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" " W1 . v v - ' - ' * r ' YALENTINE DEMOCBAT I. M. RICE , Publisher. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA. HISTORICPJLH AT JEFFERSON CITY , MO. , IS WIPED OUT. LOSS PLACED ATA MILLION ' S , * Gov. Hadley Personally Directs the Fight Made by Firemen to Save Strudture Flames Spread Rapidly Because of Building's Age. Jefferson City , Mo. The Missouri capitol building was entirely destroyed by' fire Sunday night. Many of the records of the governor and other state officers are a complete loss. "The total damage , including the structure and many records and state papers in the offices of the governor , secretary of state and treasurer , is es ' timated at $1,000,000'With no insur ance. Lightning , which struck the cupola of the dome shortly after 7 o'clock , spread the names to the roof "of the house of representatives on the north side of the structure , and in less than a half hour it was apparent that the "entire building was doomed. Because of the inadequacy of the water pressure the fire could not be reached , and no aid could be rendered for some time by the local fire com pany. .Gov. Hadley personally directed the fight against the. flames , which , be cause of the age of the building , rapidly - ly gained great headway. The peni tentiary fire department was imme diately called to the scene and the convicts worked heroically , scaling walls and taking dangerous chances for their lives. The local military company was called out and formed a cordon around the building , driving spectators from dangerous positions and remoying rec ords from the different state depart ments. FAST IN WRECKAGE , KILLS SELF. An Express Messenger Ends Life Rather Than Be Roasted. * Paris , Ont. Rather than be roasted alive , John Whitelaw , an express messenger , shot himself dead while pinned under the wreckage of a Grand Trunk passenger train near here late Saturday night. Four trainmen met death in the crash.v sAn -An express messenger , Whitelaw , al ways carried a , revolverrand although crushed under the wreckage of his ; car , he remained conscious and urged rescuers to extricate him. The wreck was burning , however , and the work ers were driven back , leaving the ex press messenger to face death in the flames. "If you dent help" me soon , I'll end it all , " moaned "Whitelaw. In a mo ment more there was a muffled shot. He had kept his word. Bank Safe Blown. Dallas , Tex. Terrorizing the citi zens and working for more than two 'hours ' with explosives while the more venturesome residents were forced to stand in line by two masked men and watch operations , a small band of robbers destroyed the vaults "of the Farmers bank at Duncanville , Tex. , ten miles southwest of Dallas , securing § 2,000 in money and escaping aboard a hand car. One Killed in Train Wreck. East Jeffrey , N. H. One passenger was killed , another was seriously in jured , and two railroad employes slightly hurt when two cars of a Bos ton and Maine train left the rails and rolled down a bank at a sharp turn three-quarters of a mile south of this town. Feared Vessels-Were Lost. Madrid. Several coasting vessels in the Mediterranean are still missing and it is feared that the steamers were jlost-during the recent storm. On the Catalonian coast alone five barks were wrecked and forty-three persons drowned. Quakes Are Decreasing. Manil. The earthquakes which have continued for several days coin cident with the eruption of Mt. Taal are decreasing in intensity and fre quency. At noon Sunday a total of 913 quakes had been recorded at the observatory. Sioux City Live Stock Market. . .Sioux- City , la. Saturday's quota tions on the Sioux City live stock mar ket follow : Top beeves , $6.25. Top Jlogs , $7.40. Doctor Kills Self. ; New York. Leaving a note asking , forgiveness , Dr. Stanley D. Curran , a 1 { prominent and well to do Harlem phy- 'sician , shot himself in the head. His iwife found him lying dead upon a couch. Found to Be Insane. Nicolasville , Ky. Grover Fish , who was charged with the 'murder of his lather-in-law , Samuel Welsh , a wealthy oanker of Madison county , two years ago , , was declared not guilty by a jury. The jury found that Fish was insana * \ RUSSIA SHOCKED AT CONFESSION . OF WHOLESALE MURDER BY DR. PANTCHENKO. ROYALTY MAY BE VICTIMS Cholera Bacilli Used by Slayer ano His Operations May Have Caused Epidemic Declares He Is Under Hypnotic Spell. St. Petersburg. By the confession of Doctor Pantchenko , the notorious poisoner , it was developed Thursday " that aristocratic Russians had paid sums as high as $250,000 to rid them- selve > of creditors and other undesir able persons by the poison route. Pantchenko was arrested with Count O'Brien De kLassy , some time a o charged with the murder of 4he count's brother-in-law , Vassilli Boutur- lin , heir" to estate's ' valued at $3,500,000 , in order thaf the property might be inherited by Countess De Lassy. Pantchenko confessed his guilt , but set up the defense that he committed the crime while under the hypnotic influence of the count. The whole empire is interested In the case because of the wholesale con fession made by Pantchenko. Every mysterious death of recent years is recalled and there are rumors that the poisoner may have been engaged to cause the death of members of the royal family. He has admitted that he made a business of killing for hire , heirs ; rivals in love , insistent creditors and , in fact , any undesirable persons whose enemy was prepared to pay lib erally for their sudden taking off. The poison doctor , according to the police , has admitted causing about forty deaths , his f es running as high as $250,000 for a single assassination. His method was to inoculate the pa tient with cholera bacilli after he had been called to the bedside in his pro fessional capacity. He is now cred ited by some with having originated the cholera epidemic of a few year's ago. ago.The The doctor is seventy years old ? $ d appears to have had some standing in society despite his dual profession. Count De Lassy is a young man of Irish descent. The woman in the case is Mme. Muravieff , with whom .Pant chenko lodged and to whom he says he turned over his earnings. She fig ures in the trial as an alleged ac complice. JUAREZ FEARS REBEL ATTACK Practically All Citizens of Mexican Town , Flee to El Paso , Tex. , as Insurrectos Advance. El Paso , Tex. Ciudad Juarez , across the river from , here , was practically depopulated Thursday night , the resi dents having fled to this city in fear of an attack from insurrectos. The Mexican post office and two branch banks in Juarez were Closed after all the money and records had been brought here fosafety. . Federal soldiers , acting under or ders , took desperate measures to check the approach of the insurrectos , who were reported within twenty miles of Juarez. The Fourteenth cav alry was sent out to dynamite the tracks of the Mexican Central rail way , over which .a train was travel ing northward toward Juarez loaded with rebels. The train bearing the insurrectos ran over a mine of dynamite , which exploded , shattering one of the coaches , but it is not known just how many persons were killed. The coal passer on the engine was blown to pieces. A battle between the Fourteenth cavalry and the insurrectos raged for several hours.0 Thirty-two federal cavalrymen are believed to have been killed , the estimate being based upon the number'of riderless cavalry horses which strayed into Juarez. Six insur rectos were killed. Many were wound ed on both sides. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL PASSED Senate Adopts Galllnger Substitute But Vice-President Sherman.Casts 3 , the Deciding Vote. Washington. Vice-President Sher man cast the deciding vote which adopted the Galllnger substitute for the ocean mail subsidy bill in the sen ate Thursday. The vote was 39to 39. It provides for a bounty of $4 and ? 2 a mile respectively _ to American ships of the second and third class operating between American ports and ports of China , Japan , Australia and South American ports south of the equator. This bounty is to be paid only for the outward bound voyage. The bill limits the amount of the subsidy to be paid in any one year to $4,000,000 and , further , that It shall no t exceed the amount of money received on account of foreign mails. The bill now goes to the house. CrusKed by Stone Weighing Ton. " Chicago. Many persons "saw Thom as Raxworthy , a stonecutter , crushed to death under a stone weighing more than a ton in front of a new building at Dearborn and Harrison , streets Thursday. The stone while being hoisted with a derrick fell. Wills Half Million to Churches. Detroit , Mich. By the will of the late Jarn s Joy nearly half a million dollars is to pass eventually under the control of the Detroit Presbytery and Street chujrch. NEW PROBLEM-OF DEFENSE Will They Fortify the Panama Canal from Aeropla'ne Attacks ? BLAST KILLS DYNAMITE EXPLOSION IN JERSEY CITY CAUSES PANIC IN NEW YORK CITY. WORE THAN 150 INJURED Detonation Felt Many Miles Away Skyscrapers Are Rocked Men and Women Rush Into Streets Fearful x of Earth , Shocks. New York. At least a score of per sons were killed , 150 or more injured and property damaged to the extent of $500,000 when an explosion of 25 tons of dynamite occurred Wednesday at a pier close to the Central railroad of New Jersey's passenger ferry slip at Communipaw , N. J. At the same time the terrific force of the blowup reached through the underlying strata of rock not only in Manhattan , Brooklyn , Richmond and the Bronx , but far way points in Long Island and Connecticut , rock ing skyscrapers , smashing glass , tear ing away window frames and sending , panic stricken , tens of thousands of men and women into the streets , fear ful that an earthquake or som/ ) other vast natural turmoil was upon them. As in all upheavals of tremendous force , persons near by escaped death ; buildings close at hand were not in jured ; persons far away were killed ; structures at great distances were al most orn apart. v What happened , briefly , was this : Two cars of dynamite , containing 25 tons each , from the Dupont Powder company works in Wilmington , Del. , had arrived on the tracks at the- end of pier No. 7 almost adjoining the big Central station at Communi paw , the explosive being consigned to Palisades , on the Hudson , for use in blasting out rock. Two lighters , the Katherine W. and tfie Whistler , had drawn up to the pier end to receive cargoes of the Dangerous stuff. On the former was Captain John Healy and eight men , on the latter four men. On the pier end itself were twelve Polish laborers , some starting to eat their dinners from their pails ; others engaged in transferring the dynamite from the freight cars to the lighters. There were at least 24 men within actual handling distance of the dyna- mlte. mlte.Next Next there was an awful roar , a great cloud of haze and dust , a trem ble of earth and structures above the earth within a radius of 30 miles square , an Immense wave from the river that splashed high above every thing near by , and fhen a vision of death , maiming and. wreckage. / Dry Farming Meet Opened. Dickinson , N. D. With- every pros pect of being a great success , the Nortli Dakota dry farming congress opened here Tuesday. The sessions are being attended by hundreds of farmers from all parts of the state. The exhibits of agricultural products are quite ex- tpnsive , and a number of prizes have been provided by the business men of Dickinson. The Dickinson experiment station also has a fine exhibit of grains and forage crops. , _ - - f B Banker Is Sent to Prison. New Orleans. Judge Grubb Tues day sentenced William Adler , former president of the defunct State Na tional bank , to serve six years In the Atlanta federal penitentiary. Adler was recently convicted of the misap propriation of the bank's funds. Woman Gets Vote for Seijator. Denver , Colo. A woman received a vote for United States senator in the legislature Tuesday. She was Mrs. Katherine M. Cooke , former state superintendent - perintendent of public schools. L PASSES HARBOR BILL MEASURE CARRYING $36,000,00(7 ( 'ADOPTED BY SENATE. Numerous Amendments Sends Act to Conference National Waterways Commission to Be Continued. A Washington. After three hours of consideration the senate Tuesday passed the river and harbor bill , car rying appropriations aggregating $36 , 000,000. Amendments to the bill provide that $125,000' shall be spent to improve the Illinois and Mississippi canal at a point where it crosses Bast Bureau creek. The life of the national water ways commission shall be continued to 1013 , and it shall report upon the feasibility of a canal from Lake Erie , tfy way p the Maumee river and Fort Wayne , Ind. , to the southerly end of Lake Michigan. The original bill having passed the house , consideration of the amend ments will be taken up by a confer ence committee at an/ early date. KING'S HONOR IS CLEARED Editor Mylius , Who Charged BritisI Ruler With Morganatic Marriage , Is Sent to Prison. London. After brief proceedings a special jury before Lord Chief Jus tice Alverstone cleared King George of imputations against his personal character by finding Edward F. My lius guilty of circulating a libel. T.he defendant was sentence 1 to one year's imprisonment. Mylius was charged with distribut ing in England copies of the Libera tor , a Paris publication edited by Ed ward H. James , in which it was al leged that his majesty while prince of Wales contracted a morganatic mar riage with the elder daughter of Ad miral Sir Michael Seymour at Malta in 1890. The crown called the admiral as.a witness , and he testified that the daughter In question , now the wife of Captain Napier of "the British navy , never had seen his majesty before 1898 , when the king called on the wit ness at Portsmouth. His only other daughter died in 1895 and for three years preceding her death had been with her father at Malta , where he was commander-in-chief of the Med iterranean squadron. The king had not visited Malta while his daughters were , there and the younger daughter never had spoken to him. FRISCO M Y GET FAIR House Fixes on Pacific Coast Metropc Us as Site for Panama . Show. Washington. San Francisco won a signal victory in the house of repre sentatives Tuesday in the fight with New Orleans , for the Panama exposi tion in 1915. The resolution declaring in favor of San Francisco was passed by a vote of 259 to 43. The house first voted to takeup the resolution favoring San Francisco. While the resolution must be passed by the senate before the struggle is ended , it is generally believed now that the contest was good as settled and that San Francisco will be the final victor. Identify Girl In Barrel. Hazleton , Pa. According to clues discovered Thursday , the victim of the barrel murder mystery here three years ago was probably Miss Bertha Garlow , who disappeared from West Hazleton. She Is said to have known the secrets of a Black"'Hand gang in this vicinity. Color Plant Is Burned. New York. Damage estimated at 3150,000 was done Thursday by a. fire which destroyed the Joseph M. Huber Color works in Brooklyn. FIND BODY IN FIELD MYSTERY OF KENOSHA GIRL DEEPENED BY DISCOVERY. Hfluch Wooed Daughter Vanishes After Quarrel With Father Over Love Affairs. Kenosha , WIs. C. J. Jacobson , a fanner living three miles north of this city , found the dead and bruised body of Mary Zahon , aged twenty-four years , the daughter of Paul Zahon , .a farmer living in Somers township , in an out of the way cabbage field. Miss Zahon disappeared from the residence of her parents on thef night of January 8 , and since that time police officers in till parts of the coun try have been seeking her. The body was clad only in a suit of underwear. The girl evidently had been dead for a long time , as the body had been frozen stiff , and its condi tion indicated that it long had been exposed to the weather. The Kenosha police say they have not been able to find any motive for the killing of the girl. The disappearance of the girl has been a mystery with many interest ing angles. The young woman was of attractive appearance. She had been employed in a Kenosha factory. She was not without her sweethearts , and on the night of her disappearance she had quarreled with -her father , who had urged her to marry one of his friends , much older than herself. The girl had declined to see this man , had gone to her room in tears , and had told her father that she would not see any one. Two hours later it was discovered that her room was empty and , al though a search was made , no trace of her was found. BIG DEAL IN MICHIGAN- LAND Purchase of Vast Tract Almost af Large as the State of Rhode Island. Sault Ste. Marie , Mich. As a result of the purchase of 712,000 acres of land in the upper peninsula of Michi gan by H. H. Hamilton of Saint Paul , for the Western Land Securities com pany of that city , employment will be given to 5,000 men in that district this year. It Is the Intention of the com pany to spend $5,000,000 on drainage and other Improvements. Work will be rushed as rapidly as possible and as soon as spring opens laborers will be In demand on the peninsula. Dredging crews will in vade the territory and will start work as soon as the weather conditions per mit Manlstique river will be the natural outlet for all the water which Is to be removed from the land and- carried into Lake Michigan. As the ditch diggers build ditches around each section of land , they will at the same time be building a road. The huge dippers of these dredging ma chines as they lift the1 soil from the earth will cast it on either side of the ditch and deposit it in such a manner that steam" rollers and grading ma chines will find it very little trouble to roll jt out and level It Into a road. This plan of simultaneous ditch and road building has been successfully followed in the upper portion of Min nesota and in other states , and the old cry of farmers that they could not get their products to market because of the lack of highways will not be heard in the upper peninsula of Michigan because of the fact that the settler will find a good roadway near his land when he begins to till the soil. Great Interest has been manifested in this district by the announcement of the purchase of this y st tract of land , which covers 1,113 square miles and * is only a trifle smaller than the state of Rhode Island. Farmers who have already located in that district are highly pleased by the fact that a company with ample funds to carry on improvements has become the own er of this small empire and appreciate the fact that the improvements In the way of drainage .and clearing will make their land more valuable. The expenditure of such a sum as $5,000- 000 In the district will undoubtedly cause a wave of prosperity in Sault Ste. Marie , Rudyard , Manistique , Es- canaba , Pickford , Trout Lake , Menem- onle , Munising , Marquette and New- berry , the like of which has not been felt In many years. CONDEMNS.CIVIC FEDERATION United Mine Workers' Convention De clare National Body Is a Foe to Organized Labor. Columbus , O. - By a vote of 497 to 369 the substitute offered to the motion condemning the National Civic federation as opposed to the In terests of organized labor was adopt ed by the United Mine Workers of America. ' This disposes of the original motion which called for the , condemnation of the federation and the withdrawal of all the members of United Mine Work ers from that organization and also the. minority report which provided that no action regarding the Civic fed eration be. taken. Shoots Her Husband's Asssilant. Kansas City , Mo. While her hus band , Charles Ufford , was engaged In a desperate fight with Edward Hux- ford , who recently came hare from Des Moines , la. , Mrs. Meda Ufford shot and fatally wounded Huxford at her home here Thursday. Insflrance Man Dies. Pittsfield , Mass. James W. Hull , vice-president of the Berkshire Life Insurance company , died at his home here Thursday after a long - illness. Mr. Hull was sixty-nine years sld. HAD THROAT 1 i TROUBLE SINGE CHILDHOOD All Treatments Failed. Relieve ! by Peruna. * . Mrs. Wm. Hoh - mann , 2764 Llncold Ave. , Chicago , IlLj writes : "I suffered wltfi catarrh of the bron * chial tubes and had a terrible cough eve * since a child. * ' 1 would sit up in bed with pillows propped up oehinoS me , but still the triaL"i me sleep. I thought and everybody else that I had consump Jion. "So reading tha papers jabout Pe runa I decided to try , without the least bit of hope that it \ ould do me ang Mrs. Hohmann. good. But after taking - * ing three bottles I noticed a change * My appetite got better , so I kept on , never discouraged. Finally I seemed not to cough so much and the pains at my chest got better and I could rest at night I "I am well now and cured of a chronic cough and sore throat. I cannot tell you how grateful I am , and I cannot' thankv Peruna enough. It has cured where .doctors have failed and I talhf Peruna wherever I go , recommend it tq everybody. People' who think they have consumption better give it ai triaL" OPINION NOT ALWAYS FINAL ! Pretty Safe to Say That Doctor's Diagnosis Was "Away Off" in This Case. \ The pretty daughter of a physician Is engaged to a college student' of whom her father does not altogether approve. His daughter is too young to think of marriage , the doctor as serts ; the college student is too young to think of it , likewise. It Is out of the question. She explained all this to her lover the other night. "Father says , " she summed it up ; "father says , dear , that I will have to give you up. " The young man sighed. "Then it's all over ? " he murmured , with gloomy interrogation. And the girl laughed and blushed. "Well , " she said , "well , you you know that when the doctor gives you up that's just the time for you to take more hope. Isn't it sometimes that way ? . " Reboboth Sunday Herald. As It Appeared in Print. Senator Newlands of Nevada was soaring in debate one day , soaring so high he "hit the ceiling. " He' realized he was getting a trifle flowery and to excuse himself said : "Indeed , Mr. President , perfervid oratory may be pardoned , for this subject furnishes all the food eloquence needs. " "That sounded pretty good to Mr. Newlands , but he was a bit abashed when he read in the Congressional Record next day that he asserted his topic "furnished all the food elephants need. " The Selfish View. "Do you want cheaper postage ? " "I don't know/ ' replied the man who considers only his own interests. "I don't write many letters myself , and I don't see why I should be eager to make it easier for the men who send me bills. " ' A pessimist is a man who can't en joy the beauties of an apple blossom because he only thinks of the possible stomach ache it represents. RESULTS OF FOOD. Health and Natural Conditions Come From Right Feeding. Man , physically , should be .like a perfectly regulated machine , each , part working easily in its appropri ate place. A slight derangement causes undue friction and wear , and frequently ruins the entire system. A well-known educator of Boston found a way to keep the brain and the body in that harmonious cooperation tion which makes a joy of living. "Two years ago , " she writes , "being in a condition of nervous exhaustion , I resigned my position as teacher , which I had held for over 40 years. Since then the 'entire rest has , of course , been a benefit , but the use of Grape-Nuts has removed one great cause of Illness in the past , namely , constipation , and its attendant evils. "I generally make my entire break fast on p. raw egg beaten into four spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts , with a little hot milk or hot water added. I like it extremely , my food assimilates , and my bowels take care of themselves. I find my brain power and physical endurance much greater and I know ; that the use of the Grape-Nuts has contributed largely to this result "It is with -feelings of gratitude that I write this testimonial , and trust it may be the means of aiding others In their search for health. " Name given by Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Read the little book , "The Road to Wellville , " in pkgs. ' "There's a Rea son. " ' Ever rend the above letter ? A new one appears from time to time.They are seauiac , true , and full of aumaa