Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISHED EVKHY THURSDAY By
Turn Fioimn Pbintiho Oo.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA.
Lincoln has pot In a bid for the next
Irrigation congress.
The stores all along the line are non
wearing a holiday appearance.
The bad weather has stopped work
on the Boone county court house.
Churches and Sunday Schools are pre
paring for the Christmas festivitiea
At Omaha the other day twelve
horses perishe<hin a burning stable.
Ice and snow are out of the way and
corn husking is going forward again.
The swine breeders of I-ancastei
county have formed an organization.
It is said that David Brown will be
the next postmaster at Nebraska
City.
The Grand Ialand sugar factory ex
pects to run until the first week in Feb
ruary.
Subsoil packing and surface cultiva
tion will receive a trial at McCook next
season.
The fruit-tree agent is again making
his rounda Better patronize the home
nursery.
Bobbers cracked the depot at Ponca.
and secured thirty copper cents for
their trouble.
Mrs Harrington of Tekamab, one oi
the oldest residents of Burt county,
died last week.
Nearly one-half of the corn crop
throughout the section about Wausau
is yet in the fields
A creamery has been organized at
Seward. It expects to start the churn
the first of the year.
Sugar beet tops are selling at !>0
cents a bushel at Tilden, and it is said
they are worth that.
The bachelor girls of Wayne have
formed an organization for the sup
pression of matrimony.
J Henry Ohler, a Burlington brake
man, fell under a train at Cromwell
and lost his right hand and foot.
Miss Lucile Ely of Auburn started a
Are with kerosene. An explosion . fol
lowed and she was quite seriously
burned.
The supreme court has decided that
school directors cannot be compelled
by action of mandamus to employ n
teacher.
Kels O. Alberts of Saronville has
been appointed deputy oil inspector to
All the vacancy caused by the death of
lid J. Hall.
The first National bank of Beatrice
has matters about arranged for reopen
ing, and the bank’B doors will be open
in a few daya
John Dolazel of Wilbur wants a di
vorce from his wife. Six months ago
she ran off with another man, and has
sot yet returned.
The editor of the Chester Herald of
fers to wager ?500 on a Thayer county
girl who can shuck her seventy-ttv'e
bushels of corn a day.
The mail carriers of Omaha and
South Omaha are rustling for the pur
pose of capturing the national associa
tion meeting for 1808.
Grindpa Oakes of Garrison will soon
celebrate his 01st birthday. He enjoys
good health and expects to be here to
celebrate his 100th anniversary.
Ed Wright, tbe leading merchant of
Scotia, committed suicide by shooting,
111 health being the cause, He had
been a great sufferer for months
lira Scott of Lincoln fired four shots
at her husband as he was pursuing her
with a big knife. She stopped his pro
gress, but did not wound him fatally.
A number of Keith county people are
looking about with a view of going in
to the sheep raising business Sheep
raising has ail ready been tried there
With good ItCCDH.
ttateclive Cox of Omaha secured req
uisition papers on the governor of
Missouri for the return of James Mc
Connell to this state to answer to the
eharge of burglary.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Southern Nebraska Poultry and Pet
Stock association was held in Hastings
last week. There were many tine
birds on exhibition. *
* O. W. Moore of Dubolse died of old
age at the residence of his son. lie
was horn in 1803, being 03 years old.
The deceased had been a resident of
Pawnee county for nine years.
Burglars entered the Clarkson State
hank at Clarkson, but their haul was n
dismal failure. They used dynamite
freely and succeeded in wrecking the
vault, though they did not get a sol
itary cent.
Geo I*’ Burr of Hamilton county has
been appointed private secretary to
Congressman-elect Stark of the Fourth
district. Mr. Burr is a newspaper man
and has been, in the field for the past
fourteen years For four years he was
secretary of the congressional com
mittee of the Fourth district, and for
the same time secretary of the judicial
central committee.
C. H. Morrell reports that yesterday
he sold to Kansas City men, ten resi
dence lots in Havelock, with an agree,
ment that a building to cost not less
than 91,000 should be erected on each
lot by July 1, 1897. The purchaser*
were well pleased with Havelock, and
feel confident it will in the near future
become a manufacturing center. Thev
•eve assurances that they would build
twenty houses in Havelock in the year
HW-—From Nebraska State Journal.
The complaint if the Lincoln Com
toerclal c!ub against the Union Pacific
mad Klkhorn roads brought before the
board of transportation has been dis.
missed. The Lincoln people objected
to a new freight tariff which increased
the rates on merchandise shipped over
these roads.
There i* an evangelist abroad in Ne> I
hraska who figures out the end of all !
: to 1898. He has the whole scheme fig
•red out from biblical prophesies.
Tbs Standard cattle company of
rimes keeps one gasoline and four steam
engines constantly at work preparing
feed for the cattle they are fatting this
avia ter. _
C. J. Williams’ store at Syracuse was
robbed. Entrance was effected by
way of a roar window. The cash reg
ister, containing- 29 cents was taken.
The register was found near the B. &
M. track, west of town.
Victor Miller, a young man residing
in the outskirts of Lincoln, was held
up and robbed of S27. SO by footpads.
Charles Armstrong, an employe of the
asylum, was also held up, bpt in this
case the robbers got no money.
Mrs. Lydia sharp, one of the old set
tlers of Cuming county, died last week
at the old homestead, near Beemer, of
dropsy. She was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, March 28, 1809. She
came to Cuming county in 1865.
At North Platte Judge Norris sen
tenced John Christy and Wm. Mason
to three years in the penitentiary for
grand larceny. Three persons were
convicted of stealing a lot of clothing
from Max Einstein of that place.
Pick out twenty young men, says the
Arlington News, and not more than
five of them are making an effort to
save money. The indications are that
the poor house of the future will have
to be six stories high with folding beds
in every room.
The safe of the Union Pacific station
in St Paul, was blown, but the burg
lars only succeeded in getting the out
er door open and, consequently, se
cured nothing. This the second at
tempt at safe-blowing in Howard coun
ty within a week.
K. Musser of Atkinson shot William
Spence of Green Valley with buckshot,
inflicting serious wounda Musser de
clared his intention to shoot Spence on
sight. The cause leading to this at
tempted murder arose over the divi
sion of a few acres of corn stalks.
A tramp entered the barn of Frank
Hughes, a farmer residing near Tecum
seh, and tried to make away with a
blanket. Mrs. Hughes intercepted
him Bnd as a result the tramp at
tacked her, and while he did not suc
ceed in doing her any injury he tore
her clothes to pieces The scoundrel
was arrested.
At Valentine the jury in the case of
the State of Nebraska vs Howard J.
Case, for cattle stealing, returned a
verdict of not guilty, after being out
nineteen and a half hours The ver
dict is considered eminently fair as far
as the evidence is concerned, but the
impression-was strong that Case was
guilty.
A Burt county man bought a range
of a travelling stove dealer last year
giving his note for the same. The note
now turns np for collection, but the
amount has been increased. This,
says the Oakland Independent, should
teach people to patronize the local
hardware men whom you can always
depend upon and who are known to be
honest.
A farmer near Lyons who has tried
burning corn and measured its quali
ties as compared with coal, says that
coal is the cheapest. He burned seven
bushels of corn in about two days this
week, besides a small amount of wood.
The market value of the corn would be
about 75 cents, while ll'a worth of coal
and a small amount of wood would last
him nearly two weeks.
The Nebraska state grange met at
Curtis with a full delegation. The an-1
nual address was delivered by C. A.
Hall of Pawnee City, after which the
officers were elected for the ensuing
year. John F. Williams of Culbertson
was elected master of the state grange,
R. H. Hanson of Curtis overseer, A. M.
Uovee of Vancoma lecturer, C. Travel
piece of Kearney steward.
Farmers in the vicinity of Prosser
met and completed the organization of
the Farmers’ Grain and .Supply com
pany. The stock is limited to 1,000
shares, at 85 each, the duration of the
company to be for forty yearn Nine
members constitute the board of di
rectors, to be elected annually on the
first Monday in December. Charles
*Uy> ivn «uo vicvicu bicnouiei ftuu UUSl'
ness manager for the ensuing year.
1 As a result of the Nebraska Club's
after election advertisement in the
eastern farm and home journals, re*
eently referred to in these columns,
Secretary Williamson reports the in
quiries for information concerning Ne
braska are reaching him at the rate of
from three to five per day, and the cor
respondence and mailing of printed
matter is becoming something consid
erable. Arrangements have been made
increasing the number of eastern pub
lications running the standing adver
tisement to thirty publications with a
monthly circulation of 150.000 and
nearly three-quarters of a million read
era These inquiries the secretary also
refers to the various local County
Clubs, giving the local real estate deal
ers, banks and other owners of farm
lands, and others interested in the
prospective new settler, an opportunity
to communicate with them direct This
list naturally becomes a valuable one.
The funeral of Ed. J. Hall, the ex
newspaper man, was largely attended
at Grand Island.' Floral offerings
were elaborate. . . .
At Wahoo laat week occurred the
trial of John Johnson, a young man
about 25 years of age, who was accused
of the crime of statutory assault upon
the person of Mary Illomgren, a 14*
year-old girl. He was bound over to
the district court in the sum of (500
which he could not raise.
At Lincoln the jury in the case of
the state vs. Frank Hilton, to recover
(0.250 fees, alleged to have been re
tained unlawfully, were unable to
agree upon a verdict, whereupon they
were discharged and the case will go
to trial again. It is reported they stood
eight to four in favor of giving tho
state a verdict for the full amount
asked. *
Before County Judge Gruver at Wa
hoo, occurred the trial of John John
son, a man about 25 yeara old, who
was accused of the crime of statutory
assault upon the person of Mary Blorn
gren, a 14-year-old girl. He was held
to the district court
A Washington dispatch says: Rep
resentative Mercer's desk in the house
was covered by a magnificent shield of
flowers this morning when he took his
seat. The shield was made of ivy and
was studded with dozens of La France
and American beauty roses, while two
doxen crysanthemums, about six inches
in diameter, found places here and
i there on its broad surface.
SENATOR ALLEN CALLS
FOR AN INQUIRY.
WANTS AN INVESTIGATION
Presidential Campaign the Subject of a
Resolution—Senator Morgan of Ala
bama Calls for Action In Cuba
—The State Department ”,
Called on for In
formation.
Washington, Dec. 16.—The Rev. T.
DeWitt Till mage delivered the prayer
at the opening of the senate to-day,
and, in the abscence of the vice presi
dent, Mr. Frye occupied the chair.
The house resolution for a recess
from next Tuesday to January 5 was
reported favorably and agreed to.
Mr. Allen of Nebraska offered a
resolution for a committee of nine
senators “on the use of money in elec
tions.” The resolution directs that the
committee shall “thoroughly investi
gate the extent to which money, if
any, was used in connection with the
recent presidential election, either in
promoting the nominations or in in
fluencing in any manner the choice of
presidential electors, and to inquire
whether any such expenditures were
excessive, illigitimate, corrupt or
unlawful, especially to inquire and
ascertain to what extent, for
such purposes, the owners of silver
mines, gold mines, the bankers, the
manufacturers, the railroads or other
corporations and millionaires of all
classes made contributions and what
contributions, if any, were made by
foreign persons or corporations.”
Mr. Allen made no remarks on the
resolution, but sent to the clerk's desk
and had read several newspaper clip
pings containing charges of irregular
ity in connection with the recent
election.
The resolution was then referred to
the committee on contingent expenses,
Mr. Allen remarking that he earnestly
desired a speedy report to the senate.
The bill validating certain New
Mexico bonds was takqp up, the house
amendments agreed to, and the senate
amendments disagreed to, so that the
bill now goes to the President.
Mr. Palmer of Illinois called up one
of the pension bills, heretofore vetoed
by the President, but yielded to Mr.
Morgan for a speech on Cuba.
Mr. Morgan said: “I will confine
my remarks to comments upon the
facts stated in the recent annual mes
sage of the President and the report of
the secretary of state. I am not able
to discover that the President has
made any specific recommendations or
indication as to any action he deems it
proper or expedient for Congress to
take with reference to Spain or .Cuba,
nor that he has indicated any course,
except a still patient waiting, that the
executive proposes to take. Congress,
thus left to its own initiative, must as
sume its own responsibility in a matter
of the most serious gravity. Congress
must give to the statements of the
President unhesitating acceptance as
to matters that were committed by the
constitution to his especial charge.
When he undertakes to state the facts
that affect our relations with other
powers we must accept those foots
unless the disproof of them is over
“This message is therefore of the
most impressive importance, as a state
ment of the leading facts and con
clusions that bear upon our duties in
respect to the conflict of arms which
has raged for over two years in the
island of Cuba, and it has the support
of nearly all American belief. I have
not heard that Spain controverts any
statement of the president in his mes
sage. The evidence that comes from
private sources relative to the condition
of Cuba and the horrors of persecution,
rapine and extermination visited upon
the people of Cuba, admits of no dbubt
as to its credibility. Yet it presents
pictures so incredibly inhuman and so
disgraceful to the civilization of this
age that it stuns the mind into disbelief
that such things can be true.
“If war with the United States is
necessary to reconcile the Spanish peo
ple to-the loss of Cuba by foreign con
quest,” said Mr. Morgan, “we shall be
compelled to meet that emergency.' If
the destruction of Cuba is enough to
satisfy the popular sentiment of rer
venge, we can av«id a wav with Spain
by remaining inactive while our own
people are being ruined or slaughtered
along with the Cubans. If we mean to
take any action towards stopping this
war of annihilation and extermination,
we have no time to lose ”
Mr. Morgan spoke of the resolution
of Congress at the last session which
he said gave to the president the choice
of concurring with the policy of Con
gress or delaying. The president
chose delay. The war had continued,
he went on, until it had reached the
final and desperate stage of a war of
devastation and extermination, with
the people of Cuba as a prey to those
who had set aside the usual honorable
usages of warfare, and had become
“robbers, cut-throats, assassins, rav
ishers and pirates.”
Mr. Morgan closed his Cuban speech
at 3:10 o'clock and the Senate agreed
to his resolution calling for informa
tion on the Competitor and other cases.,
Balloon Expeditions to the Pole.
Paris, Dec. 16.—Godartand Surcauf,
the aeronauts, are about to organize a
balloon expedition to the North pole.
Don Carlo* Not to Waive HU Claim.
Madrid, Dec. 16.—The report that
Don Carlos, the pretender to the Span
ish throne, intends to waive his claim
in favor of his son, Don Jaime, orig
inated in a dispatch to the lmparcial
of Rome and is declared without
foundation in fact.
Black Envelope* Barred From Mail*.
Washington, Dec. 16.—Professional
collectors of bad bills will have to try
something new. The postofiice depart
ment has shut down on the latest de
vice—the black envelope addressed
with white ink. '
HELD AS TRAIN ROBBERS.
Four Men Arrested by the St. Louis
Police. Mat Evidence Weak.
St. Loi rs, Mo., Dee. 16.—Walter
Jackson, a cigarmaker. has been ar
rested on suspicion of having been one
of the men who held up and attempted
to rob the Iron Mountain train in this
city on the night of December 9.
Officers of the First police district
to-day brought in four men whom they
suspect of being part of the gang who
held up the train. The names of the
prisoners are Herman Keeney, William
Hudson, George Severly and Harry
Sylvester. According to the police
they are all worthless characters and
belong to what is known as the “Bates
street gang,” and hang about the scene
of the hold-up. The men were taken
before Chief Harrigan, who, after a
short interview, ordered Sylvester re
leased and the others held for further
investigation. The police have not
yet been able to fix the crime upon
Jackson or any of the three men.
ALEXANDER SALVINI DEAD.
The Noted Young Actor Passes Away in
Italy After Lons; Illness#
Florence, Italy, Dec. 1 .—Alexander
Salvini, son of Tomaso Salvini, the
great Italian actor, and himself a well
known American actor, died to-day
after a long sickness, from consump
tion of the bowels.
Plan to Prevent Strikes.
CnicAoo, Dec; 16.—Officials of the
Illinois Central railway have before
them the application of 1,500 employes
of the road who desire to purchase the
compaey’s stock. The Illinois Central
employs 23,000 men. More than one
fourth of the employes of the company
are now stockholders, and it is thought
one-half will soon be enrolled. In the
success of the plan of making the em
ployes financially interested with the
executives, it is believed the company
has taken a formal step in the direc
tion of solving the strike problem.
Pearl Bryan Case Perjurers Punished.
Cincinnati, Dec. 16.—John Seward
and William Trustee, witnesses in the
Pearl Bryan murder case, who were
convicted of perjury, were to-day sen
tenced in Newport, Ky., Seward to
two years and Trustee to one year in
the Kentucky penitentiary. They
tried to make the jury beiieve that
Pearl Bryan was beheaded on the Ohio
side of the river and conveyed to Fort
Thomas afterward.
Against State School Books.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 16.—State Super
intendent of Instruction Stanley is
opposed to state uniformity of school
books and to state publication. In his
forthcoming biennial report to the
governor he will recommend that if the
legislature should undertake either
state uniformity or state publication
the question should be well considered
beforehand. He thinks state publica
tion especially would be a costly ex
periment.
English Cracks at Chandler.
London, Dec. 16.—The Times to-day
commenting on the Cuban situation,
expresses the hope that the Spaniards
“will continue to disregard the vitup
eration of the jingo senators and ab
stain from imitating them,” adding:
“The American government maintains
a correct and neutral attitude and as
long as it does so Spain can afford to
smile at Senator Chandler's off-hand
recognition of the Cuban republic.”
Starkey Meets an Awfnl Fate.
North Bend, Neb., Dec. 16.—About
1:30 yesterday afternoon, Thomas
Starkey, junior member of the firm of
Starkey & Son, proprietors of the City
Roller mills, met instant death by
being wound around a shaft in the
third story of the mill. Starkey was
placing a belt, when his clothing
caught in a cog-wheel, and the force of
the revolution of the shaft could not
be resisted.
Oregon Land Grant Forfeited.
Washington, Dec. 16.—Chief Justice
Fuller announced the opinion of the
court in the case of the United States
vs. the Oregon & California Railway
and the Oregon Central Railway com
panies, involving titles to valuable
lands near Portland, Ore., reversing
the decision of the circuit court of ap
peals for the Ninth circuit and sustain
ing the contention of the government.
D. B. Dyer Wants a Divorce.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 16.—Colonel
David B. Dyer of Kansas City and
Augusta, Ga., wants a divorce. His
attorneys filed the papers yesterday in
the circuit court in a suit for a legal
separation from Ida M. Dyer, for many
years his wife, but for several years
not. strictly speaking, the partner of
his joys and sorrows.
Ben Cravens Taken to Kansas.
Sedan, Kan., Dec. 16.—Ben Cravens,
the noted outlaw, who was badly
wounded in a fight with marshals in
ihe territory a few days ago, was
brought to this city to-day by Sheriff
Kiser and lodged in jail to await trial
for robbing the stores of Craig and
Tweedy, at Wauneta and He wins, a
short time ago.
Forged Bills of lading.
Skdai.ia, Mo., Dec. 16.—The police
are looking for one C. R. King, who
claimed to represent the “Sedalia Pro
duce company,” thus enabling him to
swindle one Chicago commission house
out of $255, although a second Chicago
house refused _ to swallow the bait
thrown out.
_
Authorising Export Bounties.
Washington, Dec. 16.—Representa
tive Meredith of Virginia introduced a
bill authorizing the payment of export
bounties on agriculture and other pro
ducts of the United States conditioned
upon prices in Drineipal markets and
upon their carriage in American or
foreign vessels.
Candidate for Public Printer.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 16.—Senator
E. C. Linney of this city will be an ap
plicant for government printer. He is
a practical union printer and wiU have
solid Southern indorsement.
MACEO SUBELY DEAD.
SURRENDER OP HIS PERSONAL
PHYSICIAN.
All Doubt Now Seems Removed—The
Cuban General Shot In the Chin and
Abdomen—Affecting Letter of Young
Gomes to His Family—Senator Cnllom
Makes a Strong Plea for Intervention
by Uncle Sam.
Doubt Seems Removed*
Dec. 11.—Doubt as to the
fale of General Antonio Maceo would
seem to have been removed to-day,
when Dr. Maxim Zertucha, who was
the personal physician of General
Maceo, surrendered to Colonel Tort,
the Spanish commander at San Felipe,
this province, and confirmed the state
ment that Maceo was killed December
* near Punta Brava in an engagement
between the insurgents and a Spanish
column commanded by Major Cirujeda.
Zertucha said that Maceo was first
shot in the chin, the bullet breaking
his jaw and passing out near the neck
- r\ aucunu UUliet
wounded him in the abdomen.
Following is a copy of the letter
v% ritten in pencil which was feund on
the body of Francisco Gomez:
Dear Mamma. Pat a, Dear Brothers: X die
at mj' post. I did not want to abandon the
body of General Maceo, and I stayed with
him. I was wounded in two places, and as I
did not fall into the hands of the enemy, I
have killed myself. I am dying. I die pleased
at being in the defense of the Cuban cause.
I await for you in the other world- Your
so“’ Francisco Gomsz.
Friends or foes. Please transmit toitsdes
tination as requested by one dead.
Major Cirujeda arrived here yester
day with his men, but he did not bring
the bodies with him, and his story was
that he was forced to abandon them
iH the road because his horses were too
tired to transport them. From the
njen and from others, on the contrary,
it is learned that the rebels drove the
Spaniards back by main force and se
cured the bodies.
Only yesterday heavy reinforcements
left Artemisa by rail to co-operate with
Meluquizo in the attack on the rebel
positions near Juan y Martinez, where
Maceo's forces are supposed to be en
camped. Maceo was there Sunday
with over 3,000 men.
Various residents of Punta Brava
scouted Cirajeda's reports. Thev say
the Spanish troops under Cirujeda were
subjected to a humiliating defeat and
lost one-third of its force. Rebels
pursued him to the outskirts of the
town. Neighboring pacifieos seen said
the insurgents were commanded by
Serafin Sanchez, whom Spanish reports
killed last month in Santa Clara pro
vince.
CULLOM FOR ACTION.
Illinois Senator Pleads for Intervention
by Cnclo Sam In Cuba.
Washington, Dec. 11. —Soon after
the senate met to-day Mr. Cullom de
livered his promised address on Cuba,
and it was listened to with marked at
tention. Referring to the president's
message in regard to Cuba, he ex
pressed disappointment that it had not
been more positive and emphatic. He
dwelt at length on the long record of
barbarities in Spain and Cuba, de
nounced Spain as a robber nation and
pleaded for the exercise of good Ameri
can common sense in behalf of Cuba,
lie went on: “We have already pro
claimed that the United States will
have something to say regarding mat
ters affecting the American continent,
and wc should now announce that the
speedy termination of Spanish control
of the islands at the gateway of the Mex
ican gulf is necessary to the welfare of
those islands and to the people of the
United States. The present situation
cannot continue, A population of 950,
00U white Cubans and 000,000‘ colored
Cubans, aggregating 1.450,000 persons,
will never yield and ought never to
submit to the bloody military rule of
160,000 Spaniards. The question to be
determined is not fully clear, except
that the war must cease. The govern
ment of Cuba by Spain is merely a
tyranny, the governmental power
being but a machine by which the
profits of the resident sugar growers
go to fill the pockets of the Spaniards
«,uuu nines away.
In closing-, he said: “I believe it to
be the duty of the United States to see
to it and to maintain, as a prerogative
of right, belonging generally to repub
licanism, and specifically to this re
public, that no charnel house of ruin
shall be continued in the West Indian
waters, whose waves break at our very
front gate, any longer than the time
It shall require to break it up, and if
the duty of suppressing this damning
bolt and erasing it forever from sight
shall fall alone upon the United States,
k-j be it. Cuba Libre—free Cuba—is
the reward, and what a glorious re
ward will that be! Every citizen of
the United States will feel that his
birthright as an American freeman
will mean something. A settlement
must be made."
Mr. C'ullom preceded his speech with
the following resolution:
“Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives that extinction of
Spanish title and the termination of
Spanish control of the islands at the
gateway of the Gulf of Mexico are nec
essary to the welfare of these islands
and to the people of the United States.”
Flynn Kay Be Governor.
Washington, Dec. 11. — Delegate
Flynn of Oklahoma has dined with
Mark Hanna and since then it has
been gossiped that if he is offered the
governorship of Oklahoma at the ex
piration of Renfrow's term, he will
take it.
Spies Roughly Treated.
Clinton, Mo., Dec. 11. — Irvin
Wallace and B. J. Douglass, two
young men of this city employed by
the prosecuting attorney of St. Clair
county to get eyidence against men
violating the state liquor laws, were
seized by Whitecaps last night and a
rope tied around Wallace's neck and he
was thrown into the Osage river. He
swam out, only to be thrown in again,
and was forced to swim the river to get
away from his tormentors. Douglass
has disappeared. The two obtained
the needed evidence to convict the
liquor dealers before they were White
capped.
CLEVELAND’S MESSAGE.
It Is Not Considered Unfavorable
«r
Spain.
Madrid, Dec. 14.—Senor Emilio Css*
tellar, the noted Spanish republican*/
leader, gives the following statement
of his opinion of that part of President
Cleveland's message which refers to
the Cuban question: “I do not con
sider the President’s message unfavor
able to Spain, because the attitude of
Mr. Cleveland reminds me of that of
General Grant in 1873, only that Mr.'
Cleveland reads harder lectures to the
'nsurgents and the jingo elements in.
che United States. His silence on Cu
ban independence and his opposition
to recognition of belligerency showa
really honest, correct, statesmanlike
conduct. So does his official disposition
toward Spain. I persist in believing
that the more reasonable, the far.
sighted element of the American peo
ple, the old Puritan stock, will give us
fair play. I approve the temporizing
attitude of Mr. Cleveland in the first
part of his message. 1 consider his re
ply to the party resolution of tho
iwuwivuu i.uugic.'ta xaab waiter as at
damper for the insurgents. In the lat
ter part of the message undoubtedly
there are unpalatable declarations,
against which all patriotic Spaniards
protest—for instance, what he says
about the sale of Cuba, the inaccurate
statements concerning the situation in
the colony and the conduct of our
forces and generals. But we must dis
tinguish in the latter part of the mes-Jt
sage between the purely hypothetical™
surmises as to what America would
deem herself justified in doing if /
Spain were impotent to crush th*
insurrection promptly, and the
friendly advice ana suggestions vol
unteered by Mr. Cleveland when
he recommends and even offers to co
operate in obliging the Cubans to
accept autonomy or home rule, which
we ourselves offered them a large in
stallment of in the law which the
Cortes passed last year. We must be
practical and understand that this,
part of the message is calculated
merely to arrest the impatience of the
public in the United States and to
check once for all any European power
attempting to interfere with the pol
itics of the new world. Mr. Cleveland
thus gains time and allows us to expect:
that he will remain friendly to the end*
of his term of office.”
Advance In the Arts.
Patents secured for meritorious in
ventions through the Iowa Patent Of
fice, are published in our reports in ad
vance of the issue of such patents and
in advance of the sterotype lists that
are given by the officials at Washing
ton.
Patents have been allowed as fol
lows: To Julius Anderson of Kimball
ton, Iowa, for an apparatus for heating
and conveying milk to a centrifugal
cream separator and advantageously
maintaining a uniform temperature o^
all the milk that enters the separator*
To W. E. Newton of Newberg, Iowa,
for a sliding farm gate that will bo
automatically opened and closed by
the contact of the wheels of a passing
vehicle with the gate opening mechan
ism. ~-y
To J. P. Lewis of Frazer. Ia., for *l
reversible pneumatic sand distributor
for railway engines, by means of which
a blast of sand may be directed upon
the track rails, at the will of the en
gineer, in front or rear of the drive
wheels to facilitate going forward or
backward with a train on the track.
Valuable information about obtain
ing, valuing and selling patents sent
free to any address.
Printed copies of the drawings anti
specifications of any U. S. Patent sent
upon receipt of 85 cents.
Our practice is not confined to Iowa.
Inventors in other states can have our
services upon the same terms as Hawk
eyes Thomas G. & J. Ralph Ohwig,
Solicitors of Patents.
Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 9, 1896.
Live STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKET^
Quotations From New York, Chicago,
Louis, Omaha autl Lise where."
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator.. ;0 ©
Butter—Choice fancy country 13 <?*
Eggs—Fresh. 21
Prairie chickens, per doz. 6 00
Quail, per doz. 1 0D
Bed head and Mallard Ducks. 3 JO
Spring Chickens—drossed. 5
Turkeys. s
Geese and Ducks. 7
Lemons—Choice Messlnas. 3 50
Honey—l-'ancy White. 14
Onions, per bu. 35
Beans—Handpicked Navy. 1 :«
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@ 1 50
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© 16
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Potatoes.30 © 35
Sweet. Potatoes per bbL. 2 O') © 2 "5
Oranges—Per box . 3 75 © 4 00
Hay-Upland, per ton. 4 50 ©5 50
Apples—Per bbl. 1 25 C® 2 50
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET.
Hogs—Light Mixed. 3 20
Hogs—Heavy Weights. 3 15
Beef—Steers. 3 25
Bulls. 1 ;.o
Milkers and springers.. .......25 00
JiGfR*. 3 00
Calves.. 3 50
Stags.2 25
Cows . 1 ;j5
Heifers. 2 25
Stockers and Feeders. 2 50
•Sheep—Native. 2 25
Sheep—Lambs..' 3 25
C11ICAUO.
Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 77
Corn—Per bu. 23
Oats—Per bu.,... 14
}£*••••..::: 6 83
flattie—Christmas beeves.’ 5 40 © 5 go
Hogs—Medium mixed:.::;;.;;; 3 so @335
Sheep—Lambs. 3 no ~
Sheep—Yearlings. 3 65
NEW YORK.
Wheat—No. 1, hard... . 93
Corn No. 2,. 20
Pork- .
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wheat—No. 2 red, cash.... 90
Corn—Per bu. ' 2!
Oats—Per bu.14
Hogs—Mixed packing.] 2 90
Cattle—Native Ship’ng Steers. 4 00
„ KANSAS Cl l’Y.
Wheat—No. 2 hard. 74
Corn—Nr, •» . I .
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Cattle—Stockers and feeders.'.' 2 75
Hogs—Mixed.. 3 vg
Sheep—Lambs . " 303
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Lceay Uewsrdt a Pastor.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 14.—Governor*
elect Leedy has appointed the Rev. H
A. Fleharty, pastor of the Christian,
church at Eskridge, Waubaunsee coun
ty, to be his executive clerk. He wax
one of the best speakers on the silver
slue during1 the late campaign.
i
Mrs. McKinley in Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 14.—Mrs. William Mc
Kinley arrived in Chicago yesterday*
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Morse,
of ban Francisco, and Mr. and Mrs
Lafayette McWilliams, of Chicago,
liur Visit here is for the purpose of se
curing a much needed rest