HA 4) W "THERE IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO M E. " T e n k xce, LINCOLN. NEBKASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1890. no. VOL. I. 4 . v -.' h fir Notice to Subscribers. EXPIRATIONS. As the easiest and cheapest means of noti fying subscribers of the date of their expira tions we will mark this notice with a blue or ed pencil, on the date at which their sub 'cription expires. We will send the paper two weeks after expiration. If not renewed by tha, time it will be discontinued. Life and Death, ny w. ii. dkch. O! Why should I envy the man who has riches Who hungers and tires as easy as I? "why covet his idols in unscany nitches While he like myself can but wrinkle and die? The mould aad the damp of the grave must soon claim him While lawyers and kin will fiffht for his gold. Thus, even in death will his averice shame him ISy showing us wolves stead of lambs in his fold. "What joy will men find in glitter and glory, When naught is of worth, sare duty wel done? Though iheir names lie on pages till with age they grow hoary, What glory can live inwhatoughtto've been done? If mankind's so" weak and so few do their duty Why covet the praise of a weak selfish clan? They will look for cude Haws, never seeing the beauty, Where law had more perfectly formed a true man. Then give me no baubles to lure and beguile : me; To live and to poise when my spirit has fled. Let me live in the smiles of those who sur rou nd me, And dry up some tears that in misery are shed. ' A Ca-sar's no more than a poor honest peas ant. Who loved and who fondled his dear ones in life. The future's rellected in the past and the pre sent. And the joys I would win, I must give in earth's strife. Allison Re-elected. Des Moines, March 5. Senator Allison re ceived a majority of votes in both houses today. His opponents were Bestow. (dem.) and ex-Governor Larrabeo. In the nouse the vote was: Allison 50, Bestow 41, Larra bee C. In the senate: Allison 28, Bestow 23, Larrabee 20. Republican League Convention. Nashville, Tenn., March 4. At 12 o'clock today, when A. I. Wateon, chairman of the executive committee of the national league of republican clubs, called rhe convention to ordtr and made an address of welcome, there were nearly six hundred delegates present At least a hundred moro are ex pected before the convention adjourns. Moonshiners Captured. Clatton, N. M., March 4 News has been received here of the seizures by TJaited States officers of three large distilleries do ing a moonehlne business on No Man's land, about forty miles from here. The distilleries did an enormous business, not rly Hupplying the neutral stiip and nor th em New Mexico with whisky, but were Jbo shipping hundrede of barrels into Eansus. "Wholesale Indictments. Cesc.nnati, March 3. One hundred and sixty-three indictments against saloon keepers for Belling liquor oa Sunday, con " trary to an old statute cf the Btate, were returned today by the grand jury in Cov ington, Kentucky. This includes all the Haloou-keepert. in Covington except two. Murdered For Money. Oklahoma, L T March 2. News from 'Uhawneetown, thirty miles east of this city, says the dead bodies of a man named Holmes, his wifo and two children, were founi Thursday. They had returned to their claim, a few miles from this city, where they were killed, it is eupposed, for money by the outlaws that infest the Potto watomie reservation. No clue to the assassins. Guarding Against Inlection. SpstNGFiLD, IlL, March 2. Governor IFifer yesterday issued a proclamation, to go into effect March 15, defining the dis trict from wLich it shall be unlawful to ship cattle into Illinois between March 1 and November 1 of each year, except under the state live stock commissioners' regula tions, the object being to prevent the intro duction of splenic or Texas fever in Illi nois. This prescribed district includes Indian territory, tnat part of Texas lying i outh and east of the counties of Palmer, C astro, Swisser, Briscoe, Hall and Childress, rnd the states of Arkansas, Lou'siana, Tennessee. North and South Carolina, MIs-f-isslppi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. 7 he proclamation also outlines the charac ter of the regulations under whicZi cattle may be imported into the 6tate and the quarantine period of ninety days under which they may be retained if brought in regardless of the terms of the proclama tion. Saved From Death. London, March 2. A dispatch from Bris bane aajB the steamship Qaetta, recently foundered at sea on her voyage from Crook town. Queensland, for Lndou, had on board 80 persons. OI thete 116 were saved including the captain and several other officers of the ship. Smelters Organize a Trust. Chicago, March 2. The Herald today says that with the exception of five com panies all the refining and smelting com panies of the United States have formed a trust, with a capital of $25,000,000 of which alo.OtX'iXX) Is to De common stocic ana tne aremaining $ 10,000,000 preferred stock. The -common BtocK is to be used for the pay rment es the fixed properties that go into the new organizition and the preferred tock for the purchase of ore ard such per scnal property as it may be necessary to .have. The chief obi ect of theemelters.it is said, is to place their Interests beyond the aosolute control of the lead trust. Eitreme Cold. New Orleans, March 2. The weather "this morning was the coldest or the season throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, the mercury at all points outside of this city going below S2 and doing great damage to -cane, corn, vegetables etc. Fatal Collision. Chicago, March 2. Engineer 'Carroll, fireman and a brakeman were probably fatally injured in a colision f the Mil waukee & St. Paul fast mail train and i freight train at Oakwood, Wis., this morn ing. The loss to the company will exceed 13U.U0U. Mexican Cheap Labor. Washington, March 3. Complaint has been filed at the treasury department that greasers" from Mexico are imported un der contract to work on the Texas Pacific railroad in Texas. These Mexican laborers, it is stated, are employed in large numbers on the Texas Pacific railroad in construc tion work, and avoid a technical violation of the alien contract labor law by coming over under an implied contract, which is entered into forraally when they arrive. The treasury department is considering the master. Burned to Death. Jobnsonbubg, Pa, March 2. Martin O'Malley and Peter Falley were burned to death here last night about 2 o'clock. O'Malley, who is a laborer, did odd jobs about town. He lived in a little shanty which wag located near the railroad track. The two men mentioned and a third party. name UEknown, were en a spree last night. U'Malley and t alley repaired to the shanty about 9 o'clock in the evening and retirea. Daring the night one of the men, while yet under the influence of liquor, must have turned on more gas. The overpressure set fire to the building and burneu it to the ground, together with ita occupants. The Beatrice Bill. Washington, Merch The houso com mittee on public buildings and grounds had agreed to report favorably upon Mr. Connell'dbill appropriating $100,100 f er a public building at Beatrice, The commit tee, however has redaced the appropria tion to $69,003. The senate pa sed a bdl providing for an appropriation of 8100,110, and es it will agree to tue reduction by the bouse, the measure will go to a confer ence. The conference otmmittee will like ly compromise upon tn appropriation of ?S0,0t0, in which romi the measure will become a law. Mr. Connell thinks he can secure an additional appropriation before the building is constructed, making the grand total come up to $100,000. Hundreds of Cattle Frozen. St. Louis, March 2. Reports from north ern Texas say that hundreds of rauge cat tie have been frozen to death during the recent cold spell, and that unless the weat -.er ppsedily moderates the loss of stock will oe very severe. On the Reservation. Chamberlain, 8. D., March 5.- -Parties located on the about from tola city and Mitchell today another town site opposite here Sioux reservation. It is situated three miles north of the town from which the boomers were driven by United States troops a short time ago. The stage line from the Missouri river to Ripid City will have headquarters -at the latest town, wfiich has been named Lyman. The boom ers claim many other advantages that will be sure to make their . town a good one, but they will probably never secure a rail road, as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St .Paul railway will cross three miles below wnere the first t xn was located Considerable rivalry will exist between the friends of the two townp, both claiming that they will have the beet town. The boomers who were driven from their town hite are still negotiating with the Indians for a re linquishment of the land desired by them for town site purposes, and claim tney will yet induce the Indians to vacate. Io may take several months of bargaining to do it, but the land will finally be turned over to tne boomers. German Syndicates In Mexico. New Yobk, March 5. Don Luis Hueller, the Mexican Vandeibiit, will sail for Ger many on Saturday, where he will conclude negotiations, with the Garnian government and several big syndicates wtereby im mense tracts of land in the B'ate of Chihuahua. Mexico, will be colon'zed by Germans. In this enterprise the contract ing parties have the Javor of Bismarck. Prince Hohenholm is at the head of the syndicate on the other sloe. The German government has so much faith in ra; country," said Huslier vester- day, "chat it has offered to loan Mexico .- oOO,WX) t' pay the subsidies eivea the railroads. Our enterprise has stimulated other German capitalists to lok up cer tain industries in the United States and be. fore long you will be dealing with German as well as English syndicates. " A Dual Ijife. Lou. sville, Mircli 4. William H. Pope, Her of the Louisville city national bank, a trusted et plcye and a frequenter of the best social circles of this city is gone. His absence from the bank yesterday morning excited no comment, as it was supposed he was at his sick sister's bedside or in the country delayed by the flood. When no word had been received from him at 10:30 the officers ot the bank became suspicious and opened the vault. A hasty examina tion showed that between $10,000 and $60.- 000 in large bills miesing, gold and silver com Demg leit intact. A careful examina tion will be required to get at the entire amount rope tooK with him. It was learned that Pope left at 7 :5o o'clock Satur day night for Chicago, where it is sup posed be 6topped wltn his brother Samuel over Sunday, leaving in the afternoon for Canada. Pope was 88 years old and had been with the btnk since 1831. He had been leading a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde lite for many years, as many of hia com- pauions are aware. Another Brewery Deal. Chicago, Feb. 28. Negetiations are said to be in progress here which will undoubt edly result In the purchase of of the three breweries in Peoria by an English syndi cate. Tho breweries are at present owned by the Gipps Brewing company, the Union Brewing company and Gus Lisy A Co. As compared with many prec3ding deals the Peoria transfer will ! e a smaii Eff air, al though abt ut $1,000,000 will change hants The compensation for census enum erators is, for each name, 2 cents; for each death within a year, 2 cents; for each farm 15 cents ; for each es ablish ment of productive industry, 20 cents; for each soldier, sailor or marine, or the widow of any, 5 cents. The cen sus superintendent may designate per diem for sparsely settled sub-divisions, but in no case shall the payment be less than $2 or more than $5 a day of ten hours. Each enumerator has a sub-district of not more than 4,000 in habitants, according to last census. They begin work on the first of June. The whole work is to be completed in ninety days. There is a beaver dam within a mile of -"Madison, and a beaver was trapped thor8 recently. Pan-American Congress. Washington, March 4. The Pan Ameri can conference has adopted the report of the connnittee on international law. The committee on customs union made a ma jority and minority report today. The ma jority report says to establish a customs union as generally understood would re quire not only a partial sacrifice of nation al sovereignty of the American nations, but more radical changes in their respect ive constituencies than they are willing to accept. The majority believes the princi ple of unrestricted reciprocity is accepta ble and that its adoption would bring about as favorable results as those ob tained by free trade among the different states of the union. A customs union based on this, however, the majority deems impracticable as a continental system at present. Unrestricted reciprocity might be oDtained gradually. Trie first step is the negotiation of partial reciprocity treat ies whereby each nation may agree to re move or diminish their respective import duties on soma of the natural or manufac tured products of one or more nations in exchange for similar and equivalent advantage-. It good renult3 shoutd follow as expected the number of articles might be enlarged from time to time until they at tain, through the developments of toe natural elements of wealth, other sources of revenue ar the Increase of existing ones which would allow the contracting nations to reach unrestricted reciprocity free trade among soma or all the American nations. 1 he minority, Alfonso of Chili and Pina of Argentine, state that differences of opinion in regard to the form of the re port and recommendations led the minor ity to reject the whole subject. These del egates, it is said, felt that as long as the TJaited States lays a tariff on vool, the principal articles produced in their coun tries, reciprocity weuld not bent tic them. Deceptive Ballot Boxes. Washington, March 2. Up in the room of the house committe on elections stands the ballot box that will figure in the debate on the Featherstone-Cate election case next week. The box is made of tin and looks like an ordinary cheap ballot box. Bat there is something about it that appears only upon close inspection. The orifice wherein the ballots were placed is double, so that if a ballot is placed on one side it slips into the be x. If plaed on the other slue it slips unperceived down into a waste basket or upon the floor. The contestant, Featheretone, asserts that twenty-ono of these boxes were used in one county at an election in Arkansas and ss the republican ballots were marked in blue to distinguish them, it was an easy matter for the demo cratic election managers to see that they did not go into the boxes and were not co anted. The double lip around the orifice can readily be taken off, leaving the box absolutely honest in appearance. Outrageous Proceedings. ' " Guthbie, L T. , March 4. The reports con cerning the alleged scheme to colonize Oklahoma and make it a negro state .have aroused the settlers to a high pitch of ex citement. At Downs, twenty-three miles west of here, a secret organiz ition was formed and it was decided to drive out the few negroes and allow no more to become settlers. A negro named Hawkins was sus pected of firing prairie grass a short time ago and the feeling against him became bitter. Early this morniner a party of ten marked men broke into Hawkin's house, took him from bed and severely whipped him. Daring the whipping Buck, Haw kins' son, ran and aroused the Burgess family. Abe Clark and Sam Burgess, armed with shotguns, returned with youug Haw kins and hred at the masked party irom ambush. H. Cnambers rus badiy wounded and may oie. The negroes were purtued and captured and promised to leave the country. A few negro Eettlers in the yicin ity tf Guthrie became greatly alarmed at the feeling against the colored people and are getting leady to go to Kansas. Terrible Mortality. London, March 4. A dispatch fzem Cal cutta gives sickening details of the suffer ings of the British troops engaged in the Chin Lusai expedition. Notwithstanding the stringent orders telegraphed from the India office respecting sanitary precautions the health of the troops shows no improve ment. Of 1,000 Puniaub coolies sent from Calcutta to reinforoe the Chin columa, 800 men were either dead or in the hospital before the Chin column had been forty eight hours in the hills. It is charged that this mortality is due to the cruel action of the military authorities at Calcutta, who sent these men to the front without tents or covering, leaving them exposed to the heavy rains. An inquiry has been instituted by the maiquis of Lansdowne, viceroy of India, who nas also sent a corps of physicians to the front to see whether the extraordinary mortality among the troops forming the Chin field loree is due merely to the malai ious nature of the clmate or to neglect of sanitary precautions on the part of the military authorities. These two causes of decimation of troops sent to the front as reinforcements, are in no wav more sicken ing in detail than that which befell several smaller bodies of men numbering from 100 to 8j0 each, which were previously sent to the front. xne mam iorca or trie expedition is now being so rapidly reduced in numbers by u mease man tn-re is serious talk of recall ing the expedition and allowing the marauders to go unpunisned until more favorable weaxher beta in. ihe latter event, however, would greatly increase the Birengin oi tne rebellious element through out the whole of the C-nn district and might lead to eeiiocs cifiiculties as the natives would look noon a backward move- 4 mantas a defeat of the British and join the re Deis in large numbers. An Indian Outrage. Wilcox, Ariz., March ?. A freighter was murdered by Indians yesterday nine miles from Fort Thomas. The Indians stole the Lorses, burned the wagon and cut the tele graph lines between the military posts. A carrier brought the news. Troops ara in pursuit. m Tired of the: .Lion's Supremacy. New York, March 2, A Montreal special says: A league has been formed here to briBg about the independence of Canada by 1892. All the American powers are to be asked to exert their moral influence and, if needs be, their concerted action to free the country from the last vestige of European rule en the continent. The league will have united with it all the lib eral clubs in the country. The American universities are to be invited to co-operate, as well as all political bodies who have for their object the bringing about of the final triumph of democratic inetiutions through out the world. The league will be under the control of a supreme council, whose actions will be kept secret This new de parture, coming after the recent actions of the liberal ciubs in declaring independ ence, causes much comment here. C0NGKESSI0NAL The Senate. ; Washington, Feb. 27 The fcllowing bills were taken from the calendar and passed: For the erection and location of a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus and the re moval of the naval monument to the site. To authoriza the construction of a railroad bridge across the Misourl river at Marion county, Iowa, and Burt county, N ebraska. To amend the timber culture act. The senate then proceeded to the con sideration of the bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations lit restraint wf trade or pioduction. , Sherman, who reported the bill from the committee on finance, said ) he had been instructed by the committee to move to strike out the third section, which fixes penalties for the offense of entering into trusts or combinations. George opposed the bill. both on the ground of it inefficiency and on the ground that congress had not constitutional power to enact It. His argumenia -were mainly of a legal and technical c aracter, de signed to prove that it would be impossi ble ever to get a conviction under the bill, and as to the civil suits provided for by it, he Baid few of such events would ever be instituted and not one would be suc cessful. . ;h . Reagan gave notice of an amendment which he intended to offer to te bill, it being the bill offered by him in December last. The bill went over without action. Adjourned. ?J Washington, Feb. 28. In ttif senate this morning Senator Ingalls waa elected vice president pro tern and will officiate during the absence of Vice-President Morton in Florida. ' Blair took the floor and said he had re ceived a letter, one of man such, com plaining that the Associated press and the newspapers of the country failed to give such reports of important matters of de bate m the senate as would properly in form the people touching affairs in pro gress. The letter in question referred to his educational bill. This,0 said Blair, "is but a specimen of the general com plaint throughout the country that the press, to which the senate xurnisnes privi leges, ana the Associated press, whose re porter has the privilege of the floor, fail to discharge their important duty in connec tion with ttte legislation. - Senators Hawjey, Hale and Hoar defend ed the Associated press. The matter was then dropped and the senate then proceeded to the considera tion of the bill reported from' thi commit tee on penEions on the 15th of January granting pensions to ex-soldiers and sail ors incapacitated for the performance of manual labor and providing for pensions to the dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors. Davis, chairman of the committee on pensions, addressed the senate, explaining the bill. The annual expense under tne bill will be $35,9C8,000, divided among in valid persons, increase of existing pen sions, widows oi unpensionea soldiers, widows who are pensioner, widows whose claims are pending or have been rejected, the children of widows and the children pending bills. , Plumb offered a substitute for the second section, under which no. pensioner would reeeive less tnan o per icoatuA; Moody spoke against the substitute and Vefct opposed the bilL One of its incon sistencies was that a parent who could not support himself bv manual labor, but who might by mental or clerical work earn $5,000, 10,000, or $ .o,ouo a year, would be entitled to a pension under it. He also spoke of the unreliability of the estimates and said no man could tell within miilioES and millions cf how much this, bill would cost. It went over without action. The house bill for the appointment of two persons to represent the United States in the national conference with reference to Industrial property was passed. Adjourned till Monday. Washington, March 3. In the senate to day Toorhees offered a preamble and con current resolution reciting that in the recent lease of the seal islands of Alaska to the American company certain provisions of the law were not complied with, and directing that the eecretary of tho treasury be restrained from executisg or delivering the lease to the company until the subject be inquired into by the senate. Referred to the finance committee. The bill fixing the salaries of tho several jadgjs of the United States district courts at 5.100 per annum was taken up and pasBeti. The senate then resumed consideration of tho Blair educational bill and was ad dressed by Spoon er. He had voted once in favor of the bill, not without some mistriv lngs as to its policy. When it cama again before the senate he had felt constrained to vote agalnBt it. He asserted his belief that since the bill was introduced in 188'J there had come over tho country a great change of feeling as to its expediency. One strong evidence of thai was the attitude or tne newspaper Iress of the country durmg tne discussion n the northwest several leading republl can papers bitterly opposed the measure. Several of the southern states opposed to it through their senators. Tne leading papers ol the south were no longer in favor of it. Adjourned. The Aiouse. Washington, Feb. 27. In the house the contested election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton was called up ard the floor was accorded to Contestee Pendleton. A vote waa then taken ou the minority resolution declaring Pendleton entitled to the seat ana it was deieated by a strict party vote. The vote then recurred on the majority resolution Beating AtKmson. The demo crats refrained from voting, their object being to have the contestant seated by less than a qaoruoo, so that the question of the right oi the speaker to couat a quorum may De taken beiore tne courts. Tne vote resulted yeas 162, nays nothing, the speak er counting th quorum. O'Ferrall of Yiiginia raised the point of no quorum, but the speaker ignored him and the newly elected member appeared at the bar of the house and took the oath cs office amid applause on the republican siae. The house then proceeded, in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the urgent deficiency bill, and after some dis cu-.8ion adjourned without action. Washington, Feb. 2& After the reading of the Journal Henderson of Iowa asovftd that the house go into committee of the whole on the urgency appropriation- bill. Agreed to. After three hours and a he If consumed in the discussion of points of order the committee rose and the bill passed. It ap proprlates $23,850, 00, the largest item be ing the appropriation of $il,600, 00 for the payment of pensioners of the war of 181 2! and the Mexican war. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to tne consider ation of the private calendar, but no bills were passed. The house then took a recess before the evening session for the consid eratlon of private pension bills. The house at its evening session pasped forty-five private pension bills and at 10:30 aujourned until tomorrow. Washington, March L After the passage ; of a few private pension bills the senate bill providing for an assistant secretary of v ar was passed Teas 126, nays 100. Mr. Houk of Tennessee called up the con tested election case of Featherstone re. Cate from the First district of Arkansas. Mr. Crisp raised the question of consider ation. The house decided yeas 1S3, nays 122 to consider the case. The opening speech in favor of the claims of the contestant was made by Mr. Haugen of Wisconsin. At the conclusion of Mr. Haugen's speech Mr. Oathwaite of Ohio took the floor, but in view of the small attendance moved an adjournment, wfcioh motion was agreed to yeas 114, nays 107. Washington, March 3. O'Donnell of Michigan, at the reqae?t of the Seventh Day Adventists of the United States, pre sented a petition bearing 253,000 names protesting against the passage of any bill in regard to the observance of the Sabbath. Referred. The joint resolution was passed author izing the appoincment of thirty additional medical examiners for the pension bureau. Perkins moved to suspend the rules and put upon its passage the senate bill for the organization of the territory of Oklahoma, with the house substitute. The motion was lost yeas 156, nays 96; not the neces sary two-tnirds in the afflrm-itive. Houk called up the contested election cafe of Featherstone vs. Cate. Oathwaite advocated the case of the con testee. Pending further debate the house ad journed. Washington, March 4. In the house this morning a resolution requesting the presi dent to send to the house copies of all the eorrespondence between the United States and Mexico relating to the seizure at Tam pico of the schooner Rebecca in February, 1884, was referred. The following committee appointments were announced by the speaker: Messrs. Tarsney of Missorri and Reybura of Penn sylvania on claims; Brickner of Wisconsin on Mississippi river levees, and Caeadle of Indiana on post-offices and post-roads. Consideration of the Arkansas contested election case of Featherstone vs. Cate v, as then resumed and Dalzsll of Pennsylvania took the floor. Springer thought the case bad not been thoroughly investigated and favored a res olution, which, he said he would offer at the proper time, appropriating $lC0,i-00 to enable a sub-committee on elections to proceed to the First district of Arkansas and investigate the election. Grosvenor said he would move to amend this resolution by doubling the appropria tion and by having the investigation tended to other Arkansas distriots. Springer I accept that. Pending further debate the house journed. ex- ad- A Blow at Bucket Shops. Chicago, March 2. A new blow was struck at the bucket shops today by the board of trade. The directors of the board this afternoon at a meeting decided to abolish the gathering and dissemination of quotations. The destruction of the elabor ate system now in vogue is to begin March 31. What, if anything, will be done for a substitute can only be surmised. Most people believe the cassation will be only temporary and that after having broken up the advantages now enjoyed by the benefit shops by reason of various injunc tions the board will resume the service. Shell Out Gentlemen. Washington, March 2. The supervising architect of the treasury says it will likely be necessary for the citizens of Omaha to go down in their pockets and make good a deficiency amounting to between $2,000 and $3,000 on account of the purchase for the site for the new publio building at Omaha. It is found that the awards under the appraisement aggregate $390,281. Be sides there are many expenses Incurred in the way of special agents, interest on the ap Orangemen t once the awards were made. etc The appropriation lor the purchase of the Bite was $400 0). The officials at the treasury and the department of justice believe tnat tne ag?regaua to De paid for the site will amount to somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 and $3,000 or $3,000. The supervising architect will not proceed with hia plans until this deficit is made good, the title vested in the government and everything is clear. The Commercial Situation. NewYobk, Feb. 28. The unreasonable weather and the growing doubts about the monetary future do not help business, and reports this week are less encouraging. Yet it must be remembered that the re ports of dealers everywhere are liable to be much Influenced by the disappointment of past hopes, so that they consider trade unsatisfactory because it is not up to their expectations, because distribution docs not suffice to clear away the stocks pur chased, though the amount of transaction may be larger than a year ago. To the trader who bought 20 per cent more than any previous season, but nas only sold 5 per cent more, business Is unsatisfactory. The enormous traffic during the latter part gi last year snowed tnat exceptionally heavy purchases were made and the clear lngs indicate tnat settlements are In a larger amount than a year tgo, last week showing an Increase or 4 per cent at New York, 5 per cent at Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago and 10 per cent at ali other places. But the prevailing tone just now is one of discouragement. The movement of breadstuff! is still heavy: and exports both of wheat and corn greatly exceed last year's. After a droi of about a cent in each, wheat recovered to an eighth above last week's price, and corn to five-eighths above, with fair transactions in each. In the stock market the tendency has been toward further depression as is na tural with money working more closely, and the average has declined 81 cents per share for the week, not including trust or industrial stocks which have been espe ciallv depressed. The desired monetary reiiel through largt-r treasury disbursements has not come, and the government receipts ex ceed its payments for the week by $2,900, OiO. tm the other nana foreign marxets are relieved. The Bank of England has again ealned largely. Exchange on London has tailed from $4- 89 to $1.75 for actual busi ness. The Interior monev markets also are rather easier on the whole and are well supplied with generally firm rates,, but with no indication of a large available sur plus for shipment hither. Until April the New York market is liable to work more closely, with an opportunity for manipulation. The business failures occurring through out the country were 2 1 as compared with a total or an last weex. A Bold Bank Robbery. Vaxxet FAUiS. Kan.. March 2. A bold bank robbery occurred here this evening. Masked men entered Hicks & Gebhart'a bank about 5 o'clock, held up the cashier with two revolvers and robbed the bank. President Gebbart is absent. The robbers escaped, though the town turned out five minutes alter in parsuiu Will Last Till August. Washington, March a "Yes I know it is the ambition of Speaker Reed to see this session of congress adjourn before the middle of July and he has had a thought at times that the season might elose by the end of June, but I do not expect to get away, nor o the majoritg of the leading committees, before the end of July or early in August," said Mr. McComas of Maryland tonight. Mr. McComas is one of the oldest members of the house commit tee on appropriations and one of the lead ers on the republican side. He continued: "Here we are in March already. We Lave made a splendid record so far, but see what we have to do. We started out with seven teen contested elections, at least fourteen of which must be judicially heard and dis posed of in the house as rell as in com mittee. Three are determined; the eleven remaining will consume ;over three weeks of time in debate, say twenty-five legisla tive days.uThe appropriations are well ad vanced, the District of Columbia and two deficiency bills having baen passed and th pensions placed upon the calendar. Bat fifty days more will be consumed by tha appropriations on original consideration atter they eome from the senate and also from conferences. Fifty days will be con sumed with the tariff rill. Three bills, you see, will take up 125 legislative days, or twenty-one weeks. These alone would take us to August 1. Then there will be pensions, publio buildings, shipping immi gration and many other bills wAioa must be considered and adopted before we can adjourn. Night sessions and long hours of work will of course help us out, but I do not see how we oan hope to get away un der the early days of August" Irrigation of Arid Lands, Washington, March 4 "While I do not expect to see a general appropriation made for the purpose of beginning the Irrigation of the arid plains, I am confident that besides an appropriation for the pur pose of making surveys and final plans to begin irrigation that an appropriation of about $150,000 will be made to locate the artesian basins in North and South Dako ta," said Representative Hansbrough of North Dakota to your correspondent to day. "Irrigation is very important to the people in the great northwest. I am sure in my mind that we can easily and cheaply secure all the irrigation we want by simply boring artesian wells and that the appro priation of $15J,000 will be for actual wells to be used in irrigation wnicn win De prac tical experiments and not theoretical in vestigation. Major Powell of the geologi cal survey believes that the soiree of our artesian power lies in the Black Hills, but I think that it is the Missouri river as that stream is six or seven hundred feet above the sub-humid bslt of the Dakotas, Leavenworth Looses the Head quarters. Leavenwobth, Kan., March 4. It is defin itely announced here that orders have been received from Washington that the head quarters of the department of the Missouri are to be removed from Fort Leavenworth. As the selection of the new location is left with Oeneral Wesley Merrttt, commanding me department;, mac omeer nas selected St. Louis. This is a matter in whljh the utmost secrecy is maintained until all ar rangements have been made, but this an nouncement is authentic. Several cities have been anxious to Becure the depart ment headquarters. A School Boook Trust. New Yoke, March 3. The report that an English syndicate representing $25,000,000 is making a effort to form a school book trust in this country is of peculiar interest. The syndicate has been given the option of the purchase of six of tho largest snhool book publishing nouses in America. The firms which offer to dispose of their estab lishments are Ivison, Blakeman & Co. , D. Appleton & Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., of Now York; Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. of Cincin natl. and two other firms which are be lieved to be Cowperthwait & Co. of Phila delphia, and Talnter uros. & (Jo. oi xsew York. These firms are said to have put the Belling price oi their plants at irom 6 J to 50 per cant above their value at present rates of profit and expense, it is expected that prices can be increased and expenses greatly decreased should one firm control the entire market. The English capitalists hesitate about closing the bargain for two reasons. One is that Harper Bros, cannot be bought and that firm threatens to be to the school dook trust hat Spreckles is to t'-.e sugar trust. The other reason is that the educators all over the country look with dismay upon the possibility of one concern controlling the publication or school books, Decause thev consider that active competition in the publication of Bchool books helped ma terially in bringing the educational system up to Its present standard, as the best brains of the country are sought by differ ent nouses, who muBt nold or increase their business by putting on the market better and more thorough books than those sold by competitors. Sunk At Sea. London, March 2. A dispatch received here this morning states that the British steamei, Qaetta, 2,254 tons burden, which sailed from Australian ports for London, nas been lost at sea. Tne numoer oi per sons drowned is not definitely known, but the dispatch states shat a laro number perished. The Qaetta had twenty-seven first-clacs passengers and a crew number ing 112. She also had the mails for Eng land. The managers of the line to which the steamer belonged say they do not be lieve the report that the steamer ie lost. Later the loss was confirmed at .Lloyds. Advices received there state that 200 lives were lost. The steamer struck a rock, not Bhown in the chart, near somerset in Ter res straights at the northern extremity of Australia and sunk In three' minutes. Trouble Among Cattlemen, Chicago, Feb. 8. A war has broken out at the stock yards between the shippers and producers of cattle on the one hand and the commission men on the other. which culminated this afternoon in the shippers, represented by the American live stock commission company r suing out an Injunction before Judge Tuley against the commission merchants, represented by tne Chicago live stook exchange. The ex change had adopted a by-law which denies membership to aay corporation which pays dividends- or rebates or makes dis crimination in rates to stockholders or cus tomers. It is charged that this is directed at the Shippers' association and Is pur poselydone to exclude it from the ex change and ail members thereof are to be prohibited from buying Etook irom the shippers' association after March 4 under pt-nalty of suspension and expulsion.- The complainant says that its business will be ruined by the acts of the exchange unless the injunction is issued. A temporary restraining oraer was maaeDy juag Tuley. Compound Lard Protect. ( 1 Washington, Feb. 28. The house oonw mittee on agriculture gave a hearing thin morning to the opponents of the Conger and Butterworth lard compound bills which was very interesting and important. N. K, Fairbanks & Co. were represented by J. M. Oliver of Chicago, W J. Curtis of New York and D. E. Fox ef Washington. Thee gentlemen directed attention to the fact that the lard compounders were distinctly branding their product as "lard compound" and there was no Uecoptlon of the publics in their brands or labels. The Conger bill would simply require them to reverse the words they now adopt and brand their goods "compound lard." They further claimed the goods were healthful, and ia support of this proposition presented the reports of the state boards of health of New York and New Hampuhlro commend ing lard compounds aad cotton aeed oil as good and nutritious edible fata A further objection to the legislation was the great injury caused to our foreign oouu. meroe by unfavorable agitation. The re sult has been to stimulate lard refining ia foreign countries, the growth of this busi ness in Hamburg alone beai;? at least 4J per oent in the last three vea.ii. Letters and statements were read from merohants, manufacturers and experters pretesting against the proposed laws on these ground. It was claimed by the opponent of the bills that the present advocates ot the measures outside of congress were seeking a trade advantage and were urging these bills to stifle competition; that if any measure should be passed it should be a general pure food or a general lard bill compelling packers and refiners as well as lard compounders to brand their product so that the consumer will know what part of the hog he is eating in his lard. No good argument has yet been presented showing why but one food article Bhould be selected from a thousand for legislation. Such a b11 has been introduced by Mr. Mo. Clammy of North Carolina The committee also have before them several pure food bills. Further hearings will be given and much time is likely to be occupied la thn consideration of the subject of pure food as well as lard and "lard compound." Abandoned Military Lands. Washington, Feb. 28. The secretary of the interior, in response to the senate resol ution of December 19, transmitted to tho senate today a list of abandoned military reservations relinquished to the interior deartment by the war department, to-, gether with a statement of area, improve ments upon them, eta As to the reason ask "why the lands in such reservation are not surveyed, sub-divided, appraised aNd sold, and what appropriation id needed to survey said lands, that the same may be disposed of aa provided by law," tho com missioner of the general land office writes to the secretary that the only reason why these lands have not been surveyed, etc , a lack of funds. Tho commissioner thinks it advisable to make an appropria tion of $20,000 for this purpose. AUauo With Fire. Ogdkn, Utah, Feb. 28. There was an nterestlng and exciting race on the Cen tral Pacific this morning near Blue Creek, west of Ogden twenty-five miles. It was a race against time with a burning train and the goal ahead was tho water tank. It waa a race the trainmen and passengers will long remember, while the excitement tself lost much of its attraction on ac count of the impending danger that threatened. When tho west-bound fast mall reached a point six miles east of Blue Creek, the engineer discovered that a mail car filled with through mall was on fire. An effort was mode to put it out, but there being no water near the engineer threw open the throttle and resolved the reach the water tank if possible in time to save his valuable cargo. Each minute the burn ing train was a mile nearer the promised rescue. In six minutes he landed the chariot of fire under the spout of tho water tan it, out it was too late. The interior waa a mass of flames and 158 sacks of throngh mall were almost totally consumed. Word soon spread though the coaches that the train was on nre. The greatest excitement prevailed. Only the lightning speed pre vented the ladles from lamping from the train. As tho flames had not made their way thiough the sides of the coach no danger threatened the other cars. Thomas Oronard. ohlef clerk of the railway mail service at Ogden was on the train. He says that he Is unable to give even a theory of the firing of the train, as it seems impossi ble that it should have caught from nylne sparks. A Great Big Bluff. Washington, March 4. For five hours this afternoon behind closed doors tho senate discussed the subject of executive sessions. Dolph, from the special committee, sub mitted a series of resolutions directing tho committee to again question A. J. Halford and Q. Q. Bain, representatives of the press associations, and Guthrie cf the New York Herald, Seekendoif of the Tribune. and Depuy of the Times, as to their source of information, and upon a second refusal to answer to proceed against them for con tempt, xne resolution wan supiorted by D jlph, Wilson of Iowa and Harris, who ar- gued it was Incumbent upon the Benate to vindicate its authority and dignity by this course. Moody, Pettlgrew.and others took etronsr grounds aeainsD the resolution. Teller offered M a substitute his resolu tion proposed last spring for the considera tion of executive nominations in open ses sion. In this ho was 'supported br Piatt. No conclusion was reached. The dmcumdon will be resumed tomorrow. In the course of the debate it was developed that somo supporters of tho resolution? hold the opinion that reoaloitrant witnesses were guilty of sedition in defying one branch of the legislative department of tha govern, ment. THE MAKKKTS. . Lincoln, Neb. 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