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I'LATTSMOUTH, NEK.. DECEMBER 20 1899.
VOL. IX, NO. 15.
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Owin to the backward season, beinfjf overstocked
and having heavy bills to meet, we will offer you for
SI'OT CASH a Discount of from 20 to 25 per cent on
All Winter Clothing,
Underwear, Suits, ( loves, Caps, etc. To ffive you an
idea of how cheap we are selling, we quote prices on a
few articles:
ft Nice Suit,
Formerly H
Reduced to $6
A Fine Black
Kersey Overcoat
Formerly $10
Reduced to 47.50
A nice Wilson Bros.' Percale Shirt, which fermerly
sold for $1.25 and $1.50, oes at $1 and $1.25. Gloves
and Caps at your own price. Come in and see what we
can do for you. No Trouble to Show Goods.
JOB & FRA.NK,
Wa term a
Holiday
Announcement..
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I desire to state that I have a well-selected
stock of Watches, Gold Jewelry, Silver
ware and Novelties, which will make suit
able. ...
New Year's Gifts..
Prices will be AWAY DOWN and we
mean to sell the g-oods if prices will do it.
Every article guaranteed just as represented.
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A Beautiful Medallion
purchase of $5 or
B. A. McELWAIN,
The Leading and Oldest Jeweler.
A BOON TO MANKINDS
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A New Discovery for the Certain Cure of INTERNAL and
EXTERNAL PILES, WITHOUT PAIN.
CURES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAILED.
TUBES, BY MAIL, 75 CENTS; BOTTLES, 50 CENTS.
JAMES F. BALLARD, Sole Proprietor. - - 310 North Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO.
F. G. Fricke & Co.
THE NEWS
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IT PAYS
To Look Around
Before you make purchases.
After you have looKed elsewhere,
come to us and we guarantee you
will be pleased. Our Dew winter
stuck has arrived, including: Dry
-Goods, Staple and Fancy Gro
ceries, Crockery, Glassware, Flour
and Feed. A square deal to all.
F. S. WHITE,
Main Street.
Piattsmoutb
K D. F1TZG EKA 1M
Has new stock, new rips and
is prepared better than ever
to take care of
fl General LIveru Business
Quick trips made to all parts of the
county. Low prices and court
eous treatment assured.
STABLES SIXTH AM) TISE STS.,
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WILL CORRECT ABUSES
;Mi-rul Wood to Institute Ite
1'oriiis of Prisons.
I'rlsonrr to be Utvra Wpely Trial-Collector
Itllss Hud Kutlre Judicial Sjn
lem Apparently Handed Agairnt: Htm
Investigation Miows Coiiplrncy lu
IJ -frand.
HAVANA, Doc. 27. Governor Gen
eral Wood says one of the first things
he looked into was the management of
Cuban prisons. Investigation has
proven that even among American
prisoners there has been an average
detention of five months without trial.
There are many things calling for im
mediate attention, particularly in the
matter of sleeping accommodations.
Reforms will bo quickly instituted in
this respect and hammocks will bo
supplied so that the prisoners will not
bo compelled to sleep on the bare
floors, as now is the case with those
without friends or money. A few who
are able to pay for them have cots. lie
intends to make weekly visits to the
prisons until a majority of the exist
ing abusos are abated and ho is trying
to devise means that will insure
prompt trial for persons accused.
So far as the Havana penitentiary is
concerned this bas been found in a
perfectly satisfactory condition. It is
clean, airy, well-drained and well
ventilated and the inmates seem
healthy.
Terrible Troth.
A lawyer who recently visited sev
eral of the island prisons says the
Charlton T. Lewis report gives only a
portion of the terrible truth. Eirly
last January General Ludlow ap
pointed a military board to inquire
into the question. Over 800 prisoner
were repor ted upon and General Lud
lo'v icsued orders for the roleate of
more than 100. Before fifty had been
disch Tged, however, General Brouke
o dered a halt and the matter was re
ferred to ihe cabinet secretaries, since
which time practically nothing hat
been done. Men whom General Lud
low ord red releas d are ttill heid
after three or four years waiting with
out trial.
General Wood thinks that when his
order goes into effect calling on all
judicial officers and military com
manders to send complete lists of pris
oners waiting trial the congestion of
untried prisoners will be relieved
within fifteen days thereafter and he
does nut intend that similar conditions
shall arise again.
Warrants are out for the rearrest of
three of the custom house appra sers
recently released. Two custom house
brokers and six other men were ar
rested today in connection with the
charge of defrauding the government,
but were released in $2,000 bail each.
The cases will bo pushed to the utter
most.
Conspiracy to Defraud.
Considerable difficulty is being ex
perienced iu obtaining evidence with
reference to most of the importers and
their employes, because nearly all the
best families in Havana have relatives
who are believed to be implicated.
The investigation shows a widespread
conspiracy to defraud.
Heretofore Collector Bliss, when he
has had persons arrested for fraud, has
been referred to the governor gen
eral's secretaries and he uad found the
entire judicial system apparpni..-
banded against him. Now ti matter
is taken up by the military authori-1
lies, who are determined thatdcis-f
ions shall be impartial.
Legal talent of a high order hat,
been engaged by both sides. The gov
ernment intends, if possible, to make
an example of those against whom
there is absolute proof, and will en
deavor to strike terror to others. The
corrupt system, which it is sought to
break down, has existed for more than
a century and scarcely anyone has
looked upon it until the present pro
ceedings were instituted as curable.
Probably weeks will elapse before the
cases can be brought to trial.
The Cuban Planters' association, in
view of the alleged urgent need of im
migration to Cuba, has finally pub
lished the expected circular for circu
lation in Spain and other countries.
The circular says:
"Spaniards will find a home in Cuba,
the only thing different being the gov
ernment. Cuba can easily support
6,000,000 people, whereas at. present
there are only 1,500,000 in the island.
The climate is excellent and a good
future is assurred to the steady la
borer." At 3 o'clock this afternoon the tem
perature in Havana was 74 degrees
Fahrenheit.
AVILL JOIN MACAKTIIUK.
Thought That Funstoo Will be Aligned
to Wheeler's Brigade.
MANILA, Dec. 29.-8:25 a. m Gen
eral Frederick Funston will join Gen
eral MacArthur's. command. His bri
gade has not been desipnatedrbut it is
thought he will be assigned to General
Wheeler's.
The order which has been issued
opening to trado the ports of Zimbo
acga, Cottabato, Davao and Isabel a,
will apply provisionally to the Jolo
and Siassi ports. General Bates will
appoint the customs officials.
The authorities have issued a ruling
which lagalizes marrxages performed
by judges or the clergy of any relig-
ious denomination. Under the Span
ish regime only tueh marriages were
recognized as legal as were performed
by Homan Catholic priests.
Lo.s'DO.V, Di e. 28 The directors of
the Manila Railway company, limited ,
announce the suspension of interost on
the prior lien bond. They point out
that no ' revenue in available, as the
lino has b;eu in the possession of the
in-urgent or the Americans since
February last. They also aver that
the United States government is lia
ble for the guarnntoea interest, hav
ing assumed sovereignty over the
Philippines.
The company has claims aggregat
ing 34,000 against the United States.
locki:tt i c uts khiikls.
American Attack Strong Force of the
Kocmy Near San Mateo
Manila, Dec. L'7. 10:15 p. m.-C.d
onel Lf'Ckett, with a force of 2,600, in
cluding artillery, attacked this rao.-n
ing a strong force of insurgents on
trenched in ti e mountains near Mon
t'lbip, about five miles northeast of
S in Mateo.
Tho enemy wero completely routed,
the Americans pursuing them through
the ti i lis, amid which thoy fled in
every direction. Pour Americans
wero wounded. Tho Filipino loss was
largo, resulting from a heavy infantry
and artillery fire for three hours into
the trenches.
It is tupposed the insurgents are
those driven out of S:m Mateo on tho
day General Lawton was killed. They
numbered probably 1,000. A dozen
lines of insurgent trenches covered tho
steep trail through the hills and like
wise the valley below, along which the
Ameiicans passed.
The m iin attacking party consisted
of the Forty-sixth volunteer infantry.
a trooo of civalry and artillery. Col
onel Lockett commanding in person.
The rest of tho command operated
from remote points in an endeavor to
carry out Col- n 1 LeKett's plan of
throwing his lines ; round tho enemy
and thus cutting off retreat.
The nature- of the mountainous
country made it im practicable to exe
cute this movement successfully. After
the insurgents began to run there was
a vain effort to use artillery.
It now appears that one American
was killed in the attack on the Subig
garrison yesteiday by General San
t ma.
The insurgent organ Lidependencia,
whieh was suppressed by the Ameri
cans, resumed publication on Novem
ber 21, in Bontec province.
Mrs. Kilcly Winn In Court.
Boston, Dec. 28. Mrs. Josephine
Woodbury was adjudged guilty of con
tempt of court by Judgo Braley in the
su ; erior court here today in connec
tion with the case brought against
her by Mr 3. Mary Eddy, head of the
Caristian Science church, for alleged
criminal libel. Mrs. Woodbury was
fined $-50, which she paid. The alleged
contempt consisted in m iking public
through a Boston newspiper the sub
stance of her declaration in the suit
against Mrs. Eddy and in causing to
be published certain statements about
the cae or in submitting tointerviews
wherein she made certain statements,
knowing they would he published.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the sest of disease. Catarrh is a blood or
constitutional disease, and in order to cure it
vou must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by
oue of the best physicians in this country for
years, and is a regular pre-cription. It is com
posed of the best tonics known, combined with
'.he best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of
the two ingredients is hit produces such won
derful results in curing catarrh. Send for testi
monials, free. -
F.J. CHtrxy & Co.. Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, pn 77 r.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
FAMOUS SET OF CHINA,
Worth Thirty T!'i..n-nl Hollar, an.l Yet
Can He S;n ;! I !,- Kid Cook.
A magnificent set of china was re
cently purchased by Mrs. William As
tor of New York f. :.r the princely sum
of $30,000. It is the most costly set
of tableware in America. As the his
tory of the celebrated tushes is related
by the Chicago Tri'jiiEe, it seems that
they were originally intended for a
royal table. Mrs. Astor has added an
other servant to her already large ret
inue, a woman whese sole duty is to
care for these valuable dishes. The
china Is rich cream white in tint, with
a slightly scalloped edge. Close to the
rim traced in glittering gold, is the
famous star-scattered Astor crest. Be
low the crest and encircling each plate
is a band of gold, then a band of bril
liant red, bordered by another gleam
ing gold line, and then, still further
down in the plate, d rectly under the
crest, are the golden letters "C. A."
(Caroline Astor) wrought into an ar
tistic moncf-?ani. The soup dishes are
large and cie?p. measuring ten inches
in diameter. Ihe plates are slightly
smaller in size. The platters are ob
long in shape, and are square at the
ends rather than rounded. The three
cornered dishes are all the same size.
The china is not only remarkable for
its fabulous cost, but for the sim
plicity of its !es:en. The care of it is
a story all of it-elf. Not one of the 212
pieces Is ever allowed to touch the oth
er, so brittle are these wonderfully
costly plates. A china closet has been
especially built to hold them, and each
dish Is always put in a niche of its
own.
Special Cap Sale
At Herolds. The second lot of men's,
boys' and children's caps just received
is better than the Urt let that sold
like hot cakes. This lot is the same
price 29 cents for your cho"tC3 of caps
worth up to $1.09.
HANDS FULL
Governor oi' Cuhii IUvsIeel ly
Olllee-Seekers.
Will Take Anything That J Left A ppll-t-atloiiM
All the Way From Cahlnet
Nt-errtaryithlprt to JatiltorwhipK Man
age to 1'ay Unexpected VlitltM to the
AkjIuiuk and JaiU.
Havana, Doc. 28. General Wood's
oflico is besieged daily by a crowd of
olTice-soskera . from all parts of the
island. The applicants want every
thing or anything, from cabinet secre
taryships to janitorshlps. Despite the
fact that the governor general receives
on an average 200 people every twenty
four hours he manages to tind timo to
pay unexpected early morning visits to
tho asylums and jails. General Wood
prefers to take the managers of 6uch
institutions unprepared. Tomorrow ho
intends to inspect tho leper hospital.
Today he visited tho beneficienca. Ho
does not intend to interfere in matters
of public policy before the new 3-ear,
when the new cabinet will be installed.
Cubans have been agreeably sur
prised by General Wood's refusal to
allow the municipality of Cardenas to
grant private contracts. In a com
munication embodying his refusal he
said :
"No such contracts will be recog
nized until after the municipalities
have been elected, an event which is
only a few months off. Then the will
of the people will be known and pro
vided there is no interference with
tho prerogatives of the general gov
ernment municipalities will be al
lowed to use all rightful means of im
proving the country without interfer
ence from Havana or anywhere elso."
KIL.YKIK miLY IS WANING.
Chairn:tn Dhii forth of New Yor T.lls of
His Trip Through South.
Nkw York, Dec. 27. Elliott Din
forth, chairman of the democratic
state committee, returned to New
York today ufter a trip through the
south, during which he alked with
Senator James K. Jones and most of
the chairmen of the southern demo
cratic stte committees. This after
noon Mr. Danforth gave an Evening
Post reporter the result of his obser
vations nnd some information about
the next year's national campaign:
'I found," he said, "that the senti
ment was generally in favor of select
ing some western city, other than
Chicago, as the place for holding the
national convention. The members of
the national committee have a strong
feeling against Chicago on account of
the treatment they;Jiave received from
the newspapers there since they es
tablished headquarters in that city in
1894. It looks as if Milwaukee or Kan
sas City will receive the national con
vention. Milwaukee seems to be in
the lead. It has an auditorium with a
seating capacity of 15,000 and the cit
izens have offered to entertain the
delegates handsomely.
ilI also discovered that there is a
general feeling in favor of establishing
national headquarters in Washington.
Sjnator Jones favored Washington in
1896, but gave way to Bryan, who was
in favor of Chicago.
"In my trip through the south I
observed one thing, which will be
considered of interest in New Yoric,
that none of the leaders seemed to in
sist on free silver next year. They
did not say they had abandoned the 16
to 1 idea, but admitted the situation
had changed since 1896, and the dom
inant features next year were trusts
and imperialism. That is to aay they
are unwilling to repudiate the Chicago
plillorm. but they see new features of
far-reaching importance have come up
and that their choice should be recog
nized. "Even in states like North Carolina
I found the anti-trust and anti-imperialism
idea engaged the attention
of the people more than the free 6ilver
Hsue. In fact, I might sum up my ob--ei
vAUons by saying that the senti
ment of democracy in the south is such
I am confident there would be little
trouble in bringing about the union of
the democracy of the whole country
next year." !
"The democratic national conven
tion," D.inforth added, "will be held
a short time after the republican con
vention, according to custom. No
matter when it is named there is no
doubt about the head of the ticket.
Everywhere I heard Bryan's name
mentioned. They are not talking
.tbout candidates for vice president
yef an eastern man will probably be
selected."
In sluggish liver. Heroine, by its
beneficial action upon the biliary
tracts, render? the bile more fluid, and
brings the liver into a sound, healthy
condition, thereby banishing the sense
of drowsiness, lethargy, and that gen
eral feeling of apathy which arise
from disorders of the liver. Price 50c.
F. G. Fricke & Co.
True Journalistic Instinct.
In Paris a young woman drove to
the Bois, alighted from her coupe,
seized her coachman's whip, and ad
vanced before an eager crowd to ad
minister a whipping to a journalist
who had not flattered her vanity. The
Journalist caught the whip, broke it,
and lifting the fair one in his arms.
covered her with kisses. Then he went
and wrote it up.
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CITY MAKES MONEY.
Good Profit Mads bj Topeka In Selling
Elect rlolty.
In the current issue of the Indus
trialist, a magazine published at the
stage agricultural college, there Is an
exhaustive article on the Topeka elec
tric light plant, by Henry M. Thomas.
He has evidently made a thorough in
vestigation of the situation in Topeka
and he arrives at the following con
clusions: "In spite of the mistakes
that have been made, city ownership
and operation of the street lighting
system has proved a paying invest
ment to the municipality. As one re
sult of the experience, it is not un
reasonable to expect that in the fu
ture the city will exhibit great capa
bilities of management, and will still
further improve the service and re
duce the expenses. When the plant
was founded the lowest bid that had
been received from a private com
pany was for $10 per light per month;
and while there are no data beyond
November, 1889, yet It Is believed to
be a near and safe approximation to
assume that the cost per lamp did not
exceed that for the thirty-eight
months immediately following the
date just mentioned, for which time
we have already presented exact state
ments of cost. According to the ta
ble given, the cost per lamp per month
from November, 1889, to January, 1893,
was $8.40, which leaves a difference
of J1.60 per lamp per month in favor
of the city operation. The number
of lamps at this time was 184, and on
the assumption that the saving Just
mentioned was continuous from 1887
to 1893, there was a total saving to the
city over what a contract for $10 per
light per month would have involved
of 521,186.80. And had the same rate
of economy been prolonged up to the
time of the rebuilding of the plant,
the amount retained to the city would
have been the large sum of 533,561.60.
When the building of the plant was
under contemplation the Edison com
pany endeavored to secure the street
lighting, by representing a bid for the
extremely low figure of 56 per light,
but even at this rate the city would
have suffered a loss of 87 cents per
light per month, amounting, for the
year covered by thi3 investigation, to
52,693.52, in view of the economies ef
fected by the new apparatus." Ne
braska Journal.
For broken limbs, chilblains, burns,
scalds, bruised chins, sore throat, and
sores of every kind, apply Ballard's
Snow Liniment. It will give immedi
ate relief and heal any wound. Price
25c ana ooo, F. G. Fricke & Co.
Belle of Lincoln's Cs)-rrv, -. -
Deputy Probate Judge Garrard has
a paperweight on his desk made of two
pieces of plate glass between which la
one of the tickets used in Ohio at the
presidential election In 1864, when Lin
coln was elected the second time. It ia
a Republican ticket, but the word "Re
publican" does not appear on It. Across
the top Is "Ohio Union Presidential
Ticket." Underneath is a desir- J,
flags, muskets, canuon, drui2f?and
other Implements of war, arranged
around the motto, "A vigorous prose
cution of the war and no compromise
under the guns of the rebels." Fol
lowing this comes the presidential
ticket: "For president, Abraham Lin
coln of Illinois: for vice-president, An
drew Johnson of Tennessee." The
state elections In Ohio In those days
were held in October, and only presi
dential candidates were voted for in
November. On the reverse side of the
ticket is a spread eagle and shield and
the motto, "Rally round the flag, boys,
rally once again." Topeka Journal.
There Is a Class of People
Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called Grain-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomacn receives It with
out distress, and but few can tell it
from coffee. It does not cost over one
fourth a9 much. Children may drink
it with great benefit. 15c and 25c per
package. Try it. Ask for Grain-O.
Clerg-ymeo.
Applications for half fore permits
for the year 1900 will be renewed, and
clergymen are urged to make their
I applications at once.
w. L. Pickett, Agent
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Hark Ill'inkfts of KmiMlur Indians.
In Ecuador, one of the .South Ameri
can republics, tho Imrk of a tree which
grows on the slope of the AndeH Is
utilized for the rnaUng of blankets.
The blanket Ik over six feet long and
over five feet wide, nnd in as soft and
pliable as though It were made of
flannel. It is about the thick no. eh of
a good flannel blanket, and can bo
rolled up and put hi a strap without
hurting or In jut ing it. This tree or
bark blanket is merely a strip of bark
cut from a section of the trunk of the
blanket or b ma jogua tree. The In
dians make a cutting around the trunk
to get it, and they prepare It by soak
ing it in water until it Is noft. It Is
then pounded so that the rough outside
can be stripped off and the Inside alone
left. The Inside Is of fine fibres ko
joined together by nature that It
makes a beautiful blanket, warm
enough to be used as a cover, and soft
enough for a m tress.
SPARED THEIR LIVES.
Ad Interesting Story of tli Kindness of
the Late President If bureaux.
Some years ago a conspiracy, headed
by several prominent young men of the
Santo Domingo republic, who hoped to
gain wealth and position through the
death of Heureaux, attempted to take
his life and start a revolution. Theii
plot was cleverly planned and Beem
ingly sure of success, for the president
showed no suspicious, continuing his
customary mode of life, walking and
driving throughout the city as usual
without guards, although at that time
he was fully posted in every detail ot
their scheme, and when their plans
were fully matured and their time for
action at hand be had them all arrest
ed and thrown into the dungeons oi
the old fortifications. The penalty
for crimes of this sort is always death,
so soon after their arrest they were
drawn up in line on the old parade
grounds within the walls of the old
fort and told to prepare for death,
after which the firing aquad lined up
in front of them and were ordered to
fire. As they did so only one man fell.
The president, who was a witness,
then stepped forward and said: "My
children, you have attempted to ruin
your country and take r.iy life, and foi
this you are legally subject to death
but I do not want to see you die so
young. That man on the ground had
to give up his life to pay the penalty
for his misdeeds. If you ever plot
against me again you will be where hb
Is. Look at him, remember what I
have said, and then go, for you are
free."
An Electi-tcal Postman.
Geneva there is an electrical
postman, or at least a substitute for
the postman Tn nouses letter
rightly dropped iuto the box provided
ring an electric bell on the floor to
which they are going and actuate an
automatic hydraulic lift, which carries
the letter up to the floor and descends
to be ready for the next
THB PERKINS HOUSE
F. R. GUTHMANN, . Prop.
Rates $1 and $1.50 psr Dau
Centrally Located.
Comfortably Furnished.
PLATTSMOUTH. - - NEB
Flattsmouth Coal Yard
IS THE PLACE TO BUY
HARD COAL,
CANON CITY,
SOFT COAL
ALL GRADES OP WOOD.
Hay, Corn, Oata and all Kinds of Foot
Constantly on Hand.
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