THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISHED BVPBY THURSDAY Bp
To Fro ran Prihtiho Oo.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA,
t*Hn swine plague is prevalent in
(ome parts of Butler county.
Extra men are being added to the
Union Pacific shop force at North
Platte.
Tub Antelope' county old settlers
will have their reunion at Neligh, Sep
tember 10th.
Ewing expects to have a bank in the
near future. Eastern parties will start
the institution.
Tub Bennett' camp meeting by the
state holiness association was the most
successful that has yet been held.
Tii.dsn people have subscribed al
most enough stock to start a creamery
and expect to raise the remainder in a
few days.
A sbries of religious meetings will
be held at Table Rock by Evangelists
Beall and Redding, commencing Sep
tember 8th.
Gkobgk Harlan, a Saunders county
boy was seriously injured by being
thrown from a Union Pacific train be
tween Ames and Fremont.
: Tub miscreants who have an appe
tite for chickens raised by their neigh
bors that there is now a law on the
statutes making it burglary to break
into a chicken house.
Tub proposed mobilization of the
federal troops and state militia at
Omaha during the exposition, an en
terprise of generally unsuspected mag
nitude, is receiving substantial en
couragement.
Many farmers were in town this and
last week looking for helpers, fays the
Pierce Leader, but generally found all
spoken for. Any one that is in the
least inclined to do an honest day’s la
bor need not be idle.
Frederick Siiki-iikrd. receiver of the
State bank of Ilavelock, baa filed his
report of the bank's assets and liabil
ities. He figures the total assets of
the institution at 90,937.40 and the
liabilities at 94,223.33, leaving an ex
cess of assets of 92,714.07.
An Atkinson man, while digging a
post hole, unearthed about thirty pew
ter coins which, when washed with the
yellow metal, were, intended to be pass
ed for 95 gold pieces. The question is,
who could the counterfeiters have
been and when was the spurious stuff
planted?
A nkw steam threshing engine and
Separator, purchased by a syndicate-at
a cost of 92,400, lies at the bottom of
Omaha creek, a small stream running
through Dakota county. The engine
was being taken across the creek at
that point when it became unmanage
able, caused by an Inexperienced en
gineer, crashed through the bridge
and went down twenty feet to the
bottom. The machine men escaped
without injury, but the separator and
engine are nearly a total loss.
' This stockholders of the defunct Ne
braska National bank at York held a
meeting the^other day and decided by
a two-thirds vote to go into liquidation.
The proposition from the City National
bank of that city to assume the obliga
tions of the Insolvent bank met with
favor, and if a few depositors can be
Induced to assign over all claims in the
bank and accept the offer of the City
National bank to pay depositors in
four equal payments, at intervals of
six months each, the deal will’be con
summated.
Louis Olnky, a colored man now of
Falls City, and formerly of Tecnmseh,
has applied to Deputy Land Commis
sioner Nelson for an order releasing
his daughter from the industrial home
at Geneva. It seems that the man's
wife died a few years ago and left sev
eral children. The father was away
and was supposed to be dead. The
children were sent to the home for the
friendless and afterward to' Geneva
and Kearney, according to their sex.
Now the father is fixed to care for
them—tilling a farm—and he wanted
the girl out. The order was granted.
Tine republican state eonvention was
held at Lincoln on the S7th. . Business
was dispatched quickly and harmoni
ously. Judge A. M. Post was renomi
nated by acclamation for his present
position on the supreme bench. C. W.
Kaley of Webster county was renomi
nated by acclamation for his present
position on the board of regents of the
University of Nebraska, and John N.
Dryden was nominated for the second
place before ■ the ballot was taken.
There was bnt one real contest in the
eonvention, and that was for the honor
of presiding over it. In this good-na
tured test of strength J. L. JdcPheeley
ed Kearney county received forty more
*otea than Ben & Baker of . Douglas
county. The convention was in ses
sion but a little longer than three
hours. Nine hundred delegates were
In attendance. Resolutions reaffirm
the principles enunciated by the na
tional republican convention of 1896:
the recent tariff legislation is com
mended, return of business confidence
la hailed with satisfaction; crimes of
the late state auditor and state treas
urer are eondemmed, and demand is
nude that steps be taken to recover all
funds by them wrongfully diverted;
the present state administration is
criticised for sins of omission and com
mission; regret increase of freight
rates to the seaboard and call upon the
inter-state commerce commission t«
Investigate the same; sympathy is ex
pressed with the Cubans in their strug
gl« for liberty, and the fidelity and
efficiency of Senator Thurston and
Congressmen Strode and Mercer ii
commended.
TP* firm of Ward, GilUfien A Towle
Falls City and Tecnmseh, which hai
been doing business in the formei
'M general western agents foi
the Canton Bridge company of Canton
Ohio, has moved its headquarters U
A rown of Ord farmers, thinking
dealers were not paying enough for
grain, have slabbed together and will
(Up their own produce.
Thx barn of Peter Tankhanser near
Humboldt was struck by. lightning and
completely burned. Quite a large
■must of hay and gfmin was eon
' bat all the hornet, some valua
5* VV:
REBELLION IN INDIA.
THE OUTBREAKS ARE RAPIDLY
SPREADING.
Forty Thousand Soldiers Not Enough t*
Check the Insurgent Hill Tribes—
Encounter After Encounter Re
ported — Ameer Called to
Strict Account.
More Troop* Needed.
Simta, A tig. 30.—The British forces
on the Afghan frontier are being kept
in a constant state of excitement, on
ing to the activity of the rebellious
natives, and fight after fight has been
reported during the past three days.
The powerful Arakazi tribe of hillmen
has joined the rebellion, and with the
Afrldls and other tribes already out
the situation is decidedly serious. No
one would be surprised at news of a
disaster to British arms at any mo
ment
Over 40,000 British soldiers are now
In the field, but this number does not
appear sufficient to cope successfully
with the brave, hardy and wily hill
men, and urgent calls for reinforce
ments have been sent to other parts
of India, while it is possible that
troops may yet have to be asked for
from Europe.
That the India government believes
that the ameer of Afghanistan has
guilty knowledge of the uprising, if
he'has not inspired it, is shown by the
fact that a second letter has been sent
to hiin calling for specific answers to
certain speelfiu questions and warn
ing him to avoid all generalities and
protestations.
< A very serious state of affairs pre
vails at Quetta, Beloochiatan. There
is little doubt that if the fort there is
attacked the garrison will be put to
death. The fortifications are practi
cally worthless and the place is said
to be inadequately manned.
Another note of alarm, and a rather
incomprehensible one in view of the
gallant defense made in the cases of
Forts AU-Mujld and Lundi Kotal,
comes this morning from Jamrud,
from which place a dispatch an
nounces that the British military au
thorities yesterday deemed it wise to
disarm the'Khy her rifles, formifag a
part of the garrison of that place.
REBELS MAY BE STARVED OUT.
London, Aug. 30.—It is probable
that pending offensive operations by
the government forces in India a
blockade will be onforced against the
Afridis and Arakazls, who are largely
dependent upon India for their food
suppliea This, it is thought, will
tend to compel them to come to terms.
The military authorities suggest that
after the tribes have been punished
tHe occupation of a single fort cfclted
China, in the Bazaar valley, would re
strain the Afridis forevei, since they
would be obliged to pass ui.der the
waits of that fort every six months
when migrating from the valleys to
the hills of vice versa.
STATE OF TRADE.
The Oonaral Situation rontlnoM to
Show a Steady Improvement.
Xkw Yokk, Aug. 30.—The general
trade situation continues to improve,
and aside from the unnecessarily pro
longed strike of the soft coal miners,
there is little in sight to cloud the
outlook. The feature of the week is
the advance in prices of almost all
leading staples, beginning with an up
ward movement all along the line in
iron and steel. Lead, too, and soft
coal arc higher, as is wheat, notwith
standing one or two reactions lirad
streefs points Out that "the statistical
position of wheat is the strongest
known since the United States became
a considerable exporter, and that its
price, as well as that for bread, is
likely to materially exceed the present
week's advances Following that for
wheat, prices are higher for wheat
flour, corn, oats, lard, potatoes, but
ter, eggs, beans, cheese, leaf tobacco,
wool and live stock. Advances for
leather, hides, lumber and linseed oil
are also reported.
Cotton, which is up 3-10o, reports
the smallest world's stock for seven
years past at this period, an improved
tone and higher prices for the manu
factured product,
(.OVERS LSAr* Tu DEATH.
A Doable Sa'.rlale la a Itearit-ltarte.l
i * 1'arent’e l’rmenoe.
: 1Nashvii.i.K, Tenn., Aug. 31. —Carl
French, who was scarcely out of his
teens, came here from Indianapolis,
,nd, three months ago to sp-nd hi>
vacation in the mountains, where he
fell in love with the pretty daughter
of Allen Hunt, a miner. When his
father heard of the affair lie came to
.take him back home, but the boy
secured permission for a farewell
'meeting, which took place on th>*
brink of a precipice. In the elder
Frenoh’s presence the lovers embraced
and leaped 100 fret to death.
The K'.omti it l'rl»<i«i«tr% (;«*»! Xiamn.
Cedar Rapid*. Iowa. Aug. so. —
William Smith: the mnn being brought
from Alaska on the steam -r Portland
as a prisoner, is apparently Frar.lt
Novak, a storekeeper at Wulford. Tin
man supposed to have been murdered
by him was Edward Murray. Novak1.
relatives claimed the body was that oi
Nova!:.
Thomas H assay, -tho Ulnar, Doatl.
Saw York, Aug. HO. —Thomas Hus
*«y. the aged citizen of Montgomery,
Ala., who was arrested last week in a
dazed condition with S30.003 in money
and securitiez in his pockets, died yes
terday. He was 8-1 years old.
Judge Smith Itenomlaated.
Com, Kan., Aug. 3a—At the Re
publican convention of the Thirty
fourth judicial district the present
judge, Charles W. Smith, of Stockton,
was renominated to that office by ao
• dentation.
NINE HUNDRED KILLED.
Appalling Ion of Lift l>ao to VotcMte
Kraptlon la Iht Philippines.
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 30. —Five more
towns have been wiped out and not
less than 400 people killed since last
reports were received here by the
eruption of Mayon volcano, in Lucon
Island, one of the Philippine group.
Widespread devastation and rain have
resulted in towns and villages situ
ated around the base of Mayon for
fifty miles. The latest towns de
stroyed are Santo Nino, San Roque,
Misericordia, San Antonio and Sanisa
dor. The last two named towns are
suburbs of Lifog, the destruction of
which was announced several weeks
ago.
n tern Die sigot greets toe eye* of
visitors at Llbbat. El fog and 115 in
habitants are bnried in ruins. All
surrounding hemp plantations, fields
and cattle have been destroyed.
Two hundred inhabitants perished
when San Antonio, San Roque and
Misericordla were destroyed, and an
other 200 met death under ashes and
lava in or near the other, towns
named.
Cascades of red-hot lava pouring
over Mayon's sides, together with
dense showers of ashes from the first
eruption, buried 600 human beings be
fore they could flee to places of refuge.
Gradually the eruption increased in
violence, until lava was flowing into
the sea, forty miles from the crater,
and the tremendous rain of ashes and
sand reached Nenva, fifty miles away.
Villages were thus destroyed which
were thought to be safe when the
eruption began, and the number of
known dead was increased to at least
900. _
FRANCE TO CELEBRATE.
President Fanre’s Return From' Rossis
Will Be Notably Commemorated.
Paris, Aug. 30. —The French gov
ernment has proclaimed uext Tues
day a public holiday, and it is expect
ed that an imposing military display
will be made to welcome President
Faure on his return from Russia. The
French squadron will stop for ten
hours at Copenhagen, which will en
able President Faure to visit King
Oscar. The newspapers continue
printing exultant articles on the al
liance between France and Rnssia.
EXPLORERS RETURN.
Tlie Members of the Jackson-Barms
worth Expedition Safa and Well.
Loxnox, Aug. 30.—The British
steamer Windward; which left Eng
land June 10 last for Franz Josef land
to bring back from the Arctic regions
.the members of the Jaclcson-Harms
worth expedition, who have spent
three winters near Cape Flora, passed
Aberdeen to-day on its return trip and
signalei tbat all were well on board.
Gigantic Irrigation System.
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 30.—One of
the greatest water distributing sys
tems in the west is being established
in San Diego county by the Southern
California Mountain Water company.
T|>e system when completed will com
prise three reservoirs, the Otay, Mo
rena and Barrett’s, holding an aggre
gate of over 51,000,000,000 gallons of
water, enough to irrigate 300,000 acres.
The Otay dam is just completed. Its
height is 13o feet abovo the foundation
of 33 feet above bed rock. It is 500
feet long at the top, 400 feet thick at
the bottom and 16 feet at the top Its
impounding capacity is over 13,000,
700,000 gallons, and it floods over 1,000
acres.
Farmer*' Fabulous Revenue
Washington, Aug. 30.—The wheat
crop of the country for 1807 is estima
ted at 430,000,000 to 530,000,000 bush
els. With wheat selling at $1 per
bushel the value of the crop is from
#430.000.000 to #530,000,000. The total
amount of last year’s crop was 4J7,
634.340 bushels, and its total value
was #310,603.339, so that even estimat
ing the wheat crop of 1897 at the low
est figure given by any of those per
sons acquainted with crop conditions,
the farmers of the United States will
have #170,000,000 more revenue from
their wheat crop this year than they
did last year.
Two Aeronauts Fatnllr Hurt.
Toi,kix), Ohio, Aug. 30.—Two aero
nauts were fatally hurt at the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon. Walter
Steele of Columbus, Ohio, had his back
broken and several ribs crushed by a
fall, due to the failure of his para
chute to work, and Lcrov Northcott
was frightfully burned while inside a
balloon which took fire while being
inflated. _■_
A lUHtourl Pastor a Mulct Is.
Paris, Mo., Aug. 30.—The Rev. J.
R. Green.of the Monroe City Baptist
church was found in his room yester
day morninir with three evidently
self-inflicted gashes in his throat, and
to-day he died. His wife said that he
had complained of pains in his head
and had been occasionally delirious
several days, but that she had appre
hended nothing serious.
A T*ritT A'r ib>4ti5 4 ruu<thlft
Washington, Aug. 30.—It is pretty
generally believed that there will be
a Congressional investigation into the
way section 33. known as the “dis
criminating clause,” got into the Ding
lev tariff bill.
Oceanic StaamOilp Sham Rials*.
8an Francisco, Aug. 30.—Within
ten days the stock of the Oceanic
steamship company has risen from #30
to #36 per share. The present atti
. tude of the Pacific Steamship com
pany, in its not as yet successful fight
for Hawaiian charters for some of its
big ships, is partly responsible for the
advance, but the chief cause is the ten
per cent discriminating clause in the
newly adopted tariff, and which If en
forced will give the Oceanic Steam
ship company a monopoly of the trade
I between Honolulu and this pork
BOOM FOR NEBRASKA
ALL BYES TURNED ON THIS
GREAT STATE.
Immigration Reviving to en Extent that
Recall! Early Dave—Splendid Crops
Start the Farmers of the East
This Way to Seek Oat Bet
ter Locations for Homes.
Ntkniki the Cjnoiare.
'‘There is bound to be a {greater
movement of immigration into Ne
braska this fall than for many years
past,” said John Francis, general pas
senger agent' of the B. & M., to an
Omaha Bee reporter. “There is al
ready a marked increase in the atten
tion that is being turned toward this
state. Our last homeseekers’ excur
sion went out from here for various
poin ts in the state so large that the
train had to be run in two sections.
We haven’t had to divide a train of
homeseekers for a number of years
past. And the good thing about it is
that a greater portion of these home
seekers are very apt -to locate perma
nently in Nebraska.”
General Passenger A'gent Francis
has just returned from a week’s trip
through the state. He and General
Passenger Agent Eustisof the Burling
ton were the conductors of a large
party of real estate men and farmers
from Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Most
of the visitors were from Illinois. At \
all points in the state they were most 1
cordially received, and the visitors
were forcibly impressed with the real i
evidences of the return of prosperity to
this commonwealth. The railroad
men believe that a good amount of
immigration will be the result of this
trip.
General Manager Holdrege of the B.
& M. and Dickinson of the Union Pap
eifle have just returned from trips
across Nebraska. Both are enthusias
tic in their declarations that Nebraska
never saw better days. They point to
the splendid crops all along their re
spective lines of railway and to the ex
cellent prices the farmers are receiv
ing, in support of their opinions.
The Union Pacific is advertising the
state throughout the east by the exten- ’
sive circulation of a valuable book on
Nebraska just issued. It gives accu- j
rate reports of recent date of the agri- |
cultural conditions existing along the !
line of the Union Pacific in Nebraska, i
and devotes considerable space to an
admirable discussion of the cultivation
of the sugar beet. President Allen’s
address before the beet sugar asso
ciation in this state is printed in full.
A number of the railroads are also ad
vertising the state by sending ont sev
eral thousand copies of the Saturday’s
issue of the Bee, containing, what rail- •
road men declare to be the most re- 1
liable and exhaustive statement re
garding Nebraska crops that has yet j
appeared. Another means of adver
tising Nebraska that is being actively
pushed by one of the railroads, the
Burlington, is the display of Nebraska
agricultural products at the county
fairs of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio this
fall. Arrangements for sending these
exhibits east this month and through
out September have recently been com
pleted, and each will be in charge of a
competent Nebraskan.
Nebraska Prod nets In Illinois.
Schuyler dispatch: Gilbert Faber
has been paying attention during the
entire summer to the collection and '
preparation of an assortment of grains
and grasses from Colfax county to be
sent to C. J. Ernst, assistant land com
missioner of the B. & M. at Lincoln,
who has the supervision of the arrang
ment of .an exhibit from the entire
state to be taken by the B. & M. peo
ple to the state fair in Illinois. The
collection consists of wheat, spring
and winter; oats, some of the stalks be
ing fifty-eight inches in length; barley,
timothy, blue grass, stems three and
one-half feet long; clover, blue stem
and alfalfa; in all a collection that will
be impressive among the best that can
be found. Mr. Faber is an enthusiast
in this sort of work. He says the
Trans-Mississippi exposition manage
ment ought to see to the collection of !
grains this year for exhibition at the
opening, as at that time the grains of
1898 will not be ready.
Farmers Bin Been tha Land.
The party of forty-three farmers
'from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
brought out to see Nebraska have re
turned home. They were all more
than pleased with what they saw.
They were successful farmers in their
own states, and the idea was not to
induce them to buy here, but that they
might speak of their own knowledge
what the state was raising, and among
neighbors who sought to get new farms
or tenants who proposed to buy for
themselves. Most were well informed
by report already of the resources of
the state. There was one notable ex
ception, a farmer from Illinois, who
could not be convinced even uutil
sometime after he left Omaha that
there was “anything in Nebraska.”
He changed his mind before going
home, and bought a quarter of a sec
tion and made an offer for 1,700 acres
for a ranch.
Opening: Hid* for tli* N«*w Wine*
The board of public lands and build
ings met today and opened
bids for the construction oE the wing
of the asylum at Norfolk, the legisla
ture. having appropriated $33,000 for
the addition The successful bidders
were: Omaha building and construc
tion oompany. $138,787. for the comple
tion of the wing according to specifi
cations,* except the plnmbing and
electric wiring; F. W. Barclay of Be
atrice, $3,800 for the plumbing and
steam-heating apparatus; the Western
electric supply company of Omaha,
$193. for the electric wiring for fifty
sixteen-candle power lights. This
makes the total cost of the wing $3,180
less than the appropriation.
H«ga l»lr of a Krw liimw.
Columbus dispatch: Several farmer!
near the city have lost a great many
hogs recently. Matt Oottbcrg reported
today that he had lost sixteen in one
night. J. F. Dineen has also lost a
number. C. M. Tomlin is also a heavy
loser—nearly all he had having died
with the strange disease. It is said by
those who pretend to know that it U
not the old fashioned hog cholera, but
they do not pretend to name the
disease. _
All the gold mined on the Klondike
would not buy a one-fourth interest in
this year’s Nebraska crops.
WHEAT* SHORTAGE.
VUlbla Sonplf Of Wheat 70,000,000
ItiuheU Short of the Demand.
TVasiiixgtos, Aug. 26.—For several
weeks the department of agriculture
has been busy gathering information
concerning tho wheat crop of the
world. The results, obtained from
both official and unofficial sources,
show that, from present indications,
the world must go hungry or eat
something besides flour. The United
States will be unable to furnish all
the wheat that will be needed by
foreign countries to supply the
deficit, even though the price
Jumped to *1.50 a bushel. It simply
has not the grain. England will need
180,000,000 bushels of wheat, accord
ing to the latest estimates; France,
48,'>00,000 bushels; Belgium, Holland
and Germany, 88,000,000 bushels;
Spain and Portugal, 10,000.000 bushels;
Italy, 28,000,000 bushels; the West
Indies, China and Brazil, 33,000.OOfi
bushels, or » total of 412,000,000
busnela
To meet this demand an increased
weekly importation into Europe of
720,000 bushels over the imports of
last year will be required. During the
last cereal year the wheat growing
countries of the world exported to all
countries 45,000,000 bushels less that
the estimated requirements for the
next eleven months. To supply this
increase of 720,000 bushels a week a
heavy demand will be made on the
United States and Canada. At least
240,000,000 bushels will be called for.
Canada can supply the 40,000,000 and
the remainder falls to the United
States. The crop in this country will,
it is thought, be about 500,000,000
bushela For home consumption and
for seed purposes 275,000,000 are re
quired. This leaves but 125,000,000
bushels to meet the demand for 200,
000,000 bushela
The department of agriculture will
soon make public its figures on this
year's wheat crop of the globe. It
will say in part that, taking one coun
try with another, the deflcienoy, as
compared with an average crop, will
be very large. Such importing coun
tries as Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Austria will have occasion
to import much more than usual,while
the exporting countries, outside of
the United States, will be able to con
tribute much less than their usual’
supply. Russia, Hungary and the Dan
ubian and Balkan principalities have
all less ■ than average . crops, the
deficiency being very large in the
principalities named. The ’ Indian
crop, harvested last spring, was nearly
24 per cent below the average, and
though high prices may draw away a
part of the scanty supply, the con
tribution from this source must neces
sarily be small. The wheat exporting
countries of the Southern Hemisphere
have less than usual, and their next
harvest is several months away.
FOREIGNERS BUY AGAIN.
European Demand for Wheat Pate the
Prices Up.
Chicago, Aug. 25.—Foreigners were
in the markets buying wheat again
to-day, and prices advanced about as
quickly as they went down yesterday.
The Chicago December price was up
a cent at the opening and advanced 3
cents farther later in the day, sell
ing between 91c and 94%c. There was
a sharp break of 2 cents shortly
after noon, but prices turned up
again. The close, 9314c, was 3c higher.
than yesterday. Nearly all the spec
ulation was in December.
Foreign markets were lower all
around, but the decline there was not
as great as the drop in this country
yesterday, and the margin for export
sales was 2 cents more than it was
when wheat was at top prices Satur
day. The day’s clearances were very
large, amounting to nearly a million
bushela Foreign crop news was bull
ish.
Cash prices at Kansas City very
quickly followed the Chicago advance.
Hard wheat was four cents higher
than yesterday—in some cases more—
and there was an active demand from
all sources Exporters who have been
out of the market for some days were
buyers The offerings were large, aud
the country movement shows no sign
of fallinsr off.
Hor« Veueld for the North*
Seatti.e, Wash., Aug. 26.—The
steamer Hosalle has departed for
Skaguay with about 100 passengers
and a full load of horses and supplies
for miners. She also took a number
of wagons to break the famine at the
pass. The schooner Moonlight had
most of her deckload of lumber re
moved and will get away with her
sixty passengers sometime to-day.
Silver Mines Will Not Rein me.
Denver, Col., Aug. 26.—The owners
of the downtown mines in Leadville,
which were allowed to fill with water
during the great miners' strike, and
have not been operated since, decided
at a conference in this city to defer
the nnwaterlng of the mines nntll the
silver market became more settled.
An Illinois Town Oat of Cool
SpRiNortKi.n, 111., Aug. 36.—The
electric light works have closed at
Carlinville because no coni is obtain*
able and the city streets are in dark
ness. The merchants who used elec
tric lights are burning coal oil lamps.
The water works are kept in operation
by using wood for fueL
Party of Right Mlsslmn
West Superior, Wis., Aug. SO.—A
party of eight men and women left
last Friday in a small sailboat to go
after bass along the south side of
Lake Superior, intending to return
Sunday. Nothing has been heard of
them, but the captain of the steamer
Gilbert reports passing a capsized sail
boat a few mile* out_
Chief Coni In ■•tires.
New Tore, Aug. 26.—Chief of Polio*
Peter Conlin was retired to-day by lh«
police commissioners on his own ap
plication. He will reoeive a pension
•f tt.OOO a year.
Farmers Will Have Millions for
Frorementa—Laborers Will FroCU^
Washington, Aug1. 2S. —Assist
Secretary Brigham of the Agricultur
al department to-day expressed the
opinion that the American farmers
this year would receive in the aggre
gate from four to five hundred million
dollars in excess of the amount re
ceived last year for their wheat.
Colonel Brigham also predicted that
the increase in the price of farm pro
ducts would benefit the laboring ele
ment
nig Importation of Goto.
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. so. —The
steamer Mariposa, which arrived to
day from Sydney, via Honolulu,
brought a consignment of $2,250,00!) in
English sovereigns, in ninety-four
treasnre boxes, for the Anglo-Califor
nian and London, Paris and American,
banks of this city.
Italy Threatens Moroccos
Rome, Aug. 38. —Italy has wired to
Morocco threatening to dispatch a
man-of-war to Tangier unless the crew
of the Italian brig Fiducia is released.
Moorish pirates recently attacked and
plundered the Fiducia and detained,
the crew.
Heavy Peach shipments
Warrensbubg, Mo., Aug. 2S.—OrerV
3,000 crates of flue peaches have bttiM
shipped from Warrensburg this weekly
The crop la Johnson county is unnso*
ally large and the orchards are still,
laden with the fruit
Old Inventions.
8
T
ran
Three mechanical movements ara
herewith shown, relating to that class
known as escapements. In the first is
shown a pendulum movement known
as a repose or dead-beat escapement
wherein the central escapement wheel
is alternately engaged upon opposite
sides by’ the pendulum projections.
The central movement is known as a
detached escapement, in that the pen
dulum swings free of the star-shaped
escapement wheel, except at the time
of receiving the impulse and unlocking
the wheel. The pendulum rides ldead'
in returning as the click works bn a
pivot to escape the depending bar. The
third illustration shows a single pin
escapement, in which the pin escapes
the vertical faces within the pendulum.
The circuit court in a patent case re
cently decided that a patent, in orQer
to give full protection, must indnde
claims for all tne novel features. What
is not covered is held as being dedi
cated to the public, and so is lost to
the inventor. Free information relat
ing to patents may be obtained in ad
dressing Sues «fc Co., patent e
Bee Building, Omaha, Neb.
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T
Iowa Patent Office lie port.
Every puff of steam that escapes
from a steam engine is a waste of
power that in the aggregate is enor
mous. To utilize the expansive force
of steam and reduce the minimum at
.vasted energy and the friction and
wear of operative parts, has been the
efforts of inventors. A patent has
been allowed to A. Watkins, Des
Moines, for a compound rotary engine
in which the steam passes through a
plurality of chambers, in which all ex
pansive force is utilized so that practi
cally there is no lose of power through
the exhaust ports, and all the operative
parts work in concert to produce con
tinuous rotary motion that can be ap
plied to extraneous machinery. Mr.
W. manifests his appreciation of oar
services in the following manner:
Gf.nti.emkx—I write to acknowledge
indebtedness to you for the kindness
and promptitude with which you at
tended to the business connected with
the granting of iny patent. I also
wish to express my admiration of and.
appreciation for your mechanical gen
ius, and the keen insight which enables,
you to grasp in detail anything in the
line of intricate mechanism. I
dear sir, yours truly. A. Watkins.
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.
Our.practice is not confined to Iowa.
Inventors in other states can have oar*
services upon the same terms asr
Hawkeyes.
Taos. G. and .T. Eat.pji Obwig,
Solicitors of Patents.
Des Moines, la., Aug. 25, 1897.
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