THE FRONTIER. '■JS*':? 'M'' mUHn XTIKT THVSIDAT Bf T*» Fboktifr Priktixo Co. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA., am Ta OVER THE STATE. v’ jf-yf.v.i'! ■ ' Public schools of Lyons observed Arbor Day in n body. Ax Omaha man is about to open a cigar factory at Howells. Citizen of East Omaha have petition ed for a fourth-class postoflh-e. O. \V. Stearns, a pioneer of Gage county, died lust week, aged 77. Arrow Day was celebrated in Sutton by a procession of the public schools. Taw.e Rock has an industrial legion that meets every week to discuss poli tics. >1% K it'i 's&.y,' A substantial three story addition is being built to the l’ark hotel in Te cumseh. Thieves entered the shoe store of Mr. Neuben at Seward and stole quite a lot of goods. A convention of Lancaster county Sunday schools will be held in Hickman May 1, 2 and 3. Sou iii Sioux City is looking for the man who wants to start a creamery in the midst of cream. Robeiit Hf.iiiik of Dodge county will shortly leave for Europe with a con signment of cattle. Another company, known as the Elkhorn Irrigation company, has filed articles of incorporation. Noukoi.k’s postofllce is equipped with an entirely new set of mail boxes with time locks and things like that. David Stephens, a bachelor-living 1 y west of Xeligh, was found dead in his chicken house. Apoplexy caused his death. This fifth annual fair of the Deuel County Agricultural society will be held at Big Springs October 3 to 5 in clusive. Ex-Oov. Furnas delivered an address in Orleans on Arbor day. It was re plete with historical and practical sug gestions. ' . ' Thkhk are two or three cases of small-pox in Omaha, but thus far there have been no fatalities. All cases are quarantined. Lightning struck the barn of A. Ran som, a York county farmer, and three horses as well as the building were burned to ashes. Ft.ags from the government to be used as weather signals ai West Point have been received and regular reports will soon be forthcoming. William Pasewai.k of Norfolk, his wife and child all died within the past month. First" the mother, then the father and finally the little one passed away. The barn of Joseph Teelers, near the state fair grounds, Lincoln, was de stroyed by fire. Two Shetland ponies and a horse and cow were cremated in the conflagration. The State bank of Brunswick has been closed by Examiner t'owdery. All liabilities to small depositors will be paid in full, A. W. Swender is presi dent and J. M. Albers cashier. Some of the sheep shearing in Ne braska will be done this year by steam. The steam machines promise closer clipping and a better grade of wool than can be had by hand work. Ella Warner, a 14-year-old Fre mont girl, is suddenly missing, with no knowledge of her whereabouts. It is thought some young man figures prom inently in her abrupt departure. More than 200 teachers, members of school boards and patrons attended the Nuckolls county educational associa tion held in Hardy, The meeting throughout was a marked success. St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church at DeWitt will be consecrated Tuesday, May 1. The cost of the structure is *2,500. The money was raised and all debts liquidated during the past year. The cash to pay the second dividend in the Capital National bank at Lin coln has arrived and will be disbursed M an early day. This will make about 15 per cent that has been paid by the bank. . It is said the Colfax county eomrnis •ioners have purchased a farm four miles from Bchuylef at $40 per acre. It will be used as the county poor farm as soon as the necessary buildings are erected. . The cowboy race committee at Chad ron raised $210 the first of the week for the grand cowboy event that is being figured on for June 4, 5 and 6. They expect to raise spore for the long dis tance races. * The 4-year-old child of Marry Stine «f Lincoln was seriously bitten by a dog belonging to A. Kline. The servi ces of a physician were required for the child, and a policeman with a big gun attended to the dog. in the sandhills south of Rushville While John Mustfell was plowing in his garden, a man road up and shot him dead. Mustfell’s wite saw the man, who road away rapidly, but was not able to recognize him. The bar docket for the coming term of the Lancaster district court con tains 684 law cases. 444 equity and twenty-seven criminal, making a total of 1,155 cases. This is an increase of fifteen cases over the last docket. Jacob Bernhardt, one of the wealth iest men in Adams county and a part owner in the Herman National bank, has purchased a half interest in the Colonel Gage bank at Franklin and doubled the capital of that institution. Miss E. Clark, one of the prominent teachers of Fremont and for one year principal of the schools, has-been noti fied that she is on the program to read a paper before the National Teachers’ association at Asbury Park, N. J., to be held some time in July. IT has been decided that the spring election recently held in Newcastle for the purpose of electing village trustees is illegal, and the two members who held over from last year have appointed three new members to fill the board. The board as it now stands is for license. Warren Letson, one of' the oldest hardware dealers in Hastings, was f . 'V. closed out by the sheriff. Mr. Letson has been an. industrious and prudent man, but the hard times and the pres anre of eastern creditors forced him to • . the walk He carried a large stock, ?.'■ which it is expected will sell for enough to pay all liabilities. Tiik Holbrook Herald suggests that “the churches hang a slate in the vesti bule so the young ladies may register , before they enter. The young men I who come around just before closing | time could then consult the slate in | stead of being obliged to peek in at the [ doors and windows to ascertain if their | girl is on the inside." I A Yor.No quarter breed Indian eloped with the 15-year-old daughter of Will iam Tucker, a prominent hotel man of Niobrara, and the infuriated parents left for O’Neill hoping to head off their marriage. The girl has worked hard for her father, and it is said that the young man is worthy, industrious and thrifty. Thk little town of Raymond, about ten miles north of Lincoln, is much aroused over the recent actions of some of its citizens. A suit for damages was tiled in the district court as a result. W. A. Kerlin is plaintiff and he charges Kd Hollenbeck with having alienated the affections of his wife. He wants $5,(100. ,1 oski'ii Cook of Boston delivered his popular lecture on "Ultimate America” to a large and appreciative audience at McCook. This was the only appoint ment made by Mr. Cook between Spo kane, Wash., and Clarinda, la., except Ogden, Utah and Denver, Colo. Neign boring towns contributed liberally to the attendance. Nkaki.y every child in Broken Bow lias had both the mumps and measles this season. The unfortunate family that has escaped the two diseases is considered out of style. The editor of the Republican leads the fashionable list with five children who have had the mumps and four who have broken out with the measles. at the regular meeting or the city council of Hastings an order was issued which is expected to close every pluce of business on Sundays, except drug stores, hotels, restaurants and tele graph otticos. An attempt to enforce this order will cause trouble. Every drug store and restaurant sells cigars and the bool; stores sell the daily pa pers. A intrirnr United States marsh at. from Omaha arrived in Beatrice and tool; charge of one Isaac Meyers, who is charged with sendiug obscene matter through the mails. During his six weeks sojourn in Beatrice Isaac has been noticeably gay, keeping fast com pany and in one instance paying fines assessed against a couple of women of the town. A sensation was created in church circles at Tckamah by ltev. Dr. Peter Det'lark, pastor of the Methodist Epis copal church. Without any explana tion for his conduct or apparent cause, he devoted the principal part of two sermons to the newspaper fraternity, abusing editors and impugning their business. He likened editors unto car rions, buzzards, and said printing offices were “hell boxes,” and editors were “devils.” .1. C. Franklin of Fremont, who is the originator of an enterprise known as the National Drain Growers’ associa tion, sent a schedule of the plans and objects to Secretary Morton, who re plied that he looked very favorably on the scheme and would pass it along to the head of the government. It sim ply proposes an organization of the grain growers to facilitate their inter ests and by combined effort to secure remunerative prices for their products. That Debany. the Nance county murderer, confined in the county jail at I’olumbus under sentence of death, is insune can no longer be doubted by the most skeptical who will take occasion to visit the jail and witness his strange anlics. One of his countrymen, a Pole, visited him and tried to converse with him, but could get nothing intelligible from him. He imagines everything he sees has come to destroy him and even a dog passing the jaii recently caused him to quake with fear and seek pro tection in the cage. The Culbertson correspondent of the McCook Times-Democrat says: “The irrigating company, under the super vision of C. I*. Hubbard, at this place, is progressing finely, and the great en terprise is nearing completion. Over $200,000 has been invested so far in the undertaking and the company cannot afford to give it up now. And, despite discouraging remarks from different quarters, they are pressing forward with the work as fast as possible, and if nothing happens to prevent the water will be down as far as Culbertson by May 1.” For some time past gray wolves have been quite numerous and destructive north of Paxton, having killed several head of cattle of John liratt & Co. One day while riding the range Hank Chest nut discovered a fierce looking speci men sneaking over the hills about twelve miles north of Paxton. He at | once gave chase and followed the ani | mal for fifteen miles, running down i three different horses before getting I near enough to do any good. Not i being armed he lassoed the animal and | dragged it to death. It weighed 140 pounds and was an old residenter. a liistkkssi.no accident occurred at ! the residence of Henry Springer re 1 siding a short distance south of lirain ! nrd, which resulted in the death of the | U-months-old daughter. Mrs. Springer ; had a pan of beans in her lap, and was i sorting them preparatory to cooking, i The sorted ones she threw in a crock ! sitting on the floor by her side. Pres ently she heard the baby cough, and noticing that it had a number of beans in its hand concluded that it had put some in its mouth and was choking. Examination proved such to be the case. She tried in vain to relieve the child. It grew rapidly worse. She laid the in fant down to hail a neighbor and asked him to inform her husband, who had left a few minutes before the accident When 6he re-entered the house she found her little daughter had breathed her last An examination proved that one of the beans with which the child had been playing became lodged in its throat and caused its death. Two strangers applied at the resi dence of E. M. M. Searle, jr., in Oga lalla, for something to eat, stating they were footsore and hungry. Mr. Searle told them to return in a short time and a good supper would be furnished. On leaving tlie premises one of the tourists espied a grip, belonging to a gentle man visiting Mr. Searle, which was left on the veranda, and decided to appease their hunger with theft rather than re turn and partake of a substantial sup per which was being prepared by a charitable lady. The thieves, with their plunder, were captured at the railroad station a short time after com mitting the theft. A'. ELECTRICITY MADE BY WIND. At Slight E-pens* It li Possible to Fit Your Hons* with Incandescents New York Press: Mr. J. A. Corcoran of Jersey City has just completed a novel experiment in the application of a windmill to an electric lighting plant The plant, though an experimental one, is now in operation without as yet a single mishap, and the storage cells furnish current for twenty four incandescent lamps in Mr. Corco ran's residence. Everything points to the complete success of the scheme. The mill has a diameter of eighteen feet, and at a speed of tweDty miles an hour is capable of delivering three horse-power. The dynamo driven by belt from the main gear charges a set of storage batteries. It is so designed that throughout the wide variations of speed of the windmill it maintains the potential' constant. Mr. Corcoran says that the application of a windmill to run the dynamos of an electric lighting plant will place electricity in the homes of thousands, who can thus secure their motive power from nature. A windmill is not a very costly struc ture, and any one who owns a bit of open land about his residence can erect one and fit up his simple electri cal apparatus inside of it. The thou sands of windmills one sees in travel ing over the country, if Mr. Corcoran’s scheme proves a permanent success, may be utilized for lighting the resi dences of the owners and those of their fieighbofs, as well as drawing water for stock. One windmill will light half a dozen residences at the same time. me mac nine m Air. uorcorans wind mill occupies a floor space of only thirty inches square and fifteen inches high. The dynamo has a maximum current capacity of thirty-five amperes at thirty-five volts and is put into action when the speed is 600 revolu tions per minute, that is, when an eight-mile breeze is blowing. A great thing that deterred experi ments with windmills was the wind itself, but it is believed that success can be had with the average rate of 1% miles per hour that can be depend ed on throughout the United States. While the maximum and the minimum rate, of course, vary during different seasons at the sea-coast and in differ ent localities, the average rate of 7% miles can be obtained at almost any point in the country. Rear the sea coast and in elevated localities the average rate is much higher, and it is in such situations that the first at tempts will be made throughout the country to apply the plan of generat ing electricity with the aid of wind. So it will be readily seen that the util ization of the waste forces of nature is steadily pushing itself to the front Engineers now study applications which were hardly considered proper for a sane man to consider a dozen years ago. Impoliteness is derived from two sources—indifference to the divine and contempt for the human. There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow life is dull. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminish ing the sum total of human happiness. One reason why there is not more good being done is because so many people, want to wait until to-morrow to begin. To be zealous of good works doesn't mean to sit. around and whittle while your wife is hard at work trying to make a living. As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth im partially hfs beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. PROGRESS OF INVENTION. Street cars were first used in this country in 1850 and in England ten years later. Artificial wood for furniture, roofs, insulators, etc., is now made by burn ing magnesite together with* wood, shavings, sawdust, cotton, hair or wool. A German officer has invented a mo tor in which a fine stream of coal dust is utilized to drive a piston by explo sion in the same manner as the gas in the gas engine. A useful hand lamp is simply a vial filled with heated olive oil into which a small piece of phosphorus has been dropped. The light will shine when ever the bottle is uncorked, admitting the air. me new magazine rifle which the French army is experimenting with can be fired 100 times without being taken from the shoulder and the cartridges weigh only half as much as ordinary ammunition. In the British navy is the most sin gular ship in the world, the Polyphe mus. It is simply a long steel tube, buried deeply in the water, the deck rising only four feet above the water’s level. It carries no masts or sails, and is used as a ram or torpedo boat. At a recent meeting of the Japan society in London the chairman made a practical suggestion. He said' that the sound produced by bamboo pipes was very soft and mellow; that it was largely used by the Japanese in the manufacture of musical instruments, and it seemed possible that organ builders might derive advantage from the use of this reed for organ pipes. An Egg Bath. A Paris plumber was repairing the tiles of a house, when, his foot having slipped, he fell off the roof into the street below. Just then a market gard ener’s cart happened to pass by the house, laden with baskets full of eggs, and osier-cages containing live poultry, and the man, falling into the midst of this lond, crushed two cages, killed about a dozen fowls, and finally was in gulfed in an enormous basket of eggs. When withdrawn from his liquid tomb the plumber looked like an omelette, but, excepting a few alight bruises, he was safe and tound. THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AFTER -INDUSTRIALISTS.” THEIR LAWLESSNESS MUST CEASE. All the Federal Soldiers In Two Depart ments K’laced Under Arms to Protect ^Northern Pacific Trains From Seiz ure l>y Uoxeyltes in the Far >orth\v(!Ht — Washington Authorities in Karnest. Washington, April 30.—National power is to be exercised to compel re spect for the law in the far North west, where trains are being seized by ‘ ‘commonwealers’’ and the law be ing disregarded. General Schofield this afternoon sent orders to Colonel Swain at St. Paul, in command of the depart ment of the Dakotas, and General Otis at Vancouver Iiarracks, in com mand of the department of the Colum bia, to use troops under their com mand upon the application of the United States marshals in the states along the line of the Northern and Union Pacific railroads in executing the process of the United States courts. special orders have been sent to capture the train seized at Troutdale by Portland “industrialists” and now on its way East. The war department has settled the question of the disposition of the prisoners taken at Forsythe, Mont., by giving directions to the military authorities to transfer them to Helena, Mont., where they may be dealt with by the civil authorities, to be kept under military espionage until the courts shall have disposed of their cases. To meet the grave situation the government will. use every means within its power. It is stated that no mob of any kind or character will be permitted to interfere with the move ment of the mail trains if the military forces of the government are able to prevent it, and further, that the United States troops will assist in serving all the processes issuing from United States courts in the disturbed districts against the unlawful and ir responsible acts of so-called “Coxey contingents.” The government is in earliest in this matter and if this lawlessness continues those engaged in it will be made to feel the power of the govern ment in a way that they may not ex pect or relish. It seemed to be the general opinion here thatr the lawless tramp element throughout the West is taking ad vantage of Coxey's "commonweal of Christ” demonstration to commit dep redations on public and private property, and in consequence they are fast losing or have lost all sympathy of the respectable element of society everywhere. These aets, it is believed, will rapidly disrupt the whole movement and bring disgrace and shame upon any honest people who through mistaken zeal in the cause of labor may have joined the so-called crusade. DRIVEN AWAY BY MILITARY. Galvin -Industrialists” Dispersed by Ohio Soldiers. -Columbus, Ohio, April 33.—State Detective John Mahoney and a posse of men went to Mount Sterling last night to try to force the Galvin branch of Frye’s “industrial army” to aban don the freight train which they had seized. When Mahoney presented his com mission from the governor the “Coxe.v ites” laughed at him, refused to hear the reading of the commission and met all demands in the name of the state with hoots and jeers. Mahoney wired these facts to the governor and said that unless in structed otherwise he would proceed to put the men off the train by force at daybreak. He was told to do noth ing and at 5 a. m. Adjutant General Howe and Attorney General'Richards arrived at the scene. After conference with the state of ficers, Scott Chenoweth, sheriff of Madison county, ordered the men off the train, but Galvin said he had no control over the men and was power less to do anything'. The sheriff and the state officers then walked along each car and ordered the men on it to leave the train. This having been done, At torney-General Richards addressed the men, saving that Chenoweth was sheriff of the county and the power of the state was behind him. “If,” he declared, “you refuse to obey his command to get off this train the state of Ohio will compel you te do so.” When Mr. Richards had concluded Galvin spoke to the men saying: “Men, I have no control over you. You must act on your awn judgment in this matter. Each man must act for himself individually, but I would advise you to obey the order of the sheriff.” Not a word came from the men and the sheriff made a request upon the state for the assistance of the militarv. As soon as Governor McKinley had received the sheriff’s message, he ordered battery II of this city, Cap tain Frank T. Stewart, to report at its armory preparatory to going to Mt. Sterling, if necessary, to clear a Baltimore and Ohio railway freight train of Galvin’s contingent of Coxey men. The governor also ordered companies A, B, C and Fof the Fourth regiment. Colonel Coit, to report reaily to proceed to Mt. Sterling. These were all Columbus companies and with the batterie numbered abont 150 men. The governor’s action was based on the fact that S. P. Peabody, general agent, and Superintendent Graham of the Baltimore & Ohio railway said they had not been able to get a freight train through Mount Sterling for two days and that the sheriff of Madison county, with one company of thirty men of the Fourteenth regiment in Mount Sterling, was powerless. The troops arrived at Mount Ster ling' at* 15:10 o'clock. Adjutant Gen eral Howe immediately took command and at 1 o'clock the troops mounted the cars and the “Galvins” scrambled off and the train moved away. No shots were fired. KELLY DEMANDS WAGONS. People of Earlhara, la.. Forced to Hustle for Transportation for the ••Army.’*' Stuabt, Iowa, April ,50.—Kelly's “in dustrial army” began its forced march to Des Moines to-day with solid column, singing “war” songs. The Sacramento malcontents had straggled in during the night, having tired of their tem porary desertion, and 1,251 men lined up for roll call and tramped down the green hillside at the word. The citi zens of Stuart were liberal in their contributions of food and forty-one wagons were furnished for the trans portation of the men. Teams from points along the route met the “army,” picked up the strag glers and relieved the tired footmen until Earlham was reached. There Kelly became incensed because he had not sufficient teams to carry all his men, and announced flatly that he would go no further until wagons were furnished. The townspeople were anxious to get the army away and committees immediately began scouring the surrounding country for transportation. Kelly was obstinate and asserted that he must ride or stay in Earlham. He said he might be eompelled to give up reaching Des Moines to-morrow, but he would not kill his men. THREATS BY A "COXEYITE”’ Ur. Bynum Receives an Anarchist Letter —The Police on the Watch. Washington, April 30.—Representa tive Bynum of Indiana has received a letter from a Chicago man, who signs himself Charles Nugent, and says ho was formerly one of Mr. Bynum’s constituents in which he tells Mr. Bynum that he had better “tell Gro ver Cleveland and John Sherman to keep off the street while the Coxey commonweal is in Washington,” anil continues: “The Chicago contingent of the Coxey army is coming supplied with dynamite for all such pluto crats.” Mr. Bynum does not know whether to be alarmed or treat the matter as a joke. It Mr. Nugent is coming with any such intentions as involve the throw ing of dynamite or even has any con cealed about himself he is likely to be spotted and incidentally locked up. The district police and the govern ment authorities are taking no chances and they calculate a good many such cranks as Mr. Nugent seems to be are sure to follow the “commonwealers. ” ANOTHER TRAIN SEIZED. Portland ••Industrials” Capture an Of ficial’s Engine and Start East. Portland, Ore., April 30.—The Port land contingent of the “Industrial army” captured an engine at Trout dale this morning, and coupling it to a freight train which they seized yes terday started East over' the Union Pacific. The engine seized by the “Coxey ites” was drawing the ear of General Manager Dickinson with R. W. Baxter, general superintendent of the West ern division of the Union Pacific, on board. As soon as the news was received in this city a special engine in charge of Deputy United States Marshal Cole man was sent to Troutdale to bring the railway officials to this city. Commanded By a Woman. Oakland, Cal., April 30.—Five hnnj dred “commonwealers” left here last night on a steamer bound up the river for some point near Sacramento, under the leadership of Mrs. Anna F. Smith, a San Francisco woman# who is past middle age. She was unani mously elected president of the i-egi ment after several male commanders had failed to lead them away. She is a determined woman of soldier mien, and declares that she will not stop until her host shall be drawn up in line before the capitol steps in Washington, and that she is fortified to suffer hunger with her comrades if necessary. Ten “Coxeyltes” Sent Up. St. Joseph, Mo., April 30.—Thirteen men who were going’ to join Kelly’s “army” were arrested in this city last night as they boarded a freight train for Des Moines. They were arraigned in the police court this morning and all pleaded guilt}’. All were honest looking men and the judge told them they could go if they would agree to leave town, but only three of them accepted the offer, the others prefer ing to serve a jail sentence to taking their chances with Kelly and his men. Wolcott Hanged In Effigy, Denver, Col., April 30.—Senator Wolcott has been hanged in effigy at Victoria, a mining camp in the Cripple Creek district, with the inscription on his back: “Down with plutocracy.” The reason for the act was the sena tor’s recent speech on the Coxey move ment. BRECKINRIDGE OVERRULED. •Judge Bradley Iterates to Grant a New Trial—Notice of Appeal. Washington, April 30.—Judge Brad ley to-day overruled the motion of counsel of Representative. W. C. P. Breckinridge for a new trial of the' celebrated Pollard-Breckinridge breach of promise suit. Bond was fixed at $101) for an appeal which Breckinridge's counsel gave notice would be taken to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. Seventy-Five Horses Burned. New York, April 30.—Seventy-five horses and sixty-five trucks and wagons were burned up in a fire last night in the stable of Richard Fitz patrick of West Nineteenth street. Damage to the extent of $80,000 was •lone; insurance, $25,000. Harvard Debaters Win. New Haven, Conn., April 30.— Harvard won the intercollegiate de bate in the Hyperion theater last evening, overcoming Yale’s debaters by a small majority, according to the declarations of the judges. I) of the Tariff Bin. Washington, April 26—The t> cratio senators continued their ,T ferences yesterday with a view°"' wn T av ■*"»“«* on the uriff' bill thereby lt can be so amend^ f vote^^th^Mnate.^The^Mend10'1!11!!0 bill feel that it is important to°have the measure receive the full pa*!® vote, and they also want the heart® support of the entire party in having it passed as speedily as possible. They wish to get it out of the way of the fall campaign. In order to know w.hat t°do* th«y have made a canvasl of the dissatisfied senators and think they have arrived at the facts and are now prepared to make the chants which will accomplish the purpose they have in view. purpose Among the senators consulted were Messrs. Hill, Murphy, Smith, (L man, Gibson and Briqe. Thev find these six to be opposed to the Lome tax and to the present sugar duty6 Ihey will probably make one or two exceptions m granting the demands discontented senators. The® ask, for instance, that the income tax be stricken out entirely. This re quest will hardly be conceded, Ct this part of the bill will be materially modified. Not only will the com mittee be found willing to re duce the limit of income to be taxed ai?„ *}ie rat,e °* taxation, but thev will also, more than likely, be agree able to fixing a time when the tax shaH cease to be imposed. This they will be willing to do on the theory that in a few years the test would prove the popularity or unpopularity of the tax, and they think that if it should prove popular it can be con turned at the pleasure of the voters and of congress. It is not probable now, however, that the champions of the bill will consent to the striking out of this paragraph. ° NO SJEALING TRAINS. Uncle Sam Propose* to Put a Stop to It. Washington. April 26.—The strong /land of the national government has at last been extended to check the “Coxeyites” who seized a train upon the Northern Pacific railway at liutte, i Mont., and started eastward. To-day j Colonel Swayne, who is in command of the department of Dakota, in the absence in Europe of General Merritt, was instructed by telegraph to use United States troops to intercept the mob and restore the railroad’s prop erty. This action followed closely upon Attorney General Olney’s tele gram of instructions to United States Marshal Bede at St Paul. There is no legal difficulty in the way of governmental action at this stage as the railroad property is now in the hands of the United States courts acting through a receiver and the president may move at once upon the representations of the United States judicial officers. There are sufficient forces of the United States troops at St. Paul and Bismarck on the line eastward of the train seizers and it is expected that the}- will be stopped at one of these points. It can no longer be denied that the peculiar movement now in progress throughout the West has aroused the apprehension of the national authori ties. .As long as the numerous “armies” and other organizations con ducted themselves in a peaceable and law abiding fashion there was no dis position to interfere with them, but as the character of the agitators is revealed by such acts as the seizure of trains, it is made evident to the officers of the government that they no longer cstfl stop at a policy of non-interfer ence. Further trespass upon vested rights and good order of the com munity probably will be severely re pressed. _ SIMPSON' SLOWLY GAINING. The Family of the Sick Congressman Beginning to Cherish Hope Again. Washington, Apr il 26. —Con gressman Jerry Simpson continued to gain a lit tle strength slowly through the night and all this morning. His sister ar rived from Chicago and is now at his bedside. His family begin to enter tain hope and Mrs. Simpson is even cheerful, for she had given up nearly all expectation of her husband’s re covery. _ Testimony in Claims for Tensions. Washington, April 26.—The house committee on invalid pensions has de cided to report favorably a bill pro viding that in the establishment of claims for pensions, the oath of a pri vate or non-commissioned ofiicer shall not have any less weight than if such witness had served as a commissioned officer. The present practice of the department accords to the testimony of a commissioned officer the same weight as to that of two privates. LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS Quotations from New York, Chicago, SU Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere. OMAHA. Butter—Creamery nrlut.... 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