A FLOATER FOUNi): Body of an Unknown Boy Recov ered at Rock Bluffs- AMERICANS ARE REPRIEVED C'iiul (irurral " Wejler Mini WllllantH tilvra lienerul the Sptill Ottlclais Snt trilglil" Talk Kt Uritni; tlit Am ru-ati. FoimkI a "Floater." j Lee llyeis eaai u;i from Kock Bluffs fl'iifJav and reDortted that his ' ! ' ... ... father. Joseph Users, had touua trie body of h boy in tbe Missouri river. Hlout a quarter of a mile south of the UlutT.i. at eleven o'clock this morning. The boy waa apparently about fifteen years of ape. and was dressed iu a pair of light, striped pants, shirt and shoes. The body had probably been in the water sometime, but was in a fair state of preservation. The tlesh on one of the hands had started to peel off. but beyond this was still quite in tact. It is believed that the body is that of a boy drowned in the river opposite Sm'.h Omaha, and the authorities at that place have been notified. Ir ihr supposition is correct that the boy.- home is in South' Omaha, and the remains are identified, an inquest will not bet necessary. The body was tied at the shore near where it was found, and will be left in the water, pending an investigation, until this evening. Hi- AiiitrricaiiH Krprievrtl . Ill' Spanish court marshal that tried th five. Americans, captured on tfie Competitor' sentenced them to death ami they were to be shot Mod da. They were not allowed to em ploy council or see friends. Mr. Wil liams, the United States minister, at Mav.tiiua laid the matter before the United States government, aru re" ceived instructions prompt and ener getic. Wh -n these arrived he wen! immediately to the palace, where a stormy interv iew with Captain General Weier occured. The general told the ciiimiI general that if the men had I ecu convicted, as the latter supposed, tlit-y would most certainly be shot at suniise the following morning, "des pite any protest ou might make." "If you shoot the men,'' said Mr. Williams. my government instructs me to close its consulate here and de mand my passports, and I shall mos! certainly hold you and your govern ment responsible should these prison ers be executed befoie our protest be given due consideration." When Mr. Williams bowed himseli out from the captain general's pres ence he drove back to his olBce. The excitement which followed at th pihice was indescribable. The judges of the civil tribunal and the chairmar of the leadingconservative parlies and he managing director of the Spanish tank were called and a consultation be jan. The majority of these , person- cages ;no iaril llic nuuiuiiiica i on-- per.d the execution pending higher in .stiuctioii from Madrid. General Weylei said that if the tntt. were not executed he would resign, lie so telegraphed the Spanish minis try . it is reported. In the meantime it. appeals the United States was through Minister Taylor bringing pressure to bear at Madrid. Orders came from Spain to suspend ail pro ceedings and directing the captain general and admiral to transmit all d-'Cuments in the case to Madrid for consideration there by the supreme military and naval council andcabinet. General Weyler, it is said, also re ceived a message telling him to await a more opportune moment to give up his command, as for diplomatic reasons the government could not afford at this crisis to have him sud denly resign. Consul General Williams had won. The transfer of the case to Madrid will give the prisoners at least a month or six weeks respite. Killed liy Lightning. A dispatch to the Lincoln Journal says: "George Kitzel, a prominent farmer about fifty years of age, living seven miles southwest of Elmwood, i . . i i-ii , i t was sirucK ami insianiiy nineu uy lichtning at 11 o'clock Tuesday morn ing, lie was goirg from the field to the house. A boy 17 years old who w as with him was knocked out of the wagon and stunned, but was not in jured beyond that. The team was knocked down, and when it got up ran away. Mr. Kitzel was a distant relative of Grandma Mary Cook of this city, who makes her home with her daughter. Mrs. Kobert Carlyle. and was a son-in law of Jos. Cook of IMattsmouth pre cinct. Highest cash prices paid for chick ens and eggs bv E. V. Black at White's store. tiring in Your Wowl. Wood will be taken at this office in payment of accounts due the Weekly Journal. It would only cost you $1.00 to send the Weekly Journal, to a friend in the east for a whole year. MsflSAL, Mt i&L iio Mf iMf . That the bicycle is the coming means of locomotion is now proven con clusively. Yesterday at noon two men -rode their wheels into the town of Buffalo, Ills., entered the bank there and, after binding and gagging the cashier, took ill, 000 in cash and mounted their silent steeds and made good their escape before the robbery was discovered. Where is the man that predicted that May would be an exceedingly dry month, with only a light shower now and then, but not enough to lay the dust. Take a shot at him if he bobs up again. One of the greatest hindrances, says the North IMatte iiecord, to successful lawn cultivation in this city, is dande lions. They spring up in the fore part of the season where none grew the year before and spread with exasper ating rapidity. Anyone who will de vise a good scheme to get rid of them easily can sell his knowledge at a good round cash price. The following compond will, it is claimed, destroy carpet bugs in short order after its application. One ounce of alum, one ounce of chloride of zinc, three ounces of salt. Mix with two ounces of water and let it stand over night in a covered vessel. Then pour it carefully without sediment into auother vessel. Dilute with two quarts of water and apply by sprinkling the edges of the carpet for a distance of a foot from the wall. A Lexington (Ky.) man wrote the i following letter to two college pro fessors the other day: "Gentlemen: Healing the wonderful success you are having in electrical experiment, I wish to inquire if you think it possible with your improved apparatus to get an X raise out of my boss? As I am now receiving only 87.50 per week. a raise would be very acceptable. I have thought of trying a few experi ments in that line myself. I could in duce a 'current of jealously bv flirting with the typewriter girl and prevent him from 'sparking her. but she might offer 'resistance' at that pro cedure. I might give the book-keeper a Meyden jar' on the elbow when he is posting the ledger or come 'insulate' in the morning as to 'attract' atten tion, but I fear any of these experi ments would result in an 'electrical discharge.' Hoping you will be able to give me some valuable assistance or idvice how to proceed. I remain yours trulv." Bixby, in the State Journal says: "A Lincoln gentleman who started iverland for Sidney one morning on a pleasure tiip, having on board the handsomely arranged prairie schooner his family and two or three besides, wrote from Exeter, after twenty-four hours of continuous rain: 'We are having a h 11 of a time two dajs out nd no land in sight yet." The printer who set it up stagger lation" in a trade item saying there vas stagnation in whiskey, was not so far wrong after all. He might have still hewed close to the line by setting it jagnation. In agraduatingclassof twenty young ladies at Columbia, Mo., only one ad mitted that she was willing to marry. The answers might have been differ ent, however, if the question had been asked by eligible young men. Kansas City Journal. Always turn your back upon the for tune teller who will give you directions for So where to dig up a pot of gold; upon the bucket shop stock operator. who loves you so that if you supply him some working capital, he will divide the profits with you and bear all the losses himself; upon the promoter who comes to you with a good thing, sure to be enormously profitable and as safe as a government bond. Ask the first why he doesn't dig up the pot him self; tbe second why he doesn't keep all the profits; the third why he wants to share a good thing with a stranger. Nebraska City Press. The populist contingent at the state bouse is now wearing "silver bug" buttons. This new button was de signed and patented by C. W. Le- master, mayor of Central city. Tbe design i3 a big silver bug, with a por tion of one wing painted a golden hue. On the back of the insect are the fig ures 16-1, the figure 1 being in the centre of the yellow spot. Above and below are the words,"Free-unlimited." Lincoln Journal. A Beatrice dispatch says Adam Smothers and Jesse Hadley stole a barn last night belonging to Lafayette Young. Officers found the lumber stored in their cellars and lodged them in jail, "senator" Jiob Hart once gave a pathetic description of how be and some friends planned to steal the Rock Island freight house at Daven port, la., but this is the first instance on record where a barn was successfully stolen. By tbe way, Lafayette Young is editor of the Des Moines Capital. What has he been doing with a barn iu Beatrice ? World Herald. ihc body ideiitiiW. Mrs. 3. W. Willis came down from Gibson on B; & M. train No!. 2 Tues day evening, and accompanied by S P. Holloway and Undertaker tlnruh, drove down to Itock Bluffs to ascertain whether or not the tloater found there yesterday was the body of her son, Willie Lesley. Mrs. Willis at once recognized the remains, and, as she was nnable to bear tbe expense of transporting the body to Gibson, it was buried at ltock Bluffs. Mrs. Willis stated that the deceased was her son by her first husband. The Omaha Dee gives the following particulars as to the drowning of the lad: "Young Willis was taken to the city jail about three weeks ago at the instance of his parents, w ho asserted they were unable to exert any control over him. They thought him slightly demented ami wished to have him ex amined by the county physician. Willis was eventually discharged from Judge Gordon's court on the promise of the parents to watch him closer in the future. The next day Willis was playing on the river bank a short dis tance from his home, in company with other bojs, when his sistw called him, asking him to come home. He did not comply, and his mother then went after him. Upon seeing her approach he ran to the river bank and plunged into the wattr and was iustantly drowned.' l.oriit on the Inland. James Trice, the well-known fisher man and farmer, whose home is down on the big island in the river south of this place was iu town Wednesday and brought with hiui a small box full of those destructive- insects, the lo custs, which he wasexhibitingaround. Mr. i'rice saj s that the island is be coming swarmed with these crop de strojers. the insects coming up out ot the ground. Xo reports of the locusts appearing iu this vicinity have yet been made, and it is hoped they will give Cass county a wide berth. NKItKAMv UAri'KNlXiS The Autelope county teachers' asso ciation met at Elgin on Saturday. Table Hock now has a saloon, for the first time in the history of the town. Battle Creek has already commenced to arrange a Fourth of July cele bration. Eruest Montgomery of Alliance had one eye nearly destroyed by a slung shot. The B. V M. is replacing the old ties with new ones on its line between lliance and Berea. .The ltavenna creamery last week made up 5,700 pounds of butter and shipped it to Boston. Box Butte county is covereu with taller and bettergrassthisspring than for .several years past. I'latte Center is worrying along without a resident physician, while Elwood cannot point to a meat mar ket. The old soldiers of Madison county will hold their annual reunion at Newman Grove June 23, -4 and, 2o. The Battle Creek creamery is buying an average of 17,500 pounds of milk at 50 cents per 100 pounds. Editor Ogden of the Brock Champion preaches regulary every Sunday to constantly increasing congregations. Rev. Bingham of Brock baptized twenty-seven converts in the Nemaha river and has twelve more ready to take the redeeming plunge. The school population of Abuurn has increased so extensively that an additional teacher has been employed. Thirteen teachers altogether are now employed. Mrs. Kidder aud daughter of Oak- dale drove a frightened horse over a broken bridge and in the excitement were spilled into six feet of water. Both were rescued. Dennis Gaff of Alliance attempted to lasso a temporarily festive calf and came out of the encounter shv two fingers and a thumb. The missing digits were severed as smoothly by the lariat as with a surgeon's knife. Ex-State Senator W. A. Poynter of Boone county undertook to remon strate with a balky horse and when tbe disturbance was over the ex-statesman was found unconscious with his ribs broken in. He will recover. An amateur cyclone turned itself loose in Box Butte county and in a short journey of but a few miles tore off fences, small buildings, wind mills and water tanks. A sod residence was demolished, but the inhabitants escaped. Miss Nellie Wilson, while visiting at the home of her uncle, Adam Ilabig, four miles southwest of Brock, acci dentally swallowed a dose of poison. Her life was despaired of for the entire night, but, after suffering consider ably, she recovered. The pepole on Elgin's streets were considerably frightened Friday by a runaway team passing the rounds of the streets and finally taking south through the country. It was pursued by five horsemen, who overhauled it uuiiui inu wuea buuiu 01 IUWIJ. a0 i damage was done. Try The Journal. 10c per week. a skclt. A human skull '. a crumbling bit of bone '. And such as thou art, only that am I ! Some day like thee, uncared fori may lie. Cold as the clod, and senseless as the stone : Moss Libwn beside the way. Time was.theiuo&n Of pain burst from these lips. Here was thine eye. Flashing mayhap with pride and hope as high, As ere this beating heart of mine has known. The day is past, discarded chrysalis, Where is the butterfly that dwelt in thee ? That winged spark that once was linked to this Small heap of moldering dust, but could not be Forever held in thrall To what abyss Of unknown azure did it lise and flee i Isabel RIchey. From Monday's Daiiy. Mayor Gorder of Weeping Water was in the city today. It is reported that the recent rains have washed out. several bridges in the county. A movement is on foot to secure the Modern V.'oodman dramatic club of Ilavelock for a performance in this city on the evening of May 30th. Judge Spurlock today issued a mar riage license to Charles Stander, aged 2s. and Alary Bickert, aged '24. both residents of the west end of Cass county. Today makes the tenth successive day in which It has rained in this city, and from present indications it isn't through yet. During this time 6:2S inches of rain has fallen in I'latts mouth ami vicinity. A Demolished Village. The writer, in company with Dr. It B.Wallace of Union, D. C. West of Nehawka and Edwin Jeary of Elm wood, visited the cyclone-stricken vil lage of Reserve, Kansas, this morning. and verified with his own eyes the descriptions of the awful wreck of that beautiful and prosperous village, by a cyclone on last Sunday evening. No pen can picture the scene of des truction that meets the eye on every hand as oue wanders through the vil lage and over the rubbish of all that is left of the homes business houses and churches there. It is a sight to bring tears of sympathy to the eyes of the m st stolid and indifferent. Tuesday's Journal contained an account of the storm and its work. That account needs no repetition here, aud I can only add that that picture is not overdrawn. It is a horror one sees, fortunately, only once in a life time. Evidences are still at hand which show that the village was one of the prettiest places of it's size in the west. It was said to be the best grain sta tion on the M. P. between Omaha and Kansas City. It is now a mere wreck of its former self, with more than half its buildings swept by the besom of destruction into kindling wood, and all but two of the rest shattered and torn in various degrees of wreckage. Itsoeople, however, are full of hope ami aid has come to them from Hia watha and other places that tills them with gratitude. Nothing u l Willi III I'n ju-t. We notice Plattsmouth dispatches to the Omaha papers state that Sarpy county promises to pay one half the cost of that proposed Cedar Creek bridge over the Platte river. This is a fake, pure and simple. It may be and probably is true that certain farmers living near the site for tbe proposed bridge will give financial aid to the Cedar Creek people in constructing the bridge, but Sarpy county, as a county has nothing to do with the pro ject. Our county will offer no objec tions to the building of the bridge, and neither will they put any money into the scheme. Interested farmers are trying to raise money by subscrip tion, and we understand they are con fident they will secure the needed funds. Papillion Times. 'Ilitckey9" State Want Jtaiii. Thediy belt has apparently been transferred from this state and Kan sas, to Ohio, as the following from the Cincinnati Commercial vtould indicate: "Within a radius of a hundred or one hundred and fifty miles from Cin cinnati, a drouth exists that is with out precedent since the establishment of the weather bureau. It has con tinued for more than two years and four months. In the course of twenty eight and one-half months we have been deprived of more than three fourths of an ordinary year's supply. The crops have been poor in all this territory, and now we hear that trees which the woodman has spared are beginning, in some cases, to be affected by the lack of moisture." Kl?giit Display of Millinery Tucker Sisters are pleased to an nounce to their lady friends through out Cass county that they are now ready with their Spring Opening of Millinery, and they have in stock the largest and most elegant and fashion able display of fine Millinery shown in Cass county. They have employed s j lady from the east especially as a trim ! mer, and will do all they can to suit their customers, i Tucker Sisters, j No 413, Main St., Plattsmouth i Highest cash prices paid for chick ens ana eggs by j. w. JJlack at j white's store II ifrliDof rtooli rJina nqiH f r ili t a!- ens and eggs by E. White's store. W. Black, at er sule AND so FROM- ,,Tff State Democratic riatform.- We, the democrats of the state of Nebraska, in convention assembled, renew our allegiance to the principles taught by Thomas Jefferson and courageouslydefeuded by Andrew Jackson, and demand that the great problems now before the people shall be solved by the application of these principles to present conditions. We congratulate the democrats of Massachu scttsupon the candor and frankness which char acterized their platform urterances of yesterday. We rejoice that they, no longer quibbling about tbe ratio or holding out the delusive hope of in ternational co-operation, have at last consented tosubmit to the people the question, whether the United States shall have monometalism or bimetalism whether the American people shall deliberately adopt the English system of finance or restore the gold and silver coinage of the con stitution. The Massachusetts demand for a single gold standard and for the redemption of all government obligations in gold alone pre sents the paramount Issue of tho campaign, and we welcome the contest. We endorse the language used by Hon. John G. Carlisle in ISTS.when he denounced the 'con spiracy" to destroy silver as a standard money as "the most gigautle crime of this or any other age," and we aree with him in tho declaration then made that "the consummation of such a scheme would ultimately entail more misery up on the human race than all the wars, pestilences and famines that have ever occurred in the history of the world." We are not willing to te parties to a such a crime, and in order to undo the wrong already done and to prevent a further rise in the purchasing power of the dollar, we favor the Immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the pres ent legal ratio of 1(5 to 1, as such coinage existed prior to 187J, without waiting for the aid or con sent of any other nation, such gold and silver to be a full legal tender for all .debts, public and private. We are opposed to the retirement of thegreen back and demand that the secretary of the treas ury, instead of issuing interest-bearing bonds for the purchase of gold, shall recognize silver as money of redemption and exercise the right to redeem greenbacks, treasury notes and all other coin obligations In silver when sliver is more convenient. Relieving that general laws should not be eet aside by private contract, we favor such congres sional legislation as will, without interfering with valid contracts already in existence, pro hibit for the future the making of agree ments for the payment of any specific kind of legal tender money. We are in favor of a tariff forrevenue only. We are in favor of a constitutional amend ment authorizing the collection of an income tax as a part of the federal revenue system. e are In ravoror tneelectlon of united states senators by the direct vote of the people. w e are in ravor or a liberal pension policy. We are in favor of the initiative and referen- liini system as an aid to securing a government of the people, for the peopie and by the people. The democratic party has ever been the party of religious liberty in the country. It has al ways been aim is now opposed to the union ot church and state iu any form or under any pre text whatever: it Is opposed to the imposition of any religious test for otlice; it is opposed to all secret political organizations of every kind or character, or any open political organization based upon religious prejudices, as contrary to the spirit and genius of our institutions and thor oughly un-American. It stands by our public schooisystem as a means of popular education and Isopposed to any diversion of public school funds to anv sectarian purpose but ltrecognizes the right of parental control and the rights of conscience in the education of children as in accord with the fundamental doctrines of the democratic partv. that the largest liberty con sistent with the rights of others insures the best government. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. U . & M. K. K. EAST BOUND. No. 2, dally 5:31, p. m. No. 4. daily 10:24, a. m. No. 10, from Schuyler except Sunday. 11 :U5, a.m. No. 12, dally 8:25, p.m. No. 93, dally except Sunday 12 :23. p. m. No. 30, freight from Louisville 2:50, p. m Xo.20, daily 9:40, a.m. WEST BOUND. No. 3, daily ,3 :43, p. m. No. 5, daily 7:37, a.m. No. 7, fast mail, daily 2:23. p. m. No. 9, to Schuyler, except Sunday... .4:00 p. m. No. 11, daily 6:05, p.m. No. 29, freight to Louisville 8:00. a . m. M . 1. K. It. GOING NORTH: Learei: Passenger, No. 1 4:50 a.m. Na. 9 10:53 a. m. Freight, No. 127 (dally exc'ptSunday) 3:15 p. m. GOING SOUTH: Passenger, No. 2 10:43 p. m. No.10.. . 4 42 p in Freight, No. 126 (dally except Sunday) 9:45 a. m No. 9 connects at Union with train from Weeping Vater. No. 10 connects at Union with train for Weeping Water. llMMrrn AM inrA WborantMnlc YVMI1 I t-L Mil I J tn of some si m Die thine to mtent? Protect your ideas : they mar bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDEIt- BUKN & CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, U. u., ior their jijw prize oner. W.L. 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