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Sioux County Journal HARBISON, NEBRASKA. A woman may be called an angel, but who ever saw an augel even in pictures, that wore pant and Hew on bicycle? A cynical philosopher argues that When people are not dosing thetu-ee-ves with drugs to cure them, they re doing something to make them selves Sick. .EspiiiiKR Puary "was obliged to Ml walrus meat " Up in the l olar , regions walrus meat is considered pretty u oi eatini Vr. Peary must base bis claim tor martyrdom on acme thing else. Eecent e ent ought to have sug gested to the Em eror f China the propriety of restor ng that yellow jacket to the Hon Li Hung Chang. Apparently that important garment j 1 Is not being worn by any one just it , present A'L the way from Tangier comes (he word that the Sultan of Mo ioc o is sick. He is .suffering from ! aiunipe. We will wager a doughnut ! that there are hundreds of American ; boys affected with the same trouble i and that the lad will not be cabled to Morocco. Ttk entire wealth cf the 1 nited SUtesls about J,OJii,0,'0.0 0, distri buted as follows: Millionaires' fam ilies ' ,000. have tJO.uoO, iso.ooo. capi talists' families. '-.M:udo. en oy 000. uoO.Uuu; middle class families, d 405, 000, hold tii',ooo,00u: indus-triala'-families 7,21f',0O0, own only 1 rJ.0 jo, OiKi.ouo. ANOTHEK idol smashed! It is the pretty Christian legend that the jMpen .tjUivers with shame brC'-iuse -from its wood the cross was made. ' But the New York un say that o! ervers of nature have rtiseovert-d th it "the qUA'ering of aspen leaves is due to the fa. t that the leaf stalk is at ,oa the sides, and so thin aoout tne middle that i he siiglaest b ealb of wind sets ail the leaves a-waggin' borizontally. T t critics who comp'ain of the , erudeoes and l.uk of culture In American life wil dou aless be glad to learn that they are uot without thClr compensation. I'rof. Ricuajund Mayo-Smith, who has made a careful 'tody of the different races as repre sented in the . nited . tates, ( on -ludes that the. amalg lmaiion of so many different-nationalities would 1 have been well-nigh impos-h.e with ' out the common hardships o. f una er life. An American inventor is aid to have devised a ma bine for making gas for illuminating purpo-cs out of wood instead of coal. The machinery is said to )e very simple, ionsisting merely of a reiort and purifying cham ber, with a tank for holding the gas. It is claimed that the machine can be used for domestic purposes, and that by attaching it to an ordi ary cooking stove enough gas to last a day cao he made by the tire ue essary to do the cooking. A dentist who died in a -ural town In England afewdaysago, had made it a bobby to keep all the teeth which be bad drawn in the course of his professional career. His willoidered the collection of teeth to be placed with him iu his o,1ln for burial. Hi heirs fulfilled his command, and al most thirty thousand teeth were put ioto the coi n with the dead demist If tome archa ologistof a .uture cen tury shall happen to open that grave, he wi ! have "food lor thought" aud some difficulty perhaps In explaining the pre enc of so many teeth Salmon n the Bnt'sh Columbian rivers are so plentiful that tbe can . aerie cannot use the entire catch. ! nie are even befoff Used as a ma nure by the farmers, and they get the poo er dsn for a mere tri e. It Issucn wastefulness of dsn supplies aa k bers shown that is certain to create sea city in the future. Ore ' ton and Washington fisheries were Just a abundant once; but Indis criminate slaughter baa lessened tbe catch. It la possible, however, that awMsd life becomes lens plentiful the tab of tbe "Northern I a Itic w.ll in A m-r son la one of tbe prtMipal oflejrM to Piris has propped to the franco Minister of War that lanta tv files should bt bred and kept In beiOK M vpufl Mood rUand tmtsMM tbe nrtr2i skl.i of . ta tgW iff sssd np to tfiirmaa t farm. Wkan war wis declared . ; .Cw Bw wonld be randarad veooui-.-jk fcr ,;aa4Mt P of - Ct3il glawVi ma takta to Ca (root MT-aic3& rmas t-lttei would btte lay figures wealing the German uniform, and lbateari scldier shouid be accompauicd by a dog In tiuie nf war. T.ia a jolly idea that they hive in fcerlm.of selling Sheet tu . by j tbe pound. You go to 'one of the ehonTwhere niusir is sold in this way sbons where music is sola in mis way and give them a list of the pieces vou want and they select them and lav them out in a pile and weigh them out s many pounds, so I taoy marks and pfenn gs Or, If you can afford, sav, time pounds of musi , you can take one pound of sentimental, one pound of dramatic twelve aunes of ccruic, and tour ounces of devotional, or aDy other such arrangement that suits your fancy, it is a great Ixon to t.ie poor musician ie ause under tnis system Wagner and Hrahms and Dvorak will cost him no more than the insignitlcautand fotgofen Smith kowski, and the deluded and soft headed r crewlooskL And Wagner for the piano, of course, be ng laiught b. the pound can be played by the pouud with good grace C i At o Ukc ikd: The efforts to disturb the public peace with re ports that horse flesh is lie ng sold and consumed as food in the houth west ern quarter of the city will tail as they deserve. Suppose they prove true; what then? Exper.ence has proved the ttesb of the horse to lie quite as wholesome, palatable and nutrit ous as the llesh of the sheep or cow to say nothing of the hog. Of the four quadrupeds the e juine is quite as cleanly iu its habits as any j of the rest and much more so than ! at least one of them. lie : is ; strictly vegetarian in dart and j predisposed to decent .iving. The i siege of Paris taught the French the I Ai.Atlancii of hitrco mpat It. ffl 'X mistakeu idea that only the very poor of the French capital had resort to th ssuiistitute for the accustomed bee.' and mutton On the contrary, it was only the rich who could a .or i it: and, gourmets as tbev were they found it. g .od. In like manner the be sieged bouievardier assed favorable judgment on elephant yak.' rhi- I nocerosand camel's hum p. If these dainties were eschewed after the sie .e was raised 1 was on the score ! ol e.peiise not for any gastronmic reason. So with th'? horse: if he is not haoitually eaten by the tst judges of edi'.le flesh it Is because he is tot good to eat costs too much. ny hicaguao who is able to eat horse mejt is to be congratulated, not condoled. 'He is cue of the fav ored epicures. D ring a march of seveuty-tlve miles on one desert in the southwest ern toruer of our country, a party of government surveyors counted 3 i i gravei along the trail of the victims of thirst At one point a family of eight was buried These Kxili-b peo ple carried their wa er supply in large demijohns The Unties w. re broken The precious fluid was swal lowed by the sand. Mother, father, and children lav down beneath a mes julte-bush and d.ed the m st hor rible of deaths. The bodies, broken water botttes and dead horses were found just as they fed. It is a cus tom on the desert to bury all bodies, and mark the u raves w th crosses of stone lmleided iu the san i. The air ou the desert, being ntensely rirv, causes rapid evapora: ion from . the luxlv. (ibservatiou proved that nine quarts of water was needed dally by one man to prevent the blood from thickening and becoming feverish. ucb mull: 6'iuired twenty gallons daily. One surveyor was without water for several hours. He became feverish and lighb headed. ack of water lor a few hours longer would bave killed him. This was m a shade temperature of 120 degrees, where the air was almost absolutely dry so dry that fresh meat, insiead of putre fying, simply dries up Atone place tbe surveyors found the bodieof three prospectors within feeto'a natural water-tank lormed In the rocks. To get to this wate. the iioor lellows had to climb upward twenty fe t or so. Their strength was ex hausted. They had been too long without water. And here, with the life-giving fluid just a few leet beyond tbeiu, they die 1. Thirst on tbe desert is horrible. Tbe victim tlrst feels pain between tbe shouldeis. The tongue thickens and feels diled with needle-point. The eyes be come paioful. and, dually, any move ment of the body causes e eructating pain. As tbe blood thickens tbe brain Rives wav, and tbe vict m is a ravins; maniac. Death soon and the suff ring. Civility tu m Pasroit. Ooa rainy day last week Joues, bt! In In a burrv to net home, took a street car. There was a bin crack in tbe roof of the car through wblcb tbe rain tell and ran down tbe bark of hia neck, at be naked tbe urbane conductor; ' "What's tbe matur with this car.' I oe It do uiia way always" "Ko, lr. only when It rales." Tains Tgltt nca. leans an. asn. ., ... cbm dud Mania day, mi. it wate Ualtimoke, Oct. ll.-Kev. A. R. Jordan, a Metb-nlist Fpi-opal mm- ' sionary m Japan, has written a letter rroui Nagoya, uu.ler date ol tpU in- , Ur 8, to bis fneii.is in liaiiimor, e plaining the treat- recently concluded ; between Japan and England. T e featy restore. Japanese judicial ; ,u . - - .. r and Hie Utter in sveuweu. Tina means that the Brit.sh consu ar courts, iln.t..r.. whom RruiBU sublecia Had to be tried for ail lnIM committed by I them in Japan are to be uone away with in live years. and that alter Seveu- i 1 ci urn Julian will b- at liuertv to collect any rate of duty she pleases on j who has been amnonzeu to i "u. imiorts. L'mler the resent Uriff sl.e mary steps to maintain Frances posi cau collect but i per cut ad valorem. ; tion in Madagascar will uot arrive During the live ran period which ,' there until October 15. The recent mus. elapse belore ine crw treaty goes I flurry whs due to his departure from into oir ration Japan agrees to put in- j Tars, but it will be wh-u he arrives at to operation certain codes of laws bis destination and begins the execu- t r i, ie.i oos i).ned lur revision l e d ug Hie operation oi mese coUeS the new treaty may be deterred lor nioie ihau live years. Tuis is the limit and one hears tuai notice must be givcu by tlie Japanese goveruuieul be lore -he treaty can oe enforced. Tins aiso applies to the tariff. On recovering these things Japan thiows tier whole territory open to britisu travel, residence and trade. Bruisl may not own real estaie. but , may lease, it is intimated for thirty or gascr ports was premat..., ... pen-apsa much as liily years, bhe ! foreshadows stirring even. s in Mad guaraiitee them periect liberly of cu- ' agascar as soou as the French envoy science, the right ol p. iv.ile or public worship, the right ol burial according to rebgious customs, freedom from ad charges and takes other than those paid by Japanese subjects, exemption from military service and from loiced Oonirioutious or loans imposed on ae ro uut of war. Aiieady the Japanese papers are urging the people to study feogl.tu, telling them that very soou many English speaking people will be living in every town in the land, and that it will not do for the Japanese to be ignorant themselves qf the Kug.ish language under such circumstances, and so subject themselves to the ridi cule of the foreigners. a liaietrou .Mute Klre. Sn tviiKiv Pa.. Oct. 11. The most I disastrous mine lire iu the history of the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania ! , . , , .. ,. i started at the Lake I-idler colliery Tuesday night trora the naked lamp of j a workman. Five persons are known 1 10 be dead. lUilliiigt.ni, with a number of other , carpenters, was at wont half waydowu i the shaft calking up holes in the inside ' of leii biatuce wh.c. connects the shaft . with tue air passage. It is the rule wheu doing th.s wort for the men to use lanterns, out in this case the rule was disregarded and naked lamps were substituted. U tec'iiig aleak, Butlldg- ton piaceo n.s lamp to u.e urn.i aim . the dames immediately caught t" ; boards, which were saturated with oil, auii were laneu into tue air cuaiuuer, lteaii.iug the awful consequences of his act, tbe man at once started lor the bottom of the shaft to notify the worn men there of their danger, his com panions lu the mealnime rushing up the shaft to sal lev. DELAY COST HIM HIS LIFK. Wheu Butliugtoii nad notified the w or sin en below he stopped to exchange his rubber oojts for a par of shoes au.l the delay in doing this cost him his lite. I'utfbiglou staggered to within thirty feet of the uoor of a pas-ageway which ed lo the open air, but here lie was overcome by siuoKe aud fell, h i body was tound Wednesday morning. The other bodies are still iu the mine. ; Many of those below escaped with i great difficulty and several had to ' be carried out of the mine. , 1 he Coal Run portion of the Pidler ' working is connected with the Guuiel and Hickory Hiuge collieries and in consequence they are not wot king. Une thousand men were employed at j Luke Fidler colliery and auother thou, saud were given employment at the j Gimlet and Hickory liiuge collieries. These meu will be idle for many mouths. The latest piau adopted by the officials for qiiencuing the lire is by pumping all avaiiaole water . into the mine aud thus drowning it out. Tins, however, will tans moctbs lo accomp lish aud it is safe lo say that this valuable coal property is praciicuiiy ruined, entailbig a los of several tuoiisat'd dollar. I ' Meatenred tu Hang. I DEAbwooiv-Oct. U.-Judira Plow, man of Uoadwood, siting at Slurbs Tuesday, sentenced Jay Hicks to oc banged November 15 lor the murder ot John Meyers, au old farmer living ou Alkali tr. ek, Mead county, Whom Hicks, with two accompli -es, Killed lor bis money. Wheu semeuce was being pronounced Hicks acted like a mad man and it required the effur's ol several deputy sheriffs to couiroi him. He was at last, suou ned, but had to ot bound baud aud foot and tied lulus chair before the sentence of tlie court could be passed upon hiiu. For sooit ' time it looked as though the spectators ! in the court room would taka lite law Into their own hands. , Mar dsred it) K..r. Loubkkzo MaRrtcz. Oct II. Tb Kafljrn aoatlaoe their raiding and loot, j inf near bore, hervral wbitea and s a ember t friendly Kaffirs were at tacked and naaasacred io ibe outskirts ettbe tews. Tbe Portuguese and for- etgn reaMsdos are loeeaaed beeauae ol ' tbe ailagad apathy or the autboriUea, and an noWinc pnbUe njeetinge inde. aoeaeed tbe weenipetoiica e( the go tnmmt and to demand energeate aeuew to eraan ua staajre. Pakis, Oct. 10. -The Figaro throws W tr UPU the tntetiti'.u or J- ranee 10 anuex me . gascar, sayin mat iruj. , w i:n.isnw v .m .j sudicieiit to make us desire to annex the leiaud. l" annexation can easily b,' forseen. Whereas the advantages are very pro- biemaucai. Washinotok. Oct. 10. The author!- ties here do uot consider the M adages - car question, which looked so ominous during the last wees, as seuieu, uut merely postponed nnui um ian. ...... of tbis month. The French official Hon of his vieorous poncy i.mt t.i contest between France and Great britain may be expected to arise. Kemi-offifial advices received here are to the elfect that the new French ollicial is directed to do e the long contention by asserting the rights of France and then backing them up with force. To this end 2.U00 French troops will sooti follow the ollicial. It is believed, there tc re. that w hile the recent -iinounce- ment tbat t ranee nao oiockwieo. ... reaches mere Oilier Wendell Holme l'f Away. Boston, Oct. 10. The residence of the late Dr. Oliver Wendell Honnes is closed to all visitors. From a nephew of Dr. Holmes the Associated press learned that the poet was sitting in his study in his easy chair, chatting with his son, Judge Holmes Monday wheu death came upon him without a mo ment's notice. He died at. I MO p. m. No one but Judge Holmes, his wifo aud hu servants were in the bouse. Dr. Holmes had pased a perfect sum mer, as far as health was concered, and only returned a short time ago from his summer home in Beverly to his Beacon street residence, lie had been suffer- ng for a wren from a bad cold and ins death was entirely unexpected, even by ra'Doe" ff f J wessaires of sympathy from all over c anUj received alld RnU manv CH;jerg U8Ve )6t cards at the IOUM,. i'lie funeral was held to- ' day at King's chapel and the services were conducted by Ir Edward Everett Hale, a lifelong friend of Dr. Holmes. Interment was in the Jackson lot at Mount Auburn. The pallbearers were members of the family. A Crisis of lh Wsr. Washington. Oct. 10. -The crisis of the China-Japn war is looked for within the uixt ten davs or two weeks Interested and best in 0Il the C0Iltest. The legations of w (w0 c,ulltriM1 are expectingdaily to hear that the decisive battle has been fought. This is b ised on . the ; fact that the Japanese have bten grad-' uaily closing in around I'ekin, and the invading army is compelled by force of circumstances to strike its blow at ; once or not at all. 1 he intense cold which comes on about the middle of October makes this imperative. The t Japanese climate is very mild evn in winter and the Japanese troops are : wholly unprepared for the rigorous cli . mate alioui Pekin, which is due within ' two weeks. T e Chinese look upon this as one of their defenses and ihe Japanese fully appreciate that it com ; pels them to concentrate their cam paign for this year into the next few ws-eks, and if possible days. For that reason they sre exoee'ed to make heroin effon s to decide the contest at once. They are without heavy cloth ing, camp equipment, etc., for a cam paign iu the bitter cold. Keturu ( a Loli( Lnat H oiher. Clkv klanu, Ohio, Oct. 10.-In the soring ot" 1M5I Kneeland Darrow quar reled with his father a farmer in In dependent Township, this country, aud tell home in a rage. His people heard that lie had enlisted in Ibe Union army but no other tidings being heard of him supposed that he had been killed in battle. His father, Alvah Darrow, died in that belief. 1 he surprise of his brothers and sisters might well be im agined when, on Thursday last, Knee land opened the kitchen door of the old i.'inieslead end walked in. He had settled in a .Southern city and married. Kneeland Darrow is now well lo do, and a widower with one sou. Ills two brothers and his sister welcomed him warmly despite his long abseuce. A Urspcrat Attiirk. Pakis, Oct. 10. Ibe Chalean !St. Pierre des Porte de Hyeres, an ancient residence that is usually rented by foreign visitois to the Kiviera, was the tceue of a desperate attact of Italian brigands. Tbe attacking party at tempted to carry the place by aaaauit, using scaling ladders in their efforts to reacn be Interior of the building. There were a number of servants in the bouse who made a desperate resistance and eucceested In holding tlie brigands outside tbe walla. I J.id in a Wrk. Atlata, 0 Oct. 10. Passenger train No. 85 ot tbe Atlanu and Waal Point Koad, which left Atlanta at (:2t o'clock mm trfed lrom tbe bigb trestle over Osanappa Creek, a few ,nllea beyond West Point, ' and seven ;eravta eyrre oadly injured. A special train with snrgeons waa sent from hers le tbe aeane of tne wreck, Tne track wan net eieared until late at eight. Nona ef the noraena ware killed eeV right. bt one er twe may dan. I .ll a twill lu I tie storm Sew Yohk, Oct. 12.-Iu the storm of wind and ram wine:: swapt over the city a big sven story bric' halloing in course ol erection at 7 i Monroe street collapsed dpou a ttuy front tenement and dwelling bouse wu ch flanked it on either side. Thero were nearly twenty persons in t e teium.-ut house aud wu la the Tear exteusion to the hoiiso ou the Other side of the collapsed building. Both buddings were utterly crushed and by 8 o'clock four bodies had beeu takeu from the ruihs, two of them mutilated almost beyond recogni tion, and a: least flfleeu persons were under treatment for severe injuries re ceived. It was just about i o'clock that au aw tul crash was heard from the east side of Monroe street. When the resi dents of the street looked out a lad lactury building which was going up at No. 74 for use as a tailor's sweatshou was not to be seen, and lroui a huge pile of debris rose a terab.e wailing and groauing. A thick cloud of dust rose through the rain. As it cleared away George Robiuubitch, a photograp her, ho boarded at 72 crawled from the debris, lie turned and helped auother man and his wife through the whiduw of the wrecked house through which he had crawled. 1'oliceiuan Curry turned iu a tire alarm call aud ordered ail the amoulances out. In two hours three ue.id bodies had been taken lroui the ruins and eighteen in jured persons werj being cared for. Heforl ol 1 re u i jr Iteclpltft. Washington, Oct. 12. Treasury re- receip s for the lirsi u-n days of Octo ber aggregate Io.j'Ju.uUU, wiiile the or dinary expeaditures so tar have exceed ed the receipts by about 1,5jU,U00. To this amount must b added interest payments of $o,00J,lJJ, which will swell the total expenditures is excess of re recelpts to S?ii,aO'J,OCXJ up to dale. Pre sent indications point to aooul $23 (.Ol, U0U total receipts for the month. For the next twenty days expenditures are likely to be proportionately less tuau for the past '.en days, and for the whole month of October, including iuterest, the expenditures will probably not ex ceed the receipts by more thau SI.UjO,- UUU or o,0(k),OU0. Custodies dunes from Imported sugir may be expected to begin lo come in tue latter pari of this month aud a;i mere ise of receipts lrom internal revenue duty from whiskey fur the Christmas trade may also ue reasonably anticipated lu Nov ember, increased receipts, tnnelore. aro anticipated alter this uiuutti and lhn prediction if freely wane ai tne tret&ury that November receipt uuaer the llew tariff will exceed the eX.u.ul lutes monthly am leave at the end of the fiscal year a substatial surplus. The treasury net ualauce today is 11S, 7&4.0UI, ol which .S'J.SlO.OUO is iu gold. Held up by Kaudlt. Kansas City, Oct. l.-The Cook gang ol handns, heavily armed, held up the Missouri, Kansas & .ex.ts staMou agent at Cuoteau, Okl., took lrom him i40, which was in the sate. The rob bers weie seen about when tho train passed Gibson station, tuirly miles south of Choleau, yesterday morning. There were six iu me party. It was ex pected that au attempt would oa made lu hoid up a passenger traiu last night and arrangements were made to give them a warm reception, but the officials weredissapointed. Choleau Is the tlrst station south of Pryer creek, the scene ol matiy previous roboeries. A large posse is in pursuit of therouhers, but as they know the country thoroughly the Chances of capture are poor. The gang is the same that held up the agent at Gibsuu last week. A Well Knowu Npurtsiusu ld . London, Oct. 12, -Sir John Astley the wed known eponsmau, Is dead. He will be remembered iu the United. Mate, as the giver of the famous Ast ley prize whicli was so much cowled, during the craze for long distance pe destrian contests. .Sir John Dugdaie As.ley, third baruet was born February 111, 182!, and succeeded his father iu 1873. He was formerly a lieutenant colonel of the Hcots guards and served in the Cri mean campaign of 1974 Sir John Ast ley sat as a memoer of Parliament for North Lincolnshire from 1874 to ltftO. wheu be was defeated, iu IH.8 he married Eleanor Branch Mary, only chi'd of the late Thomas O. Corbett, leaves three sons and tour daughters. Wanted In Intra. Albany, N Y. Oct. i2. -There waa a bearing before Governor Flower on tbe application of the governor of Iowa for the surrender of Hubert F, Allen of Brighton, England, who was arrested in Ne v York ou Monday on the charge of securing money from David D Lyons of lies Momr. la., on false pre-' tenses. Allen was piewut at the hear ing in charge of Detective Trayuor of New York city, and was represented by Eugene Itirhards of New York city as eouncel. Wither McBrlde of New York represented the state of Iowa. The governor, after listening to argui menu, announced tbet there were not sufficient grounds shown to warrant an approval of the application. ! mol Kanelutii lb Cag agasaawl. New York, Oct. 12. -A London dis patch says Queen Victoria is displaying someroneern in connection with tbe rumored prospect of ao engagement between Miss Anna Gould and Prince Franete of Battenburg. - Tbe . prince has been w thdrawn from Paris In con sequence, it is said, of the queen's in ter position agahsst hia alliance wtik the American heiress. George and Mien QnnM) are new to Landen and are en nesasa to asm ueteoet an lot A STATE NEWS ITEMS. Fullerton Is threatened with an epi iem.C of diphtheria. Knox county farmers are fattening their hogs on rheat Kearney bd'c ier have stopped seli pg liver aud htcon ou the habbalb lay, The Nebraska bind -r twine factory it Kreiuout has started up its tow wmex. . . Meuibe's of the Norfolk military baud togged out in new and dashy uiiforms. W. J. Gow & Brn mortgage in vestors; late of Kearney, have located n Norfolk. Meven case of diphtheria are report Hi from Battle Cre.-k, one death bav ,ng occurred. A brother ol Kiclmr l Yates, the old war governor of Illinois, lives on a "arm near Cambridge. A lodge of Good Templars with nine teen charier iin-inheri hai been orjan zed at Pleasant View. F. E. liird has harvest-d three hun ired bushels of spleiid d apples from ais orchard iu auuders county. .Strict quarantine measures stopped ;he spread ot diplnlitna at Tekaniah, ind the public schools opened on Mou lay. Citizens of Alliance have a plan oe foot for securing a part of Cheyenne ;ounty tc broaden the territory of Iloi I'.utte. Itev. 8. Dean, formerly pastor of the United Brethren church at Litchlleld, iied recently in .South Dakota while risiling friends. Mike C. Maloney, at one time editor if the Hartingimi Hi raid, is on a trip Alassa as a special correspondent (or a New York daily. Work was commenced this week on .he normal cohere build. ng at I'laln riew. It will take 3ou,UX) brick to :omplete the structure. Etta, the two-year-old child of F. G. Walker of Cedar liapids, was fatally I poisoned by eating the brimstone end ; ,'rom a handful of matches. David Aibii!, a prominent Cas coun ;y farmer, succuinhMa io au attack of typhoid fever and was buried with aonors by the Modern Woodmen. Kiiirh cKiimey. the Scott's Blut jattle rustler who was sent to Wvura ng pen for a term ol years, has escaped Mid 11 K) Is offered for Ins scalp. The Corey hotel at Greeley Center i:is totally desiroyed by lire, with most af its contents. The insurance of 82 WOdoes not beirin to cover the loss. While laynifjsod for a house II. Daggy of C'leyenne county tell a distance ol 5 flee n feet, struiug on his head and moulders. It wa tiiougiit for a time lis neck was broken. IU is recover ng. While Mrs. Jacob I!hu of Hiair waa putting some glass fruit j trs on a shelf she (ell from a stool and '.he jar In her land broke, the glass cutting a severe $ash in her arm, severing one of the' tendons. L. A. McNeil, editor of the Orleaus Courier, has bsi-n appointed general manager of the Southwest Nebraska Relief bureau, with he tdfpiarters at Dr.eans, winch has for Its object the relief of the people of that section of S'ebraska articled by the drouth. The oureaii has a full corps of earueat workers, bnlh ladies and genlletneov ho are now eugajei in making a lystematic inveitigatiou of the needa if the peoiile iu order to be fully ad Used in detail ol the exact state of iffairs by personally looking into In iividual cases. Any one wishing in formation such as facta iu relation to individual cases or anything else in re ation to this work will secure prompt replies by addressing Mr. McNeil. The announcement of the escape of Kuich McKinuey, says the Gerlug Courier, will occasion a thrill of excite ment over this section, where Kincb McKinney is well known, and where lie was cap u red by Sheriff IJyal and, Messrs. Beers, Wa Iker, and Gentry tbe souuty clerk after an exciting struggle a the course of which he sent a bullet hrough the clothing of Mr Geatry. His home was in Mitchell Valley, where tie was personally popular and well-to-lo. The arrest was o i a requisition from Wyoming, the ch '.rge being what was then lermsd "cattle rmUi-ig," aad lie waa sentenced, we believe, to test years iu the penitentiary. The arrest; was rai.de ou November 25, IH'M, in the, eouuty clerk's oil! .-e in Gantig, where' Klnch Lad come to make tlual proofj A great deal of excitement had besn current over the operations of an al leged band of rustlers, and several ar- rests had already been made. MoKia-. ney was apprehensive of arret and came down town heavily armed. Ha i d not dismount until nap." Jenka, a friend, hail thorough..- reconnoiteredJ not expecting papers to ie m the banda of Nebraska officers. IC. ca wa slfacst; by some one with a revolver butt, re ceiving a bail cm on th iiea I. He is. , r was, a mtn of flue physique aad' phenomenal braveiy Horsethleyee are thick in tbe neigh borhood of Chadrou end have tcbaesl the city of several tine an I malt R. Preston ef Alliance slartua to oat a revolvdr Into his pocket,' when th weapon wu discharged, tne bail ease ing into toe abdomen war Inflicted probably fetal wound. A fellow named Ulbbs lost aeresrta are dollars on n ball game at A re naked aad be la one of those who prsaaaag that tbe misfortunes ef lite all eaaacl from winked and anjaat legtaletfcy. !