THE FRONTIER Published Every Thursday by THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY. O’NEILU - - NEBRASKA I BRIEF TELEGRAMS. | A great many settlers are pouring into South Dakota. Very heavy rains have recently oc curred in Oklahoma. Fire at Davenport, la., destroyed $250,000 worth of property. Announcement was made at New York that Mrs. Marie H. Tiffany had been granted an absolute divorce from Perry Tiffany. Eight or ten thousand women are in Los Angeles attending the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women’s clubs. President J. W. Springer of the Na tional Live Stock association has sent a telegram to President Roosevelt asking him to veto the oleomargarine bill. The Bolivian minister at Washing ton, Senor Don Fernanda E. Gua chlale, has been granted by his gov ernment permission to proceed to Eu rope. Ex-Governor Morrill’s apple or chard in Kansas now contains over 64,000 trees, and Is said to be the largest single apple orchard In the world. Postmaster H. W. Harris of Lytton bprings, twenty-five miles south of Austin, Texas, was shot and killed by Joe Halden, also of that place. Halden was arrested. Aamirei uewey, near Admirals Coghlan anti Entwtstle and others cel ebrated the fourth anniversary of the battle of Manila bay at a banquet lty of accident. The royal family of Greece has been safely landed at ChalkiB, Euboa is land, thirty-five miles from Athens. Tbo royal yacht Amphitrlte has not yet been floated. A cablegram received at the state department from Minister Conger states that there are serious disturb ances in the southern portion of the province of Chi Li. The Associated Press understands that J. Plerpont Morgan gets £2,500, 000 In stock of the shipping combine, in return for his services in organiz ing and financing it. The bill for a commission to in vestigate the status of the colored race caused a warm discussion In the house committee on labor, but no no tion waB taken on it. Somewhere about a hundred mem bers of congress are base ball cranks of deep or shallow dye and over half of them were at the opening g„me of the season In Washington. The Neue Frie Presse of Vienna says that as the result of systematic persecution, 3,000 Jewish families, comprising 12,00 persons, will leave Roumania for the United States in a few days. Congressman J. J. Butler of Mis souri is made the defendant in a suit for $10,000 damages instituted in the district court at Washington by Au gust Scholz, a waiter at a local hotel. He alleges assault. A dispatch to the London Central News from Rome says Princess Be atrice Borrone, daughter of Don Car los, the Spanish pretender, attempted suicide by throwing herself Into the Tiber, but was rescued. Emperor William has ordered Direc tor Fritz of the government shipyard at Kiel to proceed to the United States to study the methods of Amer ican shipyards, particularly as re gards labor saving machinery. At Youngstown, O., May 1, two thousand men employed in the build ing trades went on strike for an eight hour day and Increase of wages, ail efforts to settle their differences with the contractors proving unavailing. It is reported in Liverpool shipping circles that the British government has intimated its willingness to sub sidize British shipping in the event of the Atlantic shipping combine prov ing really harmful to the mercantile marine of Great Britain. The magnificent silver service made from silver coins taken from the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, to be presented to Admiral Winfield Scott Schley by his friends in his own state and in Washington, has been completed and is on exhibition. There is no truth in the story that Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy has decided to enter a convent. At his own request, Ambassador Meyer has been granted a leave of absence of sixty days from hi3 post at Rome. Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, has been elected by the trustees of Clark university, president of the new collegiate department to be established in connection with the university in Worcester, Mass. Representative Foster of Illinois has introduced a bill to place all live stock on the free list. A. J. Drexel, son of the late An thony J. Drexel of Philadelphia, was caught for $4,000,006 in the crash of International Power stock. ISLAND A WASTE NEITHER ANIMAL NOR VEGETA BLE LIFE REMAINS. ACTIVE SINCE THIRD OF MONTH Expert Commission Examines it Then and Reports There is No Danger— Lulls the People Into Security and Then Suddenly Becomes Active. — FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Mar tinlque, May 12.—Advices received here from the vicinity of St. Pierre, ten miles from here, contain further de tails of the terrible volcanic upheaval which resulted in the utter destruction of that town and the death of nearly all of its inhabitants. The crater of Mont Pelee has been ! wearing its "smoke cap" since May 3, i but there was nothing until last Mon day to indicate the* there was the slightest danger. On that day a stream of boiling lava burst through the top of the crater into the valley of the River Blanche, overwhelming the Guerin sugar works and killing twen ty-three work people and the son of the proprietor. A commission was appointed by the governor to investigate the outbreak, and it returned a reassuring report on Wednesday evening, but about 8 o’clock on Thursday morning a shower of fire rushed down on St. Pierre and the coast, from he Carbet, which had a population of 0,000, to 1>! Preoheur, which had a population of 4,000, burn ing up everything in its path. Throughout Thursday the heat in the vicinity or St. Pierre was so in- | tense and the stream of Cowing lava I was so unremitting that It was im possible to approach the town dur ing the early part of the day. As evening approached the French cruiser Suchet, after a heroic battle with the i heat, suffocation and sulphur fumes, succeeded in making a dash toward the shore, nearing the land close enough to enable it to take ofT thirty survivors of tho disaster, all of whom were hor- i ribly burned and mutilated. St. Pierre at that time was an ab solute smoking waste, concealing 30, 000 corpses, whose rapid decomposi tion necessitated, in some cases, in stantly completing their cremation, which was only partially accomplish ed by the lava. The inhabitants of Fort de France were panic-stricken, the morning of the disaster, when the sky suddenly blackened until it wa3 as dark as midnight. The sea shrank back thirty yards and hot rain began to fall, and gravel of large size be- ; gan to fall onto the town. This last- j ed fifteen minutes. About 450 sur vivors, who were brought here from the vicinity of St. Pierre by Pouyer Guertier, came from the town of Le Precheur, where, surrounded on all sides by flowing lava, they were near ly roasted to death and expected mo mentarily to be engulfed. The work of relief is progressing here on the most extensive scale possible, but, In anticipation of disturbances, the treasury building and the warehouses are guarded by troops. The latest reports received here showed that lava continues to pour down the slopes of the mountain, slowly engulfing the whole north side of the mountain, while fre3h crevasses are continually opening. Cudahys Invest in the East. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 12.—Cud ahy Bros, of Omaha aud Chicago have just purchased the big beef plant of C. C. Andrews & Co. and the Anglo American company of Chicago lias leased the plant of the Hoyt Beef and Produce company. Hereafter the western operators will deal directly with the smaller firms instead of through local commission men. House Program. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Today is District of Columbia day in the house. Special orders have been made for the consideration of several bills to follow the disposition of district busi ness. They include the bill to author ize the issue of passports to residents of our insular possessions, the Adams bill for the reorganization of the con sular service and a day at least for the consideration of war cleaims. Passports Not Needed. MANILA, May. 12.—W. M. Shush ter, customs collector for the Philip pine islands, has abolished the sys tem which requires travelers to ob tain passports before leaving the is lands, but the order compelling them to obtain permits to remove their baggage is still in force. Pauncefote Still Sick. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassador, continues quite ill here and his con dition is giving the family some con cern. He is suffering from asthma. Morgan Gets the Ship Canal. LIVERPOOL, May 12.—The Liver pool Journal of Commerce asserts positively that J. P. Morgan has ar rived at some arrangement with the Manchester Ship Canal company. VOTE ON PHILIPPINE BILL. Prospect that it Will Be Reached Some Time Present Week. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Senator Rawlins, senior democratic member of the senate committee on the Philip pines, expressed the opinion that a vote can be reached on the Philippine government bill towards the end of the present week. Other members of the committee think the date of the vote may be postponed until some time next %veek, but none of them place the vote later than the 24th instant, two weeks hence. They say that whenever the debate is exhausted they will agree to vote, but that they object to naming a day for a vote un til they are quite certain that there is nothing more to say pertinent to the subject. The consideration of the bill this week will be interspersed with the consideration of appropriation bills, today being set apart for the fortifica tion bill and Tuesday for the agricul tural appropriation bill. Neither of these measures will consume a great deal of time and on each day it is ex pected there will be time left for the consideration of the Philippine bill. Among the opponents of the bill still to be heard are Senators Clay and Money. It is probable that consider able debate will grow out of the speeches of Senators Foraker and Spooner. Senator Lodge has given notice that on Tuesday he will move to meet at 11 o’clock each day to facilitate con sideration of the Philippine bill. LAST TRIBUTE TO SAMPSON. All Departments of Government Rep resented at Obsequies. WASHINGTON, May 12.—With a pomp and circumstance exceeding that of any naval funeral in this country, in recent years at least, the remains of the late William Thomp son Sampson, rear admiral in the United States naval forces on the North Atlantic station during the war with Spain, were yesterday laid at rest. Every department of the national government was represented. The executive by the president and his cabinet and many prominent officials of the civil civil service, the legisla tive by senators and representatives, the judiciary by the United States su preme court and military and naval services by officers of all ranks. The diplomatic body, accompanied in many cases by their ladle3, attended the church services. The military and naval features of the ceremonies were brilliant and im pressive. They were conducted un der direction of Rear Admiral Terry, commander of the Washington navy yard, assisted by Lieutenant Henry George. The funeral escort gathered early. ORDERED TO ST. VINCENT. British Cruiser Will Render All the Aid Possible. LONDON, May 12.—Sir Robert Llewellyn, the, governor of the Wind ward islands, has cable from St. Lucia as follows: “'In continuation of my last tele gram, my intention was to go to St. Vincent in a small coasting steamer, but 1 was strongly advised not to at tempt the trip, as the steamer nar rowly escaped being wrecked yester day, and as the weather was looking very bad in that direction. The is land is invisible, owing to a dense black fog and cinders. 1 am very anxiously awaiting the arrival of a warship.” The colonial office announced today that in addition to the British cruiser Indefatigable, ordered to St. Vincent from Trinidad, the British third class cruiser Pallas has been ordered to St. Vincent from Jamaica with supplies for the sufferers on the former is land. DESTRUCTION AT ST. PIERRE. Surpasses All that Imagination Can Conceive. PARIS, May 12.—The Temps, re ferring to the destruction at St. Pierre, says: "We believe from the information received here from the island of Mar tinique (meaning doubtless the offi cial dispatches) that the disaster sur passes all that imagination can con ceive. The whole northwestern por tion of the island is laid waste. Three large communities, exclusive of St. Pierre, have been destroyed. The vic tims comprise two candidates for to day's ballotage for members of the chamber of deputies.” Alarmed About Dominica. LONDON, May 12.—The latest re ports received here say that the state of affairs at St. Vincent creates grave alarm, especially as dispatches from the island of Dominica reported that the Souffriere volcano was in active eruption. Small boats loaded with refugees from Grand Riviere, Martin ique, have arrived at Dominica in a pitiable condition. They report that six other boats left that village at the same time. SARPY MAY LOSE HATCHERY. Pish Commission Objects to Being Tied Down to One Location. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Commis sioner Bowers of the department of fisheries, in explaining why the bill for the establishment of the fish hatching and fish culture station in Sarpy county had been changed so as to include the state of Nebraska, in stead of locating the station near South Bend, as Representative Mer cer’s bill indicated, said congress had not heretofore limited the department of fish and fisheries in the selection of a site. He stated that the estab lishment of a fish culture station in Nebraska was most desirable, but to be compelled to locate it at some point named by a bill would be detri mental to the interests of the de partment and he had therefore recom mended that the bill be made general in character, so as to provide that a site should be selected by the fish commissioner without limitation in the state of Nebraska. It was stated today that the com mittee on merchant marine and fish eries of the house, of which General Grosvenor is chairman, would bring in an omnibus appropriation bill pro viding for all fish cultural stations that have been recommended by the committee and it is thought the bill to locate a station in Nebraska will be included in that measure. W. B. PRICE IS NAMED. Succeed J. Sterling Morton on the Purchase Commission. LINCOLN, Neb., May 12.—Gover nor Savage has appointed W. B. Price of Lincoln to succeed J. Ster ling Morton on the Louisiana Pur chase commission. Mr. Price was deputy insurance commissioner dur ing the latter part of State Auditor Cornell’s administration. He is a populist. The commission is non-par tisan in character, all political par ties being represented. As the St. Louis exposition has been postponed until 1904 the incom ing governor and the next legislature may provide for another commission. If this is done the present commis sion will have nothing to do. The gentlemen now serving have held several meetings, but have done little toward representing Nebraska at the fair. May Be Nebraska Horse Thief. WHEATLAND, Wyo., May 12.— The authorities believe that in the arrest of O. J. Young they have secur ed a notorious horse thief. It is al leged that last March Young stole fourteen head of horses from F. M. Troy, a prominent ranchman of Ger ing, Neb. The horses were driven to Sidney and there sold and shipped to various points. Young’s father lives near Gering, Neb. Nebraska Homeopaths. OMAHA, Neb., May 12.—At the regular annual meeting of the Ne braska Homeopaths in this city the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. E. B. Finey, Lincoln; Dr. F. E. Way of Wahoo, first vice president; Dr. H. R. Miner of Falls City, second vice president; Dr. E. Arthur Carr of Lin coln. secretary, and Dr. O. S. Wood of Omaha, treasurer. Nebraska at Washington. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Senator Miliard has introduced bills appropri ating $40,000 for the purchase of sites for public buildings at Columbus and West Point, Neb. Representative Mercer has intro duced a bill aiming to repeal the law approved July 23, 1888, providing for the sale of the site at Fort Omaha, and the purchase of a new site and construction of buildings. Big Pension for Nebraskan. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Congress man Stark has the honor of having secured one of the largest back pen sions ever granted to residents in Nebraska. Hiram J. Kietland of Ar borville, York county, has just had a pension allowed, dating back to March, 1865, and which gives him up ward of $2,700. Coal Near Fremont. FREMONT, Neb., May 12^—A sec ond prospect hole has been sunk on the Remele farm to a depth of 218 feet. The same coal vein was struck as in the first hole and at about the same depth. The comptroller of the currency has issued a call for the condition of na tional banks at the close of business Wednesday, April 30, 1902. Under Christian Science Treatment. OMAHA, Neb., May 12.—Donald, the 15-year-old son of Judge J. W. El ler, died at his father’s house under Chiistian Science treatment, which was being administered by C. W. Chadwick, first reader of the church in this city, assisted by Judge Eller himself. No physician had been call ed on the case and the boy died in intense agony, after a struggle of hours, without having had medical aslsstance. NEBRASKA HAS CANDIDATES. 1 Circuit Judge Caldwell is About to Retire. WASHINGTON, May 10.—There is a well defined rumor current in Wash ington that Judge Henrv Clay Cald well of the Eighth United States cir cuu is shortly to retire <.rom the bench, in which event there will be a most interesting contest for the va cancy thus created on the part o. men well known in the west. Already Judge Smii- B. McPherson ol .jwa has announced himself as a candidate for the position and it is understood that Judge William Cather Hook, United States judge for the district of Kansas, will be a candidate, while Nebraska will in all probability pre sent two aspirants for this very dis tinguished position, Geneo M. Lam bertson of Lincoln and Charles J. Greene of Omaha. It is stated that Mr. Greene, should he desire to be a candidate, as now seems possible, will bring to bear upon the appointing power the very strongest recommen dations possible. Judge Caldwell was appointed in 1864 United States Judge for the eastern district of Arkansas by President Lincoln and in 1890 was appointed by President Harrison Judge of the Eighth United States cir cuit. Judge Caldwell went out from Iowa to the war and became major, lieutenant colonel and colonel, and en tered Little Rock, Arkansas’ capital, booted and spurred to take his posi tion upon the district bench. He is now 70 years of age and believes that he has reached the retiring period. WAS GENERAL AND COPIOUS. Nebraska’s Rainfall the Heaviest of the Season. The recent rainfall in Nebraska was the heaviest of the season. It is regarded as the salvation of the win ter wheat, which this year is the most extensive in acreage in the history of the state. Nearly every station re ported rain and nearly every one re ported at least one inch, but at Cur tis the gauge showed two and one half. Only three stations reported less than half an inch of rain. The record in inches is as follows: Arap ahoe, 1.00; Ashland, 1.18; Aurora, 1.50; Benkelman, .50; Bluehill, .74; Burchard, .86; Burwell, .80; Central City, 1.26; Chester, .60; Columbus, 64; Curtis, 2.50; Edgar, 1.10; Eric son, .60; Fairmont, 1.44; Grand Is land, 1.32; Greeley, 1.00; Hastings, 1.58; Hickman, 1.10; Holdrege, 1.50; Imperial, .10; Kearney, 1.22; Lincoln, .92; Loup City, .74; McCook, 1.20; Ne braska City, $1.14; North Platte, .40; Omaha, .94; Palmer, .94; Plattsmouth, 1.00; Ravenna, 1.16; Rulo, 1.04; Sa lem, 1.00; Schuyler, .70; Seward, .90; Strang, .98; Superior, .52; Syracuse, .80; Tecumseh, .78; Valentine, .44; Wilber, 1.10; Wilsonville, .44; Wy more, .50. Fire at St. Edward. ST. EDWARD, Neb., May 10.—The most destructive fire that ever visited St. Edward occurred, resulting in the loss of five business houses and two unoccupied store buildings. The fire started in the restaurant and dwelling of Harry Richmond, who lost all of his household effects and stock of goods. In all seven buildings were burned. The total loss will reach $15,000. Lively Reception to Burglar. GRESHAM, Neb., May 10.—Burg lars were given a warm reception at Hylton & Clem’s store. Fred Van Gorden, who sleeps in the store, heard a noise and discovered the vis itor helping himself to a pair of new shoes, and opened fire on him at short range, but his aim was poor and the thief escaped, leaving his hat and hose behind. Coal Prospecting Progressing. FREMONT, Neb., May 10.—The second prospect hole for coal on the Remele farm at Jamestown is now down over 218 feet. The same vein which was struck in the first hole was struck in this one at a depth of 218 feet. Bright Prospects in Chase County. IMPERIAL ,Neb., May 10.—Chase county has been blessed with a most copious rain. Small grain is looking fine and the farmers are busy put ting in corn. The indications are that the crop outlook will be unusu ally large in this county this year. Cut Worms Injuring Wheat. TAYLOR, Neb., May 10.—Prospects for spring wheat in Loup county are quite flattering, but it is said that cut worms are doing considerable dam age to fall wheat and rye. Ex-Convict Held for Robbery. NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., May 10.— Chief of Police D. W. McCallum ar rested John Armstrong, a former res ident of this city, who returned but a short time ago after a protracted ab sence. The arrest was made upon the request of the authorities at Des Moines, who allege that Armstrong robbed the home of his brother at Churchville, a suburb of Des Moines. He has confessed to the crime and will be extradited. Don’t you know that Defiance Starch, besides being absolutely su perior to any other, is put up 18 ounces in package and sells at same price as lz-ounce packages of other kinds? Some individuals are so persistent in trying to do their best that they even do their best frlend3. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces In a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. 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