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low lying suburb of Shippingport , Ky. ,
are beginning to abandon their homes
and , damage to business houses adjz
cent to Louisville's wharfage territor
was threatened by the swelling waters
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I the river is falling at points up stream ,
, steam packet owners and , towboe
men are more apprehensive than at
any time since the rise began.
. The tendency of the great ice gorge
which stretches from a point just lie -
low Louisville to Wolf Creek , 65 miles
down the river , is the cause of . their
fears. The river men say that the
gorge has held on until the ice has
grown rotten all the way through and
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go out with a rush. The effect , of
such an occurrence would be that a
large number of boats and coal barges
caught in the ice would be torn to
pieces , while a still greater number of
craft moored in the vicinity of ouis-
ville would bestranded , high and dry
by the steady fall of the waters.
The Monongahela River Coal and
. Coke company alone has $1,000.00
worth of floating property mostl ;
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barges of coal , threatened by this con-
dition of affairs. River men are be-
. ginning to look to the United States
engineering department for help. and <
it is understood the government wil
be asked to dynamite the gorge. let'
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Milwaukee Trains Collide at Keystone ,
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One passenger was killed a brake-
man was fatally injured and nine oth-
er passengers were seriously hurt in
a head-on collision Sunday between
, two fast passenger trains on the Chi-
cago. Milwaukee and St. Paul rail-
road at Keystone. 25 miles from Cedar I
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Limited and the oastbound fast train
were ordered to pass at Keystone. A
freight train on the siding prevented
the eastbound passenger1'train from
pulling onto the switch. The
passen-
ger train , had run past the station and
was ready to back into the siding
when the Overland Limited going at
the rate of 25 miles an hour. , crashed
into it. Both engines were reduced
to scrap iron. and the mail and chair
cars of-the. limited were badly wreck
ed. The enginenien escaped by jump
.ing.
WRECK ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
'One Person Killed ; and Ten Injured at
Pickneyville , III.
.One person was killed and ten oth-
ers injured in a collision between a
St. Louis-Memphis special on the Illi-
mois Central hound for St. Louis , and
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sat 6 uVlock Sunday morning.
The freight fan back to the water
-tank a quarter of . a mile south of
'Pickneyville on the special's time. The
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; " . ' -curve "and crashed into It head-on bc-
iforc the cn-w could make a move to
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( man George Eckert. of the freight
. train crew. both of East St. Louis. III. ,
were held responsible for the wreck
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( ' Ten per cent increase : in wages for
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ica probably will be the demand for-
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United Mine Workers of America ,
which will be in
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: Demand Franchise Reform.
, Social democratic demonstrations
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of the reform of the Prussian fran-
chise. A heavy rain fell all through
the clay and there was little disorder.
. t , Resolutions ( ' adopted demanding
4- : universal direct and secret suffrage.
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Manufacturers.
The four principal : Denver papers ,
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One of the Men "Higher Up" Four
by Grand Jury.
One of the men "higher up" has at :
fast been namdd by the federal grand
jury investigating the sugar frauds.
Charles R. Heike , secretary and trea
urer of the American Sugar Refining
company , was indicted in 'New York
Friday on charges of conspiracy to de- <
fraud , and of making false entries.
Ienry W. Walker , assistant superin-
tendent of the Williamsburg docks of
the American company , was also in-
dicted with other employes of the
company against whom indictments
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In the new indictments Heike and
Walker are accused , with Ernest W.
Gerbracht , former general superin-
tendent of the Williamsburg refinery ;
James F. Bendernagel , former cashier ;
Jean M. : Voelker and James F. Halli-
gan , checker , of making false entries
regarding four cargoes of sugar at the
custom house.
It is expected that Heike and Walk-
er will surrender themselves to the
court.
Under one of the counts it is i
charged that Charles R. Heike , , < did ,
on July 28 , 1907 , in pursuance of the
conspiracy , indorse a check for $1,111
drawn on the assistant treasurer of
the United States by the acting dis-
bursing agent in the customs collec-
tor's office to the order of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining company , this sum
being alleged to be the excess of de-
posits of duty , while in truth it wa
a portion of the duties lawfully due
the United States. A second similar
charge is made against Heike with re-
gard to a check for $2,701.
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FAMILIAR WITH GIRL MODELS.
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Incidents in Artist Christy's Studio
Told by a Witness.
There was considerable diversion in
.he life of Howard Chandler Christy ,
the artist , according to the testimony ;
of Charles S. Hall , a former Christy ;
model , at Zanesville , 0. , Friday , in the <
habeas corpus proceedings of Mrs.
Christy to obtain possession of their
12-year-old daughter Natalie.
He said prospective models were
compelled to disrobe immediately that
he ' might judge of their , figures for ar-
tistic purposes. There was much free-
dom between Christy and the girls ,
and he said that hugging , and kissing ?
was a . common pasfime. At other :
times , Hall said , he would hold and
caress a model and call her his "baby
doll. " Christy's trip to a Keeley cure
was related.
COHEN MAY GO FREE.
His Lawyer Declares Under the Law' '
He Has Committed No Crime.
There is a possibility that Fred Co-
hen will go unpunished for the . part
he tookx ' in the escapade with Miss
Roberta De Janon , the young heiress.
The police at Philadelphia , Pa. , Fri-
day made the emphatic statement that
Cohen did not harm the girl and the
young runaway still adheres to her
story that she alone was responsible
for the affair. After an interview with
the waiter in his cell his lawyer told
reporters that Cohen under the law
had committed no crime.
The girl is in a private apartment of "
a hospital under the care of a nerve
specialist. It is quite likely she will
be kept there for some days.
Royal : Betrothal Affirmed.
A special dispatch from Lisbon
quotes from an authorized source af
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firming that the marriage of King
Manuel , of Portugal . , and Princess Vic-
toria Patricia , youngest daughter of
the duke of Connaught , will be sol-
emnized next May.
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Mediators Not Agreed. '
An agreement between the railroads
perating out of Chicago ' and their
switchmen is not yet in sight. Con-
ferences between the parties repre-
sentative of the interests involved and
the mediators under the Erdman act
have been in progress for several days.
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Col. Roosevelt Honored.
The election of Theodore Roosevelt ,
larvard , ' 80 , as president of the Har-
yard Alumni association , succeeding
Charles W. Eliot president emeritus
of Harvard university , was announced ,
Saturday. >
Charles L. Warriner , who confessed
to having used $643,000 while treas-
urer of the Big Four railroad in Cin-
cinnati , 0. , was taken to the peniten-
tiary at Columbus ! Friday to begin a
entence of six years.
Stock Issue of $6,000,000.
The capitalization of the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie railroad will be in-
creased by a stock issue of , $6,000,000.
The stock will be issued in $50 shares
to stockholders af par. . *
Fire at an early hour Friday morn-
Lng almost destroyed the six-story
uilding occupied by the Chicago Raw
Hide [ company. The loss is estimated ,
at $300,000. ,
Gifts to Princeton. '
Princeton university , it was an-
nounced Thursday by the board of
trustees , has received $571,631799 in
gifts recently.
Killed in an Accident.
Silas Moore , 35 years , old , a'son of
Silas : Moore , postmaster : at Moorland ,
Ia. , and a prominent pioneer , was ac-
cidentally killed at Alberta , Can. ,
where he manages an elevator.
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Many : CatUc Dying.
Many cattle are dead in Cherry ,
Hooker and Custer counties , Nebras-
ka , as a result of the cold and the
javy snow which has covered the
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Ills Death.
In a copyrighted story Thursday tho
St. Louis Post-Dispatch publishes what
is claimed to be the confession of Ray
Lamphere , who died a few days ago in i
the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City , while serving a sentence for set-
ting fire to the home of * Mrs. Belle
Gunness , near Laporte , Ino" . It is :
known that the Rev. Dr. E. A. Schell ,
formerly of Laporte , heard -Lair
phere's confession.
The confessfdn shows .that Mr ; ;
Gunness and three children were
chloroformed by Lamphere , who was
robbing the house' with a woman ac-
complice ; that Jennie Olson was not
killed by Mrs. Gunness ; that the
chloroform used by Lamphere was
part of that bought for Mrs. Gunness
to kill three men , one of whom was
Andrew Helgelein , the others probably
Ole Budsberg and Tonnes Peterson
Lien , and that one of these men , prob-
ably Lien , was the third husband of
Mrs. Gunnesst :
It establishes the fact , doubted by
thousands , that Mrs. Gunness is dead.
The adult body found in the smokin ;
ruins of the Gunness farm house was
the body of Mrs. : Belle Gunness. She
was in the deep sleep that chloroform
induces when the smoke crept up ]
through the crevices and smothered
her. She died as she lay sleeping , with !
the head of her little boy pillowed on
her breast and her arm about his neck ,
the pledge of protection she was pow
erless to give.
STRANGLED BY BURGLARS.
Servants Awakened , but Are Unable to <
Offer Resistance.
A young woman known as Sarah
Breymer , a nurse" in the employment
of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes Compton , was :
strangled to death by burglars Thurs-
day in hqr bed in the Compton man-
sion at Millbrook , N. Y.
The house was robbed of a quantity
of silverware. The burglary , and mur-
der took place while Mr. and Mrs.
Compton were in New York City and
the house was in the care of servants
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It was learned Thursday that the mur-
dered woman was the wife of Clarence
Morse : , of Togus , Mo.
The : nurse _ and a small daughter of
Air. and Mrs. Compton occupied a
sleeping piazza on the upper floor.
Other servants in another part of the
house were awakened by the burglars ,
but were unable to offer any resist-
ance.
ance.After
After the burglars had departed
ervants found the body of the nurse
in her bed with marks on her throat ,
indicating that ' she had been stran-
gled. The little Compton girl had not
been awakened by the struggle.
Banker : to Prison.
, One to five years in state prison was
the sentence given Robert D. Muir ,
of New Haven , Conn. , late treasqrer
of the Peoples Bank and Trust com-
pany , on his plea of guilty Thursday
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of having converted his own use
$106,000 worth of the bank's securi-
ties. :
Death of a Big : Man.
Peter Klees , a police magistrate at
Aurora , Ill. , said to have been one of
the ; heaviest men in the world , died
in Chicago Sunday. Klees weighed
595 pounds , and was 6 feet 3 inches
tall. Ten of the .strongest men in Au-
rora have been selected as pallbear-
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Land for Settlers.
Twenty thousand acres of land bor-
dering upon the Columbia river , about
90s miles east of Portland. Ore. , em-
iraced in the third unit of the Uma-
tilla irrigation project in Oregon will
be thrown open to homestead entry at
9 o'clock , 'February 10.
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Frightened by a Negro.
Frightened Saturday night by a ne-
gro , who grabbed her as she was pass-
ing a dark alley , Mrs. Annie McMahon.
at Upper Alton 111. , lost her voice
from the shock. She has been dumb
for 24 hours and has been able to
tell of the attack only by means of
signs.
Meteor Falls to Earth.
A meteor measuring Go inches in
diameter buried itself six feet into the
earth near Carin ton. N. D. . ea"rly
Sunday morning. For a full minute
before it struck the meteor illuminated _
the surrounding country and its im-
phct with earth produced vibrations .
like those from an earthquake. :
Right of City Uplielil. )
Judge Carpenter. in the : circuit
court announced a ruling in Chicago
Saturday upholding ( ' right of the
city of ' Chicago to us6 its ! traction fund
forr > the purpose of constructing and
operating a subway for p.nssengor
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Negro Clark Will TL rn , .
Willis Clark , a negro who pleaded
guilty to killing Eugene V. Goudy. a
motorman , and shooting nnd robbing ;
l\f. V. O'Brien a conductor on an Kast
St. : Louis street car. wns sentenced to
hang February 18.
The Boston , Mass. . Y.f. . , . C. A.
building at the corner of Boylston and
srkeley streets , in the Back Bay dis-
trict , was destroyed by fire early
lursday The loss will exceed $200-
000.
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The royal family with the exception
of Princess Louise , daughter of the
late King Leopold , have arranged to
do > everything possible to avert law-
suits and scandal in connection with
the distribution of Leopold's fortune.
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NORFOLK MAYOR ACCUSED.
Gov. Shallenberger Has Been Asked
"to Remove Official.
The filing : of a demand with Gov.
Shallenberger by A. Morrison , a Nor-
folk building- contractor , calling for
the ousting of Mayor John Friday , of
Norfolk , caused a political sensati < , ! >
there Thursday. Morrison alleges that
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Friday has failed to enforce laws pro-
viding for the suppression , of disorder-
ly houses. The state law ' provides
for removal of a mayor neglecting to
enforce the laws. Morrison also filed
complaints against four alleged own-
ers of Norfolk houses rented for im-
moral purposes. He claims to have
evidence. . Morrison and Friday are
both democrats and Morrison claims
to be friendly personally to the mayor.
The owners of the houses complained
of are : Fern McDonald and the Elbe
estate , of Norfolk ; A. R. Walters ,
Bloomfield ; Louis Sheldon , North
Platte.
SALOON LICENSE RAISED.
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Dealers at Pierce Will Be Forced to
Pay $1,000 a Year.
At a meeting of the city council the <
first of the week an ordinance was in-
troduced and adopted unanimously :
which raises the saloon licenses to
$1,000 per year. The action of the
council came as a surprise to the ven-
ders of liquor in that city. There ore at
present four saloons in the city , and
it is thought that the raising of the <
license will cut at least one of these <
places when renewals will be asked in
May. The saloonkeepers all complain
of a considerable loss in their ; / receipts
on account of the 8 o'clock closing law
and assert that with the license in-
creased in addition they will not be
able to make expenses.
, Aged Couple Struck by Train.
George Stickley , who is about 7C
years of age , and. h5s wife , who is
about 60 , living four miles southeast
' of Albion , were run into by the North-
western freight Saturday , as they were
crossing the railroad track two miles
southeast of Albion. Mr. Stickley es-
caped with nothing . worse than a few
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severe bruises , but his wife had sev
eral ribs broken and is in a critical !
condition.
Receiver Applied For.
A petition for a receiver for the
Long Distance Independent Telephone
company was filed at Omaha Thursday
in the district court by Marmaduke
Hillias and Leonard T. Allen. The suit
is also against Charles G. Cockerill ,
Charles H. Smith "and M. M. Head ,
said to control the company , as well
as the Central Construction company
and the New State Telephone com-
pany.
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A. deal was closed here Wednesday
whereby A. R. Armstrong , editor of
the Butte Gazette , purchased the Boyd
County Register , of Butte , and will
consolidate the two papers. Editor O.
R. Robinson , late of the Register , one
of the best newspaper men in the
northwest , will leave at once for
Lamro , S. D. , where he has accepted
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A mild form of smallpox is quite
, prevalent among the farmers west of
Lyons. Quite a number are quaran-
tined , but it is so mild that 'a few
would not call a doctor for fear of be-
ing annoyed- quarantine _ , which
actions have spread the disease more
rapidly.
John S. Bland Drops Dead.
John S. Bland , former county super-
intendent of schools at Keokuk , Ia. ,
for eight years , dropped dead from
heart failure in the barnyard at his
home a mile north of Fremont Wed-
nesday evening.
Quarantine Raised.
Gov. Shallenberger has received no-
tice from the secretary of agriculture
that the quarantine against Boyd , But-
ler and Dawson counties against scab-
ies imposed by federal authorities has
been raised.
Want . New High School.
The board of education of Nebraska
City held a special meeting at which
time it was decided to call a special
election to vote 70,000 bonds for the
purpose of erecting a new high school
building.
Hurt by Gasoline Engine.
Oscar Johnson , an employe of the
union Stock Yards company of Grand
, Island , lies seriously injured at the St.
Francis hospital as the result of being
caught in the wheels of a gasoline en-
gine.
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Will Open Headquarters.
M > .yor Dahlman , of Omaha , an-
nounces that he will open headquar-
ters for the preliminary work for his
gubernatorial campaign in the next
two weeks. :
Oshkosh is County Scat.
Oshkosh was chosen county setf
the new county of Garden by about
200 ! majority. The entire republican
ticket was elected with the exception
of clerk and judge.
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State Board Decides to Give it ro
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Dawes County.
Chadron gets the new normal school.
The normal board in executive session
at Lincoln Saturday afternoon selected
the Dawes county town on the fif-
teenth ballot.
On different ballots each town re-
ceived three votes , which was the
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highest number that towu.received
The votes were all cast under the . Aus-
tralian ballot system and each town
competing for the school on various
ballots received some votes. On the
fourteenth ballot Chadron received
five votes and then the location was
made unanimous.
Chadron agreed to donate to the
state eighty acrss of land adjoining
the town ; and which runs back into <
the buttes , and according to Treasurer :
Brian is an ideal location for the <
school. In the center of the tract is
the Chadron academy , ah institution
conducted by the Congregational
church. This building will be donated
to the state , though the board said
this was no inducement to the selec-
tion of Chadron for the school. Chad-
ron is on' the Northwestern railroad ,
and Is in the extreme northwestern
county of the state. The state appro-
priated $35,000 for the school.
WOMAN NOT ELIGIBLE ?
Test Case in Nebraska Will Be Car-
ried to Supreme Court.
F. B. Quibble , county treasurer of
Cherry county , has refused to turn
over the office to Miss Gertrude Jor-
dan , who was elected to be treasurer
in last fall's election , on the ground
that a woman is not eligible to hold
a county office , and the case will be
carried to the supreme court at once ,
this being the first test as to whether
a woman is eligible to hold a county
office under the constitution of the
state of Nebraska.
The supreme court Saturday gave
leave to docket the case of Jordan
against Quibble from Cherry county to
settle whether a woman elected treas-
urer of Cherry county may hold the
office. The answer day is set for Jan-
uary 31.
WARNER IS REAPPOINTED.
Dakota City Man to Hold Federal Mar-
shalship.
Dispatches from Washington state
that Senators Burkett and Brown have
recommended F. S. Howell , of Omaha ,
to succeed District Attorney Goss.
United States Marshal W. P. War-
ner , of Dakota City , has been recom-
mended for reappointment.
Boy Struck in Sled. ,
Samuel Behrens , aged 13 , was mys
teriously attacked in a bobsled Wed-
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nesday night and left bleeding and
, unconscious in the outskirts of Hast-
ings. He was on his way home from
the Young Men's Christian association
when a bobsled party hailed him at a
street crossing and ask him if he
wanted a ride. The unsuspecting boy
climbed into the vehicle and a mo-
ment later he was violently struck. He
cannot give a description of the occu-
pants of the bobsled.
Additions to Packing Plant.
The Cudahy packing plant in South
Omaha is " to be increased and im
proved by the erection of four new
uildings , two of which are to be
started at once. Construction . . will
soon begin on a five-story office build-
ing and a new hog abattoir of four
stories. The buildings will be built ab-
, olutely fireproof and embodying the
latest features evolved by architectural
and engineering science.
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Once Grec1c " 's Office Boy.
R. D. Kelly , editor of the Uehhng I
Times , died in Fremont , aged 79 years.
For nearly forty years he had been
ictively in the newspaper business ,
most of the time Nebraska. He
> egan , his , newspaper career in New
York City , and was at one time Horace t
Greeley's office boy.
Laborer Fatally Burned.
Krhaim Skukceie , a Greek laborei
employed as merhber of a construction
gang ; , was probably fatally burned at
Seward. He lighted the fire in the ,
tove in the bunk car with kerosene.
The can exploded. scattering burning
oi il over his clothing and the car.
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Fijrh't for Postmaster.
Ttfere are two aspirants in Blair for
the postmastership , W. J. Cook , the
present postmaster , and J. F. White , J
present county treasurer. Cook has
served twelve years as postmaster.
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New Press Association. I
Editors of six of the seven papers
published in the county met in Sew-
ard and formed the Seward County
Press association.
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May Drop Corn Show.
Omaha may not have another Na-
tional Corn- exposition. The last expo-
sition did not pay out' because of un- I
ivorable weather conditions which
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greatly impaired the gate receipts and
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at the same time added to the cost of
operating the exposition. If the at-
tendance in 1909'had equaled that of I
1908 the exposition would have been ;
a financial success , but the cQld . and t
: ormy weather cut . the receipts to
one-fourth less than the year before.
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The Senate was not In session Fri
day.tin the House President Taft's
special message recommending the
curbing of the trusts and the regula-
i tion of railroads was received and
i read. The so-called "insurgent" Re-
i publicans won a victory over the con
servative ' wing of the party , when 26 "
ot them voted with the Democrats to
take , from the Speaker the right to
name the House members of a joint
committee that is to investigate Secre-
tary Ballinger and Forester Pinchot.
The vote stood 149 to 146.
The Senate was not in session Sat
urday. In the general debate on the
army appropriation bill Representa-
tive Hull , of Iowa , chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs , ex
plained in the House that the bill car-
ried an appropriation of $95,212,718
for the maintenance of the army In
1911 , and stated that the estimates had
been pared to the bone. Mr. Bartholdt
indicated he would offer an amend-
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ment providing for the restoration of
the army canteen. Mr. Kustermann
of Wisconsin , spoke in opposition to
ship subsidy legislation. Mr. : Smith ,
of California , spoke in opposition to
the government exercising control over
water power sites in the West. Mr.
Goulden , of New York , spoke in favor
of deeper water ways. Mr. Henry , of
Texas , took the Republicans severely
to task for violating the party's
pledges in failing to give the country
"revision downward. " Adjourned un
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The Senate , Monday , adopted unan
imously the joint resolution provid
ing for the Ballinger-Pinchot investi-
gation , amended so as to let the House
elect , instead of the speaker appoint ,
the members of the'House Committee ,
thus preventing a reopening of the
fight on Speaker Cannon. , The bill re
lieving Assistant Treasurer Bolden-
week of responsibility for the $173,000
Chicago subway theft was passed.
' anti-
President Taft's railroad and -
trust message was read as a special
compliment. The House almost con-
cluded consideration of the army ap
propriation bill. Mr. Mann's amend
ment to cut the $1,300,000 appropria-
tion for national guard encampments
to : $1,000,000 was defeated after a live-
ly debate. Mr. Townsend introduced
the ; administration bill amending the
interstate commerce law. Mr. Sel-
zer : Introduced a joint resolution rec-
ognizing General Estrada as president
of ) the "legitimate government" ol
Nicaragua.
That the committee of the Senati
have not taken up the work of the j
session in earnest was made evident
Tuesday when , after a sitting of fifty-
five minutes , the calendar was ex-
hausted and it became necessary for
the Senate to adjourn for the day.
After passing the army appropriation
bill , carrying the sum ft ' $95,200,000 - -
for the maintenance of the army dur-
Ing the fiscal year of 1911 , the' House
roceeded to consideration of one of
the [ so-called "white slave" bills. Op-
position developed to that portion of
the measure reported by the Immigra-
tion ; committee which makes It a fel-
ony for any person to assist anothec :
to go from one state to another for
the purpose of engaging in prostitu-
tion. It was contended by Rel * esent.
atives Bartlett , of Georgia ; Goebel , of
Ohio , and Richardson , of Alabama ,
that such action would be an encroach-
ment upon state's rights , as under the
Constitution each state had the sole
power to regulate its own morals. The
bill still was under consideration
when the House adjourned.
In the senate Wednesday the great-
er' ' part of the session was taken up by
the introduction of new bills. The
resolution calling upon the secretary
Qf the treasury to certify to the claims
for extra allowances for - postmasters
who served from 1864 to 1874 was
discussed at length. A resolution for-
mally accepting the statue of General
Lew Wallace , placed in Statuary Hall ,
was passed. The house could not agree
Qn i the senate's amendments to the
illinger-Pinchot inquiry resolution
ind ! sent that measure to a conference.
The Bennet-Sabath white slave bill
was passed in spite of the efforts of
Representative Mann , father of a rival
'Jill ' , to sidetrack it.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Five deaths resulted from the Inau-
guration : of the ice skating season in
PennsylvanIa and New Jersey.
A party of five Alaskans has been
organized at Fairbanks , Alaska , to
climb Mount McKinley : this winter to
put an end to the controversy as to
whether Dr. Cook reached the sum-
: n it.
it.Estill
Estill County remains "dry" as a re-
ult of a local option election held in
Kentucky. Every precinct in - the
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untyvoted against a return to sa- -v -
loons , which were abolished by an
iction held three years ago.
The farm value of the grain alone of
the corn crop in our country is more
than twice the value of the cotton
rop , seed and lint included. , If the
value of the fodder on 100,000,000 acres
of corn were added to the value ' of the
graIn the total would prove beyond a
doubt that corn is king of our agrl-
ultur3:1 empire.
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