the Frontier.
PUnUBUKO EVERT T1UTRSDAT BT
JAB. H. RIOGE
O'NEILL, . • - NEBBABKA.
There is at naltiraore. Ireland, a
fishing school whore hoys receive in
Itruction in all branches of a sea fish
erman's work, and in such allied in
dustries as net-mnklng, boat-building,
cooperage and sail making.
' The "Taming of the Shrew," under
the title of "La Mogere Apprivoiseo,”
has been pronounced a great success at
the Theater Francals.
Fish swallow their food whole bo
tauso they are obliged to keep con
tinually opening and closing tho
mouth for the purpose of respiration.
The cargo ship of tho future will be
s llve-mastcd vessel with auxiliary
•team, such as is now building on the
Clyde. She will carry 0,000 tons.
A remarkable family of eight old
women is living In the same house at
Vexio, Sweden. Throe are wldowi
and five are old maids. Their ages ng
gregato within a year or two of 70<
yoars, each of the women being nearly
SO years of age.
A great obstacle to the manufacture
of lend pencils will soon arise in the
scarcity of soft cedar wood. At pres
ent the wood usod in all tlio load pen
cils in tho world comes from Florida
and that supply is expected to bo ex
hausted within flvo years.
Profossor Wiggins derides astronom
leal calculations far enough to sny that
the moon is 300,000 miles distant frore
the earth instead of 230,000 miles, at
has generally been figured upon. This
Is rather discouraging to tho Lick tele
scope.
It has been supposed that Swedes
wero tho best carpenters of the nine
teenth century, but it seems now, ac
cording to an authority, that Italians
are pressing them close for first place
4n carpentry work.
Tho Ohio state asylum for epileptics
now in course of erection at Oallipolis
is the first institution of Its kind it
this country. Of tho large number o:
epileptics in Ohio about 1,000 are ex
pected to enter the new asylum.
News from Baracoa, Cuba, Is- to th«
affect that the cocoanut crop is a fail
ure. A plague has attacked the palu
trees, and they are dying. To the na
tives of many of the tropical island
the cocoa palm is as necessary as ihi
camel to the Arabs, tho whale to tht
Eski mo, or wheat to the United States
A writer in Belgravia recalls wha
seems like a mockery of fate. Bcfon
tho poet, Philip I ourke Marston, be
came blind, in fact while he was ye'
an infant, Dinah Muloch, his god
mother, apostrophized his beauty ii
lines beginning, “Look at mo with tb*
large brown eyes, Philip, my king!”
Mrs. Lizzie F. Dodgo, who w as lieii
guilty of profanity and other sins by i
church in Lynn, Mass., has written i
letter of self-defense to tho church au
thoritics. She quotes from an opinioi
that she has received from a Ilostoi
lawyer, in which ho says that the wort
“damn" lias been held by the Massa
f{ chusetts supreme court to be not pro
Jane.
An oak chair, made from the prin
tng press on which tho original Kil
tnarnoclc edition of Burns’ poems wai
printed in 1780, has just been given tc
the Burns cottage at Ayr. The Pal'
Mall Gazette savs that “there is i
model of Burns’ bust carved on the toj
of the back, and a carving of ‘Tan
o’ Shantor’ crossing the 'Auld Bridgi
of Doon’ below, and on the arms an
the heads of Tam and the Souter. A*
«. the centenary dinner in Ayr in 1S5I
this chair was used by Sir James Fer
gusson, the chairman. ’’
Pre-Columbian discoverers of Amor
lea are claimed by several nations
. Chinese Buddhist monks aro said to
have landed in Mexico in the fifth con
i' tury of our era. St. Brendan, who ii
/ «ald to have flourished in Ireland is
the sixth century, is said to hav«
landed at some unidentified placo on
this continent, but Leif Ericsson, it
the year 1000, actually made a landing
In what is now Mount Hope bay,
Rhode Island, and called the country
Vinlnnd. The settlement was brokox
by the Internal discussions in 1013.
Madoc. prince of Wales is said to havi
visited this country in 1170.
P It is perhaps worth while to utter a
:f * protest against the phrase so commonly
used by people who ought to know
it better, “christening a vessel," mean
'.y ing by that the more or loss formal
P eeremony of naming it The word
''christen" means to make a Christian
of and ought never to be used in con
nection with naming inanimate ob
jects, though the dictionaries give the
word such a secondary meaning on the
ip dubious authority of Bishop Burncl.
To speak of “christening” a warship it
fif, a wholly unnecessary • piece of inac
|r curacy and irreverence which should be
discouraged.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany in 1870 had 113,191 miles of wire,
8,973 offices, sent 9,157,046 messages at
an expense of 84.910,773 and at a cos!
to the public of $7,138,838, thus netting
43,337,966 profit It now has 078,99;
miles of wire, 19,383 offices, and las'
year sent, 65,878,703 messagos, foi
which it received 833,387,039, at an ex
pense of 815,074)804, with a net profit
7,313,735. The average toll per moss
age was 81.04 in 1808, 78 cents in 1870,
43* in 1880 and 31* in 1390.
NEBRASKA.
Broken Bow baa an lndoora base ball
club.
A musical normal will be held at Ponco
In the spring.
Mrs. Mary Coleman la dead at Seward,
aged 90 years.
A new flouring mill la in course of erec
tion at Harrison.
A Lutheran church to cost $6,000 is to be
built at Ponca.
Seward newspapers are kicking for a
board of trade.
Work on Kearnoy*s new plow factory la
| •xpectcd to begin this week.
A county convention of farmers will dis
cuss sugar beets at Alliance.
Five families from Bloomington, III.,
have located at Mndrid.
The Citizens' bank, of South Sioux City,
will become a state bank.
James Brady died at Norfolk from in
{urles received from an engine.
The St. Paul Press has been sold by ,J.
O. P. Hildebrand to M. D. Smith.
Jacobsen & Peterson, jewelers and sta
tioners at Schuyler, have failed.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
for Omaha's home for fallen women.
A. J. Travis mortgaged property too
many times and is in jail at Geneva.
U. R. Rohrer, of Hastings, has started
out to work up a state base hall league.
A Burlington and Missouri train goes
In anti out of Hastings every half hour.
Miss Minnie Bettsinger and Mrs. Lu
cretia Cramer have gone insane at Seward.
The Platte river now contuins more
water than for any time in twenty years.
Michael Yoakam was bound over to the
district court at IlyannU for shooting cat
tle
An Omaha editor refers to a contempor
ary as the “half-baked editor of the fake
factory-1 *
Two hundred and thirty-one cars ot
grain were shipped from Hay Springs this
fall.
Rev. Win. Walters has closed his labors
as pastor of the Hustings Congregational
sburcli.
Charles Carson, a well-known United
States operator, died at Lexington of la
grippe.
Hon. A. P. Childs, editor of the Wayne
Dcm orat, is president, of the Keeley
league at Blair.
Kearney secures the western office of
the Equitable Life Insurance company, of
New York.
• A rearing colt fell backward upon J. A.
Budd at Sheldon and broke a leg and two
libs for him.
Weber Living had a fine team of gray
horses and a wagon load of fence wire
stolen at Hastings.
The imbecile asylum at ijeatrice will bo
enlarged to give patients now awaiting
admission to the institute.
Some of the Farmers’ alliances In Ham
ilton county have passed resolutions boy
cotting Aurora business men
It is said that the conductors and brake
men on the St. Joseph and Grand Island
road are on the eve of a strike.
C. W. Aiken, late treasurer of Blaine
county, has been found sh ,rt in his ac
counts $1,104.88. Loose bookkeeping did it
After sixteen years of active work on
the bench. Judge William Gaslin ad
journed court at Hastings Tuesday for the
last time.
Elcarn Lewis stole a horse at St Paul
and traded it several times before he
reached Cedar Rapids. He is now in jail
at St. Paul.
J. P. Anderson, a Swede farmer living
near Brewster, was shot by his son who
\vtts playing with a revolver, and is in a
critical condition.
A Beatrice doctor, who would never havo
a sign at his door, was presented with one
the other day by a man who had hunted
all over town for him.
A Knox county man has invented a plow
that will scratch the earth along the rows
of corn. A company has been organized
for its manufacture.
Several Greeley businesss men who
went into a fake advertising* schcnje are
now involved in a lawsuit that has been
carried up to the district court.
The three packiug companies of South
Omaha killed, during 1891, 1,008,210 hogs,
270,490 cattle and 5,813 sheep. The com
bined pay roll was $1,338,020
Orlanda Ferguson, of Hot Springs, S. D.,
Is traveling over Nebraska trying to con
vince the people that the earth is Hal and
stationary and all the heavenly bodies re
volve around it
O. W. Ireland, of Syracuse, died at the
Bcdul Inebriate institute at Blair of la
grippe. He was one of the pioneer set
tlers of Otoe county, having built the first
store in Syracuse.
David Low, a 17-year-old Beatrice boy,
hod his right hand blown off by the dis
charge of a shotgun while he was hunting.
He undertook to pull his gun thru\igh a
hedge fence muzzle first
The poor of Superior were not forgotten
by their more fortunate neighbors Christ
mas, as >. .veral needy families were on
that day made the recipients of a supply
of coal, provisions, etc.
Jtmci Dailey, an Omaha man who baa
boon at Blair under treatment for the
liquor habit, eacaped from that city and
was found in Lincoln in a aad state of in*
toxicatiou. He will be returned to Blair.
The Antelope Tribune announces that
in spite of sensational dispatches to the
contrary, the Pueblo and Duluth railroad
will be built, and that its shops and round
houses will be built at Neligh.
‘•Hef you seen Yakobson?” Is a query
that rouses the ire of Fullerton citizens.
An innocent farmer of that name sold his
farm and then succeeded in buying goods
of nearly all the merchants on time. He
then hauled about (3,000 worth of the goods
to Central City and shipped them west.
The Plattsmouth Journal tells of an old
soldier in that vicinity who has never been
mustered out of the service, owing to his
absence at the time his regiment was dis
banded and paid off. The question now
arises as to whether he can draw pay from
the time of his enlistment. If he can, a
neat lump of about $41,000 is due him.
Lancaster county has two clerks of the
district court, each with a full complemenl
of deputies, stenographers, etc. Messrs.
Baker and Waite both claim to have bees
elected to the office and both have taken
their oaths of office and filed their bonds.
Baker holds the certificate of election,
William Hlntz, of Western, Is the ownei
and in possession of a cow of a peculiarly
nervous disposition. A short time ago she
Jumped into the wagon he was driving and
caused the team to run away. Last week
she became frightened at a team and tan
gled Hintz up in the rope he was leading
her br and broke his lezr
MONTT IS VERY EVASIVE
Chile’s Minister a Master in the
Art of Dodging.
diplomatic Answers Given to Several
Questions, but Nothing Definite
Said — The Administration
Pushing Matters.
Nkw York, Jan. 11.—The Press pub
lishes the following Washington special
dated last night: ,
It is learned tonight that Senor
Montt, Chilean minister to Washing
ion, has within a few hours held an
.nterview with a representative official
if the United States state department.
1'he United States official asked Senor
Montt:
“Is it true that your government is
preparing to make a proposition to sub
mit the differences between the United
states and Chile to arbitration?”
Senor Montt replied: “If you mean
that I have received word officially or
from any one in authority to that effect,
I answer no.”
“Have you been apprised that your
government is taking steps to meet the
demands of the United States?”
Senor Montt made identically the
same reply to this question as to the
one already quoted.
Asked how the Chilean government
came to indict and convict an Ameri
can sailor (Davidson) for murder with
out his presence and without notifica
tion, ISenor Montt simply said that such
was the law of his country.
A shrug of the shoulders was all the
answer he deigned to the inquiry as to
what means would be employed to
place Davidson in custody.
These categorical questions and shift
ing replies were in possession of Presi
dent Harrison half an hour after their
exchange. They indicate that the
policy of the administration is as firm
as ever and that Chile will be cabled to
meet every demand that the United
3tates has made. Sencr Montt realizes
this and it is said that he has sent his
cousin, the president of Chile, a cipher
dispatch tonight urging some fulfill
ment of the vague promises he has
been led to make.
/V PARIS SENSATION.
Spirit* Cutting Strange Caper* In a House
In the Hue <te Covedee.
Pabis, Jan. 11.—There is at present
.. haunted house in Paris. It is in the
Rue de Covedee. The occupants of the
haunted chambers are a widow aged
70, Mme. Boll, two adopted children, a
boy and a girl. Saturday night at 11
o'clock, says Mme. Boll, they were all
awakened by an indescribable tumult
and strange creaking sounds coming
from the furniture. The widow arose
quickly and struck a light * On the
Uoor were the chairs and the tables
upset; a bowl containing oranges was
broken, several glasses, as well as the
glass in several pictures on the walls,
were in fragments on the carpet On
entering the boy's bedroom Mme. Boll
distinctly saw a bowl on the table
start up into the air, describe a curve
in space, and then smash in the center
of the room.
The terrified children and Mme. Boll
called for help. Two neighbors, M. M.
Berthemueler and Guene, rushed to
the rescue, but could not open the
door. The former, however, managed
to get in through a window.
As the spiritual manifestation did
not continue, the two gentlemen con
cluded the widow had been deludod by
some hallucination, although they
could not account for the broken glass.
But after a few moments, in the pres
ence of the whole party, the frames of
the pictures on the walls broke of their
own accord. After that the household
went to bed again. But about 3 in the
morning the same phenomena were re
peated.
Every day for a week similar inci
dents have taken place. Sometimes
it is a piece of crockery that has been
broken, sometimes a piece of furniture
that is upset. While the spirits were
at work it seemed to a witness as if
sand were falling down the walla
The commissioner of police has been
advised of the facta He at first tried
to put it down to insanity on the part
of Mme. Boll, but on hearing the evi
dence of Berthemueler and Guener,
who say they saw the pictures smash
without anything touching them, the
commissioner did not know what to
think. It seems to be a real haunted
house this time, if ever there was such
a thing.
LACKS THE LUCRE.
Hlu Mitchell In Not Weal thy Knm(h Cor
the Titled Snobs.
London, Jan 11.—The relatives of
Due de Kochefoucalt have renewed
their efforts to break off the engage
ment of the due to Miss Mitchell,
daughter of the Oregonian senator,
who is not wealth? enough to meet
their views. lloth the contracting
parties, however, are proof against all
opposition, and there is no doubt the
marriage will occur as already an
nounced. Great preparations are being
made for the event.
Lady Brooke, whose name is so disa
greeably coupled with that of the
prince of Wales in the scur
rilous pamphlet, the contents of which
have been referred to in the United
Press dispatches of the current week,
has quietly left London and is living in
considerable seclusion at Easton
Lodge, Dunmow, apparently waiting
for the scandal to blow over. Her
husband is at present on the continent.
There is some curiosity as to what
action he may see fit to take upon his
return. Hitherto he has been blind
and deaf to all that others were hear
ing and seeing concerning the prince's
partiality for his wife? but it is possible
that he may regard the present as an
opportune time for a change of policy.
Will Call an Extra Session.
Jefferson City, Mo.. Jan. 11._In
formation from a reliable source came
to hand today that an extra session of
the Missouri legislature will be called
together by Governor Francis early in
February and that the session will be
devoted exclusively to the redistricting
it the state for congressional pur
poses
RIOT IN MEXICO.
The City Hell Stormed and the Mayor
Elect Murdered.
Demins, N. M., Jan. 11.— Courier*
who arrived. here yesterday from As
cension, a town on the Mexican border,
in the state of Chihuahua, bring re
ports of a terrible uprising which oc
curred on Thursday. The town is the
most important on the line, containing
2,000 inhabitanta The Mexican cue
tom house is also there.
For some time past bad feeling has
existed between the adherents of the
church party and the officials and sup
porters of Diaz. The churchmen are
composed of the lower classes, and the
Oarza disturbances have made them
more than usually discontented. Af
fairs reached a crisis Thursday when
the election of the president or
mayor of the town was held.
Rafael Anchelor, a prominent politician
who had twice held office, was re
elected by a few votes after a most ex
citing contest Anchelor was distaste
ful to the populace on account of his
efforts to inaugurate reforms, and
threatswere openly made against his
life. Signs of trouble were manifest
all day, but little or no attention was
paid to them by the officials.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a
mob of over 200 men suddenly ap
peared in the streets and at once sur
rounded the city building. Without
warning they opened fire with shot
guns and pistols on the people. An
chelor was instantly killed. The mot
then took p'a session of the town, but
not without a hard fight between the
friends of Anchelor.
During the battle three revolution
ists were killed and many on both
sides fatally wounded. Franco Sanzo,
one of the leaders of the mob, was
among those killed. The impression
prevails here that this is the move
ment in support of Garza, but J uan de
Matta Vasquez, second in command of
the Mexican custon house guards on
the border, expressed the opinion that
the disturbance is purely local and will
soon be suppressed.
Senor Pasalgue, the Mexican consul
here, has gone to Juarrez, in order to
be in immediate communication with
his government. Troops are reported
to .be hastening from Chihuahua to the
point of outbreak. In the meanwhile
the town is in the possession of the
mob and further bloodshed is expected.
WALES’ ELDEST SON IN DANGER.
The Duke of Clarence ai)d Avondale DoWV
With LaGrlppe.
London, Jan. 11.—The latest reports
from the bedside of the duke of Clar
ence and Avondale, the eldest son of
the prince of Wales, who is dangerously
ill from influenza, complicated with
pneumonia, at Sandringham, are far
from reassuring. It is not denied that
the young prince’s condition is
most serious. if is constitution
is weak and important develop
ments are expected within twenty-four
hours. The utmost anxiety is ex
pressed in royal circles as to the duke’s
illness. Nobody would be astonished
if the worst was to happen. The best
physicians in England have been sum
moned to Sandringham and the queen
herself is expected to arrive during the
day should the duke not show signs of
improvement. Many members of the
royal family have already gone to
Sandringham and others are expected
there.
An Envious Rival's Invention.
Cairo, Jan. 11.—The correspondent
of the United Press has been informed
that the story he cabled on Saturday
to the United States in regard to the
report of Dr. Comanos, who showed
that the khedive’s death was indirectly
bronght about by an overdose of mor
phine administered by a native physi
cian. Dr. Salem Pasha, has been
classed as a fabrication.
This is a deliberate misstatement
made in the interest of an older news
agency which was badly beaten, by
over twenty-four hours, in obtaining
the important news referred to.
The statements cabled to the United
Press regarding the khedive’s death
were all substantially correct and have
been con firmed in nearly every particu
lar by the news agency which was so
badly beaten. The latter now admits
that Dr. Comanos issued the report re
ferred to in these dispatches on Satur
day; that Dr. Salem Pasha, the native
physician in attendance on the khedive
did administer an overdose of mor
phine to his patient and that his
death was most likely indirectly caused
by this treatment. It is also stated
that Dr. Salem Pasha disappeared;
that the whole affair caused the great
est excitement in Cairo and elsewhere,
and that as a result, an official inquiry
into the affair is being held by the
highest medical authorities of Egypt
Dr. Rogers Pasha, chief of the Egyp
tian service, is presiding over this in
quiry. He is assisted by Dr. Will, a
prominent German physician, by Dr.
Hinot, A leading French physician and
by two native physicians, who are pre
sumed to be doctors, Salem Pasha and
Issa Bey, the two native physicians o1
the late khedive.
Wm Killed By Morphine.
London, Jan. 11.—The Times, Daily
News, Standard, and Chronicle, and
other leading newspapers, this morn
ing, all confirm the report that the
khedive died from the effects of an
overdose of morphine administered tt
him by a native physician.
A news agency, which was beaten by
over twenty-four hours on the news,
tried to explain away the beat by be
littling its importance. This does not
alter the fact that the news cabled ex
clusively to the United Press was cor
rect in every essential particular. In
its anxiety to hide the fact that it was
so badly beaten the news agencv re
ferred to goes so far as to ignore,’ even
now, the most important feature of the
affair. The true account of the
khedive’s death is, however, slowly
getting into the London newspapers.
South Dakota'. Inquisition.
Canton, S. D., Jan. 11—This city
has been in quite an exciting condi
tion for the last two days over a novel
liquor case. The accused were ac
quitted, although they admitted the
charge—having beer to drink at a sup
per given at a private house. The
fudge's decision is commended by all
except a very few of the extreme pro*
hibitionista. V
WAS THE KHEDIVE POISOHED
The Land of Pyramids in a Fever
of Excitement J
Report of Dr. Comanos Causes a Sensation
—A Native Physician Suspected and
Gives Color to the Rumor
by Disappearing.
r Cairo, Jan. 9.—The most startling
reports are in circulation as to the real
cause of the khedive's death. They
obtained circulation soon after
Tewflk Pasha died and increased in
strength until the authorities, British
and Egyptian, could no longer ignore
them.
They were in effect that the khedlve
is dead under suspicious circumstances
at least, and it was added that it was
possible that he had been poisoned.
This report was current throughout
yesterday and reached the cars of the
official representatives of the powers.
Sir Evelyn Baring, the British min
ister plenipotentiary, was among the
first to be placed in possession of the
fact that this extraordinary report was
being circulated and that it had been
communicated to the different capitals
of Europe. The French minister, it was
added, had received instructions from
his government to have the matter
thoroughly investigated. In any case
an official inquiry into the real cause
of the death of the khedive
was hurriedly ordered and the
result is that the report
made to the Egyptian government by
Dr. Comanos, who had charge of the
investigation, seems to show that there
was at least some foundation for the
alarmimr rumor.
Ur. Comanos, it is announced, states
in the report that he was called to
see the khedive early Thursday
morning1, at the Helona palace,
where Egypt’s late ruler eventually
died. The khedive, according to Dr.
Comanos, was then very ill, but he was
unable to see him. Tewfik Pasha, it
appears, was then suffering from in
tense pain, due to an attack of pneu
monia and from blood poisoning, due to
anosmia. The latter, with a weak heart,
Dr. Comanos (who afterwards saw the
khedive’s body) says, was the immedi
cause of Twetik Pasha's death. But
the doctor’s reper, adds that his death
was undoubtedly accelerated by
an over dose of morphine ad
ministered to the sick man
by Dr. Salem Pasha. Salem Pasha
and Dr. Isaa Bey were the personal
and private native physicians of the
khedive, according to the report drawn
by Dr. Comanos. Dr. Salem Pasha was
totally ignorant of the treatment of
the disease from which the khedive
was suffering. Yet he insisted upon
administering to the sick man.
It is added that Doctor Salem Pasha
disappeared on Thursday night and
that he has not been seen since. The
native and British police are now
searching for him in all the Mediter
ranean ports.
The report of Dr. Comanos has
caused the greatest of sensations here
anu throughout parts of Egypt where
the news has reached. The wildest
rumors are in circulation as to the
treachery upon the part of some one,
instigated by the highest personages.
Popular excitement is at fever heat
and the fellaheen are behaving in a
dangerously significant manner. Brit
ish soldiers and Europeans generally
are being insulted in the streets, and
several arrests of riotous natives have
already been made.
It is judged that political agitators
are taking advantage of the startling
rumors circulated, to stir up the
masses against the British in particur
lar and Europeans in general.
The British authorities are taking
every precaution against an outbreak.
The officers of the Egyptian army.
Major-General * Sir Francis Wallace
Greenfell, H. C. B., and com
mander of the British troops
in Egypt, Major-General Frederick and
W. E, Forestier Walker, C. B., had a
long conference this morning with Sir
Evelyn Baring, the British agent, con
sul general and minister plenipoten
tiary. The result of this consultation
is not known, but it was noticed that
the telegraph was used considerably
soon after those officials adjourned.
The natives are firmly impressed
with the belief that the khedive .died
from poison, administered to him at
the instigation of the Brhish or at the
instigation of others who desire to see
Egypt become in fact a portion of the
British empire. Threats of vengeance
are to be heard on all sides and there
have been numerous gatherings in all
the different parts of the city. The
police break up these gatherings as
fast as they are formed. The mili
tary authorities have taken measures
to deal promptly and effectively with
any disturbances. The Egyptian
troops are said to be in perfect control
and to have had the situation fully ex
plained to them by their British offi
cers, in whom they appeared to have
confidence.
THE THUNDEKEB SPEAKS.
The Talk of a Regency Scooted—A Dig at
Mr. Gladstone.
London, Jan. 9.—The Times today,
referring to the message of sympathy
sent by President Carnot to Prince
Abbas, the new kliedivc of Egypt, says
that M. Carnot has dashed to the
ground the wild hopes of the
French press that a regency
would be established in Egypt
and that there would be other
interference with the accession of
Prmee Abbas. The Times admits that
the French were reckoning without
their host if they imagined that what
ever erratic movements there may be
In Mr. Gladstone’s mind that any large
body of his followers would consent to
abandon Egypt to a youth.
He Was a Thief.
Parker, S. 1)., Jan. 9.—In the State
vs. Jack O'Flanagan, quite a sensation
n-as created in court when the first
witness was put upon the stand and
testified that he had bought a glass of
whisky in the defendants place of busi
ness. The defendant at once jumped
to his feet and said that he was guilty,
but that the witness had on the same
lay that he bought the liquor stolen
13 from him. After pleading guilty he
escaped and has not been heard of
unce.
Boomen W.ltln* to Ru.h into t. „
okeo Strip—pawnee Bill!*
Arkansas Citt, Kas., jan. u _p
aee Bill’s present organization,^'
bas for its purpose the permanent"*
onization of the Cherokee strip
formed here early this fall at a n, ,
ing of the business men’s club of tvf"
city. It was unanimously voted^
secure the services of Major Willi.
L. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) L
boomers into this valuable fronts
country. He i, a noted Indian in '
preter, guide and scout, and is tnd.
the duly elected white chief ot\Z
Pawnees. For many years unde!
Major Hayworth, Pawnee Bill wants
regular appointed interpreter of th!
Pawneea As chief of the oklaLm
boomers in 1889 he madcap
record and through the influence he
brought to bear upon congress opened
that vast country known as OklawT
to settlement, which gave farmt
to 25,000 .families. As a fro* £
detective he has also i
quite extensively, and in the summer
of 1884, at Medicine Lodge, Kas. was
instrumental in breaking up one of the
most desperate gangs of bank robbers
that ever disgraced the western coun
try. He judged correctly as to where
they would make their stronghold and
ed directly to it the party which 'cam
tured them. *
ueisnow preparing a map which
wil. fully describe this new reservation
which will soon be opened to settle
ment. He is undoubtedly the best
posted frontiersman on the western
border. His influence among the
boomers is unbounded, as was attested
when he organized the colony going
into Oklahoma two years ago, taking
in fully 4,200 members and locating
them on the very flower of all Okla
homa. He there proved his through
knowledge of this country, and estab
lished an undying reputation among
the boomers. °
Thousands of boomers are arriving
along the border in the hope of its
early opening to settlement, and it is
safe to say that the 7,000,000 acres,
which are about to be opened, will be
taken in a day, as in the case of Okla
homa. Uncle Sam’s lands are becom
ing very scarce. This is the last big
reservation which lies in the southwest
subject to settlement, and it may be
well said to be the best, for, lying as
it does on the Arkansas, Salt Fork and
Sekaska rivers and their tributaries, it
is well watered and wooded and con
tains thousands of acres of bottom
lands, equal in fertilization to the
great bottoms in the Mississippi valley.
The climate is beautiful, mild and
pleasant; the soil a dark loam, fully
two and a half feet in depth.
MORE FUNDS FOR PRINCETON.
Mrs. Robert L. Stuart Leaves $300,000 to
the Theological Seminary.
Pkincetoj?, N. J., Jan. 11.—By the
will of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart the
Princeton Theological Seminary will
probably receive over 8300,000. This
amount will enable the seminary to
construct a dormitory. Previous
to Mrs. Stuart’s death. the
seminary had received valuable addi
tions to the campus, Stuart Hall, a
recitation building, the Stuart pro
fessorship of the relations of philosophy
and science to the Christian religion,
eight scholarships, the library of Dr.
Addison Alexander, a professor in the
seminary, and 810,000 for the library
fund. Princeton college, in addition
to the $50,000 received by her will, had
previously been the recipient of $179,000
for the school of philosophy, a valu
able biological collection and improve
ments on the president's residence.
Through the generosity of Mrs. J.
Thomas Swan, of Princeton, the Isa
bella McCosh infirmary is to receive a
life-size portrait of Mrs. McCosh. It is
being painted by Campbell, whe
painted Stanford's portrait for the
Stanford university. President Patton
is to conduct the divine service in Mar
qitand chapel on Sunday- The old
chapel, one of the historic landmarks
of Princeton, has been changed into a
recitation room.
ACTOR SCANLAN INCURABLE.
Little Hope That He Will Ever Leavi
Bloom In griale Asylum.
New York, Jan. 11.—Actor Scan'.au
Is in Blooming'dale insane asylum and
it is hardly likely that he will ever
leave that institution. In two brief
weeks that have elapsed since his at
tack he, has lost fully twenty-five
pounds His cheeks have hollowed
and his cheek bonesshow prominently
Big- dark circles surround his eyes and
his eyes are sunken. In short, Scan
lan looks as though he had been
through a six months' siege of illness
instead of two wedks. Once today he
became a little violent and said the
papers were hounding him, but he qui
eted down when assured that such was
not the case.
“I know they say hard things about
me because they won’t let me read the
papers,” he moaned. “1 am well
enough to go out and I am going the
first clear day. I will soon be well
enough to finish my season.” _
All his conversation was rational,bu
the difficulty of speech and the furtive
look told the tale of his weak men
tality.
WRECK NEAR OGDEN.
The Engineer Killed and the Fireman and
Brakeman Badly Scalded,
Ogden, U. T., Jan. 11.—At 1 o'clock
yesterday morning as No. 8 Union P*
eifle freight was passing through Ec c
canon, near Devil’s Slide, a big snow
slide came off the mountain si *j
blockading the canon. Into tins
of debris the freight train ran.
stantlv killing Homer Wright, tn
gineer, and scalding the fireman
brakeman badly by the boiler
Wright was about 35 years
lived in Evanston, Colo., whe
leaves a wife and two children .
It is thought the jar of the
started the slide.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Norristown, Pa., Jan. 11.—Tlie .
in a pork packing establishment
Bridgeport, near this place, evp ^
this morning and three peop . _ in
ported killed and several o
jured.
