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The Nebraska Independent MAY 31, 1906 Summary of News (Continued) Illinois Mothers' congress in Spring field. -Private E. H. Buck of Rock Island is selected commander of the Illinois (J. A. R. . Illinois G. A. R. asks for legislation to admit wives to 'the soldiers' Home at Quincy. Three persons are killed, many more are injured and much property dam aged in an electrical storm which sweeps Chicago and vicinity. .Fearing their business will be ruined by attacks on packers, stock raisers send a committee to Wash ington to ask the president to order another and more thorough investi gation by experts before he gives out the Neill report. John F. Wallace, former chler en gineer of the canal commission, issues at Washington a reply to Secretary Taft, saying that he, with Mr. Crom well, connived in a deliberate plot to misrepresent the director of the en gineering work. Senator Cullom stands firm for the appointment of John C. Ames as col lector of customs at Chicago in spite of the pleas of Postmaster Busse, State Senator Campbell and Collector Smith of the Springfield district to have some one else named, and as a result the slate of federal appoint ments is held up. After long debate the senate passes the immigration bill designed to equalize the distribution of immi grants throughout the country. Josephine Terranova, the New York girl, whot killed her uncle and aunt, after they had held in slavery and be trayed her, tells her story on the wit ness stand, causing two women to faint during the dramatic recital. Prayer book question causes a de bate of two hours in the Presbyterian general assembly at Des Moines, and great excitement prevailed. There is a tangle of motions at the close of the session, when action was post poned until Friday. Attorney General Moody and District Attorney Morrison of Chicago hold an important conference over contemp lated prosecutions in anti-trust cases. Governor Dene en made the address of the day at the opening session of the Illinois mothers' congress. The body of John Mulvany, painter of "Custer's Last' Rally," and a poet, was found in the river at New York. Mj'stery surrounds his death, as he had been missing for several days. Railroad men charged with grant ing rebates on shipments of sugar have withdrawn their pleas of not guilty in a New York federal court and enter demurrers to the indict ments. Joseph Pool, police magistrate of New York, is sued by James K. Price, a former police captain, for $25,000 damages because of alleged slander. G. A. R. veterans and members of the Woman's Relief Corps, at the fortieth annual encampment at Gales burg, unveil a monument to the mem ory of Mother Bickerdyke, the famous war nurse.' ' Republican steering committees are shaping legislation with a view to the adjournment of congress about the middle of June. Provision for the Panama canal is the chief prob lem to be solved. Senator McCumber has entered a denial in the senate to the statement that his amendment changing one word in the rate bill is a "joker" in tended to destroy the spirit of the measure. Color question comes to the sur face In the Presbyterian general as sembly at Des Moines, but trouble is averted by postponing action. . . Indianapolis men form citizens' company to furnish gas at 60 cents, the plant ultimately to go to the city. -'George D. Perkins, candidate for governor of Iowa, after failing in en listing the help of Senator Dolliver and various congressmen from the state, makes a last effort to obtain the indorsement of Allison. Insurance official of Jersey City, N. J., is accused by a woman stenograph er of attacking her in his office. Three men choke a woman and rob her in a New York street. Congressman Lamar of Florida in a speech in the house declares the rate bill, weighted down by senate amendments, is a snare and a delu sion. President Roosevelt gives a cold reception to a delegation which visits him to present the pleas of the pack ers against the meat inspection law. One million dollars will be added to the naval appropriation bill by the senate for the purchase of submarine torpedo boats, and the house's recom mendations for a battleship are ac cepted. , Cornell wins the eastern intercol legiate track and field championship meet at Cambridge with 38 points. Pennsylvania is second with 23. More charges of rail discrimination in favor of Standard Oil and corrup tion by the company of rivals' em ployes and others are made at Cleve land. George L. Thomas and L. B. Tag- gai;t, convicted of rebating at Kansas City, plan to appeal their case if a prison sentence is imposed, but pre pare, if the yescape with fines, to pay. Chicago and Lakes Michigan and Su perior are swept by a gale. while the temperature drops twenty-four de grees. Shipping loss is expected to be heavy. District Attorney Morrison confers with the president regarding the pros ecutions in the packers' and oil cases. House committee on rivers and har bors agrees on a bill for the preser vation of Niagara Falls which per mits the free use of water from the great lakes for sanitary purposes.. Beveridge bill providing for strict sanitation and inspection in the stock yards of the country is rushed to pas sage in the senate without a word of protest. It is expected that all an tagonism in the house will be allayed and that the measure will become a law. Interstate commission, as a result of the oil inquiry, is to urge the limita tion of property and capitalization of industrial corporations. More dealers and former employes tell of Standard methods of killing competition. Government wins and loses in the railroad rebate trial at Kansas ity, Freight Broker Thomas and his clerk being convicted and George N. Cros by, a Burlington official, set free. A. J. Cassett, president of the Penn sylvania railroad, suddenly sails from herbourg for New York and may ap pear before the interstate commerce commission to reply to the charges of graft made against the road. Eighty fertilizer manufacturers are indicted by the federal grand jury at Nashville, Tenn., cm the charge of vio lating the Sherman anti-trust law. George W, Perkins is freed of the charge of larceny by the appellate di vision of the New York supreme court, which point-s out that a civil suit is the only hope the policy-holders of the New York Life Insurance company have of recovering money appropriat ed for campaign gifts. Muck raking must end before the muck rakers can be stopped, says ol. J. Hamilton Lewis in a speech be fore the Knife and Fork club of Kan sas City, in which he criticises the recent utterances of President Roose velt. Armenian assassins after bloody work in Turkey entangle the Ameri can government by claiming citizen ship in this country, having taken out naturalization papers in Chicago. Sarah Bernhardt, in a train wreck in Kansas, protests against a "hoodoo" engine and gives a train crew trouble. La Provence, the new French liner, shattered all records from Havre to New York, making the run in six days, three hours an dtwenty-two min utes. - Samples and Catalogue free for the Asking Haydefl's THE BEUABIE STORE Let us save You money on all kinds of Merchandise How About Your Summer Suit? Do you count style? We will count with you. High quality? Its ever here. Low price? We can without doubt satisfy you as we are satisfying hundreds every day. We do not offer any something for nothing propo sitions but we do offer the best men's Suits at $5, $10 and $15 that you'll find in the land. Order here for if when received goods are not perfectly satis factory you may return same. We will exchange or refund your money. Satisfied cus tomers are the best advertis ment thats the reason we guarantee satisfaction. 16th & Dodge Sts. MEN B DflO Omaha, llUai Nebraska. Nebraska 'News DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL Sherman, Howard and Hall Counties Receive Much Rain. Three counties of central Nebraska, Sherman Howard and Hall, rank with the counties along the Missouri river in amount of precipitation. This is graphically shown in a map which Secretary W. R. Mellor of the state board of agriculture is ' preparing for the year-book of the board. Accord ing to the figures for ten years, pre pared by Director Loveland, the state may be divided into four districts as regards rainfall, namely, counties hav ing more than 29 inches .or rainfall, those having from 25 to 29 inches, thosi having from ?1 to 25 inches and those having less thar 21 t.'.ches. The counties receiving more then 29 inches of rainfall are situated along the Missouri river, only in three enu merated above being west of the west ern line of Thayer, Fillmore and Polk counties, 115 miles west of the river. York county can not be counted in this class, although east of this line. It receives from 25 to 29 inches of rain annually according to the ten year average. The division line between the first and second classes follows the Platte river to the western boundry of Dodge county, passes north on this line and the western boundary of Cuming, Thurston and Dakota counties. Custer, Valley, Greeley, York and other counties in the central part of the state are in the second class while the counties north of the northern boundary line of Custer county are in the third class with from 21 to 25 inches of rain o their credit. The western part of the state receives less than 21 inches of rain. Mr. Mellor believes Sherman, Hall and Howard counties have much rain because they are situated in the part of the state having the most streams ' and ... consequently the most evapora- tiAn TT - 1 J i - i nun. was nan no explanation , or it from the director of the weather bureau. BUMPER FRUIT YIELD Organization of Orchadists Has Se cured Equitable Railroad Rates. "The fruit crop in the southeastern" part of the state will be the greatest this year that has ever been grown there," said C. H. Barnard, the well known horticulturist from Table Rock, last week. "As a rule during previous years, if we should have a good apple crop, the small fruit would be bad, or vice versa. This year, however, every variety of fruit promises a phe nomenal yield. The berry "crop will be tremendous, there will be peaches in adundance and apples in unpre cedented quantities." Mr. Barnard stated that the horti culturists in his section hoped to be more successful in marketing their products in the future than in the past. The fact has been notorious that thousands of bushels of apples have been allowed to rot in the or chards of eastern Nebraska in years past, while the fruit commanded a high price in the natural markets of that territory, and even at these prices people were unable to supply their wants." This condition arose on ac count of the freight rates, which were practically prohibitive. ' Last fall, however, a committee was appointed by the Southeastern Nebras ka Horticultural society, to treat with the railroads on the rate question. The result was. that a concession was ob tained from the transportation' com panies, who made a change in classi fication which will save the fruit grow-