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It!.; 1 V " '' The Sioux County Journal L J. SIMMON, rreurtetae-. HARRISOX, NEBRASKA. Mustard, the Chippewa chief, Las frowa obstreperous and threatens to go on the warpath. He'd belter not get too smart. A modern philosopher remarks upon It as a wise provision of nature, that a man can either pat himself on the back nor kick himself. Sara Bernhardt nays that "a good dog U more deserving of love than a man." We sincerely hope Sara. Isn't really going to the dogs. With 9,S"0 murders committed last year in the United Suites iuere were 132 executions one In seventy-five. And we boast of our laws and civiliza tion! The Chicago girl who "played burg lar" and received a revolver ball be tween the eyes may thank her lucky stars that her skull was as thick as her wits. Portland. Me., consumed $76,000 worth of whisky last year for mechan ical purposes. The prohibitory laws up there seem to operate very mechanic ally. Ambassador Breckinridge Is coming home from St. Petersburg "because he cannot live on 117,500 a year." We can sympathize with him, for we have long been unable to do It at home. Carnegie says that the sword of Dam ocles hangs over every phase of busi ness In the United States. Can It be that he is extending bis business In or der to Increase their blow-hole capac ity? Foramelloratlonof thegrief of France over the killing of soldiers In the Congo, attention is called to the circumstance that if armed forces from the Congo were to invade France they would be treated with rudeness. The thrill of horror excited by the an nouncement that a young woman in North Carolina Is about to be hanged may possibly, by contemplation of the fact that she killed a baby by making It eat pins, lndu" another thrill (suf ficient to relieve the first of some of its distressful poiganey. Miss Nledringhaus, daughter of the well-known St. Louis millionaire, eloped with a salesman named Seltzer. A St. Louis dispatch says that as soon as the old man heard of It he took a big drink of whisky and announced that he was satisfied. This Is a queur proceed ingthe father takes whisky and the daughter takes Seltzer. The Governor of Montana, writing of the awful explosion at Butte, says, in a truly American fashion, that "stringent regulations will now be adopted to en force the laws against storing explo sives within the city limits." What is needed Just now is an earnest move ment to punish by hanging or other wise the Governors, Mayors, Sheriffs, policemen and others In Montana who have failed to enforce these laws. The noisy parrot has been subjected through all the centuries to considera ble ridicule. Ho has been t'eld up as the greatest nuisance, and scarcely one act has been recorded to his credit There must now be a revision of tbe findings, an alteration of the record. One pitrrot in that eminently conserva tive town of Baltimore made such a racket the other morning when he saw a house on fire that lie saved the mem bers of two families. Thin deiiion htra'es that even a parrot can do some good. Expectorating tifsai the floors of street cars is to be stopped by the car companies of the city of Washington. Conductors are required to cje,-t pas sengers guilty of such vulirarlty; and If the companies went further and em ployed Corbetts and Sullivans to pitch such fellows through the car windows, the whole race of ladies and other de cent people would rise up and call them blessed. The same regulations should be enforced In every other city; not only regarding street cars, but side walks also. Cleanliness, better than church steeples, points to a higher civil ization, a.3.1 It Is refreshing to see that In at least one city the public demand for personal decency Is heeded. Iet the good work go on ! What Is there left of the treaty of Ber lin? It has not availed to shield the Armenian Christians from Turkish rav ishers and man-slayers. In the teeth of the Czar's appeal, the central powers and England refused to enforce It, wheD the Bulgarians defied it by an nexing Eastern Koumella. If a parch ment can be torn to rags In the Interest of the opponents of Alexander III., why should It be pieced together aud pro nounced binding upon those who would have Nicholas II. heed the prayers of the Armenian Christians? There are few men, we think, In continental Eu rope, and none In the United States, who would not now applaud the young Ruslan Emperor for declaring that the Berlin treaty, which has been treated as void by those who forced It on his grandfather, shall not hold hliu back from answering those who cry to hlui for help. , -A new and startling chapter In the aaU .-)oHTlrtc J'eoterprW' la toM by Frederick VIIHers, the veteran EiiffMaa war correspondent, who has jMt reached tkta country froB'apaa. He mil a tbsrt aa a result of die rt ty betveea tt Kow Tork Herald and Uie Nen oi I- i' M. li.. n i ' oi the torm.-t pa ;-, li- i . ivi lite, pi..! led airaiuM the 1 f- of James t'reeuu.i.i, Wm ml i orrei-pf'i.I-.-iil. ekiug to have the Japanese execute hiui as a cpy. It wi'l fie remembered that the Wot Id de emed an exclusive reiHrt of the Port Arthur massacre, which the Herald strove to discredit until the volume of evidence supimrtiug Creelman's nar rative became so great as to silence de tractors. Vllliers asserts that enraged by this scoop, De Guervllle strove to have his successful rival hanged. This seems to be carrying Journalistic riv alries a shade too far, and we note with pleasure that the Herald is going to support Its sanguinary correspondent with Col. John A. Cockerill. who won't get scooped, and if he should, would be more likely to hang himself in remorse than to hang the acooper. After the reading of M. Caslmlr Perier's letter of resignation the royal ists came arm ln-arm from the chamber roaring "Vive le rolT' The Due d'Or leans has left London for Dover, and will foregather In Belgium with bis supporters. There will be a coop d'etat and the pretender will be restor ed to the throne In the minds of the American correspondents. Twaddlel The shouts of "Vive le roi!" were drowned In the passionate cry of "Vive la republlque!" The Due d'Orleans will never get beyond the Belgian fron tier. France is not about to resign her place among the sisterhood of repub lics, to put ber neck under the foot of a scorbutic dynasty, to react fifty years of time and centuries of progress be cause a cowardly or pettish president has left the Palace of the Elysee. Vive la republlque! By the division among three Chicago men of $5,000 offered by the National Shoe and Leather Bank of New York, a thoroughly consistent conclusion Is put to a series of events that taken to gether, form as miserable a story as was ever recorded In criminal annals, a story that illustrates almost evety squalid possibility of human nature and not one of its redeeming qualities. Beginning with an Impudent overdraft on his bank account by Baker, a man who had long made loudmouthed piety a cloak for dubious and devious lin-tu-clering, Seely's moral cowardice, com bined with the carelessness and Incom petence of bank officials, made possible the theft of an immense amount of money. Now Baker Is dead, a suicide, and bin family is In disgraceful humil iation; Seely, after years of torture, lies In prison, while his wife, poverty stricken und ill, faces a hopeless future; the bank stockholders have been heav ily assessed to make good an enormous loss for which their trusted and well paid servants in high positions are in directly responsible; aud $5,ikj is di vided between Mc-Farlund, an unspeak ably despicable wretch who for a few dollars betrayed the man who took him from the gutter and fed and clothed him, and two "detectives," whose part in the shabby drama consisted In going to a house ami arresting, not a criminal whom their skill had tracked down, bt.t one as to whose whereabouts they had been definitely Informed by others, through no efforts of their own, and whose apprehension was as perfectly simple a matter of the ordinary pjilce duty for the doing of which police are paid wages as it is possible to Imagine Optimists are advised not to reflect on the case. NOTIFIED BY A EELLRINGER. How Wcatern Villages Were At tracted to a Traveling Know. "A theatrical man ha varied experi ences and some funny Incidents are continually coming before him," said a show mai' to a reporter for the Wash ington Post. "The one-night stands are prolific of episodes and profanity, especially the latter, but they also af ford a good bit of amusement after tin annoyance is over. They are not quite so awful now as they used to Is-. few years ago a company I was piloting through the West came upon a rather unpromising town, but fate' willed that we should give one appearance. The hall we hired was a crude affair, and so were the accessories. There was no box office, uo reserved seats, and I had to stand at the door and collect the ad mission money. At 7 not a soul had appeared. At 7:45 a great big chap came stalking in and asked me If I wanted a ringer. 'What's a ringer?' 1 asked. 'A man to ring the bell. You'll never get folks up here to see this show till you hire Homebody to go down town aud pull the town hall bell. They are used to It and won't come without.' I took the ringer at his word, gave him half a dollar and he departed smiling. Soon the deep clanging of a bell smote upon the air, and In less than no time the townpeople came pouring in, enough of them to make a fair audi ence. In spite of the fact that our at traction lit'd Iwn set forth on the bill boards and In the local papers. If that bell hadn't been pulled we would have played to vacant benches." "Greenles" Not All from the West. "Some of the greenest people in the world come from the old settled States," remarked the had clerk of an uptown hotel. "Home of our far wistern guests are a trifle crude In dress and care little for style at the dinner table, but they never refrain from pressing the electric buttons about the house for fear it will call out the fire department. I have known rural visitors from the Interior of "Sew York State to abstain on the representation of the mischiev ous bellboys, who had caught on to. their verdancy, and who would walk, down sir flights of stairs fo mate known their every want" Washing ton Post When a man wttH aa eloquent voice recites poetry, It bae the same effect on eotne women as aklnotftj wlona. In a I erllt.ua lut Inn. Nrw N .uk, F-b. S. Tatham r st.oi tow rr, t'-'i 11 hiiiii, at No. S Reckman street, was badly damaged by tire. It au interesting and un usual spectacle and attracted specta tors from ail over the loevr part of th city. While the flames were iiiakitif great headway in the lower part of tt tower Frederick Ericksou, fo-ty. three J ears ot age, found himself neat t be top of the toe er, with bis retreat by a stairway cut-off. II is poeitioi was extremely perilous aud he eon sidered himself doomed, lie lookec out of a window and calculated that the distance to the nearest roof was too great to jump. , By this ttme the flames had almost reached him, and uerving himself hi sprank through the flames to the land ing below him. He was unhurt by tin jump and at once jumped to the neil Door, again landing salely. On tlx next landing the flames were verj thick, but the desperate man nevei faltered for a minute, and once mor he made a leap for life. This time In lell into a mass of flames, tlirougt which be rushed madly, with his cloth ing on Are, to a stairway, down whict he descended to a place of safety. Help was waiting for him, and aftet his burning garments had been tore from him, be was carried down tec flights of stairs to the street. Jly thli time the firemen had arrived and wer soon pla)lng a stream of water on ttn flames, which were extinguished aftei two boors of hard work. It was found that the fire was caused by the explo sion of an oil furnace, in which th lead for shot Is melted. The Uamag will amount to several hundred dollars. The tower was built in 1858 by Tat ham Bros, and Is a well known laudm'uk in the lower section of the city. IroDclada Buok. London, Feb. 8. The correspondent of the Central News at Wei-Hai-Wei telegraphs under date of February " that the Chinese Ironclads, Chen Yuen and Ting Yuen, have been sunk. A Chinese prisoner states that Admiral Ting has ordered that, although tin defenses on the mainland fall the fleet must remain inside the bay and defend the fort at Lui Kuug to the last ex tremity. The Japanese casualitiet during the three days' lighting at Wei-Hai-Wei are as follows: .Second division 120 killed and wounded; Sixth division General Otra and twenty-two others killed aud ninety-three wounded. A dispatch from Kai Ping dated Febru ary t! bays there is a great increase ol the Chinese forces in the vicinity oi Yeug Kow. Washington, Feb. 8. The inuese ironclads, the Chen Yuen and Tin Yuen, reported to have been sunk, were the most powerful ship;) belong ing to an Asiatic power. Each had a displacement of 7,13 ) tons and 6,2(Xi horse power. Both vessels were eu gaged in a great battle at the moutb of tne Yaiu river eariy In the war, wben so many Chinese ships were sunk but escaped with slight injuries. Drlvro u I) 'jeri. Ion. 1'ittsbcro, Pa., Feb. 8. Driven tc desperation bordering on insanity from hunger and poverty, Louis Williams, colored, made a probably succeasfu attempt to murder his wife yesterday at their home on Stockholm street, in the Twelfth ward. Without a word ol provocation or an Instant's warning Williams crushed his wife's skull with a flatiron, afterward kicking her almost lifelesi body in a fiendish manner, Williams immediately attempted u commit suicide by taking what lie sup poed was rough on rate. It provtc however, to be soap bark and resuitea 'only in making him very sick. At the police station Williams showed unmis takable signs of insanity and seemed happy when told his wilu would die. Tiie scene of the tragedy presents the most aiijt-ct poverty imaginable. Two MjTfttermuH Death. New Yokk, Feb. 8. Two yomifi men believed to be brot tiers, D.in Ern esto and Kririipie Marquise, from Gua temala, was snot and almost instantly killed in a private dining room at ol Lexiugton avenue. It is supposed by the police that Don Ernesto shot hie brother Enrique and then fumed Hit weapon on himself. What caused I'lt quarrel which led to the shooting is un known. Two young women who wert in the dining room at the time disap peared immediately after the tragedy and the police are looking for them. The two girls were the only two wit nessed and they alone can explain what caused the fatal dispute. The two brothers were comparative strangers in New York, having been here but a few months. Covered With lci. Vineyakij Haven, Mass., Feb. 8. The alierpart of a good-sized vessel, covered with Ice, with whit appears to be i lie bodies of three men encased iu the ice and frozen to the top o' the cabin, had drifted ashore at Paul's 1'oltit, Lambert's cove, on the north side of the island. The wreckage was discovered yesterday morning and the medical examiner notified, who ha stsned for tnat plHce to tske charge of the bodies. There are apparently no other frozen bodies in the cabin. It is impossible at this time to ascertain the identity of either vessel or bodies. Hulpilif ln E-y.ieei). San Fkancisoo, Feb. 8. The Ex aminer's Honolulu letter says the gov ernment has found ii the queen's diary eTldeooe that Rudolph bpreckles ha urged her to resort to force to regain ixr lost throne. The letter says ths Inpreeaiendn the Island la that Hpreck lea advanced the funds to use in the parcbase of arms for the revolutionists. Tt correspondent elelmed that it was definitely learned that some of the leaden of too raMlloo bad been tws tenoed to death. lr-i rlir Hirni . San Fi;am l-i o, i -Vu. 7 Tne lol loiii pruiuiticiii ) asse-igers were in terviewed by a L' niied prtss reporter who boarded the steamer Australia as si.e wa pacing through Hie iit-u!a; F. Winston of Chicago character ised the situat ion iu Honolulu as one of great ttnfeiou. "Tie pople are iu m ery excited aud hyster.cal condition," said he. "The natives are depressed and solemn. The govei laient is In re ceipt of resolutions passed by military bodies asking that uo clemency be given. Two of the principal points on which the trial of the queen will be based are the fact that she signed the commissions uuder which the revola tiopary leaders acted, aud second, on the large quantity of arms, ammuni tion and bombs found iu the queen's bungalow. The bombs seem to have been made of cocoanut shells and cement There was no evidence in troduced as to what use the bombs were to bo put. The supporters of the government claim that it is amply able to take care of itself. But," said Mr. Winston, "the population of the Islands is so heterogeneous, the party iu power being so largely in the min ority of population that trouble is like ly to arise at any time. The presence of a man-of-war there necessary in an event of this contingency. The American and English consular repre sentatives were present at the sittings of the court and watch the proceedings closely. They are not expected to in terfere unless American or English subjects are sentenced to be executed. MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE. "Martial law is still iu force, although it Is not claimed that Its continuance Is necessary. It is en forced merely to justify a trial by court martial, as the government would not trust the ques tlon of the prisoner,! guilt or innocence to the natives on a jury. The rather sensational testimony was adduced that the money to prosecute the in surrection was furnished by Rudolph Sprecklee of San Francisco. The nationality of the Crunser anJ Esmer alda has not been ascertained. Judge Freaer, associate justice of the supreme court of Hawaii, said a feeling of security pervades the communitj. In his opinion it is impossible to say what the result of the court martial will be. Its findings will be very likely reviewed by the chief executive, ( here is sulli cmt evidence of the feeling hs to what it should be, viz: Severity to the leaders and clemency to the rank and tile. The court martial was in session at the time of the sailing of the Australia, and there is no evidence that loreigu com plications will arise, it a ft peeled that when martial law 18 abrogated some impoi tint question will arise as to the powers of the c ourt martial. The general feeling is Uul this will be the last revolt. Hitherto those who have taken part lu the revolutionary outbreaks have received immunity, but as the government will endeavor to show those engaged in the last revolt that it is in earnest, similar uprisings will be effectually discouraged. It is impossible to say whether the queen will be deported or not. A Cabin to b I. Mill Washington, Feu. 7. -Another ac quisition to the strength of the republi cans iu the senate and ra ide in the per son of Mr. Clark of Wyoming, who ap peared aud took the oath of ollice. The senate now consists of eighty seven members, of wiiom forty-lluee are democrats, thirty-nine tepublicaus aud five dopudit. The dip.nnntic an. I consular appro priation hlli was taken up, and a long debate took place upon an amendment reported from the co;nii;;ttee ou appro priations for the c iiHtructioii and maintenance by the I'mted Mutes gov ernment of a telegrapn c to.e between the 1'rnted States ami IlaAaii and ap propriaung $.VJ),(JJ hs part of tiie cost. The debate drew out a relereuce by Hale to the press dispatch from ."-an Francisco announcing the abdication of the late queen iu favor of the re publican government, and this act Mr. Hale trea'ed as a removal of one of the o!jsta;:les to a peaceful solution of the dilli inltiei there and as leaving the existing government gtroug and not likely to be disturbed. The debate was continued by Senators Teller, (Jray and l'latt, and the matter went over till tomorrow without action and with a point of order pending against the amendment as general legislation on an appropriation bill. In the closing minutes ot the day's session the senate substitute for the house bill appropriating W,000,000 for the new Chicago postolllce was taken up and agreed to, the bill passed and a conierence with the house asked for. The substitute makes no direct appro priatiou, but delred the work to be let out in contracts, the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed tour million dollars. Crlticlncd the ChineKft Plen. Berlin, Feb. 7- The Norddeusche Allegemeiue Zeltnng says In a Be ml. olllcial leader on the end of the Chinese peace mission to Japan: "The Chinese peace mission is part of China's policy of calculated hesitation and delay. The Chinese wish to induce the Ktiropnan powers !) demand a share In framing the conditions of peace bv appearing unable to effect, term satisfactory to the .iHpanese " Cmiiett lJffMU Komi. London, Feb. 7. R si, the Ameri can and Cannon, the English wrestler, bad a match in IS-Mdford I ait night for the championship of the world and I'M) pounds. Cannon won three nd Koss two of the five falls. ' 'lialUn oslrer Promoted. Home, Feb. 7. King Humbert haa ant a cable dispatch to Qptgnel Bara. tierl promoting nlm to the rank of fan oral In honor of hit vietoriea orer too Fahdlfta. Br. V up l li Nt.W 1U1.I N', i- i combined atU -o : T' LouiMau-t u " s . . .- l'"f eu up the Ui.j l i-rst r ga.ig ol fib bers east of the M -iH J i river. 1'tns gang operated ' j t" n jf tiie stales, being located wli?re i;ey in.-t each other on 1'earl riv. r, iu tae extreme southeastern part of L'uisia;ia. The eouutry there a ?parbeiy settled, with little communication with the test of the world, and t us been the headquar ters of outlaws lor over a century. Honey Ulan.;, on 1'earl river, has long been the relume of counterfeiters. B(,Uw0O4l are,UU8cr,t)1Ijg funds to build, murderers, and o-.ber desperadoes, and a n 5,0 cuurch. the conditiou of society there Is Very ' ' , ,,.i , ' primitive aud the law but little res- I tUl .ur f Pected. It was iu this country that debtedness m lmore county for Jan- Eugeue Bunch, the train robber, live 1, uary w as .U.uo having acquired such control over It w ill cost Dodge county about three them as to be a king among them. He thousand dollars to care for the poor or arranged his various raids on the rati- Fremont this winter. reads hue aud mved 011 Ihem from Randolph wiil have a German paper, this citadel. It was only wheu the ex- conditioned that tw o hundred sub press companies, after liug frequently scribers can be secured, plundered by bim, went to great ex- Fremont will appropriate Sls.'JOOtuls peusea couple of years ago, and spent ji,.ttr for constructing a plant that will money liberally in winning over his give the city the tight it needs, lieutenants, they were able to hunt Madison county will vote on a prop, him down and kill him. ! ogltion to Issue S-jO.OUO in bonds for the Although with the death of Bunch pUrci,ase of seed graiu and oats for the the train robberies ceased, the robbery uorseli business has been carried on there sys- x,ieyMt Poll)t Republican lr treat- tematically by a gang located in the U)g lls rel(lprt t0 cllolce biu 0f local ver, pari, ui .i.nBio.i . - the great train robber lived, and I'lke and Marion counties, Mississippi, and Washington Parish, Louisiana, have been kept in a state of terrorism by the gang and the stores aud private houses plundered. Frankllntou, La; Osyka, Magnolia. China Grove, Dexter, and Tylertown Miss., were some of the towns visited by the robbers. The citizens who were thus plundered determined some weeks ago to adopt the policy of the railroads and break up the robber gang. They accordingly hired for tills purpose "Colonel" Hob good, who was Bunch's lieutenant in hU train-robbing days and who is un derstood to have betrayed and sold his chief to the express companies. Hob good himself hat been in jail ou a num ber of charges and has been on inti mate terms with most of tiie criminals of that st-ction and was thought to be the very raan for this job. He joined the gang, the chief of which wan Dr. James Grady, of Frankllntou, who en joyed a good reputation, and arranged with him to rob a store in Marion county, Mississippi. During the rob bery llohgooil and his men shot, seri ously wounded, anil captured tiie rob ber chief. The sheriff, at the head of posse of citizens, started out to capture the other robbers, nine of whom were picked up one by one at their several homes, being so suddenly overpowered that they made no resistance, although their houses were regular arsenals in the matter of rules, shotguns, aud re volvers. Furnace hxplonlnn. Stei hkn vji.lk, Ohio, Feb., 5 Two explosion occurred at the Riverside furnace in this city, injuring a large numbei of workmen, several of them fatally. The explosions were caused by g'ock iu the furnace settling, and the accumulation of gas botweeu what had settled and what was hanging above blowing out tons of stock and bricks. The first accident was a small explosion which occurred yesterday, morning, when considerable stock ;u blown out aud I he ignited gas set fire to the clothes of i'at Timlin, lie ran out of the flames and was rolled 111 tiie snow, his ula.liig clothes being torn off by William litirkn. il 11 burned Irom head to foot and is not expected to live until morning. I'iih second explosion look place eariy ill the a'lenio.iii and was tne worst, the material mown out wrecking the roots oi .1.; Hie buildings as if ihe.v had been cannonaded. The txplo.-iiiii occurred at that hour when the wliis'le was blowing Jor work and lew men were art und, or more would have Lten ii; jtireti. A tcore ol men were burned or injured by ilying ileum. The ground for 2W yards around the furnace is covered with brick, coke, nnd other debris. Awful Herd of a Iiiawue Mother. Napa, Cal., Feb. 5, An awful tragedy occurred here in the home of 1'eter Meleruich. Mrs. Meteruich, while insane, ut.dertook to kill her four children, ana succeeded in doing them all serious injury. Her mania was a religious one, and she had the delusion that she had greatly sinned against God aud as punishment for her sin her children were to be sold into slavery, and she had threatened to kill the children to avoid this. Her husband went away to his work leaving all at home In apparent quiet but within a half hour his wife had taken an ax, aud with it fearfully cut anc beat every one of the children. They were all struck on the head, Inflicting ugly gashes and bruises. It is feared that the baby will did, as there are symptoms of concussion of the brain. The other children will probably recover. She would probably have killed I hum all but that the neighbor heard them screaming slid cauin to tne re-icue. The woman was caught in her frenzy and taken to the County Jail, and later In the day committed to the asylum. To Control Tri Tariff, St. Locis, Mo., Feb. 6. Chairman Caldwell, of the Western Trunk Line committee, spent Saturday in consulta tion with representatives of the Miss ouri I'aclilc and the Missouri, Kausas Texas railroad In an endeavor to bring them Into the new orgaoliatlon, The Mlseourl, Kansas and Texas stipulates that It shall control IU Texas business If It becomes a member of the agree- nont, and It U thought that tlwro will bo bo dlffleolty In coming to terras 00 two manor. STATE NEWS ITEMS. Cci!?ress'iian McKe!gh.i is slowly rta.uing his health. Deuel county has snow en ii;'i f r good weighing if It could be spread out a litCe. The name of the pos'.olIiCJ at 5tg pnngs has beeu cnatiged to one word, Blgspring. A revival in the Christian church at Hebron brought thirty-six sinuers in out of the cold. Farm in the 1'latle Valley neari , from the Clttg 0f twenty-three J, years ago. According to the Republican, Ge lieva, though a temperance town, has a lew "loose j itnis" where nose paint is sold in jag 1 The two lient waltzerd present at the masquerade ball at Battle Creek on the evening of February 15, will be pre- eeuted with a 5 prize, The Norfolk Sugar company has been sued for 115,000 damages by Thomas G. Hight, whose arm was badly injured in the factory last fall. i The Oshkosh Globe says that this world is a great unfeeling stall. In which everybody is crowding for mors room at the f odder rack. 1 Company E. First regiment, Nebras ka National guards of David City, will give its exhibition drill and dance on Washington's birthday. 1 Frank Rrooksand Milton Wilson are serving a sentence of ' weuty days it the jail at David City for looting Louis Lobza's store at Liuwood. i Willie Howell, a 11-year-old Elm. : wood boy, was probably fatally I wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while rabbit hunting. ' The Auburn Telegram says that the Burlington V Mmouri railroad did a : larger business in that town in H'Jl , than it uid the previous yer. 1 The Dorcheate,r-la thinks that, Sa . line county bad oetter lefap a little Qc. bridge building and spend some money to stop the leaks in the jail. The marshal of Friend caught Rah r-tokerju the act of burglarizing 1 hube, aud the prisoner has been bound over to the district court for trial. The Nebraska City l'resa will bt issued in miniature form until Edltoi Ilrown can get a new outfit to take th place of the one destroyed by lite. An Indian on the lilackbird reserva tion ate a meal from the iifiu of a hog that periohed of cholera, and became a good Indian on the following day. Arlington has a lively society of peo ple who believe in modern spiritualism. They are not the ones who volunteered, to locale tne remains of fWett Scott. The NorfUk News sarcastically re mark tha: one hundred years Iroto today Dodge county supervisors wllj Btnl be dm nosing thai 1 'inioage ditch. Two suspicious looking trauipt wert arrested at ulh Auburn aud a search revealed a lair collection of jewelry in each wardrobe and fifteen o( tne legal tender dol.ars of our dads. The West Point Republican says the names of ilarnacle, Wart and Gold grabber are nothing. West i'oliit can boast of FroBt, Sunshine, Chada, High, Long, Ulack, bass, Kief, etc. An investigation of the records of Treasurer IJeers of Scott's Bluff county showed that the county was indebted to him In the penal sum of Sol, the value of four horses and a wagon. A man with thejim jama lately wrota a "poem" for the button Keglster that must have lost the paper niauy valu able subscribers. It was a terrible travesty 011 both justice and mercy. Hastings has a public nuisance who expectorates tobacco juice on glass a ore fronts, aud the authorities are trying to run him down, and let those he has injuied kill him should ;hey so desire. A subscription paper Is now going the rounds in liellwood for tiie purpose of raising enough money to see if a flowing well can be found iu the public square. The suhscupiiou list is being liberally signed. The Columbus .Journal thinks If W. K. Lay is sent to lh a-yi,,,,,, ltM MM in the city is liable to !,., .,,!-, 1 0f l( the same place If ,,,, ljt ,( file a complaint. ullly trouljl8 with Lay is that he wr.les too much. ' Itev. Adam Surnp. formerly pastor ot a church at North l'latte, but now sta tioned at York, Ph., writes that his pres. ent congregation will, If desired, ship a carload of seed wheat, corn and pot, toes to the destitute of Lincoln county. One of the. largest gray wolves ever teen In Nebraska was eatigut in a tr.p ooar Hyannls. s.wa oC thei f ) tau P" or tne country, and the lucky . pw low soo for catching ooe of them. 0' .. . 1 '' .. -' "