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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1894)
THE FRONTIER. milllHID K1IBT THUMB AT Bf Thb Fbontikh Printing Co. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA. OVER THE STATE. Palmyra republicans have organized n league. Tiik frost and freeze at Nchawka did , much damage. Tiik Methodist church at Madison is too small for the congregation. Thk Gospel Union has arranged to re sume work in Lincoln this summer. At Ord a Young People’s Society ot Christian Endeavor has been organized. Sk ward's building improvements in dicate no atringeney in the money mar ket there. Hastings is short on water and sprinkling-of lawns is prohibited at cer tain hours. The town board of Havelock lias ordered every person in the village to be vaccinated. Clinch bugs are reported as doing; much damage to corn in the north part of Uage county. The Lincoln Daily Call lias been sold to a new company that will take pos session June 1st Tiik Fourth district independents will hold their congressional conven tion at York August ft Coi_ Kickek, a well-known railroad nan, died in Weeping Water last week while on a visit to his brother-in-law. : While playing with fire in the ab sence of the mother a child of Mrs. D. Millar of Omaha was burned to death ; last week. A careful examination of the fruit lands show slightdamage in the vicinity of Decatur as a result of the frost of; last Friday. .Senator Manderson called upand had passed the bill for the allotment of lands of the Otoe and Missouri Indians ’ in Nebraska and Kansas. Two men attempted to make the dis tance on foot front Omaha to lioldrege 1 in fifty hours. They were not success ful, arriving six hours late; ! IrKOKGK H. Si'KAit, the late manager of the Thnrston hotel at Columbus, has purchased the leuse, furniture and : fixtures of the Oxford hotel at Norfolk. ! Charles Witt, a farmer living north ' of Syracuse, was found deud in the cornfield where he hud been at work during the day.- - -llis death was due to heart disease. The Union Pacific has experienced much trouble lately in the vicinity of Rodgers by wires being cut. The first miscreant caught in the act will be given a wholes imo lesson. W. L. Panu, Charles McDonald, D. W. Raker, M. C. Keith and others are mak ing arrangements to commence the con struction of an irrigation ditch in the .vicinity of North Platte. Tiik 3-year-oid son of Fred Barra clough of North Platte threw a lighted match into a can of powder with the usual startling results, it is doubtful if the .little fellow cun recover. X hk or to ik .National bank wants the cufireme court to compel Minna Kenow to pay it which it failed to collect according to the decision of the district court of Madison county. Ix the confusion and crowd attend ing the parade of Kingling’s circus in Lincoln about a dozen children got lost in the slut flic. They were, however, nil rounded up in the evening by the police. District court for the May term for Gage county-began last week, Judge Bush on the bench. There are 431 ■ eases on the docket, of which 2? 2 are law cases, 198 equity cases and eleven criminal cases. Tine residence of J. R. Buchanan, f general passenger agent of the Elkhorn road, was entered by thieves in Omaha during temporary absence of the fam ily, and considerable valuable plate and Jewelry stolen. While II. A. Newman of I.aurel was going down hill on his bicycle at a mi le a-minute gait, the jib boom exploded end the rider took a double-header - down the line, breaking his collar-bone ' n when he landed. Ira Jkn.ninos, a 14-ycar-old boy, was 'killed by a stock train on the B. & M. t at Liberty as he attempted to drive across the track- His body was carried ,a long distance before the fast freight could be stopped. ( If the frauds and sharks who are 'constantly preying upon the people, .. 'aays the Randolph Times, were received 1 as frigidly as the local newspapers s make it torrid for them there would ?; Boon be an extinction of the species. * Statr Treasurer Bartley has sent ■ ' out the last of 3,000 circulars which go to the holders of state warrants as no i tice that their warrants have been called in by the state board and will cease to draw interest after May S3. Reports from the farmers in the 1 vicinity of Milford warrant the report ■that nond of the cereals are seriously * damaged by the frost, but grapes- ap * pear to be destroyed and most of the garden plants are badly injured. The Missouri river land survey has "« j»st been completed, which gives''3,000 f r tres of land which will be assessed on Holman's island, six miles southeast of Decatur. For some six years past taxes ' have been paid on only COO acres. James Welsh, an Irishman living nine miles south west of ITainview, was * in town last Saturday and was drink * ing. He afterwards purchased poison 4 »t the drag store and took some of it, , and died about 9 o’clock in the evening. THe preliminary examination at Cur tis of the hog rustlers resulted in Jones, ' Davis anct Richmond being bound over 1 to the next term of the district court i under a bond of SGQ0 each. The testi mony was very damaging for all the de fendants B. A. Stack, of Kearney, was out riding when his horse became frighten ed at a sewer manhole and started to run. Stack became scared and jumped ' oat of the buggy, struck his head on the hard ground and died from the ef fect of his injury a couple of hours afterwards. * The illicit still used near McCook by Teeter and Abrogart was brought to Omaha last week. It consists of a cop * per kettle holding about fifty gallons of mash and having a copper cup with " a long spout attached. The end of the spout connects with the worm, it is * said to be one of tbs best stills erer found iu tbe west. Mo. Hamlin, one of the pioneers of the section about Arcadia, died recently at the home of his daughter, at Gales burg, III. The remains were brought to Arcadia to be buried beside those of his wife at Lee park. The funeral was attended by a large number of de ceased's neighbors and friends. Vatentine Gardener, Valentine Kelley, L’ri Tolbert, Mart Arnold and John liyerle of .Scotia were subpoenaed as witnesses before the grand jury of Omaha in matters connected with the continual violation of the revenue laws by parties in that village. An altercation occurred between two furmers living twenty miles northwest of Goring named Harris and Conkling, in the course of which the latter was struck on the hand with the bask of a heavy hoe, fracturing the skull. The injured man will probably die. A three-\* kak-oi.i> baby girl of F. W. Wallace, living near Salem, died last week from the effects of burns sus tained while attempting tp start a boa lire. Before her mother con 18 come to her assistance she was literally charred from head to foot, her clothing being nearly entirely consumed. John Hayes, alias Jack Cody, alias Charles Triester, was arrested near Grand Island, and taken to Hayes Cen ter on a charge of hog stealing. From letters in his possession he appears to be an all around crook, and is wanted in other places. He has in his posses sion a line thoroughbred horse and val uable equipments. H« pleaded guilty to stealing hqgs. Ernest Korkhstkix, a farmer living in West Blue township, Adams county, suffered a heavy loss by fire while in Hastings. His house caught fire, and when first discovered by Mrs. Kober stoin it was a seething mass of Haines She had just time to escupe with her little daughter. The house and con tents were entirely destroyed. Loss, SJ^ 000; partially insured. The republican state central commit tee met in Omaha last week and fixed the date for the state convention. It will be held in Omaha August Slid. The basis of representation will be one del egate for each 100 votes or major frac tion thereof east at the last state elec tion for 1. M. liaymond, candidate for regent, undone delegate at large. This will give the convention about one thousand delegates. The Northeast Nebraska Press asso ciation met in Norfolk on the 2;!d and .elected the following officers: W. N. ‘"lluse. Norfolk Daily News, president: II. M. McNeal, Wayne Herald, vice president; H J. Young, Hartington Herald, secretary: A. J. Ganger, West Point Ilepublican, treasurer; M. M. Warner, Lyons Mirror, historian. The next meeting of the association will be held at Norfolk on September 24, 1894. ■ General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific, who has just rounded up at the headquarters in Omaha from a trip of inspection over the system, says he found the road in first-ciass shape, but business very poor. “I never saw business so quiet,” said he, “and I can not see any prospect of there being an improvement in business. We will certainly build no new roads until business becomes better. ” i uncase in which the state of .Ne braska sues ex-Treusurer John E. Hill and his bondsmen for 9:.’30,3t>4.t>0, was formally commenced last week by the action of Attorney Deneral Hastings filing a praecipe with the clerk of the supreme court, directing that official to issue a summons in the case to the ex treasurer and his bondsmen. The clerk immediately issued the summons and placed them in the lian.ds of the sher iffs of Douglas, Lancaster and (Jage counties. Anna Poska has filed a petition in the district court of Lancaster county praying for a judgment of 95,000 against Aaron and Fannie Dray born. She alleges that on June 1, 18<J3, she was brutally assaulted by them, knock ed down, pounded and beaten with •ticks in the hands of the defenants. From the beating she received she' avers that she sustained permanent in juries from which she has suffered un told agony, - ; xur.-i.-M. iii-.u oAiuLti nas nieu ms an' swer as respondent in the case of the state of Nebraska in re William Stull and Louis Stull against Joseph F. Bart ley, as treasurer o f the state of Ne braska. The suit is brought by Stull Bros, in order to compel the treasurer to register state warrants when pre sen tea. The treasurer admits that Stull Bros, are the legal possessors of the warrant, but he denies that it has been firesented for payment according to aw. He says that no warrant can be registered by him until after it shall have been presented for payment. Of all the freaks that nature has pro duced, one reported by A. G. Dagerman of Douglas county takes the cake. One of his cows gave birth to a calf, which, if it had lived, would have had all the dime museum managers in the country after it. The entire under part of the animal from the fore to the hind legs was slit open, the entrails all being outside. The ribs were curved upward over the back. Its hind legs were bent upward and came up to the shoulders. But the strangest fact of all is that the animal was alive when born, although its death ensued almost immediately. When the evening train arrived in Cedar Bluffs the other night it unload ed John Lorcuzen, who deserted and left his family there ill destitute cir cumstances last fall. He is a butcher uy trade and at one time had a position in K. F. Peek's meat market, but lost his position through excessive use of liquor. He had the reputation of abus ing his family quite frequently. Since being deserted his wife has made a fair living by taking in washing. A short time after Lorenzen's arrival in town a number of citizens went after their man but did not succeed in getting him until the second trip. They then escorted him to the southern outskirts of the city and advised him to make tracks, informing him that if he ever showed up again he would find tar, feathers and a rope waiting for him. The reported damage to the beet crop in and around Norfolk on account of frost has been greatly exaggerated. The damage is but slight, and there is plenty of seed on hand to replace any of the plants which may be iujured. It is the opinion of many farmers that warm weather and sunshine will bring them all out without replanting. The Kansas City & Beatrice railroad, the Nebraska end of the Wyandotte, was sold last week at foreclosure sale for 8100,000, the purchaser paying $35, 000 cash, the balance to be paid when sale is confirmed by the court The road was bought by YV. 1*. Wagoner, an attorney for the Missouri Pacific. •FREE SILVER MEN. Blmctalllo League Adopra a Platform at Their Washington Meeting. Washington, May 85.—The Bimetal lic league yesterday considered the report of the committee on resolu tions. As finally adopted they de clare the league is unalterably op posed to the further issue of interest bearing bonds, that before cast ing their votes for congress men, the members of the league will require assurances of ad herence to the free coinage of silver and gold and at a 16 to 1 ratio, and a pledge that if a bill providing for such coinage is passed by congress, and vetoed by the president, they will work for and vote to pass the bill over the president's veto; that if the elec tion of president is thrown into the house they will vote only for the per son in favor of free coinage; denounce the present system of national banks as the monumental monopoly of the nineteenth century. They recommend the enactment of a system of currency that will insure a per capita circulation of $50. to be made up by the free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, and the issue of treasury notes; assert the discon tinuance of the silver money and teh repletion of the treasury by bond is sues is burdensome to the masses; de clare that it is the duty of the secre tary of the treasury to coin the bul lion now in the treasury and to pay interest on the public debt with silver and demand the issue of $450,000,000 non-interest bearing notes of small denominations. A resolution was adopted arraigning congress for legislation which it was alleged had burdened the people by benefiting the creditor class at the expense of the producing class, the issue of interest bearing bonds and demonetization of silver being es pecially denounced. The Convention adionrned sine die. COXEY CONTRIBUTIONS. Tbo General Sal4 te Be Considerably Abend en the Movement. Washington, May 25.—It ir said Coxey received a considerable sum of money from the citizens of Hyatta ville as compensation for the trouble of moving his camp from the suburbs of that pretty Maryland town. When ha first located in the place there was an indignation meeting, vigilance committee, and a great tumult among the citizens, but when they found that they could not bluff him away they quietly raised a purse and per suaded him to move his army to the present camping ground. A well known Washington labor leader has estimated that Coxey is $7,00(5 or more ahead on his common weal movement. He declares that Coxey from the day he left home has been constantly in receipt of checks, postal notes and currency from sym pathizers in his movement and that very little of this money has been ex pended on his followers, who have lived off the country ,but lias been put where it would do Coxey individ ually the most good. At first Coxey took special pains to huve published the names of contribu tors to his cause with the amounts of their donations, but this very soon ceased. No one knows, except Coxey himself, how much has been donated to the army of peace. It is asserted that these' contribu tions aggregate between $10,000 and $12,000, of which not more than one thircl is thought to have been ex pended on the army. GLADSTONE OPERATED ON. The Cataract Removed From the Right Rye—No Serious Results. London, May 23.— Mr. Gladstone's fight eye was operated on by Doctors Nettleship and llabershon in Lord Kcndell’s house. Some time after* wards they issued a bulletin stating that the eye had been operated on for cataract, and that the operation was very successful. Ihdlana Fopullsts In Convention. Indian Aroi.is, Ind., May 25.—The Indiana Populists met in state con vention in Tomlityeon hall, this city, at 10 o'clock to-day. The enthusiasts of the party predicted an attendance of 5,000, but 2,000 is probably the size of the convention. Leroy Templeton was made permanent chairman. A full state ticket will be nominated, but there are no really avowed candi dates. The platform is practically' the same as that adopted at Omaha. Train Stealers Sentenced. Cheyenne, Wyo., May 25.—B. F. Hughes, R. P. Weed and Charles O'Brien, commonweal leaders, who stole a Union Pacific train at Mont pelier, Idaho, last week and ran it to Cokeville, Wyo., where they were cap tured, were sentenced by Judge Riner of the United States court to five months’ imprisonment in the Lamarie county jail. Twelve others were sen tenced to four months’ imprisonment. Two Kansas Shafts Resume. Pittsburg, Kan., May 25.—The Weir coal company's shaft No. 3 has accepted 87% cents in summer and $1 in winter per ton for screen lump, and 52% and 60 cents for mine run coal and resumed work this morning. The men in No. 5 shaft of the West ern Coal and Mining company went to work again. Southern Illinois Strikers Riotous. Cextralia, 111., May 25.—About five hundred striking mners from DuQuoin and the St. Johns mine arrived to-day on an Illinois Central freight train and going to the Big Four mine de molished considerable of the machin ery and filled the shaft with about fifteen feet of debris, dump carts and other loose material.. Tatmuge's Narrow Kseape. Pueblo, Col., May 25.—Dr. Talmage, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, is in the city. While coming in on the Missouri Pacific, thirty miles from Pueblo, as the train approached a small bridge the engineer saw that it was in bad condition. It was too late to stop and so he pushed on full steam and crossed it with a rush. The pier* had been washed away, leaving only rails to hold up the bridge. The pas sage of the train practically shook it to pieces so that it would be impossi ble for another train to get over with out accident. TROOPS AGAINST DIPOTIfST GOVERNOR WAITE WITH THE STRIKERS. THE ATTORMET GENERAL'S OPINION. Holds That the Men Knrolled in Denver to Guard Cripple Creek Mines Are a Mob—Sensational Report About Eleven Miners Being Blown * Up Denied—Troops Out ‘ at Various l'laees. Denver, Col., May 28. —Governor Waite who does not hesitate to de clare that his sympathies are with the striking miners at Cripple Creek, asked Attorney General Engley for an opinion as to the right of a sheriff to obtain an armed force from another county than that in which he is an officer. The attorney .general returned a written opinion as follows: . That the organization of an armed force of men in Arapahoe county to march to or enter £1 Paso county for the purpose alleged, is conspiracy to do or aid to do an unlawful act. and all persons members of such armed force or co-operating to organize or to send or trans port the same Into one county from another, are guilty of a conspiracy to do an unlawful act. and the deputizing of such men to act us deputy sheriffs by the sheriff of El Paso coun ty is a vlolutlon of law. In case El Paso uses the armed force, as deputy sheriffs or as a posse comitatus and a riot or insurrection is precipitated by reason thereof, and said armed force acts inde pendently of said sheriff, and a riot or insur rection ensues by reason of an armed conflict with others, the chief executive of the state should preserve the peace of the common wealth, even if it should become necessary to call out the entire military force of the state. If the peace cannot be preserved otherwise, martial law should be declared in the particu lar district and all violators of public order, including the said armed forces should be summarily dealt with, that the dignity of the state may be maintained inviolate. All commandants of military posts throughout the state have been noti fied to hold themselves in readiness for an active service call. WAITE TO ISSUE A PROCLAMATION. Governor Waite said: “It is my dutj to stop this row. I shall probably issue a proclamation calling on all armed citizens to resume their daily avocations, and upon all lawless Ibodies to disperse. Those men from Denver who are under arms at Cripple Creek are. to my mind, rioters and an illegal body. _ In directing -all illegal bodies to disperse, those deputies must take cognizance of the warning just as must any and all other bodies.” At the sheriff’s office in this county the governor’s proclamation is re garded with more dread than the pos sibility of a conflict with the miners. “Sheriff Bowers will not disperse his men, if he is the man I think he is,” said Sheriff Burch inell, “at least I IvnillH nnf rlo i ♦ TIiq rvntrawn im* rnoir entertain an anarchistic view of the laws of Colorado, but as a sheriff, I believe I can deputize men regardless of where they come from or belong.’’ It has been learned that large quantities of arms and ammunition have been shipped from Denver to the Cripple Creek strikers during the past week. Two consignments consisted each of 800 guns and 50,000 rounds of ball cartridges. * The Cripple Creek mine owners, who have determined to reopen their mines under the protection of armed guards, are engaging men in this city and elsewhere to work at the rate of S3 per day of nine hours, About thirty commonwealers hired in this city left for Florence on the morning train under charge of ex-Adjutant General Kennedy. It is said that several hundred quarrymen and coal miners have been engaged at Pueblo, Colorado Springs and other places who'will be shipped to the mines to day. _ THE EXPLOSION STORY. vnppie ire«K jiinrm iwny imi meven Men Were Blown Up With Powder. Cripple Creek, CoL, May 28.—The sensational reports sent out from here that eleven men had been killed by the explosions of giant powder in the Strong mine on Battle mountain is positively denied by the miners here. They declare that before they applied the light to the fuse they took pre cautions to see that all the miners had left the' shaft. The fact that Superintendent Samuel McDonald and Foreman Charles Robinson of the mine were missing gave color to the murder reports, but miners declare that the two men had fled Thursday night because they were afraid to re main and put non-union men to work. About midnight the strikers seized an engine and cars at Victor and Wfent to Wilbur, ten miles down the Flor ence &. Cripple Creek road, where the Denver deputies were encamped. It is reported that at 4 o'clock the strik ers and the outpost of the deputies ex changed shots, and George Crowley, a miner, was killed and three injured while several of the deputies were wounded. As the wires have been , cut, particulars have not been ob tained. A non-union miner was shot and killed ip a saloon at Victor at 7 o'clock this morning. TROOPS MAY BE ATTACKED. Striking Coal Miner* About La Salle in., Plan Riot*—A Train Wrecked. La Salle, 111., May 28.—While an Illinois Central freight train was run ning toward Chicago at 10 o'clock last night, dt was ditched at the Oglesby coal incline, just a few miles.sonth of here, by an obstruction on the track. The engineer said that when he crashed into the obstruction he sa w a half u dozen men run away from the tracks. While the train men were jacking up the first set of trucks of the locomotive they were fired upon from the neighboring forests. Militia was sent to the scene and it was found that the strikers had piled railroad ties on the track. News of the wreck spread rapidly among the strikers of this oily. The city police made a determined effort to break up the groups in the street, but they were scarcely successful. The police have received informa tlon that the strikers have been hold ing a secret meeting today in which they planned an attack on the mill* tary for tonight. CHARGES AGAINST RAMSEY. The Grand Chief Telegrapher on Trial for Many Peculiar Actions* Denver, Col., May S8.—The trial of Grand Chief Telegrapher Ramsey is in progress in the convention of the order behind closed doors. Ue is charged in thirty-nine counts with violation of the laws and sages of the order. A. J. Applegate of the Wichita division presides and Ramsey is represented by A. 1). Thurston, grand editor of the order, and the prosecution by M. M. Dolphin of the Kansas City division. One of the most serious charges made by Grand Secretary Weatherbee is that of obtaining money irregularly and destroying records by tearing leaves from the cash book and other books. Weatherbee also charges that Ramsey had reported in his expense accounts having paid railroad fare when he rode on passes.’ Some mem bers estimate that $35,000 has dis appeared, for which no satisfactory account has been made. It is claimed that Ramsey engaged his brother and wife as lerks in liis office when the ad ditional assistance was unnecessary. One charge which is receiving care ful attention is that during the Atlan tic and Pacific strike two years ago Ramsey sold out to the company by sending operators to take the places of the strikers and sent his brother to take charge of them and report at Topeka. AT LEAVENWORTH. A Decided Improvement In the Strike Situation. Lkavknworth, Kan., May 28.—The miners of this city, with the exception of about 100 from the Kansas and Texas shafts, are at work to-da3r, and there is a decided improvement over yesterday in the situation. The Missouri agitators held meet ings yesterday afternoon and last night, but only a few of the local miners attended.and practically noth ing was accomplished. They are not. advising a strike, but insist that the operators should sign contracts for six months at the present prices, ninety cents per ton for mine run coal. Business men are a unit against a strike, and have informed the inen that if they go out not a cent’s worth of credit will be given to them. This will be more potent than 1,000 men with arms. ALABAMA TROOPS ON DUTY. Yourteen Companies In Camp Guarding the Threatened Mining Property. Birmingham, Ala., May 28.—Four teen military companies went into camp at Ensley, near Pratt City, to day at the order of Governor Jones to maintain the peace in the strike re gion and to guard the property. They will stay ten days and then another regiment will follow, -and be followed in turn by a third. Miners Helze a Train. Tkrre Haute, Ind., May 2S.—There are 800 miners in the Big Four yards at Terre Haute holding a captured freight train in which they propose to ride to Pana, 111. Mayor Boss has re fused to interfere until the company issues warrants. Sheriff Stout has been appealed to and has given the same answer. The men do not pro pose tp leave the train, on which they tame from Fontaine. FLOODS IN THE NORTHWEST. Melting Snow Causes Freshets and Great Daifaage In Washington State. Skatti.e, Wash., May 28.—The hot weather of the past few days has melted the mountain snow and filled all streams flowing into Puget sound. Skagit river is higher than for four teen years and is still rising. At Mount Vernon business is sus pended, the whole lower part of the town being flooded. Fifteen square miles of the farming land around Mount Vernon will be under water before night and crops will be inun dated. Skagit Delta, more than ten square miles, is under water, and so is Olym pia marsh. Hamilton, Avon and Ster ling are inundated, and it is said three miles of the Ureat Northern track near Fir is washed out. Practi cally all the farming land in Skagit county is under water. KIbbINu HELD DAHUEHUUS. The Orange, N. J„ Board of Health Takes a Stand Against Osculation, Orange, N. J., May 28. —The sani tary committee of the local board of health last night recommended that a circular be issued to the people ask ing everyone to desist as much as pos sible from kissing, as the touch of lips was likely to bring diphtheria. One of the persons might have the germs in the throat and communicato the disease to the other. Tracey on Free Coinage. Washington, May 28.—Representa tive Tracey of New York, who has been most active in defeating Repre sentative Bland’s silver moves, sayB that all chance of a free coinage measure at a ratio of 16 to 1 is at an end in the present congress. He also joins issue with Mr. Bland in the lat ter's statement that the recent Mis souri convention indorsed free coin age at 16 to 1, saying: “Mr. Bland was'given a platform that, he must realize better than most men, ends all chance of free coinage being adopted at 16 to 1 with silver selling at sixty two cents an ounce. ” All Evidence Stolen. Rome, May 28.—All the documents which the public prosecutor had col lected in connection with the prosecu tion of directors and other officials and papers connected* with the Banca Romano case have mysteriously dis appeared and it is supposed that they have been stolen. The Northern I’acltl ii'i lllg l ow. Washington, May 28.—The North ern Pacific railroad company to-day lost the Barden suit in the supreme court, involving millions of acres of mineral lands within the limitsof the Northern Pacific land grant. I senators *•»« Seh.iuu . meats. ,l1*' WASH1H0T0S, May 24_-m. disposed of seven jwrair'ra^* *,en*S metal schedule yesterday hours of debate. Ttadeh^f *‘ght marked by quite a number^i''* estmer clashes between theLl,T cans and Democrats. The sen?^ al feature of the day was caused £ the unexpected presentation by u’ Jones of an amendment submit,,. .h.McK„>,„, MU specific rates on round iron in ooih blooms and charcoal iron, somewb', A iuan those already p.£ posed. The amendment surprise to some senators on\0,J sides, although evidently antieimt,^ by Mr. Quay and a few UerTS colleagues. Mr. Hale tried to use ! as a text for taunting the Democrats1 and Mr. leller read him a very piab lecture on the duty of the RenS? cans to accept such increase d Democrats were willing to , ... without continually chidfng their •«]' versanes with inconsistency. the vote was taken six ? and three Populists refused?,,* tlie Jones substitute, namely: Allen Mills, Pascoe and Peffer. The rit« fixed yesterday were as follows: Iron ore, 40 cents per ton. PifT iron, scrap iron, etc., St per ton Round-iron in coils, eight-tenths a cent per pound. Slabs, blooms, less finished than bars, fire-eighths of a cent per pound 1 harcoal blooms, $12 per ten. Reams, girders and other structural iron or steel, six-tenths of a cent tier pound. 1 Roller plate, from five-tenths to ’5 per cent ad valorem. Forging of iron or steel, V/, cents. Hoop or band iron or steel (cotton ties), 30 per cent ad valorem. Just before tlie tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Walsh, the new senator from (ieorgia, arose to a personal explana tion in connection with a newspaper paragraph from fit. Paul stating that the Hrotherhood of Locomotive I'.noi neers had adopted resolutions con demning him for introducing a hill making the retarding of the United States mail punisnnble by imprison ment for twenty years. Mr. .,\VaWi explained that the bill aimed at heavier penalties for train robbers; they had construed it as an attempt to punish trainmen.who should tie-up a train in a strike. NO WOMEN PREACHERS. Cumberland Presbyterians Decide Ajainst Them by a Very Small .Majority. Eugene, Ore., May 24.—Yesterday was the most exciting day of the Cum berland Presbyterian assembly. The report of the judicial committee, which made both majority and minor ity reports, was taken up. The ques tion at issue was whether a woman shall be ordained to preach. The par ticular case in point is that of Sirs. Woolery. The minority report favoring ordina tion was lost—85 to 81. Then the majority report was carried. A motion was made for a reconsidera tion, but tlic motion was tabled ami the matter rests for the present at least. It is probable the matter will finally be turned to the presbytery, and after their action be brought before the general assembly another year. _ mns. UE.M3L vnl I » Badly Tha Famoni Female Populist Crippled Bj Rheumatism.. Olathe, Kan., May 24.—While it is given out that Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease is improving, she is really no better and her condition is regarded as critical. She has sciatic rheuma tism of her left leg and inflammatory rheumatism of her right hand. He? leg is so drawn that she rests with:I bent at the knee, and it is impossible to straighten it entirely. The tiugers of her hand are also drawn and thd hand swollen And to add to her pam pus is forming in the palm caused by a bruise received in traveling a few weeks ago. Harper’s Young Peoi*le, published May 15, has among its contents: A Guardian in a Life-Boat,” “A •journey Into the African Jungle,” “Them* Seal’s Tooth,” a story of Alaskan ad venture; ‘‘A Young Carolina Kebei, “The Girl Furnishes Her Boom, * Duel With Harpoons,” “A Paradox, “Two Ladies,” a poem; humorous P tures and paragraphs. Eight-page » P* plement, the Bound Table. LITE STOCK AND PRODtlE Quotations from Sew York, Chicago,sfc Louis, Omaha and Elsewbers. OMAHA. Butter—Creamery orlnt.. Butter—Choice country.. Eggs—Fresh. Honey—ter lb.. ••• Chickens—Live, per #>■■■ Chickens- Spring per do*. (it 10 1« 1214® L 2 5o ®4<J; 1 25 @ 1 * l’igeous-Old, per do*.. @ 4« Lemons...Z a a Oranges—Florida.. JJ 2 Mnennnldk-Pprdn/....A A I ineapples-Per doz Potatoes. Beans—Navy t'weet Potatoes 2 0* . 8.» 2 jo Seed*per bbt,. 3 00 & i'w ticv t wtuwoo *» 7; onions—New Southern per bbi. ■i « ® 325 $400 @4 00 @470 @4 00 @3 60 @4 00 @ 3 10 00 uogl-Hlavy w^ightl::::::'.:" *» Beeves—Stoc^erfancfh^ieders 3 00 Steers—Fair to good. J 5 steers—Westerns.. 5 50 w _ . Sheep—Natives. J M new yobk. Wheat-No. 2, red winter. ^ Corn—No. .. .0 @ 41 Oats—Mixed western.. m @|3M> Pork.!"!'.!. 7 30 W'40 ^ .cH IC AGO. Wheat—No. 8 spring. 37 ® 37 * Corn—Per bu.a. yg @ Oats—Per ..70 toll Pork.•••••.* g 92yM 7 ^ ’’mixed!.... 3 75 '@4 80 @400 (tfl 5 —• 614 37* 364 Lard..._ ^tl^S^Aro^:: 4« Sheep-Lambs...-...^— Wheat-No. 2 red. cash.- !j! Corn—Per bu. Oats—l’er bu... 4 £5 @ 4 SO Hogs—Mixed packing. 3 gj @ 4 12*» Cattle—Native steers. 375 @4 00 Sbeep Natives. KANSAS CITY. B Wheat—No. 2 red, cash. 35 (!!l ay. Corn—No. . yg <& 3o» Oats—No. 2...•••_•••%*’ll" 9 00 3 5t> Cattle—Stockers and feeders.. * ^ 4 *5 Hogs—Mixed packers.... -; --- STOCK IN SIGHT. {ouf Record ofroceipts of Hvestoc 1!WJ. principal yards for Tuesday. ^ ^ South Omaha. jMJ ° Chicago..... Kansas City...,. J’SS SU .ouls. - 9,753 13.0 0 14.900 0,101 2> 1,400 11,472 43.7S* 11540 Totals.