Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
fUBLISllED EVERT THURSDAY HY TIIE
FRONTIER FEINTING COMPANY.
O'NEILL, - - NEBRASKA.
NEBRASKA,
A free reading room has been open
ed at Cedar Bluffs.
Headquarters of the state board of
Christian missions is to be located at
Uncoin.
Highwaymen are becoming quite
numerous in Omaha, as the cold days
Approach.
Plattsmouth has a boy preacher who
seems to have the gift of speaking by
Inspiration.
A dog at Weeping Water hunts rab
bits all by itself and always brings
borne all it catches.
Rev. W. Lipe, pastor of the Luther
an church at West Point, surprised
bis parishioners by tendering his res
ignation.
James Hall, a poor man living near
Indianoia, lost a pocketboolc contain
ing $110, which the tinder had so far
failed to surrender.
The ministers of North Platte are
Bpeaking out in meeting against gam
bling, which the Telegraph says is
being run openly in that city.
John Welin, a Swede farmer living
In Woodville township, Platte county,
■was adjudged insane and taken to the
asylum at Lincoln. His trouble is of
a religious character.
Mrs. Semll8ky of Wilber had her
left hand amputated on account of a
wound made by a needle penetrating
the hand while she was washing some
Clothes a few weeks ago.
Dr. C. M. Duncan, of North Platte,
1s under bonds of $5,000 to keep the
Seace, having made threats against
is wife. An effort is being made to
have him treated at an Inebriate hos
pital.
George Mooney, a carpenter, work
ing on the building of the King Press
Drill company, at Nebraska City, fell
from the roof, some twenty-flve feet.
His left ankle was broken and he was
considerably bruised.
A Cedar county farmer named He
bron came home full of whiskey and
ordered his wife to get supper and
when she informed him that the cup
board was empty he tried to decapi
tate her with a buck saw.
Two traveling grocery fakirs giving
the names of John 1'. Lucas and Boone
Humbert, who were arrested in Tek
amah for jumping a board bill at Oak
land, had their trial in county court
and each sentenced to a fine of $35
and costs.
John Millar’s hardware store at Wil
ber was entered- by burglars, who
were discovered while engaged in
looting the place. They escaped on
horseback, taking some razors, spoons,
revolvers, cartridges and a small
amount in money.
Tax Commissioner Sackett of Oma
ha has completed his compilation of
the assessment rolls sufficiently to
•bow that the total assessment of the
city real and personal property for the
current year will reach above $34,000,
•00, as against $17,000,000 last year.
The members of the Kearney lire
department are doing all in their pow
er to raise money for the purposo of
giving the delegates to the volunteer
firemen's association, which will bo
held there next month, a royal en
tertainment. The Volunteers of Amer
ica have reopened headquarters in
Kearney.
Frank M. Dunlavy, a tenant farmer,
about 35 years old, unmarried, who
has been farming about eighty acres
northwest of McCool Junction, after
gathering his crop of corn, took a trip
back to Western Iowa last week to
visit his relatives and old home. A
telegram has been receiving stating
that tie had committeed suicide by
cutting his throat.
Sheriff H. W. Phillips, of Cuming
county, with Deputy Sheriff Smith, of
Dakota City, placed William C. Ream
of Homer under arrest on a mandate
from the supreme court stating that
the decision of District Judge Evans,
aentenctng Ream to six years in the
penitentiary for cattle stealing, had
ben affirmed.' Ream was sentenced
February 17, 1897, and after serving
■lx months was released on a super
swdeas bond, pending a hearing of the
case in the supreme court.
Washington dispatch: State Senator
A. R. Talbot, who left the city this
evening, has been in the city several
days working in the interest of T. P.
Kennard’s claim against the state of
Nebraska, amounting to $28,000, grow
ing out of the Pawnee Indian claims.
Mr. Talbot is anxious to secure for his
client a ruling from the interior de
partment that the state has received
the money that he claims. Mr. Talbot
also put in a week in the pension bu
reau in the interest of clients in Ne
braska.
The manufacture of sugar from the
•ngar beet which is now attracting
general interest In this country, will
be shown In a practical manner at the
trans-Mississippi exposition. The de
partment of agriculture will be rep
resented by the exhibit made by the
United States government. The Ne
braska delegation to congress will en
deavor to secure an appropriation of
$10,000 to cover the cost of a sugar
beet plant of the exposition grounds
In order to show the processes of man
tocture of the sugar beet Into a sta
ple article. The plant will be complete
ly equipped with approved machinery
tor grinding, bleaching and refining
the sugar, ready for use. All grades
of sugar will be made In plain sight of
the spectattors, and the subject of
augar beet growing from the time the
need Is planted until the crop Is ma
tured will be exemplified.
The millinery stock of Mrs. J. Arm
strong. of Nebraska City, was damag
ed by fire, smoke and water to the ex
tent of $2,000 the other evening. Par
tially Insured. The fire is believed to
bave originated from the explosion of
a lamp.
The application for space by ex
hibitors in the exposition are rapidly
; increasing. Over 200,000 square feet
Of space has already been allotted. In
some instances applicants have dou
bled and even trebled the number of
feet first asked for. Not since the
world's fair has there been so great a
demand for space at any of the sec
tional expositions held In this country.
Si -
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
ITEMS OFINTfeREST GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.
Condensations that Embody a Good Deal
of Information Without Requiring
Much Space—Foreign and Domestic
Newsy Notes on All Subjects.
Monday, Dec. 13.
United States Minister Hay and
wife dined with the queen and slept
at the Castle.
Dr. Charles F Kuechler, a promin
ent physician, died at his home in
Spiingfield, 111 Dr. Kuochler was the
torliest liomocpathic phjsleiun in Il
linois.
Fitzsimmons exhibited a telegram
from his wife deyning that she had
told a Milwaukee reporter slio would
release him from his promise to i ght
Corbett.
Hon. W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska i3
at Monterey,- Mex., on a visit. The dis
tinguished American was the recip
ient of high municipal, state and fed
eral honors.
Joe Reed, a prominent lawyer of
Tangipahoa, and a widely known fig
ure in Florida parishes, was assassin
ated. He was shot in the back at the
court house at Franklinton.
E. H. Winslow, president of the
Metropolitan Plate Glass company,
confirmed a report to the effect that
rates for plate glass insurance will
probably soon be cut in every state.
Harry Allends was hanged at San
Quentin (Cal.) penitentiary for tho
murder of Miss Wellberga Fielner and
Vinanzi Crozetti. He tottered to the
scaffold and it was necesasry to sup
port him. 1
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, has ad
dressed a letter to the sectary of
tho interior, suggesting the advisabil
ity of making an Indian exhibit at the
coming Omaha exposition. Secretary
Bliss has the matter under considera
tion. -
Taudar, Doe. 14.
Eugene A. Cashman, a foreman in
the street cleaning department of New
York City, was arrested today on the
charge of embezzling $25,000 from per
sons in Nebraska.
Postofflce department officials say
they are not aware of the extent of
the loss occasioned by the rifling of
registered pounches between New York
and Philadelphia.
Secretary of War Alger has granted
the Northwestern Cricket association
a revocable license to use Fort Omaha
and the parade grounds from July 25
to 30, during the exposition year.
Judgo Morton S. Bailey, populist can
didate for governor in Colorado, who
was defeated by Alva Adams in 1893,
has announced his purpose to act in the
future with the democratic party.
In the defense of Adolph L. Luet
gert in his second trial one witness
will swear that she saw his wife com
ing from her home on the night of her
supposed murder shortly after 10:30
o’clock.
At Dayton, O., Michael Dyer was
killed in a fist fight with John J.
Laugbiin. They were formerly mem
bers of the soldiers’ home. Both were
over seventy years old and had been
friends.
- At noon today Governor Stephens
of Missouri commuted the death sent
ence of William Williams, the Kan
sas City negro who murdered a Hun
garian in that city on the day of the
carnival last fall, for hurrahing for
Bryan.
Secretary of the Navy Long has ap
pointed Lieutenant Commander J. B.
Adams to represent the Navy depart
ment on the government board having
.charge of the Omaha exposition,-’vice
Lieutenant McCormick of tho navy, as
signed to sea duty.
Gen. Von. Buelow, of tho artillery,
is dead. Ho has been suffering from in
fluenza.
Wednesday, December 15*
St. Louis will soon have a new ho
tel that will cost $2,000,000.
New York printers are threatening
to strike for a nine hour day.
George W. Vanderbilt of New York
has taken out a $1,000,000 life insur
ance policy.
The “Bridegrooms” have drafted
Elmer Horton, the star, pitcher of the
Syracuse club.
Officers as well as employes in ti:e
Falls River (Mass.) mills will suffer
a cut in their wages.
Five members of the president’s
cabinet attended the funeral of Mrs.
McKinley at Canton. Ohio.
Reports to the Illinois state board
of Agricultural show one of the small
est areas of winter wheat ever sown.
The war department has be»n in
formed of the death today at Butler.
Pa., of Col. J. C. McKee, surgeon, U.
S. A.
Judge Sanborn In the court of ap
peals at St. Louis has granted a post
ponement of the proposed sale of the
Kansas Pacific railroad for sixty days.
Hon, Alexander McDonald, minister
to Persia under the last administra
tion, and who arrived home from his
post only last week, is at the point
of death with pneumonia.
A Rome dispatch says General Wm.
P. Draper, the United States ambass
ador to Italy, was present today at
the casting of the bronze monument
to General John A. Logan, which will
be set up in Washington.
Postmaster General Gary has amend
ed regulations so as to reauire that
after April 1 next the bond supplied
by letter carriers for the faithful per
formance of their duties shall be that
supplied by surety companies.
Miss Jennie June Croly has been
appointed an inspector of public
schools by Mayor Strong for the term
of five years. Mrs. Croly is known
all over the United State as a writer
and worker in woman’s clubs.
As a condition precedent to the re
moval of the boycott against the Ar
mour Packing company, the three la
bor unions involved have demanded
an indemnity of $50,000 to be paid to
the union men who have been locked
out. Other labor unions repudiate
the demand.
Tlinriilay, Deo. 10.
The Kansas Pacific railroad will now
be sold February 15.
Mr. Bryan, addressed the Mexican
congress on the 14th.
The louse Is spending a good deal
of time discussing civil service.
John E. Liggitt left an estate of
$4,000,000 at St. Louis, made of to
bacco.
The threatened printers’ strike In
New York has been declared off temp
orarily.
The proposed celebration of the
passing of old New York has been
abandoned.
Charles Flieschmann of Cincinnati
died seized of $2,000,000, which his will
bequeathed evenly to his wife and
three children.
When the Yukon river opens next
spring, Moran Bros., of Seattle, Wash.,
nave sixteen new steamers there reauy
to navigate it.
Senator Alien today introduced a
bill to remove the charge of desertion
from the military record of Joseph Mc
Graw of Lincoln.
National women expect to raise $25,
000 for a George Washington memorial
building connected with the proposed
National university at Washington.
The senate committee on public
lands has appointed Senators Carter,
McBride and Mclnerney a sub-com
mittee to draft land legislation for
Alaska. : ,
Senator Mark A. Hanna laughs at
ail reports from Washington that his
j health will compel him to go to
j Europe, even If he should be re-elected
senator.
Commander and Mrs. Booth-Tucker
outlined their Arkansas valley coloni
zation plan to a large meeting at Sal-,
vation Army headquarters in Chicago.
Subscriptions to the amount of $10,000
were received before the close of the
meeting.
Friday, Dec. 17.
Durrant’s execution Is now fixed for
January 7.
Spain's troops are said to have sur
prised the insurgents and won a de
cided victory.
Both Durrant and his mother are
now much cast down, realizing that
the end is near.
It has been decided that another ad
vance in rubber goods of 5 per cent
will bo necessaray.
Popuilsts in congress have decided
to hold a caucus to outline their pol
icies on pending questions.
The directors of the Southern rail
way has declared a dividend on the
prefered stock, payable January 30.
The steamc.- Paragoud sank in the
Mississippi river just above the mouth
of the Red river. The loss will be
heavy.
Joseph Laduc, the pioneer of the
Klondike, was married on the 15tli
to Miss Kittle Mason, of Schuyler
Falls, N. Y.
Joseph Banigan, formerly of the
United States Rubber comany, says
that his company will not join inter
ests with the larger corporations.
Although strongly urged to do so,
Governor Lee, of South Dakota, said
he would not feel justified in expend
ing $40,000 for a special session of tho
legislature.
Mississippi and Louisiana yellow
pine lumber manufacturers' associa
tion passed a resolution yesterday ap
proving the duty placed on lumber by
the Dingley bill.
Sir William Edward Maxwell, gov
ernor and commander in chief on the
Gold Coast since 1895, died at sea
while oft the Grand Canary Island, en
route for England.
It is understood to be the present In
tention of the president to omit all
social functions at the white house
for a period of thirty days from the
date of the death of his mother.
The convention of business men
which met in Indiaanpolis last Janu
ary and authorized the appointment
of the monetary commission, will bo
called together again for the purpose
of considering the commission's re
port.
Saturday, December 18.
The treaty of peace between Turkey
and Greece has been ratified by King
George.
At the Interior department is is
said that there is no destitution at
Dawson at present.
There is intimation that Durrant
will take his own life before he ..will
go to the gallows.
Union Pacific shops at Omaha have
reduced working hours to seven hours
a day and five days a week.
The Bank of Perry, Kan., was en
tered by burglars, who blew open the
sate with dynamite and secured $1,
500.
Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, proprietor
of the Daily London Mad, has pre
sented the Windward to Lieutenant
Peary.
The grand jury at St. Louis has re
turned an indictment charging Daly,
ex-puglist, with murder iu the first
degree.
Alphonse Daudet is dead. He was
I dining with his family when he was
seized with a sudden syncope and died
almost immediately.
The date for the national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public has been fixed for the week bo
ginning September 6.
Among the passengers arriving yes
terday on the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
from Geona were former Vice Presi
dent A. E. Stevenson and wife of
Bloomington, 111.
The Yost Writing Machine Com
pany has begun suit in the United
States Court, at Boston against the
Williams Typewriter Company for in
. fringement of patent.
The grain receipts at Buffalo for the
I year will reach the enormous total of
j nearly 200,000,000 bushels, as against
154,000,000 bushels in 1S96, and 105,
590,000 bushels in 1895.
j Louis Altman was arrested at Nash
j vllle on a charge of embezzling $15,
000 to $25,000 from the firm, of Char
les Rosenheim & Co., wholesale china
| merchants, for whom he was con
fidents! clerk.
A resolution tendering the smypa
thy of the convention to the trxtile
workers of the North and promising
to render all possible assistance in
case of a strike, was adopted by the
Federation of Labor at Nashville.
SOUNDING AN ALAKM.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR
PREDICTS TROUBLE.
II© Seeks to Warn the Leader* of HI*
Party—Predict* All Kind* of Disasters
and Pitfall* for the Republicans If
They Push Legislation In This Direc
tion.
Chandler as an Alarmist.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—Senator
Chandler of New Hampshire has writ
ten a letter to the Washington Post,
in which he says:
“If the secretary of the tressury anrl
his single gold standard associates
will cease their demand for impossible
currency legislation, congress will pass
the necessary appropriation bills,
probably take care of Hawaii and
Cuba, there will not be a serious party
division during the session, and there
will be an adjournment in May. Busi
ness will revive, the treasury receipts
will equal the expenditures, the bal- i
ance of trade will continue in our fav- ]
or, and the republican party will in
November, 1898, elect a majority of ,
the house in the Fifty-fifth congress. !
"On the other hand, if Secretary I
Gage continues to press on congress a !
bill, the object of which he says is: i
“First, to commit the country more j
thoroughly to the gold sandafd, and i
the immediate effect of which is to |
throw doubts upon the sincerity of the |
president’s declarations in favor of i
continued efforts to secure bimetall- :
ism, a political turmoil will arise in [
congress which will split the now !
united republicans into fragments, ;
while it will unite and console the j
now incongruous opposition. j
"It is not feasible to retire the j
greenbacks: there is more a probabil
ity that a bill be sent to the president
to increase their amount. It is not
possible to secure the passaga through j
either house of a bill making the !
greenbacks convertible into gold j
notes, or authorizing bonds payable i
in gold. The effort to do either thing
will probably result in the passage of '•
a bill for the redemption of the green- j
backs in silver dollars, and for the :
payment of all United States bonds in j
gold or silver coin in the discretion of i
the president, who will be commanded
to exercise his option for the advant
age of the government, and not for the
advantage of the creditor.
With such an uproar in congress as j
these proceedings will create, with I
western congressmen embroiled there- I
in, with presidential vetoes as threat
ened by Secretary Gage under angry
discussion, it will happen that all
business enterprises and funds and
stocks will be disturbed, prices will
fall, insolvencies will increase, and the
republicans will lose thecongressional
elections in 1898. as they did in 1890,
and beyond the hope of a favorable
action in 1900, at which time, there
fore a Bryanite democratic president
and congress will be chosen.
“Whether we are to have one of
these results—political safely, or the
other, political destruction—depends
entirely upon the course to be pur
sued by Secretary Gage_and those who
are pressing him, forward, namely, the
gold standard league of New York, and
the self-constituted national monetary
conference. How much Secretary
Gage cares for the republican party
is not known. Whether President Mc
Kinley, whose good faith toward bi
metallism is coming to the test, will
stop his secretary in his insane career
is not known. It is to be hoped he
will. But no political situation has
been clearer than the present, to
sound eyes, since the republican party
began its marvelous career*, forty-two
years ago. These are times for all
things. There is a time to move and
a time to keep still and now is the
time to keep still.
"It is simply political suicide for
the republican party in this congress
to affirmatively open the discussion of
the money question. We ought to
await the progress of international bi
metallism, the advent of prosperity,
and the filling of the treasury by the
normal workings soon to be seen of
the new tariff law. Shall we wait for
these things or rush on to self-destruc
tion? President McKinley must de
cide. Will he act for his people, *r
for his plutocrats? Upon his answer
Will depend the events of 1898."
Good for the Soldier's Widow.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec 29.—Tn
recent pension decision Assistant Sec
retary Davis of the interior depart
ment promulgates the important de
'cision that there shall be no limit to
the time in which a widow may file
an appeal in competing her husband’s
claim. The assistant secretary holds
the question whether a soldier was
entitled to a pension is not settled
finally by the adverse decision of the
pension bureau, but the secretary of
the interior has a right to pass upon
the question. The widow's right to
prosecute the case to a final adjudica
tion, and to appeal from the adverse
action of the pension bureau, is con
ceded. No just reason, says he, ap
pears for limiting the time for filing
such appeal by the person who suc
ceeds to the rights of the original
claimant. This decision overrules
those of the department made in a
number of cases in past years.
Ills Trip Cut Short.
MONTREAL, Dec. 20.—Archbishop
Bruchos has cut short Ills trip abroad
and left Harve for America. Ke was to
go to the Holy Land, but it is under
stood he is coming back at the re
quest of the holy see to pave the way
for the papal nuncio who will be ap
pointed for Canada and to look after
the Manitoba school question.
Seven Year* for False Kntry.
SALT LAKE, Dec. 20.—Seven years
In prison was the verdict imposed up
on Banker J. K. Bacon by Judge Mar
shall of the United States court today.
Bacon was last night found guilty by
the jury of making false entries in his
report to the comptroller of the cur
rency while president of a national
bank In this city. Bacon's prosecu
tion grew out of the failure last year
of the Bank of Salt Lake, a private
institution of which he was president.
The court afterwards granted a stay
of execution, and the defendant was
released on furnishing $20,000 bonds.
THE SPOILS SYSTEM
It Is Denounced by the National Civil
Service Reform League.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 20.—The Nation
al Civil Service Reform league re
elected Carl f.churz president by accla
mation.
The report of the treasurer, A. S.
Friessel of New fork, showed re
ceipts of $4,478.82; balance on hand,
$376.13.
The report of the committee on
resolutions, which reported through
its chairman, Charles G. Bonaparte of
Baltimore, was adopted as follows:
1. The National Civil Service Re
form league. in its seventh annual
meeting reminds the country of the
specific and emphatic pledges of the
last republican national convention
thoroughly and honestly to endorse
the present federal civil service law and
to extend its operations wherever
practical. The league confidently ex
pects from the president and demands
from every republican senator a faith
ful fulfillment of this disiinct and sol
emn pledge.
2. The league denounces any at
tempt on the part of republican mem
bers of either house of congress to re
peal the law to embarrass the admin
istration of any modification of its
provisions except to the end that the
merit system for public ofilces and em
ployes may be extended and personal
or partisan favoritism in their choice
more thoroughly eradicated, and de
clares it not only unpatriotic and un
wise, but a gross, shameful abuse of
the party of which no man of honor
would be guilty.
3. The league recognizes in the or
der of President McKinley forbidding
removals in the classified service un
less for good cause and after due no
tice to the person accused a wise and
just measure fully endorsed by a
heightened public opinion, and it de
mands for the order a fair construc
tion and a practical enforcement with
adequate punishment for any officials
who may disobey or seek to evade its
provisions. The league respectfully
urges upon the president and upon
those members of his cabinet and Of
either house of congress who also de
sire to preserve and extend the merit
system of appointment in the federal
service the importance of unflinching
resistance to the demands of men who
wish its destruction. The least con
cession to demands inspired by such
motives will greatly encourage these
men and increase their greedy clamor,
while making resistance to such pres
sure more difficult in the future.
4. The league calls attention to the
fact that in those states where the
party now dominant in federal gov
ernment has sought intercessions of
its state conventions to qualify or
evade the unequivocal utterance of it3
national platform as to civil service
reform the results of the late election
have clearly indicated the disapproval
of honest and patriotic citizens. The
league further recognizes with pleasure
the steady and rapid growth of sym
pathy with its principles of conscien
tious Americans of all classes.
5. The league indignantly stigma
tizes the mendacity with which the
enemies of good government and bet
ter politics, both in and out of con
gress, have misrepresented the prac
tical working of the merit system, and
their persistent reoetition of gross
and ridiculous falsehoods, clearly and
frequently exposed, as insults at once
to the intelligence and conscience of
the American people.
7. The league demands that the em
ployes of the census bureau be select
ed for merit and fitness, to be determ
ined by fair, practical and thorough
competitive examinations under the
direction of the Civil Service commis
sion. With the warning example of the
last census before its eyes, it protests
against any enactment which tmay
prevent or impede such selections as
involving a scandalous waste of mon
ey and sacrifice of the country's inter
ests. It would be better to have no
census at all in 1900 than one taken
by incompetent or untrustworthy po
litical proteges selected according to
the well known methods of so-called
practical politics.
The monetary Commission Done.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The mon
etary commission has reached the con
clusion of its deliberations and Chair
man Senator Edmunds declared the
commission adjourned withou; delay.
The closing proceedings were interest
ing. The work of going over the re
port in detail was prolonged late into
the night of Thursday and was not
quite completed when the commission
met this morning. Such changes'as
were approved were finally consid
ered and referred to the executive
committee and the secretaries for in
corporation in the final draft. The
final publication of the commission’s
report will be delayed for some days
pending its completion by the secre
taries. A bill carrying out fully the
recommendations of the commisison
is also in course of preparation by a
sub-committee in co-operation with
the executive committee and will be
ready for presentation in the house
when congress reassembles after the
holidays.
The Boy In Innocent.
AKRON, 0., Dec. 20.—The lawyers
of Romie Ooiell, the boy who was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
aboat a year ago for killing Alvin
Srone, hi:; wife and hired man. say
the boy wa3 wrongfully convicted.
They assert that the confession was
extcited from him by detectives, whi
according to experts, were irresnon
silble. The lawyers say they know' the
real murderer and have almost
enough evidence to convict him. They
promise lo cause his arrest soon.
Working Time Reduced.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 20.—No
tices have been posted in the Union
Pacific shops at Cheyenne and Lara
mie, reducing the time of the men em
ployed from five to four days a week
and from eight to seven hours a day
taking effect immediately. In addition
the employes are given a lay off of
ten days during the holidays.' This is
equal to a reduction of 30 ner cent in
wages. The reduction is said to be
caused by a falling off of business on
the Union Pacific, equal to 40 per
cent of the business done during the
summer months.
1VASI1 !>'CiTON XOTES.
Among the promotions made in the
Treasury department recently was
that of C. M. C. Spooner of Iowa from
a $1,200 clerkship to one of §1,400.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath has received the application of
Alvin Denin of Omaha for the posi
tion of watchman and janitor of tho
new Omaha building.
Representative Strode of Nebraska,
has presented a petition of the Amer
ican Sugar Growers’ society urging
consideration by congress of the Ha
waiian annexation scheme.
Representative Maxwell of Nebras
ka has introduced a bill appropriating
§15,000 for repairing and increasing
the height of rip-rap work on the
right bank of the Missouri river op
| posite South Sioux City, Neb.
[ In the executive session of the sen
ate a treaty between this country and
Mexico extending for a year the tife
for making the boundary line between
the two countries, was received and
referred to the committee on foreign
relations without being read.
The commissioner of pensions has
appointed Drs. J. W. Hinkle, G. Mc
Culloch and E. J. Dickinson to com
prise a board of examining surgeons
at Corydon, la. Dr. A. J. Chamberlain
was also appointed to a position on.
the board at David City, Neb. Dr. \V.
H. Britt will be appointed examining
surgeon at Creighton, Neb., vice Dr
George Roberts, to be removed.
A bill introduced by Senator Elkins
restores all the lands in the Annette
island, Alaska, to the public domain,
except those in the southwestern pe
ninsula of the island. The entire is
land has been set apart for the use
of the Indians by act of congress, but
the bill sets forth that they occupy
only this peninsula and that the other
portions contain valuable mineral de
posits, which are given as the reason,
for the proposed legislation.
The joint committee of the house
and senate, appointed at the extra
session to investigate and report on
untaxed alcohol for use in the arts
and medicines, will report their con
clusions to congress. The report wilt
be unanimously against free alcohol
for the present, but there will be two
reports as to the advisibality of legis
lation in the future to remove the
tax from alcohol used in the arts and.
in the preparation of medicines.
The convention of business men
which met in Indianapolis last Jan
uary and authorized the apointment.
of the monetary commission, will be
called together again for the purpose
of considering the commission's re
port. The new convention will be
held in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan
uary 25. The invitation will go out,. i
as before to all boards of trades, com- '
mercial clubs, and similar organiza
tions in all cities of the United States
having a population of 8,000 or more.
A special dispatch says: President
McKinley decided today to put a.
quietus on the protests that are for
mulating on the Pacific coast against
Attorney General McKenna of Cal
ifornia as a justice of the supreme
court bench, and concluded to send in
his nomination today. The responsi
bility for McKenna’s future judicial
honors will, therefore, rest with the
senate, and the question of his con
firmation is likely to occupy the sn
nte for many weeks. The president
is determined to stand by his attor
ney general to the end of the fight..
He will insist, it is said, that Mr. Mc
Kenna continue as attorney general'
until the senate confirms his nomina
tion as associate justice.
The president has sent the fol
lowing nominations to the senate:
Justice—Joseph McKenna of Califor
nia to the United States. Treasury—
Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, to be as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the United States. Interior—John
W. Nesbit of Pennsylvania, to be pen
sion agent at Pittsburg. Court of'
Private Land Claims—Joseph R. Reed
of Iowa, to be chief justice: William
W. Murray of Tennessee, Thomas C.
Fuller of North Carolina. Henry C,
Strauss of Kansas and Wilbur F..
Stone of Colorado, to bo associate jus
tices; reappointments; their times ex
pire December 15, 1897. Lewi* Miles,
attorney for the United States for the
southern district of Iowa; Robert V.
Cozier, attorney of the United States;
for the district of Idaho: Henry C.
Dockery, marshal of the United States
for the district of eastern North Car
olina.
1IVE STOCK ASD PRODUCE MARKETS;
Quotations From New York, Chicago, St*.
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator... 21 © 23
Butter—Choice fancy country.. H (ft 17
Eggs—I 'res 11. 17 (ft ltf
Chickens—Per lb. 4-»(ft 5
Turkeys, per lb. 0 (ft 10
Ducks.per li). (1*440 7
Geese—Per lb. 7J*j(ft s
Rabbits— Per doz. 30 (ft 50
Pigeons—Live... 73 (ft so
Lemons—Choice Messinas. 3 75 (ft 4 OO
Honey—Choice, per lb.. 12 (ft 13
Unions— per bu.... 60 (ft (•;>.
Cranberries, Cape Cod, per bbl 0 50 (ft 7 00
Beans—Handpicked Navy. 1 25 (ft 1 30
Potat oes—per bu. 40 (ft 55
Sweet potatores— Per bbl. 2 25 <ft 2 50
Oranges—Per box. 4 00 (ft 4 50
Apples—Westen stock, per bbl 2 75 On 3 50
llay—Upland.ret* ton. 5 50 (ft 0 50
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET.
nogs—Choice light. 3 3i
Hogs—Heavy weights. 3 22
Beef steers. 4 15
Bulls. 3 25
Slags.... 3 f.O
Calves. 5 f>0
Western Feeders. 2 SO
< *o\vs. 2 50
Heifers. 3 55
Stockers and Feeders. 3 fO
Sheep—Western Lambs. 4 50
Sheep—Mixed wethers. 3 00
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2 spring. fcS
Corn—per bu. JM
Oats—per bu. 23
Barley—No. 2. 2J
lvye—No. 2. 47
Timothy seed—Prime per bu.. 2 00
Pork . 7 00
Lard—per. 100 lbs.4 52
Cattle—Choice beef steers. 5 20
Cattle—Cm*.straus beeves..5 40
Hogs—Mixed.3 35
Sheep—Native Lambs.4 U0
NEW YORK MARKET.
W1 »eat—No. 2, red. Winter. f8
Corn—No. 2. 34
Oats—No. 2. 27
Pork.8 25
Lard. 4 75
KANSAS CITY.
Wheat—No. 2, spring. 83
Corn—No. 2. 22
Oats—No 2.22 V*
Hogs—Mixed... 3 20
Sheep—Muttons. 2 75
Cal tie—Stockers and feeders... 3 00
(ft 3 40
(ft 3 27
(ft 4 45
(ft 3 7 5
(ft 3 25
<S> 0 to
(ft 4 00
(ft 3 55
(ft 4 0)
(ft 4 00
(ft 5 00
(ft 4 00
(ft 88*
(ft 20 V*
<ft mx
(ft 34
(ft 473£
(ft 2 05
(ft 7 65
(ft 4 55
(ft 5 35
(ft 5 e5
(ft 3 45
(ft 6 00
34‘4
27*
l» oo
5 00
83 V*
22*
23
0(i 3 35
(ft 4 44)
(ft 4 25