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Sr-TY THE HED CLOUD CHIEF. If i I NEWS OF THE WOIIJjD TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES BOILED DOWN. Kmt Important Kvrnln of tlio I'nut flli Dux C'nrefully Collected nml rondriied Foreign nnil Dnmntlc Doing Chroni cled for llimy 1'rnplo to Iteiul. Russia linn occupied Port Arthur Chris Von der Alio 1h to quit base ball. Germany in Minding troops und nnns to China. Italy linn been shaken by strong earthquakes. Sweden and Norway arc at swotti's points and may clash. Alphonsc Dim (let died at Purls while, dining with his family. Theodore Durriint was rc-scntcnced to hang January 7 next. Prlnec Henry lias departed from Kiel to nail toChlncM! wntcrs. The biscuit and cracker companies hate combined. The capital is 830, 000,000. Hon. J. W. Daniel was unanimously rc-elrctcd senator by the Virginia as sembly. After the first of the year Dallas, Tex., will be headquarters fo the M. K. AT. U.K. Kenor Ismacl has been intrusted with the task of forming u new cabinet for Chile. Win. J. Ilryan gave a dinner to Mexl cans and a few Americans at Uie City of Mexico. .1. II. Martlndalc of Scrnnton, Kan., wan found frozen to deuth in a punt lire near town. Gertrude Prince, a white girl of Hayes, Wis., eloped with a negro and married him. Minnesota and the Dukotas are hav ing bllzxnrds big enough to seriously impede business. Htato Senator Kllsworth of New York will make another effort to got his anti-cartoon bill passed. The next annual convention of the national' republican league will be held at Omalia, June 14 -HI. The Illinois Protective lluildiug and onn association, with head offices at Springfield, Is hopelessly insolvent. Fire destroyed tho wholesale grocery of the Letts-Fletcher Co. Mnrshalltown, la. Loss 8132,000; insurance 805,000. Alexander Hngclnnd was re-elected president of this boys and girls' nation al home and employment association. Theodore Durrant has stated that he will never hang. It is suspected that when all hope is gone he will commit suicide. At its meeting in Nashville, the American Federation of Labor passed n resolution opposing tho annexation of Hawaii. Hx-Sccretnry of State John W. Fos ter says England Is ready to grab Hawaii In caso the annexation treaty is rejected. Tho French ifovcrnment contem plates the suppression of the newspa pers which are alleged to bo systemat ically Inventing Dreyfus stories. The big auditorium and hotel at Kansas City, owned by Alexander Fraziernnd valued at 8225,(O0, was destroyed by Are. No live were lost. It is expected that the big drainage canal, which is to connect lake Michi gan with the Illinois river at .Toilet, will be completed by the autumn of 1800. It Is rumored if Italy seeks to col lect indemnity for the murder of an Italian subject, President Sam of Hny tl will bo forced by the people to de clare war. William Terrlss, a well known Eng lish actor was stabbed to death while entering the stage door of tho Adelphl Theatre at London. A super Is supposed to have done it. The Hotel Dakotah, at Grand Forks, N, I)., burned to the ground. It is feared that C. C. Howe and wife, and a passenger agent of Minneapolis, .Minn,, porisnou in too names. Win. Carr was hanged December 17, at Liberty, Mo., for the murder of his three-year-old daughter whom ho threw Into the Missouri river, after weighting the body with stones. Captain-General Hlanco has written the Spanish legation at Washington that exiled Cubans may return to the Island If they will promise to be good. Tho government otters to protect them. The schooner Susan II. Thurlow, from New llrunswiek to New York, foundered on the rockn off dishing Island, three miles from Portland, Me., and all but one of the crew perished. - The funeral of Mother MeKlnley, held December 14, was attended by many thousands of people. Business In Canton was practically suspended und the city In mourning. Governor Leedy announces that he will present a scheme to tho Nebraska irrigation convention for a 1,000-mile canal from Montana to Texas, tho cost of which would be 8:ii)0,00',),000. John Ktraub of 1311c City, Kus Is deiul. his two sons mo dying and a Mr. Heed and his daughter are serious ly ill, caused from drinking coffee into which rat poison hud accidentally dropped. Just ut present tho eyes of the world arc centered on China. The powers are distrustful of each other. High oftlclals believe there Is no spec ial significance in German occupation of Kiao-Chau and Russian occupation of Port Arthur, .but tho movements of Uie powers are being watched with in terest. If England follows the lead of Germany and Russia, France will forthwith follow suit. Tho Illinois State Grange and tho American Federation of Labor have fiasscd resolutions favoring postal suv ngs banks. Notices of a reduction of over 11 per cent In wages, In effect January n, has been posted In tho Falls River' cotton mills district. Henry N. Clark wus arrested at UIpplo Creeck. He Is licensed of em liezzling 88,000 of the First National bank at Bridgeport, (). At Paris, the famous artists' model, Lucie Hngerland, hud her licuiity polled by vltrol thrown ut her by another model, named Juldlcelll, in a lit of jealousy. Texas wns recently visited by tho worst sleet storm In years. It Is said that Fltzslminons has de cided to givu Corbett another fight. It is said that Prlnec lllsmurk is rap Idly declining, mentally and physically- Samuel Gompers was re-elected pres ident of tho American Federation of Labor. The American Biscuit company, tho recently formed trust, Is to invade for eign markets. A number of Nebraska people were Injured In the wreck of tho Northwest ern Overland at Vaill, la. John Itedmond, the well known Irish leader, Is coming to America to speak on the rebellion of 1708. It Is reported that Mrs. Lease Is to go back Kansas and run for congress from Jerry Simpson's district. La Mlnervc, the only French morn ing paper in Montreal, has suspended, nfter an existence of half a century. Washington Hestng, postmaster at Chicago under Cleveland, in dead. Heart failure caused death suddenly. The big jewelry house of Mermod &, Jackiird, St Louis, was destroyed by tire. The loss will reach 8350,000, ful ly covered. Pardee hall, the pride of Lafayette college, Eaton, Pa., recently burned, The loss In botanical and other collec tions, books, etc., is incalculable. London papers, in commenting on Kaiser WllhelmVt august utterances at Kiel on departure of tho Gcrmun fleet to China, say tho emperor is "stark, staring mad." The twelfth committee of the French chamber of deputies has decided to Invito the government to submit a bill to the chamber establishing bimet allism in France. Dover castle, tho historic land mark of Dover, England, was visited by a disastrous flro which completely gut ted the eastern portion of tho old building aud damaged that on the west. German occupation of Knlo-Chau in China is to be followed by Hussla oc cupation of Port Arthur. England is clamoring for a slice of the Chinese enke, and the mix-up may bo followed by war. Fort j-years ago tho river steamer Arabia sank in the Missouri river near Porkvillo, Mo. Among her cargo were 105 barrels of whisky, which have just been discovered in it sandbar by river diggers. One man was killed, one fatally in jured and a number of others slightly hurt by the bursting of a fly wheel at the South Third street plant of the Oliver Iron and Steel company at Pitts burg, Pa. The whole gang of five bandits who recently held up the "sunset social" on the Southern Paeific ut Stein's Pass, N. M., has been captured. The pen alty for train robbing in New Mexico Is death. Thirty-five women have left New York under guidance of Mrs. Hantia Gould, daughter of a Long Island Quaker, for Klondike. All are well-to-do, and It Is one of their purposes to "grub stake" the miners. The committee appointed by Gover nor Adams of Colorado to investigate the recent Indian troubles in the vi cinity of Lily Park, has reported. The report is an almost complete vindica tion of Gutuo Warden Wilcox. Tho dead body of Mrs. Margaret Ho gun was 'found In her store on Con gress street, Mobile, Ala. An Investi gation showed the place hud been robbed und Uie woman's brains knocked out with some blunt instru ment. On orders from Pekln the Chinese troops have been withdrawn still fur ther from Klao-Chau bay to prevent a conflict with Germany. Viceroy Cluing-Che-Tung denounces the cowurdice of the Pekin authorities in yielding to Germany and declares his own readi ness to lead the troops against the Ger mans. Lieutenant-Colonel Joaquin Ilulz, nlde-de-ennip to General Hlanco, who wns sent to urge insurgents to accept autonomy, was killed In accordance with a decree issued by Gomez that the death penalty be given all persons who attempt to induce chiefs of the re bellion to surrender. Cousul-Generul Lee made an attempt to save him but without avail. Sixteen hundred pu eltlcos have joined tho insurgents. A special eu.- dispatched by Uie Al aska Trade committee Is now on its way east from San Francisco. It con tains an exhibit of Alaskan products aud Arctic costumes und is accom panied by Secretary Carmen, ex-Govcr-dor Shnekly and Charles R. Taylor, who w 111 speak to the people en route regarding the recent gold discoveries and tho advantages ot San Francisco as a point of departure for the Klon dike. Hon. Win. J. Ilryan nddressed the Mexican chamber of deputies on his visit to the City of Mexico. He was eordiully greeted, tho congressmen arising out of respect for their distin guished guest. The Spanish government, it is an nounced, is again negotiating with the Armstrongs of England, this time for a cruiser of 4.300 tons, said to bo worth .100,000, built fo.- Japan, but which Japan does not want. The vessel is suid to be practically ready for sea. C'lgarellei In m Will. RocKFOim, III., Dec, 18. The will ot George S. Seatou, who died a few days ago, leaving a valuable estate, has been tiled for probate. Mr. Seaton divided his proporty nearly equally among lilt oMldron aud grandchildren. In cute any of tho legatees become addicted to tho use of clgarottes, their shuro shall be given to some charitable institution. Chlneae Mar De Cltliani. Wasui.soton, Dec. 18. Representa tive Smith, of Illinois, by request, in troduced a bill to-day to permit the naturalization of Americanized Chi nese, making eligible only mule Chinese of (rood repute, resident in the United States for ten years, who have discarded tho Chinese dress, adopted that ot tills country und who speak English. t.j?U Lelaml, lintel Keepir, Dead. New Yoiik, Dec. SI. Lewis Leland, one of tho Lcland family of famous hotel men, died to-day, aged 05. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OVER THE STATE. A Complete Itrlew of the I'ntt TVcrU'a lliippriiliiK In tlm Tree I'laiiten' hlHtr Siicrlnrt Summitry of tho .Mont lia tiortuiit NoM. One hundred and thirty-seven enr loads of celery were shipped from Kearney this season, Marvin Stafford, while out hunting hear David City, accidentally shot him self through the arm and left side. It is not thought the wound is mortal. As a number of 100-pound sacks of sugar were being raised to the second story at the Norfolk sugar factory, one fell on a workman names Amerine, breaking a rib and bruising him. William I). Kirkiand, a painter aged twenty-three, attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum in his room at the Commercial hotel at Sliel ton. Medical assistance arrived, how ever, in time to save his life. Arthur Hoagland of North latte, a Union Pacific brukeman, while trying to make a coupling at Julesburg, Col., slipped and fell beneath the moving train. He managed to wriggle out in time to save all but his left arm. Five tramps attempted to take po session of Turner & Urenner's elevator office at Winbidc for a lodging room, and Marshal Cnvanaugh found it nec essary to shoot one of them in the leg with a shot gun In order to dislodge the gang. Winfrcd Vernon, aged twenty, son of a farmer near Crab Orchard, while on his way to Tecumseh in a buggy, was struck by a train while crossing the track at a point where it wus al most Impossible to sec an approaching train. Young Vernon wns injured in tcrnully, and may perhaps die. Mayor Moores of Omaha lias de manded a trial by jury in the action in quo warranto instituted by ex-Mayor llroateh to test Mr. Moores' right to hold the office of mayor, the relator claiming Hint Mr. Moores was in de fault asclerk of the district court and therefore ineligible under tho consti tution. W. I). Aeor of Fremont was nrrestcd and taken to Omahu by United States Marshal Allen to answer to having violated this postal laws. When ar rested the old gentleman was greatly agitated. Jn writing to II. 1). Bluks lee, his former partner, ho used lan guage which the department construed us reflecting upon Hlukslee's character. Warden Leidigh lias asked Governor Iloleomb to take steps to place Fred Andrews In the reform school. An drews was sent up from Dodge county for ono year for tho theft of a bicycle. Tho warden says the youth gives his age as sixteen but that ho docs not look to be older than twelve, and that ho is averse to having so young a lad mixed up with a lot of hardened crimi nals. Local freight train No. 39 on the Eikhorn was wrecked between Arling ton and Ilcnnlngton. The train left Omaha a double-header, with twenty six cars of merchandise under Conduc tor Forney. On the big hill between tho staions mentioned the train broke In two and came together at the foot. Five cars were smashed, three of them beyond repair and the contents gen erally wrecked. The track was clear before passenger trains began to move. Ex-Land Commissioner A. It. Hum phrey appeared ns attorney for Custer county clients before the board of ed ucational lands and funds. In the matter of a protest of W. II. Forsyth ugulust a lease covering a certain quar ter section it was claimed that Forsyth had an extension of contract from ex Land Commissioner Russell. It was shown that no extension hnd been granted. The board laid tho matter over tothe January meeting in order to give time for the collection of evidence as to service of notice. C. N. Jones, Rock Island ngent at Murium, swore out a complaint before United States Commissioner Hilling's ley at Lincoln charging Claud H. Temple with obstructing the malls. Jones, on November 24, was carrying the mall between the depot and the postofllce, when a personal altercation ensued which resulted In tho com plaint. Temple is u physician and was recently appointed a pension ex aminer. Tins ussuult Is alleged to bo because Jones did not call in the phy sician when ills wlfo needed attend ance. Dick Eastwood, the ten-year-old boy of Lincoln, charged with opening the United States mulls and with forgery in signing u mail order not for him, and with two other felonies In destroy ing a 850 draft and keeping two let ters, was bound over to the next term of United States court. Ho furnished a 81)00 bond signed by E. Hunger, R. Malone and A. E. Hargrcavcs. The federal laws mako no provision for in fant offenders and it is a mutter of speculation what will bo done with tho boy in ease of conviction, as it would not do to give him ten or fifteen years In the pcniteutlury. An effort Is being made by Harvard citizens to secure u creamery, und there is a disposition to "push" things. A meeting of the county treasurers of Southwest Nebraska was held at McCook and steps taken to test tho decision of Attorney-General Smyth's opinion touching the question of treas urers fees, which has the eifect of re ducing their salaries about 8280. Tho test will be made in tho name of Treasurer John A. Pearson of Phelps county. A fund has been created, at. torneys will be retained and Uie opin ion closely contested. ilzld Kcncsaw nns a newly organ creamery association. The mayor of Hastings has abol ished slot machines by a rigid ordor. Indianapolis, Intl., has a curfew lav patterned after the original Llncolr, Neb., measure. Farmers in the vicinity of Auburn have subscribed 84,000 stock for a mod ern creamery ut Auburn. Fire destroyed about 100 stalls at tho fair grounds in Lincoln, entailing n probable loss of S2,000. Perry Wlinlcn was nrrestcd at Fre mont for trying to pass checks, tho signatures to which were forged. Judge Holmes of Lancaster district court recently grunted a divorce to Mrs. Nellie A. Francis of lirooklyn, N. Y. Enemies of James Cook, a farmer, living near Plattsmouth, drained ills pond dry and thus shut off his supply of ice. Herman Nenl and Julc Witteinlrc, arrested at Oakland for stealing grain, have been bound over to tho district court. Senator Allen hns Introduced a bill to remove tho charge of desertion from the military record of Joseph Mc Graw of Lincoln. Governor Holcomb will deny the jur isdiction of court in the case of Expert Hclbig's claim against the legislative investigating committee. lrs. Fred Hoyt of Gordon died nfter a short Illness and it was discovered her system was full of poison from a patent medicine she hud tuken for rheumatism. lloston capitalists have accepted the proposition of Fremont's business men, of a bonus of 850,000 and forty acres of land, and will establish a sugar factory at that point of 500-tons eopucity. Several stores, a barber shop and the schoolhouse ot Elba. in Howard county, were recently looted. The net cash receipts netted them less than Sin, but about 81,500 worth of notes were se cured. The state printing board let the con tract for printing 11,000 copies of tho Lincoln day program to the State Jour nal, its bid of 85.0.1 u page being the lowest. The program is to bo used in the schools February It!. Herbert Jellison, n II. &. M. brake man, hud his hand pinched and elbow Injured somewhat in the yards at Table Rock recently. The wounded arm wns dressed by a surgeon ml it is thought his bund will bo saved Deputy United States marshal Allen of Omalia arrested T. M. Davis, colored cook at tho Merchants hotel at Fr -mont. Ho is wanted by Iowa authori ties and is eharged with selling liquor without a special government license. Mr. Proskowety of the Imperial and roynl consulate of Austria-Hungary at Chicago, has been supplied with n copy of the Nebraska anti-trust law by Secretary of the State Porter. The consul requested copies of the law to send to his home government. John Gillespie, a well known Ne braska pioneer, died at his home in Lincoln. Mr. Gillespie's greatest work in the building of Nebraska was con nected with the selection of the site for the new city of Lincoln and tho re moval of the seat of state government to the new location As territorial auditor and a member of the capital commission he hnd as much to do as nnybody now living with the birth of the city of Lincoln. Judge Dickinson mudo quick work of the motion to set tho Hartley case down for hearing at the close of tho present term of court, for before any of the nttorneys had a chance to say anything lie announced that on thoj showing made by the defenso and tho question us to tho legality of tho sum moning of a jury at that time, ho would put the case over until the next term. This will only delay the trial about two weeks, ns it will eomo up at the head of tho docket ut the February term. The body of an unknown man was found on the main line of the II. & M. road a short distance west of Stock well's brick yard southwest of Lincoln. The back of tho mun's head was crushed in and nenrly every bone in his body must have been broken, for hin feet lay in a natural position when found and his face and breast were turned to the ground. The body was almost stripped of the clothing which wax, found at intervals for more than a mile along the truck. His Identity is not known, but It is believed ho Is a resident of Denton a town u little west of Lincoln, C. L. Davidson of Tnrrytown, N. Y., wrote to Secretary of State Porter to find out If Nebraska had a law against progressive euchre. Downs told that there wus not and never had been. State Superintendent Jackson, as one member of a committee appointed to formulate u plan and to ascertain the sentiment of the edueutlonal people to wards a proposed educational conven tion in Omahu during the exposition, has sent out a circular letter to superin tendents la other states. The date sug gested for holding the educational con vention is the week beginning June SO. Eva Henderson has sued the City of South Omaha for S10.000 damages to her property, sustained by reason of street grading. As a result of running nnent a rock, Justlco Wintersteon of Fremont is laid up with a wrenched back, Ho wni thrown out'of his sloigh. Dick Eastwood, a lo-yeor-old bell lioy at u Lincoln hotel has been prehended for theft of letters irnests. Ho usually went after up foi tho mall, und purloined the letters between the. office and the hotel. He implicates another lad, Ernest Heck. Jioth may go to the reform school. BXJlTLEY again sued FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS. rirst Term Itnnitninen Dt-rrmtiint In an Action to Keroter OUilft.OOO of School Money i'ctltltui of Atlorncy-Criirriil Nuiytli. Suit in the name of tho stale has been filed against c.vState Treasurer Hartley und his first term bonsmen for 8335,000. Attorney-General Smyth filed the petition in the Lancaster county district court. The amount sued for is said to represent school funds. It wns originally Included in the suit brought In Douglas county for 8550,000, but ns the embezzlement of school funds occurred at the state capltol the of fence complained of took place in Lan caster county and for this reason a separate suit is instituted. The suretiis who signed Hartley's first term bond qualified collectively for 8250,000 over and above liabilities. The bond sued upon wns approved by two different governors. It wns approved by James E. Iloyd, the out going governor, January 5, 1803, and by Governor Crounsc January 10. The attorney-general states In the petition that he brings tills action as well of his own motion as also by the request and direction of the governor. It is recited that Hartley was elected treasurer in November, 1803, for n term of two years, beginning the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in January 1803; that Hartley took the oath of office Januarys, 1803, und gave bond for the term, which bond wns approved January ,1, by the governor and the defendant's delivered the bond to the secretary of state for record on that date. The terms of the bonil were that Hartley as principal and all of the sureties were bound unto the state in the sum of 8250,000 for tho faithful performance of the principal's duties as state treasurer. Hartley served until January 3, 180." when he surrendered his office to his successor, namely, himself, and continued to hold the office until Jnnuury 7, 1807. It was the duty of Hartley as treasurer to receive and keep till public money's belonging to the state, and to account anil pay over all moneys received by him to his successor. Tho petition alleges that Hartley did not well and truly perform the duties of treasurer during his first term, but on tho contrary refused In divers mat ters and particulars to do so. For assigning specific violation of the bond the attorney-general alleges that Hartley, in the county of Lancas ter, on or about May 21, 1804, did un lawfully convert to his own use 8335, 000 of state money, which sum lie bus "failed und refused to account for to the state of Nebraska In any manner whatever." Judgment for this amount with interest, is asked for. In an affidavit tho attorney-general swears thut he believes the parts stat ed In the petition to be true, and tho reason why plaintiff docs not make tho affidavit of verification is that it is not competent, In Its sovereign or corpor ate capacity, to do so. SCHOOL STATISTICS. Some I'lgures which May be of Interest to the Header. State Superintendent Jnekson is at work on his unnuul report to the gov ernor. Information relating to public schools is set forth in the report. It is shown that the cost of educating children has decreased during the pust two years, but so has the average wages of teachers. Expenditures of all kinds have decreased as well as tho indebtedness of schools, though tho value of district property remains about the sumo. The following statis tics arc for the school years ending July2, 1807, und July S, 180(1. The first column of figures represents 1807, und the lust column 1800: HOO-3H-1GtJ3e rr- "U r cj a w -, i2firTki 9 &'2.,3 ; s5 tl rf C V? w re i9 C a . . . f: C . . f -O . .c - 5 ' ' : sP: : : a: : : at l . rxdg t iL Li Tit a w s a a PC- r O &3 tn u Is CD (.1 u ,. li a, -i u en tfj w - id o tn n e w o -j c. ti , ... i a ej Ifi M M tl O 4. JJ00-15 Wt2---.! W. . ar Vf W. W. -, u.ia-i -I O IS 05 C CI IS IJ C i ! rr, Ct i a -uncow eeH.io.ioso tf ot rfii 4- O Ci yy -. ti cj it'iuiiuwa -i -i n tp is is is u u i i- 4. i. s ac a ft -JUC-w-c.ii " .--Biis'ao c 4. c. e V 0 -1 IS ft IS tl 4. n O. 4. IS (2 c OS o o ;, (t H i; H CI Ot O 15 C. - - - ! . O Carl Merseholm, who sells cigars on Locust street in Omaha for u living, has brought suit ugalnst August Ar riens, one of tho proprietors of u local milling eompuny, claiming 840,000 for the alleged alienation of his wife's af fections and her ruin and dishonor. The district court room at Platts mouth was crowded to overflowing when tho preliminary hearing of Her bert Mecum, the man accused of assuultlng joung Peter Curtis at Union a month !nce, was held Judge Archer. Curtis, the hid who was held up, beaten, gagged and bound and left for dead, was sufficiently recovered to appear on the witness stand nnd Identify the prisoner as his assailant. .Sufficient evidence was presented to justify Judgo Archer In binding him over to district court under a thousand dollar bond. The trial will probably come up before a special jury panel at the present term of court. a g O-O.S.'S-a 5? -e.a a P ? v ir a. i r. r -. V IT . n 2 & 5. . - . s 1 n KANSAS CITY'S BIG FIRE Tlio Auditorium Totally Destroyed A l'lne llirntcr In ituliia, Kansas Crrr, Mo., Doe. 02. At J o'clock tills morning a man rushed into tlio Auditorium hotel from the street and told tlio night clerk that the building was allru. He had seen it from tho street through ono of the windows on the top floor. Tho night clerk turned in tlio nlarm to the fire department, but tho flames had gained tuch headway and tho fire tcrvlco was 60 poor that little was done to save tho building. When the sun camo up this morning tho Auditorium theater and hotel, from roof to cellar, was n smoking pile of Ice and ashes nnd crumbling walls. Tho fire destroyed entirely the beautiful building, one oi the most perfectly appointed theaters In tho United States. In tho southwest corner of tho building, just under the cornice, wore' the servant's quarters, and it woo hero that tho flro started. No one knows Its origin, but It is auppoted that two electric wires became croised and threw out little sparks which aet aflame the furniture of one of the un occupied rooms. The flro must have begun before midnight It smouldered for an hour, worming its way about the unoccupied room, devouring quietly tho woodwork, the bedding and tho furniture, gathering enough strength for the onslnught. Through every corridor nnd hall of tho big building the cry rang out, "Fire! Ilcrel Get up and save your goodsl" A few guests woro aroused Instantly. They put on their clothes mm riiHiivu uui into mu nnus. Alley ji .1 1.1 tint tnuullinti .nHirt. li.it B.I nliniLl-' m.. .atv .u-jw ,,. uwnovn) v.. v at. w wvm . rousing the guests. Women, children, and men scrambled out of bed and rushed to the door at the knock und the warning cry, but were told to take their time about dressing, as the danger was not immediate. In five minutes from the time tho nlarm was turned in the hotel was swarming like a boo hive with tho guests. Comparatively few ot tho guests wcro panlc-striclron, however. The women went down in tho elevator and thomen took the baggago down tho stairs. For halt an hour tho guests sat in the parlor on tho first floor next to the otll cc nnd heard noth ing but tho most reassuring reports. They had seen no flro and smelt no smoke and they began to regard it all as a huge joke. They stood around the office and the parlor nnd joked about it and called it a sur prise party. If thoy had known tho real danger, If they could have learned thnt tho whole building was doomed, they would have had plenty of timo to save everything of value in all tho rooms, including even the furniture. But tlio real state of things was not known, or if known, was not told Ut them. Firemen came in the hotel office and tho parlor and told tho guests that they need have no fear, as tho build ing would soon bo saved. They did not seem to rcallzo tho extent of tho fire. When they did renllzo it they lost their senses nnd rushed fran tically about, without direction or control They swarmed up and down tho stairs In tlio smoke and tho darkness, shouting and crenmlng orders that no one heeded or understood. Thev stamped and raved like mad men at times, anrt when guests who knew the hotel told them whore the fire could bo got at best, thoy told, them to mind thclrown affairs and tho firemen would take care of tho building. The fire wns forced by the play of tho hose in tho hands of the firemen through tho opon door of tho fire proof wnll into tho hotel. As other flumes had run across tho roof and cnteu downwnrd into tho actors' quar ters near tho hotel kitchen on tho lower floor, the doomed hotel lay be tween tho two fires and could not bo saved. Tlio theater was managed by Bur gess A Paxton of Omaha, and the Woodward Stock company, at popular prices, had been playiugnt the theater since October 8, to an Immonso busi ness. Tho total loss, ns near an Alex Fraser, the owner of tho building, can now estimate, is S300,000. On this bo had 878,000 insurance, making his net loss about SliO.OOO. Tho building cost originally about 8300.000. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Two Opiioilnir lUnim Delegations Sea Hie lrildent. Wabhinoton, Dec. 52. Yesterday was Kansas day at tho White house, and both factions of tho politicians of tlio state who aro hero in search of patronage, had their innings before ' President MeKlnley. Colonel D. It.' Anthony and Representative. Curtis were tho first callers to get President McKlnley's cur about that imioh-dls-puted control of tho Kansas putron ago. They nnrucrt that Senator linker's rccommondations In the matter of Kansas appointments bo followed to tho letter. Thoy had scarcely loft the President when Cyrus Leland and a party of his followers, including Calvin Hood and J. M. Simpson, came In nt the main doo- of tho Whito House. The two delegations did not spsak as they passed by. Local Knnsans think Baker will win out In his fight with Leland. ana that he wilt control Kansas patronage in the future FOR CRUELTY TO HIS WlFE., The rottma.t.r or Sedalla, Mo., Loiaa III Entire Family by Conrt Deerae. Sedama, Mo., Dec. 22. In the Pet tls county circuit court to-day Judgo Longan granted a dlvorco to Mrs. Kathorino It. Hart from V, P. Hurt, postmaster of tills place, on tho ground of general Indignities. Th rtiKtn.it, of ttio children was also granted to the plaintiff. Tlio divorced coup! were married in Linn conntv. Iowl Q ouiy jo, iBio, T..1-. . - ft If fmnm. cj - i kji a . aO, J Hi li 'I'1' -'-- "4nK4WW" ..