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    THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of tho Dally Nowa.
"IVAHHINOTON' NOTKS.
Samukl Gompkuh, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has re
plied at Washington in an open letter
to Secretary Ougc's recent lutter tak
ing1 exceptions to resolutions passed
by the federation with reference to the
Gage flnuncial bill. Mr. Gompcrs
ficorcs tho secretary's currency scheme
nnd says It would mean flnaneiul rule
by the banks.
Tiik president has signed tho bill
passed by congress "prohibiting tho
killing of fur seals in the waters of the
North Pacific ocean."
Tub crop bulletins of the department
of agriculture next spring will be cen
tered more largely upon tho collection
and discrimination of exact facts re
garding crop areas than in guesses on
conditions, thereby reversing tho pruc
itico whleh has prevailed for many
years. Tho reports will have a less
disturbing influence upon tho specula
tive markets and will bo of moro real
value to tho trado and to producers.
J A Disi'ATCir received at tho interior
department on tho 30th announced
that tho government of tho Seminole
nation of Indians had ratified the
agreement recently entered into be
tween tho Dawes Indian commission
nnd n similar body representing the
Seminolcs. Tho agreement must now
bo ratified by congress to becomo ef
fective. Tiik commissioner of pensions has
been giving some attention to a prop
osition whereby tho Rcrvlccs of pension
attorneys engaged in tho prosecution
of claims bofore tho ofllco may bo dis
pensed with nnd their work done by
government ofilcluls. Ho thinks it
would bo a great saving to both pen
sioners nnd government
SKcnnTAiir Lono has submitted to
tho house naval committee a draft of n
bill to secure tho attendance and testi
mony of civilian witnesses before na
val courts-martial without giving tho
naval courts undue authority.
Tins next development In tho rela
tions of tho United States government
with Spain will be Instructions to Min
ister Woodford to insist on tho pay
ment of tho Ruiz claim. Tho case has
been put in readiness In tho stato de
partment and tho noto relating to It
will go in within a few days. Tho
eum of 75,0(KMvas first asked by tho
widow of tho man who was murdered
In a Cuban jitfl, but this was scaled
down to 40,000 by tho government
Conghessman McCui.i.och, of Arkan
sas, advocates legislation by congress
to establish In St Louis a depository of
nil tho surplus gold and silver In tho
United States treasury. Ho thinks It
possible, although Improbable, that
-lew York and Washington might bo
captured by a combination of European
powers, but that all tho land forces of
tho United States could bo moblllzod
at St Louis boforo an Invading force
could reach there and tho wealth of
tho gQvern.ment would thus not be In
so uttich danger.
Assistant SkoiustAhv Davis, in tho
appealed pension case of Joseph K.
Roonc, scout, decided that "tho claim
ant, having been employed by various
ofllcors of tho army to act In tho ca
pacity of guide and scout merely, Is
not Included within any of the classes
of persons mentioned In tho pension
laws as beneficiaries thereunder. Tho
claim is, therefore, rejected."
D. 1. Muiumiv, who was commissioner
of pensions in tho latter part of Mr.
Cleveland's administration, declares
his belief that it would bo a useless
expenditure of thousands of dollars to
publish tho pension roll, as with 077,
000 names It would take 10 or 17 largo
volumes.
UENKKAI. NEWS.
Tun Sleepor opora house at llrainerd,
Minn., was burned on the 2d.
A bknbation was caused in London
on tho 2d by a rumor that tho Rritlsh
admiral had fired on a Russian man-of-war
in Chineso waters, but nothing
was known of tho rumor at the Rritlsh
forolgn ofllco or admiralty.
A fiiik occurred in Jersey City, N. J.,
and Adolph Reich, his wife, two daugh
ters and two uons lost their lives and
Beveral others wore injured.
A wkai.tjiv citizen at Rollovillo, 111.,
named John Doerrlng was found dead
In bed. Ills head had been crushed in
with some blunt Instrument by rob
bers, who had ransacked tho houso for
valuables and then escaped. . .
Tiik Paris police recently arrested 83
persons belonging to an organized
bund of murderers and robbers, tho
eldest of whom was only 'il years old.
Within three months tho bodies of 53
murdered persons were found In the
river Seine and most of the murders
were traceable to this band.
Tiik jury In tho Foley case at Lib
erty, Mo., found tho defendant guilty
of murdering his mother and sister
nnd tho judge sentenced him to
bo hanged February 18. The usual
motions for a new trial wero filed by
Foley's attorney.
ExicTKit and other towns in New
Hampshire were shaken up by an
earthquake at live o'clock on tho morn
ing of tlie 2d. No particular damage
was done.
Tin: Warren Avenue Presbyterian
church at Saginaw, Mich., was de
stroyed by fire.
Tin: Hamilton sash and door planing
mill at Duffnlo, N. Y., was burned the
other night with an Immense stock of
made up lumber. Loss, 8120,000. Tho
mill employed 150 men.
A dispatch fro-.f Albany, N. Y.,
stated that a plant combination had
been formed of the print paper manu
facturers, which will be known ns tho
International Paper company, with a
capital stock of 50,000,000. The trust
will talce formal possession of tho va
rious mills in the combination on Jan
uary M.
Tiik battle of flowers and iloral pro
cession at Pasndcna, Cal., on the 1st
was a magnificent spectacle.
Tiik residence of W. S. Carvor ear
Kay Center, Ok., was burned to tho
ground early tho other morning and
his remains wero found in tho collar,
partially burned, with a bullot In his
Bkull. The supposition was that
Carver was murdered.
Mns. Julia Lrcwis committed suicide
In a determined manner at Grcon
Point, L. I., tho other day. First she
stabbed herself with a knife, then cut
her throat with a razor and ended by
jumping out of a third-story window.
Tiik number of business failures for
1807, according to Dun's Review of
Trade, were smaller than in any other
year since 1802, tho aggregate amount
of liabilities being 5180,000,000, of
which S25.800.000 was in banking.
IlKNUy GniMM, aged JO, was run down
by au olcctrlc car In Rrooklyn and his
heart literally cut out of his body and
found later on the tracks.
Mas. Saiiaii McGowan was shot and
killed at her homo in Rankin, Pa., and
her husband, one of tho wealthiest
residents of tho place, has been charged
with tho crlmo and arrested.
Tiik New York Journal said that it
was probablo that Secretary Sherman
would retire soon and that Ambassa
dor Hay would succeed him as secre
tary of state, as President McKlnley
had been corresponding with Mr. Hay
on tho matter.
Dit. Dklfin in tho Diarlo do la Ma
rina at Havana stated that over 500,
000 persons, mostly women and chil
dren, had died of famlno In tho fields
of Cuba, Resides tho pangs of famine,
tho rcconcentradocs wero suffering
from small-pox, dysentery, malaria,
otc, which threatened extermination.
A fiiik at Lebanon, Ark., tho other
night destroyed 18 of tho principal
business houses in tho town.
Two hundred boys employed nt Hall
Iiros.' fruit jar foctory at Munclc, Ind.,
struck for higher wages nnd tho result
was a shut down of No. 1 factory.
The strikers demanded an increase of
50 cents, making u total of 4 per
week.
An old woman named Mrs. Anna
Fowlery was burned to death at Ror
dontown, N. J., tho houso nnd adjoin
ing property valued at 25,000 bolng
consumed.
Tiik business portion of Muchaka
nock, la., a mining town near Osku
loosa, was practically destroyed by fire
on the 80th. Tho lire started in a res
taurant and tho flames burned them
selves out, there being no water to
fight them.
Jamks McCoy, of Mud Run, W. Va.,
forbade his sister-in-law, Miss Sham
blin, to go to school, but she took her
books and started. Ho followed and
struck her a blow with his fist, killing
lior Instantly.
Gun. Gomkz, tho Cuban Insurgent
general, was recently interviewed and
said that for Spain to offer autonomy
to tho insurgents was an insult; that
tho insurgents wero fighting for inde
pendence and, although they would
welcome tho Intervention of thoUuited
States, they can, If lot alone, achieve
their Independence unaided.
Tiik business portion of Cantrll, la.,
was destroyed by fire.
Tiik French havo seized Hal Nan
Island. It has an area of 13,000 square
miles and a population of 1,000,000
Chinese, oxclusivo of wild tribes In tho
Interior.
Tiik warship Mohican Is to recruit
about 160 apprentice boys on tho Pa
cific coast, and probably will start with
tho in about tho middle of January on a
erulso around tho world.
In a rear-end collision on tho Wabash
railroad the other evening five passen
gers wore somewhat seriously Injured.
Tho "cannon ball" express, bound for
Chicago, ran into tho last coach of a
suburban train from Chicago, which
was switched at Palos Springs,10 miles
from Chicago. Tito coach was ditched.
Stato Senator Humphrey was among
thoso badly Injured.
Tiik Mattoon (111.) Tile company's
largo factory burned tho other day,
entailing a loss of thousands of dollars.
A GiiKAT flro occurred recently at
J tho copper mining camp of Jerome,
ana-, wmuu.ium uio piace in nsucs.
Conthacts for a 85,000,000 combina
tion of at least a score of tho big cor
poratlons which catch the fish of tho
great lakes were made at Chicago re
cently. Two distinct shocks of earthquake,
lasting about 25 seconds each, were
felt at Santa Rosa, Cal., on the morn
ing of the 1st.
Max AiiN-oi.n, editor of tho Mclfccs
port (Pa.) liudgct, was publicly horse
whipped by Mrs. Emanuel Woffe, wife
of a hotel proprietor, for an alleged
slanderous newspaper article.
Tiik raco for tho 25-mile world's
championship on tho ten-lap track at
Mndison Square garden at New York
between Jimmy Michael, the Welsh
man, and Edward Taylore, the French
man, was won by the former, leading
by 13 laps in 51:54 2-5.
Tun National Red Cross society will
establish headquarters in New York to
receive contributions for tho suffering
Cubans. Miss Rarton will be in charge.
She will probably go to Havana to ar
range co-operation with Consul Gen
eral Lee.
Tiik receipts of live stock at tho Kan
sas City stock yards for 1807 were as
follows: Cattle, 1,817,520; calves, 104,
430; hogs, 3,350,700; sheep, 1,134,230;
horses nnd mules, 37,000.
II alp tho business portion of Abbott,
Tex., was destroyed by a flro the other
night Ten buildings, occupied by 10
miscellaneous mercantile establish
ments, were burned with their con
tents. Tiik two men, Alex Johnson and Jim
Redd, sentenced to hang at Monticello,
Ark., on tho 31st, were granted a stay
of execution by tho state supreme court
pending an appeal.
A men strlko of gold has been matlo
In tho Isabella mine at Colorado
Springs, Col. The ore encountered
will run from SI, 000 to 82,000 to tho
ton, tho vein being nbout ten Inches
wide.
Tiikodork Durraxt, convicted at
San Francisco of tho murder of Rluncho
Lamont, but whose execution has been
again and again delayed on account of
the nppeals made by his lawyers, has
again been returned to the death cell
at San Quentln and tho hour of his
execution fixed at 10:30 a. m. on Jan
uary 7.
Stiikkt car conductors in St. Louis
complained recently that counterfeit
dimes wero being circulated. A man
gives a dime that is afterward found
to bo a counterfeit nnd each time re
ceives a good nickel in change, thus
being ahead of the game.
Fiftkk.v Indians, convicted of vari
ous violations of tribal laws, were pub
licly whipped at the recent term of
court at Allkchl, I. T.
Hai.lik and Walda Orem, children,
were asphyxiated by gas from a coal
stove in their home at Leipslc, O., dur
ing the absence of their mother.
Tiik three-year-old child of J. W.
Hodges, of Stillwater, Ok., was burned
to death. His clothing caught fire
from coals in a buckot of ashes.
EstiMtKSS, the East Indian python on
exhibition at Roston, was found early
tho other morning with a litter of
young amounting to nearly 100.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Skckktauy Ai.OF.it is sanguine that
the bill providing for an increase in
the standing nrmy of two additional
regiments of artillery will pass con
gress. Ho has information that an
agreement has been reached between
the leaders of the senate and the house
on the measure.
Anotiiki: great prairie fire was re
ported in Cameron and Nueces coun
ties, Tex. The large ranches of John
G. Kenedy and J. 15. Armstrong wero
burned over and many thousands of
acres of fine grass destroyed.
Agents of the Spanish government
recently purchased over 5,000 head of
horses in Texas for tho use of tho
Spanish army In Cuba. A shipment
of 1,000 head was made to Havana on
the 2d from Alice, Tex.
Nkws was received from tho Algorn
Agricultural and Medical college for
colored pcoplo'hear Rodney, Miss., that
the president of the college, E. G. Trip
le tt, was shot and fatally wounded
while on his way to a prayer meeting
bj' an unknown assassin.
Tin: opponents of Mark Ilanna cap
tured tho Ohio legislature on the 3d.
The antl-Hanna speaker was elected
by a vote of 50 to 52 and tho senate
was democratic by one.
Fihk broke out in a storage ware
house at Farravillo, Vn., the other
night and bofore It was subdued 30
buildings wore destroyed. Among tho
buildings burned wero 13 tobacco fac
tories and it wns estimated that 1,000,
000 pounds of the finest tobacco wero
destroyed. Hundreds of men wero
thrown out of work by tho disaster.
Loss, 8150,000; insurance, about one
third. Au. of tho S100 silver certificates now
In circulation In tho United States,
representing 820,000,000 In currency,
havo been called in by Secretary of
tho Treasury Gago on account of tho
discovery of a most dangerous coun
terfeit.' Forty roustabouts of tho steamer
Rob Ralli, while en routo on a train
for Pittsburgh, Pa., got Into a fight
near Slstervlllo, W. Va., and two wero
killed and another was probably fatal
ly wounded. Razors and knives wore
used.
Whim: a political meeting wns being
held at the city hall at London, Out,
tho floor glvo way and many persons
were precipitated tp tho floor below.
Following tho crash there was. a wild
rush to tho doors. Thirty persons
wero killed and many others wero seri
ously injured.
SCIENCE AS A CURE-ALL.
Vrot. flutos llollovo That the Surgeon'
Knife Will I'ut mi Knl to All Crime.
Washington, Jan. 3. Prof. Gates,
of tho Smithsonian Institute, after
years of scientific Investigation, de
clares that science will put an end to
all crime. This is the calm judgment
of the deeply learned man who has de
voted his life to research. Prof. Gates
announces, not as a possibility, but as
a fact, that the murder in a man's
brain can bo removed by the surgeon's
knife. If tho diseased part cun bo
definitely placed It can bo either cut
out altogether or treated so as to be
come healthy, when the victim be
comes a normal man.
WILLIAM FOLEY CONVICTED.
Double Murrioror Sentenced by Judgo
JJroiidcitu to Ho HfuiRfxl ltelirtinry It).
Lirkrty, Mo., Jan. 3. William S.
Foley, charged with killing his mother
nnd sister nt their homo near this city
November 17, 1800, was convicted ol
murder In the first degree and sen
tenced to bo hanged February 18. Tho
evidence was circumstantial, but very
strong. The verdict meets tho ap
proval of the peoplo of Clay county.
Judge E. J. Ilronddus also expressed
his approval, and after the verdict had
been read made a few remarks to the
youthful convict, in which ho declared
Ids belief that Foley had assistance in
the crime. Judge llroaddus referred
to Foley as an "Inhuman monster."
A MINISTER JILTED.
Young Wonmii of Hoclus Center, N. Y.,
KIopc With Telegraph Operator.
Rochkstkr, N. Y7, Jnn. 1. SodiiE
Center has a sensation. Miss Susan M.
Peeler, a beautiful and accomplished
leader of society in that village, was
to wed Rev. George Gunnell, of Pitts
burgh, Pa,, on Monday next, in St
Luke's church here. All arrange
ments for the marriage had been com.
pletcd, including an elaborate break
fast at the home of the girl's father.
Miss Peeler had an admirer in II. O.
Lyon, of Elmira, a telegraph operator.
She left for Rochester to meet, as she
said, her prospective husband, but in
fact to elope with Mr. Lyon. They
went to Capandngue and were mar
ried. Rev. Gunnell Is nearly distracted.
IN A NEW FIELD.
rnckcrft Driven Out or the Ilutterlno Hul-itc-n
IIiiikIIo Itutter nnd Kggg.
Chicago, Jan. 1. Chicago packers
who manufactured butterine as a side
line are now in the butter and egg
business on a big scale. This Is be
cause the law prohibiting the coloring
of butterine struck a fatal blow to
that business and cnuscd stock yards
men to shut down their plants. Rutter
merchants think the stock yards men
hnve started out on a campaign of re
taliation for the enactment of the law,
which is generally credited to the
country legislator and tho butter mer
chant INHUMAN PARENTS.
They Swear Away Their Hoys' Liberty nnd
Hiive Them l'liicod In a Keforiniitory.
Phunytown, W. Va., Jan. 1. Offi
cers of tho Prunytown reform school
have made a startling discovery that
fully explains the present crowded con
dition of the boys' reformatory. They
have found that it has been tho custom
of unscrupulous parents to swear away
tho liberties of their boys because they
were too Inhuman to provide for the
little fellows. Tho result Is, tho man
agement of the reform school has in
augurated a set of regulations that
will prevent continued abuso of the
provisions of the state.
TRIPLE FUNCTION SPOILED.
The Groom-Klrot Fell Dend While Kchcurd
Ing HI Approuchlng Marrlitcc.
AsiiuitY Park, N. J., Jan. 3. Yester
day was Mrs. John P. Irons' 50th birth
day anniversary and tho 25th anniver
sary of her marriage and it was also
to have been the wedding day of her
daughter Lillian. Rut as the cer
emony was being rehearsed at Rcl
mar the groom-elect, George A. Geiger,
of Shenkel, Pa., fell dead from heart
disease. Many persons had already
arrived to attend tho triple celebra
tion. SelBinlo Shocks In tho KnHt.
Exktkr, N. II., Jan. 8. Vibrations
of tho earth, following a long noise as
if of a great explosion a long way off,
awoke the Inhabitants of this town at
five o'clock yesterday morning. Tho
noise was two or three seconds long
and the tremblings of the ground much
longer. Houses wero shaken, windows
rattled and much commotion indoors
was caused, suillcieut In most cases to
awaken tho soundest sleepers. Simi
lar reports come from other towns
above here.
MnJ. AU Ilriint Dead.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3. Muj. Alf
Brant, superintendent of Kansas City's
workhouse and a well-known citizen,
died suddenly yesterday of asthma,
aged 04 years. Ho was a brilliant sol
dier during tho war, serving first
under Gen. Powell Clayton In the Fifth
Kansas and later in Hancock's veteran
reservo corps. Ills brother, Rev. J.
E. Brant, Is a prominent Kansas Meth
odist minister.
ItccittiHO He Kinged Another.
Gutiiiui:, Ok., Jan. 8. Mrs. Christine
Pontls, a handsome young widow liv
ing east of dishing, took a doso of
poison because her afliauccd lover hai?
kissed another girl.
HELD AN ACCIDENT POLICY.
A Cycll-t'd Dl-Riiat nt Not Ileitis Hnrl
In n Common.
This is the story of a somewhat unusuali
accident. It happened on the Conduit road;
one evening early in the fall, nnd the mam
who told mo nbout it was an eyewitness.
It is singularly appropriate, by the way,
that he should be nn eyewitness, for he is
nn oculist by profession. A man on a bi
cycle was scorching cheerily along on the way
to town, when suddenly there loomed up.
out of the darkness in front of him a heavy
wagon and a team headed straight for him.
There was no time to turn out. Thewhcell
crashed into the wngon pole, and the rider
was thrown completely over the horses, fall
ing between them and the wngon. The ocu
list ran to the rescue, expecting to sec a.
limp mass of bleeding and unconscious hu
manity. Instead, he saw a kicking and',
swearing person who was apparently unin
jured. The bicycle was a Chinese puzzle of
twistcd wire.
"Arc you hurt?" asked the oculist.
The swearing person nicked himself up
nnd stopped swearing. lie gazed at what:
had once been a fnir young bicycle.
"Hurt!" ho said in n tone of deepest dis
gust. "Hurt? Me? Of course I ain't hurt.
I vc got an accident policy." Washington
Post.
Dcdtrnctlvc Storms Along: the Conat..
Reports of maritime disasters along the
coast come in thick and fast. People who
"go down to the sea in ships" should bear
In mind one thing in particular, namely,,
that it is highly desirable to take along a.
supply of Hostcttcr's Stomach Bitters as a,
remedy for Bca sickness. Nausea, dyspepsia,,
biliousness, constipation, malaria, nervous
ness nnd kidney trouble, all succumb to its.
beneficent and speedy action.
It Is to He Hoped So.
Ilogan Oi wonder who will be th' lasfc
man on airth?
Grogan Oi dunno anny more than you.
But it is hoped that he'll bo nn oondortakcr,
so he will know how to bury himself daccnt
ly. Indianapolis Journal.
There In n Clnnn of People.
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re
cently there has been placed in nil the
grocery stores a new preparation called'
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, thnt takes
the place of coffee. The most delicate stom
ach receives it without distress, nnd but
few can tell it from coffee. It docs not cost
over $ ns much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. 15 cts. nnd 25 cts. per pack
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
How to Work: It.
Cholly What do you do when your
father won t let you have any more new
clothes?
Chnnpie I get a new tailor. N. Y.
Van Noodle "D'yer know, Miss Tungbit.
that old duffer, Chapwith, called me a mufF.
the other night." Miss Tungbit "Indeed f"
Why, I think you moro closely resemble a
boa." Harlem Life.
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Blacker the spot, surer the cure. Use St
Jacobs Oil for bruises.
It is always hard on a man when love or
the measles attacks him late in life. Chi
cago News.
No man ever had ns mnny suspenders as
he wanted. Wnsiiington Democrat.
Sudden weather changes bring rheuma
tism. St. Jacobs Oil makes prompt cure.
Unbidden guests give pleasure when,
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Salt rheum,
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