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THE NEBRASKAJDVERTISER W. W. HANDKKS, I'ulilUlior. ' I II NEMAHA. NHHUASKA. VXXXAXXXXJ.J.J.AXJ.J.AJ.4.i.XXAJ.X AUGUST 1897. Sun. Mon. 2 9 16 23 30 Tuo. J To 17 24 31 Wod. 4 Tliur. Frl. 6 13 20 27 5 12 19 26 8 11 i8 25 15 22 29 I I NTfTTTfTTTTTTTTTTrfTTTTT'i TIIJO WORLD AT hMiiiK Summary of tho Dally Nowb. WASHINGTON' N'OTIiS. Tin: president mid Secretary Alger have decided to detail sin army olllcer unci a company of hold iocs from the regular army for service, in Alaska. The exact location of the camp or post lms not yet been determined on, but it in expected to be at Circle City, and if It can bo arranged they will bo sent on the hteamer sailing early in August. Pui:hiih:nt MoKini.hv loft Washing ton on the '28th for Luke Cliamplain. He may bo away from tho capital for six weeks. Tmc internal rovonuo collections during tho past fiscal year wore: For Kansas, S,J50,!K)8.:W; for Missouri, S5S18, 751.15. Snt'HHTAUV (!aii:, of tho treasury de partment, is to undertake a compre hensive study of tho currency, with a view of being ready with recommenda tions for reforms in the monetary sys tem when congress reassembles in De cember. IIo will make tho examina tion on the same broad basis as was contemplated in tho scheme for a cur rency commission. Tun president has authorized tho sale of timber on tho Hod CI ill' allotted lands on the La Point agency in Wis consin. There arc estimated to be 100, 000,000 foot in this tract. Tho timber is to bo sold to tho highest bidder, but not exceeding 20,000,000 foot nor loss than 10.000,000 feet are to bo out away annually. Com 1-1-1101.1.1:11 Rowi.ku holds that United States deputy marshals are per gonal appointees of tho marshal and go out of oflleo when ho goes out, and that old deputy marshals cannot con tinue in olllco under new marshals un less reappointed and sworn in again. Samuki, C. Dunham, a representative of tho commissioner of labor, has loft "Washington for the IClondyko gold Holds to make an exhaustive report on tho business conditions there, the op portunities for investment, tho wages paid, cost of living, etc. His report is to reach Washington by spring, so as to bo of value to the large number of people going there. ii:ni:uai, nicws. A hyhtkmatk! and direct oxplorinir expedition, having the south polo for its objective point, recently started from Antwerp, ltelgium. A non-cnion roller employed at the iron and steel works at Seottdnle, l'a., was shot and killed tho other night. There was greatexeitementand Sheriff Seunor was telegraphed to come at once with 50 armed deputies. Tun Wheeling t Lake Hrie railroad bridge at Dlllonvule, O., was (trod by strikers and serious trouble was feared. A now occurred at a negro dance at Guthrie, Ok., tho other night ami the police were using force to protect themselves. One policeman struck a negro over the head with his revolver, knocking him down, at tho same time tho weapon was discharged and fatally shot another negro in the crowd. Fhi:i Gimihiit, of Spirit Lake, la., defeated Hollo O. I lei Ices, of Dayton, O., at Fairview park, Dayton, in a 150 bird mutch by u score of Ui to ISM. 15. MoitltlH, a 10-year-old boy, living near Padueuh, Ky., was reported miss ing, and Charles Lurett and Henry Richardson were accused of whipping und then drowning the lad. Pio Nkwki.i., colored, was legally hanged at Solum, Ala., on the :H)th Ho admitted his guilt on the scaffold und prayed to the Lord to send two angels to escort him to glory. Tninu: were i!5!) business failures re ported in tho United States by Mrnd streot's commercial agency for the week ended the .'10th, against 'JO I for the corresponding week lust year. A iiumoi: was carried away at As tritz, Austria, and eight children wore drowned. A tohnado passed through the farm of A. 0. NoDowoll near San .lose, 111., on tho evening of the SiOth and seven persons wore reported killed and sev eral more injured. Kioht negro preachers were jailed ut Montgomery, Ala., charged with conspiracy in tho murder of I'. II. Pat terson, tho negro deacon who was shot to death in tho negro Raptist church at that place Staii I'oimku defeated Joe Patohon and Lottie Lorraine at tho race at Clevoland, ()., m the .Dth. Time, '2:0 1. Pntchcn was second and Lottie Lor raine third. A magnificent Ilornl horse shoe was presented to the winner. Twi.iwi, mill operatives while cross ing abridge utThiemundorf, Germany, were swept off by a sudden rise of tho river and all were drowned. Nhah Alva, Ok., with an original preparation, Sheriff McGruth so suc cessfully treated cattle infected with Texas fever that the ticks were all killed and the quarantine raised. Tin: American bishops at the confer ence in London on the illst rejected the proposition of the Itritish bishops to make the primate of all Fnglaiid the head of the. Anglican church and all its offshoots throughout the world. Ili'oii Guiiah, of Union Hill, X. J., left that place on tho ISlst for tho In dian territory, after taking an oath to kill Day, the man who murdered his brother, .lames Gorah, at Chlckasah u few days ago. Tin: general strike of tho Pants Makers' union went into effect on the 1st in the !J50 shops in the Greater Now York district. There were nearly Sl.000 operators out and 5,000 finishers were made idle in consequence. A moii of toughs attacked Policeman Devino in Harlem, N. V., on the illst and attempted to take a prisoner away from him when ho fired and instantly killed one of his assailants. Cardinal .Iacoiiini, of Homo, is said to have written to all Catholic bishops in the world, proposing extraordinary religious services to mark tho close of the 10th century. Coi.oiikI) people of Texas have started a movement to care for old and indi gent ex-slaves, a large meeting being held in Austin with delegates from a largo portion of tho state. Foil 10 days Lena Collinsworth, liv ing in Claiborne county, Tenn., has fasted. She is starving herself to (loath under a vow. She quarreled with her husband, they separated and she made a vow that she" would fast until ho piimo back to her. Nothing has passed her lips but water. Haiiiiy Lisrmt, son of the purchasing agent for tho Motion, was murdered near Washington, hid., the other night by being pushed from a train, it was alleged, by John Williams, of Trenton, Mo. Williams was jailed. An engineer named George Welch claimed to have seen the murder. Lni: Davidson was arrested at Ozark, Arlc, for throwing his wife's baby into a hog pen where it was devoured by the swine. IIi:n Vai'OHAN, a young engineer, was jailed for promiscuously shooting at a Sunday school picnic near Perry, Ok. He Ured about 'JO shots and an old soldier, who was conducting the picnic, and several little children were wounded, though not fatally. Maximo Mahtini-:. was hanged in the Wilson county jail at Floresville, Tex., for murdering Jesus Carillo and wife and .luanita Acosta. Myihads of young grasshoppers have made their appearance in the Ronito distriot of Lincoln county, N. M., and are doing much damage to growing vegetation. This locality is the chief breeding district for the hoppers that eventually find their way to Kansas and Nebraska the following season, and old-timers are predicting that next year will witness a hopper visitation in the region west of the .Missouri. Jui.ks lli'NNin.i. and Miss Kiln Wil liamson were recently married. P.oth were discovered dying at a boarding house in Houston, Tex., on the morn ing of the y!)th from the effects of mor phine, taken with suicidal intent be cause they could not get work to earn a living. I. a stock brokerage olllco at Waco, Tex., 11. F. Kivett and W. W. Kivett, brothers, were shot and killed by Wil liam Lainden. Mad feeling had existed between them, but tho killing was said to be justifiable. Jamkh Ghkaii, a well-known sport ing man from the coast, was instantly killed by a man named Willis Day at Chickasaw, I. T., in a quarrel over a game of cards. A couui:.si'oni)i:nt in Rio do Janeiro telegraphed that autheiitie informa tion had reached that city to the effect that more than Il.OOO soldiers had been killed in a big battle near the city of Canudos. The fanatics numbering more than 10,000 men, all well armed, attacked the government troops. Whole brigades of tho soldiers were swept down and destroyed. Duiiino the second heat of the pac ing event at the race course at Mar shalltown, la., the other day Doctor II., owned by G. W. llowmaii, Galena, Kan., fell dead. The horse was valued at 5,0(10. J.wir.s IIiinuy, a bachelor, aged 101. and Miss Kniily lloynton, aged 07, both colored, were married at Knoxville, Tenn. Maiisiiai, Stowi: and his deputies re cently made a raid on all the hop ale or beer saloons in Ardtuore, 1. T., and arrested the proprietors of the estab lishments on charges of introducing and selling intoxicants. Dit. Jami:s CiiAKi.Kh, of Richmond, hid., who has spent years in studying the question of aerial navigation, has announced that his plans for an air ship were completed. lie is organiz ing a stock company and will put one of the ships in operation as soon as possible. The ship will bo capable of carrying four to six persons. It will be propelled by steam or electricity. Dr. Charles Intends, if the ship proves u success, to visit the Alaskan gold fields. O.si: man was burned to a crisp ana a whole .square of buildings destroyed by a lire which started in the sash and door factory at Michigan Citv, hid., ou the '2Sth. At New York 2,SI00 garment w irkcrs went on a strike on the -JUtli, I '25 shops in that city and llroolclyu being af fected. Wit. mam W. Yoi'No and his brother, George, and Fred llridgeford were drowned at Kansas City, Mo., on tho 1st while bathing. Tin: white people at Thornbeck, Te.v., objected to a squad of negroes being set to work in a quarry at that place and a pitched battle occurred be tween the negroes and whites and two negroes were mortally wounded and several others less seriously shot. It was reported that Great llritain is about to open the Kust India mints to further international bimetallism. Tin: crops in a strip live miles wide, and ::0 long in Rock county, Minn., were entirely destroyed by hail the other night. A 1)i:i.iiii:i:ati: attempt was made to wreck the fast train on the C, C, C. fc St. L. railway on the morning of tho SlOth by driving a coupling pin into the switch so as to hold tho switch open. Tho engine and tender, mail, express and baggage cars were thrown from the track and wrecked and tho engineer, fireman and two tramps wero killed and several other persons in jured. A dam at Mlddlcton, Conn., contain ing water from which three factories got power, burst, letting down a tre mendous volume of water. Forty work men wero compelled to floe for their lives and much damage was done. John Johnson, colored, was hanged at Livingston, Ala., for the murder of a white man. Till', rain fall has been so heavy throughout northern Now York for a number of days that great damage has been done to crops. All lakes and streams are swollen to an unprece dented height for this season of the year. Tin: senatorial deadlock was broken at Webster City, la. .Joseph Wallace, of Hldorado, receiving the nomination after .'1,-HlS ballots had been taken. Domino, the famous race hor.se, died at the farm of James U. Keene at Lex ington, Ky., the other morning. Ho was taken ill and six veterinarios could not save him. Domino was foaled in 1S!H and won about 100,000 in stakes and purses. Fiki: at Yonkers, X. Y., destroyed two largo factory buildings, occupied by W. A. Reed it Co., hat manufactur ers; Rowland Hros.,hat manufacturers; Pass Pros , silk manufacturers and tho .Yonkers Si lie Co. The loss reached 500,000. Fight hundred people wero thrown out of employment. Tin: steamer Cambria, with passen gers from Detroit to Saulto Ste Marie, was wrecked on Lake Huron, threo miles north of Sarnia, on the 'JSth. The vessel ran into a drift of logs and disabled her paddles and machinery. The passengers were wild with excite ment, but all were safely landed. Tho vessel commenced to go to pieces be fore the last passenger was taken off. Tiikui: were five unsuccessful at tempts at suicide in Kansas City, Mo., on the '20 th. All wero women. additional dispatches. IIauihn Johnson, his wife and daughter and Dan llazlewood. till col ored, were poisoned at Louisville, Ky., by laudanum being mixed in their food, a neighbor being suspected of the crime It was feared they all would die. John O'Connhm. was found murdered at his home near lied wood Falls, Minn. Seven gashes in his scalp were made by some blunt instrument and his clothing had been saturated by oil and his house set on fire. According to the statement of three of his children, .Mrs. O'Connell was the perpetrator of the deed, being driven crazy by the man drinking and abusing his family while under its inlluenee On September 1 the three silver con ventions of the populists, democrats and republicans will be held at Lin coln, Neb., and W. J. Rrynn will issue a national address on tho occasion to advocates of the silver cause through out the world. Tin: Pioneer Fire-Proof Construction Co.'s plant at Ottawa, 111., the largest of its kind in the world, was partially destroyed by an incendiary tire, en tailing a loss of 101), 000. .Mils. llAi.i.iM.iox IIooth told of tho work the Volunteer Salvation army was doing in the penitentiary at Juliet, 111., and at the end of her remarks 1100 convicts were enrolled under the Vol unteers' banner. Notici: has been served by the super intendent of tho Fleinington mines of Grafton, W. Va., to every striking min or occupying tho company's houses to vacate the property immediately or their goods will bo thrown into tho street. An attempt will be made to operate the mines by non-union men. Kxcitcuicnt was running high. Qi'anah PAititi'.it, the noted chief of the Comanchcs, was reported to have been killed by an outlaw in Groor county, Ok. Tin: burning out of a fuse on an elec tric car at Milwaukee created a panic among 75 women and children and sev eral wero seriously injured. Tin: monthly statement of the gov ernment receipts and expenditures for .July showed the total receipts to have hcen :il,0,j7,:itl and tho disbursements 50,100,1)08, leaving an excess of ex penditures over receipts of ll,()7:i,5H. Tin: coinage executed at the United States mints for the month of July amounted to o70.S50. as follows: Gold, s:S77,()l)0; silver, 'JU0,0()0; minor coins, S:!:i,S50. No standard .silver dollars were coined. TO SURPASS NIAGARA. OreateM Water I'ower Plant Known to Ho on tliii St. Lawrence, Nt:v VoitK, Aug. '2. Tho greatest waterpower plant in the world is to bo in operation within a few mouths, if the plans of the corporation control ling it meet with no obstruction. It is intended to take power from the St. Lawrence river and by moans of tur bines of 5,000 horse-power each operate an electric plant of almost incalculable strength. The plant is to be in an im mense building near Massena, N. Y., on the United States side of the St. Lawrence The St. Lawrence in tho neighborhood of Massena has a fall of 5(5 feet in a distance of about seven miles, and the Grass river at Massena is 50 feet lower than the St. Lawrence. The plant is to be even greater than that at Niagara Falls, because with all the force of the long rapids of the St. Law rence behind it there is to bo practi cally no limit to its potency. The use. of tlie St. Lawrence in this way is re garded as marking an era in modern science as applied to commerce. WHAT UNCLE SAM LOST. Amount of InereiiHcd Import While tho TiirlfT Hill Wan Pending Two 11111m Compared. Washington, Aug. '2. The bureau of statistics, treasury department, litis prepared a statement showing the es timated loss of revenue to the govern ment on account of increased imports during the months of March, April, May and Juno, 1S07, in anticipation of the increased duties imposed by the now tarilf act. The aggregate net loss is estimated at S:J'2,(1(1M'27. Tho com parison of the present tariff law with tho Wilson act authorized by con congress has been completed. Tho comparison is made in rate, ox pressed in ad valorem terms, be tween the present law and the Wilson law. Tho statement places the average J duty rate under the new law at 54.00 per cent, ad valorem, as against an average of 10.10 under the Wilson law, the averages being ligured upon tho basis of values in 1SSI0. SUCCUMBED TO THIRST. Sad Death of u New York Ilroker In it it Ari zona l)enert. Pikknix, Ariz., Aug. ii. Garrett K. Anderson, a Wall street broker, start ed yesterday with his wife to drive where their son was camping at Cave creek, on Salt river desert, 'JO miles from here. Within a quarter of a mile of their destination, they feared they had lost their way, and giving their horses their last drop of water, they started to retrace their way to tho Arizona canal. In tho afternoon a freighter named Moore saw the carriage tracks cross ing and recrossing the road and followed them until lie reached the now delirious couple lie gave Mrs. Anderson water, but Anderson was too far gone even to drink. Mrs. Anderson is now in Phojiiix, where throe physicians are doing their ut most to stive her life. RELIGIOUS EVENT. I'opu I AViintK to Commemorate tho CIohIiii; of the Nineteenth Century. Ni:v Yohk. Aug. 'J. The Rome cor respondent of the New York Freed men's Journal has cabled a letter writ ten by Cardinal J acobini and addressed to all Catholic bishops throughout the world, lu'oposing one of the most wide spread series of religious events prob ably ever held. These extraordinary religious services it is intended shall commemorate the close of the l'.lth and the beginning of the ilOth century. The project put forth by Cardinal J aco bini is tho result of the desire to re spond to the wish of Pope Leo XII. to consecrate the .transition from one century to the other by "an extraor dinary invocation of tho divine assist ance of Jesus Christ, as a happy presage of peace and concord." fatal" to-TWO. A AVreelc Near Yates Center, Kan., Kills an Kiiurliiec r and 1 ireman. Kansas Citv, Mo., Aug. 2. As the result of a wreck on tho Missouri Pacific at Yates Cen tor yesterday morn ing, Engineer .Jasper Clover and Fire man Cal Rowan wero brought scalded and mutilated to tho Missouri Pacific hospital hero and after a few hours died. Raggageman Myers and Con ductor Anderson wero badly bruised, though not seriously injured. Fire caught the wreck and the baggage ear and four freight ears, that were tho cause of the wreck, wore burned. The engine and tender wero ruined. SPALDING CONVICTED. ChIeiip;o ex-Hanker Finally Found C.ullty of F.iiilieiliiiK University FiiikIh. CmcAcio, Aug. 'J. diaries W. Spald ing, late presidentof the Globe savings bank and treasurer of the state univer sity, was Saturday found guilty of em bezzling :!, 000 belonging to the uni versity. Thin was his third trial, the juries in the former cases holding that in hypothecating the university bonds ho was merely a borrower, because ho paid interest on them to the university trustees. iluly Wiih a Iteeord MrenUer. Chicago, Aug, 'J. Tho month of July came very near being a record breaker for heat. It smashed every record , made in July during the past ten years, , and came close up to the highest marks on the weather bureau books. Tho average temperature for the month was 7-1.5 degrees, which is "J. 'J higher than the average for Julys in the records nt the weather office. .There was also an unusually light ' rainfall for the month. TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Srvcn Perxotm Killed unci Others Injured la a Twister at Sun Jose. IIi.oominotok, 111., July S51. A spe cial from San Jose, 111., 35 miles west, on the Jacksonville division of the Chicago & Alton railroad, gives meager particulars of a tornado yesterday evening at seven o'clock. It passed through the farm of A. C. McDowell, 2J miles north of that town, complete ly destroying the house and barn. Seven persons wore killed. They are: A. C. McDowell, McDowell's grandson, wife of Samuel Urownlee, three of Rrownleo's children and Miss Jessie Groves. The following were seriously injured: Mrs. A. C. McDowell, her son Charles, and daughter, Mary. Mfss McDowell is but slightly hurt. The htorm came directly from tho north, and entirely destroyed the McDowell house, barn and walnut grove. It then rose and went over tho town of San Jose. At Mason City lightning struck the spire of the Presbyterian church and set it on fire. SENATOR BAKER AT HOME. lie CompltmentN the Turin It 111 anil Say Civil .Service. Ih ii Fraud. Li:avi:nwouth, Kas., July Jll. Sena tor Lucien Raker, who returned yes terday from Washington, said that lie had received over 'J00 letters every day since the inauguration; that ho con sidered the new tarilf bill the best in the history of the country and that no curronoy commission bill could pass, the senate as now constituted. Of civil service, the senator said: My opinion is that It Is tho worst f mart of tho century. It Is till rlKht to apply tho rules to. tho railway until sorvlce. to tho weather lm reau, to the higher branches of tho Kootfraph lcal survey, ami to a few technical depart ments, hut there otiulit not to he above 15,000' or 18.000 placet covered by them. Iluslness men do not jjlvo examinations to applicants for positions for they know that there could be no true test of qutilillcntlnns. The issue of civil service outrht to be made squarely In tho elec tion next year, anil la tho years to come until tho present civil service system is modltloJ or abolished. MADE THEM TARGETS. Hen Viitichnn Creates Coiixternatloii at Chlhlrcn'H I'lenle Near Terry, Die. Pintuv, Ok., July 31. Ren Vaughan, a young engineer of 1'erry, was ar rested by Lawyer S. II. Harris and put in jail yesterday evening for shooting half a dozen people at a Sunday school picnic near Terry yesterday. Four or live hundred Sunday school children wero on the picnic grounds when Vaughan came tip, nour ishing two heavy pistols and a huge knife. Ho shot several times. One shot took effect in the leg of J. 1). Smith, an old soldier, who was conducting the ohildren's picnic. Twenty shots were fired and several little children were wounded, but not fatally. PROBABLE DOUBLE MURDER. TwoSIen Toilful Dead at a Itallroad Crosn Inc Near Selliimn, 31 o. Skmoman, Mo., July Sll. Near a rail road crossing three miles north of here two men wero found dead about eight o'clock yesterday morning by two of Thomas Humes' little girls, who hap pened to be passing near. The alarm was given and in a short time a cor oner's jury was summoned by Justice C. A. Patterson, but from the scant evidence obtainable the cause of their death could not be ascertained. They were identified as George Tucker, aged 21, and L. W. Harper, both from Hinds ville, Ark. It is supposed the men were murdered. A Denial from Credit Men. Ni:v Yoitic, July SI. F. R. Rock, sec retary of the National Society of Credit Men, in an interview said: "1 desire to deny the news recently circulated from St. Joseph, Mo., to theelfect that disorganization of the national asso ciation is likely to ensue owing to its. indorsement of the Torrey bankruptcy bill. The St. Joseph association is the only local organization that has dis played any dissatisfaction with this action, while the largo majority of our local associations have heartily com mended the bill." (iraxshoptiei-rt In New Mexico. Santa Fi:, N. M., July Sll. myriads, of young grasshoppers have made their appearance in the lionito district of Lincoln count3', il,,a Hni doing much damage to growing vegetation. Gar dens have been destroyed and the corn, attacked. This locality is considered one of the chief breeding districts for the hoppers that eventually lind their way to Kansas and Nebraska tho fol lowing season, and old-timers are pre dicting thus early that next year will witness a hopper visitation in the re gions west of the Missouri. I'oHltioiiH for Westerners. Washington, July ill. Frank II. Grace, of Kansas, has been appointed a transit man at S5 a dav K the de partment yards and docks.'Maro island navy yard, Cal. Paul J. Smith has been appointed a stockman at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian agency, Ok. James 11. Murray, of Downing, Mo., and Cassias J. 1 1 111. of Clayton, Mo., have beeu appointed railway mail clerks. 'mi Ii lonely Ico on a Wheel, Ni:v Yohk. July 31. One of the most novel of tho many schemes to obtain u share of the wealth of the Klondyke region has been developed by a syndi ,ate of four wenlthj' New Yorkers, who are planning to establish trading posts ami stores in tho mining camps. They will transport their men and supplies to the gold fields on a bieyole fcpecially designed for the purpose. M X, I1 JJP