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j it 7 r 'A Hie Alliance-Independent tt the bestf Advertising medium la the west It la especi ally valuable as a means of reacting the farmers. Iti circulation la as large in Nebraska aa the cir culation of all the "frnn Journals" combined. Give The Axlianck Indkpendkxt a trial if you want good results. VOL. V. To Every Lover VTJL 1(11V I . Dear Reader : We are working for you and yours. And that our work may be made effective to the utmost will you not help us in our efforts to reach and educate the people? We have no means at command to send a canvasser had, no stranger could do as successful work as one who knows the people. We must depend on voluntary help to advertise and intro duce our paper, and we appeal to us reach as many as possible in the circle of your acquaintance. It need not be an expense to you. It need not take much of your time. And by telling the truth about the Populist state paper and handing copies to your friends you can easily induce them to sub scribe. Is not this your part, your propaganda work? That we may know our helpers and communicate with them we ask that you sign and return the appended pledge, to do simply what you can for The Alliance-Independent in the way of getting subscribers. ALLIANCE PUBLISHING CO. Lincoln, Nebraska. Knowing that in the great impending conflict with the money power we must have votes to win; and that to gain votes we must get the people to read the truth; and that this cannot be done un less those now aroused bring one or more of our papers to the hands and attention of their neighbors; I, therefore, freely and gladly promise to do my share, and will exert myself to secure at least five new subscribers for The Alliance-In e n dent within the next ten days, sending in subscriptions as I am able to get them at club rates. '..',.,,.. ' -;; . Vt'.'C,. ..' , Dated,.;...;... 189.. Name. Town. State. BUSINESS STAGNANT. Important Industrie Continue to Mint Down 8,000,000 Employe Idle. ' v Yobk, Dec. 2a llradstreet's says: "The features of the business week are the increased uniformity in reports that general trade is quite as much or more depressed than previ ously; that holiday trading has been unsatisfactory and far below that of a iyear ago, and continued closing down of important industrial establish ments, reduction of wage and in creased instances where short time is being' enforced. Nearly all staple markets are quiet almost to stag nation, the execution having baen cotton, the pries of which was stimu lated late in the week by reviv tl of confidence in low crop reports.' Wheat, too, was higher for a time, but reacted. On the other hand, pig iron never was lower than at present "Special telegrams from 119 import ant cities indicate the total number of employes iu industrial and other lines out of work at this time from all -causes, together with the total num ber of people directly dependent for support upon those so rendered idle, is nearly 3,000,00;) AN OFFICER SHOT. Ia Attempting to Make an Arrest an Of fleer Weunded. Ei.uohado, Kan., Pec. 2U.J. F. Cory, city marshal, attempted to ar rest Hen Verbryck for disorderly con duct in this city about 7 o'clock last veiling and the affair led to a shoot lug. which caufted the whole city to become excited. The fact, aa near Mean be learned, are tbeao; Ver bryck resisted arrest and ran Into a restaurant near by, lie was followed bv Ortleer Cory and a fight ensued. Date Whitehead, night watchman, went to Cory's aHaUtance, when Verbryeti ran out at the back door and was followed by the ortleer. A Whitehead stepped out a bystander whom Whitehead claims In l lirt lid ward a, tired two shots at hlui, the latter Intlietiiig a eriou wound in the nk. Whit, bead M&4 taken to the iwiet hvti and now lie iu a aertoua eiid;ti.it heart h w made at onee an I tM- Vint km Mind In I'lverido and Idaeed in Jul Yerbryvk It n-t yet writ captured, lit! FIR AT SLATBR. three large titles ltilli4 aa4 t teal t,Uaril aK tt.ll.Hk rit,UH. Ma,, Ihv .''t AUmt I n'rlat'k yU-riUy mrulitar Arm Mas d. vt 4 lit tavnnt r I'tiil I'm kir A K..t' (l.ttuiiiir at4 b f,.r It y ) I b eliet l.t hl htirn! thrve Isryo lw-tory l-r iek buitdiitifs. toiai U tviki a4 th twl la swraar t.'MUt M. VjVJV i-J VkJV to your neighborhood, and if we you for the cause' sake, to help Vietiin of a iannllne Ktnin. PjTTHiiL'Bfl, Kan., Dee. iJO Vaster- day afternoon a gasoline stove ex ploded at the homo of James Ilea ly. a "Frisco railt'u:id employe, sotting fire to his wife's clothing and the house. Every stick of clothes was burned from the unfortunate woman's body, unci her entire body with the exception of the lower pait of her left leg, was baked and blistered. The sight of one eye is destroped. It is not thought potsible for her to re cover. IU;sit of Way Througn Okl ilnm;i. Washington, Doc. 20. The presi dent has signed the bills granting the right of way for construction of a railroad through the Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas, also the bill granting the right of way to the Kan sas, Oklahoma and Western railway company through the Indian aud Oklahoma territories. Vhipitnx Tramps Out of Town. Andkksom, Intl., Dee 26. Owing to the number of tramps Mayor Mcliune has issued an order instructing the chief of police to furnish each night pu trot men with a blucksnake whip. Every trump will be whipped out of the city and given a severe lashing If lie returns. ,t , Itavard for Itohanaa, "Heart or Alive." Destroy. Tesns, Dee 28. Oorcrnor Wilson Jones of the Choctiw nation bas offered t'MH reward for the person of Diivltl Ilohanan, who killed lieu Fore in :ii at South McAleMer and Tom McCoy near Durant. a few day ago; the reward is said to read "dead or allrt.." . X Utt.m M RKK f. Kass(itt. Mo. Deo. ft - Ma attempt t do buniivma m ule by raln is l-a TI.K riipta aere it car of vitoat. I'U v im of torn, 9tn of oalt, I uar o( bran t r of 111 ami .-i t-.tr- ' bay A $r a ; ia 4 if V t i.w f wel. Il ar ef ttw ao4 l enrt efail, were rwive4 A tu,u frtitn tttUti a l-t it if h' it oa lh.' "i-ib' , A ( ) ol I'ufa br t SO i aer yo(turt'4 Ta (wetUH weak tut b..' era an t vltu KIMt" Ht titK SftKK. KaA riTT. Mt, la t Cltl M t"li. f, t: aSiaM.4 lettarltr. ix mm mfe f.f iuwh t a.rie. o.M I'dxl.l i.r, vlar ,a t fu,., uler t..il. tt ir a 4 taeKr (I (' I ef I b ia .t l-'v,t I ah4 eUlui, &j mtitv . liiijli, t Rff, is, mi. t a. 1 1 Htt I 1n t l i I a l : ea. h lr tj ti ,!, I, tt "t ia II .:! !. IV?!, klpt t,t'4 Ml. I .ike a a lite J i t aw I4 y r4 M a t.i st . t( mlt ,,a a4 ih buiS af i,i Ihi Hat'tt A.tlaat tl t . t el yer"4tv asp H,IU VI at JJMMU. hvp fiitn m ll4lt fba tkMHtt a,l aat 'fl !;. te ftreaui.e Wt I'H.e ,N Vt( V Situ' ! IPV fit,, , , it lea N H l K I I ll,i ,, M I at lea a .,, t i I l w w S r 5? iu?Ui,Z LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1893. PEIXOTO STILL ON TOP. Ijito Advices to Urailiian Mliilitera Make No Mention of ltebel Haccraa. New York, Dec. 20. Minister Men donca, who1 is in this city said to-day; "I have received telegrams from Rio this morning, but have no advices to confirn the reportof Siello's triumph Lo.N'joif, Dec. 2. The Brazilian minister here hast received advices from Itio do Janeiro, dated December 3-', that nosteps will be taken to carry out the death sentence pronounced upon the Denchimol brothers, until furtner advices are received from London Tne Jtenchlmols are me in ix' r b ui a former snipping firm, are charged with bringing firearms to Brazil and were recently arrested on an order from President l'exioto charging them with importing men to aid Mello. Washington, Dee. 26. The state and nary departments nre both posi tive in expressing their discredit of re ports that Mello has captured Rio. Word is believed to have been received since yesterday in one department or the other contradicting yesterday's rumors. The following dispatch was received by the state de artment to day: Rio, Dec. To Secretary of State, Washington: American masters, each of them hold Brazilian 1'aciSc docks specified arc contiguous point".' Protection from shore fire promised by government Instruct Picking to anchor off that point for convenience until question equitably settled. In surgents make lines of fire anywhere to suit their purpose, thereby indefi nitely booking neutral commerce without previous notice. Towns. Mr. Towns is the United States ex- consul general at Rio. His dispatch is constructed to indicate that the regular government of Brand has granted permit to shipping to land and receive cargoes at certain wharves lying near each other, and the consul general wants the United States naval forces to see that Mello and DaUama resppct these permits and not fire along these lines. Montevideo, Dec, Sti. News has been received of a fight Wednesday Detwoen the rebels a(jd the govern ment forces from Santa Cattiarina. General Sarava's men had joined wittt those under Salgado, making a total of 8,ooo. The fighting took pla'o in Itajahy, the insurgent divisions being led by (ieni-rais I'inheiro. Michado, Luna and Martins. According to the latest reports, the rebels had lost -100 men, but the government troops were so badly penned in that surrender seemed unavoidable. The rebels are well armed, having lately received 2,000 rifles and guus from Hi) on board the Aqnidiban. The Republica is taking on coal arid is almost ready to sail. It is rumored that she is coming to Montevideo to fight Peixoto's squadron gathering there. One of Mello's steamers, the Meteoro, reeonnoitering the harbor entrance at Harra-Itaoahy, ran aground and the government artillery there opened fire upon her nnd kept up the cannon ado till all of her crew were killed. BOBBED BY A PAYING TELLER. Forty-Ttvo ThotMiiinl Oollar Miortiiga in I lie St. XIcIiuIim Hank Found. Nkw Yokk, Dec 20 Superintendent Preston aud Examiner Judson while exa iiini.rg the books of the closed St Nicholas bank yesterday discovered a deficit of 43,000 in the ucco.ints of Lewis A. Hill, the paving teller, nnd he was arrested at Newark, N. .1., in the uftcrnooii, taken to police head rpi"irlra and nbqiintly held In 8 id, in hi boud pending extradition pro ceedings in New York. THE EVIDENCE ALL IN. I'rea4erf aat'e t'aee Cloe4 far a tke Teetlmoujf It l'uueerar4. (nit aoo, Dee. 3 6. The evidence In the I'rendergant C4 was completed trt-d iy. Au attempt to Introduce ur rebuttal evidence was made, but the iudge would tu t permit anything of m I wn-U nee to l atata t. Tlio argu ment in the eiM will ih beyun ne Tuesday. Aaolker K t'lly llwer .trrale-i K sm lit, Ma, lve. A war raul for tlt arrest f UiIUi.i T. lloime, president i.f th c n.ity 8.tiiiif Trut lomptny, wlii. ii mtla au atgmtient .tt June-, mi utiied linUt by Justice f the IVae llr,.ua on voiiM'Uutt u( l ounty I'ioo, . tttur Mtrey K Mron. At In than uf tue uliier iMUker wtt hava I'emt ar rvaia t tiw i'Lii ia ,'iiii t tare n, ly rvliiiMf dein.t Mit'i J it li,.'.ent baa,t. Mr, UoLtien g4im S I , t nit- fern Saetel I ataat I'AKia IteA s4-ltjf ta aa epr tfautta if sittaUp alrt of th attMtt fviultt nt fa"allle h 11144 arrange ieuti ht tha tl U.ice it a detr a tkalr aftertf Ktn tas t h tsni ay U tkit atvlat4 ihrl turn ta a. aytliw ard art Uaa4. A TEN YEARS' FIGllT. r HE HOUSE BACKS DOWN ON A LONO CONTEST. PRIVATE CLERKS FOR SENATORS. "enatori and ConR-rettmea Who Arc Not t'linlrmeu of Cuuimltteai Will Vow II are Secretarlet at Unolo i Sain'i Ezponaa The atato llaok Tas itepaal liauo WaiblDftoa Kew. WAsriiNOTOit, Dec. 8a The final ac ceptance by the house of representa tives of the senate amendment to the urgency deficiency bill, providing for the payment of naUnc of the senate pur diem clerks for the recess of the fifty-first congress, probably marks the close of a contest between the two branches which dates back to a time far beyond the employment of these clerks for this work. The contest begun in 1883, when, upon n motion of Senttor Butler, the senate voted to employ private secre taries for senators not chairmen of committee. At that time neither senators nor members who were not heads of committees were given clerks, and although the need of auch assist anoe had been frequently commented upon in both houses, neither body was willing to vote itself aid until the Forts-eighth congress when the sen ate teok the initiative. The house did riot accept the innovation in a kindly spirit but at once began a war on the clerks which continued until the pres ent tune. The senators never failed to amend the legislative appropriation nil so as to provide for the pay of the clerks, but the amendment was sel dom accepted by the bouse without vigorous comment and more or less parleying with the senate. The clerks were only paid for the time that congress was in session. After the long session of the Fiftv first congress in 18U0. when there were only two months between the close of one session and the opening of the next, the senators, finding a great deal of accumulated business on their hands, resolved to retain the ser vices of the clerks during the recess. The house objected and the action of the senate in the matter had the effect of giving a stimulus to the conflict, which the house had shown some disposition to drop by providing for session pay in that congress without waiting for the action of the senate. Every year since the senate put the item on some ap propriation bill sent over from the house and it was just as regularly re jected by che house until the present session when the senate, refusing ab solutely to backdown, the house, after tying up an apporpriatlon bill for two months, finally gave way. The reason of the surrender of the house is that that body has found the example of the senate in employ ing clerks for individual members worthy of imitation and now employs such clerks itself. It is now admitted by a majority of the members that the business of senators and members is Auch that it, is almost impossible to conduct It without aaslstance, and the war seems to have reached a termina tion. THE STATE BANK PROBLEM. Am Adveraa Iteport and Settle aaeat the lull llouae Probable. Wasui.hoto, Dee. 89. The com mittee on banking and currency, the moat discordant committee In the houae, a. one of its members deelarea It to be, will very likely reach some sort of an agreement shortly on the state bank tas repeat bill, as the members seem to have agreed ouUtde f the committee room upon a plan, which they eould not do In luiumUte. It now pro poned to report adversely tha bill I a troduued ty lUpreseutsttf e t of Tvnne aud titauihorta Mr, t'n ta auiuuit a minority report whiett would give kltti i-harg ,f he bill wit the tttMio of the ItMuitv, I hi ia s tM to I tke only war Hie committee can gtit cut tt t o? rru'iit taiigl'- Tle elate bank tax repeal question, has the rlrfht of war In the euntmit tee and noo.her baittvai cm licn ti.lervd m title U U undmpiHMnt vf. The plan nf r purling la a lvral siu t W tha ,fty ,hol 4, nevllti It nut f the way It U ttad-l ttt l4h fettna wutl. bo saUHttkf t nave it uaeeea km tne (lour, its ! tpia,iieut U Hating that it will tM I d(ea(4. wtitU its Irtaods lalu that I tne Ihmi wratse tUli rm would -( ' be IwlBilea unit tt saauld be pe-e Tt.e Tm AUUnvC IsntfRNneir UNDER THE LOTTERY LAW, A Mercbaut's Novel Plan to Attract Cus tomers Held to Be IllefaL Washington, Dec. 2d Assistant Attorney General Thomas of the post- oflice department has decided an in tcresting case brought to the atten tion of the department It was the proposition of a merchant to write the name or every purchaser of every dol lars' worth of goods at his store oppo site certain numbers following in rotation, giving the customer as many numbers as dollars paid lor the goods. These numbers he Dronosed to eonv on pieces ol purer and deposit in I . .. . box, to select some person to draw out a name and give a prize to the person wtiose name appeared opposite that number. J lie department held that tne scheme constituted a lottery. Deputjr Iteglttar Smith JteafcB. Washington, Dec. 2ft. liar ry H, Smith, for some years journal clerk of the house of representatives and then deputy register of the treasury nnder ueneral Kosecranz, has resigned owing to personal and official dl fa culties between himself and Register iUinian, - Kaw Una-land's Oldest Han Dead. sai.km, Mass., Dec. 28. The man whom the people of this city claimed as the oldest in New England, Daniel nagnerty, is dead at 104. lie waa nnrn In I Vrl T m 1 twj Iv. 103O Pardons by tha President. Washington, Dee. 26. The presi dent granted a number of pardons to day, as follows: Joseph 1'. llarton, William E. Jones, diet l'almontror and Ntepheu 6. llarton, Utan, poly gamy; .John u. wallow, Kansas, man slaughter; John W. l'itts, Missouri, larceny, commuted to one year s im- prisontnenti lsaae A. Stanley, Ohio, violation of the united Mates bank- ng laws; William W. Palmer, Arkan sas, assault. t'alho U- rieuxeil at lloiildnx' Huenei Mo.NTitii al, Dec. 36. The French- Canadian Catholia press of Montreal and Quebec is very enthusiastic over the election of John Hopkins, Catho lic, us mayor of Chicago. Prominent Freneh Canadians in Chicago wired Senator Tasso that 0,0()(i French-Cana dians voted for him. La Minerve de clares that the election of a Catholic in Chicago is a great event Ten Year for an Expren Jtobber. Wichita, Kan., Dec, 26 Judge Heed this morning overruled the mo tion fora new trial and sentenced John Kittrcli, the colored man arrested in Kansas City for complicity in the robbery of $7,500 from a United States express wugon here, to ten years in the penitentiary. Frightfully Injured by a H!at. Sedama, Ma, Dec, 26. A frightfut accident happened at the Georgetown quarry yesterday morning. August llerge, a Swede, aged 33 years, tired wo charges of giant powder at the same instant, and it was supposed mat uom naa exploded. Just as Berge stepped over the mine a second explosion followed and he was blown into the air. Ilia body was riddled with rock, his right eye was cut out. the upper part of his face stripped of nest), me skull iructured aud an arm and leg broken, lierge remains alive in an unconscious condition, but can not surv ve his injuries. bad I'lared t uder Arrent. til. DoitAiKt, Kan., Dec. 26. Con misslonrr J. F. Todd arrived in this city yesterday morning from Kansas City with a black eye and several scratches on his face, and was busy all day explaining how It happened. J, 8. Cooper, a constable from Ftor enee, immediately placed Mr. Todd nnder arreat, charged with assault with intent to kill J. F. House of Flor ence. I'remlueat pullllvlaa Ateaaelaaled. lSKMTOft. Ill, Ikw. a& Judge W. IL Williams waa shot In the side on the street of I'arUh by a concealed aaaas sin. Two loads of shots were fired, literally covering hit body. The dKh tors say his Injuries are fatal Judge William U a prominent Uepuhlicaa politician. I airing served two l-rma as clerk f this county. He waa sImi a delegate iu the t hleago roitveulUin la being one of the famous 31. The would-be sm4)ii lm no Wen arrested. ar treaderfatt I ae. tHK tiio, Ihjc SO. '-Si well known and blrfkli respectable dctr told the I'rendwrgast Jury rraterd that In ihelr opinti'M the pr u -r Is Mne and that at thu tiwie of tW murd r be anew IL tliffafreii. a Uluaii r! til ud wnif I be Ut witaowi f tke day was U. Ionaisl 11, J.,he. the f"r of tke el un wlii.H UUr rltfe made kit e- li t au.ide. I ;farlhrtra Hue a tbkar tmo tt k' Ue fai "aet train The AHIance-lndependent Mvecttosi-" The free and unlimit ed colDaffe of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; in other words, the restor ation of silver to the place it held in our cur rency from 1792 to 1873. That the Sherman law should not bo re pealed unless a law more favorable to sil ver is substituted for it NO. 28 BANDITS THWARTED ENGINEER "K ATY' LYON OUTWITS TRAIN ROBBERS. . THE FIBEMAN SHOT IN THE MOUTH nigheamen Polled the Switch at KaUe tattoo, lad. Tar., for tha Pnrpoee " of Side Traeklog and Holdloa; Vp the Train, but the Switch Was a "Split" One and the Trans Was Ha red. Parsons, Kan., Dea 26. An un successful attempt was made to hold np south bound passenger train No. on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad yesterday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock at Kelso station, Ind. Ter. The bandits pulled the swith north of the station, intending to sidetrack tne train and then rob it, but their plana were completely frustrated by the engineer, George Lyona The moment the enirlne struck tha witch the engineer correctly oa- filcioned that robbers had a hand la he work, and knowing that he could not derail his train, the switch being a "split" one, he pulled the lever of the engine wide open and the train shot through the aiding at a high rate of speed and in perfect safety. ine roDbers seeing that they were beaten, opened fire on the fast flying; train, wounding William Milne the fireman, in the mouth, r " For some davs the railroad eomnanv has been in possession of information to the effect that a holdup waa an ticipated and the trainmen have all '- been on their guard. A GAME PARMER. The Man Who Killed Two Confidence Men Give lllmeelf Vp. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 26. It has been established that G. H. Mayer and George Blum, the crooks who were killed in a confidence gang's ren dezvous in this city, were shot by A. II. Tilla, a well-to-do farmer from Chadsworth, Iowa. Pilla arrived in this city from Kansas City last even ing and gave himself up to the police. He said: T was at the union depot Maver asked us out to have a drink and coaxed me to the confidence joint They wanted me to draw in a lottery to get a suit for 91 and demanded that I show them more money. I took 85 out of my pocketbook, which con- tained $ro, and both Mayer and Blum grabbed for it They held my hands, and we fought quite awhile before I got loose. Then they grabbed me again, and I shot them. 1 would have given myself up before, but had bus iness to attend to and did not know how long I would have to stay, so I went on and transacted my business. When I got through I came back here to stand trial if necessary." l'illa will be released on his own bond, and will probably never be prosecuted. FLORIDA'S GOVERNOR SAYS NO Will Do Ml ftinont to Prevent the Corbett-Mitchell right. Jacksonville, Fla., Dea 26. The Duval Athletic club received a set back yesterday in its efforts to pull off the Corbett-Mltchcll fight Tha attorney for the club appeared before Governor Mitchell at Tallahassee and made application for a charter. This the governor flatly refused, stating that under cover of the charter the elub proposed to violate the laws of norma. Of coarse this proved a surprise to the sports, and their consternation was further Increased by the knowl edge that s strong letter against the ngbt has been written by the gov ernor to J. it lynrn. a prominent gentleman of this eitv. 1 he managers of the fight say the affair will eome off despite the gov ernor 'a opposition. llaey teal liar gee Sank, Louts vu lb, Kr, Dea 84 Between. T.OoO.ooo and ,i),otH buthele of eoal are now anchored along the wharf on. the river front waiting f r more water ta get away on. The Coat City sunk four btrges at Caaevvltte, Ky. The Diamond sunk four bwaU at a point down the river between fair and Mentphtt Y, gut bug,, tt the .t ute feet which was to. by the luamoud were slraade-l at this point Ike Heaver l et three kvt at the Ides Ibo Jlat Wood e!ruk a. pier at tse Louisville and JtftNreort ville bridge last If hi and teak barf. 1 he total Iwea t alt Will b boattMtOOO Ulpaaa Tebute Ulatioa; tveekt. ft air ekMRk-AiOur Uvr trunkle. Ci n