F. M. & E. M. K1BEHEIX , Pubs. McCOUK , ; ; ; ; NEB NEBRASKA ITEMS. ' Er : Abon'Cthe worst looking islgtit one Jsjsyes ever rested onr Was [ the , appearance qfTsandy-halred individual comhig'to wn ironrWood rlveron Tue'I- day morning. He was pounded up In the latest approved manner. His head was swollen to nearly the size of a half barrel , a portion of his ear- bitten out , and the thumb on his' left hand completely b'ittcn off at the first joint. He presented a horrible sight as ho stopped at John Seymour's residence and begged fqrTa drink and a basin of wa ter to wash the blood from his swollen and badly disfigured head. In answer to In quiries he said ho had been in the employ of a Wood river farmer and was to receive a pony In payment for wages. He had earned the pony and started with the animal for Kearney. His employer protested and with the aid of a brother both managed to lick him. He sal ( I he would have them arrested at once , but as nothing further has been heard of the affair , it is safe to presume the badly-whipped strawberry blonde Is a horse thief , had been caught In the act and whipped in a square rough-and-tumbled fight by the owner of the animal ho at tempted to steal. The dog poisoner is at Sidney and the owners of defunct canines arc furious. A quarter-section of farm land in Adams county was sold recently for $6,4.00. Ainsworth News : The pony boys have been causing a good deal of trouble to the people of the northeast portion of the county. We have been informed that as many as seven horses were stolen in one neighborhood in one 'week , ' some of the farmers losing all the horses they had. From what we learn w.e Judge that there must be , an organized gang at work. The farmers h'ave organized vigilance committees and are out in their paint , and have arrested a number of sus picious characters. When 'they are once satisfied that ttfby have the right man , they I may handle him roughly , as their feelings are much wrought up. The greatest danger Is , that through haste and passion innocent parties may suffer. Calvin Yahney , a B. &M. brakeman , fell from the train near Denton on Satur day , and his'body was dragged a quarter of a mile , being frightfully mangled. He was 21 years old and unmarried. Granville Moore , aged 12 , son of Mrs. K. S. Van Tassel , of Cheyenne , stop ping for the winter at the Millard hotel in Omaha , was seriously crushed In the hotel elevator on Monday. Bellwood Monitor : On Monday last a German couple by the name of Turnig were arrested and brought before Justice Montgomery on .a charge of abusing an adopted girl , and were sentenced to the county jail for sixty days. They were taken to David City and placed in jail , but were released on appeal to the district court. The girl , a mere child of six was dreadful ly beaten , and strong threats were made that should the prisoners be released , a good ddse of tar and feathers would be served to them. Delay in the delivery of telegrams recently - * cently made one man at O'Neill lose $200. Others have suffered smaller losses. > Wilber Opposition : Aaron Bright- man , living twelve miles west of Wilber has lost six children out of eight within a few weeks , with diphtheria. Liberty Journal : There are 135 pii- plls attending school this week and'about twenty more Avill commence when the new school house is ready for occupancy , which will be one week from next Monday. liMiss'Effie Redfield , aged 17 , was run over by a Union Pacific train at a crossing in Omaha 'on Friday evening , and an ankle and foot was crushed so badly that amputa tion was necessary. Lyons Mirror : Tuesday evening about dark , as'Geo. Luce , a relative of Joel Yeaton , from Anson , Maine , who has visiting here f era few weeks past , was leav ing town for -Mr. Yeaton's residence , he was * attacked by a' desperado who bran dished a knife as he stepped in front of Mr. Luce on the.Tailroad grade. 3Ir. Luce whirled , ' striking the.villain and knock ing him down' , when , fearing that others were -near * to assist the"rogue , betook to his heels and escaped. The knife caught In Mr. Luce's overcoat just over his heart , making a rent several inches in length , and cutting his undercoat. The stroke was evi dently designed to kill. A hard-looking case who got off the train ihere at noonjast Tuesdayand left for Oakland in. the evening is suspected. It was so dark that Mr. Luce could not hope to recognize his assailant. North. Bend Flail : The Bay State Cattle company , through its agent , , Senator McShane , of Omaha , has purchased 1,080 acres of land just west of North Bend , and will open up an immense cattle industry here. This company has recently pur chased , thQ celebrated Creighton herd of cat tle of the'Niobrara country'at an expense of § 750,000 , ' and will use this' tract as a feeding ground. Thls'ls an enterprise that prom ises untold benefits to our town and coun ty , and will aid another star to the crown qfJIingi Com. i ' t M , . .tUfiis - * ' i i . .According to.a . writer in , ta foreign. paper , animal oils are unsafe to use in air compressors , as theytak'e fire spon- taneo'usly'in 'cotepresSed air , or in other words they create' -explosive gas. . Peaked brocades are becoming' more and more numerous. xww * NEWSOF THE'WEEK GENERAL. Gen. Sheridan has gone to Washing ton to assume command of the army. Culver , Page Hc5ne | Co. , of Chicago cage , clesTd heJr doors oij MondaVT" As ? seta , $325OQdjliablliUep , $500,000. * J $ * * * 9 df * ? jLouislanai Kentucky and Indiana mad cyclonesJeafly'on Mond'ayTgreat damage'bV Ing done to life and property In the former state. state.A A passenger train bound north on the Pan Handle road and amoutrgoing'freight on the Michigan Central collided Sunday morning at Jolltt crossing , . , thirty miles southeast of Chicago. Both engines were thrown from the track andjWreeke'd ' , failing upon and setting fire to thevflag-man's box , into which the flag-man , Peter Colic , re treated upon seeing a collision inevitable , and was burned to death. "Win. Morris , of Logansport , engineer of the Pan Handle train , and John Kellogg , of Michigan City , head brakeman of the Michigan Central train , were killed. John Dengan , engineer of the Michigan Central train , was severely injured , and , crazed by hurts and fright , ran four miles to Dyer , Indiana , where he arrived a lunatic. John Gorman , a Michi gan Central fireman , was also hurt. Pas sengers on the Pan Handle train were badly shaken up by the shockj but no , one was seriously hurt. It is impossible to 'locate responsibility for the accident. The Jacksonville ( III. ) council pro- * hiblte'dthe Jesse . James'troupe fronvper- > * * - > f r forming. Fifteen hundred bales of cotton at Charleston , S. C. , consigned to New York , burned on Monday morning. Articles of incorporation'of the United States Central railway , with , a capital of $75,000,000 , were filed at Denver on Thurs day. The road is intended to be a rival of the Central Pacific , and will run from San Francisco to Denver , via Santa Cruz and Crystal Springs , Nevada ; thence to Milford - ford , the southern terminus of the Utah Central , and onward In an easterly direction to Denver. _ _ Fifty hansom cabs jiave bee'n or dered and will be run in Chicago by a com pany organized for the purpose after Jan uary 1st. SThe National , the new hotel at Peoria - ria , 111. , was opened Tuesday. It cost $250,000 to build and $75,000 to furnish. Gen. Schufield took command of the military division of the Missouri on Thurs day. Tuesday's fires were three small ones at Minneapolis entailing a loss of $15,000 ; the Michigan Central depot atEast Saginaw , p5,000 ; and a conflagration that destroyed ; he greater part of the village of Homestead , Pa. Christ. Dockson , employed in an Al- leghany City , Pa. , tannery , went down a well to examine the water on Tuesday. It was very foul with gas and his cries of alarm jrought two fellow-laborers to the rescue. They went down and were in tnrn suffoca ted. ted.A A company of nine persons , citizens of Cherokee , Indian Nation , has been or ganized for the purpose of establishing a national bank * at Vlnita , Indian Territory , with a capital of $50,000. Advices from Deming say "Juh , " the head chief of the Apaches , is not dead , as icported , but is no'w raiding the southern Ch'iricahuas. Jose Lepas , a Mexican , who has a half brother with Chief Geronite , re ports little Charley McComas recently killed jy the Indians . The Indians who have been lovertng around both sides of the boundary ine , having been disappointed in receiving reinforcements from the San Carlos reserva tion , have now split up into small raiding parties and a good many horses have been stolen from various places. . ' Fourteen persons in different families living in thewesternpart of Cincinnati have been attackedfwith symptoms of fpoisoning. One child died * Thursday. A ° number of others arc seriously ill. It is thought the poison was administered some wayfthrough : oed bought'at a grocery * ' , v . * " t ' The Katie P. Kountz and cargo were destroyed at Davis Landing , just above New Orleans , on Thursday. Two small children of John Earness were suffocated during fire in -dwelling at Middletown , 0. , 'Thursday , arid 'Mrs. Mary Welch and grandson smffered a similar fate'at Cincinnati'the same day. * i There have been fifty cases of diph theria and five deaths within & week in the , "West Boylston ( Mass ; ) schools , which have. been ordered closed in consequence ? 4 . ' * ' , . i , . , , " } ft J Adjutant General King , of .TexasJ rev - . , J . , ° * 1 . ' v * * a i < * > v et v * ports that negroes are dissatisfied with exclusive cars for their accommodation , and says trainmen bh the Texas Central wli ere the system" is JusVaiumgul tell"were ( c ° m' p'elled to take tiie colored peopleoutiofthe can a gned to whites. , "Eriej Pa ji&vejy muchjBxcited over the tragic.deaths of fiveypung men who went across the bay to the peninsular ohWednes- day'andsnever returned. The names dre John-Wrt-Eyster , aged 30 , jnuiliagent ; . Giles Kuss'ell , 30 , "mail aijent ; Chas. Brown ; 21 ; A. Carpenter , and F. C. Kelsey , Union News company employe. They had with them , a sail4and , a clinker. Friday the sail boat was found bottom"up In , the bay"with three guns and a satchel belonging to Eys- ter. jThat , night the clinker wasffoilnd hear the light-house bow store. The bay was dragged and a pair of rubber boots were foun'd/but ' notraces of the.bodie9l'-ffie wind was blowing a gale when they started to crobs the bay on the way home. Eyster leaves awlfe/Kelsey a wife and child.g Thfl. others were unmarried. Much public sym pathy is expressed , as the men are well known and popular. The mystery surrounding the disap pearance of Mary Churchill , daughter of a wealthy St. Louis merchant , has been solvedj y jthe complete identlfication.of the missing girl in Indianapolis ; after a fruitless searchpf three montlis by.detective4Tall over < the land. Dr. Fletcher , ofj th'eJnsKrie hos pftal was s'truckwith the'ttescriptioirof the missing girl to the remarkable closeness with which it answered the appearance of a do mestic in the laundry department , and at once notified the quthprities , who , accom panied by Thomas J. Gallagher , < bf 'the St. Louis Globe-Democrat , called at the asylum and identified the girl. She givea no reason for her sudden disappearance. She lefftho city Sunday night in company with fher father , to pay a brief visit to Her mother , but declares that she can make her own liv ing , and informed Dr. Fletcher that she would report for duty in a few days. A fire Sunday morning destroyed the business portion of Port Costa , Cala. , and eight Central Pacific car loads of wheat. Loss $100,000 ; Insurance not "yet known. At the election of officers j of the Na tional "Woman's Christian Temperance union at Detroit Saturday , Miss Frances E. "Willard was unanimously re-elected presi dent * amid the greatest enthusiasm. . * f * * A dispatch from Chic'ago says Geo. j Bistine , who was tendered the position of j commissioner of the Trans-Continental association , declined the office , owing to the desire of "the managers of tha railroadsvin- terested to make an immediate decision. * * CRIME. jr- While the family of Win. Fox , a farmer , three miles from Indianapolis , were Beating supper Sunday-night , three- masked men with drawn revolvers entered" the house. Two of them kept watch while the third man fobbed ttie house. "Fox"had : sold real estate the day previous , but depos ited the moneyjn.the bank. 2 ; [ ( ) arrests. The body of an Italian was found covered with brush near Dublin , Ind. , Sunday evening. His neck was-bY6ken and" his skull fractured in'.three'v.places. An' Italian who had been seen with the murder ed man at Cambridge City and two tramps have been arrested. Forty dollars was found In his underclothing. .Much excitement prevails in Pike county , Penn. , on account of the murder of Annie C. Cheever. When found she was dead with a bullet hole near hefr heart , and her left breast was riddled with fine shot. f The federal grand jury at Chicago Tuesday returned indictments against Frank L. Loring and John Flemming , who are supposed to have been principals in the firm of Flemming & Merriam , which gained such extensive notoriety when it collapsed one year ago. Indictments allege that the firm pretended to do'ft brokerage business on the Chicago board of trade , but really appro priated to their own use money of persons contributing to a fictitious fund called by them "The mutual eo-operativo fund. " Loring and William "W. Miller have also jeen indicted for carrying on a similar bus iness. The grand jury also made similar presentment against Chas. B.Bennett and "Wm. H. Holtzman , against whom like charges are preferred. Tuesday night atNew Edinburg , Ark. , during the performance of Hunter's great consolidated shows , some unknown parties from the outside fired a volley of shots nto the main exhibition canvas and beat a lasty retreat and disappeared in the dark ness , escaping. The seats were crowded. Bullets passed through all sections of the audience. Chalman Decillenburg , one of the performers , a contortionist , was sh'ot through the head , dying in the ring. Two masked men robbed the vault of he county treasury at Virginia , .Nov. , of $8,000 Tuesday night Jate. They then seized the treasurer and locked him in the vault. The affair is considered mysterious , as four thousand of the amount was silver too heavy to pack off. United States Marshal K. S. Foster , vithf a posse of detectives , went to Pike county , Indiana , "Wednesday night , in pursuit - , suit of a a gang of counterfeiters , supposed to be located in that portion of the state. They succeeded in arresting nine of the gang the next morning , at 'Steinville , a small village in Pike county , about twenty- ive miles from Evansville , after a desperate fight. The following are the parties * cap- ured : Three brothers named Colum- > us , Jesse and Joseph Hanchons , Henry Grossman , - Henry - > Kinder , "Westley Woods , I hil Taylor , Bertie Luthers and AndvHart ; f They were all brought to In- lianopolis that night In charge of the mar shal and deputies. During the fight Joe Hanchens was shot through the right lung , resse Hanchens in the hand * , and Hart hrough his hat. The gang have been oper ating in the southern part of the state with leadquarters atKnbbyJ"in the -vicinity of New Albany. The spurious .coin mamfiac- ured are half dollars and dollars'in silver , and two-and-a-half five dollar . - - - and pieces. The business" of manufacturing spurious' coin has been conducted on a large scale , their operations extending into adjoining states , v. * * * , * Charlotte" TSpps was found guilty at HjinTinglJop , Ind. , of murdering her hus band last June by administering poison. Epps was an. old wealthy bachelor , and was married to the murderess two months pre vious tohirkea'th , she having served him in the capacity-of housekeeper. Her punish- meutwas * fixed at imprisonment'for lifel The Inter-Ocean's Corunna ( Ind. ) special says : For some time neighbors in , thiaHeJghborhoodiWho own * self-binding harvesters have been receiving letters through this and adjacent postofficcs threat enlng vengeance , becavse these these ma chines reduced the demand for farm labor ers. Those threats took form in incendiary bam. burnings this week. Several barns wpe beeE onsumed already , including two raursday&ight. Ondof these was set on fmuch excitement , aMd farnxers arojtorming a vigilance committee. A New York policeman named Wil liam Conroy brought to the'station house on Sunday prisoner named Peter Keenan , a furniture mover , 34 : years old. Keenan's head was.coj redwlth Jalqod flowljig from , cuts caused by the policeman's club. In his abdomen therewas a bullet wound. Keenan * was removed'-to the hospital and died soon after. Policeman Conroy stated he arrested Keenan for being drunk and disorderly ; that a mob assaulted him aud in self-defense he was obliged to use his club and revolver. Conroy was placed un der arrest. From information obtained by detectives and statements .of witnesses at the coroner's preliminary examination It appears Policeman Conroy had bcen drink ing heavily ; that'in the 'liquorsaloon'he as saulted several persons without cause , and finally attacked Keenan , who was quietly standing near the bar , interfering neither wth | the pplicemanjnoranyone else. After ' shoo'ting him without warning , ho dragged him from the saloon and clubbed him long after he became unconscious. Conroy made several contradictory .statements about the * * ' matterlf' ' The'train ouTthT'Wabash , St. Louis & Pacific railway going east Saturday morn- inf was boarded at Danville Junction by four men who went through one of the pas senger cars with drawn- revolvers and ob tained * about $ SOO from" the passengers. Theylef t the 'traiiTguddenly just as it pulled "out ana no trace has been found of them. The same crowd or a similar one worked a train on the Indianapolis , Bloomington & Western road , which connects at Danville with the Wabash. by the pickpocket pro cess , getting $1,200. t WASHINGTON. , Hon. John C. New has reconsidered .his determination to resign the position of assistantsecretary of the treasury. It is stated that the president has de cided to sustain the action of Postmaster General Gresham in the New Orleans na ional bank case. The decision of the presi dent is In answer to the petition of a large number of merchants. The secretary of the interior has sus tained the commissioner of Indian affairs in his decision to the effect that the department does not recognize courts in Indian territory as courts of record within the meaning of section 2,103 , revised s'tatutes , which re quires that certain agreements made with Indians shall be executed before the judge of a court of record. The secretary holds it was not the intention of the law-makers that agreements should be executed before judges not having such limited knowledge of the laws and treaties affecting the rights of Indians , and such limited general infarma- tion as judges of Indian courts within the Indian country usually possess. The statistics of the universal postal union for 1881shows | that the United States ranks first in the number of postoffices , and in the- number of letters carried by mail Great Britain ranks first , and the United States next. In the number o"f newspapers conveyed , the United States ranks first , with Germany second. The annual report of the paymaster general of the army to the secretary of war shows receipts for f he fiscal year of $15 , - 490,310 , disbursements , $13,382,104. The remainder was deposited in the treasury. Since the last report five officers of the pay department have retired , having attained the age of G4 , one died and one was dlsmis- missed for misappropriation of public funds. The annual report of the commission er of revenue was submitted. By the con solidation of collection districts an anuual saving to the government of $125,000 was se cured. The aggregate receipts this year are estimated at $120OOOjOOO. During the first three months of the current fiscal year the revenues decreased $7,920,401. As a large number of those engaged in illicit distilling are desirous of abantloning.the unlawful practices , the commissioner has been urged to recommend' a .general proclamation of general amnesty to such per sons. He suggests that congress provide a shorter period of limitation for the jprosecu- tion of offenses against the revenue. The question df enforcins the revenue laws in Indian Territory has been referred to Secre tary Folger for action. Tnc commissioner recommends the withdrawal of the privilege granted-manufacturers of-vinegar of separ ating alcoholic property from , fermented mash and using the same in the production of vinegar. Aside from the above the re port is . .an elaboraton of points.presented in the commissioners letter to the secretary , published the 27th of Jnly last. FOREIGN. SIBERIA. Great disorders prevail in the penal colonies of Siberia owing to official corrup tion. Alarg , . number of exiles attempted to escape from the Island of Saghalien. Three succeeded. GERMANY. The Berlin newspapers warn persons intending to emigrate not to buy United States trade dollars , large quantities whi h-are imported into Germany for sale it full value. T : . . - . .GRKECKi- ' * ' * - The government of Greece protests against the action of the Turkish govern ment in.refusing to allow a Grecian man-of- war to land supplies at Cheaemo for sufferers - forors by the eaithquako at that place. * / NUBIA. f ? r One hundred and. fifty Egyptianf sol- dlors-were Mirprised and massacred by'the Hllljtribes in theSlneat defile of NublaV ; ' ito " " " * ' Franco-Chinese correspondence fur nished by the Chinese legation adds little to that already published , except it offers ar guments in favor of the Chinese position. It denies that Marquis Tseng over assured Lacour that China would not oppose France to enter a-prizein Tonquln , and says before July last , Tricou , then French ambassador to China , informed Li Hung Chang that either open or occult assistance of Aniiam by China would Involve casus belli. . . FRANCE. A I It is stated the French 'government , " * | in view of the warlike attitude of China , 1 will ask the chamber for much larger credit for expenses of the expedition to Tonquin than originally intended. Even should China only remain on the defensive , larger reinforcements' troops will bo required In Tonquln. The government does not expect - . „ pect defeat In the chamber on its Tonquin l\ \ < J policy. . In the chamber of deputies Tuesday ( | Granet , of the extreme left , interpolated \ the government on its policy in Tonquin 'and ' required .explanation of the objects sought | to bo obtained and the means of conducting th expedition in that country. Grauet pointed out what were apparent 'contradictions expressed in information furnished by the government , aud said , contrary to official declarations , diflicultleK i'l had been raised by China. p ' SPAIN. ! ' The cabinet has agreed upon a diplo- ' [ . ° L i t e M * ] , matic note which will end the controversy 1 arisinglrom unfavorable reception of King / in the of . ( Alphonso streets Paris. t GERMANY. i' The corner-stone of the new parlia r meiit building will be laid January 18th. ' / A quantity of dynamite was exploded maliciously in the ofllce of the chief of police at Fraukfort-on-the-Main on Mondaynight. No one was hurt > bnt the building was | l badly damaged. Id ENGLAND. . | V There was an immense attendance f | Thursday to witness the closing of the in ternational fisheries exhibition. Replying to an address and reports showing the com plete success of the exhibition , the Prince of Wales stated that the queen had followed the success of the exhibition with great In terest , and had requested him to express her hope that it would be of lasting benefit to the fishing pooulation of the kingdom. He said that after all the expenses had been paid a substantial surplus would remain , /jj which should be devoted to improving the 'I ! welfare of the fishermen of the country and J1 promotion of the Interests of the fisheries , in order that calamities incident to the fish erman's life might be alleviated. He de 1 sired to see a hygienic exhibition in 1884 , one of progress of invention in 1885 , and he proposed holding a colonial exhibition in 18S6. IRELAND. While a quantity of ammunition was being conveyed by a railway train under escort cert to Tcmplemore , county TIpperary , a box of powder and cartridges were stolen at Limerick Juuction. The soldiers compos ing the escort were at lunch at the time Jof the "robbery. No clue to the thieves die- . I covered. & i ' - GERMANY. While the debris caused by the.ex plosion in the office of the chief of police of Frankfort-on-the-Main was being re moved , eight shells were discovered. They were filled with nitro glycerine , liigid in quiry was instituted into the cause of the explosion. Several persons suspected have been arrested , but were discharged for want of evidence. ' IRELAND. The lord mayor of Dublin lectured at Londonderry on Thursday evening. Upon his arrival he was escorted from the depot to bis hotel by a delegation of nationalists car rying green banners and a baud playing [ ribh national airs. A large num ber of Orangemen had previously * taken possession of the city hall to pre\ent his lordship using it , and when the procession passed the hall they fired upon it and threw slates from the roof and iviudows. One man was fatally injured. When the lord-mayor reached his hotel the procession returned to the city hall , stoned the windows and endeavored to get at the assailants within. The police , however , charged upon the nationalists and cleared the streets. The Orangemen subsequently escaped from the building. Intense excite ment reigned throughout the night. GERMANY. Prince Bismarck has entirely regained iis former strength. He complains , how- jver , of no longer possessing the capacity tor workhe formerly had. * The bureau of statistics states the mports of grain Into Germany from the be ginning of January to the end of Septem- > er , showed a decrease , compared with the lame period in 1882 , while exports showed a marked increase , especially of wheat and > ats. the quantity of both being nearly loubled. The Prince and Princess Albert , of Prussia , returning from Frankenstein , jilesia , after attending the reformation nemorial services' , lost their way in a fog. Che carriage was overtimed and the right inkle of the princess fractured.