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NEBRASKA.
Japan made war against China much
More easily tbuu ahe cau make peace
With Kussia.
Mr. Keely has been heard frwui and
tt really worth a note that at last be
ttflnks his motor is in a mood to mole.
Mysterious disappearances still con
tinue. But there is a very apparent
eason for them now. The spring clean
lac season has opened.
Besides beef there are mutton, pout
try, game, pork, fish, eggs, et cetera.
There seems to be a chance to escape
high prices for substantial nourish
ment The State of Washington is not only
hipping horse beef to Europe, but is
ahlpplng fresh strawberries to Chicago.
The State of Washington Is getting de
cidedly frisky.
Whether or not Miss Willard is right
In her proposition that poverty causes
Intemperance, we can all agree with
her that poverty ought to be abolished
4s speedily as possible.
A New York boy who was hurt by a
gunpowder explosion last Fourth of
July has been patched up with l.VMl
pieces of skin contributed by his
friends. That's a queer way to bide
personal defects.
A new national society has been form
ed at Toronto with the motto. "Canada
for Canadians." The motto which has
been doing the big unorganized busi
ness in that country Is, the United
States for Canadians.
A ruau in Putnam County. Ohio, edits
a paper, dyes clothing, sells sewlug ma
chines, and deals in lawn mowers and
second hand shoes. He publishes the
paper, doubtless, in order to get his
advertising cheap and ji arries on the
Other branches of busings to provide
his paper with plenty of advertising.
A Parisian dressmaker has Just made
for an American lady a dress with
unique sleeves, "which represent stain
ed glass windows, the different panels
being exquisitely tinted in rich, sub
dued colors." This forecast a decided
Improvement When the lady gets into
a theater she can open some of her
leeve windows and allow the people
behind her to see the play.
One filthy well used by a milkman at
Stamford, Conn., has caused over 500
cases of typhoid fever and twenty-four
deaths. Since Chicago began to get its
lake water four miles from shore the
death rate from typhoid has fallen off
over 50 per cent The fact is well es
tablished that typhoid fever Is a .lly
oeedless disease, and sanitarians B .mid
keep up the fight against it until it dis
appears. The power of the press has seldom
!een more strikingly manifest than dur
ing the past few months in the way the
united and persistent voice of the great
Jdurnals of London with the shameless
exception of Astor's Pall Mall compell
ed the world to stop and heed the out
cry of the tortured Armenian against
the unspeakable Turk, and forced Great
Britain and .the other European powers
to interpose in the name of humanity,
and do something about it It is the
press that has done it.
A guarantee of fSO.OOOroo which Rus
sia has furnished for China in the Lon
don money market, Is probably the larg.
est sum ever paid for a right of way;
and it not only represents an outlet for
the Siberian Railway, but shows that
Russia is beginning to realize that It is
better sometimes to buy favors than to
teal them, or take them by force.
Which shows Russia to be advancing In
diplomacy as well as closer and closer
upon English influence in the Asiatic
Pacific.
Agriculture can only be made suc
cessful by adopting the same methods
that apply to any other business or pro
fession. Wherever the farmer has
adopted labor-saving appliances, sys
tematized methods, looked after his
employes just as well as the mill owner
does after hja, made every moment of
working time count and allowed no
material or product to go to waste, he
hag been successful. This applies as
well to the man who has a farm of !"0
acres as It does to one with 5xi, and
where you see a small farmer paying
off the motgngeonliislnndaud"getting
abend" in other ways, you will find a
food business man and one that works
his farm just as another works his mill
or factory.
" A dispatch from McKeesport. Pa.,
tells, In a few words, of a tragedy al
most unique in the history of the race.
A man who was being shaved at a bar
ber's shop was telling a funny story
When he suddenly expired. It Is not
too much to say that this sad event was
In opposition to all precedent. If the
barber. Instead of the customer, had
been narrating a side-splitting story,
after the manner of tonsorlal artlsis
In places like McKeesport, no. one
Would have been astonished at Die
drain of the customer. It Is the habit
af provincial barbers to act as if they
WtK always scraping an acquaintance.
It la probable that the unfortunate .Mc
Keiort pieonteur died of slunk. Tie
fcail attained nervous" system too far
tt attempting to get a laugh out of a
' , 1 1faMr. Perhaps lit was attempting
' 1 Mtaa if a ricRi'ir.d for "a shiiinooo"
or a "hair cut," but, whatever ai Ids
uioiIvm tu telling that story. LU fu:-
is a warning. Wbeu your chin U
shaved repress its inm-dc
Size does not make a city great New
York with several additional swamps
and townships annexed would still be
Gotham. If territorial extent were the
only test of municipal greatness Chi
cago could easily annex enough prairies
to make her the greatest town In the
world But here is a pretty go.sl tet.
New York's schools were in full blast
during May and had a total enrollment
of 170,439 pupils. At the same time
Chicago's public schools hail an enroll
inent of 2O0.SMS. These figures are ufii
claL They are correct beyond any ques
tion. No partisan census clerk with a
calloused conscience has had any haod
In their compilation. The fait is that
last month Chicago sent 24.1 more pu
pils to the public schools than New
York did. New York is not the me
tropolis. A young student of the liymnaMtini
di Sassari at Rome, Italy, tamed Pin
na, recently committed suicide because
he could not master the declensions of
his Latin grammar. It Is seldom mat
the bligliting Influence of a dead lan
guage has be-en carried to Mii-h an
heroic extreme. Young I'iuua took his
I-atiu grammar too seriously. Ills
mood was too tense. A man who can
not decline the I-atin nouns !; In much
better case than one who is unable to
decline cigarettes or cocktails. Parts
of speech should be always taken with
a grain of salt, especially if they have
been out of general use for ceuturles.
Nobody who has ever studied Lain
will fall to sympathize with Pinna's
discouti-uted slate of mind. Hut he
went too far. Suicide may be an i-flVe-tlve
method of translation, but it is of
no value In the acquisition of Ijjtin
grammar.
A New York newspajier. spying west
ward, discovers Chicago's drainage
canal and raises a cry of alarm. By
tiie end of the century," It says. Chi
cago will have a fourteen foot water
way to the tiulf of Mexico." Where
fore It demands that New York instant
ly deepen the Erie canal for the accom
modation of lake vessels, reduce its
port charges and generally prepare fur
Chicago's competition as a deep sea
port The panic of our New York cou
temporary Is only amusing at this mo
ment Chicago Is not hoping to send
any freighted Bigosies to European
market.' as soon as the year l!i. The
humble canal boat fit to glide under the
the railroad bridges by which free nav
igation of the li'.ooo.ooo canal will be
Impeded for years to come may indeed
ply between Chicago and Iockport. but
completion of a deep water channel to
New Orleans is as yet a dream irides
cent The national government will
have to come to the aid of Chicago and
the State before that end surely a de
sirable one can be accomplished.
Meanwhile if Instead of floating state
ly ships the canal shall bear swiftly
away the city's Sewage Its chief aim
and purpose will Is? attained. Never
theless New York Is right in striving
to better Its Erie canal. The people of
that State are to have an opportunity
to vote upon the proposition this fall.
Naturally the railroads, which in New
York as everywhere exert enormous in
fluence, are against It Even In lis im
perfect state the Erie canal serves com
merce and menaces railroads as a pas
sive regulator of freight rates. Though
few boats ply uion Its waters, railroad
managers know that only low rates .,y
rail keep the canalers idle. As a gov
ernor of railway charges the canal has
been worth vastly more than Its cost
to tho State of New York. There Is no
doubt that profit to New York would
result from the enlargement and Im
provement of the Erie canal.
As to Snake Hites.
That no less than iio.tiOO people
should have perished last year in the
Indian province of Bengal from snake
bites shows how little progress b.n
been made by science toward tho dis
covery of some antidote for the poison
of these reptiles. The trouble Is that
the poison of nearly every species
seems to affect a different organ of the
body. Thus the bite of a cobra seems
to paralyze the lungs, while the daboia
produces terrible convulsions. From
time Immemorial physicians of every
clime and race have devoted their en
ergies to the discovery of cures for
these bites; but judgingfrom the heavy
list of casualties from this source alone
in Bengal, the most highly civilized
province and possessed of the best sy
tern of medical sujiervision of ail Eng
lish colonial dependencies, it would
siem that all efforts lu this direction
have been abortive.
Mrs. Paran Stevens' Carriages.
The carriages and harnesses from the
stable of Mrs. Paran Stevens were sold
at auction recently st Newport, sev
eral hundred persons being present, In
clud'ng farmers from great distances
and hack drivers. Six vehicles were
sold, bringing IS4.30. The harnesses
brought enough in addition to snise the
amount to $lu0. All the property was
In a very dilapidated condition and the
carriages were very old-fashioned. One
was badly broken up. A French landnu.
In fair condition, brought only iZi.
Mrs. Stevens' favorite spider phaeton
was knocked off to a farmer for $20. A
farmer bought another phaeton at
$10.50. There was little or no competi
tion. Mrs. Paget, Mrs. Stevens' daugh
ter, ordered the sale.
The carriages of Mr Alexander Van
Rensselaer of New To. k, who. becatw
of her health, cannot cont'nuc In New
port, were nl "!) and brought li'gh
prices. -New V-k Tlin.'H.
If you wish to be unpopular In tt
small town. Just uu.id you- own ht'.l
total tura.t ttia.
DiTkolT, Mich., July 11 Tne upper
part of U i -n) i u 1m of Michigan U
dotted With savage forest fires. Al
ready the lumber towns of Watlin, up
iu iiauzie county, and Cleary, another
Lit) town, have been leveled to the
ground, Several pet. pie have been
badly burned and no one knows how
lar the damage has extended. The
town of Thumb has been, invaded and
the town of Kindee it girded wi'h fire
and ashes and b.ack leaver are tilting
down on the people in the resorts of
the north. Waliin, as far as can be
learned, is touhy destroyed The Sul
livan Lumber company's mid there
and two miiiion feet of lumber are
burned, together with thirty homes
that made up the little settlement.
The people lost all they had. Most of
them are at Thompsoville, a neighbor
ing town. They are said to have been
in a greatly exhausted couditiou. No
deaths are as jet reported from that
point. Two Chicago & West Michigan
trains are blocked by the lire just be
low Wallin and the telegraph poles are
burned and all wires are down.
AI.AI'.MING KKFOKTS OiMK IN.
Late last night intelligence came
that Cleary, a small lumber town near
Wallin, was destroyed that evening.
Tiie fire, which has been burn ng for
several days, suddenly grew wnrsa and
before the inhabitants were awrfre of it
they were nearly hemmed in. They
made a rush from ihe burning town
and as far as is known left no one be
hind. Several people were badly
burned, but as far as known no lives
were lost. From Kindee, where tiie
great forest tire occurred a few ears
ago, come the most alarming reports.
I he town is surrounded by II niiea that
every moment are sweeping nearer
the place. The news as sent Irom
t iwi.s near by is that the people of
Ki;;dee are welting the roofs c f their
houses and plastering he sides with
wet blankets in the hope that tney may
save all that they have in ih" world.
It is feared that the tow n will to and
messages urging the people to flee for
their lives have been sent from several
places. Reports from Traverse City,
IVtohkey, Charlevoix and the other
towns are ad of the same tenor, that
the fires have been buring for over two
weeks and that a su Jc'en strong wind
has fanned them into sudden activity.
Already a number of farm housi s have
been burned and the people are corning
into town telling that they have lost all
lliey had on earth. Late reportr Irom
the extreme western edge of the state,
are that there is little improven ent in
thesituation, but that it is feared that
the Are has worked havoc among the
famous orchards of that vicinity.
Frank I'. K Woodward Allte
Xew Yojsk, July 12. -Frank 1'. E.
Woodward, the Cuban war coreespond
ent, who was said to have been killed
in Cuba, w as a passenger ou the steamer
Ardandhu, which arrived at quaran
tine early yesterday morning.
Woodward left New York last April
as co-respondent of the Morning Jour
nal. He w3 twice captured by the
Spanish soldiers, but escaped. While
with the insurgent army under Maceo
he lost his money Bud papers. He wits
detained by the Cubans who tried to
make him serve. After making his
scape from the Cuban army, lie man
aged with difficulty to reach Banes,
near Gibara, where he applied to Cap
tain Walker ol the British sieamer
Ardandhu for protection and assistance
the United States consul at Gibara re
fusing to recognize him as an Ameri
can CltlZSD-
Woodward complained bitterly of
his treatment by the United States
consul at Gibara, Joso H. lieola whom
he claims holds a commission in ihe
Spanish army. P.eola declined to in
vetlgate Mr. Woodward's story by
communicating with Bautiago uu Cuba
where Woodward stated his papers had
been filled with Consul Hyatt, and in
sultingly declared that all Americin re
porters were hired by the Cutiaus to
write lies. He strongly recommended
that Mr. Woodward give himseil up to
the Spaniards, which would have meant
close confinement at this time. Captain
Walker tDen promised Woodward pro
tection under the British flag in the
face of all obstacles and took hitn
away.
W III Mot Marry a Jap.
San Francisco, Cal., July 12.
Olney V. Ashford, the Hawaiian ref
ugee, says the difpatch from Tacoma
recently stating that Queen LUluoka
lani would soon marry h Japanese
count is erroneous. "It waa formerly
rumored for some time,"' liri"sald, "that
Princes Kaoiulatii would marry a titled
Japanese, but this was before . went
to England to school. '1 here u pro
bably nothing it it."
CfjunttrfVjtera Arri!et.
Los Anokles, Cal., July Ii. J. II.
Ormandy and bis wife, sou and daugh
ter were arres'ed yesterday for conduct
ing an extensive counterfeiting estab
lishment in the outskirts of the city.
Ormandy confessed, but said his fam
ily were ignorant of the business in
which he was engaged. Tne coins
counterfeited were of small denomina
tions. Chared With l-rorul.
Chicago, 111., July 12-Fraud is
now charged in the ''Leader" depart
ment store frilure. Late Wednesday
evening a enpins w as issued for Carl
Iiernburg, LlpmanG!icK and Joseph
Homer, members of the linn, upon an
allldavit made ty J. V. Fnrell & Co.,
chHrgliiB the dty goods lirm with hav
ing ntade false statements in regard to
the'r credit Hint ohtuung goods on the
s' rength of this g'Hteineut. Glmk was
rriRte'l and gave bail iu tha sum of
$I2,UA.
1 b flouring (.at Waf .
Atlantic City, N. J. July II. A
frightlul accident terminated the Elk
festivities at the Caatno la-t night iu
which a large number of persons sus
tamed terrible injuries from which
some will die. It was at ):'J) when the
grand exalted ruler of the liuffalc
body, Meade Ietwiller of Harnsburg,
had finished Ills' address at the opening
of the social session of the Elks and
was about to introduce James J. Arm
strong of New York, when a crack on
the stand was heard. A moment later
the stand, upon which were almost
1.000 people, slowly s-ttied and the
mass of humanity was precipitated to
the first tloor, a distance of twenty-five
feet. Men, women and children were
plunged into the bole upon one an
other. The cries, shrieks and groans
were deafening and the direst confu
sion reigned. An alarm was immedi
ately sent out and all the physicians in
town responded. The work of extri
cating the injured proceeded rapidly
and by 12 o'clock they had all been re
moved to the hospital and their hotels.
lly 9 o'clock more than 1,2(0 people
had gathered on the second floor of the
pavillion, anticipating a pleasant even
ing's enjoyment. The bunds attached
to the visiting lodge had given a tine
concert, and ("apt. Samuel Perry if
the Atlantic City lodge had just begsn
the preliminaries of starting tiie social
season. The night was a fine one and
as the strains of th mnsic IloaHd over
the roorn it seemed that a more joyous
crowd could not have been gathered
anywhere. Hut there were several
hundred of the people who had noticed
the vibration of the floor and left t tie
pavillion, feantg that the great weight
would lead to its destruction and the
consequeiitjitijury of the merry-makers.
Among these cautious people were 8
number of the members of the Camdeu
lodge, prominent among whom were
ex-Assembljman William J. Thomp
son and County Clerk Kobert J. liar
ber of Camden. Fearing to create a
panic, they quietly approachel some
members of visiting lodges and dis
cussed with them the advisability of
bringing the affair to a close, so as to
relieve the floor of a portion of the
weight While they were yet talking
the crash came. A portion of the
floor, about 'hirty feet square, located
at the middle of the pavillion and near
the railing on the broad sidewalk came
tumbling down, bringing along pro
bably 10U people. In a second the elec
tric lights on the second tloor wers ex
tinguished, but luckily thce on the
lower tloor kept burning long enough
to permit scm of the panic-stricken
people to get to the stairway and reach
the walk. Women and children were
jammed together trying to escape by
the stairwny, while the vici ims of the
crasn were screaming for Hid to extri
cate them from tf e falling beams and
timbers.
WliltK OF lUX'PK RKOAN I'ltOMril.Y.
When the first ieelmgs of the panic
had subsided the nirviving Elks
rushed to the aid of t heir brothers and
friends, indifferent as to the di-nger
that confronted them, as they did not
know but wha' the remainder of 'he
pavillion might bury them beneath .ti
rnlus. While the work of resi t e
was going on the lights on the first
floor became t xtiuguished mid pint geii
the place in dark neKS. Men rati to tiie
trolley burn ot the road si ar by. ; nd
obtained a number of headlights from
the rars. These were most useful n
assisting the work of the resciwrs In
the meantime the people who were
seated in (he vicinity of the ir nk
found themselves in inimeine'.t ,! i .r
of falling through the h-l-, ltd'd
some were obliged to cinii h the cdke
of the iloor to Ifeep themselves trim
falling. Maurice A. liogers, e resi
dent of the senate of the New Jersey
legislature, a number of the Camden
lodge, was seated by the side of his
wife in the section that fell. Mrs.
( Rogers was precipitated to the ground,
rustaimng only a nervous shock. Sena
tor lingers had both hands caught be.
tweeti two beams and hung suspended
in the air until released by someone
unknown. An alarm of lire was turned
In, but when the firemen arr.ved all
the victims had been leleased. Hefore
the arrival of the abhulances a number
of omnibuses were pressed into service
to carry the wounled to their hotel or
the hospital.
The utmost excitemeni prevailed
everywhere on the streets and lu ihe
hotels, as it was not known just who
had been li jured, ariid the most ex
travagautstories prevailed of the extent
of the flcciiU-nt. I l.ese stores aioe
from the fact that many women fainted
I and had to be carried out of the Casino
and conveyed to thtlr homes in carri
ages and omnibuses.
Think lie la Iobhii.
Dk.nvui, July II. DeWitt I.'sy, who
claims to own an interest in Hide
arid leather Join nal of Boston, is in
custody in llns ci! on ancoual of his
violent actions indicating insanity.
He ssvl lie whs lieutenant governor of
New Yotk" at one lime, lie is about
fifty years of age uud of polished ap
pearance, A lti iuilrd Killing.
HtDFOIiD, Ind., July 11. - It is re
ported from Indian Springs stution
that W. P. Colviu, a lawyer, shot and
killed Josiali Stevet s, a preacher. Both
men had been drinking.
rtnat ( elrcil
Nokfoi.K. Va., July 11. Near Wau
cliipreugue, Va , Tuesday a rail boat
with a party of thirteen excursionists
aboard capsized in midstream. Only
four men were in the party and these
rendered nil possible Hid lo the s'nie
gling womn, five of whom wi-re
drowned.
One of the am was dtwgged under
and drowned by the gin he was trying
to save. The crew of the schoofer
I yacht Christine picked up the survivors
4 Iambi At-llu.
ChAlu s KoAli, UueM July 10. In the
early hours yeteruy morning there
occurred au seek . nt on the Grand
Trunk road at t he t. at ion here that has
seluom been exceeded in horror by any
similar event in Canadian railway,
annals. A specUl excursion potaengtr
train, rushing along in the darktn-ss,
crashed Into another train of the saais
kind preceding it and killed thirteen
p ople and wound thirty.
FILLED WITH EXPECTAT WOKMIirEKS.
Tne trains that came in collision
were special excursion trains filled
with pilgrims en route from Sliarbrooke,
Kichard and Windsor Mills to Levis,
where they were to cross over to Que
bec and proceed to the shrii e of St
Anne de Beaupre, and were following
one another with an interval of
twenty minutes. The forward train
was making good time, having left
Richmond at 10 o'clock the night be
fore. On the rear of this train was a
Pullman, iu which were the priests and
others in charge of the party and it
was in this car that most of trie los? of
life occurred. The first train reached
this station, fifteen miles west of Levis
about 3 o'clock and stopped at the
tank to lake water. Precautious were
i taken aud tiie semphore thrown as a
danger signal for the following train,
j t niy the trainmen w ere out uud about
: attending to their duties. The I'ull
I man in the rear was wrapd in silence
and the sleepers were unaware of the
terrible fate that was rushing upon
! them.
Suddenly there was a grent crash, the
second train coming al full speed Into
the rear Pullman of the train. So
great was the impel us of the colldlug
train that the engine plunged forward
and partly telescoped the first class car
iu trout. Every berth in the l'u lmau
was wrecked aud some of Ihe occupants
will never know whit happened to
them. They died sleeping. Others
awoke lo their horrible, surroundings
maimed, bleeding and bruised, con
scious of little else but the agony that
they were in. It was au awful scene.
I he work of rescue was begun as
soon as possible. When the blinding
! clouds of steam had subsided the train-
i
men, priests aud others got together
and the dead and wounded were taken
from the ruins of the engine, the Pull
man and the first clas ' car aud re
moved to temporary quarters, where the'
women of the party ministered as best
they could to the wants of ihe maimed
pilgrims. They tore oil tl eir under
clothing and made bandagi 8 for wounds
and tried in the absence ol enough med
ical aid to go' around to staunch the
flow of blood anti properly cleanse the
wounds. Word whs at once sent to
Montreal aud au order from there was
sent :o Levis to send out a force of
doctors Irom Quebec to attend to the
wounded, aud a force of men to clear
the track. The special tram from there
arrived at an early hour and all of the
Wounded that could be moved were
placed on board aud sent east to Levis
where they could be cared for in hos
pitals. It is hard to say where the blame of
the accident rests. It has been sug
geatbd that engineer McLeod might
hate dosed off lo sleep and thus missed
seeing the warning seinlpliore and was
unconscious of h.s whereabouts. In
deed this would Srem to he the only
theory that can be advancd, but u
strict investigation wi be held at once
to determine where the responsibility
restr,
1 rnul.li- r.xj r I 'l.
SroK.vM-.. U !! . .1 ... in. Under
insirui tii us lictn in n- j.. r ."I. ' nun
' uf l(i, ibo. A' j . ; ' ! a iel,
j I r I'-i-ilKi to I be I ii i'i Ai-lie r. . I
I jemeidrtV wnb ii.u cm ! aim.,
j auo a 0 0 routidi ol ammunition, w In re
he will recruit acd i qu a company of
militia irom the inineri ol the Hunker
IPll Hurt sulliviiti inii.en in anticipa
tion o; au out outbienk similar to the
bloody riols of thre. i-ar.i ago. The
prei-eitt ttoub!e is txpecied from the
fact that tne above named mines re
cenily returned operations with men re
gardless as to whether they belonged to
the union or not, and the Canyon Creek
union has openly threatened that they
intend cli sing the mine if they have
to kill or run evety "scab" out of the
country.
1 hm K.r Hi.
San Fit am is o, Cal.. Juiy 10. 1 he
The Examiner pnblibhes a story to
the eflec that the stolen will of ex
henntor Fair is in the possession of De
tective John Curtln. It is further al
leged I hat the rieteciive has been pass
ing between the Hdminifrators of tha
estate named in the stolen documents,
offering 'o Hurrenderlhe w ill for tT),0XI
All overtures lo that efleet have been
rejected by ilfesK-cuiors on the advice
ofJudteSl.nl. None of the adminis
trators will admit being approached in
person by Cuitiu, but. the Ext mirier
makes 1 tie first siatemetit that the will
Is now in Curt lii's possession and tha'.
he is the man who stole it from the
clerk's office January 28 last.
A sheet of pen drawings by Michael
AngeJo was discovered recently in a
Loudon auction room. The subjects
were sketches for holy families aud hi
legniical groups. The prize brought
6 1,110 at auction.
Ire toilntl In July
movx City, la., July lo.- Ice formed
on waier In tubes forty miles north of
here Monday lilght. Corn loons, as If It
was li jured, but it Is thought to he too
far along to tie terioim.'y damaged.
Ther wire lignt frosl lu low places lu
.South Dakota, but liod .t v wasdolie.
LLA, S. D.. July 10 - For Dim last
four davs this country has suff.-red from
the coldest spell of the same length
since Its settlement. Every night th
mercury has gone within a few degree
of the freelntr nolnt.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
A Wilsouvllle lady rec-fve j a drat
from the goveri ment las', week for 1,
1 back pension.
Considerable damage from hall is re
ported near Bancroft. Tiie storm wS
not of great width.
A Fender bicyclist started for St.
Joe on b.s wheel and made Piatts
mouth, 110 miles, the first day.
The fast mail on the Union Pacific
ran into a bunch of cattle at silver
Creek, killing three and crippling oth
rs. The first church built at Kearney
was consumed by lira recently. The
building was erected nineteen years
ago.
Dunk Livingston, brakeman at Fre
mont, lost the best part of the indel
finger of his right hand while coupliDg
cars.
W. N. Huse of Norfolk issues sll
papers a week and does all the local
and editoiial work. Pretty good for
an invalid.
Fullerton is having trouble with it
water works plsnt. The reservoir leaks
in places and requires another coat of
Portlaud cement.
David Simmons of Beaver City his
received notice of pension allowance,
dating back to lv'w. He will get nearly
31,2'M at one haul.
A number of newly converted people
were immerse) in the Flkhorn river at
Tihien last Sundav. Kev. J. J. Keeler
did the heavy work.
Kev. T. . l aniilton, at one time
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Republican city, lately passed away at
his home iu New York.
Anthony Stanton, n Tildeti lad, while
visiting his giimdparents at Council
Hluffs, climbed to the top of a tall tree.
His arm was broked by the subsequent
1 all.
The ninth nnnual session of the Long
Fine Chautauqua will begin July 2'
and keep a doing until A ugtist fi. One
fare for the round trip from all points
liihe state.
Fruit growers at Seward are made
unhappy by the nighUy ranis in ihelr
orchards of lean and cadaverous kids
with an uncontrollable appetite for
green apples.
The summer meeting of the state
horticultural society will be held at
WymoreJuly 23 to 2" inclusive. A
very interesting program ban lxeu ar
ranged for each day,
Kev. Mr. Burton, pastor of the M. K.
church at Madison has been transferred
to the Seward street church in Om tha,
to succeed Dr. W. K. Beans who has
accepted a charge at Sail Lake (1ry.
M. E. TIerney and wife, of 0'. ell
who are arrested, charged with coun
terfeiting, and who were to he given a
preliminary hearing Thursday, are still
In jail. The hearing was postponed un
til Friday morning A deputy United
States marshal will arrive on the even
ing train and the authorities will turn
the prisoners over to him.
There is considerable interest atKxe
ter in the discovery that the ground In
the bottom of a small draw in J. P.
Kettlewell's grove in Ihe southeast part
of town is sinking. In one place a
piece of ground about ten feet across
has settled several feet and there are
Indications that other places are under
mined and will soon seille down.' It
ih thought, by many that the disturb,
ance in caused by an underground cur
rent of water,
T. i.' d iv i igir i)r Ahiiley and W'.il
e U i er er were taking a b cycle
r .te. V i,. hi, u i half a m;le south
ol it iiiont tnev were over aken by
James Boyd and W O. 1 1 oil man In B
road cart. Boyd was driving. He
says lie thought be would have a liit
fun, so he yelled at his horse. It
startled Wheeler, who, in trying to
leavr the road fell, and that frlgntened
the horse, which wheeled around and
upset the cart, liuyd has a badiy
bruised hip, Hoffman a bruised leg
and Wheeler u spiained ankie.
Thetounty board Is in sehsion at
O'Neil this week and they have seme
weighty questions to solve. There are
numerous propositions to divldw the
county liefore the boaid, which Is the
principal topic under discussion at the
present tune. O'Neill, sauart and
Chambers have gone in together aud
want to make three counties out of the
te rilory now comprung Holt, which
proposition would keep Atkiucon in
this county and give Stuart a county
Brat. Atkinson, Amelia and F.wmg
have ponied issues and want to make
four count les. It w as left in the hands
of a committee.
A serious accident happened to the
four-year-old child ol Charles All n of
Dawson, Neb., Wednesday morning
Mrs. Allen and the child were coming
to Humboldt iu a buggy and when In
front of Willis k Si ow's livery barn
Ihe child fell out of the nar enU of the
buggy and one of the a ,res,' hitched
to I be bugiy, stepped on the lorhead of
Ihe child, causing a Very mvj BC,,lp
wound. The skin was pulled bscit
over the fore end shout n.ree Inches.
Ihe child was taken to the, t.f. r a
doctor, who dressed the woutm and he
hlnks nothing serious will result from
It except tbat a had scar will bs lt.
A fool at Nelson threw a lighted lira,
cracker under a w.igon loaded ,.uh
people and so frightened ihe team Miat
lliey ran away, upyetili,g the vehlcleand
seriously Injuring one of the occupants.
The stock season Is lieginnlng to
open up on tho l lkhorn, several trains,
of western cattle h .vlng n, .,!, been
suit through. By the end of the month
there will be fur or bve trains a day
bound lor the emern market, and tha
ruth expected to h unuunilly hearr
t his j war.