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ANA FINED S29,0C0,000.
LARGEST RNE EVER ASSESSED
Fine Imposed Upon the Company is
. the Maximum .Permitted Under
the Law.
Chicago Judge Kenesaw M. Lan
dis on Saturday in the United States
district court fined the Standard Oil
company of- Indiana J29.240.000 for
violations of the law against accept
ing rebates from railroads. The line
Is the largest ever assessed against
any indiridaul or any corporation in
the history of American criminal jur
isprudence and is slightly more than
131 times as great as the amount re
ceived by the company through its
rebating operations. The case will be
carried to the higher courts by the
defendant company.
The penalty imposed upon the com
pany is the maximum permitted un
der the law, and it was announced
at the end of a long opinion in which
the methods and practices of the
Standard Oil company were merciless
ly scored. The judge, in fact, declar
ed in his opinion that the officials
og the Standard Oil company who
were responsible for the practices of
which the corporation was found guil
ty were no better than counterfeiters
and thieves, his exact language be
ing: "We may as well look at this situ
ation squarely. The men who thus
deliberately violate this law wrong
society more deeply than does he
who counterfeits the coins or steals
letters from the mail."
Judge Landis commenced reading
his decision at 10 oclock and occupied
about an hour in its delivery. He re
viewed the facts in the case, took up
the arguments of the attorneys for
the defense and answered them, and
then passed judgment upon the com
pany, which, he declared, violated the
law for the sole purpose of swelling
its dividends.
The court held that the railroads
have no more right to make a secret
rate for a shipper than a board of as
sessors would have to make a secret
assessment for any particular piece of
property.
The court expressed regret that the
law failed to provide more serious
punishment than a fine, but insisted
that the penalty should be sufliciently
large to act as a deterrent, and not ot
such a size as to encourage the de
fendant to persist in lawlessness.
At the conclusion of his opinion and
after announcing the amount of the
fine, Judge Landis directed that a spe
cial grand jury be called lor the pur
pose of inquiring into the acts of the
Chicago & Alton railroad company,
it having been proved in the case just
CloseJ that the oil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. This
jury is summoned for August 14.
PRESIDENT MUCH .INTERESTED.
Chief Executive, However,- Has No
Comment to Make on Decision.
Oyster Bay, X. Y. President Roose
velt received with with great interest,
the news from the Associated Press
that Judge Landis, in the United
States district court in Chicago, had
decided against the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana, and had imposed fines
aggregating 129,240,000. The president
had no comment to make on the de
cision. JOHN D. HAS NOTHING TO SAY.
Head of Standard Oil Makes No Com
j ment on Fine.
Clevland, O. John D. Rockefeller,
upon learning of the fine imposed upon
the Standard Oil company by Judge
Landis of Chicago, said he bad no
comment whatever to make concern
ins the matter. Mr. Rockefeller did
not play golf this morning, as has
benn his daily custom since his arrival
at Forest Hill.
Washington Has No Advices.
Washington No -advices have been
received at the state department con
cerning the reported expedition of
several Canadians, led by Captain S.
C. Young of the Ninety-sixth regi
ment, for Isle Royale in Lake Supe
rior with the intention of hoisting the
British flag on that island and for
mally declaring the territory a part
of Canada. According to officials of
the state department there has never
been any question between Canada
and the United States as to United
States ownership of the island.
Negro Janitor Robs Bank.
Kansas City Charles Jones, negro
Janitor of a bank at Sulphur, I. T.,
was arrested here on the charge of
stealing SG.000 from the bank. Jones
was arrested while spending money
freely among the negroes of the negro
quarter of the city.
TWO-CENT LAW IN VIRGINIA.
Railroads Agree to Obey Statute Pend
ing Appeal.
Richmond. Va. Shortly beore mid
night Saturday the state officials, in
conerence in the governor's office in
the state capitol, received a communi
cation from the attorneys of the Vir
ginia railroads to the effect that the
2-cent rate would be put into effect on
r before October 1, on condition that
the Baiter should -be taken to the
tracts for final decision as to its -legality.
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Mansfield Seriously III.
Ampersand, Lake Saranac The con
tinned illness of Richard Mansfield,
the actor, since his return from Eu
rope, has aroused some apprehension
as to the effect on nis stage career.
Mr. Mansfield is suffering from a ner
vous breakdown.
Forty Persons Drowned.
1 Anglers, France Forty passengers
la a third class railroad car and the
engineer, of the train were drowned in
railroad accident three miles south
east of this town. - '
DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
Comparative Reports from Leading
Cities Are Favorable.
New York R: G. Dun & Co.'s week
ly review of trade says:
Trade reports from the leading
cities are singularly, uniform in mak
ing favorable comparisons with the
corresponding week in any previous
vear. At most western and southern
j points the Improvement in crop pros
pects has .bougnt oui nnerai ui vo
ders, and there is evdently more con
fidence in the future than atmy time
since it was found that many of the
principal farm products had made a
bad start. Jobbing houses are prepar
ing for winter trade on a scale sel
dom equalled, the consumption of
seasonable goods promising to deplete
stocks most satisfactorily. Manufac
turers still receive orders in abund
ance, few clothing cancellations ap
pear, 'and it is the exception when
plants have smaller contracts than a
year ago. More detailed reports for
the first half of 1907 add to the earlier
testimony that all records for six
months were far surpassed.
Settlement of the ore strike removes
any danger of interruption to activity
at pig iron furnaces, which promise
to establish a new record of output
during the second half of the year.
According to the regular, report of
the American Iron Steel association
all previous figures .were surpassed
during the first six months with an
aggregate of 13.478,044 tons, an in
crease of 753.103 tons over the pre
vious maximum.
Vigorous activity continues at cot
ton mills, prices being fully sustained
by the volume of orders on hand, the
high quotation of raw cotton and con
fidence in well maintained consump
tion. Export inquiries are noted, but
no actual business results because of
the high position of quotations.
Woolen goods make slow progress, al
though practical!' all lines are now
open. Some branches move satisfac
torily, liberal sample pieces being
taken, but many clothiers do not ap
pear prepared to operate freely. In
terest is most noteworthy in the wor
sted division. l
Footwear 'factories are well engaged
on old orders, but visiting buyers in
the Boston market did not purchase
as free!- as was anticipated, and mail
orders from inteiior wholesalers ap
pear very slowly. Local jobbing trade
is very active, while reports from re
tailers in this vicinity indicate a lib
eral movement of seasonable goods.
Leather is quiet, shoe manufacturers
showing no disposition to anticipate
needs. Demand is therefore limited to
immediate requirements and tanners
curtail production which adds to the
accumulation of hides and depresses
quotations still further. Country
hides are especially weak ,because of
the large stocks of poor quality back
saltings.
WESTERN G. A. R. HIT ON RATES
Must Pay Twice What Easterns Do to
Saratoga Meeting.
Orcalia Grand Army men west of
Chicago who attend the annual en
campment at Saratoga this month are
not going to get as good railroad rates
as they have been given on former
occasions or as good as their com
rades east of Chicago.
If present arrangements of the
Western Passenger association are
carried out the veterans and their
friends west will have to pay a fare
of one and one-third, while those of
the east may travel for 1 cent a mile
each way, making a 2-cent fare, or
two-thirds of the old rate.
This meeting was arranged before
the railroads got together on their
three-month-universal adoption of the
2-cent fare, so it is not affected by
that provision, but -just why the
veterans of the w,est are forced to
pay a one and a third fare. based on
the old rate of 3 cents a mile, their
eastern comrades are granted a
straight 2-cent rate just half as much
is not apparent to them.
Suit Against Sugar Trust.
Treton, N. J. A bill in equity
which calls upon the American Sugar
Refining company to give an account
ing of its business for the last four
years was filed before Chancelor Ma
gill Friday on behalf of George H.
Searle, Jr., receiver of the Pennsylva
nia Sugar Refining company of Phila
delphia. The suit, it is said, is the
only one of the kind ever filed in this
country and the step taken by the
receiver of the Pennsylvania company
may be the means of oifcning an en
tire new field for investigating trusts.
Special Privileges Granted.
Rio Janeiro A bill granting special
privileges to any one who will put up
a hotel in any of the principal towns
of Brail and then conduct it in ac
cordance with a specified standard
was brought forward in the Chamber
of Deputies. '
Find Fort Dodge Man Dead.
Fort Dodge. la. C. C. CoUigan, a
prominent clothing merchant, was
found, dead alone in his rooms. Death
was caused by an overdose of lauda
num, evidently taken with suicidal in
tent. Despondency is thought to be
the cause. j
Death List Over a Thousand j -Philadelphia
More than 1,000 per-,
sons were killed last year in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, according to
the annual report issued by James
Roderick, chief of the department of
mines. The chief says that the fig
ures show that two-thirds of the acci
dents resulted from the victims' own
carelessness and that the remaining
third may be taken as the reasonable
percentage of accidents to miners.
The accidents left nearly 1,000 wid
ows with 3,410 children under 14
years of age.
Supplies for Philippines
San Francisco Large quantities of
merchandise, ammunition and sup
plies of every description for the nse
of the army in the Phillipines are be
ing forwarded to the islands. Within
the next few days four transports, the
Logan, Warren, Croo kand Buford,
will sail for their destination loaded
to their full capacity with military
stores. In addition they will carry 3,
000 men of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth
infantry and casuals, besides
a number of prominent officers.
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MOYER TO GIVE BOKO
COURT FIXES BAIL, FOR MINERS'
PRESIDENT AT $25,000.
HE WILL BE RELEASED SOON
No Application for Bail for Pettibone,
the Third of the Alleged
Conspirators.
Boise, Idaho Charles H. Meyer,
president of the Western Federation
of Miners and co-defendant with Wil
liam D. Haywood, acquitted Sunday
of the murder of former Governor
Frank Steuenenberg, was ordered re
leased on $25,000 bail by Judge Wood,
who presided at the Haywood trial.
The attorneys for the Federation ex
pected to have the bond ready for fil
ing, but the arrangements had not
been wholly completed at a late hour
and Moyer resigned himself to another
night in jail. He will probably be re
leased Tuesday and will leave within
twenty-four hours for his home in Den
ver. ,
No application for bail was made in
fthe case of George A. Pettibone, the
third of the alleged conspirators, but
a motion was made for a speedy trial,
and his case wa sordered set down
for Tuesday, October 1. Counsel in
timated that they might apply for bond
for Pettibone later, but it Is not be
lieved that the state's atorneys will
consent. It has been generally claimed
that the state has more incriminating
evidence against Pettibone than any oC
the others, but It has been generally
considered that the case against Moyer
was the weakest of the three. The de
fense in the Haywood case admitted
that there were a number of things for
Mr. Pettibone to explain as to his as
sociation with Harry Orchard and the
sending of money td him, but they
tsald it would be time enough to deal
'with these matters when Pettibone
j 'nimself was placed on trial.
. Haywood continued to receive many
'congratulatory telegrams 'from all sec
tions of the country. They came from
Individuals, from local unions of the
Western Federation, from all classes
of labor unions and from various so
cialist organizations and leaders.
Aside from the personal congratula
tions of the senders the messages
nearly all expressed the sentiment that
"labor has triumphed over the oppres
sive measures of capital."
Kaywood spent the day at the cot
tage occupied by his family and re
ceived many callers. He expects to
leave for Denver on Thursday.
TWENTY DIE IN FIRE.
Awful Loss of Life in New York Tene
ment House.
New York Shocking loss of human
life and destruction of property esti
mated at more than $1,000,000, were
caused by fires in New York-and its
immediate vicinity in the twenty-four
hours ending at S o'clock Monday
morning. Twenty persons are dead
and fifteen suffering from injuries as a
result of the burning of a six-story
double tenement at 222 Chyrstie
street, and financial loss resulted from
the destruction of the Long Beach
hotel at Long Beach. L. I., and the
Steeplechase Park and other property
at Coney Island Sunday.
UNION LABOR LAUDS VERDICT.
Considers Haywood Case Victory for
Cause and Justice.
Omaha Union labor men in Omaha
are gratified at the Haywood decision.
To a man they regard it as the only
fair conclusion of the case, though
some, Charles McDonald for one, ex
pressed surprised that the jury should
return a verdict of not guilty.
John Polian, president of the Cen
tral 'Labor union, said: "The verdict
could not have been otherwise under
the evidence and instructions of the
conrt." J '
Big Fire at Coney Island.
New York Coney Island, the play
ground of New York's millions was vis
ited by a disastrous fire Sunday and
seven' blocks in the amusement zone
were destroyed. Tilyou's Steeplechase
park and nearly a score of small hotels
were wiped out
Reinforcements in Cores.
Seoul All the reinforcements of the
Twelfth brigade have landed. The
re-garrisoning of Corea by Japanese
troops according to the new plan of
occupation will be completed by to
morrow (Tuesday) evening.
Lawson Buys Smelting Plant.
Prescott, Ariz; It is positively as
serted that Thomas W. Lawson of Bos
ton has purchased the plant of the Ari
zona Smelting company in this county.
The deal which has just been consum
mated Involves $17,000,000.
Receiver for Labor Union.
St Louis, Mo. Suit aws filed In the
circuit court, asking the appointment
.of a receiver for the Brewery Worker's
association' of Missouri. The plaintiffs
are John Bokel, John Meinhart and
Jabor Suess.
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J -Many Nebraskans Caught.
Denver, Colo. Scandal in connec
tion with the Egeria Fuel company in
Colorado threatens to involve men
higher than Mark Woodruff, former
register of the state land board, who
is accused of issuing la false lease ex
tension and of holding large amounts
of stock in the company, which was
forced to return large amounts of
money to Nebraskans, after prosecu
tion was threatened. Woodruff's friends
claim he was used simply as a tool by.
those higher up.
FIVE SUBJECTS IN TREATY.
Japanese Minister Makes Public Con
ditions of Russian Agreement.
Paris M. Kurklno, the Japanese
minister to France, is the authority
for -the following information concern
ing the Russo-Japanese treaty on
commerce and navigation, which was
signed at St Petersburg. The treaty
embraces .five subjects Commercial
relations, fishery rights.. the junction
of the Manchurian railroads, the de
limitation of frontiers and political relations.
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A HOLY WAR IS OH IH W0R0CG0
A FANATjCAL OUTBREAK TAKES
PLACE AT CASABLANCA.
Arab Chiefs Demand that Work on
the Harbor Cease and Claim Sul
tan Has Deserted Them.
Tangier Dr. Merle, who arrived
here on the German ship which
brought a number of Jews and other
refugees from Casablanca, is the
beaier of a report to the French
charge d'affaires here showing that
the slaughter of Europeans in Casa
blanca was an outcome of a holy war
preached by the Arabs for the exter
mination of Europeans.
On Monday a number of Arab chiefs
Entered Casablanca and demanded
that, the harbor improvement work
cease. The pasha of Casablanca
pointed out that this work was being
done with the sanction of the sultan,
whereupon the chiefs reported that
the sultan was no longer their ruler,
as he obeyed the Christians. They
then began to incite the natives to ex
terminate all Jews and Europeans in
the town.
On Tuesday morning the natives be
gan their attack by- stoning a Euro
pean and when this man tried to flee
he was surrounded and hacked to
pieces. This was the signal for an
other attack, and . as soon as the
danger became known the French and
Spanish residents rushed to their re
spective consulates for protection.
During this flight at least eight were
murdered.
M. d'Euvine, the French consul, de
manded that the pasha provide an es
cort for the recovery of the bodies.
The pasha pleaded at first that he
had no cartridges, bu( upon further
representations he finally supplied an
escort. When this rescue party, how
ever, reached the scene of the attacks
it was charged by a number of Arab
cavalrymen and forced into flight.
In the meantime while the Jews
and Europeans were taking refuge on
board the German ship the Mussul
mans began to attack the laborers em
ployed on tae harbor works. They
fired on the shore boats and killed
several men, whose bodies subse
quently were burned. Other workmen
iwho tried to swim off to a ship were
ahot in the water. There was one
German and one French steamer in
the harbor at Casablanca when the
German .steamer pulled out It is ex.
pected that Casablanca will be in
vaded by 20,000 Arabs.
LOTS ARE DRAWN FOR DEATH.
Russian Bailoonists Cast Themselves
in the Sea One at a Time.
St Petersburg The body of an
other officer who went up in the mili
tary balloon at Tsarskoe-Selo July 19
has been picked up at sea. There
were four officers in the balloon when
it went up. Four days later the bal
loon Itself was found, empty and wa
terlogged, at sea, and one body was
discovered floating in the Gulf of Fin
land on July 27. Evidence shows that
the four drew lots and successfully
threw themselves into the water in or
der to reduce the weight of the air
ship and keep it up as long as pos
sible. Advance Prohibition Bill.
Montgomery. Ala. The general pro
hibition bill of Mr. Henley, which was
unfavorably reported by the house
committee on temperance, was taken
from the adverse calendar by the
house and placed on the favorable cal
endar for early consideration.
Chinese Slaves Admitted.
San Franciscc-In a raid organized
and conducted ly United States Secret
Agent Richard H. Taylor fifteen Chi
nese slave girls, were captured and
taken to the Alameda county jail.
They will be brought before United
States Commissioner Heacock and
given an opportunity to show why
they had not been reported. Eight of
the women claimed to beViatlves of
the United States; seven said that
they were married and were permitted
to land as wives of Chinese domiciled
in this country.
NEBRASKA LAND UNDER DITCH.
Washington The. secretary of the
interior announced that eight town
ships of land in Nebraska and two In
Wyoming will be placed under irriga
tion under the North Platte project at
the opening of the J.908 Irrigation
season. The farm units of the lands
vary from forty to eighty acres. The
limit for which water right application
may be made for lands in private
ownership shall be 160, acres for each
land owner. ' - , . " t
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HAS BIG JOB OH HIS HANDS
GOV. CURRY OF NEW MEXICO OR
DERED TO CLEAM HOUSE.
Orders Frcm Q,,
That Tangle
of Graft and int- c,je Must be
Straightened Out.
Oyster Bay. N. Y. Radical reforms
ia the territorial government of New
Mexico are to be inaugurated upon the
arrival in Santa Fe of Governor
George Curry, who has just returned
from the Philippines to assume that
office. Pr sident Roosevelt conferred
with Governor Curry for two hours
and sent him on his way thoroughly
.imbued with the necessity of ruling
with an iron band until the alleged
tangle of intrigue and graft in New
Mexico had been straightened out.
"Clean government is what the pres
ident wants," said Governor Curry, on
leaving Oyster Bay, and that is what
I shall do my best to establish."
Conferences on the situation in the
territories were continued at Saga
more Hill after tlio .departure of Gov
ernor Curry, as Chief Justice Kent of
Arizona and Federal Judge B. S. Ro-
dej- of Porto Rico, formerly delegate
in congress from New Mexico, were
luncheon guests of the president.
Judge Rodey told the president that
the tax valuation in New Mexico 1 i
been outrageously juggled bv the rail
road and mining interests. He claims
that the value of one mine is equal
to the tax assessment for the v.iiole
territory and that the actual valuation
of the railroads in the territory mere
than doubles the entire tax valuation
of all the territory.
Judge Kent, whose friendship with
the president dates back to their col
lege days, said his visit was entirely
of a social character.
On leaving Sagamore Hill, Governor
Curry said he had gone over the New
Mexico situation in a general way
with the president. He - will spend
one day in Washington and then pro
ceed to Santa Fe.
"You know," he remarked, "I have
always been a democrat, but I am a
Roosevelt man. and next to that a
Taft man. The president wants me
to take hold of the administration in
New Mexico with but one object in
view cleaning out. There will be
some changes in the offices of the ter
ritory, but this cannot be announced
at present. The appointments 1 shall
make will be solely with a view to
getting good officials. Wherever I can
get such officials from the republican
party I shall take them, out shall not
be confined to that party in making
appointments.
WOMAN WORKS IN COAL MINE.
Her Sex is Disclosed by Accidental
Injury After Three Years Toil.
Washington Masquerading as a
man and working side by side with
her husband in various Washington
county coal mines. "Joe Povle was
discovered to be Mrs. Susia Povle
when she was taken to a hospital suf
fering from injuries sustained in a
mine accident at Cecil. The woman,
according to her husband, Steve
Povle, had been working with him
three years. Her coarse voice and
close croped hair deceived all as to
her sex, while her strength equalled
that of any of her male Slav com
panions. Korean Troops Disbanded.
Seoul. Korea An ordinance dis
banding the Korean troops was pro
mulgated Wednesday.
Taft May Speak at Lincoln.
Washington Secretary Taft is plan
ning to make a number of important
speeches in the west before he de
parts for Manila frpm Seattle, Sep
tember 10. His itinerary is partly
made out and it is quite possible it
will include Lincoln, Neb.
Running Mate for Bryan.
Washington A boom for ex-Senator
Edward W. Carmack of Tennessee to
go on the ticket as running mate to
William J. Bryan has been started by
Tennesseans.
Fewer Accidents Reported.
Washington According to accident
bulletin No. 23 by the interstate com
merce commission, the total number
of casualties to passengers and em
ployes while on duty in the three
months ended March 21 was 20,563,
compared with 20,944 preceding three
months, a decrease of 381. The to
tal number of passengers and em
ployes killed in train accidents was
421 and the number of injured 4.920,
53 less in the number killed and 20
less in the number injured, compared
with the preceding six months.
OHIO IS FOR SECRETARY TAFT.;
RepublteaiM Endorse Him for Presi-'
dential Candidate.
Columbus, O. The candidacy of
William H. Taft, secretary of war, far
the republican nomination for presi
dent was endorsed by the republican
state committee by a vote of IS toS.
The endorsement carried with it a
declaration that the republicans of
Ohio are opposed "to the elimination
from public life of Senators Foraker
and Dick."
Although beaten by a decisive vote
in all the prerailinary contests, the
adherents of Senator Foraker in the
committee refused to accept the olive
branch extended by the Taft sup
porters and when the resolution, as
amended, was finally accepted no ef
fort was made to make the action of
the committee unanimous.
Text of Resolution.
The resolution as amended and
finally adopted by the committee is as
follows:
Be it resolved by the republican
I state central committee of Ohio that
We believe the great majority of the
people of Ohio, convinced of the high
character, great ability and distin
guished services of Secretary Taft, en
dorse his candidacy for the presidency
and, further.
We declare that the republicans of
Ohio overwhelmingly desire that the
name of Hon. William Howard Taft be'
presented to the nation as Ohio's can
didate for president and that the re-
blicans of other states be invited
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.lto co-operate with the republicans of
co-operate with the republicans
Ohio to secure his nomination in 1908.
And be it further resolved that we
emphatically declare that the repub
licans of Ohio are opposed to the
ellminaton from public life of Senators
J. B. Foraker and Charles Dick, whoe
J. B. Foraker and Charles Dick, whose
been distinguished by ability, wisdom
and patriotism.
The endorsement of Secretary Taft's
candidacy by the republican state cen
tral committee was vigorously op
posed by Senator Foraker. who, upon
the eve of the meeting of the com
mittee, openly voiced his dissent to
the proposition.
The senior senator from Ohio con
trolled seven of the twenty-one mem
bers of the committee on all votes
except that taken upon the adoption
of the resolution endorsing Taft. A.
W. McDonald of the Sixteneth dis
trict broke with the Foraker forces
on the final ballot, which stood 15
to 6. . -
A. I. Vorys. the manager of the Taft
campaign, declared the action of the
committee "was important in that it
gave assurance to other states that
Secretary Taft had the support of his
party in Ohio and would be backed bv
tiie delegation from this state in the
next national republican convention. -
RAINFALL NOT EXCEPTIONAL
Above Normal in Few Places, but
Generally Considerably Less.
Lincoln. The first four days of the";
past week were warm. Tuesday being
the warmest day. The last three days
were cool and pleasant. The sunshine
for the weol: was about normal.
The daily mean temperature av
eraged about one degree below nor
mal. The we!;iy temperature was 74
to 16 degrees in the southeastern
counties, aud 70 to 72 in the northern
and western. The maximum tempera
ture was between 92 and 98 degrees,
but on only one day was the tempera
ture above 90 degrees generally .
A thunderstorm, with very heavy
rain, was reported in Lincoln county
the night of the 22d; over two inches
fell at North Platte. Heavy local
rains occurred in the east central sec
tion of the state Tuesday and Wednes
day. Over the greater portion of the
state, however, only light showers oc
curred, and the weekly amount was be
low the normal at most stations.
While at a few stations the total rain
fall from April 1 to date is above the
seasonable average, due to the occur
rence of heavy local downpours, yet
genrally it is a little more than three
fourths of the normal amount for the
season. C. C. GARRETT,
Acting Section Director.
IOWA OUTLAW STILL FREE.
Council Bluffs The chase which the
sheriff and police of Council Bluffs,
aided by a posse of farmers from
Crescent City and vicinity, are making
to capture the desperado who shot Of
ficers Richardson and Wilson Sunday
night, has so far been unsuccessful.
Dr. Fulton's bloodhounds from Be
atrice have been withdrawn. Theyi
were taken to the scene of murder and
refused to scent. Wilson is dead and
Richardson perhaps fatally wounded.
Kansas Town Destroyed.
Wichita, Kan. All efforts to reach
Marquette, reported to have been de
stroyed by a tornado, by telegraph or
telephone, failed. The Missouri Pa
cific railway telegraph operator at
Marquette was notifying the agent at
Genesco, west of thcr, that the sta
tion was almost destroyed by wind
and that three inches of water stood
in the station when the wire failed.
PRESIDENT TO VISIT NEWPORT.
Invitation of Commodore and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Newport, R. I. A pleasant morsel of
gossip in society here is a reported
visit of President and Mrs. Roosevelt-
They have acepted, it is stated,
an invitation to visit this city August
15, where they will be the guests of
Commodore and Mrs. Cornelius Van
berbilt at Beaulieu for several days.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt will
be the recipients of many social en
tertainments. Protest Against the Fines.
Chicago Western railroads are near
an open break with the postofflce de
partment over the transportation ot
the mails owing to a number of re
cent orders. . The latest cause of
grievance is the imposition of heavy
fines on nearly all the roads for delay
in delivering the malls. To consider
the situation, a number of railroad
officials had an important conference
here on Monday. One official declared
that the fines levied by the govern
ment against hi3 road In one quarter
amounted to $40,000.
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NEBRRSKA PllERS
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
TttPttSS,Plltr1TilFtIllC
What la Getmj en Here and There That
la ef Interest te the Readers
Throughout Nebraska.
Greeley county will hold a three
days fair this fall.
The Gage county fair will be held
the last week in September.
Threshing around Linwood shows
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Revival meetings, with may con
versions, are in progress at Diller.
The new flouring mill at KoUrege
Is completed. It has a capacity of
two hundred barrels per day.
The farmers around Herman are
making it very lively for the tramps
who claim they are hunting work.
Peter McMahon has been fanning
in Merrick county for thirty years
and never in that time has he lost his
crop by halt
On petition of their clerks., most of
the merchants of Central City have
gone into an agreement to shut up
I TlKt.
1 1 Tie big agricultural show in sew-
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ard coanty is billed for August 27 to
30. inclusive. The Blade thinks it will
be the best fair ever held in the
county.
A stable belonging to Prokop Jan
ouch of Wllber, in the rear of his
bottling works, was completely de
stroyed by fire. Two valuable horses
perished.
According to the Ravonna News the
wheat crop in Buffalo county this year,
is unusually good. The yield is from
fifteen to thirty bushels per acre, ma
chine measure.
The many friends throughout the'
state of Hon. Trenmor Conse will re
gret to hear that he lies at his home
in Wahoo seriously III with what pur
ports to be typhoid fever.
Colonel T. J. Majors and Rev. N.'
G. Olinger will address the old set
tlers of Burt county at their annuaU
reunion on August 30. The meeting!
.will be held at Folsom park .
.The Alliance Packing company has1
been organized with $25,000 capital,
all of which has been subscribed.
Messrs. Eugene A. Hall, Robert1
Graham and James Graham are the
.corporators.
County Superintendent Anna Day of
Gage county has completed her report
to the state superintendent. The
census for this year shows 10,265
school children in the county, of which
5,190 are males and 5.075 -are females.
The Young Men's Christian associa
tion of Hastings has begun a cam
paign to raise the remaining indebted
ness on the new association building
Tvhich was completed several months
,ago. It will not be opened until the
'balance, about $4,000, is paid.
' Congressman Richmond P. Hobson,
the hero of the Merrimac. addressed a
large audience at the Chautauqua in
Hastings on the subject. "Peace and
Our Navy." He advocated spending
fifty million dollars each year for ten
years for the development of the
navy.
Tho ladies of Alliance will arrange
the display contributed by the farm
ers of Box Butte county for the Bur
lington crop exhibit car. They are
now at work with ribbons and shears,
and when the exhibit is sent to Omaha
to be installed in the exhibit car it
will present a very attractive appear
ance. Guy Grosjean and W. H. Woods dug
a very large bone from a creek bed
west of Fort Calhoun, where it had
been buried in fourteen feet of soil
and it is supposed to have ben a very
.large buffalo. Some years ago Urbem
Caehelan unearthed a portion of a.
tooth that weighed fifty-six ounces,
which was seat to Washington, and.
Otto Frahm found the head of a fe
male mastodon at the foot of an
eighty-foot bluff, half a mile north
or the old fort.
When the Burlington switchmen at
Nebraska City were pushing a trah
of cars on a side track they were hor
rified to find they had run over a man
and his body lay partially across tba
track. The coroner was called and.
after taking charge of the body found
nothing on it to tell the name of the
party, but a union card issued by the
Bricklayers union No. 25, of Bronx
Borough, New York. The card
showed dues paid to August, 1907.
and bore the name of J. E. Street
A severe hail storm occurred in
West Point and vicinity. Gardena
were almost destroyed, many windows
broken and some trees stripped of
their foliage. The storm was limited
In area, only a small section of farm
ing country west of the river suffering
my damage. 'Standing grain in the
path of the storm was beaten into the
ground and corn stalks were stripped
of their leaves. . About two inches of
hail stones covered the ground, some
3f them much beyond the usual sise.
The Dempster Mill Manufacturing
company at Beatrice, distributed $2,
500 on profit-sharing certificates
among its employes. Men holding
these certificates are entitled to a
jhare of profits based on position and
time of service.
Dr. J. T. Mathews, of Omaha, whose
certificate to practice medicine was
revoked by the state board of health
as the result of a complaint that he
had caused the death of Miss Edith
Short by criminal operation has ap
pealed to the supreme court from the
district conrt of Lancaster county.
The father of Kate Thissen, who
Iras drowned In the Elkhorn at Oak
dale has offered $500 reward for the
recovery of her body. With her sister
Anna, and the hired hand, she was
thrown in the river. Anna was saved
but Kate, the younger sister, sank.
The Antelope county teachers' in
stitute will be held this year in the
high school-building in Nellgh on Au
gust 12 to 16. Inclusive. The lnstuc
tors are F. M. Gregg of the Pern state
normal, Prof. Hooper of the Oakdale
schools and Miss Grace Greves 6f the
Kearney state normal.
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