Fm, ; THE FRONTIER. rOBLIHBEb EVERY THURSDAY By Tbs Fnoimm Pant-rum co. O’NEILL, •> NEBRAHKA. 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. $■■■ 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, Mu. '.■wSv • *• I THE NEWS IN BRIEF. ITEMS OFINTEREST GATHERED HERE AND THERE. Contlcn.ntlon* that Embody a Good Deal ( of Information Without Requiring Mach Space—Foreign and Domestic 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 ^ ... v ‘ ■<, ’ .. , <, 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 >>