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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Y orthWest Weddings.

Jake Jurgenson and Miss Gussie
Zeplin were married at West Point.
George W. Goff and Miss Lizzie Bel
Ter were married at Lindsay.
Herman Dziggel and Miss Minnie
Wick were married at Carlock.
Lauris Johnson and Miss Anna
Prang were married at Madison.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Allegheny Ice Goraes.

Pittsburg, Jan. 11.-Bank full of
grinding ice, the Allegheny river puts
a menace to shipping should the cold
snap terminate suddenly as is antici
pated by the official weather fore
casts. The Ohio river at this point
is gorged the foes extending as fan
back up the Allegheny river as Free
port River navigation has again been
abandoned.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Robert D. Kelley Dead.

Fremont Neb., Jan. 10.-Robert d.
Kelley of this city died at the Ere
mont hospital of Bright's disease after
a long illness. For number of years
he was managing editor of the Brook
lyn Eagle
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14

Dallas, S. D., Jan. 10.-ATticles of in.
corporation have been prepared and
a charter applied for by Messers.
Guenther Bros, of this city for bank
at Carter one of the new towns be.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
ONE DEAD; NINE ILL.
Members Of Nebraska Family Pois
oned by Raw SAUSAGE.

oned by Raw Sausage
Fairbury, Neb, Jan. lJ,-Mrs. b. +.
Kroeger is dead and nine members of
the families of Il. r. Kroeger and Cor.
nelius Dalke, farmers near here, are
i'll from triChina poisoning. More than
week ago the two families ate Il
quantity of raw pork sausage The Ill.
ness was first supposed to be grip.
Mrs. Kroeger died and two others, 1t
is said, cannot recover. Physicians
say the illness is due to trichina.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14

dead in a resort here, Coroner's PLY
stefan Reinhardt announced Moore had
died of heart disease, superinduced by
gastritis and nephritis.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Marquis de VaIlaIobar Transferred
From WASHINGTON to Lisbon.

Madrid, Jan. 1.-THE Marquis de
Vallalobar, Spanish minister to Wash
ington has been transferred to Lis
bon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Moore Died Natural Death.

Chicago, Jan. 11.-After a postmor-
TEN examination of the body of Ma
thaniel F. Moore, son of James II.
Moore, the financier, who was found
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Serious Fire at Aurora.

Aurora, Neb., Jan. l0.-The store of
Jason Dean and the drug store of G. b.
Wiliamson's estate burned.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
Northwest Deaths,

j. p. Milligan died at Wisner.
Carl Krum died at West Point.
Francis Tyler died at Battle Creek
G. p. Hines died at Brunswick.
Mrs. John Harbottle died at Prim
rose.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14
NEXT MESSAGE, CONSERVATION

President confers With BalIineer Over
Needed Laws-Discuss Forestry.
Washington, Jan. l1-President Taft
will begin work on his special message
to congress dealing with the conserva.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14

Kate Adams Cutler died at Neigh.
Mrs. l. l.. Walker of Atkinson died
at Omaha.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

por cont; other Middle Atlantic states,
II per cont. Southern states, u per
cent Middle West, per cent; Rocky
Mountain and Pacific States 8 per
cent; New England, I per cent; col
onlcs and foreign countrics / per
cent
More apparent is the national aspect
of the University when It is shown
that thirty-four states ana three
colonial and foreign states arc repre-
scntcd in the institution at Charlottcs-
! vile. IT is now u commonplace thing
I for graduates of the great preparatory
schools of the North. such as Exeter
land Audovc%, to matricuate Mt viz
ginip even though they live in far
distant sections of the country and
ment TO incite them. TO such course
Many graduates of universities in the
North and West, and many more from
Southern colleges and universities, find
the graduate work of the University OF
Virginia what they seek and prefer
While the percentage Of non-South-
ern students at the University of Nir-
ginia IS perhaps much greater than that
a any other Southern institution, gen.
eral drift of such students to the
Southern colleges and universities is
plainly perceptiblc. At William and
Mary last year there were n score or
more Northern students who organlz-
ed themselves into a club Arizona
and Louisiana contributed last year to
the student body Of neutrality-suspicious..
Richmond College has been the alma
mater of number Of such students
Washington and Lee, the Virginia Mill
tary Institute and other institutions in
Virginia also contain a number OF ma
triculates from the other side of Ma
son and DiNons line.
In the schools and colleges for wo-
men, the same fact is to be observed
for they steadily draw from other
States and other sections.
Many factors have entered into The
drift Southwark of students from other
sections The regulations of the var
ious institutions. their history. their
long lines of famous alumni their !
traditions the fame of their profess
sors-all these have much to do with |
the movement. Climate attracts some
Then. too, Southern colleges and uni
are rivalling those in other
sections in the matter Of modern equip
nent and efficient faculties
On the other hand, there is cor
responding tendency on the part OF
Southern students TO go to Northern
especially to those which
have great graduate schools. No sta
-istics are obtainable, but the percent
ige of Southern men going North is
every year The interchange
IF students is doubtless doing much to
'ring all sections closer together
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

affected at the announcement, .,, t,,s
commission ~ chief Justice I'VE, was = mad voc
out ana sent to him no nero n,,a ~ i -,
about a week, aud then detcrinineu' o'
the ground OF ill-hcalth 70 re'lell'
1t is to be presumed that good law.
yer that he is, President raft knew all
about the precedent in the case and has
Quietly chuckled at the statement mace
in almost every newspaper in the coun'
try that he had violated )nd'o'al pro
cedent. Speaking Of preeedehts' ifesi'
dent Taft has established new pre-
cedent, one which sc profoundly hops
will be followed by every future Re
publican president, If there shall be
any, and we doubt whether there WIN
be any more. rhc commondable pre-
cedent is that a Republican president
should always appoint Democratic
chief justice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

Yale graduates all over the country
must be secretly laughing at the re-
suit Of the recent postal card canvass
at Yale, the purpose of which was to
ascertain whether a Phi Beta Kappa
key is preferable to the ~" athletic
letter The verdict was that scholar
ship is more important at Yale and
more to be desired than athletic hon
or, One thousand postal cards were
sent out, and $50 answers were re-
ceived Of which $40 awarded the de-
cision to scholarship. Probably few
of these answers wero from men who
took part in Yale athletics. for there
are few men In Yale who wouldn't like
to be on the team when the athletes In.
blue trot out to fight to the stirring
air of ''Boola, Boola."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
WOMAN FORFEITS RANK
BY MARRIAGE TO INFERIOR

Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. Miss Norah
! Iselin and Miss Harriet DAILY, all of
New York, sacrificed their American
citizenship when they married Count
Lazlo Szechenyi. Count Colleredo-
Mannsfeld and Count Sigray respec-
lively.
who has not lost her status as such
by marriage to a subject of Emperor
Francis Joseph would be exempt from
! tho jurisdiction of Hungarian
tribunals, and entitled to the same
cx-territorial immunities as a foreign
ambassador, ex-Crown Princess Steph-
anio is subject TO the ordinary Aus
trtan and Hungarian courts of law.
police regulations, etc. like any other
citizen.
1t is this condition of affairs that is
SO calling TO Stephanie that she finds
life in Austria and Hungary almost
tolerable in Germany. and II she has
refrained from establishing her per-
manent residence in France and in
Paris, where so many quasl-royai per-
seek refuge, it is because of her enmity
towards her eldest sister, Princess
Louise. who lives there, and who is
forever occupying the chronique scan
dalease of the Partisan press,
Stepnanle can so to court whenever
she likes ut Vienna or at Budapest,
but only as Countess Lonyay, and
would as such be barred from any
place in the imperial and royal cir
Gle, either as former archduchess OF
Austria or as royal Belgian princess
Sooner than submit to this treatment
she remains away. The old emperor,
with his customary chlvalry, stlll calls
pens to pass through Vienna, recall
ing the fact that she. was once his
daughter in-law. But in order to en-
phasize the purely private character
OF his visit, he comes In uniform. but
without his sword, and leaves his a.
d. C. in the carriage. She Is, more
over, excluded from all those family
festivals OF the imperial house OF Haps-
burg, such as when all It's melhhers
gathered last summer at lschl, to con
graduate Francis Joseph on his eight
ieth birthday,
Whenever the Austrian newspapers
refer to her merely as Countess Lon
yay they are certain to receive a
courteous reminder from her private
secretary. that she, is also princess
of Belgium, But the authorities have
peremptory Instructions to refuse her
this title and the rights connected
Herewith, and to restrict her, at any
rate in all official documents, and IN
tercourse, to the name and status OF
Countess Lonyay.
1t was because of this awkward posi-
ton, which she now feels moro than
ever since her fathers death has
placed her in possession Of ab'umdant
Paris or in London, An ambassador
represents his sovereign. and the ans
bassadress shares his rank, honors and
precedence, while Stephanie believed
that in Paris, at any rate, her rank
as princess of Belgium would be
recognized, and that by reason thereof
she would be accorded the pas or all
other ambassadresses,
It Is to her that has been traced
the extraordinary rumor published two
or three weeks ago by the semi-oth-
cial Agence HavaS, mt Paris, to the
effect that the Austrian government
was about to appoint Count Lonyay
to succeed the late Count I(heyen-
hulIeg as aInhasgad!or 10 FraRee, Thei
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

IS easily explained for very great
proportion of the population Of WASH
ington Is composed OF government en-
ploycF, their kindred and friends
A seven and ono half hour day seems
thoroughly reasonable. Government
clerks are not overworkcd many Of
them arc underworkod 1t Is abou:
time that the indolcnt gentlemen
known as '1aborcrs" In the senate,
whose only aud delightful labor
Is to recc!ye a salary and dispose OF
1t, should now do some real work. 1t
is about time that some Of the myriad
assistants and assistants to assistants
got busy. II moro work shall be done.
Offices may be dispensed
with
Government clerks get thirty days
leave of absence every year with full
pay. They got the numerous public
holidays. They have liberal allow.
ance for sick leave. The lower grades
Of employees are unusually well paid
surely they arc faring much better
than thousands of less fortunate clerks
IN private offices, who would be glad
to have the chance to live in Washing
ton and enior the unusually interest
ing life OF that town ana Its oduca-
tional advantages. II the Government
clerks shall work cight hours it would
be just as we'll
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
/, PRECEDENT For THE pREsI-
DENT


a very learned man in the law has
taken US TO task with the classic
charge that we nodded" when we de-
clared that John Rutledge was chief
justice of the United States. Perhaps
we are both right about it for the
question simply is, rs chief justice a
chief-justice when he has been ap-
pointed and has served or does it
take the confirmation of the senate
to make him chief JUSTICE" Strictly
and technically speaking, 1t seems that
the confirmation of the advisory ana
consentng body is required, but we
rather think the historians declare that
Rutledge was chief Justice
The case of Rutledge was peculiar.
He was appointed by President Wash
ington and served for some time as
associate justice before he was made
chief Justice, Stricken by mortal
malady. his mind weakened. there was
no way TO remove him from the bench,
unless the Senate rejected his con-
HrihaWof. ana tAat was done. The
Boston Transcript says that there was
some interval between the service OF
Rutledge as associate justice and chief
Justice.
The statement was recently made
that President Taft smashed pre-
cedent when he elevated Associate Jus
tice White to the chief justiceship.
Former Chief Justice c. c. Mott, of the
United States Court of Claims. cites
precedent Which proves that President
Tart did not break the unwrittcn rule.
Associate Justice Cushing was appoint
ed Chief Justice by Washington.
Justice Mott thus records the IN
tercsting story of Cushing's appoint
ment:
1t is related that on the day when
this occurred there was a large dinner
party at the residents, and the new
chief justice was one of tho guests.
though ignorant of his appointment,
On entering the room Washington
from the head OF the table. directing
his look to him, said in an emphatic
tone, The chief Justice of the United
States Will please take his seat on my
right" and that the Judge was much f!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
BY LA MARouIsE DE FoNTENoY.

wv THEREAS in Spain women who
M have Inherited titles transmit
w them 10 their husbands by
marriage, and while in Eng
land woman retains her rank and
precedence in the peeraSe If she mar
ries a commoner, In Austria woman
forfeits her own rank by marriage to
an inferior. Thus, every one of the
Hapsburg who has become the wife
of scion of enc of the mcdiatiZe6
families, or of the ordinary nobility
has, ipso facto, forfeited her title Of
tives as a member of the reiGnlnS
house of Austria, and her rights to the
predicate of imperial hishness. Arch
duchess Alice of Austria, for instance,
Montenuovo, viii become thereby
member of the lesser nobility pre-
cisely in the same manner as her
cousin, Archduchess Renata when she
the position of ex-Crown Princess
Stephanie, and to set right some mis-
statements which have appeared with
Lonyay. 1t has been alleged, both IN
the foreign and the American press.
that if she wanted him to be AUS
trian ambassador in Paris, and per-
haps afterwards in London, it was be-
cause he had not only no position at
the court of Vienna, but that he was
even ''unhoffahig,'' that is to say, dis
qualified by birth and lineage from ad-
condemned to share his disqualified
Now this IS untrue in every respect;
Count Lonyay holds the position OF
court Of Vienna, an honorary dignity
very strictly confined to those who can
show long line OF ancestry on the
fathers and mothers side, free from
possessing this office gives him the
entrec to the court of Vienna, end
renders him a member of the court
circle Added TO this, he IS member
of the Hungarian House of Lords, ana
although his title of count is Of mod,
ern origin, having only been bestowed
by Francis Joseph in his capacity of
KING, Of Hungary.i In 1895. upon Elener
Lonyays' title OF baron is over, 900
years old. The family Is indeed an
ancient one, and has played role in
Magyar history.
she refuses to be satisfied with the
status of a Countess I4onyay to which
she is now restricted; 1t was hard
enough fol, her to sacrifice her status
duchess of Austria, and to forfeit her
membership OF the imperial house of ,
Hapsburg, along with all the honors
and prerogauyes connected herewith. !
But big Sotso1ou lieiseli Win inc pe-
lief that at any rate she would con-
tinue to rank as a royal princess of
Belgium, and as the daughter OF the
late King Of that country, While this
pretension Is accorded IN Belgium by !
right, and In some other countries by |
courtesy, it is not admitted In Austria |
or in Hungary. There she has. through
her marriage to Count Lonyay, become
a mere Countess Lonyay, and sub
garian crown, without any rights to |
treatment as foreign royal princess.
In fact. she has forfeited her Belgian
NATIONALITY ana everything that went
therewith, lust IN The same way, that
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

Agence IIavas is much too serious and
authoritative concern to pay any at
tention to mere rumors, being con-
stantly employed by European govern
promulgate pieces of news which II is
desirable should be known But COM
ing from stephanie. the, Havas people
in Paris naturally looked upon the
report as we'll founded.
Stephanle had done this first OF all
in order to see how the suggestion
would be received in France, and
secondly, In order TO give the. idea of
TRAN Foreign Office, and of forcing Its
at Paris. sho was doomed to disap.
pointment; for there was a general
among the foreign diplomatic corps
OH the banks of the Seine against
any such appointment, while the AUS
trian government treated the matter
with derision, saying that IL had never
dreamt of making so preposterous an
appointment.
This setback to stephanie came to
her inst about the same time as the
slight which kept her away from tho
marriage. at Moncalieri, of her young
or sister, Princess Clementine of Bel
GUM, TO Prince Victor Napoleon. She
was informed that Italian court eti-
house of Savoy. which Is very strict
and analogous to that of Vienna, would
he observed at the ceremony. and that
in consequence thereof her place there
would be, not as a royal princess of
Belgium, but as mere Countess Lon
yay. That is why she remained away.
Her relations with her other sister are
best shown by the fact that she has
recently had Louise's divorced hus-
band. Prince Philip of Coburg. one of
the only survivors of tho tragedy Of
Meyerling. staying with her at her
country place in Hungary.
Copyright 1910, by the Brentwood
Company,)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
MAll1NG THEN Mnnl,

Peaceful revolution Is threatened in
Washington. The press dispatches say
thar the capital Is stirred to intense
Indignation because President TAFT is
ordering that government employees in
the various FEDERAL Departments shall
work seven and one-half hours the day
day instead Of seven hours, This Is
necessary 10 carry out the Administra-
tons policy Of economical manage
ment Of the Governments business
Without waiting for the President to
Issue the order Postmaster General
Hitchcock has been making his whole
department work until half past six in
the evening, but in overworking mem
ne has not spared himself and his i'm
mediate assistants who are working
with him in laying the groundwork
Tor reforms and economies In the de-
parhnent. Hitchcock himself, it is said,
works about half the night
The decision or tn, President is
arouslng q chorus q protests from The
clerks themselyes from boarding house
feepers street railway authorities, and
gsu2 other clsssss 9t eltjssps This
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
HOME w1ru urn FATHER.

y did not do It. / want to go homo
with my father"
Spoken in such low tone that it
had to be repeated by her counsel to
the jury, this was all that Hattie lie
Blanc had to say in her own cause he
fore twelve men who were to decide
"Wednesday whether or not she was
guilty of the murder Of her former en-
ploycr Clarence i. clover In Massa-
>chusetts. 1t was a pathetic spectacle
this sixteen year old French girl.
against whom unsucc'ssfplly every al
legation was made and every battery of
the law touched Off Wrought to this
country by people Of doubtful character,
this little Frenchwoman IS still unable
to speak English, has no friends in the
country. could not secure the best le-
gal aid when she was put on trial
wholly upon circumstantal evidence.
The best plea that was made for her
she made herself the single sentence
that is here quoted
Unconsciously she voiced the prayer
of many other foreign girls who come
to this country and find 1t not the
paradise of their dreams, longing hope
lessly to be back at home with their
fathers and their own people.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

The Government booklet on "The
Economical Use of Meat in tho Home .
designed to aid the good wife in re-
ducing the high cost of living. has
been sold to only A,225 subscribers. In
fact, it was not nearly as much of a
best seller as the interesting brochure
of the Department of Agriculture on
"The Need of Controlling and stan
dardizing the Manufacture of vetcrln-
airy Tetanus Antitoxin."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

The record breaking suffrage dinner
was held in New York on Wednesday
night There were six hundred people
there, Ever so many pleasant and
prophetic things were said about Inc
Cause. Though there were five hun
dred women there, my dears man
had to be secured TO act as toast
master, and after Carrie Chapman Gait
and Mrs. snowden had spoken four
dreadful men made speeches
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

Wonder why Brother sydenstricker,
of the Lynchburs Advance, puts such
big headline over its announcement
that Mr.. Justice Lamar is an alumnus
of Washington and Lee. All readers
of the alumni notes in Ring Tun Phi1
will know the reason why
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16

George Razakles. of Chicago, is a mt
rival for Colonel Abe slupsky. the beer
champion of st, Louis, The Chicago
man has won a bet by eating broiled
quail and drinking quart of cham
payne every day for thirty days. No
bets like this are being made in Nor
folk
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
FRIDAY, DECEMBER le, 1910.
ctr down TUE nILL.

CUT DOWN TIE BILL.
IL Hitchcock could come to Virginia
and lay plans for efectins economy in
city and county government, he would
achieve wonderful saving by adjus!
ing the fee system of compensation ol
county and city officers on fair ana
equitable salary basis. In so doing he
would destroy the most undemocratic
feature of the government OF this State.
our belief in this matter mas been
strengthened by reading an abstract
OF recent decision of the court o,
Appeals handed down by Judge
Buchanan. about which we have re-
ceived very strong personal letter
from Commonwealth Attorney in a
certain county in this state. Our coy
respondent refers to the decision as
IAN able one" and rightly declares that
it should be read by every taxpayer
of the State, and, incidentally, by some
of the oficeholders"
The facts OF the case We're In
Rockingham county the clerk present.
ed an account to the supervisors. ask
ing that he be allowed Slots for
copying and certifying the trsasurers
list OF qualified voters of the county
for Tho vear<1e1o Tho srn.r,,iso,.s al
lowed him sS3.87 for copying ana Ger.
Trying the list and $3.50 tor the cost
OF printing it, Appeal to the circuit
CONT was made Nv mo c,ari, hnt ~,
court sustained the upslN'sors' From
that decision an appeal was taken to
the Court of Appeals. and taGs ccur;
,nirrcd mo dacisior If ,,o ctr,,.,t
sho,,,, no, baya hoar al,ova', 49,
was mo anthorit,. of 1,r H. i, r,o
CONT fnrtber declared, a.sor,s ON cor.
RESPONDENT than the c,ar,. vas cna,s.
inc eleven t,mos Inc ,,,onn, H. trsas
urer received for n,l.inc M, ~. ia
,et tne traas,,rs,,s ,o,,, Ma. nara
iaborious than maj Of inc c,.,K a.be
decision is concurred in bv me en,,re
court
Aur correspondent saws further in
his letter. which relates 10 the fee
system in its entirety:
1T has doubtless been the case il
practically all of the counties ana
cities Of the State that the clerks have
received at least ten times the sun
titled ana tbosa w "''sN 40 e,'eg ~, were en-
tarily refund the exorbltant fees ex.
acted will be required to do so when