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-. ' ,r-3 s - , s " r " I m .'J -, IfvS RH II I m 9 $U it COLUMBUS JOURNAL STROTHER & STOCKWELL, Pubs. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF ft WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man Latest Personal Infor mation. WASHINGTON NEWS. Senator La Follette accused Senator Aldrlch of legislative trickery and de clared he is unlit to he the leader of the Republicans in a senate speech. Government engineers in a report to congress declare a 14 -foot waterway from St. Louis to the gulf, at a cost of $128,000,000, undesirable. J F. Harm, in a letter to Secretary Wilson resigning as a government meat inspector scored the service at East St. Louis and told of filthy con ditions in the packing plants. Efforts of Senator Dolliver to get through amendments to the wool schedule of the tariff hill mot with defeat. Supporters of the income tax plan have refused to accept a substitute proposed by President Taft which provides for a two per cent, assess ment on corporations. The battleship Michigan made 20.01 knots in her trial trip, the govern ment's requirements being 18.5 knots. It was reported from Washington Jiat President Taft has not decided to veto the tariff bill, as reported. The senate voted to reduce the duty on cotton stockings about twenty cents a dozen pairs. President Tail presented to Wilbur and Orville Wright, the aeroplanfsts. a gold medal awarded them by the Aero Club of America. PERSONAL. Dr. Paul Rltter. the new minister from Switzerland, was presented to President Taft. George Ade, the playwright, has been chosen a trustee of his alma water. Purdue university. Andrew Carnegie's gifts for libra ries amount to $51,C9G,9G3 while Mrs. Russell Sage has donated $25,000,000 for public purposes and mankind. Lieutenant Commander H. M. Cald well, who was an aid to Admiral George Dewey and stood by his side on the bridge of tho flagship Olympia during the battle of Manila, has re signed from the navy. Mrs. Mary Raker G. Eddy, founder of Christian Science, gave out a signed statement denying allegations of Mrs. Delia Gilbert, one of her fol lowers, that she "either was dead or a helpless, mindless puppet." E. H. Harriman arrived in London from New York on his way to Paris. He had been seasick. Dr. Richard Cockburn MacLaurln was formally Inducted into the office of president of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology at Boston in the presence of notable guests. Daniol A. Sortwell, 25 years old. a broker's clerk, has been elected presi dent of the Barre railroad at Boston, being the youngest head of a railway in the world. Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree. com mander of the Pacific fleet, on his ar rival in Portlaud, Ore., made a plea for a large navy. GENERAL NEWS. Through the scent of a tlog the New Yoik police discovered the dismem bered body of Samuel Bersin who was mysteriously slain. Justice Dowling. who is hearing her divorce suit, rebuked Mrs. Howard Gould for her hazy memory which, he said, gave her husband's counsel un necessary trouble. A train was blown from the track and one person killed and several per sons lost their lives in tornadoes which swept Texas. J. P. Harms' charges of filthy con ditions in East St. Louis packing houses are to be probed by govern ment inspectors. Fifty persons were rescued by a special train from Hillman. Mo., when forest fires destroyed the town. Herbert Todd, a merchant of Des Moines, la., was shot and seriously wounded by Moses Rice, a fruit ven dor, who committed suicide. Two earthquake shocks were felt in France and it was reported that several persons had been killed. R. M. Smith & Co.. lumber dealers, with large holdings in Indiana. Louis iana and West Virginia, were declared bankrupt by Judge Dayton at Parkers burg. W. Ya. The general convention of the New Jerusalem opened in Brockton. Mass. Rev. Samuel S. Seward of De troit presided. Stanley Ketchell. middleweight champion of the world, whipped Jack O'Brien In the third round of a six round battle in Philadelphia. William Kane, in the St. Louis criminal court building, avenged the murder of Constable Sam Young, un der whom he served as a deputy, by slaying Fred Mohrle who was on trial for the killing. The strike that closed 22 hat fac tories in Connecticut has been ended. Frederick H. Brigham. head book keeper of the Merchants National bask of New Haven. Conn., was ar rested charged with taking funds of trie bank. Fire destroyed 100 homes and caused damage estimated at $300,000 is Presque Isle. Me. The trial of Richard Pines, the sec ond of four negroes charged with the murder of Walter F. Schults of Chi cago, began in Alexandria. Va. Gen. Frederiok Funston, command ant at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., had a ytetol duel with a burglar, neither be ing wounded. John Hunt, a millionaire of Califor nia, says be was deserted in Europe by bis, wife, formerly Miss Henrietta Babcock of Detroit. Otis D. Smith was hanged at Jack sonville, Fla., for slaying bis sister. Rear Admiral John J. Hunker, re tired, is seriously ill at his home in Pasadena, Cal. He was for many years in command of the naval col lege at Newport, R. I. A. H. Todd, a wholesale fruit dealer of Des Moines, la., was shot and se verely wounded by a peddler in a quarrel over an account. Moses Ras chio, who shot him, killed himself by taking poison. Nine mallard ducks 'have been batched in New York city and in a few days the birds will be ready to swim. The eggs were brought from England in an attempt to prove that wild ducks may be propagated by far mers. Juquin Sorollay Bastiday, Spanish artist, sailed for France with $500,000 of American money. Just five months ago he arrived In New York with 340 of his own paintings and a European reputation. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded an annual pension of $SG5 to Prof. Charles Edwin Loss of Transyl vania university, who retires at the age of 85. Announcement was made that Wil liam J. Bryan will be a candidate for United States senator from Nebraska. Mrs. Howard Gould began her testi mony at the trial of her suit for sep aration from her husband. Tho Chicago police found that the revolver .wltli which Dr. John T. Bink lcy was killed was purchased in New York and have dropped tho theory of suicide. William E. Corey, president of the steol trust, and Mrs. Corey were bruised and a companion fatally in jured when they were thrown from an automobile in France. Tho Iowa State .Manufacturers as sociation adopted resolutions indors ing the course of Senators Dolliver and Cummins in the tariff fight. William Benkcr killed himself by Jumping from a hospital window at Mason City, la., after he had cut his throat. Chicago trnde expansionists who visited Tacoma, Wash., learned in that city that Mount Ranier has another name. In that city it is Mount Ta coma. Youngstown. O.. with S0.000 inhab itants, and the rest of Mahoning coun ty, voted to retain saloons. The vote was "wet." 11.232; "dry." 9.263. The Chinese foreign office has for bidden missionaries to proceed among tho people in frontier provinces, be cause of their crude civilization and the fear of trouble. A hag containing registered mail was stolen from an Illinois Central train at Champaign. HI. L. Gaban. a Cuban banker, has reached New York on his way to Eu rope and is traveling in a style sug gestive of au Indian prince. The party includes his wife, three daughters, one son, four friends and two domestics. They took 20 rooms at a New York hotel. The Burley Society of Tobacco Growers, meeting in Winchester, Ky.. granted $24,000 hack salary and a $15. 000 bonus to President Clarence Lebus. The federal court at Denver ruled that it is a fraudulent use of the mails for a person, in the Interest of strik ers, to communicate by letter with strike-breakers, offering them posi tions in other towns when such posi tions do not exist A report of a $1,300,000,000 railroad merger, credited to James J. Hill, was denied in St. Paul by Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern. The twelfth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists met in New York, chiefly to discuss the movement for tho restoration of Palestine to the Jews. The Minnesota Bankers association opened its yearly meeting at Lake Minnetonka. President Joseph Chap man. Jr.. of Minneapolis being in the chair. William F. McDermott of Chicago has started action in court at Mercer. Pa., to have Mrs. Helen Boyle, his sis ter, who is serving a sentence of 25 years for kidnaping Willie Whitla, set free. Charles Brown, aged six, and Ed ward Poe, a farmer, were killed by lightning near Anderson. Mo. Floods are beginning in the Gun nison and Grand rivers In Colorado. The pumping plant at Grand Junction is menaced and hundreds of men are guarding railroad tracks and other property. Damage to railroad property near Rapid City. S. D.. as the result of a cloudburst, is estimated at $50,000. A Northwestern passenger train was piloted into Rapid City by a handcar after many hours' delay. The auxiliary yacht Carnegie, built for the Carnegie institution for ocean surveys to correct compass data and in whose construction no magnetic metal is used, was launched at Brooklyn. N. Y. Charles Miller, who worked as a waiter in the old Astor house in New York at $34 a month, has resigned and is going for a trip to Europe. He has accumulated a fortune of $200,000. An earthquake destroyed Korinichi. Sumatra, killing 200 persons and In juring scores of others. The Taft school at Watertown. Conn., was closed on account of an epidemic of diphtheria. Mrs. Alice Newman of Des Moines fell dead in a G. A. R. convention at Fort Dodge, la. Plans to prevent gambling on grain were discussed at a meeting of the American Society of Equity at Fargo, N. D. Forest fires in the vicinity of Kes wick, N, 15.. periled many persons who prepared to flee from the flames. Suffragists make too much noise, according to Bishop Doane in an ad dress to girl graduates at Albany. N. Y. Fire destroyed the mill and elevator of the Decatur Cereal Company at Decatur. 111., causing $650,000 loss. Govan Smith, his brother, EUsha Smith, and Levi Johnson, were ar rested on a charge of shooting Edward Callahan, the feudist leader of Crock ettsville. Ky. Miami university at Oxford. O., be gan the celebration of the one hun dredth anniversary of its founding in tucaecuoc wn use annual - com I mencemect exercises. Ml OFFICER SHOT CAPTAIN RAYMOND ATTACKED Y CORPORAL CRABTREE. A REPRIMAND OF THE UTTER Bullet From Enraged Man Lodges Ir Captain's Spine, Parallzing His Entire Body. Des Moines, la. Corporal Uslc Crabtree Sunday afternoon fatallj shot Captain John C. Raymond, com mandlng officer of Troop" B, Seconc United States cavalry at Fort Des Moines, then shot and seriously in jured First Sergeant James R. Wash burn, and Corporal Elijah Such, whe attempted to disarm him, and shot himself. 'Crabtree's Injuries are not neces snrily fatal, the bullet striking a ril above the heart and crushing it. Crabtree had been reprimanded bj Captain Raymond because of his fail ure to report when his leave ol absence had expired in the morning He had spent the night in Dei Moines and was to have returned t his barracks at 7 a. m. Crabtree wa Summoned by Captain Raymond ir the afternoon and questioned as to his conduct, whereupon the corioral hot! insisted he had leave of absence til. 7 o'clock Sunday night. Captain Ray mond accepted this explanation and the incident was considered closed when Crabtree demanded that he be transferred to another department oi of the army, which Captain Raymono refused to consider, telling the cor po'ral he could not do that as long as he was not a good soldier. Immediately Crabtree pulled a re volver from his pocket and begar firing. Sergenat Washburn jumped to his feet and grappled with the sol dier. receiving a bullet in the hnnt and one in the jaw which shatterec the hone. Captain Raymond hac seized tho man's arm and was ahoul to disarm him when a bullet struct him in the neck. lodging in the spine and he dropped to the floor para lyzed. A bullet struck Corporal Such In the left arm. Crabtree then fired s bullet into his own body. Captain Raymond is the son of Bri gadier General Charles W. Raymond retired, formerly of the engineers In charge of rivers and harbors and sta tioned at New York. His brother is Major Robert Raymond of engineers, stationed at New York. Captain Ray mond is 3S years old and a memhei of one of the most well known mili tary families in the east. He was commissioned from Pennsylvania. Captain Raymond is resting fairly well, though suffering some pain. Hos pital physicians say that though his condition is extremely critical slight hopes are entertained for his re cover-. Leopold Talks About Congo. Antwerp King Leopold made a re markable speech here on the occasion of the festivities in connection with the annexation of the Congo independ ent state. He said that the gift ol Congo to Belgium was the greatest astisfaction in his life. He declared that Congo would play a most import ant part in the expansion of Belgium The new tariff walls of her neighbors had placed Belgium in a position where a merchant marine and new out lets for its products were imperative Seventeen Are Dead. Teheran A report received here from Tabriz says that an altercation between the British counsel at Salmas and gendarimerie led to a conflict with the Turkish troops, in which the Per sians lost twelve killed and the Turks seven killed and a large number wounded. Kill Five Thousand. St. Petersburg. A dispatch to the Novoe Vremya from Astara says that the Shakhsevan tribesmen are ravag ing the Ardabil district in Azerbiajan, the most northwesterly province of Persia. According to the dispatch 5,000 persons have been killed. Taft Promises to Talk. Washington. President Taft, after conference with John Mitchell. T " "H? " mond. ProL J. . Jenks and R. M. Easley, representing various interests, accepted an invitation to address the national conference to be held here in January to aid uniform legislation. Financing Chinese Railway. Washington. Administration offi cials view with much satisfaction the steps taken by the great hanking in terests in New York, whereby they are to be represented in the financing of the Hankow-Sze-Chuen railway in China, for they see in that a start in the direction which will be helpful to the American government in the fat eastern policy in more ways than one. Pa-is Lik-s White. Paris The Figaro and Temps, apro pos of the reports that Robert Bacon ex-secretary of state, is coming to Paris as American ambassador, print highly eulogic editorials regarding the present ambassador. Henry 'White, in which they recall the particular grati tude which France feels for him on account of the role he played at Alge ciras and the high esteem In which he is held in official and social circles. They bluntly express the hope that he will not be replaced by the American government. Vetoed by Gov. Oeneen. Springfield. 111. Gov. Deneen vetoed the "business corporation act." . The corporation act, radically changing the corporation laws of the state, was conceded to be one of the most impor tant of the measures enacted by the Forty-sixth general assembly. Castro Living Quietly. Santander. Spain. Ex-President: Castro of Venezuela and his wife are living quietly in the villa near here There is no evidence that he is plan ning to assist financially a rumored filibustering expedition. GETS BIG DAMAGES j RETURNS VERDICT OF $20,000 FOR I ESTATE OF BRAKEMAN. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read- ers Throughout Ne braska. O'Neill, Neb. A verdict for 120,000 against the Chicago & Northwestern railroad for the death of a brakeman on that railroad a year ago last fall was returned by the jury. The case was brought by Frank Hauffman. as administrator the es tate of George V. Glover and was transferred to this county from Dawes county and was a suit for damages for the death of Glover who died at Chad ron on November 12. 1907, his death alleged to have been caused by in juries sustained on the defendant com pany's road. They asked for $30,000 damages. Glover was a brakeman working fof the company and about 2 o'clock on thex-morning of November 11, 1907, started for his heme from the railroad yards in Chadron and was struck by a train whiio crossing a railroad track, sustaining injuries frcm which he died the next day. Clarence Found Guilty. Plattsmouth. Neb A verdict cr mur der in the second degree was returned by the jury in the Thacker murder case here Wednesday morning at S::.'0 o'clock. Sentence has not yet been passed. The attorneys finished their argu ments late Tuesday afternoon. The case went to the jury shortly after 6 o'clock. It is believed that the attor neys for the defense will ask for a new trial. John P. Clarence, the defendant in the case, killed John P. Thacker in a fight last January. His defense was that he believed that Thacker was sjifc, iu uuu mm io ueatn witn a board when he shot him. Clarence is a farmer. Will Erect Monument. Kearney. Neb. At the meeting or the city council held i.Monday evening a petition was presented, signed by ninety-two old soldiers, asking that a special tax he levied for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of a suitable monument in memory of the veterans of the civil war. The coun cil then took action and an ordinance was drawn up and read, and upon mo tion, the rules were suspended and the ordinance given a second and third reading, after which it was voted on and unanimously passed. The monu ment is to be erected at the division of Central avenue and Twentv-fifth street. i Officers of Grand Lodge. Omaha, Neb. Election of officers was the principal work of the Xebras- j ka .Masonic grand lodge Wednesday, tesulting as follows M. Dowling, Omaha grand master; Harry A. Cheney. Creighton. deputy grand master; Henry Gibbon. Kear ney, grand senior warden; James R. Cain. Stella. Neb., grand junior war den; J. B. Dinsmore. Sutton, grand treasurer; Francis E. White, Omaha, grand secretary; Robert W. French. Kearney, grand custodian; Alpha Mor gan. Broken Bow, grand marshal; T. M. Davis, Beaver City, grand senior deacon; Jacob King, Omaha, grand tyler. Blind Students Graduate. Nebraska City, Neb The graduating exercises at the institution for the blind took place at that institution Wednesday. There were exercises In the chapel all day and the well ad vanced scholars took part, as well as the faculty. An interesting program was carried out. There were several graduates from each of the various de partments. Paper Changes Hands. P"ll1of-ir. Vol, I ! T.. t el-ed a contVact with Mllla'rd s! Bin- ney and Henry M. Kellog for the sale of the News-Journal, the transfer to take effect July 1. Mr. Tanner has been in the newspaper business here, with slight intermission, for over twenty years. He expects to move with his family to Idaho. Killed By Lightning. Geneva. Xeb.Mrs Thomas Edward, living five miles east of here, was struck by lightning and instantly killed in the heaviest rain storm that has visited this place for twelve years. A barn on a farm belonging to Charles Warner, four miles southeast of town, was struck and burned to the ground. New Hotel for Hastings. Hastings. Xeb. Plans have been drawn and accepted for a $150,000 ho tel to be bailt in Hastings by a" local capitalist. There has been much talk in the last few years of erecting a ho tel here by a corporation of fraternal orders and citizens, but this is a -venture of an individual and auhority is given for the statement that the build ing is a certainty. The building is to be foar stories and have 1-3 outside rooms. Archi tects are expected here early n.j.t. week to look over the site preparatory to excavation Heavy Rains Continue. Hebron. Xeb. The heavy rains of this week continue to fall with almost unabated- fury. The heavy floods up near Carletoa have washed out every bridge in Thayer county along the Sandy river. Two bridges have been temporarily replaced. These are the only -mean? of getting north over that stream. The wagon road in Hebron running west has been closed as it is unsafe, the Blue-river being out of its banks. The bridge south of the city was thrown out of line by the heavy driftwood -that floated 'down against it. NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS. State News and Notes in Condensed Form. C. M. Cunningham was appointed postmaster at Empire. Sioux county, vice H. B. Gunningham, resigned. Burlington train No. 89 struck and instantly killed Frank Praseck. one mile and a half east of Crete Sunday. Abram Eleston. a Harlan county pi oneer, 76 years old, who has been in rugged health, was the victim of a paralytic stroke; Effecting all oneside of his body. Elizabeth A. Sears of Omaha was elected by acclamation to the office of supreme clerk of the Woodmen Circle in session in-Detroit, Wednesday morn ing. The postofuce department announces that the offices at O'Neill, Seward. Su perior and .Wahoo are raised from third to second class. To become ef fective July 1. J. J. Skow has sold his farm of BJ0 acres south of Beatrice to W. S. Mc Hugh of Clay Center, a former resi dent cf Gage county. The considera tion was $125 an acre, or $20,000. The committee in charge of the Fourth of x July celebration has just re ceived notice that Charles B. Landis. congressman from Indiana, has accept ed the engagement to give the Fourth of July speech in Fairbury on July 5. Henry F W. Borcher. a prosperous farmer and one of the well known men of Srrihnor. lost his life late Saturday aitornonu ny nutnsin into Cuntine crook. It is presumed to be a case of suicide. Walter A. Williams a veteran hard ware man at Hildreth. died Monday. He was an old settler and homestead er and had been in business for about twenty years. He died after a long illness. The Hastings hoard of education met Tuesday night and canvassed the bal lots of the school bond election which was hold a ,few weeks ago. It was found that the bonds had been lost by 2S2 votes. Mr. Dysart. living Jive miles south west of Peru, shipped seventy head of cattle to Chicago last week, which topped the market. The cattle aver aged $116.S5 each after the freight and other expenses were paid. The Merrick County Farmers Co operative association of Central City, has awarded a contract for a large ele vator to the Hampton Elevator com pany. It will be located on the Union Pacific right-of-way and will have a capacity of 16,000 bushels. It is ex pected that it will be completed in about sixty days. Ernest Spilker. the eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Spilker, who reside northwest of Pickrell, was bitten by a rattlesnake Tuesday after noon as he was going through a pasture on his way home. The snake hit the boy on the toe of his right foot. He was dangerously ill for a time, but will recover. The corn show committee of seven, appointed by the Kearney commercial club to investigate and make a com plete preliminary report to the club, will recommend that a show to be called the Buffalo County Corn and Agricultural exposition be held during the second or third week in October, the show to be open tq all counties of western Nebraska, and that an initial fund of $2,000 be raised for the pur pose. A large number of persons at the Electrical Show in the Auditorium building. Omaha, recently witnessed one of the most remarkable demon strations of "wireless" energy hereto fore made in any country in fact, a feat not accomplished before in the worlds history, so far as is known When Dr. Frederick H. Millener. ex perimental electrician. Union. Pacific railroad company. Omaha, turned on the lights in the building, the impulse being sent from the Fort Omaha wire less tower, six miles distant. This demonstration was made possible through the courtesy of Colonel Glass ford. Signal Corps. U. S. A. The wire less impulse operated on a specially constructed coherer (which is very delicate and will receive the faintest impulse) similar in construction to that used about a year ago on the electrically controlled (by "wireless") truck in the shop yards of the Union Pacific at Omaha. By means of a large solenoid switch, which is closed when the impulse passes through the coher er, seventy-five horse power were turned on and the Auditorium lighted. By means of a similar mechanism the power was turned off and the opera-, Lee's contract as presented to the tion repeated several times in other, board, now shows he will pay only ,"j words, the local circuits of the Audi-1 cents and that in consideration of torium were closed by wireless im-1 taking additional men he asks to have pulse from Fort Omaha. The public is his old contract changed insofar as to beginning to realize the immensity and ' give him the right to furnish overtime importance of the work being done by work, but not to be compelled to fur the Union Pacific railroad in its efforts nish it. He also wants free power to safeguard the lives of its passen gers and the property of shippers, via its lines, and. by reason of the experi-' mental work being done by it what an important factor it is in this country's progress. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination cf Rev. Thomas Cullcn. pas-1 tor of St. Joseph's Catholic church of ' York, to the priesthood was celebrated Tuesday. The congregation and many ' of the priests of the Lincoln diocese , gathered in York to help him observe the event. Mr. Tibbels, eighty-two years old. living fifteen miles northeast of Dick ens was almost instantly killed at her mime rrma nigni. aae as living in . a sod house and the walls and roof I tumbled in without warning. She was blind anc had been an invalid for about a year. Determined that blindness rhonld not prevent h!m from mastering a profession. Roy Sandetson. a brother of Rfcv. .Mr. Sanderson, of Marquetr. has been devoting his time to master- ing the art of piano tuning. Recemly he graduated from an Iowa college for the blind and will soon begin work in this part of the state. Unable to endure separation from her baby. Mrs. Beulah May Ion. who is having trouble with her husband over a certificate of deposit, returned to Silver Creek in quest of it. She de parted, taking the child with her. CAPITAL CITY NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUND THE STATE HOUSE. NEWS OF THE STATE CAPITAL Doings of the State Officials and Other Happenings That Are of State-Wide Im portance. Governor's Appointments. Governor Shallenberger has made the official announcement of the ap pointment of Sam Patterson or Arap ahoe, secretary of the state banking board, the appointment to take effect July 2, if the new banking law giv ing him the right to appoint is not held up in the courts in the meantime. The salary is $3,000 a year. .Air. Royse the present secretary, has held the po sition of secretary for more than eight years. The board of control appointed to take charge of the home for the friend less July 2. comprises Dr. P. L. Hall of Lincoln. Rev. H. H. Harmon of Lin coln and Rev. Arthur L. Weatherly of Lincoln. The governor has appointed A. V. Johnson of Lincoln chief deputy fire warden. The salary is $2,000 a year, the pay to come from a tax to be paid by fire insurance companies on or be fore January 1 or eacli year. Another deputy at a salary of $1,.")00 was ap pointed by the governor some time ago. Mr. Johnson is a wholesale cigar dealer. Trustees for the school for the blind at Nebraska City and deaf at Omaha are both prominent fusionists. The gov ernor has appointed ex-Senator W. R. Patrick of Papillion and II. H. Hanks of Nebraska City. Dr. B. F. Williams of Lincoln is ap pointed pathologist at the Lincoln hos pital for the insane. J. M. Gilchrist of Omaha and H. S. Wiggins of Lincoln are appointed as an examining board to certify to the ability of expert accountants who may come before them for an examination. Junior Normal Instructors. The principals and instructors of the junior normals have been chosen by the new state normal board but alt those chosen were recommended by State Superintendent Bishop, who un der the old law selected them. The list is as follows: Alliance D. W. Hayes, principal; W. R. Pate. I. G. Wilson. C. W. Phil pott. John A. Woodward. Mrs. Leora S. Rustin, Susie R. Frazier. Ora Sn. Phillips. Alma C. W. McMichaei. principal; Ed. M. Short. Gcorpe Crocker. Xeiiie West Custer. S. L. Johnston, Elizabeth Everson. P. P. Bentley. Broken Bow Robert J. Elliott, prin cipal: J. M. Mclr.doo. J. G. W. Lewis. Loren Cornett, Emily Wood. Alice M. Burley. H. M. Pinckney. Geneva R. W. Eaton, principal; W. T. Stocklale, Byron E. Dill, R. V. Clark. C. X. Walton. Celia Chase. Henry Vauck. McCook Charles W. Taylor, prin cipal; L. W. Colebank. H. M. Garrett. W. T. Davis. C. F. White. Julia Badnar. Mima Doyle. Claudia B. Hatcher. Xorth Platte J. A. Beattie. princi pal; Wilson Tout. J. O. Lyne. P. M. Whitehead. Maude Mollyneaux. V. A. Strickland. William Ebright. O'Neill H. K. Wolfe, principal; Celia A. Gorby. A. E. Fisher. T. X. Fleming. C. A. Mohrman E. S. Cowan, Elizabeth Sheehan. Florence Zink. Valentine G. A. Gregory, principal; O. B. Bowen. E. P. Wilson. E. P. Bat tenga. Kate E. Driscoll. Lulu Kortz Hudson. The entertainers chosen are Frank R. Rouerson. Adr.an M. Xw?ns a id the Parland-XewhaU Concert company Prison Contract Unsigned. Although fifty additional men were put to work by the prison contractor Monday, no contract for the addition al men has been signed by the state officers and warden of the peniten tiary. The Lee Broom and Duster Co. offered to take fifty men at 60 cents a day. but this order was changed after the governor refused to accept the offer of a St. Louis man who desired to make clothing for working men. Mr. for the fifty additional men and also asks for most all of the available shop room now used by the state. He asks that the contract for the additional men be made good for three years from July 1. Express Companies Object. The express companies still resist ing the reduction of rates fixed by the Sibley bill. hae filed excencions to the report of Rere?ee John T. SuUi. van. The referee fcund that the Sib lev act is "not confiscatory and rec- ommecded judgment for the state and against the express companies. This recommendation, if adopted, will re gllt in an order making perpetual the , . ...,-,:.. -.?.- 0?. temporary restraining order enjoining the companies from violating the pro visions of the Sibley act. State to Complete Building. Th board of public lands and build frrrs ha; decided to noiifv thp rnn- tractor at work on the buildings at lne Xcrfolk asylum that h. would not wait longer on him. but would corn- plete the structures. The state archi tect will be instructed to hire men and buy material to complete the work. Under direction of State Auditor Barton an investigation of the ac counts cf the state university is being made by the state accountant. John W. Tulleys. YOUR BACKACHE WILL YIELD T Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Rockland. Maine. 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