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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1897)
A. - A REVOLUTIONARY PiCTURE. Life In I'h!l.J. : i i in tht Lattet Dara of the Colntlira. Aol o passed the year 177U, 1771 ind 1772. when Ixini North precipltat Kl the crixi by attempting to control the Judges In Massachusetts, who were In future to be paid by the crown. ad would thui pass under Its control. Adams now suggiwled committees of rorreK)ndence. and thus the first step toward united action wa taken. These years, up to the autumn of 1772, were not without Influence on my own life for both good and eTll. I was of course kept sedulously at work at our business, and. though liking it even less than farriery, learned It well enough. It waa not without ita pleas ure. Certainly It waa an agreeable thing to know the old merchant cap tains, and to talk to their men or them selves. The sea had not lost Its ro mance. Men could remember Kldd nd Blackboard. In the low-lying dens below Dock Creek and on King street were many. It Is to le feared, who had een the black flag flying, and who knew too well the keys and shoals of the West Indies. The captain who put to sea with such sailors had need to be resolute and ready. Ships went armed, and I waa amazed to see, In the holds of. our own ships, carronades. which out on the ocean were hoisted up and at in place on deck; also cutlasses and muskets in the cabin, and good store of pikes. I ventured once to ask my father If thla were consistent with non-resistance, lie replied that pirate were like to wild beasts, and that I had bet ter attend to my business; after which I said no more, having food for thought. These captains got thus a noble train ing, were splendid seamen, and not un used to arms and danger, as proved fortunate In days to come. Once I would have gone to the Madeiras with Captain Kiddle, but unluckily my mother prevailed with my father to for bid it. It had been better for me had It been decided otherwise, because 1 was fast getting an education which did me no good. "Indeed," says Jack In his dlnry. "I was much troubled In the seventies" (he means up to '74, when we were full twenty-one) "about my friend Hush. The town was full of officer of all grades, who came and went, and brought with them much license and contempt for colonists in general, and a silly way of parading their own sen timents on all occasions. Gambling, hard drinking, and all manner of worse things been mo common and more openly indulged In. Neither here nor In Boston could young women walk alniut unattended, a new and strange thing In our ulet town. "Mistress (iainor's house was full of these gentlemen, whom she entertain ed with a freedom equaled only by that with which she spoke her good Whig mind. The air was full of excitement. HusliHfw fell olT. nnd Hugh and I had ample leisure to do much as we liked. "I declare that I deserve no praise for having escaped the temptation which b"et Hugh. I hated nil exec., and suffered In body If I drank or ate more than was wise. A to worse things than wine and curds, I think Miss Wynne was right when she dc acrltied me as a girl-boy; for the least rudeness or laxity of talk in women I disliked, nnd ss regards the mere modititli-s of the person I have always been like some well-nurtured maid. "Thus It was that when Hugh, en couraged by his aunt, fell into the com pany of the loose, swaggering captains and cornets, I had either to give up him, who was unable to resist them, or to share In their Melons ways my self. It was my personal disgust at drunkenness or loose society which saved me, not any moral or religions safeguards, although I trust I was not altogether without these hel)s. I have seen now and then that to be refined In tastes and feelings Is a great aid to a virtuous life. Also I have known some who would have been drunkard but for their heads and stomachs, which so behaved as to be goml pulwtl tutes for conscience. It Is sometimes the body which saves the soul, lioth of these helps I had, but my dear Hugh had neither. He was a great, strong, masculine fellow, and If I may em to have said that he wanted refined feelings, that Is not no, and to him, who will never read these lines, and to myself, I must apologize." I did come to see these pages, as you know. I think he meant that, with the wine of youth, and at times of other vintages. In my veins, the strong pa ternal blood, which In my father only a true, If hard, religion, kept In order, waa too much for me. If I slte this awkwardly It la because alt excuses are awkward. Iooklug hack, I wonder that I was not worse, and that I did not go to the uttermost devil. I was rigorous, and had the stomach of a temperate ox, and a heM which miida no complaints. The morning after twine mad revel I could rise t Ave, and go out In my boat and overlmurd, and then home In a glow, with flue appetite for breakfast; and I waa ao big and tall that I was thought to be many j years older than I was. From "Hugh , Wynne. Free Quaker," by Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, In the Century. Length of Europe's Armies. If the arm Ins of Rurope should march at an eight-mile gait, Ave abreat, 15 Inches apart, It would require nine and one-half day tor them to pas a given point. Hear! It. Alice I beard something about you to-day. Anna Tea; thla new lining they are using la urease makes frightful solas, doesn't It? Ton k era Statesman. Almost every woman cherishes a sam el of the Brat dress bar husband svaf fcwsot bar. "Nebraska "Motes j Nance county Las a lew fields of nn , husked corn. ( Old-fashioned spelling schools are ail ' '.he rage iu Knox county. The creamery at St. EJ wards will be j Halted again the first of April. Cherry county nt eds a court house and il abundantly able to build one. j The Gandy Pioneer it sorry for the de . (eat of Wright's rain making bill, j W. C. Elder of North Platte tripped on . ft wood box and dislocated his shoulder. J Several brick business blocks will be j erected at Crawford the coming season. I The name of the Bratton postoftice in ' Nemaha couoty has been changed to Lden. Stockmen in Cherry county are paying ft bounty of $i for the scalps of grey wolves. Jn several country towns dentists are furnishing full sets of "store teeth" at 5 a set. Creighton waa ablaze with electric ligbti for the first time the night of the 13!h inst. A class for the study of French his torical characters bfti been organized at Grand Island. A new paper, under the title of Ne braska Heal E-Uie Register, will be sstablished at Ord. Much liquor is sold in Gering, but the authorities are unable to locate the totint lrom which it issues. The Friend Telegraph has cut off all its conn y exchanges which opposed it luring the late campaign. Eituer Wildhatrer of 1'iymontli played 'rough and tumble." Hid leg was broken just below the knee. A farmer near Bancroft dug a pit near riis chicken coop, and the young man ho fell into if, had to be helped out. Celmer Fairbanks of Gothenburg, iged eight year, was thrown from a aorse. A dislocated elb)v was the chief iamage. J The Catholics of Ponca will soon erect t now church building to take the place )f the one destroyed by tire a few nonths ago. i George Overton of Otoe county sold a Dmiich of steers the other day at a price .hat netted him 40 cents a bushel for .he corn he fed them. j A horse fell into the dump of the Farmers' elevator at Ohiowa and had to je hauled out by means of block aiul iackle. It was uninjured. I While on his way to Chicag M. C. Keith of North Platte had a severe lemorrhage of the lungs and lias tdnce Seen a critical condition. j The V uyne I'emoerat says Haah, the aniily murderer, is not crazy from reli- :oa. It says that it will be proven ater that three years ago he threatened 0 kill his wife. , There, are a numlier of dry wells in dinner and ad joining counties that are 1 constant menace to life and property, stock is constantly reported as falling n these death traps. ' While painting a chimney the ladder broke and Peier Howe of Loup City lell to the earth, a distance of fifteen ieet, striking on his back lie was at work again in just twenty minutes. William Hough, a raloon keeper of Al ianre, was lined $-'o for intimidating a oiiHtabii! who invaded hia premises with t writ of attachment. The caHe will be tarried to the district court. i A Mr. Masters, whodiedand waa bur ed on his farm in Custer county tliir jcen yeara ago, was removed by his rieuds to Gibbon. The corpse looked tr natural as the day .t was buried. At a charivari given a neently mar ied couple near Humphrey, the groom ried to buy the crowd off with a quarter They finally compromised the matter ind the boys took a half dollar to ( 'blow" as they saw fit. j A young lady lately died at Long Pine a hole r'glit arm ami shoulder blade bad been removed to get rid of a can :eous growth. She survivad the oper- itton, but the old trouble soon reap peared and ended her life. J. L. P.ichardt, living near PeWitt, found a frozen rattlesnake that appeared to have been ft ruck by a blizzard while posing for an attack. Fearing il mig.it prove a caie M suspended animation, he put it in the stove. F. A. Webiter, Burwell's present post master, fet the first stick of type ever upended in Valley or Gaificlit counties, iu the ollice of the Valley County Jour nal, which was published in the little village of Calamue, near Fort Hartsuff. The last issue of the Lexington Clipper Citizen announces that it has consoli dated with the Dawson County Enter prise, and that hereafter the two papers will be issued as one under the manage ment of Mark wood Holme and J. C. Flsharty. A Lincoln county lady Wanie sud denly inrane while attending church and assaulted the preacher, tearing a handful of bair from hit head. The men who interfered for his protection fared no better. She was finally induced to leave the house, and bat since re covered her senses. C. J. Tracy charmed a jack rabbit one one day laat week, says the Loup City Times and caught it alive. While going from his firm to his brother's on horse back be aw large rabbit, to be started to circle nronnd hint and continued the operation until the rabbit became so be wildered that it allowed itself lo be pick e l up by the hind legs. John R. Seward of Boons county, and Mrs. Caroline Birth of Rising City, agtd respectively eixty-ons and fifty-four rears. war married last wssk. Cuban I'tm tti V. it, ot Wr la Gaud 1'urp tils KuiurJ. Kr Wki-t, Fla , Feb. IU. Letter from Candelaria, province of I'insr del Kio, speak of the remarkable work d .ne by the great dynamite gun aiih which (ieneral Maceo was so p'ea.ed. For gome lime it could not be used, ss the arnmunilion was exhausted. One of the last expeditions brought a supply, and now it is making it-elf heard again. A detachment of 700 men from Gen. Velaseo's army, commanded by Col. Sanchez, attacked one of Gen. Morano'a camp, hoping to capture the gun that was known to I Mowed there, the Spaniards baving been informed that there was no ammunition for it. The insurgents were well protected by intrenchments, and were informed of the Sp.nieh movements and plants. Tbe Spanish troops advanced, and the insurgents met them with a rapid fire of musketry, and then retreated as if in disorder np a narrow gorge into a second set of works. The Spaniards, thinking a victory was within their grap, ru-he 1 forward, despite the orders of their ollicers, who suspected a trap. No sooner had they fairly entered the walls of the col de eac than the dyna mite gun opened on them. With the first report came a ehell, whic h exploded in the midst of the from rank, dealing death to dozens. The terrified troops attempted to re treat, but those behind them pushed on. A second slid did mme damage than the first, and then a third and fourth. By this time the troops ha 1 managed to get out of the gorge. The insur gents completed the rout. Over 300 Spaniards were killed or wounded, five oflirers lieing killed. The Cubuns lost sevei.ty live men.. The Spanish pri-onera were sent- to the Spanish camp at Candelaria, the insur-J Kent commander sending a ncie to the; Spanish officer sking bun to acta humanely wit;. , - urgent who fell into1 Spanish haiMr Immlcr lion Kill fi'l Washington. Feb. 19. The im nigra lion bill now goes to the president, the legislative step having been taken in lite eenaie by an agreement to the con ference report on the bill. Strong oppo sition was made to the report, but on the final vote tbe friends of the measure rallied a small majority, the vote being yeas 34, nays 31. Tne bill ai passed extends the immi gration restrictions against "all persons physically capable and over llj years of aire who cannot read and write the Eng lish language or some other language; but a person not so able to rettd and who is over SO yeare of age and is the parent or grandparent of a qualified im migrant over i years of aueand capable of supporting such parent or grand parent n. ay accompany such immigrant, grandparent may )e sent for and come or such pareuttojoin the family of a child ?r grandchild over'-'l years of age,similar ly qualified and capable, and a w ife or minor child not po able to read and write may accompany or be sent forand come to join the husband or parent sim ilarly qualified and capable)." For the purpose of testing ths immi grant's illiteracy, he is compelled ton-ad and write from twenty to twenty-live words of the United States constitution. Aside from these eitensions of the pres ent law the hill inaugerat.es a new sys tem of restricting immigration from border countries and designed to apply principally to immigration from Canada. Iiitfframt- Law I'phfild Nhw York, Feb. 19. Hrlegatea from nineteen imp rtant commercial associa tions in eastern and western states at tended the annual meeting of the na tional transportation association which was hel l yesterday in theb iard i f trade building. These delegates represented 20,000 shippers, merchants and others. A resoluiion was adopted declaring that agiia'.on bad Wen iriaugerated in certain tections depreciating the value of the interstate commercial law and the acta of the commission appointed thereunder and seeking its abolition ; that the law was a great benefit to both shipper and carrier; that the associa tion heartily inppjrta the law and com mission and that the committee on in- terstate commerce be instructed to adt vocate the adoption of such recommen dations of said commission amendatory of the law as seek to give the commis sion power to enforce ita decision. The following officers were elected : President, O. L. Whitelaw, St. Louis; vice president, fi. C. Woolen, Philadel phia; secretary, George Stone, Chicogo; general counsel, Jerome Carty, Philadel phio; treasurer, F. A. Scott, Cleveland. Gray f..r (he ( nblnxt. Lynn, Mass., Feb. 19. A personal friend of President-elect McKinley, who resides at Washington, and w ho is stay ing in this city for a few days, stated Wednesday that it is positively decided tbat Hon. James A. Gray of Kllicott City, Md , will be the southern member of Mckinley's cabinet. Tbe position as signed him is tbat of the postmaster general. , The gentleman who makes the state ment will not allowtthe use of his name, but states that his information is au thoritive Two Nrgroaa l.anrbad Mturiiis, Tknn., Feb. 19. Informa tion of a double lynching that occurred a week ago has just become public It occurred near Webb City, small town in tbe Mississippi valley, south of this city. Two negroes, whose names are nol known, robbed a farmer and then burn ed bis bouts. Tbs following day tht negroes were caught by the cltiseoi ol Wsbb Oity, and after being compelled to dig Ibelr own graves, thv wn lynensd. GrsekiTakea Fort and Capture 00 GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS OVER IT ! ulla or 'ha V eiorjr I.m klnc-Tra- p stl- us i.oi-.ar on f - ('(iriuued Ho tilillra I p a iha Pt f tha Grw-kl Profile Fxt'Jted. Athkns, Feb. 17. First definite news tf a Greek victory in Crete was received Tuesday evening, ami the wildest en thusiasm followed the intelligence. The Greeks, it is s lid attacked and japtnred Fort Aghia, taking 400 Mus jelinatu prisoners. Among the num ber are one hundred Turkish troops, the remainder of the prisoners being Moslems wjo k (k 'efuge in the fort. Deiails of the engagement are lacking. 3ne rep irt states that no fighting oc surred, tbe garrison surrendering upon the demand of the Greek commander. As no mention of any losses is made in any of the dispatches it is surmised that : this report is true. j Notwithstanding the reports that tbe ; powers would take prompt action to pre sent further hostilities in Crete, war like preparations are being made with j ill popib!e dispatch. In addition to the "corps of occupation" already in .the island, which corps numbers 1,500 men of all arms, one other regimentem j barked upon a transport and sailed for j Crete, Another regiment will sail thence, lhe governmi t is preparing for every possible contigency and has summoned two classes of the naval ser vice for naval service. The people are in a frenzy of excite ment and demand that the Cretan ques tion be settled now for all time. It is popularly thought that when the powers find the annexation of the island which Greece has in view an accomplished fact they will readily acquiesce in this spoliation of te Turk. Mllllvnn Itrll. vi s 1 orbttt Will Win Piiu.Ai)! i.t'iiiA, Feb. 18 John L. iullivau has arrived in Philadelphia. He was tendered a benefit last night at Quaker City athletic club. When ask d for his opinion on the coming fight be tween Corbett and Fitzsimmona. "I certainly think Corbett will win, for he is a level-headed chap and has iisd lots of experience. He has im proved lots since he fongbt me in New Orleans and even at that time he was a wonder. Then he could not hit very bard, but since he has developed his bitting p.iwers until now he is able to hold up bis end with any of them. Then, aciiin. Rob Fitzsimmons is not able to hold his end up with a man who is so long liea led as Corbett, and the Australian is liable to go to pieces at any stage of the game. If y u have noticed Corbett has always shown great cleverness in making matched, and I will say that this one is no exception to bis general rule. WnmliiitMl Have 1 rouhln Rock Inland, 111., Feb. 18. Members of the Modern Woodmen ot America in this city made a theatrical attempt at 1 'dock yesterday morning to gain pos sesion of the equipment of the head lodge in the village of Fultm. Tbe fight for possefini ui has been proceeding in ti e courts, the lat decision being in favor of Rock Island. Fulton Woodmen resisted the remov al A special train on tbe Burlington road brouglu a hundred Rock Island citizeriB, including the mayor, to Fulton yesterday morning, with box cars at tached to cirry track tbe ollice fixtures before the villagers were awake. Tbe blowing of fire whistles, however, aroued them, the fire department was called and cold water turned on the invaders. Weapons were drawn and a small riot occurred on the street in front of the Woodmen quarters, the po lice being powerless. Some of the office books ami fixtures were loaded on the train, hut an injunction that had been tcltra'hed for to the county seat ar rive I in time to prevent tneir being taken away. The mayor of Rock Island was arrested, but was released and the editor of (lie Rock Island Gazette spent eotn time in jail. III nln'7 Order. Canka, Feb. 18. General Bor, who is in command of the gendarmerie at Ca nea, formerly notified Colonel Vbksos, commanding tbe Greek troops at Akro tiri, Monday, of the joint occupation of Crete by the powers. To this notifi cation the Greek colonel replied : "I am ordered to occupy the i-land, and must carry out my orders until I receive other instructions." All business in Canea is suspended except that of a manufacturer of colli ns, the demands UOn whose wares have largely increased. Fighting is still going on at Akrotiri and Helino, but It is confined to conflicts between the Turks and Christians. The Greek troops which lantfoJ on the island have not yet been engaged in battle. The Christians hold all of the districts around Canea. Slioi man Alixra a Nol Ira. Washington, Feb, 16. During the brief executive session Tuesday after noon Mr. Khnrman wan reminded that the senate had agreed to take tne vote en the immigration bill conference re port yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. He accordingly changed hit notice of an executive session for the consideration of the arbitration treaty from Wednsr day until Thursday, at which time bo Mid be would atk the renats to remain In Motion until tbs rot was taksa. I.I.I K lii. Iinrlii A U Over i li t: or d It -a If to Kl k ti k o ib t rltirStuli i -and. I Ntw Yobk, Ft-b. 17. liie Gre. k jt.p ulatioii of this city were intensely inter ested and excited over tbe news of the firing on tbe Turkish iW and tbe evi dent intention of King George to defy the powers and place the Maud of . Crete under the j rotectioo of Girece. I John J. Vlasio, edifor of tbe Atlantis, , the only Grei k newspaper published in the United States, said to a reporter: i . ' I ii il n-i a euuuitn uprising. King George, impelled by popular sentiment and forced forward to save his throne, has made the coup, because to remain po-sive would mean big own i.ndoing at the hands of the people. The other and the more reasonable hypothesis is that the kir:g received a friendly intimation from one of the powers to go ahead ; that this was the opjortunity to take what really belongs to Greece and which, because of iu race, language and religion demands her protection. De pending upon t h'n and backed by the sp'endid patr otisin of a brave people, the (irst gun has Ireeii fired. In my opinion the Creton massacre of May las: waa the linul limit to all further patience with the barbaric opuretsion sf Turkey." Mr. Vlasto predicted a war with Tnr tey and (aid that every Greek through jut the world was ready to help. With regard lo the possibilities of re'abation n the Greeks in Tuikey, Mr. Vlasto aid such retaliation would be a disas trous blunder on the part of the Turks. He declared that there were 200,000 Sreeks in Constantinople, and every ne of them was ready and armed, Unearth Muid?r San Francisco, Feb. 17. After two Dontbs' pursuit of a murderer and of si ence maintained regarding the history )f remarkable crime, the Mexican au thorities have arrived at tbe conclusion lhat a once apparently wealthy and in fluential American resident of Mazat an, the inspected erpetralor of an iwful criir.e, has 'o -ated in San Fran :isco and is at present living under an iKSunied name. With tbis information is given tbe particulars, of tbe killing of Mrs. F. Hermanns by her husband in a cilia on the outskirts of Mazatian, the itory ot which crime bus never before been made public by the Mexican au thorities. It ie supposed that Hermanns and his wife are identical with a young couple by that name who left Por tland. Ore., lor San Francisco and later for Mazat ian some years ago. Mrs. Hermanns is '. ought to have been a Miss. Mauldren, l California girl, who became statie Itrui'k and sought to win fame on the iocsl stage. She proceeded to Portland, Ore., where she married William Her nanns of Mazatian, formerly of the United States, who claimed to be a Ifar rard student, son of wealthy parents. The Hermanns went to Mazatian and 'or Several months kept open house, en ;ertaining Mexican as well as Au.erlean (riem's. On a midden the couple ceased lo invite people to their homo, Her manns wae seldom seen in town and Snally he disappeared altogether. A Iriend of the couple visited the Her manns' casa and found all doors and windows fastened and found no signs of anyone living on t he premises. A num ber of Mexican ollicers were summoned ind broke in the front door. 0 i the Boor of the bedroom were the rem .ina of Mrs. Hermanns in an advanced stage tjf decomposition. An analysis of the itomach showed that death waa due to poisoning. Efforts were made to locate the husband, all of which failed, and it is supposed he boarded a steamer for New York from San Francisco. William P. Sf. . Im Ih1 New Yokk, Feb, 17. William P. ft. John, the former president of tbe Mer cantile National bank, and one of tbe principal champions in the eait of tbe cause of tree silver, died at 8 o'clock Monday night at his residence here. A complication of kidney and (stom ach troubles caused hia death. Mr. Bt. John was born in Mobile, Ala., In 1847 and came to New York when lie was twenty one vears of ng , since which time he has been in mer cantile life, h aving it only long enough to take part in the Bryan campaign. After the defeat of Mr. Bryan, Mr. hX John went into the pioduce business, having bought a seat in the produce ex change. ltn and llollva nt Our NkwYouk. Feb. 17. The Herald's pecial from Panama says: Advices of nn important nature in re lation to tbe growing trouble between Peru and Bo ivi have been receivrd here from Cn&co. According to these, Bolivia has taken undisturbed possession of a great portion of the territory of Peru between the Mud re de Dois and the Tuche rivers. The press of both Peru and Boli ria is filled with articles bristling witii hostile notes on this, and declaration of war by Peru would not be a surprise here, but in official circles it is declared that that republic will not act until well informed as to the atti tude which Chile will assume in such an event. Going nark to right. Chicago, Feb. 16. Of the 1,600 able bodied Greeks in the Chicago colony ready and willing to bear arms, nearly 800 had been enrolled last night for the regiment which intend to tail for Greece at toon as war it declared against Turkey and fight for the motherland. Everyone of the Greeks bat teen tome military life at borne and tlx Greek of fleers who have lived here for yeara will inttmot and command tbs volunteers. Tht man intsnd to pay tbeir own way, MAY BE A WAR A Greeco-Tork sh War is Threatening the Peace of the Orient ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE NOT DEFINITE Hut Thrf ill Ocmer S.r-ial itkea With A Saval 'r'tihinent-Krugei a I'ndor En g I. It ft t. etiou Ixtkdok, Feb. 16. The London papers yesterdav morning concur in tbe opinion that a Greeco-Turkisb. war is imminent. The liberal organs implore the govern ruent not to imiede the action of Greece in any way, while the more moderate jjurnais urge the powers to occupy Crete and to decide the ultimate destiny of the island when matters shall have be come more quiet. The standard de clares tbat tbe powers must pacify Crete, since they have decided to re strain Greece and Turkey. The Times publishes a dispatch from Csnea saying that George Berovitch Pasiia, the Christian governor of Crete, took refuge on the flagship of the Rus sian admiral, and that the entire fores of Montenegrin gendarmes, who have hitherto been employed in guarding tbs governor's residence, have been trans ferred to Russian warships. The Rus sian and Fiencb admirals, the dispatch says, have received identical instruc tions, but the nature of their orders il not kuown. Tbe diplomats at Constantinople havs accepted Great Britain's proposals for a joint naval occupation of Canea, Retimo and Heraklion, the removal from Cre tan waters of the Greek fleet and tbs forbidance of the dispatch to Crete of Turkish reinforcement, and it is thought probable that the orders of the French and Russian admirals are in accordance with the program. The refugees who sought shelter at the Greek consulate have been placed under the protection of the British eonaul. The Greek consul at Heraklion em barked upon one of the warships after requesting the British consul to protect the Greek subjects. The closing of the Greek consulates indicates that a defi nite rupture lias taken place between Greece and Turkey. The Times will print a dispatch from Canea saying it believes that George Berovitch Paha left his post without permission. The Timea also prints a dispatch dated Canea, February 14, midnight, saying that a Turkish troop ship has just put to sea and that a Greek transport has started in pursuit of her. Burn a (iaiiilllnr; Houmc Chicago, Feb. 16. Citizens of Elm huret, a smalt tow n twenty five miles west of here, burned to the ground Sun day morning the large shed recently eiected there by Barney acharias, the Cuicago gambler, in which pool-selling, faro and roulette iad been carried on fur several days. Almost every day four or five hundred gamblers from Chi cago visited tbe resort. A few daya ago the residents raided tbe pool room, but could find no evidence of gambling. Six men, however, supposed to be connected with the movement were arrested. During the night two watchmen were employed to guard the place. Early Sunday morning a mob of i jdinant citizens attacked the building and after driving the watchmen to lhe woods set fire to the building. The gamblers say they will reopen as soon as another house can be built. The loss is email. (at Intu Ti'OuDlu. Ckdar Rapids, la., Feb. 16 Two sons of Sir Arthur Treviillyan of Eng land's aristocracy, are implicated at principals in a romanlic epieode that has just taken place in Linn county, George Trevallyan came to this country several years ao and purchased a large farm near Manchester, la. He was later followed by an elder brother, Roger. They formed the acquaintance of a family named Fleming and George became infatuated with a pretty daugh ter, who has juat recently become hit wife in fact they are now enjoying tlieir honeymoon. Mr. Fleming yesterday filed suit against Roger Trevellyan and asks $10, 000 damages for, as he alleges, alienat ing the affections of Fleming's wife. Out Hid Easterner. Washington, Feb. 16. Representa tive Lorimer haB caused uneasiness in armor plate circles by the introduction of a bill yesterday afternoon directing the secretary of the navy to close a twenty-year contract with the Illinois Meel company and two other ChirJago concerns for all the armor plate tbat may be used for the government at $240 a ton. If this proposition is accepted the Illinois Steel company will put up an armor plate plant to cost $8,500,000. Armor plate is now being furnished at $568 a ton, and the senate committee on naval affairs has recommended a new deal on a basis of $400 a ton. Lor imer't new offer it stunning in its con sequences. It it laid that armor plats can be produced at a big profit at leer than $200 a ton. Vtiw l.lqaor Law fur Enrnal. Topkka, Kan., Feb. 16. A bill WM yesterday introduced in the senate to repeal the prohibitory law and estab lish a system of state dispensaries for tbs control of tbe liquor traffic. In the V. S. conrt. Milwaubik, Feb. 16. -Judge Jenkins hat entered an order in tbe Uait4 Itatet court which complete! the legal ale of (be Northern Pacific Railroad company 't propertiet to the Great North rn company. Tbe order oonflrma Um acta of Master Cary in eiowtlag tas deedi to the property and disposing of the proceedt of sals. Tbe nropfrtf brought $18.105.WO nominally, bat Ufa not believed that any one will svsr know tae siact amount wblck tbs somaatrf wm and will bs obliged to pay. k r r-f
