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The Valentine Democrat VALENTINE , NEB. L M. RIOE , Publisher FOR MURDER OF TODD * J. W. YOUNG AND TWO SONS ARE ARRESTED. T.ic M MI Have Employe : ! Counsel and Jlopn to Show Tin m u lve > Guiltier-- , Tnit OflioerH claim to Have a Strong Cam ; Against Them .T. W. Yon Jig and two sons , ( iorney and ' "John , weio tinned over to Sheriff Abbott lit Miller , S. I ) . , Friday nigh. . They wcie brought from tln-ir home , sixteen miles w4 of Wossington Splines rhargedith complicity in the Georuc Todd murder northeast of Miller hist Oc tober. Six olHcers and othcis went lo meet them , l.ut they met with no oppos : tion. tion.The The men have employed counsel and expect to prove their innocence , but tho oiliceis 'liim : to line a strong < ; ! < against at least one of them. They were met by large crowds ot people at Miller and at Wellington , whole the dime wi - committed. The healing will take place Tuesday. The body of ( Joorgf Todd wn found on his fnini lat October. Todd's faun au joined that of Jacob .lohiison , who ha- been missing since last summer and is : :1 -o l > elie\ed to have bt-on murdoml. It is hclit'vi d that tlie t\\o iiicneie \ir tinis of tlie same blood-guilty poisons Hand County , in which lh nen : lived , offered a rewind of $ . " > .00 ( ) for tlie anvsl of the perpetrators. I'.endle County , ml joining : , offeredV.OCO additional rewaid A Wessimjton Springs. S. I ) . , special says : ( ! erald and John Young were : n | levied on their ranch twelve miles wos of heio , Fiiday for the nvmder of .T.-i Johnson and a man by the name of Todd both bachelors , who lived north of Wo > I > inton : aiKl mysierior.sly di aipeaic > < 1 last summer. The body of Todd was found hidden near his shanty , whil' j Johnson was lured to Noith Dakota PI a land deal and later his body was foum in an old well. The motive for tlie crimes appealed it j lie lobbeiy , as both men were known if have money which cannot be found. [ One who fed the men supposed to IK the murderers has identified John Youirj as being one of them , and it is though' that Elmer was the one with him. MURDER CHARGED. "Jacko" Wilson Identified as La ley's Assailant. 'Jacko * ' AVilson , one of the most no torious ciiminals in the northwest and : member of the famous gang which io ! > bed the Qnimby ( la. ) bank over a yea ago. has been arrested in Yankton. S. D. on the charge of having murdeied ( 'has .Lafey. alias Joe O'Brien , in Sioux City hi. , on the afternoon of Jan. lli in ar alley off Iowa Street , between First anr Second Streets. The police say that they have conclusive evidence against him. him.The The cihninnl iccoid of John Avilson is a long one. lie lias been mixed up ir some sensational ciimes. and has "doiu time" a number of times his last ' 'jolt * having been served in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for a postoflice robbery lie was known to be an expert "pete * man , or bank burglar , and was consid ered dangerous. TERRIBLE KLONDIKE STORM. Much Suffering Among Miners and Prospectors. The worst blizzaid ever known in tm Klondike region raged last Thursday Friday and Saturday. This news was brought down to Vancouver , B. C. , by the steamer Dolphin fiom Skagway. Ai trails arc impassable and the snow It drifted in many places to a depth oj twenty feet. Miners and prospectors an said to be suffering untold hardsl , . , , and advices say there is fear tbat sonu t "men will die of cold and starvation. T.er la " ' days ago a party started from Fairbanks * to Valdes , and another from Fairbanks tiV to Dawson. It is feared that botli of V these have been lost. t Whole Family Murdered. qn qa The home of John Kirby , a farmer. n nho moved to Tampa , Fla. , last Octobei from Blount County , Ala. , was found iii ashes and in thcsmoldoring ruins were found the bodies of Kirby , his wife and ' four children , ranging in age from a boy ' of 12 to an infant 1 year old. Investi gation resulted in the conclusion that the of entire family had been murdered and a c.ii torch applied to the dwelling. ii Hungry Man Knds Life. After writing a note explaining that he would take his life because he was weak B for want of food , Robert Bowen , 3.1 n years of age , a metal polisher , drank tl chloral hydrate in his room at St. Louis , tlP' Mo. He had been dead several hour ? P'tl when found. tl Sioux City Stock Market. Friday's quotations on the Sioux City Btock market follow : Butcher steers , E1 E1Oi o. Top hogs , $4.03. Oi Smoot Testimony In. The investigation of the protests against Senator Smoot , so far as the in troduction of testimony is concerned , PI was brought to a close at Washington , GlC Glh IX C. , Wednesday. Arguments will be h : gin at once. IT A Monster Diamond. Johannesburg , Transvaal , advices state that the largest diamond ever discovered has been found near Pretoria. The stone hi [ weighs 3,032 carats , and is valued at tl from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. lo STRIKE IS BREAKING. Russian Workmen Returning to Employment. With troops patrolling the streetn in St. Petersburg , Moscow , Libau , Odessa and other industrial centers of Russia , there were Thursday no serious collisions with strikers. In Moscow some of the employers are evincing a willingness to make some con cessions to their workmen , but there has been no general agreement on that point. In St. Petersburg the return of work men has enabled several factories to re sume operations , and the authorities hope to witness a general resumption there on Monday. The minister of the interior has prom ised to consider the cases of the piomi- nent writers who were sent to the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress for their ac tivity in the political and economic agi tation , and he has given a qualified promise that they shall be released. Although the strikes in Ileval , Libau , Kieff , Odessa , and a number of smaller places are extending , the situation is no where acute. An increasing number of workmen are out in Moscow , but there- is no general tieup or disorder. The Russian capital piesents almost a noimal appearance , and the authorities are confident that the strike has lie'-n broken. Some of the factoiies and mills already have resumed , and a general ic- sumption of operations is expected on Monday. The authorities expect that the faibue of the .strike at St. Peters burg will have a discouraging effect on the workmen in other cities , to which the troubles have been spreading , and be lieve there is no longer danger of a com plete suspension of all the industrial con corns of Russia. DEATH IN THE COLD. A Number of People I'erisli in crn Cities. The clearing weather which followed the great storm Wednesday biought New York the coldest day it has expeiienced in many years. During the oaily houi-s of Thursday the mercury reached the 2ero mark. Terrible suffering is reported among the residents of the pooler quarteis of tltfcity , where thousands were without sufficient heat , clothing or food. Charita- ble institutions were packed to their ca pacity during the night. Although the storm cleared compnia- tivoly early , many linos of transporta- tion wore unable to make their usual schedules early Thursday. Thousands of persons slept Wednesday night in tho railroad stations and ferry houses , because of the inability of the railroads and ferries to take thorn 10 , their homes through the blockade of snow. The plight of the passengei.s stalled iu trains in outlying sections of the city was pitiable. CRUSADE ON COCAINE. Physicians Urge Gov. Folk to Make War on Drug. An effort will be made by St. Louis ; physicians to induce Gov. Folk to take , against persons in Missouii who sell co caine without a physician's prescription , action similar to that taken against wine I rooms. "Recent reports of superintendents of penal institutions. " said Dr. Joseph L. Boehm , "show that many crimes are committed by individuals while under the influence of cocaine. "One would be surprised to learn the number of society women who use cith er a popular catarrh snuff or other piep- arations that are for the gi eater part pure cocaine. " House of Church Women. fi The Episcopalian convention for the diocese of California , held in San Fran cisco on Thursday , adopted a canon cre ating a house of church women. The r duties are defined as follows : "To legis late for the conduct of woman's work in the church , and to act in consultative ca- . pacity upon such matters as the conven tion may from time to time submit to it for its opinion. " To End Great Strike. An Essen , Prussia , dispatch says that the coal mine owueis took a decision h Thursday that will probably result in a | 'settleiiient of the gielit strike. They de termined to inform the government they tl would accept any judgment a parliamen tary ! commission might render after in sc quiry into the grievances of the miners , scdj and the owners would immediately re dja a [ move the grievances. d Whale Hooked by Cable. When tho officers of the cable steamer Burnside attempted to raise the Sitka Si 'end of the Alaskan cable Thursday they Sicl found ( it fouled vuth a whale. The jaws p. : the leviathan were fastened about the p cable , which is covered by a heavy pack tl ing of rubber. German Strikers Quiet. The calm attitude of the strikers at Berlin , Germany , is regarded as being in most remarkable by the police authorities di throughout the coal mining districts. Al 4 ] though detachments of police from other M parts ' of Germany continue to arrive , th : they have thus far been unnecessary. Austrian Steamer Seized. The Japanese seized the Austrian steamer Burma , with a cargo of coal for m Vladivostok , off Uokkaidi island Wed * PC aesday night. or Steamer is AVrecked. A Paris special says that the Com- pagnio Generate trausatlantique steam ship Alexander Bixie , Capt. Croton , from PI Colon and West Indian poits for Havre , se has been totally wrecked near Nantes , IM [ IMA There were no casualties. A : 3IcCue Must Hang. fa The Virginia supreme court of appeals ro das denied the supplementary appeal in the case of ex-Mayor McCue , of Char * lottesville , convicted of wife murder. He ra raFi prill be hanged Feb. 10. Fi IN JACK FROST'S GRIP. je Part of the Country Suffers with Cold Not since the blizzard CL 1SSS , by which all storms an * estimated as great or small , has Now York City been so completely snowbound as it was Wed nesday night. The city itself is lying under a fout of snow that in many places has been banked by the wind to a height of several feet. Surface travel early in the day was abandoned , overhead trui 't was irregular and slow , and it remained for the underground loads to carry homo , so far as they could reach with the city limits the hundreds of thousands ( f workers from the downtown districts. Tho entire coast line fiom tho Dola waie capes north has been in the gra p p ! of a stoim whicii , because of tho hea\y j fall of snow , intensity of cold and tho force ot the gale , has exceeded in -e verity anything experienced in years. Inland , fiom Maine , throughout thf New England states and the middle At- j ! hintictatos. . all rocoids indicate a most ' complete n inter tieup. Far into the west thi'io is snow and a remarkably iov ? tempciatuio. A CLEVELAND TRAGEDY. VVajjar Surrenders After Defying Po lice I'nr Several Hour. After defying tho Cleveland , O. , police /hiougliout / the night from behind barri cades , ( leorgc Wagar , who , late Tuc - day night , killed his biother .John and fatally shot Policeman Klaymar , surren- doled Wednesday , after many shots had been fired into the Wagar ievidence , whoie the tragedy was enacted. The cause of the shooting is said to have bet n the settlement of the Wagai l estate , for which John Wagar was ad- | n iiiNriator. .John Wagar went there two weeks ag. ) from South Dakota , pros-imably for the puipo.se of settling his father's estate. ; ( ! o.riro Wagar. who did the shooting , has lived in various parts of the west for , tho past twenty yea is. MRS. CHADWICK A BANKRUPT Tho Creditors Will Take Charge of Her Property. Mrs. Cassio L. Chad wick was , at Cleveland , O. , Wednesday , formally ad judged bankrupt in the federal couit by default. She failed to file an answer viitLin the legal time limit to the bank- itiptcy proceedings brought against her some time since. As a result of the court's action the creditors v\ill meet and elect a trustee take charge of her pioperty until it shall be sold. Notwithstanding the positive statement of Attorney Dawlcy several days ago that bondsmen ' had been found for Mrs. Chad- \ick , bail has not yet been offered and the woman remains in the county jail. PANIC IN A THEATER. Due to the Distribution of Incen diary Proclamation. Kishinoff adves state : A seditious de monstration ; during the performance led to a panic in a theater here Wednesday night. The crisis in the hostility towaid the government was raised in tho crowd ed auditorium by incendiary proclama tions , which were showered from the gal- leiy. < The audience became panic-strick en and considerable time elapsed before order was restored. Twenty arrests were made , including four Jewish soldiers. YELLOW JACK ON WARSHIP. One Death and Six Suspected Cases on the floston at Panama. A bulletin issued by the American lega . tion at Panama Thursday announced one , death and six cases of suspected yellow fever on boaid the cruiser Boston. The sanitary stall' is investigating the ship. Fiom July IS to Jan. 20 eighteen cases and deaths from yellow fever have been reported < at Panama and Colon. Fierce New York Fire. A fierce fire at the corner of South ana . Fletcher Streets , in New York , in a building occupied by manufacturers of oil and ship chandler , raged Thursday. Many other buildings were threatened , including the Mallory line steamship of fices and the United States bonded ware v , houses < and the Frisco Hotel. I Poison in the Food. " : Mrs. Rose Barron , formerly a cook in the Cafe Alhambra flats at Detroit , flj Mich. , where a dozen persons were poi soned Thuisday , was arrested Wedncs- * ; : flay on suspicion. The city chemist found . quantity of arsenic in the baking pow ier used in the preparation of a meal. Race Suicide Indorsed. s. : s.e The Women's Society for Political e Study has discussed the injustice done to children in large families where the parents are uuable to support them f properly , and after due consideration g those present came out strongly in sup gii iitl port of race suicide. tl : tlh Lands Withdrawn from Disposal The secretary of the interior at Wash- ington has withdrawn from all forms of t ; lisposal eighteen townships , comprising h i4,720 acies , of public lands in tho ! Minot , N. ) . , land district on account of B he Buford-Trcntou irrigation project. v _ _ _ r a Wreck on Santa F"e. Two Santa Fe passenger trains early : Wednesday collided head-on , forty-five * niles west of Stockton , Cal. It is re- jorted ten or twelve persons were seri- _ nsly injured. Yaquis Kill Three More. t A special from El Paso , Tex. , says : Antonio Astizarian , a member of a prominent Mexican family , with two servants , has been murdered by Yaqui o udians in the same vicinity where four t ] Americans were slain last Thursday. The t ] 'amily of M. Doane , a ranchman , was h robbed , but was allowed to escape alive. ha hD Big Four Derailment. a A Big Four passenger train was de- P ailed uear Lafayette , Iiid. , Wednesday. t Fifteen persons were seriously injured. TOSTAMPOUT REVOLT RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ADOPTS RIGOROUS MEASURES Czar Pleadswith Workers to Cease Their Insurrection Widespread Kc- forma Pledged in a Proclamation Is sued by Trepoffiu St. While at the time this is written the military evidently have the situation in St. Petersburg well in hand , advices say that great excitement exists through out the country. Gen. Trepoff , the new Governor General of St. Pcters- burg , has been given absolute authori ty over the military and police , and even vested with the power of exile , and it is evident that the govern ment is dealing firmly with the situa tion. Mauy persons have been ar- rested ! , among them being Maxim Gorky , the author and reform leader , who , the Associated Press is privately Informed , was taken into custody at his houie at Riga. A notice was posted at all the works in St. Petersburg giv ing the strikers twenty-four hours to return to work and intimating that those who do not comply will be de ported to the villages. Governor General Trepoff and Min ister of Finance Kokovseff issued a proclamation J which reveals the gov ernment's plan for breaking tlie strike throughout Russia. The proclamation is conceived in a paternal 1 tone and points out that hon est workmen , who want to better their condition , should have brought their demands to the government lusted of being 1 misled by agitators into affili ating with a movement which is not confined to economic aspirations. It invites 1 them to return to work , prom ising them in the Emperor's name a revision of the general law so as to lI restrict the hours of labor , the insti tution 1 of a plan for State insurance 1l and Otherwise to meet their demands so far as the lavwill permit , and guar antees them protection against inter ference b } * agitators. By promising to yield the question of the hours of labor , which are now legally 1 eleven in Russia , the authori 1t ties believe they will meet the main , grievance of tho workmen. This , to gether with the guaranty of protec tion , the authorities hope will induce sCsSSiFls ! /j-i * 'fftr - Jg fa/tUZ- . - * * W $ W § U * 3sss8 7fom& & & 4 1 tf&YJ L > VL * Jaose strikers who are indifferent to political demands , and which class Jiey declare constitutes a great bulk of Jie men , to rcstime work. Knowledge of the existence of the reclamation was not general among iie workmen until they read it ou the Bulletin boards , where inauy of them mgrily turned away , muttering re- lusals to listen to the government's ) romises. Others appeared to hesitate egardlng what course to pursue. The vorkmen appear to lack leadership. .f : , as the authorities believe , the ma- ority of the workmen resume work . he strike movement will be broken ind then the only thing feared is a ecrudescence i of bomb-throwing. The government Is also encouraged by the omparative quiet at Moscow , and they lope no serious trouble will occur here. At Saratoff the men in the railway hops and other establishments have jone out , but no disorder is reported. Dispatches from London to the As- lociated Press say that the British 'oreign ( office and the press take a gloomy view of the situation aud that n the exaggerated dispatches printed nere is revealed the poorly disguised lostility of England to Russia. The Russian government is striving o convince the world that the up- icaval in St Petersburg is Nihilistic. t is also striving to convince the Rus- iian moderates that the industrial re- rolt is being encouraged by Russia's irch enemies , England and Japan. The situation , industrial and politi- al , is beset with unusual difficulties or the Russian government. It is luthoritatively reported that 80 per sent of the capital invested in the preat manufacturing and kindred vea- ures of Russia is foreign coming nainly from France , Germany and England. The foreign capitalists have their "wn superintendents and managers in lie manufactories , Russia furnishing lie workers. It is claimed , on one mud , that the Russian government has lot been fair to the manufacturers , md on the other that the foreign em ployers have been merciless in their I-eatment of Russian employes. yen General Trepoff , recently ap pointed Governor General of St. Pe tersburg , was accused in the Moscow strike of two years ago of favoring the Russian worker against tlie manufac turer. At all events , Russian senti ment in the aggregate is favorable to the workers now ou a strike. Again , the workinginen and the peasants have been misled by agi tators , who have appealed to them as agents of the Czar. These pretended agents have told workinginen and peasants that It was only necessary for them to make certain demands , and they would be granted , because the Czar would support them. More se rious than this , many of the nobles claim to have had assurance that the Czar v/otild not regard unfavorably pe titions for reforms in administration. It may not be difficult to suppress the revolt , for the time being , but it will be difficult to check the movement for a constitution , which has been gaining force since 1S5G. The consti tutionalists do not expect everything to be doue In a day. They are will- VAtf-- ' * W * ) JS * * * * * * * * * ; * * * " > " * \ i. VCv Xs v V X * * * ' " ' tsii"ws " } ! ' , < * COSSACKS or rut : IMPIII\I. GIAUU. ing to be patient , but they want assur ances of progress. If such assurances are given in good faith the situation will be greatly improved. BRITAIN FOR REBELS. h Sympathy Is Given to Revolu tionists. While the British government has not openly offeree ) any aid to the revolution ist ; ; , the leaders in the foreign office have Jet it be known that they would welcome a change in the form of the Russian government. That the sympathies of King Edward's advisers is with the revo lutionists is further shown by the speech of the war secretary , Mr. Arnold-Fors- ter , at Croydon , in which he expressed the sympathy of the people of the United Kingdom with the people of Russia. In addition to all this the foreign office announces that it views the situation in Russia with alarm and believes that EASIER THAN TIGHTI G JAPS. Chicago Tribune. while the present uprisings will be sup pressed , a change in the form of the Russian government is inevitable as a re sult of the march of the people toward the winter palace and the consequent slaughter by the Czar's soldiers. This official confidence in the prospec tive demolition of Russian bureaucracy tends stronger than anything else to con vince the British people that its govern ment is prepared to lend its support to the cause of the revolutionists in a way that will do the most good. The International Commission appoint ed to inquire into the North Sea incident has prepared a protocol of over twenty articles ov * aing the procedure. j MAXIM GORKY , RUSSIAN I NOVELIST AND REVOLUTIONIST. .MAXIM Maxim C.orky , tho groat Russian novelist and ardent revolutionist , shortly before bis arrest wrote as fol lows : The bloody dawn of the day of free dom will be followed by more slaughter , but in the end the people will triumph. The people carried their faith in the "Little Father" up to tho Neva gate. In one volley the soldiers of the Czar destroyed the pouer of his name. Every widow and every orphan that was made has a voice that will pronounce the end of absolutism in Russia. Instead of suppressing by terror they , have aroused a spirit that will never die until the old order of things is forever buried. Janu.-iry 22 will be . " . d te in tlie his tory of t'ie \ \ orlilprogress that will never be forgotten. SCENE OF RUSSIAN SLAUGHTER. IJire'a-Iiye Diagram of the Yone of Awful St. Peters-bury : Massacre. From the accompanying b. i's-eye dia gram of the zone of the awful St. Peters burg massacre and tlie barricade battles of Sunday and Sunday night , prepared by the Chicago American from cabled re ports and photographs , the readers will ho able to inform themselves as to the "lay of the land" and the real events of that day and night of slaughter. On Yassili Island ( see cross ) , where the trreat government iron works in which the first of the strikes was declared are situated and where the great mass of the St. Petersburg industrial class lives , the concentration for the inarch of the strik ers lo the Winter Palace took place. The great assemblage of peaceful-mind ed artisans , intent only on presenting a aumble petition to the Czar , "their little father" and the head of the church to which they are devoted , then split into two sections , one taking up the march : o the palace from Yissili Island via the Troitsky bridge ( in the background ) and : he other section going over the great Nicholas bridge ( see arrow ) . Large num bers of both sections reached unmolested the splendid section of the city occupied' by the Winter Palace , thespacious gar- Chicago American. DIAGRAM-STORY OF ST. PETERSBURG'S DAY AND NIGHT OF MASSACRE. dens of St. Isaac's Cathedral , the Nevsky prospect and the government buildings , where they were re-enforced by thou sands of other striking workmen and also- by revolutionists. Then , when the great throng of marching workmen were fairly in the great military trap prepared by the authorities "to teach them a lesson , " a merry trumpet call rang out. It was the signal for slaughter. Stopping their merry games and fun , the soldiers of "the little father" drew up in line of bat tle at the bridges over which the two processions were still passing , in the pal ace square , on the Nevsky prospect and in the cathedral gardens. Another sig nal and the first volley was fired. It was of blank cartridges. "Thank God , " cried the leaders of the marching host , "the Czar will not kill his children. " The sol diers grinned. Another signal. And an other volley. Real bullets this time. .Scores fall in every spot where the troops . .are met. Then the lighting began. Bar ricades were thrown up in the places shown in the diagram. Before the day and night of slaughter had ended 2,000 had been killed and o.OOO wounded , these awful figures being maintained by corre spondents in face of official reports min imizing the massacre and which are said to be prepared with intent to receive the Czar and the outside world. On Nicholas bridge tho infantry at first refused to fire on their brethren and threw down their arms. Then the merciless Cossacks , armed with sabers , were turned loose on the by. this time fleeing populace. And this is the story of Russia's "St. Bar tholomew. " TURMOIL IN EUROPE. Politics and Social Conditions Are Widely Disturbed. Politics and social conditioss in Eu rope are more disturbed than at any pre vious period since the Franco-Prussian war. Russia is battlingwith incipient revolution. Germany is involved in a coal strike. In both Russia and Ger many these disturbances are partly In dustrial and partly political. In France the ministry has just fallen and a new- one has been appointed , but it will con tinue Premier Combes' policy , which caused the downfall of his own cabinet. There may be hostility to the new cabi net. There is smoldering fire along the Italio-Austrian border. Domestic poli cies in Austria-Hungary constitute a TO- cano that may break forth at any time. : The Balkan peninsula is threatened with an uprising along with a Turkish cam paign of repression.