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Commeata and CrltlcUms Based Upoa
the Happening of the Day Histori
cal and Ne-w Notes.
The latest new word Is "sklndlcate ,
'Srat it Is not la the dictionary yet
There Is yet every reason to hope
Russia will pause In her mad and
reckless Korea.
A good laugh Is oft times better than
/ * hearty menL Cut ouc this joke and
\Sive it to the next tramp that calls.
The past year has seen 538 persons
killed In the streets of New York It
tla a wonder that any one had time to
-count them.
John Strange Winter says that 90
: per cent of London society women
wear wigs , which , of course , keeps
them out of the front row.
A Nebraska man threw his wife in
as "boot" In disposing of a horse. He
explained It by sayiug it was a good
-chance to get rid of two kickers.
A New York doctor has found a
jaste that will do the work of a razor.
It will not be popular with barbers and
-women who use their husbands' razors
lor ripping seams.
There is no better road to the asser
tion of manly independence than that
which leads the loyal citizen loyal to
the chief duty of citizenship , to high
principle and courage of it to the bal
lot box.
A Chicago fancier has produced a
rfeatherless chicken. This leads us to
2iope that experiments may be contin
ued along that line until the Inmates
-of boarding houses can he served with
hairless hash.
A Chinese magistrate who had killed
5,000 persons has just been executed.
Evidently he was not one of the fussy
people who are afraid the world Is
.going to be depopulated owing to a
lack of babies.
Bishop Boyd Vincent lately talked
; to business men , and thus counseled
them : "To say nothing of your self-
xespect , never forget what a good investment -
vestment there Is , even in business , in
that grand old name of gentleman. "
The victims of mob fury are poor
ignorant wretches who would be
fittingly punished by the courts. The
Tich and influential criminals who usually -
-ally escape legal punishment are never -
er lynched. The mob Is as illogical as
It Is vicious.
The Eastern press has much to say
of a "spanking machine now in use at
the State training school at Red Wing ,
Jlinn. " A spanking machine may do
the business in a dull , mechanical way ,
lut for positive genius we recall with
some emotion the brilliant work rloue
lay mother in conjunction with the hair
Tarush , in which we played a supportIng -
Ing part
The women of Germany are estab
lishing commercial schools for girls ,
.at which are taught bookkeeping , cor
respondence , physical geography , En
glish , penmanship , commercial law ,
typewriting , arithmetic , German and
Prench. By and by the men will have
to tate water or break stone in the
streets. The female Invasion is an as
sured fact.
The salaries of Congressmen can
never be fairly aud equitably arranged.
-Some members are well worth $5,000
a. year and others are not worth 5
-cents. Some look upon a seat in the
House of Representatives and the sal
ary as means of getting aud saving
more money than they can make in
their business at home , while others
are willing to pay more for a nomina
tion and election than their salary for
two years amounts to. No means can
"be devised of paying the statesmen "by
the piece. " So it must rest with the
"voters In each district to get the best
they can for the money.
Forty-five thousand homeless chil
dren have been sent to Canada from
< 5reat Britain and put in good homes
during the past thirty-five years. Last
year for every child that was sent
there were five applications on file
with the societies engaged in the work
of rescuing the waifs. Consequently
British philanthropists , who know
how carefully the children are looked
after In their new homes , think that
the number sent from the overcrowded
British cities to the spacious colonies
could be increased with profit to the
empire as well as to the children. It
is a good way to save men and make a
nation.
Many of the words used by the
Americans in Cuba and the Philippines
have no Spanish equivalent. The people
ple have , therefore , transferred them
bodily Into their own language ; but
\vhen they write them they use the let
ters with the Spanish values. For in
stance , only one fain.liar with Spanish
would know that "diabun" was pro-
fcounced "Jawbone. " It is easier to
recognize "YanquI blof" and "ponkin
pai ; " and it does not take much imag
ination to discover "gcod-by" in the
Cuban "gub-bai. " Thus does language
grow , not elegantly nor in accordance
with the strict rules of the purist , but
. .with considerable plcluiesque vigor.
The engineers In charge of the new
fubway \ Boston recently objected to
the passage of a procession through
tone of the streets where they were
pxcar ting for fear that the vibration
of the earth caused by the rhythmic
beat of lhe march might endanger the
abutting buildings. The line of march
was accordingly changed. It Is awell -
known fact of physic that vibrations
are as contagious as smallpox. One
tuning-fork will communicate Its hum
to another of the same pitch In the
same room , and two clocks , one fast
and the other slow , will soon tick syn
chronously If put side by side on the
same table. When soldiers march
across Brooklyn bridge they break step
lest the strain damage the structure.
At the recent celebration of Lucy
Stone's birthday almost every speaker
who had known that gifted woman
had something to say about the charm
of her voice. So sweet was it that. In
the words of Miss Anthony , 'men used
to say that they couldn't help voting
for woman suffrage If she asked them
to do so. " Her name was always put
last upon the program of a public
meeting , "because she left such a
pleasant impression upon an audi
ence. " The current literature of Great
Britain Is full of .slighting allusions to
the voices of American women. Thu.\
are justified In a number of cases , alas ,
far too large. But an American worn
an's voice need not be loud and shrill.
Nothing in her constitution , nothing hi
the climate , requires it so to be. It is
true that weak utterance or a "crack
ed" voice may proceed from ill health ;
but the high , nasal tones that our
foreign critics find so disagreeable are
almost invariably due to sheer hced-
lessness. Nobody needs to be told that
noise and emphasis are dill'eveut
things , but people forget and scream ;
and every such outburst , whether of
joy or of anger , coarsens the voice , es
pecially If , as Is frequently the case ,
"the last breath In the lungs" is used
In the effort. "Breathe deeply , speak
slowly , and keep an even temper. ' is
the advice a specialist gives the girls
at a famous finishing school. Tlu- se
cret of a pleasing voice could hardly
be conveyed in fewer words , nor is the
knowledge of any other secret more
essential to a woman's charm.
Thomas Day , 54 years of age , dis
covered a lead mine in Idaho after
years of prospecting. He had endured
niauy privations , but persevered in the
hope of striking something "worth
while. " He has succeeded so well that
John D. Rockefeller offered him ten
million dollars for the propertj * , and
Day declined to sell. His declination
was not based on his belief that the
mine was worth more than Rockefeller
offered , but in his belief that he
wouldn't know what to do with so
much money. "I never had so much as
? 5,000 in my life before , " he is quoted
as saying , "and if I had ten millions
it would worry rne to death. People
would be running after rue with all
kinds of schemes , and it would take a
force of secretaries to answer the let
ters. The old lady and I are just plain
people , and we enjoy life more by liv
ing it out in the way we've been raised
than if we'd try to mix with swells. "
Thomas Day is a refreshing exception
to the host of the "new rich. " Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish , who claims descent
from Peter Stuyvesant , is disgusted
with New York society for no other
reason than that the newly rich insist
upon clanging at the doors for admis
sion. They are traveling the pace of
the beggar on horseback to the amuse
ment of persons with refinement and
breeding. An eminent literary man
the other day met one of the new rich
who invariably finds occasion to tell
that his income is $100,000 a year and
his expenses $80,000. "I wouldn't pay
that much to. live if I were you , " was
the literary man's retort. "It really
isn't worth It. " Thomas Day is wise
in his day and generation. If he and
the "old lady" shall live out their lives
the way they have been reared , no
one will have opportunity to laugh at
them and they will have conscience
ease.
Catching Pish with Snares.
The Hawaiians fish very often with
a snare for the big eel-like morays and
for crawfish. In snare fishing for morays -
rays , or puhi , a long stick is employed ,
with a noose arranged at the end , the
string working the noose reaching
clear to the end of the pole. A bait
made of almost any kind of pounded
Ssh or crab is thrown into the water
n favorable spots , especially around
rocks , where the puhl live hi holes and
jrevices.
The noose Is slipped up close to one
) f these holes , and when the puhl
sticks its head through it In order to
each the bait , the line in the hand is
mlled , which draws the noose tight to
he end of the pole , pinning the puhi's
lead there and choking It to c'Aith ,
ifter which It Is drawn to the surface.
In fishing for crawfish a long pole
to which dead bait has been tied abuut
hree inches from the bottom ) Is put
[ own in the water in front of a hole In
he rocks. As the ula comes out of its
lole to get the bait another pole , with
. crotch or fork at the end , to both of
vhich a noose Is fastened , Is slipped
mder its till and suddenly Jerked ,
rhich tightens it and the animal la
irought to the surface.
THE RISKS OF BEING RICH.
Begorra , if th' markit kapes on goua'
lown oi'Il haf to sell ye me beautifule
mto-go-Bllly.
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! NEBRASKA NOTES
" --i'--I- - ' ' * * tlt
The firemen's fair at the Auditor-j
' .urn at Beatrice has closed after a
successful week. j
The bank of Sermantown at Germantown -
mantown has been purchased by Ed.
Hall of Elkhorn.
Nearly all the merchants of Neb
raska City nave signed an agreement
to close at 6 HO p. m.
Marie Josephine Dletsch and Ban
Rupert Fletcher of Omaha were mar
ried at Plattsmouth.
Seyer Seyerson and Miss Tracey
Lang were married at tbe bride's
borne near Calaway.
Mrs. Emma Hill of Nebraska City ,
oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
T. Nickolson , is dead.
E. W. Sh-iw , an old resident of
Hastings , dropped dead of apoplexy
whil repairing a sidewalk.
Miller McClintock of Newman's
Srove fell twenty feet from a' tele
phone pole and broke buth arms.
Milford Keene , a 15-year-old boy of
Hastings has been sent to the re
form school for stealing a pair of
trousers.
A mad dog bit several head of hogs
for farmers two weeks ago. One hog
exhibited symptonsor the rabies and
was killed.
Charles M. Anderson of Lincoln
and Miss Daisy Freese of Nebraska
City were married at the residence
ot the latter's parents.
A large number of implement deal
ers are attending the meeting of the
South Platte Implement Dealers as
sociation at Lincoln.
The funeral of David McWilliams
of Nebi.tska City , who cauje to this
state iu 1852 , was held at his home
in Delaware precinct.
Miss Stella Leigh , of Beatrice is in
a precarious condition , suffering from
a concussion of the brain caused by
falling on the ice while skating.
J. L. Wheeler has been appointed
county commissioner at Peuder to
lill out the unexpired term of Com
missioner Heusley.
Hezekiah liorney , aged 77 years ,
died at the residence of his son , M
RI Homey , at Beatrice. A wife and
a family of grown children survive
him.
Thievess entered the saloon of
William Berner at Norfolk and
secured $5 in nickels from the cash
diawer. The Northwestern , depot
was also looted of $1.95.
Harry Mead Garrett of Beatrice
was married to Miss Ethel Johnson ,
at the bride's home in Denver. Mr.
and Mrs. Garreett will make their' '
home in Beatrice.
Jack Ot is was taken to Kearney
from Elm Creek , charged witn for
gery. He got two pay checks for
companions , endorsed their names
and had them cashed. He confessed.
David McWilliams , an old resident ,
died at his home near Dunbar at the
age of 75 years. He had lived on his
farm near Dunbar for thirty-eight
years. H i leaves a family of twelve
grown children. j
James H. Burk , chief clerk uf the !
Burlingtoh freight office at Lincoln ,
has severed his connection with that
department and is now local freight
agent at Deadwoodj South Dakota.
George Yascald , who has been
missing from Fremont since July 3 ,
has heen locited at Carthage , S. D.
He professes great surprise that any
one should be alarmed at his disap
pearance.
Postmaster Phillips of Exeter has
received word that Exeter has been !
included in th * towns of Nebraska' '
to receive the "emergency warnings" ,
f the weather bureau.
The boarding house of Mis. Gor
don at Fremont was considerably \
damaged by a fire which started from
candles igniting tbe trimmings on
a Christmas tree.
Good News from Minnesota.
Lakefield , Minn. , Jan. 4. Mr. Will
iam E. Gentry of this place is one of
the best known and most highly re
spected men in Jackson County. For
45 years he has suffered with Kidney
Trouble and now at 77 years of age he
has found a complete cure and is well.
His cure is remarkable because of
the length of time he had been suffer
ing. Cases of 40 years' standing might
be considered incurable , but the reme
dy that cured ilr. Gentry seems tc
know no limit to its curative power.
{ Mr. Gentry says :
1 "I have suffered with misery in my
back for about 45 years and had all
the Iroublesome symptoms of Kidney
and Urinary disease. I tried various
kinds of remedies , but all to no effect
until I tried Dodfl's Kidney Pills. Now
I have no pain in my back and feel
quite well in every way.
"I am 77 years of age and I feel
better than I have for the last 40
years. I attribute it all to Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. "
"Roy Mason of Long Pine was seri
ously inj red by the accidental dis
charge of a gun. He was on the
inside cf the house when a gun in
the hands of a companion outside
the door was discharged and the
.charge , together with a piece of the
door , passed into the lad's knee.
Martin Enright , the laborer wht
[ fell under the Union Pacific train at ]
Fremont , had both legs amputated
pne was taken off at the knee and
ithe other at the ankle.
DREDS KILLED
IN A THEATER PANIC
Iroquois Playhouse Scene of Conflagration
Disaster Almost Without Parallel-
STARTS DURING A MATINEE'
INTERIOR A ROARING FURNACE
WITHIN TEN MINUTES.
Sifnny Trampled to Death , Other *
Suffocated , AVhll Scores P rl li
In Flames Dead Piled In
Great Heaps.
*
* CHICAGO , Dec. 31. Coroner *
I * Traegcr leports by actual count !
"t seven hundred and thirty-bix .j. *
dead.
j It in declared by the police that
5 * " 3
MX hundred and thirty-seven
Jt J
$ bodies have been taken from the 4-
4. (
, rums. i
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CHICAGO , Dec. 31 Many hundred
persons were killed in ten minutes
yesterday afternoon d'uring a lire in
the Iroquois theater , the newest ,
largest-and safest theater in Chicago.
Most of the dead were killed by
tramping and suffocation in the panic
that followed the first burst of flame
from the s'yage.
The audience consisted mostly of
women and children. Several persons
were burned to death , some suffoca
ted by gas , thrown in the auditorium
by the explosions of a gas tank , but
scores were trampled to death in the
mad plung of the frightened women
and children to escape the fiie.
Many bodies were scorched after they
were trampled to pieces.
It will bo many hours before ihe
number of dead is accurately known
and many days before all of them
will be identified. There were bodies
lying by tbe dozens last night in un
dertaking rooms , in police stations ,
and in hospitals , from which nearly
everything that could reveal their
identity has been torn cr burned
away. Their clothing is torn to rags
or burned to cinders and their faces
have been tampled into an unrecogni
sable pulp by the heels of the crowd
that trampled them down as they fled
for safety.
The tire broke out duiing the second
end act of "Mr. Bluebeard , " which
was the first dramatic pnductioo
produced in the theater after its
opening. The theatrical company ,
\ hich was large , escaped , neatly all
of them however , being compelled
to flee into the snowy streets with
oo clothing outstJge Costumes. A
few members of the company sustain
ed iniur'es , but none weie severely
Lurt.
The accounts of the origin of there
-re are cDuflictlng and none of them
Is certain , but one best reason given
is that an electric wire near the low
er part of a piece of drop scenery
broke af d cuuspd a short circuit ,
setting fire to the scenery. The fire
spread rapidly toward the front of
the stage , the wings , screaming.
Tbe fire in itself up to this time was
not serious anu Tf ) > ssibly could have
heen checked had not the asbestos
curtain failtd to work.
As soon as the lire was discovered ,
Eddie Fey , chief comedian of the
company , shouted for the asbestos
curiain to be lowered , and it was im
mediately lowered about half way.
1'hen it stut k.
The fire thus was given a flue
through which a wstrong draft as
formed , aided by the doors which ha J
been thro-vn open in rront of the
theater. The flames shot roaring ,
tongue-shaped , through the opening
over the beads of the people on tbe
Bis floor , almost licking tbe faces of
those in the fiist balcony , smothered
many where they sat.
Immediately following this nsb of
flames came an explosion , which lift
ed the entire roof of the theater from
the walls shattering the great sky
light in o fragments. A hail of
jlass , the tottering of the galleries ,
the quaking of the building and a
iry of "tire" from several perso-is in
; he rear , started the panic. The en-
Ohio River Gorged with Ice.
CINCINNATI , Dec. 31. Since
iwo steamers and many barges were
mnk by moving ice in tbe Ohio river
lere last Sunday causing a loss of
> ver one hundred thousand dollirs in
; he Cincinnati haibnr. hundreds ot
lien have been keeping vitzil nighi
ind day protecting ruanv packets and
wo boats and over one hundred load-
id baruf-s that are here With the
iver freezing belnw Cincinnati and
Rawing anove this city , the situa-
, ion has becQnje.alaruaing.
tire audience rose as one person and
made for the doors.
As near as can ba ascertained , at
the present time , about thirteen
hundred persons were in the theater.
Three hundred of these were on the
first floor , the remainder being in the
balconies and in the aisles back of
them.
The theater is modeled after the
Opera Coinique in Paris and from
the rear : .f each balcony there arc
three doors leadin to the passage way
toward the front of the theater. Two
of these door-ways are at the end O :
the balcony one being in the center.
Must of the spectators in t rush
for the outer airseem to have chosen
to flee to the left enterauce and to
attempt to make their way down the
eastern stairway leading into thr
lobby. Outside of the people burnc'l
and suffocated by gas , it was in thesa
two doorways on th first and second
balconies that the greatest loss ot
life occured. When tbe firemen en
tered the building , the dead were
found streatched in a pile reaching
from the head of tbe stairway at
least eight fe t from the door back
to a point about five feet in rear ol
the door.
This mass of bodies in the center
of tne doorway reached within twu
feet of the top of the hall. All thu
corpses at this point were women and
children. Here a light for life took
place that dismantled many persons
in death. This is shown by the as
pect of the bodies as they lay when
found.
Women on top of these masses o (
dead had b en overtaken by death as
they crawled on hands and knees
over the bodies of ttose who had
died before. Others lay with arms
stretched out in the direction to
ward which lay life and safety , hold-
in their hands fragments of garments
not their own. They had evidently
been torn from the bodies of others
whom they had endeavered to pu 1
down and trample underfoot as they
fought for life.
As the police removed layer after
layer of dead in these doorways , the
sight became so sickening that police
men and firemen , hardened as they
are to horrible scenes , turned away
in horror. The bodies were in such
an inextricab e mass , and so tightly
were they jammed between the sidrs
of the d-jor and the walls that it was
in-possible to lift them one by ore
and carry them out. The only possi
ble thing to do was to seize a leg or
arm or a piece of clothing and pull
with main strength , dragging several
entwined bodies away together.
Policemen and firemen worked at
the task with tears running down
theit cheeks and the sobs of other
rescuers could be heard in the street.
A number of men were compelled
to abandon the work and seek
the open air while others , whose
nerves had not yet been shaken , pro
ceeded with the untangling.
As the bodies were dragged out of
the water-soaked , blackened mass of
corpses , rnoie horriying sights were
disclosed.
There were women whose clothing
was torn completely from the bodies
above the waist , whose breasts had
been trampled into a bleeding pulp
and whose faces had been marked be
yond identification.
In the auditorium there was no
such number of dead in any one spot ,
but bodies lay in the first and se
cond balconies in great numbers.
In some places corpses were piled
up in aisles three and four deep ,
where one had fallen and others
tripped over the prostrate forms.
These had died as they fell , evident
ly suffocated by gas.
Others were bent over backs of
seats where they had been thrown by1
the rush of people for the doors , and'
killed without a chance to escape
from their seats. One man was
found bent backwards nearly double ,
his spinal column having been f ract
ur d by the crus . A woman was
found cut nearly in two by the back
r f a seat over which she had been
forced face downward before she
could enter the aisle.
The members of the theatrical
company , being on tbe first floor had1
little difficulty in reaching the street
although their situation was for a
moment critical because of the speed
with which the flames swept through
the mass of scenery in the flies and
on the stage.
Issue of Treasury Bonds.
TOKIO , Japan. Dec. 30. An
emergency ordinance , passed lately
invests the government with prac-
tical.y unlimited credit for the pur
pose of milit-uy defense. Three oth-
jr ordinances were issued relating
tirst to the Seoul-Fusan railway ,
wnich is brought closer under fli.-ial
control ; second , to the revision of
Lhe organization of the imperial
nilitary headquarters ; third , to the
creation of a war council in wartime ,
.HiCAGO A CITY OF WOE
: HICAGO AWAKENS TO REALIZA
TION OF ITS CALAMITY.
renzled Parents and Children
for Lost Member * of Famllj
Iroquois a Chamber of
Horrors.
CHICAGO , Jan. l.-Yesterdaj
irought only the legacy of Wednes-
ay's monumental calimity and tbe
redlction that tbe list of fatalities ;
n tbe Iroquois fire will run to ovcjj
0) ) when information is complete. |
Tbe latest statement of dead at tbe
urious hospitals and hotels to which
he injured were removed that ol
he 157 people who were injured ,
irobably one-third cannot live ,
Che missing oday were estimated at
U4 , but it was expected tbab many
if. these would be accounted for , pro-
lably a large majority of them. '
Possibly nothing could better ,
typify the depths of She sympathy1
which is felt for those who suffered *
directly by the calamity than the.
iction of the striking livery drivers. !
liy a vote which was without a dis- <
sen ting voice , it was decided to establish - <
tablish a truce or ten days. ,
Among many of tbe theatrical men
employed in the other Chicago thea
ters the responsibility for the fire
-vas ascribed to the careless placing
Df electric light apparatus too close ;
to one of tbe hanging borders of tnej
icenery. The electrician of a leading !
Chicago theater expressed great snr-j
prise on bearing that this was con
sidered a possible cause of tbe fire.
"There never would have been any
fire. " he said , "if proper care had'
heen exercised In handling the lights.
The electric plant of tbe thuateri
was installed , as I happen to knowl
from peisonal observation , in accord
ance with every modern requirement
tor safety. Tbe plant was not to
blame. If ttoe facts I have been
given are correct the whole blame
rests on the person who placed or
was operating a light so closely to
the curtain. "
The failure of the expected fire
protection is attributed by insurance
men to trouble with the asbestos
curtain. *
Coroner Traeger examined the thea
ter after the disaster and said :
"If the asbestos curtain had been
in working order , I believe that the
fire might have been prevented from
spreading into the audience chamber.
An iron railing which separated *
each row of seats from tbe adjoining
tier prevented , I think , man ? f < om
reaching places of safety. This cir
cumstance , combined with the steep
incline , made it difficult for so large
an audience to escape without great
delay , and this is a modern , fireprool
theater , furnished with all the appli
ances and equipment that are sup
posed to prevent just such a catastro *
phe as has occurred.
"The plush on the seats of the
first balcony was charred , but still
visible. This does not look to me as
though everybody would have pot out
of tbe theater alive if there had been
no panic when you take into account
the speed with which the flames
spread. My inspection showed tbaf
the seats oa the main floor were onlj
slightly burned. The balconies bac
evidently shielded the seats in tbfc
parquet. Tbe path of the flarces war
evident. Tbe stage and tbe ceiling
of the theater was blistered and
blackened. There was almost na
damage to tbe furniture on the Orsl
floor. The boxes on the second ttei
were destroyed by tire , while thos
on the first flror were burned eel ]
in spots , evidently by aburn infrag *
ments from above.
CHICAGO , Jan. 1. For the first
time since Chicago has possesed belli
t'i peal , whistles to shriek and norm
to blow , the old year was allowed t *
silently take its place in his'ory am
the new year permitted to come will
no evidence of joy at its birth.
CHICAGO , Jan. 1. The Iroqnoi ,
theater disaster was vastly
destructive to human life than
other playhouse in tbe history of the
world. The fire next to it in poin ?
of lives lost occurred on December 5
1876 in Conway's Brooklyn theater ;
Brooklyn , N. Y. where 295 person }
perished. The day after Cbristmai
in 1881. while the play , "Tbe Bleed
ing Nun , " was playing in a theatrj
at Richmond , Ya. , a fire burne *
seventy-five persons to death. Th §
old world supplies no instances o
fires in theatres that may be classed
with these three. In the greai
Chicago tire of 1873 , the larpest con
flauration of modern times , iu wbici
2 124 acres were devastated , only 20
lives were lost.
France Wiring to Sell.
PAEIS. Dec. 31 Owing ibc tbe r
cent evects at Panama the annua
meeting of the Panama Canal Com
pany developed unusual interest anf
ercitement. Prior to the opening ef
forts were made to secure enougl
proxies to overrule the existing roan
attement of tbe company , which i
favorable to the silef the com pal
ny's pfoprrty to tbe United Statea
H be meering took place in tbe ha ]
[ of'agriculture. . ,