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I .A SE.VERE , ; TEMPESTHAGES : IN
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III' ! . 1 "Wall of ' Water Hits Boston Resultant
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i I.r ; , t , Damage is Estimated at a Million
j ; I - ; ' ' - ' Many Cellars " 'plootlcd-Propcrty
I „ ri' - Loss Reported Heavy Along Coast.
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J \ ' . with terrific energy. The gale drove , a
'l' ' \ ' } . . . . . tide into Massachusetts bay which
! nearly equaled that of the famous
II' ' Storm of 1851. The wet snow pros-
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, I ' r \ , : ; trains were stalled. Three physicians ;
. lost their lives in Everett and Chelsea
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I . ' Frim midnight Saturday until late'
I ' ' , : , .sunday the storm's ' destructive powers
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\ Its center was somewhere off Nan-
f I ' tucket , but the gale swept over the
I i greater pofrtii i of New England , and
i was accompanied by a fall of snow.
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! places reached a height of over four-
I teen feet above low water mark. In
! Boston the tide went across Atlantic
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I "hundreds ot cellars caused an estimat-
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I' ' ed damage of $1,00 , \ 0000.
' ! 'Large cities , such a & Cambridge ,
I Somerville , Lynn , Brockton , Provi
; dence , Fall River and New Bedford
! were in darkness except for the light
i afforded by the full moon.
Hundreds ; of persons were driven
from their homes by a flood resulting
from the breaking of a dam gate at
a place known as "the dykes , " in Chel-
.sea , just over the Everett line.
At Lynn the tide made a clean sweep
: across the narrow isthmus which con-
.nects Nahant \\ith the mainland.
New York and its environments
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- "first time this winter. The west wing
of railroad service was almost wholly
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cut off , wire communication in every
direction , was crippled , metropolitan
streets were blocked with snow , and
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'of ' the harbor , suffered considerably.
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. WOMAN KNOCKED SENSELESS.
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\ ' 3Ycalth of Hair , Envy of Many , Chop . .
ped Off by Assailant.
Mrs. William J. Erlen : with - a flow
i > f brown hair which l has been the. ,
envy and admiration of St. Louiswom
en for years , was knocked unconscious
by an unidentified man as she was
"leaving her home Sunday morning for
church and her hair was chopped
off close to her head with a razor.
She was dragged , unconscious , into
I -the hallway of . ! . her home and lay in
that condition for an hour before she
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The hair fell far below her knees
-and sh9 had refused many large sums
_ for it. She is 28 years old.
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. TRIPLE MARYLAND CRIME.
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e . "Asylum Employe Shoots Two Girls
and Burns Self to Death.
Because he thought she had laughed
. ' , . tt him in passing , Conrad Yox , em-
ployed at the Maryland asylum and
i tarining school for the feeble minded
: at Owings Mills , Md. : : , shot and killed *
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Miss Rita Phillips and fired five bul-
. ' T lets into the body of Miss : Edith Spen- '
, cer , an attendant at the institution. . .
then barricaded himself , and , scatter-
"ing kerosene about , set fire to the
lmildin $ ' . ' It was destroyed and Yox
\vas burned to death.
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: "i\Vhcl'c is Harry and Isabella Allen ?
TETarry is now aged 20 years , and his
. . sister , Isabella , .aged 18 years. The
" children were taken in charge by the
Nebraska , Children's Home , society in
1897 frqm Grand Island , following the
: .death of the father , Silas Allen. The
: -mother is now in Oklahoma , and is
, distracted because she cannot locate
. . her , children , whom she has not seen
since they were taken by superintend-
ent of the society twelve years ago. If
sthe children will address P. O. Box
.898 , Omaha , Neb. , giving their own ad
dress , it will be sent to their mother.
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I - / Morgan Sells Holdings.
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I go Sunday 6f the purchase of the J.
i Piermont Morgan interests in the Chi-
i t cago City Railway company and other
city traction lines by Chicago 'finan
i , ciers and the organization of a new
company to be known as the Chicago
City and Connecting Railway com
- - pany : , a deal involving $70,000,000.
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nationaj superin-
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r . . | -educating the Indians , with head
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iw s' ; i Gen. Ezra Ayres Carman , since 1905
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\ ' Chattanooga park commission : and
. . previously a member of the.Antietem
t ' " Jbattelfield board , died at his home in
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BILtCKAX : A HERO.
Sa'csIaJlY : Lives : in Fire in Kansas
City.
Heroic rescue work on the part of .
Washington. Johnson , a negro janitor ,
saved the lives of a score of persons
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In the RIalto building , a five-story of- .
fice structure at Ninth street and
Grand avenue , Kansas City , Mo. , which
was destroyed early Thursday by a fire
caused by a gas explosion. The loss
is estimated at $300,000.
Johnson discovered the fire and
realizing that a number of physicians
and medical students were sleeping on
'the upper floors , he rushed through
the halls shouting an alarm. When he
believed everyone had escaped he
made his way to the street. There , he
learned that Charles R. Manley , a
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medical student , who slept on the fifth
floor , was still missing. Without a mo
ment's hesitation Johnson rushed up
the stairs to the top of the building.
As he started through the hall on the
fifth floor he met Manley : , dazed and
half chok9d , groping about. Taking I
the stifled man by the arm the negro
guided him. through the smoke and
flames and the pair reached the street
just as a second explosion shook the
building.
The second explosion occurred just
as twenty firemen entered . the build-
ing. Six of the firemen were thrown ,
a distance of several feet by the force
of the explosion , but none 'suffered
more than minor injuries.
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BAR ON DUNN RAISED.
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Onialia Attorney Apologizes tp Ne ,
braska Supreme Court.
I. J. Dunn , former assistant attorney
of Omaha , Thursday evening apolo-
gized to the supreme court , thereby
purging himself of contempt and was
by the court restored to all his rights
as an attorney and counselor before
the courts of Nebraska. A' brief for
which i \ rr. Dunn assumed responsi-
bility was several weeks ago adjudged
contemptuous , and Mr. Dunn was
thereupon disbarred , with the intima-
tion , however , that an apology would
be accepted. Mr. Dunn , at a previous
hearing : questioned the jurisdiction of
the court , , but appeared in person and
tendered a verbal and written apology ,
which was accepted.
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RAID A KANSAS BANK.
Get $1,500 and Make : : : Escape - Bank
Official Attacks : Cracksmen.
Robbers early Thursday blew open
the safe of the State bank of Center-
ville , near Mound City , Kan , and es-
aped with $1,500.
One of the robbers , the last to leave
the building , was , fired upon by C. H.
Brown , president of the bank. The
robbers returned the fire and after a
lively fusillade of shots drove Brown
to cover and escaped. Neither was
wounded. The interior of the bank
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NEW CANADIAN NAVY.
Cruiser Rainbow Purchased from Brit-
ish Government. '
Canada has purchased from the
British government the/cruiser Rain-
bow. This is the first vessel of the
. new Canadian navy. The ' government
is negotiating for the purchase of a
second and larger cruiser from the
British admiralty.
The Rainbow is a second class twin
aorew cruiser. It belongs to the Apol-
lo class. It will be used as a training
ship for recruits for the Canadian
navy.
Cotton Price Soars.
Predictions of the bull element that
cotton would reach the 16-cent mark
before the holidays were made good
in New York Thursday. The May con-
tract was near that point in the fore-
noon 'trading , and stronger cables fa-
vored a rise. The bull traders saw
their opportunity , and ' on. stronger
buying the nrarket went up - to the pre-
dicted figure.
Lottery a Failure.
The extraordinary Christmas draw-
ing of the national lottery from which
the Cuban government expected to de
rive a profit of ' $900,000 . . . proved a . fail
ure. The drawing took place. Only
18,000 of the 30,000 tickets were sold.
The capital prize was won - by a club .
of eight bricklayers. ' x ,
Winnipeg ; Hotel Burns. -
Fire which destroyed the Metropole
notel , a three-story brick structure of
the second class in Winnipeg , Man. ,
Wednesday , resulted in the death of
John Allcock , a railroad freight check-
er , and the fatal injpry of Hilda
Brown , a waitress , and George Bax-
ter , a painter. \
Three Children Cremated.
The three children of Mr. and Mrs.
Jasper Williamson - Verner , - aged 2 ;
Grover , 4 , and Mabel , 5 years-were
burned to death in a fire at the" home
of their parents near " ) elaware , Wed
nesday evening. The parents were ab- '
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Eight Men Die in Mine.
Eight men were killed an dthe lives
of 400 others were imperiled by an
explosion in Mine "A" of the Chicago
and Carterville Coal company at Her-
i-in , Ill. , late Thursday. ' ,
Street Car Men Raised.
The Omaha and Council - Bluffs'
street ! railway , which three months ago
successfully resisted the demands of
its employes for an increase in wages ,
Thursday announced an increase of 1
cent per hour in wages for all its mo-
tormen and conductors. -
Editor of Farm Paper Dies.
Miltoji George , 75 years old , editor
of the Western Rural , a farmvpaper ,
died in Chicago Thursday.
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AIRSHIP SEEN AT NIGHT. '
Hovers Like Bird Over Town of Wor
cester , Mass.
Flying at a speed of from thirty to
forty miles an hour , a mysterious air
ship Wednesday night appeared ovet
Worcester , Mass. , hovering over the
city a few minutes , disappeared for.
about two hours and then returned to
cut four circles above the gaping city ,
meanwhile using a searchlight of tre
mendous power. Thousands of per-
sons thronged the streets to watch the
mysterious visitor.
, The airship remained over the city
for about fifteen minutes , all the time
at a height that most observers set at
about ' 2,000 feet , ' too far to enable
even its precise shape to be seen. The ,
glaring rays of its great searchlight
were sharply : defined by reflection
against the light snowfall which was
covering the city a > the time. The
dark mass of the ship could be dimly
seen behind the light.
After a time it disappeared in the
direction of Marlboro , only to return
later. At the time of the airship's vis
it Wallace E. Tillinghast , the Worces-
ter man , who clamed recently to have
invented a marvelous aeroplane in
which he had journeyed-to New York
and returned to Boston was absent
from his home and could not be lo-
cated.
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The visitor from the clouds was
first sighted over Marlboro at 5:30 :
o'clock. The sixteen miles between
Worcester and Marlboro was covered
in thirty minutes.
An arshipvas sighted over Marl-
boro , Mass. , Wednesday night , going
northwest at thirty or more miles an
hour. Persons in all sections of . the
city ; , had a glimpse of it. Its general
course , they say , was in the direction
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TO CLIMB MT. M'KINLEYt :
Expedition Leaves Fairbanks to Be
Ready in the Spring. '
The expedition that was organized
several months ago , at the height of
the Cook-Peary controversy ] ascend
Mt. McKinley to test Cook's story tbat
he reached the summit set out from
Fairbanks \Alaslm , Wednesday with
dog teams and supplies to establish a
base at the foot of the mountain , to
be ready to make a dash for the sum
mit in March at the first break in the
winter.
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The party is composed of Thomas
Lloyd , William Taylor , Charles Mc-
Gonigle , Peter Anderson , Robert Horn
and Charles Davidson , all hardy Alas-
ka pioneers and familiar with the
mountain. They will forfeit" $5,000 if
none of the party reaches the summit.
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ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE.
Child Killed : and Four Hurt in . Natur
al Gas Explosion.
Audrey Condrey , 10 years old , is
dead , her mother , Mrs. Charles Con-
drey , will die , and three other mem-
bers of the family were seriously in-
jured as a result of a natural gas ex
plosion at Muskogee , Okla. , Wednes-
day. Mrs. Lillian Harris , who assist-
ed in rescuing the family , was serious ,
ly burned. . /
Plumbers in completing gas connec-
tions in the Condrey homo left an
open pipe. When the gas was light-
ed the explosion followed. The roof
was blown off the house.
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Jury Fails to Agree.
The government will have to try its
big fraud case , all over again. The
jury in the case of Joseph McMahon ,
a former assistant customs house
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York it had failed to reach a verdict
and was discharged. McMahon was
paroled under his .former bond , of
$2,500.
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Whisky Warehouse Burns.
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A fire which for several : hours
threatened the destruction of an en-
tire block in the heart of the
business center of Cincinnati , 0. , Wed
nesday . night , , destroyed the five story
whisky warehouse of Sol and Sig
Friedberg and the firm's stock of
whisky , valued 125000. .
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Cook's Data Vague.
The general belief is held at Copen-
hagen that the commission having
charge of the investigation of Dr.
Cook's polar , ; records will report that
Dr. Cook's papers do not provide a
basis for any well founded ' scientific
judgment.
Drastic Check on Strikes. :
Business has been so demoralized
by the coal strike in New South Wales
that the legislature Friday took the
drastic step of passing a bill rendering
both strike leaders and employers who
instigate or aid a strike or lockout lia
ble to a year's imprisonment.
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Rather than face her six .children
Christmas morning without presents
or money to buy them , Mrs. Sarah En-
nis , of Philadelphia , Pa. , Wednesday
went into her ktchen , turned on the
gas and ended her life.
Bishop of Fargo , N. D. .
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The pope Tuesday appointed Rev.
James O'Reilley , now rector of St . - An-
thony of Padua , Minneapolis , Minn. : ,
to the bishopric of Fargo , N. D. _
United States Senator McLauren
died suddenly Wednesday night at his
home in Brandon , Miss , Death was
due to an attack of heart failure , and
came without the slightest warning at
6:30 o'clock. '
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Charles L. W rriner , " deposed treas I
urer of the Big Four railroad , pleaded
guilty to embezzlement in the com-
mon pleas court at - Cincinnati , 0. ,
Wednesday and was sentenced to serve
six years in the Ohio penitentary. .
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: MAN , ACCUSED OF DESERTION.
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Jacob 3IarshalI Arrested in Pierce
County on This Ciiarge.
"Jake" Marshall : was arrested
Thursday on the charge of wife deser-
tion , the warrant being sworn out by
County Attorney Stewart Marshall
lived with his family on .a farm near
Foster , Pierce county , up to about two
years ago , when he left. About the
same time the wife of John Marshall ,
a brother of the accused , . left home.
Last week the woman returned to
Foster and was taken back by the de
serted spose. A few days later "Jake"
Marshall put in S appearance at the
reunited home and has been living
with his brother up to the time he was
placed under arrest. Marshall is the
father of four children , the oldest a
boy about 14 years of age. The boy
is a cripple , having lost a leg when
about 6 years old. Mrs. Marshall and
I the children moved to Pierce some I
time after the husband and father de
serted them and have been a charge
on the county for several months.
The , county will endeavor to make
him put up bond for the care and
.keeping of his family in the future.
Should he refuse he will be prosecuted
uBtler the wife desertion act.
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F6RGER AND ROBBER.
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Aman _ _ giving the name of L. Lu-
ciest cam'e' , to Nebraska City and
boarded for a week with Mrs. Frank
Carlton , who keeps a boarding house ,
and. then tendered her a check on one
of the local banks for $25 , which she
cashed , as he seemed to have plenty
of paper of this kind. She left , the .
house to go down town to cash the
check , which she found was no good
and : , on her return home found the new'
boarder : gone and with him a diamond
' r ng , her gold watch and some other .
jewelry. The man made good his es-
cape and . the police have sent a ' de
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towns , \ offering a reward for his appre-
hension. .
EXPLOSION IN BERWYN STORE.
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Large Stock and Goodly Sum in Cur-
rency Burned.
J. O. Taylor & Son's general store
at Berwyn was completely destroyed
by fire , caused by a , gasoline light sys-
tem exploding Saturday evening. The
frame building and an $8,000 stock of
merchandise , all their books and $500
in currency was burned.
The gasoline lights had been burn-
ing for some time when the explosion
took place. F. Taylor , who was at the
store at the time ' barely had time to
get out. Two thousand dollars insur-
ance was carried.
-M. E. Schultz Dead.
Word was received in Beatrice
Thursday announcing the death of M.
E. Schultz , formerly of that city ,
which occurred at the home of his
son-in-law , W. " W. Ames , at Newark ,
N. J. Mr. Schultz was twice mayor
of Beatrice and at one time was grand
master workman of the A. O. U. W. of
Nebraska. ' -
. Sentenced to Five Years. . .
J. Nelson , formerly resident of
Grand , Island , an alfalfa meal * mill pro-
mpter , who was charged with emhez- .
zlement of several thousand dollars by
the York Alfalfa , Meal : company , was
found guilty of embezzlement of funds
, of the company and of appropriating
$1,900. He was given five years in the
penitentiary.
Postmaster Sccor Rcappointcth
Postmaster Secor , of Madison : , re-
ceiv d a telegram Thursday stating
that he had been recommended for re-
appointment as postmaster at Madison
and , his name had been sent to the sen-
ate for confirmation. Mr. Secor is serv-
ing his eighth year as postmaster.
f Morphine Smuggler Fined. ;
Frank Hart was fined $100 for
smuggling morphine into the state
penitentiary. Deputy Warden Dele-
. hanty discO'ered'the drug in Eng-
lish walnuts and Hart was arrested in
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Tag Day at , Lincoln.
The Associated Charity association
at Lincoln Wednesday 'collected' $2,356 ,
prominent society women doing the
collecting. The society expected to
collect $ -1,000 , but owing to the cold
weather or something else the cash
was not forthcoming.
Lawyer Stricken in Court.
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While pleading a case in the dis-
trict court at Kearney Monday after-
noon , , Judge H. M. Sinclair suffered a
relapse of an illness from which he
had just recovered and was removed
to his home. . _
Year for Kep ord.
Among the cases disposed of in
court at Clay Center was that of the
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State of Nebraska against Ray Kep-
ford , charged " with stealing from Mary
Deiringer on the 23d of November last
$65 worth of property. He pleaded
guilty to the charge of grand larceny
and was 'sentenced to one year in the
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OMAHA : INDLVNS COUNCIL.
Action ' Taken on Government's Movo
, to Abandon an Agent.
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Over ; ? 100 Indians of the Omaha res
ervation held a council at the agency
office in Walthill Monday : afternoon I
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to take action on the move of the gov-
ernment to put the Omaha and Win-
nebago reservations in charge of one
agent. A. G. Pollock , agent at the
Omaha reservaton , has been > n Ari-
zona , and was delayed. He left for
Washington to take the matter of the
proposed change up with the authori-
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This is the second council of the
Omaha Indians to be held this year.
It was the unanimous vite of the tribe
that Pollock , be retained as its head.
RESTRAINT ORDER ; GRANTED.
Consolidation Prevented of Prcsb 'tc'
rian Colleges in Nebraska.
Judge Troupe at Omaha Monday : is-
sued a restraining order temporarily
preventing the proposed consolidation
of the Presbyterian colleges at Belle-
vue and Hastings. The trustees of
Bellevue college met Monday after-
noon to take necessary steps in the
matter of the consolidation , but the
court's order prevented the transac-
tion of business. The writ was issued
on the application of Henry T. Clarke ,
of Omaha , a trustee of Bellevue and
the man who gave the original ground
on which the College was established. ,
He wishes to have the . the.institution con
ducted independently of the synod.
HOMESTEADERS BURN CORN.
Cold Weather Causes Shortage of Fuel
Among Farmers.
The cold weather of the last two
weeks has been a great hardship for
many people in the country around
Sutherland owing to a shortage of
fuel. . There has been a great demand
for coal and the coal yards of the ' va
rious smaller towns have had trouble
in supplying the demand. In numer-
ous cases residents of the sandhill
country and homesteadrs have been
forced to burn corn in order to keep
warmth in the house. Some ship-
ments of coal have arrived and hun-
dreds of farmers are flocking to town
in the hope of getting a supply.
FOUR LICENSES REVOKED.
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Rome Miller. T. J. O'Brien. Lcntz &
Williams and Rcnfrow Lose.
Sitting as a license board Saturday
afternoon at Omaha , Mayor Dahlman
and Police Commissioners Hunter and
Wappich revoked the saloon licenses
of Rome Miller : , T. J. O'Brien , Lentz
& Williams and Louis Renfrow , as a
consequence of Judge Reddick's deci-
sion. '
sion.Miller's
Miller's license was for the bar in
Hotel Rome , O'Brien's for Hotel Hen-
shaw , Renfrow's for the ' Windsor ho-
tel , on Tenth street and Lentz & Will
iams for 1408 Farnam street
i 1 Collision on Burlington.
In a headron collision between a
freight train and a light engine on the
Chicago , Burlington and Quincy rail-
road at Seneca , late Saturday night ,
William H. Shoemaker , head brake-
man was instantly killed , and the fire-
man , Joseph Stevens , was so badly
injured that he died at the company
hospital at Alliance.
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Ge&Nine Years in Prison.
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Ernest Stout , who was Tuesdaj
convicted of manslaughter at Grand
Island for the killing of Joseph Rea-
soner , an employe , and sentenced to
nine years in the penitentiary , after
arranging the sale of his farm volun-
tarliy settled $1,000 on the children
of the man he killed.
Blair Roused Over Box Rentals.
Orders were received by Postmaste.
Cook at Blair last week to raise th
rental of postoffice boxes from 45c ,
60 cents 75 cents and $1 to 60 cents ,
75 cents $1 and $1.50 , to go into effect
January 1. A vigorous protest is being
made by the business men ' and citizens
of Blair.
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Boy Accidentally Killed. :
Harry Fields was accidentally shot
by Sam Fields , an old.er brother , at
Elm Creek. The bullet from a small
rifle severed the aorta just above the
heart and he died within a few min
utes.
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Falls from Wagon , Nearly Frozen.
J. . W. Godfrey , . who .resides neai
Syracuse , fell from" his , wagon while
loading hay and was so badly injured
that he could not help himself , and
when found ) was nearly , frozen to
death.
Italian Burned in Car.I
A box car occupied by : number 01
Italian laborers was partially burned
in the Burlington yards at Beatrice.
Dito Ladina was seriously burned and
may not recover.
It is said on good authority that thE :
Burlington contemplates building an
elegant-depot . at Wymore next sum-
mer. The location I has been . purchased ,
and will be' a block nearer town , and
: at the foot of Main street.
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The almost impassable condition ol ,
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the country roads throughout . .
state preventing farmers from getting , . t
and produce has in -
to town with corn
spired Secretary of State Junkin . to
suggest plan for good roads , which
been talked of in {
he believes has never
any ' of the many good roads conven
tions. "In order to prevent a repeti-
tion of the bad roads now prevalent
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throughout the state 'it is time .
state itself was taking some official ac-
tion in the matter. I would suggeste
that the next legislature enact a. law '
providing that the county board. may
make a levy and use a portion of the ' "
county funds for the construction of
a road running east and west and an-
other running north and south , .
throughout every township in the I
state. ' These roads should be ; con- . '
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structed as nearly as possible through c.
the center of the township none liv-
ing in any township would , be -
be only a short time before the state
would- have no poor roads. , By put- ,
ting the roads as near as possible to . _
the center of the township would be '
more than three miles from the'good
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road. As soon as the good road is r
built I am sure the farmers who did
not live upon * t would soon make good
roads leading to it. Under this plan
it would be possible to go clear across
the state in any direction " ' on good
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Food Commissioner Mains is check
ing up and investigating cream test-
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tain localities where there is competi-
tion , that one operator will test more _
butter fat in cream than there really : is
in order that he can get the the busi- '
ness of that producer. The same op- t
erator , in order to save his employers
from losing too much money because ,
of the over-test , will cut down the
butter fat in the cream of another cus-
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tomer whose trade he has. The
creameries have assured the food
commissioner that they oppose this
over-tes'ting and under-testing , as it
works a hardship on them. One
creamery sent an itemized statement
to the food commissioner showing "
how much cream it had bought which' , ' \
failed ! to test out as , the operator had - .
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certified. The creamery has to take . .
the test as furnished by the operator ,
who is paid a commission according to .
the amorfnt of cream he purchases.
When he has completed his investiga- I
tion the food commissioner expepts to
revoke a few licenses.
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State Auditor Barton has stirred u F ;
a hornets' net in Missouri by ritl1ng :
thdt the form of the policy used by the . -
life companies of that state cannot
be used in Nebraska. The particular
portion of the form to which the aud- ,
itor objects is this : "This policy is
registered and secured by a pledge
of bonds or 'deeds of , trust on ] real es-
tate deposited with this department. "
From Missouri word has come to Lin-
coln that this form of policy has been I
prescribed by a law over a quarter of 3 (
a century old and that the policy upon
which it is stamped is absolutely se- '
cured. Auditor .Barton introduced a .
bill in the late legislature to prohibit
the stamping on policies of the state
auditor. This bill failed of passage ,
so the auditor simply made a ruling
which is being observed by th'e' home
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Miss Nellie Leaoh has completed .
the recording probably the longest ,
articles of incorporation ever filed in
the office of the secretary of state.
The articles provided .for \ the consoli , .
dation of the Missouri : Pacific nines ,
and contained 63,000 , words , of which ,
several pages ' were . the names of the 1
stockholders. The record made 120
pages in the large record book.
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Within a : few ; days Walker Smith ,
corporation clerk In the office of ' the
secretary of state will "
, , , have' complet-
. ed checking over the delinquent
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porations and then , the first of , the -
year , the names of _ the . delinquents
will be certified to the various county
clerks. After . that - the corporations
so posted will be considered.as having' '
gone out of business , and dissolved.
There will be no further proclamation
in the matter from tho ' governor ; ' ? The r
delinquents number about 4,000.
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The supreme , .court has met again ,
and still nothing has been done with i
n J. Dunn. Attorneys for the disbarred ' I
assistant city attorney of Omaha . have
twice filed motions for the court to
revoke its order of disbarment , after i a ,
which Mr. Dunn will apologize. So , '
far as the records show
, and the gen .
eral : public know those
. petitions , have
tatten up little , of any , time . of the
cour / They have ' simply " , - . " , , - ' . been \ , . : ' ig- ; . . .
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The board of public lands and
buildings has bought a stoker for the
Hastings asylum. This will e'nable the
fireman to feed the furnace without \ ; t
handling the coai , as the machine i
works automatically. V
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Adjt. Gen. Hartigan has-
hasissued a
statement thanking ' i the "members of . _ .
the National Guard on behalf " of. the , . '
governor . d himself " , . .for1efforts put t
forth to improve t'i.scrrice. " - * ' 1 ,
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