Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1907)
t . -r r&-. lv . I IS HGHT TO A HNISH THAT IS WHAT BALDWIN SAYS RAILROADS MUST DO. UND THEY WILL BEGIN HT ONCE R: :s in Nebraska So Knifed thct Inter-State Business is Not Remunerative. Omaha ''Present and recent lagis lation in western states will most in juriously and seriously affect rail roads." declared John N. Baldwin, general solicitor for the Union Pacific railroad on his return from the east. "The representatives of the rail roads in the east are deeply concerned regarding the greatly adverse condi tions which have arisen in the midst of this era of prosperity. Taxes have .increased 20 to 25 per cent, mater.al 30 per cent and labor 12 per cent. At the same time freight rates have been cut an average of 15 per cant and passenger rates 33 per cent. It is a condition of affairs that spells ruin. "In Nebraska our rates have b3en cut to such an extent that strictly intrastate business is not remunera tive. 'But you are paying dividends.' the people say. Yes, we are, but it is our interstate business which earns them. Eighty five per cent ot our business is interstate and only 15 per cent is busmess-within this state. "Out this argument that we are paying dividends is invalid, ftx the supreme court has said that the state cannot point to interstate business producing profits as an argument for lower rates any more than the carrier can point to its losses on its interstate business to justify higher rates en its fctra-state business. 'Governor Hughes of New York vetoed clo two cent fare bill in that state and he did so on the btoad ground tint it was arbitrary legisla tion. He said it, might become confis catory. New York has 160 people to the square mile. NebrasKa has less, than fourteen people to the squaie mile. In other words. New York has S.297 miles of railroad, 10O people to the square mile and 10.S miles of rail road for each 10,000 people, while Nebraska has 6,411 miles of railroad, -i.S9 people to the square mile, and 00' miles of railroad for each 10,000 people. Density of population of a country through which a railroad runs, of course, has a great deal to do with tee .profit of such a railroad. Yet we have the two-cent fare in Nebraska, while in New York it was considered unfair. "Tho two-cent fare has baen found a f.iilare in Ohio. It will prove the same in Pennsylvania and others cf tne states even where the population is comparatively dense. "The only thing for the railroads to do is to fight And the fight will be begun with all possible dispatch." I- AIM AT EXPRESS COMPANIES. Complaint Filed with Interstate Com i meres Commission Under Law. Washington Ono of the most ira poitant cases yet filed with the inter state commerce commission under the new railroad rate law was on Friday presented, which alleges that the ex press companies, through their power and facilities as common carriers, are usurping the prerogatives of the bank ing associations and at the same time employing the capital of the banks in the conduct of their business. It is alleged that the exchange business of the express companies and the rela tions which they have with the rai -roads enable them seriously to dis criminate against regular commercial institutions. Conspiracy and Forrery. New York Indictments charging conspiracy and forgery against George R. Scrugham. manager of the Interna tional Policy Holders" committee, and Charles R. Stirrup, an employe, and one for conspiracy- against Charles Carrington. another employe, were re turned by the county grand jury. The charges srrow out of the recent elec tion of trustees of the New York Life Insurance company. American Soldier Killed. Havana During a clash with police at Holguin. Santiago, resulting from the alleged refusal of four American soldiors of the Eleventh infantry to pay for drinks. Corporal P. J. Green was shot and mortally, wounded and his companions were arrested. Fre-ght Up Five Par Cent. Chicago Freight rates in the terri tory between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains will be ad vanced 5 per cent 'by the action of the western railroads in raising the min inrici on carload shipments and other changes in the classification. Rrfurre Permits to Ja.-:. San Franciscoj The board of police commissioners" on Friday denied the application of five Japanese fof the. privilege of renewing their permits to keep intelligence -offices in this city, and refused two Japanese applicants who desired to obtain new permits for the sametbusinessf on, the ground the applicants, were not citizens of . the , United States and that heretofore the policy of the board, had been always to give the preference in the privilege's to cilisenBagainst-t!icsewho are not and cannot become citiz3ns. ' '"Standard' Jury Dismissed' Findlay, O. The 'jury in the case 'of 1 Ohio against the Standard Oil com pany, .charged with violating the anti trast laws, reported to -Judge Duncan that it kad been found impossible to I i agree' apoa a 'verdict. The court , thereapon orderedHhe jury discharged. According to rsma the jury stood six im conviction and six for acquittal. BasseeueBUy. it is said, the jury stood eigne .to ioar xor acqauuu ana waen the dlsagreesfteat report was brought la the vote stood seven to five. A NEBRASKA SHERIFF 18 SHOT.' Johnson County Official Attacked by Desperado Tecumseh, Neb. Simeon Hudson, the name given by a desperate bron cho buster who arrived in this locality j last week, at 7 o'clock Thursday even ing shot Sheriff H. U. Miner through the shoulder while resisting arrest on the charge of forgery and made his escape. Posses are now pursuing him. . i Hudson, who has relatives ia this locality, arrived from Iowa last weetc He at all times carried a knife and gun and 'appeared to be a much expe rienced man for one of 25 years. Thursday he developed Into a whole sale forger. He started out with two checks bearing the forged signature of E. W. fuller, a wealthy lumber dealer of Vesta, near here. They were made payable to John Zigler, a fictitious per son in this locality. One for $22 he passed on the Citizens bank of Te cumseh and the other, for $18, on the Tecumseh'' National bank. The bank ers grew suspicious, compared notes and started officers in pursuit. It was found that Hudson bad taken L.e train to Sterling. There he rented a horse for twenty-four hours from W. E. Miller, a liveryman, and rode to Cook, where at a local bank ho presented a check with the forged sig nature of Jacob Finzie, a Tecumseh business man, but was turned down. He then went to Burr, ten miles fur ther on, and at a local bank presented another forged check and was again turned down. Suspecting that he had gone to Lin coln. Sheriff Miner telephoned de scriptions to that city and followed himself. Returning home in the evening un successful, he found that Hudson bad returned to this locality and was stop ping at the home of John Kramer. The sheriff drove out, accompanied by Elmer Nelson. Kramer came out and denied the presence of Hudson in his house when asked. While con versing with him the sheriff noticed Hudson escaping by the back door and across the back yard. He gave pursuit, when Hudson turned en him with a 44 caliber revolver and shot him in the left shoulder, the bullet passing through the fleshy part of the arm and glancing upward, striking the sheriff again back of the ear. He then stood off the sheriff with his re volver until he could mount a horse and escape. CABINET CRISIS IN FRANCE. Groups on the Extreme Left Turn I Against Ministry. Paris The premier, Eugene Clem enceau, may have to face one of the most serious ordeals of his remarkable cireer. All the extreme left groups with which he has been affiliated in the past are now on the warpath, be cause, as they allege, he has turned his back on his former associates and since May 1 has resorted to methods of repression. The entire representation ia the rebellious region of the south, irrespective of party, is also against him. Almost a score of interpellations have been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies, covering the general pol icy of the government, the employment of troops, the bloodshed in the south and other matters, and M. Blanc, un ified socialist, was dissuaded only with difficulty from demanding M. Clemen ceau's impeachment. WHEAT ABOVE DOLLAR MARK. September and December Options Ad vance on Reports of Crop Damage. Chicago Wheat on Thursday went above the dollar mark, the September option selling on the floor of the Board of Trade for $1, and the Decem ber delivery for $1.03. The sharp advance was unexpected to the major ity of traders and it came with start ling suddenness. The advance was. caused by the report of a statistician who last April estimated that the win ter wheat crop would amount to 325, 000,000 bushels. This estimate was based on the expectation-that Kansas would produce 00,000,000 bushels. A supplemental report was issued by the statistician declaring that the crop would probably fall 10.OCO.000 bushels below this amount because of the damage sustained in Kansas. TWO-CENT FARE IS ENJOINED. Baltimore & Ohio Road Brings Suit in Pennsylvania. Uniontown, Pa. In an effort to have the 2-cent fare law in Pennsylvania declared unconstitutional, the Balti more & Ohio Railroad company, oper ating the Pittsburg & Connellsville railroad, has filed an equity suit here asking that the law be declared voif and that the court of Fayette be per petually enjoined from recovering from the railroad any penalty im posed by the act. Holocaust in Hong Kong. Victora, B. C A horrible holocaust is reported hi mail advices from Hong Kong, where 500 Chinese of the audi ence of a Chinese i theater, and ten of the actors were burned to death when the native theater was destroyed by fire. ' " TWO-CENT FARE IS ENJOINED. Baltimore & Ohio lRoad Brings Cult T " - Against New Act. Uniontown. Pa. In an effort to have the 2-ceiit fare law' in Pennsylvania declared unconstitutional, 'the Balti more 8? Ohio -Railroad "company, oper ating' the Pittsburg "& Connellsvilie railroad, has filed, an equity suit here asking that the law be declared void sandthat-the court of Fayette be mv- F1-'""'.' vujwum "uui muiCHUg ITCH! the railroad. - ' . , r-r r. u? - H - - Burgess Gets Lincoln Job.., , Oyst Bay. X. Y President Rooie-" velt on Thursdaivappointed Henry jJ. Wj Burgess to be-surveyor of the, cf s tomsat Lincoln. Neb., andrLyman W., Wakefield to ; be j-egister.'pf the? land office, at ih6enl:" Arte.- - " " ; Washington:---A contract, has'-open awarded H-T: Adas of BdUeFsorcae, S, d; for a portion f tk dtetrfttt&m systeaatof the Belle eFm arrlgatfcn svaM' kmM Sfcn - - ..--' -.f.. The work involves the excavation of sfSO cable yards of ssateriaL FRAUDS NCOUHHDO SEVENTY INDICTMENTS RE TURNED IN THAT STATE. ' ALLURE INTHEUM) DEALINGS Men Trying to Get Fraudulent Title to Rosebud Lands Fined and Sent to Jail. Denver As a result of the work of the special grand jury, which, closed its session Saturday and reported to Judge Lewis, about seventy indict ments against men prominent in Colo rado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada and eastern states were returned for coal and timber frauds, although a few alleged mining fakirs and a cou ple of cases of postofflce robberies were also included in the list. Washington Information was re ceived at the general land office that B. F. Jetter andC. B. Van Trees of Butler, Mo., have pleaded guilty before the United States district court for the western district of Missouri, and have been fined $1,000 each and sen tenced to four months in jail for con spiracy, under section 5440 of the United States revised statutes. These men, in conjunction with one other person, all of Butler. Mo., at the time of the opening of the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota, last year, secured a number of sol diers' declaratory statements, which, as agents of the soldiers they offered for filing. At the same time they se cured promises of relinquishments from the soldters in case the soldiers werolucky enough to draw a number, the Idea being to secure purchasers for the soldiers' rights, and it was charged, defrauded the government by cutting out bona fide entrymen. The land office has also bee- noti fied that there is a similar scheme in process of formation for the opening of the land to be made capable of irri gation under the Huntley project in the Billings, Mont, land district, which will soon be made available. MORE AGITATION IN JAPAN. Politicians Still Using 'Frisso Incf- ' dent as Weapon. Tokio Public excitment over the American question has almost passed away, but the agitation is still going On. It is mostlv the wnrlr nf nnlitt- cians of the opposition who are em ploying the question of a weapon of attack upon the ministry. - The progressives and a coterie of politicians called the Daido club will likely join hands in a combination at tack on the ministry over the Ameri can question, their principal aim be ing to thereby strengthen their re spective positions in the coming election of local assemblies and also in the general election of next year. TO MAKE WASHINGTON GOOD. Ninety Arrests Made for Working on Sunday. Washington Mayor Garrett and Marshal Collins of Glen Echo, a sub urb of this city, arrested about ninety people Sunday on the charge of vio lating the Sunday law. The arrests included street rar conductors, peanut venders, a telephone operator and other Sunday workers. Garrett and Collins are the officials whose numer ous arrests of automobiiists for ex ceeding the speed limits have created widespread interest. Lid on at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo. Thi Sunday saloon closing law was enforced in St Louis county on Sunday, leaving Illinois towns across the river the only places where thirsty St. Louisans might go. Thousands of people who have formed a habit of going to country towns to avoid the city's Sunday lid" wer3 dis appointed. East St. Louis, however, reaped a rich harvest, double-headers being run on all east side surburban lines to accommodate those fleeing to this last resort lor liquid refreshments. Bond Stealers Sentenced. New York Oliver M. Dennett, tho broker who pleaded guilty to receiv ing the bonds which William O. Doug las, the assistant loan clerk, stolo from the Trust Company of America, was S3ntcuced to serve out not less than five nor more than 'ten years in Sing Sing prison. Mrs. Hanna Secures Decree. Cleveland Mrs. Daisy Gordon Hanna was granted a divorce from Dan R. Hanna. son of the late Sen ator M. A. Hanna. Mrs. 'Hanna was given custody of the only child. The amount of alimony had been privately agreed upon. Will Appeal to Roosevelt. Washington The Central Labor un ion of Washington sent a telegram to President Roosevelt, requesting that he institute an investigation to deter mine if the telegraph companies have entered into a conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. BENCH WARRANTS ISSUED. Names of Men- Indicted In Denver Not Giveri Out at Present. DcnverBench-warrant8 based on the 'indictments returned by. the fed real grand jury, will, be issued Mon day, it was authoritatively stated, and. until 4 they.,are .issued no names of the persons indicted will be made public. It is hinted' in reliable quar ters that the indicted persons include men of--high business standing in J Colorado and Wyoming and also in Milwaukee and St Louis. Mortgage of $200,000,000. ' ,St Charles,' Mb. TJie Wabash. Rail road companyfiled a mortgage for $200,000,000. in favor of the Bowling Green'' Trust company in the county clerk's "office here on Friday. .Too mortgage is to secure fifty year bonds at 4 per cent interest -' -at it Batte, , Mont Foarteea inches '!of now;fen iaBatte Sunday, bat 'by nightfall the streets were a' slash.' Tne government "rain showed a net precipitation of one and 1 one-qaarter iaoaes. BRIEF HEWS HBTES FOR THE BUSY MnN MOST IMPORTANT y EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUNDABOUT THEWORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of tho Globe Latest Homo and For oign Items. THE HAYWOOD TRIAL. Counsel for William D. Haywood at Boise, in their efforts to .discredit the testimony of Harry Orchard, put a witness on the stand whose testimony strongly indicated that the explosion in the Vindicator mine was an acci dent and not a crime. In the Haywood trial at Boise, Idaho, a ruling by the court materially limited the showing of the defense as to the alleged counter conspiracy by the mine owners. William F. Davis, who, according to Harry Orchard, was a leader in sever al of the mine crimes in Idaho, was put on the stand by the Haywood de fense and denied Orchard's state ments. His testimony was weakened somewhat by Senator Borah's severe cross-examination. The first direct testimony in the de fense of William D. Haywood was chiefly directed toward showing that Harry Orchard, blaming Frank Steun enberg for the loss of his interest in the Hercules mine, had threatened to have revenge by killing him, and that the conduct of Orchard and K. C. Ster ling, both before the Independence explosion, when they were frequently seen together, and afterwards, when Sterling' called off the bloodhound that was following Orchard's trail, justified the inference that the mine owners .in spired the crime. In an address that occupied two ses sions of the district court at Boise, Idaho, Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, outlined to the jury the defense of William D. Haywood to the charge that he murdered former Gov. Steun enberg. In broad description, it is to be a denial of every material count in the testimony of Orchard, with a show ing that Orchard killed Steunenberg because of a private grudge borne by the loss of a rich share in the great Hercules mine, and explanations of the independent circumstances that tend to connect three co-defendants with Orchard's life and operations. MISCELLANEOUS. Efforts to thwart the serving of a subpoena on John D. Rockefeller, pres ident of the Standard Oil company, were halted when Judge Landis in the federal court at Chicago warned At torney John S. Miller for the oil trust that the head of the great combine would have to appear personally and that no excuses would be accepted. The jury in the case of the state of Ohio against the Standard Oil com pany, charged with violating the anti-trust laws, failed to agree and was discharged. Federal Judge Edgar Aldrich, of Lit'tleton. N. H., was appointed master to determine the competency of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy by Judge Robert N. Chamberlain, of the supreme court. He is to reiort on or before Septem ber S0t The French chamber of deputies by a decisive majority of 120 after an exciting eight-hour debate voted con fidence in the government's policy to insure respect for the law. Premier Clemenceau's victory was more de cisive than his most ardent friends had looked for. John J. Mooney, a farmer living near Waverly, Minn., struck and killed his wife during a domestic quar-, rel. Lewin A. Wood. 3eorge W. Wood. Bruce D. Tuttle and Martin P. Quig ley, of St. Paul, Minn., were arrested by United States deputy marshals on warrants charging them with using the United Stctes mails for fraudulent purposes. The Wisconsin assembly by a vote of C9 to three passed the senate reso lution providing for the election of United States senators by direct -vote. W. F. Bechtel, former president of the Northwestern National Life Insur ance company, was sentenced at Min neapolis. Minn., to states prison for five years. He was convicted of grand larceny. Federal Judge Pollack at St. Louis held the Spanish-American war tax illegal. The British steamer Kumeric has arrived at Honolulu with 1,200 immi grants, brought from the Madeiras by the territorial immigration board. The executive committee of the Commercial Telegraphers' union ad dressed a letter to General Manager Nally, of the Postal Telegraph com pany, suggesting that the grievances of the operators be beard and con sidered by representatives of the com pany'. Sir John Hall, former premier of New Zealand, is dead at Welling, Ner. Zealand. President Roosevelt, through the in terstate commerce commission, award ed railroad life saving medals to Charles Arms, of Clarksville, Tenn., and Edgar B. George, of Parsons, Pa.. Overcome with grief and humiliation- at the action of the bar asso ciation in recommending that he be impeached for gross intemperance if he did not immediately resign, Supe rior Judge K. C. Hebbard, of San Fran cisco, tried to shoot himself. The re volver was knocked from his hand. The gradual abandonment of Fort Assinniboine, Montana, as an army post is contemplated by the war de partment The plant of the Utlca Drop Forge & Tool company, of Utica, N. Y., was destroyed by 'fire, entailing a loss of $200,000! Owing to the action of the Vene zuelan congress in condemning the policy of the ntinister of finance, the Caracas cabinet resigned. , Thomas" L. Harper,7 a prominent Pittsbarg politician, was arrested for shooting foar times at Levi De Wolf, a well known broker. Prof. Thomas B. Evans, of the Uni versity of Cincinnati, who had just been granted a year's leave of ab sence for the benefit of his health, died at his home. Robert Simpson, of the Omaha Country club, won the western open golf championship at Hinsdale, 111., with a total of 307 strokes for the 72 holes. A federal jury at Fort Dodge, la., vucviucu uuii gram ueais uu uie viu- cago board of trade were gambling. pAugustana college, Illinois, is of fered $20,000 for an endowment fund by Andrew Carnegie on condition that $80,000 additional be raised. Fire at Baraga, Mich., destroyed the big sawmill of the Nester Estate com pany, causing a loss of $65,000 and throwing 300 men out of work. ' Fire In Birmingham, Ala., destroyed the Chalifoux office building, with a loss of $300,000. Russia is massing troops on the Ar menian frontier, fearing new Turkish massacres. Dr. Elmore F. Elliott escaped pun ishment for an assault in New York by making the novel plea of "pyschic epilepsy," which is epilepsy without external manifestations. C. C. Clark, checker champion of Ohio, and known all over the country as a checker player, was stricken with paralysis at Columbus. Judge J. E. Fulton, who shot and killed Sam Parker, a widely known football player,.' was sentenced in Huntsville, Tenn., to ten years' im prisonment. Monk Gibson, a negro boy, was con victed by a jury of complicity in the murder of Mrs. A. J. Conditt and four children near Edna, Tex., and the death penalty was ordered. Subpoenas were issued by 'Judge Landis of the federal court in Chi cago for the appearance of John D. Rockefeller, William D. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers, and ten other officials of the Standard Oil company to ap pear in his court on July 6. - Yale defeated Harvard by a boat length in the best race ever rowed at New London. E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, deliberately trans gressed 'the rules of the course and was arrested' by Lieut. Bulmer, Presi dent Roosevelt's naval aide. Five hundred Chinese perished in the burning of a native theater in Hongkong. Gov. Pindall of Arkansas pardoned F. O. Butt, formerly state senator, convicted of the bribery of Senator R. R. Adams of Grant county and sentenced to the state prison for two years. Walter Swinburne Hancock, former ly an Episcopalian clergyman of a fashionable church in Chicago, whom his bishop inhibited on account of scandals with women, is under police surveillance in London, being suspect ed of having poisoned his wife. Fire destroyed the entire saloon sec tion of Morenci. Ariz. The loss aggre gates $100,000. Twenty-seven letter carriers of Butte. Mont., walked out as a demon stration for higher pay. but in three hours all but nine returned voluntar ily. The taking of evidence in the mur der trial of Judge Loving at Houston. Va., ended after the court ruled that the prossc'ition could not attack the truthfulness of the story told by Miss Loving to her father. The social revolutionists of Russia have revived the terrorist organiza tion and are contemplating attempts on the emperor and Premier Stolypin and a big robbery in St. Petersburg. The Lloyd Baxter company of Parkersburg, W. Va., and Montpelier, O., a large music concern, petitioned for a receiver. Several hundred natives of the Caroline islands perished in a hurri cane. Mrs. Elizabeth Agassiz, widow of Louis Agassiz, the famous zoologist, died at Arlington Heights, Mass. Bills were tiled by the Pittsburg & Connellsville railroad, a B. & O. cor poration, in the Pennsylvania courts, attacking the validity of the two-cent-fare law. Harry E. Ricker, formerly business manager of the Metropolitan opera house of St. Paul, Minn., was found guilty of having stolen over $3,000 from the funds of the theater. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Anglesey, England. Buildings were rocked, but no damage was done. Seismographs in Austria and England recorded violent shocks at distances of from 2,500 to 7,200 miles. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal company, of New York, has received a "black hand" letter demanding $5,000 on a threat of death for him and his wife. A legal battle for the $300,000 es tate of the late Cornelia A. Miller' was begun in Joliet. 111. Charles Fish, the favorite nephew, is charged by his two brothers with gaining the proper ty" by illegal means. Harry Vaughan. Edward Raymond and George Ryan were banged at Jefferson City. Mo., for the killing of Prison Guard John Clay during an at tempt to escape from the penitentiary. Three persons were killed by light ning during an electrical storm that swept over New York city. Elizabeth Loving testified at the trial of her father at Houston, Va., for murdering Theodore Estes, telling the jury-the same story she told her father, of how Estes had drugged and assaulted her. Andrew Feine, of Milwaukee, killed his sweetheart, Elsie Volkmann, her father 'and himself as a result of a lovers' quarrel. Reports from China say the rebels there are advancing upon Canton, and refugees from the surrounding coun try are fleeing to Hongkong to escape from the brutality which the insur gents have displayed. A plot to steal '$50,000,000 from the Russian government at Tschita, where the money was kept for enterprises 'in Siberia, has been discovered and 30 Russians-arrested. They had made a tunnel 120 yards long from a hotel to the safe. The Central Labor union of Wash ington asked President Roosevelt to order an inquiry as to whether the telegraph companies were In a com bination hi restraint of trade. Presi dent Small, of the Commercial Teleg raphers' anion, said he would ask government aid in settlement of the strike. J. U. Barnes, of Minneapolis, who! was president of the defunct Minne sota Title, Insurance and Trust com pany, was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $13,009 of the funds of the concern. George Hamfeldt an American, while in Copenhagen,, Denmark, gave a reward of $250 to a messenger boy who found a bag containing $15,000 in money and jewelry and returned it to Mr. Hamfeldt. . Col. Orestes Ferrara, secretary of the Cuban delegation at The Hague, has resigned because of attacks made on him due to his once haviag been sentenced to prison by an Italian court for writing a political pamphlet Cornell won the varsity eight-oared race at the Poughkeepsie regatta, Syracuse the varsity four-oared race and Wisconsin the freshman eight oared contest A block of hotels and other buildV Ings adjoining"' the Jamestown exposi tion grounds were destroyed by fire. The oil fields of northern Indian Territory were swept by a tornado that killed three men and destroyed hundreds of derricks. The loss was estimated at $500,000. . Prospects of peace in the telegra phers' strike were made brighter by President Small's making an appeal direct to President Mackay, of the Postal company, and by the appoint ment of a conference committee of the striking operators. D. Leet Oliver, of Pittsburg, a senior in Sheffield scientific school at Yale, was killed in an automobile accident Three other men were injured. Lightning struck and shattered a presidential banner pole which stands less than 100 feet from the executive office at Oyster Bay. No one was in- jured Richard Croker won the Irish derby J with Orby, who won the English derby of 1907. This Is the first time that these two great classics have been won by the same horse. Premier Campbell-Bannerman's res olution in favor of curtailing the pow er of the house of lords in vetoing bills passed in the house of commons was carried by 432 to 147. As a result of the premature explo sion of a box of dynamite near Tola, Charlotte county. Virginia, eight per sons were killed outright and six oth ers, seriously injured. Andrew Bauer, cashier in the branch office of Simpson, Crawford & Co., New York, was knocked senseless by two thugs and robbed of $2,000 while placing the money in the safe. Vestmakers in east side shops of New York, numbering 4,000. have gone on strike for an advance of wages of 12 to 16 per cent Albert Woltemade, cashier of the Alton (III.) branch of the Anheuser Busch Brewing association, who had been missing for eight days, returned home alter having traveled 2,500 miles with his mind a blank. The formal opening of the first com pleted tract of irrigated land finished by the reclamation service of the na tional government took place at Billinf-'s, Mont. it is rumored in court circles in Copenhagen that Princess Thyra, sec ond daughter of King Frederick, is bctiothed to Prince Adelbert third son of the kaiser. Uees swarmed on the handle of a switch in Sioux City. Ia.. and delayed traffic on four railroads for a time. Attorneys for the eight principal Missouri railways and Attorney Gen eral Hadley for the state have prac tically agreed' to take the matter of jurisdiction in the enforcement of the Missouri two-cent law to the United States supreme court. Terrorists threw a bomb into Eri van square, Tiflis, killing and injuring many persons, and then robbed a wagon of $125,000 belonging to the government treasury Four men were killed and five in jured by the fall of a scaffold in San Francisco. Chief Justice W. F. Frear, of Hawaii, has accepted the governor ship 'of the islands. John Chandler, 107 years old. was killed near Quincy, III., by being thrown from a buggy. The formation of an $S,000,000 com bination of nine independent brew eries in St. Louis, East St. Louis,. 111., and Granite City, 111., was announced in St. Louis. The possibility of serious trouble in Central America growing out of the disturbed conditions existing there in cident to the alleged ambition of Pres ident Zelaya. of Nicaragua, to form a union of Central American states, has caused the administration to dispatch the fine new cruiser Milwaukee to that locality. Henry Harmes, a wealthy farmer who was in jail in Kankakee, 111., for shooting his wife with intent to kill her, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel and a necktie. Samuel Hill and John Hilbure were drowned in Conderay lake near Chip pewa Falls. Wis., as the result of the explosion of a gasoline tank aboard a launch. As a protest against the department officials in laying off some of their fellow workers, 250 employes of the street-cleaning department in Manhat tan and Bronx boroughs, N. Y., went on strike. Charles R. Richardson was con victed in Pittsburg. Pa., of conspiring with Harvey P. Bostaph, Joseph Flah erty and J. H. MilhoIIand to attempt ti bribe councilmenr to pass the Pitts burg & Tube City railroad franchise ordinance. W. R. Abbott, president of the American National bank, of Fort Smith, Ark., and one of the largest in dividual timber land owners in the state, died of heart failure, aged 40 years. Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the evangelist, died at Warsaw, Ind., of blood poisoning. Earl Chism has confessed at Clin ton. Ia.. to robbing the banks and post offices at Reynolds and Taylor Ridge, 111. The general manager of the Erie railroad said representatives of the International Association of Machin ists had received $10,000 a year from the road for years and when payment was stopped they called a strike. The Hamburg-American Una, through its managing director. Herr Ballln, gave aa order to the Harlaa 4k Wolff firm, of Belfast for a 50.M0-toa steamer. The ship will be the largest vessel afloat NEBRASKA POINTERS STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON DENSED FORM. Mrcss,raimjypuc What ie Going " Hers and There That ia of Interest to the Readers Throuflhot Nebraska. The new Methodist church at Platts mouth was dedicated last Sunday. A movement is on foot to connect tUe towns of Wymore and Blue Springs. The Y. M. C. A. of Omaha is making a canvass for $90,000 to finish their new building. The assessors of the different wards in York failed to find within $20,000 as much personal property as the.e was a year ago. . Dick Bolte, aged 69 years, was' found dead at his home nine miles southwest of Utica. It is thought he died of heart disease. Mayor Colton of York has issued a proclamation calling upon all citizens to clean up then barn yards and alleys and haul out ail rubbish. Frederick Fienne has brought action in the district court of Antelope county against Jacob Weist for malicious prosecution, claiming damages of $5400. The Tecumseh city council has called the special election to vote on a $16,000 bonding proposition for a new electric lighting plant for that city for July 9. The Cuming county board of equal ization has finished its labors. The total assessment of the county has been raised some $50,000. being chiefly mortgages and moneys uncovered. William Frankel. a well known Washington county farmer, committed suicide by blowing his head off with a shotgun. He had been despondent of late, for what reason is not stated. At a business meeting of the Te cumseh military band it was decided to disband the organization for the present at least. Consequently that town will be without a band for the summer. The annual business meeting of the Old Settlers association of Cass county was held last week and August 23 and 24 are the dates selected for holding the nineteenth annual reunion at Union. Fire yesterday practically destroyed the Shaughnesey residence ein Val entine. Mr. Collet, a neighbor, was badly burned by being caught under neath a falling roof while trying to save a trunk. A group of Minden citizens are ob jecting to the granting of a liquor license in that town on the ground that it is a violation of the constitution in spite of what state laws may say fo the contrary. About two months ago a ten-acie tract of laud half a mile west of Bladen sold for $160 per acre. Last week it changed hands at $170 an -' acre. Since tho rains and the good prospects for crops farms are held section in that vicinity. - The subscriptions for the new Pres byterian church in North Platte have already reached the $10,000 mark, aid the church has about $8,000 worth of property which either is money or can be converted into money, the proceeds of which will be used to construct the church. The new pipe organ for the First Congregation church arrived arrhed from Chicago last week.- It is the biggest instmment of the kind in the state and required ten wagons and forty horses to transport it from the' furniture car in which it came to the depot. Dr. Gessle of Nemaha county m ist pay double tax on a mortgage secu.-3d . by Minnesota land. The Gopher legis lature passed a law taxing mortgages, where recorded, while the Nehiatka lav insists taxing securities whra found. He may contest the Minne sota law. There is some agitation as to muni-, cipal ownership of the York wa er works. By the terms o" the contract of the water company with the ct:y. entered into in 189:5. the present yea-. 1907. is one of the years when the city can exercise an option to buy the water works. The special election which was to have been held in Fairbury last w?.-k to vote on the adoption of the initia tive and referendum, has been ioyt poned to Tuesday. July :;. This action was taken on account of a misunder standing of the law, which is differeat from the law relating to special elec tions. The First National bank and the German National bank, the two sta:e depositories in Hastings, have de clined to pay the rate of interest de manded by the state treasurer after July 1. They have notified the state treasurer that if he insists upon the 3 per cent rate they will not handle any state money. James L. Paxton has been elected manager of the Union Stock Yards company of South Omaha 'to succeed W. J. C. Kenyon. The latter resigned to accept the position of general man ager of the Illinois Tunnel company of Chicago. A damaging storm which brought a deluge of water and a costly elec trical display visited Creighton ami vicinity last week. The known dam age In town amounts to about $10,003 and it is probable that many instances of destruction in the country have not yet been heard from. The Tecumseh Military band ha3 voted to disband, for the present at least An instructor was hired early in the season and the band was active but for some reason the instructor was dismissed and since then there has been nothing doing. The Knox county teachers' Institute will be held August 26 to 30. Prom inent speakers who will be present in clude State Superintendent McBrien and Governor Canualna and Senator Dolllver of Iowa. One of the events of the week will be a steamboat excar sioa np the MJssoarL i nfti, i?'--rf - ,- A tMwii"" ;"- r S" nnnmnia -.,,.. -" . V z-