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COLUMBUS, -
NEBRASKA;
EARTHQUAKE NOTES.
Cong-ess unanimously voted $800,
000 for the relief of the Italian earth
quake sufferers, in response to a
message from President Roosevelt
Ambassador Griscom at Rome char
tered a steamer for the work of aiding
the survivors. lie delivered to Count
Taverna, head of the Italian Red
Cross. $250,000 sent by the American
Red Cross. The king proclaimed mar
tial law in the devastated district, and
Messina and Reggio were ordered
evacuated.
There was the gravest alarm among
the authorities in Italy over reports
from Messina that typhoid fever had
broken out among the earthquake sur
vivors. Strict sanitary measures were
adopted at once in the hope of pre
venting the spread of the disease out
Bide the districts devastated by the
earthquake. Earth shocks were fre
quent at Reggio and the Canary
Islands were shaken. A third shipload
of supplies was started from New
York.
The American Red Cross steamer
Bayern, laden with food, clothing and
medical supplies and carrying doctors
and nurses, sailed from Civita Vecchia
for Messina. American women in
Rome organized to help administer the
relief fund. Severe earth shocks were
experienced at Zermatt, Switzerland.
More earthquake shocks were felt
in several of the ruined Italian towns.
At Messina 1,300 victims were buried
in one huge grave. Relief finally
reached the town of Villa San Gio
vanni. Premier Giolitti, addressing the spe
cial session of the Italian chamber of
deputies, thanked the world for the
aid given. The United States gunboat
Scorpion established a relief station
at Messina. Additional funds were
raised by benefits, etc., in New York.
Chicago and other American cities.
PERSONAL.
Frederick Corby Pole, wanted in
Montreal on a charge of grand lar
ceny in the sum of $25,000, surren
dered himself to the police in Cincin
nati. Fred Van Meter, aged 27 years,
was sentenced at Galliopolis, O., to
life Imprisonment at hard labor for
the murder of his wife.
James Tread well, former millionaire
and promoter of the Trcadwell mines
In Alaska, was adjudged bankrupt in
San Francisco.
By a a combination of the Democrats
and the anti-administration Repub
licans, Edward D. Shurtleff of Ma
rengo was elected speaker of the Illi
nois house of representatives for the
third time.
Walter Zeller of Vineland, N. J.. 19
years old, was found guilty of murder
ing his grandfather.
Former President Castro had a re
lapse after being operated on in Ber
lin and his condition was critical.
J. Harry McMillan, a millionaire
miner, was arrested in Tonopah, Nev.,
on charges of passing worthless
checks.
Former President Castro was op
erated on by Dr. Israel in Berlin and is
doing well.
GENERAL NEWS.
The committee investigating the
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
was shown just how the old prison
punishment called the "Alakazan de
gree" was inflicted. The committee
laughed and was rebuked for its
levity by Miss Kate Barnard of Okla
homa. By means of two false teeth it was
definately established that Gideon
Browning of Adair, Mich..' was the
man who was butchered in the little
"Rattle Run" Methodist church. The
supervisors of St. Clair county imme
diately offered a reward of $300 for
the arrest of Rev. John H. Carmichael
of Adair, pastor of the church, who
was at tlrst supposed to have been
killed, dismembered and then burned
in the stove.
Five lads in St. Louis were arrested
for stoning a peddler to death.
Two men and a boy were killed in
a New York tenement house fire.
Four sons of Christ Lee were burned
to death near Rice Lake. Wis.
A new departure in its profit-sharing
plan, giving its employes the privi
lege of subscribing to the common as
well as the preferred stock of the con
cern, was announced by the United
States Steel corporation.''
The Fort View hotel at Winchester,
Ky.. was burned, two lives being lost.
Henry C. Potter, Jr.. vice-president
of the People's State bank of Detroit,
Mich., and former secretary and treas
urer of the Pere Marquette railroad,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
Miss Nellie O'Donnell and Frank
O'Dowd, former employes of Schwarz
schild & Sulzberger at Kansas City,
were arrested for embezzling $4,000.
During a banquet in Lisbon a lieu
tenant publicly warned King Manuel
of Portugal that a plot was on foot to
dethrone him.
Investigation showed that Dean
Frederick Howard of Drake university,
Iowa, who died Thanksgiving day, was
killed by morphine.
One day's fires in Chicago caused
nearly $1,000,000 losses. The Illinois
club house, including a valuable art
collection, was destroyed.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
After having made him-, the target
all day for criticism, with here and
there words of commendation, - the
house of representatives by a vote of
212 to 35 rebuked the president by
tabling so much of his message as re
flected on members of congress re
garding the secret service detectives,
and also declaring it to be the sense
of the house hat they shall decline tc
consider any communication from any1
source which is not in its own judg
ment respectful.
Senator Culberson's resolution in
structing the committee on the judi
ciary to report whether the president
had authority to permit the absorp
tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company by the United States Steel
corporation was adopted by the sen
ate. ,
President Roosevelt made public
the results of an investigation by
secret service men, showing Senator
Tillman's connection with an alleged
"land grab."
By direction of President Roose
velt, secret service men shadowed
Senator Tillman of South Carolina on
the theory that he possibly was in
terested in an Oregon "land grab," and
the result of that investigation is be
fore the senate, which has not made
it public.
President Roosevelt Informed the
senate in no uncertain terms that he
had given his approval to the absorp
tion of he Tennessee Coal & Iron
Compauy by the United States Steel
corporation and that he had instructed
Attorney General Bonaparte not to re
spond to the senate inquiry as to-the
reason for his failure to prosecute the
steel company.
The United States, Colombia and
Panama signed a treaty whereby all
matters in controversy between them
were settled.
All American naval officers below
the rank of rear admiral are to under
go physical tests.
The supreme court of the United
States refused to review the $29,000.
000 fine case of the Standard Oil Com
pany, rejecting the government's peti
tion for a writ of certiorari.
By a divided court the supreme
court of the United States decided the
rebate case brought by the govern
ment against the Chicago & Alton
Railway Company and Vice-President
Faithorn and Treasurer Wann of that
company, in favor of the government.
The federal grand jury in Washing
ton returned an indictment against
Jules M. Waterbury, charging him
with false pretenses in the securing of
money from United States Senator
Burrows of Michigan. Representatives
Hull of Iowa and Bartholdt of Mis
souri, and Assistant Attorney General
Ormsby McHarg.
The country's forests now, cover
550,000,000 acres, or one-fourth of the
total area of the United States, ac
cording to data compiled by forest
service agents. One-fourth the total
frest area is owned by the govern
ment. A mail sack containing bonds, etc.,
worth $200,000, was stolen from a de
livery wagon in the Chaussee d'Antin,
Paris, in broad daylight.
Kang Yu Wei, the well-known Chi
nese reformer, who was expelled from
Pekin after the coup d'etat of 1898.
declared that Yuan Shi Kai had
been dismissed from his high position
as member of the grand council of the
Chinese empire because he was in
strumental in the death of the late
emperor.
The body of Lieut. Foertsch, the
German aeronaut who lost his life at
sea last October, was picked up in
the North sea by the fishing steamer
Orion.
Harold Snowden, chief clerk of the
special delivery department of the
Denver post office, confessed that he
had rifled scores of letters in the past
year.
The distress in Anatolia because of
the failure of the crops has reached
an acute phase in the districts of Erz
eroum, Yozgad. Kaisarieh and Mardin,
and hundreds of persons are actually
starving.
Six of the eight night riders on
trial at Union City, Tenn., were found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and the other two were given 20
years in the penitentiary for murder
in the second degree.
Three fires in the down-town sec
tion of New York destroyed property
valued at $1,250,000.
Hussein Kiazim Bly, the first Turk
ish ambassador to the United States,
arrived from Europe.
A thousand mutinous Chinese sol
diers fought with government troops
near Mukden and the latter were re
ported to have been defeated with a
loss of CO men.
F. B. SIgnor of Oakland, Cal., was
arrested on complaint of James H
Murray, a multi-millionaire banker, or
charges of committing forgeries ag
gregating about $1,000,000. He con
fessed. "Count" Louis Hamon, formerls
known in America and Europe as
"Cheiro, the Palmist," and before that
as plain John Warner, is a fugitive
from France, being charged with em
bezzlement.
Melvln W. Sheppard. Fred Bellares,
George V. Banhag, Charles J. Bacon,
Harry Porter and John Lee, the ama
teur athletes who recently were sus
pended by the registration committee
of the A. A. U. for alleged profession
alism, were reinstated.
A party of Donynion government
surveyors, who arrived at Winnipeg
from Fort Churchill, Hudson bay,
brought with them a report of the dis-'
appearance of a party which was sent
out by Maj. Moody of the mounted
police in search of Inspector Peltier
and his party of Eskimos, who also
have apparently been lost.
There is a strong probability that
William W. Russell, who" was- minister
to Venezuela when diplomatic rela
tions with that country were broken
off last spring, will again be sent
there if the negotiations between Mr.
Buchanan, the American special com
missioner, and President Gomez re
sult in a resumption of diplomatic re
lations. The Russian steamer Sviatoslav
was sunk in s. collision and 34 men
were drowned.
Par-1 C. Finn of New York, a com
positor, murdered his mother and 1
gave Jimsslf up to the police.
AS TO THE CABINET
IT IS ALL GUESS WORK UNTIL
THE FOURTH OF MARCH.
FORECASTERS CAN SET BUSY
Review of the Names Being Mentioned
and the Probabilities of Their
Final Selection.
Washington The decision of Presi
dent-elect Taft to refrain from making
public the names of men he has select
ed to be members of his cabinet, with
the exception of Senator Knox and
Frank H. Hitchcock, has had the effect
to incite much gossip. With no possi
bility of an official contradiction con
fronting them, would-be cabinet build
ers are now free to exercise their in
genuity and imagination to the full
and are not slow to avail themselves
of the opportunity. Without doubt the
many names which are being brought
forward for the various portfolios are
those of at least a few successful as
pirants, but it is decidedly unsafe to
attempt to indicate who they are. The
most that can be done is to accept
probabiliies as such, simply because
any attempt to make positive state
ments would be unwarranted in the
light of last night's announcement
from Augusta.
The only possibility of accurate in
formation transpiring regarding the
seven vacant cabinet positions lies in
the promise of the friends of some of
the selected persons to discuss the
matter, for it is hardly conceivable
that any public man would decide upon
the acceptance of a cabinet office
without conferring with his personal
friends.
Yet Senator Knox, on his return
from Augusta Sunday, rather grim
ly hinted that any candidate who
either personally or through his
friends betrayed the confidence of the
president-elect might find that after
all he was not on the list and this
statement may have some effect in re
straining cabinet talk by people who
are really advised.
But following 'in the line of prob
abilities' certain names, by dint of re
iteration in connection with cabinet
vacancies without developing denials,
have come to be regarded as feasible.
Such, for instance, is that of George
W. Wickersham, the New York law
yer and legal partner of Henry Taft,
the president-elect's brother. He has
been consistently mentioned in con
nection with the attorney generalship.
But it should be remembered that
Senator Knox is a potent influence
with the president-elect and that he
has a feeling of the highest regard
and admidation for the abilities of So
licitor General Hoyt, -with whom he
was in intimate relations during his
own occupancy of the office of attor
ney general. It easily may be be
lieved that he would urge Hoyt's se
lection should it develop that Wicker
sham's appointment was found to be
inexpedient in the very fact of his bu
siness connections with the president
elect's brother.
The fact being conceded that the
Pacific coast is to he represented in
the new cabinet causes great weight
to be given to the suggestion that
Richard A. Ballinger is to be the
lucky man and his name has been
connected with the secretaryship of
the interior, although it is well known
that the Pacific coast people would
prefer that the naval portfolio come
to their section, because of their im
portant navy yard interests.
CHARLES P. TAFT AT AUGUSTA
Will Remain with His Brother Until
He Starts for Panama.
Augusta, Ga. Charles P. Taft with
his wife and daughter, arrived here
Sunday night and were met at the sta
tion by the preident-elect and Msrs.
Taft. They expect to remain here un
til the preisdent-elect leaves for Pana
ma. At that time the Taft family may
go to Cuba, though their plans are
said not to be matured.
Panama Treaties Signed.
Panama. President Obaldia has re
ceived advices from the Panama le
gation at Washington, saying that at
midnight Saturday night the final
drafts of the treaties between the
United States and Colombia and the
United States and Pnnama were
signed. As the national assembly is
now in session, it is probable that
these treaties, which cover questions
in dispute between Panama and Co
lombia will be submitted for ap
proval before adjournment.
Ten-Year-Old A Bank Robber.
Joplin, Mo. Charged with looting
the Noel State bank of Noel, forty
miles south of here, Oliver P. Billings,
aged 10, was arrested here by Sheriff
Carnell, culminating a five weeks'
case. The tot entered the bank
through a rear window while Ca hier
Kissler was at his noonday meal and
looted the cash drawer of its entire
contents, $920.
Trade With Panama.
Washington Six million dollars of
imports from Panama and $6,000,000
of exports to Panama represent the
trade of that republic with the United
States during the past five years, ac
cording to a bulletin by the bureau of
statistics made public a few days ago.
While, it is contended that a large
part of the $6,000,000 represented
merchandise sent to Panama, it is
stated that a larger part than would
perhaps be supposed has been for
other purposes especially food stuffs
and clothing.
Tillman Will Draw.
Washington. No subject has been
discussed recently at the capital with
such fervor as President Roosevelt's
disclosure of Senator Tillman's al
leged connection with an Oregon land
deal, but the colleagues of the South
Carolinian are inclined to withhold
judgment until he has had an oppor
tunity to explain. It is likely that
when the doors of the senate open
on Monday there will be a crowd
awaiting admittance . sufficient to fill
the galleries many times, who want
to hear the senator's explanations.
GHORS
CHANGE
SHELDON STEPS OUT AND SHAL
LENBERGER GOES IN.
THE CEREMONY IS SIMPLE
Both Governors Present Their Mes
sages and the New Executive of
the State is Sworn In.
Change of governors In Nebraska
took place on the 7th. The state bade
goodbye to its first native-born gover
nor and greeted his successor witt
generous applause as he made his ini
tial bow as the state's executive.
There was no diminution of interest in
the inaugural proceedings over former
years and save for the presence of a
large number of strange faces in the
crowd that gathered to hear the words
of the outgoing and incoming gover
nors, the scenes were not greatly dif
ferent from those that have gone be
fore each biennium.
A special committee was sent to ad
vise the state officers the joint con
vention was ready to receive them and
another committee was dispatched to
notify the chief justice of the supreme
ccurt his presence would be needed
to administer the oath.
Chief Justice Reese was announced
and the members stood as ho ad
vanced to a seat provided. Other mem
bers of the court remained on the
bench.
Before the oaths of office were taken
the message of Governor Sheldon was
read. The governor advanced to the
reading desk while the salute of a bat
tery was sounding and he asked per
mission to await its end before begin
ning. He was greeted with applause
as he was presented by the lieutenant
governor, who said: "It is now my
pleasure to present to you Governor
Sheldon, a man whom you know so
C. W. POOL.
Speaker of Lower House of Nebraska
Assembly.
well and whom you all think so much
of, who will now deliver his message
to the legislature." Gov. Sheldon
thereupon read his message.
Governor Shallenberger offered Chief
Justice Reese his certificate of elec
tion which the justice refused. He
then read the following oath, Mr. Shal
lenberger standing with raised hand:
"I do solemnly swear that I will sup
port the constitution of the United
States and the constitution of the
state of Nebraska, and will faithfully
discharge the duties of the gevornor
of the state of Nebraska, acording to
the best of my ability, and that at the
election at which I was chosen to fill
said office, I have not improperly in
fluenced in any way the vote of any
elector, and have not accepted or re
ceived, directly or indirectly any
money or other valuable thing from
any corporation, company or person,
or any promise of office, for any of
ficial act or influence."
There was some applause while
Governor Shallenberger read his ap
dress. Much of his attention was
given to the details of a bank guaran
ty law, and the members listened with
greatest attention to his outline.
There was nothing unusual about
the ceremonies attending the change
in administration. The hall of the
house was not elaborately decorated
and the national colors alone were
prominent in the garnishment of the
room. These are the new state of
ficials: Governor Ashton C. Shallenberger.
Lieutenant Governor M. R. Hope
well. Secretary of State George C. Jun
kin. 1
Auditor Lawson G. Brian.
Land Commissioner E. B. Cowles.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion E. C. Bishop.
Railway Commissioner W. H. Cow
gill. There were many distinguished vis
itors at the inauguration. Wr. J. Bryan
came early and occup'ed a seat on the
floor beside Representative Fred
Humphrey of Lancaster county. Mayor
J. C. Dahlman of Omaha was present.
Proclamation by Governor.
Governor Sheldon issued a procla
mation setting forth the necessity of a
scientific study of Nebraska to de
termine how best to conserve its nat
ural resources. He appointed the fol
lowing as a commission to undertake
the work: Prof. George E. Condra,
professor of geography and economic
geology; Prof. C. E Bessey, professor
of botany; Prof. E. H. Barbour, pro
fessor of geology; Prof. E. A. Bur
nett, director of the Nebraska E'",c i
ment station, all of the University of
Nebraska.
The Fifth Fares Well.
The Fifth congressional district so
far Is the victor in the contest for
places for members of the third house.
The democ-atic house caucus gave the
district four out of nine of the choice
piaces and the Second district came
next with two positions apportioned ts
Omaha. Henry Richmond of Omaha,
defeated candidate for chief clerk of
the house, was given the next most
important position, that of chief clerk
of the enrolling and engrossing com
mittee. The appointment came un
solicited and was unsn'mous.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
The First Democrat to Ever- Hold the
Office in Nebraska.
Charles W. Pool, the new speaker of
the house of representatives, whose
picture appears herewith, is the first
democrat ever to hold that office in
Nebraska. There have been fusion
ists and populists, but no bona fide
Jeffcrsonian democrat before the pres
ent speaker. Mr. Pool has been in
Nebraska for forty-two years, coming
here from Illinois, and for thirty
years of that time he has been in the.
newspaper business as printer and
editor and publisher. Twenty years
ago he established the Johnson Coun
ty Journal, which at that time was
the fourth democratic pdper in Ne
braska. At the present time Mr.
Pool is "the editor and owner of the
Johnson County Tribunal, an inde
pendent paper. He has always been
intimately connected with the poli
tics of the First district and of the
state and has on numerous occasions
been a delegate to democratic statu
conventions. Save that of councilman
and other city positions, ,Mr. Pool has
never held office until the present
time. He is married, but has no fam
ily. Division Over Bank Guaranty.
The democrats of the senate are in
a fair way to split over the bank
guaranty. At a meeting of the com
mittee on standing comm'ttees mem
bers in favor of immeediate payment
and those for delayed payment locked
horns. Farmer members arc insisting
ojj a makeup that will insure an im
mediate payment bill, while the bank
ers are lining up against this. The
bankers want Volpp of Washington
county for chairman and the name of
Diers of York county is being urged by
the faction opposed.
Nev Tack Taken on Judges.
By a strict party vote the
senate ordered the secre ary of state
to furnish them with a certified copy
of the election returns cast on the two
constitutional amendments in Novem
ber. Earlier in the day similar mo
tion by Ransom of Douglas was not
acted upon and an appeal from the de
cision of the chair in ruling it out 01
order was sustained. This puts It up
to the secretary of state whether he
will obey the senate and probably
raises a technically different ques
tion than the one of hand ng over
the original returns.
New Mailing Privilege.
An unlimited mailing privilege was
granted the secretary of the senate
by a vote of the members when on
motion of Senator Buck of Otoe coun
ty, a banker, the secretary was au
thorized to send all letters of the
members and officers of the senate
through the mails that these gentle
men may place upon the secretary's
desk. The motion carried with it no
limitation as to the number and spe
cified that the cost of tne postage
thus applied be paid out of the inciden
tal fund the legislature will provide.
A Lost Opportunity.
Thomas of Douglas count- had an
opportunity to name the speaker in
the caucus, but failed to take advant
age of it. Pool of Richardson county
on the fifteenth ballot had thirty-four
votes and the name of Thomas was
called. He was besieged by the Doug
las delegation to switch from Clark to
Pool. He hesitated, then while con
sulting Clark the roll went on and
Thomas missed his opportunity.
The New Food Commissioner
S. L. Mains, the food commissioner
whom Governor Shallenberger will
appoint in the place of J. W. Johnson,
is an ex-foot ball player, having
played with the Doanc college Tigers
when he was in that school, and hav
ing coached innumerable teams fol
lowing his college career. Mr. Mains
is In business in Crete.
Found an Old Acquaintance.
Representative Miller of Custer ran
into an old friend here the other day
whom he had not seen for twenty
seven years and then when the friend
was such a little fellow that he gave
no evidence of growing into a six
footer. It was Frank Corrick, former
secretary of the republican state com
mittee who now lives in Dawson coun
ty. Uncle Dan Nettleton.
Uncle Dan Nettleton came in from
Clay county and declared that he pro
posed to put patriotism above parti
sanship and only wants half a chance
to join with the democratic majority
in putting over some good legislation.
He is generally credited as being
favorable to a hank guaranty law.
Sheldon Vacates Executive Mansion.
The executive mansion wai va
cated by former Governor Sheldon ana
family and the new governor with his
family took possession. Governor
Sheldon sent his children to tneir
home in Nehawka and he and
Sheldon will soon follow.
Mrs.
Minority Representatives.
The democrats of the house
decided the republicans shall
minority representation en the
mittees selected by themselves.
have
have
com-
The Speaker Pro Tern.
George W. Tibbets of Hastings, who
was elected president pro tern of the
senate is a New Yorker, having" been
reared at Belfast in that state antf
never hfiving held a public office be
fore he was elected senator, save one
time when he made a race against a
republican candidate for county super
intendent of Allegheny county. New
York, and won out by a large ma-joritj-,
serving ore torn:, rector
Tibbets attended Oberlin college in
Ohio and later studied for three years
at Iowa State university.
First Lobbyist to Register.
F. H. Monroe of Washington, D. C.
registered in the office of the secre
tary of state as a lobbyist, in con
formity wit' the anti-lobby law passed
by the last legislature. Mr. Monroe Is
the first man to register under tae
provisions of the law. He represents
no pr'vilege-seeking corporation, but
as secretary of the People's Rule
League of America he will endeavor
to persuade the members of the Iegis-k-cure
to submit an amendment to the
constitution providing for iniativc anJ
referendum.
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Greater or Lessor
Impor-
tance Over the State.
A humane society has been organ
ized in Adams county.
The Lincoln commercial club sent
$1,000 to Italian sufferers.
T. B. Garrison, Jr., and Bert Robin
son, connected with the Commercial
National bank cf Kearney for the
last two years, have -.purchased
bank at Jefferson, Ore.
Sheriff Dunkel has received word
from Washington county, Kansas, of
the capture by the sheriff of that
county of the fugitive Haley, who es
caped from the Hall county jail a few
weeks ago.
Henry W. Munson of Lincoln and
Frank O. Edgecombe of Geneva have
rirchased the Beatrice Express Pub
lishing company, including the daily
and weekly Express and job print
ing business.
James Lardner, 70 years of age
and a resident of Jefferson county for
thirty-five years, fell dead in the
Catholic church during Sunday morn
ing service, death resulting from
heart failure.
It has just developed that an at
tempt at criminal poisoning was
made at Grafton, the intended victim
being apparently Mrs. P. C. Moats.
lhe attempt was made by placing
poison in the family sugar bowl.
The Cass comity mortgage record
for December shows that there were
fifteen farm moragages filed, amount
ing to SGO.ICG; released sixteen,
amount $40,475. Town and city mort
gages filed eight, amount 5,440; re
leased twelve, amount S3.545.
George lownsend of Tecumseh has
bought James M. Mayer's 200-acre
farm, two miles west. The price was
$20,000, or $100 per acre. It is claimed
this is the first tract of Johnson coun
ty land of over 160 acres to bring
$100 per -acre.
The Nehawka stone quarries have
just closed a prosperous year. The
output of the quarr0; has been, .n
round numbers, 4,000 cars. This in
cluded crushed rock, rip rap, and
smelter stone, about three fourths of
it being crushed.
J. A. Cheatham aged 50. committed
suicide at the Morton house al
Nebraska City by shooting himself
over the right eye with a revolver.
The weapon was found clasped in
his hand. He left a letter to the
landlord saying he was despondent
and out of work.
So far as can be determined by the
various pulses of commercial activ
ity Hastings enjoyed a measure of
prosperity last year that exceeded
al former marks. The postoffice re
ceipts for the twelve months aggre
gated $.10,000. which was an increase
01 $1,500 over the previous year.
Frank Evans, the young cattleman.
who was murdered near Doming, N. j
M , was formerly a resident of Cus
ter county an' still has interests
there. His father, mother, three
brother and two sisters reside just
north of Callaway and the body is
being sent there for burial.
According to the annual report of
the county recorder there were filed
in Otoe count- during the last year
192 farm mortgages, whose value was
$555,&01.:;S, and 217 were released,
amounting to $469,164.15. On town
and village property there were 1"S
and 121 were released, their value
being $69,212.15.
At Grand Island. Curt Krueger,
aged 40, robust in health, was visit
ing a relative. Henry Schattenbcrg
and family, and was engaged In play
ing a game of cards, when he sudden
ly complained of a pain in the chest
and two minutes later was a corpse,
heart disease proving fatal. He leaves
a wife and two children.
Mrs. Cora Moore, wiio is now em
ployed as a domestic in a Fremont
family, was for many years a ser
vant in the family of Captain Hains,
now on trial for murder in New
York, while he was stationed at Fort
Riley, Kan. Mrs. Moore, who is an
intelligent colored woman, says that
there was nothing out of the way
going on at the Hains house.
For the ten counties comprising
the Fifteenth judicial district Judges
Westover and Harrington have
agreed on the following as dates for
holding the regular terms of district
court during the year 190!: Holt
May ol. December 6. Rock March
15, September 8. Brown April 5,
November 8. Keya Paha April 12.
October 4. Sheridan June 28, No
vember 15. Dawes June 14, Novem
ber 22
Washington dispatch Repres?nta
tative Kinkaid today introduced a bill
instructing the secretary of the in
terior to make a resurvey of lands in
Nebraska in township 23 north, range
16; township 21 north, range 25;
township :0 north, range 29, town
ship 20 north, range :!4: township
27 north, range 9; township 21
north, range 48; townships 17, IS. 19
and 20 north, ranges :!6, .17, ?.S. 19,
and 40, all west of Sixth principal me
ridian. George M Baird. of Wilcox, has
been appointed by Judge Dungan as
court reporter for the tenth judicial
district to succeed W. J. Furse who
resigned to become private secretary
to Governor Shallenberger.
Burglars secured an entrance to
the hardware store of Nielson &
Mackprang, at Oxford, securing about
$125 worth of razors and pocket
vers.
The Wayne commercial ciub is
taking steps to organize a farmer's
elevator, because the farmers are
hauling their grain to neighboring
towns.
Henry Reimcr, aged .10, was in
stantly killed while working with a
pane; of five men building a bridge
on the border line between Hall and
Merrick counties. The pile driver
fell and crushed in his skull.
Suffragettes arrested in London are
now permitted to wear their hats on
being ajraigned. They regard this as
tho first step in an important victor".
Naturally, they look upon the whole
affair as simply a case of how long the
men can hold out, and possibly it is.
."If the mound buildeis played base
ball, what language did tbey do it in?"
ask ike Toledo Blade. Now how can
you expect a respectable family news
paper to answer a question like tha"?
asku the Cleveland Leader.
Rats Are Wise.
.Rats, which have of late become a
great nuisance to the London tubes
by attacking the coverings of electric
cables, have been driven from their
haunts by means of a virus which,
when eaten by rats or mice, causes
them to be overcome with the desire
to get into the outer air and to drink
cold water. It is a curious and inter
esting fact that the rats knew where
the tube was nearest to the surface,
as evidenced by the great numbers
which found their way to the top at
the Trafalgar Square station.
Dog with Tutor and Maid.
Nana, a French poodle belonging tc
Mr. Edward Elssworth, a real estate
operator of New York, is surely the
most pampered canine in the world.
A private room at the Plaza hotel, a
tutor, a maid, a private bath, and a
special menu are among the items on
the list of the necessaries of life pro
Tided for the dog. The tutor is en
gaged to teach Nana tricks more com
plicated than the ordinary jumping
through hoops and "shamming dead."
and Nana's food is specially prepared
in the servants' kitchen.
DOMESTIC REPARTEE.
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Mr. Knagg Before you met mo you
said you wouldn't marry the best man
in the world.
Mrs. Knagg And you are the only
one who thinks that I broke my word.
Sure Sinn.
Mrs. Murphy Arrah! Tl3 Saterdah
night an th' facth'ry is closin' down
an' Timmy don't know whether he'll
git his pay or not.
Mrs. Flaherty Here ho comes home
now.
Mrs. Murphy Wirra! Thin he ain't
been paid.
Chaucer's House Is Sold.
Hartford Manor, Farington, Berk
shire, England, formerly the home of
the poet Chaucer, and the largest
farm on the Pusey estate, has been
sold to the leaseholder, George Baylis
of Wyfield Manor, Newbury, tho
largest producer of barley in England.
Pusey is said to have been granted
to the family of that name by Canute
by tenure of a horn, which is still in
Bouviere Pusey's possession and bears
the inscription: "Kyng Knoude gave
William Pewse ye horn to held by thy
Loude."
Laundry work at homo would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty ana fineness of tho fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Sixty Mites of Logs.
The largest raft of logs ever towed
from Nova Scotia to Boston was com
posed of enough logs to reach sixty
miles, if placed end to end. It was
composed of 7,000 logs, rafted to
gether in a miss of 400 feet in length,
fifty feet wide and twenty-eight feet
in depth. It floated with ten feet of
Jogs above water and eighteen feet
submerged.
Starch, like everything else, is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery Detinance Starch all
injurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us. gives to the .Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by ether brands.
Increases Liquor Duties.
The British government has in
creased the duties in spirits for Sierrm
Leone 25 per cent in response to tho
agitation concerning liquor traffic in
Africa.
Starch, like everything else, Is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discover" Defiance Starch all in
jnrious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and rmoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
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