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't i Sioux County Joumil L 4. uuwi, r .UJtaMSON. NEBRASKA We want to wager that If Jay Gould's body ever U exhumed it will be found turned over. If Mark Twain and Max O'Rell really contemplate a duel it U the best Joke either of tliein ever sprung. Editor Dana is not very fastidious Id matters of dress, but he has Just blos somed out in a new taring libel suit. Capital and labor would set along very well together If there were not so many men trying to get capital without labor. The roller skating craze is about to be revhed in New Yok. At present the Uothamites have wheels only on one end. In tryiug to be the bit" department tore of the earth Great Britain will always encounter more or less opposi tion. New York newspapers, fur some rea son or other, have uot receutly referred to Chicago as the divorce cejter of this country. The Treasury Department has de cided that a cocktail is a "manufac tured article." We have guqn.H-i.d it for quite a while. Mrs. James Brown I'otter says she Is "wedded to the stage." It looks as if an unfair advantage of the stage has been taken. The New Y'ork Telegram Kays that "Baron Hinwh has had his pocket picked." He was very foolish to have hnch a thing done. Anna Gould's wedding ring cost $20, 000, but that's nothing In New York. The Tammany ring used to cost mere than that every day. The law which provides that oleo margarine be colored a bright pink will add to the picturesque charms of the railroad sandwich. Vanderbilt's divorce troubles began on board hia $l,ooo,000 yacht The Valiant evidently was uot constructed to ride out domestic storms. There is no politics In municipal cor ruption, and the man who would make It appear that there is indirectly helps and protects the corruptiouists. "The only 'absolutely sure cure' for smoking is death," remarks a religious contemporary. But it Is not absolute ly sure that all men quit smoking after death. There are two houses in Coventry, England, bearing the Inscription on a bras plate: "This is the birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry." Can It be possible Miss Ellen Terry Is twins? Statistics prove that only one New Yorker In fifteen ever atteads church. But Gotham continues to send mission aries to foreign lands to establish iv churches. Why not begin at home? A Memphis paper explains to Its read ers that "the eclipse of the moon was caused by the moon getting twtween the sun and the earth's shadow." Pop ular education of this sort is a great thing. The only song writer above criticism is the Kaiser, aud his song Is so par ticularly bad that the pain of being unable to say so must be almost as hard to endure as the alternative of going to Jail. At least 75 per cent of the book man uscripts submitted to publishers are never printed, and if the number that ought not to have been printed Is counted in it will le seen that litera ture is chiefly a voiceless waste of paper and ink. The Ferris wheel seems to have out worn public 'interest Chicago spew It out; New York sniffs disdainfully at it Best take it to London. There is no place which goes into ecstasy so easily over things which America has tired of. It is reported that a former lieuten ant of the German army Is seeking among the Pacific islands an abode for a new society whose members propose to try living without the comforts of civilization. They will go naked, live In nuts and eat only uncooked fruits and drink only water. ' California's tnilltiameu com phi in of lack of encouragement Keally, they do not seem to have had their paths flower-strewn. They were called Into action, went unfed, many lost positions In civil life, and now they cannot get their pay. It might be possible to con ceive a better form of encouragement. France In wise enough to take plenty of time for her great exposition of Y.KO. It will be on the site of the one held In 1889, but will take In more ground. . France's first more in the matter was to offer large prizes to ar chitects for designing suitable build ings. There were" 108 competitors for the prises. This shows how well France Is supplied with architects of the first - etas - lo all America 'there are not M many native-born architects cupa-t- ,,fci fforalsblaf plans fur a world's .Cfcifl froinds. The larg- ' stft-lWsrf Ujs amount of fl,a) ea. h. and there are four of fb". Id sll " detdgua wer offered, knowing un in how hi h in artistic skill f ranc is. Well, sui-ce to the French exposi tion of r.. May we all be well enough aud rich enough to go to it Probably by the time It comes oil ship w ill cross the Atlantic in four days. The New Y'ork Sun has been making a specialty of Georgia's proper names, but Parish Tate, a uieinter-elect of the lifty-fourth Congress from Alpu.tretta District; Ha nip Whorter. a member of the State Judiciary; Jude B.ici.a j.rotn inent Democratic politician; and Dade Hopup, a genial gentleman from the turpentine" farms, -a-eni to have es caped observation. Many English tow ns dispose of their garbage and refuse bj cremation, burn ing it under boilers to produce steam by which electric light machinery is run. The utilization of waste In every direct ltii is one of the great Isxius of applied science in modern times. New York is expected to do som-'t'iing sen sible in this line of reform now that a civil engineer has lecn appointed as head of the street cleaning department Since milk has been fouud to be a favorite food for microbes as well as men, the latter have lost some of their regard for It Hitherto It has lieen sup posed that boiling -sufficient to steril ize It impaired its digestibility, but now the Lancet declares that the fact Is that boiling milk Improves Its digest ibility and nutrient value. Dr. Cba mouin tinds that in Paris babies thrive ou it, and that the rate of mortality among those thus fed is considerably less than among Infants fed on raw milk or that which has been only warmed and not boiled. It Is said that on one of Its previous i trips the Gascugne, in thick weather, i rubbed against the rock near Scllly Isl ands on which the steamer Schiller with several hundred passengers was wrecked several years before. The ship was saved only by the greatest energy of the captain, and the erfcct working of the engine and rudder, which swerved its course Just as it was running lww on onto the rock which was merely visible above the surface of the water. It would seem to tie tint duly of Great Britain to fix up some thing that would warn the commerce of the world away from this constant danger. These are hard times, aud the tramps are suffering terribly. A hobo arrested in Philadelphia the other day was searched at the police station and the searchers found on his person four loaves of bread, three pounds of bo logna, one anil one-half pounds of cof fee, two pounds of mutton chops, one pint of salt, sixteen breakfast rolls, two large pieces of bread and butter, one razor, one jss ketknlfe, one bar soap, one looking-glass, one comb, one pipe, one pound of smoking tobacco and $.Vs' in cash. Wonder what sort of a load that fellow would have carried In times of prosperity? An English mining circular states that the gold fields of Western Australia al ready proclaimed have an area of more than l.'IO.ooo square miles. This ex ceeds by 40,fHK) miles the total area of the whole Colony of Victoria, which has produced about $1.1.-O.isi.0ni worth of gold. In the words of Sir John Forrest, the premier of the col ony, "from Klmberiy In the north right through the southern const there is a belt of auriferous country." The tlrsr news that Western Australia was rich In gold has been confirmed by the dis covery of exceptionally rich deposits in many pans of the colony far distant from each oilier, but it is now believed lu be established that there are vast gold-bearing areas lu that region w hich In pxtent and richness are not surpass ed by any other on the face of the globe. So there is room to expect a further Increase in the annual yield of gold for the world. Gov. Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, was a man of robust convictions, of earnest ptiriiose and a forcible speaker. He was the favorite Republican orator, next to Oliver P. Morton, while he remained a member of that party. Some of his philippics against the Democrats. were absolutely terrible In their energy and vituperative power. When he lwaine a Democrat bis zeal, his earnestness and honesty Impelled him to the use of equally vigorous terms In denouncing the Republicans, his former political associates. He never In all his campaigns since 1ST2, when he first took his place In the Democratc ranks, was charged with tergiversa tion or insincerity. Ills old speeches were not quoted against him, and he appeared to have had the reect of the party which he had abandoned, as well as of that which he had Joined. As minister to Mexico, our nearest neigh boring nation, be held the most Im portant, if not the most dignified, dip lomatic position in the I'nited States service. An I'nuaual Fund. There is a government fund In Italy for providing marriage portions for poor young girls. , Without a dower It would be almost Impossible for a girl to lie married, and, this form of charity Is said to be highly appreciated. The annual sum available for this purpose and distributed every year among the marriageable young girls Is $'!,( s 10,000. To be a reclpieut it Is necessary for the applicant to prove her good reputation aud character by a cloud of witnesses; to show that nbe hss 110 means availa ble and that rbyoung man who wishes to marry hef has a trade. ' - If you want your guest to enjoy hiav self, let him do all U talking. ' Will r at tba Lovrviv, April 5 fne fiinat eorres potident in Shim n xekt sends this dis patch under the d'.o of March 31: "Military activity in Japan has not abated. Fits transports of infantry and caairy wre harried aw ly before the armistice was proclaimed. Ths condition arranged indicate the desire of China, to save Pekin at all costs. Shimono-tekt is filled with police to pro ect ths C lines- envoys: From Hong Kong the Times dis patch, uuder yesterday's date, says "The Chinese are fleeting from south Formosa to the mainland and Hong Kong. The Japanese are reported to be marching upon Taku. .The Chinese army in north Formosa is eight thous and strong. Of this force 5,OH) are splendid troops, well armed. The re mainder are raw recruits. Including eveu many beggars. Fighting is im minent. The foreigners are believed to be safe. Vigorous measures have been taken in Swatow and Canton to resist the invaders. Booms have been placed across the Ctntou river and tor pedoes have been placed in Swalow harbor." Tht Mtery Ktplatnad. DhTitoir, Mich., April 5. When ex Police Justice Julius Stoll commuted suicide by shooting himself January 11 last, the cau-e of the act was ascribed to be despondency because by the death of his wife. He was supposed to be in affluent linarici'tl circumstances, was the executor of many "states and the guardian of a number of wards and trusts. The probate court says his re ports were invariably tiled on the day they were due and his accountings hail been very exact lie left no will and the court appointed an executor of his estate. Aji appraisment of the estate places its value at not more than OH), against which claims have been filed aggregating upwards of ShO.O 0, It is now tlived that his financial embarrassment caused hlru to commit suicide. Tlit losers by the insolvency of t he estate ill be by hundreds of per sonal notes. W ill Organize tb Hoard. Washington, April 6. 1'te presi dent at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon cabled to Maj. William Ludlow, the military attache of the American em bassy in London, advising him of his appointment on the Nicaraguati canal board and directing him to leave for New York by the first available steamer. It is expected that he will reach New York before the end of next week, where he will be met by Alfred Noble, the civilian member, and Com mander Endicolt of the navy, when the board will immediately organize and proceed to the consideration of the canal company's contracts, plans aud specifications. It is estimated that this cau be completed within a week and that the board will leave for Grey town at once. A 1rrlll ShcMittug; Affair. I'KiiiiY, OkL, April 5. News reached here of a terrible snooting affair twenty miles east of here, near Morrison, be tween Al Cook, Dick Bennett ana a woman whose name could not be learned. It stems that the two men and woman were claimants for the same quarter section of land and that Cook bought out the woman's inter estand as he commenced to move in to the woman's house yesterday mum ing a light occurred. The report is j I hat all three were badly injured. Cook bo the report fa was shot through; t ie heart by Bennett aud instantly j j killed. Cook shot Benuettjthroiigh the head an 1 I e will die and the woman was shot throu.h the leg. The woman used an axe on Bennett pretty lreely aud lullicled some serious wounds. NHmail the ironclad. Knx, April 5. The new ironclad, which was designated by the letter "T" was yesterday christened Aegir with great pomp and ceremony, by Emperor William. There was anchored in the harbor eight irouclads, four training ships and two cruisers, all dressed with flags ahd bunting, and the town itself was profusely decorated. Christening the new ship the emperor said. "This ship shall remind us always of the dark prehistoric times when the powerful god, Aegir, was reared and worshipped by ail of our Germanic seataring ances tors and of their might upon the sea llroucht suit Agaluat hla rathar. Sax Fiianciho, April 4. Augustus Hpreckles, son of Claus Hpreckles has commenced action against his father for defamation and libel for statements made while he was manager of Sure ckles' Philadelphia refinery. The plain tiff alleges that he 'merely wishes to vindicate his character aud therefore only claims fcliXJ damages, although he has really been injured to the extent of tu,0uU ' HinallrMix Kamart, snuNOKiii.o, 111., April 0. Notice of the existence of twelve cases of smallpox at Shawneetown was received yesterday by the secretary of the state hoard of health. It was also staled that the adjoining towns had quaran tined against Shawneetown and the situation was serious. Ran Away V Ith In Prurnuli Boston, April 5. On September 24 last Georgs II. Wheeler, jr., a trusted clerk in the employ of Chandler A Co., dry goods dealers, 27 and tii Winter street, was sent to the bank with a $2,200 check, with - (be proceeds of which be ran away. Since that time n baa visited Germany, Italy, Japan and Australia, and. but recently re turned to the feonM of bis parents at Chelsea, where he was arrested. He confessed nj guilt. . '. aptar4 taa Mdrd .rara. Bibminuham, All., April 3. A fng of uotirious robbers a id murder ers was brosen up here yejterdav and the entire baud lauded in jail, one of them with a terrible wound In bis blp. For several months murders for the purpose of robbery have occurred in and around the city. The latter part of December a merchant named Thorn ton, while on his way from Birming ham to his home at Knsley City, six mile away, was murdered and robbed, A iew days later two women were held i'p near the same pi ice, hut the highwaymen got no mo iy. Within a week or so from that occurrence a farmer near East lake, seven miles from the city, was shot by one of the negroes, whose demand for mon-y he refused. About the sa:ne time a preacher named Stiff was set upon in the road near North Birmingham and robbed, and a night or two later a man named Barnes, living rn-ar Birming ham, was called to his door and shot because he refused to s-il the men 'IM whisky. Three wee later I leas Merft weather, a negro merchant in this city, was murdered a'lJ robbed. Yesterday morning Lee Harris, col ored, made a clean breast of the whole matter confessing that he and Abe Mitchell killed Mernweiher. Harris said he, Jim Webb and Stonewall Thomas sin, old man Diiiel. Thorn-, ton, he said was killed by himself Mitchell and Thomas. All the gang are colored In atte-nptiug to arrest Webb Deputy Sheriff Henry Cole shot him four times, one ball entering just below the small of the ba;:K, passing through the bladuer and coming out through tne left groin. The w on no. will probably prove fatal. Harris says he is wanted in South Carolina for murder and that a reward of $.100 ha been offered for him. Mr. William Con ft-union. CflU MHt s, O., April 3. Mrs, Eliza beth Williams, who killed her two chil dren at the Park hotel Monday, was examined by Coroner Hubert yesterday morning. She was pertecily calm and showed no signs of Insanity, relating the story of her domestic troubles, the disregard of her husband for her and the children', her conclusion to end her misery aud theirs by murder and sui cide, and bow she carried the plan Into effect. It was only when the bloody razor found In the room in the hotel was snown to her that she broke down. After weeping several minutes she said : "Yt, that Is the razor with which I cut Il .rry's throat." A leiter found at the house in Grove City, addressed to her husband, was shown to her by the coroner. Though it was not signed she admitted that she wrote it. It was a long letter, and in it she upbraided her husband for his cruelly to his family. She said lis had never cared for anything but his own pleasure and comfort, and that he would have It at any cost. It was enough to send her soul to bell. He bad tried to send the souls of their childi-'ii their, too. she plamly an nounced ber intention to kill her child ren aud commit suicide. Cyrlona la keut .rkj. Eklanoeii. Ky April 3. Boone county whi struck by a cyclone Mon day whicu aid much damage to pro perty, but caused no loss of life so far as known and was confined to the county. It first struck the village of Hamilton, where a number of small buildings were wrecked and a dozen hogshead of tobacco blown Into the river. At liigbone the damage wai more severe. The Biguone spring hotel was completely wrecked, as was the Methodist church, numerous cabins barns and outhouses. .inuel South gate, a nine-year-old boy was struck by a flying board aud had his leg broken. Many horses and cattle were killed and miimed. A farm wagon belonging to Jacob Richards was carried two miles by the wind. The little town of Lewis burg was almost completely wiped out, only one house being left standing. Mount Z'.ou school and church were demolished and a number of persons Injured, none fatally, Prohibit)! from Atlcnaiag Patianta Washington, April 3. Dr. M. H. Twitched of Louisana, who has filled the position of United States consul at Kingston, Canada, since 1878, not withstanding be labors under the dis advantage of having both arms shot off near the shoulder, reports to the state department that physicians living south of the Canadian border line have receutly been prohibited from attend ing patents llvlng'ln Canada. He as sumes that this course is taken because of au assumption on the part of the inferiority of the medical education received by these practitioners as com pared with those educated in Canada. But as a matter of fact. Consul TwiU chell says, the scale of education for medical students in the United States is far higher than In the province of Ontario. , W aduall Not Out of Uangar. I'Aliis, April 3. WaddePe, who was shot by the American bookmaker and presumed crook, O'Brien, Is not yet out of danger, though his condition is Im proving. Tharatoa at San franeisoo, Bas FitANCisCO, April 3. Lorin A. Thurston, Hawaiian minister, arrived from Washington yesterday enroute to Honolulu and will sail on Saturday next. When Interviewed he suid he foald not With propriety discuss his relations with this government, Hii own private business affairs .demanded his attention. As to hia future move meats be was unabi tospoak until hi riaiswd homo.-, l; , Batljfallti 1 I Nkw Yokk, Apnl 4.-l'iookiyn physi cians generally agree !' HeHltti C'm missiouer Knii-ry iliat uie ouiii iiim Ud by Dr. Kortrlght into toe m m of Mif s Bertha Valentine, who died in less tliau ten minutes, was not diptheria anti toxioe, but strychnine or a toxiue for a disease other than diptheria. Ktill, they say, the condition of the patieut might have beeu such that aiiti-toxine could have killed her. Dr. Wilson, the bacteriologist of the llealth Department, was directed to analyze the blood of the dead girl. The horses from which the auli-toxiutr is taken are numbered by the G..:ian chemists. All the serum taken sy from horse No. 'JO and bottled is labeled "0ration 20." Though a thousand' bottles of the serum were taken Iron the horse all would bear the number 20. Miss Valentine was injected with "Operation 151. Messrs. 'Schultz-Berge and Koechl, the New York agents for the remedy, laid they invited the most searching Investigation. About iX) bottles of "Operation I ."'. were consigned to New York. Of these 100 have been sold to druggists and the rest to local physi cians. In most cases a careiul record has been kept of the sales. Dr. Kort rlght has expressed the fear that other fatalities might result from the use of tins particular lot, but Dr. Parker of (.he New York Heslth Board Injected some into a guinea pig and a rabbit and no bad effects were noticeable. A New lte-at lug Kirlf. Bai.timui:!:, Md., Apnl 4. Cap , Morschlager of the steamship La Cam pine vjgited Fort McIIenry Monday and exhibited to the soldiers a new Gerrcan repeating n He with which he did some remarkable shooting. The rifle Is one of the first maiie by the Ger man government from a new invention Monser. In appearance It Is something like the Krag-Jorgenseti military rifle now being adopted bv the I'nited States Army, but for shooting It has eclipsed anything yet made. It is of y2-caliber. and the barrel Is male of three tubes, one Inside the other, ou the same plan as the Krupp gun. The Inner tiiue is drilled and of hard tempered steel. The powder used is a smokeless rnlro gly cerine explo- live, which makes little report and no imoke. Fired along at thu height of the shoulder the bullet will go nearly two miles before its force is spent, and at 2,000 yards it would pierce the bodies of seven men placed one be hind the otlir". follow era of Saint Trrraa. iui.vauak. Mex.. Anril 4. Anothei conflict has occurred between the au thorities and the followers of Saint Teresa Urrea, the so-called patron saint of the Mexicans of this section. In a conflict several days ago between the authorities and crowds that flocked to it e Teresa three persons were killed Tht; authorities determined to make auother attempt to quell the excite ment and an armed force was sent to the shot where Teresa was camped with orders to capture a wooden im age she carried. Her followers resisted the attempt and in the light that fol lowed five persons were killed and three wounded. The woman escatsxl in to Texas and is supposed to be on her way to her old home in Sonora,Mexlco. Atu-mulcu tu lllitw 11 1 the Monuuiniit Bida Pkst, April 4. An alterant was made to blow up the Herii.i monu ment, erected to the memory of the Austrian General, llentzi, and the 41. soldiers who fell while defending the fortress against the Hungarians in P ill. A well-dressed man was seen to deposit a parcel, to winch was attached, a lighted fuse, near the monument. A tremendous explosion followed, uluiller Ing the windows at Arckduke Joseph's palace, the armory, ami other buildings In the vicinity. The monument, how ever, was uot injured. Later in the nay it was announced that the author of the attempt to blow up the monument was the editor of a weekly paper, the Olwasd. He had previously been imprisoned, after having been convicted oflese majeete. He bas been taken Into custody. Found lacl. Cincinnati, O., April 4 -When Cor oner Haerr called at No. 45 Bautn street to view a dead body he entered a room where a ydung and pretty woman stood leaning with both elbows on a dresser before a mirror. He asked her where the remains were wheu a neighbor aid: "Why, she is the dead woman." Investigation developea that the woman bad stood there dead from be lore 8 til) 1 1 o'clock. Her eyes were wide pen and fixed on her reflection, while her lips were wreathed lit a smile. She waa Annie Shannon, wife of a working man. Her 6-year-old child all the morning was playing about the room talking to the mother, totally happy and unconscious of the terrible truth. All la Unlet. Mauhiii, April 4. The Governor of Havana telegraphed that tranquillity prevails In five of the provinces of Cu ba, ihe Insurrection is co mined to the Province of Santiago, where the rebels have retired to the mountains and are awaiting reinforcements. Will bcTaltrn to l.oiidaa. Burn oh Aviiks, April 4 A Federa Judge has ordered the Salts govern noent to deliver Jabez Spencer Balfour, whose extradition Great Britain has long beeu trying to obtain, to the British Legation In this city. He will be taken to Loudon to answer the charges made against him in connection with the col laps of the Liberator Building Society and allied concerned, the failure of which ruined thousands of persons At the time of his flight from Kngland Balfour waa a member of Parliament. STATE NEWS ITEMS. 1 he young Indies of P.-nca play base ball. The onl r newspaer at bt. Ld ward is for sale. plaiuview voted to try mixed drinks for the vear to come. Joe Flynn of Columbus Is afflicted with a brokeu J. the result of a run away. Local ta'erit received the contract for the erection of a new opera house at Norfolk. The democratic nominee for mayor of Coiumbus had suit n majority over both opponents. The Johnson county teichers" asiocia tion will hold a two days' sea-.lon In Tecumseh April 1- and 13. I.. W. Colby has given up going to war and will devote h:- money and at tention to breeding tine horses. springview gi.es wel another year. Ttie license ticket was carried by a small majority at the city election. All through the central and eastern part of ti e stale the gr-nind was soaked by the recent rams to a depth of two inches. W. B. Backus, ex-S'iperintendi lit of the Genoa lndi n .vlmo! has returned from i-ai!ie and wi 1 make his home in Nebraska. J. L. Hall of Verd.m l pros pecting trip to California. He went by the southern route and will return by way of Ogd-n, ait Lake and Denver. G. V. Maker and his wife, old resi dents of Tab!- Wuck, '" liVrt llv,,tl there nearly thirty years left Monday for Alaska.where they t x;ect to temaiti a year or more. I heir daughter, Miss Chrisieua Baker, is a missionary there and has been lor several years, and it is for this reason lliey undertake the long and tedious joir n- y. H. A. stoo of Beatrice whose saloon license was rt-cenliy revoked by the council, says lie is preparing to sue the' city for ilo.om damages. Ills under stood the basis of the action is upon a, section of the saloon ordinance which; says that belore a license can be re voked the parties shall be given a hear ing to show cause. This, he claims,, was not done in his case. The family of the late O. K. Johnson of lattsmouth have had more than their ihare of alllictlon. Several weeks ago their Son was taki-n sick with typhoid fever and his life was despaired of. His aged father and mother, worn out by their tireles efforts for their sot: a lite, were both tsken sick, and last weei Mr. John boh died. Mrs. Johnson fol lowed her husband last night, and the sou is still In a very critical condition. James McCiillough, an old veterau late of company F. 'I hirlli-lifth low a infantry, was found dead aud alont lying upon bare pine boards with a stick for a pillow In his cabin about eight miles west of Hemingford yes terday. There were no valuables and no papers, except evidence of an effort to get this democratic administration;, to grant him a pension. Mr. Lochren had just required him to furnish him,' an additional affidavit showing con tinued disability and that he was a man of good character. He has an swered it to Ids God. The coroner's jury brought 111 a verdict saying he died from exposure and want of nour ishment. The sudden and mysterious death of. Miss Sophia 'irettknetz near Wisner' was explained by the findings of the coroner's jury. After a long examina tion they found that death hail resulted I from causes unknown. In the morn ing the girl had complained of not feel-, Ing well. When her brother and hired) man returned at noon for. dinner the dead girl was found lying on her backj in a bed upstairs. Khe had carefully) undressed and put 011 anew nightgown,, got into bed carefully put two pillows under her head, pulled a sheet over her and then a big feather bed. She had seemingly died without a atruggle Hhe and her brother, as well as her other relatives, lived agreeably together and there was no cause known for the) suicide, except a desire to die. , Maud, the five year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .1. L. K ecker of Beatrice' died in great agony, the result of atv accident. In company with some play- mates the little girl started a fire in a, bunch of grass from which he.r cloth-, Ing caupht fire. It was burned almost entirely from her body which presented' a sickening, blackened sight after' death. Mrs. liiecher heard the screamai of her child and on reaching her side, frantically strove to smother the flames, as she caught the child and threw h8r arms and clothes about her. The re sult was only to set lire to her mother's clothlug, whose hands and arms were burned badly. Neighbor! and physi' clans did all they could to alleviate,, their sufferings, but could not prevent death, i he father of the child w as ub-j aent in the country and did not get home uniil a few moments before the! child died. 1 Two petitions for a saloon have al ready been started in Valley, A uiau) fiorn Fremont and another from, Waterloo are rustling for signers. The! new board is In favor of one salooo, bufj it will be upon Ironclad conditions.! The annual spasm of cleanim.. ... truck Nebraska City, and property! iiuuueo. 10 clean up their alle?esrr report to Judge Aird by Oneway and explain their refusing to comply with ths provision, of toJ -'(.:,.., 1 ., -MrU .utt--"
