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r I' : t: 1'5 lt SCJII COilXTT JOURXAL LJ.WMOm, Prvavtatavt BABRIsOX. . NEBRASKA. Lord Sackville-West, let M hope. ex periences a comfortable filing of re lief. He has been bottled up a long A Washington Judge and grand Jury have advised the use of the whipping post for wife beater. An ax is prefer able, but the lash Is better than nothing. A tramp has Just died In Pennsylva nia at the age of 81. never having done a day1 work in hi life. This shows what cold victual and the lack of wor ry will do for a man. A Belgian physician has found that yawning is beneficial for throat and ear complaints. The throats and ears of those who have kept up with the Cor-bett-Fitzslmnions debates must be in splendid condition. An old alligator Lived down by the bay, And swiped pickaninnies When they came his way; All day he lay sunning In a one-eyed nap. And the snakes and the turtles Said he had a great snap. Elevator etiquette is thus laid down by a Boston paper: "Only in private residences Is it 'good form' for gentle men to remove their hats In an elevator In the presence of ladles. In hotels and business buildings there is no more ob ligation for men to bare their heads than in a street car or railroad train." The fallen woman who advised a "so cial purity" worker In Baltimore to go around the factories and try and have the girls' wages raised instead of try ing to reclaim the lost uttered a great and luminous truth. In nine cases out of ten such Nice is the direct result of poverty. The estimate of tiie cost of the Nica ragua canal by th?? lust party of gov ernment commissioners to look over the route is SllO.boO.MiO. An Increase of $40,JW,OM over the earlier estimate suggests the need of caution '.n consid ering the project. The country will de mand a more positive assurance as to the cost than Is yet In s'jrht. The total value of ail farm property In the Province of Ontario. Canada, is officially reported as $',)K'Wi.(nn for last year. Of this SMT'i millions was the value of the land, 2U millions for buildings, 51ty millions for farm im plements and 111 was the value of the farm live stock. The total valuation was about 1 per cent less than that for 1893. It is said that no steam locomotive ' has ever equalled the record made by an electric locomotive In Baltimore. At its latest test it hauled three steam ! locomotives and forty-four loaded cart. up a heavy grade at the rate of twelve miles an hour. In view of such results experts are tieginnlng to think that the electric locomotive is at last a practical reality with revolution In it .The United States Board on Geo graphic Names has decided that Korea and Cbemulpho is the proper spelling, end that Blucflelds, not Blewfields. is the title of the Nicaragua town. The edict of the board that Havana must be changed to Habana Is slightly revo lutionary. But all departments of the United States Government must accept the amendment The Kansas City new woman who sued for a divorce because her husband .would not do the cooking has failed to obtain it Now what will she do? Of course, her husband, encouraged as he has been, will maintain his position, and as the cooking will have to be done by somebody, probablv sne will have to do It But In that case how will she be able to earn money to pay her lawyers? It la a di til cult situation she is In. It is supposed by some good Judges of the course of affairs In South Amer ica that Chili has an ambition to dom inate the whole of that continent, and that Its alliance with Peru means a war with the Argentine republic within a year. Chill possesses the moat service able army and navy In South America, and its aggressive dealings with its neighbors show that it is well aware of the fact The Argentine Congress recently held a secret session to consider the hostile attitude of Chill, and Braill also la watchful of the growing Chilian military establishment , The death of Ephralm W. Bull, of Concord, the originator, forty odd year ago, of the Concord grape, la aanounc- '. ad, at the ripe age of 89. The develop ment of the Concord grape from a wild grape of the wood will always keep ftir. Bull's memory before the lover of 4bla frsttt There art many better grape tban tba Concord, though It la yt giore largely grown than any other. t Bat without the Concord these better ' " grtpa aad never been. In his old age t MX. Ball loat what property be bad and baoaata dependent. ' Ha would have VttaT. a. pawn ca bad avery one who benefited by hie dlscertry contributed -V c3l--ay -1. a faad (or bis ijup- ' & . - .--v e i." ; r-t a World froa Tiff mm tftat rr"l atti nttatawg and fewad U tr: tn tar Cnet fte rztsim mad wmb mm for development." It U thought that the tet made is comprehensive and reliable enough to warrant a final con clusion, and it is rejx.rteJ that 'u the I strength of It the CarueK-e Company has placed an order in Birmingham for 2u,tJ tons of the iron. If these j expectations are not disappointed there j is likely to be a still further cheapening j in the price of steel, already greatly cheapened by the use of the improved processes introduced in the last fifteen years. Process steel Is now doing the bulk of the work that was done by wrought iron a generation ago. If such ores as tbe of the South can be used with advantage for steel making, the twentieth century will le indeed whiit the nineteenth has been called au age of steel. The London Daily News presumes that the powers have accepted a Mus sulman instead of a Christian as 11 gh Commissioner for carrying out the re forms In the administration of Arme nia demanded by them, and adds: "If so it will be a severe disappointment to Armenia's best friends." It might have added it would be a disappoint ment to the whole civilized world. If a Turk Is to be at the head of the scheme there will l- no reforms, there will be more massacres like the horrible butch eries now going on at Treblzond, AdiU and Anatolia, where hundreds of Chris tians have been murdered pending the promulgation of the scheme by the Sulv lime Porte. All there is to an agree ment Is the manner in which It Is car ried out. How the Sultan, with a Turk ish High Commissioner, would carry It out Is shown in the statements of the Turkish papers that he has already be gun to introduce reforms in Anatolia by increasing and reorganizing the gendarmerie and "police force, wbi.-h only means more soldiers, more niur ders and more taxation. It Is incredible that the great lowers wlih h have con trol of Turkey should allow these mas sacres to continue anil permit them selves to be deceived over and over again by the unspeakable Turk. It will gratify Christian people every where to learu that at last the Kuro pean powers have forced the Sultan to take steps which may fairly be expect ed to prevent a recurrence of the Arm-1-nlan ma-ssacres. No one will misinter pret tiie motives actuating the Turkish authorities. The porte is no nearer to civilized practices than It has ever been. 1 he fact is, of course, that the comb'.ued coercion of six European powers has been too much for the Turk, ami be hits acceded to the demands of civilization simply from the impulse of self-preservation. The extent of his unwilling acquiescence is measured by the fact that he has not only assented to the entire program laid down by the European powers, but has agreed to ac cept the Installation of a Christian to put the new system in operation. In view of this triumph for humanity It dox-s not seem too much to bie that at last a means has been found of making the unspeakable Turk obey the dictates of nineteenth century clviiizat.om Here- tofore the Sultan has promised lavishly and broken his promises with simiiar extravagance. The system perfected by the European powers does not seem to admit of much promise breaking without Instant and very wholesome retribution for It This time he may try to break his promises If be likes and his underlings in power may seek to inflict other outrages on the Arme- nians. but the forces of Christian Eu rope stand ready to balk further mis- deeds. Southern Hospitality. A discourse on Southern hospitality would be upon an old text; but as most old texts are the especially good ones. It would be a pity quite to drop them. It has been predicted that with the abolition of slavery and the consequent difficulty In securing household assist ance, there will be a decline of the old famed hospitality; that it will not out live this generation. Were the hearti ness of this virtue confined to eutlug, drinking and housing, we might fear that with increased household labor might be decreased cordiality of enter tainment but there ia a further mani festation than the mere attention to ap petite. It's the being welcome to what they have, rather the attention to what they have, which especially marks the warmth of the Southern manner; we hope It la long that we shall know and remember this beautiful virtue. Wom ankind. As Potent a the Ciar. The city of Nesswish, In Itussfan Po land, belongs to Prince RadclwlIL Two lakes one within the city and the other near It also belong to him. This sum mer, when the heat was greatest al most unbearable, the Prince suddenly Issued a proclamation forbidding fish ing and bathing in these waters, the only ones for miles around. The serv ant of a Judge, nevertheless, went In swimming and was immediately shot by the guards placed by the Prince. Add to this that the Prince and bis too! are in no danger from the wheels of Jus tice, and you bare one picture of the state of liberty and law within the realms of (be Czar. At BaaaookbsuFB to Stay. . A 8cotamau once neatly turned tiie tables on an Englishman who had been alluding to the number of Scots in ten don. . "Well," replied the Scot "I know a' place In Scotland where there ar tblrtjr thousand Englishmen who nf er ge back to their own country " ."Why. sybereVer tan such a crowd bar atd the Englishman, to wbom tba Scot dry ry remarked, "at BatMockbarn.'? ' j Toenig paag4a eVwerra jaeeX prr severance at everything ewsept singing mm piayug on a Blood iemaint. tod' THIRTY-THREE B0-- ES RECOVERED- Tbe Work of Hunting for the HiHllr Must Gi seeorae ' M n 7 ara lot Keeecnlsabl. Detboit, Mich., Nov. 7 The work of recovering the bodies of the victims of the Journal lwiier explosion con. tinued nil day yeater lay. Bv yesterday morning all the debris ill have been explored at.d the last of bodies re covered. Up to 6 o'clock yesterday mornin? eighteen bodies had been tikn from the ruin, nearly all ot (hem frightfully burned. As the worker eot ui'o that portion of the debris into which fire had not crept the en--itfn of the corpses recovered w t found to lie bet ter. Iieath bad com! to the victim of the disaster so suddenly that many of them were found in the very at titude in which the-r were at the moment of th explosion. Fourteen corpses were takei o U of the ruing be tween 6 o'clock in the morning and u o'clock yesterday aftercoon. They were: Jennie A'clWur. Catherine IMIer, Bertha Weidhuscb. Katie Leonard. John Keeper. Rose Morgan. J-ihn Jireitenbaeher, Ernest Prf ins, Emma Lichtenberg. Wle'busli. Rose ltre'z. Lue Fret z. John Francis Ierby. Joseph Bradley. I'p to 5 o'clock yesterday evpnlnp every body taken from tiie ruins lia' been identified ty friendsani relatives. One body recovered frr ui the ruins wa that of a young woman sitting bt It up--lgbt in a chair an she had ben whei the explo-iion look place. She had beei SufToc fed. (.ltd S ME WOKK GOI'S ON. At 2 o'clock the ilrft body of tie afternoon's find w;i taken out of the ruitis. Friends of Ihe miming formed a circle about the enrched figure of a girl, from which one foot was missing, but there was no one to speak her name. A silver watch was secured, with gold chain and charm, also a dres-s p.n with garnet Benin?. A lew mo ments later a gentleman entered and identified the articles as those of li s daughter, Emma Lichtenburg. A few minutes before 3 o'clock th" ghastly find of the day was made. It was the trunk of a woman. The body was bloody, the arms and feet bumf d off. The head was seen at some little distance from the trunk, completely severed by a falling timber. It was bard work getting out these, awful re mains, for they were pinned down by timbers and the men had to saw away the wood bit by bit. Fred Weidbusch looked only at the red undershirt and corset and declared it was one of his two daughters, Annie or Lizzie, he could not tell which one, as they dressed alike. ' When th other one is found I will know them by measuring their skirts," be said as he returned to the sceue of the horror to look for the i 11 ' 1" other dead cntld, the third of the trio of Vteibiti'Cti gir.s, two Bis ters and a cousin, who met their death thete. A Flfta Man. San FiiANCisco, Ca!., Xov. 8. J. C, Davis the Rochester, N. Y., forger, haj slipped through the meshes of the law and is uow enjoying freedom in an other state. His case was called for trial yesterday morning, but Davis failed to appear. Davis was released upon bail abou' a week ago, bonds in the sum ot 9 1,010 having been accepted. These bonds are said to be good. At any rate they received the approval of the police department. The bonds were ordered forfeited and a bench warrant was Issued for Daris. Davis' wife went east a month or so ago, and It is learned that her parents hare sent her to 8 ui h Dakota .'or the purpose of securing a divorce. It is also said that Davis' bondsmen were fully indemni fied by his father-in-law before they qualified on the tond. WirrhouH Collapacs. Leavenworth, Kas., Nor. 8. The ast portion of Kyan & Richardson's cold storage plant on Cherokee street collapsed yesterday morning, wrecking tbe engine and boiler rooms, damaging seriously the cold storage and Ice ap paratus and piling up hundreds of bar rels of choice apples In a broken heap. The west half of tbe structure was Dot damaged. Tba wrack was due to the sinking of tba foundation built orer an alley sewer. An hour before tba crash came tbe trouble was discovered and tbe employes left. The entire ware bouse contained SO.nQO barrels of ap ples. About 10,000 barrels war shak en up and huntr t rained. Hare aet oauS ibr Crrw. . Philadelphia, I'a Nor. 8 The easel which tank off Fenwlck'i Uiaud, iatbe Delaware bav, lias been discov ered to be tba telioener Laughing Wter af Portlaod, Me. There are oo tidings of aar of her erew, en4 U If thought that all bands hart baea lost, Jfcr wMssTi'ge mkUb , ireav flatbed at - i.slatiM tslksMan I wreaked f unbar off tbe Workmen Ftill F: Mangc A HOKKllll.K DIS-lkTEtt. Th Detroit Kwmmtag Journal la Wrch4 aacl Man Lira 1 oat. Detkoit, Mich., Sr. 7. At thne minutes to 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing the battery of boilers in the build ing of the Evening Journal exploded, wrecking the buildings No. 45 and 47 West La-nel streat," killing at least forty person", wounding twenty others more or less seriously and causing a money loss o SiVlniu. The Itetroit Journal oflice was lo cated at Stielby ani Lurried streets, oc- cupying loritsmair. omces a seventy foot fr tit on Lame I street, of its building and " rt of N'exteast the same block were two twenty foot fronts which constituted the scene of the dis aster. One of these. No. 45, was wholly occupied by John Dvis & Co., salera tus manufacturers and dealers in gro-ce-s' supplies, while in the basement of the other were the two boiUrs which exploded. Just above the boiler room on the first floor was the Journal's mailing room. The second floor whs occupied by the Kahlbiand Engraving company and V, V. Dunlap's agency for Rogers' typojraph supplies. The third and fourth floors were George Ihlier's book bindery and the top flour was the Journal's stereotyping room. There were three siereotypers at work on the Journal's Ikor, about thirty girls in the book bindery, be sides the properator, a machinist, and several others In the typograph supply shop, several engravers and assistants in the Kohlbrand company's rooms and a force of cle'ks in the ground floor mailing room. There were six persons ill the Davis building. In the base ruent were the engineer, fireman and several pressmen. The first intimation the neighborhood got of the disaster was fron the tremendous repor', fol lowed by a blinding cloud of debris. smoke and steam, and tiefore this had cleared away the whole, live floors and the people working upon them were in ore inextricable wreck. The force of the explohion had thrown down the wall between 43 and 47 Lamed street and the joixis which rested upon it came tutnblihg down, tearing themselves Irom the apjotiing wall. A heavy lire wall separated tills building from the main building of ti e Journa company. The weight of this sufficient to withstand the shock of the explosion, ana although several holes were blown through it the walls remained standing. The firemen were there in a minutes from the hex corner The Knxlitlinien )lat. Ai'STlK, Tex., Nov. 7. The weather was line yesterday and a lare crowd saw the regatta races. The grtateveft of the day was the final beat of three miles with turn, double scull, for the world's chant pionsl ip and a urne ot fl.000, between the English champions, Bubear and Barry, and the America's flyers, Teemer and Rogers. Both crews were in the pink of condition, and the course, with a gentle south breeze blow ing over it, was all the sportsmen could desire. The start was made in txcel lent style, Teemer and Rogers taking water slight! r ahead. Bubear and Rarry followed and a few ..weeping strokes sent them ahead of the Anieri cans, and as they passed the first quar ter stake a full boat's length of daylight was between them. The Americans pulling straight up the course striking Llieir oaia null a uuni o iciilii otiriu Uubear ard Brry were evidently n-'t alarmed and pulled away w ith a beau- tifiilstorke. The Americans continued ' to gain on them and bo'h crews rounded the mile and a half ilag together. Down the home stietcli they were neck and neck. At the three quarter stake tbe Englishmen had forged ahead about a half boat's length. The Americans again exerted them selves and as they neared the last quar ter flair the boats were about an eighth , of a mile of the home line. At this n.tini Ituhear and Murrv snurted and 1 r " t -I with a filly-five stroke crossed the fin-, ishlng line at least a coupie of boat's, length ahead. Official time, 17:40, which breaks the world's record, 18:02. Tbe second event was a single scull trial best, three miles with three turns, , four times over the course, between .1. 1 Gaudaur, H anion, Peterson, Rogers ' and Teemer. Peterson led off, with Ropers second. It was a steadily pulled and pleasing race, with several changes , Id the relative positions of boats until the last stretch was reached. Two Vlllairea In Danger. ValPakaiso, Ind., Nov. .The Til lages of Hamlet and Davis on the Fort Wayne road, 80 miles east of this city, are In danger of destruction. The Dra wbicb started on the Kankakee marsh last weak is burning throuub tbe south part of Laporte county. Tbe Penn sylvania officials ordered out all sec tion men between Plymouth and VaJ paraaso to go to Davis and Hamlet to fight tba lira. Tbe company's bridges and tracks are In danger. Tbe whole country soutb of Hamlet and Davis is ablaze and farmers were obliged to leave their homes io order to save tneir lives. C-aproaaiea Ta. ' Pah Francisco. Cal., Not. 7.-Tbs statement pUbli-bed la a morning pa- bar to tba effect that litigatloo over the Fair estate had bean compromised to tba satisfaction of aileooosroed is de nted by afl IpteresUd la the matter. Cbtvrlaa L. Tair'ssyt no compromise is Ukelv and that the ItOfy .published la altogetber Ineocurate, and Attbraf OoodfeUow says be baa no inwouou or A M I SI A NO C Ml I. fcV A Mas I I Molina. Ill , lakM H Llf- DAVrNroKT la., Xov. A. Yester day morning Jacob Schwegart, em ployed at the Molina plow works, com mitted suicide by taking morphine, at Mollne, I1L He bad been on a spree and vowed Thursday night that he would klU himself. Tj humor him a friend drew up his will. Schweigart claimed to have Sj.oOO in the bank and t hie amAiini Iia U. ft to Ids brother. W. ij. Campbell of Msrkeville, Perry county. Pa. Upon hi death a tele- i m , . e . . ,hB r.,.moCrat ; ria ui swa v tv - - lUtisler at liioornll"id. Pa. KegarC- , j,pff i,is funeral he directed that be be buried in a rough pine Dox, ana ai it was lowered Into the grave the Mollne Light guard band was to play "The (iirl I Left iiehind Me." Unfriends were then to nil in the grave, tramping down the earth and leaving no mound lo mark the spot. He signed the name of Joseph Campbell to the will. Onlv bank books calling for SlOO could be found after his death. Among his effects was an accideut insuranc policy for $1,000 taken out in Canton, III., last July. He was found to be long to the Knights of Pythias lodge number jlidiietown, ., and to a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Dayton, 0. lie had been at Moiine since August, but nothing was known of his antecedents. AHfr Maujr Veara. Denver, Colo., Nov. J. George S. Hazen, a brother of the late General Hazen, fourth assistant postmaster general, was arrested on a ranch near Meeker, Colo-, and will be brought, to Denver to stand trial. Hazen has been a fugitive for nearly ten years, and it is due to the mrsislent activity of Snecial Agent Waterbury that he wus finally located. George Hazen was postmaster at j Meeker in 1SH5 and lS-, and on No ; vember 20, iHtyl, was indicted for pledg i inir and disposing of several hundred ( dollars" worth of postage stamps and for making false reports to the depart I merit. lie lost two months and knows nothing of ptnding trial, bet when, tie cape was culled he had disappear !, F.x-Uiiited States tv-nator Tabor, bis bondsman, subsequently had to pay ' the forfeited bond. Wi.terbury at Ihe . I i m uua II,.-. L.!t.r l,i ,ll'rU Ut thill .limn t, a iimiw,ii vM-.ip... point, and he vowed he would fin-l ' Hazen someday, Ilazen's daughter l i teaching school near Meeker, to whom I Hazen, thinking the cpsb had been foi- gotten, receiHly returned. On to Atlanta. . CllK'AfKi, III., Nov. il. Nearly 000 Chicago citizens, accompanied by dele (rations from Aurora, Peoria, Jollet Milwaukee and Racine, pet out for At lanta yesterday afternoon to be pr(- i Brnt at the celebration of Chicago day Ht the exposition in tiiat city next Tuesday. There were live trains of ten cars each, over the Petit svlvania ai.d, Chicago &. Eastern Illinois, and a I were comfortably tilled. Besides some of the most prominent in business and political circles of this city, includ ing Alenander H. Hevell, Senator trhel bv M. Cullom. Ferd W. Peck. Horace ', Tnilrur Vrutllr V ( 11 DH.i 111 OS And I ,. ' ..... , . ,., r-ecreiary Clone oi uin iimiu ui no'"-, the delegation contained the entire ; First regiment, Illinois national gua-d, : and a car load of horses for the use , tltn sif!ii-Mra TlkA l-'lrttt. la ( '.h icfu-,'s crack md ,g up fof U e most part of young men of wealth and social prominence. It Is under the command of Col. Henry Turner, w ho has planned an elaborate program of drills and military evolutions to be gone ihren'h with in Atlanta. On board the first tr.iiu were Govenor Alt geld aiid party, including state officers and members of Ins s'aff, Mayor .w ift and other municipal nihVers, W, II Harper's private car, a car for the re gimentals and one for horses. Allen Thiiriliaii In Serloue Condition Coli Jim s. O., Nov. 0. Ei-'-ena- ' tor Allen G. Tiiurman fell from a sofa I in bis library last Friday and suffered Injuries which have developed into a serious nature, and lie cannot Voiibly recover. At 11 o'clock last night the condition of Judge Thurman was somewhat im proved. Tbe members of the family had retired, leaving the distinguished patieut in the care of his nurse. Dr. Whlttake, bis physician, saw Mm at 10 o'clock and did not call again last night. He does not now think there is any immediate danger ot death. Judge Thurman Is sleeping quietly. His condition is that of collapse and the physicians says It is altogether im probable that be will sun ive long. No bones were broken by the fall and the only wound uotlceable is a slight abra sion over tbe hip bone. In a young person the accident would have been trivial. On Uand at Lewat. Rome, N, Y., Not. 9.-wllllam Hawkins, formerly of Rome, shot his wife twice and then killed himself, in Canastota Friday. It is thought the woman will recover. Tbe cause of the ' 'hooting is unknown. Aea,alil f the Charge Linden, Kan., Not. !. It. R. B. j Mullens, a nephew of the secretary of tbe treasury, John G. Carlisle, wss Frl day acquitted of tbe charge of rour er tng J, W. Blake. Ob the afternoon of December VI, WH, Mullens aud Blake met m a 'Hillnd pig" at Arvoola, Mul lens shot Blake three times as tbe re soil Of quarrel that ensued. At the trial Dr. Mullens pro vsd a good' char- eater and that be aotad lo, self- i "Nebraska TRotcs i Norfolk has a cemetery association composed of ladies. lironeho breeders of Custar county are finding a market for the bucking brutes in Georgia. Danbury had i' first coal famine last week. Not a pound could be bad for love or mouey. V. W. Haskell of the Ord Quiz Is nw recognized as the leading poet ol northwest Nebraska. Wicked womeu in Fremont are re quiiei to plead quilty and pay a monthly Cue or go to jail. Platumouth has a resident whose name Is Johu Likewise Who says there is nothing in a narrfe' Gold hunters at lujCool are not find ing the banks of the Bine as rich la good quart I as they hoped. Newcastle has expended more money for new buildings this seasou thaa any other town in Knox county. II. Sciiby of Ames is mourning the dlsaparauce of a valuable buggy. Someone took it from Danbury. The Methodist brethern of Chadron have set about the good work of biild iug a parsonage for their able pastor. Several farmers north of Bur well neglected to make lire guard around tneir hay stacks and now they have none. Farmers of Valine and the south part of Seward county are hauling corn from near Garrison to feed their stock the comiug winter. B. Mick man of Dodge county has broken tbti record. He pul ed a beet the other day thai weighed almost 1 wenty-nine pounds, Mrs Henry Ahl, living near Milli gan, Fillmore county, gave birth to three girls, and all parties bid fair to live long and prosper. papers were recently filed with the ! register of deeds in Buffalo county, de claring the South Park addition to the city of Kearney vacated. The sons of a farmer in Chase county uuearther a den of rattle snakes, and in three days put 123 of the "pizen" reptiles out of thlr misery. The editor of the Humphrey Herald says of the editor of his loatl.S"ine contempcrary that he Ims -'t brains ,1. ' i "' Johu J. G lehel, the "efficient" clerk j of Cedar county, has held the ollice ; three years aud au expert finds his nc i court short to the tune of S4,U3 io. Dudley Trusdell or Fremont while playing shlppy pot a rap over the heal that "put Idm to hep," The doctor thinks ho will be ah ri;;ht in a few days. A spelling match lias been arranged between the literary giants of I'.looin lield and Wausa, who will contest for a pnzo and the championship of the world. A Mrs. Baudt of Erina, Garfield county, while going about with her household uulies, suddenly fell to the floor and expired. Heart disease was the cause. The chattle morgages filed during October in Uuffalo county were l'.'J, amounting to g-lS,o3i.oG and the tn tu ber released were K'V, amounting to 819,433.4)7. The ermine of the Sixth Juliclal dls trict wilt be worn by the s-ime oldteiwn of first class jurists, William Marshall of Fremont and John J, bulilvau of j Columbus, Thieves cracked llm windows of a store at Mitchell the other night, and tapped tbe money drawer for all there was in it. The amount of the find was less than A freight train of 115 "empties" went went over the Union Pacific the other day. The train ws three quarters ot a mile in length aud drawn by two engines. I Two sprigs of tender manhood bad a ! fistic encounter at N allace over title to the undying love of a farmer's daugh ter aud the sensible girl deserted them both as unworthy of her platonic affec tion. One of tbe best farm houses in Madi son county, belonging to Charles Lauch burned to the ground with most of its contents. The Insurance of &700 will scarcely cover one-third of the loss. A defective flue was the cause. Charles Coleman was exhibiting a thirty-five pound spoon billed cat fish, i says the Plattsmouth News, which was caught last nlgnt by some Dslierman. Tbe bit! of the fish was about fourteen Inches wide and half an inch thick, and was quite a curiosity to many. Mayor Dablman handed in bit re signation as mayor of Cbadron much to the suprise of everyone. He states that his time Is so occupied with his duties as deputy oil Inspector and his outside business that be Is unable to attend to bis office at mayor. Silver labels no mora, says tbe Soutb Bloui City Record, and where once was a beautiful body of water there is now nothing left but rashes and musk rat houses. John M. Moan eight yeara ago contemplated placing a steamer on tba lake for pleasure parties. . Tecuinseh is rolng to hare a broom factory . Thomas Goodman, now a resident of (he county and an nperl need broom maker and raiser of broom oora will shortly remove to that city from his farm and establish tba fac tory. Ha baa aoaraoturad broomi on th farm for a Domker of- years on asmatlseaie. ' ' ' - : . There's bait oa ftorfoti job need to manage and tnal hi yotoMtf.T. D Witt Talmag. s'Ulng. defense. 4,1" -aU ff -