Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISHEl> ITF8Y THURSDAY By
• Tw Fmhim Pmwwq Co.
O’NEILL, -> NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA.
A rr.Ainm flro near Wallace destroyed
* Considerable property. .
Tiie business men of Hartley hare
organized a new bank.
A Slew paper called the Bimetallist
has been started at Nebraska City.
. Titikvks entered a Blair shoe store
and carried away twenty-five pairs.
IVavsk county has doubled the acre
age of wheat as compared with last
yea*'. •
EvKnr connty in .Nebraska starts
spring operations with plenty of
moisture.
A i.i, tramps stopping off at Wymore
. are given a job on the street, where
they can work out a fine for vagrancy.
Officers have been running down a
gang of hog thieves in Nemaha county.
A number of arrests have been made.
Ciiari.es If. Brown, a prominent
lawyer of Omaha, died last week. He
had served the public in many official
. capacities.
Rev.. Dr. Wright, pastor of. the
; Presbyterian church at Wayne, has re
ceived a call from Hastings, to which
he will- make a favorable response'.
• Vai.i.kv county farmers are putting:
in more grain this year tlian ever be:
fore, and there has never been a
brighter prospect for a bounteous bar*
vest.
JonN Dennis qf Hutton was attacked
“by a Jersey bull and severely but not
dangerously gored before he-' could
break away.
■ A voitng son of Arthur Connor, who
• lives southwest of North I’latte, . got
tangled up in a harrow and had nia
left leg broken between the hip-and
knee.
TDK prospects for a large attendance
at the Fifth district Sunday school
convention to be held ih Hickman May
SO and. 21 are daily becoming .more
favorable.
• • Captain Johst Carmichael, govern
? meat land office inspector, 'While in
specting the land office at O'Neill, re
ceived ,a-telegram ^reqaeaU0? him to
' . send id his resignation to take effect
April 20. . .
Tint plant, subscription, list, good
will and advertising contracts of the
Linooln Evening News were sold un
' dfer mortgage and purchased by Heetqr
H. Tyndale, the representative of the
• bolder of the mortgage.
Word was brought to Schuyler from
.Shell Creek,, that Herman Loseke
bad hanged himself. He was well
known In Schuyler as One of the well
r* to-do Loseke family and is not known
. to have had troubles of any sort.'
A mx-LKQGKD pig, which has been an
-Object of considerable. curiosity at the
_ 'farm of V. J. Thomas, two miles north
’ 1 of North Loup, and which grew for
' ' some time after Its birth, ‘died and was
;,r sent to the state university last week.;
The elevator of James Bell of David
City burned. Loss; *3,000, with *3,000
insurance. Whon discovered the flames
Were, beyond control. Thfr firemen
'• saved the adjacent office and a large
. shed'of lumber. Little grain was in
the elevator. •
Farming will be carried on extent
; alvely on the Cody ranch,’ at North
■ 'Platte, this year. Manager Goodman
has in ShO acres of wheat, barley and1
oats, and will plant 800 acres of corn.
There are Over 1,000 acres of alfalfa
growing on the ranch., j
An order has been i%ceived by" the^
supreme court from the United States
, supreme court demanding that the
records in the c*se of- the Capital
National took against the Coldwater
National hank of Coldwater, Mich., he
forwarded so that it may be ascer
tain^ whether or not the claims in
the above suit held by the Capital
National hank before its failure were
preferred claims. .. .
J, N. Jenkins of Kearney has; sent
more than fifty \yild geese, brants,
cranes and other fowls of this section
to Europe during the winter^ They
are sent to superintendents of museums
nnd parks, who are willing to pay a
good price for good specimens of such’
birds as they want. The birds are
shipped by express and so far Mr. Jen
kins has lost but two or three birds en
route by death.
Will McDonald of North Platte-un
earthed on his premises an old car
tridge shell, a relie of the explosion of
the government magazine which oc
i l"1™1 dearly twenty-one years ago.
This magazine stood on the block-mow
occupied by Messrs. McDonald and
« Hlack, and at, the time of the ex
, plosion, which, was c&uscd by fire,
there were stored in the building 150,
000 cartridges and 580 six-pound shells.
*The stalk cutter is becoming. more
noted for crippling and killing people,
saya the Beaver Crossing Review, than
any other machine ever Invented for
use on the farm. The old fashioned
reaper and mower occasionally clipped
* finger, arm or leg for some care
less person, but they could not be
v compared with the stalk cutter for the
number of Victims nor for the horrible
mangling of them. The stalk cutter
should be remodeled.
A' apple pest seems to have
reached Pawnee, says the Republican.
Dr. Collins exhibited some bark taken
from several of his best bearing apple
trees one day’last-week, which ap
peared to have been attacked by
myriads of Insects so small as not to be
seen with the naked eve. They bnrv
themselves in the bark and twigs and
cannot be destroyed. The doctor is of
. “■* opinion that they are of the sa e
■pcciea prevalent on the Pacific coast.
Th* Richenback land and trust com
may Of Rising City has filed articles
of Incorporation with the secretary of
state. The capital stock of the corn
may is 950.000, aad the business U to
"5 baying, selling and mortgaging
, of teal estate. The i noorporation is
to ran thirty yams. 1
. N.' C. Bouy^, popularly known as
Orandpo Bonk, Was killed by the extra
? flyer on thebaaifi crossing of the B. &
It. in Rim wood. .The man flagging at
ths crossing ran hs front of toe train
?2***fP did »ot seem to
■ fiWtlOe that the train was so near, -lie
! *•*»>»» «Uty feet, being
Jcflicd instantly - , •
-fc »
t:*£i
ARE HANGED TO ONE TREE
BY A MOB.
HAD MURDERED A FAMILY.
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Lynchers Alan Warn Negroes—Serenth
Unn lllialnf nud Jdny Hava Shared
the Fate of the Othera—Killed
an Old Han and Two Qlrla
and Burned the Uodlea
'—Criminal News,.
Houston, Texas, May 2. —For the
murder of an old man in his cottage,
a child and a woman in the first flush
of young womanhood; the assault of
two girls; the burning of the home of
the victims, two of the tiddies. being
consumed in the flames, six young ne
groes were last night sent to their
doom by the , hands of an infuriated
inob of negroes, the victims also being
negroes, at’Suhnyside, Walter county.
.Last fall a gentleman from Bren
liam was robbed of 805. Suspicion
pointed to the fonr Thomas boys, and
they-confessed'to having committed,
the theft, saying they had given 830 of
tiie money to Henry Daniels. Daniels
spent the money and on Sunday even
ing last the four Thomas boys, accord
ing to _ their confession, decided to
either collect tiieir 830 or kill Daniels.
They carried out the latter part of .the
programme. 1 '
Henry Daniels, nn o}d negro, 'lived
in a little hut with his step-daughteri
Marie, and a 7 -year-old child.
Wednesday night the house was
broken open, Marie Daniels and' the
7-year-old child were* assaulted and
| old man Daniels -clubbed to death
while' trying to pi-otect,''those in ills
charge. Then old man Daniels and
his stepdaughter were thrown’into
■the house and the child was thrown
intp the well. The-house was set on
1 fire and the devils capable of such a
.crime left, thinking that they had cov
ered'their inhuman deed from the
sight of the world.' ’ ;
"The local .officers-went* to WQrk,witkj
'a will and were ably assisted by the
best citizens of the neighborhood.
Before night they went straight into
the place .where the Thomas boys re
sided, and one by one they were se-.
cured. Fayette Khone, SI years old;
Will Gates, 35 years old; Louis Thomas,
30 years old; Aaron Thomas, 13 years
end; Jim Thomas, 14 years old; and
Benny Thomas 18 years old, were
placed under* arrest The last four
are brothers. Later on Will Williams
Was captured.;
When taken; they were smeared with
blood, and a bloody shirt was- found
hidden in Richmond’s house. After
the boys were confronted with the.
evidence they acknowledged the crime,
and laid the killing on Lewis, the old
est .All the seven prisoners were
' under guard last night
About 13 o'clock the guards were
. overpowered by a strong body of men
And the p.isoners taken toward the
Brazos bottom north of here. A little
later forty or fifty shots were fired
#nd all wasqulot. j
This morning, dangling from the
limbs of a large oak tree,’ wpre found
the bodies of six negroes,.'limp and
lifeless. f
Hundreds of people from all over the
country are surging back and forth,
but always with them one tree is the
center of attraction. All of them are
there except Williams’ and he is not to
be found, but the shots probably ex
plained 1; is absence.
At a late hour the bodies were still
lianging'from the tree. As far as can
be learned, the-mob was composed of
white and bluqk men,-with the colored
.element largely predominating.
IliMlnMa la Disappointing.
Nbw Yobk, May 3.—R. G. Dunn &
Co.’s Weekly Review of Ti-ade says:
"In spite of the moderate improve
ment in most of the great industries,
business is disappointing. Expccta
tions of a speedy end of the war In
| Europe through Turkish victory have
helped to depress grain. Demands of
Austria and China have caused exports
t of 8*-.!>oo,000 i gold, merchandise im
| por^s are greatly Increased and final
action , o£i,CopgrbSs on the revenue
question Uemi more remote. The cot
ton market has advanced a quarter ot
a cent, owing mainly.to a speculative
, Impulse Horn England '"
A. I), Hubbard la dull,
TorKKA, Kan.* May 3.—A. D. Hub
bard of thla city, president of the state
A. P. A., was arrested last night on
the charge of embezzlement and
lodged in the-county jail. Ho was re
ceiver in the Snow-Hamilton printing
litigation and as such' got away with
about 910,000.
THE MARKETS.
Kansas City Grain and Live stack,.
. Baftl Wheat—Na 2. 80.81c; No. Na 3.
77c: Jib. 4, 70c: rejected. 6ie ,
Spring Whfeat -Na 2, 8014c: No. 8. 75
©77c; rejcted. 60c70c
Soil Whe.il—No, 2. 98c: No, 8. 90@93c;
Na 4. 80 83c rejectee 7.)©75c
’ Corn—Na 2. 28.; Na 3. 2214c: Na 4.
SlVic: no grade, 20c. White corn—Na %
94c: Na A 23c No 4. 22c
,,°at*“Na..a- 19®IOc: Na 8. 185819 Na 4.
17c: Na 3 white. 22*c. Na A 22c; Na
4, 19c. .
Bye—Na 2, 32e Na 8. 80c: Na 4. 27c.
Bran—54c per cwt sacked
tlmoth7- W50; Na 1. *8.50©
I *>Na 2,87.00@8.00; clover, mixed. Na 2
. .IKb0:t7.®V: Na3,,6.00486.30; ytapde prairie
• i9.00487.aO; Na 1. •aGO^ai);* M*
Uj50; Nof 8. 6l.00©4-50i • ®
.cattle/recelpia 132; catvrs ' A shipped.
‘ M>9? c^tUc- 3 calves. Thcfniaeket was
, nominally steady. v, 1 .*
Bogs—Receipts. 5.719; shipped. 1.524
The market opened strong and clc sed weak.
The top sale was tS.90 and the fcelk of sales
from 83.70 to 83.75. ,
I Sheep—Receipts. »92: shipped xone. The
1 Harket was nominally steady. '
CREEK VICTORY.
■moletukl'a tlrlcad*. Bepglm the Turks
, "x , at Voleaywp t^th henry LoU.
Athens, May 2.-^ A battle has been
fought at VelestluZi between a Turkish
force of 8,000 and General Smolenski’a
brigade. The dispatoh states that the
Turks were repulsed ivith enormous
lossea
General Smolensk! telegraphs that
the Turks will be. unable to capture
Pharsalos because the Greek position
is strong and.the' morale of the Greek
troops completely restored.
At a cabinet council it was' decided
that the minister of war. Colonel Tos
ainados, and the minister of the in
terior, M. Theotokis, should proceed
to Pharsalos in order to ascertain the
condition of the Greek forces there!
Mr. Skouloudis, minister of foreign
affairs, says: “If Greek honor can be
retrieved by continuing the struggle,
the government-will prosecute the
campaign with unabated energy.' If
the "condition Of the army, on. the
other hand, would render further
fighting unodvisable, the cabinet will
undoubtedly refuse to bring fresh dis
asters upon the. country by persisting
in a foolhardy war. The new cabinet,
like that of M. Delaynuis, is prepar
ing to deiqand a rectification of the
frontier fn accordance with the terms
of the treaty of Berlin, and to'reeall
Colonel Vassos from Crete, the mo
ment the powers have guaranteed au
tonomy after the departure of the
Turks.” ,,
New York, May 2.—A special to the
World from Washington says: The
terms of peace .which Turkey has of
fered Greece bavS reached the Wash
ington legations, They are as follows:
The restoration of the boundary fixed
bv the treaty of 1831, which gave to
Turkey all of Thessaly, including its
extensive sea coast; the evacuation by
Greece of Prevesa and other points in
the province of Epirus; the withdraw
al of the Greek troops from Crete and
the acceptance of the plan of autonomy
offered the island by the porte and the
payment of h. war indemnity large
enough to cover the expense of the
mobilizing of the Turkish troops.'
London, ; May 2.—It is semi
ofheially stated- that there is rfea
bou to Deneve mat itinropean inter
vention between Turkey and Greece
in the present position of affairs is
Regarded as wholly impracticable,
poth Greece and Tuckey having re
solved to continue thenar. The pow
ers are thus obliged to stand aside
until one of; the 'combatants £s finally'
defeated- i
f ,■ -;-1- '•
i UtIim U still Champion.
New York, May 2.’—George Lavlgne
of Saginaw, Mich;, is still the light
weight champion of the world. Last
night, in the Broadway Athletic club;
before 3,000 people, lie met and de
feated Ed Connelly of St. Johns, N. B.
The battle was fast and, furious, but
at 'the end of the eleventh round La
vlgne had Connelly fought to it stand
still, after sending him down five
times in succession with 'right swings
'on the head and jaw. *
STr*. Loose Galls It a Carso.
Topeka, Kan., May- 3.—Mrs. M. E.
Lease, .the Kansas oratress, yisited
Topeka yesterday and talked in ah in
terview about the awfulness of the
Oklahoma flood. It It Sirs. Lease' sees
the hand of an angry God, and de
clares that the curse of the Almighty
rests on that land. - ■ '
Calhoun to Start For Cuba.
111.,’ May3. —Colonel W.
J. Qalhoun, who lias accepted the mte
! sioq to Cuba to assist in the hearing of
the Ruiz wUe, will leave Danville for
Cuba on fie it t Sunday or Monday. He
will go first to Washington to receive
Ills instructions. .
O’Brien Moor« Buys a Paper.*
Charleston, W. Va., May 2.—The
Daily and Weekly Gazette was sold
to-day by M. W. Donnally to O’Brien
Moore, of Washington, ■ D. • C. Mr.
Moore has been for some time the
Washington correspondent for the St
Louis Republic, ;•
Earthquake In the West Indies,
Washington, May 3.—The United
States consul at Guadeloupe, West
India islands, .has. telegraphed the
State department, under date of April
20, from Point Apitre, as follows:
“Severe earthquake; loss heavy; many
injured.”__
Binding Twine From Marsh Grass.
Oshkosh, \Vis.; May 2.—In thirty
days Oshkosh will have in operation
the'first grass twine factory in the
world. It'will employ ^00 hands and
will majee binding twine from marsh
grass, something never attempted be
fore. . ' -
•To Hot Prise Fl*bt Pictures.
LansiKo, Mich., May 2 —The House,
of Beprescntatives passed a bill to pro
hibit reproduction of prise fight pict
ures by vitascopc, kinetoscope, etc.
The penalty is a fine of 8500 to 81,000,
Or two years’ imprisonment, or both.
Smaller Tmm. oa Whisky* A
Washington, May 3.—It is very
probable that the secretary of the
i treasury will soon recommend to con
gress a material reduction of the in
ternal revenue tax on distilled spirit*
.and an increase on the tax on beer.
. Howard C Hackctt Dead.
Nxw York, . May 2.—Howard -C
Ilackett, sporting editor of the World,
died suddenly yesterday. He was. 38
year# old and one of-.the best known
newspaper men in the United States.
St. t°»1> Hr* war Qom Insane.
Chicago, May 2.—Frank Schmidt,
the St Louis brewer, who disappeared
< in this city last Friday while on hU
way . to Cincinnati, has been heard
from at Rhinelander, Wis. He is be
lieved to be insane.
i Womau Killed by a Train. .
ArptRTott City. Mo., May 3.—Mrs.
j Sylvester House, wife of a prominent
| merchant of this city, was struck by a
| freight train about 6 o’clock last even
1 ing and instantly killed.
THE MINISTRY' FALLS
SUMMAHILY DISMISSED BY THE'.
.. , V KING.
Premier Orljtnnto Replaced by M. Mil,
the Gam be It* of Greece—Impreulna
fnnlral that Itevolotlon Qa«
Only Beea Delayed.
The Situation la Greeca.
Athens,' April 31. — The ministry
headed by M. Delyannis, which' is
blamed for the recent disasters to the
Greek army in Thessaly, has been dis
missed summarily by Kin; George,
and M. Ralti, called the Gambctts of
Greece, has been summoned by the
Kin; to form a new ministry.
This has to a dc;reo quieted tile
people and Athens to-day is far less
stormy than it has beeu since Monday,
but it is the general belief that a fresh
defeat of the Greek army will inevi
tably result in a revolution. In this
city and the Pireaus are hundreds of
tho lower classes and of the rabble
driven from all parts of the Turkish
empiro and these , are awaiting only
for suitable opportunity to repeat the
terribio days of Pafis' which followed
the defeat of the French troops by tho
Germans in 1871.. ,* J
Yesterday volunteers, or would-bo
volunteers, entered two shops and
took all the firearms and ammunition
under the pretest that the govern
ment refused them arms. - This would
easily have degenerated into whole
sale plunder of shops 'if M. Ralli,
leader of the opposition, had not
rushed to, the shops and addressed the
crowd, say in;: “You are mad! Why,
. when Greece is surrounded by difficul
ties and tho powers 'try to discredit
the nation, 'who can think of crcatin;
disturbances in the streets? Ybu say
you want arms; let your conduct show
you aro worthy of becomin; soldiers."
A crowd afterward went to the pal
ace, shouting and hissin;. The guard
had been doubled and the people col
lected beiore the palace and popular
oretors addressed them. The noisy
dembstrations of the day ended quite
peacefully, however. •
THE HOULE’S SESSION EXCITING.
| Fully 10,000 people surrounded the
parliament house >vhen the deputies
assembled sod many of Oia 'outsiders
swarmed up thejtcps an<jintadcd the
vestibules. The throngs there and in
‘ the streets edgerly discussed "the situ
ation. M. P.alli, the former minister,
and opposition leader, was among the
first of the deputies to arrive. He was
ch?ered and accorded various other
marks of sympathy, but the crowd
generally maintained the sullen de
meanor engendered by the dishearten
ing news of the past few days.
.The ministers arrived in closed car
riages. The crowd slowly opened a
.way to allow them to pass and respect
fully saluted the occupants. The pub
lie galleries of the house were
thronged, among those present being
many ladies and members of the diplo
matic corps.
When the president of the legisla
tive assembly, SI. Zaimls, owing to
the absence of a quorum, only ninety
five being"prescnt and 104 being neces
sary, declared the sitting closed, the
announcement was greeted with excla
mations of impatience from the mem
bers of the opposition and with cries'
of disapproval from the galleries. As
the oxc.tement increased M. Kalli, ris
ing to' his feet, motioned- to bis sup
porters to remain calm. ? His advice
was followed, and the deputies filed
out of the house. The opposition
deputies proceeded to a committee
room, where they consulted upon the
failure of the session.
The Ministerialists declare that an -
extraordinary session of the legislative
assembly is impracticable at this time.
It is useless, they urge, to hope for a
quorum to-day, us many of the depu
ties who are with the army at the
front cannot possibly reach tho capital
in time to attend. On the other hand
the members of the opposition give the
names of supporters of the govern
ment, who, although in Athens, did
not attend the assemblage of the dep
uties in Parliament house.
TURKEY’S SPIRITS HIGH.
The victories of the Turkish troops
have enormously raised the military
spirit of the Turks and .the confidence
thus inspired in Turkey’s vitality is
removing the dissatisfaction felt with
the present regime, while at the same
time it renders the powers’ scheme of
reforms for the ^Ottoman empire harder
of realization. ■'
The advantages which Turkey will
derive from the war are .already dis
cussed in high quarters,' where it is
declared that Turkey should in any
case be released from the obligations
imposed upon her in regard to Crete
and the rectification of the frontier.
It is also suggested and urged that
Cepe Punta, opposite Prevesa, at the
entrance of the gulf of Arta, should
be restored to Turkey, and that Greece
should be required to pay a big in
i demnity.
Senator O. H. Platt Married.
Washington, April 30.— Senator Or
eille n. Platt of Connecticut was mar
ried to-day to Miss Jennie P. lloyt of
Upper Montclair, N. J. The weddiur
was at the home of the brUe. Tlio
announcement of the marriage was a
surprise.
Meslcaa Towns Destroyed.
Mexico Citt, Mex., April SO.—The
towns of Santa Clara, Cuautitlan and
| San Pedro Jalostoc, about one mile
apart und situated fire miles north of
the suburban town of Guadalupe, were
completely destroyed by a waterspout
nt about 5 o’clock an Monday evening.
Three lives were lost so far'as known.
Tas on Deer to y« Enabled. < V
VuitissTol:, April 30.—Ths Hdnnb
ilcsn members pf the Senate finance
committee hare Agreed to double the
to* on beer and tobacco. <
THE GUTHRIE FLOOD.
Twenty at Least Known to Hare Lori
,k ’ Their Utm.
UuHintx, Ok la., April 30l—It Is now
a certainty that the ioss of life in
.VcsOfirday’s-flood, , which swept through
est Guthrie, will not exceed and
probably not reach twenty.
During the greater part of yesterday
the roaring torrent of water cut off
communication with the submerged
district, and in the general excitement
the death list was swelled to hundreds.
The negroes who lived in the stricken
portion of the town had. in their ter
ror given up their missing friends as
lost,.and it was the general belief that
scores had perished in their homes or
in tornado cellars, but when daylight
came this morning the flood had sub
sided and examinations of the houses
and cellars failed to bring any bodies
to light
I This morning there was a confused
niass of debris and overturned and de
molished houses scattered over the
valley of the Cottonwood river, where
last night was a sea of water. Nearly
all of these houses were small, one
story structures, and the total loss by
the flood is now placed at not over
875,000.
Scores of families are destitute and
homeless, but the Guthrie club, which
ih directing the relief work, lias re
ceived hundreds of dollars and the
council .has voted 91,000 for the suf
ferers. •
There is little hope of finding the
dead, as their bodies were undoubtedly
carried into the Cimarron rivsr, only
two miles away.
The Santa Fe bridge men say that
fully 100 houses passed out of the Cot
tonwood into the Cimarron.
Excited negroes who had climbed to
the roof of a house held an all day
prayer meeting, and their shouting
could be plainly heard'in -Guthrie.
Had the flood come at night hun
dreds of persons would probably have
been drowned.
Many homes are surrounded by
barbed .wire fences. Horses could be
seen swimming bravely, when sud-.
denly they would become entangled in
the wires and be dragged under by the
current.
Railway connections are cut off both
north and south of Guthrie on the
Santa Fe. The approaches to the new
bridge across the Cimarron river are
crumbling away. , Passengers were
transferred about noon to-day. Be
tween Guthrie and Seward, seven and
one-lialf miles south, fully six miles of
track are gone. 'The Santa Fe will
hardly have its trains running on time
before Saturday or Sunday.
TURKEY MUST PAY.
American Board of For elm Missions
Baa a Big Claim Against the Multan.
New York, April n.—The Journal
says: “Turkey is to be called to ac
count for the persecution of mission
aries in ■ Asia Minor, the burning of
the college at Harpoot, the death of
Rev. Egbert S. El-is, of Rev. C. H.
Wheeler, the banishment of teachers
and other cruel acts. The appoint
ment of John B. Angell as minister to
the sublime porte has no other signifi
cance.
“He has the enthusiastic approval of
the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, Rev. Charles C.
Creelan, secretary, said yesterday:
‘President Angell will obtain redress
. for the wrongs done to our mission
aries, teachers and- agents to Armenia,
not as missionaries, but as Americans.
- He will not commit tho. diplomatic
error of claiming special rights for our
missionaries as religious men, but he
will claim the rights to protection of
life and property which . every Ameri
can must have everywhere if our na
tional dignity is to be maintained.
“ ‘The board has no political ambi
tion, nor any desire to have political
influence, of course. It has no credit
for the appointment of President An
gell, but it indorses it cordially.
“ ‘He is expected to arrive here with
in ten days, and he. will depart after
ward for his post at Constantinople.
“‘What the damages which the
board expects from the porte are may
not be told easily. The college at
Harpoot has been one of the most effi
cient agencies of evangelistic work in
Asia. The institution was full of stu
dents and had reached the height of
its prosperity when the massacre oc
curred. I have read somewhere that
there is an estimate of 888,000 on the
buildings alone, but this will not rep
resent the extent of the damage done.
There were boobs and implements;
there is a cessation of work for a long
time; there are personal damages ines
timable.’?
FLOOD INQUIRY.
Saratov Vest Wont* the Mi.ilidppl Inun
dation* CorsfnllT Looked Into.
Washington, April 30.— Senator Vest
of Missouri introduced a resolution in
the Senate to-day directing the com
mittee on commerce to report at
the beginning of the next session the
causes ^ of the Mississippi floods
and means of preventing them;
whether they were due to the destruc
tion of timber at the headwaters;
whether a system of outlets was prac
ticable; concerning the condition of
the levees;- whether the continuance
of the Mississippi commission was ad
visable; whether the jetties should be
continued, an J what the cost of com
prehensive works would be. He gave
notice that he would call it up at the
next session of the Senate.
Will Hall From Mew York May a.
Washington, April 30.—The mem
bers of tho proposed international bi
metallic conference recently appointed
by the President on behalf of the
United States, expect to sail from New
York on May 8. They will go direct
to London and after a brief stay will
probably proceed to Paris.
To Hang for Aindt
Alexandria, Va.. April 30.—James
Lewis; colored, charged with assault
ing Mrs. Ida lteidel, a white wolhan,
was found guilty and the death pen
alty imposed.
To D«*. e Oat Cigarettes.
Sprikgfield, III., May 1.—The
anti-cigarette bill introduced by Mr.
Hall of Cook was passed by tho bouse -
to-day without debate, and without a.
dissenting vote, and with 103 votes in.
its favor. The bill prohibits abso
lutely the ^manufacture, sale, giving
away or adVertising-of cigarettes and
imposes a fine of not less than $50 nor -
more than $100, n~ imprisonment in
the county jail ’ less than 30 nor -
more than no days.
An Arkansas school teacher lias been .
sent to the penitentiary for trying to •
talk French at a nartv.
Crac.d by Spiritualism,
York, May 1.—An order has.
been signed in the supreme court di
recting Mrs. Harriet E. Beach, or Rog
ers, widow of Alford E. Beach, editor
of the Scientific American, to show
cause why a commission-should not be
appointed to take charge of her and
her property and why a commission:
should not pass upon her sanity. She
is 09 years old and has a one-third in
terest in her late husband’s estate of
$250,000. Her children allege that she
has twice been confined in asylums be
cause of monomania on spiritualism,
and that she is now the dnpe of Henry
R. Rogers, a medium, who has married,
her in order to obtain her money.
No Summatr Flunk of the President.
Washington, May 1.—The Presi
dent is receiving-almost daily invita
tions from friends and admirers to
spend his summer outing at different
<resorts and it was said some time ago
that he had accepted an invitation to
nse Ambassador Hayes’ summer home
in the Adirondacks How it is stated
positively that he as yet has given no
consideration to the question of where
he will spend the heated term.
A Mission Goes begging?.
Washington, May The Russian
mission is at the disposal of the Pres
ident, but so far as can be ascertained,
there are no very strong claimants ■ for -
it, though it is a first class mission,
with a salary equal to that of London,
Paris and Berlin. St. Petersburg is,
however, an expensive capital and its
climate is undesirable to one who has
spent his life in the temperate zone.
Window Glass Prices Advanced.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 1.—A S per
cent advance'in the price of window
glass in- all sections of the conntry
will go into effect to-morrow. The
Pittsburg and the Western agencies,
it is believed, are both in fttvor of the
advance. The demand for window
glass is becoming more active and the -
production is temporarily decreased
by repairs being, made .in, several fae*
tories f
Sherman Gossip Denied.
Washington, May 1.—It is current
gossip that the real purpose behind
the nomination of Judge W.- R. Day
to be assistant secretary of 6tate is to -
have him succeed Secretary Sherman, .
whose advanced years and consequent
physical decline render him incapsbls
of meeting the requirements of hia.
office. This, however, is denied in.
positive terms.
No Pardon for Dunlop,
Washington, May J.—The Presi
dent has decided not. to interfere its
the case of Joseph R. Dunlop, proprie
tor of the Chicago Dispatch, who was
sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
for sending improper matter through
the mails. -
Iowa Potent (litre Report. ,'
Seven patents were issued to Iowa
inventors this week, five to Nebraska;
New York seventy-three. Patents
were allowed to Iowa inventors but
not yet issued, as follows:
, To S. L. Callanan of lies Moines for
a copy-holder ad apted to be attached
to the frame of a type writer to hold ,
copy in any desired position relative to
the operator and the light required on
the copy.
To A. J. Haggin of Eagle Grove for
a light boat composed of separate sec
tions that can be readily put together
and a canvas cover stretched thereon
as required for use, and also readily
taken apart and placed together com
pactly for storing or carrying about on.
land.
To J. H. Peterson of Des Moines for
an elastic wheel specially adapted for
bicycles and designed to supercede the
use of pneumatic tires. In the down
ward stroke of pedals power is stored
in cushioned springs' in the wheal to
be utilized in advancing the bicycle
and diminishing the power required to
propel.
Valuable information about obtain
ing, valuing and selling patents sent,
free to any address.
Printed copies of the drawings and
specifications of any United - States
patent sent upon receipt of 25 cents.
Thos. G. and J. Rai.ph Orwig,
Solicitors of Patents,
Des Moines, April 24. ' ,
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCK MARKKT
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Lemons—Choice Messinas..2 *5
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Hogs—Heavy weights.3 HO tt 3 JO
Beef Steers.. 3 (15 “ *
Bulls. 2 r»
‘Milkers'and springers.2" ID
Stags.i'-'
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Cows.. 1 SO
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Pork. 8 37 tt R 40
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Pork.0 50
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