THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
VALENTINE , NEB.
* . M. RICE , Publisher.
REPUBLIC GOES DOWN
CAPT. SEALBV AND CKK\Y TAKEN
OFF iJY THE GRESIIAM.
Her Passengers and Those of Sunken
i
Steamer Arc Taken Aboard the Bal
tic , Which is Now on Way to Xe\\
York Under Slow Steam.
The palatial ocean steamer Repub
lic , of the White Star line , which was
in collion with the Italian liner Flor
ida caily Saturday morning off Nan-
tucket. .Mass. , went down at SiO :
o'clock Sunday night. No one was lost.
Her passengers , taken off many hours
before , are on the steamship Baltic ,
winch was * off Sandy Hook at a late
hour , making for New York.
The Republic was in tow of tlie
revenue r utter Gresham and the dere
lict destroyer Seneca , proceeding to
New York , Avhen she sank. On board
her wn Capt. Sealby with a volun
teer detail of fifty of her crew. She
had boon towed but a short distance
when she began to settle rapidly. Capt.
Sealby gave the- order to abandon
ship , and the crew was taken off by
the Gresham , which cast loose from
the crippled liner and stood by until
she sank beneath the waves.
The Gresham and the Seneca then
headed for the Massachusetts const
and landed Capt. Sealby and his brave
crew at Grayhead. Mass. , or Newport ,
R. I. The point where the Republic
went down was off No Man's island , a
small island south of Martha's Yine-
yard island , off the Massachusetts
coast.
AMP.USIIED AND KILLFD.
Alan and Two Women Shot by Family
Foes in Kentucky.
Ambushed by family foes , Benjamin
Breland. Ins wife and Airs. Joe Everett ,
the latter carrying an infant in her
arms , \\-ere shot and killed at Ainite
City , Ky. , Sunday night. Avery Blount
and GarfU'd Xinchen are accused of
the cri .
Bleu : : was captured after an all
night arch. He declares Kinchen
killed ] rclancl , and will not say who
killed t'.e woman.
Mrs. Everett's husband was killed by
Benjamin IviKnchen , a brother of Gar-
Held , several days ago , and the widow
and her'baby were making their home
with the Brelands. Bad feeling has
existed among the families for a mini *
ber of years.
7 > EAD OX A DOORSTEP.
/iody of ; t Woman Shot in the Month
Pound in St. Loui < .
More than twelve hours after the
police found a young woman dead on
the dooistep of a negro preacher's
Iiome at St. Louis , Mo. , it was develop
ed by an autopsy that she had been
shot in the mouth. As yet her identity
has not been disclosed , although a
number of persons have viewed the
foody. The young woman was found
early Sunday. It was at first thought
she had taken poison. The coroner's
physician found in the autopsy that
the woman had died from a bullet
-wound. It is not known whether the
wound was self inflicted or not.
Three 3lore Bodies Found.
Grappling in the lake , searchers
Sunday found three more bodies of
workmen wlio perished in the burned
water crib of South Chicago Wednes
day. The search for more bodies will
be continued. It is expected the vie-
thns will eventually number more than
'sixty.
Crew All Il
The rescue of the six men left on
board the wrecked American schooner
Sequel , fast on Seabird rocks , and
IVIate Swenson , who has remained on
the rocks , was effected Sunday morn
ing , soon after daybreak , by the crew
of the Canadian Pacific steamer Tees
and the lifeboat ere wfrom Bamfield.
Murdered by a Xeyro.
Conductor Burr Hall , of a Texas
and Pacific train , was shot and killed
by a negro passenger while the train
was passing AVall's Spur late Sunday
night. One of several negroes on the
train was captured by the passengers
and preparations made for a lynch
ing.
Many Women Faint.
! Many women fainted Sunday night
at St. Louis. Mo. , during a panic in
the coliseum , which hold 14,000 per
sons listening to Gypsy Smith , an
evangelist. The excitement was sub
dued by the choir of 1.000 voices sing-
in hymns.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Saturday's quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow : Top
beeves. $6.00. Top hogs , $6.30.
For Universal Suffrage.
The socialists hold numerous pub
lic meetings throughout Berlin Sun
day to discuss universal suffrage. At
the end of the meetings they attempt
ed to form processions in the various
streets with the intention of marching
to the palace to make a demonstration
before the emperor. Police prevented
the progress of the processions with
out much trouble.
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JTADLEY 31OVED BY IT.
"Mysterious StrniiKerV Portrait Pre
sented Him.
An unusual incedcnt took place in
the United Slates district court at Kan
sas City , Mo. , Friday when Gardiner
Lathrop , general solicitor of the Atchison -
son , Topeka and Santa Fe railway , pre
sented to Gov. Herbert S. Hadley a
large sixed picture of "The Mysterious
Stranger , " the gift of John T. Mc-
Cutcheon , illustrator for the Chicago
Tribune.
The presentation was made just after -
ter Gov. Hadley had concluded his
argument before Judge Smith Me-
Pherson of the cases of the eighteen
Missouri railroads that are fighting the
enforcement of the Missouri2cent
and maximum freight laws.
"The Mysterious Stranger , " a crea
tion of Mr. McCutcheon , made its first
appearance in print in 1004 when Mis
souri for the first time in thirty years
cast its electoral vote for a republic
an candidate for president. Gov. Had
ley , who recently was inaugurated , is
the first republican governor in Missouri -
souri in thirty years.
When Mr. Lathrop took the picture
to the judge's bench and , after show
ing it to the court , turned it towards
the overcrowded court room cheers
broke out and the spectators clapped
their hands and continued for nearly
a minute.
AHsibly affected , Gov. Hadley arose
and accepted the picture. He said :
"It is the course of the greatest
gratification that after four years of
service for the people as attorney gen
eral they thought I had 'made good'
enough to make me their governor. I
may represent the party at whose
head stands the 'mysterious stranger , '
but my administration as governor
will not be an administration for the
'mysterious stranger , ' but an adminis
tration for Missourians. "
BAXKEU A HIG EM BE///LEI S ?
r-'iifornia Man Accused .of .Stealing'
Lnrjic' Sum.
Homer G. Taber. president of the
San Diego Bank and Trust company ,
was arrested in San Diego , Cnl. . Thurs
day evening , according to word re
ceived by the sheriff , and will be taken
to Pioche. seat of Lincoln county. Nov. .
to answer to nineteen indictments j
found by the grand jury and said to
involve the embezzlement of approxi
mately $750,000.
It is said only these indictments
saved Taber from having to answer tea
a charge in that county of embezzling
$40,000 worth of bonds from U. S.
Grant , Jr. , of San Diego.
TO SHOW LEAYITT PECTFttE.
Paris Canvas of ' Son-n-Law
Bryan's - - to
Be E\hibc' ! This Fall.
William Homer Leavitt. of Newport ,
R. I. , son-in-law of William Jennings
Bryan , has finished his canvas in Paris
of the "Lord's Supper" and has sent
it to Newport.
The painting is about 17 feet by 22
feet and. according to the artist , fulfills
the idea on which he has been working
for the last three years.
Mr. Leavitt and his mother are to
leave Paris in two weeks and will come
to Newport. They will remain here
until fall , when Mr. Leavitt will exhibit
the picture in New York and Washing
ton.
MAXY PFKSOXS AHE KILLED.
A Great Storm Swept Over the North
ern Part of .Morocco.
A terrible tempest , accompanied by
a torrential downpour of rain , raged
for five hours Thursday night over the
northernmost section of Morocco , near
Ceuta.
There were no casualties in Ceuta.
, ' but reports brought in by native run-
j i ners from Rhmara territory , a moun
tainous district to the south , declare
that several small villages have been
overwhelmed and many persons killed
or injured.
T7. P. to E.\temi Its Line.
Tt is announced by the officials of the
Union Pacific railroad that the road
will extend its track eastward from
Greeley , Colo. , to a point c-ight miles
east of Pierce , and lap the new Gree-
ley-Poudre irrigation district , which
has opened 150.000 acres of arable
lands.
Ban on Tlacc Gambling.
Developments in the fight being
.iiade by the race track interests to
prevent the enactment in California
of a law similar to that in effect in
New York prohibiting betting upon
races showed that within a short pe
riod it would be ready for the signa
ture of Gov. Gillett.
Tragedy in Illinois.
Alvin Boline Friday at Galvn , 111. ,
shot his wife , his mother-in-law. Mrs.
John Swanson , and himself. Boline
died instantly and Mrs. Swanson is
perhaps fatally injured. Mrs. Boline
likely will recover. The shooting re
sulted from anin effort by Online to
effect reconciliation with his wife.
Statement of the Treasury.
Friday's statement of the treasury
balances in the general fund exclusive
of the $150,000.000 gold reserve shows
available cash balances. $1.50,680..137 :
gld coin and bullion , $15,947,709 :
gold certificates , $ . ' 11,042,810.
Fifteen Vic-tints of Infirmary Fire.
Fire of unknown -origin destroyed
the men's building of the Mahoning
County ingrmary at Canfield. O. , and
fifteen of the aged inmates received
burns more or less serious.
FLOODS IX THE AVEST.
Heavy Rains Do Damage Along th
Pacific Coast.
With railroad traffic virtually sus
pended on some lines , train schedules
badly demoralized on other roads , tel
egraph and telephone communication
prostrated and only fitfully maintained
with some sections of the San Joaquin
and Sacramento valleys , California has
experienced one of tha worst covering
an area that extends from the Oregon
j j coast to San Diego. At various places
I , the rain at times reached the propor-
tions of a cloudburst and was accompanied
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panied by a fierce gale.
Southern Pacific officials said
Thursday night that the resumption
of direct train service with the east
over that companys central route , via
Ogden , was still very uncertain. All
trains are still being detoured via Mojave -
jave and Daggett for Salt Lake City
over the San Pedro road.
The levees of the lower division of
Sherman island , near Sacramento ,
i j gave iway Thursday afternoon , and be
tween 3,000 and 5,000 acres were in
undated. The break occurred on the
Sacramento river sicie and was not
equal to the strong current beating
against it , caused by a fierce south
eastern gale , which lashed the water
into waves that washed over the tops
of the levees.
Isolation of Spokane from both
Portland and Puget sound is complete
as the result of the storm. All rail
road communication with that city was
cut off when slides and washouts on
the Great Northern between Spokane
and Leavenworth blocked that road.
Destructive landslides carrying hun
dred * of tons of earth along the line
of the Great Northern between Ballard -
lard and Admons , Wash. , carried away
the telegraph and telephone lines , pre
vented for an indefinite period the
movement of trains and generally
worked much inconvenience.
FOK FJIG BOOST IX" PI3XSIOXS.
Wotild Take Millions To Meet The
Increase.
The house military committee , of
which Capt. Hull is chairman , decided
Thursday at Washington , D. C. . to
report favorably on the bill placing all
civil war officers more than 70 years
old on the army retired list at the pay
of $50 a month , provided they do not
receive equal compensation as public
officials.
The committee also amended the
bill as proposed by the Officers' asso
ciation to likewise place .ill civil war
enlisted men more than 70 years olden
on retired pay of $25 a month. This
proposed increase for civil war veter
ans affects thousands of men. It will
require an appropriation of more than
$10.000,000 a vear.
SALOOX XOT THE ROOT OF EA'IL.
Destruction AVill Xot Stop Drinking.
Say Illinoisan.
"The prohibition laws relating to the
sale of liquor have made liars , more
hypocrites , more disiegard for .ill law
than all the other statutes we have
placed upon our books , " said Nathan
A. Cole , of Peoria. III. , in his address
to the convention of the Mode ! License
league Thursday at Loiusville. Ky.
"If they ( the prohibitionists ) will stop
to consider the fact that the first ef
fort to prohibit the sale of liquor in
this country was made in 1 50. and
that there has never an effort since
then which has been successful , it
should cause them to adopt some other
plan for the cure of drunkenness.
NOAV dOKS TO GOVERNOR.
s'il ! to Prohibit Manufacture of Liquor
Passes i : > Tennessee.
The lower house of the Tennessee
legislature by a vote of GO to . ' 50 Thurs
day passed the bill to prohibit the
manufacture of intoxicants in Ten
nessee after Jjimiary 1. ] J)10. ) The bill
has already passed the senate and
now goes to the governor , who is ex
pected to veto it as he did the bill pro
hibiting the sale of liquor , it probably
will pass over the veto , as did the
first. The consideration of the bill
precipitated a lively debate , which
Insted until 5:40 : when the vote waa
taken. , : ' " * ' * - " *
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\Vant Child Labor Bureau.
Physical and social evils growing
out of the employment of children as
wage earners were set for discussion
when the fifth annual conference of
the national child labor committee
opend Thursday at Chicago. One aim
of the session is to induce congress to
create a child labor bureau which
shall remedy the evils now existing.
In Memory of Lincoln.
To commemorate the 100th anniver
sary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln ,
Postmaster General Meyer Thursday
announced that 300.000.000 new 2-cent
postage stamps will be issued on or be
fore February 12 next. The design in
cludes the porlait of Lincoln in an
ellipse.
Canadian Pacific ; Extensions.
The Canadian Pacific Railway com
pany announced that an appropriation
of $6.000.000 had been made for new
lines and extensions \vest of Fort Will
iams. The entire appropriation is to
be expended this year.
"Xo Kent7' War in Ireland.
A serious "no rent" campaign has
begun in Tipperary because landlords
of several estates refused to sell land
to tenants under the land purchase act
of 1903.
HIJKXVKIIY COMPANY DISSOLVED.
.
Comparatively Xcu Organ/a ! lion De
cides to Quit Business.
The Grand Island Brewing company ,
a corporation formed about two years
ag'o. through ihe eTorts of the Com
mercial club , l.nbeen dlswol\vd. At
a meeting of the stockholders a re o-
lutin was nd. pied ratifying jointly
rind . < .verally ti e acts of the boar.l rf
iliiectors. and instructing it to sell the
real estate i.nv * red as a si e and
divide the'i ruc * > 3 ? on hand and the
revenue I'erived fiom the sale of ihn
property among the shareholders , of
whom there are nearly one hundred.
When , a * ew years ago. a propo.-silioi
was made to this city , if a rea-onable
amount of stock \\r-re subscribed lot-al
ly , outside parties could be seeuroJ to
put in a c-int ! lcr.-ible sum for the CF-
tabllshimnt ft y brewery , the Com-
: n reial club a l d upon the proposi
tion , appointed a canvassing c mmit-
tee , and it hadvthe required aniOiint of
local stock. Organization. wo.i per
fected , with local men in control , as
requested by the outsid" stock. Real
estate for a site was purchased , a small
assessment on the stock was made , and
plans for a buih'lng and equipment
were sought wlien the outside stock
began to finesve It did not pay its
fi'st nfsefsir.ent nnd repeated notices
brought no response. The local board
refused * c do business excepting in a
businesslike manner and all the stock
being subscribed on the condition that
the capital stock be $12.000. th de-
vifopmrnt was immediately checked.
The larger stockholders were averse
to going on. though a considerable
number of the smaller stockholders
desired to canvass for the necessary
remained anew. Simultaneously with
the failure of the eastern parties to
come to the mark there came renewed
agitation for county option , and Hast
ings agitation , when a new brewery
was for a time handicapped. The
leading stockholders , however , declare
that this had no bearing upon their
decision as the result of the recent
election was assuring , rather than oth
erwise. There has been no expense in
maintenance of organization in the
meantime and the stockholders Avill
not lose over one per cent of the stock
subscribed.
GETS LICKXSF TOO SOOX.
ance of Omaha Man Quickly
Shattered "by a Lincoln Girl.
"This license1 was returned this day
by Whitcomb Yaughan , father of the
bride to be , and by the request and on
the. Behalf of Iho bride to be to havn
th same- cancelled , thy same is here
by cancelled. "
This entry in red ink on the mar
riage license record of County Judge
fosgrove rudely shattered the i-oman-
tic dream of Lawrence E. Cressey. of
Omaha , who tried to win a bride like
heroes do in the story books. He 'ip-
poared at the home of Miss Lotta
' . of Lincoln. A\ith
A'aughan. \ slight ac
quaintance and the license. He tried
a bluff , she called him. grabbed the
license and had her father cancel it.
Tressey , it is said , was merely an ac
quaintance.
TUIiy ACQUITS WETMOKE.
Defendant Was Charged with Offering
Bribe to Omaha Attorney.
Tn spite of an admonition from tin-
county attorney that a verdict of not
guilty would be tantamount to a con-
\ iction for perjury of Dean Beecher.
Canan Bell and City Prosecutor Daniel ,
the jury at Omaha acquitted John J.
Wetmore of the charge of bribery.
Wetmore was charged chiefly on the
strength of his own statement to Can
on Bell and Dean Beecher with hav
ing offered a bribe of $ . > 0i ) and Sl'OO a
month to City Prosecutor Daniel to
keep open the notorious "Martin's Ar
cade. " He denied the chargr. Judge
Sears scathingly arraigned the mem
bers of the jury for their verdict , say
ing he could not conceive how such a
verdict could have b en reached in tin-
face of the r-videnre.
X El JK ASK A FI11 KM KX.
TwntyScu'nthnnmi ! Convention
Fleets Officer.- , and Adjourns.
The Nebraska volunteer firemen
Hosed their twenty-seventh annual
convention in Norfolk Thursday night
with an elabrate banquet. Fremont
gets the next year's convention , win
ning1 over Alliance on the second bal
lot. The following officers wen-
elected : Bert Galley , of Columbus ,
president ; J. C. Elliott , of West Point ,
first vice president : J. H. Parker , of
Albion , second vice prescient ; E. A.
Miller , of Kearney. 5-r-cretary : If. W.
.Winter , of Norfolk , treasurer.
Norfolk was selected for next sum
mer's annual state tournament. Three
real fires within eighteen hours fur-
nS hed realistic entertainment to the
\ i-itors.
Little Boy Fired Crib.
While Mrs. Keinrich Schmidt. of
Newman Grove.as temporarily ab
sent from the house , her young son
about four years of age. in some man
ner got hold of a match and set fire
to the clothing of the small baby in the
crib , burning off the child's hair and
severely burning its face and arms.
Xchrj > ka Defeats Auios.
Nebraska uni\eirity proved its su
periority over Amos college , of lovui.
at basketball , winning by a. score of
ii ! to 20.
Will Advocate
The citizens of Cambridge met fp. an
enthusiastic meeting re'-ently to effect
immediate arr.in e-nonts in support of
a hill pending in tlie le Nlatinv knov p
as house roll No. 20 providing for ari
appropriation of $7",000 for a stat"
agricultural school at this place , in
troduced by Representative Kelley
from that county.
Arm Tom Off.
The right arm of Otto Carson , aged
L'15 , was torn completely off in a corn
sheller at Enola Thursday.
HL'iY. \ SAFE.
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Farmers stale Bank at Ihular Dyna-
I initid $ ! . ! > : ' > ! ) Taken.
I The Farmers' bank , of Hadar , a vil-
' Inge in Pierce county , five miles north
j of Xorfolk , was robbed of $ ltt 30 in
I cash early Tuesday. The robbers dug
! a hole through the --foot vault with
j pick axes , dynamited the safe at both
{ ends , got $1,955. dropped ? 1 ( > on their
\\ay out , and escaped without creating1
the slightest disturbance Jn the sleeping
|
ing town. Not until 9 o'clock was the
robbery discovered by Miss Louise
Biegler. the cashier. The dynamiting
must have required three hours. One
woman sleeping across the street from
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the bank heard a wagon drive away at
1 o'clock , and it Is thought they may
have been the robbers. A team of
horses was stolen from the Standard.
Oil stables in Xorfolk and later found
in the vicinity of Hadar. It is sup-
'
po ed they drove from Norfolk to Ha- .
dar with this team , sheriff Dwyer has
no cleW of any sort and there is little
hope of capturing them. M. I. Helder , '
president of the bank , lives at Pierce.
lie brought a bag of money to Hadar
Wednesday morning and the bank re
sumed business. The bank carried
burglar insurance to the extent of
$1,500.
BAD AVIS EC K AVERTED.
Union Pacific Train JIas Narrow Es
cape at AVood Ilivcr.
What might have been a very serious
wreck on the main line of the Union
Pacific was narrowly averted at Wood
River. About fifty workmen were en
gaged in unloading a heavy supply
tank for the new water works system ,
when the massive piece of iron slip
ped away from them and came very
nearly going in front of the Los An
geles Limited train , which was run
ning at j\ rate of sixty miles per hour
through the town.
Only a plank which had been acci
dentally dropped by one of the work
men stopped the tank and held it in
check until the train passed by. The
tank was being unloaded from a car
on a sidetrack and it was necessary to
roll it across the main line track. The
tank is about ten feet in diameter , for
ty feet long and weighs fifteen tons.
DKATll STOPS DIA'OriCE Sl'IT.
Wealthy rndian Maiden Had Sou ln
I Seller.
With hfr divorce trial set for Wed
nesday at Pender. in the course of
which trial she hoped to gain legal
separation from Francois Cabeny , Mrs .
Maggie \\oodhull Cabeny , a full blood
ed Tnditii } girl , on Monday passed
av\ay at the Samaritan hospital in
Sioux City , aged i'7. and her remains
were sent to Rosalie for interment.
The Ind'an wile hr s been in the
hespital over since the day before
Christmas. Dilation of the heart
caused death. Her death at this time
will entitle the estranged husband ,
who a French Canadian , to one-third
of her estate , which amounts to more
than $17U)0. ( )
BODY FOUXD IX SXOWDP.IP1 * .
Lee PhilifR. ; . a Freinhter. Frozen t <
Death Xcar Crookston.
Lee Philips , of Rosebud. S. D. , was
found in 8. snowdrift near Crookston ,
frozen to death. He started out from
Crookston on Wednesday with a load
of coal anA feed , t-r.d < hat was Ih - > 1/sst
heard of him until his team showed up
at Rosebud with the check reins still
up. Searching parties started out and
found his wagon broken down , but hi.s
body was r/ot found until Tuesday. It
is thought Uiat after he broke down he
started to Jead his team to Rosebud ,
but lost his way and finally gave up in
the cold. He lived at Rosebud and
was a freighter.
Prosperous Poor Farm.
The Dodge county poor farm Is no
only sulf-sustaining. b fe last year , in
addition to keeping an average number
of twelve inmates , it actually cleared
S40S.9S over cost of fuel supplies , sal
aries and clothing , improvements , ete
Se\eral of tue inmates are able to < ] ; >
more or less work. The farm eom-
prlses f4y ! aOres.
Beatrice Man in Trouble.
Word was received in Beatrice thn
B. L. Colby , a young man well knov. i.
in that city , 's in jail at El Paso. Tov. .
eh.--Red witn robbing a restaurant of
Sl0 ( worth of jewelry and clothing.
71i father. Gen. L. W. Colby , an attor
ney , has gone to El Paso to assist hi-
son.
Paroled Prisoner lleiv.pturcd.
George Williams , a Nebraska comic
who broke his parole and left the stnf
with almost a year yet to serve of a
five-year sentence , has been arrester
in Minnesota. A requisition was is
sued for him and an officer of the stst'-
will go for him. Williams was CMP
victcd of cutting with intent to kill.
XPW School TJoii'-e.
The new school building at Leif-.fr .
hs been thrown open for occupainy.
It consists o ; eight large rooms beFi'l- . -
several sma ? ei one . and is luated i y
stiam heat. The building stand ? second
end to none in the state in tov\ns th <
size of Li fih. The old school huHdin- '
v.a > ld at pub'k- auction for $ JT 7 " ' - ,
I'aiiro.'ic ! .Man Killed ,
l Ye : n > n. foreman of th
car repair gang , was killed
at Wymrie. He was working ui ! < r-
neath a < "ar. when a switch ei.cnue
pushed thee cars over him. His J.-gj
were cut off nnd he was -so badly in
jure' ! that he died.
Yolsi-iiecr Firemen Meet.
Three bin dred Nebraska voluntof i
firemen met n Xorfolk Tuesday fo"
Tbe twenty-seventh annual convention
of the state association. Fremont.
York and Alliance are after next year's
convention.
"Vin s I'r.y for
Sumnet-y. ; > f DvWitt. hns b < -
run < ; ttgrins' ! ' < lage county for .ftS-'t
Inr n'- * = ' efvU'nrr from the ' , > s > . f op. "
nf h hr.f. . - ! lrt spiinsr.vh' -h . tep-
, e l thr-tug'i ; i Ij < > ! e in a bridge- . : -u"-
talr.iric 'ajurierhich made it net es-
s-.iiy u > 1:111 it.
na < ? on Board of Health.
Pr. A. L. Muirhead. of Omaha , vas
r-u cted ; i member of the board of sec
retaries of the state board of health.
Pie take- * the place of Dr. Gee , Br nh ,
of Beatrice.
WORK OF
a vote of 37 to 27 the Senate
Monday fixed the ; : il.iry of tlie Speak
er of the House oi Representatives at
$15,000 instead of $12,000. as at pres
ent , and instead of $20,000 , as proposed
by the Committee on Appropriations.
Senator Rayner endeavored to have the
Senate adopt a resolution calms on the
Attorney General for information as to
whether the President hid ordered a
suit brought against the Xew York
World and the Indianapolis News be
cause of an alleged libel , and under
what statute this action had heon tak
en. Mr. Rayner declared that there
such legal
was no statute authorizing
procedure and that the attempt to sue
the newspapers in the name of the
United States , if entered upon , was an
attempt to apply the sedition laws long
since repealed. Under objection fur
ther consideration was postponed. A
sensational and bitter attack on Pres
ident Roosevelt was made in the House
by Mr. Willett of Xew York. His re
marks were deivered under the license
of g nerallebi'te on the pension appro
priation bill. The President was char
acterized by Mr.Vilett as a "gargoyle.
tyi.Ji.t. pygmy descendant of Dutch
tradespeople , liny tedder , fountain of
billingsgate , a jocularity , imitation of
a king and bogus hero. " On a motion
by Mr. Candler of Mississippi that the
New Yorker be allowed to proceed "in
order" the House voted him off the
floor. 7S to 12(5. ( Mr. AVillett declared
the action "put an end to free speech. "
The salary of the President of the
United States was Tuesday fixed at
$100.000 per annum , so far as the Sen
ate could fix it. : md salaries of the
Yiee President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives at $ ir .OOO
each. The salary "of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court was increased
from $ l.'I.OOO to $1. .000 , and those of
associate justices from $12. . 00 to Sl-J-
HOO. These changes were made as
an.i n ! i > : cnts to the legislative , execu
tive and judicial appropriation bill and
after an extended debate. Amendments
allowing $ . " .000 each to the Arice Pres
ident and the Speaker of the House
for horses and carriages were stricken
from the bill. Senator Rayuer's reso
lution calling ou tlie Attorney General
for information concerning the suit he
purposes briniriiig against certain news '
papers on the charge of libel in connec \
tion with the purchase of the Panama
Canal property was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary after a
strong light to have it adopted without
such reference. A'arious pension bills
were passed. After disposing of tha
speech of Representative Willett at
tacking the President by referring it
to a special committee , the House
passed the pensions and urgent defi
ciency bills , and when adjournment
taken the naval appropriations
bill was under consideration. The pen
sion * ; bill abolishes all but one of the
eighteen pension agencies throughout
the country and carries a total appro
priation of $ liO..S0.000. ; ( ! A plan to
pay pensioners quarterly was defeated.
The urgent deficiency bill parries ? ap
propriations amounting to $1,026,402. A
mesage from the President recommend
ing an appropriation of $20.000 for a
commission to investigate conditions
in the Republic of Liberia. Africa , wa ?
read.
The Brownsville affair was again be
fore the Senate AYedncsday. Senator
Fraxier of Tennessee speaking in op
position to the passage of the measure
for the reinlistment of the discharged
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment.
He insisted that the guilt of some men
of the regiment had been established
beyond any doubt , although the indi
viduals who had committed the erlm-
had not been determined. Mr. For-
aker announced that he would move
the next Monday ro take up his bill
to reinstate the
soldiers unless an
agreement on a time to vote for tha
measure is made sooner. The legis
lative , executive and judicial appropri
ation bill was under consideration also.
After adopting without opposition a
resolution by which Governor George
F. Lilley of Connecticut ceases to be
a member of Congress , the House o *
Representatives proceeded with tha
naval appropriation bill. There were
few amendments offered to the meas
ure , the items under consideration be
ing those of maintenance and improve ,
nu-nts to navy yards , stations and other
publjc works of the navy. Represent-
all vc I-'oss of Illinois , chairman of ths
naval Affairs committee , had charge oi
the bill on the floor , and Representa
tives Tawney ( Minn. ) . Fitzgerald
( Xew York ) , dailies ( Term. ) . Ma con
( Ark. ) and others spoke. Representa
tive Mann fill. ) occupier ] the chait
during the consideration of the hill.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Thf > larse warehouse of Codville & Co.
procors nt P.nmdQn , Man. , was burned
Loss $100.000.
John M. ' 'u liin-r. a10er , " died i5
San Francis-o. He . -
v.is born In Salem
Ma * < . . in 1X2 ? . "
Frank M. Howe , who ( leaned the-eleo
tricity luiilfling at the Columbian expo
aitioi ! . died in Kansas City , Jo. . aged f 0
Wirne-sp summoiiPfl from Chit-ago wil |
toMify in Xew York at the hearing o !
the irovornmrnt's suit against Klic allege !
powder frnst. < \
Reports that Goorse II. Corldyou. Sea
rotary of the Treasury , is to heroine prosi
deisr of the Consolidated Gas Companj
of Xew York are denied in ( he eastern
metropolis.
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