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"THERE IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence. : ; "' " ' ' ' ' ' ' VOL. II. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1890. NO. Notice to SufescrTbers. EXPIRATIONS. te -easiest and cheapen nieaes cf noti- En-t?bscribers of the dat Kit tbcir xpira a we will mark this nottoe with blue or rod irmncil, on the date at 'Which their sub-orf-ptlon expires. We wl send the paper two weeks after expiration. If not renewed F that time it will be discontinued. ¬her Sort of letter ircm "M derrick ; County. - Central Citr. Neb. June '7, 1S90. Editok Alliance: Our .papereomes Uo hand in due time, and very pleased nre we to hear from various parts of the state, how the farmers feci ubout the actions of the powers that be. We are more than. pleased to see your bold -stand for the right, and if a thousand Woosters and T hayers should go to the Omaha Bee to air their grievances, we will show sense enough to read between the lines and see that somebody has a sore head or an ax to grind. We farm ers have enough sense to know when vou overstep the bounds -of justice, and try to run matters for personal ends. Until we find 'you doing some mean things we shall' stand by you, Go on with the good work. -Some of the pio neers wilLfail to gain the -reward good actions ought to receive, but it may be that the greatest recompense a person can obtain, is the knowledge ' that he has done right, and will do right with- . out fear or favor. Every farmer ought to take' The Al liance, but times are hard and some find it almost impossible to buy the necessities of life, and although they would be more than pleased to read our paper they seem to think that they cannot offord it. I read mine and pass it around to the next and ask that it be kept going until it is worn out. It will be a good missionary work. We find a number of farmers in every Alliance we have visited who are chron ic kickers. No matter what maybe called up to aid the farmers, some one who has a more powerful mind,(?) than the common class, can see, or wishes us to think he can see, some game whereby some farmer is trying to trick the farmers. They seem to think that we ought to pass around the bat and take up a collection for their benefit, to ease the strain on their brain when they grasped the idea and helped us to see the job. They seem to see you, Mr. Editor, on the road to the White House or congress at least,, and it may be that you are trying to tit on Gov. Thayer's shoes. Now we farmers do not believe that your hat has got to small for your head, and if they persist in throwiug out slurs and mud we may to please them (?) send you to fill some of the offices we i farmers will fill the coming fall. If it is an honor to be placed in a position by the people where one must submit to the insults of every clod hopper, vhO" may feel that he ought to be a high private, then let us reward those who do the Avork. The people will speak out in meeting the coming fall and there will be a rattling of political dry bones, and those who try to stop the wheels of progress will wish that they had never heard of poli- . T n l .1 lies, i win semi aaouier ciuu suuu. Good wishes to you and yeur co-laborers. H.' M. Halleck. From the State Line. Byron, Neb., June 1, 1890. Editor Alliance-. It i3 with in terest that I read of the workings of the many Alliances throughout the state, as reported through your most valuable paper each week. State Line Alliance NoJ.Hl,. organized here last winter with 27 charter members, has steadily increased in numbers until now we number 39. We have passed no resolutions in re gard to the situation, nor have we made any great demonstrations of our deter mination publicly; but Ave stand shoul der to shoulder in the great fight for right and justice. The liberty which our forefathers achieved through a long and bloody war, and which was handed down to us, .their posterity, is steadily and surely, being wrenched from us through the workings of the corrupt powers that be. We, the rightful heirs of this liberty, must reclaim it at once; or let our posterity reclaim it through another blood stained Avar, or sutler the consequences of tyrannic monopoly. Now Ave have the power to reclaim, that liberty and avoid both the evils of war and oppression of tyrants, by sim ply keeping our eyes on the public serv ants, and by dealing Avith them accord ing to their works. Then we can hand down to out posterity that same grand noble liberty and prosperity Avhich Ave received at the hands of our forefathers. Now in conclusion I Avould say to all brothers, do not spend 15 hours out of every 24 laboring in the field to pro duce something lor a feAV greedy gam blers to speculate on, and keen Your selves ignorant in regard to Avhat is going ment. on at tne neaa of our govern Yours fraternally. J. W. Coffin. Resolutions of Rushville Sub. Alliance No. gi6. vWeAKmmbers of of Sub. Alliance No. .916, behe-ing that the farmers of this country haAe suffered many wrongs, discriminations and injustices at the hands of our laAv makers and, Whereas, Believing that we must here after as in the past look to our represen tatives in congress and the state legisla ture for correction of these evils, and for a proper -regard for our interests: and, Whereas, We have with patience and forbearance waited longer than Ave ought for the needed relief and reforma tion, and have viewed with deep alarm the sense of unconcern and hypocrasy which our said representatives have manifested concerning our interests; therefore be it Resolved, That Ave hereby openly de nounce and repudiate all representatives of thatf class, whether in congress or the legislature, who .are found to be false to our interests and insincere in ?l-JV?leSSWJ? or Podges, and that S?e then this warning that forbear ance has ceased to be a virtue. .Cf" 'ed That while repudiating that class of politicians in general, wo eive attention in particular to our ow col SSt?anrof the tird district of Ne braa, George W. E. Dorsey, whom mW1 dorelict of nis d false to his obhgatons, insincere and hypocritical in all his professions of concern for the welfare of the farming class; that while he has had abundant opportunities to promote our interests, ho has allied himself with monopolies, corporations, trasts, banks, and the most corrupt elements of his party; that his chief aim, while holding his present responsible position, hasfbeen to further his OAvn interests and to maintain him self in office, nnd that he has in distri buting patronage under his control, foisted men into office, in almost every case, Avho are corrupt hangers-on. and persons o'ensiA-e to a great majority of the patrons of the particular ofiice, against the wishes .and in many cases over the emphatic protests of such ma jority. Resolved, That we do hereby declare that Ave will neither vote nor work for the renomination of said Dorsey, and that Ave pledge our support to any good man Avho may be nominated against him. Resolved, That we Avill not support for any office, local, state or national, any man who is not knoAvn to be in full sym pathy with the objects of the Farmers' Alliance. E. B Hathaway, Secy. Co. Alliance of Harlan Co. Alma, Neb., June 7, 1890. Editor Alliance: At a regular county meeting of the Farmers' Alliance of Harlan county, the folloAving named members Avere elected to the offices named beloAv: W. J. Hickox, Pres.; W. O.. Coe. Vice-Pres.; S. E. Stevenson, Sec'y; J. L. Everson, Treas. E. Cos sell, L. H. Hodgman, W. K. Dye, D. C. Nash, J. E. Turner, executive commit tee. Lecturer, G. P. Eastwood; chap Ian, W. P. Skiles; door keeper, G. R. Purely;, sergeant at arms, Clarence Peterson. . - Resolutions condemning the course of Gov. Thayer and the calling of a special session, favoring the formation of an Alliance advertizing association to in duce eastern emigration, condemning the action of the Co. Alliance in accept ing a column in the Alma Tribune, re pudiating all old party ties and all cau cus dictation, condemning the action of the so-called boards of trade in misrep resenting the financial condition of the farmers of the state, AA?ere adopted. The sentiments of the members of this county are that partyisms must be bur ied, and a united action on the lines of right and justice to all and special privi leges to none is to be our line of action for this corning campaign. There were 65 delegates present, and about 175 la dies and gentlemen, making a grand good meeting, and every one . present Avent home feeling that it Avas"good to be there. Yours sincerely v S. E. Stevenson, Co. Sec'y. A Letter to. Uncle Sam by Jacob Beck. No. 4. Dear Uncle -.I think you Avill agree Avith ; me when-1 say-that governments are human contrivances ordained to re lieve human wants; and that the best form of government is that wbich most letters, I think I can show you that all the discontent arising from the unequal distribution of Avealth, the lack of cur rency, enforced idleness, tramp3, pover ty, and the fear of poverty will disap pear like mists before the rising sun if the measure. I propose Avere made the settled policy of the republic. Yours for the general good, . , Jacob Beck. SOME BITTER FACTS. Letter from a Capitalist. W. Whitworth in Farmers Voice. What's the matter Avith you farmers? You're doing some pretty tall blowing about your depressed condition. . , I wonder you ain't ashamed to snivel and whine like sick kittens, If you are depressed whose fault is it? On account of class-laws, you say? Who in thunder makes the laws? Don't you all have a vote, and is it not a fact that you and the other pack of , snivel lers, the city workers, together consti r aj o T f d S( o h t( ii n tl tute nine-tenths, of the Nation? Are eot the legislators who make the laws put into office by your votes? Haven't you kept on steadily voting for one er another of the two parties that made all the laws you growl about, like sheep following a bell-wether? Why even now, with your - nose held tight -down on the grind stone of poverty, a big majority of you will boost up the very men who held your noses there." You are like children drawn to a cir cus; set up a band of tooting brass horns, with torpedoes, banners and blue lights, and yon break your necks to work and rote for any pettyfogging lawyer with brains enough to lead you along. Let a lawyer set up for state legisla ture or congress and you bow down to worship him; and turn up your nose in disgust if one of your own farmer class undertakers to run. You starve your OAvn papers to death, but support the regular machine political organs with a free hand. Pretty fellows you are to whine about bad laws. You are skinned by the loan invest ment' leeches. Well, who the devil forces you to borrow of them? There's no law to make you run into debt. An other thing; is there one of you, if he has the luck to get a feAV dollars aheaa, will loan it to a brother farmer in dis tress for any less rate of interest than the current rate? You'll buy as cheap, and sell as dear; every time driving as sharp a bargain as any capitalist living. I never heard of a farmer going to - a brother in trouble, and offering to loan him money at a low rate of interest. You ask the government to let you have loans at 2 per cent, and call everjT capitalist who places his funds at cur rent rates a "money' shark," "robber" and so on, but take precious good care not to set a good example in that line. When you have money to invest your self don't you sell your produce for the most you can get? Why is it not just as right for the capitalist to sell his foods in the best market he can find? ou miserable chumps Avhy don't you do as we do? Support the papers that tight in your interests; and gain knowl edge of what you need; in plain terms get out of the dense political ignorance you are in by the acquisition of right education, and then you vvill be able to A'ote for good men and measures under standingly. " ' Then you will cease to give political poAver into the hands of. lawyers vvho have no other interest but to get a fat living at your expense. Bearing in mind this undeniable fact, that if men buy their Avay into governorships and the senate, there must be a host of voters among the great msss of toilers Avith votes to sell. A Capitalist. Cleveland, Ohio. THE MINNESOTA DECISION. Resolutions" of Jefferson "County Allianc. Resolved, That the County Farmers' tlliance of Jefferson County, Nebraska, o uenoimce as uujusl iiuu. iiuuuufetiLu onal the recent decision of the Su- reme Court of the United States in le Minnesota case, wherein the law of le state fixing rates to be charged by brtain railroads AAras declared uncon- litutional; and we do solemnly protest trainst the encroachments from time time made by said supreme court Kin ground in Avhich alone lies the erogatives of the laAv making power individual states as vouchsaved to vem by the constitution ot tne united rates, and esunwu, x.ua.b www willi uct-p icern, and regard as a question or rsonel interest to eATery citizen, the warranted usurpation of power ex cised by said court in this particular se, and regard it as having been olved from a combination of circum- nces akin to that under which the ed Scott decision Avas rendered, and another nail driven bv corporate nver, into the coffin of the liberties of 3 American people. .V'-.:- W. 11. Crane, Pres. Lesolutions of Stark Valley Alliance. : Iditor Alliance: At a meeting of Stark Vallev Farmers' Alliances . 543. held Mav 29. the ' following olutions were adopted: Vlesolved.lh&t we are in favor of the lopting a uniform school book and nished to the schools in the state at it. V "hat Ave will hereafter support no U JUl UlUCC VV1JU Will UUl SIIU5U1UC IU h principles of the Alliance. JThat we demand the free and un- iited coinage of silver, and a law iking the rates of transportation no pner than Iowa rates, and that all lzens snail have equal facilities for pping products. That Ave demand that all money shall lull legal tender and issued by. the yernment. . rhat ve demand the legal rate of in fest in the state shall be 5 per cent d not to exceed 7 per cent on con- ict, and that any rate above 7 -per nt charged under any pretext what- er shall ATork a lorteiture 01 both incipal and interest. That Ave demand the Australian sys- n of voting! rhat we do heartily endorse the pro- sition made in the U. S. beEtate by Hon. Senator Stanford to loan mon- on farm mortgages at a Ioav rate of erest. J. A. Porter, 2. R. Kirk, See. Pres. The Money Questtion Settled. :. Editor Alliance: ' Our congress is making erery etfort to get up a compro mise on the silver question that will please the free coinage men, and also the gold bug Wall street Windom fac tion. These various bills contain noth ing but a very thin sop throAA-n to the farmers and laborers, designed to hold them in their respoctive parties. Near ly every old party paper Ave pick up' is anxious to. do something to hold the farmers by their old party ties. That the farmers and laborers are going to act together politically for their OAvn and the nations w elfare is causing the greatest commotion among the 0 political trickters in and out of 'Congress. - These political sharpers, who ought to be impeached and hung as traitors to their country, have from their high places in congress seen English capital and the tory capital of Wall street rob the labor and farming element of land enough to make ten such states as Mas sachusetts AHthout'makirig an "effort to expose or prevent the robbery. They have seen the currency contracted until land values in the east are almost de- I stroyed. They have seen the business of this great people concemraieu in a few hands until a majority of our small and enterprising traders are living from hand to mouth, without any hope of securing a competence for their chil dren. They have seen; tenant farmers increase at a, rapid rate. They have seen trusts and combines formed to rob the consumers. After encouraging and winking at these outrages on the peo ple for years, these congressmen have the brass'to get down oa their knees and beg the farmers tostay in the old parties and continue ta submit to capi talistic robbery. These hypocritical vil lains expect to throw a little dust in the eyes of the laborers; they expect to bait their old party traps Avith a little tariff chaff, withsbme silver buncombe, and catch the farmer vote as they have in the past. That Attorney General Leese should become the tool of these conspirators is a surprise to its. We do not question his honesty, but we doubt his Avisdom. My dear general, yottf should realize that the source of the republican party strearn is in Wall street and that if you purify a small tributary in Nebraska it will not affect the "corruption in the channel of the main Stream. Dorsey understands this. He has made his bed Avith Wall street. He proposes to live or die, sink or swim in the main chan nel; . . - f Brother farmers, one word to you. Now that we see the effect of our orga nizing and threatening to act independ ently politically is having, are we go ing on with the good work? Are we going to put the demands of our state platform into law?, - Q;r shall we com promise with our enemies on some half way measure? Shall such old birds as ice are be caught again with old paTty chaff ? We think not. ; l Of all the bills introduced and dis cussed this session of congress but one (that was not diseussed would affect us very much in dollars and cents as in dividual farmers. Senator Stanford's bill (which was tabled) to loan money at 2 per cent a year would help the farmers. What the farmers and business men Avant is a cash system. Senator .Stanford's bill is a move in that direction. While congress is torn into factions on the silver question, while the so called great financiers of the world are dis cussing the merits of 15 of silver to one of gold or 16 of silver to one of gold, discussing the merits of an internation al money. Discussing the lovliness of a national bank bill circulation drawing 10 per cent ; from the people for the benefit of untaxed bond holders, we farmers of Nebraska ; have settled the Avhole currency question in our minds. We do not care a continental whether the currency isgtolclf silver-or a gov ernment legal tenderpaper, only so it Avill pay our debts. We do not care whether there is 20, 80, 40 or 50 dollars per capita in circulation. All Ave want is money at 2 per cent a year loaned to us by the government on good security, until the whole nation is out of debt. We want the 2 per cent to go to the U. S. treasury in lieu of other taxation for the benefit of the Avhole people. With the nation out of debt the so called great currency question Avould be set tled for all time. . The other great questions now agitating the public mind Avould be more than half settled. , John Stebbins. NEBKASRA NEWS. Wymore is enjoying a genuine build ing boom. - ' A grand banquet will be given by traveling men at Columbus, July 4. The membership of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Nebraska now numbers about 800. A young lady at Fremont named Nellie Sampson fell from a hammock and fractured her arm. ' The preachers of Sutton are direct ing their efforts toward closing meat markets and barber shops on Sunday. Accordidg to the assessor's figures, Tecumseh capitalists are worth only $23,000 in money and notes. T. H. Akers, of Superior gave his two-weeks-old babe some morphine powders by mistake with fatal effect. During the recent storm seven head of cattle belonging to John Naw, liv ing near Fremont, were killed by lightning. Hon. A. G. Scott, of Kearney, has gone to Chicago to begin his duties as commissioner for Nebraska at the World's fair. Kearney is using nearly 1,000,000 gallons of water per day. A fine water works plant supplied by forty nine drive wells furnishes the amount. After a stoppage of three weeks work has been commenced on the coal shaft at Hubbell and it is claimed that the supposed vein will be reached by August. ' -y ' ' ' Dave Pritchard, of Gandy, charged with "earning an honest living by sell ing liquor without a license," was taken to Omaha the other day by a United States deputy. . The thirteen year old son of Alonzo Dennis, a farmer living about twelve miles southeast of Hartington, was dragged to death by a horse while herding- A small military muddle has resulted over the removal of Ihe military com pany from Shelton ta Kearney. The Shelton men refused to give up the equipments, claiming they owned indi vidually part of the property and it could not be transferred. Hartington was the scene of a social sensation recently. By a well laid trap a travelling man named Hammer discovered his wife entertaining a cer tain knight of the grip in a conjugal way in his once happy home. The next day the unworthy wife and mother left for parts unknown. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate. Washington, Jane 2L In taa eenate to day Mr. Morrill preeented several petitions for a duty of f2 per pound on , several against a duty on tin plate. The house bill, supplementary to the act of March 23, 1S82 in reference to bigamy, was taken up. It provides that all funds or property lately belonging to the Mormon church shall bo devoted to the nee and benefit of the common schools In that state. , The bill passed without division. There were some formal amendments made to it which will require a conference. Mr. Morrill moved to proceed to con sideration of the senate bill to establish an educational fund and apply the proceed a of pnblio lands and receipts from certain land grant railroad companies to more complete the endowment and support of colleges for the advancement, science and Industrial education. After some objection It was taken up, but soon went over without action. After some routine business and a short executive session the senate adjourned. Washington, June 23 The conference report on the dependent pension bill was taken up and Mr. Berry speke against it. The practical effect of it would be, Mr. Berry said, to put 99 per cent of union soldiers on the pension roll. It was really a service pension bill. Under the operation of the pending measure the annual pen sion roil would be $200,000,000 and the cry would still be for more. And yet no north ern senator or representative dared stand np in opposion to the pending bilL North ern democrats and northern republicans contended with each other as to which would go the farthest to satisfy these de mands. If any southern senator or repre sentative dared to oppose a pension bill he was told on one side that he would ir jure the party and on the other he was de nounced as a traitor who had no right to announce an opinion on the subject of pensions. Mr. Gorman also opposed the conference report. The expenditure under the bill would aggregate $73,673,054, and this, added to 8125,000,000 under the xisting law, would leave the treasury bankrupt In 1891. Mr. Davis, chairman of the committee, saia Mr. Berry had been a consistent oppo nent of pensiwn legislation for the benefit of the union soldier and what he said to day was on a dlrecc line with what he said on other occasions. Mr. Davis denied the correctness of Mr. Gorman's figures and said the expenditures under the bill would be about 1 43,000,000. He denied that the bill was a ttervice pension bill and asserted that it was a disability bill, pure and sim ple. Mr. Gorman said that if the bill beoame a law there would be a deficit of 10- ,t 00,000 in 1892, and even if it did not beceme a law there would be a deficit of $40, 00,00.1. He called attention to what a republican leader Mr. Blamt), "the greatest leader in bis day and generation bad said as to the extravagance of appropriations and un tboughuul and unwiss legislation in the matter ef revenue. He complimented Mr. DavIs for the courage with which he had stemmed the tide ot demagogues and claim agents and prevented reporting a bill that would have cost $15J,0Oy,0C0 a year. Mr. IngalJs aavocated tne conference re pore. It was an obligation Just as sacred as that under which tne solaier was paid, and yet the senate was aiked to postpone it, to higgle and haggle about it. For him self he was in favor of the removal of the limitation act granting arrears of pen sions. He did not care whether it cost $10O,0C0,CO0 or $l,0t0,CO0,C0D. Mr. Test spoke ot the monstrous abuses that had grown up under tne pension sys tem and Declared his belief that the pend ing, bill was being pressed for personal and political motives. He asserted that the list had been unduly swoolen in Indiana because it was a pivotal state and its vote was ntcessary to elect a president. He prophesied that the people of the TJaited (States would revolt against the pension sj stem and its abuses. Mr. Turpie said that he had not heard of any charges in Indiana against the admin istration of the pension bureau, and he was not prepared to say whether political bias had anything to do with granting or refusing pensions. Mr. Hawley expressed the idea that sol diers would not get the Idea, from what had been said today, that the senate was favorable to the .payment of arrears of pensions, or to the equalization of boun ties, or the payment of the difference be tween paper money and gold. He thought that altogether too much was said about what the nation owed the soldiers. The predominant feeling In his Btate was that the needy soldier should not suffer ,but that nothing should be waited on the man who did not need a pension for his support. The true soldier did not want money wasted. They wanted their suffering com rades aided and they wanted tne glory ef having fought for .their country without respect to money considerations. Finally the discussion was closed, a vote taken and the conference report agreed to yeas 44, nays 18. Washington, June 24. The conference re port on the naval appropriation bill was presented and -agreed to. . The senate then preceeded to the con sideration of the postofhee appropriation bill. In relation to the first amendment of the committee, increasing the item for mail depredations, postofnee directors' fees and expenses from $25?,0D0 to 1 3T0.0C0, Mr. Gorman spoke of the postmaster gen eral's plan for having additional detectives to inquire into feuch small matters as to whether the patrons of a poetofflce are sat isfied that the business of the office is well performed, whether the postmaster em ploys members of h s own family, whether intoxicating liquors are sold In the post office building and other matters. He ob jected to the proposition of the postmas ter general to enter on a system such as he suggested in his statement before the home committee dividing the country into twenty-six districts with a chief de tective for each district and with a corps of detective? te be naed for visiting locali ities and getting "in touch with the peo ple." He (Gorocaa; did not want any post master general to have a force under him whose avowed duty it might be to go around among the people and get "in touch" with them. Mr. Plumb also spoke asainst the amend ment, but it was agreed to, as were the other committee amendments, and the bill passed. Mr. Sherman from the committee on for eign relations, moved to increase the com pensation of the minister to Turkey from 7,500 to $10,000. Agreed to. Mr. Edmunds moved to amend the amend ment relating to the work of the interna tional American conference by inserting the words 'Information in respect ot" so as to make It read: "For the payment of the share of the United States of a preliminary survey for information in respect to of an inter continental railway 65,000," and said he made the motion so as to guard against any moral or Implied engagements to go on with inter-continental railway. Agreed to. All amendments havina been agreed to, th oui passed. The conference report on the pension ap propriation bill was presented. The sen ate receded from the only amendment not arranged in the conference that for the appointment of two additional pension agents and the pension appropriation bill now goea to the president The senate then ac'Jjurned The House. , Washington, June 2L la the house after the reading and approval the journal Mr. Bland's motion for s appeal from the rullrsc of the chair in reference to the sil ver bill was defeated yeas 141, nays 117. Tho bill, therefore, remains in charge cf the coinage committee. Washtnoton, June 23. In the house to day the speaker announced the appoint ment of Messrs. Brewer, Batttrworth and Sayers as conferees on the fortifications bill. - - ' ;' '. ; . ". ' - The house then went into committee of the whele on the District of Columbia busi ness. - The committee rose without final action on the bill. The conferees on the general pension ap propriation bill failed to agree. The hobs insisted upon disagreement to the senate amendments and adjourned. Washington, June 24. A. conference was ordered on the bill to increase the number of managers of the national home for vol unteer soldiers. The senate amendment to the house bill to extend the time for the payment of the purchase money for lands of the Omaha Indiana In Nebraska was agreed to. Mr, McKinley, from the committee on rules, reported the following: - Besolved, That Immediately after the passage of this resolution the house pro ceed to consider house bill 5,581 (ulver bill) with the senate amendments and at 2 o'clock Wednesday, Jane 2 , the previous question shall be considered as ordered. He demanded the previous qaestlonon the adoption of the resolut on, which wan oraered, and twenty minutes debate was allowed on either side. There was consid erable oprtoeltien shown by the democrats. Mr. McKinley said the purpose of the res olution was to secure definite and 'speedy action upon the subject of silver. It was results the republican side was after, said Mr. McKinley, and politics the democratic sde was after. The house had passed the period of silver manipulation. It was faee to face with a practical question whether we were to have free an unlimited coinage of the world's silver product, or whether we would legislate to a c sorb every ounce of silver produced in the United States and make it part of our monetary system. Oa motion of Mr. McKinley the special rate was adopted without division. Mr. Conger, chairman of the coinage committee, 1 -resented the report of the committee. It simply recommended that the house nonooncur in each and all of the senate amendments to the silver bill and request a conference. Mr. Bland of Missouri ' moved that the house concur in the senate amendments. - With these motions pending the debate began, after, which the house adjourned. - Labor Troubles. Denver, Col, June 23. The laboring, men's strike, which has been in force for some time past, is virtually - at an end. Nearly fifteen hundred carpenters, who ten days ago went out with the striking mill, machine and bench men, returned to work this morning. Tho men who re turned to work today will contribute to tue support of the strikers and all lumber from a mill refusing to grant the etrikere' terms will be boycotted. Yoneebs, N. y .Jone S3 One thousand employes of the Patroon Copcut! silk mills went on a strike this mcnln against a reduction of rages. Houghton, Mich., June 2. The' Tarn a rock copper mine strike has been settled. The men returned to work at noon today. Woboesteb, Masa, June iS About six hundred union carpenters In this city quit work this morning on their demand for shorter hours and no redaction of wages being refused. Jersey Crrx, N. J., June 23. -Two hun dred girls employed at the Lorillard tobac co factory struck th s morning for an In crease ef wages. Three thousand hands are employed in the factory and the strike may extend. The Paw Paw Cyclone. Paw Paw, 111. , June 23. A public meet ing of the citizens of this community con vened in the Grand Army of the Republic hall here today to devise means t relieve those injured by the cyclone and supply the homeless and destitute with shelter, food and clothing. , r;. The storm has caused the deatu of eleven people. Four are severely injured and will probably die The patn of the storm was more than twenty rods wide, its direction was from the southwest to the northwest and its path is best described by saying that its trail is in and cuf, as if It might have been a monster serpent. The path of the storm Indicates terrlfio violence In many Instances and not a ves tage of the buildings remain to mark the spot where they once stood. Struck by Lightning. Ibonton, O., June 23 During a Sunday school meeting at Sugar Creek, Stark county, the Methodist church was struck by lightning and nealry burned. Victor Miller was instantly killed and Louis Mil ler, son of the pastor, was badly burned. Cornelius Smith was rendered unconscious and le in a critical condition. A Tornado at Sweetwater. Gband Island, Neb., June 22. Sweet water, a email town of thirty inhabitants, was literally blown to pieces at half past two this afternoon. C. W. Hodges was the only one cool enough to rush out. He went to the head of a deep cut and stopped the Incoming freight. " George E,4Drew, M. 0. Frank, Paddy Brennan and fifteen others were saved by keep'n j the train away from the track, which wa3 covered with Ecantlings, timbers and the remnants of a bcx car. Had the train been cn time. it tco, would have been tern to pieces, It Is hard to toll from the timbers of the wreoked box car, just what it originally was. The large flouring mill which cost $23,0C0, is a mass of ruins, not a, wuoib piece 01 iimDer Being letc. Heary Byers, the merchant of the place had a $3,C00 stock destroyed. Farmers were seen coming in with new boards wkich they said they found two and a half miles nortn of the town. The most pitiable case is that of Mrs. J. L. Goff. She had just finished a. fine 4,000 residence. Now she has nothing. All her money was Invested in the house and farm was also under mortgage. Her husband died not long ago wiu Bne remarzea at tne time, uooa Jbord, what will oome to me next?" She, with seven children, went to the cellar and got in just as the roof of the house came over wiuun a lew inches ox the cellar. ' A Heavy Dlow. Blue Hnx, Neb., June 24 This moral g at 2:30 incendiary fires were et at both ends of Main street with the purpsneof de stroying at leeet one part of the city. One ot the efforts proved a failtxe, aatt was dis covered by O. C. Klingman acd the land lady ot the Munson house in time to be ex tinguished. Thouch the whole side of the opera honee was covered with kerosene the flames were extinguished. Not so for tunate with the other, which seemed to start from tho paint avd wall paper bouse ot Mercon i, Grimes and qoi-jkly fpiead until seventeen ot the prlndpfl brsineM uildings of the city wer ln4ahes and aa many or more of our budnets and leading men were left without a place in uhfch lu continue their vocatiors. The whole of the lor g row would luvo been consumed hsd is out been Icr tho efforts of thot-e who tore out two build ings adjoining the Stste band, a briolc utruo ture, and stopped the rlsmes a short dis tance from the end. Brave work was also done in saving the lumber yard. The Bed Cloud fire department, which arrived in an incredible short time, have rendered good servloe during the whole of the day. Five men are more cr Ifm inlured, rone of them very seriou'ly. P. H. Price, the B A M. agent, a slated in carrying goods from a building and some burning timbers struck blm on the head, so that he very narrowly escaped, being rendered too helpless to get out. Bold Abduction. New Castle, Pa , J Ane 22 A mot t daring abduction was accomplished here today from one of the leading hotels, the corri dors of which were crowded at the time with men discussing the congressional deadlock in this district. They were startled about 6:30 o'clock by Mrs. J. E. Phillips of Sterling, III. , a guest of tho hotel, rushing down stairs and calling upon them frantically, "For God's sake rescue that child. They have stolen uty child." When the woman had scffialtntly recov ered from her excitement to explain, it was learned that the two men who had a moment before quietly but hurriedly passed through the crowd with a young girl were the abductors ot Mrs. Fn-liipt' sister. "The girl they had stolen," sid he, "Is Neva Cochran, my titer. Mer father and mother are ceud and sbo haa been living with us at Sterling, III., our home. We have been visiting in this sec tion, and Thursday night wa were a5 Mrs. Moses', my sister, where these tad byt tried to steal the child rom us, tul Mr. Phillips prevented them, and now they feave followed a here. While Mr. PaiUips went to the depot to oheckour baggage, as we are on our road home, they broke Into the room and took her from me. Ther were oron before I could raise an alarm." When Mr. Phillips ro turned to the hotel he informed the mayor, who earned effl . cers to be sent in pursuit of the men. tut as yet without success, as they hurried the girl into a buggy at the hotel door act had driven out ot the city at full speed. The abductors are Arnold and Hugh Cochran, brothers of Neva, and they are hardened characters, the latter having served a term in jail for stealing. Nova 1 a handsomo brunette, sixteen years old, and lived with her sister. She was an un willing party to the ab'lu'Jtlon. Her father was the late T. F. Cochrnn, a riob. farmer, who left an estate ot $75 OGO to bo divided amortg four children. Her oraar- dians are Hiram Watson and 8. C. Mc Creary. It is evidently the intention of the Cochran boys to keep the girl until she conies of age with the hope of securing her share in the estate. President Menindez Dead. Sal Salnadob, June 23. President Menindez died suddenly lait nfght soon after the conclusion of the banquet given on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the entrance of General Menlnde a nto San Salvador and the defeat or tha Zilaivao faction. During tHe panto caused by the president's deatn General Mhroow aua sev eral other ouioers were auiea as the bar. racks. General Orlon Ezata, leurier of the foroep, is now in command. All is quiet at present. SatUfle I. New Ycbk, June SI. General Master Workman Powderly and the members Of the executive boara of he Knights cf Labor visited the targe efSce today and witnessed the worklm s of the new con. tract labor bureau and the handling of im migrants generally under the national gov ernment There were over 2,2.0 1 in mi grants in the building at the time who had just arrived and the employes were hus tling around In the werk of paeslcg the people tbrougn the usual fcrm&'itles. Tho system of recelvtrg and pasirg in: ml grants was thoroughly explained and alo tne precautions to prevent the admission of contract laborers. Mr. Powderly ex. presse himself aa thoroughly satisfied with the arrangements and said tbey were Infinitely better than the old system at Castle Garden. He laid there was no check upon the padrones unde-r the old tystem and that on one occasion when he visited the Garden In April lat a stream of immigrants passed almost unquestioned. Under the present system Mr. Powderly declared that tlio laws were better en forced.' The party subsequently visited quarantine. Three Drowned. Milwaukee, Wis., June 21. Tha Leasing Wisconsin's special from Black water Falls, Wis., Bays James Hamilton and his two sons were drowned at North Bend lata Sat urday Light while crossing tho lake ou logs. ' Returns the Compliment. Ottawa, Ont., June 24. The Unit 3d States congress having amendel the tariff bill, reducing the duty ou lumber to $1 per thousand feet, board measure, the Dominion government will now remove tbe export duty on saw legs as soon as the United States tariff bill becomes a law. Fremont special : The exact figures on the population of the three leading cities in this censu8 district, namely, Fremont, Grand Island and Kearney, cannot yet be given, but a correspon dent has learned approximately Avhat they Avill be. Fremont's figures will not Aary one hundred irom G.500. In formation received in different ways from Grand Island and Kearney is to the effect that those two cities will show aboat tho same population aa Fremont, and it will probably require the official returns from the census bureau to determine which of the three is the largest. It is understood from a man who has just been at Kearney that the enumerators thero have been notified by local parties interested in a big showing thai they will be ex pected to find at least 8,000 people in that town.