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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1892.
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Opportunity Has Arrived.
Are Determined to Unload.
We want to sell our enormous stoch of
FINEST TAILOR MADE SUITS
and sell it quickly. We are about
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DEEPEST CDT INTO PRICES
tliat you have ever known. It will
be one continuous picnic for cloth
iiig buyers from now until
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During this time we reserve noth
ing. Everything goes. Clothing,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, and Valises.
Everything to be slaughtered RE- '
GARDLESS OF COST.
THE MODEL CLOTHING HOUSE,
M. EINSTEIN.
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TOWN LOT
SALE!
DURING THE NEXT THIRTY
DAYS I WILL OFFER
FOR SALE
ONE HUNDRED
Choice Residence Lois
In the City of North Platte at
Prices ranging from
$50 to $150
PER LOT.
TERMS : One-tenth cash and bal
ance in monthly installments of from
$5.00 to 810.00 each.
The prices on these lots are not to
exceed one-half their real value. Call
at my office and see plats and prices.
No trouble to show lots.
Thos. C. Patterson.
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LUMBER IICOAL.
LUMBEE,
Lath.,
SASH,
BUNDS,
DOORS, Etc.
LIME AND CEMENT.
Bock Springs Nut,
Rock Springs' Lump.
Pennsylvania Anthracite,
Colorado Anthracite
AND
Colorado Soft
COAL.
TO NAME ASTATETIGLET
Iowa Republicans Assemble in State
Convention at Dos Moines.
THE MINING CONGRESS.
Sitverltee Tarn to the Third Party Ken
York LeafHe of Repabllcaa Clubs.
The Prohibitionists Indiana
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Republicans la Session.
Dm Morszs, la., June 28. The He-
publican state conrention meets hen
today to place in nomination a state
ticket. Secretary of State McFarland
and State Treasurer Beeeon will be re
nominated for their offices without op
position. There will be some opposition
-to Attorney General Stone, who is a
candidate for a third term. He will,
however, be renominated. For railroad
commissioner there are a large number.
of candidates, including the present in
cnmbent, Spencer Smith of Council
Bluffs. Those who are in the lead
against him are State Secretary
Perkins of Fremont county and Kep
sentatire Morrow of Union county.
Both men have served on legislative
railroad commissions and are in a meas
ure acquainted with the work of the
office to which they aspire. The oppo
sition to Smith conies largely from the
lact teat He nas held tbe omce
for three terms already. Some
of the railroad employes are understood
to oe unirienaiy to him on account of
his record on the hoard. Au effort has
been made to bring out L. S. Coffin of
Fort Dodge, who is popular with the
railroad men on account of his work for
safety couplers. For auditor the lead
ing candidates are C. Gh McCarthy.
8tory county: W. C. Vangilder, Monroe
county; w. xu. JSrown, Keokuk county,
and W. F. Johnson of Taylor county.
McCarthy is so far in the lead, and hia
friends claim that he will have enough
voiea to nominate mm on the nrst ballot.
The only -other interest in the conven
tion is in regard to a platform. The
Prohibition and the anti-Prohibition ele
-merits in-the party are not able to agree
as to tbe kind of declaration which
should be embodied. The question will
not enter into this year's campaign, and
it is likely that no reference will be
made to it.
THE MINING CONGRESS-
To Be a Grand Bally Jn the Interest at
Free Coinage and the Third I'arty.
Helena, Mont., June 28. Extensive
preparations are being made for the ap
proaching mining congress for the pur
-pose of making it an important factor in
the third party movement. In view of
the dissatisfaction of the people in the
mining states with ooth the Democratic
and Republican nominees and platform.
the silver men will take advantage of
tne congress to bring about a grand rally
in the interest of free coinage and the
third party. Senators Wolcott. Jones
and fctewart, and Thomas Patterson
and other prominent silver men, have
consented to attend the meeting of the
congress.
Indiana Republican.
Fort Wave, June 28. The Repub
lican state convention was called to or
der at 10.-05 a. m. and C. W. Fairbanks
chosen temporary chairman. At the
conclusion of his address a recess was
taken until 1 p. m.
The platform which will be adopted
commends Harrison's administration
and the Minneapolis ticket and plat
form and approves the generous pen
sion laws. The rest of the platform is
devoted to state issues, being principally
taken up in denouncing the Democratic
state government.
Whitney Will Be a lllc Factor.
Indianapolis, June 28. Senator
Brice, who stopped over here, when
asked when the national committee
would organize, raid: "On or about
Julv 12. The committee on notifi
cation has appointed a sub-committee
of five and the committee will then per
fect its organization. Whether Mr.
Whitney is made chairman or not he
will take an active part in the cam
paign. He was active in the work of
the convention. I never knew third
parties to amount to anything."
The Prohibitionist.
Cincinnati, June 28. The national
committee of the Prohibition party went
into secret session at noon to arrange
the preliminaries for tomorrow's con
vention. It seems likely that Bidwell
will get the presidential nomination, al
though Demorest has some delegates
and Henry Clay Bascom of New York
is also spoken of. A. A. Stevens of
Pennsylvania is in the lead for vice
president.
Kew York Leasee of Republican Clubs.
Rochester, June 28. The State
League of Republican clubs, met at
noon. Letters of regret were read from
President Harrison. Governor McKinley
and Thomas C. Piatt. After the ap
pointment of committees the convention
took a recess until 4 o'clock.
YARD ON It. R. TRACK WEST OF DEPOT,
Stevenson Denies.
Bloomisoton, Ills., June 88. Speak
ing in regard to the charge made by ex
Governor Hamilton that he was a mem
ber of the war order of the Knights of
tbe Golden Circle, A. E. Stevenson,
Svmocratic vice presidential candidate,
eelared the story unqualifiedly false.
FMtpeaed the Selection.
Baton Rouge, La., June 28. The
Democratic caucus decided to postpone
the election of United States senators
until the session of 1894. but will ballot
daily till the close of the present session.
A Baagllac Execution.
Fort Surra, Ark., June 28. John
Thornton was hanged in the jail yard
here. The execution was a frightful
scene, the rope almost severing the mur
derer's head from his body.
Three Raplste Shot.
Galveston, Tei., June 28. A News
pedal says that three negroes were
hot to death at Sturges. They had con
fessed to having outraged two white
women the night before.
A Trunk Treasury Cleaned Out.
Paris, Ark., June 8. County Treas
urer Fuller received about $5,000 and
placed it in a large trunk in his house
in the subnrbs. He and his wife went
calllno. When they returned they
found the trunk in a field, broken open
and its contents gone.
Murdered by His Guide.
San Francisco, June 28. News has
been received of the death of Andrew
Fraser, a well known mining engineer,
who was murdered by his guide June
13, while on his way from the Jesus
Maria mining camp to tht city of Chihuahua
SALISBURY'S ADDRESS
a Asks the Peeple to Pause Refer De
ciding? on the Supreme "Crisis."
London, June 28. Lord Salisbury
has issued an address to the electors of
the United Kingdom. The document,
while reminding them that their votes
will (decide whether parliament shall be
empowered to grapple with important
social questions or wasted on the pro
tracted Irish struggle, contends that the
working classes are so powerful that no
party is likely to disregard their
unanimous wish. . The vital question of
Ireland overtops all others. To Ulster
the election is of terrible importance.
Mistakes in other questions may be re
paired, but here the crisis is supreme.
A wrong decision mil mean a bitter
protracted struggle, culminating proba
bly in civil war, or even doom the Loy
alists to the most dread subjection to
their ancient and unchanging enemies'.
The address implores the electors to
pause before deciding to reverse, the
policy of centuries.
PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.
Dissolution Will Take PlaceImmediatelr
and Writs for a General Flection Is
sued at Once Queen's Speech.
London, June 28. The queen today
prorogued parliament as a preliminary
step to the dissolution of that body
which follows immediately. In her
speech the queen says that foreign rela
tions are friendly, and treaties have
been ratified looking to the settlement
of the Behring sea difficulty with the
United States. The speech also re
fers to the action toward suppressing
the slave trade and closes with thanks
to parliament for its services during the
six years. Writs for a general election
will be issued at once.
The Troublesome Fins.
Berlin, June 35. It has long been
the custom of ships when entering the
port of Lubeck, to fly the German flag
out of compliment to the German em
pire. The Russians have had some reas
ons of late for believing that the motive
for this courtesy in case of vessels from
Finland, which is part of the Russian
empire, was not always merely one of
compliment and that the Fins wished
the Germans to understand they pre
ferred Germany to Russia. Yesterday,
therefore, the Russian consul at
Lubeck boarded the Finnish steamer
Hebe, as it was entering the port with
the German flag flying, and demanded
that tbe captain lower the German colors
and run up the Russian colors in their
place. The Finnish captain of the Hebe
demurred, saying it would look like an
insult on his part to tbe German author
ities. The Russian consul thereupon
threatened that unless the captain com
plied he would be punished on his re
turn to Russian jurisdiction. The
captain conclnded to obey, and the Ger
man flag came down and the Russian
went up in its place. All Finnish ves
sels now entering German ports are
treated in a similar manner.
Apl ARMY DISPUTE
Secretary Elkins' Decision'Conceni'
ing the Inspection of Militia.
THE ANTI-OPTION BILL
Senator Vest Coafldeat That the Measure
Will Pass Stewart Submits a Sub
stitute for His Free Silver Bill.
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Washington Gossip.
RIOT IN BRUSSELS.
Guards Called to Aid Police In Disper
sing; a Mob.
Brussels, June 28. While s?me so
cieties were returning from an excur
sion they became disorderly in the
streets. The police ordered them to dis
perse, but they refused to do so and the
police charged upon them. In the c6n-
nict that ensued tho police were ovtr
powered and their arms taken from
them. A number of the policemen were
severely wounded by the weapon in the
hands of the rioters. The civic guards
were called out and dispersed ihe mob.
Several of the leaders of the rioters were
arrested.
The Pollen Still Ituntlne for Evidence.
London. June 23. Thomas Neill,
who is charged with attempting to
blackmail Dr. Joseph Harper of Barn
stable by alleging that he had in his
SORsession evidence showing that Walter
oseph Harper, then a student at St.
I nomas hospital, bad poisoned Alice
Marsh and Emma Shrivell. which he
would surrender on the payment of
1,500, was again brought before Sir
John Bridges in the Bow street police
court and again remanded. The many
remands in the case aro without doubt
for the purpose of allowing the police to
complete their work of securing evi
dence to show that Neill himself was
the poisoner of the two girls, and not
only those but other girls of the same
unfortunate class.
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The Kaisor's Ideas.
Stettin, June 28. Emperor William
launched at the shipbuilding works here
a new dispatch boat. He said that the
light and slender build of the vessel
showed that she was dedicated to worksjof
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iwuco. iuuuuuiiig, uin majesty saia:
1 his vessel shall bear the name of a
citadel iu Swabia, which crave its name
to the royal race with which I am con
nected. My ideas are to work with my
eople, and to march in battle at the
ead of my people. I cbnsten thee.
Hohenzollern." '
Smallpox Epidemic In Mexico.
City of Mexico, June 28. The lainy
season has opened here and has brought
an epidemic of smallpox. In the dis
trict of Chapultepec the malady is
spreading alarmingly among children
and twenty deaths from that cause were
reported to the health office. There are
fully 200 cases in this city and tbe
death rate during the past few days has
been increasing rapidly. There are also
a number of cases of vellow fever at
Vera Cruz.
To Increase the Mail Subsidy.
Ottawa, Ont., June 28. There is a
report in political circles that the gov
ernment has resolved to ask poiliament
o increase the subsidy for the fast mail
service from $500,000 to $750,000 in or
der that the terms offered by Lord
Mount Stephen and Mr. Van Home at
their recent visit may be accepted.
91. Mouchez Dead.
Paris, June 23. Amedee Ernest Bar-
thelemy Mouchet, the well known
'rench naval officer, scientist and
writer, is dead, aged 74 years
Fatal Fire Near Paris.
Paris, June 27. In a disastrous fire
at Bercy, a suburb of this city, three
tenements were destroyed and several
Versons burned to death.
Almost Devoured by a Panther.
St. Mary's, Mo., June 28. While
Mrs. Williamson, wife of a farmer liv
ing in the Bois Brule bottom, was at
work in the house, a panther stole up
on her child in the yard, seized ic ana
carried it off. The animal Was pursued
and killed, but not before it had almost
devoured the child.
Work ot an Incendiary.
Galesburq, Ills., June 28. An un
known incendiary set fire to the hand
some residence of G. D. Crocker. The
family were fortunately aroused in time
to subdue the flamu
Washington, June 28. Secretary
Elkins has restored peace in his official
family by a decision just rendered in
regard to jurisdiction over officers de
tailed to duty with the National guard.
For some time past an interesting con
troversy has been going on between the
adjutant general's and the inspector
general's department as to which of the
two should have control of the inspec
tion of the militia. The contention
arose over the order placing militia
''matters under the control of the new
bureau of military intelligence. Tho
adjutant general's interpretation of this
order was that it transferred the work of
inspecting the militia from the inspector
general to the adjutant general in addi
tion to all other subjects relating to the
militia. The inspector general, howev
er, declined to relinquish control of the
inspection business, contending that the
word inspection was not included in the
order referred to. A lively little fight
has been going on for some weeks over
this matter.
Secretary Elkins happily settled the
dispute by directing that one officer as
signed to duty with each of the
militia encampment be required ta
report to the inspector general
for orders governing the in
spection of the militia troops, while the
others will be required to carry out
their original instructions from the ad
jutant general in regard to assisting in
the improvement of militia, under in
structions from the -various governors,
and in furnishing information for the
intelligence office Some of the officers
will thus be roauired to make two re-
iporti!-, one to the inspector general con
cerning the militia and another to the
adjutant general giving information of
a special nature, concerning the organi
zation, plans for concentration and co
operation with the regular tro ops in sup
pressing riots, invasions , etc.
The reports to the adjutant general
will be tne most interesting, but as they
are intended for the secret archives of
the intelligence office the public will
know little of their contents.
Will Pass the Anti-Option Dill.
Washington, June 28. Senator Vest
of Missouri, who is one of the most ar
dent opponents of the anti- option bill,
was asked his opinion ns to what the
final fate of- that measure would be
when it came to be considered in the
open senate:
"It will pass, in my opinion," was the
prompt reply of tho senator. "Al
though the bill may be amended some
what in the committee, I expect that
these amendments will be stricken out
by tbe senate and that the large ma
jority which tbe bill undoubtedly
has will insist upon passing it substan
tially as it came from the house. There
is -strong sentiment in the committee
that there should be a full and free vote
upon tho question, and there will be no
attempt to pigeonhole 9ii committee or
unnecessarily its consideration on the
floor."
At tho session of the committee it
was determined to hold a special meet
ing and come to a final voto upon the
bill Thursday. The present indications
are that five of the members of the com
mittee will sign a majority report
against the passage of the bill, while
four will present a minority report in
its favor.
Stewart Submits a Substitute.
Washington, June 28. Mr. Stewart
in the senate offered a substitute for hit
free silver coinage bill, one providing
that the owner of silver bullion may de
posit the same at any mint of the
United States to be coined for his ben
fit. The coins are to be legal tender for
all debts and dues, public and private.
Foreign silver coin or bullion derived
from it by melting are excluded and the
silver act of 18tK) is repealed. The sub
ititute was laid on the table and ordered
to be printed. .
. ' Congressional.
Washington, June 28. The house to
day devoted itself to the consideration
of pension bills. In the senate Mr. Hale j
called up his resolution relative to a
tariff for revenue only and made a speech
outlining the Republican attitude on
that question during tho coming cam
paign. At 1:12 p. m. the matter went
over until tomorrow.
Extending the Appropriations.
Washington, June 28. The house
committee on appropriations decided on
a joint resolution extending the present
appropriations until July 15, this action
being made necessary bj the probable
failure to pass the appropriation bills by
the-lst of July, the beginning of the fis
cal year.
Counterfeit Currency.
Huntington, Ind., June 28. Counter
feit money is afloat in this city. Several
$5 greenbacks were presented for de
posit at the Citizens' and National
banks, but their worthlessness was de
tected and they were thrown out. At
resent there is no clue to who Is hand
ing or passing this spurious money, but
evidently somebody is making a busi
ness of it and it is more than probable
that it is some person who bit at green
goods circulars sent out from New York
some time ago. The bills are said to be
very poor counterfeits.
To Oppose tbe Powder Trust.
Alton, Ills., June 28. A deal which
has been pending for some time was
closed by the transfer of ninety acres ot
land at Alton Junction, twelve miles
couth of this city, to the Equitable
Powder company, of St. Louis and New
York. The personnel of the companv is
kept secret for the present, but it is an
nounced by the local agent that work
will begin at once to erect a large powder
plant runninjr 183 mills, to be operated
in opposition to the great powder trust.
ibe work of surveying the land was
begun.
Murderers to Swing.
Camden, N. J., June 28. Sheriff
West has decided that Alfred Boyer and
James R. Morton, the colored murder
ers who are to be executed on Friday,
July 29, shall be hanged separate. Boyer
wiu da swung oil nrst and then tbe
ame rope will be used on Morton.
Hangmen Van Hise of Newark will
have charge of the details of the execu
tion. Earns the World's Championship.
Coney Island, June 2?. Dixon
knocked Johnson out in the fourteenth
round.
IN FAVOR OF THE ESHERITES-
DeelsloaertheEvaVcelleal Fight la the
Appellate Caurt.
Chicago, June 28. The 6tau)ieof
Judge Shepard in the Scvrekkw-Htuser
branch of the famous Evangelical
churoh fght was affirmed Is the appel
late court here. Similar suits are now
pending in several states and in xbIh
points in Illinois. This decision is in
favor of the Esheritee, and declares the
Dubs party's standpoint unauthorized.
The Water la Chicago.
Chicago, June 28. The great volume
of water which has been disturbing the
equanimity of the residents of the south
ern suburbs of this city is unabated, but
it has ceased to rise and if there are ne
further rains the trouble will be over.
AdTentlst State Camp Meeting.
Madison, S. D., June 28. The Ad
ventist state camp meeting is in full
blast at Lake Herman grove and thou
sands are in attendance.
PROSPECTS OF A BATTLE.
Dictator Palacio's Overthrow Falls ts
Bring Peace to Tenesuela Other
Leaders Fighting.
Ccracoa, June 28. The resignation
and departure of ex-President Palacio oi
Venezuela has not brought peace tc
that war-worn republic. It is said that
Vice Ppeaident Villegas and General
Monages have taken charge of affairs
with the intentien of reorganizing the
government on lines already laid out.
A proposition was made to General
Crespo to join in their plan of reorgani
zation, but he promptly refused, and an
nounces that he will consent to no
other plan of reorganization than that
laid down in the constitution.
His argument is that while they cut
off the head of the dragon when they
sent Palacio into exile they left the
claws and body of the beast in Villegas
and Monages. Crespo with his army is
said to bo marching rapidly on Caracas,
and a desperate and decisive battle it
said to be imminent, certainly within
a few days.
Pennsylvania Storm Swept.
Philadelphia, June 28. Last night'i
storm was one of the worst ever known
in eastern Pennsylvania. In Reading
the streets were .flooded and many
bouses were struck by lightning. In
Chester county the storm was the worst
known in twenty years and
the damage to crops and buildings is
unprecedented. At Crum Lynne a rail
road train was struck by lightning and
several persons hurt. At Chester the
streets were flooded and buildings
wrecked. From Hamburg, Berks county,
comes a rumor which has not been veri
fied, that a half dozen lives were lost,
and from all over this section the re
ports are of widespread damage.
Girls Fight a Duel.
Charleston, Wa. Va., June 28.
Misses Gertrude Hager and Lizzie
Spears are two of the handsomest
young ladies in the section of Lincoln
county in which they live. The leng
continued contest Iwt.wAAn tWatn fnr
social preference led to bitter enmity.
anu (Miss apears, navmg recently made
several conquests by her superior
charms, her rival, Miss Hager, could
stand it no longer, and one day last
week challenged the object of her hatred
to mortal combat and fired five shots at
her. She nroved A had marlramnn and
none of the shots took effect. Miss
spears was before Justice Smith the dav
following for a warrant in restrain hnV
enemy from further violnnm
end is not yet.
Death of Mrs. Boutelle.
Banoor, Me., June 28. Mrs. Boutelle.
wife of tho congressman, died suddenly
of heart failure.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
hanged her aon, Frank, in ah effort to
murder.
The London Times' St. Patersburg
correspondent savs that the cholera hM
reached Tiflis. In their panic tbe Rus
sian iruusua&piau censors are suppressing
cholera telegrams of newspapers.
Brooks Trout, colored, ruBhed into a
restaurant in Rock Island. 111., where
his wife was eating supper with a man
and snot her twice. He then went to
the Y. M. C. A. buildincr and killed him
self.
A Texas steer ran bellowinsr through
the streets of Brooklyn and before he
was killed tossed and trampled on a
man and two boys, injuring one of the
latter so severely that it is thought he
cannot live.
At Walkerville, HI., Frank Painter
and Perry Johnson engaged in a street
duel with revolvers. Fifteen shots were
fired and Painter was slightly wounded
in the leg and Johnson fatally injured
by a shot in the abdomen. Both men
were toughs.
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago. June Ss.
WHEAT July. 79c: September. We.
CORN-July. A&c; 8eptembr, 4fc.
OATS-J uly, 32icj September. 31Wa31c
PORK-July, I11.1.K; September, $11.45:
i,Aiiu-juiT, so.bjh: September. Si.nzH.
onwn i hlds tiutv.
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17.30; September,
Chicago Live Stock.
U:o: Stock Yards.
Cuicaoo, June 28. (
CATTLE Estimated receipts 4.S00 head.
Common to extra streers, S3.80ffi4.SO: cows
and bulls. 12.ttJ03.75; Texaus. S1.25a.G0; west
erns, 2.40t&2 CO. Market strong.
HUGS Estimated receipts IS, 000 head.
Heavy t&.lS&a.K; mired and medium. 15.10
5.60: light. V. Oi5 40. Market strong.
SHBEP-Infericr t extra, S3.60&8.00: lambs.
$3.8005.40; westerns. $3.00-50.
Kansas City JLive Stock.
Kaksas Citt, Jane 38.
CATTLE Receipts, 6.600; shipments. LS00.
Native steers steady. S3.80e3.40; cows, $1,000
1.75; Tim stera dull. $1.7&&165.
QOOS-Receipts, 3.0M); shipmente, 5,00.
Market steady; all grades. $t.45&5..
Omaha Live Stock.
Uffiow Stock Ya rds.
UMAX A, June . f
CATTLE Estimated receipts, 1300 head.
1.300 to 1.500 lbs. $3.604.50; L100 to 1,300 Ike.
$3.5004 15; goo to 1 100 lbs, $3.404.00: eho'ce
cows. $Z.603. common cows, $1.351.40;
good feeders. $3.0u3.4(i; comnten feeders.
I2.30jt3.75. Market strong and active.
HOGS Estimated receipts 9,100 head.
Light, $5.(iO5.1S: mixed, $5.0O5.15; heavy,
$5.056.17. Market 5c to lUc higher.
Peary Kellef Party Sails.
New York, June 28. The steamship
Miranda, of the Red Cross line, with
the Peary relief party aboard, sailed
from Brooklyn at 4:30 o'clock last even
ing. Alice Blltch ell's Case Postponed.
Memphis, Tenn., June 28. The cele
brated Mitchell case, in which Alice)
1 Mitchell is to be tried under a plea of
present insanity, which she sets np as an.
excuse for killing Freda Ward, was
called in the criminal court and con
tinued until July 18, on account of the
state failinsr to fecure two witnesses.
New Process Stove !
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Consumes less gasoline than any.
Call and inspect its workings.
All perishable parts are absolutely pro
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rode. The oven is elevated to a convenient
height, thus preventing stooping.
SHE DREfTl PENSION.
Mrs. Taylor, an Iowa Temperance
TVorker, Broughtto Book.
WAS FORGED TO DISGORGE.
Surgeon Taylor Languished in nn Insaae
Asylum and His Wife Kept the
Money The Rightful Owner
Get sthe Benefit at Lut.
Chicago, Juno 28. General John N.
Stibbs, the chief pension examiner in
this district, and District Attorney Gil
christ, hare just completed an investi
gation of a remarkable pension fraud
and compelled the restoration of over
$8,000 diverted from the rightful owner.
John S. Taylor was a surgeon in the
Twenty-third Illinois volunteer infant
ry. He lost his health in the service of
his country and in March, 1869, made
application for a pension. Two months
later Dr. Taylor was adjudged innane
and sent to the asylum at Jacksonville,
this state. Since then he has been hope
lessly insane and has been by turns
confined as a pauper in the asylums'at
Dunning and Kankakee, where he now
is, an old man 67 years of age.
His wife, Mrs. Alice L. Taylor, who
lives at Mt. Pleasant, la., and who has
been prominent as a lecturer and writor
on temperance, has been drawing her
husband's pension of a month since
1874, not one penny of which has been
spent for the benefit of the insane man.
In all she has received from the g vern
ment $16,t64. General Stibbs recently
went to Mt. Pleasant to Mrs. Taylor's
home and found that of the money she
had received from the government
she had saved $10,000, which was in
Tested in notes and. securities. After
he had secured all the facts showing
that no part of the money had been used
for the benefit of Dr. Taylor, General
Stibbs secured an order of court cit
ing Mrs. Taylor to come here and make
an accounting. This she at once did.
At a consultation with District At
torney Gilchrist it was decided to set
tle the case at once and secure what
funds were at hand to be used for the
immediate benefit of Dr. Taylor. It
was agreed by Mrs. Taylor that she
would surrender $8,100 of the funds
she had. She did so and was dismissed
from her conservatorship and the Illi
nois Trust and Savings bank was
appointed conservator in her stead.
General Stibbs Bays that it was thought
best not to prosecute Mrs. Taylor as
she is an invalid and made no fight to
retain tbe money. Mrs. Taylor gave no
explanation of her neglect of the Dr.
except to say as h was hopelessly in
sane she could do nothing for him.
The authorities at Kankakee say, how
ever, that had Taylor had the benefit of
the ample pension due him he would
noi have been in the holplessly insane
state he now is.
Cashier and Treasurer Missing-.
Mir dletown, N. Y., June 28. The
Goshen National bank did not open.
William Murray the cashier and county
treasurer, is missing. The bank has
$1 10,000 capital. It reported, May 17,
surplus of $29,000, deposits $18,000, and
total assets $447,000. The stockholders
are wealthy men and, if the investiga
tion does not show too heavy a loss, will
put the bank on its feet again. Cashier
Murray received a salary of $2,000 and
$3,000 as county treasurer.
A Leather Trust.
Trenton, N. J., June 28. Articles of
incorporation of a leather trust were
filed in the secretary of state's office.
The company will be known as Rice &
Hutchinson, incorporated. The capital
stock is $1,000,000. The business of
the company will be manufacturing
leather and selling boots and shoes and
other leather articles. Its headquarters
iHhaat Boaton.
Oflleers Afraid of the Daltons.
Nobman, O. T., June 28. Advices
from county "D" say that the United
States deputy marshals, twelve in num
ber, who were searching for the Santa
Fe train robbers, met the Dalton boys,
who were supposed to have committed
the crime, a snort distance from Taloga,
but did not have the courage to capture
thawi.
New High Water Mark.
Rock Island, His., June 28 .A new
high water mark was established in tha
Mi ssissippi. The river attained a maxi
mum height of 19 4-10 feet, which is one
fifth of a foot of being a foot higher
than it has ever been before. The
water ia gradually receding though
much of the city is inundated, and the
town of Milan, south of here is complete
ly engnlfed. James Post, a citizen of
that place, while attempting to ford a
street near the river, was carried by the
swift current into the Rock river and
drowned.
Charlton Gets the Court Houeo.
Chaiuton, la., June 28. The hotly
contested county seat ficht that has
been in progress in Lucas county for
several months is coming to a close.
Chariton will get the new court house.
The board of supervisors will call a
special election to vote bonds to the
amount of $60,000 for the purpose of
building of the court house and work
will be begun on the structure as soon
as plans and specifications can be ob
tained. William Zimras of FItztown.
Philadelphia, June 28. William
Zimm8, postmaster of Fitztown, Berks
county, is under $1,000 bail on a charge
of opening letters addressed to William
Charman, iustico of the peace. Mr.
Zimms has been postmaster at Fitztown
for fourteen years. The prosecuting
witness, Justice Charman, is the posc-
inastflr'B Imnd.tmnn.
A ototner's ailitalie.
Phillipsburq, N. J., Juno 28. While
Mrs. John Skillman was playing with a
Flobert riflo the weapon discharged and
the ball passed through the heart of an
11-yoar-old daughter, killing her in
stantly. The mother says she did not
know the weapon was loaded.
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