Nebraska Newspapers

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PLjATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
OTEfi THE STATE.
A rkpubmcax league club has been
-erganized at Alma.
A receiver has been asked for the
Bays County Banking- Company.
The people of western Dodge county
hare become interested in raising? chi-
Litch field's dramatic club gave a
clever entertainment for the benefit of
the poor.
York county will hold a fair this
year as usual, the dates being Septem
ber 22 to 25. '
Julius Limui i;.;. seven miles cast of
Kmerson. committed suicide, leaving1
six orphan children.
II. V. Ci:ovk, the wife poisoner on
trial at Wilber, was acquitted after a
protracted trial.
Ex-Chikf of Poi.ick Skavev of
Omaha is an applicant for the position
of chief of police of Denver.
A bictcle stolen in Fremont last
September was found the other day in
a corn field near that city.
The insurance companies have paid
513,050 on the Alliance flouring mill,
which burned a few weeks since.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wahlkod, of
Beatrice, recently celebrated the six
tieth anniversary of their married life.
The It & M. paid S11,S59 worth of
taxes in Webster eountv the other day
and county warrants have gone up to
par.
Mrs. A. I. Wilsox of Wymore was
suddenly stricken with paralysis and
has entirely lost the use of her right
arm and hand.
After all the efforts that have been
made to organize the Blue Springs bank
it now seems to be an entire failure,
and in all probability a receiver will be
appointed.
Claus Sieck, an ex-saloon keeper of
Plattsmouth, was found dead in the
area way of a business house. His
death is supposed to have been acci
dental. Havklock is becoming quite metro
politan. On the ltth inst. the citizens
will vote on a proposition to provide
the city with a complete system of
water works.
Thk official physician of Cass county
for the current year will get but SI 10
for saving the lives of all the poor com
mitted to his care. The job was award
ed to lowest responsible bidder.
Walker, the condemned murderer,
has sent a loner letter to Governor llol-'
comb, asking him to commute his sent
ence and save his life. He bitterly as
sails his attornej-s and asserts that he
has teen robbed.
Gold-rearixo sand and rock have
been discovered on Sand creek, in Kear
ney county, about fourteen miles south
of Kearney. A sample of the ore just
assayed yielded at the rate of four
ounces to the ton.
Mrs. J. G. McCartney of Newport
left home the other day to visit a neigh
bor, and not returning in proper time,
a search was made and she was found
dead upon the prairie. The case is be
ing investigated. !
A you.o women arrived in North i
Bend a few d.iys ago direct from Cali- '
fornia, for the purpose of being united '
in marriage with a prosperous farmer j
in Saunders county. The parties have
been engaged eight years.- - - - -- j
The Hoard of Irrigation has dismis- 1
sed the claim of Thomas Hayes of j
Chase County for water from the j
Frenchman river for irrigation pur- !
poses. Hayes failed to post notices of
appropriation in conformity to the law.
The grand lodge Ancient order of
United Workmen, in special session at
Grand Island, redr-ced the initiation
fee from 69 to a minimum of S5. About
10O delegates were in attendance. This
reduction is made on account of hard
times.
Dr. Jonathan IjUAUr.-who lives a
few miles north of Odell in Gage coun
ty, was in Beatrice last week and ex
hibited samples of geld ore taken from
his eighty acre farm. He thinks he has
struck it rich, and has refused an offer
of 65,000 for his farm.
C. F. Strenoer, from some place in
Nebraska unknown, who is a little off
mentally, called on the governor the
other day and urged him to personally
examine the patients at the insane asy
lums. Norfolk's especially, and 6ee if
they were really insane.
Lex Collins, wanted in Cherry
county for burglary and. breaking jail,
was captured at the home of a friend
about three miles south of Tekamah.
Collins was formerly a resident of Te
kamah and the officers have been look
ing for him for some time.
It is said at' the governor's office that
Principal Norton of the State Normal
school declines to make an annual re
port for that institution to the govern
or. He claims, it is said, that it is the
duty of State Superintendent of Educa
tion Cbrbett to make this report.
I. A. Fort was recently interviewed
by the Grand Island Independent, and
gave it as his opinion that investments
in irrigation ditches east of Gothen
burg h would not prove profitable. He
thinks the rainfall east of that place is
sufficient to produce crops regularly.
Robert Patten, of Bingham, came
near being gored: to death ..'by a steer
almost in the last agonies of blackleg.
When approached by Patten the animal
sprang to its feet and made for him,
and turning" tor, run he fell almost be
neath the animal's feet. It passed
over him in its mad rush and turned
and came for him again just as he was
endeavoring to roll under a wire fence,
in which effort be tore off most of his
' clothes.
Berlin school? have closed owing to
prevalence of diphtheria in the town.
Herman Weiler, a farmer living
eight miles east of Norfolk. was
brought in with his jaw bone broken
in three places as the result of a colt's
kick. The jaw was so fractured that
the chin had to be held in place.
At the meeting of the woman's relief
corps held in Omaha last week Mrs.
Anna F.. Church of North Platte, treas
urer, read her report, showing- S1C5 in
the relief fund, $1,450 in the general
fund, and S250 worth of supplies in the
treasury. Eighteen hundred soldiers
and families have been helped during
the year. -
After IIojj Tliiovc
The police of this city, says a Norfolk
dispatch, have had a couple of men,
William Hazard and Albert Musfelt,
who moved here from Bassett some two
months ago, under surveillance, lying
in wait for them on two occasions, at
the Butterfield stock yards, which thej
had planned to invade. Once the men
failed to appear and once they conclud-
1 ed not to break the lock. L.ast mgnt
i the officers lay in wait for them again
at a farm in " Stanton county, where
j they were expected, and where, in the
! course of the night they appeared with
a wagon and loaded up a couple of
j hogs. The men ran, instead of sur
I rendering, one of them' being shot in
' the leg and overhauled. The other was
. arrested in Norfolk. They will be tried
j in Stanton county.
; IntrtMl in Heet.
j Miller dispatch: The people here are
; agitating the beet sugar question with
j a view of making a raw or crude sugar
j and syrup One enterprising citizen
; ran a bushel of beets through a cider
: press last fall and got three gallons of
! juice, which made a gallon and a half
! of SVfllD.
i Owing to the frequent rains and
snows the last fall and winter the
j ground was never in better shape at
j this time of the year, and everybody
j predicts a big crop the coming season,
i There is a demand for farms to rent,
Waiting; fur Ilia Collin.
j Ashland dispatch: f juite a little ex
citement prevailed here yesterday,
caused by W. T. Allen, a farmer living"
north of town, drawing his gun on
Deputy Sheriffs Whitelock and Jones.
It seems that Mr. Allen's farm was sold
nnder mortgage and yesterday the offi
cers went out to force him to leave the
place, which was contrary to his wish
es, and just as the men were entering
the yard he came out and drawing a
big revolver told them to stop They
returned to their buggy and drove back
to town congratulating themselves on
being a live. Mr. Allen is considered a
bad man and it is feared that trouble
will result before he is removed. He
has armed his whole family and says
that when he leaves it will be in
coffin.
Horticultural Interests.
At the meeting of the Northwestern
Nebraska Horticultural society, held in
Schuyler.although there were papers on
many other subjects, the oni bearing
upon the cultivation of fruits and all
other sorts of trees, their cultivation,
propagation and histories of successes
or failures, held interest at all times.
G. A. Marshal of Arlington read a pa
per on the "Need of Horticultural So
cieties," which elicited a discussion
upon apple trees, and there were many
present who had failed to succeed with
them and were full of questions" to be
answered by those who were success
ful. The main complaints were of the
failure to get trees to live, the experi
ence of nearly all questioners being
that they could not get them to live to
exceed ten years, and the causes of this
were best explained by J. S. Dunlap of
Dwight, who demonstrated that more
depended upon the subsoil than any
thing else. He said that there were
two subsoils that the roots of most
trees would not penetrate. The first
he termed joint clay, a hard substance,
with black veins through it, stating
that apple tree roots would grow to and
spread over the surface of it, thus be
ing left with no moisture from which
to draw in season of drouth. Over this
same joint clay, cherry trees would do
welL The second he termed the con- i
crete, stating that it existed in the j
Platte valley in many places very near 1
the surface, at others deep down, and
that when dry, or when used in the
construction of roads, it was almost as
hard and impenetrable as concrete.
The death of shade and fruit trees in
this vicinity having been mentioned, it
was demonstrated that there was much
of the concrete subsoil underlying the
portion of the Platte valley in this
county, and that in uryest time there t
lies very close under the subsoil an !
abundant supply of water.
Booming- the KxMition.
l)es Moines dispatch: The Nebraska
trans-Mississippi committee was receiv
ed cordially and favorable sentiment
was expressed when the general com
mittee visited the legislature this after
noon. Ex-Senator Saunders was given
an oliicial and cordial reception by the
senate and house, being escorted to the
speaker's and lieutenant governor's
desks. He addressed each house brief
iy. The committee met the legislative
delegates today to formulate action in
the legislature tomorrow.
The committee met Governor Drake
ami the ways and means committee of
both houses just before they adjourned.
Governor Drake appointed Speaker By
ers and Lieutenant . Governor Parrott
to tak.r charge of the joint resolution
ami introduce it in both houses tomor
row morning. The resolution will pass
V.Tii
nimouslv.
No Crport Forthcoming'.
t far no report has Wen received by
the governor of affairs at the State
o: iual school at Peru. The const it u
l in provides that the superintendent
t ht-ad of the educational institutions
bail make a report. Mr. Maret, the
governor's private secretary, wrote to
i rof. A. Y. .or;on, superintendent of
i he ' school, and . requested a report.
Pr f. Norton replied that State Super
iniepdent of Public Instruction Corbett
w. the proper person To furnish the
required document. I rof. Corln-tt savs
ti:at a he is on'y secretary of the edu
cational board bis duties begin and end
Willi the Keeping ,,f the minutes of
ti3. etins. With financial reports of re-
: s. and expenditures it the State
"N. ".final s.-hool he has nothing what-,
i-vcrtodo. This is the condition U
wi; it-li the school remains at present.
. , Apprnisins .Military IteserTationit.
hadron dispatch: lion. Edward L.
Merritt, of Springlield, 111., special
government appraiser of ex-military
reservations is in the city. He has just
coinpieieu uic appraisement of the old
Ft. Sidney reservation, and is now at
work appraising the old - Ft. Sheridan
reservation, located about sixteen miles
from this city. : ft is a strip of land six
miles square . aud will probably be
opened' for settlement when the ap
praisement is completed, which will be
in the course of a couple of weeks." Mr.
Merritt is an old Nebraskan, and waa
formerly editor cf the Omaha World-Herald.
DISPATCH FROM HANSEN.
THE INTREPID NORWEGIAN
PLORER COMING HOME.
EI-
THE NEWS IS CONFIRMED.
Message, However, Does Not 8ny
Whether the Iole Was Reached
Sirs. Nansen lias Received No
Word From Her Husband
General Greeley Is a
tittle IouttfoL
I . . V- mi - ....
io.xio, ecu. i.. xne liritisn con
sul at Archangel, the capital of the
Russian government of that name,
4 1 . ... .... 1. X! a m . .
icicwipuB u vuunriuaiion oi tne re
port that Dr. Nansen is returning
irom tne .North pole. This is regarded
as conclusive that the Norwegian ex
plorer is Homeward bound, even if he
did not reach the pole.
Dispatches from different parts of the
continent indicate great interest in
the news from the North pole, which
is generally credited in European cap
itals. Dr. Nan sen's wife and relatives.
however, did not believe the announce
ment which came through Kouch-
-ll A. - . .
uart-ii, me agent oi ur. JNansen, near
the mouth of the Lena river, residents
of which locality frequently visit New
ri i .i
from the explorer.
According- to the opinion of Arctic
experts here, when the Fram left the
Kara sea in 1893 she may have found
the sea northwards free of ice and
pushed on until she was locked in.
They add that she then may have been
allowed to drift until the expedition
came to land near the pole and that
Dr. Nansen and his party may have
returned in sledges to the Siberian
islands. At the Siberian islands it is
believed Dr. Nansen and his com
panions may have been stopped br the
broken ice.
Dr. .Nansen wrote to Baron Toll
from Yugoro straits, saying that he
expected to return to Koteny, Siberian
islands, where dogs have been await
ing; him.
GEN. GREELEY DUBIOUS.
The Kx-Arctle Explorer Talks About the
Report From Nansen.
Washington, Feb. 17. The message
from Archangel confirming the report
of the return of Nansen, from the
North pole, does not amount to a con
firmation in the opinion of General
Greelej and of Lieutenant Scheutze.
j.ne ianer, wiin tne possible excep
tion of Commodore Melville, who is
temporarily absent from Washington,
is better posted than any other oliicial
in Washington upon the characteris
tics of the North Siberian coast, which
he has visited on a government mis
sion, being charged with the distribu
tion of rewards to the natives who
aided the survivors of the unfortunate
Jeanette expedition.
Said he: ,4This confirmation from
I Archangel is as if wa had a telegram
1 from Portland, Me., confirming- a story
irom sandy Hook.
oenerai ureeiy iook a similar view.
and held that it was inconceivable
that the same story should emanate
from two places so remote from each
other as are Irkutsk and Archangel.
He knew of no way in which news of
Nansen's approach to the mouth of
the Lena delta should reach Archan-
g"eL With the aid of a chart General
Greely indicated the great distance
between the two places. He showed
that if it was really true that news of
Dr. Nansen's movements had reached
the mouth of the Lena and bad so
worked up the river to Irkutsk, then
it was improbable that the same in
formation could have reached Archan
gel. Then, too, there was the same
lack of detail about this last
dispatch that had been notedv in the
first, and this absence of even a hint
of where Nansen was, or how he was
communicated with, casts suspicion in
his opinion on both reports. Arch
angel, said Genera Greely, is a large
and important Russian town, with
good connections with the outer
world, and if such news had reached
there, he saw ho reason why full de
tails were not obtainable.
He called attention to ' another
point, that if Nansen, had really
emerged from the Polar regions, any
where off the Siberian coast then he has
himself disproved the correctness of
the theory upon which his expedition
was embarked. It would show that
instead of their existing" a current
across the pole, there was a current
that swept hira up from the neighbor
hood of Dennett island to the pole
and then turned back and returned
him to his starting point. General
Greely not unnaturally thought this
state of affairs was hardly possible.
Certainly there was no scientific evi
dence of the existence of such an
obliging current as this, and, there
fore, notwithstanding- the Archangel
story, General Greely stood unshaken
in his disbelief in the return of Nan
sen as described.
WILr, BK DIFFICULT TO VERIFY.
Lieutenant Scheutz declared that if
the story from Irkutsk was true, then
Nansen was sighted or heard from off
the Lena river delta away last sum
mer. From Irkutsk to Yakutsk,
which is the most northerly
Russian post of any significance, is a
distance of about 2.000 miles and
communication is had only by sleds
or in summer by rafts down the
River Lena. From Yakutsk to Ust
Yansk at the mouth of the Lena,
where the Russian trader is said to
have heard from Nansen, is a distance
of 1,500 miles through an unbroken
wilderness and the means of commu
nication are reindeer or dogs. The
only travel between Yakutsk and TJst
Yansk is by a few half breed traders,
who go to the latter point early in the
winter and, stay through until the
next spring. Many, months are re
quired for the trip, and any news com
ing from Ust Yansk of Nansen would
be very old, declared the lieutenant.
He explained the difficulties that
might be encountered in an attempt
tn tmofl a rumor. ' The natives who
may have sighted the Arctic explorer
could not conceive the. nature of his
undertaking-, and owing to their dense
ignorance it would not be possible for
them to transmit an intelligible ac
count of the event. The natives of
the Siberian islands were stricken with
terror at the signt of the steamer
Vega, which had a hunting party in
that region, and they hid themselves
in the ice for months' afterwards.
ANDREE'S EXPEDITION.
Three Governments IurrPMted In
the
Scheme for Travel ly Ilulloon.
London'. Feb. 17. Advices from
Stockholm are that the foreign min
istrv has received promises from the
governments of Great Britain and
Russia to give all the assistance pos
sible to Prof. Andree's projected bal
loon expedition to the North pole,
Clements K. Markham, president of
the Royal Geographical society, is
send in tr a circular to liinuua, with a
drawing1 of Prof. Andree's balloon,
asking the Dominion authorities to
take every step possible to have the
balloon watched for. and reported, if
seen, to the British Government. I he
Hudson liav comnanr will bear the
cost of the distribution of a large
number of these circulars in the north
ernmost districts of the Dominion
An official of the Royal Geograph
ical society says a large sum of monev
has been raised to help Prof. Andree's
scheme, which is thought to be
feasible.
lyche Sys It' a Fake.
Junction City, Kan., Feb. 17. Pro
fessor Dyche, in his lecture last night.
stated his disbelief of Nansen's discov
ery. He thinks it a fake rumor simi
lar to the one last summer.
S1,000 for the Loss of a l.g.
Columbia, Mo.. Feb. 1 . A verdict
against the Metropolitan Street Rail
way Company of Kansas City for
816,000 was rendered to-day by a jury
in the Circuit court here. The verdict
was in favor of James Benrin. a
switchman, whose leg was cut off by
a street car in Kansas Citv. The case
was transferred to this city for trial.
McKinleT First Choice; Allison Second.
Fayette, Mo, Feb. 17. In mass
convention William McKinley was de
clared the unanimous choice of How
ard county for president, and Allison
of Iowa second choice. The meeting
declared in favor of one State conven
tion, and unanimously favored the re
nomination of Hon. John P. Tracey
for Congress from this, the Seventh.
district
For Governor of Missouri.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 17. Webster
Davis, mayor of Kansas City, is far in
the lead in the race for the Republi
can nomination for governor of Mis
souri, if the expressed preferences of
the chairmen of the County Repub
lican -committees to the Globe-Democrat
can be taken as an indication - of
the direction of popular sentiment.
Irish Prisoners Refused Amnesty.
London, Feb. ;7. In the house of
commons Sir Matthew White Ridley,
secretary of state for the home de
partment, replying to Timothy Har
rington and Michael Davitt, said that
he had carefully considered the cases
of the Irish prisoners, and had decided
that he could not grant them amnesty.
Refused to Par Ten Cento.
Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 17. About a
year ago Anna Lewis was ejected from
a LaKe L.rie ana western passenger
train for refusing to pay 10 cents ex
tra fare. She brought suit for 83.000
damages in the Denton County court,
and the jury yesterday returned a ver
dict giving her S3.000 damages. The
company will appeal.
Cook County Republican Primaries.
Chicago, Feb, 17. Primary elections
were held yesterday in all the wards
of Chicago and in the country towns
in Cook county for the election of del
egates to the Republican county con
vention to-day. There was no objec
tion to tne 'machine plans and they
carried the day.
Wether Indications.
W ashington, Feb. 17. For Oklaho
ma ana Indian lerritory Fair and
warmer; southwesterly winds. .
Jbor Missouri Continued fair and
warm; southwesterly winds.
For Kansas Fair; colder in north
ern portion; winds ' becoming- north
westerly. '
Mr. Peak In Switzerland.
Berne, Feb. 17. John L. Peak, the
new united States minister to Swit
zerland, has presented his credentials
to the president and vice president.'
who have returned his visit.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Representatives of the Southwest
ern Millers' association are in Wash
ington hustling Congressmen for
reciprocity laws on export of bread
stuff s.
The new 4 per cent bonds are not so
much in demand in the. open market.
The Nebraska Prohibition ' conven
tion declared for free silver at 16 to L
.. A blacksmith .shot, and killed an
officer at Frankfort,, Ky., and was him
self slain. '
The Keller family were acquitted of
the murder of Clara Shanks at Terre
Haute, Ind.' . ....
Champ Clark says that he will prob
ably be a candidate for congress in
the Ninth district. 5 ' ;
The' Roentgen rays are to be used in
an attempt to locate. awDuuet in a
Louisville man's skull.
Judge Richard H. ...Clark .of the
Georgia supreme cour.t was found dead
in his hotel room in Atlanta.
Governor Bradley promises to send
troops to protect Jackson and Walling
if they are taken to .Newport, kv.
The Nevada Electric and' Gas Com
pany has filed suit against the city of
Nevada, Mo. , for $4,000 alleged back
pay for lighting the streets. '
Miss Minnie Edson was asphyxiated
in the home' of C A. Rahe, the
New York match manufacturer, under
peculiar circumstances. - Rahe is under
arrest and can't secure bail.
Prince Bbris of Bulgaria was bap
tised into the Greek church.
THE -L0XG- TALK ENDS.
AND
FREE SILVER GETS ITS
DEATH BLOW.
By a Vote of 316 to SO the Senate Sub
stitute for the liond Bill is Knocked
Oat In the Lower House Ex-Speaker
Crlap Hakes the Final Plea for the
White Metal A fireat Crowd Present.
Senate Substitute Rejected.
Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten
iaya debate the House by a vote of
0 to 100 in committee of the whole
rejected the Senate free coinage
amendment to the bond bill and re
ported the bill to the House with a
recommendation to non-concur and.
insist on the House bilL The strength
developed by the silver men was dis
appointing. They had been confidently
claiming over 100 votes. After two
hours debate to-day the final vote
will be taken. Mr. Dingley will close
for the majority and Crisp for the
minority.
Washington, Feb. 15. The public
and private galleries of the house
were thronged to-day in anticipation
of the closing of the debate on the
Senate free coinage and substitute for
the bond bill. The attendance on the
floor was also verj' large.
At 5 p. ro. the House rejected the
Senate free silver substitute for the
House bond bill by a vote of 216 nays
against 90 yeas.
Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, representing
free silver, said this was an economic
question and no matter what views
the members might have entertained
in the past, he assumed that in cast
ing his vote to-day "each member
would do so conscientiously and in
accord with the dictases of his con
victions. Mr. Crisp opened his argu
ment proper with the familiar words:
MIn P5?3 Congress demonetized silver."
At the very threshold of the subject,
he said, this was denied and it was
also denied that up to !873 we had had
bimetallism in this country. He
quoted Baron Rothschilds statement
that prices were regulated by the
aggregate amount of the gold, and
silver circulation. Prices were fixed
by the amount of primary money
in the world. If the standard
in England was gold, in France
silver and in China silver, the
measure of values would be the
combined amount of both gold and
silver circulating as money. Money
was the thing for which all contended
and the sum of the demand for money
was equal to the demand for all things
else on earth. If a metal was made
money by law a demand for that metal
would be created among all the peo
ple and its value would necessarily in
crease with tne increased demand.
Here he read from statements made
by Senator Sherman in 1876 that the
demonetization of silver had caused a
reduction of its price and had created
a mad scramble for gold on the part of
England, France and Germany, which
had appreciated its price and had in
duced a fall in prices throughout the
world. That fall of prices, Mr. Crisp
asserted, was largely due to the de
monetization of silver. It was not the
fall of prices that was complained of.
but the constant and steady fall of
prices, due to tne constant apprecia
tion ot gold, lie read from .Mr. liai-
four's speech of the 11th inst., in the
English Parliament, attributing the
decline of agriculture in gold countries
to the appreciation of gold and the '
artificial advantages it gave to silver ,
countries.
Mr. Balfour had declared also that
the obstacles to reform came not from
abroad but were put forward at home.
Continuinc-, Mr. Crisp affirmed the ex
istence of a well defined purpose by
those in authority, both here and
abroad, to depress the price of silver
to prevent its remonetization. He
cited the manner in which the Bland
Allison act of 1378 was executed, the
coinage of the minimum amount under
the act and the refusal of the treasury,
after a few months, to coin silver
under the act of He cited Sec
retary Carlisle's refusal to give silver
for gold in 1 because the silver was
needed for the redemption of the
treasury notes, and his course some
months afterward in redeeming those
notes in gold.
What kind of juggling is that?"
Mr. Criso asked, 'What sort of friend
ly treatment of silver is that?" (Ap
plause.)
Coming down to the question
whether the United States indepen
dently could maintain with free coin
age the parity between gold and sil
ver, he said that there was no differ
ence of opinion that it could be accom
plished by an international agree
ment. As an historic fact France had
maintained the parity for seventy
years. If four or five countries could
maintain a paritj' it was conceded
that law could affect the result How
powerful must a State be,' then, to
affect that result?
In conclusion Mr. Crisp declared
that if the United States would assert
its political and financial indepen
dence, prosperity would return and
continue the perpetual heritage of
our people.
Mr. Crisp spoke an hour and a half,
and was liberally applauded when he
" mf ..
sat down.
Mr. Turner of Georgia, Democrat,
j was then recognized. . He spoke for
sound money.
NORTH POLE DISCOVERY.
i If ocb Faith in the Report Concerning
' ' Ir. Nmnen.
I Napkrville, III., Feb. 15. Evelyn
D. Baldwin, the meteorologist of the
. Peary expedition of 1893-94, was asked
1 this morning what he thought of the
reported discovery of the North pole
, by Dr. Nansen. "I think it highly
, probable. .It is the result of well
calculated plans and. not unexpected.
Dr. Nansen has accomplished, it would
appear, what he has striven for dur
ing five years. ' The voyage of the
Jeannette under De long, until the 1
crushing of the vessel in latitude 77
degrees 14 minutes and longitude 155
east, indicated that the near approach
to the North pole was . certainly to be
made by a well equipped and properly
constructed vessel from that direction,
by the New Siberian islands. The
Jeannette had drifted through two long
rotic nights in that region, and this
would inaicate that If it is possible torj.
a vessel under ordinary conditions to
endure so long it is to be expected
that one of special construction, as
was Dr. Nansen's would succeed in
getting much farther.
"Dr. Nansen's absence since June
24, 1803, has given him time to make a
close approach to the North pole, aud
I think it highly probable that with
favcrable conditions he has succeeded
in arriving at the long coveted point.
8ince communication with the New
Siberian islands at the month of the
Lena and Delta is continuously had
by means of traders and hunters of
that region, it is not -improbable thst
Dr. Nansen has had means of sending
dispatches to the Russian nettlementa
in Central Siberia and thence home.
The appropriation made by the Nor
wegian goveruiut'Ut and the private
subscriptions so abundently equipped
Dr. Nansen that he had been un
hampered io far as hiv ship is con
cerned, and the conditions have been
rery favorable. It was expected, how
ever, that the first news from him
would chronicle his arrival off the
north coast of Greenland, as it was
bis theory that his vessel would drift
with the ice north of the Siberian
islands nearly if not directly over the
north pole and thence southward to
the coast of Greenland. It seems,
however, that instead of drifting
south after once havinc arrived at the
north pole, he has returned ecuth-
j ' - r ,
as did DeLong after the crushing of
the Jeannctte. "
A WAR OF WORDS.
Iietween Hall
aud Ie Aim I
In ttie
House.
Washington, Feb. 15. There was
a clash in the House yesterday
afternoon on the silver debate
between DeArmond and Hall of Mis
souri. The gentlemen ha! paid their
respects to each other before during
the debate, but each in the absence of
the other. Yesterday Mr. Hall opened
by referring to the fact that Mr. De
Armond had mentioned the names of
Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot
"without the apparent courage to
make a personal application." Pro
ceeding, he indignantly denied that
he had been a "Washington convert"
to the cause of sound money and ad
verted to a standing challenge he had
posted in Missouri Jast summer to dis
cuss the issue on the stump. He also
denied that he intended to charge his
free silver friends in the House with
personal corruption.
"Why should the gentleman feel
that he has been hit?" he asked, turn
ing to Mr. De Armond. "1 do not
know, unless the solution is found in
the old adage that the bird which
has been hit flutters."
Mr. Hall, continuing, replied to the
charge that he had been posingss the
author of the income tax. By this
time the ' House was intensely inter
ested and the members crowded about
the combatants.
Mr. De Armond had fire in his eye
when he arose to reply. He did not feel,
he said, that any ting the gentleman
had said had struck him, but he felt,
as one of the Representatives from
Missouri, that when the newest con
vert from that State to the so-called
sound-money doctrine saw proper in
making his platform to class the
Chinese, people from the ' East Indies
and the depths of Africa and the lower
animals in the category of those who
did not change their opiiiicns, that
perhaps it might noPbe inappropriate
to suggest that there might be
changes of opinion that would evi
dence no tremendous exiltat:on above
those referred to. (Laughter).
As to the income tax business, he
said, the gentleman had allowed him
self to be paraded as the author of the
bill when he knew he was not. "He
said he had been informed and be
lieved that eight senator' who had
voted for free coinage," con tinned Mr.
De Armond, "had said they believed
it would bring bankruptcy aud ruin
to the country. He did not identify
them; he did not name one; he never
will do it. If eight senators, or one
senator, mad 9 any such remark, he
merely did what the gentleman him
self does not and dare not deny that
he has done.
."Any man has a right to change hi
opinion, but my impression was, and
it has been greatly strengthened; that
when a man changes his opinion and
departs from his old associates, he
ought hardly to prate at t'le first op
portunity about the 'courage' which
led him to . do it, or talk about the
'cowardice' (without identification or
specification) that resides in those who
do not do likewise, or talk about the
Chinese and the lower auimals as
being typical of those who do not
change when he does. (Laughter). As
to the gentleman's reference to people
feathering their nests,' I do not know
just what he meant, bui 1 venture to
say that if the feathers ji re to be had
for the asking, or the plucking, the
gentleman, if he is around, will get
his full, share.' (Laughter ancl ap
plause.) Mr. Hall sprang to his feet when
Mr. DeArmond sat down. "1 do not
, wish to emulate the gentleman in
billingsgate," said he hotly; "I do not
expect to equal him in- it. Hut I-wish
to reply to some pertinent matters -that
he has' referred to. Ho says .1
don't repijesent my constituents.- : I de-v
sire to call his attention- to the fact
that we have five Democrats here from
Missouri instead of fourteen - in. the
Fifty-third Congress; that of those five
Democrats three of us are sound:
money men (applause) and' that the
leader of the 16 to 1 idea in the United
States is now at home upon his rocky
farm in Laclede county, unless he Is
still lecturing to his one-man audi
ence in the South. (Laughter and ap
plause.) ;
"I propose to go back to my district
and make the fight for sound money.
(Applause.) - He will go to his and
make the tight for silver monometal
lism.. .Let the roll, call of the.Fifty
fifth Congress show which is right. I
have unlimited confidence ia the hon
esty, the uprightness!, the integrity
and the . brains-of my . people. I be
lieve they will sustain me; I believe I
shall receive their indorsement, and
that the gentleman will come back (if
he come back at all) with less than the
133 majority he received in the last
election." ' (Applause.)
People who are learning Prencn can
g-et the exact pronunciation of many
difficult words by using: a phonograph
cylinder, expressly prepared for that
purpose.