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The Valentine Democrat VALENTINE , NEB. X , M. RICE , - - - Publisher SBEIOUS DISORDERS. EXCITEMENT AT PRIMARIES AT CHARLESTON , W. VA. Armed Men Employed In One Precinct cinct They Sat Upon the Ballot Box and Had Their Own Way ) a\vson Faction Successful. At Charleston , W. Yn. , at the Repub lican primaries Saturday W. O. Dawson - son , for governor , carried the county over C. F. Lctcr by about 2,500. The Leter , men say this is about 700 more than the 'actual ' Republican vote , and that the .re [ suit is due to the fact that Grant Hall who was the manager for Leter and con sidcred his nominee for secretary of state , was "refused representation at the jpolls , and for that reason during the .afternoon was compelled to give up the , fight. It is charged that Dawson ( through the executive committee , con 'trolled ' the election officers. I The Leter faction , realizing the condi 'tions that confronted them , determined ion the desperate expedient of preventing Ithe holding of an election in all the pre cincts where either a clerk , a comniis , sioner or a challenger was refused. In ( pursuance of this order , many men were sent to the polling places early with in structions to get representation or stop Ihe entire proceedings , but in only one ward was this plan successful at the city hall , in the Fourth precinct , where Grant Hall himself went with a large number of armed men and sat upon "the ballot box. At one time the police , who were charged with working for Dawson attempted to capture Hall and his men but after drawing their guns they aban doned this precinct and the voters were rushed over to another ward. All sorts of charges are made about the * way negroes were voted and the way repeaters were used. More complete returns from the Re publican primaries in Kanawha County that were characterized with so much vio- leiicq indicate that W. M. O. Dawson will have the 48 votes of Kanawha Coun ty for the gubernatorial nomination at the state convention * in Wheeling .Tuly 12. The rural districts were carried by Charles F. Leter , but the large Dawson vite in Charleston overcame the vote in other parts of the county. The Letei men are. still making strong claims of irregularities , and bitter feeling exists. DECIDES TO EXHIBIT. Russia IVill Have Elaborate Show at St. Louis Pair. A cablegram was received from St. Petersburg Saturday by Director of Ex hibits Skiff , of the world's fair at St. Louis , stating that Russia will make an elaborate exhibit at the Louisiana Pur chase exposition. Russia , before the war with Japan , had planned to be represented at the fair , but recently decided to abandon its ex hibit. The cablegram Saturday telling of Rus sia's decision caused surprise to the ex position officials. The Russians will take 20,000 square feet in the varied industries building and will also be represented in liberal and fine arts. WENTZ'S BODY FOUND. Was TVithin a , Mile of the Place Where He Was .Last Seen Alive. A special from Big Stone Gap , "Wise County , Ya. , says : The body of E. L. Wentz , who so mysteriously disappeared Oct. 14 , 1903. was found Sunday after- .noon near Kelly Yiew , within a mile of the place where he was last seen alive. The body , which was lying on the ground in plain view , was in a state of preserva tion sufficient for identification. Young Wentz Avas the son of a Phila delphia millionaire , and was in charge of his father's mines in Wise County. Since his disappearance more than $30,000 have been offered for any news of him. THE DEED OF A HERO. Engineer , Surrounded by Flames. Saves Fifteen Lives. " .Tames'Shay , engineer at the Blue Ridge colliery , near Peckville , Pa. , did a heroic act Saturday night. With flames all about him and a hose company playing a stream of water on him to keep his clothing from taking fire , he stood at the lever in the fiercely burning engine house and safely hoisted fifteen men to the sur face. * * $ A moment after he staggered out of the building with his face and hands badly blistered the roof of the building fell in. The engine room , the fan house and the shaft tower were completely de stroyed. Victims ot Patriotism. During the popular demonstration at Tokio , Japan , in honor of the victories achieved by the Japanese forces , tweu- one people were killed and forty injured. The killed and injured are mostly boys , who were caught against a closed gate at an angle in the old palace walls by the throng and crushed or drowned in an old moat. Boys Threw Apple Cores. Because two nephews of Elias Kelly were throwing apple cores into Frank Harrison's yard at Terre Haute , Ind. , of Sunday , a fight ensued , during which , one man was fatally and another seriously wounded by revolver shots and three others badly injured. Bold Robbery in Chicago. Two well dressed robbers raided Kins ley's restaurant in the downtown dis trict of Chicago Sunday night and held up the cashier. . . - - , MANY ARE KILLED. Results * of Texas Tornado "Worse Than Supposed. A Dallas , Tex. , dispatch says that storm news is coming in very slowly from northwest Texas , where the tornado swept over a number of towns Thursday night , but enough is at hand to show a considerable loss of life and great dam age to property , stock and crops. At Morgan George Anthony , Mrs. Mary Wagley and her daughter were kill ed. A dozen other people were seriously injured. Twenty houses were wrecked. At Putnam one man was killed and a woman fatally hurt. Near that point a negro cabin was swept into the Brazes River and three negroes drowned. Hundreds of head of live stock are re ported killed in Shackleford and adjoin ing counties. It is reported that great property dam age was done near Cordell , Okla. , just north of the Texas line. Two lives were lost. lost.The The tornado at Chico , Tex. , on the Rock Island road , destrdyed almost a score of dwellings. In one house , every member of the Bray family was injured , one fatally. Reports from Dennison tell of a ter rific electrical display , accompanied by Avind , which demolished many houses. Crops generally were badly damaged in that vicinity. At Gqldthwaite , Tex. , Mrs. Allen Den nis , George W. Mason and a child of S. E. Harper were killed and seven people seriously injured. The damage to cotton and corn crops is very severe , and many homes were destroyed. At Ruby several houses were wreck ed , one child was killed and two adults fatally injured. At Sunset twenty buildings -wer. . wrecked and a number of persons se riously injured. At Star Mountain five houses were destroyed , two persons killed and a mim- ' ber seriously hurt. At Holliday Springs .the tornado entire ly destroyed several buildings. Three people ple were serious. ] } hurt. It is feared that later reports from the districts now cut off from telegraphic communication will largely increase the list of dead and injured. ' SHE USES A NOOSE. Suicide Follows Woman's Arrest in Council Bluffs. Marie Jorgensen , arrested Thursday evening in company with Peter Born , at Council Bluffs , la. , charged with desert ing a wife and four children in Warren , Pa. , committed suicide at an early hour Friday morning at the home of Mrs. J. H. Brooks , where she had been placed by the police over night , .there being no ac commodation for female prisoners at the city jail. ' The woman secured the ropes of a portiere curtain in her room , tied one end around her neck and the other to the top rail of the stairway. Her feet almost touched the floor and she evidently strangled to death. Born was not notified of the woman's death until arraigned in , police court. When apprised of the tragedy , he col lapsed and fell in a faint on the court room floor. PANIC ON A STREET CAR. , Eleven Persons Are Hurt , Nine of. Whom Are Women. A Kansas City , Mo. , special says : . Eleven persons , nine of them women , were injured in a panic among the pass engers of a crowded Independence elec tric car. The controller on the front end blew out and most of the passengers be came panic-stricken. In a rush to get to the rear platform of the car , men roughly shoved the women aside , threw an aged woman to the floor and tram pled her , and pushed others from the steps to the street below. Some of the men broke the glass in the windows with umbrellas and jumped through the windows dews to the ground. Mrs. John Nolan , aged 75 years , of Independence , was so badly injured that her condition is critical. The others , while painfully bruised and cut , are not seriously injured. Workman Falls Into Molten Iron Hainey Anderson , an employe of the Illinois Steel Company at Chicago , clung to a ledge of the caldron Friday while his feet burned off. Then , with a shriek , he fell into the seething mass below. In a few moments his body was literally consume'd. Some of his fellow workmen fainted with horror at the spectacle. Need the Cash. A London special says : Inquiries show that a Japanese loan of $50,000,000 will be issued next week , simultaneously in New York and London. London will probably get $35,000,000 and New York $15,000,000. Great Firemen's Tourney. It was announced at St. Louis Friday that the international tournament of fire men will be held at the world's fair Aug. 22 to 27 inclusive. About $10,000 in cash prizes and trophies will be distributed among the competitors. Makes Thousands Idle. Mason work was shut down on many partly completed buildings throughout Chicago by the lockout of limestone and cement teamsters. It is estimated by em ployers and union officials that 15,000 to 20,000 workers are out of employment. Magician Arrested for Swindling. For swindling" young women under the guise of reading their future in the palms their hands , Choker Aleeze Nathop , a diminutive Hindoo , was arrested in a po ( lice raid on his apartments at Madison , Wis. , together with Hattie Mae Godding , is daughter of a St. Paul railroad engineer , who was about to give him $600. Flood Situation Improves. The flood situaMou is greatly improved although a steady rain continues to fall. by No .further damage is expected. FOR WHISKY FRAUDS. Four Defendants Convicted and Heavily Fined. At Charlotte , N. C. , a verdict of guilty has been rendered in the United States court in the cases against T/M. Angle. B. F. Sprinkle and Wm. Young for de frauding the government by false entries in connection with the payment of taxes on whisky. Sprinkle was fined $5,000 and sen tenced to two years' imprisonment ; Angle $1,000 and one year , and Young $1,000 and six months. An appeal was taken. A. J. Davis , the government ganger , who some time ago was convicted of making false returns in connection with these alleged frauds , was given eighteen months' imprisonment and fined $1,000. Judgment for $20,000 also was as sessed against him , and suit will be brought for the amount against his bonds men. TORNADOES IN SOUTH. Many Lives Are Reported Lost in x Texas. A special from Cisco , Tex. , says : "II is reported here that many people were killed and much property and live stock was destroyed by a tornado just south ol Moran , eighteen miles north of here. Wires are all down , and it is impossible to get particulars at this time. Relief parties cannot start on account of the impassability of the roads. " At Moreland , in Shackleford County several people are known' to have beer killed. A tornado passed three miles west of Bridgeport , Okla. , Thursday afternoon , proceeding northward. Efforts are being made to secure com munication with the sections visited by the storm , all of which are in the west ern portion of the territory. COLORADO MARTIAL LAW CASE Arguments Are Heard by State Su preme Court. Arguments on a writ of habeas cor pus issued on behalf of Charles H. "Mey er , president of the Western Federation of Miners , who has been deprived of his freedom since March 30 by order of Gov * Peabody , and is now held as a mil itary prisoner at Telluride , which is un der martial law , were neard by the state supreme court at Denver , Colo. , Thurs day. day.The The question at issue is whether the governor has authority to establish mili tary rule for the purpose of suppressing what he termed a "state of insurrection and rebellion due to acts of strikers. " In his proclamation declaring martial law Gov. Peabody denies jurisdiction of court. COULD NOT DIGEST PIN. "Human Ostrich" Operated on in a New York Hospital. John Fasel , the "human ostrich , " who swallowed object's made of iron and brass , was operated on at New York for acute indigestion caused by partaking too heartily of fricasse of hardware. The surgeon Succeeded in extracting from Fa- sel's alimentary canal six knives , one gold chain , three ring chains , four keys , twelve wire nails of all sizes , eight horse shoe nails and a metal pin two inches long. It was said that the pin caused all the trouble by lodging in the intes tines. Fasel is in a critical condition. Tins is the second operation of the same . kind. SWEPT BY STORM. Much Damage is Reported in Cherokee County , Iowa. A tornado swept through the western part of Cherokee County , Iowa , Thurs day afternoon. All wires are down and it is impossi ble to learn details of damage done. The Western Union Telegraph company's , lines are down for a distance of half a mile. It is reported many buildings were wrecked at Meriden , seven nines west of Cherokee , but these reports are still un confirmed. A special train has gone to Merideu. Ice to be Higher This Year. Announcement is made that the price of ice in Chicago is to be higher this year , not in spite of the rigorous winter , but because of it. The ice companies claim that product was so extremely thick and difficult to cut that they spent more than the usual amount of money for labor and are forced to raise the price to con sumers. , Crime is a Puzzle. I Clement Robert , aged 11 years , a son of a Waterford , N. Y. , saloonkeeper , was found dead in a shed with his head crushed. His clothing was almost entire ly torn from his body , and some efforts at mutilation had been made by the mur- ' derer. The motive for the crime is a mys tery. , Nominated for Congress. Amid a scene of wildest excitement at Cherokee , la. , Thursday E. H. Jdubbard of Sioux City was nominated for con gress in the Eleventh , district convention. Mr. Hubabrd was nominated on the fifty- fourth ballot. A Triple Hanging. Henry Judge , Joe Delp and John Ev ans were hanged atj Winchester , Teiin. , Thursday for the mu'rder of Simon Buch- er and wife last August. Judge con ceived and planned the deed and hired Evans and Delp to do the murder. Bandits Ready to Revolt. Korean officials admit that if the Jap anese are not victorious in their operations - V tions on the Yalu River the tonghaks bandits ) of northern Korea will rise in open rebellion. Their leaders are now , it said , awaiting any'Japanese reverse. Chicago Shoemakers Idle. Five thousand members of the Boot : and Shoe Workers' Union at Chicago are idle as the result of a lockout declared six of the largest shie factories in Chicago. STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM. Noted Indians Go to Pair Chiefs of Many Tribes Accompany Colonel Cummins to St. Tjouis The First Exhibition of Ked Cloud. The vicinity of the union depot at Oma ha had the appearance of an Indian res ervation Saturday when the special train bearing 302 Indians stopped in Omaha on its way to the exposition at St. Louis. The party is in charge of Col. Cummins and will be a portion of the exhibit which will be opened under the name of Cum mins' Wild West Indian Congress and Rough Riders of the World. Among the big chiefs on the train were American Horse , Red Cloud , Flat Iron , Red Shirt , Two Strike , Rock Bear , Hollow Horn Bear , Red Star , Calico , Shot-iii-the Eye , Blue Horse , Short Man , Hard Heart , Black Heart , Lone Bear , Seven Rabbits , Lost Horse , White Eyes , No Neck and Crow Dog. The tribes rep resented were : Flathead Crow , Arapahoe - hoe , Cheyenne" , Blackfeet , Omaha , Win- nebagoec , Sacs ; Foxes and nine tribes of Sioux. John Mellen , traveling passenger agent of the Northwestern , came in with the train. Mr. Mellen says-about 5,000 Indians were camped along the route and the time was put in feasting , dancing and having a general good time. Cattle were slaughtered and distributed among the Indians. When the train was ready to depart there was much weeping and wailing among the families of those that were to leave. Old Chief Red Cloud , in his ninety- seventh year , whose skin resembles wrin kled parchment , occupied a private car on the train with his family , which is very numerous. He had nothing to say , and seemed to take but little interest in his .surroundings. He wears glasses , but was togged out in aU the finery dear to an Indian's heart. In fact , all the braves were dressed up to make a killing and the air was full of feathers. A large portion of the party was composed of wo men and children. All of the chiefs were lined up to have their pictures taken in front of the train , many of them standing upon the engine. They seemed to be happy and to enjoy every minute of the time. Though 90 years of age. this is Red Cloud's first exhibition. The stolid old chief always has refused to make a show of himself , but he finally acceded to the pressing requests of Col. Cummins. BAD MEN CAPTURED. Officers Believe They Have Men Who Robbed Naper Bank. At o o'clock Wednesday morning Sher iff Cottrell of Keya Palm County , the sheriff of Howard County and -Deputy Briggs of Boyd County , and a posse of citizens captured the three Herring brothers twelve miles west of Naper. The Herrings had mules and other stolen property. They live in a lonely place in a solid stone house built for de fense. The house was surrounded and the Herrings made prisoners after a des perate struggle. They were brought to Naper in irons. The officers' say they are sure the Herrings - are the men who robbed the Bank of Naper. ! The Herrings are desperate men , and i but for the officers' ruse would not likely - ly have been taken alive. A Butte special says : Sheriff Ander son brought in the three Herring brothv ers from nine miles west of Naper Wed-1 uesday night. The charge in the case is ' horse stealing , but from the action of the officers and from other information it is believed they are the men who robbed the bank atNaper recently. FlRE AT RANDOLPH. A. Blaze in a Livery Barn Causes a L.OSS . of $5OOO. A fire in the Crawl livery barn at Ran dolph Monday night destroyed the barn and its contents. Nine head of horses perished. The implement warehouse of W. K. Jackson was also damaged. The cause of the fire is unknown. The total loss is close to $5,000. The barn was owned by Mrs. Olive Crawl of Fort Worth , Tex. Her loss is § 1,500 , with $1,000 insurance. "The contents of the barn were owned by Moser , Stateman & Chapman and J. L. Stateman. Their loss is $3,000. with small insurance. Several of the horses destroyed were very valuable , one stal lion being worth $1GOO. W. K. Jackson's loss is $300 ; no insur ance. The fire department did excellent work in preventing spread1 of the flames. The cause of the fire is unknown.- New Randolph Officials. The new city council was organized at Randolph Wednesday under the new i , rules making Randolph a city of the rs second class. The following city officials were named : City marshal , Worth Mo- ser ; street commissioner , Frank Bruner ; engineer at water works , F. L. Fox ; city attorney , J. C. Kelly. The saloon li cense was fixed at $1,000. , , 0 Buried in Sand Bank. William McCullough , a well known cit izen \ of York , while loading sand narrow ly escaped death. The sand bank caved in and buried him nearly three feet. Hen ry Graham and Patrick McGowau fortu nately were near and saw the accident and immediately dug Mr. McCullough out. New President of Bank. T. F. Memminger , formerly president of the Madison State Bank , has been elected president of the Citizens' Nation al Bank of Norfolk , to succeed the late G. A. Luikart , who was killed on the streets several weeks ago. Mr. Mom- to minger has taken charge of his new du ties. "Work on New Telephone Uine. A gang of telephone men have begun work on the new Randolph-McLean Bell at line. The people of McLean have never had telephone connections and hail with deHght the new line that will put them in communication with the outside world. he Brewer's Name Goes -with Bar. in The Nebraska supreme court has de cided that breweries cannot take out sa loon licenses except in their own name. The ruling is likely to have a far reach ing effect on the saloon question in the state. GOOD PROGRESS IN NEBRASKA " " t Corn Planting Has Been Begun iu Nearly Ail Counties. The Nebraska weather and crop bu reau's bulletin says : Low temperatures continued the first two days of the week , followed by tem peratures about or slightly above nor mal. The mean daily temperature aver aged 2 degrees above normal in western counties and 2 degrees below in eastern. The rainfall was confined to light show ers , occurring principally in the western counties. The warmer weather following' the gen eral rains of last week has been very beneficial 1 to all crops , although all veg etation is still very much less advanced than it usually is the first of May. Win ter wheat has grown well and improved decidedly in condition in western coun ties. Oats is coming up , with a few re ports of a thin stand. Grass has grown slowly , but in parts of the state cattle ob tain a living in the pastures. Plowing for corn has progressed rapidly and is now well advanced : corn planting is just commencing in nearly all counties. Apricot , plum and cherry trees are in bloom in southern counties , while apri cot and plum trees are just coming into bloom in central counties. HAVE WHISKY NEAR COURT. Indians Boldly Pull Out Flask in Federal Building Watchman W. O. Morse of the fed eral building at Omaha , apprehended two Winuebago Indian witnesses on the fourth floor of the federal building who were just on the point of enjoying a "pull" from a pint flask of whisky they had . brought into the building. The In dians were promptly arrested and turn ed over to the United States marshal and a charge lodged against them for bringing whisky into the building. The Indians are witnesses before the grand jury in a bootlegging case and will themselves be given a turn before the grand jury. They possess a peculiar for- gt'tfulm > ss as to where and from whom they got the liquor. The bottle is in pos session of the United States authorities and will be used in evidence against them before the grand jury. GRAIN LOOKS WELL. | Prospects Are Excellent for a Large Winter AVheat Crop The oldest pioneer farmer says there never was a better prospect for a large winter wheat crop. The large acreage of winter wheat in York County came through the winter in fine shape. The ground has been in fine condition for farm work and nearly every farmer has his ground prepared for corn. Next week a large per cent of corn will be planted. York County farmers are pay ing more attention to seed , modern and best methods of sowing , planting and cultivation , and every IGO-acre farm has small fields of timothy , clover , alfalfa and brome grass. The estimated acreage of alfalfa in York County is 1(1.000 acres , making York County one of the leading counties in acreage of alfalfa. WHIPS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. Drunken Man Gets Thirty Days for Cruel Treatment of His Family. Otto Roderick of Omaha , arrested on a charge of being drunk and beating his wife , has been sentenced to thirty days at hard labor by Police Judge Berka. According to the testimony of Mrs. Roderick - erick , who appeared in ponce court with , her babe in arms , the husband chastised her ] elder daughter for giving several ba nanas to a neighbor girl. Mrs. Roderick took exceptions to the chastisement , and was then struck by her husband , so she said. . It also was said Roderick showed his displeasure by throwing coffee pots and other cooking utensils around thr ' room. TRIPLE OMAHA TRAGEDY. Frank Smith Kills AVife and Baby and Commits Suicide. Frank Smith , aged 21 , a stock yards < employe living in South Omaha , shot and killed his wife and IS-month-old son and then fired a bullet through his own head. i Domestic infelicity after a brief period of married life , followed by a separation i . of the young couple a short time ago , is the only cause which friends and rela- . tives are able to assign for the tragedy. The pair had been married about two years and their little one was I1/ , years old- SCALPED BY A BALL BAT. ei eiw Serious Accident to a Little Child w at Lincoln. m Cl Ella Rader , 10 years of age , was scalped ov ed by a baseball bat , which flew from the IK grasp of her brother , at Lincoln. The th children were playing ball near their home. The boy struck at the ball and | y loosened his grip on the bat. The club H struck the girl on the side of her head HV and literally tore her scalp loose. She lei lost consciousness immediately after the accident and did not recover it until a doctor had stitched the scalp in place. Severe Loss to a Circus. A circus train arrived at Pawnee City late at night. Early next morning one . of the animal keepers went through the w elephant cars to see that all was right , when the gasoline torch which he carried ' thAI diately in fianies and all the animals in the car were burned. Four camels , three elephants , two sacred cattle and a black bear perished. The loss is estimated at. about $50,000 , with no insurance. | ri Defeat Sale of Courthouse. eh Returns are all in from all but one beM precinct on the special election at Grand M Island for the sale of the old court house the site at a price not less than $10,000 , and apW the proposition appears to iiave been de W feated , a majority against of 53 having I . be overcome by the one township on a two-thirds requirement to carry. The i entire vote was barely 1,000. ' Catch "Window Smasher. AI Ambrose Martell , arrested by the police AIhi Lincoln , confessed that he had broken The out the windows in some of the big stores the which have been smashed during the last with few nights. He did it , he said , because had a grudge against the government th < and that the first window he broke was in the postoffice. Martell is demented , inBu but up to this time was supposed to be the harmless. the Butte Votes Court Bouse Bonds. such her The vote on court house bonds iu Butte I -t. resulted iu only 2 against the proposition. Short Notes. John Casebver , for the past thirty years n resident of Blue Springs , wan adjudged insane by the board of insanity com missioners and ordered committed to the asylum. The 17-year-old son of J. II. Beals , re siding four miles southwest of Beatrice , had his right forearm badly mangled by getting it caught in the cogwheel of a corn shellcr. The trade carnival opened at Bearice for one week. The program each day consists of music by a troupe of colored singers and the giving away of prizes by the merchants to purchasers. While operating an edger , a machine used for edging boards , Harry Reimund , an employe of the Dempster factory at Beatrice , had all his fingers on the left hand cut off , leaving the thumb intact. The council bluffs of Lewis and Clark was on the plateau at Fort Calhoun just 100 years ago , and W. IL Woods is cir culating a petition to allow the Sons an.l Daughters of the Revolution in Nebraska to erect a monument there. Miss Kitt of Denver , who has been attending the Ursuline convent of Falls City , and Miss Sullivan of Falls City have been received as novices in the Order Jj der of the Ursuline Sisters and have as sumed the habit of the order. Warrants were issued at Paflillion for the Arrest of George W. Ringo and his hired man of Springfield upon the charge of illegal voting and perjury. The war rants were served on Ringo and he made an appearance at Papillion , but the hired man could not be found. The Woodmen of the World lodge of Nebraska City have unveiled a monument at Wyuka cemetery in memory of the late Nathan Curtis. The ceremonies were very impressive and were witnessed by a large number of friends and rela tives of the deceased member. Allen Ramlell was found in an uncon scious condition under the coal chutes at Kenkleman. Dr. Fuqua upon examina tion , found that three ribs were fractured , . -.lie ankle badly mashed ami severe inter nal ] injuries sustained. Uamlell is sup- po.-ed to have fallen from a train. The total amount of rainfall during the past two weeks at Cambridge has been a fraction over two and one-fourth inch es. The ground was never in better con dition and the farmers arc busy with their spring work. The acreage of corn this season will exceed all previous years. A pig with two complete bodies attach ed to one head was born on the farm of Matt Smith , a farmer living four miles north of Columbus Monday. Each body had four well formed legs and feet. The monstrosity was born dead , but seemed to be perfectly developed. .It is now pre served in alcohol. At a special meeting of the Bloomficld school board the contract for the building of the new high school was awarded to Kellner & Woerth of Scribner. Their bid was $14lf > 3 , which included pressed brick facing. There were nine bids in all. ( Jround will be broken at once for the erection of the new building. The Law and Order League at Papil lion has withdrawn its remonstrance against the three saloonkeepers of Papil lion . ! and at a meeting of the town board licenses were granted. The league ex pressed an intention of having the stores- closed | on Sundays and called upon the board . to pass an ordinance to that ef fect. fect.The . , The officers believe they have a clue to the safe blowers who operated at Beat rice recently. A man accompanied by u woman left Beatrice for Topeka , and before - fore going they tried to exchange some ilver money for bills. The authorities at Topeka , were notified and the two were placed under arrest as soon . as they ar rived there. George Harry , 40 years old , until last Saturday a member of the Lincoln police force , followed May Young , his house keeper , into a grocerj * store and shot her dead. He then shot himself with the ame weapon , falling dead beside the wo man. Infatuation for the woman , who. it is said , refused to marry him , is the only known cause for the tragedy. Two men decoyed Father Geary of Omaha , who is 75 years of age , from his residence by a cry for help , and then beat him into insensibility for the purpose of robbing him. They were scared away before rifling his pockets by Father Fitzpatrick. who was returning from a school entertainment , and whom it is sup posed the men had intended to attack , us he presumably had the proceeds of the entertainment in his pockets. Hon. William Delles-Dornier of Elmwood - wood has received a telegram from Con gressman Burkett stating that his son. Chester , has been honorably mustered out of the service of the United States navy , by order of President Roosevelt and the secretary of the navy. Without the knowledge or consent of his parents the young man , under age , enlisted at the Hremington navy yard in the state of Washington , but soon after took French leave and returned home. A steady rain prevailed at Auburn Thursday and no doubt the same was thankfully received by the farmers. The rain on April 22 and 23 so packed the ground that the oat crop was not doing any , good and the crust caused thereby was seriously affecting the growth of all vegetation. The present rain softened this crust and will do a great deal of good to wheat and bats , and will also put ' ground in good shape for planting corn , which the farmers , as a rule , are ready to commence. Madison County commissioners are se riously thinking of putting the wolf scalp proposition before the voters at the next election. They feel that the county is being skinned on the wolf deal. Just now 1 Madison County pays $2 per head and . surrounding counties offer about $1 apiece. Singularly enough all of the wolves of northern Nebraska sooner or later ! find their way into Madison County , where their deaths are worth twice as much t , and they all manage to get killed where they generally reside. Auburn has a stret fair in full bloom. the principal streets are blocked with Jiow tents of every kind and description. fair is drawing a good crqwd. and < people generally seem well pleased the entertainment afforded. The identity of Portsmouth's "Jack Hugger , " has at last been established the person of Samuel Mace. William Budig , the father of the girl , swore out complaint. Police Judge Weber thought it was worth $1 and costs to hug a pretty girl on the street without consent. Mace did not deny the charge.
