Nebraska Newspapers

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Wymork now has the incandescent
f • light.
Thk drug firm of Baker &■ Seora,
, failed lost week.
ll-' Tiik.uk are four boarders in the
Way no county jail.
Two RKVrvAl.s of religion are in
progress at Fairbury,
“ Tiik three days poultry show held in
Auburn was a great success.
Tiik new Presbyterian church at
" Lyons was recently dedicated.
Mr. Hkrzoo has received his commis
' alon as postmaster of Harvard.
Merchants of Norfolk experienced a
' very satisfactory Christmas trade.
Diphtheria is still proving fatal in the
| ’/ Russian settlement near ltradshaw.
>* Wm. Wji.son, one of the oldest resl
?£ dents of Burt county, died last week,
i. Or account of sickness the schools
of Verdon were closed for two weeks.
' Thk Buffalo County Horticultural
society will moet at (libbon, January 4.
VV. K. Ai.i.en of Salem accidentally
amputated one of his toes with a sharp
ax.
i Postmaster Rice and wife of Beat*
. Vico gave an entertainment Christmas
evening.
A iioRSK fell on the 13-year-old son
- of Mrs. Waddles of Fair field and broke
the lad's arm.
(iKRKR.u. and Mrs. Van Wyck raude
a liberal distribution of food and oloth
' ing to the poor of Nebraska City.
’Thomas Coxway of Adams county,
died recently In California. Ills body
was brought home last week for burial.
Thk treasurer of Nance county hns
been ordered tocollect all personal tax
#es at the pblnt of a distress warrant
IIkv. PuWKt.T. of the Congregational
church, Hastings, delivered his fare
well sermon last Sunday, lie will spend
a year in Indiana recuperating bis
health.
the act of loading a revolver, acciden
tally shot himself, lie ia alive ut this
writing1, but the wound is supposed to
be fatal.
The real-estate men of Randolph
have organised for mutual protection
under the name of the Randolph immi
gration bureau. The membership is
fourteen.
Whii.k Charles Wortman. a farmer
sear Milford, was loading hogs for
: market his horses ran away and the
wagon wheel passed over his leg, break
ing the bone.
Richardson county takes its name
from lion. William A. Richardson of
: Illinois, the third territorial governor'
of Nebraska. The county was organ
ised way back in 1834. .
Hamby Him,, convicted of the mur
der of Farmer Akeson, in Cass coun
ty, has been sentenced to hang April
13. His partner in the crime goes to
the penitentiary for life.
The Tecuinseh Chieftain says that
sorghum seed was ground into flour as
long ago as thirteen years. Johnson
county people discovered its value as a
substitute for buckwheat.
Bemwkix, on trial at Plattsmouth for
'the murder of farmer Akeson, was
saved from the gallows but goes to the
penitentiary for life. He is now in the
state institution at Lincoln.
Souk of the citizens of Lincoln are
suing the Nebraska Telephone com
pany for overcharges. It seems that
the company has been charging some
of the patrons ipore than others.
There are a good many Invitations
foing and coming in York these days,
says the Times, but the invitation to
take a drink Is never heard here. If it
ia given, it is always in a whisper.
' It is claimed that no liquor has been
aold la York for a number of years,
i except in one instance, and that fellow
had to ahswcr before the federal court
. at Omaha, where he was fined #10.
Thebe ate loud complaints at At
kinson because a number of dead car
casses of animals have been piled up
on the river bank near the town, and
left without any attempt at burial.
More real-estate transfers have been
made in the section about North Bend
this fall, than in any time within the
pastfive years Last week one firm
aid a real-estate business amounting to
' Over $20,000.
' A baby belonging to J. J. Case of
l Racine, Wis. . burned at Beatrice. It
' was valued at about $1,000, being in
sured for 9500. Tbe barn was occupied
by John Dickinson, who lost about
$500 in grain and bay,
Is a quarrel in a bawdy house at
,■ Omaha, Gene Anderson, a colored man,
had his head crushed in, from the ef
fects of which he will die. The
trouble commenced over the affections
of one of the inmates of the house.
1 The stables adjoining the Edwards
A Bradlgpd Launber company and just
In the rear of tbe new Oxnard hotel
at Korfalk caught fire last week. The
prompt response of the fire department
soon cneeKea ue nsmes wan little
damage.
The poor of Nebraska City will be
'well cared for this winter. Supplies of
^ all kinds are coming in daily and the
' . proceeds of the chairity ball, anaount
: »ng to 9174, will be turned over to the
Helping Hand society for distribution
among the poor.
At Burwell Mr. James Alderman,
- while adjusting the machinery at hia
elevator, caught his hand in the belt
ing. The jerking oil of his gloee
saved him from serious injury. As it
was, his wrist was dislocated and his
%, hand badly bruised.
Cuabi.ks Coi.k of Chadroo is under ar
rest for beating his wife. Meeting her
afta her three children they quarreled
and then he choked her. She brake
i away, but he caught her and choked
her again, and stuck her with his fist
i;‘ on the side of the head.
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At Columbus the other day when
Jailor Tom Gentleman unbolted the
cage doors to remove the breakfast
dishes he was immediately attacked by
the thief prisoner who looted Hum
phrey's jewelry store, and a prisoner
irons Nance county, with a heavy iron
bar. Andrew Dabney, the wife mur
derer, rushed to Gentleman's assistance
with nn iron looker, knocking both
prisoner* Senseless. Dabney thus frus
trated s jail delivery.
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CiEOROK Wilkinson, a farmerliving
northeast of Beatrice, lost a valuable
horse by Its bfing cut in a barb-wire
fence.
(•bain li.yers at Salem have found it
impossible to get ears fast enough to
take care of all the grain coming into
that market.
Tin: past year has been a prosperous
one for Norfolk. The News makes a
showing of *300,211.) spent for public
improvements in the eity.
Wim.iam Dkahdohkk, a prominent
farmer, living cast of lieatriee, was ac
cidentally shot in the knee last tveek,
rendering amputation of thclimb nec
essary.
At Lyons recently Lucius Drennen. a
shoemaker, was badly pounded by par
ties breaking into his shop where he
rooms. They kicked down the door
and pitched him out of a window,
breaking his collar bone and bruising
his face in a horrible manner.
Tiik hardware store of Kibben A
Kempton at Curtis was burglarized last
week. The thieves smashed the glass
in the rear of the store and gained an
entrance. A lot of revolvers and fine
cutlery was taken. No clew as yet hus
been found to implicate any oue.
_ Whims skating on the river near
Fullerton, .Iqhn Morrison slipped, and
when he struck the ice, a revolver in
his hip-pockct was discharged. The
bullet penetrated the bovine of his leg
and came out near the foot, making a
puinful, but not dangerous wound.
At a country school in lluffulo loun
ty, two large boys became obstreper
ous, and • thn lady teacher invited
them to go home. They refused to do
so and she locked them out. They pro
cured a 2-by-2 scantling, broke down
thp door ana whipped their teacher.
J. 11. Lynn of ISiielby, la., came to
Bluir lust week to visit County Treas
urer Joseph Cook, and met two mess
mates in the army. They were' hold
ing prayer meeting according to cus
tom in war times and he fell over dead
while praying. Ueurt failure was the
can.-a,
A ciiir.D by the name of Andrew
Leis?mneyer was run over in Beatrice
by a wagon loaded with corn and both
of his legs mangled. The little fellow
was aged about T years, and was hang
ing onto an express wagon and fell ott
The wagot^ of eorn was immediately
behind and before the wagon eould be
, stopped tho child was under the wheels.
The closing of Walker £ Sons’ mam
moth dry goods store in Kearney was a
surprise to every one. The store was
the largest in the city, and apparently
was doing a good business The firm
had branch stores at Cheyenne. Goth
enburg and tlrand Island, which will
be closed on ac.ount of the failure lit
that plitec. Thu liabilities of the firm,
including those of t lie branch stores, is
estimated nt $1)5,000.
The surviving members of company
0, Ninety-seventh Ohio regiment, met
in Nebraska City at the Grand Pacific
hotel, guests of C'uptain W. 0. Kidd.
An elegant dinner was served and
toasts were responded to by lion. \^_.
•L. llayward, l aptain Logan Enyart,
Captain A. J. Klepser, C. \V. Hogo and
Captain \V. D. Thompson. The seven
old comrades in arms Who gathered
| around the festive board fougiit their
battles over again.
'The Christian ladies of Tobias had
been laying plans for some time to give
all the children iu town a Christinas
supper at the Methodist Episcopal
church Christmas night. Long tables
hail been arranged in the church, which
would accommodate about 100, and
they were burdened with the spiead of
dainties, to which the children did
ample justice. Each child was also
liberally supplied with candy, nuts and
oranges that they might take home.
Christmas exercises at Milford were
held in the Methodist Episcopal chnrch,
the Congregational church and Evan
gelical church,all with crowded houses.
At the close of the program the presi
dent of the Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor, Miss Eastman,
stepped forward ^nd presented the
Methodist church with a 000-pound
bell, which was rungas she spoke, it
having been purchased and placed in
position in the church belfry without
the knowledge of the church members
outside of that society.
Nine of the prisoners confined in the
county jail at Lincoln celebrated
Christmas festivities by breaking out
of their cells. They were all confined
in one of the large rooms in the sec
ond story. The jail is a flimsy struct-,
ure. The rain had soaked the material
in the ceiling in the northeast corner so
badly, that the prisoners had no diffi
culty in tearing off the iron sheeting
and kicking a hole through the roof,
from whence they lowered themselves
to the ground. The most of them
were eoufined for vagrancy.
As a party of boys were skating on
the Nemehu river on the outskirts of
TecumBeb, Raymond, the seventeen
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Prank
Bradley, broke through the ice and was
drowned. When the accident happened
young Hradley was around the bend in
the1 river about a quarter of a mil ;
from the rest of the party. ,His cries
for help were heard by his playmates
and they hastened to his res.-un hm.
mm too late, as be had become chilled
and exhausted and sank under the ice.
Members of the beet sugar factory
ooramittee met Count Lubienski in
Omaha and agreed on terms for. a beet
sugar factory and refinery in the neigh
borhood of Omaha, with a capacity of
500 tons of beets per day and bona fide
capital of $UOO,OUO paid in, including
$100,000 to be subscribed by the citizens
of Omaha. The machinery is all to be
new and of the latest pattern, and. aa
far as possible of American manufac
ture. The citizens of Omaha are to
secure contracts of the farmers of
Douglas, Sarpy and Washington coun
ties tor the cultivation of 4,000 acres of
beets per annum for flee years. The
company agrees to pay $5 per ton for
the beets delivered at the factory.
A very sad accident oecurred at the
Methodist church at Dnlfin. Harry
Newell, acting the part of Santa Claus,
earne in dressed in the usual attire, his
epat and hat composed principally of
cotton. While be was delivering pres
ents a lighted eandle tell from the
Christmas tree, setting fire to the cot
ton. and, in an instant, he was in a
sheet of flame. As soon as he dis
covered that his clothing wason fire he
rushed madly through the cron d. The
frightened people made a rush for the
doors, and quite a number of women
and children were trampled under foot,
and more or less injured, but none se
riously. Mr. Newell was severely
burned about the hands, neck and
face, but doctors say w t fatally.
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OUT MANY MILLIONS.
A HUGE SCANDAL IN RAILROAD
ft CIRCLES.
Northern Pacific Deals Held (Jp to Public
Gam—Henry Vlllard, Vice President
Oakes, Chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, and Others, Accused of Gigantic
Double Dealing by Which the Company
was Out Many Millions.
A Sensational Petition Filed.
Mii.waukkk, Wis., Dec. '.’9. —The
Northern Pacific Railroad company,
by Silas VV. Pettit of Philadelphia, its
general counsel, filed to-day in the
circuit court of the United States, be
fore Judge James G. Jenkins, a sensa
tional petition for the removal of
Thomas F. Oakes, Henry C. Payne and
Henry C. Rouse, the receivers, and the
appointment of other receivers ia
their place. .
The petition sets out that Mr. Oakes,
as president of the company, ap
pointed R. O. Rolston, the president
of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust com
pany, of New York, which is trusteee
of most of the main and branch line
mortgages of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company, chairman of the
finance committee of the Northern
Pacific directory.
The petition declares that the
Oakes-R.olston board started off with
a paying .property, a large sum of
cash on hand and with the consol
idated mortgage bonds to draw upon,
with which 10 meet ull expenses
which should be properly chargeable
to capital aecount and of which the
stockholders subscribed for and took
913,000,0 ,0 and so that the said board
"said and in fact did have ample cap
ital with which to conduct and pro
periy develop tne business of the com
pany. The Oakea-Bolston combine
managed to increase the interest
charges of the company for branch
lines from. $36,000,000 to upwards of
988.000. 000, all In one year, and for the
acquisition of property no one of
which (except a small line costing less
than 91,000,000) ever paid the cost of
operation and fixed charges and many
of which do pot even pay the coot of
operation.”
The petition farther charges that in
several instances—and those the most
disastrous to the company—the officers
and board of directors were themselves
interested in selling the properties to
the Northern Pacific at an exorbitant
profit to themselves.
The story of the collapse of the
Northern Pacific is then set out in
great detail, naming particularly each
of the railroads which were acquired,
by the Northern Pacific company and
which the bill declares completed its
ruin within one year after the Oakes
Rolston board got into power.
The petition avers that in the con
struction of the united railroads of
Washington, the members of the board
derived a profit of 9134,000,000 dollars,
while the operation of that railroad
cost the Northern Pacific in the year
ending June 30, 1803, 8155,000.
The petition avers that the Rooky
Fork and Cook City railroad was
owned by a syndicate of which Vll
lard was president, and in which
many of the members of the board of
directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road company were participants, who
divided among themselves 84,000,000
worth of trust certificates, 93,000,000
of which represented the Rock Fork
coal company which owned certain
coal lands which had cost about 8300,
000, and the other 82,000,000 repre
sented the ownership of the Rocky
Fork and Cook City railway, which
cost not over 9800,000; that the
directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road caused the Northern Pacific to'
buy from themselves, as owners of
the Rocky Fork and Cook City, for
91,400,000 in consolidated bonds and
then made a contract between
themselves, as representing the North
ern Pacific railroad, and themselves,
as representing the coal company,
whereby the railroad company agreed
to buy 50(< tons of coal ner day at the
price of 83..'<0 per ton delivered at the
mines: and that to better disguise the
transaction an agreement also pro
vided that the profits made on the coal
should be divided one-half to the coal
company, one sixth to the Northern
Pacific company and the remaining
two-sixths to the Northern Pacific
company, to be applied to the pur
chase of trust certificates at par, so
that in addition to the profit made on
the sale <>f the railroad, which never
paid the expenses of its operation,and
in addition to qpe-half of the profits
arising out of the coal contract, this
syndicate will eventually get 83,000,
000 from the Northern Pacific com
pany for the purchase of their trust
certificates representing the coal mine
and which cost them not to exceed
8300.000.
The Northern Pacific and Manitoba
rauruau, uiq [icuiiuu avers, nus or*
gsnized by a syndicate composed of
members of the board of directors of
the Northern Pacific company, which
purchased at a cost of not exceeding
>13.000 a mile, and that this road they
then, aa directors of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company, caused that
company to buy for bonds at the rate
of >30,000 a mile and in addition, the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
assumed the interest on >?$o,00o of
terminal ■ bonds secured upon
the terminal property of the com
pany at Washington and which was
at least twenty-fire per cent in exceae
of the cost or ralue of that property.
The petition shows that this property
has never paid the ssata cost of op
eration and that the interest charges
which the Northern Pacific had to
pay, amounting to more than >300,
000 a year, arising out of this trans
action, hare been a dead loss to it
The petitioners charge the whole
deftenqp of acquiring^this line was
‘'without a hwiiness ^pdfitsity or rea
son, excepo duly that thereby suen
members of the board of directors of
the Northern Pacifle railroad com
pany as were interested therein could,
as they in fact did. realize an enor
mous profit therefrom.”
In' addition to the above mentioned
branches which were acquired by the
issue of the consolidated mortgage
bonds, and which together about ex
hausted all of those bonds which
eould be issued under the mortgage
for such purposes, the Oakes Roiston
board of directors of the Northern
Pacific guaranteed the interest by in
dorsement of the bonds, or by lease.
of Romo 838,000.030 of additional
bonds of railroads as branches of its
system, in no single instance of which
hare been or are the earnings of the
property nearly equivalent to the in
terest guaranteed."
In respect to the Seattle, Lake
Shore and Eastern company, the
petition declares the only part of it
which had any prospective value
could have been readily duplicated
for a little over 83,(>00,000 and that
the rest of its lines—which are dis
jointed and widely separated—were
of no value whatever and do not now,
and never did, pay the mere cost of
operation, yet the petition avers that
for these lines the Northern Pacific
guaranteed the interest on 85,075,000
of bonds, and at the some time pur
chased 35,000 shares out of a total of
45.000 shares of its capital stock, for
which they paid 81.733,000 in consoli
dated mortgage bonds. It is claimed
the Northern Pacific lost 83,000,000 in
this deal.
In respect to the Chicago and North
ern Pacific railroad company the pe
tition sets out at length and in detail
the complicated method by which
this was acquired by the Northern
Pacific. It is claimed that for the
property of this line the Northern
Pacific paid at least 810,000,000 in ex
cess of the cost or value of the proper
ty and that the profit was received
and divided among many of the direc
tors of the Northern Pacific The peti
tion then avers that the Chicago prop
erties could not be made to earn in
terest on the bonds issued and that
in the endeavor to improve them the
Northern Pacific company, which con
trolled the Chicago and North western
PAcifle company, caused it to issue
more than 87,000,000 more of bonds
and also purchased the line of the
Calumet Terminal Railroad company
for 80,000,000 of bonds, all of whieh
are guaranteed by the Northern Pa
cific railroad comnany and are now
outstanding as collateral security for
its debts.
The bill closes by declaring that the
road cannot be reorganized unless its
control is put in the hands of compe
tent people and the parties now in,
control, it declares, are not of that
kind.
Mr». Lnw Let Oat 11 office.
Washington, Dec. SC.—The sub
committee oi the senate committee on
foreign relations, which was charged
with inquiry into the events leading
up to the revolution in Hawaii, the in
stallation of the provisional govern
ment and the conduct of the executive
branch of this government in the mat
ter, met at 10 o’clock yesterday morn
ing at the capitol.
> One member was absent. Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, who is
spending the holidays in his native
state. The members present were
Senator Morgan, chairman, and
Senators Gray, Frye and Sherman.
The committee adjourned at 11:15
until next Tuesday morning, the ser
geant-at-arms having been notified to
subpoena a number of witnesses, who
will be in attendance on that day,
among them Professor Alexander, the
surveyor general of the islands, who
is anxious to get back to Hawaii in
order to escape the winter weather,
and ex-Minister Stevens, who will
reach Washington before Tuesday
morning.
It will be recalled that when the
president sent his message on the
Hawaiian matter to the senate in re
sponse to resolutions, there were two
letters withheld, Mr. Cleveland
stating in his message it would be in
compatible with the public welfare to
transmit them. One of these letters
was from Minister Willis, sent to the
state department shortly after his ar
rival on the islands, and presumably
the one which caused the change in
the policy of the administration. The
other was from Minister stevens,
when he was still in charge of the
affairs of this country in Hawaii.
Both of these letters will be called
for by the committee, and it is thought
the president will not refuse to sub
mit them.
Another letter, about which, up to
this time very little has been said, is
one written by Minister Thurston to
Mr. Gresham just before his departure
for Hawaii. It is said to be a very
remarkable document, bearing upon
the subject of international relations
and presenting sonle views which will
be of interest to the committee. Mr.
| Gresham may be called upon to
deliver this letter to the senate com
mittee. At all events, it is known
that ap effort will be made to get it.
A number of witnesses will be sum
moned and are expected to be here
for the next hearing of the committee.
There is an evident disposition on the
part of the committee to discuss the
Hawaiian question from the stand
point of the value of the islands to
the United States as a strategic
position.
Before the committee met there was
sent to its rooms from the hydro
graphic office a new Mercator chart,
which Shows the usual ship courses of
every une mat travels ttie Pacific.
Upon this chart are arranged all the
data necessary to show the posses
sions of the English and Germans in
| that ocean and the advantage of the
| Hawaiian islands to the naval forces
of the United Statea Special impor
tance is attached to the coaling sta
! tions and the facilities Great Britain
! and Germany and other foreign pow
! era have in this respect are prom'
, nently set forth not only in the Par
| cittc, but in every body of water on
| the globe. Data accompany the map,
i giving the quantity of coal consumed
j by the vessels of the United States at
the various coaling stations, the
amount paid for it and the facilities
for handling it.
The Oiliest freemason Head.
Sam Diego, Cal, Dec. 20.—Samuel
McCoon, father of Hoamer McCoon,
president of the San Diego chamber
of commerce, died at Fanita ranch,
his son's residence, this morning at
[ the age of 9L Deceased, was at ona
time in politics in New York and
. Judge of thq surrogate court. He was
a Freemason in 182a and is supposed to
have been the oldest Mason in ths
i United States.
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Treasury Balance Still Helloing.
Washington, Dec. 29.—The treas
ury net balance yesterday declined to
] the low figure of 988,914,090. of which
982,024, 798 is in gold and 96,889,300 is
[ in currency. This is the lowest point
j ever reached by ths treasury, but
1 each successive dat only makes it
lower.
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STUDYING UP HAWAII
SENATORS RANSACKING LI
BRARIES FOR BOOKS.
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GETTING POSTED ON THE ISLAND.
Questions of Considerable Interest Will
Soon Come Before Congress —Steveui
and Bloant Will Be Sharply
Questioned — Minister Thura- H
ton at Work On the Re
public of Hawaii.
AVashingto;?, Dec. 30.—Notwith
standing the senate committee on for
eign relations has suspended for the
holiday week its public investigation
into the diplomatic relations of this
country with Hawaii, the members of
the committee are pursuing their in
quiries in their individual capacity
and have been ransacking the public
libraries for books.
It is now regarde as certain that
Mr. Biount and Mr. Stevens will both
be before the committee and while
they may tell nothing more than they
have individually related, the fact
that they will be both confronted by
shrewd men on the opposite side of
the question, empowered to ask
questions and to pin them down, will
render their testimony of considerable
value to the unprejudiced in formihg
an opinion upon the merits of the
controversy. It is quite evident
that the committee will be in no haste
to complete its investigation or make
its report.
If Mr. Thurston succeeds in organ
izing a republic on the islands, or if
the form of government is changed in
any way.sorae recognition of it by the
United States will become necessary,
as it would if the queen should rc-as
cend the throne. Thus it will be seen
that whatever the ultimate termina
tion of the question may be it behooves
the members of the foreign relations
committee to be prepared at any time
to deal with it on almost any phase on
the floor of the senate or in commit
tee. They realize this and are acting
accordingly.
Split on the bank tax.
Two Report! On Repeal Submitted bf
the Banking Sub-Committee.
Washington, Dec. 3ft—The sub
committee of the committee on bank
ing and currency of the house to which
was submitted the question of repeal
ing the state bank tax, divided on the
matter, Mr. Cox of Tennessee sub
mitting a report embodying uncon
ditional repeal and Mr. Warner of
New York and Mr. Hall of Minnesota
reporting in favor of conditional re
peal.
The bill drafted by Messrs. Hall and
Warner repeals the ten per cent tax,
but provides that the issue of state
bank notes shall be confined to the
state in which the banks are incor
porated, and if the notes are used on
the outside of the state they are to be
subjected to a tax of ten per cent of
their face value.
Public Building Construction Pacts.
Washington, Dec 30.—The annual
report of Jeremiah O’Rourke, super
vising architect of the treasury, for
the year ended September 30, shows
that during the year, the expendi
tures for the erection of new federal
buildings including sites and for the
repair and preservation of finished
and occupied federal buildings,
amounted to $4,126,159. The contract
obligations at the end of the year
amounted to $3,340,768. The balance
of appropriations available amounted
to $9,232,989, of which $8,899,167 was
for sites for and construction of build
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Congress and Receiverships.
Washington, Dec 30.—Several bills
in relation to railroad receiverships
are now in the hands of the house
judiciary committee. One limits the
time during which a road shall be in
the hands of a receiver to three years,
at which time if there is no settlement,
it must be sold. This is not liable to
secure a favorable report, because it
is feared that great injustice might
be done, as a corporation having ready
money would be thus able to buy
roads at much less than their cost.
Tbn President’s Trip Ended.
Washington, Dec. 3a—It was ex
actly 1:20 o’clock this afternoon when
the lighthouse tender Violet, with
President Cleveland and party on
board, steamed up to her wharf at the
foot of Seventh street The presi
dent entered his carriage and was
driven immediately to the White
house He looked well. The party
enjoyed themselves on their trio.
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TO FIGHT BY DAYLIGHT.
Corbett anil Mitchell Will Meet at
Jacksonville In the Nonlsf.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 30.— At a
meeting of the Duval Athletic club
this afternoon, it was decided to have
the Corbett-Mitchell fight take place
at 11 o'clock in the morning of Janu
ary 25, 1894. The decision of the club
was, that iu the event of a favorable
report from the criminal court on
Monday next, the fight would take
place at all hazards.
Mo Recognition for Mabels.
Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 30.—Admiral
da Gama, the commander of the in
surgent fleet in the absence of de
Mello, made a formal demand to-.day
upon the representatives of tl^. for
eign powers at the capital', asking
that the representatives of the powers
should recognize the insurgents as
belligerents. The diplomatic corps
having previously come to an under
standing on this subject refused to ac
cede to the request of the insurgent
admiral
A Newspaper Chaages|Han<ta.
Wabrknsburg, Mo., Dec. 30.—The
Journal-Democrat, the oldest estab
lished paper in this city had changed
hands, McBride & Hutchinson, pub
lishers of the Pleasant Hill Gazette
being the purchasers.
HE SHOCKED' THE|^
«Mlt.r (t..d '
Chicago Women. An,®»t
-Editor AY
ChicAflo, Dec. 2a
Stead created a Mnaation aTthl T
Women's clubs of the city it P.J“1Et
ball yesterdav ®ec*tal
ball yesterday afternoon. The
lnir was called by the Chicago Wn ***'
club, to confer upon planX^5
suffering poor women and childrJ**.
the city. Dr. Sarah Hackett s* °*
son presided and the hall was an£
W!th represents tires of all the ie^
women s clubs in the city. Mr >e
who had been invited to addrew ?h’
meeting, said he chiefly welcomed X!
opportunity because, sitting iM;
side with those active workers More
him, were some of the most di«.»
table peoDle in Chicago. ls|,epu
Nothing was more obnoxious
one who paid any aCtion ° att
teaching of the Gospel than the
that the conventional *act
about the reputable and disJepftahl*
ideal.qUlt* forelKU *° the
Who were the most disreputable
rren“inv.Ch,C^°? Tbey weretW
who had been dowered bv society a„*f
provinced with all the gifts and aiWh
opportunities and who lived cnt rel'
self-indulgent. These women, ™h
had great opportunities only to Jv
lect them, were more disreputable i
the eyes of God and man than th
lnost abajidoned woman of the street.
Mr. Stead s language was somethin
stronger than that quoted above
After Mr. Stead's speech he retire
from the meeting, and the worn
went into executive session in a di.
cussion of his remarks, excluding t'i
press representatives. Many of t'n
ladies present were exceedinrl
wrathful Over,the editor’s remark,
and the meeting after Mr. Stead with
drew was very stormy. Nothing wa
done, however, and no resolution con
cerning Mr. Stead’s remarks wa
adopted. After the meeting many n
the women declared that under n
circumstances would ■ they again a;
tend a meeting at which the English,
man was rvesent, - °
Tlie Hawaiian Inquiry.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. i;*j.—Governor
Lewelling at half past 2 o’clock
this afternoon removed Mrs. Lease
from the state board of charities.
This was diAe after a long conference
with his associate state officers ami
leaders of the People’s party and was
no doubt in anticipation of war which
Mrs. Lease was preparing to declare
against the state administration.
To a reporter, Governor Lewelling
said: “I don’t want to say much
about it, and I want you to be careful
to quote me correctly. I have re
moved Mrs. Lease in ‘the interest of
harmony and good govern
ment. There 6eems to be some
lack of harmony in the charitable
institutions of the state and consider
able trouble in the board, and 1 con
cluded that Mrs. Lease's removal was
the remedy and accordingly removed
her. That’s all 1 have to say about it
this afternoon. ’’
“Don't you think you have stirred
up a row?”
“Maybe I have, hut I guess there
will be no great trouble grow out of
it.”
Mrs. Lease takes her removal like a
trained politician. She said: "Yes, L
have just been officially informed
of my * decapitation. I had hau
a hint that it was coming.
But Governor ' Lewelling ought to
have told you the real reason.
It was because I went to him yester
day afternoon and made a demand
upon him, not a request, mind you-a
demand that at the expiration of
the term of Mr. Yoe, a Republican
member, next April, J. R. Ken
nedy, a Populist editor of Wil
son county, be appointed. I
knew that with Mr. Kennedy on the
board we could run the institutions in
a. business like way and get rid of th.c
political schemes to which the board
now resorts. But the governor seems
to like that way of administering
our state charities. It was not
a month ago that he came to us
with a demand that we remove
Carter from the superintendence of
the deaf and dqmb asylum. I said to
him that he had no right to make
such a demand; that we, the board,
were responsible for our appoint
ments, and the party could not
afford to have such an in
stitution as the deaf and dumb
asylum mixed np in smau
politics. But the majority of Hit
board did the governor’s bidding ant.
now they are all trying to find a',a.v
to reinstate Carter. Bat it is a"
right If Governor Lewelling can
stand it I can. I will ‘saw wool ant
wait, as the "opticians sav.
The Chinese 6>ix Comp, nies advise
their-countrymen to comply with tin*
amended exclusion law and register.
LIVE STOCK ANO PHODUCE MARKET*
Quotations from Mow York, Cblcsgo.
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA.
Batter—Creamery print.
Butter—Fair to good country.
Eggs—Fresh .
Honey—I er h.
Chickens—Sgrlng, per B..
Geese—Per 1
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16
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Turkeys—Per E... » 2
Ducks—Per . 1 ®
Oysters.".".I'.I'.r.Il. Jg
Apples—Per bbl...,,....•••• 3 50 %, 5 no
Oranires—Florida. 1. d J f J
Oranges—Florida.
Potatoes.. , IS a l w
Cranberries—Cape Cold,per bbl tf 6 <» .
Hay-Per ton.... „.■ ■, * i,® yi
Sweet Potatoes—Jer.-eyperbbl 3-> ® 0
Onions—Perbu... ....T.3-..^ @ in
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Hogs—Mixed packing.
Hogs—Heavy weights.
Beeves—Feeders. ,
Beeves—8tockers. r Jr. 4 .si
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Steers—Fair to good. 4
Steers—Westerns. S iX
Sheep—I-ambs.
Sheep—Natives.
- - new YORK.
Wheat—No. 2. red winter.
Corn—No. 2...
Oats—Mixed western.
Pork...
Lard...
CHICAGO.
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Wheat—No. 2 spring. » it
Corn—Per. . S3 u '-h
Oats—Per ., »r: r.
Pork.hi ®7>3
Lara... .
Hojrs—Packer* and mixed • ^ 4 m
Cattle—Com. steers 10 extra •< @ 4
Sheep—Lambs-.... “ 4
ST. LOUIS. ^
Wheat—No. 2 red. cash. ^
Corn—Per . 1.7 .ft
Oats—Per .. ® 3 «•'
Hoga—Mixed packing. 7. 7 (ft 4 3
Cattle—Native steers.. •*
KANSAS CITY
Wheat—No. 2 red, cash.
Corn—'o. ..
Oats—No. 2.. —
t attle—Stockers and feeder*
Hogs—Mixed packers.
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