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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1912)
f Tlie Valentine Democr ; GEORGE M. GASKILL , Editor. VALENTINE , - - NEBRASK IOWA'S HEROINE PASSES AWA AT HER MOINGONA HOME. HAD BEEN ILL SOME TIM Gained Fame When 16 Years Old c Night of July 6 , 1381 , by Saving Pa senger Train from Plunging Into Collapsed Bridge. Moingona , Iowa. Katherine Carro Bhelley , known as Iowa's heroine , die at her home here Sunday , aged A years. Miss Shelley became * famoi on the night of July G , 1881 , when sli saved a Chicago and Northwestei passenger train from going into a rive which had left its banks and washe away the bridge. Bright's disease , following an ope ation for appendicitis at a Carroll ho : pital last summer , wore her vigoron constitution away and for months sh Lad lain at death's door. Sun Ivor of the family Miss Maine Shelley , Mrs George Swisher , of Woodward , Io. , an John Shelley , a Northwestern employ at Boone. were all present at he death. The patient suffered greatly but was conscious to the last , thoug unable to speak. She was as brave i the race of death as in life. While sitting in her home about 1 o'clock on the night of July G , 1881 Miss Shelley heard a crash , and upo going to the door found that a freigh train had been plunged through bridge which had been weakened by fierce storm. The entire crew wa killed. Miss Shelley knew that th passenger train was due to pass eve the structure in thirty minutes , am ; against the wishes of her mothei went out into the storm and pickci her way through the black night t the closest telegraph station , nearl ; two miles away. The passenger crm was warned of the danger. At tin meeting of the next legislature. Mis : Shelley ; who was then 1G years old was given a gold modal and $200 ii cash for her bravery. She also wa : rewarded by the railroad compan : and given a position as station agent which she held until a. few month ; ago. U. S. MAIL POUCH STOLEN. Colorado Officers Fir.d 300 Letter : Which Had Been Opened. Walsenburg. Colo. A United States mail pouch that arrived here on Colorado rado and Southern train No. 8 from the north was stolen and rifled. Twenty minutes later the slashed pouch , emp ty , was found in a nearbv corral. The trail of the robber led east to the bdnfc of the Ilurfano river , where 300 rifled letters were found hidden in the bush es. There is no clew to the robber's identify. Coal DeaJera Cut Price. Chicago. Coal dealers in the west side tenament district have cut their prices for fuel delivered in baskets In half , as a letult of the establish ment of a small coal yard by the Episcopal cathedral , at which coal was sold at 10 cents a basket. It was pur chased as fast as Dean Walter T. Sumner - ner could supply it. and dealers an nounced they would meet the church price. They previously had sold k at 2-3 to 30 cents a basket. Another Wholesale Murder. Lake Charles , La. Badly mutilated , the bodies of Felix Brussard , his wife and three children , aged S. G and 3 , negroes , were found in their home here , making the second wholesale ne gro murder in this state within a week and the sixth within a year. A blood stained ax was found beneath the bed on which the bodies lay. Admitted to West Point. Washington , D. C. Congress has authorized the admission of Joe Pa- sos Diaz , son of the president of Nic aragua , to the military academy at West Point , the house passing the sen ate resolution for that purpose. Live Stock Market. Sioux City. Cattle Good to choice corn fed steers , $7.00@S.OO ; medium to good , § 5.50@7.00 ; good to choice grass steers , S4.50@G.50 ; good to choice fat cows and heifers , 55.00@G.OO ; grass cows , o50@5.00 ; canners and cut ters , $2.75@3.50 ; bulls , $4.00@5:50 ; Teals , $3.75@7.75. Hogs Prices range from $550@6.10 , with a bnlk of the sales at $5.85(5)6.00. ( ) Sheep Lambs , $4.50@6.25 ; yearlings , ? 4.75@5.25 ; vvethers , $3.50@4.50 ; ewes , S2.75 ® umng ! County Institute. "West Point , Neb. The Cum ing County Farmers' institute will hold its sessions at West Point on January 31 .and February 1. Shuster Departs for Paris. Vienna. William M. Shuster , the former treasurer general of Persia , has left here for Paris Mr. Shuster was also accompanied by Edward Bell , secretary of the American legation at Teheran , who will return to his post after a few days In Pari FLAMES SWEEPS THROUGH DU NING ( ILL. ) INFIRMARY BUILD ING ; 270 PATIENTS SAVED. EMPLOYES ARE THE HERO ! Two Insane Turn on Attendant a Fierce Battle on Bridge 50 Feet Air Ensues Police Restrain I mates From Self-Destruction. Chicago. Insane patients at t Dunning (111. ) Institution were herd together and marched out of the blf Ing "old infirmary" building just t fore the structure collapsed. Supposed to have ignited from defective flue on the top floor of tl main wing , the flames gradually a their way downward and four hou after the fire was discovered virtual all of a three-wing building , four ai five stories high , was in ruins. The fire was characterized by i most innumerable acts of heroism ( the part of underemployes and a tendants. One man was leading a group of p tients across the bridge leading fro the main structure to a wing that he not been attacked by the fire wh two of their number tried to run bac into the flames. Thomas Edgar , a tendant in charge , ran after then seized both and endeavored to dra them back to safety. The two patients turned on him an struck , hit and kicked him in an e fort to drive him away. Failing i this they tried to throw him over th high railing and down to tthe groum 50 feet below. They had succeeded in pushing hii to the top of the railing when h broke from their grasp , knocked dow one of the men and forced thp othe into the wing in which he was carin for his quota of patients. Then h carried in the other man , still kicl ing and biting. There were 270 insane patients i the institution all of whom were goi ten out without injury. When some of the patients saw th flames and heard the clanging of th bells on the arriving fire engines the began to fight. Like horses , for whicl flames appear to have mad fascin ? tion. some of them started to run ii the direction of the fire , while other rushed to windows and tried to leai out. out.The The police , with drawn clubs , helpe < to form lines of the patients and t < keep the violent from committing sui cide or injuring those who were try ing to save them. Many policemen , firpmon and at tendants , both men and women. bor < deep scratches and bruises as mui < witnesses of the terrific strugp * the > had. HARVESTER TRUST IS FLAYEE Representative of Independents Makes Sensational Charges at House Committee Hearing. Washington. Sensational charge * against the International Harvester company , the so-called "harvest ; trust , " were made before the housi rules committee by F. J. Lowe of New York , representing independent manufacturers. Mr. Lowe told the committee tht 51 per cent , of the stockholders in thf steel , sugar , beef and bankers' trusts control also the International Harvest 3r company. "We charge that the international Harvester compam : hrough the National City bank of ew York , can break any independent concern in the United States , " sai < ! Mr. Lowe. The witness said the department ) f justice had "chloroformed ever novement made to prosecute the hnr rester trust , shown by the fact thif .he Townsend report to the depart nent in 190G has slumbered ther- iver since. The report showed , amon" ither things , that there were thirteo- ndependent harvester concerns in th Jnited States when the Internationa' Tarvester company was organized " "oday there are only two imlepend nt concerns in the United States Mr. Lowe charged also that the In srnatioual Harvester company insist- d on a profit of 100 per cent , on its oods sold in this country , but that uropo got them almost at cost. : IGHT IN ASUNCION'STREETS lany Are Killed During Battle Be tween Rebels and Loyalists in Paraguay's Capita _ x _ Buenos Aires , Argentina. Many ere killed in the streets of Asuncion ie capital of Paraguay , in fights be- veen adherents of President Liberate ojas and revolutionists. Insurgents , however , are still in con ol of the situation , and all attempts 7 the government troops to rescue resident Rojas. who has been a pris- ler in their hands for several days , ive proved unsuccessful. I Lula Glaser Granted Decree. Chicago. Mrs. Ralph C. Hern , sown to the theatrical world as Lul ? laser , the comic opera star , xvap anted a decree of divorce here bv idge McDonald in the supreme court i the grounds of cruelty. $6,250,000 More for Ship Line. Hamburg. Germany. Directors of e Hamburg-American Steamship inapauy propose to stockholders a ,250,000 increase in the capital stock the compan- . thus bringing it up ? : :7.oOo.ooo. : FIND MAN WHO WANTS TO TALK POLITICS . VE. TRlCp WE1-S IN HOT WATER , BUTTHR'FROZE'rq REPUBLIC FACES THIRD OCCUR ) TION UNLESS IT REFORMS EXISTING CONDITIONS. SEE SITUATION AS SERIOU t President Gives Gomez Ultimatui That There Must Be No Militar Interference in Political Affairs- Veterans Seeks Gomez's Overthrov Washington. Armed iuterventio In Cuba by the United States for th purpose of protecting the establishe government and preserving peace wa predicted here as likely to follow th transmission of a note to Havan , that the United States would be con polled to interfere in Cuban politic unless the "veterans' movement there is immediately quelled. The note , which amounted practical ly to an ultimatum , was sent to Mir ister Beaupre following a repor from him that officers in th army had deliberately disobeyei in order issued by President Gome : forbidding them to participate in pol itics or attend meetings of the Vet Brans' association. The situation is regarded as th < Tiost serious since the second mill tary occupation. The veterans are re ported to have made threats agains the government. A fleet of four army transports I : now in readiness at Newport News tc sail for Guantanamo , and within a fe\\ 3ays 20,000 troops , can be put aboart it with which to enforce the ultima - After the cabinet meeting Secre tary Knox , under instruction from the president , gave out the following note which has been sent by the govern ment to Minister Beaupre in Havana , who was directed to present it tc President Gomez : "The situation in Cuba , as now re ported , causes grave concern to the government of the United States. "That the laws intended to safe guard free republican government hall be enforced and not defied is ob viously essential to the maintenance of the law , order and stability indis- lensable to the status of the repub lic of Cuba , in the continued well be ing of which the United States has al ways evinced and cannot escape a vi tal interest. "The president of the United States , therefore , looks tc the presi- lent and government of Cuba to pre vent a threatened situation which cvould compel the government of the United States , much against its de sires , to consider what measures it nust take in pursuance of the obliga- : ions of its relations to Cuba. " c EXPRESS AGENT IS TAKEN Robin C. Fergason , Claiming to Be Son of Railroad Chief , Held for $7,000 Theft. Chicago. Posing as the son of a ailroad president , and known to the imployes of the Hotel Astor as the Millionaire Kid , " Robin Carlisle Fer- ; ason is under arrest here. Until recently he was a messenger or the Southern Express company on he Georgia Central railroad. He was ccused of the theft of a package ontaining $7,000 on December 16. He has been in Chicago since Janu- ry 2. With him was a young woman e represented as his wife. It is said he was a waitress in a hotel at uincy , 111. Since coming to Chicago Fergason as financed a theatrical venture that as cost him. more than 31,000. Wilhelmina III , No Heir. The Hague , Netherlands. An ap- arently well grounded report is in trculation that Queen Wilhelmina , ho two weeks ago was said to be ex- ecting an Interesting family event , as suffered an illness which dissi- ates immediate hope for the birth of i heir to the throne. Taft Honors Illinolsan. Washington. President Taft has Dminated Edwin Baxter of Illinois t be commissioner of education at arto Rico WOULD OWN WiRE ! HITCHCOCK ASKS U. S. TO A ( QUIRE TELEGRAPH LINES. Postmaster General Points Out Thz Postal System Would Be Made More Profitable. Washington. Acquisition of th telegraph lines by the governinen and their operation as a part of th postal system is the latest idea c Postmaster General Hitchcock , i resolution to this effect will be o ! fered _ to congress at t e present ses sion. sion.He He believes such a consolidatioi would result in important economic and permit the adoption of lower tele graph rates. Post offices are main tained in numerous places not reachei by telegraph and proposed consolida tion would afford a favorable oppor tunity for the wide extension of tels graph facilities. In many small towns where tele pi-aph companies have offices th < telegraph and mail business coulc b ° readily handled by the same em 1-loyes. A method has already been pre scribed for the taking over of th < telegraph lines by section 5267 of the revised statutes , which provides thai the government may , for postal , mili tarjr or other purposes , purchase telegraph lines operating in the United States at an appraised value. PRIZES FOR SCHOOL PUPILS National Municipal League Offers Twofer for Essays 0:1 "Street Cleaning in My City. " Philadelphia. The National Muni cipal league announces that through the generosity of certain friends it is enabled to offer two prizes to high schools , the first of $30 and the second of $20 , for the best two essays on "Street Cleaning in My City. " The essays must not exceed fifteen hundred words in length. They must be clearly written on one side of the sheet only and must be mailed to the secretary of the National Muni cipal league , Clinton Rogers Woodruff , 703 North American Building , Phila delphia , not later than Feb. 20 , 1912. Each essay must have an assumed name at the top of the first page and be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing within the name , address and class of the competitor , and on the outside of the envelope the assumed name. These envelopes will not be Dpened until the award of the judges lias been made. JURY SEES DYNAMITE CODE Ping" Letters Direct the Blowing Up of Certain Structures Facts Given by McNamara. Indianapolis , Ind. Telegrams and etters signed "Ping , " purporting to : ontain a code giving instnicticns ibout viaducts , bridges and buildings hat were to be blown up , were read tefore the federal grand jury in con- lection with Ortie McManlgal'a con- ession regarding the dynamite con- piracy. This signature , according to Mc- lanigal , was not that of the McNa- aaras , but was used by , another per- on whom he named. Because of his belief that "Ping" ras receiving $200 for each "job , " and : as giving him only $125 , McManig.il ays he refused to work with him , and iter arranged through John J. Me- { Tamara , to do "jobs" with the aid of ames B. McNamara. Surgeon to Fix Morse's Fate. Washington. Surgeon General Tor- ey of the army has been called In Dnsultation by Attorney General Tickersham to review the findings C the army medical officers on the Dndition of Charles W. Morse and re- ort to the department of justice. Sailors Are Lost In Storm. London. A three masted steamship alieved to be from America founded - ed with all hands at Peterhead in ie fierce storm which swept the ritish Isles. I MANY GREET FARLEY CARDINAL IS GIVEN GREAT OVATION - TION AT NEW YORK. I Triumphal Return Is Marked by Elab- i orate Decorations 330.CQC Gather I , at Pier. , New York. The triumphal return to I New York of Cardinal John Murphy ; Farley was the signal for the great- j est ovation that has ever been accord- i ed a man of the church in the United { States. Coming back from Rome , ! where he had been elevated from Archbishop of New York to the high est honor within the grant of the Catholic church , excepting that of the Holy Father , he was the recipient of visible and audible homage such as is seldom paid to any man. Many of the most prominent ligures in the public life of the nation were Cardinal Farley , among these who participated in the welcome to Cardinal Farley , which was not only brilliant , but impressive At Twenty-third street the cardinal's carriage turned into Fifth avenue and I proceeded in a direct line to St. Pat- j ' rick's Cathedral , the curbs on both sides being crowded with members of all the big Catholic societies of Greater ( er New York. Further up the cadet ' corps of all the Catholics military ' schools , institutions and organizations of the metropolis lined both sides of Fifth avenue and at the very end of his triumphal march , the cardinal was greeted by his best and most beloved friends , the 90,000 Catholic children ! attending the parochial schools of Greater New York. This part of the reception seemed to please the car dinal more than any other feature of his welcome. RAIL CHIEF DES ! IN FIRE Guy L. Steward , Industrial Agent of Cotton Belt Road , Burned to Death in Wreck. St. Louis. Guy L. Stewart , agri cultural and industrial agent of the Cotton Belt railroad of St. Louis , was burned to death in his private car in a wreck in which trains of three dif ferent roads were in collision at Kelso , Mo. The Cotton Belt passen ger train was late in arriving at Kel so. It found the track blocked by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois freight train. While the passenger train was waiting an Iron Mountain freight train crashed into it from the rear , telescop ing it into the freight train ahead. RIOTERS ARE SENT TO CELLS Striking V/orkers at Lawrence. Mass. , Sentenced to House of Correc tion on Various Charges. Lawrence , Mass. A dozen strikers appeared in the police court to an swer charges for rioting , assault with intent to kill , carrying concealed , weapons , disturbing the peace and I other offenses. Three men were sen tenced to the house of correction for terms up to two years. FIFTY HURT IN DERAILMENT Big Four' Passenger Train Goes Over an Embankment Near Carey , Ohio. Toledo , O. Fifty passengers on Big Four train No. 1 , from Detroit to Cincinnati , were hurt in a wreck vhich occurred four miles south of 2arey , O. Two of the day coaches eft the track on account of spread- ng rails. These two cars went into : L ditch. ( ELLOGG MAY BE A DIPLOMAT i raft V/ouId be Glad to Have St. Paul Man Become Ambassador to Some European Court. Washington. Frank B. Kellogg of i 5t. Paul , Minn. , soon may be invited j v President Taft to represent the j . . -'ted States as ambassador at one j if o courts of Europe. News that j he president would be glad to have j Ir. Kellogg enter the American diplo matic service has become known here Five Children Die in Fire. Prentice , Wis. Five children , two I oys and three girls , of John Deer- ig , ranging in age from one to thir- sen years of age , were burned to eath when the Deering home , two liles from here , was destroyed by fire. Vardaman Goes to Senate. Jackson. Miss. Balloting separate- - , the two houses of the Mississippi sgislature named James K. Varcla- lan to succeed United States Senator eroy Percy , whose term expires in [ arch. I Chancellor on "Agricultural Educa- | tion. " I At the joint session of the Farmers' 1 Co-operative Grain and Live Stock ' association , the Nebraska Farmers' Congiess. and the Nebraska Rural Life Commission , held at Lincoln last week , Chancellor Avery of the state university spoke on agricultural edu cation , and among other things said : "The-state university has b"ecmieone of the great educational institutions of America , and we are entering an era in which the keynote will be the development of agricultural educa tion. The agricultural college has won its place as a trainer of experts. Let the university maintain its posi tion of leadership in this newer edu cational mox'ement. Let the state maintain a strong agricultural depart ment in each of our four normal schools. Let the central school of agriculture at Lincoln , and the new school at Curtis , be developed as models in secondary agricultural edu cation. Then let the next legislature pass a bill granting liberal subsidies to those high sclfools which are mak ing a beginning in efficient agricul tural instruction. Blair , Tecumseh , and Holdrege are already taking steps in this direction. Valentine might use our substation there for demonstration purposes. Definite standards should be set , and the prin cipal of the University School of Agri culture might be made the supervisor of agricultural instruction in the sub sidized schools. , j Hotels Must Have Fire Escapes. R. D. McFadden , state inspector of hotels , reports that the conditions of hotels in Nebraska have improved un der state inspection and that hotel- keeprrs generally are willing to do \ anything required of th' in for the bet terment of conditions. He and his as sistants have inspected 250 of the ! ) S7 hotels in the state. January 7 that portion of the hotel inspection law re- luiring fire escapes on all hotels more : han two stories high will become ef fective. Mr. McFadden's department vill enforce this law. The labor com- nissioner , who has charge of the en- 'orccment of fire escape laws in gen- ? ral , has by agreement consented to his arrangement. The hotel law re- luires iron fire escapes on the exterior > f buildings used for hotel purposes f such buildings are over two stories ( igh. Mr. McFadden will require one ; uch escape for each fifteen rooms on. he floor above the second floor. Prepare for Mobilization. Adjutant General Ernest H. Phelps , .ssisted by Major Julius A. Penn. U. S. ufantry , has completed plans , for the peedy mobilization of the Nebraska ational guard in the event the guard hould be called into the service of lie United States. The war depart- lent has asked each state to prepare omplete plans for mobilisation. Ad- atant General Phelps has issued in- Irucf ions to company commanders to lake the necessary preparations and ave mobilization orders in readiness n 5 that future company commanders lay readily lay their hands on suck Dcuments and thus lose no time. / Secretary V/ill Accept Petitions. Secretary of State Wait has decided mt in the absence of any lavon ie subject he will accept petitions ir delegates to the national conven- on asking for the placing of two or ore names on the ticket. Petitions ir delegates may be filed separately , ie petition for each delegate , or one Jtition may contain the name of sev- al candidates for delegates. No Wolf Bounty. Governor Joseph M Carey of Wy ning has asked Governor Aid rich nether or not the state of Nebraska > propriates funds for the extermina- in of wolves and other wild animals , reply Private Secretary Fuller has ritten that at present no bounty la-w : ists. Indian for Representative. Thomas L. Sloan of Fender , an at- rney who lays claim to Indian an- stry. has filed nomination papers as democratic candidate for represen- tive in the legislature. Name Can Go Twice on Ballot. Attorney General Martin holds in- mally that the name of a candidate : two offices whose duties do not erfere with each other can be infed twice upon the primary ballot- is will IP- Governor Aldrich run for vernor ar-d for delegate at large at j same ' ne. It will also enable JBrj -i to be a candidate for egate at large , whether his name tak n off the ticket for president or V. D. Hunter , a former Lincolnite , v of Dallas. Tex. , has been honored the election to the presidency of : National Society of Entomologists Washington. in. application signed by forty-nine ing men of Columbus who desire to : ome members of a militia company i been received by Adjutant Gen- 1 Phelps of the Nebraska national rd. There are now twenty-three ipanies in the guard and the adju- t general will not add to the list il he is confident there is sufficient ds at his disposal to sbpport and ip another compaav.
