Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
Where you can always find sympa
thy in the dictionary.
The smallest dog in the neighborhood
can set all the others barking.
No woman ought to find it difficult to
laugh in her sleeve these days.
The motto of Europe for the year
1S94 was: "In time of peace spend $1,
000,000,000 for war."
If Gladstone were twenty-five years
younger how he would shake up things
on the tight little island.
Last year we shipped to Europe $55,
000,000 in gold. Thus far in 1895 only
$11,000,000. That is better.
Editor Dana Is out of all patience
with the fellows who sip beer. He
says, "Beer should be drunk quickly."
A Chicago man hung a horseshoe
over his door for luck. It fell on his
head and left a bald spot three inches
long.
The whole of the land on the globe
above water if shoveled into the Pa
cific ocean would fill only one-seventh
of it
Under the old regime the woman's
Identity at marriage was lost In the
man. Now, the new woman becomes
the man.
Owing to some derangement of the
telegraph, it is impossible to say where
the latest South American revolution
broke out.
Lake Erie produces more fish to the
acre than any other body of water In
the world. That comes from planting
good, fresh seed.
An Indiana man went to Manhattan
Beach the other day and inquired
where the trees were that gave the sum
mer resort its name.
Picnics are not a means of popular
diversion in Greenland. That's one in
stance where the Esquimau gets the
best of his civilized brother.
Only $5,000,000 was lost in the Whis
ky Trust. It was the whisky drinkers
who made the heavy losses. They lost
everything and went to the devil on an
electric line.
And now they say that young Chaun
cey M. Depew is in love and going to
marry an $8,000,000 heiress. It was
popularly supposed that Mr. Depew
was only in love with humanity in general.
The largest coin in the world is the
gold ingot or "loof" of Annam, a flat,
round piece, worth about $325. The
value is written on it In India ink. It
weighs a little more than a pound and
a quarter.
The profound New York orator who,
in a speech about bicycles, remarked
that "the wheel has effected a revolu
tion" may discover some years hence
that after all this is nothing extraor
dinary for a wheel to do.
The vast stride that has been made
In the circulation of the Scriptures and
evangelical literature may be estimated
from the report that more Bibles have
been printed and circulated in the past
twelve months than were produced in
all ' the years previous to 1880. Por
tions of the Scriptures are now pro
vided for nearly all the races on the
globe.
Prof. Crooks thinks that if the elec
tric lights were universal to-day, the
candle, if suddenly introduced, would
be thought a wonderful Invention, as
it enables a person to obtain light in
its simplest and most portable form,
and without the use of cumbrous ma
chinery or the necessity of attaching
the lamp to any fixed point by means
of wire before it could be lighted.
Investigations into the rapidity of the
circulation of the blood in the human
body have brought out the fact that if
a man could retain one individual blood
corpuscle coursing for 84 years through
his body, it would have traveled about
6,050,880 miles. Assuming that the
heart beats 69 times in a minute, blood
travels at the speed of 207 yards in a
minute, or seven miles an hour, mak
ing 168 miles a day, and 61,320 miles in
a year.
The Chinese pheasants which were In
troduced into Oregon and Washington
a few years ago and protected have
spread all over the States, and sports
men are looking forward to rare sport
in the near future. There is no reason
why these fine birds should not be in
troduced over a much wider field.
Sporting clubs should look to it. The
entire tier of States from the Ohio
River to the Gulf are admirably adap
ted to them.
The intelligent municipal officials of
New York have been for some time en
gaged in the work of converting old
Castle Garden Into an aquarium. Hav
ing completed the task at a cost of
$250,000, they discover that most of the
tanks won't hold water, and in the few
that will hold water the fish die. In
this melancholy situation the New
Yorkers have nothing for it but to plead
with Theodore Roosevelt to reform the
aquarium. He seems to be the only
man in that modern Babylon who
knows that he knows he knows how to
do things effectively.
. OVER THE STATE.
An organized outfit of cattle thieves
is operating in Fremont.
Otoe county is endeavoring to refund
$4,000 bonds at 4 per cent.
Thk populists of Valley county wil
hold their convention in August.
The Dixon county republican con
vention will be held August 22d.
Out near Randolph a farmer got six
ty-one bushels of barley per acre.
LiNroLx count v will produce more
than one thousand carloads of pot a
toes.
The Dixon State bank will establish
a branch at Laurel, with E. A Gurney
in charge.
Dave Fowler of Dodge county has
alrnadr cut. baled and shipped 160
acres of hay.
A nironTER of John Goodman at
Ohiowa was struck bv lisrhtning and
instantly killed.
Wm. Wilcoxen. living near Elm
wood, was seriously injured by a horse
falling on him.
A woman nen&ioner at Wilsonville re
ceived baelc rtension to the amount of
51.1S2 last week.
The Nebraska Citv school census
gives that city 3,408 school children,
gain of twenty-seven since last year.
The farmers are harvesting one of
the largest crops of small grain that
has ever been grown in ISance county.
Orin P. Clark of Lancaster county
was drowned in Salt creek a few days
ago. He fell out of a boat while fish
ingi
County Treasurer Frastz of Gage
countv reports that there is due the
county on delinquent personal taxes,
8101,000.
On the Stewart petition for dividing
Holt county it is alleged names appear
ed of parties who have been dead very
many years.
TThe home and barn of Thomas Biggs
of York was fired bv incendiaries. The
barn burned, including two horses, one
double carriage and a phaeton.
Miss Emma Sutton, a young lady liv
ing in the- family of Fred Clark of Al
bion, received notice a short time ago
that she was heir to $$0,000 in Ohio.
The Central labor union of Omaha
has decided to put up a labor ticket
this fall. There will be no labor day
demonstration on account of the hard
times.
Oxford is now connected with Bea
ver City by telephone, the line having
been completed last week. The circuit
takes in Edison and covers a distance
of twenty miles.
Charles Anderson of rapillion
offers a reward of $100 for the convic
tion of an unknown scoundrel who en
tered his pasture and stabbed a valu
uable horse to death.
The dates for the fourth annual Cedar
county fair are September 10, 11 and 12.
The magnificent harvest insures a good
agricultural display, and the race pro
gram will be unusually good.
Frank Brown, Ralph Woodruff and
Charles E. Matthews are under arrest
in York, charged with criminal inti
macy with Alice Swanson. The girl
was mentally weak and only 16 years
old.
E. Lakbjn has a large cattle farm
five miles north of Ashland. Daring
his absence in the east some persons
have stolen several of his cattle and
butchered them. The thieves are not
yet captured.
John Walgmuth dropped dead in an
Omaha saloon. The deceased was a
miner of considerable property and
lived at Spokane, Wash. He had been
east for some weeks visiting at hi3 old
home in Springfield, 111.
Prof. R. A. Heratage who has had
charge of the musical department of
the Fremont Normal school the last
year, has tendered his resignation to
President Clemmons. He goes to Salem,
Ore.
The Genoa State bank paid a first
dividend to depositors a few days ago
of 10 per cent. It is the general opin
ion that about 20 per cent more will
about exhaust the available resources
of that institution, so far as general
depositors are concerned.
The Sherman county fair will be
held on October 1, 2 and 3. The asso
ciation was late in deciding on holding
their fair, but now they are going to
join with the Sherman County Irriga
tion company, who will hold their
formal opening of the canal October 1.
Lirni Garris of Fremont took his
wife and baby son out in the country.
He also took his shotgun and quite an
accident befell the party. Garris got
out of the wagon to shoot a snipe and
cocked both barrels of the gun. He
fired at the bird with one barrel and in
meandering around in the weeds the
other barrel was discharged and the
charge hit his wife and child. Both
were painfully hurt.
Superintendent Mackay of the
Norfolk asylum for the insane has
written Governor Holcomb that he has
on hand a lot of clothing which, as he
expresses it in his letter, "has been ex
posed to mice, moths and the corroding
influences of time," which he desires to
donate to the state relief commission
for distribution. He says the clothing
is useless for hospital purposes, but
thinks it might be found available for
charity.
Fred Willis, a negro of Camden, S.
IX, and Robert Harris of Mexico broke
into a merchandise car in the Union
Pacific yards at Columbus, where they
were caught by J. C. Vizzard, a Union
Pacific detective. They were tried
and sentenced by District Judge Sulli
van to one year in the penitentiary at
hard labor.
The house of G. G. Ilaller, three
miles east of Winside, burned down
when no one was present. The loss
will be $1,000. Small insurance.
Arthur Forres, of Beatrice, in the
presence of 3,000 people, dived from
the top of Court street bridge, a dis
tance of 51 feet. ,
M. A. Lunn and a basket of ' big
sugar beets were prominent figures on
the streets of Lincoln the other day.
The beets were from J. V. Wolfe's
acre patch and although lacking two
months of maturity, weigh on average
almost two pounds each. Mr. Wolfe
expects to harvest about twenty tons
to the acre. Figure that at $4 a ton.
Salem T. Clark, Charles H. Jackson
and Lewis Stogel and three of the cat
tle thieves who were captured by vigi
lantes near Fort Randal a few days ago
were sentenced to a term in the peni
tentiary by Judge Kinkaid at Bassett
last week. Clark and Jackson each
pot six years and Vogel five. i
state Assessment.
The state board of equalization has
completed its work of equalizing the
state assessment by counties and finds
that the amount charged against the
oounties is 11.196,276.83. The amount
eo charged in 1694 was $1,257,008.22 and
for 1893 it was f 1,263,995.50. This year
the total assessed valuation is $171,468,-
207.48, as compared with $183,717,498.78
for 1894 and $194,733,124.73 for 1898.
The assessed valuation, state levy and
total assessment charged against each
county is as follows:
J'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
COUNTIES.
Adami ....
Antelope ..
Banner ....
Blaine.
Boone
Box Butte.
Boyd
Brown
Buffalo
Burt.,
Butler
Cats
Cedar. .
Chase
Cherry
Cheyenne
Clav
Colfax
Cuming
Cuttter
Dakota
Dawes
Dawaon
Deuel
Dixon
Dodfre
Douglas
Dundy
Fillmore....
Franklin ...
Frontier....
Furnaa
Oasre
GartleZd . ...
(insper
Uraut
Gret-ley
Hall
Hamilton...,
Harlan
Hares
Hitchcock..,
Holt
Hooker
Howard
Jeffer3on. ...
Johnson.
Kearney....
Keith
Keya Paha.
Kimball....
Knox
Lancaster..
Lincoln
Logan
Loup.......
Madison....,
Mcpherson.
Merrick
Nanoe
Neiuaba....
Nuckolls....
Otoe
Pawnee ....
Perkins.....
Phelps
Pierce
Platte
Polk
Ked Willow
Richardson.
Rock
Saline
Sarpv
Saunders.
Scott Bluff
Seward. ....
Sherman....
Sheridan....
Sioux
Stanton
Thayer
Thomas
Thurston...
Valley
Washington
Wayne ,
Webster....,
Wheeler....,
York ,
Assessed
Valuation.
Co
4
l 11,789,137 85
1.4SJ7.069 94
8t,899 00
204,350 OS
1,5:9.655 20
9115,100 69
21)8.316 00
697.618 73
8.1V.8i 11
11,731,051 00
2.200,981 AO
4.4-MS9 58
2,tfV2.746 20
651,300 00
1.404,044 74
1,4:45.795 94
2,504.087 15
1.907.5S8 12
2.003.523 W
1.W7U.SU0 95
1.355,775 00
L49K.K20 74
1.792.M7 18
909,236 68
1,507.492 70
3.07H.54O 80
22,500.255 81
621.477 63
2.641.871 84
1.OO6.014 00
1.105.298 00
1.57S,5VJ 68
5.800.018 81
246.148 00
744,780 00
279.476 87
917,9t7 40
2.419.5A5 17
1,543.188 04
1,260,702 91
6x2. 4C3 00
983.334 95
2.554.V74 40
108.781 94
1.251.939 20
2.6.2,706 17
1,981.000 05
1.3D9.186 84
8Ri.9Ca 13
4C4.642 00
676.840 831
1.804.346 40!
10.iWJ,.8 661
2,510.205 14;
168.580 00
159.835 00
2.86.4M 52
130,655 00 1
1.681.AU 13
1.196,637 OOt 7
2,110.703 72! 75
2.310,000 4 )'
2.449.248 21
ft,707 00
1,342.914 81
1.430.732 80
2,407.719 40
1.327.067 50
1,166.038 86
8,U9,704 45
315.153 67
2,648,324 89
2.221.214 76
8,256,054 29
342,679 00
2.47109 36
1.201,446 54
827.625 45
478.9MO 19
1.263.933 60
2.825.821 00
149.317 35
44148 00
901H23 40
2.451,043 31
1.815.165 00
1.606.02! 50
252.322 00
8,173,827 46
Total.
i$171.468.207 48
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$1,196,279 83
Killed by a Runaway.
Two men named Mckenzie and
O'Leary started from Omaha in a buggy.
intending to drive to their home at La
Platte. About six miles north of
Plattsmouth, a heavy wagon pulled by
a large span oi horses, was coming di
rectly back of their buggy and the ani
mals became frightened and dashed
into the light buggy. The two occu
pants were thrown violently to the
ground and run over by the heavy
wagon.
Mr. Mckenzie was frightfully bruised
and crushed and died in great agony
the next mominer. Mr. O'Leary is
quite seriously injured, but his phj'si-
cian thinks he will recover.
Three Girls Drowned.
A Columbus dispatch says: A most
shocking and heart rending accident
happened about 5 o'clock this after
noon, lhree tdud? irirls lost their
their 1 ives by drowning in the Platte
river, just below the wagon bridge
near Columbus.
Lizzie, aged 13, daughter of Charles
Klaus; May, aged 12, and Hulda, aged
7, daughters of Gottlieb Klaus of Co-
umbus, were bathing or wading in the
river in company with an older Klaus
girl about 15. In some way the entire
party got into the swift current and
the three younger ones were lost while
the older one by hard struggling, after
drifting half a mile, managed to escape
on a sand bar and gave the alarm.
The bodies were recovered, two of
them one-half mile and the other two
miles below the scene of the accident.
NO UNNATURAL SHRINKAGE PER
CEIVED DURING THE WEEK.
Will Have Floats.
The executive committee of the Busi
ness Men's association of Omaha held a
meeting and transacted a large amount
of routine business. Word has been
received from a large number of coun
ties which will have floats in the Ne
braska parade, but still a number of
enterprising cities and counties have
not j'et sent in word of any kind. The
Omaha business Men's association has
made arrangements with the railroads
to transport the floats free of cost, and
is anxious for every county through its
principal city to be represented in the
parade. Every effort will be made to
make the parade the biggest advertise
ment ever given of the whole state of
Nebraska. William Lyle Dickey, sec
retary of the association, will answer
all letters on the subject addressed to
him, and the association will assist in
every was possioie any city wnicn ae-
sires to send a float.
BUSINESS KEEPS STEADY.
Total
Assessment
19,658 75
10,858 75
2.133 90
1,802 73
10.827 56
6,362 43
1,380 10
4,258 03
82,622
17.416 19
16.000 26
28,965 04
126 87
4,814 89
9,301 80
9,445 89
18.407 65
13.I-85 09
14,776 01
13.053 21
9.9V 85
9.729 33
12.UK 84
6.0-3 70
10.776 52
22.319 42
163,l:tt 86
3,961 94
18,823 33
7.167 87
7,184 43
11.014 89
7.762 63
1,569 20
4,773 48
1,781 65
6,310 6 i
17,844 32
11,381 03
8,509 73
4,045 61
6,26m 76
17.K46 08
679 89
8,92. 08
18.218 93
14.114 64
9.327 95
5,849 63
8.078 25
4.480 75
11,5011 70
73.315 60
16.630 12
1.201 14
1.018 !2
16,818 SO
832 95
12.402 53
9.120 22
17,778 91
17.086 2A
81.005 49
15.613 96
8,831 12
9.232 73
9,478 59
IT 1M ff
9.448 23
8.016 54
$2,299 13
8,24 10
19,200 84
14.467 86
24.061 82
2,224
1S.23 92
7.939 57
6,007 54
8,173 24
8.669 56
15,408 57
961 89
S.973 61
6.648 00
16,238 16
12.025 44
11.041 40
1.640 09
16,023 81
In Spit of the
'Is Unusually
turers and
Dull Season the Outlook
Bright for Manufac
Worklnguien Long
Closed Works Will Reopen
Textiles Have a Better
Outlook and Demand.
Promoting Irrigation.
Much attention is being attracted to
windmill irrigation in this portion of
the Lodge Pole valley, says a Dix dis
patch, by the remarkable discovery
made in the irrigation well of Hon.
John Clausen. This well is 18x20 feet,
and twenty-four feet deep. In the bot
tom a hole was broken through a crust
of hard pan, through which a stream
of water rises with great velocity. A
nine-inch pump running continuously
n a high wind fails to lower the sup
ply. A colony of well-to-do families is
now formine in eastern Nebraska to
come to this place in the fall and settle
on forty-acre irrigated farms.
New York, July 27. It. Q. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says: It
is not the season for the tide of busi
ness to rise, but there is not perceived
scarcely any shrinkage except that
which will come naturally with mid
summer heat. The volume of new
business is small compared with reeent
months, but large enough to encour
age more openings of long closed
works, and more advances in returns
to labor. Important strikes show that
the advance is not enough for some,
but the strikers seem not more threat
ening than a week ago.
Accounts of shrinkage in the yield
of wheat come from both Pacific states
and from the Dakotas. It would be a
strange and unnatural July without
such reports, and yet they have weight
enough this year to lead even the most
experienced to reduce somewhat their
estimate of yield, while the price has
advanced three and one-fourth cents.
Light Western receipts for the week
were not a third of last year's, and for
four weeks only 5,365,063 bushels,
against 11,963,619 bushels last year,
strengthen adverse reports, because
the price a year ago was about 20
cents lower than it is now. The West
ern movement largely depends on the
export demand, which is phenomin
ally light, Atlantic shipments for
the week having been flour in
cluded only 671,561 bushels, against
3,81 8, y96 last year, and for four weeks
only 3,500,589, against 9,663,722 last
year. Corn advanced 1 cent with
wheat, but has since lost all of the
gain. Cotton has remained unchanged
at 7 cents, although the latest reports
favor larger estimates of the yield, a
circular by Neill going much be-ond
other figures.
Textiles have a better outlook with
larger demand, both for cotton and
woolen goods; c, shade advance in print
cloths, and in met bleached goods,
and a more hopeful market for light
weight woolens, which, if scarcely ad
vanced beyond last year's prices, are
on the whole selling better. Enor
mous sales of wool, 44, 783, 864 pounds in
four weeks,far exceed actual consump
tion, but reflect belief that the
prices will not decline, and the few
changes this week have been upward.
Scarcity of domestic wool in Eastern
markets is in part due to heavy specu
lative withdrawals.
Failures for the week were 202 in
the United States, against 249 last
year, and twenty-seven in Canada,
against thirty-nine last year.
CHEROKEE BILL AGAIN.
fie Kill a Watchman in the Federal
Prison at Fort Smith.
Fort Smith, Ark., July 29. Chero
kee Bill got his hands on another re
voiver yesteraay, and used it in an
attempt to liberate prisoners confined
in murderers' row of the United
States jail. His attempt was a bold
one and resulted in the death of Larry
Keating, the oldest guard on the force.
Night Watchman Tom Parker and
Larrv Keating had just gone on dutv
and Turnkeys Eoff and McConnell
were engaged in locking tip.
W hen Loir reached the cell next to
Cherokee Hill's he found the ke-hole
plugged, and while he was trying to
clean it out Cherokee Bill came to the
door and fired, shooting Keating
through the stomach. He ran to the
end of the corridor and fell dead. Eoff
ran back to the corrider and the east
side of the cells, and McConnell,
Parker and several depftv marshals
ran in and opened nre on Cherokee
Bill whenever he tried to leave his
cell. His ammunition was nearly ex
hausted and he agreed to surrender
his pistol to Henry Starr, which was
done.
The pistol with which he did the
deadly work was a new pearl handled
41-caliber. How he got it is a mys
tery, but Josie Brown, his sister, who
has been here several days and visited
him twice, has been arrested for it.and
is now in the county jail. Keating has
been employed at the jail for ten years
and was a careful man. He leaves a
wife and four children, besides many
other relatives here. He was very pop
ular and many threats of lyriching
have been made, though the citizens,
who were terribly excited, are now be
coming cooler.
Crawford Croldsby, alias Cherokee
Bill, alias Corilla. is only 19, but has
been convicted of train robbery and
murder. One murder case is pending
in the supreme court of the United
States, and the char -e of killing his
brother-in-law is still on the docket
here.
ABUSED BY WHITECAPS.
Four Masked Men Tar and Feather a Bap
tist Minister.
Wkstmorelanp. Kan., July 29. At
11 o'clock last night four masked men
took Rev. T. S. Rooks, the Baptist
minister of this place, from his home,
five miles in the country, and tarred
and feathered him. They kicked and
beat him in a brutal manner, and he is
lying at a farmer's house outside the
town in a critical condition. Mrs.
Rooks went along with her husband
and says she knows the White Caps.
She will swear out warrants for them.
Excitemeut over the affair runs high.
He was accused of trying' to assault a
young woman.
THE WALLER CASE
Ambassador Fastis Makes a Second De
mand to See the Fx-Kantan.
.Vashingtox, July 29. The officials
of the state department are at present
anxiously awaiting information from
Ambassador Eustis as to the manner
in which the second demand for
the record of the Waller court
martial, which was held in
Tamative, has been received in France.
It is now learned definitely that the
French government refused to furnish
the record upon the first presentation
of the request, and that this refusal
was met on the part of the state
department by a more positive
and pressing demand for all the pa
pers. The department is informed by
Mr. Eustis tfrat this- demand has been
presented. There has been quite a
sufficient time for a reply, but none
had been received. The course of the
French in their refusal to supply the
record is considered most unusual, and
as no explanation was vouchsafed the
department is at a loss to know upon
what grounds it was based. -
There is good reason for believing
that in case of a second refusal by
France to supply the record, a third de
mand will be made more peremptory.
The state department authorities con
sider the case as one of importance be
cause it is liable to develop some very
delicate and intricate questions before
it shall finally be disposed of.
ONE JUROR CHOSEN.
to
Darrant's Trial for M order Promises
lie a Hard Legal Fight.
San Francisco, July i'9. On the
fourth day of the trial of Theodore
Durrant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont, the work of choosing a jury
began in earnest. Slow progress was
made. Of fifteen examined, only one
was passed and he may be challenged
by the defense later on. The main
question of the prosecution to jurors is
would you convict a man and inflict
the death penalty on circumstantial
evidence?''
The defendant's questions are based
upon the familiarity with the news
paper comments upon Durrant and the
crime of which he is accused. Almost
all the jurors summoned have formed
impressions which will require strong
evidence to relieve. It is apparent the
defense will make a hard tight on tech
nicalities and will take advantage of
every loophole. Counsel for the pris
oner lay traps for the judge, with the
apparent purpose of leading him into a
wrong ruling, which may form the
basis of an appeal to a higher couit.
The number of well dressed women at
the trial increases at every session of
the court. Continual efforts are made
by girls to lionize the defendant.
GREAT STORM IN JAPAN.
Six Vessels Blown Ashore and All Ex
cept One Believed to Be Wrecked.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 29. A vio
lent hurricane was reported to-day hy
cables from Japan, in which many ves
sels and their crews were lost.
The cablegram was sent from
Ruschinotzu. The German steamer
Helen Rickmers and the Norwegian
steamships Lyderhorn and Herman
Wedel, Jarlsburg, the British steam
ship Bentala and the Manuelsuchet
from Philadelphia were all blown
ashore, and all are believed to have
been totally wrecked except the Ben
tala. The loss of life on shore is reported
o be large.
Shot "While Banning.
Ciietopa, Kan., Julj' 9. Yesterdaj
afternoon Citv Marshal Sam Coulter
arrested J. T. Dowdall, a bootlegger,
and left him in charge of Justice Cal
vin while he searched his house for
liquors. Dowdall jumped through a
window and fled across the river. The
marshal was soon in pursuit and over
took him. The man resisted arrest
and defended himself with a knife and
a hatchet. He attempted escape to a
cornfield and the marshal shot him.
The ball entered his back. JLhe man
is dying.
THE MARKETS.
Kansas City, Mo.. July I'd. Wheat heie was
up about a cnt to-day, following the specula
tive advance. Nearly all samples were sold be
fore the final bulge occurred in Chicago. Re
ceipts, 5r cars; a year ago, 91 earn.
No. 2 hard wheat, 65)ic; No S 63'ic; No. I 60c;
No. 'i red, 71c; No. 3. o c; No. 4,60c; rejected,
57c : no grade, 1 car 45c
Corn was K to 4c lower early, but the loss
was recovered later and the market closed very
strong. There was a good demand. Offerings
are increasing. Receipts. 40 cars ; a year ago.
31 cats. "
No. - mixed corn, 3?4c;Xo. 3, 87c; No. 4, 35!Jc;
No. 2 white. 37ttc: No. 3, 37c.
nOats sold steady. Low grades wero steady
Rwpints. 'il cars: a year 8go, 19 cars.
No. 1 mixed oats. v!3c; No. a, 1SR19C; No. 4,
i7.Wted. 12i He: no erado. l(M13c; No.
2 white, 25&26C : No. 3, 1 car 224
Rye No. 2, 44c: No.3,1 car 42c; No. 4, 2 can
Flaxseed Market steady; August, fl.08;
September, $Ll.
ivm Choo Firm. 74K76c per cwt sacked.
Krn-Firm. 59rt;ti0c per cwt eacked: bulk
6c less.
Chicago Board of Trade.
Chicago. July The following is tha ran?3
of prices of the grain and provision market on
the boara oi traue; .
OLrfRACEcr AND WlRDERED.
Ilorrlble Fate of the Tour Wife of I
Mistoarian.
Jkffersox City, Mo., J.ly 25.rIn
formation was received hen last .ght
of a most horrible crime ctmmitTlid i.
Calloway county, about fivemile,6 fron
Fulton. Mrs. J. W. Cain, wife of i
young farmer, was crimnally as
saulted and had her throat cut frcrr.
ear to ear. She was 18 yean old and
had only' been married two months.
Her husband found her boqr in the
yard when he returned to tie house
about noon. The alarm was sounded
and a large posse headed by Sheriff
Windsor immediately coumenced
scouring the country. It is siid twe
negro tramps were seen tn the ricinity
of the Cain farm during the fo?enoon.
William Divers, a negro, is tie man
supposed to have assaulted anc mur
dered Mrs. Cain. He was arrested and
strong evidence of his guilt estab.
lished. He was brought to Fulton, V.
and at this hour is missing from jail
The city of Fulton is wild, and hun
dredsof men are hunting for the sher
iff and his posse, under the belief that
the former is trying to take the neg
to Mexico. It will be a miracle if
neero is not moooea. xne aetaiiST-oi
the crime are horrible. The pooi
woman had her hands tied behind her
back, every stitch of clothing torn
from her body and her throat cut roiu
ear to ear. Here is some of the na
tive vident'e acainst the necrro: IlJbli
of a suspender buckle found under t;
woman fitted a missing part fron
similar buckle on the negro. A pa
of the negro's shirt had been ton
from him and was held by the woman.
The negro was bloody, and a part of
Mrs. Cain's hair was found sticking
to his clothes.
DEFENSE FOR WALLER.
haV
The
Ex-Consul's American Counsel Makes
Out a Strong Case.
Washington', July 25. Mr. Cram
mond Kennedy, who has become the.
principal counsel in the case of ex
Consul Waller, now serving a sentence
in a French jail for violation of neu
trality laws between this country and
France, called at the state department
yesterday for the purpose of present
ing certain phases of the case.
Mr. Kennedy is disposed to lay much
stress on the fact that at the time of
Waller's arrest, there was no actual
state of war between France and Mad
agascar. He contends that Waller,
for this reason, could not have been
guilty of the charge on which he was
tried and convicted. In conversation
with a representative of the press he
said this phase of the case had not yet
been presented by this government,
and as soon as Mr. Olney should re
turn he would present the matter tr
him in this light.
PAPERS FOR FARMERS
V
Agricultural Department Proposes to Pub
lish Articles of Much Interest.
Washington, July 25. Hereafter the
agricultural department will cafl-. on
specialists 5n certain lines of agricult
ural work, though not connected with
the office, to make investigations of
importance to agricultural interests
and to prepare brief papers or articles
embracing the results of the work.
These will be paid for at rates which
the department regards as reasonable,
the funds being provided for in the
congressional appropriations. Many
persons well known here and abroad
will be asked to contribute. Its object
is to do away with labored articles.
couched in technical language, and of
little interest or importance.
Wesley Davis at Home Again.
Topeka, Kan., July 25. Wesley
Davis of Rossville. in this county, who
lost so heavily in grain ai Kansas City
some weeks ago and afterward disap
peared, has returned to his home. He
declines to give an account of his ab
sence. LIVE STOCK AMI I'ROUl I'EMAKKETS
13
10
10
14
6
12
(Quotations from New York. Chicago,
Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA
Gutter Creamery separator.
Uutter l air to good country
tpps Fresh
Honey California, per lb
Hens Live, per lb
Snrine Chickens, ner lb
Lemons Choice .uessinas w-
Apples per bbl !'"
uranpes rionaas, per oox - ou
1'otatoes NfiW 33
Watermelons per dozen 2 51
Beans Navv. hand-picked, bu 2 to
Hay Upland, per ton 6 0
unions I er du
Cheese Neb. & la., full cream
1'ineaDDles Der doz
Tomatoes - per 4-basket crate.
Hoes Mixed packing o
Hops Heavy weights 3
beeves Mockers and feeders. 2
Beef Steers
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July
September.
December..
Corn
July
September.,
May
Oats
July.........
September ..
May
Pork
July
September . .
January
Lard
July.........
September . .
January
Short Ribs
July
September . .
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72
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10 55
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July 27
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July 26
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taps 2 to
Calves 1 SO
cows l
Heifers 1 75
Westerns Z 60
been Lambs 3 00
theep Choice natives 2 30
CHICAGO.
Wheat No. 2, spring f-6
Corn rer bu 44
Oats i er bu 23
I'ork 10 70
Lard 6 50
4 .)0
3 50
3 CO
2 00
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A 3
A 4
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50
75
104
25
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10
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70
30
75
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Hoes Packers and mixed.
Cattle Steers extra
theep Lambs,
rheep natives
Wheat. No. 2. red winter
Corn ISO. Z.
(A 5 75
. 2
A 3 Co
A 3 20
3. 5 4 i
A 3 75
66 S
A 444
clO 75
A 6 55
j, 4 P5
j. 5 70
5 00
W 2 75
Oats No. 2 41
68
69S
71
434
434
14
224
10 57! t
10 674
10 67
6 10
324
6 324
6 05
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5 20
I'ork.
Lard.
...12 25
tt 50
ST. LOUIS.
2 red, cash 66j
714
A 48
A 314
13 00
A 6 674
W beat No
Corn Per bu 42
Oats Per bu 23
Hoes Mixed packing 4 5
Cattle Heft steers 4 00
CITV.
rheep Mixed natives..
Lambs
KANSAS
Wheat No. 2 hard
Corn No. 2
Oats No. 2
cattle Stockers and feeders.
a i .-
3 50
63
39
27
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664
A 424
Hi 234
A 5 15
(A 4 85
ta 3 50
5 00
bogs Mixed packers ". 4 70
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We have great sympathy with the little girl
who got down on her knees at bedtime and
prayed, "Lord, give me a good temper, and
while you are about it,please give ma one, too."
Live Stock.
Kansas Citt Mo., July 9. Cattle Receipts.
1.249; calves, '.8; shipped yesterdav, 2,113 cat
tle, 100 calves. Common to good feeders and
stockers were a dime lower.
Dressed beef and export Pteers. M(Xa 5.03:
Texas and Indian steers.i.fiOfiJ'-M-i ; Southwest
ern 6teers, $2.80; cows and heifers, $2.003,25;
stockers and feeders, $.'.604.i5; calves. $l&6.5u,
Hogs Receipts, 4.167; shipped yesterdayx
621. The market was dull and 5 to 13c lower.
The top price was $5 and the bulk of sales from
$4.65 to $4.00
Emporia Bicycle Riders Fined.
Empohia, Kan., July 25. Forty lead
ing bicycle riders were arrested last
night for not ringing bicycle bells at
crossings. Among them were mem
bers of the Hood, Eskrido-e and Whit-
I ley families, and others equally promi
J nent. Each paid 34 in fines and costs.
An Oklahoma Postmaster Jailed.
Guthrie, Ok., July 25. J. G. Crump,
postmaster at Zion, Ok., was brought
in and lodged in the United States jail r
to-day on a charge of resisting a United
State omcer in the discharge of his
I diity,
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