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, ( ' " CHICAGO STORES .WRECKED : BY :
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, , . nTTejepiibnc Girls in a Panic - Several
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II ' ! I caused by dynamite did great damage
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; persons severely and wrecked stores
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1'1 ' and Washington streets.
t , I I ; : ' The exact nature of the explosion
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t ; Ii iI i I t > \ \ ' : , alley where it occurred. It is proba-
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! t ' . ; : 'war bombs that have mystified the po
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II \i \ years. Bomb No. 20 in the series
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1 ' wrecked a saloon a few nights ago.
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I ( - c / ' the , Central Telephone exchange. This
t ; ' : v , exchange was unable to do any more
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Y , . business during the night. Two res-
, { 11 , i ) ' 1' ' . { ' , . /aurants facing in Clark street were
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r a t t . - r / the car tracks.
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I trance to Powers & Gilbert's saloon ,
; l' 1 / , "headquarters for Martin B. Madden
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( II I r ' . . wringlargely : : in labor disputes at the
h II . : : : spTeserit time and have : been the sub-
} ji i - - f ; ; : ject of grand jury investigation. An-
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t1 1 - " .gl'ee with the saloons , was the Cash
- Register store of Mont Tennes , who
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; r bling places. Tennes' places have
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; One theory advanced is that fifty
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Ii strike against the Chicago Telephone
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il ! damage. may be behind the deed. An-
. j other is that gamblers who have suf-
I/ I' / . . fered loss through co-operation of the
I ! I telephone company with the police
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ice by the explosion.
- I , Thirteen girl operators were at
* work. Many of them fainted and oth ,
r er : : . ran from the building.
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. ( / ICing : : Edward Saturday with full state
ceremony. Among those . present were
members of the cabinet and a large .
number of diplomats. King Edward
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' . their suites , Srpve to th museum in
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Wales , accompanied by their suites ,
their suites , drove to the museum in
iii routhe was lined with troops and a
I . great crowd turned out for the .oc-
I casion.
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Is s I c IN A. BREAK FOR LIBERTY.
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/ Two Convicts Try to Escape at Fort
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, ' ' , Harry H. Jeffries , the convict , died
1P . , . later of his wound. August T. Carey
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I . , ' . wounded sentry is Abraham CiruWck ,
, * . ; Troope E. Sevents cavalry.
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t .Ii : ' , . : : , A jury at Marion , Ind. , acquitted
s ! ft.t ; : ' ' , , William P. Gray of a charge of mur-
! I I : k ° , t , . , der. Gray shot his brnther-in-Iaw ,
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P 4 1. . . City live stock m rkft follow ! : Beeves ,
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DEATH STORY tJXTOED. , 1
Last diopter In Maryland Tragedy
Enacted.
The last tragic chapter in the story
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of a crime was written In the half
light of an early summer's ' dawn Frif. .
day when the ' man accused of the I I i I
heartless murder of pretty little May 'I
Edith Thompson Woodill - specterlike . '
fleeing in a skiff from a posse of deter-
mined pursuers - stood for a moment
facing the men who had cornered him
on the waters of a narrow creek , then
fired a bullet . into his heart and fell
lifeless into the bottom of the boat
which he had hoped would carry him
to a landing place where night might
be possible.
Taking his fate into his own hands
and blotting out untold the story of
the death of a-girl wbo had moved in.
the highest social circles of Baltimore.
Washington and Los Angeles , a beau-
tiful } 1 girl who had been the protege .
Lyman J. Gage and ' of former Gov.
Frank Brown , of Maryland : , the "man
known at St. Michaels : , : Id. , as Emmet
Roberts ; ; but in reality ' Robert Emmet
Eastman , a failed broker of the Con-
solidated Stock Exchange of New
York , passed beyond the reach of the
law , and with his going there vanish-
ed the hope of clearing up the motive
for the strange tragedy. .
A letter found on Eastman's body
addressed to Miss Vinnie Bradcome ,
care of Klaw & Erlanger , the theatri-
cal managers in New York , gave East- :
man's ill sustained excuse for the
crime. It was a : : rambling account of
how he had been out in a launch with
a party of men and women , many of
whom had been drinking to excess
with the exception of himself and Mrs.
Woodill ; . of how one of the women
in a fit of jealous frenzy had attacked
Mrs. : : Woodill with a wine bottle and
killed her ; how the remainder of the
party had taken flight , leaving him to
dispose of the body , and how , as a
means of escape from all his troubles ,
the writer had decided to end his life.
Eastman asked Miss Bradcome to hur-
ry to Maryland to take charge of his
body and property. The authorities ,
after a thorough investigation , appar-
ently have cast aside this theory of the
death. of the girl. '
DENIED NEW TRIALS.
Negro Slayers of Artist Schultz to Be
Electrocuted in September.
Three of the negroes convicted of
the murder of Walter Schultz have
been denied new trials and their death
in the electric chair of the Virginia
penitentiary is set for three consecu- -
tive Fridays , beginning September 3.
One of the condemned men , Richard
Pines , made a long.denial of the crime
when sentenced. He fought off the
deputies who tried to take liim into
the court room , and was subdued only
after irons were fastened on him. The
other prisoners took the death sen-
tence without emotion , and one sang
"Nearer My : God to Thee" as he was
taken from the court room. The trial
of the fourth prisoner , Henry Smith ,
who turned state's evidence , was set
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for September 24.
Carlists Plan New Party.
Senor Lorens , the Carlist deputy ,
has announced that in the event of the
death of Don Carlos , the pretender to
the Spanish throne , who is ill in Italy ,
his followers probably would recognize
King Alfonso and organize the relig
ious elements of the party In a Catho
lic party similar to the German Cen-
trists.
Stewardess Leaps OvCl'"b < h'1rt1.
Miss Margaret Stephenson , of San
Francisco , stewardess of the Pacific
Mail : : Steamship company's liner China ,
which arrived at Honolulu Friday ,
committed suicide In midoeean early
Saturday. Miss : Stephenson was last
seen on deck at 5 a. m. , and It Is be-
lieved " that she leaped overboard.
Miners in Cage Drop Sixty Feet.
Twelve foreign miners were Injured
when a cage at the Klondike coal mine'
No. 4 , three miles wost of Clinton
Ind. becacne unmanageable and fell
from the pit opening to the bottom of
the shaft. Several of the men are ex
pected to die. ' . s
Convicted Banker's Term Ends.
Thomas J. McCoy Saturday was re-
.eased from the Indiana prison , hav-
ing completed the maximum time of
his term. He was formerly a promi-
nent republican politician , and was
convicted of embezzlement in connec-
tion . with the failure of a bank at
Rensselaer. He will go to Chicago to
live.
"Adam God" Takes Appeal.
James Sharp , known as "Adam
God , " under a twenty-five-year peni-
tentiary sentence for killing Patrol
man Michael Mullane during a street
riot at Kansas City , Mo. , last Decem-
ber , has filed an appeal to the Missouri
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supreme court.
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Kansas : Warden Resigns. (
W. H. Haskell , warden of the KanI
jas penitentiary , forwarded his resigi
nation to Gov. Stubbs Thursday. The 1
resignation takes effect July 1. No : (
reason 'is given. r
Troops Defeat Rebel IIorde.
The troops of the sultan of Morocco
lave been victorious in an important c
engagement fought outside of Fez (
with the army under the command of a
the rebel chieftain Roghi. Roghi and ' ]
his forces were completely repulsed.
For Thirteenth Census $10 } 000OOO.
The house Thursday authorized an 0
emergency appropriation of $10,000-
000 for defraying the expenses of tak0
ing : the thirteenth . , . . decennial census at
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Body Found In Creek ' A ' ! : . . . i of Mrs
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May Woodill.
Practically the entire eastern shore
r of Maryland is aroused and searching
: for . one Emmett E. or Jchn T. Roberts ,
wanted in connection with the brutal
murder of Mrs. Edith' May Woodill.
wife of Gilbert Woodill , an automobile
dealer of Los Angeles , Cal. , whose
nude body , the skull crushed in from
a blow apparently delivered Irom . be-
hind , the face horribly disfigured , the
entire body swollen from the effects
of several days' immersion and weight-
ec- with an iron pot containing half a
dozen bricks , was Wednesday discov-
ered by boys who were crabbing in
Back creek , a tributary of' Choptank t .
. river.not far from : the home of Wood-
Ill's } / . foster 'father. Capt. : Charles H.
Thompson , a few miles from St. Mich : : :
, aels , Md. : : Roberts was with Mrs.
Woodill whe'n she was seen for the
last known time , ' and. he . . is accused of
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having committed the murder. The ,
motive for the crime is at present a
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mystery.
At 11 o'clock Thursday night word
reached 'St. Michaels that Roberts had
been surroundejd in the house of John
McQuay : : : \ ; at Coyman seven miles
from the bungalow where the ' 'murder
was committed. A posse left in auto-
mobiles after midnight. Roberts is be-
lieved to be heavily armed.
McQuay noticed a skulker near his
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home , late Thursday night and called I
tQ him. . He came to the house and '
asked for water. Recognizing him as I
Rob'erts1cQuay invited , him into the
house and sent - his wife secretly to no
tify the neighborhood.
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MACHINIST SHOOTS TWO.
Wong < 1s Wife , Kills } : Brothcr-in-Law
and Then Ends Own Life.
W. R. Puryear a machinist in the
engineering department of the Ohio .
State university , at Columbus , 0. , shot -
his wife , shot and killed his brother-
in-law Fred West and then
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ted suicide as two policemen rushed
into the Puryear home to put out a
fire which Puryear had started. Mrs.
Puryear will recover. Puryear left a
note ' addressed to his mother saying
his wife had been unfaithful and that
he was taking her to task when her
brother shot him' in the shoulder. Ho
said he shot at both of them to save
himself.
The wife declared her husband had
fired first at her ; that her brother had
shot at him , and that Puryear shot
West. Neighbors speak in the highest
terms of Mrs. Puryear's character.
They think Puryear was mentally de.
ranged.
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK. :
Car Dashes Down Hill at a Mile a Min
ute Speed and Overturns.
Mrs. John Matthews , wife of the su- .
perintendent of the Dupont powder
works at Wilmington , Del. , was in-
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stantly killed Wednesday night in an
automobile near Amania , N. Y. Mrs.
Matthews was with her husband and
daughter and two nephews and two I
nieces on a trip to the Berkshires. All r
were \ thrown out wljen control of the
car was lost and ran , , at a mile a min-
ute speed down Delavin hill , the ma-
chine turning over when a tire burst.
Mrs. Matthews was thrown against a
tree and her neck broken. : The oth
ers were stunned and bruised.
EXPELLED FROM ARMY.
Taft Approves Sentence of Courtmar-
tial Against Maj. Clarke.
Maj. : Charles J. Clarke , Twenty-
sixth infantry , has been dismissed
from the United States army , having
been found guilty by courtmartial on
charges of misconduct in financial af
fairs involving the violation of the I
sixty-first and sixty-second articles of
war. The sentence of the courtmartlal
was Thursday approved by' President
Taft.
Taft.Maj.
Maj. : Clarke is now at sea returning
with his regiment to San Francisco
from the Philippines. He is a native
of New York , and entered the army as
a private in 1870.
Domestic Trouble the Cause.
After shooting his wife to death and
trying vainly to kill his
3-year-old
daughter , Armor -Duwier , of Ford City ,
Pa. , Thursday night cut his throat
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with a razor when his revolver failed
to explode a cartridge. He died in a
few minutes. Domestic troubles caused
the tragedy. . .
Heinze's Counsel Found Guilty.
Sanford Robinson , personal counsel
for F. Augustus Heinze , was convict-
ed in the United States circuit court
at New York Thursday of impeding
the administration of justice in advis-
ing a grand jury witness to evade the
service of a subpoena.
Stole Over $4,000.
William Kage , an employe of the
United States Express company at
Green Bay , Wis. , confessed Thursday
night to having stolen $4,600 from the
company last , Tuesday. He had the
money concealed at home. It is now
in the custody of the chief of police.
Up to Thursday night Kage maintain-
ed ! that he had been held up by ' two
men who robbed the office.
Lumber Man Shoots Self.
Charles L. Hughes , vice , president
of the firm of W. . J. Hughes , Sons &
Co. , lumber dealers , committed suicide
at his residence in Louisville , Ky. ,
Thursday : by shooting. .
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Seven Miners Injured.
Seven miners were badly faurneo ,
one so serioulsy that he will probably
die , in an explosion of gas in the Dix-
on Pocahontas Coal company's mine
t Huger , - , V. Va. , Thursday. ,
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" , DEATH TIIAT WAS VEllSATILiE.
Jake Havel Dies by Rolling Into the
River. Says Tony Vanous.
Jake Havel , the 'young man who
disappeared from his home at Gibson
a week ago last Sunday and whose '
body was found floating in the river
Friday , certainlyhad a versatile death.
i First . : so reports went , he was found
dead In a patch of weeds near his
home. Then he was thought to have
jumped the river and a floating
body picked up at Nebraska City was
identified as his. Then the suicide the-
ory was advanced. Later the Omaha
pplice got hot on a fake clue , to the
effect that he had been murdered by
a rival suitor and the body had been
thrown 1 into the river to conceal the
crime. The local sleuths finally laid
down on the job with the declaration
that Havel had gone to sleep on the
river bank and had just naturally roll
ed into the water and was drowned.
Now the case has been .resurrected
long enough for Police Sergeant Tony
Vanous to advance the "latest and
correct" theory.
Havel was accidentally knocked : into
the river by a passing train while ) he
was walking up the tracks north of
Gibson , or else he attempted to board
the train and was hurt and thrown
down the bank into the -w'ater.
NELSON'S TERM SHORTENED.
Member of Gang "Who Shot Liausten
Given Clemency.
Gov. Shallenberger/ / Thursday morn-
ing commuted the sentence of Raymon
Nelson , a life prisoner from Douglas
county , to ten years' imprisonment.
Nelson was one . of the gang that
held up and murdered Nels Lausten , a
saloon keeper at Twenty-first and
Cuming , streets , Omaha , in January ,
1906. Nelson turned state's evidence
and it was by his testimony that Jay
O'Hearn was convicted as the one
who fired the fatal shot. , V. W. Sla-
baugh ' , who was county attorney at
the | time O'Hearn was convicted , joined
In the recommendation for clemency ,
as did Deputy Attorney General Grant .
Martin.
After O'Hearn was convicted Nelson
pleaded guilty and received a life
sentence. He has already served about
three years of the sentence. . .
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SAYS SHE ONLY DEFENDED SELF
Woman Up for First Degree Murder
Good Witness for Herself.
Laura Porter took the stand in her ,
own behalf before Judge Sutton at
Omaha Thursday afternoon and de-
scribed the killing of Dempsey as an
act of self-defense. !
"He came at me with the knife in I
his hand " she declared , "and I just I :
picked up the hatchet and struck him , I :
sort of waving it to keep him off. I . !
don't know how many times I hit him. j
bu } : I only struck him until he stopped II j
trying to stab me. " j :
The woman made a good witness for j
heself. Before the testimony as to the.
killing , 'she declared that she had
been kept in a state , of slavery by
Dempsey and that he had threatened i I
to kill her when she tried to break I .
away.
LITTLE GIRL FOUND DEAD.
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Was Lying with Face : in Mud of Creek
Bottom.
Word reached Superior Thursday
evening about 7 o'clock that little Eva !
Coulter , aged two years , had strayed I
from her home , four miles southwest i
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of here and could not be found. The
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child had been missing since 3 o'clock i
in the afternoon. Searching parties I
were organized and in a short time two I
hundred men were searching the Ccu'- ! j
ter form. The night was inten-t : ; ,
dark and a heavy storm rising. Th ' , :
coupled with . the muddy condition of j i '
fields , made the search difficult. About | i I
11 o'clock the child was found about j
a half mile from the house , lying with '
j
face downward in the bottom of the
creek in a pool of water about six inch- I
es in depth. Life was extinct when j i
she was found.
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Take Convicts to Penitentiary.
United States Marshal Warner and
Deputy John Sides left Omaha Wed
nesday for Leavenworth , Kan. , having I
in charge Tom Haley , alias Tim Mur- j
phy , charged with postoffice robbery j
at Sumner , and Harvey Montgomery : , i ,
charged with impersonating a govern- 'I j |
ment officer , who were sentenced at
North Platte to two and one years in I j i
the United States penitentiary , reI I
spectively , at Leavenworth. Both men
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pleaded guilty to the respective
charges. They have been in the Doug- I
las county jail for several months. I
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Four Accidents at Lyons. I ,
Four accidents more or less severe 1
have happened during the week in the I
vicinity of Lyons. Grace , the 6-year-
old daughter . of A. G. Gustofson , 'ear-1
from a stile block and broke her leg. ! I
Henry Myers accidentally shot himself '
in the hand while carelessly handling
his gun. Virgil Redding severely cut
his hand with a pruning knife while
trimming trees. The 1-year-old
daughter of A. W. Hobson cut an ugly I
gash in her forehead by falling on 1 ;
the edge of a cup '
Lightning Strikes Farm House. , :
Lightning Thursday morning struck I :
the farm home of Jesse Wyatt , two
miles west of Barneston , and dam I
aged it considerably. Mrs. Bardinsky ,
who occupies the place with her hus- I :
band , was so badly shocked that she i f
was unconscious fqr several hours. ' j
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Saved Her Boys from a Burning House I
The home of Rev. George Bray , of I
Ponca , burned Monday : : night at about n
11 o'clock and members of the family
had a narrow escape. Mrs. : Bray and
their two youngest sons were at home
at the time , and she let the boys down
from a second story window
Droxlned at Seattle.
Word has been received that Lee
Stephenson ; , formerly of Geneva , son (
of. Mr. ' and Mrs. Henry Stephenson , ]
no'r [ living at Franklin , was drowned )
at Seattle , Wash. . t .
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FIGHT GUARANTEE LAW.
Nebraska Bankers FJIe Suit for & S e.
straining Order. _
John L : Webster , of Omaha , and
former United States Senator W. V.
Allen , attorneys for the banking inter-
ests of Nebraska : opposed to the statd
bank deposit guaranty law , Tuesday
filed suit in the federal court
at Lincoln for. a restraining order
against the banking board arjd Samuel
Patterson its secretary. Tue petition
asks that 'the state board be forbidden
to levy an assessment to guarantee
bank deposits. It asks that Patterson
be prevented from taking his seat.
Fifty-two banks , national and state ,
have joined in the pleading. It is al-
leged that the new act Is confiscatory ,
taking property without due process
I of law and requiring the property of
one bank to pay the liabilities of an-
other ; that its assessment provision is
so indefinite as to permit an unlimited
number of assessments being made
against the banks and that the provi-
sion for immediate payment of the de-
tositors is illogical and impossible of'
fulfillment. Alleged defects in the rec-
ord in the law's passage are also cited.
IS BUILDING NEW WATER PTd. . , T.
The Council Has Offeree $60,000 for
Present Plant.
' The city council of 'North Platte
held ] a special meeting Monday even-
ing to met with Mr. Hoffmeister to dis-
cuss settlement of the water works
question. He offered to have a spe-
cial engineer make an appraisal of the
plant , but this the council declined ,
as the city engineer had made an ap-
praisal at their request , valuing the
plant at $52,000. The council then
passed a formal' resolution , offering
$60,00for ' the present water works , :
plant and making the offer good until
July G next. Just whether or not the
water works company will aCcept this
offer remains to be seen. If they do
not. it is felt that the city will vote
bonds tp build a plant of their own.
I It is considered that $60,000 is the
I maximum price the city will pay.
LIGHTNING , STRIKES A BOY.
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Neligh Youth is Instantly Killed :
While Fishing. .
During the storm Monday at Ne- .
ligh a son of Conrad Goks was instant-r
) ly killed by lightning while fishing on ;
the banks of the Clear Water. His two
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I brothers who were with him were se-
verely stunned.
i The boys were seated , in a row
when the storm approached. The bolt
I of i lightning ' struck the boy in the cen- '
ter. He was 17 years old.
The storm passed to the north of
Neligh and totally wrecked the build-
ings on M. O. Dixon's farm on the'
Willow. .
Considerable damage 'was done to
outbuildings ' along the path of the
storm. i No : serious damage to crops has .
been 1 reported.
HOTEL MAX IS INDICTED.
Must Answer . Charge of Selling Liquor
Without License.
William Purkey , a Filley hotel man , '
was arrested Monday morning upon an
indictment returned by the recent
grand jury charging him with selling
liquor without a license. The indict-
ment returned by the grand jury
charges Purkey with selling whisky to
Fred Shonewefcs of the Filley vicinity.
Purkey appeared before Judge Pem- '
berton 1 and gave ' bond in the sum of
$500 for his appearance at the coming
session of the district court.
CLOUDBURST AT BLADEN.
Heavy Precipitation Visits Portion ol
Webster County. '
A cloudburst occurred near Bladen
Monday ; afternoon after a hot and sul-
try forenoon. About an Inch of rain
fell there. It was heavier between
Bladen and Blue Hill. A mile west no
rain fell. It commenced raining again
early in the evening and kept it
up steadily all night. It is believed
there has been a total precipitation of
three or four \ inches.
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Jury ; Returns Indictments.
Four indictments have been re-
turned \ by the grand jury which has
been 1 in session at Holdrege. A. E.
Ayres , W. H. Parker , Jennie Leiter
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\ and Maud Baldwin are charged with
selling liquor without licenses. Sev
eral more indictments are thought to
have been brought and will be made
puulic as soon as the arrests are made.
Wife Seeks Divorce.
In a suit for divorce instituted b }
Mrs. Dora Jones , of . Hastings , the
} plaintiff alleges that her husband ,
William Jones , to whom she was mar-
ried ! in Belleville , Kan. , in 1893 , has
treated her with extreme cruelty and
on one occasion threatened to "cut her
heart out. "
Former ; Judge Stricken.
H. M.
Sinclair , former supreme
court commissioner , is critically ill at
Kearney. He is suffering from stom-
ach \ trouble. He was taken suddenly
il ! Friday night and has since grown
much worse. It is feared by the at-
tending physicians that Tie may die
at : an3" time.
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Charles 1\ ' 'mul'c's Body Found. I
The body of Charles Wymore , ol
Beatrice , who was drowned Saturday I
evening in the Blue , river north of ,
Barneston , has been found.
New Mill Almost Completed.
Chadron's new 200-barrell
mill it c
nearing completion , rising from the f
ashes of a much smaller Ane. Robert . .
Hcod : is the proprietor , which fact al- °
ways . means success and a "square c
deal" in Chadron. C
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Damcwood Under Arrest. s
Motorman : : E. E. Damewood , of Linc
coin , , who. assaulted Inspector Ithiel
Payne , of the Lincoln Traction -
,
com- -
> . Saturday l' '
any. night , gave himself up
to Justice Bacon and was placed under e
bond to appear ? Tuesday . . for : trial- . ' " " ,
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During the current fiscal yp r zt
national banks . of the country . bwfe - '
ceived in individual deposits $ ' i . ' ' % .
which is more than a l We *
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half dollars in excess of tw ' , .I tf i
and a half
supply or ft ,
fire outstanding money
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United States. . The year
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one of exceptional prosperity } ? forty ! ; ta-
I 19U8 rJ > .ver
tional banks. Since ) May 14,1908 ,
increase of lar m n.e- '
has been a net
number of national banks. No.v/irb
ptanding the unusual number qD ; tl1kS
withdrawing from the nationalsys 1 ; : -
surpliw 7 ; * ncL
tem , the aggregate capital , surpl
banks reporting jn : A.-nn
profits of the 'In. : .
28 , 1909 , amounted to $1 , 12 9.07910 ! ) ,
an increase of $58,556,428 during the ,
loans and discount in-
year. The disc.mI:1 : _
creased $434,703,993 , deposits . . . . $ : .J13 , - .
403,594 ! ) and total resources $7 i , i61 ,
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cutter service : vaj
The revenue : |
thrown into a flutter over the rfipor "
that the steamship Nanticoke an : } the
tug Dispatch were believed to , ' be en
gaged in conveying a large consign
ment of war munitions to friends of 1
former President Castro in Venezuela.
Finally the Nanticoke was' located by
the cutter service , up the Chowan river
: in North Carolina and the cutter JPam-
I lico was stationed at the mouth of the-
! river to watch her. Later word came-
I from Venezuela that they had " .pur
: chased the two vessels for the govera-
ment'a use on Lake Maracaibo. : ,
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The famous Taft ' Philippine ' party , :
so called because President Taft , whe
, at the time of the trip was Secretary
of War , and Mrs. : Taft chaperoned it.
to the Orient and back with several-
subsequent happy marital results !
showed its appreciation of Miss Mabel
Boardman by presenting her vijh.a
richly diamond-studded watch ' \ ? : antf ,
chain. President Taft made thEjo- res.-
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entatlon.
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The President accepted the resigna
tion of Indian Commissioner Leupp-
and appointed in his place Robert G _
Valentine : , who had been serving as ;
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs. Poor health was given by Mr ,
Leupp as the reason for his w1tb.r
drawal. At the same time it ws riC > . ' . . ,
secret that the Indians' Rights A99OCi- \ :
ation had opposed his administrations
of the bureau.
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An agreement has been made ' . be-
tweea. the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and the parties interested in
the Spokane . rate case , including ' the-
shipping interests and the railroads , .
that the phases of the question yet in
controversy should be postponed un-
til next fall , when the whole matter
will be thrashed out on its merits
The commodity rates will remain as-
they are until then.
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. A new system for the instruction ?
and examination of diplomatic as-
pirants has been established in the-
State Department under the direction ;
of Assistant Secretary Wilson. \Vbat.
the secretary says he wants is Ameri-
sanism : plus cosmopolitanism. Already
ome Bcore of new appointees' have-
been put through a course of sprouts.
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The board of engineers has reported/
that a nine-foo channel is sufficient ,
to care for canal and river commerce-
between Chicago , St. Louis and the-
Gulf of Mexico. The fourteen-foot
channel asked for would be too ex-
pensive. It would cost $128,000,000 to
construct and $6,000,000 a year to
maintain .
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Two agents of the Department ot
Justice have been sent to St. Louis to
Investigate charges that government
meat inspectors were paid by packers-
to pass diseased meat. The accusation
was made by James Harms in a let-
ter tendering his resignation as in
spector.
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Under an international agreement ; ,
sturgeon fishing in the waters of the-
United States and Canada is to be-
prohibited for five years , the closed :
season to begin in 1911.
Labor Commission for New York. .
Pursuant to a law passed by the-
New York Legislature , Gov. Hughes.
has now appointed six representative-
cittzenswho , together with
the lieu-
tenant governor , speaker of the As-
sembly and six
legislators to
, consti-
tute a Labor Commission
, to inquire
into the question
of the lia-
bility of employers
for industrial acci-
dents and into the general problem of
the unemployed. On the
Commis io- '
the governor has called Prof. Seager-
of .Columbia , head of the ' . . .
. Association .
of Labor Legislation ; John ) IitchelI , .
three large employers
, a railroad
con- r
ductor and Miss
Crystal Eastman the-
social : investigator. . '
Ra.bCtI : Iiis , - : : noncT QuIckI- . ,
In the matter of raising money
quickly and in large amounts the
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Christian Scientists .
. have no rivals
among religious organizations The
other day at a special meeting the
congregation : : of the First Church of
Christ , Scientist , New York City sub . :
scribed , XOO,000 with to'
which to pur \
chase
: land
adjoining their church .
property in order to keep it from fall : "
ing cis. into the , hands of av..artmentoulld. : .
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