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McOABE, Prop. J. E. BUSH, Manager. NOETH PLATTE PHARMACY, iSTOHTI-I PLATTE, NEBRASKA. WE AIM TO HANDLE THE BEST GRADE OF GOODS, BELL THEM AT REASONABLE PRICES, AND WARRANT EVERYTHING AS REPRESENTED. Orders from the country and along the line of the Union Pacific Railway Solicited. w in Jijuiomrw JOS. F. FILLION, Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Sppciaity. Copper und Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron Koofings. Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, HSTortli 3?la.tte, Nebraska. FINEST SAMPLE ROOM IN NORTH PLATTE Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment. Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar. Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables and competent attendants will supply ail your wants. KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE jl'HE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT IRA Ii. BARE, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ouo Year, cah in advance, $1.23. Six Months, cah in advance 73 Cents. Entered at theNorthPlntte(Nebra9ia)postoffice as second-class matter. Though part of Indiana has been badly scorched, the Indianapolis Journal estimates that this year's corn crop will be sufficient to give fifty bushels to even inhabitant of the state. With this amount of flap jack material on hand the gaunt animal will not invade Hoosierdom. Uncle Sam has several civil-service cats on the pay roll. The post office cat of New York city gets a salary of S9 per year. The office cat at Richmond, Va., S4: at St. Paul, S5; while at Omaha the cat is more mod t, and gets but S2.50. Rats are "supposed to be more plentiful in Omaha. Last week a Ken tuck- judge sent one man to the penitentiary seven -ears for killing his brother, while he sentenced another man to ten years' imprisonment for stealing a ham worth Sl,12. From this we are to infer that a luscious ham in the blue grass district is more valu able than human life. The democratic Cincinnati En quirer tells a great truth in the sentence: "The people are not in the humor to take any sort of politics that does not go hand-in-liantl with the return of good times." That was just the reason the rave democracy a setback last November. They will not repeat the work of 1S92 Inter Ocean. Strikes have diminished in France. In the first live months of this year there were 170 strikes, in voving 21.403 workmen. In the same mouths of 1S94 there were 1S4 strikes, with S6,753 strikers. The first of June there were in France twenty-one strikes in progress, with about 1,200 workmeu out. A news paper comments by saj'ing that the workmen have learned that they are always the first victims of strikes. The Inter Ocean very truthfully jemarks that there are thousands of Americans wandering over Europe and trying to enjoy its dis comforts for the half dozenth time who know comparatively little of the grandeur and beauty of their own country. It is a fad and a fashion. Let the boys and girls see America first; then if they have the time and means look at Europe and all the East. "We cultivate un American ideas in rushing them off to Europe as the one thing needful in their education. The sensational preachers who assert that all the women riding bicycles are rushing down the straight road to the country sup to be inhabited by satan, are mak ing statements that any reasonable christian will not swallow. The bic-cle is an ever3'-da- article of convenience, a health-builder and a means of locomotion from which man and woman alike can extract pleasure. There are a great main ministers of the gospel in this country whose mossbackism is a detriment to the religion they espouse. The ground taken by some of Dodge county's supervisors for fighting the new township organi zation law is that it is illegal to legislate any person out of office. This ought to touch the average judge or jury in a tender spot. In deed, it verges on a line of sym pathy which makes the whole office holding world kin. Of course there is no reason why a person should not be legislated out of the office as well as legislated into it, as the Fremont Tribune sagely observes, and is after all doubtful whether the kicking supervisors in Dodge county will enlist any sympathy on the part of thenon-officeholding public. Kearney Hub. A harkowix'; romance is reported from Logarto, Tex. Miss Bessie Harris had a lover and she doubted his fealty. His name was Black man and he endeavored to ailav her fears, and probably volunteered to die for her or do any thing else dreadful to prove his constancy. Finally, with the advice of her par ents, she proposed that he bhould show his love and trust by permit ting her to suspend him by theneck with a rope for a little while. She would cut him down as soon as she was persuaded he had properly attested his affection in kicking the air. Blackmail agreed and was accordingly suspended. The girl was faithless to her promise to cut him down and he has departed hence. The neighbors seem to think it was not a fair deal to Mr. Blackmail and are talking of hang ing the girl and her parents tor an equal length of time, Ex. Mr. Gr'oker says the English turf is too hard for his horses' feet. The New York turt was getting a little to hard for the boss feet, we think, just before the time he went abroad. New York Mail and Ex press. If Sterling Morton has learned something about the diseases of poultry, let him give it to the coun try in preference to his financial views. The health of democratic roosters is especially important just now. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.) Ax eastern democratic free-trade organ boasts that "under the new tariff Ohio is shipping coal to Eng land. '"Maybe this organ could tell us howmuch the shipper made b- it. Business is a little dull, and if there is money in shipping coal to New catle people-would like to know it. Mankind is upon the horns of a dilemma. Scientists tell us that our drinking water is so impreg nated with bacteria as to be unfit for use. Prohibitionists denounce the wine and beer. It is urged that tea produces insanity and coffee dyspepsia and insomnia, while poison lurks even in lemonade. If we drink we are threatened with death; if we do not drink we die also. "What's to be done? Ex. Ix a week or ten daj-s now, unless there is a cloudburst in the mean time, the farmers will begin to an that the corn is curling" and in serious danger. Old farmers sa that corn grows better when it curls in the middle of the day. The best corn years we ever had have been marked by just this sort of weather in the middle of July. Let the corn curl if it wants to. There will be a big crop of it anyway. State Journal. Nebraska's maximum freight law which has now gone to the United States supreme court, is of general interest as establithing the principle of the right of a state to fix rates for railroad traffic. The act was passed in 1893 and was signed by Governor Crounse. It has since been in the courts. The United States district court sus tained the railroads, and the court appeals has decided that it has no jurisdiction, thereby over turning the decision of the lower triburnal. Should the supreme court confirm the view of the court of appeals, the matter probably would go back to the state courts and be fought out there. Bufialo Express If there are still a few people in Lincoln count- who really need help to pull through until harvest time Lincoln count- ought to be able to provide for them. So long as the state relief commission an nounces its readiness to distribute further aid from the state appro priation just so long will calls for assistance continue to come in. There is one way to compel the people of the western counties to rely on themselves again as in the past, and that is to close up every avenue to the remainder ot tne state relief appropriation. The people demand an accounting of relief commission's work. There is no need of protracting that work because of the spasmodic letters still being received. Bee. Protection to the sugar produc ing industry of the United States, whether beet or cane, is now re garded as far more important than it was admitted to be a tew years ago. During the enactment of McKinly tariff the quantity the of American grown raw sugar was very largely increased, to such an extent, in fact, that it surprised not only the friends of protection, but also those who have the habit of intimating that we cannot grow any thing that is worth wearing. There are two principal reasons why both the beet and cane sugar industries of the United States should receive ample protection at the hands of congress. One of these reasons is that it will enable us in time to be independent of other producing countries for our supply of one ot the necessary articles of life. The other reason is that the use of thousands of acres of our farm lands in growing sugar cane or sugar beets will leave a smaller area to be planted to cotton, corn, wheat, and other crops that we now produce in such superabun dance that the prices paid for them to the farmers are very often below the cost of actual production. By growing our own sugar we shall be strengthening oar national inde pendence; we shall also helping farmers who grow other crops by checking their over-production. American Economist. You can get more for your money joy incut at any of the many resorts on the Union Pacific System than anywhere else on this continent, j See your nearest Uuion Pacific agent. Summer Tour tickets on i sale to Sept. 30th. E. L. Lomax, Genl Pass, and Ticket Agent, j Omaha, Neb. al QSf IYAT THE BOB 'Closing Session of the Christian En deavor Convention. CONSECRATION THE THEME, Address by Prasldcnt Gates of loiva Col lego the Feature of the Morning Elect ing Held In Tent Willistou Dele gates Go Sightseeing. Boston, July 15. The 14th interna tional convention of tho Y. P. S. C. E. closed tonight one of tho most success ful meetings in the history of the soci ety, and most of the delegates will de vote the rest of the week to sightseeing In Boston and vicinity. The services of today had a deeper re ligious feeling than auy that have been held since the first day, probably due to the excitement of tho opening days and the impressive character of the exer cises. "Consecration" -was tho central thought in all the score or more prayer meetings that began at 6:o0, and was in fact the principal subject of tho day. The attendance of all the meetings was as large as on any day last week. Tho addresses of President George A. Gates, D. D., of Iowa college, and President Albert D "Warfield, LL. D., of Easton, Pa., in Tent Williston, were the features of the morning. The former spoko of "The Consecration of an Educated Life," and he was followed by his great audience with close attention. Presi dent "Warfiold's address was on "Tho Attractions of tho Ministry to tho Edu cated Men." Rev. Wayland Hoyt of Minneapolis presided over tho meeting in Tent Wil liston this forenoon. President Will iam L. Harper, LL. D., of the Univer sity of Chicago, was scheduled to pre side, but was unavoidably absent. Tho tent was well filled, about 9,000 people being present and much fervor was man ifested. At Tent Endeavor, an address by Robert E. Sheer of Now York on the missionary service proved a great draw ing card. Mr. Sheer's great work in missionary fields has made him famous among Christian Endeavorers, and thousands were surprised this morning at the youth of this leader. Ho is not yet HO years old, but is a veteran in his chosen work. This morning meetings in both tents were conducted under the general title "Tho Scholarship of the World for Christ." At Tent Williston and Mechanics hall encouraging reports concerning tho re ligions life in college were made, and in both the tents and the hall the roll of honor upon which was inscribed tho names of the unions whose members have been able to give liberally to the cause was simultaneously onrolled. These exercises were accompanied by suitable addresses. Rev. W. C. Bitting, D. D.,New York, conducted tho exercise iu Mechanics hall; Rev. A. C. Peck of Denver, in Willistou, and Rev. Ira Laudrich of Nashville, in Endeavor. The presentation of a banner to tho local union doing the best' work in pro moting systematic and proportionate giving was made at Mecbani C3buildiii". and Tent Williston. Rev. .T. W. H. Stuckenberg of Cam bridge, Mass., delivered in Mechanics building an address on "The Christian Personality" that desorved special men tion, and tho same should be said of ad dresses by Rev. A. P. Cobb, D. D., of Springfield, Ills., and Rov. William C. Pnddlofoot of South Framington, Mass. Tho praise and song services at the big meetings were as they have been since the opening of the convention, fuil of snap, energy and earnestness. The ag gregate attendance was about 215,000, The regular noon evangelistic meet ings have attracted crowds of workers who joined in the praise with a serions ness that seemed to indicate regret that today was tho last of the convention. The largest of theso rallies was held at Faneuil hall, where Rev. Francis E. Smiley of Denver led the services, and in Broonifiold Street church nnder the leadership of C. N. Hunt of Minnea polis. The other gatherings were at the usual stores, wharves and street corners. WORK OF TIIK BIBLK SOCIETY. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Prftfetl Baking Powder Absolutely pure MAT LEAD TO TROUBLE. Serious Charge Brought Against Liqnoi Crtisjtlers by Kansas Jointists. Emporia, July 15. For several weeks detectives have been at work securing evidence against the men who lynched George Rose at Cottonwood Falls in May, 1894. There are 25 warrants in the hands of tho sheriff for prominent peoplo in Cottonwood Falls and Strong City, aud arrests will probably be made this afternoon. The trouble grew out of the recent closing of Strong City joints, and it is said that tho liqnoi crusaders are the men for whom the warrants are out, and that the jointists and their friends r j behind the work of tho detectives. Much excitement pre vails in both towns, and the best people in Chase county fear serious trouble be fore tho quarrel is settled. EX-SEN ATOU CASS ATT SENTENCED. Telia Hank Wrecker Given Nino Year In the Penitentiary. KnoKCK, la., July 15. In tho fedoral court today Judgo Woolson sentenced ex-Stato Senator E. R. Cassatt, the Pella bank wrecker, to nine years in the Auamosa jc:iitentiary. ARE GIVEN MORE TIME Railroads Granted an Extension In Which to Change Their Equipment. SHORT LINE WILL BE SOLD. Decree of Foreclosure Ordered by Judge Bellinger Senator Brice Behind Scheme to Buy the Ohio South ern Railroad. t. Knights of Labor Assembly Suspended. Boston, July 15. It has transpired that District assembly No. 30, Knights of Labor, which includes in its jurisdic tion the entire state, has been sus pended from all privileges by General Secretary Hayes. The suspension is foi insubordination in admitting to its priv ileges Stato Master Workman Paddeu, who, some months ago, was suspended as the outcome of a controversy with tho general board. A meeting of the assembly will be held tomorrow even ing, and some predict its withdrawal from the order. Fallowed McHryde's Advice. COT.U2iiu.-s, O., July 15. Patrick Mc Bryde, .secretary of the United Miuers of America, will go to .Toliet, July 18, tc attend a joint meeting of operators and miners. Speaking of his trip to West Virginia at the solicitation of Governor. MrCorkle, Mr. McBrvde savs he told the miners, who wore carrying Win chesters, to be peaceable, for in 25 years he had never seen a strike won after tho troops had been called in. If, ho stated, the miners do not heed this suggestion, the governor will have no alternative but to call troops. Founded to a Tulp. Cleveland, July 15. The dead body of Patrick Cooncy, who was employed us night watchman in the yards of the Cleveland and Pittsbnrg Railroad cora pauy, was found in the river early this morning. The dead man's noso had been crushed in, his front teeth had been knocked out, and the body bore other evidences of assault. It is sup posed that Cooney was murdered and thrown into the water last night by a gang of robbors whom he probably de tected iu tho act of looting cars. Seventy-Ninth Annual Report on Di.itribn tion of tho Scriptures. New York, July 15. The 70th an nual report of the American Bible so ciety, which covers tho work of that or ganization in printing and circulating tho scriptures during the past year, has just been published. The society has distributed more volumes in China dur ing tho past year than in any preceding year since it began its operations there. In Japan, too, tho biblo committee has been able to accomplish a great deal of work among the soldiors of the Japan ese army. More th:m 1,500,000 bibles, testaments and integral portions of the bible were printed by the society with in the year, and over J ,000,000 of them were printed on presses in the bible house, and more than o(-0,000 were printed in foreign lands. Through pur chases of additional volumes number printed and procured by the so ciety amounting to 1,958,071 copies. Of these 047,103 volumes were issued from the bible house, and 031,025 in foreign lands. Of tho volumes issued from the biblo house 101,190 copies were sent to foreign r lands, and are not counted among the issues in foreign countries. Of the issues of 947,103 volumes from the bible house S-15,907 have been for the home supply. Washouts In Texas. El Paso, July 15. The rainfall the last few days has been unprecedented in this part of the country. Santa Fe trains arrived three days late owing tc washouts. The Texas and Pacific tracks for 10 miles near Big Springs were under water yesterday. Tho roads are all straightened out today. There is a flood in the Rio Grande river. Escaped From Jail. ureen J5AY, wis., .Jnly lo. George MeK-nzie, one of tho men first arrested in connection with the wholesale rob beries of cars on the Milwaukee road, escaped from jail last night. The tools used in making his escape were- furn ished by parties on the outside of the jail. McKenzio was accompanied in his escape by Henry Desmond, a short time prisoner. The other men in jail refused to leave. StriUc of Michigan 31 inert:. Isnnaiixo, July 15. The miners of Ishpeming and Negannee held a mass meeting today at Union park, midway between the two cities, and decided tc strike for increased wages. Delega tions of striking miners, headed by brass bands, visited tho various mines to influence the men. Five thousand men will bo out bv nightfall, and the strike may spread to other districts. Two 3Iay Die. Syracuse, Jiuv la. xne only men who are in danger of dying, a; a result ot tne Italian iracas last nignt, are Frank Darone, whose skull was crushed by a hatchet, and Mattica Viconncs, who received a bud cut in the abdomen, tho danger being from blood poisoning. Holland and Capolz will recover. Hotel nnd Steamer Burned. Lewiston, N. ., July 15. The steamer Gibola, of tho Niagara Naviga tion company, was entirely destroyed by fire last night. The engineer wa caught in tho engine room and burned to death. The hotel near the docks caught fire and was burned to the ground. Henderson's Victim Dies. San Francisco. Jnlv 15. Clarence the total j Barr, the Chinatown guide who was stabbed by C. B. Henderson, a travel ing salesman from Rochester, during the course of a row over the payment for drinks in the barroom of the Bald win hotel, died this morning. Death of Oeorce O. Keeler. Denver, July 15. A dispatch from Norwalk announces the death in that city of George O. Kceler, a prominent mining man and founder of tho Colo rado Mining exchange. Washington, July 15. The inter state commerce commission today granted an extension of time within which all railroads must equip theii cars with secure grab irons and hand holds in tho ends and sides of cars from July 1 until Dec. 1 next. Tho time foi complying with tho act requiring the use of drawbars with standard height on all cars has also been extended until Feb. 15, 1S9G. Nichols Law Upheld. Cincinnati, July 15. Judges Lurton and Taft today held tho Nichols state law valid, and sustained the state audi tor, treasurer, attorney general and the stato board of appraisers in tho assess ment for taxes made under tho Nichols law on telegraph, telephone and express companies. This law has been contested in the stato courts, and is now settled by this decision of the United State? court of appeals. It involves large assess ments from the companies to the state. Brico Behind a His Scheme. LrjCA, O., July 15. It is stated here on good authority that Senator "Brico is behind a big scheme to buy in the Ohio Southern railroad from tho receiver and build an extension from Lima to De troit, Mich., to parallel tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, which he failed to secure control of a year or so ago. The line will only be 10 miles longer than the present route. It is under stood tho right of way through this city was secured this morning. Short Line Foreclosure Ordered. Portland, Jnly 15. Jndge Bellinger today ordered a decree of foreclosure in the cae of the American Loan and Trnst company against the Oregon Short Lino aud Utah Northern receivers. Dividends For Depositor. Washington, July 15. Comptroller , of the Currency Eckels has declared dividends iu favor of tho creditors of in-1 solvent banks as follows: Ten per cent, the Oregon National bank of Portland; 10 per cent, the Evauston National bank of Evanstou, Ills. I Mrs. N. IC. Fairbank Dead. I Chicago, July 15. Mrs. N. K. Fair bank, wife of Nathaniel K. Fairbank, the millionaire, diod at her home here ; today. She had been ill for several j weeks, her death resulting from perito nitis. ; Rains Check Forest Fires. Midland, Mich., July 15. A soaking rain visited this section of the state last night, checking the flames. The settlers at Hubbard are out of danger for tho time being! New Torli Banker Commits Suicide. New York, July 15. Charles A. I Kimball, a broker, 01 years old, cora ( mitted suicide in his rooms in the Ho tel Empire by turning on the gas. Forest Fires Kxtincuished. Traverse City, Mich.. July 15. Heavy rains last night, tho first in six weeks, effectually extinguished all for est fires in this section. Defender Sails For Bristol. New York, July 15. The Defender went out this forenoon for a short spin. She sailed for Bristol this afternoon. California Pioneer Dead. Fresno, July 15. Cornelius Yager, one of the most noted of California's pioneers, died here last nijfht. HOKJi IIAS SEF.N A NEW X.IGD1T. At One Time Favored Free Coinage, hut Has Since Changed Ills Views. Washington, July 15. Secretary Hoke Smith's attention was called to day to an article published yesterday charging that he had been at one time an advocate of the free silver coinage and the subtrcasnry plans of the Farm ers' Alliance. It was said that five years aso ho pnblished a letter advocat ing theso views. Speaking on tho subject, the secre tary said: "My attention has just been called to tho publication of a letter written by mo in September, 1890, to Hon. W. L. Poek. and published at that time in the Atlanta Journal. Tho Jour nal was then openly opposing the sub- treasury schome and my personal oppo sition to it was well understood. The letter oioarly excluded the idea of committing me to all of tho seven propositions which it presented, although it was known that I did favor tho free coinage of silver. I was giving most of my attention to professional work at that time, and supposed with out thorough investigation that the free coinage of silver would carry the value of the silver bullion coined into a dollar to par, and also keep silver and gold dol lars upon a parity -with equal purchas ing power. Since that time I have given the subject much more study, and being thoroughly satisfied that the free, un limited and independent coinage of sil ver at the ratio of 10 to 1 would result in silver monometallism, I have for sev eral years openly opposed it. Missonri Silver Convention. St. Louis, July 15. The Democratic state central committeo today unani mously decided to hold a convention to consider the currency question. The place of meeting is Pertle Springs. Columbian Catholic Summer School. Madison, Wis., July 15. The Colum bian Catholic summer school is an as sured success. The first lecture today at the Fuller opera house, by Rev. P. J. Danehy of St. Paul, was attended by 400, and it is known as many more will arrive today and tomorrow. Father Danehy gave a brilliant address on tho origin aud development of tho canon. At the opening of tho exercises the ap proval and blessing of Pope Leo XIII on the school was read. Tho Latin orig inal was addressed to Cardinal Gibbons. Ask McNuIta to Cancel the Lease. Peoria, Ills., July 15. Tho owners of tho land on which are locatod the Monarch distillory and the Mound City distillery, near St. Louis, havo made a formal demand on Receiver McNulta for possession of their property and a cancellation of the lease, which they say is void on account of the recent supromo court decision. B. J. Greenhut, son of ex-President Greenhut, declared that this week other similar demands. lessees would make Carlisle Back at Their Desk. Washington, July 15. Secretary Carlisle and his son Logan, who has just returnod from Loudon, where he assisted in the completion and delivery to the Rothschilds of 131,000,000 iu the recent bond issue, were at their desks in tho treasury department today. The secretary has spent the last two weeks as the guest of Assistant Secretary Ham lin at Marison, Masd. Upper Missouri River Improvement.. Washington, July 15. Captain Hodges has made hi3 report on improve ments of the npper Missouri, above Sioux City. About $103,007 have been expended during the year, chiefly in re moving obstructions, dredging and work on the banks of the river at vari ous points.