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OTIEILL, -> NEBRASKA.
" NEBRASKA.
• Krahket's assessed valuation is
•618,947.
York college turned out seventeen
graduates.
Tiiicrb were three graduates from
Bastings college.
Tint new creamery at Carroll is com
pleted and in operation.
In some sections of Nebraska cut
worms have done much damage to
rfSbrn.
Thk funeral of ex-Senator Hitchcock
at Tecumseh was very largely at
tended.
■ Grand Island will abolish wood
aidewalks and no more of that charac
ter will be built.
Tun state school apportionment of
<9302,000 is now being disbursed to the
^various counties.
A wagon passed over the body of
little Holey Hummers of Bradshaw
which caused his death.
Thk tow mills of the Nebraska
‘binder twine company at Fremont are
Tunning day and night.
National Independence day will be
celebrated at the Crete Chautauqua aa
aembly this summer on July 5.
Tiikrk is not a vacant store in the
city of Humboldt. Several new busi
ness enterprises are now under way.
Thk cream separator at Valparaiso,
received on Monday 14,290 pounds of
milk, and about 10,000 each day since.
Frkd Hannah, Omaha, out of work
and despondent, took his life by poi
non, leaving a wife and seven chil
dren.
Burglars visited Red Cloud, forced
an entrance into the residence of G. R.
Chaney and secured quite a lot of val
uables.
Rkv. Worto left his home at Platte
Center on Saturday and within thirty
alx hours drove seventy-five miles and
delivered four sermons. That's en
«rgy.
At Button a mad dog after biting
three dogs and a cow was killed. The
three bitten dogs were also killed and
the cow tied up to await the develop
ments of the poison.
Tux telephone line recently erected
by a local company at North Platte is
In working order and begins business
with fifty-five subscribers, who are
charged 93 per month.
Bays the Bradshaw Republican:
“There is now standing in cribs at
this place, 153,800 bushels of corn, be
sides the immense cribs owned by the
formers in the vicinity of this town.”
A strong movement has been inau
gurated in Weeping Water toward rid
ding the town of fallen women. A
committee of five has been appointed
to proceed systematically to that end.
Thk supreme court of Nebraska has
adjourned for the summer vacation.
without passing on the Omaha charter
eases. This will send the oases over
vntil September as the court does not
sit in July nor August.
Mrs. John Ai.dkr, wife of a farmer
living a mile from Fairbury.committed
aulclae by swallowing carbolic acid.
She was about 45 years old and the
mother of twelve children, the young
est only a few months old.
Rkv. J.B. Maxfikld, presiding elder,
cf Omaha, was very seriously Injured
at Arlington. While entering the res
idence of Rev. Stambaugh, he slipped
and fell heavily upon nis face, cut
ting his nose and severely bruising his
face.
News was received at Hastings of
the drowning of Arcule Guilmette of
that place at New York city. He was
well known at the state university at
TJncoln and was reared from boyhood
V> in Hastings. He had a sister there
and one at Lincoln.
An order has been made in Washing
ton by the superintendent of the free
delivery system to increase the carrier
force of the Omaha postofilce by five
carriers. This order is made on ac
count of the showing of Hie showing
cf the office.
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while building'a are in a kitchen
stove in North Platte, Mrs. John Schar
mann's clothing caught fire and she
-was frightfully burned, her clothing
being almost entirely burned off.
Her wounds are serious, yet it is
thought she will recover.
Wh.uk Crandall, 17 years old, son of
X. Crandall of Ainsworth, was shot
with a shotgun while out riding in a
cert. There was a hole in the bottom
of the cart and the gun slipped through
breech downward, and was discharged
while he was trying to pul] it back
through the hole. Part of his collar
bone was shot away. There is hope of
bis recovery.
The Masonic grand lodge in ses
sion in Lincoln last week elected
officers as follows: Grand master, J.
H. Dlnsmore, Sutton; deputy grand
toaster, Prank H. Young, Broken Bow;
grand senior warden, Wm. W. Keyser,
Omaha; grand junior warden, A. W.
Krites, Chadron; treasurer, Chris
Hartman, Omaha; secretary, W. R.
‘ Bowen, Omaha.
Tbk farmers’ excursion from Illinois
arrived in Hastings last week. The
-visitors were met at the depot by local
real estate men, who escorted them to
the Lyndall hotel. Next morning they,
■were driven about the city, after
-which they were taken out into the
country to see the farms. The excur
sion is the result of the efforts of the
local real estate men to combine with
s the eastern real estate men.
Ubokgb T. Harding, who suicided at
Het Springs, Ark., was a former resi
dent of Beatrice and a brakeman on
the D. P. While there he and hia wife
bad trouble, and after moving to Val
paraiso they separated, a young man
^vho followed them being the cause of
their domestic unhappiness.
In attempting to board a freight
train moving at the rate of eighteen or
twenty miles an hour between the
Stations of Cairo and 8t. Michael,
Dwight Hamilton missed hia hotd and
tell under the wheels and Ills right
• badly crashed and mangled.
Jaken to Ravenna for medical
TO FIGHT BUTTERINE
THE WESTERN INTERESTS GET
• IN LINE.
Ex-Got. Board of Wlacoatla at tbo Hoad
of tha Movement—Dairymen Propoae
to Go Btata Politic* With a Dig
Tote—Farmer* Enllated la
tha Conflict.
To Drive Oat Bnttarine.
Chicago, June 21.—The creamery
proprietor*, the butter dealers and the
dairy farmers of the big butter pro
ducing states—Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana, lows, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Michigan and the Dakotas—
are being formed into a compact fight
ing organization of not less than VK>,
000, and possibly more than 1,000,000
voters and vote controllers are being •
pledged in writing to work unceasing- {
ly for legislation that will prevent the
coloring of butterine.
It is proposed, before the legisla
tures of these dairy states meet again
to raise a great fund to drive the but
terine manufacturers from their
strongholds, and if the industry finds
loopholes in state legislation the or
ganization will move on Washington.
W. D. Hoard of Fort Atkinson, Wis.,
for nerly governor of Wisconsin, and
president of the National Dairy union,
is giving the movement all the benflt
of his organizing ability and political
acumen. Charles Y. Knight of Chi
cago, secretary of the National Dairy
union and manager of the anti-butter
ine fight in the Illinois legislature, is
secretary and treasurer of the new
movement.
The National Dairy union has nearly
4.000 creameries in the north Missis
sippi valley, and around these the
union is building up its fighting or
ganization. Each creamery has on an
average of 100 patrons, or . 400,000
in all.
The price paid by the creameries to
these farmers for milk is regulated by
the price of butter. As extinction of
competition with butterine raises the
price of mfik, it is expected that the
400.000 farmers will rally against the
butter substitute. The farmers who
work up their milk into butter in their
own dairies outnumber those who sell
to creameries. They are expected to
take an interest in this move
ment. The same view is held of
the farmers who ship milk to
the cities, the price of their pro
duct being Influenced always by the
price it will bring at the creameries
Then there are creamery operators
and their employes, and the men who
handle butter in the big cities, the
commission men—all these are inter
ested in one way and another in work
ing for butter and against butterine.
This indicates why the active spirits
of the National Dairy union are figur
ing on a political army of 1,000,Out
men or more.
The creameries are doing the en
listing. Every such institution
throughout the butter-producing
states of the West is being supplied
with enrollment blanks, to be signed
by their farmer patrons These pledge
themselves to work for anti-butterine
legislation and to fight “the men in
high places who are unfriendly to the
dairymen.” The signers also author
ise tile creamery manager to deduct
25 cents a month from their bills as a
contribution to the campaign fund.
This fund will in a short time, it is
thought, amount to >1,000,0001
STATE OF CUBAN TRADE
War Causes a Loss of >83,000,000 Dal
las the Past Year.
Washington, June 21.—A significant
report on our trade with Cuba from
1887 to 1897, prepared by Chief Hitch
cock of the foreign markets section of
the Agricultural department, has been
promulgated by Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson. The statistics show very
dearly the effect of present hostilities
in Cuba upon the commercial inter
course of the United States with that
island.
During the lut fiscal year, 1800, the
total value of our Cuban trade
aomuated to only *47,M8,t 10 as com
pared with $108,864,204 in 1891, the
year preceding the breaking out of the
war. This was a falling off of more
than 80 per cent in three yeara Re
turns already available for the cur
rent fiscal year indicate still further
decline, the records for the nine
months ending March 31, 18!>7, placing
the total value of the trade for that
period as low as *14,026,817. At this
rate the figures for the fiscal year will
hardly reaoh *20,000,000, or less than
one-fifth the value recorded for 1891,
■tiled by a l*ot of Coffee.
Columbia, Ma, June 21.—The 2
year-old child of W. D. Watts of Dew
ley Mills, near Columbia, was acci
dently killed yesterday. While sit
ting with her parents at the dinner
table a pot of coffee was turned over
and its contents so frightfully scalded
the child that she died in a few min
utes
Committed Mulcldo after Prayla*
Covington, Ky., June 21.—Imme
diately after family prayer this morn
ing Miss Amelia Baer, aged 22 years
went into the parlor and cut her
throat from ear to ear with her broth
er’s razor. There was no known cause
for the suicide. The coroner's verdict
was temporary insanity.
Loamls Defends Himself.
Wasbinoton, June 21.—Charles A.
Loomis la*e Republican candidate for
Congress in the Second district of Mis
souri, called on Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow yesterday to answer
certain charges to the effect that he
has been using his political standing
in furtherance of an office brokerage
business. The interview lasted some
time, and Mr. Loomis made a strong
impression on the assistant postmas
ter general, and gave a satisfactory
explanation of the matters touched
upon in.the charges.
THE CUBAN POLICY,
Danish By the Stats Department that It
h Fixed.
Wa8iuxgto!», Jnne 2L— It can be
stated upon the best authority that
all the publications purporting to out
line the Cuban policy of Presi
dent McKinley that have been made
up to the present time hare been in
disregard of the fact that up to
this moment the case of the United
States government has not yet been
made np. and that even in the discus
sions of the snbject of the relations to
Cuba that have taken place in the
Cabinet ciroles the point has not been
reached where it could be said that
the executive had finally determined
upon any certain plan of action.
At the state department an author
itative denial is given of the statement
cabled to London that General Wood
ford, the newly appointed United
States minister to Spain, has been in
structed to intimate to the Spanish
authorities that if Spain should refuse
to grant freedom to Cuba she must be
prepared to yield to force.
General Woodford's instructions
will be much more complex than are
usually given to an American minis
ter. Not only will he be charged with
all of the details of the Ruiz case,
which in itself promises to present
formidable legal problems, but he will
also take with him all evidence neces
sary to establish the losses suffered by
United States citizens In Cuba from
the continuance of the war, with much
other data in support of the sugges
tion of this government that it can .
scarcely continue to countenance a
prolongation of present conditiona
Upon the answer returned by the
Spanish government to these repre
sentations by General Woodford will
depend the course to be followed by
the United States.
Before leaving for Madrid General
Woodford will hold several confer
ences with Special Commissioner Cal
houn.
NICHOLAS FORD DEAD.
In IX'CoDirtnnu and One* Prominent
Uluonrl Politician.
St. Joseph. Mo., June i\.—Ex-Con
gressman Nicholas Ford, who for
twenty years was a prominent mer
chant of this city, and at one time a
national figure as a Oreenbacker, and
who also ran for governor on that
ticket, died last night at the home of
hit daughter, Mrs. E. A. McDonald, at
Milton vale, Kan.
Mr. Ford was elected to Congress in
the famous “shoo-fly” campaign, be
served only one term, being succeeded
by Jnmes M. Flumes. In 1884 Mr.
Ford ran for governor against Mar
maduke. He was the regular Repub
lican nominee and was indorsed by the
1 reen backers and one or two minor
organizations. He received 207,939
rotes, against 218,885 for Marmaduke.
CONSULAR PLACES.
The President Makes a Number at Im
portant Diplomatic Nominations.
Washington, June 21.—The Presi
dent to-day sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate: Charles L.
Cook of Pennsylvania, to be consol
general at Dresden, Saxony; George
F. Lincoln of Connecticut, consul at
Antwerp, Belgium; Walter Schumann
of New York, consul at Mayence, Ger
many; Charles E Turner of Connecti
cut, consul general at Ottawa, Can
ada; Hector DeCastro of New York,
consul general at Rome, Italy; Hilary
S. Brunot of Pennsylvania, consul at
St. Etienoe, France; Addison Davis
James, marshal of the district of Ken
tucky. ___
WOMAN’S RARE COOLNESS
Mr*. Kart* of Peoria bra Herself Snd
Child on B Trestle Under B Train.
Peoria, 111, June 31.—A train bf
cars was pushed into a large crowd of
people who were standing on the
trestles of the Peoria Terminal rail
road watching men drag the river for
the body of William Mittendorf, who
had been drowned. Nancy Berry,
aged 17 years, was run over and fa
tally hurt.
Mra Lizzie Kurtz, wife of a carpen
ter, lay face downward on the trestle
and held her babe between the ties
while the entire train passed over her.
She was rescued from her perilous po
sition in safety just in time, for she
was about to drop her babe to the
water below._
Went Collecting With m Gan.
Weir City, Kan., June 31.—Thurs
day night G. W. Kosark, a miner liv
ing near Kansas and Texas shaft Na
47, came to town and got drunk, leav
ing without paying John Poteau, the
jointkeepea. Yesterday afternoon Po
teau rode to Boark's house and asked
Charlie Roark to call his father out.
He refused to do so. Roark heard
them and came out, when Poteau shot
three times from his horse, fatally
wounding him in the stomach. Poteau
then snapped his pistol three times at
the boy, and esoapei
Wall Paper Dealer* May Da It a.
New York, June 31.—A convention
of wall paper dealers will be held at
Niagara Falls, N. Y., on June 39. An
effort will be made to form the entire
retail Trail paper trade of the United
States and Canada into one association.
It i* also proposed that the retail
dealers form an international organ
isation.
Many Enrep**a Fishermen Lout.
Antwerp, June 31.—Seven Belgian
fishing boats have been lost, with all
their crews, and twenty fishing boats
have been lost off Scheviningen, on
the "Dutch coast.
In the pocket of Superintendent
Morrison, who was recently killed at
Cygnet, Ohio, in a nitro-glvcer:ne ex
plosion, there was found a silver dol
lar in the face of which a ten-cent
piece had been emi>edded by the force
of the explosion. On the other side of
the dollar is the plain imprint of the
opposite side of another dollar
THE BARTLEY TRIAL
COURT OVERRULES THE MO*
TION TO DISMISS.
Iadf Baker Hu no Donbt About the
aulBeiene)r of the Information—>A
Knockout Blow to the Defense!
—How It was accepted by
Mr. Bartley.
Thu Motion Overrated.
Ia the Bartley trial at Omaha, conn*
sel consumed much time in making
arguments on the motion for a dis
missal of the case. The motion was
overruled by the court and the defense
was ordered to proceed. As soon as
arguments were completed Judge
Baker passed upon the motion. He
said there was no question in his mind
about the sufficiency of the informa
tion; the question was, does the proof
support the allegations and is a credit
in a bank money? If a bank credit is
money, that settled the whole ques
tion. The judge said that of the mil
lions of dollars on deposit in banks
only a very small proportion was* in
actual cash. The business of the
country was done by means of checks
and drafts, and in many cases not a
cent of actual money passed, but no
one could say that no money was in
volved. The state treasurer could not
say that because he- embezzled the
checks and drafts sent in by the vari
ous counties that he did not embezzle
money. The court said that the de
posit in the Omaha National was not
a loan, as spoken of by Judge Post in
th^ Hill case. The bank did not bor
row the money, it simply said it would
safely keep the money and pay it over
on demand. The state depository law
provided that the state treasurer must
deposit the money in a bank. When
he did so the money lost its identity,
but the treasurer still had control over
it, and when he turned his office over
to another he was supposed to have the
same money.
“When Bartley drew the check in
payment of the warrant I am satisfied
he did not convert the check,” said
Judge Baker. “If the check had been
presented and had not been paid then
it would not have been embezzlement.
When he drew the check he author
ized Millard to take from the public
money that amount of money. When
the money was paid to Millard it was
the state’s money to be disposed of as
he disposed of it by placing it to the
credit of another bank. If Bartley
had had the money in a vault and had
said to Millard, ‘Here, take this money
out of this vault and do thus and so
with it,’ it would have been the state’s
money that he was disposing of, but
Bartley took another method and the
transaction was by means of a check,
rhe check was an order authorizing
the payee to take the money for him
and such transaction makes the whole
transaction Bartley’s act. The case
might have been pleaded differently,
but I think the information is suffi
cient and the motion is overruled.”
This termination of the matter was
a, knockout blow to the defense. The
attorneys had placed great reliance
m the conviction that the court would
uphold them in their contention
against the sufficiency of the informa
tion and the decision of the court
caused a falling of countenances on
the side of the table occupied by the
iefendant and his attorneys.
Bartley, during the trial, says the
Omaha Bee, has preserved a calm and
unruffled exterior except when a smile
would pass over his face at some bright
point made by his attorneys, but after
the ruling of the court on this motion
bis face showed signs of mental strain,
and the ruddy, healthy hue which has
suffused his cheeks heretofore, was re
placed by a pallor which betrayed
bis anxiety.
While the betrayal of feeling on the
part of Bartley’s counsel was less ap
parent in their faces than in his case,
the manner in which the introduction
cf proof commenced by the defence
showed that the blow had been a se
vere one.
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
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OarX XV/».
The past week has been about 3 per
cent cooler than usual in thp western
counties and about 2 per cent warmer
than usual in the eastern counties; the
average for the state as a whole has
been about normal.
The rainfall has been below normal
in the northern and eastern counties
and above normal in the greater part
of the central counties and the south
ern counties west of Pawnee.
The post week has been the best
growing week of this season. Small
grain in parts of the eastern portion of
the. state has suffered slightly from
lack of rain, but generally grain is in
excellent condition. Bye is beginning
to ripen and the harvest will soon be
gin. Winter wheat is in full head and
promises a full crop in the south-cen
tral counties. Corn has made good
growth but is still very backward.
Some little replanting is still being
done. Even with the replanting that
has been done the stand of corn is still
generally poor. The alfalfa harvest
has been delayed and some damage
done to the crops by the heavy rains.
Cherries and strawberries are ripe
and are generally an excellent crop.
Apples are blighted considerably and
the indications now seem to be that
the crop will be below the average.
The New University Building.
The state board of regents of the
University, of Nebraska was in session
last week inspecting plans for the new
engineering building, for which the
legislature appropriated (30,000. The
decision was reached by accepting the
plans of P. W. Grant 3l Co. of Beatrice.
The other firms to present plans were:
C. F. Beindorif &. Co., Omaha; Irvine Sb
Co.. Omaha; J. Tyler & Son, Lincoln;
G. \V. Schaeffer, Lincoln; C. C. Bitten
house, Hastings, and Henry L. Page A
Co. Chicago.
Last week the product of the Baven
na creamery was 9,930 pounds.
LI LI UOK ALAN I TALKS.
Aiuutlo* Declared Rot Daalred - by
Hstlvej—Americans Blamed.
Washin gton, June 1.—In an inter*
View, ex-Queen Liliuokalani said of
the proposed treaty between the
United States and Hawaii: “Fifteen
hundred people are giving away my
country. The people of my country
do not want to be annexed to the
United States. Nor do the people of
the United States want annexation. It
is the work of 1,500 people, mostly
Americans, who hare settled in Ha*
waii. Of this number those who are not
native born Americans are of Ameri
can parentage. None of my people
want the island annexed. The popu
lation of the islands is 109,000. Of
this number 40,000 are native Ha
waiian*. The rest uro Americans,
Germans, Portuguese, Japanese, Chi
nese, English and a small proportion
from . other countries. The 1,500
Americans who are responsible for
what was done to-day are running the
affairs of the islands. There is no
provision made in this treaty for me.
In the Harrison treaty I was allowed
$80,000 a year, but that treaty never
went into effect, I have never received
one dollar from the United States.
No ono looked after my interests in
the preparation of this treaty. Yet
my people, who form so large a part
of the population of the islands,
would want justice done me.”
TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED.
Illinois Desperadoes Betrayed by a Com*
rade—One Mortally Woodded.
St. Louis, Mo., June 18.—An at
tempt was made late last night by
three men to hold up a Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern passenger train
near Selma, 111., sixty-five miles east
of here, but the attempt failed, one of
the would-be robbers having Informed
the sheriff, who, with a posse of six
men, went to the scene and found the
track piled high with timbers which
the desperadoes had placed at a tres
tle.
At the appearance of the posse the
gang scattered dnd most of them es
caped, though fired on by the sheriff
and his officera One of the robbers—
Abe Tweed, a paroled convict—was
shot and captured, and is now dying
in jail at Salem, where he was taken.
Thomas Schumaker, another ex-con
vict, was arrested later.
It is said that the train which left
St Louis last night carried more than
8100,000 in the express car. The train
men are confident that, if the engine
had run into a pile of ties, it, with
several cars, would have been derailed
and thrown down an embankment,
entailing a vreat loss of life.
THE QUEEN AT WINDSOR.
Thousands Cheer for Their Monareh—
Victoria la First-Class Health.
Windsob, England, June 18.—Queen
Victoria arrived here from Balmoral
at 9 o’clock. Thousands of people
lined the route from the railroad sta
tion to the castle. Her Majesty looked
the picture of health and repeatedly
bowed to the cheering of her subjects.
It is denied that she is nearly blind
from cataract.
As to the queen’s general health,
evidence of its being perfectly satis
factory for a woman of her age is fur
nished in the fact that it was at first
arranged that on returning to the
palace on Jubilee day, June 22, the 1
order of the procession woul£ be re
versed in order to enable Her Majesty
to return at the earliest possible mo
ment, but she has now decided to keep
in the same place along the whole
route, thus involving another half
hour of fatigue in the streets. i
fAIMtK KNblrP DEAD,
Bavarian Developer of the Water Core 1
Pane* Away at Woertahoren.
Munich, Juno 18.—The Eev. Father •
Kneipp, known for his water cure,
who had been sick for some time, died ’
at Woerishofen last night 1
Father Kneipp treated many dis
tinguished patients, including the 1
Emperor of Austria, the Archduke '
Joseph of Austria, the Archduke Au- J
gustin of Austria, several members of '
the Bothschild family and the pope.
One of the latest patients was ex-Gov
ernor Altgeld of Illinois. It is esti
mated that about 30,000 people were
treated last year by the priest and his
assistants.
A Kneippverein was founded in New
York and one in Chicago. An Ameri
can company was organized a few
weeks ago and purchased a tract of
land near New York, which is to he 1
made a second Woerishofen. (
A Tl-Inr-Old Duellist.
Paris, June 18.—General Rebillot, 1
who is 75 years of age, fought a duel j
with swords yesterday afternoon with !
M. Camille de St. Croix, the author of j
an article on the part taken by the I
general in the coup d’etat of December '
2, 1891. General Bebillot was wounded j
above the eye. *
Pisces for Three Nebraskans.
Washington, June 18.—The Presi* j
dent sent the following nominations j
to the Senate to-day: Jacob E. Houtz, '
to be collector of internal revenue for •
the district of Nebraska; Charles F. J
Nester of Nebraska, to be Indian in- '
speutor; Clarence L Chaffee of No- j
braska, to be member of the Missouri i
river commission. ;
Convicted of Assault. (
Garnett, Kan., June IS.—George II. <
Thomas was to-day convicted of as- ]
saulting Gertrude Baird. The trial <
lasted two days, but the jury took only J
one ballot. Thomas was a “high- t
toned’’ jointist of this city, and last
fall betrayed Miss Baird under prom- }
ise of marriage. He attempted a crim- (
inal operation, which resulted in her I
death December 98 last. Thomas fled 1
to lsquah, Wash., where he was ap- ^
prehended January 1. The case at- (
traded much attention on account of (
the many sad features The charge of j
murder was dismissed. I
HI* Tern Property la Litigation.
Coksicaxa, Texas, June 10.—Sait
was filed In the. distriOit cqnrt. Yester
day by the attorneys for the' Cart- ,
wright heirs to recover land and prop*v^j
erty in Blast Corsicana, roughly esti- 'I
mated to be worth #600,000. On it are
many people and a half dozen floe
lag wells__
Baked the Pope’s Bread.
Kotks Daub, Ind., Jnne 19. —Brother
Bartholomew of the Order of the Holy
Cross, who, for seventeen years baked
all of the bread that was broken on.
the table of Pope Pins IX, died hero*
yesterday morning at 1:30 o'clock.
JOHN M. FRANCIS DEAD.
Editor and Former United States Mia—
later Pauses Away.
Tt.oy, N. Y., June 19.—John M.
Francis, senior proprietor and editor
in-chief of the Troy Times, died at him
home here.
John Morgan Francis was born at..
Pittsburgh, N. Y., March 6, 1883. Ha
was the youngest but one of thirteen.,
children and was early thrown on
the world. After serving an ap
prenticeship in a printing offioa.
he became an editorial writer on the
Palmyra Sentinel. He was next con
nected with the Rochester Adrertiser
and in 1846 became editor and part*
proprietor of the Troy Northern Bud
get. Ho was a strong free soil Demo
crat, and earned repute by his vigor
ous policy. In 1851 he left the Budget
and started the Troy Times, with t
which he was connected up to his- a
death.
When the Republican party was or
ganized Mr. Francis joined it, and in
May, 1871, he was made minister to
Greece by President Grant. On the.
expiotion of his term he made a toup
of the world. President Garfield had
him slated for the Belgian mission,but
on his assassination President Arthur
sent Mr. Francis as minister to Portu
gal. After holding that post for two
years he was made minister to Austria,
wuuuKKCNtY COMMISSION
Tba President Advised That the Senate
Wlll Not Take Prompt Action.
Cine a co, June 19.—A special to the
Times-Herald from Washington says:
“It appears to be well settled that no
effort will be made by the President.,
to secure authority for the appoint
ment of a currency commission at this
session of congress. Until within a
week or so the President had believed
sucli a measure might be passed in the
closing days of oongress, while the
two houses were in conference on the
tariff bill, llut the President is now"
advised by the Republican leaders in
the Senate that it would be useless to
present this question. The silver sen
ators, it is said, have decided to oppose
any such measure, and they could,
easily bring about considerable delay.
Unless some change comes in the situ
ation the President will be compelled,
reluctantly, to permit this important,
matter to go over to next winter.”
RATIFICATION UNCERTAIN.
Ne Chance for Immediate Annexation-.
Washington, June 19.—Opposition
to the Hawaiian annexation project -
has broken out much more violently
than was anticipated by the adminis- ■
tra'.ion, and the treaty will be roughly
handled when it comes up in the Sen
ate for ratification. Whether this oppo
sition will be able to muster sufficient-,
strength in that body to defeat rati
fication is a speculative problem. It -
looks now as though the annexation-,
party might not be able to command
the necessary two-thirds vote.
In any event, it is now taken for
granted that favorable action at this
special session, either in the form of
treaty ratification or legislation sus
taining the administ ration plans, will
be impossible.
Preacher Killed bj a Blow of the Pish
E.mkt, Ind. Ter., June 19.—The Rev.
J. T. Evans of the Baptist chnrch and.
Elisha Bradburn went to a field to ar
range a crop contract and settle a.
financial difficulty in regard to it.
They engaged in a quarrel and Brad
burn struck Evans on the neck with
his fist, knocking him down. The.
preacher died in a few moments and-i
Bradburn fled.
of Hawaii.
McKinley lowing Meet.
CmcAGO, June 19.—President Mc
Kinley and his cabinet will come to
Chicago to take part in the unveiling
of the John A. Logan statue in the
Lal<e Front park. The President will,
review a procession of veterans on
the day that premises to be one of'
the bijitrest in recent vears.
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