THE FRONTIER. VVIIIIKID STRUT THURSDAY »T Tri Frortirr Piuntir• Co. O’NEILL. ■> NEBRASKA. OVER THE STATE, An old Rattlers' association has been organised in Knox county. Aktksian water has been struck in . Goring at a depth of 331 feet. A baby lion was born in Oakland while the circus was in town. Lincoi.x has just completed a new stand pipe at a cost of f10,500. Crops in Cedar county were last week liadly damaged by a hail storm. Tub new German liaptist church at Jnnlata was dedicated last Sunday. Ox* of the great features of the state " fair this year will be a bicycle tourna ment. Lightning struck the house of Judge Littlefield at Waverly, but did no great damage. Tiir independents of Custer county have called their convention for Sep tember 8. Tax shirkers of the rankest kind abound in Holt county according to the Stuart Ledger. Mbs. O. C. Amkron of South Omaha auicided last week by taking morphine. Domestic troubles. O. H. Dkrpain was last week killed by lightning as he was crossing the B. & M. bridge at Nebraska City. Da Swisiikk, the rain maker, is oper ating in Lancaster county. Not, how ever, with great success up to this writ ing. After being engaged fortwenty-two Jrears in the clothing business at Ash and, H. 11. Shedd has concluded to quit. Tub livery barn of W. H. Gordon at Coleridge was entirely destroyed by fire, but all the horses and carriages were saved. John Liston, a Union Pacific switch man at Omaha, dropped dead on the street last week of apoplexy of the brain. Broken B.rw has secured the district reunion of the Central Nebraska Vet eran association to be held August 23 to 38. J. M. Lucas, living seven miles south of Arnold, had the misfortune to lose his crop of rye and all his wheat by hail last week. Mosher, the bank wrecker, is in jail in Omaha, but will doubtless soon be transferred to the government prison at Sioux Falls, Dakota. The 6-year-old son of John Mullen of South Omaha came near losing his life by eating poisonous weeds which he mistook for peppermint. Platte county needs a new court house, but there is fear that the vari ous factions could never agree upon the exact location for the building. Some animal supposed to be a moun tain lion that has strayed into that sec- I tion, has killed a number of cattle in ! the north part of Wheeler county. The residence of Peter G. Hales of Table Rock was entered by burglars and 5155 taken. Mr. and Mrs. Hales | were absent at the time at a social. The old settlers of Nuckolls county will hold their second annual reunion September 31 and ex-Governor Furnas has been invited to deliver an address, i The National Live Stock Commission | company of Chicago filed its articles of ! Incorporation with the secretary of state last week. It hasa capital stock of •500,000. Hon. George F. Keiper, who once ran for congress, has returned to his home in Pierce after six months spent in touring over the earth, accompan ied by his wife. W. L. Oaklet, while walking on the Union Pacific track near Milford, was run over and killed. Papers in his pockets showed that his residence was I In New York City. James Crum, who lives five miles west •of Neligh, hsd a run of hard luck Wednesday evening. During the rain Storm lightning struck and killed six head of cattle and a horse. V Work has been commenced on the A. O. D. W. temple at McCook, which will cost $35,000 when completed and will be one of the finest buildings of the kind in the state of Nebraska. The state board of agriculture has decided to erect a big tent on the state fair gjounds this year which will be tendered to various organizations which may desire to hold meetings during j fair week. I The wife and daughter of Jacob Lohnes, formerly a policeman at Platts mouth, were burned to death at Pekin, 111., by the explosion of a can of kero sene with which Mrs. Lohnes was start ing the fire. Thos. J. O'Connor was run over and killed by the motor cars at Lincoln. O’Connor laid down on the track, in a drunkeu stupor, it is supposed, and he was not seen in time for the mo tor man to stop the cars. A boilermaker named Ekman, while Ranking repairs in a boiler at Omaha, waa electrocuted while about his work. He was using an electric light inside. And the wire was inperfectly insulated. Ho was a single man. A tours man who had been working far Will Ballau, northeast of Juniata, •kle a horse and buggy from a hitch ing rack in Hastings, belonging to Steve Nash, and drove it within a mile of Ballau’s place and turned it loose. The statements of the national banks 'of Beatrice published Show them'to be in the best of condition. The combined deposits of the three banks aggregate ever $750,000, showing there is no lack «f confidence in these institutions. Considerable progress is being made fa the work of publishing the laws passed by the last legislature. The proof sheets of 136 pages have passed through the hands of the secretary of State, and the work will soon be com pleted. Despite the fact that banks are fail , fug oo every hand there are men who still look upon the banking business aa a good thing to invest in. Last week the State bank of Litchfield filed arti cles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Capt. O. Butt, one of the oldest resi dents of Otoe county, died last week. Captian Butt was identified with the early transportation on the Missouri river and is said to have ferried over the first railroad engine ever landed in ikiebraska. Tiik new school census of Hoidrepc indicates h total population in the city of 3,501, a jfui.n of 500 since lsiio. Titu Winnebago Indian school has been closed thirty dayd to repair the building. Tile tiorner Independent thinks it will take the ent.re police force to corral the pupils again. Tiik llartington waterworks system was tested last week and proved to be satisfactory. The city council accepted the same. The system cost over *10, ooo and is one of the finest in northern Nebraska. Rev. W. Saviour of Omaha de sired that some farmer or business man in u country village furnish u home for two boys, aged 8 and 10 years. Their father has no employment and the boys are anxious to do bomething on their own uccount. Ai.va, the lrt-y ear-old non of Mode* Simpson, while attempting to swim across the Little ltlue river near Hebron was drowned. Ilia father und others upon the bunks were unable to render assistance. The body was soon recov ered, but life was extinct. "Honsky” Williams is in jail at Omaha charged with murder in the j first degree for killing Andrew Kyan, whom he horribly cut with a knife. It was the out.'ome of a quarrel started in a house of prostitution and renewed on the streets with fatal results. Wm. Mkshmax living one mile east of Strang while harvesting had one of his little boys riding a lead horse. A heavy clap of thunder frightened the horse, which jumped, throwing the boy off under the sickle cutting his head, urms and right leg very badly. Tux. livery barn of John Edwards, at Carlton, was struck by lightning, con suming ten head of horses, harness and live carriages and all its contents. The loss is •.'.sot) with $1!.000 insurance. Edward Shearer or Hebrpn lost a valu able horse and carriage covered by in surun.e. Jox. Hollenbeck, a 9-year-old of South Omaha, is booked for the Kear ney reform school. Joe's latest prank was to throw a bunch of tirecruckers into a pile of fireworks in front of spadelinan's cigar store an:l sat tire to tue whole lot. There is plenty of evi dence to show that the toy is incorrigi ble. Herbert Shively, aged 19 years, was drowned at llarnard's lake near Ames, five mile s west of Fremont. He was out fishing with u companion and the two got into an old flat boat and went out on the lake. The bout tilled with water and young Shively, hampered by weeds and moss, was unable to save himself. Two men, supposed to be relatives of -Mrs. Debney, the woman murdered by her husband, were arrested in Colum bus by the sheriff. They were said to be at the head of an unorganized party who came to lynch Debney, though no attempt was made. The murderer is confined in the county jail at Columbus and Sheriff Kavanagh has no fear of his ability to protect him. Dfmxo a thunder storm the large barn of R. J. Cully, a farmer eight miles south of Ullis, was struck by lightning anti burned 'to the ground. There were five valuable hordes in the barn but they were gotten out after some trouble. Resides the barn there was a quantity of new hay, farm implements and grain consumed. Loss about 81, .100. H. M. Hinkle & Son, dealers in gen eral merchandise, Springfield, failed last week. Liabilities, 810,000: assets, about the same. The firm executed chattel mortgages to C. K. Spearman for 83,879, McCord, Drady & Co., 81,500: Sarpy County State bank, 81.334, and the mortgagees took immediate posses sion of the stock. Later on other chat tel mortgages were filed. A otTN in the hands of an insane man named Ozzazai resulted in a lively time near Schuyler. The maniac drove his family and the neighbors into a corn field, but he was finally captured by the sheriff and landed in jail. Later a deputy sheriff took him out of the cell for an airing and he ■broke loose and gave the officer a lively chase through the streets, but was finally captured. The office of the state labor commis sioner is gathering statistics of the manufacturing industries of the state. The work will Include a list of all man ufactories in the state, the capital in vested, annual output, number of em ployes, annual amount of wages paid, ana other interesting and valuable fea tures. The report will be the fir .t offi cial statement of the manufacturing interests of the state ever published. The comptroller has approved the selection of the following national banks to act as reserve agents for banks in Nebraska: First National of Omaha for 1: irst Nat:onal of Alma; American Exchange National of Lincoln for First National of Auburn: First National of Chicago for First National of Rlue Hill: b irst National of Lincoln for the First National of Friend: State National of St Joseph, Mo., for First National of Nelson, The flue residence of Herbert Wilson three miles east of Durchard burned to the ground with all the contents, in cluding over 8100 in cash. The total loss is about 83,000. Mrs. Wilson came near being consumed by the flames, be ing saved by a fourteen-year-old son pulling her out through a window by the hair of her head after a large por tion of the house had fallen. Mrs. Wilson remained unconscious for some time, but will survive. Several years ago John Lisco of Omaha insured his life in the Rankers' Life association for 8‘-\000, then died, and the association refused to pay the policy on the ground that Lisco mis represented the state of his health; that he never paid all his premiums,* and tha(t he did or did not do several other things that he should or should not have done. Rut Mrs. Lisco sued the association and secured a judgment of 83,341.77. Now the case has been carried to the supreme court. The latest Nebraska crop bulletin ■ays: Reports for the week just closed are not quite so favorable as those for the preceding week. The hot dry winds of the first half of the period were in jurious to all crops, but fortunately were succeeded by refreshing showers before any lasting damage was done. The growth of corn was interrupted and oats caused to ripen too rapidly, otherwise it is probable that the gen eral outlook is as favorable for good crop yields in Nebraska as they have been during the season. Wheat har vesting is progressing finely and in some sections the crop has all been saved. Not enough has yet been threshed, however, to justify any fair estimate of what the yield will be. i WOMEN IN THE FRAY. THE DESPERATION OP KANSAS COAL MINERS. Striker* Move on Employed Workmen, Flaring Women and Children la the Front of Battle—Over Ooa Hundred Shot* Fired, but Fortunately Mo One wae Killed—Com ml..loner of Fen.lone Lochren Say* Deterring Feneloner. will Not be Di.tinrbed—All Caeee to be Glren n Fair and Impartial Hearing and Inre.tlfatlon. Dnpenlt Fighting Among Miners. Wkir Citv, Kan., July 21.—The ex pected crisis has come in the Kansas miners’ strike. Miners who were will ing to work quietly and peacefully hare been attacked by the strikers and blood has been shed. The feeling, which has been growing more and more bitter for several days, culminated today in a fierce battle at Clements pit, one mile south of this city. All the forenoon there were mut tcrings of the approaching storm and the feeling was universal that serious trouble was at hand. Just before noon a band of 500 of the strikers, headed by 100 women, which had been marching to the various Strip pits, reached Clem ents pit. and sent in a committee to persuade the miners working there to quit. This they refused to do, and when the committee reported the en tire body of marchers moved on to the works to force them out. The Strip men were ready for them, and when they passed the trespass line they were tired upon and a general bat tle ensued, in which Winchesters, pis tols and clubs were used. liver HO shots were fired and it Is nothing short of a miracle that nobody was killed. One man was wounded in the forehead, another in the leg, a boy was shot in the foot and one of the women got a ball through her arm. None of the wounds are fatal and it is uenevi'ci mai none ot tnern are danger ous. A number on both sides were badly beaten up with clubs and clubbed with guns. The wounded were quickly removed by • their friends and their names have not been learned. As a result of the battle the men in the Strip were vouted by the strikers and were forced to flee for their lives, pursued by a howling mob, which would have lynched them had they been caught. The owner of the Clem ents, his son and a man named llig Dick Reed are said to be the ones who did the shooting, and they have given themselves up, and were run out of the county for safe keeping. The excitement was intense after the shooting, and it was feared that matters would become worse, but a prominent striker, George R. Fulton, made the crowd a speech, in which he advised them to keep cool and counseled peace. It is rumored that a quantity of firearms have been received here tonight. The excitement continues at a high pitch, and further bloodshed now seems inevitable. The strikers were led by 100 women and in the vanguard were also an equal number of children. They were evi dently placed in the front rank in the belief that the guards and the men at work would not tire upon them. The men followed behind them and the whole body, men, women and children, were armed with sticks and clubs and some with firearms. In the front rank four flags were carried, one big United States flag and on either side of it two black flags. The latter were carried by Gevman women. When the men at work and the guards fired upon the strikers the children fled, but the women entered boldly into the fight and fought with as much ferociousness as the men. They wielded their clubs with vigor and precision and many a sore head tonight has its cause in the clubs in the women’s hands. Suspension of Pensions. Washixgtox, July 22.—“No one sin gle pensioner has been suspended un der the face of his claim unless under the law he was not entitled to a pen sion,” said Commissioner of Pensions Lochren to a reporter. “Tflere has been a great deal of misrepresentation of the facts as to the actual policy of the pension bureau in these cases,'* con tinued the judge. “I have just written out a statement as to that policy, and here it is.” The statement to which the commis sioner referred is a very interesting one to all pensioners and reads as follows: “Under pension laws enacted prior to June, 1880, pensions were granted based upon disabilities incurred in the mili tary or naval service, and in many cases specific ratings for particular disabili ties were designated in the acts of con gress, amd it was provided, generally, that for inferior disabilities, an amount proportionate to that for total disabil ity should be granted- Vnder this gen eral provision, specific ratings for such inferior disabilities were fixed by rules and orders of the bureau, with the ap proval of the secretary of the interior. Pensions granted for such disability of service origin are presumed to have been properly granted and there will be no interference with these pensions. “Section 2, of the act of June. 1890. provides that all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or haval service of the United States during the war of the rebellion, or who hatfe been honorably discharged there from, and who are now suffering ftom a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which inca paciates them from the performance of manuel labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regu lations as the secretary of the interior may provide, be placed upon the list of pensioners and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding *12 per month, and not less than *6 per month, propor tioned to the disability to earn a sup port. This act permits the pensioning of soldiers for disabilities of a perma nent character, although not of service origin, which incapatiates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support. It is this incapacity for manual labor alone which entitles them to be pensioned under this act, and it is plain that no specific injury or disability which does not affect the capacity for manual labor gives any right to a pension under the act last re-, ferred to. “Under an order, 164, issued October 15, 1890, and approved by the assistant secretary of the interior, it was directed, in substance, that claimants under the act of June 37, 1890, should be rated for specific disabilities the same as if they were of service origin up to the maximum rating of $12 per month, and where the disability, if of service origin, would be rated higher than $12 per month. The effect of the order is illustrated by the Bennett case, which called attention to it. In that case a claimant under the act of June 27, 1890, was rated for slight deafness at $13 per month, yet it was manifest that slight deafness would not not in terfere materially with the claimant's capacity to perform manual labor. Upon inquiry the medical referee re ported back that slight deafness did not produce inability of a claimant to per form manual labor and was not ordi narily considered under the act of June 27, 1890. H viyis, therefore, deemed necessary that these cases be re-examined, and that where it appeared upon the face of the papers that the claimants were not upon the evidence submitted, enti tled to pensions under the act of June 27. 1890, such pensions should be sus pended and notice given pensioners to present further evidence in support of their claims. But where the claimant ultimately failed to show himself enti tled to pension under the law of June 27, 1890 the pension should be dropped and the case rejected. "This is the only class of cases that is being examined and revised by this bureau, and the necessity for such ac tion is, I think, sufficiently obvious.” "That is the statement,” said the commissioner, "and I wish to say th^t not one single pensioner has ever been suspended save those where, upon the face of their claims, it appeared that under the law they were notedtitled to the pensions, and each one had and will be given an opportunity tb be heard.” Work for Speaker Crisp. Washington, July 24.—'The more the question is considered the more gen erally is it conceded that Speaker Crisp has a pretty hard hot weather job on his hands in the matter of making np the house committees. In their gen eral reorganization there will neces sarily be a large number of changes in the assignments of several members. In a large measure this will be accounted for by reason of the fact that there will be about seventy-five men in the Fifty third congress who never before served in the national legislature, besides those who, although they have had pre vious experience as congressmen, weip not members of the last house. Be sides this in a number of cases the heads of committees have been left at home for one reason or another, and, as is always the case, there is a scram ble among the surviving members of several committees as to who shall suc ceed their chiefs. Speaker Crisp has therefore no easy task before him in the preparation of his list. It is re-, called that when Mr, Carlisle entered upon his second, and later upon his third term as speaker of the house, it took him in each instance at least two or three weeks longer to prepare the committees than it did after his first election. The circumstances were such that Mr. Carlisle entered upon his second term absolutely unpledged. They are the same now, and Judge Crisp will as cend the speaker's chair to preside over the Fifty-third congress without hav ing any promises to keep or any re wards to bestow. He will have twenty one chairmanships of important com mittees to distribute among those who never presided over a committee before. The gentlemen who were chairmen of the following committees in the last house will not be member* of the next congress: Elections, banking and cur rency, and merchants, marine and fish eries, foreign affairs, Indian affairs, mines and mining, pensions, District of Columbia expenditures, on public build ing, mileage and on enrolled bills, re form in civil Service, immigration, ven tilation and acoustics, alcoholic liquor traffic, investigation of the pension of fice, management and irrigation of arid lands. Mr. O’Ferrell of Virginia, who was chairman of the committee on elections in the last house was re-elected to the Fifty-third congress, but is making a fight, which has every promise of suc cess, for the gubernatorial nomination of his own state. In all probability, therefore, he will resign his seat in congress and the election committee will require a new head. The most probable successor of Colonel O'Ferrell in this position, will be Mr. James Cobb of Alabama. Judge Cobb has a splen did reputation as a lawyer, which is not by any means confined to his own state. His ability in this direction was such as to demand immediate recogni tion from Speaker Crisp and secured him his assignment on the elections committee. Death of an Ex-Governor of Iowa. Des Moines, la., July 21.—Governor Boies has issued the following procla mation in graceful recognition of the death of one of his predecessors: “I regret to announce to the people of Iowa the death of their former gov ernor , William Stone, who died at his home at Oklahoma City, Okh, on the 18th inst., and whose remains will be interred with appropriate funeral cere monies at his old home in Knoxville, la., on the 21st of this month. Gov ernor Stone was first elected to the office of chief magistrate of Iowa in the fall of 1863, and held the same from 1864 to 1868. inclusive, discharging its various duties to the credit of himself and the honor of his stufe. As an ap propriate mark of respect to his mem ory it is recommended that all flags on public buildings of this state be dis played at half mast on the day thereof, to-wit, the 21st of July, 1893. This office will be closed.” Dropped 300 root from Her Ballooi Buffalo, N. Y., July 22,-Mme. Ka: to'tta began her usual balloon ascei with her dog from Crystal Beacl twelve miles down Lake Erie Wednei d*y nijrht. W hen SCO feet np t stron current carried the balloon out to ses The do* jumped, strikin* on short Karlotttt held on until the balloon wa carried three miles from shore, whe she dropped with her parachute 3C feet to the water. A life preserver leer her above water until a to* from th beach rescued her. She was uniniurec THAT EXTRA SESSION. FINANCE SHOULD NOT TAKE ALL ITS TIME. What Mr. Coho of Tom Boys on tho Sit* notion—Tho Caoao of Deprettloa— Tariff Afltatloa Wltbont Definite •alta Unsettles Manufacturing Inter What tho Coming Section of Con sroao Should Do—Doclolon In a Union Pacific Cate—A Dark Outlook 0> Don* Tor. Cok« of Tessa Thinks Finance Should Hot Monopolise the Extra Session. New Yoke, July 22:—Replying'to cer tain questions regarding1 the Sherman law and extra session of congress pro pounded by the World to Hon. Richard Coke, that gentleman, under date of Waco., Tex., July 17, has written as folllows. "In my judgment much of the de pression results from the fast that the people have at general elections, when the subject was the absorbing one of the canvass, demanded a thorough and radical reform of the tariff, leaving manufacturers, producers of raw ma terial and consumers alike in a condi tion of expectancy of this reform at the earliest possible day. . “All industries of the country under this condition are carried on in a hand, to mouth way, filling only immediate and pressing requirements, producing very largely the stagnation which now exists, hence I believe that the tariff question should be taken up at the earliest possible moment and dealt with as expeditiously as practicable, and the reform demanded by the people thor oughly made. I think the duties of congress, when it meets, will be to commence at once and perfect this work. I can see no reason whya tariff bill and all the financial legislation needed may not commence and progress together as soon as congress meets. i ■ railing to take up the tariff ques tion at the extra session of congress would, in my judgment, have an ex ceedingly .bad influence on the country, and especially on the democratic party. For congress to be called together and do nothing with the tariff, upon which the people have repeated 1/ spoken with no uncertain sound, Mould leave an ex tremely bad impression of thfe good faith of the democratic party in the promises made in its platform. “Now, about the financial question. I do not believe that a Bimple repeal of the Sherman law will give relief. If we can get free and uhlimited coinage of silver I believe the financial question will be settled permanently, and in my judgment it never will be until that re sult is reached. I fear this is not prac ticable, but as the unconditional repeal of the Sherman bill would be equiva lent to a total demonetization of silver, in my opinion, and being unalterably opposed to this result, I can see no re lief in dealing with it unless it is re placed by some act which shall fully and unequivocally recognize the deter mination of the country to adhere to a bimetalic currency. The Sherman act repealed, the bland act, under which not less than 2,000,000 nor more than 4,000,000 standard silver dollars were coined monthly, should be revived. To repeal the Sherman act without enact ing something at least as good as the Bland act could leave no other conclu sion but that the country had deliber ately abandoned the premises of the democratic platform and determined to place itself upon the single gold stand ard. To avoid any danger of this I cannot support any act repealing th« Sherman law which does not embodi the substitute referred to, so that whet the Sherman act goes out of effect the substitute shall take effect at once. i“To sum up, I believe that as soon ai the trt’o houses of congress are or^an ized they should go to work to redeem the promises of the platform with res pect to the establishment of a metallic currency, expressing my opionion on the subject to be that the free coinage of silver on the same plan with gold would be the proper mode of doing this, feeling satisfied that an act for thie purpose could be buttressed and guard ed so as to produce and maintain a parity between gold and silver coin and, at the same time to go vigorously to work on a tariff bill which shall re deem in good faith the pledges of the democratic party to the country in the vital matter of a reduction of taxation. Neither one of these issues can be post poned, the latter no more than the former. I therefore cannot concur in the suggestion for congress to meet 8>nd adjourn after talcing* action upon financial question, leaving the tariff for future legislation. ” Disbarment Cases Dismissed. Washington, July 32.—Commissione Seymour of the patent office today ran dered a decision in the disbarment pro ceedings of Church A Church agains Foster A Freeman, attorneys for th Bell Telephone company, and Willian Es Simonds, late commissicner of pat Mite. Mr. Seymour finds that Foster J Freeman are not guilty of any wrong doing, as charged, and as to ex-Com missioner Simonds. he finds that wha he did was within his discretion a commissioner and that the taking o tne copies of the Drawbaugh applies tton. especially as he had the eonsen of Secretary Noble to do so, was not andJT. fe rules of the office, a mattei ot which he could be cognizant. Thi complaint, therefore, against all of th< parties was dismissed. Against the Union«aellle. Washington, July 22.—The decisioi of the United States supreme court it the case of the Union Pacific againsi Goodridge is just reported. It holdi that all shippers must be treated bj carriers with absolute equality. It dis tinctly recognizes the right of law making bodies to regulate railway: through railway commissions, espe cially that feature of state and federal regulation which requires carriers to obtain permission of a commission be fore-granting lower rates to persons and places. The case was brought *tat.ut? of Colorado, which prohibited discrimination in practically rh.caame Wuageas employed in the interstate commerce law. The discrim laationwas chains coal to Deader/*** ▼x Dw,»«MTBir; "■WVSB, July 2, condition of the people of DeW'°w « suffering’ and dishes’*? hers of unemployed mercial bodies officials ^ylth» WeementreffaLSL^S made to barla •*' ,A® (»