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PLATTSMOUTH JOURNAL O. E. TOVL, Publisher. PLATTSMOUTH, - - NEBRASKA I BRIEF TELEGRAMS. . At Fort Wayne, Ind., one hundred and twenty-five machinists and ap prentices in the Wabash railway shops struck. Count von Buelow, the chancellor, has sent a letter to the reichstag ask lng that body to adjourn until No vember 26. Mrs. Gage, wife of Secretary of the Treasury Gage, who has been ill for some time, is reported to be in a seri ous condition. Tucket Woodson Taylor, aged 46, was found dead in his rooms at Gieencastle, Wyo. It is believed to be a case of suicide. A young woman at Wallingford, Conn., has been awarded damages of 1700 against a man who nearly scared her to death for a joke. According to the return of this year's census the total population of England and Wales i3 32,523,716, an increase of 3,523, 191 over 1891. Vice President Roosevelt has accept ed an invitation to make an address at Minneapolis during the state fair. The address will be made September 2Cth. The supreme court of Massachusetts has rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the law which prescribes execution by electricity In capital cases. Mrs. Mattie Berger. the school teach er who disappeared from Peublo, Col., on April 25. and who. it was feared, had been murdered, has been located at San Jose, Cal. A general strike involving directly 150,000 machinists and indirectly 500, 000 men in the metal working trades, is expected to take place May 20, unless some arrangement is effected in the meantime. The secretary of the treasury has purchased $00,000 short 4s bonds at $113.6392. The secretary of the treas ury has also purchased $412,050 short 4s at $113.64. Mrs. Mary Leonard, better known as F'rench Mary," a vivandiere of the civil war and one of the most pictur esque figures produced during the re bellion, committed suicide at Pittsbuig Pa., by taking poison. Chaplain Daley, late cf the First regi ment, South Dakota volunteers, who accompanied the regiment on its Phil ippine campaign, has consented to de liver the Memorial day address at Carthage, Scuth Dakota. Already enough men have been en listed at Ft. Meade, S. D., for one troop of the Thirteenth United States cavalry and consequently troop A is being organized. Captain R. C. Wil liams, recently promoted from first lieutenant of the First cavalry, is in J cc mmand. Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States supreme court, announced the affirmative of the decision of the United State? circuit court for the dis trict of Washington in the case of Nordstrom, under sentence of death for murder, refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus. Quartermaster General Luddington l.as arranged for the removal of the remains of the confederate dead in the Soldiers' Home cemetery and in the Arlington cemetery to another section of the last named cemetery, which has lcen set aside by the secretary of war for their reinterment. Reports reaching the interior de partment show that smallpox is wide spread among the Indians of the west err, reservations. A report from the Cheyenne reservation and the Sioux agency in South Dakota says small pox is prevalent throughout, and that many deaths have occurred. The war secretary, Mr. Broderick, in the house of commons, moved his army scheme, providing for six corps, with 50.000 militia as a reserve, and in creasing the yeomanry from 12,000 to "5,000 men. A civil service examination will be held on June 18th, at Des Moines, for position of meat inspector in the bu reau of animal industry; salary from 51,200 to $1,400 per annum. On June d an examination will be held for the position of editorial clerk in the same department, paying a salary of $1,400. Howard L.. Burket, one of the vet eran business men of Omaha, dropped dead in the yard of his residence. All the wholesale liquor men In Omaha have organized under the name cf the Wholesale Liquor Dealers as sociation. Alexander Martz, an old Iowa edu cator, died a few days ago. At Zaneta, Iowa, May 14, Postmaster J. Marsh was run down by a passen ger train on the Iowa, Minnesota & Northwestern railroad and fatally In jured. The secretary of the treasury has I-urchased $4,500 more of short term bonds at $113.C6. King Edward, according to the pa pers, will arrive in Hamburg towards the end of May and will remain there for a few weeks to take the waters. DOLE FORCES COMING Complaining and Defending Factions Each have a Delegate on the "Way. ARE TO EXPLAIN THEIR TROUBLES Petition Asking Hawaiian Governor'! Remoral la to Be Postponed Repub licans Send an Endorsement Contra' dieting Hume Ruler's Charges. HONOLULU, May 8. Via San Francisco, May 15. By the steamer Maripoea today Horns Rule Repre sentative F. W. Beckley, Hon. Samuel Parker, Delegate R. W. Wilcox leave for San Francisco. Beckley goes tc lay before President McKinley a home rule resolution passed in the house and senate asking for the re moval cf Governor Dole. Parker has a memorial unanimously indorsed by tbe republican members of both houses and by the territorial repub lican central committee replying to the home rule charges against Dole. Wilcox is on his way back to Wash ington and says he has nothing to do with the fight. In the house this morning, Repre sentative Emmeluth, heme rule, made a sensational speech against the gov crnor. The legislature had been call ed in special session for appropriation bills and had just completed its or ganization when Emmeluth introduc ed a resolution to provide for the sending of Berkley to San Francisco, In support of it he declared that the conditions that had led to the revolt in 1S93 had developed again, with Dole now the usurper of power in stead of the ex-queen. It was intend ed by the home rulers to have the resolution to send Beckley concur rent, but the senate adjourned for the day too early, and, as the steamer was leaving this afternoon, the house passed it as a house resolution. Both houses organized for business and re -elected most of their former organ izations. The republican members of the leg islature and the members of the cen tral committee and the joint caucus have endorsed the action of Governor Dole in refusing to extend the ses sion of the legislature, and after the adoption of tho home rule resolution cf last week making charges against the governor, asking for his removal and declaring that he was responsible fcr the failure of the legislature to do any considerable amount of busi ness, the republicans prepared a state ment in reply which Samuel Parker tp.kes with him. - The reply states that the home rule party, having control of the legisla ture, blocked every effort at substan tial legislation; that bills were so 11 lcgically put together that it wa3 im possible to do anything with them; that the home rule party was con stantly hampered with petty jealous ies, and that these party bickerings caused the president of the senate, himself a member of the home rule party, to resign in disgust. The reply states further that one of the causes o" the failure of the members of the home rule rarty to attain their ob jects, and which prevented the legis lature from accomplishing more, was tbe insistence of the home rule mem bers upon the use of the Hawaiian language in the legislative proceed ings, notwithstanding th? organic act provides that "All legislative proceed ings shall be conducted in the English language." They elected interpreters and required interpretation of all bills, resolutions, motions and de bates. Mrs. Nation Denies Insanity. TOPEKA. Kan., May 16. Mrs. Na tion will appeal from the verdict ren dered against her and declares she will argue her own cases hereafter and de mand women jurors. "I had two thing to contend with," she said; "my law yers bungled the case and there were anarchists on the jury. I am not in sane and begged my lawyers not to en ter such a plea." First Payment Next Tear. BERLIN, May 16. A dispatch re ceived here from Pekin says the note of the Chinese peace plenipotentiaries., nccepting the amount of Indemnity de manded by the powers, propose to pay the first of the thirty annual install ments of 15,000,000 taels in July, 1902. Has Not Sold Northern Pacific. BERLIN, May 16. It is authorita tively confirmed that the Deutsche bank has not sold its holdings of Northern Pacific to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mrs. Itlow Is Enronte Home. CHICAGO, May 16. Mrs. Jennie Goodell Blow, who originated the hos pital ship idea for the British in South Africa, arrived here last night, en route from Europe to her home in Colo rado. While in England Mrs. Blow was the recipient of high honors, both from Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. When she returned from South Africa King Edward appointed her Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. ROOT MAKES HIS REPORT. Sovereign Commander, Woodmen of tbe World, Gives Year's Resume. COLUMBUS, O., May 15 The fourth biennial encampment of the Sovereign camp Woodmen of the World, con vened here today, with Sovereign Com mander Root of Omaha presiding. Del egates representing twenty-one states are present. The sessions will con tinue for a week. After the delegates had been called to order addresses of welcome were made by Secretary of State Laylin, who represented Governor Nash, now in California; Mayor Hlnkle and Sec retary of Board of Trade Bassell. Re sponses were made by Sovereign Bank er Sheppard of Texarkana, Tex., and Sov. Advocate T. A. Fallenbark of Denver. Following the open session secret work was taken up. The report of Sov. Commander J, C. Root of Omaha showed that the order now has a membership of about 250,000 in nearly 4,500 camps in the United States and Canada. The rec ommendations in the report will not be made public until it goes to the committee on officers" reports and has been acted upon. The supreme forest. Woodmen Cir cle, an auxiliary organization, also convened here today, Mrs. Emma B. Manchester of Omaha, supreme guard ian, presiding. The repor: of the su preme clerK, J. G. Kuhn of Omaha, showed the membership of the Circle had increased from 5,200 to nearly 15,- 000 in two years. NO CHANCE TOR NEBRASKA. This State lias Complete Representa tion at West Point. OMAHA, May 16. A number of ap plications have been filed with Sen ator Millard by young Nebraskans who have an ambition to become of ficers in the regular army. The West Point cadetships are filled, however, with no chance of imediate vacancy and Senator Millard can give the as pirants no encouragement. The "ca dets appointed by Senators Thurston and Allen will not gradua'-e until 1904 and 1905 and until these years no other appointment can be made. From present reports the Nebraska cadets are doing good work and there is little prospect that they will fail in their examination or for any other reason leave the military school before the completion of their course. In a recent letter on the subject Ad jutant General Corbin said: "There will be no vacancies for the admission of senatorial candidates from Nebras ka until the cadets now representing that state at large shall have left the military academy. One of these will not graduate until June, 1904, and the other in June, 1905." CATCH AMERICAN BRIGANDS. Manila Police Take Leaders of Rand of Cunning Murderer. MANILA, May 15. Detectives and the police have broken up a band of American brigands who have been operating in the province of Pampan ga, north of and not far from Ma nila. George Raymond, Ulrich Rog ers and Oscar Mushmillcr have been captured, and Andrew Martin, Peter Heise, George Muhn and two others are still being pursued. The band committed murders and other outrages at Baeolor, Pampanga province, and in that vicinity on Sun day last they killed Henry Dow, an merican. The band sometimes rep resented themselves as American de serters and at others as American sol diers. George Raymond wore the uni form of a captain. Raymond and Martin were formely policemen at Ma nila. Labor Troubles at Albany. ALBANY, N. Y., May 15. A thou sand National Guardsmen and 100 mounted men will occupy Albany streets today and attempt to force a riotous crowd to let the cars of the United Traction company run with non-union men. The Twenty-third regiment of Brooklyn, the Tenth bat talion of Albany and tho Third Sig nal corps will make up the comple ment of men. They will be reinforced by 200 special deputies, 300 policemen and over 100 Pinkerton detectives. Mrs. Nation Found Guilty. TOPEKA, Kan., May 13. The jury in the case of Mrs. Carrie Nation, charged with joint smashing, this evening returned a verdict of guilty. The trial was before the district court and sentenced will be pronounced to morrow morning. It is the general im pression that she will be released on the payment of a fine and costr. Order Three Warships Home. WASHINGTON, May 15. The navy department sent orders to Rear Ad miral Kempff, acting commander of the Asiatic station, to send home the ships Concord, Marietta and Castine during the latter part of the summer. This is in pursuance of the" policy an nounced some time ago of reducing the naval strength In the east. The Bennington, Petrel, Oregon, Newark and Brutus already have been ordered home. I CHINA ASKS FOR MERCY Assumes Supplicating Attitude in An- Bwering Demands for Idemiiity. COUNTRY TOO POOR TO PAY LP Limit Is 15,000,000 Taels Annually for the Next Thirty Years Ministers Are Silent and Decline to Commit Them selves at Present. PEKIN, May 15. The answer of China to the statement of the foreign powers as to the losses sustained by nations and individuals in China has been received. The answer commences with an ap peal to mercy, saying that the coun try is Impoverished. The answer ex plains that the utmost China can of fer is 15,000,000 taels annually for the next thirty years. This amount will be derived "as follows: From salt, 10,000.000 taels; from the likin tax, 2,000,000 taels, and from native cus toms, 3,000,000 taels. The communica tion further asserts that were this done it would leave the country un able to meet the expenses of govern ment without assistance. It Is re quested that the foreign customs be increased one-third, the receipts therefrom to be given to China for the purposes of government. The minis ters refuse to discuss this answer un til it has been considered by them in meeting. WASHINGTON, May 15. A cable gram from Mr. Rockhill, special United States commissioner at Pekin, received at the state department, men tions the receipt by the ministers of the response of the Chinese envoys to the ministers' demands for Indemnity. The dispatch indicates briefly that the Chinese represent that an annual pay ment of 15,000,000 taels is the full ex tent of their power to pay on in demnity account. It will take thirty years to discharge the debt at that rate without interest. Mr. Rockhill makes no mention of the subject cf interest, nor does he touch upon the means by which the money is to be raised by China, or say who is to guaranty a loan necessary to be made. It appears that the Chi nese, feel themselves obliged to sub mit to the powers in this question of indemnity, as in all other things, and though realizing their own inability to assume this indebtedness of 450,000, 000 taels, they feel obliged to make the effort. Mr. Rockhill has been in structed to continue his efforts to se cure an abatement of the total in- demnit3", but in the present disposi tion of the powers little hope of suc cess is entertained. LONDON, May 15. Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Pekin, says: "The Chinese reply to the ministers of the powers is not acceptable. For the first time in the history of diplo matic relations with the Chinese, a French translation accompanied the dispatch." WILL CONTINUE IN BUSINESS. Receivership of Live Stock Company Will Not Tie l'p Firm. KANSAS CITY, May 15. Uttley Wedge, who was yesterday appointed receiver of the Siegel-Sanders Live Stock company on an application filed by Frank Rockefeller, the principal stockholder in the firm, took charge today. Mr. Wedge states that the bus iness will be continued without inter ruption and that the naming of a re ceiver will not be permited to Inter fere in any way with the firm's branch es in Chicago. What action, if any. will be taken against Frank Siegel, president and general manager of the stock company, who is accused in Mr. Rockefeller's petition with mismanage ment, is not apparent and neither Re ceiver Wadge nor the officials of the company will at this time vouchsafe any information on the subject. Mr. Rockefeller has promised to make a statement during the day. Asylum Inspector Appointed. DES MOINES, May 15. -The State Board of Control has apointed Dr. N. M. Voldeng of this city to act as in spector of insane asylums in the dis trict which is under the care of Dr. Frank C. Hoyt, superintendent of the state hospital at Mount Pleasant. The state is divided into districts and the superintendent of each of the three state insane hospitals is assigned a district in which to make inspections of the county and private insane hos pitals. Owing to the continued sick ness of Superintendent Hoyt, who has been ill in Texas for several months, another was appointed to do his work. Mrs. McKinley Is Better. SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 Mrs. McKinley's physician reports his pa tient somewhat improved this morn ing. President McKinley has decided not to go to Palo Alto today to greet the Stanford university students. End of Martial Law. MADRID, May 15. The cabinet has decided to end the state of siege in Barcelona and to restore the constitu tional guaranties there. BIG BOOK ABOUT FARMING. Department of Agriculture Issues Edi tion for lOOO. WASHINGTON, May 14. The year book of the United States Department of Agriculture for 1900 is now in press and will be ready for distribu tion about July 1. In addition to the secretary's report and the appendix this volume con tains thirty-one articles, in which each division of the original work is represented. A new feature is the publication of requirements for ad mission to tiie Agricultural depart ment of the land grant colleges and the cost of attendance. The year book is a volume of 888 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, eighty-seven plates, of which nine are colored and eighty-eight text figures. The regular edition is 500,000 copies, of which 470,000 are by law reserved for the exclusive use of congress and 30,000 for the departments. All oth ers than crop correspondents must ap ply to their senators or repiesentatives in congress. The articles include: "Smyrna Fig Culture in the United States," "Am plification of Weather Forecasts," "Commercial Plant Introduction," "Forest Extension in the Middle West," "Infiuenceof Rye on the Price of Wheat," "Mountain Roads," "Fun gus Diseases of Forest Trees," "Rab ies," "The Scale Insect and Mite En emies of Citurs Trees," "How Birds Affect the Orchard," "Hot Waves." "Potatoes as Food," "Practical For estry in the Southern Appalachians,' "Commercial Pear Culture," "Devel opment of the Trucking Interests,' "The Date Palm," "Practical Irriga tion," "Free Delivery of Rural Mails," 'Successful Wheat in Semi-Arid Dis tricts." HEBRON GIRL SUES FOR $50,000. Asks That Much Damages from Marys Tille, Kansas, Man. MARYSVILLE, Ka3., May 14. Ac tion was today begun in the district court of this county, wherein $50,000 is demanded of Oscar Pusch for his refusal to carry out an alleged agree ment to marry Louise M. Knight of Hebron, Neb. Mr. Pusch is the son of Charles F. Pusch, the well known cigar manu facturer of this city, and is one of the traveling representatives of this con cern. The petition alleges that the de fendant agreed to marry the plaintiff in October of last year and that the promise was often repeated since that time; that on May 9 of the present year Mr. Pusch broke the engagement. The plaintiff is not known in this city. Mr. Pusch is out of town. RIDE IS FOR HUMAN LIFE. Cowboy's Lightning Gallop Saves South Dakota Worn n. RAPID CITY, S. D., May 14. Charlie Howard, president of the Western South Dakota Stork Growers' association, sent a cowboy from his ranch at Smithville, seventy miles east of this city, to Rapid City for a physician to attend his wife, who was dangerously ill with pneumonia. The cowboy was told to ride for his life. The seventy miles was covered with out a stop in four hours and fifteen minutes. The doctor was found and by changing horses four times on the return the distance was covered in a little over five hours. The 140 miles were made in less than ten hours. This breaks the record for fast riding in this part of the west. Mrs. Howard is out of danger. RUSH TO DEFEND OLD GLORY. Deeline to Allow American Flip; to De Ifalf-Masted. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, May 14. There was an exciting ball game be tween the Americans and Cubans here yesterday.. The Cubans won, 11 to 10. During the enthusiastic demonstra tion which followed hundreds crowd ed on the field and a jubilant Cuban attempted to pull down the American flag to half mast. The American play ers Interefered and a lively scrim mage followed. A squad of rural guards drew their machets and charged the crowd, crying "Viva la bandero Americano" (long live the American flag). The guards arrested the offender, who disclaimed inten tional disrespect to the flag and said It was a thoughtless Joke. He was released. No one was seriously hurt. E. F. Tibbott, of Indianapolis, Ind., who served General Harrison for so many years as private secretary has been made the confidential secretary of John Wannamaker of Philadelphia. Kitchner Reports Progree. LONDON, May 14. Lord Kitchener. in a dispatch from Pretoria, dated May 12, says: "Grenfell has occupied Louistrich- art, capturing fifty Boers, with rifles. Louistrichart was previously held by six British with 40 surrendered Boers. "Other .columns report eight Boers killed, twenty wounded, 132 prisoners, twenty-four surrenders and a machine gun, 6,400 rounds of ammunition, 150 wagons and 870 horses captured." THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City.. SOUTH OMAHA. Cattle The supply of cattle was not large, receipts Including several cars of Texans that were not offered. While the market was not overly active the bulk of the cattle changed hands In good sea son. Packers started out and paid just about steady prices for the beef Fleers. Karly In the morning a few salesmen thought they got stronger prices for de sirable grades, but as a general thing the market could be quoted steady. Th last end of the market was a littl draggy. There were only about fifteen cars of cows on sale and the market ruled active and steady to stronger all around. A number of sales were made that looked easily a dime higher than the same kind were selling for at the close of last week. In view of the good demand on the part of packers it did not take Ion? to clear the yards. Bulls also met with ready sale where the quality was satisfactory at good strong prices. There were not many stockers and feed ers offered and the demand was sufficient to take what was offered at giod steady prices. The better grades sold freely, but the commoner kinds were rather neg lected. Hogs The supply of hogs was not large, being a trifle less than there wa a week ago and considerably less than two weeks ago. The market opened 2(? higher, with the bulk selling at $5.70 and $5.72., against $3.67V and $5.70 yesterday. Tne heavier weight brought to.TiM and $5.75 and as high as $5.S2Vi was paid for a good load weighing 345 pounds. The mar ket was not particularly active at those prices, but still the bulk of the offerings was out of first hands in gaod season. The last end of the market was slow anl weak. Sheep Thfre was a fair run of sheep at the following quotations: Choice clipped wethers. $3.!i 1.25; fair to good clipped wethers, $3.7otfi3.M; choice clipped ewes. $3.50'?3.75: fair to good clipped ewes, $3.2.7ri3.50; choice wooled lambs. $i.!K 5.10; fair to good lambs, $4.75f4.90; clipped lambs, $4.25'54.50; fair to good clipped lambs, $3.75 4-25: spring lambs, $5.50'i 6.50: feeder wethers, $3.5(.ii4.O0; feeder lambs, $4.017)4.40. KANSAS CITY. Cattle Export and dressed beef steers. 10fll5c higher; cows and heifers, strong to 10c higher; stockers and feeders, steady; choice beef steers, $5.3&5.60; common to good, $4. 005.25; stockers and feeders, $3.6-V&4.&0; western fed steers, $4.255.25: Texas and Indian. 3.Sr.fr5.00; cows, $3.251) 4.75; heifers. $3.507i5.1l; canners. $2.25$ 3.15; bulls. I3.255i4.75; calves, $3.75 COO. Hogs Marktt opened strong and closed steady to weak; top, $5.?v5; bulk of sales, $56Mio5: heavy. STi.S'do.So; mixed pack ers, $5.C555.)!0; light, K.iVii5.TZi; pigs, $1.0) ii.25. Sheep and Lambs Market strong; west ern lambs, Il.9ofi5.10; western wethers. $4.25fi4.70; western yearlings, $4.5O&4.)0; Texas grass sheep. $3,750! 4.25; ewes. $3.50 4.10; culls, $2-.Mi3.25; spring lambs, $5.501f. 6.5. SHE IS VERY WEAK. Mrs. McKinley Said to lie Alarmingly III. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. The members of the cabinet are very ap prehensive that Mrs. McKinley will not rally. Her physicians have not yet been able to check tbe bowel trou ble and her enfeebled condition mil itates against her. At the Scott'resi- ,X dnce at this hour it was stated that there was no Immediate danger, al though a change for the worse would not be unexpected. After the consultation tonight. Dr. Rixey and Dr. Hirshfelder remained in attendance. Secretary and Mrs. Hay joined the president at 9:30. When the members of the Bohemian club learned of the alarming nature oi Mrs. McKinley's illness the elab orate entertainment that had been planned waa abandoned out of respect to the president. After dinner tonight the members of the cabinet called at the Scott residence. They reported Mrs. Mc Kinley's condition unchanged. When she is conscious she recognizes the piesident and asks for him. She is not regarded as in immediate danger of dissolution. There is no abate ment of hope that she will rally, but in her weakened condition there cottSd not fail to be apprehension lest the sjark of life might go out. At 11 o'clock Secretary Cortelyou, in reply to a request for a bulletin on Mrs. McKinley, s condition, sent word that there was nothing to give out. Her condition was unchanged. The house is quiet within. Outside orly the police detail and representa tives of the press are on guard. Miss Harmon Secretly Weds. CINCINNATI, May 16. Announce ment was made yesterday that Miss Marjorie Harmon, daughter of Judson Harmon, ex-attorney general of the United States, was secretly married Monday afternoon to George Heckle, a civil engineer of Boston. The engage ment had ben announced and the wed- Y" ding set for June, but owing to Miss Harmon's youthfulness her parents fa vored a postponement. German Reichstag Prorogued. BERLIN, May 16. The reichstag yesterday, after disposing of the re maining business, was prorogued until November. Corn It cue tes Sixty Cents. CHICAGO, May 16. George H. Phil. lips, who has the supply of corn deliv erable on contracts this month cor nered, yesterday bid the price up to 60 cents from the opening, which was 54 cents. This is the highest price since May 31, 1892, when the Coster-Martin deal reached its climax, corn selling at $1. The total amount bought by Phil lips during the forenoon did not run over 120,000 bushels, which was sold mostly in small lots.