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THAT IS WHAT BALDWIN SAYS
RAILROADS MUST DO.
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: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."
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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-
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- - 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
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