Nebraska Newspapers

    NEWS BOILED DOWN.
WHISPERINGS OP THE WIRE IN
FEW WORDS.
HlucrUaneons News Note* Gathered From
Thl* and Other Conntrlo*—Accidental,
Criminal, Political. Social and Other
wise—Condensation* From All
Quarter*.
** Monday, Feb. 14.
Senor De Lome's resignation is sat
isfactory to the Washington authori
ties.
Extra cars had to be added to the
coast trains for the Alaska rush on the
Northern Pacific on the 12th.
The steamers City of Seattle and
Noyo have sailed for Alaska. The
City of Seattle carried 600 passengers
and the Noyo 200.
G. M. Rose, president of the Hunter
Rose company, one of the largest pub
lishing houses in Canada, is dead at
Toronto, aged 69.
Kenneth McRae, the wealthy sheep
owner of Wyoming, on his second trial
for killing Robert Gordon, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Indian office wli soon adver
tise for pasture lands on the Osage and
Kaw Indian reservations -n Oklahoma.
There are about 200,000 acres to be
leased.
The gross receipts of the postofllce
at Kansas City, Mo., for the month of
January were $53,439, an Increase of
$8,685, or 19.4 per cent for the same
period last year.
One of the new bills Introduced in
the Kentucky house on the 12th was
by Mr. Mount, Populist, proposing to
change .he name of Carlisle county
to “Williams Jennings Bryan” county.
The house committee on commerce
killed the senate bill to permit the
state ot South Carolina to control
liquors brought into the state in orig
inal packages. The motion to report
it favorably was lost on a tie vote,
According to news from Alaska by
the City of Topeka, one of the steam
ers plying between Juneau and Ska
gnay, brought word Just as the To
peka sailed that five men had been
frozen to death on the (Jhilkoot pass.
Two Italian war shins are expected
at Port au Prince from St. ThomaB,
to enforce pending claims of the Ital
ian government to the amount of $120,
000. The fall of the llaytien ministry
is imminent.
The attorneys for ex-State Treasurer
Bartley of Nebraska filed with the
clerk of the supreme court their mo
tion for a rehearing of the case in
which the judgment of conviction by
the district court of Douglas county
was affirmed.
Tuesday, Feb 1 It.
Four murdpra have been committed
In Huaton, Tex., within a week.
It la proposed to refund Montreal's
municipal debt on a lottery plan.
Gladstone la much improved In
health and will aoon start for home.
King Oscar has Intrusted to form
er Premier Stocn the task of forming
a new cabinet.
There were three murders in an
Indiana coal mining community on
Saturday night.
A Philadelphia company built four
locomotives for Great Britain In
thirty-one days.
Money la scarce In London with
no certain Indications ot easiness In
the near future.
Washington officials refuse to talk
about the dispatch received from
Minister Woodford.
It. la said that Letter's operations
-are liable to result in a sky rocket
“market for futures In wheat,
i Etta Mlchaerson, a pretty and well
educated girl living at Cleveland, O.,
says she has discovered the secret of
perpeual life.
Count Gustav Siegmund Kjalnoky
De Koros-Patak, former Austro-Hun
garian minister of foreign affairs,
died on the 14th.
i Fire destroyed the plant of the
Chicago Portland Cement company
at Hawthorne. The loss amounts to
$100,000, insurance, $50,000.
The City Forge and Iron company
ot Cleveland. O., . aa just received a
big order for sugarinakln; machinery
to be piV. Into a refinery In Hawaii.
The Klondike balloon, which has
been In course of construction in Ot
tawa. Can., for some time past. Is
now completed, and will be given a
trial at an early date.
The celebration of the coming mar
riage of the Crown Prince Haruno
Mlya, which was postponed last year,
owing to the court mourning for the
late empress dowager, will be held
In March.
Wednesday. Feb. 16
Secretary Alger, now at Fortress
Monroe, la Improving. ,
James B. Angell, our ambassador to
Turkey, Is going to resign.
The navy department haB given or
ders for 27,000 steel projectors.
Steel mills at Bethleham, Pa., have
started up after several months Idle*
ness.
Watson Denny, a farmer near St.
Joseph, Mo., killed his wife, then him
self.
Fifteen steamships are being loaded
at Philadelphia with wheat for for
eign shipment.
Chris Von der Ahe still lingers in
jail at Pittsburg, having been desert
ed by his former friends.
Freeh demands of Germany are not
appreciated la China.
The last two descendants of Chris
topher Columbus are now occupants
of a poor house at Cadiz.
Dr. Kaiser, the American chief of
the colonial department of the Ger
man foreign office, died at Leipzig.
A Bombay dispatch says that Mme.
; Florence Morgan, superintendent of
•the plague hosjfttal, has died, of bu
bonic plague.
The supreme court of Illinois has
Jwalned the sentence of ex-Bank
CashUr Charles W. Spaulding to the
jpenueatlary.
TlinrmlHV. Feb. 17.
Do Lome has sailed for Liverpool.
American crooks are to bo expelled
from Mexico.
J. W. Johnson has been confirmed
as regiser of the land office, Lincoln,
Neb.
Missouri has 400,000 men available
for military service, Kansas 300,000,
and Oklahoma 50,100.
Sanford Cochran, over 70 years old,
Jumped in front of a train at Reno,
Kan., and was killed.
Tim Hogan, who has been robbing
mail boxes all over the country, has
been arrested in Ohio.
Dr. Brown has been dropped from
tho Chicago Congregational Associa
tion, despite a personal plea.
A call has been issued by the pro
hibition state committee for a Missouri
convention at Moberly, May 5.
John Drew has presented at Wal
laces theater. New York, the comedy
"One Summer’s Day," by H. V. Es
j mond.
Receiver Ewing has made a remark
able record in the Wichita National
bank case, paying in full all claims in
a little over two years.
A sneclal dispatch from Shanghai
says the relations between China and
Germany are seriously strained over
the latter's fresh demands.
Mrs. H. H. Burris, a full-blooded In
dian, and wife of the treasurer for the
Cherokee nation at Tishomingo, shot
and killed herself in a fit of Insanity.
The geological survey has prepared
a tabulated statement on the steady
increase In the production of spplter
in the United States. The total in
short, tons for 1882 was 33,765, In 1SD7
it had reached 99,980.
Friday, F<*b, 18.
Gladstone has returned to England.
News of the loss of the steamer
Clara Nevada has been received at
Seattle.
Congressman Mercer looks for a fa
vorable report upon the Indian con
gress bill.
The sugar trust Is reported ready to
begin an aggressive campaign against
the Arbuckles.
There were 354 people on the Maine.
At this writing but nine-six are
known to be saved.
Vlnita, I. T., residents have peti
tioned congress to provide for educa
tion In that territory.
Madame Sara Bernhardt was ope
rated upon in Parts at Dr. Pozzi's
hospital. The cyst was removed with
complete success.
The pack train of the Alaskan rel'ef
expedition sailed on the steamship
Lucille for Dyea, where It will join
the main body of the expedition,
which left Portland, Ore., the 1st of
February.
The president sent to the senate
these nominations: George H. Ly
man, collector of customs, district of
Boston and Charlestown, Mass.; John
T. Williams of North Carolina, to be
consul at Sierra Leone, Africa.
The house elections committee has
decided In f~vor of tho sitting memb
er, Representative Underwood, of Ala
bama, In the contest brought by G. B.
Crowe. W. Godfrey Hunter has
abandoned his contest for the seat
now held by Representative Rhea, of
Kentucky.
The steamer Alliance sailed from
Seattle for Port Valves, Alaska, via
Dyea and Sknguay, with 250 passeng
ers. The Keystone company, made
up princlally of people from Brad
dock and Beaver Falls. Pa., left on
the Alliance, Intending to go into the
Copper river country.
Saturday, Feb. 10.
John Barn, one of Utah's earliest
pioneers Is dead. He settled at Salt
Lake In 1852 and lived In that city
twenty-four years.
Bob Armstrong, the gigantic colored
pugilist whom Childs knocked out. has
challenged Joe Ohoynsltl, Tom Shark
ey and Peter Maher.
Lawrcneo P. Brown, a prosperovs
young merchant of Salt Lake, was
shot and Instantly killed by robbers
at his place of business.
The evidence of the C. O. Brown
scandal Is to be burned when Rev. Dr.
J. K. McLean returns to Oakland, Cal.,
if the wish of a majority of the con
ference committee Is carried out.
Twenty colored miners left Pitts
h»—• Kan.. Wednesday, for the mines
of Poteau, I. T. These are some of the
negroes brought from Alabama in 1893
to replace striking white miners.
Chief Isparhecher and a number of
the leaders of the Creek tribe of In
dians, all full bloods, are holding a
meeting at Okmulgee, the capital of
the nation.
The owners of the steamer Clara Ne
vada, which has been reported lost
with all on board In Berner's.bay,
Alaska, has refunded to the 150 pas
sengers booked for her next trip the
money paid for tickets.
News of the explosion on board the
MrVne has caused greet crecltement
In the City of Mexico, many Americans
believelng it due to the explosion of a
torpoHo or bomb placed under the
ship by Havana Spaniards.
A terrible explosion of fire damp oc
curred In the Verinigte Carolinen
grueck colliery at Hammerly. Thirty
seven bodies have been recovered. In
rddition. many miners have been ser
iously injured. It is believed that fifty
persons have perisued.
Henry J. Crocker, president of the
wine makers’ corporation, which Is at
war with the California Wine Dealers'
Association, is threatened with a libel
suit because of a statement published
January 27, and credited to him, in
which the financial position of the Cal
ifornia Wine Dealers’ Association was
attacked.
As yet no action has been taken by
the judiciary committee with the bill
providing for the division of Kansas
lnito two Judicial districts. It was ex
pected that the bill would be reported
to the house late this week, but the
bankruptcy bill, which is now before
the house, consumed all the time of
| the committee.
MOORK A FREE MAN.
,THE OPINION OF THE SUPREME
COURT HANDED DOWN.
TIip Chliarge of Embezzlement la I)5a
miaaed and the Kx-Auditor Ih Given
ilia Liberty—A Majority of the Juk
ticea Concur, Judge Sullivan Alone I)i»
aenting.
The Moore Case Settled.
The supreme court on the 16th
handed down a decision In the case of
ex-State Auditor Eugene Moore, re
versing the judgment of the district
court of Lancaster county, in which
he was held to be guilty of embezzling
$23,208.05 money received by him as
state auditor as fees from insurance
companies, and which he had failed to
turn over.
Moore, after serving for four years
as state auditor, was short some $28,
000 when he went out of office in Jan
uary, 1897. He paid $4,500, reducing
the shortage to the first named sum.
The money had been received as fees
from insurance companies.
The syllabus of the majority opinion
is as follows:
Moore vs. State, syllabus—Article 5,
section 24, of the constitution provid
ing that the officers of the executive
department “shall not receive to their
own use any fees, costs, interest on
public moneys in their hands or in
their control, perquisites of office or
other compensation and all fees that
may here after ire payable by law for
services to be performed by an officer,
provided for in this article of the con
stitution, shall be paid in advance into
the state treasury,’’ not only prohibits
such officers from receiving such fees
to their own use, but also prohibits ail
executive officers except state treas
urer from receiving fees at all, and re
quires the payment in advance into
the state treasury by the persons by
whom they are payable.
Second—Compiled statutes, chapter
43, section 32, adopted in 1873, and re
lating to fees paid by insurance com
panies for services performed by the
auditor, was so far modified by the con
stitution of 1875 as to require such
fees to be paid in advance into the
treasury and to prohibit the auditor
from receiving them.
Third—When the penal statute is
made to apply only to a certain class
of persons, the description of the class
is so far descriptive of the offense, and
that the person charged is within the
class is a substantive element of the
crime itself.
Fourth—Sectipn 124 of the criminal
code, relating to the embezzlement of
public moneys, applies only to officers
or persons charged by law with the
collection, receipt safe keeping, trans
fer or disbursement of public money,
and those who aid or abet such offices
or persons.
Fifth—The auditor of public ac
counts is not as such officer charged
with the collection, receipt, Bafe keep
ing, transfer or disbursement of any
part of the public moneys, and he is,
therfore, not within the descriptive
terms of section 124 of the criminal
code.
Sixth—In order to punish one as for
a crime, the ofTense must be within
the plain import of these words of the
statute creating or defining the crime.
An offense not within the words can
not be adjudged a crime because with
in the reason or spirit; and this prin
ciple cannot be evaded by holding that
one performing acts which are de
nounced as a crime when committed
by a particular class of persons, is
estopped from denying that he is
within that class.
The court holds that, the doctrine of
estoppel is not rightly invoked in the
criminal class. The decision also em
phasizes the rule that executive offi
cers of the state have no right to col
lest fees for services performed by
them as such officers, but that these
fees must be paid to the state treas
urer.
Judge Sullivan dissents from this,
and in his opinion agrees with the
others that the constitution which pro
hibits executive state officers from re
ceiving fees not only repeals that part
of the old statute which authorized
the auditor to appropriate the insur
ance fees to his own use, and that it
also repeals that portion of the stat
ute which authorizes him to receive
such fees for any purpose.
Charged With florae Stealing.
Gordon dispatch: Sheriff Joe Hazen
of Converse county .Wyoming, is here
in search of Lish Casebolt, wanted or.
the charge of stealing horses. Case
bolt escaped three weeks ago, when
wanted for counterfeiting, but re
turned and has this latter charge
against him. Mastin Burnett, a broth
er-in-law, is said to be implicated and
•the sheriff has wired his deputy at
Lusk, Wyo., to arrest Burnett there.
The horses were stolen there, brought
here and Isposed of. The others were
stolen here from Robert Trleson and
taken up to Wyoming. Casebolt can
not be found. The horses in each in
stance have been located.
New Supreme Court Rules.
.The supreme court has announced
and published several important
changes in the rules governing the
practice in that court. One of the
most important, probably, and that of
the greatest interest to attorneys and
litigants is .the addition in section 3
to rule 2 by wlrch defendants In er
ror can obtain an advancement of
cases brought up for delay.
A flank Rubber Confesses.
St. Paul dispatch: Otiss Anselen,
the man arrested in Kansas City sev
eral months ago on suspicion of be
ing implicated in tho robbery of the
Howard bank at Boelus last summer,
was arrainged in district court and
pleaded guilty to the crime of burglary
as charged in the complaint. He was
sentenced by Judge Kendall to three
and one-half years in the penitentiary
and will be taken to Lincoln at once.
Detective Tillotson, who made the cap
ture 'is still camping on the trail of
Anaelen’s accomplices and expect!
to bring them to justice shortly.
BOARD OF REGENTS
ftaftincss Transacted at the Session Held
in Lincoln.
The Board of Regents of the state
university were in session at Lincoln
last week. There were present Presi
dent C. H. Morrifl of Lincoln, Thomas
Rawlings of Wakefield, Charles West
on of Hay Springs, H. L. Goold of
Ogallala, E. von Forell of Kearney
and George F. Kenower of Wisner.
Regents von Forell and Kenower, the
successors of Messrs. Kaley and Had
ley, sat for the first time.
The committees of the board were
appointed as follows: Executive,
Morrill, Weston, Rawlings; finance,
Goold, Kenower, von Forell; courses
of study, Rawlings, Weston, Von For
ell; building committee. President
Morrill, Chancellor MacLean, Regents
Rawlings and Goold and J. S. Dales;
university and library, Goold, Kenow
er, Watson.
Prof. Card, having received a call to
the College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts in Rhode Island at a great
increase in salary, presented his resig
nation, which was accepted by the
board.
In the matter of hog cholera ex
periments on the station farm, pro
tests and petitions were presented
froni^ residents near the farm. After
delllSeration the regents decided that,
as no diseased animals were to be
taken to the farm and as there was
good authority to believe that no hog
cholera would ensue from the experi
ments inasmuch as proper quarantine
precautions were to be used, they
would proceed with the experiments.
The co-operation of the United States
and the importance of these experi
ments to the neopie of the state made
this seem to be a lust course as well
as a safe one. Regent Morr'll and the
chancellor were continued as a com
mittee upon the subject and were au
thorized to confer with Mr. Charles
Walker as to conducting a part of the
experiments.
unon the recommendation of the
faculties concerned, the regents voted
the following degrees: For bachelor of
arts, Mrs. Kittie Shackieton Holmes,
Lincoln: Otto William Meier, Crete;
Alvin Eugene Pope, Red Cloud; Albert
A. Reed, Crete: Clara Schueller, Clay
Center; Anna Lucille Taylor, Lincoln;
Robert Milton Thomas, Wilber;
Charles William Wallace, Lincoln.
For bachelor of science. Harold Town
send Weaver, Schuyler. For bachelor
of science In electrical engineering,
Daniel Crosby Hale, Rapid City, S. n.
For master of arts. Mrs. Ada Irwin
Atkinson, B. L„ 79. Lincoln; Albert
David Brewer, A. B„ '95, Iowa college,
Grinnell, la.
It was ordered that the same prep
aratory studies that have been carried
this year on account of the suspen
sion of the free attendance high school
law be carried during the succeeding
year.
Regent von Fnrell introduced the
subject, of the further organization and
development of the Set-col of Agricul
ture. A special committee, consistin'*
of Regents von Foreli, Kenower and
Ooold and Prof. Lyon. was annolnted
to renort upon the snbteo* at. the next
meeting of the Board of Regents
It was -roted that Lieut. Rtotsenhnrg
receive $500 a year from the univer
sity.
Peculiar Disease of Hogs.
Rising City dispatch: A farmer
three miles west of this place, who fcas
about 200 head of hogs, has been los
ing three to four of them daily for a
number of weeks from a disease with
some peculiar characteristics. On tak
ing the disease the hog discharges
urine of the color of tobacco juice and
of a slimy consistancy. This continues
for a short time, when the hog ceases
to eat, becomes listless and mopy, and
Anally about a day before dying gives
away in the back and lies down, ap
parently enduring more or less pain
till death comes. So far as known
other herds in this vicinity have not
been troubled with the disease ancf no
explanation as to what it is has thus
far been forthcoming.
Hanged in a Priann Cell.
Falls City dispatch: Sheriff Tinker
met with an unwelcome surprise when
ho opened the jail doors last evening
to feed his only prisoner, for there,
hanging by the neck, dead, was
Joseph Holechek, who was awaiting
trial for the murder of his wife near
Humboldt a short time ago.
Holechek was 52 years of age and
the crime that he had committed was
of such antroeious character that he
could not hope to escape the severest
penalty of the law. and he seized the
first opportunity that presented itself
to take his own life.
A Curlout* Snit.
A case being tried in the district
court at Lincoln involves a curious
claim Tor damages. John Lefferdink
and A. E. Vanderburg were walking
toward each other on a street and as
they approached both turned aside in
the same direction and collided with
each other. Vanderburg was the
heavier of the two and came out of the
collision in the best shape. Leffer
dink is bringing suit for $3,000 dam
ages.
Fruit Growers Should He Active.
While the fruit growers of other
states, says the Omaha Bee, are mak
ing great preparations for displays at
the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, the
horticulturists of Nebraska must be
bestirring themselves. Nebraska fruit,
though not as well known in the mar
kets as the fruit of some neighbor
ing states, is much finer than it 13
given credit for and this fact can
easily be made plain at the exposition.
Difference* All Adjusted.
At the annual meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic posts and Re
lief Corps, held in Norfolk, the differ
ences between the members of Sedg
wick post No. 1 and ti.e Women’s Re
lief corps of Kearnev seem to have
been adjusted, and Mrs. Anna Bell,
president of Sedgwick Relief corps No.
1, is in receipt of an order from the
department president countermanding
the order to revoke their charter, and
the corps has been again placed in
good standing. It is believed now that
the whole matter has been amicably
settled and finally disposed of.
NOT A JOINT INQUIRY
UNCLE SAM WILL LOOK AFTER
the matter.
The Authorities at Havana Will Be Ac
corded Facilities to Examine the
Wreck on Their Own Aecount—Capt
Slgsbee Will Direct Operations—Autho
rized Divers Will Do the Work.
Investigating the Ship.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Secretary
Long and Assistant Day of the State
department had an Interview with the
president which lasted nearly an hour.
Mr. Day read a telegram from Consul
General Lee at Havana transmitting
a request from the Spanish authorities
in Cuba that the Spanish officials be
permitted to join with our people in
making an investigation into the
cause of the disaster to the Maine.
The matter was discussed at consider
able length and the conclusion was
reached and General Lee will be so
notified that while this government
is willing to afford the Spanish au
thorities all reasonable facilities for
conducting an investigation, yet it
is thought best the first inquiry shall
be made by our own commissioners.
The request of the Spanish authorities
therefore will be respectfully declined.
The request of the Spanish govern
ment for permission to examine the
wreck of the Maine reached the State
department, through the following
message from Consul General Lee at
Havana:
“Sigsbee begins tomorrow with div
ers sent him from the United States
to recover all the bodies still lgft in
he wreck of the Maine, as well as per
sonal effects of officers and men and
whatever else cm be obtained that
way. After that is completed the
Spanish government would like to
unite with ours in having the bottom
of the ship and harbor in the vicinity
jointly examined.”
The following is the answer sent
from Washington:
m. xivs ui tllC UlllU'U
States has already begun an investi
gation as to the causes of the disas
ter to the Maine, through officers of
he navy esecially appointed for that
purpose, which will proceed indefi
nitely. This government will afford
every facility it can to the Spanish
authorities in whatever investigation
they may see fit to make upon their
Part.” DAY.
The apparent difficulty attending
the sending down of the divers to the
Maine was relieved, if not entirely re
moved, by a statement today by Senor
dit Bose, charge d’affaires of the Span
ish legation, that a complete and har
monious understanding between Cap
tain Siesbee and the authorities at
Havana bad been reached on the mat
ter of divers and that the Spanish au
thorities viewed the Maine as extra
territorial, that is, a part of the sov
ereign territory of the United States,
the same as a United States legation
situated ;n foreign territory. With
the Maine holding its status as extra
territorial, all doubts as to the work
on the wreck was removed.
The waters of Havana harbor are,
of course, Spanish territory, and some
confusion has been arouse by the idea
that this jurisdiction over the waters
attached also to the wreck in its pre
sent helpless condition in the bottom
of the bay. It appears, however, that
there is no disposition to extend this
jurisdiction to the ship and that the
Spanish authorities freely assent to
the Maine being regarded as extra
territorial, and under the immediate
direction of Captain Sigsbee. as re
presentative of the United States. Ac
cording to the view taken by the
Spanish authorities there can be no
trouble attending the work of the div
ers.
Captain Sigsbee will be recognized
as the one to direct operations and to
send down the government divers for
such inspection as he sees proper to
make. Mr. du Bose feels assured
however, that Captain Sigsbee will
extend equal facilities to the Spanish
divers, so that the inspection may pro
ceed together. As to what divers Cap
tain Sig3bee will employ, the feeling
among the Spanish officials here is
that this will be wholly a matter of
d;screticn with Captain Sigsbee as
the one in charge of a piece of proper
ty having the attributes of American
soil. But at the same time the feeling
is» expressed that this discretion will
lead to the choice of authorized divers
of the navy department rather than
those representing newspapers.
Hiiylnff BurrosfcrAIaf lea.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M„ Feb. 21.—
It is predicted that at least ten car
loads of burros will be shipped out of
New Mexico for the Alaskan gold
fields on the opening of spring. It is
learned that Steve Naughton, other
wise known as “Gunnysack Riley.”
has made a trip to the village of Isleta
for a syndicate of Seattle gentlemen
for the urpose of buying up all spare
burros of that village from the Pueblo
Indians. “'Gunnysack Riley” is a
character, but he is popular among the
Indians. Yesterday C. T. Brown, a
liveryman of Socorro, bought a car
load of burros from Eutimio Montoya
and will ship them to Alaska.
Oxnard and Annexation Treaty,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— Henry T.
Oxnard, president of the Beet Sugar
company of Nebraska and California,
is considerably' worked up over I he
position assumed by the Nebraska an
nexationists in relation to the Hawar
an treaty. He emphatically sa^s that
they are wrong when they assert that
the annexation of Hawaii would not
affect the beet sugar interests in Ne
braska.
LawIciiKneiis In Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Secretary
Bliss is in receipt of a letter from
Governor Brady, of Alaska, descrip
tive of the lawless condition of af
fairs at Skagway and Dyea. It was re
ferred to the cabinet meeting today
when Alaskan affairs were tinder dis
cussion, and was considered sufficient
justification by the members for the
dispatch of additional military force
already authorized to be sent to Al
askan territory.
Letter has not disposed of his
wheat; he is waiting for a rise.
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES,
Some photographic experiments at
a distance of ten or twelve feet undo.'
■water were successfully carried out i-.fi
the bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The
camera was carried by a diver and
the light was supplied by an electric
lamp carried in the diver’s headpiece.
Senator Burrows, while riding to the
capitoi on a car recently, was looking
over a prepared speech, when he sud
denly realized that he was delivering
it aloud, to the great amusement of
the other passengers. Mr. Burrows was
so embarrassed that he got off the car
and took the next one.
A Washington physician has moved
into a new house, one of the finest in
that city. He calls it the dotted veil
house. When people seemed surprised
he explains. The money to build the
mansion was accumulated from fees
which were earned in the treatment of
I eyes injured by the wearing of dotted
veils.
The roof of the Australian museum
st Sydney, which had been destroyed
by termites, or “white ants,” had to be
replaced with a covering composed
largely of steel and copper. Recently
it was discovered that these destrutivo
little creatures had also ruined the
underpinning of one of the important
floors of the museum. The work of
the termite is peculiar in that it is
carried on in the interior of the timber
and does not reveal itself until tho
structure is about to fall to pieces.
Major S. K. Hooper of the Denver &
Rio Grande railway, is receiving com
munications from' different parts of
Colorado asking him to take decisive
steps toward paving the way for a
grand patriotic demonstration in Den
ver in 1903, in honor of the purchase
of Louisiana, of which Colorado was a
part. He says: “There is no doubt
that a celebration will be held. Wheth
er it is held in Denver depends on the
people of this city. I will not under
take to assume the responsibility of
calling a meeting to consider the sub
ject. The convention and excursion
committee of the chamber of com
merce is the body which should take
the initiative. Of one thing, however,
we may be assured, and that is a
celebration will be held somewhere
within the limits of the Louisiana
purchase. Tt will be a grand affair,
and the city that secures the prize will
reap large benefits.
The Grosvenor bill for the arbitra
tion of labor disputes has been report
ed back to the house with amendments
by the labor committee. The amend
ments require the arbitration board to
commence their hearings within five
days from the date of the appo ntment
of the third arbitrator, and to file their
award in twenty days therefrom, and,
pending the arbitration, the status ex
isting immediately prior to the dis
pute shall not be changed. Similar
bills, though not as complete in their
provisions, have twice passed the
house, but. too late for action by the
senate. The present bill makes the
commissioner of labor and the chair
man of the interstate commerce com
mission a board of conciliation in con
troversies as to wages, hours of labor
or employment conditions between a<
carrier and its employes, to seek to
reach an amicable settlement through
communication with the parties at is
sue, failing which they are to bring
about arbitration by submitting the
matter to a board of three persons,
one appoinive by each side, the third
by these two.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, has returned to Washing
ton from a visit to Florida, where he
went at the suggstion of the president
to study the productions of that coun
try. The secretary says “The most
striking development I found in Flor
ida was the growth of the tobacco in
terest. Within the last few years 40,
000 Cubans have come over from their
native country, many of whom bad
been lifelong tobacco growers. I also
looked upon the orange industry and
believe that there is no tropical belt tu
Florida. Frost will come occasion" lly
and injure the fruit, but protection
might bo had for the Florida orange,
as it sells very high, compared wi‘h
the fruit from any other ccun'ry." In
conclusion. Secretary Wilson express
es the opinion that straight farmng
will be of more value to I he people
than raising tobacco, sugar cane veg
etables. etc., and that the staple in
dustries of the state would be dairy
ing, catie raising, sheep raising, bacon
hog raising, etc.
LIVESTOCK AND PRODUCE MARKET.
Quotations From Now York. Chicago, St
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
•OMAHA.
Uniter—Creamery separator... 20 @ 21
Butter—Choice fancy country.. 14 @ in
Eggs—Fresh. 1 l*@ 12
Chickens—Per lb. 0 @ 7
Turkeys,per lb.. H @ 10
Dueksaier lb. 7 8
j Geese—Per lb. 7 % 8
Lemons—Choice Mcssinas. 2 75 @ 3 00
j ilouey—Choice, per lb. 12 @ 14
I Mi Ions—per bu. 1 10 (® t 25
j Cranberries, Jerseys, per bbl 7 00 @7 25
i Beans—Hand picked Navy. t 25 @ l 30
Potatoes-per bu. SO <& 55
SWeet potatores—Per bbl. 2 25 @ 2 50
Oranges—Per box. 2 75 @ 5 00
Apples—Winter stock, per bbl 3 00 @3 50
Hay—Upland ter ton. 4 50 @ 5 50
Wheat—P r bu. W> (® 101
Corn—Perbu. 31 @ 3m
Oat—Per bu. 27 @ 27*
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET.
Hops—Choice llplit. 3 85 @ 3 wi
llogs—Heavy weights. 3 80 @3 85
Beef steers. 3 75 @ 4 50
Bulls. 3 15 @ 3 50
Slaps....... 3 00 @3 25
Calves. 5 75 § 6 00
Western Feeders.. 3 90 @ 4 05
Cows. 2 50 @ 3 80
Heifers.... 4 00 <& 4 #5
Stockers and Feeders. 4 25 @ 4 75
Sheep—Western Lambs. 5 00 @ 5 40
Sheep—Mixed western. 3 00 @ 4 80
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2 spring.
Corn—per bu.
40l/j
77
11 00
. m @
Barley—No. 2.
Rye—No. 2.
Timothy seed—Prime per bu..
■Pork .
Lard—per 100 lbs.5 00
Cattle—Choice beef steers. 4 20
Cattle—Stockers and feeders.. .4 no
Hops—Mixed.3 82
Sheep—Native Lambs.4 00
NEW YORK MARKET.
H 2
@11
($ 5
@ 4
@ 4
@ 3
@ 4
04*
30
27*
34*
50
80
05
O'*
10
<50
0*
50
Wheat—No. 2, red. Winter. 1 03 @1 o:t*
Corn—No. 2. 3» @ 31*
Oats—No. 2. 29*@ :0
Pork...10 00 & 10 25
Lard. 0 CO @ 5 t>
KANSAS CITY.
Wheat—No. 2. spring. 00 <& 01*
Corn—No. 2. 27 @ 2 *
Oats—No 2. 25 @ 25*
Hops—Mixed. 3 75 @ 3 07 .
Sheep—Muttons— . 3 75 ® 4 30
Cattle—Stockers anu feeders... 3 25 @ 5 20