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Woman Implicate! SUniiici in Plot
to Get Insurance.
TESTIMONY
IN
LAKCASTER
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redlasj nltk Attorarr Vrmml la
Hla Rvfcalf -Llarola Wmli
Tarhra' Meeds.
fFrom a Staff Correpondnt.)
LINCOLN, Fab. 1. (Ppeelal.)-Mra. Boy
Wllaeam. wlfa of tha man whosa home waa
humed and blown to pieces In an alleged
t tempt to defraud tha Insurance company
by her hushand and Theorfbre Stanlslcs,
continued to be tha atar wltneoa In the
trial of fltanlsloa for conspiracy today and
eroaa-examinatlon failed to confuse her In
the details' of her atory. fManlsIra is ald
by Mra. Wliacam to have declared that he
had already aucceaafully pulled off several
conspiracies of tha aama sort.
Iatere4e for Indian.
Tha friends of Earl Ironshooter, an In
dian of the Rosebud agency, are Interced
ing with Attorney General Martin for him.
Ala la charged with forgery- He la naid to
b Buffering from frosen feet and to have
1 pneumonia, and tha commissioner of the
South Dakota agency doea not wish to glva
him up. Mr. Martin has decided to Insist
upon his honoring the requisition and then
If It Is shown that the Indian la dying he
will not be prosecuted further.
Perry Parkdoll In Cnatody.
Perry Parkdoll, accused of daylight burg
lary, was turned over to tha sheriff today
after ha had been In tha custody of the
police fur several days. The disposition of
Parkdoll has caused soma confusion of
authority as he la said to have been lakn
from a deputy sheriff of Kansas, where he
had fled, by at representative of the Lincoln
police under the assumption that the po
liceman ,waa a deputy sheriff fur Lancaster
county.'
Prosjresalv Meeting Arranged.
A meeting of the Progressive Republican
league of Nebraska has been arranged fur
February 13 at Lincoln. Frank A. Bhotwell
of Omaha waa in thla olty today to con
far with representatives of the league and
to arrange tha conference.
"I have been In touch with Mr. Correll
of Hebron and Mr. Van Dusen of Blair,
president and vice president of the Pro
gressive Republican league," said Mr.
fJhotwell, "and It haa been arranged to
call a general conference of progressives
from out In the state to meet at Lincoln
on the afternoon of Monday, February 13.
This Is the date of the Young Men's Re
publican club Lincoln day banquet, and
those who dealre to attend that function In
tha evening will be able to do so.
"The league, ao far aa It has progressed,
la not In tha Intereat of any candidate, or
any set of men, but Is simply to forward
tha Interests of progressive republicanism
aa proclaimed at the national meeting at
Washington. We believe that the repub
licans of Nebraaka are almost a unit in
their adherence to these 'progresalve prin
ciple At the meeting on the 13th without
doubt tha national platform will be adopted
with the addition of such matters as are
of Imperative local Interest in Nebraska,
and arrangements will b made for the
forming of county organisations."
Teachers Vfctlnar on Meeting;.
Whether Lincoln or Omaha is to ententaln
the 1011 meeting of the Nebraska State
Teachers' association la a question now
being aettled by the 3.700 members of the
association. Ballots for the referendum vote t
on tha matter ara being sent out by Sec
retary W. T. Btockdale of Madison, these
being returnable to him not later than
February ID. Every one of the 1,700 as
sociation members actively engaged in
teaching Is entitled to vote.
Tha referendum vote is being taken under
the amended constitution of the associa
tion, aa formulated In the rather sena
tlonal .fight which marked last fall's ses
sion In Lincoln. In addition to choosing the
convention city, the teachers are to fix
the date of the meeting. .According to the
association constitution and the decision
of the executive committee this may be
one of four dates, all of which are named
on the ballots sent out this week. The
dates ara tha week, of the November elec
tions. Thanksgiving week, the week be
fore Chrlstmaa and the week after Chris
, tmas. A plurality vote decides this ques
tion.
Included in the letters sent out by Sec
retary Btockdale ara the ballots themselvea,
na explanatory letter and copies of the In-
illations offered by ths Omaha and the
Lincoln commercial clubs.
HOTEL AT ASHLAND BURNED
oaasaovclaJ Honae Totally Destroyed
by riao Karljr Taeaday
Moraine
(ASHLAND, Neb., Feb. l.-(Speclal Tele
sAam.) Flra which waa first discovered
about 4:80 o'clock,, completely destroyed
the Commercial hotel building at Fourth
atU Silver streets this morning The fire.
$ich Is of unknown origin, started In the
rear kitchen, which was a masa of flames
whn discovered. The building was owned
by Samuel Heckelhymer and the loss to
hlio la about W.wjo, witn insurance for 11.600.
Landlord C. A. Newton saved a piano and
some household goods. His furniture was
v insured for $.10U. which will cover hla loss.
The building haa been used as a hotel on
lis present site since 1(6, the first landlord
being.Cllfton Hlnkley and It was first called
the Clifton house. 1
The etruoture had two narrow escapes 1
from fire when two buildings adjoining
burned down four years ago, and January
3 last, when It caught fire from attempts
that were made to thaw out some water I
pipes, but as discovered In time to prevent
loss.
Mrs. H obert Adams (.raalrd Itlvorre. i
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb. 1. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Robert Adams was today
grsnled a decree of divorce from her hus
band on the ground of desertion. Mrs.
Adams Is a comely young matron and
was the woman over whom. In a fit of
Jealousy, the wife of a Holdrege lawyer
late lu tne summer of 110, shot and
wounded her husband and killed herself.
Mia Adams and her mother, who reside
here, both vigorously protested at the time
mat the llulUrega woman had no Justifica
tion In fact fur her wrought up fuellngs.
The child waa put into tha custody of
Mia. Adams mother by the court.
Tramp Delays Espreaa Train.
GRAND I9IAND, Neb.. Feb. 1 (Spe-cial)-l'or
twenty minutes a tramp held
an i press train, eastbound, from moving
further last night The train was carry,
lng an amity palace stock car east. It
appears that a lone tramp had locked
himself in the car at Cheyenne and waa
making fine tiipu acroa the country.
-4'niou Pacific oflicials here were advised
that the car was in the poasraslon of a
bang and officers were detailed to rid the
car of lta Illicit pahsenger traffic. Tha
aupposed occupanta refused to open the
t4i and a window -nd door had first to
be broken lit- Finally Uie lne monarch
1 1 Nebraska
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of all he surveyed waa yanked out and will
b tried undur the boulder antl-hubo law.
M eaten I festival at Grand Island.
ORANL ISLAND, Neb., Feb. L (Special.)
The tu Cecilia society, an organisation at
Uiand Island a feminine musical talent,
is making elaburala preparations fur
a May music festival and will render the
greater portion of the opera "Faust." At
a meeting esterday the selection of the
solo slugtrs was made. Miss Louise Oims
by of Central City being chosen aa so
prano, Fredericks Uberhart Downing of
Des Moines as contralto, Frederic C Free
mantel of Omaha as tenor, and Mr. Qlllea
pie of Lincoln aa bass. A strong local
chorus has been organised.
Deaths at Gra Island.
GRAND ISLAND. Neb., Feb. L tSpe-clal.)-0.
O. Crandall, a Whitman, Neb.,
ranchman, passed away at the hospital In
this city at the age of 50 years of dropsy.
Ha leaves a son, It years of age. There
are distant relatives in this city and In
terment will be made here. A nephew,
II. 8. Howes, of the Omaha fire depart
ment. Is here to attend the obsequies.
U II ham ticott, a retired farmer who came
to this city from Iowa a few years ago,
died at his home at the age of 73 years,
lis leaves a wife, a son and a daughter,
all residents of this vicinity.
Nebraska News Nates.
FRKMONT The warm weather of the
last few days is melting the ice in the
Platte. The river Is very low and water
Is running over the Ice tuwarda tha north
side. No trouble la anticipated.
VALENTINE The sixth and eighth
graues at the city schools have had to be
dismissed for a few days on account of no
teacher, the regular teacher having re
siKned and the professor's wife has been
teaching temporarily, but as she took sick
it leaves these grades without a teacher.
RlfH VI LLE District court convened
yesterday, but not much has been done.
The first day was taken up trying to get
a Jury for the Urtley murder trial, which
Is expected to occupy the court for the
rest or the week. There are over thirty wit
nesses lo be examined. Judge Westover Is
presiding.
VA LENTI N K Mr. Len Blvens and Mr.
Shlnn of this city, while out hunting coons
with their dogs last night, treed a young
bob cat and Mr. Blvens shot It with his
revolver. It is a young one as it only
weighs about fifteen pounds. They did not
get any coons, but are well satisfied with
Uie hunt.
RUSH VILLE Guy Martin, a telephone
nneman, wno nas not long been located
here, fell from the top of a telephone post
upon which he was working and was picked
up unconscious and bleeding. Medical aid
was summoned and an examination showed
several contusions of the face and he Is
suffering from concussion of the brain.
VALENTINE Mr. Salmon, a retired ser
geant from Cincinnati, O., has been ordered
here take the place of Major Shockley
and mid Thompson as caretaker at old
Kon .Mobrara. Mr. (Salmon's married
daughter will keep house for him while her
huHbsml, who is an officer, la on duty In
the Philippines.
WEST POINT The marriage of Joseph
Oswald and Miss Anna Oswald, two well
known and popular young people of Logan
township, was solemnised at tha Men
nonlte church, Rev. J. D. Birky, pastor,
performing the nuptial rites. The young
people win make their home on a farm In
the neighborhood of their former borne.
WEST POINT The following persons
were admitted to full United States oitlsen
shlp at the session of the district court
on Monday: peter Malrius Sorenson, a
native of Denmark; Axel Stark, Sweden;
Fred Voss, Germany; George Quthardt,
Germany; Asmus C. W. Jorgensen, Ger
many; August West ran, Sweden, and
Thomas Peterson, Germany. .
VALENTINE O. Church la remodeling
his old opera house Into a new three-story
hotel and expects to have It running by
March L . The hotel will have twenty-four
guest rooms above the first floor. The
building will be steam heated, and when
completed Is to be veneered with cement
blocks, making a fine looking building as
well as a modern well arranged hotel.
MORRILL Last week Morrill camn No.
9813, Modern Woodmen of America, held
public installation and Installed the follow.
ing olliclals lor mi: Harris Morris, ven.
erable consul: O. C. Andrews, adviner:
John Boatsman. banker; C. N. Fleenor.
clerk; L. Murphy, adviser;1 William Shof-
siuu, waicnman. ; Alter t!e installation a
banquet was held and addfeeses were
maue uy a. a. Kearney, is. o. Crawford
and others.
LYONS Tha Lyons Creamerv cnmnnnv
has submitted a counter proposition to sell
to the Alamito Creamery com nan v of
Omaha. J. J. Noel, acting for the Omaha
company, met the stockholders here today
aim uiicreu 10 uuy- me plant with the
view of enlarging lta acope of work by
putting four routes in to itather milk: ni
cream from the surrounding country, thus
increasing Its utility to the stockholders
The offer was rejected, but the following
counter propusltion waa made and left open
ioi- au-ryiauuQ ur a perioa oi one Week'
The Lyons Creamery stock to be sold tn
the Alamito company at W centa on the
dollar, payable In preferred slock In ths
iauer concern, Bearing i per cent Interest
A Fortunate Texan.
E. W. Goodloe. Dallas, Tex., found a sura
cure for malaria and biliousness In Dr.
King's New Life Pills, lie. For sals by
Beaton Drug Co.
Tho Weather
WASHINGTON. Feb. L-Forecast of the
weather for Thursday and Friday;
For Nebraska Fair and much colder
Thursday, cold wave; Friday, fair.
For Iowa Fair, much colder Thursday,
cold wave; Friday, fair and cold.
For soutn Dakota Fair and colder
Thursday; Friday, fair.
For Missouri Fair and much colder
Thursday, cold wave by night; Friday,
fair and cold. .
Temperature at Omaha yesterday!
Hour. Deg.
6 a. m u
ti a. in 41
7 a. in 41
H a. in 41
a. m 42
10 a. m 4j
11 a. m 46
li in 44
1 P. m 4
-' p. m 46
3 p. m 44
4 p. m 87
o p. m jj
( p. in 31
p. m 27
8 p. m 2j
gym
Local Record.
OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU.
TRi
OMAHA, Feb. 1. official record of tem-
ixrature and precipitation compared with
Uio corresponding period of tha last three
years. Uill. UIO. lM. laud.
Ill lust tixlav 4 61 46 8
Lcwest today 17 St j
Mean temperature II HI 31 4
Precipitation U) .00 .uu .00
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March 1
and compared with the last two years:
Normal temperature.. 21 degrees
r.xcess IT tne ua u Oegrett j
lot ul excess since .Marc 11 1. ... shv decrees
. .'ormal precipitation 03 Inches
Deficiency for the day 3 Inches
Total rain tall since March 1.. 14 72 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 16.21 inches
Kxceas for cor. period 1910 6.10 inches
iHficlency for cor. period 1;J.. 6 :7 Inches
Reports from Htatloaa at T p. m.
Station and State Temp. High. Raln
of Weather 7 p. m. Today. fall.
( revenue, clear
Davenport, part cloudy.... bit
lx-nver. clear 4S
Dei Moines, part cloudv... 3J
Dodge City, part cloudy... 14
Lander, clear 3n
North Platti.. clear 54
Omaha, clear 27
I'ueMo. clear ii
Rapid City, clear 1
t-it lake t'ltv clear 12
t-11 ma Fe, clear 44
Mieridan. pari cloudy 1J
Huux City, clear.. l
Valentine, clear 11
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tl ,oo
W .00
4i ,uo I
M .) I
.oo!
63 .oo I
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H T
o2 .00 !
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4 00
3 .)!
T indicate trace et precipitation,
--indicates below sero.
L. A. W LLan. local Forecaster.
PRESIDENT M'LEAN RESIGNS
Former Nebraska Unmnity Head to
Leave Iowa Institution.
CERTAIN IT WILL BE ACCEPTED
Aetlns; President ef laatltatloa 'Will
Be Xamed te Handle 1'nlvernltr
for Remainder of tha
ftehool Year.
'From a Staff Correspoadsnt )
rES MOINES, la.. Feb. 1 Special Tele
gramsThe State Board of Education, In
session here today received the resignation
of President George MacLean of the atate
university, but has not yet acted upon the
same. It la certain It will be accepted and
that an acting presidnt will be named to
handle the university the remainder of
thla year.
It la regarded as probable that In some
way It will be arranged that President
MacLean will be placed upon the Carnegie
pension list Prof. Bowman, a member of
the Carnegie board, today visited Presi
dent Bell of the Drake university and also
conferred with the members of the State
Board of Education, it is known that
steps are being taken to have the atate
university brought under tha Carnegie
foundation and if this Is done it Is the In
tention that President MacLean will ta
a place therewith.
Mlaa Pankharat Talka.
Miss E. Sylvia Pankhurst, tha noted F.ng
llsh suffragette, spoke to the Iowa legisla
ture In Joint assembly today. She de
clared that unless the legislators permit tha
women to vote, the latter will set about to
defeat them In their candidacy for re
election. She asserted that unless women
are permitted to vote, "our ' civilization
may pass away like other great world
civilisations have vanished."
She declared that woman suffrage will
not break up the home, and that It will
result In better wages for the working
girl.
Antl-nerlproclty denotation.
Senator Adama of Fayette county today
Introduced In the Iowa senate a Joint reso
lution memorialising the Iowa senators
and representatives In the national con
gress to use all honorable means to defeat
the reciprocity treaty with Canada on tha
grounds that It would result In the low.
erlng of prices of land and produots In the
middle west.
' Sammls Rill Passed.
The Iowa senate today passed the Sam-
mis bill Increasing the salaries of Iowa
legislators from $560 to $1,200 per session.
increnae of Salaries.
The senate today voted to Increase the
pay of legislators. It Is now t&DO for each
session. There was an effort made to
have It not apply to holdovers next session
and another effort to have It not apply
at . all until 1916, but both were defeated,
Several of the members voted against It on
the theory that it would be equivalent to
voting to Increase their own salaries, but
were willing to have It apply In the future.
Terminal Tax BUI.
Senator Saunders Introduced a bill to
provide a change In the method of distribu
tion of railroad values for taxation pur'
poses along the right of way. Instead of
tha mileage basis aa now, ha would have
the railroads file plats showing tha exist
ence of terminal values and have these
values set apart for taxation where lo
cated.
Approval of Income Tax.
The house passed the resolution approv
lng of the Income tax proposition and a sir
ing congress to submit an amendment to
the constitution for an Income tax.
The house also passed a bill forbidding
exhibition of any deformed person or thing
or monstrosities as such.
YOUNG MEN STANDING PAT
apportora of Iowa Senatora Pledge
Themselves to Stand By Him
to End of Seaaloa.
DES MOINES, la., Feb. 1. A caucus of
the supporters of Lafayette Toung for
United States senator was held last night
When the caucus adjourned at midnight,
it was announced that every man present
had pledged himself to vote for Toung,
until the end of the session, unless a spe
cial primary bill shall pass in the mean
time.
Following is today's ballot on United
States senator in the Iowa legislation:
Kenyon, 66; Toung,' 37; Garst, 1; Porter,
(dem.), 49. Absent, eight Necessary to
elect, seventy-Beven.
A tremendous crowd witnessed the re
cording of the thirteenth Joint ballot by
the Iowa legislature in another attempt to
elect a United States senator today. Many
women were present, attracted by the an
nouncemtnt that Miss E. Sylvia Pank
hurst would speak on woman suffrage
Immediately after the Joint ballot Tha
voting Itself was featureless. Senator
Chapman, who was absent yesterday, re
turned today and added one to the Toung
votte of yesterday.
The elections commutes of the house to
day reported for passage a bill for
special primary election to select the re
publican candidate for senator. The bill
will go to the bouse tomorrow and the
republicans, who are for Senator Young,
will Insist upon its passage at once.
LOUIS G. PARROTT IS DEAD
on of Late Matt Parrott, Editor of
Waterloo, la., Reporter, Expiree
of Heart Trouble.
WATERLOO. la
gram.) Louta O.
. Feb. l.-(Speclal Tele-
Parrott, editor of the
Waterloo Reporter, died suddenly this
morning of valvular heart" trouble, compll
cated with Brlght's disease. He waa
sou of the late Matt Parrott, was born
In Davenport in 1863, and came to Waterloo
In 186. He has been an active editor
since the death of his father and is sur
vlvtd by a wife and two children, hi
mother, Mra. Matt Parrott. and two broth
ers, W. F. Parrott, president and general
manager of Matt Parrott St Sons company
and James 8 Parrott secretary of tha
company, of which the deceased was vice
president. He was a member of the Elks,
Order of Iagles and Masonic fraternities.
The funeral will be Friday.
INSURGENTS GET GRAIN MEN
Mi
City , Man Made Head of
Dealers' Association l&eayoa
Likely to Be Kadorsed.
BIOCX CITY, la., Feb. l.-tSpecial Tele
gram.) Insurgents in the ranks of grain
dealers elected K. G. Dunn of Mason City
secretary this afternoon. C. U. Messerole
of Oowrie was defeated for the office,
slsty-five to twenty-one. B. Hathaway,
president, was re-elected. It is expected
the meeting tomorrow morning will frame
a resolution endorsing Kenyon for the
senate. The fight for next year's meeting
place is narrowed down to Sioux City and
Des Moines.
Hot Wite la Texas.
OAI.I-AS. Tex.. Feb. 1. The southwest
Is enduring an unprecedented beat wave.
Yesterday afternoon the thermometer
reached ninety-three degrees at Fort
Worth, while the average was Juki uiKier
Hi nin-i' mark Kruit iress and viulcts
are In bloom in eaat Texas
Receiver is Likely
For Atlantic Road,
Following Meeting
Northern Patroni tnd Friendi of Line
Depending: on Southerners to
Work Out Own Problem.
ATLANTIC. Ta.. Feb. l.-Srclal Tele
gram.) Arrangements were made today,
whereby a receivership of the Atlantic
Northern A Southern railroad is held up
until February 8. pending an effort of the
farmers of Cass. Audubon, Montgomery
and Shelby counties to raise $250,000 to put
the road on Its ?eet.
While the application Is formally on file
asking for a recelvershrp, no appoint
ment will be considered until February 8.
Numbers of farmers are Insisting that
soma local man be named, even thouah
Inexperienced In railroading. Frobably
some businessman or farmer will be named
with power to employ an expert railroad
man to run tha line.
Since the Danish supporters from Elk-
horn and Klmballton left the directors meet
ing last night It has been Impossible to
get them together and although they
agreed yesterday to give $60,000 for the
road. It Is a question nowwhether they
will help. They feel Montgomery and
southern Cass county should come to the
front with more money. The north exten
sion people , built their road, and want
the south to wo-k out its own problems.
In case of a receivership, farmers fear
the Burlington will buy up the road to
Grant, and tha Rock iBland from Grant
north and thus preserve the old law of
dividing up western Iowa territory be
tween tnese two lines. i
Developments here late tonight do not
seem to be rosy for the road and there
la a general feeling that a receiver will be
appointed February 8, or before. Shugart
and Barnea Bros., today filed application
to enjoin the road from paying anyone
$36,000 taxes collected until this company
gets Its money for grading done.
Tha following officers of the road have
been elected: President. II. S. Rattenborg.
Atlantic; vice presidents. A, II. Jorgenson
and M. H. Esbech of Klmballton; John
Peterson of Elkhorn, Jehn Norcross and
S. E. Smith of Grant: secreturv II K
Williams, Atlantic; treasurer, K. S. Harlan,
Atlantic.
DEATH RECORD
Joseph h. Adams.
PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Feb. 1. (Special.)
Joseph II. Adams, residing near Mynard
and one of tho old settlers In this vicinity,
died suddenly yesterday about l o'clock
of what appeared to be heart trouble.
Joseph H, Adams was born In Richmond,
Vs., about 1866, and while a young man
came west, locating In Mills county, Iowa,
and later. In I860, removed to Cass county,
Nebraska. He waa married February 2,
1W0, to Miss Allle Hcnton, who survives
him. He Is also survived by J. H. Snead
of this city, a Burlington engineer. M
"" aiso nas relatives residing in .Mis
souri and Kansas. Mrs. Adams, his
widow. Is a sister of Mrs. J. W. Johnson
of PlatUmouth and Mrs. William F. GH-
lisple of Mynard.
Mra. Caroline Harmon.
HREMONT, Neb., Feb. L (Special.)
Mrs. Caroline Harmon, mother of W. J,
Harmon of this olty, died Sunday at the
age of 94 years and was probably the old
est person In tha county. Her maiden
name waa Caroline Lane and she was mar
rled to Julius Harmon in Connecticut In
1S4L Her husband died about twenty years
ago and she cams to Nebraska to live' with
her son. who waa then farming In Saun
ders county. Two years, ago they moved,
to tiemont. one was In good physical
health up to a short time before her death.
Her son, W. J. Harmon, is her only sur
viving child. Her body was taken to
Cedar Bluffs for burial beside her hus
band.
Mra. Mary Caroline Mank.
BROKEN BOW, Neb., Feb. l.-(Speclal.)
Mrs. Mary Caroline Mauk, an old resi
dent of the county, died Saturday at the
bom of her son, after suffering several
days with pneumonia. Mrs. Mauk was
borri In Virginia July, 1831, and has been
a resident of Broken Bow for many years.
She leaves a number of descendants resid
ing In the county. L. E. Cole prepared
the body for shipment to Fairfield, la.,
where final arrangements will be made for
burial.
. Patrick Tracy.
GREELEY CENTER, Neb., Feb. 1.
(Special Telegram.) Patrick Tracy, a
prominent shoe merchant of this city, died
today of pneumonia after an. Illness of six
days. He was born In Ireland In 1842, and
was one of the old settlers of this county,
locating at Scotia in 1885, but removing to
Greeley In 1886. He leaves a widow and
eight daughters, all grown.
Ram Moore.
WHEATLAND, Wyo., Feb. 1 (Special.)
Sam Moore, one of the earliest pioneers of
Wyoming, died suddenly Monday of heart
failure. Moore was an Indian fighter,
trader and trapper in ths early days.
Dr. John Henry Harpster.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l.-Dr. John
Henry Harpster, a noted Lutheran minister
and director of missionaries of that church
in India, died at his home at Mount Airy,
a suburb, today, aged (8 years.
J. H
now use my arm as well as ever." Mrs. H. B. Springer,
921 Flora St., Elizabeth, N. .
MORE PROOF.
Mrs. Frederic Holden, of t2o Merriman Ave., Syracuse,
N.Y., writes: We have found Sloan's Liniment a wonderful
remedy in our home for rheumatism, cramps, sore throat.
It has no equal. We know
I V II I 1 I
is a bplendid remedy for rheumatism, lumbago, cough or cold
and cramp. At all dealers. Price, J5C, 50c, and $1.00.
DR. EARL S. SLOAN. BOSTON. MASS.
GUILTY OF DEFAMING KING
Edw&rd F. Myliu Convicted of Crim
inal Libel in London.
SENTENCED TO TEAS IN PRISON
Letter la Rend from Hla Majesty De
nying tnnt He Waa Party to
Any Morganatic Mar
rinse.
LONDON. Feb. 1. -After brief proceed
ings today a special Jury before Lord Chief
Justice Alverstone cleared King George of
Imputations against his personal character
by finding Edward F. Myllus guilty of cir
culating a llbeL Myllus was sentenced to
one year's imprisonment.
Myllus was charged with distributing In
England copies of tha liberator, a Paris
publication, edited by Edward It. James,
In which It wss alleged that his majesty,
while prince of Wales, had contracted a
morganatic marriage with tha elder daugh
ter of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour at
Malta lit 1890.
The crown called the admiral aa a wit
ness, and ha testified tha daughter In ques
tion, now the wife of Captain Napier of
the British navy, had never seen his ma
jesty until 1896, when the king called on
the witness at Portsmouth.
His only other daughter died In 1896, and
for three years preceding her death had
been with her father at Malta, where he
was commander-in-chief of the Mediter
ranean squadron. Tha king bad not visited
Malta while hla daughters were there and
his younger daughter had never spoken to
him.
Myllns In Ills Own Defease.
The prosecution waa conducted by Elr
Rufua Isaacs, the attorney general, as
sisted by Sir John A. Simon, solicitor gen
eral,' and Attorneys Roylatt and Mulr.
Myllus had no counsel, looking after his
own defense.
The defendant sought to have the king
summoned as a witness, but this was re
fused on constitutional grounds. Then he
demanded the king's presence in the court.
asserting that he could not be legally tried
in the absence of his accuser. Lord Chief
Justice Alverstone again ruled against him.
declaring that the defense knew (perfectly
well that under the constitution his ma
jesty could not be present.
In a dramatlo speech Sir Rufus charac
terized the story of the morganatlo mar
riage aa ' absolutely false, regettlng that
his majesty was not permitted to person
ally face his slanderers, and concluded with
the declaration that the suit had not been
brought to protect the monarchy, but that
King George had sought the protection of
the court aa a man, a husband and
father.
After sentence had been passed, Sir
Rufus read a letter signed by King George
and authorising the attorney general to
state publicly that tha writer had never
been married except to Queen Mary, bad
never gone through a ceremony of mar
riage except with the queen, and that he
would have attended the proceedings to
give testimony to this effect, but for the
advice of the lawyers of the crown that
It would be unconstitutional for him to
do so.
Submits to Knives
of Surgeons to Win
850,000 Damage Suit
Man Insists on Serious Operation to
, Secure Definite Evidence in
Malpractice Case.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 1. Surgoons'
knives laid bars the vitals of a living man
today for the purpose of producing evi
dence better than conflicting expert medi
cal testimony in a (50,000 damage suit for
alleged malpractice, now on trial In the
superior court.
Henry Christie, a shoe merchant. Is tha
plaintiff, and It was he who submitted
today to tha ordeal which may cost htm
his life.
Judge Hauser at first assented to the
proposition of having court and jury wit
ness the operation. Then, realizing the
grave aspect of the case, ha advised Chris
tie not to risk his life and declined to be
present. But Christie was determined and
today he went under the knife.
Pr. E. S. Plllsbury opened his abdomen
in the presenoe of tha other surgeons and
the defendant. Dr. R. W. Smith.
Christie was under the knife two hours
and forty-five minutes and is very weak
tonight, but the surgeons declare that ha
haa a good chance for recovery.
Trooper Ckarged with Assault.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. L-(Special )
J. M. McDonald, a colored trooper of the
Ninth cavalry. Is under arrest, charged
With attacking Mrs. L. C. Ilinkle, as she
was walking alone along the boulevard near
her home in the northern part of the city
this afternoon. McDonald had been drink
ing and followed the woman, but persons
passing In an automobile went to Mrs.
Hlnkle's rescue, and the soldier fled to the
pout, where he waa later Identified by Mra
Ilinkle and placed under arrest.
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