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I ti III & I t ff ? ' THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER M. W. W. 8AND1CKS, I'nhllihfir. NEMAHA, - NRIIR.ASKA. THE WOULD AT LARGE. Summary of tho Dally Nowb. WASHINGTON NOTTS. Thk commissioner of pensions ren dered a decision tlio other clny Unit tliu receipt of a iriunicipal pension by wid ows of firemen, policemen and other municipal employes does not violate their right to a federal pension. A tukaty between tho United States and (Jreat Urltiiin, covering reciprocity with the Ilritlsh West Iiwllnn colony of the Uarbadocs, was signed at Washing ton on the 10th. Tin: report of Hrig. (leu. King, com manding the Klrst brigade during tho early fighting at Manila, was made public by tho war department on tho 10th. AccoitniNO to tho plan of ex-tlov. Merriam, director of tho twelfth cen sus, for tho appointment of 2,000 clerics for the work of tho main olltco tho apportionment from each state will be as follows: United States sen ators will have tho appointment of 10 clerks each; republican representatives eight each and democratic representa tives two and in some cases three each. Ahmy ofllcers who were requested to tuhiuit to the war department their views on the army canteen have been tending in their reports and nearly all regard tho post exchange as Indlspon tablo to 1 lie morality, comfort and con tent of tho enlisted men. MKNKKAI, NKW.H. Two thousand employes of tho Mary laud Steel company at ltaltimore, Md., held a meeting on tho 18th and deter mined to strike at tho end of seven (lays if their demands for a nine-hour day and weekly payments wore not ac ceded to by the company. At an early hour tho other morning Allen Pros.' wholesale grocery at Omaha, Neb., was discovered on lire. The blaze started on tho fifth floor and burned downward, destroying tho fifth tnd fourth floors and their contents. The damage to tho stock was estimated it $100,000 and tho building Slft.000, tho loss being covered by insurance. Dur ing tho progress of the flro a magazine filled with powder, which tho firemen tvero moving to a place of safety, ex ploded. Eleven fireman were injured, two seriously. Mits. Ji:nnik IMuck was riding a wheel across tho Lake Shore track at Cleve land, O., and fell in front of an ap proaching train. Ulaso Patrio, who had been detailed to assist tho llagmau fct tho crossing, ran to Mrs. Price's as listancc, but both he and tho woman were run down. Physicians said both would die. Hknjamin li IlAitntNO, ex-United States senator, died on his farm near Cottage drove, Ore,, on tho 17th. Two new dances have been approved by tho National Association of Masters of Dancing at its convention at Niaga ra Falls, N. Y. This will bo followed by their adoption in society circles all over tho United States. They are tho Harvest dance and the Princess Louise gavotte. Tho niuslo for tho cake-walk quadrille was also received. This Is a new dance somewhat similar to tho waltz quadrille. Hknicy Gmkki.V, a laborer, employed in sewer construction work, was buried alive at Keokuk, la., by a cave-in. A CALL has been Issued for a meeting of ofllcers of the independent telephone companies of the United States, to bo held at Chicago Juno Utl to 20, to per fect arrangements for consolidating tho various companies interested and build long-distance lines, connecting nil cities that have Independent sys tems, and organizing for mutual pro tection against the Central Union com pany. Gkohok Uauhow, charged with kid naping Marlon Clarke, was found guilty nt New York and sentenced to 14 years and ten mouths' imprisonment. At tho last session at Hulfalo, N. Y., on tho 15th of tho imperial council, Nobles of tho Mystic Shrine, John II. Atwood, of Leavenworth, Ivan., was -elected imperial potentate. Onk thousand coal miners in the Chi cago and Alton (111.) sub-districts struck on tho 15th, owing to tho operators pasting a notice that they would pay but !l.rK cents per ton, tho amount fixed by the board of arbitration. IlKNitv C. Paynic, of Wisconsin, na tional republican committeeman, who recently attended a conference of tho senate finance committee at New York, made a statement to the Milwaukee Journal that, In his opinion, a bill will "bo formulated at tho coming congress that will place tho United States upon n gold standard basis. Skvknty out of 111 cows at the Eastern Illinois insane hospital at Knn Icakce Showed, signs of tuberculosis after inoculation with tuberculin. They were slaughtered. A HriX'iAi, from Xcuia, 0., on the 15th htatcd that a unique condition of attains existed there, owing to the re fusal of the city council to provide money for meeting tho expenses of the workhouse. The board of directors of the workhouse pnssed a resolution ordering that all prisoners confined 'there- should be' released from uustody and work on tlio stone pile ludotlnlttjly suspended. Twenty-eight- '' prisoners were to be released. HUUUttiiitM Ar a Hohemlnn plculc at Cleveland, O., on the 18th a fight was started and Frank lladjut was shot and killed. Tin: Central Federal Labor union at New York on the 18th presented a res olution instructing its secretary to write to President McKlnley and the war department demanding tho recall and trial by court-martial of Uen. Merriam, because of his policy regard ing the striking miners at Cour d'Alcne, Ida. Tin: United States Smokeless Powder works In Marin county, Cab, blew up tho other afternoon, killing four men and dangerously injuring two others. Jim JKrmiK.H and Tom Sharkey have been matched at New York to fight a 25-round battle for the heavyweight championship of the world before the club offering the largest purse, tho winner to take all. The match will take place about October !!. A I'liti: broke out about midnight on the 17th In tho hay barn of the Kansas City Stock Yards company and -1,000 tons of baled hay, worth about 20,000, were destroyed. The building and con tents were fully insured. A TOit.VAiio passed over Winona coun ty, Minn., on the 17th and several buildings were demolished. Tho same storm struck tho small settlement of Montana, Wis., blowing down many houses and injuring two or three per sons. A number of buildings were also demolished near Algona, in north ern Iowa. Thk outlook on the night of the 10th at Denver was more favorable for an early resumption of work by tho trust smelters in Colorado, steps having been taken for a conference between J. 11. Grant, chairman of tho operating com mittee of the American Smelting and Refining company and a committee of the Smeltermen's union. ATSurrency, (Ja., "Hoy" Williams, a negro, was taken from jail and lynched for an attempted assault on a woman. Dave Clark, another Surrency negro, was found dead In the woods with sev eral holes In his body. He had been arrested for trying to shoot a constable. Thk Filipinos attacked Gen. Mae Arthur's lines at San Fernando on the 10th. They met with a warm recep tion and were repulsed. Gen. Fun s ton's brigade of Kansas and Montana troops was in the fight. AccoimiNO to a dispatch from Man zanillo, Cuba, during a severe storm tho other night lightning struck sev eral tents In the American camp there and 15 cavalrymen were rendered un conscious. Fortunately no one was killed. Tun Spiritual Medium Protective as sociation met at Richmond, lud., re cently. Tho association was formed for tho purpose of shutting out false mediums and it Is the intention to make it national in its scope.' Fli'TY guests who attended the wed ding of Miss Myrtle McLainand George J. Preseott, near Robins, la., were made seriously ill by eating pressed chicken and ice cream, in which there was ptomaine poisoning. Till! Chicago police are convinced that tho murderers of Martin Meiers, tho old miser found strangled in his house some days since, secured about 810, 000 as the result of their crime. Ri:v. W. 1'. Pom:, an educated colored divine, of McNeil, Ark., is taking tho initiative in the organization of a league whose object is to elevate his race and help solve the lynching prob lem. The name of the organization is to bo thu Co-Operative League of Amer ican Citizens and white people are in vited to become honorary members. Thk town of llrackott, about 120 miles west of San Antonio, Tex., was reported under ten feet of water on the 15th. Four persons were missing and were supposed to have been drowned. A waterspout over that place inundated the country for miles around. A wkm.-dkkinki) cyclone came over southern Oklahoma the other after noon and would probably have blown away the town of Hennessey had not a largo cannon been discharged into the funnel-shaped cloud when it was within 50 yards or more of tho town. The cloud Immediately dissolved. That was tho second cyclone which had passed near Hennessey this summer which had been burst by firing cannon into it. Thk statue of llcnjiunin Franklin presented to Philadelphia by Justus C. Strawbridge was unveiled on the 15th. Charles Emory Smith, postmaster gen eral, made tho address of presentation. Tin: village of Hay of Islands, N. P., was destroyed by forest fires the other day. CONOUKHBMAN RlC'IIAUl) I'AllK.H lll.AM) died at his homo near Lebanon, Mo., on tho 15th of cerebral congestion, aged 01. En IIahvky, a negro, was hustled to Anderson, I ml., the other night from Alexandria to escape tho vengeance of a mob of JI00 men, who had surrounded tho frail wooden structure used for a jail in Alexandria and were demand ing Harvey. The latter, during a fight in the afternoon, resisted arrest and stabbed Edward Sherman, chief of the lire department, and William Uidluger, a spectator. Tiikhk was a large attendance on the llth at the diamond auiver-ary of the Miami university at Oxford, O. The seventy-fifth .commencement was made the occasion of a reunion of the alumni and a new era for this institution. The Phi Delta Theta fraternity was founded here 50 yvMs ag and it cele brated the event with tho dedication of, a tablet in Hlshop hall, at which three surviving founders were present. man Thk second annual conference of the Federation of Zolnists opened at Haiti more, Md., on the 18th. Twenty socie ties from as many cities were repre sented. Ti'.MlditAi'inc inquiries were recently sent out by the New York Herald" asking the heads of state governments whether they thought the military force now in tho Philippines sulliolent ly strong to crush the insurrection, and if not how many soldiers should bo sent. The uniform answer to the first question was "no." Regarding the second tho consensus of opinion was that Gen. Otis' army should bo in creased to the rebels palgu. 100,000 men, so as to crush in one short, sharp cam- Mits. Koii.v was cleaning some gar ments with gasoline at Cleveland, O., when there was an explosion and the entire front of the house was blown out. Mrs Kohu, her husband and child were dangerously Injured and were taken to the hospital. Tin: Jlenbow house at Greensboro, N. C, was burned. Loss, S100.000. Wnn.K a party of 1!) young folks were bathing at Galveston, Tex., tho other evening the undercurrent swept them out into deep water and three girls were drowned. Mahcus DaijY and his associates in the Anaconda Mining company, of Montana, have sold their holdings to an eastern syndicate, headed by John D. Rockefeller, for S2:S,000,000. Gnoitoi: Lauiuk, a fanner at Hunt ington, Ind., was attacked by his bull and had his life crushed out. Ills wife, who went to his assistance, suffered the same f-ate. A PiTTHiiuito & Gin.K passenger train was held up by masked men at Shady Point, near Poteau, I. T. Meager de tails received by the general ofllces at Kansas City, Mo., say that the proceeds of the robbery were a $." bill, property of D. II. Patterson, express messenger, and one registered letter. The passen gers were not molested. John liKKHY, colored, was hanged at Marlboro, Md., on tho 10th for murder. Tin: old armory building at Cumber land, Md., burned to the ground tho other night. The firemen made gal lant efforts to save it and when tho roof fell a number of them were caught. It was said ten were killed. A Disi'ATCii from Lexington, Ky., stated that tuberculosis had developed at the eastern Kentucky lunatic asylum and several head of cattle had been de stroyed. Pi.ANTKits in Louisiana arc alarmed at tho prevalence of anthrax, which is killing ofl' stock right and left. The .'5,000 employes of the trust smelt ers in Denver, Pueblo and Leadville, Col., walked out at noon on the 14th, after having extinguished the fires in the big furnaces and put everything in perfect order for a season of idleness. It was predicted that most of the mines in the mining camps of the state will soon be closed, throwing thousands of miners out of employment. Almost every industry in the state will be af fected. ADDITIONAL DISPATCH KS. Tin: director of tho mint at Wash ington on tho 10th announced his esti mate of the production of gold and sil ver in the Tinted States for 1S0S as fol lows: Gold, S04,4(W,000; silver, ni,48, 000 fine ounces. Tho commercial value of silver bullion for 180S was 50 cents per tine ounce, while for 1807 it was 00 cents. A gano of masked robbers, probably ten in number, early the other morn ing raided the receiving ollico of the Iwurmount Park Transportation com pany at Philadelphia and, after hold ing up the receiver and five other em ployes of the railway, blow open the safe, securing SI, 000. Gi:.v. Otis cabled on the 10th that all the volunteer organizations in tho Phil ippines desired to be mustered out at San Francisco. Fmi: which originated in James Mc Gillicuddy's grocery in Whitcsboro, Tex., the other morning destroyed live of tlio principal business houses in town. Ton Si.oan, tho American jockey, who was charged with having assaulted a waiter at Ascot, has made himself very unpopular in England by his denial of the act, which 50 people said they witnessed. Tin: pope at Romeon the 10th created 11 cardinals and a number of bishops. Julius Mackknhotii, a waiter, was shot and killed by Henry J. Dessrocher, a carpenter, in a hotel dining room at New York. l.V a collision olY Friedriseh's haven between the German steamer Artushof and the Ilritlsh steamer Mauritus the Artushof was sunk, ten of her crew being drowned. ArPTUAMAN advices said that the offi cers of the Ilritlsh and American war ships who have been fraternizing dur ing the recent trouble in Samoa have decided to erect a joint monument to the memory of the English-speaking men slain in the various engagements. Pi:ti:k Hoi.i.KMiAcii was shot and killed by Charles Llndewald, a man of 70 years, at Galcsburg, 111., on the 10th, in a quarrel over some indebtedness. Gkums of tuberculosis were found lu every cow of a hei'd of 02 received at the Chicago stock yards on the 10th. Enoch EayAmiskis' young wife ami Infant daughter were burned to death at Pittsburgh. Pa., by the explosion of an oil can, with which the woman at tempted to start a tire. . TiiiinK persons were drowned. In' thu' Wihcoiihlu river near1 Portage, "Wis., -by their boat capsUing. , ' ' HOLD-UP IN PHILADELPHIA. Ten MuNkrri ICohlxirs Illnil Kmployc of a Trolley Company unci Thru lllotv Open tho .Suff. Philadelphia, June 20. A gang of masked robbers, probably ten in num ber, yesterday morning raided the re ceiving ofllce of tho Falrmonnt Park Transportation company at Uclmont in Fairmount park and, after holding up the receiver and five other employes of the railway, blew open the safe, se curing 81,000, the company's receipts for two days. Frank Leavan, receiver, Frank Watson and Henry 11. White house, conductors; James Cavanaugh, fireman of tho power house, Philip Eaves, electrician, and William Cad mus, laborer, were bound hand and foot with wire. In addition to tho men who actually committed the rob bery, others operated miles away from tho scene by destroying telegraph and telephone wires connecting with the trolley company's main ofllce. MR. GRIGGS' OPINION. Tho Attorney (ienerul (lives lllo lteimoni for IIcIIcvIiik That Autl-IiupnrhtlUiu Will Not Ilo tho Democratic, Inane. Washington, June 20. Attorney Gen eral Griggs, in an interview, states that he does not believe the question of im perialism will be made an issue at all in tho next election. He said: This government Is hound lu honor to the na tions of the world to curry out what it has bo Kiin In tho Philippines. Honor and conscience demand It. The great mujorlty of both demo crats nnd republicans favor tliu administration's polloy. Tho title of tho United Suites to tho Philippines Is perfect nnd tho responsibility that kocs with ownership cannot In honor bo shifted to tho half barbarous people of tho Is lands. Tho nation will declare for expansion. Tho democrats cannot afford to talcu tho other end of tho argument. WILL LOSE THEIR PLACES. JJIfT Flniitt In Oiiuihii DlHi-hitrfliiR Women Kmployos to Keep from Complying with ii New Htiito Ijiw. Omaha, Neb., June 20. Last winter the Nebraska legislature passed a law for the protection of feui.ile employes in manufacturing, mechanical and mer cantile establishments, making ten hours a day's labor and requiring pro prietors to provide beats for all female employes. The law will go into effect July 1. It is already causing a commo tion among the female employes in the big stores and factories of Omaha, many of whom have received notice to quit on the first of the month because of tho provisions of the law. For it Monument to IHiiikI. Lebanon, Mo., June 20. A fund to put a monument at tho grave of Rich ard P. Bland has been btarted here. The following amounts have been sub scribed: William J. llryan, S200; Moses C. Wetmore, $200; Charles McClue, $200; Gov. Lon V. Stephens, S200; William J. Stone, 50; Alex M. Dockcry, S50. The intention is to raise $5,000 and put a noble monumentof granite with a suit able inscription over the grave. This money must bo raised by public sub scription from friends of tho free silver cause. Tho name of each subscriber will be published in a memorial pam phlet after the fund is raised. Kennedy C'iih Altnottt Over. Hartville, Mo.. June 20. William Jennings and Joseph Shepard are to be the next accused train robbers tried in Wright county. Judge Cox returned to Hartville this morning to take up the bench so soon as the Kennedy case goes to the jury. Unless he is again sworn off the bench he will proceed at once with tho cases of Jennings and Shepard, who are jointly indicted, it is expected that tho arguments in the Kennedy ease will be completed some time to-day. To Aihmu-o Grain Kiiton. Kansas City, Mo., June 20. The rail roads which do business between Kan sas City and Mississippi river points have agreed on a new grain rate, which will go into effect on July 1. The rate on corn to points between Dubuqe, la., and south to Memphis will be seven cents for 100 pounds, and on wheat nine cents for 100 pounds. The rate at present is five cents, both on corn and wheat. Cernmny uu tho Vero of it I'liule. Kcrlin, June 20. Tho financial con dition of Germany at this moment is peculiar, and there are free predictions of a panic. This condition of affairs is brought about partly by tho scarcity of money and partly, perhaps almost wholly, to tho speculative fever in in dustrial stocks that has seized the peo ple. Says DUiinimnumt Will Vail, Perlin, June 20. The Kolnische Zei tung announces the "complete failure" of tho disarmament committee of the peace conference at The Hague. Sev eral provisions, it asserts, have been adopted in the committee by equal vote, but all of these, it predicts, will fail in tho plenary sitting. Tor I'hIiik .Stamps ii Second Time. Menu, Ark., Juno 20. W. W. Ross, who has been wanted by the federal authorities for some time, was arrested near here. He is charged with using postage stamps the second time while postmaster at Dial, Ark. Ilo Mow 1IU (ilrl Wife. Port Huron, Mich., Juno 20, James Marks .was sentenced to the statu prison at Jackson for life. Ills crime was Ihoiuuriler of his 10-year-old wife on tlio night of April Uf, to whom ho f hud bucn married but a few days. HHiKVlltlKUUWil H TIo Than Rich Wise people are atso rich ivhen they knyw a perfect retr-zdy for alt annoy ing diseases of the blood, kidneys, liver and towels. It is Hood's Sar saparilla, which is perfect in its ac tionso regulates the entire system as to bring vigorous health. SeodS SoMafuVu VraWkPfcferaLFkWfcJlk?kr'fc'fc Died Suddenly. The following dialogue occurred be tween a magistrate and an Irishwoman, a shoplifter: "What's become of your husband woman?" "What's gone of him, yer honor?' Faith, and he's gone dead." "Ah! Pray what did he die of?" "Die of, yer honor? He died of a Friday." "I don't mean that; but what com- plaint?" Oh, what complaint, yer honor? Faith, and it's himself that did not get, time to complain." "Oh, aye; ho died suddenly?" "Rather that way, yer honor." "Did he fall in a lit?" "Why, no, not exactly in a fit, yer honor. He fell out of a window, or through a cellar door I don't know. what tley call it." "Oh, ah and broke his neck?" "No, not quite that, yer worship." "What then?" "There was a bit of sthring, or cord,, or that like, and it throttled poor Mike." "Quite likely. Call the next ease." Spare Moments. "Wlint Happened to ."Uustapliu. Mustapha, a poor Mussulman laborer,, had, after two years' work, managed to scrape together five liras, which ho kept in a purse in his bolt. He was. dining in tho open air at Makrikeui one afternoon, and had put his belt, beside him, when his attention was at tracted to the flapping of wings over head. Looking tip he saw a kite hover ing above him; but Mustapha went on with his meal, till suddenly the bird swooped down upon the belt and car ried it off. The poor man shouted the Turkish equivalent for "Stop thief!" and soon gathered a crowd around him. At first he was supposed to be insane when be showed them the bird In the far distance as- the thief to be stopped. On hearing, however, tbe whole story, the kind-hearted people collected a small sum and presented it to Mustapha to console him for the loss, of his savings. Tkdam, Constanti nople. Through Her llcnd. "Rugby gets out of all patience with his wife. 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