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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-24
First Pub. Nov. 2f--3
Notice of Petition for Letters.
the county court of Lancaster county, Ne

In the county court OF Lancaster county, Ne
braska.
In re estate Of Hobert Van Andel, deceased
The State OF Nebraska, to Mary Van Andel
Frank Vincent Van Andel and to any other
persons interested in said matter.
Take notice that a petition signed by John
F. Rife praying said court to grant letters
of administration of said estate to John + Rife
has been filed in said court; that the same Is set
for hearing on the 18th day Of December, 1900
at ten O'Clock A. NJ and that IL you do not then
appear and contest, said court may grant adj
ministration of the said estate to John F. Rife
Not,ce of this proceeding has been ordered
published three weeks successfully in The
Courier of Lincoln, Nebraska, prior to said
hearing.
Witness nv hand and the seal Of said court
this 18th day of November. A ID 1890.
(sEAL) FRANK r WATERS,
County Judge.
By WALTER A, LEEsE,
Clerk County Court.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-24
First Pub. Nov. "a.
Notice Of Probate.

In the county court OF Lancaster county Ne
braska-E 1877.
The state OF Nebraska, to Francis Van AnoeI.
MIS-. Annie bckae and 10 any other persons
interested In said matter.
Take notice that an instrument purporting 20
be the last Will and testiment Of Nollie Van
Andei, deceased. Is on file In said court, and
also petition praying for the probate OF said
instrument, and for the appointment OF John
Rine as executor. That on December nth fap
at ten O'Clock A. NJ, said petition and the proof
will be heard at the county court room In Lin
coin. In said county, and that II you do not then
appear and contest, said court may probate
and record said will and grant administration
OF the estate as prayed for
Notice whereof has been ordered published
for three weeks successfully prior to said hear
ing In The Courier of Lincoln. Nebraska
Witness my hand and seal OF said court this
10Th day Of November, 1900.
tsEAL FRANK X. WATERS.
County Judge.
By WALTER A. LEEsE, Clerk County Court.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-24

bEGAb NOTICES

A complete file Of The Courier" 10
kept in IN ABSOLUTELY RIREPRooF build
ing. Another file is kept in this Office
and still another has been deposited
elsewhere. Lawyers may publish LEGAL
NOTICES in The Courier" with security
- the FILES are intact and are pre-
served from year to year with great
care.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-24
SILHOUETTES.
by MARTHA PIERCE.1
WHEN / Was LITTLE.


We begin early to deal in RETROSPECT
ton. II he considers you to have IN.
Outstanding. five year old will relate
to you with amused chucklings the
queer things he used to think when he
-"wss little" "When l was little"
That was the time when many things
now made plain were mysteries past
finding out. Why my big brother
should have free access to the loaf
sugar while was forbidden on pain OF
being put to bed, was only one Of the
inexplicable things. Another and great
or question was. why! having said free.
access did he make 90 little and infre-
quent use OF his indulgence?" Little
Brother and used to discuss these and
other questions at great length out in
the Box Elder grove. This was the
temple to which We always fled when
life was too much for US. remember
it was thither we betook ourselves
when our father had the mumps, very
severely indeed for having evaded them
in his childhood, and prayed to our God,
ae We knew him not to let our father
die. We promised to offer up sacrifice
il fathers lie was spared, and that was
the inner aspect Of our subsequent bar
barous assault upon ono Of mothers
hens. Mother, who vas the best chris
tian in the world, and would not have
recognized our God il she had met him
in the Box Elder grove, came upon rs
suddenly, just in time to rescue the
hon. We escaped with . scoldipg and
Immediately played that the hen was
Isaac, and mother an angel who had
come to show us better sacrifice. We
decided upon a summer squash a. an
appropriate substitute for the sheep
caught in the brambles. As tho squash
made no out-cry, and We had 80 mary it
was never missed, We considered that
We had done we'll, and our God was ap.
peased. We had been reading the story
Of the Bible, and were not tas it is per.
haps unnecessary to explain) quite
through Genesis. Later We saw the error
Of our ways on all counts save one. That
mother was and is an angel, neither. Of
US have ever ceased to believe.
The TEACHER.
Miss Nellie Dodson holds forth to her
bosom friend. Miss 'Vangeline Walker.
Discover Miss Nellie. age nine, in long
black stockings, shabby shoes, and very
abort skirts with scarlet Scotch cap On
the back of her head. Curls indiscrim-
ipately flying. Discover Miss Vange-
line, aged eight. in white Angora hood,
clean white apron, little pointed shoes
nicely BACKED, two shining little braids
hanging decorously down her straight
little back.
Nellie-"I don't care! did too study
nv lesson. I studied it most all the
time, and only missed one word. too.
She didn't need to make me etay to
study Just one word. Mean old thing.
You needn't say Oh! either 'Vangeline
Walker. guess you'd be mad too Z
you was me. Wisht we'd had comply.
She wouldn't make me stay 7 we'd had
comply bet. Cause she never does.
That's what I told Auntie! told on
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
ALLIES DRIVEN BACK
Nav Be Forced to Abandon
Tien Tsin.
POSITION BECOMING UNTENABLE
ii Hung Chang Will Remain at Cantor
Uutil International Troops Haya
Defeated Tuan's Forces.

London, July 16.-The scanty cable
dispatches received today add nothing
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation. 1t is stated posi-
lively from Canton that Lii Hung
Chang will remain there until the al
lied troops have defeated Prince Tuan's
forces, and will then go north to lend
his powerful aid in arranging terms of
peace, cooperating with Prince Ching,
Yung Lu and the other pro-foreign
viceroys. For the present Lii Hung
Chang considers that he can best con-
troll and direct the viceroys from Can
lent province of Kwang Tung.
ALL the foreigners and missionaries
have evacuated Wan Chau and have
arrived at Ming Po. Large bodies of
Boxers appeared at Wan Chau and
threatened to exterminate the foreign
ers and Christians. They also distrib-
uted banners, badges and inflammatoIy
anti-foreign appeals.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing under date Of
July 9. asserts that the Chinese are
daily driving in the allies. They have
mounted, says the correspondent. 12
fresh guns In advantageous positions,
with which they are now keeping clear
the streets of the foreign settlement,
the incessant shooting rendering the
neighborhood quite untenable.
The Daily Nails st. Petersburg cor
respondent says that in the last six
hours battle outside of Tien Tsin, the
Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and
killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The
Chinese lost 5000 killed, including
General Kek
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
HUNDREDS BURNED.
Oil Tank Exploded Scattering Oil Over
ThrOng of People,.

Oil Tank Exploded Scattering Oil Over
Throng OF People.
New York, July 16.-A special from
Boston to the Herald says: By the
explosion of an oil tank in Somerville
last night nearly hundred persons
were more or less injured. and early
this morning two were reported dead.
Many of the injured are in the Cam
bridge, Somerville and Massachusetts,
general hospitals, while others were
taken to houses near the scene of the
explosion. IE
In the yard of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, near the old Mclean asylum,
among more than q thousand freight
cars filled with coal and general mer-
chandise, were three oil tanks of the
Union Oil Company. When one of the
cars caught fire and made blaze that
could be seen all over Somerville. hun
lreds of people focked to the yards.
The Someryille firemen arrived prompt
ly enough, but had to carry hose
through all kinds of places, while the
fire burned briskly and the crowd drew
closer and closer. 1t is estimated that
soon after the fire started fully 1000
persons were in the freight yards, and
scores of the most daring were on top
of freight cars near the fire..
Suddenly there was rum bling noise.
One great sheet of flame shot into the
air, and huge oil tank which had
been on a car went up on end, scatter
ing blazing oil in all directions. The
huge tank of oil, one of three, on as
many cars, had exploded. The burn
ing oil fell upon men, women and chill
dren in the throng, who shrieked with
pain and terror. Six men on top of
one box car were thrown to the ground
with their clothing on file. Men and
women, with their garments burning,
ran about the yard in terror. Some
were SO badly burned that they drop
ped. Those who were not on fire help
cd them, and were themselves burned.
Meanwhile the railroad men were
performing acts of heroism. The oil
tank which had exploded was on a car
between two others, and those were in
danger of going up at any minute. A
locomotive was backed in and started
to draw out the train. A railroad man
ran up, threw heavy sleeper beneath
the wheels of the burning tank, the
coupling broke, the car stopped and the
oil tanks were separated.
Fifteen persons were taken to the
Somerville hospital. Joseph Hayden,
of engine company No l, who was
standing on the oil tank at the time OF
the explosion, died early this morning.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
MORE MEN ARE NEEDED.
rhe Demand From All Parts of tn,
Philippine Islands.

Hho Demano from All F0Eta OF the
Philippine Islands.
Manila, July 18.-"More soldiers"
Is the demand which is coming to Gem
eral Macarthur from every department.
of the islands. Recent events have
worked to vindicate General Lawton's
judgment that 100, 900 troops would be
needed to establish American sovereign
ty over the Philippines. Until they
attempted to hold provinces of 200, 900
Or 800. 900 hostile people with regi-
ment or two, the American command
ers hardly realized the size of the Phil
ippine islands. The present force is
not large enough to garrison more than
half the important towns, and in some
of the most important islands, among
them Cebu, Panay. Samar and Leyte
and the great Mohammedan empire of
Mindanao, only the commercial parts
are occupied.
The Moros are cloud on the hori.
zon. The officers best acquainted with
conditions in Mindanao and the Sulu
islands tell the correspondent that they
consider serious fighting there inevita-
BILE. If it comes, the two regiments
which are scattered in small garrisons,
some of them hundreds of miles apart
along the coast of Mindanao, an island
nearly as large as Luzon, may have
serious work. The Moros are fighters
by nature. do not fear death, have
many guns. though of antiquated
makes, but do the best execution by
lying in the thick jungles and cutting
down soldiers who pass through with
their terrible krises and spears.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
kETTELER 10 BLAME.
Would Not Call Additional Guards for
the Legations.

Would Not Call Additional Guards for
the Legations.
New York, July 16.-A d sptach to
the Herald from Berlin says:
A letter has just been pub lished here
from Lieutenant Won Loesch, attache
of the German legation at Pekin 1t
is dated May 30, and shows that the
early failure to increase the guards of
the various legations was due to the
action of the late Baron Won Ketteler.
The letter states that after the first
attack by the Boxers ON the Pekin-
Hankow railroad, meeting of the
ministers was held to decide whether
additional troops should be sent for to
protect the legations. Baron Won Ket-
teller was very much opposed to this
being done, while the French minister
was very much in favor of this course.
The latter was, however, overruled by
his colleagues. M. Pichon was so hurt
by this refusal to ask for guards that
he wept.
Another factor that led the ministers
to reach this unfortunate conclusion
was the desire of the diplomatic corps
to take their usual summer holiday
and it was feared that if additional
troops were sent for they would not be
able to do SO.
Later on, as the Boxer movement in
creased, second conference of minis
ters was called, at which it was re-
solved to bring detachments of at least
90 men to guard each legation.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

St. Louis, July 1S.-The st. Louis
Transit Company today filed in the
city registers office its returns of trips
and passengers for the quarter ending
June 80 last, as required by law.
These reports are particularly interest
ing, as showing the decrease in the
company's business, caused by the
strike. During the first three months
of this year, before the strike was in
augurated, the Transit Company. ac-
cording to its returns, carried 27,05S,-
5S5 passengers, its cars making 1885,
S25 trips in SO doing. According to
it's returns for the three months ending
June 80. its cars made only 447, ,049
trips and carried 1878, ,62l passen.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
REPULSE OF ALLIES
Admiral Remey Confirms the
News From Tien Tsin.
AMERICANS LOST OVER THIRTY
Three Thousand Friendly Chinese OFF,
cials Were Ordered Killed by i.rr-
Prince Tuan.

Washington, July 18.-The navy
department. this morning received Off
cial confirmation from Admiral Remey
Of the reverse of the allied forces at
Tien Tsin on the morning of the 18th.
The dispatch is dated Che Foo, July
16, and says: -ts.
Reported that the allied forces at
tackled the native city the morning of
the 18th. Russians on the right. with
the Ninth infantry and marines Oh the
left. The loss of the allied forces is
large; Russians, 100. including artll-
lery colonel; Americans over 80; Brit
ish over 40; Japanese, So, including
colonel; French, %.
Colonel Liscum, Ninth infantry,
killed; also Captain Davis, marine
corps. Captain Lemley, Lieutenants
Butler and Leonard wounded. ~
cat in the evening an allied attack
on the native city was repulsed, with
great loss. Returns yet incomplete;
details not yet confirmed.
''REMEY."
Consul-General Goodnow cabled to
the state department from Shanghai
under today's date that there is moth
ing more to report since his cablegram
Of the 18th inst. The dispatch report
ed the attack on the legations at Pekln
as about to beign. Mr.. Goodnow's
statement is in direct contradiction OF
the Shanghai story that all foreign COLI
suls we're informed Saturday by Sheng
that the legations3had fallen and the
ministers were killed.
Without exception today the foreign
representatives in Washington accepted
as practically certain that the foreign
legations and ministers at Pekin have
been wiped out. The opinion is based
on the accumulating unofficial data
that the slaughter occurred about July
or Z. Even among the high Chinese
officials hope has been about given up,
but they maintain that there is no Off
cial information, and that they are as
much in the dark as others.
The situation as a telling effect on
the Chinese minister, who is under
nervous tension and agitation more
severe than that of the American off.
cials. He is seeking to show in the pres
ent acute crisis that no matter how bad
conditions may be in China, he is not
the less anx ious to serve the American
people and governments, for he has
taken great pride in the kindly person
al relations between him and the peo-
pie here. Minister WI declares un-
worthy of belief the cable report that
Sheng, director Of telegraphs and posts
at Shanghai, knew of the killing OF the
foreign ministers at the time he made
a recent suggestion that foreigners be
escorted out of Pekin it the allied forces
would not advance. As a matter of
fact, Minister WI states that the Chi
nese officials have no better means of
learning the truth of affairs in Pekin
than the foreigners, as all the usual
means of communication are suspend
ed. But he points out that Sheng
could not have known of the death of
the foreigners, else he would not have
made proposal that the foreigners be
escorted out of the city. This latter
is considered proof positive by Mr.. WI
that Sheng considered the foreigners
aliya
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
BOLD PLAN OF THE BoERs.
Botha's Army Is Trying to Recapture
Pretoria.

London, July 16.-Lord Roberts,
dispatch. reporting still another un-
fortunate occurrence. throws serious
light upon the state of affairs in South
Africa. There has been some COM
ment recently regarding the virtual
absence of progress by the immense
army under command of Lord Rob-
erts, but few, could have been found to
believe that the scattered Beers were
able to inflict such q defeat so near
Pretoria.
Instead of the surrender of all of the
remaining Beers being imminent. as
recent kilograms had limited, it seems
they have been making concerted at.
tempt to surround or recapture Pre-
toria, with SO much success that in the
fed, and in which no attack was ex-
pectd. they succeeded in inficting q
serious defeat, and capturing two guns
and some 200 men. 1t is evident that
General Botha has considerable force,
seeing that he is able to press Lord
Roberts lines at half a dozen points
around Pretoria, from the springs to
the southeast of the city northward to
Middelburg and Durdepoort and thence
southwark to Nitral's Mex and Krug-
ersdorf.
Lord Roberts omits to give the name
of the commander concerned, giving
rise to the belief that worse remains to
be told. Even if the mishap be not
more grave than his information at
present implies, it proves that the situ-
alton is still serious. and that there is
no possibility of any troops being spared
from South Africa for China, but on
the contrary, it will still take long
time to clear the country of the Beers.
News has reached London that Lord
Roberts has been suffering from a seri-
GUS bowel complaint, and that Lady
Roberts was hurriedly summoned to
RlOem f0ntein
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Redding, CAL, July 16.-Last night.
when q freight train bound for Oregon,
drawn by two engines, was elm bing
the heavy grade above Upton, coup
ling gave way, and 80 cars, loaded
with fruit, started back. They passed
through Sisson seemingly at the rate
of 70 miles an hour. Half a mile be.
low Sisson is the Pioneer Box Factory.
Here seven of the cars broke loose and
pitched over than embankment. The
others continued on their mad course.
At Big Canyon, three miles below Sis
son, the runaway train again parted.
some of the cars flying the track and
being dashed to pieces. The other
half dozen continued over high tres
tie around loop and finally shot of
the rails below Mott, after running 10
miles. All the timbers are in splin-
ters. Fortunately, no trains were en-
countered by the runaway.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Paris, July 16.-Inquiries are being
made into what may possibly turn out
to be a serious attempt to destroy the
grand palace of the Champs Elysee,
Wednesday night. A watchman of
cellars which were filled with package
cases and large quantity of other in
flammable material overheard ccn-
versation between two men, leading
him to believe that plot was on foot
to set fire to the building. The mis-
creants fed upon his approach. A
search the next morning resulted in
the discovery of two Theoretically seal
ed boxes filed with black powder.
The chemical properties of this pow
der have not yet been disclosed by the
aufhorities
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
Fire at st. Paul.

st. Paul, July 16.-Fire this after
noon destroyed five large and three
small buildings formerly used by the
Chicago Great Western railway as re-
pair shops, at South park. just outside
the city. About 800 carloads of shin
giles were burned. The loss is estimat-
ed at 5000. 600. There was a high
wind blowing, and the flames spread
from the oil house to the adjoining
buildings and freight cars. of which
there was great number in the yard.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

Pittsburg. July. 16.-Six coal and
ice store houses, three stables. frame
dwelling. a number of outbuildings
and six Pennsylvania freight cars were
destroyed by fire today at Sewickly, q
suburb of Pittsburg. Samuel Woods, a
stableman, was burned to death, and
eight horses were cremated. The loss
is $50, The Garland Chemical
Works at Rankin, Pa. were burned at
4:30 O'Clock this afternoon. The loss
is 100000. The fire was caused by
the explosion of tank of chemicals,
but no one was injured.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
Cloudburst in Texas.

Coleman, Tex, July l8.-Fifteen
lives are known to have been lost in a
cloudburst here today. Ten bodies
have been recovered, but only two were
identified. 1t is feared that many
more lives were lost in the valley be-
low Coleman. The cloudbdrst..; which
followed three days. unprecedented
rainfall, caused Ford's creek to hurst
its banks and rush through, Coleman,
a village of less than 1000 inhabi.
tants.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
At.em,t to Wreck Fast Train.

junction City, Kan. July 17.-AI
attempt was made to wreck and prob
ably to rob the Union Pacific flyer"
about four miles this side of Manhattan
this evening. The switch was turned
but the engineer succeeded in stopping
the train before it had gone but. a
short distance in on the siding. A
gun, dynamite and bottle, supposed
to contain nitroglycerine, were found
hidden under a pile of old ties.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
GREAT WAR HAS OPENED.

Will End Only With Breaking and Par.
titioning of Chinese Empire.
New York, July l8.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
A great war has opened in China,
with the japanese in the front line and
with the heaviest reserves Immediately
available. Three American battalions,
and about $4,000 japanese. troops, have
reached Tien Tsin since the two battles
were fought. SO that the allied force
now aggregates $4,000 men, with con.
tingents slowly dribbling into Taku.
War has not been formally declared, -,
but it is IN progress, with every indica.
ton that it will continue indefinitely
until the government now in power is
overthrown and the empire broken uI
into series of European and japanese
provinces and plotectorates. The re-
treat of the allied forces from Tien Tsin
would be followed by outbreaks against
the foreigners in all the provinces.
They are compelled to halt where they
are and to hold their ground by hard
fighting, and campaign begun with
no other motive power than that of Sc.
curing vengeance and reparation for the
massacre of the legations will involve
sacrifices and expenditures for which
territorial concessions are indispensa-
BILE.
This is not the American view, but
the Russian, Japanese, German, Ital-
ian and French, who already have their
eyes fixed upon future provinces and
conquests. and the English will find
an India in Central Asia.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
Robbers Caught in the Act.

Marshaltown. Ia. July 16.-Four
men were caught in the act of robbing
Mason Whitehill's general store at
State Center today. A number of citi-
zens surrounded the building, and q
pitched battle ensued. Ben Whitehill,
one of the proprietors, was shot in the
leg. One of the robbers was also
wounded, and with one of his associ-
ates was captured. The other two es-
capped.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20

During the last Is years the popula-
tion of Germany has increased IA per
cent, but the number of doctors in the
German empire has increased no less
than Sc per cent. If this ratio is
kept up, any statistician can forsee the
time when every German will be a
doctor, and the whole German popula-
tion, having no patients on whom to
practice, will have to migrate to fields
where physicians are shade less COM
mon;