THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
-PLATTSMOUTII,
NEBRASKA.
It Is a singular thing that when a
man goes slow on food he is called a
faster.
A man named Merritt has won a
$950,000 lawsuit. Who says there Is
nothing in a name?
A North Dakota prophet gives the
world Just nineteen years yet before
having to hand in its checks.
If Jim Corbett talks as much at home
as he does through the public prints it
is no wonder his wife is suing him for
a divorce.
Mark Twain has reiteraled his state
ment that Americans ought to do more
kicking. It is evidently some time
since Mark has seen an umpire.
Miss Wlllard asks: "Why are not
men more beautiful?" They really
don't need to be. They do enough
heart-smashing now, ugly as they are.
A Californian won a bride by giving
a young lady his lower berth in a
sleeping-car. It is not the first time
that love has stooped to one of lower
birth.
Pacific coast papers assert that "two
million dollars' worth of wheels from
Eastern manufacturers," mainly Chi
cago, have been brought into California
during the present season.
It was unnecessary for Dr. Talmage
to assure a reporter that he enjoys
good digestion. Everybody knows the
doctor is an optimist, and optimism
and indigestion are never found in
company.
Anatomists, to separate the bones of
a skull, frequently fill it with small
beans and place the whole in a basin
of water. The beans swell and slowly
split the skull. The force which beans
are capable of exerting under these
conditions is equivalent to the average
pressure in the boiler of a steam en
gine. Large numbers of Japanese laborers
are arriving at California ports and
swarming into the labor markets. It
is said that during the last year 10,000
of them have secured employment to
the exclusion of white laborers. The
Japs can have all the fun they want
with the Chinese, but a Japanese in
vasion of the United States is goring
another ox altogehter.
Mrs. Mignon Elliott err New York ap
preciates the affliction of having a
pretty face. When she was in a book
store one day she found to her horror
that a publisher of sensational litera
ture had used her photograph to adorn
the front page of a number of flashy
French novels. Of course there was
only one thing left for her to do, and
that was to bring suit against the pub
lisher, which she promptly did.
An increasing number of tourists go
to Europe every year. The matter of
cost used to prevent people from doing
this generally-, but now, it is claimed
that many people spend the summer in
Europe because they can do it cheaper
than they can remain at home. But it
is rather melancholy to meet with so
many people who have traveled all over
Europe but know but little from per
sonal experience of their own country.
A cry of despair has gone up from
the Fife county council, Scotland, on
the subject of the abuse of the public
highways in that county by cyclists,
and they have adopted the course of
petitioning Parliament on the subject.
The difilculty is that cycling offenders
will not connive at their own capture,
but almost invariably.as the Fife coun
cil pathetically urge, make off at their
highest possible speed after a contra
vention or on being challenged.
The Women's Civic League of Cin
cinnati has secured the co-operation of
the city government in providing piles
of clean sand for little children to play
in on vacant lots in different parts of
the city and In a corner of one of the
parks. They urged that this provision
for the play-instinct of children would
add to the health and happiness of the
"tots." It is a wise movement. No
large park is complete without some
such provision for the children.
The growth of public libraries in the
United States is one of the remarkable
features of our system of progress.
There are nearly 5,000 of them; and a
recent writer points out the significant
fact that with the single exception of
the county, there is not a single civil
division of our government that has
not adopted this form of educational
service. The Nation, the States, the
cities and towns have libraries for gen
eral use, and the work of the librarian
has become a regular profession, with
requirements of systematic study and
training.
Johns Hopkins, a young millionaire
of Philadelphia, rode fifteen miles on
a bicycle the other day and died a few
hours later from overexertion. The
bicycle is a good thing, but it Is not
wise to push it along too hard.
The ex-Queen Lilluokalani of Hawaii
Is very anxious to know what the news
papers say about her. There is a press
clipping bureau in New York that sends
to her address in Honolulu everything
that is printed in the press of the
United States concerning herself and
.fcer lost cause.
OVER THE STATE.
Safe blowers have been operating" At
Creighton.
The dates college at Neligh will be
removed to Norfolk.
War is being waged in Nebraska
City on unlicensed dogs.
Wm. Imlay, a pioneer of Seward
county, died last week of paralysis.
The corner stone of the Masonic
temple at Red Cloud will be laid Aug.
1st.
E. D. Stewart of Fremont has been
elected principal of the public schools
of iied Cloud.
Jimmy Cukran, a 9-year-old South
Omaha boy, was rim over and kilisd
by the motor cars.
The Emerson creamery is doiiig a
large business, about 9,000 pounds of
milk being received daily.
J. G. Clayton and family left Ful
lerton the other day for the Rocky
mountains in a prairie schooner.
The summer meeting of the state
horticultural society will be held at
Wymore, Neb., July "23, 24 and 23.
The opera house in Pierce is rapidly
nearing completion. The grand open
ing will be held about September 1.
The town dads of Scribner have just
levied an occupation tax upon its busi
ness men to replenish the village ex
chequer. The barber shop at Pierce was en
tered by burglars and S75 worth of
supplies taken. Hut one razor was
left in the shop.
Several burglaries were committed
at Elmwood. Among others who suf
fered was Mr. Mayfield, a publisher,
who was touched for 10.
The Board of Public Lands and
Buildings has notified Janitor (Irinnell
that owing to a lack of funds his servi
ces will have to be dispensed with.
News reached Butte that Fred
Rethge, living on the state line between
Butte and Farfax, fell into an old well
and was drowned. He was 25 years
old.
II. Ball, a farmer who resides in the
southern part of Holt county, an in
mate of the county jail, is charged with
the crime of seducing his 14-year-old
step daughter.
A. T. Nichols, the ex-cashier of the
Teople's State bank of Litchfield, was
sentenced to a term of three years in
the state penitentiary for receiving de
posits after knowing the bank was
insolvent.
Adolph .Steixcamt and Henry Gae
bel, two German farmers living south
east of Louisville, quarreled, and the
result was that Steincamp was shot in
the back and left arm with a shotgun
in the hands of GaebeL
Omaha will turn night into day dur
ing state fair week. The plan contem
plates the lighting of twenty-six blocks
by lamps placed five feet apart on each
side of the street and diagonally across
and over the intersections.
E. O. Wells, a prominent citizen, a
member of the city council of Colum
bus and ex-confederate soldier, died
last week of Bright's disease. Mr.
Wells has been a resident of the state
many years and was well and favora
bly known there.
The portrait of II E Palmer, depart
ment commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic in 18S4, has been re
ceived at the oflice of General Gage. It
is the intention to have the portraits of
all the ex-commanders in the -state at
this office eventually.
The settlers on the reservation near
Emerson who were evicted have all re
turned to their farms, but all are being
"chased. M The Flourney Land com
pany lessees all have to go.
According to the assessors' reports
there are 2S.1G5 acres in wheat in John
son county, 09,704 acres in corn, 15,377
in oats, 51,910 in meadow, 7"0 in barley,
950 in millet, 103 in rye, 2,125 in flax."
The boot and shoe store of John F.
Howell at Hastings was closed by cred
itors. An eastern firm was pressing
him lor the payment of a bill and he
gave eleven chattel mortgages aggre
gating about $2,b00.
A Hemmlngford dispatch says that
county Surveyor J. 1. Hazard was se
verely if not fatally injured by his
team running away. He was thrown
from the wagon, breaking several ribs
and otherwise injuring him.
A sforty individual walked into a
drug store at Decatur and poured from
a pitcher what he thought was water
and drank a half a glass. It proved to
be turpentine. A doctor was called and
the chances are that he will recover.
The Farmers Grain and Stock com
pany's elevator at Prayne was burned.
The insurance of the elevator was
51,500, and on the grain SI. 000. The
Kaspar Bros. Milling company had
about 000 bushels of rye stored in the
elevator on which there was no insur
ance. Henry Teemer lost his life in a
shocking manner on the farm of J. D.
Freeze near Elgin. . He was bringing
in horses from the pasture. He was
riding and had his feet through the
stirrup straps, as the stirrups were too
long for him. In some way he was
thrown and his feet remained in the
straps. He was found alive but died
soon after discovery
The Cattlemen's Protective associa
tion, which was organized at Alliance
last fall for protection against the
rustlers in the sand hills, has caused
the arrest of Hank Matthews and a
man by the name of Tracy. Sheriff J.
W. Thompson arrested Matthews as he
was boarding the west bound train.
The cattlemen claim they have suffi
cient evidence to convict him.
Fred Gillard. a widower about 40
years old and well known in the coun
ty, was arrested at Big Springs for out
raging the person of Mary Foltz, a 15-year-old
girl. The girl was injured so
badly that she is in a precarious condi
tion. She has always born a good rep
utation.
We shall stand up for Nebraska this
year, says the Ashland Breeze, by eat
ing home grown potatoes at 25 cents a
bushel.
A ton of flour and barrel of rice was
shipped to Southern Lincoln county for
the benefit of a few families who
hadn't enough to bread them till after
the harvest.
E. Merrill, an inmate of the Sol
diers' home, Grand Island, has invented
a cultivator which has the prominent
feature of enabling the rider to lift the
plow without in any way affecting the
tongue. This is said to be a new thing
and the old soldier has applied for
patent.
. -Nearly a Million Dollars Short.
The State Board of Equalization has '
completed its laborers with the excep-
. tion of Boyd county. The assessed
j valuation of the state is, in round num
bers, 171,000,000. as against $183,000,
000 in 1894, a falling olf ot 812,000,000.
It is expected that the amount realized
from state assessments this year will
fall between 000,000 and S900.000 less
than the legislative appropriation of
last winter, which were a total of 2,
7S5.000. This deficiency will, there
fore, be added to the outstanding float
ing indebtedness, which is now about
JrSoo.OOO. The school fund levy is,
maximum, lg mills; minimum, one
half of 1 mill. It is claimed that this
great shortage in state valuation arises
from an apparent competition between
taxpayers as to who shall make the
smallest return to the assessor in pro
portion to the amount of property he
owns.
State Horticulturists to Meet. a
The State Horticultural society has
accepted the invitation of J. M. Rus
sell Son of Wymore to hold a sum
mer meeting with them July 23, 24 and
'.. ednesaay the Z4ta nas been aes-
lsgnated as peach day for Nebraska
and the society members and those in
terested in horticulture are to pass the
day in the Russell orchards, with thou
sands of bushels of peaches in sight
and hundreds of bushels of early ripen
ing varieties to eat. Nebraska has
long been known to raise the best ap
ples, cherries and grapes in the west.
It is not as well known that hardy va
rieties of peaches are also grown with
.'ommercial profit in the state.
Passes to the State Fair.
For several years the State Fail
board has been wrestling with one
feature of the pass question which has
caused it no end of trouble and also, it
is estimated, a loss of over $10,000 per
year in the matter of gate receipts. On
account of the chan je of location of the
lair this was" considered a good year in
which to make a reform and a radical
change has been made in the form of
the passes. During the last few years
all of the state fair associations, with
three or four exceptions, have discon
tinued the issuing of unlimited season
passes and have adopted the coupon or
punch sj'stem. So that Nebraska in
adopting the coupon system this year
is really somewhat behind the times
The plan of issuing two kinds of
passes, a coupon pass and the old style,
was discussed, but it was decided that
it would cause trouble and therefore
only one kind is used. It has at
tached to it five coupons, each one good
for one admission to the grounds. The
coupons are dated one for each day of
the fair. Under this system the board
of managers hopes to break up a ''com
bination' which has been imposing
upon it for several years.
Faroled Convict Disappear.
Warden Leidigh is looking into tht
question of rewards for the return of
paroled convicts who have taken French
leave. At least ten of the twenty-five
or thirty convicts out on parole are
said to nave fled the state and the war
den fears every one will disappear in
the same way. Information from the
governor's oflice is to the effect that a
majority of the missing men skipped
out last summer before Warden Lei
digh came into official existence, but
no one was aware of it until Warden
Leidigh began to devise some way to
get them back. There is a fund of
540,000 to pay officers fees and sheriffs
for the return of fugitives from justice,
but it is a question whether such a
fund could be drawn upon to pay re
wards for the return of paroled con
victs. However, if the governor issues
reward proclamations, the auditor will
be obliged to pay $200 for each convict
returned.
Alfalfa in lied Willow County.
Several thousand acres were sown to
alfalfa in lied Willow county this
spring, and many thousand more will
be sown next- There are 40,000 acres
of bottom land in the county, good
alfalfa land, and before many years it
will be in alfalfa. Last year was the
drjest known there, and yet alfalfa
was cut three to four times and yielded
five or six tons per acre. The hay
found ready sale last winter at $10 per
ton. Seed runs five to eight bushels
per acre, with some fields up to twelve
to fourteen bushels. A 200-aere field
turned off 1,700 bushels of seed, worth
?: per bushel, 500. The hay and
pasturage was worth half as much,
making 812,750 for the crop on 200
acres, which is not bad for a dry year.
These crops were grown without irri
gation, and almost without rain. Some
fields have already been cut twice, and
the yield was heavy. A field cut June
6 to 8 turned off three good loads to
the acre. The second crop now, July
12, is three feet high. Some sown last
spring where land was clean has been
cut once for hay and the second crop is
a foot high.
CORBETT DIVORCE CASE.
Marie King Continues Her Testimony in
the Divorce Suit.
New Yokk, July 19. There was an
other hearing yesterday before Ref
eree Jacobs in the suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbett against
James J. Corbett. Miss Marie King,
a member of the dramatic company
with which Corbett traveled, contin
ued her testimony as to the relations
between Corbett and the woman
known as Vera. Miss King related in
stances of a display of affection as the
company were trailing in railway
cars.. In Corning, Ohio, she had seen
upon, the hotel register the entry "J.
J. Corbett and wife.' It was agreed
between counsel that if the referee's
report should be in favor of the plain
tiff alimony should be fixed at $100 a
week. Adjournment until July 26
was taken in order that testimony
might be obtained from the West.
A Decrease in Valuation.
Sixty-six counties have reported to
Auditor Moore a decrease of $8,334,
329.90 in assessed valuation, while ten
other counties report an increase
amounting to 8340,080.69. The thir
teen counties which are delinquent
with their abstracts of assessment are
Boyd, Brown, Dawes, Douglas. Furnas,
Gage, Hooker, Keith, Keya Paha. Lan
caster, Nance, Saunders and Sheridan.
Douglas will report a decrease of about
82,000,000, Lancaster county about
(100,000, and the total reduction for all
counties will be about $15,000,000.
DUfl'S BUSINESS REVIEW.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY SLACKENS
DURING THE HOT WEATHER.
MIDSUMMER LULL IS ON.
Prices TIate Declined cmewhat and Therr
la a Falling Off In the Demand for
Some Manufactured Products, Hut
Wages Advance and Strikes
Grow More Numerous
and Important.
New York, July C3. It. O. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
The week's news is not entirely en
couraging, but it is all the more nat
ural, because there are signs of mid
summer dullness.
Wheat prospects are not quite so
good as last week, but still there are
lower prices, as corn and cotton have
been lowered. The exports of gold
and the less favorable treasury re
turns for July are not unexpected and
mean nothing as to the coming busi
ness There is a perceptible decrease
in the demand for most manufactured
products and the actual distribution to
consumers naturally lessens in mid
summer. Much of the recent buying
was to anticipate a rise in prices and
such purchases fall off when prices
have risen. There are still numerous
advances in wages, but strikes grow
more numerous and important.
In part because business was un
usually large in the first half of July,
a quiet tone meets reasonable expecta
tions. The heavy bank failures at
Montreal does not affect finances here,
and is passing there with less dis
turbance than was feared.
Gold exports for the middle Sf July,
when crops are beginning to move, if
not meant to affect stocks, can at all
events have only a speculative sig-.
ni Seance.
Wheat has declined 2c for September,
corn lyCy and cotton Kc for spot.
Western receipts of wheat, not half of
last year's, express disappointment at
prices, while exports for the week,
about a quarter of last years, and for
three weeks only 2,829,022 bushels,
flour included, as against 7,040,267
bushels last year show that foreign
dealers are not regarding the situation
with anxiety.
SILVER MEN DISAGREE.
The Conference in Chicago Disturbed by
Northern and Southern Factions.
Chicago, July 2C The silver con
ference at the Auditorium yesterday
was marked by a strong difference of
opinion between the Southern and
Northern representatives. At one
time a split in the ranks seemed immi
nent over a desire of the Southern men
to ignore the bimetallic league They
maintained that the avowed purpose
of the league was to assist the aspira
tions of their presidential candidate,
Joseph Sibley. The men from the
South desired to conduct their work in
their section within the ranks of the
Democratic party, and in the North to
conduct the agitation on anon-partisan
basis.
Mr. Rucker of Colorado asserted that
the trouble now in the West was 'a
growing belief that the silver wing was
but the tail to the Democratic kite."
Congressman Acklin of Tennessee
healed the breach by the formulation
of a compromise resolution providing
that a sub-committee of five be ap
pointed to take charge of the distribu- .
tion of literature, and that it be in
structed to use its best efforts to avoid
any antagonism with any other na
tional organization.
General A. J. Warner, the president
of the Bimetallic league, protested
against any line of work that attempt
ed to carry forward the silver agitation
without being allied to the league. He
said it had done all the work thus far
in the direction of agitation; that it
had spent much money and stood be
fore the people as a non-partisan or
ganization. The resolution was
adopted.
An address will be issued to the pub
lic setting forth the position of the
Nationnl silver league and the mem
bers of the national v unmittees will be
empowered to organize the various
states.
"THEY WANT THE FIGHT.
Dallas Citizens Kxpress Themselves on the
Corbett-Fitzsinimons MJL
Dallas, Texas, July 2fl. One of the
largest meetings ever held in Dallas
was assembled at the Commercial club
rooms at 6 p. m. for the purpose of
calling out an expression of opinion
and protesting against the proposed
moving of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight from Dallas to Galveston. The
meeting was composed of over 300
prominent citizens, merchants, proper
ty owners, lawyers, etc. Resolutions
were adopted pointing out the advan
tages that will result to Dallas and the
state if the fight occurs here. A com
mittee of twenty was appointed to con
fer with the county officials with re
gard to the legality of the proposed
fight.
Chloroformed and Kobbed.
Wichita, Kan., July 22. Last night
Mr. and Mrs. Link Pitzel of Sunny
dale were chloroformed and robbed of
$24u and all the valuables in the house.
They slept near an open window and
the robbers tied a cloth around the
end of a stick, saturated it with chlor
oform, inseited it through the window
while they were asleep, and put them
60 thoroughly under its influence that
they did not revive for several hours.
The Insanity Plea Saved 111m.
Newton, Kan., July 213. Patrick
Hickman was acquitted of the charge
of murder here after a hard fought
trial. He killed Tom Williams in cold
blood upon the street here last Febru
ary for alleged intimacy with his wife.
The plea of temporary insanity saved
him. The jury was out a little over
THE DEBATE RESUMED..
Mr. Harvey Again Attacks the Demoneti
zation Congress.
I Chicago, July 22. The fourth day
of the Horr-IIarvey silver contention
opened in the auditorium of the Illin
ois club at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon.
The attendance showed no appreciable
difference from that which character
ized the previous sessions.
Mr. Harvey opened the day's talk
with a review of the points so far es
tablished. They were that prior to
1873 gold and silver were the
money of the constitution; that silver
was the unit of value; that up
to that time the debtor was permitted
to pay in the cheaper money, and that
silver was not demonetized because of
any over production at the time the
act of 1873 was passed. Then taking
up the debate proper he denied that he
had at any time tried to impeach the
integrity of the American people, but
he did not propose to allow corrupt
legislators to throw the mantle of na
tional honesty around them for their
own protection. He recognized the
integrity of the American people and
it was to that he appealed.
The speaker then resumed the state
ment which was interrupted at the
close of the talk on Thursday, of the
various steps leading up to the pass
age of the act of 1873.
Texas Silver Convention.
Austin, Texas, July 22. The silver
meeting called for to-day by ex-Governor
J. S. Hogg, ex-Treasurer F. K.
Luberick and others, to elect delegates
to the Fort Worth silver convention
had just seventy persons present, half
of whom were Populists. Mr. Hogg
made a speech denouncing Cleveland
and Carlisle and said that their action
in selling bonds was perfidious.
Missouri Pacific Trains Meet.
Sedalia, Mo., July 22. Two Mis
souri Pacific freight trains met near
Herman last night. Roth engines
were badly damaged, but no one was
hurt. Rut few cars were derailed.
The accident was caused by the en
gineer of the first train running by his
orders.
Good Words for Texas.
Houston, Texas, July 22. The Daily
Post has just completed a thorough in
vestigation into the present conditions
in the state of Texas. Good crops are
assured throughout the agricultunal
section, and nearly all of Texas will
soon be an agricultural country.
Postmistress and Office Horned.
San Diego, Cal., July 22. Tue post
office and an adjoining office at La
pressa, fifteen miles east, were burned
last night and the body of Mis. Louis
Schaeffer, the postmistress, was found
in the ruins to-day. The affair is a
mystery.
No Cigarettes for Missouri City.
Liberty, Mo., July 2i. The council
of Missouri City has adopted an ordin
ance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
there, the fine being from $10 to S-'0.
The town officers say that the law will
be strictly enforced.
Mr. Towne's Estate Left to Ills Widow.
San t kancisco, July 22. Ry the
will of A. N. Towne, which was filed
to-day, all of the property of the dead
railroad man is left to his wife, who is
named as executrix without bonds.
After the Bulgarian Throne.
London, July 22. It is stated that
Prince Adolphus of Teck, who married
the daughter of ihe duke of Westmin
ster, is a candidate for the throne of
Bulgaria.
JoselTy in America.
New Yokk, July 22. Joseffy, the
Hungarian pianist, has arrived from
Europe. His last visit to this country
was fourteen 3'ears ago.
The President's llaby Named.
Buzzards Bav, Mass., July 22.
President Cleveland's third baby has
been named Marion.
The Defender Victorious.
New York. July 22. The new yacht
Defender defeated the Vigilant, with
3:52 5X to spare.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sugar men have made objection to
the authority of Comptroller Bowler to
hold up sugar bounties.
The Dawes Indian commission closed
its conference without coming to any
definite conclusion.
The treasury department does not
attach much importance to the Sover
eign banknote boycott threat."
The Canadian war minister is re
ported to have said that he does not
believe that American spies are taking
topographical notes in Canada.
Reuben F. Kolb has announced that
he will n t again be a candidate for
governor of Alabama.
Cuban insurgent agents are trying
to get United States army officers to
command their forces.
Secretary Hoke Smith expresses sat
isfaction with the progress of the
sound money ideas in the South.
Colonel D. N. Barrows, who was as
sistant treasurer of the Confederacy,
died at his home in Jackson, Miss.
In a battle with moonshiners in West
Virginia, one was killed, a constable
fatally wounded and others hurt.
Government officials do not believe
the report that Mexico has ordered
Texas cattle to be run out of the Palo
mas district.
A correspondent who interviewed
Bismarck says that he is in good
health.
A testimonial was presented to Sir
Henry Irving by members of the the
atrical profession.
A force of Japanese cavalry on the
island of Formosa was cut to pieces by
Chinese. But three troopers escaped.
Geoffry Perkins, an American law
yer, is in jail in London on a charge of
obtaining monej' under false pretenses.
The young son of Mathias Smith of
Seneca, Kan., was kicked to death by
horse.
The Fifth ward of the city of Wichita
has given notice of secession from the
municioal corporation. becaDs of tha !
removal of a fire house from the ward. !
I THE pretzel CHILDREN.
I . . . . m IL.t TT m
nolmei Virtually Confesses that He Mur
dered Them.
Philadelphia, July 18. Herman
Mudgett, alias II, H. Holmes, the in
surance swindler in prison here, has
virtually confessed the murder of the
two Pietzel children.whose bodies were
found in the cellar of a Toronto house
Monday. During the two hours' inter
view he had yesterday with three
members of the district attorney's
staff he said: "I suppose I'll swing
for this."
The district attorney thinks that
this is a practical admission of Holmes
guilt. Notwithstanding Holmes' re
mark, his counsel says that he can
prove an alibi in his client's case. He
says that Holmes was not in Toronto
when the Pietzel children were mur
dered. This, he says, can be proved
by Mrs. Howard, Holmes' third wife,
who is at present living with her
mother in Franklin, Ind.
The authorities place but little con
fidence in the alibi story and are satis
fied Holmes is the murderer.
Tobonto, Ontario, July 17. Detec
tive Geyer is hard at work. To
davhe found the exDressman who took
the trunk, which had invariably ac
companied Holmes in all his journeys
into the St. Vincent Street house, and
this man had no difficulty in picking
out Holmes' photograph from a number
of others.
SILVER REPUBLICANS.
Candidate Will Be Pledged to Follow
Congress, Says Gov. McConnelL
Portland, Ore.', July IS. Governor
W. J. McConnell of Idaho, speaking
of the policy of the silver Republicans
next year, said: "The friends of silver
will not force the financial issue in the
national Republican convention next
year further than to secure a declara
tion in the platform" that the nominee
of that party shall sign any measure
that passes congress that not only
affects the financial system of the
country, but also the pensions of the
soldiers of the rebellion, the building
of the Nicaraguan canal, the annexa
tion of the Hawaiian islands and other
issues of paramount interest to the
country. The individual who heads
the ticket is of little consequence to
ire as long, of course, as he is a sound
protectionist. I don't care what his
views on the financial question are as
long as he stands on the platform of
the party and that platform contains,
the declaration we propose. "
No Redemption in Gold.
Washington, July IS. For tue first
ime during recent years the mail re-
ports received at the treasury y ester
l day show no redemptions of united
States notes in gold. All these re-
ports, nowever, ao not cover me same
day's operations. The redemptions
during the last few months have aver
aged about 81,000,000 a month. The
fact has no particular significance but
; the treasury officials call attention to.
it as a very uausuai circumstance.
Six Thousand Dollars Disappears.
Omaha, Neb., July 18. A package
containing $6,000 has mysteriously dis
appeared from the Pacific Express
( company office. It came in as United.
States Express company business and
J was sent to the Pacific ofiice, where it
passed through the hands of four em-
floyes and then dropped out of sight,
he police are thoroughly puzzled and
can secure no trace of the thief or
money.
Kansas Farmers Held at Bay.
Atchison, Kan., July 18. T. F. Oa-
. tranger was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Donnell this morning for stealing a
. team of horses, wagon and five hogs in.
I the country last night. A crowd of
j farmers surrounded the prisoner and
tried to take him away from the ofil-
' cer, presumably to ljnch him, but he
was finally landed safely in thecount-
jail.
LIVE STOCK AM) PRODUCK MARKET.
(Quotations from New York, Chicago, SU
Louis, Omaha and Eliewhere.
OMAHA
butter Creamery separator.. 13 5 14
Butter 1- air to good country. 10 49 12
Fggs Fresh 10 t& 11
honey California, per 0 1 IS-
Hens Live, per lb 64 7
Spring Chickens, ptr doz 2 00 x 2 50
Lemons Choice Messinas 4 0 t if6 2.
Apples-per bu 1 00 1 50
Oranges Florida, per box 2 50 to A
Potatoes New 35 to 4
Watermelons-per dozen 2 oJ to 3 oo
heans-Navy, hand-picked, bu 2 tO W)
Hay Upland, per ton 7 00 to 7 50
Onions bermuda per crate... 1 ;0 ( 1 t)
i heese Neb. & la-, full cream 10 to 11
Pineapples per doz 5 (& 2 5.
Hogs Mixed packing 4 -5 to 4 &&
Hogs Heavy weights 5 00 to 5 a
beeves-Mockers and feeders. 2 30 W 3 05.
beef Steers 2 ;0 490
bulls. 1 50 2 50.
ctags 2 00 & 2 50
laives. 1 P0 to 5 0l r
tows 1 00 u. 3 25
Heifers 1 90 & 2 f0
Westerns I 50 3 50
fcheep Lambs 3 00 v. 5 50
fcbeep Choice natives 2 50 i 3 05
CHICAGO.
Wheat No. 2. spring 66 ii Gf.Ji
Corn Fer bu 4 x& 4.W
Oats . er bu 23 4
Pork 10 "5 10 Kv
Lard 6 50 & 6 55
hogs Packers and mixed 4 75 a 5 2J
t attle Steers extra 3 00 4 45
fcbeep Lambs 3 00 5 t0
theep-Natives 2 00 2 50
NEW YOKK
W heat, No. 2. red winter TO Ct 70.
Corn No. 2 51 49 Mv
Oats No.2 S W 2t.j
Fork 12 25 13 00
Lard 6 55 (it 6 574-
5T. LOUIS.
Wheat No 2 red, cash 66 u 6f4
Corn Per bu 41 t 41 V
Oats Per bu 24 & 24Vt
hogs Mixed packing 4 90 5 15
tattle Native steers 4 00 Hi 4
Mieeo Mixed natives 2 00 3 60
Lambs 3 50 5 00
KANSAS CITY".
Wheat No. "hard 61 Q 6
Corn No. 2 40 404,
Oats No.2 24 UA 24"
Cattle Stockers and feeders.. 1 85 4 10
Hogs Mixed packers 4 75 U 4 90
New XJne of Insurance.
Topeka, Kan., July IS. The insur
ance companies have opened up a new
line of business in Western Kansas.
That section is flooded with agents who
are writing policies on the growings
crops, the companies insuring against
prairie fire, tornadoes and floods. The
idea of insurance companies issuincr
policies against the destruction of crops
by flood in the western half of Kan
sas would have been considered a great
joke thirty days ago, but since the
great fall of water and the loss Tif
crops along the Smoky river, the farm- S.
ers are giving the insurance companies,
all the busine;s they want.