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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER V. XV, 8ANOKKH, I'ublltlier. NEMAHA. NI2PRA3KA. VXJ.XXJ.XXJ.J.XXJ.XXXXAJLJ.XJ.4.XJ.M' NOVEMBER 1897. Sun. Mon. Tuo. 2 Wod. Thur. Frl. 8 n 12 26 H 28 16 11 25 23 24 30 TTTi:TT7TTVVH,TTTTTTT' THE WOULD AT LAKGE. Sunimury of tho Dally News. WASHINGTON NOTICS. It wiih reported at Washington on tho 3d that o.-Pre8ldentClevoliiiid had made ii personal request of Mr. Mc Kinley, asking him to lot Associate Justice John C. Tarsnoy, formerly of Kansas City, remain in undisturbed possession of his plaoo as Indian terri tory judge- until tliu expiration of his term. Dn. Siiki.don Jackho.v, general agent of education in Alaska, has returned to Washington. Ho declares that the Htories of great strikes, terrible hard ship and impending starvation have not been exaggerated. (Jold is every where, but the dtflloulty lies in getting it out. Dr. .Jackson wants tho govern ment to sell reindeer to prospectors at a price which will bo cheaper than horses and dogs and too high for slaughter as fresh meat. Tun president has ordered a court martial to try Capt. Lovoring for al leged gross cruelty to a private. I'ohtmahtkii Gknkuat, Gauy is a pro nouueod candidate for United States senator in Maryland to succeed Arthur P. Gorman. SKCHKTAitvlJr.iBH litis approved tho se lection of r'2,l'J0 acres of land, situated in the Topeka land district, selected by tho Union Pacific, as successor to tho Kansas Pacific Railway company. Sknatou Woi.cott and Gen. Paine, two of tho monetary commissioners sent to Europe, got back to tho United States on tho fith. They declined to speak about their mission. Tun commissioner of pensions mado public his annual report on tho 5th. Tho whole number of pensioners on tho rolls Juno 30, 1897, was 070,014, a .gain over tho previous year of G,!130. tTho number of western pensioners is as follows: Missouri, 53,257; Kansas, 40,843; Indian territory, 2,030; Okla homa, 0,172. Tho aggregate annual value of all pensions at the close of tho fiscal year was S120,705,128, exclud ing tho cases hold up. An appeal has been mado to tho bu reau of animal Industry at Washington to investigate tho disease which is provalont among tho horses in tho coast country of Texas, tho mortality being alarming. Sin Julian 1'aunckfotk, tho Pritish ambassador, who Aas como back from Loudon to Washington, will confer with Secretary Sherman at an early day concerning tho reopening of nego tiations for an Anglo-American arbi tration treaty. A tiikaty between tho United States, llussla and Japan, looking to the joint protection of tho seals, was signed at Washington on tho 0th. It will re quire tho ratification of tho senate to becomo effective. IJICNICHAT. NICWS. EnniK Mackin, tho champion waltz cr of the Powory, while dancing with a fat woman at Webster hall, Now York, slipped and fell and the fat woman crashed upon his chest. Mackin was carried away Internally injured and died tho next day. Tim annual session of the church ex tension committee of tho M. 13. church, at Philadelphia, decided to ask S 100, 000 from tho various conferences this year for church extension. Skvkiial rich finds of load and ?.lnc oro on tho Quapaw reservation, in tho Indian territory, caused quite a rush to that locality recently. Tiiiiki: colored desperadoes hold up tho mining town of Marquisvlllo, la., tho other day. They walked into tho pool room and, calling on 50 minors to hold up their hands, one of tho party wont through their pockets. Tho min ers had just been paid and quite a sum was taken. Tim house of 15 ml Dooloy, a farmer living near Vienna, 111., fell down, killing himself, a man named Parks and all of his children. Tiik San Marco hotel at St. Augus tine, Fla,, was burned to tho ground on tho 7th. Tho firo was Incendiary. Tjikkk were no further developments in tho legislative situation in Ohio on tho 7th, tho democrats having appar ently abandoned all efforts to contest tho election of republican representa tives in close counties and the repub lican majority of five on joint ballot will not bo changed, unless tho fusion ist members vote with tho republicans. In a football game at Pittsburgh, Pa., Robert Grange suffered a cerebral concussion, from which ho was reported us lying In a precarious condition, and Pert Rltehlu received possibly fatal injuries. Tine Eu taw guardn were picketed around tho jail at Eiitaw, Ala., tho other night because the authorities ex pected an attaclt from an armed mob to lynch Hub Heard, a negro assailant of a seven-year-old white girl. Tho prisoner is a brother to Andy Heard who some time ago eloped with a whlto girl, l)ii t was caught by a mob, tied to a tree and shot to death before the girl's eyes. An Atlantic & Pacific pahsenger train was held up near Grant's station, 05 miles west of Albuquerque, N. M., the other evening. Tho robbers dynami ted tho express safe and set tho train on fire, this express, baggage and smok ing cars being totally destroyed. Tim: corn carnival held at Keatrlcc, Neb., was a great success. Foun children of Michael MeNulty and wife, who live near Mont Calm Mills, Que., were brutally butchered tho other day. Tho parents had gone to St. Julienne to transact some busi ness, leaving their three daughters and a boy at home. During their ab sence a neighbor found two of tho girls on the kitchen lloor with their throats cut. The body of the oldest daughter was found outside tho house In a similar condition and tho boy's remains were discovered in tho barn. Posses were organized and hunted over tho vicinity for the miscreant. Luis tSiLK'KO, the Mexican govern moutcoloulzatlon agent, Is making the final arrangements for taking 115 to 120 families, comprising 500 persons or thereabouts, from hilling, Corpus Chrlsti, Prairie Lea, Taylor, Gonzales and elsewhere in Texas and settling them in tho state of Tamaulipas, Mex. On an average each family will receive 100 acres of land. Tiik Now York Herald published a letter from Ilanuls Taylor, late United States minister to Spain, in which after telling of his strenuous efforts to prevent a rupture of diplomatic rela tions between tho two countries dur ing tho dark days of the Competitor ease, he asserted that the ruling classes of Spain aro determined to refuse any concessions which would bo accepted by the Cubans. Tin: large hay sheds of the Ardmore, (I. T.) Oil it Milling company, contain ing about 10 ears of baled hay and some machinery, were destroyed bv fire. A hoy named Thomas Van Wiel, a helper employed In tho big dye works at Lodi, N. J., slipped and fell head long Into a vat of acidulated boiling water. Hefore ho could be rescued nearly every Inch of skin on his body boiled off. Ho died soon after in tho hospital. Foun negro workhouse prisoners mado a desperate break for liberty at St. Louis the other evening. Twenty shots were fired by the guards and fugitives. One managed to escape, but the others were captured. Mas. Cklia Wallack, who resides at the Auditorium at Chicago and is a childless widow, has taken a fancy to Evangolina Clsneros and has offered to adopt the Cuban maid and make her an heir to a fortune estimated at $500, 000. Sklma, Ala., experienced a disas trous firo the other morning, tho losses being approximated at S100.000. A lantern exploded In tho basement of Cawthorne t Coleman, wholesale drug gists, and the basement and three floors being packed with inflammable goods, tho fire department, had all they could do to keep the fire within the building. John Wkiistuii, Jr., of Oshkosh, Wis., drank 11 full glasses of whisky with out Intermission and laid down and died. Pktkii Cnnwi'KK, his Infant itniigh ter, Anna, and John Stohlma, were asphyxiated by coal gas at Chowpor's homo on the outskirts of San ford, Pa. Mrs. Chewper and a boarder named Simon were found unconscious and were not expected to live. Nicaii Lawson, Neb., Willis Dunn, aged 21, and two younger brothers found what they supposed was a bottle of whisky in a wheat bin. Each drank of tho contents and all will die. The stuff proved to be liorsu medicine. Two earthquake shocks were felt at 2:30 a. m. on tho Itli the entire distance from Silver How, Ida., to Monida, Mont. Gkn. Ni:lson A. Milks has huirirestod to tho supervising architect for tho now Chicago post office building that It would bo a wise plan to make pro vision for mounting a few gatling guns over the several approaches to tho now structure. Gen. Miles has had Romo experience In handling strik ers and riotous mobs and ho thinks that some precaution should be taken to protect the building from bolng sacked and destroyed in a time of great excitement or local commotion. Local labor leaders denounce tho scheme. A shocking state of affairs in the Illinois soldiers' orphans' home at lUoomlngton Is being revealed by a oominiUeo of tho Grand Army. Wit nesses upon their oaths stated they had soon little children knocked down by tho superintendent and that girls had been kept In bed two days as a punishment for trilling offenses. Tin: Chesapeake it Ohio express from Cincinnati to Washington was wrecked near Charlottesville, Va., on the -itli and four persons were killed and 17 in jured. An axle broke on tho locomo tive truck. Foun laborers wore killed and sev eral others were Injured by an explo blon of dynamite at Victor, Col. P.vrnsrn Hayhyli.i:, principal chief of the Pawnee Indians, died at Pawnee, Ok., recently at tho ago of 70. Ti;v ears of a freight train on tho Kansas City, Pittsburg it Gulf railroad wero wrecked near Siloam Springs, Ark., tho other morning. All wero loaded with wheat and corn. Elghtof them were so badly damaged that It was necessary to burn them. Ualimi Van IIoii.v killed his child and then shot himself at Unadilla, Neb. It was thought that his mind was unbalanced by a lawsuit in which ho had sued his father-in-law for S10, 000 damages for slander, but was only allowed 81 and made to pay the costs. A iii:ci;nt special from Havana to tho New York World gives details of tho horrible condition of some 30,000 starv ing Cubans. Hundreds are declared to bo (lying dally. Tun steamship Idaho, which left Huffalo, N. Y., for Chicago an the 5th, foundered tho next day oil' Long point, Lake Erie, and 10 men wero drowned. Two sailors were rescued. The boat had no passengers. FitANK II. Gkiiman, at Rroeton, Mass., broko tho American 21-hour bicycle road record on tho 0th, riding 312 miles. Tho former record was hold by Davis, of Cleveland, O., of 310 miles. German also broke Davis' 12-hour rec ord of 170 miles, riding 102 miles. A maoa.ink of nitro-glycerine ex ploded in the Wetzel county (W. Va.) oil field on the Oth, killing three men and leaving hardly a trace of them or of tho magazine and two teams oi horses that wero near. A iikcknt special from Joliet, 111., said: There is a rumor in circulation hero that tho operators at Carbon 1 1 ill are planning to import Chinese labor ers to take the place of the strikers in the mines. Tho company will build a stockade to inclose both houses and shaft. As soon as the company can get readv to receive them 000 China men will bo shipped, and if this ex periment proves a success other oper ators will follow it. Tun Georgia senate on the 5th de feated a measure which, if passed, would have had the effect of making Georgia a prohibition state. Tiik official count of the ballots cast in tho election in Maryland loaves no room to doubt that the republicans will control both branches of tho legis lature and that a republican will suc ceed Arthur P. Gorman in tho United States senate. Jamks Hohwkll fatally shot Mrs. Smith and James Hartou and then blew his own brains out at East Dal las, Tex. .Jealousy was the cause. Tiik agreement entered into between tho Choctaw, Chickasaw and Dawes commissions at Atoka last April has been ratified by the Choctaw council at Tushkahoma, I. T., and approved by the governor. A bill was passed creating a commission of six members to wind up tho affairs of tho Choctaw nation. Pinconnino, Mich., was visited by a destructive fire on the 2d. Huildings on both sides of a street for three blocks wero wiped out Loss, 500,000. Two ear loads of Missouri mules left Kansas City on tho 3d for Johannes burg, South Africa. ADDITIONAL DISPATCH KS. At Norman, Olc, tho nine-year-old son of Thomas 13. Perry, while leading a cow to water, tied tho rope around his waist, and tho cow ran away and dragged him to death. It was reported that the Mexican government had decided to send to tho Washington authorities a note favor ing intervention in tho affairs of Cuba. A msi'UTK over business matters oc curred between George Jackson and E. V. Yongue, publishers of the Aberdeen (Miss.) Ledger, and the former was fatally shot by the latter. Tin: United States supreme court on the Sth alllrmed the decision of the cir cuit court for California in the case of William llonry Theodore Durrant, un der sentence for the murder of Hlanehe Lamont in San Francisco. This deci sion permits the law to take its course with the condemned man. A nkoho named Purrell Shears, liv ing about 12 miles from Luflcin, Tex., shot his wife three times, fatally wounding her. He then blew his own bra'ns out, dying immediately. No cause for the crime could be assigned. Instkad of building new soldiers' homes for the accommodation of those veterans who cannot got into tho pres ent ones because of their crowded con dition, Inspector Gen oral Hreckinridgo will recommend an allotment of SS or 810 a mouth for those old soldiers who would prefer to live with their fami lies. Ciiaiilks Johnson and Frank Kauf man, bakers, wero suffocated in their beds, and Clara Erhart, aged 11, was found dead at the rear stairs in a iiru at Erhart's bakery at IlotSprings, Ark. A fiiik at Louisville, Ky., on tho Stli destroyed tho wholesale stores of Har ford & Lawson, milliners, and Henja inin S, Allen, boots and shoes. Tho losses aggregated 150,000. TilKUK was a 822,000 deficit on tho recent horso show in Chicago. Tiik notorious desperado Charles Clitton, alias "Dynamite Dick," was shot to death by a posse of deputy marshals near Cheeotah, I. T., while resisting arrest. A TKiiutULH famine is raging in tho province of Archangel, Russia. Tho people aro said to wander about re duced almost to skeletons. It was reported that the democrats In tho Oiiio general assembly had de termined to cast their votes for Gov. Pushuell for United States senator, provided ho could got enough repub lican votes to aid in his election, aud thus down Senator liauna. CHINESE ROMANCE. A Chinese Ulrl .Sold In MurrliiKC, llcr Ef cupo and IliiptlHin. Chicago, Nov. 0. Among tho persons admitted to membership in St. James Methodist church Sunday was a young Chinese woman who had been living here two years under tho name of Lena Prown. Rev. Robert Mclntyre, pastor of tho church, baptized her, and told the congregation the story of her life. The young woman was born in Hong Kong. Her father was a phy sician and was teaching her ills profes sion when his sudden death occurred. The girl was taken by her uncle, and a few months later was brought to America by him aud bought by a Chi nese merchant of Los Angeles, Cal., who married her. Rev. George L. Colo and wife, formerly of Chicago, now engaged in missionary work in Cali fornia, found her, and through them she first learned of Christianity. Upon learning that her husband had a wife in China she decided to leave him. One morning soon after breakfast, she gathered a few articles of wearing ap parel and, picking up her child, es caped, and, under the protection of two police officers, was taken to a place of refuge. Mr. Colo soon found it ne cessary to send her further away, as a large reward had been offered for her return. WHOLE FAMILY SUICIDES. I'limm-litl KeverHi-R Prompt mi Kxtniordt imry TriiKMly In I'iitIk. Pahis, Nov. 9. A man named Drey fus, who is believed to be a cousin of Capt. Dreyfus, the deported artillery officer, imprisoned on an island off tho coast of French Guiana, and his wife and their three daughters, respectively 13, 11 and 7 years of age, committed suicide yesterday morning or Sunday night at their residence at Mareceu. The porter of the house found their bodies in their apartments early yesterday. They were lying on the lloor in the bed room of tho youngest child. Dreyfus left a letter for tho commissioner of police of that district enclosing 400 francs with which to defray the expenses of the funeral of the family. The deceased husband and father was so terribly upset by the sentence imposed upon Capt. Dreyfus that ho changed li is name to that of his wife. Financial reverses caused the terrible tragedy. FATAL HOT SPRINGS FIRE. Threw I'itkoiih Di-iid hn the IlvHiiIt of the lliirnliiK of ii liiikury. Hot Stkinos, Ark., Nov. 9. Fire broke out last night in the three-story brick building occupied by Erhart's bakery on Central avenue, and when the family living on the upper floors were awakened tho stairs, both front and rear, were ablaze. Erhart and his wife and two of their children and two employes escaped over the tops of ad joining houses, and Walter Erhart, aged eight, was saved by firemen en tering the room. Charles Johnson and Frank Kaufman, bakers, were suffo cated in their beds, and Clara Erhart, aged 11, was found dead at tho rear stairs. ANOTHER SEDALIA OUTRAGE. IMIrh Imlii llurlcn Dr.icKod a lllock mid As Hiiulti'd !y ii Whlto Mini. Skdalia, Mo., Nov. 0. Juda Purke, 10 years old, was the victim last night of a most brutal outrage. She was on her way home about seven o'clock from a shopping trip and was over taken by an unknown white man, who followed her from Proadway. Stepping behind Miss Purke he threw one arm around her waist and threatening to cut her throat if she gave an alarm, ho dragged her for a block to an alley, where he assaulted her. Miss Purke can furnish only a poor description of her assailant. JAILS DO NOT HOLD HIM. ThotiuiH, tho TonnoHHon Forger, Million lilt) Third Stinmitlniml Kcuir. Mkmimiis, Tenn., Nov. 0. J. A. Thom as, the forger who mysteriously es caped from jail here April 15 and was recaptured by local police and Pinker ton detectives at Moberly, Mo., Octo ber 7, again escaped before daylight this morning by sawing iron bars and scaling a wall, a rope for the latter purpose as well as a saw for the former having been furnished from the outside. Tho escape was Thomas' third, his first having been from a Chi cago jail, when wide attention was at tracted. NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED. Four Dfuprrntn Indian Torrltory OutlnwH ivon ii Surprlmi l'urly. Siloam Si'itlNOB, Ark., Nov. 9. Deputy United States Marshal Cope land and posse made a rich haul yester day near Stilwell, Cherokee nation, in tho capture of Rldgo Jones, Ice Chock atan, J. W. Goodrich and Sam McLe mlre, four of tho most desperate char acters to bo found In the territory. The outlaws were surrounded and taken completely by surprise, not a single shot being fired on either side. WILL GET THE 'FRISCO. Outhrlo IMtloim ItuUo ti Cash litmus of t-r.O, ()()( for tho KxtoiiHlnii. GuTiiau:, Ok., Nov. 9. At a mass meeting of citizens last night the full I J-50,000 cash bonus for the extension of tho 'Frisco railway from Red Fork, 1. T., through the Creek coal fields to this city, was raised. This will give Guthrie and all Oklahoma direct con nection with St. Louis as well as Kan sas Cltv, and put coal in hero at S2.50 , per ton instead of S5.60. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to gether, and until the last few years waa supposed to he incurable. 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