THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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XV. XV. 8ANIHCUS, I'liblUhcr.
NEMAHA, NEUUASKA.
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THE WOULD AT LARGE.
Summary of tho Dally Nowo.
WAHIIINOTON NOTICS.
PjlF.fllDKNT Cl.KVRI.AMI OH tho 2.1(1
tscnt to the Bcnuto n uiensufro doalininp;
to furninh the correspondence of tho
ntuto department In regard to tho
treatment of American citizens In Cuba
on the ground that It was incompati
ble with tho public horvico to do bo at
tho present time. Tho Ron rite had
previously ndoptcd a resolution unking
for the correspondence.
A HrnciAi. dispatch from Washing
ton to the Now Yorlc Herald stated
that a member of tho cabinet had nald
thoro would bo no compromise at tho
Chicago convention on tho money
question if the Clevelund administra
tion can prevent it and that it will bo
a fight to a finish as far as President
Cleveland was concerned.
A btouv has boon startod in Wash
ington that Senator Quay may bo made
chairman of thu national committee to
take care of tho McKlnlcy campaign.
Accouiii.no to tho best information
obtainable at Washington on tho 510th
SIRS delegates had been chosen to tho
Chicago convention, 180 being for froo
silver, ITU for sound money and 10 in
doubt, owing to Nebraska having se
lected two sots of delogatos.
A mi.MOit was going tho rounds at.
Washington recently that Senator Tol
ler's name will bo presented at Chicago
by tho frco eilvor delogatos. It was
said ho would bolt at tho St. Louiscon
vention us soon as a sound money plat
form was adopted and would lead tho
frco silver men in that course.
It was current gossip at Washington
on tho SOth that Senator Itrico had
abandoned all hope of carrying a sound
money delegation from Ohio to tho
democratic national convention.
Tiiuiti: promises to bo so much con
troversy over tho general immigration
bill recently passed by tho liouso be
tween tho houso and senate that tlicro
Is little prospect of its enactment this
session.
Tin: president signed tho bill on tho
27th which necessitates a year's resi
dence in a territory before getting a
divorce.
Sisnatoh Gorman, it was suid at
Washington, was trying to got freo
colnago democrats to nominate Vico
President Stevenson for tho presidency
at Chicago and declare for tho fruo
coinugo of gold and silver, but lcavo
tho ratio to bo determined by congress.
Tiik prico of drawings at the putont
office will be reduced after July.
Gkn. Wkyi.ku has promulgated nn
edict in Cuba suspending for one year
all civil processes against planters, and
creditors will not bo able to secure
payment of interest or foreclose any
mortgages they may hold. Tho au
thorities at Washington wore going to
protest against tho edict, which will
injuriously allcct American Interests
in tho island.
(IKNICItAIi NKWS.
A dispatch from St. Louts on tho
28th stated that 31ft peoplo wore known
to bo dead from the ofl'eets of tho re
cent tornado on bqth sides of tho river
nnd that tho number would probably
approximate 100. Those found to bo
dead in St Louis up to tho dispatch
numbered 100. An army of pickpockets
and thieves Invaded St Louis and
tho mayor ordered out tho militia.
Tho Auditorium, which was only
slightly damaged, will bo fixed up In
tlmo for tho national republican con
vention. Tiik 38th general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church of tho
United States convened at Xeniu, O.,
on tho U8th. Rev. James White, of
Kansas City, Mo., wus chosen moder
ator. Frank Evans, aired 120, was Instantly
killed by tho explosion of a sawmill
boiler at Clay City, 111., recently. His
body was blown 200 feet and tho main
part of tho boiler was found 120 yards
from tho see no of tho explosion. Sev
eral others were seriously injured.
At Mount Vernon, III., nlno peoplo
wcro killed by a tornado on tho 27th.
At the Methodist Episcopal general
conference at Cleveland, O., on tho 27th
a motion was carried to rofer tho re
port of tho commltteo on constitution
to a commission to report four yonrs
hence. Tho committee on Epworth
league recommended that tho league,
in extending tho spirit of national co
operation to tho other young peoplo's
Koclctles, should never become ntllllatcd
In any manner with any othor socloty
which was not distinctly Methodist.
Tin: city council of Kaukakeo, 111.,
has commenced a war against tho hell
ing of cigarettes or tobacco to minors.
At Fisher's Corners, Mich., Mrs.
Charles Comstock gavo birth to soven
children four girls and three boys.
One of tho girls has since died, but tiic
rest were all doing well.
Tun schooner Mary Spraguo wue
towed into lioston in a sinking condi
tion on tho 25th. She had collided
with nn unknown schooner some day
previously and it was feared had sunk
her with all on board.
Youno (Jiui'FO nnd Jnck Everhurdt
fought six hard rounds at the Empire
theater at lirooklyn on tho 2.rth.
Griffo had a shade tho best of it, but
failed to land his man.
Tub train service betweon Chicago
and St. Louis was paralyzed ou tho
28th, not a train having ontorod Chi
cago from tho latter city.
This filibustering steamer Three
Friends, which recently loft Jackson
ville, Flo., with a cargo of arms and
ammunition for Cuba, was nald to have
been chased by a revenue outtcr and
ran ashore on ono of tho Florida keys.
A. II. McDonnkli,, of Ilochcstor, N.
Y., recently broho tho 10, 15 and 20
mllo records on tho road on tho Corfu
course. Tho time mado was: Flvo
miles, 8:21; 10 miles, 21:25; 15 miles,
31:12, and 20 miles, 40:01. McDonnell
now holds all tho road records up to
l'JO miles.
It has been decided that the Luther
an college, to cover tho southern states,
shall go to Charlotte, N. C. For somo
time it has been hanging between Char
lotto and Columbia, S. C. It was ru
mored that S,000,000 was backing tho
enterprise.
Tin: scene at East St Louis, III., on
the 28th was simply appalling. From
tho river bank to tho National stock
yards, n dlstanco of over a mile,
scarcely a building was left standing.
Tho improvised morgucB and hospitals
wcro choked with tho dead, battered
out of shape, and had a steady stream
of hysterical women nnd irrim-fneed
men passing through them looking for
their loved ones. A conservative es
tlmato placed tho number of dead at
15a
Tiik national convention of tho
United Commercial Travelers opened
at Cincinnati on tho 28th with an un
usually lurco attendance.
Ni:w Hadkn, 20 miles west of Con
tralin, I1L, was practically wiped out
of existenco by tho tornado on the
27th, only llvo buildings being left
standing, and tho list of killed was re
ported all the way from 18 to Jt8.
Tin: prohibition convention'at Pitts
burgh, Pa., nominated Joshua P. Lev
ering, Maryland, for president, and
Halo Johnson, of Illinois, for vico
president Tho frco silver plank was
rejected and a narrow gauge platform,
embodying merely tho principle of
prohibition nnd omitting woman suf
frage, was adopted. The broad gangers
and women suffragists bolted and re
solved to organize a nc,w party, to be
called the national party, its motto to
bo "Homo Protection."
Tin: frco silver faction scored a vic
tory at tho prohibition convention at
Pittsburgh, Pn., on the 27th, by elect
ing C. W. Stownrt, of Illinois, perman
ent chairman over A. A. Stephens, of
Pennsylvania, who was backod by the
gold standard delegates.
Tiik Presbyterians In session at Mem
phis, Teun., discussed the status of the
negro in connection with tho church,
& complaint having been made against
tho synod of South Carolina for declin
ing to roccivo a negro in tho Tusca
loosa district as a student for the min
istry. Tiik third biennial of tho General
Federation of Women's clubs was
formally inaugurated at Louisville on
tho 27th about 700 visitors being in at
tendance. Tin: Vermont democratic state con
vention on the 27th indorsed Clove
laud's administration, doclared for a
gold standard and nomiuatcd J. Henry
Jackson for governor.
Tin: section of country around El
Ileno and Kingfisher, Ok., was visited
by a severe hall and windstorm on tho
27th, the destruction of glass being
groat and the damage to crops ulmost
incalculable. Tho people sought refuge
in storm caves and no fatalities woro
reported.
Chinch bugs wcro reported as doing
much damage to corn and oats In Hu
rcuu county, 111., and a small green In
sect was causing much alarm to tho
farmers in that vicinity, it having to
tally destroyed ono wheat field in two
days.
The ferry boat Katharine was caught
at tho mouth of the Ohio river, near
Cairo, III., on tho 20th by a sudden
hurricane nnd capsized and nil on
.board, except tho captain, engineer
und clerk, wero drowned, tho dead
numbering probably 11.
Catt. John Wilson who first planted
tho federal Hag on Lookout mountain,
Tonn., in November, 1S(H, after tho
confederates had been routed, has died
at Hia homo near Irvine, Ky., of cancer
in mo ince.
A TKiimiiu: cyclone struck the vil
lage of Oakwood, Mich., on tho 25th
and wiped it oil! tho face of tho earth.
Just west of tho villaco tho fields wero
strewn with the dead and dying. It
was bollevcd tho number of dead and
wounded would reach 100.
Auoubt Gukxtiiku shot his wife
Minnie at Cleveland, O., on tho 25th
an5 then turned tho weapon on him
self. The tragedy was tho result of a
family quarrel.
Fiuk at Dallus, Tex,, destroyed six
business houses, causing a loss of S1G0,
000. Mayoii W. W. Watkus, of Hot
Springs, Ark., killed Hurry Martin, a
doctor's drummer, on the street by cut
ting ills throat with a pocket knife.
Tho killing grew out of a quarrel
caused by n war being waged ou drum
mers by tho city authorities.
Tin: mayor of Milwaukee lias called
on tho business men of that city to
unlto and bring an end to the boycott
on tho street ''allway. Tho strikers
wero running 'busses bosldo tho car
lines and tho street ears wero running
empty at a dead loss. Practically tho
wholo city was sympathizing with tho
strikers in their boycott against tho
street railway and tho business inter
ests of tho city were suffering seriously.
Jami'.a Em.inoton was hanged at
Boise, Ida., rccontly for tho murder of
Charles Hrigge, his employer, after a
quarrel regarding wages ou December
20, lMI'i.
Tin: Chicago post office oonsus gives
the city a population of 1,700,000, an
Increase of 200,000 over that of last
year. This census was mado by tho
1133 regular letter carriers. The in
crca&o Is a little over 11 per cent
Tiik schoonor Albion brought news
to San Francisco of tho probable loss
of the schooner Lincoln in Alaskan
waters. Tho Lincoln had on board
about HO persons, all of whom have un
doubtedly lost their lives. Most of tho
passengers were gold seekors.
An appeal for aid lias been mado by
tho East St. Louis (III.) relief commit
tee, who stated that it was safo to say
that 0,000 families wero rondcred
homeless. Mr. Paul W. Abt, president
of the First national bank of that city,
has been designated to receive ull con
tributions scut
A kiiii: which started in tho candy
factory of Williams & Uowcr at Sher
man, Tex., burned several other stores
and cntuilcd a loss of probably 5125,000.
There was no insurance on tho stock
of Williams k llower.
Tiik Norwegian bark Ilrodcron wns
wrecked near St Paul's island in tho
gulf of St. Lawrence early on the 27th.
A thick mist and a heavy sea prevailed
at tho time. The captain nnd four
others wero drowned and flvo men
wero saved.
Two tramps took rofugo In a farm
er's barn at Henderson, Ky., during a
storm and the place took fire and cre
mated thorn and three horses. Smok
ing or lightning was thought to have
been the cause.
At San Jose, Oil., early on tho 27th
Col. McGllncy, Mrs. McGlincy, Mrs.
James Dunham, James Well, James
llriscoe and Minnie Schesler wero
found murdered by being shot or
hacked to death with a hatchot. Tho
only being In tho house who escancd
alive was a-month-old baby. James '
Dunham, the husband of ono of tho
victims, was suspected of tho crime,
family quarrels being tin cause.
At Drake, 111., a cyclono on tho 27th
wrecked the schoolhousc and 80 chil
dren are snid to have been killed.
Tiik schoolhousc at Rush Hill, Mo.,
was crushed by a windstorm on tho
27th and 50 children wero reported
killed. At Mexico, Mo., seven persons
wcro killed and 25 injured by the sarao
storm.
Dkskiionto, Ont, was swept by firo
recontlj' and about 75 families wcro
made homeless. Tho loss aggregated
5350,000. The flumes spread so rapidly
that many lost all their possessions.
Tiik Methodist Episcopal confcrcnco
at Clevelnnd, 0., on the 20th held in
stallation ceremonies for the three now
bishops. At tho afternoon session the
roport of tho temperance commltteo
was adopted, declaring it to be tho
duty of each member of tho church to
bo a total abstainer and asserting that
tho attitude of the church was one of
relentless enmity against the liquor
traffic
AnDiriOIfAIi DISI'ATCIir.3.
At tho free feast given In honor of
tho czar of Russia's coronation on tho
Hodynsky plain, near Moscow, a ter
rible panic ensued, resulting In over
2,000 people losing their lives by being
trampled upon. It was resolved to
provide a hearty meal for 500,000, but
there was such an immense crowd
waiting to be fed for so many hours
that suddenly they pressed forward to
get at tho food and swept everything
before them, tho police being power
less before tho rush, and numbers of
weak and hungry peasants fell.
A l'oim-VKAU'Oi.n chil 1 of J. L. Kreg
wer, of Parkland, Ok., went Into a hog
pen nnd picked up a little pig, when
tho old hog attacked the child, knock
ing It down and biting off part of its
face and tearing out one eye. It will
die.
"IIhick" PoMKttoY, the noted journal
ist and author, died at his lirooklyn
home on the :0th from dropsy.
J. J. Morr, chairman of tho national
silver party, has issued an address from
Washington, urging all friends of the
party to push tho work of organization
witli nil possible vigor, the purpose
being to unite for notion all believers
in the restoration of "free sliver and
prosperity."
Tiik post olllco department at Wash
ington is daily in receipt of complaints
about letter carriers in tho west par
ticularly in Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as making tho occupants of houses
come out to tho sidewalk to get their
mail.
At Seneen, Mo., a terrible cloud
burst occurred on the 30tk. Many
buildings wero swept away by tho rush
of water and 18 people were reported
drowned, 15 bodies having been re
covered. An appeal for aid has been
mado for tho immediate wants of tho
living destitute, Mayor James McGan
non, of Seneca, being authorized to re
ceive all contributions.
At Goshen, Iud., chief of police John
Uignoy shot Dick Simmons through
the heart while the latter was resist
ing arreiQ.
At Chicago nearly 200.000 peoplo
gathered to witness tho finish of tho
bicycle race from Wheeling to Chicago,
2tl4 miles. Tho race was won by O.
P. Nelson In 1:12:5:5. Ho had been
given nine minutes In tho handicap.
'A caiii.i: message lias been received
at Chicago that Miss Kate Field died
at Honolulu of pneumonia. Sho was
in tho Sandwich islands as tho special
correspondent of tho Chicago Times-Herald.
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
Sbvkkax, parties wero recently ar
rested at Fremont upon tho charge of
illegally spearing fish.
Tin: remains of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Illldcrbrund, who wcro killed by tho
cars at Lcmars, la., wcro burled at
Lincoln.
JosEt'H Tuckkii, colored, of Fremont,
Is under arrest for stealing 5100 worth
of diamonds from Mabel Bishop, of
that placr.
Tiik fish commissioner left several
thousand fish nt Kearney a few days
ago to be placed in tho ponds at Wat
son's ranch.
Tnucity council of Lincoln hns given
notice that after July 1 no moro bills
will be paid for the maintenance of tho
police force.
Chops nrc reported to bo looking fino
in the vicinity of North Platte, and tho
acreage of irrigated crops is much
better than ever before. Tho first
crop of alfalfa is about ready for har
vest Bkad D. SiiAUOHTKii, recch-er of the
Lincoln street railway, has asked tho
district court to remove the case re
cently brought by tho city to forecloso
on the road for delinquent taxes to tho
federal court
Undkii instructions of the court the
Hood perjury case at Lincoln lias
passed into history, the jury bringing
In a verdict of acquittal. The defonso
had entered a demurrer to the evidence
against Hood and Judge Hall sustained
It and ordered the jury to acquit
Hkckntly as young Illley Hancr wns
returning to his home at Belgrade rid
ing a mule, tho animal threw him.
His foot lecamo tangled in the stirrup
and he was dragged about the prairie,
no ono knows how long, as he was
alone. His shoe finally came off and
released his foot Ho was badly in
jured. Tin: wife of Edward Butler, of Beat
rice, lately brought suit against five
saloon lecepers and their bondsmen for
5,000 damages. Butlcr.whoatono time
wus possessed of considerable means
has squandered tho greater portion of
his money in drink, and is now in the
insane nsylum at Lincoln. Mrs. But
ler claims damages on account of
liquors sold her husband.
Pknsions lately issued to Nebraska
veterans: Original, Peter Schad, Lind
say; David Stevens, Raymond; Luther
T. Burnett, Wahoo. Renewal und in
crease, August Sasse, Orleans. Addi
tional, Thomas Burmingham, Hubbell.
Incrense, Henry Hayward, Tufford;
Henry Hate. Avoca. Original widow,
Emma J. Williamson, Curtains. Special
act, John M. Thayer, Lincoln.
William Hoim'ku, residing south of
Elkhorn, lately found the dead body
of an unknown man in an out field a
quarter of a mile booth of town. IIo
evidently was about 50 years old,
weighing about 100 pounds, and was
five feet seven inches in height
Tliero were no innrus on his clothing
by which he could bo identified. The
man had been dead about a week.
Roiikut Bksiis. 10 years old, recently
applied to the Grand Island authori
ties to be sent to the reform school.
He said his stepfather, living in a small
town north, had sent him away and ho
had no place to stay. He stated that
he knew he would have to work at tho
reform school, but thought that they
would also teach him something there.
The proper papers wero made out and
he wus accommodated.
Attorney Wiikdon, of Lincoln, has
opened tho ball against tho mutual in
surance companies of the state, but is
said to be running tho thing on his
own hook, ns State Auditor Mooro
washes his hands of any complicity
with the campaign inaugurated by Mr.
Wheton. Tho latter has, according to
permission given by tho supreme
court, filed a brief attacking the con
stitutionality of the farmers' insurance
law of 1891.
Henry Walkek, residing 25 miles
west of Broken Bow, shot his wife
thrco times a few days ago. Tho act
was undoubtedly premeditated, as
trouble had existed between them for
some time. Walker's excuse for shoot
ing his wife was that ho thought she
had tried to poison him, and that ho
would have to kill her as a matter of
self-protection. Ho is about .".2 years
old Hiid has thrco children, tile oldest
nine years and the j'oungest two years
old. Ho wns jailed at Broken Bow.
A smooth set of swindlers recently
infested the country about Pleasant
Dale and Emerald. They wero horse
traders and "struck every person they
met for a swap." They told a long
and pitiful story about being starved
out by the drought In Colorado tho
I last three years and said that they hud
lost an mcir property ana most or
their horses. Aftor getting a number
of good horses they left They woro
voted to bo a set of thieves, and sev
eral victims would be glad to meet
them ngaln.
It Is stated that tho cadets of tho
university of Nebraska are very much
disgruntled, owing to a recent decision
of tho faculty against their going into
camp tills year. It is asserted that tho
attitude of the faculty originated in
tho fact that recently there was a some
what riotous disposition manifested
among somo of tho companies compet
ing for tho prizes offered for superior
drilling, which disturbance led to tho
arrest of ono of tho cadets. The
ground selected for tho encampment
is at Nebraska City, and tho faculty is
fearful of similar exploits amoug tho
young men If they tiro allowed ,o go
iuto camp near that city.
Milk nnd Honey In (Ircrcc.
Among the best of tho native Greek
dishes, to a western taste, is a prepar
ation of scalded goat's milk, not unlike
Devonshire junket, and called Kaimaki.
Milk in Greece, by the way, runs littlo
risk of being watered, for the custom
is to drive a flock of goats through
the street and to milk them as required.
Indeed, the milk-sellers in somo places-
Naupllu, for Instance aro apt, forolL
their usefulness, to evoke anathemas
when they perambulate the town be
fore dawn, wakening tho echoes
and the sleepers witli most strident and
unmclodious howls of Gnlal gala! If
the children of Israel of old found tho
land of Cunaan a land flowing witli.
milk and honey, they must huve fared,,
in at least one respect, like tho modern
traveler in Greece, who, finds the fine
honey of Hymcttus distributed witli
lavish hand down the breakfast tables
in lnrgo soup-plates, while tho Athenian
butter (of goat's milk, of course) is not
so very unlike Devonshlro cream, and
the two go very well together. "Butter
and honey shall he eat, and shall know
how to choose tho good nnd rcfuso the?
evil." One can buy honey-cake at u road
side station in Ellis, not far from Olym
pla thick, stiff, viscid lumps about
the color of oatmeal porridge, which
tastes much better than it looks, and
is, let us say, the lineal descendant of
the honey-cake which tho ancient
Greek sacrificed to keep off the Furies.
Westminster Gazette.
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He has tried it in over eleven hundred
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When the lungs are affected it causes;
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