresh when
he finished as when he started and he
amused the audience during the last half
hour of the race by whistling popular airs
The final score is as follows
Miles Laps
Wood 728 5
Schoch 728
Gilford 727
Ashinger 726
Denich 715
Chicagos Great Tower
Chicago is to have a gigantic tower
From the altitude of 1150 feet the United
States flag will flaunt above Chicago when
the city tower is completed Ground has
been broken at the site of the tower at
Harrison Troop Congress and Loomis
Streets The entire block will be almost
covered by the monster base of the pedas
tal Work has been commenced on a pa
vilion a toboggan slide and a skating rink
The toboggan slide will be 2000 feet long
and the skating rink under a roof 200 by
500feet in dimensions
Trestle Gives Way
A mixed passenger and freight train from
Chattanooga went through a trestle forty
feet high over Etowah River near Rome
Ga Sunday morning five freight cars the
baggage car and smoker falling to the
ground and the engine plunging into the
river Engineer James T Pittman and
Fireman Alfred Kennedy were fatally
hurt Two other trainmen and three pas
sengers were injured
Killed at a Grossing
Mrs O W AVells and Miss Laura An
drews of Raymond vQhio crossing the
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway in a
buggy were struck by a passenger loco
motive and jnstantly killed
Shorthand Record Brpken
Isaac S Dement of Chicago champion
shorthand writer broke his previous record
of 897 words by writing 402 werds in one
minute Saturday
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THE WEEK IN TRADE
Business World as Seen by
Bradstreet
Bradstreets says Continued activity in
various industrial lines based upon an
expanding consumptive demand fairly
steady prices for staples further improve
ment in railway earnings and widespread
confidence that the volume of business
will expand materially in the near future
are the features of last week Spring de
mand has begun to show itself with retail
houses There is a better inquiry for
shoes hats and clothing and for
light hanfware and agricultural im
plements wast and southwest Industrial
revival has been offset in some in
stances by the closing of factories and
mills and in others by continued operation
dependent upon paying reduced wages
The central west and northwest report that
the distribution of general merchandise
was interrupted by floods and washouts
Prices have been fairly steady note
worthy decreases being those for tea sugar
coffee lard and wheat Exports of wheat
from both coasts of the United States last
week flour included as wheat amount to
only 1559482 bushels against 2075000 bush
els the week previous Exports of Indian
corn continue heavy amounting to 5310000
bushels against 5255000 bushels week
before last
UNDER MOUNTAINS OF SNOW
Northwestern States Covered with
Drifts lO to 15 Feet Deep
A St Paul dispatch of March 12 says
Reports of the big storm yesterday have
been coming in faster than the railroad
trains for these are generally delayed or
blockaded and it will be several days before
all roads will be again in good running or
der A rotary snowplow was stranded on
the Great Northern within three miles of
Browns Valley Minn Trains were gen
erally abandoned in western and northern
Minnesota The storm and todays wind
effectually blockaded all trains around Hu
ron S D Snow drifted all day and nothing
could be done toward raising the block
ade which is the most complete ever ex
perienced in the state Reports from all
parts of South Dakota today give evidence
of the storms fury Some lines are buried
beneath ten or fifteen feet of snow and
drifts are miles in length Fuel and feed
for stock is very limited in many localites
and should the temperature which was 10
degress below zero today at Huron continue
cold many days suffering will resnlt to the
stock Because of the deep snow seeding
will be delayed three weeks or more over
most of the state east of the Missouri river
LIPS UNSEALED BEFORE DEATH
Speaks to His Wife After Twenty
Years of Silence
After not having spoken a word to his
wife for twenty years William H Jerola
man 78 years old unsealed his lips as he
lay dying and he and his aged wife became
reconciled The Jerolamans lived on a
farm near Kearny N J
The old man was one of the directors oi
a local church board and becoming sud
denly convinced that his associates on the
board were not observing his standard of
duty he left the church He applied to
his home the same rigorous ideas of in
tegrity At the time he left the church he
had some slight difference with his wife
who dared to maintain her opposition The
old man vowed never to address a word to
his wife again and he rigidly adhered to
his resolve
Jerolaman was attacked by pneumonia a
week ago Feeling that his old frame
could not resist the advance of the sickness
he broke the long silence with words of
love addressed to the old woman who had
faithfully watched over him from his
moment of illness Husband and wife be
came inseparable from that moment The
old woman never left his bedside until
death overtook the farmer on the 13th
Makes Demand of Peru
Advices from Lima Peru say that the
government of that republic absolutely re
fuses to allow the claim of Victor n Mc
Cord an American citizen for false arrest
and imprisonment The claim is for 200
000 Secretary Olney immediately made a
peremptory demand upon Peru for settle
ment of the claim
Fatal Buffalo Fire
Fire Saturday gutted the Chicago Hotel
a 15 cent bed house at Buffalo causing th
loss of three lives
MAKKET QUOTATION
Chicago Cattle common to prime
350 to 550 hogs shipping grades
300 to 400 sheep fair to choice 200
to 450 wheat No 2 red 71c to 73c
corn No 2 23c to 24c oats No 2 10c
to 17c rye No 2 32c to 33c butter
choice creamery 17c to 19c eggs fresh
10c to lie potatoes per bushel 20c to
30 broom corn common growth to choice
green hurl 20 to S0 per ton
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 400
sheep common to choice 300 to 400
wheat No 2 81c to 83c corn No 2
white 22c to 23c oats No 2 white 20c
to 22c
St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 300 to 450
wheat No 2 93c to 9Gc corn No 2 yel
low 20c to 22c oats No 2 white 16c to
ISc rye No 2 33c to 35cv
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 500 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 250 to 475
wheat No 2 88c to 90c corn No 2
mixed 23c to 25c oats No 2 mixed lGc
to 17c rye No 2 35c to 37c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
S300 to 400 sheep 200 to 425
wheat No 2 red 86c to S7c corn No 2
yellow 22c to 24c oats No 2 white 19c
ro zic rye 34c to iuc
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 88c to 90c
corn No 2 mixed 22c to 24c oats No
2 white 17c to 19c rye No 2 36c to 38c
clover seed 505 to 515
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 71c
to 72c corn No 319c to 20c oats No
2 white 18c to 2Qc barley No 2 2Sc to
32c rye No 1 33c to 35c pork mess
S00 to S50
Buffalo Cattle common to prime-shipping
250 to 525 hogs medium to best
300 to 425 sheep common to prime
natives 30d to 475 Jambs fair to
extra 450 to 550
New York--Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
350 to 425 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 red 80c to 81c corn No 2
28c to 30c oats No 2 white 21c to 23c
butter creamery 15c to 20c pggs West
ern 10c to 12c
STATE OF NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
Investigation of the Conduct of State
Officials Iiikely to Be Carried Into
the Past Some Sixteen Years
Other Items of Interest
Wholesale Investigation
It is stated on good authority that tne
legislative committee appointed to investi
gate state offices will extend the scope of
duty to cover transactions going back
many years The leaders of the majority
in the legislature are contemplating an ex
amination of the records reaching every
state office and every state institution
with the exception of the university Not
only will present officials be looked after
but the examination proposes to go into
the past and in some cases the inquiry will
cover sixteen years of official life One
prominent state official said that wit
nesses would be placed on the stand to
prove that at least one former secretary ol
the state board of transportation drew a
regular salary of 100 per month from the
Northwestern Railroad for the greater part
of the time he was in office The printing
contracts for the last ten years will be gone
into the records of the secretary of states
office opened up the office of the commis
sioner of public lands and buildings over
hauled and the auditors office opened up
for inspection The state treasury affair
will come in for a large share of the atten
tion of the commission of inquiry
Gives Musser Eight Years
Judge Kinkaid at ONeill sentenced Ray
mond Musser who was convicted of man
slaughter a week ago to eight years in tin
penitentiary one day of which was to be
in solitary confinement the first anniversary
of the shooting The judge in his remarks
to the prisoner before passing sentence
said that if the jury had brought in o
verdict of murder in the second degree
that he could not have set the verdict
aside as the evidence would have sustained
it The jury had asked the court to give
Musser the least possible sentence which
would be one year but the court stated
that he would give him eight years and if
after two or three years residents of the
vicinity of the fatal altercation should con
clude that the sentence imposed was too
heavy he was sure that the governor of
the state would on their petition make a
reduction
York Man Wins a Patent Case
The case wherein A B Olson of Kansas
City sues A C Snyder of York for in
fringement on a patent corn popper has
lately been decided in the St Louis court
of appeals in favor of the defendant Some
time ago Snyder commenced the manufac
ture of the Hacker corn popper an auto
matic affair invented by a confectioner of
Tork Olson claimed that it was an in
fringement upon a patent held by him and
brought suit for 10000 against Snyder
The case was taken to the United States
circuit court at Omaha where a decision in
favor of Snyder was given It was then
appealed to the court of appeals at St
Louis The matter has attracted some at
tention throughout the country The man
ufacture of the popper will soon be resumed
at York
Hunting Party Imprisoned
A party of hunters was imprisoned on an
island two miles below Plattsmouth in the
Missouri River on account of the ice break
ing up The imprisoned men were with
out food or shelter all one night with the
horrible fear of being washed away by the
swollen torrent beiore help could be ob
tained When their predicament was
learned a rescue party started out imme
diately to extend aid The party consisted
of Will Sporer Jim Holmes McGinnis
Churchill George Churchill Jeff Lewis
and John Johnson
Will Carry on Billings Work
A special meeting of the Nebraska Swine
Breeders Association was held at Lincoln
The object of the meeting was to take up
and discuss with a view of continuing the
work against hog cholera inaugurated by
Dr Frank Billings late of the experiment
al farm University of Nebraska Aside
from President Zeb Dranson there were
present Messrs J B Wolfe T C Dawson
OConnell Brown Crozier Chappell
Walker Sullivan Foster Taylor Heath
Hill and Edwards
Two Women Chosen at Hastings
The mass meeting of the women of the
Fifth congressional district for the purpose
of electing two members of the Board of
Lady Managers which will assume charge
of the educational department of the
Trans Mississippi Exposition met at
Hastings Mrs Dr King was made presi
dent and Mrs L W Fike secretary The
two members elected to the board are Mrs
William Duttdn and Mrs L W Fike
both of Hastings There were 149 votes
cast
Farmer Found Dead by His Wrife
Isaac Smith a well-to-do farmer living
about four miles west of Salem was found
dead in his barnyard by his wife He had
been doing his chores and as he did not re
turn to the house until after the usual time
Mrs Smith became uneasy and went to
search for him Mr Smith has for the last
ten years been subject to heart disease and
in all probability that was the cause of his
oath
Wants Change of Venue
Alvinlodor a brother of Mrs Laura
Gooamanson of Tiskilwa 111 is at Pender
to be in attendance at the trial of Dr J
Sidney Goodmanson which will probably
be called at the session of the district court
which convenes there this week The de
fendant is of the opinion that he will not
receive fair treatment in Thurston County
and will ask for a change of venue
Mother of Five Children Suicides
Mrs Henry B Hayes residing about five
aiiles west of Wisner committed suicide by
swallowing a large dose of paris green A
physician was summoned and every means
gmployed to save her life but death re
sulted She leaves a husband and five
ihildren Domestic trouble was the cause
af her self destruction
Child is Badly Scalded
A 6-year-old boy of Jacob Shaller was
badly scalded at Niobrara His sister had
been parboiling some salt meat and threw
mt the scalding water as the child ran by
rhe door It struck him on the neck arid
breast and caused him terrible pain
New Church for Greeley
The corner stone of the new Swedish
Lutheran Church of Greeley was laid the
fore part of the week Rev Mr Boden of
Holdrege officiated and the services were
well attended and quite impressive thougb
the weather was not favorable
Tries to Escape and Is Sholv
John Conway recently got into trouble
by carrying on illicit reiations -with a
young girl of Tecumseh and thought tho
best way out of the scrape was to rcrrry
Pile Driver Buries Itself
The party of workmen who were en
gaged in driving piling in the river in the
diverting dam being put in at the headgate
of the Norrth Loup Irrigation and Im
provement Companys canal met with a
peculiar mishap when just in the act of
completing their work last week By
some accident the heavy metal ham
mer weighing over 1200 pounds was
tripped from the derrick of the driver
when no piling was in place under it to re
ceive the blow and it shot through the ice
cutting a hole as clean as a bullet and
burying itself in the sand to an unknown
depth A sounding rod of twelve feet in
length failed to reach the mass of iron and
the chances are that its recovery will be
impossible The hammer was worth about
50
Farmer Shoots His Neighbor
An old feud between two fanners of
Weaver precinct near Beaver City has re
sulted in a probable murder Gil Mosher
went to the home of H M Beeler who had
taken up some of the farmers cows which
were trespassing upon his land An alter
cation ensued Beeler got a shotgun from
his house and fired two shots at Mosher
one of the charges entering Moshers body
just above the hip joint The doctors say
it is impossible for him to recover Beeler
surrendered himself to the officers
Gil Mosher died on the 14th from the
effects of gunshot wounds received at the
hands of Beeler
Baby Is Choked to Death
A small child of A Whitmores 2 years
old was choked to death at Franklin re
cently The mother left the room for a
moment and when she returned the child
had got something into its throat and was
choking to death The mother was unable
to give the little one any relief and life
was extinct in a few minutes
Quarantine Against Texas Fever
Governor nolcomb has issued a quaran
tine proclamation in conformity to that
eminating from the agricultural depart
ment at Washington under date of January
27 last dealing with the Texas fever and
cattle from the infected locality The
governors proclamation bears date of
March 1 1897
Old Woman Wranders Away
Litchfield was thrown into great excite
ment recently over the strange dis
appearance of Mrs Hallerawomanof60
years It is thought she started to her sons
and became bewildered Searchers have
failed to apprehend the old lady
Clarks Men in a Street Fight
George West sr and Fred Gilliard both
men of about 60 years had a fistic encoun
ter on the street at Clarks the other day
The latter sustained a badly bruised face
It is likely that the two will come together
again
Nebraska Short Xotes
The people of Ponca are living in hopes
of soon having an opera house
County roads out through the state are
reported to be worse this SDrim than mw
known before
C W Matteson of Geneva sliced his
right ear with an ax last Friday while at
tempting to chop wood
Reuben Risburgs general merchandise
store at Funk was entered last Friday
night by burglars and a gold watch and
some small change taken
The livery stable of Gotlieb Benzler of
Callaway wa3 burned recently One fine
team of horses and a quantity of harne s
and feed were burned up
Plainview is making an effort to secure
the next North Nebraska Soldiers reunicn
1 In the neighborhood of 300 acres will be
sown to alfalfa this spring by Huffman
Rollins of
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The fifth annual reunion of the veterans
oi ine name oi aniioh wijl be heM on
Wednesday April 7 at Stromsburg
A stronsr orotest is beinrr mmfe r
County against tie brlngiiig in there of
lexas cattle The importers claim tii
cattle are coming in there subject to all the
rules and regulations of the agricultural
bureau and that there is no danger of coa
fagious disease therefrom
V
her As soon as he was married ne SKippea
the country leaving his newly married
wife with her parents A few days ago he
returned to Tecumseh but kept himself In
hiding The officers got onto him and
Deputy Sheriff C B Woolsey went out to
the senior Conways to arrest John Wool
sey stationed his assistants outside the
house while he went in to serve his war
rant When Conway with the officer in the
lead started from a bed room to the front
door by some quick manipulation on the
part of the brothers a door was slammed
between the officer and Conway and the
latter dodged out the back door and ran
right into the arms of the officer who was
on watch ne ordered Conway to halt
which he did not do until the officer had
fired twice at him The second shot en
tered the inside thigh of Conways left leg
The man was taken to Tecumseh
lodged in jail on a charge of statutory as
sault and the pistol ball which is deep in
his limb has not yet been removed
Doty Escapes Assassination
By a lucky chance Milt Doty astockmau
living on the Niobrara River four miles
south of Butte escaped a violent death the
other night Mr Doty attended a prayer
meeting a few miles from Home On his
return about midnight he found his bed
riddled with buckshot and bullets and
from the broken windows it was evident a
gang of ruffians had attempted to murder
him by shooting through the windows of
his bedroom to where they supposed he
was sleeping Doty spent the balance of
the night at a neighbors and went to town
the next morning to purchase some fire-
arms to protect himself with in the future ijd
He thinks the men who made the attempt
to murder him are members of the Holt
County vigilantes as they have it in for
him on account of his known hostility to
that murderous organization
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St Joe Road Papers Are Signed
Superintendent Morey and Manager
Robinson of the Grand Island St atfSVsVa
Joseph Railway were in Hastings a day or
two ago to attend an official meeting which
was held at the office of Hon M A Harti
gan the local attorney of the road The
meeting was for the purpose of signing the
papers which completes all records of the
new company in Nebraska
Hon C W Schram Dead
Hon C W Schram representative from
Dixon County passed away at his home in
Newcastle Sunday morning Since early in
January he had been ailing and about four
weeks ago returned from the legislature to
receive treatment An operation was
performed on Mr Schram at St Josephs
hospital in Sioux City about three weeks
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