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V J IN ( , THERt; IS yt)TB:iNG WHICH JS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence. V 3- VOL. L Notica o Subscribers EXPIRATIONS. Ab th eantost and cheapest racfevl notl- 5 ring subscribers of tht date of tfcf xpira ons wr y'tli mark this notice TTitfc ti tiue or red peri-cfl, ' on the $n at which their sub cripMen lixpires. We will ee-nfi the paper two vwlfs after expiration. If Tsot renewed by Ua!tlae it will be diBcontlTreed. Love and Detffh. From the FrXich. hrtV are tho lovers t , mad with their fnssion, Tfchted troth in the -let, "long- aj?o? ?TvT ;c to be true in the fne silly fashion F- fr and ever, in Jo$Til in woe? 'LcaZ that is fiercest nVVAore than a flash is; Only a moment toW-a and to kiss; Vet every couple tir.'friinjfling- their ashes Swear to forever tibiae in their bliss! 'h, that "Forever!'- Un oath unavailing; Lovers, why ame'so fond and so bold? ' Why do ye breath t?".t with lips that are palirssr Pledge it with 1f a ITiat are soon to grow c"u? All of you swiftr. to nothing- are faring-, Uriel' is your heaven, your hope but a breath; Why in a inoimi.tof passionate daring Tiirow down yoar ffajre in the presence of Death? Fond ones, around you u strange voice is eryhur, Ever to all saying: Heaven will-tfot hear "Love, love and rlie!" you nor save you from dyinjr, Earth has no haven to which you may fly Then without frrievinjr or foolishly eluding-, Urave with this same love that maddens you so. Deep in the vastness of Nature abiding-, Die since you must, dears, but love ere you fro: Georg-e Horton. NEEKAKKA NEWS. A Frightful Accident, An accident occurred at the smelt ing works of Omaha at 4 o'clock Sun day morning that may result in the death of Simon Goralacheck, a role, -who resides at Thirtieth and Walnut streets. The man commenced work at tho smelter two weeks ago, being em ployed as a commm laborer, whose duty it was to wheel away the pot3 of molten metal after they had been drawn from the furnaces. Sunday morning, while wheeling one of these, ho slipped and fell. In doing so the pot tipped -over and spread about him, burning his feet and hands until the llesh dropped from the bones and spat tering in his face and upon his body, burning deep holes wherever it struck. The poor fellow's cries, -which were heartrending, were heard at the other end of the department, and in a mo meilo his fellow workmen were on the epotbut not until he had been burned almost beyond recognition. "Wild with pain, the. poor fellow was put : into a cab and taken to St. Joseph's hospital. As he was being driven along the street his agonizing screams . caused the early risers, who heard them, shudder and turn hastily away. At the hospital the attending physi cian was called and the burns dressed. Though under the influence of mor phine, he continued to writhe and roll in his bed, moaning most piteously. : Sunday night the physician said the man would live, but that he would be terribly disfigured and would be a cripple, for, life, as his hands and feet would have to be amputated, and that probably, he would lose one and pos sibly both eyes. . Goralacheck has a -wife and four small children who are in. destitute circumstances. In General. first national bank The in Burt Tekama, county will ba opened about Jnne 1. The new land office at Alliance will be ready for business about the 1st of July. It is estimated that 300,000 trees vore set out in Hayes county during Arbor week. The pension examining board of Albion has been organized and is now an working condition. Schuyler Presbyterians have sub scribed $3,280 toward building a church to cost not less than $4,000. The Omaha Paving and Tile com pany will establish a mammoth paving brick faetory at Louisville. At Dakota Gity the G. A. Pv. post is making preparations to appropriately observe Decoration Day. Maud Rhodes, a prisoner in the city jail at Fremont, has made several at tempts to commit suicide by hanging. Several pigs and calves belonging to J. H. Nicholson of Springfield, which were bitten by a dog last week have one mad. Preparations on a large scale are being made by the Hasting post and W. It. C. to elaborately observe Mem orial day. Li. D. Higley of Lyons made two little trips out in the haunts of prairie wolves and scalped twenty-six, wrorth $1 each, Fillmore county has good prospects of the heaviest fruit crop ever known. Nemaha county will be short on peaches but long on plums. In anticipation of the coming county seat contest, or foi some other reason, two beautiful parks have been laid out and plaated with trees near Lyons. The Blair Republican thinks times cannot be so very close in that county when the farmers can plank down about $5,000 in cash to start a granger lumber yard, A. Kloimest, a Jew peddler, who Lss been doing busjn&g in the vicin- ity of David City the past year, is wanted badly, and if caught may have considerable ?iouble. The Ootftral Nebraska, Teachers association, will hold a meeting at Hastings, "May 10, at the high school building. Some of Nebraska's most prominent Instructors will be present. TliiCTes broke into Connor & "Sin clarr'e'law offico at Kearney and niter readfcig chapter G7, general laws of f 1881, stole two new pairs of pants, a GleSn shirt and one pair of socks. At Pawnee City a man named AVil Jard has been sentenced to eighteen M'-nonths in tho penitentiary for horse j-stealing. The evidence showed him rather weak minded. Liieuteuant-GovernorMeiklejohn has been busily engaged for the past two weeks on the Jenkins ranch at Palmer consigning nearly GOO tons of baled hay for shipment to Omaha. Fred Boschee, a Madison county farmer, is six feet, nine and three fourths inches in height asd weighs about 205 pounds. He is a German about thirty-years old and has lived in the county since it was first settled. Judge Appleget, .holding district court at Auburn, after listening to in formation filed against County Attor ney Cornell, charging him with un professiop.nl conduct, ordered a citation to show cause why he should not be debarred. The Meteor. Fobest City, la. , May 4, The meteor Been yesterday in Northern Iowa fell eleven miles north west of this place .in about the center of Winnebago county. It fell in a shower of fragments in a field mar whieh a man waa plowing. The meteor had ex ploded from the heat developed by the in tense friction in passing through the air. The pieces found range in siza from chunk as large as a man's hand down to mere pebbles. They are of meteoric organization and are seared and blackened by teat. A? similar showers are reported in other parts of this section, it is thought that they were all a part of that tueteor ttat startled peo ple yesterday afternoon and buret with a leui cxolosion like that of thunder. Who Got It ? New Orleans, La., My 4. The Pica yune's Austin, Tex., special says: The Farmers' alliance of Texas is in trouble and some sensational developments are rumor ed. In 1887 the leaders organized at Dallaa an exchange, with a capital of a half mil lion, the stock being taken by subordinate lodges. The exchange lasted about two years, during which time It is alleged that nearly a quarter of a million of dollars was squandered and there is nothing to show for it but about $40,000 worth of property. The farmers who contributed the money are anxious to have an investigation and will institute Buit to recover certain prop erty in Dallas now occupied as an alliance and commercial agency? Instantly Killed. Pittsbubo, Pa., May 4. This afternoon while workmen were hoisting the statue of "Justice," weighing four tons, to the fifth story of the new government build ing on Fourth avenue, the deriick broke, letting the statue fall to the ground. Thomas Carr, a laborer, was struck by the falling derrick and instantly killed. A large ornamental stone was broken ana the side wall damaged. Tn statuo, how ever, was uninjured by its fall of five stories. The derrick was partly rotten where the break occurred. An Important Color Line Decision. Bblttmobe. Md. , May 5. Judge Bond of the United Stated circuit court rendered an important decision yesterday in the case ef Robert A. McGinn, a nesrro, who has brought suit for damages against a steam boat company. McGinn bought a first class ticket from Baltimore to Milbeck, Va. , on the steamer Mason L. Weems. In the steamer dining saloon were two tables, one exclusively for colored passenger?. McGinn took his seat at the table intended for white passengers and was requested to move. He refused. The captain then requested the white passer gers to occupy the other table, which wa3 empty. They did si and McGinn remained at tae first table. Judge Bond decided that the steamboat company, al though making a separation, had made no distinction between passengers, the appel lant being the only peison on board who put an affront on the colored passengers. Irrigation Matters. Washington, May 6. The South Dakota senators say that $350,000 will be appropri ated at this session of congress for the pur pose of beginning the the irrigation of the arid plains of North and South Dakota, Montana and the northwest, and that the money will be used in boring artesian wells in what is supposed to be the artesian basin of ihat country. They eay that North and South Dakota have already demonstrated a sufficient artesian power to make not only irrigation duu me artesian process practicable, but that any quantity of power for manufacturing purposes can be ob tained by tapping the artesian basin. Sen ator Moody says that the people Interested in the irrigation of the arid plains will not be content with a simple survey of the country to be irrigated, but will demand a sufficient amount of money to brgln work on irrigation and will take a positien which will mase it next to an impossibility to ao complish anything in congress unless the demand is granted. The conclusion of tho sub-committee of the house committee on irrigation to ac cept Mr. Conn til's proposition to withdraw from the market the basin lands which Bupply basin irrigation for the arid plains meets with general approval and there Is very little doubt that it will take the form of law. It is the purpose now ot congress to protect settlers against corporations which secure the water supply of the country and make free irrigation an Impos sibility. The government intends to enter into the irrigation business itself and will hold the water basins for that purpose. California Crop Prospects. San Feancisco, May 3. The Chronicle in giving an estimate of the crop prospects for California for this season says the state as a whole shows a light decrease in the yield of grain as compared with last year. In fruit of all kinds there will be an enor mous increase in acreage. Six thousand new vines have been set out in Fresno and 1,000,000 orange trees have been set out in Los Angeles county in the last year. The fruit crop in the state will be the largest on record. "LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATUED AY, Over a Hundred Persons Burned. Loirdl'tt Point, Quebec, May 6. Over a hundred persons suffered a horrible death by the burning of the ineane asylum here today. Their agonizing cries were heard witfc horror by the helpless spectators. The Cyclone's Work. Gband Bfbby, Tex., May A. destructive cyclone visited Salt Creek, Haod county, Texas, yesterday afternoon. The residence of L3e Rhodes, twelve miles from that place, was blown down and of twenty per eons in the house, Mies Delia CarmichaeL, aged seventeen. May Carmichael, aged twentv-one. and a little fcov of Mrs. Gibb3 were instantiy killed. Mrs. Rhodes her twelve-vear-old daughter were and also seriously inlured. Other childred in the hous were bruised. At Fall Creek a little further south about a dcz en houses were wrecked and many persons injured. The damage to houses, fences, crops and timber is very grea At the little town of Acton on the line of Perker and Eadd counties, four people were killed and a number of others seri ously injured. Many houses were demol ished in that vicinity. At Ebin -Creek, in Hood county, eight persons were killed, four of whom be longed to one family. Dr. Griffins. A heavy hail storm prevailed throughout this section doing immense damage to crops. A Lietter From Ir. Emin Peters. Beibmn, May 6. The Emia relief cDmmit tse has received a letter from Dr. Peters in which he says that he ascended the Tana river and camped from November 16 to No vember in the IMamoni mountainr. He had f requent engagements with the natives and defeated them. !He started for Victo ria Nyanza on January 13. Criapi Says He Will Resign. Rome, May 6. The senate today, in the debate on the charities bill, rejected the clause providing for church expenses. Premier Crispi thereupon declared that he would resign in order to decide the ques tion of the dissolution of the cabinet or its reconstrrction under S;gnor Saracco. H's announcement caused great excitement. Spring Wheat Prospect. Chicago, May 5. The Farmers' Review crop summary says reports relative to Epring wheat prospects are encouraging. Seeding-is about over and in many places the grain is up and making good growth. Reports indicate a decrease of the acreage in the states of Wisconsin and Dakota, Ne braska slightly ircreased, Minnesota and Iowa about the same as last year. Gigantic Railroad Scheme. Kansas Cm, May 5. A dispatch from Ieaven worth, Kas., sayB: A big railroad scheme, with millions to back it, is on foot for a trans-continental short line from New York to the Pacific coast The enterprise is in the hands of a body of English capital ists and American railroad men. The syndi cate has been secretly at work far a long time from .Leavenworth to Denver. The route surveyed two years ago and known as the Denver Short Litne and more recent ly as the Leavenworth, Denver A, Utah Short Line, will be used. This survey is eighty miles shorter than anv existing line of railroad now running to Denver. From Denver to Salt Lake City, by a continuation of this survey, two hundred miles is saved. Stanley's Reception in England. London, May 5. Th9 Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke aDd Duchess of Edinburg, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, Prince and Princess Honenlohe. the Duke of Fife, the Bake of Arg-yle, the Comte De Paris and a brilliant assemblage of leaders of all classes were in attendance at the reception given to Henry M. Stanley by the royal geographical society in Albert hall tonight. A procession headed by the Prince of Wales and other royalties led Stanley and his colleagues into the hall which was packed. As they entered the assemblage rose enmasse and applauded the explorer. The president c-i the esciety welcomed Stanley and his csmpanions and presented them with medals, whereat was another tremendous outburst of applause. Mr. Stanley thanking the society on be half of himself and his colleagues and pro ceeded to narrate his adventures in Africa, assisted by a huge chart, upon which he traced his route. Carpers, he said, had apked what was the utility of his expedi tion. To them he would say that the gain to humanity had been great. It hau opened up a rich and productive region and would enable the teaching of millions of degraded human beings that in the veg etable products of the country they would find something of far greater value than the flesh of their fellow creatures. "As a Christian nation," he said, "we ought to re loice that the few thousands of pounds lent to this worK has rescued 4.0 people from slavery, restored 290 to their homes in Egypt and delivered Emin from a stag nant state of impossibilities to active serv ice with a friendly state. All Ends Happy. Chicago, May 6. The carpenter's strike was finally settled today when representa tions of the carpenter's council and new bees carpenters and buildeis association signed the agreement reached by the arbi tration committee yesterday. Morgan Knocked Out. New Orleans, La., May 6. Tommy Miller of Indianapolis and Tommy Morgan of Chicago fought a twenty-six round fight here last night for a small purse. Muier won wren a knock-out Diow on Morgan's neck. Excitement in Wheat. Chicago, May 3. Reports of rain through out the northwest were among the causes of a weaker opening in wheat yesterday morning. The July option started in at a very wide range, it being quoted at from 9Dc to 91c. It soon became settled and sales were made at yjc and then up co 9;e, which was the price at the end of the first fifteen minutes. At 11 o'clock the excitement continued and a heavy trade was done in that cereal. May was offered at 92o early, but found no takers, and later was quoted at 93a It eased off to 92Jc and then was quoted at 93 o again. Tne close on July wheat was 9JWc, but on the curb the price went up to 91c. . Spring Wheat Prospects. Chicago, May 6. The Farmers' R9vlew crop summary says: The reports relative to spring wheat prospects are encouraging, Seeding is about over, end in many places the grain is up and making good growth. i ne reports indicate a decrease of the acre age in Illinois, Wisconsin and Dakota. Ne braska is slightly increased. Minnesota and Iowa are about the same as last year. CONGRESSIONAL The Senate. Washington, April 30. In the senate to day the committee on foreign relations re ported a concurrent resolution requesting the president to negotiate with the gov ernments of Great Britain and Mexico with a view to securing treaty stipulations for the prevention of the entry into the United States of Chinese from Canada and Mexico, and immediate consideration for it was asked. The resolution went over till to morrow and consideration of the customs administrative bill was resumed. Gray moved to amend she bill by insert ine a provision giving the importer who is dissatiefled the Hht to begin a common law-suit in the United States circuit court. This was discussed at length and the bill was finally laid aside without action. The conference report on the house bill for a public building at Fremont, Neb. , was agreed to. The cos5 is fixed at $6J, 000, but there is no appropriation clause in the bill. Piatt's resolution for the correction of the Oklahoma bill wai agreed to and the senate adjourned. Washington, May 1. In the senate today Mr. Vest, from the select committee on meat prodicts, made a report and accoxn ied it with an explanation. Ha said that the committee had investigated the sub ject very f ally and had now reported four measures for the consideration of the Ben ate. The first was a concurrent resolution asking the president to Inaugurate diplo matic correspondence with the autherities of Great Britain to bring about the repeal or modification of the existing quarantine relations with the United Kingdom. Txe nezt measure was one providing for a na tional meat inspection law and requiring that all live cattle shall be lnspecteu jehen reported ard alpo all cattle intended for exportation and all meat Intended for ex portation, Mr. Test stated that the repori covered ebbut one hundred pages of type written matter and he supposed it could be printed in a few day?. The house amendment to the senate bill for a public building at Aurora, 111. , was non-concurred in and a conference atked. The customs administrative bill was taken up. the pending question bei?g on Mr. Graj's amendment secur'iig to ag grieved importers the right to bring a com mon law suit against the collector of cus toms. Mr. Hiscock proposed an amendment to the effect that th court in its discretion may receive additional evidence and send different questions of fact for taial to a jary. After a long discussion Mr. Graj's amendment was laid on the table by a party vote. The bill went over until to morrow, with the agreement that the sen ate should proceed to vote on the bill and the pending amendments at 4 o'clock to morrow afternoon without further debate. After an executive session the senats ad journed. Washington, May 2. In the senate today the committee on interstate commerce presented a resolution on the subject of American commerce by . Canadian iail roads. Ordered printed. Mr. Yest introduced a bill to amend the interstate commerce act, stating that his object was to place the express companies under the provisions of that act, and asked the attention of the interstate commerce committee on the subject. The bill was referred to ta at oommittee. A message from the house with the house amendment to the Benate dependent pen sion bill was laid before the senate and tho chairman of the oommittee on pensions moved that the amendment be non-concurred in and a conference asked. Mr. Sherman suggested that the bill and amendment be referred to the committee on pensions, and it was done. The customs administrative bill was then taken up, the question being on Mr. Gray's amendment to strike out of the fourteenth section the words "except in cases where in applications shall be filed in the circuit court within the time and ia a manner provided for in section 15 of this act" and to insert a provision that whero congress had not clearly and dlstinctlv declared the classification cf any imported article, eta, the lowest rates snail be levied and col lected and the collector shall Inform the secretary of the treasury for a report to congrees- Atter a long d3bate Mr. Gray's amend ment was rejected without division. The discussion of the customs bill was then resumed. At 4 o'clock the discussion closed and the senate commenced to vote on the - bill, which was passed yeas 35, nays 18. Mr. Payne was tae only demo crat voting In the affirmative. The conference repor on the Oklahoma town site bill was presented and agreed to. After an executive session the senate adjourned. Washington, May 3. A number of bills were passed, among them the senate bill for the relief of Nathaniel McKay and the executors of Donald McKay ; the senate bill to amend the pre-emption homestead law, providing for the selection of lands for educational purposes in lieu cf those ap propriated for other purposes; the senate bill appropriating $15,000 for a farm for the Indian training school at Pierre, S. D. ; the senate bill constituting Cairo. 111., a port of delivery in the district of New- Orleans; the senate bill amsnding the act to constitute Lincoln, Neb., a port of de livery. At a quarter past four Mr. Harris Inter rupted the proceedings and had read a bulletin announcing the death of Senator Beck. He moved the adjournment. The motion was agreed to and the sena tors and officials gathered around Harris, expressing to each other their sin cere sorrow at the sudden aeatnoi the man so much loved and respected. ingaiis instructed the assistant sergeant- at arms to proceed at once to the railroad station, ascertain the facts, make all proper arrangements and have the senate flag half-masted. Washington, May 5. In the senate this morning the formal announcement of Sen ator Beck's death was made by Blackburo Resolutions were adopted for the appoint ment ef a committee to superintend the funeral services in the senate chamber to morrow at 1 o'clock and the senate then adjourned. The presiding efficer announced the fol lowing committee to attend the funeral and hava full charge of the arrangements Senators Blackburn, Harris, Vance, Kenna, uawes, .uvarts and Manaerson. The House. Washington, May L In the house todav the committee on rates reported a resolu tion for the immediate consideration of diiis reported irom me jaaiciary com mittee in the following order: The senate bill relating to trusts; the house bill re lating to copyrights; the house bill relat ing to bankruptcy, and such other bills as the cemmitteo may call up. This order is to be in force today and tomorrow. The resolution was adopted and the house pro ceeded to consider the senate bill to pro tect trade and commerce against unlaw- rui restraints and monopolies. This is the measure known as the "anti-trust bill." An amendment by Mr. Bland, making uniawiui any ceniracc or agreement to prevent competition in the sale or pur MAY 10, 1890. chase of any commodity transported from one state to another, was adopted and tV.e bill passed with only one single negative vote. Mr. Adams of Hlinois called up the inter national copywright bill and explained its provisions. Without action the house ad journed. , During the debate Mr. Cannon an nounced that the tariff discussion would begin next week. Washington, April 30. After the reading of the journal the house proceeded to vote upon the passage of the bill for the classi fication of worsted cloths as woolens. The bill passed yeas 133, nays 0. the speaker co.-.ntirg a quorum. Tae bill cuthorrzss the secretary of the treasury to classify as wcolen cloths all imports of worsted cloth, which are known unSer the name of worst eds! or diagonals or otherwise The conimitcee on rules reported a tceo lution providing for the Immediate consid eration of the senate dependent pension bill, to which the Morrill service pension bill may be ordered ai a Eubstitute, the previous question to be considered as ordered at 4 o'clock. After considerable opposition to the bill an amendment was agreed to upon the Morril bill reducing the age of limitation irom sixty-two to sixty years. Tne MorrH bill was agreed to as a substi tute bill yets 103, nays 71. Mr. Yoder moved to recommit the blil with instiuetions to the committee tore- port back a per diem pension bill. Lost 48 to 161. The fe nate bill af amended by the substi tute was then passed 179 to 70, amid loud opplaute. The house then adjourn ea. The bill authorizes the secretary of the treasury to plce on the pension roll the name of any o fticer or enlisted man of six ty years or ever who served ninety days or mere in the war and who shall have re ceived an honorable discharge, said pen sion to cemmence from the date of applica tion and continue during life at the rate of 88 per month- All persons who served ninety days or more and who were honora bly discharged and are now or may here after be Buffering from mental or physical disability shall upon due proof be placed upon the list of Invalid pensioners at $8 per month. The bill also provides a pen sion for tho widow of any soldier when she shall arrive at sixty years or be withou other means of support. Washington, May 2. A resolution was adopted setting apart Saturday Jane 14, for the delivery cf cu'egies on the late Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania. The house then resumed consideration of the coiyrJght bill. The bill was discussed all the afternoon and some amendments were adopted. A vote was finally taken on engrossment and the third reading of the bin wrs defeated yeu 93, nays 196. U3f ore the announcement of the result Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky, who voted in the affirmative, changed his vote to the negative for the purpose of moving a re consideration. Mr. Hopkins of Illinois moved to lay the motion on the table and Mr. Adams of Illi nois moved to take a recess. A vote was taken on the recess motion and it was de feated, but as the hour of 5 o'clock had ar rived the chair declared tha j under the rules the house was in recess until 8 o'clock. The motions to reconsider and t o lay the motion on the table go over until tomorrow. The house at the evening session passed seventeen private pension bills and ad journed. Washington, May 3. The house went in to committee of the whole on the diplo matic and consular appropriation bill. After a long debate the committee arose and the bill was passed. The joint resolution w."3 passed appro priating $1,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississsippi river from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river, such sum to be immediately available. The conference reports on the pudiio building bills for buildings at Ashland, Wis., (limit SK 0,U0J) and Cedar Rapids, la., Umlt Sl5'.i,00l) were agreed to. The conference report on the Oklahoma town site bill Yias presented, but no action was taken and the house adjourned. Washington, May 5 In the hsuse this morning a number of bills were passed and the conference report on the Oklahoma bill was agreed to. The formal announcement of the death of Senator Beck was made this afternoon. The speaker appointed the following con gressmen to take charge of the zucerai arrangements on the part of the house: Messra Breckenridge, Halmany, Blount, Bland, Hatch, Wilson of Kentucky, Banks, Dannel and Butterworth. The house then adi turned. Pension Outlook. Washington, May 6. The pension com mittee of the senate will meet tomorrow. when it is expected the Morrill bill, which passed the house last week a? a substitute for the senate dependent pension bill, will be considered and the measure put in form for a conference committee. I asked Chairman Morrill of the house committee today how much time would be required for the conference committee to complete its work. He said that after the confer ence committee once be gan business there would be little, if any, deliy. He did not anticipate any prolonged discussion of the matter, but expected the conferees on the part of the two houses to easily agree upon a bill which would meet tho approval of the senate and house, and that, in his opinion, the president's signature will be auaohed to the bill within the next four or five weeks. A careful canvass of several other prominent members of tho house pension committee developed the fact that they all expect to see an early agreement on tee pension queetion and that not more than four or live weeks at the very farthest will be required to get the meas ure before the president for his approval. The Morrill bill as . passed by the house, piovides for an additional expenditure above the regular pension appropriations of about $50,000,000 a year, while the sen ate bill only calls for an extra outlay of 830,000,000. The disagreement between the two branches of congress is not, how ever, over the question of expenditure. Senator Davis, chairman of the committee, says that he expects to see in the pension measure when it comes out of the confer ence committee a clause providing for de pendents, and thinks the bill will involve a somewhat larger appropriation than the Morrill servicd bill. Hill's Suggestion. Albant.IN.' Y. ,'May 6. Governor Hill to- day sent ithe legislature a message sug gesting a change in the method of con tested elections. He suggests the passage of a concurrent resolution submitting to the people an amendment to the state con stltution which will take from each house the power of judging its own election and confer the jurisdiction upon the courts. He would also recommend such action on tho part of the legislature as is likely to brine the fiubiect to the attention of con gress with a view of securing ultimately a similar amendment to the federal consti tution. "This," says the governor, ."would compel contests to be deciaea upon meir own merits and relieve legislative bodies from the standing temptation to da in justice." A JLabor Leader's Warning. Washtnoton, May 3. Ralph Beaumont chairman of the national legislative com mittee of the Knights of Iabor, has writ ten to Msjor McKinley a letter criticizing the pending silver bill. Beaumont says, in part: "Oa what ground of equity and justice dees your party decide to confer legal tender powers to those certificates for tho purpose for which national banks desire to use them and refuse the farmers and business men of the country the same privilege." Beaumont then recalls the discrimination between the trade dollar and the standard dollar and asks: "What is to hinder, under this bill, these same bankers from discriminating against this note, as it i only legal tender for certain purposes? "This bill creates money for the bankers and notes for tho farmers. It ia not notes the farmers are ia need of. They are al ready burdened down with notes. It Is money they want with which thsy may liquidate their indebtedness to their bondsmen. I insist, sir, that if you, as the leader of tho house, let this measure pass creating theee certificates without conferring upan them full legal tender power to enable theeo overburdened farmets to meet their obligations you are guilty of committing a wrong and mark it, it is one that both you and your party will have to atone for in the coming congressional campaign. These over-burdened tillers of the soil aro in no mood to be trifled with. They are desper ate. You, as the leader of your party in the house, are on the point of pressing a measure through the huise known as tho tariff bill, which you say is to protect the tillers of the soil from ruinous competition from abroad. Let me again, I beg, warn you that since the last campaign, which was fought out upon this issue, these same tillers of the soil have come to the conclu sion that during that campaign they were laboring under a delusion and have come to the lurther conclusion that it is not from competition from abroad that they are suffering, but on the contrary it is from legal discrimination against them in the interests of corporate wealth by just euoh unfair legislation as is contained in this bill. The Irrigation Commission. Hukon, S. D., May 3. Tho United States irrigation commission went to. Hitchcock this afternoon to examine the artesian well there used to operate a large mill and irrigate a firm of 163 acres. From there they go to Jamestown to or-anfza field agents for North Dakota, returning here in ten daya Colonel Nittleton believes the investigation here gives tho commis sion the key to their work throughout the artesian basin and regards the disclosures as very important. Prof. Hay, chief field geologist. Major Coffin, stato engi neer of irrigation, and D. S. McCoslln, a prominent geologist, visited Wesslngtou Hills, twenty miles southwest of here, with a view to ascertaining the strata yielding the artesian supply. They dis covered a large bed of roc's suitable for making a fine quality of hydraulic cement. Samples wero secured and will be sent to Washington with a full report of tho find, whicn Prof. Hay regards as very valuable. The discovery creates some excitement here and samples will be sent to experts for examination. . A Mean Trick. Indianapoijs, May 3. The railroad con ductors' association is smarting under the wholesale discharge of its members by the lines centering hero. Nearly all the men discharged were Masons of the thlrry-see-ond degree, and it is claimed that their discharge was brought about by a fellow Mason of the same degree, who travelled over all the roads and succeeded in getting transportation by giving the Masonic sign of distress. He proved afterward to be a spotter and reported every man who showed him a favor. The discharges fol lowed. A Heroic Mother.' Plainfield, N. J.. May 3 John H. Rein mann, a German farmer living on the out skirts of North Piainfield, made a murder ous assault upon his wife and children Monday night. In a fit of despondency he tried to cut his own throat with a razor. When his wife attempted to - prevent him he turned on her, seized her by the head, put it under his arm and bent it' back, seemingly with tie Intention of decapitat ing her. The woman fell to the floor in a swoon and the husband left her. Re inn? arm then made a dash for one of his children. but the heoric mother struggled with him and after a despeiate fight she feuocee.de d in saving the child, Early yesteraay morning Keinmann told bis wife that he was going to kill John Wendell, his brother in-law. He harnessed a horse, put an axe and a spade in the Wag on and compelled the woman to accom pany him, saying he wanted her to attend the funeral. When Wendell's house was reached Reinmann stopped at a lonely spot on the road, tied his horse to a tree and commanded Ms wife to alight from the wagon. I a the nick of time two of the madman's brothers sprang from a clump of bushes, overpowered him and brought him back to the city, where he was declared insane and committed to the insane asylum at Norristown. Our Immigration Problem. Washington, May 3. A joint meeting of house and senate committees on immigra tion was held U.day. Representative Owen, chairman of the houae committee which investigated the subject at New York, made a statement The inspection of Immigrants at Castle Garden he pronounced a farce and said tho immigrants were fleeced by boarding be use harpies. The observation of immigrant fncials is that the undesirable element Is increasing. Italians are coming in hordeB, without money and without-clothes, ex cept what they wear or carry in bags. Owen said that Italian bankers in this country send agents to Italy to solicit the natives of that country to come to America. Those agents swindle the Italians, charg ing them as high as 89 for a ticket from Naples to New York, the price of which is $26. Arriving at New York they go to a boarding house kept and con trolled by these Italian bankers, and thence are sent out to labor under contracts made by the bankers or padroned, with employes. If their pay ia fixed at 81.25 per day tho padrones take 25 cents, besides they furnish a shanty in which the men live while at work and have a man in charge of that. The Italians are timid and superstitious, so that it Is impos sible for Americans to get at them. With in the past eight years they have about en tirely supplanted other races in the ranks of unskilled laoor in New York city. In one square mile in New York city there are 270,000 people8,000 more than in any other square; mile on the earth's surface. These people speak in foreign language Italian)., observe foreign customs and are surrounded by a Chinese wall over which they never come and over which no Amer ican can go. ' Mr. Leihlback expressed the opinion that the contract labor law In its present form was a farce. NO. 47. Senator Beck Dead. Washtnoton, May 4. Senator Back drop ped dead at the Union dept. yosterday. Ho had Just, arrived from New York. An International J-tiite. Chicago, May 6. Accord inj to ihs pre dictions cf the etcckyarda coopeis there i a probability cf their cause bclsg taken up by theEagiieh deck laborcTs.andthe fiikc ' becoming international. Ala meeting ot tho Brotherhood of United Labor today a committee was appointed to communicate with John Barn, the Eogll?h labor lea i?rv and to request h'm to order the Eoglifeh longshoremen not to handle any beef cr other products shipped by Chicago house. The committee Fays Barns ha taken great Interest in tho cause ot the men at the yards. The men in ou open letur say that by the terms cf their agreement, tUned alter the great strlko ot lbHS, they aro eub leotto difcharge without warninr, while in case of quitting they must give two weeks' notice or forfeit ten days' pay. which the employers withheld. Sometime they say they are only given two or three days' work per week, but are ecnipellc 1 ta remain or loso their forfait inocfv. Tfcry are compelled to work Sundays. If a man is two minutes late in the mornirg he Is docked an bout's pay, but If the work in iinithed before tho cioee of tho day he U not paid ior a full day, With Imposing Ceremonies. St. Louis, May 4. The new St Louis merchants' Kridgo was formally opened yesterday with Imposing ceremonies. Tho river was dotted with crafts of 11 kinds, while tho banks were lined with thou sands of people. A special train bearirg Governor Francis of Missouri and hi tuff, Secretary of tho Interior Noble, the efn rers of the Merchant.' Bridge and Terminal Railway company and the invited guent was met in the centre cf the bridge this afternoon by another traiR bearing Gov ernor Fifer of Illinois and his tff sail many prominent Illlnolanp. The two KOvtrnorR met acd clasped band rn the centre fpon amid the plaudit cf the on lookers, the screaming of thistles ud the booming of cannon. The Fpeelal train then crossed to the M'ssrun Bide, where addresses were made by Governors Fifcr and Frarcis corgratulating their respec tive states upon tho new link wrtch bound them more closely together. Fol lowing the ceremony at the bridge came tk grand parade. Lit night a batqatt wm held at L'ndell hall. Kansas County Sent War. ATivooD, Kan., May 3 The county seat war between Atwood end 15 lake ma ia ended. Official notice was received here today from the supreme court that the can would be dismissed on the opening of court next Tuesday. Speculators are al ready making a grand rush for choice busi ness and residence lots. Hardy Kloters. Bab;elona, May 3. Riotous strikers held complete possession of this city yesterday for a short time. Placards have been scat tered broadcast urging strikers to pillage the city. Mounted police charged tho titt ers, but the latter resisted aud attacked the police, finally compelling them to retire. Ia the evening three regiments arrived la the city and the governor issued a procla mation threatening death to any of the strikers who Interfered with the men wish ing to work. The mob became cowed at the firm attitude of the authorities and the presence of military and slowly dispersed. At noon today, notwithstanding the fear that further trouble was imminent, the Eublic market opened a usual and a num er of workingmen went b8ok to their em ployment This morning the anarchist are actively engaged in attempting to foment trouble and the have ca'led a meet ing for SuLday. They declare the tim bos arrived for the beginning cf a cociol revolution. If all the reports are true Horn as Ij. Kimball, a prominent o fiieial of the Union Pacific railway, should investi gate affairs near Riverside, says the Fremont Tribune. He has a herd of 450 head of cattle on tho farm there which are said to be actually drying up and blowing away enduring slow death by starvation. About thirty head are said to have died already and ihu remaining are but shadows. Payment Suspended. Philadelphia, May 2. The Bank of Amer ica has suspended payment. The news of the suspension did not occasion much sur prise, as it was known in certain quarters that there had been a heavy drain on the institution all day. The branch offices in the different parts of the city were shut up simultaneously with the closing of the main house. There are twelve of theee branches scattered over the outlying dis tricts and the deposits are said to amount to $700,000. The bank is clocely allied to the Insurance Company of America and other financial institutions of this city, and th bank's suspension, which is said to be only temporary, was due to rumors set afloat to affect the credit of McFariard of the insurance company. A Prominent Illinoieau Dead. Chicago, May 5. Ex-Lieutenant Gov ernor Andrew Shuman died suddenly in a down-town hotel this evening. He hax for many years been the managing editor of the Evening Journal and was highly respected. TI1K MARKETS. LCCOOLN, NSS CATTLE Butchers' steers, .$2 75 03 50 Cows 2 CO (2.3 50 HOGS Fat 8 t,5 (IS i5 Blockers 3 25 3 50 SHEEP 3 Oil 33 5 WHEAT No. 2 spring. 5"J (& GO OATS No. 2 11 ($ 15 BYE No. 2 25 $ 27 CORN No. 2, new 15 is FLAXSEED 1 U0 (dl POTATOES 18 OH So APPLES Per bbl 3 75 Jii 00 HAY Prairie, bulk. 3 50 (& Omaha, Nr p. CATTLE.... $3 IX) ($4 25 Cows 1 75 33 5 HOGS Fair to heavy 392 (1 OU Mixed 3W g3 l& Chicago, Iix. CATTLE Prime steers $3 CO r. ( O Stookers and feeders. 2 85 ($3 65 HOGS Packing 4(0 4 20 SHEEP Natives 00 &5 25 WHEAT ... CORN . iHH Eakbas Cm, Mo. CATTLE Corn fed $3 2d fai W Feeders 2 40 (3 SO HOGS Good to choice S 75 3 W5 Mixed S 3 69 1! n Si 1