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 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 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*