Ifce Sioux County Journal
BARRISOX,
NEBRASKA.
Somebody evidently is trying to bull
The town of Iirzezinkr lias been rav
aged by fire and unly the vowels are
toft standing.
The Prince of Wales Las seventy uni
forms valued at $750 each, lie can't
afford to take anti-fat now.
Collecting posters has become quite
a fad. Here is a line of work in which
th goat should prove a connoisseur.
A Kentucky paper prints the views
of W. C. P. Breckinridge on the cur
rency question. Who is this man
Breckinridge?
A Pennsylvania railroad train ran a
mile In 41 seconds a few days ago, and
It wasn't on a kite-shaped track or
pneumatic tires, either.
The astonishing statement is made
that out of 17,tH"),00 inhabitants of
Spain, over 11,000,000 are ignorant of
the art of reading or writing.
Now that the cruel war is ended we
suspect that an investigation will prove
that the Chinese have been doing all
their fighting with gunpowder tea.
When the shooting was all over, Ger
many, France and Russia were perfect
ly willing to come out from under the
bed and divide the spoils w ith Japan.
Those 400 daily papers In Toklo are
presumably printing some very excit
ing laundry bills regarding the high
handed course of Russia, Germany and
France.
Judging from the predictions con
cerning the price of the soothing com
pound the American girl's summer
this year will be one long, glorious orgy
of Ice-cream banquets.
The Chicago journal which offered
Mr. Eckels $10,000 a year to write Ita
financial articles will probably employ
tome practical newspaper man to do It
twice as well on half the salary.
The suggestion that Nellie 'Bly got
married In order to write an article on
being an old man's darling is improb
able. More likely It was to enable her
to quit writing articles on any subjects.
Miss Lillian Russell, it is said, will
procure a divorce from Perogtnl and
wed an actor by the name of Jones.
The fair Lillian seems to have a weak
ness for husbands with hlghsounding,
mellifluous names.
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Hetty Green is referred to as a wom
an without a home. It is a sad thing
for a woman to be homeless, and yet
Hetty Is not exactly an object of pity.
If she would scrape her means together
ha could buy a very comfortable lit
tle cottage, and pay most of it down.
The large Interest In the North In
the Atlanta Exposition is encouraging
to the managers. The present outlook
for success is excellent With improved
conditions In business and continued
good health over the country the At
lanta Exposition will mark a red-letter
day for the South. Let everybody help
It along.
Vladivostock, Russia's port In the Pa
cific, has been supposed to be Ice-bound
during the winter. This year the Gov
ernment tried to force a passage by
means of Ice-breakers in the coldest
part of the winter, and succeeded with
out great difficulty In getting the cruiser
i Kostroma, loaded with troops and
heavy war material, alongside the Gov
ernment quay.
Letter writers in some of the news
papers are discussing the comparative
discomfort, for horses, of being "dock
ed" and therefore eaten by flies, and
going undocked with nothing to eat
for themselves. But, gentlemen and
ladies, is there no alternative for the
horses? Must they be either the one or
the other of these? And Inasmuch as
they cannot express choice as to which
of these is the lesser evil, why force
either on them ?
Five hundred men and boys, glass
blowers, employed at Bridgeton, N. J.,
went on strike a few days ago. They
demanded icewater and refused to
blow without It. But the employers had
drawn the line at this exhilarating and
costly beverage and refused the de
mand. They would have dismissed
an obnoxious foreman or dissolved
partnership to get rid of an unpopular
boss, but they nailed to the mast the
motto "No Ice-water," and sent an ul
timatum to the men that If they did not
begin to blow when the bell rang the
fires would be drawn. The bell rang,
the men stayed out, the fires were
drawn, and now the men must go and
blow in some other factory.
In the wisdom of the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court a bicycler must pay toll
on the turnpike because his vehicle Is
a carriage. "It is no less a carriage,"
holds Mr. Justice Dean, "because being
1 propelled by a man Instead of being
drawn by a horse." A Daniel come to
Jadcment Let us substitute for bicy
cle la this ruling the name of another
familiar vehicle and see how It will
read: A baby wagon or perambulator
la a carriage. It la no less a carriage
tmmm It Is propelled by a man (or
. --i tas it at beta drawn by
V i TlrrtJi, tat oe lt aura
or uiainioa must pay Ml on trie pike '
The noble coimnonw eailb of IVuusyl-
vauia has lis fault, but at !'-:! it '
may be congratulated on the wi-l.i;
of its thief judiciary.
It is reported that the Princess "f ,
Wait s has withdrawn from I.t.n Un -
defy because of th numerous M-.uidai I
with which her sex has flooded ih.it
community during the lai-t few jvar.. j
Inherannouuteiiii'lit of withdrawal she :
says "it is time to exercise car.' win n .
the names of titled ladies, aianding j
high in social position, are coupled :
with depravities which astound and .
disgust the world and make Knglish !
society a by-word and a hissiin." This
may be true, but wherever a woman
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has been involved in a wnudal there is I
a party of the first or second purt, as
the case may be, and the party is a man.
Why, then, should not the Prince of
Wales follow the example of his vir
tuous aud Illustrious lady and with
draw from society also? If r-cent rev
elations are to be believed there U
more reason for this tl.an for her with
drawal. If he declines to do so it would
appear that the Princess must with
draw from the Prince's society. As
there is a general Impression the Prince
does not take much stock In the poet's
affirmation that a pure heart is more
than a coronet the Princess b likely
to have a lonesome time with tho
housekeeping.
Hyphenated names may be divided
Into two categories, namely, those
wherein the hyphen Is a mere piece of
affectation, aud those wherein it is
consequent Usin a legal obligation. The
latter are borne almost Invariably by
legatees and their descendants, who
have inherited property contingent up
on their tacking the name of the testa
tor on to their own. Or else they are
men who have married heiresses and
been accepted as husbands for the lat
ter on the condition that they should
append the family name of their wives
to their own patronymic. People In
the other category, who use the hy
phen merely with the object of creating
the- Impression that they are f more
ancient lineage than is really the case,
Invariably prefix, instead of appending,
the additional name. And it is this that
enables one to distinguish the "bona
flde double-barrel," as Lord Randolph
Churchill used to call them, from those
who are not. For you have only to ask
Mr. Ponsonby Jones for the name of
his paternal grandfather in order to
find out that the old gentleman was a
simple Jones, devoid of the aristocratic
Ponsonby; whereas In the case of sur
names adopted In deference to testa
mentary dispositions, one will invaria
bly find on Inquiry that the paternal
grandfather and ancestors bore the first
of the two patronymics.
There Is nowhere any expression of
sympathy for Sehwelnfurth, the man
who for years has posed at Rockford,
111., as the messiah. His "Zlou" in the
outskirts of that city has become a by
word, and he himself has never been
regarded as anything more or less than
an Impostor whose methods w ere those
of a scamp rather than of a lunatic.
That he has practiced his deceptions
on a class of mentally unbalanced fol
lowers solely for what he could make
out of them is very generally believed,
and that he was actuated only by a de
sire to gratify his own personal vanity,
If not baser passions, is not doubted
outside the pale of his residence. Now
that he baa been brought to bay by the
courts and a judgment has been enter
ed against him for the crime of disrupt
ing a family, he readily resorts to meas
ures to evade the processes of the
courts utterly unlike those that should
govern him If he really thinks he is
what he claims to be. By transfer of
his property. It Is reported, he seeks to
evade the payment of damages ad
Judged against him. Schweinfurth's
blasphemous claims have been treated
so long as a joke that It Is a pleasure
to know that his farce Is likely soon to
be brought to a close. If he W ere a lu
natic his present plight might excite
some pity for him and his dupes, but
he has no more claims upon an asylum
than any other criminal, who, for lesser
vices, finds himself at Jollet or Ches
ter. His whole career - at Rockford
shows him to be a depraved trickster
who with some cunning and more dev
iltry has been enabled to keep out of
the clutches of the law.
Can Move Thirty-Two Cars.
An elephant pushing a long line of
freight cars was the unusual scene wit
nessed by a party of visitors to the win
ter quarters of Lemon Bros.' circus over
at Argentine yesterday afternoon.
Frank Fisher, trainer of Rnjah, the
big elephant which the circus carries
as the feature of Its menagerie, was
using the beast In moving heavy wag
ons, and while so engaged a workman
from an elevator near the winter quar
ters complained that he could not get
a switch engine to move empty bo
cars to the elevator. "I'll move them
for you with Rajah," said Fisher. He
was not quite sure that the big beast
could move the long line of thirty-two
box cars on the Santa Fe railway
track' which runs by the quarters, but
he resolved to have him try it. The
brakes were released, the elephant put
his head against the end car, and after
a few moments the line began to move
slowly. The track was perfectly level,
and soon the cars had rolled down tn
the elevator. Kansas City Star.
Dried Flowers. ,
A German chemist has found a way
of preserving the colors of dried flow
ers, even of delicate popples. Flowers
lose their tints In drying through am
monia In the air. The inventor presses
his specimens between sheets of paper
which have previously been saturated
with a solution of 1 per cant of oxalic
add la water.
Tie t ortli I.tmijiie I us .-. , -iil..uj.i l".,n-
The second International Conference
of the Epworth League is to be held in
Chattanooga June 27!h to'J'n. (Jul
readers, of course, are atr of the
almost world-wide extent of Method
Ism. There are many divisions of the
followers of Wesiey, but they are as
seutially one lamiiy differing ludeed
a iittie in government, but identical in
doctrine and spirit, and even in meth
ods. Of this unity the Epworth League is
a striking illustration. Its function
and place in Methodist churches is sim
ilar to that of the Christian Endeavor
in the Congregational and Presbyterian
churches. It is the Young Peoples'
society of Methodism.
Its object is toprorrote and cultivate
the intelligence and piety of ita mem
bers, organize and employ them in
works of mercy and charity, and in
every possible service of usefulness in
the church and society.
The League was organized in Cleve
lane, Ohio, May 12, 181). Prior to this
time there had been a number of young
peoples' societies of different names in
the church, each, more or less, indepen
dent of the rest, although generally
having the same objects lu view.
Delegates from many of these as
sembled in Cleveland to try to harmon
ize or consolidate them into one. As
might be supposed the representatives
were attached each to his own society
and for a time it appeared irn possible
to effect a union, but at last on the day
indicated it was accomplished aud the
new organization was born and chris
teued. This was within the pale of the
Methodist Episcopal church. The next
General Conference of that church ap
proved and adopted the organization
and gave it official standing in the
church, with Bishop J. X. Fitzgerald
as its president.
The local organizations in the indi
vidual churches are called chapters.
Of these already organized and enrolled
the number is nearly 15,000, and the
aggregate membership in this one de
nomination is abou' 1,000,0'JO members.
The Second International Conference
of the members and friennds of the
Epworth League will be held in Chat
tanooga.
The session will begin June 27, 1895,
and continue four days. 1 will em
brace the Leagues of all the Method
isms of the world. The program Is in
the hands of the General Secretaries of
the Methodist, Episcopal Church, the
Methodist Episcopal Church .south :rd
the Canadian Methodist Cburcii, nan-r-ly:
Iter. E. A. SchelL D. D , Chicag .;
Rev. 8. A. Steel, D. D., Nashville; and
Bar. W. II. Withrow, D. D Canada,
It Is emphatically a present day pro.
gram, full of the life and spirit of these
tiring times.
The General topic is "The Metodism
of the Future" underthis general
head will be discussed such topics as
the following:
"What to Read," "How to Read,"
"Educational Opportunities," "Enter
tainments," "Visiting," "Church and
League Officers," "The Duty and Priv
ilege of Giving," "The lost in our cities,"
"Spiritual Ministry," "Christian Citi
rensbip," "Membership of ( hfldren In
the Church," "Junior Leagues," "Bible
Study for Children," "How to win men
to Christ," and many others no less
practical and full of interest.
There will also be department con
ferences daily for the discussion of the
practical work of the League in Us
several departments.
Bishops Joyce, Vincent and Tboburn
of the Methodist Episcopal Church ;
Galloway, llendrix, Fitzgerald and
Hargrove of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South; and Sir McKenzie Bow
ell, Premier of the Dominion of Can
ada, are on the program. These great
leaders with many other men of emi
nence, as well as a large number of the
talented and promising young workers
of the various Methodlsms. caunot fail
to make the discussion of the different
topics of the highest Interest and profit
The music will be special feature of
the Conference, it will be under the
direction of Prof. Rowland D. Williams
assisted by the Park Sisters of Boston,
and a chorus of 600 voices. An im
mense chorus of children irom the
Public Schools of Chattanooga will al
to participate.
Sunrise prayer meetings will be held
each morning in the churches aud on
Lookout Mountain.
Sunday morning will be devoted to
sermons by the bishops and visiting
ministers in the churches of the city
and suburbs.
Sunday afternoon there will be mass
meetings in the largest churches ad
dressed by eminent ministers and lay
men. The regular conference meetings will
be held in the great tent capable of
eating 10,000 people where the opening
sermon will be preached by Bishop
Galloway, and the closing rermon and
consecration service by Bishop Joyce.
The local arrangements for this Inf
mense gathering have been entirely in
the hands of the young people of Chat
tanooga Leagues, and they have been
managed with a wisdom and skill and
thoroughness that would have done
credit to veterans in such service.
Nothing has been omitted. Every dif
ficulty and emergency appears to have
been anticipated and provided for. The
beat and most extensive arrangements
with the railroads have been made, se
curing half rates from almost every
portion of tha country, recursions to
the battleflaUjs and points of interest
have been provided for. as well as side
trips to Mammoutb Cave and other
points en route.
Chattanooga is expecting an attend
ance of at least 16,000 delegates, and
altogether the Second International
Conference at Chattanooga promises to
j ne a most inter sting occasion and a
Terr mat success.
Wahim,ion, D. C. May 21 -A
stirring tile of the sea, Out rea is like
a romance of Stevenson or 1'y.e, comes
to the state department in a dispatch
from l.ichard L. Sprague, acting L'uit
ed states consul at Cibraiter, under
d iteof May 2. The story Is all the
more surprising in that the events re
corded occurred in the weil-traveiled
wattrs of the Mediterranean.
Awftiing to th-? account furnished
U .lepHrtm-nt by Mr. Sprague the
steam tug Her culs on the afternoon
of April 30 towed into Gibraltar lay the
Dutch brigantine Anna, which had
been tiy ing signals of distress off Europa
point. 1 he experience of the Ann",
according to the story told by one of
the crew, recall the worst days of piracy
On March 19 she set sail from Harl, a
port in the Adriatic, with a cargo of
oil, and on Saturday. April 25, she be
come becalmed about seven miles from
shore near Alhucema bay, in the Riff
countiy, between Melilla aud CeuU.
She was manned by a captain, a mate,
three seamen and a cook. Abo it 2 or 3
o'clock that afternoon a boat approach
ed from shore manned by st-veu or
eight Moors. They were savage-looking
fellows, stripped naked to the
waist, with heads entirely shaved clean
of hair, except a long tuft on top.
Breech-loading rifles and long knives
were their arms. When wi'hin hail
ing distance the Moors called iu Span
ish to the brigxniine to lower sails, aud
on being refused commenced firing on
the vessel.
A HAMTO-HAM KIOI1T.
As the boat came alongside the crew
armed themselves with hatchets aud
crowbars and one of Ihe nidi ms who
attempted to board was strucn down
by the mate by a blow from a crow
bar. A volley was returned and the
mate fell. Seizing his revolver, the
only firearm ou board, Captain Velvas
began to use it on the pirates, but fired
but one shot when he was wounded in
the hand. Meanwhile the wounded
mate 'had proceeded aft, where he was
fired on and fell. Four bullets had en
tered his body. Then the captain was
permanently disabled by o shot wound
in the stomach.
About this time several other boats
put out from shore and resistance was
out of the question. Leaping on board
the pirates began their work of plunder
The lifeboard was lowered, and bedd
ing, cooking utensils, side lamps, spare
ails, a portion of the cargo, all the
provisions except salt meat, and many
other things, even the cabin door, were
loaded into this and the boats of the
pirates and taken to land. Several
trips were made, the boats coming and
going the whole afternoon.
To complete their work the pirates
took even the shoes from the feet, of
the crew aud the clothing from their
back.
hherp Canning Trouble.
Steamboat Sphinos, Col., May 23.
At a meeting yesterday of the sttck
feeders' association of eastern Routt
county, resolutions were passed and
ratified by a mass meeting of citizens
forbidding sheep men tne freedom of
the Bear river valley. The resolutions
refuse to allow sheep to be either
grazed or driven through the country
drained by the Bear river, wjjlch in
cludes all the territory from the con
tinental divide west to Utah, a dis
tance of 150 miles. It is believed that
the sheep tnun will disregard the warn
ing of the stock raisers and attempt to
drive through the forbidden territory,
fattening their mutton as they a p.
proach the railroad, depending upon
state aid in the protection of their
rights. Hut to anticipate such action
the stock feeders and cowboys, with a
lorce of from 800 to 1,000 are holding
themselves in readiness to forcibly re
sist any advance made south of Hahn
peak by the sheep owners. Thi sheep
that are causing the trouble are some
60,000 head belonging to J. O. and G.
W. Edwards and others in Wyoming.
Kicape at I'rUootrt Narrowly Atarted.
Columbus, O., May 23. A whole
sale delivery of prisoners from the state
priaon was narrowly averted yesterday
the accidental discovery o! a tunnel
through the wall that was almost com
pleted. Steve Russell, a United States
prisoner who was employed as a run
ner and frequently sent to a wall
tower to get oil, embraced the oppor
tunity to make duplicate keys to the
tower room. These were distributed
among a number of prisoners similarly
employed, who took every occasion la
drop into the room and dig away at
the tunnel, whose mouth tbey con
trived to carefully conceal. Vaster
tray a guard who knew that 1 1 1 1 .- s - J 1
had no business in the tower saw him
enter and followed him in, with the re
sult that the tunnel w;is found. Rus
sell has admitted enough to show that
there were a large ramber In the con.
splracy.
Itan Info a l'ftm Dgwr Train,
Chkyknnk, Vyo.,May 2."!. A freight
train ran into the rear end of passen
ger train on the I nion Pacific railroad
four miles south ot this city at 4 o'clock
yet-terday morning. Engineer August
Oray and Fireman Edward Fuller,
both of Denver, were killed. Gray In
stantly. A heavy fog prevented him
from seeing the train ahead.
The Hodica rouori,
Okkoon, Mo., May 23. The bodie
of Charlotte Chambers and her two
year-old sister, who wsre mysteriously
drowned in the Missouri river at Bart
lott, la., near where their father C. M.
Chambers, lives, were recovered yester
day. Friends of the family believe
the ol'ier girl drowned her sister am.
committed suicide. Charlotte's cloth
ing was fastened as If to avoid any pos
slble escape from drowning, or it may
be taken as evidence of foul play.
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LiM, liayil The t-ecnd tria
of Oscar Wilde for unnatural practices
began in Cfiitral cruu.nal court. Old
Bailey, Wednei i;y. Wa le, upon en
tering t he court, wis accu.up inied by
but one oS in sureties. Ksv. Steward
Headiaio, his other him ism tti. L rJ
Douglas, of liaw'K'k, b"ing engaged in
the Marlborough s'reet police court in
deiending hiui-lf ai-iiust a charts of
disorderly con i net.
Wilde iookel very pale and htggara
m he enterei the docx, evidently being
ijreatly affected by the result of the
trial of Taylor yesterday. El ward
Shelly was called to the stand aud re
peated what he had previously testi
fied to. H declared that he had re
rented the overtures made to him by
Wilde. Sir Edward CUrke cross ex
amined Stiedy severely. Shelly ad
mitted that be was mistaken in his
testimony in the How street police
eourt giving the time of his breaking
sff ictimacy with Wildo, and also al
mitted that Wilde did not mention or
ni7g st any acts of misconduct after
the first interview.
The report that the Marquis of
Queensbtfry and his son, Lord Douglas,
were engaged in a fight in Plcadiliy
was erroneous in resnect to the youn jer
participants in the affray. It wa the
Marquis and the elder son, Lord Doug
las of ll'iwii'k, who was his antagonist.
Both were arraigned in the Marlbor
ough street police court - yesterday
morning and piacd together to an
twer a charge of disorderly conduct and
fighting in tiie street. The Marquis
gai 1 that Ills sou was the aggressor,
having first assaulted him, and thai he
only struck back in selt-defeiue. Lord
DouglaB of llaw.ck said he merely de
jirel his father's a-surance that he
would cease writing obscence letters to
his (Hawick's) wife reviling her hus
band. His aim in meeting his father
was to stop these foul and obscene
communications.
Lord Queensberry objected to the let
ters lu question being called obscene.
Hearing that Oscar Wilde was resid
ing with Lord Douglas be went to the
tatter's house and obtained the assur
ance of hi daughter In-law that his
younger son, Lord Alfred Douglas, was
not there also. Thereupon he had
ceased writing letters to Lord Douglas
and bis wife. Lord Douglas' lawyer
wished to read the letters In question,
but the magistrate would not allow It.
The lawyer said that at the conclusion
of Taylor's tnalthe Marquis of Queens
berry bad sent a telegram to Lord
Douglas and his wife. Both the mar
quish and his son were bound In sure
ties of '500 each to heep the peace for
six months.
Rather a Tame Affair.
BniTTO.H, O. T., May 24. The much
talkeu of opening of the Kickapoo re
iervatlon for settlement, was, after ail,
rather a tame affair. The largest crowd
were in the vicinity of Cboctiw, and
when the word was given the race to
tne line was begun in earnest. The
horsemen and bicyclists led the proces
ion, followed by men in bugg.es aud
wagonsJ the pedestrians bringing up
the rear.
Every claim within five miles of
Choctaw has ai least tweuiy-five clai
mants. Within two miles of the
louthern boundary of the reservation
aud on the surveyed line of the Choc
taw railroad 1,000 settlers have already
founded and staked off a town to te
;alled Olney. At Sweeney' across the
Xorth Canadian river several persons
were injured in the rush. A large cal
valcade of horsemen became entargled
with a caravan of wagons, several of
the wagons were wrecked any many of
the riders were unhorsed with the first
mile. At Guthrie the first filing was
made by M- L. Carlisle, a nephew of
the secretary of tin treasury. At Okla
homa City Mrs. F. M. Beall, a widow,
was the first to file.
The fight Wednesday night between
deputy marshals and whisky sellers, six
miles north of Shawnee, was more
serious than first reported. The de
puties fired on the peddlers who were
telling whisky to the Indians, killing
two and fatally wounding two others.
One of the deputies wa sligntly woun
ded. To Prevent Cutting of 1'rlce.
Des Moi.viis, la., May 21. Fifty pro
minent coal operators, representing
nearly every prominent inme In the
state, held a conference here yesterday
and decided on a pooling resolution to
prevent cutting oi prices by competing
firms. A substantial advance will be
made, in prices when new contracts are
made. An executive committee of
eleven was appointed to have the task
of putting the plan Into operation. R,
E. Serrs of Des Moines is chairman,
Hamilton Browne of Chicago vice
chairman aud John Gibson of Des
Moinse (secretary, A resolution was
adopted continuing the plan adopted
In March to rate the wages paid miners
by mining distric'.s and not put in the
scale of IH'J'i, wi.icu the miners want.
This a 1:1 con! nine the present rates,
winch are from 10 to 20 cents lower
than the old scale.
A r rented the fc-loping G'oupla,
Dm Moinks, la., Mst 2t, At ao
early hour this morning Mrs. Sharp
wife of Elder F. A. Sharp of Stuart,
and Samuel Roberts, a singing evange
list, were arrested by o'licers from
Stuart as they were boarding a train
together f r Cedar Rapids or St. Paul.
They eloped together Wednesday and
came to Des Moines, where they were
found, The arrest was made by two
imiuiai
vote.
ministers deputized for that pur
STATE .NEWS ITEMS.
A telephone line to be established
from Unite to Niobrara.
'There are for a tn.ghty
crop of liny in ti.e Elk horn vaiity.
A Wbraisa 111:11 has discovered that
ail ra 11 signs fail when the wind blows
from tli- wvst.
A horse kicked Fritz Hauler of Platte
county, breaking h.s good right arm
above the elbow.
Cattle are allowed to run at lare -on
the streets of Randolph aud the local
papers are roaring about it.
About twenty-seven acres of beets
oar Norfolk were washed ou: by rain
and will have to b replanted.
Dundy county has but one news
paper and its edi'or is beginning to
wonder if life is really worth living.
Schuyler has ueclJod to try and do
business with heaping upon industry
the burden of an occupation tax.
Five hu.idred acres of sugar beets in
the vicinity of WuUetield are reported
in fine condition, and an abundant
yield is assured.
A wan named "Three Fingered
Jack" was arrested m Wayne for steal
ing al fr.Jin Edwards & Bradford's
Ltitn er company.
C. M. Wheeler of Fullerton has pur
chased tw enty acrei of land near Grand
Junction, Colo. He expects to make
fortune raising peaches.
P. J. Wesler of West BeaMce has
taken a co-nract for the erection of a
brick building at Pawnee City aud will
commence the work at one?.
An effort to reorganize th brass
band at Orleans proved a failure. Soms
of the boy have moved away, and ths
ones at home don't care to play.
For the past three month K E. Cor
rell has filled his father's place ai edi
tor of the Hebron Journal, and has
shown that he is a ctiip of the old
block.
The Gazette at Blgxprlngs has been
revived. It publishers announce that
it will sit on the fence politically, and
bowl for free silver at the popular
ratio.
John Whiteman, a Weeping Water
well borer, was struck in the face by
the windlass crank and quit the job
with a frightfully broken nose and
cheek bone.
While parties at Eagle wsre digging
a grave for Mrs. Greenfield, a skeletod
was exhumed, supposed to be that of a
man named Budger whe was buried
twenty-three years ago.
John Lewis, who has lived for twenty
five years in the Sand Creek neighbor
hood, Saunders county, has sold hit
farm for WZ an acre and will soon leave
for Los Angeles, Cal., wheie ae expecU
to locate.
The eight-year-old daughter of James
Delahunty of Dawson county was
kicked in the face by a horse and re
mained in an unconscious condition
twelve hours. She will recover, but
oan never erase the ugly scar.
body supposed to be that of one of
she missing Chambers girls, who dis
appeared from Barlletl, la., was found
in the river at Nemaha City. Another
bodv, presumably that of the other
mitsing girl was found at Iowa Point.
It is simply marvelous, cruelly re
marks the . Lexington Pioneer, how
quickly recuperation takes place in
Nebraska. People who drew aid last
winter in Dawson county have so far
recovered as to be able to purchase
bicycles.
A number of Sutherland people have
formed an association called the Suther
land Improvement company, and ar
running irrigation canals through 1
good many of the lots and along the
railroad right of way. It is said that
a park opposite the depot will be one
of the near future happenings.
Extensive preparations are being
made for a grand celebration In Platte
mouth on Decoration day. The exer
cises will be held on the beautiful lawn
at the rear ot the eourt house, W. P.
Gurley of Otnaba will be the erator of
the day and an interesting program
will be rendered, consisting of music
and short addresses.
Twenty appears to be a peculiarly
unfortunate number iu the Turnei
family of Piattstnouth. Mr. Hiram
Turner died on February 20; 011 Maroh
20 Mrs Turner followed her husband
and ou May 20 Mrs. M. Waters, daugh
ter of the deceased Turners, died. A
brother of Mr. Turner also died May
11. These four fatalities in this family
have occurred within a space of three
mouths, consumption being the cause.
Evidence has come to light indicat
ing that a systematic raid on law lib
raries has been going on at Beatrice,
For weeks various attorneys have been
unable to account lor the disappear
ance of books from their libraries E. O
Krekinger received a letter from tin
Bowen Merrill Book company of Kan
sas City dealers in second-IihikI law
books, stating that thsy had Jmt par.
chased a set of "Black," on judgement!
with Kreklnger's nams on tiiem, an
wanting to know if he had sold them
lie at once notified the firm that the)
had been stolen from him, and the dis
closing tony result in locating othei
stolen books.
Jacob Olson, a farmer living eigli)
miles northeast of Wahoo, committee
uiclds Tuesday night. He tied a rop
around his neci and to the limb of 1
tree. He then shot himself and swung
off. The body was found about twelvi
hours later, The deceased was slngli
and thirty-four years old. The caiiM
is attributed to financial distress. Oi
Bunday he borrowed $.jfrora his brothei
saying he had nothing to eat, Twi
dollars were sient for eatables and II
were found on his body,