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. , : MuiiJjre is Tom Up , Indicating a
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I a , , . body : of a wom
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I I ' p l years age was found
I' In a clump of underbrush in Ham-
I I ' track near Detroit , Mich , Sunday
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: The body has not been identified.
' It was found by Justice of the Peace
Munch of Highland Park. It was
I lying on its back with the skirt care
: fully drawn over the face. The skull ]
I . i was. crushed and the face and body
"I " ' : were covered with bruises. The cloth-
. ! / ' ; ing was disarranged. A handkerchief ,
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I I ' ; . tim , was found several feet awayr as
: i i was also her purse , which had been
! i I torn open , and nothing which might
1 " I . serve to identify the body left in it.
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i J ' was torn up , and bits of flesh were in
! .1 ' . ' the finger nails ] of the woman , indi
1 'ii' \ eating that she made a valiant fight
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before being
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I i ! E I powered. The clothing is of cheap
q ; { material , but was neatly made.
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: Tfie land on which the body was
i I ' round is owned by an Italian named
- If If Serriera Marke .
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I : trymen , who seemed to be itinerant
I i i I ! peddlers or laborers. While no sus-
; i I picion attaches to : i\ _ arjre. the officers
Ii ' ( are investigatingreports that women
: of the neighborhood have been
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I I 'I ' , , noyed by some of Marke's : : guests dur
ing the last week or two.
TRAGEDY IN . HOTEL ROOM.
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i Blueeoat Shoots Two Men In North
I i " Carolina Town.
, Ii i I Paul Cameron Collins , cashier of the
hank of Hillsboro , X. C. , and John
I , / Hill Bunting , , a traveling salesman oi
, ; Wilmington/ . * N. C. , were shot in theii
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I. 'I ' room at tHe Gladstone hotel at Black
' , I Mountain , X. C. , Saturday by Police-
snan F.c. , ' Watkins , of that town.
Collins ffs at the Mission hospital in
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7- : ' / Pho did II from the effects , of a wound
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Collins , though shot under the heart !
as expected to recover.
7 Policeman Watkins , who came ir.
i Saturday and surrendered to the au
I thorities of Asheville and was placed
I under $500 bond pending develop-
- , ments , claims that he was called from
I bed , by the proprietor of the hotel
i e . . who stated that the men were creating
I I . < i disturbance in their room , cursing
I and threateningtheguests of the hotel
When he reached the hotel the po-
Jiceman claims that he heard the men
: using the language attributed to them ;
that on entering the room he was at-
t ; tacked by Collins - and Bunting , whc
i upset the lamp and that he drew hi
{ ! I .revolver and shot in the darkness , tc
protect himself. Watkins says he
. fired twice and the men fell awaj-
from him. A light was secured and
Collins and Bunting were seen lying
on the floor of the room , both bleeding
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$4,000 IN CASH IS TAKEN.
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Cleveland. O.
r J. : E. Alvord , secretary and treas-
' 4irer of the Continental Trust and
Savings Bank company , of Toledo , 0. .
Saturday announced that $4,000 of the
I , . ' 01 iiank's : cash is gone and also gave out
( the information that a trusted book-
' ' 4 : keeper in the bank has been missing
I since July 2S. Xo trace of the em-
{ ploye has been discovered since he
I .left the bank the evening of July 2S.
I i . - According Mr. Alvord , the tellei
iiad put on the time lock fifteen min-
, Qtes after counting the money in the
r ) - safe. The several packages of $5 and
I i 510 bills are supposed to have been
1 , abstracted during the interim.
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i " Packages of $1 and $2 bills similar
! , II" in size , were substituted for those , ol
! bills of larger denomination , and the
" bands showing the larger amounts :
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had been shifted to them.
, , . The .bookkeeper did not go home
, 1 hat night , and his wife telephoned tc
: - j the bank the next morning. She dis
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i claims all knowledge of his where
I i abouts. The books were all found tc
t . i be in excellent shape , Mr. : Alvord said
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f r . company Scranton , Pa.
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SionX City Live Stock Market.
: Saturday's ; quotations on the Sious
" 'City live stock market follow : Top :
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. .beeves , SGJI5. Top hogs , $7.65.
. Mnrdertind Suicide.
< t' Grant Siers , of Kansas City , Mo. : , 54
I .years old . late Saturday shot and kill-
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ed his sister-in-law : , Mrs. Mary Siers ,
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i . f .at her 'home in that city , and then
V' , skilled hiniseJf , following a jealouj
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! .years old. who : was placed on the re-
. jtired / list in 1903 , died suddenly ir
' hicaJo Sunday.
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NEGOTIATIONS HAVE FAILED.
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Japan to Proceed with Antun -3Iuk .
den Line.
The negotiations between ! China and
Japan for the construction tfy the Jap-
anese : of the Antung-Mukden : railroad (
1n accordance ' with the convention j j
signed several years ago by Prince :
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Ching , then the Chinese minister of . ; , | ,
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foreign affairs , and Baron Komura | ; !
the Japanese foreign secretary , and .
which have been In progress at Muk- ' '
den since 1907 have failed , Muk'j 'j ,
disputes between the contracting par- ,
ties arising from the interpretation ot , ,
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the clauses In the convention providing 1
for the policing of the line. , j I
Japan had formerly intimated to. ; . .
the Chinese her intention to proceed
with the construction of the line with-
in a time limit which Japan considered
reasonable , regardless of China's ob-
jection.
The entire railroad question , there-
fore , will be transferred from Mukden :
to Pekin , and this made part of the
whole Chlno-Japa"nese question con-
cerning Manchuria : , ' the negotiations
for the recommencement of which
were concluded July 27.
A dispatch from Toklp says that Ja
pan Friday officially notified the pow-
ers of her intention to proceed imme-
diately with the reconstruction and
improving the Antung-Mukden rail-
road without the consent of China. {
diplomatic negotiations having failed
to overcome Chinese opposition.
The note outlines the entire course i
of negotiations relative to the ' im-
provement of the railroad up to the I
present. It declares that throughout j ' '
discussions China has had recourse
to her well known policy of obstruc- . -
tion and procrastination , has evaded ,
the just and reasonable demands ; of
Japan and raised collateral questions
regarding police authority and other
matters , thus delaying a settle > me > nt.
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China's reply of June 24 is mention- i
ed ; and the note declares that Japan's '
rights under the treaty of 1905 were
disregarded and the provisions of the
treaty wholly nullified thereby. !
TAFT TO COVER 13,000 3fILES.
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tlis Western Trip Will Be a Notable ,
Journey.
President Taft left Washington late
Friday ! afternoon for the summer cap-
itol at Be"erlyfass. : : . , and will not re-
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turn to Washington until the middle of
November next. Remaining at Bever- j i I
ly with his family until September 15 , i 1
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he will start " - west on that day on ri I
tour that will embrace all but eight or .
ten states of the union and both of the I
territories In the far southwest. j
Before his departure Taft made pub- i i
lic a tentative outline of his , trip I
through the west and south this fall. I
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It will embrace a journey approximat
ing 13,000 miles and will approximat-I
most notable ever made by a president.
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It will be , as diverse as could well be .
imagined and no "seeing all America"
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tour could be devised to embrace as <
many points of interest in so brief 6 ? i
space of time as President Taft will = j I ,
give to his jaunt to the Pacific coast !
and back through the south. -The
president : , accompanied by Secretary
Fred W. Carpenter , Capt. Archibald
W. Butt his military aid , several j
White House attaches , and perhaps a I
guest or two for various parts of the I
trip , will travel in a private car at- !
tached for the greater part of the trip ! !
to regular trains. . j
During his tour the president will i
traverse the Royal gorge of the Rocky !
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mountains , will visit the Alaska- Tu. . " " !
kon-Pacific exposition at Seattle , will j !
spend three days in the famed Yose- j
mite valley , will stop off at the Grand '
canyon of the Colorado , will greet the ,
president of Mexico on the internation- !
al bridge over the Rio Grande at Eli i
Paso on October 1C , will make a four I ' g
days' sail down the Mississippi river j
from St. Louis to New Orleans , with ; .
various ; stops en route : , and will spend j
four days on the ranch of his.brother , j
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Charles P. Taft , near Corpus Christi j
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ONE KILLED ; 31 HURT.
Chicago Electric and Pennsylvania
Suburban Trains Collide. ' I
Thirty-four persons were hurt and '
Motorman O. P. Best killed when an :
electric car in which were a number I |
of laborers and eight women and ' five !
.children was struck by a Pennsylvania j I
suburban train at the One Hundred J I
and Third street grade crossing in '
Cbicago Thursday nighth.
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Four or five are injured so serious-
ly that there is little hope fqr their
recovery.
The injured motorman said before
.he died at a hospital , whither he and
a number of the injured were taken ,
that the accident was causesd by the
brakes on his car- refusing to work at
a critical moment. There are no I
gates at the crossing and no flagman
was stationed there. I
The passenger train , running at a
speed of forty miles an hour , hit the
street car squarely in the center and
turned it upside down in a ditch fifteen
feet away. .
Laborer Robbed by Tramps.
John Gustafsen , a laborer in Ro-
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jchester , was attacked by a bunch of '
hoboes , beaten and robbed of a hat
nnd 30 cents. This is the first serious '
Bubonic Plague in California
The first case of bubonic plague in .
California in a year has been discov- . |
, ered in Alameda county by the federal
and state officers. The yic.tim ; is a
boy named Joseph Mondoza , aged 13
Canadian Pacific Wreck. .
The Canadian Pacific railroad ex
, press , eastbound , for Toronto , was
, ditched near Winnipeg , Man. , Friday.
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TARIFF BILL A LAW.
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Senate Passes It and Taft Affixes His
Signature.
The tariff has been revised and the
extra-ordinary session of congress has
been brought to a close. Both houses
adjourned sine die officially at 6
o'clock Friday night. That is the time
, entered upon the journals , but as a
matter of fact the adjournment was
: taken in the house at 5:38 : p. m. and in ,
tho senate at 5:58 p. m.
I The closing hours of the session
were uninteresting. The revision had
been according to the desires of some .
and with the hearty disapproval , of
I others , and the last two days had been
, consumed' by members of the senate
in expressing their satisfaction or dis-
satisfaction , as the case might be.
The conference. report on the bill
was 'a reed to by the senate by a vote
of 47 to 31 when the vote was taken
at 2 p. m' ' and soon afterward the con-
! current resolution making certain
changes in the leather schedule was
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adopted : by both houses.
I President Taft arrived at the capi-
tol at 4:45 : p. m. and entered the room
I set aside for the occupation' of the
I president "on the concluding day of
I the session of congress. His appear-
ance there , the first since his incum-
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bency as president , caused members
I of congress to desert the two cham-
bers , and form in line tQ be received
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, ! by him. There was a constant proces
I sion of 'handshaking statesmen
I through the president's room from the
I time of his arrival until his depart-
! ure at 5:50 : o'clock. Just as the hands
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, of the gold clock in the president's
room reached six minutes past 5
II o'clock , the Payne tariff bill , as the
, measure ' will be known , was laid be-
fore the president. He picked up a
pen supplied by Chairman Payne , of
the house ways and means committee ,
and which had been used by the vice
president and the speaker in signing
the bill , and attached his signature.
After writing "William H. Taft , " the
president added , "Signed five minutes
after 5 o'clock , August 5 , 1909.---W.
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REPEAL A "BLUE IJA "r : ' '
Connecticut Solons Modify the SumMy
Observance Law.
Both houses of the Connecticut leg-
islature passed a bill repealing the so-
called "blue laws" relating to Sunday
observance , which forbid almost every
form of recreation and secular activ-
ity. The laws , which have seldom
been enforced , arc the relics of the en-
actments of the law giving body of
1772. One of the laws specifically re-
peated is that which provides for a
fine of $4 on each person who shall at-
tend a concert or entertainment on the
Lord's day. The new Sunday bill is
short. It defines the Sunday and pro-
hibits all sports and secular activi-
ties "except such as are demanded by
necessity and mercy and such' 'as are
for the general welfare of the com-
munity. "
Under the words , "general welfare
of the community , " .Sunday baseball
probably will be permitted. '
WILL TRY TO BREAK : : WILL.
Kansas City Saloonkeeper : Left ,117-
000 to Charities.
A suit to break the will of Charles
Schattner , a wealthy saloonkeeper and
politician , who died a few months ago
at Kansas City , Mo. ' , leaving $117,000
to local charities and about $25,000
to negro employes , has been filed by
Eugene Schattner a brother. The es-
tate was valued at $200,000.
Eugene Schattner alleges that his
brother was addicted to the use of in-
toxicants , which impaired his mind
and made him incapable of making a
will when the instrument was drawn.
He also alleges that Mary E. Yates ,
a negro housekeeper , to whom the
will gave $10,000 , exerted undue influ-
ence over his brother. A negro porter
and a negro nurse were also beneficia .
ries under the will.
PROTECTION FRO3I LIGIITNIXG
Official of the Weather Bureau Tells
IIo\v Rods May Be Put Up.
Prof. Henry , of the weather bureau ,
in a bulletin just issued , entitled
"Cheap Protection from Lightning , "
declares more attention should be giv-
en the question in view of the fact
that 500 to 800 people ai killed and
an immense amount of property de
stroyed by lightning every year. Prof.
Henry shows how lightning rods that
are "inexpensive yet effective" may be
put up by everybody. The following is .
his list of necessary materials :
. ' Enough galvanized iron telegraph
wire to serve for the rod , a pound of
galvanized iron staples to hold the
wire in place ; a few connecting tees
and a pound of aluminum paint.
"While irorn is not as good a conduc
tor as copper , " says the professor , "it
is less likely to cause dangerous side
flashes ! ! and it also dissipates the ener-
gy the lightning flash more effective-
gy of the lightning flash more effect.
ively than does copper. "
French Army Commander.
Gen. Charles Louis Tremeau haas
been appointed commander in chief of
the French army , in .succession to Gen.
iie LaCroix.
Three Governors Visit Victoria.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes , of New
York , and his secretary ; Gov. John A.
Johnson , of Minnesota , and his staff ,
and' Gov. Marion E. Hay , of Washing .
ton , sailed from Seattle for Victoria
Thursday.
Gasoline Explodes ; Fatally Burned.
While filling a lighted gasoline stove
the can exploded , throwing the burn-
ling fluid over Mrs : A. V. Smith , of
: Sandwich , Ill. Her injuries are fatal.
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PILED RAILS OX THE TRACK.
Young Man Held at Crawford Admits
Story of Bandits is Untrue.
Walter Berger the 18-year-old
farmer lad who is in jail at Crawford
in connection with the attempted
wrecking of the Burlington train near
that place , according to officials has
, confessed. He now tells the officers
that he alone did all the work of pil }
ing rails on the track which might
have put the heavy Burlington train
into the ditch. He says that he alone
is implicated and that the story he
told about being bound to the fence
by two masked robbers while they I
piled the rails on the track is all I
wrong. He says that he put the rails
on the track to stop the train that : he I
might get aboard for Alliance to re-
ceive medical treatment. This last ,
part of the story is not believed by the
officers nor by the railroad officials.
Berger at first told a thrilling story
of being tied to the fence by the two
masked bandits , who threatened to
shoot if the moved. He told of a
scuffle with them after he had worked I
himself free from his bonds. His
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former story was that after he ran
from the bandits they shot and hit
bis little finger. If
It is not believed that his last story
of doing all the work himself is the
true one , as he does not bear the best
kind of a reputation. Some red pa-
per was found nailed to a post at .
which he had been practicing target I
shooting. This paper has been traced I
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to Berger , as it was wrapped around
a new shirt , which he had bought a
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couple of nights before at Harshand.
STORM LOSS PROVES IlEA VY. I
Ninety-Eight Farms Were Swept by
the Hail.
The Friday night hail wind and rain
storm that swept from northwest to
southeast through Hartington and vi-
cinity , was more destructive than at
first supposed. The storm started
southwest of Fordyce , near the west I
line of Cedar county , and took every- I
thing in its path to the place south
east of Laurie. In some south-I
storm was two miles and at others
five miles in width. Some fields of
corn are a total loss ; others may make
a third of a crop with favorable
weather.
Every field of oats in the path of
the storm is a complete loss , many
pastures are chopped up as if run
over with a disc. A careful estimate
shows that 98 ' farms were visited by
the storm. While it is hard to esti-
mate the damage , it is believed by the
most conservative that it will exceed
$125,000 , with little or no hail or tor-
nado insurance. Many : farm houses
were ' left without window glass on I
the north and west. So far as heard
from twelve horses and colts were cut
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badly in the barb wire fences as the
storm drove them through. Five head I
of cows were found in the path of the
storm struck by lightning.
HORSE KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE.
Police Making : Dilig'nt' Effort to Fine ! i
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Driver of Car.
The police department is making
diligent efforts to ascertain the iden-
tity of a man , woman and child who
; passed through Grand Island in an
automobile , presumably from the east-
! ern part of the state and bound for
! Kearney. When the machine ap-
! proched the canning factory in the I
eastern . part of the city it met a team
I driven by two stock yards men , who
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were ! trailing a horse at the rear of
! their buggy. The autoist kept up full I
speed in passing the stockmen and
tdarted ' in so closely behind the latter 1
that they struck the horse , causing a I
leg and hip of the animal to be brok-
en and the collision snapping the rope
to which it was tied to the buggy and
almost causing further damage and
accident. The driver of the machine I
saw what had happened , but kept up
full speed 'through the city and on
westward , never stopping to ascertain
whether any of the men had been
hurt. The horse , valued at $100 had
to be shot immediately.
VICTIMS : OF THIEVES.
iGov. Sballeiibergcr Touched for $130
at Marshalltown , la.
Gov. Ashton C. Shallenberger of I
Nebraska , is not favorably impressed
with Iowa , or at least with the hon-
esty of one of its citizens. The gov-
ernor went to Marshalltown , Ia. , to de
liver a chautauqua address de-I
When his excellency finished his ad-
dress he missed his pocketbook , which I. I .
'contained $130. He reported the theft
to the police , but is unable to say how
he was victimized. He thinks he lefc
his pocketbook on the writing desk
at his hotel , but it may have been
taken from his pockets : on the chau-
tauqua grounds. The police are work-
ing on the case. I '
BEATRICE MAX : IOLLED.
Was Caught Between Engine and " "a- ;
ter Tank of Threshing Outfit.
George Meyers : , a former Beatrice
resident , was killed near Palmer ,
Kan. , by being caught between the en-
gine and water tank of a threshing ,
engine. The thresher men were going
up a hill , Mr. Meyers driving behind
with the water tank. 'The engine broke
loose and came back with terrific
force against the water wagon almost
severing Mr. Meyer's : body. He was j
28 years old and leaves a young widow.
Wanted for Burglary.
Sheriff Fenton and Deputy McFar- :
land of Falls City , arrested a msfi
'named ' Jake Edwin Saturday , who is I
! wanted across the river in Missouri for :
robbing two stores and a barber shop. :
He had some of the stolen goods with :
him when arrested.
Beatrice Man Found Dead.
Stephen Starling , for thirty tears
a resident of Gage county , was found !
{ , , dead recently at the home of C. H. l , J
jKelley at Beatrice , where he had been 1
: living A coroner's inquest was held j
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BEAT IHS BOARD : BILLS.
Julian Franklin is Taken : to Louisville
Where He Owes Hotel Bills.
Julian Franklin. who recently was
arrested at Omaha for attempting to I
beat his bill at the "Rome hotel , has I
been taken to Louisville to answer to
the charge of cashing worthless
checks. Requisition papers were se -
cured frof the governor without any I
objection on the part of Franklin's
attorney.
Detective Warren says Franklin has
passed bad checks in several cities of
the south and that in each case his
parents in Philadelphia have cor f
forth with money to get'him out of the
trouble.
Franklin was in Louisville the lat
ter part of July and became very inti-
mate with several of the drug firms
there. He stayed around the Taylor
drug store a great deal of the time
and finally went broke. He secured
the confidence of the proprietor of the
drtfg store and. got him to cash a cou-
ple of his checks. :
At once he left Louisville and was
traced to St. Louis , Kansas City , Chi-
cago and then to Omaha. He came
to Omaha about the middle of July
and registered at the Rome hotel.
There he ran up a bill of $60 and
when he could not settle it , was ar-
rested. . His folks. sent money to pay
this bill and Franklin was released.
Instead of immediately getting out
of town he stayed around two days , or
just long enough for the Louisville
authorities to learn that he was in
Omaha and have him locked up until
Detective Warren could reach the
city.
Since his second arrest Omaha
Franklin has made a big effort to se-
cure money from his parents to settle
for his folly ] ] at Louisville. Two tele-
grams were sent saying his parents
would fix up his debts , but no money-
has come.
LETS MAN GO BY MISTAKE. :
Opens Door and Bird Flies and Now
Ho is a Much-Sought Birdie. \
Through the mistake of Jailer Jas , .
Talbot at the county jail Eugene
Kitchen who was brought to Omaha
from /Milwaukee for breaking into a'
residence on July 11 , was given his
freedom and now all the detectives of
the police force are looking for him.
Kitchen was bound over Monday :
morning to the district court for trial.
In the afternoon at fifteen minutes
of 3 , he. with three other prisoners ; '
was taken to the county jail from the
city jail. In transferring the prison-
ers'the mittimus for each one was giv- ,
en to Jailer Talbot. Enclosed in the
mittimus for Herbert Johnson was an
order fer that fellow's release. :
Kitchen informed the jailer that he
was expecting some men in a few
minutes to give bond for his release. :
The jailer glanced at the mittimus for.
Johnson and thought it was an order
of release for Kitchen , so he unlocked
the big iron door and shoved the
housebreaker into the clear air of
freedom.
Shortly after the mistake was dis-
covered there was all kinds 'of scur-
rying around the police station and
city jail. Detectives flew in all direc- ,
tions in pursuit of the lucky criminal. '
Kitchen had made a fast retreat and
the officers did not catch him.
SHOT DEAD ON A DOORSTEP.
Charge of Murder Made by Omaha
Police Against Truck : Gardener.
Evidence in the possession of the
Omaha police leads to the charge
against James Phillips , a truck gar-
dener , of being the murderer of Mar
shall . C. Hamilton. Friends of Phillips
say that he was jealous on account of
attention paid his wife by Hamilton.
Friends of Hamilton say there is noth-
ing to this report. Hamilton was call-
ed to his door and shot , dying instant-
ly. A young brother was with Phillips
at the time of the shooting , but he has
disappeared. It is believed that he
and his brother are hiding in the
woods north .Florence. . The sheriff
and his deputies are working on the
case and expect to make an arrest
soon.
DR. CARR BOUND OVER.
Nebraska. Health Board Contesting Hi5
Right to Office.
Dr. E. Arthur Carr has been bound
over to the federal court on the
charge of opening a letter sent to the
secretary of the state board of health.
He was examined before United States
Commissioner Marlay and furnished' ' '
a bond for $500. Carr was named as
secretary of the state board of health !
by Gov. Shallengerger and the old
board is contesting his right to serve.
Boys Drowned in Missouri.
Homer Velie , 12-year-old-son 01
Policeman Velie , and an unknown
boy of about the same age were
drowned in the Missouri river. They
were in swimming and wading out on
a sandbar and got beyond their depth
and were' swept away by the current.
Youth Drowned While Bathing.
Earl Clark , aged 22 , son of Post-
master Clark of South Omaha , was
drowned in Lincoln creek near Utica
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Work on Anbarn Water Plant.
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Work has begun on the Auburn
waterworks , and a large force of men
is ready to get to work as soon as they
can be called on.
Hartington Cigarmakers' Strike.
All of the men at the Hartington
cigar factory , eight in number , went .
out on a btrike recently. J. R. Isaac-
son , the proprietor claims a union
shop in a small town is unsatisfactory
and will open a non-union shop and
continue the business.
Charles Knapp Still Alive.
' Charles Knapp , of Madison , who
shot his wife and then put the gun to
his own head and sent a bullet into his
brain , is still alive. Mrs. Knapp la
improving rapidly and will recover. J ,
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1492 - Columbus embaraed from Palm
on his first voyage of discovery.
1619-First leg'islath'e' assembly in
America met at Jamestown , Va.
1684 - Treaty of peace concluded at Al
bany between the Colonists and !
the Five Nations.
1711 - A British and Colonial fleet sail- " !
ed from Boston for the conquest ot
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1773 - The city of Gautemala laid in
ruin by the earthquake and the
eruption of a volcano.
1776 - The Declaration of Independence
was engraved and signed by the
members of Congress.
1782 - Rhode Island refused to give
Congress the power to levy an im
port duty of 5 per cent.
1789-First issue of the Pittsburg Ga-
zette , the first newspaper "west of
the Allegheny mountains. ,
1754 - Fall of Hobespierre and end ol
the Reign of Terror.
1795-Commissioners of the United
States met the Indian chiefs of
Western tribes at Greenville Ohio ,
and concluded a treaty of peace. i
1802-First issue of the Western Spy
at Cincinnati.
1816 - First Presbyterian congregation
in Missouri was organized at
Bellevue settlement in Washing
ton County.
1822 - The Xew Orleans Prices Current
appeared in New Orleans.
1831 : - Opening of new bridge across
the Thames River in London.
1842 - Abolition riots took place In
- Philadelphia.
1846 - Congress passed a tariff bill re -
ducing the duties on imported
goods.
1850 - Delegates fro.m Nova Scotia ,
Xew Brunswick and the ' -Xew En-
gland States met at Portland , l\
to discuss the project of a railwa _
from Halifax : to Portland. . .
1S54 - Yellow fever became epidemic in f ) .
New Orleans.
185G-Kansas rejected the Lecompton
constitution for the second time.
18C4 - Federals made an unsuccessful
assault upon Petersburg , Va.
18GG - Hace riots in Xew Orleans on
the reassembling the State con-
vention . . Gen. William T. Sher
man commissioned Lieutenant
General.
1868 - Proclamation by the Secretary
of State that the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of
the United States had been rati-
fied by three-fourths of the States. .I
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1870 - Benjamin Xathan , a wealthy He- / '
brew citizen of Xew York , foun /
murdered in his home ; the mysf
tery of the crime was never soltt. .
1872 - Cuban privateer Pioneer seized
by the United States marshal at
Newport , R. I.
1873 - Large section of Portland Ore. ,
destroyed by fire.
1874 - Kansas militia engaged in battle
with Comanche Indians on the
Canadian River . . Gen. Custer's
. expedition reached the Black Hills.
1876-Colorado admitted to Statehood.
1883 - Southern exposition opened in
Louisville.
1884-The Imperial Federation of Great
Britain and Pier ' Colonies formed
in London.
1894 War declared' between China and
Japan.
1895-Serious flood in Fort Scott , Kan- r
sas.
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5S9S - Military : expedition , under Gen.
Brooke sailed from Newport Xewa !
for Porto Rico. . . Spain accepted
the American conditions of peace. ,
1899-Final sitting of the Peace Con- '
ference of The Hague.
. 1900-Lord Roberts proclaimed the an-
nexation of the Transvaal to Grea't
Britain.
1908 - Typhoon at Canton China sa.rk---
the Chinese vessel Ying-King
drowning 300 : natives. : . . .Forest
fires devastated several towns of
British Columbia. . l
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War of Labor Unions Begun.
A test of strength between the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America and the
members of a local union known as
'the Provincial Workmen's Association
at the Sydney ( Cape T3reton ) collieries
of the Dominion Coal Company was
begun when the former organization
ordered a strike to enforce its demand
for recognition. The local union which
was formed originally with the aid and
consent of the union remained loyal as
a body , although some of its members J '
had been won over to the American
organization. The company charges
that the American labor leaders have
sought to divert the Canadian coal J
trade. Stockades have been built
about the mines and preparations
made to prevent any forcible interrup- 1
tion of the work. Armed deputies ; were
placed on guard.
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A Xew Illuminant Offered.
The Engineering and Mining : Jour '
nal recently reported the successful ,
commercial introduction of a neW' ' - ;
luminant called blue gas in German ]
It is delivered to customers in liquid . i
form in steel cylinders , from which it \ . ;
is poured into the gasometer of a given \ _ x 7t.
room or house. It is said to be cheap-
er than petroleum , while giving more
powerful light and more intense heat.
It is a hydrocarbon : compound , free
from carbon-monoxide ,
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