Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISHED IVFKY THURSDAY Bp
Til yiOWlM PBIHTIWO CO.
O'HEILL, •> NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA.
Tint Mead bicycle races have been
postponed to August 1.
Cuming county will not hold its fair
this year till October.
Otoe county democrats will hold
their convention August 35th.
Tiik school census shows 702 persons
of school age in the Wayne school dis
trict.
Tiik Burlington railroad shops at
Havelock are now being operated on
full time.
Tiik First Congregational church of
Fremont last week celebrated its for
tieth anniversary.
Tiik work of brick laying has com
menced on the new depot being built
by the B. A M. at Omaha.
Earl Epluct of Kennard place fell
from a ladder and broke his arm so
badly that it had to be amputated.
Purdy Pi.att of Johnson countv has
lost about three hundred head of hogs,
old and yonng, during the past month
by hog cholera.
TnoMAH Guii.i.iat, aged 74, a resi
dent of Nemaha county and the vicin
ity of Auburn for more than forty
years, died last week.
_ Miss Lena Lemp, daughter of Got
lieb Lemp, was buried at Duncan last
week. Her death was caused by brain
fever brought on by exposure to the
hot sun.
Thk board of public lands and build
ings has let the contract for building
the new wing at the Hastings asylum
to Hester A McCaslinof Lincoln, whose
bid was •31,020.
Thk large barn and contents, and ,
also a crib of 910,000 bushels of corn,
belonging to John and Wm. Simms,
who live near Dove, Otoe county, was
destroyed by fire. :
articles nave been tiled in the office
of the secretary of state by the Con
necting Construction company of Da
kota City, which concern is authorized
to have 9100,000 In capital stock.
Frank Mitchell of York was taken
to Grand Island to be arraigned be
fore U. 8. Commissioner Bode on the
charge of selling whiskey without the
proper license. He has been suspected
for some time.
8. T. Wallace has completed his
tour of inspecting sheep in Sheridan
county. He haB inspected 35,000 head
and reports them all doing well. The
sheep business is panning out better
than was expected.
The board of transportation fixed
Aug. 30 as the day for hearing the
oral argument on the motion of the
railroad companies to have T. H. Tib
bies make his complaint, against local
freight rates more specific.
_ The laying of the corner stone of the
city hall at Johnston was a great event.
Editor Bay Schofield wos the orator of
the day. Photographs of Mr. Bryan,
E. P. Boyle and Hon. A. P. Wilson
were placed in the corner stone.
Miss Vera Hrcmback, daughter of
Dr. N. N. Brumbuck of Beatrice, died
of typhoid fever. Three other child
ren and the father and mother are all
stricken with the dread disease and
one at this writing is in a critical con
dition.
Gov. Holcomb has sent a letter to
each of the twenty-seven governors of
states east of the Mississippi river in
viting them and the citizens of those
states to visit and participate in the
Trans-Mississippi and Internationa]
exposition.
President Reese has tendered his
resignation as president of York col
lege to the board of trustees. The res
ignation has not yet been acted upon,
but it is probable that Mr. Reese’s re
quest that he be relieved from this in
stitution will be complied with. It is
understood that President Reese has
an offer from Westfield college, Illi
nois.
A Lexington dispatch reports: E. D.
Johnson, under the direction of the
state commission, is busy gathering
grains for the Trans-Mississippi expo
sition. Home splendid samples have
been secured. The county fair ofii
sials also offer special premiums on all
kinds of grain with the understanding
that they be kept for the exhibit at
Omaha.
touch to me surprise of farmers of
Dakota county, when they went to
stack their email grain, they found
that criekets and grasshoppers had
played havoc with the twine around
the bundles in many fields, not missing
one. This necessitated the small grain
being threshed at once, and all thresh
ing machines have been called into
active use.
Yokk county last week paid off $28,
000 worth of the railroad bonds which
have been held by the state as an in
vestment of the permanent school
fond. The bonds have been running
for twenty years and as they drew 10
per cent, interest they were desirable
securities. This will make the board
of educational lands and funds look
about foe some place in which to invest
• this amount of money.
The number of real estate mortgages
filed and released in the register of
deed’s office in Dodge county is less
than for any month in the last eight
“fr years. Farm mortgages filed, 10;
amount, $10,555; released 6, amount,
ffGiSOO; town and city mortgages filed
a, amount, $4,310; released 8.- amount
$8,443; chattel mortgages filed. 83
- amount. $33,148; released 75, amount,
«22,636.
_ Geohoe Marson, a farm hand who
has been working for A1 lleacock all
the season, drew $3. went to Gretna,
got bis moustache shaved off and took
the train for Omaha. He has not been
f eeen since. He left a wife and chUd
* that are being cared for by his late
employer.
Hon. J. H. MacCoix returned from
Chicago last week with a party of cap
italists, who are ready to build sugat
factories at Lexington and Uothenburs
upon assurance that the beets will be
ftown. Their expert says that section
_ better adapted to growing sugai
heats than any other in the Unitec
States.
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A BREEZY INTERVIEW
JOHN SHERMAN TALKS ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Ha Predicts that Spain Will Ultimately
Low Caba-So Protectorate Proposed
—The Mikado Sot reared—The
Alaska Boundary—Oar Quar
rel With Great Britain.
Sherman on State Issues.
New York, Aug. 0.—Thv World
publishes an interview said to have
been obtained with John Sherman,
secretary of state, just previous to his
return to Washington from Amagan
sett, L 1. In this he is represented
as saying: “Spain will lose Cuba.
That seems to me to be certain. She
cannot continue the struggle. Al
ready the conflict has cost her more
than 9300,000,000. Her money is gone
and she can get no more. She has
reached the limit of her borrowing
capacity. She cannot pay back what
she has already borrowed. The only
thing left for her to do is to repudiate
her debts. We had to do that after
the revolution. Having repudiated
them she can begin anew, but she
will have to begin without Cuba.
Tbat country has been devastated.
The insurgents have been fighting
with only the hope of ultimate success
as their reward. The Spanish soldiers
have been battling for pay. The pay
will stop and then the conflict will
stop, Spain is in no condition to wage
war anywhere. The burdens placed
upon her people to sustain the strug
gle for retaining Cuba have been very
heavy. Widespread discontent will
come sooner or later within the Span
ish kingdom. By stopping the strug
gle, by w ithdrawing her troops from
Cuba and by repudiating her debts is
her only way to recover. Sooner or
later she must do this. So far we
have done nothing to arouse the anger
of the Spanish people. We have gone
on minding our own business, blind to
the distress of Cuba and deaf to the
pleadings of our own people who
wanted the government to Interfere.”
HAWAII AND JAPAN.
f The secretary. wee asked as to
whether there waa any truth in the
report that the American flag1 was to
be raised in Hawaii and a protectorate
proclaimed. He replied: ‘T cannot
divulge the instructions given to Min
ister Bewail. What they are will de
velop as time passea But I can say
that there will be no change in the
situation in Hawaii until Congress re
convenes. There can be no change
because the terms of the pending
treaty, which have been approved by
President McKinley, must be observed.
There is nothing in this talk that a
serious disagreement between this
country and Japan will iollow any in
terference on our part with the exist
ing systems of government in Huwaii.
Japan must certainly understand that
this nation has never objected to
the Japanese, and that whatever
trouble it has had on this score was
due to officials for whom we are not
responsible and over whom wo have
no control. If we had Hawaii. Japan
would have no reason to fear tliat'Rer
subjects would suffer from unfair
treatment While I believe that Japan
is entirely Innocent of any intention
of assuming toward us a belligerent or
threatening attitude, it may be well
to remark that her attitude, no mat
ter what it might be, would not affect
our position in the least We have al
ways believed that we have more right
to take a stand in the management of
the Hawaiian government and in the
government of other lands similarly
situated than any other country. We
will insist upon maintaining our rights
at any cost ”
ALASKA BOUNDARY MATTER.
“Have you taken any interest in
the discovery of the new gold fields?"
Mr. Sherman looked np in surprise:
- “You mean the Klondike region? Of
course I have. That is a matter that
would naturally attract the attention
of any man in my position. The fact
that international complications may
ensue has, of course, sharpened my in
| terest in the subject There may be
questions as to boundaries It has al
ways been customary to consider the
lines as running along the mainland.
But occasionally it has been con
tended that in laying the lines to
determine the 30-mile line, meas
urements should be made from the
points of land extending farther into
the water, or even from the islands.
Whenever these claims were made the
purposes of them have been apparent.
They were made to advance the inter
me wuiury matting1 mem, 11 a
diiigreemcut arises over such a ques
tion it will probably be because some
of the islands prove to be of unusual
value. This government is ready to
maintain the rights of its citizens and
to protect its own interests to the last
degree. However, it is too early to
speculate as to what may happen in
Alaska. If difficulties arise we will be
ready to face them, but 1 expect no
trouble. Many of the stories that
come from there are undoubtedly ex
aggerated. 1 guess some of them are
grossly exaggerated. It is also so
whenever gold is found. The tales
are built on hopes and imaginations as
much as on the facta The statement
is printed this morning that the mak
ing of Dyea a port of entry Is likely to
injure us financially. Whether or not
it is a port of entry is of no special'
consequence. The matter cute a small
figure either way.”
ENGLAND AND HER QUARRELS.
*Our relations with England seem
to have been restored to a friendlv
basis.”
"Oh, yes,” said Mr. Sherman with a
laugh, "that cloud, if, indeed, there
ever was a cloud, has blown com
pletely away.”
Folding his hands in his lap, the
secretary said, with a slight trace of
humor in hir voicq: "The «ei& con
of their life, hare sometimes made
things pretty warm for / Various
nationa England never had any
good reason to quarrel with us about
them, because the seals were eaught
and brought to her. Yon know we
can't dress the skins in this country.
We don’t know how to do it, and so
when we capture a seal skin we have
to send it to England to be dressed,
and then it comes back to us. its origi
nal owner, as an imported article.
England is a great country, but it is
not always safe to assume that she is
ready to follow up every quarrel with
sidering their location and the manner
blowa She quarrels oftener than she
fights It would be exceedingly diffi
cult for her to fight ns all alone about
our seal catching. Russia and Japan
are in a similar position arid any
quarrel between the United States and
England on this score would, in all
probability, involve those other two
countries. It is my opinion that En
gland would hesitate a long time be
fore getting into such a scrape. Ja
pan, as a nation, is not to be drispised.
Her recent war with China showed the
world that she ranges well to the
front as a powerful country. Her peo
ple number about 40,000,000. Shy is not
beneath the contempt of any nation,
and the time is coming when she must
be considered. Rut I do not believe
that we will ever have any serious
difficulty with England. ■ Our refusal
to be intimidated has had a salutary
effect.”
AFTER MR. FOSTER. '
Prof. Elliott Again Vlcoronsly AttacVl
the Ex-Secretary.
Ct.EVKt.AND, Ohio, Aug’. 0.—Prof.
Henry W. Elliott, after reading an in
terview in New York with John W.
Foster, the commissioner sent by Presi
dent McKinley to England to confer
with Lord Salisbury relative to the Be
ring sea matter, in which Mr. Foster
said that the people of Washington
knew Elliott, said: “So, Mr. John W.
Foster has nothing to say in answer
to my direct charge of his telling the
President an untruth about myself.
Well, perhaps that is the best thing
for him to da I happen to have in
my possession the black and white evi
dence that he has violated the ninth
commandment, he has ‘borne false
witness against his neighbor.’ I will
then call attention to this fact, he
talks vaguely about my ‘animus’ and
my ‘status.’ The American people
have had a glut of this tomfoolery
over fur seals and the prospect of hav
ing it strung out two or three years
longer under the lead of this incompe
tent man is enough to sicken them.
I predict that they will not
stand the shame and imposition.
I have always been under the
impression, and am still convinced,
that a man convicted of bearing false
witness against his neighbor is not a
fit man for association within the pri
vate or official life of American citi
zens. There is more under this than I
can or desire to mention at the pres
ent moment—this same amiable
Mr. Hamlin, who is now asso
ciated with Foster, said to me in
1894, that ‘they (the Foster associa
tion) told me that you had sold your
report to the British, but, my dear Mr.
Elliott, you know we have never be
lieved it.’ I intend to get the proof
of this action on the part of Faster
and his associates and then I shall add
another Indictment disqualifying him
from running the State department so
as to discredit and injure American in
terests and defame American citizens.” >
REFUSE TO BE OUSTED.
Judges KUgore and Springer Resist the
Headsman.
Washington, Aug. 9.—Judge “Buck”
Kilgore and Judge William Springer,
appointed to the Federal bench in the
Indian territory by President Cleve
land, have formally notified the de
partment of justice that they will fight
in the courts any efforts to o t them.
Judges Kilgore and Springer were
appointed in 1895. Judge Kilgore
holds that he was appointed for a four
years' term, and that he cannot be re
moved sooner, while Judge Springer
maintains that the appointment of a
judge for the Territorial courts is sim
ilar to that of any other Federal court,
and is for life. President McKinley
holds that the terms of officials end
with the administration. Should the
President decapitate either judge, pro
ceedings w‘111 at once be Instituted to
prevent the Republican judge taking
his seat. At the same time judicial
query will be instituted as to the right
of the President to remove. The case
promises to prove both interesting
and without precedent.
Chicago'* Illoycle Tax Void.
CmcAGO, Aug. D.—Judge Tuley to
day decided the new city Ordinance
establishing a bicycle tax to be void,
because contrary to the constitution.
The ordinance permitted the city to
collect 81 a year lieense from each bi
cycle owner and for other vehicle*
proportionately. •..!
War-Up Chinamen With Vs
New York, Aug. U.—Chang Yan
Iloon, the ambassador of the Emperor
of China to Queen Victoria’s jubilee,
: with his suite of sixteen dignitaries
and attaches and eight servants, ar
rived here to-day on the steamsb ip St
Louis. In the suite was Mr. Li, the
neDhew of Li Ilung Chang.
Omaha Printing Shop Barns.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 9.—Fire last
night in the Rees Printing company's
establishment did 825,000 damage to
stock and plant, 815,000 damage to
bnilding. Other losses to individuals
will aggregate 810,000. Everything is
fully insured.
Governor toady Going to Ohio.
Topeka, Kan.. Aug. 6.—Governor
Lcedy and his family will leave in a
few days for Chillieothe, Ohio, to at
tend a reunion of the Leedy family.
The governor will be absent from the
state about ten days. — .—
GOLDIN ABUNDANCE.
BUT ALL WHO DIG ARE NOT
SURE OP REWARD.
Many Hardship* Are to Be Surmounted
and Fortune* Mot Sure After All—
More People Leave for the North
—Steamahlp Industry Boom*
log—Klondyke Trade.
Condition* Mot Basiling.
Madison, Wla., Aug. J. C. Wil
stead, since 1801 superintendent of the
government reindeer farm in Alaska,
now here on a vacation, said yester
day that while the gold reports were
not exaggerated in the least, the hard
ships were terrible and few of those
who were rushing to the new fields
had any idea of the endurance re
quired. A person having a good posi
tion would be wise to keep it, in pref
erence to going fortune hunting in
Alaska. Many of them forget that
they will be thousands of miles from
civilization and entirely upon their
own resources, and, even though they
successfully weather the trip, there is
no certainty that they will return
loaded down with gold dust Of trad
ing business Wilstead waxes enthusi
astic, and he thinks in this line for
tunes rivaling the wealth of the Hud
son Bay trading companies will be
made.
Washixotom, Ang. A—J. D. Crois
sant of this city, now in Alaska, in a
letter written in July, dwelt upon the
great rush for the Klondyke, declared
that many of the stories of fortunes
were overdrawn by those interested
in the region in various ways and pre
dicted intense disappointment and
suffering for thousands. He said that
claims along the Klondyke had all
been taken and the only hope for new
comers would be along other streams
which had been partially prospected
with poor success. He said that when
he wrote there were hundreds bqund
for the gold fields with neither money
nor provisions and proper clothing and
he believed scores Would die during
the coming long winter.
STILL MORE BRAVE THE COLD.
Skattlb, Wash..Aug. «. —The steam
ship Cleveland sailed for St Michael’s
to-day with 200 passengers and 1,000
tons of freight for the new gold re
gions. Among the passengers are
Captain P. M. Ray and Lieutenant
Riehardson, D. S. A., who will inves
tigate the military necessities of
Alaska, select a site for a fort and
make preparations for troops from
Fort Russell, Wyo., who will probably
be sent to Alaska in the spring.
The North American Transporta
tion and Trading company has let a
contract for the building of four more
river steamers, making eight contracts
let by the company in two weeks. All
of the boats ore of large capacity.
Deck hands for Yukon-bound vessels
are in great demand and wages have
been Increased from $35 to 310 a
month.
CUDAHY ON HIS BIG CLAIMS.
Chicago, Aug. 6. — John Cudahy,
head of the proposed 325,000,0D0
Alaska mining company, said that the
company owned thirty placer claims,
each as r.ch as the Klondyke, but
would say nothing of the quartz
claims. The Clover £eaf, south of
Fort Cudahy and four miles from nav
igable water, is the only quartz claim
that will be worked In the near fu
ture.
The organization of the new com
pany was completed at the Auditor
ium annex to-day, the title to be the
Cudahy-Healy Yukon and Klondyke
Mining company. The following are
the incorporators: John Cudahy,
Michael Cudahy, C. L. Hutchinson,
E. A. Hamill, Ely E. Weare, P. B.
Weare, C. A. Weare, John J. Healy,
C. H. Hamilton and Eli A. Gage. In
corporation will be under West Vir
ginia statutes.
INSURANCE SCHEMES BLOCKED.
Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. The
determination of the leading life in
snranee companies to fcarry no risks
on Klondyke explorers has fallen with
dampening effect on the co-operative
companies which were forming in this
city and upon a number of- men who
were preparing to start for Alaska
during the coming winter. One of
these companies intended to send ten
representatives, each insured for 310,
000, giving each man 31,000 besides
money for contingent expenses, all of
them to co-operate in the search for
gold, dividing equally with the com
pany, and in case of death the insur
ance money to be paid to the company.
By each death the company stood to
win 38. %00, on the oasis that not more
than 31,500 would be spent on each
representative. Another company
simply designed carrying sufficient in
surance to reimburse it for actual out
lays. It is not thought that any of
these companies will proceed further
with the organization.
A run ob tn« Vukon.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Uncle Sam soon
will have an experimental farm in the
Yukon valley, if Secretary Wilson’s
pledge to P. B. Weare of the North
American Transportation and Trading
company, is brought to fulfillment.
The promise was made in Chicago yes
terday at a conference between the
two men named and G. B. Pray, re
cently appointed surveyor general of
Alaska by President McKinley.
Japan Wi.nta a Guaranty.
' New York, Aug. 8.—A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Japan
will insist that the United States as
sume a contingent responsibility in
the matter of arbitration of her dif
ferences with Hawaii on the subjects
of immigration and the tariff. It is
understood that this is one of the es
sential conditions upon which Japan
will consent to arbitration and that if
this responsibility is not assumed by
the United States, Japan will break
off negotiations looking to arbitration
and back up her demands by a naval
demonstration in Hawaiian watern
TO CONTROL THE CANAL.
TbU HHmcau Policy Will Be Re
am man ded to Congreis.
Wabrirotor, Aug1. 6.—No matter
what the attitude of the Greater Re
public of Central America may be. it ia
the intention of the administration to
recommend governmental control of
the Nicaragua canal when Congress
assembles next December.
This was made plain at a conference
at the state department, participated
in by Secretaries Adee and Crimler,
Senator Morgan, former Senator War
ner Miller and Mr. Merry, the recent
ly appointed minister to Nicaragua,
Salvador and Costa Rica, regarding
the eomplications which have grown
out of the refusal of the governments
of Nicaragua and Salvador to receive
Mr. Merry.
It has been practically decided that
Mr. Merry shall go to Costa Rica, and
that the Headquarters of the legation
shall be transferred to that country
from Nicaragua. No steps will be
taken to make this tronffer, however,
until the governments of Nicaragua
and Salvador have again been heard
from. __
KLONDYKE NUGGETS.
A Former Kansas Man Tells Some
Wonderful Yarns.
Hiawatha, Kan , Aug. A—J. E.
Moore, formerly of this neighborhood,
but now of Seattle, writes home to his
parents that the Klondyke gold stories
are nearly all true. His Sunday
school teacher, Professor Lippy,
brought back *50,000. A Poverty
Gulch neighbor, whose wife “took in
washing,” has returned with *113,000
and he emptied a sack of nuggets
worth *10 each in a plate for Mr.
Moore to see. He left his soh and a
companion in charge of his mine and
expects them to pick up *300,000 be
fore the bad season sets in. He claims
to have picked nuggets up by the
handful. Prominent men in politics
and rich men and poor men by the
thousands are rushing to Alaska from
Seattle. Mr. Moore advises his friends
not to think of venturing there with
out they have at least *5,000 to squan
der.
A SOCIETY SENSATION.
I«»* People Quarrel on Their Wedding
Dap and Another Fellow Gete Her.
Hutchinson, Kan., Aug. 6.—Last
night was to have been the occasion
of a wedding, in which a large circle
was interested. Mr. A. D. Yoder, a
popular clerk at Martin’s dry goods,
store, had a house furnished and
all preparations made for his mar
riage with Miss Mattie Hutchinson
last evening. Because his intended
had persisted in taking a buggy ride
with Jesse Cook, a handsome young
grocer, on the evening before, Mr.
Yoder decided yesterday morning that
the marriage should not take place.
Mr. Cook was one of the first to hear
the report, and he immediately called
upon Miss Hutchinson and asked her
for her hand in marriage. He was ac
cepted, and the two were married yes
terday evening at the same hour that
the Yoder-Hutchinson marriage was
to have taken place.
JAPAN SORE AT AMERICA.
The Hawaiian and High Tariff Legisla
tion Seriously Affecting Trade.
New Yobk, Aug. 6.—Recent letters
received in this city from Japan state
that a strong anti-American feeling
still exists in that country and that
Americans are being boycotted on all
sides by the Japanese. First the Ha
waiian question stirred up the ill feel
ing, which was afterwards heightened
by the discussion in the United States
Congress on the tariff when the propo
sition was advanced to tax severely
certain Japanese goods. The Japanese
took this as a direct affront, and they
have not lost an opportunity since to
belittle Americans and all that per
tains to this country.
ULTIMATUM SENT PERU
Uncle Bern Wearlet of Delay in Paying
the McCord Claim.
Washington, Aug. 6.—An ultima
tum has been presented to the Peru
vian government by the administra
tion requiring the immediate payment
at the McCord claim of 950,000.
While no threat of coercion is made
in case of refusal, the note makes the
statement that any further delay on
the part of Peru to close the incident
will be considered as injurious to tbe
cordial relations existing between the
two governments.
The Peruvian minister has cabled
the note to Lima, and is now awaiting
instructions from that government,
A California Treasurer a Defaulter.
Redding, CaL, Aug. a—John Mad
den, treasurer of Modoc county, dis
appeared two weeks ago and District
Attorney Baker, believing that he is a
defaulter for at least $35,000, has
asked the board of supervisors to de
clare the office vacant and appoint a
new treasurer.
Wheat Down Three Cents,
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Foreigners turned
tellers of wheat.to-day, and there was
a drop of three cents in Chicago prices,
not any of which was recovered.
There was a drop of a penny in Liver
p<tftl prices, despite the strong market
in this country yesterday.
Fifteen Hundred India Mill Hands De
clared Killed In a Calentta Riot.
London, Aug. -The Evening
News publishes a letter from a Cal
cutta volunteer, reiterating the state- ;
ment that during the recent rioting ‘
there the artillery fired point blank at
A,<XX) mill hands who were marching j
to join the rioters, killing 1,500 of the !
natives The secretary of state fc> 1
India, Lord George Hamilton, war
questioned in the House of Commont 1
July 9 as to the accuracy of the report |
and declared that only seven were i
killed. • 1
Monthly Klondjka Man.
Washington, Aug1. 7.—The host»>»
[ that have migrated to the AlaskafTS
and Klondyke gold fields daring the
past few months will not be wholly
without postal facilities during the
coming winter. There will be one •
round trip a month to Circle City until .
July 1 of next year. This monthly
service began on the 1st of last month
and while no route is specially de&ig. •
Dated, it will be via the Chilkat pass.
This service carries only lettermail.no -
provision being mode for other classes
of matter.
A Delnp la Colorado.
Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 7.— -
The rain storm which visited this city
last evening was the most severe, with .
one exception, during the past ten
years. During the storm the water •
stood six to ten inches deep on half a -
dozen of the principal business streets,
flooding cellars, running into stores
and damaging stock. Travel was en
tirely suspended. Three out of the ■■
five principal railroads leading into •
this city had serious washouts. A se
vere electrical storm accompanied the -
downpour, and several houses were ■
struck by lightning. No fatalities oc* -
curred.
Long and Cast Hanning.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 7.—Thomas Gro
gan, with engine 890, pulled a special
from Evanston, Wyo., to Omaha, 1)55 -■<
miles, in twenty-four hours, including
all stops. This is claimed as the.
record long run for a single engine.
The distance from North Platte to - <
Omaha, 291 miles, was covered in 219
minutes, at the rate of 63.49 miles per
hour. The engine was built at the- -
Omaha shops.
A Monument to Kirby Smith.
Nashvillk, Tenn., Aug. 7.—At .
Sewanee (University of the South) a
monument to Edmund Kirby Smith,
the last full general of the Confed
eracy was unveiled. General Kirby
Cmith was a professor at the Uni
versity of the South from 1875 to 1893,
the year of his death, and this monu
ment was erected by alumni, profes
sors and his comrades in the army.
For n Short Greater New Von Campaign.
New York, Aug. 7.—The Greater
New York Republican convention will
probably be held on Tuesday, Septem
ber 28, or five weeks before election*
day.
Counterfeiter* Ran Down.
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 7.—Samuel
David and Robert Johnson, brothers,
and William Strickland were arrested,
yesterday six miles from Hatfield,
Harrison county, charged with coun
terfeiting. The Johnsons are sons of'
a preacher and are themsel.ves promi
nent farmers.
Florida's Orange Crop 180,000 Boxes.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 7.—The
State Fruit exchange estimates that,
this year's orange crop will be be
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.!
Des Moines, July 38.—Patents have
been allowed, but not yet issued, as.
follows: To G. W. Cox, of Stuart,
for an electric fire engine adapted to
be run to a fire by electric force of a
storage battery or otherwise, and
carry chemicals or water in a tank to
distribute same to a fire instantly
while connecting the pump with a.
hydrant or other water supply and
then forcing a continuous stream of
water on the fire. It can also be con
nected with an extraneous electric
conductor for operating the pump.
To A. T. Dowden, of Prairie City, for
an improvement in the potato harvester
that has been extensively manufac
tured for some years and is one of tha
great labor saving inventions that
received an award at the world’s fair
in 1893. The invention is an autoniatie -
vine-carrier that gathers them from
the ground and deposits them in a row
at the side of the machine as the.
machine is advanced, and places the
potatoes on top of the ground. To C.
D. Page, of Des Moines, for a portable
chemical fire extinguisher adapted to
be carried by a person and utilized for
extinguishing a fire by simply turning
it upside down, opening a valve, and.
directing the gas generated therein
upon the fire by means of a hose that
ia connected with the tank that con
tains the chemicals. To W. Lock*
and A. M. Anderson, of Bode, for a
rotary engine of pecul ar construction
and adapted for utilizing the expansive
force of steam more advantageously
than has heretofore been accomplished.
Valuable information about securing,,
valuing and selling patents sent free
to any address
Thos. G. and J. Ralph Okwio,
tween 150,000 and 200,000 boxes.
Solicitors of Patents.
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