THE M'COOK TEIBUNB. F. KI t Publisher. McCOOK , NEB. STATE NEWS. NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. Several fatal cases of diphtheria are reported at Geneva. Senator Paddock has returned to Nebraska from his duties at Washing ton. Thirty sheep wore killed in an ac cident while a stock train was switch ing at Schuyler. The total amount of sugar released from duty at Omaha April 1 was about 5,000,000 pounds. William Algoe , a prominent citi zen of Thomas county , died recently , aged seventy-one years. All the stock has been subscribed for the Lyons creamery and officers of the company have been elected. G. C. McCoy , a Lincoln forger , has been landed in jail , he having been overhauled in a mining camp in Col orado. Asa Blakeslee. member of the Cus ter county board of supervisors , died at his home near Lomax from the effects of la grippe. The residence occupied by Mrs. D. W. Busby of .Beatrice , was de stroyed by fire , with its contents. Loss ? SOO ; insurance $600. The Beatrice vocal society , seven ty-five strong , will give a production of the comic opera of "Chimes of Nor mandy" in a few weeks. Maurice Hengeu , an inmate of the Lincoln insane asylum , died last week , aged 32. He was from Omaha and the remains were taken there for bur ial. A colored pfiliceman and two com panions were refused dinner in an Omaha restaurant and a small riot en sued , in which one man was fatally hurt. It took fourteen ballots for the Lincoln Typographical union to elect a delegate to the international conven tion. Charles H. Riggs was finally chosen. chosen.The The Missouri river commission has allowed Omaha $85,000 for improve ment of the river at that point. The work will be commenced about the middle of May. A little son of George Miller , a farmer living six miles west of Tal- mage , was .kicked in the head by a horse while hunting for Easter eggs and seriously if not fatally injured. About 300,000 pounds of freight for the agency at Rosebud is now in the Indian freight depot at Valentine , awaiting the settling of the roads and the coming of the Indian freighters. The Nebraska Chautauqua assem bly at Crete has nearly completed its programme and has oidered it printed immediately. The session will be held for eleven days , beginning Tuesday , June 31. The Dodge butter and cheese com pany filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Dodge , Dodge county , will be the principal place of business , and the capital stock is fixed at $4.500. C. F. Boyer of Lincoln brought suit against the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy railroad company for $10 , - 000 , the value which he sets upon a leg which he lost through the negli gence of the company. J. D. Williams , an old resident of Merrick county , was run over by a switch engine at Rawlins , Wyo. , and died after suffering two hours. Mr. Williams resided in Merrick county for about twenty-five years. Adolph Ohme , a wealthy farmer living about six miles east of David City , was found dead in his hog lot with his face buried in the mud. It is supposed that he fell in a fit which he was subject to , and died from suffoca tion. Doug Vance pleaded guilty to burglary in the district court of Otoe county and was sentenced to fifteen months in the penitentiary by Judge Chapman. Vance robbed the safe in Levis' livery stable office at Nebraska City. Frank Fritz , a Union Pacific watch man at Lincoln , caught W. F. Boyd stealing coal from the company and ordered nim to desist. Boyd refused to do so. Fritz fired his revolver at the thief , inflicting a serious wound in his thigh. The roads that reported to the board of transportation for Nebraska for the year ending June 30 , 1890 , covering 12.044 miles operated , car- vied 3,228,998,869 tons one mile. The revenue for the same was 11 58-100 mills per ton per mile. The Hastings Nebraskan . an nounces that a mammoth distillery to cost $250,000 , will soon be located in that city. The plant will have a ca pacity of 4,000 bushels of corn per day. will employ 150 men and will feed 2,500 head of cattle. Albert Zarnba of David City filed a. complaint and had Cashmere Kohler arrested for cutting him with a knife in a dispute. Sheriff Armagost lodged Kohler in jail. Zarnba has a cut in the arm. one in the back and another in the side. It occurred on a farm. Deputy Sheriff Wintersteen has brought to Fremont from Nickerson , Fulton Cramer , charged with attempt- in a criminal assault upon Mrs. Sarah Splingler of the same neighborhood. Cramer waived examination and was held in $1,000 bonds until he can have u hearing. Hartley correspondent says that -tock has suffered and several have died during the recent snow storms , but the abundant moisture leads farm ers to expect good crops. The county commissioners are busy distributing , the state relief wheat to the needy. About 350 will receive a portion. t e Fearful Mortality In Chicago. CHICAGO , April 1. There were 150 funerals to sadden the joy ojf ibeauti- ful Easter day in Chicago. So numer ous were the funerals that , a person standing on a street corner in down town localities could count three and four passing in various directions at the same time. Five funeral processions passed the crossing of Washington and Clark streets within thirty minutes time be tween 2 and 3 o'clock. The deaths ran almost up to one thousand in this city last week and the health department and all prominent physicians attribute the great mortality to the prevalence of la grippe. The sanitary conditions seem to count for less with this disease than in all others. Almost three hundred men of the 3,000 employes of the South side cable and horse car system are off duty. The fire department has many men down with the grip , and the police de partment has a long sick list. The demand was so great for hearses Sunday that the supply was exhausted. Several funerals in consequence , was held the day following. "At this rate this week's death record will be much larger than that of last week. " said - Dr. Tomlinson of the health department.There were 150 death certificates up to noon Mon day to commence the week with. Those of last Monday were but fifty-six in the same length of time. We will soon have to print more certificates if this keeps on. " Sugar In Bond. NEV YORK , April 1. Huge quanti ties of refined sugar now in bond under the McKinley bill or bound to various distributing points throughout the country are unique in the history of the trade. To prevent if possible a scarcity of sugar at one distributing point and relieve us much as possible the refineries and warehouses in their vicinity , the privilege allowed by the government of transporting the sugar in bonded cars and from thence to bonded warehouses 'in cities to which the sugar has been sold and consigned , is being pretty generally taken advan tage of by the refining companies of this city. Up to the present time fully 75,000 barrels of refined sugar have been shipped from this city of which amount by far the greater portion has been consigned to Chicago and St. Louis. The amount of sugar refined daily in Philadelphia refineries , all of which are refining under bond , is over ten thousand barrels , of which num ber 7,500 barrels daily are being loaded in bonded cars and shipped. The re mainder are stored in refineries and warehouses in that city for local dis tribution. It is estimated that by April 1 the product of Philadelphia refine ries refined in bond will have reached nearly if not quite two hundred thous and barrels or about sixty-seven mill ion four hundred thousand pounds of sugar. The number of pounds of raw sugar now being consumed daily in the manufacture of refined sugars is about four million two hundred and fifty thousand. World's Fair National Commission. CHICAGO , April 2. The national world's fair commission assembled here yesterday , about sixty commis sioners being present. Little was done at today's session. A letter has been received from Secretary Blaine con veying advices from our minister to Japan to the effect that the lower house of the Japanese parliament has passed a bill appropriating $500,000 for the government exhibit at the fair , and the bill is now in the hands of the house of peers. A report favoring a reduction in va rious salaries was presented and it is understood will be adopted. A lengthy protest was made by Sec retary Cozzens of the board of lady managers against the concentration of authority in the hands of the execu tive committee of which Mrs. Potter Palmer was chairman. The report was laid over. In the absence of President Palmer and First Vice President Walters , Second end Vice President De Young presided at the meeting. Public Debt Statement. WASHINGTON , April 2. The public debt statement is as follows : Aggregate of interest bearing debt , exclusive of United States bonds issued to Pacific railroads , $613,512.780 ; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity , $1,670.115 ; aggregate debt bearing no interest , including national bank fund deposited in the treasury under the act of July 14 , 1890. $398,762,881 ; aggre gate of certificates and notes , offset by cash in the treasury. $530,525,511 : ag gregate debt , including certificates and notes. March 31. 1891 , $1,544,471.287 : decrease of bonded debt during month. $ f , 040,009 : total cash in treasury. $694,441,367 ; debt , less cash in treasu ry. March 31 , 1891 , $850,029,920 ; debt , less cash in treasury February 28. $849,589.795 ; net increase of debt dur ing month , $440,135. German Paper * Criticise Blaine. BERMN , April 3.The National Zeitung says that Baron Fava's note to Mr. Blaine is perfectly correct , add ing : "Italy is quite right in not wish ing to discuss American institutions and in calling attention to the princi ples of the international law. " The Vossiche Zeitung yesterday re marked that Italian news is rea&sur- ing in the face of the hostile tone of | the American press , and hopes more reliance can be placed upon the former than on the 'bombastic" utterances of Mr. Blaine. who is accustomed to hide weak reasons with strong words. " The attorney general has been asked for an opinion as to the effect of the law enacted by , the Kansas legislature making eight , hours a day's worfe for all pei-sons employed by the slate , counties and ciies upon the metropoli tan police forces. STATE LEGISLATURE. P11OCEED1XGS J.V BOTH TIOVSKS OF THE An Appropriation for Contest Ex- pciiftc and for Payment of Officers Member * and Employes of the Leglf lature-875,000 Appropriated for Two Wing * to the llactlng * Itiaiie Asy lum The Eight Hour Iatv Estab lishment of Experimental Stations- Other Proceedings in the Two Houses of the Legislature. THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE. A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH BRANCHES. SENATE. In the senate on the 30th the following bills were placed on gen eral file : House roll No. 302 , requiring ing- railroads to operate their lines at least four years after they obtain tight- of-way , and senate file No. 236 , amend ing the constitution to extend the term , of senators to four years. House-roll No. 199 , regarding : schools in metro politan cities , was also recommended for passage. Senate lile No. 200 , au thorizing county boards to issue licenses on petition of free-holders , was passed. This refers to the two- mile limit outside of cities. House roll No103 , was recommended for passage , requiring railroad companies to name their stations after the towns in which they are located. Senate file No. 117 , prohibiting the giving of liquors to In dians who are not citizens , was recom mended for passage. House roll No. 7 , requiring- corporations to annually publish in a county newspaper the amount of their capital stock , was passed. Senate file No. 269 , constitut ing the governor , secretary of state and lieutenant governor the board of trans portation , with power to appoint three secretaries , one of whom must be selected from each of the independent , democratic and republican parties , was passed. HOUSE In the house the following bills were reported for passr.ge : Sen ate file 180 by Collins , authorizing cities of the first class with a popula tion between 8,000 and 25,000 ( Beat rice and South Omaha ) to issue $25 , - 000 in bonds to construct a system of water works ; senate file 80 by Moore , the Lincoln charter bill ; houseroll519 , the general appropriation bill , was taken up and passed yeas 73 ; nay si 2. The report of the special committee , Dobson , Howe and Felker , on extra pay for employes , aggregating about 400 days , was taken up. Sternsdorff moved to lay it on the table. Lost. Gale moved to strike outL. . O. Shra- der , clerk judiciary committee , four teen extra days. " Lost. The report was adopted , 46 to 17. House roll 511 , the bill making an appropriation to pay the various newspapers for print ing the constitutional amendments was taken up. Shryock ( dem. ) of Cass , moved that the bill of each paper shall be fixed at $100 each. After a long discussion the bill was reported back with the recommendation that it be re ferred to a special committee of five , with instructions to allow each paper legal rates for space in nonpareil type and report at the earliest convenience. SENATE. In the senate on the 31st the following bills were passed : House roll No. 103 , compelling railroad com panies to name their stations after the towns in which they were located ; house roll No. 22 , requiring county clerks to keep a fee book ; house roll No. 402 , requiring county treasurers to register warrants in the order in which they are presented ; house roil No. 403 , providing for the permanent investment of the school fund ; house roll No. 199 , regulating schools in the metropolitan cities ; house roll No. 104 , making eight hours a day's labor , was passed. Senate file 206 , limiting the state board of transportation to the governor , secretary of state and lieu tenant governor , was killed. Senator Mooore explained his vote in the neg ative by stating that as the guberna torial contest had not been decided , it was yet uncertain as to who would fill the gubernatorial chair. It might be the present lieutenant governor. If such should be the case , it would leave but two members for the board of transportation. This was not suffi cient , and he was accordingly opposed to the measure. HOUSE. In the house the following bills passed : House roll 318 , by Cor nish , providing that wai rants on school districts when not paid for want of funds shall be registered and paid in the order of registration. Senate file 180 , authorizing cities having over 5,000 inhabitants to issue bonds not , to exceed $25,000 , to construct a system of waterworks. The house adopted the report of the special committee of Wilson. Riley , Shy rock. Schelp and Heath on the constitutional amend ment advertisements. Bills for the lat ter were sent in by a number of news papers and ran from $12.50 to nearly $1,000. The recommendation of the committee was that each of the claim ants be paid $130. The committee re port on senatorial and legislative ap portionment was read. Howe moved that it be engrossed and passed to third reading. Scott moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed. Carried. A motion to reconsider afterward pre vailed , but after discussion the appor tionment bill was indefinitely post poned. The Scott bill took its place , but when the latter comes up for action all of it. save the enacting clause , will be stricken out , and the apportionment report by the committee will be sub stituted. SENATE. In the senate on the 1st the committee on judiciary recom mended the passagetof the following bills ? * Senate.filejJo..l04. ; . . relating to attachtneniTagainst foreign , corpora tions ; house roll No. 435 , enabling in dividuals to defend suits against the municipality in metropolitan cities ; house roll No. 384 , providing punish ment for illegal voting ; house roll No. 413 , relating to the publication of stat utes , by Guy A. Brown and others. The following bills were passed : House roll 517 , appropriating $25,000 for the payment of the officers , members and employes of the present legislature ; re quiring railroad companies to equip their engines and cars with automatic couplers ; relating to the incorporation of societies ; preventing giris and boys from being retained in houses of ill fame ; punishing the giving away or selling of liquor to Indians who are not citizens of the United States ; correct ing the form of tax receipts ; senate file No.-200 , relating to the issuance of liquor licenses by county commission ers in two-mile limits ; regulating the catching of fish in the Missouri river. In committee of the whole the senate recommended passage of the house roll appropriating $75,000 for the erection of two wings to the insane hospital at Hastings. HOUSE. In the house on the 1st the bill appropriating $13,200 for contest expenses was recommended for pas sage , and Severin's sugar bounty bill was killed. Most of the afternoon was taken up in considering the salary ap propriation bill. The salary of the governor's secretary was reduced from $1,700 to $1.500. The deputies to the secretary of state , the state librarian and the land commissioner were also cut from $1.700 to $1.500. The draughtsman in the land office got a raise from $1,200 to $1,500. SENATE. In the senate on the 2d the following bills were passed : House roll No. 532 , appropriating $75,000 for two ' .vings to the Hastings insane asy lum ; senate file No. 259 , relating to the publication of articles of incorporation in newspapers ; senate file No. 243 , re lating to the catching of game fish and regulating the building of dams and governing the befouling of streams ; senate file No. 150 , regulating the sal ary of bailiffs in district courts ; senate file No. 224 , providing a penalty for parties arrested in houses of ill-fame ; senate file No. 221 , prescribing the kind of evidence to be introduced to determine whether a house is or is not a place of ill repute ; senate file No. 226 , prescribing the duties of the adju tant general of the state ; senate file No. 35 , providing for the election of the secretaries of the state railway commission , one member beinjr from each of the leading political parties. .Hotase * , roll No. 519 , making appropria tion for the current expenses of the state government for the two years ending March 31 , 1893 , and to pay mis cellaneous items of indebtedness by the state. Senate file No. 147 by Senator Van Housen , relating to assessments. Senate file No. 228 , providing for a normal school at North Platte. HOUSE. In the house Fulton's bill , house roll 415 , allowing counties by a majority vote to establish offices for the borrowing and loaning of money , passed. Also Koontz's bill , senate file 213 , to establish experimental stations near Culbertson and Ogallala 56 to 17. Also Coulter's senate file 232 to prevent inmates of the soldiers' home from marrying wives under fifty years of age and quarter them on the home. At the afternoon session three appro priation bills were passed and Watson offered a resolution fixing Monday as the date for final adjournment. Inde pendents objected , and the speaker ruled the resolution out of order be cause it did not come under the head of resolutions. The North Platte nor mal school bill was killed , a couple of bills were read and Watson's resolu tion was reached. The independents thought the resolution a disrespect to the committee appointed to fix the date of adjournment and moved to lay it on the table. The resolution was laid to rest' by a vote of 58 to 17. The speaker was instructed to appoint three delegates to attend the conven tion of western congressmen at Kan sas City without expense to the state. SENATE. In the senate on the 3rd the following bills passed : House roll No. 463 , authorizing the state treas urer to transfer $37,781.97 from the capital building tax to the general fund ; No. 212 , authorizing county boards to issue licenses for the sale of spiritous liquors upon application of a majority of resident freeholders ; No. 276 , designating the congressional dis tricts ; No. 269 , appropriating $40,000 to pay the expenses of the Nebraska national guard incurred in aiding in the suppression of the late Indian in surrection ; also house roll No. 526 , appropriating $25.000 for the support of the Nebraska national guards. House roll No. 454 for the payment of salaries of the state government was taken up and recommended for pas sage. The several office totals and grand total for one year are as follows : Governor's office , $7,700 ; adjutant general , $1,000 ; commissioner of labor , $2,500 ; secretary of state , $7,000 ; auditor public accounts , $10,400treas urer. $6 , 00 ; superintendent of public instruction , $3,500 ; attorney general , $4,900 ; commissioner public lands and buildings. $9,600 ; supreme court , $10- 200 , banking deparjtfient , $3,900 , nor mal school , $14,750 ; district court , $112.000 ; hospital insane , Lincoln , $5,200 : hospital insane , Norfolk. $1- 000 ; hospital insane. Hastings , $4,000 : industrial school. Kearney , $10.700 ; institute for the blind. Nebraska City , $5,750 ; institute for the deaf and dumb. Oinahsi. $12,000 ; home for the friend less. $2,520 ; industrial home. Miiford. ' $2.000 ; soldier's and sailor's home , j Grand Island. $4,080 ; institute feeble ! ' minded. $6,400 ; state board of transportation - portation , i-7,500 ; fish commission , $1.200 ; state university. $124.000 ; \ total. $283.900. The appropriation for two years therefore will be , $567- 800. 800.HOUSE. HOUSE. After passing the Newber- ry maximum Fate bill over the govern- J or's veto the house killed the bill requiring - ' quiring legal notices in counties of 150,000 to be published in daily.papers. It passed Moore's bill requiring regis ters of deeds and county clerks acting as registers to keep a record of all mortgage indebtedness and make a re port to the state auditor. The com mittee's reapportionment bill was finally - ly passed by a vote of CO to 24. In the afternoon the appropriation bill for the maintenance of state institu tions came up on a motion to concur in the senate amendments. The amend ments were defeated by a vote of 17 to 62 , and the senate wasaskedito recede from its amendments. THE EIGHT HOUR LAW. House roll No. 104 , introduced by Stevens of Furnas , passed the senate , having received 19 affirmative votes , and is now a law. The following are the terms of the bill : Section 1. That eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of mechanics , servants and la borers throughout the state of Nebras ka , except those engaged in farm or domestic labor. Sec. 2. Any officer or officers , agent or agents of the state of Nebraska or any municipality therein who shall openly violate or otherwise evade the provisions of this act , shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance in office , and shall be suspended or removed accord ingly by the governor or head of the department to which such ollicer is at tached. Sec. 3. Any employer or corporation working their employes over the time specified in this act shall pay as extra compensation double the amount per hour as paid for previous hour. Sec. 4. Any party or parties con tracting with the state of Nebraska , or any such corporation or private em ployer , who shall faill to comply with , or secretly evade the provisions there of , by exacting , or requiring more hours of labor for the compensation agreed to be paid per day than is herein fixed and provided for , shall , on conviction , thereof , be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor , and be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars lars ( $500) ) , nor more than one thou sand dollars ( $1,000) ) . And all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT. LINCOLN , April 1. The house ap portionment committee held a session and adopted the following senatorial apportionment. There is no doubt of the bill's passage. All districts have one senator unless otherwise stated : First District Nemaha and Rich ardson. Second Gage. Third Johnson , Pawnee and Gage. Fourth Lancaster , 2. Fifth Otoe. Sixth Cass and Sarpy. Seventh Omaha and South Oma ha. 4. Eighth Balance of Douglas , Wash ington and Burt. Ninth Dodge and Cuming. Tenth Saunders and Coifax. Eleventh Butler and Seward. Twelfth Saline and Johnson , Thirteenth Filmore , Thayer and Nuckolls. Fourteenth Hamilton and Clay. Fifteenth York and Polk. Sixteenth Platte , Nance and Mer rick. Seventeenth Pierce , Wayne , Madi son and Stanton. Eighteenth Antelope , Boone , Gree- ley , Wheeler , Garfield and Valley. Nineteenth Thurston , Dakota , Dixon - on , Cedar and Knox. Twentieth Holt , Boyd , Keya Pah a , Brown and Rock. Twenty-first Cherry , Sheridan and Dawes. Keith Grant Arthur Twenty-second , , thur , Deuel , Cheyenne , Kimball , Ban ner , Scott's Bluff , BoxButte and Sioux. Twenty-third Custer , Loup , Blaine , Thomas , Heoker , Logan. McPherson. Twenty-fourth Lincoln , Frontier , Hayes , Chase and Perkins. Twenty-fifth Hall , Howard and Sherman. Twenty-sixth Dawson and Buffalo. Twenty-seventh Adams , Webster and Franklin. Twenty-eighth Phelps , Gosper , Harian and Kearney. Twenty-ninth Furnas , Hitchcock , Red Willow and Dundy. At a late hour the committee is work ing on representative districts. Omaha and South Omaha will get eleven mem bers and the balance of Douglas coun ty one. The bill introduced by Scott house roll 280 , will be adopted with a few changes. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS. LINCOLN , April 4. Following is a j list of legislative districts as provided i for in the bill passed by the house : First district , Richardson county ; Second , Nemaha ; Third , Richardson , Nemaha ; Fourth. Johnson ; Fifth. Paw nee ; Sixth. Otoe ( two representatives ) : Seventh. Cass ( two ) : Eighth , Otoe and Cass : Ninth , Sarpy , Douglas ; Tenth Omahu and South Omaha ( eleven rep resentatives ) : Eleventh , Washington ; Twelfth Burt ; Thirteenth , Wayne Thurston : Fourteenth , Dodge ; - Fif teenth. Cuming ; Sixteenth , Dodge , Sarpy and Douglas , outside of cities ; Seventeenth , Stanton , Pierce ; Eight eenth , Dixon , Cedar , Dakota ( two members ) ; Nineteenth , Knox and un organized territory north thereof ; Twentieth , Antelope : Twenty-first , Nance. Greeley ; Twenty-SecondBoone. Wheeler ; Twenty-third , Madison ; Twen ty-f ourth , Platte ; oTwenty-Fif th , Platte , Madison ; Twenty-sixth , Coifax : Twenty-seventh. Saunders ( two mem bers ) ; Twenty-eighth. Butler ; Twenty- ninth , Seward ; Thirtieth , Seward , But ler ; Thirty-first Saline ( two members ) ; Thirty-second , Gage ( three members ) ; Thirty-third. Lancaster ( six members ) ; Thirty-fourth , Jefferson ; Thirty-fifth , Thayer ; Thirty-sixth , Nuckolls" ; Thir ty-seventh. Fillmore ; Thirty-eighth , Clay ; Thirty-ninth , Ciay , Fillmore ; Fortieth , Morrick ; Forty-first , Hamil ton ; Forty- second , York ; 0 $ ' * . , Polk , Forty-fourth Hamilton - York , . ; Forty-sixth , Jel- Forty-fifth , Webster ; ferson , Thayer , Gage ; Forty-seventh , Adams ( two members Hall ; Forty-eighth , bers ) : Forty-ninth , Hall and Aoams ( two members ) ; Fiftieth , Holt ; Fifty-first Holt , Boyd , Keya Paha ; Fifty-second , Brown , Rock ; tilty- Fifty-fourth , Sheridan third , Chory ; dan ; Fifty-fifth , Lincoln ; Fifty- sixth. Valley , Garfield , Loup ; Fifty- seventh , Custer ( two members ) ; . .Fifty-eighth. Sherman , Buffalo ; Fifty- ninth Buffalo ( two members ) ; Six tieth , Dawson ; Sixty-first , Kearney ; Sixty-second , Franklin , Sixty-third , Harian ; Sixty-fourth , Phelps ; Sixty- fifth , Furnas ; Sixty-sixth , Jied Willow Frontier , Gos low ; Sixty-seventh , per , Hayes ( two members ) ; Sixty eighth , Hitchcock , Dundy ; Sixty- ninth , Chase. Perkins ; Seventieth , Blaine , Thomas. Logan , McPherson , Hooker , Grant , Arthur , Keith. Deuel ; Seventy-first , Cheyenne , Banner , Kimball - ball ; Seventy-second , Box Butte , Sioux , Scotfs Bluff ; Seventy-third. Dawes. THE CONGRESSIONAL APPORTION f ; MENT. LINCOLN , Neb. , April G. The sen ate passed house roll No. 276. desig nating the congressional districts of the state as follows : First District Cass , Otoe. Nemaha , Richardson , Pawnee , Johnson and Lancaster. Second District Sarpy , Douglas and 'Hi Washington. Third District Burt , Thurston. Da kota , Dixon , Curaing , Dodge , Coifax. Stanton , Wayne , Cedar , Knox , Pierce , Madison , Platte , Nance , Boone , An telope and Merrick. Fourth District Saunders. Butler. Seward , Saline , Gage , Jefferson , Thay er , Fillmore , York. Polk and Hamil ton. ton.Fifth District Hall , Adams , Web ster , Franklin , Kearney , Phelps. Har ian , Gosper , Furnas. Red Willow. Frontier , Hitchcock , Hayes , Perkins , Chase , Dundy , Nuckolls and Clay. Sixth District Sioux , Scott's Bluff , Banner , Kimball , Dawes , Box Butte , Cheyenne , Sheridan , Deuel , Cherry , Grant , Arthur , Keith , Lincoln , Mc- Phcrson , Hooker , Thomas , Logan , Dawson , Custer , Blaine , Brown. Keya Paha , Rock , Loup , Holt , Garfield. Val ley , Sherman , Buffalo , Howard , Gree ley , Wheeler and Boyd. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. The independents seem to be re signed to the fate of the maximum rate bill. They flatter themselves that they have done their duty , and there is a very general opinion among them that the veto will greatly strengthen their party. The proposed reductions made in the general appropriation bill by Sen ator Stevens -were as follows : Gov i ! ernor's office , $3,225 ; deficiency adju tant general's office , $5,000 ; commis sioner of labor , $1,900 ; secretary of state , $900 ; auditor of public accounts. $1,900 ; treasurer , $500 ; superintend ent public instruction , $6 , 064 ; attorney general , $500 ; commissioner public lands and buildings , $1,700 ; board pub lic lands and buildings , $15,000 ; board educational lands and funds , $5,000 ; i supreme court. $6,300. Governor Boyd's message returning the maximum freight bill , without his approval , was sent to the house on the 3d , where it was received at 10:10 o'clock. After the reading of the doc I I ument the roll was called on the ques tion of sustaining the veto and the mo tion was defeated , the bill passing over the veto by a. vote of 75 to 17 , fifteen more than the requisite three- fifths. Before the veto could be trans mitted to the senate , that body ad journed until 2 o'clock in the after noon. A vote to pass the bill over the governor's veto was lost at 3:2o by IS to 13. TJie Third Party r CINCINNATI , April 2. C. A. Power , who is here to begin arrangements for the national conference to be held in May next , says there will be a third party in the field in 1892. The com ing conference will decide what issues : \ shall be presented. It will select a national executive committee , adopt a party name and with the help of the people put the new party candidates v into congress and the white house in ' November , 1S92. - iII i Leslie Ellis drank a quart of whisky in Bangor , Me. , and died. i T.Il'K STOCK A\H I'llOnvCK Sf.lRKKra. ( Imitations from Neio York , < "iie < ijn , St. nnd KU OMAHA. Uutter Creamery 25 @ . 30 Uiitter Country Holi 20 Mess Pork Per bbt 12 OJ Ot > ! 2 5i I.'irgs Fresh n Honey , per Ib 18 att Chickens dressed 0 < & ID Turkeys Dreised 13 < & 15 Oranges 3 50 ® 5 00 Carrots Pur bbl 200 CCB a a Lemons 3 50 < a sou Beeta Per bbl 2 75 C5303 Onioni Per bb 6 00 $ t 550 Beans Navies S 50 < Si6U Wool Fine , unwashed , per B > 16 & 17 Potatoes 1 15 . 1 30 l > et Per bn 100 < 2) 1 25 Apples Per bbl 6 oa © 6 50 Hay Per ton 11 00 I&1SOO 'Hogs Mixed'packins : 4 35 < a 4 so Hogs Heavy weights 4 55 55 4 65 Beeves Choice steers 4 50 © 530 Sheep Natives 2 50 © 4 95 NEW YOKK. Wheat No. 2 red 1 16 * Corn No. 2 ft 80 Oat * Mixed nesteru 53 Pork I37.i no Lard 7 17 ia CHICAGO. Wheat Per bushel i Coin Per bushel 67 l C8H Oats Per bushe 53 © 53 Pork 1270 © 12 & > I ard c tO < a 7 oo Hogs Packinp and shipping. 4 & > < a 4 90 Cattle Prime steers 60) < ( & 6 35 II Sheep Nathes 5 00 < & 5 75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat Cash i 03 < a 103 % Corn Per bushel K Oats Per bushel 53" Hogs Mixed packing 440 4 80 Cattle Feeders j a 50 4-10 l. KANSAS CITY. Wheat No.2 93 Corn No. 2 02 OaU No. 2 40 > 50 Cmttl * Stocker * and feeders 300 4 V Heft * Hixtd 3 09 465