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McCOOK , NEB.
STATE NEW&
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
Plattsmouth schools planted over
200 trees , Arbor day.
The measles are prevailing at Tal-
mage to quite an extent.
There1 are no vacant residences at
Milford and the demand is for moro.
; Governor Boyd has proclaimed
Nebraska City , a city of the first-class.
Peter Rasmussen , an insane man ,
suicided in his cell in. the Hastings jail.-
Thirty-six licenses have been
granted the liquor dealers of Lincoln.
An experimental free delivery sys
tem will be established May 1 at Oak-
dale.
Beatrice will be connected with her
Chautauqua grounds by an electric
railway.
Crete's new census taken by order
of the council shows a population of
2.431 souls.
Miss Jessie Reight of Bradshaw
lfas been declared insane and taken to
tlie Lincoln asylum. '
Arrangements are being perfected
for the erection of a $150,000 opera
house in Lincoln this year.
R. R. Douglas was appointed sta
tion agent for the B. &M. at Nebraska
City to succeed the late Michael De-
rum.
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Minnie Freeman , of Nebraska
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blizzardfame , was married in Omaha
last week to E. D. Pinney , of Lexing
ton.
Lew Louis , an old" resident , of Otoe
county , was examined by the board on
insane and pronounced a fit subject
for hospital treatment.
Arbor day was generally observed
throughout the state , the people in
nearly every city and village partici
pating in the planting of trees.
The Rock Island elevator at Paw
nee City was recently set on fire. Be
fore much damage was done the fire
was discovered and extinguished.
Frank Lawrence of Steinauer
pleaded guilty in district court of Paw
nee county to selling liquor without a
license and was fined $200 and costs.
Judge Gaslin , who is holding court
at Broken Bow , is forcing attorneys
to get up in the morning , as he has
the docket called at 7:30 a. m. sharp.
Mrs. Minnie Walker , whose par
ents live in Lincoln , a member of the
. demi monde , shot herself in a house
of ill fame in Butte , v Montana , last
week.- -
George Meyers walked into a
pawn shop in Omaha snatched nine
watches from a tray in the window and
ran. He was caught after a hard
chase.
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A committee has been appointed
at Bloomfield to secure a bonus of
$1,000 to induce the Bowhead roller
mills to remove from Halestown to
Bloomfield.
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It is rumored that prominent Chicago
cage parties have closed a deal with
some of the Superior stockmen to put
in a stock yards and packing house at
that place.
One year ago Central City , Neb. ,
.was shipping potatoes to Seattle ,
Wash. Last week a carload of pota
toes from Washington was received at
Central City.
, Arbor day was appropriately ob
served by the Stanton high school , all
the rooms being decoraled with flow
ers and mottoes. Trees were planted
by the pupils.
Francis W. Bell , proprietor of the
Square clothing house , Nebraska City-
made an assignment of his stock of
goods to the sheriff for the benefit of
his creditors.
: Mrs. Reed fell through a defec- .
tivc sidewalk at Nebraska City and
received injuries that will make her a
a cripple for life. She asks for $10-
000 damages.
The elevator at Hay Springs loans
out wheat to farmers with the condition ;
tion that in the fall they are to pay
back four bushels of wheat for one
bushel of seed.
Henry Vansant , a blacksmith of
Ainsley , is likely to lose the sight of
one of his eyes , which was struck by
a cinder from a piece of iron which he
was hammering.
The total enrollment for this
school year at the state university was
550 students , or seventy-five more than
lastyear. It is a very creditable show
ing for a year of drouth.
Henry Johnson was working near
a cog wheel in a Cedar Rapids mill
when his clothing became caught , and
but.for a desperate effort on his part
howould have been killed.
Mrs. Anna Stamm of Wayne has
been declared insane and has been sent
to Norfolk. Five years ago she was
an inmate of the asylum at Lincoln ,
but was discharged as cured.
A fiveTyear-old child of Mrs. " Wil
son fell into a well in Lincoln , and
would have been drowned had it not
been 'rescued by Mrs. F. E. Johnson.
The well was twenty feet deep.
W. G. Murphy , while visiting a
brother in Lincoln , was chloroformed
by burglars who entered the house and
robbed him of $52. He could not be
aroused from his slumber until noon
the next day.
Mrs. Brittain , wife of Samuel
Brittain of Elmwood , charges her hus
band with pulling her out of bed by
the hair of her head , with knocking
her down , jumping on her with both
feet and crually beating her.
-James Cook of Wyoming precinct ,
Otoe county , was arrested for perjury.
Cook stole a wolf scalp , brought it to
the cTty and secured the bounty from
the county clerk , " .swearing he .had
the animal. * He was jailed.
A Knights of Labor organization
has been perfected at Pender.
Walter Leese of the state library
is happy over the fact that there is a
rich vein of mineral paint under his
163-acre farm , immediately east of , In-
dianola. The colors of the paint are
cream , orange and yellow , and are in
thick viens or strata.
A number of school children of
the families of Joseph Krai , Joseph Sli-
dek and William Kassabum' living six
miles northeast of Tobias , were poi
soned by eating -Wild 'turnips. One of
Kassabum's children died. Others ara
in a critical condition.
Senator Manderson has reserved
passage in the Lloyd steamship Nor-
mania , and will sail for Europe May 7.
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Man
derson and maid. They will do the
British isles and the continent and will
be abroad for several months.
Peter Holinquist ; a Bohemian of
Omaha , charged with having poisoned
a well with rough on rats , was in po
lice court the other day. A. large
number of witnesses were examined
and the case postponed until an analy
sis of the water could be made.
Fremont boasts of having had as
a visitor the only man in the world
who could touch the end of his nose
with the point'bf his'elbow. His name
is Lee and. he was only enabled , to ac
complish , the feat by having a part of
the bone of his left arm removed.
.Burglars broke into the Creighton
depot , using a heavy sledge belonging
to William Braasch's coal office near
by. 'The cash drawer was'broken open
but yielded no returns , as the money
was locked in the safe , which , together
with tho-ticket case , was not molested.
R. Pimmer , a blacksmith of Cole
ridge , . met with a painful accident
while polishing a ploughshare upon an
emery wheel. . The force of the wheel
knocked the share out of Pimmer's
hand , and in falling it completely sev
ered the large toe and severely cut
another.
Prof. Rakestraw , superintendent
of schools in Nebraska City and demo
cratic candidate in the last campaign
for the position of superintendent of
public instruction , 'has been appointed
superintendent of the asylum for the
blind at Nebraska City vice J. B.
Parmalee.
A negro named Me Williams , while
cleaning windows in the third story
of a Lincoln building , fell to the pave
ment beneath and was terribly hurt.
His right arm was -broken , his jaw
was split openrand his knee mashed.
He also received internal injuries. His
condition is alarming.
Rev. H. R. Miller of the Swedish
Lutheran church of Oakland has
tendered his resignation as pastor of
that church , which will be acted on as
soon as' his successor is decided on.
Rev. Miller is one ofthe ; leading di
vines of northern Nebraska , and is a
graduate of Augustana college , 111.
William Nicholson of Nebraska
City , while suffering from a cough ,
got up during the night for a dose of
medicine. He got hold of a bottle
containing creosote , and took a large
swallow. He discovered that he had
made a mistake and a doctor and a
stomach "pump were required to relieve
him.
Colonel C. D. Martin of Dakota
City fell in a street of South Sioux
City , dying in a few minutes. Death
resulted from appoplexy. The de
ceased was aged seventy-five years ,
and was an old settler , homesteading
in Dakota county in 1856. He was
formerly editor and proprietor of the
Dakota City Argus.
Nearly all of the state officials
kept their offices open arbor day , but
most of the clerks took advantage of
the legal holiday and refrained from
work. A wagon load of trees was de
livered at the state house. The state
officials and many of the clerks selected
trees and had them planted in various
places on the state house grounds.
An old document was filed for
record in the county treasurer's office
at Pawnee City. It bears the signa
ture of James Buchanan , president , and
is a general land warrant , bearing the
number 80,359. assigned by William
H. Henion to John Anthony , for the
northeast quarter of section 28 , town
7. The document bears the date
Augusts , 1860.
A peculiar case was appealed to
the supreme court the other day from
Gage county. The papers filed allege
that one Lyman W. Allgire took ad
vantage of an insane man named John
Paulsen and through his machinations
succeeded in beating him out of prop
erty worth $6,500. It is further al
leged that Mrs. Paulsen through fear
was forced to sign the paper deeding
the land away.
Dr. B. B. Davis of McCook was
awakened about 4 in the morning by
the piteous cries of an infant > and as
he has no children he was at first at a
loss to account for the cries. The
little one was found on the doorstep.
The child was apparently about four
weeks old and neatly dressed. No
trace has yet been found of the inhu
man parents who have thus deserted
their offspring.
A gentleman from Hastings says
that the receiver of the broken City
National bank of that place has
nootified the treasury officials that all
available funds of the bank had been
exhausted and there still exists a de
ficit of at least $70,000. He advised
bringing back H. Bostwick , well
known in Nebraska as Boss , " who is
charged with wrecking the bank.
A report current at the Union Pa
cific shops in Omaha that hours , at the
shops would be cut to eight a day on
May 1 is contradicted. The men hail
the contradiction gladly , as a sign that
the retrenchment methods of Charles
Francis.Adams are no more and that
hereafter there is not to be sudden .
and severe reduction to make a show
of earnings and later a forced increase
to dispose of accumulated-work.
VON MOfiTKE ISTEAD.
CAREER OF THE ORE AT PRUSSIAN
SUDDENLY CLOSED.
He Fa e Away In His Ninety-first
Year of Heart Disease Jack the
Ripper Ucllcv.ed to Have Taken Up
Residence In New York His First
Victim In that City The Lottery
Companies Receive a Black 'Bye-
Pork to Boom Immigration Hum
bert's Angry Subjects.
General Von Kloltke Dead.
BEKLIN , April 25. General Von
iMoltke died here last night in liis 91st
year. His 90th birthday , October 26
last , having been celebrated with
much pomp and.great honors.
Count Moltke , entered first into the
Danish service , being of Danish de
scent , but shortly afterward , in 1822 ,
passed into the Prussian army. Jn
about ten years he succeeded in
achieving promotion to the staff. la
1835 he made a voyage to the east ,
where he was introduced to Sultan
Mahmoud of Turkey. At the request
of the sultan Von Moltko undertook
important military reforms in the
Turkish service , and also won con
siderable credit in the Syrian cam
paign of 1839. Returning to Prussia
he was appointed chief of staff in 1856 ,
and aide-de-camp to Prince Frederick
William. He devised the campaign of
1866 , against Austria' and having been
promoted to the rank of general he di
rected operations , under King William ;
in the decisive battle of Sadowa. He
is credited with having laid out the
plan of operations for the Franco-
Prussian war , and he was the chief
military director on the German side
in that great struggle. The invest
ment of Paris was his plan for ending
the war. He has since been the chief
military figure in Europe , keeping up
his activities even until his death
today. He attended the reichstag in
the afternoon , and died suddenly at
9:45 in the evening of heart disease.
Jack the Ripper In America.
NEAV YOKK , April 25 "Jack the
Ripper , " is believed by the police to
have at last come to this city. Yes
terday morning in the East River ho
tel the body of a wretched woman was
found with her abdomen horribly cut
and her bowels protruding. Her name
is not known. The resort in which
the body was found is one of the low
est in the city. It is located on the
southeast corner of Catherine and Mar
ket streets. The woman was known
about the neighborhood as one of the
half drunken creatures who hang about
the low resorts of Water street and
Riverside. She came to the hotel last
night in company with a man who reg
istered as Knickloi and wife. The
couple were assigned to a room on the
upper floor and went to it at once.
Nothing was seen or heard of them
during the night. 'No cry or unusual
noise was heard. This morning the
attendant rapped at the door of the
room occupied by the couple. There
was no answer and he rapped again
with no better result and finally broke
in the door. A horrible sight met his
gaze. On the bed lay the woman in a
big pool of blood. She had been dead
for hours. Her abdomen had been
fairly ripped open with a dull , broken
table knife that lay in the pool of blood.
The viscera had been cut , and from
appearances a part was missing. The
woman's head was bandaged. A cloth
had been tied about her neck and face ,
but whether for any foul purpose or to
hide any other traces of murder the
attendant did not wait to see.
Last Straw for Lotteries.
WASHINGTON , April 25. The lottery
companies received a black eye at the
treasury department which , it is
thought , will have the effect of driving
them out of business. Having been
debarred from using the United States
mail , branches of lottery companies
which formerly did business in the
United States have been established in
Mexico. Under the law print matter
from Mexico cannot be refused entry ,
and each month lottery tickets have
been presented at the customs houses
along the Mexican frontier for admis
sion into the United States. They have
heretofore been admitted without ques
tion , but Assistant Secretary Spaulding
has hit upon a novel plan to prevent
their coming into this country. He
has decided that there is no law to pre
vent lottery tickets from being admit
ted as printed matter , but ho instructs
the customs officers to assess duty upon
them at the rate of 25 per cent ad
valorem of their face value , under par
agraph 423 , schedule M , of the McKinley -
ley bill , which provides for this rate of
duty upon all printed matter not espec
ially provided for. Tickets of the
value of $10 under this decision will
have to pay $2.50 customs duty. This
high rate of duty will , it is thought ,
practically prohibit their importation.
Being debarred from the United States
mail and from express companies and
transportation lines , the lottery com
panies will find it difficult to dispose of
their wares in the United States. The
case came up in connection with the
importation of tickets of the Juarez
Mexican lottery company.
The Immigration Problem.
WASHINGTON , April 25. Collector
Benedict at Burlington , Vt. , incloses
in a letter to the secretary of the treas
ury a report from an immigration inspector
specter at Montreal , who states that
during a period of ten days thirty-
three car-loads of immigrants had ar
rived at Montreal , about one-third of
whom wore destined for the United
States.
F ; A. Woodbridge , collector at New
port Vt. , reports that about 400 im
migrants per day pass = through that
port for the United States. Most of
these , however , ho says , are Canadi
ans who work in Now England fac
tories , and after the season is over re
turn to Canada. Neither collector ha
any definite plan to suggest to proven
this immigration in violation of law
but Collector Benedict suggests that i
an immigrant inspector" be placed a
Montreal he might trace immigrants
to the United States , and in other way ?
help the United States authorities.
Pork Will Boom.
WASHINGTON , April 25. Germany
having announced that the pork am
swine embargo against the Unitec
States will be lifted as soon as our mea
inspection laws are put in operation ,
Dr. Salmon , chief of the bureau of an
imal industry , which will have charge
of this inspection , said today that he
expected the machinery to be put in
motion very promptly , and probably in
two weeks. This will give pork a de
cided boom in prices it is thought
Humbert's An ry Subjects.
PARIS , April 25. A dispatch to
Temps .from Rome says Baron Fava , in
his report on the New Orleans affair ,
expresses the belief that there is no
way out of- the situation , as the federa
government has no power to give Italy
the satisfaction demanded.
Camille Dreyfus , editor of Le Nation
and member of the deputies , presided
over a large meeting of his constituents ,
called to refute. the charges of black
mail brought against him by M. Blank
of Monte Carlo. The meeting was
one succession of quarrels , and finally
Dreyfus , jumping from the platform ,
began to thump one of the electors who
bad been most prominent in interrupt
ing him. A free fight followed , and
matters were made so lively for Drey
fus that he escaped from the hall by a
back window. After this the meeting
passed a resolution asking him to
resign.
The President at Pasadena.
PASADENA , Cal. , April 27. The
president delivered the following ad
dress at the banquet tendered himself
and party by the citizens here :
"Gentlemen : I beg you to accept
my thanks for this banquet spread in
honor of this community of strangers
who have dropped in upon you to
night. We came to you after dark.
1 am not prepared to speak to you of
Pasadena. When the sun shall have
lighted your landscape again and our
expectant eyes shall rest upon its glor
ies , I shall be able to give you my im
pressions of your city , which I am al
ready prepared to believe is one of the
gems in the crown of California. Per
haps no other place in California has
by name been more familiar to me
than Pasadena , if you except your
great commercial city of San Francisco.
That comes from the fact of your early
settlers , who were Indiana friends. I
am glad to see some of these friends
here tonight. It is pleasant to renew
these old acquaintances , to find that
they have been received with esteem
in this new community. I have found
a line of Hoosiers all along- these rail
roads we have been traversing. Every
where our train has stopped some
Hoosier has lifted his hat to me , and
often by the dozens. As I said the
other day , Ohio men identify them
selves to me by reason of that state
being my birthplace , but it is not a
surprise to me to find an Ohio man
anywhere. Ohio men are especially
apt to be found in the vicinity of pub
lie office. 1 suppose whatever good
fortune has come to me in the way of
political preferment must be traced to
the fact that 1 am a liuckeye by
birth. And now I thank you
most cordially again for your atten
tion and kindness. California
lias been full of the most affectionate
interest to us. I never looked into
the faces of more intelligent and hap
py people than these I have seen on
the Pacific coast. You occupy the
most important position in the sister
hood of states , stretching for these
several hundred miles along the Pacific
shore. You have fortunate birth and
your history has been a succession of
fortunate surprises. You have brought
out here great achievements in con
verting these plains which seemed to
je so unpromising to the eye into such
gardens as can be seen anywhere else
on the continent. And now , when I
emind you that it is my bedtime ,
which was 1 o'clock last night , and
that reveille sounded at 6 o'clock this
morning on our car , I am sure you
will permit me say good night. " [ Ap-
> lause.J
What .11 r. Gould Thinks.
NEW YORK , April 27. Jay Gould
appeared down town Saturday morning
and seemed to be in excellent health.
le talked freely about his western trip
and said he found his roads every-
vhere in good condition. He believes
that the financial situation of the
Jnited States is better than that of any
other country in the world. He had
never seen so promising an outlook for
crops.
crops.The general railroad situation looks
well , " he said. "Threatening legisla
tion has passed away. The interstate
commerce law has done a great deal of
jood and much evil. The long and
[ hort haul clause of the interstate law
is one of its objectionable features.
Another objection is that it seems to
30 in the interest of the strong roads.
[ am in favor of the plan and purpose
of the Western Traffic association.
Regarding the charges of rate cutting
L do not understand that the Missouri
Pacific railroad cut rates any lower
; han did other roads. It was neces
sary to meet competition at once and
, o protect its traffic. "
Both houses of the Wisconsin legis-
ature have passed a bill appropriating
1:64,000 : for a world's fair exhibit.
POLITICAL PROPHESY
INDULGED Z.VHr VRKHIDESX-ELECX
CLARKSO\
Question * that Will Flsuro In the
Next Political Campaign The Can
didate .7Iu t Xot Only be Near the
People but He .lluat Not be Far from
the Farm \ Syntem of National
Jleglstratlon Henry Watteruon Dis
course * on Political PrognoMtlca-
tlons The Democratic Standard-
Bearer.
President Clarkaoii Talks.
BOSTON , Mass. , April 24. The Her
ald has a long interview with Presi
dent-elect Clarkson of the republican
league. ' Clarkson says in part : "The
failure of the young men to partici
pate in politics is the weakness of the
republican party in New England. I
believe the New England democracy
has outgeneraled its republican oppo
nents in that respect. They have as
leaders the sons of the founders of
republicanism. The republican party
must utilize their young men.
'The labor question will Ggure in
the next campaign , " and ought to.
Wealth should be more evenly dis
tributed. "
"Do you interpret the Cincinnati
convention as favoring Elaine instead
of Harrison ? "
"I was not at the convention , so I
cannot assume to judge of its senti
ments. " was the rejoinder.
"It is said you are personally out
for Elaine as against the renomination
of President Harrison , " suggested the
reporter.
Ihave no personal choice for pres
ident , " replied Clarkson. "Time will
indicate the man. If the silver ques
tion is settled the situation will bo
greatly cleared. The seat of republi
can power , the west , will never con
sent to see the treasury of the country
dwarfted to a gold basis. The west
will not consent to any candidate or
platform that will not represent the
double standard idea , and the greater
part will not consent to a platform that
will not represent silver as money by
the coinage of the American product.
With such a position on money and
with a position for revision of the
banking laws so as to make our bank
ing advantages favorable to agricul
tural communities , cities and towns ,
and with a purpose to provide good
money and enough of it , the republi
can party will hold the west as solid
for the party as it was in 1888 , while
the McKinley bill will carry New York
and the doubtful states. The next re
publican candidate for president must
be a man broad enough to cover this
board land , and able to administer jus-
Lice on all differing interests with true
regard to all national interests. Pres
ident Harrison has made a faithful ex
ecutive in every public sense , and is
lacking only in personal popularity ,
which gives a man the power of elec
tricity in politics. He has demon
strated his qualities fully , and his
pure intellectual ability is not second
; o any American living today ,
not even to his phenomenal secretary
of state. Whoever is the republi
can candidate he must be a man who
can maintain the solidity of the party
in the great agricultural region west
of the Mississippi. The candidate
must not only be near to the people ,
but must not be far from the farms.
All political parties will go moro
closely to the farms hereafter than
Lhey have in the past fifty years. The
farmers are going to assert themseves
! n public affairs and for the good of
the race. "
Clarkson said he believed Cleveland
would be the next democratic candi
date. If his personal views on the sil
ver question don't .quite suit the south
and west he will make them suit. He
'eels that the gold people will trust
lim anyway , and as the western and
southern democracy believe in him as
a man ot destiny he can successfully
lypnotize them on the silver question ,
and Ithinkhe is doing it. "To win in
1892 , " said Clarkson , "we must bring
the republican newspaper circulation
o meet that of the democratic party in
ts programme to circulate tens of
millions of arguments directly to the
louses of the voters. "
National Kcglstration.
WASHINGTON , April 24. At the de-
> artment of justice ingenuity is at
vork to establish a system of national
registration which will make as nearly
mpossible as may be any future ques-
ion of citizenship , such as has arisen
n connection with the Italian incident
at New Orleans. Solicitor General
[ aft was asked this afternoon if it
vould be practicable to keep a regis-
er of the persons naturalized in this
ountry at the department of justice
o that the federal government , con
gress , the courts or any private citizen
ould , without delay or expense , de-
ermine the question of citizenship of
iny one claiming to be or not have
> een naturalized.
"Yes , " said the general solicitor ,
such a thing is not only practicable ,
but a good suggestion , and I think it
hould be suggested to congress. It
could be accomplished by making it
compulsory for officers who administer
naturalization papers to forward a sy
nopsis or memorandum of the personal
tatement of the citizen naturalized to
his department. We could issue the
officers a uniform card of small size
and with brief blanks to be filled and
hese could be filed here in a compact
and permanent way so that any one at
a moment's notice could ascertain
vhether any person had or had not
) een naturalized , and if so when ,
vhere and something as to nationality
) irth , age and so forth. It could
) e kept in form similar to the military
records being kept on cards at the war
department Colonel
would be a great convenience * :
to make it
would be necessary
officers to foi
obligatory upon court
be naturalized
ward the names of all who may '
uralized in every .place j 61"
necessary
together with other information
negligent , : ± .
sary , as court officers are
have found. It could be made , obligatory
to forwardi the-
these officers
tory upon
the *
and
statement in every instance
the na--
make it a necessary part of ,
turalization. Then the government
would have at its fingers' ends , so to-
speak , the information to .determine. ,
' nofice and beyond
upon a moment's t ;
of citizenship in alL
doubt the question
cases. It is important for very many
reasons. "
"TheLord Will Provide. " _ >
GALVESTON , Tex. , April 24. The
Daily Sea Gull publishes an interview
with Henry Watterson , who is now in
Galveston. In answer to a question
as to the political outlook. Mr.\\jateis
son , said : "Upon this line of revenue
reform the fight next year , as In : 1888 ,
will be made. I take for granted that.
we shall have some silver legislation ,
but I have no idea that the.democratic
party can be lured into the perpetra
tion of so great a blunder as the ad Y !
vancement of silver to the first place
in the next campaign and the consequent
quent obscuration of the tariff issue.
On this last the party has fully come
to a perfect agreement. I am a bimet-
alist and a friend of silver. I would
not contract , but would , if necessary ,
expand our money circulation. But
the democratic party finds common
ground for the democrats to stand on
in this matter , and I am confident that
it will do so. "
What about Mr. Cleveland ? "
"The nomination of Mr. Cleveland
depends entirely upon the attitude of
the state of New York. If New York
appears in the next democratic con
vention in favor of his nomination he
will be nominated. If it appears that
they are against him or seriously di
vided , I do not think he will be. "
In default of Mr. Cleveland , who5 *
"As to that I can only answer in the
words of patriarchs , "The Lord wiU
provide. "
gage Indebtedness.
WASHINGTON , April 22. The census
bureau has made public a bulletin giv
ing statistics of mortgages in Alabama
and lewa. The debt in force in
Alabama January 1 , 1890. was 39,027-
983. of which 73.70 per cent was on
acres and 26.30 per cent on lots. A
large proportion of the debt on acres
is due to investments in mining and
iron and steel manufactures. The
total existing real estate mortgage in
debtedness of Iowa is $199,034,956 ,
74.77 per cent of which , or $148,814-
645 , is on acres and 25.23 per cent , or
$50,220,311 , on lots. In Clinton coun
ty the debt is $4,777,848 ; Des Moines
county , $2,365,709 ; Dubuque county ,
$3,871,834 ; Linn county , $4.617,140 ;
Marshall county , $2,607,902 ; Polk
county , $11,084,761 ; Pottawattamie
county , $7,661,626 ; Scott county , $3.-
121,002 , Woodbury county , $14,366-
995. These are the principal counties
in the state and their existing indebt
edness is 27.38 per cent of the total ,
while their proportion of the state's
population is 21.40. There is an aver
age indebtedness of $104 to 1 of the
population in the state. Jn Woodbury
county it is $258. in Lyons county $267 ,
and in Osceola county $208. these ratios
being the highest in the state , from
which they descend to $36 for Dallas
county , which is the lowest. The av
erage life of a mortgage in Iowa is
4.9t5 Jfartial the
. years. payments in
state represent 11.6 per cent of the
face of the indebtedness on acres and
111.19 per cent on lots , a total of 12.27
per cent. The computations necessary
to show the number of acres and lots
incumbered by the existing debt have
not yet been completed for thesestat.es.
The chief rate of interest in Ala
bama is represented to have been 8
per cent. Of the total recorded debt
11.40 per cent drew interest above 10
per cent and 88.51 per cent at 10 per
cent or less. Above 8 per cent all in
terest is usurious , and such rates are
or were actually paid on 13.61 per cent
of the recorded debt.
Interest at 8 per cent is or was paid
on 48.60 per cent of the debt of Iowa
recorded during ten years , 7 per cent
on 21.91 per cent , 10 per cent on 13.28
per cent , 6 per cent on 12.88 per cent ,
above 10 per cent on 0.02 of 1 per cent.
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Kggs "Fresh II Jfr 12
Honey , per Ib 18 < & 21
Chickens live per doz 3 50 9 4 0\ >
Oranges 381 ! J 5 0
Carrots Per bbl i : 00 & 2 2 >
Lemons 3 W ( ft 5 03
Beets Per bbl 275 < q ; 3 0 !
Onions Per bb C Co 5.650
Beans Navies 2 50 Q a 60
Wool Fine , unwashed , per 2 > 15 fe :8
Potatoes 1 25 < a I 35
Kcets Per bbl 2 75 & 3 W
Apples Per bliL (5 ( 00 ® G 50
, Hny Pertou 1500 © 16 00
Hog * Mixed pjickhij ; 4 85 ,5t 4 05
Hogs Eeary wcishts 4 X ) < 2 > 5 05
Beeves Choice itcers 513 Q 5 7u
Sheep Natives 2 75 O 5 50
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Corn No. 2 J6J g& siy >
Oats Jliied western CO a 6
Pork 13 50 © 11 DO
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CHICAGO.
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Corn Per bushel 73 © 731
Oats Per buiho 75 QJ 75
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Hogs Pactinj nd fhipplnff. 4 90 © 5 20
Cattle Stocken. 350 ft 5 10
Sheep Katirea 525 Q 5 75
ST. LOUIS.
Wheat Cash i jo i 15
Corn Per bushel
70 < a 71
Oats Per bushel 55 55. ,
Hogs Mixed pickiuj 4 70 cvs 'lQ
Cattle Feeder * 3 IQ 4 oo
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Wheat No.2
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Oats No. 2 5 - g- !
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