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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1897.
During the month of April Ne
braska shipped to the South o5maha
stock yards 33,819 head of cattle.
92.121 hoffs ahd 17,589 sheep. This
is quite an increase over the ship
ments of April. 1897, and shows
that Nebraska is arain retting- on
her feet.
The Interstate Land Association
comprising- real estate men from
Illinois. Indiana, Iowa and Ne-
braska.held a convention in Omaha
this week. The object of the asso
ciation is for the purpose of procur
ing- the investment of capital in the
creation and development of lawful
enterprises in this state and else
where. About 150 delegates wen
present and it is auite likely the
convention will result beneficially
to Nebraska.
The south is now shipping- to
Europe large quantities of lumber.
Over forty of the largest sized
steamers'and sailing vessels from
all parts of the world are loading
with boards and timber at Ship
Island, off the coast of Biloxi.Miss.
The water is not deep enough to
come nearer the main land and find
a harbor, and the great rafts are
towed out to the vessels by tugs.
It is not an unusual sight to see
rafts nearly a quarter of a mile
long bobbing behind a tub on the
waves of the gulf.
It strikes The Tribune that the
state press is making much ado
over a small matter in criticizing
the board of managers of the state
fair for giving- an Omaha party the
right to publish the State Fair Bul
letin, instead of making adver
t'jjjg contracts with the state pa
pers. As we understand it, the Bul
letin costs the Board about $330 for
200,000 copies, and if they were to
distribute the $300 among the 528
papers of the state it would
amount to less than sixty cents to
each paper. So far as The Tri
bune is concerned it is willing to
give the state fair a liberal amount
of advertising free. The fair is for
the whole people of the state
and every citizen, should take a
lively interest in its success.
It now appears that the supreme
court steps in to prevent the error
or fraud of an enrolling clerk, or
those directing- the clerk, from
thwarting the will of the people as
expressed in general appropriation
bills. According- to a decision of
the supreme court in 1893, the
change in the salary appropriation
bill fixing- the salary of superinten
dents of the three asylums at $2,500
each, when the legislature had
agreed on $2,000, was all for naught.
No one can benefit by the unauthor
ized change. This is only one in
stance where the supreme court
comes in to save the people from
the men who held sway in the state
house last winter. There will be
more instances before the work of
the legislature has undergone a
test. This particular decision of
the court was brought out by a
similar case in 1893 when populists
had a majority in the legislature
and an appropriation of $15,000 for
impeachment expenses was raised
in the enrolling room to $25,000.
Journal.
France in her determination to
protect the Catholics of Turkey
at least shows that she has
not been sold and delivered wholly
to the interests of the Mohamme
dan. She would have been still
wiser had she resolved to protect
the Christians of Crete, and not
thrown her influence with Turkey
as against Greece. The great
christian powers of Europe willJ
have a large account to shift to
profit and loss when they come to
balance their ledgers. The greed
for power and spoils has blinded
them, and under the false cry of
"the peace of Europe" they have
stood still and raised no hand for
rescue while the Mohammedan
Turk has well nigh exterminated
the christians of Armenian and
have played a passive part in the
subjugation of Crete and Greece.
Inter Ocean.
The Queen has left her place of
winter sojourn in the South of
France to return to throne and peo
ple. From the moment she reaches
Lfdhdon the homage of her subjects
will take on new fervor, to culmin
ate in the loyal demonstrations
throughout the vast empire on
June 22. It her majesty gets
through the big show in health.and
her ministers commemorate it by
making noblunder-of consequence
in the land-grab game of Europe,
all will have been well. Ex,
EVENTS OF THE WEEK
The TTar at a Glance
'l:o Turks arc preparing to besiege
.area.
Osman Pasha is on his way to Janina,
Epinn, with 30.C00 additional Turkish
troops.
M..Ralli, the new Greek prime minis
ter, has announced his intention of
calling to arms every able bodied man
in Greece.
An Athens dispatch says Greeks oc
cupied the heights of Pentepigadia,
norm oi Arra, and about half wav be
tween that place and Janina, in Epirus,
ana entrenched themselves there.
The headquarters staff of the Greek
army at Jfharsala has been completely
changed. General Macris and Colonels
Saponulsa, Mastropas and Antoniades
have resigned and started for Athens.
An Athens dispatch says a battle was
fought at Velestino between a Turkish
force of 8,000 and General Smolensky's
brigade. The dispatch states that the
Turks were repulsed with enormous
losses.
The port of Banes, in Santiago de
Cuba, held by General Calixto Garcia
and 6,000 Cubans ever since the juau
rada landed Roloff's expedition, has
been recovered by the Spanish combined
army and naval forces under General
Gomez Kuberte and Admiral .Navarro.
Turkish army at Elassona has entered
Greek territory from the vicinity of
Damasi and has captured the town of
Zarkos, au important Greek base of op
eration, about 18 miles west of Larissa
aud about half way between that place
and Trikhaln. Large quantities of am
munition fell into the hands of tho
Turks.
There are numerous iudications that
the Kalh ministry intends to assume
greater direct military and naval con
trol, and no longer to divide the re
sponsibility between the ministry and
the court, The news of the victory at
Yelestino has increased General Smo
lenski's popularity and he is now re
garded as the real hero of the campaign.
A foreign officer who saw the fight says
that the Turks numbered 2,000 and the
Greeks 8,000.
In Foreign Land.
The queen regent of Spain, Maria
Christina, is suffering from nervous
prostratiou.
A collision occurred off Girdlencs
lighthouse, Scotland, between the Brit
ish steamers Coldynee and Gringoe.
The Coldynee sank, and 11 of its crew
were drowned.
There has been a succession of terrific
earthquake shocks in the Leeward
islands, killing many people and doing
great damage to property. The greatest-
loss of life is at Guadeloupe.
Mav day passed quietly throughout
France. There was no general stoppage
of work. In Loudon a feature of the
celebration in Hyde park was children's
choir singiug socialist songs.
The queen regent of Spain signed a de
cree providing for the application of tho
agreed upon reforms lor the Island of
Cuba. Her majesty's action was due to
the receipt of a cable message from Cap
tain General "Weyler announcing that
the western part of the island is pacified.
Cuban troops, led by General Robi,
defeated the Spanish column of General
Rey. The Spaniards numbered 1,300, or
over twice as many as tne insurgents
who were pitted against them. Rey's
rout was so complete that he has been
removed from his command by Weyler,
The slaughter of tho Spanish troops by
the dynamite gun was terrible.
At Pans, fire broke out at 4 p. m. May
4. m a crowded charitable bazaar in
the Rue Jean-Gongon, at which the
Duchess d'Uses and other well known
atronesses were .present. Many peo
ple were burned to death, and there was
a terrible panic, during which a num
ber of persons were hurt. One hundred
dies have been recovered, 100 injured
peopie are using careu ior Dy pnysic
ians, and many are reported missing.
Crimes and Casualties.
Newark, Arlc, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire.
Dr. Goodmauson, alleged wife
soner, is on trial at Ponca. Neb.
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The old Sentinel building, one of the
landmarks of Indianapolis, was par
tially destroyed by fire.
John Carlson of Bunch, I. T., died at
the Bethany hospital, Kansas City, and
no friends of his can be found.
During a thunder storm at Sturgeon,
Mo., the three-story residence of W. T.
Old was destroyed by lightning.
Ex-Senator Richard Coke of Texas
has been stricken with paralysis at
"Waco and his condition is critical.
Samuel H. Cole, a prominent stock
man near Fort Scott, Kau.j was stricken
with paralysis, which will result in
death.
William Epps of Leadville, Colo., a
colored jockey, whipped his 10-year-old
nephew so severely that it is thought he
will die.
Fire at Caldwell. O., destroyed $60,
000 worth of property in the ceuter of
the business portion of the town. Insur
ance about $40,000.
Ono hundred and nineteen deaths
from pneumonia in New York city are
attributed to the exposure of the chill
wind on Grant day.
Elizabeth Sandt, an old lady of Kan
sas City has been sentenced to six
months in the county jail for making a
false affidavit in a pension case.
Reports from many towns in south
western Michigan say an earthauako
shock was felt for several seconds. At
Holland, the front of a brick building
fell into the street.
A Hindoo calling himself tho Brahm
acharin Bobhabhiskshu, nearly created
a riot at the meeting of tho Woman's
congress at Sau Fraucisco by denounc
ing the women of the west as savages
and declaring that he had been in
sulted. An uuknowji old man blew out his
brains at Si ux City. In order that his
hand might iot tunable when he aimed
his revolver he made a rest for it by
Ecrewiug a gimlet into a telegraph pole.
The name "B. Deitzer" was found in
side his collar.
A man came iuto Larimore, N. P.,
from Elm Grove township, giving in
formation that three sons of Knuto
Hillstead were murdered last Saturday
by August Norman, farm hand, who
then criminally assaulted Mrs. Hill
stead and escaped.
A waterspout struck the farmhouse of
a farmer uamed Brawders, on White
Oak creek across in Tennessee from
Monticello, Ky., demolishing the hpuso
and killing the farmer, his wife aud
ono child. Two farm hands, who were
sleeping npstairs, were so badly man
gled that they died within a few houra
after the sheet of watcF struck tho
house.
For the morder of an old man, a child
and a young woman, the ravish
ment of the two girls, the burning of
ihe home of their victims, two of tho
bodies being consumed in tho flames,
sixyouug negroes were Friday night sens
to their doom by tho hands of an in
furiated mob of negroes, the victims
also being negroes, at Sunnysifle, Wal
ter county, Tex.
The greatest fire that has visited
Pittsburg since 1854 started in the cel
lar of a grocery store shortly after mid
night Sunday and was soon beyond
control and rapidly spread from bnild-
Ihg to bunaing uHtiT lo.DOJ.OCO worth
of property was destroyed. Among the
buildings destroyed were Jenkins
wholesale grocery establishment,
Home's six-story dry Roods establish
ment- Home's office buildiner, the Dn-
quesne theater and the Methodist Book
TIV.H Tao ' Tt-57??n rr in
concern, and Hall .tiros, nuiiaing, in
which the American Press Association
had its office. Two firemen are missing.
Railroad Interests.
A. A. Allen has been appointed vice
president and general manager of the
Missouri, liansa8 and Texas, to succeeu
T. C. Pardy, resigned.
An interstate mass convention is to be
held at Topeka or Wichita in June in an
effort to compel railroads to reduce
freight rates to the gulf.
The state Board of railway commis
sioners has taken preliminary steps
toward securing a general conference of
Kansas railways on freight rates.
The Union Pacific annual report
shows a decrease in income for the year
of $747,032, notwithstanding an increase
in freight and passenger business.
The Order of Railway Conductors is
backing Michael" Kelley, a discharged
conductor on the M., K. and T., in his
prosecution of Assistant Manager Allen
tor blacklisting, to-abolish tne system.
National Capital Notes.
Senator Orville H. Piatt of Connecti
cut was married to Mrs. Jennie P. Hoyt
of Upper Montclair, N. J.
The supreme court adjourned until
May 10, when it will assemble to deliver
opinions, but not to hear arguments.
The revised tariff bill was reported to
the senate Tuesday, with many changes.
The retroactive clause was stricken from
the senate bill. Hides are transferred
to the dutiable list and the tax on beer
is increased.
The monthly statement of tho comp
troller of the currency shows that on
April 30 the total circulation of na
tional bank notes was 23a,h0i!,44, a
gain for the year of $8,700,899 and a loss
for the month of $90(5,650.
Tho members of the international bime
tallic conference recently appointed by
the president in behalf of the United
States expect to sail from New York on
May 8. Thev will go direct to London,
but after a brief stay will proceed to
Paris.
President ordered suspension for four
days of the mandate sentencing Joseph
R. Duulop, proprietor of the Chicago
Dispatch, to two years in the penitentiary
for sending obscene matter through tho
mails. Mr. Dunlop made a personal
appeal to the president for this length
of time in which to arrange his busi
ness affairs before going to serve his
term in Joliet.
The consul general at Neuvo Laredo,
Mexico, reports to the department of
state a visit to that place from the dele
gation of the Gulf and Interstate Trans
portation company appointed by the
governors of Kansas, Nebraska, Mis
souri, Oklahoma and Texas They
were particularly impressed with the
opportunities which exist for the corn
trade. Corn is a favored article for
bod of the people of Mexico, where it is
worth a Mexican dollar per bushel.
Commercial and Industrial.
Extensive importations of sugar are
being made into mis country tnrough
the New Orleans port.
The Wisconsin Beet Sugar company,
which has just completed a plaut at
Menominee Palls, Wis., has assigned.
In thirty days Oshkosh will have in
operation tho first grass twine factory
in tho world. It will employ 300 hands
and will make binding twine- from
marsh grass, something never nttempted
before.
Congressman James Cooney of the
Seventh Missouri district is formally
petitioned to use hissntmost endeavors
to bring about a congressional investiga
tion of the affairs of the First National
bank at Sedalid, Mo.
The closing of the leading bank of
Loda, Ills., and supposed suicide of
Banker Sheldon, was followed by the
failure of four business firms, Slocum &
Bradley, hardware; Gray & Swanson,
dry goods; N. Peterson, farm imple
ments; W. G. Kinsman, grain.
The receipts of cattle at the Omrfba
market for the last week have been
1,400 more than the week previous.
There were received 85,1? hogs, or an
increase of 18,000 as compared with the
corresponding week a year ago. The
sheep receipts wero about 12,000 more
tnan tne corresponding weeic one year
ago.
Dun's weekly review of trade says: In
spite of the moderate improvement in
most of the great industries, business is
disappointing. Expectations of a speedy
ortr nf tlio vrnr in Tnrnno f 1-irrmrrVi TS-i tT
ish victory have failed to depress grain
Demands of Austria and China have
caused exports of $6,f0'J,000 gold, iner
chandise imports are greatly increased
and final action of congress on the rev
enue question seems more remote.
Numbered With the Dead.
Edwin F. Thorne, the actor, died in
New York after a long illness.
Ex-Congressman John J. Berry died
suddenly at Portland, Me., aged 8G
years.
Horace H. Ayres, who has been iden
tified with the bistory of Keokuk, la.,
for many years, is dead..
John V. Crnm, the famous sprinter,
died in the Das Moines hospital as the
result of an operation for appendicitis.
Colonel Jesso R. Peyton, who was
known as the "Father of Centennials,"
died at his homo in Haddoufield. N. J.
Judge Hammond, assistant treasurer
of the United States at Baltimore, died
at the residence of his son, Mr. Ormond
Hammond, Jr.
M. C. Bristol, superintendent of con
struction of the western division of the
Western Union Telecraoh company.
is dead at his home in Chicago.
Howard C, Hackett, sportinsr editor
of te New York World, died suddenly
Friday. He was 3! years old and one of
tho best known newspaper men in the
United States,
Jfigccllaneons.
The anti-Sunday base ball law was
finally defeated in the Iowa house.
Western states are contributing liber
ally to the famine sufferers in India.
The Chicago drainage canal bill passed
the Illinois house by a vote of 82 to 39.
Oue hundred and eleven negroes wero
baptized in the river at St. Loui3 Sun
day morning.
The Iowa legislature in joint conven
tion elected E. C. Ebersolo of Tama ed
itor of the new code.
A dispatch from larissa says that the
fighting between the Greeks and Turks
at Yelestiuo continues.
A call has been issued in Alabama for
the meeting of the free silver Republic
ans at Birmingham, May 16.
The Delaware legislature has had a i
sensation brought about by newspaper
charges of corruption and boodliug.
The sixth biennial snpreino conclave
of the HcptosopUs of tho United $tate?
will bo held at Louisville, gy., this
week.
The peace treaty was defeated by the
senate by a voto of 4K to 20, net the nec
essary two-thirds required by the con
stitution. A e'eck garden, whoso flowers will
tell the time of day, is being planned by
Instructor Ousteihut of tho California
university.
Jojin Carertcll, while hunting Jor
mushrooms in ElwooC, ilo., found two
bars of gold, valued at between $30,000
and $35,000.
Ben Brown, Kentucky Derby candi
date from Purst Bros, stables, was the
winner of the Blue Ribbon stakes at
Newport, Ky.
I Tlin 4-ri-rrv r
The town of Pulaski, Va.. was severe
ly shaken by an earthquake. No dam
age resulted, but tho people were terri
bly frightened.
v Colorado college, at Colorado Springs,
received an anonymous gift of $10,000
to be used in the erection of a building
for young women.
A large cave has just been discovered
in Kendall county, Texas, in one of the
compartments of which were found
many human skeletons.
The amended .mulct law containing
the provision for legalizing manufactur
ing in Iowa will be signed by the gov
ernor and become a law Oct. 1.
Bob Fitzsimmons was sued for 20,000
damages by a man who was scared into
nervous prostration by his dog, Yarrum,
a few days ago at Pittsburg, Pa.
The Tennessee Centennial exposition
at Nashville was opened at noon Satur
day with appropriate ceremonies in the
presence of many thousands of people.
Richard Hysell of Kansas City has
sued Swift & Co. for $5,000 damages for
injuries caused by microbes in cleaning
dried blood and rust from an overhead
iron doorway.
The resignation of .William M. Aiken,
supervising architect of the treasury,
has been asked by Secretary Gage. It
is understood tho reasons for this re
quest are not political.
The committee having the question in
charge selected Denver as the place for
holding of the Y. M. C. A. convention
in 189.9. London, Out., gets tho confer
ence of the secretaries.
Rev. C. Hawley Fenn, pastor of tho
First Congrr gational church at Leaven
worth delivered a very sensational ser
mon against the gambling of some so
ciety women of that city.
It is common talk in Chicago society
circles that Marshal Field is engaged to
the widow of the late General Phil
Sheridan and that the marriage will
take place in the near future.
President Robinson of the Cleveland
base ball club states that he'intends to
lot his team play Sunday games, not
withstanding tho declaration of tho
mayo- that the law would bo enforced.
The Iowa senate passed tho crimes
bill, including the provisions which pro
hibit ball playing on Sunday, selhncr
cigarettes, exhibiting kinetoscope pic
tures of prize fights and pool selling on
races.
Joe Patchen, 'J:03, the Patcheu Wilkes
pacer, iornieriy owned by Uolonel Tay
lor, aud campaigned so successfully
by Jack Uurry, was sold at the Splan
Ncwgass sale Tuesday for lo,000 to J
W. Marks of Chicago.,
SENATE REJECTS PEACE TREATY.
Turns Down Arbitration Agreement of
Olncyand Panncefote.
Washington, May 6. Tho senate
Wednesday, by the voto of yeas; 43
nays, cb, reiuseu to ratiiy tne genera
arbitration treaty between tho United
States and Great Britain negotiated by
Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Paunce
fote. The rules require a majority o
two-thirds for ratification of treaties,
Hence four more a ifirmativo votes would
have been required to secure a favorable
result.
A total of G9 votes was cast, leaving
19 senators who did not respond. The
pairs so far as obtainable were as fol
Jows: Two affirmative senators being
paired with pno negative senator m
most instances. Chandler and Clark
for, with Teller against; Tillman and
Turner for, with Chilton against
Sewell and Earle for, with Mantle
against. Senator George was paired for
the treaty and Senator Berry against it
Pairs were announced for the following
Aldrich, Cannon, Elkins, Gorman,
Murphy, Wolcott, Kenney and Allen
House Sustains Tlccd.
Washington, -ftiay 4. "Tne issue
was made," as Speaker Reed put it iu
tho house Monda, on the speaker's
policy of postponing the appointment of
committee. Jerry Simpson of Kansas
brought it on by an attack upon tho
speaker which moved Mr. Reed to
challenge him tp prqposoa resolution
instructing the speaker to appoint the
committees, Tho Kansas evaded this,
challenge, but Mr. Ijowis, a new Domr
ocratio momber from Washington, took
up the gauntlet which the speaker had
thrown down and moved the adoption
of a resolution of the tenor suggested by
Mr. Reed. Then Fleming (Dem., Ga.)
offered a substitute embodying the in
struefcious in different terms, and Mr.
Diugley, the Republican leader, to make
the issue plain, as he said, submitted
another substitute permitting the
speaker to "report the committees ini
mediately."
When the voto was taken on the
proposition the speaker was sustained
by practically the solid vote of his party,
assisted by 33 Democrats uuder the
leadership of Mr. Bailey. The resolu
tion was defeatcJ, yeas 52, nays 124;
present aud not voting, 1. ' :
Snae Passes Freon!estead Bijl.
Washington, May The senato
passed the bill to provide free homes on
the public lauds for actual settlers,
known as the "freo homestead" bill;
yeas, 42; nays, 11.
Date For State Contest.
Norfolk, Neb., May 4. Tho dato for
holding the state declamatory oontest at
Fremont has.been announced by Secre
tary W. J. Dean of this city as May 14.
Tho Third Judge Chosen.
Lincoln, Mayf. Governor Holcomb
completed the list of judges of the
Omaha municipal court by the appoint
ment of Harry E. Buruam to be the
third judge.
Compilation or New Lawi;.
Lincoln, Neb., May 2. A. E. Shel
don has been employed to arrange for
publication tho acts passed by the last
session of the legislature aud signed by
the governor..
Nebraska Pele'gate fo Slqhlle.
West Point, Neb., May 0.r-Yery
Rev. Joseph Ruesiugof this city left for
Mobile, Ala., to attend the biennial su
preme council of the Catholic Knights
of America, which convenes in that
city nest Tuesday. He represents tho
state of Nebraska in the council.
Marvelous Eesults.
From a letter written bv Hev. J. Gun-
dormnn, of Dimondalp, Micb., we are per-
nmiea to mane tbis extract: "1 have
no hesitation in recommending Dr.King's
Npw piscovery, as the results were al
most marvelous jn ihe case of my wife.
While J wnspa6torotbeBaptistChurch
at Rives Jjipctipg she wasprotight down
with Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would
last hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she could not survive thorn.
A friend recommended Dr. King's New
Discovery; it was quick in its work nnd
highly satisfactory in results." Trial
bottles free at A.F. Streitz's Drugstore.
Eegular size 50 cents and $1.00. 1
TURKS DRIVEN BiCK.
TWO
NOTABLE
ACHIEVED
GREEK VICTORIES
IN ONE DAY.
Grcclc Brigade at Velestino Drenched
With the Blood of tho Enemy Crown
Prince Constantino and Nicholas In tho
Van of Battle Fighting: Courageously. .
Volo, Thessaly, May 6. Tkero was a
two hours' battle today at Velestino
The Greeks maintain the same positions
as before. Fighting was suspended yes
terday to allow both sides to bury their
dead. The Turkish loss is estimated at
1,000.
Jjondon, May u. Tne Athens corre
spondent of The Daily Mail says: Ten
thousand Turks attacked the Greek po
sition at velestino. The fire ceased at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and it is
evident that tho Greeks have met with
great success. There has been great
slaughter at Pharsalos, where the battle
is proceeding. Crown Prince Constan
tine telegraphs as to the engagement at
Velestino: "With God's help our side
has conquered."
Tho Athens correspondent of The
Times says: Simultaneously with the
attack at Velestino the Turks attacked
the Greek outposts at Tatar near Phar
salos. It is said that both attacks havo
been repulsed by the Greeks. General
Smolenski says: "The brigade at Vel
estino is deluged with blood."
Tho Athens correspondent of Tho
- Standard says: There is great rejoicing
over the receipt of the official telegram
from Pharsalos, saying the Turks have
been repulsed and that tho Greeks hold
their position after a three hours battle.
The dispatch says that Crown Prince
Constantine and Prince Nicholas fought
courageously in the front rank, risking
their lives a hundred times, and that
they had an ovation from the whole
army when the fighting was over.
The government, forwarded to them
its warmest congratulations. Tho king
and the cabinet havo also addressed a
manifesto to the troops, congratulating
them upon their courago and patriotic
devotion.
The public is overjoyed and is already
forgetting the earlier blunders of the
campaign.
American Man-of War at Phalerum.
Athens, May C An American man-of-war
has joined the international
squadron at Phalerum. The Greek gov
ernment has protested to the powers
against the acts of violence and rapine
being committed by the Turks in Thes
saly. .
Turkish Warships Go to Sea.
Salonica, May G. It is officially an
nounced that eight Turkish warships
have left the Dardanelles and, after
proceeding to the Cassandra peninsula,
sailed for the Island of Lemnos.
AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
Caused by a Fire In a Fashionable Paris
Paz tar.
Paris, May 5. Firo broke out at 4
o'clock this afteimoou iu a crowded
charitable bazaar in the Rue Jean
Gougon, at which Duchess d'Uzes and
other well known patronesses were
present. From 1,500 to 1,800 people
were panic stricken and the number of
deaths which followed cannot be esti
mated. One hundred corpses were laid
out in the Palais de Industrie and scores
are believed to bo beneath" tlio rains.
The building burned like tinder and
$vas soon in ashes.
A policeman who was pn duty at the
doors of the bagaar says that from ,500
to 1,800 people were jn tho building
when the fire broke out. He adds thaj;
the alarm caused a general panic, fal
lowed by a terrible rush for the doors,
which were soon choked with people,
thus preventing the escape of niany
peoplo who might otherwise have been
saved. The strong trampled upon the
weak, the young crushed the old to the
floor, heartrending cries of fear arose on
all sides, soon followed by shrieks of
agony, as tne names swept onward be
hind the crowd struggling for the
dbprs.
iiefore tuo hrmpmen could arrive, the
ropf of thp agaar crushed in, burying
numbers pf those who had been uuable
to make the'r egress from the biding.
Pitfjiburjr Has a fa.OOQ.OOQ Fire.
Pittsburg, May 0 The greatest fire
that has visited this city since tho
memorable one of 1884 started shortly
after midnight in the immense whole
sale grocery establishment of Thomas
C. Jenkins on Pehn avenue and Liberty
street, and at 2:3(.o clock was still burn
ing fiercely Three large blooks,. ex
tending from Liberty to Peun avenue,
and from Fifth street to Sixth street,
have been reduced to smouldering
rums. Tne loss will exceed 3,000,000
and is well covered by iusnrauce.
Among tne ouiiumgs destroyed are
Jenkins' wholesale grocery establish
ment, Horne.'s six-story dry-goods
establishment, Home's office building.
tne JJuquesne tneater and tne Methodist
jjqok pqiicern.
Hucjr3 cigar factory and Hall Bros.'
building, in which tho American Press
'Association has its offices, next
fell, and they wero quickly fol
owed by , the Duquesue theater,
Methodist JJook concern and the
Surprise Clothing store. The latter
was au immense livQtopy building,
running oacs a uoptn 01 reet,
1 1 1 1 f ..aa m
A number of fiiremon were injured
by falling walls and live wires, but none
of them are seriously hurt. Fireman
George Acheson, who was one of three
men in Cecil alley when the Jenkins
wall fell, is missing and is supposed to
be under the debris. The names of the
firemen hurt are Mike Daly, Elmer
Crocow, George Meelrin, William
Erwmand liobert Badger. All were
taken to the hospital.
Slakes a Clean Sweep.
Ixxpojis, May 2. Tha state board of
public lands and building has ap-
nnintpri T)r. "FT. A. frivnns. of Wvmnrn.
tpsppceed Dr. Fall V superintendent
.' Li c f -, 4 k
of the institute for tho feeble-minded at
Beatrice, Mrs. M. . Tiffany, pf Lin-
coin, to Bucceed Mrs, "Woods as matron,
and C. W. Phelps, of Dundy county, to
succeed 1. A. knendan as steward.
Knights Templars in Session.
Lincoln, May 2. The grand com-
mandery of Knights Templar of the
state elected the following officers:- E.
C. Webster,Hastings,grand commander;
W. K. "Williams, York, deputy grand
gommander; John Divire, Beatrice,
grand generalissimo; G. "W. Lininger,
1t 'ill-" t-' slii x-r i-i
Omaha, grand recorder, 3?hp meeting
of the grand commandery adjourned at
noon after fixing the next meeting at
Omaha on the second Tuesday after
Easter 1898.
eW4 - v. yu.
Omaha, errand treasurer: W. R. Bow6n.
REFUSES TO QUIT.
Present Official Allcccs Recently Elected
Ono Is Ineligible.
Omaha, May 2. An exciting mayor
altv contest is threatened here, for
William J. Broatch, Mayor of Omaha,
will decline to surrender his office to
Colonel Frank E. Moores, whom the Re
publicans elected last week. Mayor
Broatch claims that Mr. Moores is in
eligible to the office of mayor because,
as he asserts, Moores is in default of
public money, which the statutes de
clare is a bar. The specific default to be
alleged, it is said, is Mr. Moores' failure
to pay over money to the school fund
collected by him whilo he was district
court clerk.
BARTLEY IN POLICE COURT.
Ex-State Treasurer Gives Bonds to Ap
pear at Next Term of District Court.
Omaha, April 30. Joseph S. Bartley,
ex-state treasurer, was arraigned in po
lice court on an information charging
the embezzlement of $201,884.05 of pub
lie funds. He waived a preliminary
hearing, and was held to the district
court of Douglas county in bonds in the
sum of $50,000. The necessary bonds
men accompanied the prisoner to polico
court, and the bail bond was immedi
ately filled out. The signers were W.
A. Paston, E. H. Townley and C. Bevin
Oldfield. The complaint covers nine
pages of legal cap and is made up of
eight counts against tho ex-treasurer,
covering the embezzling of tho money
on warrants to the amount of $180,
101.75, with interest at 5 per cent, in al.
$5201,300.
DR. GOODMANSON
CONVICTED.
Charged
Wtth Killing Ills
Wife With
Strychnine.
Poxca, Neb., May 6. The arguments
in the noted wife poisoning case against
Dr. J. Sidney Goodmauson wero con
cluded yesterday afternoon at 5:15 and
the prisoner about two hours later was
found guilty and sentenced to imprison
ment for life. On Sept. 26, 1894,
the wife of Dr. J. Sidney Goodmauson,
a dentist residing at Pender, suddenly
died of what was believed at the time
to be strychnine poisoning. Her death
occurred iu her husband's office. Tho
drug was supposed to havo been handed
to her by her husband in a glass of
water and the theory of the state is
that by means of it he murdered her.
Her illness lasted but about 15 minutes.
The excitement that followed the de
fendant's arrest was intent e and such
intensity has grown with time.
The body was exhumed and the vital
organs sent to the famous chemist, Dr.
Walter S. Haines of Rush Medical col
lege, for a chemical examination. The
husband of the deceased was arrested
and a preliminary examination held, as
the result of which ho was sent to jail
without bail to await tho action of the
district court of Thurston county.
At this time the defendant made ap
plication for a chaugo of venue on the
ground that the people of the vicinity
were strougly prejudiced against him
and that he could not be given a just
rial. , The motion was not resisted by
the state and District Judge R. E.
Evans sent the case to Dixou county for
trial on April 27, the defendant mean
time remaining in jail without bonds.
Says the Story Is a Fake.
Omaha, May 4. Attorney General
Smyth denies the story printed in The
Bee that tho state will sue to recover
from the Omaha National bank the sam
q'f $201,884 paid to ex-Tieasurer Bart-
Jey fpr the sinking fund warrant. He
says the story is a fake, made ont -i
whple plotb."
Faf qrs Farneri"! Mptnals.
JjIxcpLif, May 2. State Auditor Gor?
nell has made a ruHug whfpb affects th
farmers' mutnal insurance companies
of the state very materially, inasmuch
as it allows them to extend their busi
ness. Tha auditor holds that under tho
act of 1891, the farmers' mutual law,
these companies can insure country
churches, country school houses and
country parsonages.
Old Illinois Mason Dies.
Eokomq, tils'.", May "6. Charles K.
pridges, "the gldest Masqn in Illinois
and probably i the LTuited States, is
dead. He wa.s bppn i Gonupctiput
3b eb. 14, !f)2o, and was an actiye worker
with the Draff, as deputy grand lecturer
in tlio early days of Masonry in Illinois.
It has been discovered that to bury a
man up to nis uecK in wet sann is a
practically certain cure for apparent
death from an electric shock.
WHEAT CLOSES AT AN ADVANCE.
Weak Liverpool Cables Overcome by
Crop Damage Report.
Chicago, May 5. Wheat showed great
weakness for a time today, but later recovered
a &gc loss and advanced ?c besides. We3k
Liverpool cables were the main cause of the
weakness and crop damage reports tho later
strength. Corn and oats wero bcno3tt-d to
fhe strength bf HJC and c respectively. Pro
visions' closed unchanged to 7Jfc higher.
.vyiuiAx jniy, w?ic; pepc, ixc.
ppRtfrJnly. 21Jc 1 8flp,c
PATSJnly. lTmilXc: Sept., 17&-318C
EOBK-Jnlj $a.00; Sept., fa8iV$.
LABD-July, S.05; Sept., UAm. 15.
BIBS-July. S1.62&: Sept., t.(35a4.C7W.
Cash quotations: No. 2 red. wheat, 87S8c;
No. 3 red. 76&T8c: No. 2 spring. 70a71c: No, 3
eFRi 2iHa; No. 2 patg, lJHft.
Spntjf Ojijalia lve Stock.
Bouf h Omaha, May 5.-TTLB-:Bocoipt5,
J.700; JOc higher: native beef stpers,
4.8J; western steers, SAyoSl.tX); fcas steers,
Sa30fi4-40; cows and heifers, f3.00.34.00; can-
ners, ii.io&z.vj; stocKers ana ieeaer. s'.wj
4.70; calves, $3.505.75; bulla, stugfi etc., 5-50
08.50.
HOGS Beceipts, 6.CO0; 2H'3J lower: heavy.
$3.65Sa70; xn'xed, $3.653.70; light, $3.7053.75;
bulk of sales, 3.70.
SHEEP Beceipts, none: steady: fair to
choice natives, i'J.7 Qi &t; fair to choice west
erns, SiaiOO; common and stock sheep.5J.00
4.00; Iambs, 5J.oU(go.3U.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, May 5. HOGS Beceipts, 20, 00;
weak and oc lower than yesterday morning:
licht. S303.95: mixed, SSS&Oorlheavy.S.'.Ja
Q4MW: rouch, S3.433.G0.
'PBvA)llpir &,
higher: beeves $3.753.ia; cOwa and h
t.; s JT -VHJ, c.,o,, m.-
shade
heifers,
51.90a4.&: iexas steers, X20S4.i;" stockera
knd feeders. W.4o4.4a
6HEEP4Be-eiijts, ' Ir.ooj; stqady; natives.
82.751S1-25; western's, &40&4".'d5; Iamb's,' $3.50
e$.4Q,
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Mecca Compound and possesses all of its
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absorbiop reaches- all the inflamed
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Council Bluffs, Iowa. For sale by A. F.
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OMAHA'S MAYOR
REP0ET TARIFF BILL;
I
BENATE COMMITTEE MAKco many;
CHANGES IN THE MEASURE.
Balses Tax on Uecr licet bn;ar
chincry Free Transfers Hides to the,
Dutiable Xlst Clanse TThlch Strikes the;
Bounty I'aylngr Countries.
I
"WAsmxGTOK.May o.--Senator Aldrich?
presented the tariff bill to the senate to-
day and gavo notice that it would De
called up on Tuesday, the 18th insfc."
Tho time for tho bill to tako effect i3
made July 1, 1897, instead of May 1, as
provided in the house, and the words in
the first paragraph, "or withdrawn for
consumption," aro stricken out.
The sugar schedule is as follows:
Sugars not above .N o. IP, Dutch
standard in color, tank bottoms, syrups
of cane juice and of beet melada, con
centrated melada, -concrete and concen
trated molasses, testing by the polari
scope above 87 and not above 88 degrees,
seventy-nine hundredths of 1 cent per
pound, and for every additional degree
shown by the polariscopic test two hun
dredths of 1 cent per pound, and frac
tions of a degree in proportion. Sugar
above No. 1G Dutch standard in color,
and sugar that has goue througliTa pro
cess of refining one and sixteen hun
dredths of 1 cent per pound, and in ad
dition thereto, on all tho foregoing 35
per ceutum ad valorem.
A duty is levied on tea at the rate of
10 cents per pound until Jan. 1, 1900;
after 1900 it is admitted free of duty.
Duty on Hides.
The following is the provision in re
gard to hides, which are transferred
from the frco list: Hides of cattle, raw
or uueured, whether dry, salted or
pickled, 1 cents per pound, provided ,
that upon all leather exported, made
from imported hides, thero shall be al
lowed a drawback equal to the amount
of duty paid on such hides.
Tho senate has increased the internal
revenue duty on beer by changing sec
tion 3339 of the revised statutes to road
as ioiiows: until Jan. 1, jyixj, thero .
shall be paid on all beer, lager "beer, ale,
porter and other similar fermented liq
uors, browed or manufactured, and sold
or rcmoyed for consumption or s.uq
within the United States by whatever
name such liquors may bo called, a tax
of $1.44 for every barrel containing nob
more than 31 gallons; and after Jan. 1,
1900, there shall be paid a tax of $1 per
barrel on eyery barrel of such beer,
lager beer, ale, porter and pther similar
fermented liquors, (The present rate
is $1.)
Many and important changes were,
made by the senate tariff subcommitteq
in the wool and woolen schedule a3
passed by the houso, First class wools
were reduced from 11 cant3 per pound,
as provided in tho house hill, to 8 cents
per pound, and second cla33 wools from
12 to 9 cents, whereas the duties on
wools of the third class were raised.
The dividing lino in this latter class was
placed at 10 cents value, wools under
that value being made dutiable at tho
rate of 4 cents per pound, instead of 62
per cent ad valorem, as in the houso
bill. "Wools valued at more than 10
cents per pound were placed at 7 cents
per pound, instead of 50 per cent ad
valorem. The wool growers failed to
secure all the changes which they do-
sired in classification, but it is under
stood that the rate fixed on tho wools
themselves are satisfactory to them.
The house provision keeping in force
Hawaiian reciprocity is stricken out.
The Great Eastern as a Shojv $bJu.
The last days, of the fJJrcat Eastern -wero
certainly sad, considering the purs
pose for which she was designed a nd
the great work she did in cable laying.
For somo time before she was broken
up on the mud of the River Mersey,
near Liverpool, she was on view as a
show ship. One firm of Liverpool cloth
iers hired her for a se:ison, and iu addi
tion to using her for its advertising
purposes mado use of her for catch pen
ny shows. In tho largo cable tank a cir
cus was fitted up, and performances
given at so much a headwTiile other
exhibitions of the Coney. Island typo
ere spread all pver her decklrNew
Yorfc Sun.
New Color In Silks.
Gotham-i-Chicago people believe in
booming their own town.
Church What have yen heard now?
"Why, I went into a dry goods storo
while I was out there, and a lady came
in and asked if they had any uilo green
Bilk."
"And did they?"
"No. The clerk tcld herr they had
seme Chicago river brewn dlk though."
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