Nebraska Newspapers

    1 THE FRONTIER.
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yinen.T., ■> NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA.
lomiviat lia<l two fires in one
:j" Week.
Tote house of Asa Godding of Syra
cuse was struck by lightning.
Thk loan and building association at
■ North Platte is in a very prosperous
condition.
Tux flouring mill at Norfolk haa
been idle for some time on account of
Ugh water.
l-iincoi.jf county assessors talk oi
i. raising the value of irrigated lands
. from SIS to 820 an acre.
Alo.no the Platte river this year
sportsmen are bagging more ducks
than in any former year.
By the premature explosion of a gun
a young man named Beardsley, near
Fairmuunt, lost three fingers.
Not a farmer in Buffalo county, says
the Kearney Sun. has donated a bushel
of corn to help the starving people of
India.
Fradr VVisma of Lyons has myste
riously disappeared and his wife and
friends are wondering what has be
* come of him.
Ariuxokmksts have been made for
the holding of the Table Rock Chau
tauqua on the grounds near that place
from June 10 to 19 inclusive.
Mbs. Mary V. Moss wants 825,ooo
damages from the Lincoln Journal for
something that paper said regarding
her excommunication from church.
One hundred and fifty cars of gravel
will be shipped from* Wyoming dully
next season to ballast the Union Pacific
track between Cheyenne and Columbus.
Geneva merchants have suffered for
the past couple of years from petty
burglaries. Every once in a while
aome store is entered and (articles of
■mall value taken.
Thr women's club of .York'held it*
first open meeting last week. An ad
dress was made by Mrs. A. J. Sawyer
of Lincoln on “The advantages and
disadvantages of being a club woman.”
4 Mrs. L. Moran and her daughter,
France* of Crete had a narrow escape
from asphyxiation in St. Joseph. They
went to bed in a hotel and blew out
instead of turning out the gas.
Thr junior endeavor society of Bea
ver City has raised a car of corn for
the sufferers of India. The corn will
' be shipped free of charge by the 11. A
< 31. to lienver and thenoe via San Fran
i;' ekeo.
Emerson is now the headquarters oi
the C., St. P., M. A O. railway bridge
and carpenter crew, and the Enterprise
of that place says the change will add
about twenty families to Emerson's
population. “ - >i ?
Nurjon is Jubilant. The North
Nebraska G. A. R. reunion haS )>een
located there for another year. This
will be the fourth year Neligli has had
the reunion and the city feels justly
proud over the fact. *
'fi" A few days ago a line set of harness
was stolen from the barn of J. C.
Swartz, a farmer living two miles west
of Hastings. The police were notified
and Wm. Hardy was arrested. He
, confessed and is now,in jail.
R*v. Father Murphy of Tecumseh
has returned from Washington, D. C.,
s where he went to present his case be
fore the apostolic delegate, Martinelli.
The. points at issue will probably not
■;4 bp decided for a month yet.
. Mrs. Hitbkr, wife of Col. John Huber
of Columbus, died very suddenly of
heart disease. She was <14 years old
**d had lived in Platte county for
nearly, thirty years. About a year ago
she was stricken with paralysis and
had been in poor health since.
A t.arorr number of cattle are being
fed in Gage county this spring and
summer than has' wen fed there for
years. The large surplus of corn, to
gether with other advantages which
have been mude available by farmers
to shippers, is accountable for it.
, ' Til* jewelry store of A. R. Weaver
> at Harvard Was robbed of 8150 to 8200
worth of watches and jewelry, and the
money drawer of Brawn A Saule, who
oeeupy one side of the room with
stationery, was opened, and about 83
' in small change taken and some cigars.
. No arrests.
Word has been received of the death
™ Walter 'H. Prickett, a prominent
attorney of Alva. Cal. Sir. Prickett
was oat of the first attorneys in Lin
coln. 11c was for some time in part-.
! nerahip with Attorney Seymour 0.
Wilcox, now of Omaha. He was a
member of the first town council of
Fairfield, and was considered one of
leading attorneys of the state, and
' too* a very prominent part in republi
can polities.
n>vi uui«iu is to nave a beet sugar
factory. There Is no longer any doubt
<m this question. Notices have been
prepared and will be served on the res
idents of blocks 258 and 201 within a
few days. Altogether about fifty fam
1® little shanties on
wi« land, which has been leased from
the south Omaha land company. In
the lease the company reserves the
right to elaim the land after giving the
occupants ten days' notice.
Two masked men entered the home
of D. Jones, an old bachelor who lives
a mile south of Wymore, knocked him
down and covered his head with a
aaek, and then demanded that he tell
them where he kept his money. He
refused, whereupon they heated irons
and applied them to his body, burning
him in a horrible manner. This treat
“‘■“t lasted two hours. Then the rob
hera, leaving the victim in his helpless
condition, locked the house and took
doubtful.'VUh them‘ Hl® recov?py Is
8. H. Avars, who has been for
the past three and a half years engaged
5iln, SclM)°l missionary work in
Uarfield and surrounding counties
ifederthe direction of the American
thmday bchool union, will hereafter
labor m Dodge and Maunders counties
with headquarters at Fremont.
■ W. A. Lawkkscx and Dick Ball felled
a tree north of Elk Creek on the
Nemaha that contained a nest of young
spoasams. These little animals are
quite a curiosity in this part of the
sountry so the boys allowed them their
freedom.
On* of Long Pine's hotels has dosed
j^nr tuek of remunerativebusiness.
'“SV,5
MEN FOR THE COUNT.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED IN
BOTH HOUSES.
Been iTftn of the AmendBaeat Tata Will
Mew Interruptedly Go forward—
Legislature's Tima la Up, Bat
Thera la Yat a Great Deal
of Work la Sight.
Tho Nebraska Assembly.
flEBATE.-The senate on the 2Jd became In
volved In a parliamentary tangle over the
hill providing for a new dormitory for the’
Peru normal school. Today the senate un
did some of this hasty work. The dormi
tory appropriation was recalled, and the
measure must lienceforth take its chances.
Tlie vote liy which the hill was passed was
reconsidered by a vote of 17 hi 14. In the
afternoon the senate Kink up regular routine
work. As wain as it hail lieen called to order
the senate went Into committee of the whole,
with Mr. (loudring in the chair, to take up
1 lie consideration of senate file No. SW. which
had been made a special order for this after
noon. Fritz of Thurston, author of the hill,
t ried to have the name of Foltz of Keith sub
stItuled for that of Mr. (londring. hut the
motion failed to carry, und Mr. Uondrtng
took the chair. Senate die No. Sffl provides
that the terms of all county officers shall he
for the period of four years, anil that nil
county officers now In office shall hold
said offices without further election
until IMS*. In otlier words, the pro
posed law extends for two years the
term of office of all county officers,
the committee mode short work of the
bill. After It had been road Mr.' Frit/,
offered an amendment which limited
the tennre of office to a single terra. It was
agreed to without dissent. Then Mr. Mut/.
offered another amendment providing that
the first election of county officers under the
proposed law should lie held In ls»7. This
was also agreed to by a vote of II to 7. Mr.
Meal moved that the committee rise and re
port the hill hack to the senate with the
recommendation that the bill be Indefinitely
postponed. To this Mr. McGiimi offered an
amendment that the hill be recommended
for passage. Finally the hill was recom
mitted to the commit tee on judiciary. Sen
ate file No. 2, the anti-compact Insurance
bill. Introdnoed hy Mr. Haller, was placed on
Its final reading and passod by a vote of 2H to
1. Senate file No. aftt. Introduced by Mr.
uondrlng. to amend the Irrigation law, was
read the third time and passed. House toll
No. lull was read the third time and passed
It leagaltzes certain acts of the county com
missioners of Ituffalo comity, lip to this
time the passage of the hills had proceeded
Without tnterruptkin: hut from this time on
the afternoon proceedings, so far as bills on
third reading were concerned, were budly
broken up. Bill after bill was road and
found to Isa radically defective In construc
tion or In the manner in which It had been
engrossed.
Henat*.—'The senate devoted the session on
the 34th entirely to the several normal
school propositions. It transpired very
early In the duy that a combination had been
effected for the* purpose of establishing not
one, hot two, normal schools, one at Scotia,
and one at York. Long before the duy closed,
however, the combination went to pieces and
all normal school bills were killed for the
Sweden. Mr. McUunn said that the necessity
for a normal school was apparent to every
body. Scotia was but forty miles from the
geographical center of t lie si ate. ft was ac
cessible to tlie people of twenty counties.
The buildings were sufficient for all the
needs of a normnl school for the coming tun
years. He contended that such a school at
l ark would 1st superfluous as that city, was
Within an hours ride of the University
of Nebraska, which furnished ample fa
cilities tjor the training of teachers In
the south and cetitral"pnrt of the state!
Thera was lengthy discussion on the mutter.
some favoring York and others Kcotiu. Mr.
McOsnn closed the debate with « plea for the
ffcotla proposition. At 4:30 o’clock a vote
was. reached on Haller's motion that the
committee recommend to Indefinitely post
pone all normal school bills. It was agreed
to by a vote of to to 11. This kills all normal
school propositions for this session. Sir.
</*born moved that the vote by which senate
Jlle No. Sll was passed lust Monday be recon
sidered. This motion was declared to lie out
of pwler until the hill was in tlie possession
pf the senate. Mr. Caldwell moved that the
ltouse lx1 requested to return the bill to the
senate, lie said that there was good reasons,
for the belief that the bill, which proposed to
restrain the crime of gambling, had been
passed ignorance of Its true purism.
After discussion the motion to recall the bill
Was agreed to. When the bill was ret urned
the vote by which It was passed was recon
sidered and the bill sent back totliecom
mtttee of the whole. A committee consisting
of Talbot, Hand ring and Howell was ap
pointed to confer with a like committee from
the house relutlvo to fixing a duy for Anal
adjournment. The senate then adjourned.
Kbhate.—The senate on the SSth resolved
Itself Into an Informal sifting committee this
forenoon. The approaching end of the ses
sion was evidenced In the hasty scramble of
individual senators to get their favorite hills
In under cover. Hills on third reading were
taken up us soon as the chuplaln had said
his prayers. Hut one bill was ready, house
roll No. 144, Introduced by Hurkett of Lan
caster. It. makes grave robbing a felony
instead of a misdemeanor. The lull has al
ready passed the house and the senate sent
It to the governor. Mr. Mut* brought up Ills
bill, senate file No. 181. providing for the
dividing of the fifteenth judicial district
Into two districts, and moved that it be ad
vanced to a third reading. This motion
brought, on a Urst-cluss controversy. The
(notion to iMlviince tho bill was not agreed to.
Mr. Uomlrlng asked that aenate Hie No. 240
be engrossed for Its Anal passage. Tills Is
one of the Important hills of tlie session,
although It has attiu ted hut little attention.
It. authorlr.es the attorney general to com
mence an action to recover from the sureties
of an official bond running to the state iu the
county in which the sureties reside. At
present such suits have to be commenced In
Lnncustcr county. The hill was advanced to
third reading. On motion of Mr. Ppencer of
Lancaster, senate Hie No. SKI was ordered
engrossed for third reading. It Is a bill
to miulro school lmok companies fur
nishing hooks to school districts In Ne
braska under contract to maintain n
supply house at the capital of the state.
Wcnute flic No. SOS, which next received con
sideration, provides for the exclusion of
school bond taxes In the computation of ag
gregate school taxes. The bill was recom
mended for nasssge. The enrolled copy of
t he recount hill was presented and signed by
the nontenant governor. The senate bill
ceding to the use of the hospital for tho In
sane at Lincoln a nuartcr section of state
land was passed. The senate bill permitting
criminal suits ugalnst statu officials charged
with offenses against the statutes to be
brought la any county of the state was passed.
I he announcement that the governor hod
signed the recount bill was received and the
sapate adjourned.
skxatb.—The senate on the STtli (lid con
siderable business. The lieutenant governor
banded to the clerk and had read a commu
nication in which lie announced the appoint
ment of Uanoday of Kearney, Bykcsof Adams
and Heapy of Sherman as t lie senate nicni
liers of tlie recount commission, provided for
In the bill which received tile approval of the
governor. The Itousc bills received were
read the second time. Lee of Moyd moved
that house roll No. 4.11 be advanced to third
reading. The bill authorises the commis
sioners of public lands and buildings to select
lands In the old Port Itundall military reser
vation as school land Indemnity. Tlie pure
food bill Introduced by Mr. Murphy was
taken up, discussed and recommended for
passage. House roll No. M7, Uatttn’s hill to
prevent corporations from contributing to
political organisations, or using their lnltu
ence In elections was recommended to pass.
T he next bill taken up was senate Hie No. <171.
Miller's bill providing tor the taxation of ex
press companies within the state of Nebraska
and fixing a penalty for false statements.
Mr. Mutx moved to strike out the amend
ment taxing the companies !i per
cent of the net earnings and make It
read 3 per < eeat of the gross earnings.
The motion was adopted. Mr. Murphy offered
an amendment exempting from the calcula
tion of the gross earnings t he amount paid by
the companies to rail roads for transportation.
To this Mr. Kausom added, "and also the
amount paid by such companies to employes
for manual labor.” The amendment was
defeated, and another by Mr. Oondrlng
changing tlie 9por cent on gross earnings to
1 per cent win adopted. The bill was recom
. mended to pass as amended. Senate tile No.
am, by Felix, providing for u tax on telephone
I companies, and coutululng almost exactly
the same provisions us the express company
Mil. was next on the list. Mr. Talbot offered
an amendment striking out the word “cruia"
and Inserting the word "net” earnings. The
. amendment fulled to carry. He then offered
■ an amendment chauglug the per cent from 3
to oiM-half of 1 per cent. The amendment
offered by Mr. Tallsit was adopted, and tM
bill was recommended to puss.
Hotrer..—In the house on the Ski the cum*
ndttceon privileges and elections reported
house roll No. MSI, the new bill relating to
the powers and duties of the attorney-gen
eral In eases affecting the state, to oe en
grossed for third reading. The report was
adopted. Bills on third reading having been
taken up. House roll No. Hl.'t. the general
appropriation bill, was read and put upon
Its passage. The vote stood S3 ayes to 4 nays.
Eager, bnyder of Nemaha. Wooster and
Young voting against the hill. House roll No.
KKI. the claims appropriation hill, was read
and passed by a vote of 70 to s. House roll
No. 3,53, providing for the payment by coun
ties of the premium on the ponds of county
treasurers, where these liOnds are executed
by u surety company authorised by law to
execute such bonds, passed by a vote of HO
to OT. House roll number 304 provides for the
payment out of tl* state treasury of the
premium on the state treasurers I Kind, when
the bond is executed by a surety company
authorised by law to execute such bond, the
premium not to exceed one-thinl of 1 per
cent per annum of the penalty stated In the
isind. The hill carries an appropriation for
t he payment of such premium. It was passed
by a vote of 5# to 25. House roll No. 391,
by Klcli. to amend sect Ions 7 and 8 of cliuptcr
lxvili of the compiled stututes of Ne
braska, 1890. and relating to bonds re
quired from persons having contracts
with the state, received 53 votes for and
38 against its passage with the emer
gency clause. Boll was again called upon its
passage with the emergency clause stricken
out. and the fate of the hill being very uncer
tain. Rich moved a cull of the house. It
was soon raised and the bill passed by a vote
of 53 to 38. House roll No. 303. creating a
hnurd of public works consisting ot three
members in cities of the second class and
village-cities of over 5.000 inhabitants, was
passed with the emergency clause stricken
out by a vote of 51 to 44. House roll No. 303
provides that notaries public shall give liond
for »!,000 either in an lneorporated surety
company or two residents of the county.
The bill received 54 votes and was declared
passed with the emergency clause stricken
out. House roll No. 301 requires that when
the plaintiff Is a nonresident of the county in
which action is brought lie must first furnish
security for costa, either by a resident of the
county or a surety company authorized to
transact such business. The bill passed with
the emergency clause. Senate lilo No. 47,
Hansom's hill requiring that husband and
wife shall lxitli sign chattel mortgages given
on household goods, passed with only three
dissenting votes. Senate file No. 4«, by Han
som, requiring street ear companies to con
struct enclosures at the end of cars to protect
their employes from inclemency of the
weather during certain seasons of the year,
was passed by a vote of 70 to 10.
house.—Hills on third reading were tho
first thing in order In the house on the 31th,
and bon.se roll No. 474. Gatlin’s bill to permit
county agricultural societies to participate in
the Trans-Mississippi exposition und to pro
vide tor the expense of county exhibits, was
passed by a vote of 61 to 28. House roll No.
310. the bill to establish a state banking
bourd. to define statu banks, provide for a
secretary for the state banking board and
state bank examiners, nnd to provide for tiie
regulation of such institutions, with penal
ties for violation, false statements or entries;
also providing that receivers of such banks
•may give bond In incorporated surety com
panies, was passed after tho emergency
clause hud been stricken out. House roll No.
313, the lust of Kick's bills, providing that a
receiver shall give bonds of the sumo kind as
designated In the previous bills, was passed
without the emergency clause. House roll
No. 306. providing for guaranty Ixmds for
township, city and village treasurers, re
ceived 62 ayes and 38 nays, with the emer
gency clause. With that clause stricken
out. It received fifty-seven votes,with thirty
two negatives, and was declared passed.
Webb offered a resolution providing for the
printing of 330 copies of the “Blue Book." to be
modeled on that of 1893. After some discus
sion the resolut Ion was adopted. Alderman
sentupa resolution asking that tho Missouri
river commission lie Instructed to take steps
to prevent the constant change of channel of
the Missouri river between Cottonwood Hills
bluff and the liluff at Sioux City. It was
adopted. Ilonse roll No. 6. Hull's deficiency
judgment hill, was recommended for passage
as amended before helng sent to the special
committee, the committee substitute Deing
ignored. The committee of privileges and
elections reported senate file No. 3X2. the new
recunvass bill, for third reading. It was so
ordered. Adjourned.
House.—The sift lug committee of the bouse
on the 26th reported the following bills, with
the recommendation tlmt they lie ordered to
third reading. In the order named: Henate
files 6 and 96. house rolls 339. 623. senato files
74, 76, house rolls !l2, 481, 273, 605,277. 331, 27,
897. 378 and 549. The standing committee on
agriculture reported house mil No. 343 to lie
placed on the general file. This Is Marshall's
bill giving the state board of liorltlcultiire
*2.000 for the payment of expenses of t lie
society. House roll No..401, by Gufllu, limit
ing the tax levied by school districts, but
providing that the board may horrow money
oil I Kinds which may be Issued when nuthor
wed by the electors of said school district,
was pluced on third reading, and missed by a
vote of N3 to 6. House mil No. 209. by Wlm
berley. to direct the application and payment
Of certain moneys received by the state
treasurer unituully. aud known as tile “Mor
rill Kuml." in aid of the industrial college of
tiie university of Nebraska, was read tho
third time and passed with t lie emergency
clause. House roll No. 12. by Clark of Lan
caster. to umend the existing law relative
to elections to correspond with a bill
already passed, providing for the selec
tion of iioii-partlsluii election hoards,
was passed by a vote of 84 to s.
A message was received from the governor
announcing that lie hail signed house roll No.
93, the Trans-Mississippi exposition' bill,
house roll No. 13, for the relief of Boyil
county, and house roll No. 4. for the relief of
Relieeca Perkins. Senate file No. 382. the re
count bill Introduced ut the suggestion of the
governor, was put upon its passage. During
roll call It was discovered that several mom
hers would have to be brought In before the
bill could pass, und a cull of the house was
demanded. Tiie hill was passed by a strictly
party vote. On motion of Shull of Nemaha,
the amendment to senato file No. 108, tliede
flcleney judgment bill, exempting present
contracts, adopted yesterday, was stricken
out. An attempt was made to recommend
the bill for passage, but It was defeated by fi
tie vote. A message from tiie governor an
nounced that be hud signed senate file No.
4s2, the m w recount bill which passed during
tiie afternoon. The house adjourned to 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
House.—Immediately after tho opcnlngcx
erctscs in the house on the, 361 h the spoakcr
announced that lie had appointed Dobsou of
Fillmore, lierdcs of Itlctiardson, Fernow ol
Adams and Loomis of Butler as the house
committee to aid In the recunvass. Mc
Graekuu moved that the committee bo In
structed to employ as lielp in tiie recount
the- present employes ut I lie house, as far as
expedient. The motion was adopted without
division. .Senate file No. 387 was put upon its
final passage. This is the bill regulating the
filing of articles of Incorporation ami
fixing tiie scule of foes for the same.
It received. seventy - two votes, with
only eight In the negative, and was
declared passed with the emergency clause.
House roll No. 193. the committee substitute,
extending the term of of redemption of real
estate after foreclosure to one yeur beyond
the nine months alreudy allowed. Tho bill
received fifty-six votes, and was again put
upon Its passage, with the emergency clause
stricken out. On this roll call the bill passed.
House roll No. 631. the bill suggested by tliu
governor’s message. Increasing the powers of
the uttorncy general, was passed. When this
committee report on house roll No. 428 was
read, Pollard moved that the report lie not
concurred In. but that the hill lie referred
back to the committee of the whole for fur
ther consideration. On a rising vote tiie
motion was lost, and t iie report was adopted,
recommending (he hill for passage. Ad
journed until 3 o'clock Monday.
FOR CURRENCY REFORM.
Kmton of the Monetary Convention
Committee Coll on the Speaker.
WAfHlHGTOJt, March 37.—The mem
bers of the committee on legislation
which was appointed by the Indianap
oils monetary convention called on
Speaker Reed to-day and talked with
hlna concerning legislation for cur
rency and banking reform.
Mr. Reed told the committee that
congress moved faster than the people
in matters of legislation, and when
public sentiment became crystaliced
In favor of any particular form of
financial legislation congness would
be apt to respond with little delay. If
the .people demanded changes in the
banking system and brought pressure
to bear on congress they would secure
| changes.
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SENSATIONAL CHARGES
BY SAILORS.
ACCUSED BY OAKES CREW.
Kept on Half Ballon' Mott of the 3SU
Days Oat from Hone Kong, While
Captain Bead Wat Living on
Chlekeni and . Other Uood
Thingt—He It to Be
Froeecated.
New York, March 29.—The survivors
of the crew of the clipper ship T. P.
Oakes, which was towed here 259 days
out from Hong Kong, allege that Cap
tain Reed is directly responsible for
the illness of all but two of the crew;
that they were lcept on half rations
during the greater oart of the trip and
that the vessel could have made New
York much sooner if the captain had
taken advantage of favorable con
ditions which prevailed much of the
nine months they were on the water.
“We have not decided just what
charges we shall prefer against Cap
tain Reed,** said *lames H. Williams,
secretary of the Seaman's union, "but
we shall make the most serious charge
against him that we can sustain by the
evidence.”
Joseph Robinson made the statement
which will be used by the Seamen’s
union and the eleven other survivors
who are with him in the Marine hos
pital will subscribe to it. Several were
able to sign their names with difficulty
and one is still so weak that it is a
question whether he will l-ecover.
"We were forced to complain about
our food before we had been
a week out from Hong Kong,”
said Robinson, “and the entire crew
went to Captain Reed July 7 only to
be refused better provisions. ’ Our
condition became such that by the end
of July we determined to make an
other demand and again the entire 1
crew complained. From July 3t to
September 27 there was an improve- ’
ment, but on the latter date we were !
all placed on half rations and so con
tinued to the end. The captain did
not supply the ship with enough pro
visions before leaving Hong Kong.
"While the men in the crew were
growing weak from a lack of proper !
food, the captain was living on "chick
ens and other good things. He had
two _crates well filled with chickens
whed we left port, and when the !
Oakes got into New York several i
chickens were still left. If the cap- j
tain had killed them and made soup ;
for the crew, even giving it to us but 1
once a week, the men would have been j
able to retain*their strength instead of
coming in ill and helpless. We were
so weak from hunger that often mem
bers of the crew had to grab hold of
the railings to keep from falling. ”
CIVIL SERVICE DEFENDED.
President Proctor Welcomes the Fullest
Kind of an Invealigation.
Washington, March 29.—Mr. Proc
tor, president of the civil service com
mission, speaking to-day of the pro
posed investigation of its methods,
said: “We will welcome the investi
gation, for it is not facts but misstate
ments regarding the methods of the
commission that tend to hold it up to
ridicule be -ore the public. When the
facts are known, it will be found that
the commission's methods have been
such as are calculated to promote the
good of the service. Take the criti
cisms of the commission that were
made in the Senate the other day, when
the Allen resolution was under consid
eration. One thing is fortunate, and
that is every act of the commission is
a matter of record. Senator Allen
wanted an investigation of the alleged
political removals from the govern
ment service at South Omaha. Here
is our minute book and it shows that
seven days before the introduction of
that resolution the commission ordered
an investigation of those charges. One
after another of the charges made
about the management of the commis
sion can be readily answered by a
reference to the records, and an in
vestigation will tend, I think, to do
the commission much good. It will be
found that our system of examinations
is practical, and calculated to discover
the fitness of the applicant for the
place sought, and not inclined to call
for the mere literary ability.”
IiOwndm Against Gorman.
As.vavoi.I8, Md., March 29.—Gover
nor Lloyd W. Lowndes, Republican,
has formally declared his intention to
become a candidate for the United
States Senatorship to succeed Arthur
Pue Gorman, whose term will expire
March 4. ISiH.l. The legislature which
will fill this important position will be
elected next November and will meet
in January, 1898.
Fort Scott Order Revoked,
Tovkka, Kan.. March 29.—Governor
Leedy has changed his mind regarding
the police affairs at Fort Scott. Last
night he announced the appointment
of a board of metropolitan police com
missioners for that city. They are J.
P. Robey, a silver Republican, for
chairman: ,1. W. Howl us. a Populist,
for secretary, and W. D. Lowery, a
Democrat, for the third member.
Hlttlnger Not After the Poetofflee.
St. Joseph, Mo., March 29.—When
Major Bittinger was told yesterday
afternoon of a report that he'would be
tendered the postmastership, he said:
“Under no circumstances would 1 ac
cept the St. Joseph postofliee.-’ He
left last night for Washington.
To Walk Down the Ohio.
Boston, March 29.—Captain Robert
Cooke of Americus, Ga., who is at pres
ent in this city, announces that he is
making arrangements to walk on the
water of the Ohio river from Pittsburg
to Cincinnati on a wager of SI,000 in
fifteen days. The distance is about
500 miles.
CIVIL SERVICE DEBATE.
Man* Requirement* Brought to the At
tention of the Senate.
Wabiusgtox, March 2ft—Another
bVief discussion of the civil service oc
curred during the open session of the
Senate yesterday. Mr. Gal linger, Re
publican, of New Hampshire, presented
several forms issued by the civil serv
ice commission to substantiate his re
cent statement that certain ap
plicants' for office were required
to hop on one foot ’ for twelve
feet. He said his statement had
been challenged by several penny-a
liners and by one member of the civil
service commission. The senator read
the “hopping provision” and several
other sections as to the weight and
height of the typesetters, which lie
characterized as absurd. Referring to
the size and weight requirement, Mr.
Oallinger said: “Phil Sheridan could
mjt have served the government if the
civil service commission had got at
him.” The matter was referred to the
civil service committee. A resolution
was adopted asking the President for
information as to the death of
two American sailors at Santiago
de Cuba; aiso resolutions asking
the attorney general for information
of any proposition to sell the Union
■ Pacific railroad. Owing to the public
demand for copies of a recent decision
of the supreme court sustaining the
anti-trust laws applicable to railroads,
it was determined to print the major
ity and minority opinions as a Senate
document. A memorial from the
Michigan Legislature was presented
by Mr. McMillin, Republican, of Mich
gan, protesting against the executive
order at the close of the last adminis
tration consolidating pension agencies,
and, in effect, abolishing the agenev
at Detroit.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Three men Blown to Atoms by Nitro- J
Glycerine—Ten Others Hart.
Philadelphia, March 29. — Three
men were blown to atoms and ten
other people injured by an explosion
of nitro glycerine at the Repauno
chemical works, near this city. The
dead are: James Hamilton, aged 30
years; Charles Wright, aged 25, and
J. T. Stiles, aged 28. All were mar
ried.
The explosion occurred at 12:24
o'clock, when the workmen were re
turning from dinner. Most of them
had not reached their posts, or the loss
of life, would probably have been
greater. The concussion was felt for
miles around,' and a plasterer at work
on a scaffolding three-quarters of a
mile away was thrown. Meanwhile a
corps of men was put to work among
the ruins and, after much search, the
mutilated remains of the three vic
tims were gatnered into two buckets.
Wright was identified by a ring on one
of the fingers, and Stiles by his
shoulders, from which the head as
well as the lower part of the body had
been torn.
The explosion was of such terrific
force that, beside totally destroying;
the two houses, it tore a hole fully
eighty feet long and twenty-five feet
wide in the ground upon which they
had stood.
The cause is assigned to excessively
high temperature in one of the houses
quantities of the explosives being ii
both at times.
BUSINESS THE PAST WEEK
Gradual Improvement In Different In
dustries, Says Dun.
New York, March 29.—It. 6. Dun A
Co.’s weekly review of trade ,says:
“With confidence that ^better times
and larger business are coining, men
are less disposed every day to throw
away good investments, and the very
fact that prices of products are low is
regarded as a guarantee against fur
ther decline in all industrials. The
number of mills and shops and hands
at work gradually increases.
The grain markets have lost with
out reason the gain they made the
previous week. Wheat sunplies are
running out but nobody believes there
is coming a famine before June, when
the harvesting of Southern wheat will
begin. Western receipts were over a
third smaller than last year.
Four Democrats for It.
Washington, March 29.—Four Dem
ocratic members of the House, it is
understood, will vote for the Dingley
tariff bill. Three of the four are in
the Louisiana delegation and the other
is from Texas. The Louisiana men are
induced to vote for protection mainly
on account of the sugar schedule
of the bill, which meets their approval,
while the wool schedule has won the
member from Texas. There are six
members of the Ivouisiana delegation,
all of whom are in favor of protection
on sugar. In order that they may put
themselves on record on this poliev
they may offer an amendment to the
sugar schedule, or a substitute for it,
embodying the rates which they de
sire.
Say They Saw an Air-Ship.
Beixvhjjs, Kan., March £9.— J. A.
Rea, operator at the Rock Island de
pot; Jack Nealelgh of the Rock Island
lunch room and two other men, saw,
at 9:20 last evening, an airship above
this city. The light appeared to be a
mile above the earth, and looked half
the size of a locomotive headlight.
S,400 Women Register.
Wichita, Kan., March 29.—Regis
tration closed here last night, and the
total is larger than it has ever been
before. Twenty-four hundred women
have registered, which number is far
greater than any previous female reg
istration.
Populist Ticket Ruled Out.
Chicago, March 29.—The electior
board decided that the People’s party
in this city is not a party under the
law, and refused to allow the nominees
of the party’s convention to go on the
official ballot. The People’s party in
dorsed in convention the regular Dem
oeratie candidates for the city and
town offices.
Whisky to Be Higher.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 29.—At ail
informal meeting of distillers and
wholesale whisky dealers here it was
unanimously agreed to advance the
price of spirits in a few days.
A Small Fortune Stolen.
St. Joseph. Mo., March 27.—Joseph
Davis recently drew $2,240, a legacy,
from the bank and hid it under a car
pet, placing a trunk over it. Yester- v
day afternoon, while the family was
down town, the carpet was torn up
and the money stolen.
O. G. Eekltlln Meenree a Divorce.
Wichita, Kan.. March 27.—O. G.. _
Eckstein, a well known attorney and
Republican politician, was granted a
divorce from his wife' to-day on the
ground of gross neglect of duty.
RYAN WILL BE SELECTED..
Kansas Almost Certain to Get the First
. Interior Assistant Secretaryship. .
Washington, March 27.—President
McKinley has practically agreed to
appoint Thomas Ryan of Kansas first
assistant secretary of the Interior de- -
partment. He arrived at this conclu
sion last night and some surprise was
manifest when the Kansan's name was ■
not found in the list, of new nomina
tions sent to the Senate after it met
to-day.
As first assistant secretary of the in
terior it will be Ryan’s duty to exam
ine charges against officials' and em
ployes, instruct Indian inspectors and
mines inspectors, supervise open mar
ket purchases of Indian supplies and
generally matters pertaining to the
Indians, supervise business relating
to the distribution of certain
public documents and matters re
lating to the government hospital
for the insane, Columbia institu
tion for the deaf and dumb, su
pervise the Arkansas Hot Springs, the
Yellowstone mineral park of Wyom
ing, the Yosemite, Sequoia and Gen
eral Grant parks of California, and
supervise the disbursement of the fund
for a more complete endowment of ag- •
ricultural colleges in states and terri
tories. In the absence of the secre
tary, he acts in that c-w-eUy.
J°IN i .njw,.,_,ASE.
Attorney General. McKenna Order* It*
Appeal to the Supreme Court.
Washington, March 87.—Attorney
General McKenna yesterday sent in
structions to District Attorney Mae
Farland at New York to take an ap
peal to the United States supreme
court from the decision of the circuit
court of appeals in the case of the
United States against the Joint Traffic
association. As soon as the papers
reach the department of justice a mo
tion will be made in the supreme court
to advance the case on the docket, so
that a speedy determination of the
question involved may be had.
It is stated that the decision of the
Supreme court in the case of the
Trans-Missouri Freight association
covers all of the main points in the
decision of Judges Wallace and Las
coinbc in the case of the Joint Traffic
association. It also is their opinion
that the passenger associations come
as clearly within the prohibitions of
the law as do the freight associations.
It is believed that the appeal will be
argued and decided before the summer
recess of the court.
Rockefeller tin. * ■»„ Wages.
Ci.evei.anp, Ohio, March 87.—It was vj
announced to-day that John D. Rocke
feller’s representative at the recent
meeting of the Bessemer Iron associa
tion made a fight against a reduction
of the wages of ore miners. It was
stated after the meeting had adjourned
without reaching an agreement that
the wages of men in the Rockefeller
mines would not be eut.
Blpr Reserves In Knnsas State Banka
Topeka. Kan., March 87—Reports
from 185 state banks in Kansas show
an average reserve of 40 per cent,while
the law only reonire.s.“0 ner cent.
IOWA PAi i.ii i REPORT.
Des Moines, March 19.—Henry
Principal, of Des Moines, has been. ,*
granted a copyright for the "Principal
Tailor System of Dress Cutting.”
J. CundifT, of Union, Iowa, has been
allowed a patent for a simple, strong
and durable portable machine adapted
to be advanced along a wire fence to
weave stay wires on the fence wires.
In the list of patents issued last
week Iowa is represented by (i,
Nebraska has 3, Minnesota 8, Kansas
3, Missouri 18, New York 70.
Ten thousand two hundred and eight
applications are awaiting action at
Washington. The examiners of 33
divisions are less than two months in
arrears with their worn and in only
one division is the work in arrears
over two months.
Printed copies of the drawings and
specifications of any United States
patent sent upon receipt of 35 cents.
Thomas G. and J. Ralph Oirwie,
Solicitors of Patents.
UVK STOCK AND FKOUITE MARKET.
Quotations From New York, Chicago. St»
Louls, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator...* IB 49 JO
Butter—Choice fancy country.. JO 40 12
Eggs—Fresh. 7J449 K
Chickens—Dressed. 7 99 7‘/i
Chickens—I.ive, per lb... 6 4» . (Hi
Oranlierries—per bbl. ft 00 49 ft SO
Lomons—Choice Messinas... 3 2ft 49 3 50
Honey—Fancy white. 13 On 14
Onions, per bbl.. 1 00 49 1 75
Beans—Handpicked Navy.1 10 49 1 20
Potatoes... SS 30
Sweet Potatoes, per bbl. 1 CO 40 1 7ft
Oranges, per box. .3 no 49 :i 75
Hay—Upland, per ton... 4 00 49 4 30
Apples, per bid.. 1 SO 49 2 50
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET.
Hogs—Light mixed. 3 Oft 49 4 00
Hogs—Heavy weights.3 16 49 3 90
Beef Steers. 300 49 4 00
Bulls... 2 10 49 3 ftO
Milkers and springers.SR 00 4430 00
Stags.. S SO 49 4 00
Calves..3 IS 49 ft 00
Cows. 1 75 49 3 Oft
Heifers... 1 7ft 49 4 00
Stockers and Feeders. 3 03 ff) 4 so
Sheep— Westerns.. 3 00 49 3 oft
Sheep—Lambs.3 tsft 49 5 2ft
CHICAGO.
Wheat- No. 2 Spring. 72 49 73
Corn, per bu. 23599.4 24
Oats, per bu. Itift44 pi*
fork. N 70
Card. 4
Cattle,- -Bulk of sales. 4 2ft
Hogs -Medium mixed.. 3 7ft
Sheep-Lambs.3 50
NEW YORK.
" heat—No. 1, hard, whiter. NO 49 Ml
lorn—No. 2. 29R49 30
Oats—No. 2. 22 40 *»2W
Pork. T fiO 4a N iio
Lard. 4 45 & 4 50
ST. LOUIS.
" heat -Xo. 2. red. P4
Corn, per bu. 21
Oats, per bu:... Is
Hogs—Mixed parking. 3 70
Cattle—Native liecves.4 10
KANSAS-dTY.
\\ beat -Xo. 2. bard.
Corn—Xo. 2. 1S\44 10
Oats-No. 2. |N 4« INJ4.
Cattle -Stockersand feeders.... 2 2S 49 4 70
Hogs-Mixed.3 85 49 4 06.
49 4 25
49 ft 00
49 4 20
49 ft 00
49
49 04*
44 21 >4
44 1S*4
44 4 lift
49 5 «l
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