Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, July 11, 1895, Image 2
THE JOURNAL. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. A railroad company makes Just as xuch off of a corn crop whether it Mils at 50 or 15 cents a bushel. Mr. Corbett has gone into training, but he is not using the nose of Mr. Fitzsimmons as a punching bag. In twelve of the twenty-eight largest cities in this country the women out number the men according to the cen sus of 1890. The cities where the men outnumber the women are those whose growth is the most rapid. It is reported that this year's peanui crop will be only a pound and a half for every man, woman and child in the United States. But could not this have been suppressed until after the circus season was over? In no other city in the land are peoplt packed so close in shelters as on the east side of New York. A remarkable instance of sardine-like snuggling was devloped during the trial of a neigh borly row in the Essex police court. The evidence disclosed the remarkable fact that two families occupied a room 12x10 feet in Ludlow street. And what do you think? They actually quarreled because both families insisted on tak ing boarders. No wonder it's mighty hard to secure an accurate census of the town. The style of New York journalism which sends men across the country in box cars to write up tramps is not ele vating to tramps or journalists. The subject has been treated extensively in newspapers and magazines, and a book has been published thereon. It is a hackneyed subject. If a newspaper cor respondent is found beating his way he should be treated like any other tramp. Possibly his punishment should be a little more severe. This sort of "en terprise" is not commended by reput able newspapers. An unusual line of business furnishes a living for a man in Washington. He owns a large number of bulldogs, which he rents to the owners of houses who go away in the summer. Each dog is chained in the back yard and intruders are given a very cordial reception. The dogs are effective guardians of the premises intrusted to their care. The rent of a dog Is but $3 a month, and the owner, who is known as Bulldog Douglass, goes the rounds each day and feeds the animals. Up to the present time no better way of protecting prop erty in the absence of the owner ha? been discovered. The Pingree scheme grows in favor In Detroit. Over two hundred acres have been plowed in thaf city for pota toes this spring, and about 1,600 people have applied for land to cultivate. It Is the rule to give one-third of an acre to each family and enough potatoes and beans to plant it. This will produce sufficient "truck" to feed an ordinary family through an entire season, and many poor people in Detroit, who for merly went hungry, now enjoy an abundance of vegetables during the winter. The land-seekers who were distanced in the rush for the Kickapoo reservation may repair their fortunes and soothe their wounded hopes by re pairing to seme enterprising city and engaging in the cultivation of potatoes. One of the states of the union where the death penalty has not been in flicted for any offense Is Michigan, the others being Rhode Island and "Wiscon sin. The people In Michigan, through the legislature, have expressed the be lief that life imprisonment for murder is a failure; for the state senate the other day passed by a nearly two-thirds vote the law restoring capital punish ment. If life Imprisonment meant what it says there would not be such a de mand for the restoration of the rope, but kind-hearted governors, the impor tunities of friends, and other influ ences, have induced the executive to pardon men who ought to have re mained in prison for the rest of their natural lives or be hanged. You occasionally inee a man who entertains you for a half an hour with an account of his wonderful abilities, and what he has done and expects to do. The only Impression he makes upon you Is that he is a born braggart. Again you meet men who do not say a great deal, but who give you, in a few minutes, a keen appreciation of their good sense and solid worth. You sometimes read advertisements that claim the earth, and all their bombast only serves to prejudice you against the advertiser. Again you see adver tisements that do not claim half so much, but which carry conviction of solid worth and merit with every sen tence. What makes the difference? Does it not lie in the way in which things are put? A man can maintain a proper amount of self-respect with out show! eg excessive conceit, and an advertisement can be forceful and im pressive without being offensive. If a girl has been at home, and her friends haven't seen her for a month, it is the proper thing to give her the ordinary greeting, but if she has been in Rushville two days, and they haven't seen her since her return, eti quette demands that she be kissed. A two mile trip on the cars warrants the kissing. Three hundred young women in Dan bury, Ct., have signed a pledge not to marry any but total abstainers. It's a little comfort even for an old maid to feel herself a martyr. OVER THE STATE. The Crete assembly opened undet favorable circumstances. The teachers' institute at Beatrice had an enrollment of 225. Gov. Uolcomb delivered an address at Auburn on the Fourth. It is said there is not a poor field of small grain in Burt county. Fok the tirst time in seven years Pen der is without a woman on the school board. lini) Cloud has decided to allow the presence of saloons, the license being Si, 000. There were ten thousand present in the closing hours of the Beatrice Chau tauqua. Thk populists of liage county will hold their county convention on the 31st cf July. Citizens of West Lincoln have of late been much agitated over the appear ance of a mad dog. North Loui is without a bank, and it is said the town is worthy of an in stitution of the kind. Ainswokth is tearing down her old school house and will erect a modern structure at a cost of 87,000. Watches and other valuables have turned up missing in some of the towns visited by Wallace's circus. The residence of John C. Martine of Nebraska City was burglarized, and that gentleman's pantaloons relieved of SJn. Hox. A. CJ. Scott of Kearney, who was a member of the national board of World's fair commissioners, died last week. Some parties in Burt county are prospecting for coal, and indications are that success will attend their efforts. The school enumeration of Fremont shows 2,6Si children of school age. This gives an estimated population of nearly 10,000. The work of a crawfish at Ashland stopped a flouring mill and left the town in darkness by interference with the electric light. A Union Pacific engine struck' and killed a man near Silver Creek the other day. He had nothing about him that would lead to identification. W. H Jackway recently purchased sixty acres of alfalfa from Lawrence Kelly, a few miles west of Kearney, paying S40 per acre for the piece. The Smyth Syrup company of Hast ings has nearly 1.000 acres of sugar cane under cultivation and gives em ployment to fifty men in caring for the crop. In the district court of Dodge county Judge Marshall sentenced Bud Coon, who pleaded guilty to uttering forged papers last week, to two years in the penitentiary. The state board cf transportation has made its findings in the Prairie Home station case against the Chicago, Bock Island & Pacific railroad compa ny in favor of the company. This 3ear"s school census in Schuy ler, which has just been completed, by V. W. Sutherland, shows an increase over last year of twenty-seven, there being 1,050 children of school age. A coach load of insane patients, twenty-nine in number, transferred from the Lincoln asylum to the asylum for incurables at Hastings, went out on the Burlington from Lincoln last week. The creamery plant at (Jenoa was sold by the sheriff to satisfy the de mands of relentless creditors. It was purchased by local parties who will set it going if enough milk is pledged to make it pay. Tony Hydock, a saloonkeeper at 330 North Twenty-seventh street. South Omaha, shot and instantly killed Charles Taylor, a colored man of Omaha, who was in the act of carrying away stolen goods. The son of Wesley Loos, of Elwood, about 10 years of age, accidentally shot his brother, 12 years old, with a 32-caliber revolver, the ball penetrated into the stomach. The wound is thought to be fatal. What promises to develop into one of the most sensational scandals which has ever agitated Lincoln society came to the surface last week. It involves a prominent divine of the city and the wife of a leading druggist. Miss Vesta ISkay, daughter of Hon. E. F. Gray of Fremont, was admitted to the bar. Miss (Iray enjoys the dis tinction of being the first lady ever ad mitted to the Dodge county bar. She is a graduate of the state university. The city marshal of Fairmont ar rested two boys aged 8 and G years with a stolen horse and carriage. The boys refused to talk or give their names, but it was learned they be longed at Geneva, whither they were taken. H. A. Whitteker, the Baptist min ister who was arraigned in the district court of Dodge county on the charge of embezzling ?G5 from Esly fe Camp of Fremont, pleaded guity- and was sent to the penitentiary for eighteen months. General A. A. Averill, United States army inspector, has recently in spected the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Grand Island, and reports that he is well satisfied with the present man agement and finds affairs in excellent condition. Prohibitonists in state convention at Lincoln made the following nomina tions: For justice of the supreme court, A. J. W olf enberger, of Lincoln; regents of the state university, J. J. Bryan of Polk county, Mrs. Anna IL Woodbey of Omaha. The Winona Wagon company sued N. Wullenweber & Son of Seward for S9S0, the price of a carload of wagons. The defendants claimed to have coun termanded their order in season to prevent shipment, and the jury re turned a verdict for 8120 against the plaintiff. Martin Bobbins of Ashland sustained a very peculiar accident. While riding horseback the animal shied, throwing him to the ground. A large bottle which he had in his hip pocket was broken, and several pieces of glass driven into his thigh. Some of the pieces were five inches in length and inflicted very serious injury. Farmers in the east part of Johnson county along the Missouri river report the sandbars along the river as grown up to a thick mat of Russian thistles. They are consideraby worried over the matter, as there is a probability that their farms will get seeded to the pest this year. Prohibition State Convention. The prohibition state convention closed its labors by nominating the following ticket: For justice of the supreme court, A. J. Wolf berger of Lin coln; regents of the state university, J. J. Bryan of Polk county, Mrs. Anna B. Woodby of Omaha. The convention had quite a time over the financial plank of the platform, Wolfberger seeking to secure the in sertion of a plank favorable to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without regard to any other nation on earth, and C. E. Bentley opposing it. The amendment of Wolfuerger was lost by a tie vote of CI to 61. The financial plank adopted is as follows: "The money of the country should be issued by the general government only, through government banks of loan and deposit, directly to the people upon ad equate security and at a uniform rate ot interest. It should be a full legal tender for the payment .of all debts, pubbc and private, without exception in favor ot contract stipulation. We favor a money composed of legal tender treasury notes based upon the credit of the nation, coin being used for sub sidiary purposes only." Beyond Their Depth. A very sad accident occurred south o A Ida on the Platte river. While a num ber of young men from that vicinity were seining near the nine bridges on Platte river they suddenly came to a deep hole, and two brothers, Tom and Will Fishburn, both being unable to swim, sank and were drowned. The boys were about 24 and 22 years of age, respectiveH', and unmarried. Their comrades worked hard to save them lrom a watery grave, but to no avail. Their father. W. H. Fishburn, one of the best known and respected farmers in that vicinity, was an eye witness of the sad affair. The bodies were recov ered after floating some distance down the river. Another brother, Daniel Fishburn, is a teacher in the Grand Island schools. ' Probable July Weather. Frofessor Sweezy reports that the warmest July in the state during the past nineteen years was that of 1890 with a mean temperature of 78.8 de grees. The coldest July was that of 1S91, with a mean temperature of 70. 1 degrees. The average mean tempera ture for Nebraska is 74.9 degrees. The warmest day in July, was 1894. The mercury rose to 114 degrees. The coldest day was in lt91 when the tem perature fell to 37. The prevailing winds for July are from the south at Omaha and the south east at North Platte. The highest ve locity recorded was S4 miles an hour at North Platte on July 30, 18'.0. The dryest July during the past nine teen years was that of 1894, when the average precipitation for the state was 1.43 inches. The largest precipitation was that of 1879 when 5.92 inches felL One Maniac Kills Another. Governor Hoi comb has received a let ter of explanation from Dr. Damarell, superintendent of the Hastings Asylum for incurable Insane, in relation to the death of Patient Wood, killed by Car roll. Dr. Damarell says that Carroll attacked Wood June 15, beating him over the head with a piece of stone. Wood was rescued from the clutches of the maniac and taken to his room. For the following two days Wood seemed to be on the road to recovery, but suffered a relapse and died on the morning of June 18. Dr. Damarell is emphatic in his statement that there was no attempt at. concealment, but says the utmost publicity was given to the affair. However, it is true that the governor was not informed of the tragedy until after June 20, and then not until he had read an account of the affair in the papers. The dispatches from Hastings conveyed the intelli gence that the patient had been killed on the spot and at the time the attack was made. This statement is evident ly wrong. llobbed the Creamery. Bert Carter and Jess Wilson were ar rested by Sheriff Hunter of Custer coun ty, upon a warrant charging them with stealing about 800 pounds of butter from the Sargeant creamery. After the arrest the butter was traced to where it had first been placed, in XV. J. Wood's cellar, and from there taken in the night to the ice house, where it was found by the officers. It is claimed Wilson had no knowledge of the theft, but believed it was Carter's butter, and that he accompanied Carter for com pany. Carter claims the creamery owed him and would not pay him and that he he took the butter to get his Pay- State Mortgage Indebtedness. The following is the report erf mort gage indebtedness record of Nebraska for the year ending May 31, 1894, from the bureau of labor and industrial sta tistics of Nebraska: FARM MORTGAGES. No. filled Amt I No. satisfied . Amt 24,46a S22.418.2tt5 2tt 22. 39 $16,889,739 09 TOWN AND CITY MORTGAGES. l,t20. ?9,916,50tf 50 7,613 f',384,109 58 CHATTEL MORTGAGES. 113,187 $23,8t.-,107 01 52.008 .. .$13,37.825 11 Sheriff and other deeds in foreclosure: Farm, l,4f ; city, TJO. The following are the comparisons be tween 1S;'4 and L"9o: No. filings Amt End! ng May 31. 194 14n,-70 $55,4!4.9Gi 17 Knding May 31, 18J5 110.106 45,139,115 87 No. satisfied Amt Ending May 31. 1S91 KJ.020 S38.611.67j 73 Ending May 31, 189 64.054 33.132,204 98 Filings more than releases: No. Amt Ending May 31. 1894 64,250 $16,883.2114 9S Ending May 31. 195 .... 5.'.05i 12,000,850 89 Less in 1895 than 1894 .12.198 $ 4,870,444 10 Saloons Close in New York. New York, July 2. New York was as "dry" as the Desert of Sahara Sun day. There was a huge premium on wet goods, and those who failed to lay in a supply Saturday night suf fered. Sharp at midnight every sa loon in town closed tight and left their bars exposed. Drug stores and res taurants, where drinkables have al ways been procurable, locked their sideboards tight as a drumhead. Quite a building boom is on at Craw ford. A number of costly structures are being. erected. WRECKED BY A TORNACO. BAXTER SPRINGS, KAN., VISITED BY A DEADLY STORM. FIVE PEOPLE ARE KILLED Three of One Family Killed Twenty Fei sons Badly Injured Three Churches and Nearly Every Store and Resi dence In the Place Demolish ed or Damaged Dam age Done Elsewhere. foRT Scott, Kan., July 8. A tor nado accompanied by a violent rain storm, which was as destructive as a waterspout, swept through the heart of Baxter Springs last night, demol ishing residences, stores and churches, killing tlve persons and injuring twenty more, several probably fatally. The dead are: H. Hums. Mrs. Webster, her 4-year-old daugh ter and her mother. James Neal Neal's mother and A. H. Hanbuck were fatally injured, and several others may die. The wires were down until to-day, and the news is as yet meager. The storm struck the town about 6 o'clock and continued for two hours. It was not anticipated and no prepara tions had been made to resist it. When it had abated and the work of rescue was begun, a dozen homeless families were found on the streets or in the ! ruins of their homes. Mrs. Webster and her mother and daughter were found in their wrecked house. nibbs was killed in his house. The Baptist, Methodist and Christian churches were all wrecked. Cooper & Ilodgkirk's brick store building, the best structure in town, was almost de molished, one wall and rear end being blown in, destroying the stock of dry goods. Nearly every other building in the town was destroyed or badly dam aged. Twenty-seven box cars were blown from the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis track and the freight and passenger depots were almost demol ished and much damage resulted. In shaft 49 of the Kansas and Texas Coal company at Weir City, where many miners were engaged, the water rushed in with such rapidity that the minprs lrelv escaned with their lives. Every mule in the shaft was drowned. j The creeks were swoolen beyond j their banks within a few hours and : fuller reports from the country round about cannot but bring news of loss of life and property from the combined forces of wind and water. The Memphis railroad's wrecking train and bridge crews were called from this city this morning to repair its depots at various points and small washouts which will not interfere with traffic. Destroyed by a flood The Town of Winona, Mo., Swept Away At Leaat Seven Lives Lost. Spring field, Mo., July 8. A flood has washed away the entire town of Winona, Shannon county. Seven bodies have been found. Thirty houses have been destroyed. An application for help has been re ceived here. Ottawa Partly Under Water. Ottawa, Kan., July 8. The wate in the Marais des Cygnes river here is. the highest known in thirty years. Forest park is flooded, the water hav ing reached the platform of the taber nacle, submerging nearly all the tent ing ground occupied at the recent Chautauqua assembly. The race track is covered and the flood reaches to the rear doors of the Atchison, Tcpeka and Santa Fe shops. , It was up to the top of the abutments of the Santa Fe bridge this morning at C o'clock, but by 11 o clock had fallen two inches. The west bottoms on the west side of the city are under water and a num ber of people living along the river were compelled to move their house hold goods. The city water works pumps stood in ten feet of water yesterday and were shut down. The city fire engine was set to pumping water into the mains at 6 o'clock last night and con tinued till midnight, when the water works pumps were started again and are still working under water. TEACHERS BY HUNDREDS. Delegates to the National Educational Convention Gathering at Denver. Denver, Col., July 8. About 3,500 delegates to the national educational convention have arrived in the past twenty-four hours. At the morning session of the nation al council of education a paper on ele mentary schools was discussed briefly by J. II. Baker of Colorado and C. B. Gilbert of St. Faul, after which the re port of the committee on state school systems was read by the chairman, Henry Sabin of Des Moines, Iowa. The subject considered was "Unguard ed Schools." He recommended the ab olition of school district and the sub stitution of township or county organ izations, for the purpose of better dis tribution of taxation and the revenues received and of securing more ecnomi cal and effective administration. Bet ter training of county teachers for their work was urged and county normals suggested. Drilling In Deep Mud. St. Louis, Mo., July 8. Eain fell last night and until noon to-day, con verting Camp Hancock into a sea of mud. This was governor's day at the camp and despite the rain and mud a good sized crowd was present. The contest for prizes to-day was between infantry companies in the maiden class. Three prizes aggregating 93,250 were offered. HELD A LIVELY SESSION. The House of Lords (lets a Boast in the Commons. London, June 8. The house of com mons at 10:30 o'clock to-day passed through its third reading a bill devot ing money to the maintenance of the various public services until the next parliament meets. E. F. V. Knox, anti-Parnellite mem ber for Cavan, vehemently protested against the action of the house of lords yesterday in refusing to go into committee on the Irish municipal fran chise bill after having passed the measure through its second reading. Mr. A. J. Balfour interrupted Mr. Knox with the remark that this was not the occasion for discussing the house of lords. Mr. Knox endeavored to continue his tirade and the speaker was compelled repeatedly to call him to order. Mr. Knox finally subsided after denouncing the bigotry and treachery of the government. O. B. Clark and Mr. Labouchere pro tested against the insane competition of Great Britain with the other pow ers in building warships and maintain ing a costly army. The house of lords met at noon. Lord Salisbury said this was the last time the house would meet before the disso lution of the present parliament took place, and he wished to reply to the re cent speech of Lord Rosebery, in which he had attacked the legislative preponderance of the house of lords. Lord Salisbury proceeded to say that the upper house took no share what ever in the votes through which gov ernments were displaced or inaugur ated, neither did they have any part in the provision of funds for the public service. As regards other matters, nowever, the house of lords possessed precisely the same powers as the house of commons; but he assured Lord Kose bery that if the future career of the Commons should be marked by such bills as were introduced in the parlia ment just nearing its end they might depend on receiving strong opposition from the house of lords. HORSES STOLEN. Eight Itacers Taken From the Lee Stables at St. Louis. St. Lours, Mo., J11I3 8. Eight race horses were stolen from the stables of W. if. Leo at the fair grounds last evening during the progress of the competitive drills on the parade ground. The Lee stable, while not Derby winners, included such good performers as Pow Wow, Uncle Abb, Fedora, Klack Knot, Ban Shee and others, and all of the best were taken, leaving only five non-winners and un tried colts. The theft was made at a time when all the employes were ab sent, watching the soldiers, and abso lutely no clue to the thieves can be had. Mr. Lee has a brother interested in the stable with him and the two have not agreed and the owner thinks it barely possible that his brother is involved in the transaction. The loss is over 512,000. FLOODED BY RAIN. Heaviest Downpour of Fifty Years at Jefferson City, Mo. Jeffebson City", Mo., July 8. The heaviest rainfall this city and vicinity has had in fifty years fell last night. Rain began falling at 7 o'clock and continued almost incessantly until 6 o'clock this morning. It is estimated that fully seven inches of rain came down. Goose creek, which flows through this city, overflowed its banks, flooded the valle3r and filled many houses with water to the depth of three feet. Several bridges have floated away. A bridge on the Le banon branch of the Missouri Pacific railroad is gone and it was late to-day before trains could get through. The Missouri river has risen two feet since last uiyht. WICHITA WARNED. Governor Morrill Orders the Closing of All Joints at That Place. TorKKA, Kan., July 8. (Governor Morrill has summoned the police com missioners of Wichita to appear before him and show cause why they have not closed the saloons there in obedience to a letter written to them by him ten da3s ago. He will appoint radical Prohibitionists if the present commissioners do not close up the joints. The governor has received two let ters clamoring for the enforcement of the law. One comes from Clay Center and is signed Robert C. Ritchie, but Attorney General Dawes says that no such person lives there. A Town Under Water, Jefferson, Texas, July 8. The bayou at this city began to rise rapid ly Thursday evening and yesterday there was a flood and the water con tinues to rise at the rate of six inches an hour. The bottom land farms are entirely submerged and great damage will be done. Many families have had to abandon their homes and go to the uplands. The lower part of the citj is under water. Russia's Minister to Be Changed. Washington, July 8. Frince Canta cuzene, the present minister from Rus sia, now home on a leave of absence, will return in September, only to pre sent his letters of recall and pack up his effects, for he will become Russian minister at Stuttgart, Germany, at his own request. While his successor has not been finally appointed, it is be lieved it will be M. Kotzebuk, now min ister at Stuttgart. Saratoga Dens All Closed. Saratoga, N Y.. July 8. As the re sult of President Sturges' ultimatum recently issued to the police commis sionersall of the gambling houses are closed for the first time since this place became a famous resort. Pullman Wages Advanced. Chicago, July 8. The Pullman Pal ace Car company has advanced the ! wages of the employes at the Pullman j SuOpS leu jjci vcuk, nil au v auc aitctl ing about 4,000 people. No Trouble Among Blackfeet. Ottawa. Ont.. Julv 8. Mr. Dailv. minister of the interior, states that ' there is no truth in the reports of troubles among the Blackfeet Indiana. 1 LAWYERS DISGRACED DISBARRED FROM PRACTICE BE FORE THE COURT. R. M. Ilarber and A. G. Knight Severely Arraigned They are Found Guilty of Mutilating ard Altering Records in the Howell Murder Case Harber a Leader In Missouri for Tears Turned Down by the State Supreme Court. Disbarred from Practice. Jefferson City, Mo., July 3. Judge Sherwood filed an opinion in the su preme court in banc this morning in the proceedings instituted by Attorney General Walker disbarring Colonel Ed M. Harber and A. G. Knight of Tren ton forever from practicing before the supreme court. The action was the result of the murder trial of Joseph A. Howell, who was indicted for murdering Mrs. Net tie Hall, a Linn county widow, and her four little children. The case was tried in Grundy county and Howell convicted of murder in t he first degree. An appeal was taken to the supreme court, and when the case was called up for argument the attorney general found that the transcript of testimony had been mutilated and forged so as to destroy all identity of the murdered . T 1 i-M a! I J 1 pcrwu. xii oriei, me recorus nau oeen 1 so doctored as to leave the state with- out any case. This matter, being brought to the attention of the court, measures were adopted to have the records corrected and Howell was sub sequently haDged. The attorney general then brought action to disbar the attorneys for the defense. Major A. W. Mullins, one of the attorneys, barely escaped by a divided court, on the theory that he did not know the records had been falsified. This is the first disbarment proceed ings ever instituted in the state su preme court. Judge Burgess did not sit in the case against Harber and Knight, but all the other judges concurred in the opinion of Judge Sherwood. Ilarber has been a leading man in Missouri for the last fifteeu years. He is quite an orator and Democratic pol itician and has been a presidential elector, and was regarded for some time as an available candidate for con gress. Knight, his partner, is not so widely known, but he is a promising young lawyer. In his opinion Judge Sherwood cored them severely for forging the records and manufacturing testimony. PENSION CHANGES. The Forces In the Various Branches Classified for the Civil Service. ' Washington, July 3. The work of readjusting and classifying the forces of the pension offices of the country has just been completed with a view to shortly extending to them the pro tection of the civil service laws. Here tofore, as long as the pension agent kept within the amount allowed to him for the expenses of his office, he could do pretty much as he pleased in regard to the size of his force and the amounts of salary paid. When it was decided to put the cflices under the civil service laws it was found neces sary to change this system. The amount and character of the work done by each office was carefully noted and classifications made accord ingly. While this has resulted in small reductions, both in force and salary, in some offices, in others there has been a corresponding increase, the total appropriation being about the same. The date when the civil service order will go into effect has not yet been determined, but will probably be soon, now that the classification has been completed. HOWGATE SENTENCED. The United States Defaulter Gets Eight Years for Ills Long Past Crime. Washington, July 3. Captain Henry W. nowgate, the former signal service disbursing officer, who after years of wandering as a fugitive from justice was found in New York city in busi ness as a second-hand book dealer and brought back to Washington, was sen tenced to-day to eight years' imprison ment in the penitentiary. BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS. The Southern Pacific Overland Held Up Passengers and Mall Robbed. Grant's Pass, Ore., July 8. The Southern Pacific overland train, north bound, was stopped last night at 10:15 'y o'clock by three highwaymen near Rid dles, about thirty miles south of Rcse berg, sticks of dynamite placed on the rails disabling the engine by blowing 4Va flanrr off th nnn v trunks. With the fireman, two of the highwaymen Searched every car, from the express car to the rear Pullman. Nothing was obtained from the express car, for there was no treasure on board. In the-mail car the Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Victoria, Uritish Columbia, registered sacks were rifled. The pass engers were also searched pretty thor oughly, but with what success is not 1-nAwn v . . -" - One highwayman shot at Conductor Kearney, who was in charge of the train, but missed him. The men mounted horses and quietly rode away. Superintendent Fields of the South ern Pacific, in an hour after he learned of the holdup, had two parties on the way to the scene of the robbery one of officers and the other of mountain eers. Every effort will be made to capture the robbers. A Filibustering Vessel Seized. Washington, July S. Official infor mation has been received here that the real reason for the detention of the United States authorities at Key West of the small cutter Attick is that she is charged with filibustering. Five men on her have been held on suspicion of being Cuban filibusterers. A Prussian Princess ' as a Catholic Berlin, July 3. According to gen eral report here, the Princess Freder ick Charles of Prussia, who has been living in Italy for several months past, Is about to become a Roman Catholic