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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER XT. XV, HANIHiltS, I'ubllitier. . . NEMAHA. NEBRASKA. THE WOULD AT LARUE. Summary of tho Dally Nows. WASHINGTON noti:s. TllKUK will be a novel department in tho now congressional library at Wash ington when it is completed. It will be a section solely for tho blind, and will liavo nothing in it but hooka with raised letters. PllKHIDKNT GoMI'KllH, of tllO A. R of L., in an interview at Washington on tho Udtli, gave it as his opinion that tho eoal miners' strike would bo ter minated by tho end of September and that the settlement would bo in favor of tho strikers. In connection with the coming Trench exposition Secretary of Agri culture Wilson hopes to develop a plan by which tho breeding of horses for use in tho cavalry of European armies will be encouraged in America, tho de mand for horses for army uso being very great in Europe. Tiik United States fish commission will soon distribute a car load of young sters from tho Illinois fish station at Qnincy to various points In Kansas, When' this has been attended to a sup ply will be taken from the station at Neosho and deposited in private waters In Missouri. Eacli station will bo drawn upon for upwards of 100,000 fishes, consisting of rainbow trout, rock bass, black bass and croppie. (II'.NT.KAI. NKWS. At Davenport, la., .Mrs. Clans Iloh reus was Indicted for murdering her husband for his insurance money. Jlv the collapse of a building on l'rlnco street, Hoston, three men were killed and several severely injured. AtMUIvMo, Pa., Miss Mary .lohnson, aged 17, died from excessive dancing. A toll of the newly-elected Cherokee legislature at Cherokee City, I. T., showed that body to be overwhelming ly opposed to allotment and against even treating with tho Dawes commis sion under any consideration. TAni'Aitio acid, or what was supposed to bo tartaric acid, used in lemonade sold under tho Itiirnum fc Ilalley show tents in Anderson, I mi., recently caused 50 people, Including four showmen, to take to their beds. Mits. William Hutchinson, wife of the editor of the. Iloekoepcrs' Review, took her daughters for a drive at Flintwood, Mich., and when a milo from town sho forced her five-year-old girl to drink morphino ami throw hor into the bushes to die and then shot hor 15-year-old daughter and throw her out. Tho mother drove home, told what she had done and doctors were sent out, who thought they could save tho eldest girl. The mother was in sane. Maiuk, tho M-year-old daughter of Mrs. Valdez, at Tort Tampa City, Flu., attempted to start a flro with kerosene. There was an explosion and she was set on fire. Tho mother went to hor daughter's aid and her dress also caught flro. Itoth ran Into tho street and were burned to a crisp. Tho house burned down and a small boy in it was cremated. Tho flro spread and de stroyed five other houses. Wilky Johnson, a negro, was hanged by an Infuriated mob at Mooroville, Tex., for an attempted assault on a white woman. Skvkuk earthquakes recently oc curred in .lapau and China, followed by a tidal wave and great Hoods. A thousand houses wore Inundated in lapau and tiOO persons were killed and in lured. Sixtyllvo Chinese villages were also inundated and ninny people drowned. Haiihy C. SroNK, tho veteran man ager of the Tatturson opera house at New York, been mo 111 and was forced to go to his home on tho banks of tho l'assalc river, and by his opportune arrival ho saved his three daughters from drowning. Tho girls had gone out for a row on the river and the boat had upset. Gkn. Acahiiaoa, tho Spanish pre mier, announced at a recent cabinet meeting, that the government would follow the policy of tho late premier, Canovas del Castillo, and it had the greatest confidence in Gen. Weyler's management of aiVairs in Cuba. A fli:vi:iti: windstorm struck Laurel wood park, about lit miles west of Chi cago, tho other afternoon while the grounds were filled with picnickers at tending a celebration of the Catholic Total Abstinence union and Mrs. Kate llrown was killed outright and nine other persons were Injured, all Chicago people. Tiik Woman's Heliof corps at lSufl'alo, N. Y., on tho 27th elected Mrs. Sarah 1. Martin, of Missouri, president, and Mrs. Kobort R Atkins, of ltull'alo, senior vice president. Mrs. Kate Jones, of Vermont, was chosen junior vice president. Mrs. Hello T. llagley was ro-elected treasurer. Job Wolcoit knocked out George Grcon in the 18th round tho other night after one of tho fastest fights ever seen in Sun Francisco. It was rather one-sided, Wolcott leading in every round v.r,.v in flnsnondency by sickness and dreading to undergo a surgical operation Mrs. Anna Sehlesinger, wife of a prominent St. Louis business mail, committed tuicido by bhooting herself, Tiihki: hundred Kiowa Indians as Homblcd attholr dancing grounds in the Indian territory several days ago and began the medicine dance. Tills prov ing too tiitne they began the ghost dance and got wildly excited. Capt. Ilaldwln, tho Indian agent, called upon them to desist and they laughed at him. Finally with the aid of Indian police he arrested the whole crowd and they will be tried at tho Indian court at Anadarko. Tiik midnight special from St. Louis to Chicago on the C. fc A. was derailed near Alton, 111., by spreading rails and the tender, three baggage cars and postal car rolled on top of the engine, under which Peter KafFerty, tho engi neer, was pinned. He was taken out fatally injured. Several others were more or less severely hurt. Anot'T 150 guests at tlie Mtnnewa wan hotel at Winona, Intl., were taken sick the other night and some were reported to be in a serious condition. Tho cause was supposed to have been some food served at supper. In a free fight at a dance at Good win, Neb., Henry Carpenter, a farmer, was shot through the abdomen by James Lindsay, a bartender, who was drunk. At Nashville, Tonn., Carl French, of Indlunapolis, lnd., and Miss Helen Hunter, of Nashville, leaped from a preelpice at Sunset park, falling 100 feet to instant death. They were lov ers and Miss Hunter's parents objected to tneir marriage. Sr.NA'ioit John M. Tiumiston, of Ne braska, has publicly announced that he Intends to retire from politics and would not stand for re-election to the United States senate. Tun 0. A. It. encampment at llull'ulo, N. Y., settled down to business on the '27th by finishing up the election of olllcers and hearing reports of commit tees. A service pension was recom mended to all veterans who had reached the age of 5'2 years. The com mittee on text-books urged an Improve ment in those that relate to the war of tho rebellion and denounced the his tories used in southern schools. The encampment of lh'J" then adjourned. Wiirri: river above and below Mount Adams, Ark., for miles was lined with pearl hunters on the '27th and wagon loads of campers were reported as ar riving there hourly. Ilmiir & McCoy's elevator at Dulton City, 111., collupscd from overloading ami about f0,0W) bushels of grain were scattered. The loss was very large. Tin: first national convention of the American party, a new political organ ization, met at SL Louis on the '20th in answer to a call issued by Col. E. II. Sellers, of Detroit, Mich. The plat form favors the demonetization of gold and sliver and the substitution of treasury notes, the issue of low rate interest-bearing savings certificates for popular investment, the control of all public conveniences by tho govern ment, an income tax law, the election of president and senators by direct vote of the people, tho initiative and referendum and the abolishment of trusts and monopolies. Johki'H Fin:, a negro youth, convict ed of attempted assault on Mrs. Marks, a widow, and who subsequently con fessed to two other like crimes, was hanged in tho yard of tho jail at Rich mond, Vn., on the '2(ith. Tiik house of Rev. Klliott W. llrown, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church at Dubuque, la., was burglar ized the other day. As Mr. llrown and family were away tho burglar had plenty' of leisure. He took awash in the bath room and then donned Mr. llrown's best suit, leaving his rags be hind. He also had a good night'ssleep in the pastor's bed. A siuanoi: disease among tho chil dren of Hackensaek, N. .1., has thrown the people of that town into a state of nervous excitement. The suil'erers ! have an absolute paralysis of the throat. The physicians do not know how to handle tho trouble. Tiikkk were .'100 delegates present at the American liar association's conven tion at Cleveland, O., on the 'J5th. President J. M. Woolworth, of Omaha, Neb., delivered an address, reviewing briefly interesting laws passed during the last year in dilVerent states. Tiik boarding house of the Union Consolidated mine at Weiland, Oil., was burned to the ground the other night and Mrs. Craighead, wife of the proprietor, and two of her grandchil dren, aged eight and ten years, per ished in the llames. China mi:n were dragged from their laundries, unceremoniously removed from tho kitchens of private houses and ferreted out from dilVerent places in St. Louis tho other day and taken to the custom house. It was the first raid of tho Chinese ever made in St. Louis under the Geary exclusion act. Fourteen not possessed of the requisite credentials were sent to jail pending a preliminary examination before their deportation to China. Elinoua Ron da, aged 11, of Milwau kee, was choked to death by a peanut shell which lodged In her windpipe. Tin: business portion of the town of Ina, 111., was wholly destroyed by fire on the night of the '2:id. A dispatch from Shroveport, la., on tho '27th stated that a general strike was threatened on the Kansas City, Pittsburgh Gulf railroad ou account of reductions in wages. Vick Piu.sidknt Hanuahan, of the Trothorhood of Locomotive Firemen, said nubliclv at Cleveland, O., that there would be no .sympathetic strike of that body to aid the striking eiml miners, but they would aid them all they could by contributing money. Elliot r, the Kansas City crack shot, won the Dupont trophy at Eau Claire, Wis., on the 2Hth, beating Charles lludd. The score was U0 to til. Tho shooting of Elliott was nearly a record breaker, as he killed Oil birds out of 100 and his lost bird, the seventh, fell dead out of bounds, making '.Klstraight after losing his seventh. David R. Ridkh was stung to death while hiving bees at Whitfield, N. Y., the other day. At Readville, Mass.. the Chicago pacing stallion, Star Pointer, on tho '23th went a full mile in the phenome nal time of l:5'Jf, thus necessitating the sotting of a now limit to the speed of light harness horses. The people who witnessed the performance went wild over it. At tho national encampment of tho 0. A. It. nt Ituflalo, N. V., on the IHJth, J. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon, Pa., was elected commander-in-chief and Cin cinnati was chosen as the place for the next meeting. Tiik strike of the progressive tailors at New York has been declared olf, tho increase of 'Jr per cent, in wages de manded having been conceded by tho employers. Tin: experiments conducted at Fort Worth, Tex., under the direction of Dr. Victor A. Norgaard, chief of the di vision of animal pathology in the na tional bureau of animal industry, with a view of ridding Texas cattle of tho fever-producing ticks, have culminated in success. Dr. Norgaard will in a ' fitti' rlnvu ntnlr.t riUlnliil 11 n twiiiiifisirwtii !. of the experiments. Haiiky Flktciiki: and his grandson, while driving across the railroad track atSeatonville, 111., were struck by a pas senger train and both instantly killed. FiitKiii'os burned a large barn and all its contents belonging to Van Ad ams, a well-to-do farmer living neav Princeton, lnd. They also attempted to burn the Adams house. Gold quartz has been discovered near Canton, 111., and the find was said to be rich in ore. Ar a sale of Poland China hogs at Springfield, 111., on the '-7th a boar named Klever's Model sold for $5,100. John E. Jacoiison, aged '27, was found murdered on his beat, at Kansas City, Mo., on tho night of the '2(1 th. Ho had arrested a couple of burglars in a carpenter shop and was taking them to the station, when one of them shot him. The two burglars escaped. Tin: young negro named Ilonner, who was arrested for criminal assault upon an aged white woman near Wil heini, Tex., was taken from jail by a mob of '200 men early the other morn ing and lynched in the woods. Tho negro confessed the crime. Tin: otlicial call for the sixth Na tional Irrigation congress has been issued to be held in Lincoln, Neb., September '2S-:iO. AitciniiHiioi' Ihkland was mustered into the G. A. R. at iluiralo, N. Y., on tho '25th and became a comrade. Mas. Jknnii: Laihd, of Providence, R. I., was elected captain commanding at the meeting of tho Ladies' Associa tion of Naval Veterans at Ilull'alo, N. Y., on the '25th. additional distatchks. On tho '20th there was a riot at St. Louis between whites and blacks. The former were playing baseball on some vacant ground and the latter tried to get possession of it, missiles being thrown and revolvers fired oil". Rev. Father Joseph Shields, of St. Mat thew's church, stepped in between the combatants and drove the blacks back at the point of a revolver, just as the police appeared in response to a riot call. Several persons were hurt. Piim: Chikp, a Pawnee Indian, aged CiO, has brought suit at Pawnee, Ok., for divorce from his wife, Wallasha, aged '20, charging her with neglecting his wigwam to run around with cer tain young braves of tho tribe. A cattli: train on the Clover Loaf road took lire from a hot box at Rus- slaville, lnd., and before tho ilaines could be extinguished several cars were burned and a number of Texas steers on route from Kansas City to ltull'alo perished in the llames. The remainder were turned loose in the streets of the village, creating a panic among the inhabitants. Lutukk Itiiowx, liveryman, died the other morning at Ottumwa, la., from the result of an operation. His aged father then looked at the remains, walked down to the river and com mitted suicide by drowning. Fopui'KKN labor organizations, in cluding Debs' social democracy, sup plemented by the populists of Kansas, were represented at the labor confer ence at St, Louis on the ilOth. Many policies were proposed, but nothing definite had been settled upon, the committee on resolutions not having reported upon a plan of action. An unknown man was shot on the Skaguay trail in Alaska by a commit tee of vigilantes and his bones are now rotting beneath a pile of rocks near tho pass. He had stolen a sack of Hour. At tho session of the Zionist congress at llasle, Switzerland, a programme for re-establishing the Jews in Pales tine, with publicly recognied rights, was unanimously adopted. In a fire at Venice nine men were burned to death. Twklvi: hundred trousers makers struck at Philadelphia on the IJOth for higher pay. Fivr. Finlanders were drowned at Gladstone, Mich., by the capsizing of a boat. Six deputy sherl Its hunting around for Illicit stills in Pope county, Ark., were shot to death recently by moonshiners. WILL IMPORT MINERS. Conl Operator In tint V.ant Determined to Sliirt Up Their 1'IiiiiIh. Tinsiiiiiuii, Ta., Aug. '28 Coal operators of tho Pittsburgh district have not been asleep during the past few days, The impression in certain circles that there would be no attempt made to start the mines seems to have been established for a purpose, and that purpose was to divert the atten tion of the miners' ollicials. It has been deliiiitely decided to s art sev eral mines along the Wheeling di vision of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road. These preliminaries are all completed and a decisive move can be expected almost any time. It was given out that tho Cleveland operators had gone to their homes for the ostensible purpose of awaiting tho result of the St. Louis convention. Some of them went, but others did not. Those remaining behind were members of tho newly appointed sub-commlttce, whose duty It is to per fect the arrangements for starting some of tho mines and breaking the strike. One of tho first moves was to get in touch with tho railroad companies. The ollicials of tho railroads at once agreed to bring about, if possible, an era of activity in tho coal-producing industry of the Pittsburgh dis trict. The expense of get ting Imported labor Into the dis trict was discussed, and tho railroad companies agreed to share their pro portion of tlie outlay. After this agreement was made, the work of hiring imported labor was taken charge of by a special sub-committee. LAWYERS HONORM'KINLEY. The I'rewtdrtit AttendH the, Aniuml ItaiHiunt (if thu American It.ir AmhocIhUoii. Clkvkland, O., Aug. US. President MeKinley was the guest of the Ameri can liar association at its banquet last night, though the fact that he was to bo there was kept very quiet. Tho president was accompanied by Secre tary Alger and Senator Htiutia. After tho applause which greeted tho presi dent had subsided, tlie toastmaster an nounced that tho executive committee had reported tlie election to honorary membership in the association of William MeKinley, of Ohio. Tho announcement was greeted by cheers. .Mr. MeKinley responded briefly. At the morning session of the association the following olll cers were elected: President, William Wirt Howe. New Orleans; secretary, John Hinkley, llaltimore; treas urer, Francis ItawJe, Philadelphia. Executive committee, Alfred Hemin way, lloston; Charles Clallin Allen, St. Louis; Charles Mobile Gregory, Wis consin. The list of vice presidents elected includes: J. W. McLoud, In dian territory; John D. Millikeu, Kansas; G. A. Filkonburg, Missouri, and S. F. Hunt, Oklahoma. IN HARD LUCK. Hundred-! of I.Iondlltern lilncluuled lit SUiiKiiay mill Lyea Outfits for a Snug. Pour Townsrn'd, Wash., Aug. '28. Andrew Wasson, banker and ex-collector of custoHS, who left with a party of seven fir tho Klondike, has written his wife irom Skaguay as fol lows: Thuro arc hero uuuit 11.000 men mul 1.500 horses limltlnu' up lie most forlorn lot I ever saw. About lUf of tliem hao Khun up and tho other h.lf either curse or erj. Taking It nltocethur I auvcr saw such a condition of aflatrs. At Uvea thcro mo near ly us ninny tit hue. tml I am told they arc In tho same condition, Uod only knows what will become of those leaded this way, for none hut those who h.no horses will net through. I do not believe that on- in a hundred will Ket throiiKli. Many hae sturtiri out, but Just as iniiav have relumed, footsore and dlsheaitened. Outllts can be bought liere for a sow:. The au thorities should stop the tide of immigration that Is comini,' this way. WILLIAM CRATTY DEAD. III! litlpeil :!,()()() Slai'H tit l'reedom by tho "f nd er roll lid Kiiilrn.iil." Chicago, Aug. '28. William Cratty, who before the civil war was one of tlie most notable conductors of the "underground railroad" for the assist ance of runaway slaves, died near Ma ryville, O., last night, of old age. Mr. Cratty, it is said, helped over :t,0U0 slaves to escape to Canada, and at one time a reward of :S,000 was oil'ercd to anyone who would deliver him, dead or alive, south of Mason and Dixon's line. Ho was 02 vears old. The Oiiccn Kt'Kfiit On.irded. San Skuas han, Aug. '2S. Twenty detectives, who are well acquainted with the anarchists of liarcelona and other places, have arrived hero for tho purpose of watching over and protect ing the iiieen regent. It is stated that their presence is due to tlie fact that the government has learned that the anarchists of London have resolved to. assassinate her majesty to avenge Golli, the murderer of Prime Minister Cano vas. Killed III 1'ather by M Intake. Ahdmoih:, I. T., Aug. '28. Near Paul's Valley, G. W. Jackson was shot and instantly killed by his Hi-year-old son, Albert. Jackson had been absent from homo several days, and at one o'clock at night .Mrs. Jackson heard footsteps. She aroused the boy, who armed him self. A man was discovered looking through the window. The boy fired, and the man fell, a corpse. It was his father. Allied for l'eai-u ami War. St. Pkikhsiivho, Aug. '28. "Our two nations, friends and allies, equally re solved to contribute all their resources to maintain the peace of tho world in right and equity." In these words tho czar of Russia toasted President F.iure, of France, last night, and announced to the world that their respective coun tries had entered Into an ulliance, of fensive and defensive. ADULTERATING FLOUR. Mcnt I'luii of Western .Miller to Oirrcmnn the World' Win-tit Shortage. Washington, Aug. '20. The depart ment of agriculture has been working for several weeks to get proof of n shrewd scheme said to have originated In tlie west, it is the practice said to be now in vogue among western mill ers, of mixing ten per cent, of corn meal with 00 per cent, of Hour, which the agricultural department is trying; to unearth. Conclusive proof has been secured that the practice is widely prevalent just now. In the United States :;:i0,000,000 bushels of wheat am made into flour every year. Mixing; ten per cent, of corn would save JHl.OOO, 000 bushels of wheatoutof the original MO.OOO.OOO, which at the price of 81.00 per bushel would mean SM.OOO.OOO. Tho corn to replace this is being bought, at HO cents a bushel, and it would there fore cost only 0,000,000 to buy corn for tho ten per cent, of meal needed which would net the millers of the country u clear profit of S'23,000,000. Flour mixed with ten per cent, of corn meal cannot be detected in tho cooking. Hut the agricultural department, on the moral ground that honesty is tho only true policy, proposes to expose the millers neat scheme to make profits. KANSAS HEADS THE LIST. Sho Lead tho PrnccKHlon fur Corn and Wheat A'hIiii-h AllNHOtirl I'ourtli. Washington, Aug. '2(5. Estimates of the value of the wheat and corn in tho United States, based on the ruling prices of Saturday last, when wheat closed at SL place the enormous aggre gate at Sl,10.V2'2(i,010. In the estimate given Kansas easily leads the proces sion of American states, the total value of its wheat and corn crops being esti mated at SI.T2,'2CS,1'2.-). Nebraska Is a. good second, its two leading crops being estimated at Sill, 070, :!:(). Iowa stands third, the money value of its two leading crops being placed at SMi, 1'2 1, -175, while Mis souri is a close fourth, with the two crops figured at SS0,'20-2,r,75 Tho esti mates for Oklahoma and the Indian territory are :'i0,7.r0,000, showing that Kansas City is the center of the most fortunate agricultural district in the United States. The total value of the two crops in the territory tributary to Kansas City is more than S'200,000,000, if the estimates are not at fault. FEARFUL SCENES ENACTED. Id-port That Angry White Cltliuis lluvu I'ut to Death a Number of Ni-grocn. Littlk Rock, Ark., Aug. '20. Fear ful scenes have been enacted in Arkan sas in tho past few days. If the re port which reached here this morning should be true, a wholesale lynching, which for tlie number of men put to death without process of law lias prob ably never been equalled in the annals of crime, lias taken place in, Cleburne county, where, according to the report, six men were swung into eternity last night by a maddened and enraged mob of citizensof that country. One negro rapist was burned in his own room bj' a posse of deputy sheriffs in Drew county Sunday night and Tuesday morning the lifeless body of a negro murderer was found dangling from a railroad trestle near Pine IllufV. Last night six of tlie murderer's companions in crime were taken to jail at Rison anil this morn ing conies the report that the en tin half doen were lynched last night. ATTEMPT TO LYNCH JAMISON. Ttlnli Surround": t lie .lull, but Ih l'erHimdcd to Disperse. KlKKSvii.Li:, .Mo., Aug. '2(1. Yester day was the day set for the prelimi nary trial of Richard Jamison, of Kirksville, charged with having' drugged and assaulted a lfl-year-old girl named Wood, at a country dance, five miles northwest of Kirksville. The girl was not able to appear, and the trial was postponed. Jamison, T. F. Ward and C. II. Finley, tho latter two under arrest as accomplices, wore remanded to jail. In the afternoon a crowd of at least f()0 men surrounded the jail, overpowered Sheriff Hlack ledgo and Mayor Doekery, and began work to break down the outer doors of the jail. Judge Andrew Ellison ap peared on the scene, and through his and Mayor Doekery's appeals the mob desisted, and it is now thought no further attempt will be made to take Jamison away from the olllcers. IN RNE CONDITION. l'lKoren from the, Couitr'K National Haulcrr 1 nil or strength anil rromUe. Washing ion, Aug. '20. George M. Collin, assistant comptroller of the cur rency, in speaking of tlie compilation of the reports of the national banks, on July '2:1, 1S07, made public yester day, said: The lltfiires showing total resources and lia bilities of all the national banks on July 3, lc37, just compiled, are full of strength and promise They show total resources amounting lo fli.fifU KM 0.i:t, tho ureatest amount ever reached in tho history of tho sys tem, the nearest approach to this con dition helm ii total of W 510.001.h07 on Septem ber :IJ. 1SJJ. Tho item largely contributing to the Krand UKitrcKiito of their liabilities is that of individual deposits, which on July '2.'. 1897. I stood at 41.77(1. 18)5(51, tho highest point ever touched by this Item, the next highest having been il,7i55,422.li'.l. on September HO, lbOi llrllllant rinaneliil Scheme. Kansas Cut, Mo., Aug. '20. Marlon Parrott, a native of Tennessee, was ar rested last night on West Ninth street on a charge of passing counterfeit money. Parrott did not make his money himself, but frescoed it to make It resemble tho currency of the United States. Ills basis was confederate bills. A small brush and a can ot green paint did the rest. ) A