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Orders from the country and along the line of the Union Pacific railway respectfully solicited. JOS. F. FILLION, Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron .Roofings. Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, ;.TSF6rt:b. DPlatte, - Nebraska. FINEST SAMPLE EOOM IN NOBTE PLATTE Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment. Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar. Our billiard ball is supplied with the best make of tables 'and competent attendants will supply all your wants. KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE x'HE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT 9 SUPPLIES, : MACHINE OILS Spectacles. A-potlieke Ojir Goods are Guaranteed Fresh, our Prices are as Low as the Lowest. "We insure Prompt Delivery. We Solicit Your Irade. NORTH PLATTE, NEB. A-Pine Line of Piece Goods to select from. First-class Fit. Excel lent Workmanship. IRA Ii. BARE, Editob and Proprietor i " SUBSCRIPTION BATES. OaeTear, cashjn advance, ..(1.25. Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents. Entered at the NorthPlatte (Nebraska) postofflce as second-class matter. With oats selling at twenty cents m Chicago and worth about eleven cents for export purposes in the local market, no man will be so poor next-winter as not to be able to have his oatmeal three Cimes a day if he wants it. THERE has been a noticeable im provement in the quality of weather in western Nebraska since Chief Moore has become thoroughly ac quainted with his new duties at Washington. It is needless to add that Mr. Moore is a republican, and that of itself guarantees service. efficient The populists of Ohio demand the abolition of the national banks, which, they denounce as centers of bloated wealth. Probably they are not aware that a fourth of all the shares of ''national banks are owned by 0.697 women. It would be just like a populist to aim at a plutocrat and hit a widow with a small in come. J. E. Simmons, of Rawlins, has brought an action against the receivers of the Union Pacific for 530,000 for the loss of an arm while in the employ of the company as an engineer. The plaintiff believes in asking for plenty, but the probabili ties are that he will eventually settle for about one-tenth that amount. IT is conservatively estimated by Jt t . 1 . 1 1 i -ikr I tne potato eaitor mat JNeorasKa s corn crop this year, will exceed 200, 000,000 bushels, worth at leat $40,- 000,000. Assuming that it costs the people $10,000,000 annually for strong drink, there remains $30, 000,000 to fool away in the purchase of cloths and the payment of lapsed indebtedness. From this it will seen that the outlook is far from discouraging Exchange. p , e The grain men of Iowa, who have been gathering all the information possible in regard to the crops of that state, figure the oats crop of the state at 300, 000, 000 bushels. It is the best ever raised in the state, the average per acre being placed At seventy bushels. It is also esti mated that the corn crop of the state will amout to five bushels for every man, woman and child in the United States. The Hawkeyes are strictly in it this yean Under republican rule the trea sury department protected the peo- pie from the Wall street syndicates when the latter attempted from time to time to corner cold and create a panic in the money market, All this is changed now and the treasury department under demo- cratic legislation and management has to hire a Wall street svnrtirnte j to protect it from gold corners and through western New York as pro various other inconveniences. The prietor and operator of peripatetic government of the United States is a feeble and helpless concern since the "change" of 1892. About the only thing it has had the nerve to show a warlike tront against since the inaguration of Cleveland the second time, is the little Hawaiian republic, which it seems determined j -t - 1 1 . -i i . . l to pick a quarrel with by uook or crook. Journal. Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe, U. t. in., retired, nas in his possession a bronze medal designed by the Society of Colonial Wars to com memorate tho capture of Louisburg in 1745, and intended tor President Cleveland. This medal was made from the French cannon fished out of an old vessel sunk in the harbor of Louisburg". Admiral Roe has this medal because he was stopped from presenting it to the president on two occasions by Private Sec retary Thurber, who demanded to know the nature of the admiral's business with the executive. The admiral refused to state his busi ness, deeming the secretary's de mand impertinent. It is presumed that in time Mr. Cleveland will re ceive the medal, but it may be after he retires from office. The treasury department in its declaration of the increase ot popu lation during the fiscal year 1894-'95, suddenly increase the birth rate 40 per cent and gives us three quarters of a million more babies than were reported the year before. Now this mig:bt be considered the result ' of accident in figuring up, or ot bump tiousness on the part of the statis tical clerk who refused to begov- erned by the estimates of hisprede- cessors, were it not rememoerea I interviewed her while she was wait that a month or two ago Senator insr for her train. A local paper Stewart of Nevada asserted that the baby crop had almost failed en- tirely, since the repeal of the Sher- man act, and attributed the failure to the demonetization of the silver dollar. Is Carlisle determined to put Stewart down with a high hand and an outstretched arm? Ex. The gold reserve in the U. S. treasury is again, reaching the "danger" point. Shall we have an other bond issue? That threatened war at Omaha has been happily averted by the in stitution of proceedings in the su preme court to test the .constitu tionality of the police commission law. Eosewater can now discon- tinue strapping a revolver on hiin -when he goes out on the streets. Two hundred convicts in the state penitentiary have been out of em ployment since the Western Manu facturing company closed its shops, and their appeals for something to do. are said to be pitiful. Confine ment in cells with nothing to break the monotony is very severe punish ment. Elsewhere in a letter addressed to the teachers of the county, Miss Marv 12. Hosford savs she does not j j - think it best to be a candidate for re-election to the office she now holds. There are hundreds of vot ers in the county who think differ ently from Miss Hosford and will insist that she accept a re-nomina-: tion. General Coxex's daughter, who ran awav with and married Carl Browne, the lieutenant of the com monweal army, announces that she will assist him in the editing and publication ot a people's party news paper to be called "Carl's Cactus.' Says Mr. Browne of his paper: "It will be published in the sole inter est of the people's party, in opposi tion to the powerful plutocratic press. Mrs. Browne will be the proprietor and attend -to the books and receipts, while I will cartoon and cut to pieces the fools of mono- poly." Mr. Watterson's observations about a third term for President Cleveland are vigorous and full of shrewdness, it not in the highest degree complimentary. He main-! tains that the president cannot be renominated, that if he were nomi nated he would not carry a sinj congressional district in the United States, and that the man is ,4a fool or craven tool" who thinks that Mr. Cleveland will be considered one of the greatest statesmen of the coun try. But why this heat? New York Tribune. A. reyival ettort that reversed the usual plan ojjjeraiions wa in a church at JBradley, Mich,, two Sundays ago, . The same preacher had been hammering at the congre gation for eight years without much of a result to show for his labors, rand on the Sunday metioned a wo man member who had patiently listened for a like period and arose in her place and exhorted the preacher to get religion, to get it auick. and to tret it good, and she had exhorted for eight minutes be- fore the preacher recovered himself sufficiently to suppress her. Mrs. Marv Wilslow is traveling- photograph car. She wears a man's hat, carries a revolver, is a first- class artist, and has more orders than she can attend to. Irene and Pearl Clark, two school girls living in a farm house three miles from Gold Beach, Ore., met a panther in the road, and with the ' aj(j 0f two dorS ran him into a tree and left him there until men from the farm came and shot him. Miss Kate Danahy, of Winsted, Conn., fell into a barrel of pitch on which she was standing picking peaches last week. She was com- j pletely covered with pitch, and over i an hour elapsed before enough had been removed from her person to to enable lier to walk. The French President travels free on the railways dunnc" his official tours in France, but when the re j turn jurney is concluded it is said that his secretary calculates what the trip would have cost if paid for at regular rates, and this sum is I inded over to be distributed! t r n i I among the paid or tne railway men. At Rome, Cavalry Lieutenant Blanc, who matreated a private so that death ensued, has been sent enced to three months imprison ment and to pay an idemnity of 25,000 francs to the parents of the victim. The case dragged through two years, and the defence cost the lieutenant 80,000 francs. 'I'he nrst girl to appear at Atchi- son. Kas.. weannir bloomers was on.1 , . I her way to Kansas City from St. Joseph, and her bicycle was in the baggage car. The chief of police says that while talking to the chief "she leaned up against the wall of the depot and crossed her legs in true masculine style. She carried a pearlhandled revolver in her belt, and seemed ready to protect herself should any attempt be made on her life." P. SLYER 1 .UU.il Democratic Leaders Issne an Address to Yoters. POE AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN. Administration' Financial Policy De- XOHHeed Beport or the Committee on Resolutions Adopted oy the SllYer Conference at Washington. Washington, Aug. 15. The silver Democrats continued their conference at the Metropolitan hotol at 10 o'clock today. The committee on resolutions and program being unable to report whea the meeting was first called to order it was suggested that the confer ence should listen to speeches by those present. C. P. Cockran, editor of the St. Joseph Gazette, addressed the convention. He said it seemed anomalous that a meet ing such as the present should bo called, for he ki9W of no doctrine of the party which was not in consonance with the purposes of this conference. He said that congress was the place to look for the declaration of the party's belief, and he declared gold monometallism would be more disastrous than war, pestilence and famine. It wa3 important to settle first what was Republicanism and what Democ racy whether such men as ex-Senator Thurman and Senator Harris or Sena tor Sherman were to be leaders of Dem ocratic thought. He declared that the silver agitation would not die out but would continue until the end for which it had been originated should be at tained. Mr. Cochran also declared against the perpetuation of na tional banks, whose tyranny, he said, was the greatost tnac any oeome -would bear. The national banks were directly opposed to Democracy. He was for a declaration for free silver without reirard to tho prospect of sue cess or failure at the polls Representative Neill of Arkansas announced his entire sympathy with the objects of the present confidence. Ex-Representative Fithian of Illinois denied that the free silver Sentiment was dying out in that state. It was almost 12 o'clock when the committee on resolutions filed into the conference room, and Senator Daniel was recognized to make report of the committee's proceedings. This was di viriVd into two sections, one consisting in an address to the Democrats and the ofher of a plan of organization. He said the address in most respects was the same as that adopted by the Demo crnts of Texas, Missouri and Mississippi Tho address issued disclaims speaking with party authority, the assemblage being a voluntary one, but strongly rep resents that the conference of the party should declare for free coinago of silver. Th address concludes asfollows: "Duty to the people requires that the party of tho people continue the battle for bi metallism nnfcil its efforts nra crnwnwl with sncces. With a view t ,and readoption of tfie Democrat to financial policy above sot forth by the Democratic national con vention to be assembled in 1890 and of the nomination of a candidate for the presidency well known to be iu hearty 3vinpathy therewith, we hereby pledge our mutual co-operation and urgently recommend to our Democratic brethren in all the states to at ouce bein and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of a thorough organization, and to this end the adoption of the plan or organization herewith submitted is recommended. The part of tho report dealing with organization, above referred to, recom mends the following a3 a plan for such organization: 1. There shall bo a national "committee of Democrats who are in favor of both silver and gold as the money of the con stitution, which shall bo composed of one Democrat from each state and ter ritory and the District of Colombia, and the executive committee;hereinaf tor pro vided for. 2 That, uutil otherwise ordered by the national committee, Senators Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, James R. Jones of Arkansas and David Turpie of Indiana, and Hons. W. J. Stone of Missouri. W. H. Hinrichsen of Illinois and Casey Young of Tennessee be, and rhey ar? hereby constituted, the executive com mitteo, and shall have full power auf authority, and it shall be their duty al as early a day as possible to appoint the members of the national committe here in provided for and to fill vacancies in the same. H. That said national committee shall have full control of the political effort of the Democracy of the nation to secure in the next Democratic national con vention the maintenance of the time- honored principles and policies of the Democratic party, and when the na tional committee herein provided for is not in session the executive committee shall have all the authority and dis charge all the duties hereby conferred upon the national committee. 4. It shall be the duty of the members of the national committee from each state immediately after his appointment to take such steps as he may deem best to organize the bimetallic forces of his state. 6. That fully realizing the fact that this nor any other plan of organization can De successful witnout tue nearer co-operation of the yoters themselves, we urge, upon every voter in every state in the Union who is in sympathy with this movement, and who wishes to re itore permanent prosperity to his home and country to lend his aid and in fluence to perfecting this organization, and that each of them shall enroll him self in some club. The report of the committee was adopted without opposition, and after listening to a few brief speeches the conierence aojourneu sine me. M Peoria Distilleries W1U Start Up. Pzoria, Aug. 15. A Peoria distiller who attended the Distilling and Cattle Feeding sale at Chicago yesterday, re ports that two or three Peoria distiller ies will be started up under a new cor poration about Oct. 1, Frost Reported la lo -nru Diouiwii, JXMg. io. a ugnc rain. f 1 A a - r fell last night in tho territory adjacent ! to Sioux (Jity. Corn was greatly bene fitted. Immediately afterward the tern perature leu, ana irom several noints light frosts are reported. Highest of all in Leavening Absolutely pure XAMMOTH OIL TANKS ABLAZE. Plant of the Peerless Refinery at Flndlay Destroyed. Toledo. Aug:, lo. An explosion re sulting in fire entirely consumed the plant of the Peerless refinery at Findlay with $60,000 loss, half insured. A ben zine tank first exploded, and in an in stant the building was wrapped in seeth ing flames. Two still men, William Adams and William Bemis, were prob ably fatally burned. Ten oil stills caught next, and one after the other ex uloded, sending flaming oil over the surrounding buildings and ground. Next two tanks of crude containing 12, 000 gallons took fire, sonding up red columns of flame 200 feet into the air. A mammoth tank of SO, 000 barrels was fired into with a cannon, letting the oil run out, where it caught fire. The oil is still burning and the smoke obscures tie heavena for miles. I HOTEL ORLEANS SUDDENLY CLOSED. XUd of Spirit Lake Prohibition! ts In- ' censed the Proprietors. 'Webster City, la., Aug. 15. Pro hlbitionists at Spirit Lake had the wine rooms at the Hotel Orleans searched aiid a quantity of liquor was seized and destroyed. Incensed at this action, the proprietors closed the hotel, and about 70 guests were compelled to go home. Among the guests were Senator Gear and Congressman Henderson. HABEAS CORPUS FOR TAYLOR. Question of Legality of tho Five-Year Sen tence Will Be Argued. Pierre, S. D., Aug. 15. The supreme court has granted a temporary writ of habeas corpus in the case of W. W. Taylor, and it has been served on the sheriff. It is returnable in three days, when the question of legality of the five years' sentence will be argued. 2i HOLMES WILL GO TO CHICAGO. Insurance Swindler Will Be Tried For tho Murder of the Williams Sisters. Philadelphia, Aug. 15 It has prac tically been decided that H. H. Holmes, the alleged murderer of Minnie and Nannie Williams, B. P. Pitzel and half a dqzon others, will go to Chicago for trial for the murder of the Williams girls. Chicago Germans Will Assist, Chicago, Aug. 15. Chicago Germans will assist their countrymen to fight again the battle of Sedan. They marched for the seat of war today. Five hun dred veterans of the Deutscher Krieger Verein took the train for New York by way of Niagara Falls. The steamer Fulda will steam out of New York har bor Saturday carrying them and hun dreds of other Germans back to parfici pa te in the greatest jubilee of the year in the Fatherland "Sedan Feihr." Sept. 23 is the, 25 th anniversary of tho battle of Sedan. All Germany will arise that day to celebrate. Berlin and Leipsic will bo the scenes of the great est demonstrations of patriotism, and thither the American representatives will betake themselves. Commits Murder to Secure Propertjv St. Louis, Aug. 15. Thomas B. How ard, a descendant of tho American branch of the English Howards and a broker of many years' standing, i3 un der arrest charged with poisoning a ne gro woman named Nancy Leathe, who died some days ago. The charge is that Howard poisoned the woman and was attempting to poison Priscilla Henry, another oolored woman, who i3 said to have been his mistress. It is asserted that he was after property of the Henry woman, which was valued at 100,000. "ott Officers Selected. DeiTveb, Aug. 15. The nominating committee of the American Pharma ceutical association has agreed upon the following list of officers to bo submitted to the convention today: President, J. M. Goode, St. Louis; first vice president, Charles Dohme, Baltimore; second vice president, J. E. Brandenburg, Jefferson City; third vice president, Mrs. Miner, Hiawatha, Kan. Members of the coun cil: J. A. Burkheim, Detroit; C. C. Gor don, Cincinnati; G. L.Hecla, Cleveland; C. M. Ford, Denver. Texas Trainmen In Session. Fort Worth, Aug. 15. One of tho largest railroad conventions ever held in Texas was called to order here today, and will continue to the 17th. It in cludes the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Order of Bail way Telegraph ers, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and all the other railway organizations in Texas. The object is to secure such legislative measures as will be of benefit to the organizations. Confessed to Having Killed Morrlssoy. St. Louis, Aug. 15. Last May State Senator Morrissey of this city was shot and killed in the house of Maud Lewis, said to bo the senator's mistress, and tho Lewis"Woman was indicted for the mur der. It now transpires that Maud Lewis has a husband, named Albert Andrews, and that he has made a con fession to having killed Morrissey. He wants to be arrested and have Maud re leased, but the authorities have taken no action in the case yet. Caught Under a Falling EleTator. Utioa, Aug. 15. A temporary ele vator used in hoisting material on the Martin block, with 1,200 pounds of stone, was raised 7o feet from the ground to iiay, when the rope broke, causing it to fall to the bottom of the cellar. Jere miah Hess was killed and five others were injured, two so badly they cannot recover. ; Sentenced For Life. Brandon, Miss., Aug. 15. When Marshall, Coleman and Fox were ar raigned in court this morning for the murder of T?D. Jenkins a few days ago all entered a plea of guilty and were sentenced to the state penitentiary for life. No Clue to tho Robbers. Pittsburg, Aug. 15. The law ofilces of John D. and William McKinnanhave been robbed of $10,000 in stocks and bonds. There it no clue to tha robber. Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder MT No General legislation ExpecteAMTuis Session of Parliament. AT PEACE WITH ALL P0WEES Refers to the Armenian Troubles In Strong Terms Sultan Considering Reform Pro posals Steps Taken In Regard ta Missionary Outrages In China. London, Aug. 15. After the house of commons reassembled today the mem bers were summoned to the house of lords with the usual formalities and the queen's speech was read by the lord chancellor, Baron Halsbury. It was as follows: "My Lords and Gentlemen: The communications which I receive from foreign powers assure me of the contin uance of their good will. I am happy to say that no international complica tion has arisen in any quarter calcu lated to endanger the peace of Europe. The war between China and Japan, which was in progress at the opening of the last session, has been brought to a conclusion by a peace which, I trust, will endure. I observed strict neutral ity during the war and have taken no action in respect thereto, except such as appears to me likely to be favorable to a termination of hostilities. "I deeply regret to say that the most atrocious outrages upon a body of Eng lish missionaries are reported from the province of Fu Kien, in China. In re ply to earnest representations ad dressed to thp Chinese government by direction, active measures, which I trust will prove effective, are being taken for the punishment of the mur derers and all persons in any degree re sponsible for the crimes. "The internal troubles which have broken out in the Armenian districts of Asiatic Turkey haye been attended with horrors which have moved to in dignation the Christian nations of Eu rope generally, and my people especial ly. My ambassador and the ambassa dors of the emperor of Russia and the president of the French republic, acting together, have suggested to the govern ment of the sultan reforms which; in their opinion, are necessary to prevent a recurrence of constant disorder. These proposals aro now being considered by the sultan, and I am anxiously await inir his decision." nni The speech conclude with a ref er-- ence to the incorporation of Bechuaa , land in Cape Colony. The speech mere- . ly ys the estimates foe the yeariwhiclx'' were not voted at tha last session, will ? be laid before them. The second portion of the speech says:: Al mis season, or inn -vanr it. wrmirir .a probably be found more convenient to defer to another session tho considera tion of any important legislative meas- ures, except those which are necessary to provide for the administrative charges of the year." Heavy Mortality Among French Troops. Port Louis, Mauritius, Aug. 15. Advices received here from Majunga, island of Madagascar, say that the Ho- vas are intrenched at Kinajy, on the Ambohimena mountains, between And- riha and Antananarivo. General Du chesne was advancing upon this posi tion and another Hova force, consisting 4,000 men, were pushing forward with the intention of cutting off the French supplies near Marovoay. There has been heavy mortality among the French troops on account of malaria, dysentery. etc. Gire Their Reasons For the Embargo. Paris, Aug. 15. A semiofficial note has been published stating that tuber culosis i3 shown to exist in New York state, and that New York cattle havo been rofnsed entry into CnnTiflr.Hrfr' and also anthrax is ravacrinpr New Jer sey herds, while a serious disease be- lieved to be Texas fever has been dis covered in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The note then proceeds: "These faots fully justify the measure taken Feb. 24, of checking the import of American cat tle into France, and are the best reply to the criticisms this measure evoked." Insurgents Forced to Retire. Havana, Aug. 15. Insurgents to the nnmber of 400 have attacked Port Ramblazo, which is under construction on the railway to Puerto Principe. A garrison consisting of one insurgent, one corporal and 17 guerillas made a heroic defense until Captain Mercedo, with 45 infantry and 20 guerillas ar rived to relieve them. He forced the insurgents to retire, leaving behind two dead and their firearms and machetes. Tho troops lost four dead and 12 wounded. Alvarcx Sees Trouble Ahead. New York, Aug. 15. The mayor of Havana, Cuba, Senor de Alvarez, who is at the Union Square hotel, says that the insurrection in Cuba is not a seriou3 matter, but there is danger ahead of trouble between Spain and the United States, growing out of the action of the United States government in pressing Spain to pay the Mora claim at this time, and of the aid that Americans are extending to Cuban agitators and fili busters. Campos Personally Popular. London, Aug. 15. Tho Havana cor respondent of The Time3 says: Since his arrival here Captain General Marti nez de Campos has received a. deputa tion from all.political parties. His per sonal popularity makes everybody glad? to welcome him. uorernor aicmtyre and Staff WU1 Attend. Denver, Aug. 15. Governor Me la tyro -and staff, accompanied by a dele gation of Grand Army men and ex confederates, will attend the dedicatory ceremonies at the National park of Chattanooga and Chickamauga Sept, 13 and 20.