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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03
Pleasures OF the Week.

Pleasures Of the Week.
]. w. Rose. manager OF the Grand
Island sugar factory, who spent few
days in the city during the week, was
guest at the home of N. A. Rainbolt.
He was entertained during his visit
at dinner Wednesday evening at the
home OF r. Il. Odiorne at lunch Thurs
day by Geo. d. Butterfield, and at din
ner Thursday evening by DR.. II. j..
Cole. He returned to his home Friday.
This was the first visit he had made
to Norfolk for six years, but he still
has many friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. Mathewson enter
tanned at one OF the most delightful
dinner parties of the season Thursday
evening at $50. Real sweet peas were
fragrant feature of the springtime
decorations. The dinner was served
in courses, the guests being seated
at little tables. Among the out-of.
town guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Mayer of Lincoln and Mr.. J. w. Rose
OF Grand Island.
Following the initiation of class
of seventeen young men into the A.
o. u. W. Tuesday night elaborate re.
frcshments were served in the adjoin-
ing hall by the wives of the Workmen.
A. M. Walling of David City, grand
master workman, I. W. Alter of Wayne
one of the grand trustees, and F. G.
Simmons, of Seward, deputy grand
master workman, were special guests.
Ten friends took lunch with Mrs.
Blakeny Monday at the home of her
daughter Mrs. C. p. Parish, the &C.
casion being Mrs. Blakeny's sixty
eighth birthday. A pleasant afternoon
was spent at the Parish home.
There was gathering of friends at
the home of Mrs. Frank Kruger, sr., in
Edgewater park last Sunday, Mrs.
Kruger being sixty-nine years old.
Mesdames Morrison and Wells en-
tertained the Ladies guild of Trinity
church Thursday afternoon at the
home of the former.
A birthday party was given for Miss
Clara Salzwedel Tuesday evening at
her home in South Norfolk. She was
fifteen years old.
The Christian Endeavor of the
Christian church gave a social We'd
nesday evening at the home of c. e.
Hartford.
Mrs NJ A. Mcmillan entertained a
small company of ladies at lunch on
Friday, at her home in the Heights.
Miss Bessie Richey was hostess to
the senior class of the Norfolk high
school at party Friday evening.
The Flo club held a pleasant meet
ing Wednesday evening at the nome
of Miss FATE Burnham.
Misses Margaret Klentz and Freda
Korth entertained the Merry Widows
Thursday evening
An Eastern Star banquet followed
the initiation of four candidates
Thursday evening.
The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri
ca held a box social in G. A. r. hall
Friday evening,
Mrs. Ray Hayes entertained the
Trinity Social guild on Thursday
evening.
Miss May Schwenk entertained the
o. NJ. C. club last Saturday evening,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03
Coming Events.

The Norfolk Commercial clubs
smoker complimentary to the travel
ing men who make this city theiI
headquarters is given next Saturday
evening at the city hall.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03

The north state high school declam-
atory contest is held Wednesday even
ing in the Auditorium. Thursday the
north Nebraska teachers come for a
three days session.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03

The Norfolk band will give a dance
at Mardquardt hall on the evening OF
April Fools day.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03

An Eastern Star banquet followed
the initiation of four candidates
Thursday evening.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03

The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri
ca held box social in G. A r. hal
Friday evening.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
NOTES IMPROVEMENT IN
COMMERCIAL SITUATION
Wholesale, Crop and Industrial De-
veIopments Are Seen and IdIeness
at Factories Is AppreciabIy
Less

NEW YORK, Nov. 27-Bradstreets tomorrow
will say Wholesale, crop and industrial de-
velopments are generally in the direction OF
Improvement; there s less idle machinery and
the tone of affairs generally Is still cheerful
but there are numerous Irregularities noted in
conditions in different sections and industries
The situation as whole, therefore, lacks
some of the uniformity which characterized
1t some time ago. Most optimism and
strength is exhibited in the leading lines Of
domestic manufacture and wholesale trade, par
ticuIarly as to the outlook for next year, and
manufacturers are buying more freely Of
most raw materials, while wholesalers report
evidences of scarcity in many lines especially
&C ton goods, for spring and later delivery nex
year.
In retail trade there is a good deal of ir-
regularity, though the advent Of rains and
SHOWS followed by colder weather helped tc
improve conditions as the week advanced.
Collections better, except at the south
and money is in better demand for business
purposes,
Higher prices for leather, turn in the tide
of shoe shipment. predictions of freer buying
OF railway materials of iron and steel, and
leading Incidents OF the week.
Failures in the United States for the week
ending November 90 number 1893, against 27s
last week and 25S in the like week Of 1907; ia
In 1906 1888 in 1905 and 1874 in 1904.
Business failures in Canada for the week
number 25, which compares with "a last week
and 46 last year
Wheat exports including -four, from the
United States and Canada for the week end
ing November 26 aggregate 1885. 242 bushels,
against 314 last week and 6.459, 1924 last
year For % weeks ending November 26 the
exports are 94.sl9 796 bushels against 60 4s2, SIS
IL the same period last year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
"CLANSMAN" PLAYER WILL
APPEAR IN GOLD HICKORY
Second South Carolina Role Ready
for Actor, Following His
Success In the Dixon
Play

Franklin Richie. the popular leading
man of 1.-THE Clansman," which will
open a weeks engagement at the Ma
son opera house Monday night, will
be starred by George II. Brennan in
new play being written for him by
Claiming Pollock. So successful has
been Mr.. Ritchie's embodiment Of the
swashbuckling young South Carolinian,
Captain Ben Cameron, that the man
agement has decided to present him
again in another South Carolina char
acter.
He will be a follower of General An
drew Jackson, himself fiery Caro-
linian, who accompanies "Old Hickory
to the battle of New Orleans. In the
Crescent City he falls in love with &
Creole girl, the heiress of a French
Spanish noble family. An English Of
f1cer and a Creole aristocrat are rival
suitors for her hand. The former
shows his scowardice in the battle of
the cotton bales, but the Creole in
vokes the code duello and the issue
with him is settled at sword points.
Aside from the dashing young south
erner. one of the chief features OF the
play will be the striking portraiture of
General Jackson, who has never be-
fore been adequately represented on
the stage.
Ritchie's welcome at the Mason next
Monday night will be a hearty one.
He won many friends on the coast
when he appeared here a few years ago
as leading man of Rose Coghlan In
1.-THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray," confirm
ing the good impression that he made
on a previous visit with Mary Hamp-
ton in Sowing the Wind"
In looks he is the matinee girls
idol. and his Scotch traits stand him
in good stead In his Characterization
of Captain Cameron, the leader of the
Ku Klux Khan.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

TO BE REOPENED
TWO IMPORTANT WITNESSES
ARE FOUND
HUSBAND WANTS ALIMoNY FROM
WIFE
Declares He Made over $4,000 Worth
of Property to Her and Now
Has Nothing for
Himself

The Sprague divorce suit and another
action in which the husband seeks to
compel his wife to furnish him
with monthly allowance will be re-
opened December 3. Attorney j.
c. Craig, representing George H.
Sprague. the aged chiropodist, filed an
affidavit in Judge Conrey's court yes
terday in which he stated that two
witnesses, whose testimony he regards
as of the utmost Importance, have been
found.
Hearing in the divorce suit of Mrs.
Sarah H. Sprague against her husband
was concluded a few days ago and the
case was submitted. Mrs. Sprague
charged her husband with cruelty, and
the evidence in that case was made
part of the husbands action against
his wife, in which he asked the court
to compel his wife to give him living
from the $4,000 worth of property said
to have been turned over to her shortly
after their marriage. Sprague disap
Feared in September and no inklinS OF
his whereabouts has been gained by his
attorneys Notwithstanding this, his
attorneys, with the aid of information
given by their client, have conducted
his case.
The two witnesses whose testimony
is sought to be placed in the record
are Mrs. Julia Bryan, 227 West Seventh
street, and Mrs. Call, 149 South Row
an street. Affidavits made by the two
women have been prepared and will be
introduced Thursday.
Disrespectful to Husband
Mrs. Bryan in her affidavit says she
was a frequent visitor at the Sprague
home and that Mrs. Sprague was quar-
relsome, that she spoke sneeringly of
her husband and called him a dog and
fool Sprague, she AYERS, was always
kind and did not object even when Mrs.
Sprague made her husband act as
ladys maid and cook Mrs. Bryan also
AYERS that Mrs. Sprague became angry
when her visitor refused to believe the
accusations made against Sprague, and
said, 81 want to call your attention to
these things; 1 may need you some
time and 1 want you to remember what
takes place"
Since the separation Mrs. Bryan says
she has seen Sprague frequently, and
that he looked Ill and careworn.
The affidavit of Mrs. Call is short.
She says Mrs Sprague remained at her
home one night and while lying on the
lounge and pretending to be asleep
said: "Oh my husband, my poor hus-
band; 1 wonder where he is"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
MAKES DRAMATIC
ATTEMPT TO DIE
AGED LABORER TRIES TO COM
NIT SUICIDE
SETS FIRE TO CLOTHES AND
SLABS HIMSELF
Found by Nelghbors, Who Call Off,
Ger, and Supposedly Demented
Man Is Taken to
Hospital

Jacob Wirz, Go years of age, laborer
and without known friends in Southern
California, was taken from Lankershin
last night by Deputy Sheriff Fred We'd
dington and lodged in the detention
ward of the county hospital after a
most spectacular and desperate at
tempt at suicide. The old man is be-
lieved to be demented, although in his
conversation and conduct outside of
his attempt at suicide he appears per-
fectly rational.
Yesterday morning the old man, who
has lived in and worked around Lam
kershim for several months, went to
the edge of the town and disrobed him
self, and then made a pile of his cloth
ing and set fire to 1t.
Afterward he took a long bladed
knife, which he had, and stabbed him
self several times in the breast above
the heart, in the groin and in his arms.
Then he crawled into the brush to die.
Several hours afterward he was found
by neighbors who reported the occur
renee to Wellington, and the officer
found the man and removed him to a
house in town, where a physician was
called to see him and dressed his
wounds.
Wirz, of whom little is known, re-
fused to make any statement except
to say that he was tired Of living and
it was nobody's business if he chose
to kill himself, was taken to the county
hospital, and there turned over to the
officials for inquiry into his mental con-
dition
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
.FILIPINOS STAY
TWO AMERICANS
FATHER OF ONE VICTIM RE-
CElVES FULL DETAILS
Hill Mems Chief Becomes Guide II
Party and Murders Men Because
He "FeIt Like Killing
Some One"

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-Details Of the
murder of II. D. Everett of the for
estry service, and Tilden r. Wakely,
a school teacher, by Filipino hillmen,
were made public here today by Eben-
ezeer Wakely, father of one of the
men.
The elder Wakely received reports
completing the record of the crime and
of the expedition, which resulted in
the recovery of the skeletons of the
two Americans and two Filipinos who
accompanied them
Everett was engaged in forestry in
vestigation in a sparsely settled and
wild section of the islands of Negroes
and was accompanied into the hills by
Wakely, who wished to spend his va
cation in the open. Their failure to
return from what had been planned as
a trip of four days was followed by
rumors of the murder, and Major
Ahearn and Lieutenant Ford, with
thirty-nine men, took the trail.
Despite false guides, swollen streams,
almost incessant deluges of tropical
worked it's way to the heart of the
wild hill country.
The trail led into jungle of Bayaul
mountains and into a hamlet known as
Stio Datlige. Here the bodies of the
slain men, or rather their skeletons,
for the bones had been picked clean by
insects and the suns of many months
were found. A shoe, part of a note
book and a number of buttons proved
the identity of the skeletons.
From the hillmen interviewed it was
learned the murder probably occurred
May II, and that it was accomplished
under the leadership of chief named
Ayho. Ayho in the guise of friend
ship became the guide of the Everett
party, and one night, just because he
"felt like killing someone. " drugged the
party with the fumes of the tuyugtu-
yug plant. He and his followers then
fell upon their victims and slew them'
Major Ahearn found upon his APP
proach most of the hillmen fled, and
among them the assassins, who We're
reported in the hills At the time the
rations had become nearly exhausted,
much of the rice having been spoiled
by rain, and Major Ahearn tolloweI
the trail no longer but, gathering the
skeletons and such particles as We're
found, returned to his base of supplies.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
TORREY breaches
TO THE CHILDREN
Evangelist Planning Big Street Parade
90 Tonight, which Will Be Par
ticipated in by Many
Workers

IF there is a contemplate scoundPel
it is the man who marries a woman
and then runs off and leaves her after
Vowing at the altar of God to love,
cherish and protect her If there is
such a man here tonight you are a
miserable scoundrel, as contemplate a
whelp as walks the earth. l have
more respect for a common pick
pocket" said DR.. Torrey last night in
his denunciation of the reasons why
people will not take up Christianity
Last night DIR. Torrey continued his
sermon of the preceding night on why
Tarriest Thou" pointing out the pit
falls that hinder people from becoming
Christians.
In the afternoon the childrens serv-
ice of the mission was held, when the
large tabernacle was filled with chill
dren and young people. At this serv-
ice DR.. Torrey completely won the
hearts of his young hearers by saying
that he was a boy and that he had
never grown up-and didn't want to-.
In his sermon to the children he spoke
of the ways in which children could
lead Christian lives and that their
prayers We're just as needful as those
of the older people.
Tonight the eVangelistic workers
will hold a big street parade, which
will leave the tabernacle at 1O:4o
o'clock. Two bands VIII mead the pro-
cession and 1t is expected to have q
thousand Christian workers in line
There will be six open air meetings,
as follows Fifth and Central, Second
and Main, First and Los Angeles, Ala
media and Also the Plaza and at 419
North Main street.
The parade will leave the tabernacle
and march along the following route,
picking up the open air meetings, the
workers joining in the parade: Leave
tabernacle at Seventh and Los Angeles
to Seventh and Central, thence TO Sec
ond, up Second to Main, on Main to
First, on First to Los Angeles, up Los
Angeles to Also, thence east on Also
to Alameda, thence to the Plaza, down
Main to Seventh and thence to the
tabernacle.
1t is expected that the parade will
arrive at the tabernacle at midnight.
DR.. Jacoby, a converted professional
gambler, who is DR.. Torrey's assistant,
will give the experience of his life.
The service will close at o'clock
Sunday morning.
Men and women from the following
organizations will take part in the
parade: New Testament church, Union
rescue mission, City rescue mission,
Salvation army, Volunteers of Amer
lea Peniel hall, First Methodist church,
Young Mems Christian association,
Bible institute, Fishermen's club and
the Nazarene church.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
COUNCIL TIGHT,
BOARD'SOPINION
WANTS PAY RAISED TO $3.50
WEEKLY
Educators Discuss Report Made by
City Attorney on Auditors Right
to Examine School
Books

The board of education held four
meetings yesterday afternoon, coming
together in secret session, followed by
open meetings as the board of edu-
cation and as the high school board
and winding up with an indignation
meeting over the proposal of the city
council to limit the city's boards and
commissions to a salary of IS a week
President Joseph Scott made the lat
ter announcement, and Fielding ]. Still
son and other members refused at first
to believe him.
II assure you, gentlemen, that I am
not joking" said Mr.. Scott. land the
council isn't either They figure that
we are to have S. a meeting, but that
we will not be paid for more than one
meeting a week. Work like that you
are doing today would be entirely
gratuitous. l think we should ask the
council to make it $3.50. 1 can feel
like 80 cents just by thinking of it,"
The board met secretly with City SUI
perintendent Moore and talked over the
city auditor.
1.-THE stand we have taken is similar
to that followed in other cities rela-
tive to the county funds" said one
member of the board. Long Beach is
sending its money to the county super
intendent San Diego has never done
anything else. I believe our course will
be justified in the end"
Between meetings DR.. Moore read tc
the members of the board a portion Of
City Attorney Hewitt's letter to him
self and to City Auditor Mushet.
1T makes very fine shading be-
tween the auditors legal right to ex-
anime all funds and his lack Of author
ity to direct their disbursement" was
the city superintendent summing VI
of the opinion.
The board approved the building
committees recommendation that the
contract for erecting an additional
building at Mckinley Home school be
let for $500 to George e. p. Lewis, the
lowest bidder.
Superintendent Moore reported that
working plan to combine the juven-
lie court and the parental school will
probably be reported at next weeks
meeting of the board. He urged that
baths be installed at the Fourteenth
street school as quickly as the board
can find it feasible.
The total school registration on No
vember 10 was 36,S01, and the average
daily attendance during the preceding
month was 81 per cent.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
Reoent Deaths

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Nov. 81
DR.. John Bell Henneman of the Univer-
sity of the South, at Suwanee' Tenn
one of the most prominent educators In
the south, died at Richmond, Va, last
night. ~ 49,.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Nov, 2H'-Georse
Raines- one of the best known criminal
LAWYERS in the state, died at his home
today.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Former
Representative Silas A. Hare, 81 years
old, OF Texas, Mexican war veteran
a distinguished Confederate soldier
Judge and lawyer died at his home in
this city yesterday.
Robert Newberry, an aged pioneer res
ident of this city died last night after
only a few hours illness. Mr.. New
berry was born in England April %,
1880, and came to California i'll 1852.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
OFFICERS MUST NOT TELL
OF DEFECTS IN WARSHIPS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-That there
shall be no further public discussion
by naval officers concerning the New
port conference without permission of
the president, is the purport of an
order issued today by Secretary Met
calf, by direction of the president.
October 80 the department issued a
permit to officers to discuss the work
of this conference, except so far as 1t
applied to changes to be made on ships
to be authorized in the future.
The president has now concluded that
public discussion of alleged defects of
battleships will not serve any good
purpose.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
VIII Go to Electric Chair

TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 27.-The court
of errors and appeals today affirmed
the convictions of Archibald Heron
and of Sabine Mellille. Unless the par
don court interferes both will go to
the electric chair Heron murdered
the Rev. Samuel B. Prickett of Metu-
chen last July Mellile was convicted
of numbering Alphonse Gellochie in May
last
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
UNABLE TO DECIDE WHOM
HE LOVES, MAN ENDS LIFE

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nov. 27.-Unable.
ii is believed, to choose between his
wife, with whom he had become re-
united after a separation, and Miss
Nora A. Acton, young woman OF
Avondale, Ala, of whom, it Is alleged,
he had become enamored during the
time of separation W. E. Kimball of
New South Memphis jumped from the
Memphis bridge and ended his life.
His body was recovered today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
claims Wells-Fargo owes $4,000

RENO, New, Nov. 27.-That the
Wells-Fargo Express company is in
debted to the state of Nevada to an
amount exceeding $4,000 for taxes as
a common carrier for twenty-seven
years, in the state, is the statement of
]. e. Haley, state bullion and tax coll
lector.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
First Visit to Theater

After no little persuasion he was in
duced to attend the Wednesday mat
inee performance of "Ben Hur," not as
a matter of personal entertainment, but
for the purpose of satisfying himself
whether or not all plays should be
classed alike as to their moral stand
ing. The next day Mr.. Towle received
a personal letter from the minister, in
which he said:
IF the American drama had done
nothing worthy in its long career but
this, had whatever fame 1t may have
attained to rest solely upon this one
noble product-it has surely justified its
existence In this, at least, it has
demonstrated to me that the stage
may be given over to uses wholly
worthy highly commendable and which
cannot fail to exert the greatest pos
sible blessing on manl1ind-that of
bringing home with immense force and
dignity the eternal truth and verify of
the birth into the world of Jesus, the
Savior of mankind. To every man, no
matter what his condition, Ben Hur'
has it's appeal. 1t appeals to the deep
grained, firm-rooted religious feeling in
the human heart and brings back with
great directness the simple lessons and
divine truths that every man born in
q Christian land learned at his mothers
knee"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
PREACHER ADMITS HE WAS
IN THE WRONG ON "5EN HUR'

Ever since I have been married I
have prayed that my children should
never know what 1t Is to attend a
theatrical performance" exclaimed a
prominent minister In conversation
with Charles F. Towle, manager of the
Ben Hur" company, in Denver last
Saturday. Mr. Towle had just eX-
tended to him an invitation to view
the performance of the Wallace drama,
which is soon to be staged at the
Mason.
During the discussion of the relations
between church and stage which fol-
lowed the minister acknowledged that
his convictions were not based on per-
sonal observation; he had never in his
life attended a theatrical performance,
He maintained, however, that the gen
eral influence of the stage was not only
to the moral detriment of the men and
women who follow the profession for a
living, but that the influence for eVll
had a wider reach upon the public
through the exploitation of themes
that are far from uplifting.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

The Herald will $40 in cash to anyone
furnishing evidence that will lead to the ar
ing copies OF The Herald from the premises OF
BUR patrons. THE HERALD
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

V. Iattler. tea and lunch room, 1926
West Third street. Leave order for
your cakes and salads.