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SJ4- ra-r - -., . f w r :h . ift , V v j- 1 t" "" THE BED CLOUD CHIEF. CLOUD. rTERRASK mmmmmmmm OUBXMHn OOMMMXT, Reuben Hnx, the agent at the Black feet Indian Agency in Montana, has The ancestor oi all the locomotive! now in use oa American railroads was placed on exhibition in the historical hall at the National Museum, Washing ton, recently. It was made in Eaglanf in 1885 by George Stephenson aad sent to this country. . TnEOPmixs F. Mills, son rf the late Clark Mills, the eeolptor, has pre sented a petition to Congress asking for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars 'for a hronee questriaa statue cf the late General Rawlins, rdered by General Meigs. It was reported in London that the Government intended to prosecute one of the recently elected Irish mcrabqrs of Parliament for a speech made at a National League meeting, on the ground that the language used on that occasion tended to incite his hearers to commit murder. NEWS OF THE WEEK. OlMiMd by Talrph and Mail. TnE Penney mine, near McKeesport, Pa., was entered the other night by un known parties and the tools of the working miners destroyed. The props holding up the slate roof were also knocked down and traps set to catch the men and crush them to death. Fortunately no one was injured, as the work of the miscreant) was discovered before the miners went into the pit. TnE German Foreign Office has notified Mr. Pendleton, the American Minihler, that it is intended to exjiel I the German-Americans residing in Schleswig, who emigrated to the United States just before becoming liable to military service, and returned after being naturalized. The recent order of expulsion of other German Americans remains suspended. The Matin, of Paris, prints, though without giving full credit to the report, r telegram from Lisbon announcing that a foreign man-of-war had been dispatched from the island of St. Thomas in the Gulf of Guinea for IJctencgro in consequence of a conflict between a party of French sailors and the crew of the German corvette Cy clops. The Executive Committee of the Hendricks Monument Association at Indianapolis has been discussing a sug gestion in the newspapers that Con gress appropriate ten thousand dollars in aid of the construction of the me morial. The result of the discussion was the unanimous adoption of a reso lution that no such appropriation should be expected or asked, but that the association should depend alone upon voluntary donations by the people for the money necessary. COMOBESSIOVAX. IK the Soaate m the 21st, amoag the bills IftrodaoM were tae following-: By Mr. Vu Wyek, to establish ma additional lassl district la the Stat of Nebraska: also to provide for tta ealeef a part of te reservatiaa m tae State of Vebraakaof the Wlnneaare tribe ef Iasltaas: also to provide far tee orgaaisaUon of Cass Iatlaa Territory aaft the aaalic laad atrip, into a Territory te be known as the Territory of Oklahoma, e4 to provide tem porary Govaraateat for the ease: for the aUotaiaat of aoaaeeteadi to Indians in sev eralty aad to open unoccupied laaas to the Indian settlers. By Mr. Lojraa.fc increase the eateieney of the artsy of the United States: alio, to equalise the bounty of eoldiertji tailors aad marines of the late war for the Union; ao. to pent ion priaoaeni of war who were confined In Confederate mil itary priiont daring-the wr. Mr. Edmundi reported favorably from the Committee on Judiciary the bill In refesenee to bigamy and polygamy in Utah. The Senate passed the House concurrent resolution pro viding for a holiday recess and then went into executive session, and when She doors opeaed, adjournsd until Jan- over oae thousand tfllus wert- introduced, among them: To amend the Chinese restric tion act; to suspend the coinage or the standard silver dollar: to Organize a Territorial Government in the Indian Ter ritory: granting pensions to all soldiers who served thirty day in the late war: granting lands to hoaorably discharged soldiers of tho late war; repealing the timber culture pre-emption and desert land acts: to limit the disposal of the public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers: to forfeit un earned land grants; repealing all limitation as to the time which meritorious applications for pensions may be filed; to increase the pensions of soldiers who arc totally disablr-d. When the State of Maine was reached the I call was discontinued, wltb the understand ing that it be resumed when the House meets ou January 5, to which day the House adjourned. NRSON'AL AND FOL2TICAt. "The funeral of ex-Governor Fletcher took place at his residence at Cavendish, Vt., on the 2Jd. There was a large audience. Tub Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Joseph Stealey, of Indiana, to be Inspector of hulls of steam vessels for tho district of Louisville, Ky. Patbick Egan has received a telegram stating that Paynell will not be able to at tend the Irish Nationalist meeting nt Chi cago in January. The Pope has written a letter on religious education, opposing secular schools. Michael Davitt, in a recent interview concerning home rule, said: ''The alleged proposals of Gladstone, recently published, are a good basis for a settlement of the Irish question." Dn. Mary Walker was among the call ers to wish President Cleveland n merry Christmas. She asked for a special inter view. Heiir Aitoxvi, the leader of the Hunga rian opposition, meditates a tour through Germany with Count Karolyi to ad vocate a Central European customs union. It was stated in Paris that Admiral Gati her, Minister of Marine and Colonies, has? tendered his resignation because President I'risson announced his intention to create a colonial ministry. Ma. Rannt, the American Consul at Bs list, ia kin asusaal report to tho HUto Da. partnent, peaks very flatteringly of Bis xnarck and the success of bis colonial and other policies. The Mayor of Venice, Italy, has sent out a circular in which be declares that the stories of cholera are much exaggerated. A nracE battle took place in Poplar Island Narrows, Maryland, the other night between a fleet of dredge boats and one of the oyster police steamers. The steamer found the dredges at work and attempted to arrest them. They resisted and opened Ire on the steamer, widen was returned at first with small arms. The dredgers made it hot for the steamer until her Captain opened Are upon them with a cannon. This silenced their fire and pat them to flight. The Houston (Tex.) Insurance Company, whose capital was badly impaired by the failure of the City Bank of Houston, has reinsured all its outstanding risks in the The NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. Stat Kckool Moneys. The apportionment of school moneys has been completed by Prof. Jones, State Super intendent of Public Instruction. The num ber of children attending school in the State is233.2Si, and the basis of apportionment Is 11.0557 p?r scholar, the various'. conntie be ing provided for as shown in the following table: A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. MORMON CONSPIRATORS. COWBOYS AND INDIANS. Tfc Initio of ! Mrsfe CnmpUIn of the Cowhoys An tnMT Wl!ng. AXjiuqncKqrn, N. M.. Dcmbr Ul. Tn Navajo Indians living or. the reserva tion akoet one hundred miles from th city are getting rery resile), and In r t of the fact that they own an Immento amount of property In flocks of hep an I COCSTIE". Antelope... Adams Itoone HuJIalo Hrown Hurt Hutler C j Cherry . . . . Oiejenne .. , ChRe . . . I O-dar . . . i Clxv ... . Colfax Cujii.np CllHtiT. . t. n. City of London Company, limited. stockholders expect to lose 300,000. The Grant monument fund has reached a total of clll,?.S5. A Port Town.-end, W. T., special says: A number of citizens of Quellente, a town j 125 miles distant, telegraphed here that an Indian outbreak was feared, and asked for ' protection, ine trouble doubtless grow out of tho ill treatment of the Indians by the white settlers. It is not believed that it will be serious. One of tho Schlitz Brewing Company's storehouses at Milwaukee, containing 120, 000 bushels of choice barley, was damaged by fire tho other day. The loss was $73,000, the insurance ?OS,00. The Christmas tree at the county hospi tal, Chicago, caught fire during the enter tainment on Christmas day. An indeficirb- able panic occurred among the children and others in consequence. Fifty persons were badly injured and many others slight ly, but no one was killed. The lire was sub dued without serious damage. Two men were killed and two danger- I -Merrick 7. "-";"" i w"w . Semaha at ine spring uiiey waterworks, han I Xuckclls. Francisco, recently. The damage amounted to 150,000. The French Chamber of Deputies has j Imtc. adopted the Tonquin credit by a vote of i !'lf,i:- 3J3 f 4.S74 2.CU .VOW i.sr. 3.Ti 43JI l.iw-in Llakotu Uixoii.. . fiodjr.. .. Donvla liundv. Kdlinore.. Knniklln .. Front. or. . . Furnas ... tireeley. .. I flo-pvr. .. I Mull Hamilton.. I Hurlan Haws Hitchcock. , Holt . JcRerson... Johiiiou i Keith ' Ki-arney . ( Knur Laneustcr. Lincoln. ... i l.oup Mntli-on ... Otoo I'HWIII'O I'lielps Ll t.'V UX'A V' .:- i.-k.o 1.7i.VtC b.at:ja i5.-j:r: v. .11.7: 5.0CJ 57 &.000 warriors and ars well arrord with ift latest and mot improve! wcr-a and am munition and have s crlcvance. It ev. that errry once In a while a few uf t. 1 he r-olicc rujd ner rent :hi rr.vjrTni onn tribe or Indian wanucr o:i tnrtr rr-r. room in tbf bouse for the spotter. Hasap- Qn anJ tAk($ M hunllntf or fihln; trsp r ton paid hrr SlOO altoirther. ".pUn lnjc, to nrU-lNjrlnc lown, t took the witnc. past (.orcrnor Murray """' " home in a bnJ. minted out UU rwl- trale horM- am! transact Ahrr tt dencr and told hrr to call oa the Governor i ncsa, Cct Uieir fill of the arrwa!rr and trv to cet him to call on tier. He ! rise white man and do any othrr ra-. ' tt I II.IL- t - .v r. . .... . I ". io -io. it is rumorcu tunc ownic to u,, irninw tho closeness of tho vote tho Cabinet has ' Kicluiidson.. saiiuo resigned. Fiiie in Cincinnati the other night caused a loss of ?00,000 on the building and stock owned by the Western Paint and Ilooiiing Company and M. E. Dc Ilart & Co., patent roofers. The Manchester-Congo Ilailway Com pany has been granted u franchise to con struct a railway from the upper to tho lower Congo region in Africa. aurpy Siumderi .... Seward "1it:iiuii Sioux Stanton Thayer Vnl!ov ! tt'tttliitiirlon.. ; W'avni' Web-ter J "A'lireliT I Vork Tin: Montreal Hoard of Health has per- j ,,r.,le!;1 ;; mptorily ordered the lady superior of tho Kui'n I,alis-- A Goveknment dispatch from Mada gascar says that peace between France and Madagascar has been concluded. It is reported that the treaty gives France a protectorate over the whole of Madagascar, and that there will be a French resident at Tananarive the capital, who will be charged with the jduty of conducting the foreign affairs of Madagascar, and who will be at tended iry a permanent guard. French troops will occupy Tamatave until the ,war indemnity of ten million francs is paid. Dn. Cckdy, the new United States Minister to Spain, presented his cre dentials to Queen Christina at Madrid on the 22d. He expressed to her the wish that the commercial relations be tween the two countries would speedily be placed on a mutually satisfactory basis. The Queen Regent expressed her wish for a closer business friend ship between Spain ami the United States. Tho general impression in Madrid was that the commercial treat, .which had been so long de layed, could be negotiated with little difficulty. A recent dispatch from Washington says: Randall, Hewitt, Crisp, His cock, Phelps and Reed, composing the Ordnance Commission appointed dur ing the last session of Congress, will report to the House of Representatives soon after the holidays that all the steel necdd for armor plates, either for ships or land fortifications, and all the steel ingots needed for the manu facture of guns for the army or for coast defenses, can be manufactured in this country. They will also recom mend that the necessary appropriations for the work be made at onoe. The London Post publishes a letter from its Belgrade correspondent re Tcaling a lamentable stato of affairs in the Servian army. It seems that there is almost a total absence of military discipline. "It is difficult," the cor respondent says, "to say where most of the blame is to be laid, whetherupon the inefficiency of the officers, or upon the natural insubordination and un teachablenessof themen. King Milan's life is being constantly threatened and several attempts to assassinate him have actually been made. The King bravely disregards them and struggles ; manfully to bring order ontof chaos and to get his forces into better shape in view of the possible reopening of hostilities after the armistice. It is well known in Belgrade," says the cor Tnspondent, 'that Milan was deceived regard to tfcg effective strength of aijnyia the-ama way that Napo- m. vas befoi Ji-SJsao-Prtwsia alsin r t&e we Seld and for fea fftwkick Servia o1 ling of the igof cor- respon- iathe isition Ht" XiaCKLLAXEOUS. The grain trode division of the New York Produco Exchange has adopted stringent regulations concerning tho proper storage of graded grain iu warehouses. Govekxok Maiitix, of Kansas, has raised the quarantine on Illinois and Missouri cattle. Fcaus are entertained that tho British bark Norshead, which sailed from Sydney, Now South Wales, August 29, for Portland, Ore., has been lost. RnrouTs from Minister Cox, from his post in Turkey, represent him a.8 pleased with his now home, with no idea of return ing before his term expires. G. W. Lui'Tox, a wool merchant, of Brad ford, Eng., failsd recently for $300,000. Firry cases of cholera were reported re cently in Venice and adjacent towns. The Government Chief of Engineers re ports that the celebrated long bridge over tho Potomac is an obstruction to naviga tion and ought to be removed. Tin: forty-two shoo factories in Massachu setts where a strike occurred some months ago were opened on tho 2Jd under the terms of the award niado by arbitration. By ( rder of court, tho Richmond (Va.) Witty has suspended publication. The annual meeting and exhibition of the Northwestern Poultry Association opened at Fargo, D. T., on the 10th. Tho exhibition was a very large and creditable one. An attempt was made recently to assas sinate L. Lum Smith, publisher of the Philadelphia Agent? Herald, by shooting through the glass door of his office. Tho ball lodged ip a mirror in the other side of tho room. No clue. Dow, Shout & Co., private bankers, of Syracuse, N. Y., assigned recently. A PisrATCH from Rome of the 52d re ported the Pope as looking very fatigued and unwell. At a meeting of tho New York Yacht Club a challenge from Lieutenant Hcnn, of the British Navy, offering to sail his yacht Galatea against the New York Club's rep resentative for the possession of the Queen's cup, was read and accepted. The race will be sailed nexe season. The Department of State is greatly ex ercised over the fact that the report of Uni ted States Consul General Mueller, on Ger many, found its way to the press dis patches. In some manner unknown to the officials the report in question was sent out without having undergono the diplomatic pruning. Recent advices from Belgrade say that thero are signs of a revolt in fho Servian arnn, and that it is rumored there that Horvatovitch has ordered tVe execution of sixty soldiers who were implicated in a plot against the Government. The experiment of Irish cattle dealers of chartfring steamers to run in opposition to the boycotted steam packet line has re sulted in the complete surrender of the boycotted company. Contagious ophthalmia was reported very prevalent in New York public insti tutions for children. Energetic action was recommended by physicians to avert dan gerous epidemics. The Government of tho Argentine Re public recently gave the Papal Legate his passports. He was accused of interfering in public education and instigating a sort of ecclesiastical boycotting against Clara Armstrong, an American school teacher. The other evening Mrs. Fred Kohs. of Wadesvllle, near rarkersbarg, W. Va., went to a store near by, leaving her girl of fouryears and her babe of eighteen months locked up in the house alone. The house caught fire and the children were burned to death. A TERRrcLE explosion occurred in the Forndale coal mine at Pontypridd. "Wales, on the 23d. Over seven hundred men were in tha mine at the time. At least fifty were killed and scores wounded and missing. Tmc family of George V. KoreU, of Cleve land, O., were recently stricken with trichi nosis, hawing eaten of raw ham. There were hopes of saving their lives. Sxaxx-pox continues to make fearful rav ages in the insane asylum at Longce Point, near Montreal. Three children of Patrick Driscoll, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth street and Tent avoane, New York, were burned to death recently by the house catching fire. Sever it. horrible outrages were reported recently in Austin, Tex., nil evidently per petrated by the same parties. After oat rage the Tistims had been brained with aa Intense excitement existed. cmptoriiy ordered the lady super Longue Pointo Asylum to have all tho in mates vaccinated at once. Thero were eighteen cases in tho as3lum. Seventeen convicts out of a force of loU working on a railroad in Stokes County, N. C, escaped the other night. The con victs waittd until only two men were on gunrd, ono at each entrance to the stock ade, when all ru.shed to one entrance, where they overpowered tho guard and with axes cut out tho plnuks of the gato and seventeen escaped through the open ing. IVW, S314 l.:t:-! l.Hj " & 4..V VA r,ui 4,i:oj C.51 11.013 1.4T- -'.573 1.143 4,j ;.nc 3.WJ I..: 1.130 4.11"; 3.4- i.ft; 6.ST1 -VtSl 7.14? .1,'--j7 1.07e ! l.i: 3.t6. l.'J"! !.!. 3,."i7i;i .Villi 341 1 TorribU at m fTnristssaa Katrtala I A srmn jutt Carft4 Will Cmptrlmm mnt la Chicago. wtth rmatltat. Chicago, Ili. December;. Yesterday f sXVT txr. Crrv. Utah. Dsossswf 31 afternoon about four o'clock all the patients 'jhe trial of K V. Himptes, ckarge4 in the county hospital who were able to be wtn conjplrscy, commenced beforo Jodro moved, all the nurse and doctors and a ?M9 yesterday. Hampton to a city officer number of visitors xvenibled la tn- clinical tmj a prominent Saint, charged with euer amphitheater of the hcnltal to witness in intn . ntnlrw with nrastituti to Christmas exerciv for the children. Tne Mubllh noun of prostitution Tor the f herds of cattle, am UiWe to brek out and room Is very small, about thirty feet lone rv.,rr nf untrmnin; Frdoral official and raoe another Indian war. ami a fr nwro j and filled with ats reaching alrr,o: to the Gentile. The only witness examined was j bloody ono than that now In procre. ft 31 : j celling. In the center was an immcost Mrv Field, one of the protutes. i?hrtr- j u f4Ct tnat Uiey number very clow to Chrtotma tree Kden with tors and tJ1j "fled that h? hd entered in a conwaci J9 Ulumin.ted with tapers. About forty call- . w HnipUn: Ut he had fimjUhedT a ul . - I,...,.. : boue for hrr. and that the pollco had pross- i- ! da w 0UP e tree .:ni:mc lv, htT lbt fjo ,hoaM nol arir,t.M for i!ar7 ' ChrUtms carol to open the eserclM?, As ninnlnc a houv; of prostitution tn the city. -ta ti l!anta t-,atr enteral the room the upper 4 So-! ' P0111011 ot tn tree ,0k Are and In a 7)j-fl moment the ent.re tree win ablaze. Whn i-wi.-o the fire was at ,t height, mot of the chll- 4-S7.il dren vCfe marchetl out of the room by the lower door and the remaining people In the room, nearly thrv hundred in number, be came panic -str:cken. Thr heat and daincs cut off exit by the lower d-or. Tlicre was .1 rush for the upjcr door, the only reumn ine exit, and a lew eoapvd through It. but the passage wx soon blocked. Volumes of dene black smoke om collected in th upper part of the rovin, v. here the i.ia o: humanity was crowding and vrreaniim: 2?- I ,irst ffom rrlKht and tlieu from agony rur -w' i ,he ,ica: " 'ernblf. A feme of Itidc .777.i 1 scrlbable terror msuetl. The heat blitcreil l!l77,v. the faces and hands of the victim-, and one j'irjj) man's tx-ard took lire. Jreat sutTerin? u I'wk ' ""'d by inhaling the heated atmosphere. The lire burned until the Christinas tree was stripped. Order was finally re3toreil. No one in the room escaped Injury ai.d about fifty per.vous were badly burued. among tln-m two reporters. At s"v o'clock the doctors, themselves badly singed, had cared for the uotmdtd and the excitement had subsided. Cnes of tire had gonw through all the ward:, of the hospital, and for a time then was consternation anion.: the patients. A later Mirvey of tho situa tion shows that at least one hundred person- were injured, the greater part receiv ing bruises by being trampled ujion by their panic-stricken neighbor.-. A number of children patients had been brought into the chapel in their cots. Heforo they could be removed several suifered from the smoke and fright, and one or two were slightly btirned. The excitement ua4 Intense" and but for the coolness of Warden McGarngle and some attaches of the hospital lives would certain! have been lo-t. z.521 01 .Tvu .'w".4; 57 'S f 'M 4.3UM J7.44 2.:7.rc 11.C15.4S 1.477 JS U.V. 47 3.7.VJ 01 2,71G.3fi lJifl-OT 4.:H.a'. .'.'jO.OO 7,'JIS M 1.1-K.M l.r.i.V4 4.'M.'.'1 ai;i.V77 1.71-i7 7f".:!7 7.Vl.7l -M40.Sj 7,547. 1 '. .rvV- W 1.". 71.46 CONSUL MUELLER. I.-.MI.3-3,-.lS.( J.U-7.11 4.4-r S3 i.ivi.t:. 3,7'.- St 414 K XiK'J. N.S.S4 Total ... 'rrt.yt-'yjt.'i.tf.r:.?:. Of this sum 5'70,.rvf2.tj'i was rai-cd from the lease of .-ehool land-; a-.iJi..ri.'J from the III Ilfxrt Not an L'mutiHl Our l'ollrr In BJJAltouliu; CuiiuU to Kiprott Their OplnloiK. U'.vsm.vciTO.v, December 20. The recent report of Consul General Mueller, winch has caused so much comment, was not seen by Secretary Uayanl until he road it In the newspapers. He was Interested in it as an item of information and news, but officially he did not concern himself nb.mt 1L ".Mr. State tax; Ut.244.li; from interest on conn- 1 Mueller is a very competent and efficient ty bonds bought with the permanent .school fund: ?i:i,(CO.;y from a similar in vestment in State bonds; .'XJO from inter-' est on United States bonds, $1 tt.'.tj.i-. in terest on unpaid principals of sales of school lands; ?.7) interest ou district bonds, and $l5-s.Q from rentals of the Gillespie property. . ! .1 j. iaiai. ueciueuL occurred too otuer . 3tlrrll.iiirou. morning nt tho Walnut Hills Incline Hail- j Boonk County has taken an appeal to way, near Cincinnati. Jack Fallon, a sulu , the United States Supreme Court in her driver, while on the descending car lost hla Uurlington fc Missouri land case, flic de hat and jumped oil to get it, and was cision of the lower court was that tho conn caught by the car going up and dragged to t v was iustlventitled to the back ta.ressi.ed official." oaid Governor Tortor. Assistant becretnry of Slate, "cince hi appoint ment in 3Iay l.-ut he has answereit very ably and very satisfactorily all the call made upon him. There was nothing un usual iu the matter ot his reports. Ho took no unwarrantable hbort.e-. and v,o l.itcd no principle ot diplomacy. It Is not only his rich: but h.s duty n dt-cus and report everything that may affect the com merce of this cniiiitrj-, as far as his ob se.vations extend, and he is an ob-ervant man. far-seeing and of keen Insight, lle yond rmestion. the? Consur.-, coiuiiient- will bo reproduced In the newspapers of Frank-fort-on-tIie-3Iain. Jt Is easy to understand promts her 5500 If tho jot the Governor. He and hf awoctates told her thoy wantol to get the names of tbec Gentiles, so they could tale them off the jurle In polygamy trial. They wanted to entrap the Oovrrnor In order to eel polrcauust out of the enl tentiary. The trial to otoMig fctrat lu terv?t,"and i- altendcil by the Goernor, the Maor f the city and other official. There are three other indictment agauwt Hampton, one for con piracy with another woman and two for keeping houses of III fame. Judge Zane Impanele! a (Jraml Jury yrstertlay and nve them printed In structions to InxoUcato cav of "H!ygam. tml.inful cihjbitat.ou and keeper and hab.tue- of lowd bonnes. He referred to rumors that jurymen wuuld be made to suf fer If they did not do thorough work, and said he would excuse any one afraid. They shou d t-elrnd thcm-lves ccn by ahooting their xaSlant' If ruvesnary. THE APACHES. Indian l)ejirrUtltiiiuihir Alarm In New Stcilre. Ki. I'aso. Tkx.. Drcuinber 1 Aibll tlonal particulars of the tight between tho regular troops and Ajwches In tho vicinity of Mlvcr City. N. M., were brought to Kl l'aso totlay by Ute train from the West, it i now believed that iu addition to tho physician and threo privates which wer killed more than half a doxeu citizen met death at tho hands of the savages. Kery body Is leawng the country, even the cow bo s and ranchmen, and desolation and de K)pulatHiu are met everywhere. Tho lurgo ranchers are left at the meicy of tho Indian, who are well provided tMlhumumnitiuu and ' -tem deteriiuiiel to carry the wr thruugli the winter. Several families hae reachrsl Kl Tnso fiom the infesteil district, and dozens of women and ehlldrtu hau been sent to the other town for safety. Tho trtKips ina.iered were a part of Lieutenant Fountain' eonunaiul and were scour me the temtory tu which a late b!dy fight bad taken place. They weie shot at b savage from behiiiil rock-, aiHl wore killed In afw iiiomeiiLs. Other portions of tlioeoinuiaiiU, which consl-ted, all tld. of thlrt live men, met dead bodies In uiiuieron plnce, tho re-ult of the work of the Indians several day previous. Gen.trat (.rook is now known to be in finer of empliiig bhwul hounds as auxiliaries to the army In hunting down the savage.. IMPORTANT DECISION. ItoiwU lor i N.trro C.uir- Knllroail 4n Nt !! .l4irl-t lij- n M.tml.iril i;.iuKu, K'an-a1 CiTV, Deccmtier ii A special from Kiucuiau announce that Judco Wall, of the I)ltnct Court of that county. r-eoDle would do on an cxtirn. I been tbe prac tier, however, for the ca hrder and cowt y whenever t!.r thee Indians off their haw, o tn spea. " pick a quarrel with them on ow- pretext, uch as mudd)tng a watrr.V. . which they let their horn lax ' thirst, and if then they showed ltm .'!C Intention of talking bacSc or entu ' ' take their own jatt the revolver c'iae pl.i. Jt such n instance as th currol a few dsy agobywhh tw. , feetly peaceful Navaj.s wen kii:-t v iudcel o frcjuent havo these kllj.ru; ( omie that the Indians ro cettinrf (iosernor Sloverof this c tili me.n ' letter from tiio manager a? "Rt ne;i e' h-tittient, which is i ''lc; ! t agency. In which he strrPsJittiv urg-s . rrnor Slover to go t tiuverru) Km at and see If these indiscriminate ktlt:;u x not be stopped. He .sy that if -nn.et is r.ot lono Imnn-Uatcty an outbreaK w be Inevitable, and then no oup can te! ' lanre auiomit uf damage which these ns rlor will do in as thickly a ettlod jvsr: tlie Terrlt-ry as that eontiswows to r Xav.iju Keervation. (ucrnor It. x Ksiusl an order that tho cowboys must carry arm, but there to no authors x present to see that the order t famed anil some other method 1hu1 tHder-! b!olhsl I-to bo avottel. The N.in are now a very jeaceful tribe, i know thst In det-l.inag war f , will Io the wealui nml pn'jx . they have acturil ice tlutlr ettleii on the re-ervation. tut: they think t while they have no right to go off too r- -vatiou without Ktmlsun. yet the it l or which they gourr.stly travel to Gove-' menl Und and the cowboy havo ni u. rkht there than they have. Governor I ha tho will to right thee matter, t t .' fcated that ho lias not the iwir t Ik that will. How-ver, lie ha. howii b s actions in tho pat lh.it lin will do a ran to proteet the wauls of to Govt: meiit when they nte wrongfully imj-i t iimi, and It to earuitstly ttri that h U able to devlso inline iiiraus by whirl! t,. evil may beabntetl. THE PENSION OFFICE. Clrrk Not le lli'li.trjnl Allot lir Hi 1 lliu. Wahiixi.to.s, Ueccmbor II. It was re ported to-day that four Immtied clerks a.- 1 examiners In the I'ouMvn Ofiieo svvte t- rv dbmi'vscst January 1. Tim Oalnf ( ,c denies the statement iiid say that the n lrt probably grew out of ttio faet that t' e are )temat. zing and lessening ttio wot r the (Hire. They ran not, however. t slong with any imaller force, a ail t tiino ami laUir sased must bs put upon t tho top of tho hill. One foot was cut oir und for, but that by reason of allowing five lUsit 'somu of ,'", People of that city will bas rendered a leiutliy opinion in tho cav sfcumuiated work, ho was terribly bruised from his waist years to elapse before the commencement "ol ,,u mvor'dly impressed with them. Th "f "'c State of Kansas against Uk Denver. General lllsck, Coiumlssionrr nf IVn down. He was taken to the hospital wbero uf tho suit it was not entitled to the te 1 "IC" ui,h W,U)'" ,,e t-'' contact thero Memphis A. Atlantic KjIIwuv, the Hoard of slon. ha rendered a drctotou upm the p ho died. lief nra ved' for j may thus he led to tut 11 the cold shoulder ''nty ( omiiiN-louers of Kmgiiian County plication for pension of an ex itdlrr ho J. C. FitAScr, while examining a pistol. Al 0'eill woman who wis erinted -i di- i ," , Mu lM '30,,,, , ,B "tt,t; S0 aml ,I,C "?"k "f Kmti"i!iU' K'"ng tern- cou.m.uid when It wa approacbr was accidentally shot and lille.l at M,-t " ., waH rnntecl ;l "; cial coldness. tho pihhcation can l"rary injuncton against the delivery of "nemy. for which act ho wa dishomTf. Ltl g Z ilv U 1 v .7. voice one morning lately asked her legal J not operate to his prejudice. It Is one humlrcl and twenty-fivir thousand dol- Y dollar!, but ube(pn,tly re-r ! n 'l.l- i 1 - 1 11 , ,?,0IlM adviser if she could get a permit to marry , not iiiidentond by Governments to be tlio Is of tomd voted by Klngmnii Cmitity tmwl the sCtvlce a a C.plani. ami whi.V n was K1CKCU oy a UOl'SO and had lllS leg , another lover that afternoon, nml u'!uii dlltv fif n nxisitl tn ..tiln-.W ft... ln,-. ....... 1 to the I)env..r l.. 11. i.l.- .- !-...! if... lln.. nf itntv f...U--,l Hi.. Im.ir. f... I...i. l. I - -- -- ....., ...... ...... . j ... ...-...-............ .111, iiiiiiuilllb -..-, .-...., ...,. . ...f.i.j.i Iklt- -- --- -..-.y .--........- ...j.., t'lt ITKI1 1 lin broken A vot;No man named Benjamin Ileebo svas killed while jumping from a passenger train at IJerea, O., the other night. lii body was completely cut to pieces. It wus reported that King John, of Abyssinia, is engaged in the occupation of Massowah and is preparing to make war upon the Italians. Tun residence of Dr. Emil Itessells, tho Arctic explorer, at Glendale.Marylnnd, was burned the other morning, and all of his books-, charts and other valuable docu ments relating to Arctic matters were to tally destroyed. Between eleven and twelve o'clock thfl other night fire broke out nt 1 Wale streetjNew York.in the three story hui!iintf owned and occupied by M. Fink as a fuctury" of whale and fish oils. The fire caused au estimated damage of $-10,000; partly insured. ADBITION'Al. DISrATCKEP Twenty- persons were mjuivu at Limer ick, Ireland, recently, in a faction fight over the possession of n house. Ci.eaf.ing house returns for week ended December 'Jt showed an avernge increase of 14.7 compared with tho corresponding week of last year. In 2sew York the increase wus .".!. 1 At San Francisco on the 20th United States Circuit Judge Sawyer rendered n de cision in favor ot the plaintiff in the suit of informed that she would have to wait six months-, she flew- into a passion and made n grab for his hair. , Tin: bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. I Van Wyek to establish a new land district provides that all that portion of Nebraska commencing on the west boundary of the State nt the intersection of the sixth stand- nrd parallel; thence east along said par allel to tho south corner of township twenty-five north, range thirty-seven west to the southeast corner of township thirty one north, range thirty-seven west: thence north between ranges thirty-six and thirty seven west to the southeast corner of town ship thirty-ono north, range thirty-seven west; thence east to southeast corner of township thirty-one north, range thirty-six west; thence north between ranges thirty live and thirt)-six west to the north bound ary of tho State; thence west along said boundary to the northwest corner of the State; thence south along the west bound ary of the State to the place of ieginniug, bo constituted a new land district, to be of tho country iu which he Is stationed; neither is it his duty to wilhr.old hN fn-y (.pinions. A German consul iu this country may cittici.se our ptotectiv; tariff or any of the principles of our Government as "se verely as he ciiftoes, and this Government will not take oflensu or seek to supples him. We may not agree with h-s opinion, and may not like them, but we will not deny his mi; to hold and ex press them. It is not to he expected that all the consular u-jvorts cut to foreign Govern ments by airciits iu this country are couched in teitn-of pmi-e and admiration and unbounded friendship for our interests and our waj s. I have no doubt that some Ger man consuls iu this country Indulge iu critl-ci-m a free as that of Mr. Mueller. Tim telations between tins country ami Germany were never more frendly than now, ami it is idle to talk of a rupture of diplomatic re'ations bccaue of anything contained In Mr. Mueller's report." wa). I he case wa fully argued on Tue Ja and Wednesday last by Hon. F. l Gillelt. of Kingman, and Jaine Hager iiKin. F.-o,.. of Topeka, for the Mate, and Hon. I. S. HeudeMon, of Chautauqua ouiit. and H,ii. KudoJph Ilain.-M. of Wichita, for the defendant. Tho Couit decided that the Denver. Memphis A Atlantic Hailway was. charioted as a nar row raiitfc railway anil had no iwer to build and operate a standard gauire. and that its contract with the coiiutv to build and operate a standard gaug wa ultra vires, and that the bond Issued and In rv crow with tho Hank of K iiirman were null and void. This deci-lon. If sustained, will overthrow all the bonds jtie, to the Den ver, MeuipJiU .t Atlantic Hallway in lint State by various cities, township aud conn tie, amounting iu the aggregate to about a million dollar. cianii a jfMilotu The Commissioner t-A that tho exreiitlim of tho xtit-nre nf dimlst from tho first serv.ru - lonipletion of tin? punishment of the tiiw charred and 'din' not drstru, ' claim to a pension fot Injury rreeircii d ine the seoond setvlco. HsJius rt letter from its Belgrade correspond called the Northwest Land District of the I cnt revealing a lamentable state of affalts State of Nebraska, the land-office of which in the Servian army. It seem that there shall bo located at such place as the Presi- j is almost a total absence of military disci- : dent may direct, and authorizes the Pre-i- , pHIIC. "It is difficult," the correspondent ' dent to appoint officers for the new dis- j say5 ..o ,ay w,Jt.re mo,. of th(J ,,,amc ,, Q , inci. A lt.nl IMtUIxikI. Pntis tiKiriii.v. Va., December 281. Thr The Srrv.au Kioc ' .SIiacauioxon lisnk failed last summer bv London, December 2G. The ot nub- 1 cause of an overdraft of SlT.OOO aid to have been made by Its President. Tester. The other evening 3Ir. Kellner, a promi nent hog buyer, of Madison, while sitting be laid, whether upon the inefficiency of tho , otficeis. or upon the tsatural Insuhordma- tion and unteachnblene-s of the men. King at supper with his family was shot at by Milan's life Is being c-mstautlv threatcneil Sharon vs. Hill, brought to declare void the I . nsSafeS, wi, nre,J n "tie tfcrongii the ; sllege.l innrrinire contract. The siVnatnr., J wlndow, but missed his aim. Kellner is , ,- - -n--...v of Sharoxon the contract was declared to be a forgery. Rentes were depressed on the Taris Bourse on the ii'.th owing to the report thnt the Government intended to effect n public loan or to issue treasury bonds. The pub lic disapproves the results of the colonial policy of tho Government. Dcking a heavy gale on the night of the CCth the schooners Salera E. Killam, of Nova Scotia, Adclia Hardwell, of Glouces ter, and Gazelle, of Grand Manan, went ashore on Northhead, near Portland, Me. Tho Captain of the Killam was frozen to death . KonEttT Girdwood. n wool broker of Sdinburg, Scotland, suspended payment recently. His liabilities were reported to amount to 150,000. Girdwood fled to Spain. Seuvian troops on the 2Tth made an at tack upon a Bulgarian frontier village and were repulsed. Three Bulgarian soldiers were wounded in the engagement. The Bulgarian Government protests against Servians violation of the treaty of armis tice, j Fkink VAConN. of Argentine, was mar- dered by his wife's cousin, a mile east of Kansas City on the 27ih, being shot from I behind while riding in a covered wagon. ! Nave, on beinr pursued, committed sni- 1 cide. The canse of the crime was jealousy. Vaughn had only been married two davs j accused of using false weights in making hog purchase--, and has a lawsuit penning j about this matter. Thto, it is thought, led 1 to the attempted assassination. A comi'anv has Ixen organized and articles of incorporation adopted for the operation of a canning factory at Syra cuse. C. F. S. Templin. Chairman of the State Temperance Committee has issued a call ' for "ali persons who earnestly desire the ' complete suppression of the American dramshop and the abolition of the destrue tive alcoholic liquor traffic, and who be lieve that political organization is neces sary to accomplish a full deliverance from i this reigning curse of the century,' to meet , in a State Conference of Prohibitionist to be held in the city of Lon don Thursday and ' Friday, January 1$ and 19, 183. McCook has a Reform Club. ' While running a horse powercorn hellcr ' at his home near Lincoln a young man j named Leroy Eudaw was seriously injured I ; recently by the balance wheel becoming ' I loosened from its bar, striking him on the ; head and fracturing hi. skull, j O. J. La'uh and family, of Syracuse, nar 1 row ly escaped suiTocation from conl gas a few days mce. Mrs. Laird and daughter ) were unconscious, and -atnl himself had oarely strength enough to crawl to tbo door and opsn it. The fresh air saved :hem. The City Council of Grand l-Iaad has passed an ordinance prohibiting gambling and feveial attempt- to asos.sinate him have actually been made. The King bravely disregards lhm and strut: zl'n manfully to bum order oit of chaos anil tn g-t h.s forces Into better shape In view of the po?-ible ifopctunc of hostilities after the armistice. It i well known in Belgrs e. mi? ti-e correspondent, that Milan wa dece.ved tu rfard ty the effective sfreu:;i of lu army in the same way that Napoleon III. wa before the opening of the Franco-Pr,.i3lan war. A ring of corrupt offic a's jn :he capital are re?ponlb!e for tliR sioaknis dlv jdayed in the field and for the humiliating j:nc;tion in which Sersia now find hereJf. Under the vigorous hmd of Gp nera! Hor vatovitch, wno was recabed from a foreign ini-sio:: as the one mtn caja.'Ie of r?lccra itig the King's 'battered forces, there ha been a maikeit improTcmcnt in the condi tion aud management of the troop, but at best Servia will be heavi'y handicapped in any military movement that may be under taken in the near fnturc. i The -itc.Ttli.il at StintlroZt . WiLKngiiAKUE, Pa., December 15. The situation at Nanticoke remains onobangftL As far as can be learned the black damp has been cleared from tbc pe near "here It is snp;vxed the rnpn axe iaprIOHed. d.d no work 00 No. and Seperintendent ! day C. P. Mllligau. the paying teller, told on oath how the directors divlds p tlie money on tho da) of the iienslon. He R.ud: "The dlirctors held a meeting at the bank on the morning of th u(x-nslori and rca'S'-mbb'd at about three n. m I clo-.tl the door of the bank about three p. m. Mr. Gallcit left a check for S I.0O0 before he went to the meeting ol the director. The watchman put thx money hi .1 Iwg. Mr. Gaibert got Iiimonev after the tne.-tirig. H tiandotl baeg thi; ciieeic tor ,i.QOo aI r-sro me on for SS.0QO. He woMid not carry the money rnit the front wy. Jjh: drVctN m to tell Uic ' watchman to take It out tho back way vjr . to Front street. Mr. Gbert awl Mr. Wins- j tier went out the front way. Mr. McCart ney gve mc Ins check at about Jj j,. ni. t mitiers aro rntomW j rave nun ins money in silver. Ho dl reeied the watchman t tak It t hl (the watct.iiani ton-. aym? that lnj MrCartoer) woe.d cad for it txt norn Inr. Jlr. Jiwlge xase mebl chf-ci XnUttt comg up tatrs U the nv-Unz. Mr. Hove gave me hit check after U.e board ad journed froto the afternoon meeting, ilr. Peters gave mo his chesx about eight or nine o'clock vu the Thurs day before tr-,e intpensIon. Mr. Urc askd me to coma over to the H.HJ..- at nine a. .. ajing that U10 directors w-r? to hold a incrtin iJire. Mr. Peters 7e his checlc for 52.000 in b! store. Our llrUtlim Willi itroisrir. WasHIM.ToV. Deeeiuber tX '11n a i nuat rejHitt of Jacob Mtiellrr, 1'nlte.J sa Consul General at lVaiikfott-on-lhe -M t . Germany, has been rreCiV-d at tan f"V Department He rails attention to th- ? actloiury Uildcneics pievalMng M t, S country on tho Industrial and omuiier al relatMin with tho Ln.led Mate. Wt '1 tendencies. ,i? say, explain Ihu III v. aalint the Tutted Mate. Tliry dr.il American hog, wheat and imports gr , eraisy. Ixil ?i more tint irnprlaU4Hi ' Aincricati ntoas. Not only Is the Urt-'i y to retrogration noticeable In the p.-', rat. cconoui.c and religious spheres of life but the barrier ettotlrig lr twwn mauklnd arc aton foster a- 1 multiplied u tueh an extent that t n plritof easte to a;aln prominent anI i.i feudal rstem resurreetel. If., slin.i. . tiiPM trmjric.e as the priiiop-tl rraww wio pruvaiurig anlt-Amerieantoni. and ,n order tlut tbto Government may h in-irr 1 not to anticipate from official IJ-rman? r Austria. boU.- a they are Vi Amnfru IltHTty and properlty. any gratultiou r., re on. Tim Consul rettt that Ute prewcl slate of trade and JiMlustry In .--many ha continmHl during tfi p,t ir. Anotlirr Jlln ltrrr. ! Jorrr). Dcein-.r 2t. -A ilUjateh .'r"u PontiprhW. WaJ.. reryrt3 that tm rnMerr cxpion has rKyrurred at Kela e jt minu thrre. and hat four 1hu-i A later 41 tw' 1 yi that twelve drail Utiles It beu tair;, out of tlifl Kcrrdale pit. anl thirty mes Iwve bren Trmnl mofe or t ft,fH ibe rriiuindcr ef tlKvj who ia ..., ruinr at the time of the explosion r l.ere.1 : b- fe. TJi? espfotiwh oarorr,-! in th appir of the two .m. Tket nr ven itdrd ami fif:T tnvu in 1uimt, t the Urn of Ibn rxpUnUtn. The nsalnr.ty were in ih-. hrmrr nm, otfar?Tiw. ihiat, Jto: nwid hao b-n rottcM torgrr. At I-attSfty mm . klile.1 n yi otprr esm. aod k were Urtrtbly trl. Th rcfl wrre carried to plcr f safety br tblr laore fortenaljj cuijoniic wko h.l not being bnrt The rescninz party 1 slope to-day, Morgin will no: face danger thers. E. P. Kidder & Co., drv goods mer- i m.e;eT7ona cbants of Grand Rapids. Mich., have made an assignment. Liabilities about $55,000; assets, 0,000. Dtnamite was recently found concealed on Judge Lambert Tree's fine residence in Chicago. It was exploded by the police on Lake Front. The attempted outrage was generally credited to Socialists. Judge Tree is at present acting as United States Min uter at Brussels, and his home in Chicago was occupied by General A- C. McClnrg. A Chattanooga (Tenn.) special savs: A fire destroyed eight stores, a large amount 01 coctob ana toe depot or the Alabama: otberday in his cabin near South 3end. Great Southern Railway at Collinsville, Ala.; loss heavy, but not estimated. Tax men employed in the St. John coal mines, Du joLd, HI., struck recently for i shorter hours. They bad been irorkinf aleven hoars and a half per day. TJ T'wrnlilp HwJn!fr. I.fWA.fArot.:. I-td.. December SL In the Federal Coait jestentay. Walter SUa-1 ton of New i'ork flied ejht suits aairist the bomtoateu of Isdlant township txattf-, wo hate torl U'egaJ townslilp warrants, awl fled to Ciwuia. The dUJsoai truv res arc C II. Brown, John Gnmsfey and - again sk ihra to Joha Clark, of IirJts County, llry A. rbe only efforts now Thorp, of Harrisn . ArtoU CiloTer. a being made are .n the clearing of the tmln ' FoanUio; it M. Mxrtun. of Jack03- W. . 3;upe, nuir is soijuij- pac&x wilo sanu 11, rjxit&m, of Wasarsgtoa, a,-d J. jj and rocc. 1 be debrj? can not be rcrnoTe.1 Clausoa. of Warren. Tl coapUlat afgj It is said that South Bend ha neithr a Tei7 qmcsiy. as soon as tfte niing en- " .,! h-,- . ,,. glneers meet and devise Krne new plan, the " graveyard, a doctor nor a preacier. , cotrpany wUI begin to provrcste the search, r tonds The skeletons of a man and a horse were f . i lately found in the sand hills country 5orth-, A 5l tory. J !'ui sasviiUr. 1 west of Gothenburg. The sknll of the first , LXEViXAND, December Cu Thanday ' Sit. rztnox, Cou, DrtBtr aamed was broken ii, which indicated foul night jost as the church bells were riagio play at the time of death. fai Christmas Max Scbultz. in fssuraace The contract Fairrnon imn . : . ' r" -" ... ... . -i . .. -. !; XBriHntma J V Xt- .i .. ! a w-re KitCXnl tit dj-'. Cs. loaded at Fairmount for the work. I r1"!? pc. ioe iiaeraaa cauc 1 - " " ' 77 , ZT" thoaik: ris, hr,d- -.. !z A man named Brown was found dead the T?.- "K i"zr7l :tr'a ""f V w . m aia se aeov px tre Kwis ,, -tZT-fjrZTV". XZi vz it tsapiM to awre tiw, " Ihxl gratifrtw eZsZTZ.Zr" A i:l Lntmf CrtxrAfio. December 23. tar4y Jsat Mrs. Urn Brown aanoye! by t ;nt rn: arvi unwr!fa;f attention f a t,Azter nsmerl Joba Oail. Jud Mm arrotil sd znmtsoncl Ufore a jasUee. Th w rt for )ettriay. il w rimuil mnUl Thursday, . jfr,. ), wx, Unnas titr court roor IH'tl:) tnthn xtu he- aa,i afckeri Her wit's a ruor. mSbUs Mg zxh over the Mrist irtal H-rt!wS. . exttivl tae wotasn iaci inia tne rtfsr aad otnsicrsviat.bTt- .t..... j iee ru m ao to uana-ia. a&d . fc. t ..77.7'. 7 w r " 5.000 Ui 510,000 Is deaaaied et lh 3 VJZ. ..rm .. " Kal: sr nea In ezch ca.se, , .'ff f Jo U arm asd ia-i .. t . . ' MZUl ssosjad. HeA arrested. Rn,tinfrfAn .2- ! i...m V... T. W& t m.... .m. I.m.4 m mM ATt .& - - J .,... u6vu n jwkvuii re. mc ius mL.uua ua)c.cui iae cuusu'its 01 sweeping eTerrniag oe; forgradnag a branch road from ( cd had learned rcacy of their true th rao'ii nf rtn RRn. n n fmn !.,! nf IingUSge. swallowed a iifis- of raison asd ... .... --"- - - w m h 9 m ww W t - ' - w --- f-? .k . -. A.a Laa r,rf r-r-.; i..f. .., i J forced his Utile s-ren-Tearld dturhter to r"." -"-' ,B a11 All (I..J 2X A J Wrrtfcirr i n: t. MX-.JI.I. .- t- ... -W.CS, tie Minnesota rulch yes4rday aifernora. , prlsoetd tal . yt,, ore It Ts sfklfl Th eo: experleaea ,ier la Prodigal Soa ohte, " T that -mhtu bfew daa and d karrlaf ::eir 'Pfvx&c It w w U&z warkl&e T '"ins hcird to dcxlh. aai . j i HaaV2J aal Lnt f- where he bad lived alone for a number of years. Tmzss horses and colts were caught and , . j-r -v- .w j recently hearing the commotion went to thrir room. Too father died, bet the child wU recover. Schalu Las wealthy parents fa Geraaay. ills wife, whera be met la India died sev eral years ago hi Acsxraxi. The scan wm a strasger here and was vlthoct -saey cc tzieads. o tib: I v.rket irtiSeiiweBt to r t , . i.v n-TZVTZTy'. Trr I7 . w 7., m . ? .CTS,"FT how ever, arrt . , .-. Uf ; 9M,m. a rwe5iig pT rT: . S1 WwtT M recover tiH ts workls. bst all boj of rcaealag ibr las- Si " .T " ih arderaOLd prfemed Hea UaUsdosed, aad tary Jura I itaaritt t.rr r, i to i-r - i VLfMJm AaTWU .KfirrrX'rat r;n ', .-. -7 &'&'ZSnHi Sl'- t??a V3?c-f4eiT - .t &5sti-r!f,Jt j-Cf? Crzfi ?&'JJ2!&i$ .fe r, I 3? f- . . daw"1'' ?3A: iPt- "Mi