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h! tttiM WHtnaaauira'ratittitr, THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER XV. XV. HUUKWi, 1'uliIUlicr. NHMAIIA, .---. NEHKASKA. THE WOULD AT LARUE. Summary of tho Daily Nowo, AVABIIIXUTON MTi:S. k CAiu.VKr iiiutsliii"; was 'idd tit Wiihhlnirton on tho 18th, till tins itKim ber.s liolny prosiMit. Thu Ciibtin situa tion mill many twitters of foroii,Mi policy, us woll us dninostii. udinlnistrst tlon, occuplud the iittontioii of tho nrusidonl unci his tirtvisur.s. Tiik iiflluiul report of thu hnlto lionlc Indian con foremen risielivd Indian ollli'ii at "W.-ishlnirton on .Mo tho. till! 37th. Atnonsr other things the report declared that tho reservation system was nn insuperable obstacle to civiliza tion and should bo ultolishcd, thu trlb.il organization destroyed, tho luntta allotted in severalty, the Indians intermingled with tlio whites and tho Indians treated as other men. Tiik animal report of tho surgeon general of the army for the fiscal year ended .luno 30. 1mV, shows, a gratify ing record as regards the henlth of tho army. The prevalence of alcoholism in the army continues to decline. In ISWi no les" than seventeen posts had 10 percent, of their average strength under medical care for drunkenness, Tind dnrlnr the past year only four jxist.s had this percentage. Srccr.itT.VHY CAliMSMi hns accepted an invitation to deliver an address at, the minimi dinner of tho Sew Vorlc board of trade, November IS. It lias been understood that the fate of ex-Consul Waller, who is still held in imprisonment by the French at Mar- J Miilles, Jiangs on the proceedings of the court-martial wli ich sentenced him, mid thereforo the statu department at Washincrton has directed its efforts Tiiainly to secure u copy of tho record of the court. It has been discovered that Waller was not really tried nu charged, but that as tho trial pro- gresscd.cvldenco was tnlcen on another charge not included in the original matter, and that tit was upon what might be called u supplementary but irregular chargo that Waller was con victed. PnriMTiKNT Oi;evkla..vt has ordered to bo presented to Cnpt. Ivrcch, com mander of tho Hamburg-American lino hteamor Servla, a silver cup In recogni tion of his act In saving eight men of the schooner 'Mary 12. Ainsden, of Lu lled:, Me., which Capt. Ivreeh discov ered drifting helplessly on the sea. Cmicr Conhiti. Porrtru, at the coming session of tho national assembly, L. A. W., in Tiibrnnry, will try to get racing under tho sanction of t3ie leairuo abol ished and have the league confine its attention to the matter of good roads, hotel rates, etc. Oi:.v. .'John OnwtirN has been elected grand commander of tho Loyal legion of tho United States. Am. tho members of the cabinet ex cept .Secretary Morton and J'ostinastor Guuural Wilson gathered at the white house on the Kith In answer to n sum mons from the president, and tho first informal cabinet meeting for several miutliH was hold, probably for the pur pose of enabling the cabinet officers to report to tho president tho state of buninoss in their departments. Tim: judge ndvoeate-general of the "United States army has submitted his annual repoi t to the secretary of war, tthowing u diminution in the number of trials for desertion, due, It was thought, to fewer captures on account of tho reward having been reduced from gOO to $10. ttm'OUT.s to the United States super vising surgeon-general of the marine hospital service indicated that during the present epidemie of cholera in Japan there had been 4 -,700 cases and 28.B13 deaths. Tins iuartcrinaster-gcneral of the army has made his annual report, lie asserts that the United States cavalry mount is superior to that of any for elirn army. Tin: National Retail Liquor Dealers' association met in Washington on tho 14th in annual convention. IJkuki.U'tionn of a very serious na ture have been found among Chicago letter carriers and the post office de partment at Washington has suspended 173 of them pending further investiga tion. CKNKKVr, NEWS. FitKDi'.uicic Awk, Jic, went down Into a well tit Milwaukee on the ISth and was overcome by gas. Ills father and Charles Smith, his brother-in-law, tried to rescue the young nut n and also succumbed to the gas. Tho three bodies were recovered. Eiwh of the men had large families. At Now Orleans on the 18th all tho buildings fronting on the river 1ms tween Elysinn Fields street and Esplanade avenue were destroyed by fire. Loss. 5300,000; partly insured. llv the explosion of a dynamite blast in the ruins of tho nianufactuios build ing ok tho world's fair grounds at Chi cago on the 17th Samuel llobart, a la Ivorer, was instantly killed. Ilobart's head vus blown oil, lie was three blocks away from tho scene of tho ex plosion. .'Tin other men were also seri ously injure!.. Tur: business district of Loniine, a village 20 miles' northeast of Qulney, 111., was practlcO-Uy destroyed by fire on the l.'th. Tho total loss wus $10.. 00-.); no insurance. rteOaiu At Hyden, Knott county, K.y., tit, a political gathering. Indgc .1. W. Parker, i Clay county republican, attempted to ipeak, when rulllans began yellintf. Ills friends tried to protect hlin and a 3ght followed in which three men ivero killed outright and several others leriously wounded. TntiMAn Si.iMimt and Hans Hansen were hanged at St. Quentin, Cal., on the 18th for the murder of the second -utile of tho American bark llesper on the high seas. They were, iroin,' to (111 all Iheolll.'crs an 1 . the vessel, but were only blc to carry out a part of their programme. Ativirr.s from St. Petersburg on tho ISth stated that Russia might inter vene in the present Corean trouble ami isslst In in-iking t'orua. independent of foreign Interference. Tin: town of lllanehestcr, on the Haltiinore & Ohio Southwestern rail way, -10 miles from Cincinnati, was re ported almost wiped out by (ire on the ISth. It has a population of l.fiOO. A nisiw icii from Quiiiey, III., stated that A. .1. Miller, ex-mayor of Canton, Mo., and Henry Clay were drowned in the Mississippi river on the ISth. They were out bailing when tho boat cap sized. Tin: failures for the week ended Oc tober 18 (Dun's report) were L'O.I in the United States, against 2 VI last year, find 40 in Canada, against n last year. COM.MANJlrfH IlAM.INOTOX IloOTH, of the Salvation army, has announced that the big Salvation congress will be heltl in Chicago this year. It will last four days, and will bo during tho lat ter part of November. Mr. and Mrs. Hooth will lead the exercises and all the national staff officers will bo pres ent. The Auditorium has been on gaged for the occasion. A KKituvnoAT having sixty passen gers on boiird collided near Cairo, Egypt, with a steamer which was at anchor and capsized, and fifty of those on board of her, mostly workmen, wcro drowned. Ci.kauiso house returns for tho prin cipal cities in tho United States for the week ended October 18 showed an average Increase as compared with tho corresponding week last year of 21.0; in Now York the increase was 27.0; outside New Yorlc tne increase was 1 l.'.. Thk boiler in N. K. Dillard's mill on Slough creek, i'i miles northeast of Paris, Tex., exploded, killing tho engi neer and boriously injuring five or six othors. DuitiNO a fight ut a colored cake walk near Moorcstown, N. !., .lames Hag gcrty, colored, shot Charles Mclvini, Mrs. Silas Wessels, tieorgo Whittakcr and Charles Wiman, none of whom were expected to recover. Some ono then shot Ilaggorty in the back. Ills wound was considered mortal. dou.v L. Wai.i.kk, formerly consul for tho United States at Tamatave, inland of Madagascar, who was sen tenced to twenty years' imprisonment on the ehnrge of conspiring with the llovns against tho French authorities in that Island and taken to France, has been removed from Clairvaux prison to the prison at Nimes, capital of the de partment of Hard, the climate of the latter place being better suited to the prisoner, who wus far from enjoying good health. A ijynamiti! blast prematurely ex ploded near Sharpsburg, Ky., and three men were killed. .losKi'it Ramsi:y, .Ik., has been ap pointed general manager of tho Wa bash railroad, vice Charles M. Hayes, resigned. Mr. Ramsey will assume tho duties of his position about .lanuury 1. Oiti.Axno Stkvkns, the Ottumwa (la.) wonder bicycle rider, reduced tho H mile unpaced record on the 17th at Hcdrick in the sensational time of 23 1-.1 seconds, lowering tho world's record for that distance. It was announced at Madrid that 12, 000 troops would start for Cuba on Oc tober 22. C II. Sthckkv, cashier of tho state bank at Duluth, Minn., was reported missing on tho 17th and with him Sl.", 000 of the bank's cash. AN irado was promulgated at Con stantinople on the 17th announcing that tho sultan had signed the Ar menian reform scheme demanded by tho powers. W. P. Stanton, at Denver, Col., on the 17th, walked 100 yards, heel and toe, officially timed and judged, in 11 4-5 seconds. The previous record was 10 seconds, held by John Meagher, of Lawrence, Mass. An explosion occurred on tho 10th on a steamship at Kung Hal, near Kin Clio. The hteamor was loaded with troops, and it was reported that 000 of thorn were killed. Tin: annual festival of mountain and plain began on tho 10th at Denver.Col., with over 50,000 people from tho coun try districts present. Tho decorations were extensive. In tho nftcrnoon the great parade, the Pageant of Progress, which illustrated the progress of tho state, took place. It was decided that tho republican National league headquarters should remain in Chicago for the next two years. Titi: Indian Territory Press associa tion was organized at Purcell on tho 10th, the following officers being elect ed: President, W. II. Walker, Regis tor, Purcell; vice president, A. M. Dawson, Express, Chiokasha; secre tary and treasurer, R. S. Diuis, Say ings, Wagoner. Tin: American ship Pnrthla was burned at sea neat Chill. Thu captain, chief mate and nineteen of the crew who left tho wreck in boats, wero re ported missing tiud thought to bo lost. MMMMMMUH At Ceylon, Ind. the ptiy car on tho (Irani! Rapids A-. Indiana road was wrecked and three men killed and sev eral badly injured through an open switch. At Champaign, III., the Empire Cord ago Co.'s ltirge twine mill was de stroyed by fire. Loss, &100.000; In sured. At tho breeders' meeting at Lexing ton, l.'y., tho honation on tho 17th was thu breaking of the world's 2-year-old moo record by Tommy Ilritton, ho lowering it half a second, trotting tho mile in 2: 1.1 f. Ii'dv. .McI.ntvisk. of Colorado, has do cliii'Ril a quiii-unlinc against Texas, Wyoming. New Mexico and Oklahoma Hieep from Uiomj regions can be ad mitted within the state only on their being found to be free from contagious diseases after inspection. Tho proola matiou does not apply to sheep that are m be transported through tho state by rail. Am'.xandkii 15. McDonald, of Roch ester, N. V., recently made tho 101 mile run from Erie to ISull'aloou his bicycle In 4 hours and ft 3 minutes, beating the best previous time by 31 minutes. At Hampton, S. G, William P.lake, Sr., Jason lllake, Prince Craves and William Frazier were convicted of the murder of Raymond Mcars. William lllnke was recommended to the mercy of the court and sentenced to life im prisonment. The other three wero sentenced to be hanged. As the con stables wore on their way to jail with the prisoners, they wero overpowered by a uuiubor of men, who took Wil liam Rlako and carried him to tho woods and hung him to a large pine tree. They wero dissatisfied with tho verdict. A t'AssKNGmt train at Altoona, Pa., on the 10th, on going around a sharp curve in a dense fog crashed Into tho engine of a train of tunic cars which had been after a load of water, and both engines wero completely wrecked. Two trainmen wero crushed to death and several others seriously injured. Many passengers wcro also more or less hurt. A Disi'ATCir from Havana said that tho prisoners in the Santa Clara jail mutinied and four of them tried to make their escape. The guards fired upon tliem and killed two. Tin: popo has written a letter to tho Catholic hierarchy condemning con gresses of religion. Ilt'Kfii.Aiss blew open the safe in tho People's Rank of Halifax, at Scots town, Can., recently and got away with S2.000. An inoil'octuul attempt was made to loot the express safe on passenger train No. 1 on the M., K. fc T., near Temple. Tex., at mill night of the lath. Tho robbers used dynamite on tho safe, but became alarmed and lied to the woods. It wtis reported on the 10th that Rrazil had recognized the Cuban In surgents as belligerents. Mits. John LaSouon, the wife of u farmer living near Delate, O., gavo birth to five boys. The physician be lieved they would all live. ADDITIONAL DISPATCH IKS. In one of the aristocratic residence portions of Chicago (1. S. Merwin sud denly went iussiiio in tho middle of the night of the l'.ith and for seventeen hours he defied the police, barricading himself in a room and firing out of tho window at everybody passing, creat ing consternation in the vicinity. Finally the police closed all the regis ters they could and put sulphur in the furnace and ho was soon captured. The madman had fired altogether 110 shots from his revolver and rifle, but fortunately no ono was injured. John W. Mackay, Jr., eldest son of the well known millionaire, was killed in Franco recently by being thrown from his horse and his head coining in contact with a tree, causing concus sion of tlio brain. Ills body will bo embalmed and brought over to Amer ica. Rv an explosion of gas at the Knick erbocker colliery, operated by tho Philadelphia ,fc Reading Coal & Iron Co., near Shenandoah., Pa., three per sons were fatally and six othors se riously Injured. Tin: mining village of Stockton, Pa,, lias been practically wiped out by fire. There was a high wind blowing at tho time, and before the tiro was under control, twelve dwellings had been de stroyed. Tin: Pullman car Columbia, valued at 613.-1,000, has left the shops of tho Pullman company at Wilmington, Del., for Washington, whence it will tako President Cleveland and his party to the Atlanta exposition. It is ono of the finest in existence. Rki'diits received at tho weather bu reau at Washington on the 20th indi cates that tlie present drought was one of tho severest, most prolonged and general known in tlio United States since the bureau's organization. There were a few places which showed an exception to the general condition, but in no large section of tho country, un less perhaps in tho northwest and far west, did there appear to have been a heavy rain for the past two months or more On the night of the lflth, at Dough erty, I. T., three masked men entered a drug store and looted the safe and cash tills. Tlio robbers then went to the store of Hugh Hardy and the money drawer was rilled and articles from tho store taken, After inform ing the residents of tlio little town that when there was motioy enough in sight they would call again, they mounted their hu'acs unci rode away. vwnrV9S!w vnvuKSuSSi NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. At Nebraska City the other day Frederick Reyschlag, owner of tho cereal mill, was caught in the machin ery and his foot so crushed that ampu tation was necessary. Fihk in tho ltvory stable of Lancas ter &, Manor, at Orcsham early tho other morning burned tho stables, to gether with ten horses and several buggies and harness, (leonrc Mauer, who was sleeping in the olllce, barely escaped. An Indian woman, while returning from ono of tho trading stores on the reservation, near Decatur, tlio other night in an intoxicated condition, fell from the wagon with her babe, and the child's skull was crushed, resulting in death in a short time. An overturned lamp in tho basement caused the total destruction by fire of the residence and furniture of N. M. Oeorgo near York tho other evening. The residence of A. W. Pitches, in the saino county, was burned u few days previous from the explosion of a lamp. S. K. Couirr.ii, cx-deputy city treas urer of Omaha, who is charged with embezzling 20,000 of city funds, was recently arrested at New Orleans. He denied the charge and said that he had gone out of olllce In June, when a now party took hold of the administration, lie thought that it was only a political accusation. On October 2!) Hon. Robert AV. Fur nas and wife, of llrownville, will have been married fifty years, and they will celebrate the event by giving a recep tion to their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Furnas have been residents of Drown vilie since lSftO. Mr. Furnas in that year became a citizen of tho territory of Nebraska and immediately upon his arrival established the Rrownville Ad vertiser. Fa minus in the vicinity of Fromon have been busy of late harvesting; sugar beets. Eighteen carloads were shipped to the Norfolk factory weclt before last by one company, and 111:1113 shipments wero made by other par ties. The beets so far harvested rur from twelve to sixteen tons to the acre, making the amount received bj the fanners nearly 00 an acre, aftei paying freight. On the motions to quash tho indict ments against ex-Congressman (5. W. E. Dorsey and others and R. C. Outcalt. Judge Shiran in tlio federal circuit court at Lincoln tlio other morning handed down his decisions. Tlio deci sions hold that the accused must stand trial. The case against Outcalt grows out of tho Capital national bank fail ure. That against Dorsey and others is for falsifying the books of the Ponca bank. Among tho officers elected by the grand lodge I. O. 0. T. , at its lato ses sion at Lincoln, wero the following: Chief templar, Anna M. Saunders, Lin coln; councilor, Rose M. Owens, lllootn ington; vice templar, Charles Watts, Omaha; secretary, Emma J. Hedges, Lincoln; electoral superintendent, T. L. Combs, Omaha; superintendent of juvenile templars, Mrs. S. K. Long, Madison; chaplain, Mrs. E. M. J. Cooley, Lincoln; marshal, iCeo Forby, Omaha. Cr.DAi: county has 15,000 children en titled to a share of the state appor tionment fund the present school year. There are seventy-nine districts, ninety-three school buildings and 10S school rooms in actual use, requiring 109 teachers. Tho total bonded indebted ness is 518,088; other indebtedness, S.", 073; making a total indebtedness of S2 1,001. The total value of all school property is 572,210, and 530,425 was ex pended last year in operating tlio schools. In tho case of the application of C. J. Phelps for a writ of mandamus to compel tho secretary of state to certify to tho nnmo of the free silver demo cratic candidate for judge of the su premo court as tho only representative of the democratic party, the supreme court has denied the application and dismissed tlio case. This leaves two democratic candidates, C. J. Phelps, free silver, and T. J. Malioncy, admin istration democrat. Roth candidates will bo placed on the oillcial ballot. Tin: grand lodge K. of P., lately in session at Orand Island chose tho fol lowing officers: Grand chancellor. Oeorgo Ford, of Kearney; vice grand chancellor, (Jus Norburg, of Iloldrcge; grand prelate, II. Hoydston, of Nebras ka City; grand keeper of records and seals, Will Lane, of Lincoln; grand master of exchequer, J. 15. Wright, of Lincoln; grand master-at-arms, Oeorgo Spear, of Norfolk; inner guard, Walter II. Williams, of Ainswortb; outer guard, Sam Lease, of Rellevue; su premo representative, Richard O'Neill, of Lincoln. Tin: joint commission appointed in behalf of Nebraska ami South Dakota to fix the title to some land in disputo between the states has made its report locating tho boundary as follows: Center of the main channel of the Mis souri river between a point in the cen ter of main channel of tho river di .eetly north of the west lino of Dixon county, Neb., and a point in the center of tlio channel directly south of the east line of Clay county, S. D. The ef fect of tills location is to give tho island in tlio Missouri river, which has been in dispute, to South Dakota. The report includes a recommendation giv ing to Nebraska Ron Iloinmo island, containing 2..100 acres, and giving to South Dakota at the mouth of Sioux river the small strip of land that has been previously considered a part of Dakota county. w-gCTarkaWrfUiyJiJl.lXbJ,trttCnr-lrilrnMiiiiMilMliiM MR. How GILBERT'S GREAT HEAD. Ho Utlllnrt Sand r:il3 to Hot Cnmo In 11 Tlmu of Croat N001I. "W. A. (Jilbert is a good man to go camp hunting with. He knows a few little tricks that are valuable in re plenishing the larder when all ordi nary ways fail," said C. S. Recrbowcr to 11 group of sportsmen. "I went with him once and catno pretty near starving to death. Tho only thing wo had to cat was crabs. Now crabs are good enough for a change, but thoy pall on your appetite when you tiro com pelled to cat them as a steady diet. One night while in my tent thinking' ' of homo, fireside, friends, and coujur ing up tho menu of tho Jacksonville free lunch counters, Gilbert camo to. my tout and said: " 'What, weeping, old man? Don't, weep. I didn't know you wero that hungry. I have a last resort. It is sure to work, and wo will have plenty of meat. I have a way of catching rabbits that will not fail. Tho secret was imparted to mo by an old hunter on his deathbed. I promised never to use it unless in actual want. Come, we will try it.' " 'What kind of meat aro you going for?' I asked. " 'Rabbits,' he answered. 'Tlio rab bit, you know, shares the hole of the sand crab. Under this bcacli we tread on hero aro thousands of rabbits snug ly sleeping in the homes of the sand crab.' " 'Vcs, said I, but you can't get them out,' and I almost wept with disap pointment. "The only answer he gavo mo was the whistling of u tune from an opera. Finally Gilbert spied a sand crab. Ho caught him just as the crab was about to vanish down his hole. Ho caught another and another. Finally he hail bagged a dozen. I was too weak to help him. "Then he sat upon the beach and sawed a tallow candle into half-inch bits. He lighted a match, melted some of the tallow on a crab's back, stuck tho bit of candle in it, lighted tho candle and liberated the crab, which skedaddled for his hole and into it ho went. Mr. Gilbert spread 11 shrimp nob over the hole. It got too hot down there for the rabbit, for we could smell fur scorching. The rabbit made a bolt for the open air, and ho was our meat. 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