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 perishe0 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. 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