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NEBRASKA
IN CONGRESS.
The senate substituted the Aldrich
currency bill for the Vreeland bill
passed by the house, and passed it
The house passed the military acad
emy appropriation and omnibus pub
lic building bills.
.The Vreeland currency bill, agreed
upon by the Republican caucus, was
put through the house under a special
rule by a vote of 184 to 145. Fifteen
so-called insurgents of the majority
party voted -with the Democrats, who
went on record solidly against the
measure.. r ., r -
"" The great sundry civil appropriation
bilC carrying"'! total of about $120,-000,000-,
was" passed by the senate."
The further, consideration of -the
.Brownsville affair was postponed by.
the senate untif December 16 next. '
The senate" passed 'the house bill re
storing the motto "In God We Trust"
on coins of the United States.
The house agreed to the .conference
report on the naval appropriation bill
and it went to the president for signa
ture. The senate passed the post office
appropriation bill.
Republican members in conference
adopted an emergency currency bill..
The house, by agreeing to senate
amendments, took the final congres
sional step to stop betting at the Ben
.ning race track.
The senate passed the agricultural
appropriation bill.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Christina Metsker of South
Bend, Ind., was found not -guilty of
the murder of Carleton Morgan of
South Bend, whom she shot April 10
in front of the home of Mrs. Mae
Green in Cassopolis, Mich. The ver
dict occasioned a remarkable demon
stration in the courtroom.
Walter S. Farmer, a prominent mer
chant of Colchester, Ind., was indicted
on a charge that he is responsible for
four fires which burned one-quarter
of the business section of Colchester.
Thomas W. Harvey, former teller of
the defunct Enterprise National bank,
was sentenced at Pittsburg, Pa., to
seven years in the penitentiary.
Taft was indorsed by Republican
conventions of California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, North Dakota
and Alaska.
Socialists in convention at -Chicago
nominated Debs for president.
Gov. Allen Gard of Lanao Province,
Philippine Islands, who was injured
by Mora bolomen recently, is not
dead,-as has been reported.
It was reported in Washington and
Chicago that Federal Judge Grosscup
would resign to practice law
Dr. Arthur L. Kilbourne of Roch
ester, Minn., was elected president
of the National Medico-Psychological
association at Cincinnati.
'Gov. Hughes formally declared, that
he would not accept a nomination for
'the vice-presidency.
Republicans of Michigan and Idaho
Instructed their delegations for Taft
H. Heath Bawden, professor of
philosophy at the University of Cin
cinnati, was asked by President C. W.
Dabnejr, to tender his resignation be
cause of his private views on mar
riage. A son was born in Florence to the
Countess Montignoso, ex-Crown Prin
cess Louise of Saxony, now the wife
of Signor Toselli.
GENERAL NEWS.
Command of the great Atlantic
fleet of battleships passed to Rear Ad
miral Charles Stillman' Sperry, who
succeeded Rear Admiral Thomas.
The conference of governors at
Washington on conservation of the
nation's natural resources ended after
the adoption of a declaration of co
operation and suggestion that the
president call the conferees together
again in the future.
Five suits in action of debt aggre
gating $1,750,000, and for damages of
$150,000, were begun by Attorney Gen
eral Stead and Gov. Deneen of Illinois
against the -sureties of former state
treasurers and one former state aud
itor, for fees retained during their ad
ministrations. The handsome Catholic church and
parish house at New Coeln, 'Wis.,
were destroyed by fire.
President Roosevelt laid the corner
stone of. the new home of the Interna
tional Union of American Republics
in the presence of a throng of emi
nent persons.
The chares v and school of the Im
maculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin
Mary 1b Cleveland, 6., were complete
ly "destroyed by fire.
Seven mine workers were instantly
killed and more than a dozen injured
1b an explosion in the Mount Lookout
colliery at Wyoming. Pa.
Charles H. Krogh, an Omaha archi
tect, tried vainly to kill his wife at
Beatrice, Neb., and then committed
suicide.
Miss Carrie Ade, who said she was
going to Washington to kill Presides!
Roosevelt, was arrested as insane at
Louisville.
Nearly every building in the village
of Barrytowa Landing, N. Y., was de
stroyed by fire.
Practically the -whole population of
the village, of Belleghem, Belgium, set
upen and killed a man who was caught
in the act of robbing the lamos
chanel of the Virgin.
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X1 Most Important Happen-
X ings of the World jj
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p,Three.more;names, were?, added to
tike list of supposed victims of Mrs.
Bella Gunness on her farm? near La
porte, Ind.r
Evidence' was obtained by Laprte
eScIals that Mrs. GTuness had an ac
complice who aided in luring victims
to. her farm.
A. K. Helgelein, last of the victims'
of Mrs. Gunness, was buried at La
porte. The 'Iragments, of jawbone
found in,the ruins of, the farmhouse
were identified by a dentist as' from
Mrs. Gunness' skulL
Two trainmen- were killed and 15
passengers injured in a collision on.
tbe Missouri. Kansas & Texas road
near Muskogee, Okla.
The old plant of the Omaha Packing
qompany in South Omaha was de
stroyed by fire together with 3,000,000
pounds of meat, involving a loss es
timated at $500,000.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss a negro soldier
of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al
leged participation in the riot , at
Brownsville, Tex., was sustained by
Judge Hough in the United States dis
trict court at New York.
A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa
containing 2,600 barrels of whisky was
burned.
After it had been mislaid for 25
years, workmen found in the sub
basement of the war department
building at Washington a wooden box
containing the personal relics of Lieut.
Delong, who commanded the ill-fated
Jeannette Arctic expedition and who
perished in 1881.
Gen. Snarski, commander of the
Russian punitive expedition into
Persian territory, has been ordered to
resume his advance, into Persia and
to punish the bandits with fire, and
sword. He will destroy villages, but
spare the women and children.'
The Democrats, of Minnesota in
dorsed Gov. Johnson as a presidential
candidate and at the same time, by a
vote of 772 to 166, refused to declare
in favor of Bryan as second choice.
Wyoming Democrats indorsed Bryan.,
Bandits bound and gagged the sta
tion agent and a guard in the depot
at French, N. M., and escaped with
$35,000. " -
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent target
practice at Magdalena bay.
The Wright brothers' aeroplane was
wrecked at Kill Devil hill, North Caro
lina, after a flight of eight miles.
Two men were shot and almost in
stantly killed and a woman wounded
at Coney Island, victims ofthe jeal
ousy of a young Italian. ""
O. J. Sturgis of Uniontown, Pa., a
well-known editor, committed suicide.
An incendiary fire' in a tenement at
Passaic, N. J., caused the death of
three children.
James J. Hill and others addressed
the conference of governors in the
White House on the dangers of forest
and soil depletion.
A court in Paris granted the Hart
McKee divorce, blaming both parties
and giving Mrs. McKee custody of the
child except for one month yearly.
It was announced in London that
Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the Amer
ican ambassador, and John Hubert
Ward would be married in St. James
palace June 23.
Eight hundred brewery workers of
Kansas City went ,on ..strike. '
The Reserve Trust company?and the
American Savings bank of Cleveland,
O., closed their doors.
A tornado wrecked the hamlet of
Gilliam, La., and damaged neighboring
towns, several persons being killed
and many injured. Much damage and
some deaths were caused by tornadoes
in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.
Eariey B. Palmore and Miss Lois M.
Palmore of Virginia were wedded in
the rotunda of the capitol at Wash
ington. Numerous addresses were made and
great enthusiasm exhibited at the na
tional conference on conservation of
natural resources in the White House.
It was proposed to form a permanent
organization.
' Three former aldermen of Rockford,
111., pleaded guilty of accepting bribes
and were fined $2,000. each.
The Wright brothers made two more
successful flights with their aeroplane
at Manteo, N. C.
Mail, advices say the recent tidal
bore in" the Yangtse-Kiang resulted in
nearly 10,000 deaths at Hankow.
-Miss Maud Fleming of Waterloo,
la., shot and killed her father while
defending her mother.
An attempt made by prisoners to
break out of the government jail at
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, after making
a breach in the wall of the guard
room with a bomb, 'resulted in the
deaths of 29 of the fugitives.
Four miners were killed and three
injured by a fall of rock in a colliery
at Midvale, Pa.
The national conference on the Con
servation of Natural Resources opened
at Washington with the governors of
nearly all the states of the union and
prominent men representing every
line of thought and industry of the
nation in attendance.
Tornadoes in Mercer and Henry
counties, Illinois, in the vicinity of
Madison,' Wis., and in Oklahoma and
Texas killed several persons and de
stroyed a great amount of property.
SL Louis and vicinity were swept by a
violent gale.
Roy Waller, aged 18, was arrested
at Lincoln, I1L, charged with threaten
ing Hiram L. Kenya," a y wealthy resi
dent of Elkhart with death unless he
placed $300 in a designated 'place.
The celebrated market and general
bazar in Madrid called locally "Las
Americas,' and well known to anti
quarians, was practically destroyed by
fire.
In a pitched battle at 'the Canadian
Pacific railway sheds near Owen
Sound, Ont, between striking long
shoremen and a detachment of special
constables from Toronto, three men
were shot and two detectives clubbed.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, famous'civil
war nurse whom Lincoln commis
sioned a captain, died In Philadelphia.
Smith W. Ketchnxn, a prominent
business man of Detroit, died .sudden
ly in Buffalo.
Former Congressman J. H. Howell
of Bloomington, 111., is dead.
Mrs. Helen E. Moses, national presi
dent of the Christian Woman's Board
of Missions, died in Indianapolis.
"Kt. Rev- Ignatius F. .Horetman,
bishop of the Catholic jliocese of
Clayelaxxi. died at CantonT'O. "
OPIORi III MET
3ras--
PRICES OF SECURITIES CONTINUE
TO ADVANCE.
KIBH MARK IS ON THURSDAY
Persistence of Upward Trend Grad
, uafly Convincing, Sceptics that'
Country is all Right.
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New York Prices of securities ad
vanced last week, with growing im
petus and increasing volume of trans
actions, the total sales on Thursday
rising to the largest of any day, since
last summer, before the financial
crisis developed. The persistence of
the advance and its freedom from in
fluence or check by events seeming
unfavorable to values, gave it Impres
siveness and had the effect of convert
ing a growing number of scepticts in
the professional operating class, who
had congested the advance by short
sales at various stages and had been
forced repeatedly to cover at a loss.
The abandonment of the opposition by
this class and their turn id the long'
side had set a little to do with the in
creased animation and buoyancy of
the market. The success, with with all
obstacles were .overcome and prices
aggressively advanced from the in
ception of the present movement has
been convincing proof of the wide re
sources commanded by the leaders of
the movement, who are commonly be
lieved to include great banking houses
and individual capitalists whose influ
ence commands the resources of the
most powerful group of capitalists in
the country.
The suspicion of a manipulative
origin for the rise in prices with the
purpose of meeting a semblance of im
provement where the realty did not
exist served to hold aloof from the
market most of the general public,
which generally joins in an important
market movement. The confidence
and consistency with which the move-
ment is pursued had a growing influ
ence on sentiment last week and had
the increasing effect of causing a be
lief in the satisfaction thus expressed
on the part of great capitalists with
the degree of improvement in affairs.
In the department of the money
market this movement was clearly
enough perceptible. For the easy
money market to further the success
of the financial plans of corporations,
however, there was necessary the ad
dition of a demnstration of confidence
in the security )f values. The rise in
the stock' market has operated as such
a demonstration. The scepticism with
which it was accepted at first was due
to the conflicting evidence of news af
fairs in general.
Waiting on Sick Senators. .
Washington The illness of Sena
tors Elkins and Foraker, combined
with not a little politics, has held up
in the senate for several days the pas
sage cf the Elkins resolution to sus
'pend the operation of the commodi
ties clause of the Hepburn railroad
rate law. It is expected the resolu
tion will be passed, however, as soon
as these senators are able to return to
their duties. There is considerable
feeling against the resolution even
among senators who have promised
to vote for it, and it may not pass.
Johnson on-Floor of House.
Washington Governor Johnson of
Minnesota was a visitor to the capital
Saturday and spent some time on the
floor of the house, where he was the
recipient of much attention. Demo
crats and republicans alike extended
cordial greetings.- He received gener
ous applause when, escorted by Mr.
Tawney, he ascended the rostrum and
was introduced to Speaker Cannon.
Governor Johnson bowed his acknowl
edgments and for several minutes en
gaged in conversation with the
speaker.
Strike Authorized.
Chicago, 1111 A "strike of 5,000 truck
drivers was authorized because of the
refusal of the team owners to grant
an increase of $1.50 a week. A com
mittee was instructed to make another
effort to 'get an increase.
Albania to Try a Primary.
Montgomery, AIx. The democrats
of Alabama for the first time in many
years will vote for all state and coun
ty officers in a general primary.
FLEET TO CO TO PHILIPPINES.
Naval Circles Interested in Report
Reporting Cruisers.
Mare Inland, Cal. Naval circles
here are greatly interested in a re
port that the armored cruisers West
Virginia, Maryland, Colorado, Penn
sylvania, California a'nd South Da
kota may be ordered to the Philip
pines in the fall. There they will
again meet the Atlantic fleet and en
gage in target practice in May la bay.
in October. Orders have been re
ceived here to expedite all repairs" on
the Atlantic torpedo flotilla now here.
Find 57 Sticks of Dynamite.
Pensacola, Fla. Fifty-seven, sticks
of dynamite, each from one-halt to two
pounds in weight, were found at a
point about 500 yards from what is
known as Big Bayou trestle, west of
the city.
Death List is Fifty. "
Shreveport, La. The count of the l
persons who met death in Wednes
day's tornado in Caddo and Bossier
parishes will probably total fifty. The
number at present known to have
been killed is forty-four.
DEFICIENCY BILL IN HOUSE.
Last of Government Supply Measures
Reported.
Washington The general deficiency
appropriation, the last of the regnlai
government supply bills, was reported
To the hoase Saturday- by the commit
tee on appropriations. The bill car
ries $17,342,572. Of this amount $10,
000,000 is for pensions, made neces
sary by the widows'- pensions act
passed at this session and also by the
old age pension act of February 6
1908.
N0WAHELP1HGHAM0
GREATEST NEED OF TORNADO
"" VICTIMS AT PRESENT.
OMAHA AND UNCQLN MONEY
Some Details of the Great Storm in
the Matter of Loss of Life, De
struction of Property, Etc
Omaha. Aftermath of the tornado
which devastated portions of Cass and
Sarpy counties, and which was par
ticularly severe at4xuisville, Bellevue
and Fort Crook has developed Into
aid being solicited for the sufferers.
Omaha and' Lincoln have appointed
committees for the purpose and other
towns and communities will do like
wise. The people of Louisville through
committee issued the following:
"To the People ot Nebraska We,
the committee appointed by the Louis
ville Commercial club, appeal to you
for aid in behalf of the people of Louis
ville, who suffered from the cyclone
which swept through, our town on
Tuesday afternoon, leaving a number
of our people destitute and homeless.
Ten thousand 'dollars will be needed
at once to provide these people with
provisions, clothing and furniture to
enable them to again care for "them
selves. All remittances should be
made to George Frater, -treasurer of
the 'Commercial' club of Louisville,
Neb." ',
vThe Bellevue relief committee is
sued the" following:
"The Bellevue relief committee has
after a personal examination, made a
careful and conservative .estimate of
the needs of the recent tornado suf
ferers of this community. In this esti
mate Bellevue college and the two
churches are omitted, as well as all
insured property holders, those who
are fully able to take care of them
selves, or whose friends are assisting
them sufficiently. To meet the immed
iate demands $15,000 is imperatively
needed. We believe, with your kind
assistance, the people of our two
neighboring cities would gladly co
operate in securing this relief. Can
you aid us in this matter? Oscar
Keyser is treasurer of the committee,
to whom all funds may .be sent, or to
some member of the undersigned."
Up to this time the number 'of
deaths from the storm are six, though
perhaps one or two may succumb from
their'severe injuries.
In Louisville eighteen dwellings
were destroyed, the storm leaving
nothing of them but kindling wood.
As many more' were damaged, some
considerably and others escaping with
minor loss. The Burlington depot,
pump house, semaphore tower, a small
mill, a small elevator, the bank of
Commerce and Odd Fellows hall build
ing, a livery barn and two store build
ings were badly wrecked.
Business men differ in estimates of
the damage done, some being certain
that the loss is no more than forty
thousand dollars, while others declare
it will reach sixty-five thousand dol
lars. The best estimates seems to be
fifty-five thousand dollars. In some
of the estimates buildings are counted
as total loss that can be repaired and
much salvage claimed.
That more people were not killed is
due to the warning given by its ap
proach and the noise made by it. The
storm formed on the top of the bluffs,
the fury of the twister apparently be
ing exerted after the residence section
had been reached. The ground move
ment of the storm was slow, its velo
city being estimated at eight miles an
hour. In fact there is good evidence
to show that it required ten minutes
to cover one and one-fourth miles of
its path in length.
The town of Bellevue was literally
swept by the wind and Vain and only a
very few buildings in that picturesque
old village escaped injury. Buildings
home and stores were unroofed, or
caved in and filled with water. The
college buildings were badly damaged,
Clarke hall, the main structure, being
unroofed, as was also the president's
residence.
The fact that more lives were not
lost is regarded as all but miraculous.
College campus and town streets and
lots are strewn with fragments of de
struction. At Fort Crook the storm was, severe,
working much destruction to property,
but at this point no lives were lost.
It will take $150,000 to repair the dam
age, for which congress has already
made an appropriation.
In the country districts in the path
of the storm buildings were unroofed
and some of them blown down. Many
people saw what was approaching and
got into cellars and caves for safety.
While the ground movement' was slow
the rotary movement of the storm was
rapid, and the air was filled' with fly
ing timbers, roofs of houses, barns and
trees. One citizen said the great fun
nel shaped .cloud looked like a giant
cushion in which all sorts of property
had been inserted.
STORM NOTES.
Acting Gov. Saunders offered the
use of national guard tents to tho&o
rendered homeless.
Residents of Springfield, Sarpy
county, who watched the storm, say
that the storm divided jusc as it
crossed the river and that one storm
moved toward the east while the other
traveled toward Springfield passing
west of that town and finally dissolv
ing in the air, after a number of barns
and outhouses near Springfield had
been demolished.
- Editor Mayfield of the Louisville
Courier, had two barns near "each
other. One was covered by tornado
insurance and one was not. The
storm took the barn that was insured.
A few days before the storm a widow
woman who owned a cottage in the
east half of town took out tornado In
surance on her home. It was v-recked.
It was said these were the only two
tornado Insurance policies in force en
damaged property.
Omaha has started in to rai.-c $10,
000 for sufferers at Louisville ana elsa
where.
JSP
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NEBRASKA NEWS
Item f Greater er L
Imper-
tance Over the State.
Lincoln saloons bow all close at 7
Btoomneld will be a "dry" towa this
year.
Tecumseh's electric lighting plant
cost in all $24,000.
Valentine's commercial club has
made arrangement for a carnival this
fall.
The corner stone of Fairbnry's new
$25,000Catnollc church was laid last
Sunday.
The new Congregational church at
I Cambridge, costing $20,000, has been
dedicated.
The Kansas and Nebraska interstate
reurlon will be held at Red Cloud in
September.
Edgar Howard is'a candidate for
the democrat-and populist nomination
for congress in the Third district -
Jim Taylor, who confessed to loot
ing an Omaha jewelry store, stealing
tfiftp watcnes, was arrested in Lincoln.
. The Modern Woodmen of America
lodges at Lexington held a grand rally,
in. which 300 members were initiated.
There is a hot saloon fight in pros
pect for the new town of Leshara.
southeast of Fremont in Saunders
county.
Kennison. who killed Editor Cox at
. Minatareis again on trial, the su
. preme court having granted him an
other chance.
Secretary Stevens of the Driving
association has sent out 3.000 entry
blanks.forthe meet to be held, in Wy
more in June
Moses Y. Starbuck; a mail clerk "who
was injured at York while his car was
on a'sidetrack, was given $5,000 in set
tlement of his $50,000 suit..
Hugh Scilley, manager of the. plant
of the 'Standard Sugar company at
Leavltt. will go to Brush, Colo., to be
come manager of a similar institution.
A man by the name of Cordes, liv
ing three miles north of Nelson, com
mitted suicide by taking strychnine.
No cause seems to have ben given for
the act.
Lightning struck the barn belonging
to L. W. Troutman. who lives two
miles northeast of Benedict. The barn
vand hay, harness and two horses were
burned. Loss, near $2,000. fully in
sured. C. J. Greene of Omaha, on behalf of
the Adams, American and Well Fargo
Express companies, has asked, for
more time in filing the statements of
the express companies, demanded by
the railway commission.
Anton Bily, who resided on a farm,
three miles from Du Bois, shot and
killed his wife and afterwards shot
and killed himself. Their married life
had been notoriously discordant, and
the tragedy is no surprise.
Sheriff Trade of Gage county re
ceived a summons from Ellis that a
man resembling Taylor, the Minden
murderer, was at that point. He went
over and saw the man, but he proved
not to be the one wanted.
Rock Island employes at Fairbury
held a mass meeting and endorsed the
plan of organization of the Railway
Empolyes Protective association of
Nebraska, which was adopted at the
Omaha mass meeting April 27.
Disowned by -her children, forsaken,
by her friends, thoroughly disheart
ened and partly demented, Mrs. Annie
Lydell was taken into custcdy by
Sheriff Her and is being cared for at
the county jail in Central City.
State vHealth Inspector Wilson has
asked the county attorney of Buffalo
to prosecute people at Miller who
violate quarantine regulations. The
village board will also urge to take
some steps to enforce its regulations.
Sheriff Russey of Cassopolis, Mich.,
arrived in Broken Bow and left on the
first eastbound train, taking with him
Raymond Bonine, who has been held
there by Sheriff Kennedy, on the
charge of seduction. Bonine's crime
was commited in Michigan and he has
Waded the officers for over two
months.
: THE MIDWEST LIFE of Lincoln,
.Nebraska, an old line Nebraska Com
.pany, wants local agents to represent
JLi in every town in the state. The
Midwest Life issues all kinds of life
ipolicies and they are liberal and
'along the best lines in life insurance.
Write to the home office at Lincoln
i for additional information.
Lousi Badger, a farmer near Lush
ton, came near losing eight head of
cattle from bloat. They had been graz
ing on alfalfa. When found, he im
mediately tried a new remedy that of
throwing hot water, and drenching
with hot water. Although when found
the catle were nearly dead from bloat,
he succeeded in saving five head out
of the eight.
Eugene Smith, son of Frank Smith,
living near. Milford, was found dead
hanging in the barn on his father's
place. He was 24 years of age and
had appeared before the grand jury
of Seward county here, where he was
closely questioned concerning the
death of his mother last February. At
the time of the assault upon Mrs.
Smith, the son's ways were the subject
of much comment. He left a note, de
nying he was responsible for his moth
er's death.
Brooding over the fact that as soon
as his prison term was finished he
would be arrested again on other
! charges of law breaking, and that he
was. already- a disgraced, man, Charles
W. Smith, whose real name was Henry
Taylor, hanged himself in his cell at
the penitentiary.
W. H. Seybert of Cass County re
ports be bought 80,000 bushels of
last year's corn crop at Cullom,' and
125,000 bushels the year previous.
David City is putting forth strong
efforts to raise the balance needed for
the proposed- $20,000 library. Over
$11,000 has thus far been secured.
' The management of the Tecumseh
Chautauqua has about completed its
program for the 1908 assembly. The
catalogue will soon be issued. The
dates are July 10 to 19 inclusive,- and
the assembly will, be held on the fair
grounds.
The Trans-Missouri elevator at
Kearney was burned to the ground.
The fire started from defective elec
tric wiring in the cupalo of the build
ing and spread rapidly to the other
wooden buildings nearby. The loss on
the elevator amounts to over $40,000.
Over 1,500 bushels of grain cf all kinds i
were burned,
THE STATE CAPITAL
4 MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
EHUIES l FIR IBM
Want the State Railway Commission
to Be More Reasonable in Matter
of Rebates.
Employe Ask a Hearing.
Railroad employes are pressing for
a hearing before the State Railway
commission for the purpose of protest
ing against an increase In rates, and
they make no secret of their claim that
they represent a considerable number
of voters, F. M. Ryan, a Burlington
engineer living in Lincoln, represent
ing the Nebraska. Railway Employes'
association, not only asks for a hear
ing for his association, but a hearing
for the employes of each system of
railroad in th'e state. The commission
has set no date for a hearing, but
long ago informed the employes that
they would be given a 'hearing before
any action is taken on rates. Mr.
Ryans letter to the railway commis
sions is as follows:
"Enclosed you will find a request for
a hearing from a committee of the
Nebraska Railway Employes's Protect
ive association. This committee is
acting in connection with the executive
committee of employes of several sys
tes. who have requested your honor
able body for a hearing and if con
venient would like to have you arrange
the bearing, of the system committees,
consecutively and that of the employes
association last; also we would appre
ciate as early a hearing as possible,
for the reason that there are quite a
body of voters represented in all these -requests
and from some points the
inquiries grow suggestive of impati
ence, and a growing idea that they
could he heard sooner. We want to
be fair to the commission and we do
not believe that any -member of the
commission can recall a circumstance
where the employes of any railroad
were not fair with every one. We want
this spirit to continue, and in the in
terest of it venture to suggest that
these hearings of railroad men be
brought on as soon as convenient."
Federal Indictments.
The federal grand jury returned an
indictment against George R. Smith
for infringement of the United States
oleomargarine laws; Thomas O'Brien,
passing counterfeit money1; Joseph
Jones, two indictments, for breaking
open a mail pouch and robbing a mail
pouch.
SUPERIOR MEN COMPLAIN.
Insist Beatrice Has a Better Rate
Than They on Grain.
Elevator and grain men of Superior
held a conference with the railway
commission and presented an informal
complaint against the Burlington road
on account of a charge of from 1 to 2
cents per hundred for the privilege of
pebilling grain after it had been
milled. They allege that other towns
get a milling in tra'nsit privilege for
nothing. The town of Beatrice is said
to have this privilege, and Superior
men say Beatrice draws indirectly
from their territory. The railroad
company hauls grain from the vicinity
ot Superior to Beatrice, and the grain
is later shipped to northwestern Ne
oraska. The complainants desire to
be put on an equality with Beatrice.
The road is obliged to haul grain three
times as far when it takes it to Io
atrice. The complainants are C. E.
Shaw, D. C. Bishop, F. L. Myers and
E. Bossemeyer.
Trains Discontinued.
Senator C. A. Randall of Madison
county, whose home is at Newman
3rove, has. filed a formal complaint
with the railway commission alleging
that the 'Northwestern road has with
out cause taken off two trains much
to the inconvenience of the people.
Mr. Randall is a farmer and a banker.
Newman Grove has a population of
$1,000. For four years It has had
;laily train service but on April 25 the
Northwestern took off the train that
ran Saturdays from Oakdale to Fre
mont and the train that ran Sundays
from Fremont to Oakdale, through
Newman Grove. The Saturday train
is a mixed train and carried mail, pas
sengers and freight. The Sunday train
carried freight and mail from Oakdale
to Fremont and passengers froaa Oak
dale to Humphrey and stopped at
Newman Grove.
Senator Randall alleges that these
trains were taken off without just
cause or reason and in disregard of
the interests of the people and with
out the consent of the railway commis
sion. He says the Northwestern rail-,
way company can furnish facilities for
carrying passengers on these trains
without unnecessary expense. The
railway commission will set a date for
a hearing.
The Paramount Question.
The exact amount of revenue re
pelved by the various railroads In the
territory west of the Kinkaid line !n
Nebraska is just bow -occupying the
attention of Chairman WInnett of the
state railway commission. He wants
to find out just how much the rail
roads would lose' if rates are reduced
to what seems reasonable in the east
ern part of the state. The railroads
insist that a reduction of rates in Ne
braska would be most unfair, as their
revenues in the western part "of the
state amount to little or nothing.
Building for Fair Grounds.
The board of managers of the state
fair awarded the contract for an audi
torium on the fair grounds to W. J.
Assenmacher & Co.. of Lincoln, whose
bid was $10,000. The other bids re
ported were Soucey & Pesha, $12,700;
E. A. Stephenson, $10,892; George A.
Wilson, $10,452. The contract pro
vides that the structure shall be com
pleted by August 15 for readiness for
use during the next fair. It will have
a steel frame, made in Lincoln, and
will seat 4,500 people. W. P. Mc-
t Creary was reappointed race starter.
la Shakespeare' ttea the telM pre
vailed' ! May quarters that the coaa
ate toad had withia its head a atoaa
which 'poaseased extraordinary vir
taea. Carried aboat the person, either
loose la the pocket or set la a ring or
locket; it iasared the wearer agaiast
many dangers. Evea so. adversity,
though like the toad, "agly aad ve
nomous," carries withia itself that
whicn awy ia the ead benefit the one
to whoa it comes. It may be a bless
ing in disgalse. jast as the toad's head
hides the "precioaa jeweL"
Caught Milk Thief eti Fishing Lln.
After Busaerotts bottles of milk had
been stolen from his window oa the
first floor of No. 18 East One Hun-,
dredth street, Henry Cantrowitz rigged
up 40 feet of line oa a spool, hooked
one end to a newly deposited bottle
and with the spool ia front of him
watched for a "bite."
When the spool moved . rapidly
across the floor to the window sill he
followed. And as it danced down the
street pointed it out to a policeman.
Harry Wolg, on the other end, was'
fined two dollars in the Harlem court.
ROMANCE OF BURIED PICTURES.
Long-Hidden Works of Great Artists
Strangely Brought to Light.
The romantic story of the picture
purchased at a London auction, which
on expert examination proved to be
painted over a Rembrandt worth $40.
000, is curiously reminiscent of the dis
covery of a Corfeggio under similar
circumstances. A good many years
ago two picture restorers, Lovera and
Hunterspergb, bought at aa art sale in
Rome a number of old pictures in
order tos provide themselves with can
vases for repainting. In the division
of the spoils Hunterspergb. received an
indifferent picture of flowers, oa which .
he painted a study of a head. This
picture he offered to Lovera, who, on
close examination, found that the new
ground scaled off and that underneath
were traces of a figure painted in a
style that denoted the hand of a mas
ter. Replacing the scales,- and conceal
ing his discovery, he purchased the
picture for little more than the value
of the canvas. Removing the two
grounds he disclosed an exceedingly
clever, painting' by Correggio, which he
sold to the. earl of Bristol for $7,500.
Dread of Marble Portraits.
"One peculiarity of human nature
that I am reminded of daily." said a
sculptor, "is the disinclination of the
average man to look upon himself re
produced in marble. The sight strikes
him with positive dread. It makes him
feel as if he were looking on his own
lifeless body. For that reason it is
difficult to persuade many persons -worth
modelling to sit for a sculptor.
Frequently I am asked why most of
my work is modeled after dead and
gone subjects. The answer is that liv
ing people refuse to give me a com
mission. The art of the sculptor dif
fers there from that of the painter.
Everybody 'likes to be painted. Tho
sight of one's face, one's figure, one's
clothes in a picture evokes nothing
but pleasurable emotions, if well done,
but to see one's self carved out of
marble produces such an overpower
ing sense of death that many sensitive
persons put off immortalization at the
hands of a sculptor until they are re
ally dead."
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