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A race bonte has been named Dr.
arkhurst. It la safe to wager that the
is a kicker.
Corbett has just bought a $30,000 res
idence In New York. Score another
Victory for Journalistic pugilism.
Breckinridge will never get to the
United States Senate. Madeline Pol
lard will attach bis campaign fund.
A Detroit man committed suicide be
aatue his first attempt at baking bread
proved a failure. The "new man" does
at tart out well.
What yon say about your goods to
the man who comes Into your store, If
Hid In the local newspaper, will make
i men come in to buy.
One of the attractions of the next
Pari exposition will be a hole in the
ground a mile deep. One price of ad
t&laalon will admit one to the hole show.
People can't conveniently go without
eef, but we imagine they will restrict
their buying until the beef combine gets
ready to sell their beef at decent prices.
Compulsory education is un-American,
says the Philadelphia Item. It may
be un-American In Philadelphia, but It
a distinctly American everywhere else.
The price of beef seems Inclined to
try to beat the highest record, which,
we believe, was made when the late
Mrs. Goose's cow Jumped over the
moon.
Mr. Gully, the new Speaker of the
Bouse of Commons, Is the son of a
botcher who became a prize fighter. He
himself la not the representative of a
Hng, however.
Pattl's aalary has been cut nearly
one-third. But she Is still able to afford
a carrlge to and from the opera. Her
last engagement of six nights netted
bar $12,000.
Colonel Phoebe Couzlns told Mr. Fair
at their first Interview that he "need
hare no fear about the result" And
the next day he fled. Perhaps he was
craxy perhaps.
Lord Alfred Douglas has Issued an
appeal asking the public to suspend
Judgment In the case of Oscar Wilde.
We have no doubt that Oscar would
willingly reciprocate.
A rifle that will go through 24 Inches
of oak and a human body at 1,500
yards, such as the new army rifle will
do, destroys the previously existing
high premium on trees in time of bat
tle.
Several hundred of the congratula
tory telegrams sent to Bismarck on his
eightieth birthday anniversary were
marked "collect" The iron chancellor
may well say, "Save me from my
friends."
If those counterfeiters actually suc
ceed In forcing the government to re
tire the present gumless and Inartistic
tamp a grateful people will feel like
recommending the culprits to mercy
If they are caught
Another California woman comes for
ward with the claim that she actually
captured ex-Senator Fair and wedded
blm. She evidently has good grounds
against Col. Phoebe Couzlns for poach
ing on her preserves.
The man who claimed to have manu
factured the first hand organ In this
country has committed suicide. This
furnishes a pleasing reminder that
retributive justice Is still doing bus!
at the old stand.
An exchange suggests as a sure
method of exterminating the Russian
thistle that the ladles adopt It as a hat
ornament The Idea emanates from the
brain, doubtless, of some bigoted and
unreasonable lover of song-birds.
A Chicago man is suing two local doc
ton for $25,000 damages, alleging that
after hit experience vlth them he found
that one of his legs was too short. Is
he quite sure that that Is what alls
him? Perhaps the other leg is now
longer than It really ought to be.
St IxraU Is highly Indignant because
one of her society buds has married
a Chinaman. It does look like a
shameful waste of good material, but
our American girls are continually
throwing themselves away on foreign
prince and other riffraff of that sort
All tike correspondence between Colo
nel Phoebe Couzlns and the late ex
Senator Fair has been published and
not a word in any of Fair's letters
suggests love, courushlp or marriage.
The last one concludes with "most re
spectfully." Did Phoebe really have a
dreamt
Ibe Bui tan of Turkey sent to New
York BOO pounds for the relief of Min
nesota forest flre sufferers. The money
was Dot called for by the Minnesota
tvtborttlea, and Mayor Strong has jnst
ordered that It shall be appropriated
for ass among the poor Armenians of
Sew Tork City. In view of the recent
Armenian outrages this Incident has a
queer bearing.
aetrr '
Aa English church paper prints a
Hat of racant benefices in the Kuturr
din ran. Vales, as follows: ltvyj-fjrfcfeMMSs-raaaiacn
nawr. V net
value 2T$ pounds and houe; LlanfMr
pwUgwjDgyllgogeryc bwyrn droiv't
tyslllogo goggoch-cuin -LlaodUlllo. K..
net value 154 pounds id house; Lma
cynfarwy, V, net ralue III pot;:. is
and house; Pentraetbcum Llan" '
goch, P. C, net value 212 pouniN tiLii
house. But who could be induced to
accept such an alphabetical nifcbuiiiire
as that?
Railway construction appears to be
reviving. Less than two thousand miles
of track were laid in the United states
In 1S&4. The Railway Age is the au
thority for stating there are now 20.547
miles of new railroad either under con
struction, or in a condition whore the
actual track-laying is likely to 1 lie
gun In the near future. The State of
Texas takes the lead, wkh a proposed
new mileage of 2,973 miles, represent
ing thlrty-oue different lines. Califor
nia comes next with thirteen hundred
and ninety miles.
Whatever may be said of the suffer
lngs of the underpaid laborer of, the
British isles, the reports of the Scottish
savings banks do not Indicate a de
cree of uoverty among the Inhering
classes of that country such as one
might fancy. A recently published
report of the savings banks of .Mont
rose for 1S&4 shows 3. accounts of
the class of working folk like domestic
servants, crofters, farm hands, shoe
makers and mechanics. The account
of these people amounted to $ V ,." .
Of this sum JT.V'SO was debited by
domestic servants, JJfUlO by dress
makers and milliners. .lo,20o car
penters, coopers and painters, soT.-iM
by shop-keepers, clerks and printers.
$73.GST by seamen and fishermen ami
$81,370 by widows and spinsters. In
Perth the deoslts of the same class of
people amounted to f "isj.M.-i, or $1J5
for each deositor. In times of very
jeneral business depression such a
showing Indicates a decree of prosperi
ty hardly to be expecti-d among a class
of people most likely to feel the hard (
times.
The revolutionary war ended prac
tically In 1781, but the last pensioner or
that war has Just died, and the pay
ment of pensions on account of that con
test has ceased. This last survivor was
the widow of a man who served during
the revolution. She married him In
1824 when he was advanced In years
and she was 20. he lived on tptletly
In East Tennessee until she had reached
the age of 91. Other young women mar
ried other old soldiers either because
they loved them or because of their
little pensions, and thus It came about
that for many years the only mimes on
the revolutionary pension rolls have
been those of women. The war of the
rebellion ended In 1H15. It Is fair to
assume that many of Its veterans will
take to themselves young wives as they
get advanced In years, and that their
wives or widows will live as Ions as the
consorts of revolutionary heroes. In
that case the payment of pensions on
account of services rendered during the
rebellion cannot be expected to end be
fore 1979. Not until the first quarter
of the next century Is over will the
name of the last pensioner of the war
of lbl2 be dropped from the roil.
How Tides Predict Storms.
Fresh Interest has recently been de
veloped In the fact that Wekt Indian
hurricanes, and other great storms at
sea, frequently produce a remarkable
effect upon the tides along neighboring
coasts.
When a tempest Is approaching, or
passing out on the ocean, the tides are
noticeably higher than usual, as if the
water had been driven In a vast wave
before the storm. The influence ex
tends to a great distance from the :y
clonic storm center, so that the pos
sibility exists of foretelling the ap
proach of a dangerous hurricane by
means of Indications furnished Ly tide
gauges situated far away from the
place then occupied by the whirling
winds.
The fact that the tidal wave outstrips
the advancing storm shows how ex
tremely sensitive the surface of the sea
Is to the changes of pressure brought
to bear upon It by the never-resting at
mosphere. The Better Part of Valor.
Nobody ever called in question the
courage of the early Spanish settlers
of California; but there seems to have
been at least one man among their de-
srendants who held discretion to be
the better part of valor. His fellow
countrymen still preserve the memory,
with a keen appreciation of iu ioint
A certain Don Andreas was Inter
viewed by hie superior officer, on the
eve of an engagement with the enemy,
and was warned that the American
was a very different foe from the In
dian or the Mexican, and that eourng"
should not be pushed to rashness In nn
aicounter with blm.
"Have no fear, General!" was the
response of the Intrepid caballcm. "I
would far rather that history should re
cord from where I fled, than where I
fell."
The General's mind was probably re
lieved of anxiety concerning the fate
of at least one Individual In his com
mand, by tills reply.
Almost a Suicide.
Weiss, the opera singer, was a very
handsome man, but so thin that he
wore what on the stage Is called a
"shape" a complete suit of padding
from neck to ankles, worn next the
skin. Ono night ho was playing in an
opera In whirl) he wore flowing robes,
and wns able to dispense with It In
the cotfrse of the performance an ap
palling shriek antotnded the players,
and a coryphee rushed Into the green
room with the Information thnt the
I basso had lmngeu himself. he hnr
! per-ped Into his dreKsIng-room and
f the "slinpe" behind the door. Life am'
-'venrcrr. G. Augustus Kala.
- to Ileal.
Washini.t n, -May 17. Admiral
John J. Aiuiy, t. S. N, retired, died
at his residence In this city at 3 o'clock
yesterday mort.iug, after a long: illness.
Admiral Almy was born Iu Newport,
11. 1., April 21. 1SU. He entered the
navy as a midshipman in $. and rose
through the successive gr ides to be
commodore December 3 J, ls5lt. and
rear admiral, August 23, I73. He
served forty-eight years aud eleven
months, until his retirement in July,
177. As midshipman and lieutenant
he cruised all over the world in the old
ailing navy; was at the surrender of
Walker and his filibusters; commanded
the Fulton in the expedition to Para
guay, was at the selge of Vera Cruz
and the capture of Tuxpan during the
Mexican war aud was coraraader at the
Brooklyn navy yard iu M,l and 1S02.
During his service as commander be
had ci.arge successive of the gunboats
Souih Carolm. Couaecticut and
Juniata.
While in comm and of the Ctntiectl-
cut he ca ptured lour noted blockade
runners with valuable cargoes and four
Others were chased to the shore and de
Btroyed. As eap'ain he commanded
the Juniata until l,7, when he was as
signed to the Brooklyn navy yard, then
to the signal crop and after a cruise to
the Pacific whj retired.
IuTrtlat)iis I'rlton Affair.
Lakamik, Wyo., May 17. The gov
ernor, treasurer of slate and attorney
are now engaged in an investigation
of the affairs of the Wyoming state
prison here. The prison work is oper
ated by a lease. James M irsh four
years ago obtained the prison lease for
the term of nineteeu years. Fr the
past year Marsh has been absent from
the slate on account of sickness and
his daughters have been in charge.
During that time four life-term pris
oners have escaped, owing, Jit Is al
leged, to the lack of supervision by
the girls and their employes. One of
the escaped prisoners was released, It
Is claimed, because one of the girli had
fallen in love with him. Matters
reached a crisis a few days ago, when
N. D. McDou aid, the new warden.took
aharge and discharged one of the em
ployes. The Marsh daughters declare
that the warden has no right to dis
charge any employe aud there is much
bitter feeling over the matter. Friends
of the Marsh family claim there is poli
tics in the investigation.
Destroyed by Fire.
New Yokk, May 17. A fire, whicu
destroyed four small blocks of houses
about Surf avenue and fsa Btmch walk
the most thickly populated section of
Coney island, started shortly after 10
o'clock yesterday mortiug. The fire
was discovered in a building in the
rear of Feltmau's hotel and pavillion,
which was used aa a photograph gallery
The flames spread to Feltmau's hotel.
From there it jumped across urf ave
nue to the hotel owned by Ernest Beach
Then it spread to Michael's hotel and
to Dr. Hill's pharmacy. By 11 3C
o'clock O'Brien's hotel, the St. Nicholas
hotel and fifteen small frame structures
bad been destroyed.
The buildings which were destroyed
with the exception of the hotels, were
for the most part gtnall frama shanties
used as salo ons and restaurants. Then
destruction throws about 1,000 personi
out of employment. .Some place the
damage done by the flatus yesterday
about 1300,000.
KewerMtd th Decision,
Washington, D. C, May 17. The
secretary of the interior reversed the
decision of the commissioner of the
general land office in holding for can
cellation the entry of W. J. Menden
hall for a tract of land in the Pnrry.
OkL, land district, which, by the com
missioner's decision, would have been
granted to Byron E. Cagle, another en
trymao. According to the provisions
of the proclamation of the president
In opening the Cherokee outlet for set
tlement no persons were to be per
mitted to enter the outlet from the In
dian reservation. Cagle did tiiis, but
Mendenball entered from the Kansas
line and brought himself a claim to the
lands. This decision will be a guide
In settling similar contests now pend
ing before the department.
Tll (bletl of Fullco.
Washington, D. C May 17. The
annual convention or me enters ot po
lice closed yesterday. The discussion
was not of a character interesting to
the general public, with the excep'.io.i
perhaps, of the remarks of Chief Phillip
Deitscti of Cincinnati, who gave his
Ideas of the military discipline ta;U
should prevail iu a police force. II -
also advocated legisiatiori that would
facilitate the arrest of fugitives from
justice. Robert A. and William Pin
kerlou of the detective agency bearing
that name, were present, and wert
made active m-mbers, as was also
Chief Garden of thi capltol police
force. iJurilig the afternoon the dele
gates were tae'i to Mount Yernoi
and Marshall hull, a big dinner burnt
served at the latter place.
(ttiiiar tl(9 liAW.
Washington, D. C, May 17,-Un
der the law the slate of ldilio was al
lowed 90,003 acres of laud for agricul
tural college purp istis. The statement
made its selections and most of them
wer approved, but soma were rej'ictef!
on the ground that the selections wer
less that 3G J acr, the kgal sub-dii;-lons.
Fmetary Hi ke Smith decide'
that thuse inactions coull ba mad.
from V irioiltt qnvrters, providing th.
lands chosen were cjuHcmuik.
An liilr.tii i-
VAl!iiT, M iv -1m depart,
ment of sta'e hs r-cWrd an inter-sting
report from I'nitei Suies Consul
General It. Jernigtu, stationed at
haughai, Ciiin. on truli relations
with that empire. Noting a la ling oil
in the importations of domett ic cuttons
from the United States, as well as
Great Biiuiu, Mr. Jeruigau aivances
the opinion that the manufacture of
cotton cioth by China ai;J Ja( an is re
sponsible for the decrease. Mr. Jer-
nigan says that he does not wish to in
timate that the prise of labor in the
United States should be regulated by
the price of labor iu oriental countries.
but until some staudard of interna,
tional value for the piymeut of labor
is agreed upon the products of the
orienlal laborers will bscoma a danger
ous rival to that of the occidental la
borers, Silver, he says, Is used by one
half of the world and gold by the other
half, and while wages in one-half is
paid in a depricia ed currency and in
the other h ilf in an appr-ei(ed cur
rency, a rivalry between the respective
products of the labor of each is en
couraged with the advance in tiie out
set to products of the labor.-rs paid In
depreciated currency, espucialiy when
the latter can supply his daily wants
with such currency which he willingly
jeceives and remains contented there
with. Such apparent advancing is no
longer offset by the superiority of ma
chlnery heretofore employed In manu
facturing, which was confined to the
other half of the world now using gold.
The same machinery is now used in
China and Japan aa in other countries.
Kt'rnrrd the urtlini I'Hclflr.
St. Pai l. Minn., May 15. A dis
patch cannjfrorn London to one of the
directors ot the First National bank
late yesterday afternoon saying that
James . I. Hill, president of the Great
Northern road, had been successful In
his deal to secure the Northern Pacific
railway ai d had sailed for New York.
Mr, Hill has been In London the past
week. There are no details as to how
Mr. Hill became the owner of the
Northern Pacilic, bat railway men say
it was through the purchase of second
mortgage bonds. Samuel Hill, presi
dent ot the Montana Central, left for
New York yesterday to meet James
J.Hill. They will confer with the
Northern Pacific receivers next week
aud It is said the transfer will be form
ally made on June 1. There is much
curiosity in railway circles aa to what
Mr. Hill proposes to do with two roads
which parallel each other from St
Paul to the coast. In Montana cities,
into which both roads run. there will,
of course, be a consolidation of ollices.
It Is expected, too, that both roads will
be operated from the sune general
ollices here and that part of the track
of the two roads ill be ued.
Til Crulurr Mom jcornrry Ht Greytowu.
Washington, May 10. The cruisei
Montxotiiery, with the Nicaraguan
canal engineer commission, which lefl
Mobile last Wednesday, is presumed to
have arrived at Greytown on Saturday
according to the schedule made bv the
commission before leaving New York.
Naval otlicers are not at all concerned
about t he vessel, as they hav no doubt
that Commander Davis will obe Hit
regulations and report the whereabout!
of his vessel as soon as possible Grey
town has no telegraphic communication
with the outer world and recourse must
be had to the services of some coasting
vessel bound south to leave a message
at Port Li mon, Costa, Kiea, wt.ich ii
the nearest telegraph olli e. As such
vessels are infrequent it may be ne
cessary to send the tnessf.ge to Blue;
fields for transmission by sterner tc
New Orleans
Shut Hlimtrlf Through tlie Head.
MamtoWac, Wis., May 1!. With
out any warning wh itever to anyotie,
Fred Haukohl, city treasurer, walked
through his boot and shoe store Into
the woodshed at the rear and shot him
self through the bead dying Instantly.
He spoke pleasantly to his clerks as h
passed out. He was single, of German
parentage, thirty-five years of age and
was one of the most popular young
men iu the city. He had been city
treasurer for several years. An ex
amination of his books made this
afternoon sLowed a shortage In his ac
counts of 2,! XXI, He leaves an aged
mother anu two brothers, Ilobert Hau
kohl, secretary of Chief of Police Jans
sen of Milwaukee, and Charles Hau
kohl, a railway engineer.
Ordered to Itehrluff firm.
Pout Townkknu, Wash., May 15.
The revenue cutler Grant has been sud
denly ordered to report for s.;a, al
though the department recently or
dered the vessel laid up hern for a
month for necessary rep ilrs. The nw
orders are supposed to ba due to the
effort of the government to renew tiie
Behriug sea regulations and the desin
of the Washington authorities to heal
from tiie sea patrol fleet. The Grant
will proceed to the north P.icilic ocean
at onte.
.-!'0"ruor Human I'jtnir
San Fk.vniW;'), Miiy lil.-l'et-r Bur
nett, Ilrs'. Governor of California, is be
lieved to be dying at liU residence In
this city. He is H7 yean old. .
Arraetml for Kiting gllug-.
Sew Yokk, May Pi. John V. Lyons
a wholesale drujigist of Montreal, Can
ada, was arrested here aud arraigned
before United states Commissioner
Shields, charged witli luvinj smuggleu
large fjuriiitllies of oppecane in pound
packages and other drujrs Into thi
country from Europe through Can.ida,
Customs officers Iu this city and In
Philadelphia had been looking for
Lyons for r two y-ars. He wai
be Id In t .". ; '.
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Went), M iv IS. The in urrectlon grows
with tremendous strides. Martin.
Campos has clunsred his mind aonit
ending the troubN m three mmthi.
He returned here o'i Suniav, M y 5,
read his generals a severe lecture upon
the ineffectiveness , iptirations atr-unst
the rebels, outlined a portion of his
newly formed plans for an extensive '
ai 1 prolonged cam, n,'ii and sailed on
th Yillaverde on the morning of the
7t just when Ma-eo was cutting up
Sj tali troops at several points alonj
the railroa l which rutii from here and
carrying away as a prisoner the alcalde
of Canri. a town enly six miles from
Santiago.
Maceo's operations during the last
week have been very systematic, lit
moved with about 2,'OJ men from the
vicinity of Jarahueca to iUnabticoa,
which is about l. n m.l-s from the rail
road towa of 1)03 Carninns and is in
the uiiddlu of the Y formed t y the
railroad from here to Cresco and in
branches to rf.m Luis and Sougo. Then
he made a diversion beyond San Luis
with a detachment under Planes, one
of his most capable lieutenants, and
eluded General Gasco, iu command of
the Spanish troops.
SPAIN HAS A BIG TASK.
Nkw Yoiik, May IH. James Pur
man, who for feven mon'hs bus been
connected with the l).is Hermann?
sugar mills in Las Crimes, one of thf
central districts of Cuba, has just re
turned from th;it belligerent little ihle
and gives some interesting Information
concerni-ig the progress of the re
bellion against Sp uiisti rule. Accord
ng to his account General Campos has
a herculean tas1'. before hi in. Mr.
Purman travelled much ab'iut the,
country in the course of his business.
He was able to see the strength of the
troops and also through conversation
with the people tin the island to learn
how much sympathy the insurgent
are receiving and what is their charm
for ultimate success.
Mr. I'urtnau says that there Is some
shrewd scheming being done by the
le iders of the revolution, and that the
present lull in the fighting is a result
of this. taid he: "Everything points
to the ultimate success of the uprising.
1 mi not a Cuban and speak Impartially
The war does not see.u now to have at
tainel formidable proportions, but 1
expect to hear inside f a m jnlh that
the whole island I in revolt This
month ushers in then ea t yellow fever,
and the ravages wii: severely deplet
the ranks of the regular troops, who
are n laccuslomed to the climate, and
who are a dissolute, careless lot of men,
Then the sugar factories will be closet
a id the thousand of idle Cubans wil
naturally drift Into the army."
AlAtiuiD, May 18. The government
is making preparations to send l.,00(
troops to Cuba at once.
Hurrleit I'mlnr the I)rbri.
Chicago, 111., May 18 While fifteen
men wer engaged yes erday afternoon
tearing aown the wails of Hie Giob
moulding works, which were burtiet
six months ago, one of the walls fell in
a heap without warning to the work'
men with fatal results. The dead are:
William Mangle, thirty-three year
old, 326 West Thirteenth street.
James Carbin, aged twenty-seven.
Montrose, III.
The injured are:
Thomas Bartik, aged thuty-flve, mar
ried, 56 Ambrose street, scalp woundt
and body bruises.
A. Tarkobosky, bruised.
Tha other workers managed to rush
from under the, falling mass of brick
and mortar just in time to escape in
jury and at once b"gau to' dig out
the others, dead or imprisoned, undei
the debris. Fireman and police oHieen
came in a hurry to ssist in the work
of rescue. While -ty were at work
there came anothei crash, accompaniec
by the warning ne, of assembled
women, men and c iMreu as a largt
pillar at a corner oi i,e building gavt
way. Almost at tiie same Instant part
of another wall came crashing down
and a panic prevailed among the people
The mortar and bn ic (ell all around
the workers, but ail managed to grope
their way to the street in safety.
Morris Feegan, the contractor, who had
the job of tearing down the burned
building was arrested on the charge ol
criminal carelessness.
Great forriit Urea
Tacoma, May IS For a radius ol
fifteen miles In the neighborhood ol
Buckley the fir forvsU are afire, and
here at Taennvt, f r'v-six miles away,
the air is filled witu ainoke. Superin
tendent J. J. McCabe of the Pacific
dlvisioii of the Northern Pacific.
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iiK u on Uiirifii iii, liMlinies 10 tuv
number of nine h .ve been burned and
the inhabitants rmiipt iled to liee fur
life. P.iengers report Seeing llam
leaping upon the tir in-ej to a lieigin
of 1&0 or 200 feet.
Nrit roea yult Woi k.
New Olil.KA.ss, La., May H.lrteva
dure G'!rd sent Foreman Smitheri
with a gang of colored men to begin
loading the steamship Orton, now lying
at the Morgan wharf in Gretna, lit
met a number of white men on the
levee and three shots were fired at him,
one of which struck him in the 'kg
Hie negroes then quit work mid made
their way back to this skIh of inn river.
No nrresis have lieen mitje. Mnuher'i
injuries vtvim tiuiniui. but not serum
state sews items.
A game, of ball will be one of the
attractions at .-ewHid Decoration
day.
An entire family near Beaver Cross
lug wa l,"Ji seriously sick by eating
greens.
The new paper at Aradia is ca.led
the Chatupiou. ItisediUdbyCl irei.ee
J Day.
There is war in l ullertoa between
the mayor and the board of aldermen
the latter refusing to confirm his ap
pointments. Messrs. Carpenter and Hazeti of Ar
lington and Dwight Baker of Fremont
will leave Thursday for their mine near
Rawlins, Wyo.
David Pchupl.ach of Columbus, who
failed in the mill business s"tue monthl
ago, is now travelling for a Milwaukee
brewing company .
The Fullerton Post is kicking be
cause Attorney-General hnrchtll don't
leave the Holt county murderers alone
and hang Uebaney.
A little son of Fred -hipporeit of
Blain county was hooked in the mouth
by a cow, and has since been unabie to
swallow rtny u urishu.etit. His life is
almost di spired of.
Frank I.ei.zr, of Norfolk a fifteen-year-old
boy. had his right leg below
the km-e badly broken. Hew in a
farm wagon and the team ran away,
overturning the wagon.
The frienlsof R-v. .Joint Hewitt of
Lincoln Bre quietly moving in his behalf
in the matter of making him bishop of
the Episcopal diocese of K insas. .V.
strong indorsement of his nK'h stand
ing as a citizen, his broad-minded
scholarship and his thorough t'hnstian
spirit has been furnished by Fremont
friends.
Mrs. J. M. William, a pioneer rest
dent of Douglas county, was stricken
with paralysis sHtnriay night and is
now very low, and fears are entertained
that she cannot recover. She is seventy
two years of aze, and has resided In
Valley precinct ov-r twenty years.
She is the mother of Mrs. J. N. Gallia
of Wahoo.
George Powell wlio was shot by
Charles Iiwateu lie tr liulo Monday as
the result of a quarrel over a woman
died at the Hoffman house in Fall
City Wednesday. Young Bwsten is
now in jail where he is much safer than
in Kulo where there was a feeling pre
valent that an immeliaie application
of rope would aboul meet the require,
menta of the" case.
An arlBslan well corpora ion was or
ganized in Ctiappell recently. The mis
sion of this move is to devise plans and
put them into practical use by which
artesian wells may be drd'ed on"' lh -north
divide. Exjierts say artesian
water can be procured at a depth of
1,3J0 feet, and it is to verify or con
tradict this opinion that work IS soon
to be begun. A test will be sunk In
the course of a few weeks.
Two hors-s were stolen from the
farm of Fred Fuhrinan in the north
west part of Stanton county. The thief
has not been apprehended. Descrip
tion ol horses taken asfotiows; Buck
Bkln mate, weight Hbnit l,t) pounds,
eighteen years old; dar buckskin
horse, leu years olt), wei(lit about 1,100;
both black manes and tails. Both
horses are poor in llesh. sheriff Acker
man has offered reward for the
arrest of the thief.
About five bundled acres are planted
to sugar oeets in the vicinity of Wake
field. Tlie 'ie;ds look promising, and
there is little doubt ol an abundant
crop. An elTirt wui b made to gel a
bi-et sugar factory etabish'.-d there in
the near future, us tliTe is no better
location for such i factory in the state.
At to a ton for beets the land will pro
duce 10O worth ol beets to tha acre, a
better profit tiiati any oilier crop and
less liable to injury from drouth. Last
winter the village of Wakefield put In
a first class stand pipe srstem of water
works, costing iT,U(J0, Trie report of
the village treasurer, recently made,
showed a balance of cash on
hand iu the village treasury. A good
showing for hard times.
The village of Valley is justly proud
of the large sugar b-i (arm east of
town. 1 flirty- tune persons are now
employed there and more will be
needed as the season advance. The
farm eiinusts of PSO acres and ttie place
can be eauily dlBtiuuislieii by the "core
or mote of white tents winch greets the
eye. The beets are alt up aud ttie. work
of weeding 1ms commenced, which will
be followed by thinning out and hoe-
ing a job which will last uuul the
I middle of July. The harvest will com-
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l"""nyi.i October. An average
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acre;
liiniso tar couaitions Hive been vry
I an fur tfr,iiIlltl.,,.u 1..,. I ... . ..
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Ilnvorable and prospect, for an abund
ai t crop are very promising. This en
' ' "( tL con.
t people who lend the farm live
iu
the tents with iheir families. The farm
is owned by a j tint stock company ai:d
the enterprise is . backed up by such
lead lie business men as 11, M. Puffer,
J. W. liemps'eil. F, S. Fior, C. h. Uy
ais, George W. Whitrnoie and others.
Two tumps were arrested at Colum
bus by Chief of Police Brandt for steal
ing a pair of shoes from Bauiugart's
shop. On the way to the lock up the,
made a dash for their liberty. Oue
of them succeeded in getting away
while Brandt was collaring the other
one, but was soon run down by "Pink"
Saluiee, ex-nlght police. The fellow
moved light, and It was only after he
found out that ' Pink" bad the most
muscle thai ho submitted. Tliey were
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