Nebraska Newspapers

    ILL TAKE TIME.
roMlNC CONGRESS WILL
5 HASTILY legislate.
„rU tor which It I. Called TO
r ca„not be Accomplished In a
Vt-fkft—-Tlic Great Problem* to be
g—lVhat Representative Wllwm
Virginia Says—No Opposition
9 as Speaker—Funeral Services
nmialns of the Late Justice
,ford-nut One Response From
diver Brokers.
>•„ nasty legislation.
invr.ToN, July 15.-Th0 idea
,v,s aroused by the president’s
:n' calling an extra session of
„5, that the work for which it
assemble could be accomplished
iv days, or at furthest in a few
is riving" out and the national
;ors who are competent of judg
iat a congress can or cannot do
(islied that a protraeted struggle
iaa 1 over the repeal of the Sher
■a,v. The idea that all tho ills
have befallen the financial world
v due to the operations of
ver purchase act is not as potent
;;s. The attitude of the free sil
>n is just as threatening as it
a>. and the assertion of Senator
' the other day that tho fight
be made and the contest would
he death, has caused no little
(■nation among the adminlstra
now accepted by most of the
ratio leaders that when congress
it will remain in session without
lesion until the work of the first
1- session of the Fifty-third con
shall have been accomplished,
who expect to have a finger in
riff pie are preparing to take right
s soon as the ways and means
ttee is appointed. It has been
fiicially announced that this com
will accord hearings to those in
-d in the revision of the tariff,
re.-entative Joe Wheeler of Ala*
has arrived in Washington and
obably stay here and assist in
rganization of the house. In
Kg of what congress would do he
he problem to be solved by con
is to so legislate as to preserve
monetary functions in both gold
■Ivor. If gold goes to a premium,
1; practical purposes it ceases to
oney, and one-fourth of our cir
ion is withdrawn. If silver is de
ii of its functions as money we
I lose about the same amount of
lation. Such a withdrawal of
r would contract the currency and
to the sufferings of the people.
i?re.>s repeals the Sherman act
iut any condition attached, the
ry may find confidence shaken in
l-i7.0iJ0.0U0 of treasury notes issued
r that law, and the country may
fin.l that such hasty legislation
ilonrived us of some half a billion
mey, acquired under the acts of
and lS'JO. Therefore let us take
in? at the first preamble of the
\ ork Chamber of Commerce reso
is. which says this country has
vd greatly by reason of hasty and
' i>od financial legislation,
e all remember the prosperity
luommenced in 1S79, when gold
1 to be a commodity and became
y. We can hardly predict the
which would follow should our
o-io.ooo of gold now cease to be
y and again become merchandise.
»e must look at all sides of tho
lion. The irrepressible conflict of
next twenty years will be the
?le between our country and
t Britain for tho commerce of the
*• " hen congress meets we will
the president’s message and Sec
y Carlisle’s report, and the subject
he more carefully discussed and
Highly investigated.”
Iwi °f » Democratic Leader.
smsoTojf, July 12.—Representa
L. Wilson of West Virginia,who
led over the _ Chicago convention
ho is recognized as one of the
rs in the next congress, arrived
• Mr. Wilson said:
has always been my belief that
ura session should continue and
to recess should be taken. Under
ireumstanees the tariff question
* considered. Even should there
cccss before the regular session in
“aher the committee will continue
1 cration of the new tariff and be
suhmit an early report to the
"ilson further said there would
opposition to the re-election of
as speaker, so far as he knew
1 Relieved that the majority
of tvf e " est Virginia were in
the repeal of the Sherman law.
S”T|««» Over the Body of Jua
tlce Blatchforda
•'WORT, R. I„ july 13._The funer.
".cre performed over the re
„, tlle late Associate Justice
: ‘ “ atchford of the United States
wurt yesterday in All Saints’
, ’ luch wa® crowded, while the
Sagensd"'0refiUed With ^le
WchTrlh8 mtaken direct AU
*( \u“’n ho bearers being Chief
IhcOra Fuller’ Settee
Jastice David J. Brewer,
beorge Shiras, jr„ Justic^
'hbe \aH:ks°n,’ Judges E. Henry
“edict Shipman, Charles
» ; Wheeler, Addison
A hred C. Cox, Charles
C- Gray, John~Sedwi
Cow, Sidney Websl
and Jai
John
rs- Seth
“'let ta<*walader
f,l hvti,eSnJ 1110 c^lurc^ were -
liev. Bishop Pot
•iv Isl-m i .I1' E®v- Bishop Clar
1:,‘l the I cthDrEA, Eev’ ,1)r’^at
ciiith of w ', . ’ Alexander Mac
he ashington.
church to .t,Pa'ly Jvas driTen *
• ral ? the dock of the stea
f'>rd ie..riupon. her transporte
d“ipirioriat4:20.p’ m’ T1
party. car was in waiting
isnr-f®4 °n« Response. !
one' re”', Jnly “—There Vas
st0»s count>nSe 10 Actin? Director 1
^ntor proposition to the sU
▼er brokers yesterday and that was
limited to an otter of 100,000 ounces oi
silver at 71}$ cents per ounce. This
same from New York by telegraph
after the close of the office yesterday
and was promptly accepted. Tomor
row another effort will be made to se
cure more silver and the price in Lon
don this morning was up 1 pence to
33 % cents. It may be that the depart
ment will have to pay more than 71M
cents if it decides to buy at all. It is
stated that the purchase of the acting
director of the mint just now is to se
cure steady quotations rather than to
affect the market one way or the other,
and when the quotations have become
steadier it is probable that the pur
chase of silver will be resumed in larger
amounts.
DR. M’QLYNN MAY BE A BISHOP.
H(i. Satolll Bound to Protect Him to
Mein tain Proper Dignity.
JilW Yobk, Julv 13 —Dr. McGlynq
is not to discontinue discussing the
topics which led to his excommunica
tion. The restored priest will appear
next month at the World's Fair, and
during the world’s congress of religion
he will deliver an address on the
Catholic church's attitude on economic
questions.
"I can speak now perhaps with
' greater freedom.” said Dr. McGlvnn.
“The doctrines I have taught have
been examined by Mgr. Satolll and
four other theologians and they found
there was nothing in them contrary to
the teachings of the Catholic church.
All of my speeches during the last few
years were but thinly disguised ser
mons. I always tried to put into
them a religious spirit
The Tribune says: “The possibility
that Mgr. Satolli may elevate Dr. Me
Glynn to a bishopric puts a new phase
upon the Corrigan-Satolli trouble, in
that it. shows the attitude which the
apostolic delegate may take toward
the former pastor of St Stephen’s
church. Dr. McGlyna has not been
allowed to say mass publicly since his
restoration and Archbishop Corrigan
has failed to appoint him to a parish,
thus partially nullifying the action of
the apostolic delegate in securing his
restoration. Mgr. Satolli would
naturally come to the further sup
port of Dr. McGlynn in order to main
tain the dignity of nis own commands.
There is a tendency, too, to connect
the report of Dr. Mcplynn’s possible
bishopric with the efforts lately made
by opponents of Archbishop Corrigan
to have the archdiocese of New York
divided and its northern portion set
aside as a separate diocese. The
phase of the subject that etcited the
most comment was tho denial that
came from Rochester, where Arch
bishop Corrigan is the guest of Bishop
McQuaid. The bishop gives no oppor
tunity of access to his guest."
Pension Payments Suspended.
Washington-, July 13.—The pension
bureau has notified a great many pen*
sioners throughout the entire country
who are drawing pensions under the
act of June 37, 1800, known as the de
pendent pension act, that payment of
their pensions will be suspended for
sixty days, during which time they are
required to show cause why they should
continue to draw pensions. The testi
mony necessary to prevent their being
dropped from the rolls is the certificate
of any reputable physician, attested by
two witnesses, that the pensioner is
precluded from active labor, owing to
injuries or disability not the result of
his own vicious habits.
In case no attention is paid to the
department's notification within sixty
days the pensioner will be dropped
from the rolls. On the other hand,
should the necessary certificate, prop
erly drawn up and signed, be forwarded
to the pension bureau, the pensioner
will be requested to appear before the
local board of medical examiners for
examination as to*his condition.
This action is pursuant to the recent
ruling of Secretary Smith to the effect
that a pensioner under the act of June
37, 1890, drawing a pension for total
disability, must be shown to be physic
ally incapable, of manual labor. The
board of review appointed to carry into
effect that decision is now going over
all the cases of June 17, 1890. probably
100,000 in number, and selecting those
cases which show on the record that
the pensioner may not be incapacitated
for manual labor. In the cases thus
selected the pensioners are notified, as
before stated, to prove their total dis
ability to the department or cease to
draw pensions.
Under Secretary Smith’s ruling the
department holds that a man who can
work should not draw a pension for
total disability. It is estimated at the
pension office, although the work has
but recently been begun, that some
thing over 1,900 suspensions have al
ready been made.
Bad Indians In Coart.
Rapid City, S. D., July 14.—Two
Arrows and Switch Tail, the young
Pine Ridge bucks charged with as
saulting Annie Bear Stops and killing
her father on Wounded Knee some
weeks ago had a preliminary examina
tion here yesterday. Switch Tail ad
mitted the killing but claimed it was
accidental. Two Arrows, the assail
ant of the girl, when he saw the wrath
ful father coming fled and left Switch
Tail to fight it out with Bear Stops.
The former drove a large knife through
the old man's breast, cutting his heart
into like an apple. Switch Tail was
held for trial without bail, and Two
Arrows was discharged upon the com
plaint of murder, but will be held for
that of rape, which, under the ^federal
statutes, is punishable with death
when committed upon a reservation.
He wi.l have a hearing to-day.
Indian! Swindling the Government.
St. Paul, Minn, July 14.—William
M. Campbell and R. J. Flint, members
of the Chippewa I&dian commission,
returned here last evening from Clo
quet with the sensational information
that 150 Chippewa Indians of the Fond
du Lac tribe have been for the last
four years traudulently drawing an
nuities at Cloquet The frauds were
discovered in a cursory examination of
the books, and the commission fears
that other frauds will be developed.
It is impossible to tell how much money
the government has been swindled out
of. The Indians, he declared, have
also been drawing annuities in Wis
consin.
R. G. Dun’s weekly review of trade
says that there is a perceptible improve
ment in the business situation.
PURCHASE OF SI1VER.
ACTIVE WORK FOR THE UNITED
STATES TREASURY.
Behind In the Better of the Purchase of
Silver na Required by Low—Mew Fork
Financier! Agreed that the Financial
Outlook la Growing Better Day by Day
—Aa to the Silver Queatlon In the Weat
“"What About the Cholera Abroad—
WIU View the Wheat Flelde of the
j Weat—The Atmoaphere About the
Waahlngton Weather Bureau Moro
Clearing.
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Silver Purchaaea.
Washington, July 13.—It looks very
much as if the treasury of the United
States would be compelled to do some
active work in order to carry out the
provislo.— of the Sherman law, which
require the purchase of 4,500,000 ouqcos
of silver every month. July is now
almost half gone and still the treasury
has purchased only a fraction more than
10 per cent of the 4,500,000 ounces, the
purchases amounting in ounces to 738,
000. The price paid when the June
purchases were completed was 80.8220
per ounee. July 7, 1,278.000 ounces
were offered and only 100,000 ounces
were taken at 80.72. The next day
538.000 ounces offered by telegraph at
80.7230 were accepted. The 100,000
ounces purchased Monday at 80.7230
completes the purchases so far made
this month. The director of the mint
today made a counter proposition of
375.000 ounces, offered at prices ranging
from 80.73 to 80.7350, in which he
agreed to take the silver at 80.7150.
This may be accepted before the end of
the calendar day, and if so, will not
figure in the result until tomorrow,
even should this offer be accepted. The
total purchases will amount to a frac
tion less than 25 per cent of the total
requirements for the month.
Monied Men Confident.
New York, July 13.—Notwithstand
ing the flurry in the stock market yes
terday, bank presidents and others
occupying' positions familiarizing them
selves with the current condition, unan
imously agreed that the general situa
tion has improved and continued to do
sa There was nothing in the flnan
cial situation of the country to produce
such an unsettling. Two or thrcecascs
were reported yesterday of country
banks, mostly in Pennsylvania, com
ing into this market as buyers of com
mercial paper in a small way, tempted
thereto by the high rates, and the fact
that they had money to their credit
with their New York agents. The
amount of such purchases in the aggre
gate is not large, but it is believed to
indicate an easier monetary condition
in certain sections of the country. The
condition of banks in Philadelphia was
reported practically unchanged and
New York exchange only obtainable
at that city at a high preiflium, aver
aging about 92.50 per 91,000. Some
Philadelphia banks have reduced their
indebtedness to correspondents in this
city, but the balances are still large.
New York banks, however, are treat
ing them leniently.
Kegarding the silver question in the
west, a president of a leading down
town bank received the following let
ter today from the head of a leading
mercantile house in Denver, which has
dealings throughout the silver states:
“In regard to silver mining in this
state, we candidly believe the present
situation is very much exaggerated,
and as soon as there is any prospect of
obtaining a definite price for silver, a
great many of our mines will be ope
rated on as large a scale . as formerly.
This we say on the supposition that the
present rate of silver, say 75 cents per
ounce, is a reasonable price, as silver
costs very nearly this figure to'produce.
If the price of silver should decline
materially below 75 cents per ounce,
there will be undoubtedly a curtail
ment on the production in this stale,
but we believe as a rule that merchants
will be able to pay their accounts in
full, and the loss to jobbers at any
point in this state ought to average a
very low percentage. Talk and threats
indulged in by a few rabid silverites is
in our opinion, taken too seriously in
the east, as parties who do most of this
talking, have no credit or standing at
home.”
Progress of the Cholera.
Buda Pesth, July 13.—The cholera
now prevailing is said to be of the
Asiatic type. Prompt measures have
prevented the spreading of the disease.
There has been an average of two cases
daily. The number of deaths, if there
have been any, have not been reported.
Paris, July 13.—There has been five
new cases of cholera and four deaths
from the disease in Toulon during the
past twenty-four hours.
St. Petersburg, July 13.—The city
is officially declared to be in a healthy
condition. The last week’s bulletin
on cholera gives the following figures:
Podolia, 310 new cases, ICO deaths;
liesarabia, 35 new cases, 15 deaths;
Orel, 32 new cases, 13 deaths;Khaerson,
43 new cases, 9 deaths; Tould, 8 new
cases, 3 deaths. There is doubt about
the genuineness of the cases reported
in Moscow.
To 8eo Western Wheat Fields.
Chicago, July 13.—There is a propo
sition to take the foreign commission
ers through the wheat fields of the Da
kotas. The party will leave Chicago
about the 1st of next month, stopping
a day or two in St. Paul and Minneap
olis for the purpose of inspecting the
elevators and flour mills. Then the
commissioners will go through North
and South Dakota, witnessiug the har
vesting and threshing of the wheat
cron. The commissioners are particu
lar h desirous of making the trip since
it will give them an opportunity to see ,
ar* number of emigrants from their
owu country anti ascertain how they
are progressing in their new home. j
Will Have Better Weather Now.
Washington, July 13.—The atmos
phere about the weather bureau has
cleared off very perceptibly since the
recent investigation^ and affairs are
running along smoothly. The position
| of chief of the weather bureau, Secre
[ tary Morton looks upon as one entirely
without the pale of politic*, and Prof.
.Barrington will probably remain. .Thin
bureau is one in which Secretary Mor
ton has taken a lively interest, and he
said today that it was his wish to make
it popular; remove it from the rather
high scientific plane to which it had
gradually ascended and bring it down
to a level where it would abound in
practical work. In short, he will In
sist upon useful recasting, so that the
farmer, the miner, the shipper and the
Commercial man can derive from it the
greatest possible good. What the peo
ple most want, said Secretary Morton,
is the knowledge beforehand of what
is to happen, so they can prepare for it,
rather than a scientltic diagnosis in the
lino of cause and effect after it is all
over.
Secretary Morton has also decided to
discontinue the river and flood work at
an early date and plnce the river fore
casts in charge of observers located on
the principot rivers. As a result of
this Messrs. Carl Larius F. ,1. Uigelow
and Thomas Russell, professors of me
tercorology, will bo dropped from the
rolls this month, together with a num
ber of clerks and other employes.
In his forthcoming report Secretary
Morton will make two important rec
ommendations contemplating radical
changes in the Department of Agri
culture. One relates to the indiscrimi
nate distribution of garden seed and
the other to duplication of experiments
by stations of work now being done.
The latter relates to sorghum and irri
gation experiments, and his recommen
dations will be in fijvor of a cessation
of this unnecessary and wasteful ex
penditure of the public money.
Ingalls’ Attack on Held. .
Chicago, July 13.—Hon. Whltelaw
Bold, ex-minister to France, who, with
his family has been seeing the World's
fair for some days past, was caught last
night by a reporter just as he was start
ing back for New York.
Mr. Reid expressed great delight
with the fair. The reporter asked Mr.
Reid if he had read ex-Senator Ingalls'
criticism of his candidacy for the vice
presidency.
“No,” said Mr. Reid, with a laugh,
“but you know I was not in favor oi
that nomination myself, bo probably
the ex-senator and I would not differ
materially.”
The reporter then showed Mr. Reid
the passage in which Mr. Ingalls
sneered at him as “uxorious and aris.
tocratic,” objected to his address, man
ners and ways, anil spoke of his "sur
reptitious insults to the laboring men."
"That,” said Mr. Reid, with more
seriousness, "is absurd. I have been
a laboring man myself, far more than
Mr. Ingalls ever was, and he would
probably be puzzled to specify any in
sult, surreptitious or otherwise, that 1
ever offered to labor, or to any honest
man. All this talk about hostility to
the national ticket last year on account
of the iifteen-year-old strike, which
was settled to the satisfaction of the
labor unions themselves, is sheer clap
trap any way. There never were l,0u0
votes affected by it in New York, even
when it was an open question. To say
when it was settled that the labor
unions still carried it into politics is to
accuse them, not merely of bad faith,
but of a systematic violation of their
own cardinal principles and is thus
offering them the grossest insults. Of
course, our opponents made a great
hubbub about it, but most of whom
they claim were affected were enlisted
already on their side. I doubt whether
Powderly or any other reputable and
responsible labor leader will say that
the question turned a thousand labor
votes in the United States last fall.
Certainly it did not turn one where a
single rifle shot at the Carnegie works
turned hundreds ’’
“What about the 'uxoriousness and
aristocracy?’ ” asked the reporter.
“0, pshaw,” said Mr. Reid, “whoever
heard before of a rational man attack
ing a candidate because he was de
cently fond of his wife? The rest of
Mr. Ingalls' complaint seems to be that
in other particulars, also, I act like a
gentleman. Well, out in Kansas they
surely did not bring that accusation
against him. And yet, when he was
last a candidate, although he aban
doned his supposed principles and
crawled in the dirt before them, Mrs.
Lease and Mr. l’effer thrust him into
the gutter. He has been lying there
ever since, shouting murder apd bad
language.”
“What can be his motive for the at
tack?” pursued the reporter,
“IIow do I know? And what's the
use of guessing? He seems to lack em
ployment since he was thrown out of
office-holding, and I suppose the man
must make a living by lecturing or
writing for the syndicates. We have
dozens of such statesmen out of a job
applying to us for work after every
election, and I fancy your paper has
the same experience,” and. with a
cheery good-by, the New York editor
swuug into a cab and started for his
train.
STILL ROBBINQ THE BANKS.
Cashier at Mound Valley, Kan.. Bound
and Oajrcod bv Three Men. .
CoFFKvviLi.it. Kan., July x5.—The
band of Mound Valley, owned by C.
M. Condon of Cswego was robbed at
13:30 o'clock by three men, who rode
luto town and entering the bank tied
and gagged the cashier, J. O. Wil-on,
and secured the money hi s'ght, which
amounted to 9600.
Before Mr. Wiliron could give the
alarm the robbers Bad made their es
cape and were on their way to the
territory, twenty miles south.
As soon as the news was received
here several persons started out to in
tercept the robbers, and as they passed
two miles east of Angola at 1:30 it is
possible they will succeed.
Mound Valley is a little town eight
een mi es northeast of here. This was
ethe only bank in (he town, but on ac
count of its proximity to Oswego but
little money was kept in the bank.
The robbers were white men and
young.
silver rnrcnaee Clause.
St. Paci,, Minn., July 12.—By unan
imous vote the chum be- of commerce
this morning adopted resolutions call
ing a convention of delegates from
commercial bodies in Wisconsin, Min
nesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri, to be held in
this city at some date prior to July 31,
in the interest of the unconditional re
peal of the silver-purchase clausa of
the so-called Sherman act.
DISHONEST BANKERS
■ ;>4
THB CAUSE OP ALL THE RE
CENT TROUBLES.
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Treasury Omolalt toy the Panicky Peal
ing Throughout the Conntry Wu
Brought About by tho Rocklou BUth
•dt of Dishonest Bunk Omolel*.
Washington, July 15.—There Is on
Indication already of an easier feeling
In financial ciru'es and the era of
bank failures is believed ti be happily
over. Now that the panicky lee ing
has pus ed away, officials of the
treasury department, ,twho watch
financial matters closolv, are of the
opinion a gre^t deal of tho prevailing
uneasiness and lack of confidence in
flnanolal circ'es was uncalled for and
there was no such danger of a general
and disastrous panic as some persons
seemed to think.
Tho many bank failures that have
been reported recently are not, it is
said, duo to the depression of business,
the tightness of the money market, or
to any other cause hut to tho violation
of the banking laws or tho speculation
with the money of the banks by the
officers and directors of these institu
tions. In nearly every instanao where
a bank has failed within the last few
months tho susponsion of business has
been found to be due either to the
actual theft of the bank funds by offi
cers of tho bank, or to tho loan of
large sums of money to directors who
were embarked in all sorts of specula
tions.
Most of tho failures have been in
boom communities, where the collapse
of inflated values and there settlement
upon a steady basishss been disastrous
to every ono who had embarked in the
booms, and where tho banks could not
escape without hurt unless they were
conducted on the mostcareful and con
servative basis. The trouble was that
in these communities there was little
care and conservatism and banking
was carried on in the same reckloss
manner as were all other busi
ness enterprises, apparently on the
assumption that* the boom was
to last forever. Thus It was that
when t'-e jr«rH»v.'p thr';’.pge ed
values came the reckless and in many
cases law-breaking banks were caught
and went down in a storm that every
one of them would have been able to
weather successfully if thoy had car
ried on their business with any regard
for the banking laws and the rules of
prudent banking.
Fortunately this trouble did not ex
tend over the whole country, but af
fected most seriously the boom towns
of the Northwest. That the number
of failures has been so small demon
strates clearly'that as a whelo the
banks of the country are on a sound
basis and were never more worthy of
confidence than at the present time.
SUED FOR MAKING RAIN.
Kan.ns Farmer, Whoi. Cropi Were
Destroyed, Demands Damages. *
Topkka, Kod., July 14 —James But
ler of Lyons county yesterday had
papers prepared in a case which he is
about to institute against A. B. Mont
gomery for destroying his crops by
causing a cloudburst in the midst of
harvest. Montgomery Is a rain-maker
living at Goodland.
About two weeks ago a terrific storm
which ended with a cloudburst in Lyon
county did great damage. No warn
ing of the approach of the storm was
given by the barometer and the signal
service was unable to explain
it Montgomery at once began
to boast that ho had caused the storm.
Butler, who suffered heavy loss as a
result of it, now seeks to recover dam
ages from Montgomery. The same
cloud caused the wreck of a Santa Ke
train near Emporia, in which the fire
man and engineer were killed.
INDORSE GOV. ALT^ElD.
*
II r flotation Adopted by the Federation
of Labor st Washington.
Washington, July 14.—The federa
tion of labor of the District of Colum
bia indorsed Gov. Altgeld's pardon of
the anarchists at its meeting last
night Tlie resolution was adopted
with one dissenting vote. The resolu
tions contained the following:
“We recognize in Gov. Alrgeld an
executive having the wisdom of honest
discrimination, an enlightened sense
of justice and the manliness to
rebuko a prejudiced judiciary and
amended as far as possible
an outrago inflicted by a per
verted jury. We als > regard Gov. Alt
geld h representative of that class of
patriotic citizens who condemn alike
that anarchism which would destroy
bv brute force and that other insidious
anarchism of the judiciary and press,
which, by the abuse of justice, the
perversion of truth and the attempted
corruption of an honest public senti
ment, is a menace to the stability of
government and social order of our re
nubile.” _
SIX BURIED IN ONE GRAVE.
Fifteen Thousand Attend the Fnneral
of the Murdered Krelder Family.
Beading, Pa., July 14.—The six
murdered members of the Krelder
family, at Cando, N. D., were buried
yesterday afternoon at Elizabethtown,
Lancaster county, twelve miles from
here, from the home of John U. Bisser,
father of Mrs. Krelder. Over lS.OOo
I persons attended and over 3,u00 car
riages were pn the ground. Many
walked twenty miles. The cof
fins were opened at the house
it 6 i m. and for live hours the
peonle poured in at one door and
i out by the other. Home women
moaned and wept ftloud. And then
| other women, in sympathy, would
; keep up the lamentation. All this
time fully 3,000 people were crowded
i into the Mennonite meeting house
i nejr by. Nearly all the mourners
j were Mention it vs. By the pulpit end
j of the meeting house sat six of their
preachers.
The Bisser graveyard is a quarter of
a mile from the meeting houre, in a
sort of open field. A fence was put up
j to keep the crowd-back from]the grave.
; The grave was 13 foot long* and 1 >s'
j feet wide.
Stoves Needed'at Pomeroy.
Pomerov, Iowa, July 15.—The cy
; clone sufferers are badly In need of
: stoves. A formal appeal was issued
, yesterday for help in this direction.
; The appeal says: “The Pomeroy re
; lief committee needs 100 good stoves,
1 either old or new, for housekeeping
Purposes. Please ship to F. li. Ilotch
iss, general superintendent of the re
j lief fund."
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D«ni*il by Morton. ^
W’Asnworos, p. 0,, July 1?.—Sects- ,
tary Morton expressed both eurprles
and Indignation ut .the Interview with j
Forecaster 13. 11. Duun, of New York, ,,
published on Friday lust.
“It is absolutely untrue," ho said, ~
"that 1 have asked Professor Marring- f
ton for his resignation, nor have I any;
Intention of doing so. Mr. Dunn’s sug
gestions in rrgnrd to a Tnuttor of this
hind in relation to his chief aro quite
out of place. When suggestions In re*
pard to the management of the weath*
er bureau are wanted from him he will
bo invited to present them, not to the
public, but to his oMulal superiors. For
Mr. Dunn's own sake 1 trust he hu
been misquoted. Otherwise ho hoe ■ •;
professed knowledge on a subject, of
which he knows, seemingly, no more
than ho docs of decent discipline."
Desertions from tho Artur*
Washington-, July 17.—Inquiry ant.
Investigation at the war department
shows that army desertions are on tho
jump again. Tho great reforms in thle
direction were hut ephemeral, While
they labted tho publlo had monthly bul
letins showing tho remarkablo Im* .■(.
provement In tho morals of the army
through the medium of dosortion eta*
tistlcs. Those bulletins ceased some '
months ago. In fact, tho publlo has
hoard little about desertions since the
promulgation, with a groat blaro of
trumpets, lust July, of tho annual bul
letin showing that Proctor's reform /
measures had reduced tho number of '
army desertions to B. 04 per cent of the f
total enlisted strength of the army, or
nearly 1 per cent within a year.
The absence of tho monthly bulletins
since is accounted for by the annual
returns, just compiled, for the fiscal
year ended June 30. This ahowa a de
cided increase in desertions. Further
more, the increase has grown steadily
since the monthly reports ceased. For :
tho month just closed 20.1 desertions are
recorded, about fifty more than this
number recorded for the corresponding '/?
month of 1803. The percentage forth* i
year is nearly one and a half greater
than for the fiscal year ended June 30,
1803. There has been a marked in- 1
er-jase eneji month sin™ the enactment
of legislation iu the lest army Appro
priation act prohibiting re-enlistment '
of privates after ten years' service. t 7
Work of tlio Special Examination Dlvls
ton ot tlio Utircan of Pensions.
Washington, J.ily IT.—Tho special
examination division of tho bureau of
pensions, which is charged with the (>
investigation of criminal matters in , {
pension claims, as well ns the invest!*
gatlon of the merit of claims in which
a primu facie case has been established
before reference to that division, haa ^
kept a record since May 1 of the •
amount involved in final payment of
every case rejected after special inves
tigation. Tills record shows that for
the months ot May and June last in
those prima facie cases, which would •
have been allowed had they not been
especially investigated, tho first pay*
ment would have amounted to 81.10,279.
A great many cases investigated were
found to possess merit and were al
lowed; but of the number investigated
and rejected a saving to the govern
ment of tlio above amount has resulted.
The expenses of the special examina
tion division for the months of May and
June Inst in the investigation of prima
facie merit claims and ull other mat
ters pertaining to tho work of the di
vision amounted to 830,859, leaving a
net saving to the government of 9113.
384. To tiiis amount may be added
83,004, which was recovered in cash bjr
special examiners and covered into the
treasury, making a total net saving to
tho government of 8110,888.
Land the Governor.
Chicago, 111., July 17.— At the meet- ;
ing of the trades and labor assembly
yesterday Vico President Pomeroy read
the report of the committee appointed
to draft resolutions on the pardoning
of the anarchists. They say the gov- f
ernor bravely met the demands of jus
tice and that the name will go down to
posterity as a worthy oicupant of the
executive chair of a state which fur- ,
uished a Lincoln to free tho African
slave. Tlio report applauds Governor ,
Altgeld's reiteration of the rights of
the people to peacef illy assemble for
tho discussion of grievances and pledges
the assembly to cherish the memory of
his noble act._ V?
A Caucus of Democrats* J
Washington, July 17.—A caucus of
tlio democratic members of tho house
of representatives will be hold on Sat- ;•
unlay, August 5, to elect the officers of
tho Fifty-third congress. A lively fight j
is expected over the doorkoepershlp
and that of sergeant-at-arms. Tho
several candidates are even now prim
ing their arms. Henry Hurt of Missis
sippi, who held the doorkeepcrslilp dur
ing the Fiftieth congress and who is
now connected with the agricultural
section of the World’s fair, is the latest
candidate to enter the list for the door
kcepership of the next house. Mr.
8mlth of Texas, the present superin
tendent of the document room, and
“Iceman" Turner of New York, who
now holds the office, are pitted against
the Mississippian.
Smith, of Texas, has strong backing,
not only among the western members,
but the representatives of the southern
states, as well, are said to strongly en- -
dorse him. He has also many friends
among the delegations from the east
ern states.
“Iceman" Turner lias, it is under
stood, the solid backing of Tammany,
whose influence in tho caucus held two
years ago to nominate him for door
keeper. Mr. Turner.it is thought, will
not be able to secure tlio unanimous
support of tlie New York delegation, as
several are said to bo pledged to Smith.
NEWS NOTES.
Secretary Carlisle is figuring? on a new
money system which will create a great
stir in the financial world.
Secretary Morton ha.', derided that ha
is powerless to prevent infected cuttle
being driven through Oklahoma from
the Strip.
President Cleveland's physicians say
that the reports sent nut about his ill
ness have been greatly exaggerated.
“ There is considerable excitement in
South Carolina over the new liquor dis- 'y
ponsary law and every eJTort is being *
made to have it declared uneoustitu- &
tional.