THE TKIBUNE.
F. M. & E. ITI. KOOIELL , Fuba.
McCOOK , NED
OVEE THE STATE.
AN ELOPING PAIR CAPTURED.
Pnpillion special to the Omaha Bee : Tl :
final act in an exciting eloping case we
frustrated here yesterday by Sheriff We ;
mouth. Tho officer recently received a d
Bcription of the runaway pair from Re
Cloud , with orders for arrest. Yesterda
tho parties appeared here and were easil
identified , by the officer. Tho elopers wei
Peter Goshccn , a traveling acrobat , an
Virginia Bandeau , tho sixteen-year-ol
daughter of John Baudcau , a wealthy fa
mer near Red Cloud. Yesterday evenin
Peter got wind of the impending arrest an
made all arrangements to marry the git
He sent a case of wine to the Wilcox lions
ordered a big dinner , procured a preaclx
and was all ready to be married , when tl
sheriff interfered. The sheriff tclegraphc
particulars to Red Cloud , and to-day T. ,
Carpenter , the discarded lover of Miss Bai
dcau , arrived here and induced her to r
turn home. Carpenter was much excite
when ho met his sleek rival. He drew h
revolver to shoot him , but was prevcntc
by the sheriff. Carpenter , Miss Baudea
and Goshcen all returned to Red Cloud in
der escort of Officer Weymouth , who holt
the handsome acrobat under charge of s
duction. Miss Bnudeau says she alone
to blame ; that she always wanted to be
circus performer and asked Gosheen to h
her travel with him.
DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER. JUAN.
Lincoln special to the Omaha Republ
can : L. A. Wheaton , capital corrcsponder
of the Omaha Republican , died at G o'cloc
yesterday afternoon of inflamation of tli
bowels , after about a week's illness. Mi
Wheaton was born in' Pennsylvania , Di
cember 15,1847. At an early age he ei
tcred upon the'study of the law , and wo
admitted to the bar when about fiftee
years of age. Ho moved to Saxe City
where he practiced law for several yeari
and then removed to Lincoln. He prai
ticed law in Lincoln until 1S80 , and als
assisted in the compilation of Woosley >
"Whenton's compiled .statutes. In 1SSO h
began to do special newspaper work an
has devoted most of his time since thn
period to newspaper work. The funersi
took place at 4 o'clock to-day from th
Presbyterian church , he being a member c
that society. Mr. Wheaton was known c
a whole-souled man , a loving husband an
a conscientious worker , and his suddc
death will cause genuine sorrow.
THE APPROACHING STATE FAIR.
The public will take pleasure in knowin
that tho approaching state fair has bee
fully anticipated and provided for by th
management. Enough has been done am
secured to make sure that it will eclipse th
immense and previously unparalleled exhi
bition of last year. Entries are alread ;
made that guarantee a larger and fine
show of cattle than has ever been seei wes
of Chicago. And as to horses the wonder
fill display of 1885 will be as a county fait
Especially in draft horses , numbers and 03
cellence will equal uny similar event in th
stock history of tho whole country. Hog
and sheep will bo in full proportion , nn <
we are assured by Secretary Furnas tha
no finer or larger assembly of small stool
was ever gathered in the United State
than will be seen on the fair grounds.
There will be a spacious building express
ly for dairy products , provided with all re
frigerator appliances and every possibl
facility for exhibition and preservation o
articles. The fish display will also be pro
vided with a roomy building specially con
structed for it , and arranged for the bes
convenience of the public. The secretnr :
of the state fish commission lias secure <
the co-operation of the government , and t
large and interesting show will be mail
from Washington. He has gone furthe
east to secure additional attractions , am
the display will be the most unique and ex
tensive ever brought together in the coun
try. The dairy and fish exhibits will sur
pass anything ever before shown in th (
United States.
In the matter of popular attractions UK
fair this year will bo especially favored
The military feature will be better thai
Insfyear. There is every proability thai
the famous battery from Fort Leaven
worth will be on hand , well supplied will
ammunition and dress parade togs. 1
large delegation of Sioux Indians will be it
attendance and will display their peculiai
customs and tactics.
Of the speed ring it is not necessary tc
speak. 'I he grandest stable of westerr
bred roadsters ever collected will be there
and perform for all there is in each indi
vidual. Horse breeding in Nebraska hat
become a large and legitimate interest
and each breedergoes in for the best he car
do for stable reputation. Other populai
attractions will be added and every pro
vision will be made for the comfort of thost
who attend. [ Lincoln Journal.
MISCELLANEOUS STATE MATTERS.
HASTiNGSwill be the headquarters for tin
Nebraska division of the Kansas City
Wyandotte & Northwestern railroad.
AT Omaha on the 15th Chris. Larson , i
Swede , was killed by a falling bank of earth
A SMALLstrike occurred among the West
ern Union telegraph operators at Omaha
The walk-out was not general and business
proceeded with but little if any interrup
tion.
WILLIAM STARRING , aged sixty-five years
and an old citizen of Nebraska City , waf
arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mrs
Lizzie Eizer , charging him with assaulting
her little four-year-old daughter with intcnl
to commit rape. Starring admits being or
the riverside with this little girl and othei
children and having them on his lap , bui
denies any criminal thought or act , ant
Bays it is a blackmail scheme.
A MAN named Mike Mahan had both his
hands cut off by a train at the Fremont
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley depot in Fre
mont on tho 15th. He was lying undei
some cars standing on the side track , ant
when they were pulled out by an engine IK
was seen to emerge with his hands fright
fully mutilated. He had been working foi
the company for some time past and was
under tho influence of liquor.
BURGLARS are "doing" Grand Island nu
merously and successfully of late.
THE railroad is about completed to Ord
and tho citizens of that place proposi
holding at an early day a jubilee in honoi
o ! the event.
GEORGE TOLLE , of Nebraska City , haf
been arrested for endeavoring to poison hit
lather and shamefully abusing his mother
THE sixth annual fair of the Buffalo coun
ty agricultural society will bo held at Kear
ney , October 5 to 9 inclusive.
JOHN H. COTT , near Palmyra , swallowed
twenty drops of aconite , and for a tirno hii
life was in peril , but a physician wai
called and soon put him out of danger.
VALENTINE special : A serious if not fata
accident occurred at Arabia , two station !
east of here. John McGinley , a sectior
boss , ascended tho windmill , forty feel
high , forgetting to throw the mill out o
gear. Ho was struck by one of tho wingi
and thrown to the ground , forty feet below
crushing his shoulder and driving one of hii
ribs into his lungs. He will probably no
live.
THE Blue Springs and Wymore stree
railway company has made a survey fo :
improvements in its lino of road betweet
the two cities. The distance will be short
cued about one-half.
A POST MORTEM examination of the deat
cattle on Andrew Taylor's farm in Casi
county , shows that the animals were killot
by eating damaged corn.
THE contract for building Thomas Lip
con's packing house at South Omaha hai
been let to Delaney & Riley on conditioi
that they complete the work as early ai
October 1. Thebuildingwill be four storiei
high and will occupy a space 149x139 feet
The structure will be built of brick and wil
cost about § 75,000. The capacity ol tin
house will be 2,000 hogs per day.
THE Knights of Labor came out of thei :
celebration at Fremont § 90 in tho hole
financially speaking.
THE Elkhorn Valley road has begun r
fast train service between Chidago and tin
Black Hills. The time to Omaha is cul
two hours , and that speed will be continued
to Rapid City.
MRS. A. WENTWORTH , of Nemaha county
was induced to take out a life insurance
policy for § 1.000. Her first payment , i
note for § 10 , turned up ten days aftei
raised to § 44 , and she is still waiting foi
the policy.
A WELL developed case of hydrophobir
occurred in Grand Island last week. Tin
young son of Chris Reese died of the elfecti
of a 'log bite , and his symptoms showed al
the peculiarities of the dreaded disease.
L. H. RUST , of Red Cloud , claims to hav <
picked 3,012 boxes of strawberries fron
one acre this season.
A TRAMP at Blair stole two satchels ant
two coats from the railroad officers'car
He was soon overhauled with his bootj
and bound over to the district court.
THE opera house saloon at Grand Islam :
was burglarized tho other night and aboul
§ 100 taken from the safe.
ERNEST H. BAILEY was sentenced tc
twenty days in jail at Wayne for obtaining
goods under false pretenses.
A LITTLE fellow by the name of Leo Ben
nett while bathing in tho Big Pappio , ir
Douglas county , was drawn into a vortea
und before help could reach him ho was
irawn under tho water and drownod.
THE committee in charge of arrangements
for the Grand Island reunion at Grand
Island , August 30 to September 4 , has laid
its plans on a lavish scale , and will enter
tain 50,000 persons if necessary. Rates of
fare have been reduced.
A LARGE number of Hastingsites "took
in" the Knights of Pythias excursion to
Toronto.
THE dog of Grand Island , it has been de
creed , shall be muzzled until snow flies.
OMAHA coal dealers are at war , and as a
result are sellingatabout half of theformer
price. Notwithstanding the fearfully hot
weather many are laying in their winter'a
supply of fuel.
THE ctiizens of Cambridge are looking for
a tramp who attempted the outrage of a
young girl , rirst enticing her to a camp in
the outskirts of the town.
LINCOLN'S salt well is going down at the
rate of thirty feet a day. On the 13th it
had reached 772 feet.
A NEW insurance company , to be called
the Lincoln Fire Insuurance company , is
being organized.
THE Omaha and Southern railroad com
pany filed articles of incorporation in the
oflice of the secretary of state. The road
is to start from Omaha and run south
ward through the counties of Cass , Otoe ,
Johnson , Nemaha and Pawnee. The capi -
tal stock is § 2,000,000. J. F. Young , L. B.
Fuller , C. H. Young , John Mitchell and J.
Estabrook Young are the incorporntors.
BuRGLARsare still working Grand Island.
In one house they stole a number of arti
cles , but subsequently left them all in the
door yard.
Two MEN were recently arrested in Grand
Island for trying to pass counterfeit money.
Prospects are good for their spending a
term in the penitentiary.
ON the 9th there was a convention of
saloon-keepers of tho western part of the
state held in Hastings , there being about
twenty-four delegates present. The pro
ceedings were all secret and held behind
locked doors. It was for the purpose of
organizing and working unitedly to defeat
any prohibition movement that may arise
in the campaign this fall.
DURING the recent hot weather a number
of the mail carriers at Omaha were pros
trated and had to take a lay-off.
TOWN lots in the new town of Reavenna
are selling for § 400 , or § 500 for choice. A
syndicate has purchased 800 acres of land ,
including most of the proposed new town ,
which it is said will be division headquar
ters of the Grand Island & Wyoming Cen
tral railroad.
HERMAN'S c'othing store at Wilber was
entered by thieves on the night of the 9th ,
but they contented themselves with mak
ing only a light haul , a pair of boots , some
jewelry and 70 cents in change. A colored
boy was arrested as one of the parties.
THE Omaha Bee says it is stated on the
best of authority that Armour , the great
packer of Chicago , through one of his part
ners , Mr. Cudahy , who has just returned
home , has purchased fifty acres of land im
mediately south d the stock yards of
South Omaha. It is his intention to erect
on a great part of this property one of the
largest packing houses of the west , which
shall give employment to the largest force
of packers in this part of the country. The
details of the deal have not yet been com
pleted , but it is expected they will be ready
for publication in few days.
DAKOTA county lias a farmers' associa
tion that is doing much toward advancing
the interests of agriculture.
WORK is progressing rapidly on the bridge
over the Missouri at Hulo.
H. G. BARBER , of Waterloo , walked int
the United States court and paid his fin
of § 200 for forging pension papers.
IN the state apportionment of schoc
money Hall county got § 4,090.
A HATTERY of four guns has been secure
for the Nebraska G. A. R. reunion to I
held at Grand Island August 30th to Ser.
tember 4th inclusive.
IN tho vicinity of Glencoe , Dodge count :
there is some excitement about glandere
horses. A number will bo condemned an
shot to prevent spread of tho disease.
THE Wayne County Agricultural assoch
tion feel certain to be able to produce a fa
during September that will eclipso some (
the other localities.
A SIDNET special says : A party of nin
surveyors has been discovered in tho fiel
thirty miles south of Lodge Pole , Neb
heading for tho northwest. Their destin.-i
tion and in whose employ aro facts whic
have boon kept secret until to-day , when i
became known that they are running a lin
for tho Chicago &Rock Island railway fror
Kansas City to FortFetterman , in Wyon :
ing , where the line will strike the Fremonl
Missouri Valley & Elkhorn , which is th
trans-Missouri extension of the Chicago
Northwestern.
IRWIN W. BROOKS , the young man wli
had his face badly injured with powder las
week at Seward , is doing well and bids fa
to entirely recover. His eyes will be troubli
some for some time to come but it is b
lieved now that ho will not lose the sight <
either of them.
A PERU special says : S. P. Majors die
very suddenly last week on a cattle ranc
near Ainsworth. A telegram in the mon
ing announced he was very sick and for a
to come that could for ho was not expecte
to live. Thedeceased has held many proin
inent positions in Nebraska , and is widel
known. He is father of Hon. Thoma
Majors , one of Nebraska's most prominen
men. lie owns a cattle ranche near Ains
worth , in care of his son , whom he was vis
iting at the time of his death.
THE county commissioners of Pawnc
county were somewhat surprised the othe
day by the city marshal appearing befor
them and stating that he was there by 01
der of the mayor of the city , who instruct
ed them that the court house would b
closed and locked up in two weeks unles
they complied with the statute law in refer
ence to the doors of public buildings swins
ing outward. ( Sec. 1 , Chap. 70 , compilci
statutes Nebraska. )
THE prospects for Seward county holding
a fair this fall arc growing more cncourag
ing.
JAMES BRUSKA , a young Bohemian livin :
at Friend , accidentally shot himself with t
revolver on the 12th inst. His recovery is
doubtful.
LINCOLN special : Gov. Dawes submitted
this morning to one of those unpleasan :
experiences which are incident to his posi
tion perhaps the most unpleasant of thosi
experiences the hearing of an applicatior
for a pardon. The application was in tin
case of William Tridle , who was sent uj
last March from Furnas county for assauli
with intent to commit rape. Tho fathei
and brother visited the governor and
brought a large number of petitions ant
affidavits. The governor listened to whal
the applicants had to say , but told therr
that he could not go into any careful ex
amination of the case unless a recommen
dation for pardon could bo obtained from
the trial court. Tridle is 38 years of ag (
and has a wife and three children. The vic
tim of his assault was his cousin.
STARTING CONT1CTS.
Denied Food in Order to Force Them Intt
Submission.
Atlanta ( Ga. ) dispatch : One hundret
and twenty convicts confined in one o
Senator Joe Brown's stockades , near Coh
City , in Dade county , have been withoul
food for forty-eight hours , in pursuance o
a plan to starve them into submission
Senator Brown gets all the long term con
victs , whom he keeps employed in the Dnl (
county coal mines. These men ntiinbe :
about 500 , and are kept in four stockades
When the superintendent drew the Ions
chain which binds them together yesterday
morning , the men in one of the stockades ,
120 in number , refused to move. The ring
leader announced that the men couldn't
stand the excessive heat ; that as they were
life convicts their position could not IK
made any worse ; and that shot and shell
could not make them surrender. To all
appeals their only answer was that they
would die before they would resume sncli
work as they had been at. Col. E. Towers
telegraphed this state of facts to Gov. Me
Daniel , who at once ordered out the mili
tary , and held it in readiness. At this stage
rinother telegram was received from Towers
in which he stated there were but two ways
bo reduce the rebellion , either to shoot
them down or to starve them out. As
hhe stockade was sufficiently guarded he
Iiad decided to starve them out. Pending
the effort to bring the convicts to terms by
this method the troops are held under or-
3ers to answer if needed. Reports from
Cole City are to the effect that great con
sternation exists there. The people are
Tearful that if such a large body of convicts
should escape , they might wreak bloody
vengeance on the people. The governor is
in constant telegraphic communication
with Col. Towers on the subject.
SLIPPING AROUND LATTION.
Tombstone special : From advices re-
: eived to-day from Sonora it looks as
; hough the hostiles had given Capt. Law-
Lon the slip and are now doubling back
; oward Arizona. A Mexican gentleman
ust arrived from theneignborhoodof Law-
ion's present locationreporlsthat Sunday
ast the Apaches killed two Mexicans at
3umpas , within fifty miles of Lawton's
'orce , and later killed four Mexicans near
Tepache. They then headed for the Cana-
lea mountains , with Jose Mariana Torres
wid 100 Mexican volunteers in close pur
suit.
suit.A teamster named Frank Wibb met with
i tragic and fatal accident yesterday.
IVhile coupling his trail wagons to the lead
ng wagon one rolled back , crushing him to
leath.
Dr. Andrews , who has been stationed
iear Bisbee with Capt. Wood's command ,
: ame into Ft. Hunchuca from that post
yesterday and this morning suddenly died
jf heart disease.
3IEXICAN PENSIONS.
The Mexican pension bill wnich passed
the other day was on the 14th taken up bj
the house committee and the amendment
limiting the age of which uninjured soldier *
in the Mexican war may receive pensions tc
62 years not concurred in. This will put
the bill in the hands of a conference com
mittee , where the members of the house
committee believe the limitation will be re
moved.
TOUCHED ON THE PROBOSCIS.
An Old Fetid Between Congressmen Resul
in a Pugilistic Encounter.
wnsnrngcon special : Tlie wortly flllr
culty between Representatives Cobb of Ir
dinna and Laird of Nebraska on the floe
of tho house of representatives a couple t
weeks ago in regard to some land entrie
made by tho latter culminated in a sai
guinary encounter near the south entranc
to tho floor of tho house shortly after
o'clock this afternoon. It appears thn
Messrs. Cobb and Laird met and tnlkc
over the dispute , during which tho forme
accused the latter of being a perjure ]
They agreed to go down into the basemen
of the cnpitol and fight it out. Some on
overheard the arrangement and went a
once to Mr. Payson , of Illinois , who is
member of the committee on public lands
of which Mr. Cobb is chairman. Mr. Paj
son hurried off the floor of tho house an
overtook the members as they were goin
down stairs to the basement. Heexpostu
lated with them , and finally , it was sup
posed , succeeded in pacifying them. Thi
men retraced their steps , and when thej
arrived at the entrance to the corrido
running east and west and occupying tin
south side of the floor of the house the :
stopped and tho two quarreling member !
renewed the dispute.
"Well , " said Mr. Laird , angrily , "youar
a d old liar any way ! "
"And you , " said Mr. Cobb , "arc a pei
jurer , and I can prove it. "
Mr. Payson stood between the men at
this moment , butquick as a flash , and wit !
the precision of a trnphammer , Mr. Laird'f
left hand went over Mr. Payson's shonldei
at Mr. Cobb. It was a terrific blow , but
the distance was so great that it on ! }
touched Mr. Cobb lightly on the lower par :
of his nose and upper lip. Tho blooi
trickled out instantly. Mr. Cobb. who is i
powerful man , rallied to resent the blow
but Mr. Payson separated the men by tin
assistance of some bystanders , and tin
difficulty ended.
The bad feelingbctwecnthe two members
dates back some months , and it was appa
rent on the occasion when Cobb made his
charges against Laird some three weeks ago
that the last named member was with great
difficulty restrained from emphasizing with
his fist the indignant denial and defiance he
hurled at his antagonist. There was every
reason to believe that if interference
had not come in the shape of Pay-
son , who sought to pour oil on the
troubled waters , that a sanguina
ry personal combat would have
resulted. Both of the members concerned
are of powerful physique and bear therepu-
tation of men ready at all times to defend
themselves in a fitting manner. Cobb
stands sit feet and over in his shoes and if
of proportionate breadth , but is somewhat
at a disadvantage on the score of age , beinc
in the neighborhood of 58 or GO years old.
Laird is 37 years old , with a girth of chest
that would ornament an athlete and is ol
a fiery , impetuous temper. On the other
liand he is also slightly lame. Neither oi
the members are willum to make a state
ment at this time and the probable upshot
of the encounter is a matter of speculation
among their brother members. The opin
ion is expressed in some quarters that the
liouse has been outraged by the affray and
it is a fitting subject of investigation by
that body , but a majority of members who
ire disposed to talk about the matterhold
that as the encounter did not occur on the
: Ioor , the house is in no way concerned
in it.
SOMETHING ABOUT OUR SENATORS.
In the seventies there are but two sena
tors , Payne being 75 and Morrill 7G.
Out of .1 total of seventy-six senators
thirty-four have been born in the states
they represent.
Senator Morrill has been in congress thir
ty years , and is twenty years older than
Edmunds.
Evarts , at sixty-eight , although his hair
is darkly gray , shows not a sign of bald
ness , while Miller , the other New York sen
ator , more than twenty years his junior ,
shows a deal of top head through his fine
silken hair.
Only fifty-three years of this world's life
has McPherson seen , yet from his whiten
ing locks , hollowed cheeks and feeble gait
he would quickly bo taken to be eight oi
ten years older than Beck , who is clever
years his senior , but who , in appearance ,
at least , is as muscular as an ox. On
Beck's head , which is covered with a kinky
coat of brown hair , not a bare spot as
large as a dime can be seen.
Senator Berry's principal recreation is
billiard playing. Ho has certainly had
practice enough to make him an expert.
While he was governor of Arkansas he was
widely known as a patron of the science.
A good player always found a welcome at
the executive mansion and had social at
tentions showered on him. The governor
had one of Collender's costliest tables and
a set of cues which cost a year's salary.
An examination of ages shows that in the
thirties there is but one , Senator Jvenna ,
whose age is thirty-eight and who is there
fore the youngest member of the upper
branch of congress. In the forties there are
fourteen senators , Riddleberger , the second
youngest senator , being 41 ; Sabin and
Spooner , 43 ; Aldrich , 44 ; Berry , 45 ; Gray ,
and Jones of Arkansas , 43 ; Blackburn ,
Gorman , Miller , and Mitchell of Pennsyl
vania , 47 ; Plumb , 4S ; Manderson , 49.
Wnshingeon Hatchet : "What is your
opinion of the Bacon-Shakspeare contro
versy ? " Senator Hearst was asked. "What
is it'bout ? 'Nuther one of Sparks'rulings ? "
queried the senator. "Oh , no ! It's a
literary dispute. They say now that
Bacon wrote Shakspenre's plays. What
do you think about it ? " "Don't know
anything about it. Don't care , neither.
Always some fuss 'bout who writes things.
Why , it was only the other day that I see
something about who wrote 'Beautiful
Snow. ' And now here's another hulla
baloo. "
SYMPATHY FOR THE I'RINCE.
New York special : The Comte de Paris is
in honorary member of the Association of
Veterans of the Fifth New York volunteers ,
Duryea Zouaves. While in General McClel-
an's staff , during the Peninsular campaign
n 18G2 , he saw much of the regiment ,
which was attached to the brigade of regti-
ar troops under Sykes , in the midst of
which tlie commanding general always
pitched his tent. The good conduct of th
regiment in battle was personally com
mended by the prince , and after the war in
an autograph letter he expressed his ad
miration of its behavior. This evening tho
veteran association met at its old head
quarters , B. F. Kinney presiding , and ap
pointed a committee to prepare and for
ward to him resolutions expressing regret
at the action of the French government in
expelling him from his native land. The
association also wished Colonel Gilder , who
was a member of the regiment , a pleasant
journey in his search for the North Pole.
AJf UNHAPPY MARRIED LIFE.
Nellie Grant Sartorit Not Gettlinj Alon
Satisfactorily.
Washington spcciiil : A relative of tli
Grant family in thia city Is authority fo
the statement that the married life c
Nellie Grant Sartoris is far more humil
ating and unpleasant than has yet bee
made public. Mrs. Sartoris makes he
home with her husband's father in th
north of England , and according to all ac
counts she is treated as a sort of poor rt
lation. Two rooms are set aside for th
use of herself and children and their meal
furnished , but nothing else is given to then
either by husband or Mr. Sartoris , senioi
So far , indeed , as the younger Sartoris i
concerned , it is said that he haa not con
tributed a penny to his wife's support fo
years. It is a well known fact that for ;
couple of years prior to General Grant' )
death remittances of money were regularl ;
sent to Nellie to provHe herself and chil
dreu with clothing and other nsef id articles
When the general became impoi-erishec
through the rascality of Ferdinand Wan
the greatest regret ho is said to have 03
pressed was that his poverty would pre
vent him from further assisting Nellie , whi
was practically supported by his bounty
All the members of the Grant family stil
contribute to the support of Nellie , am
the children have urged Mrs. Sartoris fo
years to separate from her husband am
return to America. It is said that Mrs
Grant made such a request only a lev
months ago after learning of some fresh in
dignity on Sartoris' part. But the dnugh
ter replied that she wou'd not entertaii
such a proposition a moment and nddc (
indignantly that she would refuse to BUS
tain relations of any character with he
family if these importunities did not cease
Meanwhile Sartoris is racing about Eng
land spending the meagre allowance his
father gives him among companions of hii
own kind. The reports which reach hen
from New York say that Sartoris has beer
absent from his wife since last spring anc
that she hears from him only at rare inter
vala.
EXTRADITION WITH ENGLAND.
Rumor Tltat a Treaty intli That Power { .
lieiny Considered.
London telegram : After a , week's inves
tigation of the various rumors which have
been floating about , there is good author
ity for stating that an extradition treat }
between the United States and GreatBritain
has been signed. The convention provides ,
in addition to the customary clauses , foi
the surrender of dynamite miscreants. A
reporter who called at the foreign office to
day was informed that when the matter
was ripe the facts would be communicated
to the press in the usual way. The treaty ,
the oflical said , would doubtless be rati
fied at Washington in the customary man
ner of dealing with such affairs. Further
details were pciempturily refused.
The reporter then called at the American
legation , but found the officials there pro
fessedly ignorant of the matter. Secretary
White , when questioned , became greatly in
censed and refused either to admit or con
tradict any report in circulation concern
ing the treaty , on thegrotind that the state
department at Washington was alone com
petent to disclose the secrets or give infor
mation upon matters concerning the for
eign policy of the government. lie ex
pressed great surprise at the indiscretion
of the oflicial at the British foreign office
who had tacitly admitted to the reporter
the existence of the treaty , and brusquely
closed the interview. It is the general opin
ion in diplomatic circles that the socialists
in Chicago very largely influenced the United
States government to become a party to
the negotiations which resulted iii the
treaty.
TWO DUltES APPEAL.
PARIS , July 12. The Due D'Aumnle haa
appealed to the council of state against his
expulsion from the French army. He has also
addressed to President Grcvy the following
letter :
"Three years ago , without pretext or prect >
dent you inflicted on me the severest dis
ciplinary punishment I remained silent until
to-day. By striking my name from the army
list you interfere with the charter of
the army without considering titles won
in war. Ministers strike men without re
proach , men honored for their services and
traditional devotion to their country. My
counsel will defend my cause , which is that of
all officers as well as myself , the doyen of the
general staff. It is my duty to remhfd you that
the military tirade is'beyoiid ycur attack. "
' "
The Duc'de Chartres"wo held the rank of
major in the French army , has also appealed
to the council of state from the decree of ex
pulsion in his case.
WHOLES A LE DUO jrjvi
London dispatch : A letter from IToce-
rad , Bohemia , gives full details of the
catastrophe which recently happened at
that place , and which resulted in the
drowning of nearly fifty people. The corre
spondent says thnt seventy boys and girls
af the neighborhood , while on their way to
be confirmed by the bishop of the district ,
liad embarked on a small ferryboat to
reach the opposite shore. The river iiad
been swollen by heavy rains , and when the
middle was reached the boat began to rock.
Several of the occupants , including the
boatmen , jumped into the river to lighten
it and the jolt caused the craft to upset ,
throwing every soul into the water. About
twenty-five managed to save themselves
by swimming out , but the remaining forty-
five were drowned. One-half of the homes
in the district are rendered desolate by the
accident.
PENSION JILT.S.
Washington dispatch : Representative
Morrell of Kansas , from the committee on
invalid pensions , to-day reported back the
bill granting an increase of pension to John
\V. Farris of Missouri , with the recom
mendation that it be passed over the pres
ident's veto. Representative Conger re
ported back , with a recommendation simi
lar to that made in the above mentioned
: ase , the bill granting a pension to David
r. Elderkin of Iowa. The same action was
taken in the case of Sarah Ann Bradley.
The president vetoed this bill on the
jround that the husband did not die of dis
ability contracted in the service , hut the
committee does not regard that fact as es
sential , and holds that the evidence that
the claimant is dependent is sufficient to
warrant the allowance of the claim. Rep
resentative Ellsberry will present the re
port in this case.
The secretary of the navy has decided to
: onstruct one of the new cruisers on the
; > lans and designs of the "Nanwnkan , " re-
: ently built abroad , and another on the
ilans of the bureau of construction.
PATMENX FOR XL1IL SERVICE.
Washington special : The senate com
mittee on postoffices and postroads , have
Jecided to unanimously report an amend
ment to the deficiency appropriation bill ,
providing for the paymont of § 30,000 to
bhe United States and Brazilian steamship
: ompany , for the transportation of mails
during the past year.
"UNITED IIUSLAXJD' * MAD.
DUT.I.IN , July 15. Uiiited Ireland comments
on the British political situation In a some
what raging style. Among other things It
says : ' 'The tricksters , soreheads and mounte
banks who are about to assume oflice In the
present tremendous crisis In English history-
have in common but one dominating impulse
to grab at the emoluments of power. This
Is , Indeed , a grotesque sacrifice. It Is as If a
rascal clothed himself In the vestments of a
priest for the purpose of robbing the altar. "
In another paragraph the paper says :
"Gladstone's opj-onents deliberately con
certed the Belfast tragedies for a political
purpose. Murder , particular or wholesale , will
not stop them any more than it did Ire
land's enemies heretofore. The marquis of i
Salisbury , Joseph Chamberlain ami Lord
Randolph Churchill are as unscrupulous as
Pitt. Clans and Castlcrcagh , but they arc
. The standards of the 'J'iinetMul Lord i
artlngton are as Infamous as those of Lord
Cornwallls , or General Ross. Belfast Orange
men have been selected to goad the Irish peo
ple into violence in order to secure a jtretext
for coercion with a view to etille Ireland's de
mand until Gladstone shall be dead. "
MR. ItEECHER INTERriElf'ED.
London special : The Daily News pub
lishes an interview with the Rev. Henry
Ward Bcechcr , in which he pays a high
compliment to the orderly manner in which
the English elections are conducted , com
paring with elections in America very un
favorably to the latter. The Americans ,
he says , are profoundly interested in tho
English political leaders , holding them in a
sort of ideal reverence. The English elec
tion laws he considers much more rigorous
than those of America , but the hitter's
system of registration is better. Bribery ,
he says , is the greatest danger to which tho
American system is exposed. The dyna
mite fund is sent to England by imported
wretches in America for whom American-
born Irishmen have no sympathy. Refer
ring to tho question at issue , Mr. Beecher
Pays : "I know that onlookers are said to
eee most of the game , but when a man is
playing chess it is never allowed that an
outsider should suggest a move. "
PROHIBITION CONVENTION.
The state prohibition convention assem
bled at Emporia on the 14th at the opera
house. The committee on organization re
ported and II. C. Yrooman , of Osage coun
ty , was elected chairman and M. E. Taa-
mot secretary. The report of the commit
tee on resolutions was unanimously adopt
ed. It makes quite a lengthy document ,
embracing fifteen resolutions. The follow
ing candidates were unanimously nomina
ted : For governor , C. If. Brnnscombe ; foe.
lieutenant-governor. T. W. Huston ; for
secretary of state. N.B. Klaine ; for auditor
of state. C. II. Laiinton , a colored man ; for
attorneyetieral , W. S. Waitc ; for treas-
urer , William Crosbyfor ; superintendent
of public schools , Mrs. D. R. Suttbert ; for
associate justice , E. H. Triton of Emporia.
arc MONTHS' FIRE LOSSES.
TheNew-York Commercial Bulletin prints
an estimate that places the loss by fire in
the United States between January 1 and
June 30 , at § 5:5,900.000 : , or § 3,000,000 in
excess of the loss during the same period
of last year. There were 9i'J ) fires whoso
reported losses were between $10,000 and
§ 1,000,000 , and eightv-two fires whose ag
gregate loss exceeded § 21. 500,000 , or 40
per cent of the entire waste of the ball
year. The Bulletin thinks that a coroner'a
inquest into the origin of all fires through
out the country would have a good effect
in checking incendiarism and carelessness ,
which cause at least two-thirds of all th ! )
fores.
MORMON M. i R it 1.1 < ; / ; * .
Salt Lake dispatch : Gov. West to-day
issued a proclamation that as the Mormon
church has missionaries in every state and
other countries proselyting persons to tho
faith and openly proclaiming thelawof the
land upon the subject of marriages , viola
tors of the law are warned as to marriage
relations that they do incur and subject
themselves to heavy fines and imprison
ment , and well disposed persons are warned
from associating themselves with any per
sons or organizations for the purpose ol
emigrating to this territory to enter into
such relationship.
CROPS IN TEXAS.
Galveston special : The News publishes
xn exhaustive statement of tho growing
: rops throughout Texas. The report
shows that the yield of corn will be light ,
ilthough enough for home consumption
Till be g-ithered. Wheat and oats , with
'ew exceptions , are a failure. The condi
tion of cotton is good and it is not suffor-
ng from want of rain but in a few sections ;
30 per cent of the plant is in j > loom , and
iS percent forming balls. In the western
\nd northwestern portions of the state it
ias been extremely dry. But very littlo
: otton is cultivated there.
THE MARKETS.
OMAHA.
WHEAT No. 2 .
IARLEY No. 2 .
RYE No. 2 .
uOKN No. 2 mixed .
OATS No. 2 .
BUTTER Choice table .
BUTTER Fair to good .
EGGS Fresh .
"niCKENS Old per doz .
? IHCKENS Spring per doz. . .
LEMONS Choice .
: \PPLES Per bushel box. .
BEANS Navys .
DNIONS Southern , per bbl.
POTATOES New , per bu .
FOMATOKS Per J-j bu box. . .
iVoor , Fine , per lb .
: EEDS Timothy .
! ntns Blue Grass .
! ! AY Baled , per ton .
[ lAY In bulk .
'Ions Mixed packing .
UEEVKS Choice steers .
SHEEP Fair to good .
NEW YORK.
.VIIEAT . No. 2 red . 90
iViiEAT Ungraded red . SS SO
OUN No. 2 . 47 ? < l 48
) ATS Mixed western 34
.10 G2r ! ; ii 00
.ARD G 72J.J © G 75
CHICAGO.
'LOCR Winter J
"LOUR Patents 4
YJIEAT Per bushel
'OIJN Per bushel
) ATS Per bushel
ORK 10
loos Packing shipping. 4
'ATTLE Stockers 2
IIIEEP Natives 1
ST. LOUIS.
VIIEAT No. 2 red 80&
, 'oit.v Per bushel
) ATS Per bushel 32JJ
loos Mixed packing 440
'ATTLE Shipping 3 70
IHEEP Common to choice 3 00
KANSAS CITY.
VIIEAT Per bushel
'ORN ' Per bushel 29'
IATS Per bushel 22
'ATTLE ' Stockers 2 20
Iocs Good to choice 3 50
iiiEEP Common to good. . 3 GO