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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1902)
V BIXLER'S NEW DISEASE. KeDiscoverccl He Wan Suffering from Brain Desiccation. P.ixler was a little worried the other night about his health. Bixler is always discovering new diseases. If sill his dis coveries were real lie would be honey combed with ailments. His health would be as undermined as a beetling cliff whose base his yielded to the en croachments of the silty tide. This beautiful sentence is taken from an after-dinner speech made by Bixler himself at a complimentary banquet to Col. Pike Waba.sh , who moved to Okla homa last year for divers reasons. The beetling dill' didn't have anything in particular to do with the Colonel's de parture , but it sounded well and seemed to create an impression. One of the guests came to Bixler af terward and said : ' ' 1 wish I had your command of language , old boy. " Bixler Bllghlly blushed. "Do you ? " he said. "Yes , " replied the guest "If 1 had your gift of gab and a lot of those triple- jointed words I'd stand a little more show when I tried to talk buck to my -wife. " Well , the night that Bixler felt so much worried he got the idea into his .head that he might be alllicted with brain desiccation. He had seen some thing of this kind mentioned in the press and it preyed on his mind. When you have brain desiccation your brain or what passes for it dries up and your skull shrinks at the same time. It isn't a nice trouble and Bixler wonried over it a good deal. y-Major Crumpet came over to call that evening , and when the Major calls the whist table is always brought out. and the Major and Bixler and Mr.s. B. and Mrs. B.'s maiden sister. Matilda , play ed duplicate. Well. Bixler simply played a shocking game. He couldn't see trump signals , he blocked his part ner's long suit and pretty soon the Ma jor went home in a rage. The next morning when Bixler put on his hat he was horrilied to find it loose. Now he knew what ailed him the night before. Now he knew what had , iiiled him for days back. Lie was af flicted with brain desiccation. The hat kept getting bigger all the way downtown and pretty soon Bixler had dimYulty in keeping it away from his ears. He was a desperate man when he reached the oiliee. And then his telephone bell rang. "Is that you. BixlerV Say , this is the Major. Yes. Major Crumpet. Don't you know the voice ? Say , Bixler. what do you mean by having such a ridiculous ly small head ? I'll bet it's only a child's size. I carried your hat home la t night and It stood up on my head like a collar box on a yellow pumpkin. I suppose you brought my hat down. Well , stay there until I can hustle your over. That's all. " And when Bixler hung up the re ceiver , says the Cleveland Plain Dealer , ue actually smiled. FOGS AND FUEL IN LONDON. Efforts to Indues People to Use An thracite Coal. In the course of a deputation whicli waited on the lord mayor of London some time ago to urge that a fair trial should be given to an anthracite coal in London , it was stated that there was In that city a prejudice against this coal on the part of domestic servants , although nothing was easier than light ing the ordinary tires with anthracite and great economy resulted from Us use. Anything that contributed to abate what was called "the fog nui sance" in London should , on public grounds , have some trial. There were , it was added , 700.000 houses in London and about l.r > 00,000 chimneys , and on a cold day about 40,000 tons of coal were consumed , emitting some 4SO tons of sulphur. The saving in consumption to manu facturers by the use of anthracite coal would be enormous , while it would also tend to remove the inconvenience caused by smoke. Such coal was beins largely usedin Paris. Berlin and other continental cities. There were laws , with penal clauses , for abating th smoke nuisance in factories and work shops. A bill was introduced into Par liament with the viow of applying the same law to dwellings and it was urged that no-reason existed why something of this kind should not become part oJ ir law. The members of the deputation stated that they were willing to form themselves into an association and to conduct , at their own expense , some ex periments in different centers of the metropolis to show how largely the use of anthracite coal would abate what was called the fog nuisance : but , de spite the sympathy expressed by the lord mayor , the use of anthracite ha § not yet made great progress. " This is a matter for much rearet , says the London Iron and Coal Trades lie- view. No fuel gives more heat and th adoption of an anthracite fuel in Lon don would give us the only quality that London seriously lacks a pure atmos phere. Censorship of Comic Papers. Foreign comic papers are being sub jected to a strict censorship in Gen many just now. A special lookout is toeing kept for those published in America which contain pictures con sidered disrespectful to the kaiser. Cigarettes for Subscribers. El Pais , which is a pushing paper ol Buenos Ayres. offers to give every subscriber for three months an equal value in cigarettes , so tlmt.the ens- gets $ " > worth of news and to bacco each for the one price. "Wire Fences Cause Accidents. Accidents due to the increasing use pf "wire fences have done much to { cause a decline In the popularity ol fox hunting In England. A PRISON MUTINY CONVICTS AT SALEM , ORB , FIGHT WAY TO FREEDOM. USE ONE GUARD FOR SHIELD NEITHER ASK NOR GIVE QUARTER AND WIN TUE DAY. SHOOT DOWN THREE GUARDS Supposed to Have Been Furnished Weap ons JTOIII Oulside-Ewcapo to Woods and Being ; Hunted. Salem , Ore. , Two desperate pris oners. Harry Tracy , sentenced to twenty years , and David Merrill , a thirty-year man serving sentences for assault and robbery , committed in Multnomah county , escaped from the penitentiary Monday morning after killing three guards. The prisoners employed in the foundry were marched to work at 7 o'clock and had entered the molding room with Shop Guard Farrell inside and Guard Stapleton in an adjoining room. Without warning Tracy aud Merrill appeared with rides. Tracy t aimed at Farrell , when Ingram , a life prisoner , attempted to reach and disarm Tracy. Instantly Merrill shot Ingram and Tracy shot Farrell , the latter dying almost instantly. Tracy and Merrill scaled the wall near the northeast corner stockade by means of a ladder. When outside the wall Guard Jones was shot twice and killed. Tiffany was also shot , and he dropped off the fence , engaging the fugitives in a light. His gun was soon empty and he was taken by the con victs and used as a shield while they made for the timber. When out of range of the prison they stopped and deliberately killed Tiffany , escaping into the timber imrnedately. They ' had Tiffany's gun , but linding it 'was empty , threw away. Duncan Ross , a new guard , was on the fence , near Tiffany , having been ordered up to relieve the latter at his post. Ross was unarmed , and the convicts shot at him , one bullet striking him in the forehead , inflict ing a slight scalp woun A large force of men is now out searching for the fugitives , who are known to be in the timber between the prison aud reform school , and as they are desperate a battle is expect ed before they are secured. Great excitement prevails in this city and scores of men are leaving for the woods , armed and deter mined to run the murderers down. The prisoners are armed with two rifles and two revolvers. The arms are believed to have been thrown over the stockade Sunday night by friends , among excursionists who came from Portl md. Hong Konsr Y/ater Famine- San Francisco , The steamship City of Pekin arrived Monday night from the orient * * bringing news of a water famine iu Hong Kong. The wells of the city have gone dry , and in order to supply the island with water tugs were kept running be tween the c > ty and the mainland. The oillcers of the Pekin state that the drouth affected the Chinese mostly at the time the vessel left. Before every public watering place natives stood waiting a chance to fill their buckets. In one place in the busiest part of Hong Kong there were more than 1,000 cooiles in line watiiur tj get water for their perish ing families. Boats Caught in a Squall. Boston. The harbor master's office and the police stations along the water front were beseiged Mon day by anxious men and women mak ing inquiries for friends who went out in small craft Sunday and had not returned when a heavy squall swept over the harbor between 7 and 8 o'clock last evening. More than twenty persons are missing this morning. The squall came very quickly and was unusually strong and it is feared that small boats , heavily laden , could not have sur vived. Wreck on the Great Westeru. St. Joseph , Mo. , June 11. The Chicago Western passenger train No. 1 was wrecked seven miles north of this city Monday afternoon. Only one passenger was injured. He is Henry Vanderbaugh , a traveling man with headquarters in New York city. The entire train , con * sisting of seven coaches left the track and rolled down a twelve foot embankment. j FEAR RISING OF NEGROES BLACKS ARM THEMSELVES AND GO AFTER TROUBLE. Meridian , Miss. June 9. . A threat ened uprising of negroes , which ter ribly alarmed the people north of Me- ridian , has been frustrated by a de termined stand of the whites , who armed themselves' and placed the leaders of the gang , Green Johnson , and Nate Moore , unijer arrest. A call for the negroes to oand themselves against the whites was addressed to Nate Moore and was signed by a negro Baptist preacher named Rufnn. The latter said that a mob of fifty negroes would form in Rio , Kemper county , twenty-five miles northeast of Meridian , and march to Green Johnson's house and from there start through the country and kill all the whites , destroy their farms and burn their houses. As soon as the whites learned of the purpose of th2 negroes , who out numbered the whites two to one , they armed themselves with rifles and in a short time had so intim idated the negroes that it is now thought the uprising is at an end. The people of the threatened dis trict , however are very much alarmed and will be on the alert until all danger has passed. The people of Marion , from which the news of the uprising and threats first reached this city , are much wrought up and are prepared for emergencies at a moments notice. Admits His Guilt. Mobile , Ala , June 10. Capt. C. W. King , former quartermaster in charge at Fort Morgan , who was convicted in the United States court in Mobile last year on the charge of accepting a bribe of three thousand dollars in conuec : tion with work done at the fort , was arraigned Monday on two counts. He entered a plea of guilty as charged in the first count and was sentenced to thirteen month's imprisonment and to pay a fine of 83,000. The second account was nolle prossed. King arrived last night from his home in Fort Dodge , la. , where he has been s'nce ' his re lease on bond. Bad Ending of Hazing Bee. MadisonV5s. . , June 10. A hazing bee which started in a spirit of fun Monday came near ending disas trously. After Harry F. Ilerrman of New London , had been ducked iu the lake he went home and procured a revolver in order , as he maintains , to defend himself. * Later he ap peared on the street and was "rushed" by the crowd , and in the melee , the revolver was discharged , the bullet lodging in the leg of Philip C. Kopplin , of Lavell. This enraged the students , who captured Ilerrman and gave him a second dtiking Several other shots were fired but f led to take effect. Kop- plin's injuries are said to be slight. Floods delay Trains. Sb. Joseph , Mo. , June 10. Train crews arriving here today from runs extending west into Kansas and Ne braska , say they never encountered such severe rain storms in their rail way experience as they met Sunday night. All trains are greatly de layed. A St. Joseph & Grand Island engineer , at a point 100 miles west of here , said the rain fell in such heavy sheets that it was impossible to see even a few a few feet from the cab of the engine. He sought refuge for his passeucer train on a siding remaining there for several hours until the storm subisded. Several bad washouts have occured on the St. Joseph & Grand Island railways. Large sections of agricul tural land , in what is known as the Platte purchase , is entirely sub merged. The losses to crops will be enormous. Farmers believe that , in a general way , the losses will be made up by increased yield on table lands. Sets Fire to Himself. Bay City , June 10. After satura ting his clothing with kerosene oil , Jospeh Rejch set fire to himself in the Catholic church at Fisherville , . this county. His charred remains werre discovered in front of the alter Sunday. Holes had been burned through the church floors by his blazing body. Rejch , who was thirty nine years of age , was the organist of the church and a teacher in the Sunday school. Fight With Indians. ' Tucson. June 10. Star advices from Hermosillo report the receipt of brief dispatches from General rorres , telling of a severe battle fought by him in the Matazan mountains. The Indians withdrew from their fortificatons with heavy loss in killed and wounded and a large number of prisoners were ta- * en. Details of the battle are mea ger. IN THE DITCH ( VRECKOf ; AN EXCURSION TRAIN NEAR ALPENA , MICH. ONE MAN INSTANTLY KILLED FIFTY I > JURKD. THREE PROBABLY FATAL. CARRYING OVER 500 PEOPLE Esi-ape of Many From D-ath Well Nigh Mir cul..us Destruction Wrought by 1'heip * County Storm. Alpena. Mich. , June 9. A excur sion train on the Detroit & Mackin aw railroad , which left here at 7:15 : ; 'clock Sunday morning for Sagin aw , consisting of an engine and Iwelve coaches and carrying over 500 people , was wrecked at Black Hi ver , ' \hile running forty miles an hour. One man was instantly killed , three probably fatally injured and nearly fifty others received injuries of various degrees of severity , ranging Irom bruises and cuts to broken limbs. The excursion was under the aus pices of theGerman aid society of Apleua. When the trait ; reached Black river , the tender jumped the tiack. Engineer Hopper instantly set the air brakes and reversed his engine. The sudden stop threw the first three coaches of the train off the track aud into the ditch. The first i" r was thrown half around and the next two coaches plowed through it uod cut it in two. August Grosinski , the only person killed , was seated in this coach with forty other excur- Biouists. His body was terribly crushed and death was instanta neous. The escape of the others in the car was well nigh miraculous. Grosin- Blci's litt'e ' sou occupied the same at with him but the lad was unin jured. The three wrecked coaches weie piled up in a heap and two hundied feet of the track wag torn up. As soon as the occupants of the uninjured coaches recovered from the shock and surprise they rushed to the wrecked cars and began aiding the injured. They were extricated from the wreck with frantic haste and given all possible relief , pending the arri val of the relief train. Ths train brought eight surgeons from Alpena. After temporary dressi ngs l d been made of the most serious wounds , all the injuied were brought back to this city where the physicians worked over them until late tonight. Mother Dead , Children Waifs- Tecumseh , Neb. , June 9. Mrs. Henry Moore died at the poor farm here Thursday night and was buried in the Potter's field in the Tecumseh cemetery the following day. The circumstances that preceded her death are of a sad character. For some time the Mocre family , consist- inu of the father and mother and three sons and two daughters , had lived in a little shanty in the east part of town. The father failed to provide for the family and the mother was compelled to take in washing to furnish the necessities of life. During the winter and early spring her health gave out , and she was seemingly too proud to ask the authorities for help. What little provsinns could be secured was devoured by the husband and the children , the mother continually depriving herself of suflicicnt f < .od"co properly nourish her body , that the other members of the family might be fed. The children became waifs on the street and the boys though young , fell iu the way of the bad. Two weeks ago Wiley , the oldest boy , aged seventeen , was given ten days in the couny jail , for stealing , and his sentence expired but a day or two before his mother died. Last week the oflicers became aware of the mother's condition and took her' ' from her filthy little hut to the poor , farm where she might be properly- cared for. The time that she was felt the poor farm was counted by .hours and she died with no other member of her family with her than an infant baby in her arms. Since her death the father has informed the officers that they must provide for his children , and accordingly the girls will be sent to the home for t-he friendless and the two younger boys to the reform school. Police Officer a Suicide. David City , Nebr. , June 9 Chief of Police Joseph Calviu com mi bed suicide about eight o'clock Sunday morning by shooting himself in the right temple. The weapon used wag a thirty-eight calibre revolver. Be * coming despondent because of pooi health is the supposed cause. Mr. Calvin has been on the police forcq about ten years and last January wag appointed chief. LIES AT POINT OF DEATH BOY VICTIM OF CRUEL ASSAULT CAN HARDLY RECOVER. Grand Island , Neb..Tune 14 Wai- termer Harbolt , the 15-year old boy , who was so viciously stabbed and beaten by his traveling companion Friday , lies at the point of death. Dr. Abbott , the city physician , and ' Dr. Roeder , physician of the hos pital , are of the opinion that he can not lecover. It is now found that six of the stab wounds penetrated the lungs and the lad has hemorr hages. Dr. Roeder nas counted forty-one wounds. Mrs. Harbolt , mother of the un fortunate lad and a brother of the latter arrived this morning from their home at Campbell , Franklin county. It is stated that the boy had gone away from home , with the consent of his parents , three or four week ago to look for work. He had written home every week and was on his way home from Saratoga , Wyo. , when he fell in with the vicious stranger who in all probability has taken his life. The mother is heart broken. The feeling in the city is such that should the man be caught in the next few days it is doubtful if the ollicers. with the present jail facilities , could keep the man safe from indignant people , thojgh there is also a more conservative element , which , it is hoped , would be able to control the situation. So far the police have heard uoth- ing definite. One man reports driv- iuothe stranger for some distance south yesterday moiriing. Another believes he saw him crossing a road several fbiles southwest of the city , and following up the undergrowth of the Wood river valley. Another citizen is quite as certain that he saw a man answering the description passing his shop in a hurry yester day morning about the time west bound freights pass through the city , and as the reports are all from re liable citizens the police are quite at sea , and have nothing definite. In view of the fact that the man had an hour's start and there are uo hounds it is difficult to find a trace However , every effort has been made to fully notify all the sur rounding country. Yaaui Indians Massacred. Tuscon , Ariz. , .lune 14 A promi nent Arizona hanker arrived here to day from Prietas. Sonora , with de tails of a massacre of Yaqui In dians , men. women and children , yesterday in Santa Rosa canon , thirty-five miles from the Minns Prietas mines , by a detachment of General Torres' troops. It appears that the Yaqui forces that were operating iu that section had moved further into the moun tains , leaving their women and children in Santa Rosa canon under a guard of eighty men. The Mex ican troops came upon this camp and without warning opened a terrible fire sparing neither women nor chil dren. After the first volley the troops charged down upon the panic- stricken victims and massacred all 'within their reach. Of the guard of eighty Yaquis not ta single one survived and over a 'hundred ' women .and children fell { victims to the Mexican bullets and [ bayonets. The bodies of the dead were left in the canon and the re ( gaining women and children were diiven to Minas Prietas by the 'soldiers , and from that point will be taken to Hermosillo. The Mexican soldiers and rurales have explicit orders to take no Ya qui men prisoners , but to kill in all cases. This order was illustrated yesterday when a friendly Yaqui miner came down to Prietas for sup plies and was killed by the rurales on the outskirts of the town , Pay Well to See Hanging. Montreal. June 14 Thoasvald Hansen was hanged here today for the murder of Eric Marote. a nine- year-old boy , last autumn in order to obtain some change. IT cents , which the boy was jingling in his hand. Hansen's neck was broken. Ticket of admision to the execution were openly sold at prices ranging from 50 cents to § 10. Sends in His Resignation , Saginaw. Mich. , June 14. Govern or Bliss , who is at his home here , said tnday that he had received word from Lansing that the resigna tion of Col. Eli. R Sutton of De troit , as regent of the University of Michigan , was in the executive office at Lansing. Used'Company's Funds- New York. June 14. . Charles Shiveler. who was secretary and treasurer of the American District Telegraph company in this city fjr many years , was arrested today by direction of District Attorney Je rome. He was accused by the com pany of speculation for half a dozen years amounting from $16,000 to § 17,000. The case was referred to the Brand jury. NEBRASKAINOTES. Eetail hardware dealers of tbaf state recently effected an oranlzatio * at Hastings. A social club , the initiation fee o which is 3500 , has been organized Omaha capitalists. R IT Davis of Lincoln has been pointed teacher at the Crow Creek } S D Indian school. A rural free delivery route bart been ordered established out. G Chirks , to begin August first The Rebublican state convention- n.-eets at Lincoln June 18. and thJ Democratic state convention aft Grand Island June 24. A stock company is being- ized at Lincoln to establish a conntr # club , with a $5000 clubhouse and tbir-1' ty acies of ground. A young man named Wishmao , . who attempted to swim out in tnal current below the dam was nearlp drowned. The residence of J. Wook at Schuy- ler was destroyed by fire with con-1 tents There was $1,000 insurance on the house and contents The Social Economics club of Chi cago , composed of Chicago women , , has six colored women among members Farmers in the vicinity of Beatrica > estimate their loss in grains from the present flood at $50,000. Tho river in many places was a mil * wide , W. W. Holcomb died at Broken- Bow , after a lingering illness. IT * was the youngest brother of Silaa Holcomb and a member of the law firm of Ilolcomb Bros Governor Savage and staff will b resent at Seattle on July 4 , when the keel of the battleship Nebraska will be laid. The governor will leava Lincoln on June 30. Robert Van Brunt , a Burlington engineer and formerly a Lincoln resi dent , was instantly killed at St. Jos eph by being run over by an engine which he had attempted to board. J. P. Marvin about July 1 will begin the publication of a new morning daily to be known as the' Beatrice Daily Sun. Mr. Marvin isj an old time Nebraska newspaper man. - McKiuley Flansburg , of Trenton 7 years old , accidentally shot bis younger brother Robert in the leg with a 22-caliher revolver. The. ball passed through the fleshy part- of his lo r. The wound is somewhat painful , but not seiious. j Work has begun on the piping for the fire protection system that the : Great Westren Cereal company la having put into its factory at Ne braska City. An etlicient depart ment has been organized among th ' - employes of the factory. Gibbon is to have a new telephone liue from the southeast. It is a farm ers' mutual line and starts from Shel- ton. The matter of a line to connect Lowell and Butler with Gibbon is being agitated and v/ill undoubtedly be coutsructed. Lightning struck the First Meth odist church at Odell while the graduating exercises of the 1902 class of the High school were being held Several people were shocked into insensibility , but not seriously injured i Sixty bachelors of law graduated from the University of Nebraska college of law , which held its com mencement exercises separate from those of the academic and industrial colleges. , John J. Finerty of Chi cago delivered the oration. John David , president of the Lin- co'n ' Paint and Color Company , took , his. own life by shooting himself in the head with a 22-calibre revol ver. The onlytheory advanced for his a < H is that a press of matters unbalanced his mind He leaves a wife arid two children The oldest piece of writing in the world is on a fragment of a vase found in Nippur. It is an inscrip tion in picture writing , and dates 4.500 years before Christ. The Uni versity of Pennsylvania has se cured it. Fire , believed to have originated in the engine room , entirely de stroyed the Elkhorn roller mills causing a loss of 38,000. The insur ance was merely nominal. The mills were erected in 1S95 by Charles Schleip , the present owner Adjoin ing property was only saved by hero ic work on the part of the firemen. B D Sheilody of Carlisle , Neb , has been given an appointment as raiU way mail clerk