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1896 JUNE. 1896
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Blackleg is proving very fatal to stock
near Weft Union, Cutter county.
A free Methodist taWnacle hai been
erected at Norfulk ami salan is on the
run.
. After a delay of several weeks the two
Fullerton saloons are aga n runping on
full time.
A Geneva lady ha? a blooming cactus
plant, for winch she hag refused an
tfferof 13.
The walla of the Knot building at
Fremont are said to he in an unsafe
condition.
Twenty-seven South Omaha young
sters were rounded up in one evening
and put in the cooler for violating the
curfew ordinance.
Joe Voracek, a Bohemian lad of Sar
gent aged thirteen years, was bitten by
a rattlesnake and died after two long
weeks of suffering.
More men are employed in outh
Omaha today than at any time during
tbo pagt three yearn, tays the Tribune,
and it ought to know.
The people of Nebraska are respond.
1ng nobly t) the call ol Governor Hoi
comb for donations to help the storm
stricken people oi Texan.
An immigration agent left Eustis the
other day tojinduee farmers in the kiln
dried districts of Illinois to come to
Frontier county and Ret rich.
Jesse Campbell, an Osceola lad of ten
years, was adjudged incorrigible and
will stay in the reform school at Kear
ney till he learns to be good.
As William Cair of Gothenburg
started to enter bis corn crib the oiher
day the door blew open with such forc
that it broke his collar bone.
Norfolk people who are delinquent
on their water rent are having the gup
ply cut off, and must pay a line of $1
and 10 per cent increase of rates or dii
a well.
Mifg G'isnsie I'tak of Plattsmouth was
badly bitten on the limb by a viciout
dog. It required five ehota from a re
volver to cure the dog of wanting to eat
somebody.
Congressman Kern has a fine irri
gated farm in Colorado where he will
settle when his term in congresi ex
pires. He has no notion of being a
candidate again.
Two years ago L. B. Hughes of He
bron lost a ring with a diamond setting
worth l-'W. Last week Mrs. Weather
aid found the diamond in the road and
returned it to the owner.
The unknown man found on a sand
bar 111 the Missouri river near Blyburg,
a few days aince, has been Iden'ified as
that of "Tony'' Lawless an old-time
resident of Dakota county who was
much given to strong drink.
W, F. Ware of Jefferwn county has
announced his willingness to serve
term in the lower house of the legisla
ture subject to the action of the repub
lican convention ; and C. F. Steele ii
ready to take a job at the other end ol
the building under the same conditions.
The cultured people of Dakota Cit
objected to the owners of cows in that
neighborhood decorating their animals
with bells that could be beard a mile
and a quarter and the village marshal
was instructed to confiscate every clang
ing jingler found running at large.
This ii the way the Valley Enterprise
its down on its loathsome Elkhorn
contemporary: "W. A Crane, the hired
man and carrion eater on the warmed
over, soft soap, semi-annual defunct
sheet at Elkhorn, is making himtell
jrery conspicuous again since he emerged
from a complete wreck which he and
his fake factory recently fell into. But
the pitiful pleas of the poor jfinhecile loi
help in the time of whisky famine,
reached the ears of some tender-hearted
citizens and the plant was bid in and
then ha wag hired to run it."
A man who travels for an Omaha
house rushed into the telegraph office
at North Platte the other night and
tent a telegram to the Midway hotel
at Kearney asking them to forward his
order book, which he said he had left
on the desk at that hotel. The mes
sage went and the reply came back
jthat it could not be found and asking
Where ha had left it. The travelling
inan swore a few lines, In two or three
languages and lomarked that the hotels
never looked for anything. He was
writing another telegram telling where
the book had been left when he re
membered that it was in his grip. He
Went to the Pacific house, found the
rrip with the book all right, where he
lad put it, went out again and told the
ok on himself.
A boy can sit still on a sleigh six
nches square, tied to a sled going eight
mile an hoar, ssys the Grand Island
Independent, who couldn't sit still on a
sofa Ave minute for a dollar. A man
will lit on an inch edge on a board
fence and talk politics for three beurs;
put him in a church pew for lory mjn
uts and he gets nervous, twIsU, turns
and goes to sleep. A man will DU bit
mouth with filthy tobacco Juice nntil tl
runs down his chin, but a hair in the
butter klllt bin.
Sliiitpt Ceiif at4.
Cleveland. O., May 26. Charles
Card well MeCabe, Earl Cranston and
Joseph Crane Hartell were conse
crated as bishops of the Meth.xiist
Episcopal church at Central armory
yesterday morning. There was an ioi
mense congregation present, nearly
every seat in the big auditorium being
filled. The consecration was most im
pressive. At 11 :10 a. m. the bishops of the
rhuich, the bishops-elect and those as
sisting in the ceremony filed ia and
took their seats on the platform. Bishop
Bowman, "the beloved senior bishop,"
who has served the church in that
capacity since 1872. presided. The col
lect was recited by Bishop Vincent, the
rpietle was read by Bishop Thoburn and
the gospel by Bishop Taylor.
The Rev. L. D. McCabe, D. D., and
the Rev. T.C. Iliaf presented Bishop
elect McCabe; the Rev. D. L. Rader
and the Rev. R. 8. Rust presented Earl
Cranston; Joseph Crane Hartzell was
presented by the Hev. M. C. B. Mason
and the Rev. Samuel L. Berler. After
prayer by Bishop Fitzgerald of New
Orleans the examination and invoca
tion was conducted by Bishop Andrews.
It was a most solemn part of the service
'Every voice in the armory was hushed
and every ear strained to catch the
questions of the bishop and the answers
of the candidates. Then followed the
".Hying on of hands" and the presenta
tion of the Bible. The congregation
sang a hymn and the benediction was
pronounced by Bishop Foster.
People nocked from all parts of the
house to congratulate the newly made
bishops, and the platform wag crowded
for a long time with a surging crowd of
enthusiastic Methodists eager to greet
those who were to guid the destinies of
a religious force which nuiuber over
3,000,000 souls.
TUB DAY'S DOINOS.
The general conference was presided
over by Bishop Ninde ye-derday morn
ing. The Judiciary committee reported
and the conference acted upon a large
number of appeals.
Charles W. Price of Rusellville Cir
cle, 0., convicted of lying, appealed
from a derision of Bishop Bowman.
The conference reserved the bishop's
decision and ordered a new trial.
When the celebrated Baltimore
amendment was before the annual con
ference the New York east conference
refused to act on it and the coirfmittee
recommended that no appeal be en
tertained. A committee of five was appointed on
complimentary resolutions.
The committee on book concern want
ed the conference to appoint a look
editor, and it was so ordered.
Lust night had been set aside for the
anniverfary of the temperance work
and the auditorium was decorated ac
cordingly, a large banner inscribed
"The Saloon Must Go," hanging at one
end of the building. The decision ol
the conference to hold an evening ses
sion for business eptiled the plan for a
great temperance rally, but the rules
were suspended, and the first thirty
minutes were given over to the tem
perance organization.
The regular order, the report of the
committee on constitution, was then
taken up. There was quite a long de
bate over the manner of constituting
special sessions of the general confer
ence, the issue arising between those
who held that for members of the pre
ceding general conference to hold over
and sit in the special session would be
unconstitutional and 1Vose, who held
that new members must lie chosen.
The former prevailed and the article
was adopted.
There was a sharp debate over an
attempt t give laymen equal rights
with the ministerial delegates to pre
side pro tern over a general conference
In esse there is no bishop present to
preside. One amendment looking to
that end was tabled, but Dr. Buckley
Introduced another and made a strong
speech favoring the acknowledgment
o( the laymen a rights to preside. Dr
Neelev opposed the amendment and
thought that no reference shoHld be
made to the order from which the
president pro tern should be selected.
This view finally prevailed, the refer
ence being stricken out and the section
adopted. Adjourned.
Ilrltlth liit l-onl.
San Francisco, May 27. Shipping
men believe the British bark Cam
busdoon has been lost at sea. Khe left
Java, carrying a cargo of sugar, for
Vancouver January 23, and has not
been sighted or heard from since. She
has been out 145 days on a voyage Out
should have been made in about ninety
days, making her fifty-five days over
due. She has now consumed much
more time than was required for the
longest trip on record from Java to
Vancouver. The London underwriters
have offeied 35 per cent for rednsurance
on the bark and her cargo, which car
Ties about $300,000 insurance. The
Cambusdoon was commanded by Cap
tain Macdonald and carried a crew of
thirty men.
Ikcata tha Kccord,
London, May 27. At a meeting of
the Gaelic club at the Kensalrise
grounds, Flanagan threw a sixteen
p .nnd hammer 166 feet b4 inches, beat
ing the record.
Appointed Receivers,
Omaha, Nebr., May 27. Dudley
Smith, formerly president, and S. C.
Woodson, representing the St. Joseph,
Mo., stockholders' Interest In the
Omaha bouse, have been appointed re
ceiver! of the Steel-Smith Grocery com
pany of this city. This action was
brought about by the trustees of the
Steel estate wishing to withdraw tha
Interest of that estate from tha bust
neea. Tha aateta are said to be far in
icon of tb liabilities.,
I1IS CUILT NEARLY PROVEN
Bev. Francis rmann of Salt Laks
City in a Clois Ket.
HE SOLO THL ,IRLS BELONGINGS
Troves a .Jr Other Articles l-ouud tn
the Avlies of Hie I'hurcli Furnm-e.
Salt Liii City, Utah , May 26
Yesterday vas an exciting an eventful
day in the investigation of the Scandi
navian Methodist church tragedies, the
net results being a chain of circum
stances, which, taken with thoe pre
viously discovered, fastens the euilt of
murdering Miss Clawson, on the Rev.
Francis Hermann beyond a reasonable
doubt and alBO goes to show that Miss
Samuelson fell a victim to the pastor's
atanic actions and that be may also
have bad other victims.
The w rk of excavating the floor of
the basement of the church began at an
early hour yesterday morning. A 'vast
h mount of eaJth was removed and quan
tities of bone found in various stages
of decomposition. iSome were plainly
identified as human bones, others were
in such condition that it was impossible
to tell whether they were human or the
bones of an animal, and others were
plainly recognized as being those of cat
tle and fowl. The general appearance
of the place was such as to suggest the
idea of a cemetery, and there is no tell
ing how many human beings have been
interred in the basement in the sacred
edifice At a certain spot beneath the
stairway, where the soil showed evi
dence of having been recently dis
turbed, the sole and hi el of a woman's
shoe was found near the surface and a
little deeper down in the same spot a
pair of blood-stained overalls, w hich it
is claimed by the tenants of the church
were worn by their pastor while he was
engaged in labratory and other work,
separate and apart from his Wks.
The overalls were blood-stained on al
most every part. Ed Johnson, the
young man whoso room was heated to
such a high degree of tern perature the
day the minister built the bigfl'e in the
furnace, declares that Hermann had
them on when the latter was met by
him on the basement stairway w ith a
gunnysack under his arm. He said he
also wore a jumper of like material.
All efforts to find this article of clothing
were futile. Then came a piece of con
firmatory evidence as to what became
of it. The furnace ashes on being gifted
were found to contain the requisite
number of steel buttons for such an ar
ticle of apparel and the strong point is
that they correspond exactly with those
on the blood-stained overalls.
Whether the bones found jn excavat
ing the ba-ement of the church include
those of Miss Samuc'son, the other girl
whom it would appear fell a victim to
the pastor's lust and blood-thirstiness,
cannot yet be detei mined. The search
in the church and surroundings is not
by any means yet concluded, and fur
ther, discoveries can bo expected. It
was learned that Hermann was crimi
nally intimate with the Sumuelson girl
and that he performed an abortion on
her a few weeks before hei disappear
ance, in January last. A few days prior
to her disappearance the pastor had a
Urge box ordered at one of the lumiier
yards and some of the ollicers hold to
the theory that the bones found in the
chu'eh are too old to be those of a per
son only dead since January, and that
the preacher packed the remains in the
box and either shipped it away or else
took it along w ith him when he left for
Kansas City on May 0.
GAVE HIM TI1KIK MONK Y.
It hag further developed that both
girls bad entrusted to Hermann con
siderable money for safekeeping or in
vestment. Miss Clawson, it is known,
gave him 300 very shortly before his
disappearance, and Miss FaniuelHon
had also given him several sums of
money while she was living with him.
Hermann drank heavily at times and
kept a stock of wines and liquors in
his study. The officers are keeping up
the search in and around the church
and the place baa been vl cited by thou
sands of curiosity seekers.
Dr. Meacham, w ho made an analysis
of the strains upon the various articles
found in the cellar, said that lie was
not prepared to state that the stains
were those caused by human blood
owing to the fact that during the long
period elapsed since tho jierpet ration
of the deed the blood corpuscles had
become contracted, making it a hard
matter to distinguish it from the blood
of animal', such as horses, doB, etc.
Nevertheless he emphatically pro
nounced the stains that he bail ex
amined upon the lower doer of the fur
nace and upon the barrel found in the
cellar to be undoubtedly bloodstains.
Bey ol that he was prepared to give
no further statement, except that he
would operate with a final teat this
evening upon the articles, including
the smears upon the paper.
The officers have no tidings of the
missing preacher. The governor of the
state has been asked to offer a reward
ior his capture and it is expected that
be will do so.
Cubans on Top,
Kingston, Jamaeia, May 26. Ad
vices have reached here from a re
liable source in Cuba to the effect that
a strong body of Spanish troops re
cently made a eecon! attempt to in
vade Cubitaa, tha aeat of the Cuban
government. They were ambushed in
the mountains and sustained a crush
ing defeat. The Spaniards were lit
erally slaughtered by the insurgent
and tho tore was compelled to flee In
disorder.
HIS CULT NEARLY PROVEN
lev. Traccii Hermann of Salt Lak
Citj in a Close Ket
HE SOLO THE GIRLS' BELONGINGS
I'rotea a Liar Othr Artltlr tuuud la
the A-tiea f the t'hurrh Kuriim-e.
Put Lakk City, Ctah , May 26
i'est-rday was an exciting an eventful
day in the investigation of the Scandi
navian Methodist ehprcfc tragedies, the
net resulu being a chain of circum
stances, which, taken with those pre
viously dit-covered, fastens the guilt of
murdering Miss Clawson, on the Rev.
Francis Hermann beyond a reasonable
doubt and also goeato show that Mibs
Saiuuel.on fell a victim to the pastor's
Satanic actions ami that he n.ay also
have had other victims.
lhe work of excavating the floor of
the basement of the church began at an
early hour yesterday morning. A vast
amount of eaJth as removed and quan
tities of bones found in various stages
of deet niposition. .Some were plainly
identified as human ixines, others were
in such condition that it was impossible
to tell whether they were human or the
bones of an animal, and others were
plainly recognized as being those of cat
tle and fowl. The general appearance
of the place was such as to suggest the
idea of a cemetery, and there ia no tell
ing how many human beings have been
interred in the basement in the sacred
edifice At a certain spot beneath the
stairway, where the soil showed evi
dence of having been recently dis
turbed, the sole and fuel of a woman's
shoe was found near the surface and a
little deeper down in the same spot a
pair of blood-stained overalls, which it
is slaimed by the tenants of the church
were worn by their pastor while he was
engaged In labratory and other work,
separate and apart from his books.
The overalls were blood-staind on al
most every part. F.d Johnson, the
young man whoso room was heated to
such a high degree of temperature the
day the minister built the bigfi'e in the
furnace, declares that Hermann had
them on when the latter was met by
him on the basement stairway with a
gunnysack undei his arm. He said he
abo wore a jumper of like material.
All efforts to find this article of clothing
were futile. Then came a piece of con
firmatory evidence as to what became
of it. The furnace ashes on being gifted
were found to contain the requisite
numlier of steel buttons for such an ar
ticle of apparel and the strong point is
that they correspond exactly with those
on the blood-stained overalls.
Whether the bones found in excavat
ing the basement of the church include
those of Miss Samuelson, the other girl
whom it would appear fell a victim to
the pastor's lust and 'blood-tliirstineBS,
cannot yet be deteimined. The search
in the church and surroundings is not
by any means yet concluded, and fur
ther, discoveries can be expected. It
was learned that Hermann was crimi
nally intimate with the Samuelson girl
and that be performed an abortion on
her a few weeks before her disappear
ance, in January last. A few days prior
to her disappearance the pastor had a
Lirge' box ordered at one of the lumber
yards and some of the ollicers hold to
the theory that the bones found in the
chu'eh are too old to be thone of a per
son only dead since January, and that
the preacher packed the remains in the
box and either shipped it away or else
took it along w ith hlm'when In; left for
Kancas City on May fl.
UAVK HIM TIIKIK MONKV.
It has further developed that both
girls bad entrusted to Hermann con
siderable money for safekeeping or in
vestment. Miss Clawson, it is known,
gave him $300 very shortly before his
dipappearance, and Miss Famuelson
had also given him fcvcral sums of
money w hile she was living with him.
Hermann drank heavily at times and
kept a stock of wines and liquors in
his study. The officers are keeping up
the search in and around the church
and the place has been visited by thou
sands of curiosity seekers.
Dr. Meacham, who made an analysis
of the strains upon the various articles
found in the cellar, paid thut he was
not prepared to state that the stains
wore those caused by human blood
owing to the fact that during the long
period elapsed since tho perpetration
of tho deed the, blood corpuscles had
become contracted, making it 'a hard
matter 1o distinguish it from the blood
of animals, such as horses, dojiB, etc.
Nevertheless he cmphatical'y pro
nounced the stains that he had ex
amined upon the lower door of the fur
nace and upon tho barrel found in the
cellar to be undoubtedly bloodstains.
Beyond that he was prePare(1 10 f lve
no further statement, except that he
would operate with a final test this
evening upon the articles, including
tha smears upon the paper.
The officers have no tidings of the
missing preacher. Tho governor of the
state has been asked to offer a reward
for his capture and It is expected that
he will do so.
ulmtn on Top.
Kingston, Jamneia, May 20. Ad
vices have reached here from a re
liable source in Cuba to the effect that
a strong body of Spanish troops re
cently made a second attempt to in
vade Cubitas, the seat of the Cuban
government. They were ambushed in
the mountains and sustained a crush
ing defeat. The Spaniards were lit
erally slaughtered by the Insurgent
and the force was compelled to flee in
disorder.
ftftiout tlie C')etim.
St. Ixi'is, Mil, Slay '.9. A pall ot
gloom and death hangs over the uounu
ri'y. Twenty-four hours have scarce
been sufficient to h.ing its people to I
realization of the horror with which it
has been visited and they are yet dazed
and stupefied.
Save for the fit fa! glare of the gas
jets in the w indows of the saloons and
restaurants and the electric lights of
li e few hotels and other concerns that
operate their own plants, the entire city
is still in darkness. In the devastated
districts the search for the dead buried
in the ruins is being carried on with
the aid of torches and locomotive bead
lights. Details of police keep the crowds
at a distance, while the air is filled rith
the shrieks and sobs and hysterical
lamentations of the bereaved. Ever
and anon the clanging of a gong is heard
in the distance, an 1 vehicles and street
cars come to a etop while an ambulance
dashes by to add one uioie victim to the
record of the dead at one or another ot
the extemporiist d morgues.
The streets iu the centre of the city,
iisu-illy active with pedestrians until
midniiiht, a.-e deserted, ve for those
whose avocations keep the.u!'from thuir
families and friends, while the sum
mer ga'dens and other poims 'of enter
tainment are bare of patrons. Grief,
mourning and stupefication have taken
possession of tlie city.
the fatalities.
Careful tabulations of the informa
tion gathered by the United press from
all official sources shows that a 8 o'clock
last night there were 114 victima that
had been identified, while fifteen still
await identification. Most of the bodies
claimed have be.-n removed to their
lati hoiiieg. T. e number of missing,
the majority supposedly being in the
ruins of toe industrial entablishmenta
and residences that were totally demol
ished, is variously estimated at from 50
to 600. Only a complete search of the
acres of ruins can tell the true story, foi
the people in the stricken region seem
utterly unable to talk coherently. Men
and women reported as among tue miss
ing are continually putting in an ap
pearance, while 011 the other hand many
believed to he safe turn out to be among
the mishing.
In the matter of age the dead range
from a male baby of three months to a
great, great grandmother of ninety-two
years. 1 he number of injured reported
to police headquarters to the name hour
foot up 1 St. Of these five are uncon
scious and unknown, having nothing
upon them by which they can be iden
tified. The injuries range from slight
cuts and contusions to one unfortunate
man who is reported as having sus
tained the loss of fx th eyes and the
fiactu'e of skull, both arms and legs,
and ribs. Of the list of injured, which
is about one-fourth of the probable
total, the over-whelming majority ol
those caught in the tornado having
found their way to their homes and
thus escaped tho official reports, nearly
one hundred are reported by the phy
sicians in attendance as "fatally in
jured" or "injured internally," which
is practically the same thing. These
figures relate to the city proper.
IX KAST ST. LOUTH.
On the otic r side of the river, in
East 8t. Louis, 111., where the elements
gathered themselves together for a su
preme effort toward destruction of life
and property, the latest reports to the
United press place the total of deaths
and missing at 205 and the injured at
seventy-one.
Another tabulation made last evening
by the St. Louis Chronicle gives these
figures: Identified dead in St. Louis,
1 "1; unidentified, 30; injured, 447.
East St. Louis, identified dead, 129 ;
unindentified, 125; injured, )58.
The total number of families who are
w ithout homes and whose every art cU
of household effects was swept away by
the storm is variously estimated at
from 500 to 800. It will be several days
before a complete and reliable ros'ei
can be made.
Estimates on local losses are so wild
that it is impossible to give any author
itative figures. One good authority
places them at (it teen millions of dol
lars ; another equally good at four mil
lions. The latter is probably the mors
correct. East St. Louis two million il
regarded by Mayor Bader a a conser
vative estimate.
Identified dead, St. Louis 121
Unidentified 3C
Injured 443
Identified dead, East St. Louis 12S
Unidentified 12H
Iujured 447
Missing in both cities (estimated) . . .50(
Property loss (estimated) $6,000,00(
Will Keioier AMMlntance.
Chicago, May 29. At a special meet
ing of the city council held yesterdaj
afternoon for the purpose of consider
ing tne best means of rendering assist
ance to the St, Louis sufferers reso
lutions were adopted extending th
deepest sympathy and strongest en
couragement of the citizens of Chicago
to the cities of St. Louis and Rush Hill,
Mo., and East St. Louis and Drake,
and requesting the mayor to call a maw
meeting of the citiiens of Chicagc
at an early day for the purposing ol
riislng money and rendering whatevei
aid may be necessary to those injured
by the hurricarie.
Quick Work.
WAsniNQTON, May 29. A con
current resolution providing for tin
loan of tents by the war department
and such other relief as the secre
tary may deem necessary to the suf
ferers by the St. Louis storm wat
introduced upon the meeting or thi
house yesterday by Mr. Bartholdt and
agreed to without discussion or ob
jection. Later the senate amendment
making it a joint resolution wai
agreed to.
TURKISH POLICY ATTAC ED
Olevelaad Reqneeted to Act ia tha
Matter.
SOME STRONG RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Prwlyt. rbtn AjMaeuiblf Think Tbt Ul
Haa Coma for Actinia . . . " ...
Saratoga, S. Y., May 2S. In the
Presbyterian general assembly yester
day morning. Prof. F. M. Burdick of
Columbia college was nominated by the
committee on foreign missions to fill the
vacancy in the foreign board caused by
the resignation of E. M. Kingsley,
treasurer of Union seminary. The re
port on other matters was read yester
day at tlie opening session of the gen
eral assembly. Among other recom
mendations the. committee proposed
the following resolutions regarding the
condition of Americans in Turkey:
"Whereas, the general assembly is ad
vised that under the provisions of exist
ing treaties, American clergymen and
teachers have a right to exercise their
good efforts while residents of Turkey:
and,
Whereas, The assembly is further ad
vised that American citizens now under
appointment as missionaries in Tu.key
have been and are now menaced as to
their lives and property rights, despite
representations heretofore made ; there
fore,
Resolved. That the general assembly,
through its officers, respectfully re
quests the national administration to
examine into the facta of the alleged
situation of affairs in Turkey, and in
case the said averments of danger are
well founded, to make an official repre
sentation to the Turkish government,
or take such appropriate action as shall
secure proper protection to American
citizens now resident in the Turkish
empire."
It was also recommended that $1,034, -
000 be rained by the church during the
year and that the foreign board be ad
vised to make its appropriations on that
basis.
Secretary Arthur 8. Brown of the
foreign mission board spoke of the work
of the board for the year. The resolu
tion was adopted and at the close of the
morning session the report on theologi
cal seminary control was placed in the
hands of the commissioners.
' The report is long and full of details.
It embodies the now correspondence of
the committee with the seminaries. It
uives in full the several schemes for leg
islative action desirable in each case to
bring the seminary quarters into shape
for the adoption by the board of trus
tees of the plan of control, hese re
plies are put into the form of an ap
pendix, so that they may be read or
not, as desired by the commissioners.
The most Btart ling feature of the re
port is clause three of the recommenda
tion, wherein the entire committee asks
the assembly for a discharge from
'urther service. There is no doubt that
these recommendations at least, will be
adopted, for it has been the hope of the
trustees of many of the seminaries for
three years that the activity of the sem
inary control committee should control.
The report of the committee on publi
cation and Sunday school work waa
considered during the afternoon and
the usual resolutions adopted.
The assembly committee on the next
place of meeting, after considering, the
claims of several cities, resolved to sub
mit the claims of San Francisco and
Petoskey, Mich., to the assembly for
decision.
MffthodlHtg Hubj.
Cleveland, O., May 28. The featurs
of yesterday morning at the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church was the adoption of the resolu
tion providing for an immense church
insurance company to compete with tha
great companies of tho world. The ses
sion was exciting, and confusion reigned
all the morning.
General Rusling said that the propo
sition was one of the most visionary
matters that had yet been presented to
the general conference. "We mighl
just as well embark in the dry "goodi
business," he said. "The whole scheme
if adopted, will wind up with a scandal
which will shake the very ioundatiom
of the great Methodist church."
Other delegates expressed similai
opinions, but the res olution organizing
an insurance company was adopted
auiid great enthusiasm,
It was decided that the question of
location of the next general conference
be left to the book committee.
The Christian endeavor society wat
given a final slap by the adoption of I
report deprecating the organization o
any societies of Christian endeavor ia
the MethodiBt church.
In the report of the judiciary conn
mittee a preposition to give to th
presiding elder of a district power ts.
say when and where the trial of an ac
cused member shall be held, excited
much debate. The clause relating taj
this matter was atricken out ond th4
report was adopted. The conference
then adjourned until 7:30 p. m.
Uoid atrlku.
Ditadwood, S. D., May 28. Nan
atrlkea of rich ore are of daily ooodrj
rence and they are not confined u
any particular district. In BtrawberrJ
Gulch, three milea from Dead wood,
ore carrying from ten to fifteen thorp
aand dollars a ton in gold haa bfea
struck on tha Bristol mine in Strain
berry Gulch. Tha ore la carbonaai
of iron, showing free gold in larfl
quantities. The ledge uncovered hi
twelve feet wide.
