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THE NORFOLK NEWS ; fflUPAY , JANUARY 24,1002 ,
The ottfolkfleucts
The sugar trust Is undoubtedly a
ixiworful combination , but it is not
powerful enough to inlluonco congress
to the detriment of a growing American
industry ,
It In claimed that an Ohio man win
wuoko through his oar. A good many
things pans through thoearamlit would
mem u though it WIIH an ahUHo of the
member to convert It intoumnokn duel
in thu bargain.
it
IMor old HinHi-ll Sage is only worth
$1011,000,000 and who ran blame him for
himtToilsto nave a little mid miiko
mi.ro . to keep the gaunt wolf of Imng-'r
from hi door ? HH ! pnnury should call
for the sympathy of philanthropists.
fl The European nations and their re-p-
nwntutlvim Imvo just recently dih-
ooxeri'd how much limy love Undo Ham
and his children und are exerting thom-
Belven to bo grnoIniH. Kaiser 'Wllholm
IH not the slowest of Undo Sum's ad-
mil urn and his eouiti'sy to a member of
I'nNlrtimt.Hio.snvolf's . family is marked.
In nations as among individuals thorn
IB nothing like strength Hurt ambition to
compel
Homo of the niprolmnts of the Main
putposo to organic ) to light the pure-fin
post bill , which is a very proper thing
to do if tlinro is any posciblo chnnce of
I bo bill becoming a law. The mail
order houses and department htorcHhavo
Hi i lo regai d for the country meidiant
iinil unlehs the latter is prepared to pro
tect. his interests it mny bo expoeted
that the larger houses will do what they
can to injure his business. The mail
oid'T bonnes are now a menace to the
Hiniill and Independent retailer without
giving them further advantages.
i !
The Great West is the title of a new
monthly publication at Omaha , the
first issunof which appeared on Jami-
my Ifi. It is published by the Peyton
Publishing company , with ,1. B. Lnm > s
us editor. As its name indicates the
journal is devoted to pushing "tho
great west" and more particularly Ne
braska. It is a field deserving the effort
and "Tho Great West" should bo given
Hulistantiul encouragement by those
whom it will benefit. A considerable
portion of the first number is devoted to
"Good Old Knox" , Pierce , Antelope ,
Boyd and other counties iu north Ne
braska.
Congress cannot afford to fall in with
the trust plan of doing away with the
American cane and boot sugar industry ,
] not only because it is a growing Ameri
can industry and worthy of encourage
ment , but they cannot afford to have the
imputation rest upon them that they are
under the influence of one of the most
popularly disliked trusts in the country.
The stake is not Inrgo enough to war
rant Buoh a risk to the majority party in
congress and it is very doubtful if they
will favor such action. Havomoyor and
liia hirelings have made their boast that
congress would fall iu with their wishes
Imt it is to bo hoped that they speak
without a knowledge of the true situa
tion.
A Now York dispatch says that in
spite of his denunciations of Wall street
former Senator Charles A. Towno will
engage iu business there , occupying
hamlsouio offices whore O. A. Towno &
Co. will do a banking and brokerage
business. Charley in 189(1 ( , joined with
Mr. Bryan and others to save the dear
common people from the evils of the
money power and the trusts. Now ,
with others of his kind , ho has deserted
the common people and joiued the
ranks of the plutocrats. Mr. Bryan
with a now $20,000 residence can
8C\t coly bo classed with the common
est of common people longer and the
c.iuso is simply bereft of its great
loaders. It is too bad , but perhaps the
common people are not losers.
The advocates of free sugar must
show that with the almost certain an
nexation of Cuba iu the near future ,
and with that a coming condition of uu-
taxed raw sugar , it is bettor now to got
tmde concessions with other nations
while wo can. They must also show
that the removal of all protection from
the domestic sugar growing industry
is M > inevitable that the benefits to to
obtained from reciprocity treaties will
sugar raising countries outweigh th
losses that would be caused to the
American industry. They must furtho
show why it is well for the sake ot fro
raw sugar to abandon nearly every other
form of tax reduction. They have fi
nally to show why we should not have
free refined sugar if we are to have free
raw sugar. Boston Commercial Bulle
tin.
The isthmian canal commission has
reported unanimously in favor of ac-
ceptjug the Panama Canal company's
offer and the selection of that route by
the United States , and the house of representatives -
resentatives will probably have their
work to do over again. A number of
Btatesmen , among them Mr. Hepburn
who presented the Nicarauguan bill , are
iucliued to believe that the urging of
the other route is merely a scheme for
delay and that congress is to bo pre
vented from taking immediate action.
Inasmuch as the proposed canal is to be
a permanent improvement to navnga-
tlon and the expound of constructing it
will bo large , it is perhaps advlmiblo
that the best route should bo seleo'cd
and all the points considered In detail ,
tlmtthero may be no cause for regret in
the future that the action of congress
was too precipitate , It Is a largo ( men
tion and worthy of earnest study and
deep thought ,
Thoto nro many minor problems
minor only in their relative sense to
thesovnst OUCH urgently pressing for
Holutimi , and Homo are very dose toil ,
suys Success. Wo want to know how
the glowwuim makes heat without
heat , and how lo do it ourHnlvrn ; how
to mnlu ) the high potential alternating
( inn-nut diivo all the locomotives jhow
to const i net nn unsinluible ship ; how to
lulcgniph by Iho nthitiiu wnviiM without
the potability of inteifeienco by dis
turbances in the Minn ) iniditim ; how to
extract n 'lids ' from liquids , economically
by centrifugal force only and not by
nitration ; how to ndapt the Menm tur
bine , as a motor , to every day uses , in
plaeo of the reciprocating engine ; how
to build a cotton pickfias rfl'oolivo in
imthctlng cotton as Ihn reaper and
mower arn in gathering grain and Iw ;
how lo photograph in the colors ef
nature , and how to throw high explo
sives with Hnl'oly from ordinary guns.
The flint issue of the Mndicon Mull ,
with Wm , V. Allen ns editor and 11. B.
Mien luwQciato , ha * been received. It
is largely devoted to a write-up of Mad
Ison county and particularly of the bus
iius.s interests oi the county scat , and
iivuH ; indication of being a representa
tlvo local publication. The editor's an
nnuncomcnt of pjllcy will bo disappoint
ing to Home , in that it is not definite and
the populists who hud hoped for a strong
advocate of party piindples in the Mat
will have cause to regiet that it seems
to have been launched as a paper free
from all party ties , and with no out
lined political policy. Those who have
followed the political career of the edi
tor expected that the editorial policy of
the paper would bo laid out on firm
lines and that it would bo outspoken for
the policies the editor represented and
for the party that assisted him to honor
and power. Many had tileo hoped that
it would attempt to fill n larger than a
more local field and its intluonco would
bo folt'throughout the state , at least.
The editor claims that there is a local
field to be filled and proposes to fill it.
Jt gives every indication of filling such
n field satisfactorily and as a local paper
is certainly beyond criticism. Its pat
ronage is not largo , but will probably
increase as its value is established. Tint
Nnws wishes the Mail success.
( Jlvo the Meet Industry a Chance.
The boot sugar manufacturers of
Michigan are before congress with a
strong exhibit for the sugar Industry in
that state and a strenuous objection to
the trust plan of admitting Cuban raw
sugar free. Their memorial iu part
says :
"Wiihiu two mouths after the Ding-
ley law went into effect the contract
was lot for the first boot sugar factory
in Michigan. This factory took off its
first crop iu the fall of 1803. Since that
time twelve other factories have boon
erected and four more are now in pro
cess of construction. The capital in
vested is § 10,500,000. In 1898 Miohigati
paid the sugar trust $7,000,000 for sugar
consumed. In 1001 her own factories pro
duced 12rvl9 ( > ,000 pounds of granulated
sugar , or 80 per cent of her consump
tion , for which she received $5OI7)20. : )
Beets now under contract for the season
1002 will increase the output to 195,501-
000 pounds , or 21 per cent above her
consumption.
"In 1901 Michigan raised G9..100 acres
of beets yielding 51)7,000 ) tons , for whioh
10,818 farmers received fJ ! , 107,520. Iu
the boot fields 33,707 persons found em
ployment during the growing season , be
sides 2,078 factory hands during the
manufacturing period. "
Havomoyer proposes to save the
( Vmorican people something like $30
000,000 by admitting Cuban raw sugar
free , but from the showing made above
ho will bo robbing the people in Michi
gan alone of the use of $10,500,000 in
vested and the farmers in a single year
in the 0110 .stato alone of an income of
, 107,520 not counting the wages paid
to 20,1585 people in that state by the beet
industry. Not only will his proposed
action rob the people of that amount in
one state but other states will suffer iu
like proportion and the government rev
enues will bo reduced at least the $3G-
000,000.
The industry has been established in
Michigan but three years and iu that
time has but fairly got a start. It
would seem particularly unwise for con
gress at this time to do anything so
vitally disastrous to the young boot in
dustry.
Sugar Trust Hobs Up'Agttlii.
The Lincoln Journal of yesterday con
tained a fairy tale from its Omaha cor
respondent , which is the most beauti
ful mlsstutomout of facts that it has
been our pleasure to see for a long timo.
It is so untruthful that it is simply ridic
ulous. It is not hold together by enough
facts to make it stand alone. The bur
den of the tale is that the farmers about
Norfolk are very much dissatisfied with
the treatment they have received from
the Bugar factory at this place , and that
they propose to hold a meeting soon to
protest against the alleged injustice.
On the face of it , the article shows that
it was written by some one who is
wholly unfamiliar with thu conditions
at thU piano or of I ho contract under
which beuts arn grown. In truth the
article is HI full of glaring errors that
only ono conclusion can bo readied , and
that is that it was either inspired or
written by an emissary of the sugar
trust who utterly failed to gain enough
information of the real facts to tell oven
a plausible story. It was not so long ago
that the sugar trust is reputed to have
purchased space on the patent side of
country nowspapeiH throughout the
westmn slates , in which it told of the
disadvantages of boot raising to the
farmer. It would now heom that it is
trying the same tactics with the city
press , ami while wo do not behove the
management of the H6nte Journal would
Hell its Hjmcu in a manner ho discreditable
atthii , yet we will uuarnntoo that the
Omaha coiroFpoi.dent cither might
ily imposed upon or that ho received
something Htinngcr than beer from the
alleged "heavy land owner of Norfolk"
to secure the publication of an aiticlo so
olearly donignril to Injiiro the bi-et sugar
industry of Nobraslm. The Journal is
blamable for publishing the article , in
that it Hhould have investigated the
truth of the Etati'inonts made , when
the whi'lo ' animus wan so uvid-ntly to
hi'lp the sugar ttust cripple a valuable
homo industry.
The dlaimjintid" by thu agent of Uio
sugar trust , and written by the correspondent
pendent that there is dissatisfaction
among beet growois is absolutely
groundless HO lar UH wo Invvo been nblo
toleutn. In luith , the contract of 11)01 )
was moro satisfactory to the farmer than
my under which beets huvo over been
irown ; for the Norfolk laotory. Every
grower who raised beets last year has
pronounced the contract the very be t
that ho has ever woikcd under , and al
most to a man they have pronounced
thumselves well pleased. Instead of
protesting against the treatment ac
corded them by the factory , they have
been keen to enter into contract for an
other crop this year , and when it scorned
doubtful whether the factory would
make such contracts on account of
threatened adverse congressional action
they expressed almost as much anxiety
and disappointment as the manager
himself.
Only ono or two sont6nces need bo
quoted to show that the correspondent
either deliberately lied in the interest of
the sugar trust or that hq did not know
what ho was talking about. He says :
"Their boots are cultivated with the
understanding that if they contain a
designated percentage of sugar with a
designated percentage of fineness , they
will commaud a fixed' price. " There is
nothing iu the contract which could by
any possible stretch of imagination bo
construed into anything like the lan
guage stated. It is true that a number
of years ago the contract did require a
certain percentage of purity ( not flue-
ness note the difference ) , but that has
long since been entirely eliminated , and
nothing of the kiud was iu the contract
in 11)01 ) nor is in the contract of 1902.
Wo have a copy of the contract before
us which has just boon issued for this
season and here is just what it says ,
and all it says , in regard to price that
shall bo paid for beets : "All sound
beets will bo ordered in , bought ami
paid for by said factory at the follow
ing rates , to-wit : All beets containing
M per cent of sugar or loss , 1 00 per
ton , and an additional 25 cents per ton
for each and every ono per cent of sugar
above M per cent , fractious in proper
tion. An additional sum of 20 cents per
ton will ba paid for each and every ton
of beets siloed , when delivered at the
factory after November 15. " Nothing
is iu this about requiring beets to con-
am a certain percentage of purity or
liioness not an intimation of it. The
auguagoof the contract is identical with
ho ono of last year , and no test was
made of purity during the whole season
n settling with farmers. This would
ndicato that the agent of the sugar
trust must have had copy of a contract
a number of years old when ho figured
out the schema to injure the boot indus
try in the underhanded manner under
taken.
\uother alleged ground of cpinplnint
19 that the chemical tests made at. the
factory are not fairly conducted , but
that "having no means of making their
own tests , of course the farmers have
no alternative but to accept that of the
factory. " No alternative , eh ? Let us
see what the contract says on that point :
'The growers are at liberty to select
aud employ nt their own expense , any
competent chemist and weigh master ,
to whom the factory shall give free
access to its laboratory and weigh house
for the purpose of cheeking the tests or
weighings made by the chemist or weigh
master of the factory. " And those
tests figured out an average price of
more than $4,60 per ton for the whole
of the 1001 crop. The sugar trust should
become better posted before it makes
such wild statements.
Instead of there being such dissatis
faction as reported , the largest acreage
of boots that has over boon grown for
the Norfolk factory will bo planted the
coming season. Farmers are well
pleased with the contract and they are
very willing to raise boots under its pro
visions , which are simple , fair and clean
cut , with no possible chance for contro
versy or misunderstanding.
_ The sugar trust should guess again.
The Sioux City Tribune suggests that
the Nebraska Spaniard who blew up the
Maine has gone to keep Pat Qrowo com
pany.
Governor S.ivago should couio homo
and feel the public pulse. He would
find it quite feverish us far as ho is con
cerned ,
If it was as easy to run a newspaper
as it is to tell t-omeone how to do it , the
editor and publisher would indeed have
a sinecure.
Thu sugar trust is pret'y shrewd , and
its poisloteiit argument that it is "the
people" is not the least fetching of its
assertions.
The love of the sugar trust for the
people is a beautiful thing to think
about , but wait until their theory is
put into practice.
The record of real estate transfers
continues to eloquently spoil ; in behalf
of north Nebraska realtyindicating that
it id in active demand.
Perhaps Governor Savage will bo per
mitted lo go into partnership with iku
Ban ley in the loan business after next
January. Even private dtiv.ens need
Homo tort of employment.
Perhaps Governor Savage is in New
Orleans to cutt-r into negotiations look
ing towaid the removal of Nobfiuka to
Louisiana , from which it was separated
after the purchnse of that territory.
Two Kansas men uio endeavoiing to
combine all the creameri's of the
country Into a trust. They may sue
coed but they cannot hop'o to control the
entire product. The hand churn and
the farmer's cow will continuo to bo a
factor.
It is said that an acre of sago palm
which is ono of India's valuable products
gives nourishment equal to 103 acres of
wheat. There uro probably few Ne
jraska farmers , however , who would bo
willing to exchange lit ( ! acres of Nebraska
braska laud for an aero in India.
Another Pat Crowe , who was not Pat
Orowe.huB been brought to Chief Doiia
hue's attention this time from Cole
rado. These Crowes are not discovered
with the regularity they were befori
the prize money was taken down , bn
this incident is a reminder that tin
omnipresent kidnaper is not entirely for
gotten.
In the future railroads will bo in
clined to treat with greater considera
tion the fellow who steals rides , if the
case of Theodore Johnson against the
O. St. P. M. & O. road recently decided
by the Iowa supreme court is to govern.
Johnson was trying to steal a ride on a
freight of that road in Nebraska. He
was twice put off by the conductor but
again appeared aud when put off the
third time he fell under the car wheels
aud his leg was cut off. The judgment
was for $2,000 damages.
The hotel aud restaurant men in Ne
braska and other states are experiencing
considerable difficulty in supplying their
guests with quail aud grouse. The old
dodge of serving those birds under the
name of plover , snipe on stubble duck
don't go any moro. The proprietors of
the Bon Ton restaurant at Omaha have
recently been arrested for , violating the
law and are confronted with a SI00
penalty. The propriators of the Des
Moines hotel who served "plover" at
the Shaw banquet , have just settled
with the game warden by paying § 100
fine. Evidence is accumulating to the
effect that the present game laws are to
bo enforced and not act merely as an in-
cumbrauco to the statutes.
A boarding house guest at New Castle ,
Pa. , has sued the landlady for damages ,
alleging that the board is insufficient
for the money paid. What possibilities
such a suit brings up I If the boarding
house keeper can bo regulated by law
what a rejoicing there will bo among
the boarders ! If an extra tough piece
of beef steak is served , sue her for dam
ages ; if the Thanksgiving turkey ap
pears on the table longer than a week
after that holiday , charge up damages
against the landlady ; cockroaches served
in the tea should bo grounds for dam
ages , lleally it is quite an entrancing
possibility that this suit presents and
the boarders should form an association
to urge favorable legislation.
Eavesdropping , as far as the telephone
business is concerned , is a risky
undertaking. In Iowa a 'man ' was re
cently fined $25 for listening to a tele
phone message passing over a line on
which ho owned a telephone and afterward -
ward telling what he overheard. The
reason given by the court for imposing
the penalty was that messages or con
versations over the wire are confidential
aud the fact that ho owned a telephone
gave him no right' to repeat anything he
might have heard by accident or other
wise. Perhaps there are no subscribers
to the Norfolk exchange who are laying
themselves liable to this penalty and
they may not bo tempted to run the
risk if they are given to understand
what the penalty has been in Iowa.
The Morwin Publishing company has
combined the Beaver Oity Times , in its
28th year , and the Beaver Valley Tri-
bunecstnblished for moro than 10 years ,
under the name of the Beaver Oity
Times-Tribune. While Editor Morwin
will continuo to advocate republican
principles , a department is sot apart for
the use of Will M Muupln , formerly of
the World Herald , who will support
with Ids customary zeal , the opinions ol
Bryan democracy. The two editors are
in the front ranks of Nebraska journal
ism and If the Bchunio can bo iiiudo to
Hticccud , it certainly should under their
editorial management , but it is nn exceedingly -
ceodingly questionable experiment.
Brethern of diil'erent political faiths
Hhould dwell in harmony on ordinary
subjects but when it COIIUH to operating
under the same roof and through the
HIUIIU publication the harmony becomes
altogether two thick ami is likely to
smother indivitality and independent
opinion. If that d rs not happen , the
scriptural injunction "A house divided
against ihulf must fall , " is recommended
to tluir consideration.
Sioux Oity people arc urging n move
ment that will result , in beautifying the
municipality. It ia urged that the streets
lire not necessarily laid out to bo used
for barn yards and for the stoiuRorf
vehicles , old boxes and -other unsightly
things. Speaking of the subject Rabbi
Joseph Leiser said : "A mioko daubed
sky is a nuiwinco and live wires tire
dai.gc.ronx , and telegraph poles hideous.
Advertisements tire other features ro-
striotlvo measuios must handle. Theat
rical advertisements chiefly are the
shortest blotches , especially when they
tire pasted on toppling , slovenly bill-
boardH. No resilience property ought to
tolurnto an unsightly billboard. Com
meroial signs , too , ought to bo regulated ,
so that no hideous business sign ob
structs the view of sky or street. Then
every city is attractive in so far as it
has planted trees. In this respect our
city has sinned most shamefully.
Every street ought to bo lined with
trees. The lovely chronicle of timous
it shows itself on trees , the play of
shadow on the pavement is one of
nature's most charming features. Trees
tire inexpensive and no tree hiudors
progress. Trees and parking should
adorn every street , whether it bo devoted -
voted to business or residences. "
President Henry T. Oximrd of the
American Beet Sugar association in an
address on Cuban reciprocity before the
ways and means committee at Wash
ington Wednesday said : "Stripped of
sentimentality and all extraneous con
siderations and reducing the Cuban de
mands for free or freer sugar to its equa
tion , it is this : Shall the United States ,
through its agriculturists , produce its
raw sugar and in its factories , scattered
from the Atlantic to the Pacific , refine
its products , or shall it permit foreign
lauds to export to it the raw material
and content itself merely with refining.
That is what I fear would eventually
come to pass if you interfere in any way
at the present time with the existing
production of home sugar. Capital is
timid to a great degree , and should con
gress decide that Oubau sugar must bo
helped at the expense of American beet
sugar then it will at first hesitate and
eventually turn its back upon the future
farther development of beet sugar and
throw its full force into the tropical
island which wo have unduly fa
vored and stimulated. Sugar produc
tion in Cuba today is firmly established
and the chief industry of the island.
Even our enemies must admit that bf.et
sugar is nt the very inception of its de
velopment in the United States. "
Savage Given to Reasoning.
If Governor Savage had set out to
choose an action that would have still
further added to his unpopularity in
Nebraska and especially in the north
part of the state , and Norfolk iu partic
ular , he could scarcely have done worse
than to slur at the beet sugar industry
as he did iu Now Orleans the other day
when interviewed by a representative
of the press of that city to whom ho
said :
"As for the beet sugar industry of
Nebraska , I feel the same about that as
I do about the cane sugar industry of
Louisiana. The number engaged in
that industry is so small , compared with
the masses to be benefited by free sugar ,
that there is little choice. "
As all the beet factories are north of
the Platte river his excellency evidently
saw another excellent opportunity of
making a stab at this part of the state
without injury to the south half.
Iu speaking for the trust the governor
has talked as foolishly as oven Have-
inoyor himself could desire. Perhaps
the industry is small , but infants are
never largo , and a youth as young as the
industry in Nebraska could not be ex
pected to have attained the full growth
of manhood's estate , nor will it with
such encouragement as the governor
oilers. With the cane industry ju
Louisiana it is different. That is old
enough to have developed its full possi
bilities. The governor talks of "the
masses to be benefited by free sugar. "
It has before been shown what a grand
benefit this is which is offered by the
trust , which will reap the lion's share
of "benefit. " Take the trust's own
figures and the "people" are to bo bene
fited $30,000,000 worth , which divided
among 80,000,000 of population , will bo
something less than 50 cents each. This
is the magnificent saving , or promised
saving , for which bis excellency would
sacrifice one of the leading industries of
his state with the remark that it don't
amount to much.
The governor's reasoning powers are
truly magnificent. Ho abandons thous- .
iitids of dollars worth of property at
Norfolk to save a small annual expendi
ture ; ho pardons the defaulting state
treasurer with the apparent conviction
that ho is n worthy and philanthropic
oltl'/on unjustly convicted by the courts
and persecuted by the people , and now
ho signified a willingness to generously
stab a leading state industry in the baoki
for less than a pound of sugar increase
to the average purchase. His is tho.
hort of reaboning that uitulo Esau fa
mous for selling his birthright for a
mess of pottugo , and perhaps if ho had
the power ho would trade the state for a -
jitckkiiife. The governor is an expen
sive luxury at home , and when ho goes
on a visit. Iho people have decided
what they will do with him when the
opportun ty presents itselt but until that
time his ( Ji > poMtion has assumed the
importance of a paramount issue.
EXPLOSION WRECKS TRAIN.
uollcr Bursts as Denver Limited
Rushes Through Victor , In.
Victor , la. . Jan. 20. While racing
down grade through this village at
the rate of 40 miles an hour the boiler
of the big engine drawing the Denver
limited No. 5 on the Hock Island rail
way exploded Saturday , killing Engi
neer Williams and Fireman Iloure
and shaking up the passengers.
The Denver limited does not stop
nt Victor. It came roaring down the
grade Into the village , whirled past the
station and striking the grade that de
scends Into the valley of Hear crook
gained more speed.
Three hundred feet from the station
the boiler exploded with a nolso that
awakened the entire village. The en
gine was torn to pieces and great
chunks of iron were hurled over the
town. The train , with speed checked
by the shock rolled and wallowed on
ward. The seven passenger coaches
were thrown from the track and
bounded along over the ties , with the
passengers bolng bounced around in-
Bide them like rorn in a hopper.
The Des Molnes sleeper , which was
nt the rear end of the train , was over
turned and rolled into the ditch , but
no one was seriously hurt.
The wrecked engine was strewn
over the ground for 200 feet and the
mangled bodies of the engineer and
fireman were found close together a
short distance from the place of the
explosion.
WOMAN KILLS TWO MUSICIANS.
Colored Inebrlcte Shoots Because She
Was Anxious for Ragtime.
Montgomery , W. Va. , Jan. 20. At
a colored dance last night six miles
south of this place , William Slaughter
and William Johnson were shot and
killed by Lillian Williams. Powell
CalloWay was mortally wounded , be
ing struck by a stray bullet. The
murderess is in jail.
About midnight the Williams wom
an entered the house , evidently under
the Influence of liquor. Proceeding to
the center of the room , she ordered
the musicians to play some ragtime
music , and play It quick. When her
demand was not complied with she
whipped out a revolver and began
firing at the orchestra. Slaughter and
Johnson were almost Instantly killed.
Galloway was an onlooker at the dance
and one of the bullets Intended for a
musician penetrated his back. Physi
cians pronounce his wound fatal. The
murderess escaped lynching by the
timely arrival of officers , who suc
ceeded in getting her away and lodg
ing her In jail at this place.
ENGINEER FALLS ASLEEP IN CAB.
Costly Wreck on the Missouri Pacific
Is the Result.
Kansas City , Jan. 20. Westbound
Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 3 , j
from St. Louis , collided head-on with
an eastbound freight train one mile
east of Etlah , Mo. , yesterday. The
wreck proved a costly one for the
road. Engineer William Maseo of the
freight train had fallen asleep in his
cab and ran past Etlah , where he had
been ordered to meet the passenger.
But one persons was injured , Judge
Elijah Robinson of Kansas City , who
escaped with severe bruises. Half a
doEen other passengers wore shaken
up. Engineer Maseo , when ho awoke
and realized that he was passed Etlah
and that It was too late to pull back ,
stopped his train and running ahead ,
endeavored to flag the passenger train.
The passenger train was upon him ,
however , before he succeeded.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Judge William E. Dowltt , a distin
guished members pf the Montana bar ,
died at Butte Sunday of acute heart
trouble.
B. B. Hunt of
Huntsvllle , Mo , , was
hot and killed at Shawnee , O. T. , Sun
day by John Seville , who mistook him
for an enemy.
Frank Rakowski , a private in the
army at Fort Canby , who threatened
President Roosevelt , was degraded and
sent to prison for ten years.
The White Earth agency hospital
and the Woman's Guild hall in con
nection with St. Columbus hospital
mission were destroyed by fire Sun
day.
day.A
A diplomatic
secret regarding a pro
posed coalition of European forces to
defeat the United States in the war
with Spain is to be exposed in the
house of commons.
Professor W. C. Grossman and his
15-year-old son , William , were caught
on a trestle near Breiihara , Tex. , Sunday -
day and run down by a passenger
train. Both were killed.
Frederick Kralnhardt , a Catholic
priest residing at .Tosophsulle , Mo. ,
committed suicide Sunday at the Alex
ander hospital at St. Louis by hanglne
himself with a bed sheet.
