The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, August 18, 1892, Image 6

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    :-;i ;
THE FRONTIER.
rrnM«iiKi> incur Tnntnnj.T »r
Tick K Bowmen I’iuntiko Co.
i’ O'NEILL, •> NEBRASKA.
I STATE NEWS.
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
—The Norfolk Daily Herald has
impended.
—Nebraska Ciiy’i bond* (old at a
handsome premium.
—The Are at Alliance destroyed
Seven business houses.
—Hops at South Omaha last week
reached the $C point
—About 300 touchers attended the
Gage county institute.
—Tam or* will build a three-story
brick and stone opera house.
—The democratic state convention
will be held in Lincoln August So.
-—The Deuel county institute had
one hundred teachers in attendance.
—Thos. Goodohild, the oldest col
ored man in Grand Island, died last
week.
■; V
—August Johnson was arretted at
Ohiowa lor stealing |200 from bit
aged father.
—Wheat harvested In the vicinity
of Valentine it not of at fine quality
at last year.
—Hutto is to have a fifty -barrel
roller mill. Work upon the structure
It now progressing.
—The annual commencement exer
cises of the Fremont Normal colllege
were largely attended.
—A Catholic priest will be regularly
Stationed at Alliunce, September 1, and
the erection of a church begun.
—During a storm ut Tablo Rook
Mrs. John Decker was struck by light
ning, but was not seriously injured.
—Mr. and Mra Vincent Durkley
of Omaha last week celebrated the
golden anniversary of their marriage.
—The first steam flouring mill In
Scotts it lull county will be built near
the Platte bridge. It will cost |0,600.
—A case of supposed small.pox has
developed at Lincoln, and the victim
has been quarantined on the prairie.
—The Omaha Tobacco company has
been organized. It will operate a fac
tory and employ fifty men at the start.
—There is no clue as yet to the Cole
murder in Hastings. The coroner's
jury has adjourned to await develop
ments.
—The eleotrlo light system of Chad
ron was for the first time turned on
last week. The oitizens celebrated
the event.
—Last week the locomotive entered
Imperial for the first time, and now
the county seat of Chase county Is a
railroad terminus.
—The fourth annual reunion of the
old settlers of Cass and adjoining coun
ties will take place at Union, Cass
fev. county, August 22.
}, —J. W. Risk of Battle Creek re
turned home Saturday from a trip to
Germany, where he went with cattle
•bout two months ago.
; f —Company C, N. N. G., at Nebras
ka City, propose to go into camp for
; several days next month even if there
|s no state encampment.
—The state board of pharmacy was
la session in Lincoln last week to act
upon • small number pf applications
e for druggists, certificates.
—John Downey of Jefferson county j
v hpd his left band torn off. He vjras oil-1
’ ifig a threshing machine and hit hand
- ■Caught in the side gearing.
The University of Nebraska
Offers Six Years of Education
5* 1C E ^
"Write It the Chancellor, Llnoola.
—Fred Taakey, an engineer in the
Flattsmouth B. & M. shops, had hit
back badly burned by a stream of hot
water from a boiler he opened, think
, .lag it empty.
:'v: t —Mr. James Young of Wahoo had
,'jj,, the misfortune to get his shoulder
thrown out of place while leading hit
§5>:, pony last Thursday. Some of the lig
> aments of the arm were also broken.
—Four boy a ranging in age from
: It to 15 years, were arrested in Fair
i bury for entering residences and ap.
preprinting money and valuables.
They all proved to be residents of
—Lawrence Gensvlski. an employe
of the Svjift Packing company, South
- Omaha, jumped from a freight train
moving at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, receiving injuries that will prob
ably prove fatal.
-—Mrs. & E. Stllson had the misfor
tune Tuesday to lose a $10 bill while
# la Hyonnis. She reoeived the bill at
... the postoffice and put it in her hand
patehel and from that moment it mys
teriously disappeared.
—Mrs. C. A. Turman, wife of Rev.
U B. Turman, three miles northeast
of Table Rook, was severely injured
by being attacked by a vicious bull.
As she is quite well along in years se
rif;1; rlous results are feared.
—State Superintendent Goudy has
vJV received official notice from the na
tional committee on public school cel
ebration of Columbus day through its
it . executive committee of the bill passed
. , 'by congress making October 21 a pub
lic holiday.
—D. A. Holmes of Norfolk worked
bard without hope of pay two years
I 4 ago to secure the release of Henry
Paulson from the penitentiary and'suc
• seeded. The other day he received a
J' ;, • deed to a quarter section of land from
£ Paulson.
Nebraska now has one of the best
medical and surgical sanitariums in
the west. This has been a long felt
f want, as a great many are unable to
i ' bear the expense of a trip to eastern
cities for surgical operations and
r proper nursing and medical treatment.
The* sanitarium is located in the city
*f Omaha, on the corne# of 16th and
Howard street*.
K/, ■ ■■ s ,
| —Syracuse U figuring on putting in
city water works and electric lights.
! —Five young men of Chicago
! went down the Missouri in a thirty,
j foot skiff and some Omaha boys ar<
about to attempt the same voyage.
—C. L. McKennh of Sarpy county is
going to start a lish hatchery or lish
pond on his piuce this fail, lie will
stock it principally with carp and bass.
—The farmers of Cuming county
have organized a protective associa
tion to Use measures againft a gang
of thieves that have been doing them
damuge.
—ltobort Miller of Peru, while ex
erolsing in the gymnasium at that
place, fell a distance of seven foot, re
ceiving a fractured rib and being other
wise bruised.
—A man named Henry Smith was
arrested la Hastings for breaking into
a millinery store and stealing several
ladies’ hats and three bolts of ribbon.
Ills excuse is that he was drunk and
didn’t know what lie was doing.
—Clay County has 6.171 children of
school age against 6.189 last year. Of
this number 4,816 were enrolled upon
the teacher!' registers. Last year
there was 124 teachers; 68 malo and
61 female, to whom wus paid the sum
of 141.904.88.
—The application of C. H. Paul, ex
treaiurer of Adams county, for puraon
•rill be heard by Lieutenant Governor
Majors on the 20th. Paul was con
victed of embezzlement of $750 of pub
lio funds. The indictment charged
that he had embezzled several thou
tands.
—The report has been circulated
that the state university can accom
modate no more students this year,
but the report is unfounded. Indica
tions are that the university will be
crowded, but Chancellor Canfield
wants it understood that care will be
taken of all who apply, und good care,
loo, at that.
—William Leech of Covington was
arrested in Dakota City and taken be
fore Judge Warner, where he waived
his preliminary examination and was
bound over to the district court in the
sum of $1, 600. He is charged with
setting fire to the building in Dakota
City which was occupied by Attorneys
Jay & Deck on the night of July 15,
1891.
—An election lias been called by the
city authorities of Beaver City for the
submission of the water works ques
tion. The spirit of public improve
ment is so strong that the question is
practically decided in favor of water
works. The system of A. A. Richard
son of Lincoln has been adopted and
be will have charge of the construc
tion of the tame.
—L. T. Martin of South Omaha
came near being a viotim of the wa
ters of Lake Manawa the other even
ing. In company with a number of
friends he was bathing at Manhattan
bench. Martin was quite a distance
from shore in deep water and was no
ticed to be floundering, when W. B.
Cheek went to his assistance and got
him safely to shallow water.
—H. £. Eaton, the fireman on a
special ahead of the fast mall, last
week while pasting Shelton, stuck his
head out of the cab window and was
struok in the forehead by the mail
crane set to catch the sack from the
car, cutting an ugiy gash four inches
long. He was taken to Grand Islund
and the wound dressed by,the com
ptny surgeon. He is not dangerously
hurt.
—At a substitute for the annual en
campment of the N. G., Adjutant
Vifquain has just directod that the I
companies of the two regiments Bhall
each have an opportunity to do alittie
drilling just the aims and he has Axed
days for each. September 14th and
15th have been named the days for
company E of Fremont to don their
regimentals and go through tho man
ual of arms.
—Prof. Swisher went to Aurora last
week and at once began operations to
produce rain. His contraot provided
that if there should be a rainfall of
one inch over a radius of twelve mile*
within four days from the time he be
gan operations he was to receive
|600. In other words, he bet hit time
and hotel bill against |600 that one
inch of rain would fall in four days.
Ha ln«t iHa h«t_
—Louis Steltner, an old German
hermit living in the northwestern part
of Knox county, was found dead in his
bed last week. He was 85 years old.
About 600 acres of land had been ac
cumulated by him and a lot of stock.
A few years ago he became worried
over being on two official bonds, when
he transferred his real estate to Judge
Smith of Yankton and sold his per.
sonal property, the proceeds of which
are said to have gone the same way.
—Dakota's county seat muddle has
been finally settled in favor of Dakota
City. Judge Norris granted a tem.
porary injunction restraining the
board ot supervisors from taking ac
tion on the petition calling for a relo
cation, in obedience to a decision
handed down by the supreme court.
At the convening of court in Novem
ber the case will be dismissed from
the docket, and Dakota City will have
won one of the hardest fought and
longest drawn out county seat contest
cases on record.
—Applications have been made to the
state reunion committee from various
portions of the state for quarters for
more than 12,000 veterans, mem
bers of their families and friends,
l’hey are still coming in by every mail.
The demand for booth privileges is
also more active than ever before and
everything indicates an attendance of
| &t least 25 per cent over, that of any
! previous year, and the committee has
found it necessary to increase the tent
order to a very considerable qxtent.
! A very large number of welis, furnish
ing excellent water, are being put in
order and arrangements perfected to
supply ample quantities of weed, hay
and straw.
AN APPEAL ISSUED.
STRIKING IRON WORKERS ASK
FOR A BOYCOTT.
fhfy relieve This Action Would Brine
the-Com puny to Terms—May lie More
Trouble at lluqueena—The Bituatlou
at Homestead.
Pittmu'ro, Pa., Aug. 14.—President
finmucl Oompers 91 the Ameriean Fed
eration of Labor, and the members of
the executive board of the organization
arrived in this city yesterday and held
a covfereneo with President Weihe
and Vice-President Carney of the
Amalgamated association. The follow
ing statement was given out at the
close of the conference:
*, The executive council of the Ameri
cuh Federation of Labor held a con
ference with the executive officers of
the Amalgamated association of Iron
and Steel workers, lasting from 10
o’clock in the morning until 12:30
o'clock this afternoon. The various
phases of the present situation of the
Homestead lockout were oonsidered,
and it was" resolved to have a con
ference with the advisory board of the
Homestead mills before taking any
action. ,Jt can be reliably stated that
relief measures only were considered,
und the conference did not touch on
the subject of a boycott.
Yesterday closed with nothing new J
in the strike situation except a threat- j
cned renewal of liostalities on the part j
of tliy workmen at Duquesne. Several [
of the workmen said great dissatisfac- j
tion existed among the men and that a ■
strike was probable. It Is not thought, !
however, that the threatened movement i
will materialize,although the Duquesne !
workers have kept up their organiza- '
tion even though it is not recognized j
by tlie firm. The strikers at the Thir- i
ty-third street mill have ordered the I
return of all of their number who j
have been away on vacations, and on I
their arrival a meeting will be held to i
discuss what shall be done. The result i
of this meeting may be the abandon- :
ment of the strike, but such action is j
hardly looked for.
HOMESTEADERS Ills A 1*1*0 IN TED. j
Col
They Expected Compere and Ills
league#—Aid hhp-niad.
Homestead, I’a., Aug. 14.—The
locked-out men were out in large num
bers yesterday to greet the executive
council of the Ameriean Federation of
Labor. The members did not arrive, and
there was much disappointment until
acting Chairman Crawford received a
telegram from Pittsburg informing him
that the council was there and would
very important results as an outcome
of the council's deliberations. They
believe that the threat of a general
boycott or the inception of it will
frighten the Carnegics and force them
into another conference. The mill
management, however, appears in no
wise concerned, and intimated that if
council docs systematize a boycott suits
for conspiracy would follow.
Relief was again given tlie laboring
classes, the number applying exceeding
1,200. The advisory committee hasde
chled to send Burgess John McLuckie
to lioston with O'Donnell and Urown.
He will start for there to-day.
The latest move of the Amalgamated
association is an attempt to get the
iron establishments of Pittsburg and
elsewhere to refuse materials that
Como from the Carnegie mills. A cir
cular headed “Appeal to Workingmen'*
is now in tlie course of u. tribution.
It reads as follows:
“You are requested not to work up
tlie materials that may be shipped from
the works of the Carnegie Steel com
pany during the present strike, lly so
doing you will help us gain a victory
in our present struggle for organiza
tion. Committee of Strikers.”
The Pittsburg firms will be first sup
plied with the circulars, and then at
tention will be turned to other manu
facturers. .
LARGEST CROP EVER KNOWN.
Glowing Reporta from Kansas Concern*
Inc the Corn.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 14.—Kansas
will market the grertcst corn crop in
history this year, is the conclusion
reached by those who have made a
study of the situation as it now ex
ist*. The recent rain, which was gen
eral and copious over the State,
has placed the grain beyond fear of
damage by either hot winds or drought
Advices have been received from along
the lines of tvery railroad in the State,
and they show that not less than 130,
000,000 bushels of corn will be mar
keted or fed to stock in the State this
fall. This means that the State will
surpass all efforts in this line.
“CHRISTIAN" INDIANS.
They Object to IlaneliiR l!o<l let on roles
and Horn • VI! luce.
Victoria, II. C., Aug. 14.—Confirma
tory advices have been received of the
burning of an Indian village on Queen
Charlotte islnrals. The fire was started
by some Christianized Indians from
Vancouver Island who objected to the
hanging of dead bodies on poles in one
portion of the village, this being the
tribal manner of burial. Superintend
ent Vowell lias been requested to in
vestigate.
TYPEWRITERS AT THE WORLD’S FAIR.
The Item Install Secure, the Exclusive
Contract.
The Committee of Ways and Means of the
World’s Columbian Exposition bar. ..warded
tc WvcUuIf, Seamans & Benedict (Remington
Standard typewriter) the contract for furnish
ing all the writing machines to be used on the
Exposition tlrounds during the Fair. A large
number will In' placed et convenient points
throughout all of the fundings, and are in
tended for Hie accommodation of the genera!
public, representatives of the pries and the
officers of the Exposition,
j About two hundred i Xpert operators n il', bo
selected Lv the Remington Company fur tbit
j urpose.
TO MURDER H. W. PRICK. .
rolls* Claim to Havs Cncarthad Aa
othsr Plot.
Pittsiutro, Pa.,Any. 13.—The police,
it Is alleged, have discovered another
anarchistic plot to assassinate H. W.
Pride, the chairman of the Carnegie
Steel company. The intended assassin
is the Anarchist Aaronstnmm of New
York, who is a close friend of Berk
man and Emma Goldman. Aaron
stamm has been in the city for several
days and it claimed has been
waiting for a favorable opportunity
to kill his victim. lie is said to re
semble Bcrkmann and is armed with a
revolver in one pocket of his coat and a
dyuumite bomb in the other. The
plot was hatched in Vienna, and was
given to the New York police by Vice
Consul Eberhardt of Austria. The in
formation was given to Mr. Eberhardt
by an Austrian who arrived in New
York recently with letters from
the high police authorities ol
Vienna stating that the Austrian’s
story could be relied upon. The New
York police at once notified the Pitts
burg authorities, and a close watch for
Aaromstamra is being kept about all
all the Anarchists' resorts. As a result
of the disclosures additional guards
have been placed about the Carnegie
buildings and Mr. I'rick's residence
and detectives accompany him wherever
he goes. Secretary Lovejoy has been
warned that he has only until Aug.
15 to live. Other officials of the Car
negie company have also received
threatening letters. The police are
satisfied, however, that they can frus>
trate the plans of the Anarchists.
THEIR LABORS ENDED.
Knlglita Templars Finish Their Work
and Adjourn.
Denver,Colo., Aug. 14.—The Knight?
Templars grand encampment finished
the work of the conclave and adjourned
yesterday, after having installed the ■
newly elected officers. Grand Master '
McCurdy made the following addi
tional appointments, which, with the 1
officers elected yesterday, make up the
full list of officers of the grand encamp-1
ment: Sir Rev. Joseph M. McGrath, D.
D., Illinois, Prelate; Sir William B. Mel- !
lish, Ohio, Grand Standard Bearer; Sir *
George C. Conner, Tennessee, Grand ■
Sword Bearer; Sir II. M. Orahood, Col- !
orado, Grand Warden; Sir John A. !
Sloan, Missouri, Grand Captain of'
Guard. The Grand Master also ap- j
pointed the following committee of !
jurisprudence: Sir James E. Hopkins, I
Pennsylvania; Sir John Q. A. Fellows, !
Louisiana; Sir John W. Fellows, New 1
Hampshire; Sir John C. Smith, Illi
nois; Sir 1 erd J. S. Gorgas, Mary-!
land; Sir John Frizzell, Tennessee;
Sir Logan II. Roots, Arkansas.
BERINQ SEA CASE.
The Statement or the United State* Soon
to lie Tranemltted to England. I
Washington, Aug. 14.—The prepara-'
tion of the Bering sea case hy the State i
department is new about completed, *
and it is expected the papers will soon I
be interchanged with Great Brit-!
ain according to the ta-ms '
of the treaty. It is known j
that every effort has been made
by the department to have the case as 1
complete in every respect as care and [
thoroughness could insure, and it is '
stated that nothing has been neglected j
to strengthen the United States* posi- !
tion and prevent controversy', so far as !
regards facts and statistics relating tc 1
the questions involved. I
CONFESSES HIS CRIMES.
A Dakota Man Acknowledges He Set
Fire to ISulldings. J
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 14.—Robert
Thompson, a barkeeper who has long \
been in the employ of Bill Leach, a
leading saloonkeeper in Covington, I
Neb., and an Alderman, yesterday !
afternoon made confession under oath j
that he set the incendiary fires which
have destroyed so much property in
Covington and Stanton during the last
two years and that he did it at the in
stigation and in the pay of Leach. He
says that Leach took this measure of
destroying rival saloons and avenging
himself upon enemies. The two towns
are adjoining and among the toughest
in the West.
Una Hanging Instead ot Two.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 14.—Lindsey
Ellis, a negro murderer, was to have
been hanged to-day, but last night
Gov. Hogg commuted his sentence to
life imprisonment. The Governor re
fused to interfere in the case of Henry
McGhee, who killed an officer while re
sisting arrest; and he was hanged at
Uouston. __
All Arc Invited.
Washington, Aug. 14.—Under the
act of Congress authorizing the Presi
dent to invite foreign naval powers to
participate in the naval review to be
to be held in Now York harbor next
April, the State department has issued
invitations in the name of the Presi
dent to the naval powers of the world.
A Cool Thief Secure. $12,000.
Nkw York, Aug. 3 4.—A cool thief
with a fraudulent order carted away
twenty-five bales of tobacco from the
Rotterdam steamer Diadem. The theft
was not discovered until Wednesday, 1
when a truckman called for the goods.’ :
The goods are valued at Si”.000. !
-- . j
•ldreted to a Chinaman'. Attention.
Tucson, Ariz., Aug. 14—Lee Lock, 1
a Chinaman, shot and killed a Mexican
yesterday, lhe Chinaman was paying
attentions to the Mexican's sister. The
Mexican objected to any further atten
tions. A quarrel followed, which re
sulted in the kitiimr.
lljiikmllrr Markin. ll)o» l>ri„„„
Puii.aiiem.hia, Pa., Aug. u,~
Michacl Harkins, the dynamiter who
was arrested and imprisoned for trvipe
to kill Queen Victoria on Jubilee'dav
in 1-cT, died yesterday. 13r. Gallagher
Who was with him at the time, is still
in prison.
FOR THE BIG FAIR
1‘UUPARATION OF NEBK1SKA’!
<0.1IIN(i KXH1BIT.
MibstsiUlal I'rofran Being Jlnde
Orgaaluilou of Auxiliary
Societies.
Nebraska at tlte World’s Fair.
Gkakd Island, Aug. 28.—Subs tan
tial progress is being made in the
! preparation of the .Nebraska exhibii
| at the World's Fair.
During the past few weeks, betweer
forty and fifty auxiliary World’s Fait
associations have been organized in
this state, extending over as many
counties, and superintendents of the
I several departments have been active
| ly at work in their field awakening a
: general interest and preparing for the
1 exhibit in their respective depart
| For the Agricultural department
three superintendents have been mak
ing a very busy canvass, and all re
port substantial and satisfactory prog
ress and deep interest, and apparent
full realization throughout the state,
of the fact that this will be Nebraska's
greatest opportunity for the promo
tion of her material interests; an op
portunity which ail agree we should
make the most of, to the end that our
millions of acres of fertile, untilied
land may soon oe made wealth-pro
ducing. thus enhancing real estate
values and benelitting ail classes.
It is the intention and determina
tion to make the best agricultural ex
hibit possible, ana the prospects are
most flattering for an exhibit which no
state in the Union can eclipse.
There is also much activity shown
in the promotion of the horticultural,
dairy, apiary and educational depart
ments, and in the women's department
there has been .a degree of zeal, en
ergy and enthusiasm shown which
teems to insure a most commendable
showing in the way of women's work
and advancement in this state.
THE NEWS TAPER EXHIBIT.
Work in this department is well ad
vanced, and this feature is meeting
with most satisfactory encouragement
from nearly all Nebraska newspaper
men and women, and others interested
in seeing the state adveitised to the
best possible advantage throughout
the United States. Duplicate sample
copies of nearly all the publications in
Nebraska have already been collected
and alphabetically arranged for bind
ing for exhibition. A list of the pa
pers in the state has been nearly com
pleted, and most of the information ob
tained for the historical newspaper
directory of the publications of Ne
braska, which directory will give all
the facts a newspaper man or the pub
lic will care to know about every pa
per in the state and arranged in the
most convenient form for ready refer
ence. Responses to circulars of in
quiry have been prompt full and sat
isfactory, showing general interest and
earnest enthusiasm in that feature of
the work. It is the intention to in
clude in the directory every publica
tion in Nebraska, so arranged as to
make it a valuable book of reference.
It is the desire of the undersigned su
perintendent of that department that
every newspaper man in the state, who
may have failed to receive a circular
of inquiry, to send him notice, to
gether with a sample copy of paper,
to the end that the record may be as
near complete as possible. Not more
than one-half of the live papers of Ne
braska appear in any newspaper di
rectory yet published, and in said di
rectories appear, the names of many
papers long since dead, so that it is a
very difficult task to get a comDlete
list, but the most painstaking care is
being exercised to see that none es
cape in this work. There are now orf
the list 706.papers and magazines and
additional ones find their way to the
list almost daily by the co-operation
of editors already listed.
It is the intention to give a brief
sketch of each paper, and also of the
town and county where published.
Novelties in the newspaper line and
also special editions will be shown to
the best advantage, it being the in
tention to make the newspaper exhibit
next to the agricultural exhibit, the
attraction of Nebraska's showing.
This will be Nebraska's greatest od
portunity to advertise the natural re
sources of the state, and the greatest
possible advantage should be taken of
it, and every Nebraska citizen, regard
less of sex, color, nationality, creed
or politics, should assist in making the
Nebraska exhibit what it should be_
the best on the grounds at the great
exposition. Seth P. Moblev,
Press Committee.
IT IS NEWS TO BYRNES.
Kow York’* Superintendent of Police
Knows Nothing of a Plot.
New York, Aug. 14.—Superintend
ent Byrnes said yesterday that he
knew nothing regarding the subject
matter of a dispatch from Pittsburg
which states that an anarchist named
Aaronstaun had left this city for there
a couple of days ago with the avowed
intention of killing H. C. Frick, the
manager of the Carnegie company.
The dispatch in question says that the
second plot to kill Mr. Frick was re
vealed to Otto Ebcrhard, Austrian
Vice Consul in this city, who communi
cated it to the police. Superintendent
Byrnes said he had not seen the Vico
Consul nor heard from him conccring
any plot to kill Mr. Frick. He added
that no information had come to him
from any source regarding the man
Aaronstaun.
Senator Hoar Said to Hare Ite»lg„cd.
New Bedforo, Mass., Aug. 14.—The
Mercury of this city announces that it
has reliable information to the effect
that Senator Hoar has placed his resi-.
nation m the hands of his friends to
be transmitted to the Vice-President.
Senator Hoar is now in Europe.
REID AT SPRINGFIELD, AUQ. 18.
Ha, Barrows, and Dolllrsr Will Addrsss
the Republican L«f<u Conventlan.
Chicago, Aug. 13.—The Illinois R®.
publican campaign will be formally
opened at Springfield Thursday, Aug.
18, at the meeting of the Republican
League convention.
Whitelaw Reid, Republican candi
date for Vice-President, has accepted
an invitation to address the conven
tion that day. The Hon. J. C. Bur
rows of Michigan and J. P. Dolliver of
Iowa will also be present and address
the convention. Gov. Pifer and all the
other candidates on the State ticket
will be present. The meeting promises
to be a large and interesting one.
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
A Hotbed of Political Conflict—Athletle
Revival.
St. Louis, Aug1. 15.—For the first
time in the history of politics in tjiis
State, the headquarters of both the
great parties, as well as the People’*
party have been established in St.
Louis. The Republicans have the
whole of one story of a hotel on Fourth
street, the Everett house, and the Dem
ocrats have their rooms in the Laclede
hotel. The People’s party managers
are at the Richelieu hotel. All of these
places are crowded from early morning
to evening with candidates and their
friends; and politicians from all parts
of the State are making the city the
hub of every journey they take through
the counties. Both the Republican and
the Democratic parties in tended at first
to establish branch headquarters in
other cities in Missouri, but they aban
doned the idea, concluding that the
central position of St. Louis made that
unnecessary. Here the managers are
able to obtain close communication with
National headquarters, too, and that is
a thing of importance.
The athletes of the city now see
their way clear to making St. Louis a
great athletic center. The Pastimes
will begin soon to lay out their new
grounds near the electric car lines in
the western part of the city, and Chris.
Von der Ahe, the basebad manager,
announces that his plans are ready for
his big ball park and athletic field,
which he intends to have in condition
for use next season. Mr. Von der Ahe
will try to have all the games of the
clubs which are not under the Pastime
management, held on his grounds, and
tho result will be a livelier competition
in matters athletic than the city has
seen for some time. The Pastimes
have no Sunday games, and that is the
point of difference between them and
the other athletic organizations of the
City. Mr.. Von der Ahe will open his
grounds with a series of ball games
early next season, and the Pastimes
will receive the public on their field
with a contest that will bring athletes
from all over the country to St. Louis.
The admirers of Frank P. Blair are
anxious that the ladies having charge
of the woman’s exhibit for Missouri at
the World’s Fair shall make the statue
they are to erect at the entrance of the
State pavilion one of that great Mis
sourian. The ladies have not decided
whose statue they will have there, and
they want to find out first what the
people of the State think about it. The
statue will be of heroic size, and will
be made by a St. Louis sculptor, either
Robert Bringhurst or Fred Ruckstohl,
probably. If the statue is ,to be Blair
the sculptor will take him in a pose
different from the one in which he is
shown by the statue out at the en
trance of Forest Park.
The postal clerks of the United States
seem to be fond of St. Louis- They
are going to hold another convention
here soon, and finish the work they
began here two years agq. They are
trying to eliminate politics entirely
from the postal service, and make the
civil service rules apply to it from top
to bottom. The thing they are after
now is to get all the clerks graded, so
that those who are most efficient may
get. the best pay, without regard to
their: influence or party leaning.
There will be about three hundred del
egates at the conventich.
Catholics Condemn Manitoba Government
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 12.— Catholics
at Winnipeg,at a mass meeting held last
night, unanimously decided to main*
tain separate schools for their children
in this city, despite the decision of the
privy council in England compelling
them to pay taxes for Manitoba schools.
Concealing the Truth About Cholera,
8t. Petersburg, Aug. 14.—Dozens of
fatal cases of cholera are known to
have occurred here, though no official
announcement of the presence of the
disease has been made.
L1TK AMU ritOUUVti MAltltKlS
18 ft
14 'ft
12>*3
<3 (£
17
13
14
18
iiitotutioH* /VoII* AW 17m*';, VUiO'ijn
Oiiutlttt t$ntl i,4.
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery.
Butter—Country Roll.
Batter—Packing stock..
hugs—Fresh.
Honey, per lb..
Chicken*—Spring, per doz. 2
Chickens—Per pound. ... ......
Wheat—No. 2, carload, por bu...
Com—Carloan, per bu.
Oats—Carload, per bu.
Flaxseed—Per bu..
Oranges. .*.3
Ii+rnons. .*.*.*.*.".*.*. 7
Potatoes—New per lb.*1’.*’’*.’*
Tomatoes—per crate. .1
New Apples—per barrel... .4
Crtbbaga p**r crate.3
Peaches—wer H box. 1
Hay—per ton.«. 5
Straw—Per ton . 4
Bran—Per ton..*.*.*.'.**13
Chop—Per ton.!....!?
Omous—per bbl..3
jjogg—Mixed packing...**!.*... 5
ilogs—Heavy weights. ft
Beeves—Prime steers. ** 4
Steers—Fair to good.* 3
Sleep—Natives.*’**” 3
new vonic
Wheat—No. 2 red winter..
Corn—No. 2. '*•
Oata—Mixed western.. ***’.
Pork.. . ..
Lam...«
ciiiuAtia’
Wheat—No. Usprluc.
Corn—Per bushel...... *********
Oats—Per bu»Uol. *****.
Hogs—pnckers and’ mixed.* .’ **’.* ft
^att4e—Rangers. 3
Cattle—Prime steers..*.* 5
bheep—YV ester ns. 4
ST. LOUis.'"
Wheat-No. 2 Red, Cash.
Corn—Per bushei.. ..
Oats—Per bushel.""I***
Hogs—Mixed packing.*.***"'* 5
Cttltie—Native steers. 3
KAN6A6 CITk'.
Wheat—No. 2 red.
Corn—Na 2......'.. .
Oats—No. 2.. . . **; ’*’
Cattle—Stockers and feeders...*. ?
llogs—Mixed., r,
Sbeep—Mu11.538,.’*’'.'.* 3
ft 3 00
ft 8
c<a
ft 41
ft 34
ft 05
•ft 4 50
ft 8 31
ft l\i
OH 2 00
ft 5 00
<ft 3 2*
© 1 50
(ft 7 a.)
(ft 5 00
60 ©14 00
50 ©18 »
ft 3 V6
<ft 6 75
ft 5 83
ft 4 80
ft 4 10
ft 4 B0
U ih f 4%
62 ft 6254
•9 ft 41
70 ©13 73
471-5 ft 8 i0
ft
SSiifi
34 Vi
©12 2*
ft 8
ft 5 75
(ft 5 80
ft 5 ft'l
©4 9#
74 *4 4
45 ft
S3 "
tt>
0J
75
50
ft 34
©6 1#
ft 4 6b
»;S «ft
4*5$ 48
28* if# *9
C5 ft 3 -t 5
40 ft 6 03