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i ! 4 - 1 0. L. WILLIAMS, Tobacco and Cigars, Fruits and Nuts of all Kinds. 9 Mtth nhmt C. L, WILLIAMS, "We are making Fresh Candies daily. Come and see. VOL. X. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1894. NO. 6. mi Our Grea Oh! -:- FOUR DATS ONLY, Beginning Friday, Feb. 16th, and ends Tuesday,Feb. 20fch TOLD IN A FEW WORDS EVENTS OCCURRING IN ALL SECTIONS SUMMARIZED. The Many Happenings of Seven Days Be. duced From Columns to Lines Every thing bat Facts Eliminated For Oar Read era' Convenience. During these four days we will give away free of cliarjre a pair of Rubbers with every pair of ladies', mi ses' and children's shoes sold. Four Big Bargains in Hosiery. The greatest hosiery bargains ever offered. 35 dozen ladies' fast black hose, never sold in this town for less than 15 cents, at this sale for Seven cents a pair. Twenty-five dozen ladies' fast black hose, would be cheap at 20 cts., at this sale for 10 cents a pair. Twenty-five dozen ladies' full. regular made fast black hose, "a good leader at some stores at 25 cents; our price for this sale 15 cts per pair. Forty dozen boys' and misses' ribbed hose, regular made, always sold at 25 cents, at this sale 15 cents a pair. AH our woolen hosiery for ladies and. children, worth from 25 to 40 cents, take j-our choice at twenty cents a pair. OUR PRICES ON DRY GOODS are ahvuvs 35 per cent cheaper than you can buy elsewhere. Lonsdale bleached muslin, a yard wide, for 7i cents; unbleached yard wide, at 4- and 5i cents; iOO pieces of machine made linen 1 i 1 la n 11 iz varus to tne piece, only ten cents per piece; a mil line or embroidery and laces just received. sell muslin, Everything at reduced prices. Remember that we don't offer you odds and ends or racket goods, fire goods or auction goods as some stores in town do; nothing but first quality and best makes of good. Eemember the place. I BOX. 35391 Grady Block. J. PIZER, Prop. WRECKER OF HIGH PRICES. Happy Greeting to All an, Davis, the Hardware Has just received the Nicest Assortment 01 Lamps to be found in the west. Also a nice line of silver-plated lea ana uoiiee rots ana J ea-Kctries; sometmng new, combining beauty and durability. We handle the ACOEIT STOV3S, cook and heating, for either soft or hard coal, which wil be sold regardless of cost for the next three weeks. Re member we carry a full line of Hardware, Stoves and Tinware and would be pleased to have you call and see us A. L. DAVIS, - - - GASH STO RE. Repairing Promptly Executed. North Platte National Bank, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. 3?aid it 3 Capital, 44 $75,000. DIKECTOltS: O. M. CAKTER, M. C. LINDSAY, II. OTTKN, W W DIKOK, C. F. IDDINOS, A. F. STliniTZ, AH business intrusted to us handled promptly, carefully, and at lowest rates. n. w. BAKER. JL OUERST, A. D. BUCK WORTH c. F. IDDINGS, LUMBER, I 7 COAL, ; Order by telephone from Newton's Book Store. Dr. N. McOABE, Prop. J. E. BUSH, Manager. NORTH PLATTE PHARMACY, Successor to J. Q. Thacker. OSrOilTEC PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. WE AIM TO HANDLE THE BEST GRADE OF GOODS, BELL THEM AT REASONABLE PRICES, AND WARRANT EVERYTHING AS REPRESENTED. Wednesday, Feb. 7. Thomas Lowry, a laborer, was killed at ttalveston by a heavy boom, which fell on his head. M. V. N. Blackburn, founder and for a long time editor of the National Traveler, died in lies Moines. Nearly 500 guests attended the seventh annual dinner of the Rochester, N. Y., chamber or commerce. The fear of a smallpox epidemic has subsided at Otsego, Mich., and the public schools have reopened. Troop K, Fifth cavalry, won the Nevada trophy for best general average in revol- Ter, carbine and rifle firing. Attorney Quiinhy recovered a verdict for 1,665 against Mrs. George S. Hoyt for attorney fees at Denver, Colo. R. M. Dickerson. wanted at Keithsburz. Ills., for obtaining money under false pre tenses, was arrested at South Bend, Ind Charles A. Ivloeb of Celina, O., sued treorge Kroeger for $3,000 damages for publishing an article which led to Kloeb's defeat. Ihe girl who died in a Grand Rapids nospitai proves to be a daughter of Arnold Gage of Sanlt Ste. Marie. She ran away nve years ago. The opening of schools at Granlsburg Wis., has been postponed to April 1, ow ing to the continued prevalence of dip theria. An illicit whisky still has been seized on the farm of John Laser near Bremen. Ind. Laser is a prominent farmer and was al ways regarded as a law-abiding citizen. Will Marsh, assistant cashier of the BankofMinto, X. D., attempted suicide by shooting. He cannot recover. His ac counts appear to be correct. lie is un married. John Eckert. has brought suit for $5,000 damages against F. C. Miller ut Val paraiso, Ind. Miller testified against Eckert on a charge of murdering Ambrose Rude, of which Eckert was acquitted. Several other similar suits will be brought. A Catholic congress, the holding of which was forbidden in Naples, has been summoned to meet in Rome Feb. 15. The pope has ordered that the proceedings shall be private in order not to irritate the government. Thursday, Feb. 8. Lena Wetherdl, IS years old, took her life by poison at Oskaloosa, la. The second annual convention of Pacific coast fire chiefs began in San Francisco. One case of smallpox has appeared at Ottumwa, la., and caused a stampede after vaccine. Captain James Gault, who commanded the first steamboat on the Monongahela river, is dead. While attempting to save her 3-vear-old 3ister a 6-year-cld heroine at Guthrie, O. T., was fatally burned. The twentieth annual meeting of the Illinois State Dairymens! association is to begin in Dixon Feb. 21. Colored yeople who established a colonv in Marlboro Township, O., two years ago, have returned to Virginia. Albert Nansker, one of the Olinhant train robbers, was convicted of murder in the first degree at Newport, Ark. Contractor Peter liarson has filed a lien fort0,000on the Nelson and Fort Shep pard railroad in the state of Washing ton. During the blizzard in Oklahoma Wal ter Shaller froze to death, and a family of five are frozen so badly they cannot re cover. The case of Field Bros., indicted for il legal banking, brought to Independence, la., from Black Hawk county, has been postponed to the March term. The First National bank of Arkansas City, Kan., which was placed in the hands of a receiver Jnne IS, 1893, has been per mitted to reopen for business. The Iowa State Plumbers' association metatDes Moines and elected officers. The next annual meeting will be held at Burlington. Captain James Fleming and Mate Stephen Tyo of Kingston, Ont., were pre sented with medals for bravery at the time of the Glenora wreck in 1892. Professor W. S. Dysinger, principal of the normal department of Carthage col lege, Carthage, Ills., has resigned to enter the Lutheran ministry. Friday, Feb. 9. The reported case of smallpox at Keo saupua, la., proves to be a bad cold. Ten business houses at Montgomery, Mo., burned, causing a loss of 100,000. Governor and Mrs. Altgeld left Spring field for Hot Springs, to be absent a week. The public schools at Galena, Ills., have been closed owing to the prevalence of diphtheria. The investigation into the killing of Captain Hedberg by Lieutenant Maney at Fort Sheridan has begun. The proposition to issue $200,000 in bond for school purposes at St. Joe, Mo., car ried by a two-thirds majority. John Birran fell dead from excitement at Osage, la., while trying to save the house of John Fordham from fire. The strike at the Cripple Creek, Colo., gold fields has ended, the mine owners conceding an eight-hour day at S3. Chairman Breidenthal of the Kansas Populist state committee is being talked of as a nominee for governor of that state, The Kearney, Neb., cotton mill will be gin operations as soon as needed repairs can be made, employing at least 500 opera tors. Bishop Rademacher of Fort Wayne, Ind., got judgment for $500 against W. P. Bedwell, editor of the A. P. A. paper for libel. The striking carpenters at St. Louis have returned to work, the contractors having receded from their demand for a reduction. The convention of the Iowa Brick and Tile association was held at Des Moines. Papers on trade subjects were read and discussed. Some one put a dyuamite cartridge in a kitchen stove at Huntington, Ind. It ex ploded, wrecking the kitchen and injuring Mrs. Bishoff. Gast.iv Gormion strangled himself at a cheap lodging house in Terre Haute, Ind. He tied a rope around his neck and twisted it with a clothes brush. Ex-Vice President Leonard of the de funct Santa Clara, Cal., bank pleaded not guilty to nine indictments for wrecking the bank. He is out on $14,000 bail. - Major Allen Wilson, who was slaught ered by-King Lobengula, was a tall, pow- Mrs. Catherine Harman sued Dr. J. M. Dean of Springfield, Ohio, for $10,000 for neglect in setting her broken leg. The commissioner general of Russia at the midwinter fair gave a reception to Harriet Hosmer, the sculptress. Mrs. Anne Mcintosh was instantly kil led on a grade crossing at Saginaw, Mich. It is thought to be a case of suicide. John White and John Hayes, supposed to have committed many robberies at Freeport, Illinois, have been arrested. George A. Miller was arrested at Fort Wayne, charged with beating Warsaw farmers out of 6,000 bushels of wheat. The Kitz Implement company, which will employ 250 men, accepted a -550,000 bonus to locate at Anderson, Indiana. J. M. Day, former owner of the Dris kill hotel, at Austin, Texas, sued M. B. Curtis, the actor, and his wife for $2,803. A skeleton found on the beach near St. Joseph, Michigan, is supposed to be that of the captain or cook of the Havana, wrecked in 1SS7. Dr. Will" Nolin, who killed John and Will Turner at Harlan Court House, Kentucky, Tuesday, has been indicted for manslaughter. Judge Bellinger of the United States district court at Portland, Oregon, denied the motion of William Dunbar, convicted of smuggling opium, for a new trial. Frank Harder was arrested on suspicion at Denver. He wore trousers which have been identified as belonging to the mur dered Harrv Carr. Goldmark and Conried of New York, recovered judgment for 7,803 against John Kreling of the Tivoli Opera house, San Francisco, for royalties. Fred Altenheim of Quincy, accused of i embezzling 250 from the Minnesota inrasher companv, or which he was agent, has commenced suit for $10,000 damages. ainnday, Feb. 12. Two children were burned to death in a house near Bonne Terre, Mo. The Transmississippi Commercial con gress will meet Tuesday at San Francisco. C. F. Ruser, an old man, was stabbed and killed by his son Fred at San Francisco. mm M ENTOMBED CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Disastrous Cavern at t!ie Ill-fated Gaylord 3Iine Xear Wilkesharre. BUT (ME MBTER ESCAPED. Rescuers Working' Hard With Little Hope of Taking the "Men Out Alive Scenes at the Mouth of thu Slope List of the Victims. . w ilkesuakke, ira., b'eb. 13. An es tensivo cavein occurred at the Gaylord Blope of the Kingston Coal company, Plymouth, this morbing. Seventeen men are entombed. Rescuers are hard at work. There is hut little hope of get ting the men out alive. Ihe Gaylord mine or slope has been cxwshiCred an ill-fated collier' for more than a year past. Only a month ago there was an. extensive cavein of the surface which covers the whole roof of the mine. So far as can be learned the accident today was caused by a furthei depression of the surface. The superintendent of the mine reports mac only la men aro entombed, but 17 are missing. T 1 1." f i , - iT-eiuuves oi i no entombed men are gathered at the month of the slope and their cries of distress would move the stoutest heart. Everything is being done to rescue the men. List of the Missing. xne loilowmg are the names of the men entombed: Thomas Leischon, Michael Wulsh, Peter McLaughlin, John Arer, Dan Morgan, Joseph Ords, Thomas Picton. Thomas Jones, Richard Davis. John Mollis, James Kingdon, Thoimis Morris and Thomas Cole. Nearly all are married, with large families. It Is Charles J. Karrar, Swiss consul at Cin- j now believed all the men were caught in orders from the country and along the line of the Union Pacific Railway Solicited. erful fellow of military build and bearing. Though only So years of age'he had seen 16 years of hard service in South Africa. The scientists of Mount Hamilton, Berk ey, Palo Alto, Oakland and SanlFrancis- co are waiting impatiently for a scientifi cally correct report of the facts in connec tion with the meteor that passed over Cal ifornia and fell in Nevada. Saturday, Feb. 10. W. Lowe received a life sentence at Hillsboro, N. D., for killing a policeman. William Metier was killed at Mount Gilead, Uaio, by a didn't-kuowit-was loaded gun. Supervisors of Livingston county, Illi nois, voted to erect a new building on the poor farm to cost $40,000. cinnati, was knocked down and arrested while drunk. Receiver Mink denies that the Union Pacific will abandon the Kansas Central, as has been reported. A sheriff and posse had a desnarate fight with a band of horse thieves about 10 miles from Abilene, Tex. Kansas board of railway commissioners have ordered lumber rates from Kansas City to Wichita reduced. George Williams, the murderer of John Terrell, was sentenced at Pittsburg to 12 years in the penitentiary. It is announced from Paris, Ills., that Congressman A. J. Hunter is not out of the race for a reuomination. Near Harrodsburg, Kv., Mrs. Samuel Milton was taken from her bed by white capsand mercilessly whipped. Prince Galitzine of Russia joined the Salvation Army at New York and re turns home to push the work there. Charles Williams was convicted on two counts and James Robinson on a single count of violatiou of the Kansas liquor law. The trial of Bishop Bonacum at Lin coln, Neb., came to an unexpected end, when the court sustained a motion to dismiss. J. W. Argabright, a. South Omaha po liceman, shot and killed William Schmelt zicr, his father-in-law, at Nemaha City. Neb. Antonio Luciano and Antonio Begidio wens sentenced to be hanged May 10 at Grenfell, Man., for the murder of a com panion. Saloonkeeper Brockman of Quincy has been sued for $5,000. He sold whisky to a little boy, who thereby made two little girls drunk. George Polk and Walter Cribbs were arrested at Hartshorne, I. T., for the mur der of Alexander Lanier at Birmingham, Ala., in October. Tuesday, Fel. 13. John B. Lamont, father of Secretary La- mont, is dead. Frank Bootz died at Peoria. Ills., of smallpox. The house has been thorough ly disinfected and no epidemic is feared The Canadian cabinet has decided to call parliament together March 15. It has also been decided to make no change in canal tolls'for the ensuing season. Cleveland and Detroit capitalists have organized a syndicate to operate extensive coal mines at Barboursville, Ky. At Johns, Ala., Dennis Clements and ill Barge quarreled over a girl. Barge shot and killed Clements. Deputy Sheriff Chat llolman blew Barge's head off with a shotgun. The Alabama National bank and J. C, Henley have closed up Charles Newman Jr. and Co. at Birmingham, by attach menis aggregating ?'J,uuu. The assets are 510,000, consisting of a stock of men's fur nishing goods. Alimony von ueumau has gone insane at Dubuque, la., by application to the study of astrology. Plans have been perfected for the organ ization of the Students Art league at Du buque, In., modeled after the famous art school in New York. ml . r t j i nomas .Miner was louuti dead near Thompscnville, Ills. It has been reported that he was shot in a drunken row, but the details are not known. Louis Gephart kept $500 in an old chest at Huntington, Ind., being afraid of banks. hull he looked for it he discov ered $400 had been stolen. John McKane, a wealthy farmer of Ed gar, Neb., was found dead in bed by neighbors. McKane was a bachelor liv ing alone. The cause of his death is be lieved to have been heart trouble. The Public Ledger appeared Monday with the name of George W. Childs Drexel at the head of its editorial column. The case of George Woodruff, a promi nent farmer near Mulberry, Ind.. is at tracting great attention among medical men. The last even weeks he has not slept an aggregate of an hour. the fall and are dead. .lomi onucty, who was at work with the entombed men, escaped with his li'. by a hairs breadth. The fall rat hi iium mc umtM. v.iuKers iy auouc two feet, making sort of a dividing wall be tween him and his companions. Im mediately after the roof had fallen in hp could hear the men who were entombed groaning, then all was silent. He ran and gave the alarm and the work of rescue was at once begun. THE Fill 12 IlKCOIII). Awosan .mionio Iiott'Is 7nrni-d a:n! the Courthouse UaniaKcd. Sax Antonio, Tes., Ftb. VX Fire ata a. in. destroyed th Lmivn.l mi.l viii-i.ii uuteis, logjLiier wiru an their furnishings. The hotels adjoin each ether and were filled with gut sts, all of whom escaped, but mainly in their nighs attire and without baggage. The loss is placed at 100.000. riL; "nvv courthouse was damaged $13,000 worth. Insurance, 50,000. Fireman Will Zantsinger, Ed Hargrove and K. E. Sebastian wvro buried lieaenth falbni debris imd seriously, ierhaps ratauy, injured. Tkore is no Imown cause ror the lire, but incendiarism is the theory. The fire began in the Central hotel. Until Iron Works Ile-stroyrd. Bath, Me., Feb. 1J. Fire destroyed the Bath Iron works. Loss 155,ifi0; partially insured. Senators Quay and Teller DIscium the Bond Issue Question. Washlvotox, Feb. 6. The Hawaiian debate conclnded Tuesday but the entire resolution was not passed because of the failure of the Democrats to secure a qnornm when a vote was taken. Much less opposition from the Democrats de veloped than was at one time expected. Washington, Feb. 6. The senate did not come to a vote on the federal election bill Tuesday, as was anticipated. Sev eral senators who had not hitherto spoken desired an opportunity to be heard on the measure and, by unanimous consent, tho time of general debate was extended. The chief event of the day was the speech of Senator Frye (Me.). Washington. Feb. 7. The bill repeal ing in toto all federal laws regulating the control of congressional elections has passed both houses of congress and only waits tho signature of President Cleve land to become a law. After several weelffi of discussion the senate Wednes day finally came to a vote on the house bill repealing the federal election laws and it passed by a vote of 39 ayes to 23 navs. Washington, Feb. 7. By a vote of IT- to 57 the house Wednesday adopted tho resolution condemning Minister Stevens and sustaining tho Hawaiian policy of Mr. Cleveland. Washington. Feb. H The right of the secretary to issue bonds at this time was again the subject of controversy in the senato Thursday. Senator Stewart's resolution came up under the rule, and Senator Butler's motion to refer it to the judiciary committee was the only oppo sition. Senator Quay took a decided stand m iavor of (lisjwsing of the matter in open session, instead of giving it a de cent burial by referring it to a committee from which it would never emerged, and intimated Senator Sherman gave to the country an apparent justification of Sec retary Carlisle's action when the Ohio senator clearly knew it to be illegal. A strong speech was made bv Senator Teller, in which he deprecated the de- plorablo financial condition of the conn- try, and called upon liis Republican col leagues to bear their fair share of the re sponsibility of the causes and not attempt to throw upon the Democratic party the entire burden of devising remedies for the impending panic. The question went over. The senate then resumed its old prac tice of adjourning from Thursday until Monday. Washington, Feb. 8. The deadlock on Bland's silver seigniorage bill was broken after four hours of filibuster ing Thursday, after which by a vote of 10G to 40 the house carried Mr. Bland's: motion to going into committee of the D Awarded Highest Honors World's- Fair. SPRCE'S U fissass til The only Pure Cream of Tartar Po.der. No A:maon:a;No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard. NEWS OF NEBRASKA. BRIEF BUT PITHY MENTION OF HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK. TH TO INVESTIGATE JUDGE JENKINS. Resolution Favorablr Itcoorted by tit I House Judiciary Committee. i Washington, Feb. 13. The house j committee on judiciary today voted in ; favor of reporting to the house a resolu tion for an investigation into the coarse of District Judge Jenkins in restraining employes of the Northern Pacific railroad from quitting work. The vote was 7 to G. Senator Vilas (Wis.) appeared before the committee and urged that the ques tion was of such importance that it shonld not be voted upon until counsel had been heard. In accordance with this suggestion a motion wa made to postpone the vote until next Monday and in the meantime Eight inches of Snow in oinaiin. hear counsel. This was voted down by Omaha, Feb. 10. A heavy snow began : 7 to C and the resolution was then agreed falling at 3 a. m. and is still in progress, j on to be reported at once. Had th with about eight inches on a level, f proposition to hear counsel prevailed. Street car traffic is blocked and the rail- j Colonel Robert Ingersoll would probably roads are much hindered in moving trains, j imve anneared for the labor interests and several prominent lawyers for the other side. The resolution reported is a snb- stitute for the one introduced by Mr. Mc- Gann but differe little from that ongin- NeTTs Which Tell the Story of Seven Days' Crimes and Casualties and Other Impor tant Matters Arranged Attractively and Given In a Few Word. A Ulg Bankrupt Sale. Kearney, Neb., Feb. 12. The large 6tock of bankrupt goods left by the recent frilure of E. Walker & Sons at this place was sold at sheriffs sale to Belle M. Cot ter of St. Louis for 530,000. Policeman Murders His Fathcr-In-Ijw. Omaha, Feb. 12. A special to the Bee from Auburn, Neb., says that J. W. Argabright, a South Omaha policeman, shot and killed his father-in-law, "William Smeltzer, at a school exhibition near Nemaha City. ally presented. It authorizes the judic iary committee to proceed on the investi gation into Judge Jenkins course. Representative Boatner will introduce Charged With Embezzlement. it into the house tomorrow It W3S Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 12. Hen- thought best bv the subcommittee to pre- ry Ranken, cashier of the Farmers' and ! Bent a substitute for the McGann resolu- Merchants Bank of Talmage was ar-1 tion because that resolution in rested charged with embezzlement. The ! its preamble seemed to assume, amount is placed at 15,000. The case ' that Judge Jenkins' actions had been was continued, Ranken giving bond. j -wrongful. The committee did not want Bishop Bonacum's Trial. : ? Ulke des in advance of the investiga Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 10,-In the trial ! faon- members of the subcommittee of Bishop Bonacum for libeling Father , Jf aSed that an investigation would Corbett, Judge Spencer decided this ' 1x3 desirable. morning to admit in evidence the circu- lar letter suspending Corbett from the ; priesthood as tending to show malice on the part of the prelate. It was also de- INDIAN LANDS IN UTAH. Uintah and Uncompahgre Holdings May lie Thrown Open to Settlement. Washington, Feb. 13. The problem whole for consideration of his bill. The eastern Democrats and the great mass of Republicans made a determined opposi tion. On the final vote 10G Democrats and all the Populists voted with him, while 22 Democrats joined with tho Re publicans in refusing to vote. It is thor oughly understood quite a number of next month, without regard to the. Wil- Democrats who voted with Mr. Bland son bill or any other tariff complications were in favor of certain modifications of In an interview the count, after speaMng tho bill, idthough they would not carry of Nebraska's soil) said: "I will say in their opposition to the extent of voting conclusion that the cultivation of the against consideration. It is also well suirar beet Vv the American farmer will veloped that Editor Morgan, who circu- ! of settlin the Uintah and Uncompahgre lated the letter, was a bitter enemy of , nf lltnh w Pnnr,r(1 h( nrw x, j T -1 r 1 0 0 - tne pnest anti was m nau orucr in uie church because he was a Mason. tion of members of the house committee on Indian affairs at their daily meetings wm settle m Nci.ra.sKa. ' f or some time past. Delegate Rawlins I TTl.L 1 1 Til t. . f 11. . !u Omaha. Feb. !(. The colonv of Poles ian; "as a mu Deiore tne coinmmee Dy which Count Lubienski arranged to settlo at Neligh will begin to move to its homo to lxj hanging Crib Withstood the Storm. Milwaukee, Feb. 13. The crib at the lake end of the new intake tunnel with stood the onslaught of the great north east storm without the slightest damage. Anxious people watched the structure during the entire night. Clear Weather Prevails. St. Louis, Feb. 13. Advices from all parts of Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and contiguous territory are that the storm has been replaced by clear, cold weather. Traffic is rapidly resuming its normal condition. Epidemic of Youthful Suicides. City of Mexico, Feb. 13. Nemours Forge, a young Frenchman, Maria Vales-, co, a young girl, and Don Canalio ,Cor- dero, a young Mexican, committedjf sui cide here. Heavy Downpour In Mississippi. Canton, Miss., Feb. 13. The heaviest rain ever known here fell lastnightjqver- flowing creeks, carrying away bridges and doing other damage. r' .Smallpox at ?tladisun. Madison, Wr:s., Feb. 13. Matkcw Ashton. convicted of murder at Janes ville, two weeks ago and brought to the Dane count- jail for safe keeping pend ing a motion for a new trial, because the jail at Janesville was quarantined on ac count of a case of small pox was dis covered to be suffering from the disease. Ashton has wealthy friends. The su preme court had granted a writ of error in his ease and he expected to be released on bail in a few dirys. There are thirty prisoners in jail and it is feared all have been exposed. Will Fight tho Case Ilitterlj-. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 13. J. A. Smith, the populist attorney of Kansas City, Kan., who was arrested Friday night charged with criminally libeling S. S. King, police Judge of that city in an open letter to Governor Lewelling, was released on $1,000 bail. Ho has retained Mrs. Mary E. Lease, Judge D. B.Hadley, Getty & Hutchin, James Gilison and David McLaiu as his attorneys and will case bitterly. known the administration is opposed to be Ids salvation from the the bill 111 its present form. Washington, Feb. 9. The entire day in the house Friday was consumed m the debate on tho Bland seigniorage bill, the speakers being Messrs. Bland, C. W. Stone, McKcighan, Harter, and Kilgore. It is expected a vote on tho bill will be reached Tuesday and Mr. Bland is confident it will nass. Washington, Feb. 10. Todav was set aside for eulogies upon the life of the late Representative O'Neill (Pa.), and Senator Stanford (Cal.), but on account of the death of Mr. Houck (O.), that order was vacated and the house adjourned out of respect to the memory of the dead Ohio representative. Washington, Feb. 12. A new turn was given Monday to the silver discus sion in the house by. Mr. Bland's an nouncement that he would move at a later day to amend the pending bill so that silver certificates would be issued only as fast as silver dollars were coined with the added authority to the secretary of the treasury to issue the certificates in financial ruin over him at fight th Also a Digamist. Davenport, Feb. 13. Recent develop ments show that Dr. Morey, who mar ried a rich Scott county widowjand then eloped with her 20-year-old daughter, is a bigamist. He has another wife in Indiana. Officers cannot locate the run aways. Presidential Nominations. Washington, Feb. 13. The president sent the following nominations to the senate: To be superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia, Eugene Townsend; to be collector of the port of Philadel phia, John R. Read; to be naval surveyor at Philadelphia, P. Gray 3Ieck; Major James Gillico, quartermaster, to be lieu tenant colonel and deputy quartermaster general; Captain Chase R. Barnell, assist ant quartermaster, to be major and quar termaster. Internal llcvcnue Itcceipts Increasing. Washington, Feb. 13. The -receipts from internal revenue during the first 10 days of the present month aggregated 1,070.211, as against $1,314,801 during the corresponding period last year, a gain of $3G4,'107. This tremendous increase is regarded by treasury officials as a sure sign of returning business activity, Elk Leaving the Mountains. Lander, Wy., Feb. 13. It is esti mated that not less than 10,000 elk have come out from the mountains and foot hills onto the plains between Fort Washakie and the head of the Wind river to escape the deep snows. Ellegau Sentenced to Hang. Oklahoma City, O. T., Feb. 13. The jury m the John M. Lllegan case, charged with murder, brought in a ver dict of murder in the first degree and as sessed the punishment at death. Treasurer Armstrong Escapes. Peru, Ind., Feb. 13. Calvin E. Arm strong, the embezzling treasurer of Tip ton count, who was sentenced to the penitentiary Saturday, escaped from the Kokomo jail. advance of the coinage if he so desired. Tin's change is designed to overcome one of the mam objections of Secretary Car lisle to the bill. Tin's objection is shared by many members of the house to such n extent that the passage of the seig niorage 0111 was 111 (lount. The change now proposed by Mr. Bland obviates the objections so that the passage of the seig niorage bill is regarded as certain. On motion of Mr. Perkins a bill author izing the extension of the time for the construction ot a high wagon bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City was passed. On motion of Mr. Meikel jolm (Neb.) a bill granting a charter to the Iowa-Nebraska Pontoon Bridge com pany to construct a bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City was passed. Washington, Feb. 12. The Hawaiian controversy occupied the principal time of the senate Monday. Senator Gray (Del.) opening his argument in defense of the policy of President Cleveland. His speech was devoted principally to an at tempt to prove tho complicity of Minis ter Stevens with the revolutionists. He that seems present." Bonacum Cites Phclan Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 13. With the charges against him dismissed Bishop proposes to turn the tables on on his late prosecutors. Constable Spelts served papers on Father Phelan, who took such an active part in the prosecution, sum moning him to appear before Vicar Gen eral Hartig of the Lincoln diocese Thurs day, March 1, to answer charges and specifications made against him by the Bishop. DEBS ON THE DECISION. Old Kate of Wages Will Hold Good In Wyoming- antl Colorado. Omaha, Feb. 10. The Union Pacific men are greatly elated over the decision of the federal court at Denver overruling the order of Judge Dundy here. Eugene Debs, of the American Railway union, in speaking of the decision today, said: "Unless the decision is reversed bv Judge Caldwell the old rate of wages will hold good in Wyoming and Colorado, and I am inclined to believe that Judge Caldwell will concur in the opinion just rendered. He is recognized by all railroad men as an honest judge, and the railroad com pany, knowing this, will most likely be slow to carr- the case up to him. I consider this a great victory for the employes. Our organization will hold a meeting at Cheyenne shorth and at that time there will ye represen tatives of all the men on the system. We shall do nothing rash, but shall act with good common sense." Mr. Delxs left this afternoon for Kan sas City, where he will address a meeting of railroad employes tomorrow night. Another meeting of the employes of the road here will lie held tomorrow night and the business men of -the city have been invited to attend and confer with the men on the situation. Interstate Irrigation Association. Salina, Kan., Feb. 9. J. L. Bristow, secretary of the Interstate Irrigation as sociation, left here for Omaha, Neb., to meet the board of trade of that city. did not conclude his sneech. An inter- Ane meeting is tor the pnrpose ofar- esting incident of the session was the ranging preliminaries for a great irriga- presentation by Senator Cullom of a pe- tion convention to be held in Omaha next tition signed by 30,000 woolgrowers of mont.h- . The irrigation movement began the west protesting against the wool in this city last-September and is rapidly schedule in the new tariff bill. assuming large proportions and practical Senator Pettigrew presented a resolu- s" are also reported among the tion directing the secretary of airricul- farmers of northwestern Kansas. which the Indians are to be given lands in severalty, 80 acres for each head of a family and 40 acres each for other In , dians. He proposes that the remainder of the land shall be thrown open to set tlement by United States citizens, a settler to be allowed 160 acres at $1.23 an acre. The mineral lands and lands con taining timber of commercial value to be excluded from the plan and governed in their disposition by existing laws. The Uintahs now hold about 2,300,000 acres and their neighbors, the Uncoin pahgres about 1,700,000 or about 2,800 acres for each Indian. Dilficnlties exist over the title of tho Un compahgres to the lands they hold. As phalt deposits of great commercial value have recently been discovered in their conntry so that it is very desirable for settlement. Many settlers have -staked claims believing the land to be in Colo rado or claiming to think so. There is a difference of opinion in the committee over the action -to be taken, but it is thought the matter may be set tled by disposing of the mineral lands separately. Love Versus Polities. The Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, who has just been married to a young lieutenant, is spending her honeymoon in a residence presented by her grand father, the emperor of Austria. The emperor, who at first so strongly opposed tho match, as he desired the princess to be the future empress of Austria, is re ported to have said: "The poor child shall marry the man she loves. We have already made sacrifices enough to poli tics." Vienna Letter. Shipped His Wife as Household Goods. Atchison, Kan., Feb. 14. The nolice took a Mrs. Franklin out of a car of household goods billed to Omaha in which she had been beating her way from Decatjir. She had $23 and had been put in the car by her husband who did not want to pay her fare. Sho had been m the car three days and nearly frozen. was Two Youthful Burglars. Guthrie, Feb. 14. Tool Chamns and George Peevy, aged 11 and 12 respective ly, are in the county jail here charged with breaking into a local dry goods 6tore. It is believed thev are tmUtv nf many other crimes for ther have everv appearance of hardened criminals, desnite their tender years. ture to report to the senate the amount of wheat in the country March 30 last, the total yield and the amount now in the country. CONGRESSIONAL. Proceedings In the House. Washington, Feb. 13. The debate on the Bland silver seigniorage bill was re sumed today in the house. Some routine business preceded it. The speaker laid before the house the Hawaiian message from the president, transmitted yester day. At the request of Mr.J Borrows it was read and then referred to the foreign affairs committee. Kansas Railroad Board Sustained. Topeka. Feb. 14. After further hear ing in the matter of the petitioners pray ing that a passenger train be put on the Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota railroad between Topeka and Fort Scott, the order made by the board on Nov. 14, 1893, directing that a passenger train, or trains, lie placed upon said line of road, mailing a daily trip each way between the cities ot lopeka and Fort Scott, affirrnf.-d. Cleveland Signed the BUI. u- jrxBuuem; Cleve land has signed the federal elections re peal bill and it is now a law. The Greater New Torn. Albany, Feb. lO.-The greater New lork bill passed in the assembly. Yeas .04: nays, 7. ' is Mri.wAiTirra. Feb. 13. The Roanoke nin-r.n TTnvpn nf 11 n'rJnek all I fourth pools are on a nht.' She had been 24 hours ouin the I traction of ,V. cent per bushel in the min- .tiii. jfien . uig rate. ZZ ' IL-.'fcK 1 River Miners Strike. Pitts? una, Feb. 13. Nearly 3,000 river miners m the second, third and itriktt against a re in the Senate. Washington, Feb. 13. A bill was re ported to the senate by Senator Coke (Tex.) and passed, continuing in force the act for the protection of fish in the Po tomac river. Senate bill making Labor Day the first Monday of September a leg;d holi day was reported by Mr. Kyle, from the committee on education, and placed on file, and then Senator Gray (Del.) re sumed his argument on the Hawaiian resolution. A House of Buttons. Clapissou, the French musical celeb rity, is building a chateau composed en tirely of buttocs. The walls, the ceil ings, the docr3, tho exterior, the int. I rior, are all ornamented with this novel ! element of architecture. Buttons of everv j description, from the very origin of their I invention up to those of the present day, ; have been employed in the arabesques , and ornamentation of the walls. Every country has been ransacked, and some ' curious specimens have been brought to light Those dating from the lower Greek empire are of the most curious manufacture. London Tit-Bits. There is a ripe side to the orange as well as to the peach. The stem half of tho orange is usually not so sweet and juicy as tho other half, not because it re ceives less sonshine, but possibly be cause the juico gravitates to the lower half, as the orange commonly hangs be low its stem. The net debt of New York city is 5100,762,407. Chicago's debt is $18 -000 000; Philadelphia's $22,000;000, $30,000,000, New Orleans' $16 000.000, Cincinnati's $26,000,000, Baltimore's 16,000,000, Washington's $20,000,000 and BrooUyn's $47ToOO ! Wild tobacco has been found growing to Texas, and it is claimed that for deli 2acy of perfume and strength of leaf tio plant is not surpassed by the real Ha. vrana. Df F rom Cambridge comes this deflnitioa : a popular same. ""RW.tVu.ii pursuit of blown leather by blown hu manity." .. 18i