THE FRONTIER. rrm.isiiFH every tih rshay iiy Tin: 1 uoxriKH Pimntinu ro. O’NKILL, NKHI1AHK A. OVER THE STATE. A i itizcn's relief committee lion lieen Oryutiirnt lit Arnpuhoe. I’ l.iioh'ii tfi'occiy More ut Onbnrn lion Viren closed mi u chattel mortgage. Till: new Ihipt int church lit Nebraska City will tic ilnliruteil January nth. NiiihanKa I'm will Imlil u iniisn meeting in behalf of western nutTcrer*. 'i'li►; Deuel County Teachers' nssocla tlon will meet ut llig Nprlngn Jan uary If. Tiikiik me exactly nineteen oppli run In for llio wurdeiiship of the peni tentiary. Alim r■ thirty Russians are at work on the ballasting gang u few miles from Unifier. An ftilil I’ allows lodge in to lie organ J/.eil lit Dodge early in the uciv year. With it large membership. Tiik I iii• hi I'ui'ille ho* given orders lor closing down of the nhops ut Chey enne for nn indefinite period. N i nr norh runes of hay stonllng lire reported from urotinil Norfolk. One innii Iium already lost twenty-five ton*. Mils. Mi nson, tin old lady of ltluden. slipped on u doorstepund fell, breaking both lionen of the ley just nbovo the ankle. IIitiiiw.vvmi:n lmvoof lute born dom;r n tliriviIl(f bus*)Urns In South Omaha. Onr—hiuI only one -of the rascals Inis been ou|>to roil. I’iiiho.nkhh in the Nebraska peniten tiary were given iho usual feast on Christinas. Aiming other good things 400 turkeys were devoured. WoKK on the Harwell irrigation ditch Is progressing rapidly. Teams are working the entire length of the ditch up to the Sioux creek canyon. Hull needy families in .Nebraska City received twenty pounds of beef amt a bushel of potatoes, a Christmas gift from tienerul and Mrs. Van Wyek. Tiik Congregational church will ship four carloads of supplies to the drouth •ifferers in Frontier county on Thurs day. amounting to several hundred dollurs in vulue. Wii.i.iam A. Moiiiiu.t., of Osceola.who was convicted of the crime of forgery, was sentenced to a torin of three years at hard labor in tlin penitentiary, and to pay a tine of #HK> and costs. At the international poultry show at Kansas City Cashier Dice of Kora, Nob., Won first premium on light brahmas. The winning bird was eight, months old and weighed fourteen pounds. M.witiiimkm Sands of Otoe county was adjudged insane and will bo taken to the Idneoln asylum, lie imagines that he is possessed of largo sums of money which people uro trying to steul from him. Two Tit a nr* entered Soudor liro.'s department store tit Kalis City where they tried their hand ut shoplifting, but were detected in the act by ono of the clerks. Tile marshul took them to the calaboose. Tiik residence of I,. I*. Hanson of Fremont was robbed during the ab sence of the family at a neighbor's. Forty dollars, a gold wntch and chain, two uecklaces and a lot of other tawd ry wero takeu. C. F. Humphry of (iretna recovered a •addle which was stolen from him two months ago. He located the thief in Missouri after some skillful detective work and had him brought back to Gretna and placed behind the bars. A woman at Arcadia gave birth to a child, but, having no food or clothing in the house, she - died within a few days. The neighbors made an effort to •sve her life, but the aid came too late. Tho woman leaves six young children. Huy homc-nittdc goods ami build up homo industries, is a good policy: l'ar rcll & Co's brand of syrups, jellies, pre serves and mince meat; Morsc-Coe boots anil shoes for men, women and , childron; American lliscult & Manuf&c ' luring Co.. Omuliu, Tmk twenty-third session of the Ne braska Press association will be hold in York on Thursday and Friday, Jan uary 24 and 2.1. A strong musical pro gram bus luysn arranged. Papers on various subjects will be read during the session, which promises to be very interesting. A COMM1TTRK of the Women’s Chris tum temperance union of I'arid City huve beeu busy soliciting contributions of clothing', betiding it ml provisions for the needy in the drouth-stricken por tions of tho state. As a result, there was shipped liftcen barrels and four teen gunny sacks of clothing and live boxes of groceries and provisions. Annie Andrews, a young lady of I.iueoln, was seriously burned while eclobratiug Christmas evening. She was engaged decorating a tree with presents, when it caught tire from one of the numerous candles, and was iu atantly ablaze. The clothing of Miss Audrews was burned off, and she is in serious condition ami suffering terribly. A rt l.i, grown bear story is afloat in this region, says a Kagan dispu tch. Several parties report having seen a bear running through tho fields. Quite wonderful to relate, Mr. ltruin is said by some who have seen him to have a very long tail. A party of brave young sters will scour the country and settle his identity, if they don’t settle his hash. • The company from Iowa who have a contract with Cone Wright of York to put down a well to the depth of C.OOO feet, if they dou’t strike flowing water before that time, have their machinerv *V nil ready aud will push the work. Jturr ,fc Co., of that place, are also at work on the same place. They are down 410 feet, having struck nothing of note. W. W. Lii.i.ie, one of the best known and most highly esteemed traveling men in northern Nebraska, died sud denly of inflammation of the bowels at his home in Norfolk last week. Mr. Lillie represented May llros., wholesale grocers of Fremont,, and had rnude his home in Norfolk for many years. Three weeks ago Isaac Miller, a well-to-do farmer three miles east of Oakland, had thirty bushels of wheat stolen from his granary, lie at once offered a reward of $10 for the appre hension of the thief, aud was rewarded by finding his man, who gladly com promised by paying all the costs. The ent church man. Some of tin- people of Keya I'alia county lire hard up from losing their crops lust season. hutmimlof them will lie nhlo lo pull through with u little aid from the comity. It inny he when spring cullies some of the farmers will have to he hrlpctl to feed amt seed. In many happy homes in Omaha yes terday, mi vs the World-Herald, it was ; felt that the hupplesl were those from j which gifts had gone out to the drouth ■ su/Terers and other needy ones. Inj contrast with this was the cxumple of i a well-to-do family which had a t hrist nins tree and valuable presents for its pet dog. There are no children in that family. I \V. O. .Iamihos, county commissioner | of Keith county, who lias been in the I east for ten days us a representative of the county to solicit aid for the drouth stricken farmers, returned to Ognlullu lust, week. -Mr. Jamison said tiiul lie miceocihsI in getting nine carloads of coal, oliivhulf ear of wheat and forty boxes of clothing from the residents of southern Iowa. Tim electric light plant of York, owned by the York Has and Klcctric l.ight company, was sold a public auc tion hy tlic slierill' of York county. It was sold as a result of a mortgage fore closure, The plant was first sold to tleorgc II. I'ranee for lo, hut us Unit gentleman refused to take it, it was sold to the next lowest bidder, a Mr. Metcalf, for #."i,‘.‘05. At Newman drove Mrs. Carrie Moon went out to milk a fractious cow. As she did not return us soon us usual, the children went out und found hey lying under the cow dead, the cow hav ing kicked and stamped her to death Death was immediate, ns the frontul hone was broken and crushed into the bruin. She was a widow, leaving five children, the oldest 10 years old. Tiieiik are no new developments in tile (ioldgrahcr failure, says tlio Fre mont Tribune, except that t ho liabili ties keep creeping up gradually us new claims come to light one after another. The amount of the known liabilities now exceed St’.'ijioo for the Fremont store alone and in all probability when nil uro in It will rcueli nearly $.10,000. The appraisers uru still at work und will not finish their task for uevcrul Kkv. L. I’. Lippkn dcsircR to state Hint no one is authorized to collect sup plies (or drouth sufferers on behalf of the N'ebrusku relief commission. All supplies have been voluntary so far ami no one. in the stale or out. has been made an authorized collector. The supplies collected by anyone will be gladly accepted if allowed to be dis tributed in the prescribed way. free railroad transportation will be obtain ed for all such. Tilt: Stock hum posl office wus robbed lust week by unknown parties. About 9-50, partly in stamps and partly in cash, was stolen. An entrance was ef fected by breaking in a large front win dow. A hole wus drilled into the safe door and the door blown clear off the hinges, shattering the front windows and exposing the entire eonteutsof the safe. The books containing the stump and cash accounts were also taken, so thut the amount taken is not definitely known. Uovkiinok Cttot'XSK lust week issued an unconditional pardon to .lames 10. Murphy, a former resident of Seward county. Murphy is a man about fifty years of uge uml was sentenced to eighteen months in thu penitentiary at the January term of the Seward county district court for assault with intent to do bodily injury upon an old man and a neighbor, lie has never been in the penitentiary, but has lain in jail since his conviction. The application was backed by lengthy petitions from Sew ard's most promiuont citizens. T. M. Mauvpkttk, of Lincoln, died last week in Tampa, Fla. He was a native of Springfield, O., and at the time of his death wus (tit years old. Soon after attaining his majority he was admitted to the practice of law in Iowa in 1850, and came west, remain ing for some time in Kansas, In IS.’>7 ho removed to l'luttsmouth in tliisstate and soon took a prominent position as one of the ablest lawyers of the state. When the liurlington lines were exten ded west of tile Missouri river lie was made the general attorney of the sys tem in -Nebraska. This position he held up to the time of his death. A Hai.timokk dispatch says: In view of the great distress reported from Ne braska because of the ulmost total loss of the corn crop, which according to theCuitcd Ktatcs agricultural depart ment, averaged this year only six bush els per acre for the entire state, the Manufacturers' Record suggests that a solid train of corn and meat lie con tributed by the south and shipped to Nebraska. Mr. Kdmunds, the editorof the Manufacturers' Record, says that the south has been blessed with an enor mous corn crop this year and that its meat houses ore tilled to overtlowiug. Out of this abundance the south should gladly avail the opportunity of sending Christmas greeting to those who are in dire distress in the northwest. AFTF.R next week. Bays a Liueolncor respondent. there will be considerable ehunpin^ in the offices at the state house between the present incumbents of the clerical positions and the numer ous candidates for these places. In the governor's office, the place of private secretary having been tilled, there re mains those of a stenographer anil record clerk, this is assuming that thore will be no messenger. If these two plaees are to lie tilled at onee there has been no authoritative announcement of the lucky ones It is currently rumor ed that the stenographer in the gover nor's office will be Miss Uirdie Johnson of Lexington and Jule Sehonheit, an attorney of Falls City, is credited with a strong pull on one of the positions Miss Johnson was employed in the last campaign as stenographer for the chairman of the independent state cen tral committee. The place of chief oil inspector is conceded to J. H. Kd miston, the chairman of the state cen tral committee. -A kki.ikf committee was organized in l'apillion last week to solicit aid for the drouth sufferers in western Ne braska. witlt branches at (iretna and at Springfield. At the committee meetjug it was found that subscriptions hail been coming in wonderfully, as each of the towns mentioned will be able to load a car of provisions, which will le shipped to different destinations and be distributed under the direction of com mitteemen from Sarpy county, woo will accompany each ‘ car. Negotia tVms are now under w-ay for the free transportation of provisions, w-hicu consist of flour, wheat, rye, oath, corn, Wans, coal and clothing. BE THE PRESIDENT MAY OBLIGED TO CALL ONE. TO MEET EARLY IN THE SPRING. Hill mill Quay Nwlil to H« All Itnmly to •Hook tli* Income T»i C ollection Ap propriation - The Financial Meas ure Also In 1'erll - Holla Are likely to He Defeated at This Nrsslon. Wasiiinotos, Doc. 31.—The talk of an early extra session of the Fifty fourth congress hue been revived at the eapitol by the contingencies which may arise growing out of the failure of necessary legislation at the present session. Upon two pend ing bills, it is generally believed, hinges the question of whether Mr. Cleveland will convoke the new con gress soon after the death of the Fifty-third, March 4. These two are the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which contains the appropriation for carrying tin* income tax into effect and which is pending in the senate, and the Carlisle currency bill, which is under debate in the house, and the fate of which will be decided soon after the house convenes Jan uary 3. The opponents of the income tax, led, it is understood, by Senators Mill and Quay, will make a desperate light in the senate ami will exhaust every parliamentary expedient to defeat it. Mr. Quay, it is said, has added large ly to the accumulated speech with which he proposed talking the tariff bill to death at the last session. unless certain changes were made in the wool sched ule. and is prepared for a long siege, lie has already enough manu script, it is said, to consume a month’s time of the senate, and noth proper support ho believes the efforts of the supporters of the income tax will not be successful. The New York mem bers of the senate affect to believe in the ultimate defeat of the bill. CORRUPTION IN ST. JOSEPH. The Pollen Charged With Stmullng In With tiainhler* untl Hail I'Imim. St. JosKI'II, Mo., Dot*. 31. City At torney .lames Mytton lias made formal charges against the police force anil the police judge that, if proved, will not only call for a public investiga tion, bnt may cause dovernor Stone to haul 1‘oliee Commissioners Van Nutta, Ryan and Trice over the coals. He charges that gam bling houses run wide open all over the city: that the police visit them and watch the playing at the same time accepting drinks and cigars from the proprietors, and when com pelled to make arrests take into cus tody only the keeper, letting the players continue the game and re leasing tlie proprietor on his own re cognizance; that the police judge and captain of police hold star chamber sessions of the police court, admitting no one bnt arrested gamblers and keeping the city attorney in ignor ance of the trial and imposing the lowest possible fine on the gamblers, without compelling them to appear. NEW YORK FIREMEN KILLED. A Hat tat Ion Chief amt . Another Wan Hurled Cnder Calling Floor*. Nkw York, Dec. 31.—While liatta lion Fire Chief John J. lireslin and Fireman John L. Rooney of truck 13 were working with other firemen on a fire which started this morning on the fifth floor of the gas and electric fix tures factory of Cassidy & Son manu facturing company, the two. upper floors were carried down by the fall of a heavy water tank on' the roof. The whole mass of blazing debris fell on tlie firemen, pinning lireslin and Rooney under tlie girders burning them to death. Ruined by Ciralu Speculation. Toronto, Ontario. Dec. 3 1.—\V. II, Howland *fc Co., one of tlie largest firms of grain dealers in Canada, have decided to go into liquidation on ac count of heavy losses. Two y.-ars ago the firm had a surplus of over $300, 000. Now it is stated that it has nothimr. Kirvator a ml Grain Burned. j Toi.Kno.Oliio.IVe. 31.—The Dayton I and Michigan elevator "K" was burned in an hour at 9 o'clock this morning. About (i>5.(HH* bushels of wheat and 40.00.) bushels of corn war© in store, the loss on which will be S410.SOO. Chris. Dandelion, an em ploye. was burned to death. 1 wo Coloradoan. 1.04(9 Their reet. Dknvkr, Col. Dec. 31.—Frank Miller and William Mahler, two young men of this city, tramped to Sedaliu this week in search of work. The feet of both were so badly frozen that their legs have been amputated as the only chance of saving- their lives. i enrU Nut Guilty. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31.—The jury in the ease of Montgomery U. Lewis charged with obtaining $0,300 from the Lombard Investment com pany by forgery brought in a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was a sur prise. Hus l.m-kry In Jail. Miskookk, lnd. Ter.. Dec. 31.—Bus Lackey, the half-breed Creek Indian member of the Hill Cook gang, was j brought into town by three of Mar shal MeAlester's deputies and lodged in jail. lwhr.il ltnoked for a .ludse.liip, I W ashington Dec. 31. - Fnited | States District Judge Nelson of Min nesota is s 'on to retire and it is said , Pension Commissioner Lochren will , be appointed to succeed him. Terrible If ail of Two Miner*. Tki.ci R1DK, Col.. Dec.31. — Nicholas i Herrons and James Burns, miners, were killed to-day by falling 530 feet *n tii_- L’uion shaft. THE NEW DIPHTHERIA CURE. Hr. KIiijoiih'h Import on IIH RunrohM - Hangars from spurious Antl-Toxlna. Wsniiim.tox, Dec. 31.—The officials of the I'nited States Marine Hospital service are watching with interest the results obtained from the new diphtheria cure. They have just made ! public the report made by Dr. j .1. ’ J. Kmyoun of his visit to | the Children's hospital at Devlin | where the larger portion of ; eases suffering from diphtheria , are treated. There were about i thirty*five cases in the hospital at tile time of his visit and their ages were j usually from three to five years. The death rate was slightly lower than in the I’tiris hospitals for the reason that tlie patients were sent to the hospital sooner and the children re ceived better care than was accorded them in like institutions in Paris. Dr. Kinvoun elaborately describes the methods and practices employed in the hospitals in treatment of the disease. The matter of the control or super I vision of the use of anti- toxine was engaging the attention of the Berlin authorities. While l)r. Kinyoun was there, November t, Professor Koch eonvene.il a meeting of the Prussian boar.l of health for determining what action should be taken. Professor Koeli had expressed the opinion that there should be some government supervision of the serum so that it could always be relied upon. If there was no such supervision, it would not be long before spurious articles would be put on the market anil not only would a good remedy be brought into disrepute, but lives might be sacrificed when they might Vie saved. It was decided at the meet ing of the board that all serum in tended for use in Prussia should be inspected and tested for its purity and strength before it would be al lowed to tie used. This was satisfac tory to all the parties concerned and will be the means of insuring a good article of standard strength at all times for Prussia. In this connection Dr. Kinyoun calls attention to what he says will evidently occur in this country. Many persons, will, during the coin ing year, prepare the serum as a bus iness enterprise, and there will, with out doubt. be many worthless articles called anti-toxine thrown upon the market. All of the serum intended for sale, lie believes, should be made or tested by competent persons The testing, in fact, should be done by dis interested parties. The anti-toxine, he says, will never work miracles, having its limits like any other agents, and like a perfect piece of machinery, will not accomplish the full result unless directed by a skill ful baud. "Some persons affected with this dread disease." lie declares, will succumb, it matters not hmv soon we apply the remedy. The majority will, however, 1 am sure, recover if the anti-toxine is given early and properly.' ’ In closing, the report expresses the hope that soon every state and munic ipality will take the proper steps to provide facilities for supplying the remedy to the people. A Kaunas I.avv Overthrown. Wei.unotox, Kan., Dee. 31.— Dis triot Judge Harnett yesterday decide! that the Double day fee and salary law, passed by the last legislature was unconstitutional. Register ol Deeds Xewbold was arrested on < charge of misdemeanor for failure t< comply with the requirements of tlit law and a motion to quash proceed ings was sustained. The law wai made to take effect at different time! and on this ground it was contested Shortage Getting Bigger. Roue. X. Y.,Dec. 31.—The shortage! of Cashier Bielby and Teller (iiilett o the Central Xatiotal bauk increase? as the experts continue their investi gation. It lias now reached an ag gregate of $70,000. A St. tloieph Ban' to Pay Out. Sr. Joseph, Mo., Dee. 3 1.—The Com mercial bank, which failed recently, will begin paying its depositors in full next Wednesday. The only losers will be the stockholders. NEWS IN BRIEF. Prominent Arizona Democrats are trying to have the ndminstration re move Governor Hughes from ofiiee. Attorney General Olnevhas decided that export duties cannot be figured as costs, charges and expenses. Congressman Baldwin of Minnesota who will not be in the next house, is trying to get the job recently let go by General Armstrong—assistant com missioner of Indian affairs. Fritz Ruhle. bachelor, misanthrope and wealthy, hanged himself at Dav enport Iowa. Colonel Breckenridge lectured to less than fifty people at Terre Haute, Ind. Governor Lewelling and Governoi elect Morrill are both writing mes sages to the Kansas legislature. Postmaster ,1. S. Jobe of Bennetts town, Kv., aged 50, eloped with Miss Bettie Carter, aged JO years. William Leavitt and Misses Mary Mitchell and Susie Maple got lost aud drove thirty miles from Shelby vile, lnd., in Thursday's snow storm. The young ladies may die. Postmaster Sehnelle of Golden City, Mo., has resigned to become manager of a threshing machine company. M iIlium Robb, a miner, was crushed to death near Randolph, Mo. Sterling Ba’lew, a young man of Columbus Mo., committed suicide by taking two ounces of laudanum be cause Farmer Ellis' daughter refused to marry him. The Chickasaw legislature has passed a bill to prohibit the dis posal of timber, rock and gravel in the na tion without special permit and the payment of a royalty. 1 he Alba place on the bay shell road near Mobile. Ala., one of the finest mansions in the South, was de stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss 850, 000. insurance 85.000. A number of cattle, hogs, etc., were roasted to death. Dilliam L. Wilcoxen has been ap pointed receiver of the Union Build ing and Savings association of Des Moines, Iowa. The concern has been in the hands of a committee of stock holders for two weeks. Its liabilities are about $150,000, and its assets are valued at 8100,000. A SOBI.K Fk.IlT. AN EMINENT SOUTHERN LAW YER'S LONG CONFLICT WITH DISEASE. Twenty-five Years of Prosperity. Ailvei" •Ity mill SiitTrrhig. The e man ner of securing the bond note circu lation. The rapid payment of the public debt, the limited number of bonds now outstanding and the further fact that many of them a.re held in trust ca pacities in this country and as permanent investments by persons re siding abroad, have rendered the kind of security now required impractica ble. The Carlisle bill propose for se curity for the circulating notes of the national banks, instead of United States bonds a guarantee fund con sisting of legal tender notes or cur rency certificates to the amount of 30 per cent of the circulation applied for; also a safety fund to be raised by a tax of one-half of 1 per cent per an num upon tlie«circulating notes until it reach 5 per cent of the whole circu lation, and as a further security a first lien upon all the assets of the bank and upon the amount which may be realized by the double liability feature of the national banking law. The guarantee fund of 111*rty per cent, the assets of the bank and the personal liability of the stockholders can only go to the payment of the circulating notes of the bank, which is the eus tom; but the five percent guarantee fund raised by a tax upon all the cir culation of the country is a common fund out of which the notes of any failed bank may be paid, if the guar r°vr, Un^,jtl!e assets and personal liabilities of the stockholders are not orftmoQt' -,Thus’ on a circulation of *00 million dollars, the present national bank circulation, the safety fund would amount to *10,000,000, anil this whole fund could be drawn upon ti •noteS of a"y that nmoK v,r.hl? is considered , P,1 b.v the safest financiers and bankers of the country. The currency thin-D i,, T'V'cd a°cs not compel na !ta s to cuter into the new the obi 1iheVnaJ: continue under the old law, but it is thought that vanta'o-e "'U1 soon see the a<* .intake of the new plan and adopt it. ERECKINRIDCE lectures. ^>m°nVable S*car®, »03 Of the Bor Office Receipt, for milard Depositions CixriNN-.vn, Ohio, Deo. 29.-Colonel • • 1. Breckinridge delivered his lecture last night at Pike’s opera i ukb s opera luenT °n , ! .plS °f American Develop ZhtS,v„n'1 .!hf.ir ««.«“ A^n.” The The attendance 300. It was many night was stormy, did not exceed . in,elHPent audience’ of whom were women. A constable secured SCO of the bnv money before .the lecture on an a* “f. At,orney Gustav A. tioim ^ra Mis?PoUarll'C d?fense in the suit o f mis* t ollard against him. Missouri Funding Bond, Called Jn Jefferson Citv, Mo.. Dec. 29.-State Treasurer Lon V. Stephens has for w aided a check for 8409,000 to the American Exchange .National bank of New' \ ork to take una nk of of Missouri,-, per cent fun1''a,rUDt subject to call January *undln" bonds Lx-lieutenant Dodge Drowns(1 loriT 1 own,km, Wash., Dec. or, _ News has been received here that'e* Lieutenant James E. Dodo. 1 torious in Missouri an I Kn °nC'‘ton” * THE LEXOW COUNCILS' Tnptatn Stepliensou Will Go to mM| Awhile. New Yoiik, Pec. 37—Ex-Police, tain John L. Stephenson, the the police officials tried and C011t as an outcome of the exn, brought about by the Lexow co,n" tee, was sentenced by raliam in the court of oyer and t( iner to-day to three years and' months imprisonment in Sin,, ! and to pay 81,000 fine. DecemL after a trial which lasted three i he was found guilty of bribery i ing. while in charge of the Fifth cinct,received four baskets of p,.a, from Martin N. Edwards, a pr0(i and dealer at 153 Duane street When Stephenson was called to bar he stood erect looking Justice graham squarely in the face. A< if he had anything to say why. tencc should not be passed up0n j he held a whispered conference, his lawyer for a few seconds, but not reply. ‘ Justice Ingraham then quietly dressed the convicted ex-off, "Stephenson, yon have been i victed of bribery by a jury on, deuce that was absolutely convinc and no man, after hearing could come to any other com sion. The amount you got worth of peaches) is of no t sequence in the fixing of the pem for your crime. You were a pul officer invested with great powersi you used them for your own bene The law gives to me great discret in fixing your punishment. Iunoo people—namely your wife and d dren—will suffer from your bei punished and X deeply regret it consider yours to be a most a ous oiieuse. nut i hare eeived a recommendation lr some of the jurymen to rt I must give great weight. I hi also received several letters fa merchants who know you smith say that you never attempted toi tort money from them or accept bribe. On the other hand I havei eeived communications which sht that the complaint on whi you were convicted was i an isolated ease. X will emleu to fix a punishment notexcfssin severe, but which to my mind* show that this offense is a seriousn and that public officials must porta their duties without being indium one way or the other by bribe The sentence of the court is that.it be confined in state’s prison fi r:'i years and nine months, and to an tine of $1,000.” The ex-captain took his sen e, very coolly, and as he was cr.uO tlie street to the Tombs prison. ’ spared the ignominy of going over: new "bridge of sighs,” he said to.. of his friends: "I may as well and begin serving my "term at on as I deem it useless to fight tin a in the courts.” Tor good behavior Stephenson* earn a commutation of eleven nrni thus making the actual timed! prisonment two years and ten mm;! Miners Reject Arbitrators* AmnH Massii.t.on, Ohio, Dec. 27.—Then ers employed at the Anderson have declined the rate of sixty « per ton fixed by the arbitration mittee and are idle to-day I: thought that all the miners in i Massillon district will sooa M work. Kansas Teachers Gather. Topeka, Ivas., Dee. teachers, professors and others im ested in education are gatherig the city to-day to attend the tail second annual meeting of the ■! association, which began to-nVj; 1 continues until Friday. live stock and produce maki* Quotations from New York, Chirac' Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere OMAHA IIutter— Creamery print. Butter-Fair to good country. Kirns - Fresh. Honey—i or ft. Poultry-Old hens, per ft. Chickens—Spring, per ft. J ill-keys—Per lb. (»e« so—For lb. Bucks—Per lb. Cheese—Neb. & In. fullcreurn Lemons—Choice Messinas. Ursmges—Messlnos,per box.... Potatoes.. Sweet potatoes, per bbl. ... Beans—Navy, hand-picked,bu 2 0 Hay - Upland, per ton. lie. 3 W 3 CHt 0.' 3 00 ) 0) 00 65 1 ,v. so 2 ft) 4 4« ‘ s r»!> 2 30 4 no 4 1' Hay-Midland and lowland. Unions—Per bu . Carrots—Per bbl. Parsnips-Per bu. Boots—Per bbl. rl turnips— • er bu. Cranberrries—Cape Cod . Apples-Per bbl. liogs—Mix.ed packing. Hogs—Heavy weights. - n. Beeves—Prime steers.f r. Beeves-Stockers and feeders. 1 ■■ Bulls. lw i alves...."..*!!!!!.. 2 oj Moors—Fair to good. t ows. 1 «' Heifers_.7.!!!!. !!!!!!!.1 Western Cattle!....7.7.!.I :■ >heep-Lambs.; f. Mieep—lair to good natives. • - -* CHICAGO. Wheat.—No. I, spring. j? ‘ orn—-Per bu. J! cats—i er bu. . Pork.H : Lard. 6 n Hogs—Packers and mixed. 1 attle—Com. steers to extra... •* Mieep—Lambs.- r*. >heep—Inferior to choice. 1 0 .... NEW YORK. }) heat, No. 2, red winter. r!, ‘ orn—No. 2. Oats—No. 2. Fork. *. .. . Lard....!!,!...!. St! LOUIS. }) heat—No 2 red. cash. ' orn—Per bu. Oats—Per bu . Hogs—Mixed packing. tattle—Native steers.. 1 keep—Mixed natives. n't 13 5*' ; 13 51 C 4 ■»' ;p0 2 50 KANSAS CIT\. Wheat—No. 2 hard.. 1 orn—No. . t Oats—No. . *7 ‘ attic—Stockers and feeders. - . Hogs—Mixed packers .f, () Mieep- Choice western. ’*' Plowing on Chrif*naa*^.^ Omaha, Neb., Dec. 2« points in the state along n) border report a heavy sno’'^ Big’llt. The farmers are w.1 ‘7 need of moisture. For tny in years plowing is £0!n» Nebraska at Christinas. _ An Ohio Convict Shot V** Coi.vmbus, Ohio., D*c. Temple of Columbiana ecunU ^ in the penitentiary, shot } Joseph O’Day, a forger of Li . ,. who, with two other c°DrV. i s:iulted him because be rep°r‘ for an infraction of the rule* j