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COMPLAIN OF AMERICAN F1LI
BUSTERING EXPEDITIONS
threaten to So arch all American
Vessels Unless a Stop Is Put to It
Tropical Hurricane Sweeps the
JKaetcrn Coast Other News Items
Threats by Spain
A dispatch from Madrid dated October
B says A government note protesting
against Filibustering will be handed to
Uaited Slates Minister Woodford today
Cl Tiempo publishes with reserve the an
aotmcenient that the reply of the Spanish
government to the United Stales pre
sented to Gen Stewart L Woodford the
American minister at Madrid declares
that if the United States does not stop the
sailing of filibustering expeditions from
Amorican ports Spain will re establish the
right to search vessels anchoring in Cuban
waters
In the special note to Woodford accord
lag to El Tiempo the government declares
that Spain has done all in her power to
nd the w ar in Cuba and cites the many
sacrifices which have been made by the
nation the number of troops senMo Cuba
aiid the reforms which are to be carried
out in the island which are fully de
scribed The note ends with the state
ment that Spain will not admit the right
of any foreign power to interfere in any of
Her affairs
LUETGERTS NEW TRIAL
New Evidence of Great Importance
Has Been Discovered
The time for the opening of Luetgerts
pecond trial has not yet been set Now
ridence has been discovered by the pros
ecution which it is said impugns the tes
jfimonj of three witnesses for the defense
The discovery of this new evidence was
inade too late to get it in at the first trial
JDeneen says
It is acknowledged on all sides that the
greatest trouble in retrying the Luetgert
case will be the tremendous labor of get
ting a good jury States Attorney Deneen
Jfc eager to force the case to trial again
within two or three weeks In that case
the witnesses will be easily got at and it
is even said that the impeached testimony
of the Schimpke girls need not be relied
on that the state lias a creditable witness
-who will swear to seeing Mr and Mrs
Xuetgert enter the factory on the night of
May 1
BIG STORM ON ATLANTIC
Tropical Hurricane Sweeps Eastern
Coast of Several States
The northeaster which prevailed for five
days developed Sunday night in the worst
torm which has struck Cape May N J
in nineteen years Tides covered a third
of the town and surrounded the mammoth
Stockton Hotel and all the section north
east of it Train service to all beach
resorts had to be abandoned The tele
phone service to the life saving station is
interrupted An unknown steamer sail
less is at the mercy of the elements two
miles off shore-
A Washington dispatch on Monday said
The tropical storm continues near the
Virginia coast where the barometer fell
xapidly during the night The storm is
apparently moving north slowly attended
fcy a hurricane on the North Carolina
Virginia and Delaware coasts
KIDNAPED BY REDSKINS
Kansas Society Leaders Carried Off
to the Reservation
A hundred and -fifty Cheyenne aad Ara
pahoe Indians led by Chiefs Roman Nose
atnd Gray Horse left the reservation in In
dian Territoryjmd drove to Harper Kan
Saturday where they gave their famous
war dance Roman Nose who had no
partner grabbed Miss Mabel Hunter a
school teacher of the town and forced her
to dance with him about the circle in the
oenter of which Standing Rabbit a blanket
Indian stood chanting and beating a drum
Another big Indian seized a young society
deader by the arm and with difficulty com
pelled her to join in the dance The sig
nal was then given and the band started
for the reservation with their victims
Two Perish In a Well
Frank Moonaged fiftyand MrsD Wells
were found dead at the bottom of a thirty
foot well on Moons farm near Derby
Kansas having been asplryxiated Moon
had been overcome while working and
the woman went to the well late to investi
gate and fell in
Fatal Shooting in Kansas City
William N Allen manager of the Kan
sas branch of the Keeley Institute Kansas
City Kan was shot and fatally wounded
fjy C E Riley a traveling salesman
Rileys action was prompted by the belief
that Allen alienated his wifes affections
Bishop Perry Arrives
Among the passengers who arrived in
New York on the Lucania Monday nighl
were Bishop W S Perry of Iowa Prof
Darcy Thompson W K Vanderbilt and
iliss Maud tionne the Irish Joan of Arc
Prancis Palgrave Dead
U t Francis Turner Palgrave the poet and
-essayist died -Sunday in London He was
- 73vcars old
Disastrous Landslides
A telegram from Ancona on the
announces that severe floods there
caused several landslides interrupting
railroad communication Count Richotti
was swcot away aud drowned Since this
nessage was sent the telegraph lines have
leen broken
Fortune for Breaehof Promise
Mrs Carrie Corbett a widow 82 years
old of Danville III has been awarded
5133333 damages for breach of promise
John Germand 71 years old being defend
ant
THE WEEK IN TRADR
T he Business World as Seen by
Dun Co
R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of
Trade says After the heaviest buying
ever known in many branches during
September and the first half of October it
was both natural and desirable that a more
quiet period should give time for testing
the size and temper of retail trade and for
distributing part of the enormous quanti
ties bought In textile goods the rush of
orders went far beyond all distributive de
mand in August and represented great
replenishment of stocks and the similar
rush for goods has been correspondingly
great in other lines during the past two
months
Some large offerings of wool were made
at Boston to realize profits before prices
fall but quotations remained unchanged
The produce market acted with as little
apparent reason as -usual Although At
lantic exports of wheat were 8576607
bushels flour included and for three
weeks of October 10309908 bushels against
7742214 last year with western receipts
not half a million bushels larger the price
advanced 2K cents
Corn with smaller receipts and exports
barely a quarter of last year declined a
small fraction
REPORT FROM GOV BRADY
Official Account of Gold Operations
in the Territory
The report of John G Brady governor
of Alaska for the past fiscal year has been
submitted to the secretary of the interior
It estimates the present population at 30
000 natives and 10000 whites Reviewing
the gold operations Gov Brady says
Shipload after shipload of gold seekers
and their freight has been rushed to the
extreme limit of salt water navi
gation Lynn canal and there have
been literally dumped upon the beach
some above high water and many
below as they learned to their sorrow
when the water covered them as they
slept As a class gold seekers rank far
above the average manhood of the country
Skaguay is being built up rapidly Lum
ber is in demand and lots are selling as
high as 1500 Americans are anxious to
secure a route to the Yukon which shall
be entirely upon United States territory
This is the third season of the work in
Cook Inlet The excitement over the
Klondike has drawn many away from
that district nevertheless the output of
gold this year will be no mean sum
Liil Hasnt Abdicated
In reference to reports to the effect that
former Queen Lilioukalani had formally
abdicated in favor of her niece Princess
Kailulani the ex queen in person gave to
the Associated Press the following author
ized statement
There is no truth in any report that she
has abdicated No official action has been
taken during the meeting of Kailulani
with her The question of politics did not
pass their lips Kailulani came to Wash
ington from New York to see her aunt
before going to San Francisco where she
will stay a week Such reports are spread
by her enemies with a view to injuring
her
The foregoing was dictated by the ex
queen who requested however that it be
used in the third person
Runs Amuck with a Gun
Frenzied from liquor Thomas Cooper
fired his own house at Baldwin Pa Sat
urday and afterward -shot and seriously
wounded three men who were fighting the
flames He then took to the woods He
was reported roaming about the country
and shooting at everyone in sight At one
time he ordered a telegraph operator from
a railroad tower at the point of a revolver
and blocked the trains At another point
he fired at an unknown man and seriously
wounded him
Gilbert the Victor
With the Dupont cup and the worlds
wing shot championship at stake Fred
Gilbert of Spirit Lake Iowa and G A P
Elliott of Kansas City made phenomenal
records in their match at Kansas City
Gilbert was the victor Out of 250 birds
but one was missed Six others fell dead
out of bounds For 100 birds the two
cracks tied with 97 each Out of the shoot
off of 25 birds Gilbert won the match with
a clean score
Corsets Save Her Life
Miss Daisy T Coulters a pretty Brown
University student 21 years old was mys
teriously shot while seated at the front
window of her fathers home in Auburn a
suburb of Providence R I The charge
entered Miss Coulters right breast and but
for the deflection caused by her corset
stays would have caused instant death
As it is she is in a precarious condition
since the surgeons dislodged the bullets
which work took three hours
French Paper on Silver
The Journal Des Debats published in
Paris commenting on the answer of the
British government to the proposals of the
United States monetary commission says
The British reply lias completely decided
the question of free silver which was
brought to the front in such a way that in
spite of the probability of a different solu
tion it produced a feeling of uneasiness in
the business world
Dual Spokane Tragedy
Mrs C W Kessler of Spokane Wash
Was found at her home dead from a ghastly
wound in her throat and near by lay her
4-year-old son with a bullet through his
head The husband and father is in the
city prison half insane and under suspi
cion of having killed his wife and child
He protests his innocence and claims that
his wife killed the child and committed
suicide -
Moses Handy Much Improved
Maj Moses P Handy special commis
sioner of the United States to the French
exposition in 1900 who was seriously ill
Friday started from Paris Saturday for
Davre on his return to the United States
much improved
Weekly Bank Statement
The New York weekly bank statement
jhows a reserve increase of- 8250000
The banks now hold 22900000 in excess
af legal requirements
A NEW YORK H0RE0K
TRAIN
PLUNGES INTO
HUDSON RIVER
THE
Twenty Eight Persons Reported to
Have Liost Their Lives Retaining
Wall Along the River Undermined
by High Water Other News Items
Horror on the Hudson
The Buffalo and New York special No
40 on the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad due to arrive in New York
at 730 oclock Sunday morning was
thrown from the track into the Hudson
River one and a half miles below Garri
sons station Twenty eight lives were
lost The retaining wall along the river
had been undermined by high water in
the river and the tracks caved under the
weight of the train The train consisted
of the engine a combination baggage and
express car a smoker two ordinary coaches
and four sleepers The engine and two
forward cars were submerged in fifty feet
of water
The only eye winesses of the disaster
were the crew of a tugboat passing with a
tow They saw the train with Its light as
it came flashing about the curves and
then saw a greater part of it go into the
river A porter jumped from one oMhe
cars that remained on the track and ran
into the yard of Augustus Carrs house
near which the accident occurred and stood
screaming for help and groaning
In a few minutes Carr had dressed him
self and getting a boat rowed with the
porter to the scene As they turned a
point in the bank they came upon the ex
press car and the combination car floating
about twenty feet from shore but sinking
every minute One man was taken from
the top of the car and efforts were made to
rescue those inside A few were gotten
out the passengers left upon the track
making a human bridge to the shore to
take the wounded on The day coach and
smoker had gone down in the deeper
water and rescue was impossible In the
latter coach the conditions must have been
horrible The car turned completely over
and the passenger end of it was in the
deep water while the baggage end stood
up towards the surface The men in the
lower end must have fought like fiends for
a brief period for the bodies when taken
out were a mass of wounds
At the time of the wreck there were in
the smoker in addition to the baggage
man Herman Acker eight Chinamen en
route from the Canadian border to New
York and a middle aged man supposed to
bo Thomas Reilly of St Louis All of
these excepting the baggagemaster
perished The day coach contained eight
een or twenty passengers many of them
women and children llow many of
these escaped is not known but at
least twelve were drowned or killed
in this car Behind the coach was the
four sleepers with about sixty five pas
sengers The total cargo of human freight
consisted of something over 100 people
PLOT TO KILL MARTIN
Alleged Conspiracy to Assassinate
the liattimer Pa Sheriff
An alleged conspiracy to murder Sheriff
Martin who led the deputies who fired
upon and killed a score of strikers at Lat
timer Pa on September 10 has been dis
covered by the arrest of John Seplak who
was wounded in the riot The complain
ant was the sheriffs son William who
says he overheard Seplak threaten to kill
his father On Seplak was found a razor
wrapped in a printed circular describing
the shooting and calling for vengeance
From a talk overheard it is said that the
prisoner is one of a gang of fifteen detailed
by the foreigners to murder the sheriff
He denies the charge
SALISBURY TO QUIT
In Spite of His Denials It Is Be
lieved He AVill Soon Resign
In spite of the official denial of
the Marquis of Salisburys approach
ing resignation of the premiership of
England belief in its truth is
very strong in political circles where it
is considered that his retirement is inevit
able within a few months This view of
the undercurrent was confirmed by a cabi
net minister on Wednesday Oct 20 who
privately remarked that the Duke of Dev
onshire had declared that he means to
have the premiership when the Marquis of
Salisbury resigns
Thirteen Seamen Drowned
Thirteen seamen comprising almost the
entire crew of the steam schooner Casper
w ere drowned by the wreck of the vessel off
Hie California coast last week Two men
from the shore went out in a small boat
and picked up Capt Anfindsen and Sea
man Chris Larson who had been floating
about on an impromptu raft for more than
fourteen hours The steamer carried fif
teen men but the captain has no doubt
he other thirteen have been drowned
Anfindson and Larson had almost suc
cumbed from cold exposure and exhaustion
and were with difficulty saved by their
rescuers
Chance for a Lynching
Miss Kate Swabb a young lady of Xenia
Ohio was the victim of a brutal assault by
William Carter colored Carter accosted
the girl while on her way home from the
fuse factory and after beating and chok
ing her cruelly dragged her to a lonely
place Mrs George Thornhill heard her
cries and going to her rescue beat the
negro with a club until he fled The girl
was covered with blood and presented a
horrible sight If the negro is appre
hended there may be serious trouble
Slaughter the Somalis
News from Somaiiland is that the
Abyssinians are devastating the country
They have already disposed or wiped out
four great Somali tribes stolen all their
live stock and committed horrible atroci
ties All prisoners are mutilated
Two Burned to Death
Patrick Gollopy engineer and Henry
Haight foreman were burned to death on
the upper floor of Gardiner Yails
laundry in New York City Monday
BICYCLE CONCERN FAILS
Assignment Made by the Fowlci
Company of Chicago
An assignment was made at Chicago
Friday by the Fowler Bicycle Company
one of the largest bicycle concerns in the
west The company has not been doing a
flourishing business for some time and has
keenly felt the competition of cheap
wheels The officers of the company are
reticent regarding the amount of assets
and liabilities but the best information
obtainable gives the liabilities as close to
500000 and the assets much less The
concern employed about500men
It has been rumored for some time that
the company was in financial difficulty
The action taken was precipitated by the
employes Wednesday was pay day but
the firm asked the men to wait until Sat
urday October 23 for their money A
committee of the men called on the treas
urer and asked him if they would be paid
on Saturday the wages due them up to a
week ago Saturday or whether they would
be paid to date The difficulty of raising
another weeks pay roll decided the officers
of the company to give up the struggle
and assign
MEANS AN INFLUX OF CHINESE
No Certificates Required for Wives
and Children
Judge Hanford of the federal court at
Seattle Wash has made a decision in a
Chinese case holding that the wives
and children of Chinese merchants doing
business in the United States do not have
to have certificates from the Chinese gov
ernment to entitle them to enter this coun
try Government officials say if the opin
ion is upheld by the higher courts it means
an influx of Celestials
FACTORY BOILER EXPLODES
One Killed and a Dozen Hurt by a
Detroit Accident
A boiler in the Detroit Mich Cabinet
Companys factory exploded Saturday
morning At least two men were fatally
injured one of whom has since died and1
ten more or less seriously injured The
dead man is Laurent Tunner foreman
fatally hurt Moses Peltier engineer The
cause of the explosion has not been ascer
tained The front and rear ends of the
building were blown out
Schlegel is Acquitted
John Schlegel who one afternoon in
July last in the center of Kansas City
shot and killed Dr A L Berger one of
the most prominent local men in his pro
fession was acquitted The jury reached
their verdict on the sixteenth ballot The
announcement of the verdict was greeted
by shouts and applause by the spectators
John Schlegel is a German grocer whose
wife and two children had been attended
by Dr Berger Mrs Schlegel told her
husband that Dr Berger had criminally
assaulted her while she was in his office
Schlegel came across Berger on one of the
busiest corners in the city and without
warning he shot the doctor twice The
physician died on the way to the hospital
Car Robbers Sentenced
The most remarkable car robbery cases
on record in the south came to an end at
Dalton Ga Saturday The men were
charged with systematically looting cars
of the Southern Railway The ringleader
Walter Bohannon was convicted in two
cases and was sentenced by the court to
five years in the penitentiary His gang
Tom Kinneman Ben nearse Sam Painter
Lute White Bill Long and Ed Morris the
latter colored received sentences from
three years to one year Ten merchants
convicted of receiving stolen goods from
the robbers were sentenced to pay fines
ranging from 1000 down to 20 and one
year on the chain gang
Storm on the Lakes
Dense fogs and heavy seas all over the
great lakes brought disaster to several
vessels Sunday Eight men reached Chi
cago after a terrible experience leaving
their vessel as it sank out of sight in Lake
Michigan Four vessels ran on rocks and
banks and one suffered from a collision ii
the fog
Turfman Knox Suicides
James Wallace Knox the well known
turfman and former owner of Nutwood
shot himself dead at Kenosha Wis Sun
day Business reverses was the cause
DIAKSET QUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common o prime
300 to 550 hogs shipping grades
300 to 425 sheep fair to choice 200
to 475 wheat No 2 red l3c to 94c
corn No 2 25c to 26c oats No 2 17e
to 10c iye No 2 46c to 4Sc butter
choice creamery 21c to 23c eggs fresh
14c to 15e new potatoes 3Sc to 45c per
bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 425
sheep common to choice 300 to 400
wheat No 2 91c to 93c corn No 2
white 25c to 26c oats No 2 white 21c
to 22c
St Louis Cattle 300 to 525 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 300 to 400
wheat No 2 97c to 9Sc corn No 2
yellow 24c to 25c oats No 2 white 21c
to 22c lye No 2 45c to 46c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 250 to 425
wheat No 2 93e to 95c corn No 2
mixed 25c to 26c oats No 2 mixed 20c
to 22c rye No 2 46c to 48c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 250 to 400
wheat No 2 93c to 94c corn No 2
yellow 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 22c
to 23c rye 4Sc to 49c
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 95c to 97c
corn No 2 mixed 25c to 26c outs No
2 white lSc to 20c rye No 2 47c to 49c
clover seed 3o5 to 345
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring S6c
to 78c corn No 3 24c to 26c oats No
2 white 21c to 23c rye No 1 47c to 48c
barley No 2 40c to 45c porl mess
775 to 825
Buffalo Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 red 95c to 96e corn No
2 yellow 28c to 30c oats No 2 white
24c to 25c
New York Cattle 300 to550 hogs
350 to 450 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 red 101 to 102 corn No
2 32c to 33c patsNo 2 white 22c to
24c butter creamery 10c to 24c eggs
Western 16c to 18e
1 STATE OP KEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
Mrs Frederick Schrievcr of Dakota
City Found Dead with Her Throat
Cut from Ear to Ear and by Her
Side a Bloody Razor
Found Dead with Throat Cut
With her throat cut from ear to ear her
body thrown face downward across an
open trunk filled with letters of her de
ceased father and by her side a bloody
razor Mrs Frederick Schriever wife of
the ex postmaster of Dakota City was
found a few days ago on the old home
stead fifteen miles southwest of that city
At the present time the farm is operated
by Mrs Charles Voss a sister of Mrs
Schriever
At about 11 oclock or an hour before
she was found dead Mrs Schriever went
up stair3 to the room which contained the
old trunk She evidently read some of
the old letters which were in the till
Whether in a fit of despondency induced
by the revival of memories of other days
or whether the idea of killing berself had
been considered is not known The fam
ily did not know the razor was in the
trunk
Mrs Schriever was 86 years of age and
is survived by her husband and three
children the youngest of which is a baby
of 5 months
NEBRASKA EXPRESS RATES
Temporary Injunction Against State
Transportation Board
In the district court at Lincoln Judge
Cornish granted the application of the Pa
cific Express Company for an injunction
preventing the state board of transporta
tion from meddling with the affairs of the
company as it is empowered to do under
the law passed by the last legislature
which allows the state board to lower
rates Complaint has been made to the
board that the rates are 33 1 3 per cent too
high and a hearing was to be held in a few
days The injunction is only temporary
and the company is required to give bond
in the sum of 5000
BIG PRICE FOR LAND
Forty Two Thousand DoIInrs Is Paid
for a Burt County Farm
The real estate firm of Hunt3berger
Clements of Lyons has just closed one of
the largest real estate deals in the history
of Burt County whereby Joel S Yeaton
disposes of his farm three miles south of
that place composed of 840 acres of land to
David Reed of Omaha for the considera
tion of 42000 or 50 per acre Mr Yea
ton bought the most of this land twenty
seven years ago for 250 to 5 per acre
Promises Them a Million
The Omaha Tndian Council of Twelve
met recently at the home of John Springer
in Decatur one of the influential members
to consider the proposition of Dr Potter
from the borders of Oklahoma who claims
that 1000000 is due the Oraahas by the
government and that he will get it for
them for 10 per cent of the total amount
Potter does not appear personal ly but has
sent an agent J D Atkins to arrange ar
ticles of agreement An eminent attorney
of St Louis is the one who will push the
matter through They ask the Omahas to
put up 2500 as expenses for carrying the
claim to a successful end The tribe is
unaware of any such sum being due them
from the government but if it is a legiti
mate debt and can be collected they shall
certainly accept the proposition
Ordered to Admit Young Majors
The mandamus case brought by Thomas
J Majors against the board of education
and the faculty of the Peru Normal School
to compel them to admit Thomas A Majors
into the school was taken up at Auburn
by Judge Stull and a peremptory writ al
lowed The respondents did not attempt
to show that the boy was not a fit person
to attend the normal nor did they give a
reason why they expelled him other than
that it was for the good of the school but
relied upon the point that mandamus was
not the proper remedy and that they had
aright to summarily dismiss a student
without a hearing or giving a reason why
The case will be appealed to the supreme
court as soon as the transcript can be pre
pared
Wriil Sow More Wheat
That section of the country tributary to
Farnam has been subjected to heavy rains
recently some of them of several hours
duration Only about one half the wheat
is thrashed farmers having been busy
sowing fall wheat the area of which is
nearly double that of last year it being
generally thought that wheat will be the
prosperity crop for the coming year About
50000 has been disbursed for wheat at
that place this fall
Infectious Disease at Columbus
The residence of C F Curtis at Colum -bus
was quarantined the other morning a
case of scarlet fever being reported there
The attending physician says it is a very
mild type and no serious results are ap
prehended A son of Mr and
Mrs August Iffland died Sunday Cause
diphtheria There are now seven cases of
diphtheria and four of scarlet fever in the
city all under quarantine
Boy Sent to the Penitentiary
Fred Wilhoff a minor was arraigned in
the district court at Nebraska City on the
charge of assisting Parezzo and Rice in
the robbery of the Missouri Pacific depot
at Talmage a few days ago He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to two years in
he penitentiary
Lightning Strikes a House
During a severe thunder storm light
ning strur k tiie residence of Ed Orrof
May Center passing through the rocf and
breaking the bay window to pieces No
one was injured
Busy Husking Their Corn
Farmers in the vicinity of Bancroft are
misy husking corn which is not yielding
as well as was anticipated The crop is
estimated at from twenty
to the acre
Waterworks for Bancroft
Fairbanks Morse Co the Omaha firm
vhich is pntting in a system or water
works at Bancroft has a large force of
nen at work digging the trenches By the
erms of the contract the system is to be
ready for operation by December 1
Organize in Grand Island
A command of the Union Veterans
Union has been organized at Grand Island
organizer
as Lincoln
Island
by T J Dunlap of Erie Pa the national
The command will be known
Command No 8 of Grand
Sells a Bicycle and Steals It
Charles Long a stranger in tho locality
of Dakota City with a specnlative turn ot
mind is in the county jail awaiting his
preliminary hearing on the 23d inst Long
rode into town on a bicycle which he sold
to J C Riddle who placed it in the rear
of his saloon A few hours later when
Long took his departure he also took tho
bicycle with him Riddle in company
with Sheriff Borowsky overtook the man
and bicycle on the outskirts of town and
Judge Ryan placed him under 100 bonds
pending his preliminary hearing
Nebraska Odd Fellows
The grand lodge of Nebraska Odd Fel
lows in session at Lincoln elected the
following officers
Grand Master C M Patterson Omaha
Deputy Grand Master J E Arnold r
Schuyler
Grand Warden O O Snyder ONeill
Grand Secretary K P Gage Fremont
Grand Treasurer J M Clay Lincoln
Grand Representative G W Norns
Beaver City
Omaha was selected as the place of meet
ing next year
On His Way Back to Hawaii
Mr E H Waity of the firm of Bishop A
Co bankers Honolulu has been the guest
of W W Barney and family of Kearney
Mr Waity is a native of Illinois and lived
there until about ten years ago butfor the
last three years has been a resident of
Honolulu He left home August 31 on ac
count of the sickness and death of his
father and is now on his return to the
islands He expects to arrive in Honolulu
November 9 and is visiting friends on the
way
Overturning Supreme Court
Judge Cunningham R Scott of thd
trict court has been cited to appear Ijeforo
the supreme court November 3 in connec i
tion with one of the series of restraining
orders he has lately issued Recently he
disbarred an attorney and regretted that
he could not disbar Judges Baker and
Powell In this case Judge Scott was
overturning a decree of the supremo court
which has taken cognizance of his action
Railroad Doctors at Hastings
The annual meeting of the physicians
and surgeons of the St Joseph and Grand
Island Railroad was held in the parlors ol
the Bostwick notel at Hastings the other
day There was an attendance of over
thirty physicians and the meeting was very
harmonious An interesting address was
delivered by Dr Farley of York who
spoke upon Therapeutics of Thunder
in a very clear manner
Hog Breeders in a Libel Suit
District court is now in session at Wilber
with Judge Hastings on the bench A
verdict for 400 for damagc3 by libel was
given in favor of Philip J Gossard against
Sylvester Andrews The parties are rival
hog breeders near Friend and brothers-in-law
The defamatory matter consisted of
reflections upon the methods of Gossard as
a breeder in a circular sent out by An
drews
Back from Klondike with a Fortune-
Charles Raymond bar arrived home at
Gehring from the Klondike country He
has been there ahout three years and
owned claim No G on Bonanza Creek He
was credited with 30000 in the dispat hes
when he landed at San Francisco but
whether he has that much or not he has a
nice stake and had nothing when he left
Gehring three or four years ago
CtrftA
Collapses Under Weight of
One of the spans of the North Loup
bridge at St Paul went down again Thurs-
day night occasioned by the weight of a
number of cattle being driven across and
the north part of the count is again cat
olf from communication with St Paul
The bridge had but recently been repaired
after having been washed out last summer
Bequest for York College
York College has received a bequest of
1500 President W E Schell has lately
been working hard to adjust the financial
difficulties of the institution and his suc
cess in securing this recent bequest is evi
dence of his zeal and efficiency The at
tendance at the college this year is larger
than foiseveral years past
Has a Mania for Burning Straw
The county commissioners of insanity
have found John Jones aged 20 years oil
Fairfield to be insane and ordered him
taken to the asylum He developed a
mania for burning every stack of straw in
the country and would ride from one farm
to the other at night setting fire to any
thing he could
Pontoon Bridge Barge Sinks
One of the barges of the pontoon britJgo
sank at Decatur Friday while a smallLJ
bunch of cattle was crossing A number
of the cattle slipped into the river ami
had to swim ashore The water was
shallow wheie the boat went down and it
was raised to its place without great
culty
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Hartleys Bond Invalid
Judge Powell before whom the sufc
against the Bartley bondsmen was tried
has ruled that the bond was invalid on a
technicality and thus leaves the state
nothing but an appeal to the supremo
court
Dedicate a New Church
The dedication services of the Swedisi
Lutheran Church was held at Greeley on
Thursday The church is a nandsome
structure
Old 3Ian Killed by a Train
An old man by the name of Cade was
killed in the railroad yards at Scribner
Thursday night by a train He was
gathering firewood
Nebraska Short Notes
Scarlet fever in a mild form is prevaic u
in and around McCook
Frank Johnson of Duel County drowned
himself while in a fit of despondency
Tuesday morning Rankin Brothers ele
vator at Cambridge caught Are on the east
side of the roof and only the timely an
quick work of the bucket brigade saved
the building and its contents
The Swift Company of Omaha dnne
through Kimball County several trail h rd
of sheep last week numbering 1J0J0 lie
to fifty bushels 1ln ali which were purchased -from tin
v arren Lave btock Company of Cheyenne
Over 43000 of outside capital is invested
in sheep feeding in Hall Countr repre
senting 23321 head of sheep and over 142
000 of foreign money invested in cattle
feeding representing over 5000 head of
cattle These figures are taken from the
records in the county clerks office and
wfienitis remembered that onlv about
one fifth of the cattle and sheep fed in tbrv
county this winter will be on loaned
Hal uic nuuieusiiy oi me lnuusiry lor si
comparatively young one can bereahz
Minnie Smaha a Ravenna girl fell on a
picket fence and the point of one of tha
pickets penetrated her thich about three-
J inches making a dangerdu wound
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