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REBELS FIRE ON AMERICANS, I
KILLING THE ENGINEER.
ACTION OF MINISTER POWELL
Drastic Measures to Avenge the Am
erican's Death AH the Houses Out
side of the City Walls of San Do
mingo Pillaged.
SAX DOMINGO. The insurgents on.
Friday deliberately fired on the launch
of the auxiliary cruiser Yankee, kill
ing J C Johnston, the engineer. The
bullet entered his head above the eye.
United States Minister Powell has
directed the captain of the Yankee to
take drastic measures to avenge
Johnston's death and this insult to
the American flag. Johnston will be
buried on shore this afternoon.
The German consul here has re
quested United States Minister Powell
to afford protection to Herr Worman,
the German vice consul, that he might
bring his family mto the city, as the
insurgents have given Mr Worman
'rorty-eight hours to leave where he
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Mr. Powell secured a guard of
sixty men from the cruiser Columbia
and informed the government that it
JJ I was the intention of the German con
is sul and himself to bring Herr Wor-
I man's family into the city and asked
f the government that its troops not
fire upon this party while it was on
its mission. He said that if fired upon
this party would protect themselves.
The guard started out. As soon as
they passed outside the city they were
covered by the guns of the Columbia.
No attack was made and the "Worman
family and their belongings were
brought back here in safety.
All the houses outside the city walls
have been pillaged. The insurgents
are desperate and are destroying for
eign property wherever they find it.
Mr. Powell has received urgent ap
peals to protect foreign property
I against this pillaging and the Colum
bia may be compelled to land marines
to do so. The firing around the city
continues. The situation is serious.
J the prices of provisions are very high
and the poor are suffering from want
of food.
The funeral of Johnston took place
yesterday. The body was escorted
to the grave by a detachment of ma
rines, bluejackets and officers from
the Yankee, headed by the ship's band.
United States Minister Powell, the
American consul and vice consul, and
nearly all the diplomatic and consu
lar representatives here went to the
funeral.
IOWA HAS TWO GUNS BLOWN UP.
t Board of Inspection Testing Battery
! of Big Battleship.
WASHINGTON. Captain Train.
president of the Board of Inspection t
j and Survey, telegraphs to the Navy
department irom tort 3lonroe teat i 995.600. was passed without amend
while the Board of Inspection was i meat. Everything but the bill was
testing the battery on the battleship
Iowa both guns in the starboard for- i
ward eight-inch turret blew off their
muzzles. No damage was done except !
to the guns and one whale boat. j
Immediately on receipt of the tele
gram announcing the accident Secre- ,
tary Moody sent a dispatch calling for J
full details and ordering the Iowa to
proceed at once to New York for ex- j
amination and repairs. This second I
explosion on the Iowa in less than a
year has cast a gloom over the ofli- '
cials of the navy department. The j
cause of the explosion off Panama i
last year, in which there was a Ios
of life and considerable damage
to
the ship, remains a mystery.
FIND BODIES OF THE BARKERS.
Had
Been Shot and Killed and Then '
Buried in a Cattle Shed.
INAYALE. Neb. Great excitement j
prevails in this community over the
discovery of the bodies of Dan Bar
ker and wife, who were murdered last '
Sunday night. The bodies were found !
in a shallow grave in a cattle shed, I
clothed only in their sleeping gar-'
ments. Bullets from a revolver which I
had pierced the man and his wife told
the story of the gruesome affair There
were two bullet holes in Barker's neck ,
and breast and one in Mrs. Barker's ,
Dreast. i
Frank Barker, the murdered man s .
brother, is held in jail suspected of
the crime.
Although he strenuously
denies his guilt, circumstantial evi-
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it is feared that he will be lynched
by the infuriated citizens. The sher
iff of Webster county is exercising ev
ery precaution to protect his prisoner.
Seventeen Cents for Cotton.
NEW YORK. July cotton
above IT cents a pound Monday.
sold
The
market opened excited and higher;
Notwithstanding the sensational ad
vances of Saturday, Liverpool again makes a mortality per 1,000 popula
cabled hieher nrices Than exuected . tioc cf 15.50.
and the opening here was strong at
an advance of 6 to 20 points, carrying
July through to IT-cent mark and
making new high records. Following
the call the market advanced still
further, though in a somewhat irreg-
ular fashion, with March before the !
pti nf t. firsr half hnr-r rohm- ,
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Wants Legation Archives.
CARACAS. Venezuela The Colom
bian government has sent notice to
W. W. Russell, the American charge
d'affaires here, who has in his posses
sion the archives, safe and books be
longing to the Colombian legation at
Caracas since diplomatic relations be
tween Colombia and Venezuela were
severed, to transmit this property to
Bogota. It has been learned here
that large quantities of provisions re
cently have been bought at Cura
cao and Trinidad, to be sent to Sa
vanilla and Cartagena. Colombia.
Refuse to Carry the Mails.
CHEYENNE. Wyo. By the failure
of the star route contractors carrying
mail from Rawlins to Lander and the
refusal of the company having charge
of the route between Casper and Lan
der and Thermopolis to carry the
mall at the present rates of compen
sation, the eatire central part of the
state, which has bo railroad com
mmieaiioa, is practically shut out
from the world. Mall is accumulat
ing at the different points saaed axd
bo remedy has as yet beem pro-
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TO AMEND ANTI-TRUST LAW.
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Would Empower United States Attor-
neys to Enforce Act.
WASHINGTON Representative
Hearst (X. Y.) introduced a bill to
"empower United States attorneys
without the direction of the attorney
general to enforce the act to protect
trade and commerce against unlawful
restraints and monopolies."
The bill amends the Sherman anti
trust law to read as follows in sec
tion 4:
"The several circuit courts of the
United States are hereby vested with
jurisdiction to prevent and restrain
violations of this act, and it shall be
the duty; of the several district attor
neys of the United States in their re
spective districts to institute proceed
ings in equity to prevent and restrain
such violations. Such proceedings
may be by way of petition, setting
forth the case and praying that such
violations shall be enjoined or other
wise prohibited.
"When the parties complained of
shall have been duly notified of such
petition, the court shall proceed to
the hearing and determination of the
case, and pending such petition and
before final decree the court may at
any time make such temporary re-
straining order or prohibition as shall
be deemed just m the premises, but
nothing in this act or in the acts of
which it is amendatory shall be so
construed as to apply to trade unions
or other organizations of labor, or
ganized to deal with hours of labor,
wages or other conditions under which
labor is to be performed.''
RUSSIA IS TO STAND FIRM.
Nc Concession is to Be Made to the
Japanese.
LONDON English correspondents
in St. Petersburg refer to an excep
tional honor which has been accord
ed tne American press. The corre-i
spondent of the Times in St. Peters
burg, who considers war inevitable,
declares that the czar's nesitation has
beene overcome and that Russia will
make no concession. He says:
Up to the present time not a line
of information or apparently a word
of inspiration has been given the Rus
sian press on these serious negotia
tions, although the American press
has been honored with the granting
of an audience to the czar of the rep
resentative of a trans-Atlantic news
agency.'
DIPLOMATIC BILL PASSES.
Carries Nearly $2.000000 Several Po
litical Speeches Follow.
WASHINGTON The animation of
Wednesday was completely lacking in
the proceedings of the house Thurs
day. The principal feature of the day
was the rivalry between republican
leaders for the honor of moving an
adioumment.
The diplomatic bill, carrying $1.-
discussed during its consideration.
Mr Morrell (Pa. lad with an argu
ment for some system of building up
the American merchant marine. A
democratic political speech by Mr.
Hamlin of Missouri followed and re
ceived a brief reply from Mr. Fuller
of Illinois. Mr. Lind of Minnesota
spoke for Canadian reciprocity.
DIES RATHER THAN SURRENDER.
I Minnesota Doctor Wanted for Embex-
I lement Eds Life.
SAN FRANCISCO Malcolm de la
I Fer. doctor, ex-soldier and inventor.
I who was wanted by the Minneapolis
i police authorities for embezzlement,
has committed suicide here by tak
ing poison. De la Fer came to this
j city last April from Minneapolis in or-
. der to escape trial for the misuse of
, funds entrusted to him.
i While in Minneapolis he attained
some distinction as an inventor of i
I electric railway devices, a number of i
which are at present in use. When i
the Spanish-American war broke out ,
he enlisted in the Thirteenth Minne
sota volunteers and was made an as
sistant surgeon, serving with distinc
tion in the Philippines-
Farmer Buys Ge-ld B-tck.
WICHITA. Kan. Jacob Allen, a
wealthy farmer of Wellington. Kan
was swindled in this city by gold
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supposed government assayer. who
i gave the nr.me of J. E. Stone of Phil
adelphia.
Health cf New York.
ALBANY, N Y. The state depart-
ment cr health, in its bulieun of vital
statistics published Tuesday, states
that there were 127.100 deaths during
the past year in this state, which '
More Cardinals are Wanted.
ROME. It seems more and more
likely that the pope will meet the
v-fshr? of the Brazilian government
ry creating the archbishop of Rio Ja
neiro a cardinal, the pontiff remarking
in this connection that Braza can-.
r:"T,c over 15,000.000 catholics.
Bel I Company Loses Suit.
BOSTON The American 3ell Tel
ephone company is ordered by Judge
Colt of the United States circuit court
to give an accounting to the West
em Union Telegraph company, the
successful plaintiff in a damage suit
involving millions of dollars- Judge
Colt has also appointed Everett W
Burdett special master to take charge
of the company and secure all evi
dence that may be presented. The
suit was brought to recover royalties
in the American Bell company on cer
tain inventions.
Senate Bill from the Sick Room.
WASHINGTON Senator Hanna
sent to the senate a bill providing fer
a naval training station at Put-in-Bmy,
O.. on Lake Erie, and appropriat
ing $20,000 for the par pose. It was
introduced by Seaator Foraker.
r Retains Ha
WASHINGTON The snb-cammit-tee
of the house elections eoamitr.ee
No. 1, in the Meody-Gadger contest
from the Tenth North Carolina dis
trict, completed its report in favor of
the sitttas member, Gudger, democrat.:
GALLS FOR MONEY
NOTICE SERVED ON UNITEC
STATES DEPOSITORIES.
MONEY m PAY FOR THE CANAL
At Least S30,C0aX0 Must U
Shortly and the Banks Are Askea
to Provide Twenty Per Cent el
Their Deeostts.
"WASHINGTON Secretary Shaw
sent the rollowing letter to all na
tional bank depositories holding spe-
I cial government deposits regarding
of the Panama canal purchase:
Sir: It seems probable Thar the
government will be called upon in the
near future to pay $50,000,000 prelim
inary to the construction of an inter
oceanic canal. In addition to this;
there are outstanding approximately
$5,000,000 of the United States bonds,
which by their terms mature February
1, 1904, and congress is considering-
appropriations of between $4,000,000
and $5,000,000 to the Louisiana Puiv
chase exposition. To meet these prob-
able demands it will be necessary to
! withdraw at least $30,000,000 from de-
pository banks.
You are therefore required to make
immediate preparation for the pay
ment on demand of 20 per cent at
New York. In the near future, pos
sibly within ten days, you will be
asked to transfer this amount to some
one of the New York depository
banks, to be used In settlement for
i canal right of way.
If you desire to sell at oace a por
tion of the securities now held by
the government against your deposit,
you will so inform this offlce. and ar
rangements will be made for the im
mediate transfer, so as to avoid ac
tual withdrawals from channels of
trade. ,
The department will surrender no
United States bonds held as security
for deposits with any bank until such
bank has withdrawn all state and mu
nicipal bonds now held as such se
curity, but securities of the District
of Columbia. Philippine islands and
Hawaii will be retained if desired.
Please acknowledge receipt. Re
spectfully, L. M. SHAW,
Secretary.
FIVE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH.
Mother Unconscious and Fatally Burn
ed in the Hospital.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. la. Five chil
dren were burned to death and th
mother fatally burned in a fire whic'i
consumed the home of Peter Christen
sen. 1602 South Tenth street. Council
fluffs, shortly after midnight Monday.
The dead are:
Etna Christensen, aged 11.
Frank Christensen, aged S.
Lila Christensen. aged 5.
James Christensen. agec 2.
Peter Christensen, baby, aged 6
months.
Fatally burned
Mrs. Dora Ch.istensan, mother of
the children.
The bodies of four of the children
have been recovered from the ruins,
but they are so badly burned that they
are unrecognizable.
The mother has ben taken to the
hospital in an unconscious condition,
and no hopes are entertained for her
recovery.
ROOT TALKS FOR ROOSEVELT.
Glad to Hold Up the President's
Hands.
NEW YORK Elihu Root was the
guest of members of the Union League
club at dinner Wednesday night. Mr.
Root spoke at some length of the re
gard President McXinley had inspired
in. him and reviewed the progress
made in Cuba and the Philippines
since the war with Spain. Speaking
of President Roosevelt, Mr. Root
sz.id
"I count it one of the greatest priv
ileges of my life to have been able
when that sad day came that brought
the death of President McSinley to
hold up the hands of his true and loy
al successor."
MRS. MAYBRICK'S NEW JAIL.
IS
at Convalescent Home Ready
for
Release in the Summer.
LONDON Replying to a question
in the house of commons Thursday.
Home Secretary Akers-Douglas con
firmed the reports that Mrs. Florence
Maybrick had been removed from
Ailesbury prison to a convalescent
home, where she will remain until
summer, when she will be allowed hei
freedom, and said that she had bees
granted a license under the penal ser
vitude act
In accordance with Mrs. Maybrick's
earnest desire. Akers-Dooglas will
not make public details as to the time
or olace of her release.
Tor Lewis and Clark Exposition.
WASHINGTON. Senator Mitchell
introduced a bill as an amendment to
the urgent deficiency bill, to appro-
Priate S2J3.J.00O for the Lewis and
-- -yi-u. uj u usia at x-orx-
land. Ore., in 1905.
Army Officers Lose Jobs.
LONDON In pursuance of the
army reforms all the heads of depart
ments of the war office on Thursday
received letters of dismissaL and were
notified that they will be employed
elsewhere. Lord Roberts, command
er-in-chief of the forces; Lieutenant
General Lord GrenfelL commanding
the Fourth army corps; Lieutenant
General Sir John French,. In command
of the First army corps, and Sir Wil
liam Butler, commanding the West
district, have been invited a join the
new army counciL
Senator Janes' Successor.
WASHINGTON. Mr. Clarke, the
new democratic senator from Ar
kansas, made his first speech ia the
senate on Tuesday. He spoke two
boots and announced his iaaorsement
of every position taken, by the presi
dent in coanecticm with the Panama.
revolt and in the aaaptiarjon of the
treaty with, the aew state. He eyea
said that in view of the prorocatiom
girea by Colombia the aresldeat augat
hare beem expected to go farther tan
he did in advaacing the cause of
WHEN THE INDIAN
A section of Senator Quay's territorial
representing the territory
HAYTIAN AFFAIRS
LEADERS OF REVOLUTION
SHOT TO DEATH.
ARE
COUNTRY IN STATE OF TERROR
Uprising Promptly Nipped in the Bud
with Rifles Revolutionists Riddled
with Bullets While They Are
Their Beds.
WASHINGTON Mail advices from,
thoroughly authentic source whith
reached several persons in Washing- utaa- aau "jl tr3a5Prc' " ueiia
ton Wednesday indicate a terrirving TOKIO. ine Russian note is still
state or affairs has existed recentlv aelivered and the government and
in Hayti. One letter from Port Au
Prince gives the followin;
account
of happenings at that place:
Affairs here are in a state of wild
and dreadful disorder. While the ncucement cf continued movement
president. General Norc. was in Con- of reinforcements into Manchuria, in
aives, a city in the northern part of creases the strain of the tension, while
this republic, a conspiracy was dis- iz diminishes the already slight pros
covered to inaugurate a revolution. cls for Pace. The government has
not so much against General Nord been urSd to dispatch a peremptory
himself as for the purpose or gettinz note tQ St Petersburg, threatening to
control cf the city and forcing the decIare war if refused immediate sat
president to agree to certain measures co the way of a reply to its
respecting the liberation and pardon- previous note, but still the government
ing cf a number of Haytians impli- te Patiently waiting, although it is
cated in the bank scandaL When the niaaifest if tne delay is much mere
time arrived to carry the plot into
execution, many withdrew therefrom.
One of the number. General Maximo
Nomp.ajzer, was, however, determin
ed to carry it through.
Learning of the conspiracy, the mil
itary governor ot tne city, with a
numoer of soldiers, broke into the
house where Nomplaizer and a few of calm and no scenes similar to those
his friends were gathered. Orders in America and England before re
were given to shcot all those within cent wars were witnessed. There
on the spot. Those who were killed ere occasional demonstrations and
were Nomplaizer. his sen. one cr two cutcrjppings of popular feeling, but
other pe sons and a servant. The tke usual visiter to rhe larger cit.e.5
owner of the house escaped by jump- c2- see nothing out of the ordinary -n.
mg from a second story window, and tfl- disposition and behavior of the
in doing so broke his leg. but man- people. There is. however, an under
aged to crawl to the house of a Ger- current of desperate determination
man. who save him shelter. running the nation's iength and
The military authorities arrested breadth, more imposing in many ways
and imprisoned his wife. Hearing of , than a demonstration would be. The
this, the man informed the authorities ' people have counted the cost and
if thev would release his wife he made final preparations, so that if
would return to his house. He kept forced to fight they are capable of
his word, returning to the house, waging and sustaining war in a man-
where the authorities found bim in
bed after a physician had set his leg
Without any ceremony they killed him
as he lay there by firing thirteen bui
Iets into his body. The foreign res
idents then became alarmed and the
German admiral informed the authori
ties if their actions did not cease he
would land marines and take posses
sion of the city. This stopped fur
ther proceedings.
General Nord afterward
reached
r-ort au rnnce ana tne excitement
is allayed. Nearly all the foreign le-
gations are full or refugees.
INDIANS IN A SORRY PLIGHT.
Return Frcm Indian Ccngr-ss Which
Stranded in Paris.
NEW YORK. After a stormy pas
sage the steamship LaChampagne ar
rived in port Tuesday from Harve.
From January 2T to 31 west and south
west gales, with very rough ss,
were encountered and one day the
steamer made cnly twenty- knots. In
the steerage arrived Ernest Efner. the
manager of an Indian congress which
went to meces m Fans. With h
came Albert Hensley, an Indian, with
his snuaw and two children, Roy
Thunder and his four-year-old son.
Dewey Thunder. The nartv was a
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Increase of Public Defet
WASHINGTON. D. C The morh
ly starci-eiri. cf the public debt shows
thar st the close of January .": the
totil debt. ie?s ca-sn m the treasury,
amounted tc 3I5.0'J24a, which is
an increase of S3I1.67J as compare:!
with the preceding month. Tuis in
crease is accounted for by a orre
spending 'Increase ;i the earn ou
haniL
Tragic Climax cf a Wedding. v
SAGINAW, Mich. The wedding '
here last week of Corporal Charles A ,
Valois of Company H. Twenty-sixth t
United States infantry, and Miss
Mabel Stainer had a tragic climax.
Tuesday night when the young couple
took poison in a rooming house en
Franklm street- Mrs. Valois is dead
aad her husband is ia a critical can-
dition. The match met. the disap-
proval of the parents of the young
couple. They left a letter saying that
their parents had turned them, out
of
home.
Raise Prices on Steel.
CLEVELAND. O. Because they
found present prices to be below ac
tual cost of production, independent
sheet steel maaufacturers have ad
vanced the price of that material $2
a tea st least.
Twa arc Btntincad ts Hang.
JEFFE1SOX OTT. 3IO. Drrisiec
I No 2 of ate aujHeau. covrt aas affirmed
tie
cuit
of Franklin county or-
fi
aad sentenced Georgv Col-i
Baste
ob March. H, ISO-f, for the ,
cf rJetectire Schumacher.
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SENATOR TAKES HIS SEAT..
bill provides that ene of the set .or:
shall be of Indian descent.
IS READY TO ACT
Russian Fleet at Vladivosf
:k Fully
equipped.
ST. PETERSBURG. A dispatch
from Vladivostcck. dated Tuesday and
issued here by a semi-official agency,
says the Russian fleet at Yladivostcclc
has been fully equipped for immedi
ate service and prepared for sea.
AH the wood fittings of the ships
have been removed. The harbor is
n ; being kept open by ice breakers.
The fleet consists of four cruisers,
jthe Cromoboi. of 12.336 tons; the
Rossia. of 12J3i tons: the Bosatvr.
oi 6J50 tons- aad lhe Burik- of 10-9-3
l3eu?l- ; Ja-r,an co naz Possess any
definite information
concerning the
time of its arrival
or its contents.
Raasia's delzy. coupled with the an-
Prolonged it will act energetically
Events will move rapidly when the
note is finally received, if it is not
satisfactory, and the prospects for
additional negotiations is slight, al
though probably Japan will dispatch
an ultimatum before striking. The
Japanese show a remarkable outward
ner that will surprise the world.
BITTER TOWARD UNCLE SAM.
Russian
Papers Are in a Pugilistic
Mcd.
LONDON Special dispatches re
ceived from the far east and pub
lished Thursday morning add nothing
to the actual situation. The St. Pe
tersburg correspondent of the Daily
TsIeSraph quotes from the Nove
vremya as maxmg a Dttter editorial
attack nPo:i the tted States, which
he supposed to be an outcome of the
dispatch to the American consul to
Mukden.
The Nove Vremya accuses the Uni
ted States of a desire to win the trade
of the entire globe and exclue Europ3
of the entire globe and exclude Europa
dares: "If, as it seems likely, war
breaks cut. it will have been instigat
ec by the Yankees."
Withdraws frcm Turkey.
WASHINGTON, D. C The Euro
pean squadron, composed of the
F7anc at Berrcot: the MachTas.
on its way to Port Said, and the col
lier Alexandria, at Alexandria, have
been ordered to sail for Culebra to
join in the combined maneuvers
about to ensue. It is stated that with-
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crawai or tne neet from
from Turkish wa
ters is but temporary and that at
conclusion of the maneuvers it will
return strongly reinforced and pre
pared to make a more vigorous dem
onstration. .
Cashier Rsse Gets Ten Ysars.
CLEVELAND. O. George A. Rose,
late cashier of the Produce Exchange
bank, who recently confessed to em
bezzling $137,000 of the banks funds.
was sentenced to serve ten years in
the penii
Renounces Esisccpnl Faith.
MILWAUKEE. Wis. Rev. Charles
H. Schnltz. formerly rector of St.
Stephen's Episcopal parish in this city,
an Sunday publicly renounced alteci
ance to tne Episcopal faith and was
baptized and received into the Carh-
olic church. A number of his for-
mer parishioners witnessed the cere-
mony at Gesu church. Rev Schultz
had been rector of St. Stephen's
Episcopal church fer over a year.
coming here from Nashotah. where
h - was instructor in an Episcopal in-
stitutian. I
Czar is Considering It.
ST PETERSBURG. The czar no-c
has befure him the report of the spe
cial council on the Russian response.
f AH the papers relating thereto were
submitted to him Tuesday by the
Grand Duke Alexis and the czar is
i giving them earnest consideration. He
' had not rendered his decision up to
G o'clock Tuesday evening and it is
authoritarivelv said it mar nossihir
be several days before the response is
forwarded to Tokio- Prices on the
bourse are again weak, 4 per cents
falling a point.
NeNEWS IN
THE STATE IN A NUTSHELL.
Osceola's new auditorium is about
to be opened.
The new Carnegie library at Bea
trice has been formally opened.
Mrs. Jerry Adams attempted to light
a fire with kerosene a.rt was fatally
burned at Valley.
The Ancient Order of United Work
men and the Degree of Honor held a
competitive drill and entertainment at
Lucy Smith, employed at the
Fidelity laundry in Fremont, had one
of her hands badly burned in a piece
cf ironing machinery
Thieves visited the home of Frank
Thomas orNenraska Cify and robbed
his cellar of its contents- They car
icd off a wagon load of canned goods.
Rev. Henry 3. Smith and family ar
rived in Falls City last week from
Fon du Lac Wis. Rev Smith comes
to take charge of the Episcopal
church in that jlace.
The mortgage record of Cuming
county for the last three weeks shows
mortgages filed during that period of
$14,600 and released $1T,4;0. This is
about the proportion that the county
has steadily maintained for the last
three years.
February term of the district court
convened at Aibion with Judge Paul
presiding. The docket contains rutty
five cases, moss of which are civU. al
though there are four actions for the
violation of the Slocum law.
At Beatrice the jury in the case of
-oun A. Forbes, who brought suit for
$,0,000 damages against the city of
Beatrice for injuries received by fall
ing on an ioc walk, brought in a ver-'
diet in favor of plaintiff for $750.
McKibben's store at Loretto, six
miles northwest of Albion, was broken
into by burglars and a quantity of
merchandise taken. The nostofice is
in the same building and a clean
sweep of stamps and money belonging
to the office was made.
The announcement that the Bur
lington contemplates the building of
a new line from Table Rock to Tope
ka. Kans., thus connecting the capi
tals of the sister states, coupled with
a revival of the talk in regard to the
removal of the railroad shops from
Wymore to Table Rock, seems to au
ger a boom for Table Rock.
The report of Game Warden Carter
for the year just passed shows that
during that time 3.744 resident Iicesses
were issued, being 300 more than were
ever issued before, and eighty-four for
eign licenses were issued at $10 each.
The commission cost the taxpayers
this year $1.(100 and 51.000 of this
was for permanent repairs to the fish
hatcheries.
J 3. Palmer, a retired farmer of
Fremont, was struck by train No. 1
on the Union Pacific at a crossing two
miles wesr of Ames and sustained ser
ious in furies. Hs was driving an
empty wagon and evidently did not see
the train until it was almost upon
him. His left arm was broken his
back hurt and he sustained other ser
ious injuries.
Among the opinions expected at the
close of the session of the supreme
court is one in the appeal of James
Robinson, sentenced to life imprison
ment for murder in McPherson county
The territory of Arthur and McPher
son counties was consolidated and at-
torneys have raised the technical
nnir-r rhrtr rho mn-rriar -arna rnrnTntrre'
in Arthur county
Dr Woodward, in consultation with
Dr Gray of Osceola, who once had the
disease himself, decided that Charles
Devaux, the proprietor cf the hotel.
at Shelby, has the smallpox. Devaux
was broken out and thought he had
the chickenpox. The ocal Board of
Health placed the family and some
of the boarders under quarantine, and
displayed the red Gag.
The insurance department of the au
ditor's office is just now busy receivins
money tor agents' licenses and for tax
es imposed on insurance companies.
Last month $15,000 was taken in and
tnis montn deputy nerce ngures tnat
an ot sii.u'jy win De paia in. Aireacy
oOfl ,ST,rC' li,0ncc hvo Kn in-
.500 agents' licenses have been issu
ed and it is believed the list will
be greatly Increased over last year.
The members of the Dutch Reform-1
ed church of Holland would like to
know who is going to pay for their
costly glass window, stained anJ
adorned in the latest fashion. It was
unloaded and allov-'ed to rest asamst
the depot wall at Holland. William
Wilson's cow got on the track and the
train that doesn't ston at Holland
threw the animal through the crated
class.
iion. G. A. Luikhart of Norfolk was
uansrerously. and maybe fatally, hurt
by being run down by a horse. He
was dodging to get out of the way of
one team and stepped directly in front
of an oncoming spirited horse. He
was knoked down and badly trampled. center of the channel the ice be
about the face and head, his cheeks g tQ j. . efcinjeing that his life
being cut into shreds by the sharp of Ta.ne lo bim thaJl
calks on the horse's shoes and his Dcat made aa3Ze w 3ave himself and
skull penetrated by one. It is also reached the shore in safetv, while the
thought he received internal injuries-, teaC2 -xazon and harness went under.
Thomas O. Buchanan, an American "
Express company agent, pleaded guilty f Hold Lands for State.
in the district court at Fremont to Another chapter in the famous Boyd
carrying a consignment of prairie , county land case has btea reached
chickens to market duriuz the closed j and agifn the contention of Land
season aad was fined 100 and costs. )
which the company paid. The case
against the company was dismissed-
At a meeting of the Heard of Public
Lands and Buildings plans for the
Norfolk asylum prepared by Architect
Tyler were accepted and the secretary
will advertise for bids in the near f 1
ture. Plans were also adopted for the
building of a hospital at Milford and
cold storaze buildinz at Beatrice.
R F. Loed. Jr.. of McCord Junction.
Neb was kicked in the forehead by
the old family horse and lay uncon
scious in the bam where he wa3 found
and carried to the house. There is a
large cruise en the forehead and a
long gash over the right eye. The
physician believes he win recover.
The peach crop i3 reported to be
destroyed throughout thi3 section of
Nebraska, says a Sutton dispatch, from
the effects of. the last cold weather.
The warm weather in January start- J 1S04. and ha3 lived in Nebraska since
ed the bud3 growing so that they were 1565. She is the mother of four sons
unable to withstand the temperature . and three daughters, all living: ex
of IS below zero. . cept one son. killed in the civil war.
NEBRASKA
MONEY IN THE SCHOOL FUND
state Treasurer Has Fifty
Del Lars He Wishes ss I
- , LINCOLN. For the Irst time
many months there is money in tae
permanent school fund aad the axtsav
tion of bankers has beea called to
the fact that the board of educatioa.
lands and funds will at its next ateet
ing be ready to buy securities to the
amount of $50,000 to $100,000. Mr.
Mortensen issued his monthly state
ment, which has yet to be checked
up with the books of the auditor. The
statement shows that the prraiinr
school fund contains $37,257.24. Dar
ing the month the receipts ia this
i fund were $22D.Sli3l .vail mXr-
287.41 was paid out. The general fund
has a balance of $33,396.30. while at
the beginning of the month it had
328.495.07. The cash in the temporary
school fund has grown during the
month from $120,207.75 to $13S.Q23.SL
All of the state funds have increased
from $225,445.17 to $294,450.)- The
total receipts were $292,679.17. while
the payments were $256,618.05. Bal
ance in various state banks aggregate
$29279.17.
SPINNEY FILES AN ANSWER
Informs
the Supreme Court
That
Charges Are False,
LINCOLN. Judge Allen Field has
filed an answer in the supreme court
to the application of the attoraey
general of the state far a writ of
peremptory mandamus winding up the
affairs of the Bankers' Union of the
World, an Omaha insurance company,
and to appoint a receiver therefor.
The petition of the attorney general
alleges mismanagement and misappro
priation of funds, besides numerous
other things.
In his answer filed on behalf of
E- C. Spinney, supreme president of
the company. Judge Field denies each
and every allegation of the petition,
asserts that they are without founda
tion and states that the examination
made by Insurance Examiner Wiggins.
on behalf of the state insurance de
partment, was not complete, proper"
- fair. An immediate dissolution of
the temporary restraining order is
prayed for. The case will be heard
at this sitting of tuu supreme court.
TO PROTECT NEBRASKA BIROS
Ornithologists Take Precautions to
Stop the Slaughter.
LINCOLN. In the absence of an
Audubon society in the state the orai
thologists in state meeting took pre
cautions to stop the slaughter of
song Birds In the state. A committee
was appointed to issue circulars and
appeals to the school children of the
state and to endeavor to educate
j against bird killing. The following
otHccrs were ejected: President. Prof.
R K. Wolcott, Lincoln; vice presi
dent. Mrs. C S. Lobmger. Omaha;
secretary, E. H. Jones. Dunbar; treas
urer. August Eicfae. Lincoln; executive
rnmrr:irr,i Viss Ann. 7!rTT! Pmf
, D D Hau30I1 of the 3tae Qormml
school. Dr S. R- Towne of Omaha.
Gamble Has Faith in Humanity.
UNION. Prof. J. W. Gamble has
a great deal of faith in humanity
i iv ow' A UL
' seUt for hlS mail
boy whom he had
lost a letter contain-
0 The letter was found aad
returned to the pestoffice and Mr.
Gamble received it when he called.
Printers Get Shorter Hours.
GRAND ISLAND. The newspaper
and printing offices of this city are
and employes getting together with
little or no difficulty, and a nine in-
I stead of a ten-hour day is the result.
Blair Gets Three Years.
YORK. John Blair, the Arborvfile
farmer, is now languishing in the
county jail under a sentence cf three-
ears in the penitentiary and Is the
most penitent prisoner who has been
. . , . . - .. 4
"-&" " " . -un... ji iui uh.C
time. Blair wac sentenced to a term
of three years, and he broke down
and cried- rlis attorneys have appeal
ed to the supreme court in an effort
to keep him out cf the penitentiary.
Saves Life but Loses Team. .
PLATTSMOUTH. Last summer
nearly all the boats forming the
Plattsmouth pontoon bridge broke
loose and went down the river. They
lodged on the various sand bar3 along
the river between this city and Ne
braska City When the river froze
OVer. Til Sheldon, a well known farm
er residing near PercivaL la., took a
team and started to cross the mala
channel of the river to get one of the
beats, which he thought he could use
to advantage at home. When near
Commissioner FoIImer that the land
belonzs to the state and not to the
general government has been sustain
ed by the department of the interior.
The decision was handed down Jan
uary 22 aad it wa3 received recently
by the land commissioner from the
land office at 0"NeilL The decision
upholds the action of the register aad
receiver at O'Neill in rejecting the
application for homestead.
Celebrates Her Centenary.
HERMAN. Mrs. John Latta. who
lives with her youngest daughter,
Mrs. Davis, five miles from here, cel
ebrated her 100th birthday anniver
sary, surrounded by children, grand
children and great grandchildren, who
had gathered from different parts ot
the country for the notable event
Mrs. Latta was born in Crawford
county, Pennsylvania. January 21.
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