THE FRONTIER. miiun wtbiit nnumiT by Taa Fbomtibb Pmktixo Co. O’NEILL, -- NEBRASKA. §| STATE NEWS. (' NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. —Religious revivals are in progress ' la many Nebraska towns. — Scarlet fever is quite prevalent in South Omaha and some fatal cases are recorded. —Hubbell democrats held a caucus and determined whom they would have for postmaster. —Miss Matilda Peterson of Saunders county has been adjudged insane and taken to the Lincoln asylum. —C. W. McMillan, a student at the ;fPeru normal school, has secured an ap pointment as railway mail clerk. — l'remont is having the greatest religious revival of the season, undur the auspices of the Wilson family. —After suffering tor months with >, disease Mrs. dames Young ol Wuhoo passed away at the age of 78 years. —A Pawnee City man is to start a factory lor the manufacture of a rub ber >oof'paint of his own discovery. —Police of Lincoln raided the gam bling dens of that place, capturing a large number pi the light-lingered gentry. —A. C. Spandau, a druggist at Bruiyng was found dead In bis store ■■'l- Inst week. The oause of his death Is unknown.. —Beatrice has been reals trie ted in to •lx ward*. The mayor vetoed the ordlance, but the eounoll pawed It over hii veto. —The Norfolk News nominate* Judge Powers for the poaltion which will be made vacant by the resigna tion of Judge Allen. —Revival meeting* are in progress at Beatrice. Fremont, Superior and other point* In the state and many conversion* are reported. —Senator Clark of the legislature is having a serious spell of sickness and will probably not be able to ap pear at Lincoln for several weeks. —Israel B. Edmlnson of Omaha while working about an elevator the other day. lost his life by being hit on the head by the descending slide. The Mercer is Omaha's newest and best hotel oor. Twelfth and Howard streets. Rates #2 to 94.60 per day. 160 rooms end 60 connected with bath. —Mra Crane, wife of John D. Crane proprietor of the B. & M. depot hotel at Red Cloud, died very suddenly last week, after an illness of but a few minutes. —Dr. Ford Brother of Beatrioe, while getting into his carriage, was thrown down by the horses starting suddenly, resulting in breaking the dootor’s collar bone and otherwise bruising him. —The braking board has been noti fied that the Farmers’ bank of Laurel has been changed to the Farmers' State bank of Laurel. The State ban k of Brunswick commenced busininess January 31, with a oapital stook of $1(1000. —Artloles of .agreement were signed , at Sioux City for a finish fight to take place before the Omaha olub Febru ary 28 between Jack Davis of Sioux City, formerly of Omaha, and Bob Fer guson, the Stock Yard* giant of Chi cago. for a purse of $1, 600, offered by the club. —Cloy county's mortgaged indebt edness for the month of January is as follows: Farm mortgage* filed, 37. $411088.41; satisfied. 54, $48,765.47; city mortgaged filed, 6. $2,010.40; sat , isfled, 15, $4,767.66; chattel mortgages filed, 176, $38,281.35; satisfied, 208, ?■, $61,886.86. —The barn of Henry J. Higgins of Hastings was discovered to be on fire, and before the (lames could be extin guished six head of horses and a large quantity of grain and hay and agri. .cultural implements were "destroyed. The loss will amount to about $5.000, with no insurance. pi —Milton Brown, of Gering. is under %. bonds to appear at district court and Show cause why he stole his neigh bor's house, it was a log structure rad it is alleged that Brown has the * loga and the settler who was “out of town" when they were taken has no where to lay his head. —Governor Crounse has granted a pardon to Frank Holly, sent to the penitentiary from Douglas county for one year on the charge of forgery. The district judge, prosecuting attor ney and a majority of the jurors who p tried the case joined in recommending the pardon. Holly was only received P at the penitentiary on the 19th of last month. 1 —SUtjf-iix men and nine women ' gathered together in the United Slates 4 court room in Omaha the other day, who were animated by the laudable desire to serve Uncle Samuel, for a consideration. The occasion was the oivil service examination of applicants for positions in the Omaha postoffice as carriers, clerks and junior clerks or / messengers. —Dr. G. S. Miles, a leading dentist of Beatrice dropped dead last week of heart disease while smoking a cigar in a drug store. The deceased was a Jj native of Jerseyvilla. 111., and has ^ been a resident of Beatrice about three years. He was widely known and esteemed. He was about 60 years of age and leaves a wife and several grown children. —A lodge of the Order of Eastern Star was organized in Schyuler last week by Miss Elfreda Wright, holding proxy of the grand matron, and H. S. Sprecher, holding proxy of the grand patron, the lady and gentleman being ih, from Scotia, Neb. The officers elsct ive and appointive, wero installed, and tea were initiated. The name chosen ’ for the lodge is Ruth. 4.’->4 —A Young Men's Democratic: Club has been organized at South Omaha. —Train 13. from Kansas City, went through the switch at Bed Cloud, de railing the engine, baggage and mall cars. Uut slight damage was done and no one was hurt, which is remark able, as the train was coming into the station at a thirty mile rate. —Sheriff Bowman was called by tel egram from Fairbury to Diller. ilfteen miles distant, where he arrested four young men for running a gambling bouse. They were new comers in the place and gave their names respect ively as A. M. Brown, VV. H. Hillia K. K. Williams and F. G. Knight. After examination they were held over to await the action of the district court. —The Farmers, Merchants and Me chanics Business association of Ver non, Clay county, filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. The capital stock is $10,000 in shares of $25 each, 50 per cent of which is payable ic cash when stock is taken. The business of the company will be the building and operation of an ele vator and general commission busi ness. —Joseph Hoble mysteriously disap peared from Clarkson February 3 and has not been heard from since. He lefjyjt note for his wife telling her to marry as soon as she could und bade her goodbye forever. His wife and two children are left in poor circum stances. No cause is assigned for Hoble’s strange conduct The lady’s friends fear that the man’s mind is im paired. —The system of water works con* tracted for by Blue Springs eighteen months sine* still remains an unde ▼eloped dream of future progress in stead of a water supply for every household. . The city has two lawsuits pending in the district court, with symptoms of a long and vexatious de lay attending as a result The city authorities made the mistake of pay ing for their elephant before it was delivered. —As Mra George Griffith of Ne braska City stepped from the house the other morning she discovered a basket on the door step. Examination showed the contents to be a girl baby. The ohild was appaaently about two weeks old and had evidently been left there but a few minutes before its dis covery. The basket was well filled with clothing, but there is no clue to the parentage of the child. Mrs. Grif fith will adopt the child, having none of her own. —The supreme court has made an order In the case of tho state against the Commercial and Savings bank of Kearney, appointing Henry C. An drews of Kearney a referee to take testimony in the case, wherein the re ceiver asks that the Mutual Invest ment company, S. S. St John and others to turn over certain notes and other things of value turned over and delivered to them January 30, 189% by John Barnd, either acting for him self or as president of the insolvent bank. —Swan Hanson, a Swede employed in feeding cattle on John F. Kessler's farm east of town, met with a serious accident last Friday afternoon, says the Oakland Times. He was feeding millet into a chopping machine and in some way pushed his right hand under the knife. The hand was severed en tirely from the arm. He is receiving the best medical attention possible. This is the second accidentof the kind that has happened in the last year, as another man employed there met with the same misfortune about ten months —The state board of transportation held a meeting last week, and the old case of Byram Blair of Broken Bow against the Burlington railroad was taken up. Blair bad petitioned the board to compel the board to grant him the right to build an elevator on its right of way. The secretaries re commended that it be granted. The parties were represented by attorneys, and the board ordered that the site be granted in oonformity with the recom mendations of the secretaries. The railroad company excepted and will probably go into court. —The police of Omaha raided an old rookery at Tenth and Jones streets and captured ten burglars and consid erable plunder. Every one of the crowd had been using the Rescue home as a blind to cover uu their crimes and after being placed' in their cells they jested about the way they had worked the managers for lodging and meals and had thus for a time evaded the law. Many of this batch of toughs have served time in prison in different parts of the country and their faces are to be found in many rogues' gal leries throughout the west. —R. N. Volk, editor of the Elm Creek Sun, died in Kearney last week. He was found by a track walker on the Union Pacific lying beside the tracks a few blocks west of the passenger depot in that place. When found the unfortunate man was alive but uncon scious and remained so until death. The hands, feet and face were badly frozen and the baclt of his head was cut and bruised. It is supposed he attempted to board an express train while in motion and could not open the vestibule door, and in climbing from one car to another fell off unno ticed. —Lemuel Lemon, the University Place boy who was shot by his brother, died of his injuries, or of a surgical operation which was undertaken to save his life. The doctors Disused the wounded boy on a table in a room heated to 122 degrees. His abdomen was laid open and tbe entrails re moved from the abdominal cavity and thoroughly drenched. Eleven perfor. jttions of the bowels were fouud and these were sewed up. The ball was removed. The entrails were then re placed and the abdomen sewed up. The boy rallied, but it was only tem porary, and at 11 o'clock the nexi | morning he succumbed. SENATORIAL BOODLE A SKXBATIOX IX XBMBABKA’M LOW EH BOCBB. The Sergeant-at-Arma Telia of Two Whom Ha thog|kl Could be Influ enced for a Conalderallou—Tba Houae Paeaea the Ueneral I pproprl allana Bill—Tba Hama of A. D. Baener flam to tba Senate for War den of tba Penltentlnr)'—.nieeella neous Hatter la Both Branches. Nebraska Lealslatnra. Senate.—The senate on the 6th miida no attempt to transact business and immediately after roll call and prayer took a recess until 11:45. Im mediately after joint convention sen ate adjourned until 10 o’clock tomor row. Tbe joint vote for senator was without change from that of Saturday. House.—In the house on the 6th bills were introduced: To create a county loan and abstract office; pro viding that counties may repeal town j ship organization; amending the law relating to summons; authorizing the state treasurer to pay a reward of $10. - 000 for the discovery of coal within the state of Nebraska; to regulate guaran tee and indemnity companies; to pro mote the supply of gas in the cities; to purchase lands for the Hospital for the Insane at Hastings; to submit an amendment to the constitution provid that the legislature shall provide for the free Instruction in common schools of all persons between the ages of 6 and 21. Mr. Howe introduced a bill to provide for a commission to revise the constitution. The appropriation bill was then considered. The first division taken up was the appropria tion for the Insitute for the Deaf at Omaha. Nason offered amendments to increase the amount appropriated for care of the inmates. He spoke vigor ously as to the needs of ibe institu tion, but his arguments fell into ears as deaf as those of the inmates of the institution whose cause he was cham pioning, and the bill stood as it came from the hands of the committee. The appropriations for the soldiers and sailors’ home, the state board of trans portation, the fish commission and the state university, passed without objec tion, ezoept that in the case of the soldiers’ home the sum of $1.400 was added for repairs and improvements. The appropriation for the state uni versity was lumped instead of item ized. Under the head of miscellane. ous the sum of $2 000 was added for the support of the State Historical so oiety. Elder wanted to raise the ap propriation of the fish commission. He thought the legislature needed all the fish it oould get. It needed them for brain food, he said, and the members laughed. An unsuccessful attempt was made by Lingenfelter to tack on the inevitable appropriation of $15,000 for the payment of bounties for the destruction of wild animals but it did not go. The committee rose and the house ordered tbe bill engrossed. Senate.—In the Senate on the 7th a number of new bills were introduced and read the first time. After reading of bills the senate joined the house in joint session to ballot for IP. S. sena tor, the vote resulting in the eleotlon of Judge W. V. Allen, of Madison county, who received 70 votes, four more than was necessary. On recon vening counting of the votes of Doug las county was in order. Senator Lobeck moved that a committee of three be appointed by the chair to count and tally the votes. The mo tion pro vailed. The chair appointed Senators Low ley. Hale and Young to count the ballots in the Dougias coun ty contest cases as per resolution. The time agreed upon for counting the bal lots to be from 9 to 12 o'clock a. m-. 1 to 6 p. m., and from 7 o'clock to 9:80 o’clock p. m. Senator Dysart arose and asked the privilege of intro ducing a resolution, and having ob tained that privilege, he moved that the contest of the seats of the senators from Douglas county be indefinitely postponed. The motion , was subse quently withdrawn and Senator Stuart moved that the committee on privi leges and elections furnish the senate whatever evidence it may have. Sen ator Mullen offered a resolution invit ing the members of the senate to attend a reception in honor of United I States Senator-elect W. V. Allen, in | representative hall. Adjourned. ! House.—In the house on the 7th the morning; hour was spent in re port* of committee*. After the joint convention the house took a reces* un til 9 o'clock. On reassembling bills were introduced: To provide for an exhibit of Nebraska swine at the World’* Columbian exposition. To provide for the encouragement of the sugar beet industry and the payment of a bounty to the grower and pro ducer of sugar beet*. To establish a state board of undertakers and to pro vide for the better protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of infective and contagious diseases, and to provide for a system of‘exam ination, registration and licensing of undertakers. An act to provide for the incorporation and the regulation of trust companion and to define their powers, duties and responsibilities. To provide for the erection and equip ment of a building upon the grounds of the state experimental farm, to be known as the state laboratory for the investigation of animal diseasea To submit to the electors of the state of Nebraska, for their approval or rejec tion, an amendment to the constitution of the state providing for the gradu ated taxation of land. Bills read a third time were: To allow children of school age of their home district to at tend school at a nearer district. An act to amend section 5822 Washington, Feb. 11_The mem bers ot the committee investigating the whisky trust are becoming visibly weary of their task and it would be no surprise if they summarily dropped the subject Revenue Agent Dewar gave some additional testimony today as to the indictment of Secretary Gib son of the trust and the discovery in his apartments of quantities of the ex plosive liquid which was to be used in destroying rival distilleries. When the meeting ended Chairman Bynum said: am beginning to think that this investigation is a mistake. We are getting little new evidence, and I do not intend to let the investigation drag along. 1 will probably wind it up by next Wednesday, certainly by the end of next week.” Wilt Hebe thn Amarleaa nag; Washington, Feb. 10. — Secretary Foster of the Treasury Department has been notified that the American flag will be formally raised upon the Inman steamers City of New York and City of Paris at New York on '' ash ing-ton’s birtheay, Feb. 32. The event will be celebrated with great pomp. Many distinguished people have re ceived invitations to be present The President will himself pull up the flag. He will be accompanied to New York by all the members of his Cabinet, and on that occasion there will also be present the members of the Senate and House Naval Affairs Committees, distinguished members of Congress and the principal officers of the Navy Departments or their invited guests. Senator Allen b for Free Silver, Lincoln, Neb., Feb, 10—Judge Allen who was elected United States Senator left for his home yesterday. In an in terview he intimated that he would vote with the Democrats in the or ganization of the next Senate. He said that his views on the tariff were in line with those of Grover Cleveland, but that he differed with the President elect on the silver question and that he favored the free coinage of silver. To Build 8tit« EI«T«ton> St. Paui., Minn., Feb. 10.—The Sen ate Orain and Warehouse Committee yesterday adopted a resolution direct ing1 that correspondence be begun with "The Governors of the States of North and South Dakota with a view to secure such legislation as will re sult in the construction of State eleva tors or grain houses at Duluth contig uous to each other for each of the three States and thus create a system of grain-houses for the Northwest that will place the farmers of this region beyond the control of the ele vator ring which now monopolizes the market and breaks down the value M this great staple.” ” Whit* Hons* deception. Washington, Feb. 10.—Quarantine having been raised against the White House on account of the illness of Marthena Harrison, the President to day resumed the afternoon public re ceptions, which were suspended be cause of the death of Mrs. Harrison. About two hundred people took ad vantage of the occasion to pay their respects to the Chief Magistrate. PoatolHco at the World* Fair. Washington, Feb. 10-The Postmas ter-General has issued an order estab ■shing a postoffice in the government building on the Columbian Exposition Th® °®CO “ to be a branch of the Chicago postoffice and will be known as the World’s Fair station. An allowance of *4,400 is made for the pay of employes, and additional allow ances will bemadefrom time to time. Chinamen Sent to J«|| Petoxkky, Mich. Feb. 10-T wo China men, Sing Lee and Ling ,10 were sent twenty days by the Failed States Commissioner Call under the ‘°n a<:t- Tll*y had been here about a week, preparing to open a laundry They will be deported at tile (?nd of their nc" STABS AND g TUMT NOW AWruHB bawau 1 CmtM * PtmUmuoi tOMte Over .he ‘ ' tacth.OM FI.,_How lkt. •ter of Things I. Tlu»-M«»y Mv«. Cabinet Crisis I»m, _ ,he **are and Mri San Francisco. Cal. anxiously expected steamer Au, arrired early yesterday l,-om Hoi bringing the first news o( tbe of eventt in the Hawaiian i.lJ the arrival ol the commit the provisional government to tiate for annexation to the( States. The steamer brought f, portant intelligence that 'on « inst United States Minister issued a proclamation to the He people assuming a protectory the islands, and hoisted the sia stripes over Aliuolani halL proclamation is as follows: To the Hawaiian People: ; request of the provisional goven of the Hawaiian islands Here Ute name of the United States ot, lea. assume protectorate q( a waiian islands for tbe protect life and property and the occoi of public buildings and Hawaii so far as may be necessary, h purpose specified, but not mien with the administration ol i affairs by the provisional goverg This action is taken pending as ject to the negotiations at VVasbis John L. Stkyh Envoy Extraordinary and Hi Plenipotentiary of tbe UnlteaS Approved and executed by Captain United State* Nit;. ( manding United State* Sterner! ton. This act oi the United Stain * ter ia generally accepted with by all except unqualified pari tbe queen, even including natint ia looked on as a friendly toils general good, not as an act ef ag •ion. The United States f!a» raised over only one buildup Hawaiian flag floating over ill other government houses, ana visional government continue! a erolse its function* as before The British minister hull reoognized the provisional gore as the de facto government tl islands pending further advice bis home government. Fortnpl Japan have also recognized tie order of things, so that not tbs government is recognized bjrili foreign powers having represett in the islands. Matters have been movinp quietly since the provisional ment took hold. There were tions. however, when the stems on the 1st in at., that there waidi sion among the members of thee tive council and it is believed a has been made to Minister Stei take full control pending ne»oi with the United States Martial •till prevails, and though no harm the people, both natives and era chafe under the restriction arrests have been made, and oclf the presence of armed men ii streets the usual quiet prevails ines and saiiors from the cruiser ton parade through the streets a times daily, but no open advene men^s on their presence are made FoMr*fO!ir Asylum Inmate* fr,“ Doves. N. H. Feb. 10. —Theca incase asylum four miles fro®' was burned last night and fortp livea lost. When Watchman William 0 made his 10 o’clock round* bell the fire coming out of the cellocc* by A. Lafamanttne, a woman, m«I the alarm. William Driscoll, keeper, with his family, lived* building, and he at once brone i on fifty-four cells and tried to f* inmates out Then be got bit and two children out Of toe eight inmates only four escape ■ were William Tembly. Rosa w son. William Daly and frans iw The latter walked two miles m * ing snow storm, with only on. to William Horner’s house, he was taken care of. . '« The building was of wooc, « feet, two stories. , One woman escaped to the y was burned to death The building oost *14.ouo. main building, in which over the county poor were l°c&t£“' 4 fire, but was extinguished J forts of the inmates, who car of water and extinguished t . although many were injure" a°The Dover fire department moned, but owing to the aw the snow covered roads it to partment fifty minutes to get10 ( they were too late to be ol ice. The smoking ruin* “ charred bodies still burning' building caught fire is a mys . Rnmors of a r»biiir*fr1"1 , Pabis, Feb. 9.—It was ru® midnight that the cabinethao ^ to resign and to recommend » lent Carnot that he sum®08 vaignao to form a ministry. Inquiry at authoritativeso ^ ited neither confirmation no Should Cavaignao be called ministry he would probahly aolleagues men who sre n , present ministry. J* is belie , aver, that Cavaignae's tucceed Carnot and that he the premiership.