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; 1 row i j feed ' h,. capacit ingnrci two wells cave etc. lattsmoulh Journal v ' C. IV. Smcil.TIAN, PublUlier. rLATTSMOUTII, t i NEBRASKA. Tho News Condensed. Important Intelligence From Ail Parts. DOMESTIC Creamehv men of Minnesota have organized and will constitute a board of trade for the sale of their products. Five tramps were killed and two in jured by a wreck on the Chicago fc Northwestern road near Woodstock. 111. IIeavt rains in California damaged the x aisin crop ( 100,000. Four miners who were entombed fifty-five hours without food by a cave in at Carbondale, Fa., were rescued. Ajt English syndicate has been given options on all the paper a nd pulp mills in the Fox river valley in 'Wisconsin. They are valued at 510,000,000. TiiKoron the careless driving of Louis Scharf while drunk his wife and five children and Mary Roskus, his sister-in-law, were drowned ia the Minnesota river at Chaska. Apoi.fh Bursa and John Barrett, inmates of the Ohio soldiers' home, were killed by highwaymen near Day ton for their, money. At Chillicothe, O., Flying Jib low ered the world's mile pacing record from i!:01?4 to 1:59, witli a running mate. U.vksows miscreants wrecked a Wa bash train at Maumee, O.. and En gineer F. N. Smith was killed and Fireman A. II. Day fatally hurt. Mill. ownersand operatives at Fall River, Mass., held a conference, but failed to settle the strike involving 40,000 persons. Sxow fell in thirty counties of north ern Minnesota, amounting in some places to a depth of three inches. By the collision of a Washington express train with a runaway engine in Philadelphia many passengers were injured. The public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased 58,052,701 during the month of Septem ber. The cash balance in the treasury wasS119,919,719. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to SS7,640,C17. W. M. Breckexkidge and Frank A. Fadgett left Chicago on a two years' bicycle trip around the world. Durixq September the coinage of gold at the various mints amounted to S50.033.602, and of silver $8,705,370, of which 672,200 were standard dollars. It Berry Rich, a farmer in Marion county, Ky., was taken from his home by white caps and hanged because barns and houses had been fined in the vicinity. For two years C M. Fletcher was said to have been selling to Chi cagoans Missouri property to which he had no title. Tee Mirror Lake house, a summer hotel atSaranac, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being S150.000. Three men held up a Southern Pa cific train in Arizona and robbed the express car of $503. One was after ward captured. Near Perry, O. T., nine members of a hunting party were injured by the explosion of a package of powder and would die. The United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago overruled the por tion of Judge JenkinB' injunctional order prohibiting Northern Pacific em ployes from strlkicg. Withe? three months thirty-seven stills have been destroyed and 125 moonshiners captured by United States officers iD the Big Sandy valley in Ken tucky. Fearixs burglars Wesley Ad am son, a Brazil (lad.) farmer, secreted S2O0 in a stove. II is wife started a fire and the money was burned. Four of the six men under arrest for wrecking a train at Fontanet, Ind., during the strike have confessed. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 1st was: Wheat, 71,421,000 bushels; corn, 4,805,000 bush els; oats, 8,234,000 bushels; rye, 830,000 bushels; barley, 2,265,000 bushels. The government receipts during the first three months of the current fiscal year were 97,848,174, and the expendi tures were $98,628,237. The house of B. B. Pierce at Wilmot, "Wis., was burned, and his three sons and a daughter of John Frank per ished in the flames. The First national bank of Fayette ville, N. Y., closed its doors. At Dorchester, Neb.. Joseph Krob shot and killed Lizzie Brabeck and then killed himself. lie asked her to marry him and she refused. Two passenger trains collided at a crossing at Sunbury, Fa., and all the passengers were shaken up and ten severely injured. Some thirty substantial buildings af "Wichita, Kan., besides innumerable barns and outhouses, were demolished or injured in a greater or less degree by a tornado and two men were killed. IL O. Havemeyer and J. E. Searles, of the sugar trust, were indict d for refusing to answer questions put by the senate investigating committee. The total money circulation of the country was placed at 31,655,038,983 a per capita of $24.07, against $1,596, 049.983 October 1, 1893. Post office department officials in "Washington forbid a contemplated Sunday parade of letter carriers in Chicago. Six persons were badly injured in a freight train wreck at Mansfield, O., and twenty cars were demolished. Nixe persons were killed and prop erty werth 81,000,000 des'royed by a cyclone at Little Rock, Ark. The main portion of the business center of the city was practically in ruins. Mrs. M. C. Giles, of Belvidere, 111., went to bed with good e3'es and woke tip in the morning totally blind. The physicians were baffled. A monument to MaJ. B. F. Stephen son, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, was dedicated at Peters burg. IlL i and cistern, windmill, cellar. I II3H tT Balaam AH Hurrounaeu wun a iniDGDS i anu William Puon, of Ohio, has been ap pointed superintendent of income tax collections by Secretary Carlisle. A stage running between Yrekaand Fort Jones, Cal., was held up by a lone highwayman, who stole the treas ure box. Solly Smith and Frank Erne fought a terrific ten-round battle, ending in a draw, at Buffalo, N. Y. Martix Irons, once a famous labor leader, was in jail at Fort Worth, Tex., charged with assaulting a little girl CuAiinoN Corbett issued a challenge in which he agreed to meet all comers in the prize ring next July, one each nipht until all were disposed of. Trotting queen Alix, 2:03J, and trotting king Directum, 2:05, have been matched to race for $2,500 a side. Near Pawnee, Neb., a cyclone killed John Nelson's 9-year-old girl and seri ously injured five other members of the family. In a fight between "Denver Ed" and "Larry" Farrell for $5,500 at Denver the former won on a foul. Goapeij bv intimations of cowardice Corbett has decided to accept the chal lenge issued by Fitzsimmons. The twenty-ninth annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee convened at Council Bluffs, Ia. The fire losses for the week ended on September 30 entailed a loss of $5,010,000. of which fires doing damage of $10,000 or more contributed $4,670, 000. At Portland, Me., Directum trotted a mile in 2:0S.V defeating Nelson and lowering the record for New England. At the Farmers national congress at Parkersburg, W. Va., resolutions were adopted favoring protection to wool and cotton. Frairie fires devastated alarge tract of land in the Black Brook country near Grantsburg, Wis. Before the Lexow committee Mrs. Urchittei testified that police of New York put her children in an asyluru in order to extort money from her. G. Herman Sc Co., fruit dealers at Tehichipi, Cal., failed for $250,000. It was reported that the steamship Chattahoochie, overdue at Savannah from New York, had been lost with all on board. A. J. Liem, a wealthy resident of Liemville, Fa., and his wife were killed by an explosion of nitroglycer ine in their home. The perpetrators of the deed were unknown. Jim and Marion Crutchfield (broth ers) and Will Mitchell, all negroes, fought near Denton, Tex., and all were killed. Before the Lexow committee a woman testified that the New York police had forced her to buy diamonds for them and furnish their houses to secure their protection. A sew counterfeit five-dollar na tional bank note was discovered on the Citizens' national bank of Niles, Mich., check letter B, series of 1SS2. The entire face of the note is brown, instead of black. At the annual meeting in Council Bluffs, la., of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, of Iowa, was elected president. An entire business block was de stroyed by fire in the village of Buck hannon, W. Va. At Bloomfield, Ind., the safe of the bank was blown to pieces by robbers and $5,500 carried away. Joseph Matchet, a farmer at Bulger, Pa., was robbed of $5,000 by a plck pock. He had taken the money with him to a fair expecting to purchase some of the exhibition cattle. The bodies of fifty persons, victims of the recent tropical storms, were washed ashore near Key West. Gen. F. M. Clark and CoL Fred Grant are about to sell the secret of a torpedo explosive to the Chinese gov ernment for $1,000,000. Chahles E. Day, a lamp trimmer, was killed by an electric light wire in Boston and a man who attempted to rescue Day was also killed. Six persons were injured, throe of them fatally, by the collision of a lo comotive and streetcar in St. Louis. The commissioner of Indian affairs in his annual report says special ad vancement has been made in Indian education. The aggregate enrollment for the year was 21.451, with an aver age attendance of 17,096, against 21,117 enrollment and 16,303 attendance for the previous year. The ship City of Athens sailed for the United Kingdom with the first cargo of wheat shipped from Tacoma, Wash., amounting to 1,800 tons. The axle works of J. R. Johnson & Co. were destroyed by fire at Rich mond, Va., the loss being $100,000. The first of the 6even baseball games of the Temple cup series between the New York and Baltimore clubs was won by New York by a score of 4 to 1. Flying Jib paced a mile at Chilli cothe, O., with a running mate in 1:5S3. The previous best record at this style of going was 2:015.4. Engineer Michael Ketchum, Fire man Thomas Warren and Brakeman M. E. Hummel were killed in a freight wreck at Southfield, Mo. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mrs. Catherine Clvkich died at Mus catine, la., aged 108 years. Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice .president of the United States in 1884 on the greenback-labor ticket with Gen. B. F. Butler, died at Holly Springs, Miss., aged 70 years. Thomas O. Rogers, a brother-in-law of Kit Carson, died at Clayton, N. M. He was a former guide for Gen. Fre mont. Gov. McKinley opened the repub lican and Senator Vest the democratie campaign in Missouri, the former speaking at St. Louis, the latter at Kansas City. Mrs. Katherine Medill, wife of Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, died at Elmhurst from con sumption, aged 63 years. The republicans of the Thirteenth Ohio district nominated S. R. Harris for congress and in the Fourteenth district the democrats nominated Thomas Y. McCray. The republicans made great gains in the municipal elections throughout Connecticut of Copaiba, Tr. Miles Nervine guarantee that the iiij w.w lri A uaruKKistaaeinK , r ft willbe aent, prepaid, on receipt The republicans of South Carolina will not nominate a state ticket, but candidates will run in each congres sional district. The following .congressional nomi nations were made: Michigan, Fifth district, L.G.Rutherford (deni.); Elev enth, Maj-or Anderson (pop.); Twelfth, Rush Culver (dem.). Ohio, First dis trict, II. D. Peck (dem.); Second, M. O. Oliver (dem.); Third, A. L. Harris (rep.); Seventh, M. K. Gantz (dem.). Illinois, Twenty-second district, F. M. Youngblood (dem.). Maryland, Sec ond district, J. F. C. Talbot (dem.); Third, 11. W. Rusk (dem.); Fourth, John Covven (dem.). Massachusetts, Third dibtrict, J. A. Walker (rep.); Fourth, J. S Desmond (dem.); Twelfth, Elijah Morse (rep.). Connecticut, Fourth district, F. J. Hill (rep.). Penn sylvania, Sixteenth district, Fred Leonurd (rep.). The following nominations for con gress were made: Illinois, Twelfth district, T. S. Donovan (dem.). Wis consin, Seventli district, Michael Grif fin (repc) Nebraska, Fifth district, W. A. McKeighan (dem.-pop.). Massachu setts, Sfcond district, F. R. Gillette (rep.). New Jersey, Fifth district, Preston Stevenson (dem.). Returns from all except two out of 164 towns that held elections in Con necticut show a republican gain of twenty-three towns. Prof. David Swing, the eminent preacher and theologian, died of chol emia at his home in Chicago, aged 64 years. At the state election in Florida IL G. Lyddon (dem.) was elected justice of the supreme court without opposi tion. Mrs. Mary Sheehan died at the almshouse in Pottsville, Pa., aged 10 J years. William Y. Atkinson (dem.) was elected governor of Georgia by a great ly reduced majority, owing to his un popularity. Can didates for congress were chosen as follows: Ohio, Tenth district, J. O. Yates (dem.). Michigan, Eleventh dis trict, W. E. Hudson (dem.). Minne sota, Second district, II. S. Kellogg (pro.); Fifth, T. Reinstadt (pro.). Maryland, Fourth district, IL II. Smith (rep.). Arkansas, Third district, W. R. Hull (rep.). North Carolina. Fifth district, W. Merritt (pop.). New Jer sey, Third district, B. F. Howell (rep.). Later reports from the Georgia elec tion show that the populists mada gains in almost every county in the state and that the democratie majority would probably not be more than 15,000, against nearly 70,000 at the last general election. FOREIGN. TnE Crown Point color printing works at Leeds. England, were de stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $5, C00.O00. A waterspout near Valencia, in Venezuela, killed more than 150 per sons and caused a loss in crops of $400, 000. By the overflowing of rivers in Cuba 200 persons lost their lives, and prop erty was damaged to the extent of $4,000,000. Shanghai dispatches intimate that the emperor of China may be deposed infavor of Prince Kung's son. Advices from Cuba state that the little town of Dagua was destroyed by fire and 300 lives were lost. The Italian government gave to Krupp, of Berlin, an order for tho coinage of 10,000.000 nickel lire. Frank Ditpre, a commercial trav eler from Rochester, N. Y., was sand bagged and robbed of over $1,200 at Toronto, OnL He may die. LATER. Tiieke were 219 business'failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 5th, against 235 the week previous and S20 in the correspond ing time in 1893. Skavett's stave factory at Vernon. O., was burned and five horses per ished in an adjoining barn. Five men were indicted for wreck ing a Big Four passenger train at Fontanet, Ind., during the great rail road strike. At Nathville, Tenn.. the Young Men's Christian association building was totally destroyed by fire. The northeast end of Cuba was vis ited by a terrific hurricane which de stroyed or badly damaged all the banana plantations and many houses were blown down. George Neokr, aged CO, a saloon keeper at Indianapolis, Ind., fatally shot his wife and then killed himself. A quarrel was the cause. The second of the seven baseball games of the Temple cup series be tween the New York and Baltimore clubs was won by New York by a score of 9 to 0. Coffin & Stanton, a stock brokerage firm in New York, failed with liabili ties of $3,000,000. Judge Gaynor, nominated for judge of the court of appeals of New York by the democrats, has declined to make the race. Six persons were killed and a num ber injured by falling walls during a fire in a furniture store in Detroit, Mich. Mill operatives numbering 20,000 in New Bedford, Mass., were advised by their leaders to accept a reduction and end the strike. The boiler in Schultz's sawmill near Parkersburg, W. Va., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring two others. Col. Wr. L. Strong, president of the Central national bank, was selected for mayor of New York by the repub licans and the committee of seventy. Near Knoxville, Tenn., two farm ers. Charles Perky and Jones Overton, fought over the line of a fence and killed each other. Several towns were wrecked along the Russian coast by a hurricane and many lives were lost. The following congressional nomi nations were made: Illinois, Third dis trict, II. R. Belknap (rep.). Ohio, Eighth district, E. T. Dunn (dem.). New York, Thirty-first district, II. 0. Brewster, (rep.). Massachusetts, Fifth district, H. A. Little (dem.). ff"TO,ir-:7inWwf, WiV:::"nihitu: Apt S?X.i ILW SIX SLAIN. Five Firemen and a Spectator Killed at a Detroit Fire. Nine Olher Firemen Are Badly Injured Caught Under the Falling Wall of a llurnlnc llulldlns Lotta of 880,000 Incurred. killed at duty's post. Detroit, Mich., Oct. C. Six dead and nine injured is the record of the fire which destroyed the furniture store of Keenan & Jahn at 7:30 a. m. Friday. The dead are: Lieut. Michael II. Donoxbuo. chemical No. 1; Kit-hard Dely. pipeuiaa No. 0: John Patrel. pipeman No. ; Frederick A. Kussey. specta tor, died at Grace hospital; Mike Hall, pipe mac No. 0; Julius CumminKS, of No. 2. The injured are: Mike Gray, probably futally: Lieut. O Kourke. of engine No 8: 1'lpeinan SlocV, No. 8: Pipeman C Cronln, No. 8; John B. New ell, truck No. '-. injured about the head: Thom as Grry, substitute, badly bruised: Leslie Mc Namara. No. 2. Henry Kiniberly. No. 2; Henry Herljr. leg broken. The fire was discovered in the ship ping room in the basement at the back of the store. An alarm was promptly turned in, but by the time the engines arrived the fire had gained considerable head way, having run up the ele vator shaft, and the entire upper floo"r was a mass of flame ami smoke when the first stream was thrown. There were sixty employes in the building and most of them had great dillieulty in escaping. The building, an old five-story structure, was soon gutted and the stock ruined. At 9 o'clock the front wall of the building tumbled into Woodward avenue. It came in the shape of a collapse, and the mass of debris did not spread beyond the curb. The firemen working in front of the building were warred and retreated as rapidly a possible. Some got out from uuder, but a dozen or more were unable to do so on ac count of the piles of brick, glass and burnt timbers. A 3-ell of horror went up from the throats of the thousands who were in the street, and then there was a crash like an earthquake. The air was filled with dust and sheets of flame and smoke. Some of the falling wall broke the heavy electric wires and the trolley wire. A flash of sputtering electric fluid lighted up the scene, and people crowded and surged to get into the stores and down the side streets to escape being shocked. A number of men, women and children were trampled under the feet of the frightened spectators, but none was seriously hurL Rescuers were immediately at work. The first man taken out from under the debris was Lieut. Michael II. Don oghue, of chemical No. 1. He was dead. The next body found was that of Richard Del3 pipemau of engine No. 9. It was lying under two iron columns, and the head and back were frightfully crushed. The next body to be taken out was Pipeman John Tagel, of No. 9. He was crushed by the crumbling walls. Frederick A. Bussey, a spectator, was taken to Grace hospital, where he died. Mike Gray was also taken to Grace hospital. The last named was found to be so badly injured about the head that he may die. .Mike Boyle, pipeman of No. 2, and Julius Cummings, of company No. 2, are still in the ruins and are certainly dead. The aggregate loss on building and stock is estimated at $80,000; fully in sured. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. Cyclone in Japan Blots Out Whole vu- lag Many Yscl t'oundrred. San Francisco, Oct. 6. Japanese ad vices bring news of a terrible cyclone on September 11 by which villages in the neighborhood of Kobi were swept away and people killed. .Many ves sels are supposed to have beeu lost. The cyclone swept on to the north east, afterward wrecking Lotraisk. Its path seems to have been unusually wide, for at Marinopal it devastated the ' country to a point 11 miles inland and had its outer edge far upon the sea. Marinopal was practically blotted out of existence. Not three houses out of 100 are It is estimated left standing. that over 200 this town alone, the storm seems people perished in North of Marinopal to have made eastward over a sudden turn to the Delaa point, its left edge inflicting slight damage on the town of Berdionski. Houses were wrecked and a dozen persons were killed by falling timbers. HELD FOR CHAUVIN'S MURDER. Nephew of the Detroit Kerluse Comes from New l'ork anil Is Arrested. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 0. William D. Trombley, nephew of the murdered miser, Chauvin, came here from New York Thursday night and was ar rested Friday morning charged with complicity in the murder of his eccentric uncle. The police expect to prove by four witnesses that Trombley was seen around Chauvin's house the night of the crime. When located by J. II. Seitz, a wealthy Detroiter, who has an interest in the case, Trombley was a waiter in the Sinclair hotel at New York, where he had bctn employed for eight months. Trom bley says that he had not heard of his uncle's death until informed by Seitz. The latter purchased some time ago for 82.000 all of Trombley's interest in the Chauvin estate and the nephew says he is to receive S-5,000 more from Seitz. White l'lsh Supply Decreasing;. Washington, Oct. 0. The fish com mission reports a noticeable falling off in the white fish in the great lakes, de spite the fact that some 200,000,000 are hatched by the United States and state hatcheries annually. Were it not for the artificial hatching, the commission ers believe, white fish in the lakes would disappear. This falling oif ia attributed to the increase in the effec tiveness of the fish as a food fish. The fry loosed are pounced upon by the pike and pickerel, and it is probable that rearing places will be established on the lakes to minimize this eviL Thro Plent to to take. I ' " rc;oid j TRADE REVIEW. Extremely Low Price of Wheat and Cot tonImprovement in Industries. New York, Oct 6. Dun's weekly re view of trade says: "With tho chief money crops of the -west and south sinking In value It is not strange that purchases of manufactured products are smaller than was expected. Wheat has touched the lowest point ever known for options and cotton tho lowest ever known In any form with the present rlassinchtion. and the accumulation of stocks in both products Is discouraging to purchasers for an advance. Producers aro compelled to sell at prices be low the ordinary cost of raising crops, and ia tome western stales there is also a lamenta ble failure of the corn crop, f nder the cir eumt'tanccslt would be very strange if the de mand for manufactured products should be quite as large as in other years. "Wheat suffers most from the accumulation of stocks in sight, which are far beyond what Is usually expected for the season, and the cx- rjrts for September were unusually small, he price for cash wheat is a (-.mall fraction higher for the week. Corn receipts at the west have been only a third as large as they were last year, with exports amounting to nothing, but the price has not further declined after the heavy fall during the previous fortnight. 1'ork products are weak in tone, though only lard is quotably lower. Cotton is oue-eitrhth lower, the case price being the lowest known for forty-live years, and considering the difference in clas sification it is perhaps lower than at any time In lM'J, an 1 estimates thut the crop is more than IO.CWO.OOj bales ure more commonly cred itel now than estimates of 8.5O0.0UU were two months ago. With favorable weather the yield seems likely to be the largest ever known. "The condition of the lndustrl s is in some respects more satisfactory. Evidently there is a larger demand for iron products than there was a month ago, though the increase in output has been son. e what greater than the increase in the demand, so that prices steadily tend downward. The structural market is fairly active in the west, without change at the cast, and while the coke output has become the heaviest ever known. Htf.775 tons for the week, the price is declining, und steps are be ing t iken to limit the supply. "The boot and shoe trado continues to de liver more roods than in any previous year, as it did in September, and most of the works still have orders for one or two months ahead, although mainly for low and medium-priced goods. There is a littlo better demand this week for goods of higher quality, however, and the demand for leather is still reducing the re serve. "The failures for the last week have been 219 In the United States, against 'AM last year, and 3S) in Canada, against 4.) last year." Bradstreefs says: "While no radical change has appeared this week there are features of the situation pointing to continued progress in the direc tion of improvement. This is true of the country at larpe. Thus in c.istern and mid dle states, while the larrrcr cities do not re port noteworthy changes. Providence an nounces that all industrial lines, notably manufacturing jewelers, have received liberal orders, with the exception of manufacturers of machinery. Hallimore. too. reports larger sales ia a few directions. In the west corre sponding reports come from Omaha, where a better feeling is reported throughout the trib utary region, and there is more buying of dry goods, clothing. sh es and groceries. Duluth also finds business improved and jobbers in 6everal lines have been encouraged. St. Louis and Kansas City report stimulation In wholesale as well as retail lines, due in part to an influx of visitors to the carnivals. From tho south the most favorble reports come from Jacksonville whore wholesale trade is good and retail trade improving. Merchandise is moving satisfactorily from Savannah, and from Charleston and Chattanooga. The previously reported large volume of business of Chicago jobbers is maintained. At a number of points east and west demand for money has increased and changes in the character of mercantile collections as a rule are in the direction of im provement. "The price movement has improved little. Wheat, corn and oats have advanced from previous lowest levels. Some varieties of lum ber, naval stores, tin plate and a fow other staples have remained steady in price, but re fined sugar is lower for reasons which may or may not be similar to those governing prices in other lines. Concessions in prices have also been made for pig iron, steel billets, lumber, lard, coffee, cotton print cloths and livo hogs." RELIEVE FIRE SUFFERERS. Commissioner of the Land Office Makes a Recommendation. Washington, Oct 0. S. W. Lamo reaux, commissioner of the general land office, in his annual report shows there has not been as much activity in public land matters this year as previously, due to the hard times in the west and the consequent decrease in imraigra'tion. The most important recommendations relate to the forest fires in Michigan, Minnesota and Wis consin and what shall be done with the timber on public lands. On this subject the report says: "A great part of the land burned over Is now held by settlers who are in process of per fecting title to the premises occupied by them. Applications have been made by the sufferers from these fires for permission to ctit the tim ber from their land and sell it at once before it becomes worm-eaten, decayed and worthless. This omce has not felt warranted by law to grant the permission asked for, inasmuch aa standiug timber, whether green and growing or burned and dead, is a p:rt of the realty, and cannot be disposed of separate from the land in the absence of special provision of law. "Fr iiu the facts stated It is clear, however, that unless some authority is given by which the settlers may utilize the limber on their re spective claims, much additional loss and suf fering must ensue to them and millions of feet of now valuable timber must go to destruc tion. I therefore urgently recommend that promptly upon tho reassembling of congress a law be enacted by whiih the settlers shall be allowed to perfect their claims by commuta tion thereof to cash purchase at the legal price per acre." The disposal of land for the year ending June J!0 was as follows: "Sold for cash. CIS.tttt acres: miscellaneous entries, 9.Tw 33 acres; Indian lands. 2S.HV6 acres; total decrease compared with last year. l.-lho.C43 ucres. The total cash receipts of the offlee were J2.767.8.M. a decreae of $1.711.Mjy; total agricultural patents issued, 35,&o. a de crease of 8.J9." For Mayor of New York. New York, Oct. 6. Col. W. L. Strong, president of the Central na tional bank, formerly a country mer chant at Piqua, O., and John W. Goff. who lias acquired national fame as chief counsel of the Lexow investigat ing committee, have been selected by the committee Tf seventy and also by the regular republican organization to head the municipal ticket this fall. Col. Strong being nominated for mayor and Mr. Goff for recorder. Outlaws Rob a Farmer. Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 0. A. Brown, a Kansas farmer, now in the Cherokee strip, was called upon Thursday night by strangers, who fired a volley through the door and attacked Brown and his wife with axes. The couple fought pluckily. Mrs. Brown was badly hurt Her husband was bound and gagged and the house robbed of 8300. . Gaynor Will Not Itun. New York, Oct. 6. Judge Gaynor, nominated for judge of the court of appeals of New York by the , demo crats, has declined to make the race. PLATTSMOUTU. 'KB. ,J I ond floor of tHeTodd block. Art ' SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Twenty years ago Protestantism was practically dead in France. Now there are 8S7 preachers in the Reformed church, 90 Lutheran, 31 Methodist and 23 Baptist. The Massachusetts Sunday Protec tive league has issued an appeal to members of bicycling, boating and ath letic clubs to avoid all "meets" and games on the Lord's Day. M. Jean Fletiry, the father of "Henry Greville," the novelist, died re cently. He was professor of French in the University of St. Petersburg, and author of a book on llabelais. At Moscow a new conservatory of music is now being erected by order of the czar. The building will cost 100, 000, and will accommodate about 1,000 pupils. Statues of N. Kubinstein, a former director, and of Tschaikowsky, who long taught there, will be placed in the square around the new building. Sixty years ago the incumbent of a church in Hull used to be called Vicar Bromby. Just after the passage of the first reform bill, in 1S32, he preached a sermon in which he uttered this whole some Socratic passage: "In these days we hear a great deal about reform. Let me give you a piece of advice: The best reform is to make one person bet ter. I need not say who that person should be." Pennsylvania is contributing its share of distiguished educators to New England. Prof. Balliet, who won his distinction as a teacher first in Penn sjlvania normal schools and afterward as superintendent of the city schools of Reading, removed to Springfield Mass., to take charge of the public schools of that city. The nominating committee of the Boston school board has recently invited Supt. Balliet to become a can didate for the position of superintend ent of-the Boston schools, but he de clined to become a candidate against the present incumbent. New rules have lately been issued for the Paris conservatoire of music, according to which professors must re tire at the age of seventy, and must cive at least three lessons a month. Classes are to be limited to ten pupils, except those of harmony, piano and or gan, which may have twelve. Pupila in singing must complete their course in four years, those in harmony and piano in five. The minimum age for admission is fixed at IS for men and 17 for women; the maximum age for sing ers is 20 for men and 23 for women; for harmony 22, and for piano 13. The oldest active professor in Ger many is said to be Privy Councilor Stickel, professor of oriental languages at Jena, who recently celebrated tho nineteenth anniversary of his birth Prof. Stickel answered Prince Bis marck's question as to his age in the, following manner: "I have seen Na poleon the First; Germany in its condi tion of deepest disgrace. I have known Goethe, and in him seen Germany at the pinnacle of its literary develop ment; and now I see in your highness him who brought our Fatherland to the pinnacle of political development." Roman Catholics in London will soon have a cathedral of an architec ture unique in that city. It will be a basilica, buiit on the model of Constan tine's original church of St. Peter at Rome, 350 feet long by 170 wide and 100 high, and will hold 10,000 people. At tached to it is to be a monastery for thirty monks and forty-five lay breth ren, to which the Benedictines who for centuries served Westminister Ab bey, are to be invited. The land was bought by Cardinal Manning nearly thirty years ago for 55,000, and is now worth 300,000. The buildings will cost 250,000, toward which one contributor has already given 20,000. CRUSHING A LADY KILLER. The AVicked Girl Fooled Him Into Hiding liehind a Sofa When Mamma Came. George N. B is well known in club circles. And he has a great opin ion of his ability to "kill" debutantes. He brags a good deal about his power, too, and somehow or other a certain young lady who lives in the vicinity ol the university heard that George had said that he would make any girl fall in love with him. She made up her mind to get even with him. He called several times upon her and she made him believe that she took in all he said: He got to saying that she was nice, but anybody could guy her, to use George's expressive phraseology. This made the young lady mad. She concocted a very nice plan to encompass his defeat. They sat on the sofa together, and George betjan telling her wonderful things about what he had done, and the look in her vacant eyes made George think that she was believing all he said. By and by they heard the mother coming down stairs. The young lady said: "Oh, George, get behind the sofa and frighten mamma!" George did as he was bidden. When the mother entered the parlor she remarked: "Didn't I hear Mr. B 's voice just now?" The bright daughter said: "Oh, yes! but George is so timid that the hid behind the sofa when he heard you coming downstairs!" George is no fool and he tumbled, ne era wled out from behind the sofa, looked for his hat and made his depar ture without a word. Svracuse Post. A Strange Spell. Frances Have you heard from that young man who was so devoted to you a month ago? Kitty Yes, I received a letter from him yesterday, and he seems to be under some strange spell; a weird spell, I might say. "Perhaps it is your fascination that has done it." "I ahould hope not. He puts two l'a in 'until' and no k in 'know.'" Detroit Free Press. What He Slight Kxpect. He When I succeed in getting on the right side of you I'm going to pro pose. Sho Well, if you do, you'll find your self on the left side almost iouuediata ly. Truth. W .1 - 1 i.miiii "HM ' 'r' --" "P' " 7 0 .fV, t c 1 f Ml "if 4 rv
