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OYER THE STATE.
There were fourteen graduates from
the Osceola high school.
Tine Salem Chautauqua will not be
held until some time in August
The loss of tho Street Car company
of Nebraska City by lira was about
to,000.
Thk city council of Tecumsch has
declared war on nickel-ln-tlie-slot ma
chines.
Thk boycott inaugurated against
•ome of the Omaha breweries has been
declared off.
Citizens of l’lattsmouth have raised
a good sum for celebration of the
Fourth of July.
J. W. Buck of Iloldrege shipped 10,
000 pounds of butter designed for the
English market
Nebraska City reports her cherry
crop much larger than anticipated and
prices very good.
C. H. Wai.kkh, living one mile north
of Surprise, lost a horse, it having been
bitten by a rattlesnake.
James Fox, an old citizen of Omaha,
was run over and killed last week. His
head was entirely severed from his
body.
Craki claims to have done a better
freight business this year for the month
of May than It did last year by over
•1.000.
• The Ainsworth Lumber company has
secured the government contract for
furnishing its milling products to the
Indians.
Tim Lancaster county teachers' insti
tute will be held at the state university,
beginning Monday, June 18, and clos
ing June 30.
The Star says that hay is a very
scarce article in. Dorchester, and from
present indications it may be more so
in the future.
Tub Ancient Order of Hibernians
will hold a state convention at Tecum
seh, June 20th. State officers will be
elected at the meeting.
Saline county land is assessed at an
average price of 83.19 per acre. No
one can complain that the assessment
is unreasonably high.
Fon the month of April the total
•mount of milk received at the Lyons
creamery was 248,143 pounds, and total
gross receipts 81,973.07.
Diebs & Day, general merchants of
Surprise, closed their store preparatory
to moving their stock to Fullerton, Day
having sold his interest to Diers Bros.
Mrs. Rudiger, on trial at Omaha the
second time for the killing of Henry
Reiser some months ago, was declared
not guilty. The former jury disagreed.
The Round Grove postoffice in Cus
ter county has been discontinued after
having been established fourteen years
Mail for that place now goes to Mason
City.
An effort is being made to locate a
business college in Nebraska City. It
is understood that the promoters have
fair assurance of success in their under
taking.
Gonkbnor Crounse and Congressman
Bryan have been chosen as orators for
the Fourth of July celebration at Ne
braska.city, and each has accepted the
invitation.
The county supervisors of Antelope
county met and declared the election
• court house tax carried. The board
is now considering plans and specifica
tions for a 813,000 building.
Norfolk’s new hotel and opera house
is assured. L. J. Reno has secured the
necessary capital to put up a 830,000
building. Citizens will be invited to
make up 85,000 of the amount.
Lou Carroll was convicted at Hast
ings of larceny of 830 from the person
of T. C. Archer, a farmer, while both
were upon a spree. The amount is
•uffleient to. send him to the peniten
tiary.
w iiL Carper s barn at Petersburg,
together with his team and two horses
belonging to other parties, were burn
ed while he was eating breakfast. The
origin of the fire is not known. Carper
had his team insured.
Mr and Mrs. Edward Pheasant,
highly esteemed residents of western
Gage county, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary last week. A
large number of Beatrice friends were
present on the occasion.
Manly HorrER, the 12-year-old son
of M. D. Hopper of Petersburg, was
thrown,out of a wagon by a runaway
team, and when picked up was uncon
acioua No serious damage was done
to either the boy or team.
E. Werner came to Nebraska City
oome time ago and has been employed
as an agent for the Singer Sewing Ma
chine company, lie left town suddenly
the other day, and several creditors are
anxiously awaiting his return.
Fire destroyed the Nebraska City
Street Car company house, together
with eighteen head of horses and one
h, car. The barn of John Walker, adjoin
ing southwest, was also totally de
stroyed. The loss is not given.
Michael Kepdisgton, a well-to-do
property owner and a pioneer citizen of
Omaha, aged 05 years, suicided last
week by shooting himself in the head
while in a lit of despondency. He was
troubled over financial matters.
The contest over the county seat
• question which has existed between
Oakdale and Neligh for some time, has
•virtually been settled by the voting of
a 10 mill tax for the building of a court
house at Neligh, the present county
. seat.
Frank A. Lunda, who deserted from
l, ■'* the Sixth United States cavalry at Fort
>. Niobrara in March last, was arrested
by Chief of Police Heed at Beatrice
Md is being held, awaiting instruc
tions from the regular army authori
ties.
The county seat election for Deuel
county has been called for Saturday,
iJuue 23, with three towns in the race
for honors, viz: Chappell, Big Springs
and Froid. At the election held in that
county some five years ago Big Springs
polled over 5,000 votes for county seat.
Georoe Carpenter, aged 59, and Mr:
Catherine E. Nelson, aged 48, were mai
vied last week in Nebraska City b
County Judge Eaton. The fact i
worthy of mention because this make
Ahe groom's fourth and the bride’s thir
. ybuture upon the uncertain sea of mai
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Titk special attraction at Humboldt
for the Fourth of July will be bioycle,
trotting1, pacing and running races, for
which purses are offered aggregating
StO,
Fire destroyed the Moffit livery barn
in O’Neill, The building was unoccu
pied at tho time. The residence of E.
M. Moflitt, which was adjacent to the
barn, was destroyed.
Thk house of 8. Doty of Urafton was
entered by burglars and $33 in cash
taken, besides valuable papers. The
family had ail retired except Mr. and
Mrs. l)oty. They were in the kitchen.
The burglars entered a distant room by
removing the screens and waising the
window.
Frank Rower was arrested at Scrib
ner by Sheriff Ackerman of Stanton
county on the charge of larceny. He
is charged with the theft of 335 bush
els of corn in the southern part ol
Stanton county of which Henry Pelli
tier was the* owner. He pleaded
guilty.
Tmc people of Falls City are work
ing had to have the Missouri Pacific
division headquarters removed from
Hiawatha, Kas., to tneir town. A com
mittee has been appointed to confer
with the officials and they are now in
St Louis endeavoring to persuade them
to make the change.
S. K. Sutherland, a farmer nearly 60
years of age, was coining to Elmwood
with a load of hogs. His team became
frightened and ran away, upsetting
the wagon and load of hogs on him,
breaking his arm and bruising him up
severely. A large hog weighing about
000 pounds was killed.
The committee appointed at a recent
meeting of the Arlington school board
to check up the accounts of the treas
urer found a shortage of $401.30. The
town treasurer's books show tho money
to have been turned over to District
Treasurer VV. D. liadger, but no credit
appears on the district books.
Lars Ciinistianson, a well-to-do far
mer living six miles south and two
miles west from Holdrege, shot his
wife twice and then turned the revol
ver on himself and pulled the trigger,
lie died almost instantly. The woman
was living at last reports. Domestic
troubles seemed to be the cause of the
deed.
1 me annual meeting of the Richard
son County Farmers’ Mutual Fire and
Lightning insurance company was held
last week. About 150 farmers were
present. The company was organized
in 1887, and now has 445 members,with
risks in force amounting to $050,000.
The total loss of the company in these
seven years has only been $55.25.
L. II. Amherst was arrested in the
postofiiee at Omaha by Deputy Marshal
lioehme, charged with using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. lie advertised
in several papers for papers for help
and requested the enclosure of a 75
eent postal note to insure answer. It
is estimated that he made a neat sum
in this manner.
The general merchandise store of E.
S. Sears at North Loup was entered by
thieves last week and the safe blown
open and $30 or $40 in cash obtained,
and the books and valuable papers
taken. The books were found in a
hidden place later in the day. The
work is supposed to have been done by
two suspicious looking characters that
were seen about town.
The Shelton Clipper tells of a farmer
living near Wood river who raised two
acres of peanuts last year, harvesting
a yield of forty-tivo bushels per acre. He
sold the crop at $1.50 per bushel. The
expense was $30 per acre, leaving a net
profit of $37.50 per acre. In addition
to this he found that the vines of the
crop were worth fully as much as the
best hay for feeding.
In reporting the number of pounds
of butter turned out of the creamery
last week, says the Falls City Journal,
we stated that 4,500 pounds were turn
ed out in the month of May, when it
should have been 4,500 pounds a week,
as 17,300 pounds were turned out dur
ing the month. There are thirty-two
cream routes and cream comes from a
number of points in Kansas.
Rsi.iAni.E information has reached
Lincoln that of the thirteen Duffers
that abandoned the Industrial army
in that city to accept work with that
railroad corgmration in Montana, only
two reached the scene of operations
and actually began work. One of these
quit after holding down his job a little
more than two weeks. Nobody knows
where the deserters went.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Elm
! wood was. broken into by burglars re
cently. An entrance was effected by
cutting out a pane of glass in the north
window. All of the express matter
and some of the freight was opened
up, but nothing of value taken. Charles
Kroft, the station agent, is the greatest
loser, as his trunk was opened and his
watch and an $8 revolver taken.
A jury in the district court of Hall
county, found A. J. McGee guilty of
bastardy. The complainant is Miss
Emma Gideon, a prominent young lady
of Doniphan, in which city the defend
ant also resides. The trial occupied
two days, and thirty witnesses wqre
summoned for the parties in the bas
tardy case. Miss Gideon is the daugh
ter of Doniphan's former postmaster.
Care Ream of Dakota City went un
invited to a park in the Wildwood
where a few people were holding a pri
vate wake over numerous kegs of “the
foaming.” He returned a half hour
later with his countenance horribly
disfigured, and played even the next
day by smashing a man who proved to
be entirely innocent of having helped
to bring him to grief. The court will
adjudicate the matter.
t. i*j. larger, an old and prominent
citizen of Edgar, died last week. He
bad been ailing for several years past
with chronic inflammation of the stom
ach and had become greatly emaciated
before taking to his bed nine weeks
ago. The interesting and wonderful
feature of this case is that notwith
standing his great emaciation he lived
forty days without food, being unable
to retain anything on his stomach ex
cept a little water.
The latest crop bulletin says: “The
reports, while much more encour
aging than those of the preceding two
weeks, are not quite as favorable as it
was hoped they would be. This is due,
no doubt, to the fact that most of our
correspondents forward their reports
before the beneficial effects of the rains
on Friday night had become very no
ticeable. Nearly all localities in the
state have been visited by refreshing
showers, and that they have been of
incalculable benefit to all crops except,
possibly in some sections, oats and
winter wheat there can be no question.
BOLDLY OWNS UP TO HAVING
BOUGHT TRUST STOCK.
HE SAYS HE WOULD DO SO AGAIN.
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j Senator Kannom'i Son Alto Dealt In the
Stock—A Lari;© Number of Senators
Called Before the Investigating
Coin ink tec—Other Late Wash
ington News of General
Interest.
Washington, June IS.—Senator
Quay was before the sugar trust com
mittee just before 3 o'clock. He
boldly told the committee that ho
had bought sugar stock for specula
tion and that he would do so again.
When Senator Ransom appeared be
fore the senate sugar trust investiga
tion committee to-day, he was asked,
as were other senators who had been
before the committee, the following
question by Senator Lodge: “Has
any member of your family or any
person in your employ or any clerk
employed under the laws of the United
States in your service, been to your
knowledge, interested in any of the
ways indicated in any of tile preced
ing questious in any transactions in
sugar stocks or certificates during the
period mentioned?"
Mr. Ransom said that Thursday
night he had been visited at his home
by Mr. Howland, correspondent of
the New York Press, who asked him
substantially the same question as
had been put to him by the commit
tee. lie had made an explicit denial,
whereupon Mr. Howland informed
him that a brokerage firm in this city
—Silsbee & Co.—had an entry in their
books which indicated that the sena
tor had speculated in sugar stocks
during the period of the tariff debate.
• “Mr. Howland,” continued Mr.
Ransom, “asked me if I knew any
other person by the name of Ransom
in the city. I told him I knew of but
one person in the city by the name of
Ransom and that was my son George
who was my clerk, ile asked me
where he was and I said he was in the
parlor and I would step in and bring
him in. I was perhaps more cautious
than the occasion required and I said
to Mr. Howland that I would thank
him to come with me to
the door so that he could see no com
munication should take place between
me and my son. I went to the parlor
door where George was and beckoned
him to come in. I did not speak to
him or see him between the parlor
and my room, and when he got in my
room I asked the gentlemen to state
their business to him. and told my
son whatever the matter was to tell
the truth about it.”
“My son,” Mr. Ransom went on,
“stated that he had bought some
sugar stock on the 17th or 18th of
April. He put up a margin of $10
which he paid the broker on sugar
stock. He said on the same day he
put up a margin of $35 on cotton. He
said he lost on cotton and made $10
on the sugar and that after that he
repeated the same bet on sugar, but
not on cotton, and I think he lost the
second. He then stated that he and
Captain Barnes, a messenger here at
the commerce committee room, after
that on two occasions bought $10
worth of sugar stock. They went in
together. I asked the correspondent
to examine my son as fully as he
pleased and examine Captain Barnes,
too.”
Mr. Rasom proceeded to relate that
about two weeks ago Captain Barn es
had come to him to tell him that a
friend had informed him that he (the
senator) had been speculating in
sugar. The senator denied the story
and sent Barnes to investigate it
The latter returned with the assur
ance that there was no basis for the
assertion.
The senator had told the corre
spondent Howland about this incident
withholding the name of Barnes’ in
formant which had been communi
cated to him in confidence.
Senator Ransom advised the com
mittee to examine Mr. Barnes and
see if his story did not correspond
with what had Just been stated to the
committee.
The senators examined up to this
morning were Messrs. Lodge, Gray,
Alien, Lindsay and Davis, members of
the investigating committee, and Al
drich, Allison, Bate, Berry, Black
burn, Blanchard, Brice, Call, Camden,
Carey, Chandler, Cockrell, Coke, Cul
lom, Daniel, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Du
bois, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger,
George, Gibson, Hale, Hansbrough,
Harris, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar
and llunton.
All denied having had any dealings
in sugar stocks of any knowledge of
such deals.
A NEW RECORD BY CONGRESS.
Only Eighty-Five 1’ubllc and Eighteen
Private Bills So Far Passed.
Washington, June 18.—Up to to-day
only eighty-five public measures have
been enacted into law and the private
laws are limited to the unprecedented
ly small number of eighteen.
The whole number of bills intro
duced in the house is 7,453—far below
the average. Of these 1.086 have been
reported—also far below the usual
number at this date. The falling off
of bills, reports, etc., has been so
great that it has been one of the main
causes of the recent wholesale reduc
tion of force in the government print
ing office. It is said that the former
fiublic printer, Mr. Palmer, establ
ished his force with the expectation
that the amount of work to be done
by this congress would keep pace
with that of former congresses, and
that this in part accounts for the
large surplus of help Public Printer
Benedict found when he recently as
sumed charge.
The large falling off in general
legislation is attributed to the cen
tering of interest in the tariff and to
the depleted condition of the treasury.
Senators and members have known
that it was useless to press bills for
public buildings and other appropria
tions in view of the stringency at the
treasury and have refrained from
urging private measures. Owing to
delays and objections of various kinds
only two private pension bills have
pot through the lious: and become
laws. As a rule the private pension
acts are so numerous that the total of
private bills is. very large.
The house calendar up to date is
clear of all appropriation bills except
the deficiency, but there are 130 im
portant general bills awaiting a hear
ing and eighty-six bills of a general
character Dot carrying an appropria
tion. Among these arc bills to admit
New Mexico and Oklahoma to state
hood, to send a congressional commis
sion to examine the Nicaragua
canal route, to finally adjudicate
swamp land grahts, to permit pen
sions to non-residents, to establish
consular inspection of immigrants, to
investigate the effect of machinery
on labor, to investigate the wages of
women and children, to construct
canals from Lake Superior to the
Mississippi river and from Lake Erie
to the Ohio river, to prohibit dealings
in options, to promote the efficiency of
the naval militia, to establish a uniform
bankruptcy system and to aid the
Southern Cotton exposition. Quite a
number of these will get a hearing,
but the number to be interrupted by
adjournment will be exceptionally
large. _
WORKING ON WOOL CLAUSES.
The Senate Begin* Active Consideration
of the Schedule—Vest on Shoddy.
Washington, Juno 18.—After the
close vote in the senate yesterday
afternoon on the Peffer amendment
to put low duties on wool, Mr. Sher
man offered an amendment, which
was defeated, 2!) to 34, and Mr. Peffer
one to place all woolen manufactures
on the free list. This was taken up
when the senate met to-day and at
once voted upon. It was defeated—3
to 46. The three Populists, Allen,
Kyle and Peffer, alone voting in
favor of it. Mr. Hansbrough an
nounced that he would have voted
“aye” had he not been paired.
The senate then plunged into the
actual consideration of the woolen
schedule. The first paragraph (278)
placed a duty of 15 per cent on wool
and hair in the form of stubbing,
waste, mungo shoddy, corded waste,
carbonized noils and wool in the form
of roving, roping or tops in the follow
ing paragraphs dutiable at 15 per cent.
Mr. Vest explained that the finance
committee had been moved to place a
duty on shoddy and waste in order to
exclude them from the country. One
of the purposes of placing wool on the
free list was to discourage the manu
facture of shoddy. Under the McKin
ley act the manufacture of shoddy
had doubled. Last year it had reached
890,000,000.
THE NEW EIGHTH CIRCUIT.
Martin of Kansas Scliumlng bat I'liUlps
or Thayer More Likely.
Washington, June 18.—The bill pro
viding for an additional United States
circuit judge in the Eighth circuit has
already passed the senate and the
favorable report made on it yesterday
by Mr. Terry of the house judiciary
committee is accepted as conclusively
indicative of its unopposed passage to
the statute books.
The eighth judicial circuit is made
up of the districts of Minnesota,
Morthern and Southern Iowa, Eastern
and Western Missouri, Eastern and
Western Arkansas, Nebraska, Colo
rado, Kansas, North and South Da
kota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Okla
homa and Utah. Circuit Judge Cald
well was appointed from Arkansas
and Circuit Judge Sanborn from Min
nesota, so these two states are thrown
out by the gossipers to start with.
Senator Martin of Kansas is ambi
tious to fill the new bench, but it is
beileved that Judges Phillips and
Thayer stand a better show than he
does of getting there.
PROBABLY A MURDER.
The Body of Henry Uhlinger of St.
Joseph Found In the River*
St. Joseph, Mo., June 18.—The
body of Henry Uhlinger,' who dis
appeared from this city several
weeks ago, was dragged from the
Missouri river at Atchison this morn
ing. The body had a wound presum
ably made by a bullet, and Uhlinger
was probably murdered and his body
thrown in the river. When he disap
peared he bad 8600 in his possession,
none of which was found on the body
to-day.
OVERPOWERED BY COXEY1TES.
North Dakota Officers Attacked and Re
lieved of Weapons—Four Wounded.
Jamestown, N. D., June 18.—The
I Coxeyites who stole a train at
Dawson and who were surrounded
by the marshal’s posse a
short distance west of here are again
headed for this city afoot, having at
tacked the deputies pt a given signal,
relieved them of their weapons and
departed. In the skirmish four depu
ties were shot, how seriously is not
known.
A BraYe Tonne Farmer.
Richmond, Ky., June 18.—Six young
ladies were capsized at Flint in the
Kentucky river last night. Jack
Sewell, a young farmer, saw the mis
hap and leaping into the river rescued
one. Then he returned and swam to
shore with two and finally he saved
two more. The sixth sank before he
could reach her, but he recovered the
body.
Xo In It 11 V^raiim for Chicago.
Washington, June 18.—Chicago lost
the Indian supply house in the house
to-day. Mr. O’Neill of Massachusetts,
in the chair, on motion of Mr. Strauss
of New York ruling that the proposed
removal of the warehouse from New
York to Chicago was new legislation
and on its face did not reduce appro
priations.
The Anti-Options Bill Next.
Washington, June 18.—Mr. Hatch
of Missouri announced to-day that he
would call up the anti-options bill
Monday. He expressed confidence
that it would receive prompt atten
tion and that it would pass by a large
majority.
Westers Imprisoned at n Fort.
Omaha, Neb., June 18.—Judge
Dundy has decided that the 250 com
monwealers captured at Ogalla shall
be taken to Fort Sidney, recently
abondoned, and kept until tried ana,
if convicted, compelled to serve sen
tence there.
SENSATIONAL EXPOSE.
THE CORRUPTION OF THE NEV
YORK POLITICIANS.
Blackmail of the Police Shown Up
Three Thousand Six Hundred Men
Divide Over 918,000,000 Each Year—
Disreputables Forced to Pay Enor
mously for “Protection" — Merchants
and Others Levied Upon for Special
Privileges.
New York’* Corruption*
New York, Juno 15.—A New York
paper, which has heretofore been re
garded as friendly to Tammany,
printed to-day over a column under
the head of “Police Revenue,” show
ing the amount of illegitimate reven
ue received by the police of New
York annually, based upon the testi
mony thus far taken before the Lexow
senatorial investigation committee.
The number of men employed on
the police force, which is 3,600, and
the amount appropriated by the board
of estimates in the budget of 1894
was $5,139,147. This amount is en
tered up as the legitimate sum re
ceived by the police force for its main
tenance.
The paper then continues: “The
testimony brought out by the Lexow
investigating committee shows that
the police, in addition to their sala
ries from the city, have had an addi
tional income contributed by the
keepers of disorderly houses, saloons,
gambling houses, merchants and push
cart peddlers. This extra income is
called ‘paying for protection’ by
those who pay. By the public
it is sometimes called blackmail.
The _ police probably call it
‘perquisites.’ If the testimony is true
the police were very vigilant in lo
cating all persons who could be
forced to contribute to this extra
fund for their benefit. While an extra
estimate of the income of the police
from these sources is impossible at
this stage of the 'investigation,
enough facts have been made public
to show that it was enormous, and
approximately correct figures can be
made.” -
The fact is cited chat there are
7,000 saloons in the city of New York,
and the paper reckons that the
alleged police charges for protection
for side doors open on Sunday is 810 a
week for each saloon. Allowing that
only half of the saloons paid these
charges, the total of one year is
81,820,000.
The paper quotes an official of the
police department who estimates the
number of degraded women in the
city to be 45,000. Upon the basis of
the last census an estimate of five
persons to a house is made, and upon
this basis it is stated that the 45,000
immoral women in New York are quar
tered in 9,000 disorderly houses. Ac
cording to the alleged police schedule
of prices for opening disorderly
houses, the income of the police from
this one source is estimated by the
paper to be 83,600,000. After the
opening of these immoral houses, ac
cording to the evidence before the
Lexow committee, the keepers of the
houses are required to pay from 850 to
8100 per month and the paper reckons
that from this source the police re
ceive an annual income of 88,100,000.
Four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year is estimated as the
amount of the alleged extra charges
for special favors and protection from
the police. The estimated income
from gambling houses and, policy
shops is 8165,000 a year.
There are reckoned to be other
special rates levied upon merchants
for the privilege of putting boxes
upon their sidewalks, merchants who
want to keep open on Sunday, and
push cart peddlers who want to evade
the city ordinance that prohibits them
from standing more than five minutes
in one place.
. The paper states that 200 new po
licemen are placed upon the force
each year and estimates upon the
basis of the alleged rate of 8300 to get
on the force, that the income from
this source is SGO.OOO a year.
The grand total, made upon the
1 basis of the testimony presented '
before the Lexow committee, includ
ing the legitimate appropriation made
by the state to maintain the police
and the other items abort referred to,
aggregate 815,354,147. The following
arc the items which enter into this
total: From the city, 85.139,147.G4;
disorderly houses, 88,120,000; saloons,
81.820,000; gambling houses, 8165,000;
merchants and peddlers, 850,000; new
members of the force, 860,000; grand
total income. 815,354,147.64.
TO MARK A FAMOUS SPOT.
Tne ronndatloa or tha Dobbs Ferry
Monument Laid With Ceremonies.
New York, June 15.—The New York
society of the Sons of the American
Revolution laid the foundation stone
to-day of a monument at Dobbs Ferry,
designed to mark the spot where
Washington had his headquarters in
1771 aDd planned the decisive cam
paign against Cornwallis. The mon
ument will stand in front of the old
Livingstone house. It will be of gray
granite and will stand in the center
of a semi-circular wall. A statue of
Count de Rochambeau will ultimately
surmount it.
June 14 was chosen for the celebra
tion of the laying of the base stone,
because it is the anniversary of the
date when the stars and stripes were
first selected as the official standard
of the United States. The steamboat
Howard Carroll left West Forty-fourth
street at 10 o'clock this morning for
Dobbs’ Ferry with about 1,000 persons
on board, members of the Sons of the
Revolution and their guests. Among
the latter were Vice president Stev
enson and family, Secretary Herbert,
Assisstant Secretary McAdoo, Ad
miral Oherardi, Admiral Benhara,
General W. A. Stryker, Postmaster
Dayton, General Fitz John Porter and
many other well known men. Pres
ident Cleveland, Sir Julian I’auncefote
tile British ambassador, and M. Pat
renotre the French ambassador, sent
their regrets, as did also Governor
Flower and Mavor Gilrov.
Santa Fa Shop Hands’ Time Cut.
Topeka, Kan., June 15.—The Santa
Fe shop hands in Topeka, commencing
to-morrow, will hereafter work only j
thirty-two hours a week instead of j
forty as heretofore. Lack of business '
necessitates the reduction. j
M.n, Public Men W„hlnCto» 0.u.
that He Is. P“*
Washington June l5.~Som9 ». ,
ago the influential Democrat'
LrmtirPPr°Priati0n3 com®itt»e t
formally agreed that when tk! I
ficiency appropriations billshould
brought in. VV. C P , . I(* W ;
Kentucky, should be relieved^? •°I ;
management on the floor As cl
man of the sub-committee s*
deficiency items were referred, Bre^
inridge would, if parliamentarV u^' I
were followed, control the bifl ww 5
under consideration, and be in
quence for the time the leader of "it
Democratic side. Chairman <T th*
SieSdug.rmaUy SeleCted t0
* ur fcoine reason Break inriAd.**
eluded to make a fight to trv tf * Cfm'
the committee on appropriation0^**
giving the deficien^ill nW
charge. All day yesterday he fo„ju
for this distinction with a persist™?1
and acute determination that seemS
at times to turn the balance in h^
favor. He coaxed, caioled ,
and bullied with 'somesucCe«'V
said to-day that the committee is^
decided but that Breckinr fiJX
chances for carrying his point are
cellent If he succeeds the house and
the country will be afforded assent
tional a scene as any that convreu
has presented in many years. K "
^ The issue of the present condition*
must soon be agreed upon. The ml«
brought in to-day by the rules com"
mittee, fixing a limit to debate on the
Indian bill, is a determining- element
for the deficiency bill, the last of the
appropriation series, is next in order
It is said upon the most excellent
authority that in the event that
Breckinridge does assume charge of
this measure, directly before the bill
is laid before the house a resolute
Democratic member will move to re
commit to the committee on appro
priations with instructions that the
measure be again reported to the
house by some one else.
The Republicans, with partisan ap
preciation of the situation, would
ask nothing better than that one of
their own number should apply the
rebuke, but the speaker will confine
his recognition to the Democrat
agreed upon to make this motion
There is absolutely no question but
that if Breckinridge persists in his
purpose this course will be taken and
such a motion would be carried by
perhaps a unanimous vote.
Breckinridge does not seem to real
ize that such a humiliating result
would be the only reward of his assur
ance. He is quoted as saying that he
will take charge of the deficiency bill
if he lives and possibly it may be his
bullying purpose to hold to personal
account any member thrusting the
proposed rebuke upon him.
House Democrats hope the appropri
ation committee will be able to dis
pose of Breckinridge in the committee
room without publicity, and to-day
are urging the necessity of such a
course upon the committee, to the end
that a possible disgraceful sensation
may be averted.
There are public men in plenty who
are building the conclusion day by
day that Breckinridge is irresponsible.
They say that he mnst be crazy and
sustain their opinions by many state
ments of fact as well as of deduction.
Nevertheless, if the appropriation
committee does not at once nerve
itself to withstand Colonel Breckin
ridge’s mingled prayers, entreaties,
demands and threats, most sensation
al consequences will follow.
BOYCOTT AGAINST BREWERS.
General Executive Board K. of I- Con
sidering the Subject.
St. Louis, Mo., June 15.—The gen
eral executive board of the Knights
of Labor met here yesterday to con
sider the boycott of that organization
against the breweries here controlled
by the English syndicate. The deter
mination was reached to send out a
circular to all Knights of Labor and
Federation of Labor men, as well as
other union men, calling upon them,
to become temporate, in fact, total
abstainers from beer consumption, in
every large city or town and at all
times and places where union beer
cannot be obtained. A number of
other minor local troubles also en
gaged the attention of the board.
Oregon Tillage Swept Away by Floods*
Pohtland, Ore., June 15.—A tele
phone message from the Dalles states
that almost the entire village of
Grant, in Sherman county, has been
swept away by the flood. Only the
elevator and a few buildings on the
high land remain. ^ .
Grant is a place of about 200 inhab
itants, located on the Columbia river
on the Union Pacific railroad, 11*
miles east of Portland. No lives were
lost
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS
Quotation* from New York, Chicago, *
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
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