Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
NBLUHBlf imr THOR* DAT By
tM Fmowiaa Paurrnto Oo.
SmtlLL, -> NEBRASKA^
NEBRASKA.
Tax embalming bill failed to pass
the legislature. __
Tkkamah will this year get along
"1 without any saloons.
There are three men who desire to
run a saloon in Syracuse this year.
&: The deadly “nigger shooter’’ has
been outlawed in Ulysses, and the
small boys are in tears.
Dr. W. H. Ntrvkkr of Beatrice
was badly injured while attempting
to stop a runaway team. For a time
he was unconscious and was badly
bruised.
WniiJt playing around a bonfire the
7-year-old daughter of John Kline of
Adams, was fearfully burned about
the lower limbs and back, and will
probably die.
For the shooting of Peter Ilill at
Fargo, Richardson county, on Septem
ber X5th, the jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter against Miles L. Quimby
of Cfaiir. Mo.
Ex-Congressman Andrews and wife
have returned from Washington. Since
his return Mr. Andrews has been kept
,A busy entertaining callers from all
parts of the district, some of whom are
Applicants for office.
Word was brought to Schuyler from
Shell Creek', that Herman Loseke
had hanged himself. He was well
known in Schuyler as one of the well
to-do Loseke family and is not known
to hare had troubles of any sort.
The cornerstone of the first Trans
Mississippi exposition building will be
laid by Grand Master Phelps of the
Nebraska Masons, a letter accepting
the invitation from the committee of
arrangements having been received.
One of the Peavey corn cribs at Car
roll was reported smoking by the rail
road boys the first of the week, about
1,000 bushels of corn being destroyed.
* - Too much dirt which retained the
moisture, is said to have been the
cause.
From Washington it is reported that
v **-Congressman Hainer is sufficiently
recovered from his severe illness to
take drives through the city during
the middle of the day. He is not yet
certain when he will leave for Ne
braska.
Thk board of public lands and build
ings made short work of the Investiga
tion of the row at the Beatrice insti
tute for feeble minded youth between
Superintendent Fall and Steward Sher
' Idan. Only four witnesses were ex
amined.
Pbofbmob Cub hie, superintendent of
the Broken Bow schools, has been
; offered a position as manager of a big
. cattle company, which ’ proposes to
I purchase cattle in Mexico and else
;; where, to be placed on a ranch north
4 , west of Anaeuno, in Custer county. i
Mayor .Boss of Fairmont swore out a
warrant for the arrest of J. T. Clark,
proprietor of the Clarendon hotel, who
has been suspected for some time of
selling whiskey and beer. The house
was searched and plenty of evidence
was found, but Clark cannot be found.
An old man named Abram Hill, liv
ing east of St. Paul across the Loup
■ river, wandered away from home and
was never after seen alive. Searching
parties found the remains of the old
man in the hill, two or three miles
from home. A verdict was returned
of death by old age and an exhausted
condition, after wandering around in
the darkness and rain.
Tub labor commissioner is preparing
rious coun
blanks to send out to the vorf<
'clerks, to be by them distributed
• the assessors, under the pro
i of house roll No. 877. This bill
ides that the assessor shall gather
the industrial statistics of their vari
ous piVcincts, to he turned in to the
county clerks, who report the same to
the labor commissioner.
Uranus 1Iili.kbraxi>t. the 4-year-old
' daughter of H. J. llillebrandt of St.
Paul, was seriously burned. Her
mother and others had been burning
i aid grass and rubbish in the garden
„ preparatory to their spring garden
work. The little girl stumbled and
4 fell into the fire and before she could
be rescued was dangerously burned
about the hands and face.
H. Dokrffkl, an old and respected
:: pioneer business man of York, died
very suddenly while at work in his
cigar store. He had been in poor
■ health for a long time, but opened
hie store as usual in the morning.
. When his son entered the store at noon
t':-■ with a lunch for his father he found
him lying dead on the floor by the
work bench. Heart disease.
,i .Tint Alliance Guide has this to say
. : . with reference to the good accomplish
cd by their stock association: This
association, which has been organised
»«• two vcttra, ou uone ior me
•took growers of this section far more
than ul the rifles and shotgun* in the
country have accomplished in the years
previous to its existence, and it can be
•aid with much satisfaction that cattle
rustling in western Nebraska is almost
unknown today, and all these good re
•alta are due to the influence of the
association.
A Wjuuukgtox dispatch says: It is
_ ays:
expected that the sundry civil bill,
•awing *800,000 for the Trans-Missis
sdpui exposition, *175.000 for the Omaha !
and South Omaha nostoffices and 133,- I
«0 for revetments on the Missouri I
near Nebraska City, will pass the ;
■caste this week. Hupervlsing Archi
tect Aiken is anxious to get to work on
the government building for the expo
sition, and says that he will be able to
erect a structure that will be a credit
to the vast extent of territory included
in the trans-miasissippi region.
A okktixo of depositors in the de
funct Beatrice savings bank was held
to ask that a new receiver be ap
pointed. ,
Tka Dixon Tribune states that the
creamery at that place paid 18 cents
tor milk in March. This 1b clear of ex
peases. A good showing.
Two mrxpxxn and ninety cases of
egg* and a ton Mid a half of butter ,1s
the record of one day's shipment from
laeigh, Colfax county.
Ob. A. H. Mima, a leading physician
«f Calbertson, was severely injured
IPs team upset the buggy and his leg
broken in two places above the
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TURKS MEET GREEKS.
POUR HUNDRED OP THE LAT
TER ARE DISLODGED.
fork* Hit* Alton* 150,000 Good, Well
■quipped Troops In Lino—Greeks
Barn About 80,000 Regulars
and 80,000 Irregulars on
tho Lias,
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Groek Invaders Defeated.
Labusa, Greece, April 17.—The
Greek invaders under Chiefs Luzzo and
Zermos captured a village held by two
companies of Turks, killing eighty of
them and making twenty-five prison
ers. A strong Turkish force attacked
the 400 Greeks in Kranla and after
8 fierce fight they routed the in
vaders. Most of them were driv
en into the mountains, but some
escaped to Baltina Chief Miionas,
the leader, was wounded. It is
reported that the Ethnike Hctairia
(national league) has ordered the
Greek Irregulars to retreat into Greek
territory, regarding further bloodshed
as useless unless the regular army of
Greece shall support the irregulars.
The Greeks have about 60,000 regu
lars and some 20,000 irregulars on the
frontier,.but they count a great deal
on reinforcements to their armies
through risings in Epirus, Albania and
Macedonia.
xne Auras nave about 130,000 good,
well equipped troops in line. Of these
fourty-four battalions are Redifs,
raised in Boutnelia, in all about 30,000
men, who are divided among two re
serve divisions. At Monastir flying
columns have been formed to watch
the Servian frontier, and all the sup
plies possible are being pushed for
ward to the three Turkish divisions at
Elassona, Grevena and Janninna. The
Turks are weak in cavalry, having
only about 8,000 mounted men on the
frontier. They are, however, very
strong in artillery and infantry. The
transport corps is well organized, field
telegraphs have been laid between all
important points, artesian wells have
been bored at Elassona and the broken
bridges in Macedonia have been re
Eaired as much as possible. The Turk
ih forces at Salon lea have constructed
a line of redoubts round the gulf and
down the Aegean coast to Katerina.
Krupp and Armstrong gnus have been
mounted behind those defenses and a
line of thirty torpedoes has been laid
across the bay from Cape Kara.
BIO BICYCLE SWINDLE.
■seared •80,000 Through an Altering
Ad—One Coder Arrest.
New Yobe, April 17.—William S.
Thompson, who was indicted In Chi
cago last October for carrying on
swindling operations through the
malls, has been arrested here and is
held in 93,500 bail for faring. It is
alleged that Thompson sent out letters
offering to send bicycles worth fiioo
upon receipt of «45. Persons who sent
money claim that they never heard
anything ' more from Thompson.
Thompson had been arrested in Chi
cago and furnished fl,0Qp ball The
concern of which Thompson was the
head sent out circulars offering a prize
to the person > making the greatest
number of words out of the letters in
the title “Empress bicycle.” Later on
circular letters were mailed to those
persons who had failed to win the
prize, offering them a 9100 bicycle for
I W. In Chicago, Thompson was known
as “William S. Thompson” and in this
city as "C. Thompson.” Thompson
and his associates had obtained about
150,000 by means of the swindle.
TO RECALL THOUSANDS.
Ove* a fourth of the Spanish Army In
Cuba Will Bu Beat Huek.
Washington, April 17.—Aeeoring to
information received here, when the
rainy season shall set in in Cuba, 10,
000 Spanish troops will be sent back
to Spain, and soon afterward 30,000
more will be recalled.
I The Spanish insist positively that It
means only that little or nothing of
the insurrection lemalns; that Gomez
. has only about fifty or a hundred fol
1 lowerera, and to watch these under
the conditions In which the campaign
has been necessarily conducted a few
thousand men are quite as effective as
the 180,000 men which have been maln
j tained in Cuba. The Cuban contin
’ gent, on the other hand, insist that
, the Spanish financial resources are ex
. hansted and that the troops are to be
Withdrawn because of lack of money
to keep them la service.
FIFTEEN FLOOD VICTIMS.
CMorad People on Davis Island Parish
—Doalslann Devses Still Stand.
Vicksburg, Miss., April 17.— Fifteen
colored people, nearly all women and
children, were drowned Wednesday
by the flooding of Daria island, once
the property of Jefferson Davis. The
other hands of the plantation on the
Island were rescued from the top of
the levee by the government steam
boats John R. Meigs and Atlanta. The
loss of stock on the rich island has
been vary great
NkwOblkaxs, La., April IS.—The
weather bnreau predicts that the
Mississippi river flood will reach its
maximum by next Tuesday, and water
will cover the wharves and wet adja
cent streets. The Louisiana levee line
* still holding, though rises of three
Inches and more a day are quite com
mon.
O—he Bspesltlen Contrasts (at.
Omaha, Neb, April n.—Contracts
were awarded this morning' for the
removal of SO,000 cable yards of dirt
en the site of the Transmississiopi
exposition. The excavations will 'be
for lakes and lagoons The work will
be commenced at ones.
— -«—
.Hsevg Howard for e Kauai Barela*
Ei-Doxado, Kan,, April 17.—A safe
was broken Into, at Latham, this
. county, Wednesday night and a large
' amount of money stolen. A reward of
i SMO is offered for the capture of the
^thief and recovery of the money.
MRS.TILTON PAfedES AWAY
’ • •-» r
TIM Wonka GommM With Hssrjr Ward
■tecchor DIm ,Tiry Qiltllj.
Nbw York, April 17.—Mrs. Eliza bath
B. Tilton, the wife of Henry Ward
Beecher’s accuser, died Tuesday.
News of her death did not become pub
lie until yesterday.
Since the famous Beecher trial she
had lived in strict retirement. In re
cent years she had shared her home
with her widowed daughter. Even
the fact of her death was kept secret,
and there are no external signs of
mourning about the house where her
body lies. Theodore Tilton, her hus
band, is in Paris, where he has lived
ever since the Beecher trial.
For a long time Mrs. Tilton was al
most totally blind, but less than a
year ago she underwent a difficult op
eration and regained her sight. Then,
about a month ago, she suffered a par
alytic stroke, from which she was
slowly recovering, when in the latter
part of last week she was again
stricken.
The funeral services were held last
night. Few were admitted to the
house. Malachi Exeter, a preacher of
the Plymouth Brethren, to which sect
Mrs. Tilton belonged, officiated. The
interment will take place to-day.
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
National Republican Lnfne Delegation
Urge* Ita Modification.
Washington, April IT.—A delega
tion representing the National Repub
lican League called on President Mc
Kinley yesterday to urge some modi
fications of existing civil rervice rules.
The delegation urged that they repre
sented more than 1,000,000 of the
young Republican voters of the coun
try, and that under the civil service, as
extended by Cleveland, offices which
it was never intended should he
placed in the classified service had
been so placed, and that they had
practically been put out of the hope of
young Republicans to obtain. In all
there are some 40,000 offices which the
delegation urged should be removed
from under the civil service rule.
Members of the delegation claim
that the president is in thorough sym
pathy with their movement, and confi
dently expect that the necessary exec
utive order suspending the civil ser
vice over the offices mentioned will
soon be issued.
Switzerland's President Arbitrator.
Washington, April 17.—The presi
dent of the Swiss republic has been
selected as arbitrator of the boundary
dispute between Brasil and French
Guiana. The territory involved ex
ceeds that at issue between Great Bri
tain and Venezuela and includes rich
gold mining districts. It was thought
President McKinley would be desig
nated as arbitrator, but as France was
one of the parties to the treaty, - a
European arbitrator was preferred.
To IsiMtd Crittenden.
Washington, April '.1.—The presi
dent has made a private announcement
of the name of the next consul gen
eral to Mexico. The place will go to
A. D. Barlow of Missouri. Barlow is
the brother-in-law of D. M. Houser <6t
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publish
ing company and the appointment will
be made on the joint recommendation
of National Committeeman Kerens, D.
M Houser and Major John L. Bit
tinger.
Judge Storrow Vails Dead.
Washington, April 17.—Judge James
A. Storrow, the well known lawyer of
Boston, about 60 years old, fell dead
in the Congressional library yester
day. In the proceedings incident to
the arbitration treaty between the
governments of Great Britain and
Venezuela for the settlement of the
boundary line dipute Judge Storrow
acted as special counsel for the Vene
zuelan government.
Bristow's Ass Still Busy.
Washington, April 17. — Record
breaking has been the axe work of
“Headsman’’ Bristow the past few
days and to-day ha made 127 fourth
class postoffiee appointments, 66 of
which were to fill vacancies caused by
death and resignations, and 54 for re
movals at the expiration of four years’
service. Kansas was almost neglected,
Indiana being now as heretofore the
chief beneficiary.
Shot Himself ea His Wife's Grave.
i LiTTT.fi Rock, Ark., April 17.—Cap
tain Samuel Lyons, one of the oldest
citizens of Little Rock, was seen to
enter the Jewish cemetery about boon
yesterday. Shortly afterwards a wo
man passing screamed and said that a
man had shot himself. Captain Lyons
was found lying on his wife’s grave
dead, with a pistol elutched in his
hand. He was 68 years of age. His
wife died in 1877.
"Watchdog" Holman Better.
Washington, April 17. — Representa
ble Holman of Indiana, who haa been
seriously rick from stomach troubles
for the past ten days, was somewhat
better this morning. He is still quite
weak, but is able again to take solid
food. There is nothing alarming in
his condition, though it will be some
days before he can resume his duties
at the capital.
Glees 9950,000 to a Chareh.
New York, April 17.—The appraiser
of the estate of Maria Louise Vander
bilt. wife of William H. Vanderbilt,
filed his report with the surrogate yes
terday. The value of the personal
property is found, after deducting ex
penses and paying certain debts, to be
$625,478. Under her will she gave
$250,000 to St. Bartholomew's church.
Rig Mow Orleans giro.
New OKI JEANS, April 17.—One of the
most picturesque structures in the city,
known as the Moresque block, owned
by (iauch A Sous, was destroyed by
fire yesterday afternoon. In less than
two hours the edifice had collapsed,
and upwards of $400,000 had gone up
in smoke. _,
Fra lifts’ Order Held Up.
Washisoton, April 17.—Secretary
Bliss, of the interior department, has
held up an order issued by the author
ity of his predecessor, conferring
48.COO acres of land upon the state
university of Missouri, as an additfon
to its endowment fund.
A BIG DAY’S WOBIL
OVER ONE HUNDRED POSTMAS
TERS APPOINTED,
_
Tl» Kum "Headsman" tnrpiiut Ikl
Mark Sat by Bla Liveliest Pradaeaa*
•or—Kansas and Mlssoarl Wall
Farorad In tha 11st — Tha
Farared Ones,
Bristow Makes a Record,
Washtkgtow, April 16.—All record!
were broken to-day by Bristow, the'
Kansas “headsman.” Ue appointed
ICS fourth class postmasters, fifty-eight
of which were to fill vacancies caused
by death and resignations, and forty
one for the expiration of four years'
service.
The Kansas appointments were'
Butlef, Reno county, J. Enus; at Bel
bue, Pottawatomie, county, R. Craig,
vice D. Case, removed; at Burdette,
Pawnee county, J, Page, vice John
Lyons removed; at Wathena, Doniphan
county, George Manville, vice M. Foley,
removed.
The appointments for Missouri
were: At Americns, Montgomery
•ounty, B. Baker; at Bland, Gasconade
county, El- Aufderheide; at Clearest
Tille, Gasconade county, G. Essman; at
Davis, Lincoln county, J. Cox; at High
Hill, Montgomery county, M. Miller,
▼ice Marion Skinner, removed; at Leas
burg, Crawford county, John Mclnnis,
vice J. King, removed; at Monievallo,
Vernon county, Cora Steurmer, vice
K. Whitley, removed; at Morrison,
Gasconade county, Samuel Spreckel
meyer; at New E'lorence, Montgomery
county, E. Corvey, vice C. Locke, re
moved; at New Hartford, Pike county,
P. Lovelace; at Peers, Warren county,
Louis Eckelkamp; at Rhineland, Mont
gomery county, L Miller; at Saint
Peters, St. Charles county, W.
Steurmer; at Silex, Lincoln county, G.
Smiley, vice J. Brown, removed.
FIRST TARIFF TEST.
n Shows a Clear Republican Majority
of One Over All la the Sonata.
Washington, April 18 —The first
skirmish on the tariff question oc
curred in the Senate yesterday. It
was followed by a vote which served
as a test of strength of the various
elements of the Senate. The vote
occurred on a motion by Mr. Morrill,
Republican, of Vermont, chairman of
the committee on finance, to refers
resolution by Mr. Vest, one of the
Democratic members of that commit
tee. This made the issue between
representatives of the two leading ele
ments in the Senate. Aside from this
the resolution was in the nature of a
criticism of Secretary Gage and de
clared illegal his recent order relative
to goods imported after April 1, when,
according to the retroactive clause of
the pending Dingley bill, the new
tariff rates are to apply Mr. Morrill’s
motion prevailed by the close vote of
24 to 23. The detailed vote was as
follows:
Yeas—Baker. Burrows,Carter, Clark,
Cullom, Davis, Foraker, Frey, Gallin
ger, Hawley, Hanna, Hansbrough,
Hoar, McMillan, Mantle. Mason, Nel
son, Platt of New York, Pritchard,
Proctor, Quay, Spooner, Warren, Wel
lington—24.
Nays—Bate, Butler, Cannon, Chan
dler, Chilton, Cockrell, Gorman, Gray,
Harris of Kansas, Heitfeld, Lindsay,
McEnery, Martin, Mills, Morgan, Pas
co, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlins, Tur
ner, Turpie, Vest and Walthall—23.
The only Republican vote cast
against the motion was that of Mr.
Chandler, while the Democrats voted
solidly against it. They had the as
sistance of all the silver Republicans
and the Populists present, except Mr.
Mantle, silver Republican of Montana,
who voted with the straight Repub
licans. Mr. Cannon, silver Republic
an, and Messrs. Butler, Harris of Kan
sas, Heitfeld, Pettigrew and Turner,
Populists, were recorded against the
motion. Messrs. Teller, Jones and
Stewart of Nevada were absent.
Senator Kyle, whose position is a
question of interest, and Senator Al
len, Populists, also were absent.
LELAND PENSION AGENT.
The Kanm Republican Leader Hay Gat
a Good Place.
Topbka, Kan.. April 17.—Since the
return of the Kansas politicians from
Washington the report has become
current that President McKinley sum
moned Senator Baker to the White
house tuo weeks ago and asked him to
indorse Cyrus Leland for pension
agent.
It is also reported from Washington
that neither of the candidates now
mentioned for the office of internal
revenue collector will be appointed.
It is believed that Senator Baker has
reserved that place for one of his
Leavenworth friends, but who the
lucky man will be nobody will venture
a guess.
To Exterminate the Grassheppew
Liscom, Neb., April 18.—Professor
Lawrence Bruner of the department
of entomology of the University of
Nebraska will leave here next Satur
day, to sail from New York April 84,
for Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republlo.
He goes as an expert hired by an Ar
gentine syndicate to study the grass
hopper plague that has devastated the
farms of that country for a decade,
and he will spend a year in seeing how
best to destroy the troublesome insect.
Mysterious JaU Delivery.
Memphis, Tenn., April 16.—A mys
terious jail delivery occurred here last
night J. W. Morris, alias J. A. Thur
man, alias J M. Thomas, under indict
ment for fergery in Chicago, Louis
ville and Memphis, pasasd through
four doors, all of which were found to
be securely locked after the escape
was discovered.
Sight Pictures All Bight
Chicago, April l c.—Dan A. Stuart
yesterday denied the story that the
pictures of the Carson fight had proved
worthless. They are, he said, entirely
Satisfactory.
FLAMES AT KANSAJ CITY.
Incendiaries, Uald to Huri tUtnpM to
Bora ilia Town.
Kansas Citt, Mo., April 10.—The
Are fiend was butyin Kansas City lost
night. Over the ■ business center of
the town the torch of destruction was
brandished and a stiff breeze caught
up and scattered myriad sparks os they
welled from a flame engulfed building
and menaced millions of dollars'
worth of property and threatened for
a while to blaze a charred end black
ened path along Walnut and Main
streets as long as there was food to
feed upon. There was every evidence
that a well organized and systematic
band of "firebugs” was industriously
at work. Between the hours of 10 and
1 o’clock six alarms were sounded, all
from in or close to the business center.
The origin of the ficarrit building
fire is a mystery; there is no doubt in
the world that G. W. Love joy’s plan
ing. mill was set on fire. An attempt
was made to burn the D. a Mayer
liquor store, at 114. East Twelfth
street.
The estimated losses on the various
fires:
Scsrritt building.• 75,000
Campbell-Eaton. 15,000
Morledge Ojrster company.... l!oOO
Morley's saloon„. 100
Smltbson Storage company. 800
McMahon, tbe tailor. 500
Herman's restaurant. 250
Economy Furniture company. 200
E. A. Fllleau. artist. 1,000
Lenox rooming bouse. ’200
United stales Tailoring company.. 100
Dornslfe's restaurant. 100
dump's trunk factory. 100
Dan Lucas, barber.,.. 100
Lovejoy planing mill... 10,000
Miscellaneous. 2,000
®°tal...1116.850
A REMARKABLE BILL
Provides for the Creation of rorty Haw
Executive Departments of Government.
Washington, April 16.—Senator Pet
tigrew has introduced perhaps the
most remarkable bill that ever found
its way to the Senate files It provides
for the creation of forty new executive
departments of the government. The
“secretary of public labor,” is to Es
tablish a bureau for each class of
workers, with an agency at every post
office, for the purpose of “enlisting
and organising the grand army of
labor.” Of course, every enlisted man
is to be given a job under the govern
ment.
The “secretary of public transporta
tion" is to fix rates not exceeding one
mill per mile for passengers and one
mill per ton per mile for freight.
The “secretary of public communi
cation” is to see to it that telephone
rates do not exceed 91 a quarter-year,
and telegraph rates are restricted to
10 cents for thirty words. Moreover,
the “publie wire service is to be ex
tended to every voting preclnet in the
country” so that “the same shall form
one gigantic whispering gallery laid
beneath the surface of the earth.”
According to this remarkable bill,
“the secretary of public buildings” is
to provide persons employed by tbe
government with rooms, flats and res
idences by lot in such a way that the
various ages, classes, races and sexes
shall be able to live together in peace
and harmony.
The “secretary of public farms” is to
establish and operate public farms in
every county of the republic.
There are to be similar departments
of insurance, mining, fisheries, mer
chandise, manufacturing, gas, electric
light, forests, science, invention, sur
veying, printing, statistics, documents,
etc.
Not content with all this the bill
creates a “secretary of publie hotels”
whose duty it is to establish and op
erate public hotels and eating houses
in every part of the republic.
The “secretary of publie baths” is
to establish baths everywhere, and
these baths are all to be free
The “secretary of public peniten
tiaries” is to pay wages to all prison
ers, holding tne money till the expira
tion of their terms or sending it to
their families, “to the end that the
state may not commit a greater' crime
than the convicts could possibly have
committed.”
Although the bill was introduced
by Senator Pettigrew, James Seldoa
Cowdon of Virginia is the author of it.
Mr. Pettigrew admits that he does
not expect the bill to become a law. 1
Kidfeljr'a Prosperity Bill.
Washington, April 1 <5.—Representa
tive Ridgely, Populist, of Kansas, in
troduced in the House to-day a bill
“to enable the unemployed to earn a
living, to utilise industry and produce
general prosperity.” His plan is mueh
like the one advocated by “General”
Coxey of Ohio. It authorizes each
state, territory, eounty, city, town,
township or school district to raise
money for giving employment on pub
lic works by issuing non-interest bear
ing bonds of twenty-five years, pay
able only to the United States, not to
exoeed half the assessed value of the
property of the state or municipality.
In return for the bonds the United
Statee treasury is to issue treasury
notea
Beorsaelsatlon Scheme Rejected.
Washington, April IS.—The com
mittee appointed by the Republican
caucus of the senate to arrange with
the opposition a plan for the reorgani
sation of the Senate eonfmittees de
cided to rejeet the proposition made by
the committee representing the alli
ance of the Democrats, Populists and
silver Republicans, and to ask for an
other conference, with a view of
reaching a more satisfactory under
standing. _______
Judge Themes A Johnston Deed.
Maryvuxb, Mo., April It.—Judge
Thomas J. Johnston, one of the best
known lawyers in this section, died at
1 o'clock this morning. He had been
in active practice at the Maryville bar
twenty-seven years. He came here
from Milan, Ida, where he was en
gaged in the practice six years, and
was for a while probate judge.
H*l Cholera, u Bertwestern Kansas.
OBim.ur, Kan., April Id.—Hog chol
era has made its appearance in the
pens of several stockmen in and about
Oberlin and many hogs have died.
Great care is being exercised to pre
vent1 .
A Bold Denver Bobber Cnufht
Sacrakento, Cal., April 14.—Jane*
Collins, now in jail here, acknowledgee
I that he is "Cuckoo” ColfinR, wanted by
| the police of Denver for the robbery of
the jewelry store of (Sottesleben A
Sons, March 9,1896, of a tray contain
ing 910,000 worth of diamonds.
Two Stores Involved In IWlure
Atchison, Kan., April 14.—W. L.
Baudlers, operating general stores at,
Frankfort, Kan., and Falls City. Neb.,
has failed. The assets and liabilitiea
are not given, bnt are believed to be ■
large. _
Norton* St. Loala Hire.
Hr. Louis, Mo., April 14.—The live
story building at Main street and Park
avenue, occupied by the Louis Re
frigerator and Wooden Gutter Manu
faoturing Company, was destroyed by
fire this forenoon. An estimate of the -
loss puts it at 960,00»„ Two firemen
and a hoy were injured by falling?
walls, but not fatally hurt.
Wanamakyr Doesn't Want It.
Philadelphia, April 14.—John Wan
amaker has declined to be a candidate
for state treasurer of Pennsylvania.
CHANDLER’S SCHEME.
The Senator Propose* to Take Poumi1ob<
ot the Armor Plate Factories.
Washington, April 14. — Senator
Chandler of New Hampshire said last
night that ho would introduce two**
bills directing the government author*
ities to take possession of the great
armor plate factories of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., limited, at Hornostead,
Pa., and of the Bethlehem Steel com
pany at Bethlehem, Pa., and operate
them with government forces until all
the armor plate needed to equip the
new battleships should have been com* ■
pleted. _
Negotiation* With the Indians.
Washington, April 14. — The an
nouncement that T. B. Cabanuis, one
of the members of the Dawes commis
sion, had resigned, that another va
cancy was soen to be created, and that
Dennis Flynn, the ex-delegate from.
Oklahoma, and Thomas Needles of
Illinois were to be appointed to the
vacancies, have unsettled the negotia
tions between the commission and the
Indians. Telegrams are being re
ceived here urging upon the adminis
tration the retention of General Frank
Armstrong on the commission as nec
essary to effect the conciliation of the
Indians. ■■_■
Four Men Injured by Dynamite.
DeAdwood, 8. D., April It.— Care
lessness in handling dynamite resulted
in an accident in the Holy Terror
mine hy which four miners—James
Hopkins, John Hidland, Sherman Dun
ning and Joseph Everly—were danger
ously hurt, the last two named fatally.
Aeeldeatally Shot Himself.
Tbenton, Mo., April 14.—Baker -
Smith, while out hunting, accidentally
killed himself with a shotgun. He
was riding in a cart, when he struck a
stump, discharging the gun, the entire
charge passing through his heart He
was married and had two children.
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.
Des Moines, April 10.—The vcnerable
Geo. Schramm, of Des Moines, has
been granted a copyright for his “New
Versification ot the Immortal German
National Hymn, ‘The Watch on the
Bhine.’ ”
J. W. Billings, of Grinnel), Iowa, has
been allowed a patent for 8 toy gup
in which the barrel is adjustably con
nected with the breech in such a man
ner that a wafer cap can bo inserted.
in the breech chamber and exploded
to fire a ball from the barrel to shoot
squirrels from high trees, etc.
J. A. M. Tyler, of Lexington, Neb...
has been allowed a patent for an
improved mechanism for raising and.
lowering a buggy top.
A patent has been allowed to L.
Fleishman, of Des Moines, for a nut.
lock consisting of a nut that has an
angular bore and a circular screw
thread of larger diameter at one end.
of the angular bore in combination,
with a bolt having an angular portion
and a second nut having an internal'
screw to engage the internal screw in
the angular bore of the first mentioned,
nut.
Valuable information about obtain
ing, valuing and selling patents sent
free to any address.
Our practice is not confined to Iowa.
Inventors in other states can have our*
services upon the same terms as
Bawkeyes.
Thus. G. and J. Ralph Ottwig,
Solicitors of Patent*
UVE STOCK AND PKODDCK KABKBT.
Quotations From New York. rlitn| m gt»
IiOnli, Omaha ami Elsewhere.
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator... IS
Butter—Choice fancy country.. 11
Eggs—Fresh. 1
Chickens—Live, per lb... a
Cranberries—per bbl. 4 23
Lemons—Choice Messlnas.3 *0
Honey—Fancy white. H .
Onions, per bu.1 35
Beans—Handpicked Navy.1 00
Potatoes. 25
Sweet Potatoes, per bbl. 1 00_
Oranges, per box.335 M 3 1*
Hay—Upland,per ton. 4IS |lM
Apples,per bbl.. ISO 43225
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MAKT
Hogs—Light mixed.3 FI
Hogs—Heavy weights.3 IS
Beef Steers.3 65
Bulls..3 35
Milkers and springers.35 00
Stags. 2 to
Calves. 3 40
Cows.... 150
Heifers.3 25
Stockers and Feeders. 33
Sheep—Westerns..3 50
Sheep—Lambs.4 30
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 05
Corn, per bu. 33
Oats, per bu...‘.. 31
Pork. 80S
Lard.. 4 15
Cattle.—Bulk of sales.. 3 50 Ota
Hogs—Medium mixed. 3 25 §4M
Sheep-Lambs.5 50 § £ £
NEW YOBK.
Wheat—No. 2, red. winter. 77
Corn—No. 2.
oats-No.2.].^
Wheat—No. 2, red. 88
Corn, per bu. a
Oats, per bu. 18
Ilogs-Heavy.. 3 00
Cattle—Native shipping steers.. 4 IQ
„ KANSAS CITY.
Wheat—No. 2, hard. 77
Corn -No. 2. 31
Oats— No. 2. 19
Upttle—KtocWeni and feeders...! 3 00
Hogs—Mixed.u rr* asm
fcbeep-Muttons. 4^ ^ 4 ^
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