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The Valentine Democrat 1 VALENTINE , NEB. L M. RICE , - - - Publisher REEDS BUT A SPARK RUSSIA SITS UPON A DANGER. OUS MAGAZINE. On Verge of a Revolution Hall' of St. Petersburg in Darkness Keiu 1'orcemcn.ts Called Out and Stern Precautionary Measures' Taken. A proclamation , was issued nt St. Pe tersburg Saturday morning forbidding all assemblages or other deinoiistrations in 1 the city and warning well disposed work men and other private individuals to 1 avoid gatherings , as the authorities are determined to break up and disperse meetings imperiling public asfety. The proclamation is printed in the Po lice Messenger , which is the only publi cation appearing , the police having forced the printers to remain at work un til the paper appeared. With the Russian capital seemingly on the verge of an incipient , revolution , thousands of workmen parading the streets , agitators and fanatics sowing the seeds of disorder , half the city hi darkness and without tire protection owing to walkouts , the situation was hourly growing more tense Friday , night , when the authorities decided to adopt en ergetic measures to preserve order , pre vent lioling and overawe the viol' " : . ! minded , at the same time .seeking to pla cate the striking workmen by offering satisfaction of their demands insofar us they are just and reasonable , thus act- J g with combined firmness and moder ation , i 11 Th.e goVt rnmcut has augmented the * garriFon of St. Petersburg with 2.500 cavalry and 3,000 infantry fiom Tsar- j koe Selo , and filled the streets especial ' ly in the disaffected quarters , with heavy patrols of soldiers. The refusal to permit a delegation of workmen io present a petition to Empe ror Nicholas at Tsarkoe Selo has made it known that a great demonstration planned for Sunday , with its unlimited possibilities for an outbreak , will not be permitted to take place , at the same time , acting in conjunction with a con ference of employers , it has been deter mined to offer concessions in the terms of employment , which the employers de clared the great majority of the work men would be inclined to accept if they were guaranteed protection from the more violent faction. SHOT BY A NEGRO. Lexington. Man Wounded While Protet/tiriir His Wife. At Lexington , Ky. . C. A. Wagoner was perhaps mortally wounded in his home Friday. He told the police u no- : rro had entered the house and attempted tu criminally assault his wife , and whili protecting her he was shot by the negro who made his escape. It was learned later that a negro als. attempted ro assault Mrs. Louis Jones j living near the AYagoners. In the strug : gle Mrs. J OIK'S seized tho negro's revolv j er. The negro th"ii beat her into insensi bility. She probably will die. Bloodhounds have been sent for. TO BE LA FOLLETTE. i Governor of Wisconsin to be Elected ! United States Senator. A Madison , AYis. . special declares that a Republican caucus has been called foi Monday night for the purpose of nomi nating a candidate to succeed Seiiatoi Ouarles. Forty-six out of forty-eight of Gov. LaFollelte's suppoiters havf- pledged themselves to vote in caucus un til a senator shall be nominated , and to prevent adjournment without nomination. if i This action , it is said , practically assures the election of LaFollette. UNABLE TO AGREE. Inry in the Koch Case Discharged by the Judge. After pondering over the evidence foi nearly forty hours , the jury in the trial of Dr. George R. Koch , charged with j murdering Dr. L. A. Gebhardt , a rival ! dentist , in New Ulm , Minn. , Nov. 1. failed to agree , and they were discharged by Judge AYebber. The jury on the final ballot stood 0 for acquitlal and 3 for conviction. For Killing Young Son. John Martin Speyer. a circus perform er , formerly of New Orleans , who killed his young son while showing in Kansas City , Mo. , two years ago , was tried and found guilty of murder in ihe first de gree. Fast Train Wrecked. A number of persons were injured , foui seriously , by the wrecking of the "Sun rise" express on the Boston and Maine Railroad near Durham. N. M. , Friday. No one was killed. The accident wa ? caused by a broken rail. Sioux City Stock Market. Friday's quotations on the Sioux City stock market follow : Butcher steers , $3.50@4.75. Top hogsLf 5. of Blames 1'eabody. The report of Labor Commissioner Carroll D. AVright on the Colorado labor troubles , which will be sent to congress one in a few days , it is said , puts as much er blame on the stale government , at the of head of which was Gov. Peabody , as on the labor unions. Street Duo.llistH Fatally Shot. At Montonvillo , 111. , in a street en counter Friday , following a general quar 'of ' rel at a dance , George Weshyberman and Thomas Butts shot each other fatally. ers RUSSIA IS MYSTIFIED. Apparent Attempt Upon the Lite of the Czar. A St. Petersburg special says : The ceremony of the blessing of the waters this , year was accompanied by an event more mysterious , unprecented and extra ordinary than any afforded by the annals of Russian history. For a Russian sovereign to fall by the ! hands of an assassin is no new thing in j Russian records , but that the emperor should narrowly escape death by a siiot from his own artillery while by was en gaged in a solemn religious rite , sur rounded by priests of the church , is so difficult to realize as to be almost incred- ible. ible.Yet Yet this is what happened Thursday , and the Russian public is left wondering and mystified. By the merest chance the ; imperial family escaped unhurt , but pub- | lie opinion is stunned by what might ihavo been the tragic result of the af- j fair. j A later dispatch say ; ; : It is now stat- ed in official circles tl at the grape was i fired from one of the guns of the Seven- | teenlh battery of the First h rse artil- i lery of the guard , the most aristocratic corps in the Russian army. It seems that at gun practice on Tutday a load- ed shell was inauvoilently loft in the ' gun. j The official account of the shooting al- fair is as follows : "During the ceremony of tho blessing of the waters of the Neva Thursday in the presence of the emperor , as the usual salute was being fired an accident hap t pened. A charge of grape , instead of a saluting charge , was fired from a gun be longing to one of the batteries stationed near the Bourse. Some bullets struck -tl-n < . . . - 1 , . ' ! . - ' ' - - ' r.n - , . . - " . . . ( . ' - "f A 7 * " l ; ' . i / ' . -.y g..ikiij. - i , . . ; -MI , . . , : . * i policeman belonging t'j tlie St. Peli : - burg force was wounded. According to the information to har.d at present no other accident occurred. Inquiry mj- tiuues. " I SHOT WHILE HE SLEPT. > Iurdered Man Carried Insurance in * Wife's Favor. I Dr. Emmet Perdue , head physician of Jho North American Copper Company , at . Encampment. Wyo. . was shot and-killul at the home of F. M. Leakey , his fat- ! j -ill-law miles of Rich- r. - - , twenty west - itiond. Mo. Dr. Perdue's wife wa held temporarily , but she was allowed to 10- main at her father's home. After si : ; years of married life. Mrs. Perdue left ! i her husband two years ago. Recently \ I she and her husband became reconciled ' to each other , and last week they came to the l.r-me of her parents near Rich- ' mond together. They intended to leave j for Wyoming together. Mrs. Perdue ie- ' fused to testify before the coroner's jury cud the members of her family would giveno definite testimony. YANKTON BRIDGE BILL. | House Passes Measure Extending ' Time for Building Structure. j j At AYashington , Thursday , the house j fixed Friday. Feb. 17 next , as the date i for holding appropriate exercises in stat- j nary hall accepting the statue for Fran- ' , cis E. Willard , presented by the state i of Illinois. j Bills were passed extending the extra dition laws of the United States to the Philippine islands , and extending for one year the time for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River a Yankton , S. D. Lash for Wife Beaters. RepresentaliveVing introduced a bill in the Michigan legislature for the pun ishment of wife beaters. His bill pro- vides for the use of the lash on the bare vb back of a respondent who has twice been convicted of the offense. The sheriff of eitl the county is to wield the cat-o'-ninc- tltj tails in tho presence of a physician. Duke Not Insane. Rrodie L. Duke , half brother of the president of the American Tobacco Com pany , wno has been kept in a sanitarium j following his marriage to Alice AYebb , ' l was brought into the supreme court in AYB Brooklyn , N. Y. , and discharged from custodv. 1 f Ijoubet Accepts .Resignations. The Combes ministry presented its res ignation to President Loubor , at Paris , Wednesday morning , and the president accepted it , but asked the ministers td individually carry on their functions uu- til a new cabinet is formed. Close Call for Students. Forty students had a thrilling escape J. from death in a fire which Wednesday completely destroyed the Dodge and Clark school for stammerers at Brighton , 111. One student was severely burned. Tragedy in an Asylum. At Concord , N. Y. , Mrs. Mignonette Seavcy , of Barrington , a patient at the Btatc insane asylum Thursday killed two to inmates , seriously injured another and hurt a nurse. Capture British Ship. Tokio dispatches state that the Japan ese captured the British steamer Oakley , carrying a cargo of coal for Vladivo stok , in Fushima straits AVednesday af al ternoon. She was brought to Sascbo. Go Rack : to the Looms. Thousands of operatives who had been idle for nearly six months as the result a the great textile strike at Fall River , Mass. , returned to work Thursday. One Frozen to Death. After fearful sufferings , during which mun was frozen to death and anoth became insane , the surviving members a party that tried to open up the Big Lumber Company's railroad from Luin- berton to Elvado , Colo. , have been res cued. To Protect , China. Secretary Hay , at Washington , has se the cured positive assurances from the pow that there shall be no attempt mad ; upon the integrity oi Chinese territory. \ I MAY FREE DR. KOCH. Believed that Jury Will Acqr.it the Accused Man. A New Ulm , Minn. , special says : The fate of Dr. George R. Koch , accused of the murder of Dr. L. A. Gebhardr , is in the hands of the jury , which retired at 3:20 : o'clock AYcdnesd-ay afternoon. Attorney Brown Wednesday niorniir : made a powerful plea for Koch , and it is generally considered that he shattered tho case made by the state. His was the closing argument for the defense. The general opinion is that Lr. Koch will be acquitted. A conviction is con sidered to be out of the question. It ia | possible ] the jury may disagree. The case has been resplendent with mysterious conditions , tragic features and 'sensational situations. If Koch is acquitted , the mystery tint surrounds the murder of Dr. Koch's busj iness rival , Dr. L. A. Gebhardt , will be apparently as far from being cleared as it was the morning after the popular young dentist's body was carried from ! the i office , which reeked with blood like shambles. For eighteen days the little court room on the terrace overlooking the Minnesota j River J bottoms has been filled to overflowt j ing i by the crowds that clamored for ad- ' mission i to Minnesota's most famous and , sensational minder trial. Day after day J j the i defendant , one of New Ulm's most ! 1 j I popular ] young men and the son of its ! most respected pioneer , has sat in tho ' court room listening to the unraveling of a chain of circumstances which seemed i to indicate that instead of being a mgdej ' young man , as he had always appeared , ' to be , he wji ? a villainous murderer 0 } the worst typo. BIG STRIKE ENDS. Labor War in Fall Ilivcr Cotton Mills is Settled. The Fall River. Mass. , cotton strike [ has been settled. It was one of the hardj j est fought labor struggles in tho historj j of Fall River. Twenty-five thousand , workmen were diroctly involved in tht j struggle. . I The settlement was brought about at a conference held at Boston between representatives of the manufacturers an < ] ' operatives , who met at the suggestion ol t Gov. ( Douglas. The strike began July 25 last , whei. ' the manufacturers posted notices of a liJ1 per cent reduction in wages. The operatives will return to work at oner under thereduction. . DARING CHICAGO ROBBER. An Attempt to Loot the Mails in the Business District. A daring atlemp to rob the mails was made l ] Tuesday night in front of tho Ma sonic temple in the heart of the business j section of Chicago. AVhile a carrier wa : collecting the mail that had accumu bitod ( in the Masonic temple in the even ing i a man suddenly sprang on the sent of the wagon and drove"off at top speed John iJ Lougenan. superintl-ndont of mails who happened lo be in the vicinity , no - j iced the man driving the wagon. Jumptl . ing ; J into an express wagon he gave chase , The robber , seeing that it would be impossible for him to get away with the- mail , jumped from the wagon and made his escape. TRAINMEN FOR STRIKE. Men on Pennsylvania to Quit i ( Company Does N'ot Grant Terms. ' A Philadelphia. Pa. , dispatch says : AY. . . C. Lee , vice grand master of the Brotherlc hood of Trainmen , slated AYednesday t that 05 per cent of the 12.000 members tlo of the union had voted to give the griev- ) a nee committee authority to call a strike of trainmen employed by the Pennsyl- vanin Railroad Company if necessary to secure the repeal of the company's order making firing by brakemen compulsory. < This is the main grievance of the train men. Trial of Slocum Inspectors. j Charged with fraud and violation of law in connection with the inspection of . the excursion steamer General Slocum , "J which was burned at New York last J1 June , with a loss of over 1,000 lives. is John AA" . Fleming and Henry Dundberg , ] , formerly attached to the office of United jn States inspectors of steamboats , were ' placed on trial Wednesday in the fed eral court. Opposition to Niedringhaus Develops ' A Jefferson City , Mo. , special states that Representatives Bittinger , Branch. . - Cook , Elliott , Grace and Roach Wednesi i ' ' ife1 day bolted the caucus nominee , Thomas . Niedringhaus , for senator to succeed , v Cockrell , when the first ballot of the i sc house members was taken in joint seser sion , resulting in no election. nu j Peabody Breaks Down. George Foster Peabody , of New York , banker and treasurer of the Dem- ocrptic national committee , is reported j have broken down physically , and is , now at his farm in northern New York. He is not seriously ill. Texas Bank Closed. the The comptroller of the currency at Washington was Wednesday advised that the officers of the American Nation Bank of Abilene , Tex. , had closed the auk. A receiver was appointed. Italy Abolishes Slavery. The Italian government , according to 'tion dispatch from Rome , has issued a de cree providing for the abolition of slav the ery in Italy's East African colonies. An Epidemic of Grip. Influenza is more prevalent and more fatal at Chicago this winter than at any time since the epidemic year of 1S91 , ac Mi cording to the weekly bulletin of the we health department. Twenty more deaths iu > and from this cause were reported last week "Was Not Assassinated. A St. Petersburg dispatch says taato report circulated in London that Gen. wo Trepoff has been assassinated is unj.e founded. The general has arrived in St. tht Petersburg . ' - .wo .STATE J OP NEBEASKA . NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON- DENSED FORM. Double Crime Near Neligh Farm Hand Shoots His Employer's Daughter and Commits Suicide She Had Refused His Advances. A tragedy surpassing anything in tlnj history of Antelope County occurred Sunday night in the settlement of Gre cian Bend , seven miles west of Neligh. Carrie Jacobson. daughter of Hans Jacobson. a prosperous and popular | farmer i , was shot and killed by Andrew . Nelson , a farm hand who has for a long j j time t been employed by and made his , home ' with the Jacobsons , and immcdi- j at ely thereafter Nelson killed himself i with tho shotgun with which he had shot , : i Miss Jacobson. Both expire almost in j stantly. j Yery little is known as to the cause of i the deed. Nelson had been paying at- j I tendon to the young woman , wha was | about IS years of age. and it is staled j I that t when she refused his offer of marv ; riage he threatened her with death ami she appealed to her parents not to be left \ alone. j I Sunday night Miss Jacobson complain-0 j ed of being sick and slept with her moth er downstairs. Mrs. Jacobsou went down cellar after coal to replenish the fire , and during her absence the tragedy occurred. A coroner's inquest will be held. PATHETIcTlNCIDENT AT DEPOT i > i Child Dies as TraLi Pulls in and Mother Resumes Journey. A pathetic incident occurred at the Burlington depot in Grand Island ? . - j day eve-ning. A woman whose name has : not been learned , arrivtd from AYatsoifs | ranch in tho afternoon and went : : t c" . ! I to t the Burlington depot to take llc nrxt j train foi : Litchfield. wheio , she said , her j i husband ' ' , a traveling minister , was. She j remained in the depot with her f ) or 10 j months' old child all te ! artcruoc : : . In the evening , shortly before tho ar01 rival ( of the Black Ilills train , it was ob served by others in the depot that the { . ! : : ! . ! was ill. It wr * : k'lidly prop' ' ilu , . iai that a pliy.McKUi be " : " < _ on- ed. Either tho woman did not realize j the serious condition of the child or four- j ing ' that interference at this time would J delay her , with increased expenseshe did not encourage tho proposition. A , haekman was finally sent for a physi cian and Dr. Hoge responded to the call. He arrived at the depot just before train time and found the child dying. Tho lit- ] tie , one expired just as the train was pulling into tho station. M'GREEVY IS HELD. ' O'Xeill Banker Bound Over to Court in the Sum of S3.OOO. Mornard MoGroevy. fcrmor president of the defunct Elkhorn Yalley Bank , at O'Neill , who has been in jail for several weeks , appeared in the district court be fore . Judge West over , pleaded not guilty to three counts filed against him. and was bound over to a future term of the district , j court. He has failed to secure i the bail of $ . * i.OOO demanded , and lias litJc the prospect of getting out of jail. One i : count was for embezzling and two were for receivinguleposits after he knew tlie bank was insolvent. The bail was fixed at $1.000 for each charge. No trace of Cashier IJagerty has been found. In i Brown's Widow Destitute. At the time of the death of Frank E. Brown j , who died from gunshot wounds at , , Tecumseh some two weeks ago. a brother arrived from Oskaloosa. la. , to in take charge of the remains. The brother did ' ' not have means , however , nor could he secure any with which to take the ho body of his brother back to the home fir firN. town for burial. The deceased had some N.Tt personal property , but it took all this Tt tJ ( pay the funeral expenses and it is un stc derstood i ( the widow is left entirely with stcWl out means. Where is Edward Selby ? . Mrs. Jeanette Selby , of Sioux City , of and her 4-year-old daughter are at the foTi home of Mrs. Selby's parents. Mr and Ti Mrs. William J. Armour , pioneer resi < dents of Dakota County , who reside about , . four miles southwest of Dakota th.we City , and Mrs. Selby is wondering what we the cause of the absence of her hus tin band. Ed Selby. who kissed her good- jui by on the morning of Dec. 11) ) last and started for his work. Firemen's Meeting : Closed. fit The Nebraska A'olunteer Firemen's As- ing sociatuui concluded its twenty-third an lie nual convention in Columbus Thursday. | sti , The ' following officers were chosen for the I the . , ensuing year : J. B. McKay , Blair , presi- , dent : Charles HoltAYahoo. . first vice sti'J ' president : II. Y. Ilyder , York , second Ho vice ; , president : F. A. Miller. Kearney. secretary : Harry Graff. Si-ward , treasur . Beatrice was chosen for the next dai meeting place. of : Victim oi" Tragedy Buried. that The two young victims of the double the tragedy which occurred near Neligh ' were Tuesday given separate funeral services from two separate churches and i . ing , . wore buried in two cemeteries miles dis \ tant from each other. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Jacobson attended the survico in ' little church at Grecian Bend. Anof drew Nelson , the murderer and suicide , tra was buried by his uncle in Cloarwater. bee the Damages. ins Eliza L. Halt asks for ? .1,000 damages tj 5es from Alice Flawn. at York , whom she says has alienated tho affections of her husband. Mrs. Hart has filed her peti- and the trial will take place at the. April term of court. Hart has been in < 'on restaurant business at York until reto cently. ! disi Geneva Spreading Out. A forty-acre tract southeast of Geneva which was platted at one time and called a Mrs. Paden's addition to Geneva , but vas went back years ago. has been wirohascd mo Peter Youngers fromY. . \ . Carson jun will be platted as Younger's addition. lini jur Ministers and Ladies to Run Papers Following the announcement of the Beatrice Daily Sun that six ministers J would edit the paper next week , the the Beatrice Daily Express came out with dro statement that six wemen of the city side would edit that naper durhi the week rea FRUIT GROWERS AT AURORA Southeastern Nebraska AssocUtfon Wants Better Freight Hates. The Southeastern Nebraska Fruit Growers' ( Association met in Auburn last 1 Friday evening with the best attend ance i the association has over had. The meeting was called to order by Col. AAr. G. Swan , of Tecumseh who i3 president of the association. G. S. Chris ty , of Nemaha County , acted as secre tary. x On motion a committee was appointed I to confer with the railroad and express I companies of the state in securing better j i rates on fruit shipments than has been given in the past. The committee was also charged with the work of looking j after tho fruit growers' interests iu the present legislature. FIREMEN GIVEN A LONG RUN Local Men and A'isitors Victims of j a Practical Joker. At Columbus , about 1 o'clock Wednes day morning , an alarm of fire was turned in and all tho visiting firemen joined the local department in answering the call. The department was directed first to one ward and then to another , until the men had ' run pretty well over tho city , but could find no fire. It proved to be tho work of some practical jokers. The alarm was turned in by telephone , but ' the night operator in tho excitement could ' not remember from whence it camo. except that it was one o the rural lines , but which one and what number has not been learned. A reward of $100 has'been offered for the apprehension of the per petrators and the people generally feel 1'idignant over tlio matter. MORE LAND TO HOMESTEADER Nearly 5OO.OOO Acres Near North IMatto to be Opened. O-i Feb. 1-1. 1510.1. the United States go vi iniircnt will throw open to entry under the one-section hojiestnrd law. known : ; . = th Kinkaid act.1U0.800 acres - , . , ! i . . .i i , . ? . . ; M j , , - - N ' ! ) jjinl McT'htrson C. . .mi * . " . Tlio'strip ill which this land is located is li < > mi led long anil . from T to 74 miles wide. aid located between S and 80 miles from tlie city of ! North Platte. It is all on tlitnorth side of the North Plattr River , and within j between . ' { and 'M miles of the river. There are by aciual count 481i whole 1 sections. 1 / Mrin : > ny subdisions of sec- A NARROW ESCAPZ. Postmaster at Lin Isay Escapes w tb His Children I'rom Fire. IYsttJister : I. E. AYcmple and his wife and two children narrowly escaped witi j their liverfrom a tire in their home at i i . , Lindsay , which completely destroyed the ( building and sent them , in their nijrht roties , out into liO below : rro weather. i They were awakened by the roar of ' flames f ! : long after tiie fire had mysteri ously started. They were nearly suffo cated then. Seizing the children , Mr. AYempie ran out into the cold night and the liMine crashed down behind him. j JAIL FOR BRIDAL CHAMBER.G Unable to Find ftooms Xewly Wed Couple Sleep in Lincoln Jail. Two newly marri"d couples slept in the women's ward of the Lincoln jail Thursi i day : ni'iht. They were Mr. and Mrs. j John Reimmler. of Stapichurst. Neb. and 3'r. ami Mrs. J. J. Schroeder. of the sar.o place. After elaborate weddings they started. . on bridal tours. In Lincoln the hotels' ' onWl were crowded and they failed to get rooms. After searching for lodging foi ' hours they were compelled to appeal to the police for shelter. Telephone Men Lose Tools. At 7 o'clock Sunday night the fire de partment was called out to fight a fire inRJ A. Fisher's feed yard and barn at Ravenna and succeeded in saving tin north side of the barn. Sixty head of horses and several cattle were saved. The fire destroyed property valued at SHOO. N. . insurance. A gang of Nebraska Telephone Company men had their tools stored in the office at the barn. These1 were a total loss. I'olk County District Court. The January term of the district court the Fifth judicial district , in and for Polk County , convened at Osceola Tuesday morning withJudge 15. F. Jood , of Wahoo. . presiding. There were Iiu eleven cases on the docket , one of them . being criminal. A few of the cases , were ground through the hopper and then the judge adjourned court until tho jury appears on Tuesday. Jan. 24. Merchant Killed by Train. James II. Berryman. one of Central City's prominent merchants , while walk : along the Union Pacific track AA'ed- nesday : was struck by train No. 7 and in stantly killed. Mr. Berryman started * first store in Lone Tree , now Central City , in 18J7. ( and had continued in the business : from that date until his death. leaves a wife and four children. th Died from Mysterious Disease. The sudden death of little Irene AA'olIf , | 1't daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. AYolIf , de af York , from some unknown disease ta : baffled the physicians , is alarming of , neiirhbors. The oldest son has been taken sick about the same way. In just forty-eight hours from the time of tak ill. and with the best of care , Ir'ne th \Yollf diid. la. the Tom Dcnnison Case. fu The 1 application of Thomas I ap Omaha , for a writ of error in the ox- ye radition proceedings against him has re eon docketed in the supreme court of ua United States. The proceedings were nstitutod at tho instance of the uiithori- of Iowa. Editors to Meet , at Kearney. I I nf ve The editors of Nebraska will meet at law Kearney Feb. 1M and lili for tinstate the onvention. and will devote their time and the railway pass question and the let liscitssion of the primary election law. tio * AVreck Near i'apillion. Tuesday night an extra freight going - T- t , traveling at a high rate of speed , , A : derailed between Pa pillion and Gil- , O1 noro. A car in the middle of the train der umped the track and blocked the main pa for two hours. No one was in4 ole ure-d. I loc ira Coldest at Fremont- thi Jan. Io was the coldest morning of For season at Fremont. The mercury bewi Iropped to 22 below. It moderated con- wi iiderably during the day. and at iioou cit cached o above. zai "OZlPJTGjEZJf ! ? A letter mailed recently by Gov Mickey to Annie Ootton. of Silver Creek , Neb' . , will tear down an air castle that has recently been erected in that com munity , with the family of Frank Par ker as the foundation. Annie Cotton i got the idea somewhere and somehow thutf the governor , desiring to carry out th views of President Roosevelt on ra-fu suicide , had offered a reward of $1.000 to any parents who numbered among their offspring eight children under the ago of IS years. When she got full posses sion of the idea Anm"o Cotton looked up the Parker family and told them of their good luck. She then wrote to Gov. Mickey for authentic information mi tho subject. In answer , Secretary Allen wrote that no such reward had been of fered , and that this most deserving fam ily would have to subsist without a finan. cial reward from the state. The proposed bill for an act to provide n more uniform system for the certifica tion of teachers , docs not change the sources of authority granting certificates in a single instance. The state normal school and the University of Nebraska will still continue to grant certificates as under the existing statute. The element ary state certificate issued by the stato normar schools is limited from one year to three years at the discretion of tho county superintendent instead of being good for two years in any county Ju- the state as. under the' existing statute. The proposed plan has the unauimouH support of the county superintendents' section of the NobrasKn State Teachers' Association. It is i : c step at lca.it to ward tne pluii for state examinatiiu of i-y triox-noii an important part in tlo : affairs of the twenty-Kir.th Nebrs.\a legislature. Dodge , of Douglas , already has intro duced oc and McMtillen. of Gage , will introduce the second one in tho house. If there are to be any "fights" ' this ses sion , which certainly are not evident at this time , the consensus of opinion is pri mary election legislation will develop them. The steadily increasing popular sentiment for primary elections in the state appears to have crystallized in si determination to enact a good law at this session which will stand the test of the constitution and be thoroughly praetica-- bio. - _ _ . Dr. J. M. A Wen. of Pierce County , has been appointed by Gov. Mickey su perintendent anil Dr. F. S. Nicholson assistant of the Norfolk insane asylum. The commissionwill date from May 1 , at which time it is believed the building ; will be in shap for the reception o inmates. Dr. Alden was u member of the senate two years ago and a consider able portion of his time was devoted to working up sentiment in favor of the bill providing for the reconstruction of the- , asylum. The Interstate Telephone Company , of Wilsonvillo. Funias < 'ounty , with an au- thorized , capitalstork of $10.000. has filed articles of incorporation in the office ? of Secretary of State Galusha. The Ox ford Home Telephone Company , of Ox ford , with : tn authorized capital stock of $ . " > 0,000 , has been incorporated and the Compton-Robinson Company , of Ce dar Rapids , with an authorized capital ; stock of § 80.000. has filed articles of in corporation in the office of the scrotary of state. * * * Joha A. Pilser. of Pawns County , has made application to the state board of irrigation . for : i project to cost 1.300. He proposes to utilize the waters of u dry creek run. This method of securing water with which to irrigate small tracts is gaining in popularity. Small canyons are being dammed up for reservoir pur poses , thereby furnishing a water sup ply that cannot be secured from stream ? which are fully appropriated. Election certificates were issued to the governor , state officers and congressmen , based on the canvass of votes made by tho legislature. Tho certificates wore signed by Goorgo- . Itotiso , speaker " lio house , and W. M. AYhecIer , scoiv- tary of the senate. At the joint session , by which the votes are canvassed , the speaker acts as chief clerk and tho sec retary of the senate as assistant. Theso two do the signing. * . * * A receiver for the Lincoln Traction Company was appointed Friday morning ; by Judge Holmes , of the district court. The judge will not disclose the name of the receiver , however , until Jan. liO. tht > first day of the next term of court. The appointment of the receiver is the latest development of the somewhat famous * , tax case and was made upon application ! City Attorney Strode. * * * Albert Blacker , convicted of forgery iii , the Koya Paha County-district court last fall , has filed a poverty affidavit in supreme court stating that he has no funds with which to pay the costs of the appeal. He was sentenced to servo five years in the penitentiary. His affidavit recites < that his appeal ij > now being pre pared. The intention of Roscoe Pound , dean the law department of the state uni versity , to resign to enter the practice of , does n/it meet with the approval of students. A mass meeting was held a committee of students was se lected to ask him to reconsider his < tion. * * * The Citizens' Traction Company of Lincoln , after five days of life , has forced tho retirement ot" President Scud- , of the old Lincoln Traction Com pany , and caused the management of the company to be placed in the hands of local stockholders. It is expected that improvements will be started at once and' system put in first class condition. years tlie people of Lincoln hav < fighting for better street car service without success. Some days ago fifty citizens subscribed money for the organi zation of a new company and the first yesujt is apBarent , " * i