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V tf f I 3 I5 IV,' m &' ; l?-! 13 V ' I Columbus Journal R. S. STROTHER, Publisher COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA POLITICAL. Charles Evans Hughes was nominat ed by the Republican state convention on the first ballot to succeed himself as governor of the state of New York. He received 827 out of a possible 1,009 votes, as against 151 for James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston county, speaker of the state assembly, and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stew art of Montgomery. New York Democrats nominated a slate ticket headed by Lieut Gov Lewis S. Cbanler for governor, and closed their convention with a great meeting which was addressed by Mr. Bryan. Henry B. Quinby was nominated for governor of New Hampshire by the Republicans. Judge A. Heaton Robertson of New Haven was nominated for governor of Connecticut by the Democrats. The Republican party was victorious in the Maine state election, Bert M. Fernald of Poland being chosen gov ernor over Obadiah Gardner, the Dem ocratic nominee. The Republicans also elected all four congressmen and maintained their majority in the legis lature, although the Democrats made a good gain in their representation. The plurality received by the Republi cans was not much over 7,700, the smallest received in any presidential year In 25 years. Ex-Congressman John F. Lacey was chosen by the standpatters of Iowa to oppose Gov. Cummins as United States senator to be voted upon at the primary in November. James A. Tawney, James McCleary and Clarence B. Miller were winners for congressional nominations in the three disputed districts of Minnesota. Miller had a landslide in the Eighth district, defeating J. Adam Bede by three to one. PERSONAL. Congressman Laning of Ohio was acquitted of the charge of misapplying ?unds of the Laning Printing Com pany. Count Leo Tolstoi has been elected to honorary membership in the fac ulty of the University of St. Peters burg. Mrs. Carrie Nation called on Judge Taft and tried to discuss the liquor question with him. Wilbur Wright broke the European record for sustained flight with an aeroplane, remaining in the air more than 39 minutes. Senor Corea has resigned as Nica raguan minister to Washington and Dr. Rodolfo Espinoza has been named to succeed him. Wilson Collins, former cashier of a bank at, Elkhart, Ind., was released from the federal prison at Leaven worth, Kan., after a six-year sentence for violation of the' national bankfng law. GENERAL NEWS. Wliile Orville Wright was making a two-man flight in his aeroplane at Fort Myer a propeller blade broke and the machine was dashed to the ground. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge of the Army Signal corps, who was with Wright, was so badly injured that he died a few hours later. Wright sus tained very severe but not fatal in juries. The tragical mishap was wit nessed by about 2,000 persons. The board of signal officers was con vened at Fort Myer by Maj. George O. Squier, acting chief signal officer of the army, and made an official in quiry into the aeroplane disaster, which resulted in the death of Lieut. Selfridge and the injury of Orville Wright. It blamed no one for the acci dent. With masts and smokestacks brok en, boats washed away ahd upper works badly smashed, the steamship Colon limped into port at Colon, Pan ama, after a most trying experience in the West Indian hurricane. During the storm three members of the crew who were repairing a water tank in the hold were killed. The will of the late Giovanni P. Morosini distributes the entire for tune of the former banker and art collector among his five children. W. W. Reamer of East St. Louis tried to burn his house and family and then made two attempts at suicide. Lured to a lonely spot in Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Harry Pearson was 6hot and killed by Harry Parker, a grain inspector from Iola, Kan., be cause she wouldn't elope wifh him. The business section of Keosauqua, la., was partly destroyed by fire, the loss being $50,000. Dr. George Morton of New York was arrested in Philadelphia on a fu gitive warrant from New York, charg ing him with securing $100,000 by means of fraudulent notes. Six persons were killed and 30 in jured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result of an explosion of a car of black powder at Windsor, Mo. For convicts escaped from the state prison at Ionia, Mich.', and two from the penitentiary at Chester, 111. Umpire Jack Sheridan of the Ameri can Baseball league was attacked by angry baseball enthusiasts in St. Louis. The Utah Federation vof Labor re fused to indorse Samuel Gompers cir cular urging laboring men to vote for Bryan. ;newsnotes; FOR THE BUSY MAN g Most Important Happen- g 8 ings of the World X O Told in Brief. 8 A cablegram from Fanning, island said the long missing British -steamer Aeon was wrecked on Christinas is land but all the passengers aad crew escaped and were camping comfort alby ashore. Many towns in, Maine were threat ened by forest fires. " Dispatches from Tabriz said the bombardment of that city by the shah's forces was imminent. Jilted by an 18-year-old girl, John Smith of Calhoun,- Wis., shot and fatal ly wounded the mother of the girl Mrs. Agusta Grabbw, wounded the girl herself, and then wounded the sheriff, who came to arrest him. 'The explosion of 250 gallons ol gasoline on board a barge at the Mare Island navy yard resulted in the death of Chief Machinist Teddy May and injuries to three other men. The American Atlantic fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Sperry, left Albany, Western Australia, for Manila, 3,600 miles away, where it is due to arrive October 2 or 3. Heavy rainfall in northern Michigan and Ontario checked the .forest fires and insured the safety of the threat ened towns. Maj. Gen. Charles Edward Luard, retired, whose wife was mysteriously. murdered near London August 24, committed suicide by throwing him self in front of a railroad train. He had received letters accusing him of killing his wife. Forty men were overcome by smoke in a fire which threatened the destruc tion of Swift & Company's packing plant in South St. Joseph, Mo. The loss is about $60,000. The Oklahoma election board re fused to put the Prohibition electoral ticket on the ballot. The home of Mark Twain at Red ding, Conn., was, entered by two bur glars. Later the men were captured and in making the arrests Deputy Sheriff Bangs was shot in the leg'. Three hundred and five cases and 115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera were reported for one day in St Petersburg. The municipal adminis trations are under fire from all sides for their criminal inefficiency in han dling the epidemic. Minority stockholders filed a peti tion in the circuit court asking that a receiver be appointed for the State Trust Company, a St. Louis real es tate firm capitalized at $1,000,000. Edward Quick, a penitentiary guard at Michigan City, Ind., was murdered in his home by a burglar. Five persons were killed and 16 in jured by a boiler explosion in a mine near Aix-la-Chapelle. Joseph James, the negro murderer whose crime helped start the race riots in Springfield, 111., was convicted and sentenced to death. When Judge Gerard in the supreme court granted Miss Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin Maloney, a Phila delphia millionaire and papal marquis, a decree annulling the marriage cere mony which she went through with Arthur Herbert Osborne, a young broker, on the afternoon of December 25, 1905, it came to light that the young woman was influenced into tak ing the step by the fear that she was to be forced into a marriage with one of two titled foreigners known to her parents. The Bay Shore hotel, at Green Springs, la., one of the largest hotels on the west coast, was totally de stroyed by fire, 40 guests having nar row escapes. Fire in the library of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, did inestimable damage to ancient papyri and parch ments. John Cook, aged 78 years, a farmer living near Philo, 111., shot and killed Mrs. Edna McClelland and attempted suicide. Dense fog in Chicago caused ac cidents on .steam and street railways that resulted in the death of two men and the injury of many others. The Interparliamentary union met in Berlin to discuss anew the peace of the world and how to maintain it through arbitration. A powder magazine near McAlester, Okla., was struck by lightning, the ex plosion killing one miner and seriously injuring eight others. Police Commissioner Bingham of New York publicly retracted his re cent statement in a magazine article that half the criminals in New York were Jews. The New York, stock exchange house of E. R. Chapman & Co. was victim ized to the extent of $30,000 by means of fraudulent checks. The American battleships Maine and Alabama, the vanguard of the Ameri can fleet on its round-the-world voy age, arrived at Naples. Suit for the recovery of $100.00C damages, alleged to have been sus tained because of a boycott, has been begun against the United Hatters ol America by D. E. Loewe & Co., of Dan bury. Conn. John and Wilbur Patterson, charged with holding up a street car near Bos ton, Pa., last May and robbing 11 pas sengers and the conductor, were con victed in the criminal court at Pittsburg. v The Republican state convention of Utah nominated a ticket headed by W. E. Spry for governor. The average wages per hour in the principal manufacturing and mechani cal industries of the country were 3:7 per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906, while retail prices of food were 4.2 per cent, higher, according to the July report of the bureau of'labor. The United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va., sustained the opinion of Judge J. C. Pritcbard in the famous case of the Flieschmann Company and others against the South Carolina dispensary commission, hold ing in effect that a state cannot con duct liquor traffic, that being a private business. Whisky and other liquors must have age and natural color or be labeled "imitation." So decided Judge Hum phrey in the United States district court at Springfield, 111., in the case of Wollncr & Co., distillers and rectifiers of Peoria, 111. One Chicago woman was almost in stantly killed and nearly two score of other persons, most of them residents of Indianapolis, were hurt when a Lake Shore suburban train ran. into an excursion train at Chesterton. Ind. The itinerary for Mr. Taft's first cam paign tour through ten middle states ' was announced. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA DISEASE HAS FIRM FOOTHOLD IN ST. PETERSBURG. DRASTIC MEASURES TO FIGHT Unsanitary 'Conditions Greatly Assist in Spread of Scourge and It May Be Hard to Suppress. St. Petersburg. St Petersburg is in the grasp of the Asiatic cholera, which already has exceeded in severity and 'numbers the visitation of 1893. The disease is increasing daily to an alarm ing rate and unless the authorities show in the future a greater degree of ability to cope with the situation ) than they have in the past, there is every reason to fear that it will get out of hand. j The government's threat to apply provisions of martial law has driven the municipality. officials to bend all their energies to clearing the city of the scourge. The aldermanic council j voted $250,000 to enlarge the hospital space, to purchase and distribute dis infectants, the supply of which in St. Petersburg is well nigh exhausted, and to expedite the interment of bodies, which has been notoriously slow. The dead houses are overcrowded and many corpses are unburied. Under his authority as prefect of St. Petersburg, General Dracheffshy pro hibited the sale fit liquor throughout the city, including the government vodka shops, until September 22, and he has further ordered that after that the sale of liquor shall be suspended at 2 p. m., on Saturday until 10 a. m., on Monday. This action has been tak en in order to diminish alcoholic ex cesses, which very materially increases the liability of cholera infection and the general spread of the disease. A beginning was made when public schools were transformed) into hospital wards. A number of the grammar schools were closed and 4,000 students sent to their homes. The department of war has opened stores to supply immediate needs and army field kitch ens have been dispatched to the poor er quarters to dispense free food. The situation assumes a graver aspect from the appearance of a very virulent type of the disease in two cases in which death followed within fifteen minutes of the first symptoms. As announced by the official bulletin the cases numbered 349 and the deaths 148 during the twenty-four hours be tween Friday noon and Saturday noon. This was a considerable decrease from the preceding day, but there is doubt of the accuracy of the official state ment. The record for the same twenty-four hours, ascertained from unof ficial but reliable sources, shows the actual number to have been far in ex cess of that. PRESIDENT OUT FOR TAFT. Points Out Necessity of Electing the Republican Nominee. Oyster Bay President Rocsevelt in a letter to William B. McKinley, chair man of the republican congressional committee, appeals to disinterested citizens to join with the national re publican commitee and the congres sional committee, in a movement to elect William H. Taft, as president and a republican congress to support him. After reviewing some of the im portant legislation of the last seven years, the president declares that Mr. Taft and the republican candidates for congress seek election on a plat form which specifically pledges the party to continue and develop the policies which have been acted upon for seven years past. All the aid that can be givsn to per petuate the policy of the government as now carried on, the president says, should be given by every good citizen as it is far more-than a partisan mat ter. Orville Wright Improves. Washington Orville Wright, who was seriously injured Thursday in the aeroplane acident which caused the death of Lieutenant Selfridge, con tinues to improve. Start for Manila. Perth, West Australia The Ameri can 'fleet of battleships passed this coast this morning on the long run to Manila. The fleet was proceeding in two columns, the Connecticut and Louisiana leading. Signs Lease Bill. Atlanta, Ga. Just at midnight Sat urday night. Governor Hoke Smith signed the convict lease bill, which, hereafter prohibits the leasing of fel ons except by the consent of the gov ernor and prison commission. Senator Borah Coming. Des Moines It was announced from the republican committee ladquar ters today that Senator Borah will speak in Iowa for two days about the middle of the month of October. SMITH COMES TO NEBRASKA. Georgia Governor to Take the Stump for Bryan. Atlanta, Ga. Governor Hoke Smith has been requested by Chairman At wcod of the speakers' committee of the democratic national committee to make speeches in support of Bryan and' Kern during the month of Octo ber in a number of eastern and west ern states. The governor expects to devote about two weeks to speechmak ing in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Paris Central in Ruins. Paris Fire broke out Sunday night in the Central Telephone building and spread with such rapidity that the tel ephone employes were forced after brief and ineffectual efforts to extin guish the flames to flee hastily to the streets. The entire building was soon in flames, and this together with the postoffice, which is located close to the Place de 'Victors, was totally de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $5,000,000, but a higher loss is likely to be involved through complete inter ruption of telephonic communication. NEBRASKA NEWS AND' NOTES, f Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the State. Recepts of the Fillmore county fair were over $1,500. Tecumseh schools opened with an t nusual large attendance. The contract for the new school Building at Fairmont, to cost $28,000 has been let.- M. D. David of Bloomfield fell from an Ice ; wagon receiving injuries that proved fatal. Bessie Robertson of McCook set a steel trap for rats but instead thereof caught a big bull snake. The Edgar Canning factory closed a successful season, the entire pack amounting to about 700,000. The new Iliff Chapel church was ded icated at Memphis Sunday by Rev. T. C. Iliff, a speaker of national reputa tion. A young man by the name of Burk holder Is in the custody of Sheriff Giltan at Seward. The charge against him is that of attempted rape. Successful bidders for the govern ment postoffice building at Grand Island have been looking over the site preparatory to commencing operations. Word was received in Beatrice last week stating that Horace Mitchell, a .former Beatrice resident, was killed -n a raIlroaa- accident at Atchison. Kas. That David City will have a public library and gymnasium building is now a certainty. The $20,000 has been raised and nine directors were elected. Word has just been received in Peru that the European party, led by Profes sor W. N. Delzell, landed safe in New York after a pleasant sea voyage to their home land. Harold Kesterson; the Shelton lad who broke both his arms at the wrist in a fall, while making a slide for life, was taken with lockjaw and died after suffering intensely. The cost to Buffalo county of the recenty primary election was $915.15. There were 1,609 votes cast in tne county making the expense of each vote cost 56.8 cents. The infant baby of Clyde Lynch and wife of Humboldt had a peculiar expe rience, beng attacked by rats in the home and severely bitten about the hands, one or two of its Angers being partially gnawed away. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to set the best service for the least money. Ne braska Telephone Company, 18th and Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the Bell." With the record of the largest at tendance, best displays and greatest number of racing events in its history, the Dundy County Fair association meeting came to a close. The attend ance was good and the exhibit fine. While stacking hay at his home rhree miles south of Platsmouth, R. Sponii fell from the stack and landed on an inch gas pipe in such a manner is to cause it to penetrate the arm and pome out at the top of the shoulder. An unknown man about twenty-five years old, committed suicide ty stab bing himftelf with a knife as Union Pa cific train No. 3 was leaving the Kearney yards and threw the knife from the train. The body was re moved from the train and shipped to Grand Island. He was not identified, but was en route to Los Angeles. William Prowett of Fullertcn re ceived a telegram from Washington in forming him that he had been appoint ed clerk of the insular treasury in the Philippine Island. Mr. Prowett grad uated from the Fullerton High school in June. 1907. Last December he took the civil service examinations, passing with unusually high markings. The building fund of the Young Men's Christian association at Fre mont was given two substantial lifts. C. A. Smith, an old resident of Fre mont, made a contribution of $5,000. Mr. Smith previously had given $600 to the association. Elmer Williams, cashier of the Fremont National bank, made a contribution of $500 to the fund. Judge J. W. Johnson of Plattsmouth has been entertaining in his home an old comrade of the civil war. A. H. Pratt, aged 78 years. They each en listed in the First Nebraska regiment in 1861 and during the battle of Shloh, Mr. Pratt had his hat blown off by a cannon ball and he was left on the field of battle for dead. During the night he regained consciousness and found his way to the Union line in the morning and asked to be sent to the front. The last legislature appropriated $24,411 to pay bounty on wild animals. This was for old claims that were on file. The legslature also appropriated $35,000 future cairns, but this was vetoed by Governor Sheldon. Clerk Lawrence of the state auditor's office is now busy adding up the claims on file that have not been paid and which will come before the next legislature in the form of a deficiency claims. He has not completed the work, but esti mates the total at $40,000. The annual statement of the Ne braska City chautauqua has been given the public and it shows that the meeting cost $3,6CS.42 and that the re- cepts were something like $134 over and above all expenses. The second annual Hastings Fron tier Festival, which will take place on October 14, 15 and 16, will be a rep etition of last year's notably success ful event, though on a much more elab orate and extensive scale. The pur pose of the managers is to perpetuate the festival as an annual amusement enterprise for Hastings and central Nebraska. With all counties reported but Holt, official figures of the recent primaries in the state show Barton, republican candidate for auditor, to have 12,417 votes as against 12,134 for Alden, his nearest competitor. W. B. Price of Lincoln wins in the democratic con test for the same place. Valentine business men and the Commercial dub are making exten sive preparat'rns to t?ke care of the large crowds thajt will be there to reg ister for the Trip county land. They rill have all possible kinds of trans portationvto tare the land seekerr. out, to look over the ground 1 VOTE OF PRIMARIES I FIGURES AS SET FORTH BY THE OFFICIAL CANVASS. 5NULL MARGIN FOR BARTON Both Amendments to the Constitution to Go to Voters for Final Determination. Following is the result of the official canvass of the votes cast at the recent primary, the total vote cast being 98,318. GOVERNOR. George Lawson Sheldon (rep.)....50.2S2 George "V. Berge (dem.) !.894 George W. Berge (pop.) 7 2,317 James C. Dahlman (dem.) ....10,137 Ashton C. Shallonberger (dem.).. .12.526 Ashton C. Shallenberger (pop.).... 1,354 Roy R. Teeter (pro.) 711 C. H. Harbaugh (soc.) 240 J. W. Walker (soc.) 172 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. M. R. Hopewell (rep.) 4S.032 E. O. Garrett (dem.) ir,r..2 E. O. Garrett (pop.) 2.573 James A. Urimison (dem.) 6.167 James A. Grimison (pop.) S44 A. S. Tlbbets (dem.) S.420 Frank E. Linch (pro.) 715 Thomas Jorgenson soc.) 245 W. C. Rodgers (soc.) 161 SECRETARY OF STATE. George C. Junkin (rep.) 46,961 A. T. Gatewood (dem.) 15,418 A. T. Gatewood (pop.) 2.263 John Mattes, jr (dem.) 14.521 John Mattes (pop.) 1,153 Henry F; J. Hockcnberger (pro.)... 720 Henry J. Aberly (soc.) 409 AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. John H. Alden (rep.) 1 2.264 Charles S. Allen (rep.) 5.119 George Anthes (rep.) 2.P68 Silas R. Barton (rep.) 12.527 H. I. Cook (rep.) 5.460 Robert Haynes (rep.) 1.S41 John C. F. McKesson (rep.) 3.380 John L. Pierce (rep,) 5.410 Edwin H. Lulkart (den) 14,711 Edwin H. Ltilkart (pop.) 1.797 William B. Price (dem.) 15.046 William B. Price (pop.) 1,577 STATE TREASURER. Lawson G. Brian Otep.) 46.0S0 Clarence Mackey (dem.) 28.489 Clarence Mackey (pop.) 3.333 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN STRUCTION. E. C. Bishop (rep.) 21.42S George D. Carrington. jr., (rep.).. 9.533 James E. Delzell (rep.) 10.598 S. H. Martin (rep.) 7.510 N. C. Abbott (dem.) N. C. Abbott (pop.) Ada K. Schell (soc.) 392 ATTORNEY GENERAL. William T.-Thompson (rep.) 45.072 Harry B. Fleharty (dem.) 16,066 Harry B. Flehartv (pop.) 1.479 E. B. Quackenbush (pop.) 1.547 E. B. Ouakenbush (dem.) 8.122 Menzo Warren Terry (dem.) 5,703 Menzo Warren Terry (pop.) 797 B. W. Frazey (soc) 228 N. H. Nye (soc.) 173 COMMISSIONER OF PT'BLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS. Edward B. Cowles (rep.) 20.173 William Husenetter (rep.) 7.699 Harvey L. Sams (rep.) 4.866 Josiah M. Shively (rep.) 14.716 W. B. Eastham (dem.) 19.773 W. B. Eastham (pop.) 2.316 Cassius B. Manuel (pop.) 1,207 Casslus B. Manuel (dem.) 9.066 Albert Thomnson (pro.) 63S RAILWAY COMMISIONER. William M. Aarons (rep.) 8.772 F. H. Abbott (rep.) 8.368 C. L. Hedlund (rep.) 6.2S2 Myron D. Krr (rep.) 4.492 J. A. Van Wagenen (rep.) 1.527 S. M. Wallace (rep.) 4.066 J. A. Williams (rep.) 15.751 Gennte O. Brophv dem.) 14.407 William H. Oowjrill (nop.) 2.037 William H. Cowgill Worn.) 15.207 George R. Brophv (pop. 1.352 Andrew FInkenkeller (snc.) 384 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENTMENTS. For proposed amendment to the consti tution with reference to the Investment of the permanent school fund (rep.). 31, 127: against. 5,570. For proposed amendment to the consti tution relating to liidicial powers (rep.), 26.153; against. 7,824. For proposed amendment to the consti tution with reference to the investment of the permanent school fund (dem.) 15.515; alnst. 4,335. For proposed amendment to the consti tution relating to liidicial powers (dem.), 12.716: ncalnst. 5.947. For proposed amendment to the consti tution with reference to th Investment of the permanent school fund (pop.), 1,832: against. 562. For proposed amendment to the consti tution relating to judicial powers (pop.), 1,375: against 909. For proposed amendment to the consti tution with reference to the Investment of the permanent school fund (pro.), 44S: against. 56. For proposed amendment to the consti tution relating, to judicial powers (pro.), 371: against. 102. For proposed amendment to the consti tution "with reference to the Investment of the permanent school fund (sci), 21 S; against. SO. For proposed amerment to the consti tution relating to judicial power (soc). 171; against, 103. Presidential Electors. AT LARGE. O. C. Bell (rep.) 4 ".506 Joseph J. Linger (rep.) ...41.837 Michael F. Harrington (pop.) 2.S8-, Michael F. Harrington (dem.) 23.492 Henry R. Gcrlng (dem.) 21.587 Henrv R. Gerlmr (pop.) 2.571 Robert F. Smith (dem.) 13.919 A. W. Potts t nor.) Si" William R. Plnton (soc.) Thomas L. Phillips (soc) 386 377 1 NEBRASKA BRIEFS. The annual fair given by the Cedar County Fair and Driving association closed last week. In point of attend ance and in the display of stock and general farm products, it was the most successful ever held in the county. Steven J. Kelso, a Beatrice contract or and builder has disappeared, leav ing behind him unpaid bills aggregat ing $5,000. He had thirty-five men in his employ, nearly all of whom he owed two weeks salary. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to get th? best service for the least money. Ne braska Telephone Company. 18th and Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the Bell." H?sting's drug stores will not be allowed to sell liquor under any con sideration. The September term of district .court of Custer county was in session last week, with Judge Bruno Hosteller of Kearnev presiding. The docket will possibly t3ke two weeks to clean it up. Much interest, however, is centered in the case of James Car land, who is charged with the murder of John Sanderson, which occurred several months ago. The trial prom ises to be unusually exciting, there being a host of important witnesses on each side. The city water works of Franklin have been completed and turned over to the city. A test was made as to the merits of the entire system from en gine to water plugs. Water was forc ed fully sixty feet high. When Sheriff Gillan of Seward county- went into the county jail the other morning he discovered that during the night James B. Dawson, the man who was bound over to the district court for stabbing William Held with intent to kill, had packed up his little suit case and silently stole away. He dug a hole in the floor and got into the cel lar and his escape was easy. FIRST DISTRICT. Charles It Robbins (rep.) 7,462 R. E. Watzke (dem.) 3,938 R. E. Watzke (pep.) 110 J." D. Nesblt (pro.) 11 SECOND DISTRICT. Howard H. Baldrige (rep.) f... o,712 Charles L. Hoover (rep.) 1,771 Sophus F. Nebl (dem.) 4.019 Sophus F. Neble (pop.) 9 E. T. George (pro.) IS Parker S. Condlt (soc.) 3e Julius Hollander (soc) 39 THIRD DISTRICT. John P. Eaton. (rep.) '... 7.875 Douglas Shawvan (dem.) 6,200 Douglas Shawvan (pop.) 377 Martin I. Brower (pro.) 73 Otto Mclcher (soc.) 28 FOURTH DISTRICT. George F. Hurlburt (rep.) 9.6S3 K. O. Weber (dem.) 4.555 E. O. Weber (pop.) 60S Frank A. Burt (pro.) 167 John H. von Steen (pro.) SS William H. Ashby (soc.) SS FIFTH DISTRICT. C. A. Luce (rep.) 6.772 Frank T. Swanson (dem.) 3.592 Frank T. Swanson (pop.) 1.0S6 A. B. Lafferts (pro.) 117 W. E. Nichol (pro.) 63 Fred Legler (soc.) 102 SIXTH DISTRICT. Edward S. Davis (rep.) 7,522 A. D. Cameron (dem.) 3,090 A. D. Cameron (pop.) 762 William Henry Stratton (soc.) 127 Congressmen. FIRST DISTRICT E. M. Pollard (rep.) 7.2S5 A. P. Fitzsimmons (dem.) 1.SS2 A. P. Fitzsimmons (pop.) 76 J. A. Maguire (dem.) 2,556 J. A. Maguire (pop.) 49 SECOND DISTRICT. Thomas W. Blackburn (rep.) 2.060 A. W. Jefferis (rep.) 3.716 Charles L. Saunders (rep.) 2,671 G. M. Hitchcock (dem.) 4.S24 F. H. Alexander (soc.) 26 George C. Porter (soc.) 3S THIRD DISTRICT. J. F. Boyd (rep.) 7.S37 Edgar Howard (dem.) 3.63S Edgar Howard (pop.) 260 J. P. Latta (dem.) 4.359 G. M. Woodcock (soc.) 30 FOURTH DISTRICT. Charles H. Aldrich (rep.) E. H. HInshaw (rep.) seo 919 W. F. Cramb (dem.) 1,535 W. F. Cramb (pop.) 130 Charles F. Gilbert (dem.) 2,110 Charles F. Gilbert (pop.) W. B. Jones , (pop.) . . r W. B. Jones (dem.) S. L. Mains (dem.) S. L. Mains (pop.) F. Birmingham (pro.) FIFTH DISTRICT. George W. Norris (rep.) 314 1,025 S22 43 208 6.936 Fred W. Ashton (dem.) 3,825 Fred W. Ashton (pop.) 1,303 G. G. Larkv (soc.) SI SIXTH DISTRICT. M. P. Klnkaid (rep.)... 6.S16 R. G. Ross (rep.) siS? R. G. Ross (dem.) 321 C. A. Sibley (rep.) 1.2S1 Walter Johnson (dem.) 957 Walter Johnson (pop.) 328 W. B. McXeel (dem.) 763 W. B. McNeel (pop.) 163 H. G. Stewart (pop.) 307 H. G. Stewart (dem.) 282 AV. H. Westover (dem.) 1.401 W. H. Westover (pop.) "I0 L. Stebblns (soc.) US T. H. Harnby (pro.) 7S Nominees for State Senate. Following is a list of candidates for the state senator by districts: 1. Republican. J. R. Cain; democrat, G. E. Hall. 2. Republican, T. J. Majors. 3. Renublican. E. F. Warren; demo crat. S. H. Huck. 4. Republican, Orlando Tefft: demo crat, W. B. Banning. 3. Republican. Alex. Laverty; demo crat, W. R. Patrick. 6. Republican. W. P. Adkins, E. G. McGlIton. N. P. Swanson; democrat, E. E. Howell, Frank T. Ransom. John M. Tanner. 7. Republican. O. R. Thompson; demo crat. 'Fred Wlggers. 8. Republican, G. W. Wiltse; demo crat. N"k Fritz. 9. Republican. M. C. Bressler; demo crat. J. D. Hatfield. 10. Renublican. W. D. Haller; demo crat. Fred Volpp. 11. Republican, C. A. Randall; demo crat. David Ress. 12. Republican, J. A. Fiala; democrat. F. J. Henry. 13. Republican. F. W. Phillips; demo crat. J. A. Donahoe. 14. Republican. E. L. Meyers; demo crat. G. M. Adams. 13. Republican. G. II. Kinney; demo crat. J. A. OUIs. ,, , . 16. Republican. E. D. Gould; democrat, 17." Renublican. Harry Scliickendantz; democrat." J. H. Buhrmann. 18. Republican, E. L. King; democrat. A. C. Templln. , 19. Republican. II. A. Graff; demo crat. G. W. Fuller. 20. Republican. S. W. Burnham. E. P. Brown: democrat. R. T. Chambers. J. i. Miller. , 21. Republican. Auam jucuumcii; ucm crat. Jacob Klein. 22. Republican. G. W. Baldwin; demo crat. F. W. Bartos. 23. Republican. Dr. F. Wilcox; demo crat. Smith Ketchum. 24. Republican. John Doran; demo crat. Herman Diers. j-, 25. Republican. J. M. Cox; democrat, R. G. Brown. Nurses Want Legislation. Nebraska nurses will endeavor to have a law passed by the next legis lature which will require the registra tion of all nurses in the state in a dmiiar manner to the registration re quired in several other states of the anion. This decision was reacnea at a meeting of the nurses of the state in this city. The matter of pushing the framing and passing of the law has been left in the hands of a committee whieh is composed of four graduate nurses of the state, as follows: Miss Stuff, Lincoln: Miss Bicker, Omaha; Mrs. Pinkington. Omaha, and Miss Hardwick, Lincoln. J. A. Singhaus, United State com aissioner, and a federal marshal from Omaha came to Herman and placed Walter West and C. West under ar rest for selling liquor and drove to Te kamah with them and lodged them in jail. It is thought there had been a deputy United States Marshal there for several days disguised as a sign painter and he succeeded in collecting several bogus jags himself and bought liquor from a good many in town. Fern Charter, the 6-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Charter, of Hastings, whose divorce suit is pend ing trial two weeks hence, was abduct ed by her father and taken away in an fiutnmnhnp. He called for her at school and induced her to leave. John G. Setsby, aged 22 fell from the top of the new school building in Milford while wheeling mortar for the bricklayers. His left leg was so bad ly crushed that the physicians ampu tated it above the knee. Other com plications set in and he died in the afternoon. The first jury trial in the Chadron division of the federal court of the United States closed with an acquittal. Charles Henderson and Christopher Abbott, both of Crawford, were de fendants. They were accused of buying blankets of soldiers Cram Fort Robinson. Boone county's corn crop is the best ever produced. A report from the town of Eagle, eighteen mile seast of number of cele brators became intoxicated. Charles Burns, a farmer, was assaulted and so badly beaten that he died. Every effort to be made by the Commercial club of Omaha to secure the next meeting of the Transmissis sippi Commercial congress, and H. 3. Weller, chairman of the conventions committee, has started work to se cure a strong delegation to attend the meeting in San "Francisco October 5 to 10. ONE KIDNEY GONE ut Curtd After Doctors Said There Wm No Hope Sylvanus O. Verrill, Milford. Me., says: "Five years ago a bad injury paralyzed me and affected ray kid neys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was bad ly discolored. Doc tors said my right kidney was practi cally dead. They said I could never walk again. I read 3f Doan's Kidney Pills and began us ing them. One box made me stronger lad freer from pain. I kept on using them and in three months was able to get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rap idly, discarded the crutches and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. WHEN YOU GET RICH. Only Then Are You Appreciated for Your True Worth. Upton Sinclair, the novelist was talking about wealth at Lake Pla cid. "It is pleasant to be rich." he said. "Nobody can deny that. Many of the pleasures of wealth, though, are false and mistaken ones. "When I was making my living by the composition ofb!ood and thun der tales for boys and I could turn out my S.C00 words a day I knew a pale, bent, ink-stained old chap who wrote love stories. "His stories did not pay; he was very poor; but an aunt died, and sud denly the old fellow found himself a millionaire. "He saw me one afternoon on Broad way. He stopped his red car and wo chatted about old times. "'And is it pleasant to be rich?' I asked. " 'Yes. it is." he answered, as he lighted a Vuelto Abajos and handed me another. 'And do you know what is the pleasantest thing about it? You have an opportunity to make real friends, friends who can understand you. You get at last to know "people capable of esteeming you for your own qualities alone. You find, sir, that you are at last appreciated." " ONLY A COW. TW Artist (who has been bothered by rustics breathing on him all the morn ing) My good fellow, I assure yon that you can see the sketch with more advantage from a little distance! Microscopic Writing. A remarkable mcnine made by a lately deceased member of the Royal Microscopical society for writing with a diamond seems to have been broken up by its invenfor. A specimen of its works is the Lord's prayer of 227 let ters, written in the 1.237,000 of a square inch, which is at the rate of 53.S80.000 letters or 15 complete Bibles, to a single square inch. Ta decipher the writing it is necessary to use a 1-12-inch objective, which is the high power lens physicians employ for studying the most minute bacteria. Wanted to Go the Same Way. We were taking a little trip into the country. The only vacant seats in the train were turned so as to face each other. I told my little girl, four years old. to take the seat in front of me, as riding backward would not make her sick. She hesitated, and said: "I know it won't make me sick, but if I ride backward will I go to the same place you are going to?" Conan Doyle at It Again. "It is clear, Potson," said Herlock Shonies, "that the farmer who raised this spring chicken was very tender hearted." "How in the world do you know that?'' asked the astonished Potson. "It's simple enough. The farmer hesitated so long before striking the fatal blow." Bostou Transcript. What's His Age? "After all. you know, a man is only as old as he feels." "Yes. How about the fellow who 'feels like a two-year-old?" Philadel phia Press. AFRAID TO EAT. Girl Starving on Ill-Selected Food. "Several years ago I was actually starving." writes a Me. girl, "yet dared not eat for fear of the consequences. "I had suffered from indigestion from overwork, irregular meals and improper food, until at last my stom ach became so weak I could eat scarcely any food without great dis tress. "Many kinds of food were tried, all with the same discouraging effects. I steadily lost health and strength until I was but a wreck of my former self. "Having heard of Grape-Nuts and its great merits, I purchased a pack age, but with little hope that it would help me I was so discouraged. "I found it not only appetizing but that I could eat it as I liked and that it satisfied the craving for food with out causing distress, and if I may use the expression, 'it filled the bill.' "For months Grape-Nuts was my principal article of diet. 1 felt from the very first that I had found the right way to health and happiness, and my anticipations were fully re alized. "With its continned use I regained my usual health and strength. To-day I am well and can eat anything I like, yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part of my bill of fare." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battlo Creek, Mich. Read 'The Road to Well ville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A nev one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human '"t;rest. W A