Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 November 1902 — Page 2

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MIK. PafclUfc. INDIANA. Amnrmru Uav - , . toll fight Thanksgiving dajr. for M . oa "Charity" Wiggins, the mother ot Rind Tom. the negro musician, died St Birmingham. Ala., on the lath. Seed The body of a nan named Datus Harrington, supposed to hae fallen off a steamer. v found in the river at St. 'Banana, on the lTtb. A eivnu of Iowa rei -lbhcan gicaauien. held at De Moines, on the 16th. decided to support Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, for speaker. Two hundred and fifty men strack In the coal mines at Washington. Ind.. Sa the 19th. because the bank mulea vara not properly fed up 4 curried. A. H. ürjst. af Chester, was elected pre- s. i I f t'-e Illinois live Stock m ii flcrs Nation, which closed its aareaivu at BiOvmingun, on the Smb. A aommittee of the Federation of Labor decided, on the -1st. to report to the convention in favor of organizing the t -achats of the public schools into unions. CoL W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), oa the 18th. announced the engagement of his youngest daughter. Miss Irma, to Lieut. Charles Armstrong. Tenth United States caTalry. George V. Harbins, the well-known Chicago sportiasr man. confessed his Insolvency in a United States court, an the 19th. His liabilities are $317,M, and avasets f 11.000. A treaty of peace between the revatntioni&ts snd the Colombian goren neat was signed on board the Cnitrd States battleship Wisconsin, in Panama harbor, on the 21stJohn Bell Bonton. for about thirty years editor and proprietor of the Kew York Journal of Commerce, died j t his home in Cambridge. Mass., n the ISth, aged 72 years. The wfll of former Congressman ' Campbell, of New York, admitted tr probate on the 21st. bequeathes 170.000 to the building fund of the Roman Catholic cathedral in New York city. A little boy named Albert Ardwell. ease of fire refugees from the Guatemala volcano who arrived at San Francisco, on the lth. was run over sad I lulled by an electric car on the 20th. Dr. Lanaban testified before the Strike commission at Scranton. Pa, ess the 20th. that 90 per cent, of the aminers who reach the sge of 50 are afflicted with some kind of rheumatism. The American Federation of Labor. In session in New Orleans, on the 101 h. increased the salary of the president from $2.100 per annum to $3.000. nd that of the secretary from $1.800 to ?-V The business men of TXIuride. CoL. , on the 21st, offered a reward of I0.O00 far the arrest and conviction of the asva-;n "J Arthur I t oin. 4.1 I va ni tuui a- 'iiw. mine manager, who was shot through a window, on the 19th. A silver bell 20 inches high. 24 Inches across the mouth, and a crown 16 inches In diameter, was cast in a foundry at Denver. CoL. on the 1-th. to be presented by that city to the United States cruiser Denver. Mrs. Carrie Nation created i t tion at the New York horse show, on the 20th. by haranguing the onlookers on the evils o oer-drejng. denouncing wine-drinking, and attempting U mash a bottle of champagne. William J. Loma-ney. exchange telb-r of the Third national bank. St. Louis, committed suicide, on the IMU. by drinking carbolic acid His accounts at the bank are correct, and no reason is known for his act. R-ar-Admiral W. 8. Schley was the gii-t of honor at a banquet given by the Commercial club, at Kansas ity, lo.. on the 19th. Five hundred people were present, among them many prominent in civil and military life. The Illinois state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners will meet st St. Louis. November 2. f hear complaints of shippers in reearJ to excessive .-bar for switching made by the railroads la East St. Louis, ih Rain fell steadily for 1$ hours ir Southeast Texas on the 21st. There were three f-et of water ia some of the streets of Reaumonf. and tJ-e stocks of many merchants were rained. The rice fields on the coast Suffered severelr. President Roosevelt responded to the toast. "Onr Country." at a ban Cjuet at Memphis, lean . on the nirht of the JSfth. given to celebrate the return from the Philippines of Gen. Luke E. Wright, pacing a warm tribtrte to the work done by the TonnesSean in the Philippia. The first of th refngee from the district of country in (inatemala desasted by the recent volcanic erup-1 tioes arrived by steamer at Saa Fran-' eise, on the 19th. They give accounts of the destruction wrought, confirm the rr ported loss of life, and say the pe j te left behind are In danger of -V'h from starvation

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the iev8 n BRirr. PERSONAL. AND GENERAL. Dor I a ugh ha, farmer ho!1 home na near -V hW. 111., committed sui cide, en the l'-'th. by banging himself to a tree The cigannakers at all the factories ta Havana. Cuba, want on a tri We. oa the :v:L. making the total number oat Meredith Holt, of Herrin. Ill . was killed at De Soto. 111. on the 1-fh while attempting to board a moving train. Lieut. -Col. J. A. Johnston, assistant adjutant general, has resigned from the army, to tak. . T t . .ruary 1. 1903. Marquise de Chambrun. last granddaughter of the marquis de Lafayette, died at Paris. France. n the HMh. Mrs. Gertrude Young died st Minneapolis. Minn., on the 19th. after s fast of 40 days. At Langlry's spur, near Sherman. Tex., on the Cvth. lightning struck and exploded a magazine containing urge quantities of blasting powder and dvaamite. the shock knocking down buildings and killing one man and injuring 11 others. A negro named James Dillard. identified as the party who criminally assaulted two white women, was taken from the officers by s mob near Sullivan. Ind.. on the Oth. and hanged to a telegraph pole. The master and seven seamen of a Danish steamer were drowned in a collision with a British steamer off the mouth of the river Tyne, England, on the 20th. The scaffolding of a building being erected at Port Washington. Wis., gave way. on the 20th, and two men were fatally injured. In a football game at Iowa City. Ia.. on the Citth. the University of Missouri defeated the University of Iowa by a score of 6 to 0. Through the death of a great-uncle m New York city. Miss Bella Brown of Milwaukee, has fallen heir to fortune of 10.USO.000. Capt. Powell C. Fauntleroy, surgeon U. & A-, and Miss Blanche McGonigle were married at Leavenworth. Kas.. on the 20th. Four floors of a new buiidinr in Chicago collapsed, on the 201h. killing1 one workman and injuring several others. The Suwanee Springs hotel, at Live Oak. Flav, was partially destroyed bj fixe, on the 20th. causing a loss of $.- OvVO. Maj. Robert P. P. Wainwright. Fifth cavalry, died at Manila, on the 19th. of cardiac embolism. The socialists came within 400 votes of securing eoatrd of the conven lou of the American Federation of Lab-.r at New Orlens. The struggle lasted nearly all day. on the 20th, and s number of able speeches were ma con both sides. Miss Elizabeth Ney. the Texas sculptor, is in Berlin superintends ug the execution of marble statues of Gen Austin and Sam K '.t.-n, which the German emperor intends as gifts to Got. Savers of Texas. Agents of Armour Co, are said to have been busilv at work and have w,BP,!ed J wbifh the e,.tre control ef the SStfr P of ,,b rthwest w.ll be .n IW Mina ui iu uiu A aexermir-ea saswu nas ont inaugurated in Philadelphia to break up the operations of a gang whose business it is to supply younr girls from the various states of the union sn l from among the European imn.irrants to the dens of sice throughout a s . . . e a s s : the country. A record-breaking raid was mad by a party of revenue ofheera and state constables on the "dark corner" ; section of South Carolina. The officers destroyed six large illicit distil 1 eri es. 75 fermenters. 8.000 gallons of beer and mash snd 60 gallons of low wines. A Bu-:haret (Roumania) dispatch of the 20th says the steamship Bosnia frr;nderd. d'iring a rale on the Rlacl: , aea. aad that her crew an passen er, numbrirr ISO. were all drowned. J J. Ogrlen Armour bronjrht off. on the 20th. in the Chicago board of trade, a crigantic roup in wheat, by which he not only pocketed profits amounting to $350.000. but also "shook down" a host of trail inr shorts. I'nder permit from the interior department a Hot Springs (Ark.) lheryman has installed large horse baths, where sick thoroughbreds will receive treatment similar to that administered to human beings in search of renewed health. Kelson Hersh, editor of the Sunday edition of the New York World, was instantly killed near his home at West Brighton. Staten Island, on the 20th. by being thrown from a buggy lie fell on his bead, breaking his nevk and fracturing bis skull. Oreille Sandrrs.of Salem. ill., a member of the grammar school football j team, met with a serious accident during a practice game. One of his legs w..- I r V. .t . : r- eerc in terra! injuries. Burglars entered a store In MgO ! York, within a half block of a police station, on the night of the lftth. and i stole dry good worth $14.000. Th 1 used a truck to carry away the plunder. I At a prie fight at Oklahoma ( ity. on the night of the 2st, trouble aroe I and pitol wre used. Gshsw) VtlfcVM was killed, his brother fatally injured and io unknown men shot ant lightly hurt. Fire at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph. Mo. oa the 21st. destroyed a great deal of the property at the race track lb loss will reach fe'J.ottO.

Wayne BrunineM was Instantly killed by Hanrj ! ittar In a pistol duel at Osyss Faiü. W Va . OS the list. Tillers father was abut and lultcj by tic's father 2 yesrn ago. Fire trke out in a eon! mine nc.ir 1 i !..d. l ol . on tlM 1 i"t the g"na a" 1 smoke from which oveca aa muay f the workmen, but all w re rescued exceut tvo, who lost their Lives. Frel .1. IVifcr. a well known busine mau. was found dead in a Turkish iwth room, in Kanas ity. Mo., ou the 21st. holding ia his hand a bottle which had contained morphine. The Ty popraphical union of Havmnn. 1 uba., on the 21st, culled its members on strike In sympathy with the striking cigarniukera. Mrs. Leltrcton. the mother of Mrs I-a: rr:. the actn--. died at her residence on the island of Jersey, on the 21st. One million feet of lumber and much valuable machinery w a.s destroyed by Are at Newport. Yn.. on the llsh Tin loss is estiiuuted at $"0.000.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. T1;e Installation of an organ In S Christian church at Lexington. Ky., caued Kev. .T. W. Mciurie. the tor, to tender his resignation, on the 23d. He had been pastor and elder of the church for 30 years, but bad aiwa s opposed instrumental music. Ii p-y, a i'.g elephant belosflog to a circi s. went cray near Yaldosta, ti.i . th- -2d and killed his keeper. The brute escajed to the woods, but was shot and killed by the circus employes. Miscreants placed dynamite in a sloon at Mahanoy City, Pa., on the -3d, and exploded it. the concussion blow ing out the front part of the building and wrecking buildings adjoining ic An explosion of boiling asphalt a Denver, Col., on the 23d, resulted in the destruction of the plant of the Colorado Pacing Co., entailing a loss of $'0.000. Ry the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Thompson, Pa., on the '. !. John Marko ich, a trainman, was killed and seven others seriously inji'red. A hemorrhage caased the death of Lloyd i. Kichurdson. for 3u years a prominent lumlKTnian of Michigan, at a hotel in Saginaw, Mich., on the '.'.id. George S. Shelby, a great grandson of the rtrst governor of Kentucky, killed himself with a revolver, in hia bed. in Lexington. Ky., on the 23d. Dr. Otto Sieman. a Professor in Concordis college. Ft. Wayne. Ind., committed suicide, on the I id, by strangling himself with his oodclothes. Rae, John at Brown, pastor of a Baptist ihurch in Kansas City, Mo., has accepted a call from a church in Providence. R. I. A violent riot in the city of Tours, France, on the - (d, was caused by the singing of anti-military songs in a music hall. Mrs. Ellen S. Gore, who met n tragic death in Paris, France, on the l'Jlh, spent her childhood on a farm near lLienoa, O. A fire in the umbrella man.ifattory of Gans Ilms., in Baltimore, Md., on the 23d, did damage to the exteut of -".". kt. Bar, JOSS N Stariho was installed as Catholic Mahep for the B k II... district, at Lead, S. D.. on the i. The new Pacific cable to Australia will be opened fur business on December ft, On a plantation in Crittenden county. Arl:., on the 23d, a drunken negro v ., iwating his wif when F.t-d Gerald, the manager, interfere!. The negfro shot and mortally wounded Ger ald, but as he wss falling he drew a revolver and shot the negro, killing' him instantly. After an examination, on the 24th. of the Russian, De Rydzewski. who wns in the room with Mrs. Gore when she met her tragic death in Paris. France, the magistrate accepted his version of the affair and liberat td him pr viMonally. Dan Lynch and James Rrophy were killed and 15 others injured by an ' ; n switch throwing a psftlSS f a Train off the track at Sealy. L T., on HM Od) anil causing it to plunge into a string of laltorvrs' boarding cars. At Marksville. La., on the 24th. Thomas O. Planche demanded an aplegy from R. L Harbin, with whom he had quarreled the night before, and on its being refused he shot and killed Harbin. Foot and mouth disease is afflicting eat.k in Mi-j-'Aohusett to mich an extent that the cattle commission jf that state admitted, on the 2 th. that it h.vl become almost epidemic. Heavy rains fell throughout north and northeast Texas, on the 24th, doling areat. darri.jrc to county roads and in some IssaBtJsj totally ruininr the growing strawberry crop. Befisss riots. r'-.;!ting fnm the cigarmakers' strike, broke out in Havana. ( ula. or the It h. Two strikers were killed an! ersons injured. sime fh m r. erely. William Lmv and Georg W. Ilnl.-y were instantly killed and John Haley fatally s aided by the explosion of a 1-iU r in a grist null at le.irmoiit. Tenn . on the J4th. i I '. f of poo. Ha ven autoiunced. on the 24th. that the bull tight scheduled, to take idace in Kaioas I ity on Thanksgiving dav ild not. Ik- ermittcd Put in Son i st .Nit hols. S. m tded Mist , a telegraph Operatoi t . shot and severely Jolv Burns, on the 2th. and then romii.it fed suicide. Pr Fdwin (i (iranville died nt KanMs City, Mo., n the 24th. of locomotor ataxia. A heavy earthquake shock was felt, on hs I d. In the province of leon. Bl uador.

HOOSIERHAPPENIMiS

Told in Brief by Dispatches from Various Localities, all BfStSI are. I.oekjaw. Din tTton. lud . Ntiv. 24. - Medical men of the county art giving n good leal of attention to l hartes Seiler, a U uuisler. lio ran a Hplinlcr in his I Im ml i, lock ja roulling later. Autitetaitic st rum was inje tetl thus times without result, ami now the sahne i leiiiir Uett MMeetl ounces of slosJ arc withdrawn -cr morn ing. ami an sons quantity of salt ".iter is Injected In the patienttin-. It is thought that Iii treatment is having a good effect. The muscles of the j.ivv arc relaxhsgi while before the treatBMFBl they wertrigiti. Hit physleiaaa ssj that only II er rent. .f ktskJaS pattettU recover. Bad there is no record in the state of n patietit recovering where treatment betrau ns late a.- in the st tiara case. an i adlet tenta IswtliMpolsl Iml , Nov. :4. - Tlie raml jury ssade U fltial rtxirt to .bulge Alfonl. of the criminal court, iatsrdaj. It returned 41 indictments, the majority of them being in the grave robbing ami vote selling cases. It iw bcoeved that I least ten additional Indletnsest wert found against alleged grave robber-. Six men wln were in jail on the charge of robbing grave- were indicted and jrraigaed in the criminal court. They are Albert Hunt. Walter and LSTSf Williams. William M I'lrov ami Garfield Huekner. colored, ami .bdin McBndrr, white. They were indicted on charges of taking ami concealing rorpses. All pleaded not guilty. I'm Increases'. Indianap dis. 1ml.. Nov. 24.- The l'nitr Railway eonapaBj baa Increased the pay of its trainmen. eng;neers and firemen. The ndvance will be two n ml one-half cents an hour. It makes the schedule for night engineers 0 cents nn hour, day engineers 20 cents; night conductors 2'.1 cents; day conductors IT cent-: night hrakemeti 9t cents: day brakemen M crnts, ami firemen 19 cents. The new BCSednlt has boconie effective. Sweat fire. Lafayette. Ind.. iiev 24 A part of We-t L.nfayette's business district wns -wept away by a fire that started in J. J. Ketisler meat market, spread on one side to State & Albright's tinsm i t li ing shop am) Henry Mingns's saloon ntiii -n the other to George 7.eger's transfer barn Before the rlamr had died away four buildings were in ashes and $ 5000 damage had been loss. Rrleatrrf from PrUnn. Hartfi rd City . Ind.. Nov. 24 - Henry Vaeger. a wealthy retired farmer of this city, has receiveil the new thnt hi brother. John TV Yaeger. who has been cofinned in the Torreon. Mexico, jail more thaj) vear fr the alleged murder of hi fireman, ha beer, release' The nngremnn from this district took up the nuitter and when Vaeger a givi ti n hearing lie had no trouble in provir? his innocence. Ilt-alh si n esau tnfnnt. Indianapolis. I mi., Xov. 24. After living oM nif'nth and 20 days. Thtdma Fay I'ettv died st the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. -lame- W. Petty, in this city. The baby wh.n burn was one of the smalle-t on record in Indianapolis. It weighed less than two pounds was 11 Inche in length and could lie packed away in an ordinary quart bucket. Death of Pioneer. Kt.komo. Intl.. Nov. 24. George W. Hann, one of the liest-ktiown pioneer reilents of this county, tlied nt Ins home here. He rdired 'n apparent ffotxl health, but nt two o'clock in the morning his wife nvvoke and fi.und him living. fit was f.2 years old. The widow and two children. Will Hann and Mr- Samuel BofllSglr worth. ur ive. Saataets leeed. Lafayette. Ind.. Ntiv. 24. Ry a decision of Jodgy De Hart in the Tipper;itie rlrcnit court i removed the nbstsdf in the way of bitikiing the line f the V rl Wayne. LeagnASpnrl it.- Lafayette Tract lot company to tween this eitv ;inl l.ogu Rsnort . ami probably will resntl in the early eontfSetlua f Ibis rnd of the sy-tem. I. real I ninn llesMnl. Kokmo. Ind.. Nov. 2. üsloa revival iervi-et are in progr M at the Qraes Method -t Rpiarssssl ehttreh anil will i-ontinue inih finitely. All the churches in tnt tiiv have Joined in 1 he ersasdf ngslnsl sin. KvnngelUts Henry Osfr-om and John P. Hillis are leaders in the sen lees. nis BeaL Terre Haute. n'... Nov. 24. J. Smith Taltey, lesdlng Indiana coal nS"raiiir. bus bought the coal rights on .-9n acres of land in Sullivan county for 122,000, which represents a profit of mor than fer rent, to Ihr loihlers in a comparatively short time1. f t.iKintitr itastseA Mnncie. Ind. Nm. 24 While trying to arrest Stanford Mclaultv. if Bbetbyville, sho was fatoxietted, Cns stable Kobert l'.uiii-ide wa fatally stabbed by M-'Ca ult-v . Inrtietnienl RSBSSSdSda Hsmatasd. lad., Stnv. S4 A demand for the indictment 1 f W. B. Coshej as the real instigatt r. ireofdifcg to the complainant's allegation, of the shooting ami other v Inlenct w hit h has thUt far characterized the Mr ike in t he (onkey pritititifrand publishing plant here, will be made at flic nevt ttatloS of the Lake n iintv Ptanrl jury

HAVANA IN A TURMOIL. Ill la as CoaSleU Metwesa rolle as Sinker Two Mru IIMl Mil Heo res otititlrtl. brass, Kot A ,hc r, s,,,t of SOSflli ts ,,f a si . UI nature, Monday, between the police and the men on atrike bare, two strikers art dead soil 82 other persona arc wounded. Five of the wound, d, 0M a ' stOaaaw f police, shoes throat Bttl by a Striker, have ver.v severe injuries. K i lit other policemen are sounded. The poUot had the l iolt i s well aW control Ifondaj evening, but erary precsutlon is brhag taken to BTSrant a further outbreak of disorder. All the police and rural gtaarda suburb- have Im en summoned to concentrate in Havana. The strike, vvhi. li at tirst only concerned the cigarmakers, became genem! M lav morning by the calling out of all trades i" connection with the cigarmakt is. All the trades coplc closed their doors Iscmisf Ing, eh rka, , k- and cv. ry 'ass of workmen having obeyed the command of the union, txcept the nnt rmt'M and conductors .if the electric ears, wdio refused to join in the strike. Street nra lleltl I p.

The trouble began early by the holding up of electric cars by the strikers, whose wrath naturally WSS directed agninst the street milroad rinplovcs. Bereral cars were hek) up and stoned in the outskirts of the city nnd the pasaengera were wmanelled t wall; into Havana, among these being tiie Itrili-h an I lierman niiiiistiTs. Several cars were wrecked ami BOStO Jilt 1 a asail and conductors were injured during the rioting. The carnieii, bowever, continued running their cars until ten o'clock, when (Superintendent Greenwood ordered a aaapenstan of tratlic. The employes were willing to remain at work, but the ndBeera of the company. In order to protect the property, deemed it wis,. t suspend the service. Mr. Greenwood had asked for protection from the civil government, but the aataoritiea were unable to protect the public vehicles A mob of strikers drove the men on the Western railroad frmii the trains during the morning. resilient rWlSsa Take n Mmol. The situation was approaching a critical point at DOOS. Serious disorders lutd taken place in front of the palace Itself, when t poHee officer named Maso and a number of policemen and strikers received Injuries, WSea Preaidtnl Pahna sent, word b the mayor that unless the city authorities could jireseTve order nnd protect the railroad OOUpsny the ttata would Intervene. The mayor then took drastic measures, and isseed :'ti edict pmh i hi tin g crow (I s from gathering in the streets and authorizing the chief of poUoS to kill, if such action should be Bjeeesssry, to preserve order. OtflelaU Are Illamed. Th.- National Vcterana' union, led by Gen Gomez, held a meeting and sent word to the labor unions that if the disorders continued the veterans would otTer O'.-ir services o President Palma to preaerte, ordert tfo bread or meat was an sai,. Monday, and u continuan.e of the strike will cause much suffering to the poor. Sen or Tamayo baa resigned his office of secretary of government, but President. Palma will not accept his resignation until the strike has been settlnl. nie public blames Tamayo (or nis acure participauoa 111 111c strike nnd says he and the mayor arc responsible for the riots, as he had openly expressed sympathy wdth the strikers. CONDITIONS KHY VIUVG, ' Minister Sqclrea Will I'rotret mrw lean Inlerests. Washington. Nov. 2. A cablegram received .Mutdav afternoon by the state department from Minist r Squires, evidently sent before the actual outbreak in Havana, reMirts- that the Conditions there are very grave. I rowing out of the strike mon mint. He has taken suitable precaution! for the protection of American interests. DR. LORENZ' ST. LOUIS VISIT. The Cetehrateil Vlenneae specialist l'erforni Seven Oiernllons In Si. I.ttala. St. I. oiiis. Nov. ... -Dr. Adolf Lorenz, who held a public clinic at the polyclinic hospital, Saturday, treating four cases of hip diaeasetretsd three more easel Sunday, at the same place, but, unlike the denmiist ration of Saturday, the treatment was edaantetered privately and no lectures were given by the surgeon during the operation. One of tht patients was r. seven-year-old girl, whose father brought her from Kavv lings, Wyn., to be treated by the man wiio-.t. fsnM is world wide. She was afflicted with a ilislocatum of the right hip. All the operations are said to hnve been avceeaafal, and the phyatctsns hope for the ultimate rci ovi ry of all. nsneea Meressnt iiemi. (hieago, Nov. IS Walttr N". Mills, father of Lather l.atlin mills, and a pioneer wholesale dry goods merchant of ( hieago, died. Sunday, nt Hie resi dent1, of his dnughter, Mr. Carolin i Baker, la this city. Mr. Mills win born in IStl. rraasMi t'ststlr shut. Cheboygan, Mich., Kotr. If, I'va Feat liirstone. years old, WSa 'hot in the back. Sunday, probably fatnllv by one of a party of five riotous fel Iowa who passed her in a wagon. .loha ninrdnn is uio'-r urrest.

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A Great Scandal in Wetttrn Land Entries is About to Bo Made Public WIDOWS OF UNION SOLDIERS INVOLVED. They Are Allcard tu IIa l eil aa li.ilruui nl" asOrssass) ot aessntta ' I'rnuSa The tirniul Jury al "- bn I'rublua Ihr Muller. Omaha, Neb., Nov. LT.. N't brasha ia on the ie of the greatest scandal the vesd bai ever known. A scandal BO wide apresdlng and far-reaching that thousands of people from twentj or 111 statej arc oonserned in its different lamilieations. Th conspiracy , i. nda to ofaeera and raneesantaterai of the Unltsd States and tak. - in busiiuvs and ntofasafosai men in many cities and states; but. the sulTerera win b. ihe comnsrstirely Inauiioaf The United Btatea rrand jury, la nan ion t Omaha, naa bad taa matter laid before them and arc now j. robing the scandal. Thousands of widows of union soldiers will probably 1' indicted for perjury und a number of the bestdenown bnsineaa aaea and nsr itieians of tin west may be i alb d upon to pfend to the charge of eoniplracj to defraud the I'nit. l States. It is the old story of th- cattlo baron of the west and his effsrta to keep out the small cattle raiser and the bottler who omes west with the purpose of aSSasateadlna1 O farm for himaelf. Bot a new tack baa bean taken b the.se cattle king- Instead of the usual way of running a n line of wire fences across the cvcniment domain, tin y have hit upon the plan of inducing the widows of unioa soldiers t take up bomeateadi and sell their claims to the cattle raisers. W ATI Hlaw TIIK WWOWth Government I'rtipoii'i t I'revrnl 1 11111I Frnutla In elirMt.k. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 25. In future When a widow of a union soldier presents herself at a land ofBce and at tempts to file on a homestead, she will he rigidly examined to ac that she is not in league with BOOM can! bsroU befsre her filing will be accepted, strict ordexa have bees received r.t every hind office in Nebraska, froia Hinder Hermann, commisaioner of too general land offioe, calling attention to the reporta of whohtaale frauds, which have been perpetrated on the government by the cattle ktnsa, an I Ordering a strict investigation f all past entries und careful scrutiny of future ones. The order pays, in jMirt: " It is reported that soldiers' widows have been transported in ear lots from th. ir homes in ernstem states to the vicinity of the land wanted und all axpenaea paid by parties who induce them to makf entries and who secure lease Of land so entered. Land agents are ordered to revort at once the nanus and addresses of all suspicions eases, and aUo the nanu s of the Cattlemen and their agents who are supposed to ho bt hind the widows ia their entries." ( ' 1. .lohn S. Moon will go before the federal grnnd jury and to give information concerning the frauds. Mosby hns made a thorough investigation, and is said to have the names of a ansahst of cattlemen who are implicated. The land ottiee records will show the names of the widows. 4 sensation is expected when the grsad Jury reports on its investigations and Indictments, FINISHING HIS MESSAGE. President noee!t I'nttlnK the r'lnlahlna" Tünchen on lilt. Meaase to I iiiuirma. Washington, Nov. IS. President Roosevelt will put the finishing toaste as to his annsaf message to c ingress Tuesday. The document is practically completed now. but it is the prel dent's desire finally to cOnattlt "v erat of tin- leaden in both branches of congress as to one or two features at the m. ".sage before be annual ta it t the handd Of the printer. This was n day of conferences at the executive otlices. The president arrived in his office early, and s.ma was besieged by callers. With several senators and representatives he had enpagen.riits and denied himself to other callera. Dnrtnf Ihe morning the president had brief conferences with Senator Allison, of levvn; Innige, of MaQftr chuKetts;: e'lister. of Washington; Quay, of I'ennsy lvania; I'airbanks, of Indiana; Stewcrt of Nevada; McOnmoa of Maryland; Klkins. of W.st Virginia, and Qtbaon of Montana, und With Speaker Henderson and I'eprescntatives Cannon, of Ifllnota Habcock. of Wtstxtaelnj Bouts I, of UaV sola, and I.arulis of Indiana. Trlt.ule (nun former II BaSS ml. Sin Pmaciace), Nov. L'S -Tltomaa Sinclair Con, the former huaband of Mrs. (i' re. who recently nu 1 wilh a tragi,- death In Purls, made a state nu'iit. for publication, Monday, in whi'di he mi id a high tribute to the moral diameter of his rXWife. lie explained thnt their dJafsTCC was brought, about by the vvoinan's fond ness for music, Mrs. (iure absenting hers, if from home for months at a time with the purpose of seeking s musical education. They finnlly agreed to separate. She suttd for dl Torce. n"d jp did 001 contest