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1 Fa t Guard was ordered out A company left on a special Burlington train to guard the convicts The warden and his immediate aids made quick work of removing the books records and papers of the instl tution to a place of safety Nothing else of value was saved from the burn ing structures The main building contained the chapel office library and living apart ments of the warden and officers It is rumored that several escapes nave been made and that the convicts are getting in an ugly mood but this report was denied both by the warden and several of Hie guards Tluv cntire cell house at the west end Is destroyed The main center build lngr Is gone This practically destroys all the buildings used for the purpose of a prison CAUCUS DWINDLES AWAY Only Forty five Member Attend the Set alou Held Lait Night Lincoln March 1 Tho Republican senatorial caucus met last night but with only 45 members present less than enough to nominate under the rules and udjourued until next Tues day The action of lust night is re garded as tho forerunner of an aban donment of the present caucus and the circulation of a new call under changed rules On ballot for United States senator In Joint session Mead transferred his vote from Thompson to Dietrich The Lancaster men however turned the vote of Trompen from Currlo to Rosewuter Mlskell alio came back to Rosewator making tho latter 15 tfelklejohn gained Johnson and had Spencer been present would have touched 85 as high watar mark Other changes were of a minor character Che totals Allen S0KlDkld 2 Berge Martin B Croume 8 Melkltjohn 84 uurne 13 Metcalfe 1 Dietrich ntlner 2 Harlan 3 Harrington 41 IlUuhaw 13 MorUn 2 Itoiewater 10 Tbotnpion D H 38 Thompson W H 11 Wetbereld 2 The senate devoted a greater part of the day to work In committee of the whole discussing the manner In which constitutional amendments shall urtw Tii iliaHMKtiBiiiH WJJWIUWKi be printed upon ofllclal ballots Tho Judiciary committee made nn ex haustive report lu which the death knell of many bills was sounded The cigarette bill which the committee re ported for postponement was upon motion to non concur placed ujhhi gen eral file by a vote which Indicates the passngo of the bill In the senate ATLANTA JS EXCITED Wife of 1inmlnnnt itptrelrr the VUtlm of an OtltiHgr Atlanta Gu March 1 Mrs 0 A Buchanan wife of a well known Jew eler living in the heart of a promi nent residence section of the city and within two blocks of the governors mansion was the victim yesterday of an outrage which has caused much ex citement in Atlanta She was com pelled at the point of a pistol held by u negro who stealthily entered the house while she was alone to give him her purse containing 5 Tho negro then commanded Mrs Buchanan to cook breakfast for htm and while she was engaged In tills he stood with his pistol constantly pointed at her After the food had been placed on the table the negro seized Mrs Buchanan and bound her to a bedstead He then ate his breakfast When he hud fin ished he gathered some paper and plnclng it under Mrs Buchanan aet lire to It The negro then ran from the room and jumping through a rear window escaped Mrs Buchanan kicked tho burning mass from her and by soverely wrenching her wrists man aged to free herself Her condition Is critical The entire police force and bloodhounds are searching for the no gro FIVE MINERS KILLED Victim to Accident In South McAUiter and Wolr City Slmfts AII Were Shot Flieri South McAlester I T March 1 An explosion occurred last night at mine No 5 one mile northeast of tills city which resulted In the death of three men and the probable Injury to many more The dead are Stove Dclucas Bristo Bnrt and W B Welch All three men were shot fircrs and had just gone Into the mine to work when the explosion occurred It is supposed that the pit was over charged with gas A rescuing party Is working heroically to reach tho dead men but as the force of the shock resulted in great damage to tho iniue slow progress Is made The mine Is the property of the Osage Coal and Mining company which Is owned by the Missouri Pa cific railroad Weir City Kan March 1 An ex plosion occurred last night at shaft No 3 of the T R Crowe Coal com pany Two shot fircrs S B Hatfield single and J W Watklns married wore killed Watklns was colored The explosion Is supposed to have been due to an accumulation of gas The explosion was terrific tho timbers In the shaft being torn to splinters The lower part and top were wrecked STRUCK BY ATIDAL WAVE White Star Lluer IIux a Lively Uxporlenoe at Sea New York March 1 The White Star line steamer Teutonic which reuched port yesterday had a lively experience on Sunday While the ship was riding In fuir weather and going at her usual speed she was struck by a tidal wave The ship went down In the hollow of tho sea and Immediately there was crushing of Iron work and a mass of water boarded her on the starboard side thundering down on hatches and deck houses The wave broke high up throwing down the men In the crows nest and rushed on leaving them bruised and badly shaken John Mlchaelson a steerage passenger was hurled down and caught his foot In such a way that it was almost com pletely torn off at the ankle Tho passengers generally became so fright ened that they were on the verge of a panic MKINLEY AVERSE TO DELAY Wunta Chineio Negotiation to Proceed Without More Woodshed Washington March 1 Special Com missioner Rockhlll at Peking has been Instructed to make It known to the foreign ministers thut tho president strongly deprecates any action that will tend to delay or check the present negotiations there and especially Is ho desirous that there shall be no further unnecessary bloodshed It Is confi dently believed that our commissioner will be able to secure the support and co operation of a sufficient num ber of the other ministers to secure a cessation of the punitive demands which It Is believed by officials hero are not only unworthy of civilized na tions but threaten to drive the Chinese to desperation and thereby cause a renewal of armed resistance on their part Ignored Rio Slgnali of DLtreM San Francisco March 1 Captain Tlodgeson of the Fort Point life saving station notified Major Blakely super intendent of life saving service that Mark Ellingsou the guardsman who was on duty In the lookout tower tho morning the steamer Rio de Janeiro was wrecked had confessed to him that he heard the Rlos signals of dis tress but paid no attention to them and neglected to arouse tho station Captain Hodgeson immediately sus pended Ellingsou fSStOIl ffl War Revenue Reduction Bill Adopted Without Division REPEAL SOME PROVISIONS Tin on Ititik Olieobt IlomlMory Note UiircK Kmielnlx TiIiUlupli nud Tele phone Miiiii4 und Moituitti i Knocked AliiUe Ctincclout Washington March 1 An Iintncnso amount of business was disposed of by the senate yesterday and not a single point raised was sharply con troverted The river and harbor bill carrying appropriations of more than was passed without a word of dissension nud the scuulu adopted the war revenue reduction bill without disturbing lu the least the inlll pond smoothness of the proceed ings Final conference reports were made and agreed to on the diplomatic and consular and the agricultural ap propriation bills and another confer ence on the postolllce appropriation was agreed to Conferences on several other measures were agreed to The last hour and a half of the session was devoted to the consideration of the civil sundry hill The house cleared the decks yester day a number of Important confer ence roiHirts without much difficulty Tho final reports on the diplomatic and consular and agricultural appro priation bills were adopted The ma jor part of the day was devoted to the bill to promote the elllclency of the revenue cutter service Tho confer ence report on the war revenue reduc tion bill proved generally acceptable to both sides and was adopted without division Mr Richardson the minor ity leader acquiesced In It as tho best that could be done although ho stated that the minority still believed tho war taxes should be reduced 70000 000 The report as ngreed to Bhows a com promise all along the lines of the bill tho changes In the present law being ns follows War Rnvonue Reduction Tobnrro Twenty per cent dlnconnt of the orlclnil tux of 11 cents per pound nt ncnlnst 2r per cent reduction ns fixed by the senate nnd none ns t lie hill pnssed the house The rnte agreed upon will uiijko the tnx f0 00 per hundred pounds ClRnrs On those weighing more tlmn three pounds per thousand the bouso rnte of 3 per thousand wns retnlned as against it0 as fixed by the senate and 3t50 as In the present law On those weighing less than three pounds per thousand the senate rate of 18 cents per pounds was allowed to stand Cigarettes On those weighing not more thnn three pounds pet thousand the sennto aetlon Wine the rate at 18 cents per pound prevnlled Ileer The house rate of 1V per barrel and repealing the Vi per cent discount was retained Rankers Capital rresent law retained Commerelal Brokers Tax Repealed Certificates of Stock TinnHfeis The rate of 2 cents for each 1000 Is retained and the senate amendment Including the trntiHue tlons of biieket shops was necepted by tho bouse conferees Sales of Iroduets at Hvchnnges The sen nte nmendment exempting the sales of merchandise In the nctunl course of trans portation was accepted but the rate of 1 cent for each X100 as fixed by the present law was retained Rank Cheeks Repealed In tccordanee with the house aetlon Certificates of Oeposlt Tnx repealed Promissory Notes Tnx repealed Money OrderH Tax repented BMW of Exchange Foreign The rate fixed nt 2 cents for each 100 Rills of Lading for Export Repealed Express Receipts Repenled Telegraph Messages Repealed Miscellaneous Ronda Tax Repealed ex cept upon bonds of Indemnity Certificates of Damage and Certificates Not Otherwise Specified Repealed Charter Party Repealed Conveyances Exempted bMow 2B00 above 2f00 25 cents for each JWX Telephone Messages Tnx repealed Tnsitrnnee Tnx repealed on all kinds of Insurance In nccordance with the action of the house the senate conferees receding on nil senate amendments Leases Tnx repealed Manifests Tax Repealed Mortgages Tax repealed Steamship Passage Receipts Exempted below V0 In value nnd the rate fixed at fiO cents for each W In cost for that price and over Power of Attorney Tax repealed Protest Tax repealed Warehouse Receipts Tax repealed Proprietary Medicines Tax repealed In accordance with bouse action the senate nmendment being disagreed to Perfumery nnd Cosmetlca Tax repealed Chewing Onm Tnx repenled Legacies Law modified so as to exclude from taxation legacies of eharltnhle re ligious literary or educational ehnracter The total rede on nf the revenues as made by the bill ns ngreed upon will amount to nbout S41 000000 as ngnlnst a reduction of tin 000 000 ns It passed the house and 45000000 as amended In the senate The provisions of the hill as ngreed npon will take effect on the first of next July Preparing for the Inauguration Washington March 1 The prepara tions for tho Inauguration of Presi dent McKInley next Monday are rap Idly nearlng completion and without all signs fall there will be a larger crowd of strangers present to witness the ceremony than Washington has seen In several years Tho general Inauguration committee has been hard at work for more than a month per fecting arrangements and the spec tacular features of the celebration as well as the general arrangements made for the occasion Is on an excep tionally flno scale 2zV2IJtj22t2r The NOKlolk Weekly News Journal iiMiY ram Nebraska State Frison the Prey of Flames LOSS TO THE STATE 300000 Conrlct Arn Ituttlml From Thnlr CMU nuil tho Lincoln Nntlounl Ounril moncitl to Corrnl Them lu Ilia Irlion VnrdAlil From Lincoln Arrlos Lincoln March 1 Klrc which start ed In the living rooms of the wardon of the state punitontlnry at midnight last night destroyed the entire main building together with the cell house and other buildings Before the lames had gained a great headway Warden Davis gave orders to release the eon Tlcts from the cells und march them under guard to the prison yard and there place them under double guard The removal was ac complished safely and without disor der Extra guards were also posted on the stockade walls armed with shotguns with orders to permit no es capes The origin of the lire is un known When llrst discovered the otlicers of the Institution immediately set to work ull the small lire lighting apparatus of tho prison Water was used in abundance but assistance from tho city lire department was called for and a steamer and hose cart wore dispatched In response to a tele phone messuge At 140 a m tho city Are department arrived and began throwing water on the walls The flames had gained too great headway however and the firemen directed their efforts to saving some of the re mote shop buildings By request of the wnrden Chief of Police Lloagland sent all available policemen to aid In preserving order Later as an addi tional measure of safety Lieutenant Governor Savage acting lu the ab sence of Governor Dietrich inxesponse to the suggestion of the warden or dered out the local company of state militia The los to the state Is over 300000 The penitentiary cost 312000 orig inally and there have been additions and Improvements since The number of Inmates averaged 400 I Progress of the Flame The fire started from an unknown cause in the kitchen of the upper story In the main building near the cell house at the west end The flro was discovered by Warden Davis himself shortly bofore midnight he being aroused by Hie crackling of flames and smell of smoke The alarm was immediately given convicts guards and employes aroused The convicts were ordered to clothe themselves and lu their pris on garb marshaled into the huge court yard to the number of nearly 300 under the espionage of a score of armed guards patrolling on the top of the wall surrounding the court yard The emergency guard of the peniten tiary system was quickly at work with lines of hose but these proved Inef ficient and a telephone message sum moned the Lincoln lire department All efforts to save the great stone building were unavailing The con victs were hustled out into the yard armed extra guards stood sentinel on the walls and the Lincoln National NORFOLK NEBRASKA FRIDAY MARCH 1 1101 TnrkUh Troop Ordered to Frontier London March 1 An lmnerlul Irade orders the concentration of t0000 Turkish troops on the Rulgarlan fron tier near Krustendlt says the Con stantinople correspondent of the Dally Mall This measure Is taken on the advice of the ministry of war owing o agitations la Macedonia which is assuming the form of brigandage on a huge scale Orimgn It U or U Fulling Ondtsehorn Cape Colony March 1 Uenetal Dewet It Is olllelnlly assert ed having failed to cross the Orange river at naltorspoort 1m hurrying to Henfonleln by the way of Ielrusvlllo The Orange river Is fulling fst RIDDLED wfTH BULLETS liidlnu lninrndi Shot to Ii tli liy Moll at llulilenvllln Holdenvllle 1 T March -Johnson Miller a full blood Creek Indian was shot to dealh by a masked body of men Miller was under arrest for the murder of Herbert McDade lie 5mis arrested yesterday near WVtuinku and brought here pending u hearing before tho United States coiytnls sloner The ollleers fearing trouble hcerelly convoyed their prisoner out of town two or three tulles and lodged nt the farm house of Robert Stewart At a little after midnight about -10 armed and masked men forced an en trance Into the house disarmed tho guards and began shooting at the prisoner at Mhort range Tho prisoner eseuped from the house by Jumping through n Hereon door and lied across the yard clearing a four foot picket fence at one leap running 100 yards where he was overtaken and his body filled with lend More than a dozen bullet holes are to be seen In his body Miller was a desperado and had com mitted three cold blooded murders within six mouths besides numerous robberies TWO DIE IN A WRECK Three Other Badly Injured anil gir Train Horned n ltnult of Colli Ion Near MoKnaport ln Pittsburg March 1 Two dead three badly hurt and a passenger train burned Is the result of a head on collision between a passenger train and a local freight on tho Pittsburg and Charleston railroad at Coal Vul ley The dead Frank White engineer Milton S Thompson mall clerk The Injured J Shaver fireman badly scalded and bruised Charles Stroud haggagciuuHter bruised and burned and Michael Kullck Schoeu vllle passenger back hurt None of the other passengers woro hurt beyond minor cuts and bruises Immediately nfter the collision tho passenger cars took tiro and were de stroyed only one car escaping Tho trains iti collision were tho Uniontown jcpreis south bound and tho leal freight coming toward Pittsburg Tho local was standing on n siding deliver ing freight at tho time For somo reason as yet unexplained the express Instend of keeping to the main track shot off Into the siding and telescoped the other train All of the victims were on the express train which car ried betweeti fil and 10 passengers Mr Niifion Vllt MoukjuriW Kansas City March 1 Mrs Carrin Nation reached Kansas City yesterday nml left last flight for Topeku Dur ing the afternoon she visited the 15x change building at the stock yards in company with her brother 7 V Moore who In a live stock dealer here She was followed by a large crowd of brokers and cattle men and busi ness was suspended temporarily Emperor William Hat Close Call Berlin March 1 About noon Em peror William had a nnrrow escape from serious Injury while crossing Untcr don Linden when his carriage came into collision with an electrlu car near the Schloss The emperor was thrown against tho side of the car riage and slightly bruised Iteetl Not the Right Negro Indianapolis March L The negro Doc Itced was ugalu taken to the Darter home in Irvingtou and after carefully scrutinizing the prisoner Miss Darter declared he was not her assailant He was then released from custody Ilotha Named Cnnilltlnna London March 1 The Dally News says We learn that Commandant Ilotha offered to surrender on certain conditions and that pour parlies arc In progress It It probable that Mrs Hot ha brought proposals from her husband to Lord Kitchener TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Judgo Ilnrzoll has succeeded In dol ing the pool rooms at Madison Ills George McKndden was given the de cision on a foul In the eighth round over Dal Hawkins ut San Francisco Thursday The trial of Jesse B Davis a Belle vue hospital nurse accused of the murder of Louis It Hllllurd an Insane patient closed Thursday and tho Jury rendered a verdict of acquittal James J Hill has started to grade his railroad from Marcus to Republic giving that mining district an outlet by way of Spokane Tho first work In being done near Cuscado City on tho United States side Tho joint session of tho scale com mittee of tho coal miners and operat ors of Illinois came to an abrupt end Thursday when the operators re fused to longer entertain the demands of the miners scale Rev F V Emerson pastor of the First Christian church and Dr M R Mitchell were arrested Thursday on a state warrant charging them with being accessories In the smashing of the Curtis cold storage pluut In North Topeka alH aHattttVTnaltllllllHallHallallHaykat W 1H aaaaaaaaaaal aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaV mV aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaV saataaaaaaaaal H H WE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN M H Who thinks ho knows n bargain in lumber when ho sees It Do H H you Imagine that you would recognize t genuine snap if you M H were to moot it facn to face If yon do wo want to sou you M B next tiuio you want somo lumber Wo have more and bigger fl H bargains In lumber stowed away in our yard thnn any other B concern around hero Want to sue em Jomo in L C MITTELSTADT NORFOLKS LUMBERMAN H Norfolk I or Have You Tried Them W H IIUCHOr Pronlilont National Bank ALKXANDKIt llllAlt l W UT Vishlor GKRAjnsr Vlco rroaldnnt OLDEST ESTABLISHED BANKIN6JUSINESS IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA Capital 10000000 Surplus 2000000 Does a General Banking Business Buys and Sells Exchange Interest Paid on Time Deposits Drafts and Money Orders Sold on any Point In Europe A General Steamship and Foreign Passage Business Transacted DIEHOTOES A BKAH P P HANLON P J HALK W II HUUIIObZ WM ZUTZ NA UAINROLT 8 HCOTTON C W BRAASCH DEALER IN col 5 Exclusive agent lor the Celebrated Sweetwater Rock Spring Coal the best In the market Scrantou Hard Coal in all sizes TELEPHONE 61 BABIES CRY FOR WHEATLING AND BREAD MADE FROM BON TON FLOUR SUGAR CITY CEREAL MILLS You can leave the Missouri River after breakfast today on THE OVERLAND LIMITED arrive California aoonor than if yon loft yoatorday via any other train TO CALIFORNIA ATRIP in regal splendor can be made on THE OVERLAND LliHTED the celebrated Union PaciQo train This train runs via tho Overland Route tho established route across tho continent It has perhaps the most finely equipped cars in the world There are Doublo Drawiug Room Palace Sleopers broad buled Oars throughout Buffet Smoking and Library Oars with Barber Shops and Pleasant Reading Rooms Dining Oars meals being served a la carte and evory delicaoy is provided The cars are illuminated with the famous Pintsch Light and heated with steam A notable feature is that safoty perfect comfort and speed are all included Onlv Two Nights between Missouri River and San Francisco Forjrime Tables and full lafortnatloa call on F W JUNEMAN H3K Agaat V