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--"Cas' .o r -i ' "S- .- T . ,-l - - " i." - -T -A- , .,5 : t; '-.! - ;v- - - - si. -.? : .. tt y. ' Vs 4 'i. v - ) .- f Of- - VOLUME XXXIII.-NUMBER 47. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. WElgNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1903. WHOLE NUMBER 1.711 H - -t -t m.. immnil I - L ft I- 13 J li 1 Ul. ' .i 4i. 1m l 1: r -r '. I' I - I . r . a ' SIGN A PROTOCOL AMERICAN-VENEZUELAN AGREE MENT APPROVED. INCREASE OF CUSTOM DUTY Claims to Be Adjusted by a Commis sion Of Whom It Will Consist Commissioners to Meet in Caracas on the 1st of June Next. WASHINGTON Secretary Hay, for the United States, and Mr. Bowen, for Venezuela, on Tuesday signed a pro tocol providing for the adjustment of United States claims against Venexu ela by a commission to meet at Car acas. . This commission will consist of two members, a Venezuelan and an Ameri can, to be appointed respectively by Presidents Castro and Roosevelt, and in the event of disagreement an um pire to be appointed by the qneen of the Netherlands. The commissioners are to meet in Caracas on June 1 to make awards which arc to be paid out of 30 per cent of the customs receipts at Puerto Cabello and La Guayra. The Hague tribunal is to decide what proportion of this 30 per cent comes to America and what proportion goes to other claimant nations. It is expected that the minister for foreign affairs will be appointed as Venezuela's representative and that cither Mr. Bowen or Mr. Russell, the United States charge, will be named to represent the United States. Baron Gevers, the minister for the Netherlands, railed at the state de partment Tuesday and gave notice of the acceptance by Queen Wilhelmina of the task imposed upon her, her consent having been previously sought by both parties to the arbitration. Some light is thrown upon the un pleasant reference made by. Mr. Hag gard, the British minister at Caracas, to United States Charge Russell and published in the British blue book Monday by a naval officer now sta tioned at Washington, who was in Ven ezuelan waters and frequently at the American legation during the period referred to by Mr. Haggard. Without going into details it apears in this officer's statement that by trying to assist some British citizens in their distress without first losing the time necessary to hunt up and confer with the minister, the American legation in curred the ill will of Mr. Haggard, and the difficulty got to be rather personal, co that all the exchanges hetween the two ministers have since been of a most formal character. The navy department Tuesday re ceived the following cablegram from Commander Diehl of the Marietta, dated Willerastad, February 17: "Raised blockade. War vessels with drawn all Tflockaded ports. NEW YORK The Associated Press lias rereived the following cable from President Castro: "CARACAS. Monday. Feb. If.. 1 charge the Associated Press to trans mit, together with my gratitude, my sentiments of deference to the people or the United States. "PRESIDENT CIPRIANO CASTRO." GETS THE AMERICAN MILLIONS. Another English Earl Trades Title for Good Dollars. WASHINGTON, D. C r-rs. Wiiiiam Thaw, formerly or Pittsburg, but now residing in Washington, on Tuesday announced the engagement of her daughter. Miss Alice Thaw, to the earl of Yarmouth. Miss Thaw inherited $1,000,000 in her own right from her father, who was an iron manufacturer, and will xncceed to another large fortune on the death of her mother. No date has been set for the wed ding. She first met the carl of Yar mouth, who is the eldest son of the marquis aof Hertford; about three months ago. New Greek Letter Fraternity. WASHINGTON, D. C A new secret leteter fraternity named the Sigma Nu Phi, designed to embrace chapters iu all the law schools of the United States, has filed articles of incorpor ation here. Members of other fra ternities will not be admitted. The membership will be confined entirely to undergraduates of law schools and alumni associations and their facul ties. It is proposed ultimately to own a fraternity house in Washington and to publish a paper here. The incor porators -are members of the faculty and under graduates of the National University School of Law. EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO. Houses Thrown Down in Several Towns. MEXICO CITY The state of Guer rero continues to report many and somewhat alarming earthquakes. Chll pancingo, which two years ago was al most destroyed by an earthquake, now reports another, which threw down houses, as also happened in the towns of Chilapa, San Diego and Mexical. Cattle Disease Serious. BOSTON. According to Dr. D. E. Salmon, who has come on from Wash ing, the foot and mouth disease in southeastern Massachusetts is of a more serious mature than has been re alized in this state. He says more precaution is aeces sat7 than those ia charge of iaiected asinals have beea willing to take if the disorder is to ha stamped out with in a short time. MILES IS AT HOME. The General Talks ef His Recent Trie Abroad. NEW YORK Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the Uni ted States army, his wife and party, arrived here Monday on the Lucania. They have been abroad five months, and in that time have been around the world. One feature of the trip across the Atlantic for the general was the send ing of a Marconigram to King Edward MI February 9. When the Lucania was eighty miles from the Marconi station at Crook Haven, General Miles .sent the following message: "Midocean greeting, with best wishes for happiness and health to his majesty and the royal family." To which the following reply was received by cable on the arrival of the Lucanla-Monday: "1 have submitted your message to the king. I am commanded by his majesty to thank you for your good wishes and to say for him that it af forded him much gratification to re ceive it at Windsor. "KNOLLYS." With the general were Colonel and Mrs. M. P. Maus, Henry Clark Rousea of New York, F. B. Wiiborg of Cin cinnati. Mrs. Miles and Sherman HoyL Colonel Whitney was with the party when they left this country, but return ed some weeks ago. To his interviewers General Miles said: "I have been abroad for five months. I left September 11 for the Pacific coast, and there made an inspection of the forts and coast defenses from Puget Sound to Southern California. "Oa October 1 we sailed on the transport Thomas. We stopped at Honolulu, the Sandwich islands, and then sailed for Guam. We touched at the island, then continued to the Philippines. We spent a month there. I examined the military situation and visited the principal stations and forts and inspected the troops. There were no serious hostilities at that time. The 20,000 troops there were in fine shape. "We then went to Nagasaki, Hong Kong and Canton. "The Japanese army is very well equipped and disciplined; so is the navy. When I was there they were discussing the question of raising a large fund for the equipment of the navy. In the army they have most modern appliances. The Japanese are efficient in their system. The system of inspection and routine is much the same as ours. They pay a great deal of attention to drills, physical condi tion and gymnastic exercise. Tne corps of the Tokio academy numbers about as many cadets as we have at West Point and it is a well constructed and efficient corps." Continuing, the general said the par ty went from Japan to Port Arthur and thence to Pekin. "I remained there a short time. We have there a small detachment of troops the legation guard at the cap ital. Everything there is quiet. We weie accorded an audience by the em peror and the dowager empress. They received us with a great deal of cour tesy and attention. We saw the troops of the Chinese army and the troops of the allied forces which are still there." General Miles' party, went through northern China to Siberia, passing through Manchuria en route and on to Moscow. Coal Dealers Must Pay. CHICAGO The arguments were be gun in Judge Horton's court Monday to determine whether the nine indict ed officials of the Retail Coal Dealers' association of Illinois and Wisconsin should be granted a new trial. The proceedings followed the rendering of a pro forma verdict several days ago, and the imposition of a $100 fine upon each of the defendants. Judge Hor ton's decision in the argument for a new trial is the point sought in the first instance and is awaited with much interest. SEES SALVATION IN TRUSTS. Holds Combines Alone Able to Meet American Competition. BERLIN. Minister O. Comerie Mel Ier. in the course of an address in the chamber of commerce, said: "The United States will be Ger many's chief competitor in the world's markets in the future. We must therefore learn from the Americans to adopt their business methods, the salient feature of which Is the concen tration of capital and trade into trusts. The strong repugnance existing in Germany against such combinations will certainly be replaced in time by a better view, especially after the evils of the syndicates have been re moved. HOUSE WELL ADVANCED. The Appropriation Rills are Nearly All Through. WASHINGTON. The appropriation bills are well advanced in the house for this stage of the session. With nearly three weeks remaining only three supply bills remain to he acted I on. Two of these, the naval aad fortifi cation bills, are on the calendar and will be passed this week. Delays of these bills in the senate, however, mow promise to crowd things during the iaal hoars. The Fowler currency bill, which has been postponed from time to time, is to.have a special rule making it a con tinuing order at the first opfortamity this week. Bat if it reaches the state otcoosideratisn it will he side tracked' whenever an appropriation bin or con ference report is ready. THE NAVAL BILL MEASURE PASSES LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS. MANY AMENOMENTS OFFERED Naval Vessels May Be State Built Government to Refuse All Contracts if Builders Enter into Combination. WASHINGTON. At the end of a protracted session the house on Thurs day passed the naval appropriation bill. Many, amendments were offered to the provisions relating to the in crease of the personnel and the author ization of the new ships to be built. The most important amendment adopted authorized the secretary of the navy, In his . discretion. to.pr-. chase or contract for submarine tor pedo boats after invesigation of their merits. As passed the bill provides for three H3W battleships and an armored crui ser, two steel straining ships and one wooden brig for training purposes, in addition to the submarine boats dis cretionally authorized. Without preliminary business the house proceeded with the considera tion of the naval appropriation bill. An amendment was adopted giving members of congress whose districts are not now represented at the naval academy the privilege of immediately appointing cadets to fill such vacan cies. Mr. Dick (O.) offered an 'amend ment, which was adopted, to provide for the summary expulsion of any naval cadet found guilty of hazing. When the paragraph providing for the increase of the navy was reached Mr. Mudd (Md.) a member of the naval committee, raised a point of or der against those sections providing that the machinery and material used in the construction of the ships au thorized should be of domestic manu facture and authorizing the secretary of the navy in case of a combination of bidders to have the ships construct ed in government yards. Mr. Gillett (Mass.) sustained the point of order, whereupon Mr. Kitchin (N. C.) appealed. The chair was sus tained 109 to 88. Mr. Fitzgerald (N. Y.) raised a point of order against the provision requir ing the construction of the ships au thorzide by the bill "by contract" and the words were struck out. An amendment was then adopted, reinserting the provision requiring the use of domestic machinery and ma terials in the construction of the-ships. Mr. Taylor (O.) on behalf of the naval committee, offered an amend ment authorizing the secretary of the navy in his discretion to expend $5, 000,000 for submarine torpedo boats tested and found to be acceptable to the navy. The amendment was agreed to, 84 to 87. By unanimous consent the provision which had gone out on a point of or der authorizing the secretary of the navy to construct the ships in govern ment yards was restored. The committee rose and the naval appropriation bill was passed. SAYS THE MONEY HAS GONE. Chairman of Montana House Com mittee Makes Serious Charges. HELENA, Mont Chairman Everitt of the Montana house committee on irrigation and water rights, to which was referred resolutions calling for in vestigation of the state arid lands committee, announced in the house Tuesday that inquiry had developed evidence of a shortage and that $30, 000 received by certain members of the commission had not been applie.l as the law directs. The charge was made that the money had been mis appropriated. On motion of Mr. Ev eritt the committee was allowed $300 to employ counsel and a stenographer with which to further prosecute an in vestigation. HE RETURNS TO MISSOURI. Cole Younger Goes to the Scenes of His Earlier Life. ST. PAUL, Minn. Cole Younger, the pardoned bandit, left St. Paul and Min nesota Saturday for his old home in Missouri, which he has not seen in twenty-seven years, when he left it to participate in the memorable North field bank raid, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment. Younger had planned to leave SL Paul Monday, but he received a tele gram Saturday afternoon stating that his sister was seriously ill at Lee's Summet, Mo., and he decided to leave at once. He cannot, under the con ditions of the pardon, return to Min nesota. He said he intended to locate in Dallas, Texas, and would probably go into the stockralsing business. Garfield Gets Good Place. WASHINGTON, D. C The presi dent Tuesday seat to the senate the nomination of Jomes Rndolph Gar field of Ohio, to be commissioner of corporations in the department of commerce and labor. Legislators Almost Fight. OLYMPIA. Wash. As a climax to the most exciting morning of the ses sion, the railroad commission bill in the house was declared indefinitely postponed on a viva voce vote at noon on Tuesday and the house adjourn ed amid an sproar. in which friends of the commission bill hurled anathe mas at Speeaker Hare, aad the speaker and Representative Lewis almost came to Wows. IN LOWER HOUSE. Ji ReprotenHtives Indulge n ties. WASHINGTON, D. C The on Wednesday by a majority of 2 to 1 rejected the conference report, ofj the army appropriation because of Kb provisions for the retirement of civil! war officers at the advanced grade, and permitting officers to deposit mon ey with the government at 3 per cent interest. The house emphatically voted against, both propositions and. sent the bill back to conference. The proceedings on the conference report were enlivened by a sharp per sonal clash between Mr. Hull of" Iowa and Mr. Slayden of Texas. The re mainder of the day was devoted to the naval bill. Slow progress was' made, only twenty' pages .being covered. f Mr. Hay of Virginia, one of the. con ferees, was one of those who strenu ously opposed the adoption 'of the army bill, because of the provision for the retirement of army officers who served in the civil war with an additional grade and the provisions permitting officers to deposit their money with the government, such de posits to draw 3 per cent interest. Ho expressed the opinion that the latter provision would establish a danger ous precedent; that it would lead to the granting of the same privilege to naval officers who might be extended to civil employes of the government. He characterized it "paternalism run mad." Mr. Slayden (Tex.) charged Mr. Hull with bad faith in not giving the house a chance for a vote .on the de posit amendment. He said Mr. Hull had promised a vote. "I desire to say," interposed Mr. Hull, "that the statement is not true." "The gentleman's courtesy," retort ed Mr. Slayden, "is equal to his ver acity. It is a cheap form of debate which permits the gentleman to in dulge in the expression he has used and only the fact that I am at the bar of the house restrains me from re plying to his blackguardism as it de serves." The democratic applause was prolonged at this point. This sharp colloquy aroused the house and Mr. Mann of Illinois un dertook to rebuke Mr. Slayden. He said he was surprised that Mr. Slay den should use an expression "far worse" than that employed by Mr. Hull. "The gentleman's idea of good man ners does not especially commend it self to me," replied Mr. Slayden, who proceeded, to say that only very strong provocation had induced him to say what he had. He then quoted from the record to show that Mr. Hull had virtually pledge the house an opportu nity to vote on this proposition. Mr. Stevens of Minnesota then mov ed the adoption of the conference re port. Mr. Cannon protested against the manner in which appropriation bills were loaded by. the senate with all sorts of legislative provisions that were not in order in the house. The practice, he declared, not only demor alized appropriation bills, but would breed scandal and deserved criticism; "In the house," said he "we legis late under rules. In another body, the senate, they legislate under unan imous consent. Gentlemen know what that means." (General applause.) Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, in op posing the conference report, declared that whether he bad sought to do so or not, Mr. Hull had misled the house. Mr. Hull concluded the debate. He defended his position, calling attention to what he stated 'at the time the bill went to conference, to what occurred in the committee on military affairs, to show that he had carried out in structions. He said personally be would have preferred to have allowed the house to pass upon the antago nized amendments separately. The conference report was voted down, 33 to 69. The house by specific votes insisted upon its disagreement to the retirement and officers deposit amendements. The bill was sent back to conference and the house resumed consideration of the naval appropria tion bill. Carnegie the Best Rich Man. NEW YORK Addressing a meeting of the St Vincent de Paul society at Carnegie hall Morday night, Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of Peoria re ceived great applause when he declar ed that great wealth is almost certain to degrade the possessor of it, andout of all the men who are known to reckon their possessions in the mil lions, he named only one Andrew Carnegie as a man able to rise above his surroundings. Monster Aerolite Falls. SALT LAKE, Utah. A special to the Tribune from Bingham, Utah, says: "A large meteor struck the earth in the vicinity of this place at 4:04 o'clock Saturday morning. The fall nig body, when it collided with the earth, caused windows to rattle aad the house to tremble, while a sound like a mighty clap of thunder awak ened the inhabitants from their sleep. The people thought there had been an earthquake and much alarm was felt until the true nature of the shock was learned." Arbitration with Domingo. WASHINGTON; D. C The issues betv.-ecn Sar. Domingo and the United States, arising from claims of the lat ter country, are in a fair way to. be amicably and satisfactorily adjusted by arbitration through the efforts of Minister Powell. NINE LIVES LOST FATAL- FIRE IN A CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, HOTEL. WESTS LEAP FN WWNWS Soma Escape Flames Only to Meet Death on the Pavement Below Yeung Men's Christian Association 'Delegates Among the Victims. CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia. Nine lives? according to the best information ob tainable under difficulties, were lost in a ire which Friday morning de stroyed the Clifton hotel in this city. The fire started at 2:30 and at 10 the smouldering debris furnished so fierce a heat that search for bodies was impossible. The list of the dead may prove longer than the number given, bat it is hoped that the informa tion which accounts for all but this number is correct. Two persons were fatally injured and forty-two more hurt more or less severely, mostly by jumping, from windows. The work of identification is complicated by the loss of the hotel register, which was burned. The hotel, a throe-story veneer structure, is said to have been a ver itable fire trap. The flames started in a pile of rubbish in the basement, presumably ignited by defective elec tric light wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and in an instant the hall ways were choked with frightened guests. A rush was made for the stairways. It was then that the crowd already collected in the street heard heart-rending cries of anguish and desperation, for the fire, feeding rav enously on the tinderlike material of the lower floor, had completely cut off escape. There followed a stampede for the windows, the only means of exit left. The street below was now filled with .a crowd scarcely less frantic than the dspairing ones in the fast burning building. "It was like a Bore picture of In ferno sprung to life," said one spec tator in describing the scene. "The flames, looking blood-red from reflec tion against the snow, lit up the pale, drawn faces of the people in the win dows, with a glow that was unearthly." The victims were literally driven by the flames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to the last mo ment, urged by the people below -to wait as long as possible in the hope of assitsance. Then a cry would tell that the fire had reached' them or the smoke had made it imposible to breathe, and one after another jumped, some to the street, and some, more fortunate, to the roofs of buildings ad joining. In a short space of time the street was filled with men and wo men, bruised and battered, with brok en limbs and half crazed. All were in their night garments. In an hour St. Luke's hospital con tained fifteen injured, while many more, chiefly those who had escaped with comparatively slight hurts, were being cared for in buildings near the scene of the tragedy. Some who jumped owe their livc3 to the fact that their falls were broken by telegraph wires which interposed in their downward flight. A number of the guests who were able to con verse calmly following their escape de clared that they bad stumbled over prostrate bodies as they rushed to the windows. The flames literally were chasing them, and the smoke made it almost impossible to breathe. The proprietor of the hotel placed his estimate of the number of people in the building at between -seventy and eighty. Many of them were delegates to the state con vention of the Young Men's Christian association. The President Invited. WASHINGTON. Senator Kearns of Utah and Dietrich of Nebraska, Will iam Glassman, mayor of Ogdcn, Utah, and Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, have invited Presi dent Roosevelt to attend the eleventh irrigation congress to be held in Og den on September 9, 10 and 11. The president said he probably would not be able to attend tb congress. General Foote Retires. WASHINGTON. Brigadier General Morris C. Foote, recently confirmed, was retired on Friday. He was for merly colonel of the Twenty-eighth infantry and has been serving with his regiment In the Philippines. Cattle Shrivel Before Cold. PIERRE, S. D. Alarming reports come from the snow belt on the range of losses of stock during the cold pe riod. Cattle badly nourished have simply shriveled before the cold blasts. The losses will be heavy on both sides of the Missouri river. On the east side most of the ranches have a supply of hay. West of the river the snow belt extends out fifty miles aad beyond that the grazing is fair. Small Blaze in the House. WASHINGTON, D. C Some little excitemeat was created in the house of representatives jast before that body convened Tuesday, by the discov ery of a. slight blaze In the flooring' of the east reserved gallery. The floor lag had caught Are from a defective fine ia the democratic cloak room and when discovered-about fifteen feet of the moMiag wai "ablaze. The blaze was extinguished and the members' suffered mo iacoaveaieace. MAN TO FEED WYOMING ELK. Jeten-Yellowstone Superintendent Has Hay-Fed Wild Animals. NEW YORK Steps were taken here Tuesday to save 10,000 starving elk oa. the Jeton-Yellowstone reserves in Wyoming. Seven feet of snow cov ers their feeding ground and temper atures as low as 40 degrees behxv zero have added to their sufferings. News of the critical condition of the elk herds reached here from the chief of tfie United States rangers to A. A. Anderson, a special superin tendent of the Jeton-Yellowstone re serves, who spends his winters in New York. Mr. Anderson at once ordered that a temporary supply of wild hay, at his own expense, be distributed as soon as possible at convenient, points by tho force of thirty rangers. He then pro posed that $1,500 to $2,000 be raised here by subscription to purchase more wild bay .and it is believed .uat prom inent persons will support the plan. LOOKING UP IRRIGATION. A Lincoln Attorney Investigating as to Plans Mapped Out. WASHINGTON. Mr. A. E. Harvey, an attorney of Lincoln, is in the city looking after irrigation matters in Ne braska. In company with Mr. Shallcn berger he called upon Professor New ell, chief hydrographcr of the geologi cal survey, to ascertain what plans had been mapped out for experiments in Nebraska. Mr. Newell state3 that before any irrigation projects can be started in Nebraska, it would be nec essary for the citizens there to per fect some plans concerning the use of the waters store J; that is, if the government begins any projects they must have some assurance that the land irrigated would be taken by the citizens at least at the cost of irriga tion, so that the government would not be out anything. Mr. Newell said that was his understanding of the bill; that, the government should be reim bursed for the money spent by the sale of the lands Irrigated. CHILDREN IN A WRECK. Eight Killed and Thirty or More Wounded. NEWARK, N. J. A fast express on the Lackawanna railway cut through a trolly car crowded with school chil dren at the Clifton avenue crossing Thursday.- -Eight of the children were killed and thirty or more injured. The motorman of the car, who stuck to his post, will die, and the engineer of the express was so badly hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Both the express and the trolly were on steep grades, going at right angles. The express was signalled, and cross ing gates were lowered while tho street car was yet only half way down the bill. The motorman immediately turned off the power and applied the brakes, but the car slipped along the Icy rails. It gained tremendous mo Vnentum, and at the bottom of the hill crashed through the gates directly in the track of the oncoming train. The locomotice ploughed its way through the trolly, throwing the children iu every direction. CATTLE DISEASE IN MEXICO. Pending an Investigation Entry of Live Stock Will Be Stopped. WASHINGTON. Secretary Wilson said on Thursday that the British gov ernment had received advices from one of its consuls in Mexico to the effect that foot and mouth disease had brok en out at San Luis Pcstcsi. and that the department of agriculture acting on the British representations, had di rected Inspector Shaw of the bureau of animal industry, to make a thor oug hinvestigation. - Dr. Shaw is now in the neighbor hood of the reported outbreak. Pend ing his report the entry of iivc stock from Mexico bus been interdicted. Theer are no official advices to this government to indicate the presence of the disease on the Mexican border. Strike Commission at Work. WASHINGTON, D. C The anthra cite coal strike commission met here Thursday to begin the work of form ulating their conclusions and framing their report. All the members of the .commission were present. The ses sions will be held behind closed doors and are likely to continue for a coi cidcrable period of time. Turkey Makes It Clear. SOFIA, Bulgaria In her recent note to Burgaria, Turkey declines to ac cept the Burgarian government's dec laration an to the non-existence of rev olutionary bands in Macedonia and warns Bulgaria that explicit instruc tions have been sent to the Turkish authorities to prevent the disturbance. This note is regarded as being intend ed to justify Turkey's military activ ity. Want Wireless Service in China. VICTORIA, B. C According to ad vices received here Italy has asked the Chinese government for a conces sion to establish a wireless telegraphic service between Pekin and Taku. Ccrtelyou a Cabinet Officer. WASHINGTON, D. C The presi dent on Monday sent the following nominations to the senate: George B. Cortelyon of New York, ta he secret tary of commerce and labor. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Warden A. D. Beemer has charge of the penitentiary. Farmers around Dorchester met aad organized a grain shipping company. At Plattsmouth, Dave Hiles. a bridge workman had his left arm aad hand badly crushed as the result of a heavy timber falling on him. J. H. Gray, a brakeniaa on the Un ion Pacific, was killed at Clarks, pre sumably by falling from a car. Gray was a single man, but was soon to be married. Mr. Foster, the elderly, geatleman residing near Nelson, who on February 1 drove a razor into his neck with the intention of severing all earthly ties, is recovering slowly. Mrs. Martha Youngren, about 7 years jold, an iamate of the Clay. coun ty poor house, was found frozen to death. She was slightly demented and had left the house during the night by a window. Bert F. Clark, living seven miles northeast of Springvew, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by his mother-in-law. Mrs. John Demmer, charging him with rape on his wife's sister, a girl 17 years old. By the explosion of a gasoline engine at EI Reno. Okl., Albert Chapman, a brother of Attorney L. C. Chapman of Tecumseb. was instantly killed. The deceased was unmarried and his home was at Hutchinson, Kan. G. McKinney, a brakeman oa the SL J. 4b G. I. railroad, had his foot cut off ia the west end of the yards at Grand Island. He was about to alight from the engine and slipped, the tender wheels passing over his foot. Near Fairmont, while hunting rab bits together with three other boys, Walter, the 16-year-old son of James Dorrance, shot himself through the wrist. The shot cut into his arm and came out below the elbow, making a frightful wound. Dr. Pearson, a well known physician of Dodge, was brought before the com missioners of insanity and adjudged a fit subject for confinement in an in sane asylum. The doctor has been in poor health for some time and his condition is very serious. The Beatrice bloodhounds, in charge of their keeper, were called to Bladen to trail some petty thieves who It Is believe have committed various minor offenses at that town the past few months. The hounds were taken to a store that bad been burglarized. J. M. Maher, a well known farmer living near Fremont, received a pair of South African geese. The birds stood their long journey well and were In first class condition. They are much larger than native varieties of geese and of different shape and ap pearance. The Travelers Protective Associa tion of America, of the state of Ne braska, will hold its annual state con vention in Omaha April 24 aad 25. The dales were decided upon at a meeting of the board in Lincoln. Fifteen members of the Nebraska legislature, representing the house and senate committees ou appropriations, who visited the Iowa state college at Ames. Iowa, to investigate the work of the agricultural department, will re port in favor of making an appropria tion of $100,000 for the Nebraska agri cultural college at Lincoln. Mrs. Nancy Taylor of Fremont ha3 brought suit against the Union Pa cific Railroad company to recover the sum of 120,000. She alleges in her pe tition that in Octobce, 1900, she fell off the platform of the defendant railroad company's train at Council BIuff3. broke her hip and sustained other seri ous injuries from which she will never recover. Dr. Kerr, president of Beilevue col lege, is in Minneapolis, upon the invi tation of President Cyrus Northrup of Minnesota university, to consult with the representatives of the educational institutions of Minnesota, Wisconsin. North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa in regard to selecting the Rhodes scholars, in accordance with the will of Cecil Rhodes. A letter received "by W. A. Fowler of Ashland from his son, Shelby A. Fowler, who has been in charge of a store for several months near Heidel berg. Transvaal, states that he expect ed to start about February 15 for a short visit with his parents. He will then return to South Africa and ex pects to take charge of a general store for an aged Beer merchant at a salary of 1,000, or nearly 5,0C0 a year. Fowler has been absent from Ashland over two years. In a fight in the school room at Hy annis between Prof. Hill, recently. of Wisncr, Neb., principal of the schools there, and three big boys. Prof. Hill shot one of them. Henry Bccm, and seriously wounded him. Robert G. Mitchell, who lived on a farm about ten miles southwest of McCook, was instantly killed by his brother-in-law, Ed Lincoln. Lincoln was subject to fits, from which he had been suffering severely. This derang ed him and the murder was the prob able outcome. State Oil Inspector J. E. Hays has filed his report for the month of Janu ary showing that the receipts of the office exceeded expenditures by $780, which amount is turned over to the state. A horse and buggy, the property of Henry Cook, a farmer, was stolen from the front of O. J. Corl's store in Fair mont. 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