Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, February 19, 1891, Image 6

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C. W. KIIEKMAK. FablUher.
rLAlTMOUTHi : fcEDKASKA.
The News of the Wcefc.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
CONGRhbSIONAL.
Krcuud KchbIoK.
Iw the Senate a bill to divide the Judicial dis
tricts of the United States Into ten circuits tas
reported on the 10th, and the naval appropria
tion bill (KSI.r.ftl.UJO) was considered In the
House the bill appropriating fcX),0ilO for the ex
tension of the public building at Dallas, Tex.,
was passed over the President's veto. Other
bills were passed Increasing to f 100 a month the
pension of the widow of General Custer; for the
transfer of army ofllcorsoa the retired list from
the limited to the unlimited list when they at
ta n the age of 64 years, and to make Nashville,
Tenn., a port of delivery.
On the 11th bills were passed in the Senate
to construct a bridgo across the St. Louis river
between Wisconsin and Minnesota; continuing
the laws of Nebraska In force in the Territory
of Oklahoma till July 1, 1S91, and tha naval ap
propriation bill.... In the IIouso bills were
passed to establish a record and pension oftloe
In the War Ot-partment, and providing for the
selection of a sits for a military post at San
Dle?o. Cal.
Is the Senate on the l?th bills were passed
establishing pier l.ghts at Ahnape, Wis.; for
the relief of settlers npon certain lands in Iowa;
frranting a pension of tlOO a month to Central
N. I. Hanks; establishing a port of delivery at
Ies Moines, la., and the District of Columbia
appropriation bill In the House the time
was occupied in discussing the legislative ap
propriation bill.
A m was introduced in the Senate on the
131 h to Incorporate the National Guarantee
Loan Sl Development Company of the United
States, which has for its object the ameliora
tion of tho condition of the poor. The copy
right bill was discussed In the House the
legislative -impropriation bill was further con
sidered and finally passed.
DOMESTIC
Further advices from the recent cy
clone in Alabama say that in Tusea
loosa, Shelby and Talladego counties
fctores and dwellings were unroofed,
fctablcs blown down, and a great many
horses and cattle were killed.
Four railway employes were killed
in a collision at Elmira. N. Y.
(jovkkxor Hikd, of the Indian Ter
ritory, was organizing1 the militia to
eject intruders from the Chickasaw na
tion. The tJovernment would assist.
.It was estimated that there were at
least 10.000 intruders.
Jacob Weber, living1 near Sidney, O.,
was shot dead by William C'isso, a
neighbor, while stealing corn from the
latter's barn. Weber leaves a widow
and ten children.
The Indiana Legislature passed a law
making it a felony to conduet a bucket
shop, deal in margins or rent a building
for the purpose.
Ixa hotel at Columbus, Kan., Louis
F. Ilolsey, of Arizona, shot his wife,
who had instituted proceedings for
divorce, and then committed suieido.
A passenger train was thrown down
an embankment near Maynard, la., and
sixteen persons were injured, some se
riously. ' James Gaffxet, of St. Louis, placed
$2,S00, the savings of years, in a stove
for safe keeping. Some time after he
started a fire in the stove and the
money was consumed.
Nathaniel Greene, book-keeper for
Farmsworth & Kuggles at San Fran
cisco, was said to be ? JO, 00 J short in his
accounts.
The First National I.ank and the
North Middlesex Savings Hank at
Ayer, Mass., closed their doors.
Ixa quarrel over a girl at a dance at
Palmyra, Kan., John Ilenton and Hale
Cooper were fatally injured.
The shortage of J. Eldridge Pierce,
the absconding secretary of the City
Loan Association of Wilmington, DeL,
was placed at S90.000.
The iron ship Bruce and two tugs
were sunk in the bay at New York and
eighteen lives were reported lost.
Daisy- ISrezk, sent to the Illinois
penitentiary for life for murdering a
woman, was pardoned. She had served
sixteen years.
George C. Gibson, of Peoria, 111.,
secretary of the great whisky trust,
was arrested in Chicago on the charge
of plotting to destroy the Shufeldt dis
tillery (which would not join the trust)
with dynamite.
Jacob FREUNDLien and his team
were drowned in sight of 100 people in
the Ohio river at Evansville, Ind.
A bill, to resubmit to the people the
question of a prohibition amendment
to the constitution was passed by the
North Dakota Legislature.
The Census Office announced the pop
ulation of Michigan to be 2, 09:5, S S9.
One hundred converts were im
mersed in the river at Owenslwro, Ky.,
as the result of a revival meeting.
Allan M. Murphy, a IJaraga (Mich.)
farmer, was fleeced out of S3,S00 by
New York "gTeen-gootls men.
The Missouri Legislature passed a
bill prohibiting pool-selling in the State
n horse races and elections.
Fifty of the Indiana survivors of the
Mexican war held a reunion at Indian
apolis. Kearney, N. J., non-union em
ployes of Clark's thread-mill were at
tacked by a crowd of men, women and
children," and nearly every window in
the mill was smashed by stones thrown
br the mob.
"Judge William Lewi?, of Pineville,
vr who had been suppressing bloody
in that resion, was shot and
killed by his own son, Sidney Lewis,
whom the judge had put under bond as
one of the unlawful gang.
The Lake Superior & Northwestern
railroad has changed its name to the
puluth, Mesabic & Northern.
Extensive prairie fires raged through
out Hale and Swisher counties in Tex
as and thousands of acres of range were
totally destroy ed.
By an explosion of natural gas at La
fayette, Ind., four persons were in
jured, two fatally.
Thk National Miners convention at
Columbus, O., adopted a resolution that
all miners and mine workers in the
United States demand the eight-hour
work day May 1 next.
A fire at Aurora, 111-, caused a loss
of S105,000.
At Wichita Falls, Tex., a fire de
stroyed five hotels and four business
houses.
One hundred certificates for 100
shares each of tho American Sugar
Trust, aggregate face value 51,000,000,
were pronounced in New York to be
counterfeit.
The river which was rapidly rising at
Cincinnati drove out of their homes
sixty families.
At Sumner, 111., John Graham was
sentenced to thirty years in the peni
tentiary for killing Duanc Johnson, of
liussellville.
Arthur McAllister, of Cleveland,
O., was elected president of the Na
tional Iluilders' Association at their an
nual session in New York.
At the meeting in New York of the
American Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation James W. Scott, of Chicago, was
re-elected president.
The mines recently discovered at
Florissant, Col., prove to be rich in cop
per instead of gold.
The entire edition of the Steamboat
Springs (Col.) Inter Mountain was ex
cluded from the mails because it con
tained an item pertaining to an enter
tainment to be given by school children
in which a watch was to be given to
the person holding the lucky number.
A single man held up the assistant
cashier and a clerk at the Citizens
Hank of Minneapolis, Minn., and swept
the cash into a bag, but he was capt
ured as he was leaving the building.
New counterfeit S3 Treasury notes
have been found in circulation in New
York. The bill is signed W. S. Rose
crans as Register, J. N. Huston as Treas
urer, and the work is poorly done.
At Guthrie, O. T., Mrs. Frank Alcorn
killed her three children by accidental
ly giving them an overdose of medicine.
IIy the explosion of a boiler in a flour
ing mill at Windsor, Mo., II. L. Smith,
Thomas Thillberry, Walter Iieaman
and Charles Sturtevant were instantly
killed.
A bank vault at Shepardsville, Ky.,
was blown up by burglars, who got
$100, but overlooked So0,000.
President Harrison has signed the'
act for the construction of a tunnel un
der the waters of the bay of New York
between Staten Island and Long Island.
Mrs. Kkhoe, CO years of age, and
Mary Ann Reardon, ten years her
junior, were suffocated, by smoke dur
ing a fire in their home in Chicago.
. David Fox, the only survivor of the
Nottingham mine explosion at Wilkes
barre, Pa., a year ago, was killed by a
premature explosion of a blast.
At the Passavant hospital in Milwau
kee Mrs. Hedwig Wendland died from
the effects of the Koch lymph treat
ment. The Census IJureau announced the
population of Arkansas by races as fol
lows: White, 81G.517; colored, 311,227;
Indians, 304; Chinese, 131; total, 1,128,
170. Eleven persons in St. Louis were
poisoned by head-cheese purchased of a
farmer. One would die.
James Storey, of Parsons, Kan., has
been granted a patent on an artificial
egg. The cost of manufacture, it was
said, would not exceed three cents per
dozen.
One man was killed and three fatally
injured in a boiler explosion in a board
mill at Elkhart, Ind.
Commissioner Raum issued a circular
informing all pension attorneys and
agents that circulars proposed to be
issued by them to solicit pension busi
ness must be approved by the pension
office before distribution.
At Austin, Tex., Sam Alexander was
fined S250 for mailing lottery tickets.
In the United States the business
failures during tho seven days ended on
the 13th numbered 297, against 306 the
preceding week and 303 the correspond
ing week last year.
CnAKi.ES Ritter, teller of the First
National IJank of Evansville, Ind., was
reported short 550,000.
Jesse II. Proctor and Frederick
Young were hanged at Dover, DeL, for
murder.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
James Redpath, the Irish National
ist, journalist and lecturer, died at New
York from the effects of injuries re
ceived by being run down by a horse
car. He was 5S years of age.
The Idaho Legislature met in joint
convention and elected W. II. Claggett
United States Senator. He will contest
the seat of Senator-elect Dubois.
Daniel Looper, an ex-soldier aged 101
years, died at his residence near Car
rol It on, ILL
R. Holland Duell died at Cortland,
N. Y. He was a member of the Forty
second and Forty-third Congresses.
Samuel MoREY.who came into prom
inence during the Presidential campaign
of 1SS0, and who was arrested in eon
nection with the- "Morey Chinese let
ter," died at Nashua. N. H., aged 63
years.
Mrs. Theodore French, aged 105
years, died at Syracuse, N. Y.
Stephen S. Harding. Governor of
Utah under President Lincoln, died at
his home near Milan, Ind., aged 83
years.
Admiral David Porter, the hero of
many a naval battle, died suddenly in
Washington on the 13th of fatty degen
eration of the heart. He was 73 years
of aye.
FOREIGN.
Ox Baron Wodlauer's estate in Hun
gary twenty peasants were devoured by
ravenous wolves.
Cablegrams from President Rarillas,
of Guatemala, and President Begran,
of Honduras, say that rumors of a
revolution in Honduras and Central
America are untrue.
During January the poll tax on Chi
nese arriving at Victoria, 11. C, was
$3,817, an increase of S801 over the same
month last year.
Over 2,500 unemployed men in To
ronto, Ont., paraded the streets bear
ing a flag with the motto: "Bread or
Work."
It was said that King Alexander, of
Servia, who is now about 15 years of
age, was suffering from a dangerous
chronic malady.
At South Colchester, Ont, M. Brown,
aged 84, led to the altar Mrs. Margaret
Clickert, aged 97. The groom had bur
ied four wives and the bride mourned
the loss of five husbands. Her last
husband died two years ago, aged 124
years.
The development of smokeless coal
mines in Tonquin, China, shows much
larger deposits than were at first be
lieved to be possible.
A German explorer stated that the
whole of South Greenland was covered
with a sheet of ice that was 5,000 to
6,000 feet thick in the valleys.
Upon landing at Folkestone, Eng.,
Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien were ar
rested, and they would be taken to
Ireland to serve a sentence of six
months for alleged unlawful agitation
of the home-rule question.
TnE boiler in the Quebec Worsted
Company's factory near Quebec, Can.,
exploded, partly demolishing the
works, and at least thirty-two persons
were killed and more than a score
wounded.
Another woman was found mur
dered and horribly mutilated in the
Whitechapel district of London. She
was believed to have been a victim of
"Jack the Ripper."
Resolutions were passed by the
Newfoundland Legislature protesting
against the action of the British Gov
ernment in not permitting negotiations
for reciprocity with the United States
to be carried on.
Mr. Laurier, leader of the Liberal
party in Canada, said in Toronto in an
swer to Sir John Macdonald's manifesto
against reciprocity with the United
States that the policy of the English
Government was a failure and a fraud,
which farmers and artisans alike should
condemn. Sir Richard Cartwright said
that Canadians were bound to have un
restricted reciprocity with the United
States.
Mrs. La France and two children
lost their lives in a burning dwelling
near St. Albert, Ont., and Mr. La
France was fatally burned.
LATER NEWS
Bills were introduced in the United
States Senate on the 14th authorizing
the construction of a bridge across the
Red river at Alexandria, La., and
across the Mississippi at South St.
Paul, Minn. The resolution authoriz
ing the select committee on relations
with Canada to continue its investiga
tions during the recess was agreed to.
A resolution was introduced requesting
the President to appeal on the ground
of humanity to the Emperor of Russia
to inquire into the alleged wrongs and
cruelties to the Jewish subjects of
Russia and Siberia. In the House bills
were introduced to repeal the McKin
ley tariff bill and to re-enact all laws
repealed by that act, and to prevent the
sale of fire-arms and ammunition to
the Indians and to disarm all Indians
under the supervision of an Indian
agent.
A boat capsized on the Oconee river
at Armor's Ferry, Ga., and four colored
men were drowned.
In a railway accident near Columbus,
O., Engineer Charles Bartwell and two
brothers named Johnson were fatally
injured.
The Government buildings at Yoko
hama, Japan, were burned, causing a
loss of 5250.000.
Captain Francis L. Norton's steam
life-boat, the F. L. Norton, in which
the captain with bis wife, niece and
seven men left New Loudon, Mass., for
Toulon, France, November 23, has been
given up as lost.
A fire at Rochester, N. Y., destroyed
St. Mary's Hospital, the 250 inmates
barely escaping with their lives.
George Rouse, aged 10 years, ac
cidentally shot and killed his brother
Edward, aged 19 years, at Leavenworth,
Kan.
The stallion Elector, valued at $25,090
and owned by J. B. Barnes, died at
Springfield, 111.
General William Tecvmseh Sher
man died at 1:50 o'clock on the after
noon of the 14th at his home in New
York. He was unconscious when the
end came. The members of his gnef
stricken family were standing aronnd
his bed at the time.
TnE total production of pine lumber
in Michigan during 1S90 was 4,035,707,
849 feet.
A cyclone in the nervey group of
islands in Australia destroyed over sev
enty houses, nearly all the cocoanut
and bread fruit trees, and wrecked a
schooner, causing the loss of fourteen
lives. In Condobolin great bush fires
swept a district thirty by sixty miles in
extent and destroyed 20,000 sheep.
C'atarrli Can't lie Cured
with local applications, as they can not
roach tho'scat of the dixcu-ie. Catarrh i u
blood i;r con titutioual disease, nul in order
to euro it you have to take internal reme
dies. Hall's Catarrh Cv.ro ir taken inter
nally, and acts tLrectl.v on the blood und
mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
no quack medicine. Jtwas proscribed by
one of the best physicians in this country
for years, and is a regular prescription. It
is composed of the Ix'at tonics known, com
bined with tho best blood puriliers, acting
directly on tho mucous surfaces. The ikt
fect combination of tho two ingredients i
what produces such wonderful results in
curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
R J. Cheney &. Co., Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by Dru'ists, price 75o.
Vice-President Morton has a smooth
shaven face, his eyes are blue and his
nose Roman. His mouth is large and
firm. When he presides over the delil
erations of the Senate he always wears
a black frock coat that is buttoned up
tightly. His cravat is dark and his col
lar high. His manners are precise and
somewhat formal.
A prudent housewife will not put off
baking until to-morrow the bread that
should be done to-day. Texas Sittings.
Williston, Florida, Oct. 18th, 18S9.
Messrs. A. T. Kuallenuekgku & Co.,
Rochester, Pa. Gents: Since my first
order for your Antidote, in 1880, I have kept
the medicine constantly in stock. It is un
questionably tho best medicine for chills I
ever saw. I know of one case of eight
months' standing which was cured perma
nently by one dust, after all other remedies
had failed. I have never known it to fail to
cure in a single instance. Yours truly,
J. li. Epperson.
" 'Piece bo with you," remarked tho tramp
as he left a remnant of his coat-tail with
the bull dog. Uinghamton Republican.
Coughs and Hoarseness. The irritation
which induces coughing immediately re
lieved by use of "Bruwn s Bronchial Tructcs."
Sold only in boxes.
"A man's work is from sun to sun," and
woman's work descends from daughter to
daughter. Indianapolis Journal.
How Mr Throat Hitkts 1 Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of Ilorehound and Tar I
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Job's ailment never confined him to the
house ho was continually "breaking out."
Boston Courier.
For twenty-five cents you can get Carter's
Little Liver Pills the best liver regulator in
the world. Don'tforget this. One pill a dose.
A woman never feels sure that a man Is
really loose until she knows that he's
tight. Elmira Gazette.
"I have the drop on you," said the rain
to tho man who had forgotten his umbrella.
Washington Post.
Debtor "Why do you come round so
often 5" Creditor "I have to to keep
square I" Brooklyn Eagle.
Sweetness and light Tho cake our
mother used to bake. Boston Transcript.
THE MARKETS.
New Yokk. Feb. 16.
LIVE STOCK Cattle C T& 5 PA
Sueep 4 m Oi. 5 fj
Ho:rs 3 JO ( 4 00
FLOCK Fair to Fancy 3 St) (. 5 to
Minnesota P;;tiit.s 4 6J . 5 l
"WHEAT No. S Uud 1 11' ."', 1 Yi
No. 3 11 -d 1 Ol' J'. 1 05
COKS-.Nn. 3 (., Ki
Unjrrad'Hl Mixed fjw, 6I'
OATS Mixeil Western rl r,r, ri
RYE V"st-rn K) r.-, si
1'GKfC Moss. N,;w 10 7" I'M :.'"
LA I v I Western Steiim 5 iti'iH ". !."
HUTTER Western Creamery. 17 fj, '-'t
CHICAGO.
BEEVES Shipping Steers 31 1" -r 50
Cows 1 sr. 3 75
Stockers 2 35 0$ 3 no
Fefder.s 2 7 ) Or. 3 35
Ku tellers' Steers a 75 (', 3 m
Hulls 1 50 (.?. 3 J0
HOfiS Live 3 ) fi 3 05
SHF.KI' 4 U 5 -V
BUTTER C're::Tnery 17 0 35
Good to Choice Dairy 13 iu 3)
EGGS I-'rish U 30
BROOM CORN
Hurl 2?4f 5
Self-working 3 (r, 4
Crooked 2'J
POTATOES (pcrbu.t 75 0.1 J7
PORK Mess 9 30 0i, 37'i
LARD Siem 5 60 ;i 5 63! i
FLOUR Spring Patents 4 r, Oh 4 75
Winter Patents 4 00 Or, 5 (X)
Bakers' 3 50 Gi 3 75
GRA IN Wheat No. 2 9t 94'i
Corn, No. 3 50? '. h)i
Oats, No. 2 44ii 44
Rve. No. 2 H) 0 )t
Harle v. No. 2 Cas'a 70 0J 78
LUMBER
Siding 19 00 CV22 00
Flooring Si 00 (Til'A 00
Common Hoards 13 0) &13 50
Fencing 13 00 (&18 00
Lath. Dry 8 60 (T; 2 70
Shinglos 2 00 2 60
ST. LOUIS.
CATTLE Steer-...'. ". ..8 3 90 & 5 25
Stockers and Feeders 2 25 r& 3 35
HOGS Fair to Choice Heavy.. 3 40 Or, 3 f
Mixed Grades 3 30 j3 45
SHEEP 4 00 & 4 30
OMAHA.
CATTLE Prime t3 95 (a 4 65
Fancy 4 55 Cr, 5 40
Fair to Good i 75 Oi. 4 15
JJOGS 3 00 3 45
Is believed to be caused by poisonous miasms
arising from low, marshy land, or from decaying
vegetable matter, and which, breathed into the
lungs, enter and poison the blood. If a healthy
condition of the blood is maintained by taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla, one is much less liable to
malaria, and Hood's Earsaparilla bas cured many
severe cases of this distressing affection even in
the advanced stages when the terrible chills and
ferer prevailed. Try it.
And If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla
do not be induced to buy any substitute.
KloocFs
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all drueeists. II: six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD St CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Poses One Dollar
Death Oy Suffocation.
A celebrated German phvmetan. Dr. Constatt. ys:
"A slight decree of inflammation Is (sufficient to eioe
the air passages of an infant and to cause deatn oy
suffocation." Dr. Hoisie Certain Croup Cure will al
leviate, tnis. and is (ruaranteed a pofltire cue- ola
by drue-trists or mailed on reoeipt of ceuJ. AOOXOaS
A. P. HoXSlE, Buffalo, K. T.
OrSiJU Wnmntoiaaiia
"August
Flower"
For Dyspepsia.
A. Bellanger, Propr. , Stove Foun
dry, Montagny, Quetcc, writes: "I
have used August Flower for Dys
pepsia. It gave me great relief. I
recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a
very good remedy."
Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer,
Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, writes: "I
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia."
C. A. Harrington, Engineer and
General Smith, Sydney, Australia,
writes: "August Flower has effected
a complete cure in my case. It act
ed like a miracle."
Geo. Gates, Corinth, Miss. .writes:
" I consider your August Flower the
best remedy in the world for Dys
pepsia. I was almost dead with
that disease, but used several bottles
of August Flower, and now con
sider mj'self a well man. I sincerely
recommend this medicine to suffer
ing humanity the world over." (s
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A.
The Soap
that
Cleans
Most
is Lenox.
Z took Cold,
I took Sick,
I TOOK
result:
I take My Meals,
I tako My Rest,
AND I AM VIGOROUS ENOUGH TO TAKE
ANYTHING I CAN LAY MY HASPS ON ;
fettinsr flit too, for Scott's
mulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil
and Hvpophosphitesof Limeand
Soda NOT ONLY CURED MY IfllC-
ient Consumption but hult
ME UP, AND IS NOW I UTTING
I
FLESH ON MY BONES
AT THE RATE OF A POUND A DAY. I
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TAKE IT JUST AS EASILY AS I DO MILK."
such testimony is nothing new.
scott's emulsion is doing wonders
daily. Take no other.
Salvation Oil tYuITZ
few
IUdifst
mirk
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SHUb GENTLEMEN.
S.OO Cfeaalne Hand-wrd. an elejant and etyl-
O ih dress Bho whicn oommrnd jRstlf.
A OO llaad-aeired Welt. A "no ca.f Sho unequal-
S. SffiEK.. especially adapfd tor
3 railroad men. farmers, ele.
All made in Contrres. Button and Lae.
n.OOfor Ladiea. Is tbc only kaad-sewed shoe Sola
atthispopnlarprire.
gX Itoncola frboe far Lad Ira. Is a new departure
and promises to be'-'. me very j,polar.
ftrSj-VO Shoefcr I. ad lea. ad 1.7S for Xiaac tIU
retaia their excellence lor style, etc
All crowds warranted and stamped with name on bot
tom. If advertised loal asrent cannot supply yoo,
seed direct to factorr encioi-ing advertised price or a
sostai for order blanks.
W. t- DOrOLAH. Brtlos, Mus
ir ft ewnu GhA iIap in wt-TV r if T A.n'1 tOWTI not
occunird, to takeexclUBlTft any. Ail ant 4er
tiscdin local paper. S-nd for iilutrtd cataJOffue.
THIS larT. v-avy xmm y-Mwn,
100
TlinilClltn Roll of Wall Pa per from
I HUUdAKU 5etoSO a roll, hend lOo
for Samples, and tate kind wanted. Geo.
V.Drake. 217 W.Madls'.D u, Cnicago, 111.
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