Et Sioux County Journal
BAKBI30.
NEBRASKA.
A. popular singer named Yaw la to
aaarry a St Paul editor. She couldn't
twfuee; her name gave her awy.
Casting pearls before swine has
this advantage, that if you never cast
anything ele jou can starve the hogs
oat
Boston has discovered a man who
Bag been married sixty different times
ana ttie authorities are discussing what
la an adequate punishment for him.
lie s already had it
to call a man an unblushing acoun
drei" Is a dlstict slur on his character,
nd to tell another that you blush for
him used at one time to be a pretty
common form of insult Even now the
phrane "we blush to relate" I to be
found In our daily newspapers. The
poet Young lays It down in his "Night
Thoughts" that "the man who blushes
I not quite a brute." Darwin's ob
servations determined the fact that
blushing Is conflned to the human
species.
ine only satisfaction the American
people have so far out of the firing of
the Spanish cruiser Conde de Veuadito
upon the Alllama is that she never
touched us.
"A Cleveland Judge granted eight dl-
Torces in oue day. He should be placed
on the bench in Chicago." Toledo
Blade.
Why He would be altogether too
low for that town.
We learn from the Kansas City Star
that "Pinky Blitz stabbed a man in
the north end." That" no place to stab
an adversary and we hope Sir. Biita
will be severely disciplined for his
rudeness.
We learn from a Washington special
telegram that Rudyard Kipling has ap
pearedatthenatioua! capital "wearing a
musttcheand decidedly English clothes,
heavy protruding eyebrows and snap
pish blue eyes." What does Washing
ton propose to do about it?
A Jersey City watch dog which re
cently died was dissected and in its
stomach were found a half pound of
sand, two buckles, several pieces of
wood, a pair of rubber shoes, and the
remnants of a straw hat What be
came of the rest of the tramp remains
a mystery.
The punishment rarely fits the crime
more promptly or perfectly than in the
case of the robbers who attempted to
hold op the Cincinnati train near Green
wood, Ky. Hints of their purpose
reached the official of the road in ad
vance. Three trusty and well-armed
railroad policemen were placed on the
train At the signal of the robbers the
engineer stopjied the train, aud when
the six bandits legan work the three
guards began work also. When the
latter finished, which they did speedily,
there were two robbers dead aud one
dying, and the other three had taken to
the woods without waiting to see what
became of their comrades in crime, lu
less than ten minutes the train was on ! Of Formosa will mmi. Hi.nU...
? , ..-.y v ig iiooQ
Its way again with no one injured aud
no treasure but. It is a pltv that all
other transact!- ns of these train bandits
could not have the same happy upshot
Will F7 t.
Tien Tsix, April 18.Au Imperial
proclamation has been Issued authoris
ing Li Hung Chang to sigu a treat ot
peace with Japan, guaranteeing the
payment ot 2jO,0(X).(XJO taela indemnity.
Uy tbe proclamation Li Hung Chang
is empowered to cede to the Japanese
ih island of Formosa and the peninsu
la of Liao Tung, to tbe fortieth degree
of latitude; to sanction the opening or
fire new commercial ports, including
Pekin, and to give Japan the power to
open certain co:lon factories and in
dustries in China, By the terms of the
proclamation the import duties at tbe
open porta are not to excted 2 per cent.
Anoiner imperial proclamation has
been issued granting sick leave to the
viceroy of Canton aud ordering him to
retire to his native province,
LONDON rAI'EKS COMMENT.
iiONuoN, April IS. fhe Fall Mall
uazette, comniMiUnu on the terms of
peace oeiweeu China and Japan, as de
fined by the imperial edict just issued
in 1 ekin, says the conditions are better
than those mentioned iu the Times'
""f"1"" 01 juesuay. me cess on
Eng-
Flve large volumes of the unpub
lished works of Victor Hugo will lie
brought out in France at the rate of
one a year. They may not Rell like
"Trilby," but the literary world will
five them some attention when not
too much excited by current master
pieces.
The idea of building locomotives has
been agitated on the I'aciiic coast
There are manufacturers who have
facilities for doing such work, but
Investigation shows that the cost of
labor is higher, so that it would be
impossible to compete with Easteru
locomotive builders.
It Is a queer thing, says the .Nash
ville Advocate, to see how conspicuous
a preacher's faults are in the eves of
itt. .1 ,.r,
vu"sirsnuuu. ixe may nave a
hundred virtues, every oue of them ad
mirable; he may possess each in a
high degree; but one fault will be more
prominent than them all, aud the peo
ple will see more of it and talk more
about it than they will about all his
good qualities combined."
It is a real misfortune that has over
taken Japan. To be checked and dis
graced at the very moment of comment
by such a madman's act is as humiliat
ing as it was unexpected. And great
sympathy will be felt for the F.miicror
as well as for the venerable envoy who
meets with such a shocking reception.
At the same time there can lie no
aouht that the act. however much that
of a "madman." as we put It. especial
ly when taken In connection with the
attai-k upon the present (-ar onlv a
couple of years ago, indicates that the
war has got ou faster than the Japan
ese character, and that the ordinary na
tive is not yet really civilized. Of
course it will be answered at once that
the assault upon I.i Hiiug Chang was
but a parallel to the attack nixm Car
not, and that the character of the Jap
anese people is no more to lie judged
by the one th;in the character of the
Italian people by the other. I'nfortu
nateiy this is not tjuite enough. For
while ail men are brutal, and all men
are prone to sudden tierce crimes, ail
men are not dumbly, dispassionately
superstitious. This Is the speclnl char
acteristic of the half-clvllized man who
kills you without spite, because lie
deems it a religious duty, and It is Just
this element that will tirohuhlv llrnrer
lanu, wuiie me cession of Fort Arthur
will be objected to by Russia.
uui (.uiciuuieui me uazette says,
"may sa.'ely be depended upon lo do
uvucvor, uuiess ine otner
powers take action. The Russian Jour
nal, according to dispatches from St
Tl ... .
x-eiersuurg is more vigorous iu their
uueranees man tnglish papers and
Bound tue warning that tbe signing of
sucn a treaty Indicated by the dis
patches will be only a prelude to wider
although unnecessary, armed conflict."
The .Sc. James Gazette savs: Mf
Japan declines to be frightened Russia
may come to ine conclusion that she
would better not try force. Mean.
while England is benevolent, and has
no feeling of anger toward Japan.
1.1 HL.NU ClI.VNO STAUTS HOMKWAKD.
Mhmoxoskki, April 18. -Li Hung
criang started for home yesterday,
uaving concluded all of ttie Japanese
aemanas
Tokiu, April 13. The Chinese peace
envoy started for lien Tsin yester.iay
aiiernoon and the Japanese plenipot
entiaries will return to Hiroshima to
dav. a dispatch from Iloug Kong
ays it is expeeed there that a revolu
tion against the reigning dynasty will
be begun o.i Friday. The leading
Chinese of Canton are coming to Hong
Kong in large numbers.
Rerun, April 18-The St. Peters-
burg correspondent of the Fronkfurter
Srloua Troul.U at Craw Crerk.
-.nosville, Tenn Aprd 19. Seri
m trouble arose at Crow Creek. lb
iropnetors of the Royal mines recently
ut in electrical machinery for bring
ing e ai out of the mines at a cost ot
I . t: I rr l , i 1
ieu samea workmen were
Kuugat from Ohio and Pennsylvania
O operate the machinery. The old em
ployes at ine mines objected to the
itnpioyment of these men and bad
reelings arose. Yesterday morning
bree of tbe old employes, with one
Hendricks as their lail.r mil ihunf
he new men at the comoant's tnr h
'
malice, borne hot words were spoken,
nen xien.iricka drew a revolver and
'hot one of the men named Morgan.
Morgan returned the lire, shooting
(lendrick and fatally wounding him.
lie lived buta short time. Morgan and
Jhe other two left aud soon after were
pursued by a party of thirty-five min
Jrs, who were swearing vengeance
gainst them if caught At o'clock
lesterday afternoon uolhinir had been
taard of them and the supposition is
mat they escaped. All the miners
quitting work. There are about 3-JO of
them. Further trouble is feared ami
Knoxviile yesterday evening to make
Irrangements for the protection of his
ftroperty. The sheriff of Anderson
county, where the mine is located is on
Hie ground endeavoring ti.Jrestore order
Nothing has been done by the civil
authorities, but it ia imped the trouble
Will be settled without i -tiling upon the
militia.
iii ot ruth ii.
Chicago, April I'.i.-Keuben John
ion, an expfrssmaii, and a small child
t-e son of John Hoitleii, a member of
ihe fire work firm at III North wood
I reet, died yesterday of accidental
(oisoning. Johnson had gone to the
llolden house to haul away a load of
tire works. While mere he went for a
tan of beer, drinking part of it himself
knd giving the. balance to the child
1 he child died a few minutes there-
i:ier aud Johnson expired in the am
bulance while en route to the city
hospital. It is believed thai gome of
!he poisonous substances used in mak
ir.g fireworks had gotten either into
Ihe can or into the gins' out of which
hie beer was t:tken.
longest in the Japanese character. The jZeitung telegraphs that' the French
tmperor Is to be commiserated, but he
w ill have to educate all his subjects to
forget their fetiches.
One Way of Curing a Felon.
Of few men who have led the roin-h.
ana Russian governments are about to
convoko a meeting of the poiver for
the purpose of revising the terms of
peace agreed upon by the Chinese atid
Japanese representatives.
London, April is. A disnatch tn
Rome years ago Frederick Douglass
addressed a convention of negroes In
Louisville, says the Buffalo Courier.
He said in the course of his remarks
that he did not think an amalgama
tion of the white and black races de
sirable, the pure negro being, in his
opinion, the best of the race! While
speaking his eyeglasses continued to
slide from their perch. "But I wish,"
Interpolated the speaker, "I wish we
could get up some sort of an alloy for
the negro which would insure
capable of holding spectacles."
a nose
peace rautications will be exchanged
within three weeks and that the arum,
tic has been extended to midnight 00
May 8.
Friction consumes power. A noted
authority on friction says if may be es
, timated that one half the power ex
pended in the average case, whether in
mill or shop, is wasted in lost work, be
ing consumed in overcoming the fric
tion of lubricated surfaces. Hence in
many cases where power is .dark, the
engine or other appliances are blamed,
when in reality an inferior oil is having
much to do with the trouble. A change
of oils is needed.
anil-ready life of the late Barnes Urce- Central News from Tokto says that
t., t.....i ... , . . ' ..... ...
ir.-uiui.HT oi uie great Horace cau
It lie said that they have lieeii under
the influence of liquor but once In their
I lives, and that once with deliberate
Intent lie used to lioast that his only
potations were medicinal. "Ihe one
time," said he, "that I ever tasted
liquor was when I had a big felon on
my fiuger. I hadn't slept for three !
nights. Somebody said that a food i
drunk would cure me. I lost no time
In filling up with the la-st I could get,
first going to my daughter's house and'
telling her what I intended to do. I
loaded myself in town and then look a
bottle full of whisky and went to my
daughter's. I didn't like the whisky,
but my prescription called for a down
right Mead drunk." and I got It For
a mm 1 inane tilings lively at
uuuguter nouse, running tilings af
ter the most approved manner of con
firmed old toilers. Then I sank into
oblivion, and they said It vhs a ques
tion for a time whether I would rise
agaiu or not But 1 did. mid the
mini iiijr leiou and It soon
got well. It wiis a radical remedy, and
if I ever get another felou I will go
off on my second drunk, although I'm
75 years old. "-Kate Field's Washing
ton.
Mexican tattle Coming In.
Et'KEKA, Km, April 18. -There bag
been great excitement among cattle
men here during the past week, oc
casioned by the shipping of Mexican
cattle. Two thousand head were un
loaded atSummilt, eighteen miles wtst
01 heie last week, in spite of the pro-,
testa of local stockmen and of the state
livestock sanitary commission. The
emle are' now in quarantine. The
Greenwood county cattlemen's pro
tective association, the strongest or.
my IgauizaUon of the kind iu the state, has
taken the matter up, and its president,
0. E. Lodd, has declared that, if ne
cessary, force would be employed to
prevent tbe importation of the stock,
trouble is feared. The cattle interests
I"1"' ;-uf this county are large aud the cattle
men are determined to lane no risk of
having splenic fever brought in.
In. W K V amiertnii to Marry.
London, A pril IU. Nothing can be
irartied as to the origin ot a rumor
that Mrs. Alva Vatuleibiit, recently
jivorced from her husband, William
K. Vanderbilt, and Mr. O. II. I'. Bel-
nont of New York were to be mar-
ed secretly in London yesterday, but
iht-rr is not Ihe siightest evidence of
I s trn h. Mr. lielmont ieft London
for I'ris a week ago and .Mrs. Vander-
1 iil went to the 0 nilnent nunit March
U cannot be discovered thateiLher
lif them is now iu London.
I'ai:i, April 11. It hs impossible
lo communicate wiih Mrs. Vandertilt
farly hist evening, as she aud her
baugh'.er had gone to the theatre. One.
til tier most intimate fr.nids, who is
liioroughly couvereant with her ordi
nary '.Hairs, was asked whether it was
inns that Mrs. Vanderbilt would be
married to Mr. Belmont in a few days:
"I do not think things Imve gone quite
o far," was the reply, "alUioueh I hear
that Mr. Belmont has played openly
ihe part of a suitor ever since Mrs.
ra rrlMrti 1 1 "a o.r eul
Treat f or Fa U Rlvmad.
Washington, D "., April 17--Th
"ported slgmn i of the- treaty of peaos
between China and Jaoan Is confirmed
by a tlegram received Monday morn
ing irom Hon. J. W. Foster, tbe ad
viser of the Chinese plenipotentiaries,
ltisdaud Simouoseki, April 15, and
says:
"Everything settled satigfaetorily.
Treaty will be signed today."
No particulars are given, the cable be
ing a private one. but it is assumed
tbat the del aiis published are correct.
Mr. Foster will probably remain in
Japan a short time until all tie details
are settled, and he then may accom
pany Li Hung Chang to Pekin. but
thla is not at aii certain. In any event,
rug ramuy expects him to returu home
by June 1.
From information heretofore reetived
the department officials underatard
that the terms include the independ
ence ot Corea, the permanent cession of
i ormosa.au offensive and delensive
alliance between China Hnd .lanaii
This last condition was expected to ba
jn the form of a protocol and not to be
made public.
The other conditions, viz: Japan'a
retention of conquered places and terri
tory east of the Liao river may be cor
rect. The fifth condition, fixing in
deranity at hW.iiOO.OUO yen is believed
to be incorrect, un'ess it refer to n
gold payment., if the amount of in
demnity is payHble in silver, which is
the currency of both China and Japan
aud the moat probable to be settle t
upon the amount of indemnity it is
thought will be much larger tnau 100,.
000,000 yen.
LONDON FAP1RS i iimmcvt,
London, April 17. The (iloLe, com
menting on the terms of pfcace alleged
to h ive been signed by the Japanese
and Chinese plenipotentiaries in Sim-
onneski, says that provisions two.hree,
four and six, respectively, allowing
Japan to retain the conquered places.
to retain the territory east of the Liao
river, ceding I orraosa permanently to
Japan and making an offensive and
delensive alliance bet ween Japan and
China, are simply impossible.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
To
make time pass rapidlv. draw a
note for more than you can comfort
ably pay. then the days will gallop;
to make time go slow, try waiting In
a railway station; to make time go at
varying rates of speed, fall in love,
then will time gallop while you're with
the loved object, and crawl when she's
away; time can't be killed very well
but a good time can be badly mafmHl
by a bore; a high old time is more
often than not a low old time; when
a man asks ror time on a purchase he
frequently means eternity; It's curious
that they should say a watch keeps
time; really, lta face gives time awav
the moment yon look at It
Some time ago a man took it upon
himself to assert that the modern wom
an baa forgotten how to blush. This
Imputation wag launched at femininity
In general with so much bitterness and
asperity that one might irather there
from that blushing Is a virtue, and that
not to Mash I criminal. Whatever the
connection between thla sudden height
ening of color and Innocence In the case
of women, however, the blush Is con
sidered a sign of grace by men. Cynic
hare always maintained that women
can cry about anything, and at a mo
ment's notice, and It In indeed pretty
well known that many actresses can
qneew out real team nightly at the
proper moment; but Mushing la more
UOralt to acquire a an art Bluahea
suns evidently considered as Important
tr tbe iWMralltr e Men. ror Inetanv
The Turkey Stopped the Train.
Swarms of locusts are well known to
have stopped railway trains, but up to
this time if was probably never heard
that a single turkey had power to ac
complish that feat flow it v.is done,
in Oxford. Fa., Ir descrilied In the rt,ii'
adelphia Public Ledger.
The engine was puffing hard on an
up grade, and passed under an over
hanging limb of a large tree in front
or a farmhouse. On the limb were sev
era! turkeys at roost The exhaust
steam was so strong that it knocked a
hen turkey from her tierch. and she
came down ujion the bell-rope.
The iiell rang, and the engineer
brought th train to a bait Then. t
course, the conductor hastened for
ward to know what was the matter,
and one of the train-hands discovered
the bird still tilting upon the rojie. and
giving utterance to notes which. It is
fair to presume, were expressive of
surprise.
The men set up a roar, the bird took
wing, and the engine again Iiegun tc
puff.
They 1,1 ke Mcholaa.
The Czar of Russia promises to be one
of the most popular monarch lu Kti-
rope. lie has completely won the St
-eiersourg jjopuiare Dy big lack of
rear In going about tbe gtrwts of the
capital unattended a great contrast
to the manner of his father. The doIIop
however, do not like bis ways, as they
are In constant fear that he will be
killed.
Tha .Myiu-rj Deepena.
West Sfl'EHion, Wis., April R
luterest in the mac's baud found Tues
day morning still continues and the
mystery is yet unsolve i. The police,
in searching the neighborhood yeeter-
iuuiiu a wouiau a nana with part
of the arm attached. This woman's
hand was badly mangled and looked as
though It had beeu chewed by dogs.
Borne think that the man's hand is all"
that is left of some poor unfortunate
who met his death at, the Northern
Paci lie trestle at the bay front and
whosbody may be at the bottom of
the bay. Others iriUmale that he may
have been the victim of foul play.
I.aari sink la lutly.
Rome, April 18. A large area of iand
near Leprigoani, in the Rome district,
has subsided about nine yards. Loud
rumblings were heard and water,
spouted from the earth at the centre of
the suuken surface. The flow wag g
heavy that the water made a lake cov
ering fifteen acres. The water smells
of sulphur, and aulphuroug gag fre
quently bubbles to the jurface. All
the o:d springs iu the neighborhood are
impregnated with the sulphur
priugs wnicn nave gushed from
1 tie A mencMii s,.ieir.
London, April 1',.- in a leader re-
hrarding the Inauguration of the Ameri
ca! society In London the Daily News
ijk: "It is curious to notice how
Completely people on both sides of the
Atlantic have outgrown the feeling
of mutual distrust and dislike prevail
ing in ti,e days of Iluwlliorue and even
later, ne an are glsd tiiat mere Is no
longer occasion for us to oiler Ameri
r.iin or for them to offer us formal
assurance of good will."
ihe Dai'y ieiegrapu will comment
on the formation of the American so
rely in London in the same friendly
manner s the D-rily News. It will
lay: "Nothing but good can come of
n institution giving our American
visitors a home in our midst. The
benelita to both parties will be equally
great. We heartily wish the under
taking success." :
Tha Hultlno tn be Motnl .
Washington, April I'J. Mint Direc,
for Preston has ordered the removal to
the San Francisco, Cal., mint of 8530,
000 of gold bullion and i:Q,0XJ of sil
ver bullion now at the Carson City,
Nev., mint, home 1600,000 of unre
fined silver now at the Carson mint
will be subseqnectly removed to San
Francisco. This removal of bullion
from Carson practically completes th
dismantling of that mint, which, in
fact, has only recently been used for
assay purposes. Mr. Mason, the gov
ernment expert inspector who discov
ered the shortage, wilt remain at Car
ton for several weeks yet, and will
then proceed lojtnske an examination
of tbe San Francisco mint.
Europe, the Clobe declares, wiil not
aisent to any conditions which place
China's latent resource under Jap
nes control, no ma ter whether in
war or commerce, a dispatch to the
Globe from Yokohama says the peace
conference sat five hours yesterday,
nd it is believed to have been the final
itting. The Chinese plenipotentiaries i
ire preparig to leave for home.
The Daily News, referring to the
CniLo-Japanese alliance, which is said
to be one of thecondiitins ol the treaty.
of peace, will say tomorrow that under
the new conditions such an alliance
aould be so much more to the advan
tage of China that it can scarcely im
agine Japan proposing it. "Japan."
lays the News, "bag emerged from the
eonnict a great power. There is no
procise parallel in the, history of the
world to her marvelous adaptability
and initiave genius,"
The Graphic is inclined to believe in
the reported alliance. It says: "This
Japanization of China would be the
death knell ot Euroneans in eastern
Asia and the ruin of western Industry.
In Jail ror Sliljr l)ay.
Dulith, Minn., April 17. John
Leon of Grand Kiplds, where he is in
DJsicesa, will remain in jail for sixty
a tys for undertaking to hug every
wo niiti he met on the street. He
tuuoned himself on the sidewalk and
ai women passed along he would throw
b iih arms around them and when they
resisted, as they n:arly always did, he
wmldsl-ip them in the face. Eight
women were thus assaulted when Lie
puty Sheriff Varley arrested Leon. He
was brought before Judge stdson, who
rave him a sixty day sentence. Leon
says lie was drunk at the time. The
;ommuutiy is highly shocked.
Teacher You my the tendency of
beat Is to expand and increase, and
of cold to contract aryl lessen. Can
you give some familiar Illustration of
thjeae effects T Bright Pupll-The noti-
ulatkm of our seaalde reeorta,- liar-
per1 Baxar.
tne earth gince the
hot and sulphurous.
disturbance are
Wind anil Hall Sl.irm.
Meridian, Ma., April 19, Thii
section of the state was visited yeater-
and I dy by a severe wind and hail storm.
A great number of houses were dernol.
Uhed and great damage to fence, fru t
and timber is reported.
Inaargaau Uatulnf Straactb.
Jacksoncii-lk, Fla., April 18.A
cablegram to tbe Time. Colon from
Key Wet Wo., .y: "Martin Cam
poa landed at Guaolanamo Tueauay
and left yesterday at 1:30 for the Aeld
with six thousand troop. General
Maaao, ma inaurgant leader, baa itaued
a manifesto deelarlna death to any
paae oommiaaion. The lnargou
hare ,000 man and are gaining strength
very day. Tbey control the province
of Santiago da Cuba.
Mill Vull C.kln
Ukrun, April 1SI.--A Toklo dispatch
ay the mikado ha expressed a wish
to vialt Pekiu and dicus with Chinese
emperor tbe subject of an alliance. He
proposes also to invite Slam to ally
herself with China and Japan. A dl
patch from St. Peteriburg says: "The
newspapers here agree that the cession
of mainland territory of Japan will
compel Eutops to Intervene to procure
sueb modification of the treaty as will
safeguard European interest.
Krfuari 10 Accept tha Aumir.
London, April 17: The Globe yes
terday asserts that Great Jiritain re-,
fuses to accept the auswer of Nicara
gua to the British ultimatum, and will
take steps to enforce the original do-'
niands.
In regard to the report that secretary
Oresham had informed the English
government that the bombardment of
Grey town, Nicaragua, would be con
sidered an act inimical to the interests
iof the United htates, the Morning Post
.tomorrow will print the following: "In-
juiry snows inai mere is certainly no
:quetion of the bombardment of Grey
town, and ucu a question has never
been raised between the governments
'of Great liritaiu aud the , Uniteo
States." '
SarTucalril iu a Mlna.
Auu L'fciiqt'K, N. M., April 17.
Reports reached here yesterday tbat
one of the mines of Crescent Coal com.'
pany at Gallup caught lire and that
fifteen men were almost suffocated,
from nioke and ga. Tbey were car-,
rled out after the fire was extinguished
Jim Flynn, the well-kuown middle- j
weight pugilist, who wit to sign arti
cle to light Billy Lewis here iu May,
was one of tbe miner taken from the
mine in an unconscious condition. A
number of mule were suffocated.
My No Meant Maw.
Binoiiamtox, N. l"., April 17 The
new discovery claimed by a Pittsburg
astronomer that the "ring of Saturn
are composed of asteroids aud shatter
ed satellite, the Inside of the rings
moving faster than the outside," 1 by
no means new, but was Illustrated in a
college lecture here thirteen year ago
I by the president of Loan college, kev.
Dr. R. A, Peterson, an Edinburgh
classwata of tbe scientific discovered,
Clark Maxwell, who gave the world Uie
ring theory In ls?0-
Peach trees are in full bioviui m
f sunders county.
The rnnniciprf' vote at Wakefield was
65 to W in favor of water.
Omaha i again agitating the canal
scheme but i silent on the depot que'
lion.
William Bickley who lately died at
Madison had been a resident of the
county for thirty years.
Agitation for a division of territory
under the new law Is going on vigor
ously In Lincoln, Custer and Holt
counties.
The latest thing iu the line of Ne
braska journalism is the Matrimonial
.'Guide and liusiueis Medium, published
at Grant, Neb.
The youngest son of Ed Htuky ef
Platte county ate wild parsnip and
died in a few hours. An older boy was
taved by an emetic.
The editors ol N ince county are tot
as harmonious as brethren should be.
Personal abuse is having a great run
In their valuable papers.
The body of F. Adams Colvin was
not given to the medical college as he
requested, but was laid tenderly away
in the cemetery at Co.unibus.
The Aiiioworth tar-.luiirnal thinks
that when Mewart w is elected to the
legislature a good farm hand was
ipoiled in the making of a Very poor
senator.
The much wanted sugar beet seed
for tiiis section arrived at Mine Hill
this week from Montreal and will be
distributed next wee to the farmers
In this section who h ve sub-soilt-d. It
is estimated that upwards of 1() acre
of sugar beet will be raised near Biua
Hill this year.
Editor S.-eiy of the Madison Chron
icle is moved to remark with plain
ness "if republican candidates for otlice
this fall propose to llirt with populist
and democratic newspapers to the ex
tent Of having their "leg pulled'' long
nd often, the? had better look to thoie
kind of people for support."
There are many large orchards being
t out near Vabb Rock this spring.
Votably among them is the one of C.
f. Wood, two miles east, of 1 H&) tree
Deslde a large vineyard of 1,000 vines.
II. J. Chapman, live miles southeast,
is putting out trees, 2,200 of them.
)eing of the Ren Davis variety,
'.'awnee county is destined to become
famous as a fruit country.
Nerly thirty years ago ''Run" Tur
ner of the Columbus Journal said in
mpport of an argument that a man at
forty-five was just in the prime of life,
that on his forty-fifth birthday he
would turn three handsprings and
Hand on his head fifteen seconds. He
fulfilled the engagement of a number
of his friends, and hasn't been able to
do a good day's work since.
The board of education, of Nebraska
City at an adjiurned meeting, decided
to submit a proposition to the peopla
for the issuing of SiiJ.OOO in bonds for
the erection of a high school build. ri.
At the same time the question of site
for the proposed building will be voted
on, the boird having two in min i. The
election will be held Msy 27. Nhould
tbe bonds carry, Nebraska City will
have Jone of the handsomest school
bousts In the state.
An attempt was made to lire the
town of Oakland. About 9:30 o'clock
one evening as Frank Pearson and
John Danlelaon were coming home
from church they noticed a bright light
iu an empty barn belonging to Lars
Lund. It proved to be a tire built of
hay and fresh kindling wood. The in
flammable material hai been place! in
one corner of the barn and under the
manger and only the prompt applica
tion of water saved the town as the tire
was located right In the heart of a
thickly settled portion. Oakland has
had many mysterious lires in the pat
year and it is plain a firebug dwells in
the neighborhood. Extra nightwatcheg
were put on and the culprit will be ap
prehended if possible.
What Is believed will prove a fatal
accident occurred in Cliadrou. H. s.
wood worth of Chapman, Neb., a hyp.,
nottst, is here and has with him a pupil
by the name of Hasel Raker, a young
man tweuty-six years of age, while
Hasel Baker was riding horseback on
the streets carrying a banner advertis
ing Wood worth, his horse becamq
frightened at his shadow under sm
electric light, jumped sideways and.
Stumbled, throwing Raker to the
ground. II struck on his head with a
noise like the sharp report of a pistol'
and sustained Injuries that the physi
cians say mav prove fatal. He bat notj
gained consciousness gince the accident
and his right side Is completely para-'
lized. Hasel liaker lives near Devil's
Tower, Wyo., where his parents reside.
His father is an old soldier, formerly a
resident of Aurora, Neb., and has not
been notified of his son's condition as
he cannot be reached by wire. Hasel
liaker Is a single man aud oue of the
best horsemen in Wyoming, where h
rode on the range tor vwal years
leaving it to become Wooiworth's
pupil. The family I a highly reapeeu
able one of small means.
Tbe total express charge on Senatoi
Alien' blooded trotting colt from Troyi
N. Y., to Madion were law. it Co
22 to ship the colt from Norfolk to
Madison, a distance of twelve mile.
W. (J. Storm of Norfolk was made to
believe that all animals would thrive
better on cooked feed, and purchased a
steam boiler for that purpose. It ex.
ploded at tbe first attempt to put u in
practical operation and he and hi hired
man more nearly cooked to a Am!.
ib an lb grata.