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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1908)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT VAliKXTIXE , XKB. t. M. 11ICE , - Publisher. A. VAST AREA DRY" PJIOIIIIJITIOX WAVE HAS SWEIT OVMK WIDE SECTIOX. Ile ults Are J'ar Jleaching In Many States Question Overshadows All Other Issues Hearts Show De crease in Drunkenness and Crime. .A wrrvo of prohibition has swept Xvith sucli remarkable effect over the south and sentiment has so crystallized against the saloon and its kindred evils that the new year opens upon a vast stretch of territory absolutely be reft of liquor , while the area where the anti-prohibitionists have tri umphed marks the battle ground for Impending' fights on the question. Significant of the magnitude this problem has assumed is the fact that In many states prohibition obscures all other municipal and state questions. Other states have disposed of the issue temporarily .at least , by the passage of statutory laws , whose efficiency must yet be tested. In still other states the elections have restricted the sale of liquors in the larger cities. More than half the south's terri tory is "dry" absolutely , and in the remaining area the sale of intoxicants is restricted. It , is evident that the cities are the only remaining strongholds for the sa loons , and it is unlikely that this con dition will be modified except through a radical change in political thought , through failure to enforce the laws against the liquor traffic , failure to solve the problem growing out of defi cits in county , municipal and state treasuries from a loss of the whisky tax , or inability to cope with the illicit sale of whisky , and perhaps other ob- atablcs which follow in the wake of prohibition. The results of prohibition generally are gleaned from reports indicating a great decrease in the number of ar rests for drunkenness , an increase in the bank deposits of laborers , fewer cases of wife abandonment , and a de crease in criminality generally. The difficulty of enforcing the prohibition laws , however , is conceded to be one of the chief obstacles to its absolute success in many states. A SPECTACULAR ACCIDENT. Automobile .Tunis .Three Complete Somersaults in the Air. One of the most spectacular acci dents ever caused in an American au tomobile race occurred at Ascot park , Ixs Angeles , Cal. , when the tire of a racer broke on a curve while Gus Seyfried , of San Francisco , was driv- .Ing at more than a mile a minute , the car turning three complete somre- saults in the air , a blazing ball of flame , and landing a broken wreck in the center of the track , where it was practically consumed by the flames. Seyfried was thrown out with ter rific force , landing clear of his car and sustaining only minor cuts and bruises. The 7)rincipal feature of the day was the winning of 25-mile event by G. Soules. lowering the world's record for stock cars , in the fast time of 25 min utes 3C 2-5 seconds. OKDEll JEWS niOM FIXLAXD. Thirty Families Have Been Ordered to Tjcave the Country. One of the periodic expulsions of Hebrews is going on in Finland. Thir ty families have been ordered to emi grate at once. The senate on the ba sis of a narrow interpretation of the law maintains the rihgt to issue indi vidual licenses entitling residence in Finland for six months , being renew able at the senate's discretion. According to the Finish statutes Hebrews are forbidden to acquire and hold property , are denied the right of citizenship and are permitted to re side in Finlnad only under close re strictions. An exception was made in the year 1850 in favor of 200 families. The late diet declined to consider a proposition abolishing Jewish disabili ties. HEADY TO IXVADE SEUVIA. Austria-15un iary Has Large Force of Soldiers on Frontier. A dispatch from Vienna says that Austria-Hungary has a force of 155- 000 men In Bosna and Herzegovina ready to invade Servia at a moment's notice. Another correspondent says typhus has broken out among the Austrian troops in Bosnia and that the troops are suffering greatly from the cold and exposure. Many deaths have occurred. A dispatch from Cettinje , Montene gro , announces the departure of the war minister and general staff on a tour of inspecaion of the Herzegovnia frontier. | Fire Destroys a Hotel. Fire destroyed the Arlington hotel and seven other buildings at Oneonta , N. T. , causing a loss of $100,000. Many of the occupants of the hotel had nar row escapes. The fire started in the Arlington hotel building owned by H E. Huntington , of Los Angeles. Sioux City Live Stork Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Beeves , t$3.75@4.75. Top hogs , $5.80. SECURE $180 BY TORTURE. Robbers Burn Victim's Feet with lighted Matches. By burning his feet with lighted matches two masked robbers at 4 o'clock Friday morning compelled H. A. Schabow , of Curtice , O. , to open a safe in his farm house and turn over $180. After tying their victim to his bed with strips of a sheet and placing a gag in his mouth the bandits went to the barn , stealing a lior.se and buggy , and escaped. On battering in the front door the robbers placed an unknown substance on a heated stove which overcame the family of seven , a.iu the bandits then operated undisturbed. Schabow is in serious condition , but will recover. While one of the robbers was tortur ing Schabow with the matches the other kept him covered with a re volver , threatening to kill him if he uttered a sound. Schabow is agent for a Toledo insurance company. Toledo police arc searching the city and the surrounding country for the two robbers. The first the Schabow family knew of the robbery was when the children rushed to th 'ir father's room to wish him a merry Christmas. Heas not there , and on entering a little front room used as an office they fourd him on the floor unconscious. with his hands and feet tied and a woolen mit ten stuffed in his mouth. On regain ing consciousness Mr. Schabow said that hearing a noise in the office he went to investigate and was attacked by two masked men , who demanded money. He refused to open the safe , whereupon they bound and gagged him and then applied lighted matches to his feet. lie endured this torture for awhile , but finally gave in am" opened the safe and then became un conscious. DESTITUTE KEME5IBKHF.D. Xrw York Sets a Xcw Mark in Christ mas Charities. New York City celebrated Christmas of 190S in a way that not only livc < up to the best of its traditions , bu set a new standard. Favored witl abundance which the year brough forth , the rich , well to do and th < moderately circumstanced had placec' at the disposal of active workers in philanthropy ample funds with whicl to go at the work of making the day one to be remembered. The unfortu nate in the jails , the ill in. the hos pitals , the poor in their homes and the destitute and helpless in institutions all were remembered. That not far from 100,000 persons were assisted by means of donations of dinners and the like is estimated. Mostnotable of the Christinas eficiaries were those of the Salvatioi army and Volunteers of America. The "army" had the vast floor of the Grand Central Place auditorium for Its Christmas storehouse and drew upon its supply to send out fully 5,000 baskets , each containing a Christmas dinner for some poor family. MASTERY IX BAXK ROBBERY. California. Officials Find $29.000 Miss ing from Los Anuclcs Concern. The fact has just been made public that the First National bank , of Mon rovia , Cal. , was robbed of a sum said to amount to $20.000 some time be tween last Saturday and Monday night. Detectives have been at work on the case , but it is stated that no clews to the robbers have been found and no arrests have been made. The loss of money was discovered when the bank opened for business Monday morning. Whether it was taken by an expert thief after the close of tlT bank on Saturday , or was removed after the vault had been locked for the night , has not been determined. All the of ficers of the bank refuse to dy.cuss the matter. President John Bartle admit ted that the robbery had occurred , but said that in view of the fact that the bank was insured for $25,000 with a casualty company the loss to the stockholders would be less than $5- 000. The bank is capitalized at $100- 000 , with a surplus of $90.000 , and has undivided profits of $20,000. Vessel's Crow Mutinies. The crew of the yacht Delia , owned by Jacques Lebaudy , "Emperor of the Sahara , " mutinied off the coast near Teneriffe , Canary Islands , and hoisted the Haitian colors. The vessel was forced to put into Santa Cruz , how ever , owing to lack of coal , and on ar riving there the mutineers were ar rested. Water ( Jauge Bursts. The bursting of a water gauge in the cab of a mogul engine running fifty miles an hour and pulling the fast through stock train on the Lake Shore railroad from Chicago to New York resulted in the death of the head brakeman , the probable death of the fireman and the slight scalding of the engineer. Deputy Shrrifl' Shot. Deputy Sheriff Nicholas Mitchell was shot and killed at Hogan institute. Okla. , when he attempted to quiet a disturbance at a Christmas celebration. Sam and Henry Fryo are under arrest and a posse is seeking George Frye. The Frycs are of Cherokee descent , wealthy and prominent. Farmer Ends I-.il' ? . Because he did not have money enough to provide the usual Christinas toys for his children , C. A. Eastop , a farmer near Quietman , Ga. , committed suicide by shooting. Business Section Burned. Practically the entire business sec tion of Ravia. Okla. , a town of 1,200 inhabitants in Johnson county , was ivipod out by fire , the loss aggregating about ? 55,000t OIL TRUST OUSTED. Missouri Supreme Court Renders Sweeping Opinion. Declaring that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana , the Republic Oil Company of Ohio and the Waters- Pierce Oil Company of Missouri , had conspired and combined to monopolize the oil business in that state , the su preme court of Missouri Wednesday issued a decree ousting all three from the commonwealth and fining them $50,000 each. The decree against the Waters- Pierce company is tempered by the proviso that it may continue in busi ness if by January 15 , 1909 , it can show to the court that it has taken steps to operate as an independent concern and has satisfied the judgment against it. The other companies are given until March 1 , 190 > , to wind up their affairs in the state. The Republic Oil company , accord ing to a statement filed wi h the secre tary of state last June , has ceased to do business in Missouri , having sold its interests March 1 , 1907. The decision , which was unanimous on the part of the seven judges , is so sweeping that Attorney General Ilad- ley and Gov. Folk hail it as the end of the illegal commercial combina tions in Missouri , and the former as serts that , in conjunction with the de cision of the supreme court of the United States in the tobacco trust case , it will affect similar suits in other states. Attorney General Hartley , who has prosecuted the Missouri case since its inception in March. 1905 , will become governor in less than a month , and then will be charged with the enforce ment of the decree issued AVednesday. The attorney general followed up the promulgation by the court with a statement in which he asserted that attempts had been made to compro mise the suit. MAXY HURT IX A RIOT. Factions in Church Have a Serious Clash Xcar Pittsburgh Waring fractions of a Catholic con gregation in Homestead , a suburb of Pittsburg" , Tuesday night engaged in a riot in which four persons were ser iously hurt and several hundred Slavs \\ere slightly injured. Twenty-five of the participants have been arrested and are in jail and warrants are being prepared for many other participants in the melee. After the Homestead riot had been quelled the rioters went to Municipal hall , where they destroy ed the interior of St. Michael's Slav onic parochial school , home of the new priest. Rev. M. C. Flagensky , whose life they vainly sought. The trouble was over the removal of furniture from St. Michael's Slavonic Roman Catholic church to the parochial school at Municipal hall , a neaiby borough , by a new pastor. LABOR CHIEFS FOUND GUILTY. Gompers , Mitchell and Morrison Arc Sentenced. The famous contempt ca es of the Buck Stove and Range company against President Gompers. Vice Pres ident Mitchell and Secretary Morrison , of the American Federation of Labor , was decided Wednesday by Justice Wright , of the supreme court of the District of Columbia , adversely to the federation officials. Gompersas sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment , Mitchell to nine months and Morrison to six months. The case grew out of the alleged boycott of the company's products and the putting of that company on the unfair list , and the federation's alleged violation of Judge Gould's recent mandamus , and has attracted wide attention. BURXHAM IS FOUXD DEAD. Former Insurance Man is Poisoned by Gas. Frederick A. Burnham , of New York , former president of the Mutual Re serve Life Insurance company , was found dead in bed in his home Wed nesday morning of gas poisoning. The police lay his death to suicide. The Burnham family doctor , who reached the home a few minutes af ter Burnham was found , said the case undoubtedly was one of accident. Gas had escaped from a small stove , which was used to heat Burnham's sleeping room. The physician said Burnham apparently had turned it on again af ter the flame had been extinguished. The Mutual Reserve went into the hands of a receiver in February last Consumption Death Rate High. According to a bulletin by the state board of health , of the 31,443 deaths in Illinois during the first half of the present year , 3,7SC were from tuber- c culosis. From only one other cause J were there more deaths. 4.117 from = pneumonia. The rate of death is 11.19 per cent of each 1,000 of population. One Thousand Homeless. G fl ? .Iore than 1,000 persons were made homeless and $100,000 worth of prop erty destroyed in a fire which burned out an entire block of department houses in Brooklyn , N. Y. , Wednesday. Twenty persons who were overcome $ f by smoke , were rescued by firement. liaby Fell Five Stories. After falling : five stories down an elevator shaft and alighting on a ce ment floor , the 2-year-old baby of Cash Michuin , railroad agent , of St. Jo " seph. AVednesday , escaped with noth- n iny more than n fe\v scratches. " Five Injured in Wreck. A local passenger train on the Chicago cage and Eastern Illinois railway col lided with a freight train at Chaffe. c Mo. , AVednesdav niirht. Five persons i were injured. 0 , KILLS CRIPPLED SOX. Lincoln Father TIu n Commits Suicide. Had Been in III Health. Herman Weidbtirg. of Lincoln , a hack driver , 35 years old , killed his 9-year-old son. and then shot himself , dying almost instantly. The murdered child , who was a crip ple , never having been able to walk , was asleep with another brother. According cordingto the story of the second son , the father came to the bed. lifted little Sidney out , placing him on the floor , and shot him twice through the heart. Satisfying himself that his box- was dead , the man turned the weapon on himself. Wiedburg has for some time been in poor health , and his condition lately became worse. Me called a doctor , who gave him little encouragement. Brooding over his own aiJment and that of the bey supposedly prompted the act. KTi\ ! < ; ini-x : KLSUJORX RIVER. 3ratio Xccrssarv by tlio Cin.i ! ; < .s Made in Lo : .n Creek. The plan of straightening the E'k- horn river by cultipff channels across mary of its numerous bends which has been talked of for a nuviber of years by farmers owri'npj hint's adjoining it is like'y to be realized. To accomp lish this will rc-iuire the co-operation ofboth Dourlas and Snrpy countVs and it is nuif practically necessaiy by the proposed sti--iightening of Lop.irt creek throuerh Thurston. Hurt and Dodge counties. Logan creek is 165 miles in length , but. if the cutoffs pro posed by the federal government en gineers are dug it will be reduced to only about sixty miles , and during high water it will empty a larger flow into the Elkhorn than that crooked , eratic stream can carry. The plan proposed contemplates a new drainage district under the Knowles law. BRO'v- ! ; THROUGH THE TCK. H. T. Bowers Lo.-os Life While Rci- ! iriy ; at Lincoln. Despite the efforts of his companion Miss Janet Ramoy. IT. T. Bowers. 20 years of age. lost bis life while skat ing at Lincoln park. He broke through the thin ice and drowned , more than a hundred skaters witness ing the tragedy. Miss Ramey screamed for help and at the same time skated out on the thin ice and attempted to reach Mr. Bowers with a branch that she had caught up. ITis body was recovered throe-quarters of an hour after it sank. Powers was prominent in so ciety and his family is well known , his father being s tate secretary for the Gideons. WO33AX AT DAXXKIlORd KILLFF Fell Into a Cellar Way and Skull ! - Crushed Hies Instantly. While doing some Christmas shop- pins ; i'i the store of the Danneborsr Mercantile company , Mrs. Didrik Jensen - son stepped into an open cellar-w.iy through the floor and fell to the floor below in such a manner that the skull ; was crushed , and she lived only a few minutes after. She was one of the earlier Danish settlers , coming to Dannesborg in 1S72. Her snrvivinsr husband has been confined to his bci" ! for a long lime by serious illness. A'ALKXTIXK MAX MURDERED ? " C. W. Mas in ale Killed at Eldorado. Ark. , and Robbrd. C. W. Massingale. aged 5fl years , of Valentine. Neb. , who has been in El dorado , Ark. , for several months , was robbed of about $200 Wednesday night and killed. His body wa found nenr the school building in Eldorado. Leo i L. Coombs , a farmer living about four - miles from Eldorado , who was ar rested in Little Rock last summer , sail1 to have been charged with larceny. held in connection with the killing. SHARE PROFITS AVITH EMPLOYES Divide More Than $1.000 Among v. Their Workmen. v.o In addition to the distribution of o 290 turkeys among its employes , the b Dempster Mill Manufacturing com d pany of Beatrice gave added reason fi for a merry Christmas by declrainsr the semi-annual profit sharing. Divi dends just distributed for the last half of the year are $4.000.03. This year the rate is S per cent against 0 per cent last year. ' ( Fscaped Prisoner Uetum ? . James TJ. Daw on. who was in an ' , altercation with AVilliam TTeid at Milford - ' ford last summer , in which TTeid was * stabbed and AVIO escaped from the , ' county .lail at Reward on the night of J September lf . was returned to Sewnrd Bounty jail by Sheriff Gilan Thursday Xcw Opera House at McCook. McCook's $50.000 Masonic temple- I opera house project is nearing the ' point of enclosure. It is hoped that the building will be completed by ? arly spring. V ( Machinery for Light Plant. u The machinery for McCook's new ty electric light plant arrived last week on Wednesday. The new buildings are rapidly Hearing completion. tli For Farmers Insiiicic. ty The county board of supervisors of tyWi fuming county have appropriated Wi $100 for the purpose of holding a in farmers' institute in the year 1909. inf. Hed ! for Diamond Tlieft. Jutus Sounder of Grand Island is iwalting trail tt TTastinss on the Wire charge of Inrctr.v and forgery. He is ro iccused of havlns : srolen a diamond te "rom the Sims jewelry store while tekr legotiating for its purchase with a h. "orged check. Poultry Show a Siccr : = - < - . The chicken and pet stock show ur vhich closed Saturday at Nebraska SS ity , was a success in every way. th "here were over 300 entries and th < ed i.ttemlanceas very large. BOGUS GA5CK LAWS. Advertising Grafter Trimming Country Merchants. Merchants out in some of the small towns of the state are patronizing a traveling advertising man. instead of their local newspapers , and consequently quently are liable to get innocent par ties into trouble. The scheme being worked is to piint on a card the game laws for 190S-09 and sell advertising space on the cards to the merchants. Copies of the iard have been received by Game Warden Carter , who denounced - nounced the man who is doing the business as n mighty bad man. Here is v\hat Mr. Carter said : "There are no same laws for 190S- 09. The legishiture which is shortly to meet may change all of the game laws on the stutute books. The circu lation of the = e cards might get inno cent parties inrn trouble because they might think tiu y are really the game laws of the state. The man who getup up the advertising scheme did not even use the present game laws. I have written to several parties who have sent me cards and told they are all wrong insofar as they relate to the game laws. " Mr. Carter received some of the cards from Fairbury and they contained advertising matter from merchants ; of that town. LJXCOLX'rf CITY CHARTER. .Mayor 'Hunks Commission Have Pay. Mayor Brown , i.f Lincoln , who has just recently ietuine'1 home from an ibsonco1 of several weeks at Excelsior Sprinqs. where hev.it to rest up af ter electlop. . Iris bosun to look into the matter of the city .government by com- mir-'ion. i7vi r Brown is opposed to t'io it7ea r.f hav'ng a commission to serve without pay. He believes such ; ct.rarnisrion will not attend to the duiie.of the city government and ? < iisipe"s men should not be asked to give tr.-ir time- > the city for nothing. While- the makingof the charter has gone on in the absence of the mayor and with little advice or sug gestion from bun. the people here now realize that it is time his honor was being c.'iumMed. Therefore a number of leadi.i ? : citizens have dropped into bin office during the last few days to set his advice. BURGLAKS ARK TAKEX. Tv.o Mi'i . \ , . -S d of SUalingOstrich PhiMirs to Be Tried in Lincoln. Helective James Malone. of Lincoln , arrived ininux City. la. , from Des M.ui.es with inisition papers for Mauve a..d < * . W. Silvers. These men were arrested about a week ago by Sioux City detectives and in their room were found several ostrich plumes- and furs. A. II. Whiteworth , manager for Miller it Paine , at Lin coln , and Mrs. ( Y-mpton. one of the , head cb-rkf. arrived in Sioux City Sun day and i < eitified two sable muffs and most of the j.lumes as property which had been stolen from the store about ! four weeks aco. Omaha police believe that these men are guilty of burglaries in that citv. HIT ! 5Y THE MZLLKRS. \ttu'k Secretary Wilson's Bleached flour Order. The South Platte division of the Ne braska Millers' association in an ani mated meeting at Lincoln Tuesday af ternoon ui.scus.-ed plans for appealing o the federal court for'relief from Se-i retary Wilson's order against bleached flour. The millers asserted the ukase would ciur-o the Nebraska millers he-'vy 1 < - . and would ruin the industry in the state. They ace-used Wilson of ratifying a private grudge. It was facitiy agreed to seek relief in the ourts. The millers also framed an "inphik * protest against the increase in freight rates asked for the Nebraska - t ka ruir ! < ads. Old SuJrr is Called. i Samuel AVymore. founder of the ' loAvn f Wymore. died Monday mornIng - Ing at hi.- ; home near that place from stroke of paialysis Avhich he suffered -aturday. Mr. Wymore had resided n Cage county for forty-five years ind at one time oAvned the land on A-hich Blue Springs and AVymore arc ituated. He Avas 73 years of age. : Good Showinir by Bank. The First National bank of Shelbs vill erect a two-story brick building n the spring. This bank has been in nisiness twenty-three years , diel not jorrow or discount any of its notes luring the three years of hard times 'rom crop failure , and was on a full ash payment basis during the recent ank panic. . Convict Returns to Prison. Convict Ru.ssell. who has been out n i parole for some months , turned up it the penitentiary at Lincoln bright ind smiling and asked to be taken jack. lie wanted to got in on that 'hristmas dinner. He has been pa- oled to a rnan out in Frontier county , ut the cold weather drove him baclf ionic. Poultry Show a Success. The Dodge county poultry show los-cd a most successful exhibition at i'renmnt. There were more chickens ' nd a greater number of visitors than ver before. A. C. Collins , of Hano- er. Kan. , won the grand champion- hip eiip for the highest scoring birds , hich were of the White Rock varie- y. one scoring 904. . Xo Pardon for Clements. r Lieut. C5ov. Ilopewell has decided iiat Fred AV. Clements , of Sarpy coun- a serve out the remained ref * term for murder. He -as convicted of killing Luke Golden E the outskirts of South Oirvaba about b vo vears a IJobbi'i' Promptly Captured. The store of J. T/ . Hopper at Gibbon , as robbed of money and goods. The bber Avas caught at Minden by AVal- MSammons. . of Kearney. He ac- : noAvledgvd the theft and told Avhere had hidden the goods. . : Vote Ilonrls for School. . A school bond election was held Sat- rday afteinnun at Shelby to issue 5.000 f r a new school building1 Four lousand dollars has been accumuiafc- in four yo-M-s by t"xo > i n , which iii be a,1 ! : thifi" l. Annual Report of the Federal Commissioner - missioner Is Alarming : to . Anglers. j ( i SOME KINDS ARE Have Dostrcyccl tlio Greed Said to Sturgeon on East Coast Vast Output of Hatcheries. "The most serious condition now confront in ; ; the American tislriu ? : indus try is { ho lailuro of the States to : ffo < 3 adequate protection to misi"a orv 'Js'ies ' in State ami interstatewaters" This is the serious nut ? of warniu-4 stmmled by Gourde .V. itowors. United Suites Fish Commissioner , in his : innui ? re- pert. .Air. Rowers jjrnphK-aUy deniets the great destruction wrought to cer tain species of lisli and mkt : ; i ear nest appeal for their preservation Pointing to the history of the New Midland salmon tishery as a wannnj , ' . the- Commissioner declares * ttit s m& of the Stats seem yet absolutely indif- ft rent to the eryis iH' . I of u htT-es for species of similar habits , whose obliteration , ho says , is certain unless radical corrective measures an taken. Air. I lowers states that the fishes most in need of consideration arc the snad , the striped bass and the sUn-iTcmi on the Atlantic coast and the salmons in the Pacific States. The disappearance of thst.trgeon from nearly every east const rivrr Mr. Cowers states , "shows how jrrpc-tl and indifference may in a single generation destroy a valuable fishery. " The report shows that the bureaus hatcheries in 100S yielded rrrtiGW.GOO more fish than in any other year and delivered about < ir S.OOO.OnO P-JUS teState State and foreign hatcheries. The total output was over 2.S71.000.0GO ejr s and fish , of which over ! i,4GO.OOft.)00 ) were fish. STRANGE2 , SLAYS STUDENT. Man Enters House of Rich. Woman's Selative and Kills Youth. A'an Dwiirht Sheldon , an entrii.ovring. student in the junior class at Xcw V/ork University , was shot to death after a strujrsle at 9 : ! . " > o'clock Wednesday morning in the cellar of the lumii * of ' - * if- Charles II. Snow , dean of th" school I" of arts and sciences of the university in Xcw York City. While dyirn : he gasped ont an incoherent statement whose purport seemed to be that he " ( had boon killed by a strange man who was seeking Afi s Helen Gould. Dean Snow is married to a cousin of Miss Helen Gould , and Miss Gould lias been in the habit of visiting her cousin and remaining over night. There was a report that Miss Gould \vas in the house Tuesday night , but this the dean denied. Ha said , however , that t'io in truder probably thought that the house belonged to Miss Gould , tliat she \\vts in it and that he went lucre with th& idea of getting money. Sheldon , who was 24 years old. was living with Dean Snow and helping him about the house. The young man lived three hours after he was shot. When found his wrists and ankles \vero- bound. Only a fr.igmentary story of the tragedy could be drawn from the > dying boy , and he expired while strug gling to make an antc-mortcm state ment to Coroner MacDonald jn tho- Fordhain Hospital. The assailant mada his escape in spite of searching parties- of hundreds of students , mounted po lice and the reserves of the I"Diversity Heights station. Young Sheldon said that just as he- approachcd the furnace a man stepped out and said : "Is Miss Helen Gould * in this house ? " "Xo. " replied the star tled student , "is this her house ? ' " "Xo , " repeated the young man. picking : up the furnace shake for avoapon. . "Yon lie : " cried the man. springing at the boy's throat. Then began the strug gle which the dying young man sought in vain to describe. It was ended by a shot that penetrated the left side of the abdomen , pawed through several or-rans and lodged in the spine. T.UO police were unable to find traces Of an intruder and wore inclined to call it a case of suicide. ROBS A BANK A NIGHT. Some r.nns Relieved to HaveGottotj , Over $8,000 ii ? ; -IjruNUt. Robbers the ether mirht raided the State Bank of t'on eo. i jtocn miles north of Lincoln. X.-b. . ov 'riH v.-erpcl a " boy who surprised thorn at wor ! ; . d-nioHsh ed the vaults secured ? . " , . < iftl ) and -cYped Wednesday night a bank in ( < , ; , , ' robbed. Thursday night banks : it Keens and Gibbon were Icotc-d. the robbers et- ting $ JJ.noO. James Malono. chief" Of Burlington detectives , stated that th same gang undoubtedly robbed nil the bajiks. He believes th - < are travelicIB , an automobile. ° Haiti's Revolution. Xord Alexis * spppcly departur w-iU nate the necessity of his makin : l -ial report. Detroit Xows. With a little education those .night be able to settle their hroii5h old-fashioned debatinB .nstpnd of revolutions. Toltvlo Old I'roMdont Xord Alexis lu nest as many revolutions -M ramb.or. . ? I11 | , , ks upon ortune almost as , .v. , : . . , Of Fuurnal. '
