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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1895)
m scjix coufirr journal j LJ.IIiUOIil, Fraprtatar. HABRION, NEBRASKA. A London cablegram briugs the start ling new that Quwd Victoria Is grow ing old; but perhaps she mar out grow It Something of big proportions must be brewing in Muskegon. Grand Kap lda Democrat Wrong; Milwaukee's toe town. Uncle Sam's exhibit of war vessels at Kiel appears to have given the neigh bora occasion for considerable gossip. It was rather better than they expected. !Tf MATCH IN ALABAMA Mil yi .nr. auu iui . . . ... the farmer po per than he would be without it Kill or sell all the unprofit able stock as soon as possible, and if you have only money enough to stock up with poultry let that be of the best, Brookiide, a Mining Csup in A! at ami, the Sesna of a bloody Race E.ot Betwsen White and Blacks. Just as the summer dullness is at hand St. Paul and Minneapolis trot out the old census quarrel, and newspaper paragraphers whose bniius had run dry rise up anA bless the Twin Cities. Some of the republics south of us are aid to order a good deal of railroad Iron from the Vnited States. If these States would buy more railroad iron and fewer guns they would get on much more comfortably. Melbourne, the rainmaker, has con fessed himself a fraud. Uncle Sam, who was also In the rainmaking busi ness awhile, doesn't confess so frankly, but he admits his undertaking was a failure. - BsaaaaaaaaaaMlaaaaaaaaaasaaaaflBalsaaa All that the young man of to-day asks la that he be considered upon his own merits, and subjected to no compari son with his father, or anybody else of kin, who may have achieved an exalted position in public- life. A cautious correspondent of the New York Sun begins an article on the Chi cago drainage canal thus: "The great waterway Joining the Hudson river and Long Island sound is rivaled as an engineering enterprise by the canal thirty miles in length that is to form the last link connecting Lake Michigan with the Gulf of Mexico." "Rivaled" Is good. The Harlem canal Is less than two miles long and dug chiefly through mud. The drainage canal is more than thirty mile loug. cut mainly through solid rock. I-es tlran $2.lV IK was sjient 06 the New York ditch, while if the haphs tux payers of Chi cago finish their little essay in canal Hug for i".sst.iKi tiny will be in great luck. New York seem to !' suffering from the Idiosyncrasy which afflicted the I'odunk editor, who con stantly refe n d to' our loatlm mi- rl the ImdoU Times." HUNDRED SHOTS FIRED IN BATTLE. rnryuilaTewi Araied. Aimsh At tark tr the Nagroaa Is twrt Blacka la taa Waads. al. The Wheeling drummer who, through mistake, got luto a hotel room with a peddler's corpse, and made an outcry, was rather a weak man. A Chicago drummer would have applied restora tives in the hope of selling him some j goods. "If I hadn't drank and been reckless." ays John L. Sullivan, "I might have been high np in the political world to day.' At any rate, John L. might have been a sober and respectable citizen, which is more than there Is any present prospect of his ever becoming. A scientist ascrllies the pleasant taste of good butter to the presence of an easily dlgestable species of bacilli. This la gratifying. As long as we must have bedlll In everything we eat and drink, it Is reassnriug to know that there are some kinds which are palat able and easy to digest. Newspaper reader have a vague rec ollection. of seeing a good many dis patches from Idaho two years ago about serious troubles in the Coeiir d' Alene mines. A dispute arose between the employers and the workmen, and the latter abandoned their plai-es. New men were easily found who were ready to accept the terms offered, and then there were the usual troubles, with threats and violence. The controversy ran on for some time, and ut last the dispatches ceased to nieution the mat ter. IVople at the Kast KiipiMMed that It had leen settled lii the usual way. by the restoration of order and the re sumption of work. It apieurs. how ever, that the mini's have lieeii closed during these two years, and a great In dustry has !eeii paralyzed, because the State authorities were unable to pro tect men who wished to work against other men who forbade any oue to work under a certain scale of prices, and threatened to bunt, blow up. and destroy the properly of owners, and to malm and kill workmen if the pro hibition were disregarded. The expla nation is that Idaho lack the public sentlment to command the restoration of order and the militia to enforce the command. It is really nothing but in aggregation of a few thousand lawless voters. The discovery of Dr. Art man that In 10 per cent of American human bodies examined there were trichinae indicates that we are getting whatever diseased meat cannot be shipped to Europe. Onr medical men may now And a trichinae diagnosis useful in some of the doubt ful complaints they meet City Treasurer Bolln, of Omaha, grew so Indignant over the charge that he waa a "defaulter" that he resigned bis position and proved to an expert that the "irregularities" amounted to $37, 000 only. A a "regulator" we advise Omaha to prescribe for Mr. Bolla regu lar boors, plain food, plenty of work and a striped suit A New Tork gentleman wrlUs to the World of that city to Inquire If be may "wear a straw hat to a full dress ball." And the World says "no." Well, why not? The straw hat Is light and well calculated to keep the glare of the elec tric lamps out of the eyes. Besides the Inquirer may not feel like paying $5 or $10 for a conventional tile merely to dance In so long as he can get a fairly good straw hat for a quarter. Once more the story that Chauncey Depew Is to be married Is going through all the papers, having taken a fresh start In Washington, and Chauncey is also once more regularly denying the story. He says now. In his desperation and discouragement: "I know of no young lady worth $8,000,000 who would have me." Here Is a chance for young ladles worth $8,000,000 to speak np. Those having only seven millions and a half can send postal card. The compliments bestowed by Em peror William and other foreign critics upon our warships at Kiel are as grati fying as they are deserved. We sent cruisers of four different classes to the celebration, and each one Is without a traperior In her class In any foreign nary. The New York is an armored cruiser which Is surpassed in her line only by her sister ship, the Brooklyn. For a superior to the Columbia as a commerce destroyer of moderate size we bare to look to her own mate, the Minneapolis. The San Francisco, al though several years old. remains a naval gem, attracting admiration wher ever she. goes, and the Mnrblehead is as good a type of the small cruiser, Just above a gunboat, as can be found any where. The majority of farmers have too lit tle money Invested In stock. They have aalaxala enough, such as they are, but It taring the coat of these they get them Jtaat tetow tba quality requisite to make the par. Fewer la number but better peCr win produce a profit, and this . wGI etti tba farmer to feed all his " fT WOt aa coarse fodder at home. -CfeHt C turn can da thla hla gains t3 caeh larger rhaa from selling excrpti. The tocraaaa of valuable r:l tST ft tarn nrt oa tba cost of 1 TUIaum-!"" Bradstreet's has a very Interesting review of the business failures for tlie first six mouths of ISO as compared with the corresponding periods of sev eral preceding years. The number of business failures for the first half of the current year is given at ,!i97. as against fi,W for the first half of 184. In fact the number for 1W5 baa not been exceeded for many years, If ever before. In our financial history cer talnly not sln-e 1879. There baa been an Increase in the number of failures In the western, northwestern and southern States and a decrease In the eastern, middle aud Pacific States and In the Territories. There Is no great difference between the liabilities of the failed traders for the two periods of 1894 and 1805. In the first half of 1804 the liabilities were tH2JC,;m aud in 1896 they were $79,7o7,SU. while there waa about the same difference In the aiweta of the bankrupts of the two periods. In the northwestern States the largest number of failures Is reported from the States of Minne sota, Nebraska and Montana. In the western States Illinois, Michigan and Missouri show a considerable Increase In the number of failures. There Is no doubt but that the relatively un favorable showing In the States of the West is due entirely to the failure of the crops In some portions of those States. That the business depression ia passing away Is shown by eompax Ing the first and second quarters of the year. For the first quarter of 18116 the number of failures was 3,812 and for the second quarter 2,786. The llablll ties for the first quarter were $41. 910,443, as against $32,797,418 for the second. On the whole, the showing is not unfavorable. Many conservative men think the revival of business is too sudden and too rapid to indicate per manency after so severe a panic, as the country has passed through, but the majority account for tiie Impetus by the fact that stocks of all kinds were greatly reduced and they believe that present and future demands will main tain tne "Increase and activity now very generally experienced throughout the country. BiKMlXGjtAM, Ala., July 31. Brook lide, a mining camp twenty miles west it here, waa the scene of a bloody race riot Monday night. Two deputy iherifft are known to hare been killed, md it is said that half a dm?n negroes mm hot four or five fatally. 'Ibe town was in a Ut of panic and tut telegraph operator, the only source of Information, was locked iu bis offlce, too frightened to go outside to obtain fuller details. At 10 o'clock messages were received by Sheriff Morrow and Chief of Pob.re McDonald for all available officers they rould tend. An hour later a carload of Jeputies were u route to the scene of the trouble. The riot came aboat in this wr.y: Monday Mine BamrColverliouse of ib Sloes Iron aast Mtaat ctiupany. dis charge) a negro driver nimd Jim Bigger. Blggert remained bout the place m'aking threats. He refused to leave the company'! premises and a warrant was sworn out for Ins arrest for trespassing and Deputy Sherilf Wood and Special Deputy Joel Baxter went to arrest Biggrs. As they ap proached he fired upon them with a Winchester ritle. A bullet passed through his heart killing him Instantly Baxter was morally wounded, but was able to get back to the camp and give the alarm. The wlilU) miners at once organized and went to arrest Bigger. The latter meanwhile had called in a oumber of his negro friends and when the two parties met a pitched battle re sulted. Over 100 shots were llred, the negroes finally going to the wooda It lissldhrlfa dozen or more negroes were shot down, several of whom were kilted outright and the others badly wounded. Whether any whites were wounded or not cannot be learned. The names of killed and wounded m groes could not be had. The town of Brookside waa in a state of panic, every man In town being armed. Tba shooting waa kept up for an hour or more. Another attack by the negroe waa feared, but It may not occur aft r the ofliroia arrive. Bigger and bia accomplices are hid ni In tbo w od. Brookside bat bean the seen of race trouble before. Both colored and while miner work there, but tba feel ing ha not been very cordial, especial ly since laat ummer' strike, whan Oigroe want to work Id whit minor' place It only required Mondays murder to kindle tba feudal III DeoutT Wood, who waa killed, was ex-fheriff of 'i'alledaga county and leave a wife aud children. The former is nrostrated and la not aipected to lire. The sheriff ! pons reached Brookside a. 1 o'clock yesterday morning, iney found that two officer and four ne groe had been killed. The bodies of the latter lay in the woods where they bad fallen. Will Alberts and Char! Jenkir.s, colored, had just been cap- tared by the white miners, who bad placed rope about their neck and were about to tiring them up when the officer reached tbem. Albert and Jeukin will be brought bere to jail. Posset are In pursuit of the other ne gro rioter, who are armed. Evry thing 1 quiet. Pal turd ( a, IMat. Boston. Mass., Aug. 2. Interesting development broug.it to light partly solve the esse of Mrs. Anna M. Gaid ner, the mining Nebraska Christian Endeavorer. The mysu-ry turroundina the Mrs. J. M. Brown letter, received by Mr. Gardner, telling blm that 'hl wife had passed away." it cleared up. howing that Mr. Brown Wat none other than Mrs. Gardner. The mj-terio-js letter in question as post marked South Boston and Miss Msud Hanson, who it employed at a clerk In a ttationery ttore on Broadwav, after teeing a picture ot Mrs. Gardner, fur nished the information that Mrs. Gard ner wa the Mrs. Uroen who sent the letter to Nebraska. Mis Hsnw m's ttory is that r. ti e morning of Mon day, July li letw.en S and 10 o'clock a soman dressed In niournii g entered the store bere the is employed. At she approached the counter and handed Msss Ksnsom a !eUer, the latter nolicea that the carried her right hand w rapped in a b ack tilk handkerchief as though injured. The letter whs written In lead pencil and the wora.m t nd she w,in ed to have H copied in ink. "he said," explained Ml Banaoi.. -thai she was Jlr. Brown sud that .Mrs uranernau died at her horn?. On bccouut or her hand being hurt the hud her little sou write the letter, but then thought as the writing was bad it would look bet ter to liars It rewritten in ink." Mis Hanson wrote the letter and ait-nd it according to Ihe copy. Mrs. Ha Tll f Ml-a t'lgrakaa). l'lllLaDEU-HIA, 1'., Aug. 1, Holmes, the much accused murderer, ha an explanation for the disappear tnre of Mis Emeline Gigrand, on of hi alleged victims. Holme explana tion of Miss Clgrsnd's disappearance, tike all the fellow's explanations, la e lever, but like all of his tales it is lack lug in essential particular. In an interulew Wednesday Holmea aid that ha bad led Mis Cigrand astray. According to Holm the girl bad resisted him pert stently and bo only accomplished her ruin by Indue In g her to take an excursion with blta on on of tb Lake Michigan tUsmers. Mi Cigrand wa a Catholic and la her confession to bar priest ana toM him of ber do wa fall. The priest viitd Holmea and insisted upon him right ing tbo wrong by marrying ber. Holme pretended to be willing to marry Mi Clgraad and so lulled tbo priest' suspicion. To satisfy Mis Cigrand, Holmes went through tb cere mony of marriage with ber, bat un known to the girl, the man who offici ated was not an ordained clergyman, but only a complacent frletid of Holmes, who had consented to play the part of priest. Holme and lb girl lived together as man and wife for a thort time and then Mils Cigrand learned that the had been twice de ceived and waa not bia legal wife. Upon learning thl the girl wa over , whelmed with tbame and remorse aud the left home and entered a convent. aa.. ... 1 . ll.a a . H. .J. Brown." Min Ranton thought j v nere uiis couvvui ia iuiw ! n mnra i he matter until re saw siate, the picture of Mrs. Gardner. When thowntbeMra. Brown teller, wnicn has been returned here, Miss Banson identified the writing as her own, and this fact, in addition to her recognition of the picture, seems to fix to a cer tainty the authorship of the letter up on the woman announced a? dead. Towaa Sabmart. Socobro, N. M. Aug 1 Late Tuea- day afternoon a heavy rain from tbe wet met a cloud from tba aat near Snake Ranch, eight mil from Socorro A wsv trenly feet bight cam down tb arroya and submerged Chihuhu and Cuba, two tmall suburb, washing They Will Uglit at Uallaa. Dallas, Tex., Auj Fred Ticker, who for mauy year sat upon the bench ana greatly ditllng- uished bimtelf for legal ability and who is regarded as having oue of the clearest legal minds in Texas, stated the law governing prize fighting aa follows: 'The last legislature adopted a new criminal code, in which it made prize fi :htlng a misdemeanor punishable down bouses and ruthing through ' a Tl,. .rrnti -mi hrAka at Snrlna 4r,.Imlu r " j atraatt and in the north Dart Of tOWB left women and children struggling to . tb water. Several drowned bodies, , on man and six children were, rescued. , Tba family of A. O. Hilton and many others were saved with difficulty Many house are wrecked, a hundred mora will fall and others are badly dam aged. Tba water waa three feet deep and all the principal trU are Uwn with furuatur any large boulder, LlUw datnaga waa done to tora s Crops and with a one of not less than 1500 nor more than $1,000, and Imprisonment for . tjn tlmnAmtitMnm. Hurt-days. 1 his went into operation j ' wmk Klei trlc Klevator la Every Honae A well-known electrical authority has pointed out that it Is now aa easy and rheap to have an electric elevator In a private house as In a, large oftict- building. Stairs are literally a bar bar ism. to which women frequently owe 111 health, and to which many delicate lM-rsoiis may attrlbut the deprivation of the full enjoyment of their homes, The cost of oiieratlng an electric ele- valor In. say, a five-story house, mak lng fifty or sixty trlw every day, will ot exceed $3 or $4 er month. The devices for rntlng these el vn tors have been so Improved that an invalid or a child can manage them. The old lever arrangement can lie dispensed with, and the elevator ascends or de scends on the pressure of a button.' It will stop only st each flmr. and will stsrt only when the elevator door lc dosed. - Coming to the Front. Mississippi, from lieing one of tlie poorest, lias attained excellent rank among the Southern "tares. It wealth valued at $110.28.12I. Uolag to Blow up tab. Bridgepokt, Conn., July 31. Thomas Carroll of thl city has gone to Cuba under contract with Insurgent to furnish a large supply of high explo it ve. for which be has tbe secret for' mula for making. Mr. Carroll said: "I will be there six weeks. With fifty man w can blow up 1,000,000 of tb beat drilled soldiers In tlie world. We can put torpedoes under and blow up ships and destroy cable. Water or dampness does not Interfere. Under all the roads it can be placed in old tomato cans or paper cartridges and fired from guns. I do not know bow the Cubans have planned tbelr cam paign, but with the high explosive no generalship It needed, a dot can blow np half the island of Cuba. Tbe revolutionists have given me my price and I am aoinc to provide them with the material." From Cuba Mr. Carroll will go to Ban Francisco to meet agenU of the Chilean government. Hla explosive has been tested by several governments and found to have very high power. July 29 just parsed. Ihat legislature also and subsequently, passed a civil code and It enacts that a light may take place by taking out a license of 500, Thl law goo lntoffectSeptm ber L, or thirty day before tbe Corbett- Fitxiimmont contest. There is no doubt, our supreme court will bold that it is or will be the law after the first day of September. The civil code waa adopted last and therefore will lake precedence over tbe other." This opinion or rather statement or facts about these law in concurred In by every lawyer in Dallas who haa read them, and it will be seen there Is no power to prevent the tight taking place Around headquarters yesterday every body waa quiet. The sle of ssats goes merrily along not to toughs, for they have no otooey to pay tbe price, but to railroad magnates and bank people. I la lnanlar hut. more raJlwav olncials K..-K-ht iek.i. than an. other H back door was closed and padlock a--. I aa aa,sl Kk mllaWMiW m 4ak-STa SaWBaal IVIwIM Uaft IMW lima IMUIaBWIws w SWSS whirled through the streets and to tbe city hall like any oiber prisoner. It Is not likely that tbe deposition of Charles Clerr,fae travelling salesman now la the east, will make much of an impres sion on the Jury In the Durrani case. Bhou d be return to testify It is said he will be arrested ot the Instigation of the American Tea Importing company the managers of which allege that ho obtained commissions from them oc orders "which were partly fictitious. It Is svan said that Captain Let has decided to send a detective oast to ar rest Clark and extradite his. The polios will not admit that any action to that end has been taken and deny that any warrant baa been issued. It is ssml-omclally stated, however, that tb warrant baa been Issued. from Polvardoro to Lamy tbe lowlands are fioodesi four feet deep. A boat mile of trak Is damaged on the main line of tbe Santa Fe road and eight miles on the Magnate" branch, with the roadbed and several bridges washed away. Tbe water main of tbe Socorro Water company la so badly damaged that do drinking water la to had Hnndreds of people are In dlttree Tbe damage to tbe town is estimated at 1700,000. rSer aa ttarraat. Bah Fkancisco, Aug. 1. Durrant was treated like a common prisoner yesterday morning for tbe first time, Tbe buggy with which Chief Jailer gattler has been taking bim to and frtm tbe city hall and county jail did not appear In front of the Jail as usual. In stsad the prison van was driven np and In it Durrant was given a Laadoa baa XOfioo factory glrla. WhMllag AraaaS Uw Werld. San Francisco. July 31.-rMr. and Mra. J. Darwin Mcllraitb of Chicago, who are on a bicycle trip around the world for the Inter-Ocean, arrived here yesterday in go.d shape. This It their i 58'h dsy of actual wheeling. 'I hey will remain bere several weeks. luwi It Hlaa. Vic run, Colo., July 31.- W. 8. Strat- ton, the millionaire mine owner, has struck a vein or ore in the Independ ence mine here th is believed to be Die richest lode ever found In any mine in the country, If not in tlie world. The mlnrt in the Independence ran across tbe body of ore at a point wbera the two veins saet and the width war rests the statement that there are mil none of dollars of ore assaying $iDflX to thaw, now ia sight. olaaaa' Coavtatlaa Doabtral Ctiicaoo, IU., Aug. 2. There were no important aeveiopmenis in iae Holmes case yesterday morning. Pat rick Qulnlan arrived at tbe central polios station in charge of an omcer early in tbe day and was at once taken Into Inspector Fuspatrlck's office and examined In regart to the statements said to have been made by Holmes to the effect that Emeline Cigrand is still alive and in a con vent. He refuses to tell anything on this point, if lie knew anything. Inspector FlUpatrick said yesterday morning be had nearly abandoned all hope of getting any information out of the Quintan which would incriminate either them or Holmes. So far, although tbe department has worked very hard and faithfully, not enough evidence has been secured to make out any sort of a case or tc warrant a reejuest that Holmes be tried in Chicago. A num ber of papers and letters have still to be examined and tbe dlggieg Is being continued at tbe Sixty-third street house, so that all hope has not yet been abandoned. AHOTIIEK DKBATK. Louisville, Aug. 2. After sevsral conference it wa decided Wednesday night that the Joint debate between General Hardin and Colonel Bradley, democratic and republican nominee for governor, should open Louisville on Mocday, Augnst 19. There are to be twelve debates in all in different parts of tbe state and t bay will end on Sep tember V. There will be no restric tion! on the debates. , Mtaarart la Troubl. Washington. I). C. Aug. 2. Sena tor W. hi. Stewart of Nevada, who dis located a kneecap while jumping from an electric car Tuesday, is resting com fortablv. The Injury is more serious than was at first believed. Cat Mis Throat. Mobeklt, Ma, Aug. 1. Dr. A. E. Hoblosoo, manager of the gold cure In stitute here, cut bis throat yesterday morning. It la generally supposed that tbeact aas suicidal, ilobinson was formsrly a lawyer In good circumstan ces, married to ihe daughter or uererai Weaver of Iowa. He became an ox- ceesive drinker and was parted from his wife in consequence. Tbe gold care institute hers has not been paying and tbe other day his partner ran away leaving him in a bad predicament, lie was much depressed, the old craving tor drink came back and he fell into the old habit. As a consequence he be came nervous and reckless and tbe cut ting of his throat ia be.ieved to be the sequel. Waabad Away. Caspkk, Wyo., Aug. 1. Mrs. W. . ewby and two children belonging to a family named Harris, who were in camp on Garden creek, were drowned Tuesday nlvht, The bodies were re covered Tetter lay morning. On ho, count of heavy rain the creek over flowed its bsnk and washed them away. Tha Daratil Affair. Pan Fraxi-isco, Aug. 2.-Durrant was brought into court yesterday morn ing with three ordinary criminals A fter two jurors had been obtsioed in tbe persona of Walter 8. Brown, wholesale dry goods merchant, and Chsrles P. Nathan, also a merchant, the panel waa exhausted. Judge Mur pty Issaed a panel of 300 names, 100 to bo returned Monday morning. Tbe ease thaw went over to Mondsy. lackaoa Hals Qalrt. Jackson Hole, Wyo., Aug I. The United press correspondent srrived here Wednesday evening and the situ atlon looks vsry mild. Strange to sty, the first persons spoken to in Jsckson Hole were not frightened settlers mov ing, but a party of Uthe people com ing In. There are about twenty-five pnon hare now, tm others being out scouting the location of the Indians. Tb severs 1 scouting parties number thirty-Ire mas. STATE NEWS ITEMS.1 Pierce ia asking fot telephone con nection with Norfolk. Tlie poatofflce at Flournoy, Neb., baa had it name changed lo Thurs ton. Fred Hanter of Columbus elsimt to be ihe cb mpion cbecker-pnyer oi me tate. Spring wheat in Nemaha cour.ty Is urning out from twelve to iwenty-two buthelt per acre. Cutter county has a great crop of tmall grain, and corn is In sxceaeni condition. Tbe town of Randolph is enjoying a building boom, and most of the new structures are of brick. A hundred buthelt of apples will bo marketed from a young orchard by William Prtietke of Madison county. It is estimated that the potato crop on the Kearney industrial sclu-ol farm will run from 200 to H5(i bushels per acre. A stalk of corn thirteen feet high wat found In i Madison county field. There are more just like it all over the itate. The barley crop in Hoyd county is yielding forty bushels per acre and find a resdy market at uO cenU a buthel. R-jssian thistle have obtained a foot hold In Cheyenne county and their ex- errninHtion will cost the non-resident nndow tiers a barrel of money. Nets P. Johnson, a prominent drug gist of Wahoo, d:ed very suddenly ol Bright' diseane at the home of hit sis ter, Mr. X. II. Harggren Inst week. The members of th- liap'.ist church of Kearney are rejoklng liecaus they have recently paid off all their floating indebtedness and are now reducing their mortgage indebtedness. Hon. Edgar Howard of the I'apilllon Times rat ftarted a fund to assist Editor RaKer In carrying his tult to the tupreme court. Mr. Howard heads the list with f and other newspaper men are Invited to chip in. It ia a worthy cause. Tbe annual encampment of the Ne braska Band union will take place at Hasting the same week as th G. A. R. rsuidon. Aagust 20 to 31. It It ex pected that from the forty band now belonging to the union there will be no lees than flOO musicians In camp. W. K. Lay has a note! heading to his weekly letters In tbe Monroe Ixok. Ing Glass showing up the wickedness of Columbus. It reads, "Woe to tbe land thtdowing with wings, which Is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia." What thedevil hat Ethiopia to do with Colum but? Mrs. Rockwell, an old lady living five miles northwest of Fairmont, met with a serious accident while returning horns from town. While crossing the Burl ington track, the rear seat of the buggy gave way, throwing her to the ground. She struck on her head and shoulders. Hhe wss taken to a neighbor's and medleal aid sent for. Wandering Willie tramp, serving a sentence ot thirty days on the streets at Bancroft, wearied of the monotony and skipped out, taking along with blm the ball and chain attached, with which the city authorities bad labeled him, aa aiouve-fr. When he reached Been he parted with with the souvenir fes the sum of 91 in addition to hit tuppei and lodging, and resumed hi simlsss Journey with the laugh on the Bancroft marshal. A new enterprise Is on toot to make a radical change in the city's water work svstem at Hastings, whereby it 1 cl ilmed an enormon taring can b made. The project it to lay a pipe line from the Platte rlvr to the city, which can he done at an estimated coat ol 12,000. With everything complete for the conveyance of the water ia tiifiiclent quantity to eupply all de mands. Mrs. . T. Gardiner of Arcadia, Neb., 1 reported missing. She went a a delegate to the Christian endeavor con vention held at Boston In Juty. Upon striving there she did not register al tbe Nebraska headquarters, but in hei letters home she ttated that the was staying with a friend. It Is ald thai she did not make herself known at any of tbe Christian endeavor meetings and no one there appears to know the nam of tbe friend with whom the Hooped. Superintendent MacKay of the Nor folk insane asylum rejected a shipment of coAVe tent from Lincoln by II, P. Lnu's wholesale grocery house. Th contract called for dining car coffee lo packages, without listing the tize ol the packages and ths contractor sent the coffee in fifty-pound tscks. The superintendent desired pound parcel- in cloth tack and for that reason senl the whole lot back. The last estimates from the soldiers' and sailors' horn how thai Mart Howe ha kepi hit word and has not used the dried fruil which he declared was full of nits. The board had three experts ps on the goods and oruered Mart to use It. A young farmer named Strohn living near Randolph, received a tuiittrokt while returning from the harvest field. He was fonud three hours afterwards and take home. The doctor fearr h will die. II. D. Watson of Buffalo county re, ports a yield of seven tons, C04 pound, of alfalfa fraa two and olne-tsathi acres thla week, and it wa tba ssoetk cutting this season. Hs has aaothes patch that stands nearly three foot high and has bean eat twice this season. .