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THE SCUIX cnilNIT JCJaUL
L- J. SMlItOMS. Fran
HABBbON,
NEBRASKA
A new map of the world printed In
England mark Northern Greenland
and nearly all the known land near the
north pole is British possessions. Poor
Xansen will return only to find that be
baa been Sehomburgked.
Canada's militia la officially reported
to have a strength of 35.7S2 men of all
ranks. No doubt they are brave sol
diera, but they should realize that their
mission la not to reverse the Monroe
dot-trine nor to strengthen the bold of
royalty upon the western world.
The street railways of Massachusetts,
nearly all of which are oerated by
electricity, carried 2uU0uu,(ioo passen
gers last year, of whom 1,50" were In
jured, twenty-five fatally. It does not
appear that the trolley in that State Is
more dangerous than the former horse
cars.
One of the largest individual bid
ders for tha new Government loan of
fered UU1 for a block of J4.500.000,
which Is so near the market price that
he was several days In finding a pur
chaser for his option. Finally he clos
ed out at a profit of $30,000, which la
doing pretty well on an Investment of
2 cents In a stamp.
It Is hardly in order for the English
to laujrh at the Idea of Edison turning
his attention to war when they have
Just put an Ashantee army to flight
by a night attack, In which Roman
candles, skyrockets and a pandemoni
um of firecrackers were the leading
features. Not a man was Injured on
either side, and as the Ashantee braves
are still running, a new leaf has been
added to the military art
A New York Inventor promises that
electric light will be delivered through
tubes Instead of wires, the light Issuing
from an apparatus no larger than a tea
cup, and in Ita glow resembling day
light It is to be produced by a light
current passed through a vacuum with
out a filament and Is said to be due to
the vibrations of the universal ether.
This phrase sounds well, and shows
wliat science Is up to in these days of
extraordinary Inventions and discov
eries. It la to be hoped that William F.
Mannlx, the newspaper correspondent
who offered his services to the Spanish
Government as spy, is not "right In his
mind." That was the opinion express
ed by a Spanish official, who could not
conceive of such treachery on the part
of a sane man. Mannlx made repeated
offers to Spain's officials, stating that he
was In favor with the insurgent and
able to give valuable information. His
overtures were all refused, which Is
fortunate not only for the cause of the
insurgents, but for the trust which the
majority of foreign correspondents are
entitled to. It would have been a sad
thing for the press if Mannix had kept
up a course of villainy for a long time
undiscovered. All these, however, are
considerations secondary to the mere
idea that an American has turned
traitor and made himself a disgrace to
the nation.
Few of the world's discoverers and
Inventors blow their trumpet very loud
ly before they have a sure thing. In
this respect they differ entirely from
those other men who roar at large about
the discovery or the invention which
tb4j are going to make in short order,
bot which they never make. There are
hundreds and thousands of these per
sons. They are going to fly, or to cross
the ocean In two days, or to find a cure
for the dumps, or to straighten out
things en a new plan, or to make life
sweet without soft sawder, or to com
municate with the nobodies who live
up In Mars, or to write a book that will
make yon stare, or to do something bet
ter than anybody else as soon as a pat
ent can be procured. We hear of these
boasters every day, and yet we don't
believe that they are all mountebanks.
They talk beforehand. They can't
wait Tbey put the cart ahead sf the
horse. We wish, for example, that
Zuetoerbubler or that other flying-machine
man wbo lives In Germany would
rig up their wings and start off for the
clouds. We wish that the man wbo Is
to cross the sea 'Ojetfck as lightning
would do It, and that the other men
would not mention their projects nntll
carried out Look at Roentgen, wbo
did not go round for years telling about
the Job In which be was engaged. The
first wt heard of the cathodal ray was
When he gave practical evidence of Its
existence and utility, to the astonish
ment of the whole scientific world. We
have a Liking for a surprise of that
kind.
After years of patient endurance eo
doty has Inaugurated a movement to
rid Itself of that peaky American prod
uct, the tramp. That Immense half-
body impolitic baa brought this
' upon Itself. The public has with
stood the Imposition long after for
bearance ceased to be a virtue. This
lower strata of humanity who "do"
only the nnwmry, who are leeches ob
taining sustenance from the energies
of others, hare been a curse to the
community. It Is not a charity to lend
to their support, but an encouragement
to Idleness and a great Injustice to the
diem ring poor. And yet the tramp
erst starves, nor does be labor; but,
on tbe otter hand, crimes are com
asfSoi la (be name of mercy to end the
smSstiagi of honest bat poverty-strlck-
cJttstns. ..The . contentment of
txxn, Ms happiness In Jail or out,
rnM hie total depravity. If tbe
Csry mast live let him be sentenced
O tCaaMfcjn and sompetlod to
Ilia bread by the sweat of bis brow.
The day Is past when we can counten
ance vagabonds who toll not neither
do they spin. Public safety demands
their removal. Public charity is plead
ing for it The society for the re
moval of the tramp deserves all the
help It can be given. The United States
U large, but it has no place for the
tramp. Bondage and vagabondage
should have been swept oat simultane
only.
Although very little is feeing said
about Dr. Cyrus Edson's recently an
nounced discovery in medical science,
experiments with the simply com
pounded fluid are going on with the
most encouraging results. There Is
one noticeable peculiarity about the re
ception of the story of this newly found
remedial agent and that Is that the
medical profession very generally ae
cepta the claims of the eminent physi
cian for all they are alleged to be
worth. lie made no sweeping asser
tion that he had found a preparation
that would surely destroy disease
genus of any kind whatever. The es
sence of his entire assumption was
that he had accomplished a combina
tion of carbolic acid and some salt
that was capable of assimilation In the
blood by which It would be conveyed
to all parts of the system. As car
bolic acid was a disinfectant known to
be destructive to certain disease germs,
it was but natural to hope that It
had thus become possible to success
fully attack those living organisms
wherever they might have lodgment In
the human system. The experiment
had been made In some two hundred
cases with the most promising results.
True to the instincts of humanity the
discoverer Imparted the knowledge he
had gained to the world of medical
practitioners In Its minutest detail, and
continued his own efforts to determine
its tme efficacy. It goes without saying
that if his confidence In the outcome
shall be verified by thorough applies-
tion and the passage of time, the world
will be benefited beyond measure. The
discoverer reserves to himself nothlug
but the satisfaction of having contrib
uated the boon to mankind, and there
Is an evident willingness on the part
of those of his profession everywhere
to aid him In the demonstration still
wanting. The spirit with which his
plain announcement has been received
highly creditable to the conserva
tive and sometimes over-critical call
ing to which the New York doctor
belongs. He has made no rash claim.
and should disappointment follow fur
ther demonstration of the effects of
the hoped-for cure, he will lose no cast
with those who have given the subject
such respectful and serious attention.
GREAT STUDENT IN STRIPES.
Beat Shakapearean Scholar in Con
necticut Ja a Life Priaoner.
The beet Shakspearean scholar In
Connecticut, and one of the beet in the
United States, is a life prisoner In the
State prison at Wethersfield, near New
Haven.
Ills name is John H. Davla. He be
came interested In Shakspearean mat
ters in 1883, through a lecture on the
poet by a Hartford preacher, delivered
in the prison. Twice a year for the
last twelve years he has read the en
tire works of Shakspeare, and every
spare moment has been devoted to the
study of books of every description
that relate to the bard.
Students at Yale College and otliers
about New Haven interested In the
study of Shakspeare often go to Weth
ersfield to talk with Davis. Dr. Am
brose Young, now of this city, but for
merly of Yale College, says Davis Is
an Infallible authority upon Shaks
peare as a result of his duugent study.
Dr. Young says the prisoner can begin
at any act or scene mentioned and
quote the whole of It correctly.
During the fair given by the Con
necticut State prisoners every Christ
mas, at which articles manufactured
at odd times are sold, Davis entertains
the patrons with recitations from the
plays, and In this way be earns a few
dollars, which be spends for luxuries
during the year. He has considerable
dramatic ability.
When Davis first entered the prison
be could neither read nor write. The
lecture on Shakspeare appeared to give
him a thirst for learning, and he strug
gled heroically to gain It In a short
time he had mastered the alphabet and
was soon able to read. The first book
besought was Shakspeare, and be turn
ed at once to the subject of the lecture,
which was "Hamlet" After be had
read this play he began at the begin
ning of the book and read It through.
He has been reading It ever since.
Davis at one time was a keeper In
the prison, where be Is now confined.
He ascribes bis downfall to drink.
Beats Jarndyce vs. Jarodyce.
A law case which lasted 300 years has
again come on for hearing In a Bavar
ian court It la waged between tbe
market community of Burginn, at Un
terfranken, In Bavaria, and tbe lerds of
Thungen. The case was commenced
on June 21, 1596, when tbe legal ad
visers of this community appeared be
fore the legal tribunal which then held
Its sitting In Speler,' ngajbst tbe lords
of Tbungen, for a BUB of 2,000,000
marks, as owners of a forest of
noble oaks and beech trees. Century
by century death thinned tbe ranks
on each side, but others took up the
cause, and when tbe case came on for
trial the other day matters seemed as
fresh as ever. It Is hoped, however,
that June 21, 1800, will see tbe last of
this venerable suit
Glycerine in Olne.
A little glycerine added to gum or
glue Is a great Improvement, as It pre
vents either becoming brittle. It also
prevents gammed labels from baring
a tendency to curl up when being
written on.
Success does not mean happiness; It
an on usual number of enemies.
Whi AaUltra.
las Fbakcisco, Cat, April 10. (Cor
respondence of the United Press per
Steamer Mariposa, from Honolulu,
April I.) On the morning of the 28th
ot March, after several preliminary
meetings, nearly seven hundred Portu
gues marched in a body to the gov
ernssent building snd sent In a petitioo
addressed to the president and legisla
ture. Their demeanor was entirely
peaceable and orderly. Copies of the
petition sere at onci made and pre
sented to the two houses of the legisla
ture. The grievance of the Portuguese
is that having been brought here by
Ibeir government and having settled in
the islands and now increased 13,000
souls, they find themselves subjected to
in invasion of Chinese and Japanese
immigrants, now over 40 0 0, which has
reduced the wages of labor below the
just of subsistence to Europeans. They
ink for measures to restrict Asiatic im
migration, also for an equitable system
A taxation.
White no anticipation of disorder was
felt from the gathering of the Portu
guese, it is considered a bad precedent
tor the legislature to be approached
by a large assemblage and liable to have
i menacing tendency, calculated to dis
turb and intimidate the legislature, es
ecially if the Japanese should be in
duced to make a suniliar demonstration.
It may lie thought Wat to prohibit by
law the presenting of petitions in tbi
manner.
A registration act has nearly com
pleted its passage by the two hou
with great unanimity. A sininar act
passed the legislature of 189:2, but was
lost on its may to ' the queen by some
unknown means This act compels
every male above flft-en years of age to
be registered, with full description and
thumb marks, also to produce bit cer
tificate of registration whenever he re
moves to a new location. The object of
this measure is to enrble the govern
ment to iilentifiy and to control the
great number of Asiatic immigrants in
the country. It is estimated that 45,
000 will be annually collected from Asi
atics who have hitherto evaded taxa
tion. While the whites generally favor
this law, a few are opposed to it on
sentimental grounds, as savoring of Eu
ropean despotism. Such a law is gen
erally considered indispensable to any
proper control of the Asiatic population,
who are extremely difficult to identify.
Sas Francisco, Cal., April 10. The
Rio's officers are reticent about the
plague in Japan. In fact they say it
does not exist there and that there is
only a little cholera in the interior.
Their reports also minimize the plague
in China and say it was reported in
Japan that there bad been only one
hundred and fifty deaths in Hong Kong
and Canton in two months.
Traffic on the steamship line between
Vladivottock and Yokohama has been
suspended, and the quarantine regula
tion in all Japanese ports is rigorous.
Tha Old Htorr.
Salkm, Mass., April 10. There was s
double tragedy at the house, No. 122
Boston street, yesterday morning. At
4:20 people living upstairs smelled
smoke, and going to a room occupied by
Miss Josephine Manning, forced an en
trance and found the bed on fire and
the room full of smoke. Across the
foot of tbe bed a man was lying, fully
dressed, and just gasping for breath.
He was taken out, but died before medi
cal assistance arrived. In the bed Mist
Manning lay dead, ber head covered
with blood from a wound.
Tbe family upstairs reported that
they heard three pistol shots an hour
previous and an examination showed
that the woman had two pistol wounds
in ber bead.
The man, wbo was James F. Flynn,
also had a bullet wound in his head.
Flynn was a widower, about thirty-five
years of age, and had been keeping
company with the Manning woman, who
was a dressmaker and about thirty-eight
years of age. It is supposed that he
killed the woman and then committed
suicide. He was dressed in his workini
clothes and no one could tell when he
went to the house, nor was anything
known of the cause of tbe shooting. I
Both bodies were somewhat scorched,
but only the bed in the room was ;
burned.
Moat Pay. ,
Tsrbb Halts, Ind., April 10. Presi
dent Debs of tbe American railway
union has issued an official circular. Iifl
it he states that at the end of the big
strike of 1893 many me-ibera were ad
mitted without the payment ot the f 1 M
membership lee and that this sum most
be paid by all members this year. II
farther states that all telegraph opera
tors, whether railroad or commercial,
are eligible to membership ; also femsli
railroad employes and ex-railroad em
ployes upon receiving a two-thirds voU
of a onion.
"Let peace and harmony, good wit
and brotherly love prevail everywhere.
We must rise (ar above tbe diweationa,
bickerings and petty Jealousies of pettj
men ana with a realising sense of thi
responsibilities that rest upon us, thl
importance of the work there is oefon
ut and the gravity of the industrial situ
ation that confronts us, we must preet
forward side by side ia one solid phalani
to fulfill tbe noble mission of our order.'
tolil's KaaMloa.
St. Louis, Mo., April 10. The featun
of Caidinal Satolli's visit to this city
this week waa tbe reception tendered
to him by the priests of the diocese al
the Marquette club last night. Nearly
three thousand prominent citiiens ol
every denomination assembled at th
dob boe.se between 8 and 10 o'clock and
paid their respects to bis eminence, who
was assisted in receiving the guest by
Archbishop Kain. The cardinal made
no address and simply bowed bis thanka
WaulaltoM WM I aa a uau IJUm-iW,,.
Washingtoh, April 8. The senate
roncurreut resolutions on the Cuban
question was delivered to Private Sec
reUrm Tburber by M . Plat I, one of the
executive eleks of ti.e senate. Later in
the day they will be sent to the state
department as the law requires that
such resolutions shad be printed in the
book of laws annually published by the
department
Secretary Olney called early at the
White house and remained in clore con
sultation with the president, undeterred
by the notice that had been sent to the
other members to the efV.-t that there
Would be no cabinet meeting today.
There is reason to belie .-e that the meet
ing mould have been post poned regard
leas of the appearance of the ceaislea
among the children at the White bouse,
in order to afford the president an op
portunity for private deliberation with
the chief memlier of hi a cabinet, for
there was a story current, and it is be
lieved weil founded, to the effect that
the two were engage I in the prepara
tion of a special menage to congress.
Of course this was immediately as
sumed to relate to the Cuban situation
and to be. an exposition by the presi
dent of the actual st te of affairs on the
island as revealed in the reiiorta of the
United States consular officers and
other trusted sources of information
inere is a resolution belore the presi
dent, passed at the instance of Senator
i . ... .
Hoar of Massachusetts, calling for this
information.
It is reasoned that the president in
transmitting the information asked
may feel it his duty, in view of the
overwhelming majority by which the
Cuban concurrent resolutions passed
both branches of congress, to come out
with a plain statement of the reasons
that influence him in preserving un
moved the position he has assumed to
ward the insurrection in Cuba, showing
from the best obtainable information
that has reached him that regardless of
the sympathy he may feel personally
for the insurgents, l.e is absolutely
bound by the facta as he sees them, by
precedent and the dictates of interna
tional law, to persist in his attitude.
This view of the matter, of course,
applies only so long as the president is
left free to decide upon the course to be
followed by the government, since it
may be that he would take an entirely
different view of the matter if congress
should send him a joint resolution em
bodying the features of these concurrent
resolutions and assumed by so doing
the legislative branch had taken the
direction of the matter out of his hands.
While it Is thought hkelv the presi
dent may outline his views to congress
in transmitting the Cuban information
requested, it is not certain that this
message will be more than a formil let
ter of transmittal. There are good rea
sons why the consular reports should be
handed very guardedly, since our con
suls have to continue resident in Cuba
and the work on which the presidents is
believed to be engaged may be in the
nature of a statement of facts or sum
mary of tbe main features of the confi
dential consular reports.
Quarantined at tha White Ilouao.
Washington, April 8. President
Cleveland and Secretary Thurber are
quarantined at the White house, Mrs.
Cleveland and ber children are quaran
tined at Woodley and Mrs. Thurber
and her little ones are quarantined at
their home on I street All this, and a
postponement of tbe cabinet meetirg
in addition, was the result of the discov
ery in the White house nursery between
10 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning
that little Esther Cleveland, the presi
dent's second daughter, who is two and
a ball years old, had the meaeles. Im
mediately there was excitement through
out the mansion. The president was
informed and he sent messages to all
cabinet officers in town that there would
be no cabinet meeting t..dy. Miss
Bathmann, the teacher of the White
house kindergarten, was rent poete haste
to Woodley, the president's country
place, and hurried preparations were
! made for takiug Esther and her sisters
there. Shortly afterward tbe sick child
was sent to Woodley in a closed carri-
age, accompanied in that and another
vehicle by ber mother, nurses and sis-
ters.
Private Secretary Thurber has been
living at the White bouse Iqr ten days
since one of his children developed a
ease of measles. This morning yeong
Tom Thurber and tbe cook at the Thur
ber bouse were taken with tbe disease.
Esther Cleveland and the Thnrber chil
dren are doing well. Little Esther's is
said to be a mild case, It is likely that
on her recovery the family will be joined
at Woodley by the president and will
remain there nntll they leave for Gray
'Sables at the beginning of summer.
Tow ad laia Harbor.
Ban Fbancisco, April 8. The British
ship Brablock, of Glasgow, Captain Kid
die, sixty-five dsys out from New Castle
N, 8. W coal laden, waa towed into
port with her cargo on fire. The fire
waa discovered on Friday last Early
Tuesday morning the decks were badly
wrecked by explosions of gas, and pre
parations had been made to abandon
tbe vessel when a tug waa sighted. Tbe
flames were pouring from the decks of
the Barabloch when she wsa brought to
anchorage.
Fla.S Oulltjr.
CflBTBMNK, Wyo., April 8. On Friday
last B- M. H aboard, an employe on one
of tbC 8 wan uattle ranches, stole a
saddle and $20 in money from a fellow
employe. Hubbard was captured Sat
urday by 8heriff Fredendall and waa
brought before District Judge Scott
He pleaded guilty to the charge of
grand larceny, and waa sentenced to
two yeara'a imprisonment in the state
penitentiary. He will be placed In the
esHtsnUary tomorrow.
Can California Haiae Coffee T
An attempt Is to be made to cultivate
the coffee plant in the beautiful San
Joaquin Valley, in California. The
result cannot be known, it Is said,
within less than six years. The chief
anticipated difficulty arises from the
lack of a proper quantity and distribu
tion of rain.
Pictured Kncfea
On the base of a cliff of granlte'and
marble, running for alout two miles
along the shore of Lake Massunog, In
Canada, and rising In places to a
height of three hundred feet, an In
teresting series of plctographs has re
cently leen discovered. These picture
writings extend at Intervals along the
entire length of the wall of cliffs, but
are nowhere more than six feet above
the water of the lake. They probably
represent highly Interesting events In
the career of the people whose artlst
hlstorlans placed them there.
Masneta Pnt to Work.
This seems to be emphatically the
age of work. Elephants have been
set to pulling stumps aud rolling logs,
and now electro-magnets have been
pressed into service In England for
the lifting of heavy masses of Iron and
steel. The magnets are attached to
cranes, and are operated by a current
from an electric power circuit When
the current Is ou they grip tlielr load
with a lifting strength equal to two
tons, but when the current Is turned
off they Instantly let go. An Instance
of the application of such a magnet
is cited where work which formerly
occupied six men for ninety minutes
can now be doue by three men and tbe
magnet In fifteen minutes.
Hurnlna Gaa from Ice.
A correspondent of Science describes
an Interesting scene recently witnessed
on a skating lake near Baltimore.
White spots resembling alr-bubblcs
were noticed In the Ice, and one of
the Bkaters bored a hole Into such a
bubble and applied a match to it,
whereupon a flame burst out at the
surface. Further experiments showed
that when a small hole was bored down
to the bubble a long, thin Jet of flame
could be obtained which would lust
for a considerable time. The bubbles
were due to accumulations of marsh
gas, formed by the decomposition of
vegetable matter at the bottom of the
lake. The correspondent suggests that
such supplies of marsh gas might be
utilized for the Illumination of skat
ing ponds at ulght.
Uaeful Mechanical Principle.
Trial has recently been made In
building operations of a mechanical
device known as Pease's tubular con
struction. It Is
based upon the
simple fact that
three tubes, each
having an open slit
along one side,
may be Interlocked
In the manner
shown In the accompanying cut Of
course the number of tubes that can
thus be connected Is Indefinite. Ily add
ing a sufficient number on rich side
of the three, for Instance, a flat ex
panse like a roof would be formed. In
fact this construction has been used
for the roofs, walls and floorings of
buildings, lu place of corrugated Iron.
Sometimes to obtain greater rigidity
the tubes, after being Interlocked, are
filled with concrete. No bolts or riv
ets are needed.' Hy making the tubes
of different diameters, aud In other
ways, a great variety Is Introduced In
tbe application of the principle.
Photographing Hidden Thinga.
Professor Roentgen, of the Univer
sity of Wuertzburg, Bavaria, has re
cently succeeded In photographing the
bouee of tbe band of a living person
through their covering of flesh, while
the flesh Is invisible In the photograph.
He has also made photographs of ob
jects concealed behind screens of wood
and other substances, and some of
his experiments have been repeated,
both In this country and England. In
experimenting with a "Crookes tube,"
which Is a glass tube, or bulb, from
which the air has been as far as pos
sible exhausted, and through which
an electric current is passed. Professor
Roentgen found, unexpectedly, that
the rays Issuing from the tube were
not only able to penetrate certain
opaque substances a fact previously
known but also to Impress upon a pho
tographic plate Images of objects sit
uated between the concealed tube and
the plate. When tbe band, for In
atance, waa thus placed, with the elec
tricity excited Crookes' tube on one
aide and the photographic plate on the
other, the rays from the tube passed
through tne nesh, Dtit not through the
bones, and tbe outlines of the bones
were photographed upon the plate. Ex
traordinary suggestions have been
made as to the possibility of so perfect
ing this discovery as to enable physi
cians to photograph bullets, calcareous
deposits and other extraneous and Inju
rious substances, or formations, In the
human body. Too much should not be
expected, however, until more facts
are known. It may be remarked that
tbe rays which act so mysteriously are
not light rays, and perhaps not electric
rays; Just what they are remains to be
determined.
,f this weather last two days long
f, tbe first birds of spring will appear
wearing shirt waists.
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Col. H. N.
Telegram is
Parks of the Columbus
having a hard siege of ill
health.
The wile of J. N. Bee I of Polk county
died after a very brief illness of pcur
peral fever.
In Banner county (he new grans is
almost long enough to afford plenty ol
feed for sux-k.
A Modern Woodman camp has ten
organzed st Alma with twenty-five
charter members.
The farmers are being rod in to
subscribe for stock in the new daily
paper at North Platte.
The people of Piatt precinct in Dodge
county are considering the advisability
of building a tow n hall.
The Wayne Republican estimates that
the acreage of w heat in that section will
be 25 er cent greater this year than
last
In alighting from a buggy Mrs. Georgs
Reckard of Norfolk, caught her foot on
the step and fell heavily to the ground,
breaking an arm.
The ill feeling letween the citiiens
of Hemingford and All ance is dy'ngout
since the county seat matter has been
set at rest for a time.
Several boot-legners at EmerKin are
breeding serious trouble for themselves
by selling wbif-ky to untutored javagmt
of the adjacent reservation.
Michael Matthews as standing on
the platform of a coach as the train
pulled into Biadish, Boone county,
when a strong gust of wind blew him
"overboard." He landed on the wrong
end and broke an arm.
Kev. T. Lemon, assisted by Evangelist
Byron Heal!, closed a revival at Liberty
by receiving foutteen new members into
the Presbyterian church. More than
that number confessed their sins and
liave started out to lead Christian lives.
Matt Daugherty has ls-en appointed
organiser and canvasser for the Sixth
district by the executive committee of
Ihe Nebraska club. This ornanization
is doing good work in "standing up for
Nebraska" and inducing desirable set
tlers to locate within our borders.
Chadron folks cling to the hope of a
lugar lieet factory in the far distant
luture. They are trying to encourage,
the farmers to raise beets thiB year in
order to fully demonstrate that beets
:an be had if a factory should come,
ind are shaping things for another big
effort in 1897.
Alout one hundred f-ioux Indians
from Pine Kidge left Rufhville by spe
cial tMin in charge of W, 0. Snyder, to
be addd to the wild west aggregation
at Philadelphia. Over one thoucaud
Indians came to see their friends off.
A big feast and an Omaha dance wera
features of the day.
Gus King, a fanner boy living near
L'nion, cracked a whip around the legs
of Elmer femilh, telling him to dance.
He danced out a pocket knife and
slashed King to the thigh bone, and
now King is laid up for repairs, and
Smith resting under a charge of am-ault
with intent to do great bodily injury.
C. J. Anderson, a prominent and well
9xed farmer living about ten miles
southwest of Minden, hung himself in
a cattle shed on his farm. No cause
can be assigned for it, as he is one of
the wealthiest farmers in the county
and his domestic relations have always
been tlje most pleasant. He leaves a
wife and one son. . - -
John O'Donnell, who lives near Good
win, Diaon county, was badly in hired
by being attacked by a fierce bull. The
bull bunted him, throwing hlra about
ten feet The blow crushed one of his
shoulders, and he was otherwise con
siderably braised. Assistance came to
him before the Infuriated anlm.i v,.j
time to repeat the attack and trample
upon him.
A man and his wife of average stature
and of ordinary appearance were on the
B. A M. train, says the Fiettsmoutb
Hewi, bound lor their home at Beaver
City. They had been in Canada for the
past four years and were returning te
Nebraska. There was nothing Strang,
about this fact, but they had with tbem
a baby twenty months old that was
just beginning to talk, and remarkabls
M " mV infant prodigy
weighed ninety pounds, and was Indeed
a alghl worth seeing. The mother said
w. umam weignea nine pounds at birth
hilt tthan ( - . .... '
hen it waa a week old It
take on flesh at a wonderful rate and
bad continued to grow. It was well
proportioned, but was afn j
in perfect health, w.tb a gooj appetite.
The Commercial hotel at Cvallals
caught fire from a defective flue at II
o clock and at noon it was a mass ol
ruins. The Delmont was in great dan
I lor a while, but the fire was ket.t
back by the hard fighting of cltiien.
The oss I. 5,0O0; Insurant 005 A
few hour, later the re.idence'of iohn
Jollenstein caught fire from a prairi"
Are, but it was soon extinguished with-
Otlt KMC.
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