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News in Bri
Clocks have been put in the tram
cars in Cracow, Poland.
Gunnery practice at Newport has
frightened away the fish.
In fifty years suicide has increased
in Great Britain by 200 per cent.
Natives of Uganda, Africa, use
American oil for anointing their shiny
black bodies.
Fine voices, it is said, are seldom
found in a country where fish or meat
diet prevails.
Great Britain's naval estimates for
next year are just double those of the
United States.
Trees transplanted at night are
more likely to live than those trans
planted in daytime.
After an absence of 150 years
sharks have again made their appear
ance in the Baltic.
Chicago will have six movable
school houses next fall to take care
of the city's shifting population.
Officials of the Chinese Commercial
Steamship company have received a
concession for the establishment of a
Chinese colony on tho southern coast
of .Mexico.
Baron Masanao, a Japanese noble
man, says Texas may expect wealthy
men from bis country soon, as the
Lone Star state has an excellent soil
for raising rice.
Tho successor of Russell Sage in
the put and call market of Wan" street
is said to be Amos M. Lyon, until re
cently all but unknown in the fi
nancial ial world.
Dr. W. J. Rolfe, of Boston, president
of the Emerson School of Oratry, is
one of the most eminent living au
thorities on Shakespeare's works. He
is 77 years of age.
Captain Gross, an instructor of the
German army balloon corps, has left
Berlin for St. Louis, where he will
observe the dirigible balloon contests
in behalf of the war office.
One of the delegates who suffered
most from beat at the SL Louis con
vention was James C. Timmins. whose
homo is Yuma, Ark., said to be the
hottest town in the country.
Joseph Chamberlain, defending the
introduction of Chinese lalior into the
Transvaal, contended that white labor
ers would not work side by side with
black laborers on equal terms.
The officials of the China Mutual
Steam Navigation company steamer
Pale Ling deny the report that the
vessel had been seized by a Russian
volunteer fleet cruiser in the Red sea.
"Coal Men's Day" was observed at
the World's Fair with ceremonies
held in the Hall of Congresses, under
the auspices of the national council
or state and interstate coal associa
tions. At the stockholders meeting of the
Southern Pacific, held at Beec7imont,
Ky.. a resolution increasing the capi
tal stock of the company $100,000,000
by the issue of preferred stocs. was
adopted.
Mose Pettigrew, a Chickasaw In
dian, and Walter Richardson, a negro,
were shot and killed at Red Springs,
I. T.. it is alleged, by an Indian nam
ed Brown, who fled and has not been
arrested.
The new battleship Ohio came out
of the dry dock at Hunter's Point,
California, and anchored ?n the
stream. It is expected that she will
be ready for her trial trip by the
early part of this week.
A looking-glass trust has been or
ganized in Belgium.
The steamer Henry Hanley has ar
rived at SL Louis from Nashville,
Teiin.. flying two flags, the stars and
stripes and the confederate flag, hoist
ed by Miss Nannie Hanley, daughter
of one of the steamer's owners.
Charles Stimmcl. convicted of tho
'.murder of Joseph W. Shiede. a book
keeper of Dayton, O., was electrocut
ed in the annex at the Ohio peniten
tiary. Directors of the Northern Pacific
Railway company declared a quarter
ly dividend of one-half per cent and
"an eMra dividend of one-quarter per
cent, both payable August 1. "fts those
lawfully entitled to receive the same."
United States District Judge Mor
row at San Francisco ordered that
I Charles H. Carlton, the fugitive from
-Cleveland, charged with using the
mails in. carrying out schemes to de
fraud, be sent back to Ohio for trial.
An explosion in a detached build
ing of the Phoenix powder mill, on
the Southern railway, midway be
.'tween East SL Louis. 111. and Belle
- ville. resulted in the death of one
man. The building was demolished.
Farm land in England ranges in
price from $G0 to $120 an acre
The American consul general, Mr.
Gowdy. is investigating the tragic
death of Colonel George Wilson, in
Paris. Mile. Murman, whom he shoL
is still in the hospital, but her wounds
are not considered serious.
Monaco is Europe's most densely
populated spot.
The American battleship squadron,
commanded by Rear Admiral Barker,
will sail for Flume, from Trieste, next
Sunday and from there will proceed
to Gibraltar.
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Mayor Williams, of Memphis. Tenn.,
says that he will close all gambling
in Memphis and close saloons after
midnight.
- It is said that General Kuropatkin
has founded a newspaper for the use
of the army, the general being tne
editor-in-chief.
The commissioner of the general
land office has withdrawn from public
entry and sale 14.800 acres of land
adjoining the Owl creek reservoir
site. Rapid City distxicL South Dakc
ta. The action was taken in fu:r.ie--ance
of an irrigation projecL
The revised pass list as approved
by the National World's Fair commis
sion consists of three divisions. Out
side of the representatives of the
press, employes of the exposition com
pany and persons employed on the
grounds, the new list provides for only
about SC5 persons.
' The Panama canal commission re
ceived notification from the govern
ment of Panama of the ratification of
the monetary of the new government
constitution in accordance with the
agreement reached by the Joint commission.
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STRIKE JJ AGAIN
PACKING HOUSE EMPLOYES ARE
OUT A SECOND TIME.
k JOINT CONFERENCE IS HELD
Strikers Assert that Discrimination is
Shown When Application is Made
for Work Packers Pick Out Cer
tain Employes and Let Others Go.
CHICAGO The stock yards strike,
which was renewed Friday morning
In Chicago and all the other points
where the hog packing companies
have branches, because the strikers
were dissatisfied with the manner in
which the employers proposed to re
instate their former employes pend
ing a settlement by arbitration, will
continue for another day at leasL
A joint conference between repre
resentatives of both sides to the con-
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. ARTILLERY POSITION. ,
The picture shows a method of attacking a fort if high angle fire fails to reduce it. The irregular
trenches leading to the parallels are dug so that they cannot be swept by the enemy's fire. The men dig the
trenches under the protection of their own artillery. The parallels are for the protection of the storming
parties as they approach nearer and nearer the walls.
troversy and representatives of the al
lied trades in an attempt ia bring
about a peaceable adjustment of this
second strike was unsuccessful, and
the meeting was adjourned wfth the
understanding that another conference
would be held Saturday morning at
8 o'clock.
At the conference, which lasted
five hours, a committee consisting of
five representatives of the packers ana
five representatives of the butchers
union, was appointed to go over the
whole situation, but the committee
was unable to reach a working ba
sis with which both sides would be
satisfied. Whether the difficulty can
be satisfactorily settled Jat Saturday's
meeting is problematical.
After adjournment a publication
committee announced that the peace
negotiations had failed, but still has
hopes that an agreement could be
reached in the near future No
written statement of what occurred
in the meeting was given, as has
been customary at the former confer
ences and the committee declined to
give any further information, except
that another meeting would ne held
Saturday.
in tne roiiowing statement given
out by President Donnelly of the
butchers' union, the reason why the
strikers refused to return to work is
given:
"The packers signed an agreement
that there would be no discrimination
in the re-hiring of the men. This
was accepted by the officers of the
organization in good faith. On the
return of the men this morning they
were lined up like cattle. The fore
men and superintendents wouftl walk
through the line and pick out a man
and say: 'You come up.' The next
man would be pushed out of line and
told that he could not be acrive. It
was always the active unio men
whom they could not use. We un
derstood the agreement perfectly and
the strike was only called alter the
packers had violated the same. This
has been their system in the past and
that was our main reason for insisting
on the time limit in the agreement,
but in spite of this the packers' in
tentions were to hire only sucn men
as were favorites. They also hired
men in some of the departments who
had not been employed prior to the
strike."
Must Give Indemnity Bond.
PORTLAND, Ore. According to ad
vices received at the local offices of
the Portland & Asiatic Steamship
company from New York, the steam
ship Aragonia, which is ownefc by the
Hamburg-American company, will be
allowed to carry a cargo of flour from
here to Japan, providing the Portland
ft Asiatic company first file an indem
nity bond to protect the owners in
case the steamship is seized by the
Russians. The amount of the bond
was not made public, but is believed
to be 1275,000.
Are Suing for Millions.
BUTTE, MonL Two more suits
were begun in the district court by
the Boston & Montana company to re
cover damages to the amount of many
millions of dollars on account of the
alleged looting of large quantities of
valuable ore from the adjoining mines
through the Minnie Healy workings.
In the two suits judgments are asked
to the amount of $7,400,000. making a
total, with the big suit that was be
gun on Thursday, of $21,150,000 for
ore alleged to have been unlawfully
extracted from mines.
Small Fight Near Tongschu.
CHICAGO A special to the Dally
News from New Chwang says hard
fighting has been going on for several
days in the neighborhood of Tong
schu. eight miles east of Tatechekiao.
It is reported that the Russian loss
in Monday night's engagement was
2,100 and the Japanese loss 1.200. The
Japanese also have been in active con
tact with the Russians east of Hai
cheng. where there have been many
minor actions.
WANTS BRYAN AND PARKER.
Mayor Harrison Would Open the Dem
ocratic Campaign in Chicago.
ESOPUS, N. Y. Esopua took on a
new atmosphere Tuesday with the ar
rival of the first train bringing New
York newspapers. The conference of
New York democrats held last night
at the Hoffman house was tne subject'
of the keenest interest, even to the
villages, who hitherto have been con
tent in the knowledge of Judge Par
ker's nomination, without bothering
about any of the details or gossip con
nected with his campaign. The judge
himself showed an Interest beyond his
usual calm, and at breakfast read the
newspaper accounts of the conference
with close attention, but, as usual,
without any comment which could
reach newspaper men.
A report is current that there will be
an effort to get the judge to begin his
active campaign in the middle west
with a speech at Chicago soon after
the notification ceremonies. It is un
derstood that Mayor Carter H. Harri-
TEDIOUS SIEGE METHOD JAPS M AY HAVE
son of Chicago is anxious not only to
have the first gun of the campaign
fired in Chicago, but to have Judge
Parker and William J. Bryan on the
platform together upon that occasion.
Of course, nothing definite on that
subject can be learned here, for Judge
Parker absolutely refused to discuss
bis plans previous to his notification.
So far as the notification is concern
ed, it will be held at Rosement. Judge
Parker intends to remain here
throughout the campaign, save per
haps for two or three absences to
make speeches in large cities such as
Chicago, Philadelphia and New York
and possibly Boston.
HIGH HONOR FOR AN AMERICAN.
Secretary Hay Will Be Given Grand
Cross of Legion of Honor.
PARIS The most important an
nouncement of the forthcoming list of
decorations following the French na
tional holiday will be that of President
Loubet conferring the grand cross of
the Legion of Honor upon Secretary
Hay.
The grand cross is the hlgest grade
and is given only to personages the
government desires to signally honor.
An official said it was evidence of
Foreign Minister Delcasse's high re
gard for Mr. Hay's conduct of foreign
affairs during the last five years. This
has constantly strengthened Franco-
American relations, the latest being
American recognition of French para
mount authority in Morocco under the
Franco-British arrangement.
Mrs. Maybrick is Free.
TRURO, Cornwall, Eng. Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick is free. She left hert
at 11:43 a.m. Wednesday on her way
to France.
Mrs. Maybrick's imprisonment was
not terminated with the clang oi
doors, the last sound which remains
in the ears of so many of her fellow
prisoners who had preceded her to
liberty from Aylesbury prison, where
she spent more than fourteen years of
her life. It closed before the arched
doorway of the white convent of the
Sisterhood of the Epiphany in this lit
tle town, with the black-robed sisters
softly uttering their blessings and
good wishes for her future.
Jews Are Helping the Russians.
ST. PETERSBURG Rabbi Drab
kin, in an interview with the Asso
ciated Press correspondent, asserted
that there were 15,000 Jews fighting
in the Russian army in Manchuria.
The rabbi called attention to the fact
that when Jews fall in battle their
burial is different from that which oc
curs when death results in other
ways. The Talmudic law requires
that those who fall in battle shall be
buried in their blood. Therefore, the
bodies of such are not placed in
sboruds, but are interred in clothes.
Conference at Oyster Bay.
OYSTER BAY After a conference
with President Roosevelt which last
ed far into the night and was re
sumed early Tuesday Former Secre
tary of W'ar Elihu Root left Sagamore
Hill for New York, having important
business which made necessary his
return to New York. Beyond the
fact that the president and Mr. Root
considered the speech which the
former is to deliver on the 27th insL
in response to the notification of his
nomination little could be learned
about the conference.
Gout Brings Ambassador Home.
WASHINGTON Ambassador Tow
er at Berlin has cabled to the state
department that he will return to the
United States on leave of absence.
He has suffered from gout for months
and would have taken a vacation long
ago but for the war.
United States Will Help.
ST. PETERSBURG The United
States has Informed Russia that she
will be glad to join Great Britain in
the protection of the seals at the
Kommander islands.
DANCER TO J' PAN
SQUADRON STEAMfNG FOR ISL
AND TO SHELL CITIES.
SHIPS ARE HEARIBC YOKOHAMA
Ships Sighted in Jap Waters and Bom
bardment May Be Expected Jap
anese Torpedo Boats Retire Under
Heavy Fire From Forts.
TOKIO. A fisherman reports that
the Vladivostok squadron was off My
ako yesterday, going in a southeaster
ly direction at a speed of 10 knots.
If this course and speed is maintained
the squadron will be off- Yokohoms
late today. The eastern coast of
Japan is shrouded in fog. Shipping
lias been suspended, awaiting the lo
cation of the Russian fleet.
CHEE FOO. Copies of the Novo
Krai, a newspaper published at Port
Arthur, including the issue of July 11,
TO USE.
reached here this afternoon. Accord
ing to this paper the Japanese fleet,
comiiosed of six cruisers, five gun
boats and twenty torpedo boats, was
seen early in the morning of July 10
to the soutlieasL
At 9 o'clock in the morning part of
the Russian fleet moved to the en
trance of the inner harbor. The Jap
anese torpedo boats then approached
and at 10:30 they were fired upon by
the gunboat Kiliak and the cruiser
Diana. The Japanese vessels retired.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon several
torpedo boats again approached Port
Arthur. The cruiser Novik, with an
escort of torpedo boats, advanced
and the enemy retired the second
time.
During the night of the 10th six
teen Japanese torpedo boats formed
for attack. They were, however, dis
covered by the searchlights and re
tired under a heavy fire from the
forts. At a later hour that same
night a single torpedo boat made for
the entrance of the harbor at full
speed, but also retired under fire. The
whitehead torpedoes which had failed
to reach the cruisers at which they
had been discharged by the Japanese
were found at the entrance of the har
bor. On July 11 the Japanese fire from
the sea stopped and the Japanese as
cended Kinsan heights, from the sum
mit of which rapid fire guns were
used against the Russians. During
the evening of the 11th the Russian
batteries sent many shells from three
posititons against the Japanese on
these heights. Later the Russian re
serve, accompanied by bands of mu
sic, began to move toward Ludsigdao.
The fire on the heights was very ef
fective. News was received from Ta Tohe
Kiao yesterday that the Japanese had
broken through the Russian left flank
between Lieutenant General Count
Keller's position and that of General
Rennenkampff, and that they were
marching on Mukden. The rumors to
this effect are persistent, but there
is no official confirmation of them.
Sambta Is Not Captured.
HAMBURG. The Hamburg-Ameri
can line steamer Sambia passed Perim
at the southern entrance of the Red
sea. thus disproving the report of its
capture by a vessel of the Russian
volunteer fleet.
Doings of the Maccabew.
DETROIT, Mich. The specral com
mittee appointed to consider the reso
lutions submitted by the 224 Macca
bees' tents who objected to tae pro
posed readjustment of rates, and
asked for a more liberal representa
tion in the supreme tent, submitted
its report on Friday. The report rec
ommends that consideration -9 given
those protests that were worded re
spectfully, and that the board of trus
tees take up the matter of punishing
those tents that submitted protests
couched in disrespectful language.
Report Fighting at Kaitou.
LONDON. A dispatch to the Cen
tral News from Tokio says there is
reason to believe that a severe fight,
lasting all day, occurred July 19 at
Kaitou, north of Mo Tien pass. An
other dispatch to the Central News
from Tokio says that a telegram from
the front announces that the engage
ment north of Mo Tien pass was pre
cipitated by the Russians, who at
tacked the Japanese positions at Sio
hiayen, westward of Kaitou. After se
vere fighting the Russians were re
pulsed. Launching of Nebraska.''3
WASHINGTON. The battleship
Nebraska, which has-been under pit
cess of construction at the yards of
JUoran Bros., Seattle, for several
years, will in all probability be
launched before the close of the pres
ent year. According to the statement
of the bureau of construction given
out Saturday, on June 1 of this yeai
the Nebraska was 49 per cent, com
pleted, and that on July 1 51 per cent.
of Moran's contract had been per
formed. The department is exceed
ingly anxious to get the ship afloat.
NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
"A Mb crop of hay is being secured
in Lincoln county.
The street fair put on at West
Point proved to be a great success.
Richard Dobson, of Clay county,
who served three terms in the Ne
braska legislature, died last week.
Tke Lincoln labor unions are mak
ing elaborate plans for the celebration
of Labor day in September. They ex
pect at attendance of about 4,000.
The school census of Otoe county
which has just been completed shows
that there are 3,578 boys and 3,609
girls of school age between the ages
of 5 and 21.
At the special election for the pur
pose of voting bonds for $15,000 for
a, sewerage system for the city of
Wahoo the proposition carried by a
vote of 253 for and 104 againsL
According to the completed returns
of the assessor the average value of
farm lands in Otoe county is 159.94.
and the total value of both personal
and real of the county is $35,003,927.
Ebert Laughlin, a section hand em
ployed at Paxton, while returning
from Ogalalla, where he had been as
sisting in clearing some wrecked cars
from the line, was injured by falling
from a moving train. He will re
cover. Hans Peters, aged 65, a member of
a party of ten people from Gretna,
bound home from Bonesteel, died in
Norfolk from injuries received at the
junction Northwestern depot in Nor
folk when the special pulled in from
BonsteeL
Eighty-five dollars per acre was the
price paid last week for 160 acres of
fine farm land in Grand Prairie town
ship, Platte county. The land is six
miles from Columbus and two years
ago it sold for $65 per acre and eight
years ago for $35.
Dr. E. C. Munk of Newman Grove
and Dr. J. G. Walker of Lindsay,
charged with alleged statutory assault
on the person of Nellie Thompson of
Newman Grove, were dismissed by
Justice Ricnardson after the exami
nation of numerous witnesses.
Harry. Kimmel of Blair, a guest at
the National hotel in Nebraska city,
lost a $250 diamond ring in the wash
room of the hotel. Mr. Kimmel re
moved the ring while washing His
hands and left the room without tak
ing the diamond. A few minutes
later he discovered his loss.
A tramp was brought into Wahoo
from Touhy on the Union Pacific,
where he had his right arm crushed
under the train. He was taken to the
county jail, where County Physician
Smith, assisted by Drs. Bush and
Tornholm, amputated the man's arm
just above the wrist.
iJbhn Hoyt, of Sarpy county, while
on his way to Bonesteel, met with a
painful accidenL He was eating his
lunch, when a small chicken bone
lodged in his throat. He immediately
returned to Papillion, but the doctor
was unable to remove the bone. Tho
sufferer then went to Omaha to get
relief.
The school census of Otoe county
just completed shows there are 7,209
children of school age in Otoe county.
This includes all the children between
the ages of 5 and 21 years old. There
are 3,578 boys and 3,631 girls. The
census indicates there are twenty-one
more chilrren this year of school age
than there were last year.
Great interest is already manifest
ed in the Nebraska state fair. The
most spectacular feature of the fair
will be the appearance of Dan Patch,
who, on August 30, will pace one mile
against time. The management of
the fair will have to pay $1,500 for
this privilege, and, in addition. 20
cents from every ticket sold above
.the number when Cresceus appeared
'Ijlst year; admission goes to M. W.
Ravage, the owner of Dan Patch.
I Mrs. Robert Heckatborn, an old
resident of Gage county, has been
pronounced insane and ordered to the
asylum.
Robert Colson, a young man living
a few miles southwest of Mumboldt,
came in to receive medical atention
made necessary by an explosion of
some powder, a quantity of which the
young man ran across while burning
up some hens' nests. The box had
been used about the house and it is
supposed the powder was stowed
away in it and forgotten.
A voucher for $2.37 back pay due
from the Civil war was received by
Adjutant General Culver from the
war department. The money, which
had never been solicited, was accom
panied by a statement to the effect
that settlement was made to enable
the government to close up its ac
counts with the soldiers of the Civil
war and to correct clerical errors
made by the paymasters when the
soldiers were mustered out of service.
The voucher was for $1.72 due Mr.
Culver for pay as a private from Sep
tember 21 to 24 inclusive. 1861, and
for 53 cents due for service on Oc
tober 14, 1864; also 12 cents for cloth
ing allowance for the same date.
Farmers of Sarpy county are com
plaining of rust in the wheat.
Thirty-seven years ago on the 19th
of July Lincoln was selected as the
capital city of Nebraska. David Bus-
ler was at that time governor of Ne
braska, T. P. Kennard was secretary
of state, and John Gillespie was state
auditor. These three formed a pros
pecting party empowered to fix upon
a definite site for the Capital City.
By a vote of two to one, Mr. Gillespie,
voting in favor of Ashland, the place
where Lincoln now is, was chosen for
the location of the capital.
A heavy rainstorm visited the sec
tion about Auburn. The government
gauge showed a precipitation of two
inches.
George Caster has appealed to the
supreme court an action for damages
coming up from Valley county and
instigated by John F. Scheumenan.
The quarrel is over three head of cat
tle belonging to Caster and which
strayed from his pasture Into a field
belonging to Scheumenan. Scheume
nan took up the cattle and refused
to give them back to Caster until damages-
had been settled. 1 l
Sitting at the dinner, tabled Otga
Stranskay, aged about - 80 , years,
dropped bis bead aad died without a
moment's warning. He had been a
resident of Chadron for fifteen years
and leaves a wife and one daughter.
The county assessor of Otoe county
has completed the work of determin
ing the valuation of the county's real
estate and personal property, which
Is $35,003,927. The amount includes
the changes made by the Board of
Equalizatioa. Tne average, value of
farm property la the county u 919.74
per acre.
STATE NEWS
ASSESSMENT REPORTS SLOW.
Work Will Commence With Many
Counties Yet to Report.
LINCOLN. Owing to the delay of
county officials in getting their as
sessment reports the state board of
equalization will go to work with
many counties still missing. The
sessions will have to be of the stren
uous order if the law Is complied with
for the reason that the statutes re
quire the report of the board to be
certified out to the counties by the
first Monday in August, which this
year is August 1. This leaves less
than two weeks for the board to com
plete its work, and the task will be
a hard one.
Numerous reports have begun to
come in from various counties to the
effect that a mighty roar is going to
come in because property has been
assessed too high, and other reports
are to the effect that the railroads
are going out of their way to com
pel the board to raise the farmers
out of all proportion to what they
have been raised over last year.
Whether the fanner will leave his
wheat field and come in to plead his
case has not been announced, but con
stant rumor has it that the railroads
are loaded to the brim with figures
and probable threats that they intend
to unload for the edification of the
board that the people of the state
may still be taxed out of all propor
tion to the railraods.
For some reason it seems to be the
general opinion that the board will
use the valuation placed on railroad
property as a baste upon which to fix
the valuation of the different counties,
but no member of the board will ad
mit that such is the case. The board
doesn't seem to know how It will pro
ceed, though it Is probable that the
first thing on the program will be to
listen to protests. From Douglas coun
ty comes the report that the rail
roads are very anxious that the peo
ple there be put on the defensive, and
it is common talk that they will try
to show the board that it is a shame
the way Douglas county is beating
the state out of taxes. This because
citizens of Douglas county are large
ly responsible for the late increase hi
the value of railroads.
DINNER FOR PAUL MORTON.
Elaborate Festivities Enjoyed at Ar
bor Lodge.
NEBRASKA CITY. One of the
most elaborate dinners that has ever
been served In this city was given
at Arbor lodge In honor of Paul Mo
ton, the new secretary of the navy,
by his aunt. Miss Emma Morton, and
his brother, Joy Morton. The dinner
was strictly private as far as their
friends here were concerned, all of
the guests being guests from outside
of the city and the personal friends
of the new secretary. The tables
were spread in the monster dining
room of the new home at Arbor lodge,
which was completed this spring by
Mr. Joy Morton, to whom the father
entailed the property. The tables
were handsomely decorated with flow
ers, as were the rooms. Hidden be
hind a bower of flowers an orchestra
furnished the music. In the center
of the table was a great battleship
built of flowers and flying the flag of
the new secretary.
There was no toast master, but a
number of impromptu speeches and
toasts were given. The members oi
the party were in a jolly mood. All
were the personal friends of the new
secretary and therefore they made
public nothing of the little talks that
were made.
Receives Threatening Letter.
GRAND ISLAND. A. Parkhurst, a
retail meat man, received a letter or
dering him to place $500 in a box
at the rear of his store or the writer
would blow his head off. He received
the letter two hours after the time
which he was to have placed the mon
ey there and found bis head still on
straight
Holdredge Will Hold a Juoflee.
HOLDREDGR The business men
of Holdredge are arranging for a
grand harvest jubilee here this fall,
the primary object of which Is to
show up the resources of the county
in the way of agriculture, stock rais
ing, fruit growing, creamery products,
etc.
Big Stallion Dies.
ST. PAUL. Tama Jim. the biggest
and best horse in Frank 'lams' import
ing stables, died very suddenly. He
Is said to have been the largest stal
lion in America, weighing more than
2,600 pounds, and had taken many
prizes at state fairs and expositions
all over the country.
Boy Killed by Accident.
LEWISTON. The 10-year-old son
of Mrs. George Hiller. who lives near
here, was shot and killed by the acci
dental discharge of a shotgun. The
boy had gone to the field with his two
brothers to see them start the binder.
He was seated on the machine hold
ing the gun with one hand over the
muzzle, when in some manner the gun
slipped off its resting place and was
discharged. The contents tore
through his hand and struck him in
the 'face near the chin, passed upward
and found lodgment in the brain.
Good Prospects for Fair.
LINCOLN. Indications thus early
are brought for a glorious state fair
this year. Already more applications
have been made for pens in the swine
exhibit than ever before and applica
tions in other departments of the fair
are just as numerous. The implement
men have been coming in pretty regu
larly this past week and all of this
space will soon be taken. Fraternal
societies expect to make a splendid
showing this year and the day set
apart for their special benefit will
be a hummer.
Farmer. Fire Chief Is a Suicide.
FAIRBURY. Lew H. 'Davis, former
chief' of the fire department, com
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid. After taking the dose he walked
out of the house sad was found lying
tat the street dead.
Killed in Harvest Field.
NELSON. Chester Thurman, a
young man about twaaty. while work
ing la the harvest field oa Mr. Enearl'a
farm between hers aad Oak; was In
stantly killed ar a strata of light-
LABOR STRUGGLE
PACKING PLANTS PREPARING
FOR A FINISHED FIGHT.
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A CEIERAL CALL TO COME OUT
Teamsters as Well as Butchers Will
Make Another Effort to Bring About
Adjustment, They Also Having
Voted in Favor of a Strike.
CHICAGO Determined on a fight
to a finish to enforce the demands of
the striking butchers, a sympathetic
strike of all the union workmen em
ployed in the meat packing industry
throughout the country, with the ex
ception of the teamsters, will be de
clared Monday morning at 7 o'clock.
Instead of joining in the sympathet
ic strike, the teamsters will make an
other effort to bring about an adjust
ment of the controversy by arbitra
tion. This decision was reached late
Sunday night at a meeting of the joint
council of the teamsters' unions
throughout Chicago, who met to give
their endorsement this afternoon to
quit work with the other men. The
decision of the stock yards teamsters
was almost unanimous it. favor of
striking, but as it is necessary, accord
ing to the rules, for the joint council
to sanction any strike movement, all
the union teamsters in the employ of
the packers will remain at work dur
ing the struggle or until the joint
council gives their permission to a
strike should their efforts to settle the
matter by conciliation today prove fu
tile. The committee appointed at last
night's meeting was notified to get
Into communication Monday morning
early with the packers.
Whether the teamsters' efforts for
peace will prove successful none of
the packers representatives who were
communicated with Sunday will say.
The decision to make another effort
wis reached at such a late hour last
night that it was impossible for the
packers to get together to decide
what answer will be given to the in
termediary committee.
The reason given by the teamsters
council for their action is that they
never before have been consulted in
the present trouble.. and that therefore
before they would sanction a strike
of the stock yards teamsters they
wished to make an official investiga
tion of the trouble before asking the
international officers to order the men
on strike.
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders, or jointly, in an effort to
reach an adjustment of the controver
sy. Both sides rested, apparently
Waiting for developments.
' Whether or not the packers would
make any concessions to the demands
of the labor leaders in order to pre
vent a general walkout of the stock
yards would not be discussed by any
of the packing house representatives.
But for the preparations going on at
tho different plants during the day it
was plainly evident that the packers
intended to fight for their independ
ence. All the labor leaders claimed
they would await Monday before doing
any further, and the packers would
have to make the propositions for the
peace negotiations, as the unions had
no intention at the present time of
doing so.
BATTLE HAS BEGUN.
Engagement in Progress Between
Forces of Keller and Kuroki.
LIAO YANG A general engage
ment, it is reported here, began Mon
day morning to the east between the
forces of Lieutenant General Count
Keller and General Kuroki. It is re
ported also that an engagement began
simultaneously at Ta Tche Kiao, from
which the Japanese for some days had
been only six miles distant.
The Associated Press correspondent
lately traversed the Feng Wang
Cheng road, which was in the height
Of militar y activity and offensive
with the odor of dead animals.
The Red Cross hospital at Ta Tche
Kiao was removed to Mukden in an
ticipation of the fighting. Consequent
ly there was a large call for Red
Cross trains to proceed to Ta Tche
Kiao.
The activity of the Japanese in the
northeast caused a wide dispersion of
troops and the consequent improve
ment of the center of the strength a
little further north.
A Cossacck report of an expedition
to the Japanese ramp shows that the
Japanese troops are suffering from
dysentery, which is now at its worst
stage.
Carries Sixty Thousand.
CHICAGO- The movement west
ward on account of the opening of the
Rosebud Indian reservation in South
Dakota exceeded all expectations.
The Chicago & Northwestern alone
took 60,000 people to Bonesteel, Fair
fax and Yankton. The unprecedented
movement was largely due to the fact
that a long overland journey was not
necessary to reach the land.
Cruisers Near Yin Kow.
LIAO YANG Saturday eight Japan
ese cruisers, accompanied by trans
ports with troops, were seen approach
ing in Kow. South of Ta Tche Kiao
the Japanese are bii&ily moving for
ward. The Russians are expecting a
big advance from the south. General
Kuropatkin inspected troops arriving
from Russia. The Russian companies
on the left flank are constantly en
gaged in skimishes with the Japan-
tsu forces vchu have RiifTnrpil hoavilv. I
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four guns.
Solid Shcts for the Ardova.
PORT SAID Advices received here
say that the Russian volunteer fleet
steamer Smolensk fired three blank
shots across the bows of the Brit
ish steamer Ardova. the cargo of
which consists of coal and explo
sives, and the vei.sel. not stopping,
the Smolensk sent two loaded shots
at her, one of them passing over her
amidships and the other going over
her stern. The Ardova was then
seized and her crew transferred to
the Smolensk. The vessel will be
brought to Suez.
Spelter for Japan.
JOPLIN, Mo. The Japanese gov
ernment has contracted with a smel
ter company of this city for 1.000 tons
of spelter. It is said that spelter Is
to be used in building fortifications
and battleships.
European Squadron at Sea.
TRIESTE, Austria The American
battleship and European squadrons
under the respective commands of
Rear Admiral Baker and Rear Admiral
Jewell sailed Sundav for Flume.
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The good saaa who goes wrong is
a bad man just found out.
Smokers iad Lewis' " Single Binder'
straight 5c olgar better quality than most
10c brands, lewis' Factory, Peoria. I1L
It is up to a man to pay his rent or
get a move on himself.
Worth Remembering.
Every one of us knows how painful
it is to be called malicious names,
to have his character undermined by
false Insinuations. Every one knows
also, the pleasure of receiving a kind
look, a warm greeting. By that pain
and by that pleasure let us judge
what we should do to others. Dean
Stanley.
Fewer Hours at Sam Pay.
Four years ago the working day in
all French factories was one of twelve
hours, a year later It was eleven hours,
and then it came down to ten and a
half; bat since April 1 It has been one
of tea hours. The same wages are
paid for ten hours as were paid when
twelve hours were worked.
Africa to Be Cstton FIsM.
Africa, owlsg to her climate, soil
aad population, is better fitted for cot
ton production than any other of the
continents of the globe, and will be
come the greatest supply field of that
staple after civilized methods of gov
ernment aad ecoBoaUes have become
dominant there.
Proved eyeaal a DeabL .
Middlesex, N. Y.. July 25. (Spe
cial.) That Rheumatism can be cared
has been proved beyond a doubt by
Mrs. Betsey A. Clawson. well knows
here. That Mrs. Clawsea had Rheu
matism and had it bad. all her ac
quaintances know. They also know
she is now cured. Dodd's Kidney Pills
did it. Mrs. Clawson tells the story of
her cure as follows:
"I was an Invalid for most five
years caused by Inflammatory Rheu
matism, helpless two-thirds of tho
time. The first year I could not do
as much as a baby could do; then I
rallied a little bit and then a relapse.
Then a year ago the gout set In my
hands and feet. I suffered untold
agony and in August. 1903, when my
husband died I could not ride to the
grave.
"I only took two boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pills and in two weeks I
could wait on myself and saw my own
wood. I dug my own potatoes and
gathered my own garden last fall.
Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me."
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid
in the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills put
the Kidneys in shape to take aU the
uric add out of the Mood.
Costume Like a Rainbow.
When Disraeli was a young man ha
once went on a vacation trip to Corfu
In this extraordinary costumo: "A
blood-red shirt with silver buttons as
big as shillings, an immense scarf for
girdle, full of pistols and daggers, red
cap. red slippers, broad blue-striped
jacket and trousers. His servant, en
gaged for the occasion, wore a Mame
luke dress of crimson and gold, with
a white turban thirty yards long, and
a saber glittering like a rainbow."
Where Snakes Are Feared.
In Val dl Rosa, Italy, the serpent Is
a traditional terror, and the place Is
celebrated for a curious rellgiou cus
tom known as the rite of the snake.
On Ascension day the priest solemn
ly immerses a harmless water snake
in a huge antique basin, dug up on
Monto Bruno. The mountaineers be
lieve that by reason of this ceremony
an the other snakes that infest tho
country will perish.
A Prosy Poem.
A rustic youth, with laughing eye,
sat on a rail fence munching pie. A
lop-eared mule, with a paint-brush
tall, near by on clover did regale.
A humble bee came buzzing along,
and paused to sing the mule a song;
but the mule for music had no ear,
so his heels flew up in the atmosphere
and over the top of a cherry tree
the boy soared on to eternity.
RACE DONE?
Not a Bit of It.
A man who thought his race
run made a food find that brought
him back to perfect health.
"One year ag I wad unable to per
form any labor and in fact. I was toed
by my physicians that they could do
nothing further for me. I was fast
sinking away, for an attack of grip
bad left my stomach so weak ft coukl
not digest any food sufficient to keep
me alive.
"There I was just wasting away,
growing thinner every day and weak
er, really being snuffed out simply be
cause I could not get any nourishment
from food
"Then my sister got after me to
try Grape-Nuts food which had doae
much good for her and she finally per
suaded be and although no other food
bad dose me the least bit of good my
stomach bandied the Grape-Nuts froea
the first and this food supplied the
nourishment I had needed. In three
months I was so strong I moved from .
Albany to San Francisco and now oa
ay three meals of Grape-Nuts and
cream every day I am strong and vig
orous and do fifteen hours' work.
"I believe the sickest person In the
world could do as I do, eat three
meals of nothing but Grape-Nats aad
cream and soon be on their feet again
1b the flush of best health like me.
"Not only am I in perfect physical
health again but my brain is stronger
and clearer than it ever was on the
old diet. I hope you will write to the
names I send you about Grape-Nats
for I want to see my friends well and
strong.
"Just think that a year ago I was
dying but to-day, although I am over
55 years of sge most people take me
to be less than 40. and I feel jest as
young as I look." Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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