Nebraska Newspapers

    COLD BLOODY 3IURDER
WYOMING WHITES BLAMED
FOR INDIAN TROUBLE.
The United States District Attorney and
Deputy Marshal Ileport the Result of
?helr Investigation Into the Matter to
The Attorney General.
Washixoto, Sept. 2. The depart
meet of justice has recieved from the
United States attorney and marshal of
Wyoming the official reports of their
Investigation Into tlie Bannock Indian
troubles made by direction of the at
torney general.
The district attorney says: "I have
no doubt whatever that the killing of
the Indian Tanega on or about the
13th of July was an autrociousand cold
blooded murder, and it was a murder
porpetrated on the part of the con
stable, Manning, and his deputies in
pursuance of a scheme and conspiracy
to prevent tne Indians from exercising
a right and privilege which is, in my
opinion, very clearly guaranteed to
them by the treaty before mentioned.
Should prosecution on the part of the
United States be determined upon it
would be useless to commence it be
fore a commissioner. As the law is
now, we are bound to bring prisoners
before the United States commissioner
nearest to the place of arrest, and in
this case it would bo before Mr. Pet
tigrew, the commissioner at Ma rys
vale. 1 am informed that he is thor
oughly in sympathy with the so-called
settlers In that region and that he ad
vised the constable, Manning, and his
posse, that the provisions of tiie treaty
under which the Indians claimed tho
right to hunt upon the unoccupied
lands of the United States had, for
some reason, ceased to be operative.
Eence, I think to cause the arrest of
these men and take them for hearing
before this commissioner would simply
result in their discharge.
The United States deputy marshal
who Investigated the trouble s ays that
after a careful investigation of the
whole affair he finds that the reports
cade by settlers charging the Indians
with wholesale slaughter of game for
antonness, or to becure the hides,
have been very much exaggerated.
"During my stay in Jackson's Hole,"
he continued, "I visited many portions
of the district and saw no evidences
of such slaughter. Lieutenants Gard
ner, l'arker and Jackson of ihe Ninth
United States cavalry, who conducted
scouting parties of troops through all
portion's of Jackson's Hole, also found
' this to bo the case. On August 13 I
visited a camp of Bannock Indians who
had been on a hnnt in Jackson's Hole.
The women of the party were prepar
ing the meat of seven or eight elk for
winter use, and ever' part of tho ani
mal, even to tho brains, entrails and
sinews Was being utilized either for
future food supply or possible source
of profit.
"In connection with the trouble be
tween the Indians and the whites, I
pent 6oino time inquiring into the
causes for the unconcealed hostility of
the Jackson's Hole people against ' the
Indians. There was little or no ura
plaint among the settlers of offensive
manners on the part of the Indians.
Except in rare instances, they have
kept away from the houses of the set
tlers and have not been in the habit of
begging. In no instance has there
ever been a well authenticated ease
where a settler has been molested by
an Indian. The killing of game by
- Indians and by the increasing number
of tourist hunters threatens to so de
plete the region of big game, deer,
elk, moose, etc., as to jeopardize
the occupation of the professonal
guides at Jackson's Hole. It
was decided at the close of last
reason to Veen tho Indians out of the
region this year, and the events of this
lummer are the results of carefully
prepared plans. This was admitted by
United States Commissioner l'ettigrew
f Marysvale and Constable Manning
said: 'Ws knew very well when we
started in on this thing that we would
bring matters to a head. Some one
wasrjo'ng to be killed. perhaps some on
both shies, and we decided the sooner
it was done the better, so that we could
get the matter before the courts.' If
a full investigation of the trouble
Should be held, the fact would be es
tablished that when Constable Mann
ing and his posse of twenty-six
settlers arrested a party of Indians on
July 13 and started with them for
Marysvale, he and his men did ull they
could to tempt tho Indians to try to
escape In order that there might be a
basis of justification for killing some
of them."
MINISTER TOO SEVERE.
China Demands the Kecall of the Itrit
Isb Representative at l'rkln.
London, Sept 2. A special dispatch
from Pekin says that the Tsung Li
Vmen, or Chinese foreign office, has
Instructed the Chinese minister in
London to demand the recall of tho
British ambassador at IVkin, N. R.
O'Connor, owing to the letter's men
acing attitude in connection with the
demands made by Great Britain for the
appointment of a commission to in
quire into the Ku Cheng massacres.
Minneapolis Honors It Namesake.
Boston, Sept 1. A handsome solid
silver service, a large picture of Min
neapolis and an ugright piano of Min
neapolis manufacture were presented
to the cruiser Minneapolis at anchor
in the Boston harbor to-day at noon
by a committee of leading citizens of
that city. The plate consists of eight
pieces of solid silver, made according
to special design. All are covered
with engravings which typify the in
dustries and resource of the city of
Minneapolis and nautical emblems.
The Hamburg-American company
has ordered of Uarland Wolff of Bel
fast a twin screw, 20.0'JO ton steamship
which will be the largest in the world.
It will be chiefly employed as a freight
steamship, but w ill accommodate :'00
eabin passengers and J,50o steerage
passengers. Her delivery to her own
ers is to be made in ten months.
At Cairo, 111., Jacob Kline, a wealthy
brick manufacturer, was killed by a
hot kiln of brick caving in on him.
The fire department was called out
and cooled down the b-lek so that the
body was reached and taken out a
shapeless mass of charred flesh and
bo.B'
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Improvement In Market! Continue at m
Marvelous Gait
New Yokk, Sept. 2. It. G. Pun fc
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Improvements in markets and prices
continues, and whereas a few months
ago everybody was nursing the faint
est hopes of recovery it has now some
to be the only question in which
branches, if any, the rise in prices and
the increase of business may go too
far. A 6trong conservative feeling ia
finding expression, not as yet control
ling the markets or industries, but
warning against too rapid expansion
and rise.
In some directions the advance in
prices clearly checks future business.
But encouraging features have great
power. Exports of gold continue, but
are met by syndicate deposits and ex
peoted to cease soon. Anxieties about
the monetary future no longer hinder
Crop prospects, except for cotton, have
somewhat improved during the week.
Important steps toward reorganiza
tion of great-railroads gives hope to
investors. Labor troubles are for the
present less threatening and some of
importance have already been settled.
The industries are not only doing bet
ter than anybody expected, but are
counting on a great business for the
rest of the year. The advance in
prices of iron and. its products has
added about J a ton more in a single
week to the prices of Bessemer iron at
Tittsburg and yet the great steel com
panies are buying wherever they can,
while tho air is full of reports that this
or that fiuished product will still
further advance.
Lead is still $3.52, though the pro
duction in the first half of 18'J5 was
10T,970 tons, with increasing stocks
from 3,158 tons in January to 8,511
tons in July. Coke is demoralized
with sales at Si. 10 per ton.
Wool has been speculatively hoisted,
so that sales have fallen below last
year's, in August 22,V0tt,400 pounds, of
which 10,902,1100 were foreign, against
25,748,850 last year, of which only
4,53f 1:00 were foreign.
Tne prospect for wheat has hardly
improved this week, although the
price has fallen one-fourth of a cent. '
t orn is coming forward more freely,
nnd the September prices have declined
a quarter of a cent with tho promise of
a great crop; pork and lard are a shade
lower.
AN INDIAN CENERAL DEAD
Samuel l'arker. a Full lllood of Re
noun. No More.
EiuroErouT, Conn., Sept 2. Gen
eral Ely Samuel Parker died suddenly
last night at the house in Fairfield of
Arthur Brown, where he came from
New York yesterday. He was 75 years
of age and was a full blooded Indian.
He was born on the Towanda reserva
tion in New York and was chief of the
Seneca tribe.
His Indian name was Do-ne-hoh-ga-wa,
which means "Keeper of the West
ern gate." lie was educated at Elli
cottsville, N. Y., where lie studied the
profession of civil engineering. He
also studied law and was admitted to
the New York bar, but never prac
ticed. Early in life he became inter
ested in Indian affairs and went to
Washington, where he soon became
known as the most earnest advocate
of the Indian cause in the capital. He
lived for a time in Galena, 111., where
he was a friend of General Grant
Mr. Parker received a commission as
captain in the United States army
from President Lincoln and joined
General Grant at Vicksburg in 18(12,
where he was made a member of the
general's staff with the rank of
colonel. lie served through the war
and for some time acted as General
Grant's private secretary. He wrote
tho famous surrender of Lee at Appo
mattox in 1805.
He received the rank of brigadier
general from Grant, and when the lat
ter became president was appointed
commissioner of Indian affairs, which
he held until 1871. For several years
past he had been superintendent and
architect of police stations in New
York.
General Parker married Miss Minnie
Sackett of Washington, D. C, in I8ti7.
President Grant attended the marriage
ceremony and gave the bride away.
Ho was a Scottish Rite Mason, a mem
ber of the Loyal Legion of the Army
and Navy of Eno post, G. A. It., in New
York city. He was an ardent Repub
lican and an eloquent speaker.
FHIImsteriiig Expedition Run Down.
New Yokk, Sept. 2. Emissaries of
the Spanish government went to New
London, Conn,, last night on informa
tion for which the consul general of
Spain in this city paid SU'0, that a
Cuban filibustering expedition was on
the point of sailing from Gardiner's
Bay, opposite New Loudon. The in
formation implicated Captain Dillon,
of renown in similar undertakings
during revolutionary troubles in
Ilayti, now commanding the steamer
Commodore, of 170 tons burthen,
which has hitherto been engaged in
fishing. The "supplies" that the Com
modore is taking on board are de
clared to be arms and ammunition
made up in packages to simulate or
dinary merchandise. The ostensible
purpose of the Commodore was given
out as a fifhing expedition to South
port, N. C. To-day the Commodore
was seized by federal authorities.
Another Expedition Seized.
Washington, Sept, 2. The treasury
department has received a telegram
from Collector of Customs Cottrell at
Cedar Keys, Fla., saying that at the re
quest of the Spanish consul at Tampa
he had seized at a point twenty miles
from Cedar Keys, 150 Hemingto'n rifles,
a quantity of cartridges and eleven
kegs of powder, which were to have
been shipped to Cuba.
C S. Baker, coiored, of St Joseph,
Mo., lias given a tract of land for a
home for dependent ex-slaves, the
house to be built of bricks given by
the people of the United States. Re
quests for one brick have been sent to
the governors of every state in tho
union and many of them have re
sponded. Hundreds of people aia
tending small sums, the price of
brick.
TT. II. Holmes probably will not be
taken to Indianapolis for trial unless
there is a failure to convict him in
Philadelphia. ltetecUve Geyer and
Garey have decided to recommend trial
la Philadelphia
STOPPED THE DEBATE.
Shameless Conduct of a Kentucky Audi
ence Toward .11 r. Itradley.
Eminksck, Ky., Sept. 2. The sixth
joint debate in the teries of twelve,
which was to have taken place be
tween Colonel W. O. Bradley and Gen
eral P. XV. Hardin, at Eminence, yes
terday, was called off on account of
the noisy demonstration of the crowd.
Colonel Bradley was to have opened
and closed the debate. When he at
tempted to begin the noise and dis
turbance of tho crowd was so great
that he was compelled to sit down.
W. P. Thome, the Democratic chair
man, arose and appealed to them for
order, but tins crowd paid no attention
to him. Colonel Bradley attempted
again and again to speak, six times in
all. bvt failed to get a hearing. See
ing that any attempt to speak was in
vain, he gave it up, saying that tho
noise was more than he could stand,
and refusing most positively to proceed
farther.
The colonel said: "I wish I had my
voice a minute, so I could tell this
crowd what utter contempt I hold
them in." Then folding up his manu
script he left the stand. The action of
the auhienco is condemned by the
chairman of the Democratic committee
as well as the Republicans, who were
present, and they declare it is an out
rage and di'-ci'ii'-e to Henry county.
AN ILLINOIS MOB FOILED.
One Hundred Men Seek a Murderer, but
the Sheriff Outwits Them.
Jonf.hboho, III., Sept. 2. A mob of
over 100 determined men came to the
jail at I o'clock this morning and de
manded that John Jones, who murder
ed Mrs. Mendenhall at the Anna fair
grounds yesterday by choaking her to
death, be delivered to them. They
carried a rope, but were quiet and
orderly. Sheriff Day had heard of the
plan to lynch Jones and sent him in
charge of deputies, by carriage, ten
miles to Dongola, where he was taken
on the Illinois Central to Cairo and
placed in jail. The mob only dis
persed after being allowed to search
the jail.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
A negro who wronged a white girl
in Simpson county, Mississippi, was
lynched.
A receiver has been appointed to
straighten the tangle of the estates of
the Bcckwith brothers, who are both
crazy at New York.
Burnett Goldman committed suicido
at New York because he could not buy
his daughter a wedding trousseau.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt has
decided that women may ride horse
back straddle in New York's Central
park.
Holmes has admitted that the body
found at Indianapolis was that of
Howard Pietzel, but says that he did
not murder the boy.
Southern pig iron was again ad
vanced 50 cents a ton. Miners' wages
have been increased Ul per cent since
June 1 in Alabama.
Zella Niehokuis has amended her
complaint against George Gould and
charges that he assaulted her in his
office until her life was endangered.
The convention at Wintersct, Iowa,
to choose a 6tate senator, cast 4,000
ballots without a choice.
An Indiana Republican fdose to ex
President Harrison says that Senator
Quay's victory in Pennsylvania has de
termined Harrison not to allow his
name to be pushed for the presidential
nomination. Quay is said to be for
McKinley.
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the
Century, and Clark Davis of the Phila
delphia Public Ledger are the latest
candidates for the congressional libra
rian ship.
The citizens of Beaver, Pa, Quay's
home, tendered him a royal welcome
on his return home.
M. I). Stewart, a young busines man
of Smithion, Mo., and Miss D.iisv M.
Mauser, aged 17, daughter of Rev
Hauser of Lincoln, eloped to Windsor
and were married.
The curators of the Missouri state
university have arranged a ten weeks
course for the benefit of practical
farmers beginning in January.
Oscar Sherman, son of ex-Governor
Sherman of Iowa, has mysteriously
disappeared.
Op the Southern Illinois fairgrounds
at Anna. John Jones, keeper of a
dining booth, choked and kicked to
death Sarah Mendenhall in a o'.iarre.
over wages. She was the mother of
four children and the w ife of a farm
er. Jones is an e.-cotivict
Five men have, been killed as the re
sult of a family feud on Straight
creek, near the Bell and Hardin
county lines, Kentucky.
At Quincy, 111., Henry Boling and
Rosa Swearinger were fatally shot by
Dora Heilwagon while buggy riding.
Boling had been paying attentions to
both women.
The Duke d'Arcos, Spanish minister
to Mexico, and iMiss Virginia Wood
bury Lowery of Washington were
married at New London, Conn.
At St. Joseph, Mo , Miss Lillie May
Lansing has brought suit in the cir
cuit court against Mary Dixie He.-s for
$10,000 because Mrs. Hess slapped her.
Mrs. Hess owns a large amount of
real estate.
Mr. Sparks, a prominent landed
proprietor of Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, tried to horsewhip C. C Kings
ton, attorney general and premier of
South Australia, in Victoria Square,
Adelaide, in revenge for a personal at
tack in a speech. Premier Kingston
wrested the whip from his assailant
and horsewhipped Sparks instead.
The men are political enemies, Mr.
Kingston representing tho labor in
terests. Window Gland Worker' Wages Rained.
PiTTsnuito, r.i., Sept 2. The win
dow glass wage scale for the year, be
ginning with September 1, was settled
at a conference of manufacturers and
workmen here this afternoon by the
manufacturers conceding an advance
over last years' scale of li per cent
The settlement, which is a compromise,
affects about 20,f00 men.
Washington Dined OA Tenter.
Two dozen pewter plates, which
are claimed to have formed the camp
service of General Washington, are
in the possession of Mrs. Jamoi
Grunt Wilson of New York.
DR. FPiAKER FOILED,
CAPTURED IN THE VOODS
OF MINNESOTA.
The Prisoner Acknowledge Hla Identify
and Will lit) to Topeka Without lieql
Itlon Papers How lie Perpetrated Hie
Insurance Frauds.
DtLCTit, Minn., Sept. 3. Dr. George
W. Fraker of Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
the man who was supposed to have
been drowned in the Missouri river two
yeara ago, and to whose heirs the
last of 858, 000 was recently paid in
Kansas City, was captured in the
woods near Tower, Minn., yesterday.
It was always maintained by the
companies that Fraker was alive, but
his whereabouts were unknown.
Recently it became known in some
way that Fraker was near Tower,
where he was known under the alias
of Schnell, and Attorney Robert T.
Herrick and Deputy Sheriff Wilkerson
of Topeka came here and organized a
party to search for him. .He was
found in the woods and his capture
was effected by strategy. He was
brought to Duluth to-day and will be
taken to Topeka at once, going with
out a requisition.
Fraker had been living near Tower
for six months. He admitted his iden
tity and said he did not leave home on
purpose to defraud the companies, but
that while he was near the Missouri
river he fell in. He swam across the
river and got on land. The next day
he read in the papers that he had been
drowned and concluded to carry out
the deception and allow the heirs to
collect the insurance.
Herrick obtained a clue in the latter
part of 1894, which he has patiently
followed ever since until about a week
ago, when he learned the whereabouts
and assumed name of the doctor.
Thursday night he arrived in Tower,
together with John Wilkerson, chief
of police of Topeka. Fraker went by
the name of Schnell and lived with a
young man in a woodman's hut fifty
miles from Tower on the Itasca county
road. A warrant was secured in
Tower and Sunday morning accom
panied by Deputy Sheriff Archie
Phillips they started in a rough wagon
over still rougher roads for the place,
taking along provisions for live days,
giving out that they were to look over
some timber lands.
About twelve miles from Tower
Deputy Phillips, who was acquainted
with Fraker under the alias of Schnell,
saw the doctor's companion in a shanty
near the wood, and, on inquiring
where the doctor was, learned that
they had just moved to the place, and
that Fraker was hunting. On examin
ing the shanty a trap door was found
in the floor with a considerable exca
vation underneath, looking rather sus
picious. The young man was hand
cuffed and guarded and Phillips pro
ceeded on the road. About two miles
further a man with a gun on his
shoulder was met, who was instantly
recognized as the supposed dead man,
Fraker.
Herrick engaged h im in conversa
tion when sutderily Phillips seized his
arms and Wilkerson put on handcuffs.
Fraker thought he had been arrested
for killing game out of season, as
Phillips was also game warden. When
the warrant was read to him he was
thunderstruck, but admitted his iden
tity. He was brought to town to
gether with his companion, who hails
from Wisconsin and seems to be an
innocent party.
In conversation Fraker stated that
he had expected his relatives to get a
portion of the insurance money and
himself some also. He had been
greatly benefited, he said, by the wa
ters of a spring where he stopped and
had abort made arrangements to buy
the place, intending to make it a water
cure resort He would have spent
Sl'O.OOO, he said, improving the place.
The prisoner is about five feet six
inches tall, about 40 years old and has
a short, dark beard.
CHEERING UP DEBS.
Cincinnati A. It. I. Organizations Bo
cou ruffe Their Imprisoned Leader.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 3. Tho
three unions of the A. R. U. yesterday
met and wired the following to Eu
gene V. Debs:
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 1.
To Eugene V. Debs, Woodstock, III
Although you are a prisoner, de
prived of your liberty by a rotten ad
ministration of justice at the bidding
of the railroads and their servants, the
judges, the common people are to-day
worshiping at your altar. The seeds
you have sown will soon bear fruit.
The time will soon come when labor
will get its rights or will take them.
You are to the laboring men an honest,
fearless leader: you will yet pilot them
to an harbor of safety just as the star
guided the wise to the crib of our Lord
at Bethlehem. Goi bless jou.
SEARCHING FOfTaBRUTE.
Two Band Near St. I ouls Determined to
Lynch n Negro Wreteh.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 3. Two posses
of over 100 men each are searching
the region about Manchester, seven
miles from here for John Wesley, the
negro who brutally assaulted Mrs.
Marraion Friday night One posse is
led by Constable Schumaker and the
other is composed wholly of citizens
If Wesley falls into the h ands of either
posse he may be lynched, but, if
caught by the latter party of searchers
he will certainly be hanged at once.
The fugitive was seen yesterday by a
woman four milef from Manchester.
He is supposed to be hiding near Man
chester, and the chase will not be
abandoned until the criminal is found.
Parade and Speeches at St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 8. In this city,
East St Louis and adjoining towns,
Labor day was generally observed as a
holiday. A parade marched through
the business part of this city to Con
cordia park, where speeches were de
livered to a large concourse of people
by prominent laborites. In the ten
divisions composing the parade, every
trade was represented.
Deputy Marshal Lindscy says that i
Deputy Marsbil Hockcr was murdered !
by one of the posse sent to capture the j
Christian gang. j
labor s national day.
1 Tolleri All Over America Parade the
Streets A Fine Showing Made.
New Yoisk, Sept. 3. All over Amer
ica the strains of music and the tread
of marching feet were heard to-day.
Labor put on its holiday clothing and
celebrated its national holiday. In
every trade center where union labor
holds a council its organizations ob
served the day.
For the first time iu many years the
Central Labor union did not parade
through the city's streets, an excur
sion to Coney Island being deemed the
better way to spend the day.
To offset this, however, there were
arranged the parade of the striking
garment workers and the demonstra
tion at Union square of the Knight of
Labor, with whk;h organization the
garment workers are affiliated. The
New York letter carriers, headed by
Postmaster Dayton and his staff.
marched to the postoffice on their way
to the Letter Carriers' association con
vention in Philadelphia. The anarch
ists went out to Mantzel's park, Staten
Island, to see llerr Most and Claus
Zimmerman wave the red shirt and
talk of general destruction.
Jerry Simpson at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 3. Labor
day was fittingly celebrated in Kansas
City. The parade of the labor organ
izations was the largest and best ever
held here. Extensive preparations
had been made, every detail was care
fully planned and carried out. By
actual count nearly 3,000 men repre
senting almost all the trades as
semblies, councils and other bodies of
organized labor were in line The
parade was over a mile in length, oc
cupying an hour in passing. Ex-Congressman
Jerry Simpson was the chief
orator of the day. Addresses were
also made by Mayor Davis and others.
Two r rati eg in Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 3. Two separate and
distinct celebrations marked Labor day
in Chicago. The labor congress, So
cialistic in its tendencies, held a mass
meeting and picnic preceded by a
parade, the principal speakers being
Kier Ilardie, Frank Smith and John
Swinton. The building trades council
gave a counter attraction in the way
of a parade, picnic and mass meeting
of its own. No attempt was made to
carry the red flag iu the congress
parade, Mayor Swift having issued
strict orders against such action.
EARTH QUAKE DOWN EAST
Old Terra Iirma Shakes Over a Largo
Territory.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 3. Three
distinct earthquake shocks were felt
by the residents of Brooklyn about 8
o'clock yesterday morning. No dam
age to life or property is reported from
any section of the city. Thje district
of East New York and South Brooklyn
received the greatest shock, but the
rumblings were distinctly felt in other
sections of the city. Contradictory
reports are given as to the severity of
the shocks. The first shock, felt
at 6 o'clock, was followed by a rumb
ling noise, like distant thunder. This
was followed by two other slighter
shocks, which, according to most of
the reports, died away in a low,
grating tone.
Philadelphia, Sept. 3. An earth
quake shock lasting several seconds
was felt in this city shortly after 6
o'clock yesterday morning. The dis
turbance by mother earth of the quiet
of the Sabbath morning was violent
enough while it lasted to create a good
deal of consternation and not a little
damage. Buildings swayed percepti
bly, windows clattered and banged and
clocks and pictures toppled from their
places. At the Zoological gardens the
vibration was clearly perceptible, but
the excitement which follovffd among
the animals continued a good while
after the seismic disturbances. Head
keeper Manly asserts that the trumpet
ing of the elephants, the roar of the
lions and the screeching of the birds
was simply terrific. The shock was
perceptibly felt at Sandy Hook, Wilm
ington, Del., and Chester, Pa.
Jersey City, N. J., Sept. 3. New
Jersey felt the force of the earthquake,
the tremor extending throughout the
northern part, whilo the southern sec
tion appears to ha ve escaped the ex
perience entirely. From all of the
cities and villages in the northern sec
tion the story received is the same.
PROF. DYCHEON BOARD.
The Noted liiinsn Scientist Joins the
Tenry Relief Kxpedition.
St. Johns, Newfoundland. Sept. 3.
The first news from the Peary relief
expedition since its departure was re
ceived to-day from the American
schooner John E. Mackenzie, which
returned from the Greenland halibut
fishery. The Mackenzie met the Kite
with the expedition at Holsteinburg
on July 15.
j At Holsteinburg the Kite took
j aboard Professor Dyche, one of the
, expedition, and sailed again the same
evening. Very little ice was reported
south of Greenland waters. The crew
1 of the Mackenzie think the Kite will
i have no difficulty in reaching Whales
Bound, where Peary's headquarters are
located. The return of he relief par
ty is expected about the end of this
month.
Zella Mcolaus Quits the Stage.
1 Philadelphia, Sept 3 Zella Nico
laus abruptly ended her theatrical en
gagement at the Lyceum theater Sat
urday night and returned to New
York. From the beginning she bad
made things uncomfortable around
the theater by her demands. She ob
jected to dressing with the other mem
bers of the company.
Carnegie Pleads for Ireland,
i London, Sept. 3. Andrew Carnegie
has a column letter in the Times this
morning based upon the recent Irish
convention in Pittsburg urging the
Times to use its power and influence
toward finding a solution of tSe Iris!
( lestion. -
A Mayor Charged With Extortion.
Ashland, Wis., Sept 3. Charges
have been preferr.d against Mayor C
M. E. McClintock and signed by A. E,
Dixon, W. L. Winiora and J. t. fccott,
charging him with extorting money
from city employes. The city council
bas ordered an investigation.
VALUABLE BEQUESTS.
Will of the Late M. I', rayne Churches
and Colleges Remembered.
Malvkkn, Iowa, Sept. a. The late
M. U. Payne the famous Fremont
county millionaire who died a few
days ago, was a most interesting and
original character. He w as a life-ionjr
friend of Jefferson Davis, and when
the latter was elected president of the
Southern Confederacy he appointed
Payne secretary of the interior, but he
never served in that capacity. On the
contrary he came north and settled in
Fremont county, where he has since
amassed a fortune estimated at from
81,000,000 to $.1,000,000. He owned land
in every state in the union except one,
though the most of his real estate w-as
in Fremont county, where he had
10,000 acres. When Jefferson Davis
died he owed Mr. Payne 5100,000, which
( ne Had forgotten to pay. W hen Davis
i died, Payne was called'to his home in
! Mississippi to preach his funeral ser
mon. Payne's will, just tiled for pro
bate, shows his money bequests to be
f J28.O00 aside from hi's real estate.
lie-sides making liberal provision for
his widow, children, relatives and ser
vants, he bequeathed to Charles S.
Ilantry, of the Firebrand. Shenan
doah, and his school, S5,00i'; M. E.
church, South, loan fund board of
church extension, S20.000; M. E.
church, South, on the home place,
thirty acres, so long as used for church
purposes; Central college, Fayette,
Mo., endowment fund, $10,000; Park
college, Parkville, Mo., scholarship
fund, $10,000; Tabor college, Tabor,
Iowa, endowment fund, $10,000; to the
needy widows nnd orphans under 12
years, and spinsters over 40 years, and
all preachers now living upon any
land in Fremont county owned by
said testator, or who may hereafter
live upon any of said premises during
the ownership of his heirs, $30,000.
COMPETE WITH THE EAST.
What the Keport of the Colorado Fue
and Iron Company Demonstrates.
Denver, Col., Sept. 3. The third
annual report of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company for the fiscal year
ending June 30, IS','5, just made public,
shows that the gross earnings for the
year were $5,007, is."!, as compared with
?i,375,47i for the preceding twelve
months. The company earned all its
fixed charges, paid a dividend of eight
per cent on SL',000,000 preferred stock,
and at the end of the year had a sur
plus of $4,874. The net earnings were
tSU4,'J:."j, an increase of $143,404 over
the preceding year.
The coal product showed an in
crease of 141,04'J tons and the coke
product increased (i5,!'j;; tons. The
total product of coal was i.4S0.4i5
tons and of coke L'4'J,2G0 tons. The
company produced upwards of 550,000
tons of manufactured iron. It has
been shown that the Fuel andiron
company can produce iron and steel at
prices that compete successfully with
tiie large eastern factories.
CORPORATIONS AT WAR.
The Western Union and the Southern
I'aeifle at Outs.
San Francisco, Sept. 3. A dispute
has arisen between the Western Union,
and the Southern Paciiic. The former
leases all of the telegraph lines of the
railroad and operates them, as part of
its telegraph system. This arrange
ment has been in force ever since
177. One of tiie provisions of
the contract provides that the Western
Union shall pay Mr. Huntington $loo,
000 annually. The payment for this
year is now several months overdue,
and the whole trouble is the outgrowth
of negligence on the part of the West
ern Union. The Western Union wishes
a reduction of 33 per cent made in this
yearly rental.
Mr. Huntington nnd the Western
Union people have had the matter
tinder consideration for some time, and
the former is said to have so far de
clined to make anv reduction.
FOR BEATING HIS WIFE.
A Brutal Parmer of Auilri:in County, M
Whipped hy His Neighbors.
Mexico, Mo., Sept. 3. John La lin
ing, who lives in the east end of
Audrian, beat his young wife, who be
came temporarily insane, unmercifully
because she wandered from home to a
corn field near by. The neighbors
caught him, took him to the woods
and applied the whip until his blood
ran sufiicient ly- to expiate for his
brutal crime. Launing has disap
peared. His wife was sent to. the
asylum at Fuiton to-day. They had
only been married about one year.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
New York architects are condemn
ing the erection of tall buildings.
Boston spent (too on the Knights
Templars and tool in half a million.
The demand for Alabama coal and
irou is in excess of the means to fill it.
Chauncey M. Denew denies that he
prohibited the sale of Coin's Financial
School on Yandcrbilt lines.
Some Washington lawyers still
doubt the legality of Hansom's ap
pointment to Mexico.
China is making inquiries about
American firms which manufacture
ships, guns and armor. f
Democrats were slighted in the se
lection of orator for the opening ex
ercifes of the Atlanta exposition.
. Lamest Hargrove, the theosophist,
has arrived iu this country to earn
some American dollars by lecturing.
George P. Allen, formerly an East
St. Louis deputy sheriff, shot his wife
and step-daughter near Decatur. 111.
A Kentneky Negro Hanged by a Mob.
Hick mas, Ky., Sept. 3. At 2 o'clock
this morning William Butcher, a des
perate negro, was taken from jail by
a mob. His head was shot off and his
body riddled with bullets. Masks of
some of the mob were found near the
negro's dead body.
Ishtemino, Mich.. ,ept. Y. The She
boygan company of the Fifth infantry,
Michigan National Guard, is now at
Marquette and will reach here with
the companies from Ironwood, Calu
met, Houghton and Marquette to-day.
Shovel crews, numbering fifty men,
are in Marquette.
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