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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.