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NEBRASKA.
The meridan hotel at Columbus it
to be reopened.
The Grand Island brewery Is about
to change hands.
There is considerable diphtheria at
Ord, but fortunately it Is of a mild
type.
The Lyons poetoffice shows an In
crease of $40 per month over the busi
ness of last year.
Walter Graham of Eastern town
chip. Knox county, was killed by the
%, falling of a timber upon his abdo
xnen.
Mins Lizzie Williams of Nebraska
City has been reinstated as a mlcros
copist in the bureau of animal indus
try at South Omaha.
The stone quarry near Weeping
"Water has raised wages to $1.70 per
day, and laborers, It is said, are not
easy to get at this figure.
The German Congregational people
«( Butte are raising money to purchase
.a building, which will oe remodeled
s -into a house of worship.
Considerable new corn has been
tjnarketed at Superior, bringing 15
cents. It is of a fine quality and al
most entirely free from worm blight.
Daniel Steele, aged sixty-nine years,
iied at his home in Valentine after a
mg illness. He had been a member
of the Masonic lodge for thirty-five
vpflrs. - j- *v « ,• -
Morrison’8 opera house at Osceola
ffV had a close call from fire. Timely dis
covery of the flames prevented what
might hove been a serious conflagra
tion.
George Knight and Mrs. Barbour
were arrested at Arlington by Sheriff
hfencke. They are suspected of hav
ing started the recent disastrous Are
In Arlington.
The Beatrice Creamery company Is
going to build a creamery at Elk City,
nine miles southeast of Tecumseh.
Work on the new building will be
commenced at once.
■ James Sailing, living ten mlleB from
Lexington, devoted two acres under ir
rigation to raising onions. His crop
was 920 bushels. He has sold them for
75 cents a bushel, or f690 from two
§ - Acres of land.
The governor has honored the
requisition of the governor of Illinois
for the return of John Maloney to the
V Sucker state to answer to the charge
of attempted robbery. The offense
f was committed January 1 and Malon*
«y escaped arrest. ' The requisition
states that he is now in custody at
South Omaha.
Chief of Police Meier of Grand Is
land ran down a burglar and the fel
low le already awaiting trial In the
district court, waiving preliminary ex
amination. The fellow had entered
the home of Emil Barth, a printer, and
stolen some clothing and a little Jew
«!ry, The goods taken were found In
bis possession.
An effort is being made by York
citizens to induce the officials of the
Slkhorn railroad to put on an early
morning train to Omaha in order that
people who desire to trade there can
go and return the same day. A pe
tition hae been circulated among the
mire Influential business men and
very liberally slgnod.
In tbe case brought by Emma J.
and John F. Splrk against the Bur
lington railroad company to recover
damages sustained through being
ejected from a train in the western
part of the state before reaching the
destination named In meir tickets
some time ago, tbe jury returned a
verdict for $6 damages In favor of the
former and |5 for the latter. The case,
Which was tried at Wilber, was re
manded from tbe supreme court At
the former trial a verdict for |50ft each
was given.
The annual report of the treasurer
of the Christian Endeavor Society of
Nebraska, in session at Beatrice,
•hows a favorable financial condition.
The report of State Secretary F. F.
' Tucker of Lincoln was an interesting
document It showed the number of
societies reporting to be 614; number
of active members, 14,167; number of
associate members, 4.505. The three
denominations having • tbe largest
number of societies are the Presbyter
ian, with 1S7; Congregational, with
* 128. and the Christian, with 119.
The Board of Public Lands and
Buildings is figuring on the feasibility
%. flf putting in one central lighting
plant to furnish electric lights for
. -the five state institutions located at
^ Lincoln, namely, the state capitol,
“ i asylum, university, penitentiary and
Home for tbe Friendless, it Is esti
mated that the expense of one central
station of large capacity would be no
-more than for two small plants, and
much less than for live. The p'an
would do away with the large gas bill
that has to be paid now for the cap
itol building
The targe livvry bam belonging to
Barney Bryant at Fairfield, took fire
-the other night from an unknown
| cause and was In a few hours reduced
•to ruins. The bam was built about
e -ten yean ago by J. W. Small and was
•one of the largest, if not the largest,
i ", da that part of the state, the lumber
; , Alone coating nearly thrjje thousand
•dollars. The fire waa unier such
* headway when discovered that but lit
tle could be saved. Thirteen horses
smd quite a number of carriages could
mot be reached and were lost A good
portion of the library and instruments
Af Be. F. H Hastings, veterinarian,
. were burned.
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Mta McLaughlin. a tanner living
1a the northern part of Johnson coun
ttf, has just finished harvesting his
{potato crop. Prom a patch of seven
scree hs got an average yield of 110
bushels per acre. Sold at 76 cents
per bushels he would realize *82.50
1
link Luvlngtoa, who lives about
tour miles southeast of Shelton, met
with quite a serious accident, which
will lay him up for some weeks A
horse, which he was riding, slipped
and tell, pinioning his right leg be
neath ft In such a manner as to break
It in two places—Just below the lows
- • ab0ra the ankle,
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News? Notes on All Subjects.
Monday. October SS.
Severe earthquakes have occurred In
Algiers.
Eighty-seven warships are building
in Great Britain.
Tile thermometer reached 86 degrees
in Omaha on the 24th.
Work on new ships of the navy is
delayed by lack of funds.
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Arctic ex
plorer, arrived in New York.
There is great exodus from Selma,
Ala., on account of yellow fever.
General Weyler announces that be
will leave Havana October 29.
Nebraska is figuring on lighting all
of its state buildings by electricity.
Deposits in Kansas banks have in
creased 45 per cent since January 1st.
The Prussian department of agricul
ture has resolved to encourage fruit
growing.
Mrs. Lily Langtry benefits to the ex
tent of $1,500 yearly by the death of
her husband.
The probability is that the Burling
ton will buy the Grand Island & North
ern Wyoming and the Big Horn South
ern.
James Wallace Knox, the famouB
turfman and former owner of Nut
wood, committed suicide at Kenosha,
nri.
Colonel Schaeffer, an officer hi the
army of Luxembourg, has been select
ed as provisional commissioner of the
powers for the Island of Crete.
William H. Dole, president of the
People’s bank of Pomona, Cal., and of
tlio San Antonio Light and Power
company and a reputed millionaire. Is
dead.
The porte has demanded the recall
of two American missionaries from the
province of Aelppo on the pretext that
their mission for the distribution of
relief is likely to cause disturbance.
Tnaidar. October SS.
Luetgert’s second trial will com
mence October 27.
The Yukon river Is closed and boats
laid aside for the winter.
The Spanish note to the United
States fills thirty-eight pages.
George S. Hobbs, auditor of the
Southern railway, has resigned.
New York bankers complain of too
much idle money in their coffers.
Congressman Mercer Is putting up
some business buildings In Omaha.
None of the injured of the New York
Central wreck are expected to die.
Investigation shows the Chilian
government to be perfectly solvent.
Silas Hamilton, an Iowa gold seek
er, was drowned In Fort Summit lake.
St Joseph’s stock yards are to be In
creased to four times Its present size.
Francis Turner Palgrave, the poet
and essayist, died In London, aged 73
years,
| Aunt Nancy Daniels, a colored wo
man, is dead at Sacramento at the age
of 119 years.
A new device is being tried on the
state railway of France which, placed
250 yards from a station, will stop the
train at that distance.
In Kansas City C. E. Riley, a travel
ing man, shot and probably fatally
wounded “Doctor" Allen, who, he says,
was familiar with his (Riley’s) wife.
Wednesday, October 87.
Dlstastrous floods are reported in
Italy.
A fabulously rich gold strike is re
ported from Georgetown, Colorado.
Caroline Talman of New York, who
died October 20, left <126,000 to char
ity.
The ex-treasurer of the Greek na
tion is said to be short In his ac
counts about 330,000.
Captain Ray, the army officer sent
to Klondike, has made his first re
port to the War department
A detachment of the West Indian
regiment, stationed at Lagos, has
started for the frontier of the Hinter
land.
The postmaster general nas appoint
ed John P. Clum of California chief
of the mall depredations division In
the pastoffloe.
"Kid" McCo and Australian Billy
Smith have been matched to box six
rounds la Chicago November 13, for a
purse of <3,000.
The western roads and the Southern
Paclflo have finally decided to submit
their differences regarding immigra
tion business to arbitration.
Wm. Carr of Liberty, Mo., is under
arrest for having taken the life of
his three-year-old daughter by throw
ing her Into the Missouri river.
The Union knitting mill, Hudson, N.
Y., was destroyed by fire and many
of the 300 persons employed In the
mill had narrow escapes from death.
Thomas Gold Alvord died at Syra
cuse, N. Y., of old age. He was speak
er in the assembly In 1858 and was
elected lieutenant governor in 1865.
The world’s triplet record for a mile
was lowered from 1:44 to 1:41 by Mc
Duffice, Church and Wowler, in the
face of a strong wind, at Willow
Grove track, Philadelphia. •
Thnradar. October M.
The *98 wheels will be without
Chains.
December wheat sold In St Louis
above one dollar.
The horse Gulnette made a mile In
2:05 at Louisville.
The Wabash railway general offices
tn St. Louis burned.
Nansen, the distinguished Arctic ex*
plorer, la In Washington.
Good rains have fallen all over the
southern half of Kansas.
An even twenty met death In the
New York Central disaster.
During the year the Union Pacific
received grants for 995,455 acres.
The fever situation at New Orleans
continues monotonously the same.
Yellow fever Is Increasing In Mem
phis and people are fleeing from the
pest ^ ...
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Rev. C. L. Berry has been convicted
of wrecking the bank at Pawnee, Ok
lahoma.
Hon. William J. Bryan will not he
invited to make a political speech in
New York.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting of
the Army of the Tennessee convened
in Milwaukee.
Chauncey DC pew intimates that dy
namite had something to do with the
accident on his roaA.
American bicvcles will be barred in
the national show. Crystal Palace,
London, in December.
E. V. Debs is speaking to Boston’s
working people on his co-operative
commonwealth project.
During a quarrel Bookkeeper Metz
shot his employer, W. T. McCormick,
through the heart at Rome, O.
William Carr, under arrest in Kan
sas City, confesses that he tied a
heavy stone to his little three-year-old
daughter and threw her, breathing and
conscious, into the Missouri river.
Mrs M. C. Linn, of Galatia. Kas.,
gave birth to triplets, all boys, nn-1
she has named them Leedy, Simpson
an l Bryan. Jerry Simpson ssnt the
woman a silver dollar becau^a she
named one after him.
Friday, October 89.
Yellow fever has broken out at Ma
zatlan, Mexico.
The Kansas Pacific railroad will be
sold December 15.
Fierce forest fires prevail In por
tions of Pennsylvania.
Two married daughters get the bulb
of the Pullman estate.
Senator Morgan, of California, is re
covering from a severe illness.
Warm weather is increasing the yel
low fever scourge in New Orleans.
At Redwood City, Cal., Thomas
Flannery shot and killed his father.
A large elevator In Buffalo burned,
together with grain valued at $106,000.
There Is provision for only 2,000 peo
ple at Dawson, and there are 6,000 to
feed.
Speaker Curtis, of the Illinois bouse,
was marled in Cleveland to Miss Mary
E. Griffin.
A thousand people fl,ed from Mem
phis in one night to get away from
yellow fever.
The total value of the estate of the
late George M. Pullman is shown to
be $7,600,000.
' The influenza has reappeared at Ber
lin and many persons have been at
tacked by it.
The Canada Pacific has made ar
rangements to issue $1,200,000 pre
ferred stock In London.
It is aid that General Jamat will
succeeds General Sausier as command
er-in-chief of the French army.
Mrs. Sarah Albert Woods Perry, wife
of Right Rev. William Stevens Perry,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Iowa,
died in Philadelphia.
British capitalists promised only
£1,000,000 toward the purchase of the
Union Pacific railway, *the other £9,
000,000 being found in the United
States.
The net' earnings of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul for the month
of September were $1,152,897, ah in
crease of $141,778 over the same month
of last year. ,
At the-regular monthly meeting of
the trustees of the New York Sun
Printing and Publishing company Mr.
Paul Dana was unanimously elected
president of the association and editor
of the Sun, to succeed his father,
Charles A. Dana, deceased.
Vice Consul General Springer, at Ha
vana, has telegraphed the State de
partment that the Spanish authori
ties have pardoned Frank Agramonte
and Tomaso Julio Saenz, two American
citizens, who have been imprisoned at
Santiago de Cuba since June, 1895.
Saturday. Oct. 30.
Cleveland’s boy baby will be named
after his father. <
A distinct shock of earthauake was
felt at Centerville, Mo.
M. Gaston Bethune, the well-known
artist, is dead at Paris.
Sweden and Norway will send a ship
to hunt for Prof. Andree.
President McKinley has* issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation.
The Crow Indians are again be
coming troublesome in Montana.
In the Orphans' home in Anderson,
Ind., an epidemic of typhoid prevails.
Mrs. George was prostrated and was
cared for byy the friendB of the family
at the hotel.
Iowa State Baptist convention hon
ored Mr. Remley by again choosing
him president.
Topeka (Kansas) councilmen would
bar hats from churches, theaters and
all public places.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado haa
gone to Colorado to negotiate fresh
bimetallic proposals.
The National Pythian Press associa
tion at Nashville chose Indianapolis
for the nest meeting.
Charles Ross, charged with robbing
the Pacific Express company at Mil
ford, Kan., was convicted.
Count Henry de Penalosa, one of the
leaders in Paris of the Carllst move
ment, has arrived in New York.
Andrew Carnegie says he has of
fered the Carnegie armor plate works
to the United States government.
Mr. Bryan, in a speech in Ohio, re
ferred to Hanna as the “Chler con
spirator in the campaign of last year."
New South Wales has appointed a
veterinary inspector at San Francisco
for American horses to be shipped to
Australia from that port.
The postoflice department has com
pleted arrangements for the direct ex
change of mpney orders between the
United States and Egypt.
Twelve Baldwin locomotives have
arrived at Tien Tsln, China, for the
Tien Tsin-Lukuchlao (Pekin) railroad.
Bight are of the Mogul type.
The police of Paris today seized a
Cerman comic paper, the Lustig Plat
ter, contained cartoons ridiculing
President Faure and the French re
public.
The Berlin Relschsanzieger publish
es formal notice of the appointment of
Baron von Buelow, recently German
ambassador at Rome, as minister for
foreign affairs with the rank of minis
ter of state and member of the Prus
sian ministry;
HENRY GEORGE DEAD
SUDDENLY SUMMONED IN THE
EARLY MORNING.
Death Thought to Have Been Dae to Ap
oplexy, Drought On. Perhapti by Too
Hard Campaign Work—Mr*. George
Prostrated Over the Bad and Sadden
Event.
Sml.Jon Death of Henry George.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30—Henry George,
the candidate of the Jeffersonian de
mocracy for mayor of Greater New
York, died in the Union Square hotel
at 4:45 o'clock yesterday morning.
Death is thought to have been due to
apoplexy. Mr. George arrived at the
hotel about 1 o’clock in the morning.
He had just come from several large
mass meetings in the boroughs of
Queens and Brooklyn. The work of
the night seemed to have told on him.
He complained of being tired, but'his
friends and relatives who awaited him
thought it only the natural fatigue
that follows such hard campaing work
as Mr. George has been doing.
Not long after reaching the hotel he
retired. Mrs. George awaited him. It
was about 2:30 o’clock when Mrs.
George was awakened. She found Mr.
George sitting in an arm chair.
"I am not feeling quite comfortable,"
said Mr. George to his wife.
“Won’t you go back to bed?” in
quired Mrs. George, anxiously.
“I will sit here awhile,’ was the re
Mrs. George at once grew anxious
as to her husband’s condition. .Mr.
George gradually grew incoherent and
lapsed into semi-consciousness. Mrs.
George was now thoroughly alarmed
and called her son, Henry George, jr.,
from an adjoining room. Frank
Stevens was also called in. Mr. George
was now uneonsicious. A call was sent
to Dr. Kelly of 117 East Fifty-ninth
street, and he came without delay. Mr.
George was still unconscious. All ef
forts to revive him failed. Without a
sign of recognition to those around
him he passed peacefully away at 4:45
o’clock.
Henry George was born on Septem
ber 2, 1839. He received a common
school education and then went into
a counting room. He was also a sailor
and afterward learned the printer’s
trade. In 1858 he reached California,
where he worked at the printer’s case
until 1866, when he became a reporter
and afterward an editor, working at
different times on the San Francisco
Times and Post.
He returned to New York in 1880 and
went to England and Ireland the fol
lowing year, where he was twice ar
rested as a suspect, but afterward re
leased when his identity became estab
lished. Mr. George is best known to
the world at large through his writings
upon economic questions, notably his
work entitled “Progress and Poverty,”
published in 1879. His other works
are: “Our Land and Land Policy,"
1871; “Irish Land Question,” 1881; “So
cial Problems," 1893; “Property in
Land,” 1884; “The Condition of La
bor,” “An Open Letter to Pope Leo
XIII,” 1891, and “A Preplexed Phil
osopher,” (Herman Spencer,) 1892.
In 1886 Mr. Georgewas nominated by
the united labor party for mayor of
New York, polling 68,000 votes, against
90,000 for Abram S. Hewitt, the demo
cratic nominee, and 60,000 for Theo
dore Roosevelt, now assistant secretary
of the navy, republican. After his
nomination for mayor by the Jeffer
sonian democrats a month ago, Mr.
George made an extremely active can
vass, speaking several times every
evening and working from early to
late at his headquarters. He gave to
the campaign is most sensational in
cidents, its attacks on Richard Croker
and Senator riatt, whom he threaten
ed to prosecute for various crimes such
as levying blackmail upon city con
tractors and aspirants for office, should
he be elected mayor. His candidacy
gave to the coming election its great
est element of uncertainty, for, accord
ing to expert politicians, it was prac
tically impossible to estimate how
much of Bryan’s vote of last year
would go to George instead of Van
Wyck.
The funeral will take place Sunday
afternoon.
Weather Boreau Expanding.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 30.—Chief
Moore of the United States weather
bureau, in his annual report to Secre
tary Wilson, calls for an appropriation
of 11,044,060 for the next fiscal year
and says this will admit of the estab
lishment and equipment of new sta
tions in important centers of popula
tion. An investigation has been made
as to the influence of climate, season
and weather on sunstroke and the con
clusion reached that sunstroke became
imminent during the summer months
when the mean temperature of any one
day or of several successive days
equals the normal maximum tempera
ture of the period. Twenty experi
mental kite-flying stations are contem
plated this year and confidence in the
great value of the ultimate result is ex
pressed.
Prof. Andrm’s Balloon.
CHRISTIANA, Oct. SO.—Dispatches
received here from the island of Var
di in the Arctic ocean oft Finmark,
which, with Vardoehus, is the most
northern fort, says the public there
is fully convinced of the truth of the
report that a whaling ship sighted
Prof. Andree’s balloon floating Septem
ber 28, near Prince Charles promon
tory, Spitzenbergen. The news has
caused considerable depression among
the friends of Prof. Andree.
Brakmo, the Arctic explorer, propos
ed to sail for Prince Charles promon
tory in order to investigate the truth
of the story told by the crew of the
whaler.
Thirteen Killed hr Explosion.
TORRES, Mex., Oct. 80.—A disas
trous explosion occurred in the Amar
illos shaft of the Grand Central mins
at Minas Priestas. Thirteen men were
killed outright and three sustained
probably fatal injuries. In some unde
termined manner a large quantity of
giant powder blew up in the fourth
level of the shaft So great was the
foice of the explosion that out of four
men who were stationed fully 200 feet
distant three were killed iustxntlv. Six
cf the recovered bodies are totallv un
recognizable. The Grand Central'mins
was recently purchased for 81,000,001
by an English syndicate;
THANKSGIVING DAY.
It ts Named by the Proclamation mC th«
President.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—President
McKinley today issued his first Thanks
giving day proclamation as follows:
In remembrance of God’s goodness
to us during the past year, which has
been so abundant, let us offer unto
Him our thanaksgiving and pay our
vows unto the Most High.
Under His watchful providence in
dustry has prospered, the conditions of
labor have been improved, the rewards
of the husbandman have been increas
ed and the comforts of our homes mul
tiplied His mighty hand has preserv
ed peace and protected the nation. Re
spect for law and order has been
strengthened, love of free insittutions
cherished and all sections of our be
loved country brought into closer
bonds of fraternal regard and gener
ous co-operation.
For these great benefits it is our duty
to praise the Lord in a spirit of hu
mility and to offer up to Him our
most earnest supplications. That we
may acknowledge our obligation as a
people to Him who has so graciously
granted us the blessings of free gov
ernment and material prosperity, I,
William McKinley, president of the
United States, do hereby designate and
set apart Thursday, the 25th day of
November, for national Thanskgivlng
and prayer, which all of the people are
invited to observe with appropriate re
ligious services in their respective
places of worship.
On this day of rejoicing and do
mestic reunion let our prayers ascend
to the giver of every good and perfect
gift, for the continuance of His love
and favor to us, that our hearts may
be filled with charity and good will
and that we may be ever worthy of His
beneficent concern.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of Our Lord, one thousand eight.
hundred and ninety-seven, and of the
independence of the United States the
one hundred and twenty-second.
Wm. M’KINLEY.
By the President,
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of State.
UNION PACIFIC DEAL.
Attorney General McKenna Talks at
Length About It.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Attorney
General McKenna, In speaking of the
present Union Pacific situation, said:
There has been a great deal of mis
apprehension in the matter of the sep
aration of the sales of the Union Pa
'cific and the Kansas Pacific properties
The fact is, we have not separated
them in any sense in which they were
not separated, except that the time
between the sales has been lengthened
out. Formerly the Union Pacific prop
erty was to be sold November 1 and 2,
which rule will now go on, and Kan*
sas Pacific on the 3d, 4th and 5th of
November. That sale has been post
poned until December 15.
The reorganization syndicate did, ft
is true, guarantee, if the government
would proceed to foreclose, that bids
on the two properties aggregating $50,
000,000, would be made; but there was
no statement as to what part of that
sum should rest on the Union Pacific
and on the Kansas Pacific, respectively.
Now we have been assured our full
claim on the Union Pacific and beyond
that point the government can not,
of course, bid.
On the Kansas Pacific property, the
sale of which has been postponed, there
must be a bid of $12,3000,000 or no sale.
That upset price was made by Judge
Sanborn’s division of the interests.
This sum will give the government
about $5,000,000 and 'the bid may run
very much above that figure.
The government will get dollar for
dollar of its debt on the Union Pa
cific, and in consequence of that re
sult the Central Pacific must, in settle
ment of its indebtedness, pay the
same. It can not escape from that
now, and this administration thinks it
is entitled to the credit for bringing
about this condition of affairs.
Who would have thought, even ae
late as a month ago, that the United'
States would ever get out all the mon
ey she had put into the Union Pacific?
I venture that nobody except the presi
dent and myself. I think we have
done very well. We started withaprop
osltlon from the organization commit
tee to pay $45,000,000 for the road. Now
it has agreed to pay $58,000,000 for the
Union Pacific alone, leaving the Kan
sas Pacific line to be disposed of sep
arately. At most, if the Kansas Pa
. eifle be sold at its lowest possible
price, under the terms of Judge San
born’s decree, the government stands
to lose $7,000,000. But the government
will get every dollars of its debt on
that line, as well as that on the Union
Pacific. The road is a good one—a
profitable local line if nothing else, and
well worth the $20,000,000 necessary to
clear off the government debt The
reorganization committee in its pros
pectus provides for the placing of over
$30,000,000 of securities for the Kan
sas line—a fair indication, certainly, of
their idea of its value.
'*«KlnUv On«R to Oh»*»
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—President
McKinley left Washington at 4:30 'or
Cincinnati for the Ohio trip which has
been planned for several days. Sec
retary Porter accompanied him. The
president will stop in Canton, and the
party will return to Washington next
Thursday
After a search for heirs extending
over a score of years, the vast estates
of Imhaly Clarke, now appraised at
$25,000,000, seems about to come to its
rightful possessor, the daughter of
Clarke, a mine owner, who died in
Australia over twenty years ago.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The cab
inet held a short meeting Friday, last
ing only about an hour. No new busi
ness was brought forward and the only
matter considered was not of a depart
mental nature, but an abstract of the
Spanish reply which Minister Wood
ford had cabled to Secretary Sherman
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—It is not un
likely that all bets on the mayora'ty
contest will be declared off as a result
of Henry George’s death. It is estimat
ed that something like $150,000 baa
been wagered on the Stock exchange
THE REPLY OF SPAIN.
THE LONG r XP6CTED DISPATCH
FINALLY ARRIVES.
It Comet In Installments and Occupies.
Many Honrs In Transmission—Soerotat '
ry Porter Declines to- Make Public t^_
Statement of Its ConMits—The Mat- J
let Will Rest Until Congress Assembles.
Cablegiam From Minister Woodford.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The event
of the d|a.y at the Statq Department
waa the receipt of the long-expected
cablegram from United States Minister
Woodford at Madrid transmitting the
answer of the Spanish government to
his representations in the interest of
peace in Cuba This message began to
come in; installments at 2 o’clock this
morning, and it was nearly noon today
before It was all in. It was not the
length of the message that occupied
the wires all the timo, buit the fact
that it was all in groups of figures and
that it was probably being filled in
small batches as it was turned into the
complicated State Department cipher
in Madrid. All of this work bad to be
undone at the State Department, and
the message translated from the cy
pher back again into good English.
This occupied nemrly all idlay; so that
it was 3:30 o’clock before the first fair
oopy of the messgae was turned out.
It was not so long in fact, there Be- ~
lag a little less than 1,000 words in the
message, for Mr. Woodford, instead of
cabling the whole of the Spanish an
swer to his note, had contented him
self with reducing the mater to a brief
outline. The first copy was taken at
once to the president, not being en- A
t rusted to a messenger, but being .die- *
liveired by Chief Clerk Michaels in per- '
son at the wtl'.te house.
After >><due opportunity had been
allowed the presiidlant to read the mes
sage an application was made for a
statement of its contents or nature-—
This was declined by Secretary Por
ter and it was said that under no cir
cumstances would the correspondence
be made public before the considera
tion of the cabinet. From official in
formation that has reached certain of
ficers in advance of Mr. Woodford’s
message it is evident that in neither
language nor subject matter is' the
message likely to be taken ae offens
ive. It may be, It Is true, regarded
as insufficient to meet the Issues pre
sented by Mr. Woodford In his note,
but officials of the State Department
say that in view of what has already
been accomplished by tbe new Spanish
ministry and! cabinet in reforming a
basis in Cuba, in removing Weyler and
in projecting what appears to be a lib
eral measure of autonomy, our govern
ment will certainly rest, at least until
congress assembles and afford the new
Spanish government time to carry out
its plans._
COURTS CONFLICT.
Ih« Ballot Matter In Iowa Creates Some
Tronble.
DES MOINES, la., Oct. 28.—The su
preme and district courts have come
in direct conflict over the ballot case
?.nd tomorrow will see the attempt of
the Polk county district court to en
force an order In direct opposition to
the supreme court. V
The attorney general and auditor at
state, members of the election board*
appeared before Judge Spurrier in dis-T
trict court and were commanded to at
once show why they should not bo at
tached and jailed for contempt, in re
fusing to revise the certificates of nom
ination as ordered by the court. At
torney General Remley asked till 6
o’clock to make a showing, which was
granted. He went direct to the .su
preme court and presented a petition
for a supersedeas to stay the lower
court from committing the board to
jail. This was heard by Justice Deem
er and the supersedeas granted.
When 5 o’clock came the board
failed to appear before Spurrier and
the proceedings in supreme court be
ing explained to him Judge Spurrier
declared that the writ of the supreme
court was worthless; that his own
court had the right to enforce its or
def and that he should not recognize
the supersedeas. He issued notice to
the election board to appear before him
at 9 o’clock In the morning and said ff
they failed to do so he would find
means to compel attendance. He Is ex
pected to commit them to jail ana
then they will bring habeas corpus
proceedings in supreme court for re
lease.
Secretary of State Dobson was not
in court and the officer who searched
for him reported that he was believed
to have left the state to avoid the pro
cess.
t'ceialon Rrrnrrilnir Railroad Ratal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The inter
state commerce commission today, in
opinions by Commissioner Prouty. an
nounced decisions in the cases of the
Kentucky railroad commission against
the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas
Pacific Railway company and tho
Southern Railway company, and J. A.
Gustin against the Illinois Central
Railroad Company and others.
In the Gustin case freight rates from
Memphis, New Orelans anidi other
southern and southwestern points to
Kearney, Neb., made up of rates to and
from Omaha, were alleged to be unrea
sonable, unjust and unlawful, but no
Joint through rates were published or
filed. Th railroad companies either
did or dMi not admit that the shipment
and carriage was continuous and no
proof was submitted by complainant
showing that the carriers make a
through route in fact by their course
of business. The decision was that the
commission has no power to compel a
through rate, and no issue of law or
fact having been presented over which
the commission has jurisdiction. the
complaint should be dismissed.
in to Kir' OecVor,
WASHINL .'ON. Oct. 2S.—Karl Deck
er, who rescued Miss Cisneros from a
nriion In H^vatifl,. was the sroest of
honor at a dinner given in his honor
by his fellow newspaper workers of
ro„c.i1jT.™+nn. Reor"sent"tive Amos
J. Cummings, of New York. Mr. Decker
and others made speeches.
Sliver srnator* In Cliicn.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Consul L
Read, at Tien-Tsln, reports to the State T
Department that Senators Pettigrew
and Carter and ex-Senator Dubois ar
rived in Tien-Tsln October 11 and pro
ceeded to Pekin the following day.
