THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER W. W. 8ANDICRH, rablliher. NEMAHA, NEBRASKA. THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tho Dally Nows. 1VA8UINCJTON NOTKH. ' Tnn bureau of statistics at Washing ton reports that tho exports of domes tic merchandise during November last amounted to S1H,C08,H01, a jfalu of noarly 87,000,000 as compared with No vember, 1800. Tho Imports of mer chandise during1 November aggregated 852,SJ52,!li. A sit.cial to tho Chicago Post from Washington stated that a representa tive of tho Union Pacific reorganiza tion committee said that the Union Pacific would not buy tho Kansas Pa cific at tho price the government wants ,for tho road. A Washington special to tho New York Commercial Advertiser said that if the Hawaiian annexation treaty failed in tho senate there was u plan on foot to secure tho islands by paying 81, 000,000, tho amount of the Hawaiian debt. Thk National Hoard of Trade, in ses sion at Washington, adopted resolu tions favoring tho passage of an anti Bcalpcrs' ticket brokerage bill and also a bill favoring pooling under supervi sion of tho interstate commerce com mission. The president sent to tho senate on the 10th thu name of Joseph McKcnna, to bo associate justice of the supreme court of tho United States. Tiik nomination of Charles Q. Dawes, of Illinois, to bo comptroller of the cur rency, was confirmed by the senate. Dki.koatk Callahan will mako an effort this winter to convince congress that Oklahoma is deserving of state hood. Thk comptroller of tho currency has issued a call on national banks for a Btatcment of their condition at the close of business Wednesday, Decem ber IB. Thk assistant secretary of tho Inte rior has ruled that a soldier's widow has a right to prosecute to a final ad judication a claim for a pension filed by her deceased husband if tho claim is rejected and tho husband dies beforo appealing from the commissioner of pension's action. Phksidknt McKini.ky hus informed Chief Sargent, of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, that he will ac cord a hearing to labor leaders beforo a new member is selected to succeed Col. Morrison on tho interstate com merce commission. Thk testimony of Director of tho Mint Preston beforo the house commit tee on coinage developed tho fact that there wero many counterfeit silver dol lars in circulation and that tho govern ment was encountering much trouble with tho subject, but he offered no suggestion as to a remedy. Tiik nomination of Attorney General McKcnnu to succeed Justice Field on tho supreme bench will not bo acted upon by the senate until after the Christmas holidays. Sknatou CuAxiMsn, of New Hamp shire, has published a lotter in which ho deprecates any action on tho cur rency question and advises congress to await tho progress of international bimetallism. Ho thinks it will bo po litical suicide for tho ropublican party to do anything on the subject at pres ent. tllCNKKAL NKWS. Paiidkk iiau, tho prido of Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., was badly dam aged by fire and valuable machinery, instruments, books and a museum of minerals and birds destroyed. Washington Hksino, ex-postmaster of Chicago and president of tho Stnats Zeitung company, died suddenly of heart disease on tho evening of the 18th. Bv tho explosion of a gasoline stove at Holyoke, Mass., a woman and a child wero burned to death. A dispatch from Ames, Neb., stated that tho American Sugar Growers' as sociation had prepared a potition to congress against hasty action on Hawaiian annexation. It represented that the adoption of tho islands would ruin the growing beet sugar industry. A sthono earthquake shock, lasting 12 seconds was felt the other morning at Curta dl Castollo, Italy. Tho walls of houses split, chimneys fell and a panic ensued. Thk aggregate valuo of Iowa crops for 1807, at prices prevailing December 1, was given at 8200,000,000. Thk Amorican Federation of Labor on tho 18th re-electod tho following officers: President, Samuel Uompers; first vice president, P. J. McGulre; sec retary, Frank Morrison; treasurer, Gcorgo B. Lcnnon. Kansas City, Mo., was chosen as tho next meeting place. As Jailor Gibson was making his rounds at Pino Bluff, Ark., with a trusty, olght negro prisoners, includ ing tho trusty, seized tho jailer and after u fierce struggle all escaped out of tho jail. A wkstjiound Missouri Pacific freight train was wrecked ono mllo oast of Van Buren, Ark., tho other night, 13 cars being piled in a heap. Tho dis aster delayed traffic owing to a bridge having been destroyed. A JiitiDOKon tho Monon railroad near Lafayette, Ind., wont down and 18 cars loaded with stono and coal wero pre cipitated into a creek. I Pittsiiithgh, Pa., is trying to got tho r . .. ..... i I 4l... u. a. ii. encampment w ieui m nu city in 1000 and to take part in tho dedication of a grand soldiers' monu ment to cost in the neighborhood of 8500,000. Roihikhs dynamited tho safe in tho post office at Canal Dover, O., the other night and secured the contents. "Motjiku Hu.MiMiHKY," the aged wife of White Bear, once a chief of tho Win nebago Indians, was recently found frozen to death In a hut made of gunny sacks and rags on the Missouri river at Sioux City, la. Wmr.ii piloting a heavy freight train up the Merchants' bridge incline at St, Louis, an engine jumped the track and plunged to the ground below. Fire man Penslnger was Instantly killed; Engineer MeCullough was dashed head first through the cab window and bad ly Injured, and W. II. Cobb, yard agent, had several ribs broken. An open switch on the Chicago ifc Alton road was tho cause of a collision between the St. Louis limited passen ger and a freight train on the side track at Pontine, 111. Sovoral persons wero seriously injured. The two en gines and two freight cars wero total wrecks. Ghadv UKYNoi.ua and Bud Brooks were executed at Jefferson, Gn., on tho 17th for murder. "Km" McCoy, of Indiana, fought Dan Creedon, of New Zealand, at New York on tho 17th for tho middleweight championship of the world. After 15 lively rounds the latter threw up the sponge and acknowledged the Hoosier's superiority. Wim.iam Cahk was hanged by tho sheriff at Liberty, Mo., on tho 17th for tho murder of his three-year-old daughter. Wiiii.k a herd of sheep, numbering 10,000 head, belonging to M. O. Mur phy, was being moved out of Schleicher county, Tex., to a new range, a dense fog suddenly came up. Tho herdersgot bewildered and the entire herd drifted away and were not found, although searching parties werobut several days. Caw. Sanuitz wiis re-elected presi dent of the National Civil Service lie form league at tho meeting at Cincin nati on the 17th. A resolution was passed scoring the attempts of con gressmen to repeal tho civil service laws. Two children of Albert Kollner, of Muchaklnock. la., perished in a fire which consumed tho family's dwelling. Tho mother had left the children alone in the house. Two children named Maggie and Henry Carroll, aged respectively four and six years, were burned to death at Newark, N. J. Their mother had locked them in tho house while she went out washing. Thk business failures in the United States for tho week ended tho 17th, ac cording to Bradstreet's report, aggre gated, 'iS), against !.' for tho corre sponding week a year ago. Thk A. F. of L. convention at Nash ville, Tenn., on the 17th adopted reso lutions for the government ownership of telegraph lines, against anti-scalp-ing legislation, for the appointment of factory Inspectors and for an amend ment to the constitution depriving courts of tho power to set aside laws made by tho people. Tho proposition to create a national department of labor was indorsed and the federa tion's stand against tho principle of compulsory arbitration was reiterated. Thk 10th annual meeting of the Na tional Civil Service Ileform league be gan a session of two days at Cincinnati on tho 10th with Hon. Carl Schurz pre siding. A jioii .lynched Tom Waller, a negro, near Bankston Ferry. Miss., for being an accomplice of Charley Lewis who bad been hanged a day or two before In tho murder of Mrs. Smith and her four children. A hkcknt dispatch from Bayou, La., stated that tho steamboat Pargoud sank in the Mississippi river just above the mouth of lied river. The boat and cargo were in bad shape and tho loss was heavy. Mils. Annii: Wkii, stepped on a parlor match at St. Louis, causing it to ignite. The blnzo caught her under skirt and she was fatally burned. Tin: date for tho national encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Repub lic has been fixed for September 5-10 at Cincinnati. Tin: advance guard of 10,000 Croa tian colonists arrived in Denver tho other day. Tho colony will locate in tho Shenandoah valley of southwest ern Colorado, where houses, schools, churches and various industrial insti tutions will be erected, tho Uio Grando railroad promising to construct a branch Into the country. Fnti: destroyed tho United States courthouse at Ardmore, I. T., on tho 10th. Tho records wero safe In the vault, but valuable papers in the offices of tho marshal, clerk and commissioner were lost, -Only the bare walls wero loft standing. Tho fire also destroyed tho Cobb house, Arch Matthews' feed store and (10 bales of cotton in a com press yard. The blaze was believed to have been of Incendiary origin. Bui) Bkahd, colored, aged 14, was hanged at Carrollton, Gn., for assault In an eight-year-old girl. Otto Lkmkk and his sister were found dead In their beds at Toledo, 0., tind their father in a dying state owing to gas from a coal stove. A conviction of southern cotton growers was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 14th to get tho presont mortgage lion and other luws repealed and to de vise some means to prevent specula tion in cotton. MHMMMMHUIIHHIMiiinHn At n bull fight at Gaudalajarn. Mcx., tho bull jumped tho barrier and charged tho spectators. Three persona wero gored to death and nine Injured. Many were also hurt In the panic which ensued. Thk store of tho Mermod fc Jaecard Jewelry company at St, Louis was de stroyed by firo on the 10th, together with the Model Cloak company, tho former sustaining a loss of 8M5.000 and tho latter SflO.OO'J. Highway robberies ooetii' daily and nightly in St, Louis and so general has become tho alarm that a tremendous sale of (Ircnrms has been started. Judges Stovenson, Peabody, Wood and Wlthrow recently declared that rob beries and assaults had come to be of so frequent occurrence that no ono was safe, and that no person could be blamed for going armed. Ashland, Va., reported asllghtshock of earthquake at 0:45 o'clock on tho evening of the 18th. Fit7.sim.monh stated at Chicago on the 10th that he had changed his mind and would give Corbett another chauco in the prize ring. The date of the bat tle is indefinite. While the two young sons of Wil liam Landers, living near Chandler, Ok., were out hunting the one aged eight was accidentally shot by tho ono aged 12. Gov. Jonks has commissioned Miss Emma Whittlngton, of Hot Springs, as an honorary colonel in the Arkansas reserve militia. This is tho first ap pointment of the kind over made in the state. Tin: house of Patrick Leahy at Otta wa, Ont,, was burned early tho other morning and Leahy and five of his chil dren, tho oldest only nine years of age, perished. It was supposed that Leahy dropped a lighted lamp. A loss of nearly SI, 000.000 was caused enrly on the morning of the 17th by tho burning of the Hotel Dakota at Grand Forks. N. I). It was a largo five-story structure that cost 8250,000. Two largo wholesale stores adjoining were also destroyed. Thk Swiss trencral assembly has elect ed Eugene Uuify to be president of tho confederation. M. Mueller wns elected vice president. Both presi dent and vice president-elect are radi cals. Bkoinnino with the new year tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway will bo operated from the road's Texas gen eral otlice, located in Dallas. A. A. Allen, vice president and general man ager of the "Katy," and his entire of fice force will go there from St Louis. Tho change is duo to an order from tho Texas railroad commissioners, which made the residence in Texas of an ac tive vice president of the road a neces sity. Thk wholesale grocery house of Betts, Fletcher &. Co., at Marshall town, la., caught fire tho other after noon and was entirely destroyed. Thk A. F. of L. at its meeting on the 10th at Nashville, Tenn., decided to admit negro unions. Mas. MAitGAitKT Hooan, aged 05, was found murdered in her store at Mobile, Ala, Tho place had been robbed. ADDITIONAL DIHIMTUIIKS. Thk house committee on currency will have something more to consider besides the finnncial scheme of Secre tary Gage, every member having a plan, which will bo perfected during the holidays, and all phases of the cur rency problem being treated. Noticks have been posted at tho China, Pembroke and Webster cotton mills at Suneock, N. II., announcing a reduction of about ten per cent. Janu ary 1. Thu cut will effect nearly 1,500 operatives. It is probable that tho cut will be accepted. A lMiAiisiK fire was reported on the 20th as raging in Edwards county, Tex. It had burned a strip from the Nueces river to a point a few miles northwest of Rock Springs, about 25 to 50 tnilos wide. Tiik American Missionary associa tion made public at New York on the 20th its 5lst annual report. It showed that hundreds of students had been turned away from its schools for want of funds. The receipts from tho differ ent sources for the year were SlOl, 371.03. Sr.cuKTAitY Ar.fluit intends to send a number of relief expeditions to tho suffering Klondike miners. The first one will start about February i. Snow locomotive will be used to beat a trail and 000 reindeer will bo purchased to haul the supplies. Thk Auditorium theater and hotel at Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by iire early on the morning of tho 21st, So far as known all the guests escaped without serious injury. Tho loss on the building was placed at 8500,000. Thk A. F. of L., at its meeting at Nashville, Tenn., on the 20th, adopted resolutions favoring the establishment of postal savings banks and denounc ing Secretary Gage's currency bill. Tho convention decided to increase the per capita tax to two cents, to go into elfect February 1 next. A tuoi.i.ky car at Philadelphia, while descending a hill, got out of the control of tho moiormau and dashed into a horse ear. The stove was upset and the wreckage caught firo and burned. Many passengers were seri ously injured. A kkkioht train of 21 cars, traveling down tho mountain near Altoona, Pa., became unmanageable, owing to thu slippery trades, and crashed into a freight train standing at thu station. About 50 cars were completely broken up and a passenger train was also thrown over on Its side. Several train men were seriously hurt. AUDITORIUM BURNED. Kansas City's Largest and Finest Theater Entirely Destroyed. Orer 100 Utieiti Wore Anlccp In tho Itulld- but All Kcttpnt Uninjured I.ons Will Kxcm-il Ilulf u Mlllloii- Otlior CiiHUfiltlcH. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 21. At ono o'clock this morning the Auditorium hotel and theater, at Ninth and Holmes streets, was discovered on lire. Beforo the firemen could get a suffi cient number of streams playing on tho building to mako any headway against tho Unities tho fire was beyond control, nnd at two o'clock Superin tendent Pellcticr, of tho insurance patrol, gave Instructions for the guests to remove their effects, as the build ing was doomed. Tho building was a five-story stono structure. The west half is occupied as a hotel. Tho east half, with tho exception of portions of tho fourth and fifth iloors, is taken up by tho theater. There wero 105 guests In the hotel. Those included many families and children of all ages. All of tho guests wero asleep, and when the alarm of fire was communicated from room to room and shouted along the hallways, tho greatest confusion reigned. Guests dressed hurriedly, gathered together their effects and crowded to the eleva tor. Men dragging heavy trunku, women carrying frightened and screaming babies, thronged the hall ways, stairs and elevator. So far as known all escaped without serious in jury. Soon after two o'clock tho entire building was practically doomed. The loss on the building Is placed at 8500, 000. Tho firo broke out in a room oc cupied by ono of the porters. Tho Auditorium was tho largest the ater building in Kansas City and was erected in 1S87 by Col. George W. Warder. A THEIGHT TIIAIN UNMANAGKAHI.K. Ai.toona, Pa., Dec. 21. A freight train of 21 loaded cars, traveling down tho mountain to this city, last night became unmanageable in consequence of the slippery condition of the tracks, made the 12 miles from Gallitz into Al toona in as many minutes, and crashed iuto a f reiglit train in tho yard here, directly in front of the passenger sta tion. About 50 cars were completely broken up, nnd tho Ilollidayburg pas senger train, which was standing on the track outside the passenger sheds, was thrown over on its side. The en gineer and fireman of the runaway train were helped from tho cab of the wrecked locomotive, and both wero able to walk away. Three other train men were taken to tho hospital. One of them is said to bo fatally injured. STIIKKT CANS COLI.II)K. Philadelphia, Doc. 21. Ono person was probably fatally hurt and six others were more or less injured yes terday afternoon in a collision of the Uoxborough, Wissahickon & Mana yunk electric road In the outskirts of this city. While descending a hill a trolley car became unmanageable on accountof slippery tracks and, descend ing at full speed, it struck a horse car at the end of the incline, plowed through ono end of it and and brought up against a trolley pole. The roof of tho trolley car fell in on tho passen gers, the stove upset and the wreck caught fire. J. It. Lamon, aged 29 years, conductor of the runaway car,' suffered injuries which will necessitate the amputation of a leg and an arm and may result in his death. The motorman and passengers wero severe ly cut and bruised. Tho wreckage was consumed by the flames. ORTH STEIN AGAIN. Ho Clmllcniros n ;-ort;)ttn to 11 Duel uiiil thu Cliullvnico Ih Accepted. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21. A challenge to a duel to death wns given and ac cepted in open court in this city yes terday and would have been fought last night had not the parties been taken possession of by the police. That they will meet is certain tinless tho au thorities again intervene, and this they are not likely to do. The challenge was given by Orth Stein, whose paper a few days ago severely attacked the local judiciary. It was accepted by Muj. Harvey Johnson, who lias just returned after eight years' service as consul general to the United States to Belgium. Mnj. Johnson represented Solicitor General O'Neil In the proceedings growing out of an assault upon Stein in a hotel lobby last Saturday, and during the hearing all tho facts In a most sensa tional case wero brought out. It was shown that six distinguished state offi cials had been raided in a poker game a week ago and that Editor Stein's published article was a severe criticism of the action of the local court in dealing with tho prisoners. O'Neill had met Stein and had slapped his face in public. Mutual friends wero trying to arrange tho difference when both were arrested for a broach of the peace and the case thus reached the court. It was during court that Johnson arose and denounced Stein, accusing him of murdering a man in Kansas City a few, years ago and that ' a prlco was on his head. It was then that Stein challenged Johnson. ! (ilrU us Hall riclitorH. Havana, Dec. 21. At Ucgln, a sub- I urb of Havana, there was a sensational bull fight, in which girl bull fighters from Spain entered the bull ring and Killed bulls llko regular professionals. IjUOO Itcwnrrt $100. The readers of tin's paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building ut the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have ho much faith in its cura tive powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. TT0',',1, b-Y, Druggists, 75c. Hnll'B Family Pills arc the best. A CniHllil Tnle. "Can I sec the lady of the house?" asked the canvasser, with candor. "Yes," she replied, candidly, "you can if vou arc not a nolitirnl mmliilntn " I "How can you?" said he. "No, madam, I am selling a can opener which can't be beat. It can open any can that can be opened by any can opener, and any can can be opened by this can opener that can he opened by any can opener, and if you can OIIVJIV IIIU tl Kill L lUII- "What cant!" cried she. "I wish I had a cannon, and I'll bet you'd canter." Then she slammed the door in his face. Philadelphia Bulletin. "Wlinlliipr Fleet In DnnRcr. It is predicted that tho vessels of the whaling fleet, most of whose underwriters IlIU 111 OilU X' JilllUlhCU, 1111VU UL'L'Il I'Ullgllb lit the ice and some may not last through the siege. Danger also threatens those who nog , lect what are called "trilling" ailments, for they may not last through tho crisis, lie sort to Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters at once for incipient rheumatism, malaria, consti pation, nervousness and kidney complaint. Snylnan of the Feoplc. A German acquaintance of ours thus dis coursed learnedly upon the business situa tion recently: "If business is no better next week than it was yesterdav two weeks ago, den I'm a son of a gun, dat's vat I hopes." Philadelphia North American. - m Try Grnlu-OI Try Grntn-OI Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GllAIN-O. the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GllAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but it is made from pure grains, and tho most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 1-4 tile price of coffee. 15c and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. The Dllllculty. Miss Billiondot None but the brave de serve the fair. Percy Harduppe True, and none but the wealthy get 'cm. Up-to-Datc. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free 2 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline. 033 Arcli st.. Phila., Pa. He "Don't you think it rather risky to come so far alone on your wheel?" .She "Hadn't thought of it but ifwou feel timid I'll see you home." Yellow Book. m -.I. I could not get along without Piso's Curo for Consumption. It always cures. Mrs. E. C. Moulton, Needham, Mass., Oct. 22, '94. A woman doesn't object to her naughty children if others arc worse. Atchison Globe. ..M. i Crippled for years? Pshaw! Why St. Ja cobs Oil will cure sprains right on. Sure. ' Experience is a hard block to whittle, but every shaving is of priceless value to the whittler. N. Y. Independent. - ' m i No mistake. Thousands have been cuicd Promptly of neuralgia by St. Jacobs Oil. -' ... m i A man never enjoys reading quite as much as he does just as his wife is ready to start to church. Washington Democrat. Without Distress Poor Health for Yoara-Hood's Sar saparilla Curos Dyspepsia. "My husband was in poor health for years owing to dyspepsia and ho could not got relief. Wo gavo him Hood's Sarsapa rilla, and after ho had taken three bottles ho could cat without distress and was ablo to work." Baiuuh.v Ki:nncRa, 130 North Pearl Street, Green Bay, Wis. Hood's SarsapariSBa Is tho best In fact tho Ono Truo Mood Purlflor. Hood's Pills euro constipation. 25 cents. Why have more ESTEY Organs been sold than any other kind? 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